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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE KAY FRANCIA
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S :-
"Old Hutch"-
Vera Love and Her 10 Paramount Follies.
QUEEN'S:—
"Heart's Desire"
ORIENTAL:-
"Crash Donovan"
CENTRAL:--
"Preview Murder Mystery".
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:----
"Golgotha"
MAJESTIC:
STAR:
"Postal Inspector"
"Star For A Night"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Bullets or Ballot" QUEEN'S:...
"A Woman Rebels" ORIENTAL:-
"Piccadilly Jim" "Ex-Mrs. Bradford" ALHAMBRA!--
"Dance Band" CENTRAL:
"Picture Snatcher" MAJESTIC:
"Women Are Trouble"
"HEART'S DESIRE”
RUNNER-UP
AS FLYING
REPORTER
Hollywood Organises Wins Role In Sinner
A Clothes Ballot
GARBO GETS ONE VOTE
Joan Bennett And Myrna
Loy Aa "Also-Rans
Carole Lombard has been the best-dressed Alm actress on and on the stage in 1936-so Hollywood nim studio style designers · have decided.
Ten dress experts each submitted a list of 10 women he considered the best-dressed.” The final voting was:
Carole Lombard
7
Kay Francis, Marlene Diet-
rich, Norma Shearer Claudette Colbert, Constance Bennett, Dolores del Dio, Joan Crawford ............... Verree Teasdale, Gloria Swan- 1500, Madeleine Carroll. Myrna Loy, Joan Bennett... A total of 42 names was return- ed by the experts.
"A SURPRISE
3
Miss Greta Garbo received only one vote, and therefore did not appear in the final list.
who
Miss Claudette Colbert. Anished in the tie for fifth place in the poll just taken, was the winner in 1935. Conversely, Miss Lombard, this year's winner, was fourth in last year's voting.
Among the surprises of the Voting was the fact that Miss Gladys Swarthout failed to qualify for this year's "Thirteen Best" It is perfectly obvious that the She was known formerly as the entire story of "Heart's Desire" | best-dressed opera singer, and was has been conceived mainly for the en last year'a list of ten in the purpose of presenting the great film colony. tenor, Richard Tauber, In an ade- quate role and, with due justice to this great singer's exceptional talents. It must be admitted, how ever, that the plot is subservient to the character it endeavours to convey.
Tauber sings his way magniñ- cently through 1 complicated theme of blighted love and Irres- ponsible actions by various mem- bers of the cast and renders selec- tions from several Viennese operas as well as a number of modern areas His voice has a particular- ly lingering quality which should appeal at once to any lover of music, and when he hits the high notes, the walls of the theatre re- sound pleasantly to the even flow of melody.
Tauber is well supported by a capable cast, but as he sings at every appearance that he makes, the personalities of the other characters of the story Are of necessity forced into the back- ground, which, in view of such charming performers as Leonora Corbett and Paul Gractz, Beems quite a pity.
She received two votes.
Take All"
DOROTHY KILGALLEN
A few short hours' after she' landed in Hollywood.......... Dorothy Kilgalleh, round-the-world nying styl reporter, won a screen role. She was aigned to play Jang Mills,
All" at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the girl reporter, in "Sinner Take
studios
The part is that of a newa- paperwoman who aida Bruce Cabot Lindsay from an under-world plot In extricating Margaret
in the romance of newspaperdIDES. which Errol Taggart is directing.
Miss Kilgallen arrived by plane to report Hollywood happeninga for the New York Journal. Bam Mart. associate producer with former Lucien Hubbard; ; and a New York newspaperman ·WHA looking for an actress who looked enough like Miss Lindsay to be able to put on her cloak and fool her
pursiera
"You're the girl," he informed Miss Kilgallen, the moment he met her "Will you play - the part?"
"Tm game," said the reporter. She was rushed to the office of
Billy Grady, casting director, a contract was signed, a dressing- room selected, and within an hour was making make-up tests,
Miles Kilgallen" passed through Hong Kong towards the end of last year.
Oberon, Miss Irene Dunn, Miss Olivia de Haviland, Miss Virginia Bruce, Miss Loretta Young, Miss Hedda Hopper, Miss Rosalind Russell, and Miss Ann Sotherni -
The designers were asked to MERLE OBERON CHOSEN
base their judgments by Con Others whose names appeared on sideration of the clothes worn in two lists among those submitted private life as well as by the judges were
Da the Miss Merle Lscreen
It is difficult to distinguish be- tween the merits of various songs that Tauber renders, as he pre- sents all with the same warmth and musical appreciation that characterize his efforts, and equal... praise must be tendered him for hla manifold achievements and successes.
"Heart's Desire" has its run to- day at the Queen's Theatre.
'OLD HUTCH"
"Old Hutch." the attraction at the King's Theatre to-day is the story of the man who is known in every town in America. ·`.
1.
Dave Oliver explains a new theory to Ricardo Cortes in Universal's "Postal Inspector": Showing to-day at the, Majestic Theatre.
"POSTAL INSPECTOR”'
that concerns
"Postal Inspector," which opens at the Majestic Theatre to-day is an adventurous dramatic picture a daring three million dollar mall robbery com- mitted during a spectacular food. This Universal screen offering has a romantic element as well as a humorous twist.
Ricardo Cortez, featured in the
title role, is seen as an inspector in Uncle Sam's mail service, who runs down criminals when they
lently. Cortez, long a popular favourite, has been seen in "I Am A Thief," "Frisco Kid," "The White Cockatoo," "Special" Agent" and. "Hat, Coat and Glove."
There is more than mere wealth of humour in this new character who come in the person of rob the malls, or use them fraudu- Wallace Beery. He is the essence of rich, good humour, but beyond that he symbolizes the easy toler ance of America, the quiet accep- tance of fate and in the last analysis, the flery Individual, who, when driven to fight, does it, with his whole soul, his strong body and two good fats.
Patricia Bills, cust as an attrac- tive blonde night club singer, has played in "Stranded," "Love Be- gins at 20" "Snowed Under". "Freshman Love."; "Backfire," "St. Louis Kid," "Elmer the Great and “Fold 'Em Yale,” Her stage, EX-
newsreel cameraman, became known to most movie audiences when he performed as "John Q. Dohp, the man who did not win the sye pstakes. He stepped out in front of his own camera on two other remembered occasions, for a humourous Easter parade saunter and for a bit of clowning at the Kentucky Derby."
Henry Hunter and Maria Shel- ton. as pilot and hostess of a moments to the story. Little Bily passenger plane, add romantic
Burrud, playing a harmonica, has a fascinating role. Hattie Mc- Dantel, reenved favourably for her work in "Show Boat," has a laugh Proroking part in "Postal spec-
tor."
CENTRAL
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Most people will recall the story of "Old Butch" which was written by Garret Smith and appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. It is Pertence includes roles in "Once in TO DAY & TO MORROW the sccount of a "no secount” in a Lifetime" and "Royal Family."At 2.80, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.20 PM
the eyes of harsh critics, but a
Michael Loring, portraying the AT THE MOST POPULAR PRICES lovable man nevertheless. He is part of Patricia Ellis sweetheart, the latest man in town and fish-makes his screen debut in "Postal "STYLE" HOUSES To be concerned with style ing is at once his business, his Inspector" after a successful stage career. He toured with "Journey's imitations and period design is pleasure and his hobby, an End” and was producer, director ! not only irrational in itself, but
Eric Linden, and Cecilla Parker, and actor in the Minneapolis Re- Modern Building Criticised
it blocks the way to any passi- who appeared with Beery in Eugene pertory Theatre.-kursyer De "Style" in house design was bility of true development. To go O'Neill's "Ah Wilderness, provide Bela Lugosi, playing the role of criticised by Mr. Herbert A. Welch on building houses in the corked the romantic touch in the, new night club proprietor who plaza a London architect, In a Chadwick hat and brass-cendlestick style is picture and do it with excellent the three million dollar mail rob lecture given recently at the Royal not only rather imbecile play taste. The supporting cast includes hery, is best remembered for his Insitute of British Architects. acting, but it destroys rational, Robert McWade, Elizabeth Patter
creation of the “Dracula” tharac- son, Caroline Perkins, Julie Perkins, ter on the screen. His recent The chief obstruction to better houses, he said had been the They had to put an efficiency Delmar Watson, Harry, Watson, aims inclure. "Invisible Ray* and superstition that they should be style in the place of the trivial, James Burke, Donald Meek and "Chandu the Magician, built in a "style." A motor-car sketchy picturesque Even learing Jean Chatburn.
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finish and elegance but it was something...
Dave Oliver, in his first drama- tic screen offering, interprets the part of "Butch," a ludicrously
“Inspector............ Dave Oliver, former
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"UNDER COVER OF
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Under Cover of Night" is now in
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production, with a cast including New writing contracts are an- Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice,nounced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Henry Daniell, Frank Relcher, Theodore von Elta, Sarah Haden and Dorothy Peterson George Belts is directing, under the pro duction supervision of Lucien bard and Ned Marin. The new. Metro-Goldwyn-Major
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with R.C. Sharif and Bartlett Journey's End" and co-author of Cormack. Sheriff is author of
the current
Cormack has written a number of St Helena," while
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