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MURDER STALKS IN THE MIDST OF LOVELINESS!

BEAUTY

ROMANCE

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Showgirls on parade... un- aware that death welka besida. them! A requior Earl Carroll musical plus a thrilling mystery story! Two shows in one ... !

EARL CARROLL'S

MURDER

AT THE

VANITIES

Listen to these funesi "Cocktails for Two"". "Ebony khopandy" "Merihvano" and "Lovely One"

AT

A Paramount Picture Featuring THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS IN THE WORLD' and

CARL BRISSON VICTOR MCLAGLEN JACK OAKIE KITTY CARLISLE DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Directed by Mitchell Laisen

SATURDAY KING

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Scene from RKO-Bado's "Strictly" Dynamite."

REAL BEAUTIES NEVER FOUND

Small Towns Hide Loveliest Says "Vanities" Producer

America's most beautiful girl never reach the stage or screen. They remain "undiscovered" in small towns scattered throughout the country, never coming to the attention of play and picture pro- ducers.

This is the opinion of Earl Car- roll, who has produced eleven editions of his famous "Vanities" and who brought eleven of his Broadway girls to Hollywood for Paramount's film version of his stage hit "Murder at the Vani- ties." It is coming on Saturday

to the King's Theatre, with Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen. Jack" Oakle, Kitty Carlisle, and Duke Ellington and his famous orches- tra..

FEAR OF STAGE

"An age-old fear of the stage keeps parents from permitting their daughters to come to the two great beauty centers," Car- roll said "A girl must come either to New York or to Holly- wood to be seen. Many people still retain the erroneous belief that the stage and screen are. not fit places for decent young ladies. They will not permit their daughters to become aff- Ulated with the theatre.

"In truth both Hollywood and New York offer a girl the equal

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934.

“MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS IN WORLD"

TO BE SEEN AT THE KING'S THEATRE

IN

"MURDER AT THE VANITIES"

Film Combines Music Aud Mystery

There have been many musical and backstage pictures; and there have been equally as many films dealing with the diabolical designs. of fiendish murderers; Para- mount brings to the screen the first picture combining the two, "Murder at the Vanities" the film version of Earl Carroll's success- ful current-season stage hit, com-

ing

to the King's Theatre On Saturday, mixes music and my- stery for the first time.

With eleven of Earl Carroll's beauties, Carl Brisson, noted con- tinental and English screen and stage star, Victor McLaglen. Jack Oakle, Kitty Crlisle and Duke El- lington, and his famous orchestra, "Murder at the Vanities" tells of premiere of a brand new musi- cal show. The two stars Brisson and Misa Carlisle, late in arriv ing, brings news that they are to be married.

Gertrude Micheal, jealous, vows. to get even with Brissoni, Later when the wardrobe mistress meets Brisson, it is evident she is his mother No one knows this but Miss Michael. Once a famous opera star, his mother is wanted in Vienna for murder. The jea- lous girl is aware of this. "To pre- vent further trouble from her a hired detective 15 detailed to watch her. Then, while the or- chestra is gaily playing and the girls are dancing and singing to a throng of first-nighters the. sinister hand of a murderer stalks backstage.

Two crimes are committed. Mc- Laglen, sure-shot detective la cali- ..

ed and the manner in which he salves the unique situation while the musical show goes on is both chrilling and "entertaining.

Mitchell Lelsen directed the picture from an original by Earl Carroll and Rufus King. Carroll went to Hollywood to supervies the film production, taking along eleven of his famous New York beauties, The screen play was written by Carey Wilson and Josep Golomb...

Richard Dix has married his secretary. twenty-four-year-old Virginea Webster. They only met a few months ago when Miss Web- ster answered Dix's advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper.

* VANITLES” BEAUTIES IN PARAMOUNT FILM

-Eleven of "the most beautiful girls in the World-came from New York to Hollywood-With Earl Carroll to appear in the Paramount filmization of his "Murder at the Vanities" showing at the King's ~ Theatre on Saturday

learns

diction and voice, she grace and naturalness and ease. Through companionship and as- sociations she becomes conversant with the social amenities She learns how to keep her youth and beauty.

GIRLS GET REAL CHANCE "When parent eventually res- lize that we are offering the girls both an education and a chance to earn a high salary I believe that we will see even mpre

screen than we do now.”

of a finishing school education-beautiful girls on the stage and

if she is beautiful. She is taught

Robert Young has taken Fran- chot Tone's place in the M.G.M. baseball thriller, Death on the Diamond. Lionel Barrymore will also be in the cast.

Carl Brisson's next im fór Paramount will be "All the King's Horses." Kitty Carlisle will again be his leading lady,

The Cosmopolitan" is the title of a new dance which Fred As taure and Ginger Rogers will perform "Gay Divorce."

Jack Őakle gets a break in "Murder at the Vanities"

Where Does Earl- Carroll Get His Beauties?

*

·FAMED PRODUCER OF

"VANITIES '

TELLS HOW 7,000 GIRLS

ANSWER

CALL FOR CHORUS

"Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world." That traditional legend is paint- ed over the stage, door of every New York theatre in which Earl Carroll stages his famous "Vani- ties."

If the girls were any less beauti. ful than they are, that legend 'would be just a "gag" but the girls are beautiful-and the legend is accepted by newspaper critic and public alike as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Earl Carroll's girls are the most beautiful in the world year after year in each succeeding "Vani- ties."

A scene from,“

Are Blondes Pre- ferred?

When asked if "Gentlemen still prefer blondes and f So why? Carroll is not in, the least baffled. "They really do." he explains. Eyes travel automatically toward bright light. Glitter and light at- 'tract every gaze However many of Our most beautiful girls in the Vanities are

not

blonde. There

are many lovely brunettes, ash- blonde and titian-haired beauties who can compete very sucessfully with any blonde in the world, no matter how strong her magnetism may be,

Because Carroll is a super-sert- sitive man with a wealth of quiet poise he applies expert psychology to bring out the best qualities in every girl he selects. Contrary to many old-fashioned views of the theatrical producer Carroll does not tolerate, the least profanity or the slightest evidence of garish ness in any of his girls. They are encouraged and expected to dress smartly, but with good taste. They are instructed to get plenty of sleep an that they may, be up and out in the sunshine by eleven o'clock each morning. Earl Car- Iølt teaches these girls to find their beauty aids in Nature's sun. ply of medicine-the Sun the fresh sir and the fruit and vegetables which STOW out ot doora..

CARL BRISSON WINS U. S. A.

Carl Brisson, the famous Da- nish-English star, has completely won over America with his first Paramount picture, Murder at The Vanities.

So successful was the "preview of the film that Brisson has been besieged ever since. He has bad to engage five people to deal with callers, telephone inquiries, and letters, and it is very rarely that- he leaves his house.

Hundreds of letters from bust- never before has a star had such him if he will allow his name to be used in connection with their products. Enthusiastic "fans" are going to such extremes that Brisson has the greatest difficulty" in preventing them from camping on his Jawni

om. Murder at lee benities"Here are seven of the

Selected

All Hollywood is saying that never befere as a star had such a sensational debut in a picture

Paramount in introducing two of Its stars of the future In "Murder in the Vanities." These are Carl Brisson and Kitty Carlisle.

He plays the part of the star in an Earl Carroll Vanities show in New York. While girls are singing and dancing and walle the audience are attuned to the frivolity of the show a myste- rious murder takes place. The police are called in, and no sooner ere they in the theatre when a second and more mysterious mur- der is committed.

Brisson sings a number of beautiful songs in that inimit

able voice of his, and he has made his great success on a per- sonality which is new to the American screen.

Murder At The Vanities,

行

identally, something quite new. It is the first time that. anyone has attempted to link up a brilliant musical show with a murder mystery, and the direc- tor, Mitchell Leisen, has made wonderful success with it:

Zita Percel Hungarian actress, has been given a flim con- track on condition that she has one tenth of an inch fled off her front tough,

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