THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1933.
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plays a book-keeper, W. C.. Fields und Alison Skipworth, as two old variety artistes, Gene Raymond, a condemned murderer, Gary Cooper, as a marine, May Robson (star of ILENT studios twice turned Mother's Millions) as an old-age
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The following quotations on the London Stock Exchangs have been
and it is probably on account of Valentino) as a forger, Charles and Fritz in conjunction with Reuter. it being a money-spinner in Ruggles as a shop-assistant and After early armness, the market those days that British and Do-Wynne Gibson as a waterpront, wo- closed quieter and easier yesterday.
March 8. March 9. minion have made it in sound.
Chinese, Bonds It is the attraction at the Cen-Lubitsch who was responsible for
Among the directors is Ernst 4% Bonds 1898.
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ne Charles Laughton sequence.
-434 Lean 1908 £ 68
.. £ 49% run the whole gamut of emo- 5% Reorg Lean. The sequences of If I had a afe Loan 1912 ..
1913 (Ldn. Iss.) £ 79 Свода. it stands out as the film of
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18-24 18-24 like of whom has never been seen Love, the film in which Made.ee in the British navy. He rumps arroll makes her return to pic through the film making the most turas, Violet Loraine's picture of the dialogus at his disposal, Britannia of Billingsgate is in pro Edwards, who also directed the gress at Shepherds Bush and we production on simple lines, has been are promised very shortly the here once before in a talkle, The France Day-Leslie Henson-George Call of the Sea, just before Grossmith-Alexander Korda pieture Christmas. Opposite him is Anna The Girl from Marims, made in Nearie, the heroine of Jack Paris. Buchanan's Goodnight Vienna.
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ICHARD Barthelmesi doni Spanish costume for a pictursique, role
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SPOTLIGHT
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"The leading lady seems to be having a party," said Dick. and Sheila maved aside as a gay group of men and women emerged from the rain, laughing and chatting. The leading lady, in evening clothes, appeared and bade them farewell.
Well" said Sheila hesitating- ly. It was time to get abroad.
"Well" Dick began and then his.jaw squared. "Look pleasant, please! I'm going to kiss you. And listen, young lady, it's not for good-bye either!"
"No For what then?", "For instance!".
un-
of all the Hollywood studios, Constance Bennett and Joel there is not one, more B0 than rea. The Aiummy and Tan Sign Paramount's, that realises the of the Cross continue, while a new supreme value of subtle publicity.nz at the Empire is called Flash Its trailers are gems of the gentle showing Wallace Beery and Karen art of ballyhoo, and its productions Morley A German waiter, big He gathered her, unprotesting, themselves, slices of supreme and helpless, goes into the wrest- into his arms. There was a mo- showmanship. And when it comes ling arena, has several spectacolarment of tumult, unforeseen, to exploiting its stars, Paramount fights, but is counted out by a dizzy expected. Dick's first kiss! An- knows how.
[bionde. Paul Muni continues in other instant and he ! one.
I am a Fugitive at the Marble Arch
As the train pulled out of Man- hattan Transfer Sheila, ozily At the Dominion Charles Laugh- abed, watched the lights twinkl
ing far beyond. Apartment houses. Payment Deferred, which Hong- Faetorids. Crowded,. hurried'
knows well. Rieuard Dix und places, as bustling as New York. the New Gallery. It shows wide sweeping meadows, winding Ann Harding are in The Conquerors But tomorrow there would be American history seen through its rivers, towns twinkling past, just financial crises. Covers sixty years waking in the early morning. It is not one story, but eight. of glorious life, with sentimental Children would be flocking to ng milonaire, Ricard interludes. Under Cover Man at school, herded into safety zones Fenn scatters cheques for a the Plaza shows George Raft and
as the express thundered past, million dollars to sight different Nancy Carroll. It is a very smooth
Small towns with everyone people, and eight different directors and tense production in which knowing everybody else. Calling handle eight different casts in tell- everything is in the treatment; it out good-morninge, "Hello, Bill," ing how the windfall was expends good. Richard Tauber is in Helio, Mary""" Family groupa The Right to Happiness at the bidding a cousin. or sister fare- Rialto. It shows Tauber in opera- well.
It is an omnibus talkie, somethington and Maureen O'Sullivan are in like Big Broadcast with a cast of stars rivalling the solar system. Nothing like it has been done he fore, and in these days of thread-at bare plots, anything new must ap peal.
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And what *names! Charles tic numbers and a drama of true
That was the world in which Laughton, the English actor who is and false love; attractive musically, she would find herself tomorrow, in great demand in Hollywood, though the story is hackneyed.
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It was going to be an adventure. Sheila sank back with a sigh.
(To Be Continued.)
21 YEARS AGO
Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended March 9th, 1912,
The rate of the dollar on demand. was la. 11.16/10d.
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