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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 25th, 1930.
PEKING IN THE SNOW.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
CO
BARRYMORE IN THE TALKIES. ""
VOICE ASSURES HIM STARDOM.
When John Barrymore found his ed enunciation, that "General She brings into the home her hus
again the other night, itCrack" could be infinitely less en-band's mistress and her son's med that the talking pictures grossing than it is and still be sweetie and her own gigolo and a d really taken a swing at the considered the most important pie-few others who keep expenses up, itimate theatre for the fratture to issue from the Warner
ne.
There is no voice on the Broad-
er the dear ladies, may have
| studio.
Just a couple of weeks previoun y stage or any other for thatly, Barrymore gave a hint of what i atter which can match with the talities could do with him if frymore. For years it was they saw fit. It was in one of uffled in the silent drama, What-those song and dance revues, less which
something are than ao-no, entitled "The Show of Shows." With extraordinary light- ing and excellent staging, Barry- more flashed on for a few moments in an episode from Shakespeare, Wherewith, a hard-belled collec. tion of first nighters burst into cheers,
Billie Burke....seems nover
to change.
It was the sort of performing which, coupled with that of Rath Chatterton in "Madame X" and Claudette Cobert in "A Woman of Affairs and Dudley Digres in [ "Condemned" and Ronald Colman' in "Bulldog Drummond," seems to an old-time reviewer to offer com- petition to the stage. These were performances worthy of
centre.
Which being which, John Harry- more's picture, in spite of ita Hof-
lywoodish story, emerges
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Barrymore and Armida.. Bist-nighters cheeres.
It's a novel iden-but the au-
major theatre event of the Bread-thors have not taken advantage of
way week, with some applause go-fall its possibilities.
Billie, how-
A
ing to Alan Crossland for excellent ever, attends to all that. direction,
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As for the Broadway theatre; Where has been more going-outs
Broadway has given her a hearty welcome.
"Diana," written about the life
than coming-ons. Eleven shows of Isadorn Duncan, and obviously !faded away over a week-end, and this, in the face of the approaching taken from the great artist's nutó- holiday" season, which generally biography, is not likely, to live too extraor Jeanses managers to keep drooping long. Isadora was
dramas going a few weeks longer,dinary a figure to appear in any guise other than her own. Ami Billie Burke is, as she should since this "Diana" is not Isadorit, thought of his precious profile, ne, the stage event of the week there is little excuse for it at all. one would have argued for where youth and charm aro con- moment that the Barrymore of the!
eernet, Miss Burke'scens' never lo Also two of the so-sophisticated awashbuckling soundigas movies change. Her performance in playa that stepped in have just as The styles was the young man who once stood "Pamily Affairs" is as ingritlats quickly slipped out. as America's finest actor.
ing as any she has ever given in sophistication have changed What this play would be but for and there have been many mis- But in "General Crack," Barry her' is something else. Briefly, it
more emerged again as a нuave concerns a Park Avenue pair, hit taken definitions of the word.
go wad "The finished and superbly adroit by, the atock market. The heat The last to actor. And now, it will complete- of the house demands retrench- Amorous Antle," which tried, too ly swallow him up. He engulfsments, so the sophisticated wife hard to be smart-a really deadly his own picture in such manner-suggests eating down expenses," habit with many people.
Top, the Glimpses of Peking after recent snowstorms, Western Hills, somewhat resembling the Swiss Alps; centre, a courtyard; bottom, one of the city's famous gaten.
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for the Winter
MORNINGS and evenings
and damp.
'The dreary days of drizzle, for...
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The London County Council recently approved the private Bill for the reconstruction of Charing Cross Bridge and the removal of the Southern Railway station to the Surrey side, which will now go forward for Parliamentary The drawing, specially prepared for The Times by Mr. Sydney Jones, Illustrates a possible development of the Surrey side of the river if a low-level bridge were erected and the new station placed at the end of the approach road, on a level with Waterloo Station, the gabled roof of which seen on the right edge of the drawing. It also shows the triangular silo, proposed for the station in the L. C. C. scheme, covered with imposing blocks of buildings, (Times copyright).