QUEEN'S
It was inevitable that the stock TO-DAY TO MONDAY market crash should inspire the
Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20. writers of movieland, and hence it is that Marie Dressler and Polly Moran of M-G-M cavorted across the screen of the Queen's Theatre in an uproarious comody titled "Caught Short."
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See and Hear the Most Amazing Confession over told in
"THE DOCTOR'S SECRET
- RUTH CHATTERTON
H. B. WARNER
ROBERT EDESON
JOHN LODER
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930.
HOT WEATHER
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
1930, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
DOESN'T SEE WHY GROWN-UPS MIND THIS HOT WEATHER
HE DOESN'T HAVE TO WEAR. SO MANY CLOTHES AS USUAL
AND IF HE WAKES UP CRYING THE FAMILY COMES RUNNING
TO AMUSE HIM BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT HIM TO
FRET IN THIS HEAT
THE SILVER SCREEN.
CAUGHT SHORT."
A Paramount ALL-TALKING|
Picture
Another Tense and Intriguing Drama of London Society with Thrills, Tears and Laughs!
From Sir JAMES M. BARRIE'S Famous Stage Play "HALF AN HOUR.
ALSO
PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS & COMEDIES
-NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, SEPT. 14 Evelyn Brent & Jack Oakie
IN
"FAST COMPANY"
Songs-Comedy-Baseball.
COMING SOON
Bebe Daniels & John Boles
IN
'RIO RITA"
Broke." The Love Parade" Record in Shanghai (On account of length of this picture each show will start promptly at 2.00, 5.00, 7.20 & 9:40).
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(TELEPHONE 25720).
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article in the "Daily Press" Every Thursday,
AND HE CAN TAKE HIS CLOTHES OFF WHEN HE FEELS URE IT
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RIO RITA
with
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by
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AND INSTEAD OF RUSHING TO DRESS. HIM AGAIN. THEY LET HIM FROUC AROUND WITH NOTHING"
ON
MAKING NOISES FOR THE TALKIES."
"A ONE-MAN SOUND EFFECTS DEPARTMENT.”.
Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, the roosters crow, the babies cry, and the frogs croak. The "talkies" have came. But dogs, roosters, babies, and frogs cannot always be depended on to perform when we want thers to. How do "the talkies make these animal and infant actors speak up when needed and keep still when that is desir able 1
AND HE CAN DROP OFF TO SLEEP WITHOUT HAVING PEOPLE RUN IN TO BOTHER HIM WITH
BLANKETS
AND THEY DONT MAKE' HIM FINISH HIS BOTTLE WHEN HE DOESN'T WANT TO
AND JUST STAND AROUND SYMPATHIZING BECAUSE
THIS HEAT MUST BE SO HARD FOR BABIES
Caught Short" concerns the auccesses of Polly Moran, a land- lady in the late lamented bull market," and the eventual capitula- tion of her more conservative friend, Marie Drossler. Anita Page and Charles Morton furnish the interest of the juventile love comedy, and excellent character performances are given by T. Roy Baracs, Herbert Prior and Edward Dillon as boarders.";
Director Chuck Riesner hins hand- led the offering deftly. The sus pense leading up to the Asal crash of the market is particularly well done. The co-stars, Marie Dressler and Polly Moran, carry on in this picture still farther the high re putation they have already attain. ed as fun-makers.
"THE DOCTOR'S SECRET"
Paramount's all-talking picture,
Queens for a day 1
andth en
CAUGHT
SHORT
"The Doctor's Secret, is now Starring the showing at the Central Theatre hilarious
William de Mille directed the
picture which he himself adapted comedy team- from the famous J. 31. Barrie stage play,Half an Hour."
The story is one of London society, of a wealthy self-made man who regards his bought-and-paid-for. aristocratic wife with no little.com- tempt., The story has to do with her plans to find happiness with and what takes the other man- the Con-place when carefully laid plans go
The only thing he could do was to give the imitations he had leathed. He went into saudeville and became famous on
tinental stage. When talkies be came popular he came to this coun- try. He is also an accredited cor. respondent for the Italian Press.
"The next time you hear a lion roar or a sea whisper to its mate- you can grin to yourself and know that it's Count Cutelli
Says Doris Denbo in the Holly- wood Citzen :-
wrong.
In the production of an all-talk- ing picture it is of primary im- portance that the players them. eelves be adapted to their roles and speak their lines in a convincing, realistic manner. "Paramount has given The Doctor's Secret" "a cast which can do all these things, and furnishes the very acme of screen entertainment
Ruth Chatterton, who was a star in her own right on Broadway, has one of the leading role. Opposite another her is H. B. Warner.
veteran" of the stage, who port
his character perfectly: rays Robert Edeson, an old-time film favourite, handles his part admir- ably, and John Loder, the new British actor recently imported by Paramount, more than lives up to advance notices. The remainder of the cast are equally well chosen.
He has spent most of his life giving his own vaudeville. act of just this sort of imitation both in Europe and in America. He has been broadcasting over the radio Well, says the New York Literary for some five years. He believed he Digest, they dispense with these had exhausted, the Held his own Ectors themselves and turn the peculiar talents could enter and
We heartily recommend The sound effecta, in many cases, over then out of a clear sky come talking. to an Italian expert, Count Cutalli, pictures, and the frantic search for Doctor's Secret" as thoroughly en- whose speciality is making noises imitations that would sound like joyable audible screen entertain- neatly and to order. He has work- the real thing through the microment, both from a dramatic and ed; we are told, in such films as phone.
The. Tres- "The Love' Parade," passer," and "Condemned." The Hollywood Newn tells us:
Count Cutelli: makes his living and a very good one, by imitating animal sounds, sounds of sea waves, motor-boats, steam-boats, airplanes, whistles, hurricanes, trains, and other noises needed for talking pictures:
"He can crow like a rooster, ery like a baby, or croak like a ball frog, producing all sounds in a natural way, with his mouth, and without use of props.
"It all bogan when the Count was a boy on his father's estate at the foot of Mount Etna. Here he Jed a lonely life, amusing himself by imitating the birds, animals, and even the frogs on the vast estate.c
When the war came along and be returned to his homeland, some what broken in health, wounded, and in poor spirits, he found the family estate wiped out..
LISTEN!!!
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"He made a study of this and found that all these years he had been having his own vaudeville act, all the years he had spent studying at close range all the peculiarities
technical standpoint,
"RIO RITA."
The first great dramatic spectacle of the talking screen-Radio pic- tures' production of Florenz Zieg. of the birds and beasts of nature, feld's operetta, Rio Rita comes as well as insects, the cry of a baby, to the Centrn! Theatre next week. the sounds found in every-day living all around him, must have been directed at this one discovery. He is a one-man sound-effects de- partment, and should save pro- ducers a lot of money and effort, when they want natural sounds in their picture.
"He claims that a French chicken sounds entirely different from a good old American one, and that an Italian one sounds still different. He can show you the difference and not knowing anything about Italian and French chickens you have to believe he's right. It sounds different all right. Then he says river, lake and marsh frogs all-
Lit."
have a different croak and proves
"SOMETHING ALWAYS HAPPENS"
starving ESTHER RALSTON
You'll be scared too! Dark night, haunted house, black cats, invisible feet marching up the stairs. But you can laugh at Esther Ralston's predicament.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
MAJESTICA 230, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m,
THE Tari
With John Boles and Bebe Daniels heading a gigantic cast of players, singers, dancers, beautieg and specialty performers, Ric Rita" takes its place among the great screen plays. In its wealth of diversified entertainment it bas doubtless never been equalled. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play the comedy roles they created for Ziegfeld, Dorothy Lee, the baby-talk girl of "Syncopation"; Helen Kaiser, one of Ziegfeld's "glorified" girls, Georges Rene- vant, French stage star, and Doo Alvarado are others of the featured
cast.
Much of the 6im was photograph- costumes are said to have outdone. ed in technicolour, and the sets and anything seen on the talking screen.
Harry Tierney, composer of the original tuneful score of "Rio Rita" added two new song hits to the picture. Cimini's grand opera chorus of 80 voices the Pearl Eaton chorus of 100 Hollywood beauties, the first stock chorus in motion pictures, and a symphonic archestra directed by Victor Bara velle are other features of the film.
FILM ACTRESS POISONED. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE
Miss Line Basquette, flm star sød dancer, and former wife of the late Mr. Sam Warner, the producer, was
Marie
DRESSLER
Polly
MORAN
- with ANITA PAGE
ONT under any conditions
Do
miss this screaming happi- ness hit, the screen's gift to those who want to laugh. And” how you'll howl when those funny "gals, Marie and Polly start cleaning up in Wallar treet 1-(istead of in the kichen where
they were safer) I'
NEXT CHANGE
CHILDREN
•F PLEASURE
with
LAWRENCE GRAY BELEN JOHNSON BENNY RUBIN
WORLD
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 280, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20.
Laura LA PLANTE
Robert Hills Jocelyn Lee
Forma Trevor
LOVE TRA
NEIL HAMILTON
ROMANCE I
COMEDY !
STAR
near death recently following na TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
alleged attempt to commit suicide.
Following a gay party at Miss Basquette's home in Hollywood a guest found her writhing in zgony on the floor of the bathroom She was sobbing for her two-year-old daughter, Lita, who was entrusted to the care of the late Mr. Warner's parents after Miss Basquette's second marriage to Peverell Marley, a film comeman,
An empty bottle which had con- tained poison was found in the beth-
room
Miss Basquette was rushed to a hospital, but doctors fear, she will not recover
Miss Basquette made her screen debut as a child actress. Later she joined the Zeigfeld Follies in New York and became chief dancer. Since her return to the screen 1927 she has played impor in Banger of the North, ade and The Godless Gir
AT 5.39 & 9.20.
featuring
ALICE TERRY
IVAN PETROVITCH
REX INGRAMS
3 PASSIONS
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