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THE RAVEN
A pictur: that promises a car load of thrills and chills is "The Raven," Universal feature coming
PRACTICAL JOKING
Nelson Eday is quite a 'practicul joker. He has a crisp. personai ty: a degree of humour and an un-
fun.
N
When he came to. the Pacific Coast, one of the firms for which he had made records presented him with a complete recording outfit. Nelson Eddy always goeS over his numbers in this fashion, istening carefully to get the finest effects in reproduction.
to the King's Theatre on Sunday | quenchable small boy's spirit ot with Karoff and Bela Lugosi, bet- ter known as "Frankenstein" and "Dracu a." in the co-starring roles. The company that ploneered in this feldof horror pictures by making "Dracula" and followed with "Frankenstein," has boldly brought together the two creators of these blizarre roles Lugosi (Count Dracula) and Karlott (Frankenstein monster) in one flm "The Raven."
Or al of Edgar Allan Poe's mas terful tales, that of "The Raven
But he has a lot of fun with this machine out of working I hours. Не gets together his friends and start a lively argu- ̈ ment. Just when the fury is at its heights. Nelson Eddy gives his
: servant a signal and the recording
bezins.
run
is most expressive in its psychology cr fear and horror. In Poe's mas- terpiece there is the story of "the lost Lenore," showing the fanciful
Then, when fights of a keenly sensitive mind,
the smoke has
experiencing untoid anguish over
blown away. It gives this mis- something lost that never can be chief lover great delight to regained. The raven, as everyone the record for his guests, snowing kriews, is a bird of ill-omen a sym-them how "haw!" becomes "hulf" bel of death, and as such was con- under stress and strain and how stantly reminding the great poet
many a good "awiter" goes right into good old Americanese "after" of his loss.
when they are trying to put 11 point over,
Besides Karloff and Lugosi the picture includes a notable cast headed by Irene Ware and Lester Matthews. Inez Courtney; Samuel Hinds. Spencer Charters. Maidel Turner, Ian Wolfe and others,
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It's to the credit of most jokes on themselves with very zood grace indeed. They might as well. There's very little else to do.
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LADDIE
"Laddle," the new motion pic ture to paralle the appeal
of "Little Women," showing at the King's to-day, brings the romance. of true life happening in an Ameri- can farming community.
It is a story of American life in Indiana in the 70's, and owes its tremendous power to two things: the genius of its author, Gene Stratton-Porter, and the realism of its characters.
Naurally gifted with the keenest Dowers of observation, the famous writer put into her novel so much
life and dramatic punch, plus an unsurpassed delineation of many
JEAN
HARLOW'S
RING
William Powell Smiles
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
GETTE STRATTON
PORTERS
A true blue story,,filmed is heart warming beauty!
LADDIE
With
JOHN BEAL, GLORIA STUART, Virginia Weidler. Directed by George Stevens. Pendro 3. Berman Production RKC-Hadis Pletere
NEXT CHANGE
BORIS KARLOFF — BELA LUGOSI
in
"THE 'RAVEN'
· GOLD "DIGGERS
OF 1935
Coming To The Queen's
The Gold Diggers, an annual in- stitution of Warrier Bros; was pre- viewed lately. In this Alm there is a bevy of comedians keeping the loud pedal down all the way through,
Adolphe Menjou is rampageons theatrical producer, always broke but always living up to the great name of Nicoleft. Alle Brady, as Mrs. Prentiss, is exceedingly good in her part, also Dick Powell, who is in love with Mrs. Prentiss daughter, played by Gloria Stuart, and marries her though she was previously engaged to Hugh Her- bert, a particularly silly and in- sipid writer of monographs on snuff boxes.
of
The real gold digger is played by Glenda Farrell. There are some really good scenes especially the
which hundreds number In Grand Plances, each played by a beautiful giri are made to glide from side to side and up and down. forming series of never ending
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A ROMAHU VAGABO RETURNS!
He lit hirtige.
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THE ALHAMBRA AT THE QUEEN'S
Silk Hat Kid
Lew Ayres comes to us in a role that is somewhat different to the parts in which we have been used to seeing him in that he plays body-guard to Paul Kelley, owner of a cafe, in "Silk Hat Kid," the current attraction at the Alham- bra Theatre.
In the course of his duties this young man falls in love with his į employer's girl friend (Mae Clark) and as she has more than just a liking for him, complications set in fast and furlous. How the story comes to an end is fascinating to the extreme but it would not do to write all about it here, and spoll | the picture for you-for you must realy go and see it.
Mas Clarke is an ideal choice
for the role of the school teacher who becomes the centre of the bat- tie between the two men entirely used to getting what they want, Her romance with Lew Ayres is one of the most thrilling ever seen on the screen while full marks must also be given to Ayres for the per- tormance he turns in.-F.M.A.
patterns, The girls are prettier FEW NEW LAWS
than ever and the music good. The picture is good as musicais go.
While "Gold Diggers of 1935′′ scheduled to open at the Queen's Theatre this Saturday is funny, there is a serious romance running through the plot, with Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart portraying the lovers. Frank McHugh and
For The Western
Pictures
Nothing will change so much sa Dorothy Dare also have a serio- the Western picture in its current comic love affair.
Incidentally revival. The censors have prepar. Glenda Farrell, the only "lady a few laws which will amaze gold-Digger" in the story, takes
and amuse. hurdles Hugh Herbert over the over a plece of change. Powell, a
First, the old plot, where the medical student who works as a sheriff was in league with the out- clerk in a fashionable summer laws and the hero crept out into hotel, is engaged by Alice Brady. the moonlight one inspirational parsimonious wealthy widow, tonight just in time to find Noah
escort her daughter, Gloria Stuart,
the summer 18 A
son, Frank
divorced wives for $400,000,
and
when she
and
discovers Joseph
scenery
His Greatest Gamble
Richard Dix makes a welcome re- turn to the screen in "His Greatest Gamble" in which divorced parents take a different view of their children's welfare is vividly brought, to the screen.
and
In a divorce suit. little Alice is awarded to Florence Eden her father Philip stea's her away from her mother.
Then all of a sudden the daughter's happiness is shattered through the father being selft to serve 15 years in jail an account of a crime, The mother" recovered the girl and gradually groomed her into a weak willed debutant:. The father breaks
jail to come. to the daughter's rescue and all this is dramatically portrayed by Richard D'x Dorothy Wilson, Bruce Cabot, Erin O'Brien-Moore and Edith Fel- lows,
ing-Redincam.
."
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Laddie"
QUEEN'S:-
"His Greatest Gamble"
ORIENTAL:-
"British Agent"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Silk Har Kid”.
MAJESTIC:-
"Let's Live. To-night"
KING'S:-
Coming
|
"The Raven”
QUEEN'S :-
"Gold Diggers of 1035" "Black Fury"
ORIENTAL:-
by
"Madame" Du Barry". "Times Square Lady". "At The King's Horses" Day Bike Rider"
THE ABYSSINIAN CONCESSION
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THE MOON WAS MELLOW THE NIGHT WAS TENDER
MON FORGANGA →glorious Pomonom -blozes in the spelf of soft magħn
Lilian Tulio HARVEY CARMINATIO
مال امر
Let's Live Tonight
Janet Banchar · Hogh Wilama : Tala Birněl Here in Bradley King- dern plan de GENEMARKEY Directed by Tiebe Schertzinger – A Zaboskla Pictora
THE PRICE OF REARMA. MENT
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London, Bept. 6.
Dr. Goebbels, the Minister o Propaganda, had 1 few sharp words to say to grumblers when he addressed forty-two district units of the Nazi party assembled in a beer garden.
Even to-day the said) there are people with quite false impressions of the functions of the State. They think of it just as a good granddad who gives them nothing but presents. They only want ad- vantages from the State, without facing the responsibilities,
Special Air Mall Service;
He declared that Germany need- London, Sept. 6. ed an army to perfect her work of The statement issued by the national reconstruction. British Government on Saturday. The picture is appealing in more conveys prompt and decisive re-material If there is a scarcity of For rearmament we need raw sense than one and it is worth see-pudiation of all knowledge or raw material, the lack must be. approval of the concession granted made good, even at the cost of the Abysslatar Government putting our other social tasks" on to an Anglo-American concern. one side.
the present Italo-
If ten years ago somebody had Abyssinian controversy the vigor declared that in 1935 the Nazis cus championship of the League would have won power, but that in by the Government and public the summer there might be for a opinion has been freely inter- few weeks preted abroad as masking defene" nesh, we should have been very shortage of swine British Imperial interests or satisfed. After all, what is that by even actual designs in Abyssinia: comparison with the international and the first not unnatural im- situation?
THE SUEZ CANAL Throughout
SHARES
How They Were Acquired
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London, Sept.6.
of
KING GUSTAV THROWN FROM HORSE
pression created by the news that an Englishman, acting as agent for an African development com- pany recently registered in the United States, had consummated The story of kritain's acquisi-a "deal" for the exploitation of tion of its shares in the Bucz the eastern half of Ethiopia, re- Canal, which is prominent just vived all the worst auspicions in
Stockholm, Sept. 25. nów in the discussions about the on-acute" form. The statement by
Kig Gustay had a lucky escape Itafo-Abyssinian trouble, makes the Foreign Omice leaves no ex-from
what might have been piquant reading. On a Saturday cose for suspicion of British "good serious accident while out elk evening in 1875 Freder ck Green- faith. The British Governmen hunting In the royal estate #I wood, a well-known journalist, was knew nothing about the business, Garphyte. dining with a London newspaper and discountenance "it; and Mr. After having shot two elks, the proprietor who while in Paris and Cordell Hull has also formally King was riding back in his car- of Egypt, being 'n need of ready Department had Egypt had heard that the Khedive denied that the American Staterlage when the horse stumbled in been consulted a boggy ground and threw him. money, was willing to sell his hold-about it.
King Gustav suffered only scrat
one of his
"on the nati”
1,
ALHAMBRA
BINTRE
on a round of festivities during Beery (the favourite heavy sheriff New New York.
reward for of thom days) rustling the enttle ing in the cana, welch had been The British instruction to Birches and injury to Jean Harlow, the platinum Gloria's promise to marry Hugh into his own corral, must go. No opened tor traffic by the Empress Sidney Bartan to advise the Em-fingers which the seventy-seven blonde film star, has a dicationd Herbert, an eccentric millionaire more badman sheriffs. When the Eugenia only six years previously peror of Abyssinia to withhold his year-old sportsman Caughingly
who writes articles about snuff, in
Greenwood went direct to Lord sanction from the concession: is dismissed with the words thing; ring on her engagement_finger,
arm of the law comes into the the Fall. Alice's
Derby, then Foreign Secretary.given on the strength of the like that doesn't hurt when one “ William Powell, the suave detec McHugh, has been chipped by four picture it must be straight. and urged on him the purchase et Treaty of 1906, which was signed still young."- endearing folk of the sall, that tive of the films, is all smiles. "Ladie" pulses with the sense of
Then, the aliooting of the sheriff's the snares for Britain Secret In- by Great Britain, France. and rannceur Kun Mum Hollywood's inference is that when he falls for Dorothy Dare, gun-or the hero's gun-cannot quiries a Cairo disclosed that the Italy, but not by Abyssinia. It actual experience. Translated to they will be married one day. the screen, the story has become
the hotel hostess, Allce is a bit take place in the same frame with Khedive would 'part" for £4,000.-
was an agreement by the three a suga of homespun America........... iss Harlow's divorce from Mr. annoyed. She is more annoyed, the drop of the villain. That is, stering, but it must be money European Powers to respect the
however, Into the motion picture, RKO-Hal Rosson, a caueriman, does
you must see the gunshot first.
political and territorial integrity Adolphe Radio put everything of talent, at- not become
. Menjou
CALLING IN ROTHSCHILD final before
of Abyssinia, and forbade any one tention, and expendiure, John Beal, March, but the fact that she has producer and a
next: Cawthorn respectively a theatrical Then, there may be a cut to the
The consent of Parliament was country to intervene without the Gloria Stuart and Charlotte Henry frequently been seen
builder, victim writhing on the ground in necessary, and that meant delay consent of the other two. But in with Mr. have let her in for a $40,000 de- pain. It seems this makes quite a and publicity, both of which would order to avoid any possible friction are featured. Other players are 'owell in the um colony has led ficit on a Milk Gloria Shea, Donald Crisp, Virginia
Fund show she difference in the moral.
be fatal to a dea. Late on the in the process of the commercial Weldter, one of the cleverest of all to many, rumours that he will a sponsored. Of course, when she They can say in dialogue, "well, Thursday night folowing the Bundevelopment of the country, which
dinner Beaconsne'd, Holywood child players; Willard, the fourth husband of the glamor. discovers that Herbert has been
wo branded that steer with the AB day
then was frankly desired by the three Robertson, Grady, Sutton, Dorothy ous Jean,
caught in a trap by Glenda Far- Brand." or whatever it may be,
Prime Minister, sent Montagu signatories, it was agreed that con- When she was asked to comment rell, she feels worse,, and is recon- but they cannot show the searing Corry his private secretary, to see cessions should not be sought by on her ring lass Harlow smild clled to the wedding of Dick and of the flesh because of action by Baron Rothschild
of the one of them which might damage and said;
Gloria.
the Society for the Prevention of great financial house. Even the interests of the others; and Cruelty to Animals,
Rothschild did not keep a trine the respective - zones of interest Another raling says that you like four millions, lying about, and were deaned. The concession just inay not show an outlaw hanging it was in accordance from a tree. The famous finale of traditions of the house, that a. fa-
granted by the Abyssinian Govern- all old-time Westerns was the pic my council
ment gives the new compuny must be called to ture of the outlaw dangling from consider so momentous a trans- Italian, the right of developing
which.
whatever it is, is not a giant oak while the cowboys, action. Cory returned without a taut rope wound around saddle defolte answer, but it came next the area inland from the Italian Bommel, rode away in businesslike
colonies, which was reserved as the Italian zone. It would there-
Peterson, Greta Meyer and Jimmy Butler. George Stevens directed.
MATHEMATICS AS A REST friends."
Paul Cavanagh, who, it is under. stood, will do a play on the New York stage this winter, is ane Hollywood actor. About
whose
private life little is known,
"Well, we are still very good
Last October, when she denied a rumour of romance betwret them, she said "I is only of a long series of false and hurtful! things said about me." Her first husband
WAS
Mr.
Cavanagh, who was a figure of Charles McGrew, of Chicago, whom
FILM CAREER
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London, Sept. 8. The Hon. WEliam Buchan, 19-
He is to become an assistant to verboten.
head
with the
importance on the English stage she married when she was 16, and year-old son o: Lord Tweedsmutangman fashion. It is supposed the morning: the money would be ad- before coming to Hollywood, won
Society for the Prevention of vanced on a comm'sston of 21 per high mathematical honours in hisler second, the brilliant l'aul is reported to have abandoned Cruelty to Actors is taking care of cent. The City heard of the terms fore be entirely against the agree- university life. He is, in addition, Bern, film director, who shot him- Oxford University for the aims. this one. At any rate, it's with envy, and they were discus-ment of 1905 that the British a thoroughly musical person. haylf in their home in 1032.
sed with severity in the House of Government should accord the ing rare comprehension and » ap- When a year later she married Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, who direct- So our Westerns will take on an- Commons for they were consider slightest support to this project. It would also conflict with the preciation of all forms of music Mr. Rosson after "eloping" by ed the aiming of his father's well-her colour and flavour. If they ed "pretty_stiff." and playing the piano exceedingly aeroplane to Yuma, Arizona, she known
The answer was that the calos- Anglo-Italian exchange of Notes well.
book, ""The Thirty-nine allow the broad open stretches of said "This marriage will last for When he is weary, instead of ever."
the countryside to he left in and sal transaction invo'ved great risk, of 1925. Though the Emperor of She began divorce proceed- turning to the detective storyings last year,
Mr. William Buchan is regarded allow a few fine trees to stand; if but it went through, and Green-Abyssinia is not bound by either which is the traditional recourse
as a promising poet, and has ex- they don't eliminate horses and wood was asked what he would of these instruments, the advice Mr. Powell has been twice martensive knowledge of literature.
cowboys from the scene, they'll take as persona compensation. demands consideration for its own of the tired business maried his first wife, Jule obtaining a
be westerna just the same.
He declined to make a specfic re- sake. In any event its immediate Cavanagh attacks a problem in divorce in 1950 and his second, Lord Tweedsmuir goes at the higher mathematics and emerges Carole Lombard, getting her decree end of next month to take up in to be Dick Foran, Remereler but his duty. In later years he cession in an unmistakably tras
Hollywood's newest Western hero quest, saying he had done nothing service has been-to-place, the con from the struggle thoroughly re- freshed and with all his business
bix duties at Governor-General him when he used to be called complained that he had been perspective, as the venture of a enbwebs blown away.
taken a little too literally.
in 1933.
He is 43 and Miss Harlow is 24.
Steps."
of Canada..
Nick
private interest.
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