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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930.
CINEMA NOTES.
"GRETA GARBO'S MAGNETIC
PERSONALITY.
"When Greta Garbo, walks Into a scene she's got something no woman In the world has" Such was the ob servation made recently by Charles Bickford, who worked opponite the Swedish star in "Anna Christle," her first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talking picture which is playing at Queen's Theatre.
tho
"I haven't uny Idea what it is. that something," said Bickford, "Call it sex appeal, magnetism or whatever you will, it is there just as plainly as the flame that leaps up when you
put a match to
Imp.
bay-ever could have been the "dor- Table Benny" of fourteen years ago,
But the promise of his ability last- ed. As "Memmerinch" he has one of the most appealing roles of "All Quiet on the Western Front," the part of the boy whose soft leather, boots were the envy of his comrades at the front and who was among the first to fall to "Henris of the World" was his scene at the grave of his father that won him fame. In "All quiet" it is the scene where he dies from wounds surrounded by bls schoolboy chums who marched away to war with him.
CRICKET.
1.
UNIVERSITY TEAMS FOR THE WEEK-END.
The following will represent alse 1 XI, in League University'
match against the Royal cricket Navy on Saturday, on the Iloine Ground at 2 p.m., sharp: D. J. N. Anderson (Capt.). A. Baker, F. A. Redmond, D. K. Samy, A. B. Sulteman, A. Chan Fook, A. T. Namanbhoy, A. M. Rodrigues, K. P. Gan, G. E. Yeah, A. S. A. Kyum.
2nd Tram.
The following will represent the University 2nd XI, in a League cricket match against R.A.S.C. on Saturday, on the R.A.S.C. Ground at 2 p.m. harp: K. T. Loke (Capt.), A. A. Aziz, G. Seully, F. S. Chen, H.
N. da Nomanbhoy, P.M.
Silva, R. M. Yahyabhoy, W. teang, D. Roy,
ames, F. Gorane.
A Sunday Match.
"Let's Go Native." The great Jack Oakie grin invasion which began, for the delectation of millions of talkie-goers, a year or no go, continnon ita irrepressible upasma nf laughter at the Central Theatre "I was fascinated watching her and this week in "Let's Go Native."
This smiling dean of slang and Trying to figure it out. She is ong
wowing begun who person off the set, quiet, retiring and wise-cracks repressed.
You could pass her by audiences in "Close Harmony and altting continued his veritable panic of mirth without wing the WIN
But the minute she walks in "it the. Deck," "Sweetie," "The there. through a door into a scene, you enn Social Lies" and others, is a bigger-
The following will represent the She just lights and-better-than-ever rlot in "Let's look at nothing vise. up with that elusive and intangible Go Nativo" in which he is co-starred University in a cricket match against something and dominates her whole with Jeanette MacDonald, the prin-Mr. II. T. M. Barma's XI on Sunday, surroundings. Her every grataire in Jeens of "The Love Parade:" and sup- Int 8.30 n.m., sharp on Rome Grind: vongeling, her very glance hypnotic, parted by Skeeta Gallagher, Kay A. A. Aziz (Capt.), A. R. Sulieman, "She has that name fascination and Francis, William Austin and Eugene A. Baker, G. Scully, P. 1., Tan, D. Roy, W. James, C. Candah, E. Gomano sparkle on the screen, I have notleed. Pallette. And the funny part about it, I don't
Ng Kam-sooi, G. de Souza, think she oncious of it. It is simply her personality, a mural re sponse to her dramatic instinct with
nt an ounce of artificiality."
Clarence Brown directed the talk ing screen adaptation of the famous Eugene O'Nell drama with the asp porting east inciding George Marion and Marie Dressler.
"A Quiet on Western Front." The lad who fourteen years ago was the first great child actor of the screen in back to fame in pletures. He is Ben Alexander who when he was five years old won nover-farget - ten fame as the child in Griffith's "Hearts of the World." Before that he had appeared in a few of the very arly peteres imply as a "beautiful child" or kewpie; pictures like "ach Pearl
with Fanny
a Tear"
Ben.
Onkle is seen as Voltnito McGinnis, the goofy hut go-getting tax-cab driver who gets all mixed up with for her Mis MacDonald's plans troupe of show-girls who are making in trip to South America to put on in
revue for a millionaire. When Onkle's cal runs smack into a police station in New York he is bound to !seek refuge on the ship. He gets a job as a stoker but later is proinated to a mesk attendani,
LADIES HOCKEY.
The following team will represent the Hongkong Ladies' flockey Club in a match against H.M.S. Berwick at Sookunpoo on Saturday, 3.30 p.m. --G. F. Little, F. Gray, B. V, Frank On the boni tin, A Owen-Hughes, E. Bonnar, M. are William Austin, wociety ne'er-do- 1. Wallace, I. C. Bell, N. A. McNeille, well, James Hall, disinherited young E. M. Donelan, E. Dlackburn, E. S. blue-blood in love with Jeanette MacLaing,
There will also be a match against Donald, and the 75 girls of her show.
The ship strikes a derelict and all the Kowloon Ladies' Hockey Club on the K.B.S.P.P.A. ground at 3.30 p.m. the principals are stranded un
F. Lammiert, tropical isfe where Skeets Gallagher The team is ns follows:
king. There is an abundance of E. J. Coppin, F. A. Cousina, M. Kin pearls, and the island spoots all every P. Webler, B. O'Hagan, F. R. Bell, } time a tent peg is driven, but it is. 1. Whyte. A. Dunean. C. M. Fer all valueless to the castaways for they guson, M. Bishop. fare beyond the pale of civilisation. The film is packed full of fun.
"The Cliana" at the Majestle.
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A chorus of three hundred canary
There has been an fang like thin a child actor in pleture history, with the exception of Jackie Coogan and, more recently, Bobbie Lep. who is now nineteen, left pictures for birds, the first feathered songstres to be featured in sound films, will be clling. While he was taking a
"The max." Universal pedraduate cours at Hollywood heard in high school in preparation for en production of the famous stage play Irance at the University of California by Edward Locke, which will open to
day at the Majestle Theatre, at Los Anguba he was summond to the Universal studies.
There, after tests, he was signed for the role of "Kemmerich," one of the feature parts of Universal's super picture of Rech Marin Remarque's book of the war. "All Quiet on the western Front," which opens an Sun
ay at the Queen's Theatre.
Ben's promise of haustsome youth as the "beautiful chuld" ismething he himself Imaghs at now. His prot tiness passed with his babyhood. it's almost unbelievable to think that the Ben of to-day--a typical high school
fute, a violin, an organ and a pinne; whistling: a Swiss music box: a full plece orchestra, roosters crowing and doves tooing.
One of the songs sung by Misa ferawford in "The Climax," which was Jadmirably adaptable to conversion to
La
nausk
sound picture because of being an Integral part of the plot, is i Nina," n canzonetta by Pergolesi, 70-1786,
The singing of the ennsries is the recurrent musical motif for the benuti.
The Clinen" in an all-dialogue and ful love sevnes, forming sort of a
production starring Jean cend theme song for the picture. The theme song itself is "You My sound] Melody of Love" written especially Hersholt, Universal's great character The setting for the story is in by Victor Schertzinger, composer of netor. "Marcheta" and other popular Italy, making it the first sound pic- melodies, and sung by Kathryn Craw. tore to have a foreign locale. Others in the cast with Hersholt and Miss the Crawford are Leitoy Mason, In ndilition to canaries and ford in the leading feminine role. numerous other sound effects, many of Reinhardt and Henry Armetta. The them reproduced for the first time in picture was directed by Renwuri Hoff sound film, there are the playing of a jun.
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