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CENTRAL
*THEANUTRIEN
TO-DAY AT THE
Queen's.
CINEMA.
HONG KONG
"Politoes" with Maria Dressior
and Polly Morao,
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW King's
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
They called her any- body's girl...but she
was one man's sweetheart... still hundreds of clamoured for her.
men
The Secret Call,"
Central.
Ten Cents' n Dance,”
World.
**Two Stars" (Chinose film),"
KOWLOON.
Star.
House of the Arrow."
COMING.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932,
LAST TWO DAYS.
KING'S
An 230, 5.10; 7.15 &.30 PM. #
"DON'T PUT THAT CALL THROUGH
Queen's,
"HUSH!" If she tells
Sile Walks of New York."
what she knows three
A Free Soul,”
* Dixiana.”
King's,
The Virtuous Bin,"
Richard Arlen and Peggy
Shannon.
"The Secret Call!
:
Mornly Mary Ann." "Secrets of 4 Secretary."
Crudetto Colbert
and
Herbert Marshall.
Central.
"Only the Brave.i
Gary Cooper and
Mary
Brian,
Shadow of the Law."
With William Powell.
World.
Charley's Aunt."
Wish Charles Ruggles and
Jane Collyer.
Robin Hood."
* One for the Other,"
Chinese film.
She
endured
the
Star.
embrace
of
strangers
at a
dime
»
dance l
Barbara Stanwyck
in
Ten Cents a Dance
LIONEL BARRYMORE
Production
COLUMBIA PICTURE
Based upon the
popular song "Ten Cents a
Dance"
Also
Screen Snapshots
No. 1 Cannibal Capers The Castaway.
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LOVERS!
The sweetest sweethearts on the screen. In a thrilling adventure
romance,»
GARY COOPER Only the Brave
MARY BRIAN
a
"The House of the Arrow,!??!!
Locked Door."
Bachelor Father. "Woman Racket,
Tatnamon."
men's lives may pay!
with
Kichard Arlen Peggy Shannon
A Paramount Picture
The
SECRET CALL
Directed by Stuart Walker
NEXT ATTRACTION
"THE VIRTUOUS SIN
with WALTER HUTSON, KAY FRANCIS
A Paramount Picture.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE, TEL. 25318.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
Peggy Shannon, Richard Arlen, featured prificipals In the Paramount Picture, "The Secret Call"
"THE SECRET CALL.'
STORY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL GRAFT.
i
What Happens when the people of a big city, aroused to action over the rascality and grafting in.) trigues of the political machine in
power,
decide to throw out the!
rupt parly "bosses?".
the sudden collapse of Clara Bow; has beauty, and a real gift for emo tional acting.
“THE · VIRTUOUS
SIN
HOW ITS STAR ONCE DISGRACED HERSELF.
At the age of three, Kay Francis a tragically and seene into
burned
uproarous comedy suation: And was soundly spanked for her
afforts.
in
Now that she is playing just such a highly dramatic part, herself, whe. can appreciate the reason for her
spanking.
Misa Francis related her escapade
Arlon's work is even more effec- tive Chan his performance of That the Paramount studios while Lawyer's Secret."
The character interpretations by making up for her role in "The Virtuous Bin," which, with Walter and Jed Prouty are representative Hastor playing one of the two of the artistry which is always ex-male leads, opens at the King's hibited by these favorites.
Davidson, Beresford, Ned Sparka
Stuart Walker, making his debel as a film compiler, has done a great directorial job.
"The Secret Call"
Theatre next Wednesday.
Her mother, Katherine Clinton, was leading woman for the Daly is timely-1 la story material is front page Rep Company touring the country stuff in the newspapers to-day. It and her tiny daughter was travel That question is aptly answered in effective and significant. It has ing with her. by William C. de Mille in his play a cast of actors and actresses who The Woman which, under the can not. It is worthy of all the film title of The Secret Call," appinuse it gets and more. See it. showing at the King's Theatre to- day.
The author and the adaptor focus- ed the netion upon the lives of a big city boss," his ambitious son, n disgraced party worker and his revengeful daughter.
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Peggy Shannon, new Paramount star takes the part of the daughter of the "machine" mon (Harry Beresfored) who dies in disgras? | after having been made the "goat "
SCREEN JUVENILES IN BUSTER KEATON FILM.
HOW THEIR SCHOOLING
WAS DONE.
“One night mother was onneting a tragic part in which she WAS shot just before the curtain fell on the third act," Miss Francis ge calls. I was sitting in a box with a friend of mother's,
GU MARIE DRESSLER ATQUEEN'S
THE QUEEN'S.
DRAMA AND COMEDY.
Politics" Marie Dresstor'g/new starring vehicle, now showing at the | Queen's Theatre, da unique to that it gives her equal opportunity as ej camelienno and an à draulic de- tress. In it, she makes laughs as in Reducing" and Caught
Short and at the same tims rises to dramatic heights as 11 "Anna Christie " Min and Bill"
The now picinro is a" comody drama of political life. Міне Dressler plays & housewife" who,'| goaded to notion by conditions in her town, runs for mayor, or ganisea the women's vote and driven out gangåler rule. Polly. Moran plays her political manager. and aide in battle..
High spots include Miss Dress- ler's dramatic denunciation of the crooked mayor in the politien? rally, her daflance to the gang leader, the attempt of the husbands to break up the women's rally which ruing Mario's speech, bur re taliation by calling the women of the town out on strike against their husbands, "the comical torchlight procession, the formation of the vigilance committee, and the argu- minta "belween herself and Miss Moran.
While must of the story is sora- mingly funny, the tense dramatic moments disclos Miss Dravalor "as a character actress of compelling force. The picture was produced lavishly with one of the largest. exterior sodas ever buils and hun. dreds of people appear in the torchlight precession, political r lies and other dramatic high spots
FADING STARS OF 1931
FAMOUS PLAYERS NO LONGER "IN
THE FRONT RANK.
[BY GEO. McCALL.]
Hollywood, Dec, 21.-Every 12 months sees a number of picture ames bid farewell, Sometimes the falling is just temporary, with the players doing a come-back, In most cases, when they hit the skids they go
General route of a player on the downgrade is usually the dropping | of his or her name from the major: contract lists. From the big studioł they go to the independents or int the free lance list of supporting players. In many cases they re main under contract, but their pic tures become lesser byents and 'fin- ally they are dropped.
Every new season a new crop of ! of the old favorites die hard; other playera ascend to stardom. Somo
hang on with tenacity but their
grip is short-lived.
1931 as other" years.
Perhaps the hardest fall of this year was taken by John Barrymore, Recently he went under contract to Metro and Radio for one picture each, but at a salary considerably less than that paid him by War- nors, where he left the payrol) enr Ty in 1931. John Gilbert is an other star who has lost in popu- larity. In Gilbert's se talkers, and the stories he appear ed in were unkind to him.
Fading Away.
both
William Haines and Bamon 'No- yarro are two who slipped. Char les Bickford and Adolph Menjou started the year as major studi
lars and finished up en indie programmes. Clara Bow faded from the screen during the summer in a food" of bad publicity. She may return on an indie reloase.
Mary Pickford and. Doug Fair
| banka went down the ladder. In Miss Pickford's ensé, instead of fighting what is often a lesing bạt tle, she, will retire.
Jack Oakie and Buddy Rogora are others who have dropped from starring positions feature billing. Both were demoted by Paramount fered a big dent in popularity dus during the year. Billie Dove suf so the only two pictures she made during the year cose diving. lot of publicity to get back to her Norma Talmadge would need a old standing with the fans. Marion Davies, in spite of tremendous ex ploitation, failed to attract at the as in former gears. Whe and Woolsey recorded a drop in fan reception, as did Lew Ayres. Conrad Nagel, Buster Keaton, Beba Daniels, Charles Farrell and Ed. billing who found their fan mail dwindling,
"The big scene came. The crowd was tense. The shot was fired and mother, crying out dramatically, staggered and felt; supposedly dead. There was a great hash of the organization by the higher- The largest school ever in session throughout the housg as the man up" (William B. Davidson.)
on a motion picture tot recently Richard Arlen plays the part of held daily recitations ou na empty stood with the revolver, looking Davidson's son-youth who is stage at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer horrified at the dead he had done ignorant of the shady practices of studios.
With great solicitude, I turned his father.
To accomplish her revenge. Mi girls from kindergarten to high to my friend in the box and said Shannon gets a job as a telcarons school age attended classes daily re-assuringly: "Don't be frighmund-Lowe-are-others-rating-top aporator in a large hotel where hetween scenes of Buster Keaton's tened. Mother's not really dead, Davidson and his crooked mob of newest comedy, Sidewalks of She's only acting politicians have their rendezvour | New York," which will be showa
tration of the city.
One hundred and fifty boys and
She thus learns enough damaging from Friday at the Queen's The "Because of the quietnes, my svereta to scandalite the whole "na tre. chine" and to wreek their adrainía, Whenever children are engaged voice carried to everyone in the in pictures, the studio maintame house and the audience went into Arlen, her sweetheart before the schoolroom for them and regis- shricks of laughter. Locking un- denth of her father, "trins vainly te tered teachers keep them abreast of affert It reconciliation of their their school work. The presen:commonly crimson for corps, love. She is too bitter to submit crowd was too large for the re-mother lay on the floor. The sup- to his innocent blandishments and gular Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer school posed killer tried to esativne the she is about to "spill" the story (šo a stage wâs utilized. which will wreck his father when The film was started shortly be cene but the curtain soon came a series of exciting events alters fore school closed for the summer rolling down on a badly ruined the course of their lives. The vacation. Until that time, the film sooNO), ending is a happy one.
youngsters exchanged their regular Mise Shannon, who was rushed public city schools for the one on into the cast of this show upon the M-G/M”löt,"
"After that, I saw mother per- form from the wings of the stage,
In the following list the names? appearing are of those who have experienced a loss of popularity during 1931. Some are no longer in pictures, having returned to the stage after Hollywood's gold had started to peter out as far as they were concerned. To vone cases they loft by choice preferring the stage to pictures.
In most cases they are still try. ing to keep star's position in smaller and cheaper pictures and at a much smaller salary, which does not come in ovory week. With most pay days are few and far between.
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The Fadeaways. Don Alvarado Armida
George K. Artbur Olga Baclanova Vilma, Banky Bon Bard... Lina Basquetto, Barbara Bedford Marjorie Beebe Jack Benny Sidney Blackmer Monte Blus Elinor Bourdinan Evelyn Bront Jack Mack Brown. Sue Carul. Betty Compaon Chester Conklin Dolores Costello. Helene Costelky Karl Dano.. Alice Day Marceline Day Charles Delaney Reginald Denny Fifi Dorsay Roland Drew Frank. Fay Julia Faye Ralph Forbes Carmelita Geraghty Mitzi Green " Dorcthy Gulliven James Hall Raymond Halton Lloyd Hughea Barbara Kent. Normane Korry Lupino Lane Harry Langdon Laura La Plante Rod LaRocque e David Lee Beatrics Lillio- John Bodar Jeanetto Loff Bessie Love Jack Ludon Bert Lytell Frances McCoy" Everett Marshall Paisy Bath Miller Owen Moore Tom Moora Matt Moore Moran and Mack Jack Mulhall Edna Murphy James Murray Mae Murray Marion Nixon Mary Nolan Carol Nys Maurean O'Sullivan Katherine Dala Owen Mary Philbin Marie Prevost
Alieen Pringle-
Jobyna Balabon
Esther Ralston Dorothy Revier Irena Rich Duncan Renaldo Jason Robards Gilbert Roland Stanley Smith Evo Southern Pauline Starke Nick Stuart Blanche Sweet Norma Talmadgt Conway Toarlo Glen Tryon Virginia Valli Alice White Marjorie While Grant Withera Fay Wray
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POLITICS
Directed by CHARLES F. RIEBNER
NEXT ATTRACTION
"I'll even prom- ise, to like your little brother
Busty
KEATON
shows what Love, can do-in his funniest Alm
Sidewalks of New York
Mara Goldwyn-Mayez neruna"
with
Anita Page Cliff Edwards
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THE
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HOUSE OF
THE ARROW
with
NEILSON-TEERY BENITA HUME... STELLA FREEMAN