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THE MIGHTY BARNUM
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LADIES LOVE DANGER
Because of their unusual success
Darryl F. Zanuck took a page fo from P. T. Barnum's.book when in Mystery Woman," Mona Barrie
he surrounded with mystery the pair of midgets and the giant he brought to Hollywood for his 20ch Century Pictures production of "The Mighty *Barnum" which comes to the Oriental Theatre on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Even the stars of Hollywood did not see them before the film was completed. because Zanuck said thumbs down
Hollywood parties.
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After
scouting the country. Zanuck tound. General Tum Thumb and bride and a Cardif Gant in the respective persons of George and Olive Braun, midget brother and sister, and Tex Mad- son, eight feet, tour, who for the
air
even
and Ollbert Roland are #gain brought together in a "Fox Film picture.
They are co-featured in "Ladies Love Danger," the "mystery comedy dealing with multiple murders, in
and ▸ back-stage
pent-house background, which will start its engagement on Wednesday at the King's Theatre.
Miss Barrie, London born actress who obtained her stage training in, Australia, has been under con- tract to Fox for a little more than a year. She recently changed her personality from brunette to blood.
change so interesting that she will retain flaxen trosses henceforth.
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In "Ladies Love Danger," she past two years had been appear-portrays a beauty who mistakenly ing at the Chicago World's Fair.
enters a rich bachelor's smärt This
mystery of
apartment, and is instantly sus- extended to Virginia Bruce, for pected by him of a murder just the screen test by which she won committed in the adjoining apart- the role of lovely Jenny Lind, the ment.. Prisoner for a night, she Swedish, "Nightingale whom Bar- ships out at dawn, her escape num brought, to America, wis coinciding with three "ensuing made in secret and kept under murders under mysterious circum- lock and key.
stances.
Others in the cast of the story. from the pens of Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, are Adolphe Men- jnu, Virginia Bruce. Rochelle Hudson, Janet Beecher, Lucille La Verne and Tammany. Young.
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Not until the last foot of the last reel is the mystery cleared. and the unconventional beauty Is seen to be the victim of circum.- stances that pointed to her as the guilty one
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LOVE IS ON TRIAL!
But these two pit their love against the shadow of mur der Thrill-crammed, laugh jammed, solution-proof!
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SHADOW OF DOUBT
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WEDNESDAY'S CHILD.
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"Wednesday's Child" which is coming on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre is 11 modern, domestic drama that leaves one thrüled-and a bit awed. It brings a lump in bit of your throat, but not bitterness or feeling of depression. It's that kind of picture.
"Adapted to the screen from the tage play in which twelve-year- old Frankie Thomas created such a furor on Broadway last season, the picture should prove equally successful, to say the very least.
It is the story of little 'Bobby Phillips and the sorrow that comes to him when his parents separate and each turns to a new love and new environment in which Bobby
FOLIES BERGERE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935.
CLONHITALES DHE FEL
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
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"VEMOST, SENSATIONAL MUSICAL EVER BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN!
Starting
O MAURICE
+ Chevalier
with
ANN SOTHERN
MERLE OBERON
S BERGERE
Also Silly Symphony Technicolour “TORTOISE AND THE HARE"
and Mickey Mouse in 'THE DOG NAPPER" "
NEXT CHANGE
'LADIES LOVE DANGER" with MONA BARRIE
QUEENS
THEATRE
TO-DAY&TO-MORROW'a: 2,80, 5 10. 7.20 8.30
Two cockeyed Casanovas uncork a corking comedy!
Edmund
LOWE
Jack
HOLT The BEST MAN WINS
LA COLLAABŁA PICTURE
Which lover will`Kay Francis choose-Warren William or George Brent? Here they are, all dressed-up for the wedding, Warren, wealthy, worldly, regular guy. Brent, wanting nothing from life, except the woman his best friend loved, They are the screen's gayest: trio of lovers and will appear in the First Nationai hít, "Living on Velvet," at the Alhambra Theatre on Saturday.
LIVING ON VELVET
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"Living on Velvet, It First National picture which is heralded as a powerful drama with a most unusual romance, is scheduled as the feature attraction at the Alhambra Theatre on Saturday to Monday:
it has an all-star cast, headed by Kay Francis, who has two leading men in Warren William and George Brent: The story tells of two men in love with the same girl, each of whom tries to give her up for the "other man.
Brent, portraying 2 dashing dare-devil, whose "inental attitude toward life has been warped by a precious terrific airplane accident in which gold itself. Foles Bergere," his parents and his sister are all Darryl F. Zanuck's new musical killed, and he escaped, considers for 20th Century himself the same as a "dead" man, extravaganza Pictures,
comes to the King's and rushes from one mad escapade Theatre to-day, and brings with it to another, trying but unable to
forget. A breath-taking new Maurice Chevaller,
French us the Eiffel Tower, gay as the pop of a champagne cork, and sparkling as the
To those loyal souls to whom the very idea of a new Chevalier
He is always saved from the con- sequences of his rash acts by his William, who stands by him like friend, a part played by Warren is alarming, we hasten to offer the Rock of Gibraltar. the reassurance that this new When Brent fails in love with Maurice does not supplant, but the woman his triend is hoping to simply. supplements the old, marry, he rushes away. But Kay familiar, lovable French star, who Francia, who has the role, is also is here in good measure napsbrug infatuated with the aviator and lip, straw hat and all, and singing sends the one friend she can always depend on, Warren William, to The spectacular scale and sen- find the irresponsible youth and sational mood of the famous marries him in spite of the op-
musical Parislan
revue from position of her family." which the present production takes its name is retained |
is relegated to a secondary place. | Ave gay »new songs.
Highly sensitive and accustomed
to
an abundance of parental affection and care, his little world tumbles in chaos about him
When the court awards him to
his mother for eight months of-throughout, notably in the costly
each year and to his father for only four, Bobby is heartbroken. For his mother has told him that she will immediately remarry, and the boy knows that he can never be happy with a stepfather who has gravely wronged his beloved dad.
Straw Hat and Rhythm of the Rain numbers, and the result is the most unusual and entertaining screen musical in the movie-going memory of this reviewer.
Beautiful, blonde Ann Sothern
"SOVIET DIPLOMACY
FILMED
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London, July-22. Soviet diplomacy; it is announced,
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THE WOMAN IN RED ·
Barbara Stanwyck's latest star- ring picture, "The Woman in Red," is being shown for the last time at the Alhambra to-day.
It is a celourful and picturesque drama based on Wallace Irwin's best selling novel, ""North Shore,"
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fl.ed with thrills and in- tensely dynamic. sinations. In addition there is a glowing romance and a sensacional court trial in
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THE QUEEN'S
The Best Man
which a young girl allows her re- putation to be torn to shatters in man save an innocent order to from conviction of murder,
Wins
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S
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"Folles Bergere": QUEEN'S:-
*The Best Man Wins" ORIENTAL:-
"Shadow of Doubt"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Woman A Red"
MAJESTIC:
"Clive Of India”
KING'S.-
Coming
"Ladies Love Danger" QUEEN'S:-
"Public Hero Murder" "Wednesday's Child"
MAJESTA:-.
"Before Midnight" ALHAMBRA¦---
One of the most dramarc
:1 long. motion pictures seen for a
time had its initial screening yesterday at the Queen's Theatre
"Living On Velvet" "When A Man's A Man”
when the Columbla picture. "The LAWYERS CLAIM
Best Man Wins," starring Edmund Lowe and Jack Holt with Bella Lugosi and Florence Rice in sup- port, was presented.
The picture tells of the exciting adventures of two deep sea divers and their careers on the opposite side of the law. One becomes a diver for a smuggling ring and the other an officer in the waterfront police.
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HIS SWORD CARVED OUT 'A THRONG FOR A GIRL HE
HAD NEVER SEEN!
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RONALDCOLMAN
LORETTA YOUNG.
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"WEST POINT OF
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WITH
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FRAULEIN KRAUS
Mystified By Her
*Suspension
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London. July 22.
Fraulein R. Kraus, who has beer. playing this week In the Welsh lawn tennis championships at New- port, Monmouth, is quite unable to explain the mys.ery for her sudden suspension by the Austrian L.T.A.
Fraulein Kraus is a Wimbledon player.
The story goes on a show their 'different spheres of work and how
London. July 22. the girl had to choose between the
Judging by a legal battle now
The lawn Tennis Association. reckless fellow (Lowe), who is al- belde fought by lawyers concerned which is bound by international ways skating on thin ice or the
In the receivership of the Para- lawn tennis law to enforce in Eng-.. stolid and stald one (Jack Holt)
mount Corporation, insolvency in land the decisions of foreign as- who proves less romantic.
the United States is a luxury which | soclations affecting their own pla- There is a breath-taking under-only the wealthier corporations can'
yers, received from Austria a tele- water scene in the final sequence
♫fford.
gram' notifying them of Fraulein which is full of suspense.
Kraus's suspersión.
The picture is proceeded by two Interesting shorts and the current programme at this popular theatre
extremely acceptable fare O. M. O.
As
MAN ILL LUCK CANNOT BREAK
Special Al Mall Service)
London, July 22. Here is a man whom misfortune cannot break,
Meet Lieutenant C. A. Suther- land, late 01 Watch.
the 5th Black He lost both his legs during the war.. *
A last weeks friends wheeled
The Paramount Corporation's affairs were placed in the hands of a receiver in January 1933. The concern was declared" solvent again last month.
For services rendered during this period in administering the com- pany's affairs, or sueing the com- pany on behalf of this or that section of stockholders or other interested parties, the lawyers are cow asking for £550,000, apart from the fees already paid.
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The largest single fee demanded Is that of Messrs. Root, Clark; Buckner and Ballantine, who are asking for £140,000, plus expenses
The decision was passed on to
Newport, and Fraulein Kraus scrat ched from the semi-final of the Welsh championships, in which she was due o meet Miss Susan Noel,
EXPLANATION FOLLOWING
The reason for thig drastic Aus- trian step was not mentioned. and when Fraulein Kraus tele- phoned, and when Fraulein Kraus telephoned to Vienna she was in- formed that an explanatory detter would follow.
To an "Evening Standard” re- of $1,500, over and above 250,000 presentative who spoke to her on already received. If the total the telephone at Newport to-day, amount is granted by Judge Alfred Fri. Kraus said in broken English: E. Coxe, of the Federal Court, this arm alone will receive £200,000.
Messrs. Cook, Nathan and Leh- man, attorneys for the stockhold- for it.
"I have no idea why I have been suspended and cannot think of any lawn tennis or any political reason
On Friday he won the King'sings, ask for £60,000, and attorneys England and I want to stay here
be
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shall "advertise to stay with an English family.
A society horse show, staged at him in an invalid chair to the firers' committee and for Paramount shall no go back to Vienna he famous Los Angeles Breakfasting points at Bisley-and left him during the reorganisation proceed- yet, at any rate. It is so nice in Club, and with some of the finest there with his ride. and bluest blooded horses of the West Coast taking part, adds to the interest of the production.
There als0 are exciting polo matches in which Gene Raymond, Miss Stanwyck's romantic lead, and one of the best horsemen in Holly- wood, takes active part. This is the firs: time Miss Stanwyck and Raymond have been cast together, and the couple are said to make an ideal pair of screen lovers.
for another group of bondholders awhile and learn your language. I Suver Medal and City of London
£150.000. Corporation cup
Other claims among the 51 on Yesterday
the St. which Judge Coxe will adjudicate George's Vase, the, Dragon Cup. are: the Gold Cross, and a mones prize.
There is a quadranguir 'love af- fair, Genevieve Tobin, In the role of a wealthy but vixenish society WOKAN, being Miss Stanwyck's rival for the love of Raymond, while John Eldredge is Raymond's rival, both being enamoured of the star of the picture.
Doem
GOLDEN SILENCE
(Special Air Mall Services
London, July 22. dances and sings as the insanely will be the subject of a new Soviet
The press has preserved a diš- jealous partner of Charlier (Chefim now in preparation under the Creet allence on the merits of Mr. "Bobby endures the Arst eight valter, of course), singing of the direction of George and Gergel written for the King's visit to the
Rudyard Kipling's latest months with his mother and her notorious French Baron Cassini. Vasdlyey, who directed Russia's Fleet, and it has been left to a new husband, buoyed up by look-Things begin to happen when the greatest nim success for years, writer in the "Spectator" to re- ing forward to the time when he baron goes on a secret mission to Chapeay." released last winter. can go to his father. When that raise a loan to cover finds belong- The new Alm, which is not yet proach one poet for saying nothing time arrives, however, the boy's Ing to his bank he has juggled Joy is short-lived, for his father and Charlier is called in to do his named, deals with the difficulties and another for saying too much has now become engaged and he, impersonation in life as well. The encountered by Kolomitsev, Red Where, he asks, is Mr. Masefield? too, is absorbed in his new love, handsome Merle Oberon makes Russia's first envoy to Persia, in
1918. Bobby becomes dangerously all her Hollywood" debut as Genevieve,
The scenario reaches Its climax and his mother is 'summoned to the gorgeous but neglected wife his bedside. The physician in of the baron, who knows that in the scene where Kolomiltser's attendance tells the parents that Charlier dan't really her husband. small boat is overtaken in the Cas-
plan Bea by a White Guard? tor Bobby must have a permanent but pretends she doesn't
pedo boat, and the twenty-six home or become a chronic sufferer
year-old diplomat is taken prison-" The parents attempt to solve the
er to Ashur Ada Island, where he problem, in what appears to them to be the easiest way, by sending
is murdered. "Bobby to a military boarding
school.
الأمة
moves swiftly toward an ending that comes as & surprise and which is slightly different from From this point on the story that of the stage play."
And he was third in the King's Prize-only four points behind the winner, Armourer Staff-Sergeant French. late of the Herts Yeo- manry, who lives at High Barnet, Herts.
French's aggregate score was 289 Miss Marjorie: Foster, who won the King's Prize in 1930, and was the only woman to reach the final th's year, made an aggregate of 283.
French was hoisted into the his- toric King's Frizeman's chair. and marched into: camp:
WHY THE FLEET WORE
BLUES:
(Special Air Mah Service)
London, July 22.
who was killed in a motoring ac- Admiral Edward Astley-Rushton,
cident was proud of his fast com- mand, the Reserve Fleet. In the naval review he proved his ships It used to be part of the Poet and men to be as smart as the Laureate's function" to produce other units of the Fleet and was ceremonial poetry "on great oc-congratulated by the King.
On the eve of the Review, when casions, and the present Poet Laureate was once a sailor himself, the King arrived at Portsmouth, But silence is often golden-even the Mediterranean and Home when Mr. Kipling breaks it.
Fleets turned out in half whites
The Reserve Fleet, having no whites, were in blues. So the King, t make Admiral Astley-Rasht reservists feel at hom that the next day the entire! should west blues
by the Boviet Government of the According to the film, Kolomitsev Anglo-Russian treaty of 1907 re on this trip carried with him the nouncing Czarist privileges announcement of the cancellation Perala
Kuhn, Loeb and Co. (for work towards reorganisa- tion).......
Sam Zirn (independent at- torney who brought ac- tions againis; Paramount" -on behalf of certain.
bondholders) Malcolm Sumner and Ed- win L. Garvin (attorneys for bondholders) Charles D. Hilles (receiver and trustee, who has already been allowed £10,000)
Mr. Leake (trustee)
£20,000
£17,000
£35,000
£28,000
£20,000
Charles E. Richardson**
trustee)
£17,000
Adolph Zukor (President of
Paramount), who was co-trustee
"My father and mother live Vienna, but I have not heard any- thing from them about my suspen-
ston. If I cannot play tennis I will learn English."
If You Insist
The genteel motorist had just pulled into the gasoline-station for the inevitable gasoline, : That be ing over, the attendant was going through his "little ritual.
Check the oil, sir?”. "Naw, it's O. K."
"Got enough water in the radla- tor?....
"Yep, Alled up.".
"Anything else, str?"
"Yes, would you please, stick out
with Mr. Hlles, is asking for only your tongue so I can seal this
£4,500.
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
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ALHAMBRA
AT LAST IT CAN BE TOLD!
STANLUCH WOMAN IN RED
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