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"ALL QUIET."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

QUO

GREAT WAR FIM AT CENTRAL TO-DAY.

HONG KONG

Queen's,

A quarter of a million dollars. was literally shot to pisees" in the making into a motion piebura Erich Maria Kemarque's penetrating book | King's. of the World War, "All Quiet On The Western Front," Universal's all-talking super production which is now at the Centrul Theatre,

The quarter of a million repre- sents the cost of specially construct- ed buildings, whole villages - of them, blown to fragments and dus with explosives to depict the deva station wrenght by furious, 14 teasing hour.Iments.

Sot of India,"

with Ramon Novaero.

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Central.

World.

All Quiet on the Western

Front."

Dawn Patrol:"

KOWLOON.

Btar.

"Pardon Us."

#1

King'a.

COMING.

Tilf Shot at Sunrise." "Sleeping Cardinal"

The Yellow Ticket." Young as You Foot" "The Spider."

Central.

The Age for Love." "Around the

The fire to be destroyed was a French village, a perfect replica Queer's. of a northern France bundet muught! in the crus-fire of batile. The viki lage entered to acres of ground, estling back from a railroad out! which ran specially baik Gertzon Red Crass trains of the 19 perbud.. Representing, a captured village, the skipets - were' filled with "350 German soldiers when it was put ander fre if the enemy gas. When cho destruction rided the village was a mass of Putina. The build- ings were blown up with planted || explosives, touched off by elecrie- ity, while blank shells burss in the *aže.

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Among the other scenes in which buildings were destroyed beyond j anlvage were two in which, pro- ; ductions of French churches went hurtling in the air, a shower of dust and debrig along with "sur- rounding cottages,

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Thirty-five different settings were built for the picture as a cost of $498,500. Five hundred and thirty five thousand font of lumber and five, cariends of building plaster to- gether with tons of other material. wen, te, the construction, work,

The bade scenes were made on a reproduction of the wastoon, front covering 946 aeres on the Irvine ranth close to the Pacific Cesan, 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles, aloention without parallel in pictures. Here, in addition to miles į of trenches, Universal constructed „a complete camp to house the lash players and workers for the stwo months they worked on the battle

scenes.

"DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE."

HOW IT WAS FIRST MARKETED.

Minutes

World in 80

**The Command Performance.

World,

gian.

Three Heroes,"

Chinese picture, Thunder."

The Mysterious Person in

Black, Chinese Picture.

Say It With Songs,

Robin Hood."

Min and Bill,"

Passan Flower," Warm Corner,"

LAST TWO DAYS

Featuring FREDRIC MARCH

MIRIAM HOPKINS ROSE HOBART

KING'S

A Lover by Day...

Ar 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 9.30 PM.

ADDED FEATURE

At Night by Fiend NEUTRALS SACRIFICE

"DR. JEKYLL AND

A PARAMOUNT

1932

·PRODUCTION

"MR.HYDE

RELEASING SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH NY,

IN PRESENT WAR HORROR AT SHANGHAI. FUNERAL. OF

Able Seaman H.. A. Francis and H. G. Prior

of H.M.S.."Suffolk." NEXT CHANGE

POWERFG9

Story of a Framed Girl

Elissa.

"LANDE

Llone! BARRYMORK

**THE YELLOW TICKET

A Fox Picture

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 23313.

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

THE YELLOW

TICKET."

LIONEL PUZZLED BY THE PUBLIC...

director is no bed of roses.

"AGE FOR LOVE.”

A SOPHISTICATED DRAMA

Howard Hughes. "The Age For Love," which marks the return of

Weeping Ann..

SON OF INDIA.”

HOW JACQUES FEYDER AND RAMON NOVARRO USED THREE LANGUAGES.

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Jnefics: Feyder has an interest- Ting Explanation for his uniqué habit of speaking three languages, English, Forman and his antive French, to players and technicians. who understand one or more of them during the making of each of his pictures.

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Foyder spoke all three of these tongues, for example, to Ramon Novarro during the making of "Son of India" the romance of the Orient, which will open to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

Novarro, of course, is a linguist equal in ability to Feyder hinäself. In foot Novarro speaks four lan guages, the three-mentioned, and hio native Spanish,

"English is the greatest lan- |guago in the world for general ex- planations," said Feyder. "French ennnot be excelled för describing n romantic situation, And Gorman ia.the best for technical" details.

With Novarro I am accustomed to have general discussions of story details in English. Whan wa begin to talk about the love scenes, we arg apt to lapse into French. and if we are getting technical about our sound recording, for example, we find its basiest to ex- press ourselven in German."

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Son of India" is an adapta- tion by Ernest. Vajda of F. Marion Crawford's novel," Mr. Isaacs" Novarro's supporting cast includes. Conrad Nage), Marjorie Rambeau, Madge Evans C Angrey. Smith, Mitchell Lowis, John Miljan and Nigel de Brulior.

GOSSIP

& FACT.

dale and William J. Res heading. Ann Harding, one of Hollywood's the cast This American piece is leading weeping willowa, stara with having a big success in Birming THE PHANTOM OF Leslie Howard in "Devotion," a

ham. Its midnight performance is story of love in the Inner Templeo be an invitation affair, chiefly PARIS,

for the benefit of members of tho and deception in the Inns of Court, It is one of those quiet Alms, sooth- aoting profession, ing to the weary business man. New Paramount. Filma, Nothing very much happens, when The following six Paramount you analyse it, but everyone be Alms were started during January: haves like a gentleman, and all'Ho Met a French Girl," fe

JOHN GILBERT'S SUCCESS.

That Gaston Leroux, the noted

in

Tag life of a motion picture Billie Dove, will come to the Con-French mystery writer, has excelled Take tral Theatre on Saturday, Ameri-himself

The Phantom of the world of Lionel Barrymore for, win critics have acclaimed The Age film by that name starring John Paris" is clearly evident in the

example." After dropping the For Love" to be one of the out Gilbert. make-up box for the megaphone, standing productions of the year which he recently, wielded on such and it reveals a new, Billie Dove, success in "Madame X" and "The in the finest performance of her Rogue Song," he has again applied career.

For Love" is based on the novel

There is intrigue from start to Anish. intrigue with new and start- ling turns. But it is intrigue with finesse. The background is colour- ful, chatenux of France, gay ball the gresso paint and donned a Rus

A sophisticated romantic drama rooms, a glittering theatre, a vast sign uniform to appear in a lead of love and marriage, The Age · French prison ing role with Elisa Landi in

The veteran director, John A recent study of the biobraphies of Robert Louis Stevenson and

Raoul Welsh's Fox production, by. Ernest Pascal, with dialogue by stickler for detail.

Robertson, evidently has been other material bearing upon the "The Yellow Ticket," opening at Robert E. Sherwood, the movie institution the setting is correct. In the penal famous authors weird tale of "Dr. the King's Theatre next Friday. eritic and playwright.

even to the use of solid steel doors, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by the Paramount · Hollywood

Says Barrymore, "When I am

in contrast to the barred doors of The cast includes Edward Everett his native America This is where scholars, reveals the fact that his neting I am responsible only for Hoti, Lois Wilsur, Mary Duncan the magician Cheri-Bibi, played by classic did not immediately attract my own performance, not for what and Charles Starret, And Frank John Gilbert, foils the police by: the attention of the reading world. the picture will do at the box office. Lloyd, made the picture for Housing his tricks to extricata bimself

studio

Stevenson first submitted tho.

story for magazine purposes but it I have beça connected with motion ward Hughes,

Plans

was considered soo long and not suitable for instalmenta. were therefore made to publish it as a papercovered shilling book in London

pictures for 21 years, but I don't

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from prison."

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The Phantom of Paris" is not "The Age For Love," A 1802 just a story of intrigue, though, for understand yet, what the publisUnited Artists picture, while it it is based on an all-powerful love,

I made several attempts to wants.

arouses controversial problems, hne

a love which has seemingly, insur- discover what pleases the majority an all-round appeal to picture way, and a love that, overcomes and mountable obstacles placed in its

Of tbo presa

shortly before of motion picture fans but it still patrone, and is one of those fils sweeps aside all in its path. Christmas, 1885, publishers found remains a riddle to me. booksellers already over-burdene

which every person, "young or old, with Christmas numbers and un- "Perhaps, the best method to will want to see at least once. willing to accept it.

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pursua is to give the public a little

of everything in hopes that out of

formances of his career,

right with Hollywood as a result.turing Lily Damita, Charlie Rug-

Splinters in the Navy.

glos, Roland. Young and Cary **Splinters in

Grant;The Broken Wing," with the Navy" atara that boisterous British comedian,"

Leo Carrillo and Lupa Velez; Sydney Howard, which in itself is Frances Dee and Jack Oakie, "Sky Bride," with Richard Arlen, enough to make comedy-levers visit Thunder, Below, starring Tal- it at least once. "I remember lulah Bankhead, with Paul Lukas: its first night seeing tough film cri ties sitting unperturbed through- out its unreeling," says a film eri- George Bancroft, and a story, Lén- bie. "For myself I guffawed and

tatively titled "Beauty Parlor," chackled, wobbled on the Adam's with Phillips Holmes and Carole apple, and laughed heartily through Lombard. Now being filmed are the front of my neck. Hilarious Comedy Coming to

Queen's.

¿

dramatic

Ûr3. story starring

The Black Robe," with Fredric March and Kay Francia; "The Miracle Man," presenting. Sylvia Sidney, Chester Morris, Irving Pichel and John Wray; "Dancers Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in the Dark," with Miriam Hop- appear in Radio Pictures wartime kina, Jack, Onkie and William Col- comedy,Half Shot at Sunrise," lier, Jr., and Maurice Chevalier's Sunday. Wheeler and Woolsey "opening at the Queca's Theatre on latest, One Hour With You.'

James Cagney used to be a chorus

boy.

cast as doughboys, go to Paris and Giving Them Away. raise well everything but the dead Thoy impersonale off- cers"... pose as beroes alopo with their Colonel's daughter stan his car... pull down tho Barry Norton, threatened with wrath of the whole army on their baldness, went to the South Sens necka... make M. P. wonder and shaved his head bare every day about themselves in connection with for three months. He is now back the Darwin theory... aud emerge Baunting the season's best crop. Heroes!

Cavalcade to be filmed.. The magician, Cheri-Bibi falls deeply in love with a girl of great

Mr. C. B. Cocliran has confirmed the report from Hollywood that; wealth. But that wealth has at

three Noel Coward, plays, treated a marquis of a decadensoade," "Bitter Sweet," and "Hay

Caval It was withdrawn and presented in January with difficulties. The

sort, who murders, the girl's father trade was not keen on it until & it people will like two or three of

and point the anger, of suspicion review appeared in the London your prachuotions. If a director Miss Landi enacts the role of but breaks his bonds' and makes th on Bibi. The magician is arrested Times. With public attention to cao do this then I should any ho cultured sensitive girl who is per-bitter fight, which brings in some it, silos increased until, within the firt six months. 40,000 copies wero

might be success,

surated by the brutal and mercilem of the moet startling scenes over sold.

But after trying my hand at hirelings of the government until innocence and win the girl of his filmed in his battle to prove his To-day, it has been red by mil, both acting and directing I must sho accepts a yellow ticket which, heart: lionu.

confess that I like acting better. brands her as Under the direction of Par

and abreet. Etronuous new dramatization of Directing is too amount o "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was wearying to suit me."

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A woman of the The marquis dies before a confes. mon can be wrung from him, ad Bibi, by means of plastic surgery,

In addition to Miss Landi and has his face made over so that he written ospecially "for screen pro

can impersonate the dead man and In The Yellow Tickat," Barry-Barrymore the cast-includes Laurlearn the details that will free him duction with Fredric March in the

in the eyes of the law. . It is a fast- title role and Mirim Hopkins and moro portrays the role of the head once" Olivier in the other featured moving film with an end that i Rosa Hobert in the leading feimin of the secret police in Russia,”a roles are Walter Byron, Sarah most surprising. "Ind~ rolex----TWTM-blood-chiting"

gruel calculating minuter, drunk Fadden, Rita LaRoy, Micha Auer drana depicting the dual persona lity of a great action character is with power and with lust, and he Boris Kario. It is the screen ver

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the King's Theatre's feature for is said to give one of the best porsien, of Michael Morton's play of

F (Continued: un next column.) the same name.. -to-day.

The well-rounded-cost-includes

Edward Robinson, the two-gun tough guy, plays a harp.

Ramon Novarro used to earn a living giving piano lessons.

ICCOBS

QUEENS

ANTHEATRE

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY' AT 2:30, 6.10, 7.15 AND 9.20

NOVARRO

Son of Indio

H

Metro

PLOTURS

ere is Ramon Novarro's finest ro- mance since ***The Pagan" Such a story of young love in old India as will touch your heart!

with

CONRAD NAGEL

MARJORIE RAMBEAU MADGE EVANS CAUBREY

SMITH

NEXT ATTRACTION

BERT

WHEELER

ROBT,

WOOLSEY

SCREEN'S RIOTOUS. NIT WITS ON A JOY JAG · THROUGH GAY PAREE

HALF SHOT

AT SUNRISE

with DOROTHY LEE

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT230, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's

of BIGGEST

Fever," have been sold to the Fox Wallace Ford, the only Barnardo Film Corporation. He would not boy to uphold Stepney Causeway's divulge the purchase price (stated honour on the screen is using the by a news agency to be £800,000). name of a friend who was killed All I can say, is that Coward under a freight train when they and I-we are both interested in wore both. " tramping"

America, the Alm rights of Cavalcade and Bitter Sweet-have received an offer for talkie rights of those two In Australia. plays and have accepted it. A very British pictures and those

arge sum is involved. It in not B.I.P. in particular are continuing true that the Tox company has also to do good business in Australia in of Cavalcade. We have received lowing on the recent success of My acquired the American stage rights apite of adverse conditions. Fol A very interesting offer from an Wife's Family," "Flying Fool" other source, which we are now and "Dreyfus in Sydney, the re investigating"

lease of Men. Like These!" and "Out of the Blue" at the Lyceumy Sydney, again focused the interest of the public on British product,

The exploitera cable

Midnight Matinee.

The first “midnight matineo" ever hold in the provinces took Theatre. last month."

COMEDY

"PARDON

„STAN.......

US"

with

Leila Hyams, who is Gilbert'a lead-place at the Birmingham Repertory Men Like The Out Of Blue LAUREL

ing lady for the third time in sa

many picture. Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, O. Aubrey Smith, Natalin Moorhead, Ian Keith and Alfred Hickman:

Released Bydney Lyceum, January

Elmer Rice's "Street Brene," which Sixteenth, No Need for Quotas

is having at this theatre its first With Productions. Likó These PronM OLIVER

run outside London, was the play Public And Exhibitors Unanimous HARDY

of the occasion, with Sybil Arun. In Lavishing Fraise.