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"Lady and Gout."

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WHITE HELL of

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Breathless Thrills I

Featuring Gustav Diesel, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen and Ernst Udet.

Directed by

Dr. Arnold Frank and

G. W. Pabıt.

A Universal Picture.

NEXT CHANGE

THE SURPRISE PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

PINCAL

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onstance BENNETT

in a drama of the world," the flesh and the movies

"WHAT PRICE. HOLLYWOOD'

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WANT ADS

"Viennese Nights."

Contral.

White Hell of Pitz Palu."

Oriental.

"Trader Horn."

KOWLOON.

Star.

"Susan Lenox."

COMING.

Vanishing Frontier."

King's.

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Movie Crazy."

"Transgression."

"Huddle."

"Bachelor Apartments,”

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What Price Hollywood,"

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World.

Lady Refuses."

Red Butterfly ep.

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Tell England?""

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CANTON CINEMAS

Wing Hon Theatre.

"Love Me to-night." Paarl Theatre.

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"Dreams,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932.

FINAL SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.80, 5:10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

"GROW YOURSELF A

NEW BRAIN, BIG BOY!"

"Do you think I'm going to stay in this dump just to hear a kid we never saw 'til yesterday call us Ma and Pa?

ne night court is the

nearest you, and 1 ever got to a marriage license bureau ?

GEORGES

BANCROFT

"Lady and Gent

with WYNNE GIBSON

CHARLES STARRETT • JAMES GLEASON.

A Paramount Picture

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

WORLDS TO CONQUER

THE HERO OF VIENNESE NIGHTS "

A trade notice states Alexander Gray, who plays tho ole of Otto in the excellent screen romance, "Viennese Nighte" showing at the Queen's Theatre, is a graduale engineer whose college glee club experience changed the whole plan of his life.

choirs

"THE VANISHING".

FRONTIER

A CHILD STAR WHO MADE GOOD

A trade notice states:- Child stars don't remain child stars all their lives.

They grow up. And, generally, they disappear ino obscurity..

Not so, however, with Ben Al- exander, child star of D. W. Grif- fith's "Hearts of the World" and a score of other movies of a de- cade ago. He's no longer a child star, but an adult player of dia tination. He will be found in an important role in "The Vanish- the ing Frontier," coming to King's Theatre on Thursday next starring Johnny Mack Brown, and featuring Evalyn Kaapp, Za8u Pitts, Raymond Hatton and J. Farrell MacDonald.

During that, lean period that so often follows a college graduation, Gray decided to take his music seriously and began studying with various voice experts. While wait- ing for opportunity to knock he, tride numerous ways of making a living, managing a truck company, church singing in

and ediling a trade paper.

The change finally came. Gray won a voice contest sponsored by usic teachers in Los Angeles, From that he stermed the office of

Alexander made his picture do. Ziegfeld and was given his big but at the age of three. chance. He sang first in the Mid- furnished the sniffles and tears in night Frolic at the Amiterdarn" Ench Peart a Tear," a film star Roof, then in the Follics, then as ring Fanny Ward. A year later be loading manin Follies, then as played in Hearts of the World.", loading man in "Sally" with and from them until the time he Marilyn Miller.

was ten he was in one picture after. Marilyn Miller was responsible, another.

for bringing Gray to motion pie- At 12, he starred in "Penrod," tures. She asked that he be sign-Porod and Sem," and a scries ed to play the lead opposite her of similar pictures. But than he in "Sally" when she made that I quit to go to high school. And picture for First National. Warn from that time. until “All Quiet er Brothers became interested in on the Western Front” was made the handecine young singer and he remained in an obscurity that signed him for the lead in “ Vien- the "wise guys" predicted was go- nese Nights," opposite Vivienne (ing to be permanent. Bezal.

But he was given a role in "AI! Gray we born in Wrightsville, Quiet and performed so credit- Pa. He lives in Hollywood, in¦ably that he has been back in pic- bachelor apartments.

turos ever since. The adult Ben Alexander, the "wise guys," al- ways on the side of the winner, now HOW TO BECOME A FILM predict, will get along just as nicely as the juvenile Ben Alexan- der.

ACTOR!

CAVANAGH'S MARCH TO

FAME

A trade notice staten: How to become an actor 1 First, get yourself born in Chisel Trurst, Kent, England, P

on

Graduate from Cambridge.

Go

In "The Vanishing Frontier," Alexander is cast as the brother of Evaly Knapp. She, as the daugh- ter of a general in charge of the military-government of Old Calf fornicis in love with Johnny Mack Brown, an outlaw fighting. against her father.

the bum. Land in Canada, Chop, wood, work on farms and in there is to it. Cavanagh, one of foresta, Join the Northwest Mount the most popular English, 199, ed Police, Practico low for five actors on the American screen to years.

day, appears st the Queen's Then get in to movies, just like Theatre on Friday opposite beauti Paul Cavanagh did, and that's all ful Kay Francis-in Radio-Pictures- (Continued at foot of next Column):Ldrámu.“ Transgression."

**IF I HAD A MILLION ''

ELEVEN STARS ALREADY CHOSEN

Eleven of Paramount's important contract players have been sop definitely for leading roles in, the studio's new type of all-star pic." ture, If I Had A Million," with plans-being-made-which will add as many core to the list, the studio announced.

are

Already naaigned parts Fredric Match; Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper, Wynne Gib son, George Raft. Frances Dec, Jack Oakie, Alison Skipworth. Richard Bennett Gene Raymond and Charlie Ruggles.

To this list of contract nersonali- ties, in added W. C. Fields, former Paramount. comedy star, as the first of a group of free-lance play- ors who will be used.

All of these players will work in hve of the nine chapters of the story | now, prepared. 'The other four sequences of the picture will include additional groups of play- who will not be east definitely

until scripts are completed.

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A Mexican Robin Hood, fearless in danger and ardent in love! Ride with him to romance and thrills!

NEW FILMS IN LONDON

INTERESTING SWEDISH

PICTURE

London.-En Natt, the now pio. turo at the Academy Cinema, is the an interesting example of modern Swedish talking film. It has been directed by M. “Gustav Molander, and is a Svenska produc tion from an original scenario by Ragnar Hylton-Cavallius, photo- graphed by Ako Dahlquist. The part of the mother is played by Miss Gerda Lundequist, who ap peared with Miss Greta Garbo ́in The Atonement of Closta. Berling: Marja is played by Miss Ingert Bjuggron, and Armas, the hero, by Bjorn Berglund. Herr 'Fritz Lang's film M, recently shown at the Cambridge Theatre, is being revived this week at Cineman House, Oxford Circus.

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Another foreign film new to Lon- don is Tempest, a Ufa production, with Mr. Enil Janninge and Miss Anna Sten in the chief parts. Mr. Mr. J. B. Priestley's novel "Benighted" has been transferred to the screen under the title of The Old Dark House, and is directed by Mr. James Whale. Although the film, was made in Amerien, Mr. Whale is an English director. Two other films from America are Blou- die of the Follie, with Misa Marion Davies and Mr. Robert Montgomery in the east, and The Vanishing Frontier, which supports The Night of June 18 at the Plaza.

The first performance of the eighth season of the Film- Bóciely will take place on Sunday after- noon at the Tivoli, when the main

"LADY AND GENT" [picture will be La Rosier de

TALE OF TWO TOUCH CUSTOMERS

A trade notice states:- Two wise.ogga" who were too wise.

That in brief, is the story of Lady and Gent, George Ban- croft's latest starring picture which opens at the King's Theatre.

Petite Wynne Gibson, Intest Hollywood find," who is soaring to stardom in her own right, plays opposite the virile Mr. Bancrfot, and Charles Starrett, James Glen son, John Wayne and Joyce Comp ton have other leading rolex.

Bancroft and Miss Gibson are coat as a couple of self-styled big timers" who dwell on the shady side of Broadway, battling merrily with each other and with any one cise who cross their path.

The uneven Conor of their lives be ecmer even more so wheu. Bancroft's best friend suddenly dies, leaving & 12-year-old son alone in the world Just what their responsibilities to the lad are they sit down to con- sider.

And they reach a conclusion that produces resulta na whimsica! they are radical.

11.9

Madame Husson, directed by M. Barnard Deschamps. Among the minor items will be Lotte Reiniger's! new silhouette film Harlequin and Swedish documentary sound film. The Times criticisms of En Nati and Tempest are as follow:-

En Natt.

The modern film seldom shaken, itself free from the inverted prig gishness which assumes that every man, even though he be back in the heroic mould, is as a matter of course entitled to life, liberty, and leisure." This refreshing, then, to discover in the first Swedish talk- ing picture to be shown in this country a hero who puts his honour before his rights. A prisoner of war, he has been given parole for a night. In the morning the prably Russian mill girl whom he loves would detain him, but he batters down the door of her room and escapes to fight his way back to the firing squad. The story has some- noble thing of the quality of legend. Its movement in a triflo slow, and here and there (the love scenes, for instance, are unimagina tive in their frankness) it would be improved by cutting, but it anthers strength as it moves to its climax and everywhere shows a-BUTO sense of pictorial values

Tempest.

2

"Lady and Geat" was written

Thore is hardly say difficulty to especially for Bancroft by Grover those who are ignorant of the Ger Jones and William Slavens Moman language in following this in- Nutt, Stephen Roberts directed.

genious film, ever though the ex- Morgan Wallace, James Crane, planatory English captions are not Butts, very numerous. Mr. Emil Jan- William Halligan, Billy Frank McGlynn, Sr., Charles mings's acting is nothing if not Grupewin and Frederick Wallace lucid, and it is a triumph of his ar that his emotions elucidate so appear in miner roles.

complicated a plot and so much foreign dialogue. The intrigues of the frivolous wife of a criminal, always in and out of prison, like-i ly to be many and varied, and the criminal's own activities are neces- sarily elaborate and sometimes ob-

MARTIN CAVE IN HONG KONG

NEW SONG CALLED "SILVER MOON *!

Acure.

The story itself rises to no heights, but it is Dover. absurd and has ал agreeably realistic ending. It is Mr. Jan- His many friends will be inter- ninge, together with Miss Anna ested to learn that Mr. Martin Sten, who plays the part of his wife with considerable subtlety, Cave, the well-known concert singer who provide all the complication of and entertainer who is known, in the United States as the second Al charactor. Mr. Jannings does no Jolson, and is now on a visit to thing new; his heavy and slow- Hong Kong, has written as his admirers as the ponderous care moving jealousy is as familiar fo (words and music) entitled "Silver with which, as always, he makes & Moon." The tune, a catchy ane

series of prolonged and rather in blues time, is dedicated to the squalid toilets. But so exact proprietors of the Silver Moon Dancing Academy and we under-performance will easily bear, re- stand it will be published shortly. tinually enlivened by the detailed,

petition. The plot itself is con

Interviewed by a Daily Press re- well documented and ingeniður presentative, Mr. Cave said. Chat production.. this was not the only song he in- tended to write during his stay in the Colony. He was already in the middle of the second one bat when naked what this was going to be liko, Mr. Cave. samiled and said, "wait and see,

a

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Who can resist' the temptations of

VIENNESE NIGHTS

where all the world makes

lovel

SIGMUND KOMBING

and

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, 254 ROMANCE

-COMING SHORTLY~

KAY FRANcif RICARDO CORTEZ PAUL CAVANAGH

Pitched to the heart-beat of

all womankind.

INTENSE! COURAGEOGS: GRIPPING!

Directed by

HERBERT BRENON,

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Premis

GRETA

GARBO

in Europe He has however decided to spend some time bere and when asked what he thought of our dance orchestras as compared Prior to coming to the Colonyalationsin-Amoriens-hu-calde Santia Mr. Cave was engaged in esharot they were quite good but needed singing in the United States whilst just a little "pepping up."` : In he is also quite a popular entertain America, Mr. Cave was also Wintrigued al foot of west column popular entertainer over the ether.:

"SUSAN LENOX

HER FALL AND RISM)

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