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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The Garden of Allah" QUEEN'S:-.
"Rainbow on The River"
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"It's Great to be in College" MAJESTIC:
STAR:
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"The Lady Consents"
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Sunday
The Garden of Allah"
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"It's Great to be In College"
"Mummy's Boy's"
MAJESTIC:
"Anthony Adverse”
RAINBOW ON THE RIVER
Replete with pathos, comedy. drama and spectacle. "Rainbow on the River," new singing film
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The Story of a Man's Orter-
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BENGAL TIGER
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"THE TEXAS
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Herbert
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The Lady CONSENTS
MARGARET LINDSAY Walter Alsd
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ROBERT WOOLSET
BERT WHEELER
MUMMY'S BOYS'
*
ANTHONY ADVERSE But Anton Grot. Warner Bros
art director, had an even harder
ac-
There was a lob of ageing done job than ageing actors and by the make-up artists in "An-tresses. He had to age settings. thony Adverse," the Warner Bros. production, which comes
The piggest set-ageing job was to the Majestic Theatre to-day. Fredric done on the Casa de Bonny March, Claude Rains, Gale Son feather, the home and, business dergaard, Olivia de Havilland, place of Anthony's grandfather. Donald Woods and others had to grow some twenty odd years o'der during the course of the picture
duced by Sol Lesser, opens at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
Songs designed to appeal to every type of music lavet are rendered by the nine year old
lyric tenor i
a heart-touching
manner, while the story offers
the
KUCINANZ
Miss Xenia Zarina, well-known classical dancer from America, will entertain in the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel on Wednesday night.
THE GARDEN OF
ALLAH
For his second Independent et- brilliant young producer who last fort, David O. Selznick, the season Inaugurated Selznick Inter
national Pictures with the
de-
MUMMY'S BOYS
and
Egypt's mysterious and romantic Valley of the Kings, a barren de- pression near the Nile where Tu- tankhamen
many other Pharaohs of the ancient days were entombed, forms the unique set-
"Mummy's Boys," Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey's newest star-
young star an opportunity to goughtful "Little Lord Fauntleroyting for many of the scenes in
through the entire gamut of emotions.
Set in the reconstruction period
following the Civil War, the story traces the early experiences of a | young waif in New Orleans, where
à devoted negro, servant of his dead parents strives to bring up the lad in ignorance of his family
name.
has gone into the technicolour field. The result is a truly breath- taking production of the great Ro-ring vehicle for RKO Radio bert Hichens love story, "The Car- den of Allah,” co-starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer, that magically catches the mystic, ro- mantic atmosphere of the desert that pervades the novel, showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
of a
As a pair of ditch-diggers who join an expedition to the tomb of King Pharatime, not knowing that a sinister "curse' has already taken the lives of sen members. previous party, Bert and Bob and Through the intervention of the
themselves involved, from the out- kindly pastor of á church where
set in a series of exciting Incidents. The use of technicolour mira- Bobby sings in the choir, Yankee culously transforms both stare into Mysterious Orientais peer through relatives in New York are traced new and more exciting personal- the windows of their employer's and they send for the orphan'inities, and the fair beauty of Diet-home; en route to Egypt the ship is an endeavour to confirm his.kin- ship. As a striking contrast to the simple life he enjoyed in his native Southland, Bobby finds himset a virtual prisoner in the frigid
mansion of DA unsyen- pathetic grandmother. It is here that he undergoes heart-breaking experiences, struggling against the scheming of an aunt and uncle who resent his presence. How the lad upsets their plans and at the same time wins the love of his austere grandparent are events leading to the happy climax.
*
The brilliant boy tenor is sur- rounded by such capable per- formers as May Robson, Charles Butterworth, Louise Beavers. Alan. Mowbray, Benita Hume, Marlyn Knowlden, Henry O'Neill and the famous Hall Johnson Choir.
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IT'S GREAT TO BE IN COLLEGE
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As a real-life adventure, there" are few experiences comparablę in thril's and interest to watching a dig motion pleture company or- ganize. transport a great number of persons, and start "shooting" on location.
A typical day during production of "It's Great to be in College," Twentieth Century-Fox timeful football triumph now playing at the Alhambra Theatre, first show- ing to-day. consists of the follow- ing sequence of events:
The casting office issued a call for the featured members of the. cast, Stuart Erwin, Johnny Downs, Arline Judge. Betty Grable, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, the Yacht Club Boya, Dixie Dunbar, Anthony Mat- tin and Judy Garland, and 250 extras to report at the studio at 7.30 a.m
Big studio busses, resembling basses used to transport school. children," were loaded exactly at the appointed time. Everyone went in these busses, including Director David Butler and the playera
most
Stuart Erwth has the hilarious role of his career in "It's Great to be in College," playing barefooted hillbilly who can forward pass a muskmelon-or football-fabulous distances
Where Marla kept her tryata with Denis.
"Anthony Adverse" is a dyn mle drama produced on a Bigan- the scale from the novel by Harvey allen. The picture was directed
The most delicate job of set ageing was indicating the passing of summer on the mil setting by Mervyn LeRoy,
rich provides a perfect foll for the in a collision; two members of the dark-eyed handsomeness of Boyer. expedition disappear in a strange Truly you have never seen the fashion, to the accompaniment of exotic Marlene until you see her menacing warnings; and when the in technicalour! She is dazzling intrepid palt. finally reach,
the the newly-revealed glory of tomba landslide imprisons them golden hair, blue eyes and flawless inside 1t with A murderou creamy complexion.
manlack
in
Marlene Dietrich LA divinely
These and the other weird hap- feminine and alluring as Domini penings that befall them, however, Enfelden, the lovely heroin of frightening as they may be to Hichens' novel, the European girl Wheeler and Woolsey, produce no- who, at the death of the father thing but laughter as far as the to whom she has devoted several audience is concerned, and the au years of her life. goes to Beni-thors and scenarists have ingeni- Mors, the parish of the kindly Father Roubier in the Algerian de- sert seeking a new life.
Here she meets the strange, brooding handsome Boris Androv- sky, who is obviously disturbed by a deep secret sorrow.
Unknown to her, Barls is ac-
The adventures of Anthony Ad- verse, played by Fredrio March in the Warner Bros, production of the same name now at the Majestie Theatre, spinned three continents four nations and three of history's most colourful epochs.
ously devised a plot that makes "Mummy's. Boys" an outstanding contender for the year's hilarity horiors.
In a huge reproduction of an actual Egyptian" tomb as the set- ting for the Anal third of the picture, film audiences will witness a sight that even, tourists in Egypt are seldom allowed to observe, most of the tombs being closed to the general public.
The set which is one of Hollywood's largest studlo stages, was built after months of research by Van Nest, Polglase and. Felid Gray of RKO's fart department. The carvings and decorations "on the walls of the three main rooms and the many interesting pass- ágcs, are exact copies of those found in the real tombs tunnelled into the rock cliff of the Valley of the Kings, and the elaborate sarcophagi, chariots, weapons and other objects in the set are also perfectly reproduced.
Director Fred Gulol and Pro- dpcer Lee: Marcus assembled a notable supporting cast. Barbara Pepper h the heroine ind Frank M: Thomas Moroni Olsen, Willie Best, Mitchell Lewis and Francis McDonald head the players.
tually a Trappist monk who has fed from the monastery after taking the eternal vous, and is torn by the terrible inner struggle between his duty to his God and. his love for this fascinating wo-
Following a glorious" desert ro- pince, Boris forgets everything but his love for Domini and the pair are married by Father Roubler and go on on an idylle honeymoon in the heart of the desert
The story leads up to a thrilling climax and an unexpected denou
ment.
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