1935-10-11

SEE

10,000 Sol-

diers storming the Walls of Acre!

SEE. The Dread- ed Slave Market; Beautiful Christian Women Sold to Sav- age Saracens!

SEE

Men Burn-

ed Alive at the Stake,

in Preference to God-

less Bondage!

SEE

The Ara-

bian Knights' Splen- dour of the Court of the King of Asia!

SEE The Mobil- ization of All Europe by the Wandering Hermit!

SEE The Huge

Fleet of Ruthless War

John Boles, Jean Muir, and Charles By worth have the leading rok in "Orchids To You," ■ For Film production, which will be shown at the Al- hambra Theatre next Sunday.

Galleys Under Full SHORT

Sail!

SEE

The Startl-

ing Test or Saracen Steel Against Chris- tian Iron! SEE.

The Mighty

Council of the Thirty

Kings of Christen-

dom!

SEE

Mr.

SHOTS

THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1935-

“THE CRUSADES" IS GRAND SPECTACULAR EPIC

WONDERFUL CAMERA WORK AND

IMAGINATION IN "SHE"

"GINGER" GIVES GRAND OPPORTUNITY TO CHILD-ACTRESS JANE WITHERS “THE LITTLE COLONEL” NOW

AT THE MAJESTIC

By Diane Sher by Rider Haggard

“Or

HE CRUSADES” is a char={

is many years since I read cteristic Cecil B. de Mille “Epic. with a theatrical

but the film does not bear much story. It will prove to

be an

resemblance to the original, if evening well spent for the de

I remember rightly. Holly- Mille lovers, but the more criti-

The dialogue is full of slang wood.

rather Produceri cal-rainded can only look at it and wisecracks," and the little Merian Cooper, tells how John a spectacular point of heroine, with her hard-boiled Vincey. an English scientist, view and extend their congra bluntness. brings everyone round dying of radium poisoning, re- tulations to the master-director to her way of living-even stately veals to his American nephew for his handling of the crowds Katherine Alexander. Fox have Leo a secret known only to him- and the battle scenes.

certainly given: a story to Jane self and his co-worker. Dr. The players are somewhat over that gives her a grand chance to Holly. shadowed by the magnificence of shine; and she does too.

from

the production and the astonish-bra).

ing camera work The story in this lengthy yet impressive enter- tainment tells how Richard the¦- Lion-Hearted (Henry Wilcoxon)

"The Informer”.

Alkam

Vincey asserts that there is a fame in existence that will give pman eternal life Leo and Holly start for Muscovy, and at the far- thest outpost meet a trader, Dng-|

and his daughter Tanya.

of!

Hollywood had been named meet trouble and disaster when conscience, he gives one of the The climax need not be dis-

Jessie. Matthews" first film för

The Poig-G. M. has been delayed as Roberler. do their utmost to separate ever seen

them. This leads to the

This story is based upon Liam more. takes England's host of Crusaders, O'Flaherty's novel of the struggle There is a landslide and Dugmore to the Holy Land to escape mar-between the Black-and-Tansand others perish, but Lea. Holly!

with Alice E. and Mrs, Fredric March (Flór riage

France

and Ireland's secret army. It of- and Tanya find a secret passage -ence Eldridge), and Douglas Katherine de Mille) and through fers Victor McLaglen the finest through the mountain. Then comes Mastgomery are among the famous lack of supplies is forced to part of his career, and as "Goone terrible adventure" after an- fim people now on holiday in Eng marry Princess land. March has to return to work (Loretta Young) when he begs the small, mean mind who sells being seized and taken to "She Berengaria Nolan the ignorant giant with other, eventually ending up by their very quickly as he has been chosen to enact the lead in Anthony Ad- hels from the King of Navarre. is pal to the

enemy and who-must-be-Obeyed,” Ruler verse" after half, the leading men in The young couple fall in love, and is then betrayed by his own Kor.

"Alice" and "Saladin," a Saracen really outstanding performances closed-It would spoil one's en- on the screen. The joyment. The picture is worth clash story is stark in its realison to the seeing, as such strange unearthly Montgomery, her leading man, has two other pictures to make first between the armies and

point of sordidness, but it is a fantasy is seldom seen on the Clifton Webb, famous Broadway dan-scenes are masterfully handled by magnificent character-study of arees, and the camera work isį cing star, and Una Merkel will also directors and crowds.

man who betrays a friend, not marvellous, with imaginative set- he in the c

Loretta Young looks regally-through malice but through weak- tings nerer equalled. lovely, and no one could be more nees, and of his mental sufferings Pauline Fredric, who is now the

Helen Gahagan (Mrs. Melvyn) of a Colonel in the American deally cast that Henry Wilcoxon as a result of the impulsive step Douglas)

the Broadway Amy-her fifth husband, by the by in the leading role. Lan Keith, Che has taken.

stare. is truly regal in her per- will make a return to the screen Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut,

sonification of "She" and acts for Twentieth Century.

Alan Hale and hundreds more dol The scene is laid in Dub with taste, dignity and distinc *

There has been a rift in the lute somewhere. and William Powell and

nant Finding of the True Cross at Acre!

SEE

archs

The Mon-

of Europe Matching Wits and Steel for Empires!

SEE

Frenzied

Mobs of Charging Moslems Fighting Fire with Fire!

“Ginger"

these

running

from

a spectacular point of view, but it

"Orchids To You”

exactly what de Mille orders.

lia in 1922 when- rebellion

¡tion Nigel. Bruce is-as usual- Go to this picture knowing you was

rampant John

rather casual in his acting, and directed the picture Randolph Scott seems a little out Myrna Loy will not be in Wife ver. will see confict. romance. colour. Ford, who

De Secretary with Jean Harlow, but religion and a super-spectacular must be congratulated upon his or his depth. Helen Mack, a MG. 3. are trying to obtain the ser show; it is a triumph for Para really masterly work; be has made

grand little trooper, brings life to |vices of Warner Baxter and Claudette mount and de Mille. (Queen's). Margot Grahame and Heather fa character that is hard to believe.

Colbert (I can't see Miss Colbert |

Angel give performances that I The picture is interesting from agreeing, somehow).

{did not think either was capable SEE. The Gran-

of giving. Una O'Connor. Pres-is not drama. (King's). Constance Lapino, mother of Ida. Jane Withers, vho made an imiton Foster, Wallace Ford. Donald deur of Windsor Cas- wall make an appearance in Holly

wood films, her first being with Ka pression as the mean little girl in Meek. Joseph Saners. J. M. Ker- tle, Largest Film Settharine Hepburn in "Sylvia Starlett." "Bright Eyes," has now been made rigan, all come in for a share of

another Fox star. and is out to praise. Ever Constructed!

This is a handsomely produced | Wendy Barrie expects her mother gain sympathy instead of being

and well-cast show which parades is no The outstanding figure through through a swanky New York. SEE

and sister Pat to stay with her short childishly wicked. There

in the lovely home she has leased doubt the little girl is clever, but out the play is Victor McLaglen flower shop. Trite story, which 7 do not compare her with the and his portrayal of his suffering tells how playboy Charles Butter- gions of Gallant

Miracle Child Shirley Temple and remorse is stirring to a mark worth proposes daily to Knights Battering It is rumoured that Mary Pickford |

may play the part of "Dearest" when who will not be equalled in this ed degree. This certainly places Jean Muir, the fashionable lady | Their Valiant Way to Freddie Eartholomew plays "Little century, ever.

bim in the very front rank of forist, while John Boles, a hand- Lord Fauntleroy." It will be recalled Jane does everything from a great actors, in the class of Paul some young lawyer, also becomes the Holy Land!

that Miss Pickford played both parts imitation of Garbo to reforming Mani, Fredric March, Edward o entangled in a strange fashion the cast. We are told how, as an binson end the Emil Jannings of with the forist's shop and the SEE

Giant War

orphan, she is reared by an ex-of the movies.

female attraction. Catapults Hurtling Balls of Fire on Fear- *torn Thousands!

Loyal Le-

in fashionable Bel-Air

in the silent version.

pretty į

Bette Davis will again be teamed with Leslie Howard when he films his actor till adopted by a rich woman

If you wish to see some of the At least let it be said there is successful Robert Sherwood play The with a priggish son-needless to Petrified Forest."

say this character is excellently finest performances, direction and pleasure enough in the fact that! played by Jackie Searl Jane's photography ever recoded in John Boles, sings--and very well Conchita Montenegro has married best scenes are with that extreme-Hollywood #then you will

too. Sydney Toler, Spring Bring- Raoul Roulien (seen and liked inly clever and likeable actor Walter miss this. It offers one of the ton, Harvey Stephens, Eutheima SEE ... The Gianting Down To Rio").

King, who made such a big im-strongest dramas the screen has Stevens and others are well direct Siege Tower and the

given us. (King's).

ed by William Seiter. Coming to Joan Bennet, who acted with Ren-pression in "One More Spring"

the Alhambra. Battle of Burning Oil!ald Colman in his first talkie, "Ball-

SEE... 3,500 Horses in One Mighty Charge!

SEE ALL

THIS AND

dog Drummond.” will be opposite lim in "The Man Who Broke The Bank At

Monte Carlo

Fredric March praises the work of Merle Oberon in "The Dark Angel," and says the change in make-up from the Oriental to the Occidental is a (Continued on Page 10).

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