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THE KING OF PARIS"
At The King's Theatre
Dominated by an individual performance that has not been excelled on the screen for many months, "The King of Paris" s Gelug presented at the King's Theatre to-day with Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the leading role.
In this writer's opinion. Hard- wicke's work as Max Till, a Paris Cheatre mpresario, really de- serves the over-used" adjective "superb." The characterisation, is splendidly conceived and is sus- tained with that apparent effort-) lessness which has built up his reputation to its present exalted posit.on. Every shade of expres s.cn and emotion, is painted in with the delicate touch master, making the complete pic- ture of Max Till one which must stand out in the memory of every' one who sees it. And every one must
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE FOLLOW THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The King of Paris"
QUEEN'S :-
"The Case of "the Lucky
Legs"
ORIENTAL:-
"The Case of The Curious
Bride
'Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:- ̈
"Exclusive Story" MAJESTIC:-
STAR
"The Crusades"
"Four Hours To Kill"
KING'S
Coming
"Show Them No Mercy" QUEEN'S:-
· "Frisco Kid”
ALHAMBRA:-
"Follow The Fleet"
STAR:-
"Hands Across The Table"
EXCLUSIVE STORY
AT THE ALHAMBRA
As timely as to-morrow's front pag- and
dramatic 1$ the crime-story-of-the-year is "Exch sive Story," the new Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer ploture how screening at the Alhambra Theatre. with Franchot Tone and Madge Evans la leading roles,
Written by Martin Mooney who exposed the "numbers racket" in the pages of his newspaper, the new picture tells dramatically of the crusade against these kings of gangdom by a young attorney to a metropolitan daily paper.
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It is expertly directed by George Seitz, and the able supporting cast Includes Stuart Erwing, Joseph Calleia, Robert Barrat. 3. Farrell MacDonald. Louise Herry. "Mar- garet Irving, Wade Boteler, Char- les Trowbridge and William Henry
FRISCO KID Coming To The Queen's
"Frisco Kid.* Warner Егов.. dramatic picturization of the thrilling pioneer days of old San Francisco when the Barbary Coast. seethed with activity and life within its borders, was the wildest adventure, is scheduled 3
the feature attraction at the Queen's Theatre shortly.
The all star cast is headed by James Cagney who is supported by Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortes and LA Damita, more than forty personis in the princ.pal roles and thousands in the gigantic mob sceres,
The story, by Warren Duff and Seton L. Miller, who also wrote the screen play, centres about the ter- rinc confi.ct between the denizens of the waterfront an the better class of citizens at a time when there was no effective law except that laid down by the dread hand of the vigilantes. ||
Barbary Coast at the time swarmed with every sort of adven- turer, including miners gỗing str returning from the gold fields, ticket of leave and fugitive criminals from the penal colonies of Australia, gamblera. dive keepers and women of the under- world from every part of the country.
Murder, of a
FLEET
Is The Next Attraction
At.
THE ALHAMBRA
Top Hats off to Fred Astaire! His latest rausical. Failow the Fleet!" is more DI. L personal ti lumpt for the owne: of the streamlined feet and the hobgoblin face than any of the three great successes that have preceded it.
Before "Follow the Fleet" caine along. Fred had shown that he knew ali atbut making a good musical film better,
Now he has improved on that
by making a had musical film
good.
With somebody else in place f Astaire. "The. Gay Divorce," "Roberta" and "Top Hat would still have been successful.
But if they took Fred away from "Follow the Fleet, they would be left with something very ke a flop.
of its entertainment value Astaire-in person.
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to
There is no comedy support this time of the kind provided by Ed- ward Everett Horton, Helen Brode- sick, Erik Rhodes and Eric Blore..
But that doesn't Astaire.
worry Fred'
In G production less spirited than The Gay Divorce," by no means as polished as "Roberta. and
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nothing like $0 Im- maculate as "Top Hat. he puts performance that silences criticism and, leaves room only for dazed admiration
The new dance routines he has worked into, the picture are as usual. highly individual, brilliantly performed, and exciting to look
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In spite of the improved work There are just so many things of Ginger Rogers, whose dancing the cleverest dancer can do on the is now really first class, this is a screen, and Fred Astaire has al- flim which owes fully 50 per cent. I ready done most of them.
Ginger Rogers in her new co-starring role with Fred Astaire
In "Follow the Fleet," RKO Radio Pictures,
YO.HO-HO AND A TAP-TAP-TAP
The
It's here at last the film you've all been waiting for-Fred Astaire as a feather-footed sai or in "Follow the Fleet." quintette mainly responsible forthe success of "Top - Hat” was brought together again for this picture. Ginger Rogers is Fred's leading lady. Irving Berlin w.ote the words and music, Pandro Bèrman produced and Mark Sandrich directed.
The only difference between this and former efforts is that the anal strong comedy support has been replaced by à roman- "tic interest, in the shape of Randolph Scott and Harriet Hilliärd. Fred Astaire, besides dancing, has to carry the bulk of the come- dy as well. He gets funnier every time!
These four honeys are Ginger Rogers, Jeanne Gray, Betty Grable and Joy Hodges, singing "Let Yourself Go" in "Follow the Flock"
FOUR HOURS TO KILL ⠀⠀
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Franchot TONE Madge EVANS
'AND'
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Staggering secrets of the war on the policy"racket-the first time on any screen-by Martin Mooney,whowenttojäilracker. shan betray his information.
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STORY
STUART ERWIN • JOSEPH CALLEIA
From the story by MARTIN MOONEY ~
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the human imagination.in e flam ing love story set against a giguatie
background of thrilling specncia).
Adelph tukar presents
CECIL B. DėMILLE'S "The CRUSADES"
LORETTA YOUNE-HENRY WILCOXON and a cast of 10,000 = Paramount Picture
THE CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS
Detective Thriller At The Queen's
arson. crimping and every other known vice flourished openly in the shadow of the law whose officers waxed rich from the spols of their underworld hench-
There are several familiar faces men. It was under these condi- place in front of the footlights, in Follow the Fleet-andˆ one tlons that the famed vigilantes instead of behind. is the story unfamiliar and very pretty one. were organized to hang murderous told in Paramount's "Four Hours It belongs to Harriet Hillard. miscreants and burn dives that to Kill," starring Richard Barthel who has never played in a film got out of hand,"
mesa and coming to-day to the Before, but whom Radio consider- Star Theatre..
ed good enough to have two, of
Perry Mason, the fictictious de- Miss Ellis who goes after him niso. Barthelmess plays an escaped the Irving Berlin songs all to her-tective of Erle Stanley Gardener's Things move with exciting rapidity imagination, once more comes to and circumstances finally point to convict, hiding in the theatre and
featured the screen portraited by Warren Miss Eills as the murderer of Rey-. Nelson's William, this time in "The Case of nolds, when he is found dead, kill- the Lucky Lega" a murder mysteryed by a knife, belonging to Lyle surrounding a leg beauty contest. Talbot.
Hardw.cke's make-up is that of youthful Frenchman-almost the first time the actor has been seen looking anything like his real self -and the role he portrays is the uncrowned King of Pars theatre- Land; author. producer, and atior-manager. a man who at the zenith of his theatrical suc- that Cess can think of life only in terms of the theatre: Bombastic and egoletic, Till lives only for power and applause.
His nerve almost leaves him
when a girl (Mar.e Glory) he has built up for nothing. becomes more popular than he; but his bombast soars again as he starts afresh with another unknown.
self.
These flaming events constitute the starring action of the picture. and it is in this setting that there blossoms a most unusual romance,
of a leader of the city's waiting for his chance to get the She was formerly. "a man who squealed on him. In entertainer with Ozzle despoliers and a beautiful girl,
others band in New York". tenderly reared in the luxury and the same audience are refinement of the highest society. Whose life dramas are bound with Cagney has the role of a rough is a cloakroom boy who has | stolen to get money, a rich woman who and rugged sailor, king of the underworld and con- planning to run away with her trols h's henchmen with an iron sweetheart, a handsome philan- hand. Margaret Lindsay is the girl derer who preys on impressionable who saves him from the nodse of women, the vigilantes.
becomes
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In a story which does not allow Rapid thrills and excitement the usual method of choosing the punctuated by many hilarious mo- How the criminal is caught and most unlikely person as the mur- ments lead the story to the climax the tangled lives of the others derer, the story is a logical one when Perry Mason hides Miss Ellis straightened out furnishes the that can be solved with clear com- in his rooms, thereby making him- climax to a thrilling drama.
monsense. Supporting Warren self an accomplice, 11. Miss Elis Norman Krasna's "Small Mir-William as his secretary Is Miss was the murderer.A While police frantically search acte the hit of the current Genevieve Tobin, who incidentally The police arrive and find MissTM Marie, Glory, the Cont.nental Supporting Cagney and Mas for Barthelmess, he makes a tele-Broadway season, furnished the is in love with her boss,
Ellis in the rooms and are for ar- ravourite who is co-starred with Lindsay are Ricardo Cortez, “Lili | phone call that lures bis victim to original from which "Four Hours Patricia Ells, a modet in a small resting her when Mason reveals the Miss Hillard is tall, slim and Hardwicke. makes an excellent Damita, Donald Woods, Joseph the lobby of the theatre. Then, to Klip" was written
town store wins a leg beauty con- true murderer in one of the most brunette, and sings in the low-debut in British films. And lesser King. George E Stone, Barton just as the separate life dramas of Directed by Mitchell Lelen, test promoted by Craig Reynolds. thrilling moments of the whole
the w voiced, throbbing manner peculiar Į parts" are competently played by MacLane. Joseph Sawyer, Fred the others are rising, to their "Four Hours to K features Miss, Ellis is the loved one of two picture. to American cabaret performers.. Ralph Richardson, Lydia Sher- Kohler, Robert McWade Joseph climaxes, he steps from his hiding Joe Morrison, Helen Mack, Ger- persons, Lyle Talbot and Porter All ends happily and Mason then She is regarded as a new player wood, John Deverell, Phyllis Monk Crehan, Robert Strange, Edward place and shoots down the man trude Michael, Dorothy Tree, Ros- Hall Reynods absconds with the explains how the murder was com- of some promise-even as a future man, Jeanne Stuart, Joan Maude, McWade. Claudia Coleman and before the eyes of an aghast coe Karns and Ray Milland in its prize money and Perry Mason is mitted and how he arrived at his
and . B. Clarence.
John Wray.
audience.
supporting cast
engaged to trace both Reynolds and correct solution-Teknit". atar.
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