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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CINEMA NEWS
SATURDAY, APRIL 27,
1935.
guishing features of St. John Erving' FOR THE CHILDREN
BIR WM. PEEL FUND
play. The celebrated namos Justified the expectation of splendid acting performances In "The First Mrs. Fraser", which is coming to the King's FURTHER DONATIONS TO THE NOTES FROM THE
Theatro on Wednesday, As already THEATRES
announced, Mr, Henry Ainley, who had! refused parsistent offers to appear in
The Hongkong Society for the Brilliance of moro
than four hun- Company's invitation to make
talkies, accepted, the Sterling Film
his Protection.. of Children acknow drod years and more of the theatrical debut is the part he made famous ledges the following further dona- distinction is focussed in one picture, in the stage play. Dorothy Dlx tions to the Sir William Peel Fund: "David Copperfield" which is now makes her first appearance in Talking Proviously acknowledged $14,986
of Mr. Li Koon-chun ...... playing at the Queen's Theatre. sixty-five stars and featured players Pictures in the important role
Janet"
First the
Mire. Fraser. The Hongkong Tramways, who have the major roles represent Several of the younger artistes who Ltd. more than four hundred years of con- tindous success on olago and screen have made reputations on the stage Mr. LI Ping*****
play for the first time in talking plc-
Rev. Sister Luigia In size and importance, the cast of tures, and these are regarded as dis- Staff and Pupils of Queen's "David Copperfield" is said to be coveries who are expected to develop.
College without parallel in motion picture into talkie stars. history, W. C. Fields who plays the Immortal Micawber has been a head- Jiner In vaudevillo and a star on the jeglilmale staro and the screen for
Tho
"Rain"
Native extras working bare-footed more than forty years. In "David in the United Artists picture, "Rain," Cupporileld" for the first time, he adds starring Joan Crawford, which was
Lionel Barrymore, playing grizzlod Isthmus,
bo
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mole of pathos to his superb comedy, mandalina, Leland" Letimas, discovered Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., P. and THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN
uld Dan Tekgotty is product of after une day of work that they should O. Building, or Mr. Kwok Chan, generations of distinguished theatrical have heeded Director Lewis Milos c/u The Banque de L'Indo-Chine, folk and has been a dominating figure tone's warning not to step on wet Queen's Rond Central.
on the stage and screen since 1999. spiders. These particular "spiders" Edna May Oliver, who creates the were aplicing blocks for electric cables
immortal role of Aunt Betsy Trot which carried power to the acts for pleurs set at the Fox Film lot proved wond, started her professional career lighting, operation of a rain-making more interesting to a group of 30
other with Lindsey Morrison of red plant, and
of revered
purposes. The n-visitors from across the Atlantic than memory and has appeared in count-tives were playing atmospheric roles all the deserts, palm trees or moun
successes. Lewis Stone, at the end of a pier where Sadio tains the most ardent native son can less big playing the gentle Mr. Wickheid, is Thompson, Miss Crawford's role; the show. The visitors in question were another stage star who has cast his fanatical reformer, Walter Huston, lot with the screen for many years, and other passengers disembarked group of expert Bavarian dancers brought to Hollywood to perform the and other He holds a commanding position on from a ship at the tropical island of unique Schuhplatter" the screen. Madge Evans who plays: Pago Pago In the opening sequences Bavarian folk-dancers in the Fox Film Agnes is one of the youngest players of "Rain Water pouring down upon picture, "Music In the Air," now show of the cast in point of years, but the set from a net-work of perforateding at the King's Theatre. And the veteran of the theatre for she started pipes, sometimes grounded electrical object of their attention was a hugo on the stago at the age of two. She apparatus, and as salt water la full-scale reproduction of a Bavarian more positive conductor than fresh
three village covering some is one child star who has grown
city be a dominating ideal gir of the water, the members of the company blocks at the studio, where the open- young men of fifteen national univer- had been warned to keep away from ing and also the closing sequences. sittes. Maureen O'Sullivan who plays the "wet spiders." In the middle of of the Erich Pommer production word bewitching Forn, who becomes David neene one of the scantily-attired Almed. Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Copperfield's wife, is one
unlives stepped on a spileing block. Douglass Montgomery and June Lang of the younger players both in years and He jumped several feet into the air have the leading roles in "Music In experience. Elizabeth Ailan, who and let out a yell that all but knocked The Air", adapted from the success- tragic the earphones off a sound-recording ful operetta by Jerome Kerm and
plays David's young
and
mother, is another of the younger expert. Action had to be started Oscar Hammerstein II. players who have rocketed to fame in again, and from then on the natives recent years. Others in the cast in kept away from "spiders." clude flerbert Mundin who is seen
"Whirlpool" na Barkis, the humorous cab driver; Hugh Williams, Jean Cadell, Jessie Jack Holt, perenially the popular Ralph, Basil Rathbone
many screen idol of thousands of theatre- others. The plcture was more than goers, has clicked again in Columbia's a year in preparation and production "Whirlpool" newest' starring
und
1s
and comes to the screen as a David vehicle which will be shortly seen nt 0. Selznick production for Metro- the Queen's Theatre, Fast moving Goldwyn-Mayer.
and well-knit, the plot concerns tho carcer of Buck Rankin, a small-time carnival owner who, while wedding chimes are still loud in his cars, finds himself sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years on a charge of man- slaughter. Holt delivers a telling performance as Rankin, and later as Sheldon; squeezing everything possible out of his part, Allen Jenkin as "ne" gives his usual more than adequate portrayal and Jean Arthur is convincing as "Sandra.".
"The First Mrs. Fráser" Casting "The First Mrs. Fraser" presented especially difficult problems to the producers. Primarily it was the decision of Sterling, Film Co Lid, to engage only British artisten of the first rante so that a cast famous British stars be assembled to play gether in one picture. Under Sin- clair Hill, who directed the produs tion, exhaustivo teats were made, for it was recognised that each artiste chosen must enable the director to secure that perfect balance in charac
"Music In The Air" California's sights are all very well
terisation which is one of the distin- in their way, but a certain motion
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