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He Fakes Failure To Find Happiness
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"A Successful Calamity
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ONE OF THE BETTER OLASS PRODUCTIONS OF 19371 She paid the strangest debt a woman ever owed a man.' What made this queen of the world's smartest smart set gire up the one true love of her life... to marry the greatest scoundrel of the century. THIS REMARKABLE, WOMAN STUNNED A NATION!
in
KAY FRANCIS STOLEN HOLIDAY“ Claude Rains - Ian Hunter Alison Shipworth · Alexander D'Arcy
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STARTS PERSONAL PROPERTY"
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THE GARDEN
OF ALLAH
TECHNIC
Produced by
DAVID O. BELZNICK
Loomad shea UNITED ANTIENE
Kay Francis in-
GIVE ME YOUR HEART
STOLEN HOLIDAY
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1937-
TO-DAY AT THE Cces
CINEMA Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"I Promise To...- Pay" QUEEN'S:--
"Successful" Calamity"
ORIENTAL:-
"Stolen Holiday"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
STAR:
"Range Feud
"The" Garden Of Allah' MAJESTIC:
"The Gay Desperado"
KING'S :-
Coming
"Captain's Courageous" QUEEN'S -
"Wee wille Winkee" ORIENTAL:-
"Riding On Air" ALILAMBRA :----
"The Secret: Code"
STAR:-
"Give Me Your Heart" MAJESTIC:-
"Night Must Fall"."
A SUCCESSFUL CALAMITY.
Evelyn Knapp is the only ac- tress in Hollywood who has ever won the chance to play two leads In George Arliss pictures.
While many men in the Arliss companies are cast again and again in support of the star, Miss Knapp holds the honour among the women all by herself--with one exception.
The exception is Alice Joyce, who played, in both the silent and talking version of The Green Goddess." but who has not repeat- ed two roles with Arliss since talking pictures were introduced.
In A Successful Calamity," it shows how a master mind mates a great coup both financially and domestically when he followed a hint dropped by his butler to the effect that poor people don't go anywhere" Using that as the key to the situation. Arliss is able to follow through in his desire to
Creating
Disney Stars Explained
This is one of the questions most frequently asked by Disney fans.
The story behind, Mickey and Minnie is this: "
"What were the circumstances thore or less the well-known which led to Walt Disney's creat- village half-wit, came into being Ing each of his cartoon char- when it was necessary to have a ∙Acters ?"
character do a Balmy "bit" part. in a couple of the cartoons. A dog was decided upon because a canine face is the simplest to hang human expressions onto, and, the Mice have tascinated this car-artists found it especially easy to toon créator since his childhood. He used to catch them in waste baskets in his, oftee and keep them in cages on his desk so that he could watch them. One of his uttle captives, bolder than the rest. used to crawl around on his drawing board. When he decided rst thing he thought of was his to create, a cartoon character. the pet mouse.
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put "gooty" expressions on a dog. Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar werę more or' less "naturals." All^of" the Disney characters are the best-known types of animals, and it was only the natural thing to include a cow and a horse. The Goof has sup- planted Horace Horsecollar to a large extent because he can do everything the horse can-only better.
Before Donald Duck ever flapped and squawked to fame, Wait Clara Cluck just naturally evol- realized that it would be a good ved too. The ease of turning a idea to do a character which strutting. feather-ruffling, cack- would be the exact antithesis of ling hen into a pompous" lady the good-hearted gentle Mickey.opera singer was obvious to all of He heard an animal impersonator the Disney artists from the first. auditioning in the studio one day. As an added try-out, the"-man squawked a rendition of Mary Had a Little Lamb, which so impressed Disney that he decided right then and there to fasten that voice on a duck character he'd had In mind.
Goofy. the character who
It is a question as to who the next Disney star will be. Donald Duck rose from the extra ranks, so it may be that next year will find some other character taking the world by storm who is just.. playing bit Darta in the current Mickey Mouses or fly Bym- isphonies.
COLUMBIA SIGNS DIARY OF LOCAL
FAMOUS
SONG WRITERS
New York's Tin Pan Alley invad- ed the Cilumbia lot in full force as dineteen composers, song writers, lyricists and arrangers went into action on three of Col-
umbia's productions. Curiously. only one of them, "Freshman Fol- lies" is a musical. The others, "I Married At Artist," is a romantic comedy and "The Old Wyoming Trail" a western, but they require songs and a special score. This 19 In line with the studio's new policy at injecting musical sequences in- tu every picture."
For the Arst film. Morris Stoloft. Columbia's music head, is creating a "musical portrait" of Lull Deste, instead of assembling the usual:
EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Anniversaries and Holidays:- Baedeker born, 1801. Truro Cathe- dral consecrated, 1887,
Cinemas. (See Page 5)... Dances.-8.30 pm.: HMS. Med-
Fleet.Club 8,30 p.m. way 4th S/m, Dance, at China
.Entertainments, --Recital од Hammond Organ, by Mr. Lindsay Ai Lafford in University Great Hall, 9 pm; Variety Concert of St. Andrew's Club, .p.m.
Malls. (See Page 16). Meetings. --Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild, 10a.m.
In Talon Church, Kennedy Road, Rehearsals-Hong Kong Singers,
5.30 p.m., Mozart's "Requiem" and Elgar's "For the Fallen,"
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE'
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
The master minds of the billion. doller Joan shark racket will cringe with fear when this scothing expose
reveals their ruthless reign of terror!
I PROMISE
TO PAY
NEXT CHANGE M.G M. Picture
CHESTER MORRIS LEO CARRILLO HELEN MACK
This picture with superimposed Chinasa itles in highly pentsad and apecially recommended by the onsors of the Manking Government, d
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS"
With FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW, BPENCER TRACY - LIONEL-VÄRRYMORE
ALHAMBRA
ويرة
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Love and Life Endangered by Mystery!
BUCK JONES
Secret Enemy! Hidden Perils!
Riding, Fighting Thrills Romance Mystery Directed by Ross Lederman
A Columble Pidura
draw his family back to pleasant and happy home life. An ac-atmospheric score. This innova- Social Whist Drive and Tom-TOMORROW.
cidental meeting, between his son greatest enemy in and
Wall Street results in a financial stroke that enhanced the family fortune by millions while he was telling them how poor he was:
BUCK JONES AT ALHAMBRA
Mess.
Garrison tion is prompted by the import-bola,
Bergta,' ance of "She Married An Artist," Queen's Road; 8.30 p.m.; Mah Jong her first American picture, and Drive, Officers Recreation Room, allty. Stoloff is basing the "port- seeks to project the star's person-
at Stanley, 3.15 p.m.
rait' on Viennese waltz themes typical of Miss Deste's homeland. and is being alded by Ben Oakland. Paul Mertz and Marlo Silva...
In "The Old Wyoming Trail,". Buck Jones has been provided the three music composers for the with an excellent vehicle in "The western screen drams also appear Range Feud." his latest Columbia in it. They are Ray Whitely, Bob picture, which has its run at the Nolan and Glenn, Spencer, known Alhambra Theatre to-day. Bere is as "The Sons of the Pioneers," who a thrill-packed, adventure western sing and act with Charles Star- If there "ever was one; romance, rétt. Barbara Weeks and Donald mystery, murder and riding dare-Grayson who play the leads... devilry are intermingled in whirl-
The majority of the writers are wind abandon. Buck Jones gives working on "Freshman Folles." bis usual superlative performance: They include Milton Drake. Ted tlding and fighting as only he Koehler, Sam Pokrass, Ben. Oak- can. He has been surrounded land. Charlie Tobias, orchestra with a cast of important screen leader Johnny Green, Jiany names; players that help to make Schnozzle Durante, all of whom this a Grade A outdoor film.
will contribute musical numbers for the production. The latter's strutaway.” song will be entitled "Doin' the
Two stern old men start a range war that divides the community of Twin Oaks, Arizona, into two factions. It all starts over an ac- cusation of cattle rustling and leads, to complications which re- sult in the death of one man and the arrest of the other's son for murder. It is then that the fight- ing aheri gets into action" and straightens it all out.
SAVED TWO LIVES
Sacrificed His Own
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I PROMISE TO PAY
human interest and replete with
Rich with highly sympathetic
swift, dramatic action, Columbia's "I Promise to Pay." an expose of the loan share racket, opens to- day to enthusiastic audiences at the King's Theatre.
Chester Morris. Helen Mack, Leo Carrilla and Thomas Mitchell top what might well be termed an all-star cast. Such excellent ac tors as Thurston Hall and John
Gallaudet give splendid support: Patsy O'Connor, 6-year-old starlet, In her first dramatic role, is Extremely good as the child of Eddie Lang (Chester Morris) and Mack) bin young wife, Mary (Helen
D. Ross Lederman is entitled to bow for his first-class
take &
direction.
A Central Motion
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4.SHOWS DAILY
2:10 520 720-930
The RANGE FEUD?
.with John Wayne.
Susan Fleming
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Dramatic Picture of the National Revolutionary Army of China
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TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY !
A FIESTA OF FUN AND GLORIOUS MELODY!
MARY FICKFORD and JRASES. RASKY prubezi
Nino Martini
A glorious
romance with glorious musle packed with ex- citement, thrills
and breath-taking climaxes!.
THE GAY DESPERADO
10A LUPINO A FEO CARRILLO
POUREN
SATURDAY TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, ROBERT MONTGOMERY WITH ROSALIND RUSSELL
Though he managed to save the lives of two foreign news- He saves an innocent man from papermen in Shanghai, San Loh- the gallows and corners the guilty zao, 23 year old soldier in the one in a fast, breath-taking climax Chinese army, paid the supreme that quickens the pulse and is price with his own.". guaranteed to satisfy those who The foreigners, one an Ameri- crave action and plenty of it. can journalist and the other a THE GAY DESPERADO The audience sat tense as Buck Russian press photographer, en- dashed madly across-country-intered Chapel through Blockhouse In the role of a French manne-
Something decidedly different in his race with time to reach the B. at North Honan and Boundary quin who rises to the heights of. pictures with music comes to the scene of the hanging and save the Roads, which is held by the Bri- fashion dictator for the world, Kay Majestic Theatre to-day when innocent man from dying for an- tish military, for the purpose of Francis, beautiful brunette drama- Pickford-Laaky's "The Gay Des- other's crime. And Buck Jones taking photographs of scenes be- tle actress, who wears clothes operado," begins a one day enggge- can ride there is thrill inhind the lines. Both carried the magnificently, is starred in "Stolen ment with Nino Martini, the great every pound of his horse's hoofs! proper credentials, but the Chi- hastly retreat for cover, the news- Holiday" showing at the Oriental singing star of radio, opera and Susan Fleming, ex-Follles' gizi, nese military had to insist that papermen lost all sense of direc- Theatre to-day and Thursday, Alms. In the title role, and Idu, as - Judy, the sweetheart of the consent of the officer in com- tion, and attempted to squeeze Lupino and Leo Carrillo in sup- the story.. gives a sincere mand be obtained before they through a barbed-wire barricade porting parts
portrayal and looks charmingly could be allowed to take photo with disastrous results." Both A gay, colourful romance laid lovely. Other roles are ably hand-graphs. This necessitated Д
were trapped. below the Rio Grande, this second led by Wallace MacDonald, who slight delay, and during the time Private San, who was among offering of the newly formed Mary Elves his usual finished perform-it took a messenger to return the first to rush to his post at the Pickford-Jesse L. Lasky producing ance in the part of the foreman with the officer in question, the first indication of a renewed bat- company completely discards the bent on avenging the death of his newspaperman strolled aimlessly tle, saw their predicament and, usual backstage plot formula for boss; and by William Walling and about, ignorant of the fact that with that courage and promptl pictures featuring fainous song Edward Le Saint. These two old their movements were being ob tude which marks a good solder, It be succeeds in borrowing birds and presents a thrill-packed, timers are cast in the roles of fery served by the Japanese, and that seized a pair of wire-clippers and money from the banker he pro-action-filled, fast-moving him old ranchmen, fighting over a their lives were in deadly peril. rushed to their rescue, He The other day a woman surpris- mises to pack her in a modiste story.
grazing lease and cattle rustling The first hint of their danger managed to extricate both men,
ed a book-maker by backing every shop of her own. When the grind The handsome Martini la said
came when the quietness was sud- but in so doing was twice wound-horse in a certain race. We gather les in which he is involved begin
denly broken by the spiteful} éd," one bullet, penetrafing his that she was a methodical novice to come to light, she does all she
spitting of a machine gun and a chest in the region of his heart, and had picked the winner by can to help him prove his in-
hall of bullets fell around them. Comrades dragged him to a dug-running the list through the sew- nocence
In the excitement of beating a out where he expired.
Ing-machine to save time,
In "Stolen Holiday," Miss Francis rise from the ranks of the mannequins þégins when she meets Claude Rains. He comes to the modiste shop where she is work ing, and tells her that what he really wants is a dinner companion with whom he can impress a rich banker k
to give a great performance as chieftain (Carrillo), who adopts the gay swashbuckling Chivo, American gangster methods, but whose glorious voice causes him to is really a sentimentel, music bo kidnapped by a Mexican bandit loving fellow at heart.///
IN HIS MOST UNUBUAL AND THEILLING DEAMATIC
STRIUMPH
NIGHT MUST FALL"
M-G-M. BENSATIONAL NEW THRILL HIT!
"I saw the winner in a dream,” declares a Nottingham man who recently won 2500 on a horse-race. This must be one of those nap selections we have heard about.
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