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"THE SCARLET EMPRESS"
Marlene Dietrich Back Here Again
Yesterday, press representatives were privileged with a pre-view of The Scarlet Empress, featuring Marlene Deitrich.
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The story, as readers may have guessed, is based on the early life of Catherine the Great. It tells how, when still quite child, Sophie (that was before she be- came Catherine) was escorted to the Russian capital, there to marry the half-witted Grand Duke Peter, afterwards Peter III. The high- spirited young Princess, determin- ed to make the most of her life, finds much to amuse herself in the
splendour of the Russian Imperial household, while at the same time she finds the rigidity of the Em-
press, Catherine the First, very
trying.
Upon the death of Cathering the First, the Grand Duke and Duchess are made Emperor and Empress. The Emperor Immediately issues a number of oppressive measures against the people and stirs up a
ROLE IN PARIS REVUE
Jeanette MacDonald Receives Offer
"One of the most important stage roles of the coming season Jeanette in Paris was offered MacDonald, herbine of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's THE MERRY WIDOW. She was invited by Henri Varna, great Parts pro- ducer, and head of the Casina de Paris, and the Alcazar de Paris, to head the great revue he is now preparing in the Casino.
It was under Varna's 'direction that Miss MacDonald scored her historic Paris stage hit at the Empire theatre, when she achiev- ed one of the greatest musical hits of all time in the French capital.
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Because of her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer." in which she is to appear in several music- al pictures. in rapid succes- sion including Victor Herbert's NAUGHTY Marletta and THE DUTCHESS OF DELMONICO'S ? Miss MacDonald was unable to accept the engagement.
THE NIGHT IS
YOUNG
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Famous Painting Comes to Life
A famous painting will come to life, in a unique presentation of a scene in THE NIGHT IS YOUNG.. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forth- coming Viennese musical romance co-starring Ramon Novarro and Evelyn Laye.
The scene showing the ballet dancers, ready to "go-into their dance at the Imperial Ballet in Vienna," is to start from a paint- ing. 'Degas' famous picture, Painted in the Vienna Opera, and showing the dancers in the wings, is to be used. The set will exact- ly duplicate the scene. The dan- cers, when the scene opens, are to be in the exact positions of those in the painting, and from there go into the action of the picture.
The new Sigmund Romberg-" Oscar Hammerstein II operetta, dealing with the romance of a dancer and an archduke, is being
staged on a lavish scale, with re- productions of the opera, royal palace and other elaborate detail. Dudley Murphy is directing under Harry Rapf's production supervi-
sion."
The play, based on a story of Vienna by Vicki Baum, WŁA Allan Woolf adapted by Edgar
and Franz Schulz. The cast in-
cludes Edward Everett Horton, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell, Henry Stephen- son and others.
tremendous resentment against himself, while the Empress. by every act and deed, endears her- self to the nobles and, the populace, The climax is brought about fol- The Great" which was shown in Those who have seen "Catherine lowing a dinner at which Peter not Hong Kong recently will find "The only insults Catherine, but also a
Scarlet Empress " Intriguing, aa3 bigh officer of his own fiousehold. This is the signal for the revolt the two stories cover the same
in period against the King and the pleture Catherine and ends at the time of the early life of
ends with the assassination of Peter in his own castle while her ascending to undisputed power. Catherine marches triumphantly
The presentation is different, and in to take possession of the reins while "Catherine The Great" is
of the mighty-Russian Empire.
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somewhat Night in character, “The Scarlet Empress" is more heaylly" handled by the producers and de- pends apart from gorgeous set- tings, upon heavy Russian muste for atmosphere. If you like Máte- lene Deitrich, you will like her latest show, which is opening, at the Queen's Theatre on Saturday.
In connection with the presenta- tion of "The Scarlet Empress" the Queen's Theatre will treat ita patrons, on Saturday night at 9.30 to n ladies all-American bend, which will play by kind courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
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CHAPTER I
JA SAMUEL GOLDWIN
Anna Sten
EMILE ZOLA'S
Main Menue at a bars at vise Shotove
Ent her voice was raised in ban- ter with the two men who were The France, and more partizing, talking to Bar and her friend Batin ly the Faris, of 1868, was a soribing One of the man was imploring the pot of human emotions. The victor girls to leave the execution square
e of the Prossians in the fast and come with them.
Satin fel dalshod "Seren-Weeks War" had toe, that this was no place for girls made ell Françe mute that a strMR-- who had their “living" to make. gle between France and Germany
tim matter of WAA merely A France and the French were living under a cloud of war. Today—yeg- terday—it has always been so, with Franca.
"Come along." and Batin, "come along, Nana. We'll have a Nttle wine with nice men, ch?"0
Nana hotated for, a moment. A great shou
the came up from crowd. They were bringing the And a 12 19 with a nailon under victim to his death! It was a man. the feelings of a coming struggleather oid, but with kindly face overy Frenchman know that war He stepped hattikgly up the sim The blind was near-indecision was rampant, stairs of the scaffold. Not that France was not auce of was adjusted about his eyes. With the outcome of the war. No. In a keen touch the executioner tested. deed. Every Frenchman felt sureème edge of his blade. Near him hia France would come out on top is priest muttered the words for the Hadn't she came out on top in avery dying. The erowit made itself heard Kher war? Didn't she struggle with with a strange marmur-almost « Charlemagne Louis XIV, Napoleon. silence, in itself. And Ankly Louis Napoleon en The victim knett down, with the through to security and peace? Yes back on the knife-silt his hands France was mighty--and right, too, tightly grasped around his neck.
But with a nation about to enter And while it executioner rajusd. war, that favor, chai hesitancy to the great blade over his head, the regard as real and inevitable the doomed man made his peace with individuals of that nation, the neo God. The knife fell, thudding DOW ple who steel its tempor and make with a different mate than before. ka lawa, both statutory and moral & mora came up from the crowd. there was a great change. Looge- Nana's lips tightened and her ordi-
and immorality, and, even inarily
#til! pals face bianched downright evil, walked the streets whiter. Her eyes closed. She law. of Paris brazenly whero before they ared her head, and her lips moved hud alank turtively into the dank has 1 la prayer, a prayer to the God cellars of Montmartre and leerod who comforts those sorely ap from behind greasy windows in the pressed even though they them Latin Quaster."
selves have been branded as sarth.
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And France, even under normal.y stanera peacetime conditions, is a different After a moment she turned to
·land from America There the ab- Satin.
normal is normal, and immorality "I'm all right now, Satin,” she is accepted for what 11 ls-marely anid, and turning to the two men. manifestation of the many upon whom the execution bad had
She would took revenge from mon.........the would esset a pries from a world
af men,
ilded being known sa man. Life (no apparent effect, fyes, let us r was hard-and a little wizi, a little for a Httle wins with these nice music, even perhaps a litus friend į koma." "
"But you are not to bother Nana,“ au cried. • "Do you heart "Either of you—it is not often that ens`sões one's father killed." "
- light o' love-lo help you forgat Satin interrupted, Booking stenlly your commuy's tribulations; that at the man. « cauld hardly be too much to ask: DOW. could it? Yat, drink and, be merry-for there may be noto morrow That was the atalistic song a whole nation sang, gayly and 'carelessly.
"Father""*.one of the mén effed. chose father?"
"It was her papa who was just - beheaded, "Satin said grimly.
The man loofed, incredulously a'' Nas
"Tour father," he said, “your own" father?"
Buppose you had the wings of a bird, a vulture, perhaps, and you were circling over Paris on dawn in 1861. Down below in tlay caricature you saw a strange pe- Pada. There was a great threng
“Ier," Nena said, “and why not? packed closely about a platform on which a burly man wielded some Hs found another man, the man to thing lɔng and shiny. You swirled whom my mother had transferend down closer and slighted on a post be affections, with chor, and he neay the dagé of the crowd, the bot-killed my mother--a kaldah, brute uf: ter to see what was happening: Asd 1a way to atone matikos, no?" đá the full realization of the scene
dawned on you; your eyes `gaped, { · Over the daw-drenched rooftops yo r head awam.. Tọn were about of Paris, the ravens hover. Önce to ade up, execution.
môre the lanety sgufé of a girl The burly man was the executioner |secka, with Ha velled sorrow," for and in his hand ha swung a muz-|peace and finds it not. în a conés. ́derous kalfo, Half-playfully. kutay on the outskirts of Paris thé raised to high, and looked, at the young girl Naha hears the priest. Surowd, as it for approval, then with read the burial office, before the * mighty wwing he brought the jopen grave, freshly duɛ. It is her Ehite down and a duif thud told you į mother'", grave.
M. was buried Zoep into the wood.
Silently the few mourners watch,
But as you you realized thers was while the holy words are said, the so viétio. The calloused murderer('holy water dropped and the first was only practicing his art for the land shovels of earth heard on the morbid delectation of the crowd. footin. They fell like stones on the
Sear, the front of the mob were heart of Nana. two girls pretty, you, in's sort of The gravedlagera, ·Date off, hard way. Your attention was at-} watched the ceremony. On one of moted to them because they were the handles of their spades thrust talking noisily to two man neay into the dirt pile which awaited the thent. Of the two girls you waw at į priest's signa' a raven kad parched; once oni was the stranger, her face the gravedigger waved it away with. told what she was a lady of the His cap. The misi blurred the scene streets-but there was more behind and made shadows of this slow her bold looks and large eyes than tragic panterims. I kissed the at dest, sight appeared... A sort of Oyon, of beautiful Nana, whose crude, elemental beauty, struggling, mother was being lowered into an against ita orâld surroundings. You untimely grave, and the toate '11 felt here in a woman who would found there were the auma undried, give everything for what she held tours which had welled in her large dear; and who, though, përhapa" da- | eyes when she ao recantly any her
sed by those who deemed her bo- | father's head fall in the execution;). yond the bale of their own tlmið lit. Jär ́s banket,
́tle conventionalities, marked'sa shel So ended for Nana her heritage. was with the Aith, and soum et hu- it but that which she held fas manity in an evil war-threatened and deeply within her own bearn. Atv, withal hold herself somewhat but another kind of beauty.had she aloof, her hand a little higher than now found, a beauty out of win- friends of her "circle, living with dom. In the dawn mist, before Ber
greater verve than they, seeing mother's fast even beauty and glamor in her made one thought her altar-plect resting place, she mundane Ufa.
Stever would, she and in her ow Glamerah, that's the word! life so lowly & conclusion. Even in her prenent mean state, would asek in revenge from, mét mrdly about this girl with here killed her mother, the secret: tragic haunting beauty, hung an of powar and truth, aura of glamor, & promise of act her price from a world of She would nor and use and light men She would make them pay "Good Heaving you, thought to
The little group dispersed. The yourself, "this girl doesn't belong vedigger 40% to work. The bells here with this med, milling mob peeled and the ravens slapped their Hor pince her pince ..."-
But hat voice stopped
Wat wings, through the thickening Four misis sa 'Nana, and "a", few.friends, -thoughtd... In ton; hád an indescris Huddled our of the gates. Betin Lable quality, about felt und hat friend, 156l her at the outl klow, and seductive, tika a ceraians Fate and comforted her with Spring Wind was the voles of Zaithful arm. Nana, jady of; Akið, ÍsordiavandE. WBAD
Ove the roditope of Fur shadows, and shnites www drawak, zzowa pomood: "Than sntata" "ware zin.. plaything of mankind, möcker of the the whow Nana reached her home Mercat. God: 805; MÁTRYG10 : wäh
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Irene Dunn And Richard Dix Teamed
IN COLOURFUL ACTION FILM
* STINGAREE
Romantic Melodrama of Hard Riding Highwayman and Hie Songstress Love Reunites Favourite Stars“
Many new entertainment features are introduced in "sung- aree," lavishly produced romantic screen melodrama. It presents Irene Dunne as a prima donna role with a full, beautiful exploita- tion of ber beautiful singing voice--Richard Dix returns to the dashlar roles of his early career,
Against the backgrounds of Australia - as it was in the hectic. Seventies, the story of "Stiagare:" deals with an unusually spec- tacular love between * fovible, dashing bandit and Hilda Bouvgle, who works as a servant in the home of Hch relatives, the Clark-
SONS,
"Stingaree" discovers the girl's vocal genius when he enters the Clarkson home to rob it. He falls in love with her, kidnaps her and becomes ber-sponsor for an opera- tic career.
Inspired by love of him, she be- comes a great star. "Stingaree," meantime, in trying to help her is captured and imprisoned. She returns to Australia for à concert engagement, in the Hope of seeing her lover once again. In a thril- ling climax he escapes from prison. kidnaps the Governor of all Aus- tralia, masquerades as that gentleman for one final glimpse of Hilda, and finally, to the con- sternation of the entire continent, again kidnaps her. This time, however, she is a willing victim.
How they manage things to per- petuate their love gives an in- triguing and soul-satisfying fillip to the concluding scenes.
Significant is the manner in which the production's theme songs, "Stingarec Ballad," "and Tonight You're Mine," written by Franke Harling, are woven into. the plot. Equally intriguing are the reels in which Hilda speeds to. triumphs in Italy, Berlin, Paris and London, affording gilmpres of notables of the period, includ ing Edward, Prince of Wales and Disraeli, who become worshippers at Hilda's iurine. A glimpse is also had of Covent Garden, world- famous London opera where Miss Dunne is heard sing- Ing bits of famous operatic scored
Mae West's "Sensation
House”
IN "BELLE OF THE NINETIES
One of the most amazing sets in the history of film production was erected for Mae West's new Paramount picture-BELLE OF THE NINETIES.it was so big that the wall between the two Largest sound stages at the studio had to be knocked down so that the floor space could be atllised. The set is the interior of "Sen- sation House," a famous New Or- leans gambling, house in the '80's. Four huge rooms comprise the --lower floor of the building and a loge leads luto the vast reception -room Hanging over the centre of this room is one of the three glant crystal chandellers in the
·bullding—a massive plece of work consisting of 2,500 separate pris- matic crystals, refecting the "sparkle from a group of gas fets. The walls of the reception and other rooms are hung with gold- framed hand-paintings-originals painted especially by Frank Zim- 'merer, a famous American artist.
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TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.B.W.
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1-2.15 pm, European Programme
1 p.m. Local Time and Weather
Report
1.03 p.m., Recorted 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 Bulletins
Rugby Press News, etc.
2.15 p.m., Close Down
SELECTIONS BY "THE MUSIC MAKERS"
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"THE FANLING-HUNTU 4-7 pm Chinese Programme 6-6.15 p.m.,: Children's Studio Con-
cert 7-10.40 p.m., European Programme 7 p.m., London and New York Stock and Commodity Quota- tions 7.05-7.40 p.m., A Concert
Violin Bolo-Waltz in A Flat Ma- ·
for (Brahms)
Isolde
Menges.... Bong-Nymphs and shepherds
(Purcell)
Bong-My Mother bids me bind
my hair (Haydn)
Elafe Suddaby (Soprano)
» Pianoforte. Solas-Study in
Minor (Liszt) Pianoforte Sotos-Au Bord D'Une' Bource (szt)........ Solomon Songs-The
Grenadiers Two
* (Schumann) house,
ever created in Hollywood-B fountain of white ostrich plames, built row above row to form & cone with the top 10 feet wide.
Upstairs, up a flight of marble stairs, is a gambling room and a bar. The bar itself is amazing, for it is a copy of the old time bar which was also an aquarium: Patrons could' stand and drink, pick out their favourite fresh water fish and have them netted before their eyes. Then the sh would go up to the chef who would cook it to order,
The building is furnished with gold backed Louis XV chairs, thick rugs or maroon, old rose sati drapings with tassel fringes
Miss West personally supervised.' and heavy tapestry of the period,"
all the drawings for the building and-versatile star-actually pre=" pared some of them herself.
BELLE OF THE NINETIES," which tells of a burlesque queen's, yor romance with a boxer, has a great cast. including. Roger Pryor, John Miljan, John Mack Brown," and Jack Mulhall. The only woman, besides Miss West, is Katherine,
There is a music hall with a - huge stage, raised boxes and of- chestra pit, and in the corner G one of the most novel decorations - Delfilte
Songs-Midnight Review
kay... Theodore: Challanine (Bass),
Cello Bolo serabande (8hzer.
Op. 87 W. H. Squire
8 pm, Local Time, and Weather
-Report
7.40-8.15 p.m., Variety
Instrumental-Undefheath Blue
Hawaiian Skies
The H-
walian Marimbs Players Songs My Songs from the Shows Marie Bike (86- prano) 4.
Piano Dueta-The Way to Love
-Selection
Piano Duets Footlight Parade
Selection. Carroll Gibbous and John W. oréen "Sings The Very thought of you Songs Aplace in your heart
Sam Cosow (Baritone) Piano Bolos-Music in the Air-
Medley Rale da Costa - 815-8.43 pm, Band Selections
Radetzky Maren (J. Straus)+ Rakoczy March("Damnation ut
Faust") (arr. Godfrey) The BB.C. Wireless Military Band, conducted by B. Walton O'Donnel
Mirella--Overture (Clood, arr.
O'Donnell)
The BBC. Wireless Military Band con- ducted by B. Walton O'Don- nell
The Jolly Robbers-Overthre (Suppe) ... The BBC. Wire- less Military Band conducted by B. Walton O'Donnell A Hunting Scene (Bucalossi, Patrol Comique (Lake). VIC-
tor Concert Band T 8.43-9 pm. The Lener String Quar
...tet “Quartet "in-"D- Minor--Andante, Cantabile ("Death and the
(Continued on Faga 10)