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QUEENS THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
ARBO
Ramon
in a new pictare
is an event
TOVARRO
will thrill you as he makes love to her!
MATA HARI
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1932.
MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE
Pictures In Hong Kong
Le
AFTER TO-MORROW."
CHARLES FARELL AND MARION NIXON AT
THEIR BEST.
AT THE PENINSULA,
TO-MORROW'S SYMPHONY
CONCERT.
Incorporated in the programme of the Symphony Concert to take place at the Peninsula Hotel to morrow night, at 8.45 p.m. are some excellent pianoforte solos and voca! items.
"After Tomorrow" which is now showing at the King's, is adapted by Souyn Levien from the John
Kathleen Madame Golden and High Strange stage. mezisë, and presents the drama of LRA.M., I.S. M., and her pupil two New York youngsters who de- 'Mrs, Maurice Tatley will be the ire to get married but are ham artistes.
Chappelle,
agred by their dependant families. Madame Chappelle, who has re- Charles Farell as Peter Piper, andcently arrived in the Colony, is Marion Nixon as Sydney Taylor well known teacher and pianist in have the leading roles, and both England and comes direct from her Two pianoforte render a most human and touching London Studio. interpretation of two lovers who, solos will be played by her, (1) re building their castles in Spain, "Polonaise in C sharp minor" by "Romance" by Charles Farell particularly, re: Chopin and (9) reals more of his old charm and Sibelius, and she will also accom- artistry in this picture which suits pany Mrs. Tetley who, in addition his taking ways and personality. to having a voice of great inerit, Farell's mother (Josephine Hull) is a singer who brings both charm gives an excellent portrayal of a and artistry to her performanes. loting mother who, however, The group of songs to be sung by rough selfish motives is opposed Mrs. Tetley are by three of the finost the match between the two modern English song writers, name youngsters. Minna Gambeli as they (1) "A Green Cornfield" by girl's mother in also successful in Michael Hend, (2) Early Morn playing the part of the extravaganting" by Graham Peel, (3) "The
·ALGO IN THE PROGRAMME—and dissatisfied parent who has a Cuckoo" by Martin Shaw and she
The 3rd Series of
grouch against the world in gen-will also render the popular ballad, eral and her husband in particular. "Bird Songs at Eventide" by
Coates. In this not very convivial at- mosphere, Peter and Sydney plan
An Unforgettable Drama LIONEL
with
ARRYMORE
LEWIS STONE
M-GM Flit Volce-Guessing Contest
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The Greatest Comedynasties tumbling about their sars To Come to the Screen
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A Masterpiece with the
·world famous
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Further particulars will be fonud in our advertising columns.
The orchestral items have brek their future happiness but some-carefully selected and it is expected thing always crops up which spoils that the concert will be productivo their happiness and brings their of au exceptionally enjoyable enter
tainment.
again
The set-backs through which they continually pass are, perhaps, a little too numerous to be wholly. iateresting, but taken right through the picture undeniably has an ap real which is due mainly to the atmosphere of simple humaneness which pervades it.
Splendid contrasting support is diven by William Pawley, William Collier, Sur., and Nora Lane. It is a picture wherein Charles Farel and Marion Nixon are seen at their Dost...
"NO ONE MAN."
CURRENT OFFERING AT ORIENTAL
A trade notice states:-
No one, sketching through the
TRINITY COLLEGE.
RESULTS OF MUSIC THEORY EXAMINATION.
The following · pro the results (supplied by Mr. Wm., Anderson, local Becratary) of the Theory Examination held at the University of Hong Kong on June 11:-
Higher Local Pass:--Isabel Pea tonji, $7.
Advanced Intermediate Fass:- Yu Sheung Woon, 13.
Intermediate Honours :-Beatrice Pestouji, 92,·
Intermediate Passes: Julius Joseph Levintof, 75; Alveus Lai-
highlights of Gorole Lombard's hovetsky, 73; Raymonde Black.
neteoric career, can say without a more, 09. blush that Cinderella storlen do not come true.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10,77
.7.15 & 9.80 p.m.
The Stage Play of Young Love that Broadway Adoredi
After Tomorrow
with
CHARLES
FARRELL
MARIAN NIXON FRANK BORZAGE PRODUCTION
FOX PICTURE
- TO-MORROW
2
"PLL PAY ANY
PRICE FOR A THRILL!”
Rich enough to do what she wanted. Pretty enough to get away 'with it!
DISORDERLY
CONDUCT
with DASALLY
EILERS
SPENCER
TRACY
EL
BRENDEL
Dickle MOORE
Directed by JOHN W.CONSIDINĖ, Jr. FOX PICTURE
BOOKING TEL. 25313
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD, WANGHAI, FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,80 p.m.
Junior Passes:-Laura Li 76;
Her Heart's Content with
Miss Lombard, featured in "No Elizabeth Charles, 73; Annie Nissen One Man, a story done in the 73
modern manner by Rupert Hughes
and to be offered as a Paramount
Preparatory Honours: Lily
screen headliner at the Oriental Trinh, 79; Henry Willisen Bunji,
Theatre to-day, was born in Fort; Rhexenor Stalker, 60. Wayne, Indiana.
Being a sensible young lady. Preparatory Passes: --Jeannette Miss Lombard has not allowed Wong, 71; Alicia Guterres, 07. success to turn her head. She is
still the sincere, friendly, happy-
go-lucky girl that..women refer to
As a peach at heart," and whom, Greta Garbo and Ramon, Navarro, men call a brick."
be sent out a call for an actor who Her skin is exceptionally fair,
her eyes are blue with an aura of could make up as a sightless math innocence, she is informal, wise- The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast- cracking, not an ounce ritzy-buting office reported that only one actor over achieved that makeup
Syncopated Romance! very fastidious about her coiffeur
WAENDA PRO
HONKY TONKTM
Sophie
TUCKER
the last of the
"No. One Man,' perhaps the plum of her histrionic career, 18 illusion. That was Lon Chaney in her first picture appearance after The Road to, Mandalay," who un extended vacation, including a honeymoon to Honolulu with Wil completely obliterated the pupil in liam Powell, the man she was fea one eye by some secret chemical tured with in the Paramount | formula. pictures, Man of the World" and Ladies Man."
LON CHANEY MAKEUP.
SECRET.
USED IN MATA HARI.”
A. trade notice states: One of Lon Chaney's most guard
C'eeil Holland, makeup expert, however, finally offered to play the part himself but refused to put the makeup on any actor who might discover the secret Chaney en trusted to him before his death two
years ago.
"I promised Chaney never to re reuf it," Holland explained.
So in the picture Holland ap pears as the soldier, apparently
ed scorets has survived the grave. sightless in both eyes, a startling
When George. Fitzmaurice WAS
Alming the French hospital scenos makeup effect that was one of for Mate Hari, co-starring Chaney's greatest prides and se (Continued al foot of next column.): “erets
ΠΟ
One man
A Gamarunt Nature
CAROLE LOMBARD RICARDO CONTEZ PAUL LOKAS
TO-MORROW
JACKIE
COOPER
AND
ROBERT COOGAN
"SOOKY
A Paramount Picture
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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
King's.
HONG HÙNG
*After To-morrow.'
Central.
"Corsair."
'Queen's.
"Mata Hari,"
World.
"Oh Sailor Behave." Oriental.
"No one Man.”
KOWLOON.
Star,
Honky Tonk."
COMING.
King'a
Disorderly Conduct." This is the Night."
Central.
Two Swords."
Caught Cheating."
Queen's.
Star.
'Grock."
.. When
F
a Faller Friend.".
Needs
Д
Four Infantry Men."
Oriental.
"Sooky."
"CORSAIR."
FINE DRAMA AT CENTRAL.
A trade notice states:
In changing her personality and adopting a now name, Alison Loyd, the lendig woman for Chester Morris in Corsair," the United Artists picture which opens at the Contral Theatre to-day, closes n book upon a colourful past. In this picture, as previously announc ed, Thelma Todd, commedienne, becomes Alison Loyd, dramatic ac
treks.
A motion pietura theatre owner card that Jose L. Lasky was or ganizing the Paramount School of Acting, so he submitted Thelma's name and a picture. The school was for the discovery and training ut young actors and actress, and its first pupils included Charles Buddy) Rogers, Josephine Duna, 3 and Drew and, among others, Thelma Todd.
It has been said that Miss Todd red pictures as the result of A beauty contest, but it had to thing to do with har picture d vent. It was during negotiations feier endrance in the Paramount School that her own town Elks Lodge insisted that she became a candidate in the Statewide banaly contest, She won hands down and became "Miss Massachusetts," and a ball was held in Lawrence, which she was crowned queen. The day after the ball she received word that she had been acepted for the school.
ar-
CENTRAL THEATRE
25720
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 280; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 pm.
THE LATEST UNITED ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE
WALTER GREEN'S FAMOUS LIBERTY MAGAZINE NOVEL THAT THRILLED MILLIONS NOW BECOMES A GREAT SCREEN- TRIUMPH. · ROLAND WEST & "OHESTÉR MORRIS NEWEST GREAT SUCCESS IN A SURGING, FAST-MOVING, HIGHLY THRILLING & GREATLY.ENTERTAINING DRAMA OF THE. HIGH SEAS.
זי
CORSAIR
Roland West's
Thrilling ses romance from Walton Green's sensational Liberty Maga-
zine serial novel
Storring
CHESTER MORRIS
NEXT CHANGE
A WONDERFUL CHINESE
UNITED
· ARTISTA
PICTURE
PICTURE WITH ENGLISH TITLES
"TWO SWORDS," PT. 1 & 2
SHOWING
SOON
CHARLIE MURRAY & GEORGE SIDNEY IN THEIR NEWEST LAUGHING HIT
CAUGHT CHEATING
Her first picture after her rival in Hollywend was opposite Buster's Wife Leaves.
Fol- Gary Cooper in "Novada.' lowing that she was leading lady for Richard Dix, Richard Berthel mess and the lato Milton Sills. Most of her roles were in the light er veins, and it was natural that, having been thus rubber stampel, she drifted into light comedy.
“DISORDERLY
CONDUCT."
GOSSIP
FACT.
other set dressings receive many
Buster Keaton and his beautiful remodelings, rentals or sales. Old. the studio foundry. Even obsolete wife, Natalie Talmadge, have de-metala aro melted and re-cast in cided to separate for the second
er damaged camera lenses find ready buyers, time this year, hecording to the Los Angeles Eraminer.
Any ro
port that Buster and I are separat ed is nonsense," declared Mrs. Keaton, one of the three renowned sisters, after a rumoured separa tion in April when a long-distance reconcillation was affected by tolo phone.
Platinum Blonde Martled."
It is reported that Jean Harlow, the famous platinum blonde film Paul Bora at Beverly Hills, Cali fornia.
Sets always are built so that the picces may be disjointed and made into others, thus saving lumber. Damagad pieces are sold to wreck- ing companica for construction purposes or used as kindling.
Even thousands of manuscripts mimeographed for pictures are sold as bulk paper after a film is com- pleted
Bhort enda of film--that por tion of 1,000 foot reols left unex
ROMANCE FOR THE KING'S star, was recently married to Mr.posed-always have been sold for
A trade notice states:- Spencer Tracy has never driven a submarine, but that is only be. cause he has not yet got around to
Star Falls from Ladder,
Lilian Harvey, the well-known Muswell Hill girl who won fame as a film star in Germany, fell on her back white sliding down a ladder for a film at Berlin, and is confined
The popular favourite, who came to the screen from the Broadway atage, where he created the power to bed. ful role of Killer Mears in" The Last Mile," has appeared in seven Elstree's Beautiful Blonde, talking pictures, and in six tliem he had to learn how to drive
ol
Margot Grahame, Elstree's beau- tiful contract star, has been bor some now sype of vehicle.pia rowed by Jack Buchanan to play
In his latest Fox picture, Dis- orderly Conduct," in which he is opposite him in his latest film, co-starred with that delightful She had barely finished playing heroine of Bad Girl" and the leading feminine role in the
Dance Team," Sally Eilers, and new production,
Timbucto."
El Brandel and which opens its when she was seized to support local engagement to-morrow at the the fantous star in the part of his King's Theatre, Tracy had to spend wife. In the meantime they are at a couple of preparatory weeks work on a special vehicle calcolat astride a motor-cycle to qualify for ed to suit her blonde loveliness his rule of a speed-cop, and if ad-As yet untitled, & further announce vance reports are to be believed ment concerning Margot's next film he handle the two-wheeler with will shortly be made considerable adeptness. Littis Waste in Hollywood.
"Disorderly Conduct," tells a
highly romantic story involving Extravagant" Hollywood is & policemen, bootleggers, politicians misnomer, says a Paramount sirca and a society girl, Miss Eilers, lar, A Sow pertinent facts from the Tracy and Brendel are supported Paramount Studios show that every by a large and capable cast in item in picture making is used cluding Ralph Bellamy, Ralph many times and usually sold when Morgan Allan Dinchart, Charles usefulness had ended. Grapawin, Cornelius Keefe and other celebrities, John W. Consi- dine, JL, directed the production from the story by William Anthony McGuire. This is the second pio ture in which Miss Eilers and Tracy have appeared in, together, their first being the Fox drama,
Quick Millions."
amateur photography. EMPA
One of filmland's greatest saldı vages is in reclaiming the silver dissolved in developing.
Much material now goes-to charity. Perishable foods on sets or leftover box lunches on loca tion go to orphanages or raliaf agencies. Old clothes follow, this routo, Even cut flowers are hurried to free wards of hospitals!
Studio Within a Studio
Elstree has gone all Chelsen,'!' and an artystudio has been built within the studios. Sculp tuxed groups, bronzes, wall panels, drawings and piles of wet clay ure on every hand for Gene Gerrard- is producing scenes for Let Met Explain, Dear," in which his friend Merryweather appears as a modern sculptor.
Claude Halbert is playing tho part of the artist,
Arthur Woniner..
It is not surprising that Arthur Wantner is one of the most sought after stars in the talkie world to day, for he is an extremely polish ed actor, well read, unfected and extremely handsome. His last pic lure in Jack O Lantern, pro- duced by Walter Fordelt the Twickenham Studios He had s part that suited him udmizably in A Gentleman of Paris, directed by Sinclair Bitt
Costumes, the greatest problem because styles change, are either sold at reduced, prices to stare for whom they are made, revamped for minor players, rented to smailer His voice and manner, and hand! companies or sold to employsca or some presence generally, are greatly gown shops dealing in used film i adroited by Americans, and hit pic- ture The Bleeping, Cardinal "wag clothes
Properties, furniture, drapes and a great success in New York./
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