QUEENS TEATRE
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.90, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m
BRITAIN'S GREATEST! || Queen's A Romance of Glorious Youth
TELL ENGLAND
THE IMMORTAL EPIC OF GALLIPOLI Directed by
ANTHONY ASQUITH ”””” GEOFFRY BARK2
CARL HARBORD,
FAY COMPTON,
TONY BRUCE,
ALSO SHOWING THE LATEST PATHE NEWS
AND
"NOTES and NOTIONS"
TO-MORROW A Happy Leap Year to You!
Robert
Girit'1 Brush up on your Leap Year technique-Bea
the 1832 romance i
HONG KONG.
"Tell England."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1932.
COMING.
Queen's;
"Lovers Courageous.” "Mata Hari."
King'a
The Outsider,”. "After To-morrow." "This is the Night,”
Central.
***The Common Law.”
"Devotion."
King's
"The Misleading Lady,
Central.
"To-Night or Never,"
"Corsair:""
Star,
World.
* Hold Everything.”
"Politica."
"Hottentot."*
Oriental.
Shadow of the Law"
World.
KOWLOON.
star.
"The Man in Possession."
"Honky Tonk."
"Montana Moon,” "Sporting Blood." "Oh Sailor Behaves" Oriental.
"Rich Man's Folly,"
No one Man.".
British Stars On The Spree
MORE OR LESS.
(BY A, JYMPSON HARMAN.) ·
BERLIN ON THE SPRÉE, Neu-Babelsberg, district of
A sandy wastes and pine trees, a suburb of Berlin reminding one of Oxshott and Byfleet, as far from the Unter den Linden as Elstree is from Piccadilly.
into the little cinema to see some parts of the film on the screen. Ho wants to show us how the three ver- sions must be altered to suit the different national ideas of humour.
In the German und. French ver sions one of the window-cleaners goes away to scrounge bathing cos tumes for Lilian Harvey and him- self. He dives into a girls' bathing hut through the window, and,
Neu-Babelsberg Here under a scorching sun of a German heat wave cur film exilea-Jack Hulbert, Cicaly Courtneidge, Sonaio Hale and Edward Chapman-are blazing amid feminino screams, emerge trails in a new page of Anglo- with the costumes. German film history.
Neu-Babelsberg--the "new Babel castle" they called it, long before talkies came. Now it is indeed a now Babel. For here Germans, French and English are wrestling with the language problem it a new film entento.
:
Miss Courtubidge Argues. Let us go out to the "set "where these English players are acting with Lilian Harvey in the English version of Erich Pommer's now him," Happy Ever After." Lilian Harvey is the only one who appears in all three versions. But the dis tinction is shared with a raven, hen and a duck.
Jack Hulbert and Sonnie Hale are window cleaners in this fan tastic romance with music. Lilian Harvey is a Hollywood struck girl who sells
Edward newspapers. Chapman is a tramp. They all live in a tumbledown railway-carriage colony.
Lilian Says Why.
That would not seem very funny to us, so in the English version the gap is filled by sending him for ice-cream, which melts while he is held up at a level crossing.
In the evening we dine at the Eden Hotel in Berlin, in the roof- garden, wide open to the starry night. Here all the German film stars gather nearly every evening. Thero is Willy Fritsch, rightly enough with Lilian Harvey, for are they not to be married: When she says, We are go busy."
There is Renate Muller, just back from London, where she has played with Owen Nares in a film, "Marry Me." She promises to retuz. in the autumn for the first night." Meanwhile she is to play in Berlin The Black with Conrad Veidt in Husanr," There will be no English Here is Jack sitting on a sandy version of this, but Renate. says hillock reading his part, sur-bathahe is to be in many Anglo-German ing the upper part of his body, while waiting for Henry Garat to finish the same part in a scene-from the French version.
MONTGOMERY ...LOVERS COURAGEOUS
FREDERICK LONSDALE
with
MADGE EVANS,
ROLAND YOUNG,
A
ROBERT Z. LEÓNARD
Production.
(STAR)
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Robert
mont
abows how to win.
a woman's heart-
In the talkie hit
The Man in
Possession
films.
20,000 Sun-Bathers.
She invites us to see her new villa I feel like. the schoolboy at the
a few miles out of Berlin where hottom of the claas waiting for the question to come round to him," we grow our own cherries for the says Jack. First the Germans cocktails," and where Tich and go in and do, their bit. Then the Jack, the lively wirehaired terriera French take up the same positions she bought in London, try in vain and do their part, Finally, when to assume the dignity of dach-
we are all in a proper ate of shunda. nerves, we English go in. Olympic Games, I call it.
von
The next evening Herr Theobald, the genial foreign ›mao- "But it is great fun really,ager of the great, Ufa film concern, though one does wish it were easier gives a dinner in honour of the to make oneself understood. With English visitors. We sit on the drama it would be different. But terrace of the Haus Am See at one comedy, especially our kind, is a end of Berlin's lovely inland thing of such fine differences. watering-place, Wannzas wbare at Here's Cicely Courtneidge, in her times you can see 20,000 sun-bathers familiar mako-up of queer hat and lying on the sandy shore beneath strangely-dressed, hair.
the pines.
1 had to argue for two bouri,"
We learn from: Michael Balcon, she anys, before I could persuade the production chief of the the German people that any regular Gaumont British Picture Corpora make-up was the right kind for my tion, what this now international part Everybody is very charming.
It places the pro-'} link up means. but cne does feel out of things. It duction resources of an organisa- is so difficult to know whether the tion as great as anything Holly- right thing is being done.
After the day's work we troop wood has ever known at the dis posal of the Gaumont Company, into the studio cinema to see the and it is to give us German films result. The Germans laugh heart! which we can understand, with our ly at their own version. They un- derstand and laugh at the French own favourite artists in them,
There are to be at least six of. veraiom Then come the English these German-made English pic scenes and stony silence. They tures and there is to be a similar don't understand, and we just sit borrowing of German stare for and wonder and wonder if we are talkies to be made at Shepherd's funny or not. ? :
Bush. Mr. Balcon says that in a Their little grouse is really only 70,000 production the German through over-anxiety to do their best. They get a lot of fun out of version will cost £40,000 and the French and English versions the day's work. You should hear £18,000 each. · ། Jack's story of the German camara expert who related to him how he averted a motoring tragedy. "Sud- denly across the road daaned some
There is to be a gigantic specta thing. A cat, a dog? No, it was
pork I push on the brake hard cular film peep into the future call- and miss him. It was nearly a cd "F.B.1," in which a specially- how do you say it 7- catastrophe built Boating island town" has Here'a Lilian Harvey. We'll asks big part. It is a story of trans ber how the manages the prodigious oceanic Aying, and fent of playing in three languages The magnitude and efficiency of
A Very Big Blare.
KINGS THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
|At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.
BY FORCE
OF ARMS-
The
MISLEADING LADY"
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(LABBETTE (OLBERT EDMUND LOWE STUART ERWIN R A Paramount Picture
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SOUND NEWS
AND COMEDY "ALL SEALED UP”·
TO-MORROW
Britain's greatest masterpiece
A'sensation' on the Suge, a
greater sensation on the Screen
MOROTHY BRANDOES | INTERNATIONAL
success
The OUTSIDER
HARY
The`rofimace” if?
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·HANOLD HUTH JOAN BARRY FRANK LAWTON NORMAN MCKINNEL
Hewo
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING ROAD, WANGHAI, FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7:15 & 9.80 p.m.
The tense story
of a man of matchlut COURAGE!
WILLIAM
POWELL Shadow
of the Law
Gartement Gature
TO-MORROW GEORGE
at once. I don't know," she ad- the Ufa studios at Neu-Babelsberg BANCROFT
mits with her engaging little moue are staggering. They represent 70 I have to be different with each per cent, of German film produe leading man, according to his tion. There are 14, talkie studios. [national temperament: You have Thore tre-02-buildings-in-all-The- to get to know his ways. It just totul length of the studio streets, | comes" to you: Mr. Pommer tolls a statistically-minded: German told me I must always remember I am me, exceeds the length of Berlin's making three different films, not longest thoroughfare. The amount just three versions
Erich. Pommer, the alert, dark genius who gave the world You doville The Blue Angel and a
of electricity used every year would supply a fair-sized city for week.
They make everything they want in the Ufo, studios, from reat office
score of other great filme, takes us furniture to property sausages.
IN
Rich Man's Folly
with
FRANCES DEE, ROBERT AMES. and JULIETTE COMPTON
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TELL ENGLAND.
GALLIPOLI EPIC AT QUEEN'S.
A trade nation states:—
The choice of Gooffrey Barkas as co-director of "Tell England,” the gripping film opio of the Gallipoli campaign which is being presented nt the Queen's Theatre, was of special interest as it brought to the film a first-hand noquaintance with the Eastern Front
It was on the Peninsula that Barka's first saw active servico 'dur ing the war, serving as an officer in London battalion attached to the 29th Division both as Suvla and Helles, and taking part in both evacuations. He had, therefore, a knowledge of the campaign as well asfilm technique. He was "the director of the film of West Africa "Pulaver" taken under extreme difficulty in the wildest anhabited country, and of the naval opic "Q. Ships."
Barkas, with Anthony Asquith his co-director, played a great part in the reconstruction of the Beach landing scenes in Tell England, which were filmed in Malta,
Mrs. Barkas was also a member of the filming expedition, and she was responsible for the details of the actor's make-up, costumes and uniforms, and the difficult task of keeping interested spectators at p respectful distance from the scenes of action.
THE OUTSIDER."
SPLENDID PICTURE AT THE KING'S.
An example of the increasing ex- cellence to which. British film pro- duction has been brought is con- tained in the dramatically acted, and excellently photographed screen production. The Outsider, which opens at the King's to-morrow.
As the title implies, the story doals with a professed bone-actter, whose aim and ambition in life is to become an Associate of the Royal College of Surgeons. Be- cause of his lack of theoretical knowledge and necessary degrees, he is beyond the pale."
In taking this part, Harold Huth displays a dominating, forceful character, and succeeds in impos- ing his will on the crippled daugh ter of one of London's most emin ent surgeons, with the result that she ultimately places herself in his handa to be cured by his own methods.
Joan Barry, who takes the part of the crippled patient, giver poignantly sweet charm to the sick- Toom scene. The emotional parts, "when she is told that in one year she will be completely cured, are most skillfully rendered.
The
success of the cure, however, is greatly endangered by the Juke warmness of her lover, and her pas sionate temperament eventually finds a response in the heart of the bone-setter. Their mutual de- claration of love is the turning point in the effecting of the cure.
Splendid support is given these two by Frank Lawton, Mary Clare and Norman McKinnol. The in- terest of the viewer is sustained throughout the entire length of this charming picture, and although it is a little drawn out in places, it should meet with the warm, ap- proval of all who see it.
THE.
WEEK-END RADIO PROGRAMMES,
(Continued from Page 4.).
CENTRAL THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 2.80; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
A 1932 UNITED ARTISTS SPECIAL PICTURE
AN OUTSTANDING FEATURE BASED ON DAVID BELASCO'S GREATEST STAGE SUCCESS,
SHE STOLE WHAT WAS ALREADY HERS!
...the silence of the night she came
alone...to keep a rendezvous with love-this womanofice who turned to fine...and left her precious pearls in payment for caresses that were free! A woman who feared love --but was brave enough to steal itf
SAMUEL GOLDWYN GLORIA
SWANSON
TONIGHT NEVER
BASED ON
DAVID BELASCO'S
GREAT STAGE SUCCESS
UNITED ARTISTS' PICTURE
·PRICES FOR THIS PROGRAM DRESS CIRCLE : $1.00;
- "BACK" STÄLL (including tax):
50 cents
STARTING TO-MORROW CONSTANCE BENNETT'S
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GREATEST TRIUMPH ON THE SCREEN.
"THE COMMON LAW”
SHOWING SOON
THE STAR
ANN HARDING OF STARS
IN
A. STARTLING
STORY
DEVOTION”
ALSO-
· ROLAND · WEST & OHESTER. MORRIS, THE WINNING COM. BINATION THAT OREATED "ALIBI," NOW TOGETHER AGAIN IN A SURGING, FAST-MOVING DRAMA OF THE HIGH SEAS,
Boland
Werte CORSAIR
Ured Artiri) Sicture
"TO-NIGHT OR
· NEVER."
GLORIA SWANSON AT
CENTRAL.
A trade notice states:---
Chester Morris
"LOVERS
COURAGEOUS."
TO-MORROW AT THE QUEEN'S.
A trade notice states: Long rehearsals, usually neces-1 The sensational screen rise of aary before a talking picture goes Robert Montgomery, star of into production, were dispensed
with almost entirely in the case of Lovers Courageous," coming to "To-night or Never," the Goldwyn the Queen's Theatre tomorrow, is production for United Artiste, one of the major phenomenn of the which comes again to the: Central Theatre to-day.
post cinema, year. Born in Beacon,
This was possible only because NY Montgomery gained his Choral Song of the Volga most of the members of the cast, academic knowledge at the Pawling Boatmen (Folk Song)-Don with the exception of Gloria Swan Preparatory School and followed Costack's Choir.-0085.
son, the star, had already played this up with a number of years... Violin Solo Legendo" (Wie their roles in the New York stage abroad and an adventurous experi niawski). Arthur Catterall production of this romantic comedy Fence as a deck band aboard an oil 9339
which was the last production of tanker. the late David Belason.
| The old reliable training of stock. Melvyn Douglas, who plays opel company noting prepared him for posite Miss Swanson, Ferdinand jevenile leads on Broadway after Gottschalk, Warburton Gamble, which he tried his hand at the Robert Grieg and Greta Mayer, Hollywood game and made a de- now appearing in the picture ver finite impression on Metro-Goldwyn- sion of "Tonight or Never," a Mayer, executives with his work in United Artists picture, all were "So This Is College ""The Big selected by Belasco for the original House" and "The Divorcee." production and were retained by Mr. Goldwyn barh
Song "The Creation-With Ver- dure Glad" (Haydo).—John Bonner (Boy Soprano)-9277, Cello Balo-" Chiedeon, Villa geoise No. 9" (Popper), Gasoar Cassado, Dis13, 8.45 to 11.30 pm,
A relay of the 14th Symphonic Concert from the Peninsula Hotel by courtesy of the Man agement (During the intervals recorded music will be broad- east from, the Studio.)
Programme.
1. March--Frisch · Vorna (Blan- kenburg)ustspiel (Beler 12. Overture
Bola),
3. Butterfly Dance (Frey).
4. Selection The Dollar Prin-
cess (Fall),
INTERVÄL
1 Overture-Gémiramide (Ros Axini).
2. Waltz Gold and Silver
(Lehar).
a. Selection Eatinka (Friml),:
4. Alicante Fantasy (Thiere)
"THE MISLEADING
LADY."
¿SPARKLING COMEDY AT THE KING'S
A trade notice states
Subsequent roles opposite such important screen personagest as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Constance Bennett and Garbo con- firmed the best suspicions of the film heads and Montgomery mada and huspicious "debut na z: star in "The Man in Possession,' after which he was co-starred with Miss Shearer in the talkie version o “Private Lives, ili koodinler
Stuart Erwin, George Meeker. Selena Royle Robert Strange Land
A ho man duped into a proposal | William Gargan are among those and scorned: a abducted beauty accorded conspicuous supporting given retributive taming treat parts. Stuart Walker directe Clarinette Sold by Mr. Ament by the, jilted swain; a luns Mise Colbert plays Laws for a tic, mad and amusing by turna, and dupe to make him proposalja order. He retaliates by Jooss in a hunters areenal chosen to win a wager,
Vernick: Piano by Mr. Stupel,
1. Hearts and Flowers (Tohani) 2 Neapolitan Nights (Zamecnik) Scotch Prom (MacDowell). 4. Arlesienne-Suite II (Bizet).
(6) Pastorale.
(b) Intermezzo (c) Menuett
Body Parandola.
11:30 pm --Clone down.
All records in the above Euro. nan programme are supplied by Messra, Anderson Music O
by the lovers for a hideaway, ought kidnapping her and breaking her to give King's Theatre patrons spirit with the help of chains and plenty of excitement, laughs and in escaped lunatic Before, the final-scameris allowed to discioje ap romance.
This wook's attraction, inspired Fall's-well-and-happy solution in res Paramount talking edition of porter, two drunks with a mystery -n stage hit, {they never quite spill, an avenging Aleading Lady," co-star Edmund Lows, who has a clover, and two other visitors strong way with women an Clau- the asylum, are involved dette Colbart, who has a silent, but | plications that trous equally effective way with men. mountain rendezvous ar (Continued of foot of next column), and order, telegraph or rail