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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
"The Sleeping Cardinal."
A British, Sherlock Holmes
Thriller.
YOUNG AS YOU
FEEL."
WHEN AN OLD DOG LEARNS
NEW TRICKS.
Queen's.
Maybe an old dog bunnot bo taught now tricks, but there is no law that prevents him from adopt. ing them.
King'a.
Central,
The Olený,"
All Quirt on the Western
Front."
World.
"Thunder."
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KOWLOON.
This was convincingly demon- strated by Will Rogers during the filaxing of Young As You Fech," his latest starring picture for Fox fime, which opens next Sunday at the King's Theatre, and in which the popular comedina portrays a
modern. well-dressed man. For the
first time in, his long state or screen unreer Rogers was called upon to wine his hair nicely combed.
After this first surges of the film were made, with Rogers in the rôle of an old-fashioned crochety, Bat-in-his waya widower Frank Borzage. the director, notiäed his star that filming of the dressed-up peenes wohld begin the next day.
The following morning, Rogers appeared on the set in a neatly "tinilered dress suis, with pearl-head- ed enne silk hat. and all the usual
acessoriza
"You'll have to dress your hair Will, Borzuge told the famous comedian.
What mus slick my hair all upl Not on your life" "Rogers replied; "I've got by all my Hie with my Kangs hanging natura), and I don't.) see why this is any occasion to change my ways." Then after n thought, hedded with
omen's
i shrug,
But if you insist, I'll try
it. Bring on the pomade!".
Here is where Terrance Ray, who
with Ronald Dillaway has an im-.
portant juvenile role in the film,
playing one of Rogers' wilful son4,
earned Will's,ovarlasting gratitude.
You might try the stuff "I use...
Mr. Rogers," Ray said.
"It' make your hair shine so the flappers won't recognize you."
Yeah" Rogers, drawled, don't mind what renetion it has on the Bappers but I do Hate to cus in où Eddie „Lowe. Imagine me putting grease on my hair
"Why, Moes-tair Rogers.! Fifi Dorsay exclaimed after she saw the effect, you look like Maurice Chevalier,"
"+"
Fil and Will are again united' bilarious sequence of events
in
tu
Star,
"A Warm Cornor."
Queen's.
With Leslie Henson.
COMING.
Bonn Hunks."
Stan Laurel and Oliver
Hardy.
"W. Plan."
King's
Young As You Feel.”
The Man I Killed."
***Sunshino Susie."
Palmy Days,""
Central,
World.
Star.
Around thys World in 80
Minutes,"
The Command Performance."
"Soul and Flesh."
Chinese picture. .
"A Man's Man.'
Say It With Songs." "Robin Hood"
""Paid."
Son Bat."
"Whoopee."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2:30, 5,10, 7.18 & 9.30 PM,
KING'S
TALLULAH
BANKHEAD
in The
Cheat
A Paramount Picture
*
plcture Each quoceeding greater triumph! Taitulah Bank- head surpasses herself in this stirring story of a beautiful woman who would maarifico hor social standing for the love of the one man. I'
with
IRVING PICHEL
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
Director George Abbott, Tallulah Bankhead, Rudy Vallee visit on the set of "The Cheat", a Paramount Picture
“NAUGHTY" AND
ROMANTIC FILM.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD 'IN
HER ELEMENT.
"THE CHEAT" AT KING'S
THEATRE.
It seems likely that the exotic and beautiful Tallulah Bankhead, who has "the leading role in "The
London.
ber.
"THE SLEEPING CARDINAL."
A SHERLOCK HOLMES THRILLER.
#1
TODAY AT THE QUEEN'S.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313
NEXT CHANGE
Hore he is! THE NEW will
Rogers
YOUNG AS YOU FEEL
based on George Ade's a celebrated saga, comedy
with
FIA Dorsay Luclen Littlefield
ROUND THE WORLD WITH DOUG."
NEW TYPE OF SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT.
A now type of screen, entertain- ment is being evolved, Douglas Fairbanks who captures the in agination of the Alm public with the romance of such films as the Thief of Bagdad" "Three Mus kateora" and "Robin Hood" is introducing the newest innovation at the Central Theatre on Satur- day, 19th instant.
THEATRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 230, 5,10, 7.15 AND 9.20
A NEW
BRITISH THRILLER
Arthur Wontner
in an adventure of
Doug's idea is to bring the color. SHERLOCK HOLMES
ful spectacle of his former filma into the field of real life adventure, The dirat of his assays along this
line is his Around the World in
by the late
80 Minutos, with Douglas Fair SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE banka, a United Artists production, Remote Places of the East. Several months of quoating in the remote places of China, Japan, Siam, Indo-China and India aro compressed into approximately 10,000 foot of film and the narrative is told in a 'humorous vein which I takes it out of the field of a trave- logue and makes it a very and dis- tinetive type of ontertainment.
In the current film Doug is the hero of numerous episodes which entail danger and the exercise of that athletic agility for which he is fampus. It is an attempt to get
·into - camners fotus the dramatic panorama which won such high acclaim for "Gram "Chang and similar films. But the Fair- banka films also seek to crubody the life and manners of the people of foreign langis, showing how they live, rich and poor, famous and humble.
Tribal Feasts.
In Japan and Hawaii the atox was taken to native and tribal feasta, witnessing marriages and funerals with their attendant. caromony and symbolism. In Giam
ly to bathe there is to obtain relief he was entertained in the palace of from worldly ills.
THE SLEEPING“
ADDED ATTRACTION
King Prajadhipok, and in Cooch-The Through all the records as it Behar, Indo-China he was the guest appears on the screen, however, is a of the Maharance, where he was leaven of humor, witty observa-honoured guest in a leopard shoot. tions of a man who has sought
The Saored River, amusement as well as education, In India he sailed the sacred river and seeks to pass it on to his public. Ganges and saw the native pilgrims. In proparing and editing this film who believe that to die in its waters Doug has the aid of Robert Sher- is to achieve immortality, and more. wood, celebrated playwright andi (Continued on Previous Column)
humorist.
Rhapsody in Rivets.
GOSSIP
FACT
Mr. Gershwin has let himself in & now "Rhapsody in Rivets,' expressive of toiling humanity.
Miss Gaynor's escapes from bor pursuer's include:
The chief thing in a Sherlock Holmes picture is Sherlock Holmes. If any other artinto can equal Arthur Wontner's interpretation in this Twickenham production, hechute will have a very big feat indeed
to his credit, Wonther is the in- carnation of the character describ. ed by Conan Doyle and illustrated
A wild slide down a luggage
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A ride from ship to land in a horse-box;
A trip in kitchen lift. Teddington Buży,
They are turning out pictures
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Alanova's "Beauty.
"I was rather alarmed when the audience rushed towards me and formed up along the front of the stage,' said the British dancer Alicia Alanova (Misa Alice Allan) after her great triumph at the Concert House at Vienić.
"I thought from the constant applause and this cheering and way- ing, of handicorchiefs that I had pleased them, bat. for a moment. I almost imagined they wanted tö beat me. They would not be satis-
unknown dancer."
GAINSBOROUGH GEM
64
Blue Boys"
NEXT CHANGE
M-G-M'S JEWEL PROGRAMME
STAN
AUREL
THE
DOLE-
FULL
OLIVER
HARDY
THE
SELF-
SUFFICIENT
in their latest mirthquake
HUNKS"
no better than the man who traps in the original Strand stories, in
appearance, mannerism and dic-very slickly in the Warner Bro-fied until I had danced to the music
thers First National studios as of the Blue Danube, and then there BEAU Miss Bankhead, within the orbit tión. It is a real acting achievo-Teddington where already the was another hurricane of cheering. sixth film, Undisclosed" (by I am told there has never been u of her special parts has real ver-ment.
The success of the film follows in John Hastings Turner and Roland success like, this here before by an satility, She can be the hard
Pertwee) was begun last month. society women, the mercenary ad- levitably from this fact, but lot it venturess, the silly beauty, and be said that Holmes has a very good beyond this the lover. The last and by no means clownish Dr. Wat rule is the most important, and son (Jan Fleming), a Mrs. Hudson Miss Bankhead's popularity lies in (Minnie Rayner), whose Cockney the fact that she excols. What | humour rings true and true to type,
Dr. Moriarty.
Margot Grahamo, Sydney Fair brother. Helen Ferrers. Richard Bird, D. A. Clarke Smith, Clifford Heatherley and Wilfred Caithness are in this film,
The Garbo's, Prestige,
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The critica aro unanimous. Alazova is the most beautiful solo. dancer seen in Vienne for years. She explained that she had to take the name of Alanova when Dis- ghileft put her in his ballet in London, and would have only Russian-looking names. Her family name being Allan the name Alanova was easy to form (datighter of Alan
or Allan).
an on Foreign Artists,
Greta Garbo's star shows no signs prestige has been maintained by teaming her with other celebrities it is not easy to calculate; but everything seems to point to her being a more irresistible personal A memorandum protesting against.. attraction than ever.
the ban on foreign artists has been. Here are some extracts from the sent to the Prime Minister, the short official biography of the elu- Home Secretary, the Minister of sive Garbo
Labour, and Viscount Snowden, by She is sit, ein. tall, weighs 120lb, the British Actors Equity Associa- hua blonde hair and greention. The president of the Asso- ey BE
ciation is Mr. Godfrey Tearle, and She was working as a clerk in a the secretary Mr. A. M. Wall
Stockholm hat shop when the The memorandum 'states that the manager, used her in an ad association is gravely perturbod vertisement film.
concerning probable reprisals in Her first Alm oppearance thereforeign countries arising out of
in Young As You Feel. Their so-called wild partic" are staged": entirely as an object lesson to Will's sons, and in the end prove
lessons she gives to people who a not too dense Inspector Lestrade, of diminishing. How much her escaped from their humdrum world strong general support from Jane to be just the "Cure" necessary
to merge themselves in her "glam- Welsh (though the feminine interest onrous personality [** to make them marry happily and
Irving Pichel, as the villain, is is light), Norman McKinnel, Les- Cheap," now showing at the King's the ideal counterpart. She, beauty lie Perrine, Charles Faton and Gor ominent in Rogers' supporting Theatre, will repeat on the films in distress, he fascinatingly ruth- don Begg.
her success in the West End of less! And what a lovely party he gives with his troop of dancers, cast Lucien Littlefold eminent
She Bts admirably into and all the queer gods and god- cbarneter actor, who portrays the "sophisticated drama, built up desses of his nightmare abode.
The story, with Holmes on the "réfe" of Rogers" old-fashioned and ou cynically smart dialogue-with be forgotten. He makes the gener criminal, Dr. Moriarty, whose hand Nor must young Harvey Stephens trail of the mysterious master crabbed office manager and who ita alternate gaioty and despera-ous husband a live, likeable charache aces in two apparently uncon- tion, super-luxury bedrooms and ter; neither a prig nor a fool but a nocted cases," which are brought likes his employer becomes rejuve-boudoirs, and the necessary conflict sensible decent man, who knows how to him, is a neat blend of sensation nated just previous to the final entreing round possession of her to accept a reasonable, explanationalism and psychology.Ronald Adair, of the Foreign Office, has and how to forgive.
Soma people would say
been cheating at cards, and under fadeout. The other players include glamourous self.
Cheat was rather naughty" the threat of exposure is persuaded The Cheat," is good entertain film, Actually, in the mBener of to carry counterfeit banknotes.to Rosalie Roy, Lucile Browne, C, Henry Gardon, John. T. Murray ment. It is clear and simple in Restoration drama, it is too for the Continent, under cover of his Brandon Hurss and, Gregory Gaye. construction; gets off the mark at from life. to do anyone any harm, Foreign Office passport, which pro- It swasps you away from reality tects his luggage from examination. "Young As You Feel" is the once and never flags for a moment and keeps you thrilled throughout Holmes, appealed to by his sister to cure him of his gambling habits, sereen version of the well known It tells, how Tallulah gambles, its length:
a connection between her brother's dilemma and news of a success of George Ade, with the blind folly of the incurable "Father and the Boya" as adapt-gambler and loses, and gets into
mysterious bank, robbery, in which apparently no notes have been taken. Actually perfect forgeries have been substituted for genuine notes, as he discovers.
stage
The
I.B.
Bens
Mystery"Follows Mystery. -
a mis-adventure in the "FOREIGN LEGION
— ALSO SHOWING
THE COLOUR REVUE "BABY FOLLIES *
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY. AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20
BRITAIN'S BEST COMEDI
After was in a comic picture, statements implying that the British LESLIE HENSON
"Erik the Tramp!
Government has placed a ban on She dresses no quietly in tweeds the hdmission of foreign artists who off the set that many of the have obtained employment in this Metro Goldwyn Mayer am country Attention is drawn to a ployees have never recognised contemplated bill in the United her. Nor is she recognised, States Congress which will place usually, in the cinemas to a ban on all British artists desiring which she likes to go..
to work in America except in cer- In summer-time she is freckled...tain very rare cases. When she is pleased the whistles. She has most of her money tied up in a drast find to protect 'her old ago.
ed by Edwin Burke. It marks the the hands a very loathsome young that Moriarty is a hitherto appar ently blameless member of society
Charlie Ruggles Hat a French Girl, Sfth appearance of Will Rogers in ogre, complete with illimitable are high spots in the succeeding in
Charlie Ruggles has been assign- talking pictures, and advance re- niongy, curious house in Far Eastcident, but even more effective than
ed a leading comic role in Farne ports from critics and fans alike
mount's next song romance, terda Mrs. Tom Mix No. 8. ern style and two Japanese ser- the actual happenings is Holmes nonchalant method of introducing
tivaly titled Ho, Met a French who have seen it credit it as being vants. But the background of her apparent side-issues, in conversa
Tom Mix, the cowboy film star, Girl." He will be featured with more hilarious than any of the pre-life is her love for her husband, and tion with, Lestrade, which actually A raid on a mysterious boot-has been married at Mexicali Lily Damita and Cary Grant, maker's collar, where the printing Mexico, to a circus trapeze artist, | Broadway musical comedy actor. vious Rogers hita. His inst Fox pic the absolute trust between them, prove leading alues.
Leslie Hiscott has put the real plant is found, a visit of warning Miss. Mabel Ward. The couple first who makes his film debut. George Lure was A Connecticas Yankee," Their love menoy are beautifully Holmes on the scream and without from the disguised Moriarty to met when Tom was touring the Marion, jr., author of "Sweetie." previous to which he was starred in staged and acted, and hold the story slavish imitation of actual episode, Holmes, followed by a murder at country with a circus following bie, is signed to write the seroch play.
together, for Withalie that affection big-crosted picture which will temps ha kirgas he added
car depart from the Almy Engel Teele will digest, Russia. please everyone who knows the of the young gambler, the deton- This was Tom's fifth mariage. He now is playing at comedy part, with
(Continued on previous Golumn.) appendicitis recently.
With You
don" and "They Had to See for her husband our little heroine pharacter in ite literary form. Ation, of his sister, and the discovery underwent a serious operation for Maurice Chevaher In One Hour A WARM CORNER
Parls."
would be a vamp and a gold digger credit to the Twickenham studios,
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