"A TALE OF TWO CITIES"
Ronald Colman In His
Finest Role
GREAT DICKENS STORY AT
-KING'S THEATRE
This most readable of the Dick- ens' novels, surprisingly enough, re- mains Dickens on the screen and as a result succeeds in being one of the most outstanding films to: date. One does not experience that; sense of disappointment so common i when a famous novel is popularis- ed for the screen.
Ronald Colman gives a mature sensitive interpretation of and that fascinating character Sidney Carton, a man who would have! been little but for his great love and his sacrifice. He plays with a really fine feeling and becomes not only the man but the personi-j
His fication of all he stood for. performance alone is enough to claim superiority for the film, but we may add to it that of Blanchei Yurks who plays the part of the bitterly-heroic revolutionary wo man Madame Defarge. She is a striking ügyre. And Miss Pross (Edna May Oliver) is delightful. We must discount the heroine-
whose she suffers from Dickens, heroines are always dull souls. But Charles Darnay appear a little too insipid beside Carton; indeed, it becomes difficult for us to believe! how even Lucie could have pre- ferred him.
But the film may claim a swift- ness of movement and a detail of background that makes it the best There Dickens film made so far.
contrasts between are striking slum life and the life of the ar- istocrats and one feels the tide off revolution rising. How good the atmosphere of the Defarge's wine-i shop after watching a monkey playing on the wrist of an aristo- crat as he lightly discusses persant rebellion! There are episodes most realistically done: the falling of the casket of wine in the street of Saint Antoine, and the murder of the Marquisto quote two ex- amples..
But in the film, as in the book,
it is Sidney Carton who dominates the whole. and Ronald Colman might well claim this as his master re-Phyllis Juby.
LINER'S WORLD CRUISE
"Reliance" Expected On March 30
DISTINGUISHED PASSENGERS
ON-BOARD
OK!
SAY-HOW LONG A -PART HAVE
IN THIS PLAY?
I WOULDN'T MISS THE. FIRE-EATER S” ANNCIAL BALL TONIGHT FOR THE WORLD NOW THAT'S TH' WINDOW.CHIEF - AN“ TELL THE BOYS THAT ILL BE
DROPPIN' AROUND AT
NINE O'CLOCK-
IF YOU LOVE YOUR QUEEN, YOU WILL AWAY WITH THE KING- SO BEGONE!
Į SAY-
FD
WELL-YOU'RE NOT KING VERY LONG YOU'RE DETHRONED
IN THE SECOND
SCENE-
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1936
Bringing Up Father
HERE IS WHERĖ THE GUARDS OF THE PALACE THROW YOU OVER THE
EDSE OF THE CLIFF-
COME, LOYAL SUBJECTS-TO THE PALACE-
DOWN WITH THE KING!
HERG COMES
THE KING*
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, YOU SEA LION? HURRY AND PUT ON YOUR KING'S MAKE- UP-WE ARE DONG OUR LAST REHEARSAL FOR TONIGHTS
WELL, AT LAST-IM KING. IN ME OWN HOME-NOW LET'S SEE, WHAT AM I SUPF 1SED TO DO BE:
DETHRONED
THAT'S GOOD. BOYS NOW"
IN THE NEXT SCENE YOU ATTACK THE KINS-
ALL RIGHT- IT'S THE SAME AS WE REHEARSED IT YESTERDAY-
AWAY
WITH
HEM
ין
NOW, BOYS-WHEN I SAY "BESONE”, THAT 15 YOUR CUE TO LEAVE AND ATTACK THE PALACE WHERE
YOU GRAS THE KING-
OVER
THE
CLIFF-
BY GOLLY- HE'S GOT HIS COSTUME ON~. HE IS ALL READY
FOR THE BALL-
ZE DO HERE
NOW-WH
AND THE ARE?
The German luxury liner Re-
liance, sister-ship of the
well-
the
known world tourist liner Resolute, 20,000 tons, will arrive in Colony on March 30 at 9 a.m., and stay till the afternoon of March $1.
Pe
The liner started its world cruise in New York, and among the ports touched or to be touched are: Port-of-Spain, Bahia, Rio, James- town. Capetown, Mossel Bay, Durban, Bombay, Colombo, nang, Malacca, Bangkok, Singa- pore, Batavia, Samarang, Pedang Bay, Manila. Hong Kong, Shang- hai, Chin Wan Tao, Beppu, Kobe, Yokohama. Honolulu, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles, Panama City and Havana.
The three largest oceans, the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indianį Ocean, will be traversed:
The Reliance takes for this trip the place of her sister-ship, the Resolute, which has made world cruises for the last 10 years an- nually.
Amongst the passengers are: The Honourable Ferdinand Boy, Chief Magistrate of the Province of Quebec and Dean of the Naval College Law School, accompanied by Mrs. Roy: Alvan Simonde of Baston, President of the Simonds Steel and Saw Works; Count Bassewitz, Berlin, Rudolf von formerly Gerinan Consul General in Calcutta; Baroness von Savigny, Munich; Count Wolfgang von Beichingen, Germany; and Consul General Maxim von Weinberg of Frankfort-on-Main, accompanied by Mrs. Maxim von Weinberg.
"REPAID” AFTER 20 YEARS
An 80-year-old man, whose life was saved 20 years ago by 21 operation at the Middlesex Hos- pital, handed the hospital au- thorities a £50 cheque "to repay
debt."
Rosie's BEAU
BY
GEO MCMANUS
· Registered U. S. Patent Offen.
E
JUST THINK- ARCHIE DEAR- I'M GOING AWAY
FOR TWO DAYS- I'LL BE AWFULLY LONESOME FÖR YOU, DEAR -
I'LL WRITE HER A LITTLE LETTER SHE MUSINT WORRY SO MUCH
ABOUT ME-
Great Britain rights reserved
CH-BE BRAVE LIKE ME - IT'LL' ONLY BE TWO DAYS-BRACE UP,
SWEETHEART-
I THINK I'LL CALL HER UP-THAT WILL KEEY
HER FROM GETTINIS
LONESOME-
1936, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Great
GOSH, SHE HASN'T
GONE YET- AND I AM LONESOME ALREADY-
GEE-WHIZ-1 "WISH SHE WASN'T GOIN' AWAY-THE DOOR LITTLE GIRL-HOW
SHE WORRIES THINK FLL CAL HER UP AGAIN
WHAT'LL
I DO
NOW?
WEL
LE STAR
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