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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
THE RIGHT TO LIVE
One of the most tremendous problems of lite and love will be at the unfolded on the screen Alhambra on Friday and Saturday where the Warner Bros. produc- tion The Right to Live" will be shown for the first time locally. It is a dynamic story of love, hope, despair, joy and dire tragedy. „
Warner Bros. has dared to pre- sent a most unusual theme, in this picture. The problem, in- volved, in the picture .tselt. Is one that is bound to evoke discussion.
The story deals with the married lite of beautiful. girl- und an Engilsh gentleman who becomes crippled for life in an airplane crash shortly after their honey- moon.
Seeing his wife droop under the unnatural situation, he sends to South-America for us brother to come home, hoping be will bring something of joy into his wife's fe by asking her to places of amusement,
can
LADIES LOVE DANGER
Murder for profit motivates the criminal in" Fox Film's exciting mystery, "Ladies Love Danger(" which starts its engagement, to- day at the King's Theatre, with glamorous Mona Barrie and Gil- bert Roland in the feature roles.
Gubert Roland plays the part of the playwright who strolls into his smart bachelor's apartment to and that a strange beauty nas strolled
In
before him and, uninvited, made herself at home,
A few minutes prior to her coming a murder has poen per- petrated next door. Lo, feeling that she is somehow, involved, he keeps her prisoner for the night.
When she slips out, and her escape coincides with three other murders, be proceeds to unravel the mystery, getting himself, in- cidentally, at the wrong end of a loaded revolver.
Thrown constantly together, there springs up a love between the two that
tions scarcely be denied. although they fght vallantly to be loyal, The hus- band, sensing this love, faces one
of
an
"Ladies Love Danger." has its grim mystery relieved by hilarious combination that is comedy, a sald to be unusual Tense situa- elbow rollicking mirth. Advance reports hail it as unusual mystery comedy.
In the
аге supporting cast
Ames, Adrienne Donald Cook, Hard! Albright; Herbert Mundin. aand Nick Faran.
the most tragic situations imaginable, as do also the lovers. The
:with_ solution comes startling denouement.
Josephine Hutchinson, noted for her work with Eva La Gallenne in the Civic Repertory Theatre, and who recently made her "screen bow in "Happiness Ahead" proves that she is a master of screen chaft as well as of the stage.
She is sure and direct, sincere and vorvincing at all times, and shows great emotional talent.
George Brent is excellent in the role of a man who fights against his love for his brother's wife, but whose emotion finally gets the best of him. His quiet, unassum- Hnished acting ing manner and wins the sympathy of the audience.
Colin Clive has a most difficult role, that of the husband, for he is seen largely on his bed, from which he knows he will never risc. Yet he mahages to convey the tragedy of his situation without really pleading Zor sympathy. This requires unusual talent which unquestionably Clive possesses.
Peggy Wood, the former musical comedy star. does some dramatic work as the nurse who accuses "the wife of murder, and Henrietta Crosman famous for her characterizations
both stage and screen, gives a fine and discriminating performance. Others who give outstanding perform- ances include C. Aubrey Smith, Leo 0. Carroll and Phyllis Coghlan.
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PUBLIC HERO NO. 1
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"Public Hero No 1.". Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's drama of the government's war on crime is more thrilling than any thing that fiction can provide.
THE DARING YOUNG MAN
The disclosures that followed a surprise raid last year by civic ofacials and reporters on one of New York's biggest penal institu- tions, prove that nothing is too wild or too improbable to cecur Racketeers in an American jail. in expers.ve clothing, were ru- ning the entire penitensiary and and his dominating the warden staff.
In writing the original story and screen play of "The Daring Young Man," the, Fox Film coming on Friday to the King's Theatre,
authors Claude Binyon and Sidney Skolsky and the scenarist, William Hurlbut, had no need of exaggerar- ing these disclosures in order ta write one of the funniest sequences in modern picture offerings.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY xt 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,30 PM.
TO CAPTURE HIS HEART SHE BECAME HIS PRISPHER
LADIES LOVE DANGER
A POX PICTIMER INTER
MONA BARRIE GILBERT ROLAND
DONALD COOK ADRIENNE AMES HARDIE ALBRIGHT-
HERBERT, MUNDIN
NICK FORAN
NEXT CHANGE
THE DARING YOUNG MAN "
A FOX PICTURE WITH JAMES DUNN
MAE CLARKE
NEIL HAMILTO
WHEN A MAN'S
A MAN
At The Alhambra.
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A thrilling Western in the form of the film “When A Mar's A Man" made its initial screenings 3. the Alhambre Theatre yester- day...
In When A Man's A Man the author pits the East and West in a dramatic duel. A polished spotted darling of fortune, all but penni-
less, comes West to unlearn his past and at himself for sterner realities.
QUEENS
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2,30, 5.10. 7.20 x 9,30
GRAND VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT!
MICKEY MOUSE
SPORTS SHORTS
SILLY SYMPHONIES
CURIOSITIES
SCREEN SNAPSHOTS
COMEDY
A limited number of MICKEY MOUSE MASKS, pres-nted by courtesy of Mesara. Muller and Puipps, may be had our applica tion at the Ticket Office.
MICKEY MOUSE ON A HOLIDAY
Walt Disney In London
London, June 20
Walt Disney is in London on fils first visit to England. He has ar- rived in the new French record breaking liner, "La Normandie." The railway engine which brought him to London from Southampton was decorated with a large Mickey Mouse
the world's and
most famous film cartoonist has been freely interviewed.
wasted. Also, we have learned that it is a long while since he himself did any drawing, which nowadays is done by this large studio staff.
ENGLAND'S STAR DIRECTOR
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:
"Ladies Love Danger” QUEEN'S :---
"Verlety Programme' ORIENTAL:
"365 Nights In Hollywood"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"When A Man's A Man" MAJESTIC:-
"Before Midnight"
KING'S.-
Coming
"The Daring Young Man" QUEEN'S:--
"Public Hero No. 1"
ALHAMBRA:-
"Right To Live" "Murder In Thy Glonds"
GRETA GARBO'S ROLE
In Her Next Picture
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When Greta Garbo returns from her vacation in Sweden, it's pretty well decided that she will play a role she has long wanted to do.
I the part of a pioneer woman- woman who rides the Among all the English directors, | prairies with her gun across her Ritchcock has always stood out. saddle bow, who cooks and washes. He has the real film sense and and slaves under most primitive The picture, a romance of the
knows how to carry a story conditions. A woman who meets Far West is an out of the way attraction. It
It will be remembered that through in a series of rapid, stir- nature in the raw and grapples for Douglas Fairbanks. Serilor. once ring pictures. These qualities were a living with the soil. tense situations.
said that Walt Disney was the antable in "Murder," "Blackmail," George O'Brien is the star and the supporting
talkie's most important, contribu-"The Ring" and "The Man who cast Includes Dorothy Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry tion to the cinema and Fairbanks knew Much." They are
full in his latest picture, "The Woods, Jimmy Butler, Richard should be no mean judge. Dis- Cartule, Clarence Wilson and Ed-ey has come to Europe to study Thirty Nine Steps."
gar Norton.
is packed
with
The usual Westerns symbolized
conflicts of law and outlaw. The
present flira is a more complex and interesting one. The hero is.
European reactions to his cartoons,
Ee is going on quiet explorations to English cinemas, for England, He he says is his best patron. talks a great deal about his plans and evidently is keenly set on his
Garbo should be splendid in this sort of thing, since she is funda- at their mentally the peasant type, with all
straight-forwardness, the
Sian- plicity and primitive subconscious understanding of the important things in life.
"The Thirty Nine Steps" repre- serits an, interesting example of the way in which a film director can treat a book. It is founded on a
novel of the same name by Mr.
John Buchan, who has just been
WILL SAYS "NO" “Ah Wilderness" is one of the
big pictures of the year. Lionel Barrymore will play the role" in
When the new Fox picture re-equally at home in the drawing | projected long picture of "Snow made a peer and Canadian Gover-which George Cohan made theatre
veals a jail with radios and cur- tains in every cell, poker games going full blast, and gangsters feeding pigeons as they give orders over their private telephones to have some annoying competitor "rubbed out." the spectators ray rest assured they are seeing nothing Imaginary whatever; every
Incident in the prison sequence is taken from real life.
James Dunn and Mae Clarke are featured in "The Daring Young Man" as a pair of rival news- paper reporters, whose comance is interrupted when Dunn 13 sent to Jall by his elty editor to get first- hand information on enditions there. Wiliam A. Seiter directed th's hilarious offering, & Rubert T. Kane production for Fox Film. Niel Hamilton, Sidney Toler, War- ren. Hymer and other favourites. are in the cast.
room or on the saddle.
It is a Western all by it's class. J F
THE QUEEN'S
Variety Programme
Offered
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The Grand variety programme offered by the management of the Queen's Theatre, drew pack- ed houses yesterday, where large crowd of appreciative child- ren, together with their parents saw Mickey Mouse, the Three Stooges, and two Sports Novelties amongst other items,
The later shows drew many grown-ups, and this type of en- tertainment must be voted a huge success.
From the file of reality M-G-M has taken a great story of a man who defies death-who goes to prison-who trails the most dan- Chester Morris plays the adven- arous band that ever terrorized turous Jeff Crane, and.. Joseph America-who brings to justice Colleia, famous on stage in "Small the country's greatest public | Miracle," the gangster overlord. Lionel Barrymore has a great role as the stränge doctor, and Jeanwhile" "Who said the Weaker Sex" depicts the achievements of the
enemy.
It's packed with thrills, with romance, with amazing action-Arthur, Paul Kelly, Lewis Stone and every bit of it is based on and others are featured in this actual faci.
amazing picture.
* SHOWS
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2.30-5.15
FLEMING
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7.11–8.20
ORIENTAL
2 DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORRO W
ONLY
THE LAUGHING LOWDOWN ON A COUPLE OF HOLLYWOOD UPSTARTS. 1. PILLED WITH SONG, MUSIC, COMEDY AND GIRLS.
JAMES DUNN
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ALICE FAYE Mitchell and Durant JOHN BRADFORD
EXTRA
365 NIGHTS in HOLLYWOOD
SPECIAL ADDED FEATURE BUSTER KEATON in “ GOLD GHOST"!
Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets -80 eta.
•Evenings 20 ets/35 cla:-55 eta.
Sports enthusiasts, especially golfers will appreciate the Sports Short "Good Golfers Start Young.”
White and the Seven Dwarfs,” which wil take an hour and twenty minutes to run when it is, made.
"film-
nor-General. Mr. Hitchcock has history last season. The worked with two other writers, Mr. agnates" wanted Will Rogers to Lan Hay and Mr. Wyndham Lewis do but no money inducement Who, between them have taken Mr.
could persuade the genial Will to make ́s gelatine record of his con- tribution to this O'Neill 'charac- terisation.
KICKEY MOUSE and DONALD DUCK in "THE BAND CONCERT"
Weaker Bex" In the world of But in the meanwhile he will, Lord! Buchan's story and almost
sport
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turn his mind to a short thriller The programme in full offers on the subject of "Who Killed no less than nine varieties, includ- Cock Robin?" Obviously, this will ing: The Cactus Kid, (Mickey start with a murder and one may Mouse: Cannibal Cappers (a silly took forward to some nice detec- Symphony) Clood Golfers Start tive work. So far nothing is Young (Sports Short) Screen known of the plot, but it will not Shapshots, The Fire Fighters be surprising to and the murderer (Mickey Mouse) Three Little Pig- Donald Duck, who seems to be sking (The Three Stooges).
capable of anything, with Mickey Who Sala
the Weaker Sex 2nd his faithful Pup as aleuths. a scent. (Sports Novelty) Busy. Beavers Pluto, with his nose on (60ly Symphony) The. Moose Hunt is always an arresting figure. (Mickey Mouse),"
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For amusing and light enter tainment I found the programme second to none. "Redincam?
HE'S ALL WET!
entirely remade it. The original author, unlike some others, ap pears to be quite satisfied.
HOW HEROINES ARE MADE The film is a thoroughly jolly thriller, which was precisely what Mr. Buchan intended when he wrote the book. There is a murder
There is, it seems, & vast likeness in the performance of "Coban and Rogers- the latter played the part successfully in Hollywood theatres
but Eastern critics might draw comparisons... and those things are "odious" sometimes.
The big and for this picture is a young boy who will play the next niost important role in the plece. "Buttons" Joyce-son of the late Frank Joyce, one of Hollywood's best-known motion picture agents. and nephew of Alice Joyce, ex- screen star-is the lad.
I hear his tests are so marvellous that there is small chance of any other youngster getting an "in" at this one.
Young boys of fourteen to seven- teen are the hardest kind of plc- ture material to find. As a general rule, child prodigies go through an ugly "growing" period which un- tits them for such parts. Jackle Cooper is in this stage right now, and Jackie Coogan. isn't quite our of it really.
'FRISCO ATMOSPHERE Another of the season's projected Alms centres around a story, of Sun Francisco. I believe the book is entitled "Lady From Spain and is by an author named Odell. F
Getting true Ban Francisco at-
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at the beginning; a hero, who is mosphere is difficult, although the no end of a fellow, running like city teems with it, "Fog Over.
Frisco " bad mad from the police and a· gang'
1ts superlative of ruthless sples.. Mr. Rabert moments and was, at all times, Donat, who leaped to the front as true San Franciscu the Count of Monte Cristo, is a Sam Goldwyn's "Barbary Coast" perfect hero with
of is another story of San Francisco humour equal to Clark Gables now in production. I hear that He can leap down rocks and shoot the fog machines, used to create off wise-cracks with charming atmosphere for this one, caused such heat and lack of air that the entire set had to be air-condition- ed before the company could go to
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DISNEY'S HUMAN MODELS One of the most interesting statements Disney has made is that he takes actual human figures. as bases for his creatures and that "The Tortoise and the Hare" are agility. founded on the personalities of And the. im writers have pro Charles Butterworth and Maxvided a charming heroine, played Baer. Disney's quick eye and keen by Miss Madeleine Carroll. The work
Quite an expensive proceeding, sense of humour may find a few original book was as innocent of models amongst European celebri heroine as was the "Bengal but then Goldwyn has the name ties. But he has come over for a Lancer." But the film contains a of doing things well, or not at all.
NORMA SHEARER'S BABY reat which is probably needed after pretty, conventional love anair.
When Norma Shearer went to ten years of hard work. It is Im-
As so often happens in filmri possible to avoid a feeling that his (notably in It happened one the hospital to await the birth of latest Billy Symphony, The Rab- Night") and may happen in real her daughter, a few days ago, her ber Kitten." shows signs of a tired, life, the heroine yields to ironical | family, was in the various stages mind."
bullying. But the essence of the of fitters that are usual at a time, Asked if he laughed at his own picture is the chase through Scotchlite this cartoons, Disney said no; that he glens and tarns and mista, begiri-
In fact, the only completely calm knew every turn of them too well; "ning and ending in a Londoni
Miss Shea that, while a new idea, when it music hall. There can be no doubt "Stage 4." read the call sheet, came, sometimes provoked laugh- that The Thirty Nine Stepe "rain sequence." And Mr. Fieldster, the finished picture could be first-class spent the entire day under a nothing but a source of regret that and should be a sprinkeri
BO many opportunities had been over the
W. C. Fields is beginning to be Just a little weary of this business of making motion pictures. For three weeks his latest Paramount, film, Everything Happens At Once, has been in progress, and for three weeks Mr. Fields each morn- ing has forlornly surveyed leader skies, clouds, and rainy weather. Came the dawn, the other day. The sun beamed. And Mr. Fields beamed back, and dashed to the, ❘ studio in fine humour.
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MAJESTIC
THEATRE.
Na Ba Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TOMORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 8.20 P.M.
The Pendulums of hate held. Them in its hypnotic sway!
For ya nywar felt the cinek asit tulieth toward muf night and murdert. No human hond could stay the termbie tate that awaited one of thom at the Stroke offacland.
BEFORE MIDNIGHT
ROSE MÄLPHE BELLAMY - JUNE GÖLLYER
Cleo nganter + Betty Blythe
Arthur Photon
K. COLUMBI
PICTURE
INNOCENCE OF YOUTH
A. Álm director requirles to have Derves of piano wire, almost. Henry Hathaway, who is making Peter Ibbetson for. Paramount. received a nasty shock during the filming of a scene on location. Lit- tle Virginia Weldler, during a closeup, poked her tongue through a place where a tooth should have been.
Hathaway paled. "Where's that ooth?" he asked.
'In my pocket. It was loose and I pulled it out." repl'ed Virginia, proudly.
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A dentist was rushed to the scene of the calamity and in three hours he had made a plate to hold one front tooth"the size of a pea. Not only Virginia bût lit- tle Dicky Moore, who plays oppo- site her, have now been forbidden. any 'sweets, harder thau gums un- til Peter Inbetson has been, abso- lutely finished.
CROSBY REFUSES
STARDOM
Bing Crosby may be one of the ten biggest attractions on the screen, as he has been ever since he went to Hollywood, but he de- finitely is no going to be a star. Before Bing signed his new Para- mount contract, which runs for another three years, he insisted on a non-starring clause. He will submit to co-s.arring with some- other player, if necessary, but the. studio is definitely restrained from starring him in any film without his written consent.
Crosby's Arst picture on his new contract will be Two For Tonight. Joan Bennett. who was with him in Mississippi, and Mary Boland, are to appear with him.
اله
One of the Smith Boys A struggling young author had called on a publisher to inquire about a manuscript, he had sub- mitted.
"This is quite well written,” ad“ raitted the publisher, “but my frm publishes only work by writers with well-known names."
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"Splendid," dried the writer, "My name's Smith."
ALHAMBRA
THESTRA
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.80, 6:20, 7.20 & 9.80 p.m. THE STORY THAT THRILLED MILLIONS.
GFORGE O'BRITH'
Harold Bell Wright's WHEN A MAN'S A MAN
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