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THE FIRST MRS. FRASER
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Being an actor isn't all beer and Skittles. At least Henry Hewitt aoes not think so.
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Mr. Hewitt appears in Sterlig Flim Co., Ltd.'s production of "The First Mrs. Fraser", which comes to the King's Theatre on Wednesday.
MENACE
When Menace," the new Pard- mount murder mystery, opens Co- morrow at the Central Theatre, audiences will have the on- portunity to guess the identity of the feudish murderer who`plots`a sinister crime.
camera, the nctual murderer is not unmasked until the picture's bizarre and startling climax is reached,
Although he gares prominently In one sequence he is required in the story's action, and is often
quick disappearance | before the to make a and hides himself in an alcove, Mr. H, the director, had the idea that a little comedy might be Introduced at this juncturi and anal, there are seven peopie, " suggested that this might be/cluding two women, who may very brought about if Mr. Hewitt were well be the killer. But the plot's complications are so varied and to accidentally bump his head as
dovetailed that. A he bld. Mr. Hewist, the complted.cloverly
Unhappily for him. Mr. Hill would take a pretty good amateur detective to unravel the mystery combines his peculiar sense of
before the end is revealed, an the humour with extraordinary thor- oughness. Thirty times he hid, and thirty times he bumped his head before Mr. Hil himself atised.
declared
However, if its any consolation to him. Mr. Hewitt knows the scene is funny Judging by the effect. It had, on everyone else on the set. Meanwhile he has a bump on his head the size of an
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A personal attraction as power- fül as the surge of the ocean tides, and a bright sophistication in common. These are the elements which we place the new, co- -starring" team of Constance Ben- rett and Clark Gable among the leading film couples of 1935, in the opinion of the director, Robert 2 Leonard.
names'.
DAVID COPPERFIELD
With an all-star cast fairly scintillating with "big one of the most elaborate screen presentations. of recent years is now on bill at the Queen's Theatre.
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It is "David Copperfield", Char- les Dickens' favourite novel which comes to life with its myriad of interesting characters through the medium of the Alm.
No picture since the advent of been more widely sound has heralded than "David Copperheld", Mort,, than a year in the making.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 29 1935.
LAST TWO-DAYS:
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OKINGS
THERE'S A LILT TO
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MUSIC BY JERCHE KERN LYRICS AND UBRETTO BY OSCAR HAMMERSTERE
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THE FIREBIRD
An Excellent Film
COXXBY
A most unusual and dramatic story is being screened are Central Theatre to-day in "The Firebird" the lead enacted by Anita Louise, exempliding the spirit of the rebird.
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MUSIC IN THE AIR
"Music is the Air" the delight- ful Fox Film spectacle which is Dow showing at the King's Theatre, is one of the candidates for the outstanding "musical film of the season. Here is a screen achievement in every sense of the word, combining magnitude with uproarious comedy. mance with a magnificent inusical
score.
tender
In its musical setting alone, the ln has never been surpassed, for Jerome Kern, ace American com- poser of light musie, has contribut
His melodies are the cel the score. most lilting and joyous, that have been heard on the sereen and Oscar Hammerstein 11 has writter notable lyrics.
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The theme evolves about the fatal fascination strange and exerted by a popular, althouga unscrupulous actor over a beauti- ful young girl
Ricardo Cortez has the role of egotistical and insufferable actor who first attempts to lure the mother into a clandestine
Swanson; returning to affair, and upon failing turns his pictures after a two year 3 ausence, attentioris to the daughter. Vereeurs in a performance whien will ardent hier most Teasdale acts as "the mother who astonish tries to sacriace her own reputa-
John Boles, opposite her in the tion and her very fe to shield
rols of the light opera tenor, has her daughter.
any opportunities to lift his splendid voice in song and what rong Douglass Montgomery and June Land are likewise featured in important roles, and the notable supporting cast includes such sure fun-makers
Al a8.
Sheao, Joe Cawthorn, Reginald Owed and Roger Imhof,
There is plenty of romance
little together with
mystery connected in this picture and it is one that should appeal strongly to all adults. It has an all star cast, for besides Cortez and Teas- dale there are Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, Dorothy Tree, Helen Tronholme, Hobart Cavan- augh and Robert Barrat.-O. M. O
A CUCKOO IN THE NEST
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The screen play was written by Robert Liebmann Howard Young and Billie Wilder from the original libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II. Jerome Kern's acore, as mentioned, is one of the most notable in years, including such melodies as "We Belong To gether," "And Love Was Born,"
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HENRY AINLEY “JOAN BARRY": DOROTHY DIX HAROLD HUTH
THE ALEXANDRA PALACE
As Television Station
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London, April 8.
I am able to state that the Advisory Committee, Television after eight weeks, of exhaustive tests, have decided that the first transmitting station television
The choice lay between four places-Alexandra Palace. Crystal Palace, Highgate, and Hampstead Heath
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siderably reduced and "in tain areas service
cer-
an entirely reliable may be impracticable.
be offered at between 50 guineas state the Selsdon Report. and 70 guineas each.
Conversior. of.. existing in: struments that have been recely
The area covered by Alexandra Palace' will reach to Stevenage in the North. Redhill in the South, shall be at the Alexandra Palace.ng the 30-line transmissions.
Tilbury in the East and Malden- Impracticable.. writes a correspondent.
head in the West, The effective range of the trans-- Thus televison will be available Sons from the Alexandra to only about 15 per cent. of the
much more Palace will be
re- population of the "country. De stricted-owing to the tise pt Not until transmissions from ultra-short waves-than has been Ale-andra
have Palace
been the case with the television pro-proved successful will the
be grammes broadcast by the E.B.C. provincial station selected.. This will serve the Manchester during the past three years
district. It will not "be" opened until well into 1937. After that -The transmitters will operate | eight other stations will be open- at about. 10 kilowatte capacity and | ed at intervais. · be will cover a radius of "not more By 1938 television. broadcasta
moderately már be available to half the po undulating country. In hly palation of the country for two
Alexandra Palace was chosen Because of. Its effective · trans- it has mitting range, because four towers each rising 1451t above the building, and because to w provide all the accommo dation necessary.
The transmissions Will
radiated from an serial nearly than 25
600ft, above sea level The Ber- in television transmissions are
Effect of HIL.
miles over
being radiated from a mast 430ft places this radius would be con-hours daily. high.
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There is also the advantage that within the buildings じゃ grounds of Alexandra Palace ate
G. course you love your wile and don't wan; to adventure win the viber lady with woom rate hase Told Every Little Star and a skating rink and a racecourse
mporarty linked you, so you view lue arri of pa and ma-in-law
repidation.
If you can imagine ali, this you will begin to realise what a deuce of a mess Peter Wyckham was in when all these things happened to him, and wonder how he ever got out of them satisfactorily.
Which brings us'to "A Cuckoo in the Nest," where Ralph Lynn. In the role of Peler Wyckham, con- trives to worry through all this mishaps and amerges maze of triumphant, and happily reunited to his wife.
Aldwych Theare.
"A Cuckoo in the Nest" is, the famous stage farce, which ran for months at the Tom Walls end Yvonne Arnaud the featured players with Ralph Lynn, Walls as the father- in-law, Yvonne Arnaud as the giri in the case.
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Mary Brough too has the role of
Gable and Miss Bennett, who have never co-starred before, are together in a new Metro-Goldwyn Mayer production," "After Omce Hours" which Leonard describes as an "active and romantic" story wherein the editor of a great achievement of David O. Selznick, ant Innkeeper, who with Robert- newspaper falls in love with his the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produ". society reporter and solves a mur-cer noted for "Dinner at Eight", ““Viva Villa!" "Little Women" and der mystery.
it is the latest motion picture Mrs. Spoker, a thoroughly unpleas-
The aim is due, very shortly at many other history-making pro- the, Queen's Theatre.
"This team is almost certain to follow the footsteps of the famous Crawford-Gable, Shearer- Gable combinations" Leonard said In an interview or a lavish ball- room set
ductions.
Reproduced with fidelity" from Dickens' best-loved story, Almed both in England and in
Holly- wood, the picture has proven one. of the most sensational hits of the past years.
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"Sophistication- and an intangi- |
Sixty-five stars and featured ble emotional appeal will form the players make up the "key" charac-" mainsprings of their popularity ters of the cast. W. C Fields the immortal Wilkins together. Both are distinct, clear-creates
ly defined personalities, who have Micawber, Esq. the improvident that rare ability to co-ordinate but happy wastrel who is "always their talents. Together they are expecting something to, turn up” able to mold and shape a scene to technical and emotional per- fecting.
Leonard knows his co-stars well. He has directed "Gable in two hits and bounced his leading lady on his knee when she was a baby. Both stars come to the new picture covered with succes 'sive triumphs.
Cutting
An English party spending 2 holiday in Switzerland decided to ascend a very small peak in the neighbourhood of their hotel Though the climb was no more. then a strenuous walk, a guide was engaged, and when the party sa sembled it was observed that one,
Frank Lawton, who distinguished in "Calvacade" plays the adult David Copperfield, one of the brilliant Juvente. discoveries of recent years, a ten-years-old lad named Freddie Bartholomew plays the child-role of David ""
Idoneal Barrymore. Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Allan are among the many "dis- tinguished players who were, cho- sen to create characters that are immortal figures of literature.
of them carried a totally unneces sary tope.
The guide, nodding gravely to- ward the rope, inquired politelys "M'sieu is going to skeep-yes?"
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"The Song Is You"
Don't miss Music In The Air.' It will keep you singing gayly for
year!
son Hore ás à parson with a pen- chant for motor cycling, alds and abets in the action of the story. ""A Cuckoo in the Nest," is a riot of happy laughter from the mo- ment we discover Ralph Lyon at the bookstall, to the time where on the napper bracket of the re- verend gentleman's bike he rapid- ly overtakes the car in which his wife in high dudgeon at his can-
duct is returning to London, effects a happy reconciliation
(Alexandra Park), from which aceres well suited for television may be broadcast,
In the Selsdon Report it WIN recommanded that both teleri- sion systems, that are to be pet- mitted to broadcast experimental programmes shall use, the station.
one
There will be an extended trial. under strictly comparable coli- ditions. The systems will be in- stalled side by side and used al-" ternately, not simultaneously, "
Delays
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To install the two sets of trans- andmitting apparatus will take
considerable time. There will ba a further period of delay while Eest transmissions are being made. It is doubtfur if the ex- perimental programmes can be. gin before the autum
Of Norman. Blood Dog vendor, to lady inquiring whether the puppy has a pedigree: "Fedigree, lady? Why" that dog's ancestor came over on a lead held by William the Conqueror."
Then they will be available. only to persons owning the new television receivers, which will
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No one but Charles Dickens could have written this tenderand moving love story. No one but M-G-M could have given it the mar velous, star-studded production if cried out for
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