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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934.

Broadway To Holly- wood

I'M PROUD: OF BAY NEW PICTURE" "BROADWAY. TO HOLLYWOOD

IT WILL MAKE YOU ROAR

{ANGE CRY TOO||||

"Broadway to Hollywood" the M.Q.M. picture to be shown here some time February. There are dazzling ballets-also several old song hits rendered by Fay Temple-·- ton. This is another Metro Gold- wyn Mayer spectacle in which such stars as Alice Brady--Frant Morgan Jackie Cooper - Madge Evans-Eddie Quillan and a great many others will be seen.

This picture strikes a new note in the Beld of entertainment.' Tel- ling a dramatic tale of three.gen- erations of a theatrical family, it depicts their loves joys and sor- rows. triumphs and disappoint-"

ments.

Jack Holfort in "Falling For "You" at the King's, Shortly.

CARY GRANT

Cary Grant, who played oppo- sice the glamorous Mae West for the second time, in "I'm No Angel" is now enjoying himself in London on his first holiday för some time.

Grant's rise. has been almost meteoric. A few years ago he was a silit walker on Coney Island. A very short time elapsed and he was playing opposite Sylvia Sidney "In Madame Butterfly, Then he achieved the peak of populari- ty by playing opposite Mae West. Now he has a big Paramount contract.

He is a shy unassuming young man and lives in 2 Spanish hili. top home at. Los Angeles with Randolph Scott. An Inventive genius he reads all the magazine! oni mechanics and still draws oc- casional royalites from a theatri- cat Ughting, device which patented in the far-off days when he was plain Archie Leach of Bristol. He is so unassuming that he saves all the adverse newspaper criticisms about himself, to "keep the old head from swelling" as he

says.

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He сап never remember any- body's name but "gets over this by calling all the men "Steve". "The women? Well, he just smiles at themi

The Baby With A "Fan" Mail

Hollywood-Bo popular is Baby Leroy, the aim baby, in the United States that his fan mall" is reaching proportions that would make many established stars' jealous.

And he won't be able to read a line of any of the letters for years yet. He is only 20 months old,

The studio had a hard time re- cently Anding a star to play in "Miss Eane's Baby is Stolen." in which Baby Leroy was to be fea-

•tured

Gloria Swanson, it is reported. was offered the role. Her answer was in the negative. Ruth Chat terton was approached. There

·was-another. negative answer.

Carole Lombard was 'considered. She said: "Nothing doing" when she heard about it,

And so Dorothea Wieck, the German "star of "Madchen in Uniform" and "Cradle Bong." La taking the part with Baby Leroy as her leading man."

There are all kinds of courage. even in the movies,

MIRIAM IN OILS

A life-size portrait of Miriam Hopkins, painted in oil by the eminent artist, Buckley Mactarria, is used to enhance an art studio wall in Paramount's Design For Living.

R. K. O. STUDIO NEWS

R.K.O.Radio are anxious to secure the services of Jeanette MacDonald to play with John Boles in "My Gal Sal", an original musical of the gay "nineties".

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A new ballroom dance shortly be introduced to the Hong Kong public for the first time in RKO Radio's * Flyink Down TO Rio", the spectacular musical film which will be released short- ly. The new dance is called the "Carioca" and has the swing and rhythm which will make it, very popular. Dolores Del Rio, who is a" local favorite, will sing and dance in this picture.

RKO Radio's "Little Women" is the outstanding production of the new season. It was held over at the palatial Music Hall in New York for two additional weeks- the first picture accorded thika "distinction--and during the three weeks run grossed over $300,000.- 00 Records have been created all over the United States and every- where it is acclaimed as the ness and most beautiful picture pro- duced since the talkies.

Flickers From Holly

wood

Gary Cooper will ride his own horse for his role of B young British ofdcer in Paramount's "Lives Of A Bengal Lancer."

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Fredric' March, who, heads the cast of Paramount's new film, "All Of Me has never spoken on the radio.

Charlotte Henry, the "Alice" in Paramount's Alice In Wonderland, WAS born In the next house to Edward Everett Horton, who plays th: Mad Hatter in the film.

Jackie Cooper, starring in Para- mount's He's My Pal, is learning to write stories about cowboys, aviators and detectives.

.. Barbara Barondess, appearing In Paramount's. Eight Girls In A Boat, has to eat chocolates in every scene-She is picking up weight daily!

Filming of Bernard Shaw's play "The Devil's

Disciple" will

Ford Sterling, the White King shortly take place, with Joha

in Paramount's Alice In Wonder- Barrymore in the lead. Shaw reland, is one of America's leading cently granted permission to RKO

amateur photographers, and has to produce it for the screen.

a huge collection of medals and prizes..

In her new contract with RKO, Dolores Del Rio will be permitted to chose her own stories. Dolores is considered to have the best figure in Hollywood, Krid in her new pictures, she will enact parts that will permit her to wear magnificent new dresses and cos tumes.

THE QUEEN OF HEARTS

May Robson is pleased for more reasons than one over her role as Queen of Hearts in Paramount's Alice In Wonderland.

Miss Robson is celebrating her 50th anniversary as a stage, and screen favourite.

She has not missed a single season since she stated in the East fifty years ago.

She, was born in Australia in 1865-the same year that Lewis Carroll published Alice In Wonder- land in England.

Jack Hulbert in "Falling For You" at the King's, Shortly.

Age is Wise

. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, about to make her first, Hollywood film, is 68-and does not mind who knows It. She has declared, indeed, that she Ards advantages in growing

Marian Marsh Arrives at Elstree

Working Within Twelve Hours of Arrival

Marian Marsh, the twenty year old Hollywood Whoopee" girl, has arrived at Plymouth. She is to play a starring role in, the Jullus

simann British International pro- į duction under the direction of Dr. Eaul Merkbach, the man who dir- ected Elissa Landi. in her first Swedish film, and has been respon- sible for a large number of Swed- ish" and German dims, both as writer and director.

Many of these pictures he made for Julius Haimann who formerly Berlin, and has now operated his own film company in English company styled Radius started an

Films, Ltd.

Miss Marsh has been signed to; appear in Love at Second Sight " because no suitable English star: could be found to fill the part,

KILL HIS FLEAS -FOR PITY'S SAKE

Don't wait until he forgets his manners and just has to scratch. Rab

a little Pulver vermin powder into his cost to day, deep down among the hairs. Do it regularly, at least once a week, and you will not only destroy all parasiten ; 'you will prevent their reappearance.

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She will be remembered as the girl who leapt into fame in Holly- wood with a sijali bút important part in Whoopee "in 1930, 5

Her success won her a leading role with John ·Barrymore - in peared, with "Svengali," and later still she ap

the same actor in The Mad Genlus,"

Love at Second Sight" will be her Arst British fim, and she may play' opposite another well-known Hollywood player. The story which is a novel type of musical will have

some years with C. B. Cochran as a. writer of lyrics, and Spolianski, the Maria Sieber,

noted Russlari, composer who wrote eight-year-old daughter of Marlene Dietrich, will

the music for the highly successful make her screen debut in her British Him."Tell Me Tonight," mother's next Paramount product responsible for the musical num- tlon, tentatively titled,

bers in "Love at Second Sight," Scarlet Pageant, which Josef von Stern: Marian Marsh was born in Trinid berg will direct..

ad in October. 1813. She has blonde hair, and grey eyes, stands Blonde as her mother and re- füst Ave feet two and weighs just sembling ber to a great degree, over seven stones. She was educat- Hittle Maria was felt to be the ed at Hollywood High School, and logical selection for the childhood had never made "Whoopee" until delineation of Sophia Fredricia, she went into her first im. who in maturity becomes Catherine the Great,

empress of Russia, about whom the story revolves. Maria's starring mother then as- sumes the role as the drama develops.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER dialogue by Harold Simpson, for REISS MASSEY & CO, LTD.

Madeleine Carroll and Conráð Veidt in "I Was A Spy" com- ing on Wednesday, at King's

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TIGER SHARK

Wonderful Nature Film at Queen's

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MADELEINE' CARROLL STAR OF "I WAS A SPY'

To Make a World "Cavalcade"

for Fox Films

Madeleine Carroll, the beau:fful English star of "I was a Spy," is definitely going to Hollywood.

It has now been arranged that she shall sail at the end of Jang- ary. Her picture, which is des- cribed 85. a "cavalcade of world history," is scheduled to begin on February 26, her birthday.

"I'm not really superstitious." she told a reportar, "but the num- ber 26 has been associated with a remarkable series of happy: incl- dents in my life. I got the news. that I had passed my B.A: on the date of 26th, and that was the the frat showing of "I Was a Spy. What's more, I met my husband on a 26th, and we were maced on August 26 in my 28th

Amazing in its growth, more dangerous than the hunting of wild animals in the tropical jung- lesˇtraught" with all the romance of man's intrepid conquest of the storm-swept seas, the tuns fishing industry has gone practically un- year. known in story," drama or motion one film for Fox by arrangemen Madeleine Carroll is making thi pure until now.

"The most modern development with Gaumont-British, to whom in one of man's oldest known she is under contract at a salary occupations," is the way one wri-stated to be £1,000 a week. ter has described it. After twenty.

Films to Cost £750.000 America years, the glamour, romance and Britain and said, in effect, "Your has at last gone to peril of the tuna

fisheries have

been Attingly embodied in a pro-ims are as good as ours. Let us duction by First National that collaborate in earnest.* That promises to be one of the out may be taken as the substance of standing attractions of the current

an agreement which, we under- sensori.

stand has just been concluded between the United Artists' Cor-

"Tiger Shark," which has for its stars Edward G. Robinson and poration and London Flims and Richard Arlen, is the stirring saga British and Dominion Films. Ar of the tune Asheries of the Pacific, whereby Alms

rangements have been made

costing and the fearless, daredevil fisher- £750,000 are to be produced in about men who risk their lives many Britain, and half of the suggested times a year on the shark-infested number specifically to old, and would not be young again fishing grounds where the schools demands of American audiences. suit the even if she could. "If one has of roving tuna make their home, youth and good looks," she spared by First National to make tin studios, but it will also mean No, pains or expenses have been indux of American artists to Bri- This will mean, of course, a big one pays aitention to any-. thing but your looks, and your this B memorable .. production.

more employment. art gets no true appreciation. It Weeka were spent by the company, is far less boring to be old."

under the general direction of Howard Hawks, at the fishing grounds far off the Mexican coast, to obtain the thrilling action that, helps to make Tiger Shark". the most authentic picture of its kind ever produced. The picture will be shown from to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

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DAILY MIRROR

"LITTLE WOMEN" IS

GREAT

By BLAND JOHANESON. "Little Women" at the Music Hall in Radio City.

A great picture.

An RKO Radio production, direct- ed by George Cukor:: the cust: Katharine Hepburn Joan Bennett Paul Lukas Fernées Dee

Jo

the dialogue writers who preserved the actual lines of the book. Thank the director and the inspired cast- ing that each character stands out. as clearly as it was etched by Miss. Alcott, And above all take dozens of handkerchiefs when you nee "Little Women.".

You remember the story- so well' Amy that no outline of it is necessary. .........Prite Bhaer The settings violate no detail of Meg your imagined ones. In every min- Beth tite frame of film "Little Women" Aunt March is "Little Women," as literal and Faurie i tender a recording of a popular Henry Stephenson... Mr. Laurence, book which ever has been made, Spring Byington

Jean Parker:

Buna May Oliven:

Douglas Montgomery

Esmuel Hinds.

Mabel Colcord. John Davis Lodge Nydia Westman

Marmee The four girls, who play the Lit Mr. March tle Women were born to do it. You. Hannah have Katharine Hepburn, as Jo Brooke stealing the film as she stole the Mamie original story. Joan Bennett plays Amy, Frances Dee is Meg. Jean Parker is the saintly Beth

Other days were devoted to the picturesque fishing villages, that Une the shores of the Paclic near) San Diego, and to every athér phase of the strange life that these people lead. With that grasp of the human and dramatic elements of a story that made, his direction of such powerful picture as "The Crowd ·Roars" and "Scarface" auch indisputable hits. Howard Hawks has woven a story of human courage and human emotions around the lives of these hardy faher-folk that promises to be among the finest pictures of the year.

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In the role of Captain Mike Mascarena, the "tiger shark the life village and the finest Asherman of his day, Edward G. -Robinson has the most colourful and dramatic role of his career. Richard Arlen, as Mike's first mate and pal, "Pipes". Boley, gives ta performance that is bound to in- crease his popularity:

As the lovely orphan, Quita, stage star, is conspicuously differ Zita Johann, the young Hungarian

ent from the popular leading women of the screen. Her strik ing brunette, beauty and ̈ hèr marked dramatic ability have full scope in a powerful rule,

Taken from the original story,

The hundred million who have The supporting characters are preserved their admiration for cast with the same care They are "Little Women will cheer this re played by Edna May Oliver, Paul verent, sensitive and lovely pim Lukas, Douglas Montgomery and adaption of the book. Women have such accomplished actors, not been offered auch an emotionalOne can say no more of Little treat in many years. Tears and Women" in that it lives up to your “Tuna," by Houston Branch, the more tears flood the majestic Music most optimistic expectations. It is screen, play by ""Tiger Sharks in Hall as the tribulations of the | a memorable picture, endowed with the work of Wells Root “Tony March" girls are exhibited on its charm, dignity, beauty and taste. Gaudio, ope of the foremost cloquent screen.

It offers a matchless orgy of senti- | photographers of the screen, wKA ment to the matinee trade. Wo Incomplete, charge of photo- men will wallow, in it.

graphy

Rejoice that, Hollywood has not tampered with the story, Bless

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