1934-11-16 — Page 7

SUNDAY

AT THE

KING'S

RICH MEN MADE LOVE TO HER!

Butshe couldn't cook,saw, bake a cake, or take care of bablar well enough to win a poor chauffeur's - hearti

Janet

GAYNOR

Low

AYRES

Servants' Entrance

AT

THE

A FOX Picture with

NED SPARKS WALTER CONNOLLY LOUISE DRESSER G./P, HUNTLEY," JR, ASTRID ALLWYN SIEGFRIED RUMANN

Produced by Winfield Shashan Directed by Frank Lloyd

From the novel by Sand Ban

-SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION

ON THE STAGE

·

THE FAREWELL PERFORMANCE OF THE SOUTH WALES BORDERERS BAND

WILL PLAY

ON SUNDAY, 18th AT 9.30 P.M. ONLY.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

MAJESTIC AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20,

SYLVIA SIDNEY

IN

"THIRTY-DAYS PRINCESS

WITH

CARY GRANT

FROM SUNDAY.

Wah.....

BRUCE CABOT BETTY FURNISS Frank, Allsortion, Piècense Lake, Purshil Pratt, Arthur, Lukoy John Darrow, Margaret Seddon

R KO

RADIO

Picture...

CENTRAL

LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY'

2.30, 5.15, 7.15, & 9.30.

A showgirl—a Society husband, in the gayest romantic comedy

of the year!

COLLEEN MOORE Social Register

TO-MORROW

THE PICTURE THAT

OVER SHADOWS ANY ONE EVER MADE !! “THE LEGEND OF SIEGFRIED

COLOSSAL CLIMAX OF ACHIEVEMENT. WITH

•MUSIC AND SOUND

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1934

MILLION SWEETHEARTS" Short BRINGS NEW TOUCH

FREDRIC MARCH'S MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE IN NOVEL FILM "DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY"

Janet Gaynor as she appears in "Servanta Entrance" at the King's Theatre over the week.

end.

Careers Of The Stars

EY

VELYN VENABLE is

Shots

NEVA Plibeam, the 15-year-old

See it when it's 'NEW & UP-TO-DATE and at the most Popular Prices TO-MORROW. at the

Nacreen sensation in British fime is ALHAMBRA

in New York for the premiere of her Alm "Little Friend." Jack Hulbert' is also over there making a personal ap- pearance at his film, now showing in New York,

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Zelma O'Neal, wife of Anthony') Bushell, has at last come into her own in British films. · After successful ap- pearances on `the stags with Lealle Henson, sho. is co-starred with The Shall, Continental stor, and. Edmund Gwenn in a musical. J

two British pictures next year.

JANET GAYNOR AND LEW Erncet Lubitsch: will direct perhaps

AYRES PAIR UP AGAIN

It is not yet decided who will play | Sydney Carton in “Tale of Two Cities,” but Warner Baxter, Ronald Colman or

Frank Lloyd directing.

CENSORS' EYE ON “GRAND CANARY" Lealle Howard will be chosen, with

TWENTY Million Sweet-

By Diane

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Ronald Colman is at work on "Olire of India," which to still being played successfully by Leslie Banks'on the stage in London.

hearts" represents one of the best musicales we have yet had. Mr. Busby Kerkeley has been given a holiday, so we are not given endless reels of dance evolutions from this famous dance director and his girls. Holiday" which However clever they are."" one

It is a morrow at the Queen's. Itires of the sameness.

commences

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TOVELTY is the keynote in the received for her great work in "As the Jean Muir, who was so favourably

unusual film "Death Takes a Earth Turna," will be leading lady

with Leslie Howard under the direc ..to.

tion of Frank Borzage in "Betsy." Here is a good story, well told, picture no intelligent person should

Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper withi Pat O'Brien superlative as the miss, as it is strangely beautiful will be co-starred in an adaptation of and haunting, with specially fine the book of "Carmen," not the Opera. humptuous self-opintated go-getter

dialoguer Radio scout. He discovers a sing-

From the opening shot, showing British offer for the time being, so Joel McCrea has had to refuse his ing walter (Dick Powell), and, al-1 though the lad proves a flop in his a sinister shadow, the feeling is that he can appear opposite Marlene audition, with the help of a fellow conveyed that it is all fantasy. To Dietrich with direction again from entertainer (Ginger Rogers) he brilliant house comes a handsome von Sternberg.

finds his true value, and he later dark stranger "Prince Sirki" it is

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becomes the idol of the Radio fans. Death himself, who wishes to stay, Anne Harding will have Charles The song numbers are something among men and women for threeLaughton and Charles Boyer as her leading men in "Peacock Feathers" to remember, including the now days, and experience their passions which they are doing for an Independent famous "Man on

stodio, the Flying and love."

Boyer recently left Holly Fredric March in the leading role, wood for France, but was quickly back Trapeze", and "String Along with Me." The Four Mills Brothers has a difficult part, but plays within the only film centre, that really power and assurance. To my mind, counts, Britishers and foreigners make some effective appearances, as he has seldom given a finer charac-alike know that to be away from also do the Three Ragues (seen here terisation.

Hollywood for long means a quick! death to their screen careers.. in "Going Hollywood").

Evelyn Venable (seen here Jenkins is really indescribably funny cently in "David Harum"), as the as "Uncle Fete" of the Kiddie's heroine who loves the man, is be- Hour.

lievable and ethereally lovely. Ginger Rogers, for a change, has), almost a straight part to play, and holiday, the world knows no des- While the Grim Reaper takes his leaves the wisecracking to others. truction. There are accidents, sui- She is charming, and you will love cides, terrible disasters, but nothing her in the duet with Dick Powell.

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Allan

I do not say that this claims to

ends fatally

re-

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Gaynor in "Way down East Hemem- Lew. Ayres will be opposite Janet ber: Lilian Gish and Dick Barthelmess in the movies?

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Bert Lytell and Lila Lee, both favourites in the Movies are in anc- cessful plays on Broadway..

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Marilyn Millar, the famous Ziegfeld

be one of the pretentious musicals: Extra fine support comes from turned out by the Studio that gave Sir Guy Standing, Gail Patrick Follies dancer, has run away and mar:/ nineteen us "42nd Street", and "Gold-diggers and Katherine Alexander, with fled one of the members of the Palles

years of age. Her father is one of 1993", but I think I can guaran masterly direction creating the right choras DIANE of the most noted authorities on tee that you will enjoy it far more mood throughout the picture. Ad-w Shakespeare in the States. Evelyn

started her theatrical work in Walter than the recent ones from the same vised.

Hampden's Shakespearean Co., and, studio. Advised) (Alhambra).

after small parts, played "Ophelia" to

Hampden's "Hamlet" from coast to coast. She was soon by a Paramount scout, and was given a chance in the filme. A press agent put her before the public by the untrue statement. that in her contract she was not to be kissed. Her first film was with Will Rogers in "David Harum," and she then played in "Cradle Song." She is Funmarried.

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REDRIC MARCH'S real name is Frederick Macintyre Bickel. Ho was born in 1898, and married Florence Eldridge, an actress, in 1927. He, has two adopted children. Fredric started to earn his living in a New York City Bank, but then went as stage manager in a Stock Co.,-and was given a chance at films with Baramount in 1929. He first came into prominence with his portrayal in "The Royal Family," and later won worldwide renown in "Jekyll and Hyde." He is still with Paramount; but will soon go to Twentieth Cen- tury."

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HENRY GORDON'S real name is

Elsie Randolph and Attin Melford will be appearing in "Night Of The Garter" at the Star Theatre.

(Continued on Page 13)

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HOLLYWOOD'S NEWLYWEDS

Ginger Rogers And

Lew Ayres

BOTH APPEARING HERE OVER THE WEEK-END

A

T two different theatres this week-end we will have the newly-married Alin stars, Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres. The former in Twenty Million Sweet- hearts" and the latter in. "Ser- vant's" Entrance.”

Mrs Ayres the Second (Lola Lane was the, first) has made herself a big favourite every-

Henry Racke. He is of bavarian ROMANCE IN NAVAL where. Her first film was a minor

parentage and was educated -in, Ger- many and Switzerland. He did stage work in the States, then Broadway,

and then finally came to the pictures.

ACADEMY

His first chance was in "Renegades" "Midshipman Jack? Good

with Warner Baxter, and he is now

on contract with M.G.M. He has mar fried four-times, and is outstanding In]

villain roles. "

Entertainment

role with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Foster..

(Claudette Colbert) in Young Man of Manhattan," and her second with, Joe Brown in "The Tenderfoot." It is in musicals that this pretty red-haired girl Although life at Annapolis le scores, and few can put over a chiefly the training of embryo ad number better than she can.. PICHARD ARLEN, who real name mirals at the United States Naval She started her career by win-

Is Van Mattemore, was born in 1899. During the World War he was

Academy, it is also vested with its ning a Charleston contest, then with the R.F.C. He married Joba romantic episodes, as pointed out toured in vaudeville; and et Ralston in 1927, and has one son. He by "Midshipman Jack, REO-Radio sixteen married a fellow artist, started with Paramount in pletures after being a Sporting Editor, and has Pictures comedy-drama coming to Jack, Pepper, but the marriage never been with any other, studio.

the Majestic Theatre on Sunday was dissolved three years later. I

TISTHER RALSTON has been

on Furnesa.

Bruce Cabot and

Betty think she is in a class with Joan Blondeli and Glenda Farrell when

the stage since she was two. Her Cabot, Miss Furness and John it comes to wisecracks, and there first screen success was in "Peter Darrow provide, the romantic seems no doubt that this pretty Pan," but later came to stardom in triangle of "Midshipman Jack. 28-year-old girl will go far in her the movies.Sho later appeared in vaudeville and British, pictures. She Darrow Introduces Cabot, to Betty, screen career.

le married and divorced, having had and, seeing that the two are drawn Lew Ayres is 26. After a ( \reer one daughter. She is now on an to each other, Darrow lies to Cabot, at the University of Arizona, he M.G.M. contraét.

Informing him that he and Betty started to earn his living playing the banjo in a Hotel Orchestra in Cabot steals Los Angeles, When a good look- finds favouring youth was required for the part and The Kiss with Garbo, he was

ALLAN DINEHART was born in are engaged.

1889 He was intended for the To learn the truth Church, but decided to go on the out of quarters and stage, Prominent on the variety and with the dramatic stage before taking to film work, this first success was In The Triél of Vivienne Ware" Heis usually in villain roles.

WARNER BAXTER S born ALAND18925

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THE BIG PARADE OF RADIO SET TO LAUGHS AND MUSIC

BY WARNER BROS

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20

MILLION SWEET- HEARTS

DICK POWELL

GINGER ROGERS

THE - MILLS BROS.

TED FIORITO & BAND

ORIENTAL

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT DAYS

ROAD

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ONLY TO-DAY & TO-MORROW THE FAMOUS ARLISS

certainly reached the height of his brilliant career

When he made this comedy screen epic.

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ARLISS

The Working Man

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PICTURE