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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
WE LIVE AGAIN
Ana Sten. is a serious girl, but she laughs a lot, as serious people do. To her, the novelty of Holly- wood has worn off. She is home
The blonde young star from Soviet Russia lives in a many- winduwed. slate-gray house in Santa Monica Canyon. Richard J. Neutra, brilliant Austrian archi- tect felt a challenge to make Anna Sten's home as different from the average Hollywood star.
"We Live Again.” adapted front. Tolstoy's "Resurrection.” was ..oc- cupying her waking hours, and it probably worked its way into her dreams as well. For temperamen, tally, emotionally. spiritually, it demanded much of her. Slavie..by birth it is packed with memories of the violence and bloodshed that the prophetic Tolstoy envisioned in this great novel.
The extremes of youth, inno- rence. galety and laughter. de: cadence, poverty, misery and an- quish of soul. on to the joy and exaltation spanned in the ten or twelve years of Katusha's life the story covers, is not a contrast of make-up and costume. but one of mood, spirit, soul.
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BLIND DATE
Blind Date" the Columbia pro- duction having its initial screen-" Ings to-day at the Queen's Theatre is an exhilarating roman- tle comedy with Ann Söthern and Nell Hamilton in the leading parts.
The film reveals the serta-comic consequences of a "blind date" between a romantic little switch- board operator and the wealthy son of a department store mag-
nate.
Also Inveigled in the affair is Paul Kelly, seen as the indus- trious beau of Ann, Sothern, who gets the well-known'“a'r" befors matters reach an amicable settle-
ment.
Roy Wiliam Neill is the director
MARLENE DIETRICH'S ·
NEXT
Frank Borzage, famous director. is to make Marlene Dietrich's next
picture, "The Pearl Necklace," by special request of the Paramount star, herself.
Miss Dietrich, whose latest Para- mount aim is "The Devil Is A Wo-
man." will probably have with her once again, her friend and screen colleague, Alison Skipworth," the memorable | English actress."
Her role will be at the one to Anna Sten, A good part becomes a friend, she says. It is hard to say farewell to it.
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GOOD FAIRY
At The King's
Hong Kong movie fans can be assured of a very fine entertain- ment at the King's Theatre where Good Fairy is the current attrac- tion. The locale of the story is Eudapest, in Hungary, and one is given a very good impresion of a typical Central European city, with its busy traffic and bustling crowds. Another sequence of in- terest is the inevitable beer gar- den.
PRINCESSES VISIT
(Special Air Max Service).
London, July 18.
Two excited little visitors to the London Zoo yesterday were Prin- cess Elizabeth and Princes Mar- garet Rose.
They arrived just like the scores of other boys and girls who were there no fuss or formal welcome was made, and the Princesses ran about from one cage to another "with little cries of delight as they introduced themselves. to sura: queer animal friends.
They arrived with their nurses very early-at 9.30 am-and did not got home till lunchtime. Both wore pretty rose-coloured frocks.
The acting is all that could be desired with Margaret Sullivan, They nursed the baby alligator, with her charming voice and talked to Jubilee, the baby chim- Herbert Marshall in the principal parzee, who is just "learning to roles. Frank Morgan heads the clean her newly cut teeth with a supporting cast and is assisted by toothbrush; heard the lions roar Reginald Owen. Beulah Bondi, and watched operations at "feed- Alan Hale, and June Clayworth.ing time," and laughed at the an-
tics of the penguins. -N.AE.
OD FAIRY
HỒNG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1935.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
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EN OFFERED HER
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Cart Laemmle presents MARGARET SULLAVAN HERBERT MARSHALL in Ferenc Molnar'ù Masterpiece
"THE GOOD
FAIRY"
with
FRANK MORGAN
A UNIVERS L PICTURE
FRIDAY
ANNA STEN FREDRIC MARUH IN
WB LIVE AGAIN"
QUEEN'S
THEATRE
TO-D Yr 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
Kissbeth Berguar in “Escape Mo Nevar," a Herbert Wilcox Produc
released through United Artists.”
H.M.S. "BOUNTY
Cruise In The Pacific
H.MS:
her Bounty pulated haughty prow into the Pacife again. taking along one of the largest companies to leave holly- wood on a sea location.
remain
The expedition will away from the mainland for a period of three weeks, with opera- tions headquarters established at the Catalina Isthmus.
The cruise is being taken to film the spectacular mutiny scenes of Irving Thalberg's production of Mutiny On The Bounty for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer.
The first contingent included almost two hundred players, tech- nicians, sound and camera crews, headed by Director Frank, Lloyd The
stars and featured players who will virtually live abroad, the little 100-foot H.M.S. Bounty dur- ing the location period include Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone. Dudley Digges; Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan and thirty-nine other featured players who comprise the officers and crew of the famous "hell-ship."
In addition, the M-G-M fleet includes a second ancient sailing vessel, the Pandora, with complete crew, two tugs and several water taxis.
SEA. SEQUENCES During the location period, the entire isthmus will be taken over by the M-G-M company, players and technicians living in a tent city and the stars and executives established in the historie Ban- ning home overlooking the Isth- mus,
The first week will be devoted to the open sea sequences, in which the Bounty Agures and which will be filmed many miles to the west- ward to Catalina.
During the second week, a sec ond contingent of nearly two hun- dred will join the arst company for South Ben sequences, to be staged in alx villages that are be- Ing constructed in various coves. of the lalands, -
Following the long location Jaunt, the entire.company will re- turn to M-G-M for interior scenes,;
Hollywood Gossip
Blind Date
Jean Arthur is now wearing bangs...... Ann Sothern dons a stunning deep pink dressing gown between scenes of "The Girl Friend"......
CABINET OF
SIX MEN
And Prosperity Loan
Special Air Mail Services)
London, July 18. Startling suggestions for the reconstruction not only of indus- try and finance in Great Britain, but also for the actual government "Di the country, are contained in the programme of Mr. Lloyd George's "New Deal, which the re- leased, for publication last night.
In a foreword he recalls that he placed the proposals before the Cabinet on March 14 last In response to an invitation from Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, then Prime Minister.
"As yet," he says, "I have re- ceived no official reply from the Government as to the view it takes of this programme. But, having regard to the urgent request trom many quarters, representative of widely dinering political and social Interests, I feel that its publication can be no longer delayed."
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S
"The Good Fairy" QUEEN'S
"Blind Date"
ORIENTAL:-
"Corsair"
Kowloon
MAJESTIC:-
"The Whole Toyn's Talking"
KING'S.-
Coming
We Live Again"
QUEEN'S:
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"The Flame Within”
ORIENTAL
"Charlie Chan In Paris" · "The West Point"
GRIM FIGHT
For Chinese Dynasty Screen
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 18.
A woman told at Ritchin Police. Court to-day of her struggle with a man for the possession of a 500- years-old Chinese Dynasty screen.
Lawies William Tasker, a tutor of undergraduates, was charged with larceny of the screen and 20 books, the property of Mrs. Davis Garrett Bell. of Lytton Manor, Knebworth,
Mrs, Bell said that she advertised for people of means to help her with the expenses of her house She had several replies including one from. Tasker, who eventually went to live with her.
On Saturday last she was in her kitchen and turned round and found Tasker standing behind her. She was alone in the house and she asked him what he wanted.
Mrs. Bell continued:" We went Into the lounge and he seized my
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT The main features of the pro-ed him not to take it, as it was gramme are:-
already broken
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EDWARD G ROBINSON
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THE WHOLE TOWNS TALKING
A-JOHN FORD PRODUCTION Screen play 'be' jo Suerlice, and Robert Ķishin. Based on a story by W, R. Barnet). Directed by Šikm Baral
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
FORGOTTEN SPEECHES
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 18 Lord Derby's memory served him very badly when he told the House of Lords that his speech during the India debate on Tues- day night was his first for 12 Teary,
He bas, in fact, spoken six times in the House of Lords in that period.
The speeches range from 1927 to 1933:
Mas, 107.-Betting Bill." May, 1928.-Cotton Industry Bill, of which he moved the second reading...
July, 1998. Racecourse Betting Control Bill,
July, 1830-Motion on rating of playing fields.
July, 1913.-Cotton Industry Bill, of which he moved the second reading.
The latest of these speeches was in November, 1833, on the Road and Rail Traffic Bill.
A Prosperity Loan of $250,000,000 to finance productive public works, the Continent that night and that
"He said that he was leaving for TO BE SEEN AND HEARD
City members since Mr. Balfour especially during the next two Ec wanted some books to read. He and Sir Frederick Banbury have years,
then went to a bookcase and helpot, taken a very active part in the A National Development Boarded himself to about 20 books.
debates, of the House. to act as a permanent authority in
"I rushed to phone for the resources, planning economic pro- police, but he locked my hand gress and considering definite plans away. Then he
room and I chase him, and was successful in locking him in.
Tasker was remanded in custody until Thursday. Ball was refused.
of action,
Financial assistance for develop ment of overseas marketa."
Jack Haley has the role of Na- poleon in a musical comedy Cabinet to consist of a Prime sequence in "The Girl Friend"
Minister and four or five Ministers Eleven Loyola football players are
without departmental duties. [The now richer by autographs of Flor-chancellor of the Exchequer, he re- abouts unknown Seymour Fellk marks, would obviously have to be
ence Rice and Mary Carlistė,
Lambert Hillyer played “nine years of football without cracking a rib. Andy Clyde is busy build- ing a crib for John, Allen Clyde. his off-spring.Robert Allen has lost seven pounds since moving to the beach. Sunshine and exercise did the work.
Claudette Colbert is mighty glad to be making another picture at Columbia. Maybe she'll cop the Academy, Award prize again next year which it be a record. Nobody has ever won it twice.
Florence Rice won't say whether there's any romantic interest be- tween herself and Michael Bart lett. They few to New York in the same plane, you know...... Ruth Chatterton's new plane is a Stinson-Detroiter, a four passen- ger cabin job.". It's painted red." Columbia's Three Stooges are still in the East. Exact where abouts unknown. Seymour Fel'x is staging the dance routines for Columbia's "The Girl Friend".
Walter Connolly, due in Holly- wood soon, was once a bank clerk Bob Allen has over 200 hours as an air pilot to his credit; He
a member.}
Bank of England to be placed under the control of & Board res presenting the financial, industrial and commercial Interests of the nation.
HOUSING
"
It looks, however, as if Sir Alan Anderson, who has spoken within a fortnight of his entering the it into the ball-House, has no intention of remain- ing silent where currency and financial matters, are concerned..
His quiet conversational tone is admirably suited to expounding" these somewhat technical subjects.
His speech on Monday brought him a note from Mr. Baldwin, con- gratulations from Capt. Margesson and "Cmdr. Southby on behalf of the
Sir Whips. from
Arthur Michael Samuel, a former Finan- rial Secretary to the Treasury, and, from a score of other M.P.3.
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MASONIC BENEVOLENCE Amounts Acknowledged At Festivals
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 18. The amounts acknowledged this Central Planning Board to be year at the festivals of the Royal created with regional system for Masonic Institution for Chris, the Royal Masonle Institution for Boys,
Institution have been £108,033,-resto his dreams are shattered,"
£126,200, and 2102,272 respectively
In financial matters, as becomes a director of the Bank of England, he is a believer in orthodoxy. Unlucky trader of an inflating country" he once exclaimed "He tastes the heady wine of inflation, and the Royal Masonic Benevolent and for a season
the touch of gold Then-her
urban housing.
Two million additional dwellings to be provided within the next few years.
Big projects to be put in hand, a total of £336,505. In addition, such as Charing Cross Bridge, the recent festival of the "Mark Everton tunnel at Liverpool, the Benevolent Fund, with Mr. Harry Tyne Tunnel, and the Bevern Richardson, Provincial Grand Mark Bridge.
Master for Staffordshire and Shrop- "Development of railway electrleshire, president, produced fication and improvement of rolling £8,807. As the subscriptions al-
ways exceed the amount acknow
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Fancies he has
CLAN CHIEF IN TIE TUSSLE
OF
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 18:3 lively discussion took place An Iron and Steel Board to con-ledged at the festivals, the con- trol the industry and plan its tribution of Masons to their charl- yesterday at a meeting of the policy.
ties may be taken as at least Kilt Soceity of Inverness on the B £350,000, or about £1 a head of question whether a white
black
te should be worn with dinner dress,
Mackintosh of Mackintosh, chier Further, the Royal Masonic Hos- of the Clan Chattan, took excep pital which is now planning in to the guide for wearing the hostel for nurses at Ravenscourt issued by the society recom Park, receives many contributions mending a white the He main- once sold airplanes....Arthur settled on the land, either on fami- for its upkeep, and large sums are tained this was not correct, and
Höhl started life as a civil engin- eer In Northern California....... Douglass Dumbrille was a sales- man in Canada.......
Reconstruction of shipping in- dustry....
Southward tendency of new in- dustries to
Controlling authority for cotton industry be checked-
An additional 500,000 to be
ly farms, market gardens or poat-
try: runs.
Pensions at sixty with retirement from paid employment.⠀⠀
EASY TO RAISE AT ONCE
the estimated number of Masons in England.
annually spent by Lodges on grants that a black the should be worn.
to members or to their widows and dependenta.'-
"A letter was read from Major Macrae, Florlinn, stating that the
The Board of Benevolence, a Victor Kilian is an accomplished
committee of Grand Lodge, ofwhite tle was correct, and be at
"ways wore it. Mackintosh sald which Bir Kynaston Studd is pre- archer...Robert Middlemass bas Mr. Lloyd George contends that sident also makes grants at its they could not all be Macraes. If sold another one-act play "The Immediate Jewel"... George Muring a £250,000,000 Prosperity petitioners, the amount of which dress they were in the old days there, would be no dificulty in rais monthly meetings to approves i anyone saw Macraes wearing the phy flopped as a real estate sales. Loun."
•man
averages not less than 40,000 a
there would be a set-to on the
We are advised." he says, "that year. The total disbursed for bene spot. Marian Marsh was chased by this conld be done without serious volent and educational purposes by an alligator while she was a 4-ly disturbing the present cheapness the Masonic craft in England thus year old child in Trinidad... of money. Such a loan could be mounts to some £400.000. Boris Karloff was once typed on raised at 3 per cent, or, with in- the stage as a French-Canadian terest sinking fund for sixty years and post of issue it would involve an annual charge of about 31 per cent day £8,750,000 a year
and will again head out to sea rear the close of the picture for another week at Catalina.”
The new regulations for the ex penditure of the Publia Assistance
Mr. David Ross, secretary, sad the book had been circulated taroughout the world, and this ubjection should have been taken *******extiler.They couldnt now go
back on it Mackintosh. Board on maintaining the unem- that was the case he would leave ployed, are, estimated, to cost the the society at once. He would nation, an increased annual pay-ot connive the recommenda ment of not much less than that."", tion in the guldy,
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