1931-04-08 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY,

APRIL 8, 1931.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

MUSIC

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DRAMA

FILMS

JACK BUCHANAN IN FILM PLANE CRASH IN

some

GARDEN.

ugly stretches Into

flower gardens during his long term. He is incidentally, the

about whom Irvin Cobb wrate a short

name, "The Man Who Made Garden on the Road to Hell."

Man

LONDON. Success of New Musical Show.

Jack Buchanan is back in London. The musical comedy star has been making talkids in Hollywood, one of them, "Monte Carlo," being the recent attraction at the King's Theatre..

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"SEA BAT."

"When in Rome do as Romans do" guided the members of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company who spent two months in Mazatlan

location for on

Bat" "The Son which will be shown on Thursday at the Queen's Theatre. Fore-

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Mies Tilly Losch is one of the best-known of contemporary ballet dancers.

She was brought to London by Mr. C. B. Cochran to star in his revue at the London Pavilion, "This Her charm and Year of Grace." grace captured the town, for she in-

Women Rush to Help which he published under the going for the time being such de- troduced a now style of ballet danc

Occupants.

An aeroplane, one of three taking part in the film production of "The Flying Fool," made a forced landing in the garden of a house at Gresham Road, Brixton. S.W.

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directed.

"FLIGHT."

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It is the classle of the screen's nir dramas. A powerful story of love and honour in the lives of two buddles in the flying division of the United States Marine Corps, It is replete with daring action. and

The thrilling moments.

love interest

through running

the situations is vivid breath-taking

The close-ups taken and realistic.

in London.

liencies as ham and eggs a in Holly-ing. She had for many years been wood, Charles Bickford, Raquel, famous in Vienna, where she was leading ballerina at the Opers Torres, Nils Asther, George F.

House. She had to obtain permia- Marion, John Miljan and other members of the cast placed them-ion from the Opera authorities be- Felves In the power of Mexican fore she could make her appearance cooke who offered them huge

After an interval, sho appeared quantities of "pollo ranchero with

London Pavilion. When the revus chile sauce," "tortillas," "asaderes" in "Wake Up and Dream" at the was presented in America, aho went with it to Now York. In addition to this she has appeared in Max Reinhardt's production of “A Mid- summer Night's Dream" in Vienna and New York, and danced in "Die · Fledermaus". at Covent Garden Opera House.

and "Frijoles,"

And even Director Wesley Ruggles learned to like it!.

MISS TILLY LOSCH.

MARRIED TO SON OF MRS.

A roadshow attraction that will establish new records in "Flight," Columbia all-talking aviation that opened at the Central The pilot. Mr. Richard Yulenold Of his latest stage production, Bush, aged 36, of Red House, Theatre last night with Jack Holt, Lila Lee and Ralph Graves in the "Stand up and Sing," recently put Mostyn Road, Merton Park, was in-

Frank R. Capra on at the London Hippodrome, jured about the head, and his pas-cading role. THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTELE K.," writing in the Daily Tele- senger, Mr. Stanley Radwell, aged

graph, says:

30, a cameraman, of Walden Road, London should be the brighter Welwyn Garden City, received for the return of Mr. Jack slight leg injury.

were engaged in Buchanan. So, evidently, thought! The machinea

over Surrey Thursday night's enthusiastic au- taking flying "shots" dience at the Hippodrome, when, and Londan, one being occupied by another by Mir. after a long absence at Hollywood, the camera-man, he made a very welcome reappear Walter Summers, who is directing

Miss Tilly Losch, the Viennese ance in a musical comedy called the film, and the third by members

dancer, who recently appeared on "Stand Up and Sing," of which, of the company, including Mr. Wal-above the clouds are awe-inspiring, the stage in London and New York, with Mr. Douglas Furber, he is lave Geoffrey, the "villain."

The accident, part-author. If I add here Mr. Buchanan has been his own producer, besides having collaborat- ed with Mr. John Boyle in the ar rangement of the dances and en- sembles, it will be agreed that he lus not taken his responsibilities lightly.

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HONG KONG HEIGHTS

For the Information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:-

Island.

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WILLIE JAMES.

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Her husband is the son of the celebrated Mrs. William D. James, King Edward's who was so often hostess at West Dean Park was educated at Oxford, and now This all-talking sensation is by far was married in New York recently lives in New York, where he and his.

Mr. Edward Francis Willis wife will live. after a honeymoon nessed by many people, occurred on the best aviation picture yet pro- to

Don't miss it.

James.

spent at Honolulu. the fringe of one of South London's busiest shopping centres, and the acroplane came to rest a few yards a tree from a house after missing by inches and crashing through a wall.

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It my be that he concentrated

Dive Towards House. most of his energy on his job of producing the play and arranging Women residents of houses in the the dances-some of which are de neighbourhood had their attention cidedly more ingenious and effective drawn to the machine by the fact than anything to be found in the that the pilot was apparently ex- piece itself. But personally I don't periencing engine trouble and was While landing place. care a rap-and hardly suppose seeking anybody else docs either-what any they watched it, in alarm, the aero- play is like in which Mr. Buchanan plane suddenly hurtled towards the appears, provider it keeps him houses and seemed-certain to strike Beaf sufficiently in the limelight. And one of them, when it stalled and happily this one amply fulfils that plunged to the ground. The women chief essential.

immediately went to the Nothing else really matters-several clambering over walls and least of all, perhaps, a "plot" in bushes to reach the spot, and found which Mr. Buchanan pretends to be a valet-a very perfest valet, as you will have no difficulty in believing- and somehow gets mixed up in an recover a stolen docu- attempt to ment proving somebody's claim to an Egyptian concession, and finds himself, incidentally, as a witness (in a not too funny court scene) airly defying all the conventions of legal procedure.

'The Comedian's Personality.. All that really mattered in the show, apart from its general air of good humour and gaiety, was the dehonair charm of the chief come- dlan's personality, his characteris- tically easy, finished style-a style peculiar to himself and entirely un- forced his rich sense of burlesque, and his gifts of comic invention, na shown in any number of skilful, touches. And as a dancer, happy

there can hardly be any necessity to add, he again shows himself in a elnas by himself, unsurpassed allke for neatness, lightness, and indivi- duality.

in

Us

Rome

in

In a bit of burlesque melodrama, Elle MIBs with company Randolph (his clever partner

and dance) Mr. Morris song Harvey (in a very complete Egyp tian disguise), and others, he gave particularly hilarious moments. And even more riotously funny was a burlesque dance in a later scene with Miss Vera Pearce- "Immense" in more than one sense as a princeas who evidently didn't approve of alimming. Incidentally Mas Anna Neagle, a dainty new- comer, inade a pleasant impression in a poor part, and Miss May Tom- linson (whose name was unfamiliar to me) showed herself a singer dis- tinctly above the musical comedy

average.

Yes! She Sings

rescue,

This is Miss Mabel Wayne, one of America's most popular song writers and vaudeville artistes, who brought thrille to thousands of Canadians aa guest artistes of the popular Melody Mike feature, broad- cast on Monday, March 2, over a coast-to-coast network of the Canadian Pacific Railway Com- pany's Telegraph. Miss Wayne specialises in Spanish themca and {8 the composer of: ." Little Spanish Town," "Chiquita," "It Happened in Monterey" and a number of other popular favourites.

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