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“CRADLE SONG" CHARLIE CHAN
Now Showing At
The King's
"Cradle Song," which introduces Dorothea Wick, Paramount's new- est continental star to American audiences, now showing at the King's Theatre,
The picture is from the stuge play of the same name by the noted Spanish author, G. M. Martineż Sieren, and the screen adaptation Wis. made by Mare Connelly, American playwright known for the sensational stage success, "The Green Pastures."
The play, "Crädle Song," bus been produced in every civilized country of "the world and is a stand-by of dramatic stock CON panics. Paramount bought it in 1021 but held back production until they could find an actress capable of carrying the principal role, that of Joanna The performance of Dorothea Winck in Maedchen in Uniform" clearly marked her for the role, and she was signed by Paramount,
The story is a moving tale of frustrated mother love behind cou Event walls. "Dorothea Wieck,
As
Jomina, enters the convent at the age of eighteen, leaving batind several small brothers and sisters Her need whom she has raised.. for motherhood is almost mir.eu lously granted. A foundling had been left on the doorstep. She is permitted to raise the child, and the mother love she would have lavished on her own children, she cxpends on the foundling.
IN LONDON
The King's Next Change
Judged by preview audiences on the const as by far the most entertaining of the entire series
"Charlle
of "Chan" thrillers, Char in London" wil make its appearance on the screen of the King's Theatre on Sunday, Warner Oland, whose name has become synonymous with the character of Charlie throughout the series. ugain portrays the
role of the bland Chinese detec- tive.. 'Advance reports indicate that Oland's portrayal in this film is his most notable to date. In his latest adventure, Charlie chan
vades Sherlock Holmes' realm, and journeys to London w solve the most amazing mystery of hits remarkable careez in criminology.
A man is doomed to hang for murder.. His sister belleves him innocent. She pleads with Chan to take the case and try to And the real murderer, and exonerate her brother. With only sixty five hours remaining before the inno-
must meet his death sent man Chan gets to work. He finds he is working against time and murderer who has the cunning of a fox. With only eight hours re- maining in which to solve the mystery. Chan lays a clever trap, and snares his human fox with- out the aid of hounds or horse.
Drue-Leyton, who will be recall-
the role of the romantic lead op-i pustie Ray Milland.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935.
SHOWING -TO-DAY AT 2.30.5.10,7.15; & 9.30 P.M.
OKINGS •
dorothea
WIECK
"CRADLE SONG"
nother.
The story of a who never had child A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
STUDENT TOUR
Opening On Sunday
At The Queen's
The child grows to girlhood and young womanhood and brings to all the sisters in the convent a joy and happiness they could never have known without her presence.ed as the feminine lead in Charlie When she is eighteen, she meets and loves a young engineer. Her Chen's Courage." again portrays determination to leave her couvent home throws the sisters, particu-
Others in Take it from the old maestro ol larly Joanna, into a grief made ali
the cast assembled for this pro-warto, Jimmy Durante, there are the greater by their earlier hap-duction are Mona Barrie, Alan six besić elements LO SUCCESSJUI piness
Mowbray, Murray Kinnell, Doug-screen musical comedy and here The part of the young girl islas Walton, Walter Johnson, E. E. they are: played by Evelyn Yenablo, a new Clive, George
Comedy, Youth, Romance, Musle, comer to the screen. Prior to join Bellamy David Torrence, John Pancing, Spectacle, ing Paramount, Evelyn Venable Rogers. Paul England, Elsa
Catching the possessor of the Walter Hampden's leading Buchanan and Ferry Ivins.
world's champion schnozzle.ib a John Stone produced the Alm but when it happens pearle of serious mood is a rare experience
Was
Woman."
MOUNTAINS FROM
Barrand,
Madge
Others in the cast include Kent Taylor, Sir Guy Standing, Louisrhich was directed by Eugene wisdom are likely to flow. Listen!
Forde Desser and Gail Patriek,
from the original screen Asked by an old pal why there play by Philip MacDonald.
seems to be something wrong with all the musical comedies that come ut of Hollywood, he replied that it WDS because Hollywood goes either strong on the music or cone dy or something else. To be a good musical comedy, he says that à picture has got to have six things and these six are those mentioned above. All balanced together. perfect musical comedy is the re-
MOLEHILLS
"The Iron Duke"
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Dec. 15.
After a second visit to see Mr. George Arliss as Wellington in "The Iron Duke" one is struck by the way in which film technique 'ham- pers the scenario writer. In this fine aim he is only able to cover a small fragment of the Duke's career-the Battle of Waterloo and its immediate aftermath.
the
In the four or five hundred pages of Mr. Quedalla's "The Duke " Waterloo occupies only two pages.
One was amused, too, by cinematographic mountain which was made out of the molehill of the Duke's friendship for Lady Frances Webster, At the Duke's headquar- ters in Brussels Lady Frances speaks of getting back to London before her husband returns
Actually her husband was also in Belgium. He was an officer in the 9th Light Dragoons, and on the staff of the Price of Orange at Waterloo.
Perhaps, however, he hoped to get some leave, at this critical moment. Left Out
Other phases in the Duke's career which could not be dealt with in the short space of the film are:-
His victories in India.
The Peninsular War.
His later career as a politician, particularly during the Reform Bill agitation, when the mob broke the windows of Apsley House, (Hk suc- cessful plea to the House of Lords to yield may have averted a re- volution.),
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His relations with Queen Victoria. and the Prince Consort. ("How powerful and clear the mind of this wonderful man l, and how honest and how loyal and how kind he is to us both.")
The fact that he was godfather to the Duke of Connaught.
His magnificent funeral.. The quotations from his sayings as perhaps was inevitable—in cluded only the best known. One should have preferred to the entire ty apocryphal "Up Guards and at "en" his reply to Uxbridge,
Riding beside Wellington, Ux- bridge had his leg taken off by a cannon-ball: EN
"By God, I've lost my leg! cried- Uxbridge. “Have you," by God?” was all the Duke's reply.
WARNER OLAND again plays the crafty Chinese detec- live in "Charlie Chan in Lon- don the thrilling new Fox myilery drama.
"TWO PEACE PRIZES
Nobel Peace Prizes have never been more ftly awarded than to *those two. men honoured this week: Mr. Arthur Henderson and Sir Norman Angeli.
The first has untiringly toiled for reconciliation amongst the only distinguished publicist who has never been wrong, slace, years before the war, he began to throw. light upon that "great illusion": which still threatens to destroy us all,
His reward has been constant misrepresentation, and incessant repetition of the ludicrous lie that f he didn't foresee the war, because he proved (in advance) that none of the combatants, in a great in- terlocked modern community, could profit by any war.
Of course, the prophet of peace never said that there would be nof war. You may prove that War does not pay. In -80 doing, you do not proves that maniac humanity will not plunge into the disastrous speculation.
Probably both, these two per vants of peace these salvage or rescue officers are popularly re- garded as "Idealista" even "as
It is very
cranks,
Well, so they are. cranky to exhibit any commo sense in a crazy age
sult:
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in
A
DAMES
Now Showing At The Alhambra
-
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25313 25392
SUNDAY
CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON
with
WARNER OLAND
▲ FOX FICTURE
SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION
ON THE STAGE
THE SIX HOLLYWOOD
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BLONDES
NEW DANCES NEW SNGS
KING'S JUBILEE
STAMP
Special Series May Be Issued
(Special Air Mall Service)
Landon, Dec. 15.
Ever since motion pictures were the flickering stages. movie teams have been popular, In fact. all true unions of movie" players have been the result of public approval,
In the House of Commons, Str One of the recent pairings eral, stated that he was prepared. Kingsley Wood, Postmaster-Gen- youthful personalities, for the camera was "that of Dick Powell wife. This couple who made their and Ruby Keeler, Al Jolson's film debut in the Warner Bros. musical. "2nd Street," were to- gether again in "Gold Diggera of 1933". and Footlight Parade" The movie going public voiced its approval of the streen -lovers to such an extent that the combina- tion was continued. A
"Now they are co-starred with Joan Blondell in Warner Bros'. mammoth musical; "Dames," now showing at the Alhambra.
The
picture ia a
hillarious musical comedy romance with number staged..by Busty Berkeley in which 303 beautiful girls take part. Others
As a matter of fact, it was on Durante's oft-expressed theory that the producers of Metro-Goldwyn-spectacular Mayer's new musical laaghaganza. 'Student Tour' built that picture. And residents of the Colony will have an opportunity to test its soundness for themselves when "Student Tour" opens on Sunday' at the Queen's Theatre.
For comedy, the picture-makers recruited two contrasting types of fun-makers-Durante himself, the "dese and dem" expert and Charles Butterworth, whose drollery is al- most pedantic. The combination is "wide open" for
side-splitting humour.
special series of postage stamps to to authorise the printing of a
sary of the King's accession to the commemorate the 25th anniver-
throne.
It was learned on inquiry that nothing has yet been settled as to the form which the stamps will take. "The details are under con- -settled for some time yet." an. sideration, but nothing will be
official of the Post Office fald.
There was no special issue of postage stamps . this country to commemorate either the Jubilee. or Diamond Jubilee of Queen Vic- toria. A new series of stamps was, however, introduced on January 1, 1887, and though this series re- mained in use until the death of the Queen it was always known in the cast include ZaSu Pitts, among collectors as the "Jubilee Guy Kibbée, Hugh Herbert, Ar- | issue." thur Vinton and Phil Regan.
Music and lyrics were written by three teams of noted songsters, Warren and Dubln, Fain and Kahal, and Dixon and Wrubel, Ray Enright directed from the screen play by Deimer Daves, on the story by Robert Lord and Daves,
based
For youth, they recruited hand- one athletes of a
For romance, they wrote a lyrical 'dozen uni-love story and put it into the versities, and the loveliest co-eds in hands of two young singers re- America. Weeks were spent in cently discovered" for the films testing more than 2,000 college girls and heralded as the new sweet to secure the most beautiful,.. hearts of the screen. They are
SHOWING
TO-DAY
The question of issuing a special commemorative series of stamps engaged very little attention at that time, either here or in any other part of the Empire, but there was a special issue of Lee- ward Island stamps.-"
It is expected that most of the Dominions and Colonies will se special stamps, next year and the Indian Government
have the question under consideration. Maxine Doyle, late of Washington, 1). C. and Obil Regan, late of Brooklyn,
QUEEN'S
PAREIL &
CHEVALIER
TEAMS SEE
MYDONALD
ERNST LUBITSCH
Production
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With the nay Hor on the belian diventer of “the Parade's
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MERRY
WIDOW
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:
HONG KONG
"Cradle Song"
QUEEN'S:
"The Merry Widow" ORIENTAL:-
"Lady Killer" "Wan Wan San Co."
MAJESTIC:
KOWLOON
"The Bowery"
'ALHAMBRA:-
"Dames"
Coming
"Charlie Chan In London"
KING'S:-
QUEEN'S:-
ALHAMERA:-
"Student Tour""
"Dangerous Affair"
4 SHOWS
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ALL FOR THE ONE PRICE OF ADMISSION..
ON THE SCREEN
Chinese
ON THE STAGE Famous Troupe of Magicians just returned from the Chicago World's Fair.
WAN WAN SAN & Co.
STARTLING FEATS IN MAGIC.
THE NUMAH SAW MILL
A LIVE WOMAN ACTUALLY SAWED IN HALF. AT EVERY PERFORMANCEL
THE MERRY
WIDOW
Showing At The Queen's
A bevy of Hollywood "charmers, all hand-picked" as the most capital, figure in the glamorous beautiful girls in the -screen revels at Maxim's in Paris, as re produced for "Ernst Lubitch's pro- duction of "The Merry Widow," co-starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald and showing at the Queen's Theatre.
They appear with Minna Gom | hell in gay Continental revelry in the picture, staged on a lavish scale by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Among them are Barbara Barondesa of "When Strangers Marry." Shirley Chambers, seen in "Melody Cruise," Patricia Farley, of Sunset Pass," Eleanor Hunt, l Shirley Biss," Marin Troubetakoy and others. These girls appear in Albertina Rasch ballets, the audacious Can-Can", dance in Maxim's in Paris the national Waltz spectacle and other diver. tissements,
Unusual ideas and affects include the "musical retrospect" in the court sequence, the "basket weare dance formation, the "tuned feet" accompaniment to "Girls, Girls, Girls" and other unusual effects, both in sight and sound.
Chevalier and Miss MacDonald. rehearsed personally with Mme Rasch for three months in pre paration for the waltz number, the high spot in the picture,
Latbitch retains the Continental Joyousness of the original story and gay Viennese romance by con traste whimsical humour amid giant settings and great-spectacle. "It brings the original music to the screen for the brst time,
Supporting players of the notable. cast include Una Merkel and Geor As Barbierseon as the King and Queen, Edward Everett Horton a the Ambassador, and there are Ruth Chapming George Hock Sterling Hollsway: Minna Gombel Anda Herman Bing
A Great Comedy that bad all Hollywood screaming with laughter,
Jpct
Cagney
LADY KILLER
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TO-DAY & TO-MURROW
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