CENTRAL
THREATRE +
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Harmony Heaven!
British Picture, starring
Polly Ward:
Women Love 'Once,"
Queen's.
So this is Paradise."
· Chinese Talkie.
SHOWING TO-DAY
ni
2.30. 5.10, 7.15 and 0.20 p.in.
King's.
09
Paul Lukas and Eleanor ..... Boardman.
Central.
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天此刻
Доцени Fairbanks
Mary Pickford:
Majestic.
ABBATAS★*a*3⁄4à World.
“SO THIS IS
PARADISE
Part 1
Another Chinese
all-talking, singing and
dancing picture.
Starring
BUTTERFLY WU
Chinese foremost screen
favourite.
With
Shaw Pei Chen
by
Directed Chang Shih Chuen
Recorded by
Pathe Orient Co.
Produced by Mass Co., Shanghai.
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CHANGE
YOUNG SINNERS
A virile drame of youth and its yearnings ...
thith
THOMAS MEIGHAN HARDIS' ALBRIGHT Directed by John Biyotana »
Putting on the. Ritz," " KOWLOON.
Star Taming of the Shrew.
Animal Crackers,"
COMING.
Retaptured Love.”
nou
Belle Bennett and John Haidi.
day-Queen's.
On with the Show."
All colour, singing and dancing
-Queen's.
The Smiling Lieutenant,”
Maurice Charalier-King's..
"Daddy Long Lega.“
Janet Gaynor and Warner Box-
ter-King's
The Divorecer a
-Robert-Alentgomery and Neil
Hamilton Majestic,
Young Sinners."
Thomas Meighan and Hardio
Albright Contrad
Bree and Easy."
All Star Cast-Star. "Lord Byron of Broadway."
"Women Love · Onca."
-Star.
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NELLIE FARREN'S WHOOPEE GIRLS
IN
A COMPLETE CHANGE OF
PROGRAMME
NEW DANCES, NEW SONGS NEW COSTUMES
INCLUDING THE OLYMPIC TRIO
At 2:30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.30 p.m.
REVUE
A Man Can Always
Find REFUGE In Some Women's "HEART!
with
Paul Lukas
Eleanor Boardman
COMMENCING TUESDAY, 10TH NOV.
(Pictures and Revue)
WILLIAM POWELL
IN"
LADIES MAN"
·with
KAY FRANCIS CAROLE LOMBARD A Paramount Picture.
1931.
WOMEN LOVE ОПСЕ
4. Partement Peter
NELLIE FARREN'S WHOOPEE GIRLS
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MOVIE NEWS
ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.
و
"CLOSE-UP”. OF"
POMMER:
GERMANY'S SCREEN GENIUS.
My visit to Vienna to attend Erik Charell's, début as a talkie director with The Congress Dan ces," brought me, writes the film critic of the London Telegraph, into happy touch again with Erich Pommer, impresario of the Charell German tradition in screen art. film, and founder of the famous
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lly famous aggiu. There was Ec Frimings, whose American contract: cinded in rciinintances which sug
rated that his lar career was chFINAL d, but Pomney laundhed him ; Lover agaiu: in "The Blue Angel
•
The Plosophy of Pemp.
What are the consistent tactile that gnable one to identify a Pol mer Bin, despite range that gr tenda from The Cabinet of Di Caligari
to The Coogress Dn ces, and covers films of suc widely-varied appeal as Anni Boleyn," Passion "Peter this Grant,'
The Last Laugh,i. Vaudeville, Faust, Hotel Imperial," "Garbed Wire
Homecoming." The Wonderfid Lie" Tapention" "Hungaria Rhapody."Le Clientin du Paras,
Bopha Over Mont
dix,
Carlo, to name only a few of thos that readily spring to mindf
The chief titiffing characteris ties. I think, are three in number; First, there is the concentratiori of drainatie, interest on not monic than three principala.
Secund, there is the lëvitable. note of fantasy that seek to inter- prat ronlity in terms of a fair tale, albeit ocensionally grotesque.
Third, there is the general in sistence thta Bladders of. pom must be pricked, and that this. mighty must be laid low.
Mr. Jannings, who began arre work under M, Pemmer's tuition: has all but restricted himself, roles that explored and exploded the Toolishness of hunan vanity T I accused Mr. Peame of bei g an intellectuai anarchist, or a przeg fessional feon¿elast. `-`
He demurred to these labels, kr admitted that its hau a déinscri view of authority.
He thinks that history is best garded, for dramatic purposes, the light of fantasy. He s that them is nothing so fansekursin official histery, and that if characters in it call for idos tion they should be those from democracy,
He does not deny umaretag the great, but he thinks that 27 ness should occasionally re dramatic amenities by wearing h crown slightly over che ore, S democracy may have a pick
contact.
Mr. Pommer did not so." The so many words, but I orien that he thinks that po a touch of raffishness, proved for entertainment
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This Philosophy is Hirsty The Congress Daneen" in son of tive Tsar lendin Mr. Pommer, as people surions. employs "a double fur the pude will agree, is the most significant multitude, presiding al count for ly interested in film production of receiving the appi av sa figure in the world's cinema industions attending the opera, mis ele try.
dull occasions, while du SAR He is a short, dark, slight, sus his interesting ins middle-aged man, with charming: There is no word en hinar and unaffected manners. His or truth in that, and Mr. Persics and gins, I should imagine, lay farmits, it while insisting ther east than. Germany.
not true, it should be and th
The birds were brought to one of i sffleur of " Renegades, the glamor As the loyal wife and mother in the stages and while cameras and ous bandit of In Old Arizona" Women Love Onge," now showing microphones were being adjusted, polished physician of Doctors' and The Arizona Kid," and the at the King's, Eleanor Boardman made the day hideous with their Wives," all offer a startling con- han a rate full of dramatic intentiise. But by the time everything trapt in rules, yet it is difficult to sity and one of the most important was ready for "recording they had Baxter's best. Many critics whe any which of these portrayals was in her curver, Sho has had the become used to their surroundings have followed his career closely and leading part
in The Crowd," and retreated into an obdurato who have already seen Three Wise Fools," The Great silence. The sound recording ma the wealthy and lonely benefactur Long Legs," claim that his role of Daddy Meadow and a large number of chines were started while property of Judy, the orphaned waif, ex other films both silent and talkie. men tried overy menas of getting coeds anything he has done, and
Paul Lukas plays the part of her the geese to biss or book.
these same critics say that never Not a before has Janet Gaynor been chat artist husband. They live happily sound was forthcoming and a thou-in such a suitable role. "Daddy with their four year old daughter and fret of Sim, was wasted. In Long Legs" was not unfamiliar to (Marilyn Kcowlden), until the apesperation studio eraployees chased they started to film it. Miss Gay either Baxter or Miss Gaynor, when pearance of Juliette Compton as a the birds about the stages, knocked nor saw the original stage play. wealthy patroness of art, who de over chairs and boxes, stood on when she was a child, and it was the cides to make Pral her protags. their hands and yelled. The geose turned her eyes and mind toward character of "Judy" that first She persuades him to go to Parisgarded them in distaste and stoic the stage and screen. As for Ba to continue his studies. The wife silence as the costly film clicked ter, he played the title role in willingly let him go, confident that wadily through the recorders.
dramatic stock long before he ever thought of entering the movies."
Una Merkel and John Arledge head the supporting aludes as Claude Gilling-water, cast of "Daddy Long Legs," which in- Kathlyo Williams, Elizabeth Pat terson, Louise Closser Hale, Effe Elleler and others. Alfred Santell, who recently directed Charles Faring
their future will be improved by
"At last a genius among property. Jou had an idea. He took an old gander into a dark corner far away from his wives and left him alone. For several minutes the bird re- inained mute. Then loneliness over-
;
the experience he will gain in Europe and unsuspicious of the Foul motive of the other woman.
When Paul returns he is a chang. ed man. He has lost bis zest for the joy of domestic life: He gets powered him and be let out a ques-rell and Elisa Landi in "Body into a
scrape with Miss Comp- tioning squawk. The others réasur and Soul," directed the photoplay ton's jealous husband; and furthered him in a chorus and the mioro...which was adapted in continuity trouble comes when little Marilyn is injured by
and dialogue by Sonya" Levion." phones, after an hour of waiting automobile. An Meanwhile Geoffrey Kerr, an art Anally caught the ancestary 70 foct
of
eritie, has fallen in love with Miss Boardman. The combination these forces srims to be drawing Paul and Eleanor apart, but the elimax brings them together in happy embracc...
Wonen Love Once written by Zoe Ktking from her stage success
Daddy's gone a Hunting " directed by Edward Goodman.
Rocaptured Love."'
Alm...
"Daddy Long Loge."
Ho can play any sort of róle frein a border bandit to a suave adiical man, from a reckless adven- turer in the Foreign Legion to n Basque aportaman or a cantique German Anuncier, and do them all equally wall. In all Hollywood, there are but a handful of actors who can be cast in any kind of rule "Recaptured Love," Wayner and of that bandful, Warner Bax- Brothers Vitaphone adaptation ofter, who plays the title rôld op Basil Woon's popular novel, "Misposite Janet Gaynor in the now doal," is announced as the forth- Fox romance," Daddy Long Legs, coming Attraction at the Queen's soon coming to the King's, is per Theatre to-morrow.
haps the most outstanding.
"
An unusual story of a wohlthy Verantility is Baxter's most family, "Recaptured Love depicts notable characteristic Rarely does the manner in which a clever chorus le resort to the artifics of trick girl whiaks n husband away from make-up such as the late Lon his wife, and the methods and by Chaney relied upon for his gro his wife and son in winning him; tesque effects. Only in the Fox pro- duction, Buch Men Are Danger
| back against overwhelming edds.
ous, where the story "demanded.
Belle Bennett has the rule of the that he first appear as the puffy, mother and John Halliday enaels the husband, while Dorothy Burgeh | bearded Corman banker in order
is men as the clover, wily chorus that a plastic surgeon might trans- girl.
"Heads Up."
form him into a fashion-plato did
he consent to disguise himself. The secret of his success is internal. rather than external. Suitable cos
During reproduction of a comeilytumos added to the psychological in Heads Up," the affect of corroet, backgrounds all
sequence
JEANETTE
MACDONALD.
Joanette Macdonald was born in
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He speaks English woll, but with the Tsar would certainly hair an
transformed. some diffidence, except when he be grateful for the augg inn comes enthusiastic, and then he is he have known of it
In this matter Poms-Kane
able, because he rankes self-efface.
He is practically non-interview for the democratisation
gestion that his own genius is reg- mont a passion, and repudiates,
The New Weapon almost with annoyance, any sug The special Pommes ance of The Congre ponsible for, the success of "The however, is that it one rig on Congress Dances." or of any other idea expressed in that mana of the many famous films with silent film, Hungar which he has been associated.
that profession began, but he has Mr. Pommer has been ocnnected with film production almost since rarely directed a scene himself,
I asked him why He answered
teamwork. that he had specialised in organis
terms of combined music tu sace sody," which sought to be ment, the soul of
The innovation of sound interrupted than pansion of the Pommer having experimental ways with this new
ily he has now wedden
vement in order
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"It pleases me," he explained, "to find. the right author, pick the soul of the Viennese right directer. and choose the right not too plenned by Vice
I fancy that then players and technicians. I not as liaison officer between them all, and that they live by fo make myself responsible for thewaltz, but it is obrtvg. principle of intelligent and friend: Pommer's theory annuit ly co-operation.
dismissed, and that the wap): 1 value the team spirit above thinks that Viennese Sze Ruth everything else, and, as far as the
Strauss tradition re
actual production is concerned iterchangeable terms. do no more than make myself res
There is a touch of gh
ponsible for seeing that the scenari in that aspect of the
fully expresses the iden that induespect that in his dova ed me to select that particular sub tures of the post-Waterlen og
Mr. Pommer had more
ject. I take a bread view of the whole, and leave the details to my an eye on the Geneva
ments of the League of faj
Propaganda of this
foam..
In these circumstances it is im-simply deadly, hat one or w possible for me to think that I am know just where to oppo entitled to the lion's or any other animal's share of the credit, which that Mr. Pommer is think
The really significant I might, in opposito circumstances, large senie, and is clearly have been blame,"
The World's Respect,
One is bound to accopt Mr. Pom mer's explanation of his suposa at
ing attacks on the pomp of
as well as of individuals,
His new weapon is music,
its fact value. He wishes to standed in terms of maticn, which a
or fall, as an apostle of team-work. to his growing armoury t It is, however, a noteworthy co-lingual talkies, should enab incidence that all Pommer Alms to conquer "the world." have the aarde definite and funda I do not know what He wong mental characteristics Directors, and Elstree, think about it. Doc players, and technicians who pass seems to me that this form through his hands retain the Pom-man has found the key to en mer traits and, after they have left box-offices him, continue to work on lines re- Music is an international cognisable as Pominerinn until the port, and there are few coug original impetus.
strangely or barriers of spesen are tot TEPE strangely disappear.
by either English. French, Now and again they return to man the Former fold and immediately
That is why Mr. Pomme Bat anjoy a fresh burst of prestigo. £130,000 cn the production Many instances could be quoted, three versions of "The Thore was Pola Negri, whem Pom Dances.'
talking and singing pieturization (help to some extent, but a facility Philadelphia, and receives letters they deteriorat Rekons, when lef cinema impartasse in wing
of the musical hit. which comes to for adapting his mental outlook to the King's Theatre next Tuesday, that of the character he is playing; with Charles Rogers heading a accounts chiefly for this chameleon- Paramount cast, it was necessary like quality he possesses. to record the squawking of a flock Digoose.
The English ne'er-do-well of "The -Squaw-Mân,” the desperate French
at the Fox Studio where she is a contract player.
You will remember her clever work in "The Love Parade " and more recently in Don't het on. Women:"-