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THE PRINCE IN A FILM STUDIO
SURPRISE FOR ARTISTS.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
Queen's.
HONG KONG.
يحية عيد
"The Silver Hondo.""
Film actors and actresses taking part in a production at a "Para- |- King's,
mount British studios no Eletron,
One Ludy **
with Ruth
Chatterton.
"Zimmiy,"
sur-
Centrak
Hertfordshire, recently, were prised to see the Prince of Wales tanding by the director and watch- ing them with interest,
The Prinen had calfd at the studion quite informally to pay a visit to a personal friend there. He took the opportunity. of watch- in the filming of a scene from Mr.
the legless Aquatic Wonder.
Tarzan the Tiger"
World.
Michael Aston's "Lily Christine," | Star,
in which Mr. Colin Chro and Miss Corinne Griffith, wore appearing.
Visit to a Friend,
Wie was introduced to Mr. Clive and Misa Chriffith and showed a con- siderable knowledge of the techni- calities of film-making.
An official of the studio.said to Daily Mail reporter ? **£ ander- stand that the Prince one hero to allon Mr. Walter Morosco, of the Paramount Company, who is friend of his. The, visit was pri vnt. The Prines remained some tin and showed the greatest in- tort in what was going on."
A
One of those at the studio said:
(Chapter II.),
The Sea Lion,"
Chinese picture....."
KOWLOON.
The Bachelor Father," with Marion Davies,
Queen's,
COMING.
"Phantofh of Paris,"
*Son of India.”
King's..
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.".
The Yellow Ticket."
"One Heavenly Night."
Contral.
"Gun Smoke,” ·
The Age for Lova"
"The Command Performance.
A Woman of Experience."
World?
The Prince saw all the depart-Staz. mentą 6 work. He spoke to car- Renters, electricians, and men inak- ing the propertion.
He saw the Brut rushes' of film in the projecting-room and went to the room where the record- ing of sound in controlled. When ho came down some steps twelve- darling are lampa, worą turned on him."
'SILVER HORDE.”
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REX BEACH STORY.
Dawn Patrol"
The Mysterious Person in
Black, Chinese Picture. Say It With Songs.". "Robin Hood!"
"Pardon Us."
Up for the Cup.”
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932.
SHOWING TO-DAY
RUTH
KING'S
அ
Paramount 1982. Production
CHATTERTON IN
AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.16 & $.30 PM ·
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 8th MAR.
Your "Dr. JEKYLL
and Mr. HYDE
Favorite
Talkie Star
"ONCE A LADY"
ALSO
BY REQUEST
FOR THREE DAYS ONLY
A Paramount Picture
Exts,
Drinks, UNDER
ZIMMY" Smokes,
The Champion Legless, Swimmer And Lives WATER!
with
FREDRIC MARCH
MIRIAM HOPKINS
A Paramount Picture
-ÁPOND ATTRACTION—— 1)
· SHANGHAI FUNERAL
ABLE SEAMEN H. A. FRANCIS AND H. G. PRIOR
OF
OF
H.M.S. SUFFOLK
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
‘GUN-SMOKE.”
Epochal days in development of AT THE CENTRAL THEATRE agrent industry in the virgin tur-
ritory of Alaska, are depicted in "Gun-smoke " is action-enter- "The Silver Horde Radio. Pic-tainment. It's thriller that's packed with thrille. And its plet
walking screen in a gripping man-
rolex.
"THE PHANTOM OF "DR. JEKYLL AND
PARIS."
EVENING GOWNS
EMPHASIZE COLOUR.
MR. HYDE."
For forty-four years
Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and M. Hyde" has been the leading mydory thriller of the stage, with The new evening dresses are beits awesome struggle between the
It is for a slender figare they are easy!
to wear. This is because they are Boul.
RC-
also plays an important part and of soft-looking materials, Colour, Tu-day, after two generations of there are shades for every type and use in thrilling audiences,
Brought to the talking screen personality.
ją
for
. tùres' romantic drama which opens a plot that brings the exploits : to-day at the Queen's Theatre. The of hard-riding Western ranch hända
terrific straggle of Rex Beach's and horse-hunders into the lime-corning, for, in spite of their need beautiful and hideous in a man's famous characters is brought to the light of the present moment.
tha moderni
For Gun Smuka tells of the "ner with Evelyn Brent, Louis Wol-doings of a gang of big city rocke- heim, Joel McCrea, Raymond Halloors who go to the quiet little Western town of Bunson, Idaho to son, Joan Arthur, Blanche Sweet hide out", from the arm of the
In the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pic- the "first time with Frederic March and Gaván Gordon in the leading | law,
LUTE, The Phantom of Paris," in the title role. Paramount'a 'John
Gilbert's latest starving Thus the writers of this highly vehicle, which is caring, to be vivid dramatization of this classic diverting story have managed to Filmed in Alaska ahorr the bring together two types of gun. Queen's Theatre on Sunday, Leila is the feature picture at the King's clouds, in snow-capped mountains, welding
Hyams shows two lovely evening Theatre néxt Sunday, gents-the yip-yipping
An added interest, at the King's along trap-lined rivers and below cowboy and the bullying garter dress style of becoming fashion.
One is of a print showing a coől · surface of salmon infested The result ia lend-poisoning" for moss green background with dash Theatro the
on Sunday will be the a lot of the characters in tho waters, the action is always interest
itself is so lovely, there was little naval ratings of H.M.S. Suffolk jeg. Every phase of the salmon an hour of intense excitement, need to emphasize the style. A industry; "from the time the fish coupled with reckless love and the princess line, was followed with air who died as a result of wounds con-
indomitable comedy of the men of
cular ruffles ornamenting the skirt, sequent on the shelling of the In start their runs," to spawning the open spaces.
gradunting out to join the short ternational Settlement at Shanghai. grounds and the time they emerge. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian train. A Baring scarf gave a soft
Under the direction of Rouben are teamed in the romantic lends. Huttering effect, harmonizing with from cannerice in tins, is shown
They were in Burning Up and, the ruffles on the skirt
Mamoulian, director of City The production was directed by The Virginian" together.
The other ovening gown was of Streets" March will lend his own The chief comedy honours George Archainbaud and in addi-
are soft black velvet, dépending on the divided by Eugene Paulette and Invishness of the material for personality to the Jekyll-Hyde ition to those named included in the Louise Fazenda, Charles Winning effect. With this gown Miss Hyams role, although following the tradi- enst are Purnel Pratt, Williamor, who was the Captain Andy in wore a short white velvet jacketions of Richard Manafield in the Davidson, Ivan Linow and hundreds Ziegfeld's original Show Boat," showing a corded edging and wide
plays an important comedy role.
stage part and of John Barrymore ermine elbow cuffs. of others.
William Boyd, who was the vil Also appearing in the picture are in the first flm portrayal. lian of Gary Cooper's The Lawis Stone, Jean Hersholt, C
As a play," Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Spoilers" and who
was recently Aubrey Smith, Natalie Moorhead, Hyde has attained more success,
י.
...
TARZAN THE TIQER."
£10,000 EARRINGS.
PRINCESS' LOSS WHEN SHOP
PING IN LONDON,
A reward of £1,000 has been offer ed for the recovery of a pair of car rings, valued at £10,000, which were lost by Princess Alexis Mdivani while shopping in the West End
The Princes intended taking the earrings, to a London jeweller, and while in bar hotel she placed them in her handbag: She then drove in taxi-cab to shops in Bond-street, Dovor-street, St. James'-street and Piccadilly,
CHESTERTON AND DR.
JOHNSON
A PLAY OF DIGNITY.
"THE "JUDGMENT OF DR JOHNSON,"
[.
QUEEN'S
THEATRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20
One Woman in
London, Fub B-In his spouch A Land of Men !
Mast night Q. K. Chesterton was
too modest in his hummar. He told, is that all the best things in his play art to be read in Boswell's "Life."
Many of them are; bus many of them art Chesterton's own, and they are not inferior to the conversations recorded by Boswall.
The fault of the play is that Burko, John Wilkes, the wife of the French Ambassador, an American spy and his wife rather steal Dr. Johnson's thunder. It was an age, of balanced sentences and rhetorical devices in public speaking and in writing, no doubt, but did no one ever become human in private?
There C inoments, however, whon Chesterton displays real talent for the theatre, and his treat- ment of John Wilkes is admirable. He is a character, ao sketched in this play, who might be the telling contre of a satirical comedy.
The flighty wife of the American spy is woll suggested, but not suf- ficiently developed to make us un“ Corstand Dr. Johnson's interest in her..
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Ho makes han return to her hus- band by showing her that reality abe has been playing the part her hus band desired her to play.
from the treatras of the character But we really did not grasp that
earlier in the play. In general: the author has not learned yet how much can be expressed by the play-
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He relies too much on what they say, and they often talk like human gramophones of speeches delivered ebrowbera
A Titanio Figure.
But when all is said and done. there is a dignity and. there is fineness in this play which are to seek in the ordinary drama of the
It is believed that the earrings day. were pulled from the bag with a Dr. Johnson now handkerchief and fell either on the figure-typical of the common 86456 2 legendary
floor of a taxicab or in a shop or Englishmen worship and no seldom street.
possess, comes. out as a titanic figure. He was not, perhaps, as robustious as Francis L. Sullivan As makes him, but that was a fault
Princess Alexis Mdivani was for. merly Miss Van Alen, of New York: Her husband is a brother of Prince
Serge Mdivani, who became the husband first of Pola Negri, the film star, and then of Miss Mary Mo Cormack, the opera singer.
Oberry Malotto-Rex Beach's mightiest heroine-branded by decent women... fight- og Alaska's brutality for her *MAN 1
SILVER
HORDE
EVELYN BRENT
LOUIS WOLHEIM
JOEL MCCREA
NEXT ATTRACTION
which, at any rate, did not make exciting
and unusual him ordinary and small.
a drama as The author praised the players the Talking Screen -and they; decorvad his praise. Leon has shown!
Quartermaine, as Wilkes, Wilfrid Walter as the high-flown American
tion. And with it goes gore than ing black designs. As the material screening of the funeral of the two ROBOT COMES, CLERKS GO. | Republican. and Miriam Adame as
Been and heard as the menace in Ian Keith and Alfred Hickman. Jack Oakie's The Gang Bus. tor," plays the role of the gangland | — leader.
"Gun Smoke" will be shown at Paramount studios.
at The Central Theatre for a three.'
days' run from to-morrow,
of
"ONCE A LADY.”
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WHEN RUTH CHATTERTON HAD TO LIVE ON $5 A WEEK
writes a famous eritio, than the original. Stevenson story. The rea- son for this, says the critic, is due
"I was given twenty cente a day to the fact that the theme presents for carfare and lunch; which ex- plained why my midday meal in unlimited possibilities for an ac- variably consisted of à chocolate for and because seeing the transi-.. goda,
tion from Hyde to Jekyll are more In the evening, I drew another realistic than merely reading of twenty Gente from the family ex- chequer and bought food as a de-them. licatessen. An order of warm ment
Mapshold has left a vivid descrip- cost ten centa, "potatoes were Ave cents, and a dish of vegetables com-tion of his feelings on the night pleted the mean.
when he first presented the play "On weekends we invested an in Boston. He wrote: "That night additional five cents in dessert."
Even the wild animals felt home in the jungle scenes "Tarzan the Tiger" thrilling sound serial, according to Heary MacRae, "The director. Even possible pre- caution was taken to insure an ab- salutely pccurate background and atmosphere for this stirring jungle chapter play. Expert Familiar with every detail of jungle life supervised the net. These were
The pageant of depressions, in como slashes and budget systems for Miss Chatterton kept making the in the third not where, na Hyde, constructed at great trouble and ex-homes, very much prevalent in re rounds of theatrical agencies un-I grasped the potion, swallowed it, ponse, the vegetation being import-rent months, recalls her own extil she landed a job, în "a
play! -ed fur that purpose. Through these horience in a previous downtred opening in Chicago. Her most writhed in third act where, as
den era to Ruth Chatterton. She vivid recollection of that three. Hyde. I grasped the potton, swat sols rommed savage wild animals, recalls, the days she and her me month engagement in the midwest lowed it, writhed in the awful once impre at home in familiar sur-thor were required to live on taumetropolis, in a play called "The agony of transformation and rose. roundings. Frank Merrill and Na- dollars a week! The Chatterton Great Thing," is that the greatest pala and erect, the visualized em talie Kingston play the leading the future first lady of the screen, aften.
family fortune had vanished and thing she did was to eat plenty and bodiment of Jekyll-an agus of ap. prehension seized me and I suffered rólea in “Tarzan the Tiger, the fifteen years of age, was struggling Ruth Chatterton still probably a lifetime in the silence in which sixth to "tenth chaptern of to get a job on Broadway, Misi hae 4q be ouraful of what she eats the curtain fell. In another in-
Chitlanton-and-bari-mother warnt though, not for the Carme sasson katunt I realized that silence wag which drew big crowds while living in a furnished room. The slender figure which is part tribule of awe and terror, inspired showing at the Central Theatre yes During the weeks, I searched of her charm in nos kept by self by the reality of the scene, for terday. Anyone wishing to see it for a job in Now York, we evolved indulgence, her beauty, however, can through the canvass screen camo a midget budget system, Mias be enjoyed by anyone who goes to inuffied rour which was the sweetest are cordially requested not to miss its final showings to day late
Challerton. told a friend
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the | nee" "Oncers Lady" at the King's, sound I over heard in my life, and
to-day until Saturday.
I breathed again."
WHITEHALL'S BIG CHANGE-
OVER
The Robot in custing the Clerk Home in anarly every department of the Civil Service.
More than £100,000 has been set acide in the estimates this year for carrying through the great change.
It has been found that the great maan of routing work is done more expeditiously and cheaply by the Robot than by manual labour.
In the Savings Bank departments almost every kind of return is now done by mechanical probess, and thousands of pounds have been saved..
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The Civil Barvice has been aheat
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his wife, and Frank Cochrane as Burke, did brilliant work. And I will also praise Michael MacOwan for his production, since Chesterton forgot to mention him.
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The play is to be seen at the Arts Theatre Club all this week should afterwards be given at a commercial as a great and worthy adventure.
E. A BAUGHAN,
of most business concerns in die carding the "old and costly offic methods and substituting the Robot Eventually taxpayers will be saved millions of pounds.
Mr. D. O. Bobertson has been f appointed head of the "Mechanis tion" branch of the Traseury:.'
Ruth Chatterton and Ivor Novello in the stirring love drama, "ONCE A LADYA
A Paramount Picture
JOHN
GILBERT
in
Phantom of Paris
ร
with
LEILA HYAMS LEWIS STONE - JEAN HERSHOLT
C. AUBREY SMITH
Directed by
JOHN S. ROBERTS
"A Mewo-Goldwyn Mayer RTURE
(STAR)
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.90, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9,20
MARION
DAVIES
DAVID BELASCO'S LAUGH HIT
“THB BACHELOR
FATHER"
Hetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture