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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH
5, 1932.
ONCE A LADY AT KING'S.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
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·TO-- D'A Y ONLY
KING'S
& 9.30 P.M.
AT 2.30, 5, 10, 7.15
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Voty few cinema-goors have not felt at some time or other that if they were to meet the hero of" cer- | Queen's, Livin is in real life they would
HONG KONG
The Silver Horde."
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"Onco the Ency with Ruth
Chatterton..
"Zimmy,"
Control,
World.
the legless Aquatic Wonder.
"Gun Smoke."
Dawn Patrol."
KOWLOON. གཏ!*
Harmony Haven."
take the greatest plansure in, put- King's. ting their weight. hehind a peach of a sock in, the jaw. This is the fealing which animated Inelast night when I witnessed Geoffrey Kerr playing the load to Ruth | Chatterton in Once, a Lady" at the King's Theatre. Miss Chaster don play the role, and plays right splendidly, of a Russian girl who enters into a romantic mari ring with a young Engiishiman of good family. She finds, to her 'cost,. that the family is very "county," which means that they have brought the principles of rank snobbery down to a due art, and their schem- ing over a period of years, coupled with the supreme pig-headedness of her husband, drives her back to the Paris of her maidenhood, lany ing her baby girl with the husband. The girl grows up into a per- fely delicious specimen of EngCentral.
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lish girlhood and her progress is watched by her mother, rocutie in the gay city. The girl is, of course, made extremely un happy by her foster-mother, and when her father refuses to, sanction her marriage to the man of her cholen she runs away with him to Paris.
What follows provides some of the most dramatic situations in a dramatic film, and leads to n dlinux which it would be a pity to divulge here, **
Star,
COMING.
RUTH
Queen's.
Phantom of, Paris." Spn. of India. **
King's.
The Yellow Ticket."
* Young as You Feel"
The Spider."
World.
Star.
The Age for" Love,"
Around the World in 80
80 Minutes,"
The Mysterious Person in
Black, Chianso Picture, Say ft With Songs." "Robin Hood;"
"Pardon Us."
Up for the Cup."
Paramount 1982 Production
TO-MORROW
CHATTERTON IN
Your Favorite
Talkle Star
“ONCE A LADY”
ALSO
BY REQUEST
TO-DAY ONLY
A Pamount Picture
Bats, UNDER
ZIMMY" Drinks.
Smokes,
The Champion Legless Swimmer and Lives
"
|
ER
Dr. JEKYLL and Mr. HYDE
will
FREDRIC MARCH MIRIAM HOPKINS
A Paramount Picture
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MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
AB Anna Keromazoif ’** Rundr Chatterton is brilliant, and is ably ! supported by Geoffrey Kerr, the man one wanta do punch. The daughter, is played by Jil Esmond; | who gives a great performance, while Doris Lloyd'succeeds in being thoroughly county," and there. fore supremely dotestable.
"Once Lady" is perfectly aated by a splendid "cast: "in ial frank drama and at the same time MAGNIFICENT PICTURE AT
&
"rattling good entertainment, and should not be missed. It is one of the best. films Miss Chatterton has Vet given as, which fact should of itself be sufficient recommendation.
"THE SILVER HORDE"
THE QUEEN'S
'A DRESSING ROOM
PROP" BOX.
"
A combination dressing room and
" box is the newest screen prop
Rex Beach's famous story, "The invention. It was used for the first, Silver Horde," is magnificently time on the set of Ramon Norarry's,
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"DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE."
HOW "R.L.S." BURNT HIS MANUSCRIPT.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," one
If any further testimonials are reportrayed at the Queen's Theatre picture, "Son of India" which of the greatest mystery thrillers of quired it might be timely to men with a strong supporting cast. will open on Wednesday at the Botion, which is the King's Thea
Evelyn Brgut, who has not been
K
Queen's Theatre, The
ZIMMY'S DIP.
HIGH DIVE FEAT AT THE V.R.C.
EXHIBITION BY LEGLESS SWIMMER.
Zimmy, the legless nerobat, whó lives, cats, and smokes inside a glass water tank, had a dip in a ron tank yesterday afternoon át the Vistoria Recreation Club when he disolered his aquatic abilities
Bofore, plunging off from the diving board a few feet above the 'swimming pool, he explained to the culookars that he was not a fnab swimmer, but he said that he would surpass those who possessed. Ings in Eleadiness of stroke and endurance
Resting on his arms he lived off the bourd and repeated this with a back dive and a high-in-the-air dive. Ho thoa, made a bold turn in a dive off a bourd temporarily held- through the railing, of the top verandah.
When he kept his nemas still Zimmy floated on the surface like a bork, and in the water he showed Im novel way of swimming backwards which he said he was able to do only boonuse he had no legs, to offer resistance. He WILA much faster on the back stroke than the bronst stroke and be apparently did. not get tired at all.
Zimny will appear in his final performances at the King's Thodbre to-day, and is talking of visiting Canton,
THE MOST POPULAR
STARS?
GRETA: MARLENE: CHEVALIER:
GABLE: BEERY.
WOIUI
her first talkic.
Paramount British Productiona nu
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THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 6.10, 7:15 AND 8.20
One Woman in A land of Men !
Cherry Malotte-Rex Beach's mightiest heroine-branded by decent woman ・・・ Ught. ing Alaska's brutality for her man
SILVER
"AA8
HORDE
EVELYN BRENT »
LOUIS WOLHEIM
JOEL MCCREA
TO-MORROW.
Who is the greatest box-office back, as lovely as ever, to make draw on the screen t
Many people would say Greta
For some time past Miss Griffith Carbo, among the
stars has been in London with her has Bub, the well known expert band, Mr. Walter MorozÇO.
Variety," surveying the stare as He is ALL the head of the money-makers on the basis of in-stres, and Corinne Griffith will formation supplied from the big act there, under his auspices, as the Hollywood studios, bracketa Mar- heroine of the film voraion of cion that, it has kept me out of my
itro'a feature picture next Sunday,
lene Dietrich and Greta Garbo as Michael Arlen's Lily Christine." bed writing twice as much about sten, on the Burden in Hong Kong divided into two cations, the lower was almost lost to the world as a
6f equal strength at the box-office Mr. Paul Stein, the Hollywood it as dutý demanded, which, for an American film, is something of a
for some time takes the part of half for "props" and the upper terary masterpiece.
during the past year.
director who has just completed. Pola Negri's first talkio, record. But then, "Miss Chadderton Cherrie Malotte, Alaska's queen, half with a falklength mirror,
When Stevenson finished his first "With these two, the most attrac-Woman Commands." is Miss Chatterton, which isn't so who is known, as she states in one sidelights and shelves to
is now in exciting. hold draft, investigation shows, he read tive seven among the women, apply England to direct Miss Griffith. and unusual bann as it looks, if you put the
ing this money test, appear to be accent in the right place, and 31 part of the picture, "from Frisce make-up. When required the upper it to his wife for criticism. As was
He speaks glowingly of Pola's per- a drama as Eamond provided me with a pic to Sitka."!
completed by:-Constance Bennet,formance. One of Hollywood's section of the box is lifted of and her custom, she wrote her thoughts Jean Crawford, Marie Dressler, ture of the Bype of girl that,
the Talking Screen luckily for her, rarely wauders for newest finds, Joel Metras, takes stood on end, a chair placed in out and handed them to the author, Janet Gaynor and Norma Shearer. from the drawing rooms and ten,
front, and the dressing room ** is nis courts and hunting fields of the part of the run down miner,
ready for use. One man can pick day all Merris England.
who is put on the road to css up the "room" and move it to any by Cherrie.
part of the slage. The invention: The picture shows some wonderis credited to Harry Albies, Metro.
Goldwyn-Mayer property man. ful shots of the Alaskan salmon in- dustry and practically every stage- of the industry, is shown, from the actual catch to the canning.
There are several comedy toushes
A.FL.S.
'GUN SMOKE
SOME OF THE CASTE,
ever, he re-wrote it at once.'
This new production
leaving the room while he studied,
them.
She had 'old him he had treated
The Men Stars.
She plays the queen of one of has shown I hose fanciful States, and in sup parted by Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, Anthony Bushell, and Clark Gable and Wallace. Beery other British actors. Incidentally, are the latest of the men to reach she sings. the star class, but wherens Mr.
an allegory as an actual story.
When she returned to Steven- son's study, he had burned the Bocry is "&"featured" player of draft for fear he might make too long standing, Mr. Cable's arrival Janet Gaynor is the ideal Cin-
much use of the wrong approach has been entirely a matter of the
of the when he rewrote it.
Paramount" studios has Frederic March in the dual-personality role, and Miriam Hopkins and Rose
"Gun Smoke," the main feature at the Central Theatre, where it which make the picture entertain bogun yesterday fpr a three-day!' Fun, is the most up-to-date Westerning as well as educational. picture that has yoh been shown on screen version follows very closely Hobart in the leading feminine
The
the talking sereen. The time of this on the book of which the author is story is todayIt deals with the
rolea.
mustung-hunting man of the Idaho known for hia realistic stories of
hundrels of wild horses each year.
budlands who round up and sell the far north."
Into this territory, to escape arrest
At the hands of city police, comen
a gang of racketers The result is CHILD ACTOR IN GILBERT
a number of oxciting episodes and adventures in which Westerners and city gangster havo ample chance. to show their prowess as marksmen,
Richard Arlen is the hero, -the- loaders of the mustang-hunter who nally triumph over their urban enemies Mary Brian is the beanti;
FILM."
MUCH DEPENDS ON
FOUR-YEAR-OLD-
Douglas Scoft,
four-year-old
ful owner of the ranch about which child notor, plays an importan much of the action centres. Wm. igure in the plot motivation of Boyd, who Gary Cooper's The Spoilers" and John Gilbert's latest picture, "The
was the villain of
of Jack Oakin's "The Gang Buster" Phantom of Paris," which is com
is the big shot" of the gun mob. ing to-morrow to the Queen's Eugene Palletee is the rollicking Theatre.
Romeo of the ranch who carries on
a laugh-provoking love affair with The youngster in first to recog
1
Louise Fazenda, the ranch cook and nizs the deception, when Gilbert servant to Miss Brian.. Pallette has been a favourite comedian of with his face remade, poses as the
ATONGUB
Btm fans for several yours. Since child's father. The unwonted kind- the advent of the talkies he has ness of the father to the child alse "been seen as the befuddled Sergeant
Tenth in William. Powell's Philo;
the suspicion - of the Jane pictures as thonia4o mover mother played by Leila Hyams...
Dat's Go Native as the Young Scott has appeared in a fin-maker in
in The Banta Fai Trail"; is the irate parent in "It number of pictures, having recently Pays to Advertian" Miss Fazenda scored as the child who reunites was the leading comedienne in mother and father in Passion
Gold Diggers of Broadway?' and in The Desort Bong,"!
Tlower."
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Stevenson, at the time, was. ill and, had this infirmity brought hin immediate death, the story would never have been completed. How ('wazo progazed un panasquag]
Fredrick March in the Paramount pleture “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" appears to-morrow. at the King's.
past year.
"Cinderelle." Janet.
|derella, and "Delicious," which I
saw recently at a private view, is Two bad pictures and 1 am another Cinderella story with am Maurice Chevalier when he was in naïvato. finished," said the philosophic exceptional appeal in its. Beroine's. I am told it if manking London."
recorda in American cinemas,
It all depends upon how you react to unabashed sentiment.
That unhappy-event-is-not yet inuminout, for I observe that Mr. Chevalier is still reckoned (on the basis of his immediate past) to have made her Scottish at all, but I do not know why they should excreisa the greatest single-name there she is in picture, a little attraction.
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Jassie called from her job of stick- Of the other men in the best boxing the paper on the tops of mar office soven, George Arliss and malado jars to join & mean Ameri-
·Ronald-Colman are bracketed can uncle who lets her down, so that equal "strength, and the remaining two are Edward G. Robinson and Will Rogers.
The fascinating Mr. Gable has shot} ahead so rapidly that he is in the interesting position of knowing his valno without being able to escape
the becomes a destitute alien in New York, flasing from deportation
officials.
GILBERT
in
Phantom of Paris
..with
LEILA HYAMS LEWIS STONE JEAN HERSHOLT 0, AUBREY SMITH Directed by JOHN S. ROBERTS
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer PICTUM
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.20
Charles Farrell is a wealthy American whom she, a steerage
class, meets on the boat. passenger intruding into the first THE BRITISH MUSICAL
Janet is a pathetic figure tramp-
a contract that is said to give him.} loss than £150 a week and suck kundenmo boause he his employorsing the streets to give herself up at choose to shower upon him.
the police station. She sings only
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As the cheapest of stars he can one song, "Somebody Trom Soma. nely hope that his reputation will where, but she does that softy and inst long enough for him to take nicely to the thinking accompani his place among the most expensivement of a mutical whisky boltla
Most of the music (by George Corinne and Pola."
Groshwin) comos through her so Corinne Grimth was one of thoas ciation with a troupe of Russian who seemed to have disappeared entertainers, avith whom she figures. from the screen, but she le coming prettily as a dancing doll.
COMEDY SUCCESS!
HARMONY
HEAVEN"
with
POLLY WARD STUART HALL
A colour, Talking, Singing Dancing picture