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The Ghoul
of
Boris Karloff, has plenty opportunity to thrill and chill the onlooker in his Gaumont-British Picture "The Ghoul."
The story by Dr. Frank King and Leonard Hines, concerns the stealing of a remarkable jewel from a famous Egyptian tomb.
Professor Morians, an Egypto- Jogist and fanatical believer in the ancient gods, buys the stone and on his death bed demands that the jewel be buried with him in his Egyptian tomb built in the garden. The priceless jewel is stolen and a strange and horrifying figure appears from the grave of the dead professor The helrs to the estate have some terrifying experiences be- fore they solve the mystery. In the capable hands of T. Hayes Hunter the
story has - been cleverly directed and the picture is said to provide an abundance Spine. of thrills, some of a chilling nature.
of the
rest
"
The Atmosphere of sinister mystery is created by masterly lighting effects and enhanced by brilliantly clever photography of G. Krampf. As Professor Mor- lant, Boris Karloff's make-up is sald to be remarkably sinister. particularly when he "rises" from This from tomb.
scene should certainly prave "hair raising."
The
the acting of cast is certainly "first- rate with outstanding perfor- mances given by Ernest Thesiger as a religious Scat and valét to Morlant, who fears for his mas- ter's soul; Cedric Hardylcke, a solicitor determined to own the jewel. Harold Huth the sinister Arab responible for pilfering the stone from a famous tomb A. D. Clarke Smith, as his fellow coun- try man and enemy, Dorothy Hyson one of the heirs to Mot- lant's estate Anthony Bushell the not-to-be
co-heir. frightened Kathleen Harrison, who is fas- cinated by the Arab, as he is her conception of a real shelk and Ralph Richardson in role of a visiting curate annoyed at the heathenish funeral accorded Morlant
LAUGHTON SAILS
Five Months Work In Hollywood
(Special Air Mail Servies)
London, Mag 12. With two valuable film con- tracts in his pocket, Mr. Charles Laughton left for New York to day in the Berengaria, scoom- panied by his wife, Miss Elsa Lanchester.
They are bound for Hollywood, where Mr. Laughton will play with Norma 'Shearer in "The Barretta of Wimpole Street" and "Marie Antoinetta."..
"I shall be way about five months if I do not fulfil an old contract with Paramount, Mr. Laughton said:-
"I want to return to England
however, to do in the autoan, another am for Alexsadre Korda, who directed me in The Private Life of Henry VIII.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1934.
THIS IS ANNA STEN
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Miss Elizabeth Bergner's Fine Performance
Catherine the
more
Great is more
tender than The Private Life of Henry VII (Charles Laughton). glittering than Queen Christina". (Greta Garbo). But
makes what
this sumptuous. pageant of antique Russia riote- worthy is the presence in the title role, of an able Viennese actress named Elizabeth Bergner The picture is coming to the King's Theatre soon.
Historically. Catherine II (13729–~
- a highschool senior in a commen- cement play. England's great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, "however, is. Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (roa b.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. "In a blonde wig she is a young ...Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright sliver coin.
of Possessed extremely large brown eyes, she looks prettily petite when reviewing her guards- men in tights.
06) was an ambitious, shrewd, capable ruler. Arriving in Russia a bewildered, unspphisticated Ger- man child-princess, learns she is not wanted by the heir ap- parent, Grand Duke Peter (Doug- las Fairbanks, Jr.). But she changes his mind when she in- " advertently meets him. Married. she wins the trust of Russia's clever. Justful Empress Elizabeth (Flóra Robson). The Grand Dukes is moody, ill-tempered, pat hological Ha seeks Catherine's bed only when-like Queen Chris- tlan under different circumstan- ces she says she has had 17 lovers.
When Elizabeth dies the new Emperor Peter 3 rules reck- Jessly. becomes increasingly. su- spicious of Catherine and of all others whom the old Empress favoured. In a banquet scene deftly underscored with pity he forces Catherine to sit at the foot of the table, has her Order of St. Catherine, taken from her and placed on the breast of his mis- tress. He tells her sadly of his convent. plan to put her in a The sets
Then Catherine realizes she must give in to the officers who want
make to
her Empress by Coup d'etat. Her principal con-. cern is that Peter will not be harmed--a matter which historic- ally bothered Cahterine II not at all.
The glamorous, exotic flower of Russia, who will be seen shortly in the Samuel Goldwyn production "Nana" at the Queen's Theatre.
NANA
A Magnificient Film
2t
All the vanished colour, frag- rance and elegance of Paris in 1870's was reviewed
the Queen's Theatre yesterday where "Nana," Samuel Goldwyn's long heralded" Introductory American
screen
vehicle for his glorious new star, "Anna Sten, arrived.
All you have heard and read of Miss Sten's ravishing beauty her unique and tresistible person ality, her great histrionic ability. you will this reviewer belleves declare "inadequate as a true est mate of this really great new star on the Hollywood horizon.
As the scarlet heroine, of Emile rises Zola's famous novel who. from street gamin. to music hall star and toast of Paris, 8ten is a revelation. Not only does she look well and act well, but she sings well into the bargain-a plaintive ballad entitled "That's love," written for her by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hartas a finale to an exciting revival of the can-can with which Paris shocked the world.
Willard Mack "and Harry Wag- staf Gribbie have selected events from the lie of Zola's notorious courtesan and woven them into ün absorbing and moving screen play that skillfully combines ro- mance and realism, pathos and a touch of raucous comedy.
The deft hand of Dorothy Art- ner, Hollywood's only successful woman director, is in constant evidence throughout the produc-
tion. Goldwyn may conside "himself well repaid for the eigh
teen long months spent in pre- paration, for every detail is po- lished and Onished. and costumes are magnificent and authentic...
No more romantic player than Phillips Holmes could have been found to play the handsɔme" young Leutenant George Muffat. in whom Nana finds her one real, tragic passion. The love scenes are moving and beautiful.
Lionel Atwill is very convincing as Colonel Andre Mufat, George's elder brother, who falls an un- willing slave to Nana's witchery and subsequently wrecks the ro- mance and life of his young bre- ther. As the fatuous old Greiner. dean of the Paris music halls, who loses his head over Nana and relses her to the heights, ori- ly to drop her back into the gut- ter again when he learns of her love for the romantic young Lieu- tenant Richard Bennett is superb.
Mae Clarke and Muriel Kirk. land as Satin and Mimi. Nana's cronies" of the old boulevard days who benefit handsomely by her success and il repay her for her beneficence by hastening the tra- gie end of her great love, prove a splendid foil for Anna Sten's Slavic beauty and with her form A marvelously effective trio.
Reginald Owen, Jessie Ralph, Lawrence Grant and the remain- Ing members of the cast turn in performances that are uniform in excellence.
"Nana" is a stunning fim-one you will want to see again and again and Anna Sten seems, to this reviewer at least, destined to become America's new fèmin- ine film favourite.
ARLISS AS JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN?
a Hu
£30,000 To Play In A British Film
When George Arliss arrives in Britain on Thurday he will be asked to agree to a proposal to play the part of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain,
¡Empire- builder and great personality." in
part great
a British talkie.
this summer.
Mr. Arilas has already signed through his agent a contrast to play in one picture for Gaumont The terms are more than £30,000. 20
this Mr. Arliss returns to country surrounded with rumours that his name will appear in the next Honours Llaf. It is being freely said that a highthood is to reward him for his services to England and the drama in Holly
The decision was made yester day afternoon to ask him to play the part of Joseph Chamberlain.
"J
The Alm will be in effect a cra- matic survey of one of the great- est decades" in "the history of England.
Fèrmission, advice and, it is hoped,
be, co-operation will. Bought from the family of Joseph Chamberlain," particularly from his two sons; Bir Austen Chamberlain and Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
This last gesture will be as attempt to defy the virtual veto. on blographical subjects com belled by the recent Rasputin
law case.
And it will be turning the
other cheek, since Mr. Neville
Chamberlain, in his Prosperity Budget, ignored the plea of the flm industry for a remission" of the tax on cheap seats.
!
A
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. putg cruelty and crat in his perfor mance of Peter, but lets his Hishing 1qbes; -suggest
relish in cipt shiny boots AI
#
But at last when in a roomful of officers she learns her hus band is dead, her wrath and ma- Jesty are so great that her sta- ture suddenly seems to increase and dominate the men,
Eltzabeth Bergner appeared first on the stage as a homely. skinny child of eleven. She was pelted with flowers and kisses when she later played in Berlin in Shaw's Saint Joans. To learn English, Actress Bergner rehear sed in London in a play espe- "cially written for her, abandoned 1t to act successively in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Strange. Inter- lude, The Constant Nymph. Cur- rently she is in Escape Me" Never, a companion piece to The Con- stant Nymph which will bring her to Manhattan this spring. When this opened, critics talked of an- other Duse but some galleryltes booed, under the impression that Miss Bergner is a Nazi. She is a. Jewess,
The first glimpse she had" of herself in cinema caused Actres Bergner to forswear it. She took it up again because, improvident, she wished to make some money for a sick friend. Appearing in Nju, she married the director, Dr Paul Czinner who has since done, all her plctures Actress Bergner likes Schnitzler.. wiener schnitzer, skating. old-looking. clothes. She dislikes women who smoke, smokes incessantly herself.
London Films.?
The Httle Royal Colonel, Catherine (Elisabeth Bergner)
here seen. gaining ascendacy over her army through fatter- ing the Colonel who commands the Ismailovsky Regiment (Allah. Jesica)
DeMille's Daughter Starts A Career
When Cecil B. DeMille, direct- or-producer: picked up a Los An geles morning paper several years ago, he noted idly that a young actress named Kay March, was attracting favourable attention with her work in a new picture:
And then he gasped! .. For in the photograph of the lovely "Miss Marsh he recognized his daughter Katherine!
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"I'm gonna be a bad girl with a good heart!"
With these words, Mäe West, the Scar of I'm No Angel,- "Hollywood's one-woman pro duction company" started on her new tim
In this picture It's No Bin,” Mae is returning to the period which first skyrocketted her to fame-the Gay Nineties.
She will strut through an ad-
love action venturous
story. which has as its background two of the most colourful cities of that period: New Orleans and St. Louis. She will be caught up In a whirlpool of action that flings her down the river from a St. Louis burlesque show to one of the most famous gaming houses of New Orleans "Sensa. tion House" as Mae calls it.
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fights that are fights and boxers that can box bring complications Into her life. Around her will resound the galety of song and music of the period, for the "Come-ap-and-see-me-sometime" girl will be presented as the reig- ning toast of the day.
Mae West. wrote the story and dialogue, and the film is being directed by Leo McCarey.
CHARLES LAUGHTON'S
NEXT PICTURE
Charles Laughton will appear again as Henry VII in his next London Alm, The Field of the Cloth of Gold. Also in this his- torical romance will be Maurice Chevalier as Francis I, King of France, Douglas Fairbanks. Jun... as the Emperor Charles V, Merle
Anne Boleyn Oberon as and Flora Robson as Katherine: of Aragon.
and
"WHAT EVERY WOMAN "KNOWS"
Helen Hayes, who is now star. ring in the Theatre Guild Broad- way stage success,Mary of Scot land, plans to return to the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Holly-.
1: wood about June Her next motion picture vehicle will be Irving Thalberg's production of Bir James M. Barrie's play, What Every Woman Knows
The Scottish playwright's work. famous as a vehicle for Maude Adams on the stage, was played before the footlights in its revival by Miss Hayes
The production is to be her first since The White Bister, in which she starred before leaving for her Broadway stage engagement in give her his assistance and ad- Mary of Scotland. She also play- vice.
ed the wife in Night Flight just *prior to her departure from Holly-
wood.
Which is why Katherine DeB41- le, under her own name, is ap-
The actress hopes to continue pearing with Wallace Beery In Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Viva Vil-alternating between stage and
laj
Miss DeMille is featured with a cast that includes Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Stuart Erwin, George E. Stone. Joseph Schildkraut. Donald Cook, Henry B. Walthall and others
Miss DeMille was one of the three women who went into Me- xico with the expedition that Almed spectacular battle scenes
In the stormy scene that fol- in the interior of the country..
lowed, the dire
Jections to his daug "into the motion pict
were
come and he
The story is based on the tem pestuous life and loves of Pancho Villa the great revolutionary leader.
screen work, which plan. she be- Heves, gives one perspective in en- acting roles. Among her famous screen work is that in The Sin of Madelen Claudet, The Bon-Daugh ter and others.
The Young Cynic Ang
A Sunday School teacher asked one of her pupils if he could quote something from the Bible to show that a man should not have two wives
"Yes, ma'am," he replied, "No man can serve two masters.”
on 355 Metres
1-2.15 p.m.-European Programme 1 p.m. Local Time and Weather
Report..
103 p.m.-Recorded Music, 1.15 p.m-A Relay of the Hong
Kong Hotel Orchestra
from
Grill
the Hong Kong Hotel Room. (By courtesy of the Management).
1.30 pm-Rugby Fress News. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down,
A TALK BY MR. O. C. PELHAM. DANCE MUSIC FROM THE STUDIO TONIGHT 4.30-7.30 p.m.-Chinese Program
me.
6-8.15 p.m.-Children's Studio Con-
.cert.
7.30-8. pm-Varlety,
Vocal Whistling in the Dark-
The Viennese Seven Binging Sisters,
Organ Solo-My
Round the World.
Jong" Goes
Organ Solo By a Waterfall
Frederic Bayco.
Song-Son, O' Mine (from "Free-
booter Songs''),'
Song--The Rebel (from "Free- booter Songs")-Dennis Noble (Baritone. Pianoforte Duet--Footlight Par-
ade-Selection. Planoforte Duet The Way to
Love-Selection-Carroll Gib bons and John W. Green... Vocal Duet-What's God for the Cloose, is flood. for the Gander, Vocal Dust-Gee, Oh Gosh, I'm Grateful-Bam Browne and "His Girl Friend.
8 pm--Local Time and Weather
Report
8.03-8.28 p.m.-Orchestral Music.
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F. (Lisat Doppler The London Symphony Orchestra conduct- ed by Albert Coates. Le Rouet D'Omphale (Ohphale's Spinning: Wheel) (Saint-Saens," Op. 31)-Philharmonie Sym- phony Orchestra of New York Directed by Willem Mengel- berg
Concert Waltz in A (Glazoimouv) Witches Dance La Tregends) From "Le Vill” (Puccini)The B.B.C. Wireless Bymphony Or chestra conducted by Percy Pitt
8.28-8.45 p.m.-Concerto No. 1 in E. Flat Major (Liszt)Macha Levitzki and the London Bym- phony Orchestra conducted try Sir Landon Ronald,
1st MovementAllegro Maestosa, 2nd Movement Quasi Adagio. 3rd Movement Allegro Vivace
Allegro Animate.
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