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'HIDE OUT".
Coming To The Queen's
Here is one motion picture that will find favour in every eye, no matter how critical. The picture is "Bide-Out," the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer production that is scheduled to commence on Saturday at the Queen's Theatre. It brings Robert Montgomery back to us in one of is most entertaining characteriza- tions "Lucky" Wilson, the prankish post-repeal racketeer who Ands re- formation through contact with a farmer's family in a typical rural
setting.
Maureen O'Sullivan, always de pendable for an excellent per- formance, again repeats with her portrayal of Pauline the farmer's
daughter.
Whitford Kane, for thirty years a leading character actor of the Lon- don and New York stage, makes his screen debut as Miller, the farmer.
Mickey Rooney, 12-year-old actor. appears as Willie the pestiferous boy, and Elizabeth Patterson plays the former's wife.
“ROMANCE IN
THE RAIN"
Next Change At The King's
We
Take off that mustache, know you, Roger Pryor! In "Ro- mance in the Rain." Universal's Stanley Bergerman production, a new Roger Pryor emerges. That is, new 15 to facial and hirsute smoothfaced song changes. The writer of "Moonlight and Pret- zels" wears a sophisticated mus- tache and combs his hair straight back in this new production, as the writer of sizzling romances for love-lora young America, The new
arrangement is Roger's own idea, although he insists the mustache has no connection with his own artistic, musical temperament), It's Just one of those things that he happens to like, like trombones. and acting.
Pryor comes tq. the King' Theatre on Friday in "Romance in the. Rain." In which he 15 featured with Heather Angel,
Other performances worthy of beautiful young English actress...
mention are contributed by Edward Arnold, Edward Brophy and C. Henry Gordon.
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I'VE GOT YOUR
NUMBER
Comedy at Alhambra
The son of a famous father. Arthur Pryor, noted bandmaster and composer Roger naturally re- ceived a thorough musica; educa- tion, but preferred the dramatic stage. However, he still maintains an absorbing interest.In music and play a number of instruments
Roger has been in Hollywood but a short time, and considering. t's his Arst visit there, he's taking it all in and saying nothing Having worked hard all his life, climbing the ladder of success, Tung by rung, the business of being an actor is just that to him
business."
As Roger himself will tell you. he came out to movieland to work hard. He belleves acting before
can't
on the stage, and requires a sound. clear. mind and a healthy body. And that's something one get ürless one takes good care of oneself, maintales, Mr. Pryor, who is a rerious-minded chap.
"I've Got Your Number,' show ing at the Alhambra to-day is a rollicking comedy drama, revealing the "low-down" of the American telephone system. Joan Blondell, who was last seen in "Havana, the camera is even harder than Widows," heads the cast TS telephone operator and gives a sparkling performance with her ready wit and vivacity. Pat O'Brien has the leading masculine role as a telephone "trouble man," while the supporting cast includ- ing such well-known fun-makers as Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Hobart Cavanaugh and Eugene Pallette help to make the picture, a big success as for as laughter is concerned.
MISS STEIN AGAIN
To Lecture In America
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Oct. 31. Miss Gertrude Stein has arrived back in America to deliver a series of lectures. They should be great Tun.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
TO-DAY
ONLY
T
3.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
KINGS
HE TAMES THE WESTERN WILDS...A Wild Daughter of the West Tames Him!
He fights with his, young strength and the caid fury of a blazing gua......... sha fights with the warm beauty of a creature that knows only woman-law! Good to the last thr!!!!
Zane Grey's
"TO THE LAST MAN
A Paramount Picture with
"
RANDOLPH SCOTT: ESTHER RALSTON BUSTER CRABBE JACK LA RUE
“TO THE LAST -
MAN
Showing At The King's
NOAH BEERY
Although they represent aliter- ext schools .of Vilainy, "Jack LaRue and Noah Beery vie for "menace" honours in Paramount's. "To the Last Man," the Zane Grey- autooor romance with Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston and Buster Crabbe in the leading roles, watch is now playing at the King's Theatre.
Laxue, a product of the gangster brand of skulduggery, is cast in the fiercer role, a desperado who kills for the sheer joy of killing.
On the stage Pryor enjoyed an enviable position, that of one of the youngest succesful leading men. He has appeared with such stars as Claudette Colbert, Violet Heming. Bianche Yurka and many others, He, was starred in the New York production of "Blessed Events." which Lee Tracy Beery, an old hand at playing did on the screen. As a matter of | western outlaws, while no less a fact, the two have been following menace, gives quarter to his each other around for many years. enemies in the crucial moment. When Tracy played in the original company of "Front Page" Pryor followed him in the Chicago com- And finally at Universal pany. the two were placed in the same picture. "T Tell the World."
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The breezy, fast talking style o Pryor made famous the stage 'stands him in good stead in "Romance in the Rain." where he plays, the part of a fast selling contest promoter and author of lurid love tales And furthermore, he sports a new mustache in this have always held the view that picture for the first time-that is
decidedly becoming to him. Miss Stein has an enormous sense of humour, and has for years been "putting across her completely in- comprehensible works in order to pull the legs of the more highly browed farties and crafties."
Quite a large number of people
Her English, which might be de- scribed as Old High Bloomsbury, may be read at its best in her re- cent opera libretto, "Four Saints in Three Acts." Consider, for in- stance, this piece of rollicking good humour:
'Pigeons on the grass alas
Pigeons on the grassalas Short-longer grass short-longer Shorter yellow grass.
Pigeons
large.
Pigeons in the shorter-longer
yellow
Grass alus pigeons on the grass.
the
Henry Hathaway directed picture, which incidently gives
to
LaRue, his first western bad man role. In To the Last Man, Beery is cast as Jed Colby, mem- ber of an old Kentucky family that has been feuding with the Haydens for generations. Alter putting Colby in jail for a shoot- tng, the Haydens determine end the bloodshed, leave their home for the Arizona plains.
After his term in jail, however, Colby follows, bent
revenge, accompanied by Jim Daggs, play- ed by LaRue, a jail-bird friend, and his lovely daughter, Ellen, played by Esther Ralston
The situation is heightened
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MADAME DU BARRY
Corning To The
Alhambra
Long known as one of the world's great beauties, Dolores Del Rio prefers to be known ag a good actress.
The raven-haired star, who was given a long term contract by Warner Bros just before starting her role as star in Madame Du Barry," the feature attraction for the Alhambra Theatre this week end, believes her beauty has been
more of a drawback to her career than an asset.
J
it
Her tranquil 'and calm loveliness
brought her a number of fine
screen roles. But Del Rio was too often given parts that required her to be nothing more than Вп animated painting. The roles that she longed for the vivid and colourful roles went to other ac-
tresses.
Now it's all different.
When Dolores was offered one of the stellar roles in "Wonder Bar” several months ago, she did the Del Rio equivalent of a nip-up. That was a role to her liking--the girl in this picture was no tran- 'quil heroine, buffeted by the winds of cruel fate. She was a woman who fought for what she loved, a tempestuous creature far removed from Dolores' previous roles:
Then she was assigned the role of the favourite of Louis XV., a
MISQUOTATIONS when Colby's daughter falls in lady who was one of the most
IMPROVE
Beauty Of Original
Text Enhanced
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Oct. 31. Many readers of Mr. Hesketh book, "Common Pearson's little
has just Misquotations," which been published will find it a chas-
If they were not pigeons whattening experience, so many are the
were they?
What, indeed?
Obiter Dicta
Miss Stein may be incomprehen- sible in print. She says, however, come very downright things in conversation. Her studio in the Rue de Fleurus is dedicated to the latter art...
Here are a few of her recent obit or dictat...
Intellectuals are not suited to directing of Government," They are deterred by a mental obli- quity.
Government does not matter. It is competition, interest, strug- gic and activity that counts.."
The best rulers are those who govern by instinet, not by theory
The "French "are just tired- worn out by the process of mak- ing and spending money.
Miss Stein's constant companions are her poodle, Basket, and her friend Miss. Alice B. Toklas, whose "autobiography she wrote recent
commoner quotations that appear as misquotations of the original phrase or line.
Carlyle, for instance, is always quoted as having defined genlas in "Frederick the Great" as being "an infinite capacity for taking pains.” The original reads:
Genius means the transcen- dent capacity of taking trouble
The common quotation from Job, too "I escaped by the skin of my teeth," should read "escaped with the skin of my teeth."
"Possession is nine points of the law" as originally written by Col- ley Cibber, read: "Fossession is eleven points in the law."
One of the commonest miaquota- tions is:
Water, water everywhere, And not a drop to drink. Coleridge wrote "nor any drop.”. One can find consolation, how- ever, in Mr. Pearson's dictum that nearly all misquotations enhance the beauty or the force of the ori ginal text."
love with Lynn Hayden (Randolph colourful characters in history
Rising frm a humble. position to Scatt), eldest son of Colby's enemy. In the struggle between the the rank of King's favourite, Du parents, and the efforts of their Barry's adventures and intrigues children to end the feud. the left an irrevocable mark on an story rushes to its inevitable end entire nation.
TO-DAY
AND
TO.MORROW
22, 1934.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE Txi. No. 25314 25932
TO-MORROW-
ROMANCE
142
the RAIN
with
ROGER PRYOR HEATHER ANGEL.
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
"MANY HAPPY RETURNS"
Showing At The Queen's
Gracle Alien and George Burns, the well-known "nutty" couple, are at present at the. Queen's in the tuneful comedy "Many Happy Re- turns." featuring for the first time on the screen, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians and Veloz, and Yoland, the internationally famous dance team
The story is a fast and hilarious comedy with Gracie doing every¬ father's thing from ruining her department store by turning it in- to a bird sanctuary and tearing up valuable radio contracts to trap- ping pair of kidnappers in Hollywood. So fed up is her fa- ther, in fact, that he offers to the man who marries her and takes her far away-even at ten dollars a mile!
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Neddless to say, there is plenty of laughter in this picture which affords many interesting, and en- tertaining sidelights as well.
Edward Chodorov prepared "the screen story with great attention
TO-DAY AT THE
· CINEMA ·
KING'S:--
HONG KONG
"To The Last Man"
QUEEN'S:
"Many Happy Returns”
ORIENTAL:-
"Tarzan and His Mate".
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA¡-
"The Texas Ranger"
| MAJESTIC:--
"The Thundering Herd"
KING'S!-
Togg
Coming
"Romance In The Rain"
"QUEEN'B:—
"Hide Out"
ORIENTAL:-
"Men in White" "20,000 Years In Sing Sing"
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-6-15 7.15-9.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE Naman Band Kawlong: Ach. 5732) 10-DAY TO SATURDAY At ૨૩૫, ૩ 20, 70 % 2} P,
ZANE
GREY'S
THUNDERING
HERD
A Paramount Picture with RANDOLPH SCOTT JUDITH ALLEN HARRY CAREY BUSTER CRABBI'
NOAH BEIRY
RAYMOND HATTON and MONTE BLUF
TAKE ANY TRAN ON HAPPY VALLEY ĐUR
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
ROAD
Пь віта
WE ARE STILL SHOWING THIS EPIC JUNGLE THRILLER TO CROWDED HOUSES
IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT DO SO. TO-DAY. THIS MARVELLOUS SCREEN PHENOMENON HAS SHATTERED ALL OUR ATTENDANCE RECORDS.
He's back again!
TARZAN
THE TEXAS
RANGERS
AND HIS
MATE
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER
2
AND MAUREEN SULLIVAN
"DAY OF REPENTANCE
(Special to the "Hong Kong" Daily Press").
Dy Telegraph, Lopyright, Tale Ordinance, 139.
authenticity, showing the court Now Showing At Thee, November 21, 7.30 p.m.)
favourite in all her glory, and matching wits with enemies who tried to undermine her position. Gay, scheming-by turns a child and a vixen. Miss Del Rio at last has a role that gave her the big dramatic chance of her. Itte,
Miss. Del Rio has a brilliant cast of stellar names in "Madame Du Oweb Verres Barry"-Reginald Teasdale, Osgood Perkins, Victor Ferdinand Jors, "Dorothy Tree, Gottschalk and Anita Louise, Wil- liam Dieterle directed.
QUEEN'S
TONG IT AT: 9.30 ONLY
YOGI
AT 2.30, 5.10
& 7.20
P.M.
MAGIC
By HURMAT" The LIVING. DRACULA
The
Alhambra
Canadian North-West Mounted have. supplied plots for innumerable films and stories- but the Texas Rangers, who are the only police in existence that offer real competition to the ple- turesque North West Mounted, have seldom been exploited through these mediums.
Stationed at the southern ex- tremity of the United States it is the duty of this hard-riding or ganizaion to protect not only the interests of the honest cattle
Gwners of the Lone Star state but to patrol the Mexican border, and quell any minor riots that may occur. Composed mainly of cow- boys and hardy- adventurers who adopt the life because of the dan- ger involved, the Rangers ́ ́lead quite a colourful an existence as their northern cousins.
Taking advantage of picture potentialities of this group, Colum...”. bia Pictures has produced a fim which depicts the exploits of these daring men. It is "The Texas Rangers," which is showing at the Alhambra. "Theatre to-day. The popular Buck Jones, in the role of a Texas Ranger, is starred in the picture. One biglilight in his character, as stressed in the drama that is particularly typical of the Ranger, is his keen sense of justice, This quality, so necessary in men who must frequently use their own Judgment, has ever been noted as one of the commendabe features of the Rangers by all who have come in contact with them Many are the tales of quick and ready justice administered and wrings righted. by these brave men
Supporting Back Jones in this colourful role are Carments Geraghty, who was chosen because she was beautiful, an accomplished Tider and a markswoman
Berlin. Nov. 21.
The Protestants in Germany to- day observed "The Day of Repen- tance and Prayer" all shops, Banks, offices being closed, while churches were filled to overflow- ing. The capital presented, a de serted
appearance since, apart from church going, this day was chicfy devoted to visiting the graves of relatives and friends,- Traumeen Kun Mtn.
Woods, Ed Brady, Nelson McDowell, Billy Fletcher' and Harry. Todd. Ross Lederman directed.
ALNAMBRA
FUL. STRE SHOWING TO-DAY.
Juck
Jones
Tatoo congue släng
sible death for tha
The TEXAS RANGER
CARMELITA, GERAGHTY ROSS LEDERMAN
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