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TO-MORROW

SOVARE ALSO MICKEY MOUSE ja "Mickey's Fire Brigade"

In Beautiful Technicolour.

AT

THE

PAUL

KING'S

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

presents FREDRIC

MARCH

MELE

OBERON

SHENDET

MARSHALL

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936

MUNI AS "PASTEUR" GREATER THAN EVER

WENDY BARRIE AND GENE RAYMOND CHARM IN "LOVE ON A BET"

MERLE OBERON SHINES IN "DARK ANGEL” WITH

FREDRIC MARCH AND HERBERT MARSHALL

THERE are few admirers off

will

The DARK ANGELT Road Clean, who r

Golden hours of love...stabbing moments of pain...a swift caress... then a clutch at the heart...all for e memory these three had lived!

Directed by SIDNEY FRANIUM' Released thru UNITED ARTISTS

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NELSON EDDY. on his concert tour, is breaking all records and

is a prime favourite not only with Radio and concert "fane,"

"but crowding Clark Gable and Robert! Taylor in a close race fer box-office {· popularity.

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All Hollywood buzzed with the ro- mance between Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard. Howard has now left the film colony with wife,, family and polo ponies, declaring he will not re- turn, but in future will devote him- self to stare appearances and British- made pictures. The strong friend- ship between Carole Lombard Clark Gable is now furnishing food for gossip.

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Arline Judge and Wesley Ruggles can's sem to make up their minds whether they will separate, and seem the best of friends in public anyhow. When Margaret Sullavan had ber re- cent. accident and broke her arm, her ex-husband Henry Fonda

her only visitor at the hospital. There may be truth in the rumour that they will re-marry. Fonda now lives in a mansion with James Beverly Hills Stewart.

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Wendy Barrie, lens to M.G.M by Paramount, has finished her picture

"Speed" with James Stewart

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SHOTS

Jane Lang is featured in the romantic, lead in The Country Doctor," which will

soon be shown at the King's and Alham- bra Theatre

Anita Louise seemed to be so much

lever forget his super perform- lance in "The Dark Angel," war- time drama, with the lovely

By Diane PA MUNT is rated by

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critics and cinema-goers as one of the if not the greatest -actors on the screen. From that first sensational appear-

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Vilma Banky. Wyndham He portrays the role of a retired ance in "Scarface" followed by Standing. if I remember right-meat packer, who helps the inber-I was а Fugitive from ty, played the part now in the itors of a rival packing plant when Chain-gang." "Black capable hands of Herbert Mar- he hears that they are heading for Bordertown." and many more. Fury." shall

As the heroine we now the poor house.

he has come to be recognised as have that pretty half-Indian.

Norman Foster is most satis-3 star who stands in a class by: balf-English girl from Calcutta, factory as the rephew who falls himself. He will not accept a Merle Oberon (really Queenie in love with the girl Rochelle role unless he feels he has Thompson) who has wisely dis-Hudson. while Johnny Downs. is something worth-while. I had carded the bizarre Oriental the brother- make-up which Sam Goldwynah Haden,

Alan Dinehart, Sa-letters from the M.G.M. lot! Warren Hymer and the other day. from someone insisted she should sport in Donaid Meek under the skilled who has seen him at work as "Folies Bergere" (with Maurice

direction of James Flood make the Chinese coolie in "Good Chevalier) and given us 器 this worth-while entertainment Earth." and it bids fair to rank charming. soft-voiced, graceful

with his other masterpieces.

and very feminine girl.

|(Alhambra).

In "The Story of Louis Pasteur" It is unnecessary to remind any- "Song And Dance Man"

he is poles apart from all his other one that the story te of a girl! The old story of the vaudeville characterisations

truly the who is in love with two brothers, team-one good and one bad-who great artist: Bette Davis. who and chooses one of them on the can't play fair to each other when acted with him in "Bordertown.”| leve of their departure for war. they hit the bright lights of Broad-says that of all the actors with. The talkie version holds just the war. Paul Kelly is good in the whom she has worked no one en- same poignant appeal as the old role originated by Tom Moore in ters so whole-heartedly into his silent and is beautifully direct-the silent version, while Claire part as Muni. Off-stage and on-

ed by Sidney Franklin (of "Smil-Trevor repeats with success the the lot he lives as he feels the in' Through" fame) who once role which gave Bessie Love a big person would live. All this tends more brings that delicacy and chance.

to realism, and ensures a superbi

charm zo which we are accustomed · Michael Whalen is likeable as performance. In "Pastear" he sur- when he is in charge. The dialo-the playboy who wins the girl and prises by his subtlety and suavity, Ique reflects unusual intelligence in Margaret Dumont, Irene Franklin, but in a truly magnificent manner its revelation of character and James Burke and Ruth Donnelly Muni has re-created the famous drama and the three principals do help to make this quite a bright hero of humanity who fought aj it full justice.

little show. At least it is surpris-jeering world and triumphed 'only

This is easily the best per-ing to see and hear Paul Kelly and by undaunted courage.

riven US by Fredric

formance March. who portrays the blind war hero with more than his cus- tomary skill. Personally I think

he shines in plays of this type and Herbert not in costume drama.

Marshall does well as the sacri- ticing brother, and others worthy of mention are Cora Sue Collins,. Fay Chaldecott. Janet Beecher. John Halliday. Henrietta Crosman, George Breakston. Frieda Inse- court. Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Bax-! ter. David Torrence, Douglas Wal: ton and many more. Seldom does the screen yield, in one produc- tion, more beauty and appeal than is found in this United Artists re- lease, and credit must be given to the director, producer, artists and photographer. Not to be missed. (King's).

"Love On A Bet"

This is the best chance to date

in love with Boss Alexander (whose that Wendy Barrie has had in

The "talk of the town” is the M.G.M.|wife recently committed suicide) that production, "The Great Ziegfeld her mother sent her of hurriedly on Hollywood. She was lent to P.KO. which will set an all-high for musi-a trip to the Continent. Perhaps the by Paramount to co-star with that cals. I is now touring America loveliest young girl in Hollywood will delightful AOKOT Gene Raymund playing to capacity at the highest have forgotten Ross by the time she and they both score in a picture prices, for two shows a day only. returns. John Barrymore and Elaine that can only be classifed as a lot Jacobson secr ́ sure to marry when Kitty Carlisle is studying opera in the divorce from Dolores Costello is of fun, even if highly improbable. New York, with the hope of a Metro-made absolute. Strange goings-on To win money to back a play, Gene politan appearance. She is "seen in the film colony when all eyes were Raymond wagers he can duplicate places" with the famous composer on Margaret Sullavan arriving at the the feat of its hero that is, to George Gershwin.

Tes Tournaments with Henry start from New York clad only înj Fonds (husband No. 1) and later Jear Harlow is now at: work on leaving for a preview with husband his underwear, and faish up ten days pter in Los Angeles with a "Suzy with Franchot Tone and Cary No. 2 (William Wyler).

good fuit and one hundred dollars Grant.

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In making good he runs into series of amusing adventures, which Miss Barrie and Helen Bro- drick (remembered in "Top Hat") do more than their share towards the ficcess.· ̈

Anita Louise and Donald Woods have the romantic roles in the Cosmopolitan production, "The Story of Louis Pasteur", which is now being shown at the Queen's Theatre.

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Rochelle Hadson and Norman Foster are the romantic younge sters in "Everybody's Old Man," which is now being shown at the Alhambra Theatre.

This is a distinguished and gripping drama, unlike anything! yet seen, and will appeal to every |conscientious movie-goer. The

story is an honest biography of the hopes, struggles and achieve- ments of the great French scien- tist F. Louis Pasteur, and por-i trays the prejudice, superstition and fith be had to overcome. Han-: dicapped by every kind of obstacle. his findings revolutionised the me dical world.

The story makes one thought, ful and serious, but is definitely a re-creation of a historical record that makes for outstanding enter- tainment. You can't help feeling. rather sorry for the wife (30 excellently played by Josephine Hutchinson) but then we are told that it is a hard life to share res- ponsibilities, troubles and triumphs of a genius.

Muni naturally dominates any film in which he appears, but this is not because be like to shine; it is because by sheer magnetism and talent he overshadows the other performers.

In

the lengthy cast will be round lovely Anita Louise, and Donald Woods (who furnish the small love interest) Josephine Hutchinson as Madame Pasteur,? Heary O'Neill, Raymond Brown, Akim Tamiroff, Halliwell Hobbes, Dickie Moore, Every

Miss Trevor sing and dance with Frank Reicher. out the aid of "dubbing"; and they Fritz Leiber and others. make the most of their material member of the cast turns in a fice (King's).

"The Voice Of Bugle Anne"

[performance. but it will be, once more, the great Paul Muni you

A tale of dogs and a family feud will remember for all time in a

in old Missouri, this is real old-picture that no one must miss

"Big Brown Eyes”

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The dialogue is snappy, the si-fashioned melodrama, but that (Queen's). tuatous unique, and the whole grand trouper Lionel Barrymore cast contribute excellent perfor-jalore makes this film worth your This is grand comedy entertain- martes. Wendy Barrie has never money. The story tells of ament, full of witty dialogue, me bee photographed to better ad-frural dog-breeder (Lionel Barry-lodramatic mystery and amusing varage, and is now rapidly prov-more) who glories in "Bugle An-situations. Joan Bennett is the ing her worth in light stories of me," a hound with a musical bay wisecracking manicurist turned thi type. Miss Brodrick, too, more When he believes a man killed her, sob-sister, while Cary Grant is the tha holds her own with the he kills the man.

police detective. These two charming stars, while William Col- Maureen O'Sullivan is the girl brought together as the result of be Sr., Addison Randall, Eddie responsible for clearing the my-a jewel robbery and killing: Gibbon and Morgan Wallace help stery, and incidentally of stealing No need to tell the story, but thogs along.

the heart of Eric Linden, the son the two stars have never done bet- Gene Raymond goes from one of her father's hated enemy. Alter work-in fact they are per- peture to another and, in the few homey, but touching little story-fectly cast. Walter Pidgeon-far | Fort years he has been in Holly-with plenty of appeal, and excel-too seldom seen these days is also, pod, this young Broadway stage lent characterisations. Dudley excellent as the master crook, with tor still stands among the rst Digges, Spring Byington, Charley Alan Baxter, Henry Kleinback, favourites. "You will like him, Grapewin and Henry Wadsworth Lloyd Nolas Douglas Foxley, pecially in this amusing comedy. give sound support. (Alhambra). Isabel Jewell, and Marjorie Gate

Alhambra).

"The Country Doctor” son more than holding their own "Everybody's Old Man” I hardly think it possible that in minor roles. The picture has “Most of us recall with pleasure there is anyone living who will not Walter Wanger's usual fine produc The Working Man" in which want to see the world-famous tion and is smartly directed by George Arliss and Bette Davis Dionne Quintuplets in their first Raoul Walsh. Certainly advised. charmed. Now it has been made full-length picture. The story is] (Queen's).

with a slightly different back-jan excellent one that serves to in- "Brown On Resolution" ground, and the famous writer troduce them; and Jean Hersholt, Hong Kong theatre-goers will Irvin Cobb plays the role of the Dorothy Peterson, Slim Summer-recall John Mills, that exceedingly jold man, originated by Arliss.įville, John Qualen, Michael clever young man who 20th Century-Fox Bent for Cobb, Whalen and June Lang,"plus the jout in the Orient in with the hope that he would take amazing babies under the expert Ead" with the Bobby Salisbury the place in popularity of the late direction of Henry King, make this Company. Now he has made a big Will Rogers. I hardly think that a picture that will stand for all name for himself on the London is possible, but he is sure to satis-time. It is coming shortly to the stage and him, thanks, he says, fy, at least with his naturalness. 'Alhambra and King's.

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QULLA'S

TO-DAY

LEADING CRITICS' ACCLAIM "Distinguished and gripping" FILM DAILY. “Extraordinarily fascinating **

HERALD.

A truly great picture VARIETY "Sure to win terrific endorsement”— MOTION PICTURE. "Impressive and powerful entertainment"-TRADE REVIEW.

"SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT"

PAUL MUNI

"THE STORY OF

LOUIS PASTEUR

WHEN SOJOPHING HUTCHINSON • AMIA LOUISE MANY OTHERS

A scene from the United Artists production, "The Dark Angel," which is now being shown at the King's Theatre.

Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson and the Dionne Quintuplets are featured in "The Country Doctor," which will be shown at the King's tandsAlhambra Theatres soon..

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Merle Oberon plays the leading feminine role in the United Artists production, "The Dark Angel,” which is now being shown at the King's

Theatre