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"LADY FOR A DAY"
May Robson As “Apple Annie”
Headed by Warren William, a splendid cast was assembled for Lady for a Day," the Columbia picture adapted from the Damon Runyon
story, **Madame La Gimp," showing on next Sunday at the King's Theatre, May Robson. “Grand Old Lady of the Americari Stage." plays the role of "Apple. Annie."
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The story deals with an old apple-woman who peddles her
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MARGARIT SEADON
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TO-NIGHT'S THE NIGHT
Coming To The ̈ Queen's
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The new Leslle Fuller comedy, "To-Night's the Night." comes to the Queen's Theatre Saturday is a hilarious and hectic, burlesque, which goes with a bang from start to finish.
wares in the metropolitan theatri-", cal district, and unknown to her sociates, is supporting a daugh` ter in school in Spain. She is giving her child the impression that she is wealthy and socially pro minent, and has a splendid hus- band.
Suddenly she learns the daugh- ter is on her way to America, with a young Count who wants to marry her," and the count's father, of the Spanish nobility. "Apple Annie" appeals for ald from her friends. the most conspicuous Agure of the White Light district. They rally to her rescue"
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"The Dude," a gambler, borrows a rich man's apartment and in- stalls Annie in it. "Missouri." night-club hostess, has the apple- woman beautified. It is necessary for her to have a temporary hus band. so "Judge Blake." a pool- shark is pressed into service.
After a series of hilarious hap penings, the masquerade works out perfectly. The Spanish' nobles ac- cept all of Annie's pretensions, and take the daughter back with them. for a magnificent wedding in their ancestral home.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
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KKINO
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
Irene
DUNNE Walter HUSTON
Ann Vickers
SINCLAIR LEWIS' world weeping nevel ...a dramatic thunder- bolt on the screen!
A Pantra & Bremen gendertien
recent be in Cream – ACTI C COOPA wpiere graduate
ANN VICKERS
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Opening At The King's
Now comes
Ann Vickers" on The screen, at the King's Theatre Warren William, fresh
to-day, the story of a woman whose triumphs in half a dozen Warner genius for achievements was successes. plays ***The Fuller, as Bill. a slate club trea-
Dude.matched by her instinct for love. Glenda Farrell. brillant surer, is robbed of the funds
Of course one can't say "Ann Christmas Eve. The theft is wit-comedienne, plays "Missouri,”
Vickers" without thinking of
on
young
ressed by Bill's pail, but he suffers night club hostess. Bald rotund Sinclair Lewis, and according to
with
Quy Kibbee, who shone in “42nd
for
the winner of the Nobel prize.
from loss of memory, following a
advance reports the motion plc- blow from the real thief, and is Street" and many other pictures,ture company has kept pace with unable to testify." His misfortune is cast as "Judge Blake," the hus- results in Bill being sentenced to
band for a day, and Ned Sparks is
"dumb stooge " "Happy," a Imprisonment for three years. What
"The Dude." a hard hearted governor.
Frank Capra. Columbia's scowling warders, and the tough- est" lot of fellow-convicts
director, whose last picture was the ever
artisticBitter Tea of Generai gathered together in one prison.
Jen." directed the picture. He was Bill has a Uvely time only to be compared with that of the alm-responsible for many of the com going public who share his ad- pany's greatest successes including chalk are in the supporting cast
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venture.
During a prison concert, in which, disguised as a lady cellist he gives several boisterous render-
A
ings, he is escorted out of the pri- son by the Governor, who mistakes him for a guest. There is a final whirlwind chase between
Mer- "cedes Sports car and a baby Austin in which the real culprit is brought to justice. and our hero exonerat- ed.
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American Madness."" Platinum Blonde," "Dirigible" and "Sub. marine."
May Robson just celebrated her
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Ann "Vickers has been entrusted to the intelligence, histrionic scope and beary of Irene Dunne, while Walter Ruston" is co-starred with her. Hollywood's Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot, Edna May Oliver Sam Hardy "and Ferdinand Gotts-
John Cromwell directed for RKO
Radio.
The powerful and poignant story of the courageous Ann, who throws
herself at rock-ribbed convention.
is enacted before such backdrops
fashionable estates, courts and reform institutions.
fiftieth anniversary as an actress. She has not been long in pictures. but has won herself an outstand-as ing rank among the veteran character players, Her "most re cent nim was "The White Sister." in which she portrayed the Mother Superior. She is also in "Dinner at Eight." In "Strange Interlude " she was Norma Shearer's mother. and had another mother character in "Ketty Lynton." Perhaps her best work was in "If I Had a MI- lion," where she was the old lady who turned a gloomy institution into a place of joy,
Pendleton.
CLIVE BROOK TO STAR IN NEW FILM.
A Toeplitz Production
Others in the cast are Jean Parker, Walter Connolly, Barry Further developments in connecNorton, Hobart Bosworth and Nat tion with the proposed new air service between London and Glas- gow. I learn to-day, are that Raliway Air Services, Ltd., will be ready, tp inaugurate it as soon as the existing service of the Midland and Scottish Air Ferries Lt.. ceases, which will be probably in the middle of next month, writes & correspondent. Between Croy- don and Renfrew the new service will serve Birmingham, Manches
Liverpool, Isle of Man and ter. Belfast covering the whole route in five hours. De Haviland machines with cabin accommodation for 10 passengers will be utilised in the new service. They will have, a cruising speed of 145 miles an hour. The time-table will be so arranged that the aeroplanes leaving or arriving at Croydon will establish connection with the chief Continental services of Imperial Airways
TELEVISING
CARMEN"
IN HALF AN HOUR
London, July 6. The B.B.C. will to-day make its first attempt to broadcast a full-size opera-"Carmen" - the space of half an hour. This feat of compression (writes radio correspondent), will cecur in the television period from 11 to 11.30 this morning when a cast of three-Sarah Fischer, the Canadian operatie soprano; Hed- die Nash, the concert and stage tenor and Elsa Brunelleschi, the
Clive Brook is to stár in the Arst picture of Toeplitz Produc- tions Ltd, at the head of which is Mr. L. Toeplitz de Grand Ry, the Italian producer, who was form- erly a director of London Film Production, writes a correspon- dont.
"Few but good," so I am in- formed, is to be the new com- pany's motto, Mr. Toeplitz plans to make two or three pictures a year, all of an elaborate kind.
The first will be called "The Dictator" from a play by the German dramatist, Lustig, deal- ing with the Danish Court be- tween the years 1770, and 1772. Clive Brook will play Struensee, the country doctor lifted to power by the favour of the English-born Queen of Denmark, Caroline, Mathilde. It is stated that “a world-known actress will play opposite Mr. Brook.
The English directors of the new company are Bir Harry Hold en (chairman), Mr. R. B. Hirsch, and Major Walton Williams.
Spanish dancer-will give
colourable representation" of the complete, opera
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most widely known peace officer and the fearless leader of the law and order forces who tamed the elements that had made Tombstone known the world over.
O'Brien is cast as 2 frontier marshal who, because of the girl be loves, remains in Tombstone to avenge her father's küller, and : George O'Brien, long known for the same time bring peace and his Western characterizations order to this town that knew no is comes to the Alhambra Theatre on law. O'Brien, finds that he
faced with a difficult task, for he Sunday, in Fox Film's latest re-
Of the Tomb-discovers that the Mayor lease, "Frontier Marshall."
town is in alliance with the out-
laws that have given Tombstone its disreputable name. How O'Brien manages to overcome these difficul- ties and capture the murderer of the girl's father. Is reported bring the film, to a dramatic con-
stone. Arizona, known in the days of the old West as a roaring, poli- tically corrupt mining town where lawlessness and death were the order of the day, forms the back- ground of this Western, epic. The film was taken from incidents Inclusion. the life of Wyatt Earp, the West's
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Frene Bentley. last seen "Smoky" with Victor Jory, has the feminine lead opposite George O'Brien. Other members of the cast are George E Stone. Alan Edwards, Ruth Gillette. Berton Churchill. Frank Conroy, Ward Bond, Edward- Saint, Russell Simp- son and Jerry Foster.
Vickers, the militant, driven on to success in life through failure in love. has a number of affairs of the heart in the screen version, which introduces her in young womenhood, rather than in child hood, as in the Lewis volume. But happiness does not come with a play by William Conselman career and therein lies the drama- Etuart Anthony was adapted from tle dynamite with which the new incidents in the novel of Stuart N. production is said to be loaded,
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Mary Astor In “Runaway Bride”
Mary Astor and Lloyd - Hughes used to be in the day of the silent Almis, one of the most romantic pairs on the screen, and their first picture together on the talking screens has proved that they are equally versatile in "talkies" they were in "movies."
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They appear in "Runaway Bride" which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre. The story la a fast moving romance of the girl who ran away with the wrong man, but changed her mina in time to avoid being” married to him, but not in time to get into serious complication with certain
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RUNAWAY BRIDE
LLOYD HUGHES MARY ASTOR PAY!.
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A Hilarious Burlesque TO NIGHT'S THE NIGHT
A British International Picture
Romance. intrigue and mystáry, are well mixed in the story and there is plenty of excitement throughout. The picture is direct- ed by Donald Crisp who has had twenty years experience in such work and "Runaway Bride" is a tribute to his work.
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The supporting cast includes
David Newell, Natalie Moorhead, Maurice Black, Paul Hurst and Edgar Norton.
The rest of the programme is also quite attractive particularly the Novelty film "Ship Ahoy." The short comedy “TM Fix It” which precedes the main picture is also very entertaining.
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MAN OF THE
FOREST
Zane Grey's Thriller
"Man of the Forest," twenty- ninth of Zane Grey's stories to reach the screen, opens to-day at, the Alhambra Theatre. Randolph Scott, Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Verna Hille and Buster Crabbe play the leading roles.
"Scott is the central figure in "Man of the Forest." He over- hears Noah Beery's plot to capture Miss Hille. Beery la using this means to prevent her from alding her uncle, Harry Carey, to save his land from Beery's depredations. To forstall the latter, Bcott captures her himself. In the battle that ensues at Scott's mountain cabin when Beery and his gang come-up- on them, Carey is killed. Scott is accused of the murder. He is thrown into jail, and remains there until his pet mountain. Hon comes to his rescue.
Fleeing again with Miss Hille, he is followed by Beery and his benchmen, and the picture reaches a thrilling climax in the events that develop..
"Man of the Forest," Like all Zane Grey stories, is crammed trom start to Anish with brisk action: There is plenty of hard riding, bitter gunplay, fierce hand-to-hand, combats, and a good deal of comedy and romantic interest
English classic race is the St Leger. Reuter.
London, July 28. Windsor Lad will remain in the care of Mr. Marcus Marsh for has sold Windsor Lad, winter of training. One of the conditions oc the Derby to Mr. Benson, owner the sale is that the coit will not of the Beech House stud at New" be resold to leave the country
market, for 250,000.. The next Renter
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