TO-DAY
ONLY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934.
GULLNS
The Season's Most Delightful Cast
in the New Screen Hi
Clave GABLES Willian POWELL Myrna LOY
MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30.
METRO GOLDWYN-MAYER Picture
RKO Radio Announces
SPLENDID LIST OF PICTURES
FOR 1934-1935 SEASON
LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" TO BE MADE
ENTIRELY IN TECHNICOLOUR
Diversified Programine With Screen's
Best Talent
Radio: have apparently bought a mixed bunch of plays and no- vels and amongst the thirty-six of Radio's 50. features scheduled for 1934-35 outlined, to the distri bution forces at the convention: by Mr. Depeinet, are as follows:
The Last Days Of Pompeil: Bulwer-Lytton's classic. to be made as a special by Merian C Cooper.
She: by Rider Haggard also a Cooper Special
Joan Of Are: starring Katha- rine Hepburn, produced by Pan- dro Berman.
The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy, starring Katharine Hepburn produced by Pandro Berman.
The Little Minister, by Sir James Barrie, starring Katharine Hepburn, now in preparation, Pandro Berman producing. from an adaptation by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman; now in work for fall release.
Allen Corn. Broadway play by Sidney Howard, to star Ann Har- ding.
Radio ·City Revels, musical about Radio City, starring Gin- ger Rogers and Fred Astaire and featuring radio names; Pandro Berman to produce.
The Fountain, by Charles Mor- gan starring Ann Harding with Brian Ahearne featured, suppor- ted by Jean Hersholt, Paul Lükas and Violet Kemble-Cooper; to be produced by Pandro Berman and directed by Jane Murin.
Roberta, Broadway musical by Jerome Kern, "with adaptation by Otto Harbach and Jern from Alice Duer Miller's novel to co-star Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, with Pandro Ber- man producing.
The Three Musketeers, by Alex- ander Dumas, to star Francis Lederer to be produced by Ken- nett Macgowan and directed by John Ford.
El Dorao, by Edgecumb Fin- chon and Albert Shelby Devino. to star Francis Lederer: B.F. Fineman to produce this story of early California, from an adapta- tion by Jane Muran.
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MAE WEST'S PLANS
Mae West: has announced, be- tween scenes of her current pro- duction of "TT AIN'T NO ́ SIN.”. her plans for future films.
Upon her recommendation Paramount has purchased "ME AND THE KING." a story of an actress who, during a triumphal tour of Europe, almost-wins-the kingdom from a bedazzled mon- arch Miss West will write the screen play,
The picture will follow "QUEEN OF SHEBA," a story by David Boehm. recently announced 'as the star's next production follow- ing "IT AINT NO SIN"
Katharine Hepburn, first lady of the screen, will make three pictures for R-K-0 Radio, the first of which will be "THE LITTLE MINISTER" by Sir James Barrie, to be followed by
JOAN OF ARC"
Wheeler and Woolsey in a scene from their latest RKO Radio Picture "Cockeyed Cavaliers" which is scheduled for early
release in Hong Kong,
Helen
Spencer Tracy and Helen Twelvetrees as they appear in the Fox "WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPSTM commencing next Sun-
day at the King's Theatre
Ann Harding.
Irene Dunne
Robert, Woolsey,
The Gay Divorce, New York stage play to star Fred Astaire and Ginger. Rogers, supported by Alice Brady, Edward Everett Hor ton, Erik Rhodes and Eric Blore; Pandro Berman producing. Mark Sandrich directing George Marion, Jr. writing screen play from the musical comedy book by Dwight Taylor:
By Your Leaye, Broadway stage play by Gladys Hurlburt and Emma Wells to be produced by H.N. Swanson and dir ected by Wiliam Sefter, with a cast including Mary. Astor, Frank Morgan and Skeets Gallagher. Romance In Manhattan original by Don Hartman to star Franci Lederer, produced by Pan- dro Berman directed by Stephen, Roberts from a screen play by Ballsbury Field.
An
The Richest Girl In The World, En original to star Miriam Hopkin with Pandro Berman producing.
Hudson River, featuring Bruce Cabot, to be produced by Glendon Allvine.
The World By The Tail, ircel the Continental play, "Ringst- rasse Number Three" by Alador Laszlo.
Ginger Rogers,
Bert Wheeler.
The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton's novel to co-star Irenne Dunne and John Boles, to be produced by Pandro Berman from a screen play by Sarah Z Mason and Victor Heerman with Philip Moeller directing..
Spmen Trazy
WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS
"
For months critics have been predicting that Spencer TTRCY
Two Untitled Irene Dunne Star- would soon emerge as a full fled. ring Pictures:
Leslie Howard,
Dorothy Lee
The Sea Giz Almed by the adventurers James Shackleford and George Dromgold on the Great Barrier Reef on the North Australian coast; to be produced by Clf Reed.
Kentuck Kernels original with words and music by Bert Kalmer and. Harry Ruby, to star Wheeler. and Woolsey, with HN. Swan- strom producing, P
ged star. All that was needed they said was'a part "strong en- ough to bring out his latent dra- matic talent...
That part has come at last in the role of Murray Golden, in the Fox picture "While New York Sleeps," which was formerly tit- led "Now I'll Tell" from the book of the same name by Mrs, Arnold Rothstein, the wife of the famous gambler.
The pictures opens at the King's Theatre on the 19th of August for a run of three days.
Winfield Sheehan came to that decision when filming was about half completed and, announced that Tracy would be starred in this and future pictures.
The film is a cavalcade of New York's sporting and night Ute. The city's most exciting years, from 1910 to 1932, are lived agai in this powerful story of a wo-
One Untitled Wheeler And Wool- mán great love for a strange ` sey Comedy.
man. It's a story that has never Ho, for Shanghai, musical to be mate details of a fascinating life, been told before, revealing inti- produced by Lou Brock.
One unitled musical to be pro- duced by Lou Brock.
Jungle. Frank Buck's first, Van Beuren wild animal feature-for 1934-35
*** Adventure Girl, Joan Lowell's expedition to Central America, also a Van Beuren production, Three Stand Alone novel Arnot Robertson to star Johnny Weismuller in a story of the jun- gles.
Joel McCrea,
by
The Short Subject Plans, The 104 Radio shorts for 1994- will feature among others, Etting, Chick Chandler, Kennedy, Beatrice Lille, Ellington Clark and Me
and Leon Erro, These be featured in the comedies, of which there ght series, totaling 52
and the dramatic events that led up to its tremendous climax in the man's tragic, mysterious death.
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TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.B.W.
2.
on 355 Metres
to 2.15 pm-European
gramme.
pro-
1 p.m.--Local time and weather
report.
1.03 p.m.-Recorded music. 1.15 p.m.-A relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra" from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room (by courtesy of the management).
1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulleting,
Rugby Press news, etc, 2.15 pm -Close down,
4 to 7p.m-Chinese programine. 6 to 8.15 pm-Childrens' Concert.
to 10.30 p.m.-European pro-
gramme.....
די
pm.-London and New York Stock and Commodity quota- tions.
7.05 to 7.30. p.m.-
Band Selections from Light
Operas
Ruddiyore (Sullivan arr, Winter- bottom) The Band of HM. Coldstream Guards..... Dorothy (Cellier)The Band of
HM Coldstream Guards, Trial by Jury: (Sullivan), The Sorcerer (Sullivan)-The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards,
8 p.m. Local time and weather
7.30 to 8.15 p.m
Variety Bong-Brave Hearts.
The fact that. Tracy won star- dom on the strength of his por-report. trayal of Murray Golden is a good advance tip on the power of his performance, In the picture, as In real life it was Golden's credo to "live every minute I'm alive and die when I'm dead.... to get all the fun there is out of life....be the head of the par- ade." This is the stuff from which Tracy creates a great characterization,
to
Helen Twelvetrees plays the important role of Virginia, the wife of Murray Golden. She is a girl of refinement who marries. Golden, and, because she loves him, overlooks his vices until she learns that he has been unfaith- ful.
And the blonde charmer with whom Golden carries on a secret. love affair for several years is portrayed by Alice Faye..
Others in the excellent sup- porting cast are Robert Geckles, Henry O'Neill, Hobart Cavanaugh, O. P. Huntley, Jr., Vince Barnett and in a small part Shirley Tem- ple the child wonder actress who
ote the scenes in Stand and Cheer Edwin Burke of Bad Girl fame wrote the dia- logue and also directed the pl ture under Mr Sheehan's per- sonal supervítioné:
Up
Band
Song Near and Yet So Far
"Evelyn Laye (Soprano). Band-Maurice Chevalier Bongs Selection Van Phillips. and his Concert Band. Vocal-Take Me Away from the River The Four Musketeers. Planoforte True. Planoforte A Thousand Good- nights-Rale da Costa accom panted by the New Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Ray Noble,
Waltz-Sweet Hawallan Dream Girl-The, Hawaiian Marimba Players.re
Song-Slumberland"
Bong Josephine (from "Little Women")-Les Allen (Bari) tone), a Selection-Noel Coward Medley
The B.B.C. Dance Orchestră. conducted by Henry HAIL 8.15 to 8.50 p.m.
Orchestral Programme Suite in G. (Bach arr. Goossens)
London Symphony Orches
(a) Meret, (b) algue
Courante (4) Allemande, (e) Bourree, (f) Gavotte
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