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They brave a firing-squad
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Adolph Zutat pretende
HERBERT MARSHALL Till Wr
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Rod Lelkomque - A Paromaunt Picture
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BOBBY BREEN
THE 8 YEAR OLD BOY WITH THE MOST AMAZING VOICE
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY HILARIOUS HOLLYWOOD NEW YORK MADCAP ROMANCE WITH A LAUGH COMING EVERY MINUTE!
Carl Laemmle presents
It Happened
NEW YORK
A Universal
Picture with
GERTRUDE MICHAEL A
HEATHER ANGEL
LYLE TALBOT
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY
A SPECTACULAR DRAMA OF SOULS IN HELL!
“DANTE'S INFERNO"
A FOX SUPER PRODUCTION WITH SPENCER TRACY
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ICHENCE FARSA
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MERLE OBERON
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CLIVE OF INDIA
TALLULAH MAY RETURN
Tallulah Bankhead, Zamous stage actress and once hotly tipped as
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1936.
“SAN FRANCISCO IS OVERPOWERING
Everything From Opera To Earthquakes
CLARK GABLE IN PENITENT MOOD
By
BILL PLAY
Given Jeanette MacDonald, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organisation apparantly “decided to make a picture that would be what the people of Hollywood so neatly term "a wow." They took the terrible San Francisco earthquake as the theme; they made Jeanette MacDonald do excerpts from grand opera and vaudeville acts from nobody knows where: then they made Clark Gable as naughty as naughty could be as the notorious Blickie Norton, big, bold, brutal boss of a down-town “amusement joint and they roped-in the bril innt Spencer Tracy to portray" the part of a priest who does x, front line in the matter of bring- Ing consolation to poor souls. Then they thought out a "love conflict," and the whole show erashes, to an ear-splitting and nerve-wracking climax when the gaudy palaces of old-time San Francisca hartle thunderingly to doom and desolation. Finally, and this is the too-poignant part of the whole business, Clark Gable goes on his kneès and utters a little prayer.
It's a "wow" alright. In fact, "San Francisco" is nothing less. than the "wolks," and when it commences a season at the King's Theatre on Saturday it is sure to give many people a shock.
This enormous picture-it took almost two hours to screen at the pre-view yesterday-is merely an- other blatant proof that Holly wood producers have a lot to learn in the matter of restraint. In this instance the brilliant colours have not be painted on the canvas; they have simply been thrown on. Such "custard pie " stuff goes a long way too far.
"San Francisco," overpowering as it is in the main, yet contains
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:
Hong Kong
"Human Cargo"
QUEEN'S :—
**TUL We Meet Again"
ORIENTAL:-
"Boulder Dam"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :---
"You May Be Next"
MAJESTIC:-
"It Happened In New York"
STAR:-
"Folies Bergere"
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
BOOKINGS
ANNOUNCED
The following are the bookings
at the Oriental Theatre for Bep-
a screen, rival to Garbo and tember and October:-
Dietrich, is to have another try Sept. 16-17-Boulder Dam (War
at film work, Warner Brothers
are testing her for the leading
role in Another Dawn.""
Errol Flynn tas already been chosen to play the male lead- and Bette Davis was to have ap peared opposite him. Since her
ner Brothers) (Ross "Alexar- der, Patricia Ellis. Lyle Tal- bot),
Sept. 18-19. Small Town Girl (MGM) (Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor).
quarrel with Warners, the part is Sept. 20, 21, 22--Preview Murder
Cow vacant.
Mystery (Paramount) (Regin-
al Denny, Frances Drake, Gail Patrick).
sept. 23.-Bird of Paradise (FKO-
Tallulah Bankhead, who has been busy on the Broadway stage for the past few years. scored an enormous success during her seven or eight years' stage in Eng- land and then went back to Sept. America. where she played Tarnished Lady. My Bin, The Deyil and the Deep and other Aliba.
None of them was particularly successful "from her point of view and the left Hollywood in Novem ber. 1932-
“SMALL TOWN GIRL"
"
Half a millon nim fans can't be wrong! And that's why Metro- Godwyn-Mayer teamed Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor in the romantic leads of "Small Town
Radio) (Dolores Del Rio · and Joel McCrea),
24-Footlight Parade (War-
1
dome delightful examples of Mr. Gable's operatic and dramatic art, and Jeanette MacDonald's renditions will be listened. to, with rapturous delight.
Spencer Tracy will appeal strongly to all who like to see a good actor play a difficult part convincingly. His pathos never descends to bathos.
It's a pity the same cannot be said for Clark Gable's work in this production. The man or woman who cast this hero of a thousand boud-wars as Blackle Norton in "San Francisco" should be given long leave before he or she is given another opportunity of tampering so devastatingly with
temperamentality. When all is said and done, he is the right sort of man if given a decent break in a wrong sort of a play. but they don't even allow him the minor luxury of one solitary bedroom scene in this evangelical plus hotch-potch.
racketeering
And the earthquake! It will thrill you more than your Arst trip on the Peak tram. But all the masonry that they smashed in this film was done with a purpose
It brought Clark Gable to his knees in a tattered dress suit, and it gave Jeanette MacDonald the opportunity to sing beautifully "Nearer My God To Thee."
Miss Pat Sykes and Mr. J. A. Andrew, exhibition ballroom dancers, who will commence a season at the Hong Kong Hotel on Saturday night.
Der Brothers) (James Cagney, DENHAM'S
Dick
Powell,
Frank McHugh).
Ruby Keeler,
sept 25-26-Dangerous (Warner
Brothers) (Bette Davis. Pran-
HOLLYWOOD
QUEEN BESS
BOULEVARD
Hollywood Boulevard, ནr, t.',
chot Tone, Margaret Lind- Flora Robson, one of our most
say).
1/
"main
Sept. 27-28,-Speed (MGM) talented actresses, is making her stem" of the nim city, is being (James Stewart, Una "Merkel, long awaited appearance as Queen brought to the screen by Fara- Wendy Barrie).
Elizabeth in the Erich Pommer mount. And with it comes a host Sept. 29.--Babes -in Toylang
(M.Q.M.) (Laurel and Hardy). production Fire Over England, of old-timers-men and women Sept. 30 and Oct. 1-13 Hours Byet Denham,
who were stars in silent days and Al (Paramount) (Fred Mc- It is not Miss Robson's first to-day have been virtually for Murray, Joan Bennett).
(you will remember gotten Oct. 2-3-Widow of Monte Carlo her fine performance in Catherine (Warner Bros.) (Warren Withe Great) but it promises to liam, Dolores Del Rio).
be her most important.
screen role
Girl." showing at the Oflentaf | Oct. 45-Singing Kid Warner Wearing a false nose and an Bros.) (Al Jolson. Sys Jason enormous weight of Elizabethan Allan Jenkins),
clothes and jewellery, Miss Rob- 6-7-Early to Bed (Para mount) (Mary Boland, Charon is the central figure of a story lis" Ruggles).,
of court intrigue and national awakening at the time of the Spanish Armada.
on
Some. He Esther Halston, are still playing big parts the screen. Others, like Jack Muihall, are playing small parts. The re- malader have gone into retire menc
Paramount, in a new flim which they are calling Hollywood Boule are vard, have brought them back to the screen where they scored their former triumphs.
Oct. 8, 9, 10.-Modern Times (Uni- ted Artists) (Charlie Chaplin). Oct. 11, 12, 13.--The Trail of Lone-Lelle Banks, Laurence Olivier and
Supporting Miss Robson
some Pine (Paramount) Vivien Leigh. The picture is being (Bylvia Sidney. Fred Mac-directed by William E. Howard,
Theatre on Friday and Baturday,
'Small Town Girl" presents Mas Gaynor as a New England giri Oct. who rebels at the humdrum exis- tence of life in a little town and Impetuously elopes with Taylor, a auphisticated young city doctor. The elopement precipitates social and domestic crisis, since Boston Taylor is engaged to a society girl, and Miss Gaynor finds herself ostracized by her has band's smart friends. The story concerns her determined fight to overcome this obstacle and to win the cooling love of ber br degroom.
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fabulous sums from the radio com- panes successfu evading Justice even with the G-men and Army Exct ng entertainment is on the and Naval authorities on his trail. bill am fare at the Alhambra
Heading the cast is Ann. Sothern Theatre where Columbia's "You in the role of a cafe and radio. May Be Next featuring Ann entertainer. Douglass Dumbrile othein and Lloyd Nolan, opens is featured as the super-racketeer velops out of one of the most un- tce the novel method of hi-jack- to-day, The exciting drama de who discovers and puts into prac
gual and unique pituations yet ing the big broadcasting stations The story is of a fim within a conceived.
out of hundreds of thousands of film showing how a former stur The story concerns a master dollars, while Lloyd Nolan appears attempts to make a come-back a plotter's attempt to jam the as young radio engineer in love 16-17-Fatul Lady (Para- Oct, 18, 19, 20-Fury (M.G.M.) plot that must seem very real to nation' radio channels with a with Miss Sothern, who a suspect- mount) (Mary;tialis," Walter,
Bidney, Tracy
* Murray)... Oct 14-15.-Fang and Claw
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Oct.
Pidgeon, John Halliday).
Spencer many of the once-famous mem-mysterious and cret Interfering ed of ruining his former employer's
bers of the cast,
wave, He, is thus shid to extort broadcasts.
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