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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKK QUBEY'S R, WESTEUND BUS
TO-DAY AT THE
King's.
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Rebocca of Sunnybrook
Farm."
ADVANCE BOOKING
Queen's.
AT ANDERSON'S
4
SHOWING TO-DAY
AL 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
The Smiling Fight- er...The Woman... and The Other Man... Fighting their emotional battle in the midst
of the most terrific
war scenes ever
filmed... Picturing the life struggle of two nations!
A Marcel Vandal and Ches..
Dalac Production staged in Hollywood and the Alps. Directed by Cyril Gardner. Presented by Carl Lammie. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
DOOMED BATTALION
THE PICTURE TERRIFICI
NEXT CHANGE
BRITAIN'S GREATEST
MUSICAL TRIUMPH
- DELICIOUS VIENNESE BOMANCE
JACK BUCHANAN
VITH
ANNA NEAGLE
Good light Vienna
Young Donovan's Kid.”
dentral.
The Doomed Battalion.
Oriental.
Star,
Chinese Picture.
KOWLOON.
* Ghost Train,
Klug's.
COMING.
"Life Goes On."""
"Forgotten Commandments,"
Vanishing Frontier."
Movie Crazy,"
Queen's.
Viennese Nights."
*** Huddle."
Central.
God Night Vienna."
Oriental.
Star.
One Hour With You,"
"Trader Horn."
"Brown Sugar."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1932.
TO-DAY
ONLY
AT 2.80, 6.10,
7.16 & 9.30 P.M.
IT'S BEEN
A LONG TIME since you've seen such ten. dir, delightful, stimulating romance... the kind that makes the world seem kinder.
REBECCA of SUNNYBROOK
FARM
MARIAN NIXON RALPH BELLAMY
MAE MARSH, LOUISE CLOSSER HALE, Based on Dougita Wiggin's and Charlotte Thom geon' play Alfred Santell producdán, LA FOX PICTURA
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
"
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM”
THE GIRL WHO BELIEVED IN HAPPINESS
'VIENNESE NIGHTS FOR THE QUEEN'S
TRIUMPH OF ROMBERG AND HAMMERSTEIN
A trade notice states:--
A trada notice states:- Re-creating in all its charm and emotional appent a famous ro
"Viennese Nights," the Warner mance of the twentieth century, Fox Brothers screen romance which Films' production, "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring comes to the Queen's Theatre on Marian Nixon and Ralph Bellamy, Sunday offers the best value in en- is showing at the King's Theatre tertainment yet available on the to-day.
I is a generous combine
Faithfulness to Kate Douglas screen.
is noted
Wiggin's and Charlotte Thompson' tion of talent in writing, talent in
stage original
play through-out the picture which ro- singing and acting and talent, in Iates the amazing adventures and production, glamorous romance of, the little story with
It combines
迅 fine
delightful melodies,
girl who believed in happiness. 1 tremendous and lavish staging
Alfred Santell's direction, mark-
ed with constant attention to the with a splendid cast, photographed maintenance of the original spirit entirely in natural colours.
of Rebecca's charactor, also adds
much to the entertainment values'
"Viennes Nights" is the work
ALSO
COMPLETE SUBJECT
of
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
of
1932.
"MONEY TALKS"
BOOKING AT THE
THEATRE TEL. 25313, 25332.
TO-MORROW
COMEDY-DRAMA-INTRIGUE
FEATURES RICH AND GALVIN --SIMULTANEOUS DANCERS
Rich and Galvin, the well-known simultaneous dancers who play an important part in the new B.I.P. comedy, Money Talks, bavo worked together so long that they now look alike and are always tais- taken for brothers. They have never had a quarrel and were first drawn to each other by excessive politeness.
Both were dancing pupils, and at rehearsal Rich caught Galvin on the ankle with the steel plato on his top show He apologized with sincerity and Uslvin graciously re plied Please don't mention it," or words to that effect, and that's how they got together. A partner. ship resulted, unbroken even by a contract with his Majesty from 1914 to 1918 in the same company and platoon.
AND MYSTERY.
"LIFE GOES
After the war they danced for a season in Paris and gave lessons to` an cager pupil destined to go far- Maurice Chevalier,
ON"
WITH
ELSIE RANDOLPH
HUGH WAKEFIELD
A Paramount British Picture.
EX-STAR'S BATTLE
FOR FAME
COUNTRY BUMPKIN OF
**SILENT DAYS"
Charles Ray is the latest ex-star
FOUR CHILD FILM ACTORS
ENGLISH
* KIDDIES" FOR "CAVALCADE."
the
Beverly Hills (California),- After n protracted search Fox Film Corporation have signed on four English children to play in the screen production of "Caval- cade."
Sheila MacGill, aged six, ot Hendon, will take the part of Edith Harris. She is the daughter
of Mr. Patrick MacGill, former librarian to the King at Windser. Chatfe, and Mrs. MacGill (Mar- garet Gibbons, the novelist), who was onck Reader to the King and Queen.
Dick Henderson, junior, aged toh, of Paddington; will play Ed- ward Harryot. He in the son of Mr. Dick Henderson, the English vaudeville. and pantomime artist.
Douglas Scott, aged, seven, the son of a Scottish father and Eng- lish mother, who has played in several films already, will have the part of Joey Marryat.
Bonita Teranville, aged nine, will play Fanny Bridges. She is the daughter of an English theatrical family, which settled in the Unit ed States.
This will be the first appearanco · in films of Sheila MacGill and Dick Henderson,
་
Their engagement followed an ad- vertisement which appeared in the New York papers as follows: "Wanted for work in motion pic tures, thres English children of aristocratic bearing and culture preferably recent arrivals in Ameri- ca. Acting experience desirable but not necessary."
!
to figure in the list of "comeback-" | Club !! rags rop by the West-end
'candidatos.
Ohen his studies. of country bumpkins had you fumbling for. admission money.
Then gradually you fumbled test enthusiastically. His popu Iarity waned. The glamour of stardom deserted him. The slide into oblivion began
You turned to new favourites. Now he is making a return to the scene of his former triumph-but in two-reel comedies.
The Masquers.
His first is to be The Bride's Bereavement," a production spin- sored by the Masquers' Club of organisation to Hollywood, an Theatregoers will remember them in "Rockets" and C. B. Cochran's "The Year of
Their cane Grace."
and broom
dance has been featured in every variety theatre in
world.
the "Money Talks is their first film, but they are still friends.
ORIENTAL
TEL. 23413
FLEMING ROAD, WANCHAI
of the film Headed by Marsh, the of Sigmund Romberg, and Oscar
SHOWING SOON important supporting cast includes Hammerstein, II, composer and Louies Closser Hale, Sarah Fadden, librettist for numerous great stage
Walter Pidgeon, Alex- BY SPECIAL REQUEST Alan Hale, Alphonz Either. Eula successes.
ander Gray, Louise Fazenda,
Commencing FRIDAY, 25th HOY. Guy, Ronald Harries and many
Vivienne Segal, Jean Hersholt. others,
The blench Mae Marsh used to Alice Day and Bert Roach head whiten her hair for the mother the impressive cast and Alan Cros- roles in "Over The Hill" has had, land directed.
dontale results, it also made her The story concerns the thought hair exactly the right shade to that beauty does not die. A great portray the sympathetic role of love and a great symphony, ap- Aunt Jane in the Fox version of parently lost through advoras cir "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm," cumstances in one generation, are featuring Marian Nixon and Ralph found completed in the third gen Bellamy.
oration. It is told simply, realis- tically and artistically.
GOODNIGHT
VIENNA"
BRITISH MUSICAL FILM FOR CENTRAL THEATRE
A trade notice statės: Lilting Viennese melody, tander romance in leafy arbour, rallick
YOUNG AMERICA
SYMBOLISED BY RICHARD
DIX
A trade notice states:-
ing Hussar comedy and whimsical Richard Dix, star of Radio Pio- flirtation-that is "Good Night tures' thrill-drama, "Young Dono- Vienna," the British and Dorni- van's Kid," at the Queen's Thea- nions' super musical hit starring tre, has long been known as the Jack Buchaw, which comes to the most typical "American actor. Central Theatre shortly. It is one
He has every right to that title
of the most charming pictures, and ong of the most polished technical
Not only does he look the part
neliovements that has come from but be traces his ancestry to the iny British studio. The haunting boat which followed the Mayflower music has already become familiar to America. John Brimmer and all over the world.
Elizabeth Manchester, sweethearts Jack Bucharan, the star, needs on the boat, later married -and-be- no introduction to the local publin came the heads of the Dix family as he has already been seen in several productions" recently. How ever, in Good Night Vienna," he surpasses anything he has ever done, even under Lubitsch's dime tien in Monte Carlo."
Dix can't get away from typical American characterizations and he doesn't want to. He reached his greatest film heights is such roles | as "Redskin," and the glamourous Yancey Cravat in Cimarron.**
Those who fail to soe * Good Night Vierme "when it is preserit In Young Doravan's Kid" a I as the Central Theatre, will batypically American role, Dix is FUP- sussing one of the greatest musical ported by Jackie Cooper, atar of treats of the talking screen.
The Champ
MARURICE CHEVALLIER
One Hour With You
ERNST
LUBITSCH
O Panchona Petan
Directed by Eru Labilin
JEANETTE MacDONALD
CENEVIEVE VORES CHARLIY KUGGLES, POLAND YOUNE
SHOWING SHORTLY
PRIMITIVE HATE changed to PRIMITIVE LOVE:
Sve this gresiest at all adventuras
TRADER HORN
They in 14,000 milan, bearing myriad bangla perilo. 18 make it!
Twe para tom! Aand more k'o hero-due gruntant chestie ever rechthe Talking Beroend
W, £ ̧Van Dyke
theatrical profession.
Just Ballyhoo,
What the publicity bounds of Hollywood would have me if you
Claudette Colbert has rented a hill-top home with a swimming pool. (Whoy a story it would have been if the hindu't!).
Sylvia Sydney wants to study medicine.
Miriam Hopkins is going to buy & farma.
Warren William takes teneing lessons.
QUEENS THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. MAN AND BOY WHO THRILLED
THE WORLD!
George Brent once worked as a
for Bix moaths in ! lncksmith Europe. Now he is married tó i Ruth Chatterton.)
which at the stars belong.
Bebe Daniels says definitely she Most of the pictures made by the will os go blonda again. Another club are burlesques on old melo load off the mind of four favourite dramas, wherein Little Nell is bolm critic.) trayed by a bad man whose sign of allice is a heavy and "twirlable" moustache.
*Kong."
"Kong," the story which Edgar If these Masquers Club burles Wallace wrote for Radio Pictures ques make money when unleashed dust before he lied, has for its into the fierce world of competition, central character a gorilla thirty then that's fine. If not, who cares foet in height which runs amok in
The making of the picture has a city. provided the jaded stars with some This may dccount for the fact fun, and they can well afford to that the picture has been en-direct bear any losses that may be incured by Ernen Schoedsack, the man
"Rango who gave you rod.
In fact the Masquers' Club ap proximates to the Green Room stiontivazd on nëzi Oolumn.)
nod
Chang
Kong fairly soon, now.
should be
over here
GOSSIP
& FACT.
鐵
Biscoe is a Cartoonist,
Musical Pictures and Comedies.
Musical pictures and comedies Arthur Riscoe, the clover come- are the most popular attractions dian who is playing his original with cinema audiences these days. part in B.1.P.' Alm version of This is the verdict of a member of For the Love of Mike,' is 43 the Gaumont-British Corporation, excellent cartoonist. Bowteen soones who bases his opinion on the reae he has boon drawing lightning sket tion of the public to talkies of this ches of bia fellow players, the typé at over 500 of the biggest pic cameraman and sound engineer. ture houses in England. British but as the setting is a swimming producers, who owe their present pool he says he will not sketch the prosperity to musicals and come director, Monty Banks, until they dies, are now being attacked in leave the water for the security of certain quarters for making them," fan interior scene."
be said. "I propose to continue!
my present policy of giving the Renee's Beach Pyjamas,
public what they want.
*
Ragee Macready, who is now. playing a leading part in Monty Truth About Hollywood.
new B.I.. production, st the Bunks "Hollywood Speaks," Dominion London, Features Gene-"For the Love of Mike," wears viera Tobin as a screen-struck girl, beach pyjamas that aro as effective who rises to stardom. The story as they are simple, Above a pair gives a most interesting peep be- of smartly cut black erepe de chine hind the scends of Hollywood, trousers, she has a top that could showing girls are tested for film be copied quite simply-with-sus work, and the trials and tribula cessful results, Penu d'anges is tions which are part and parcel of the material in this case, and two a screen carcer, Pat O'Brien plays long triangles of contrasting co- the part of a young journalist who lours are joined at the back and helps the girl to get a chance in the two inner corners overlap in a film studio. Those who think front by four inches aside. The that a film star's life is all honey two top corpors are then knotted. will have their illusions dispel behind the neck, and the result is led by this thoroughly, entertain- a smart low-back and well fitting ing picture.....
HARD
Beloved stars of "Cimar- TOR" and "Champ."
DIX
JACKIE COOPER
and
MARION SHILLING
YOUNG DONOVAN'S KID
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They now stand Shoulder-to-should-
er in stirring drama from Rex Beach's "Big Brother”.
-ALSO SHOWING-
CARTOON
'Jumping Beans "
NEXT CHANGE
Who can resist the temptations of
VIENNESE NIGHTS
where all the world makes
love!
SIGMUND. ROMBERO and.
OSCAR HAMMIRSTEIN, žodį. ROMANCE
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m A Bright and Mysterious
Drama 1
A BRITISH SUCCESS. in every sense of the word- "The
GHOST TRAIN
with:
JACK HULBERT
hodie front, try it next summer CICHLY COMIPINKU
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