HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930.
CENTRAL THEATRE
Paramount's Sound Pictures R MONDAY to WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 to 12 Daily at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
GIRLS AND MUSIC! SONG AND FUN
And a throbbing love story that will tear your heart out, Hear Holen Kane's latest hits. Bes William Powell's lovemaking.
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
POINTED HEELS"
A Paramount Picture
Will William Powell, Helen Kane, Fay Wray and Richard "Sheets" Gallagher.
A Gorgeous Revue in Technicolor
-NEXT CHANGE, THURSDAY, NOV. 13-
Rapturous, Ravishing, Riotous Entertainment I The greatest galaxy of Broadway stars ever seen or heard on the screen! The glorious Mary Eaton The riotous Eddie Cantor! The incom- parable Rudy Valleo! The tragic-voiced Helen Morgan! In a stupendous, brilliant musical show personally supervised by Florenz Ziegfeld! Romance, song, dance and rollicking humour! Blended into two hours of captivating entertain- ment!
FLORENT ZIEGFELD'S.
GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN GIRL
with
Mary Eaton
Directed by Millard Webb
Written by J. P. McEvoy
Danted by Ted Shawa
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
TRYING TO SHOW YOUR VACATION SMARSHOTS TO CALLERS WHO HAVE
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(Copyright, 1939, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc)
GIYAS WILLIAMS
'TALKIES" MENACE
TO AMATEUR STAGE. QUEEN'S
DIFFICULTY OF FINDING THEATRES.
HOPES OF REACTION,
In his presidential address at the Lanual general meeting of the Na- sonal Operatic and Dramatic As- sociation at Blackpool last month, Mr. Dudley Stuart Page anid that although the past year had seen
a alight decrease in membership. there had been progress in many
ways.
Talkies An Abomination...... "Perhapa," he said, "the decrease it membership may bonecounted for by the fact that the amateur stage, in common with the commer, cial theatre, is passing through a period of intense depression, which, I am afraid, has not been improY- ed by the industrial and agricu)- tural depression throughout the country," Again, the prevailing craze for that cacophonic abomina- tion known as the talkies has prov. ed a somewhat serious menace to the amateur stage, not so much be cause of the opposition of that par- ticular form of entertainment but rather because so many theatres have been converted to the talkies, thereby depriving many societies of their regular theatres. I believe the time will como when many of these theatres will rovert to the legitimate stage, but in the Jacques Feyder's fetish for weird meantime many societies are con camera angles oven included the fronted with the difficulty of find still camera when to directed "Thing placea in which to give their Kiss," Greta Garbo's now starring erformances,”’
the The patrons
In brief it is as simple as all picture which is showing at Contral at the Theatre Bermod much
plaas-that, but in the audible colluloid Queen's Theatre. ed yesterday with the
unwinding of it "Pointed Heels"
Following Feyder's instructions offoring
"Pointed
is intensely gripping at all times, that the atilla be photographed from Heola.
when Helen Kano This production has all the requireven
and the same angles from which the ed ingredients of first class enter
noving scenes were shob, Milton tainment There is clever, acting,
Browne, Miss Garbo's stillman, interesting: plot and first-rate
had to build up a collection of Bamford. declared that talkies, comedy,
"baby" tripods and stopladders although not by any means perfect from which to take his pictures.nt the present time, must be pn- The result was one of the most un- usual set of stifts over obtained.
Feyder has made use of European mechanistic theories in filming the picture and has produced results which are interesting not only from the aspect of their novelty but also from an artistio viewpoint.
THE SILVER SCREEN. the finish the lyric admixture is
rent
"POINTED HEELS.”
car-
cleared by a surprise twist in char- actor on the part of Powell who turns out to be a demi-villain after all.
"Skeets" Gallagher, a new movie song and dance team, are putting ever thoir amusing mummery. One nover knows just what turn the fortunes of all will take at each moment of the play, and that is the proof of good entertainment.
Helen Kane is the little girl whose work on the radio and phonograph brought her fame almost overnight. She sings two great songs in this production.
William Powell runs off with the acting honours. He is the guave man-about-town and producer of artistic alago revues who forms the third side to the romance triangle of which Fay Wray and Philips Holmes are the other components. Miss Wray is the show girl who
There are some deftly worked out ranrries Holmes, the youthful song. composer, Their married happiness ballet- ensembles in the stage ac- is almost spoiled by the machina-suences which are worth going to tions of the urbane Powell, but at
A Paramount Picture
A Gorgeous Revue
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**The Kiss,"
Conrad Nagel plays opposite Miss Garbo and the supporting cast includes Anders Randolf, Low Ayres and Holmes Herbert. The picture is sound synchronized,
"Ths. Florodora Girl,"
Two hundred mombora represent- ing all parts of the country were present at the meeting.
Back to the True Stage. Presenting a report on the north dramatic section Mr. T. W.
tirely revolting to ul intelligent prople. If it did nothing else, that form of entertainment would probably increase the love of the drama which was inborn in all Bri tons. That must be they could rot have produced Shakespeare if it were nat. He thought probably the talkies would drive people away from the mechanical entertainment houses to the true stage,
"We have," said Mr. Bamford, "in our hands a weapon to coun. teract the effect of the talkion I
"Glorifying the American Girl,"
For the second time in her life, Mary Eaton has beca "glorified," |· '. for this famous musical comedy The old family album will be refer to the little theatre. I would star, originally discovered by brought to life in "The Florodora like people to help in developing Florenz Ziegfeld, and subsequently Girl," Marion Davier pioturs of the growth of the little theatre. I starred by him in the Broadway the "Gay Nicetis," which will boam afraid it is not exploited to success, Kid Boots," playa the showp to-anorrow. at the Queen's anything like the extent, it might bo. The majority of our affiliated
leading feminina role in Para-Thontre.
I think the money could be spent much better on the individual de- velopment of the little theatre movesnent."
The Little Theatre.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
Even Better Than
The Single Standard”
GRETA GARBO
Jetro
follwyns Mayer
FICTURE
THE KISS
"RETA GARBO, the divine
beauty, in a sweeping drama' of a woman storm-tossed by life.
A new triumph!
with
CONRAD NAGEL- HOLMES HERBERT
ALSO SHOWING
THE COLOURTONE REVUE "THE DOLL SHOP!
NEXT CHANGE
Do you remember when? --tandems were all the rage!
the Florodora Sextette was the Toast of the Town!
-millionaires buzzed around the famous beauties by the score!
THOSE
were the days! Go back to the gay, glorious 1908
with
MARION
mount's alltalking, and dancing The period when the bustle was societies spend huge guing annually musical picture, "Glorifying the Raunted on milady's hips, when on hiring theatres and trying to American Girl. It goes without horse-cars and hansom cabs wore play in a perfectly professional saying that Mary Eaton as the the chief means of transportation manner. I do not agree with it. "glorifield" girl is a delight to be will be relived in this story of the hold and a joy to listen to
| romance of a member of the fam-
aus "Florodora Sextette."
Gane Markey wrote the story and
directed. Harry Beaumont
A large supporting cast includes Law- ronce Gray, Walter Catlett, Louis banquet in the evening Mr. Frank Jobin Bartols, Vivian Oakland, Jedared that it was mad to say Bladon-Smith, of Manchester, de- Prouty, Claude Allister, Sam the theatre was dead. It may be in Hardy, Nanco O'Neil and a group a parlous condition, he said, but it was noither dying nor sleeping, of minor players..
So far as the little theatro was Among the quaint scenes of the concerned there was a great future nineties" which were reproduced before it. The educational value area. section of the Bowery, New of the little theatre was enormous York, including a street exterior and thoroin lay its strength, it wag ninating what talents the peo- with the ́elevated rumbling over ple belonging to the little theatro houd, quack medicine barkers, elec-had.
Personally supervised by Florenz Ziegfeld himself, "Glorifying the American Girl" emerges as gay en- tertainment in which glittering, tuneful musical comedy sequences are effectively blended with a de- lightful story, of a girl who dreams of a great Broadway success. There is 'romance, too, in
this
picture, of a pattern seldom seen on the screen, The novelty of its treatment makes possible an unusually effective dramatic situation rarely seen in a picture of this type.
Miss Eaton sings a charming number, There Must Be Somebody, Waiting For Ma," the song hit of tion torch parades und a general the show. Holen Morgan, the fam hurdy-gurdy jumble of humanity.
Speaking at the association's DAVIES
Ou etar of the original "Show Boat," and now ourrently on view ng leading lady in Broadway's most. popular musical succes, Swoot
The ex-Kaiser is an important Adolino," sings a new song appra character in a play-called-Brest- priately titled "What Wouldn't I Litovak, which deals with the Do For That Man!" Eddie Cantor Peace Treaty of that name, now
e-featured-in-a-bilarious-comedy.
boing played-in-Berlin-theatre- akit and Rudy Valloo and his Con-On learning of this be instructed nopticut Yankees play their radio hit, "Vagabond Lover." Others in his lawyer and two high ox-offiocra to attend a performance. They re the cat who contribute good per-ported that in it he was portrayed formances ard Dan Healy, a proin, a very artistic and dramatic
At 2.30, 5.80, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m. mincat Broadway comedian, Olive manner, and there was no reason to
AT THE
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Bhen, a bonutiful newcomer to the object to the characterisation of the screen, and Edward Crandall, a former Emperor. The ex-Crown recruit from the legitimate stage. Prince, however, and some of his "Glorifying the American Giri, friends who also saw the play, 'hold #that.
ed in natural colours, will be pre- souted at the Central Theatro on Thursday.
insulting to him. They ure" con- sidering applying for a court in junction.
THERE'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL
of
Bags, Fleas, Flies, Beetles,
Mosquitoes,
-etc.,
an killed
KEATING'S
The
FLORODORA
GIRL
with
LAWRENCE GRÀY
WALTER CATLEIT Hero Golian Myer ALL TALKING
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS-TO-DAY
At 5.30 & 9:30.
IRENE RICH