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"THE NIGHT IS YOUNG"
· HONG KONG DAILY PRESS – WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9, 1935.
TO-DAT ONLY
M-G-M's Elaborate Settings KINGS •
For Musical Romance
Elaborate settings, including reproduction" of the famous amusement park. the Prater, In Vienna, gorgecùs costumes of the romantic period of the Monarchy, reproduction of the great Royal | opera, the Imperial Ballett. and other settings of Viennese life at
gayest period, have been erect- ed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for the "first Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein I musical romance ever written dir- ectly for the screen.
This is THE NIGHT IS YOUNG, in which Ramon Novarro and Evelyn Laye are co-starred.-
The team of Romberg ard Hammersteln, famous for such Broadway successes As NEW MOON and DESERT SONG, were"] brought to the studios from New York, to collaborate on libretto and music; The story adapted by Edgar Allan 'Woolf and Franz Schulz, is based on IN OLD VIENNA, by.. Vight Baum, author 01 GRAND HOTEL Dudley: Mur- phy, who directed EMPEROR JONES is directing. THE NIGHT IS YOUNG under Harry Raph's supervision.
One of a series of musical ro mances utilizing the works of great recognized composers, and In the class with Lehär's MERRY WIDOW. Herbert's. NAUGHTY MARIETTA and other such stand ard works figuring in the new trend in musicals, the picture is to enjoy special and elaborate presentation.
The famous Prater, Treat
amusement park,
famous the
world over, and where such musicians as Strausa and Lehar have conducted orchestras, was reproduced from photographs and descriptions. To- lustrate with what fidelity this has been done, one of the quaint little tram-cars that run through It has been shipped from Vienna for the pic- ture" as well as several facres, the oddly patterned cabs of the" Vienna playground.»
Equally elaborate are to be the Settings of the Vienna opera Backstage and in the opera house itself, all details are to be cor- Tect. One of the most unusual scenes in the picture is to be play ed with ballet dancers going-up and down the great spiral stair- case that extands from the files to the stage. The camera is to follow this action with special mechanism, and music 13 to ac- company it.
"CHARLIE CHAN -IN LONDON” ·
Now Showing At The King's
"Clever, these Chinese!"
Still, Warner Olaad seems to be the only portrayer of Oriental holes in films-capable, of switch- ing from good to evil, or vice versa. In "Charlie Chan in Lon- don," now at the King's Theatre he is once more on the side of the angels,
Out of the guise of Confucian good and wisdom this reversible -actor turns with ease
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Many props have been im- ported from Vienna, one of them being an Acollan harp, a stringe, ed instrument which produces musical sounds under a current of air. This instrument, 'invented - by the early Greeks, and now set- dom seen, exists in the Royal Opera. It is to be used in a novel Idea, starting the strains of Rom- berg's elaborate waltz melody in "the new picture,
Römberg's muste, to be sung by Novarro and Miss Laye, includes THE NIGHT 18 YOUNG; principal- song in the picture, and from which-the-title was taken, WHEN I AM TOO OLD TO DREAM, the waltz melody, LENA, I LOVE YOU and a comedy song THOUGH I AM A NOBLE DUTCHESS, among others.
Edward Everett Horton, who plays the principal comedy role of Count Czerney in the picture, will have a new experience. He will sing for the first time in his long career on the screen and "stage. And, Romberg and Ham- Hammerstein insist, he really has a fine singing roles.
One of the interesting relics of the past that will lend pictorial value is the royal coach. Repro- duced in exact duplication of the.. original, it was decorated with the. actual, trimming of the royal coach. - Reproduced in exact dup- Heation of the original, it was decorated with the actual trim- ming of the royal coach of Em- press Maria Theresa, bearing the crown of Francis I. It is of gor- geous green cut velvet and gold and has for two generations been an heirloom In A New York family, from which it was borrow-" ed for the picture.
Henry Stephenson will Imperson- ate the late Emperor Franz Josef, and will figure prominently in the Production,
Elaborate ballets are to lend colour to the romance, in which Miss Laye has the role of a pre- jere ballerina and Novarro a young musician who falls in love with her.
Exteriora bult on ground ̈ad-. joining the studio are particularly elaborate.
The quaint old streets and buildings of the romantic city of "Strauss and his waltzes have been reproduced. Glimpses of the Im- perial palace, of the revels of the aristocracy, the gay night life of Vienna, all are to figure in the lilting romance.
to: roles Leslie Howard as the hero in "or heavy-dded in treachery and olly Human Bondage” almost but not cunning.
quite, Ands peace with Kay John- son, while fighting his formented love for Bette Davis in this R.K.O. Radio drama of slavish devotion.
Although his present assignment calls for all the logic of a geperous-souled servant and de- tective, Warner Oland also played Fu Manchu and other green-eyed roles. In fact, he has made more pletures in the garb of villainy than in any other. ·
many Swedish plays into English including eleven of Strindberg's He joined up with a small New The mystery movie has been England stock .company and for gaining the increasing respect of the next fourteen years he played fim audiences and producers, as in major productions. evidenced by the titles found in Although Warner Oland played advance Hollywood production in silent films over twenty years schedules. This is equally true of | ago, it was not until 1925, that his the book publishing world, from screen importance was made clear which most of the mystery to coast casting directors. He ap material-stems for film adapta- peared with Douglas Fairbanks in tion. With this added: demand, "Don Q," and his kind of villainy there is a greater need for acting suggested Chinese roles immedi flexibility not eaally supplied. ately. Yet he feels that the Ronald Colinan and William Chinese are the most unvillainous Powell have been exceptionally trace on the face of the earth, on successful in this held but the list a proportionate basis of popula is not long ation to crimes
Warner Oland really wanted to In spite of the fact that he has write plays rather than act The villained through such pictures as reason are chiefly that he wants Of San Francisco" """Chinatown to sit back in his island home and | Nights," "Wheel of Oha write
rest. Yet when Chan "Mandalay”: and the puts hi sCLIT Balder | films, he was cho
He was born in Umea, Bweden, other actors test but was
States dificult-demand
13 Once MOTÉ
Boston amiable
high school, he had "translated philosophic, calm.
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9.30 P.M.)
JON THE SUREEN
WHEN ALL OTHERS FAILED. THEY TURNED TO
CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON
FOX Picture with -
WARNER OLAND
DRUE LEYTON RAYMOND MILLÄND- MONA BARRIE
“GIFT OF GAB”
Coming To The
Queen's
The story of "Gift of Gab", the Universal production which "will be seen to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre, takes one. behind the plate glass of a broadcasting stu- dio and reveals for the first time the loves and lives, the triumphs and thrills of the people of the alr. There we see Ruth Exting. Gene Austin, Ethel Waters, Phil Baker. The Beale Street Boys, the Downey Sisters, Jean. Knight, Helen Vinson and last, but noti least, the leading players Edmund Lowe and Gloria Stuart. The story concerns Lowe's rise from an auctioneer to the foremost an- nouncer and reporter in the broadcasting studio and is filled with comedy interludes" and must- cai-numbers.
Drama is also ofered. in the picture and in mock murder mystery in the studio during a ¦ radio broadcast Chester Morris, June Knight, Paul Lukas, Bela Lugosi, Karloff and others all turc in well played parts"
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Among the song hits perfectly rendered by some of the favou- rites of the air are. "I Ain't Gonna Sin No More," "Somebody Looks! Good To me," "Blue Sky Avenue,” Don't Let This Waltz Mean Good- bye" and a few more,
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It all started with the innocent question," "Do you like Baven- hurst and the
answer, Too quiet! In fact I don't see what a policeman or a reporter can find
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"STUDENT TOUR”
Showing At The Queen's
those gurgling triplets of success
Rhythm, Romance and Roars
Monte Blue, arranges for Butter- worth, the professor of philosophy, to accompany the crew and to- tor them. A bunch of the love- llest co-eds decice to go along as z cheering section. Bo does the professor's homely alece, Miss Doyle
to do here. How do you ever pass | meditated robbery Graves carries the time away?"
out in his attempt to prove to the charming Bally Blane that
Hilarious happenings take place Havenhurst is not as quiet as she
Carlo, at the Taj Mahal, in India on the boat, in China, Java, Monte thinks it is! But once they are Involved in It, Holt and Graves go ful entertainment, were never and at other points visited, Dur- about solving the banting myster- more perfectly exemplified than ing the proceedings Miss Doye les in a manner that is sald to "Student Tour, the new Metro- bicesoms out as the loveliest co-ed move the audience from an atmos“
Goldwyn-Mayer musical produc in the cruise and wins the heart phere of hushed mystery, to hllar- tion showing at the Queen's Thea of Regan, the stroke oar of the lous galety.
well be called & team, and the lion of the College
These seemingly innocent words are the direct causes of exciting adventures in "A Dangerous Austr," the Columble picture co- starring Jack Holt and Ralph Graves at the Alhambra Theatre to-day Holt plays a police lieu tenant and Graves is cast as the newspaper reporter.
tre. It can
This slight on their importance Howard J. Green is author of "anghaganza as it is a new by Bally Blane spurs them on to this original story of mystery and melange of merriment and music. a little bit of action that results Edward Sedgwick directed. Bealdes It is essentially youthful, sparkling in much more than they had an- Holt, Graves and Sally Blane, the with comedy, vibrant with new ticipated. A jewel" mystery and cast includes Busan Fleming, Blan music, deeply romantic and spec- two mirrders in a weird, myster- che Friderici, William V. Monk, tacular. In a word, it's first-class sous haunted house are a few of Tyler Brooke, Ester Muir and Fre the outcomes of the bit of prederic Stanley,
QULLN'S
entertainment
While Jimmy Durante and. Charles Butterworth carry the
comedy roles, and
tement of howls of the aud
2.30, 5.10,
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to the glee ture: pose: cmemak dest
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METROS CRUISE OF LOVE FUN AND BEAUTY
UDENT
DURANTE
CHARLES
BUTTERWORTH,
PRINCESS
INVEN
LAUREL
many
tant pur-
pair of
The story, while light, bas believable ring, and is definitely
entertainment of the better sort.
udent Tour? is the tainment the screen neg
recommended without re
ALHAMBRA
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TO-MORROW
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AFFAIR
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