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CENTRAL
HEATRE
YEAT QUEEN'S RO., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 26720.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT ALL 4 SHOWS
A CHINESE PICTURE
LO MING YAU
PRESENTS"
LILY
YUEN
IN
"TOYS"
A UNITED PHOTOPLAY
PICTURE.
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
A SOUL STIRRING HUMAN STORY KOLLING "ACROSS THE SCREEN IN MIGHTY HEAET-BEATS OF A NA. TION IN TURMOIL!
BICHARD
Romance that springs from the soil we love Dramp 'wrenched from the tumult of an empire in creationl
HARDI
with
EDNA MAY OLIVER GUY KISBEE, Directed by WILLIAM WELLMAN David O. Selznick. Executive Producer
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ANOTHER FILM
PRODIGY
French Boy Actor
(Special Air-Mail Services:
Paris, Nov. 3.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG HONG
Devils In Lova"
King's,
Queen's..
"Storm at Daybreak,”
Central
"Toys" (Chinese Picture).
Oriental.
Star.
It's Great to be Alive."
KOWLOON
"Smiling Through."
Majestic.
"Sailor's "Luck."
King's
COMING
"The Rebel."
Queen's.
"Money for Nothing.
dentral...
***The Conquerors.”*
Star.
"The Night of the Garter."
South Sea Rose." "Frightened Lady."
World,
Men Must Fight."
"Get Rich Quick Wallingford."
Oriental
"The White Gold Dragon,"
"STORM AT DAY- BREAK"
At Powerful Story and
Some Good Acting
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933.
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
AT
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
THE
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY
With Löve in His Heart
"He facad the danger of death..... going willingly to a devastating fate...
for the sake of one who had simpla faith in his cour age!
FOX FILM Presents
DEVIL'S LOVE
Victor Jory
Loretta Young-
Vivianne Osborne David Mannert
Henry Gordon -
Herbert Mundin
Directed by WILHELM DIETZELI
Story by
Harry Harvey
Dushan, a Serbian, is mayor, of "THE DEVIL'S IN
a town just within the Hungarian border. When the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is assassinat- ed at Sarajevo, Dushan is there, and because he is a Serb is threat- ened by the populace only to be
LOVE"
rescued by a friend, Geza, Hua Loretta Young At
garian officer,
When war is declared Geza visits Dushan's estate in search of" de-} sertern, Irina, Dushan's young wife, hides the men and although Geza knows it, his friendship for
The King's
Loretta Young, winsome young
"THE REBEL"
Vilma Banky Returns
To Screen
Dushan and his interest in. Irina blonde star, is one of the busiest girls several years ago, she was, although
induces him to let them go
Geza and Irina fall in love but
in Hollywood.«
in
When Vilma Banky, who triump- hantly returns to the screen as Luis Trenker's leading lady in "The Rebel", coming to the King's Theatre on Wed- nesday, arrived in the United States quite charming enough to delight hard-boiled New Yorkers, about as much American as Mussolini! But just as surely as "the Hungarian Rhapsody is coming back to her countless fans, so has she also arriveri
During her six years in pictures, she neither admits it to the other for has made a average of nine produc they do not wish to be disloyal to tions each year giving her a record Dushan, Geza is wounded, and total that surpasses that of many old Dushan insista that he be brought timers who have been appear at a complete naturalization in the to his house, but dose not under-films for two decades. stand Irian's reluctance.
considered that the average produe Incapacitated for further service, tion these days takes at least a month, Geza is made military judge of it can be seen that most of Miss Dushan's town, but the end of the Young's spare time between pictures is war finds Panto, Dushan's former occupied with fittings and other pre- troublesome steward and the encuyparations for her next pictures. of both Geza and Dushan, appoint ed in Geza's place.
land of her adoption.
To begin with, she is married to an American; Rod LaRocque who, despite his Gallic name, is a American as they make them. They have been married five years and form one of Hollywood's favorite pictures of happy married lifa..
When she was rushed over to this
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NEXT CHANGE-
COMMENCING TO-MORROW-
Sensational Romance in Stupendous Settings!
with
LUIS TRENKER,
VILMA BANEY, Victor Vanconi. Directed by Curt Bernhardt arid Lui bender. "Presented by Carl Laemmle. A UNIVERSAL
PICTURE
What No One in the
"World Knows?
Special Air Mail Service
悲
Hollywood, Nev. & "Hollywood's biggest letter box does not belong to a star. It belongs to a man who is never seen on the sETOLL- "Uncle Carl Laemmla, the veteran producer.
From his carliest business days he has been a strong, believer in sending | and receiving letters. In 27 yearì hế has built up probably the biggest cor respondence on record.
Each night before he retires O matter where he is, "Uncle Car!” reads from 50 to 100 letters, selected by two "fin mail" secretaries as the best of the day's arrivals.
Often he takes the letters to bed with him and reads until he fails aaleep.
His only motive in so doing is to find out what the public wants most in its pictures. But when asked whether this heavy correspondence has taught him what the public really wants. "Uncle Car!"
only smiles.
"It will always be a gamble," he says, "No two persons agree on what is good and what is bad in pictures. The boat that production can do is to sense future likes and dislikes. The man who actually knows public opinion does not live
That is the verdict of Hollywood's oldest and most experienced producer, and it helps to explain why Hollywood producers follow one another like sheep when one of them has a big success. The public is incalculable.
Clara Bow is busy denying rumours that there is a coolness Letween herself and her husband. Rex Bell. All that happened was a alight argument over a dog, she explains, and she won because the dog is now in residence, at the Bow-Bell house.
The next-film-for Boris Karloff, the English actor, will be "Bombay Mail, in which he will appear with Ed- mund Lowe. Karloff is now finishing "Patrol." After "Bombay Mail" he will again return to "horror" rien, this time. in "The Retürn of Franken-
GRACIE FIELDStein
HAS PARTY
Three Songs And An
Another bestseller has been snapped up for the screen. This time it is a German novel. Hans Fallada's “Little" Man, What Now!' Universal has brought it.
Interruption At The hard up Hollywood, is in the way of
H.M.V. Studios
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London, Nov. 8. Gracia Fields, her brother, Tommy her sister, Betty, and her father and mother had a Christmas party yester day in the H. M. V. studios. at St John's Wood, London
front of the microphone, and Gracie The family greeted each other in- gave her mother a kis The record- and shouted, "It sounded like
ng engineer popped out of his room thunderstorm. You and
few kissing rehearsals took place. Mother Bang, "My mother's name was Mary," and the family joined in the first chorus till father interrupted
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ting ting. You never wise your mother." Cries of "Shut up!" put an end to that.
In recent months, she has made three pictures in a row, going directly front one to another. After "Zoo In. Irina and Geza now admit their Budapest, she made "Lady of the love for each other, but againį Night," and has finished co-star Dushan stands in the way, as they ring with Victor Jory in "The Devil's cannot betray him. Dushan's In Love" Fox Film production, now picions, however, have been aroused at the Kinga Theatre. and when word comes that "the On completion of this picture, she, vengeful Panto intends to framt voted herself an extented holiday, her Geza as a traitor and have him first real one since she started to make which involved intensive reading, sang & few linea from "I'm shy, Mary
shot, Irian's frantic plending that he help Geza to escape confirms Dushan's suspicions, and he refuses. Irina goes to warn Geza and is found with him by Dushan who necuses them both but believes them when, admitting their love, they Dushan deny any wrong doing. sacrifices his own life to give hap-
a name for herself in movies.
MR. J. A. R. CAIRNS
Special Air Mail Service
piness to these two people wham
London, Nov. 8 he loves.
Miss Edith Evans, the actress, While they are making for the yesterday told an audience how she border and safety, Dushan, pre-fell very deeply in love" with Mr. tending to aid in their capture, J. A. R. Cairns, the Westminster takes Panto on a mand ride in the magistrate. She added that if she opposite direction and drives his were not an actress she would like to carriage over an embankment kill-be & magistrate. ing himself and Panto,
THE GIRL WITH
It is claimed of Robert Lynen, the THE GHOST VOICE
11-year-old' star of "Poll de Carotte" ("Redhead", the new French film which comes to the Rialto ei Monday, that he is the greatest actor in the world.
That is a hard saying. But if he can keep up the form he shows in this picture he may well prove the world's greatest child actor. A thin, sharp featured little boy, with big wistful eyes, a sensitive month, and a voice of astonishing variety and colour, he gives an electrifying performance which lifts. "Poil de Carotte" into the rank of genuine film art. His Freckles in this film may be purely synthetic, but his talent is beyond reproach.
Lip Service To Film
Stars
Special Air Mail Service
Miss Evans was opening the London Police Court Mission bazaar at Central Hall, Westminster, at which the wives of magistrates were apallholders "Some years ago," she said, "I fell very deeply in love with a magistrate. I don't think I ought to tell you his
name. I am sure you all leve him sa
much as I do. He is Mr. Cairns
"I fell in love with him because of a book he wrote. I cannot remember
the title of it-I can never remember
anything except my part-but it was one of the most illuminating books. I have ever read in my life. If I were not an actress. I would ask Mr. Cairns if I could come and join the magis trates."
London, Nov. 8. Everyone knows Anons Winn. But occurred in "Viennese Waltz"in which fawr people know of her as the girl she actually supplied three different with the ghost voice-the girl who is voices for the characters who had often heard but never seen, whose job spoken in German in the orginal film. is to supply, the voice while film, stars "What usually happens," Miss Winn remain dumb.
went on, is that the star sings the who was trained for opera, has sup remains deaf.
During the past few months Anona,words-but the recording microphone.
fewer than seven pictures. plied the ghost voice for stars in no
"Later when all the sound in the film is complete except for that song, the film is thrown on the screen and; watching very carefully every moye ment of the star, I put the song on her
"Poil de Carotte," based on the po. pular French novel by Jules Renard, is all about a small boy with a cruel mother, a neglectful father, and an odious elder brother and sister. Lone ly and harassed, he decides to kill
DOURLED SONGS himself, and is rescued from hanging
Film producers in the middle of a in the nick of time-by his repentant production often discover that the star father.
The story, beautifully acted and cannot catch the sympathetic car of the lips. photographed, ends happily, but its microphone for her song. Her speech influence on imaginative children with may be perfect, but there is some a persecution complex might be disas. subtle timbre of voice which spoils her trous, and I was not surprised to learn singing. that it has been banned by the Board of Film Censon
The London County Council, how- ever, has licensed it for adults (patrons over 16), and L-understand that women members of the LC.C. have circularis ed people on their lists recommending the picture because of the lesson it conveys to parenta.
Miss Winn who is still in her 20's
has doubled for stars with such widely differing voices as Winifred Shotter, Anne Groy, Benita Hulme, "And that is where I come in to Molly Lamont and Dorothy Hyson. double for the star," said Anona to a BY ACCIDENT..
Bunday Chronicle" representative The curions thing is that she die yesterday.
covered her
amazing ability quite by "It is very difficult and tricky | socident. business, for unless a little deception "I bought a guitar just for fun,"
effect is ruined."
sha
is carried out to perfection the whole said, "and when I learned to play it I discovered to my surprise that I could put over some life-like imitation of orooners.”
One of the most difficult "ghosting" feats over carried out by Miss Winn
side of the Atlantic to make her screen debut with Ronald Colman in "The Dark Angel, Miss Banky's quaint version of English, as much as her striking blonde beauty, formed the subject of rauch comment in this country. Bat by sheer hard work, study and practice, she succeeded in learning to speak English as expertly and Buently as the best out of Boston. Naturally there is still the ghost of an accent but it only succeeds in adding
to her charm.
Following her marriage to LaRoque, Miss Banky renounced her screen career in favour of domesticity. But idleness irked har; so when Universal offered her the leading feminine role in "The Rebal," she decided to make a comeback and according to advance reports, succeeds niarvelously.
:
A Dinner Dance, is being held at the Repulse Bay Hotel on Saturday, December 2nd, and a Tea Dance on Sunday, December 3rd at 4.30 p.m.
DAILY: 2.30–5.15 148-0,30
Gracie on Royalty
Betty followed with "Coax mé, come on and coax me." and Tommy Ellen, I'm shy," and the first side of the record finished
succes although father would aing, never miss your mother until she's laid beneath the clay."
H.. M. V. recording manager gave Before they all left the studios the Gracie four envelopes for her brother, that they had a £5 note each. sister, and father. The family found
対
"AB" I record regularly," said Gracie, "I am on royalty, but as you are only occasional you get a flat
payment.
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One case each of small pox, diphtheria, enteric and two cases of meningitis were reported during the forty-eight hours ended No- vember 25.
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"Showboat," which was one of the first successful talkies, is, to be made into a talkie again, thus revealing how stories Frank Borzage, one of Holly- wood's three most highly paid direc- tora, will handle the production.
FILM STAR. CHANGES HER NAME
Special Air Mail Service
London, Nov. 8. Miss Joan Blondell, the film atar, has
caused a surprise in Hollywood by announcing that she, is to make her films under the name of Joan Barnes. Miss Blondell was recently married to Mr. George Barnes, a cameraman. Old residents in the film colony (states Reuter) say that it is the first time & film star has changed the name under which she became famous.
AN A.B. IN THE LORDS
Lord de la Warr. the Parlia mentary Secretary to the Minis- try, was also among the visitors to the show,
Lord de la Warr was, I believe. the first peer to take his seat in the House of Lords wearing bell- bottomed trousers.
During the war he was mine. sweeping with the rank of AB, when he succeeded to the title. He returned from his duties in. A. B.'s uniform to go through the introductory ceremony.
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BETTY STOCKFELD
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