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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hang" Kong
KING'S:-
"Saratoga"
QUEEN'S:
"Banjo On My Khea" ORIENTAL:-
"The Slave Ship"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-----
"New Faces Of 1937"
STAR:-
"HollywoodParty"
MAJESTIC:-.
"Pagilacet
KING'S:-
Coming
"Girls Can Play" QUEEN'S:—
"Riding On Air" ALHAMBIA:
STAR:
"Hollywood Cowboy"
"Unguarded Hour"
"Good Old 'Soak"
MAJESTIC
BANJO ON MY KNEE
Music of an unusual суре distinguishes the Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox pleture. "Banjo on. My Knee," the attraction which is showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day
An unusual camera study of exotic KATHERINE de MÍLLÉ who has a prominent role in the Twentieth Century-Fox drama with music, "Banjo on My Knee", which stars BARBARA STAN. WYCK and JOEL McCREA.
FILM NOTES
Goldwyn Buying Players
Jean Arthur and Harold Lloyd sounds like somebody's dream of a comedy team." All the same it may come true.
Lloyd has hitherto usually em-
played pretty female foils. Girl's part in "Professor Beware" is so important he's prepared to take unto himself a co-star.
Wants her to be Miss Arthur but it all depends on whether she can make friends with her employers. Columbia. If she can't extricate herself from the legal labyrinth hell end another number one
In fact the production is descri- bed as "a drama with music." Th: lorale of the story is a shanty- boaters' colony on the lower Miss issippi, and the primitive and plc- turesquesque pebple who are born, live and die in these colonies have
type of music which is definite-comedy lady. ly all their own.
In addition to a haunting music. at background four songs have been composed by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, which are typical shanty-boater melodies. They are. "Where the Lazy River Goes By," With a Banjo On My Knee. There's Something in the Alr!, and "Sippy." The picture co- stars Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, the cast includes also. Helen Westley,
Ebsen. Buddy Walter Brennan, Walter Catlett. Anthony Martin and Katherine de Mille.
SARATOGA
Thrills, laughs, dramis and romance mingle in a literal cross section of American racing life in "Saratoga." M.-G.-M's drama of the turf which brings Clark Gable and Jean Harlow to the King's Theatre to-day.
Either way it sounds as if Marsha Hunt, whom Lloyd was planning to give a lcg up. will have to stand down.
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 Anniversaries and Holidays:-
F. W. Nietzsche born, 1844 Ascar Wilde born, 1856. St. Teresa of Jesus (1583).
Auctions-Crown Land, at Dis- trict Office South. Queen's Bulld÷ Ing, and floor, 11 a.m.
Cinemas. (See Page 5), Dances-Hong Kang Reel Club Practice, Helona May," 5.30 p.m.
Mails(See Paro 167.
"Meetings, Annual of Hong Kong Travel Association, in Urban Counell Chamber, 5.15 p.m.; Kow- laen Chess Club, in St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Heleria May Christian Fellowship. 10.30 a.m.; Shanghai Brownies living in Kow- loot "at St. Andrew's Hall, 3.30 p.m.; Gal Guides at Sandilands Hut. 3.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous-Cheero Club Jumble Sale. 2.30 p.m. Exhibi- | on of "Hong Kong Telegraph's" Photographie Competition,
$1 "S. C. M. Post" Board Room, 9.30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Moon-IX Moon, 12th. Day. Rehearsals. Philharmonic clety. Orchestral Bection; Sailors' Home and Seamen's Institute. 3.45 p.m.
Social, Tombola D Garrison Lecture Hall, 130 p.m.; Cheero Club Duplicate Rad Contract Bridge. 8 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola in RE.W.O.'s and Ser- geants" Mess. Wellington Bar- racks, 9.15 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola at R. W. F. Sergeants' Mess, Shamshuipo. 8.30 p.m. va
Sports(See Page 101. Sunrise,-8.20 a.m. Sunset.-5.59
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Tides. High at 04.12 and 19:10; Low at 12.10.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16. Chemas.--(Sce Page 5). Mails. (See Page 16). Moon-IX Moon. 13th Day. Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise.-6.19 L.M. Sunset.-5
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Tides. High at 02.40. Low at 11.28.
Be. Just HOW ROMEO
Sam Goldwyn will soon be buying his players wholesale. took up a joint option on Billy. Halop. Bernard Punsly, Gabriel, Dell, Huntz Hall. Leo B. Gorcey and Bobby Jordan, the six boys he im- ported from the stage for "Dead End.".
Reports say they make one, or six, of the big hits of the picture. Sam, having no story ready for them, is hiring in bulk to Mervyn LeRoy. LeRoy will star them in "Who Asked to be Born?." ап original story by the author of "Lost Boy," successful Broadway play about children.
MET JULIET
New Light On Ancient Italian Legend
SECRET PASSAGE
DISCOVERED
Restorations now being carried out at the Castle of Montecchio, near Vincenza, have thrown new Perhaps Sam's thinking of buy-light on the legend of Romeo and ing stars by the dozen, too. Last Julfet," which has for centurise week he announced Merle Oberon been connected with that part of and Sigrid Gurle for "The Girl on Italy. the Board," Ben Ben Hecht's story | The protagonists of Shakespeare's Miss Harlow and Gable hate,
about down-and-out music-hall play, as is well known, hrave fight. and £nally love in artists.
their origins in old "Novelle" of romance now whimsical comedy. Now he's trying to borrow dar- pre-Renaissance and Renaissance now tense "drama. Jack Conway's bara Stanwyck for it. Snag seems Italy. At that early stage of the direction is as skillful as it was in, to be that he also wants Barbara's story of Romeo and Juliet the "Libeled Lady,” and Lionel Barry-ex-husband, Frank Fay, who is one scene of the drama had no definite more contributes one of his out- of America's big music-hall names. location, although 'tradition early standing characterizations as the
linked the family names of Mon- old race horse breeder.
tecchi and Cappelletti to the tragedy of Romeo and Julietta,
PAGLIACCI
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A rare treat Is in store for music lovers at the Majestic Theatre 10-day When Richard Tauber makes a welcome return to the screen in "Pagllacet."
Thls is ✡ screen version of Leoncavallo's famous opera, and It was produced by one. of Britain's leading Alma makers. Max Schach, According to ad- vance reports this is Tauber's finest picture, and the great Ger- man tenor will be heard singing many of the famous arias, new lyrics for which have been writ- ten by John Drinkwater.
One third of the picture is filmed in colour, and these sequences are sald to be some of
crease the remuneration for play. Ing football, but considering the goods they are delivering I think professional footballers are well paid.
"We should refuse to recognise Tauber's leading lady. Association football as a whole time occupation. It is almost a
the most beautiful ever seen on the screen. Stem Duna, the Hollywood star who rose to fame in "La Cucaracha" and "Devil's Pirate," both colour Alms, is
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British Welcome to U.S. Film Firm
These familles had their estates In Verona and near Vincenza. The feud between them has the testi- mony of local history, and· legend early wove the romance of Romeo MAG.-M.'S PICTURE OF and Juliet into the story of these
OXFORD LIFE
families.
'Brooke's verses carried the ro mance into English, and Shake-
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A luncheon to welcome Metro-speare's masterpiece identified the Goldwyn-Mayer. Hollywood's lar- love tragedy for all time and for gest film company, at the start of all countries with these its alm-producing activities in this families of the Verona, area.giving country, was held recently at the them the anglicised form of Mon- Savoy Hotel
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COMMENCING SUNDAY
THE YEAR'S FINEST FUN.CAST IN A RIOT OF
LAUGHS, TEAKS" AND THRILLS!
The guest of honour was Mr. Apart from appreciation or Louis B. Mayer, vice-president in Shakespeare's play as 2 play, charge of M-G-M. and president Italian interest In the local associa- of the motion Picture Producers of tons of the original lovers has for
been America for the last six years. The centuries
of local other guests, who" numbered more scepticism coupled with surprise. than 400, Included peers. pol-at the foreign literary pilgrims who scenes, houses, Iticians. authors, dramatists, in-search out the dustrialists, and actors and act-balconies, and tombs in Verona resses, both of the stage and associated with the play. screen. Hollywood was represented
TOURIST VALUE
that has all Quite recently by Mr. Robert Taylor and Miss
value of changed. The tourist Maureen O'Ballivan.
During the speeches every aspect Shakespeare has been recognised. the British nim industry's Dubious altes have become authen- problems were discussed, on the ticated ahrines. Tasteful restora- Mr. W. Pickford, recently-elected | sin to take a boy of 17 and get
are some people who one side by American magnates, tion and clearances imbue the *75-years-old President of the Foot- his signature to a contract. The seem to delight in taking a distor-
and on the other by British peers. Véronia of Juliet with, hallowed ball Association, sald at a Bloke- boy may make good, or he may ted view of everything," says
"I will testify under oath," said places. Legend has become official. on-Trent luncheon recently:-
And now the evidence of the not, but he is taken away from a writer. Some even delight in Mr. Mayer. "that the report of "We must cut betting from foot- | an occupation.
pasting the results into albums. prejudice against British films in restorations seems to bring some ball. I do not object to football There is no difficulty in arrang-
America is as false as that to-day real justification to legend after pools, but think we should being for such a boy to follow some!
is Monday."
all. Unsubstantiated tradition says ground passage from the castle, with the story of Romeo and Juliet. "It takes about ten minutes for better without them. Everyone calling in life at evening or
The frat film to be made in that a subterranean passage led has been discovered. Its point of of Montecchio entry was found to be cunningly connected with the game must technical schools so that at the an after-dinner speaker to bore England by this American company from the castle guard against players and officials end of his playing days he is not his audience," says an MP. Of will be "A Yank at Oxford," which (Montagu) Into the open country, concealed. behind a clatern embed a tavern in the medieval style is to be built near the castle door, betting on a game on the result a job lot, on the market."
course a real expert can do it in will deal with the misunderstand and that Romeo used this passage ded over the main archway of the
where sentimental visitors may Ing between an American under- for his nocturnal visits to the castle gate.
A number of medieval fron muse over their wine on the vicis- graduate and his contemporaries. torbidden Juktet. No one really
cannonsitudes of love in suitable surround-" Mr. Robert Taylor, Miss Maureen belleved in the existence of the weapons and primitive
balls have also been found, allings associated with Shakespeare's O'Sullivan. and Mr. Lionel, Bar-passage.
Now, however, an actual under- belonging to the period identified zomance. rymore will be in the main parts.
of which they have an influence." Alderman A. Masser, a Director of Leeds United FC.. addressing members of the Bradford Rotary Club; said:
Then there was the dentist who worked twelve hours a day without stopping.
five.
There
Bruce Cabot may get a long- awaited break in "Rosalie," with 'Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell
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GOOD OLD SOAK"
A METRO GOLDWYN-MAYER COMEDY-BIT |
In keeping with the modern cult
of exploiting the local traditions.
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