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MONTE CARLO MADNESS
At The Lee Theatre
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1934.
A Musical Love Story GARBO LIKES DIETRICH
FILM
The Cat and the Fiddle" Jerome
Hollywood Kern's enormously successful love
has never been so story, will reach us from M.G.M. full of a subject as it is now about with Ramon Navarro and Jeanette Marlene Dietrich's new Paramount Perhaps Macdonald In the parts played on Picture.-Song of Songs the London slage by Francis the most striking thing in con- Lederer and Peggy Wood. Frank nection with the picture is that
are Greta Garbo came out Morgan and Jean Hersholt,
of ber also on the cast. Film-goers can seclusion and saw the film not expect to see this in t
near once, but twice! future.
STILL GOING STRONG
One thing that is going to in- terest Almgoers-and it takes only a very short sequence in the Alm-- is the marvellous marble Agure of Marlene, done by Scarpitta, the Babe Daniels gets more and more famous Italian sculptor who re popular as she grows older. Al-cently made a bronze of Mussolini though she has appeared in about on horseback. three hundred flms, her success, as well as her ability, is probably greater today than it ever was. She will be seen in the picture she made in London-"The Song You Gave Me." This is to be shown at the Central Theaire shortly. She has been busy in Hollywood on Counsellor at Law," as leading lady to John Barry-
'more..
"What The Stars
Are Doing
Ann Harding will be seen in natural colours when she appears In The World Outside," a Radio picture which is to be produced by the Technicolor process.
Gary Cooper is reported to be
of
The film is adapted from one of the most famous classics modern times-The Song Of Songs Suders by. Herman Sudermann. mann, born of poor parents in a small village in East Prussia near the Russian frontier, Arst became known as the author of the play, Magda, which served as a vehicle for Mrs. Patrick Campbell and other ramous actresses. : ils-book is considered as one of the most fascinating detailed fe-histories of a Woman ever written
The cast includes the famous British actor, Brian Aherne, Helen Freeman. Allson Skipworth, Hardie Albright and Lionel Atwill. The im WES directed by Rouben Mamoulian who made City Streets, Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde and Love Me Tonight.
secretly engaged to Saudra Shaw. THE FORTUNATE
Miss Shaw is a niece of Art Direc tor Cedric Gibbons, husband Dolores del Rio.
ال
HER NEW DIRECTOR
of
Every film in which Marlene Dietrich has appeared since she went to Hollywood has been direct- ed by Josef von Sternberg. But her latest Paramount picture. The Song Of Songs, which has treated Monte Carlo Madness, which such a sensation in America, was is to be shown at the Lee Theatre directed by Rouben Mammoulian Is a picture, to be recommended maker of City Streets and Dr. more for the picturesque nature
Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, and one of of the scenes and the language the most brillant directors of the than for anything else.
day.
Sarl Maritza does some good work as the Queen of Pontenero and Haris Albers, although some - times overdoing the cave 18.11 stuff, puls his part over well,
Charles Redgle as Peter is ex- cellent but the story and plot is a bit thin.
COWBOYS AND INDIANS
The Arst actor to appear in a western him which employed real Indians, is now enacting a minor role in Paramount's Midnight The story deals with the Queen Club,"which features George Rast, of Pontenero and the troublesome Clive Brook and Alison Skipworth. commander of her cruiser, Cap- He 13 Wyndham Standing, tain Erickson. He disobeys a royal brother of Sir Gay Standing, who command, goes to Monte Carlo has just won a Paramount contract, against all orders, and there has and although be has forgotten a hearty time with the money he the name of the fim he remem- almost forced out of his Consul. bers it was back in 1915 when he But unknown to him his Queen was. appearing in silent pictures is also there and he makes a fool such as Earthbound and Smiling of himself over her, not knowing Through. her identity. "She Anally lets him know who she is just in time to present him from blowing up the Casino and most of Monte Carlo with It.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
"Mae West, the screen's news "scorch queen, and star of she Done Him Wrong and Fm No Angel, once played Lovey Mary in Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch!"
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LEE THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW
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AT 12.30. 2.30, 530,
7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
At Usual Prices.
A MAGNIFICENT DRAMA WITH GORGEOUS SETTINGS SARI MARITZA
IN
MONTE CARLO MADNESS:"| A BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL ROMANCE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST GAMBLING
RESORT.
"A
"A UFA PRODUCTION.
News Snapshots
The Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo, which recently concluded a pheno- menally successful London Season, is going to Hollywood to appear in Jesse Lasky's Alm of the life of | Paviora
FOOL
The Fortunate Fool is another Brtiish picture and tells the grip- ping story of London Life, depict- ing an intriguing story of life on the Thames Embankment, and life in Mayfair. An eccentric author seeks local colour in the night life on the Thames side for his next novel. In order to in- duce some of this human dotsam to unburden themselves to him he pretends to be just an out-of-luck, like themselves. In this way he
Anne Boleyni fo
PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII
"The
picks up an ex-"pug" and a de- itire out of work typist, in a spirit of philanthropy he invites them to his luxurious flat, telling
Private Life them that it is not his own, but var is a production lent to him by a friend who is Britain can be proud. abroad. Thus we have the bizarre is well household of author, prize fighter and girt secretary. The arrange- ment works well for a time." bat complications arise when the author's flancee,
human
balanced in drama
of which rather a small part, but as the Of Henry, Queenly grace. Wendy Barrie has
The film frivolous young Queen who dies at comedy, but it owes its entertain worthy
and the birth of the son and helr is ment to Charles Laughton. As a Lanchester is most amusing as of mention. Miss Elsa
chameleon, he has no Anne of Cleves: This young lady equal. The distinctive quality of has no destra to marry the King. who has been this great actor's genius lles not but affairs of state demand this abroad for some time returns merely in his ability to aller his marriage take place, and we ace The pretty typist feels she has been made a fool of and decamps. change of role, he appears to as-
physical appearance, with each her on the bridal night playing unfortunately leaving the hero's sume an entirely. new personality, chamber.
cards with the King in the royal flance and
He is not attracted to her acidulous family
- bught feeling, and her, and is contemplating marry- under the Impression that she has innering fpirit, as well in voice ing Katerine Howard and so they and looks, from those who have are divorced by mutual consent. her. A hue and cry for the girl gone before. He is not only equipp- Binnie Barnes is cast as Katherine ensues, but the author's reasoned with the face and figure of the Howard, but she commits adultery
taken a valuable miniature with
differin
for his quest is very different from character, but suggests its strength with Culpeper, and loses her pret-
accuracy.
head. There is not a dull picture.
of his vindictive family and psychology whether in maturity Comicalities with the police add humour to the search, the story by Or near senility with amazing | moment throughout the
The story picks up the the scene between the rival execu- threads of Henry VIII's life at tioners is most amusing, one being the time of Anne Boleyn's execu- a Frenchman and the other an on Merle Oberon as the un- Englishrhan. This is to be shown fortunate Queen displays rare at the King's theatre some time talent. Her actions prior to the this month and we urge you not fatal bour are astounding. 28 she
to miss. ascends the step leading to the
The photography is excellent, likewise the settings which are spectacular, block she carries herself with true
Jack
ending... thanks to the ex-prize fighter in a happy surprise. The clever cast is headed by Hugh Wakefield, Arthur Chesney. Bobble
Elizabeth Jenus, Comber, Raine, Mary Mayfran
and Sara Allgood are prominent in the ex- cellent support. This is to be Sir Heury Lytton, Savoyard, "Contemplater making the near future.
great shown at one of the theatres in
an appearance on the screen.
the
"I love an Actress" in which acto with Lenore Ulric. 18. said Gregory Ratoff will appear for to tell his own life story.
"LITTLE WOMEN"
THE NEW FILM
BATH.TUB KING' .RECEDES
"News Snapshots"
Fannle Hurst's "Imitation of Life," a "problem" story of a coloured girl who marries a white man, is to be filmed by Universal.
The motor car in which Arch- duke Ferdinand of Austria WELS assassinated of June 25, 1914-the event which started the great war
has been exported to Hollywood, and will appear on the screen in After To-night," a Radio 8py drama.
Cecil B. De Mille, originator of golden baths, diamond taps, pearl- studded loofahs and ruby-encrusted that there is no betrayal either of soap has gone simple in his new the spirit or feeling of the origin- Paramount picture, Thia Day And al. The gift of understanding has Age. Not a foot of cloth-of-gold By Thornton Delehanty entered into the saying that be- drape, not a cubic inch of Italian Katharine Hepburn and Others neath its surface fidelity there is marble, not a yard of glided"In- in Little Women" at the Radiothe unmistakable fragrance of crusta encumbers the sets of this
ruth. City Music "Hall.
film Not even an ordinary tin The Pulse of the Book
bath! For the story is about high "Little Women" on the screen school youths and they, naturally. has caught the pulse of the bank, do not "disport themselves and from it we can share re-
the marble palaces. sorrows and hopes and Joys of the And so. Mr. De Mille has dis- four girls who grew to their des-sipated all his lavishness on s timies under the benevolent mingigantic set of a deserted brick in which Charles Bickford, Richard istrations of their mother. We can yard.
Imagine It! For several Cromwell and Judith Allen are follow with fresh sympathy the days 165 labourers ́worked. forthright striving of Jo to meet and night to construct it. Then that follow when schoolboys take day | featured, deals with stirring events the world face to face, and we can Ave hundred high school boys law and order into their own hands approve the compromise which is were recruited to fill the acres.
to make a wholesale clearing-up
As an antidote to the febrile dramas of the underworld and back-stage musical spectacles,
Little Women" comes as a minder that emotions and vitality and truth can be evoked from lavender and lace as well as from machine guns and precision dan- ces; it comes, as Roxy poetically puts it in his foreword in the pro- gram at the Radio City Music Hall, like a clean, sweet, whole- some breeze from the sea."
doesn't conceal
B
in
Faith Baldwin's, Novel, "District Nurse," is to be fained by Radio, with Irene Dunne in the title role.
her marriage Professor Bhaer; "The story of This Day And Age, ❘ of crime,
we can delight in the splendor of
But don't let that discourage you. There is hardly a woman
Mr. Laurence's house and warm to now alive and few. men for that him as the formidable old gentle- matter who
inan succumbs to the, charms of nostalgia for the attic retreat the Mareh girls: we can delight where true bliss was found in in Amy's brilliant marriage to secret .communings with Louisa Laurie, and in Meg's humble all- Alcott's characters--characters: so lance with Mr. Bricks. We can vivid, and so Inextricably bound-up stand by Beth's deathbed and weep with one's past that it is almost bravely as the heavenly host close impossible in retrospect to disso-inon her? The beauty of it is ciate them from actual experience. that we can weep if we want to, The books are still widely read, and laugh and chuckle, and bulge not only by youths and maidens with romance, without feeling but by those who seek to recap- foolish or guilty, because the plc- ure in them a memorable part of ture is honest and very, very their lives. It would seem that} human. under these circumstances it would The hoydenish Jo i capitally be dangerous to stir up the sacred performed by Katharine Hepburn; flames of memory, to attempt bn Joan Bennett is excellent as Amy, embodiment of the Alcott story
As are Frances Dee and Jean Park- and, a re-creation of Jo änd Meg er as Mẹg - and Beth Spring and Beth- and Amy in the literal Byington catches the solicitous definition of a screen production | and care-ridden Mrs. March in a of a screen production, and In-sensitive performance; Paul Lukas deed it is. But unless I miss my is convincing as the professor, and guess and I speak as one who Edna May Oliver is properly terri- once has seen the Marches plainfying as the crotchety Aunt Maret, -the picture at the Music Hall Also, George Cukor and the pro- will not let you down,
ducers deserve praise for a pro- It is a tribute to those who duction that has been carried out shared in bringing it to the screen with taste as well as skill
ELIZABETH ALLAN AND RICHARD DEX INACE OF
ACES
1
2
3
4 Fried Garoupa
5 Vol-au-Vent
DINNER $1.75
Lobster Cocktail
Hot or Cold consome
Chicken and Bird's Nest Soup
8. Baked Fillet of Chicken Mushroom sauce
7 " Roast Baddle of Mutton Mint" cause
8 Iced Asparagus and Ham
9 Croquetta Potatoes, Boiled Potatoes
10 Green Poss
11 Pear Belle Helene
12 Caviar on toast
14 Fruit "
... 13 Cheese
15 Coffee.
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/ Love had just come into his life
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SIX HOURS TO LIVE
Warner Baxter
Miriam JORDAN
_John_ BOLES
@lugë story"Auf Wiedersehen"
by Gordon Morris and
* Morton BarnARILY
IF YOU HAD ONLY SIX HOURS TO LIVE..
Would you ponder your past f
Would you live the six hours in the PRESENT?
Would you wonder about the future?
The way WARNER BAXTER faces this problem makes thrilling entertainment.
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