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QUEENS THEAES
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·An Ensimate Story of Today, Your Story My Story 4.4 Human Story as Warm ind- Chier- ing the Summer Sum.
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AT
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933.
HONCKONC'S FINEST ONEWA
It Shows You What
Happens When
the world we live in sets up New Mor
als. Puts love on
a different plane!
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SUNDAY, 26th FEB.
Fifty Million Rich and Never Kissed!
... But She Soon Fixed That!
SHYEST STAR GOES TO ELSTREE
CHILD-WOMAN WITH A VOICE. THAT SOOTHES
her when she was portraying dia tress.
-She has a partiality for all that is English, since it was the part of Teas in "The Constant Nymph that first brought her fame.
"But I cannot understand why your censor bans 'Amphytrion,' my great play, and 'Ariane,' my great film," she said.
"Ariane is an innocent little girl who uncon-
I have just mot Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, and Joan of Arc rolled into one in the astonishing person Elizabeth Bergner, writes Wini- red Loraine in the Daily Express. She is the new IT star secured for Elstree, who paid a secret visit there over the week-end from Ber. ha to inspect the designs and scena- rios of two films she is to start at the end of the month.
Red-haired, minute, with cameosciously reforms the man she loves features and eyes that seem half from being a ilbertins. The mo- the size of her face, she is ultra- tives are exquisite. sensitive and highly strung one of the shyest stars in the world. Fleet in movement, subtle and shrinking, her expression gives her a person- ality that is entirely different from that of other storu. Ona thinks of, a child-woman.
Hint of Mystery,
Then, again, when I am work ing over the scripts of my future films with the English producers they say to my suggestions: "This is not English mentality-Out."
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LAWRENCE TIBETT Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictur
COMMAN
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RET
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·SARI MARITZA GENE RAYMOND MARGUERITE CHURCHILL IRVING, PICHEL
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Learned
about.
WOMEN
STUART ERWIN ALISON SKIPWORTH. SUSAN ELERING" A Paramount Picture
CURRENT PICTURES IN LOCAL THEATRES
"FORGOTTEN COM- MANDMENTS "
OPENING TO-DAY AT KING'S
•
Following Six Hours to Live " the King's Theatre are putting ou another unusual film to-day.
Forgotten Commandments" is la pieturo of modern life in Russia,
and has as its motive an exposure of what life means when all the old standards are discarded. The pictura has been ruthlessly censored for showing in China generally, but wo understand that the film will be khown at the King's in the same completeness as it was shown in America. And there is no reason for censoring.
SARI MARITZA
A TIENTSIN GIRL
"HE LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN "
STUART ERWIN IN THE LEAD
Sari Maritza, vivacions young Luropean film actress, stepped in. to one of the most coveted roles that Hollywood had to offer when Paramount selected her for the
Stuart Erwin would have been principal feminine part in "For poor copy for Horatio Alger, Jr. gotten. Commandments," Which the fact that this is Miss Maritza's celebrated figure on the screen-is opens to-day at the King's Theatre.
Not yes 30, Erwin is already a first American screen role makes latest picture, "He Learned About. her selection the more remarkable. - Women,"
a comedy in which he is Miss Maritza plays the vamp "Madame Racketeer fame, comes featured with Alison Skipworth, of "Anya."
Born in Tientein, of English and to the King's Theatre next Sunday, Vienuose parents, Miss Maritza but it took no heart-rending strug nams for herself in Ger gles against adversity to get him man and English films before she there. His is no saga of the poor was twenty. In London she was boy who made good.. Gaumont company. starred in three productions by the
made a
foel McCrm. Pay Hieby und Leitte Boxks in a climax scene' in "THE MOST DANGEPOUS GAME” KKU Radio ihiller
Idolised in Germany.
Her voice is like the wind in the reeds. It soothes and stirs. To weet her is to meet the substantia-
But what is this bogey, English mentality since from what I can see your public like German and American films ?"
tion of a dream. It is baffling to great day for English films. Sin- Elizabeth Bergner should mean & try and describe this woman with her special hint of my When she tours in Germany the stery behind a schoolgirl playful the street from the stage-door exit. rolled in a fish basket to escape town she, vieits turns out to line ness, like Cleopatra she might he Yet she is never seen by the pes-from a palace. She has all of the ble except behind the footlights on Greek Helen'e defencelessness, yet, picture postcards for which artists a tightening of the lips, Joan of the screen, or in those Madonna with high resolve in her eyes and borrow her face and eyes.
Are-wise, she might lead an army the She brings to the playing of her to deliverance.
parte auch freshness of a first ana actual experience that men have leapt from their seats to defend
No wolves. yelped around Erwin stoop during his boyhood at Squaw Valley, Calif. The son of a well-to-do rancher, he grew up strong, healthy and active. He finished high school and went away. to college-the University of Call- fernia, at Berkeley,
"Forgotten Commandments"? could not by any amount of cutting be turned into propagands for Coin- She is truly international in her monism, and it does not appear to attack the Soviet unfairly. All intellectual equipment. She speaks English, for preference, while Aus the film sets out to do is to show trian-German, the language of her the inevitabla consequences of for- Viennese mother, slips from her getting the old rules of life.
Russia is your home, the people German. Her French is clean and tongue with easy fluency, as does of the Soviet your family," says the sharp as French steel. She also graduate that be decided to go on |
It was while he was an under- hero of the picture. You have no apenky Chinese. The other day she the stage. He hied himself to Los right to a private home or a per- was observed at the Paramount Angeles and walked right into a sonal family."
studios Lubitsch in German, Louis Gasnier Marosco Theatre ther
chatting withi Ernest part in "The Open Gate" at the in French and William Schorr in Tusian, all in a space of an hour.
To add to
THE MOST DAN- GEROUS GAME”'
COMING TO CENTRAL
Sho stands for the presence of an Hore is not the lure of a vamp. ideal.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
TOM WALLS LEAP YEAR
HE DOMINATES, EVERY SCENE":
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE
THE BEASTS HE KILLED WERE HUMANI
Mounted Heads „of hosted min
- were Züraft's 12. peida and joy! ....
THE MOST
DANGEROUS GAME
The story of a fascinating fland, strange and terrible! with
JOEL M¿CREA Fay Wray,
Lasile Banks,
Robert Arm
..
King's.
He did so well that one. rola after the other developed. Soon
A man killed that he might
"Forgotten Commandments.”
Queen's,
"Langh and Get Rich."
Central.
"Leap Year."
8. Schnedneck from.
flavour of the conversation, she contracts, and Erwin wis signing conventious and wrote of the serie the international movie producers were offering him love! Richard Connell dared literary discovered an extra player who em knew the Chinese language and conversed with him.
"THE LODGER
AT THE QUEEN'S TOMORROW
The story is pointed by excepts from Cecil B. de Milles silent pio tare The Ten Commandments." which are used to illustrate a ser-. mon preached by a priest to b group of ragged Russian children One cannot but be impressed by De Milles power of showmaship Theso pictures without speech made with a technique which is already old fashioned, yet have an astonish- ing power, and how aptly they point the moral. Israel in bondage under the cruellest of capitalist systems, escaped and became, for a time at least a great nation because they lived by a strict code of laws which. respected the Creator and the family. Russia is seeking oscape by In "The Lodger" British picture coming to the Queen's to-morrow the films are giving in triguing entertainment. The aver age reader of the thriller " guesses at the denouement while reading an early chapter. If the reader is a student of the particular author he is probably not far off the mark. In Mrs. Bellos Lowndes story, however, the solution of the problem is excellently veiled, with the result that suspense is main- tained right to the end.
Ivor Novello plays the lend
very different moans,
The principal parts are played by Irving Pichel, Marguerite Churchill, Sari Maritza and Gene Raymond. They all play well and make a good team. In their hands the story is real and the background of squalor, and a ruthless disregard of the de censies and privaoice of life height- ens the tragic effect.
"Forgotten Commandments" is 1 film to 100, it is interesting, dramatic and human, but above all thought provoking.
EM.B.
The qualifications of "The Lodger are its excellent entertainment, its gripping emotion and its success in buling the spectator by its com plex mystery. Ivor Novello invests
"He Learned About Women" is
theme in his prize story," The Most his 27th feature film. When his Dangerous Game," which was Oriental, 28th, "Make Me a Star," was fin-cased in England under the title - “Fair Warning" ished, ha was offered stardom, of "The Hounds of Zaroff" and World but declined it on the plea that he
"The Prodigal." preferred to remain a featured proved ons of the most successful player.
now. films. Hollywood-read and "He Learned About Women", is marvelled at the story of the killer fast-moving comedy dealing with whose prey was his fellow man the adventures of a young man who
KOWLOON Star.
**Men- Like Those Majestic.
Czar of Broadway."
King's.
COMING
"Ho Learned About Women:”.
has $50,000,000 and a lot of book. David O. Salznick, youthful dyusano. knowledge, who suddenly decides of the RKO Radio Pictures produc- world. Miss Skapworth, cast as an old story. Merian C. Cooper and It's time he learned about the ed on the screen a nover-before old actress who has seen better days, Ernost B. Schoedsack, who tramped and Suan Flemingi yun the earth's outer rim to bring back employed stenographelp teach to civilization such filmy
"Four " Grass,” . “ Chung” and Feathers," were assigned to capture with their cameras the spirit of Queen's. Connell's primitive locale and his amazing characters a frightened girl, her sweetheart and the killer qo whose lust was murder in the name of high sport. The result of their work will be shown at The Central Theatre, next change, with Jos McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Binks and Robert Armstrong in the cast.
LEAP YEAR
AT THE CENTRAL
The Central Theatre presents to
the character of the foreigner with day the latest British and Dominions
a toysticism that is positively allur success-Tom Walls in Leap ing. Elizabeth Allan is good as:
a sweetheart who, despite the Year," thoroughly
"Wallsian
countries, and discussions in news paper and police offices, all of which would be ineffective without sound
You will see the, crime reporter at work. Jack Hawkins plays the part, and he endeavours to be as mithless and resourceful as the strangeness of her mother's picture. It is from an original story newspaper crime man is supposed lodger, grows to love him dearlyby A. R. Rawlinson, und was direct to be. To embellish a story and The modernisation" of "The ed by Tom Walls. Anne Groy plays secure a front page "splash he Lodger" silent film success of nix, steals and publishes the photo of years ago-an age in the progres opposite the his sweetheart over an incident shesive cinematograph industry has forming the strong seat are mended thereby running the riskbrought to the screen not only ad of dismissal and distorts the re- Vanted technique, but introduces
Fuff of a police official into ex-scenes which in the silent daya clusive information." Whether those would have had little effectiveness, are representation of gift could Fisse include the possibly codur is beside the point, a daily newspape the insid
well
Fre abusing. And, der
over
Broòn, Eilla Jalf
induces a beautiful stranger to dine and mutually confess when with him, They go away together part-the identities of both
deepl
and the others
secret" that they
The Lodger." "The Washington
rade."
Central
"The Most Dangerous Game,
Blue Danube.
Once in a Lifetime:"
The Flag Lieutenant." "Back Street"
"Flying Hi
Arouni Kwangsi...
Girl."
mistions fasulting sre ndied. The picture is plendid entertainment, exceedingly Southern Palace. well acted and magnificently pro
Your by the way,"
was one of the most discussed films
the year by, Home crition
strong ... An RKO-RADIO Picture, of course! Directed by Irving' *Pichel, and transt
the diary bý kobert
Connell
A COOPER-SEHOLDBACK. Prödés
THEME TUNE IN A
--* THRILLER (255
*
IVOR NOVELLO'S COMPOSI TION FOR “THE LODGER.”
Picturegoers will be interested to know that the attractive theme tune which Ivor Novello plays on the piano in "The Lodger "is one di his own compositions During the taking of this sequence he was sAST" ed at the piano discussing with Director Maurice Elvey what tund would be most suitable for the de casion, and while they were it over Ivor was strummin Jody. Suddenly ch to him
what!
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