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TILLY OF
BLOOMSBURY.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
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PHYLLIS, KONSTÄM AND
THE STUDIO STAFF.
Queen's.
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Phyllis Konstam had a remark- able tribu paid to her after the ahosting of a dramatic scene in
Tilly of Bloomsbury," Sterling Film Co., Ltd., talkie production which will be again shown by ra quent at the King's Theatre for one day only on next Wednesday.
Jack Raymond, who directed the picture, is beloved amongst arlistes, for his imperturbability cloaks a most kindly and tolerant under standing of human paure and his gentle persuasiveness-has the offeret of getting the last ounce out of his artistes, whether it be a comedy or a dramatic sequence.
But evon bis equaniralty was severaly shukua during a scene in Tilly of Bloomsbury, Phyllis Konstam, who plays the part of! Tilly, has invited her Lancé's rich family to her modest home where ate tempts so put her middle-glass fami- ly into as good a light as posible" go all wrong, and culminates in-
a dramatic scene during which she denounces her future mother-in-law for her snubbishness and patronagu. The sincere manner with which Phyllie Konstam played this event, the fervour of Mer denounciation, and championing of her own poor family reached such a pitch of dramatic intensity that Juck Ray- mond was in constant fear that Phyllis Konslam wouki collapse un- der the emotional strain.
When the scone was eventually taken. Just Raymond enthusine sically complimented her, and öven
the hard-boiled studio staff joined
in the outburst of spontaneous applause.
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SYLVIA SIDNEY AND
FREDRIC MARCH.
IN NEW FILM FROM SENSATIONAL NOVEL.
I, Jerry. Take Thee, Joan," the Arat-novel of Oleo Lucas, a shorti atory author and Hollywood syndi cate writer, has been purchased by Paramount as a co-starring vohicle for. Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March..
The story of, married life in America's modern young group of irresponsibles, the novel became one of the best sellers of the past year, Miss Lucts, is now in Hollywood writting articles for a. national. syndicate while working on a se
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Direction of the picture has been assigned to Dorotny Arzner, Holly-
wood's only active woman director.
The production will mark the first
combination of Miss Sidney and March at the head of a cast, · Both are former stage players, and have been identified on the screen with highly dramatic parts, Miss Sidney in "An American Tragedy," "Street Scone" and "City Streete~ and March in such films as Sarah and Bon," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' and Laughter."
Camers work will start shortly after the two complete their present assignments. March heads the cas. of The Black "Robe" and Miss Sidney of "The Miracle Man," both in production.
*SUNSHINË SUSIE."
RENATE -MÜLLER'S SUCCESS
Here is a little cameo from the
Film Weekly of Bonate Muller, who
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HONG KONG.
** Boau Hunku. "?
Stars Laurel and Oliver.
Hardy.
King's.
Young As You Fool"
with Will Rogers,
Central
World.
Around the World in 20
Minutes?
Douglas Fairbanks.
Son and Flesh,"
Chinese picture......
KOWLOON.
Star:
The Sea, Bat.
COMING.
Queen's,
"W, Plin," *
"Hook, Line and Sinker." "Alibi"
King's.
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Bly of Bloomsbury." Huckleberry Finn The Man I Killed:** "Sunshine Susic." "Palmy Day's.1?
Central.
"Tonight or Never." "Corsair,"
World.
Star,
"Spring Time,"
(Chinese picture).
| A Man's Man."
Say It With Songs." "Robin Hood."
Whoopee,"
"Strictly Unconventional.”
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1932.
TO-DAY "ONLY"
AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.90 P.M.
KING'S
WILL ROGERS
Young as You Feel
with
Fifi Dorsay Lucien Littlefield
Directed by Frank Borzage
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 23319
TO-MORROW
So Long Homespun! BY SPECIAL REQUEST Hello Glad Ragsl
ALL dressed up with plenty of 'places to go. Every" thing new from his spots to his topper-except the smile and the drawl.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
Which is which? Fit Dorsay between Donald Dillaway and Will Rogers in trying to deciële which is the fathe
“und wäich in the new.
“A snema Porras Drased lated. Fra sintame, “* Young As You Feel:""
WILL ROGERS AND
FIFI DORSAY.
GREAT FUN IN "YOUNG" AS
YOU FEEL.**.
LAUREL, AND HARDY.
FOR ONE DAY ONLY
STERLING FILM CE present
Tilly of Blomsburys
LAN HAY
Directed by JACK PAYMOND
Starring SYDNEY HOWARD, PHILLIS KONSTAM") ELIS JEFFREYS & EDWARD CHAPMAN
IN THEIR NEW COMEDY
"BEAU HUNKS."
COMING SHORTLY
"BUCKLEBERRY FINN"
A PARAMOUNT PIOTVEE
with
JACKIE COOGAN JACKIE SEARL.. MITZI GREEN JUNIOR DURKIN..
MYSTIFYING TRICKS.
USED IN, DOUG'S NEW PRODUCTION.
"HOW BEAUTIFULA
SHE IS
· IVOR NOVELLO AND GRETA
GARBO.
Mr. Ivor Novello, has returned to London after two years' noting and writing in New York and Holly wood."
He has come with six months' Henyo of absenen from Metro-Gold-
wyn to present a comedy of his own: (as yet untitled), which Miss Auriol Lea, will produce at the Prince of Wales' Theatre on March; 23.
Mr. Novello gave a vivid and amusing description of his meeting wish Greta Garbo.
"Tho Arsl person everybody wants to meet on going to hony wood is of course, Greta Garbo,' he said. Not one in a thousand (over catches a glimpse of her, 'Im- agine my pleasure, therefore, when Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman invited me down to their bench house, and I found Mise Gazlo among the guests..
Behind the Blue Glasses.
She was dressed in men's trou- Bors, sweater; a beret, and blue glasses. Behind the glasses I saw eyelashes like ostrich feathers try. ing to push their way out. I said, Take the glasses off. She merely said
"No."
I recited a little Swedish nursery rhyme I happoned to remember, and she was, so pleas- "ed that she whipped off the glances.
How Beautiful She Is.'
"I realised then how beautiful she is far more beautiful than she is on the screen, though in quite a
PELTHEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 AND 9.20
I-G-W'S JEWEL PROGRAMME
TAN
LAUREL
OLIVER
HARDY
BEAU
HUNKS
----- ALSO SHOWING
:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's. COLORTONE REVUE,
BABY FOLLIES
Entirala in TECHNICOLOR
different way. She has glorious.blue |— NEXT ATTRACTION eyes and hair of a lovely honey.co
READ BY MILLIONS lour. I did not find her sulky, as NOW IT LIVES ON THE some do. On the contrary, she has
All the old and famous Fairbanks tricks, and some new ones, are in- eluded in "Around the World in 80
grand sense of humour. But sho Minutes," the United Artists Speciis always seeing farther than any- has a sírunge, absent look as if she
al Feature, which will be seen at body else. There was very little of the Central Theatre to-day.
Those remembering "The Thief of Garbo of the screen about her; in- the exotic, glamorous," sphinx-liko Bagdad" again will witness a scene stoad, I saw a gorgeous young, wo- aimilar to the flying carpet sequence, the details of which have nevor been disclosed The Gaucho," in which
man of the open air.
"My rebutions? Well,' 1
Fairbanks "did marvellous tricks thought, this is where I begin the while riding a horse, contributes its share to
romance of my life. I shall see her "Around the World" to-morrow. Or if not to-morrow, while all manner of camera magic
the day after.'"* Mr. Nuvello
is
since."""
has been added to make the travel laughed. "I have never seen her sequences as entertaining as hunamly possible.
In one sequence, ingeriously con- ceived, Fairbanks comes to life from a photographed likeness. The in- age, however, remains in place as the actor walks about in front of it. This triek along with others is linked closely with the incidents
"LOVELY LADY."
LONDON'S LIGHT-HEARTED COMEDY "WITH MUSIC."
Graham
SCREEN
NOVEL
SETON'S FAMOUS
The
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"Lovely Lady," the new, play al with depicted in the narrative of the the Phoenix, London is a light BRIAN AHERNE - MADELEINE American's jaunt around the world. hearted inconsequent trife, descril CARROLL GIBB MCLAUGHLIN All of Fairbanks' previous pic-ed as a "comedy with music." Thut and GORDON HARKER Burch have been notable for the me. is, it is in all essentials & straight,
chanical perfection of tricks that play; but every now and then, for Dunested by VICTOR SAVILLE
A BRITISH INTERNATIONAL TALKIE mystify all, who were not actually no reason but the author's whim,. on the set the moment they were it bursts, into song. made: In "Around the World" There is no chorus, none of the with Douglas Fairbanks, the per-ordinary musical comedy parapher- former compiles the successful ones|nalia, not even a long cost of char used in his films during the past, len
acters. On the other hand, there
years,
is a definits though not very power ful plot, concerning Peggy Carroll, a penniless young woman who a
ows herself to be offered as the prize in an adverlising scheme to boost the sales of a cigarette called “Lovely Lady," and then falls in love with the Arm's advertising man- ager.
F
WHEELER AND WOOLSEY.
KINGS OF FILM FUN.
The king-pin of all comedy
Pla Dorsay,
Another favourite of Borzage's is in the cast of "Young As You Feel." She is Fifi Dorsay, who made her talking picture debut un- der his direction in "They Had To Ees Paris." In the present Bo The one thing that makes Will
gers production she has the leading Rogers an outstanding film star of feminine role, that of a young popular comedy duo who have Laurel and Hardy, the highly to-day is his ability to make audi French dancer, who makes Rogers, added mors ences forget that he is a comedian.".
to the gaiety of teams!" in the character of the old,woo
That is how Eddie Cline, diree. than nations
comedians, mpat The above statement was made by begone and "dyspeptic millionaire appear in Beau Bunks" their tor, speaks of Bert Wheeler and Frank Borzage, while he was direct meat-packer forget his years and latest feature-length comedy in Robert Woolsey whom he directed ing Rogers in his new Fox picture. troubles and rejuvenates him into i
outstanding achievement even in in Radio Pictures' "Hook, Line and "Young As You Feul," which is now such a fast stopper that his two their long career of hilarious suc- Binker coming on Sunday to the amusing bits of interpolated foolery.
showing at the King's Theatre.
spirited sons are soon outdistanced This quality of his becomes very Lucien Little Field is another
D088.
"
Queen's Theatre." Beau Hunks is a burlesque on the "There can be ́po doubt of it,"
Tho play has been adapted from
STAR
10-DAY & TO-MORROW
Ár: 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9,20
SOMETHING NEW
the German by Arthur Wimperis, IN SCREEN ADVENTUBES ::
who has done his work with briak-
ness but no great wit. The music
of Jean Gilbert is lovely, catchy, and pleasant, and there are some
But when all is said, this is a one-part play. It stands or falls by the personality of the actress who plays the title-part For this they
makes you forget every one of your apparent," continued Borzage, "In noted comedian who is to be seen Foreign Legion. It bas all the he says, "When you remember management has thought it neces cares in the Gainsborough musical scenes where Rogers is called upon in support of Rogers. Other mem-thrills and drams of that class of they have scored consecutively in sary to import Polly Walker, an comedy"Sunshine Susie" which is to portray the simple human emo-bers of the well balanced cast are production--soul-killing discipline five pictures since their highly sucMiss Walker knows her job, has American, Why, I do not know. coming to the King's Theatre soon. Bays the writer:-"She is fair, net
tions that touch the very soul of Donald. Dillaway, Torrance Hay, forced marches harsh officers cessful Ziegfeld stage days-Rico's made a reputation in New York, very tall, with blue, good-humoured mankind. The sincerity and con Lucile Browne, Rosalie Roy, C. storms and marauding natives, Rio Rita," "Cuckoos," "Hall and can act, aing, and dance well
the rigours of the desert-sand- eyes. The secret of her personality viction with which he does them is Henry Gordon and Brandon Hurst. Through all this blunder the figures Shot at Sunrise," "Dixiana and enough. But not an aud is that she shares Mary Pickford's what we might expect of a great
standing personality. It is absurd gift of radiating happinem,
"Young As You Feel" is the of those inimitable comedians Oliver
to suggest that there are no actresses "Renate has the rara and preci tragedian. Audiences forget Rogera talking screen's version of the stage do their best and making a haah
and Sian, painstakingly trying to now "Hook, Line and Sinker”
The explanation is very simple, available in London who could have ous gift of making you feel that he as a wisecracker and think of him play, Father And The Boys of everything. It's the best comedy according to Cline, who is ap au done as well or better. world is a good place to live in only as a human being torn with which was written by the humorist you have ever seen the laugh of the thority on comedy psychology, hav-duction is the terrife energy of Ed- Easily the best thing in this' pro- Her produtors realised this, or ap
and elang linguist, George Ade. The parently they did, for they brought emotion, And I know, for Young screen play was adapted in continu-
ing learned his lessons well from her picture to the West End the As You Feel is the second Ro-ity and dialog by Edwin Burke, and
Mack Bennett in the days of the wook after the new Income-Tex te 7sessments were delivered.
gore picture I have directed, the coording to advance reports from
critics who have already seen it, humorous lines Wheeler develops. "Keystone B
Kopa So it is this battle Garman girl first being They Had To See the photoplay suila Regera home the situations with hilarious results. They are entirely different and who has helped to keep London hip Paris and I have sat with audi-ly style of wit and philosophy much If the theatregoer isn't laughing at secure laughs by different methods, py in difficult Anancial circumstan-ences during the showing of overy better than any of the previous Ro Wheeler, he is laughing at lie says. Woolsey in master of
Woolsey." Fox picture Rogers ever made."': / gers' succABBES. 'Der [”**
+ "(Continued' on previous Columa.)
year.
"THE
SEA BAT"
A thrilling drama of man against monster
with
:::
CHARLES BICKFORD
RAQUEL TORRES’
mund Gwenn, whom it is delightful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ploture to welcome back again, to the ba stage after hin severe illness. Barry Lupino, Dudley Holpa, Clarice Hardwicke and Arthur Margotson also work hard, and the pace"
is swift and well throughout
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