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I LOVED A WOMAN
Kay Francis At Her Best
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Two of the truly great dramatic artists of the time are" for the first time brought together As acreen lovers in "I Loved Woman," the Ars: National picture which comes on Thursday to the Alhambra Theatre.
They are Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis. cach of whom has been starred separately in 'many pictures in all of which they have given. unforgettable characterizations,
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
To-day
MONDAY, JULY
9.
Anniversaries and Holidays.- Chinese National Holiday (An- niversary of the launching of the Northern Punitive Expedition by National Revolutionary Army, 1928). Customs Holiday.
Auctions.-Crown P.W.D. Offices.3 p.m.
Cinemas
Land Sala.
King's "The Way To Love"
Laughing Boy" Chinese Picture""
Queen's Central Oriental:
"The Prize-Fighter
And The Lady"
World:"Chinese Picture" Alhambra:"Son Of A Sailor" Majestic:-"Flying Down To Rio" Star: "42nd Street""
Lestures
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**Tuberculosis and Prevention" by Dr. S. F. Li, Chinese Y.M.C.A. Hall, 8-pm..
Home Nursing and First Aid. Women's International Club. 5.15 p.m.
With Genevieve Tobin, they play unique parts in the amazing love triangle of "I Loved A Woman" Miss Tobin is cast as the vindictive wife of the hero content to wait lifetime to avenge her wrongs. --
As the rising operatle star. Miss Francis fres Robinson, s 2 wealthy young meat packer" with her own ambition to gain power. Both in their own." ways utterly ruthless in battling for world conquest. Strangely enough. Robinson is later inspired by hatred for his inamorata instead af love when he finds he himself is but one of her many lovers. Outside of the romance the story reveals the domthating forces in the growth of the meat packing Industry in the last forty years. Recrelo; P. E. Knight A. O.
are
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There LS 2 notable cast iri addition to the principals which include
MacDonald, J. Farrell Henry Kolker, Robert Barrat, George Blackwood, Murray Kinnel. and Henry O'Neill The screen "play by Charles Kenyon and Sid- ney Sutherland is based on the story "Red Meat" by David Kars- ner, author of "Silver Dollar."
TWO BIG PARTS FOR CONRAD VEIDT
*(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 22.
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It will be some time before "Jew Suss reaches our benighted part
of the globe, writes a correspon- aent, but I hear that the Shep- herd's Bush executives are al- ready making plans to follow it up with two other important Alms
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Miscellaneous
Preliminary Rehearsal. "Merrie England," Cathedral Hail, 5.30
p.m.
Moon-V Moon. 28th Day.
Sports
Lawn Bowls-Singles Champlon- ship, E. W. 'Simmonds P11A S. Gomes (Kowloon "B.G.C.); S. Randle v. E O. Post (Club de
Brawn (Cralgengower green); F. V. V. Ribeira V. B. Busto (Civil Service (green); V. Petherick»v. J. Fraser (Kowloon Docks green): R. Basa v. J. Hodgin (Police R.C. | green), 5.15 p.m.
Lawn Tennis.Indian R.C. v. St. John's University. 5.15 p.m.; "C" v. Kowloon Division, Army T.C. C.C.;
Deutscher University. V. Klub: Chinese R.C. v. Club de
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1934.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND
9.30 P.M.
KING
latR-CONDITIONED
HEATRE
THEATRE
Maurice
CHEVALIER
THE WAY TO LOVE
ANN DVORAK
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
“3 ON A HONEY.Lnless you let down between scene's
MOON"
Recreio: Indian R.C. V. Kowloon ZaSu Pitts Makes Up
Docks: Police R.C. v. Kowloon B.G.C. Cralgengower v. Central British; Civil Service V. South China,
Sunrise.-5.44 a.m. Sunset.7.11
p.....
Tides High at 7.35 and 22.10; Low at 0.10 and 14.49.
LAUGHING BOY
Her Mind!
It's still a daily effort for Zasu Pitts, one of the most admired and personally popular actresses in Hollywood, to overcome her shy-
ness.
"Oh, I'm much better than used to be", she told Daily Etters between scenes of 3 On A Honey- moon", their first picture together. "I used to slip off to the corner
in which Conrad Viedt will ap- A Super-Production of the set between scenes and read
pear under the. direction Lothar Mendes.
of
Veldt will figure next IS the ringleader of a band of convicts who make a bid for freedom from Devil's Island, "the notorious French
The penal settlement. 'story will be, based on "King of the Damned," a"stage play which has been running with much suc cess in the West End.
for
This play so impressed G.-B. as a powerful vehicle
Conrad Veld that "Micky" Balcor, direc- tor of productions, purchased the screen rights within 24 hours of its first appearance in London.
It will be Veidt's Arst Alm since he put his signature to the three- Alm contract which marked "the end of a protracted struggle for is services between film interests on both sides of the Atlantic.
The other Aim G.-B. vlew is a talkie version-the first -of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina," one of the world's greatest novels It was filmed more than once as silent. notably in 1927, when
have
in
To transfer characters from a book to the screen with the fide- lity of real life so they can be recognised and loved by millions
their who know
story is the accomplish- stirring production inent in "Laughing Boy." Indian drama based on the famous Pullt- zer Prize story by Oliver La Farge. The new film drama, starring Ramon Novarro with Lupe Velez as leading lady, is showing to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
The picture. Almed by the studios. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents one of the most powerful dramas of Indian life and love ever written. It deals in a start- with
the ing manner
Navajo Indian as a personality capable of strong feeling and great, emotional ellmaxes.
As the young Indian, untamed and unused to love known by white men in civilized "towns' on the reservation. Ramon Novarro reaches new heights of penetrating
Greta Garbo appeared as the ill-appeal and restraint of deep feel- fated Anna.
Rumour has it that the part will be taken by Madeleine Car Toll fresh from her Hollywood World Moves triumph in "The On" Veldt is to play Vronsky. All: La's lover.
NERO
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Mascagni's New Opéra To Be Produced in Milan
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 22. The first performance of "Nero" the new opera by Bignor Pietro Mascagni, world-famous as the composer of "Cavalleria Rusti- caha," will take place at La Scala, Milan, during the next winter
season.
Signor Mascagni signed the con- tract with arepresentative of La Scala in Leghorn to-day.
The composer has been working on the idea of an opera on the 'subject of Nero for 30 years before completing it last year. The breito is based on the tragedy by Cossa, giving a new conception of Nero's character. It is in three
acts.
ing. His naive handling of early sequences provides a basis for one of the strongest dramatic climaxes ever filmed of a native “people.
Lupe Velez sweeps through the most powerful role of her entire screen career as a young Indian woman who has tasted civilization and still wants the wild, primitive love of her own people. She is vivid, sparkling, and cuts into one climax after another with breath- less strength of feeling.
One of the largest native casts ever assembled is seen in the picture with many scenes filmed on the actual reservation locale near Cameron, Arizona Panora- mas pf vast buttes and'
desert canyons lend an authenticity to the story for startling realism on the screen.
Minor roles in the production are played by Ruth Channing as a. young tourist, Ferdinand Munier providing comedy touches as 3 "tenderfoot" and William David- son as the "heavy."
Col. W.8. Van Dyke, who has | travelled to more remote corners of the earth than any other director, again scores with his powerful handling of a native story to add to his laurels won with "Trader Forn" and recently the smashing fight story. “Prizefighter and the Lady'.”
books to cover my embarrassment at not being able to join in with the others in their, discussions and jokes,.
"Norma Talmadge is the person who insisted on my mending my ways...
"You can't do your best work
SHOWING TO-DAY
occasionally", she told me. "Don't be so bashful: speak right up whether you're right or wrong. You'll soon and it's fun, and you'll be able to go into the next scene with refreshed interest.
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"Of course, she was right. I always sympathize with those who And themselves on the outer edges at "parties and other gatherings. I know just how they feel. But the only way break yourself of the habitis just to make up mind about it".
to
your
In 3 On A Honeymoon", coming to the King's Theatre, on Tuesday, ZaSu in shown as a bashful old mald who not only makes up her inind but also that of a bashful swain.
OWT
"Crash of Crockery
"It's just one dam Ming after another, as the Chinese house- careless wife complained to the maid 600 years ago.
Ramon NOVARRO
Laughing Boy
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A FOX PICTURE
ALLEN JOINS ASTON VILLA
Fee Said To Be £11,000
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London, June 22,
J. Allen, the Portsmouth and "English intemational centre half. was yesterday transferred to Aston Villa. It is understood that the fee amouted to £11,000, which exceeds by something like £1,000 the sums paid for some of the greatest players transferred during the past few years, «
The news of Allen's transfer comes as a surprise seeing that on Monday Portsmouth, announced that negotiations with the Villa had broken, down and that Allen had re-signed for his club. Allen; Is only, 24.
Southport yesterday signed J. Proudfoot, inside. forwardi of Southend and formerly of Notts County and Barnsley, and E. Cle- ment, full-back, of Yeovü, form- erly of New Brighton...
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REDHEADS ARE LUCKY
So Joe Brown Thinks
AND THE
LADY
"THE WAY TO
LOVE"
Chevalier Again
Joe E. Brown is not superstitious, in spite of the fact that he has.
The popular idea that widely been in the show business since read novels supply material that he was nine years old.. He doesn't is easily transferred to the screen belleve breaking a mirror mean; ¦ is exploded by Benjamin Glazer seven years of bad luck-spilling co-auther of "The Way to Love"," salt doesn't make him nervous~~ | Maurice Chevaller's current starr- and he has an aversion to meeting Paramount picture, now 'play-, ing black cats.
ing at the King's Theatre.
But there is one point on which Joe is. well, maybe, not exactly superstitious, but he has his own ideas about it. And that is con- cezning redheads, Joe says they're lucky to have around.
That's why you'll always and a red-headed property man on the set of a Joe E. Brown picture.
That's why Joe is especially happy about "Son of a Sailor" his latest First National comedy now showing at the Alhambra Theatre Kowloon. "Red" the property man with the company, is one of the reddest redheads you'll And in a day's journey. He's been with Joe on several other pictures And when Joe learned that he
"In fact, says Glazer, who has apent considerable time studying what the public wants, "there is nothing so difficult to film as
best seller".
author and
Mr. Glazer is an producer for Paramount, and has written originals for the screen..15.
such well as having adapted classics as Farewell to Arms”.
"Given a story, like Chevalier's "The Way to Love", an original for the screen, "be declares, audi- ences will accept the characters and background without question:
"On the other hand, each reader or a novel forms a defnite idea as to what the pictured story would be available for "Bon of a
should be like. If the screen.in- Sailor" his smile grew twice as terpretation doesn't conform to broad as it usually is. And that's his notion he blames the produ something...coming from Joe E.
Brown.
Much of the action of "Son of a Ballor" is laid abroad the USB. "Saratoga", through the courtesy of the Navy Department and the Pacific feet.
cer,
"My advice is to get originals ́if`` Possible.
Mr. Glazer wrote the original for "The Way to Love" with Gene Fowler, famous newspaper editor Jean Mulr and Thelma Todd and author. The story tells of the" share the feminine interest in adventures of a typical Parisiin this latest Joe E. Brown laugh- | whose ambition in life is to become drama, while others, in the cast a guide to his beloved Paris, for Include Frank McHugh, Johnny he feels that his love for the city Mack Brown, George Blackwood, is so great that he alone can best Kenneth Thomson, Sheila Terry, interpret it. Ann Dvorak and Merna Kennedy, Samuel Hinds and Edward Evrett Horton, head the Noel Francis. Lloyd Bacon direct supporting cast, Normaní „Tauros ed the picture."
directed the picture:
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