1932-08-12 — Page 12

QUEENT TEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MOBROW AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.207

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

"Winga,"

Central.

Queen's

"Sin Ship."

King's.

"Wicked."

World.

"Reminiscences of Peking."

(Part 9).

"Touchdown.”

Oriontal.

KOWLOON.

Star.

"Atlantie."

COMING.

"White Hell of Pitz Pala,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1932.

BRITISH MOTOR SUPREMACY.

CARS AND DRIVERS MONO. POLISE ALPINE TRIALS

of

London, August 4.-British cars, driven by British drivers, have

a remarkable serien gained succesca in the International Alphine six-day motor trini.

The first British win whs in the Coupe des Alpes, for cars of 2,000 c.c. This event was captured by a team of Talbot cars.

Then a team of Invictas narrowly defeated 171 Armstrong Siddeley team and won the Glacier Cup.

In the race for cars of 1,100 0,0, to 1,500 cc., all the first three places were filled by British eura, a Frazer-Nash, winning the event, with two Wolseley cars close be- hind.

A team of Rileys won the Coupe des Alpes for 500 to 1,100 c.c. cùṛs, while many wins were secured by Lagondas, Singers, and Morris cars. The British successes were gained against very strong opposition, ny nearly all the leading Continental cars were represented in the con ests.

Star.

**Trader Horn."

Central.

Docks Alive with Lusty Passions of the Uabridled Waters 1

Queen's.

**Champ."

end Floor Mystery,”

King's.

She Wanted a Millionaire,"

World.

The Calendar."

"The Spy."

THE

SIN

SHIP

LOUIS WOLHEIM

MARY

ASTOR,

IAN KBITH

FROM SUNDAY

TWO, who make motion - picture history!

Wallace

BEERY

COOPER

The

Metin Galdur Meyer retvir

Here is a picture that takes its among the screen's mightiest You can only think of "The Kid" In the same breath!

"Misleading Lady.”

¡Continued on nexi Column.)

"Sporting Bloed,"

** Marianne','

"Strangers Mny Kiss."

Oriental.

"Goldie,”

"His Woman Dude Ranch."

GOSSIP

&

FACT.

A Tremendous Difference.

Four years have made a tremen- dous difference-a difference no rast that it might be as well, before sharpening our scalpel for an in- vestigation of the present and fu- ture, to spend a few moments con- templating the past.

of

置

is Jim Flagg, erstwhile officer of the Martue Corps. The public placed the stamp of its highest ap proval on Flagg by seeing "The Cock-Eyed World in greater num bera than any McLaglen film befor or since.

Elissa Landi,

In 1028, just before the coming talkies, twenty-eight British

Elissa Landi is to have an ex films were released, and less than citing screen time. Her next pic half a dozen of them could have ture will be entitled The Womati been described as satisfactory. in Room Thirteen "-a melodrama in 1020 the number of releases tic thriller that is quite different jumped to seventy-five (thanks to from any of her previous talkies.

Famed for Thrillers.

the Quinta Act), but the standard Meanwhile, she is writing her of quality remained distressingly fourth novel. low. There was, however, Onc outstanding production, head and shoulders above all the rest, and very far in advance of its period, This was Alfred Hitchcock's "Black. mail" the first full-length all talking picture to be made in Eng.

land.

"Blackmail" was a portent of the fature in store for British films It was really a silent picture chang od at the last apment into a talkie, and it contained ideas which have since been accepted and elaborated -as "the latest thing " in film production by producers and directors of all nationalities.

In the following year the effects of the change-over to talkies roduc. ad the number of British releases by fifteen, but the sixty home-made films which did find their way to the cinemas, whether silent, talking] or part-talking, were, on an aver age, considerably better than their predecessora.

Have You Heard,

*

That Ruth Chatterton's aickusut was Mike,, when she was a little girl 7.

*

ABSOointed with Gainsborough are the British Lion studios at Beacons. field, owned by the late Edgar Wat lace's company, and famed for Wal- lace "thrillers."

The Frightened Lady." ahowo by the smoothness of its technique that the British Lion outfit is se-

and to none in the country. This year two more sound stages are to be added to the studios, and eight full-length pictures will be turned out.

At Twickenham, in the famous studio formerly owned by the old London Film Company, night is turned into day, and relays of play. ors, directors, and technicians work incessantly under the generalship of Julius Hagen.

The Twickenham stables, as far 48 I can discover, produce three distinct types of thorough-bred -- farce, melodramn, and social drama. The farce is usually of the Kichard Cooper type; the melo- drama frequently involves lightning deductions by Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot; and the social drama is generally inspired by some weighty problem of public interest, such as Should a wife be faithful

That every time Lupe Velez goes to a party she carries with her a little square card, in case she may meet Greta Garbo? Lups vanks the to a drunken husband? atar'a autograph, because she is nu out and out Garbo fan!

#

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That Ruth Chatterton was rear- AMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture ed in luxury, but collapse of the family fortunes forced her to start making a living in her early teenal

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Ar 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20

The

Super

BRITISH

Production

"ATLANTIC"

AN ALL-STAR CAST.

A New Foralgn. Star.

髁

A new foreign star is looming on the horizon. She is Tala Birall.. Miss Birell has appeared or both stage and screen in Vienna. She was born in Bucharest, and doubled for Marlene Dietrich in pictures in That George Bancroft and Clive Berlin. She went to Hollywood to Brook have a dramatic clipping hobby George's best is one which play in the German version

Strictly Dishonourable," but re-

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of

liate the title of a play, the direc turned to Vienna directly after. tor, producer, author, and other wards. Now she has a long-term members of the cast, and finally contract, and is in Hollywood to says "A sour show." Clive has a star in "Marriage Interlude." review of a dlm of the wide open he speaks English, French, Gor- spaces. Said the critic, "Nice pic man, iussian and Polisn tare, but the actors get in front of

Arnold Fauck, who made the un' the scenery!

forgettable "White Hell of Pits That Richard Wallace, directing Palu," is also in Hollywood, where The Road to Reue for Parn. he is to direct a special production mount reports one-of-his property.

men was stumped when he came A New Ohild Star. across the following line in script: Have you heard of Dickie Moore "Jack stands on the hill with lus arms akimbo?" Prop, man had not heard of those kind of guns!

A Film Actor's Choice.

Ask a film actor to compare and

Warner Brothers have signed him to a long-term contract. He will be one of the featured players in School Days, and then there will be other pictures for the young man. He's an unusual child in that he

of his riles with another and speaks hie lines clearly, is absolutely

seasoned trouper. Not since Jackie Cogan-made such a sensation have we had a child actor to compare with Dickie.

pick out his favourite. And surnatural, and has all the poice of a prisingly often you'll find. that the part he liked doing best is the one the public liked seeing best!

Take the case of Victor Malaglen. Out of all his swashbuckling, re pertoire, the character he likes beat

Jackie Cooper is good, but, he is a boy, Dickie is still a child."

KINGS THEATRE

LAST TWO DAYS

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.30 pm.

Elissa Landi « WICKED

!

WITH

VICTOR McLAGLEN

UNA MERKEL ALLAN DINEHART

AND.

LAST TWO DAYS LAURA

GUERITE

DEATH OF RIN TIN TIN

FAMOUS FILM DOG

(THROUGH KLUTME'S AGENCY,)

HOLLYWOOD, Aug, 11, The death occurred to-day of the famous film dog Rin Tin Tin.

"THE SIN SHIP."

AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.

The action in "The Siw Ship," which opened at the Queen's Theatre yesterday, centres about a group of people abourd & South Seasbound schooner, which is manned by a cut. throat crew and captained by an anprincipled muster, played by Louis Wolheim. How this monster finally meets his Waterloo in the light of a good woman's eyes" is powerfully but simply pictured.

Mary Astor cast in an unsym- pathelis role nobly wins apprecia- dramatic tion, and achieves new laurels.

On first seeing Mary Astor with Ian Keith, garbed as a parson, the "akipper's" lust is aroused. He has never known a good woman, being but a rough sea captain and as soon as the high seas are reached be sanda for the lady and locks the door.

Is she afraid? By no means. Drawing herself to her full height, and causing her eyes to blaze acoru so far as the medium in which she is working will allow, she pours a flood of reclesiastical platitude all over him. He bows his head in shame, an instant convert to purity, and she unlocks the door, ́rejoins her husband, and retails her adven ture with shouts of ribald mirth.

The element of surprise is complote. After that Wolheim turns a pro-

THE FAMOUS LONDON REVUE, They are crooks fleeing from justice. STAR IN HER OWN

ORIGINAL CREATIONS,mising drama into a romantic AT 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30p.m. on. -NEXT CHANGE~-

The Truth About Beauty Con- testsTM And The Unlucky Girls Who Win Them!

She Wanted

a Millionaire

JOAN BENNETT

SPENCER TRACY

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD, WANCHAI, LAST TWO DAYS

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.

30 college grid stars

in action scanes I

TOUCHDOWN!

a

Gramount Pictur

Blebard

Arlon

∙Peggy-

Shannon Jack Bakle NEXT CHANGE- SPENCER TRACY

WARREN HYMER

IN

"GOLDIE

with

JEAN HARLOW. A FOX PICTURE

comedy, with himself as pathetic lover. There is a scene, "in which he invites his idol and her husband to a meal and waits and waits for them in vain; and he has many tedious emotional passages.

Ian Keith is the wifo-beating eri- minai, and Mary Astor is lovely and competent.

A virile picture,, excellentiy act- ed-one of the best of its kind.

"TOUCHDOWN!"

SPORTING DRAMA AT THE ORIENTAL

A trade notice states:-

CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING

720

TO-DAY

at 2.30; 6.00; 7.20 & 9.40 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF TIME OWING TO THE LENGTH OF THE PICTURE)

A MASTER PICTURE MADE BY MASTER-CRAFTSMEN, EN- ACTED BY A MASTER CAST, FILMED ON A MASTER SET BY MASTER PHOTOGRAPHY. REALISM THAT THRILLS, BRAVERY THAT STIRS. BEAUTY THAT AWAKENS. IT'BAN AIR EPIC OF THE WAR *ACES" WITH REMARKABLE SOUND SYNCHRONIZATION AND SPLENDID MUSICAL ACCOMPANI-

MENT.

A tragic Bood of leadi·

Madly he fired round after reirad into the vitals of the ship of the air that bore the insigrila of the enemy.

How was ho to know that the pilot was the pd be believed dead-the very pal he had been

venging!

It's the most.arring climax the screen s given! And it's but one of a host of towering moments in a mighty picture that will carry you over the clouds to a thousand thrills. Ac fully fixed kalles tigh in the air.

20% Les picture which thrilled Broadway for more than a year. It's the picture London, Paris and ail Clic of the world haßed as the greatest sergus sterpiece. It has won a rising volume of praise.

"WING

CLARA BOW CHARLES (BUDDY) ROGERS RICHARD ARLEN GARY COOPER

SHOWING SOON

Paramoun Picture

THE GREATEST THRILL PICTURE OF ALL TIME. NOTHING LIKE IT BEFORE! NOTHING LIKE IT AGAIN 1 A MIRACLE OF FICTURE MAKING A DRAMA YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!

WINGS."

AIR EPIC AT THE CENTRAL.

A trade notice states:- The remarkable sound Byn Football, which has progressed from its crude pugilistic form in chronization, which startled the the 90's to a sport discussed with millions who saw "Wings" at the enthusiasm at society teas and

brick-layers' balls to-day, has sup- great theatres in the larga cities of planted baseball as this country's the world, will be heard when the

national sport.

This was brought out by research Paramount epic of the "Aces" in workers obtaining data for Para the World War shows at the Central mount'a "Touchdown!,"

the Theatre for several days starting Francis Wallace story featuring Richard Arton, Peggy Shannon, to-day.

Jack Oakie and Charles Starrett The master synchronization, at the Oriental Theatre.

"THE CHAMP."

NEXT CHANGE AT THE QUEEN'S.

A trade notice states:- When a fellow has his eighth birthday, that's Bomething tha word ought to take notice of.

He was at work with Wallacs Jackie Cooper has just turned eight. Kotro- Beery in The Champ," Goldwyn-Mayor's vivid story of life below the border, which is play.

According to Francis Wallace, which, at the time of its introduc-ng from Sunday at the Queen's They were at work on football is coming to pictures for tion, was the first great sound in Theatre, when this important event the first time with a serious story novation, furnishes a, splendid se background.

occurred.

ture.

The day of the comic football companiment for the wonders of the the big prize fight scene in the pis picture with the fat waterboy is picture. Musical accompaniment

Somebody found out past," says the author. To-day, of heart-stirring beauty forms the fans take their football seriously.

it Wan

They want it that way on the background for realistic sound ef. Jackie's birthday. So King Vidor, screen. Touchdown deals with fects. The spirit of the music is the director, invented some pretext for getting him off the set for a the football scene as it really is, in

carefully tempered to keep pace .1031."

moment. Although baschall still has great with the changing tempo of the pic- appeal, facts show, that a football ture. game of average importance will

When he returned a big birth-

turn away an overflow of thousands The sound effects olicited a wealth day cake was in the centre of the ring. Wallace Beary presented hin of fans from a bowl holding 65,000 of praise from newspaper critics persone. The annual Notre Dame Army

or Notre Dame-U.S.C.

with a brand new pair of hoxing

wherever the picture has played. Encounters find at least 10,000 fans. The care which Director Qilliam gloves, and the rest of the cast, the unable to arowd into Soldiers Weilionu exercised in the produc electricians, the grips-everybody Field, a stadium of 111,000 seats, tion made of "Wings a thrilling on the set, helped him colebrate. says Wallace,

The game's popularity also has story of war in the sir. The sound boon proved by the number of mo

tion pictures that have featured it. effects added to these realistic and Many of the industry's most im portant stars have enacted football realistically photograplied pictures p rules, among them, Harold Lloyd, the convincing ear accompaniment. Richard Barthelmess, Richard Dix, William Haines, Jon E. Vrown, Buster Keaton and Douglas Fair- banks..

Because the motion picture

TC.

Falling airplanes really fall in,

And the funny part is," remark

d Jackie, "that I'll have a second birthday-party at horde after work !!

"Wings" in picture and sound, the regulated response from the

flects such interests of the people Machine guns blaze away and those sound reproducers,

as war, moral issues and gangster who see them cau also hear them. A "Wings" is a great moving pie- problems, it is believed that foot

ball popularity is now at its zenith, band marches by and the musicture but with sound it is a marvel- for several major concerns are wells from the screen The tramp lous piece of realism that records for planning football pictures, includ-

ing a series of shorts with Howard of a thousand feet is measured in all time the war is it was fought Jones; "Huddle" "Spirit of Notre Dame and others."

(Continued at foot of next column.) in the air in 1917 and 1918,