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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933.
HONCKONG'S FINEST CNEMA®
Ona grand horse-laugh:
kicks gloom where "X" Marx the spotl
4 MARX
BROTHERS Horse Feathers
A scandalous record of
low Marx at collega...
or life among love-
thirsty co-ads!
Not a grain of sense in the whole feed bag....... but one med burst of happy hysterics...set to gay music and gamish- ed with gorgeous girls!
A Paramount Picture
Directed by Herman Mcleod
BROUCHO
CHICO
FARPO
BOOKING
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The warmth of her kisses melted the social barriers that held them apart.
JAMES
DUNN
SOCIETY
GIRL
SPENCER
TRACY
PEGGY
SHANNON
Based on the play by John Larkin, Jr.
and Charles Beshan 150 Directed by SIDNEY LANFIELD Fox Picture
CURRENT PICTURES IN LOCAL THEATRES
SOCIETY GIRL
JAMES DUNN AND PEGGY
SHANNON
"Socsity Girl," Fox drama pre- senting James Dunn as a ring bere hopelessly in love with a pampered Het of society, and with Peggy Shannon in the title role will be the next featured screen attraction at the King's Theatre
his
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY
COME AND HEAR THE SEA CHANTEYS
*
**Blow the Man Down," "Ranzo".
“A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT
Film Triumph for Clemence Dane's Play
and other old-time sailor chanteys JOHN BARRYMORE, KATHA soldom heard in this era of steam RINE HEPBURN AND BILLIE and motor ships will be featured at the King's Theatre next Sunday with the opening sequences of "Tess of the Storm Country," the new Janet Gaynor Charles Farrel offering.
Dunn, whose rise to a prominent position among the leading male players of the cinema began with
superlative performance · in| "Bad Girl," will again be seen as These chanteys, picturesque if not & representative youth from the always melodious, plays an import masses in this romantic comedy. As ant part in the handling of the a contender for the middleweight old wind-janmer, as their surging title, he is once more enabled to rhythms aided the crews material use the diction of the sidewalks ly in the arduous work of heaving that made his characterization of anchors or furling sails. With the the inarticulate husband in "Bad assistance of A. L. Laur, captain Girl," one of the outstanding por formances on the scream.
aboard which the initial scenes, of
BURKE AT THEIR BEST
THE
TORMENTED SOUL"
OF JOAN CRAWFORD
STAR NOVELIST WRITING A STORY
FOR HER
Joan Crawford, America's gift of Flaming Youth to the sorean, is to play the lead in a film written by William Faulkner.
William Faulkner wrote Sol- ders Pay, and is considered by the discerning to be one of the nat vital and distinguished novel ists in America.
Mine Crawford's new film has not yet been given a title, but the fact that Mr. Faulkner has been choseri to write it suggests that something unusual is about to happen to her,
Howard Hawks, is to direct- another significant choice.
Well, it is certainly time some- thing was done about Miss Craw- ford.
Eddie Goulding, who made Grand Hotel," told me that right through production she was frien -zietly, auxious to excel herself, the more so because Garbo was there, too
Sho is, I think, much too anxious about herself. Even when she walks into a theatre she insists on being -dynamic,
Hence the tortured eyes and twist- od, mouth, which have caused sums American fans to write critical praise of her to the movie maga zines.
But as many prostrate themselves in ecstasy before her..
Despite her record as one of the most successful players on the Bereen, she thirsts for still more! Success.
She is the tormented soul of American-moviedom." She goes for The mistake I think she makes is "'walks→ alone — on beaches.
doesn't sleep for thinking about her sationalism. In clothes, locks, man- Shein striving for immortality by sen career. She goes without break- fast. She is the restless modernors voice, she is a natural dra
matist-but still she over-acts." prattling for peace, and much too vital to get it.
JOAN CRAWFORD
her own, she displayed in every gesture, inflection and movement the unmistakable innate gift of expres-" sion that distinguishes the great: actor from the merely good one..
Judged by ordinary Hollywood. standards, Katharine Hepburn is no beauty. Neither is Garbo, Lynn Fontanne nor "Katharine Cornell, "A Bill of Divorcement' is
If the genius sho manifested in this more than a motion picture. Sim-film-still in the unfinished state, ply as a motion picture, it ranks to be sure--does not carry hen into with the finest productions of the the rank of those distinguished nemes, then the hundreds of critics talking screen.
that saw the premiere are sadly in genuinely great acting than any.
error. thing that has come out of Holly, wood during the past few years.
It offers more
Hor ability is enormous; her per- sonality a drama in itself, as for example, in that scene where she walks into the foyer of Grand Hotel and stirs it once again into dangerous life.
Since the talkies arrived she has been in a long series of muccesses, the last of which, and certainly the best, was "Letty Lynton."
Hor career is still poised on an ambitious note of self-interrogation. They say that "Rain," for which sho was lent to United Artists, is rather a disappointment, though it was directed by Lewis Milestone.
In the meantime a still bigger opportunity awaits her in the Wil- liam Faulkner story.
com-
She deserves the chance, for des pite that misunderstood " pler she is a grand worker and quite unmatched Among the friskier moderns
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
King's.
Queen's.
HONG KONG
Horse Feathers,
Prosperity..
Central,
Hell's Highway.
Oriental,
"The Painted Desert."
The Flying Fool"
-KOWLOON
The Production a Triumph. The production, as a whole, is a World. triumph in bringing a difficult and unpleasant theme to the screen. toy. A dew atar has been born Not once was an attempt made to burn. The dynamic way in which tion by sensational hokum or lavish and her name is Katharine Hep-capture or bold the audience'é atten- this newcomer swept the audience sets. The story was presented so Star off its feet at the premiere is only a quietly in the opening sequences forerunner of the way she will that the audience at first showed Majestic. capture followers by the millions...signs of being resticas and bewilder- ed. Then the cumulative power of celluloid entertainment has therefoldment by the actors who were Not many times in the history of the drama and ita magnificent un- been such a first performance as interpreting it began to take hold Miss Hepburn. gives. The audience of the crowded theatre. recognized it and rose to it with plause that followed the end of half repeated enthusiasm. She was in
Apart from that, however, “A Bill of Divorcement is an event, of the three-master Metha Nelson, milestone in motion picture his the picture were made, Director The locale of the story, which Alfred Santell succeeded to record revolves around, the romance of Dunn and Miss Shannon, is supa novel background to the action.
ing several of these salty songs as posedly Now York City although it may be any large city in America. Marking the eleventh 'talking film After their meeting at a lawn fete in which Miss Gaynor and Farrell given by Miss Shannon at her have starred; "Tess," is said to be Southampton country home, the the most exciting of all their screen fighter and the society girl begin vehicles Dudley Digges, Claude a whirlwind courtship that soon Gillingwater, June Clyde, George entangles them in more trouble than Mecker and Edward Pawley have either had bargained for. Spencer important roles in the production, Tracy, as Dann's fight manager and adapted from the novel by Grace closest pal, is the one to resent the Miller White and the dramatiza- the fastest company a young actress constant intrusion of Miss Shan- tion by Rupert Hughes,
could possibly have-John Barry non into the routine of the train- ing camp. His orders are not ter rific beating in the ring.
How this situation is cleared up and the three once again reunite in friendship and love makes up the balance of the film drama.
Sidney Lanfield, whose last film featuring Duan, Dance Team."! was a popular hit, directed "Bo- ciety city Girl." It was adapted from John Larkin, Jr's play of the same name, with dialogue by Elmer Harris, Walter Byron heads the supporting cast which also includes Bert Hanlon, Marjorie, Gateson, Eula Guy Todd and many others.
HORSE FEATHERS'
RIOT OF FUN AT KING'S --
THEATRE
John Barrymore, Billie Burke and Katharine Hepburn, In
stirring scene from Glemence Dane's sensational Eng lish play A Bill of Divorcement;"
"Arthur, Julius, Leonard and Herbert Mark are four of the best-leading monologists, was playing mom at his finest, pla known comedies in the world, but poker with them after the show the most difficult you've probably never heard of one night. He gave them the titles other actor'a car cheering ruch because Julius algas certainty.
They're known to you as Harpo, looked so serious; Harpo, because Graucho, Chico and Zeppe, respec- Arthur always strummed the ha tively Collectively they're the and Chico, because Leonard.
Tour Mark Brothers, and you may to dispose of friend ablewon soo them in 'Horse Feathers," their well- latest picture, at the King's Thek
tra to-day
It was in Galo
Hfetime of dosing
#Splinters in the Navy.
Booky."
COMING
Society Girl," : "Tees of the Storm Country.
The apKing's. - would have dozen sequences ineant &. dozen or fifteen curtain calls at the end of an act on the Queen's, spoken stage. The final salvo of Fast Life" enthusiasm was literally a, tumult. Five Star Final Barrymore has never done anything? better nor more sincere. Every Central, member-of-the-supporting cast de serves individual praise. And the Clemence Dane "drama of a dozen years ago proves to be one of the great permanent plays of the Eng- lish language, in its modern cine matic version.
HELL'S HIGHWAY
STORY OF AMERICAN PRISONS
The heart hunger of convicts, de prived year in and and year ont of the sight of a woman, is revealed in a scene, from Hell's Highway. Richard Dix'sžejrzen Rio-Radi starring vehicle, now showing Central Theatre PRES building
Steady Company. "A Bill of Divorcement. "Nagana."
"The Mummy !!!! "Explorers of the World."
Oriental.
[! Variety Fair.” Star.
"The Chance of a Night Time.
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