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Produced by 101 1555FR. Directed by Edhamed 1. Cina. Screen May by Al Martin, David Boskas, Kibas Nella.
ELEANOR POWELL
CINEMA & GENERAL
THE REAL HEDY LAMARR: MOST DEMOCRATIC STAR
IN HOLLYWOOD
CONTRARY TO THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN THAT`SHE PORTRAYS ON THE SCREEN, REDY "LAMABE HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST DEMOCRATIC, SOCIABIS, FRIENDLY AND FUN-LOVING STARS IN THE HOLLYWOOD FIRMAMENT.
To those who are closely associated with her in her screen work, she has taken the place of Jean Harlow in the hearts of the studio workers,
Impulsive
Away from, the studio, she might flowers to Miss Lamarr. On the be considered "tomboyish" atrext, Miss Lamarr will present times. She enjoys long walks over bottles of perfume to the girls, the mountain tralis surrounding blended by herself, her hilltop home in Benedict Canyon, her faithful Great Dane. as her constant companion. She has a passion "for Bowers, cuts The them and arranges them in docens of vases herself, and keeps them freshly supplied with water and trims the stems mightly before she retires.
Or The Cisco
"Stand Up And Fight" ORIENTAL:
"Start Cheering" CATHAY:
"Straight, Place and Show" ALHAMBRA:
"If I Were King". STAR:
"Honolulu"
MAJESTIC:
"Bordertown”
GIRLS' SCHOOL
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A film so different the accustomed
Perferred Pastime Salling on the Pacific is one of Miss Lamarr's preferred pastimes. She likes to run off by herself an Journey to the concessions at the nearby beaches to pop away for half an hour.at a time at the little targets in the shooting galleries
She likes to meet people,” Ahe herself, and she likes to sit on the Likes to read press clippings about door. Particularly, she likes to pose for photographs and it is not
necessary for the photographer to tell her how to pose. She is the most ideal and co-operative model for photographs who has come to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer atace the advent of Greta Garbo.
On the set, she, is impulsive, in her activities. One moment she will be taking a camera "dolly." Again, she will ride on the
climb to the top of a ladder, to perch there. Her laugh is sonorous, infectious and rings to the farthest corner of the sounu stage.
She adores children, and none star is working without Miss can venture onto a set where the Lamarr picking the child up and cuddling it in her arms.
For her motion picture rales, she refuses to change the style of her long hair bob, no matter what character she may be playing. "It is good enough for me off the screen, so it should be good enough for me on the screen." In fact her long bob has become the most copted since Greta Gabo started the same thing a few years ago.
At work, Miss Lamarr's friends | Hedy Lamarr is not one who climbs are the girls who attend her. These into a limousine behind a liverled Include the
wardrobe girl, the chauffeur to be whisked home. hairdresser, the make-up girl and
adjectives of praise must be fore- gone, Columbia's "Girls' School" touches upon the lovely illusions of adolescent youth, upon the naive her dialogue coach. They are con- comedy of girlish reactions to life stantly together. One day, the and love, careers, and boy friends, girls will present a bunch of It is repressible, gay, and heart- warming it is youth-restoring and joyously refreshing. It is as beauti- ful as ita magnolia-scented back- ground, as happily tamocent as its attractive young players.
"Girls' School" is Magnolla Holt, the smugly snobbish seminary the southland. The film is at the Majestic Theatre.
The cast is large and excellent,
Solution Ne 369 ACROSS: 1, Miraculous. 7. Hosts
And when the long day is over,
''IN OLD CHICAGO” AT THE KING'S
The urge to make big pictures, pictures honestly deserving those much abused adjectives "tre-
8 Cigar. 10, Hedge, 13, Owns. 15,mendous," "spectacular" and even Odds. 16, Mastift. 17, Idea: 18, Foes "colossal," seems
to come in 19, Convene, 20, Lack, 22. Rota 24, cycles. And these cycles "reach. Dense. 27, Shire. 28. Attic. 29. their crest roughly, very roughly, Sempstress
at ten-year intervals. Of course, haven't been making movies long enough yet enable the statistician to deter- mine so long range, a matter
people DOWN: 1. Mason, 2, Rush. 3, with diversified roles so well bal-Clad. 4. Lace. 5, Urged. 8, Chroni- anced and divided that even more cles. 9. Resistance. 11, Essence, 12, or less minor parts have outstand-Guineas, 14, Smack 15, Offer, 21, Chide, 23, Oaths. 24, Deep. 25, Neat ing distinction,
26, Ease
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24 Repasts (5)
27 Build up (5)
30 Throbbing
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ROBERT YOUNG
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5 Cast (5)
33 Circus (5)
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of big pictures definitely, but so as the periodicity of appearance
far, ten years seems to be the in- terval between one cluster of big pictures and the next, but the elusters themselves are spread over a period of three or four years.
We seem to be right at the high point of such a cycle now! with a lot of big pictures show- ing, and "In Old Chicago” with its enormous budget for an open- ing at the King's Theatre to- day. The chances seem to "be, if the cycle is correct, that the next few years will see a slump In spectacle pictures. rio more than one being produced a year, if that.
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The present cycle of spectacu- lar pictures seems to have as its culminating crest, "In Old Chi- cago," if production as announc- ed for next year are any criterion. And in some ways this seems fit- ting enough, for the problems which the script. writers ·set Henry King, the director, and the problems he set the technical staff were many and complex. Nothing more difficult to do is likely to be thought up for some. time.
COMING EVENTS
JULK
25-Tides: High 5.16 am, and 7.16 pa-Low 1245 puh. xod 18.54 p.m. Sunrise 5.58 am, Sunset 7:47 p.m. Cheero Club Dance 3.30 p.m. ARP. Lecture at Chinese TM,0.A. Bridges Street, ⠀ 7.30 p.m.
YMCA Bridge snd Mahjongg 10 am.
Golf: HK.V.D.C. va Shek-O at Shek-0.30 pada Mo
37-Tides: · High-6.13 am, "and .8.30° p.m. Low 1,40 p.m. and 11.57 pm. Sunrise 6.52. aim: Siset. 708 pm
Legislative Council Mtg. 2.30 p.m.
Cath, Women's Fellowship Bath- ¡ing Fienie at Stanley,
·RK'T's Men's :-Club Mt. St. 7, Hotel 1pm, Speaker; Miss Ida Pruitt
dans
·AEP. Lectures. - Wardens" and
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This wallet has brought me luck for twenty years. You keep Instructors Class, Tun Mid Middle it for good luck when you start School in Chinese 7. p.m.; Diocesan your motion picture career": Girls School, in English; 6 pm.
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This was said to Jane Prelaser Melvyn・・ Douglasie Butlers/ 28-Tides, High 7.04 am and 11.20 eight years ago when the Ninotchka, starring Greta
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7.
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