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QUEENS

TO-MORROW

The

SHE

HAS HIM UP

IN THE

AIR

my

"Oh be careful Į·· My heart's in- throat!" It's okay, lady!

You're giving me heart trouble too!"

"Look out You'll fall !" "You said it! I'm falling already falling for you. falling in love!"

HOT HEIRESS

with

BEN LYON ONA MUNSON-

Walter Pidgeon-Tom Dugan

A First National and Vitaphone Picture

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FROM SUNDAY.

RICHARD

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When Dick makes love the whole world sighs! Imagine him in love with two beautiful girls.. Our Dick in an even greater part than he had. JA" Dawn Patrol."

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A

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Look Out For This Big Hit!

FIVE STAR ★FINAL⭑

EDWARD G.

ROBINSON

·with

H. B. WARNER MARIAN MARSH

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1933.

Smashed on the Wheel Of Hollywood!

JUST imagine yourself a crack But if you had been with me the Hollywood talkio, director, other night when I listened to the Your income is say, £300 a week.tlles told by a man who has sui You are king of all your cameras fered such torture, the accusation of

exaggeration would be withdrawn,

survey.

The "little nest in Beverly Hills bonata a enviare bin, a blonde wife, and a swimming pool.

The studio executives above are smiling down benignly, their hearta touched with anxiety lest the world they have contrived for you is not just the millennium you expected.

Then, suddenly, with you in blissful ignorance of the fact, sinister tidings, reach those execu tives telling if the fact that the last "epic" of youys' is not attracting! custom to the box offices.

FADING SMILES

The benign smites fade., Tha" anxiety of the executives takes on a new character.

What does your idea of a mil. Jennium matter? You're no king. of the cameras' range now; you'ro' just another of these celluloid lepers whose last picture will occupy a star position on the wrong side of the company's balance sheet.

You're something unclean, You're through..

True, the £300 a week salary will continue to roll in, but only if you're tough and able to withstand the barrage of antagonism which. the moguls are about to drop on you from above.

Tho sentence passed is livion."

DON'T SMILE YET

Ob-

You readors with the cynical smiles now playing around those delicately chiselled lips may think I am overdramatising the plight of n Hollywood director who commits the unforgivable sin of box office

failure.

Ona Munson in Hot Heiress coming to the Queens to-morrow

ACTRESS FOR HOLLYWOOD

IN TALKIE VERSION OF

** SERVICE"

This friend of mine is brilliantly clever, and equipped with one of those rare cinematic minds which see the world through the lens of a talkie camern.

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People who for months had been regularly dining at his house ceased to accept invitations.

Executives of, other companies and free lance agente who during the period of his prestige had over whelmed him with luring offers to leave his employers, bluntly refused him entrance when he attempted to recall their promises.

THE STARS OF IF I HAD A MILLION '

COMING TO THE KING'S ON“ SUNDAÝ ·

For a year in Hollywood his ideas of film-making coincided with what the customers wanted in Medicine Hat and Chipping Gaumont.

SEARCH FOR NEW FILM STARS

HOLLYWOOD WANTS EUROPEANS

BROADWAY OBJECTS.

Hollywood producers are so short of talent "that they will have to scour London and other European capitale, according to Mr. Carl Lommie, manager of the Universal studios.

jun, the production

either been abandoned or have lost! "Several great stories have

much of their affect becauso actors capable of playing the tending characters could not be found," the says.

The Broadway stage has proved incapable of supplying the demand, and we shall have to import more players from London and other European centres that have already given so many sthra to the screen." Mr. Laemmle points out that the studios waste about 8500,000 a year trying to discover new talent among college students and athletic stars.. Universal alone spent $300,000 Inst year trying to find actors" whose ability is equal to their publicity build-up"-meaning, prosumably, celebrities, who can aet.

Beauties Eclipsed.

The screen, must crento. from twenty to forty new stars in–1833,2 statca Mr. Laemmle. Producers must make international "pictures, for improved foreign, marketing is one of the surest ways to save the business from bankruptcy. The out- standing performances of 1932' were. by stage actors more than 40 yours old and stage women near 30, which proves that the public does not All these friends and business draw the age line as it once did. associates of his dared not have It also proves that handsome lead- contact with a man on "The Blacking men and young screen beauties have been unable to compete with experienced actors.”

THEY DARED NOT

He rode the Hollywood world, | List.” and at the same time preserved his conscience unsmeared by cheap commercialism.

BOOS. APPLAUSE

Then, like you of the earlier para graphs, he made a picture which drem forth yawns from the populace. The fact that members of a higher mental strain put up an offensive of applause against the boos had no effect.

He was on the point of complet ing another picture before the black tidings of his box office Waterloo reached the ears of the moguls on high.

!

At first little of the gathering storm of enmity was apparent. But he noticed that presutives who had hitherto addressed him by his chris- tian name used his surname, or, more often, ignored him altogether.

THE STORM BURSTS

The storm burst when he finished the production on hand.

·

Ho waited for another story to be assigned to him. None came, al- though he continued to attend his studio office every morning.

Then one day the chief of the studio police lounged into his room and drawled: "I wouldn't come to the office to-morrow if I were you, Mr. Blank. In fact, you won't have an office to come to."

N

From a position of immense popu larity and power he had suddenly been hurled into lonely oblivion.

Hollywood was branking him on its wheel, driving him into such a state of mental anguish that he would be forced to sell his con- tract book to the company. Meanwhile he continued to make a formal appearance at the studio every morning.

Ben Lyon in Hot Heiress.

"He boasted that he would go on doing this for a year-the remaining period of his contract. For three months he reported for work, did nothing, and drew £300 a week in return for suffering the sentence of

THEN HE CRACKED

ELIZABETH ALLAN TO PLAY | just shrugged his shoulders philosocial ostracism.

The one-time king of the studio

sophically and said nothing.

Half an hour later as he was leav ing for the little gest he found that a sign-writer was painting out British film star, who sailed early his name on the office door and this month for Hollywood to full putting another in its place.

Miss Elizabeth Allan, the young

a five-figure contract with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company, is

to play a leading part in the film- version of "Service." The stage play by C. L. Anthony is having 2 auccessful run at Wyndham's Theatre.

Misa Allan will be directed by Clarence Brown, who is considered. one of Metro's most brilliant talkie! producers.

In the east with her will be Lewis' Stone and Benita Hume,

Mísa José Collins, the musical star, has been placed under ...con- tract by British International Pic tures, Ltd. She will appear in a musion! talkic, "The Jewel Song," partly based on Gounod's "Faust" Stanley Lupino will co-star with her in the picture, which is to be dirteted by Harry Hughes at Elstree

THE QUEEN TO SEE A TALKING FILM

The Queen is to see her first talk- ing film

aho

On Monday, March 27, will attend en charity 44 laughter matined at the New Gallery Cinema, Hegent-street,. W."

The main film of the matinee will bo Jack's the Boy," a Gaumont- British talking picture, which was shown at the Tivoll some months ago.

But in the end he cracked. After all, he is a man with pride and a sense of humour.

He went to the moguls and gold his contract.

The system had vanquished him.

This same experience has happen- ed to dozens of other men. It is Hollywood's way of dumping those who break the code of box office profits.

:

"One crowded hour of glorious

life

Is worth an age without a

tiamo:"

A poet, once intoned these linės, but then lic. had never been a Hollywood talkie director of whose product Medicine Hat and Chipping- Gaument disapproved.~.

WANTED A MUMMY 3,700 YEARS OLD

FILM COMPANY'S - SEARCH.

"Required, a muramy; should be approximately 3,700 years old.

Behind an advertisement to this affect-in The Daily Telegraph re- ently lie the story of a long but unsuccessful search by a film com- pany. The mummy is wanted for exhibition, in the lobby, of a Weste end cinema which will be showing next week w new picture called

The Mummy."

Many Antar in The Lash com- ing to the Queens on Sunday.

Among the other films, all of system of showing a man that He ganisations all over the country in Worse was to come, Hollywood's We have tried Egyptologist or which will be 'comedies, will bo s is no longer wanted has all the our efforts to obtain a mummy surprise item.

thoroughness of the Spanish Inqui- company last night, We have seid a representative of the film

Wold oven apponched the British Museum

Films, shown by Royal command aition. which the King and Queen have seen at Buckingham Palace, Wind My friend discovered to his for the load of one, but we were sor Castle and Sandringham have amazement that no one would speak told thus it was the policy of the been ailent:

to him throughout Hollywood. museum to make such a loan.

As one remedy, Mr. Laemmle-haa established a stock company for training purposes, and warns formor silent picture players that they. should seriously start training them. selves for talkies.

Ban on Ursula, Jeans,

But while Mr. Laemmle is want ing more Europeans there is a strong movement in New York to exclude all but the biggest stars, en the ground that they are keeping Americans out of work.

FILM BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINCE

In circumstances of great "secrecy}" for the present, a film biography is being prepared of the Prince of Wales under the personal super. vision of His Royal Highnese. It will be the first of its kind ever done of any royal personality or public figure. I understand that His Royal Highness has authorised this new form of biography of him- self on the understanding that the proceeds of its public exhibition at home and abroad shall be given to the National organisations in which the Prince takes a practical and direct interest. The firm film taken of the Prince in public was at King Edward's funeral in 1910, and Teels of pictures taken of His Royal Highness since then have been col ∙lated and are being pieced into a cohesive whole and narrative form.

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