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ANN VICKERS
Opening At The King's To-day
Surpassing even the highest ex- pectations, the eagerly awaited Bim, version of the Sinclair Lewis novel, "Ann Vickers." is now showing at the King's Theatre.
Brilliantly produced, masterfully characterized. "and skilfully direct- ed, "Ann Vickers" challenges at- tention as one of the anest and past powerful pictures ever to come from Hollywood. It is a tri- bute to RKO-Radio that what has been acclaimed as the nest novel by the only American ever to win the "Nobel Prize for Literature. mins. rather than loses, in" being brought to the screen.
MIDSHIPMAN
JACK
With
BRUCE CABOT
BETTY FURNESS
PRANK ALBERNION FLORENCE SAKE PURNELL PRATT ... ARTHUR LAK
JOHN DARŁOW MARGARET SEIDON
By Frank
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and F. McGras DXd by Chery
COMERummzetiam prúde.
SKO-RADIO PICTURE
MAN OF THE FOREST
Final Showings To-day
All the thrills and excitement that the fpele pen of Zane Grey knows how to fashion have been crowded into his
Man of Forest. which is showing at the Alhambra Theatre..
!!
Irene Dunne, as Ann Vickers, "gives a super performance and again demonstrates her skill.25 a dramatic actress. Walter Huston, who is co-starred, gives a brillant characterization. while able sup- port is given the two by Conrad Nagel. Edna May Oliver, Bruce Ca- bot, Sam Hardy and other mem- bers of an imposing cast.
es-
novel,
Ratalning all the dramatic sentials of the successful the pictures traces the colourful career of Ann Vickers, with its romantle complications. Success- ful as a social service worker. Ann has an unfortunate affair with Captain Lafe Resnick (Bruce Ca- bob. Distlustoned in love, she re- turns to her work with renewed ardor and becomes nationally famous in the field of prison re- form. Love happiness again eludes her when she waits too long to accept Lindsey Atwell (Conrad Nagel, and loses him to another woman. When she eventually Ands the romance for which she
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JULY 28,
FINAL
SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
AT 2.30,5.10, 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.
1934.
* BOORING
AT THE THEATRE
TIL No. 25313,
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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
TO MORROW
LIBERTY GAVE THIS REMARKABLE PICTURE 4 STARS
KING'S-
frene DUNNE Walter HUSTON
Ann Vickers
SINCLAIR LEWIS' world roeping save! ...a dramatic thunder- bolt on the screen!.
A Paus & Buman production.
C COOK
grond over
Edna Moy OLIVER
CONRAD NAGEL BRUCH CABOI
RKO-RADIO PICTURE
ADY DAY
FOR
A FRANK CAPRA Production' with WARREN WILLIAM MAY ROBSON GUT KIFLER Glenda Farrell Nest Sparks Jean Parker Barry Nortan
Walter Connolly
引
A Columbia Picture
TO-NIGHT'S THE RUNAWAY BRIDE The romance that develops is en-
NIGHT
At The Queen's
Theatre"
At The Queen's Theatre
produc-
Reversing the story of the bride has been longing. with Judge Bar-
deserted at the altar, Radle Pic- In "To-night's the Night," play-tures newest all-talking theney Dolphin Walter Huston), t involves her in a clash with con-
ing at Queen's Theatre to-day, tion, "Runaway Bride," with Lloyd ventions and a spectacular scan-
Leslie Fuller again makes awel-Hughes and Mary Astor, dal. Forced to
come and hilarious appearance as choose between love and her career, she demon-Bill, who is, this time, the secre- strates her courage in a dramatic tary of a slate club. The night prior to the share-out he draws the money from the bank, but is uneasy about it.
Randolph Scott, Harry Carey. Noah Beery, Verna Hille and Bus- ter Crabbe head the cast. Scott and Miss Hillle have been featur-way. edi in recent Zane Grey pictures. Outstanding for gripping power while Carey and Beery are among and realism are the prison and old-time favourites of Western ecurtroom scenes: In the former. fans, Buste: Crabbe, Olympic shocking brutalities are merciless- 'swimming champion. who had they exposed, and striking contrasts leading role "King of the in methods of penal administra- Jungle," makes his second movie
tion are afford. Courtroom scenes appearance in this picture.
reach an emotional climax when "Man of the Forest" s the Judge Dolphin is sentenced to the twenty-ninth Zane Grey, story to, penitentiary after conviction reach the screen.
bribery charges with his sweet- heart instead of his wife remain-
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Scott, the "Man of the Forest,"
a friend of Rancher Carey kid-ing loyal to him. naps Miss Hille, Carey's niece. In
.on
In addition to achieving a bri- fant characterization. Miss Dunne raakes ar. altogether alluring hero- ine, and the fashion display" pro- vided by the, many modish gowns she wears will be
delight to feminine fans.
a
ELLEN TERRY
this way, "he forestalls the efforts of Beery who has planned to way lay her on the road to Carey's ranch which she is to occupy Carey has intended to assign to her all his rights in it. A new "Jaw. recently passed. prohibits ex- convicts from holding property and Beery intends to take advan- tage of the law and a trumped- up ja sentence which Carey ser ved. to file claims himself.
Carey, on his way to Scotts mountain cabin to see his niece, is stalked by Beery and killed. He throws the blame for the murder on Scott who is taken to jail. Beery. posing as Carey's friend, takes the girl to his home. Largely through the assistance of a pet mountain lion, Scott gets tree and Aces with Miss Hillie. Beery and his gang follow and the picture reaches its climax in the action which en-tion in much more recent days was
SUES.
A Lively Story.
Sixth Anniversary Of Her Death
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 11. "To" have seen Mrs. Siddons," said Hazlitt; "was an
event everyone's life, and does she think we have forgot her?" A like adora
felt for Ellen Terry and among the faithful there is still a like re- membrance.
This is a film of a novel by
July 22, the sixth anniversary Zane Gray. Needless to say that it
of her death, will be marked by a is out of doors, a story of the great special performance la the Barn wastes. The time is in the middle Theatre, Smallhythe, adjoining the of the last century, before motor house where she died.
cars ousted the horse, the plot Miss Edith Craig, her daughter, consists of the attempt of an evil is putting on the stage a few man to oust another from his scenes from "The Winter's Tale," land. The latter has a very lovely with Mary Casson as Ferdita and niece, who arrives out west just as Stephen Haggard as Florizel. matters are getting warm for her uncle. The hero, the Man of the Forest, has to kidnap the niece on her arrival in order to prevent the "evil" man and his gang doing so. But of course as the niece does not know the situation, she thinks that the hero is the kidnapper. The poor man has to suffer some
hard sayings. But as he tell her, he hates all women, and so she
Miss Phyllis Nellson-Terry wi play Desdemona in a scene from Othello, with Rybil Thorndike as Fmillia, and John Gielgud, a Terry or another generation, will rectre some Shakespearean sonnets
The "Terry voice" will thus bel heard in praise of her who had the lovellest of all
has nothing to fear from him. She Thus we have an
excellent and
is quite safe. Even the alght of lively story, in which we find out her shapely legs, as she has to that the mysogenist is not inexpert raise her mid-Victorian skirt at other things besides gun play;
leaves him quite unmoved.
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Their idyll is rudely shattered when the evil man turns up with the sheriff to arrest the hero for
"Self Satisfaction
"I understand," said the inspec- murder. "Why what murder?" tor, severely, "that since you joined says the hero. "Miss Gagnor's the Force you have neither made uncle," says the villain. "Ea, Ha, a single arrest nor issued a dagle laughs the hero, "how can that summons !!”
be, I have not moved from here. "That's right, sir," said the po for the last day" "Ho, ho," says liceman, complacently. "And now the villain." "the corpse is at the what do I get? A pair of white door." And so it is. What to do? "gloves, don't I?".
To and to this uneasiness he. ar- rives home to and his wife very upset because their daughter is "carrying on" with a young man "above her station."
The girl leaves home, and when Bill discovers at the same time that the money is missing. he. offers no defence, but goes to pri- son to shield, as he supposes. his child.
Many hilarious and complicated the real thief is found, the family situations follow but eventually
are united and all ends well.
As Emily, Amy Veness makes her second appearance in a BIP comedy: She will be well-remem-
TO-DAY ONLY
Odds of twenty to ona against him...Yet this red-blooded mountain- eer shoots it out... Here's split-second action and rip-roaring romance!
at the Queen's Theatre, proves to be" a highly diverting romantic drama with host of unusually enter- taining episodes and some clever acting by a fine cast.
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livened by situation of rousing drama and clever comedy, coming to a lively denouncement in which the bachelor, the groom-to-be and the girl settle their "difficulties in a smartly directed scene. "Mary Astor, as sweet and lovable as ever, and showing herself an actress of great competence and charm, offers an ingratiating por- trait as a young, soclety girl whirl-"| ing to wed without thinking of the future. Lloyd Hughes, appearing with Miss Aster for the first time in the talkies, although the two virtually established themselves as one of the screen's most likeable couples in silent films. enhances
is
The tempo of the production is
his reputation as a delightful lead- immediately established by the ing man with his playing in Run- opening sequences depicting anaway bride." The role of the jult- eight-cyclinder elopement by ed young society scapegrace young couple, scions of wealthy faithfully portrayed by David Ne- familities. "As swiftly as the elope well, a talk-film player who is ra- ment careers on its wild start, so
pidly entering the ranks of the swiftly does it break on the rocks; notables. 01 discord, with Miss Astor running away on her wedding eve in the turmoil of a sensational robbery and shooting. She secures em- ployment as a cook for a wealthy bachelor, played by Lloyd Hughes.
A palm must be awarded Donald Crisp for smooth, flowing direc- tion which makes this dim an hour of sheer entertainment. The supporting cast also deserves more than passing mention, and tribute is hereby paid to Natalie Moore- head Edgar Norton, Francis Mac- Dorald as a particularly fine gang bered as the "old battle cruiser" leader specimen). Paul Hurst and in "My Wife's Family."
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"LADY FOR A DAY"
Three Types Of Dresses
An old apple-seller transformed into a society dowager! "A night- club hostess, "Missouri Martin", by name! A couvent bred ingenuel These three characters play the featured woman's roles in "Lady for a Day" Columbia production showing next Bunday at the King's Theatre." Respectively, they are May Robson, Glenda Farrell and Jean Parker.
That "was the sartorial problem that faced the creator of Colum- bia styles. He dragged out his sketch pad, set his talented brains to functioning, and concocted six- teen diferent ensemble for Miss Farrell and Misa Parker.
Miss Robson's clothes are stately and regal, lending the proper note of dignity and refinement char acteristic of her assumed place in Society: Miss Farrell's are striking and brilliant, just what a night club Hostess would personally
choose; while Miss Parker's are the sorb every mother will immediately copy for her young daughter!
Miss Robson's wardrobe includes
•s tea-gown of old gold velvet; a gunmetal falle silk coat; a tobac co brown corded allk coat-dress: an informal dinner gown of belge zeorgette and cream lace; a black velvet evening gown with a crink- led velvet wrap; and a dressing -gown of rahlia satin.
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CHEVALIER A Bedtime Story
HELEN TWELVITREES SIMALS (VERITY MORN
GEORGE O'BRIEN
In Frontier Article"
George O'Brien is one actor in Bollywood who has not been "typ- ed." He is just as much at home in immaculate evening dress as he is in chaps and a ten-gallon hat.
He is at home on the range and perfectly at ease in the smartest of drawing rooms. O'Brien's screen career proves it, for he has played everything from Western heroes to a grandee of the boulevards.
While the careers of many other players have skyrocketed them as certain types," only to vanish into obilvion when their vogue passed," O'Brien has maintained his stel- lar position on the scene due to his facility to adapt himself to pruch tically any sort of role,
In "Frontier Marshal," his lat est Fox picture will commence its pormier showing at Alhartyria: Theatre tomorrow, O'Brien again displays his fare for versatility" He is seen as a well-to-do man of the world and a fearless marshal The story is based on incidents in in a lawless town of the old West.
-the book by Stuart N. Lake
lead opposite O'Brien in Frontier Irene Bentley has the feminine
Marshal," and the supporting cast includes Berton Churchill, Alan Ed- wards, Ruth Gillette, Georte E Stone. "Russell Simpson Ward Lew Seller is the director. Bond, Edward LeSaint and others.
suit; a brown crepe skirt with a jacket of chartreuse, brown and Included in Miss Farrell's ward henna plaid; an informal dinner robe are a stunning gown of dress of white organdle over apple- sparkling pink laes arid tulle, a Ereen satin; a peach-pink lace battleship grey street suit; a al evening gown; and banana yellow ver and purple evening gown; & crepe coat-dress. mink coat and a wrap of white Lady For A Day" includes in ermine and a gunmetal diverts cast such distinguished male Jame dress trimmed with black set actors as Warren William, Guy Kibbee, Walter Connolly Barry Jean Parker'a simple, costumes Norton, Ned Sparks, and Nat Ten- consists of an emerald green wooddleton. Frank Capra directed,
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