THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933.
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led by director and actors. William Boyd is excellently cast, and good. supporting work is accomplished by
ROLE FOR FRED Dorothy Wilson, William Gargan
MARCH
and Rosco Ates.. In addition there le showing a sporta novelty under the title of "Timing," which in- cludes several Interesting studien In golf and tennis. In the latter Mrs.
"CYNARA” SURE Helen Willa-Moody is photographed
TO APPEAL
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COLMAN'S GREAT PERFORMANCE
(By "CELLULOID")
APART from that box- office success To-Night Is Ours, which has been
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in the course of a tournament match. Slow motion camera brought into use to illustrate her perfect time in ground strokes and valley. This programme has its final showings to-day,
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T the Majestic Theatre, that de- lightfully sophisticated matri- monial comedy Bachelora Affairs, with the inimitable Adolphe Menjou In the lead starts a short run to-day.
This is one of the.
romances of the year. The dialogue is sparkling, the situations perfect for the suave Man-about-Town providing-enjoyable-light Menjou, and-the-whole thing cl entertainment at the ciently handled by director and his assistants. Minna Gombell, Arthur Queen's Theatre, the week-Pierson, Joan March and that old end film offerings in favourite, Herbert Mundin are In- elded in a carefully chosen ALEP- Hongkong have been some-
porting cast. what below standard.
ITONGKONG not like!
T the Queen's To-Night 18 continues. Hollywood displaying
The Mackey Twins, whose polished dancing will form an additional attraction at the King's Theatre from Sunday next..
H Baroud, and this is quite the seems to be intent on derstandable. In endeavouring, the versatility of Frederic March, and here we have him dispensing in his first excursion into the talkies, to accomplish the dual passionate love and a little light comedy. The picture is not to be task of playing lead and direct-taken seriously from any view- ing the picture, Rex Ingram paint., Any attempt so to do means seemed to become inextricably disillusionment, and it is a bad Paul Cavanagh is before the camera confused. The general result moment when you begin to find one has a suspleien that he is in your threatening to steal the picture was 80 poor that one found it yourself picking holes dimcult to find the slightest bit favourite screen star. The whole from the featured players. This f the most complimentary to his silent thing is superficiality personified. young man is one productions of The Four Horse is neatly. sometimes deftly polished actors on the screen, and Walker the in this picture he rigs the part treated by Stuart
offers men and the Garden Of Allah.
director, and whatever its defects of its artificiality and
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YOU CAN SEE THESE TODAY.
"To-Night Is Ours"
"Plunder"
"Lucky Devils”
Queen's King's Central
LAST WEEK
"Bachelor's Affaira"
Majestic
"Golden Weat”.
Oriental
Down To Earth"
Star
TO-MORROW.
Cynara"
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"Laughter In Hell"
Central
Skyscraper Souls"
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"The Devil la Driving"
Queno's
"Cynara"
King's
"Laughter In Hell"
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"Skyscraper Souls"
Ezes her home, very politely but quite disinterestedly.
TIS interest
HIS
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when the girl manoeuvres un- other meeting at a local swim- ming gala. Even then he is not easily drawn into intimney. Not- hing could be more natural than the way in which he eventually finds himself. playing the part of the girl's lover, and all the time hating himself for betraying his wife, The situation grows de- sperate when the wife returns. There is a briliantly acted bod- room scene, in which she slowly realises the change in him. Then dianstrous, tragedy-poignant. and utterly undeserved-envelops all three characters.
dances which few others enjoy. KING Vidor's direction is sen- sitive to the inst degree. With Tap, eccentric and all other types of stage dancing, is included in extraordinary intuition, he per- their programme and their ap-mits you to see (in nine cases out pearance at the King's for one of ten) exactly what the people in week will prove one of the beat his fin are thinking and why. stage attractions Hongkong bas It is doubtful if such penetration enjoyed for a long time.
has ever before been displayed in screen drama. The standard naturally ever a picture enabled one really to know its characters high, and the players, are to see into their hearts and unequal to the demands made on minda-thon Cynara is that fim. them. After seeing it (as you it starts & run at the King's RONALD Colman's Jim Warlock Theatre to-morrow) you whi 100
13 A full sized portrait this Colbert's boudoir when she is in- A this has nothing to do with the the you have notually met Jim ef
stereoscople and almost
con-
LTHOUGH strictly speaking
in construction and continuity, the most pleasant study. Alison Skip- THE management of the King's virtuosity of Karl Struss, the worth fades into the picture and fades oui just us boisterously. She Theatre wisely took the film off, cameraman, cannot be denied.
is not seen at her best during the and to-day, as a prelude to King) Vidor's Cynara, we have four showHE picture has two extraor-short time she is before the camera
Tdinarily weak moments. The and microphone: ings of Plunder, which, sider, in the best of the first is the scene in Claudelic Aldwych cast pictures. In Tom Walls Is offered and formed that it is imperative for accepts an unusual amount of scope her to give up ideas of marriage cinema, it is, perhaps, not entirely to reveal his latent talents us a to March as she must return to out of place to mention a forthcom- purveyor of light comedy, and with her throne in one of the Balkaning attraction on the stage al the the rest of the famous cast to assist states, and the second, the final King's Theatre. Starting on Sun- him, including Ralph Lyan, Wint scene. This reaches a high pitchday next, September, the Mackey fred Shotter, Mary Brough and of male-drama which leaves an Twina, one of the finest dancing combinations ever to visit the Far. Robertson Hare, the fun is laid on unpleasant recollection, thick and fust.,
East, are appearing on the stage
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FOR the best all-round entertain-BEYOND this, the film proceeds at the King's, in support of the
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along fairly normally to its sereen programme.
The ment the Central Theatre ufer- appointed happy ending.
make goed six month's season at the Cani- ing at the present is as good as netors on the whole
both
drcme In Shanghai have any. Lucky Devils, which gives work of their scripts and vivid impressions of the rinits taken March and Claudette Colbert add made these two dancers univer- by "stunt" mon in the studios and some of these distinctive touches sally popular. on location in order to obtain the which have put them where they as the "boys with the -realism of the thrills..is..well hands are. In the cinema world. When feet", they boast a repertory of
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"To-night Is Oura” at the Queen's Theatre. Warlock, and you will understand | X-ray-lsh quality, deriving quite clearly how he came to be good deal from the actor's own led into a paesing affair with a personality, but completely in line shop, girl while still genuinely in with the author's evident idens. love with his wife. Superficfally, | Kay Francis makes one feel the Warlock is a cad. Actually, he is vonflicting emotions of the wife, a man of honour, 'whe remains so that at the end, when the sem- faithful to his wife, in his ownblance of a movie "happy ending" fashion:" That is the whole point is reached, there is no suspicion of the story, and it is perfectly that it is just a concesalon to illustrated in the picture. popular taste. The girl, Doris--a leas convincing. character-la THE seods of Warlock's physical beautifully played by Phyllis Bar- unfaithfulness are sown when | ry, #nawcomer with obvious Clemency, his wife, goes off to ability, and there are good, though Vonico (why Venice), on the not outstanding, performances by 'anniversary of their marriage, Henry, Stephenson and Viva
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self over a young man. The pre-THE English atmosphere is de text, to say the least, is 100 eldedly shaky, London flimsy. The girl,should have been suggested chiefly by fog lamp- slapped and sent to bed. But. it posts, taxi-cabs, and policemen, la enough for Clemency, and away and there is a near-ludicrous Im- she goes to Venice, leaving a pression of a country swimming disgruntled husband, to his own gala (redeemed, however, by an devices, Warlock, returning to extremely elover Impromptu bachelor habits, goes out with his speech. from Warlock), Thu friend, John Tring, and an nc dialogue is sound except at odd. eldental meeting with two girls in moments, when it verges on stage a restaurant introduces him, more rhetoric. Although fundament or Jess unwillingly, to Doris Lea, ally à play, this is an intelligent, who livon In "Tottenham" and thought-provoking and highly en- works in a shop in Shaftesbury tertaining picture. The producer, Avenue. They go to the pictures the players, and, above all, thd (where they laugh at Charlie director, deserve due credit for Chaplin in A Dog's Lifo) and he their achievementa.
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