1933-08-03

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GOOD-BYE SUMMER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933.

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Theatre-goers have a real treat in store for them at the King's Theatre lo-day. "Wild Girl" captures the colourful but elusive spirit of the California mining camps in the gold- rush era, and it dues it in a way that makes the picture Hinger in one's memory. All the vividness and brac ing atmosphere of Bert Harte's im mortal "Salomy Jano's Kiss," from which the production is taken, are re- tained in this delightful Fox Films

offering, produced in

In Sequoia National Park the California Sierras.

WE CAN HONESTLY SAY Miss Bennett in the title role of a

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madcap mountain girl, and Farrell as tho grini-purposed "Stranger," both go far afield from their usual characteri zations. but de zuch notable work that their many followers will be delighted with their portrayals.

Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Irving Pichel, Sarah Padden, Willard Robertson, Morgan Wallace and Mur- dock MacQuarrie enact the supporting parts brilliantly, and Raoul Walsh can take several bown for his skilful direc- Lion

"Little Damozej"

The Little Danozel" is based un the famous play by Monkton Hoffe, which was presented successfully inj London and New York, and given a command performance before King Edward And Queen Alexandra Sundringham.

with

In Introduces Anna Neagle in hor second starring part-her first was Ilenry Edwards in The Fing Lieutenant." The part calls for the expressions of an extraordinary dual personally. One, the sweet ant

Neagle ympathetic Anna

already familiar on the screen; the other, a light-heartest wise-cracking, Imrd- Loited night-club singer and dancer.

"The Little Damozel" opened at the Central yesterday and supporting Miss Neagle are James Rennie, Benita Hunte, Athole. Stewart, Peter North cute and Alfred Drayton. Herbert. Wilcox dircced,

"Reunion In Vienna" Hollywood's veralon of Robert Sherwood's "Reunion in Vienna," the theatre masterpiece stands as direct refutation of the traditional mutilation of

stage play when run through the einriantic grist mills. Indeed, the theatre offering would probably suffer by comparison.

With John Barrymore starred and Diana Wynyard bending the support. Ing cast, coupled with Sidney Frank- lin's superli direction, the film achieves the happiest of results, Pictorially it has a Buid beauty that enhances it vastly and adds a glamor- aus background for the brilliant Sher. wood dialogue. Barrymore offers as

a portrayal as he has engaging a complished in his career.

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The picture will crown Miss Wyn-' yard, we believe, with the mantle of stardom. She negotiates her role of the love-hungry Viennese wife with a genuine sympathy that smooths over whatever wantonnese might have been She in nuggested in the dialogue. beautifully photographed and her

.50 performance fits nicely alongside!

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Barrymore's own excellent portrayal, Naturally, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's gorgeous mounting of the play adds stre and glamour to the Am, which is coming on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre.

Particularly striking are the set- tings and costuming. Much credit bilat

Franklin for his careful translation of the Sherwood piece and for the delicate handling of situations obviously close to censorable frowns.

"Rain"

Joan Crawford, who will be seen in "Rain" at the King's Theatre on Sun- day, is herself far more Interesting, more vital, than any role she has created

upon the screen. Restless, moody, high-strung, she takes full use of every hour as if she felt that

ix all too

too short. She is a brilliant example of the

in "Grand Hotel"}

lite

girl.

And in "Lelty

has been manifest, and now in power the fansed role of "Sadle Thompson" she reaches a zenith enjoyed by few Hollywood actresses.

I ll her

dramatic!

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Ever since she became a star, some Joan Crawford has three years ago, been the perfectly-groomed sophisti ente. She is now in a role which

the exact opposito. makes her nearly

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