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That may live
ROCHELLE HUDSON ROBERT KENT
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LUISE RAINER LIKES HOLLYWOOD
Luise Rainer's fear of Hollywood has changed to admiration.
When she arrived in the „Alm
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Sing Me A Love Song" QUEEN'S:-
"That I. May Live” ORIENTAL:-
"The Sign of The Cross”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Eegion of Terror" MAJESTIC:/
"Mama, Steps Out”
KING'S:-
Coming
"Pick A Star" QUEEN'S:
"Love Is News" ORIENTAL:-
"Our Relations". ALHAMBRA
"The Crime Nobody Saw" MAJESTIC:
"20,000 Years In Sing Sing"
"SING ME "A LOVE SONG"
SIR SAMUEL THOMAS
Chief Justice F.MS. Retiring
Sir Samuel Joyce, Thomas, Kt, B.A. Chief Justice of the Federat- ed Malay States since 1933, when he succeeded Sir Lancelos Eph.n- stone. is to retire at the end of the month.
STAGE STRUCK
SOPHIE TUCKER
Back To Vaudeville Days
Thirty years ago x stage-struck Uttle girl named Sophie Tucker wafted outside the doors of Hart.. ford, Connecticut theatres to "sell" the actors on the merits of her father's boarding-house.
Sir Samuel. who is the son of To-day. still stage-struck, stiil Edmund Thomas, barrister-at-law. very much the little girl whose was educated at King's College, ambition was to one of the best London, was Inglis Scholar and performers in the theatres history, Early English Text Society Prize she is back at the same boarding. man and an Associate (with dis-house, recreated in a Metro-Gold- tinction of King's College, Lon-wyn-Mayer set for Broadway dong. He was called to the Bar, Melody of 1938. Middle Temple, in 1898, Chairman
She is among friends. Sophle
of the Tasted Parish Council, Tucker is among friends wherever 1908-16; member of the London she goes. But these are special County Council 1913-19: contested friends. Fals of the vaudeville Stock-upon-Trent, 1910; prospec-days. Friends like Wille" Howard, tive Unionist candidate, 1910-14 For the original Howard Brothers. withdrew on Mr." Bonar Law's de Messenger Boy Trio, who started claration of a political arm'stice; her on her career. Worshipful Master of Midland and Oxford Circuit: Bar Lodge. 1914 enlisted for service in the Great European War, 1915: Commission- ed in A.S.C, (M. T.) and attached to RG.A. (145th Sige Battery) and saw service in France, Flanders and Italy and was invallded out of the army in 1919.
"The first time I laid eyes on he was coming out the stage door that shrimp." Sophie chuckled,
at Poll's Theatre, back in. Hart- ford. I fell in love with him on the spot. First, I sold him on the idea of eating at Papa's boarding- house. Then I started trying to sell him on Sophie Tucker.
"One of the most entertaining musical romances that has been Sir (then Mr.) Samuel Thomas seen on the screen in many a day was appointed Chief Justice of "Every time I'd shove a plate in was shown at the King's Theatre St. Vincent in 1919 and became front of him I'd sing, careless-İlke, to-day for the first time locally, acting Administrator of St. Vin-hoping he'd notice my volca. under the title of "Sing Me a Love cent in 1920; was Second Pulsne Finally I told him I wanted to go Song." a Cosmopolitan product on Judge of Trinidad and Tobago on the stage. And he encouraged released by First National, with from 1923 to 1929, during · which
me. That's all I needed.". an" all star cast including James period he also served as Chair- She laughed again-the hearty. Melton, Patriela Ellis, Hugh Her-man of the Oil and Water Board. { infectious merriment bert, Zau Pitts, Allen Jenkins From 1929 to 1933 he held the Sophie Tucker's trade mark. She and Nat Pendleton.
substantiative appointment of shook a script roguishly at Ho- Pulane Judge, Kenya, until he was appointed to the Federated Malay for a musical Harry Sauber has | States as Chief Justice. injected countless laughs, glamou- His publications include Red rous romance and some real Roses, a novel, and Law Relating later, to play in New Haven-"
The picture has an exception- ally interesting and wellknit plot
thrills.
The story concerns the doings of a wealthy young man, brought up without knowledge of anything useful, whose father suddenly dies and leaves him at the head of a great city department store. He lets the store run itself, while he philanders in other lands, until he is warned by his lawyers that It is fast losing money.
THAT I MAY LIVE
The' deeply moving story of a
love so steadfast that your heart exuits, "That I May Live" opens at the Queen's Theatre to-day, with Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent and Edward Brominert in the featured roles.
A drámatic romance, produced by Twentieth Century-Fox, it tells of a young couple who, defiantly, desperately, cling to each otber, although love for them must mean only a stone's throw away is thehat I May Live" takes the case
fight, danger and fear. ocean, with its colourful beaches; or a young man, played by Robert not much farther, the desert, and
Kent, and, shows how on his release
to Clubs.
MAMA STEPS OUT
Guy Kibbes and Alice Brady merrily lampoen a familiar Amerl- can type in "Mama Steps Out" the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy with music which came to the Majestic Theatre Thursday.
ward.
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that is
"That's all you needed is right!" Howard retorted.. "You know what' she did? "I left Hartford two days
COULDN'T HOLD DOWN "And. I followed him!" Sophie broke in. "He was scared SELIT! Imaginet Afraid of me! He was
BO
scared he turned me right-
around and sent me back to Hart-
ford!".
They couldn't hold her now. after that. lough. She ran away. It was obvious that the audience from home, two weeks later. She was pleased with the happy and didn't come back for five years unusual combination of first-rate pot until she had made good-not comedy, clever acting, good musle until her name was in big lights and an amusing story. Stanley over the same theatre where she prometed boarding-housË Morner, discovered by Mary Gar- once den, the opera star, sings well and business at the stage door. acts the role of a crooner effec- In all the years that followed; ively in his first featured role. years that brought fame and much Betty Furness has the juvenile | money and finally her new Holly- feminine lead and does excellent | wood contract, she has never play- ed on the same bill with Willie The balance of the cast includes | Howard. Both played on Broad- Gene Lockhart. Edward Norris, way simultaneously--both were Gregory Gaye: Ivan Lebedeff and headliners but never on the same Heather Thatcher, and the players | bill B are-uniformly excellent...
-Only-Hollywood, she says-ad- miringly, could have provided the Ideal setting tor such a reunion. She and Wille walk, fascinated,
work.
city. Luise spent her first months its unforgettable sunsets, and then, from prison he is met by three I MET HIM IN PARIS
wishing she might go back to Vienna Hollywood was a lonely, unfriendly place to her. She had Tew friends. Indeed, she actually felt homesick and lonely.
too, snow-capped mountain re sorts."
"The studio did its best introduc- ing me to many persons,” says Luise. They tried to make this home for me) But I just could not overcome that yearning of mine." As a result, the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayet star spent the next five weeks alone in her small apartment £ghting the urge to re- turn to Europe where she under-swin in the surf. Then home to stood people and had many friends.
It wasn't until she started work in. Escapade. with William Powell, that she began to like Hollywood and Hollywood began to under- atand and Uke het.
"After my long retirement" from
"Evenings, Cux (Citford Odets, her husband) and I love to stroll along the beach. Occasionally we
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about the set of Broadway Melody of 1938. They finger the red plush, tasselled, draperies, they gaze at the pictures on the wall, at the long boarding-house table-the
Crooks who force him to join them
"I Met Him in Paris," which Of all fluidom's pleasures Miss in a crime they are planting. Rainer prefers the beach. After a Killing a watchman in a bank brings Claudette Colbert, Melvyn hard day's work in The Emperor's robbery, they knock out Kent and Douglas and Robert Young to the
leave him with the death gun be-screen of the Queen's Theatre to ster and takes long drives along an ex-convict and threaten him sparkling as the snows of the she waited on Willle back in Hart Candlesticks, she gets in her roadside him. Police recognize him a day, is a comedy as crisp and identical scene just as it was when the ocean front. It is only then, with the gallows. with the breeze blowing through
Swiss Alps, against which most of ford 30 years ago:" the action takes place.
Sophie wants to stay in. Holly- her hair, that she "really feels
Miss Colbert, in the role of a wood for the rest of her life. She free.""
young American girl on a long-has found, as so many New Yorkers planned vacation in Europe, is have, that Broadway has moved given plenty of opportunity to dis- to Hollywood Hollywood wants London, July 26. play those comedy talents which her to stay. The death which occurred to she used so well in "It Happened day of Mr. George Hardie one of One Night" and "The Bride Comes Climate and the perfect location
the surviving brothers of the Br1 Home." In this new film, she has of Hollywood are not the only rea-
tish Labour and Socialist pioneer. two leading men with whom to sons the famed movie city la
Bir Hardy, will necessitate a by- spar in conversational give-and- pardise to Luise. The people slons of Glasgow where the Labour keen and snappy, but the rough
election in the Springburn Divi- take. Not only is the dialogue themselves help make the city what it is to-day, she says. They majority at the general election and-tumble action and incidental was 8,427 on a poll of over 32,000. by-play are equally mad and de- -British Wireles
Urious.
hot dinner and out to a lecture
or concert,"
"are part of the glamour. Most of
the citizens are "artistic specialists
social activities, everything I did I enjoyed."-sald the Viennese ac- tress, during an interview on the-writers. mainters. directors, ac- set. Just then she caught sight of | torn." ( Powell, who is again' her co-star, this time in The Emperor's Candle- sticks, and added, "Bill was very kind to me. He gave me the low 'down on Hollywood and how to enjoy oneself here."
This was a little more than a year ago. "Now Luise is one of the most talked-of actresses in rhe
"They must be specialists to succeed here," says the petite Vien- nese. "Only the atter survive. That is why Hollywood is always just a jump ahead of other cities in most things." "NY
Miss Rainer leaves nothing good about Hollywood unsaid. She is wholly and completely sold on the movie city, an Academy Award | city of stars. My fear has "turn- .winner and, by her own claim, the ed to admiration," she smiles.
happiest girl in the world. Shë
likes Hollywood now.
"Hollywood is the finest place in the world to live" says Luise, us ing her famed eyes and expres- alve hands to make her words more effective
MINISTER
ENTERTAINS
London, July 26. Mr. William Ormsby-Gore, Becre- "WE HAVE EVERYTHING”
tary of State for Colonies, enter- We have everything here,” she fained at tea to-day a number of says. “Grent men representing teachers and profesora from Mal- every profession live here. Fámóds | th, the party being under the Rec- libraries, industry and agriculture, for of the University of Malta, elty homes and picturesque coun- | visiting England for a abort holl- fry estates, are all a part of this day world-famous metropolis And Rester
This composite Walt Disney drawing reveals the various Walt Disneyća Erita Berne Released through United Arsi
Broadway Melody of 1938 will show a new Souhle Tucker--a dra matic actress," she explains, "In- stead of a comedienne. I do su hope," she says soberly, "that "And you," gibes Wille Howard they'll like me. Howard fondly, "happen to be the only one in the world who's worrying about that!
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LEGION OF TERROR
Ripped from sensational head- Belgrade, July 26. unes of recent months, telling one The fight between the Church of the strangest stories ever to and State was intensified by the
come from American life, is Colum Orthodox Church who have ex bin's dramatic, "Legion of Terror, communicated a number of Op-which opens at the Alhambra bingt members whilst the ministers Theatre to day. Bruce Cabot, of the Government were attacked Marguerite Churchill and Crawford in churches and streets and a few Weaver, a newcomer, head the cast. are suffering from injuries. Strong The activities of the infamous opposition) AWILI
hooded legion that terrorized mang Church against the ernment's communities in the mid-west pro approval of measures to conclude vides the theme of the films, as the Roman the title may have hinted Much excitement is infected into the picture when the Federal Govern ment, in the person of Postal Trispectors, go to work on the hood- ed folk, when they attempt to send s time-bomb through the malls.
Legion of Terror" serves to in troduce Crawford Weaver to screen
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London, July 200 The British Admiralty declared that British naval forces had been sent to Trindad to keep order and to assist the local authorities in coping with the réce rioting in connection with the general strike,, but denied, in a statement lasued base to-day that the British Dovern
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