1939-06-23 — Page 17

Chatter About Films And Film Stars Witty

AT THE KING'S TO-DAY

This tells something of the part the United States Navy played in the world war. It is a yarn of the splinter fleet, the small wooden submarine chasers used to convoy men and supplies through U-boat infested waters of the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

The story itself concerns a rich man's son who is seeking a soft berth. Instead, he lands on S. C.-599 as chief engineer-and of course, the war makes a man of the lad. Indeed, he distinguishes himself destroyed a U-boat nest in the

Adriatic.

For some of the scenes Twentieth Century Fox studios built a replica of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, dry docks, cranes, and all, and structed two subchasers, complete In every detail from fo'c's'lehead to sternpost, operating them in a great tank. These cost the studio $50,000 and represent the work of Hollywood's sea expert. Chris Christensen.

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marine Patrol commences its four] skating. The picture opens to-day day run at the King's Theatre to- at both the Queen's and the Alham-

bra Theatres. day.

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Winter Murder last story written YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST | by the late S, S. Van Dine is,slated

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for production as a Sonja Henie vehicle at 20th Cent. Fox next fall,

ALHAMBRA

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man Universal Film has just had its local release in the Queen's Theatre and met with tremendous success. Mr. C. Roselet announces that he has booked the film for a five day run in the Alhambra Theatre com- mencing on Sat. 1st. July. This he explains is for the convenience of his Kowloon patrons.

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man stars W. C. Fields, Charlie Mc- con-Carthy and Edgar Bergen. The story opens with Fields as a circus owner always in debt, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy are one of the sideshow, and what a feud is going on between Fields and Mc- Carthy, you Can't imagine. Fields daughter is going to get married tc a wealthy socialite but Edgar Bergen and everybody is happy ever after. stops it. just in time

All this grand entertainment is packed into this Universal Film and to the Alhambra Theatre this week- we advise everybody to pay a visit end.

Handsome, spoiled socialite Perry Townsend is acted by Richard Greene, a Devonshire, England, lad who can trace his stage ancestry back to his great-grand-parents. You saw him first in Four Men and a Prayer. This was a tough assign ment, for Greene is beaten up by George Bancroft, knocked about slippery decks, battered by waves. The heroine is Nancy Kelly, a new- comer, seventeen, from the New York Stage Slapsie Maxie Rosen- bloom plays a tough sergeant of marines. After the storm scenes

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OPENS TO-DAY AT THE QUEEN'S AND TO-MORROW AT THE ALHAMBRA

Joan Crawford rushes in where

Maxie admitted that the prize ring few dare to skate-in Sonja Henie's was just a gentle pastime. Sub-enchanting territory. Joan hadn't

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skated for years, but La Crawford is a determined young woman who will try anything.

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Anyway, here is Joan feminine portion of a skating trio. She feels she a drawback to her husband, done by Jimmie Stewart, and his equally proficient pal, skat- ed by Lew Ayres, and she quits. In no time at all she's a film success, while Jimmy and Lew are trying to get a big ice palace launched in Hollywood. Then Stewart breaks his leg on the ice, loses his skating nerve, is literally on the toboggan. What will Joan do?

You'll have to see the film to find out how skaters get over thin ice. in their lives. The Crawford limbs are neatly exposed in tights. The result is, well, it is pleasant.

The Metro studios imported a whole troupe of skaters for the film. It's all colossal, the ultimate in

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Warner Bros. have signed the a one picture deal. He will direct a famous director Radul Walsh for

film about "Sing Sing."

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Franchot Tone is going back to Metro Goldwin Mayer for two pic tures. He has just had a successful run in the stage show he appeared in.

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Warner. Bros. local official an- nounces that in August they will release Errol Flynn in Dawn Patrol. This is one film where women don't count.

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