1934-10-19 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934

BETTY COMPSON

COMPSON MAKES PERSONAL APPEARANCE AT ALHAMBRA Arliss Poignant Study In "Man Who Played God" WORLD ASKS FOR Careers Of CATHERINE THE GREAT EVEN Short

GREATER THAN PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII EXTRAVAGANZA

Claire Trever is coming shortly with Shirley Temple and James Dunn in "Baby Take a Bow."

CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TODAY

AND TO-MORROW DAILY 2.30, 5.15, 7.15, & 9.30,

Whose was

the guilty

hand in this

tense drama of murder aboard a fog-

bound ocean Finer?

FOG

MARY BRIAN DONALD COOK REGINALD DENNY

From the popular mouel and Saturday Evening Post wary by Valentine Williams and Darthy Rice Sime

with

Stars

BETTE DAVIS was born. in Lowell,

Mass, of non-theatrical parents. She studied at the Murray-Anderson School of Dramatic Art in New York. She met her present husband, Harmon Nelson, leader of an orchestra, when a girl at school, She has acted on the stage in many successes with Richardh Bennell. She had migrated to pictures

and unimportant roles till George

"STAMBOUL QUEST" IS THRILLING SPY DRAMA

Arliss gave her the chance in "The VIOLET LORRAINE'S SCREEN DEBUT

Man who Played "God".

She is now

with Warner's, who rank her among

their leading players.

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GEORGE ARLISS was born in Lon-

(By Diane)

dramatic. company when a young man Friday, October 13, 1915 a, ing genius) that made the world

don in 1868. He started his own

His

beautiful blonde girl of 18 Eritish-film conscious. through "The]

and murriel Florence Montgomery in entered motion pictures. This girl, Private Life of Henry VII" has 1890. His firkt London success was Betly Compson of Beaver City, given an even greater production in made with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with whom he went to the States in 1901. Utah, was destined for one of the "Catherine the Great." From Kor- He has been there ever since, with the most. remarkable careers in photo- da down, nearly all the same tech- exception of private vigits to his home play history. She began in comenicians were used on both films, country, and a stage appearance in dies, and in 1919 (how well we old (how this man knows the value of

The Green Goldens" in 1924. greatest films are "Disraeli", and "The movie-funs remember it at the "Lil team work), but the husband of the House of Rothschild". He is now with 01 Coronet" in Whyndham Street) star (Elizabeth Bergner). Dr. Paul she scored a sensation in "The Mir Czinner, was at the niegaphone, and the Twentieth Century Studio.

acle Man," with Thomas Meighan Korda, supervised.

I have always maintained that да born at and Lon Chaney. That promoted)

Ho her to stardom.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., given a real She is an actress of whom we can chance, would prove his worth. His was educated at Mercer's School, Lon dan, and later studied:architecture, only!

His always say "She gave of her best."work in "Catherine" will be a reve-

Hel

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sar), in 1885.

to find his mark on the stage.

To The Clica Pate Alle best wish Betty Compar

Mr. A. S. Konya, the talented Hungarian artist, gives his con ception of Miss Betty Compson,

GRETA GARBO'S CAR] VALUED AT £16 :

Fabled Fortunes Of Hollywood Stars

first appearance was with Arthur One of her most beautiful per.lation to those people who have hi- Bourchier in "Walls of Jericha","

Some of the fabled fortunes of then toured Australia and later went formances, to my mind, was in "The therto regarded him as the son of to Hollywood. His first film was "The Street Girl." (R. K. O.) and an- the elder Doug, and the ex-husband Silent Witness" (Fox 1932). As a re-other in "The Gay Diplomat." Re-of the glamorous Joan Crawford. sult of his continued success he has cently we saw her in "Destination it took the British film and theatre Hollywood stars fook rather less decided that he will forsake the stage Unknown," and "Midnight My-to recognizse this boy's undoubted impressive in the cold light of the

Italent. The part of Peter is "por-tax-gatherer's assessment. stery."

In 1924 she married James Cruze trayed by Fairbanks as abnormal, DUTH CHATTERTON was born in

She started the famous director, but later they suspicious, cruel. and disloyal, and New York in 1894.

now for the screen.

Shots

THE love romance between Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy is pèr- ceptibly cooling off.

Virginia Bruce likes to be known as Mrs. John Glibert, but the studio. will not agree to it.

Ina Claire announces that she will shortly marry Prince von Lichenstein..

BRITISH FILMS 10,000 Booking For Four Pictures

Ten thousand bookings have al- ready been secured for each of the four latest productions of London Film-Productions:-

"Whither Mankind” (based on 'H, G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come"),

"The Scarlet Pimpernel," with Lenlie

Howard and Merle Oberon. "Bandera of the Elver"

(from the atories by Edgar Wallace). "The Private Life of Don Juan,"

with Douglas Fairbanks, sen. The confidence

felt by Mae West's next picture will be "Now I'm a Lady", written by Marian foreign exhibitors in the standard Morgan, with the blonde Mae develop-of film-making in this country is

ing her own script from it.

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now

emphasised by the fact that only one of these pictures is yet complet- Ooked Another Noel Coward hit, "Conver-ed. The rest have been sation Piece" (in which he acted with "blind." Yvonne Printemps), will be produced

by M.G.M. with Norma Shearer In the leading role. £15,000 was paid for the Įrights.

Charlie Chaplin is still the

of the This wealthiest member

film.

000.

her stage career at the age of 15. She were divorced. Now she is happily yet he gains one's sympathy. owes much to the help of Henry Millar, married to Irvin Weinberg, a pro-is easily the best performance Fair-colony. He in worth about £620.-

banka has yet given us. the funious theatrical producer... After an enormous success on Broadway she ducer.

We are fortunate to be able

to

The young German girl Elizabeth made a silent picture "Sins of the Fathers" with Emil Jannings in 1928. see this lovely flim star in person Bergner is not in her element.

Harold Lloyd has the costliest furniture. This is worth £16,000. His fortisne amounts to nearly £200,000.

Will Rogers is the largest land- His properties in and and then when the talkies came she at the Alhambra on Friday, when um told that to appreciate her fully owner. steppisi into the greatest prominence, she will charm us with songs, chat- we must wait till we have the good around Los Angeles are valued in thanks to her golden-speaking voice. She married Ralph Forbes in 1925, but ter, and her violin. Talking of the fortune to see her on the stage in round figures at £65,000. was divorced in 1932; 24 hours later latter, reminds me that her first "Escape me Never, which she will she married George Brent, but is now chances to success lay through her also film in Hollywood after she fin- divorced.

expert playing of this instrumentishes her run in London and on I often used to hear it said in Broadway. She shares the femin- DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.

born in New York City in 1907. Hollywood, that Betty Compsonline honours in this film with the

Greta Garbo, with a salary of This parents are Beth Sully und Dou-knew more about picture technique stage actress Flora Robson as the

£2,000 a week. economises on her He started his than any other woman in film land, "Empress Elizabeth." glas Fairbanks Snr.

Critics state that Bergner is the car. Its value is £16. But she career on the stage, his first picture with the exception of Mary Pick-

I think keeps in Hollywood bonds to the toming in 1923. He married Joun Crawford in 1920, but is now divorced. ford. Let me add that, although it greatest living actress.

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was

He is at present acting in British films is going on for 20 years since this she is a pure delight to watch, and value of £11,000.

first 'graced the nobody could have played the part And on the London stage with marked lovely blonde

There is a Ruccess. Gertrude Lawrence, his lead- ing lady, looks like being his second screen, time has tot dimmed her better than she does. wife. He interfs becoming a British beauty nor her undoubted talent. We sadness in seeing the late Sir Ger-

admirers know that she will give us aid du Maurier, who plays the part "Britannia of Billingsgate." subject.

The

as many outstanding performances of the French Gentleman-in-Waiting story tells of the progress from an East Side fish and chip shop to a in her future work as she has into "Peter."

a tre- West End film studio. a clever Griffith Jones. should be {"BOUNTY" · LAUNCHED FOR the past. Welcome to

little lady who has given pleasure mendous asset. to British films. I FILM OF FAMOUS MUTINY

As "Mrs. Britannia Bolton," Viu-

which the comedy and the senti- to legions of picture fans in every much prefer him to the over-rated let Lorraine gives a performance in

Robert Donat in "Henry VIII.” corner of the globe. (Alhambra),

Every one of the minor parts is mem are nicely mixed, but as she "H.M.S. Bounty," a replica of the

"The Man Who Played God" played by either a stage or screen has also expressed the wish, I famous mutiny ship of Captain

favourite-Irene Vanbrugh, Diana hope we see her sometimes in a part Bigh, has been launched again The Man who Played. God” is n' The story of the famous mutiny,

the Mistress of "Peter") Dorothy from the common cockney accent.

Gordon Harker, as the work-shy with Captain Bligh's quest in the fine dramatic story, and gives Mr. Napier (who looks really lovely as that gives her a chance to get away

husband in a part after his South Seas and the mutineers who George Arliss a chance to portray settled on Pitcairn Island, is to be all those qualities that have made Hale, Joun Gardner, and Allan Jea

heart, is of tremendous value in made into a film, with Clark Gable, him the great artist he is. The

gomery in the leading parts.

yes.

I will not tell the story, but it is

OWD

Wallace Beery and Robert Mont-story tella of a famous pianist who laid in Russin in the middle of the raising the laughs. Kay Hammond lost his hearing in a bomb explosion, 18th century. You would indeed the and, embittered and disheartened.. rails against the injustice of God.foolish to miss this memorable

British film. (King's). From his window in his lovely homet overlooking Central Park, with the afd.of a pair of opera glasses, he reads the lips of people, and thus

Douglas

Fairbanks Elizabeth Bergner CATHERINE the GREAT

FLORA ROBSON

SIR GERALD DU MAURIER.

Doregid by PAUL CZINNER?

AT

THE

onden

Produced by

ALEXANDER

Printuction.

TO-MORROW

KORDA

KING'S

Britannia Of Billingsgate

(daughter of Sir Guy Standing) here for his excellent work with and John Mills (remembered out the Salisbury Co a few years back) jare excellently cast as the son and. Violet Lorraine (who will ever daughter-one motor-cycle mad, and forget her in "The Bing Boys are the other screen-struck...

Continued on Page 18). we find him assuming the role of a Here?") makes her screen debut In beneficient Providence, and giving

time and money to relieve distress.

It is a gracious part for any ac- tor, but particularly suitable for Mr. Arliss. There is a something that emanates from this actor that! gives a feeling of comfort and peace. I feel that mysticism about him, and realise he could not wil- fully hurt anyone nor anything. Hls love for animals is, world known, but in his gentle kind. way he is also tolerant towards man- kind. I do not wonder that as a man, he is one of the best beloved in the film colony. As an actor he has caryed a niche where he stands alone,

Please notice a pretty little blonde, now the famous Bette Da- vis. Here was her first chance to make good, and she took it with both hands

Violet Heming, the English ac tress, should be seen more in the films. It has always been a wonder to me why she has not had the same success on the screen she

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had on the stage. Donald Cook, the late well-beloved Louise Closser Hale, and Ivan Simpson all play, their parts to perfection. film I strongly advise. (Alhambra). "Catherine The Great"

The studio (London Film Co. with Alexander Korda the presid

"Way Down East" will be filmed again, Janet Gaynor looks like being chosen for the role made famous in the silenta by Lillian Gish.

CHEVALIER THINKS PURITY

DRIVE CANNOT LAST -

Maurice Chevalier, the film star. who has just returned in Paris from America, stated that the so- called "Purity Drive" in the film So far there have been three direc-world in America cannot last, "You 1984 tors, for Leslie Howard in the London can't give people living In Film Production of "The Scarlet Pim-stuff which is not up to date," the pernel". Rowland Brown, then Alaxon-

dor Korda, and now Harold Young, the said, young American who edited all the big. Korda hits. Kords expects this young man to go far in the art of directing.

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into sterling. Recently too, he turned. down two big offers from Hollywood Charles Laughton and Herbert Har-arm companies. shall will support Mies Shearer when she is directed by Sydney Franklin in "Queen Marie Antoinette."

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"One Night of Love", the Columbia- picture atarring the Opera singer Grace Moore, is the fineet musical yet made. It has been a triumph wherever. Tull Carminetti and Lyle

-DIANE.

The Hollywood home of Douglas shown. Fairbanks Jar. is for sale, and all his Talbot are in support. local investments have been converted

GALA PREMIERE TO-NIGHT-

at 9.20 p.m.

from TO-MORROW at: 5.20, 7120 & 9.20

at our Usual Popular Prices.**

THE BEST ACT TO TOUR THE EAST.

BEST ACT

BETTY COMPSON

HEAR

Betty COMPSON play on her famong singing Violin

SEE

IN PERSON

LISTEN

to songs sung by LYNN COWAN that will thrill you

Betty COMPSON give an

SEE

imitation of MAE WEST and

MARLENE DIETRICH

BILL BAILEY with his

“Ole Banjo”··

in novel tunes. BEE

PRESENTS

"HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE”

• Supported by

2 OF THE BIG VAUDEVILLE HEADLINERS OF THE U.S.A.

Hollywood's Noted

Cinemaland's Entertainer

Composer

LYNN COWAN

the Original BILL BAILEY-

A GENEROUS EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT

Carried through with a snap and liveliness

that Shanghai sees all too seldom."

North China Daily News.

ON THE SCREEN

al 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

HIS MASTERPIECE

GEORGE ARLISS

Moderà Drama from Real Life THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD

ALHAMBRA

VITAPHONE PICTURS

Douglas Fairbanka "Catherine the Great."

and

'Robson' in '■"¡scene" from'