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THE INVISIBLE MAN
At The Oriental
THE LITTLE GIANT
For The Alhambra
Universal has completed the
An exceptionally notable list of filming of "The Invisible Man," players appear in the important which will be showing t the roles of Edward G. Robinson's new Oriental Theatre on Sunday, Mon-starring vehicle for First National day and Tuesday. A period of The Little Giant," which is com more than two years was permitting to the Alhambra Theatre on ed, to elapse, between the purchase
Tuesday next. of the HG Wells story and its transfer to the screen. “
Robinson himsell, who sprang to The problem was how to photo-rame on the screen in such pictures graph invisibility. The idea of an 1.3 "Little Caesar," "Five Star Invisible man is all very well in a Final" and "Smart Money," con- book, but motion-picture charac- tinued to ride the wave of popul- ters have to be shown. The tech-arity with such cutstanding pro- nicians were consulted. For once ductions as "Silver Dollar" and they could do little more than "Tiger Shark." Noted for his shake their heads, Camera' men strong characterizations, he, is said snorted as the nation.
to have outdone all his previous "Show the presence of the in-efforts with his present role of an visible man by spirit wires, moving ex-Beer Baron of Chicago, who books, chairs and other articles. has retired and is attempting to Show him by suspending a coat, crash exclusive social circles. trousers, and hat on a wire. Have a cloud of steam, or mist, or a shroud of something pass before the camera."
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Mary Astor, one of the most polished actresses of the screen. has the leading feminine role op- But the invisible man has been posite Robinson. She will be re- photographed. After long experi-membered for her successful por- ment they discovered the possi-
trayal of the leading feminine roles blitles of small mirrors, arranged
In such pictures as "A Successful
as the magicians employ them in
Calamity" with "George Ariss." creating optical illusions.
"Holiday" and "Behind Office Doors."
Helen Vinson, who had import- ant roles in "Grand Slam" "Law- ver Man" and "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" plays the part
Claude Rains, who is the pic- ture's invisible man. will be seen walking along. completely dressed and with a hat perched jauntily on what would be a head, if any head were there. On his deathbed of an adventuress in high society his head and shoulders will be visible. but the rest" of his body will be merely a dent in the covers, In another scene he will be shown | Grey, of Air Eagles" and "The disrobing, and as his, clothes tall Public Defender" fame, is also one awäy, nothing but Invisiblity will of the loves of Robinson in the remain.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.13
1.15-3.30
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who takes the hard boiled racketeer for a ride to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars. Shirley
picture,
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY SALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
LAST
4 TIMES TO-DAY
THE
MOST SPECTACULAR MUSICAL SHOW THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!
1000 SURPRISES
AND SENSATIONS!
FOOTLIGHT PARADE
JAMES CAGNEY RUBY KEELER DICK WELL JOAN BLONDELL
"VIVA VILLA!”
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"Viva Villa!" Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's candidate for epic bon- ours in the screen's current crop of important photoplays is now showing at the Queen's Theatre, after one of the most adventurous production periods in history,
OLEMING ROAD WANGHA TEL. 20472
TO-MORROW. MONDAY-TUESDAY YOU'VE SEEN THRILL PICTURES
BEFORE BUT NEVER ANYTHIGN SO AMAZING AND MYSTIFYING AS THIS ONE.
The
INVISIBLE MAN
about.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934.
FINAL
SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
AT
3.80, 5.10.7.15
& 9.30 PM.
AÍK-CONDITIONED THEATRE
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They'll be here aft
soans, those two un-
killable crackpots
BERT clupt:
WHEELER
ROBT
WOOLSEY
With marrie maidens and wenches faire to locke upon!
TADIO
/Egad! Egadi 'Tis a tayle of olde lyme chivalrie that doth make the bellia shakal
COCKEYED CAVALIERS”
MANDALAY
At The Alhambra
With
THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE Directed by MARK SANDRICH. Pandro S. Berman, executive pro
ducer Music and lyrics by Will Jason and Val Burban
Warner
BERT AND BOB
Cockeved Cavaliers
of the
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 85313 -25332
TO-MORROW
CHARLIE CHANS COURAGE
A FGX Picture with WARNER
OLAND
DRUE LEYTON
•
DONALD WOODS:
ON THE STAGE-
TO-MORROW at 9.30 P.M. Only
SERAPHIM STRELKOFF
THE QUEEN'S
TO-DAY AT THE "CINEMA
HONG KONG
KING'S:TM
"Cockeyed Cavaliers"
QUEEN'S:
"Viva Villa"
ORIENTAL:- -
"Footlight Parade"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:—
"Mandalay".
MAJESTIC:-"
"The Invisible Man"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Charlie Chan's "Courage" "Thirty-Day Princess"
ORIENTAL:
"Invisible Man"
A NEW GARBO
In The Painted Veil
What will Greta Garbo look like in her next film?
Everybody ・ who has зеет trousered "Queen Christina?« "is wondering.
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MAJESTIC
A THEATRE
Nathan Rosit Kowloon. Tel. 57222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ¡At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
H G. WELI S "The
INVISIBLE MAN"
WITH
GLOBIA STUART CLAUDE RAINS
her CHARLIE CHAN'S
COURAGE
Garbo will this time be very feminine. Also, according to her
Comedy of Cockney director, she will be a new Garbe.
Manners
She is making "The
Fainted Veil," adapted from Somerset Maugham's well-known novel,
Since she went to Hollywood she has played alluring women
Warner Oland Again
:
All the nationalities of Europe The famous imármity, kleptr- and Asie-with a sprinkling of mania, provides much
"Britannia of Billingsgate" com- Polynesia for good luck are re-joyous action in Cockeyed. Caval shortly to the Queen's Thea- Presented among the hundred orters" Bert Wheeler and Roberte, is a comedy of Cockney man- of nine different countries. She more beautiful and exotic women Woolsey's
musical comedy
ners based on the gay
has play of the
been' three times. Russian, who throng the Polyglot Rangoon showing to-day at the
King':
same title written by Christine twice English, twice American, cafe in which take place some of Theatre,
Sope-Slade and Sewell Stokes. Its twice French, twice Swedish. the most dramatic scenes in the
story concerns a Billingsgate wo-
Once a Spanish singer, once a First National picture, "Mandalay,"
man who left her little fish and Dutch "girl, once an Italian, and which opens to-day at the
chip business in the Market to be- once a Dutch-Javanes girl. Alhambra Theatre. with Kay
come a Alm star. The ludicrous Francis, Ricardo Cortez,
reactions of her husband and chil- Oland and Lyle Talbot in the
dren to their sudden change environment is the basis of many featured roles.
hearty laugh.
The main plank in the publicity platform is
star...playera- "Britannia of Billingsgate" is noted in talking pictures. for the debut of Violet Loraine sharply on the question of whether she had a career in speaking films, She acquits herself with the same easy assur Then she broke through again ance that made her the idol of
45 Mata Hari and as the Russisa "As You Desire Me" came her the public when she sterred in dancer in "Grand" Hotel.” After
Ex- tomboyish interpretation of Queen Eri ex- Christina,
Warner Oland, who brought Earl Derr Biggers" famous fiction oriental detective, Charlis Ohan to life on the screen, is now play- ing in his sixth Chan picture, "Charlie Chan's Courage" coming Darkened Hair
on Sunday to the King's Theatre. She began her American career
In the leading feminine role is
beautiful ot as a Spaniard in "The Torrent," Drue Leyton,
blonde her hair being 'darkened to suit
Theatre Guild product. Donald Woods plays the juvenile lead. the part. Her first talkie port was in "Anna Christie," and her. deep voice, speaking a throaty broken English, divided the critics
attraction
or more
at
ASW.
Wheeler is seen as a medieval vagabond whose kleptomaniac ten- dencies lead him and his partner into a maze of misunderstandings and misfortunes which Woolsey endeavours to straighten out in hitarious fashion. The comics do their singing, dancing, romancing A dozen
Chinese and and joking in early European Japanese girls are waitresses and costume against medieval back attendants. The troupe of fessional dancers who execute the and practical jokes are 1934 "vita 30-grounds, while their wisecracks, stately, languorous Burmese dan-fresh, ultra-modern and brand ces for the edification of the guests are Malay.
Dorothy Lee, Among the
the comely AK women who constitute the chief daughter of a commoner who is Nick's place are trying to evade a family-arranged English, French Scotch, Swedish, marriage with a Duke, carries a sweet romance with Bert Wheder. Russian. German, Italian and Theima Tood, a baron's wife, and Spanish girls.
Robert Woolsey are mirthful in Every European country is re- their complicated love-making. presented
the among
planters, "Cockeyed Cavaliers" is a film. business men, brokers. naval-usical with a smooth-running con officers and diplomatic represen- tinuity in which the dances, tatives who occupy the tables. comedy songs, lyrics and cummor. There are Sikhs, Hindus, Afghans, sounds are part of the story. The Siamese and Cingalese strolling ilm
also features two popular among the tables. And there are songs with hit proportions; name- ly, I Love to Dilly, Dally" and a few Americans
Went Hunting," by Will Jason Though their rationality has no direct bearing on the
and Val Burton, of "Penthouse story, the
and Isn't This serenade" birthplace of the principal actors
Night for Love" fame.
י
in the sequence adds to the foreign
the
1918. This picture is a personal
triumph for Miss Loraine. hibitors generally have cellent item of interest in the story of her reactions when the firm was given its premiere; a parallel to the story of the film
or not.
Now she is playing against a Chinese background as an Aus- trian girl in "The Painted Veil," Her clothes have always been dis- 1stinguished; in her new picture she
is under an Oriental infuence.
Supporting Violet Loraine Gordon Harker, England's prem ler Cockney comedian, whose rich, fruity performance as
a Billings- gate porter is undoubtedly his fin est. performance to date.
Other players in support of this team of funters and Kay H 21
mond, John Mills, Druscilla Wills and Anthony Holles. Direction was made by Sinclair Hill
All of them were armed. atmosphere of the scene. Warner Each group of Americans had a Oland, who plays Nick, the owner guard of federal soldiers supplied of the cafe, was born in Sweden. an Oriental resort keeper by the by the Mexican government.
Rafaela Ottiano, The Countess, Is' man she loves. Her escape and The cinematic adventurers, with & native of Genos, Italy, Ricardo | pursuit form some of the most Wallace Beery in the role of Pan- Cortez was born in Vienna, Aus¦ exciting episodes imaginable. cho Villa, travelled by plane, au- tria. Kay Francis, the star, is the Michael Curtiz drected the picture tomobile, horse, burro and foot only native American of the four. from the screen play by Austin with plenty of the latter. Seenes "Mandalay" is a thrilling ro- | Parker and Charles Kennyon, bas- were made in mountain fastnesses rnance of a beautiful Russian exile ed on the story by Paul Hervey where even burros could not go, who is sold in virtual slavery to Fox. and the equipment had to be packed in by man-power,
At times the cast lived in the luxury of special trakas on side- tracks en little-used railroad lines.
To get its authentic backgrounds and its countless thousands of extra players, motion picture mak- ers risked death more than once. The "Viva Villa" expedition into the interior of Mexico, ighting | At times, they lived in palatial old jungle "fevers and mountain cold, haciendas enormous ranks with the "long mush Into the Artic Circle for "Eskimo" and the adventurous trek into Africa for ""Trader Horn" as a daring and ambitious enterprise.
More than 10,000
old rains
or
cori-
SHOWING
TO-DAY
Magnificent warrior
Adresllarus
eding ronglahod... Ruchlen w war! Val
ALL-STAR BASEBALL
TEAM
"The All-Star Major League Base. ball Team have arranged to tour the Orient this Autumn and win sail from Vancouver, B.C. by the Empress of Japan on October 20.
AT 2.30, 5.10
7.20 & 9.30
QUEEN'S
Vive V
with thirty and forthy rooms, no bathrooms, long since gutted of furniture. The actors slept cold, tile floors, wrapped in native scrapes and lived on native food. miles were Months were spent in this covered during the actual filming.stant travelling, constant filming. Location scouting parties who sometimes they moved in fleets left Hollywood early in the sum- mer of 1393 and zig-zagged through the entire interior, cover- ed at least that much more. As many as 6,000 extra players, In- cluding federal soldiers and peon armies recruited from the villages, were used in some of the battle
"scenes.
of airplanes, which deposited them in jungle clearings for days at a time. They did nat leave Mexico and recross the R'o Grande Irto the United States until-the end of the year.
The result of this long march comes to the screen as "Viva Villa", a fictional version of the life and Beginning last June, when the loves of Pancho Villa, perhaps the int scouting parties went across greatest figure lo world history'in the Rio Grande and began their the first twenty years of this cen tortuous progress through the tury. Through the sage runs a wilderness and deserts of north-strong and dramatic plot, with em Mexico, work on the picture Berry as Villa, and with Fay V progressed steadily.
and Katherine, De Mile two most important women in his Ife.
At one time five separate units were operating far in the interior. of Central Mexico. Each was in charge of a handful of Americans from the studio; each was using from 500 to 8,000 natives every day. Most of these, extra players were Indians, many had never seen a motion picture and had only a vague idea what it was all
as the
Others in the notable, cast in- clude Leo Carllio, Donald. Cook, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Puglia, Phillip Cooper, and Henry, B. Wilt- hall, Jack Conway directed,
"Viva Villa" takes its place as one of the most entertaining, and important pictures of the year.
Fanic to comincel Villa, the magnificens, recaptures the world's ' ins
agination in the greatest
epse of Gersonal adventure
sunca "The Big Parada"!
WALLACE
BEERY
Man of Action
She has taken "a new leading man, Herbert Marshall. In all his film roles up to date Herbert has been the perfect gentleman, perfectly attired. He begins in
this way in the picture. He is the serious medical man who elects himself to rid Ching of cholera.
The infidelity of his wife con verta him into a daveman. He drags her into the plague ravaged regions in the hope of killing her. He loses his clothes sense, wearing soiled and rumpled suita. HA orders the destruction of a city to purge it of the plague. He fights brigands.
Marshall says that it is the most virile part he has ever played. The suave gentleman of leisure be comes a man of action,
The Director.. Richard Boleslavsky, s Pole whe made "Men in White, is direct ing the picture. He has put an other handsome man in the film, George Brent, Irishman, who mar- ried Ruth Chatterton two VORTS ngo and was her leading man.
Greta Garbo has never been s moment late at the studio since she began making her new film.
She is in at 9 D.
to the minute. She takes exactly one bear for lunch. There have been no outbursts of temperament, no diarbing ories of "I want to be alone."
In fact, her devotion to work has completely blown out the old suggestions that she was
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thing mass of nerves and tempersi ment which insisted on taking the next bost to Sweden at the first slight breeza in the studio.
High Fraße gide The highest praise for her work in the now film comes from that well-known Danish actor, Jean Hersholt, who appear in The Painted Veil as her father.
Hersholt says: "Greta - is just the best tropper in the world. Bha knows what she has got to do "and" she never gets temperamental cheap publicity stunts. She is a natural gitiAKA
Hollywood does not stand her boor
nhout doing, it shy She is BH
under
Charlie Chan in the only real rival Sherlock Holmes ever had for popularity with theatre-goers and, as enacted by Oland, a native of Sweden, has mounted steadily in
#creen favour.
"Charlie Chan's Courage" is romantic as well as dramatic, with its action taking place in, San Francisco and Hollywood. The screen play was written by Beton I. Miller from an Earl Darr Big- gers-novel.
make-up once she is off the set, and she does not paint her nails
wear try to
fashionable clothes,"
or
1.
KAY
Francis
MANDALAY
TO-DAY
AT THE
ALHAMBRA
THATE 1.
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