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Diplomatic Service
"THE INVISIBLE MAN"
At The King's Theatre
To be or not to be: this is the question!" And technical experts, cameramen, and electricians at Universal City-wagged their heads for two long years!
The reason was the perplexing production problems which Univer- sal faced. and finally solved, in transferring H. G.. Wells' fantastic story; "The Invisible Man"
DOW
ai the King's Theatre, to the screen.
In directing Boris Karloff in the memorable "Frankenstein,"
Director James Whale chose to keep the terrifying Monster zilent throughout the picture. But in directing The Invisible Man." Whale was forced to reverse the rule that weird screen characters should be seen and not heard, and make his audience feel the presence of a. menacing creature without seeing him.
How could a man actively par- ticipating in a well-lighted photo- graphic scene be made invisible? How.could he become a menace, à dramatic Agure, when he was not visible to either the actors in the scene with him or the audience?
Photograph invisibility?
Studio experts, cameramen and electricians were outspoken in their protests. After all, there were some things outside the pale of possibility even in a picture studio.
Nevertheless it had to be done. There was the story, marking time 'n vaults. It had been bought and paid for.. And the price was a "pretty penny.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1934.
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What your own eyes won't see! What your own ears will hear!
What your own sense tells you is impossible
YET WHAT HAS BEEN ACTUALLY AC- COMPLISHED & PUT ON THE SCREEN TO GIVE YOU THE MOST AMAZINGLY MYSTIFYING THRILLS OF YOUR LIFE!
THE INVISIBLE
MAN"
From the Story by H. G. WELLS? with GLORIA" STUART, CLAUDE RAINS,
WILLIAM HARRIGAN, DUDLEY
DIGGES, UNA' O'CONNOR,
HENRY TRAVERS.
NEXT CHANGE
SYLVIA SIDNEY
· แ
POPE'S VIEWS ON FILMS
"Terribly Immoral"
Castel Gandolfo, Aug. 11. His Holiness the Pope to-day warm- ly associated himself with the cam
So for two whole years Univer-paign in the United States against
immoral films, when addressing re"! sal studio technicians knit their presentatives of the International brows and drove their ingenuity Federation of the Cinematograph
to the breaking point. But the Press. total results were nothing to speak
His Holiness said that it was the about.
most solemn duty of the press to
terribly immoral," he said. "ghow the presence of The In-work for a cleaner film industry. The present state of the scrven was
Show him
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 28, The King has approved the fol- lowing appointments in His Ma- jesty's Diplomatic Service:-
Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare, K.C.M.G., His Majesty's Envoy Ex-visible Man by spirit wires moving traordinary and Minister Plenipo-chairs and what not. tentiary at Teheran, to be His Maby suspending a coat, trousers, or jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at "Bu-sistent offerings.
hat on wire." were the most per- But that was charest.
Mr. Hughe Montgomery Knatch-done a few years ago, but to-day too obvious.. It might have been "bull-Hugessen, C.M.G., His Ma-
never! Jesty's Envoy· Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Riga, not go down to defeat. The pro- However, studio ingenuity would Tallinn, and Kevno, to be Hls Ma-blem was finally solved. The pic- jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehe- Jan.
ture was made.
"We have had reports on subjects given on the screen which fill us with horror," he added.
The Pope praised the "nable crusade of Catholic Bishops in the that the campaign should not be con- United States for clean films, but said
fined to Catholics, but should be worldwide.—Router,
The star of the film Claude Rains is up in bandages, carrying clothes, until not seen except as a figure wrapped
the last scene shows him on his death
bed, and he recovers visibility. We
hear his voice and we see his actions,
A UNIVR 88AL PICTURE
IN "JENNIC GERHARDT"
SYLVIA SIDNEY
In "Jennie Gerhardt"
Sylvia Sidney plays one of the most difficult roles ever essayed by
ал
actress 23 the heroine of Theodore Drelser's "Jennie Ger- hardt," which comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday. The picture is a B. P. Schulberg production for Paramount.
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KING'S:——
HONG KONG
"The Invisible Man" ORIENTAL:
"Going Hollywood”
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:-
"Hello, Sister!”
MAJESTIC;-
3 On A Honeymoon"
STAR:-
"It's A Boy**
KING'S :-
Coming
"Jennie Gerhardt"
QUEEN'S:-
"Manhattan Melodrama"
CENTRAL:-
"After Marriage"
ORIENTAL;
"Men Of Chance" "This Day and Age" ALHAMBRA:-- "Dreyfus"
A ParamountTM Picture
STAR:
and fashions which took place dur- ing the period.
Although she is only twenty two years old, Miss Bidney has won Jop runking among the film's dramatic actresses, following outstanding verformances in "Madame Butter- Sy." " Pick Up.” “An American | Fragedy," " Merrily We Go To Hell" and other films made during her three years in Hollywood. Prior to
that period she was considered one of the most talented young · ac-. tresses of the New York stage. She scored her greatest stage hit in Nina Delmar's "Bad Girl."
In "Jennie Gerhardt," Miss Sidney heads a cast which includes Donald Cook, Mary Astor, `H, B. Warner and Edward Arnold. Marion Gering, who directed her Girl" on the stage,
Literary critics have pronounced "Jennie Gerhardt" the greatest study of modern woman, ever writ- ten by an American author. It is the story of a girl destined for love in "Bad who finds spiritual happiness only and in "Madame Butterfly" and after the most dramatic adventures other films. and misadventures such a girl can' } encounter.
eight years, while Miss Sidney The film covers a span of twenty
changes from a fresh and lovely girl of eighteen into a gray-haired woman almost fifty; but still re- taining the same charm as in her youth.
How? There are studio secrets that are never told. They are, Mr. Edmund, St. John Debon- perhaps, guarded as stock in trade. naire John Monson, His Majesty's This much, however, is known. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Director Whale, cameraman or rather the result of his actions. Plenipotentiary at Mexico City, to Charles Edeson, and Jack Pierce,Doors open, steps are heard, things be His Majeay's Envoy Extraordin Universal make-up
inside rooms and outside also move for ary and Minister: Plenipotentiary
expert dis-no apparent reason. We even see covered, after months of ceasless a bicycle going along as it were on ite. The actress is required not only at Riga, Tallinn, and Kovno.
experiment and the employments own. It is a triumph of the film to. vary her characterization with Mr. Archibald John Kerr, Clark Kerr, His Majesty's Envoy Ex-system."
o' the well-known trial and error magician's art.
the tremendous possibil-
It was a pleasure to hear exclama. the advancing years, but to shade traordinary and Minister Plenipo-ties offered with the use of smaltions of delight from many children, her performance in keeping with chiefy Chinese, at, these wonders. the changes in feminine conduct
in
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tentiary at Stockholm, to be His mirrors arranged Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and same manner as magicians Minister Plenipotentiary at Mexico ploy in creating uptical illusions. City.
Perhaps an idea was borrowed from Mr. Thrustan or
the late Harry Houdini... At any rate the idea worked, and the "invisible man" stalks through the picture, a moving force, without form ör
Mr. Charles Michael Palairet, CM.G.. His Majesty's Envoy Ex- "traordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary at Bucharest, to be His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Stock-feature. holm.
Bir Reginald Harvey Hoare was knighted last year. He is 52 years of age, and has had wide ex- perlence in the Diplomatic Ser- vice, especially in the East. In 1929 he was raised to the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary while employed in the British Residency in Cairo, and was promoted to the post of British Minister, at Teheran in 1931. From 1914 to 1919 he saw "service in Russia, at Petrograd and.
Archangel.e
With this complicated process it was even made possible for Claude Rains, who plays the title role, to be seen as he fades "from his 'real self into, the shadow that is the man."Invisible. He is seen disrobing, and his clothes fall from his form. Nothing but invisibility remains.
"This much you can say," says Director Whale with a twinkle in bis eye, The Invisible Man is not wrapped in cellophane!"
With the exception of Gloria Stuart, who has the feminine lead, Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen was the cast of "The Invisible Man" is appointed Minister. to Riga, Tallin, all-English. Dudley Diggers, Henry, and Kovno in 1930. He entered Travers, Una O'Connor, Wiliam Foreign Office in 1908. He was Harrigan and Merle Tottenham all First Secretary at The Hague from of them hall from the British 1919 to 1922, was transferred to Isles.
be Counsellor of Embassy in
Brussels in 1928,
Mr. Kerr, who is a son of the late Mr. John Keir Clark, of Cross- basket, Hamilton, entered the dip- lomatic service in 1905 and served In Berlin, Buenos Aires, Washing ton, Rome, and Teheran before being employed at the Foreign -Office from: 1916-1919.
In 1919 he went to Tangler and in 1922 to Cairo as counsellor to
A Good Film
The King's Theatre are fortunate in having obtained this film, "The Invisible Man," for it will draw full houses for them. Taken from the novel by H.G. Wells it is very near to the story, with the exception that the police in their hunt for the Invisble Man are provided with the latest inventions of science such as hrond- casting, HG Wells in his fantastic
For
the residency. En 1925 he was ap-stories has always been very painstak pointed Minister to Guatemala ing as to detail, and around one "and in 1928 Minister to Chile, marvelous idea he always depicts
He remained at Santiago until the incidents real as to life. 1930, when the Legation was raised instance the Invisible Man is only in- visible himself, but his food would not to the rank of Embassy and was be invisible until digested. Similarly appointed Minister in Stockholm he leaves lo tprints in the snow which in 1932;
form his undoing because by tracing them the police shoot him,
* The technique of the film is extraor-
Mr. Palairet was appolated Min- ister to Roumanta in 1929 After dinary and we are presented with the serving in Rome Vienna, Paris, exact state of affairs that would occur. and Athens he was attached to the Peace Delegation at Paris in 1918, acting as First Secretary there in 1919. Subsequently he served in Tokio, and Bekir and at the For- elgn Office,
if a man were to find sh slizir that might render him invisible. The scene depicting him taking off his bandages in front of a mirror is quito extraordi nary as to its realism, and can but leave others to surmise how it has been done.
ALHAMBRA
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cannot
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Answering the yearning in each other's eyes ... and forgetting. caution when adventure beckous
HELLO SISTER!
JAMES DUNN
ASU PITTS
THE TRAGIC MYSTERY OF REAL LIFE THAT DIVIDED THE WORLD INTO TWO FACTIONS/
Not In It
A Négro cloakroom › attendant was badly startled one night when a guest in evening dress rushëd in and began to smash one, hat after another.
"Hold on, boss. What you all
* doin'? What fo' you smashin' up
dese silk tiles fo'?"
DREYFUS
CEDRIC
HARDWICKE
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
PICTURE THAT WILL LINGER IN YOUR MEMORY FOR ÉVER
"I want to find my own," said the man "It's an opera hat: collapsible, you
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ZASU PITTS HENRIETTA CROSMAN CHARLES STARRETT JOHN MACK - BROWN * IRENE “HERVEY›
Directed by James Tinting Screen. Play by Edward T. Lowe and Raymond Van Sickle. From the novel, "Promenade Deck” by lakhel Ross.
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"SILVER DOLLAR
The Government
WATSON AND IDDON HIT CENTURIES
P. T. Eckersley again won the toss for Lancashire yesterday, and, though the pitch appeared to be in perfect condition, the visiting county scored only 45 runs in the first hour, At the close of play! however, the total had been taken to 407 for two wickets. And a
Watson gave a difficult chance to Lee (J. W. off Mitchell-Innies when he had scored 25 but at 74 Hop- wood was caught at first slip. At the lunch interval the score was 102 for one wicket.
(Special Air Mall Service) ·
London, July 28. Lord Reading, speaking in the debate on the Government's new áir policy in the House of Lords, found no quarrel with the Gov- While Watson continued his un- ernment's decision to increase the enterprising, display, Iddon scored
Air Force though he permitted freely on the leg side. After bat- ting laboriously for two and three- Himself to wonder why the Goy-quarter hours, Watson completed
ernment's statement of POLICY should have been made at this mo.
ment before the Disarmament
his 50. Iddon reached hts 50′ in
eighty minutes, but was fortunate in being dropped by Lee (F).
Though the cricket before, tea, Conference was a proved failure when the score was 223 for one and so soon after the Government, wicket was unentertaining the had declared its approval of the batsmen subquently attacked the bowling severely, Iddon reached. French proposal for an Eastern
when his hundred in two and three- Locarno. But the essential point quarter hours, whereas Watson oc-
ten 4's in his 162
In Lord Reading's speech was his cupled one hour and fifty minutes announcement that
he was not longer in reaching three figures. prepared to oppose the Govern At 379, however, Burrough made a ne running catch to send back ment,
Iddon., Batting altogether four and What Liberals will ask is whe
a half hours, Iddon made 174 out ther Lord Reading is thus express of 305 in one of the best stands ng the views of the Liberal party ever put together for Lancashire. as a whole, both in the Commons He hit three 6's and seventeen 45. as well as in the Lords. It will Watson has included one 6 and come as a great surprise to not a few Liberals at Westminster if, Herbert Samuel does not lead his party into the Lobby in support of the Labour vote of censure on the Government's policy, next Monday. At a guess it can be no more, for a full-party meeting is not yet expressed ita views upon the matter-one would any that there is no doubt whatever that the majority the party in the Com-but Mons are, prepared actively to op pose the Government's policy. which is of course what one would expect.
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