THE HONGKONG.
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
SAHARA STORY
MOTION FILM AWARDS
RONALD COLMAN IN HONOURS GO TO HELEN HAYES
KING'S FILM
.
WHEN a surfeit of gangster
Walms, sutherlove themos
and musicomedy has left an acute indigestion of those hack- noyed plots and a palate year-
Eucre comes
AND FREDRIC MARCH
FRANK BORZAGE AS DIRECTOR
ning for some of those old-time NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID" exciting romances, with plots, counter-plots, intrigue and hair: 7HO is Hollywood's best received the awards, but youth has
Wactor and actress?. breadth escapes, The Unholy Garden, with all these ingredients, and more, do licately prepared, cooked to a turn and delightfully garnished to appease both the gourmet and the epicure.
Doo at the King's on Sunday, this United Artists' production has more than its bighly romantic
come into its own. agala, for both Naturally one thousand voices Helen Hayes and Fredric March will reply with ono thousand are among Hollywood's teeming different names, for never is them the distinction were The Sin youngsters. The films that earned personal taste and prejudice of Madelon Claudet and Dr. Jekyll which influences opinion, more and Mr. Hyde. Curiously, both films at variance than on the merits were notable for the remarkable of films and the stars portrayed. make-up of the stars.
Helen Hayes' selection gives hor an outstanding record, as she is her initial im
story to make it a relief from the Will find interest in the naming of the first to receive the honour on
n
But theatro-goors the world over Helen Hayes and Fredric March as responsible for the beat histrionic displays, masculine and feminine, in Hollywood during 1932.
FREDRIC March's award
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production. A she stepped into The Sin of Made- graduate from the New York stage,
len Claudet, which was screened here in July, and fow will cavil at the judge's choice. The film was one of the first of the mother-love cycle that is still running: Its_plot extended over 50 years and Helen Hayes was called on to show the gradual fall of the innocent country girl to the derelict, through all the stages of the oldest profession.
It as a remarkable delineation by Helen Hayes, not so much as in the change of appearance, but in the corresponding alteration in volco and gesture,
Helen Hayes mado only one more Allm, Arrowsmith, with Ronald Colman, but is now working with Gary Cooper on A Farewell to Arms, which was Elissa Landi's stage success.
THIS beautiful girl with the frank gaze bears small resemblance to the derelict old woman, but they
ara one and the same. -Sho là Helen Hayes, as she la herself and as she appeared in "The Sin of Madelon Claudet," which won her, the motion picture award For 1932.
recent cinematic fare. First and foremost it has Ronald Colman to make feminine hearts futter, play- ing a bad man with a heart of gold, a delightfully suave rogue with a fastidious oye for a pretty indy. Colman has probably wider appeal than any other star to Hongkong's theatro-going public, and his appearances are so few and far between that the box- office success of The Unholy Garden la spelled with his name, Then, thero is dialogue by Bon Hecht) who turned out the book of The Front Page, with dry wit and never a flagging moment, a big "atmospheric" cast of popular, figures, and just the necessary touch of romance and sweetness! In Fay Wray to offset the villainy. Once the premise is swallowed that a gang of degenerates, hunted by the police of all nations, would ruined isolate themselves in
Fredric March's playing of the Sahara chateau, everyone of the
hideous Mr. Hyde of Stevenson's thrilling incidents that go to make
widely-road novel will never be The Unholy Garden something out
forgotten because of the fantaëtic of the usual rut, seem quite in
nature of the plot and the horrible order. Hollywood always does this
figure of Hyde. Without detract- kind of thing well: there is Tully |
ing from March's great work it can Marshall, in a great character
be safely said that his name will be tudy as an embezzling French banker, LawTONCO Grant as
At any rate, that is the judg-remembered more because of his with Stevenson's doctor with a past, Warron Hymer mento Arts and Sciences, an grotesque figure than of its actual in 1920, li has played in every type
ment of the Academy of Motion association and Kit Guard as a pair of bowery
organisation In
artistry. Critics may aver that if thugs, Lucillo to Verno, the hard faced mistress, Henry annually sits in judgment on
March then It should go to the man his versacity ng an artist with Armetta in his usual Latin role, productions of the year,
with the grease-paint box-who-strong dritlosense and a flair Mischer Auer, Ullrich Haupt and prised of a select band of in over he was--for the horrible effect or light chredy. Now he a work-
dividuals in all fields of motion picturo production, it makes its of Hyde owed much to the camera ing on thedd stage success
the best individual awards on wark of the past year, and its de-may, and even it March did not ply
Hongkong has not yet had an hla own grease-paint; the quiet cisions, while always open criticism, generally reflect majori dignity and breeding of Dr. Jekyll opportunity f ecing Grand Hotel, day, provides an excellent vehicle was one of the factors that made but the selder of that production for the forte of the sober-faced Hyde all the more repulsive, and oy the Acati as the best film of Buster Keaton, and he drives it March alone was responsible fore year wil ad further to it a home with a characterisation peal, if it neļa more, for Vicki Baum's novel as a best-seller, the that is faithful to the last shot. M.G.M. cast laying it includes The more obvious humour of more stars on the milky way; Jimmy Durante also has its op- Garbo, the Brymores, and Lewis portunity in the role of the tank- Stone, and has broken records town stock producer suddenly wherever shen. It has been pass-boosted to Broadway by Profes- ed by the cor in Hongkong and sor Buster's mythical inherit was to have en shown at the New ance. The two present a con- Year, but, Queen's have so ter tinuous tickle to the risibilities. fixed no dolite date,
B
Estelle Taylor. The French bank- er has his embezzled millions with him and the plot tells of the at tempts to deprive him of it
given him for his work in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyda." He is one of Paramount's best looking stars.
ty opinion.
Sinco arch broke into talking | films fra the New York stage
KEATON'S LATEST
Hollywood that "Mr. Hyde" won the award for of film fo Paramount, has shown With Jimmy Durante in
the
Com-
to
"Speak Easily"
HE story of Speak Easily,
nad make-up box. Be that as It Sign of the Cock with Elissa Landi. due at the Queen's on Sun-
There is no mystery about the finish as soon as it becomes clear who's who and what's what, it is Last year the veterans, Mario equally as obvious that Colman, although throwing in his lot with Dressler and Lionel Barrymore, Jekyll, the rogues, will save the money "for the girl, outwit the
others,
and depart with nothing but a rese to remind him of the hours in the "unholy garden" in the middle of the Sahara.
Ronald Colman la the film: ho is in every scene and without hig glamorous personality it is doubt- ful If the film would have so much appeal. He is not the usual dapper Colman of Bulldog Drum mond and Tha Devil to Paj but an outlaw in shabby garments and haggard looks. He dominates every scene because it is made for him and because he is Ronald Colman.
The rest of the carefully-aclect- ed bunch do nothing more than add verisimilitude to the highly romantic plot. They Alt in and out practically unnoticed, which la just as it should be, and is in keeping with the entire produc- tion. George Fitzmaurice who targed the story into celluloid was in his element: he revels in this type of story, and TODVOR his camera up and down through ruin- ed arches and Algerian street scenes to make picturesque shots. There are no halts in his teatro, and his telling of the story hota tens ita romance and suspense and adda to its vividness.
NEVER since "enu Gere" has Ronald Colman been so glamourous as In "The Unholy Gardon," a Sabara romance that comes to the
King's on Sunday. He has Fay Wray to aid his love making.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
The Hollwood Academy doca not will reveal more un to the attrac
A word concerning the story stop at fils and artists but gocation than a string of adjectives. right thrgh the army of unseen Professor Post, mildewed by years workers, um director to techni
eians, plographers and sound in the confines of his college study, men. Talost, these are not even decides to set the world after a names.to the few interested, letter-advises him of a $750,000 Thrown in with a Bad Girrned Frank Borzage the Inheritance. award the best directed film. company of ham troupers, he calm- What tracademy takes into con-ly auggests he'll put them all on siderat when making its awards Broadway. His grammatical cor I am aware, but I cannot join rection of a player's referença in ita nmendation of Bad Girl. to a speak-easy provides the title which dealed to me no having only for the show, and the professor's medio direction. Before It I innocent ambling about the stage would laco Mamoulian for City during the premiers makes the Stredt Jekyll and Hyde and Love show a scream. It has been re- me high, Sternberg for Dis- vealed that the Inheritance letter Jono or Roland Brown for Quick was n hoax, but the writ of at- fill, but that is purely a mattachment losca all its potenco ter pinion and taste, as is my when the show succoeds. subration of James Wong Howe A bedroom and drinking scena best photographer Instead and a bit of apartment dialogue Garmes, who carried away taito the picture out of the dist thelize with Shanghai Express,for juveniles, but for adults, a Untunately, the Nanking edict production crammed with laughs, bad us from seeing that.
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