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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1936.
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
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KING'S →
Small Town Girl" QUEEN'S :-
"The. Payot" ORIENTAL:-
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Lady of Secrets" MAJESTIC:-
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STAR:-
"Freckles"
KING'S:
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NEW SONG
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When she heard this seadog sing to her, her heart donted like a rowboat in a hurricanei
pratsatt
CARL BRISSON SHIP CAFE
with
Arline Judge William Frawley Mady Christians Eddie Davis
A Paramount Ficure
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Gene Stratton-Porte
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VIRGINIA WEIDLER "AROL STONE
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GLENDA BLONDELL FARRELL MISS PACIFIC FLEET"
MR. SICKERT TO PAINT THE KING
Full-Length Portrait
"The Daily Telegraph" learnt that Mr. Richard Bickert is com pleting a full-length portrait of the King, commissioned by a Lon .don art firm.
SYLVIA SYDNEY
FAINTS
LONDON FANS TOO
ENTHUSIASTIC
Crowds of flm fans, brandishing autograph albums, met the boat train at Waterloo station and reaped a rich barvest.
Sylvia Sidney, hustled and bad- gered, fainted, and had to be car- rted to a car This mass devotion
is flattering, but not always pled-
sant,
When I boarded the Berengaria at Southampton, I wondered how I could catch all the film stars abourd," writes P. L. M. in the "Dally Herald.”
I traked Miss Sidney. She is in Britain to play. with Robert Donat, In a Joseph Conrad story for Gau- mont, directed by Alfred Hitch- cock, She has just finished “Fury." and on her return will star in "Wuthering Heights."
A COLOURED MAID Petite, with grey eyes, tiny hands and feel, pale, and looking, as on the screen, as if she were about to Ty, she wore a brown costume.
sables, and a large diamond and
amethyst ring.
At the Customs there was small matter of duty on twelve doven pairs of stockings.
Miss Sidney had a coloured maid. So had Margot Grahame, the English actress, blonde and dim- pled, in dark blue, with a huge diamond broocti. «
is
SMALL TOWN GIRL
The audience at the King's Theatre will sit enthralled by Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor in the exciting dramatic "Small Town "Girl."
Her husband. Francis Lister, was not expected. There had been talk of an estrangement; but she flung her arms, round him'in a warm welcome. and we had tea together.
The pitture stars a Gaynor the audience had always loved and yet she added a new favour to her characterization as the bad, good little girl who married brilliant and handsome young doctor to get away from the bore- dom of her sleeply little town.
I had another chat on the train with Anita Louise, who, with her mother is just on a trip-to see London, her grandma in Strass- burg, and so QIL
CATCHING THEM OUT
She was the Gaynor of the ginghams and yet she showed a world of smart style and sophis tication in the latter sequences which took place in Boston, among "high society." All in all. It 19 one of the deepest dramatic roles that she has portrayed during her successful career on the screen.
Taylor, as her leading man, portraying the doctor-husband, married to her while intoxicated, showed that he is more than ever the fastest-rising actor on the screen, to-day.
The honeymoon scenes on the yacht, when Taylor explains that the trip is being taken to save a scanda, were particularly out- standing for the actor, while Miss Gaynor tugged at the heart-strings of the theatre-goers during the scene in which she begged the doctor's Jilted fancee to allow her to talk to her husband to save a boy's Ile at the clinic.
A correspondent sends a simple test for schoolboys and other elever "I hear that the "Queen people: Mr. Bickert, who is 76, resigned Mary has three coats of paint. From the Royal Academy last year Which of them was put on the following the refusal of Bir, Wi-first liam Llewellyn, president of the This (observes the sender) is the academy, to sign an appeal for the query that at any moment may be preservation of the Epstein statue sprung upon you. Those in the know enjoy your discomfiture after on Agar House, in the Strand.
Supporting the stars ir a finished cast including the lovely English actress, Binnie Barnes, in the role of Taylor's fiancee, Lewis Stone as the aristocratic father,
Andy Devine, Elizabeth Patterson. Frank Crapen and James Stewart who recently scored as Jean Har- low's patient admirer in Wire Versus Secretary."
FRECKLES
BACK TO HOLLYWOOD AND HUSBAND
With a carload of newly-purcha- sed furniture following on the next train. Claudette Colbert, Para- mount star. recently returned to Hollywood from New York City.
She left the Santa Fe Chier at by her Pasadena to be greeted husband. Dr. Joel Pressman, Holly wood surgeon who kissed and aug- ged her as a crowd of autograph hunters clamoured for signatures.
Thrills representing a departure from the regular movie formula are depicted in "Freckles," the sound in from Gene Stratton: Porter's outstanding novel.
Charles
ANN HARDING ON
HER VISIT
Husband's Writ Not- Valid In England
Ann Harding, one of the great- Pst scars of the screen, arrived in On Saturday with her London seven-year-old daughter Jane and
Scottish nurse.
In America she has lived in of kidnappers. Relleved dread
the fact that though she is by &dnapping is practically unknown
in England, she carried a revolver in her luggage and adopted elabor- ate precautions at Liverpool, where The landed, to prevent photo- graphers from getting a picture of her child. The Customs detained the revolver.
Her sallcltor, Mr. F. M. Guedalla, met her with the cheering advice that as she had been given custody of the child by the Californian court, the writ for alleged kidnap-. ping, taken out by her former hus- band, Mr. Harry Bannister, was worthless in this country,
After this she could laugh at the temporary loss of her luggage. At Liverpool she ad filed up an ob- solete Customs form, her luggage went on to Southampton, and she was left to spend the week-end in London only: with the clothes abe wore.
With her was her mother and at the station with Dr. Pressman was Miss Colbert's brother. Wendling.
Regarded as the classic beauty "There's a whole carload of of the screen, Miss Harding is a beautiful furniture coming down studious woman whose life has the line on the next train." ex- been devated to work.
SEX MONTHS' VISIT plained the star to her husband.
"Always have longed to come to "I'm sure you'll like it."
The purchases were made in New England," she said yesterday, "but
have worked continuously York, where Miss Colbert origin-I ally planned "to do just little stage and screen since I was 18. shopping."
and the holiday never came. sometimes think work is a vice. How does one give it up?
The furniture is for the couple's new Holmby Hills home, which Miss Colbert helped design and the building of which she supervised. So far she has had only a few rooms furnished.
On
I
"Then I had a chance to make I h picture here for Mr. Schach realised that if ever I was to see England it would be while I was
Conferences at Paramount Stu-working. dio between her and William Le- "I plan to stay six months, take Baron, managing director of pro- a cottage, and send my child to duction, will decide her next pic-school here. ture for Paramount.
"Kidnapping in America is no The studio has several stories on longer the popular amusement it hand to talk over with her and she was
berere the G-men came..... plans to start the first real soon.
you've heard of: G-men? Since kidnapping became a Federal of- fence, parents have no longer felt
MERLE OBERON the same anxiety, as they once ex-
ENGAGED?
ANNOUNCEMENT SOON EXPECTED
Hollywood friends of Merle Obe run, twenty-five-year-old English film star, are saying that the an- nouncement of her engagement is only a matter of days.
Forecast is based on the follow- ing confession made by twenty seven-year-old David Niven, screen actor-son of the late Lady Comyn- Platt.
"There is more romance,mystery, glamour in Merle Oberon's eyes than in all the corners of the earth put together.”
"A LITTLE CLOSER
perienced."
Other things I learned about Miss Harding were:
She will sign no more long- term contracts, preferring the right to play any part offered by any producer:
she wants to do more comedy; she hates noise" hour I di night club exhausts me"; and
she is a good typist and chauf- feusu..
There is the further fact that she photographs beautifully in co-
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COCKTAIL PARTIES
BANNED
SHE HATES NOISE
"I shall not go to cocktail par.
I called Mr. Niven on the longties. I hate noise," said Misa Ann distance telephone. This is all be Harding to a reporter at her Lon would say, writes a "Daily Express" don hotel on Saturday, after her.
"
correspondena.
"Everything is just the same as it was a year ago except that we are a little closer together.
"We have not fixed, the wedding date. In fact we never have been Set in the brave beauty of forest engaged, though we admit roman- backgrounds, the story narrates tic weaknesses." the difficult course pursued by an Mr. Niven, famous as a British orphan boy in his search for hapArmy athletic, resigned his com- piness. He comes to the Indians mission to roam the world. forest territory where he is be friended by Laurie Lou, 1 lovable sprightly youngster, and Mary Arden, the town schoolmistress. With their help, he secures work as tiaher guard
Pumuing his new duties, "Freck- les encounters the rarely seen thrills. A logger falls a forest monarch which falls in the path of Laurie Lou, whom Frockles at. tempts to save in a life-risking dash. in the spino-chilling climax. Freckles grapples with a small but murderous band of forest bandita. His task is again to save the life of the little girl, as well as his
war
the
Samuel Goldwyn, flm magnate, met him in Hollywood and gave him a film chance.
Star of the picture was Merle Oberon.
"From that moment," he told me. me lure of travel waned. I just wanted to settle down."
GOOD RECORDING WORK
FOR ROMEO AND JULIET"
arrival from America,
She still refused to discuss her husband. "I have come to Europe for a rest and Hittle work," she said. T have signed on for one Him which I am making in Eng- lana.
"I want to send my daughter to school during my stay-it will be tor about five months.
"I want to get out in the cour-
try and buy a little cottage and a
car, I have not been on holiday
abroad before, and what I have seen of the English countryside is just too wonderful.
"I may go over to the Continent. It depends on my studio engage- ments."}
Ann Harding, flim star, is be- coming an enthusiastic fan of Noel Coward, stage star.
A week or so ago she went to the Coward plays at the Phoenix, On Monday night she was there again, in a DOIT.
And last night, I understand, she had booked to visit the theatre for the third time since her arrival.
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Marlene Dietrich On A Mother's Duty
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"I do not fear vulgarity half so much as unbalanced conceptions of life," she said,
FALSE OUTLOOK FEARED "Just as I watch over Maria's reading and recreation so I make a point of attending a picture--my own as well as others before I approve it for Maria.
Rated the most popular novel of all time, "Freckles" is the second Stratton-Porter classic to come to the screen under the aegis of RKO Radio "Laddie"
first book, which, incidentally, featured
A year of research on the little of the fifteenth, aixteenth and Virginia Weidler aa Little Sister, known musical masterpieces of the seventeenth centuries, Into the
London, June
"My daughter has seen me in who is now, sear. sa Laurie Lou in pre-Bach era had its culmination musical backgrounds for Irving G.
Marlene Dietrich does not per Shanghai Express' and 'Desire' "Freckles." Tom Brown as the title character and Carol Stone recently in fourteen uninterrupted Thalberg's production of the Sha- have the romantic leads, with hours of recording the impressive kespearean romance, co-starring mit her 1-year-old daughter to and I shall permit her to see me in and brilliant score for Metro-Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard see a fim until she has seen the The Garden of Allah, but I keep picture run through and has ad her away from all stories of Lumiden Hare and James Bush in
Goldwyn-Mayer's production of and directed by George Cukor. other roles.
As a tribute to Tschaikovsky, the judged it proper fare for youthful triangles and similar situations. Romeo and Juliet.
"I want her to keep her illusions from his Romeo eyes. Against a musical framework of melodic theme
She made this revelation in an as long as possible and will permit hia own original compositions, and Juliet Fantasia has been in-
expressed strong opinions When the time comas Maria win your nonchalant reply The first. Herbert Stothart, M-G-M composer cluded. This, according to 8th interview in Hollywood in which nothing to distort her outlook. of murse," has been airly brushed
children's rebut unfl then 7 shall be the arids. The correct answer is The and conductor, wove English mad- thart, is the most beautiful ex-she
judge," second," which emphasises an unrigals, Georgian chorals, and more pression and visualization of the about the duties of parents to be able to do her own choosina. accustomed value in the gram than 200 major and minor, works love theme in the classic romance, supervising their
of Italian and English composers ever composed matical article.
creation
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