1935-10-18 — Page 11

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"WINGS in the DARK"

FROM TO-MORROW AT THE QUEEN'S

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SHOTS

There is a strong Tumour in Hollywood that Paul Cavanagh will shortly marry the writer sister of Marian Davies,

This will be Cavanagh's first marriage.

Sylvia Sydney has signed to Para- mount for a further two years at the salary of $3.000 a week, and from a box-ce point of view she is worth

recently Jesse Lasky, who has formed a-zew organisation with Mary Pickford, his signed Francis Lederer among his first stars. Now we shall see the famous stage idol in roles, more worthy of his talent ard personality, it is hoped.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1935

SHIRLEY TEMPLE AMAZES IN

"CURLY TOP"

MYRNA LOY AND CARY GRANT IN "WINGS IN THE DARK"

SPENCER TRACY AND HARVEY STEPHENS

OUTSTANDING IN "MURDER MAN

FOX Studio rightly claim that

the

"Curly Top" is "Tops" for]".

Miracle Child Shirley

Temple, and that she will find

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and even if it taxes your credulity a bit, you will admit}} |that "Wings în the Dark” pro-

it almost impossible to better Rafaela Ottiano are two fine vides thrills in plenty- Cary her great outstanding perform-actresses who make "hits" remem-Grant has his best part to date. ance in this delightful romance: bered

and his performance is excel"|

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I thoroughly agree with this Let me sum up the amazing lent. statement, but still have child Shirley in the words deliver The story tells of an aviator secret hankering for a little ed by the famous writer Irvin who has invented a device which more of this amazing child's Cobb when he presented, at the he believes will make “blind · fly- powers in dramatic moments.......

Academy Award banquet, the ing safe. On the eve of a great as she had in the never-to-be-special gold statuette given to fight he is blinded by an explo forgotten "Little Miss Marker."

Shirley for topping all box-office sion and, his career being prac- Her only moments in *Curly

"When Santa tically over, he writes articles on Top" are shared with the adorable records for 1935. gifted little pony "Spunky Don't Claus did you up in a package, aviation. Through all his trouble be ashamed of the lump in your and, dropped you down Creation's he has one real girl-friend. "Sheila chimney, he brought the loveliest Masca" (Myrna Loy), who gives throat when she prays that "he

dog as "Seeing pe will not catch p-monia". Quickly Christmas present that I can think him ■ she changes your tears to laughter, of in all the world”. On April 23 (This animal. be it a

Shirley was but six years

of age; srandson of the far and the angelic little face is not

yet in a few short months she has heart"). Also she pretends to sell long clouded with sorrow...

This story, based on the memor-given eight box-office hits, "Curly his articles and buys them herself. able Mary Pickford movie and the Top being her latest release. Sheila is only a stunt fyer at Janet Gaynor talkie "Daddy Not to be missed. Due on Friday country fairs, but is given a grand Longlegs," gives a chance for at the King's and later on in the chance for a non-stor fight from Moscow to New York She runs Shirley to be a ringleader of other week at the Alhambra

into a fog near_the_ American little orphan girls, a mischievous,

This is a film that will partien-coast. and here "Ken Gordon" lovable. gleeful little girl who wants to "Sing and Sing and Singlarly thrill the youth of the town (Cary Grant)-blind as he is From the start to the finish she Its story concerns the operations Des up and guides her to the captivates all hearts, young and old of the Michigan State Police and landing field by means of his in- alike. with her winsomeness and how they "get their man". It is vention. genius-I never „use

other made interesting from the view Amelia Earhart advised on the from this word in reference to this child. point alone of seeing how the technical details. so

point of view the picture is an achievement, but also the acting There is a competition running police are trained

Sir Guy Standing is seen in a in the local papers for the people's choice of the outstanding

song new light-a master-mind behind from the whole cast is all numbers. From a musical point a gang of crooks. Fred MacMur Could desire and I think Miss Loy of view, I would choose "Animal Iray is the young police recruit who equally good in a sentimental set- nextCrackers in my Soup" and "Curly falls foul of the Sergeant-in-ting as in light comedy. Roscoe Top". (the latter delightfully sung charge (William Frawley) when Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh. Russall by Jehn Boles) but for a chance

Arline Judge. the Fox Film teres vides the feminine in- terest in the mirth-filled comedy "Welcome Home" which will be shown at the Alhambra Wednesday.

steamer, all in Honolulu contributed ten in a tramp alone, and is thrilled with everything each towards the lovely gift. he sees in the Old Country..

in th

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to enjoy the versatility of Shirley. then "When I Grow Up"

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lead.

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Shirley is given endless oppor-

Noah Beery starts on is second tunities to wear the very latest in Mervyn le Boy will direct Fredric British picture shortly. His son "What the Modern Young Miss of March in "Anthony Adverse, and Noah recently became engaged to the Six will Wear", and her beauty is Warners are now testing other daughter of Buck Jones artists, as there will be 78.speaking parts

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Metropolitan

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breath-taking when she appears in old-fashioned gowns copied from Bing Crosby is angry at cast in "Opera - versus Jazz." He famous paintings, even in a start- Max Reinhardt is anxious to pro-will do the modern crooning style ling likeness to the Painting of duce. "Faust" with Garbo as “Mare while

Opera star his Mother by Whistler and, don' guerite

eBela Lugosi as "Mephisto Gladys Swarthout will do the Opera, let it be forgotten, ending the song pholes" and -Fredric Maren ax and the story discusses just what the

Which will win? which gives her such scope with ***Faust.*

a neat tap-dance. It is not only Paul Muni, now

an Shirley's beauty that captivates: adaptation of the life of the biologist it is her sweet naturalness that is Zanuck features "Buck" (who Louis Pasteur, will later on be the her greatest charm and that has

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The first picture in which a dog is the star will be seen when Darryl

"stole all honours in The Call of

the Wild"). Not since the days of "Rin Tin Tin” have we seen a dog started...

Carole Lombard will appear for Universal" in “Spinster's Dimmer,” and Frank Lawton is back with the same- studio, ready for work on "The Sun Never Sets," a story of the British Diplomatic Service.

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Irene Castle, whose amazing ball- room dancing revolutionised this ert when she was the great star attraL- tion in the United States and on the Continent with her husband, the late Vernon Castle, will really make a return to the screen shortly. She

is now married to a wealthy Chicago broker, and has one daughter.

Charles Bickford and John Bales will support Shirley Temple in "The Littlest Rebel" While on her visit to Honolulu. Shirley was presented with a Japanese doll, six feet tall, re- presenting a bride in full regalia The gown is several hundred years old, and the figure has real hair and wears real silver ornamentis Twenty thousand Japanese children

He

Knew the Answer to A

Every Crime!

MURDER

SPENCER

TRACY

VIRGINIA

title conveys

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at work or

Karen Morley plays a leading part in Thunder in the Night," a detective story

in which Edmund Lowe is featured as a Temantic gentleman detective. The picture will be shown at the King's next Wednesday.

(the

lead in "The Good Earth" for MGM Pearl Buck novel) and in re- turn Robert Montgomery will be lent to Warner's for a picture. * *

on contract

Heather Angel, now with R.KO, will be the leading lady with Richard Dix in his first picture after returning from England.

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Norma Shearer named her daugh ter "Katherine" in honour of the famous stage -actress Katherine Comell, the original “Fizabeth Browning"

Shirley Grey recently became engaged to Arthur Margetson, the British actor when they met making the British picture "The Mystery of

Grey is the only female.

BRUCE the Marie Celeste, wherein Miss

SUNDAY AT

ALHAMBRA

Frank Morgan and Heather Angui

inher

endeared her to picture “fans” thẻ: world over.

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-"Car 99"

Songa and: dances feature Shirley Temple's “Carly „Top”. 'which is now showing at the King's Theatre.

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Hopton and others, with good un- derstanding direction by James Flood

Good popular entertainment. recommended for the aerial thrills land acting. (Queen's).

"Murder Man"

A mysterious murder provides the problem and a bustling Dews- paper office the background for this well-acted story. Spencer Tracy (now out of Fox and sign- [ed to MGM) has his best part for a long while. He is thorough- ly convincing as the man who gets front-page murder stories ahead of rival sheets.

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The story is a trifie sordid, ün- reeling the method one man nsed to avenge himself against another, and yet the murderer gains one's sympathy. Tracy the super-re porter brings the case to a con- viction and then hands in his big- gest scoop when his conscience triumphs. arvey Stephens has

I could go on writing of Shirley endlessly, but there are others in the cast who contribute largely to the Dig success, not the least being Producer Winfield Sheehan and Director Irving Cummings, who be has the misfortune to lose a give their little Star full rein and prisoner in a scuffle, but the big some splendid dramatic moments jas a condemned man who is in-1 allow her to sing, dance and charmfbank hold-up gives him a chance nocent of the crime for which he her way into all hearts I have to make good.

has been accensed; and Stephens The love interest is lightly and Spencer Tracy only one criticism to offer-it is

give acting not long enough.

touched upon, and Anne Sheridan performances to rave about The John Boles is foremost in the fills the bill charmingly Practi- film is fast and satisfying. cast, singing better than ever, and cally an all-male cast help in the Virginia Bruce, looking lovelier pretty little Rochelle Hudson will excitement and thrills. (Queen's) in each picture is the love interest. also surprise by her attractive Mickey Mouse Programme and William Collier Ser. Lionel voice. "Going places" is that The sort of entertainment that Atwill and Robert Barratt come little girl and deservedly so provides laughter for people of in for a share of praise in small Arthur Treacher, (remembered any age, Mickey Mouse is still parts. An unusual story and cer- and liked in "No More Ladies" ranked high in box-office attrac-tainly a little more fantastic than is fast becoming popular in his tions, although Shirley Temple has the innumerable newspaper yarna not-too-exaggerated type of Bri-certainly put him out of the top each and every Studio turns out. tisher be it a member of the spot. This will run for a few (Alhambra). nobility or a butler, Treacher is days at the Alhambra, so be sure the right man in the right spot to tell the children. Later on we Esther Dale makes a charming have the much-liked Fox releasa

Aunt, and Jane Darwell and titled “Welcome Home”.

“Welcome Home”

An oft-told story of three men who live by their wits, but you will have plenty of fun watching Jiminy Dunn, Raymond Walburn and William Frawley try to sell what does not even exist. "Jimmy": decides to return to his old home- town, and the plot concerns his efforts to stop his gilt-edged pals from fleecing the unsuspecting in-. habitants.

Arline Judge is the pertand pretty shady lady, while Rosina. Lawrence is the small-town girl Old-time movie competition.

star Charles Ray does a bit and Charles Sellon is the eccentric millionaire who helps. The dia- Logue is replete with bri

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Rochebe Hudson and John Bolen" play the Shirley Temple's Joy-package of surprises, “Curly Top," Fox triumph, now being screened at the King's Thestre.

Thrills, romance and comedy pack the fast-moring, somnes Edmund Lowe's new murder mystery "Thunder in the Night,” which will be shown at the King's Theatre next Wednesday. In this scene Edmund Lowe is seen with Karen Morley and Pani Cavenagh.

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