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QUEENT THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20 p.m. This Girl Knew
Her Leap Year T
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Hat marriage was Just the begin ning You must see what happens then!
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Montgomery
with
Madge
Evans
Roland Young
la
Frederick Lonsdale's
wittiest romanse
LOVERS Courageous
ALSO SHOWING M-G-M'S COLOUR REVUE "Ambitious People.":
NEXT ATTRACTION
She lived to- lure millions to their deaths.... She died for love of one man alone..
GARBO
as the beautiful opy In kar greatest picture!
with
Qamen
OVARRO
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What a pair of lovers.
And what 'romance 1
mata hari
with. LIONEL BARRY MORE, LEWIS STONE
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
MARIE
POLLY
LAUGH RIOT
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1932.
AFTER
TO-MORROW." KINGS THEATRE
THE OUTSIDER:
HONG KONG.
Queen's.
NEXT CHANGE AT THE KING'S.
"Lovora Courageous."
King'
Central.
A trade notice states:-
LAST TWO DAYS
The Outsider."
"The Common Law.".. World.
Hold Everything." Oriental.
"Rich Man's Folly."
KOWLOON.
Star.
"Politics."
Quanu's.
COMING.
**Mata Hari."
King's
After To-morrow." This is the Night."
Central.
"Devotion." "Corsair."
Star.
"Hottentot."
"Honky Tonk.".
World.
"Montana Moon." "Sporting Blood." "Oh Sailor Behave." Oriental.
£1
"No one Man."
ACTRESS WINS.
£1,200 AWARDED FOR LOSS
OF SALARY,
London, July 27.-A special jury
the King's Bench Division, nwarded £1,200 damages for loss of salary to Miss Clara Evelyn, the actress and singer, whose name ini private life is Miss Clara Evelyn Smith.
Defendants were the Coliseum Syndicate Ltd. and Sir Oswald Stoll,
All the questions left to the jury Irg Mr. Justice Acton were answer ed in favour of Miss Evelyn. His lordship postponed entering judg ment until after hearing legal atgu- ments at a later date.
Miss Evelyn claimed damages for breach of an agreement to engage her as principal to play the. lend- ing part of Josepha in the musical play, "White Horse Inu" at the Coliseum.
The questiona left for, the jury's
PROBLEM FILM AT THE KING'S.
"The Outsider," which started
ersion of the Broadway sengem At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. yesterday at the King's Theatre, la
version of the
suc
cess of the same name opens its local engagement on Wednesday at the King's Theatro.
Charles Farrell
Marian Bcd Nixon are to be seen in the leading roles of the ploture, as the roman tio young sweethearts whose marri age is constantly frustrated by the opposition of their sentimestaj und selfish mothers. Rather than to go against their parents, wishes, they seek emotional relief in a blind trust in the future, that "After To-morrow," life promises to ve bright.
Minna Gombell, as the mother of Miss Nixon, is said to give the greatest performance of her screen career, in a characterization that call, for her to deny love for her own daughter, a performance which even surpasses her unforgetable Edna in "Bad Girl."' 'This con- flict arises from the fact that ahe is married to a week and ineffectual husband, played by William Collier, St., who has never been able supply her with the pretties de- manded by her vanity.
As Farrell's mother, Josephine Hull brings to the film drama the same role she created on the New York stage. Her duft impersona- tion of the comical yet, sometimes pitable little Mr. Piper, is reported as lending much of the human ap. peal and mirthful qualities which *After To-morrow" possesses. In the other important roles are Wil- liam Pawley, Ferdinand Munter and Nora Lane..
decisión were:-
(1) Was Mr. Eric Wolheim agent for defendants with authority to engage Mies. Evelyn on their be- half!
(2) If not, was Mr. Wolheim held out by defendants as their agent with such authority?
(3) Was there an offer by or on behalf of Miss Evelyn of defen dants which defendants, by their conduct, accepted so as to con- tract
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(4) Damages (if any) (a) by way of compensation for Joss of salary (b) loss of publicity; (c) alter- natively remuneration for Miss Evelyn's services at the rehearsals.
GOSSIP
FACT.
her
How Tallulah Started!
Tallulah Bankhead made screen debut as a beauty contest winner,
This disclosure was made by Miss Bankhead, who co-stars with Gary Cooper in Paramount's adventure romance, "Devil and the Deep."
This debat, however, was when she was seventeen and has nothing to do with her entrance into talk ing pictures as a London stage star more than a year ago.
When a Washington magazine in- augurated a beauty contest while she was living the capital with Her congressinn father, Miss Bank- hend untered the affairs on a lark.
So timid was she about the idea that she did not include her name with the photograph she mailed in. She kept the move & secret from
her family
Another "Lawyer Film,"
Wardour Films are releasing in exciting film entiled "Sin's Pay Day"
"The Maid of the Mountains.**
Six ducks who florted on a lake in a scene from "The Maid of the Mountains," became firm friends of Laurie Lane, Lupino Lane's B who visited the studio to watch his father directing the film. It was not until one duck sank that it was discovered that Lane Junior had been feeding his feathered friends with studio cake.
Nell Hamilton,
screen,
Nail has been married for nino years, and to the same Ho has over been mixed wite. up in any scandel He plays romantic leads, on the and proudly tells the world of his adoption of a baby daughter. Not only that, but he allows photo- graphs of himself to be taken with the baby in his arma,
This, according to Hollywood, in not at all the way a screen hero should act!
Just because he is a film stár
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Lon Chaney's Son gats Contract.
Creighton Chaney, handsome son of the late Lon Chaney, has re- edived his most valuable birthday present
A notable cast of players play Neil Hamilton rufuses to create a the important roles in this picture, great impression by his mode of which deals with the fall of a brilliant lawyer and his rise duo living, in fact, ha lives economically to the efforts of a ragged urchin and saves monoy. He also drives who befriends him in time of need the same car which he has owned
for five years.tsuk His regeneration comes about through the wilful murder of the child, when he turns from defence lawyer to prosecutor of the criminal. Intense drama and poignant tragedy are the highlights of this film, the picture, incorporating many stirring scenes, first in court when the
He was awarded a longterm con- lawyer is defending one of the gun. I trast ka a player in R.K.O.-Radio men clients, later in the slums and Pathé pictures. where the desertion of his wife has His contract specifies that the brought him and finally back in the young man will be known as Creigh courtroom where he wins a convicton Chaney, and not under say tion against immense odds. Ben Turpin Plays in New Film,
Ben Turpin, who made, roving oyce-urnonymous with laughter for millions of film fans during the last twenty years, has the unique dis- tinetion of playing himself ined in motion pictures, although he Paramount's dramatic comedy of an was closely associated with the in- accidental screen star," Make Modustry through his father's sc a Star3
tivitica. Ho is six feet three Turpin's character name in the inches tall, and boare a close re pioture is Ben Turpin, which is semblance to the Lon Chaney of tea explained by the fact that the years ago. The deal which made comedian himself was one of the him a motion picture autor was principal characters in the play concurred in by his mother, who written by Harry Leon Wilson, originally, had mapped out a busi George B. Kaufman and Maro Con- ness career for her son Chaney nelly on which Make Me a Star" was born on Oklahoma City.co is based,
incidentally with his father's scop The comedian appears in a casttion of a theatrical career. After headed by Stuart-Erwin, Joan Blon- several years on the road," the I dell and Za8u. Pitta,1
family moved to: Hollywood.
DRESSLER MORAN
Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer Picture.
"POLITICS
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circumstances as Lon Chaney, jun, and that he is not promised "fen- tured or starring roles, but will be given ampla opportunity to demon- strate his ability to earn his own way as an autor.
The Romance of a 'Quack' and the Girl he Cured.
Britain's greatest masterpiece!
A sensation on
the Stage, a
greater sensation
on the Screen
DOROTHY BIANCOKS, PITEINANCIAL SUCCESS***
The OUTSIDER
BABY LACHIAN
The remancy, of w 'quack' and the girl be cured.
HAROLD HUTH JOAN BARRY FRANK LAWTON NORMAN MCKINNEL
Mesro
-NEXT CHANGE- WEDNESDAY, 31st AUG.
The Stage Play of Young Love that Broadway Adoredi
After Tomorrow
CHARLES
FARRELL
MARIAN NIXON. FRANK BORZAGE
PRODUCTION. FOX PICTURE
BOOKING TEL. 25313
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
LAST TWO DAYS
At 2.80, 6.15, 7,15 & 9.80 p.m.
GEORGE
BANCROFT Rich Man's Folly
a Garamount Picture NEXT OHANGE WEDNESDAY, 81st AUGUST
Carole
one of the most interesting films we For have had for a long while. those of us who come from Eng- land, the facts that the film comes
CENTRAL THEATRE
25720
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
also from there, that lovely Joan CONSTANCE BENNETT'S GREATEST SCREEN TRIUMPH Barry is the heroine, that a very
fine actor,
McKinnel,
Norman plays her father, and that there is throughout a typically English at- mosphere, will be a recommenda tion, but I believe that all but the most frivolous will find an interest- ing question propounded, but not answered, on the screen.
The situation is this: The daugh ter of a famous surgeon has been a cripple from birth, and is cot aidered incurable. A foreignor with à bombastic manner and no degree demands admissions to the Royal College of Surgeons, and is treated with slight consideration by the committee of surgeons who exame his claim. The "Out- sider" manages to persuade the erippled girl' to put herself in his anda for treatment, although her father is bitterly oppressed to her taking such a risk. That the "outsider "makes good his claim is a part of the story but not of the problem.
LOVE BROUGHT,
HIM FAME
LOVE BROUGHT
HER SHAMEI.
The secret woman in 'a great man's life. Her love made him
and unmade herl
Constance BENNETT THE COMMON LAW
BY KOBIET W. CHAMBERS = A CHARLER 2, 15011S PRODUCTION”
· JOEL MICREA « Law Cody + Labori Willman + Bodu Hesser • Marion Stiftlam
Show bas, in The Ductors Dilemma," drawn the picture of the doctor who refuses to examine the possibilities of treatments of which de does not recoguise the validity, and even when the doctors ROLAND WEST & CHESTER MORRIS, THE WINNING COM. are drawn with G.B.S.'s malicious
SHOWING SOON
pen, ons cannot but ace that thereBINATION THAT CREATED ALIBI," NOW TOGETHER AGAIN is much to be said for their atti-IN A SURGING, FAST-MOVING DRAMA OF THE HIGH SEAB, tude, But The Outsider" up-
proaches the problem of the un- qualified medical man from another angle, that of the parents of the patient. Has anyone the right to refuse to his child the chance of health, because of a fear that mat- tors may be made, worsh instead of better Yet has one the right to decids in favour of an experiment which may have tragic quences if it fails?
couse-
We most of us have a sneaking Lelief that doctors, like their proto- types in the African jungle, are a close fraternity which hates and fears the beresy of those
outside their own brothing |
That belief head mot detract in the loast from our admiration of a
Roland
Wert CORSAIR
United Artists Pletzna
Chester Morris
ALSO
THE STAR OF STARS IN A STARTLING STORY
ANN HARDING
body of unselfish and hard-working “LOVERS
Time.
and again, treatements studily upheld for years as neces sary and right have been suddenly reversed in the light of new know ledgu
• DEVOTION•
COURAGEOUS.":
RICH MAN'S
FOLLY."
Science progressos, marvel- POIGNANT DRAMA AT THE MELODRAMA AT ORIENTAL,
lous new cures are discovered, the
"outsider may be working on
the right lines though be has not approached his conclusion through
the regular channels.
QUEEN'S.
* Lovers Courageous," which
Yet one feels the unqualified man opened yesterday at the Queen's
A trade notice states:- According to George Bancroft, star of Paramount's exciting id
is a menace; one has perhaps the Theatre, is a charming and poig-dustrial melodrama, “Rich Man's right to risk one's own life in the
cals of experiment, but hardly nant story which forms a perfect Folly," which is now showing_at that of one's child. Dr. Sturdee vehicle for Robert Montgomery, the Oriental Theatre only the most was right, unless one considers that whose portrayal of an Englishman essential workers were taken on the his daughter was of an age when
location trip across the continect from Hollywood to the Bethlehen shipyards at Quincy, Mass,
pen
she should make the decision for is thoroughly convincing. From the herself.
of the celebrated English The acting of "The Outsider" is dramatist, Frederick Lonsdale, the extraordinarily.. good, throughout
and the story tragic and intense tale is one of youth and romance, in its telling. Joan Barry Harold & tender and touching narrative, Huth (as the unqualified doctor not lacking in typical Lonsdale and Norman McKinnel, seem to
live their parts and the interest humour. never flags for a moment.
E.M.B.
The party making the trip. a0-
cluded the actors necessary for the scenes to be taken; John Cromwell,
the director Edward Paramore, Not the least important in the Jr., co-author of the screen play;
The Outsider is a film you should see and one which you will "parkling alm is the appearance George Nichole, film editor, and opposite Montgomery of Madge | Archie Hill, business manager. The not quickly forget.
Evans, erstwhile child
A
party was augmented by workers very capable actress
"Mlaj' Evans |'taken, from the Paramount Now..... seemed quits at home in her role York studio which included the as the British aristocrat, who dared camera crew, electricians, property to defy convention and follow her men, sound recorders and all their heart to the attic room of the strug- necessary gling author,
MATA HARI.
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COMING ATTRACTION AT:
QUEEN'S.
A trade notice states: ---- The greatest honour of his long career came to Lionel Barrymore
The story is about a young Eng lishman who finds home life incom patible with his ambitions He runs away and becomes a failure in He finally
while he was playing the part of every job he tackles. the Russian military attache in lands in South Africa where he "Mata Hari" with Greta Garbo Gnds employment in a tobacco shop. and Ramon Novarro. It was dur Thore he meets the daughter of a ing the making of the new Motro
The film editor's duty was to visualize the edited film as it would appear on the screen. He worked largely as an assistant to the direc
tor
The business manager' (duty was to handle all money, pay the ex poses of the troupe, the salaries: of the workers and to act as liaison officer in securing special concession for the Alming of scenes that inter
Creighton Chaney has never play LOMBARD Goldwyn-Mayer production that British aduural. When their in-fered with the normal activities of
·IN·
"NO ONE MAN
A Paramount Picture with
PAUL LUKAS RICARDO CORTEZ
BOOKING TEL. 28473
the shipbuilding plant
Motion pictures of a great in- dustrial plant are always interost ing and sometimes thrilling. The photography in “Righ. Man'a Fol- ly dis mxtraordinary. Some of the scenes are thrilling, particularly the one showing the launching of the great stenship, Mariposa
Barrymore was singled out by the terest in one another is discovered, Academy of Motion Picture Arte the girl is dispatched home to and Sciences as having achieved the outstanding masculine performance England to hasten her wedding to of the year for his work in a a titled barrister." On the ove of Free Boul,"
the wedding, however, she goes to Barrymore shared honours with the youth the really loves. Maria Dressler in receiving the ac They dofy all parental wrath and ademy statuettes at the annual bau face the future together, relying on quet attended by Vice-President a nearly finished play to win bread Charlos Curtis and other national and shelter for them. Things go d dignitaries. According to preview from bad to worse. To spare his never see her again. The play critics, his performance in Mata bride further sufferings, the youth comes a bit and he reag Hari," which opens on Thursday wonds her to her parents' home," | waited fruits of
at the Queen's Theatre, is equally nocepting their demand that he Teunion and, impressive.
(Continued at foot of next column.)|happily ever
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