1934-01-18 — Page 9

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934.

TALKIE TALKS

Diane

ELIZABETH ALLAN'S HOLLYWOOD DEBUT IN "LOOKING FORWARD”

CLAUDETTE COLBERT AND BEN LYON IN STRONG DRAMA AT THE KING'S.

Charming Operetta "Facing The Music" Marks Come-back Of Jose Collins.

"Facing The Music."

In "Facing the Music" quite

a

new idea of presenting Opera is

In the meantime his one-time wealthy employer has lost his money, his second wife has deserted him, but he finds one consolation-blu

introduced. The story is a lively pampered childres turn out to bo comedy, with Stanley Lupino try-true blue.

In adversity.

I expect the moral of

ing to make love to the daughter the story is that there are blessings of a famous prima-donna, In an at tempt to execute publicity stunt.

an

If you think that good acting elaborate will satisfy you, here is your chance.

Lupino la a dependable comedian, and Nancy Burne, a newcomer. is charming.

-roll Richards as Faust.

These scenes are staged or full -operatic line, with a symphony chestra of 40 pieces, conducted Harry Acres.

Been Jose Collins in her

was a pretty girl just starting on

Lionel Barrymore as the discharged Įclerk is pathetle, but a supreme ar- tist always, and his biggest moment is the scene of his discharge, which he plays with memorable pathos.

Lewis Stone is more or less in

the British screen actresses, so that

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**Samarang."

THE CHINA MAIL.

America's Sweetheart Skates Troubles Away

Martial troubles notwithstanding, Mary Pickford, belovad aeraan nia), whic

mis to spend a cold Christmas in New York, mens to be enjoying herself

skutes before starting off on the ice in Central Park. Right, two inda, who feel an if they nựa

on mir, proudly escort “America's Sweetheart" in a dash around the lakes..

+

We are shown how Chinese are

his Inst

sure

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Short Shots.

Married at the home

on "the

EARTH'S

RED LIGHT

RADIATION

Where Astronomers May

Have Erred.

U.S. SCIENTIST'S RESEARCH

Washington.

HYPNOTIC TRANCE FOR SLIMMING®

American Psychologists"

Research.

UGGESTIONS TREATMENT

Oxford, Ohio.

Science is now using hypnotism--

The outer edge of the earth's in the laboratory at least to aid in atmosphere is radiating red light regulating the diet so that a girl to such an extent it may give as may have a figure alim enough to be

fashionable, tronomers on other planets. «

mistaken idea of what the earth Professore E. F. Pattan and S. A. is like, according to Dr. H. B. Switzer, Miami University" psycho- Maris, of the Naval Research la- logists who are experimenting on boratory.

wh reaching the recasts of the human

Because of this red light ra- mind during hypnosis, diation, an astronomer on a their laboratory subjects,

planet near the North Star for remove excess

example, would believe the earth overcome self-

to be much smaller, hotter and out

ping:

more dense or compressed · than Their six years? laboratory work it really 18. MAKERS has dealt chiefly with Post-hypno-

To an astronomer car

the

tie Buggestions,” in which a subject. North Star, Dr, Maris says, the carries out actions which were sug earth would appear to be only gested during the hypnotic state about 1,000 miles in diameter in upon waking.

stead of the actual 8,000 miles,

LOCAL SOCIETY OF

ST. PATRICK. ·

THE CRIMEA RUSSO-AMERICAN EXPEDITION STRIKES GOTH CAPITAL

3,500-Year-Old Objects

Philadelphia. Digging in the Crimean Penin- sular, near Sebastopol, a joint American and Russian archaeo- logical expedition has unearthed approximately 3,500 objects on the site of what is believed to have been the ancient city-of Duros, capital of the Goths

and appear to be very hot about For example, a girl subject want-

ed to lose some weight during a ' 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit-in- stead of ita actual surface tem-hypnotic trance. It was suggested perature of only about 40 de- that she should stop eating starchy foods. Later some fattening fooda |grecs.⠀ -

became extremely distasteful to her Jose Collins plays the part of the the stellar role, and acts the part vise you to see this film, and give to anyone. When prices go down, the water, and as they are mostly The reason for this is that and she regained her slim figure. star, and the chief enjoyment in the of the wealthy shop owner with even the Singapore screen stars a hand. and foreclosed mortgages hurt the cowards are easily frightened by astronomers learn the heat, size

An amateur actor who was suffer. Alm will be found in the Grand more than his usual skill.

(King's).

farms, the two brothers have ugly hand waving or water splashing and density of stars and planets ing from stage fright, after receiv We have all acknowledged Eliza,|

words.

In so many films we see a man by analyzing the light that ing suggestions under hypocais "Opera excerpts, which include the)

"I Cover The Waterfront." We are treated to a wedding, har fight and kill a shark, but it is comes from them.

found his acting improved. "Jewel scene" from "Faust" with beth Allan to be among the best of

"I Cover the Waterfront" was vesting, strikes and the great Chi-dashed difficult thing to do. In the The earth's Light, Dr. Maris

A boy who had trouble getting up Jose Collins as Marguerite. Dennis it is not surprising to find her (as written by Max Miller, who declares cago Wheat Pit. It is a fine story first place, the shark swims at about adds, consists of both ordinary early now rises at 7 am, and several Hoey as Mephistopheles and Dar the daughter of Lewis Stone) at what he writes is the truth, and the acting from all is irre 40 or 50 miles an hour, and will be red light and infra-red, which persons who wanted to smoke leas

Also there human, understandable and expert.

B. to see it. off like #streak when it sees a is invisible to the eye and more have been helped. Reuter. Much the same can be said of Taking this film at that valuation, proachable.

man diving towards him. Also it nearly akin to heat. He said it is the immortal "Liebestod" from

Benita Hume, but in the role of the If you are out for strong melodrama, (Queen's).

requires a powerful' stroke to pene- comes originally from the sun, as "Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde.".

jungrateful step-mother she has not you will have your fi

"I Was A Spy." trate the tough hide and pierce the ultra-violet light, but is absorbed the same chance for sympathy.

Cinema directors by the earth's atmosphere and VALUABLE FINDS IN "I was a Spy" has been definitely two-inch heart. or-Phillips Holmes, Doris Lloyd, Colin said to have been smuggled into the

Clive, and Douglas Walton (neen United States at San Diego-that chosen by the critics as the finest who are anxious to keep to truth then re-radiated back into space

jas red light. by here and liked in Secret of is, in the stomachs of sharks, whose effort for all-round excellence yet should note this fact..

Since planets near other stara Madame Blanch) are among the mouths are propped open so that turned out by the British films-

may be radiating red light from breathe.

Douglas Fairbanks (Nicholas directed this support.

You and I am not forgetting Korda's Don't miss this at the their inmates can Harry Hughes

will think this a sordid aid to im- production "The Private life of Ullman) is being sued for divorce their atmospheres much as is the B.I.P. production, which should Queen's.

by Mary Pickford (Gladys Mary earth. Dr. Maris says, earthly migration, but it is devised (in the Henry VIII"

astronomers may have erred, un- film) by El Kirk, an old grizzled Conrad Veldt and Madeleine' Car-Smith) in Los Angeles

wittingly in their calculations of prove an attraction. If only for the

fisherman. This part is expertly roll are super, and the rest of the grounds of "grievous mental suffer the heat, size and density of music

It is amusing to me to read the

Ing"..

these bodies, known as “dark Many theatregoers have no doubt different write-ups of critica when played by the late Ernest Torrence large cast well up to scratch.

of the You are and erities declare this,

We may say we are tired of war greatest reviewing "Samarang", successes, "Maid of the Mountains" told by the hard-worked Presa Agent film, was among his best characteri-plays, but this is so outstanding you Bride's mother, Virginia Balfe companions" of stars-Reuter.

that Ahmang and Sai-Yu are real satione.

are held spellbound by the gripping (Sandra Shaw in films) 20 years of His pretty daughter (Claudette story and superb acting..

nge, to Garry Cooper. film actor my natives, the girl a Malay dancing in and "Southern Mald", but

Colbert) is loved by a pushing Also I am asked to state that the aged 32.- memories of thin lady go back to a native theatre, and the man, part

young reporter (Ben Lyon) who is highly muccessful musl-comedy Rosemary Ames, the pretty `gir)] over twenty-five years ago when she Dyak and part Portuguese.

Truthfully they

out to get the culprit of the smug-Falling for You", another British seen here n the British release, nre too well known in Singapore to try to pull gling act, and does not intend love film, starring the two favourites "Love on the Spot", Is now in the wool over our eyes here or there to stand in the way of duty, Jack Hulbert and wife Sicely Hollywood, and starts her American Annual General Meeting

coveries was made by Mr. Horace I met her again. when she was Theresa Beth comes from a family aturally there are many diffi Courtneidge, not forgetting the screen career in a picture with Johrri

H. F. Jayne, Director of the Uni- Mrs. Chatfield, and starring at the known all over the Orient, and be-culties, and the end comes when a charming newcomer Tamari Deshi, Boles. She is half American and

Due very shortly at half English. ........

versity of Pennsylvania Museum, cause of her dancing and swimming coastguard officer shoots, Kirk, but will follow. by the King's.

Garry Cooper will act with the:

which is co-operating, with the New York Winter. Garden, among was gives the chance to enact the ot before he has retaliated

shooting the hero: but-this is a

lovely Anne Sten in a Columbia re-

Academy for the history of the her heroine's rola, her numbers being the song

lease, "Barbary Coast". Paramount

The annual general meeting of material" culture, Leningrad. (Lottie Collins) made Captain Cockle is in the Singa-film, and all ende as it should, mother

It does not sound as if there were In "Bondage" Dorothy Jordan is would not pay him the increase he the Hong Kong St. Patrick's Society During two months of work, much originality to be found in it, surprisingly good. The story is and, famous the world over~"Ta-ra-ra-pore Police Force, and with

partner more than holds his own but I assure you that the whole but human, and I know I was held

Carl Brisson starts at Paramount was held last night in the Jacobean recently completed, the expedi Room, Hong Kong Hotel, the chair tion excavated 60 graves in cata- boom-de-ay", Later once again in an adagio dancer-in an amateur London I met Jose, when she had way. He is a man over forty years thing is intensely interesting and interested from first to last. Fol-in January.

"Stamboul Quest" originally in-being taken by Professor F. A. Red-combs, mounds and stone cists, become (as she still is) Lady Roof age, but with an exceptionally first-rate acting. Advised. (King's). lowed by quite an entertaining little

film. "Ladies Must Love", Gold-tended for Joan Crawford has been mond, the President of the Society. Jayne'said: The relics found Committee members present were: there and 100 skulis prized for "Supernatural.” If I dare offer any criticism of

diggers, music and pretty girls given as a starring vehicle to Mirna

Messrs. E. H: Williams, and B. H. anthropological study, are being She had retired from public life, this, their first screen effort, I "Supernatural" is a spooky story. should mean & certain amount of Loy

Charles Bickford states one mo- C. Hallowes, vice-presidents: G. P. sent to the Museum.

All the material was unearth- Russian Murphy, honorary secretary; M. G. more or less, and this film is a come- should say, they strive too much for A superior cast and handsome back pleasure. Thena, fim for the

ed at Esske-Kermen, one of the back, proving that, at least in velce, effect (like their Hollywood proto- grounds make it effective despite the children the One and only Douglas ment he is off to act in

films, and then along comes a grand O'Connor, honorary treasurer;

Crimea Many of the objects, ghe (a still attractive. Be sure topen) to be genuine natives. This handicap of its being highly impro- | Fairbanks in "Robinson Crusoe offer from Universal, and C, B.Hosford, F. P, R. James, L. P. Lane,/50-called "cave cities" in the Gorgeous scenery taken on an Ia-

T. Murphy, C. G. Perdue, Dr. G. W is especially noticeable in the love-bable.

ranging in age from 1,500 to this making the girl simpering and the The criminal instincts of a mur-land in the Pacific, and the famous returns to Hollywood.

Lilian Harvey's fourth film for Fope and Major E. A. Anderson, nearly 8,500 years are of excel | deress - (Vivienne Osborne) are Star gives of his best - (Majestic Fax will be "Lottery Lovar, "de

R.A.M.C.- man posturing.

lent, design, Mr. Jayne was in There is quite interesting transferred to an innocent girl!

Fay Wray là much in demand and he accounts showed that the formed. They include Jewellery. Oriental Programmes. "Tarzan The Fearless."!

story running through the picture, (Carole Lombard) who happens to

The greatest success any film has the year at Columbia,

has started on her eleventh film for Society has a balance in hand of

pottery/colns and architectural $5,847.92 Including the fixed depo

fragments Following "Facing The Music" is which is a movie 'with musical ac-be: near the body of the bad wornan

Of most interest to the ex- another good film to which to take companiment. Hero, a pearl diver, after she is electrocuted, whereupon yet known in China la "King Kong" Charles Boyer the Frenchman we site of $5,248.60.

After minor alterations to the plorers, however, are coins, and the children "Tarzan the Fearless is in love with a girl much above the girl begins where the murderess and it is coming again to the Orien all liked so auch in "The Man from

him in station, the daughter of a of three lovers left off, until abe

Yesterday was not well frented in rules of the Society had been disa silver plaques which bear fi Robert Hill, the director, gives us Tribal Chief. Buyer from Singais brought back to normal by the Followed by Clyde Beatty in Hollywood, and returned to his ns-cussed, the business of the election scriptions. By dadphering these more ropes disguised as vines then

thriller The Big Cam This tive country, where he le stated so of committee officers to take the the archaeologists hope to learn we had in the Metro version, and it pore offers a reward for the largest ghost of her dead brother, wat

pearl found in the waters surround- Director and capable cast work famous animal trainer had the story be at present, the most popular of place of retiring members was pro- something of the clides which -anables Buster Crabbe to outdo and'

French stars!

Jury Pans Conded/withi, the following. wing have existed on that, outswing Johnny Welsmullerasing an island inhabited by Canni- together smoothly and Miss Lom-written round his ner

Beuter. hals. Oh well-let us leave the dard does a surprisingly good bit of stunt, and be bravely

Marian Marsh, who had", such elected:- Chidr. PH he has a larger vocabulary of words. story alone,cotta 14 Skypants work in the dual personality. lions at one time than any viewed chances with John

Heroine Jacqueline Wella is his The director and cameraman Alan Dinehart, H. B. Warner, has ever done. mate this time,

her career.

bert Innes-Kerr.

take the children to .(Central).

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fine physique,

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*Golden Harvest."

Majestic Theatre.

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(Stacy Woodward) went down to Vivienne. Osborne, and Randolph Followed by a mu The story does not matter, but Davy Jones" locker in a specially Scott are all to be commanded for "Flying High" and then Buster grapples with a dear old bulit glass diving bell, dropped from infusing a simulation of natural yarn, "Trick for Trick". lion, and escapes from a crocodile ja Chinese funk, and carrying 50 nees into an atmosphere which is so pends on the photography to which is probably a pet at the pounds, of meat as bait. They artificial and incredible (Central)over, All going to Oriental. farm I know in Hollywood, where hoped to "shoot" an octopus in its

This Weak ́AUThe Star. you will see scores of these creep-home town, but luckily for the

"Golden Harvest" is a fine plc- Miriam Hopkins steals the acting ing things strolling about with future thrills it would give an "an- children on their backs,

dience, a big shark came along to ture, and does not allow a serious honours In The Stary of Te Buster is duly Apolloesque and dispute the burnership of the bait theme to interfere with entertain- Drake Jack in Koe the film, is interesting for those and the fight that consequently en- ment value-

[but has little chance to who like this type. (Central), MO sued was photographed for the first. It treats of serious probleme, but his worth: Canfayed iti

time underseas. Quite the bart siyesus drams rellewod with ions showin part of the film.

Gaga comedy,“ sented with sympathetic gyd If you know your Bingapore FDI the will recommise the

"Looking Forward," "Looking Forward", from English play "Service", Anthony (Dodle Smith) fa-

Lround Pulau Langsar, Pulan

and Bedok

magni

ficant film-in parts; But its sage seems to miss fire

interest comes from

studies turned n

players, and

makes them

The story

a large shop

book-keeper 18)

the depression.

service

they "erbbar which

During the scene) itive is crushed (pre

death by an enormou told to scream

bor: chap: Zaii

Ing and intell

two brothers are but the stari prove ideal team mates.

(Star); [who]

demanded.

bratis now in England,

Ba

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Cary Grant, David Männers and Randolph Scott were all recently, at

Held Last Night

COMMITTEE VACANCIES

FILLED,

G. Ferdue, G

P 8 Btur

The next item on the

the London Savoy Hotel, and did] the holding b

the “fans”; rush them?---Wall, you know how the English crowd loven Patrick's Day and Its

to save the final plans, to the com- visiting film celebrities

New

lante has

London

ADVENTUROUS TRIP ENDS IN DISASTER.

Of Tiene China At Zamboanga.

AUGI

Announcement

of

the

CHANGES AT: GEN

A RIOT. WE BOUGHT

Facing the