"GRAND HOTEL" MERITS ITS INTENSIVE
PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
HAND SELECTED
CAST IN GOLD
MEDAL FILM
By "Celluloid” MORTISSIMO
For
praise and
panegyrics have spelled] more box-office disasters than bad artistry, and the his- tory of theatrical and cinematic, production is strewn with the wrecks of good material that the public failed to support. It; is the old old story of anticipa- tion and realisation.
All of which Concernл Grand Hotel, the M.G.M. muchboosted ver- alon of Vicki Baum's best-seller. Crowds queued up to book for the opening shows at the Queen'a yen- teruny, and should continue their frantic rush to break long-distance run records here, for despite tho' ink that has been spilted on its in publicity and the major keys which its praises have been sung. the realisation of Grand Hotel is worth the eager anticipation.
Of all the intensive Hollywood ballyhoo campaigns, the fanfare that heralded Grand Hotel has probably sounded the farthest. Publicity
began writers
on
it from the Brat moment i
(OHN Barrymore, and his famous profile, which he exploits fully in "Grand Hotel" at the Queen's.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
LONDON STOCK
PRICES
MARKET QUIET AND
· IRREGULAR
The following quotations on the London Stock Exchange have been received by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz in eunjunction with Reuter, The market was generally quiet and irregular yesterday.
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£40
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If a selection of the best his- trionic display were demanded, it would probably go to Wallace Beery or Lionel Barrymore, Beery as the Industrial magnat: is different to the rought-neck of Mfin and Bill and The Champ, while Lionel Barry- more, is extravagent in gesture as Associated usual, and brother Jolin exactly the Industries
are impudent rascal as
Arsene Brit.-Amer. Lupin,
Checke
Min.
was suggested and each gill Continuity in where Grand HotJ. & P. Conts tering star added to its cast scores na a story: scenario writers Courtnuks provided additional fuel for their have linked its many scenes
to Distillers Panegyric pens. Every incident in gether into a smooth running plot Dunlop Rubber ita making was seized on for pro-and director Edmund Goulding | Everready pagandu. Critics took up the tale has carried it out with correct at- General when it appeared and fresh super tention to tempo, latives almost had to be employed when the Hollywood Academy guve
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(England) Guinncas Imp. Chem. In
dustries
$2/-
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$ 16
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£17
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£16
it the gold medal for the best pro-ATH biggest names in the Amer-Imp. Tobacco duction of 1932.
lean radio world have been Pinchin Johns
Never has a film had a higher gathered together to make The Big Turner & Newa!! value laced on it, and failure to Broadcast something new in musi- Unilever come up to expectations might have cal filma. been its fate. But Grand Hotel justifies the solid slabs of superla
tives that have decribed it.
What headliners Para- mount have collected The great Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Burns Auglo-Dutch .... and Allen. Cal Calloway, the Beawall Sisters, the Mills Brothers and the Vincent Lopez orchestra Moat of them are strangers here but their names are on thousands notwith of gramophone records and their
radio audiences
must number millions.
If for no other reason, the film earns its praises in its semblance to the original.
Hollywood has been guilty of some terrible abor- tions in the past, and standing the difficulty in cramming the massive tome of Vicki Baum's novel into an hour and a half of celluloid, the makers have sent out a faithful a copy Пл possible. Renders of the book will enjoy the film. They will not earp at any of the carefully selected cast.
Grand Hotel is definitely an "all- star" film: of the sextette of stars
that ran production costs to seven figures, not one can be accused of dominating the sequences.
MESAJÁT FTA FINESSEEN ON (802). CRESTEZIANIE:SITATUELLİ
The
CINEMA PROGRAMME
TO-DAY.
King's: "Woman in Room 13, Queen's: "Grand Intel.” Central: "Law and Order." Star: "Millie."
Matestic: "Peach O' Reno." Oriental: "Transatlan!le,”
TO-MORROW.
Central: Air Mail"
SUNDAY.
King's: The 1tle Brandenst." World: "Hell Divers."
Ware."
Burina Corpn. Canadian
Pucifie Pekin Syndicate.
Rly. Shal. Elec. Constr. Vickera
Anglo-Persian Oil Burmah Oil Mexican Eagle.. Royal Dutch Shell Trons. &
Trad.
59/- 7/3
A delightful_original musical spectuele, The Big Broadcast is a lesson in showmanship by the Hollywood pastmasters. The most popular personalities in broad- casting have been brought to-
ther in one glittering compact COTTON & WHEAT
entertainment.
LATEST NEW YORK QUOTATIONS
hullaboo.
But it is not all harmony and The story which welds the artists together is highly ingenious and contains the correct amalgamation of humour and sen Messrs. Swan. Culbertson and Fritz timent. Apart from the radio have received the following quota- angers, Stuart rwm is the startins on the New York cutton and Of the performers, Bing Crosby's Wheat exchange for yesterday: admirers will be well satisfied,
The Big Broadcast is the Sunday attraction at the King's.
March
May faly October
LOOPS AND LOOPS.
THE "Last Post" of the war December
films seems to have sounded January Life "Reveille of the air stunting Spat production. Air Mail, due at the Central to-morrow
Kings the praine of the heroes of the U. S. May Government mail in nn airport,ly
Sentember allegedly miles from anywhere. October There is a crowd of rough he
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man pilots, lying the usual race vogue, tell the audience all in the Star: "But the Flesh is Wonk." with death, spectacular aerial et scene. They decided on the Molestie "Trial of Vivienne shots that almost reach the standfatter: Whether they chose wine-
ard of Hell's Angels and Helly is doubtful. Divers, and, of course, respective With the mystery one, the Ralph Bellamy is the head heprincipals, and while they all story depends on the acting of the distribution of film-fert is practical-man, sapported by Pat O'Brien. make their exits and entrance in ly equal and the spotlight shines on Russell Hopton, Slan Summer ccordance with the hest Holly It is a new Garbo ville, Glorin Stuart and Lilian wood tradition, there seems a laclt who heads the list, and many f haul.
PENCKEREIunarmennen love affaire,
each in turn,
the not-so-nydent admirers of the Shere will find in her something
MURDER WILL OUT.
that her previous filmas Iacked. ShTHE makers of The Woman in
Landa
has As
o sustaining interest.
Happily. Elissa seldom had a better part. usual she is the mystery woman, evidently in quandary the same as other films, but ban à the inanimate object of the silent whether to make it a mystery or, better chance to show her un- fime, but displays amazing vivacity. `as
is not the Jugrbrious dame of Room 13, now at the King's, Mata Hari or An Chistic. nor weth
Krems
il
to be the prevailing doubted artistry.
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2.2
"TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT
To-morrow's Display
of Pictures
There will ngala be an in- teresting selection of topical pictures in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Pictorial Supplement.
STEADY
According to Messrs. Swan, Culbert- son and Pritz, the New York market was steady yesterday. Business done: 1,080,000 shares. The Vail Street Journal reports:-Union Pacl- fe desinred a $1 dividend which is the same rate declared for the thres preceding quarters. This declaration strengthened the entire market caus- ing shorts to cover vigorously in some recently weak isauda. LacOT market declined moderately due to n dip in wheat caused by reports of continued coni over the winter selt
Brokers ones were reported at $420,000,000 a decrease of $30,000,000 from last week's figure of $450,000,- 000,
tno
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Rullo Corporation
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12
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&
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70%
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24
24
4
4%
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270%
28
Westinghouse E. &
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27%
Woolworth
2 32%%% 33%
Groups will include those of the visit of the Bishop of Victoria to the Y.M.C.A.. the exhibition chess match by Dr. Alekhine, members of the Chinese Bathing. Club, fin- cluding all-the-year-round bathers); and the Hongkong interport bowie trophy.
team
Several pictures will be given of the Macao Races, ag well as a photo of the ferry wharf at Youmath.
Pictures of 'Defence Corps howitzer practice at Castle Penk will also appear.
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n
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