THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934
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WALLACE BEERY IN "VIVA VILLA" IS ONE OF YEAR'S BEST FILMS
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Warner Oland again eorpla,
the detreti in "Charlie Chan's Courage."
NORMA SHEARER IN "THE BARRETTS”---
In "The Barrels of
Wimpole
Sylvia Sydney & Cary Grant Succeed In Light Comedy
Career Of Stars KAY FRANCIS AND RICARDO CORTEZ Short Shots CO-STAR SUPERBLY IN "MANDALAY".
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(YLVIA Sidney was born in New
York in 1919. After a suc», cessful stage career
she started work in the talkies. Her first film was a failure, so she returned to the stage. She later took the part. intended for Clara Bow in "City
VIOLET, LORRAINE MAKES SCREEN DEBUT IN
“BRITANNIA OF BILLINGSGATE”-
▼ȚIVA VILLA” is a magni- Streets." and has not known fallure" V since. She is now signed to Parafilm with a mixture of savagery, ficently produced M.G.M.
moant Unmarried.
sentiment, comedy and spectacu- lar melodrama Wallace Beery
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villainous General,
but regret
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TILISSA Lardi and Cary Grant will
be co-starred in "The Goddess.";
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M.G.M. have been compelled to give up casting "The Postman Always Rings," after spending thousands on the production. The Tecency League would never pass it.
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to make the hero henpecked. This
Mary Pickford is now writing shorti
She actress will most certainly bear stories for a magazine.
hast watching. The secondary parts often helped in scenarios, but this 18
the first time, she has used her own) are all well played.
The whippings, killings and hangings do not suggest that this Edmund Love has
"Thirty-Day Princess"
Re-
пате.
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Derek Oldham the famous musical-
Madge Evans.is saying good-bye to the sweet sympathetic roles, and will play the vamp in "What Every Womon
| Knows" with Helen Hayes
Drue Leyton is featured in "Charlie Chan's Courage.""
SWINDLER BETRAYED BY FILM
ARY Grant was born in Bristol, heads a great supporting cast.
found another! England. He ran away from and, according to the advertise
Is a film for the squeamish, but partner in Jack Holt, and their first home and joined a troupe of knock-ment, at least 10,000 extras.
certainly packed full of co-starring vehicle will be "Two for "Pancho Villa." (Wallace Beery)
The film rubs at great longth, thrills and exciting action. I One." about comedians. He then drifted;
about len reels I should think, have no doubt that it will run for a to the States, where he found it might almost be termed the hard to make a living, and for a mantle rebel Rebin Hood of the and Jack Conway, the Director, wask at the Queen's, and if you comedy star is making his first screen time was a still-walker at Coney Rio Grande. The story traces his assuredly gives hot-blooded action go prepared for the kind of play appearance in a British picture. "The
and thrills from the first to Istan He later went into musi-life from boyhood through
the it is, you will see one of the out- Broken Rosary," assassination. lat.
standing films of the year. - jezi comedy, and then to Hollywood. veral revolutions to
instincts have The support is excellent.
Leo commended.-(Queen's). This is the Night." with Roland His murderous
a close second to Young, was his first picture, and heen Implanted in him through Carrillo, runs
his father whipped
to Beery, and his accent is of course now he is on a long-term contract seeing
he perfection. Besides Walthall, . 1 with Paramount, Married to Vir-death by the aristocrats, and
"Thirty-day Princess" gives a movie fa-
Fox have borrowed Gloria · Swanson
Madria, ginia Cherril.
turns killer. Beery is not at his must mention another best in the
first scenes, he is a vourite Joseph Shildkraut as the splendid opportunity to the little (who has not done a day's work jet
A news flm shown at a Madrid tragic Queun-Sylvia Sydney-to on her M.G.M. contract), and she will cinema has led to the police truc- little unconvincing, and puts too Streit Norma Shearer will appear K Oklahoma in 1903. She began one doubting his power to rouse ÁY Francis was bora
much comedy into it, which leaves that Lee Tracy had his misunder: show how she can shine also in play the lead opposite John Boles in
and what is more
in-Musle in the Alr." Gloria gave Boltsing a man who has been wanted standing
comedy, with M.C.A. while DU
old for some time following a £34,000 1: Mizabeth Barrett, Charles
her stage career in Shakespearean catire country.
location, and lost the part of the
teresting from the feminine point he first screen chance in the
movies.
swindle on the Bank of Spain. Laughton as her father (the partHer first picture was with Walter
of view, how she can wear lovely which Cedric Hardwicks, "created" Ituste in "Gentleman
After he meets the gentle "Madera" journalist. to Stuart, Erwin, who.
light frothy gowns. It is a the (perfectly and skilfully played by the although a good netor, is totally comedy telling of a. Princess of aa return to popular favour in a Zane Jackie Coogan, aged 20, will make in the play), Fredric March as
Press," She is now signed to old movie favourite Henry B Walthall) miscast in this.. Browning, and Maureen O'Sullivan!
Beery is at his best. He dominates Warner
visits Grey "horse opera." It is difficult to Married. Bros.
Only two women
Imagine Jackie as the hard-riding hero (the heroine of the current Empire)
the picture, savage, cruel, childlike and [divorced three times,
of "The Code of the West." Alm "llide Qut") as base of Eliza-}
ignorant, with a weakness for pretty Wray in a thankless
newcomer, Katherine beth's sister.
He was given a great chance in (adopted daughter this picture and he took it with B de Mille), who manages both hands. There is no ro- įmonce, and no sympathy, and it is one of the most blood-thirsty films ever screened. Much is ex- plained in this biographical drama of the notorious Mexican rebel who rallies the down-trod den peons
to his banner, and whose life becomes a symbol against oppression. It was pro-
SUNDAY
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KING'S
BACK AGAIN ON A NEW MAN HUNTI
CHARLIE
CHAN'S
COURAGE
WARNER OLAND
DRUT LEYTON DONALD WOODS Produced by JOHN STONE
· Special Added Attraction —
SUNDAY AT 9.30 P.M. ONLY.
SERAPHIM STRELKOFF
"SINGING GLOBE TROTTER”
The famous Russian baritone, direct from Hollywood, on his singing tour of the world, will appear on the stage in native costume singing Russian and English ballads....
FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN HONG KONG.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
and
Women.
duged in Mexico so the local co- lour is authentic.
Preston Faster, young film- atar, who has the principal role in the Fox screen play, "The Man Who Dared.”
QUELA'S
THE GREATEST PICTURE OF ALL TIMES!
of Cecil
who
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Lillan Harvey may play the lend in the Warner film "Sweet Adeline."
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mythical Kingdom, count. Fay America, and develops mumps. role, and a
Mas Sydney in the role looks de Mille lovely. A chorus girl who looks
like her double is called in to im personate the Princess and sell Bonds to aid her country.
Great Garbo will sport a new style The
of hair dressing in "The Painted Veil hero, Cary Grant. is against the which will probably
be copied the campaign, but naturally falls for world over. the pretty girl, after much mis- understanding, which is meat for Rumour has it that Midge Evana the romance-lovers like myself. husband of Zazu Pitts) and is seen
has forgotten Tom Gallery It rather takes away from the everywhere with Russell Hardie, who plausibility of the story that Miss took the part of her husband in Sydney plays both parts, but then. "Broadway to Hollywood." to be candid, they don't make two
Gorgeous Kay Francis reaches new dramatic heights in First National's thrilling drama, "Man- dalay", which comes to the Alham- bra Theatre on Saturday.
HIGHER PAY FOR U.S. FILM STARS
GRETA GARBO'S £91,600
$1,000 A DAY FOR MR. BARRYMORE
A
SHOWING
TO-DAY
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such lovely girls as Sylvia Sydney, occasionally so that their children will The Spencer Tracy's dine together so it is absolutely necessary that not think they are estranged. she should double the role.
little boy is stone deaf.
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Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Henry Stephenson and Vince William Powell is "that way" Barnett are all excellent in their seriously about Jean Harlow, so they' respective parts. Well worth see- Boy. ing. (King's)
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Perfection
Alone Satisfies
James Whale
His Genius Portrayed In "The Invisible Man"
HAT "genius is the Fare capacity for taking infinite
THA puina" possibly accounts for the
James
unusual success which Whale has enjoyed as one of the most distinguished of motion pic ture directors. The man who is credited with the startling effec- tiveness of Universal's sensational production of H. G. Wells' "The SURVEY of the salaties paid Invisible Man", now playing to to film stars in the United crowded houses at the Majestic States discloses the interesting fact Theatre, has a creed of thorough- that, so far as is possible, they eas in the production of pictures have been granted immunity from approached by few cinema mastere. To Whale, every picture he made the financial effects of the depres- is a complete study, and a matter sion.
of perfection, or, nothing. Mr. Roosevelt's famous mes- In screening "The Invisible sage to a great industrialist, Man", Whale worked with a theme "Tell him He will never make aļund locals which, was just made for million dollars a year again," his unusual talents. The tense does not apply to actors and suspense which is said to charac- actresses at Hollywood.
terize the bizarre H. G. Wells story Salaries on the whole appear on of a mad scientist who made him- the up grade. The latest among self invisible and then set about) British stars to profit from this to rule the world with this trend are Mr. Clive Brook and Mr. invincible power, is the type of Ronald Colman.
drama that he has scored in before,
The following weekly salaries and the setting in England, whose
Miss Greta Garbo
tell the story:
$1,800
Mr. Will Rogers
1,500
Mr. Maurice Chevalier
1,500
Miss Constance Beunett
1,400
Mr. John Barrymore.
1,300
Mr. Richard Barthelmess
1,200
Miss Norma Shearer-
1,200
Miss Ann Harding
1,200
Mr. Wallace Beery
1,000
Mr. William Powell
900
Miss Joan Crawford'
800
Miss Janet Gaynor (who
began with £50 when appearing in
·Heaven").
Mr. Edward G. Robinson
"Seventh
Mr. Jatues Cagney
Mr. Garry Cooper
Mr. Warren William
people he knows so well, allowed! him to devise many authentic and picturesque effects in creating the images which bring the drama to life on the screen.
"The Invisible 'Man", `which has created a veritable furore where-i ever it has been shown, because of its speculative theme and uncanny junseen star, is enacted by a cast of distinguished actors including Claude Rains, William Harrigan, Gloria Stuart, Dudley Digges, Una O'Connor, Henry Travers and For-
750
600
560
rester Harvey
260
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This picture will be on to-day
Miss Marie Dressler salary and to-morrow and patrons are ad-
until shortly before her death wasvised to book their seats early to £500 plus a handsome bonus." en Avoid rush.
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Zita Johann has the leading feminine role in "The Man Who Dared," the new drama from Fot.
KAY
Francis
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MANDALAY
TO-MORROW
AT THE
ALHAMBRA
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT THE
MAJESTIC THEATRE
H. G. WELLS'
"THE INVISIBLE MAN”
UNIVERSAL'S FANTASTIC
SENSATION