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UNIQUE FILM CO.

PRESENT

Mr. & Mrs. SIT KOK SIN

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"SONG

PARADE

TO-DAY AT THE

KING'S

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Midnight Club"

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QUEEN'S-

"Looking For Trouble"

CENTRAL...

"Song Parade"(Chinese Pic sture).

ORIENTAL-

"Terror Abroad”.

ALHAMBRA

STAR

KOWLOON

"Show-Off"

"

Man From Chicago"

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THE GREATEST TALKING - AND-SINGING PICTURE EVER PRO- DUCED IN CHINA, with Cantonese Dialog.

CHOOSING CHORUS GIRLS

Beauty Still Prime Asset

A. В.

"Wild Cargo"

QUEEN S-

Coming

"Riptide"

ORIENTAL

"Broadway To Hollywood" "Broadway Thru Keyhole" "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" "Kid From Spain"

"Sous of the Desert":

"If I Had A Million”

Marcus, whose Marcus MIDNIGHT CLUB

Show of 1934 in "La Vie Paree,"

will open a limited' engagement at the Queen's commencing Stinday, June 10 doesn't take much stock in the outpourings of press agents -he, has had too many of the gentry in his employ.

Shown a clipping" from

na-

Brook and Raft Together

Clive Brook, suave gentleman of @tional magazine recently published the screen's upper-world. George In which a Broadway producer, is Raft. sinister "black snake,” 80 credited with asserting that chorus named by members of the under- girls nowadays are chosen for per-world itself. sonality, intellect and culture rather that personal pulchritude, Marcus with a snort of derision opined:

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"All press agents can't plant à lądy Tom Thumb on. Mr. Morgan's lap so they have to resort to a shot in the arm. Chorus girls are chosen for their personal beauty and for no other reason. If a good looking girl applies to

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934.

SHOWING TO-DAY DAILY AT 2.30. 5.10, 7.15

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KINGT

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E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM'S

MIDNIGHT CLUB

A Paramount Picture with

CLIVE BROOK - GEORGE" RAFT #ALISON SKIPWORTH – HELEN VINSON

These two combine their talents "THE SHOW-OFF knows everything. and

to make a swift-moving tale of E Phillips Oppenheim's famous story, "Midnight Club," showing at the King's Theatre. Alison Skipworth and Helen Vinson are also featur- ed ir. the cast.

It is highly dramatle story of a band of "London's "society jewel-

A Picture Studded With Laughs

Built for comedy, studded, with thieves. For once, Raft is on the laughs, yet rich with an under- side of the law, and Brook is this current. of pastos, The Show job I hire her, even if she has a time the leader of the thieves, mof." screen version of one of the 'methodist foot-show slang for perturbable as ever. a.cool, fas-

smash hits of the modern stage Inability to dance. We give her cinating, character. dancing lessons Most girls can Raft portrays the role of Nick opens to-day at the Alhambra. learn ensemble steps in six weeks. Mason, an American detective, sent "The Show Off" is everything If she doesn't learn, bai is suffi- over to London to ascertain the there is in believable comedy. Never ciently comely I just let her stand methods of jewel smugglers. He is board in its treatment, making no still as Spirit of the Orient or retained by Inspector Hope of effort to reach out for comedy 'Handmaiden of Venus" or the like. | Scotland Yard (Sir Guy Standing) effects. It is human and lovable

"Sing? Who expects a chorus to break up the band of Jewel and very, very, funny, it is a slice girl to sing, that is an extrava-thleves. Belleving the smuggling out of life, ganza chorister: In grand opera? to be related to the thefts, Mason: The story revolves around Spen- Yes. But did you ever give a accepts.

cer Tracy, who plays the modern grand opera chorus a squint from He poses as a thief, and, by loot-classic character. J. Aubrey Piper. the beauty angle

ing the safes that the gang has He is a blow-hård. He struts and "Intelligence? Some have and marked for its own, he forces them boasts, He tells the president of his 30me haven't but is DD more a to take him into the band as a company how to run his business. qualification, than it is for a con- means of self-protection. Once in. He tells his wife how to bake her "gressman or those who elect 'em. however, he falls in love with Helen ples. He tells his brother-in-law We are not running a brain trust Vinson, in the role of Iris'Whitney. how to perfect his invention. He even if I am striving for a beauty a girl who loves the game for ex- monopoly.

citement's sake. He gets the evid- "Personality helps, of course, but ence and then. has to solve his curves mean even more. You can own problem, vacillating as he does rest assured that if a girl has between duty to the police and beauty, dancing ability, can sing love for the girl.

and has personality she just ceases For excitement and thrills, "Mid- to be chorus girl. Most of the night Club" is a best bet. With a famous women stars broke into perfect. cast, all the way down the the business as a lady of the enline. It includes, such splendid semble as they wish to be "dis-troupers as Sir Standing. Alan tinguished. Lillian Russel. Marie Mowbray and Ferdinand Gotts- Dressler and Fannie Brice come to chalk. me off hand.”

Richard Tauber · Arrives At Elstree For First British Film

COM.

Richard Tauber, world-famous tenor, arrived in Landon on Eas- ter Monday evening. to mence work in his first British film. This will be directed at Elstree for British International Pictures by Paul Stein. Tauber's lifelong friend...

Titled "Blossom Time," it is a colourful tomantic film with mu- sic, based on incidents from the life of Franz Schubert, who will be impersonated by Tauber him- self,

Interviewed on arrival at Els- tree, Herr Tauber "expressed his great delight with the story sel- ected for him by British Inter- national "Paul Stein has been over to see me in Vienna," he said, "and has shown me the story. We have discussed it tho- roughly and I have myself made several suggestions regarding the special music. Some of my own compositions will be introduced. This la not iny' first film, but it. is my first English one and I am naturally excited about it".

Work commenced on "Elossom Time" at Elstree recently, but Herr Tauber, was not called upon to act, because the scents in

REFORMATORY FOR BANDITS

Canton, June 6. In order to promote the reforma- tion öf captured Communist- bandits. the 1st Array Corps of the Kwangtung 1st Group Army is contemplating the establishment of a reformatory in south Klängst and two confinement places in those regions where the 1st and the 3rd Army Corps are stationed,

A petition stating the importance of the establishment has been: submitted to the 1st Group Army, It is learned-Central Press.

which he appears have not yet been reached Paul Stein, was directing scenes for the early part of the film in which Paul Graetz, another very clever young German actor, is seen as an old music-master, with whose daugh- ter Schubert fell in love. Tau- ber watched for a while with evid- ent amusement.

The scene was set in an oid Viennese. home of 1826, when the fireplaces were built like a kind of brick font in the centre c the room.

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Other leading members of the "Blossom Time" cast are the handsome young German juve- nile lead Willy Eichberger, Lester Matthews. Gibb McLaughlin, Alexander Ivo, Spencer Trevor and H. F. Maltby.

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has shyness about telling the world how good he is.

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NEXT CHANGE- ELISSA

In a sparkling comedy of mixed love, affairst

* Was NILS ASTHER, Esther Ral sten, Dorothy Revier, Lewrence Brant.Produced by Côi! Leemale,... Jr., from a stage play by Seigfried A Gayer. Presented by Carl Laem.

IL A UNIVERSAL PICTURE."

Directed by JAMES WHALE

BY CANDLELIGHT

ir

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

Ends in Happiness

His fast-talking wins the heart of Madge Evans over the protests of her family, every member of her family, every member of which considers her sweetheart a pest. But he wins Madge and marries her, and then their troubles be- Firemen and doctors are usually gin. When she finds out he's just thought to be the men who have à "show Off" she tries her best to the least certainty of being able break the falls that result from his bragging, but doesn't succeed

to sleep through a night in peace, for they can always fear when very well. Therein lies the pathos. they go to bed that just as it gets But it all comes out well as every-coldest and darkest they may be one hoped, and in the meantime called up to attend B burning, the audience, theluding this re-chicken-coop or a patient with a viewer, nearly laughed themselves stomach-ache. sick,

There are men in other profes- Outstanding supporting roles are slons, however, who, have the same played by Lois Wilson. Henry Insecurity in their sleeping-hours. Wadsworth. a newcomer to the One such profession is that of screen who gives much promise; telephone "trouble-shooters," an Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick. Interesting, and hitherto ignored Alan Edwards. "Claude Gilling- type of work, the details of which water and others. Charles F. Ries-, are an important part of the 20th ner directed for Metro-Goldwyn-Century picture **Looking for Mayer.

Trouble, which opened yesterday. at the Queen's Theatre.

This Joseph M. Schenck-Darryl

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Looking

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MAN from CHICAGO"

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A distinctly European atmos phere pervades By Candlelight." Universal's sophisticated comedy. which comes to the King's Thea- tre on Sunday, with Elissa Landi and Paul Lukas in starring roles. The picture is based on Siegfried Geyer's play of the same name which played a long engagement At the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.

There are many scenes aboard a train travelling from Vienna to Monte Carlo, with the quaint short cars and distinctive equipment which is part of European all- roads. It is on this train that the butler and maid' masquerading 28 members of the nobility strike up an acquaintance which brings about hilarious complications when the two carry on their romance In the apartment of the butler's titled master.

Much of the action of the story takes place in the Prince's luxur- lous apartments in Vienna and Monte Carlo, and there are scenes ut the famous gambling casino of the latter city, where jealous bus- bands increase the intensity 4. decidedly awkward situations.

As a distinct change from the atmosphere of royalty, there are sequences at an Austrian country fair where the romance of the masquerading servants proceeds

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FRANK BUCKS WILD CARGO

The living thrill rected of the Wranges ordde e man has ever sarked u

A VAN BEUREN PRODUCTION.

apace under the influence of sparking in support of Miss Landi and ling wine,

Lukas includes Nils Asther. Esther "By Candlelight" was directed by Ralston, Lawrence Grant and James Whale, and the cast appear-Dorothy Revier.

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AMAZING "STORY,"

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JACKIE COOPE

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HARDIS AY ROBSON

SUSELE RASCH

ALBERT

DANCING

GLORIFIED BY 500 HOLLYWOOD'S

MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS.

F. Zanuck presentation tells the Cora Sue Collins, Aged

story of two telephone-linesmen, played. by Spencer Tracy and Jack Oakle, who inust, just like firemen and doctors be ready, to meet any possible emergency. When storms or earthquakes or any other cata- trophies break down telephone linea, or even if there is the less spectacular but just as troublesome trouble of a mere grounted wire or other technical upact, they rush out to take care of. It no matter what the state of the wea- ther or what the time of the day For night.

The film is not exclusively devot- ed to trouble of a melodramatic kind, but some of the trouble en- countered in the story by Tracy and Oakle is of a romantic, kind,

6. Screen's Busiest Leading Lady

*

Tiny Cora Bue Collins, aged 0. has taken on a huge responsibi- lity as one of Hollywood's young- est leading ladies!

For she was cast as the femin- ine romantic lead in 'Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson classic of pirate adventure, com- posed entirely of nature char- acters with the exception of Jac- kle Cooper. Her child talents.are to be matched with those of Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Douglas Dumbrille and dozens of other noted pla-

as they not only look for wireyers, troubles but have their hands full of love trouble unti

to manage change it into happiness. The re- spective ladies in the case are Constance. Cummings, and Arline Judge. William Wellman directed "Looking for Trouble" for release through United Artista.

CAMBRIDGE LACK BOWLERS

Weakness Revealed In The

Final Trial Match.

(Special Air-Mall Service).

London May 20, Cambridge University's trouble in anding bowlers was furt

hasised in the ant when Ferambulator the

Cora Sue's girlish wiles are used on Jackie during early. scenes at the Admiral Benbow Inn, awhere he becomes involved In breath-taking adventures with robbers and blood-thirsty buc- caneers. After they had been to- gether on the sound stage for a few minutes little Miss Collins confided: M

I'm glad "Jackle and I are in love for the picture 'cause I itke the shiny buckles on his shoes and he gives me 'bundy!"

She recently scored a notable hit as "Baby Garbo," in Queen Christina, which brought her so claim as one of the most promis ing child players in Victor Fleming is

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