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PASSION I HATE!

ALOHA

vaqtida Half Savage! Half Naked! A Child of Nature !

THE SILVER SCREEN.

"KING'S THEATRE.

UP THE RIVER,

Qualifying for tentured comedy on the talking sureen because of agrimly dramatic performance on the

would seem to be an utage. upside down procedure, but that's how Spencer Tracy, camp to he selected for the loading rdles in]

Up the River,"

Tracy, who won the applause of New York critics as well ng Brond- way audiences for his work as """Killer" Mears in "The Lost Mile." has heretofore played only "beavy"! or dramatic parts during his stage career, and had little if any inten tion "of over working in pictures.

However, when Director John Ford, whose Fox production, Four Sone," walked off with the Photoplay gold medal for the best picture of the your, was in New York, he saw Tracy's performance and was deeply impressed by the

She lifted a man to the Glory of Heaven only to cast him into the depths of Hell and Damnation with her Native Heritage.netor's ability.

BEN LYON-RAQUEL TORRES

And An All-Star Cast'

Directed by

ALBERT ROGELL.'

TIFFANY PRODUCTION

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Nothing Like It Even Shown Before..

THE TIFFANY CHIMPS

THE LITTLE COVERED

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A

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With a Cast consisting Entirely of

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ANOTHER TIFFANY

PRODUCTION

THE

DRUMS

Starring

"Any man," said Ford, "who can throw so much power into a role of the sort of Killer" Meats, has the qualifications for anotable comedian as well." "And since the leading part of "St. Louis" in. the Alm demands several brief but | vivid dramatic scenes, as well as the bilarious ones, Ford decided that in Tracy he had found the very man to portray the rifficult

role.

At Arst Tracy was not interested and' cited many good reasons- why

he preferred to stay, on Broadway, but slowly Ford overcame the

objection. every

to the star's

Claire Luce, another stage star, who won the plaudits of New York, London and Paris audiences for her

beauty and dramatic talents enacts

the loading femining role in this "talkic" while another cerebrity in the cast is little Jonn ("Cherie" Lawes, daughter of Lewis E.

Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing

Prison in New York, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart and Wm. Collier, Sr., are also featured.

"BODY AND SOUL?".

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1931.

KINGS THEATRE

LAST TWO DAYS

UP THE RIVER

... with

SPENCER TRACY. Claire Luce Warren Hymer

Directed

by

JOHN FORD

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"ALMOST A HONEYMOON...”.

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Commenting on "Amost Honeymoon" the attraction at the Queen's Theatre. The Daily Film Renter' says "Another success

for British International,

this

time faree, in one long laughter lose. Better than the stage play. Clifford Mollison, young West End musical comedy comodian

with fresh breeze methods, hay

arrived" in this picture. Dialo gue piqué, but funny Produs tion stands out as subject to pilol any B.O. to brisk business.

The Most Comfortable and the

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"Up The River" in a land-pipo anch. Laughs so close together they lock stop, sixty days of comedy in sixty minutes of film.

A WOMAN A FLAME with the secrets of and a man who was still a wide-ayed boy. Chance

brought them together in än ambrace no foros could part.

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best British productions of

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NEXT CHANGE.

BODY

and

SOUL

CHARLES

FARRELL ELISSA

LANDI

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"ALOHA.

Love termicated, crucified and “Osenr,” a waif sea lion played found pure and enduring is ex

Järge part in the filming "Shipmates," a new Mistro Gold-emplified in Aala," the decided

ly worthwhile Tiffany production come on Sunday to the Queen's Central Theatre, where it remains wyn-Mayer feature which will

that was shown yesterday at the Theatre with Robert Montgomery until Saturday. in his first starring role,

The sea lion, it seems, "adopted": the battleship Colorado as his home in San Pedro Harbour and when the ship scenes were filmed on the dreadnought be persisted in climbing on the armour-belt above, Clifford Millison is almirab the water line and emitting frau in the role of Basil His foolery tie yelps into the microphones. Al while supposed to be in a state of though Oscar" isn't seen, he cer intoxication is a brand new addi-tainly is heard in the scones, his tion to portrayals of "inebriated barks sounding strangely like the wolls." Dodo Watts in excellent gruff commands of bos'n's mates.

Harry Pollard directed the pic- ture with Dorothy Jordan playing opposite Montgomery and the cast, including Ernest Torrence, Ho

Body and Soul," forthcoming Fox Movietone drama, will serve to introduce Elissa Landi, beautis Rosalie, and acts with much ful European star to the American natural charm. Lamant Dickson screen public.

plays his original pars of Cuth bert, and evokes plenty of laughs

come to Hollywood neclaimed in the Miss Landi, and New York critics,

too, have added their united en- dorshment of this, beautiful and talented girl for her performance in the Broadway production. "A Farewell to Arms."

reveals furtlier versatility, and gets away with a good percentage. of the acting honours, One of the

SATURATED CORES.

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(Continued from Page 2) y When steady current flows through the windings of an fron cored choke or transformer, as is usually clão - caso, when, these cor- ponents are directly in circuit with the plate of a vulve, the efficiency of the choke or transformer falls off very rapidly. The object of the iron coro is to incronse that lines, of magnetic force ergated by the current passing, through the coil/ But there is a limit to this action. If the steady current is sufficient in itself to magnetise the core ulmost to its limit, it is obvious that the superposed voice currents can have little further effect on the magnetic hold. In the caso of a choke coil; this means that it can. no longer effectively block the passage of low-frequency currents, whilst in the case of a transformer.

the step-up-or transfer effect from primary to secondary is greatly re duced

· DOUBLE HUMPS.

A double hump in the tuning of

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circuit having a ganged condenser MONTY BANKS

is usually a sign that the circuits. are not accurately in tune.

The hump may be much more. pronounced at the higher wave- length end of the scale, or there may be other peculiarities. I tuning, the hump is easily noticed, for

you naturally tune to one of the humps instead of to the trough between them..

- If a milliammeter is connected in the anode circuit of the detector the rise and fall of the needle may be watched as the tuning condenser je turned," and it is possible much more accurately to adjust the cir cuits when a meter in connected.

If it is found that the circuit

tunes accurately enough over part of the range and then starts to tune

over the rest of the ring the st broadly and finally, to double-hump

is possible that "the inductances of The story starts glamorously in should, It is of no use adjusting the coils do not match as they the tropics with a love that is as tuning condensers in order to try. powerful as only a suppressed and compensate for poorly match- ed coils. The coils themselves must passion can be Jimmy Bradford, be adjusted first and then the capa played sympathetically by Ben cities. Lyon, has been on this lonely tropical isle for a year and with stood its temptations-even those offered by Ilanu, an exquisite child, half-native and half-white, played adorably by Raquel Tor Te

Hany, with a natural, primitive innocence, throws herself at Jim my, but he firmly puts her out of his thoughts for Elaine, his

OVERLOADING THE DETECTOR.

Overloading of the detector valve in simple sets is much more com man than is suspected and often much better quality is to be- ob.... tained by reducing the input. wt. A simple method is to connect

pre-set condenser in the aerial circuit and to set it at such a Evaluo that the volume is no greater

than required,

with the falling voltage of the high

so bad were the input to the de- tector reduced,

No actress from abroad has ever in the process. Donald Calthrop, bart Bosworth, Cliff Edwards, sweetheart from childhood who is In battery sets we have to reckon Aattering torms that accompanied as Basil's- gentlemen's gentleman, Gavin Gordon, Joan Marah El waiting in San Francisco for his tension. The quality is naturally ward Nugent, E. Allyn Warren, return. But one night the bar pool enough when the voltage, falls Gearga Irving, Hedda Hepperrier is broken down and Jimmy appreciably, but would not be quite acknowledges his love for Ilanu. *:: and William Worthington

Taking home fits, bride-intro With a pre-set condenser the ducing her this domineering strength can easily be adjusted and the best input can be obtained. tyrant of a father—to his snobbish. The sharpness of tuning varica,, of catty, sister--to his jilted' sweeth- course, as the pre-set condensert eart is an ordeal under which

is adjusted, but this does not matter. both suffer, each in a different It is the change in the strength that is important. In many in- stances the grid bias is not altered when the voltage of the bigir ten- sion has fallen. Some slight change may be tried with advantage.

Charles, Darnton in the New York "Evening World said of her: “AB English actress,... · · Elissa: Landi, nchieved a beautiful, courageous and truly moving performance."

Robert Coleman stated in the Daily Mirror: "Elissa Landi, an

Warner Oland-June Collyer English importation, made a most

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Said Baird Leonard in Life: "When it comes to Elissa Laadi, wards fail me. Sho is the loveliest creature you will see in many a

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In "Body and Soul," coming to the King's Theatre Saturday next, Miss Landi plays opposite Charles Farrell, who needs no introduction. to screen audiences, They recently voted him King of the Movies and he showed his appreciation by thrilling them with his perfor mances in." Liliomand "The Man Who Came Back."

Myrna Loy -- and Humphrey Bogart are also featurell, under the direction

of Alfred Santall.".

The story tells of an American fying not whose sweetheart in so- cused of being a spy. How he be comes involved in the accusation

and then clears himself and the girl of the charge-furniches one of the moat gripping screen atories of the current season.

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY (Ending 17th)

At; 2-80, 7.15" and 9.15 pm

Special Matinee at 5.15 on Saturday and Sunday.

William Fox presents “ON THE LEVEL Starring Victor Melaglen, Lilyan Tashman,

Fifi Dorsay, William Harrigan.

A WONDERFULLY GOOD LESSON for cheap love makers

Way.

San Francisco is the locale for most of the "action. The story, which is by Thomas H. Ince and J. G. Hawks, starts and ends on a tropical island and a palatial yacht as the background for sc110 very dramatic incidenta

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CONTROLLING THE H.F.

Out of all the methods available for controlling the amount of the Albert Rogell, in directing high-frequency magnification pro- vided by the set there is none 'satie- "Aloha," kept in mind the specta factory in all respoots. Many cular, both in settings and in people use a potentiometer in the serten circuit of the screen-grid characterization and drama and

Valves 'made a picture that is intriguing in every scuse The dialogue is excellently recorded by Western Merisic.

It is found that ar the voltage applied to the screens is reduced from the normal working value the. "amount of the amplification, falls. off. The reduction is due entirely Bea Lyon and Raquel Torres, as of the valves. Thus the slope falls to changes in the characteristics. said before, an excellently cast off and the impedance increases. and give perfect performances Both of these factors resulta Thelma Todd is admirable in the reduction in the amplification ob tained. With good potentio role of the contemptible sister and meter, having a voltage across it Marian Douglas is beautiful and of, say. 80, the control can be made appealing as the sweetheart. A gradual and is effective over a wide

range, great old tyrant. is Robert Edeson But there is. En effect which

aught not to be lost sight of, name as the father A, child, főle, h

that distortion may be intro made adorable by beautiful Dickis duced by reducing the length of the Moore, and others contributing As the voltage applied to the Working part of the characteristic.

with excellence Ard Alan Hale, screen is reduced so the length of Mempezama the worlding part is made smaller.,

that

strong signals, such as we obtain from local stations, are likely to be dia Lorted, and, in pro found that this

contról faila in this respect.

A workman becoming Manager of an Estate Company, that neems get rich, over-night, fails to realize that he is in no way qualified for the job, so there must be something behind it.. Added Attraction; "Happy Birthday & Fox News of Hart, I loy. Baraca, Barn

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