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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1937.
TO-DAY, AT THE Moscow Retreat Big Location
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S :-
"Dangerous Number"
QUEEN'S:-
“Grown `and Glory" ORIENTAL:—
"Breezing Home"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:--
"Satan Met A Lady
"Shadow Ranch"
MAJESTIC
STAR:
"Crack-up"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Personal Property" QUEEN'S:—·
"Michael Strogoff"
ORIENTAL:- #
"Sing Baby Sing"
ALHAMBRA:-
Task
With location hunters combing Southern California. preparations have started at the Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer studios for what.. will be one of the most elaborate loca- tion sequences in months. This is to be a reproduction of Napo- Icon's retreat, from Moscow, for Marle Walewska, With Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer.
The routed army of Napoleon, beaten by the winter snows, will be enacted by hundreds of players Boyer, and George Houston, as Na poleon and Marshal Duroc,»figure in a dramatic episode with a dying soldier, written from accdunts of;
Clarence Brown is directing, the historical romance of Napoleon and the great love of his life, and Ber- card Hyman is the producer,
The Moscow retreas sequence will be one of the most spectacular in the picture, which abounds in ala- borate crowd: episodes Cannion, army wagons, and other parapher nalla. of an army of the period, are from photo- being constructed graphs of original models in the studio shops Several hundred horses will be used for cavalry and wagon work.
The historic retreat marked thic end of Napoleon's power, when he made the mistake of marching into
an incident in the actual retreat. Russia in the dead of winter. Bliz- The location experts are search-zards forced a retreat, accomplish- ing for, a bare expanse matching ed with frightful loss. Following the Russian topography. Search is this retreat Napoleon was exiled to also under way for a hill location Elba, from which he later escaped overlooking the ocean, for use in to reorganize his army, only to "the Elba sequence, the last meeting | meet final defeat at Waterloo, fal- of Napoleon and Countess' Walew- |lowed by his exile to St. · Helena
ska, and his first meeting with their four-year-old son. This meet- ing took place in a small cottage, on a hill overlooking the ocean, and
where he died.
In the picture the retreat leads up to the dramatic scene at Elba.
Henry Stephenson, Alan, Mar-
"The Great Hospital Mystery" | plans are being made to reproduce | shal, Leif Erikson, Claude Gilling-
MAJESTIC:
"Hell Below"
STAR:
"Up To The Neck"
DANGEROUS NUMBER
"Robert Young and Ann Sothern
celebrated a New Year's Eve cele
bration by rehearsing it, but when the time came she celebrated hers
in Chicago and he in Hollywood
The reason for this WAS an elaborated night club sequence in which they wound up in a comical quarrel in "Dangerous Number," new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy j
romance
the details with absolute authen-water, Reginald Owen, George ticity. Technical experts visited | Houston, George zucco, Maria Qus- Elba eight months ago to photo- Į penskaya, George Givot, Noble graph the place and gather details | Johnson, Oscar Apfel, and Bodel. for construction of location and Rosing are among the supporting set.
players.
FRANCES DRAKE
Signed By Columbia
An entire sound stage was used for the scene. A dancing floor, lined with tables, two hundred gay revellers, a dancing chorus of fifty on the polished floor. astery,"
Pictures
A GREAT DANCER
La Meri Coming To Hong Kong
With a baggage list of seventy trunks and boxes, Mme. La Meri
the celebrated Spanish-American dancer, will make her only ap- pearance here at the King's Theatre on Monday, July 5.
Mme. La Meri is one of the
Frances Drake, petite leading woman, who has been seen, in a aumber of successful screen, plays recently including. "The Invisible Ray," "The Preview Murder; My- "Florida Special," "Mid- twenty plece orchestra which night Taxi" and "Give Me Your director Richard Thorpe made up Heart." was placed under long-select band of famous women who to duplicate the orchestra of ¦ term contract by Columbia Pic- Roger Pryor, Miss Sothern's hus-tures recently. Miss Drake's first band. were detalls of the setting., assignment will be announced in a Miss Sothern, who had arranged | few dayı.
to go to Chicago for New Year's
Day with her husband, “returning Coming from the stage. where
was
she was later to finish the picture,
seen in "Little Earth- immensely amused by the orches-quake," and other theatrical pro- tra. Her husband's was playing an ductions, Mish Drake made her engagement in the Windy City, screen debut "several seasons ago. hence her plan to visit him there, Going to England, she was featur- as he could not go to Hollywood.ed in a number of British pictures,
E
SHADOW RANCH
ope,
can hold an audience throughout an evening's entertainment with- out assisting artista. Such women are indeed rare.--Ruth Draper. Is and La Argentina, the Spanish dancer who died recently was another. La Meri is a Spanish American by birth, and spent her childhood at San Antonia, on the Border of Mexico, While suit young she visited the countries of Central and South America, and before being placed under contract, learnt all the dances of these by Paramount and appearing pro- countries. Fired by an ardent minently in such pictures as "Bo-clove of dancing, she studied – the lero," "The Trumpet Blows," "Lad-"] traditional ballet. Arst in her Audiences want action, action
les Should Listen," "Transient and more action, theatre man-ady," "Forsaking All Others." "Les Miserables," "Mad Love" and agers everywhere say. Which
18 probably why Buck Jones the "Without Regret." Western star has Bashed into new prominence. Nobody 13 more ex- perienced than Jones at setting jaded nerves quivering with ex- citement. The smiling, hand- some cowboy actor and his famous horse known all over the world. He can be depended on, with his natural verve and dar- Ing feats of horsemanship to set hearts pounding and hands clutching the sides of seats from the first flash of the picture tong with the last.
are
Film-goers will find that he has exceeded himself to meet a great new demand for thrills in his latest Columbia feature," "Shadow Ranch" which is showing at the Alhambra Theatre to-day.
JUNGLE MENACE ́
A strong cast of supporting pla- yers, who never before appeared in. serials, has been "chosen for „Columbia's first serial production, "Jungle Menace," starring Frank Buck and featuring Sasha Sierbel Such name players as Charlotte Henry, William Bakewell, Reginald Denny, Clarence Muse and Esther Ralston, whose box-office appeal has been assured "by starring and featured, performances in many feature films are among those who will have leading roles in Colum- bla's first chapter film.
Independent trade associations. It was unanimously agreed tone adult appeal to Columbia's
"Important players will lend de Hitherto, they have been repre- form two organisations the As serials," stated Jack Cohn, recently sented as a body only by the Film sociation of Fire Producers, Limit before leaving for Hollywood. Producers Group of the Federa-
ed, and the Federation of Film "That's why every effort has been tions of British Industries.
Producers to deal with all mat-made, on the coast, to bring into Exhibitors and renters have term relative to protection of the the Frank Buck serial actors and been represented for a consider-
Industry and labour questions. actresses whose names are new and able time by their own official as- sociations. the
It was also decided that the fresh to serial audiences but who Cinematograph Exhibitors Association and the existing organisation of the Film have appeared to advantage in Kinematograph Renters Society. Producers Group of the Federa- many feature productions and thus A meeting of all sections of the tion of British Industries should have decided marquee value to the
older moviegoer.” production side of the industry be kept temporarily in being to has been held to consider the deal with matters of purely Brl scheme. It was attended by about tish interest, and to represent the 100 representatives of the com, views of producers in relation to panies concerned, including all questions connected with the the leading producers, studio own Films Bill shortly to be introduced ers, short and documentary film by, the Government
Production on the Back serial has started under the direction of Cleorge W. Melford, Charlotte Henry playing the feminine lead and 88- aba Slemel, noted, South American hunter, playing an important role in support of Mr. Buck
SATAN, MET A LADY
"Batan Met, a Lady," Warner Bros.
latest murder mystery drama, which was shown at the Majestic Theatre yesterday, kept audiences alterniately keyed to a pitch of intense excitement over its thrilling altuations or chuck- laughter over the
humorous epizodes.
home town" and Inter under Tarassoff and Volinine, the famous masters of the Ceccltti School, and a perfected classic ballet training is the foundation for all the other forms of dancing which nhẻ has since studied, and which has "given rise to La Meri being called "The 'World's most versatile dancer.”
Mme. La Meri's stage setiing is very beautiful," and consists of black velvet hangings. A pale grey floor cloth covers the stage. and takes the brilliant lights,' which are projected from count- less spotlights, hidden in the wings.
A feature of the La Meri recitals is her magnificent, castanet play- Bette Davis and Warren William ing. The dancer spent two years have the stellar roles..
In Bevlile studying the playing of castanets, and to-day she is recog- nised as one of the finest ex- ponents of this art.
The picture is one of unusual interest, containing not
only thrills and laughter, but love and intrigue and baffiing mystery.
It is based on the novel by. style of tempering the most high- Dashiell Hammeti and is in his ly dramatic situations with tisual spicy and sophisticated underlying sense of humour.
Davis and
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Dangerous Number
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ARTHUR TREACHER
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THE SCREEN'S MOST AMAZING STORY OF HEROISM !
ROBERT MONTGOMERY HELL BELOW".
WALTER HUSTON MIN
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LIFE BEGINS WITH LOVE
or had prominent paria are. "Lit tle Women, Two, Alone," You Can't Buy Everything," "Have, A Heart" "Sequoia," "Lazy River"
house Blues" "Princes O'Hara, "Murder in the Fleet The Ghost Goes West," and The-Farmer in
the Dell",
Jean Parker, young leading wo man, who recently returned to Co-Operator, 13," "Caravan,” “Time- lumbia's lot after an absence of several seasons, will make her first appearance under her new 4 con- tract in "Life Begins With Love, scheduled for early production. Douglass Montgomery, now play ing one of the principal roles in The Man Behind The Law," (for merly titled, "Profesional Juror), with Otto Kruger and Jacqueline Wells will play the male tend Edith Fellows will also be featured in this new picture. The story is by Dorothy Bennett, while Thomas Mitchell did the screen play,
Among the productions in which Miss Parker has played the Tests
Coming to pictures after many successful seasons on the stage, Mr. Montgomery's frat Important screen part was in "Paid." This, was followed by leading and zoa- tured roles in "Five and Ten" Waterloo Bridge A House, D. vided" and "Little Women." Some of the later pictures in which he played the leads were. The My- stery of "Bawin. Drood." * "LGAY Tibbs. "Harmmy Lane,” and
Everything is Thunder "^^^
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