HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1936.
Ladies and gentlemen-here's a show!
Sew them dance
that dazzling "Piccolino!"
Abandon care with FRED ASTAIRE
and breathless GINGER ROGERSİ
IRVING BERLIN
wrote off the songs Jun of it
heigh ha!
just for the
TOP
HAT
HIT SONGS!
LISTEN: TOP HAT,
WHITE TIE AND TAILS,' "THE PICCOLINO," "NO STRINGS," "'ISN'T THIS A LOVELY DAY?" "CHEEK TO CHEEK."
BEAUTIFUL
GIRLS? COME
EXPECTING TO GO HOME A NERVOUS WRECK!
WITH
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON, HELEN BRODERICK, ERIK RHODES, ERIC BLORE
Directed by MARK SANDRICH
A Fandro S. Berman Production Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin RKO-RADIO Picture
Friday ALHAMBRA
At the
Book Now At the THEATRE Phone 58888 At the GLOUCESTER, Phone 2012
WHAT IS THE AUDIOSCOPIKS
NEW 3-DIMENSIONAL FILM IS THE NEXT NOVELTY
Viewed Through "Eye-Glasses"
If there had been'any women pre- sint, unquestionably there would when a screams have been magician conjured a white mouse onto the tip of his wand and poked it out, seemingly within arm's length of the innocent bystanders A WEIRD THING
If you want to cheat and peek at the flim without the glasses, you get a blurred double-image with a red and blue border. That is be- cause a double image really is be- ing projected, one being blue and the ollier red. Mr. Leventhai ́ex- plains it this way:
THE STEREOSCOPIC "The stereoscopte camera a actually a combination of two cameras, so that the axis of the lenses are parallel, or nearly so. When the camera is turning, each teas makes its own picture. One of the negatives is treated with a blue dye, the other with a red dye Then, from the two negatives, a single positive is made with the images slightly overlapping.
"GRAND MUSICAL"
COMING
TO ALHAMBRA THEATRE
ON FRIDAY
Astaire And Rogers Score
Again In New Musical Comedy "Top Hat"
When Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers scored three successive musical film triumphs with Fir Gay Rio. The ing Down to Divorces" and "Roberta" they set a terrific goal for themselves. Each picture prove more enter- taining and successful than ts predecessor which left it strictly up to Astaire and Miss Roger- to maintain their record, of top- ping their last effort.
In Top Hat," their new RKO Radio musical comedy, which fes- tures a complete score of lyrics and melodies by Irving Berlin, the co-stars have met the test by turning out' what rates as their best picture, to da:e. Gay, colour. ful, tuneful and romantic, TOD Hat" is receiving acclaim every. where as the perfect screen "m1. sical.
Astaire and Miss Rogers do a number of "sensatonal new dan. ces, climated by the Italian flav-
which 15 "Piccolino. oured their
completely satisfying
answer to public
demand
for a successor to the "Cario- eam and the "Continental" They also sing and in general in- vest their characterizations with delightful verve and vitality. They also sing or dance to "In't This 'a Lovely Day?" "Top Hat," "Not Strings" and "Gheek to Cheek."
A PLAUSIBLE STORY "Top Hat" is an intrming and plausible story of a. romance which gets away to a love at first sigh: start, but encounters hilari- ous and 'near fatal complications. London, England, and the Lido. Italy, are the backgrounds of the romance and the settings are among the most lavish and col- ourful ever brought to the screen.
Strong support la accorded the co-stars by a featured cast which Includes Helen Broderick, stellar comedienne of the New York stage, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes and Eric Blore. Hor- ton, Rhodes and Blore, it will be recalled, appeared with Astaire
A GRAND
DANCE MUSICAL PICTURE
"Top Hat." starring that popu- lar dancing pair, Fred Astaire
TO-DAY'S RADIO
PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.B.W..
On 355 Metres
12.30 to 2.13 p.m.-European pro-
1230 pm-Recorded music.
1 p.m-Local time and weather
report
1.15 pm-Hong Kong Hotel Or-
chestra
News
Freas Rugby Press News, etc, 2.15 pm. Close down,
1.30 pm-Reuter
and Ginger Rogers, is Tuneful, | 4 to 7.p.m.-Chinese programme.
romantic and gay, this picture ta one of the happiest hts ever shown.
The "superlative dancing abl. 1- tles of Astair and Miss Rogers are not the only drawing `attruc- tions of the picture. Much of its success is due to the catchy, ingratiating song. that Irving Berlin has written for the pro- duction.
to including "Cheex Cheek," "Isn't This a Lovely Day." "The Piccolino." "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" and "No Strings."
"Top Hat" has 1 grand comedy Leam in Eric Rhodes, Edward Everett Horton. Helen Broderick and Eric Bore. Of these four funsters.
ad Horton Rhodes
while draw the most chuck es, Astaire and Miss Rogers also in- dulge ther fair för lght comedy: in many hilarious sequences.
and Miss Rogers in "The Gay Divorcee, Mark Sandrich,' who directed "The Gay Divorcee," was at the helm of the new picture; Pandro S Berman produced
A scene in the "Bridal Chamber featuring Fred Asaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton Erik Rhodes, Helen Brod erick, and Eric Blore,
Astaire Is Hailed. As Most Eagerly Awaited Dancer Since Vernon Castle
"Fred Astaire is the long- awaited figure destined to cap. ture the public's imagination the person American dane.ng teachers have been seeking since the days of Irene, and Vernon Castle," stated Pani R. M'Itom editor of "The American Dancer" and one of America's leading authorities on the dance, after seeing Top Hat," the new Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers mus.cal romance, coming to the A hambra on Friday.
Astaire's current popularity 15 unique, assisted as he has been
stage, radio and screen. His style and personality have thus penetrated to every corner of the country in way that no other dan-- eer, however prat. bas been abla to accomplish. The Antural re sult is a double benent to thei dance public. He silmaletes the im'tative impuse in his audien
No question about it, the Leven- thal-Norling camera has created a weird third "dimension for a two- dimensional screen. Things come At you, jump right off the screen and threaten to land in your lap An inebriate asks his audiencë to have a drink, profters a fixed glass Along about the first of the year-you can almost smell the neutral Metro hopes to have a sizable frac- | spirits and then, visibly rebuffed tion of the movie-going public. because no one wi'l accept it, grabs looking at the world througn'.roze. asyphon at seltzer and squirts it
"If you were to project, this print (and blue) coloured glasses. Beek in your eye. Well, almost in your ing a novelty to charm its fickle eve. It's foolish to duck, but you and look at it through the red gelatin only, the red smage would audiences, the company has revived probably wil..
There is a woman on a swing not be visible. The bine image the stereoscople film, which first was tried publicly about eeve who sosts right out into the would be. The reverse would be years ago. The process has been audience; there is a fire-eater who true if you were to look through Improved since then and sound has brandishes a toren in your face; the blue gelatin, been added. The result is Audios there 13 à site trombone that "Now, I the relationship of the copiks and the first, a one-reeler slithers out until it is just inches right and left eye of the spectator narrated by Fete Smith, is schedul- from your nose: there is a akele to the right and left image on the ed for release on January 1st. ton that tries to wrap itself around screen is properly correlated, the
J. F. Leventhal and J. A Norling. your neck, and there is an alarm effect of depth is attained." who have been dabbling in stereos clock that comes au close you feel copla nims for several years, pro-like shutting it off. W duced the new Audioscopik. It was To see all this, you have to hold made somewhere on Fifty-fifth a strip of pasteboard with two would be the "anaglyph method Street at an unmentioned cost and gelatin lenses one magenta, one Mr. Leventhal, of course, makes no fidentially, of $3.25 per thousan under unmentionable difficulties. If bluegreen before your eyes. They claim to having originated the pro- There has been some talk that all goes well, they may make a used the same instrument, of tor- cess; LE is about as old as the next Audioscopik may be a regular whole series; they think they can ture for the old stereoscopic Alma, stereopticon. All that he and Mr. slapstick comedy. The possibility do better the next time.
but the results ware not as good. Norling have done is add a few of a custard pls that misses ite Mr. Leventhal was host at a four- Mr. Leventhal admits that sound technical improvements and liven get and threatens
udience is something? man preview of his picture id ode is a great factor in heightening the the result with sounds
fairly sidered But there's one of the Metro projection rooms last illusion. The seltzer squirting
must be
embe week. He grmned trappily a one episode, for example, spectator ducked when a pitcher effective, because you hear the novelty. The comm
the wind up and tossed a baseball zizzy and the splash when it ing 1.000.0 right out of the screen at his head. I strikes.
g
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That, briefly, is the way it is. It the Greeks had a word for it, it
Metro appears to doubly enthusiastic about its
ces and sends thousands people to the studios of dan teachers to learn.
oner
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PREVIEW
"Top Hat"
Horton, and Erik Rhodes are responsible for many jokes in the fum. A
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire carry out a new dance entitled the Piccolino Dance" which like the "Cario:2," and the ""Continental
to 6.15pm-CHILDRENS", STUDIO" CONCERT.
7 to 10 pm-European programme.
7 to 7.43 p.m.-"Symphony No. 3 in
Edat Major" (Beethoven). 7.95 to 8 pan.—
The Mill on the Rock-Overture
(arr. Winterbottom).
}}
Lead. Kindly Light (Purday). The "Champion" March Medier,
(arr. Hume). 8pm-Local time and weather re-
port.
803 to 8.38 p.m.---
A Concert Songs: Requiem ("Requiem">
(Verdi),
Ave Maris. (Ave Regina) Ter- di)-Margherita Perras (80-
prano). Pianoforte Solos-Rakoczy March
(Liszt).
On Wings of Song (Mendels- sohn)-Mark Hambourg. Songs-Agnus Del (Bizet).
Strange Harmony — “Tosca
(Puccini), Enrico Caruso (Tenor).
Arabe
Violin Bolos-Chansoni Rimsky-Korsakov), Le Deluge (The Delige)-Pre- (Saint-Saens).—Torcht lude
Seidel,
8.35 to 9 pm-Scenes de Ballet." Op. 52 (Glazounor) played by New Symphony Orchestra,
9 to 9.15 pm-A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin (Copy- right by Reuter).
9.15 to 9.50 p.m
Light Orchestral ProgrammÓ Poet and Peasant Overture, (Sup-
In a Monastery Garden (Ketel-
bey).----
Zinetta (Geet)..
When the great red Dawa
Shining (Sharpe),
Mighty Lake Rose (Nevin),
The Rosary (Nevin).
Salut D'amour (Elgar).
I kiss your lips (Rudolphe).
Les Millions D'arlequin (Drigo), 9.50 to 10 p.m.-4
From the. Studio
"World Bridge Olympic,"
A Description of the Tournament
and Discusalon of the 1935- hands by M. E. Politi.
10 p.m.--Big/Ben: Close down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME -PA-DJA, DIN: Announcement
(Germ. Engl.
German: Folk Song.
Programme. Forecast
bow Engia.
5.15 pm.-"Giant Technical
vements."
(Germ
Achie
9.45 pm News in English on DJA
and in Dutch on DIN.
10 p.m. The Kaleidoscope, of
Opera,"
11.15 p.m.-News in German
DIA, and INN,
L130 p.m.-To-day in. Germany.
Bound Pictures,
11.45 pm-Bongs to the Late. Keek Veening: Baritone.
is entirely new and brilliantly 12.15 am-News in English on
This nim certainly is the crown- äxsouted. Ther dancing is simply
DJA and in Dutch on DJN
ing victory to the pregious Ginger wonderful and adds test to the 1230 am Close DIA DIN (Germ Rogers and Fred Astaire's re- „Alm. With a background of Venice pertoire. If anything it is even bynals and Gondolas Mias. Rogers better than "Flying down to Rio,
sings and dances an excellent
RADIO MANILA
*The Gay Divorces and number entitled “No Strings."é p.m-Sunset Dance Programme “Roberts,” and their dancing is other brillant trumbers are Top by the Lyric Orchestra, more delightful and finished than
Het,
"' “Cheek" to Cheek." and 6.30pm Spanish Informational ever.
isn't this a lovely day,"
Again the plot is based on a mistaken identity and the com- plications that ensue are gay and very amusing. Edward Everett
Period
Anybody feeling a bit down in 6.40pm-English Informational their luck should not fall to see Perton O
this fim as i really has a good #55 pm Stock quotations, through
the courtesy of Ewan, Culbert "kick" about it-H M
son and Fris
7pm-La Insular Ciger and Ciga
Tette Factory presents "Alres Filipinos with Juan Bilos Jr. lund his string Ensemble 7 7.20 p.m.--Rincon Espanol-featur
ing Ramon Estelle:
7.35 p.m.--Studio Music, 7.45 pm Elizalde y Ola presents Smart Music, featuring Alice Worrick Ramon Escudero, Jerry and his Romancers, Johnny Harris and Russ
8 pm
"Apo on the" Air" sponsor. 1-by: Cebu, Portland: Cement
mpany 8.15 p.m. Max, Lazo and his He
Hans,
Basque Presentation.
Quotations and
Local Market Repor
ogramme by the aagiks #Bociety.