Rudy Vallee and Helen Morgan are co-starred in Warner Bros. `latest musical hit, "Sweet Music," which is being shown at the
Alhambra Theatre to-morrow.
SHORT
SHOTS
SHIRLEY Terpie marches on
fame. Now she is included in the "World-Wde instated En. cyclopaedia."
Frank Borzage will direct Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper (remember them together in her first Hollywood film "Morocco) in "Pearl Neck- lace."
Mazy of the Alm stars are rabid; stamp collectors. Sylvia Sydney es- pecially - Lavouring Oriental stamps, while. Marlene Dietrich has already a marvellous collection for her daugh- ter Maria, and Bing Crosby has start- ed an album for his three sons.
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Harold Lloyd is starring in Paramount release "The Milky Way,'
wherein he plays the role of a milk-
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Gene Markey indignantly denies
Ann Dvorak takes the part of a singing dancer in Warner Bros. latest comedy musical, "Sweet Music." which will be screened at the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow.
THE CHINA-MAIL FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1935
TULLIO CARMINATI STARRED
WITH LILIAN HARVEY
GINGER ROGERS IDEALLY CAST IN
"ROMANCE OF MANHATTAN”
RUDY VALLEE, ANNE DVORAK AND SPLENDID CAST IN NEW WARNER MUSICAL
THE association of Tullio]
By Diane
Diane PROVIDED you Hirte
For those who favour
the dis- Tattoo will ever
Czechoslovakian forget him in "One Night of
actor Francis Lederer, you will Love"?) and Lilian Harvey is a
be charmed by Romance In happy combination in "Let's
Manhattan" because it is per- Live To-night.”: If you are
super-fectly fitted to the star. looking for pure unadulterated natural goings-on this picture will It begins in melodrama, when romance this picture
no doubt afford interest. Tod the young immigrant from Middle please you, although it must be Browning the director has a pas-Europe, scheduled to be deported admitted that both stars have sion for gloomy lighting which for lack of his landing fee, leaps had better material
adds to the effectiveness and be into New York Bay and Miss Harvey looks lovely but has not failed to pile on the ashore.
fragile in diaphonous chiffon, with diamonds in her golden curis, while
horrors. (Queen's),
"Babbitt".
lent cast there are plenty of more laughs.
to
popularise
Francis
Then the story becomes: de- lightful comedy when our hero, the suave fascinating Carminati
wandering in an amiable daze up will set feminine hearts" futtering Sinclair Lewis famous novel Broadway, meets a golden-hearted las he always does. Monte Carlo with Guy Kibbee and Aline Mac-chorns giri - (adorable Ginger fragrant gardens and yachts adrift Mahou There is truly not much Rogers), who feeds, shelters and on moonlit waters the setting is connection with the famous story, eventually marries him. lideal
There is a simple story, but but thanks to the stars and excel- Endoubtedly this picture will do it hardly matters. Just, a few
Lederer than his previous two. misunderstandings and the dis- Gay Kibbee plays the role of "Man of Two Worlds" and "The covery that the simple charm of the American "little man" to per-Pursuit of Happiness." He is gay, the fair beroine means more to
fection, and Miss MacMahon is whimsical and yet restrained and the manly here than all the fas ideal as the wife who always gets seems perfectly at home in his cinations of worldly women like him out of a tight corner. If you role. Miss Rogers could not be Tala Birell Also Hugh Williams,
treat this as a good comedy, not anything but outstanding. Her as the brother who almost wins as a film of the book, you will young brother, played by Jimmy the girl does his best to make the
jenjoy it
Butler makes, the third of the story plausible, and highly agree-
[perfect trio, while Sidney. Toler. I. able entertainment
"$10 Raise"
Farrell Macdonald and Donald Edward Everett Horton is a Meek, with understanding direc- mousy little bookkeeper who is so tion by Stephen Roberts, all lift prompt that the shopkeepers along the picture to a rare "height the route he goes to his work can (King's). set their clocks by him, and so unadventurous that he has worked
Miss a film in which Tuliol
in the latest Courad Veidt film "King Carminati appears? Decidedly, no and Helen Vinson of the Damned with Noah Beery He is especially charming when he
sings "Love Passes By."
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"Sweet Music”"
Frances Day is opposite Jack Hul-mended. (Queen's). bert in his latest picture "Dancing Shoes. By the bye, it was recently that be and wife Joan Bennett are revealed that the Hulberts. (Miss) Beparating in fact they are ideally Cicely happy, and contemplate taking a have a contract
Courtneidge and Jack)
Becom-
(Albumbra).
This Warner musical is for the untold years without daring to ask that gives them audy Vallee "fans" and this for the $10 raise that would ex-
"Kiss And Make-Up"
A chance to see a delightful trio;. Genevieve Tobin looking really lovely, Cary Grant thei
ba-share in a magnifcent up-to-date £100,000 a year between them, whilej famous crooner-band leader stable him to marry Emily (Karen Really handsome leading man, and
farm with Joan's mother.
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George Zacre, who will be remem- bered for his fine work in the Orient,
Jack Buchanan and Jessie Matthews more than holds his own, be it Morley).
are in the 10,000 per picture class.
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Jean Harlow will be co-starred with and Myrna Loy in in the Holoway-Courtneidge Com-William Powell pany, which, niso included Cland "Wife versus Secretary" "
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ALHAMBRA
TO-MORROW
BIGGEST ENTERTAIN- MENT MERGER SINCE TALKIES BEGAN!
RUD Y
VALLEE
Master Showinan of the Air, and WARNER BROS. Master Makers‘ot Musicals, Cum. bine to Deluge the Screen witin
Talent in l
SWEET MUSIC
A. Merry Medley of songs - and stars, laughs and love ...with Hollywood's great- est comedians.the world's most beautiful girls..the writers who gave you “20 Million Sweethearts"..the most dazzling names of stage, screen, and radio!
Meet the Stars!
ANN DVORAK
HELEN MORGAN NED SPARKS – ALLEN “JENKINS - ALICE WHITE- ROBERT ARMSTRONG®
2 Great Bands!
RUDY'S CONNECTICUT YANKEES – FRANK & MILT BRITTON BAND
Hear the Edry
noted.
Handsomely staged, with haunt- ing tumedal songs and a fragment of a story. Just avoid trying to find out what it is all about, and; concentrate on, the masie and the really surprising performance turned in by Anne Dvorak. (Don't forget she once taught the steps to Joan Crawford at the MG.M. studio, till Karen Morley got ber a.job as an actress). sensationally good at singing and acting.
Rudy is really huruan and has lost most of the "Heaven's gift to women” manner.
Amie
dancing..
is
The action is back-stare and we have Hele Morgan doing her usual "reepy song, also Allen Jenkins, Robert Armstrong. Ned Sparks and Alice White, not-for- getting the Milt Britton Band (Personally their anties bore me, but the public dearly loves to see the clowning). You will enjoy this and surely come away hum- mning "Sweet Music" and "Fare Thee Well. Annabelle". Recom- mended. (Alhambra).
The popular comedian is ideally
Claire Todd plays one of the leading roles
**Babbitt, which is now being screened at the Alhambra Theatre.
Edward Everett Horton the much- mortifed husband.
Hero Cary Grant finds himselfi in trouble when he falls in love with his most lovely client (Miss) Tobin) and the airy story tells of his disillusionment, which pro vides a bright amusing comedy, especially the absurd finish. Helen Mack is in support as the under- standing secretary. (Queen's).
"One Hour Late"
Joe Morrison the crooner, whom we previously saw in the W. C. Fields picture "The Old-fashioned Way, has developed a nice screen personality and makes
A STORA
bid for success in this sprightlyi
Hittle yarn depicting the love of an. office desk for a stenographer, Helen Twelvetrees, and their dif culties when their romance is nearly upset by their "boss." Conrad Nagel, and a file clerk, Arline Judge.
Quite a few laughs and some pathos. Entire cast is good, but it is Morrison's sweet voice sing- ing "Me Without You" that makes cast, terribly amusing, yet withal this above being just another at times pathetic. He never over-picture.”" (Alhambra).
Star, Kowloon -
Churchill fly their
"Mark Of The Vampire" does his thronic confusion, even Any picture presenting Lionel in the scene where he is drunk for "Richest Girl in the World,” Barrymore gives you some good the first time in his life.
with: Miriam Hopkins and Joel acting, but in this he has to fight Karen Morley is his romance MeCrea in a far-fetched story; against an incredible story. All and Glen Boles and Rosins Law-plus the whole cast doing their the old borror stand-bys are used,rence are the charming pair of utmost to make something of the dead bodies tangied in cobwebs.impetuous lovers. Alan Dinehart
inferior material. Frats, noises, high wind and fog and Berton
Followed by "Broadway Through and, to make it more Dracula-like, roles creditably.
a Keyhole Grand melodrama. Bela Lugosi is in the cast.
·E E. H. carries the success of Paul Kelly turns in a perfect per- Elizabeth Allan is just asked to the picture upon his very capable formance as the gangster who wander round with a vacant look, shoulders, and you will find him helps heroine Constance Cummings while Henry Wadsworth does his as amusing as ever (King's). best as the courageons young man. Jean Hersholt can always be relied upon for a good performance.
"Great Expectation
to success and love. The late Buss Colombo, too, contributed his The first of the recent Dickens best screen work, while the female "cycle," and Universal have done star is pleasing. Well worth see the job of transferring this ng twice. mystery story to the screen in first-class manner.
Henry Hall (famous Broadway actor) makes his talle debut as the convict whose gratitude for, a boy's sympathy becomes his ruling passion. Eleven-year-old. George Breakston has already made a name for himself on the Eadio, and in one other ture, “No Greater Glory ane Howard is
the other
Philips brought up
Lions
the boy
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Ginger Rogers and Francis Lederer are in hattan,” which is coming, on Sunday to the King
“Rom
Here is an interesting quartette from RKO-Radio's "Romance in Manhattan," which will showing on Sunday at the King's Theatre, It is a story with an. O. Henry touch, involving a poor immigrant, a chorus-girl, an Irish policeman and a shyster lawyer who seeks to have an adopted son of America deported to his native land. At left is Sidney Toler, then come the stars. Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers,
and "at right. J. Farrell Macdonald.
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SUNDAY THE
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SHE WANTED TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE BUT LOVE SNEAKS UP ON A GIRL ·
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as the hearts they happiness for youl
Pomas MANHATTAN
ARTHUR HOHL-
RKO - ŽADIO PICTURE
Rare Entertainment!
NEWSREEL
TRAVELOGUE
STAN LAUREL
and
OLIVER HARDY
at their funniest
in
"FIXER UPPERS”
WOMAN or VAMPIRE?
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