Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck and Warner. Oland will be seen ia Fox Film's latest thriller, Charlie Chan In Egypt," which is coming shortly to the King's Theatre.
SHORT
SHOTS
TT is good news to hear that Walter Hudd has been chosen by Korda
to enact the part of "Lawrence" is) this great man's life history. This JOUER actor will be remembered by old-timers bere, when, he toured the Orient with the Courtzeidge-Holloway Co. as Juvenile lead. I knew him well then, and his fature seemed å most promising one. Later I met him in London, when he had signed with Basil Dean, and then again in Los Angeles, where he was appear- ing with Colin Clive in the stage version of "Journey's End."
This
will, of course, near the biggest thing in his career, and it will not only be because of his likeness to Lawrence that he will succeed; the lad has real! talent.
My Loy, has not yet returned to the M.G.M, studio, and is still in New York, as she is sticking out forį five times her present salary. Those! in the know think Miss Loy is making
a big mistake.
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It is excellent news that MGM will star Edna May Oliver in the play "Tish." by Mary Roberts Rine- hart which was uriginally, bought for the late beloved Marie Dressler will be re-written to suit Miss Oliver's own style.
Warner Oland and Pat Fater- son are shown here in a scene from "Charlie Chas In Egypt."
which will be shown at the King's Theatre soon.
Tracy in "The Bright Star," the play which brings him back to Broadway.
Louise Rainer, the new sensation at M.G.M.. will probably play the
when part of "Anna Held"
The Great Zeigfeld” (with William Powell
as the star) goes into production.
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Anna Sten will make a film in! England, and . Aubrey Smith after! Dick Powell and Anne Dvorak have going all the war over to appear in been borrowed from Warners to play "Soldiers Three cannot wait till in the Paul Whiteman musical for production starts as there seems, no Twentieth Century-Fox. sign of its starting for some months.
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Maureen O'Sullivan, who was to have: Emest Lubitsch surprised every- appeared in it too. is still in one by marrying the Press-agent of Hollywood and will shortly start on Sari› Maritza (Patricia Detering the next "Tarzan" picture, and at the Nathan of Tientsin) and now, Lewis time be leading "lady with Milestone has married a Miss Ken- Edmund Gwenn in "The Bishop Mis-dall Glaezner, behaves" for M.G.M.
same
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Loretta Young,
OF holiday in
Ida Lediné will be leading lady in Europe, received a cable that she is the Paramongit, wroduction. “Milky to play the lead in "Ramona” as the Way" with Harold Lloyd
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Janet Gaynor, with her mother and
a nurse has rose to her home in Honolulu. as the little Fox star has
newcomer Rita Cansino was not con- {sidered strong enough to handle the
exacting role.
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The many admirers of Paul Cav
to rest after her recent accident which (añagh will be delighted to bear that, necessitated her leaving the cast of owing to his success as leading man "Way Down East.”
Julie Hayden who made such a hit with Noel Coward in "The Scous- drel" is to be leading lady with Lee)
with Mae West, he has been signed by Sam Goldwyn to play opposite Mir- iam Hopkins in "Splendour", "
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Wendy Barrie (Jenkin) has recent-† ly finished The Big Broadcast of 1935 at Paramount. Jack Oakie," Lyda Roberti, Burns and Allen are among the big cast. Wendynow
which is decidedly becoming
HE ASKED FOR ACTION sports a new style of hair-dressing
And does he get it!
Sol Letter
John Zanki prosent
George O'BRIEN The COWBOY
MILLIONAIRE
EWALYN BOSTOCK
ECCAR KENNEDY
ALDEN CHASE
FOX Betwe
SUNDAY
ALHAMBRA
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935
ANOTHER "FRANKENSTEIN'
THRILLER AT KING'S
RICARDO CORTEZ AND JOHN BEAL IN "HAT, COAT AND GLOVE”
GEORGE O'BRIEN AGAIN IN HIS ELEMENT IN "THE COWBOY MILLIONAIRE”
[NIVERSAL brings another,
Voor picture. The
Bride of Frankenstein,” which will hold the same sort of ap- peal as the original "Franken-
EN
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By Diane October the R.K.Q. release
stein, if one is craving thrills new talent for delightful nonsense and a gruesome-highly, impro-ably assisted by Edgar Kennedy bable-plot.
at his funniest
"Becky Sharp.” the much- discussed full-length colour film. starring Miriam Hopkins, with Sir Cedrick Hardwicke and Frances Dee in chief support.
Later in the month we shall see. "She" from the story by the late
From the beginning the picture Evelyn Bostock Hande. Allen, Rider Haggard-the kind of pic- will not lose its grip and interest and the entire cast help to makeiture that makes a hit with that is if you like this sort of this "Western" a joyous evening people of all nationalities.
the
"Hat Cost And Glove" be "The Informer" giving that
い
thing. It opens with a prologue Grand for the children. (Alhambra) The film which pleases me wil in which "Mary Shelley" (Elsa | Lanchester)," author of “Eranken- stein" tells her husband "Percy
Shelley" (Douglas Walton) and "Lord Byron” (Gavin Gordon) that, horrified as they were by her first story, she has something even more gruesome in the sequel.
tures of the
"Monster"
Charles
Three articles, a hat, a coat and sterling actor Victor McLaglen a glove are clues to a murder in the sort of chance that brings another of those photographed in the highest awards
In November "The Three stage plays in which KKO. EX
¡Musketeers." then a Wheeler, and cels.
Woolsey comedy hit "The Nitwits,” The story of "Hat, Coat and} Glove" tells of a young lawyer and followed by a strong drama star- Then we again follow the adven-his wife, who have separated in ring Katharine Hepburn and the
(Boris friendly fashion. She spends most present screen sensation Karloff), who did not perish in the of her time with a young Green-Boyer in "Break of Hearts." James, as we had all imagined wich Village artist whom she hopes! Merian Cooper, who produced the Wandering, he meets real kindness†,
{to marry.
A cast-off sweetheart never-to-be-forgotten "King Kong.” from a blind begger (0.F. Heggie) of this man's is in his apartment promises that "The Last Days of who shares his food, teaches him when the lawyer calls to talk over Pompeir will be equally successful to talk and makes him appreciate matters. His struggle with the
What is the best news of all is the beauty of life Both Heggie young girl to avert ber suicide ends that all the musicals starring our and Karloff make these scenes real in a pistol shot which kills her adorable Ginger Rogers and Fred drama, and again we hold more and the young artist is brought to Astaire will be shown here almost sympathy then horror for the poor rial, his attomey being the hus-as soon as they are released
band of the woman he loves. No America, starting with Top-Hat In the hunt that follows he loses more of the story; but there is.
"It's A Gift" his only friend and, taking refuge a rather dramatic finish in the Almost a one-man show by com- in a churchyard. meets 2 mad court-room scene
jedian W. C. Fields; and if his style scientist. "Dr. Pretorias" (Ezziest
Ricardo Cortez plays the has appeals to you there is enjoyment Thesiger), who had once been the band in his usual excellent manner. in this picture, even if there is an tator of "Frankenstein" (Colin and John Beal (liked in "Another absence, of plot. It is really a Clive), and by threats insists that Language" and "The Little Minis-string of "Gags" and shows Fields he make a "Bride for the ter") is finely individual and in- in innumerable scrapes, although This scene is a repeti-tense as the artist. Barbara Rob he tries so comically—to do things right, all done with that air of continual patient suffering. that protest against fate and the plosive outbursts which the old- timer has so successfully made his own style.
"Monster.”
Monster"
"Boris Karloff rises to sensational heights in "The Bride Of Fran- kenstein," which is now showing at the King's Theatre
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Baby le Roy poses a few times in front of the camera, but one. can hardly call it acting. Kathleen Charles: Howard Jean Roveral
are Selon and Julian Madison jamong those present. "(Queen's).
"Great Expectations” Dickens-lovers should be pleased with the Universal's job of trans- ferring one of his greatest mystery stories to the screen Henry Hull's characterisation of the con- vict whose gratitude for a boy's momentary sympathy becomes a raling passion is excellent Scarce- ly less fine is Phillips Holmes (alas, far too seldom seen in pic- tures these days) as the boy brought up with great expectations of wealth from a secret benefac
The backgrounds are like an old book and the script is splendid. Fine cast in support, and I noticed an old stage favourite of mine from Broadway, Florence Reed, who does well in his, her first film. George) Breakston and Anne Howard are splendid in the roles of the children, and Alan Hale is a sterling actor on whom one can always rely.
Jane Wyatt (also from Broad- way) Francis L Sullivan, Jackie Searl Rafaela Ottiano and many
tion of what we saw in "Franken-bins, of the stage, does fairly well more, with understandable direction Josephine Hutchinson and Warren stein;" a body pieced from odds as the wife, and Dorothy Burgess by Stuart Walker. (King's) William (Warners) will play the leads and ends collected any where, my-and David Durand are two film in A Present From Margate", the sterious bubbling tubes, spectacu-artists
who never disappoint.
flm version of the play by Ian Hayar electric discharges and the usual Worth seeing (Queen's)
and A. E. W. Mason......
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thunderstorm which brings the de-
Eddie Quillan is allowed to gosired result. dramatic in "Mutiny on the Bounty,"
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picture.
Star, Kowloon
A Charlie Chaplin comedy with When the "Bride" (played by sound effects precedes the big the MGM production with Clark Elsa Lanchester) comes to life she Gable in the leading role.
is repelled by the Monster, and George Cukor, the "Ace" director, will have nothing to do with him. will now receive from M.G.M. the In despair the monster seizes highest salary paid to any director. It runs into the neighbourhood $750.000 for a three-year contract DIANE
ET.EN.
DUNNE
··FRED ASTAIRE
GINGER ROGERS
OB:
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Jerome Kera's dazzling musical stage hit, screen=" ed in splender!
TO NIGHT at the STAR
Brisson, Gertrude Michael and Kitty Carlisle.
Followed by "The Sign of the Cross,? with Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Fredric March and Charles Laughton in one] of the famous Cecil B. de
On Friday at the 9.20 show, the Mille absurdities-I frankly say lever and blows up the whole popular management promise a that because he turns a beautiful] laboratory, thus ending his own Gala Evening, with "Roberta," the story into a far-fetched extrava- life and that of the "Monstress highly successful musical starring ganza.
Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Ginger Rogers, Irene Dunne, Fred Again a musical follows, Carl Laughton-well known as hostess Astaire and Randolph. Scott. This Brisson, singing "Little White in famous night-clubs in London, is easily one of the frest--if not Gardenia" in "All the King's then later in "Henry VIII and the finest yet produced by Horses," with Mary Ellis equally "Naughty Marietta") appears only R. K. O. Tuneful, melodies, marvel-good in support
for two short intervals, but does lous dancing from the two stars, Cecil B. de Mille makes money for what she has to do really well the most beautiful gowns worn by Paramount, so what matters it Colin Clive, 0. P. Heggie the world's loveliest mannequins, that he re-writes history to please Ernest Thesiger. Valerie Hobson. Humour, drama and everything the box-office? See Cleopatra” Beginald Barlow, Una O'Connor that will please the most jaded with Claudette Colbert, Warren and many more surround the real taste
PARA William, Henry Wilcoxon and star, Karloff James Whale again Then later on in the week, thongands more, and agree that at
unite one night of least. C. de M. can handle crowds. directs, supplying a full quota of Param
favourites (Let I still think (with many others) that Mae West has never done a
türliz. (King's)
“The Cowboy
Any hilarious
the
&Bengal
Benny
Camusing film than her.
icle She Done
with Cary Grant Continued on Page 1217
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Bride of FRANKENSTEIN
TO-DAY
AT KING'S
THIS
NEWS of the QUEEN'S THEATRE
The Management of the Queen's Theatre- has informed us that they have contracted for the coming season, the product of the two biggest film producers in the world.
WARNER - FIRST NATIONAL and PARAMOUNT
WATCH FOR THESE PICTURES
"The CRUSADES" "GOLD-DIGGERS” “BLACK FURY,” “IN CALIENTE”
"BECKY SHARP”
Boris Karlon enacts the monster again in his latest picture The Bride of Frankenstein", which is now showing at the King's Theatre.
A: Henry Hull and George Breakston, as they appear in the Uni- versal picture “Great Expectations,” which is coming shortly to the King's Theatre.
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