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CINEMA & GENERAL
DENNIS O'KEEFE SETTLES DOWN
Screenings IN SCREEN COLONY
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Trade Winda"
QUEEN'S -
"Stablemates"
ORIENTAL:
J
"Say It In French"
CATHAY
“Vivacious Lady"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Empress Wu, Chen Tien"
STAR:
"Naughty Marietta”
MAJESTIO:
"Racket Busters"
Coming
WALLACE
MICKEY
BEERY ROONEY
STABLEMATES
A NAM WOUR PRODUCTION
and ísfer Juntti Machane
ACASAMA 29 HAURY, PAPE
COMMENCING SUNDAY
Joan Crawford • Margaret Sullasan
64
in THE SHINING HOUR"
KING'A:
>
"Sailing Along"
QUEEN'S)
"The Shining Hour
ORIENTAL:
"The Adventures of
Marco
Polo"
"My Bill"
After a life of adventare and travel with many ups and downs. Dennis O'Keefe has joined the legion of adventurers lite to the green who have found" security and a settled colony. Instead of making "sleepër jumps" ' in vandeville, O'Keefe has become a stald citizen and permanent resident. Like so many successful actors, | "Saratoga" at Metro-Goldwyn- O'Keefe has a "story of wandering | Mayer he was noticed by Clark and quick changes sa prelude Gable.
to his discovery in **The Bad **That Man of Brimstone." and sequent steady stardom.
climb
ing violinist, raised in a wardrobe trunk. As Bruce.
Buy
of
bas something." sub-Gable informed Jack Conway, the towards director,
Conway agreed. A screen test was arranged. Pro- He was born to the theatre, theducer Harry Rapt saw the test, son of Edward James Flanagan and to the staggering surprise of of the vaudeville team of Flana-O'Keefe or Bud Flanagan, as he gan and Edwards. His mother was then known, he was handed Was Charlotte Flanagan, slag-the lead in "The Bad Man
Dennis was literally Brimstone"" apposite Virginia He couldn't believe it. a boy he got his schooling in a long-term contract and "Hold every city in the United States That Kiss" followed, then came where "Big Time" played...
"The Chaser." and "fans" began. When he was still in high writing letters.. school, he became "gag man" for the Our Gang comedies, when Mary Korman, Farina, and such Our Gang ploneers were in their Love" was a hit.
the process of grooming him for heyday.
stardom, with a sports drama “GAG MAN"
series, the first of which was Flanagan and Edwards had Burn 'Em Up O'Connor" dram come to Hollywood to be starred or midget motor-racing. Now In the Hall Room Boys" comedies, he is working in the second. based on a newspaper comic car-
To-day O'Keefe is a little more time. The series
certain that his good fortune was the forerunner to Columbia
wasn't a dream. 80 he bought pictures, and the start of Harry a house for his mother. He Cohn as a producer. A friend bullt a small ranch house for of his father's
"gag himself.
"And next be "built man for the comedies, and ask kennel for Thor, his great Dane. ed Ed Flanagan to take the job. His days of adventuring are over.
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"TRADE WINDS"
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"Let the punis
wanted
"Oh. I can't write." remarked Flanagan, Indicating hist SOD. do it." "Punk" for was the father's pet his boy.
name
Even then he wasn't sure ft could last. Vacation From Then started
Pictures will provide his adven-. tures of the future..
"I worked there a year" relates DIARY OF LOCAL
come-
EVENTS
TO-DAY
an ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS.
Was
St. Justin, Princess Beatrice born, 1857.
One of the most provocative and O'Keefe. "I gagged the exciting motion pictures to reach dies, wrote several of the stories, the screen within recent years will and then they fired me.”
went be screened to-day at the King's His father died. Dennis. Theatre under the title of "Trade into vaudeville, carrying on with Winds." Produced by Walter his father's golf act, being
"Vaudeville Wanger for United Artists release expert golfer. with a capitally chosen cast head- beginning to slip and mother ed by Fredric March and Joan wanted me to come back to Holly- Bennett, the new film is a fast- wood," he relates. "I came back. moving romantic" melodrama, and tried my hand at writing.". smartly fashioned to contain all the elements of fine entertainment.
He sold "Don't Pull Your Among the varied and colourful
story to backgrounds against which the Punches" and another action unfolds are included such Warner Brothers. Then he tried countries as Hawali, Japan, China, being a travelling salesman for concern. Return- Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula, 2 machinery Ceylon, India and the little knowning again to Hollywood, he re- Laccadive Islands Tay Garnett, solved to try acting, and got director of Trade Winds." spent "heavy" role in two years fiming the unusually Universal, Impressive "loration shots" reveal-
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District Office, South. Queen's Building, 2nd floor, 11 a.m.; Household Furniture, at 35 Han- kow Road, Kowloon. 2,30 p.m. CINEMAS.~(See Column 3 of this
Page).
DANCES-Society for the Protec
tion of Children, Annual "Bali, at Peninsula Hotel, 9.30 pm ENTERTAINMENT. Y.M.C.A.
"London Wall," 9.15 p.m.
and Roles came now
then. LECTURES-AR.P.; at Ambulance He thought of · Hars., 5.45 p.m. In English; 7:30 ed in the picture, and Art Director mostly "bits."
He made p.m. In Chinese; First Ald Alexander Toluboff did a magnin-trying many things.
Treatment for "Gassed Casual- tent job of designing the 79 several attempts at salesmanship.
ties," at Ambulance Hors, "5.30 different sets which devotall with He even played extra roles. Then, Garnett's original photography. one day, playing "bit" in p.m.; ARP, at Chinese Cham- ber of Commerce, 7 p.m.; at Maryknoll Convent School, · 4 | p.m.; Diocesan Junior - Giris“ School, 8 p.m.; USR. Club, "Kowloon, 11 a.m.; Lusitano Club, 5.30 p.m.; La Salle College, 6 p.m.; Modified Full Course, at Volunteer Ears., 11
First Aid in Chinese, at Queen Mary Hospital, 6 pm.; at Ta Tang School, Kak Hang Tsum Road. Kowloon, 7 p.m. MAILS.—(See Page 16) MEETINGS-Helena May
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MISCELLANEOUS. Alr Raid Warning Sirens Test, 215 and 2.25 p.m.; Jumble Sale in Hong- kong Union Church Hall, Ken- nedy "Road: YMCA. “Keɛp. Fit”” Class, 10.30 s.m.; Exhibition of Chinese Paintings by the Ling- nan Art School, at St. John's Ca- thedral Hall. 10 a.m. to 7 pm. MOON-Chinese II Moon, 25th.
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