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HALF A SINNER

JOEL MCCREA-SALLY BLANE

-BERTON CHURCHILL Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr., from a play by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens. Directed by Kurt Neumann Presented by Cart Laemmle. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.

COMMENCING 21st SEPT. EDNA MAY OLIVER

AND

EDWARD

EVERETT HORTON

IN

"THE POOR RICH"

SOME QUICK CHANGES

From Snow To. Sunshine

Spring comes to Hollywood. In a burlap bag. So, In fact,

does Summer and Autumn and Winter. Often they follow one another only a week apart,

Season are stored at the War- ner Bros. studios like potatoes in

a country grocery store. For the picture "As the Earth Turns," which opens to-day

at the Alhambra Theatre, the whole stock was used.

For the early sequences it was" winter. Untold tons of bleached cornflakes, powdered gypsum and common salt were brought to the great untrimmed sets designed for this picture in buge burlap containers.

Next. it was Spring-bever far behind Winter-and the make- belleve snow was swept away and crowed back into sacks. The white residue was blown from the vicinity with "airplane motors and truck loads of Spring were hauled through the sound stage doors.

Apple blossoms, carloads of them tumbled out of those trucks in other large burlap bags brought up from the studio where seasuns

WORLD FAMED

PLAY

"Wonder Bar" To Open Soon

Out-doing all previous sen- sational combinations of stars and spectacles. First National's long awaited International musi- cal drama." "WONDER BAR," will be shown for the Arst time lo- cally at the Alhambra Theatre on Sept. 22.

Kay Francis plays the leading feminine role opposite Al Jolson who protrays the proprietor of the "WONDER BAR": Ricardo Cor- tez and Dolores Del Rio have the coveted parts of the two, dancers, while Powell and Heary Kolker have the roles of the American composer-orchestra leader and the husband of Kay Francis, re- spectively. Hal LeRoy the sen- sational Broadway player plays the role of himself in a thrilling dance sequence; Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert play the two American tourists with Ruth Donnelly and Louise Fazenda as their wives, in important comedy and character roles. Robert Bar- rat has the part of the army officer who drives his auto over а cliff and

unconsciousciously covers up a murder. Fin d'Orsay and Merna Kennedy will be seen as the two flirtatious hostesses in the fashionable Parisian night club.

GENERALLY ACCLAIMED "WONDER BAR."th's unique musical proved an international sensation a few years ago. It played for months in all of -Europe's capitals and brought to this country as stage starring vehicle for Al Jolson. He took it on the road after a season in New York and no

was

A

production since "THE MIRACLE" has been so gene- rally and so generously welcomed. A few months ago First National acquired the screen rights to the production

and proceeded at

once to make extensive plans for its presentation as the great- est film spectacle of modern times.

considerably

It is said that the screen ver- sion of "WONDER BAR" returns to some extent to the European script which was altered for the American stage production. This increases the Importance of the roles played by the long list of stars assigned · to the picture.

Busby Berkeley creator of the musical numbers that featured "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933" "42nd STREET and "FOOT- LIGHT PARADE"· created and staged the special musical spec- tacles on a scale never belore attempted even in these previous successes.

Berkeley's ability for sen- sational departures from the ordinary in camera work has made screen history in the past year.

“WALTZ GOWN”

Worn By Dolores Del Rio

the

Dolores Del Rio illustrates new trend in evening frocks with two dance gowns of Orry-Kelly

the storezoom design in

First National, musical drama. are kept on tap.

"Wonder Bar," These were painstakingly wixed coming to the Alhambra on Sa-

turday.

into place on the same bare apple trees which had, the night before,

One is of palest green chiffon, a stood a foot deep in synthetic "Waltz Gown." Its brief train is

snow.

dotted with ostrich feathers, ex- Then a few days later Autumn tremely graceful in movement. Its was unloaded into sound stages, nude back is strikingly compli It consisted of hundreds of thou-mented by a bib front held in sands of dried and gally coloured place by a halter neck set with leaves.

the ostrich feathers. A long bon of plik tipped white ostrich winds around the shoulders and drops to the floor.

Due to certain production pro- blems and the vagaries of screen technicalities, Summer followed Autumn in the making of this

More spectacular because of the picture. But Summer was kept in black sequins from which it is sacks and boxes too, and when made, is a design called "Tango." the dried and coloured leaves of Miss Del Rio wears it while per- October had been carefully re-forming a dance number The sacked, flowers bloomed and the skirt flares widely from below the grass grew green on the slopes of hip line, and sways rhythmically the. Maine farms that figure in the picture.

Neither Jean Mu'r nor Donald Woods, the two youthful leads in "As the Earth. Turrns," which was adapted by Ernest Pascal from the best selling novel by Gladys Hasty Carroll, Had ever seen a set of studio seasons before and their amazement seemed to keep pace with the speed of the changes.

The story is an epic in the ro-

the movements of her dance. Once again, the nude back decolle tage is seen, but a demure note ts struck with a tiny reversible collar a white attached to the sequin

Deckband,

mance of American life and a re-. velation of the character of the New England tarmer. Alfred E Green directed.

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

SHOWING

TO DAY

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NEXT

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Together for the first time !!

ALSO LATEST CARTOON

Two great stars-giving two grand performances in the year's

loveliest romance |

CLARK GABLE CLAUDETTE

COLBERT

in

"It Happened One Night"

A with

Walter Connolly-Roscoe Karns From the Cosmopolitan Magazine Story by Samuel Hopkins Adams Screen play by ROBERT RISKIN A FRANK CAPRA Production

Made by the director who gava You

Lady For A Day

IMPRINT

AUTO SHOW

"SHE LEARNED ABOUT SAILORS"

WITH

LEW AYRES ALICE FAYE

"IT HAPPENED

ONE NIGHT”

Claudette Colbert As The Bride

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In spring the young maid'a fancy frequently turns to thoughts | of, wedding Kowns. Columbia's picture "It Happened One Night" starring Clark Gable and Claudetic Colbert is showing at the King's on Wednesday. In it there is a perfectly beautiful scene in which Claudette Colbert appears as the bride. It is an ideal springtime ceremony.

in & garden. The attendants include six bridesmaids, a maid of honour. and two tiny flower girls,

photographed

MOVIE

tr3

NEWS

Katharine Hepburn is to make another appearance on the Broad way stage (where she met with such

unfortunate reception recently in "The Lake.") The new plays "Dark Victory" and Miss Hepburn is already trying it out in the American provinces.

"

Sherman

2 throat

Lowell from

is suffering aliment which

gown is built up to a slight point in the front and the waistline 19 high. thus emphasizing the few gathers in the bodice where 11 is attached. The skirt fits like a sheath in the front,

with '& gradual widening to the bottom. The back of the skirt is afted to below the hips, then spreads into a long train

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A FOX PICTURE

will prevent him from both "ac- ting in and directing "The "Night Life of the God's," as previously

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

"It Happened One Night"

QUEEN'S

"Hollywood Party"

CENTRAL:-

"Half A Sinner"

ORIENTAL:-

"Sitting Pretty"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA:---

"As The Barth Turne"

MAJESTIC:~

"While New York Sleeps"

KING'S:-

Coming

"She Learned About Sailors”.

QUEEN'S:-

Tarzan And His Mate"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Wonder Bar"

STAR:-

"Queer Christina"

"You Can't Buy: Everything” ORIENTAL:-

"Wax Museum”

AT THE ORIENTAL

arranged. He will now direct Student Of Modern

only.

will

new

"Romance "of Moscow- probably be Anna; Sten's

picture (to take the place of the scrapped "Barbary Coast." Anna will appear as a modern Russian girl and the Boviet O.G.P.U. and various real-life characters will be featured.

•

Douglass Montgomery and He- len Hayes are to play in MGMIS forthcoming screen version of Hugh Walpole's "Vanessa."

·

Harold Lloyd is reported to be picture in England.

considering an offer to make a

Art

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SA

CE

IN

"WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS"

WITH

HELEN TWELVETREES.

AT THE QUEEN'S

"Hollywood Party"

Mickey Mouse," the cartoon, ac- In "The Mystery of the Wax tually with human actors; a great Museum," the Warner Brothers orchestra suspended in mid-sir; production which will be shown at huge glass sets in which beautiful the Oriental Theatre on Thursday, girls dance in cellophane gar A Friday and Saturday, the production stampeding a great Hollywood ers feel confident that they have party-these are just a few of the achieved something far of the sights, thrills and beaten paths of motion picture "Hollywood, Party," Metro-Gold- laughs th entertainment. It le calculated to wyn-Mayer's much heralded multi- startle

most sophisticated star entertainment having its final theatregoer, and stir the most showings to-day at the Queen's jaded palate.

Theatre... Even among chronicles of crime and mystery this picture strikes a distinctive new form of entertain

The new picture presents & new and radically different note. ment. Basically it is straight. Lovers of the unusual will find an drama, love romance and all. But eerie fascination in watching a injected into it, as a logical detall

the

Lionel Atwill is to co-star with Verree Teasdale and Ricardo Cor-gentle gifted but crippled Russian of the drama itself, are screaming tez in Warner's "Firebird."

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But that wedding gown! The material is satin the time honour- The tulle vell, is made into a ed fabric that WES worn for small cap that is worn far back generations. The bodice is cut on the head, leaving the forehead Empress style with the regulation and a bit of the hair uncovered. round neckline. A wreath of Gardenias are caught into the gardenlas edges the decolettage. veli, directly over each ear. Un- Cape sleeves

drape the upper like most brides, Miss Colbert arms and the long gloves meet does not carry a bridal bouquet Alan Mowbray in "The Night Life the sleeves The skirt of the but a white prayerbook instead. of the God's."

TO-DAY

ONLY

Florine McKinney's contract with M.G.M. has not been renew- ed so she has gone to Universal for the feminine lead opposite.

QULLN'S

AT 2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9.80

IT IS 100% ENTERTAINMENT!

HARD

a

sculptor struggling to create group of wax statues that will startle the world when his little

wax museum the public.

opens its doors to

cal spectacles, and other swift- comedy interludes, brilliant müs!-- moving incidentals that keep the picture at top speed continually. Then a series of strange inex-"Hello," by Rodgers and Bart

Among its lting song hits are plicable crimes throws the metro Jimmy Durante's comical Rein- polls into an uproar, the police carnation." by the same authors; and the press take up the hue-and-"I've Had My Moments," the love ery and a young newspapers wo- motif by Kahn and Donaldson; man finds herself called upon to "Hot Chocolate Boldlers," by Brown solve, single-banded. one of the and Freed, which embellishes a most baffling mysteries of modern

remarkably times.

clever Disney Bully Symphony introduced by Mickey Mouse, and "I'm Feelin' High," by Howard Diets and Walter Donald-

HOW TO KEEP HEALTHY

Behave Like Tarzan!

if you want to keep healthy climb a treel...........

Such has been the discovery of millions of youngsters in all parts

of the United States who have "taken to the trees", since-Johnny Weissmuller champion swimmer, scored his first big hit as "Tarzan. the Ape Man" followed by "Tarzan. and His Mate, his new picture opening to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre.fot

In many sections the tree climbers have organized themselves into "clujbe with dozens of mem-. bers. A recent survey in Pasadena, Cal, revealed 90 tree huts butit by young. Tarzan, fans. Denver, Colo, city officials found over 200 small structures built in trees during a recent civic clean-up week so popular has the Tarzan climbing" vogue become that one club formed by a gasoline company boasts more than 100,000 members In the United States.

Youngsters who have taken up the climbing fad have occasionally suffered bruises and scratches, but the majority have enjoyed bene- Actal exercise. Usually each hut is stocked with relles constructed by, youngsters 88 part of their Boy Scout training MBA

The new Welsamuller picture

ivan,

* which is expected to even increase interest Tarzan", among chil dren, is said to far surpass – the first feature in thrille and has cast including Maureen O'B Neil Hamilton, Paul Forrester Harvey and Doris Lloyd Cedric Gibbons, famous Metro. Goldwyn-Mayer set creato direct

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The new picture, a hundred per cent. pure entertainment, is topped by a thrill when a Hon stampedes. a gay Hollywood party and Jimmy Durante wrestles the beast.

Acting honours are divided be- tween Laurel and Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Williams, Jack Feark, Eddie Quil Polly Moran, Lupe Velez, Frances

lan, June Clyde, George Givot, Richard Carle and Ted Healy and his stooges.

ALHAMBRA

TOFATEE

TO-DAY TO FRIDAY

ear Muir

"WONDER BAR

The Worder Show of the Centur

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