DEMONSTRATION
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MODERN BALLROOM DANCING
5
by
MISS EVELYN CHEN
DANCE QUEEN OF CHINA 1994
(No pa the Stage at the Queen's)
With Her Partner :
MR. THEODORE
CHEN
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see everything that people talk about. I've learned to drive an Automobile since I came to Holly- wood, and we're going on trips, Daisy and I". ".
Daisy came from London with Diana, and manages both Diana and the lovely Kittle hillside home which they found. shortly after their arrival.
MIES In "Let's Try Again," Wynyard will be seen as a young girl who attempts to elope with another woman's husband, but is eventually set on the right track by an interfering, bachelor who is considered the catch of the season, and who quickly succumbs to the charms, of the fair Diana.
Mill Wynyard
call
it luck all the good things that have come to her since she arrived in America-but others do not agree with her. They know ita ali due to Plana, herself whom England sent to: America to prove that her nove Lats were right.
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DIANA WYNYARD
Calls It Luck..
Diana
looks just as a Diang should. The name fits her like the proverbial glove. Cool and calm, creamy-skinned and clear- eyed, she is a heroine of an English novel come to life.
Instead of studying a script on a studio set in Hollywood, she should have been sitting in the shade of, a flowering hedge, eat- ing strawberries bathed in the clotted cream of Devonshire. (You know your English novels, I hope!); But. somehow, she managed to appear as much at home amidst the hustle and bustle of movie production as heather-bedecked would in bower in her beloved homeland.
One may talk all one pleases about "the luck of the Irish,” but Diana Wynyard is one girl who Armly believes that the English have their share of good fortune. She insists that Luck has follow- ed her about ever since she step- pes off the traih in Hollywood more than a year ago.
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this
In the intervening time clear-skinned girl with blue-gray eyes and hair the colour of her, own England's golden honey has played leading roles in no less than four outstanding pictures. Two of them were heavy, dramas and two were light comedies: Cavalcade" and "Rasputin and the Empress." and "Where Sin- ners Meet" and "Let's Try Again." In the first, third and fourth at these she was co-starred - with Clive Brook.
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Scoring a decided hit in amateur play while she was still in school, she decided to make acting her life work and, after an intensive course of training In the technique of the stage, she made her first professional appearance as one of a number of cabaret guests in The Grand Duchess." Then began a long course of training with travel- ling repertoire companies. Her first notable successes were scor- ed in "Petticoat Influence" and "Lean Harvest, both of which had long London rúns.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY,
FLICKERS FROM
HOLLYWOOD
M.G.M. are progressing with their casting of David Copper- neld The most recent assign ments include; Hugh Williams as Steerforth, Lewis Stone as Mr. Wickfeld, Charles Laughton as Mr. Micawber, and Edna May Roland Oliver as Aunt Betsey." Young will also have a part.
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Ginger. Rogers is preparing for n "one girl" show. She intends to write. the music, design the costumes and scenery and create the dances for a musical play called "Three to Get Ready": She hopes to have it filmed after its stage run.
M.G.M.. are trying to buy the" screen rights of "Pygmalion" from Bernard Shaw. If they are successful, Jean Harlow will be given the leading role.
Negotiations are proceeding for
to
with Gladys Cooper star George Arliss in the Gaumont- British production, "The Iron Duke."
Detective Pat O'Brien of the "Bureau of Missing Persons" is on the trail. He is featured with Beste Davis, Lewis Stone and Glenda Farrell in the sen- sational picture, showing
att the Alhambra Theatre from
Thursday.
Madeleine Carroll will play op posite Clive Brook, as Queen Caro- line Mathilde in The Dictator the first picture of the new British company, Toeplitz Production......
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Douglas Fairbanks Jun, is sell-". ing his house and his Hollywood possessions. It is rumoured that he will apply for British nationa- lity and stay in England per- manently:
A play "Star of the Circus," which is set in a circus ring will on the famous Cirque be put d'Hiver, Paris with Lillian Harvey as the star if present plans ma-
ture.
Lemon Drop Kid is scheduled as Lee Tracy's next picture.
John Barrymore is considering an offer to appear in a British picture.
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Katharine Hepburn has signed a contract with Radio to make six films in the next two years.
Jean Muir and Franchot Tone will be teamed together in War ner's, Just Out of College.
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Marlene Dietrich will appear In a Parisian revue, next season If she can get the necERSATT PET- mission from Paramount.
She gave no consideration to the movies until she came to America to appear in the Broad- way production of "The Devil Passed." Once seen, however, Diana Wynyard is not easily for- min gotten and she was literally de- luged with screen offers.
"Bed of Roser?
"When 1 algned my first Alp contract,” she said, "I thought I was stepping into a bed of roses. Knowing absolutely no- thing about the movies, I imagin ed that it was an idyllic sort of life. lived in an earthly paradise, with long leisure periods between. Dictures I thought that I could spend these frequent and pro- Longed vacations in travelling ground to various place of inter-
est.
"Do you know, I haven't seen one bit of this lovely country! I haven't had time; hopping from one, pieture, to the next. But I
"get" shall The first chance. I'm going on a grand tour and
"(Continued on "Previous Col.)...
Edward G. Robinson's next picture will be Gaol Breaker based on a story by WR. Burnett, who also wrote "Little Caesar
Cora Sue Collins has been given a part in Youth and Beauty...
Jean Hersholt will appear as Greta Garbo's father in The. Painted Vell, He filled a similar role in The Rise of Helga,
Brian Ahers has been offered the lead opposite Helen Hayes in What Every Woman Knows, the screen version of the famous-Br J. M. Barrie play."
Shirley Temple is demanding her father) another in- (through
Shirley crease in her salary wants £500 a week, but the studio will offer only about hair that
SEPTEMBER 5, 1934.
Miss Mildred Dawn who will appear with her partner in Cabaret features during the Dhaner Dance at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden on Saturday night
BERTHOLD VIERTEL FOR TWO GAUMONT BRITISH PICTURES
Brilliant Director Of Child- study Signs New Contract
an.
An interesting addition to the list of brilliant film-directors up- der contract to the Gaumont Bri- tish Picture Corporation is reveal ed in the rporation's nouncement of a contract for Berthold Viertel, whose first ́ Bri- tish - film," "LITTLE, FRIEND,” has recently been completed, and is reported to be the most con...." vincing, most delicate and sincere study of childhood ever put on the screen.
!
Mr. Viertel left England last week for a short holiday in Holly- wood, where his wife, Solka Vier- script- tel, is, well-known as a writer, having worked with 'con- on "Queen spicuous success,
for Greta Christina "
Garbo, whose close friend she is. He will return to England early in the autumn to take up a year's con- tract with Gaumont-British, for. whom he will direct not less than two new flims.
The contract. comès as a direct result of the great impression made on Gaumont-British execa tives by the finished flm of LITTLE FREEND." This ple- ture, based on a deeply psycho- logical child-study by Ernst Lothar, a
Viennese Journalist, presented a difficult task for any Alm-director; when, however, the subject was first suggested, Mr. Michael Balcon, the Gaumont British Director of Praductions, immediately got into touch with Mr. Viertel, whose previous work had shown him to be a director praticularly suited for the pro- duction of delicate and imagina- tive material, and ■ preliminary contract was signed by Power of Attorney while, Viertel was still in
Hollywood,
Berthold Viertel was born in Vienna, where he became one of Austria's foremost drama-critics
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and producers. Later, he WAS associated with Reinhardt, and was largely responsible for the of the German regeneration drama, which, in the years im- mediately succeeding "the war.
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had fallen into a slough of BELA “DRACULA”
morbid realism: Viertel brought back imaginative treatment to the Central European stage, and later brought the same influence to bear on German films, one of his most notable productions be ing the classic "Adventures of a 10-Mark Nate."?
Eventually, he went to Holly- wood, where he met with consid erable success, directing, among among other films, the famous
"Seven Faces," Paul Munt's star-
ring-vehicle. His clever wife was, meanwhile, making a name as a script-writer, and has worked for some time in close contact with Greta Garbo and her producers.
LITTLE FRIEND," the child. star of which, 14-year old Nova Pilbeam, has just received a three-years contract with Gen mont-British, is considered by Viertel to be the highlight of his In the preparation film-career. of the screen-treatment, he was assisted by Margaret Kennedy, of "THE CONSTANT NYMPH" fame, and Christopher Isherwood; as well as Robert Stevenson, expert Gaumont-British scenarist and Associate Producer.,
LITTLE FRIEND," which is due for West-End release shortly, In- cludes in its cast Matheson Lang. Lydia Sherwood, Arthur Marget- son, Tommy Hanley and Jean Cadell, who leaves shortly for Hollywood where she will play Micawber" in. M.G.M's "Mrs. forthcoming Dickensian Alm.
Lewis Stone at Capi, Webb in
Farret
ureau of Minikanje §.
at the Alhambra Thestre on Thursday.
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WHAT WAS THIS, UNSERN MENACE THAT STRUCK IN THE DARK?
TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.B.W.
on 355 Metres
to 2.15 p.m.-European pro- "gramme.
1 pm-Local time and weather
report.
* MAD. MURDERING
MIGHT
TERROR
Fox Trot Did You ever see a Dream Walking? The B.B.C. Dance Orchestrą.“ Descriptive Sketch Clapham and Dwyer on Hobbies-Clap- ham and Dwyer, Instrumental - Liebestgaum
(Love's Dream), Instrumental The Blue Danube
-Ivory Keys Grand Piano Or. chestra.
Vocal Duet-Just an Echo' in the Valley Chick Endor and Char-
པ 1:|:|:|: Le Farrell.
Dreams.-The
Vocal A Million Ponce Sisters.
Band-Irving Berlin Waltz Songs
-Medley
1.03 p.m.-Recorded music 1:15 pm relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room (by-courtesy of the manage. 8.15 to 8.40 p.m.---- ...ment).
1.30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins,
Rugby Press news, etc. 2.15 pm-Close down.
4 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 6 to 6:15 pm-Children's Concert 7 to 10.40 p.m.-European" pro-
gramme.
p.m.-London and New York Stock and Commodity quota- tions.
7.05 to 7.30 p.m.-Carnaval Bulte, Op. 9. (Schumann)-London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon Ronald. 1. Preambule.
2. Pierrot.
3. Arlequin.
4. Valse Noble.
5. Enseblus:
6 Florestan
-7. Coquette.
8. Papilliona
9. Lettres Dansantes.
10. Chiarina.
11. Chopin
12. Estrella.
13. Reconnaissance.
14 Pantalon et Colombine.
15. Valse,
16. Aveu,
17. Pause
18. Marche
des Davidsbundler
contre les Philistins,
8 p.m.-Local time and weather
report
7.30 to 8.15 p.m.-
Variety
Bong-Vislons in the Smoke-
Mile. Lucienne Boyer (Soprano). Plano Bolo--Can't We raik J
Over-Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends,
Fox Trot-On a Steamer Coming.
Band.
Debroy Somers
Song Memories
Violet Loraine-Medley Violet
Loraine (Comedienne).
Medley of Old Time Songs.
Sydney Gustard (Organ).
50 Years of Bong-The London
Palladium Orchestra. 8.10 to 9 pm
Chamber Music Quartelte Minuet - Transcrip- tion from Sonata in G (Schu- bert, Op. 78).
Quartette Moment Musical No. 3Transcription (Schubert) Lener Btring Quartette. Octet-Traumere! (For Strings Only). H.Squire Celeste Octet
Octe Perpetuum Moble (W
arr. Crooks).
Octet Valse Caprice (Rubin-.
stein, arr. Crooks). H. Squire Celeste Octe
Quartette-Barcarolle - Trans- cription (Tschaikowsky), Lener-String Quartette.
to 9.25 pm-
From The Studio
A recital by Mra D. Snowden
Jones (Boprano) accompanted by Mr. Frederick ARCO, ETCL
TRU PROGRAMME
Mason,
1. To, the Nightingale-Brahı
2. My Heart is in Bloom-Bral
3. The Cloths of Heaven-Dun-
bill.
4. Bummer Chaminade,
Recorded Violin Bolo-Indian
Lament (Dvorak-Kreisfer Fritz Kreisler, pa
1 Cherry Ripe, Horn.
2. Eriskay Love Liit-Kennedy-
Fraser.
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