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CENTRAL
COMMENCING TO-DAY
2.30, 5.10. 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
You'll Find No Finer
Film in Town!
Here's the Key to Joy!
SISTERS IN COUNCIL
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Ann Hording (seated) and; Mary Astor is an
appeating acane from the Paths dialogus. -production, "Holiday?
NEXT CHANGE
After Sarah and Son,"
and after "Anybody's Woman.
you expect and from:
the unexpected
get #
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG.
Phillips Halmes and
¿Queen's..
"Just A Gigolo,”
William Haines.
King's.
An American Tragedy "
Sylvia Sidney.
Central.
Holiday.
Anna Harding.
World.
Happy Days."
Star,
KONG DAILY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1931.
KOWLOON,
Not So Dumb."
"HONGKONG'S FINESTU
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2'30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9 20 P.M..
IT MIGHT BE
YOU!
See his story of desire, love, folly and fear. Then judge him!
Featuring
Phillips Holmes ·
Sylvia Sidney and Frances Dee
COMING.
East Lynne."-King's.
Doctor's Wives"-King's
The. Smiling Lieutenant."
Maurice Chevalier-King's,
Daddy Long Legs.”*^
Janet Gaynor add Warner Bax-
ter-King's
The Divorcee."
Robert Montgomery nad Neil. Hamilton-Majestic.
'HOLIDAY."
"AN
AMERICAN TRAGEDY
A Paramount Picture
Directed by JOSEF VON STEENBERG Based upon THEODORE DREISER'S
....
"Noveľ
MOVIE NEWS
ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG,
TIRED OF BEING A SWEET
YOUNG THING.
The courage that marked Mary Astor's determination to graduate fron sweet young thing "rôles to more sophisticated characteriza- tions was rewarded when she was chosen for the role of Julie," in
Holiday, the Philip Barry stage | success brought to the screen, by Pashe ander the direction of Ed- RUTH. Griffith. The rate is one demanding great versatility and ndroitness, combining as it does mbay fine characteristics with several extremely unlovely traits.
Mip: Astor was a star in her own
CHATTERTON
IM
"The Right
to Love"
Q Chamour Glause
With
Paul Lakas The story of a love that dies-and LIVES again!
Coming Shortly!
Carl Laemmle
presents
"MOTHER'S
MILLIONS
With
MAY ROBSON James Hall
Frances Dade
Lawrence Gray Edmund Breese
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
J
* Just a Gigolo." is based on this Belasco stage
success Dancing Puriner Lene Burrell, who had the feminine lead in the play, fills ths same role in the talkie, version
FEASTING WORK IN HOLLYWOOD.
DU BARRY, WOMAN OF
PLEASURE.
Whenking, gives a wild party in Hollywood it means work for everyone who attends,
The guests "who feast, amid luxurious surroundings get paid for it Ma
lete given by King Louis XV of France in honour of Comtesse Du Burry. Nerma Talmadge portrays Du Barry, Woman of Passion." the title role, and William Fernum is king by contract. The picture is coming to the Queen's Theatre shortly
The background decupied an en- tire giant stage, showing the side of a palace, vast gardens, marble fountains and a decorative mout filled with plants and water lilies. A dozen florist shops were stripped to provide for the huge gardens.
William Cameron Menzies, super. vising art director, designed the setting for the fete.
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER
HUSH MONEY.”
with
JOAN. BENNETT HARDIE ALBRIGHT
FOX
PICTURE
BOORING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313,
"HUSH MONEY."
UPS AND DOWNS OF STAGE LIFE.
To portray life one must have lived, felt and fought, that is why featured with Hardie Albright in the acting of Juan. Bemett, (00 the Fox drama," Hush Money," opening next Sunday at the King's"
Theatro,) is always so amicure.
Joan Bennett out of luck. Not yet Late nineteen twenty-eight fogad eighteen, she was already a wife
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mother. She was alone, with absolutely no one to look to for financial support, as she had separated from her youthful hus band, taking their child with her.
But her inborn traditions said she must carry on She is the grand- daughter of the Inte Louis Morri- son, the Shakespearum actor, and daughter of Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, who are · still prominent stage figures.
Fortunately
for her
in this
Miss Talmadge's starring picture, a Sam Taylor production, has a
rong supporting east, including crisis, her father came to her Af United Artists studios several Conrad Nagel, William Farmun,scue and gave her the leading right when she rebelled agam bandreds players in gorgeous cos. Ellrich Haupt. Hobart Bosworth, feminine role in "Jarnegan," the
being an eternal ingenue. Her con- tract was not renewed, and for nearly a year thereafter she chose to remain idle rather than hecept her former type of parts. Then she talked a Los Angeles theatrical producer into letting her play a sophisticated role in a stage pro- duction. Although her salary was
mere fretion of that she had. received for screen services, the | five week engagement_proved to be a wise investment. Before it was Lover Miss Astor was signed for the Feminine lead in **Ladies. Love Brutes," and her selection for
Holiday followed.
Ann Harding plays the featured load in Holiday,” which is show. ing at Central Theatre to-day, Robert Ames has the leading man's réfe. Others filling important parts are Edward Everets Holden and Elizabeth Forrester,
WILLIAM HAINES
LEARNS LATEST
IN DANCE STOPS.
A motion picture star who had to be taught how to dance!
This strange phenomenon was re- vealed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during the filming of Wm. Haines novest picture,
"Just a Gigolo, which is now playing at the Queen's Theatre..
While Haines obviously was able to maneuvre on dance floor without making himself ridiculous. it seems that dancing played so small part in the Comedian's private life that he was totally un- familiar with the most popular modern stepu. Since he has the role of a gigolo in his latest film, this situation naturally would not
do for if there is anything a gigolo must know it is the latest in ball- room antics. So the studio engaged a dancing instructor for its star and the report/is that inside of half dozen lessons Haines was ready for the most ambitious "stepping competition.
tapes spent three days pretending to have a good time for the benefit of a battery of cameras.
The scene revealed a magnificent
LARRY
Edgar Norton, Tom Ticketts, Alli-play he was producing and star- son Skipworth, E, Alyn Warren, ring. It was Jon Bernett's Brst Edwin Maxwell, Henry Kolker, public appearance and both sho Cissy Fitzgerald, and Maude Truex and the play were an immediate
hit with the theatre-going public.
Norma Talmadge...Star of
Da Barry Woman of Passion
DUE SHORTLY AT THE QUEEN'S.
Soon after came an opportunity to go to Hollywood as Geborge AF- liss lading Indy in the screeu ver- sion of "Diarasli." With the re- lease of the picture, frities all over the world praised her. Following
Disraeli
cumo válex with Ronald Colman in Bulldog Drummond:" Harry Richman in Puttin' On The Ritz: John Barrymore in Moby Dick; and Edmund Lowo in Scotland Yard,"
Sidney Lanfield directed Hush Money, with Myrna Loy and Owen Moore hoeding the support- ing enss,
"AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY."
AT THE KING'S THEATRE.
TALLULAH DAZZLES]
IN NEW FILM.
FAULTS THAT "FANS " WILL IGNORE,
In My Son," shown recently at the Carlton Theatre, writes the) film critic of a London. paper, Talhah Bankhead has a"part which enables her to appear as the hostess of a Panama,enburet, as a prisoner. accused of murder, and later as reformed charheter in New York.
Incidentally she is seen in a bath- ing dress, but "Tallulah's legs nge not the most wonderful part of her. fascinating personality.
Of course, her past comes be- tween a young man she loves and hayphess, and, equally of course, sho marries, the vyer who had achieved her acquittal from the chargo of having shot & ruffian who, had preyed ou her
Dazzlingly Beautiini. Psychologically there are big gaps in this story, but what, film fan will carol
Also, the director, Geurge Abbott, h wasted many fout of Alm in recording the comings and going of the characters. It will be sufficient that Tallulah Bankhead louks
dazzlingly beautiful, especially in a close fitting evening frock with her hair brushed back so that it ehows her ears.
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She has better acting opportu nities than in "The Tarnished Lady" but as far as acting goes it ia Fredric March's picture as the Beach-combing lawyer who, like Tallaluh Baakhond, maken good.
Lily Cahill was also good is the head of a furnishing Arm.
FILM STARS IN HANDCUFFS.
POLICE AID SOUGHT AT ELSTREE.
Geny Gerrard and Jessie Mat thews who take the leading roles in
Out of the Blue," which Gena Gerrard is directing for BLP: themselves in an awkward situation with John Orton aupervising, found while experimenting with a pair of handcuffs.
In the film, Gene Gerrard is ar- of a Princess (which he is not), rested at. Biarritz as the husband and, after the final shot of the day had been taken, was explaining the mechanism of the handcuffs to Jessie Matthews, who had our of the cuffs on her right hand, when the key snapped off in the luck leav ing the chained together.
The matter was at first treated lightly but, when it was found that the last of the remaining workinen had left the studio after their day's! work, and no tools could be found suitable to release the handcuffa, things began to acquire a serious aspect.
Finally, however, by means of Lools borrowed from the" studio.
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20. He danced his
way into her heart! Then watch him change from make- believe gigolo to he-man lover!
William
Haines
Jus Just
CIGOLO
with
IRENE PURCELL C. AUBREY SMITH
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ploture
TO-MORROW-
NORMA
Vivid I
Daring!
Vital !
TALMADGE
SAM TAYLORS
PRODUCTION
garage, the broken off purtion of "DuBARRY
the key was extracted, but the pair were still unable, to release them- selves from the handcuffs, and the services of a villago policeman had to be obtained. An urgent tela. phone message brought him to the. stars aid, and after a short delay he was able to provide the key for unlocking the handcuffs.
tunately our hero swims away and, leave the girl to drown.
Most of the film deals with the boy's trial, and we are shown pretty fully the brutal sensationalism of a "Big "American murder trial and |the appalling ordeal of the prisoner.
Tense excitement is certainly maintained, ag the hopeless defence is steadily worn down. In England the course of the law would have been just as relentless, but it would have been quicker and decidedly quieter. The satire on american legal methods is extremely bitter, but that is a matter for Americans, and no doubt the ways employed in that land are suited to conditions, or they would be discarded.
The acting of Phillips Holmos in the lend" is good, especially in the love scenes and the two girls play.. their parts well. For forceful acting, however, the shouting, quarrelling lawyers, havo tho
"An American "Tragedy" show- ing at the King's Theatre is what might be called "strong melo- drama. It tells of a good-looking and ambitious young man who "in the hot blood of youth" has a Liaison with a pretty factory band working in the department of which he is overseer. His handsome face, and the help of a wealthy relative give him admittance to Society where he falls madly in love with the glare and glitter of luxury-greater opportunities. and with a lovely young girl in that volting,
The story is a very human one, and states the age-old problem of His humble sweethoart proso that curious period, slmost of her claim in no uncertain manner, derangement, through which many and, he plays with the idea of an young men pass, in their early twen. accident" on a lovely lake. He is ties, to emerge, if fortune favours all the time playing with the idea them, as decent citizens. The prg. and the accident happmu, Unforblem is stated, but no solution
(Centised on niet Columa)
attempted.
WOMAN ?PASSION
CONRAD NAGEL ¿WILLIAM SARAN
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
Ar 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.
a woman
storm-tossed by life.
The finest dramado role of the faming beauty of the sereen
GRETA
GARBO
"THE KISS
CONBAD NAGEL HOLMES HERBERT
directed by Jacques Foydor