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THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI
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a convent because the count had asked her to do that until we were. married"
"And now what?"
YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL
At The Oriental
Joe E. Brown is the famous come dy star in "You Said A. Mouthful”
"She Is i desperately 11. and showing at the Oriental Theatre
that I
sent for me. She is so "saw that it would be safe to send, for you and explain."
"Will she recover, Della?" "The doctors say that she will. after many months."
"And what about the count, meanwhile?"
**He has been here twice. Now he Is in Rome on some affairs. He has, nother said, advanced sufficient sums of money so that I am now. -duty bound to marry him.".
"But when your mother recovers, Della?"
"When she recovers I shall merry you at once, for I have learned that she deceived me. We are not im- poverished at all. but have plenty. Yet I cannot endanger her by run- ning away with you now. Have no fears, Venuto and belleve nothing that any one save myselft says. I shall forever be true and shall marry no other than your own dear
self.
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I am so-Oh, look!" The girl indicated window where a white scarf was hanging out.
"That is the signal. Suzzi was to hang out the white scarf if mother awakened and asked for me. I must run. Come tomorrow night- I must not keep her waiting, she is too ill for that risk."
After a specdy embrace Della ran Into the house and Benvenuto. feeling happier than for a long time, departed for his, home,
His Own Shop...
He was doubly happy, first in the assurance that the beautiful Della main faithful, and again because when he packed up and left An- drucci's shop be"had" resolved to open a shop all his own,
still loved him and would ever re-
It chanced that, shortly after Benvenuto had opened his own es- tablishment,a-wealthy man of Florence who had had a jewel casket made at Andrucel's shop for his wife, came again with a com- mission for a gold service. An drucci promised designs to be promptly made and becaine exceed- ingly happy at the thought of such, a profitable commission..
His two workmen and a third he had engaged to take the place of Benvenuto, were ordered to do their best in producing original designs, but their best did not, please this wealthy man.
"Where is the young artist, Cellini, who designed and made the jewel casket for me?" he inquired.
"I had to send him away, the beast," Andrucci replied, with a shrug, inwardly furious.
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on Monday, and Thursday And. what A Mouthful He's' 4. marathon swimmer who can't swim! Mistaken for a swimming champion, Joe is forced into a marathon race, la deadly fear of the water, and never having tried to swim before except to practice the strokes on dry land, he musters up courage to start when he is pre- sented with what he believes to be a non-sinkable bathing suit. After series of hilarious incidents he is nearly drowned. tionally strong
Joe is supported by an excep- cast, with the beautiful Titian-haired screen and musical comedy star, Ginger Rogers. Others include Farins. of "Our Gang" comedies Preston S. Foster, Sheila Terry, Guino Williams, Harry Gribbon, Oscar Apfel, Edwin Maxwell, Walte
William Walker.
Burressipl Frank Hagney,
This
is comedy,
said contain a riot of fun, and more hilarious gags than half a dozen ordinary comédies.
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NOW AND FOR EVER
At The Alhambra
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Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple have each a following of thousands of cinema fans and whenever they appear in any picture. that film is certain
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935.
LAST TWO-DAYS
***•KINGS•
AT 2.90,5.10.7.15] & 9.90 P.M.
ALEXANDRE DUMA'S
"THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO"
WITH
THE STAR FIND OF THE HOUR
ROBERT DONAT
"AND
THE INSPIRED ACTRESS OF MANY HITS ELISSA LANDI
TOGETHER WITH A SUPERB CAST OF 500
A RELIANCE PICTURE. RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTIS 1's
AT THE KING'S
VOLTAIRE
to be what is termed a "box office The Count Of Monte The Alhambra's Next
success." The Alhambra Theatre have now stolen, a march on the other picture houses for "Now and Forever," their current attraction. is unique in that all these three
which makes the picture the suc-
stars are members of the cast
cess it is.
In the opening scene. we see
Cristo
Change
Four thousand seven hundred Every struggling actor who surand eighty-two candles of various Cinderella aura and sustains faith burned during the filming of the rounds his profession with a sizes, shapes and colours were in the future with the dream that Warner Bros. picture, Voltaire" 1st around the corner waits the starring George Arliss and coming glass slipper a magniicent rol
"to
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TH. No. 95813" 125332
-FROM WEDNESDAY-
TOM WALLS.
AND
RALPH LYNN
WITH
YVONNE ARNAUD
A Cuckoo Nest
prearibus Comedy
BIN
TRAVER
CRESCENDO.
OF LAUGHS".
-DAILY MIRROR.
"YOU MUST LAUGH AT RALPH LYNN"
-NEWS-CHRONICLE.
ONE NIGHT OF LOVE
Next Attraction At
The Queen's
we see him back in his home that will fit him alone, will take Wodnesday. Yet the light they sweetheart" in the starring role.
Cooper in Shanghai but the story is a quick-moving one and soon where he
meets his daughter the first time (played by Shirley Temple) for and changes his mind about selling the child to his brother. Carole Lombard plays the part of the girl with whom Cooper falls in love and together the three of them make "Now and Forever"
one of the most ac- ceptable films we have seen for many a long day,
The client straightaway went to THE GAY BRIDE
the home of Giovanni Cellini to make inquiries. Thus he learned that Benvenuto had his own shop.
Andrucci let his relatives know of his distress and his anger and two of his cousins agreed, for a certain sum, to get plenty of re- venge for him.
The two relatives, Guasco, a powerful man, and Filpo, his brother, lay a wait for Benvenuto, As he was passing a narrow street they tipped a cart of bricks on him
Hilarious Comedy At The Queen's
The Gay Bride which is now showing at the Queen's is based on the story "Repeal" written by Charles Francis Coe.
heart from the fact that it has actually happened-again!
This time the magic wand has been waved over a young English- man who, 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 Crista," re- leased through United Artists and is now showing at the King's.
American motion picture au- diences 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."
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Called Back To. London Donat had just completed seven months' run on the London stage in a play called "The Sleep ing Clergyman," and gone. Cornwall
to
for & vacation. No
that he was stunned and fell.
There is plenty of comedy trom than he was called back to Lan
soonen was his luggage unpacked unconscious. Thinking him dead start to finish with one hilarious don by Alexander Korda, under they fled, but first to his shop. situation added on to another whose direction he had played in Benvenuto soon recovered and a which moves about with the "Henry VIIL" lad told him who the men were, speed of a “sky rocket.” cousins of Andruce).
"How would you like to go to
Carole Lombard is co-starred Hollywood to make a picture? Benvenuto had chanced to be un-with Chester Morris, and other asked Korda, "I bave been armed and he hurried to his shop supporting players in the cast in-authorized to make you an offer." for his sword and small dagger, clude Nat Pendelton, Leo Carrillo, "I should like to go very much.. getting there in time to find the Zazu Pitts and Sam Hardy,
What is the picture?" men ransacking his shop.
"The Count of Monte Cristo,"
"Oh" said Donat, disappointed 13. "What part?"
The situatioris at times though In a great fury Benvenuto at-
hilarious have their serious moexplained Korda tacked them with a golden-hilted meats. This picture is certainly dagger from his workbench. FIMpo | worth the price of admission. leaped back and fell, striking his
head against a corner of the forge.
Guasco turned on Benvenuto with
his sword but Benvenuto leaped be VARIANT ON CASTOR OIL
low the wild lunge, plunging the dagger in the man's neck.
Seeing that the man was dead, Benvenuto knew that his life would depend upon escaping. He ran in the direction of Santa Maria Novel la and came upon Fra Allessio Strozzi.
me upon
"For the love of God,” Benvenuto cried," "save my life, for I have committed a great fault."
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Jan. 18. Correspondent in the Baar tells of an amusing incident which oc- curred when a Saarlander in a cafe jeered at some Italian officers, calling them "Macaronis." They stood it for some time, but at last they got annoyed and carried” him off to their barracks,
"Benvenuto in dire trouble, The offender was very much
was very indeed. Will the good friar try to afraid they were going to imprison help him! Don't miss to-morrow's him. But instead they took him instalment.
into their mess, ordered five plates of macaroni, and told him he would be allowed to go home when he had eaten them all,
Suspicious Stationmaster rings up manse, The minister answers phone,
Stationmaster There's a box for you here. Minister.
Be got through the first two plates without difficulty. At the third he made a formal apology. for having called them Macaronis Minister-Fryes, John, that's Before tackling the fourth-he all right, It's a few hymn books said that after all, it was a com
from Edinburgh.
Stationmaster-Ay, weel, ye'd better hurry up, yer hymn books are leakin!
pliment, as macaroni was the best
dish he had ever tasted.
Bo they forgave him the two last platefuls and let him go home.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
the Alhambra Theatre on Eve was scarcely a millionth part of that actually used in photo- graphing the picture
Voltaire was a noted night owl and the French court of Louis XV and Madame Pompadour, which ha frequented, observed no regular hours, so that much of the story" of Voltaire" is of necessity, fold against a night background,
"Candles
the principal means of light at the time, even in the royal palaces, and great chandeliers containing hundreds of burning candies, are consequenti featured in many sequences of the picture
were
Just one of the many studio lights used to light the sets of "Voltaire" gives of many times the actual amount of light furnished by the 4.76% candles, so they were of no actual help in photo graphing the scenes, save that of atmosphere.
Voltaire" is 20 dramatic presentation of the tur- intensely bulent life of the great French wit and agitator, who was only saved from Louis' wrath by the interven. admired Voltaire for his wit tion of Mme. Pompadour, who
Among those who support Mr Arliss are Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Theodore, Newton, Re ginald Owen and Alan Mowbray." The late John Adolfi directed.
*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.
"One Night of Love," Columbia's highly touted musical romantic- drama which is Thursday's aitian- tion at the Queen's Theatre has Grace Moore, Americae singing Miss Moore, whose glorious voice has been heard from the stages of La Scale Opera House in Vienna, the Opera Comique in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York, has seldom been heiress to such Praise as that which greated her performance in this outstanding musical production.
Tullio Carminati, well-known stage and screen star, has the lead- ing male role opposite the star with Lyle Talbot Mona Barris, Luis Alberni, Jessie Ralph and Andres de Segurio in support.
Moore's
Adapted to the screen by BK Lauren, James Gow and Edmund North from the original story written by Dorothy Speare and Charles Beaban, One Night of Love" is a picture that will thrill you. Grace
exquisite voice and her own beauty and charming personality are allowed full reign which makes this picture that Miss Moore is one of the most all the more enchanting and proves radiant personalities on the screen. Her glorious voice will completely win any audience and with Tullia Carminati, suave and romantic as or leading man, this Columbia production, directed by Victor Schertzinger, is very entertaining
Don't Deny It Now "I had the right of way when this man ran into me, yet you say I was to blame.”***
"You certainly wer "Why?"
his brother is chief of police, and "Because his father is mayor,
I'm engaged to his sister.”:
QUEEN'S
CAROLE LOMBARD CHESTER MORRIS
THE
Gay Bride
FROM FEBRUARY
AT 2.30, 5:10,
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
ONE NIGHT OF LOVE"
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TO-DAY AT THE
KING'S:
CINEMA
HONG KON
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
QUEEN'S:
The Gay Bride"
ORIENTAL
"You Said: A Mouthful"
KOWLOON
MAJESTIC:-
"Murder in the Private Car"
ALHAMBRA:—
"Now and Forever"
Coming
KING'S
"A Cuckoo In The Nest"
QUEEN'S:-
"One Night of Love"
ORIENTAL-
"The House On 56th Street"
ALHAMBRA
"Voltaire"
MAJESTICI
"The House of Rothschild"
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YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL
❤ON GINGER ROGERS and “FARINA”
FILM STAR ATTACKED BY REAR
(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press”); (By|| Telegraph, Copyright, Telo graphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, February 10, 450 pm.)
Paris, Feb. 9. A sensation was caused here when it became known this morn- ing that the famous French screen star, Annabella at a cincor scere was attacked and knocked down by a bear. Her husband, John Murst and other actors rushed E her rescue so that Annabelle es caped from serious injuries. - Th: famous film star, however, suffer- ed double fracture of her arkle joints and had to be taken 10 hospital
Franenceau Kuo Min.
CHILDREN UP IN ARMS
(Special to Hong Kong
Daily Press")."
By Telegraph, Copyright, Tale graphis Messages Ordinance, 1893 Received, February 0, & p.m.)
- Paris, February 9. School children joined in the political demonstration in several towns in the mining district of Northern France where the chil- dren refused to attend school "to demonstrate against the presence of the guarded mobile and against. the arrest of a miner, the father of seven children, who was Im prisoned on a charge of Hoting. Transocean Kuo Min
GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION
(Special
Kêng
of February 8, have banned all open-air demonstrations planned by Communista on February 10, the occasion of the anniversary of the abortive Red” putsch. Transocean Kuo Min.
ALHAMBRA
MENTRE
NOW PLAYING Better and Bigger Picture from F
GARY LOOPER
4113g Miss Marküm giva
• Prince Chirming a fair pobaldes
*ou how to handle the fair sex
OW AND FOREVER
SIR BUY STANDING HARLOTTE GRANVILLE
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