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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931.
Eddy.
Determined to keep her costumes fully in line with the harum-scarum characterization of a madcap girl, Miss Pickford personally Instructed tho, designers in her ideas.
The cast of the picture includes Reginald Denny, leading manj.Josoph Cawthorn, Fred Walton, Phil Toad, Fred Warren and Edwin Maxwell.
"Scandal Shoot.”
|ing a fictitious age, he succeeded in Molegion in this production, which
Mary Pickford Becomes Modiste. enllating in the Life Guards regi-{was directed by Benjamin Stoloff.
Mary Pickford has turried modisto ""The Great Meadow.” ment. War experience-did the sama thing to him that it had done to sa The most primitive of American for her new United Artists picture, THEATRES.
many others, instilled a desire to get "reks" is one of the central features"Kiki," which opens on Sunday at the away from the unexciting. He start of "The Great Meadow," now Motro Queen's Theatre,
Kay Francis, who made her Alm Only the fertile mind of Warnered to travel. Whlie in the army he Goldwyn-Mayer picture adapted from Fabian which conceived the question, had learned to box and wrestle, so the much-talked-of novel by Elizabeth
debut, in a pleture of newspaper fo again appears in a celluloft atory of "What Men Want?" could answer the put the knowledge to use while in Madox Roberts.
No covered wagons, no cook stoves,
the "fourth estate" In "Scandal Shoot," as sparklingly and as dramatically as Canada and soon become the Eastern
the nowest George Bancroft pietura Purse no alarm clocks, no cartridge rides
The "Kik" costume itself consists at the King's Theatre. it is done in the Universal Special Canadian boxing champion Production of the, same name which were amali so he cast his fortunes in were carried by the, Virginians who
The first film Miss Francis over en- Ja now showing at the Central turn with a medicine show, a wild went to Kentucky across the moun- of a loud polka dot waist, extremely
cut, a black satin skirt wrap-around, henced with her svelte Insouciance - Thuntre.
West Show, then vandeville. He retains in 1776.
Consequently the group of pioneers extremely high-heeled satin slippers was "Gentleman, of the Press," in Fabian is the modern author" who turned to boxing again and held Jack
in The Great Meadow did not ride and a andg black hat with a long curl which she played the role of the sprang into instant fame with bb Johnson to a non-decision bout novel "Flaming Youth, which, pro- Another attack of wanderlust and their way into hardship. There were feather at the crown. The feather is liasom secretary and girl friend to duced an a motion picture, made boxe WHA off to Hawali, Tahall Aus-few-horses-in-the cavalcade Eighty from a rare Chinese bird me was Walter Huston, the soyer-sny die
"She carries editor. tained with diflculty. office history because of its daring tralia, Bumbay and Ceylon. With the per cont. of them walked.
Since that time she has played in modern story.
news of the world war, he was among This provided problems for Director an enormous leather handbag of black "What Men Want" is by the same the first to join up and was sent to Charles Brabin in planning the Indian and white stripes and a ten-inch pow a number of Paramount productions
fights which occur in the story. In der puff-
including "The Marriage play ground," An elaborate negligen in the gan-Street of Chance," "Let's Go Nativo," brilliant mind, written especially for Mesopotamia,
With the close of the war, he found "covered wagon tales the pioneerw Univorani. An outstanding enxt wan assembled to portray the vivid.char-himself in Indon, At the National can, be protected by large vehicles. diest gamin taste has a huge sequin And "The Virtuous Sin." In the last- actors of the plot, headed by Paulie Sporting Club, McLaglen was ap. In the days of Daniel Boone only one butterfly across the back. It is trim-named production she was the erring wife to Walter Huston's Starke, Ben Lyon, Barbara Kent, pronched by a motion picture dizac or two small open carts were used. med In contrasting tulle and ostrich an
feathers. She, ale wears Robert Ellin. Ifallam Cooley, Cartor who recognited him na the exact For protection the pioneers had to
In "Scandal Sheet" Miss Francis type for a picture about to be made. take to the woods and fight between transparent métal cloth payjamas with unerring Russian general, mella Geraghty and others.
is seen as the adored and pampered He started on his career in "The Call trees, Indian fashion, which involved sequin trimmings and sequin mules.
getting In one sequence she wears a man's
wife of George Bancroft, man who Hollywood Of The Hund" then followed a number considerable ingenuity in
dress suit, top hat and all. The dress a lamb in his own home but a lion of British productions in which he satisfactory camera shots. was starred.
in the newspaper offices where he is It is Bancroft's ruthlesscar, bin managing editor. teraneity to his creed-if it's nows. print it,, no matter whom it hurts"- which finally brings about the denoue- ment of the romance.
(Continued on Next Column.),
"Not Exactly Gentlernen." Around at least one actor there is the glamour of strange places, of exolle lands. He in Victor McLaglen, world famous for his role of Flagg in "The Cock World," whose latest appearance le in "Not exactly Gentlemen." coming to the Central Theatre very soon.
Coming of a family of soldiers, at the outbreak of the Hour War he was since. naturally anxious to enlist. By glv.'
pair of
An imposing cast was assembled shoes had to be spoelally made. Miss 3. Stuart Blackton, who had seen for the historical narrative, which Pickford wears the diminutive size hini in London brought him to Am opens 10-day at the Queen's Theatre, of two and a half and they couldn't
rien for the lead in "The Beloved John Mack Brown, Eleanor Boardman, he bough
Margaret Livingston does the dress. Brute." Fox then signed him for the Lucille La Verne, Anita Louise İ role in "The Hunted Women" and he Gavin Gardon are the featured paying up in the Sam Taylor production. has been with the company everers, and important roles are played She wears one costume made com by Guinn Williams, Russel Simpson, pletely of ostrich feathers, five han- Fay Wray in also featured with Sarah Padden and Helen Jerome dred in All
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