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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934.

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GAMBLING SHIP'

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

"DREYFUS"

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At The Alhambra

are true to life.

It is a pity that all history can- not be taught through the Alma by means of such good acting as is to be seen in this film. In the first place the characters selected Anyone who has ever taken an interest in modern French history and who has been contemporary photographs

of those concerned vince himself by going to see the would soon con-

.fum.

SLEEPS

Spencer Tracy's Best

For months critics have been Tracy prediciting that Spencer would soon emerge as a full fled ged star. All that was needed. they said. was a part strong en- ough to bring out his latent dra- malle talent."

. That part has come at last in the role of Murray Golden in the York Fox picture "While New Sleeps" which opens at the King's Theatre on Sunday. Winfeld Sheehan, who produced the pic- ture, came to that decision when filming was about.helf completed and announced that Tracy would be starred in this and future plc- tures.

The film is a cavalcade of New York's sporting and night life. The from city's most exciting years,

1910 to 1932. are lived again in this powerful story of a woman's great love for a strange man. It's

story that has never been told before, revealing intimate detalls of a fascinating life. and the dra matic events that led up to its tremendous' climax in the man's tragic, mysterious death.

The fact that Tracy won star- dom on the strength of his por- trayal of Murray Golden is a good advance tip on the power of his

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A STORY

IN

BACKS!

Disapproving backs ...cold shoulders..." averted faces... Yet she glories in bar devotion

woman scored, but a woman loved!

Sylvia SIDNEY

faces joyfully the pildis of a hungering-lova, ti

JENNIE GERHARDT

Performance. In the picture as in HAVANA WIDOWS!

real fe, Golden's creed was "to

live every minute I'm alive and die when I'm dead to get all the fun there is out of life be the head

of the parade.” This is the stuf from which Tracy creates a great characterization,

At The Alhambra

and

For good natured, ́ ́rough Helen Twelvetress plays the Im-tumble. catch-as-catch-can come- portant role of Virginia, the wife dy, "Havana Widows" the Firat of Murray Golden. She is a girl National picture which is coming of refinement who marries Golden to the Alhambrs оп Sunday is said to be the screen's undisputed and, because she loves him, over- looks his vices until she learns he

champion. has been unfaithfully.

with

charmer And the blonde whom Golden carries on a secret

trayed by Alice Faye, the girl swept love affair for several years is por-

to overnight fame by her portray- Cedric Hardwicks as Dreyfus is al of Rudy Vallee's sweetheart in outstanding and leaves nothing to George White's "Scandals." As be desired. The others such ак night club entertainer, she sings Zola taken by George Merrit, Pic-Foglin with the Other Woman's quart by Charles Carson and

Man."

Esterhazy by Garry Marsh are ex- Others in the excellent support cellent, although English is rather out of place for their`oratory.

ing cast arc Robert Glackler, Henry O'Neill, Robert Cavanaugh

As

Riotously funny and startling created by Joan situations are Blondell and Glenda Farrel..

ban capital on a hunt for million- two wise-cracking Broadway bur- lesque girls, they invade the Cu-

nir" easy

marks. whom they hope to compromise and shake- down for easy money.

the

Their decision to invade Cuban capital is reached after a former chorine friend had blown in on them looking the picture of prosperity. The friend's story that Havana was simply reeking,

THEODORE DREISER'S

celebrated record of a woman's liku with

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DONALD COOK -MARY ASTOR- TANAH, L. WALNIK · · Directed by MARION 626ING-

8.2 SCHULBERG Fr.

A Genzoman Power

SYLVIA SIDNEY

In Her First Starring Role

Sensitive

"Jennie

SPENCER TRACY

"WHILE

NEW

SLEEPS"

YORK

A FOX PICTURE

HELEN TWELVETREES ALICE FAYE

SITTING PRETTY'

At The Oriental

The two "Jacks", of comedy fame, Oakie and Haley, together with Ginger Rogers, Thelma Todd, Gregory. Ratoff and Lew

Cody appealing "Gerhardt," that absorbing char-

make up the feature section of the all-star singing-dancing-laughing acter created by Theodore Dreiser,

cast in Paramount's screen musi- America's foremost novelist, comes cal"Sitting Pretty" showing at to life to-day on the screen of the i the Oriental Theatre King's Theatre, where Paramount's and Saturday.

on. Friday picture of that title is being pre sented. Sylvia Sidney, the girl with the wistful eyes, earns her first star billing in the title role of this B. P. Schulberg production. which Marion Gering directed.

In this picture, she earns her

In addition to the above named. players, two popular radio feature- acts, the Pickens Sister and the Baverly Hi Bules, are important sequences..

given

The picture is crammed with catchy, lting tunes, written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, authors of "Underneath a Harlem Moon" and "An Orchid to You"',: and there are two's production numbers backed up with eye- filing sets and more than one hundred of Hollywood's talented beauties,

right to be a star. Her char- acterization of the Immortal Jenide Gerhardt contains the e- The "incidents forming the sub-Huntley. Jr.. Vince Barnett and

sence of Dreiser's Conception of ject of the film commenced exact- Shirley Temple. Edwin Burke of with millionaires all anxious to be this tremendous role. Tenderly, ly forty years ago, in 1894, and Bed Girl" fame wrote the dia-separated from their dough, les ds sympathetically, she traces the life they rent. France in twain. The

of the most talked of woman in case from being an army affair gue and also directed the picture Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell

to depart post-haste for Havana American action. under Mr. Sheehan's personal su-

after Arst shaking down became a national affair, in which

I bòy

"Sitting Pretty" is a music-and- pervision. France's honour was at stake. At

friend for $1,500 for expenses.

Jenale Gerhardt epitomizes all song-sprinkled story of two no period of her history was her

Their mad adventures lead them womanhood; that was unquestion-amiable, wise-cracking chaps from prestige so low as when other na-bed he confessed the whole affair. into the most unusual lot of com-ably Theodore Dreiser's conception Song-Pluggers Row" in

New tions realised that an innocent confirming that Dreyfus was inno-plications, which because they are of the character. Miss Bidney's York. They can write good songs. man was being sacrificed to the cent and Estarhazy, guilty. He al-played so broadly, result in one Impersonation has a like inter (the best in the world, according vanities of incompetent military so told of the terrible state of fast comedy situation after an- pretation as its motivation A to them), but they have a hard leaders. Men of experience, who mind he was in when he reallaed other.

beautiful, sensitive, girl, reared in time proving it. the most abject poverty, is forced by the misery of her family to sc- cept the advances of those who can help financially. Time after time, despite her own inclinations, the irresistible forces of life itself break down her morale, drive her on through desperation to an in- escapable end.

in normal circumstances would that an innocens man was being Snappy 'dialogue has been in- have died honoured found their condemned, and that in his posi-iccted into the screen play by Ritan reputations rightly dragged into tion he could do nothing at all to James. The comedy action is car- the mire for the crime they com- stop the injustice, It troubled him ried along by no less than sx mitted. Dreyfus was a jew, and to his dying day, and yet his duty players who know how to strut the stuy. Besides Joan Blondell was to maintain silence.›

The scene about the information and Glenda Farrell these include tremes iri Picquart, the noble not being important is also prob- Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Lyle Colonel who sacrificed himsoli ably true. Dreyfus was convicted. Talbot, Frank McHugh, Ruth Don- that justice might be done, and in for selling plans of the recoli nelly. Ralph Ince and Maude

the unfortunate Jew was to blame for everything. We see two ex-

French 75

m/m

the ignoble Estarhady who sold cylinder of the his country in order that he, might gun. This guri manufactured by debauch himself. The story evokes Schneider was sold to many coun- passion and it is hard to realise tries and it is very probable that that it is true, and only finished the Germans already had, the twenty eight years ago in 1906 plans, when Dreyfus was finally absolved

of all fault.

final touch which happened only i

The ploture does not show

a few years ago. At that time

U.S. NAVY

Eburne. Ray Enright directed.

THE AMERICA CUP ·

In the first episode of her career a child is born to her. To escape the stigma of her misfortune she leaves home, goes to another city.. enters service. Here it is "that she meets a wealthy man, who forces his way into her life and she learns to love him.

New York, August 14, A message from Vineyard Haven, Mass., states that Yankee endorsed her claims to defend the America It is only when Jennie sees that Cup by defeating Vanite by five his association with her is ruining minutes in a forty-mile race. His future that she insists he leave Rainbow was third, over fourteen her to take his rightful place in Schwartzkopf. He it. was who opens bid for twenty-four war minutes behind the was the German military attache ships' comprising four 10,000-ton Weetamoe went aground, after oc- she sacrifices her own. The love. winner. society. To insure his happiness, at Paris, and who bought Estar cruisers, "fourteen destroyers and cupying third place, halfway over she has hazy's Information. On his death six submarines-Reuter.

there died in Berlin one called

TO DAY

TO

SATURDAY

Washington, August 14. The Navy Department to-day

the course.-Reuter.

QUEEN'S

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LOVE GAVE HIM THE COURAGE TO DIMAND HONORS THAT WERE RIGHTFULLY HIS AS WORLD'S GREATEST CAMERAMANI

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Robert Armstrong - Pruthy Wikon

Richard Cromw

come to have

for him "reaches Itsibelght; when he be- comes a success in the world from which he came to her.

Though the character is neces- sarily a pathetic one) it is at no time tragic, for Jennie Gerhardt reaches the heights of happiness through her devotion and her Bacrifice

Donald Cook, rapidly coming to the forefront as one of Holly- wood's favourite leading men, takes the part of Lester Kane, the man wham Jennie Gerhardt learns to love and, for his own good, të Korced to leave A.B Warner Iscast as Jennie · Ger- hardt's father, while Louise Carter is cast as the mother. A new player comes to the front in the delightfully fresh Glida Storm, In the role of Jennie Gerhardt's, daughter.

“Jennie Gerhardt" is a splendid- ly adapted picturization of the Dreiser novel The most talked-

of woman In American fiction. comes to life under the artful magic of Sylvia Sidney, who in this role reaches the top of her profession?

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