The only Cigarettes which do not
make me cough or irritate
my chest"
The original letter is held a Arcadia and its authenticity. verified
Warka
CRAVEN
A PULL
FLAP
TASY-ACCESS inner FOIL WRAPPING (Patent No: 396570/32). Në fumbling-the gap comes com- pletely away, allowing each Cigarette to be extracted easily and conveniently.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1935.
Allow me to add my testimonial to others I read...... have preferred Craven 'A' Cigarettes for several years, but it was during an illness of a winter in bed with a weak chene, that I proved they were the only Cigarettes which did not make me cough or irritate. Now after two years, and so far recovered as to be able to do all my own housework again, I am still of the same opinion, and can now smoke my usual quantity again without cough or chest irritation. My husband too always smokes Craven A and prefers. them to any other."
CRAVENA
TRU“VAC
CRAVEN A
CIGARETTES
CORK-TIPPED. 100% VIRGINIA
ALSO IN TRU - YAC "50" TINS
When we seal the TRU-VAC airtight TIN the FACTORY FRESHNESS of CRAVEN "A" is securely imprisoned until the seal is broken by pulling the rubber tab-DO jagged edges.
cutter: no
made specially to prevent sore throats
• MADE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, BY CARRERAS LTD
£50,000 FILM CONTRACT
Vivien Leigh Seals Record "Success
(Special Ale Mail Service)
London, May 25.
I am informed that Miss Vivien Leigh,
19-year-old actress the who won fame in a nigh; in "The Mask of Virtue," signed yesterday a £50,000 Alm contract with Alexander Korda, of London Film Productions, writes a correspond-
ent.
The contract is the largest ever given to an English girl of her age. It was secured by Mr. Korda despite the fact that three ma- Jor Hollywood companies were negotiating for her.
The contract is for ten pictures in five years. The form is unus- ual. Miss Leigh 15 to have six consecutive months free year for stage work, and one of the pictures is to be made Hollywood.
each
in
When I saw Miss Leigh in her dressing room at the Ambassadors Theatre after the matinee yester" day she did not then know that the negotiations were completed. and it was necessary to get con-
CHATTERTON'S FIRST FOR COLUMBIA
one of
Alfred Santell,
the screen's most successful and best known directors, yesterday was engaged by Columbia to direct "Feather In Her Hat." which will be Ruth Chatterton's Crst star- ring feature under her recently signed contract with the company. Based on LAR. Wylie's sensation- al novel, a deep moving human document of universa! appeal, the story will give Miss Chatterton every opportunity to. display the histrionic ability that made her famous as a stage and screen
star.
¿
Mr. Santell, one of the veteran directors of the Lubin. Kalem and American Film
Co. days. started as a writer of short come- dies, then became an actor. Later he devoted his time to writing two-realers and directing them bimself. Then he entered the fea- ture. field and directed such wel! known stars as Richard Barthel- mess. Corrine Griffith. Norma Tal- madge, Alice White
and many other notables. He has been un- der long-term contract at various times to both M.G.M. and Fox Same of the recent production he has brought to the screen are "Body and Soul," "Daddy Long Legs," "Sob Slater," "Bondage," "Right to Romance" and "Life of Verg'e Winters,"
firmation from her manager, Mr. ANN HARDING. ROMANCE John Glidden.
Was
Mr. Korda's attention drawn to Miss Leigh by 'Mr. Byd- ney Carroll. He told me he had" never seen her before but a single performance was enough to con- vince him that he was watching one of the most promising young actresses he had ever seen.
Miss Leigh has already had some screen experience, having played in two films, "The Country Squire" and "Gentleman's Agree ment." Her last aim, "Look up and Laugh," in which she sup- ports Gracie Fields, has not yet
has not been released.
She is married to a London bar- rister, and has a daughter, Suzan- ne, aged 18 months.
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, May 25,
Mtas Ann Harding, the film act- ress, intends to marry Major Ben Strawbridge, of the United States Army, according to studio re ports in Hollywood.
Major Strawbridge is stationed in Honolulu, but lately has been "escorting Miss Harding, to night
clubs in Hollywood.
Miss Harding had a "friendly divorce" from her husband, Mr. Harry Banister, the actor and author, in 1932, and recently be began an action for the custody of their child, which is still pend- ing.
FOUR CONTRACTS
RENEWED
...
Columbia Pictures this week re- newed writing contracts with Ford Beebe, Earle Snell, Harold Shumate and Sidney Buckman, four of its staff of well known writers and authors.
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Ford Beebe, author and adap- tor of many of the western comedy dramas in which Tim Mc- Coy has appeared recently, has already been assigned to the Co- lumbia star's next vehicle, which" will carry the working title "Range War."
Earle Snell, who prepared for the screen a number of Colum: bla's outstanding features, will start immediately on the screer. play for "Roaming Lady," from the Diana Bourbon story by the same name," recently purchased by the company.
Behind The Screen In Hollywood
» Hollywood has found a sub- stitute, for the "world premiere" which once was so glittering a The part of its social pageant substitute is the preview. It has" become the screen colony's "dress rebearsal" the prelude to the world's first official showing of a Dew film success.
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Those brilliant assemblages which brought the eyes of the world to the forecourt of Grau- man's Chinese Theatre, with its crowds. its lights, celebrittles marching from their cars to the theatre portal
amid a salvo of cheers, are being revived-in a new guise.
All that is needed for this fresh version of the familiar scintillating spectacle is the un- veiling of an important picture.
The preview of Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century production. "Les Miserables,'! at the Chinese cinema temple recently proves this contention.
Ot
Notables in profusion thronged the place, just as they did a few weeks previously for "David Cop perfeld." But the turnout sturs and producers was even larger than before, indicating that such previews are destired
take the
place of the gala premiere which went into eclipse
nore than a year ago.
After all, it is no more than atting that Hollywood. the seat of film production, should be given
the first glimpse, of its epochal pictures. But for some unaccountable reason. previews In the past have been surrounded * Dy secrecy on the part of the producing studios, or limited to The scrutiny of the drama critics. There have been unannounced or "sneak previews to determine the reaction of the public in ob- scure, smal community theatres, and there have been "press" pre- views-but co such showings fo Hollywood in general.
Harold Shumate, one of the veterans of Columbia's writing stan, who has authored and · adapted many of the company's successful productions, and who did the screen treatment for "After the Dance," featuring Nancy Carrol and George Mur- phy, now in production, will shortly be assigned to write ! scenario for another of Colum- bia's important features,
3:dney Buchman, whose last as- signment was as co-adaptor with Jo Swerling of "Love Me Forever," the Grace Moore feature now in production, has been signed for another year. He will take a va- cation before beginning his new term.
OCH AYE, MAE WEST
Mae West may be "Goin' To Town"that's the name of her. new Paramount starring picture- but it won't be London, definitely. this year, Things won't allow it.
What worries Miss West is that. she has had to turn down an in-- vitation from Lord and Lady Byng, an invitation to the Jubilee, Ball and an invitation to a student's dance at Edinburgh University.
DOUBLY INTERESTING
At the "Les Misserables" pre- view, for which geld engraved invitations were issued, several hundred seats were reserved for invited celebrities. These seatS were at a premium, with offers ss bign as $10.00 a seat in the cele- brity section
From the public viewpoint. the event was doubly interesting Through the fact that patrons could get tickets in the unreser- ved section at popular prices, and thus entoy the thrill of sharing the excitement of the occasion. with the stars,
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Fredric, March, who co-stars in the picture with Charles Laugh- tun, attended the preview. Char- lie Chaplin WBS there with Paulette Goddard. Other stars attending were Kay Francis. Mary Pickford, Paul Murt. Jeanette MacDonald W. C. Felds, Con stance and Joan Bennett, Pat Patterson, Mae West, Charles Boyer. Frances Drake, Richard Barthelmess, Edward G. Roblin- son and Carl Brisson, to mention." a few.
were
Ita
HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE Among the producers Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists. his brother Nicho- las Schenck. president of M.G.M.. tors, featured players and writers Jesse L. Lasky, and others. Dire-
were there in abundance.
With this precedent and attendant success, it Is more thar probable that as a number of other important pictures are forthcoming. this type of preview will be used for launching them, and thus the public will once more be treated to the spectacle of Bollywood-on-Parade.
"NOTHING NEW"
The Biblical adage that there wis nothing new under the sun has Just received fresh support, "from" an unexpected source.
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At a lecture in the Brocklyn" Museum recently Professor Jean Capart, director of the Royal Museum of Art and History.. Brussels, Belgium, offered proof that an "ancestor Mickey Mouse flourished in the land .of Egypt 3.000 years ago.
"Cats and mice sketched. into papyrus manuscripts reveal the existence in ancient Egypt of comic cartoons and fables," said Professor Capart, who is advisory curator of Egyptology at the Brooklyn Museum.
As proof, he exhibited a lantern alide, showing a mouse, with arms akimba and feet set wide apart. amid a group of Pharoah's sub- jects
"
Evidence, gathered from these papyrus records made it certain. he stated, that the Egyptians en- joyed the antics of Mickey's pre- decessor.
"FIT FOR A KING!
Speaking of Mickey Mouse, a social event of considerable im "portance" took place not long ago aboard the S. S. Franconia wher the ship's officers and passengers during a world cruise were bosts to Ratu Poye III uncrowned King of the. Fiji Islands. The stately ruler, who stands 6 ft. 4 ir, was entertained by a showing.. o! Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs." He was accompanied by the Bull of Benga and 30 "re- walkers"
Ratu Pope is the direct descen- dant of cannibal kings who ruled the Fiji Islands before the British arriver here, Though has no official existence
his title to-day
he is recognized as king by the natives of the Fijis, who knee at his approach. Ratu and his re- talners were tremendously pleased by Disney's masterpiece
THE WEDDING NIGHT
Black and white make-up, in- stead of the coloured pastes, creams and rouges now in use in use in motion pictures may be the next innovation in Hollywood.
Raymond Lopez, Spanish make- up artist for the Samuel Godwyn production, "The Wedding Night,' in which Gary Cooper and Anna Sten are co-s. arred, admits that he is completing experiments which may do away with the use of colour in cosmetics for the screen. "Many stars do not understand the art of make-up and Insist on decorating their faces to please themselves-- rather than the camera," explains Lopez. "The result is that the star often. Is. shown to disadvantage on the screet. The camera only sees in terms of black and white-hence there is no real need for colour." Lopes declares that Anna Sten is one of the few Hollywood per- sonalities who really understand the art of make-up, both for the screen and in actual life.
"Miss Sten could easily quality as a professional make-up artist herself." he says. "because she has a camera perspective on all cosmetics and colors"
Gery Corgan and Axin Man in Sansol Gold
Might,”¦valon.si through” United
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GEORGE ARLISS TO-DAY'S RADIO
PROGRAMME "Comes Back" In Richelieu
Broadcast by Z.B.W.
George Arliss has been in dan-... ger af, fosing his title as "arst gentleman of the screen" of late, and every his most devoted fol- lowers became critical when they found that Arliss thought him- self so truly the counterpart of the "Iron Duke" that there was no need for disguise or acting. It 's a pleasure, therefore, to record that he achieves complete "come back" to his best in Car- dinal Richelieu." which was trade-. shown in Glasgow recently.
B
Cardinal's struggle to build up a In this story of the famous
united French nation in the teeth of the feudal lords. and without proper support from the weak' but good natured Louis XI,, Arliss displays the dynamic force and clever
character portraya
which distinguished his Disrael! Some of the "kittenish" touches which have so weakened his re- cent roles are still there, but the result of the whole is an eminent- ly satisfying Richelieu, whether historically accurate or not
far
DOMINATES THE FILM Arliss dominates the film, of" course, but the story is exciting and full of action, with many fight touches, and having a not too prominent love interest. which Maureen O'Sullivan and Cesar Romero are jointly respons- ible. The speed at which this Twentieth Century production moves and the ruthless, cutting "of unnecessary detail provide an ob-. ject lesson for British producers, who are still prone to meander in films of this type.
Perhaps it is the skill of the director, Rowland V. Lee, in Keeping to the point that accounts for the improvement of Arliss, though it has been said that Arliss nas for long steeped himself in the character of the famous French Cardinal." At any rate, there is no doubting that his portrayal of the prince of the Church who was ready to run risks with his soul for the good of his beloved France is gripping." and that the 'fhm is as good en- tertainment of its kind as has been seen for a long time.,
Cameron
Rogers and Maude Howey based the story on Bulwers Lytton's play and W. P. Lipsomb, who was responsible for "Les Miserables" and "Clive of India," has written
very witty dialogue which adds to the effec- tiveness of the star.
some
Lili Damita and Jack Buchanan in "Brewster's Millions."
COLUMBIA REWARDS
BARRIS
2
on 355 Metres
12.30 to 215 pm-European pró-
gramme.
፡
12.30 p.m.-Recorded music I p.m. Local time and weather re-
port.
1.15 p.m.-Hong Kong Hotel Or-
chestra.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins.
Rugby Freas news, etc. 2.15 p.m.-Close down.
to 7.p.m.-Chinese programme.. 7 to 11 p.r.-European programme 7 to 7,30 p.m.
Light Opera and Musical Comedy Vocal Gems Lily of Killarney. Selection-Belle of New York. Vocal Gems-Helen.
Selection-Bow Bells. 7.30 to 8 p.m.--
From the Studio
A Violin and Pianoforte Recital by Miss Joyce Anderson and Miss Ottilia Derwin. PROGRAMME
1. Selection-New Moon.-Rom-
berg.
2. Violin Solos:-
Londonderry Alt-Tvehurst Moto Perpetuo-Bohm.
3. Pianoforte Solo:-
Liebestraum.--Liszt,
4. Violin & Plano:-
If thy Songs were only winged
-Katn,
For you Alone.-Geehl, L'Amour Toujours L'Amour.-
Frimi.
8 p.m.-Local time and weather re-
port.
8.03 to 9 p.m.-
Variety
Plano Solos-King of Jazz Med-
ley-Rale da Costa. Vocal Duets-Maybe I'm Wrong
Again. Another
Norah
one Gone. Blaney and Gwen Farrar. Instrumental-Smiling Eyes, Hawaiian Love Bird. Bongs-Tramp, Tramp, along the Highway (from M.G.M. Film "Naughty. Marletta"},
I'm Falling in Love with some- one (From "Naughty Marlet- ta")-Nelson Eddy (Baritone). Instrumental Sweet Sud-Just
you.
Georgia on my mind. Nat
Gonella and his Trumpet/ Songs-Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life * (FZOM M.G.M. fizn "Naughty Marietta"), " Italian Street Song (from "Naughty Marietta").-Jean- netts MacDonald (Soprano). Piano Solos-Here is my heart- Selection-Patricia Rossborough,
Songs-Up Aroun' the old North
Fole.
What can you give a Nudist?-- Bertha Willmott (Comedienne) Orchestra Jubilee Dance Memo-
ries.
9 to 9.30 p.m.--
From the Studio
A Recital by
Mr. D. M., Richards (Baritone) accompanied by Joan de Ville.
Miss Marina Barretto (Piano-
forte)
1. Songs:
PROGRAMME
Pagan-Hermann Lobr. Nelson's gone a-Salling Her-
mann Lobr.
2. Planoforte Solo:-Selected, 3. Songs:
For the
Lohr.
Green... Hermann
So Fair & Flower.--Hermann
Lohr.
Lady Mine.Hermann Lohr, 4 Pianoforte Solo:-Selected, 9.30 to 10 p.m.-.
Light Orchestral Music Tschalkovsky In Vienna' (arr.
Waiter).
Fotpourri of Waltzes.
Shining Moon (Russian Folk
Boog).
Song of the Volga Boatmen
(Russian Folk Song). Old Friends PotourTI (art.
Finck).
10 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins. 10.05 to 11 p.m.----
וני
Dance Music.
10.30 pm-Rugby mid-day Press
news.
•
BERLIN PROGRAMME.
9 pm-DJQ, DJB Announcement
(Germ. Engl.2.
German Folk Song.
Programme Forecast (Germ
Engl.).
Because of his performance in "Love Me Forever, the Grace Moore starring vehicle now in production, "Columbia recently as- signed Harry Barria to a much more important role in "After the Dance. This is the Nancy 11 pm-Close down. Carroll-George Murphy picture, which is being directed by Len Bulgakov, Thelma Todd and' Jack LaRue already have been signed for the cast, Harold Shu- mate wrote the screen play, bas- ed on a story by Harrison Jacobs. Mr. Barris, one of Paul White- man's original rhythm boys, in an Locomplished musician and plano player. He has also com- posed a number of popular songs. He made his picture debut sever- 11.15 p.m.-News in German on al years ago as a comedian in DJQ and DJE
Two Plus Fours. Bince then he 11.30 pm- Merry Programme has been seen in numerous come- 11.18 pin-News in English on Edies by other majer producing
9.15
p.m.-Music and
· Eventa.
Topical
8,45 p.m-News in English on DJQ
and in Dutch on DJB. 10,45 pm-Music by the Reichs-
wehr,
DJQ and in Dutch on DJB, companies, including the "Cem-11.30 pm-Close down DJQ, DJB pus Comedies" for Universal.
(Germ Engl.