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Is sacrifice for one's child a sin? If it is, that was
The SIN of
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with
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supreme star of the stage
LEWIS STOJE
NEIL HAMILTON
CLIFF EDWARDS
JEAN HERSHOLT
MAKIE PREVUST
From the play "The Lullaby
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HORA LIKE
SIN OF MADELON
CLAUDET."
FINE DRAMA AT THE QUEEN'S.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Queen's,
"Sin of Mudelán Claudet,'
"Two Kinds of Women." Central..
I refuse to say that talkies are King's... still in their infancy?". This deter.} minod stand was taken by Helen Hayes, New York stage star, upon
"Murders in the Rue Morgue.".
her first interview at the Metro World.
Goldwyn-31nger studios where she
was featured in The Sin of Ma- delon Claudet," talking picture). version of Edward Knoblock's stage. hit, "The Lullaby," which opened on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre for a four days run,
"I know that everyone is expect- ing me to make one of those long statements about talkies still being} at the cradle stage, smiled Miss Hayes, but I'm not going to. For I don't believe it. I think talking pictures have progressed faster than any other subdivision of dramatic are, and that those who are pro- ducing them are protiting by the mistakes of the past.
" feel certain that Maurice Barrymore, Sir Henry Irving and Edwin Booth are sighing in their, graves thus they died before this den of talkies. When they lived
atar,
"King of the Wild."
KOWLOON.
"Abraham Lincoln."
Queen's..
COMING.
"Condemned to Death." "Tell England.".
King's
"Husband's Holiday." One Bour with You."
Central,
World.
Star,
50 Fathoms Deep." Wings."
"Dance Fools Dance."
"On Approval."
bern was only one medium of of. Madaion Claudet."
"The Stag dramatic expression, the stage. To undoubtedly has a great advantage | day we have two, each hitting at a in presenting flesh and blood ne different section of the public, cach tors," she says, "but I am becom trented differently. Such a situa-ng more and more convinced that tion exactly doubles un actor's pictures offset this advantage by capacity to serve the public."
their greater realism. Moving Miss Hayes, who makes her screen 'shots' which keep the hands of the debut in The Sin of Madelon principals in ‘closeup' while action Claudet," is one of the outstanding actresses on Broadway, having scor goes on in a large set are particu- od in such successes as What larly effective. Every Woman Knows," To the Ladies," "Coquette" and "Petti-} coat Influence."
"In The Sin of Madelon
| Claudet' for example, Lewis Stone
"Some people," she stated, "have and I are arrested on a charge of said that I stayed clear of talking theft. We are taken down a longi pictures because I didn't like them.fight of steps and through a crowd. On the contrary, I have been a firm
fan of both talkies and the silented cafe. On the screen you see the pictures before them. When I came enfe with all its people and colour
to the M-O-M lot I gawked and unfold before you, but with this looked for my favourite, Greta
Garbo, just like any other fan. I difference from the same set on the did not attempt screen work sooner (stage-at all times the emotions on because I had been fortunate in the faces of the principals are evi- keeping busy on the stage."
dent. This technique adds to the
Closeups, long-shots and the rapid
action of the screen fascinated Miss even flow of drama and makes it
| Hayes during filming of "The Sinensier to hold the attention of your
Continued on next Column.)
audience.
A NEW STAR-BUILDING"
PLAN
PARAMOUNTS AMBITIOUS
PROGRAMME.
of future screen stars and to add jder to make good stars.
to the amusement possibilities of "It has been the tendency of self.
each picture, Paramount has intro duced to the motion picture indus try a definite and comprehensive plan of "star building" worked out, after months of research and experimentation.
In putting this programme into effect, Paramount believes that at
satisfied producers to permit an established star to carry a mediocre story which otherwise might be con, verted into an excellent one, where. me with a cast of lesser known play- ers who are being built toward stardom, more care has been exer. cised in getting strong stories."
last adequate stops have been taken "Paramount has adopted the
to insure the future of screen play-¦ ers and to present new faces to the public.
policy of deleting the line, This star is good enough, to carry it.'"
In charge of this new organiza This explanation was made by tion is Stuart Walker, who is B. Schulberg, managing direc creditted with the discovery and tor, of production for Paramount. training of more than 150 present- The company's move will embrace day stage and screen stars during the choice of stories, a school al-his long theatrical career. ready in operation for the groom- Under his guidance, are only anch ing of new talent and the indivi. players ns Paramount regards a dual casting of its entire contract sxeptionally promising. Among list for the types and variety of them are Cary Grant, Adriënne rolex for which they are best suited Ames, Frances Dee, Bari Maritas, Claire Dodd, Kent Taylor, Florine and in which the public most fay McKinney and Randolph Scott. orably accepts them.
Oat's Balary Solves Worry for Two Girls.
The plan, Schulberg points out, is all-embracing, including new fields and strengthening procedures !
T
of the past which experience has; An alley cat today is repaying proved sound.
with financial aid two extra girls The star-building process will; who five years ago rescued him from further the careers of these on the vacant lot and pursed him by verge of stardom-and-operate down hand-to-become-the-screen's the list of players to minor con- famous feline actor. fract groups selected through ex-;
He is "Puzzüms” who, when he haustive tests as possibilities in the works before the cameras, makes! screen's future.
more in a single day than the com In affording protection bath te bined extra salaries of his mis the futures of those near stardom tresses, Nadine and Katherina Den- and the entertainment of the pubnis. His latest work is with Mau- lic, Paramount will never cast play tice Chevalier in "Love Me To ers in a picture, no matter, what the night" at the Paramount studios, emergency or demand, unless the where his life story was revealed canting is certain to further their recently. carcera, Behulborg announces
The Dennis sister came to Holly Concerning stories, Schulberg rewood seven years ago from São ports, "The only way to create new Jose to become motion picture play stars is through exceptionally good era. They have ceased worrying stories. The industry is compelled about stardom sincePuzsums to make outstanding pictures in or started to work.
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THOSE TERRIBLE REPORTERS.
"Two Kinds of Women" show- ing at the King's tolls the story of a respectable Senator from the Middle West, who comes to New York to inform its citizens, through the microphone, 'exactly what he thinks of them and their ways.
Unfortunately for him he takes his pretty daughter (Miriam Hop kins) with him, and, she naturally falls for the allurements of the wicked city, and is also howled over by one of the fast young ment (Phillips Holmes) of the place.
Then they get into difficulties. The young man has been the victim of a "gin wedding," and his wife," a hard little thing, admir- ably played by Wynne Gibson, is playing him up for money, shto her self being in the clutches of a very nasty follow, with a long, saturine face. The young lovers are in a great fix for neither can expect sympathy from their rich but puritannical fathers. The heroine goes to see the "wife" and dis- turbs & very drunken party. She wins over the hard hearted girl, who is more than three sheets in the wind, and has just been badly. bullied. Then the poor little "wife" mistakes the window for the door and crashes down tho skyscraper to her death. The drunken party is marched off to the police station, and suspicion falls on Phillips Holmes, as the husband who gains by the woman's death.
Howover the Middle West Senator stands four square behind his daughter and promises to help the young man who soon gets clear. But the old man is broken hearted, and feels that all this contact with New York scandal, will ruin his rublic life. Then-and this is ons of the best touches of a capital film genial and cynical rival tells him, You've made, this is the best electioneering dope for you, that ever was-four square behind your daughter, whatever she may hava done!"
"Two Kinds of Women," is a good thriller, well acted and pro- duced. There is nothing high-brow about it, but in its straightforward
way it is most efficiently done. The satire on New York is scathing, and still more bitter is the attack on the Fourth Estate." The report-
ers who badger and spy on the harassed and grief-stricken Senator, are a loathsomecrowd of ghouls, We can assure our local rehudders that at least in Hong Kong we are not such villains as dmt; and local gentle- men of the Press are well enough known to need no defence. Still the picture given of the New York reporter, if ten per cent, justified, makes one feel uncomfortable at having such colleagues in any part of the world.
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BELA LUGOSI SIDNEY
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"From apes we came," tried this mania-il man of science, "must we deny.our ancestors? cuthless zealot seriding a bride for the gorilla...people' aroused... a city. stunned... Never in all your theatre-going have you seen anything like EDGAR ALLAN POE'S greatest story daringly brought to the screen.
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MARVELLOUS UNDERWATER THRILLS IN A DRAMA' OF-SEA TEMPESTS & HEART STORMS. ON THE BOTTOM OF. THE SEA, 30 FATHOMS DEEP, TWO MEN FOUND THE CLIMAX' OF THEIR PASSION & FRIENDSHIP..
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closing the dark waters of the Scino flowing beneath. Another scono de- picts as accurately as careful inves- tigation can ascertain, what an an- ciant Parisian city morque was like, There is also a set depicting thros garret rooms of a typical Paris re- sidently flat, and three very elabor A trade notice states:-
ate street scenes, ono showing the The picturesome buildings of the house where Sydney Fox and ber Paris of a generation age furnish another lived, one tho Rus Morque the backgrounds for the story of itself, and the other a street on the Edgar Allan Poe's Murdere in the banks of the Seine. There is also Rue Morque," the weird Universal an elaborate setting for a side-show- THRILLS AT THE QUEEN'S. drama in showing at the Central somewhat on the order of the amuse- Theatre to-day, with Bela Lugosi ment park shown years ago in the and Sydney Fox in the leading Universal film. The Man Who
Laughs,"
CONDEMNED TO
DEATH."
It will be remembered that Arthur Wontner and Jane Welch, roles. who have leading parts in "Com- Steoply pitching reefs surmount The association of ape and master demned to Death," due on Thurs.crazily leaning structures; balconies is the basis of the story, since day at the Queen's also both ap-line the upper floors; sharp church Mirakle is deep in a series of un- peared in "The Sleeping Cardinal," spires pierce the sky; strange believable experiments which have a former Twickenham film which shadows lurk in sheltered court for their object the introduction of had such a success here.
yards; the Seine River flows sullen-the ape's blood into the veins of n
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Arthur Wontner gave a remark-ly along behind its embankments. living girl, Sydney Fox, in the able Performance
Sherlock But even stranger are the juterior character of Camille L'Espanaye, Holmes in this picture, and conse settings of the picture, for many of eventually becomes the object of quently Jane got into the habit of them show the laboratory of the tex Mirakle's calling him. “Sherlock" on the set, rifle Dr. Mirakle, scientist with a events make of Murders in the During one of the more emotional warped grain, whose constant com scones in Condemned to Death "panion is a gigantin gorilla
Rue Morgue the most gruesomely This laboratory is a huge affair, the talking screen.
exciting picture in the history of she became rather carried away by
pursuit, the subsequent
the intensity of her acting, and in located in the basement of one of In addition to Lugvel and Miss the middle of a take, unwittingly the eldest buildings in Paris. Crazy Fox, the east of Murders in the addressed. Mr. Wontner as Sherlock ladders and winding stairs lead Rue Morgue includes Leon Way When everyone had recovered it stairs from the street level, on both oof, Bert Reach, Brandon Hurst, was thought advisable to take the sides of the building to its rock Betty Ross Clarke, Noble Johnson, A scaffold is erested in D'Arey Corrigan, and John T. paved floor." !! Condemned to Death" is adapted from George Goodchild's the center. From this scaffold Dr. Murray, The picture was directed
scene again !
famous play "Jack O'Lantern,”
Mirskie can open, a trap door, dis by Robert Florey
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