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IN "COCKEYED CAVALIERS,” the new Wheeler and Woolsey picture, there are two song num- #bers that are proving most popu- lar and are being sung and whistled everywhere. One is -THE BIG BAD WOLF IS DEAD"- and the other "I LIKE TO DILLY DALLY

Karen Morley has been signed by RKO to play the lead in the Alm version of the New York stage success "WEDNESDAY'S

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1934.

"Cleopatra" STARS WHO WERE

For The Screen

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Cecil B. DeMille, the famous Paramount director, and master of the spectacle film has surpass-. ed even himself, with his latest picture CLEOPATRA, which fea- tures Claudette Colbert in the the title role, Henry Wilsoxon,

British actor-once with the Bir- mingham Repertory Company-- Mark Antony and Warren Wil- lam as Julius Caesar.

He has combined a great spec- tacie with a fine story which ser- ves one might say, as the *mounting."

Glamorous sets wonderful robes, the continual shifting of the crowds, glimpses of authen- tic period architecture and the customs of the time, and a great cast of foremost players, will make CLEOPATRA one of the mcst popular films for years.

To give an idea of the magn tude, breadth and vision of CLEO- PATRA, here is just an idea of the greatness of the film.

Nearly 4,000 people parade across the sumptuous sets used" in CLEOPATRA.

About 2,000 Roman soldiers; throughout the film, wear 75 tons of armour, helmets and wea- pons, all of which were made at the Paramount Studios.

In the construction of sets, 120 sculptors and plaster workers were employed to model sphinxes,

statues columns, friezes,

and other portions of sets, for which four cartloads of plaster were 'used.

One set alone-the public baths at Rome-took 40,000 square feet of space.

Twenty-Ave studio hairdressers -half of the whole total in Holly.... wood--were employed to make wiga, hair plecem, and to dress the hair of the stars and the 2,000 fe- male extras in the Alm.

Before a camera was turned, 12 people worked for nine months on research for CLEOPATRA,

Between 20 and 100 sketches of each set, "prop". and costume were drawn before the final sket-

ches were passed by DeMille. Every branch of learning and art is represented in the making of CLEOPATRA—experts on langu- ages, anthropology. ceramics, archaeology and other "ologies" were put to work.

Five professors of Roman and Egyptain history

and ancient

MODELS

Not all of the successful screen actresses came to the films from the stage, from dramatic schools or the "extra" ranks. Some, though not many, acquired their grace in the strict school of the models.

Greta Garbo started out in life as a model for hats in a-Stock. holm

where department store, Maurice Stiller, famous director,

discovered her.

Norma Shearer posed as a mo- del for commercial photographers during a period of hard luck, when she was trying to enter pic- tures in New York. She did it to play a delinquent hotel bill.

Miss Shearer posed for hat, shoe, coat, jewellery, and motor- 'car tyre advertisements. She was working for scores of photogra- phers when she received two Hol- lywood film offers, one of which she accepted, that from Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer,

Marion Davies, though she ne- ver was a professional model, posed for the famous "American Girls" paintings .of Howard Chandler Christy and Harrison

Fisher, which appeared on the covers of a magazine. She was also the model for Christy's fam- and 0125 painting, "Morning," once, during a lull between show seasons she was dress model for a brief spell in a fashionable New York shop.

Madge Evans, between the ages of two and five, posed for many artists and sculptors. Between the ages of seven and fifteen, she posed exclusively for children's hats, under contract, and the hats were

known as "Madge Evans" hats, from which she still receives royalties.

Also Miss Evans originally was the little girl, who sits on a well- known cake of soap that carries the slogan, "Have You A Little Fairy in Your Home.?" "She has posed for such artists as Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, George Leyendecker, George De-Fores: Brush and Wil- lam Cotton.

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Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and Walter. Connolly in "It Happened One Night"—A Columbia Picture

howing at the King's Theatre to-day

IF

She Learned About Sailors

To the names that are headed for larger, electric lights on the world's cinema fronts. we must add ALLĈE FAYE, a 19 year old member of the famous George White's Scandals troupe, who can act sing and dance with that certain

of screen something which stars are made,

She likes to sing, she loves to dance. A lawyer discovered her volce; George White discovered her ability, and FOX discovered a new blonde star. She is under ...contract now, and following a re-

Myrna Loy, while a student of sculpture, posed for her class and for the graceful fountain figure, "Inspiration," which stands be i fore the Venice High School at Venice, California.

languages gave their help in the making of the film.

TARZAN'S CALL rings out again!

JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

TARZAN

AND HIS MATE

Conrad Nagel, who has just. been divorced from his his wife after Afteen years of marriages will be seen on the screen again shortly in "Dangerous Corner." Nagel has been busy stage acting recently.

Showing To-morrow at the Queen's Theatre

-"SHE"- and; "THE "LAST,DAYS OF POMPEIL"

Ginger Rogers, whose popula rity is increasing day by day, has, signed a long-term contract with RKO Radio.; She will have the leads in some of the biggest pic

H. Rider Haggard's world-tures on the new Radio pro- famous story "SHE" will be made into a big thrill spectacle by Merian C. Cooper, who will confine his activities to only two pictures

gramme, including "THE GAY DIVORCE” “RADIO CITY - RE- VELS" and "THE WORLD BY: THE TAIL

markable performance in the film version of "GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDLE," she has been given the leading role opposite Spen- cer Tracy in "WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS."

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The film was formerly named "NOW I'LL TELL,” and 19.adapt- ed from the novel by Mrs: Arnold" Rothstein, the widow of the gang- ster and racketeer.

It kook her three days to be-. come a star. White brought her to Hollywood with Rudy Vallee, Cliff Edwards, and a trainload of beautiful damsels.

She was elected to sing and dance ́ ́à spečial number in the #pleture, and when she had in-

Ished, so was her career as minor player.

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Now she's sitting on top of the world,

Even hard-boiled Hollywood is enchanted with this lovely five- foot-four of fluffy winsomeness who "had not the nerve to try

voice work in public" before Rudy Vallee's lawyer persuaded her to make a gramaphone record, Val- lee heard the record and was so Impressed that he asked Alice to sing with his orchestra.

Her popularity was at once est- ablished when she started sing- ing on the wireless during Vallee's programme.

Then she attracted the atten- ion of the famous George. White, and became a member of the famous "SCANDALS” show.

White had previously always declined to make a film version of - his revue. He was at length per- suaded to bring his company, to the FOX Hollywood Studios, FOX liked Alice; they thought she was And so a new screen star was born.

cute.

She was given a tuneful num- ber "Nasty Màn” which she put over in delightful fashion. This ability to put that certain some- thing in a song earned her th role in SHE LEARNED ABOUT SAILORS which will be screened at the King's shortly. In this Alm she puts over 'Here's The Key To My Heart' in a most appealing manner. The low rather" husky, voice is ideally suited for the "blues" type of song. In this one she has handsome Lew Ayres op- posite, and Mitchell and Durant the pair of comedians last seen in Stand Up and Cheer supply the rough and tumble humour they are noted for.

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“Cockeyed Cavaliers" TO-DAY'S RADIO

Considering the time propitious for a burlesque on the current trend of historical and costume

pictures, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey will star in "Cockeyed Cavaliers" their latest funfilm coming to the King's Theatre shortly in which they satirize the Middle Ages.

PROGRAMME

Broadcast hv. Z.B.W.

-on 355 Metres

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Modern comedy, melody and pulchritude set against the med- "I leval era provide the hilarity of "Cockeyed Cavallers,” The story

is told in rhythmic dialogue where- In each sound, song, dance and word synchronizes with the action. All of the melodies and routines become part of the story.

日

to 2.15 p.m.-European pro-

gramme.

p.m.-Local time and weather:

report.

1.03 p.m.-Recorded music. 1.15 pm--A relay of the Hong

Kong Hotel Orchestra from the: Hong Kong Hotel Grilli· Room: (by courtesy of the manage ment).

The film revalves about the adventures of two highway- men of yore portrayed by Wheeler and Woolsey. They are riding the rods of regal stage-coach "when they" en- counter Mary Ann disguised' aa'a boy to evade a forced, marriage to the Duke of Weskit. They take her under their wings, and even- tually find themselves within the gates of the Duke's palace, where 7.05 to 7.35 p.m.- they give this big shot the works in their own rollicking fashion.

1.30 p.m.---Reuter Press Bulletins

Rugby Press news, etc. 2.15 p.m.-Close down

4 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme.

6 to 6.15 p.m.-Children's Studio

Concert.

Here Bert and Mary Ann, and Bob and Genevive, the Duke's niece, engage in a rollicking "ro- mance, which is interrupted by the noble's discovery of Mary Ann's indentity. An Insane hunt for a wild boar brings a "delightful denovement to what is considered Wheeler and Woolsey's funniest picture.

A host of alluring blondes red-. heads and brunettes; the tuneful melodies "I Love to Dilly Dally " and "I Went Hunting" and the hilarious story by Edward Kaufman ・・ and Ben Holmes are important *elements of "Cockeyed Cavaliers”.

Mark Babdrich directed this RKO-Radio Picture, which also casts Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd, Noah Berry, Henry Sedley, and Robert Greig.

"Where Sinners Meet"

Can a wife be too attentive to her husband?

Those who have not endured an excess of ministrations from their... wives might, on first thoughts, answer in the negative, but they Would be quite wrong.

At heart, most men are In 'reality nothing but little boy8, and so they like to be mothered; but, like a rich dessert, they, become surfeited by an over-does of it.

All the"" wisdom all the philo-. sophy of the secret of success in. double harness has been condensed into one hour of screen hilarity.

Tto 10.40 p.m.-European pro-

gramme,

7 p.m.-London and New York stock and commodity 'quota- tions.

Orchestral Music May Night-Overture (Rimsky- Korsakov),-London Symphony

D'ur:

- Orchestra. Prelude a L'Apres-Midi

Faune (Debussy). Philadel phia Symphony Orchestra. Pomp and Circumstance March No. $ (Elgar).—London Sym- phony Orchestra. Tone-Poem 'Finlandia”—Op. 26, No. 7 (Bibellus)-Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. 7.35 to 8 p.m.---

Light Opera Vocal Gems-Ruddigore (Gmbert and Sullivan)-Columbia Light Opera Company. Selection-Les Cloches de Cor- neville" (Planquette). — The Band of FM. Coldstream Guards.

Vocal Gems Merrie England (E German). Hiriam Licette, Clara Serena, Francis Russell, Dennis Noble, Robert Carr. Chorus and Orchestra.

8 pim-Local time and weather

report.

8.03 to 8.30 p.m.-

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Word

Variety Song-Love's... · Last

Spoken. Bong-Out in the Cold, Cold Boow-Gracle, Fields (Come- diennė).

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Plano Solos Billy Mayerl's Own

Belection-Billy Mayerl

Vocal Duet-Lazybones. Vocal Duet I Like to go back In the Evening-Layton and Johnstone. F.

Orgaz Bolo--Rhapsody in Blue---

Quentin M. Maclean. Song This is Romance."! Song-It's only a Paper Moon- Conrad Thibault (Baritone),

Child Star on Holiday FLICKERS FROM and served with a sugared coat 3.38 to 3.10 p.m.

Shirley Temple, the sensational five-year-old Paramount child star, is going for a much-needed holiday.

Following completion of Pare mount's NOW AND FOREVER, she was to have started a picture for another company, but her mother refused

HOLLYWOOD

RKO Radio's "DOWN TO THEIR LAST YACHT is one of the most novel musicals ever produced. It has a South Sea background, and all the dancing and singing spectacles take place

ing in the RKO Radio comedy, "WHERE BINNERS MEET" coming shortly to the King's Theatre. Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook are the stars of this mirth-pro--. voking alm farce, and it marks their first appearance since the memorable "Cavalcade.”

The chief fun maker is ille Burke, who has the principal fea- tured role, that of an eloping wife who simply must have a man to

Light Orchestral Programme William Tell-Overture (Rossint

-Members of the La Scala Orchestra Milan, Techaikowsky in Vienna (arr."

Walter)Orchestre Raymonde. Gounod in Vienna (arr. Walter).

Orchestre Raymonde.

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Shirley's tired and needs a on an Island setting. Mary Bo make a great big fuss over, to rights, furnish the basis of rest," she explained. “I'm going

to take her where she won't see a studio for Uwo weeks.”-

Bo

and M George F Temple are taking a cottage at Pebble Beach near Hollywood; › where Bhirley and her two, brom

thers will spend

of their daugh

"time" with the ters of friends

land and Pally Moran are featur ed, together with Sidney Black- mer, S.dney Fox and Ned Sparks. There are five catchy songs and a spectacular new dance number called "The South Sea Boltzó.”

Karen Morley has been lent to Radio by MGM for the lead in "Wednesday's Child

Having lost one husband through what is said to be one of the out- her too devoted ministrations, to standing comedy hits of the past his wants, real and imagined, she decade. pl. is pursuing the same cloying tactics with prospective mate Number Two,

Others in the cast of the fun makers Include Reginald Owen. Alan Mowbray, Olbert Emery and The methods by which Clive Phyllis Barry. The picture, adap Brook as a wealthy Englishman ted from the Tamous AA Milne who has himself suffered from stage play, The Dover Road" was marital mistakes, set four elopers directed by Walter Ruben