CINEMA SCREENINGS.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES.
"The Rosary" the remarkable Bri-| tish drama that is showing on Thurs- day at the Queen's is a story of great love and Helf-snerifice. Mary Ed wards and Vera Mannering are half- sisters. They discover by accident that they both love the same Ronald Overton. Nolther is prepared to retira in favour of the other; Mary because her love is reciprocated, and Vers because she thinks that Rennkl In too wealthy to be given up ranty.
n
Realising that her only way
of keeping him is by means of sub- terfuge, Vern Bes to Mary about the nature of her intimacy with Ronald, and in no convincing Mary surrenders the man she loves and prepares to enter a convent.
that
On returning home after an inter view with the Mother Superior, Mary bear a shot, rushes into the draw-[ ing room and finds Vera, revalver in hand, standing over the dend body of Oscar Dalmayne, a man with whom Vern had had an affair and whom she! rejected on meeting Ronald. Mary takes the revolver fram her terrified half-sinter, and while she in listening to her story of a quarrel, a struggle and an accident, the policr enter. Starting as she is with the gun la her hand Mary is at once suspected. and, again serideing herself, die confesses to the shooting. She in ar rested and charged with murdes,
At the trial Mary's Counsel in con. vinced that he knows the real truth, and recalling Vere into the witress box almost suceeds ir tricking her, but she manages to hold on to her original Kury, Eventually he puts) Mary herself under examination and? tonda her into the trap where "as a deeply religions woman" abe must either tell the truth or "isperit her Immortal out." He clumnes tu e and save her sister.
The sacrifice o affects Verk that she rushed from the Court. After wandering tu atrevim, shops newspaper announcing the result of j the trial. The verdlei is "Not Guilty |
-Self-defence,**
On her releuse Mary goes to the one place in which she knows she will find peace-the Convent.
I
The exataple of Mary's self-sacrifle- | lag love makes Vern completely re-i pentant; and--shirking nothing—siej brings torld to the convent so that's she may confess to the lovers. tise network of Hen by which ввур separated them. After her confes. | alon who leaves them together in the p garden, and walks into the Convent. Mary and Ronald depart completely recopelled and fall of happiness.
We now see a nun at fier derations Lelling her heuds. It is Vera, She lifts her Rosary and "kisses the еголя."
"Doctors' Wiven." The sutomer and fall of 1828 found Joan Bennett pretty much at lookn ends with the world. Not yet eighteen years old, she was alrendy u wife and mother. She was alone, with no one to look to for @nancial support, aince she had haughtily separated frans
her youthful husband.
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All that life had taught her of self- her latest Fox success in which she sliscipline, courage, fortitude, self-in co-featured with Warner reinner, she had need of in those and is now showing at the
Theatre. durk months,
Flaxter King's
Tub.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
Fortunately for Joan, in this crisis] Frank Borzage directed the picture: her father, Richard Bennett, came toj which includes in its sumporting onst the rescue. He gave his youngrat Victor Varconi, Helene Millard, daughter the leading feminine role in Cecilia Loftus and many others. his own play, "Jarnegan.
"Ladles of the Big Haus" It was a
Sylvia Sidney is one girl in "My jub paid $150 n werk," Jonn This is a distinction when it is ex- relates, "but at that time it seemed plained that Miss Sidney is the one like a million to
of 205 ambitiaja me. And then girl in a class accepted an offer to go to Hellywood dramatir students, who for. 24 year to work with George Allis inļas been playing fenturest roles in 'Karachi,'" The future, of course, petant pictures and is now make in the hands of fate, but if my wishes in a strong bbl for stellar honours. have anything to do with it, the years, Paramount, recognizing the marked to come will lind me carrying on the talent and popularity of Sylvi Sid- traditions honoured by my dear money, selected her for
Ioved so well,"
ther and father in the profession they dranu, "Ladies of the Big house." »
feminine role in the remarkable.
gripping, ruoantic love story of two The mine spirit of enurage as car-young hivers euught in the clutches ried her through the eventful sum of the law, which will be the King's mer of 1928 is revealed throughout Theatre's feature next Wednesday, her performance-in Doctors" Wives" When Miss Sidney entered the Then
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tre Guild school in New York with 105 cried because it sveined such an in vialt London and see the Cup Find inexperienced girls, she тран just everlible trick. But I soon discovered at Wimbley, the scenes are all taken Afteen. In her vivid, colourful way was wrong.
in the places concerned, which adds she describes the progress of her! Since that day, six years ago, Miss considerably to the entertainment class.
| Sidney has achieved many noteworthy | value. A number of the incidents "Every Saturday morning when performances, including the lead in were filmed in Yeadon, the birthplace De clasă gave a play, the school's "Bnd Girl" on the stage and the leads of Sydney Howard, and the shots of directors checked over their ratings on the screen, in "An American this Yorkshire mill town with the of the cast on little score cards and Tragedy" and "Street Scene."
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"Up for the Cup."
morning by the simple expedient of à 106 girls storting with the class, only It is a rare occurrence to see in man with long bamboo pole (known forty-nine were permitted to stay the films the actual locality Out the as the knocker-up) tapping cash bed. econd month. After six months, story a written around as in most room window until the occupier ans- only the best twenty remained. Then cases sets are built in the studios towers, are most interesting. The in- came the selection of the leading obtain the "atmosphere," "Un for teriora of three of the biggest weav player for the first public perform the Cup," now at the Queen's Thening mills in Yeadon are shown giving tre, the human story of simple one a very good idea of this vast in-
ance.
"I thought they were unking funded inill hand (played with grua dustry. Great credit goes to Jack of me when I was chosen to play the lamour by the one and only Sydney Raymond for his able direction of this lead in Prunella. I went hima and Howard whose great ambition is to film.
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