CENTRAL
STIHLUTANTRE
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931.
THEATRE
HONGKONGS FINEST CHEM.
-TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
Quoenis.
Just A Gigolo."
at
William Haines.
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 5.20 p.m.
King's.
A Warm Corner:"
One of the
British picture, starring
Leslie Henson,
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
most successful talkies
Central.
ever produced in
Great Britian.
World.
Don't you miss this
Great Popular
Entertainment.
A
Romantic Story
of
4"
Youthful Love and Life
in London's Italian Street,
Wonderful Dances
Melodious Song Numbers Pretty Girls
and
A Delightful Romanes.
in
Bert Coote
STREET
GREEK
• A Gaumont-British. Talking & Singing Production
With Added Attraction
"LADY OF LIONS
A UNIVERSAL COMEDY.
NEXT CHANGE Commencing Thursday
VISTERS IN COUNCIU
Ana Harding Seated) and Mary Pakór für di appealing acid from the Batba dialogas. #oduction, "Beßday!
Blar,
"Greek Street.”.
British picture, with Sap
Maritzn.
Blood and Tears."
Chinese pieturu.
samlānu van ..
KOWLOON.
Not So Dumb,"
COMING.
East Lynne."-King's "Doctor's Wives."-King's.
The. Smiling Lieutenant.
Maurice Chevalier-King's.
"Daddy Long Legs."
Janet Gaynor and Warner Bax-
ter-King's
The Divorceo.!
Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton-Majestic.
"Holiday"
Anne Harding-Central.
An American Tragody'
Phillips Halmes and
F
Sylvia Sichey-King's
Starring
LESLIE HENSON
CONNIE EDISS HEATHER THATCHER
A STORY OF YOUTH
THAT HITS HEARTS.
66.
AN
A British Picture
At 2.80, 6.10, 7,15 & 980 p.m.
"A
WARM CORNER"
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
AMERICAN
TRAGEDY"
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. A Paramount. Pleturs.
MOVIE NEWS
ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.
"GREEK STREET.”
London's night life, with its rounit of attractions, in featured in "Greek Street," a Gaumont-Bri- tish talkio with a romance between
"AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY."
Just as An American Tragedy," Theodore Dreisor's epic novel, made
Starring
PHILLIPS HOLMES SYLVIA SIDNEY and FRANCES. DEE Directed by
JOSFF von STERNBERG
TELEPHONE NO. 25313.
After the war Biron drifted to Hollywood," where he obtained em ployment in the electrical depart ment of the Path Studio, During the making of "Holiday" he was detailed to operate the buzzer in
a cabaret singer and the proprietor history in literature; and its drama- front of the camera and microphone
of a little Sohes enfe, new playing
Fat the Central Theatre.
MUSICAL NOTES.
Theme Song from the Good Com- panions."" Slipping Round-
the Corner A few Out- spoken Remarks-
The Schneider Trio Concerts-The Stabilication Bymphony."
(BY ALLEGRO.)
Mayaris and Peter Maurios. has uron been toured that a sub stantial prize was offered for the best setting of this song.. Wa ex- pected something very catchy and unique.
---Tha Composition.
A friend recently sent une a copy.” of the song that
was solgeted. Frankly; iti disappointing (though it has a very pretty cover). In the first place, it bears no re- semblance to the Slippin'-Round the Corner off-to-meet-me Gal. "23 rhythm of the original. This one- goes!
There's a girl-pom-pot-you
may mapt
Who has wings-pom-porn-ou
her feat
And she looks--pom-pom-voy
gwort e
Slipping round rije corner,
The next eight bars are a repeti: tion of this metre and tuns.
It doesn't slip"round the corner like a child playing truant or as flapper putting a pursuer off the scent; if there is any suggestion of slipping it is that, of a one-horse dray on greasy road. It resembles rather the trudge of a perambulat ing policewoman surning from Dover Street into Piccadilly.
I venture to suggest that if this were sandwiched in between a domn ordinary foxtrots, the average listeners would not detect anything "unusual about it. The same music might have been written to illus trate the Words
When I'm dead you will and I was gen'rous and kind. For I'm leaving behind Gifts for my Relations, Granted a good company wight "put over" such a song and dozens of similar onca-very welk inded, but that does not imply that the song itself is of outstand- ing morit: it is hot necessarily an impudent and delicious little tune nor a Holl-buster.
Another Opinion,
QUEENS
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 230, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 He danced his
way into her heart? Then watch him change from make- believe gigolo to he-man lover!
William
Haines
In ope respect, yes. it differs | from an ordinary fox-trot. For the last four bars of the chorus, the voice continues the molody without any accompaniment except for the right hand on the piano (or one. instrument in the orchestra) play. ing singla, notes, in unison with the: vocal refrain. This presumably is. to get a fading-iway effect, to de Pict someone disappearing round a
corner.
CIGOL
Who has not read or tried to read The Good Companions 1: And what Priestley enthusiast has not It might be genius, of course. In tion made history on the stage, so at the beginning and end of each longed to become acquainted, not fact, realizing my limitations and The story tells the adventures of the Screen production which the scene, this being the method em- the girl, her struggles to become King's Theatre will feature Weines-ployed for synheronizing talking that irresistible, jogging little tune, to the Doctor of Music who recently only with its characters, but with thinking perhaps my criticium was presumptuous, I showed the song famous, and her ultimate realisa ay next, makes motion picture picture scenes. tion that success does not necessari-
"Slippin' Round the Corner passed through here on an examin ly bring happiness. She eventually history.
A natural comedian, there was
Bumly-dee-tidee den, returns to the little Soho cafe to-
ing tour, asking him: Have" I "Au American Tragedy, the always some unconscious gesture on
Renty-dee suddenly become drivelling that I love and happiness.
tidée. It was the great bit of the can see nothing novel about this talking picture, ia based
on Jimmie Bird's part which brought concert party. You could feel the song, no lovely tune or mischievous Sinclair Hill, who directed the Dreiser's novel. film, took night scenes in London. modern youth with ambition vieing of the picture when they gathered They were tapping; they were ham-he could see none either. He was
It is a story, efl'a laught from the staff and cast
whole house moving to its rhythm.could rave over?"
lilt nothing tricky a publisher Among the sets" constructed for
He assured me the film was a enfe, complete with with, love, une love conflicting within the projection room each night ming; they were eating and drink astounded. He criticised it bar by stage, dance floor and balcony, in another, and a boy groping his way to look at the rushes. Finallying it." Sometimes, instead of raised it above the level of the or which Max Rivers' Sixteen Troen recklessly out of a situation which Director Edward. H. Griffith deyiy binting, that you might slip dibary fox-trot. In fact he men- bar. He saw nothing in it that dore Girls perform tuneful numbers i and dances.
cided that anyone who could make round the corner, the band now Sari Maritza, a charming Angio-
Preview audiences einin "An
a group of picturewise people laugh Joudly defied anybody or anything Viennese girl, has the leading American Tragedy " has momenta
William Freshman, that have never boer equalled for consistently ought to be equality
and ended by fairly hurt- plays the role of "Riki,” a Soho drama, suspense, intensity. The amusing to audiences. When a biting you round the corner. Runty cafe proprietor, in love with the courtroom scones. BT+ the most came up in "Holiday "which seem. girl. Bert Coote, who will be re-graphic, sincere and tragically real. membered for his big stage success pages from life the screen has creed appropriate to him, he insisted
ptured.
that Jimmie should fill it The Josef von Sternberg, who directed result was quite equal to his ex- Marlene Dietrich in her three screen triumphs, The Blue Angel,! pectations, according to Griffith. "Morocco,
Dishonored," mede He has the promise of Director this
stirring picture. Phillips
he is too weak of face.
in "À Lamb on Wall Street," and also as the mad gardenar in "The Windmill Man has the role of Bir George. Ascot,
Other numbers of an all-atar enst, aro Martin Lewis, as rascally cabaret proprietors Rex Maurice, les, the blonde hero of Nancy Griffith that be will be used in sub-
Carroll's 14 Poter Haddon and E. Stanelli.
The Devil's Holiday three tired business. men; Bruce
sequent rôles in his plotures. Winston, as an entertaining habitae
and Stolen Heaven. has the lend. ing role, with Sylvia Sidney, New
dee-fides-dec, Rumty-dee-tidee
Anyone wite finds difficulty in picking up the rhythm from that, might substitute: --
Sing a Song of Sixpence Pocket full of rye.
11
Or:
Slippin' round the Corner, Off to met me gal..
ing our shoulders and stamping our
•
The principals in Holiday,' York stage star, recently seen with which comes to the Centrar Thea of the cafe, and Arthur Hambling, Gary Cooper inCity Streetstre on Thursday, are Ann Harding, fect while the "impudent and. de
and Frances Dee, an'important and With its atmosphere of London vibrant personality, enrrying the Mary Astor, Edward Everett, Herliscus little tune.... night life, its charming romance two important feminine roles.
pirouetted and its perfect acting and record.
ton, Hedda Hopper, Robert · Ames, A cast of more than fifty speak Monroe Owsley, Hallam Cooley, its bright mischief."
round the room, filling the air with
as a walter.
"Greek Street"
for hundred per cent, entertaining Darts supports the leading William Holden, Creighton Hale,
ment which sliculd prove acceptablii ́to everybody..
'JUST A GIGOLO.”
MATHESON LANG.
SON OF THE MAN SE
Irving Pichel, who played the hus Eli-abeth Forrester and Mabol band in Ruth Chatterton's "The Forrest. Right to "Love"; Bodil Rosing, a "well-known figure in screen mother' rales; Frederick Burton, Claire MdDowell, Wallace Middleton, Vivian Winston and Emmett Cor jigan. Just A Gigolo," based on the An America Tragedy Belasco stage hit, "Dancing Part- five years in coming to the "spréch, ners,"
and starring the comical Soon after the publiention of the William Haines in the role of a veneational novel, Paramount, ap festive British nobleman, is the aquired the screening tight, but traction which is coming to the actual fluing awaited the coming Queen's Theatre to-day.
of the perfected talking picture medium, the perfect director and the perfect dist.
was.
tioned some film-song hits that were Bathtub was one. decidedly catchier, Singing in the (It has the original Jollifant rhythm,,, too.) Finally he summed it up as being "cheap and common."
The Best Setting?
Toith IRENE PERCELL C. AUBREY SMITH LILIAN BOND Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
NEXT CHANGE
NORMA
Vivid I
Daring
Vital F
TALMADGE
SAM TAYLORS
TADSUC TRON
Du BARRY WOMAN
PASSION
CONRAD NAGEL -AWILESAM KAON
wodnienie
STAR
I then sent it to a friend (out- side Hong Kong) who is familiar with both serious music and the lighter syncopated variety, having published several works himself in the past ten years. His letter of comment so full of rich and fruity We can imagine ourselves away-print it; but it may be seen at my
adjectives that the Editor won't TO-DAY & TO-MORROW offer on Thursday at 4 o'clock-and If this setting is the best they
Ar 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20. It is certainly worth a view. could acquire of the tune that danced Gatford clean away"; that made streets, fastories and shops, chapels and puba, tremble a little, sway, rock violently, and then sent them off, jogging away into nothing, slipping for ever round some vast unirbaginable corner " and brighter" world than this," that brought news from another then it would seem that inventive ingenuity in producing novel and catchy dance-tunes is as dead En B door-nail:
Disappointment.
broduction
When "The Good Companions' was put on the stage this year, those who went to it had two misgiving Ther wondered whether their pro- conceived notions of what the char- acters were like would be shattered by the producer's interpretation:
All Rights Reserved. and whether the Slippin' Round Manse-cousin of the Archbishop of Matheson Lang, son of the
the Corner "*
tuns would reveal the of good to go to all this, trouble,
Of course, it doesn't do a scra Canterbury-famous actor manager.
strodo og genius which inspired writing remarks which neither the Caught stage fever without ever Inigo Jollifant when he conceived producer nor the publisher will evor KING going near a theatre, and dicter- mined to be an actor. Father said,
it. As regards the first the audie (and if they do, they will merely ↑ VIDOR
mile. But I have found a certain You'll come home to me starving.erite cem to bave come away enmount of satisfaction in getting Young Lang thought otherwise.raptured by the acting and chars this off my chest and pass Han not starved yet, although at the beginning played for a month actorisations, but" on ad aides ing my feelings on to others. VIEW HOLIDAY," LOOK
without payment
It might have been easier to Suédeas came beard: We were disappointed anderstand this article if an ex- FOR BIROI HE'S THERE! a week. Makes more than that now,
when given a small part at a guinen with Slipping Round the Corner" fract from the song had been re Haa acted all over the world. Un-
Of course, it must-have been dif. produced. But the song is inscribe When the Pathe production, dotstands Chinamen and Burmese ficult for anyone in these days of merely the right to perform it in d All Rights Reserved. Not Holiday," is shown in Budapest, antiques Austria, the friends of James Birb, laste the latter. Dies every night
Plays the former, ool- eribbed und ermmonplace danes public, mark you. All rights. And Two of the original players, cf former first lieutenant in the Aura Philip of Spain at the Cam- the New York production appear trian Army, will note a resemblance bridge, but is none the worss for it. liglited Jollifant's publishers that Awful thought bas, struck me. tnnes, to produce one which so de- not being a lawyer. I don't know how many rights they've got. An with Haines in the persons of Trene between a minor member of the Wants to appear before the foot- they agreed to all his terms and Maybe they reserve the right to Purcell and Charlotte Granville cast and their exiled compatriot. lights as an honest, British sailor.even decribed the song as a Hellprosseto friendly G The cat also includes Lilian Bond? They will be wrong. The gentle Cannot do so brasnas no one will buster.On the other hand, there I'd better te slippin' round the Albert Conti, Maria Alba and man they will be looking at is Bire send him anilor play. Did it once was all the talent in England to corner WAGON XIV. others..
himself.
for the films.
draw upon: we have ohr Billy (Continued on page 12);
A blend of comedy, romance and tenas drama, the new picture is one unique in the history of the de- bonair William. He is seen Britisher for whom his relatives have arranged a marriage, so he goes to a European summer resort and poses as a gigolo to meet the girl chosen, learn what she's like ind apply sort of seid test,*--| He gets slapped for his pains ut in the end he gets the girl, so all's wall.
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