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CENTRAL

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A

|: 2:35.5.10, 7:15 and 9-20 p.m.

The First Eady of the Serson in ̧

the first dual role she has ever given to the world. '

TODAY AT THE

Queen's...

CINEMA

HONG KONG.

The Bat Whispora.'

Romantic Thriller.

King's.

A Warm Corner.".

British Film with Lealis Henson

The Border Legion."

Central.

A Flesh-and-Blood

Drama-

Searching the heart of every woman who loves, has loved-t hopes to love.

-World.

After Sarah and Son.""

and after "Anybody's Woman," you expect the unexpected get it.

- and from

RUTH

CHATTERTON

IN

"The Right

to Love*

a Gramin Germ

With

Paul Lakas

The story of a love

that dies-and LIVES ...again |-

NEXT CHANGE Commencing Sunday

his whole life's happiness hung on her word

Did his vision of glorious love come true ?

AYRES

UP MURDER

for

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

Presented by Carl Laemmle With Genevieve TOBIN Dorothy Peterson, Richard Tucker, and other favourites.

Directed by MONTA BELL From his own original story. It's Low Ayres greatest

Zano Grey Navo!

with

Richard Arlen and Jack Holt.

"Iron Hero.'*

Chinese Picture.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 4, 1931.

KINGS THEATRE

KOWLOON.

AUSTIN MELFORD

Star.

Lon Chaney in

Threc."

The Unholy

COMING.

The Hottentot."-Queen's :

The Right to Love" with Ruth Chatterton on Thursday.→ Central.

Mothers Millions."--Central

"East Lynne."-King's.

**Bad Girl."-King's

The Smiling Lieutenant."

Maarico Chevalier-King's.

Daddy Long Legs."

Janet Gayner and Warner Bax-

ter-Kiag

Envo's. Identity" ture).-World,

(Chinese pic-

Madame Satun."-Star.

Remote Control."-Star.

THE SMILING

HONGKONG'S FINEST CHEM

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 3.10 and 7:15 pm. ONLY

BY SPECIAL REQUEST RE-SCREENING OF LESLIE HENSON

in

"THE WARM CORNER"!

With

Connie Ediss, Heather Thatcher Directed by

г

VICTOR SAVILLE

A BRITISH PRODUCTION

COMMENCING SUNDAY, 6TH DECEMBER

Maurice

**THE

CHEVALIER

SMILING LIEUTENANT"

A Paramount's 20th Birthday Jubilee Picture

With CLAUDETTE COLBERT Charlie Ruggles, Miriam Hopkins An ERNST, LUBITSCH Production

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

TELEPHONE ·25313.

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KÒNG.

LIEUTENANT.

PRODUCER'S OPINION OF HIS WORK.

BY ERNEST LEBITSCH.J

Rules are for seientists, not mo- tion picture producers.

That is my invariable answer to the frequent question: What rules govern the making of a successful screen play f

There are no rules. The moment entertainment is measured by yardstick it ceases to be entertain. ment.

We are continually hearing that this or that type of picture is dead; that the public will have no more. gang pictures, ao more Western,

ho more musicals.

There is no basis for these AO- olalled "rules."

Just at the moment there is much discussion about the probable fate

of musical pictures. We hear that the public has tired of acreon mui- cal comedics, operettas and similar varieties of celluloid entertainment. The fact is that last season saw a huge erop of indifferently-made musical pictures and "the public, always a keen judge of crtertain- ment, refused to accept. this serien far. I have, however, bo hesitancy

in launching into the direction of

The Smiling Lieutenant" alur-

ring Maurice Chevalien. Tao pic-

MANY LAUGHS IN “THE HOTTENTOT."

WHAT PRICE ENGLISH?

Edward Everett Horton and Ed¦ HOW PAUL LUKAS LEARNT word Earle are east, ag enemies in

The Hottentot," Warner Bros.' Tatest production which comes to the Queen's Theatre Sandy next for aran of three days.

In "The Hottentot," Hoiton and

HIS LESSONS.

In Hollywood, Paul Lukas standa as an example to those who struggle with mispronunciation, the pitfalls

Earle are rivals for the hand of Patsy Ruth Miller, who bag the of grammar, and accents. leading feminine rôle.

Harvey

The all-star cast also includes Ed- mund Breese, Stanley Taylor, Otto Hoffman, Douglas Gerrard and Maude Turner Gordon. The adapted the piece from the súccessful stage play of tho sums name by Victor Mapes and William Collier. Roy Del Ruth directed,

When Luke's came from Hungary to Hollywood three years ago, there were no talking pictures, and

mattered not, if one anid" ve " or

we." With sound came worry and the difference between a "y" and

KIM PEACOCK

GOSSIP AND FACT,

How many times have you seen Constance, Bennect-poor soul --" loan her virtas before finding hop- planus. She does_su_suffer. And, again, inBought anobbery is her downfall. As an experiment this seduction and forgivences business was quite a cheerful bit of refined horseplay; as a formula, frankly, it is boring." This" film drags and drags and drags.

GONE ENGLISH! QUEENS

AN ENGLISH CRITIC

CECIL DE MILLE,

The present fad, or what you will of the filin magnates, the par- tiotlar high-up film magnabos who come to Europe every year and have luncheous given in their honour, 19 England, writes a Londow critic.

I can see the slogan: "Be Eng- lab blazing in scarlet letters over the lesk of Mr. Cecil B. de Mille.

In his latest copic," "The White Man," he excels himself. Apa res gimental hall somewhere in Eng- land" I detected a captain. the villain, wearing the M.C, and a major, the huro, wearing the

D.3.0.

|: The genorul, a genial, ineffectual sort of ass, was preajmably wearing the V.C. I couldn's see.

Tally Ho

Yoicks! We have a hunting scene, too. Lovely" summer weather (How warm it is for November,"

ways one character) and leafy treei and Oxford accenta. And the vil- lain comes a cropper and dies jump- ing a little brook and the name of the hunt is the Norbury Foxhounds. The Norbury country is famous, you will be aware, for its tram lines and that fine galloping stretch up Streatham Common:

A Shame.

But to laught at Hollywood is unkind and cruel and unfair. It's in shome.........

"These millionaires live in exotic solitude-in a little village of war. ble palaces. Their politics are parish pumpish, their culture is gynthetic. What do they know of England, who only Hollywood know

Third Time Lucky,

This is the third time that Mr. de Mille has directed "The White Man (known for many years of the American stage as "The Squaw is no end to it. He believes in the Man") and he declares that thors.

You feel acutely like an intelli- gent wpectator at a chess mater played by village idiota. know the next move so well. It all the more embarrassing this time because Constance's father, that fine

· great emotional value of this theme, and who am I to say him nay? old, actor Richard Bennett, plays

But I do ask him to keep it clean." When the little Red Indina son the part of her screen father. And

of the heir to a British title 18 ho watches her sadly, patiently,

seen playing with a fine Red In- resignedly-obaerves her, degradadian headdress a perfect English tion and smiles kindly as she fuds gentleman remarks," That wouldn't

'do at Eton and. "Oxford." redemption.

Personally, I think it would be a splendid asset. I once had & policaman's helmet-but that is an- ather story. "The White Man' was shown at the Empire. Some of it is clever, work, the story is east- irony the whole good entertainment

Mr. Barrymore has something of.

w" became the difference ne- tween success and failure, a contract and oblivion: Lukas, quick to grasp the situation, set abiont in his own a sadistic complex. He likes to way to master the English Langustare and clutch his hands and hover over innocent young maidens. This

agc.

He gave up talking" Hungarian ehow is just the second instalment

to his countrymen in Hollywood, † of "Svengali." Ho has played and spoke only English. He engag

ed a clover college boy to spend

hours each day with him, to neucan pany him to shows, to the studio,

"Jekyll and Hyde," so he will have

"

to do Dracula" now.

C

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Mr. Altred Hitchcock, the Eng-

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and wherever he happened to belish producer has begun work en going, with instructions to be on

constant lookout for mispronun No. 17," Mr. J. J. Farjeon'a ciation and grammatical errors | “joyous melodrama.” ... The com. during the course of ordinary con

versation."

pany, say the London papers of last

mail, is not complete, but it in-

Though for the past year, the services of the college boy have cludes some notable people in "addi- been dispcheed with, Lukas contion to Leon M. Lion, who plays

ture is studded with musical num-Lon Chaney and Lin Lee in "The tinues his study of English. He his original stage part. There are

it would be foredoomed to failure.

bers, the "rule" were in force,

At the risk of being considered

Unholy Three."

goes to a great many plays to learn

pronunciation. He reads aloud, Anne Grey, Ann Casson, Henry and has someone to correct his mis- Caine, Garry Marsh and Donald takes. He spende hours listening to Calthrop. that "The Smiling. Lieutenant" is and with too little attention paid & good radio announcer. In these to. the song's purpose in the

This resulted froquent ways, he feels that he is acquiring story,

somewhat egotistical, I maintain with an eye on the sheet music sale

destined to please screen patrons and find favor at the box office.›.

ly in slowing up or stopping a broader and more" perfect know

#

Knowing how to look frightened

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9:20..

JOSEPLE MË, "SCHENCK PRINTS

BAT WHISPERS

UNITED

ROLAND

WIST'S

WITH

PRODUCTION

CHESTER MORRIS

A man and a girl pit their brains agaikeb the sinister mind of an arch orminal' who has baffled the greatest detectives.

NEXT CHANGE RIDING DYNAMITE!

WARNER BROS.

The

HOTTENTOT

Herrington

sat on The Hottentot--

and couldn't sit down tur a week!

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON - PATSY RUTH MILLER- EDMUND BREZJI BLADE ON THE BAY BY VICTOR MARES BAR WILJE SOLLEN DE BY ROY ́DEL RUTH

BROS

TO-NIGHT STAR

AT THE

KING'S.

HEIFETZ

TO-DAY & TO-MOBROW Ar 2:30, 6:20; 7.20 & 9.20°

THE

LON

VIRTUOSO

OF THE VIOLIN. ||

was an asset for Maude Eburne There are many reasons for my the progress of the action and con-ledge of English as it is spoken when she was enlled upon to por

soquent boredom for the audience. optimism in regard to The Smil

In "The Smiling Lieutenant than he would acquire under the Lieutenant. First of all, the

overy song definitely advances the tutelage of a voice teacher. He tray a tertified servant in Holand WORLD-RENOWNED picture has as its star one of the action and tells the story. Oscar feels bis system is far more pruc-Wost's production, "The Bat fow players who combine musical Straus, the famous Viennese com-

poser, has kept this thought in tical, as well as far less expensive. Whispers" featuring Chester Mor ability with h motion picture per- mind in creating the original melo-

Lukas, featured with Ruth Chat is now showing at the Queen's sonality, Maurice Chovalier stands dies and Clifford Grey has carried torton in Anybody's" Woman,” alone in the degree to which he the idea to its logical conclusion in

Theatre, There were enough starti his lyrica.

again supports her in the Para- combines theso two unusual talents. The result, I believe, will please mount talking picture, “The Righting momente in the United Artists

Secondly, I believe we avoided the all types of theatre goers.

But if motion pictures were mad to Love," which begins a three production to keep Miss Ebnne common error in the matter of the by rule a chemical fromulas days engagement at the Central

are songs which play" so important a evolved,The Smiling Lieuten Theatre. He is under contract to part in this production. In the ant would never have resend the past too many songs were written

Rules" are "för science, ut for (Continued at foot of next columa.)' entertainment!

screen.

Paramount, and will likely have the leading male part in the forth coming feature, "Ladies' Man."

scared the rest of her lifa, she de-

glared. Mies Eburne is one of the best known comedy "haracter tresses on the "Amerlin stuge.

dem

ONE RECITAL ONLY

HANEY talks

THE

TO NIGHT UNHOLY

THREE

8.30 P.M

A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture

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