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CINEMA SCREENINGS.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE - THEATRES.
When reviewer can't find any Saws to pick in a picture be either. needs a vacation or the film is junt about us perfect as possible, _ “Gudity | Hands" falls in that class. So mwept away wan this reviewer when the new feature
was screened gentersiny t the Queen's Theatre. that he left without having the fainteal bles of noticing any weak #pest. If any existed.
What with Bayard Veiller having written It, Lionel Hurryrenze meting it and W. S. Vụn Dyke pse Ba dinner
tor, this Metro-Goldwyn-Maver droom packs everything it nord)m
some.
and than;
I swift, theithog and climaxed with A storting
that comes with the sudden jolt of Woled elfer ta
A
thunder slap,
abound, eerie eumeen shots, terrifying serrams, all have their prince his the which morabro Atmosphere Voilier's Intrnt offering his first
la placed. original for the fathom
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Barrymore touches the height of his artistry ar the vetes në jeton negat and criminal attorney, fired with th need of killing a man wd making his crime appont A Meidle
1
pleasure to watch Barrymore's every gesture, Boten in bis every word Re is the shadings of a difficult charac.; terization in pradiuition and summers seldom approached.
Van Dyke has daveted the Alin with rare valuation
dramatic construcioni veralten
the story by Voller
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Kay Frances and Mudge Frati rad the supporting cost, which bod William Bakt well, C. Aubrey Smoth, Polly Moran and Alan Mowbray All AN empat in trying roka, Frane die fetrius "heavy" and M.. is handel hy the romari Evaznd Kukewell
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"Canaries Sonetioves Sing."
Rarely has the server KIYOR 16 Aner en crtainment than that vided in "Camarles Sumetines Sing" showing at the King's Theatre today the all-dialogue liku emplation of Frederick Lonsdale's wilky comedy. Landni's brilliant dialogue entinol fail to appent, and an able vast, Tom Walls, Athole Stewart, Cathleen Nes bitt and Yvonne Arnaud, bring out
DAINTY
HATS
JUST
HERE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1932.
NEW for SPRING
Straws and Fabrics
We have received
a fine collection of---
STRAW HATS for SPRING.
Also
RAINCOATS
GIRDLES
HAND BAGS
SILK UNDERWEAR
and
NOVELTIES
"Sua of India"
Information is that Banton Novar
the very essence of high comedy. Thero's latest pieture Sen
or
India'
play proved more than Maceratail which will open on Sunday next ot when produced in London, and Tom the Queen's Theatre, is one of Mitru
LE BEAU
KING'S THEATRE BUILDING. D'AGUILAR ST.
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following in the list of local
Walls again justifies his contention Goldwyn-Mayer's most expensive probare quolations issued to-day:
J
ductions due to unusually spretacitine that well written, successful sing
exterior scenes and the necessity of plays make for real entertainment on
magaileest Indian the audible
You jy onstruedag nerves. If
important interior palace sophisticated comedy-comedy with a Capital C. then visit the super-cincina episode. this wenk.
"Once A Lady." Screen stars and players expect to lead topsy-turvy Bees from the time a picture in started until the final
Practically half of the incidents in the story, n mehudramatic romance of the Orient based on the P. Marion Crawford novel, "Mr. Isanes"
out-of-doors. The local is Bon- place
its picturesque bay and
take
environs.
scenes are completed. The time cleansegamily tremendous expense was ment is forgotten in studiu schedules entailed in the duplication of moun- Early morning for the rest of the world
thin retreats, jungle locations, Jute night
may
ANDRIT
night, and evening is likely
be
the
on the net. Non is frequently mid-treets and buildings of Bombay, the
oriental bazaars, and romanti Jak and various other spots which play a the adventurous attnetic part in
plot.
dawn. Wearing formul evening clothes
at nine a.. and morning attir five in the afternoon are among the
demands prace mętej findesigners were able to make use of
In Buth Chattestim's
Tw
Pura-
For certain pesodes, Life scenie
rutions used in previous films, which helped to hold down the st
When certain exilent.
it came th
to
a
mount starring vehicle, *L!**
Lady," one of the early sequences duplicating the Indina palace, how- laid in the drawingroomy of an Eng-evar, it was necessary lo eonstruct an B country matisian. It was wp-
Intire new set for Tedian films are posed to be late in the afternoon. list
Iran and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had no palaer stuck in ал out-of-way
they
The notion was rerorded at mine in the morning, and Miss Chatterton, Gourer of the "Jo". Lu which frey Kere and others in the cast hat might have recourse in emegencies. to join in ten hour as if they had t
The building was constructed from Just enten breakfast in real life.
plans and photographs sent frout
And late that same afternoon Missindin, a certain Bombay palmer in ing | Chatterton and Kerr enjoyed breakfast used as a modef. Such details ns thi in a Paris hofil suite!
tremendors necessity of covering a
"Once A Lady," to be offered at threage or groutal, the pan of tiles and ; King's Theatre starting next Themasti work, and the importating of day, in a drama of hearts reminiscentrakwood furniture,
und
of such characterizations given by the specially prounced gly ran the esti star in "Madame X." "Sarah und Son"
and "Anybody's Woman."
BUCCORSOR.
"The Silver Horde."
up high.
The large number of extras employs
It was ndapled for the screen by ed in the the toy streit mabs, bândit Zoe Akins from a play, "The Steandid and the spectacular tiger hunti Life," by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf together with the unusual estumes: Oesterreicher.
required for the oriental background: Direction is by Guthrie McClintic, were redditional reasons for the ap for the past decide credited with the usually high cost of producing th fashioning of many New York sing picture.
In keeping with the high standards i for the new Novarro vehicle, a cast of more than average importance wi A Mexican revolution turned the unsigned to support the star. Conrad entire trend of Logis Wolbeim's life. Nagel, Murjorie Rambenu, Made Educated to be a mechanical engineer, Evans, the New York stage star, C. events so completely changed "condi- Aubrey Smith, Mitchell Lewis, John tions that he turned to motion pictures Miljan and Nigel de Brulier have the instead, and is now one of the screen's Brost important supporting roles, ranking character actors, playing The picture was produced by Jac featured role in "The Silver Hurde" ques Flyder, who directed Navarro's Radla Pictures all talking version of previous im Daybreak," and who Rex Bench's epic of the north showing received critical praise for his direc on Thursday at the Queen's Thiatre. tion of Greta Gurbo's last silent Blo
Wolheim was employed in his pro- "The King," fession by a large Mexican mising
he
for three years after company graduated from Cornell University,
"Tarzan the Tiger."
Frank Merrill, the famous hero of Revolutionists necessitated u cessation Universal's sensational "Tarzan" pic of activities and he returned to his tures, has been engaged at clone guar home, New
York. College friends had entered the motion picture buxiters with lens, leopards, grent apes
and alligators.
to their arguments and
an important role immediately.
ness by this time. They persuaded Lions are the most dangerous." him that his type was unique and in demand on the screen. He succumbedaya Merrill, who is an athlete of tremendous strength. "A man has a chst infighting chance with his bare hands with a Isopard, but the strength ant distinctive was his work that he nis ferocity of a lion is too much for the sought for slage engagenietis. Bu tween pictures ho acted behind the atural Sghting ability of any human
being." footlights, and before long was Merrill comes to grips with a Bon starring in "The Hairy Ape" and in the accond chapter of the sound "What Price Glory,"
Following these successes be signed howing at the Central Theatre to erial, Tarzan the Tiger" which is
Hollywood where he was featured by
tho Howard Hughes in Two. Arabian Tiger" includes Natalie Kingston Al Knights." His outstanding ictures Ferguson, Sheldon Lewis, Kithnou have been "All Quiet on the Western and Paal Panzer. This sensational Front" and his first for Radio Pic-ungle, serial was directed by Henry tores, "Danger Lights," a spectacular MacRne, It is based on Edgar Ric all-talking railroad drama and "The Burroughs' famous book, "Tarzan and Silver Hörde,”
the Jowels of Opsr.”
on a long term contruct and went to day great cast of "Tarzon
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