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Leslie Howard's next picture for Warners will be "Love Derby with Olivis De Havilland as his leading lady.
The picture should start any minute, now that Howard's stage "Hamlet" has met with such nasty opposition from Broadway critica. It will be directed by Joe May, formerly famous as a German aim maker. May has made only one Hollywood picture to date. That Music in the Air" turned out to be a little unfortunate. May also. directed:"Prince of Arcadia,” à Carl British musical.
NATIONAL VELVET The other Leslie Howard (grow- up Leslie's daughter) will not be
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE SEA PICTURES OF THE
KING'S:
CINEMA
Hong Kong
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" QUEEN'S:-
"Thank You. Jeeves" OBIENTAL:-
"Ex-Mrs. Bradford"
CENTRAL:-
"Clive of India"
Kowloon
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These Three"
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THANK YOU, JEEVES! Is your love life in a mess? Then get a load of Jeeves, by Jove, and learn what to do and how not to do it from this "gentle- man's gent" who knows all about
women!
LONG AGO
Players With No Make-Up
Sixteen years ago, the east of a
ses picture had a special prologue PURPLE POOL
to the picture filmed, in which they were all shown in their civilian clothes, minus make-up, with their hair cut and their faces shaved. This special introductory real was made so that women and children wouldn't be scared out
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FOR GARBO'S
REFLECTION
of their seats when the nim itself Blueing With Clear
appeared on the screen.
Water!
Greta Garbo's statuesques re- flections will dance upon the shim- mering waters of a purple pool in "Camille."
That picture was "The Hell Ship." made in 1920 for the Fox studio, with Madeline Travers the leading lady, Al Roscoe the leading man, and Jack Curtis the beary, Because of the title of the pleture, and the fact that the characters
After weeks of photographic ex- were shown as a gang of rough,periments, the purple pool tough sailors, it was felt necessary
perfected by Art Director Cedric to explain to audiences that this Gibbous and Cameraman William gang of apparent roughnecks were
Daniels and built in the park at all gentlemen in real life and just Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for beauti- play-acting in "The Hell Ship."
ful. pastoral scenes with Garbo and Robert Taylor in the. classic.
more.
"Captains Courageous
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was
famous
That episode was recalled re-
We began our experiments for cently by Dick Howard. featured the recording of perfect water re- | player in the cast of that 1920 epic, flections on photographic Alm in and now playing a Gloucester "Romeo And Juliet,” Daniels ex- herman in Metro-Goldwyn-¦plained. But the first pool was Mayer's "Captains Courageous," bulit on a sound stage and flooded starring Freddie Bartholomew, with artificial light, which we Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barry could control.
For "exterior water reflections. "That idea of showing us as we
we were faced with a more dim- actually looked in real life may control sunlight. However, we be- cult problem because we cannot appear silly now," remarked Ho-leve we have achieved perfection ward, "but it was really popular in photographing exterior water with the cast at the time. We looked so tough we almost scared rections as beautifully as they one anothers. Most of the stuff we
appear to the naked eye." shot out in San Francisco Bay. and if it hadn't been for the camera equipment aboard, we'd
RURAL COTTAGE The setting was the rural love coltage of Camille and Armand on
flowers bloomed in the meadows, radiant blossoms bowed down the fruit trees, and. cows, chickens, sheep,, ducks and geese roamed at random around the chateau.
Flayed by that sad, silly bean- pole, Arthur Treacher, who always bowls over movie fans with his probably have been taken for a the outskirts of Paris. Myriads of "fawncy buttling P. G. Wode-pirate ship. We didn't want people, house's Jeeves makes his debut on to think that we were just a bunch the screen at the Queen's Theatre or Hollywood toughs when the Arst showing to-day, in the new picture was released. So we all Twentieth Century-Fox picture, dressed up in our Sunday clothes "Thank You, Jeeves!"
and posed for that special reel And it went over blg.
With Virginia Feld as "the lady
In distress" and David Niven as
that
amlable crackpot. Bertle Wooster, Action's most furiously funny characters-aa charming as they're convulsing-move through a hilarious series of typical Wode- house adventures.
As the picture opens, the poker, faced Jeeves is painfully giving notice to the pleasantly mad Bertie. What with drumming, banjolele playing and romancing in various knite-throwing coun- tries, even the Iron Jeeves nerves are frayed. With a "what-ho" and a "cheerlo" it's the quiet life for Jeeves trom now on.
Arthur Treacher is the living embodiment of Jeeves, with David Niven perfect 85 the muddle- headed Bertie Virginia Field pro- vides a lovely and winsome "lady in distress."
Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzel selected Arthur Greville Collins to direct the film, Joseph Hoffman and Stephen Gross au- thored the screen play, based on a story by P. G. Wodehouse.
"LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY”.
An old friend in a new gulse was warmly welcomed at the King's Theatre when little Fred- d'e Bartholomew acquainted us with "Little Lord Fauntleroy,” bereft of the traditional long golden curls, plush suit lace col- lar, and baby blue ribbon. sash, but none the less lovable for that.
This Arst offering as a indepen dent producer of David Q. Selznick, who made such out standing hits as "David Copper- field," "A Tale of Two Cities," "Dinner at Eight" and “Anna Karenina," is a doubly important occasion in that it also marks a triumphant return to the screen after four years for the lovely Dolores Costello Barrymore, who is co-starred with Freddie. In the role of the Little Lord's adored young mother, "Dearest":
Adapted to the screen by Hugh Walpole, the famous novelist, träs handsomely produced film marks an auspicious start for the newly organized Selznick International Picture Company. The picture is released through United Arlists.
playlug in Faramount's "National Velvet" after all
Full Dress Sequence "Some of us who were also in "Women Who Give," another sea. picture, made at the old Selig lot and at Cathaling in 1934, and in William de Mille's "Yankee Clipper" with William Boyd and Elinor Fair, tried to get them to do the same thing with these pictures, bis without any luck.
"To-day, of course, it would be considered 'spolling the illusion' to run that sort of an introductory trailer, But there are plenty of fads in the cast of "Captains Courageous" who'd doubt less like to have full-dress sequence written into the cript, so that they could show what they look like behind
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the whiskers and when they're out of their oilskins."
In front of the rambling chateau was the purple pool, spanned by two rustic bridges and its indigo waters trailing Into a murmuring brook that vanished into an or- chard.
Many of Garbe's and Taylor's love scenes were to be played on the banks of the phal, their reflec- tons dancing on the waters
Natural water does not photo- graph perfectly, said Daniels, and seldom carries vivid reflections, so we dyed the water a deep purple, which gives the pool depth, and reproduces moving reflections like living beings. Also, the deep-toned water did hot discourage of harm the ducks.
How was it done?
By mixing gallons of blueing with certain percentages of clear water. Therein lies the secret, the amount of percentages...
Dolores del Rio and Dick Powell, stars of "Wonder Har," Warner Bros. Musical Spectacle, showing to-day at the Majestic Theatre.
END OF THE TRAIL
glass Dumbrille, Gene Morgan, George McKay, and John McChiire. Erie C. Kenton, who directed. "Ehd A stirring picturization of the of the Trail,” also appears in the historic hundred days war against cast as Lieutenant-Colonel Roo- Spain. culminating in the famoussevelt in the thrilling attack on charge of "Teddy" : Roosevelt's | San Juan HI, Rough Riders up San Juan HIL
"End of the Trail" was adopted will be seen in Columbia's "End of to the screen by Harold Bhumate the Trail," starring Jack Holt, from Zane Grey's story "Outlaws which is showing at the Alhambra of Palouse, which is considered theatre, to-day.
one of the finest novels ever write ten by this famed American au- thord
The subject has been on the Paramount schedule for ages now, It looks as if they may give it up entirely because of dimculties in casting the central child character.
Dolly Haas was approached but The picture brings Holt back to turned the offer down. Now the vigorous type of adventure a Hollywood rumour says Gau- stories in which he scored his mont-British will buy it as a greatest successes. He is capably vehicle for Nova Pilbeam
supported in this nim by an ex- It's a British story (about the cellent cast including Louise Henry, Grand National) anyhow.
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