THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932..
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
NAVY AS BACKGROUND
QUEEN'S MELO-DRAMA OF SILENT SERVICE
LATEST BRITISH PRODUCTION
NOTES AND COMMENTS BY “CELLULOID"
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THILE it cannot be classed | dialogue: "No, I don't like bat- ting on a wet wicket," says the as an outstanding produc- Lieut.-Commander to the girl who tion in any respect, "The Call of asks him to kiss bor. These are the Sea," the latest British film the turns of wit that writera in England are gradually learning to reach here, now at the spell success for British films. An Queen's, is thoroughly satisfy-English audience will alwaya ap ing entertainment, and gratify-preciate a line like that.
The forecastle wit as dispensed
CURRENT SHOWS
TO-DAY.
Queen's: "The Call of the Sea". King's: "Thunder Below." Central: "Born to Love," Taiping: "Grand Parade." Oriental: "Sporting Chance." Majestic: "June Moon." Star: "Lord Babe."
SUNDAY.
Central: "The Big Gamble" Queen's: "Everything's Rosic.“ King's: "Business and Pien-
aure."
Oriental: "Million Dollar Legs" Star: "The Silver Horde," Talping: "Riders of the Purplo
Sage,"
Majestic: "Amateur Daddy,"
ing to those who are desirous of by marines and matelots "Is an seeing better British films, Ather feature of the film designed
to entertain. British audiences. typical Frank H. Shaw story, It Chrissie White, a newcomer, is moves along at an adequate the leading feminine and also mak- SCREEN OPERA
Ing a brief appearance is Clifford tempó, and has the right blend McLaglen, brother of the
of comedy to offset the melo-famous Victor.
drama.
"The Call of the Sea" comes from the Twickenhamn Studios of Warner Brothers and presents practically an entire new crop of British artistce, although those with long memories will recollect the handsome leading man, Henry Edwards, as the here of the old British silent. "The Fing Lieuten- ant," which incidentally han just been made with sound, Edwards again playing the lead. The only other in the cast known here in Bernard Nedell, the suave gang ter of "The Innocents of Chiengo," who seems doomed to be the bad man of British films.
more
Australian Company to Make "Barber of Seville"
IN CANTONESE
SIR ROBERT HO TTS a strong heart that can pro-
TUNG IN
TALKIE
duce
the opera on
screen. That is what the Melbourne Effter
AMERICA'S unofficial ambassador, Will Rogers, has opportunity A for his droll wit in "Business and Pleasure," Sunday attraction at the King's Jotta Goudal plays the siren in this film taken from Booth Tarkington's novel, "The Plutocrat,"
UNUSUAL TWIST IN CENTRAL FILM
GANGSTER YARN! WILL ROGERS AGAIN
"Ambassador of Mirth" in King's Feature THOSE who want laughs for their STORY with an original twlet
to it is one of _the_merita of entertainment will be well The Big Gamble" Sunday attrac- catered for at the King's show on [tion at the Central, and for those Sunday, when the droll Will Rogers
studios are doing. Their third A unit programme la "The Barber of Seville."
of
The orchestra 16 that
of the who want more than a fresh thome carries off "Business, and Plea- HERE is an unusual feature at
always himself the Queen's this week, run-Williamson Imperial Grand Opera told in a convincingly interesting sure." Will le sing with "The Call of the Sea," Company under the baton
be fower and further between than a short of Sir Signor-W. Aldrovandi. The bari- manner, there has been added an funny, and though the laughs may almost hair-raising car chase and we have been accustomed to from
in the shape of
Robert Ho Tung, addressing his audience in Cantoneae.
As cinema, "The Call of the The shots were taken in Ger- Sea" contains no new treatment, many while Sir Robert was on his
tour. and it action renches the very recent world
Sir Robert limits of tardiness without becom-speaks for about five minutes, and ing excessively slow, and although what it's all about, those who the ponderous dialogue seems to understand Cantonese should have add to the suspense, there are few no difficulty in following, for the sequences thit lag. At the same sound is exceptionally clear and time, there are a few gems in the distinct.
IT'S with the same old emile and in a familiar role that Roscos
Arbuckle is coming back to the screen. The comedian is shown upper left as he appears today, and at right as he looked when he 'was a star of the silane filma.. Below you see him with little Billy Haras and Alf Goulding, director, as they want over the script of Fatty's first picture in twelve yours.
STA
pleasant leavening of neat houmoud. the Ambassador of Mirth, they aro One A world-weary gambler makes a good when they are come to. bargin with a crook to whom he is acone particularly in which he moa- an Eastern fortune heavily in debt. The crook, takes querades as
out a life Insurance policy for the teller and mystic is rich with satire gambler on the condition that he and should cause considerable commits suicide when the policy laughter. matures, leaving the creditor to collect the money. In order that
In "Business and Pleasure" the
there will be no difficulty in getting genial homespun hero undertakes the money, the crook forces him to the role of an American razor-blado marry, and before the policy ma- manufacturer who leaves for Europe tures the gambler realises that he to corner the market in steel and has found in his wife something to before achieving his object gets live for. How he attempts to himself Into trouble with various square his deal without killing him- people, not forgetting his wife.
The shots rush round from ship- self is told with un intensity which
board to desert, and the opening never weakens,
scenes on the liner enable Will to Bill Boyd plays with convincing bring in some quaint philosophy case us the gambler, an Warner and wisecracks on the eternal foko "Get out and sit Oland and Dorothy Sebastian con- of seasickness. trast effectively as the sinister under a tree," is Will's typical ad- crook and the appealing wife. vice.
oleful coun- Zasu Pitts, of the
Booth Tarkington admirers will and tenance and the fluttering expres-recognise "Business and Pleasure" "Figaro" is probably his master-lsive hands, and James Gleason are as the novel "The Plutocrat," and as amusing as ever, punctuating, the main role of Earl Tinker has piece.
the film with as many wisecracks as been taken almost in toto from the
book. e-there are guneracks.
TARRED for the first time. Robert Woolsey wiecracks on his own in "Everything's Rosie," coming to the Queen's on Sunday. Anita Louise provides the romance.
tone is
Apollo Granforte,
This is only a beginning, cording to studio executives. The organisation founded by Mr. F.) W. Thring considers that the country which produced Dame Nellie Melba should be well to the fore with grand opern. It hopes to present most of the great musical classics under the Efftee grand banner. It has already opera overture ready to release.
Then there is "His Royal High- George Wallace's Kay ness,"
*The comedy. C. J.. Dennis. Sentimental Bloko" author, colla- borated in the book.
"Ocean Oddities" is a painless method of educating the young idea in the ways of sea shells and other curiosities on the Grent Barrier Reef. Mr. Noel Monk- man, his micro-cinematograph. and Efftec Film Productions are responsible.
the
With his wife and his micros- cope and his camera, Mr. Monk- man spent six months on Barrier Reef. Under his micros- cope Mr. Monkman shows micro- scopic plants in full bloom, and grotesque, tiny creatures which when enlarged on the screen are as occan monsters.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
ANOTHER war picture is "Chances," which is dus at the Queen's during the coming week. Douglas Fairbanks junior is starred with
Rose Hobart and Anthony Bushell.
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