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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW DEATH RODE THE PLANE!
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still they fought!
CRACK
-Up
PETER LORRE. BRIAN DONLEVY
HELEN WOOD - RALPH MORGAN - THÖMAS BECK
FRIDAY
ANNABELLA
HENRY FONDA
LESLIE BANKS
OF
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THE WORLD-FAMOUS TEHOR
JOHN McCORMACK
Le Natural "WINGS # MORNING
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SMART GIRLS:
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
*KING'S:-
"The Green Pastures" QUEEN'S:--
"Crack-up"
ORIENTAL:-
"Three Smart Girls"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Hideaway Girl" MAJESTIC:-
STAR:
"Down The Stretch"
"Music Hath Charms"
KING'S:-
Coming
"May Time" QUEEN'S:
"Wings Of The Morning" ORIENTAL:
"Libelled-Lady"
ALHAMBRA:-~
"Wings Of The Morning" MAJESTIC;~~~
"The Texas Rangers" STAR:- ་་་
"Murder With Pictures"
CRACK-UP"
—
at
the
"Crack-up" showing Queen's Theatre to-day.
Consider the strange case of Peter Lorre, famous European ac- tor, who, following a sensational screen triumph, deliberately turned his back for an entire year on the field in which he had striven so hard to achieve success. The role which brought him world-wide.ac- clair was, as almost everyone knows, that of the pathological murderer in "M."
A
VALENTINO OF INDIA
Hindu Actor In London
There stepped into
a murky, rain-sodden London à young Hindu actor who is destined to become the Rudolph Valentino of India.
Twenty-one-year-old V. V. Sata- gopan has gone to London to play rast and loose 28 & man-about town, but only for film purposes.
He is cast for the herg in “Mo- dern Youth," a production by As- sandra Classical Talkies, of Ma- dras, and for the first time in T- Idian film history scenes are being shot in England to get the right atmosphere for the story:
Satagopan's teeth are a gleaming white, his hair is wavy and jet black, and he -wears Western clothes.
Describing the film plot, he said "I travel to London to be educated, for the Indian Civil Service.
"I leave behind the girl to whom I am engaged, and in England I go wrong with wine and women, go on the fast and loose' as you say, so that when I return I am not good enough for the I.C.S. and become a barrister.":
His manager. Gobindram, said: "I hope to make Satagopan into a screen lover ilke Valentino, and from what I have seen of his act- ing so far he has chance of mak- himself a hit with the film fans of India'
Coronation Colour Film To
Be Flown To U.S.
completion for showing a coloured Negotiations are on the point of
in New York the day after the fim of the Coronation procession
scene is-enacted.
taken from eight positions on the A Dufaycolor picture is to be
route,
"Although the picture was
The film will cross the At- great success," says Mr. Lorre, "the and be shown on Thursday even- lantic in a Douglas D.C.3 airplane character was a horrible one. Uning happily, all the offers which I re- crived thereafter, and many of it is the only system by which a It is claimed for Dufaycolor that them were very attractive, called picture in. colour can be taken in for other horror roles. I decided the morning and projected the that rather than became typed s a one-man chamber of horrors. I'd
same evening. stay away from the screeri,
This new development is the re-. returned to the stage and portray-back to 1890, during which £1, sult of years of research. dating
So 1
ed the type of roles I preferred."
In accepting the role of "Colonel Gimpy" in "Crack-Up." the Twen- tieth Century-Fox melodrama of fying aces and foreign sples, which is showing at the Queen's Theatre' to-day, Mr. Lorre felt that he had role to which he Was most admirably suited.
"HIDEAWAY GIRL'
Madcap Martha Raye, that ultra violent Raye of the air-waves.
the apparatus to its present pitch. 500,000, has been spent on bringing
of efficiency.
Three men have by their backing and determination made it pos- sible-Sir Ivor Phillips, chairman of ford. Ltd.: Mr. H. G. Spicer, chairman of Eplcer's, Ltd; and Bir Malcolm Stewart, late Commis- sloner of the Distressed Areas.
Attractive offers have been made this comparatively new British in- by foreign financiers for control of
comes to town to-day at the Al-dustry, but all have been refused.
By means of the process the snap as easily as a amateur is able to take a colour white photograph.
black-and-
hambra Theatre, in "Hideaway Girl." Paramount's latest musical mystery, and, to borrow one of her own expressions-"Oh Boy!"
Fresh from captivating the
FRI. 2.30-5,15-7.15. SAT. 2.30-5,15-7.15-9.30 nation in "Rhythm on the Range."
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"SOUND OF YOUR VOICE"
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 Anniversaries and Holidays.— Rogation Day, James Grant died, 1887. Chinese National Day. (An- niversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Inauguration as President of the Republic of China, 1921),
Cinemax King's The Green Pastures" Queen's:-"Crack-Up" Oriental:Three Smart Girls." World"--"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-"Hideaway Girl" Majestic-Down The Stretch." Star:-"Music Hath CharTİN." Dances-Cheero Club Dance, 8
p.m.
Lectures-Rev. W. H. Banes, on
the
Coronation service, at St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Meetings. Kowloon Union Church Woman's Guild, 10 am: English Methodist Church Ladies' Aid, at 9. and S. Home, 10.30 a.m.
Miscellaneous - Claima against the Estate of Robert Buchanan Mauchan, due; Entries close for nis and Tiffin. 7 p.m. K.B.G.C.'s Coronation Bowls, Ten.
Social-Whist Drive and Tom- bula. Garrison Sergts. Mess, 8.30 p.m.
Sports. (See page 10). Moon-III Moon, 25th, Day. Sunrise.-5.49 am. Sunset.-6.52
p.m...
Tides-High at 3.30 and 16.03; Low at 09.53 and 23.38.
THURSDAY, MAY 6. Anniversaries. and Holidays:- Ascension Day. Holy Thursday, Freud born, 1856. Beginning of Summer. (Li-hsia).
Cinemas.
King's Maytime”. Queen's: "Crack-Up" Oriental-Three Smart Girls" World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra-Hideaway Giri” Majestic: The Texas Rangers” ̈ Star: "Murder With Pictures" Entertainments: - Hong Kong Singers Coronation Recital, Peninsula Hotel Rose Room.
Lectures.+Theosophical Society.
6 pm.
in
Meetings. Victoria Chess Club; at Olcucester Hotel. 6 p.m.; Wo- men's Gui'd Working Party at Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m., and Dloce- san Conference at 5.30 p.m.
of the Chinese
Miscellaneous. Kowloon Wo. men's Charity Games Afternoon at Club "Open Night," 9 p.m.; Dinner St. Andrew's, 3 pm: St. Andrew's
Party in Honour of The Hon. Dr. L Shu-fan's appointment as A Member of the Legislative Council. by the Chairmen and Members of the Committee Chamber of Commerce, the Tung Wah Hospital and the Po Leung Kuk, at the Kwang Chow Restau- rant. West Point, 7.30 p.m.
Social-Civil Service Whist Drive, 9.20 p.m.
Chero. Club Contract Bridge and Mab Jong Drive, & p.m.
Sports-(See Page 10). Moon-III Moon, 26th, Day... Bunrise.-5.48 a.m. Sunset.-6.52
p.m.
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Tides-High. at 05.55 and 17.28: Low at 11.54.
Columbia Pictures has already THE GREEN PASTURES decided upon Grace Moore's next vehicle. It will be entitled "Sound
the irrepressible Martha adds an- other leaf to her rapidly-ac- cumulating store of laurels and takes a large pace ahead in her rapid march toward top stardom.
"The Green Pastures." picturised The feminine romantic lead in of Your Voice," written specially by Warner Bros., from Mare Con- "Hideaway Girl" is carried by for the musical star by Stephen nelly's Pulitzer Prize play, and beautiful Shirley Ross, another Morehouse Avery, famous author halled by critics as "America's best new-comer, who soared to stardom and magazine writer.
loved dramas." is showing at the Mr. Avery, who is now under King's Theatre to-day. contract to Columbia is a noted The picture, which ran for five author and prolific
magazine years as a stage play and thrilled writer, being a constant contributor millions of people, is sold to be to many American publications, one of the most inspiring spectacles Two years ago he joined Paramount that has ever been screened. scenárto department and wrote the was produced on stories for "Wharf Angel" and "Thur- scale with gigantic sets and beau- a magnificent
sult of Happiness" for that com-tifal backgrounds. In this respect pany. Later he contributed "Our it is far greater in scope than the Little Girl" to the screen, and co-stage production because scenes laborated on the original screen which were, only hinted at in the play for "The Gay Deception" and cramped quarters before the foot- also wrote the story for "An- lights are shown in all their magni- napolis Farewell!”
fcent grandeur on the screen.
in "The Big Broadcast of 1937." Robert Cummings, Louis DaPron. Monroe Owsley and Ed Brophy round out the skillful cast.
"Hideaway Girl" presents Mia Ross as the attractive suspect in a jewel theft." She is forced by these circumstances to play the part of the wife of Cummings, a stranger she meets in her flight. Love be- tween the two blooms until the tell-tale jewels are found on Miss Ross and Cummings is reluctantly forced to turn her over to the police.
sense
THE TEXAS RANGER
A picture important in every of the word; important in dlm history, important in cast, and important In the skilled way in which it reflects an early period of American de- velopment, is currently showing at the Majestic Theatre, where King Vidor's eple of the Southwest, "The Texas Rangers,” had its open- ing yesterday.
Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakte head the cast in roles entirely new to both of them, yet roles to which they give a convincing reality. Both MacMurray and the wise-cracking Oakle are seen as members of the 1887 Texas Rangers, the fearless body of men who undertook to make Texas "a reasonably sare place in which to live."
Jean Parker, remembered for the youthful charm. she brought to "Bequola" and "Little Women," has the leading feminine role, that of a daughter of the commander of an outlying Ranger Post.
JOHN MCCORMACK, world-famous vetor who sings in "Wing
the Morning," shown with ANNABELLA and HENRY FONDA, starred in the Twentieth Century Fox release.
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THE TEXAS RANGERS"
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DEFINITION OF
"'SHEIK'
the women. That old chap looks more like a patriarch than a shelk."
The research clerk of the com- Bince the making of Columbia's pany was checked on this. He er comedy-drama "Trouble. In plained to Miss Clarke and to Holt Morocco," soon to be released. Mae and the other principals, the Arab Clarke, Jack Holt's leading lady. "shaykh." from which our English. has had to revise all her previous word "shelk" is taken, really means notions as to what an Arab "shelk", literally "old man," specifically a really is.
patriarch or desert chier. He de When the atmosphere players clared that the slang meaning had been assembled for the picture, probably originated from the Edith completely costumed according to Hull novel of that name, the screen the best research of the Columbia) play, or a popular song of a décade wardrobe department, the leading jago. lady
Krew curious about, the costumes. She inquired specifically about one colourfully dressed old man with a long white beard.
She was told that he was a
{ "shelk,”al leve
Philosophy is a great thing. It helps a rich man to say that poverty is no crime
The difference between taxes
"That's funny," laughed. "Miss Clarke. I always thought a sheik was a handsome young. AYIB==2 | And taxis is that in the latter you heart-breaker and a devil among do get a run for your money.
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