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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S :-
"The Last Days of Rompell”,
QUEEN'S:-
**Woman Trap”.
ORIENTAL:-
The Bishop Misbehavos"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Drake of England"
MAJESTIC:-
"Front Page Woman"
YOUR DAUGHTER
STAR:-
A Paramount Pisture wită
GERTRUDE MICHAEL • ROSCOE" KARNS GEORGE MURPHY • AKIM TAMIROFF -NEXT CHANGE-
MARLENE DIETRICH GARY COOPER
DESIRE
UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF ERNST LUKITSCH
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EDMUND GWENN DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH STAR IN A DELIGHTFUL AND FUNNY FARCE COMEDY.
LET THE BISHOP DO IT!
Lovers brought together? Mysteries solved? Well alike to the bishop--becacie he's the most laughable,'lovable sieuth that ever ran down, clue with Bible in one hand, a magnifying glass in the other!
The BISHOP MISBEHAVES
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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
..THE NITWITS
OF THE NETWORKS
"Oh, Romeo, You Say
the Cutest Things!"
George BURNS Gracie ALLEN
Here Comes COOKIE
A Paramount Pidure with
George Barbier Betty Furness
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY GEORGE " ABLISS' IN “THE LAST GENTLEMAN”
MAN KIT
MAN KIT HERE COMES COOKIE
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Here Comes Cookie"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Here Comes Trouble" "The Bohem.an Girl"
QUEEN'S:—
"Desire"
"Two Fisted"
“ALHAMBRA :—
"The Bohemian Giri"
"THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII”
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Brilliant spectacles the pagan anusquenta uf 2 pleasure-mad people, are reproduced in "The Last Days Of Pompeii exictly as uistory describes the original Rourag displays of magnificience, showing at the King's Theatre to day.
The Roman Empire, reared en conquest and slavery, was "not composed of a people who valued human life or happiness. Even its pleasures demanded a heavy tail in pain and death.
To catch the spirit of those pagan times, to develop the story of a pool man who fought his way to wealth and power, apcient Rome
Latest Paramount Pictures
HOLLYWOOD'S BAL-
LOON BLOWER
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When you see hundreds of bal- joons providing that air of feverish in Hollywood, you'll know galety it's the workfol-George Kirkland— the nim cly's "balloon-blower-In- chler."
With his work in Paramount's CORONADO which features Johnny Downs. Betty Burgess and Leon Erroll-Kirkland brings his balloun-blowing score a half-a- million.
DIETRICH'S CLOSE-UP
For the Arst time in her screen career, Marlene Dietrich will, in Paramount's DESIRE. show the world exactly how she kisses,
Gary Cooper is her target in a sizzling close-up.
Misa Dietrich has always .before refused to kiss anyone except a long way away from the camera,
The nearest approach a close- up of one of the Dietrich's kisses was in "The Scarlet Empress." "And 1 took place behind yards and At first he used to blow them up) yards of diaphanous material, himself, but now he lets a gas tank Ernst Lubitsch, with Frank Bor- do it for him. He fastens the bal-zage, loon over the nozzle and turns a crank.
When the scene s finished George chases round the studio with a long-handled butterfly-net. The balloons are retrieved, deflated and stored away for further use!
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SYLVIA SIDNEY'S NEW FROCK
Of interest to women all over the country will be one of Sylvia Sid- ney's favourite evening frocks mo- delled along pre-war lines. Sylvia, whose latest Paramount film is THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME! PINE, 11 Walter Wanger produc- tion, wisely selects white, as & contrast to her dark complexion and hair.
The gown is of crepe de chine
with a low back, a high waistline encased in a wide ash which is also draped over the upper arm. The skirt is cleverly draped and is one which refuses to complicate Itself even during the dance.
Caught at the waistline with a targe cluster of white silk flowers, the gown brushes the floor just enough to supply the illusion of a train,
personally supervised the DESIRE scene-the first Dietrich- Cooper kiss since "Morocco."
DESIRE Coming to the Queen's on Friday really introduces a new Marlene to the screen--a vivacious laughing girl who has supplanted the other "glamorous, rather som- bre Dietrich.
"DIAMOND LIL" GETS SAPPHIRE
Mae West, "whose next Para- mount picture is KLONDIKE AN- NIE, recently switched from dia- mands to sapphires with the ac- quisition of one of the four largest star sapphires in the United States.
The huge stone, weighing more than 150 carate, is of a deep blue colour and shows a perfect star in its centre. Oriental tradition as- cribes good luck and health to wed- rers of such stones. Mae wears the gem in a platinum ring surrounded by diamonds.
have Several Hollywood stars similar stones but none so large as Miss West's. Carole Lombard has a smaller one and others are worn
Drake. by Joan Bernett and Frances Mae wears the huge stone on the ring finger of her left hand. but says: "That doesn't mean a thing."
Mae is supported in KLONDIKE
its, life, its pleasures, its bitter MOTHER'S FIGHT FOR ANNIE by a big cast, headed by
Tess,
its splendour-have brought to life again for motion picture spreen.
been the
Preston Fuster plays the leading- role in this Merian C. Cooper production for RKO Radio, with Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone, John Wood, Louis Callern, David Holt, Dorothy Wilson and Wyrley Birch in principal roles. Ernest Schordsuck directed" "The Last
from Days Of Pompeii," original" story.
in
"HERE COMES TROUBLE"
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BOY STAR
His £15,000 A Year
New York, April 0. Mrs. Lillian Bartho omew, mother or Freddie Bartholomew, the 11- year-old film star, arrives in New York on Wednesday in the Europa to attempt to regain the custody of her son, whose annual earnings from fiths, wireless and advertis- ing now amount to more than
£15,000 a year.
Since his arrival here to play his first part in "David Copperfie'd" two years ago Freddie has been' in the charge of his aunt, M.ss Bartholomew. Lust
Mrs Bartholomew is to be re-
Paul Kelly and, Arline Judge,' an engine room Renieo and his cuticle cutting outies, are the top-names
the
of "Here Comes MLiceat" Trouble," the new Fox picture | October, at her own request, Miss. coming on Thursday to the King's Bartholomew was made the boy's Theatre, with 3 ship load of legal cuardian. laughs and dramatic thrills in a story of life aboard a luxury liner. Spanish senoritas get this breezy Mailor into all sorts of trouble nahore, and jewel thieves keep him in mischief aboard ship. And through is all, Kelly and Miss Judge are wildly in love," even if they persist in taking it out of each other with biting comedy and
Farcasm,
Mona Barrie, a lovely lady with "taking ways" beguiles Kelly into. becoming an unwitting accomplice in a jewel robbery, and thus leads
presented in the United States by Mr. Phillip Lever, the well known New York attorney. Ir. adavits which Mr. Levey showed me this morning Freddie's father declares that
the contract he'signed un
1929, awarding the custody of the boy to his aunt, was signed with- out his understanding its purport. and that the aunt took the boy to America under false pretences.
Mr. Levey told me that. 1 efforts
A glimpse onto the Paramount up to the slam-bang climax of theta reach a settlement out of court set during the filming of "Here picture. In the end, Miss Judge Comex Cookie," with George Burca, gets her man, although she has to a platoon of police and and Gracie Alten, which comes fend to-day to the Star Theatre, world Sammy Cohen to his rescUE.
convince anyone that the strangest conglomeration of humans and animals in Hollywood's history was gathered there.
Only a Gracie Allen could ima gine a situation requiring the simultaneous presence of tumblers, acrobats, jugglers, trick bicycle riders, trained seals, monkaya, birds and dogs.
Gracie insists that the sixty-odd vaudeville performers really have
WOMAN TRAP
Drama of engrossing quality is the order of the day at the Queen'«< Theatre, where Paramount's "Wo- man Trap" opens to-day, with an excellent cast of players.
As its name implies, this briller has for central idea the sinister a niche to fill in the picture. The use of an innocent woman to as- vaudevillians - go
falled, he would apply in the Cali- fornia courts, first for a writ of Habeas Corpus to secure the imme- diate custody of the child, second for the "accountancy of all funds received by Freddle, and third fo an order to vold the aunt's guar- dianship,
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DESIRE
"Desire" "Paramount's romantic comedy co-starring Marlene Dle trich and Gary Cooper, brings
Victor McLaglen, who recently won honours for his acting la "The In- former."
SINGING STAR LISTS
"TEN BEST
The Hollywood penchant for "ten best" lists cropped up again "re- cently when Gladys Swarthout, opera etar in Paramount's ROSE OF THE RANCHO, named the ten most entertaining men and a similar number of women she has met during her stay there.
The young opera and screen star, who has just completed her second Paramount musica), GIVE US THIS NIGHT, and is returning to New York for the current Metropolitan opera season, named the following women as the most entertaining she has encountered:
Claudette Colbert. Irene Dunne, Clark Marlene Dietrich, Mrs. Gable, Miriam Hopkins, Jeanette MacDonald, Frances Marion, Grace Moore, Norma Shearer and Gloria Swanson.
Her ist of the most entertaining
men is:
George Brent, Marc Connolly, Ernst Lubitsch, Fredrie March, Herbert Marshall, Philip Meri- vale, David Niven, Cole Porter and Clifton Webb.
"That's only nine," Miss Swarth- aut remarked as she checked the men's names. "Well, my husband, Frank Chapman, is on the list He's still the most entertaining man I know,"
PATENT SHOES
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Eleanore Whitney, sensational tap dancer, who appears in Para- mount's MTALIONS IN THE AIR, has just patented three new dance steps. It appears that in America
through their sist a gang of desperadoes, killers these popular stars together on the one dare not practice a new step
tricks on the possibility that Gra- from the State, to blaze a way to cie in right,
The leader of the performers is freedom and elude the law.
"Woman Trap" bristles with ad- Jack Powell, who is very adapt
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Drake of England
ATHENE SEYLER.
THE FAMOUS ADMIRAL OF THE SIX- TEENTH CENTURY AS A SWASHBUCK- "LING PIRATE WHOSE SWORD AND -BEART WERE EVER AT THE SERVICE
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STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY in another full length comedy "THE BOHEMIAN GIRL" An M-G-M Picture
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Hollywood Legion Stadium, but with increasing frequency pedes- trians began to fall at the alde of their cars, show their bruises, and demand £50 or so from the drivers for "damages."
"PUBLIC INSULT”, BUSE
New York, April 5. if one is famous because of the
Holywood film stars met b If the stars didn't pay they... re- screen for the first time since their spies who clog the landscape.
secret. the other day to discuss the ceived letters from lawyers, thres- appearance in "Morocco,"
So whenever Miss Whitney employment of
a special group tening legal action. To avoid the "Desire" centers around a breath-thinks of a new dance she goes of private
detectives to protect publicity of dangerous, driving charges in court, most pf them paid the damages.
with drumsticks. He taps them venture, bustles with action burst taking · Continental beauty's the right up to the patent office - 2014 | them from the increasing persecu
of a string of pearls through a has it registered. You can do this tion of blackmails and racketeers. here and there, beating out stac-with drama that makes you, sit on
cleverly manoeuvered plot. Sunny in America. cato rhythms on bric-a-brae, tables, the edge of your seat, chairs, floors, walls add vasen. The story has swiftness of pace, Spain, land of romance
and
Miss Whitney, of course, is the
with her dancing.
So the 'stars don't use their cars.
A number of stars whose smiling
In additions to Powell, there are
and a wealth of situations, Air- dreams, provides the locale of this | girl who out-taps a machine gun faces are so often seen, in the so much now. They laid instead."
Another kind of extortionist ap- newspapers are in a continual a dozen or so tumblers who are planes, motorboats and surefooted picture. Dietrich appears to her
state of terror in private life. pears at public gatherings and 'incessantly tambling: a card for
They have sought police ald, whispers an insult into the ear of tune teller; a performing bear and horses further the brisk plot which screen admirers in a modern, ultra-
they have even engaged private, temperamental actor. If the seal; jugglers who juggle plates starts with a crime-chilling the sophisticated role, Cooper plays the and oranges, while...parrots sere spine and moves to a finale in the part of an American engineer bent squawking, monkeys were chatter-desert, when the desperadoes, who on making the most of his Euro- & father and is little boy were detectives, but still their lives are actor rises to the balt he loses his
having a discussion on legal mat being made miserable by threats temper and strikes his insulter. ing, canaries were singing and have used cunning with startling pean vacation.
of extortionists.
Next day he receives a solicitor's Flugsnorts Dogs. were yelping to success, fall into a ridiculous trap. "Desire," comes to the Queen's ters.
Several aitresses-Kay. Francis Jetter "demanding damages their hearts content.
Gertrude Michael and George Theatre shortly. Director Frank
"What is a retaining fee?" asked
is one of them now rarely allow "brutal assault," under a threat or "I thought it might be fun." Murphy have the leading roles. Bonzage has placed Marlene Diet the little boy,
Akim Tamiron, Roscoe Karns, rich and Gary Cooper at the bead His father replied: "A retaining particulars of their future move-court action. Gracie said. "You see, we used
Hollywood wants cleaning up,;" to spend a lot of time cn orose Samuel'S. Hinds, Bidney Blackmer of a list of the greatest love teams fce is a fee paid to a lawyer before ments to appear in the Los Angeles
detective told me to-day, "AV word puzzles and jigsaw puzzles, and Dean Jagger are also in the at all times
he will undertake to do any work newspapers.
Here are a dew instances of the present it seems to be the happy and I think we ought to has a new
Prominent in the supporting cast for a client.”
hunting ground of hundreds of the kind of puzzle. I'm going to let cast who further the action of the Georgie and Norman puzzle it out. picture. The swift tempo of "Wo "of "Desire" are John Halliday, WI "Oh!" replied the little boy, "like"terrorists" methods If they give up I'll tell them, but man Trap" In due to Harold Young's liam Frawley, Ernest Cossart. Akim putting a shilling in the meter be- Many actors and actresses used most unscrupulous crooks in Ame-
Tamiroff and Alan Morbray. fore you get any gas." not right now,
excellent direction:
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