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THE GAY BRIDE
The Next Change At The Queen's
When a blonde adventuress meets a wealthy man, and when that man happens to be a dumb
• racketeer, something is bound to happen, and, according to the hilarious audience reception that attended the opening of "The Gay Bride" comedy-farce, it turned out to be an explosion of laughter. This Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer offering is the next change at the Queen's Theatre. Although Carole Lombard has recently re- ached stellar heights in: such hits as "20th Century", and "Now and Forever", she offers the most, ent- ertaining of all. her bestic comedy "portrayals in the new picture. As Mary, the blonde with a bank- account mind, she dazzles racketė- ers into parting with their. '111- gotten gains, and makes them like it,
CECILIA PARKER
REWARDED
For Her Work
With Garbo
To play a role with Garbo has been the stepping stone to success for many young flim players—and the latest of these, is Parker.
Cecilia
Not only has she been rewarded with a new contract by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, but she has been given the second most important feminine part in the forthcoming musical, NAUGHTY MARIETTA
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Formerly. Mies Parker peared in "Western" thrillers. Then she won the coveted role of Greta Garbo's sister in THE PAINTED VEIL
as
It was her first serious dram atic part and she came through with nying colours Now she will appear in her second important" Notable acting honours are con- dramatic characterization tributed by Chester Morris as
"Julle Jeanette MacDonald's Office Boy, a young man of ex- close friend in the famous Victor traordinary abilities who handles Herbert operetta The picture clerical work and other odd jobs to be produced by Hant Stromb- in a gangster's hangout. His erg, with WS. Van Dyke as 1- romantic scenes with Missector, will also present Nelson Lombard are a tender interlude dy as Miss MacDonald's singing in a lightning-fast plot.
Nat Fendleton has one of the most important roles of his screen career as Shoots Majiz, a rackete- er who falls to read the writing on the wall after repeal. He offers every shade of dumb"numb- skullery" combined with hard- boiled good humour to make his performance outstanding.
Zasu
Pitta wife uproarious laughter with her confusion and terror in the midst of racketeer fights and intrigue. She is a per- fect contrast for Mias Lombard in their scenes together, particularly the farce racketeer wedding
The Recent of Leo Carrillo, that has added menace to many of his
loyer.
Camle Lombard leads to the climax of the picture.
Also notable in supporting roles. are Sam Hardy, as Dingle, a gangster's henchman with the erpaciente of a flea, and Walter Walker as a lawyer who sumers brain storm trying to handle a racketer'a Anancial accounti
Based on the Widely-read ma gazine story, Repeal" by Charles Franels Coe, the sparkle and humour of the original has been retained in the screen play by Bella and Samuel Spewa
"bad man"-roles is a humorous Jack Conway, who scored repent- part of his characterization of ly with hie direction on "The Girl Mickey, a gunman with a heart From Miracur and "Viva Vila!" like a bullet. Fills competition has kept the comedy-tempo with Pendleton for the hand of moving at terrific speed.
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MAY ROBSON HAS
100TH BIRTHDAY
But only for Screen Role
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May Robson will celebrate her one-hundredth birthday with big party. There will be More than 100 guests, but none more "gay than Miss Robson.
THE TRUE LIFE STORY OF
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
Chapter I
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One wonders how to begin this story. It is the true fe story of a man with amazing vitality, a never-flagging zest for life, priceless sense of humour and rare talents for romance and adventure. A man who, though stars may come and stars may 80, has given so generously of these glits on the stage and screen that, even if there were no name at the top of this blography, people all over the world would say quickly, That must be Doug Fairbanks."
He holds the world's record for the standing broad grin. There Isn't a minute of the day that falls to find him glad that he's alive. Nobody ever saw him with a grouch, or suffering from an at- tack of the blues. Nobody ever" heard him mention hard luck in connection with one of his fallu- res. The worse the breaks of the game, the gloomier the outlook, the wider his grin. He has made cheerfulness a habit, and it has paid him in courage, in bubbling energy and buoyant reserve.
and so one wonders how to begin Douglas Fairbanks
Was born, here or there, on such and such a date." It doesn't sound right. He should have been whisked onto this planet in some more exciting, novel fashion, 30 little in his eventful life « has ever been staid or conventional; his gypsy feet have led him so much on strange by-roads, that it seems incongruous to state pro- saically that even as you and I, Douglas Fairbanks was born. But such, oddly enough, was the case.
Douglas Fairbanks-let's face it. was born in Denver, Colorado, on May 23rd, 1883. His father, a New York lawyer, went West to look over some mining property, he liked Colorado so well that he setted there, and his son was born in the city that sprawls out in the shadow of Pike's Peak. So you see it is by no mere accident that Doug wears. chaps and sombrero as though melted into them. He is a true Westerner.
The first highlight of 10 acrobatic career Fras when, at the age o yo, Doug performed his arsitur The nurse turned 7 her back be quickly climbed to the roof of shed and jumped to the ground? It was not a flawless performance; a gash was cut in his forehead so deep that the scar is plainly visible to this day. Per haps you have noticed it in his closeups.
He was probably the most active small boy in Denver points West. He could never be still-except when his father read Shakespeare. For the elder Fair- banks was a profound Shakes- pearian scholar, and when Doug was no more than seven he was spouting the famous soliloquies of Hamlet and Othello. Not that he knew what they meant, of course. That was to come later.
It's for a picture, of course. Spectifically, it's for VANESSA the Hugh Walpole best-selling - novel which is coming to the screen as a David O. Selznick production, for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer.
Miss, Robson plays Judith Paris, whose hundredth birthday an- niversary takes place in one of the opening sequences of the picture.
Present at her party are to be Helen Hayes, who plays "Vanessa" Robert Montgomery, Otto Kruger, Contance. Collier, Porothy Gra- Inger, Agnes Anderson, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephenson, and many others.
William K. Howard is directing VANESSA from a screen play by Walpole and Lenore Coffee,
or
that
Today, Fairbanks can quote ver- batim page after page from play after play of the master dram- atist; infact there is hardly subject that comes up he cannot tell you just what Shakespeare had to say regarding "it. Not long ago, he happened to be visiting a studio in which a new type of round machine was being tested. They wanted some one to talk into the thing for ten minutes. Fairbanks stepped up and went into a Shakespearian monologue which lasted well over the required time.
When
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Denver, the principal actors were invariably entertained in the Fairbanks home. And holding the centre of the parlour floor would be found the future King of the Movies, energetically de- claiming To be or not to be"- ündoubtedly the youngest and pepples; Hamlet on record.
Another of Doug's youthful activities was serving as altar boy in St. Malachy's Church in Denver. In due time he attend- ed high school in that city. following with a year. at the Colorado School of Mines. For his heels had already begun to itch; a mining engineer's career. he figured, might lead. him one day to some of the distant places whose names, even then, were a. "bright forment, to him.
When he was reventeen. "his family moved back to New York and Doug tackled his first the atrical hurdie. Frederick Warde, the famous Shakespearian actor and a good friend of Fairbanks pere, got the lad a berth doing bits in his company. When the troupe played Duluth, one of the principals fell ill and Doug was promoted to the role of Laertes."" He was mentioned prominently in every press notice as being the Worst member of the cast - of -- "Hamlet"!
This was a bit discouraging; he decided what he needed was to absorb more education. Presto, he would go to college. "A man can't be too careful about his college," he said.
I
He chose Princeton as his Alma Mater-to-be: but on his way to New Jersey he ran into a friend
who had chosen Harvard. 30 Doug went on with him to Cam- bridge instead." Due to his very odd assortment of scholastic credits, he was enrolled as B special student at Harvard, with courses in Latin, French and English Literature. Actually he majored in freshman caps and bulldog pipes.
Haryard was big enough to hold him for just five months. At the end of that time it was hinted that circus life might be more.... sulted to his talents, particularly. one with three rings. Oh" well, this was a rather stuffy way to get educatiori any way, he conclud- ed. So be, returned to the stage, this time in "Her Lord and Mast- er," In support of Efe Shannon and Herbert Kelsey. Five months went by before the two stars broke under the strain.
Just at that time the wandez- lust attacked Doug in good ear- nest. He happened to meet two brawny football players who also had a yearning to see life in the raw. Each of the three boys had about thirty dollars. They ap- proached the officials of a cattle- steamship, claiming that they "had a way" with dumb animals, and got jobs as hay stewards.
"We found the cows very nice," he comments. "But those stokers and those stable-malds! we had to fight lem from one end of the yoyage to the other; it got so I bit. myself in my sleep. When we got to Liverpool there were several little things about Europe that bothered us and we thought we'd have a jook.!
"THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO“
Robert Donat Handsome Young English Player In Title Role
`Every struggling actor who sur- rounds his profession. With a Cin- derella aura and sustains faith in the future with the dream that Just around the corner waits the glass slipper of a magnificent role" that will fit him alone, will take heart from the fact that it has actually happened again!
This time the magic wand has been waved over a young English- man who, a few months ago, Was wondering what he was going to do next, but to-day is playing the starring role in one of the year's biggest pictures, Edward Small's million dollar Reliance production, "The Count of Monte Cristo,” re- leased through United Artists and coming to the King's Theatre next Saturday.
They hoboed their way about England, France and Belgium, doing odd jobs and picking up
After three carefree months they rides in order to keep moving1
missed their bovine frienda, so they looked around for another cattle boat.
companies presenting Shakespear's repertoire visited, (To be Confinued Next Week)
TOY
BE
OR
NOT
Hong Kong motion picture audiences will remember Robert Donat, Hollywood's final choice for the romantic Edmond Dantes In the Alexandre Dumas classic, as the
dashing Thomas Culpeper, Charles Laughton's love rival, in "The Private Life of Henry VIII.".
Robert Donat, the young
· English Player --
Called Back To London Donat had just completed a se- ven months' run on the London stage in a play called "The Bleep
asked Kords. "I have been an- thorized to make you an offer."
"I should like to go very much. What is the picture?"
"The Count of Monte Cristo, explained Korda
"Oh," said Donat, disappointed- ly, feeling sure his own lack of reputation in America would doom... him to a small part in the Dunias story. "What part?”
Monte Cristo," replied Korda. Donat took it with proverbial British composure, but he admits he's still figuratively pinching himself to make sure it's not all a dream.
Recalled "Henry VIII” Almost every Important star had at one time or another been.. considered in the search for the ideal personality to play Edmond Dantes
opposite Missa Land. Then one day, Edward Small, pro- duction chief of Reliance pictures" got an idea. He got out a print of "Henry VII" and ran the Bri- tish picture in a projection rear. He ran it again. Then he phoned "Harry M, Goetz, president of Re- liance, in New York. After Goetz had looked at Donat's work in the film a few more times, and ca- bles from England assured the. American
producers that the young actor had had plenty of stage and film experience, the search for Edmond Dantes was at an end.
Appeared in Four Films
Born in Withington, Manches- ter, on March 18, 1906, Donat early evinced histrionic talent and made his debut in Birmingham, in 1921. After several years in stock, repertory theatres and with com- panies touring the English pro- vinces, Donat finally got his Lon- don chance as Cartwright in "Knave and Queen," which was followed by leads in a succession of important vehicles,
He has appeared in four Eng- lish made films, including Henry VITI
A.handsome, rugged six-footer, Donat weighs 165 pounds, is modest, soft-spoken and possess-
has brown eyes and auburn hair. He rides well and loves to read-- anything from a good detective story to racitus.
ing Clergyman," and gone toed of a keen sense of humour. He Cornwall for a vacation. No. 600- ner was his luggage unpacked than he was called back to Lan- don by Alexander Korda, under whose "direction he had played ur "Henry VIII."
"How would you like to go to Hollywood to make a picture?"
He gets a real "American "kick" out of the old ways Americans are apt to pronounce his "Doan-at" is correct.
TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.B.W. on 355 Metres
WEDNESDAY 12.30-2.15 pm-European
gramme.
Pro-
12.30 p.m-London and New York
Stock and Commodity Quotą tions, Manila Gold Bar Quota- tions supplied by H; K. Stock Exchange.
12.35-1 p.m.-Recorded Music.
p.m.-Local Time and Weather
Report
1.03 pm. Recorded Music. 1,15 pm-A Relay of the Orches- tra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room (by courtesy of the Management).
1.30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins,
Rugby Press News, etc., 215 pm. Close Down. 4-7 pm-Chinese Programme, 6-6.15 p.m.--Chlidren's Studio Con-
cert,
7-11 pm-European Programme. 7-7.17 p.m.-Petit Suite de Concert
(Coleridge-Taylor).
7.17-7.30 p.m.- From Foreign Lands,
(Moszkowski) Berlin State Opera Orchestra.
7.30-8 pm Variety.
Instrumental” — I- Cover the
Waterfront.
Instrumental Sweetheart Dar-
In
Vocal-You oughta be in Pictures
Derickson and Brown,
Plano Solo.-Can't we talk it
Gyer.
Plano Bolo-New that you're
gone.
Song-Slumberland, Song-Josephine
(Baritone).
1 Allen
Orchestra One hour with you
Medley.
p.Local Time and Weather
Report
8.03-8.20 p.m. From the Studio,
"The Royal Hawaiian Entertain-
|–8,45 »Dz)--Band Music.
name.
Prince Igor-Ballet Dances Nos. 1-4 (Borodin, arr. Sir, Dan Godfrey),
Mefistofele -Prologue. (Bolto). Selections from Mefistofele
(Bolto)..
Cavalleria Rusticana-Selection
(Mascagni),
Dawson (Bass-Baritone), 8.45-9" p.m.-Four Songs by Peter
1. The Floral Dance (Moss). 2. The Lute Player. (Allitsen). 3. Drake's Drum ("Bongs of the
Sea") (Stanford).
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4. Outward Bound ("Songs of the
Sea") (Stanford). 9-9.20 p.mFrom the Studio,
A Violin Recital by O. Y. Lyen." Sonata No. 7--Mozart; 9.20-9.30 pm. Archibald Joyce
Waltzes played by Debroy Bomers Band.
9.30 p.m-Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 pm: Stock and Comi- modity Quotations ·*.
835-10 p.m.-Light Opera.
Vocal: Gems Les Cloches de
Corneville (Planquette).. Selection-Chu Chin Chow (Nor-
ton).
Vocal Gems.---The Maid of the
Mountains.
10-11 p.m-A Relay of the Dance
Orchestra from the Majestic Ballroom (by courtesy, of the Management).
10.30 pm Reuter Press Bulletins. Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further London Stock and Commodity Quotations...
11 p.m.-Close Down
DAVENTRY RADIO
4 p.m.-Big Ben. The BBC, E- Pize Orchestra, Leader, Danfel Melsa Conductor, Eric Forg Stella Murray (Contralto). Ox- chestra Highland Patrol Wee Macgregor (Amers), A Child- ren's Overture. (Quilter) Stella Murray Two Maori Songs: Waista Maori Home Maori Home (Alfred E41), or- chestra: Suite,
Heath (1) Knazebro Statis
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