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ALAN HALE
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ARLIKE JUDGE • MOKA BARRIE CREGORY RATOFF · DIXIE DUNBAR FATS WALLER · NICK LONG, Jr. KENNY BAKER
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"THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR"
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THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
With _in_
GARY COOPER
FRANCHOT TONE RICHARD CROMWELL SIR GUY STANDING
C. Aubrey Smith · Monte Blue and Kathleen Burke
A Paramount Picture, Directed by Henry Hathaway
TO-MORROW AND FRIDAY
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THE DARING COMEDY FROM THE GREAT PLAY!
"WHILE PARENTS SLEEP"
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS PRODUCTION
THE LIVES OF A
BENGAL LANCER
Gary Cooper, whose motion ple ture career has won for him the title of "ghting man of all nations" adds a new and more glamorous soldiering role to his extensive record in the leading Tale of Paramount's "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” which comes to-day to the Majestic Theatre.
Too young to have been actual service in the World War, the tall, lean Montanan has worn the nn form of a half-dozen nations and fought on foot, in the air and astride a horse to become Holly, wood's most famous warrior,
most fam
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE
:
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Sworn Enemy" QUEEN'S:-
“Yellowstone" -
ORIENTAL:
"King of Burlesque”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:—
"The Last Outlaw” MAJESTIC :-
STAR:
"The Lives Of A Bengal
Lancer"
"Give Us This Night"
KING'S:-
Coming
"The Great Ziegfeld"
QUEEN'S:-
* "M'Liss"
ORIENTAL:-
"The Story of Louls Pasteur" ALHAMBRA :---
STAR:
"The Great Ziegfeld"
*"Nell Gwyn" MAJESTIC:
"While Parents. Sleep"
·"SWORN ENEMY"
NEWS FLASHES
Columbia Studio Active
With
four important features starting before the cameras At Columbia Studios, new high levels. in activity are reached as, produc- tion swings into the fall season.
Grace Moore plays opposite Cary Grant in the production tents-
ively" titled "Interlude"
un-
REUNION AT PARTY
Edna Best And Herbert Marshall
Edna Best, the actress, and her
der the co-ordirection of Ro- film star husband, Herbert Mar- 'bert Riskin and Harry Lach- | shali, have been brought together man. This marks Riškin's debut again as a result of a meeting at a in the directorial field his present party given by a friend, renown having been acquired in Their meeting at the party was the adaptation of aèreen plays their first for nearly three years. Almed by Director Frank Capra,
During that time Herbert Marshall Jean Arthur and George Brent has been working in Hollywood. are starting before the Columbia The party was given by Mr. W. J. cameras in "Safart In Paradise" O'Bryen, husband of Elizabeth with Lionel Stander and others | Allan and well-known Alm agent, under the direction of Alfred E. at the Cafe de Paris.
Green.
Director D. Ross Lederman is launching shooting on "Lady of New York" and O. C. Coleman be- gins filming of "Dodge City Trali,” a musical western production.
The Depths Below" with Rich- ard Diż. Dolores Del Rio and Chester Morris heading the casi, returned from "on location" filming at the U. S. Naval Landing at Long Beach with Exle:
Since Herbert Marshall arrived in England many rumours have been circulated bout his own and his wife's future plans. Their parting was rumoured in London and Hollywood..
Herbert Marshall had not seen his three-and-a-half year-old daughter since she was about a year old.
Kanton as director, to resume FILM STARS AND THE
work on the studio sound stages.
Mary Astor's "Lady From Now- bere" has finished filming under. the direction of Gordon Wiles and the Irene Dunne starring vehicle, The Audacity of American Theodora Goes Wild." with racketeers is brought into bold re- Melvyn Douglas as landing man, lier in the picture which comes to
has
also completed its shooting the King's theatre to-day. Ap-schedule with Richard Boleslaw- propriately titled "Swom Enemy." aki" at the directorial heim,
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JAPAN PUBLISHES "LOST HORIZON"
CORONATION
Visitors From Hollywood
Hollywood is, likely to be a de- serted village next May, if all the Alm stars who have asked leave. from their studios to attend the Coronation succeed in making the trip..
the picture reveals the amazing
Up to date thirty first-rank daring of a typical gangster lead-
players are mentioned by the Am- er, lulled Into a sense of false security by his own peculiar auc-
erican Press as having applied for The James Hilton best seller leave of absence. The British con- cess. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro-novel. "Lost Horizon," picturiza- tingent, headed by such popular duced the film and made the for-
tion of which was recently com- favourites as Ronald Colman and tunate choice of Joseph Callela to
pleted at Columbia Studios star- Freddie Bartholomew is still the play the gangster characterization.
ring Ronald Colman, under the largest, but the list of American Robert Young has the leading
direction of Frank Capra, is to be stars anxious to be in at the cele- role as a youth whose brother has
translated into Japanese accord-brations is growing daily. been killed because he knew too
ing to information received by much. Florence Rice, the `charm-
the author.' ing daughter of Grandland Rice. famous sports authority, plays the feminine lead with true feeling
and a depth of understanding that establishes her as a real actress.
Nat pendleton, who was the mighty Sandow of "The Great Ziegfeld," appears $8 ♫ rising young hero of the prize ring who is the innocent prey of the gangs
ter, while Lewis Stone. plays a
dramatic role as an innocent man convicted of the crime and sent to the penitentiary. Other notable players are Harold Huber. Barvey Stephens and Samuel Hings.
YELLOWSTONE”
Action, suspense, romance and splendid photography are the qualities which distinguish Uni- versal's "Yellowstone," the mystery which opens at the Queen's Theatre to-day,
A bandit horde returris to the park, searching for buried treasure which one of their number hid 18 years before. The conniving struggle for the loot reaches a plten of violence that ends in a mysterious murder.
Of all the suspects, a forest ranger, under suspicion because of an exploded shell in his gun, ap- pears to be the criminal. He la helped by 遇 beautiful girl. daughter of the victim.
TIT
The strange manner in which the crime is committed. and the astonishing solution. develope novel situations the story which have never been screened before. The magnificent grandeur of Yellowstone National Park is another reason why you should see the picture. It is gripping enter- tainment.
The cast includes Henry Hunter as the forest ranger. Judith Bar- rett as his sweetheart: Ralph Morgan, Alan Hale, Michael Loring. Andy Devine, Monroe Owsley and Paul Harvey.
"THE LAST OUTLAW”
Romance is tuned to the blast
of guns, the thuď of fista, and the thunder of hoofs in RKO-Radio's | "The Last Outlaw," which features Hoot Gibson and Margaret Calla- | han at the Alhambra Theatre to- day as lovers caught in a battle between a mob of modern killers and a pair of old-time desperados, the hero and heroine are made to go through exciting episodes, be- fore, all ends well.
Henry B., Walthall, featured with Tom Tyler, appears as a gun wizard pal of Carry. Together with a tough young cowhand, por- trayed by Gibson, these two match In The Lives of a Bengal Lane-six-shooters against sub-machine er," Cooper wears the most hand- guns in a dramatle counterpart of some and striking fighting plum- an old time man-hunt in the age of his long warring career the Oklahoma, hills.
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Joan Crawford and her husband Franchot Tone, Norma "Shearer,
Claudette Colbert, Robert Taylor, this Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery. and at least three Marx Brothers are reported to have been amongst the early bidders for exeats.-
Publisher's figures amazingly popular book indicate a wide universal appeal. Its gale has passed the two hundred thou- sand mark in Aftgen different languages.
This prospect should add con- American readers lead the field siderably to the worries of the as purchasers of "Lost Horizon." London police force, who have The book is now going through its found their hands pretty full dur- seventeenth printing in this coun-ing the past few weeks in merely try and its' sale is approaching one safeguarding. hundred thousand. In England around town. sale had reached thirty-five thou- British possessions the sand and translations there have sold beyond fifty thousand...
and the
While visiting Director Capra, Ronald Colman and "other mem- bers of the cast on the set between scenes, Hilton revealed that "Lost Horizon" had been written in the limited space of six weeks.
Marlene Dietrich
MARLENE DIETRICH
-TONSILITIS
Greta Nissea-Appendicitis Dietrich and Miss Greta Nissen. Two film stars, Miss Marléne
arc ill in London.
Miss Dietrich, who is working on the film "Knight Without Armour" at Denham, developed tonsilitis. She had a bad cold.
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"LOST HORIZON" EDITING Excellent progress is reported on the editing of Columbia's "Lost Miss Nissen, who now lives in Horizon" under the personal su- London, entered the Royal North- pervision of Director Frank Capra, ern Hospital to undergo an opera- according to recent announce-, tion for appendicitis. ment.
Production of "Knight Without The fim, starring Ronald Col-Armour." which WOS recently man with a strong supporting delayed for some time by the ill- cast, has already been "cut" to ness of Mr. Robert Donat, is not approximately 20,000 feet from the kely to be held
up by Miss shooting footage of 35.000 feet re Dietrich's illness. quired in Alming the picturization of the James Hilton best-seller novel....
GOT EARLY START Following completion of more Robert Riskin, Academy award than three months work behind scenarist, who adapted, most of the camera, Capre enjoyed a vaca- Frank Capra's motion picture suc- tion at the Thousand Islands be-cesses for the screen, was a pro-" fore tackling the "cutting room" ducer, of two-reel comedies when problems. on his most recently he was seventeen years old. He completed production.
turned his talents to the stage as "Lost Horizon" is accepted as | author-producer and his first Hollywood's most ambitious effort play, “She Couldn't Say No,” was of the year
a strccess..
Kapturous first lore, exauline, tormented, fulfilled, gered, is brought to the screen in "Kurls Dormitory, Twentieth Century Fox production starring (left to right) HERBERT MARSHALL, SIMONE SIMON, the brilliant new discovery, and RUTH CHATTERTON"
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Us This Night
PHILIP MERIVALE» BENNY BAKER Lyrics and Muela by Osese Hammerstein Il and rich
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ONE OF THE 10 BEST 1935 BRITISH PRODUCTIONS
TO-HORKOW: ANNA NEAGLE NELL GWYN"
SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE
CLIVE BROOK'S LOVING CUP STOLEN
MARY PICKFORD TO RE-MARRY
Silver articles worth £120, in- Mary Pickford, 42, former wife
Hollywood, Nov: 16. cluding a Georgian, loving cup of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. con- have been stolen from the home firmed to-day the fact that she of Mr. Clive Brook, the film artist, marrying the crooning motion at Squires Mount; Cannon-place, Hampstead, London, NW according to a statement made
picture star, "Buddy" Rogers, 32, The articles were missed from Mr. Bert Rogers, ground floor room, which had
"Buddy" been entered through a French
Reuter window.a
Although the value of the articles is given as £120 the Cup - de and three howls which were also ed. / and taken are more valuable from chief, the collector's point of view house, None of the other rooms in the of house appear to have been, enter escaped
"father
thought that ther
an easy way into the all he could find
ew minutes
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