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HONG KONG DA
MONDAY MARCH
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FILM STARS AND SATELLITES.
HOLLYWOOD VALUATIONS.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG
The Spider"
Central.
Queen'
The Infest reports from Holly... King's. wood Indicate that the Canadian- born veteran, Maris Drossler, is the greatest drawingoard of the screens Metro-Goldwyn Mayor, her om- ployers, put the homely 8-year-old star at the hood of their list, with Norma Shearer second, Joan Craw ford slijed, and Greta Garbo tourth
though aftor the phenomenal sues. ccas of "Mata Hari Miss Garbo will probably go up a rung or two il the box-office badder.
The relative drawing power of other stars will be equally surpri eing to many pictaro-goers. Desi pite the fame and fabulnas salary of Constance Bennett, (she said
bo pocoive 28,000 a week) she is second to Ann Harding on R, KO,. Pathe's list, Marlene District in credited with as big a following as Miss Garbo.
Charlie Still Loads.
Of the men atare, Chaplin has still the greatest world following, partly because his altos are silent, with Maurice Chevaliar second and Will Rogers, third: "
It is not generally 'realised that many of the most popular players are not stars, but fentured players. A star is presented as "So-and-So in Such-and-Such," whereas a fear. tured player's name appears after the name of the picture. The fea tured players, immensely more im- sportant than many of the stars, include such favourites as Wallace Beery, Clive Brook, Clark Gable, Paul Lukas," Fredrio March, and (Continued on nexę column.)
Around the World in 80
Minutes,"
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Douglas Fairbanks.
"Hook, Line, and Binker,”!
World.
Blar.
"Spring Time "
King's.
(Chinese picture):
“KOWLOON,
Whoopee."
COMING.
Confessions of a Co-Ed," "The Man I Killed." Sunshine Susic."
Palmry Days
Central.
To-night or Never.?
Corsair.
Queen's.
Alibi,"
World.
Star.
"Robin Hood".
Strictly Unconventional," "Say It With Songs,”
Edward G. Robinson, All those will shortly be starred
The starring system gives rise to all manner of absurdities, as when Norma Shearer Wha starred in "Ä Free Soul,” but mop Lionel Barry- more, who dominated the picturo.
SHOWING STO-DAY An: 2:80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
KING'S
Hist!
“Don't move-dan't speak! Not
d! There's mystery here.
and a spell that must not be broken until
"Watch Closely. It is
The SPIDER
- Edmund Lowe
Lols Moran"
EL BRENDEL · GEORGE E, STONI
Romance of the theatre with. thrills and magic
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
CONFESSIONS OF A
CO-ED."
AUTHENTIC-U.S. UNDER- GRADUATE LIFE.
"THE SPIDER."
THRILLER AT THE KING'S.. THEATRE.
The Spider" now showing at the King's Theatre is a real thriller.
WHEELER AND WOOLSEY AT THE QUEEN'S.
SHAW'S NEW PLAY IN AMERICA
SOME VAUDEVILLE AND MUCH PREACHING.
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THE THEATRE TEL: 25313
NEXT CHANGEI
who is this girl' Who loves & tells ? CONFESSIONS OF A CO-ED
A Paramount Picture
You'll taver know her name. You will know. her story-s she oơn- Aded it to her diary."
with
to
SYLVIA SIDNDY PHILLIPS HOLMES NORMAN FOSTER
CLIVE" BROOK ON HOLLYWOOD.
AND HIS NEW FILM.
TODAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
“BROADCAST BY Z.BW, ON 355 METRES,
}:11 am to 12:30 p.m.--Chinoso proï
gramme.
18.30 to 9p.m-European pro gramme of recorded music."
1 p.m. Local time and weather
Toport
12 p.m.-Close down..
5 to 7 pm Chiness programme.
7 to: 10:30. p.m.-European pro- gramme of Victor and Columbin recorda, 7p.m.-Mail notice, eto 1,09 to 7:12 pm, *-
Orchestral
Apache Dance" (Offenbach) La Golondrina" (Tho Swalibw) (Sorridell)-Victor Salon Or chestra, --Vio. $1000.
:7.12 to 8: pum
Clive Brook has been saying] some sensible things, about Holly New York-Mr. Bernard Show's wood methods of picture-produe- now play "Too True to be Good?tion during his visit to London, performed at the Colonial Theatro, and it was obvious that he was Boston, left playgoers rather bewil-anything but happy about the state "HOOK, LINE ANDdered. New York critics who of things over there.
tended the premiere declare that. Elia"view, in short, is that the SINKER."
Shaw has written a
a musical comedy star is spoilt for a ha porth of story and some fairly good vande-atory. He made an exception, in ville to which Beatrice Lillie in the case of the film he had "just nurse's uniform contributes an im- completed with Marlene Dietrich portant share.
—" Shanghai. · Express" Other. Through three long acts the drawise he feels that a star's personal & In "Hook, Line and Sinker, matist emphasises his conviction ity is drowned in seas of hokum. & "magicians' theatre and the which opened at the Queen's Thea-that the world has gone a bit
His views support the theory of contract, awarded for the success of struggle of Chatrand the Croat, tre resterday Wheeler and Woolsey "potty since the war, One of the well-informed people that the her Arst moring picture character the magician in question, to clear are if that is possible funnier than characters, says the New Turk Tri- factory made film is doomed. Ina zation in "City Streets," Sylvin his young assistant upon whom ever, and that means a lot when bune, aptly described things just Claire said the same thing when the Sidney, the brunette stage star who
There is one remembers "The Cuckoos" and before the curtain fall on the first
was in London, has gone a big way," received her
"Half Shot at Sunrise."
|act, when' he said, "The play is
Mr. Brook is going back to Holly- Ja hypnotic seance, of the most seand important screen assignment tensely dramatic kind, and the
In the loading feminine role is now virtually over, but the charac wood to make "Bengal Lanesr." With Phillips Holmes and Norman
mystery is solved. The queer trick Dorothy Lee, who combines charm, tera will continue to discuss it for Part of this has already been shot Fuster, she joined the featured cast:
a hoydenish two more acts."*'
in India by Ernst Shoedaack, the. of "Confessions of A Co-Ed", com- of the theatre, with its apparatus rare beauty with
Brooks Atkinson, writing in the brilliant cameraman who photo ing to the King's Theatre on next strange coming and going, the comedy fair.
Jobyna Howland, with a comedy New York Times, says the play graphed "Chang," In September shouts, and threats, and blunder. Thursday.
A few seasons ago Miss Sidoeyings of the Now, York polics in this history of more than twenty years, "sounds like the conversation of an Brook expects to come back and was hailed as the most promising amazing field of action increase the inspires bursts of laughter when-alderly gentleman feeling comfort make pictures in England,"
Following almost immediately on the signing of her new Paramount
1
It tells of a murder "committed in
suspicion has fallen.
younger actress in Manhattan, but nightmare effect
and humorous
ever she appears on the screen. able on a veranda after a carnivor-
ג-
Erich von Stroheim, the stealy
just as she was beginning to realize There is however a real vein She is six-foot three in her French ous dinner" It is also described lover of million-dollar movies, is stage fame, in the leading role of
'as consisting of unbelievably long to play the part of an occentric the Broadway production "Bad of human
ri- heels; Girl," Paramount signed her for lief. The audience in the Magic Hugh Herbert and George Marion lectures by Bhavian automata at the film director in "The Lost Squad- her first movie part, with Gary Theatre rises to the occasion; their contribute fun mixed with vigorous expense of the British Army, reli
ron," a new Radio picture. Cooper in "City Streets" The
gion, the League of Nations, polí their mystification, their characterisations,
Hollywood's little irony ought to long-term contract and her second fears, movie role in "Confession of A discomfort and anger. give every
And last but not least, Tim ties, matrimony, art and morality. please Von Stroheim. He will not Co-Ed, followed.
The dual words of the play have to indulge in caricature. The opportunity to a most efficient band Whelan, humorous writer, is res- Hor real stage talents, wore. first recognised when she created a minor of "supers," men and women and ponsible for the story "Hook, Line spoken by "The Elder" express its Radio puadits declare that The
"I must sentiment:
preach, Lost Squadron "*" deals with stunt sensation in "Gods of the Light precocious boy, lead by El Bren- and Sinker: Halph Spence, one ning, a daring; dramatic play, del, a rare comedian of the timid of the best known wise-crackers preach; preach, even when I have flying for the screen and the mad- and followed up this success with
and dialogue specialists in als nothing to say, and the curtainness of a picture director with an but perky kind. outstanding work and Martin Bur-¡
the falls with the garrulous old Prophet insatiable mania "for thrills." bon, and in ''Muny a Slip.”.... The programme also contains an collaborated with Whelan on
"Confessions of. A Co-Ed," reput, excellent short film of India, and lines; and Eddie Cline, a graduate still preaching, ed to be the first authentic drama of a decidedly clever; if rather vulgar of the Mack Sonette comedy present-day college life brought to
The story discloses a pampered
the screen, is highly dramatic little comic, making fun of Wild school, directed the picture. It is patient (Hope Williams, a popular New York comedienne) ill with story of American undergraduate Westerns and, we believe, of a claimed to be the best yet by the moasion. Shaw provides a cura by life. It action, based upon the inti- popular screen heroine. There is a screen's funniest twosome--and mato diary of a co-ed, who for performing "horse whose neighing those who have seen Wheeler and obvious reasons, remains anony- mous, centres around the brunette and whinneying are a real delight. Woolsey will agras that plenty of actress. It deals with the joys, am. A very good programme-except laughs are guaranteed. bitions, jealousies, rivalries and love affairs of a group of glamorous undergraduates. A sorority initia tion opens the story, and the chang ing sequences include. intimate ine terior scenes in the sorority house, and colourful outdoor action at a favourite mountain holiday roost..
?!
ALIBI."
HOW THEY HID THE MICROPHONE,
perhaps that the nervous and highly strong would find the Spider "do- cidedly strong meat.
R.B.
Quartetté-Minuet - "Transcrip
tion (from Sonata in C). (Sebu- bert)Lener String Quartette.
Col DB290.
Piano Solo" Variations in C
an attractive young burglar. Pati way of Beatrice Lillis se nurse, and
eut, nurse and burglar ran away to sether to somewhere abroad, where they masquerade da British trip-
9.50
1906, when 1,200 French miners were Lers. Here the Preacher, who has killed and German miners broke the played at being burgler, delivers frontier barriers in an attempt to his sermon exhorting mankind. to rescue their entombed comrades, find "the way of life." ". From this tragedy of sudden death and stricken homes he has built up an opio which ranks with the finest achievement of the screen-terri- fic drama full of exciting nation brains to find a suitable position for (Continued on Previous Column the mike, until Baynham Honri, and significant detail instinct with the chief sound engineer, had the in-life shot through with terror, genuity to attach it to the back of pathos, and bernism,
hidden from the camera. During one scene in "Alibi"' shooting was hold up for more than half an hour while one and all racked their
A
EPIC FILM OF MINE DISASTER.
PABST'S NEW TRIUMPH
Minor" (Beethoven).- Sergei
Rachmaninoff, Vic, 0644
Violin Solo-Caprice Viannoia" (Kreisler).-Naoum Blinder, Col. "DX7,
to 19.30 p.m.--
"Gubert. and Bullivan Vocal: Gemit,
"The Yeomen of the Guard.”---- Columbia Light Opers Com pany,--Col. 9504,
Patience! - Columbia, Light Opera Go.-Col. DX36. The-Gondoliers." — Columbia Light Oper Cp.-Col. 9568. "Iolanthe Columbia Light
Opera Co-Col. DX17. The Mikado."-Columbia Light. Opera Co-Col 106.
G. W. Pabst, perhaps the greatest One of the chief difficulties with
The lesson of "Kameradschaft" film producer of the day, scores an which the soul sngineers have to one of the tetors, who was playing that the only enemy people have in other triumph with Kamernde 10.30 Rugby midday Pross contend when making a talkie is to pollo and had to staintrigid ignorance in his case resulting in chelt, which was produced receded in find w suitable hiding place for the ly to attention.
firadamp. And the moral is pointly in London coded by 10.25 pim-Close down. microphone so that it may be near Alibi Twickenham Film Stued by an ironica last scene showing Pabat's theme is the brotherhood All records in the above Euro- enough to the actors to receive their dio production will be shown at the the frontier officials, on the return of man as revended by the great poan programmes are supplied by voices and at the same time be well Quson's Theatre beginning Thurs of the German rescuers, ro-erecting mining disaster at Courrieres in Moers. Anderson Music Co. and (Continued at foot of neat column.)⠀⠀ say:
the broken barrier.
(Continued on Previous Column,)}
Teang Fook Piano Co.
Variety.
Nogro Spiritual Run, Mary,
Run."
Nogro Spiritual-"Nobody Knows Trouble 1 Sos.”—Edna
ول
Thomas (Soprano).-Col 4194.
Song-In My Young Days".
Song "The Nut Brown Ale of
QUEEN'S
SHOWING TO-DAY-
5,10, 7.15 AND 9.20
MERRY MADMEN.
OF THE SCREEN
Mighty
England"-Erness Hastings-WHEELER
.Col. 1842.
Instrumental'' Hilo-Hawaiian
March."**
Instrumental Droway Vators."
Kane'a. Hawaiiade. Via 20702,
Song Because No Power on
Earth Can Pull It Down," Song- The Barrers in the Wal- worth Road."-Norman Long, ** Col.. DB202, Descriptive Ballad "The Village Blocksmith-Columbia Drama- tis Players Col. 5889. Saxophone Solo" Marllyn," Saxophone Solą - "Sazema." Rudy Wiedooft.-Vic: 21252 Bong Mighty Lata Ross." Kentucky Baba" Vaugh De Leath (Soprano). Vic. 20684
Song
"Song If You Can't Have the
Girl of Your Dreams.
Song A Big Bouquet for You," Charles Lawman (Tenor)-Col DR358," p.ad-Local time and weather
report.
8.04 to 8.20 p.m.-
"Sonata Appassionata " (in F Minor)(Beethoven, Op. 57).- Harold Bauer (Pianist).
1st Movement Allegro aussi 2nd Movement." Andante
moto:?
DON:
3rd Movement Allegro ma non
troppo.-Vic, 6897/6008.
8.90 to 8.38 p.m.-
131
"Ballet Egyptien Sulta (Li- gini)Pured by the Concert: Orchestra-Col. 38794/35795.
5.38 to 9p.m
Operatio
Song Tosca-Love and Music "
(Puccini).
Song- Cavalleria Rustican
Well You Know, Good Mother" (Mascagni).-Maria Joritza- Vic., 1316.
Band Aida-Introduction and
Moorish Ballet. (Verdi)
Band Aide-Grand March and Finale (Verdi). Creatore's Band-Vic 305780
Song La Bonnambula" As I View These Scenes" (Bellini), Song- Mofistofele Hail, Sover
eign Lord" (Boito).-Feodor. Chaliapin (Bass). Vic. 1200.
9 to 9.90 p.m.—
Musical Comedy and Talkis Tunes, Fai A Warm Corner Laughter Record-Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher, Austin Connie Edis Kim Fesonck, Melford, andi Prince's Theatre, London Com pany-Col. DB140.
Whoopes Film Song Med ley"--Billy Cotton, and Vis Band Col DB359.
Nippy While. We're in LevB.,
Arthur
and Betty
Shale
Biscoo
Nippy A Couple of Fins: Old.
Sabooda,***- Olifford MoMisóri and Arthur Biscoe-Col DB854:
9.20 to 9:50
Instrumenta
Piano Solo Minstrels (Di busy) William Murdoch. Col. 167
Violoncello Bola Goyescas
Intermezzo (Gratiados). Violoncello Bala
(Bach Silott-Cunale).
Casals,Vic, 08354
WOOLSEY
Heading the Parade in
a Slam-Bang Cirens of Nonsense
HOOK, LINE AND SINKER
DOROTHY LER BRALF HAROLDE
Jobyna Rowland Natalie Moorhead With World's Greatest. Array of Nata, Nit-Wita and Dame de Luxe Directed by EDDIE CLINE
NEXT ATTRACTION
THE DRAMATIC BRITISH
MURDER MYSTERY
'ALIBI"
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 0.20
FLORENZ ZIEGFELD
and
SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S
MIGHTY
ALL-COLOUR SPECTACLE
WHOOPLE
EDDIE
Adexio
Pablo
CANTOR
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