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"FARMER IN THE DELL**
Homespun entainment with golden thread of comedy which gives it zest prevails in the "Far- mer in the Dell" which brings Fred. Stone into a screen headliner with Jean Parker, at the Alhambra Theatre.
The story tells the adventures of Pa Boyer a lovable old farmer who is transplanted to Hollywood by his rather stupid wife whose greatest ambition is that thetr young daughter, Adle, shall have a film career. However, it is Fa who is practically shanghaled into a film contract, because he is a homely na- tural type. From here on, things happen fast. Ma Boyer "goes Hollywood" in a big way, moves in-
to a palatial home and "becomes the target for all the grafters and hangers-on that infest the screen capital. Pa returns in time to save Adie from marriage with a' bogus Russian count
...
Esther Date as Ma Boyer is typical of the ambitious mother. The daughter, fa played delight-
MAX ROHMELING Vε JOB LODIS fully by Jean Parker, the little
with Every Second of the Exciting Rounds Shown on Boreen and with
the Sensational 4th Round; att
Repeated in Slow Motion,
farm girl who wants to get married. Instead of going into pictures. Frank Albertson, as Adie's sweet- heart is convincing and entertain- Ing.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
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Hong Kong
KING'S:
"The Law In Her Hands" QUEEN'S:
"Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" ORIENTAL:
"The Voice Of Bugle Ann' "The Voice Or Bugle Ann” Kalll's Hawaiian Troubadours.
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:—
"Farmer In The Dell" MAJESTIC:-
"Little America"
STAR:
"Man Hunt"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Under Two Flags" QUEEN'S:
"Times Square Playboy" ALHAMBRA ¡---
"Parole"
STAR:-
"Fatal Lady"
"THE LAW IN
HER HANDS"
"The Law In Her Hands," the First National comedy drams. showing to-day at the King's Theatre for the first time locally, is a thoroughly entertaining ple- ture, crammed full of thrilling incidents. fast action, hilarious comedy situation and a glamorous
⚫romance.
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The story is woven about the operations of two women lawyers, who after nearly starving to death as honest and upright" barristers, decide the whole game is one of tricks and go in for criminal law, becoming rich and successful as the "mouthpieces" of a band of racketeers,
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RONALD COLMAN DIETRICH
TO WED
"Will Be Any Day Now"
"DOUBLES"
FOR BERGNER
HOLLYWOOD SHORTS
It has often and wrongly been.
Ronald Colmar, famous screen lover, 'supposedly Hollywood's No. 1 } said of Elisabeth Bergner that the woman-hater, has astonished the Alm colony by announcing that he will wed "any day now."
slightest interruption on the sut makes it impossible for her to con centrate on a difficult scene.
But who his bride will be he
An incident which happened keeping a close secret. Rumour is (one day during the making of her now busy. Making his 'name with current flm. “Dreaming Lips," the several women. Ruth Chatterton (Max Schach Trafalgar production I has been one of Colman's nearest for United Arists, illustrates how friends. And at the moment Ruth | she allows her delightful sense of ls not married.
But a name mosthumour to intrude into the "most coupled with his is that of Eliza-moving and tragic of scenes. beth Allan-but she is happily mar- ried to a London lawyer.
FRIEND'S VIEW
But it is most likely, one of Col- man's intimate friends said that the famous star will marry some one quite outside the sphere of the cinema.
For many years. after his first and unhappy marriage crashed, Colthan lived" alone with only a valet in a mountain shack unt
side Hollywood. His woman friends were few-and they were no more than friends.
But now the old constraint has gone. With that
happy smilė which is well-known on the screen. he says: "I want to marry and bave children. It may happen any day now."
"LITTLE AMERICA”
Paul zinner, 'her husband, was directing a particularly difficult scene in which Romney Brent, in the role of Elisabeth Bergner's huband, was lying dangerously i
bed. The camera was trained on him whilst he was calling for his wife, then swung to the door through which she entered
After
normal the
rehearsals, Paul Czinner announced a "take" whistles were blown for silence there was the usual hush of
expectancy.. As the camera turn- ed to the door. It opened, but, in- stead of admitting Elaabeth Berg- aer into the room. Marlene Dlet- rich appeared dressed in w'dow's weeds (she had been having a test" on a
and neighbouring stage), having been rehearsed by Miss Bergner behind the door, went through the scene word perfect.
This was the first Intimation that anybody except Elisabeth Bergner had that Marlene Dietrich was present, and it speaks volumes for Romney Brent's acting ability- that he showed not a trace of the astonishment 'hè must have felt,
Spencer Tracy, has a double. He Is Thornton Martin, art editor of the "Saturday Evening Post," how in Hollywood on a wrist. The two are almost identical in appearance, Martin visited several Hollywood
Tractors nose diving into snow filled crevasses of unknown depth, the collapse of Mountain House where Admiral Richard Byrd lived during his 7-month isolation, an airplane ascent to 16,000 feet, the record for Antarctic flying and the planting of the flag at the peak of Mt. Grace McKinley are but a few of the thrilling high spots in Para- mount's historical record of the ge- cond Byrd trek. "Little America." which comes to-day to the Majes-ants with Frederick Smith the Cloaded into thelr doubtful tic Theatre. practice by an assistant district attorney who attempts to trick them in a case, he is prosecuting, in order to show them that "law is no place for women they out wit him in court at every turn by clever and uproariously funny Tuses.
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Margaret Lindsay and Glenda Farrell do exceptionally fine team- work as the women attorneys.
"MAN HUNT"
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Ricardo Cortez has added an- other characterization to the lengthy gallery of portrayals of suave, soft-spoken, outwardly gentlemanly rascals. His present role is that of a jall-breaking bandit who is the centre of 'in- terest in the Warner Bros. pic- ture "Man Hunt." which is the cur-
magazine writer,
Wherever they went, fans up- proached Martin, addressing him as Mr. Tracy and demanding autographs.
"He simply gave them auto- t go at that," graphs and let gleefully relates Smith.
The tractor shots are as exciting as the aight across the South Pole in the first Byrd Antarctic film," sald Carl Petersen, one of the Para. mount news, cameramen who ac companied the expedition and fim ed many of the picture's scenes, "It's the first time tractors" were ever used in the polar regions. We
Cecil B. DeMille, now directing .covered 20,000 miles with them, plus
sixty-third picture. The 6,000 miles by dump team.”
Plainsman," has the same lun- and John Herrmann, cheos daily. It consists of a mix fellow cameraman also on the triped green salad, coconut custed ple supervised the development and and iced coffee.
Petersen
editing of "Little America" which
totaled 100,000 feet in length, and
his
at which they ground away for 18
Ethel Clayton is doing a small months in unbearable cold, so in- bit in Paramount's "Aldeaway tense at times that the film turned | Girl" brittle and broke in the cameras
..
new dach- Mary Boland has a shund-she purchased him from Charlle Ruggles and is now look- ing around for a good name. Mary
has two pekes named Little Slam and Snooty.
This rather paradoxies job of rent attraction at the Star Theatre. convincingly deluding other char- acters in a picture as to his real nature while making the audi- ence thoroughly conscious of his actual character is an old story to Cortez
A man can't make effective screen old-fashioned "The..
type
of love unless his trousers are freshly menacing, ancering, brutal heavy pressed This the observation of is past," said Cortez: "After all, Kent Taylor, who divides the ro-
Most of the plot development in "Man Hunt" hinges upon the ablity of the character played by Cortez to convince the hero ine, played by, Marguerite Chur- chill, that he is not nearly so bad a fellow as public repute has him. At the same time, for the story to be effective, the audi- must be kept fully aware that he is a sinister figure.
ence
a villain is not any different from other men and should be played ss a natural human being.
mantic interest in Paramount's "The Accusing Finger" with Mar- sha Hunt,
Rapturous; tragic and unforgetable for its sweep, and power, 20th Century's Under Two Flags”, brings together four of the screen's greatest stars in a flaming story of men's berum, and, women's devotion: pa pearing with RONALD COLMAN, playing the leading role, are CLAUDETTE COLBERT, VICTOR McLAGLEN and ROSALIND RUSSELL
Coming to the King's and Alhambra on October 31.
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who sold Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt her rare fur collection, The actress, while selecting her war drobe for her next Columbia pic The world's rarest and most túre, “Depíná Below,” in which she valuable, fur garment slivery nibino mink coat whose skin collec tion required sixteen years may be worn by exotic, Dolores Del Rio, screen star, in bet next picture.
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it is beautifal ? commented Mias Del Rio, Particularly astonishing the fact that it whines Thos silver either night or day."
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