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The Spell of Honolula
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Gay Island A Navy Wife's Rebellion at Interrupted Romance!
WINGS OVER
HONOLULU
WENDY BARRIE RAY MILLAND.
KENT TAYLOR WILLIAM GARGAN POLLY ROWLES
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
Warner Barter Wallace Beery
in “SLAVE SHIP"
TAKE ANY Trust CİN DEKOPY VALLEY BERNE”
ORIENTALE
2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW●
ONLY
$1000 IN HIS HANDS
BUT HE COULDN'T BUY HIS GIRL COFFEE! He faced, death twenty-four a day. ... He worked in the blaze of "gangland's guns, he couldn't take money for the service he rendered, PULSE-POUNDING STORY OF MEN IN WHITE!
He risked his life to save a rot --and what did he gat for 12
Apalah 2, any
BARBARA
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INTERNES CANT
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LAST TIMES Emotional!
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STIRRING AS
KOWLOON
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TO-D'A Y
Dramatie !!!!
THE CRY OF A
WALTER WOMAN IN TERRORI
VICTOR A
McLAGLEN CONNOLLY
LORRE
PETER
* NANCY STEELE IS MISSING!"
• JUNE LANG - ROBERT KENT
TO-MORROW
Mae West in "GO WEST, YOUNG MAN"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
KING'S
CINEMA
Hong Kong
"Hot Monay""
QUEEN'S:—
"Wings Over Honolulu"
ORIENTAL:-.
ال
· "Internes Can't Take Money"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR
"Loves Of A Dictator".
"Nancy Steele Is Missing"
MAJESTIC:
"USSR. of To-day”
KING'S.
Coming
"They Gave Him A Gun" QUEEN'S;—
"Slave Ship"
"ORIENTAL:—
"Dangerous Number" ALHAMBRA:---
"Slave Ship"
STAR:-
"Go West, Young Man" MAJESTIC:——
"When You're In Love"
WINGS OVER.
HONOLULU
Wings Over Honolulu" hits a new height in dramatic entertain- ment. With Wendy Barrie and Ray Milland in the leading roles. It tells the tense, swiftly paced story of a young navy wife who suddenly finds herself lashed by the cruel tongues of gossip.
Ray Milland, nearer camera, and William Gargan
scene from Universal's "Wings Over Honolulu
Screen Villain, Erich von Stroheim, Comes Back As Writer
Down on stage 22 ai: Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, cameras are capturing the story of a real tragedy-but. paradoxically, "a tragedy that is contributing to a motion picture comeback of one of its sufferers.
al drama. In late scenes of the picture. Virginia" Bruce, heiress wife of "Doctor" Franchot Tone, is burned severely in a train wreck. The remainder of the film is, of course, fiction.
Von Stroheim came to America The picture is "Between Two from Austria after the tum of the Women" and the comeback in century. He was a shipping clerk volves ity writer. Erich von in a New York department store. Strobelm, bristling-haired, ruthless | When the War broke out he movie
and director or enlisted and served four years in
villairi
silent pictures, an ....France.
Tragedy struck in the life of After the armistice he came to von Stroheim in 1923. Eis wife" California and became a fly-paper was badly burned in an explosion, salesman. He was in turn” forest A beautiful woman, Mrs. You ranger, labourer, lifesaver and Stroheim was disfigured when a vaudeville actor.
ghly-velalle beauty preparation ignited. As if fate, hatt not dealt harsh enough, his 15-year-old son was stricken with Infantile paralysis.
As the beautiful young wife who deñes the conventions of the ser-
Von Stroheim, whose fetish for vice, Wendy Barrie has the great-realism in pictures became famous, est role of her career. Hay Mulane now faced realism as stark as any and William Gargan are dramati- he ever conceived for the screen. cally and romantically interesting: as aviators Kent Taylor, Folly Rowles, Samuel Hinds, Mary Philips, Margaret McWade and Clara Blandick make up the sup porting cast of this picture.
Wings Over Honolulu has everything-a sparkling cast; the sultry romance of the South Seas: the breath-taking excitement of high speed aviation; the flashing colour of the Nary; and the tense, moving drama of a gallant young wife fighting for the man she loves,
Operations to regain his wife's lost beauty would cost a small fortune. His son recovered, but yon Stroheimi faced expensive surgery for his wife.
TRAGIC STORY Filends, one of whom was John Farrow, husband of Maureen O'Sullivan, who is now playing in von Stroheim's picture, came to his ald and pat von Stroheim to work as a writer.
[D. W. Griffith started him in
pictures with a job as an assistant director. He advanced to direct- Ing and became a topnotcher. Then, as an actor, his "heavy" portrayals` became outstanding screen characterizations.
He directed "Blind Husbands," "The Devil's Passkey," and Foolish Wives" for Universal. When Irving Thalberg left that company to join M-G-M; von Stroheim went with him. He directed "Greed" the most talked-of picture of the day, and "The Merry Widow,! which made a star of the late John Gilbert.
He directed a picture for Para- mount and became an actor again before the trageds of his whie's disfigurement left him on the brink of disaster.
One of von Stroheim's first Now on the road back, von themes was born of his own tragic Stroheim is receiving the plaudits "Wings Over Honolulu" opens at story. He used the incident of the of all Hollywood for his persever- the Queen's Theatre to-day.
disfigurement and the hospital ingcourage. He has earned life he observed during the 12 enough money to pay for his wife's andous months he spent at bis operations, which have practically wife's bedside, as the nucleus obliterated all traces of facial around which to weave the fiction- I scars.
LOVES OF A
DICTATOR
The story is a subtly ironic study. of the rise of an unknown pro- vincial doctor to first place in the political annal of the 18th cen- tury, in Denmark. The screen play has been skilfully plotted by Bean W. Levy from the story by H. G Lustig and M. Logen.
It opens on the wedding night of young King Christian VII. Thé English Princess. Caroline, the bride, sulks in the Royal apart- ment, refusing admittance to the debauched bridegroom whom she has married by command only 24
hours after first seeing him.
a tense and sensitive performance Madeline Carroll is exquisitely. beautiful, regal and gracious as the queen who could buy anything in the world but who had to steal her love.
POLITICS ON FILMS
South African
Scheme For
FAMOUS
AMERICAN
ACTRESS
Isolated Areas May Tour The East
Inhabitants in the most isolated
There is a possiblity that Miss Katharine Cornell, the famous
rural areas of South Africa may American actress, will make a Clive Brook, as Struensee, gives soon be able to see and hear Ca-world tour next year and include binet Ministers give their speeches, Malaya in her Itinerary. Mr. Ray If a scheme put forward by Gene- Henderson, her representative, da in the East making pre- ral. J. Pienaar, M. P, is adopted, now
General Pienaar proposes that liminary investigations, and writes talking films should be made of to the Malaya Tribune" to say Cabinet Ministers giving speeches, that he will be in Singapore in and that, these should be sent November.
If the tour materialises, Miss. round the country for the benent of those who live too far away to Cornell will appear in Australia attend political meetings and, New Zealand, most stralia Mr. Ben Hecht has signed a new Other good characterizations are
General Pienaar, who is accom countries of the East, South Africa Contract which makes him the by Nicholas Hannen, Alfred Dray-panying the Acting Prime Minister, and then Europe. Joel McCrea, comes to the Orient highest paid writer in the alm ton, Isabel Jeans, and. Frank General 8mats, on his political Such an extensive tour has never
INTERNES CAN'T
TAKE MONEY
Internes Can't the Money," the drama with Barbara Stanwyck and
Theatre to-day and to-morrow,
Internes are expressly forbidden to take money or gifts of any kind for any services which they perform be cause they are not licensed to practice. An interne caught taking money as a fee for any service or operation is sub- inct to immediate dismissal from any hospitale
McCros, playing the role of
offered a gift of $1,000 for performing an operation and he refusest, although ho could put it to good use. His operation has saved the life of a gangster. The gangster repays McCrea by helping him out of a tight spot which climaxes the story."
£52,000 A YEAR CONTRACT
Emlyn Williams as Christian and Helen Have as the Queen Mother vie with each other for acting honours, with the decision a crops
industry Samuel Goldwyn is pay Cellier.
ing him 260,000 dollars, or roughly
"Loves of a Dictator,"
has its
tour of the Northern Transvaal, told Reuter that his idea was to help those living in isolated areas £52,000 a year, and the contract run at the Alhambra Theatre to to keep informed of what was be
day. A
is for a term of years.
Mr. Hecht, with his friend Mr.
Charles MacArthur, used to be
known as the "bad boys of Holly- HOT MONEY
wood" because
of their cheerful
"Hot Money," Warner Bros. newest
before been undertaken by a lead- ing American player. Miss Cornell would like to present five or six
plays including "Romeo and ing done by the various Govern-Jullet." Bhaw's "Saint Joan, and ment departments.
"Candida Rudolf Bester's "The Programmes of alms, he said Barretta of Wimpole street" and would be aranged to contain in and Thsen drama. This would
laughs with a delightful cader-lying settlementa romance. The theme is based on the
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BROOK CARROLL
Loves of a Dictator
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A SENSATIONAL RECORD OF LIFE AND CONDITIONS IN THE LAND OF SOVIETS !
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WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE?
A COLUMBIA PIOTURĘ,
young interne in this production, is insolence to financiers and pro- comedy romance opens at the King's addition to a political speech from necessitate a company of thirty ducers. In a previous contract Theatre today, with Ross Alexander a Minister, items of an education or more players. If the venture Hecht had with Goldwyn there and Beverly Esbertas in the leading of dature, dealing with such mats undertaken, a start will be made was a clause ordering the producer role picture is said to be a riot of struction works, Irrigation and the tour will continue for a year ters as soli erosion and road con- in May or June next year and
FLOOD IN LOWER
FLOODS IN INDIA The
YANGTSZE RIVER never to speak to the writer.
or eighteen months. This was the result of a dispute
Hankow, Aug. 17. Considerable
Lucknow, Aug. 18. between them, and Hecht had "wild cat promotion schemes of the The co-operation of African Though an American, Miss Cor anxiety is being felt by local au- nell made her first stage success thorities as a result of the sharp resolutely refused to sign until days of easy money, and in this in- cinemas would be sought.
Over two hundred villages in This project, has been well re in London. In Little Woman rise of the Yangtze River level at the United Provinces have been stance is the sale of a liquid celved by the majority of Cabinet Her Arst success in her own coun- Hankow, Wanhsten and Shast, and either completely submerged or organization formed to sell concentrate,
which added to water Ministers, but General Hertzog's try was in "A Bill of Divorcement it is feared that if the river con- segregated as a result of the flood will make a substitate for gasoline opinion has not yet been obtained. Except for her appear tinues to rise it will cause a dis- ing of seven tributaries of the that will run an sátomobils
London at the beginning of her astrous flood in the lower river re- Ganges by five miles per gallon at the cost of one
career, she has never appeared
rains. outside North America.
HALF A MILLIONAIRE IN SEVEN YEARS
Ronald Colman, the British film actor," has signed a new seven-year
the clause was put in.
BEGAN AS REPORTERS
contract with Belmick Inter-on Chicago
cont.
in Lo
Goldwyn eventually broke the clause himself by telephoning with a message for Mrs. Hecht. ⠀⠀⠀
Both writers began as reporters
KING AND QUEEN IN Stock is sold quickly to a gullible newspapers. They public, but the company gets into
SCOTLAND BAY national Pictures, under which he made a brilliant team in pictures. | hot, water with the Better Business
London, August 18. will make two fims a year. Els For a time they wrote, directed | Euroad.
The King and Queen, with the concluded first film for Selznick will be and produced their own films on
two Princesses, have Sometimes it's fun," now in pre- Long Island, the first being "Crime The new rate of payment is not their stay at Glamis Castle, the paration Mr. Colman will beWithout Passion" Mr. Noel the highest Hecht has been paid former home of Her Majesty, and Pald about £35,000 per picture, or Coward's only screen appearance for short periode. Recently he re-have returned to Balmoral by a total of £400,000 over the seven was made in another of their pieceived 1300 a week for a job he motor-car year period....
undertook for David O. Selznick | Reuter's Bulletin Service.
tures, "The Scoundrel.
NEW U.S. JUDGE
Washington, Aug. 16. By thirteen votes to four, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Bena- tor Black as a member of the Supreme Court Reuter
gions.
The
Incessant
monsoon
Klangban Engineering Bureau reported that the level at The suffering caused by the loss Hankow Yesterday, registered 54.9 of life and damage to property has feet, and flood-prevention work is been heightened by an acuta being, immediately rushed. “
shortage of food- The situation at Chungklang,
Government and the Con however, has eased as the river greas Party are org
ing" rellet level there, hos shown a substan- | medsures. - tial drop-Central News -
Reuter
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