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HONG KONG

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933.

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King's.

State Fair."

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Economic Motoring.

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Ownership of notor-ear by French peasants has become almost as general as the possession of a plot of land.

King's.

The Innocmits of Chiengo.'

The Broadway Melody,"

COMING

Man About Town.'

Golden West."

Rarkety Raz.",

Madison Square Garden,"

Queen's.

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Men Must Fight."

Destry Rides Again?",

"American Madness."

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This Modern Age."

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"Hot Pepper." Sun Wah Theatre,

"Symphony."

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Island of Lost Souls."

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"Faithless."

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"Business and Pleasure."

The laughter, excitement and gayety of a big State Fair... A love idyll be. tween a yearning country girl and a devil-may-care reporter...a father and mother busy winning prizes with pickles and pigs... And the son find- adventure with a beautiful carni val girl who loved him but left him.

ing

JANET

WILL

GAYNOR ROGERS

LEW

SALLY

AYRES EILERS

HORMAN

LOUISE

FOSTER DRESSER

FRANK

CRAVEN

VICTOR

JORY

STATE FAIR

HENRY KING Production

PHL SEONG>

Pictures In Hong Kong·

STATE FAIR"

WİLL ROGERS AND BLUE BOY--THE PRIZE PIG

There is one thing impossible, even to the modern miracle work- ers of the picture studios who re- create lost worlds, part seas, raze mountains and destroy cities. It is impossible to remain solemn on a film that has Will Rogers in the Cast. He is just that kind of a fellow.

Far from being a wise-cracker, Rogers keeps everyone laughing because he instincively gets a hu morous stant on everything from the news of the day to the hum- drum routine of work. It isn't so much what he says, although that is plenty, but the way he says it, Paper and print can't reproduce the Rogers draw or the sly sub- the humour of the Rogers' grin.

Jack Oakle who is starring in

Madison Sq. Garden" opening to-morrow at the Queen's.

Ko was in particularly good MADISON SQUARE

form on the sets where he worked with Janet Caynor, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Foster, Louise Dressor, Frack Craven and Victor Jory on Fox Film's all-1. star production "State Fair." It is all because be was unusually satisfied with the picture and the role he plays in it.

GARDEN

WHERE ANYTHING CAN

HAPPEN

He wore overalls and rough blue In the vast amphitheatre known shirts. He pottered around a farm yard, and he had the time of his as Madison Square Garden, any life doing scenes with Blue Boy, thing can happen.. the 200-pound prize hog of the pic-

ture.

Ostensibly it is a scene for sport-

On his first meeting with the ing events, society balls and big ginot pig, Rogers was properly political gatherings. But, natural, impressed. "So you're Blus Boy," ly, any building which brings to- he mused. "You're certainly some hog. When it comes to park, there's gether thousands upon thousands of nothing like you even back at Wa men and women from such widely shington. Well, he added divergent paths of life must become fectively. "You and me, just a couple more hams for Hollywood" the setting for unusual facets of

human drama. ‚ A day or two later, "Blue Boy held up a scene with a bit of tem The story of this drama is told perament." You know where you'd in "Madison Square Garden," the look good," Rogers said to him film opening on Thursday at the steruly, "right on the breakfast Queen's Theatre. The Garden. table, between a couple of egga" is both the background and the

Still another time, the hog refus-principal actor. As the first, it ed to grunt for the microphone. serves 29 the setting for extra- "Hm" murmured Will, Just as ordinarily exciting action, tense talkative as a stock specultor be- drama and delightful comedy; as The average Frenchman of mod-fore a senate investigating com-the second, it stands like a Greek est income has only two rules shout mittee, aren't you"?

chorus to say that no matter what his car to make at work to' capa Ulterly devoid of temperament, the little poople do within it or Rogers is the screen's perfect ex about it, its own kaleidoscopic life amplo, of democracy is goes on uises the canvas chair with

oity and never to clean it. At week-ends and holiday times if all the senting space is already occu pied by his funily he will invite a friend to perch in the hood so as not to waste any room.

name painted on the back. He pre-

The film is spectacular and vastly

for perching on boxes, stools, au entertaining. While much of the tomobile running boards, or, it credit for it must go to the authors possible, corral fences, and to Harry Joe Brown, the direc From a collcage who has escapi- He will swap yarms-by, the hour tor, the cast comes in for a good ed with his life from an Easter with the boys on the set, but can't ebare, And the reason for the cast's tour through rural France I gather be induced to talk for publication, excellence is self-evident in tha that the British crocks" which He nover gives the makeup man names, Jack Onkio, Thomas, Mei figure in the annur run to. Brigh any work and all he ask, of the ghan, Marian Nixon, Zaßu Pitts. ton are up-to-date cars in compar prop boy is to have a supply of William Collier, Sr. Warren ly aon with the pre-war specimens he chewing gum on hand in case he mer, William Boyd, Lew Cody and

Robert Elliott. spent most of his sime in dodging, forgets his own.

FOX

Bowers phot by SONTA LEVEN

PAUL GREEN.

"THE GOLDEN

WEST

GEORGE O'BRIEN IN THE

LEAD

It isn't necessary to walk bow. legged and say that-a-way" to be a western movie star. George O'Brien has proven it.

One of the most successful portra yers of western hero role on the screen, this handsome son of a San Francisco police official speaks the correct, clear-cut kind of English they teach undergraduates at Santa Clara University.

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The lips of the girl he loved guarded a secret that threatened to rock the embassics and intner sanes tums of Washington.

Warner BAXTER

Man

About

Town

Karen MORLEY Conway TEARLE

Novel by Denison Clin Directed by John Francis Dillon; FOX PICTURE

HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP

DO YOU KNOW THAT?

FILM JOTTINGS

BRITISH FLYING EPIC PLANNED

Plans to put British aviation on the cinematic map are being de veloped at the Warner Bros. First National studios at Teddington, where Irving Asher, executive in charge of production intends to commence on a big flying picture in the near future. No casting details are yet available, but the names of several celebrities are being consi- dered for leading roles. The pic ture will have an elaborate produc tion and will be notable, for specta- oular air thrills done on an unpre- cedented scale. An Italian version of the film has already been made, with the full support and co-opera- tion of the Italian government, and one sequence shows no fewer than fifteen hundred seroplanes taking off simultaneously.

Bits by the Wayside, .... Last week an exhibitor visiting First National's London offices said ho didn't like to book "Twenty

Thousand Years in Sing Sing because patrons in his district didn't care for musical' and singing talkies!

Loretto Young who is at present working with Richard Barthelmess in the latter's hush-hush" talkie, "Bread Line," is planning a European trip following the con pletion of the picture. She intends to visit the principal high spots, and, her itinery includes London,

Lord Marley, deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, was a recent guest of Aline MacMahon at the First National studios in Cali fornia. Miss MacMahon is the nearest rival to George Arlisa in entertaining celebrities,

•

The rarest sight in Hollywood is Warren William at a party. Wi lam is a "slow study

and has difficulty with his lines. As a re- ault he sits up until the wee small hours every night when he is in a production, with a script for his companion.

Edward G. Robinson who rushed to New York following the comple tion of "The Little Giant" in or der to welcome the "arrival" of Edward G. Robinson Junr, will re- turn to California in May to com- mence his next picture, "Kingish.”

LACQUERED HAIR, SLANTED EYEBROWS

Marion Davies owns severn) hot- houses and raises her own orchids and other rare" flowers Clark Cafe. once worked in a classified advertisement department of a SYLVIA SIDNEY'S MAKE UP

AS BUTTERFLY " newspaper 1

ed for a vast sum.

Richard Bemett will wear the Black-eyed Sylvia Sidney, eye- uniform of the Death's Head Hus-brows slanted and hair lacquered, sars in the Parampunt film, "Song palys the title role in "Madame of Songs."

Butterfly," the modernized screen Harpo Marx, who will be seen version of one of the most treasured next in Paramount's "Cracked romances of all time, and now show- Ice" has his musical fingers insuring at the Queen's Theatre. Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Irving Pichel and Helen Jerome Eddy He takes himself to a barber at

Gary Cooper, Paramount star play the principal supporting roles. least once a week, and in his screen.

was educated for some time at a work not only refrains from drink-school in England. ing but also from smoking. As a Claudette Colbert, Paramount matter of fact, this is no hardship star, once made a tour of the world for he does neither off the screen. in a tramp steamier.

Quiet, soft spoken and usually

Richard Arlen, Paramount mar, of Daniel J. has appeared miling, the son

in more than 50 O'Brien, retired Police Chief of

¡filma. San Francisco, George is one of Hollywood's best liked citizens. He Maurice Chevalier, Paramount docsn't go in for parties, premieres his life.

star, never had a music lesson in or cafes, but does his daily dozen, takes a daily plunge in the Pacific and an almost daily horseback ride. There's nothing exactly dainty about O'Brien. He strips at 192 pounds and hasn't been a half from his car to the cab of the pound overweight in ten years. He truck. With one hand he turned drives a gay green open car but off the ignition switch and with the part of the time lets & chauffeur other he grabbed the driver's neok do the work. A few weeks ago a and hauled it and its connecting large person piloting à cement parts, to the street. The corner truck passed a disparaging but traffic cop came, the O'Brien irs audible remark as the O'Brien cooled and never a blow, was struck. chariok, chauffeur-driven, barged by.

O'Brien's, latest film is

"The At the next corner, a boulevard Golden West," Fox picture soon to stop, O'Brien did a movie scent be seen at the King's Theatre next

Friday, - Continued on "next_Column)

The story centres around Miss Sidney, cast as a high-born Japan- ese girl, and Grant, lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, stationed in Japan, who fall in love. When Grant, learns that divorce in Japan is a simple matter, requiring only that the husband leave the wife, he de- cides to marry the girl, and take his pleasure while he remains.

Ultimately, he is sent back to the United States. He leaves, promis- Mae West, Paramount star, aling to return" when the robins nest ways wears long, trailing dresses. again." In his heart, he is not so sure of that fact, however: But the girl takes him at his word.

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He does return, years later, but under entirely different circum stances which bring the picture to a dramatic heart-stirring climax.

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