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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1935.
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT (2.30.6.10,7,15||
& 9.30 P.M.
KINGS!
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE Tat. No. 26818 126332
FRIDAY
FROM THE SECRET ARCHIVES OF ALL THE GREAT NATIONS!
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:
HONG KONG
"Kld Millions"
QUEEN'S. I
"Most Precious Thing In
Life".
·ORIENTAL:-
"Straight Is The Way
CENTRAL:-
"Evergreen"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE potre
Nathan Roat, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20. 7.20 & 9.20 `P.M.
DURANTE
SEZ
One moment ba's busines"
up, the next despolineti
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG
Nights of love: days of laughter. and the "haunting spell of roman- tic Vienna are echoed in the re- markable new. example of screen entertainment created by Oscur Hammerstein and Sigmund Rom- berg. creators of "Desert". Song" and "New Moon". This is "The Night is young" glamorous love story of Visina, coming shortly to the Queen's Theatre, and bringing with it the lovely English star, Evelyn Laye 13- 3 team-mate for Ramon Novarro.
The Night is Young" hus at last achieved the problem of blend- ing music, drama, comedy and ro- mance into perfect and unin- terrupted whole. Nevarro plays a debonal: young archduke and, in his colourful uniforms is as ro- mantic as in the days of "Prison- er of Zenda. He never sang bet- ter. Champagne-blonde Evelyn Laye brings a piquant new person- ality, plus beauty and a glorious volce to the screen as the ballett dancer.
Comedy honours are divided be- tween Edward Everett Horton, Charles Butterworth. Una Merkel and Herman Bing, who keep a running fire of laughs@hroughout the picture.
Dudley Murphy directed with deft skill, and important roles were adequately filled by Rosaling Russell Henry Stephenson, Donald Cook Charles Judel and Albert Conti.
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EVERGREEN"
march of:
During the forward British flims the management of the Central Theatre, have shown a number of excellent pictures, -bul-nothing-we imaginė, to equal entertainment qualities the magnificent film showing there to- day.
In
It is "Evergreen," the Gaumont British screen adaptation of Chur les B. Cochran's 'production which had a great season at the Adelphi Theatre. London. "Evergreen" is a type of film to interest the old- timer as well as the modern. The old days, as represented in the film by the forewell performance at
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4. SHOWS
230-500
7.15.8.20
FOG OVER FRISCO
There are 'mystery dramas and romantic dramas, but usually one element is almost completely sub- ordinated to the other. I "Fog Over Frisco" the melodramatic mystery thriller which opens to- morrow at the Alhambra Theatre. thrills and suspense are blended in love and romance with such a nicety as tq, form a most unusually eitertaining picture.
First National has affected a rare combination of entertaining fea- enres a single production. The picture gets off to a swift start and the action never slows up to the Anal smashing climax.
Bette Davis heads an impressive 1st of players, in a new role for her, that of a society girl whe Joins the band of crooks partly for love of the master mind, part-
for money, but mostly for the thrill and excitement of the gume, Donald" Woods and Margaret
Lindsay are an unusual, pleasing pair of screen lovers in the ro- mantic leads.
Lyle Talbot as the snobbish and somewhat weak and cringing so- clety man who is under the thumb of the "Lady Gangster." gives a smooth performance while Hugh Herbert. In the role of a picture needed snatcher. furnishes the comedy relle!.
Douglas Dumbrille, as the master mind, Irving Pichel as one of the lieutenants, Arthur Byron, Robert Barrat, and Henry O'Neil, all, carry out their. Important roles with skill.-
EDDIE CANTOR
in SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S production of
KID MILLIONS
ETHEL MERMAN
ARTISTS BLOCK & SULLY and the GOLDWYN GIRLS RELEASED THRU UNITED
with ANN SOTHERN
ALSO LATEST WALT DISNEY'S
"PECULIAR PENGUINS A SILLY SYMPHONY
しい
MOST PRECIOUS THING IN LIFE
IN TECHNICOLOUR
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Its every scene described as "a
newspaper Halled by critics and enthusiasti- | Uving
headline" by cally supported at the box-office those who have previewed "The by theatre-goers everywhere, Co-First World War, this history. Jumbia's moving drama, "Most making Fox Film presentation is Precious Thing in Life" with Jean
scheduled for showing at jahe Arthur, Donald Cook and Richard King's Theatre beginning on Fri- Cromwell in the leading roles opens | day. to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
The Bim story is based on a the Tivoli. are linked
widely read McCall magazine spectacular magnificence of pre-serial-novel by Travis Ingham, ori- sent-day revues by the impersona-
ginally entitled "Biddy," tion of a popular Tivoll star by her daughter. Jessie Matthews, who in the plays both roles, revels parts. Very strong support is af forded by Sonnie Hale, Betty Bal-in such a grand performance in four. Barry MacKay, Hartley Power
with the
and Ivor Maclaren. Victor Saville directed and Glen MacWilliams was the photographer. This picture a the Central Theatre can be whole heartedly recommended to an en- tertainment-loving and discerning
public."
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUR
RIENTALE
2 DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
SEE HOW A GIRL
CAN MAKE OR BREAM YOU!
An all-star cast is a palmating drama of a big city-mits romance, its drama, its thrills!
A POWERFUL AND THRILLING STORY!
STRAIGHTHE WAY
MGM Short Subjects
TO-DAY RADIO PRO. GRAMME
(Continued from Page 4) 'BERLIN RADIO
9 pm/DJA, DJN Announcement.
(Germ., Engl.). German Folk Song."
Forecast (Germ..
Programme
Engl.)
Letter Box.
0.15 pm-Music
Eventa
and Topical
9.45 p.m.-News in English on DJA
and in Dutch on DJN.
10 p.m.--"Life's Abundance."
A Radio Play by Günther Elch, after a Tale by Ludwig Tieck.
31 p.m-Serenades sung and play-
ed (Gramophone Selections), 11.15 pm-News in German on
DJN.
11.30 p.m.-Book Chat."
11.45-p.m.-Folk Song,
FRANCHOT TOME MAY ROBSON KAREN MORLEY GLADYS GEORGE
NAT
JACK
PENDLETON · LA RUE
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREAM"
"A Midsummer Night's Dream has gone into production at the Warner Bros. Burbank studios and a cast of stellar players in- cluding James Cagney, Dick Po- well, Joe E-Brown, Verree Teas- dale. Jean. Muir, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Hugh Herbert and Victor Jory. The largest indoor set in the history of the screen has been constructed for the for- est scenes of the "Dream," one of the 300-foot sound stages hav- ing been extended to 450 feet in length for this one set, construct- ed by Anton Grot, studio art dir- ector. The ballets of the "Dream" are being supervised by Mme Bro- nislava Nijinska, and the famous Mendelssohn musical accompan
Hildegard Schumacher-Schönment has been specially revised
boin, Lotte Luckwald,
12.15 am-News in English on DJA and in Dutch on DINNE 12.30a.m.-Close down DJA, DIN
(Germ, Engl.).
for the picture by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Viennese composer who was brought over from Buro- De by Warner Bros. a few weeks ago.
"The First World War." to judge from advance accounts, is by far the most notable film yet created on its subjects. It includes secret lims from the archives of every isalon most of them never before
revealed to the public.
The dramatic role of "Biddy" andied by Jean Arthur comely. young screen actress who turned
"Whirlpool" opposite Jack Host, Donald Cook enacts the estranged husband while Richard Cromwell, as the innocent son and heft is seen in his first
unsympathetic
role. Anita Louise, Mary Forbes. Ben Alexander, John Wray and Lambert Hillyer are the rest. that i contribute to the picture's success, the last named being the director.
The most thrilling and breath-
taking shots ever made in the heat.
of battle either on land or sea are included in "The First World War," it is stated. Close-up shots of aand-to-hand trench warfare are varied with enthralling airplane sequences, showing in desan the critical confics of the World War.
The more "human" side of the great holocaust is not overlooked. Intimate views of Europe's royal familes including rare and never- before screened sequences of the Prince of Wales' childhood,
are many and varied. Likewise the
1918 are seen in their diverse ac- tivities, at home and in the field.
Among
"KID MILLIONS
Hollywood is filled with special- ists but few with a more interest-average citizens of the years 1914- ing specialty than Gale Mogul, Eddie Cantor's "stand-in." It is Mogul's job to take the place, of the star while cameramen and electricians arrange the lights and focus their cameras prior to the Alming of a scene.
Gale has been Cantor's stand- in since the days of "Whoopee," but he has fulfilled the same post in behalf of other stars, too. Can- tor is five feet seven and one-half inches tall, so. Gale wears tennis shoes to bring himself. down to Eddie's height. When he substit- utes for Ronald Colman, the, bas to wear special shoes that add two and cne-half inches to his height, and wear a mustache. For Leslie Howard he has to make himself' two and one-half inches taller,
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MORROW
the more notable se- quences depicting royalty are in- timate views of Rasputh with the Russial Royal family; the marriage
of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. whose subsequent death precipit- afed the war; and, many unique glimpses of the Kaiser in the years building up his when he was mammoth war machine,
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and for Robert Donat, he adds four inches and wears a blond wig. When Cantar does a black-face scene, Gale dons the burnt cork, too. Then on the set it is hard to tell the two apart:
"Kld Millions" is the current at- traction at the King's Theatre.
Life's mightiest drama! Mankind's most powerful story History's most sen- sational event!
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
EDITED BY LAURENCE STALLINGS
ANNE SHIRLEY
How She Was Found
When RKO Radio decided to make talkie of "Anne of Green Gables," the L. M. Montgomery tale of girlhood which has been a best seller for 26 years, the studio' collided head-on the exception- ally difficult production problems. Background. period, atmosphere and casting all added a few grey hairs, to the thatch, of Producer Kenneth Macgowan. Here are just some of the things" with which he had to cope.
Miles Montgomery definitely placed her story on Prince Edward Island, of Canada, and described 'Its natural charms at great length. This made a practical duplica- tion of the island scenery obliga tory. Fortunately. Macgowan's father was born there, and the producer himself spent much of his boyhood there.
Macgowan's memories, plus movie and still photographs of the "Green Gables" country, help- ed a lot, and an eagle-eyed loca tion scous found that the coun- try about Santa Cruz, Cal, was very much P.EL There much of the outdoor stuff was shot.
Then it came to casting the leading role....
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Here was a tough one-to find young actress who could play a 12-year-old girl and later in the picture the grown-up child who has a romance. There is not suf- Aclept time transition in the tale, allow the casting of a. child actress and a grown young woman.
Here director George Nicholls, Jr., stepped in, smiling,
He had directed a pretty, cle- ver 18 year old girl in RKO Radio's
QUEEN'S
Ar 2.30, 5.10
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
It will grip your heart with its drama of youth emerging
MOST PRECIOUS
Jess Arthur • Donald Cookto
Richard Cromwell
the McCall story by Travis
* Directed by Lambert Hillyer
into a world
of new lowes
and forgotten
dreams!
THING LIFE
&
KOWLOON.
MAJESTIC:-maya 15'
"Strictly Dynamite"
ALHA JURA:
Two Seconds"
Coming
KING'S:—
"The First World War" QUEEN'S:-
ORIENTAL:
"The Night Is Young"
"Frisco Jenny"? "That's A Good Girl” CENTRAL:-
"Flirtation Walk"
ALHAMBRA
"Fog Over Frisco"
"Finishing School" Her name was Dawn, O'Day. Nicholls be- lieved she had great talent; as well as plenty of girlish charm. She was tested for "Anne" with- out a speck of makeup, and the search was over. Her name is now, legally, Anae Shirley, that of the book's Heroine, and studio wisencres predict a brilliant fu- ture for the youngster.
Prince Edward
Waker Plunkett, the RKO Radio clothes designer, also had his problem that of making the costumes absolutely faithful to place and periods Plunkett dis covered that Island farm girls, 30 years ago, wore home made dresses almost exclusively and giving "Anne” cisthes the home made look was just as delicate a job as creating the latest chic number
from Paris. " J
the
"Anne of Green Gables" Was one of the most difficult and in- tricate production Jobs ever set before the boys at RKO Radio That they name through so nobly is a credit to al of them.""
In a drama that exposes the secret
Jove Efe of a radio comic
Wot yoining
Wor strenth1
* Woe granion!
STRICTLY DYNAMITE
With
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NORMAN FOSTER
WILLIAM GARGAN "MARIAN NIXON MILLS BROTHERS
TWO SECONDS
At The Alhambra
Edward G. Robinson is at his best In Two Seconds" one of the
most sensational love drama ever Almmed.
16
...
The story concerns the lives of three persons. Vivienne Osborne, Freston Foster and Edward G. Robinson, and shows
bów ង cabaret girl leads an innocent man to his destruction.
She uses her wiles' to entice Robinson to the altar of matrimony but Foster, as his best friend, sees through the tricks of the woman. He counsels him against her com.
pany but after drugging Robinson she "caught him.
Foster then tries his best 10 break their marriage and then Robinson suffers a nervous break- down. Towards the end he finds. his wife had been unfaithful to him. He kills her, and but you must see the picture to ap- preciate it in full
The picture is full of pathos and heartaches. It is one of those pictures that one sees none too often. The players all give off their best. For sheer appeal this picture is hard to beat-O, M 0.
There Is Always A Good Show
at the
CENTRAL
Kathan
Road, Kowloon Car Park: Directly opposite
&
Queen's Road Central Car Park: Jervais Street.
ALHAMBRA
THEATRES
(To Central Theatre take Buses No. 4 or 5 going West).
CENTRAL
OPENS TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.80 p.m.."
The first of the 1935
Gaumont British picture
to come to Hong Kong.
JESSIE MATTHEWS
EVERGREEN
SUNNIT HALE BETTY RALFO S
GIRLS
SONGS SPECTACLE
"Flirtatio
ALHAMBRA
TO-DAY ONLY"
at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 9.20 p.m.
The man of a thousand charac ter faces the
most terrifying delemma of his cafeer in the ersational love drama.
ROBINSON
ES G
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