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LET'S LIVE TONIGHT
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN
The Frivate Life of Dun Juan, Douglas Fairbanks' new film, which comes to the King's Theatre on
With the public still singing the praises of "One Night of Love," Grace Moore's sensational starring vehicle, Columbia Pictures the pro- | "ducers, have incorporated the suc-
cess ingredients, of this aim into Friday, their latest product.on, "Let's Live | Birls. Tonight" coming on Saturday to 'the Queen's Theatre.
Starring Lilian Harvey and Tuile Carminati, "Let's Live Tonight is not essentially of the same formula as "One Night of Love but if Analyzed clcsely the lagredients are outstandingly similar.
This new Blm, employing the same leading man, Tullio Car- ninat, the same a rector, Victor Scherzinger, who did the melodies for "One ght of Love" bids fair to parallel'uracc Moore's picture in mood, charm. tempo and success.
The success story
Lilian ot Harvey runs strangely parallel to Grace Moore's. Miss Moore's first visit to Hollywood, was heralded with u fanfare of trumpets. Her praises were loudly song, and de- servedly, but mediocre stories, poor casting and undeveloped, sound equipment kept from her her just deserts. Not until "One Night of Love" with all these phases vastly Improved, did Miss Moore come tinto her own.
Miss Harvey, loudly publicized 'as one of Europe's most famed as- tresses, came to America en- thusiastically ambitious to can- vince the entire world of her talent. But producers were too anxious to bring the lovely star to the public eye. Haste became the by-word
stories and
with colourless direction the result.
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A number of lovely damsels were required to represent Don Juan's many loves in this London Films production, and director Alexander Korda determined that every girl In the film, even those taking the smallest parts, should be notable for her beauty.
The gorgeous Merle O.erch, one of the molamorous personalitics in the film world to-day, is seen as Doug leading lady. The role of Pepilla, the cancer, is an ideal one for the Australian beauty, and her training for se.ral weeks, is one of the high spots of the film.
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LADIES SHOULD LISTEN
Benita Eume has never looked leveller than she does in her gor geous Goya costume and mantilla, of the great lover's in the role wife, Dolores. Bewitching little Joan Gardner, whom American audiences saw in "Catherine the Great," plays the part of Carmen de Alcada, who falls in love with Roderigo, a successful impersona- tox of Don Juan, and Binnle What happens when a beautiful Barnes, makes av fetching barmaidlephone operator eavesdrops an in the Inn where Don Juan goes the lives of a handsame playbor into hiding under an assumed and his gr friends, produces the name. Fortunately, the role gives plot "Ladies Should Listen," open- Binnie an opportunity to use the ing to-morrow at tine Alhambra lovely singing voice she exhibited Theatre.. in "The Private Life of Henry VIII." A song entitled "The Sun' Came Up
In The Morn'ng"" was written es- Decially for her.
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MERRY WIVES OF RENO
'Merry
Wives of Reno," the Warner Brothers picture, is show- ing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
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Glenda Farrell plays the part of & flirtatious wife of a wealthy and middle aged man. She has penchant for other women's hus bands, which is the basis of all the merry Pena divorce troubles that take place.
BELOW THE SEA
UNIVERSAL PICTURE With Frank Lawton, Jane Wyatt, Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
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Featuring Joe ́ Morrison, golden voiced tenor who, sprang 'ne cast is headed by Cary
into fame with his rendering of Grant, Frances Drake, Edward "The Last Round-up". "One Hour Everett Horton, George Barbier, Late" now showing at the Alham- Nydia Westman and Rca'ta More-bra 19 a dramatic-comedy romance, no. Frank Tuttle is the director, and one would hardly guess that Charles Ray, noted leading man this picture is only Morrison's or a decade ago, returns to the second appearance on the screer, screen in a featured role in this so well does he portray the leading film, after an absence of five role.
years.
He is supported by pretty Helen Twelvetrees and the story, depicta
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New Liner To Have Three Cinemas.
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London, June 28. When the Cunard-White Star Uner Queen Mary starts on her
maken voyage next year, she will be equipped with separate cinemas for first. tourist and third-class passengers.--
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London. June 26, From her nest over the fly pond a thrush looked down with amaz-: ing indifference on the guests at the Ascot Ball at the Wentworth Club on Wednesday night."""
The pond surrounded by low buildings, is open to the sky, only the walks around being covered.
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dat was here the bird decided, some
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Berlin, July 8. The protest demonstrations against officially permitted films was severely criticised by the Minister of the Interior, Frick, in a circular addressed to all local authorities Instructing them to ensure adequate police protection. films against demonstrations of a of the performance of all approved provocatory character.
The story tells of the events that befall Cary Grant, a well Morrison as a young clerk with equipment will be installed in the In the first-class section, taikle known bachelor, who returns to
two ambitions: to marry the girl lounge, where & special projection his native Paris, after a long of his dreams who is employed in absence. He Is the target
toom, complete with rewind and for the same office with him, and to
The systematic disturbances at electrical generating compart-cinema performances have been many women, but three in parti- become a great radio singer. The
mants, has been bulit. Portable organised in some towns during cular. Because of a concession he girl of course, resists his affec-screens and loudspeakers will be recent months, states Frick in the holds on a valuable nitra.e mine. tions, and Secomes involved with used, so that the amenities of the circular, though, the films in ques- Rosita Moreno, South American after-office affairs with her boss.
Lounge, which has been treated tion have been passed by the fim adventuress, and her husband, try { The climax of the whole tale is acoustically, will not be interfered censors. to badger him into signing away staged in a stalled elevator where, with h's valuable right; Frances Drake, for one hour, the lives of six-per- telephone operator in his apart-
sons are held in balance, and it is ment house loves him sincerely; during this time that the hearts and Nyda Westman playing a of the two lovers are drawn closer wealthy mit-wit tries to
together and all ends happily.. promise him into marriage.
The picture is directed by Ralph In addition to the three femin-Murphy from the screen play ine tormentors. Grant has to com- written by Kathryn Scolla and bat the jealous tactics of Edward Raul Gerrard Smith. Morrison Everett Horton, fance of
Miss excela
with fine rendering of Westman and Rafael Corlo, the songs, and one can readily appre- savage Latin Husband of Rosita clate his talents in this direction.-
"Redincam".
Moreno,
ONE MORE RIVER
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The works of John Galsworthy, famous British writer, propaoly never received such unanimous at- tention from a particular group of people as they did during the film- ing of "One More River," the Uni- versal picturization of one of h's own novels which is now playing at the King's Theatre.
OFFICER TO WATCH LAWRENCE FILM
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London, June 26. Col. W. F. Stirling, general, staff officer with the Arab forces dur- ing the latter part of Con Law- rence's Palestine campaign, is to supervise the aim of Lawrence's
life.
The demonstrations have, even- The tourist lounge will be taken place against films in res- equipped with an entirely new pect of which the Chancellor had type of talkie apparatus, which personally decided that for special was successfully tested last week. reasons, they should not be for- A portable machine has been de bidden. signed for use in one of the third- class public rooms, but in every respect it will be as efficient as the apparatus in the first and tourist classes,
The contract for installing the cinema equipment on the Queen Mary has been secured by the en- gineering section of the Gaumont- British Corporation in face of keen foreign competition.
The apparatus will be the most complete and elaborate ever sup- plied for use or a ship, and will permit of up-to-date" talking films, either in black and white technicolour, being exhibited,
WOMAN IDOL
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London, June 26,
or
days agoļ to build, and the club has, so to speak. taken her under its wing.
To guard the guests against the rigours of a June night it was decided to roof in the pond, and
she, too, was roofed in, as the thrush stuck to her nest
ly over the side of the nest to see the little head popping continual-
Very few of the guests observed:
'what was going on.
TELEGRAM *** TALKIES
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London, June 26. The Post Office is to make use. of an entirely new type of colour cartoon to popularise the sixpenny telegram Mr. John Grierson, head of the P.O. alm ult, tells me that this novelty in film production— These protest are
demonstrations the invention of Mr. Len Lye, a publicly proclaimed with of the business is not a sound film in thus directed against the complete outsider in the cinema Fuehrer, and are extremely liable the ordinary sense, no camera and State to endanger the authority of the no special celluloid being used in among the population---
and create disturbance its make-up. A series of "rhyth Pranacean Kur Min
mic pictures" are painted with an ordinary brush on strips of clear celluloid to synchronise
with musical beats indented on one side of the strips. The Song of the Sixpenny Telegram" is the title of his first film for the Post Office. which is to be publicly exhibited.
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wao,June 26. I found Sir Abe baney, emerg- Fing from beneath plea of can- gratulatory letters and telegrams this morning, writes a correspon dent,
ay
Those who
go to see motion pletures for the thrills they aFord --and who doesn't?-will be more The entire cast, headed by Diana than amply repaid by visiting the Wynyard and including such well
He agreed with me that Bran- Queen's Theatre where the Cofum-known players as Mrs. Patrick bia feature "Below The Sea" is the Campbell, Colin Clive, Frank Law-
tome might not have been at his He has joined Alexander Korda's.
For years the Oxford under-best yesterday, ous maintaina regarded the woman that Tiberius would have beaten current attraction.
ton, Reginald Denny, Lionel At- staff as technical adviser and will graduate "Below The Sea" is a picture of will, Alan Mowbray and many probably go to Palestine, with the student with a patronising indif- any horse that could have been action,
from the very first others, seemed to be taking ad- director, Zoltan Korda, to help reference. Her social status is now brought against him. If Bran
apparently, to be recognised, tome should be entered for next sequence to the last, with the vantage of the oportunity t create, as realistically as possible.
For the first time in its history year's Gold Cup, Bir Abe is quite Hugh Herbert is her husband suspense growing greater and, the | catch up on their Galsworthy the events so brilliantly described while others in the cast include; thrills
the "Isis" to-day has a woman prepared to keep Tiberius in multiplying urith the reading. Between scenes all might in Lawrence's "Revolt in the De- Margaret Lindsay, one of the un-breath-taking climax..
be seen deeply engrossed in "sert."....
training
and have at him happy wives, Donald Woods, Guy The melodrama, la splendidly cape," "Justice," "Old English," Col. Stirling is mentioned many
again. “ Kibbée, Frank McHugh, Roscoe cast. Ralph Bellamy, most virile Dark Flower". "Loyalties," "in times in "Revolt in the Desert
Though by Sir Abe Bailey's Ates, Ruth Donelly and Hart of the younger screen leading, men, Chancery" and other of his books Lawrence describes, him as "a"
Foxlaw. Tiberius was not bred by Cavanaugh,
has the heroic role of the diver, and plays. Even Jane Wyatt, mak- skilled stad cicer. tactful and
him, but by Mr. J.A. Hirst, Te The picture is an uproarious whose defeat of the octopus ning her screen debut in "One More wise," and adds: "Stirling's pas- comedy of the divorce mill. The the battle many fathoms deep River succumbed to the fever and slon: for horses was a passport to story and screen play are by saves the life of a beautiful young read "justice" while the picture intimacy with Feisal and the Robert Lord 'and the direction by heirest Fay Wray is this girl was being filmed. H. Bruce Humberstone.
Fay's titlan loveliness is well known.
CHARLIE CHAN IN PARIS in Scandinavia and on the Con-
Hälled as the most engrossing and ingenious to date of the famous "Charile. Chan" films, the latest of the series, "Charlie Chan in Paris," once more starring Warner Oland, will arrive at the Star Theatre to-day
A Danish actor of great renówn
timent, but entirely new to the American screen, here makes his first appearance as the villanous submarine commander, who sur- vives the wreck of his vessel and plots to get away alone with the treasure that sank with her. He Is Fredrik Vogeding, and his per- Fox Film has surrounded Qland förmance in Below The Bea In- with a cast of unusual range and dicates that he will go far in talent in this latest of his "Chan" Hollywood. Columbia has a real stortes. Mary Brian plays the find in Vogeding.
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banker's daughter, charged with murder. Thomas Beck, Fox "dis- covery," recently brought to Holly- wood from the Broadway stage, is, seen opposite her. Other players assigned to important roles are write Erik Rhodes. Minor Watson, John and Miljan, Murray Kinnell, John Qualen, * Dorothy Appleby Kere at Luke, Henry Kolker and Perry, ourse Tyins
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