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WHIRLPOOL
The ever popular Jack Holt is .00 ine screen of the Queen's Theatre to-day 10 his latest Columbia "picture, "Whirlpool, a dramatic story of
man Who sought oblivion that his wife and child might na
ufe, "Twenty years at hard labour ed upon "Buck Rankin, carnival
♫ new
that was the "sentence pass-
owner, the character played by Jack Holt, less than a week after he had married Helen Henderson, played by Lila Lee. When he learns that his wife is to have a child, Rankin contrives to have her belteve he drowned attempting to escape trom prison. Many years later, after his release, his life crosses that of his daughter and wife, who is now happily and securely married. Knowing that the revelation. of his identity would run their lives, he makes the supreme sacrifice
In the role of the man.. who gives up his life that his family might not live under the stigma of disgrace, Jack Holt has the
were
type of two-fisted" characterization. that he can play convincingly, and vividly. His recent Alms "When Strangers Marry." **The Woman I Stole" and "Master of Man"
SWEET ADELINE
An audience which
ኳ ቢ፦ leit whistling with feet tapping and lips smiling paid tribute to what Bundoubtedly the greatest of all Warner Bros. musical spectacles, Sweet Adeline," which opened for first time locally at the Alhambra and Central Theatres on Sunday.
the
There is no mystery as to how Warner Bros. already fatuous for their remarkable musicals, surpas
took a clever operetts with the re putation of a 83-week rua on Broad- way and gave it the kind of production treatment possible, only to the Warner Bros, organization, provided as its star the charming Irene Dunne, gave her a cast which include four of the funniest com- edians in films, and added to it the directing genius of Mervyn LeRoy and Bobby Connolly, "master of dance spectacles.
MARIE GALANTE
months has blended an "exotic High pressure coaching in six
Franco-Italian personality with intensive English stage training to present a new Hollywood star in her first Hollywood picture.
The girl is Ketti Gallian. Her I vehicle is "Marie "Galante", which opened on Sunday at the King's Theatre, an adaptation of the rom- arice which won the Prix de Rome She is playing opposite Spencer as a novel a couple of years ago.
Tracy, with a strong supporting cast including. Siegfried Runman, Helen Morgan. Ked Sparks, Ro- bert
Loraine, Leslie Fenton, Arthur Byron and Stepin Fetchit. The production is rated as one of the most important on Fox Filmis schedule for the year. It was directed by Henry King who made "State, Fair" and "Car- olina", and produced by. Winfeld Sheeman, vice president in charge of production
The director and Jack Otterson, art director, with camera crew made two trips to the Canal Zone to obtain background and colour for the picture. The last visit cuincided with the record-breaking passage of the United States Battle Fleet through the Canal, when more than a hundred ships crossed from the Pacife to the Atlantic in less than 36 hours,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935.
TO-DAY ONLY
AT 2.30.5.10.7.15
9.30 P.M.
KINGS:
MARIE GALANTE
A FOX Picture with
SPENCER TRACY KETTI GALLIAN
NED SPARKS HELEN MORGAN
NOTE OUR REDUCED PRICES At 2.30, 5.10 and 7.15 P.M.. L. SEAT -$1.70 B. STALL...70 Cts. D. Cyrcza... $1.10 F. STALLS 10 Cts (Tax Included)
DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR
" the
James Cagney has become idol of all branches of the United States. Aghting Army and Marines.
service Navy.
Evidence of this was gleaned during the production of his latest Warner Bros release "Devil Dogs of the Air, the Cosmopolitan Pro- Miss Gallian arrived in Holly-duction which comes to the Al- wood last Christmas Eve. Ahambra Theatre on Saturday. This stranger in a strange land, speak-picture brought him again Into ing scarcely half a glozén words of direct contact with men' of the English despite her stay in Lan-service. don, she was miserably lonely.
Should Cagney, who has as his So she concentrated on learning co-star in the plcture, Pat O'Brien, English. Her contract provided that the popular team which also play she must learn the language withined in "Here Comes the Navy." de- three months. To insure her con- cide to desert films. he probati centration, it was furthur stipulatwould find each branch ed that she must not speak French service fighting for his enlistment. during that time.
*
VANESSA: HER LOVE STORY
"Vanessa: Her Love Story" the
of the
While on, North Island produc- ing "Devil Dogs, sailors, marines and soldiers all had an opportunity to study Cagney and to know him, They liked his spirit of being one of them. Cagney, too, seemed i
DOWN TO THE LAST YACHT
RKO-Radio's ambitious musical comedy extravaganza, "Down To the Last Yacht" is showing at the Oriental Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
the
girliest
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL No. 25313 25392
TO-MORROW
RED
STEPTI DUNA REGIS TUOMET
tadio Picture
MORNING
ANGLO-CHINESE CHILD. REN IN LONDON
Chung Hwa Club
(Special Air Mail Service
London, April 26.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Marie Galante"
QUEEN'S:—
"Whirlpool""
ORIENTAL
"Down To Their Last Yacht".
CENTRAL:-
"Sweet Adeline'
MAJESTIC:
Kowloon
*365 Nights In Hollywood" ALHAMBRA
"Sweet Adeline"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Red Morning"
QUEEN'S:-
"The Captain Hates The Sea" "Vanessa: Her Love Story" ALHAMBRA —
"Midnight Albi” ·
Natural History
A little city boy who had been
An entertainment is being given next Tuesday afternoon in Lady Astor's drawing-room, which she to the country, was describing to has lent for the purpose, for the another boy friend, the big pig he
This production is said to be maddest, merriest, dizziest, and most impressively lavish melange of exotic settings singing, dancing and hilarity yet attempted...
Nella Fitzgerald, rents the Colt-benefit of Chung Hwa Club, an Stratton's yacht for cruise to institution in Limehouse founded by Chinese students and their the South Seas. "She insists that
for all passengers must be vulgarly friends
the Anglo-Chinese There rich, and she recruits her crew children of East London. and staff of servants from the
of these born to the many cream of the impoverished blue-children.
Chinese who drifted to London during the War, married English girls, and settled down, some as
bloods.
The yacht gets stranded at the Island of Malakamökalu, a trop
are
BOML hundreds
poor
cal paradise where the sole occulte shopkeepers, .` some 15 pation comprises singing and j labourers, many in very dancing and romance, The island conditions: is ruled by a more-than-slightly balmy white queen whose habit it
In 1930 the desire came to Miss Irene Ho, a student at London. is to acquire at least опе печ University (whose father, Sir husband from each ship that stops Robert Ho Tung, has given gener- at her domain. How her fancy ously to the movement) and some' wise-shifts from one man to another of her friends to teach these
from among the пет arrivals, children something of the lan furnishes much of the comedy. It guage, culture, and history of the all ends in a most preposterous land of their fathers. It was felt and amusing climax.
that children of mixed marriages are often handicapped through no `fault of their own, and that these children had a special claim on their compatriots in London. A night school was started, then 'a club was added, and at last a house was obtained where OF Déember 22 last the Chung Hwa Club
Inaugurated by the Chinese Minister.
se their previous efforts They | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production his element as he sat about swap-
which has been scheduled for plag yarns with the service men- showing on Sunday at the Queen's | whether private or oficer. Theatre has Helen Hayes and Though in private life he is any Robert Montgomery co-starred." thing but the hard-boiled. Miss Hayes made her first bow to cracking character that he plays motion picture audiences in "Thề | in films, that attitude, for screen Sla of Madelon Claudet” which purposes, appealed to the service- made her an overnight "screen med. star. She followed with a striking Derformance "in "Farewell to Arms" and continued with "Az- rowsmith," ""The Son-Daughter" and The White Sister" which co-starred her, with Clark Gable.. Others of her successes-al with adult qualities that, broadened her
of range
performance--included
The result was a evening of perfect entertainment.
JJ
The screen version retains the best of the original to which has been added much that is new and better. including two songs written this production, particularly for by Jerome Kern who, with Oscar "Night Flight," "Another Lan- Hammerstein 11, wrote the guage" and "What Every Woman
operetta.
Knows"
The story is laid in the gay Now in "Vanessa: Her Love nineties, and concerns the pro- | Story," she plays A Walpole prietor of a Hoboken beer garden.
heroine wha is called upor to and his daughters, who, not only sacrifice love for duty. Walpole. wait on tables but sing for the who was in Hollywood during the early days of the picture's produc- tion and himself collaborated with
customera
Adeline, the role enacted by Miss
RICHARD TAUBER
ENGAGED
(Special Air Mail Service)
Landon, April 26. It became known yesterday that Mr. Richard Tauber and
Miss firs
Diana Napler $ British actress, have become engaged,
An omelal at Elstree, where Mr. Tauber and Miss Napier are both working on a film, told a reporter yesterday that when Miss Napier saw her fance in the fim "Blos-
*THE ARMISTICE OF CHRISTMAS, 1914"
Minister's Death Recalls Amazing War Incident
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, April 26. The Rev. Dr. J. Esslemont Adams, Presbyterian minister in Aberdeen for 34 years, who died in Aberdeen, to-day, was the central Agure in one of the most amazing and moving incidents of the war which became known as the was immediately attracted. Short-
"Armistice of Christmas ly afterwards she visited
the 1914+ with her part in "The Dubarry," studios at Elstree in connection
and met Mr. Tauber there.
Duane, is in love with a poor song i Lenore Coffee on the screen play som Time" a few weeks ago, she
said the petite screen star Wis "one of the two women of the films" who could, he felt, interpret the character accurately.
The plcture also reunited. Miss Hayes with Montgomery for the first time since "Another Lan-
guage."
With them is an excep-
The Reason Why tional cast including Otto Kruger.
An elderly man approached one Lewis Stone, May Robson, Henry Stephenson, Donald Crisp, Law-of the attendants in a travelling rence Grant, Crauford Kent and menagerie...
plugger and writer, and is in turn, courted, for purposes other than matrimony by gay blades of var. ious degrees. The girls lands both on Broadway and before the altar, but only after a series of thrilling. adventures and romantic interludes that hold the audience breathless with suspense "when it is not roar. ing itself weak with laughter.
Irene Dunne has
long been accepted as a great screen actress it has almost heen forgotten that she had Д voice of Metropolitan others... Opera quality, and that she had once been under contract to that organization. In "Sweet Adaline" she sings aaven songs, two of them duets with Phil Regan, the New York policeman who became radio star.
A
William K. Howard was the director of this David O. Selznick production.
MIDNIGHT ALIBI
Richard Bartheless, star of the First National production of "Mid- night Alibi,” which comes to the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow, is Supported in this picture by an unusually strong and well selected
RED MORNING
What is believed to be the first genuine pictures of Human life among the liesd-hunter savages cast. and Papuan natives in the wilds Barthelmess, who completes his or New Guinea is brought to the Afty-first picture with "Midnight screen in "Red Morning showing Alib." has most recently appeared "at the King's Theatre on Wednes-in "A Modern Hero," "Massacre". day with Steff Duna and Regis and "Heroes For Sale" Credited Toomey,
with having had more sweethearts in his film plays, than any other The pictures were secured by actor, he adds two more conquests Fames Shackelford and George
in his current picture. Dromgcid, noed cinema adventur- era. Armed with cameras and sound equipment they spent al, and one as a youth forty ve years most a year in unknown parts ago. Ann Dvorak, who appeared where white men never before trod with Barthelmess in "Massacré and never will again, they were and also was recently seen in caused to believe. They travelled "Friends of Mr. Sweeney and to the colourful and dangerous "Side Streets," is the present day locales of New Guinea Rod the Fiji Islands, "shooting" the tribes is the girl of by gone days.
sweetheart while Helen Chandler religious ceremonies and their ha- The most outstanding charac- terization, with the exception of
bita.
The star has a double role in the picture, one of the present-day-
Red Morning" is a dramatic the star, is handled, however, by thriller of the South Beas, its Helen; Lowell, famous Broadway story concerning a heroic giri sall-star who recently turned to Holy- ing the tropical waters batting wood. She has appeared in bat savages and crooked white men two pictures before her current alike. Wallace Fox directed
:
"Can you tell me what the hump on the camel's back is for?" be asked, politely. .
"What's it for?" the man mur- Дured.
"Yes: what use has it?"
Well, it's pretty useful, sir. The old camel wouldn't be much use without it, you know."
"But why not??
"Why not?" exclaimed the keeper
Was
to
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The house contains recreation rooms, a school-room, and the nucleus of a library," and for this suitable books about Chiná are particularly desired. · Handicrafts are taught: there are flourishing troops of Boy Scouts and Gid Guides; and help is given children on leaving school in findi ing employment.......... The club extraordinarily popular with its While in the trenches in France young members; and, the only as chaplain, Dr. Adams was wish-difficulty is to get them to go ing a Merry Christmas to the home when closing time comes. Gordon Highlanders and Scots Guards, when Germans were seen walking about in No Man's Land.
The Scots soldiers jumped out of their trenches and waved to the enemy.
Dr. Adams went to the German Hines, and after consultation with the German commander the dead in No Man's Land were buried and a short religious service was held, the German troops lining up facing the British trenches.
Clinche....
A miserly man was approached by a friend who did his best to persuade him to dress more in ac-
in surprise. "Well, you don't sup-cordance with his station in life. pose people would pay sixpence to
"I'm surprised," said the friend, see 'in if 'e 'adn't got an 'ump, do "that you should allow yourself to Jer?"
become shabby."
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MORROW
Next Tuesday's entertainment is under the patronage, nt the Chinese Minister, the President of the Chins Association, and Mr. W. W Astor The children of Chung Hwa have been busy re- hearsing a little play by Mr. S. L Esuing, author of Lady Precious Stream, which is to be part of the programme.
"But I'm not shabby," said the miser."
-
"Oh, but you are," said his friend. "Remember your father. He was always neatly drassed. Els clothes were always well tailored and of the best material.”
"Why!**shouted the
other, triumphantly, these clothes I'm wearing were father's!"
QUEEN'S
Their Lives were caught in the whirpool of fate!
JACK HOLT WHIRLPOOL
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
AT 2.30, 5.10.
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The CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA
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Fox Film presents
365 NIGHTS in HOLLYWOOD
with
JAMES DUNN HALICE FAYE
had seen "It was in a pen," he sald... and it was afraid of the little pigs. They would chase tha big pig around the pen and after he fell down from exhaustion the little pigs pounced upon the big pig and ate the buttons off his vest."
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