THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934.
JOAN BLONDELL AND GLENDA FARRELL IN "HAVANA WIDOWS"
The Invisible Man
How Film Was
Made
BLACK MASK OVER ACTOR'S HEAD
(By EDWIN SCHALLERT)
HE Invisible Man, which
THE
proved such a great attruction at the King's Theatre during the early part of the week, puzzled
many.
The camera tricks, used in mak-3 ing this surprising film, are explain- ed as follows:
Wires
were used extensively to lift books and bottles, the enshier's till from the bank, and all other objects supposed to be shifted about by the Invisible Man. This part of the technique was very simple, al- though effectively done.
Liquid is carefully emptied out of a bottle in the laboratory by this means so that no one else can use it. (It Is the liquid of invisibility). Curtains were drawn back, and the (Continued on Page 11).
Seven of the eleven Hollywood giris selected by Earl Carroll to appear with the eleven "man! beautiful girls in the world" in Para moual's "Murder at the Vanities, coming shortly to the King's
Theatre.
HEAD INSIDE GOWN
The square-shouldered appear. ance of the dressing gown requires padding. It has tiny peepholes.
The mysterious elgarette and matches were photographed in a carefully rehearsed flu for double printing-the actor being in- visible in his black suit.
SUNDAY
ᎪᎢ
THE
KING'S
HIS LOVE and HIS LUCK!
Was she both
to him?
SPENCER TRACY
in
"WHILE NEW YORK
SLEEPS"
HELEN TWELVETREES. ALICE FAYE
WINKELD SHEEHAN
Diced by EDWIN BURKI
FROM SUNDAY
Greater
Predvid
NOW ON
THE SCREEN
MARCUS SHOW
THE BIGGEST HIT EVER SEEN LOCALLY
COMPANY
SEVENTY
QUEEN'S
THREE SHOWS
LOVELIEST
WOMANKIND
QUEEN'S
CHORUS GIRL GOLD-DIGGERS PROVIDE RIOTOUS COMEDY
SPENCER TRACY SUPERB IN TRUE LIFE STORY OF FAMOUS GAMBLER
DIANE'S EXCLUSIVE TALKIE TALKS SERIES
seem
TWO
WO ex-chorus girls played cast "Wild Gold" will pass. Johnjtoriety. He neglects his wife, and delightfully by the best ex- Boles plays the part of a happy-takes a mistress. It is then, he ponents of the gold-digger type go-lucky engineer In love with meets. Mositer, a' rival gambler:
Jaan Blondell and Glenda Far-pretty Claire Trevor, an enter-land crook who in the end causes rell make "Havana Widows" an tainer in a Reno cabaret. The fair his downfall. evening of hilarity. It starts heroine is unfortunately married There is quite a lot of pathos with a swing, and never slack-to a waster, expertly played by in the telling of the story, and a Jenkins both in top form-figure demands for more, and yet more, not ens. Frank McHugh and Allen Monroe Owsley. After endless little humour, but somehow it does to ring true. even largely in support of the two money, ale takes the family car though we are told it is the true girls, while Guy Kilbee, as the and leaves for Red Rock, or some life story. supposedly rich man worth hunt-
Perhaps Mrs. Rothstein allow. ing, helps. Things, however, go all wrong and the situations are absurdly amusing. People who know how to put over their THE second generation of players humour ensure you of an even- The dit erste include ber
Short Shots
"This Man Is Mine" R.K.O. triangle
drams
bara Denny the daughter of Reginalding's enjoyment. (Alhambra.) (by his first wife) who is almost as old as his second one-Bubbles Stides, The who now has two children of her ownThis Man is Mine" should prove Also the daughter of George Ban croft, and Katharine, the adopted a tremendous hit especially with daughter of Cecil Bade Mille, who is women, although it hardly solves already making quite a name for her the problem of how to hold one's self.
husband against fascinating Girts.
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* Mr. and Mr. Neil Hamilton.recently celebrated their twelfth wedding ap- niversary Bing Crosby who has made a large fortune with his "Crooning" says he will definitely retire to his ranth after one more picture,
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It does not depend upon action. so much as brilliant dialogue and acting that is well above the or- dinary.
Irene Dunne is sincere as the
Coming
Boris Karloff, Frank Lawton, and wife, whose husband strays to a Henther Angel are among the Univer-former lover. Constance Cum- aal enat of Dickens' story "Edwin mings is delightfully realistic as Brood."
the firt, but Kay Johnson (who) will ever forget her in Cecil B de Bill Gargan left New York at moment's decision with his pal Les Mille's first Talkie "Dynamite?") lie Howard, when Howard had to go almost steala the feminine]: lover to England to play the lead in the honours. Two men share in the London film Production of "The Scar success. Ralph Bellamy as the let Pimpernel,"
J
Kay Francis went
over in the same ship on a short visit smug husband, and Sydney Black- to Italy. She says there is no romer a clever actor far to often mance between her and Chevaller. "starved" of good material. A They are only good friends.
film that I emphatically recom mend. (King's).
It is with regret that I hear of the death, from pneumonia, of the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. George O'Brien (Marguerite Churchill) at the age of
"All Of Me"
ToKing's
SPENCER TRACY
ed the scenario writer, to have too much of his own way. The main Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell focus point of the film is the as they appear in "Havana Widows," grand work turned in by Spencer coming to the Alhambra on Sunday. Tracy, and the discovery of an-
other blonde who seems likely to
go far. Alice Faye was seen here LIMERICK CONTEST
recently in a singing role with Rudy Vallee in "George White's Scandals," Helen Twelvetrees, as the neglected wife, gains ali one's sympathy,
while Hobart Cavanaugh plays his role to per- fection. Better set aside an even-l
ing for this one at the King's
"Jennie Gerhardt”
How To Win Tickets For Alhambra
TEN BEST LAST-LINERS
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To-day le the second of the three-day "Havana Widows" Limerick Contest offered by the The mood of "Back Street" is the Alhambra Theatre, in connec
China Mail, in co-operation with
carried
on the picturization of flon with the showing of "Havana one of the best novels written by widows" on Sunday. Theodore Dreiser-"Jennie Ger-
An incompleted limerick hardt." Marion Gering directa Havana Widows" is given below with sympathy and intelligence and the reader is requested to Sylvia Sydney, as the servant girl All in the last line, which must who loves above her station, is rhyme with the first two lines, and ideally cast. She is wistful, ap-post it before midnight to the pealing, and beautiful. After Editor, The China Mail. her frat
love tragic
affair,
Ten pairs of dress circle
I. she lives with the rich man, who
tickets are to be won each day discards her, when he discovers
for the best "Last-liners” sub- her past. To the end she retains..mitted for the limerick of
her love for him and during the course of the action a whole life-
that day. To-day's incompleted limerick is where that sounds like that. The time is covered. The continuity as follows: In "All of Me" we have the hero fixes the car so that she can-flows evenly, and the details are "Havana Widows"-Sadie and 'Mas, eternal confilet between a man not travel far, and then comes a sincerely interpreted,
Decided they had best go gay- and a woman presented forcefully.
As the happy woman's first cloud-burst which
So they chiseled the dough Mining angineer Fredric March drowns the unwanted waster-hus- love, Edward Arnold shares the
That they needed, to go picture will have a dual Chinese and wants rich society belle Mirlam band, and gives us lots of exciting highest honours with the star. Hopkins to marry him, and find times in the flood sequences. This actor cannot fail to be con- happiness in the mud and rock at
(King's).
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ten days.
* * "Ho for Shanghai" a new Radio
white cast.
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The R. S. P. C. A. and the Gau the Boulder Dam. Miriam is
convenient
mont-British will produce a fim call-afraid that marriage will spoll ro- "While New York Sleeps"
ed "Immortal Puss," which will show.
Based on the book "Now I'll how cats have been the companions of mance and true love. In a speak human beings throughout the ages, easy they meet a pair of under- Tell," by Mra. Arnold Rothstein, Photographs were taken, recently of world lovers-Helen Mack and wife of the famous American the Egyptian goddess of cats, "Pasht," George Raft, whose honesty and gambler. the picture does not give which is in the British Museum.
courage so impress Miss Hopkins us all the details of the book, but Musicals are not dead ret, judged that she helps Mr. Raft escape it does give Spencer Tracy an ex- by the fact that M. G. M. alone will from an island prison and Miss cellent chance, and the whole. spend a million pounds in the comingMack from an Institution. Unfor-show is entertainment of an un year on thera.
tunately the Prison officials come usual order.
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to take them back, and the lovers Track is the gambler who knows William Powell is going from one jump from the window, rather a wrong, but failure. He makes picture to another: He has already been engaged to play Ziegfeld, and than be separated. Their suicide himself human, and, in an "degree then will go to another character part teaches the lovely heroine the sympathetic,
though ho when Radio produces the "Life of Sir lesson she needs to bring about treats the wife, whom he genuine- Basil. Zaharof," a film dealing with her marriage to the man who loves ly loves, in the most blatant the armament trade,
manner.
even
her.
The acting is convincing, and
The story opens in 1904 at the the best chances are given to Miss Saratoga race-track. Later we see
BUSTER KEATON Mack and Mr. Raft Advised him married and running the most
BANKRUPT
£60,000 Liabilities
Los Angeles. Buster Keaton, the film comedian, who has recently been on a visit to! London, has filed his petition in bankruptcy.
The petition shows Habilities totalling £60,766 and assets £2,400.
JOHN GALSWORTHY'S "ONE MORE RIVER”
Diana Wynyard Heads British Cast
The film version of John Galswor thy's last novel, "One More River," has been being at Universal City, with Miss Diana Wynyard in the leading role.
An almost all-Engllah cast in- cludes Colin Clive, Frank Lawton, [C Aubrey Smith, Reginald Denny, Henry Stephenson Kathleen H ward Lionel Atwill, Alan Mowbray and Gilber Emary.
CHINA'S FAVOURITE ».
not care tho
{(Queen's),
successful gambling joint in: New [York, going the limit to gain dis- Through the efforts of a fine tinguished patronage and no?
"Wild Gold"
while
vincing, and his "Senator
Brander" is the best role in the picture, and his is the best per-| formance,
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Address
THEY BLEW HIS You'll know what's happened to MAZUMA DOWN see these two mischievous mom- mas making Havana hotcha- and American millionaires! When they roll those thumba hips and bankroll eyes it's all over but the laughing!
the Américan dollar when you
IN CUBA!
widows
JOAN BLONDELL GLENDA FARRELL
ng a cast of 6 great laugh stars in First National's big
tince Gold D)
Look out for them
SUNDAY, 19th August, at the
ALHAMBRA
Nathan Road, Kowloon..
The Premier. atre That Exhibits The Best Pictures.