1932-04-19 — Page 3

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932.

ROUND HONG KONG'S

CINEMA THEATRES

OFFICIAL SOURCES.

ANOTHER BARRYMORE

SUCCESS.

several seasons with stock com- panies in Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, White Plains and Albany before venturing to the New York casting. offices. His work on the Broadway If a big and distinguished cast stage included roles in "Up and and a new plot idea mean anything.] Up," "Adrienne" and "Overture," "The Man Killed" should provide after which he went to Hollywood excellent entertainment for the to score a personal hit as the re- "The Front Page." patrons of the King's Theatre to porter in day. The film is based the O'Brien was born in Milwaukee, original French play by Maurice Wis. His extra-curricular activi- Rostand. It tells of the post-war to dramatics, for he was also

ties at Marquette were not confined events in the life of former

#1 soldier in the war-time array. The member of the university's first principal rules are played by Lionel string football squad. Barrymore. Nancy Carroll and

on

American

a

Phillips Holmes, Holmes most AMERICAN METHODS UPSET

picture production recent picture was "An American; Tragedy," in which he played the methods upset the habits of a life- role of Clyde Grinths. Barrymore time for a number of English play- was recently awarded the annual ers during the Alming of John Gals

opening on prize of the Acudemy of Motion worthy's "Escape," Picture Sciences for his dis Thursday at the Queen's Theatre, tinguished performance in "A Free! During the first day of rehearsals Soul." Nancy Carroll was teamed for the talking picture version of with Holmes in "The Devil's Holi. the dramatic hit, a flurry of con-! day," and "Stolen Heaven." Others cern arose

are Tully Marshall, players as the ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield. Tom proceeded without Douglas, Emma Dunn, and Frank, "Don't you think it's time for tea?" Mabel Poulton to Sheridan. "The Man 4 Killed" was suggested directed by Ernst Lubitsch, German Johnnic, "we don't do that in Holly- genius

"Passion." who made "Rosita," "The Love Parade," and

in the east

other screen successes.

PAIR OF PANTS LEADS

TO. STARDOM.

"wood.".

Sue

RADIO

THE

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. 6-8 p.m.-European Programme

of Victor Records,

6-6.18 p.m.Operatic. Trovatore-

Selection (Verdi),

Creatore's Band 35778.

Pagliacci-

Selection (Leoncavallo),

Creatort's Band 35791. 6.18.6.50 p.m.-A Concert | Piano Solo-

Prelude in D. Flat (Chopin),

Ignace Jan Paderewski 6847.

Swiss Echo Song (Eckert),

Marion Talley (Soprano) 6593. Violin Solo-

Oriental Romance (Rimsky-

Korsakow), Fritz Kreisler 1200

Song--

Song-

The Auld Scotch Sangs

(Bethune-Lesson), John McCormack (Tenor)

1305.

Piano Solo-

Impromptu in A Flat

(Schubert), Etude in E Major (Chopin),

Ignace Jan Paderewski 6628.

Comin's Tho' the Rye (Old

Scotch Air), Marion Talley (Soprano)

1146.

among some of the Song-

afternoon's work!

interruption.

SUE CAROL MAKES A CONFESSION. Carol, Society debutante and daughter of wealthy Chicago Sally Eilers, who is co-featured parents, Ilterally had her screen a silver with George O'Brien in the Fox career handed to her on

And then she dropped the outdoors romance, "A Holy Terror," platter. coming next Thursday to the King's platter. Theatre, is thankful to

screen career.

me

Violin Solo-

Rose in the Bud (Forster),

Renee Chemet 1132. Seng-

The Little Silver Ring

(Chaminade), John McCormack, (Tenor)

1303. G.50-7.25 p.m.--Variety. Songs of Our Native Birds,

Charles Kellogg (The Nature

Singer) 35785. Organ Solo-

Call Me Darling,

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Song-

CHINA MAİL.

CLARE'S WONDER

SHOW.

Something Out of the Ordinary in Vaudeville.

-WOMAN- “ GUILLOTINED "

PORKERS' SNOUT BOUTS

-MIND READING.

Something unusual,. something sensational in the vaudeville line comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday, in conjunction with a picture

programme featuring George O'Brien in "A Holy

Terror."

Clare's

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functions, To-day-Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong, and Peninsula Hotels and King's Restaurant.

Theatre;

Entertalamenta. · Today Kinga The Man I Killed."

To-day Queen's Theatre; "Flying High."

Ko - day — Central Thontrat.

Theater

"Graft."

To-day - Majestic "The Texan,"

To-day – Star Lottery Bride,"

Theatre:

To-morrow-Schneider Trio Re- cital at Helena May Institute, 9.20

On Thursday, F. A. Wonder Show from America will make its first bow to Hong Kong cinema-goers. They are booked for a short season only, but throughout the rest of this, week will entertain at every one of the King's regular performances...

The members of this Show are

Lammerts' Auction. vaudeville artistes of. high abil-

April 22-At Sales Room, house- ity, but first mention must be hold furniture, 2.30 p.m. made of chic Miss Marjorie Lou. She provides the big thrill, An extraordinary girl is Marjorie, via Suez (Chitral). who will be introduced by Prof. Carl Martin, the "bloodless exe- cutioner."

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During the Show's stay at the King's, pretty Marjorie will face death at a guillotine, under aland hey, presto! Marjorie steps 300-pound knife, at each per-out from behind the guillotiné formance-four times a day with her head back

on her and yet she does not lose any of shoulder. her beauty sleep over it. To

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Intelligent Porkers. her getting her head chopped Another attractive turn offer- off is like chocolate eating to ed by the Show is that of Miss other girls, and Marjorie can hold | Van Camp and her troupe of her own in that line too, only you trained pigs -six young pork- can't expect people to pay to see ers, two with beautiful spotted you eat chocolates, so that is not marking like dogs: These pigs a part of Marjorie's turn on the are very intelligent and answer stage.

readily their names. They do A Startling Illusion. all sorts of tricks such as ring saw Marjorie go to her bells, shoot guns, open and shut Jesse Crawford 22901. slaughter as meek as a lamb the latched gates, shake hands, and Humorous Monologue→→

other day, and she doesn't strug-dance the Charleston. gle. The Trick Boys,

Calmly she goes on her

Snouting Bout. Marshall Cole 22305. knees to the guillotine and places Two pugnacious looking mem- her (Prof. Martin calls it dirty, bers of this piggie gang are but I prefer the word dainty) named Dempsey and Heeny, and neck on the block, and her hands like their namesakes know every- through two openings at the bot- thing that is worth knowing in tom of the frame. She is secur- the fist slinging game, only they ed in this position, and then a use their snouts instead. They lever is pulled and the cruel give a very exciting three round knife comes down with a bang bout in a miniature ring with and Marjorie's head hangs limp. Miss Van Camp 13 Ref.-and how they do sock each other! In a little 2-round work-out saw, they were both knocked out of the ring in turn, and like true stout-hearted fighters scrambled back through the ropes for more So, you may expect real thrills when they touch snouts in an honest-to-goodness scrap which is advertised

a knock

Gambling Polka Dot Blues,

Jimmie Rodgers 23686.

Orchestral-

My Sunshine is You, Goodnight, Sweetheart,

Jack Hylton & His Orchestrra

Organ Solo-

Khapsody in Blue,

36048.

Jesse Crawford 22343.|

8 p.m.-Lecia Time. Henry VIII (Saint Saens)--

a pair of "All my life," said Miss Carol re- perverso contiy, "I have done just as I want ants and another girl's nature. Miss Ellars, at that time to, and everything seemed to

without effort. just out of Hollywood High School. come to

took it all so much as a matter of had long cherished a desire for a

With the hope of course that I never thought of the getting some extra work she accom- possibility of having to work for panied her friend, Carole Lombard, anything. I was just too easy. who was with Mack Sennett, to the Even my trip to Hollywood which studio. It happened to be the same resulted in my first work in motion day that Sennett was looking for a pictures was the result of a sudden arrived featured whim. I had no suoner new ingenue, because player had walked out on him folia the film capital than I met Nick lowing an argument over her wear-Stuurt-and I was glad that I had He and the casting direc- ing a pair of pants as called for come. by the script in a particular scene. tor of a motion picture studio Sennett saw Miss Eilers, gave her urged me to take a film test, and a screen text and then offered her agreed to do it the next day. I a contract and the part the recal-hal no desire to enter motion pic citrant actress had been scheduled teres, but I thought that it might to do. The part was in "The Good- be a sort of a lark to take the bye Kiss" and proved that Sennett screen test. Not because I Was knew his potential stars. Other conceited, but just because I na- roles followed, earn advancing her turally expected, everything to turn reputation with the film loving out in my favour. I was not sur- public; "Dry Martini," "Show of prised that the test was a success, Shows," "Doughboys," "Sailor's though I admit that I was slightly

National Symn. Orchestra 7292/3, Holiday," "Parlour, Bedroom And flabbergasted when they asked me Salome's Dance (Richard Strauss), Bath" and "Let Us Be Gay." More to play a small role in 'Is Zat So?",

Leopold Stokowski and the the Fox which

Philadelphia Orchestra recently she went to

was just about to start. studios to enact the role of Spencer From that point, things continued

7259/7260. Tracy's "Moll" in "Quick Millions." just as they had started.

Japanese Nocturne (Elchheim), Pro-

Leopold her a long ducers, besieged me with offers of Her performance won

Stokowski and the term contract with that organiza-engagements, and I

Philadelphia Orchestra

7260. tion and the lead in "The Black contracts by many of the important Camel," which furnished her oppor- studios. I played leading roles tunity for another personal in picture after picture and my triumph.

'fan' mail grew and grew.

DEBUT IN "CHARLEY'S AUNT."

was offered

To me

(a) Introduction and Entrance

of the Clans,

(b)-Scotch Idyl,

(c) Dance of The Gypsy, (d) Jig and Finale, Played by Damrosch and

the

7 p.m.--Local Time.. 8.3-11.30 p.m.-Relay from the (Continued at foot of next column.)

Miss Marjorie Lou's head balanced on the edge of a sword after, it had been "severed" at the guillotine.

as "for out, or no decision,"

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Mind Reader. Then there is vivacious "Princess" Zenda, the mind-read- er. She stands blindfolded on the stage and tells anyone in the audience what he or she is hold- ing in the hand, tells one's birth date, nationality, or anything else one wants to know.

The other day she told me that I was holding a cigarette in my hand. Well, that's easy

In the supporting cast of "A Holy these things seemed entirely na-

Prof. Martin takes it up in a enough, because I hold one every Terror" are Rita La Roy, Humphrey tural, since all through my life I launched into an extended course magic cloth and balances it on minute of the day, and the best Bogart and James Kirkwood. had been accustomed to getting of voice culture; I began to study the edge of a sword pierced part of the night, too, when I'm Irving Cummings directed.

what I wanted, and totally without singing. For the first time in through the arms of a chair on not asleep. But when she told effort on my part. Then came my life I worked. What success I the

other side of the stage. me that my "coffin nail" was a PAT O'BRIEN MADE HIS STAGE the talking pictures. Still I didn't attain now

will be really mine. Here Marjorie's head comes to Chesterfield, and that I smoke sec any reason for making extra And now I feel that I am regaining life again and it smiles and them because they satisfy, she effort to retain the place I had my former place on the

screen jokes. Her hands, still in place won me over. Internationally known gained though I wasn't getting any ladder. That

feat My feet are again on at the guillotine, several

Then last, but by no means wave I entirely lost something solid, and I am happy. away, comedy characterization, "Charley's engagements.

the to the audience least, there is "Mysto," Aunt, marked the stage debut of sight of the fact that I had never But it was a narrow escape. at the command of the head-a sharp 'un, who will keep you Pat O'Brien, who plays the young had any stage experience, and that Miss Carol's latest appearanes very startling illusion! Then, guessing all the time he occupies promoter in "Flying High," now at I could neither sing nor dance. is in the leading feminine role of Prof. Martin wrapa up the head the stage. Altogether very fine the Queen's Theatre. O'Brien's Other screen players were hasten "Graft," Universal's stirring news again, it turns into a cabbage, entertainment which alone is success in the leading role of aing to teachers but I just didn't paper drama which comes to the

worth the price of admission, so One day I suddenly Central Theatre to-day, with a cast

Ko Shing Theatre. Marquette University amateur pro- that's all.

that you see George O'Brien in duction of the stage favourite em-realized that if I did not work which also includes Regis Toomey, II.30p.m.-Close Down.

"A Holy Terror" for nothing, boldened him to make overtures to strenuously for a place in talking Dorothy Revier,

All records in the above Euro- and it is seldom one gets some Boris Karloff, How pictures, I would not be in pictures Richard Tucker and stock company managers.

sup- thing for nothing these hard Carmelita pean Programme are kindly successful his efforts were may be at all. I immediately made up Garaghty, W. Christy Cabanne plied by Mesara. Tsang Fook Piano times. seen by the fact that he spent my mind to go to work and I did. directed, the picture,

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