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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 26, 1934.

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MOVIE NEWSTM

Dr. Eugene Frenke, Anna Sten's

husband has sold Universa!

story called "Life Returris."

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they decide to make the picture, Universal will probably invite Frenke to direct it.

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Douglas MacLean himself

produce exfilm comedian is to "People Will Talk" the next Boland Charlle Ruggles-Mary co-starring picture for Paja- mount.

Carl Brisson will probably be directed in his next picture by Ernst Lubitsch. The aim is ten- tatively titled "All The King's Horses."

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Practically all the leading Hollywood production companies their now refusing to let stars broadcast. They maintain that the radio competes with the cinema to the detriment of the latter.

Margaret Sullivan has return- ed to Hollywood on conclusion of her holiday and is preparing for for her next Universal, picture

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Eric Rhodes and Eric Blore have been given parts in Fred Astair new picture "Gay Divorce" BOLL appeared with him in the London stage verisian.

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Kay Francis Thinks Women

Dress Best

BY FOLLOWING INSTINCTS

Instinct is a woman's best guide in buying clothes, according to Kay Francis, admittedly the best screen. on the dressed actress

"Never buy anything unless you are positive t fits your type." is her advice to women who would. be smartly dressed: "I have a few rules about what I wear and what I will not wear, but as soon as I I put on a dress, I know instine- tively whether it is "my dress" or not." She adds a note of cau- tion to women whose "instinct" may be for 'bizarre raithent.

"Never attempt the exotle,"

"Fantastic. she says.

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attract attention.

but if you wish to be called truly smart It isn't the kind of atten- tion you want."

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Miss Francis personally" super- vised the selection and the making of the "striking costumes she wears in her latest First National picture. "Mandalay," coming soon to the Alhambra Theatre. Others. in the cast include Ricardo, Cor- tez. Warner Oland. Lyle Talbot and Ruth Donnelly. The picture. based on the story by Paul Her- vey Fox, is a thrilling and colour- ful drama of the Orient and con- cerns the adventures of a beauti- ful Russian exile sold into virtual slavery to a resort, keeper. Michael Curtiz directed this picture.

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Britain Starts To Invade Hollywood

Invasion of British films cau- ses a ripple of excitement in the in Coup actor-writer-agent. Hollywood but leaves no discer- n'ble trace on the smooth pro- duedon pool's surface.

Underneath there must be a lot of conflicting currents but the Hollywood end of the game puta all expression of opinion on the subject up to the New York end on the grounds that, it is a "dis- tribution" problem and not, a "production" one.

Production problems have. loomed so large with censorship and other dimculties that Holly- wood's attitude is understand- able. It is the first chance the West Coast, group has had to shift" some of the picture-making, rea- ponsibility on to the East Coast

- TREMENDOUS: PRESTIGE. Practically every actor out of Hollywood who has enjoyed a Continental Vacation or a Bri- remained tish Isles vist has long enough to make a picture. on completion of her next pictureEven when there has not beeh

her

Elissa Landi has lost a law-sult brought against her by agents, to whom the Los Angeles court bas ordered her to pay £1,500 commission,

Pat Paterson is rejoining her husband Charles Boyer, in France

"Lottery Lover Boyer left Fox after a disagreement over which

parts he should play", "

Max Baer has been given

much money gain for the actor

is up against a double tax pro blent under such conditions and the take not so large in the long run there is tremendous

contract by Paramount guaran-addition of prestige." teeing him £2,000 per week for Ave weeks,

Binnte Barnes is returning temporarily from Hollywood owing Tito" passport gimtulties.

Now, with British-Gaumont in- vading Hollywood ranks, even if Hollywood writers and actors do not want to make the change to the Isles, there is the possibility of running ap their already high more dizzying figure. The rest of considers the Hollywood salary: between a horror and“

She will go back to America as palaries to a shot the world":"

soon as the frouble is straighten- ed outl

Gertrude Lawrence and Doug- las Fairbanks Jun, are planning to appear together in a play writ ten specially for them by Clemence Dane. The play will be staged first in London and then on "Broadway.'.

a hour. But try to sell that idea

4 WORTHY ENEMY Awriter who has an alterna tive of stribbjúgs out of London can always push the loca figure

a little higher, and a star-man or woman-can cause tremors of uncertainty to fill the producing .hearby here consideration of a division of tiine between America and-Englimi:A

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There is always the danger that the star's personality may: home, crystallise away from Heretofore the British films have got had sufficient financial pre- stige to be a worthy enem. But the situation is changed with the determination of our English bro- thers to make, in future, a pro- Mudt which will be equally enjoy- able ether América of England. "'The inost serious","angle of the problem is the matter of good taste: The British have managed to use many of the situations which have becometiónemriverin our pictures and/get-away riwith them because the subject matter has not been treated offensively.

BRUCE CABOT ONE OF FIRST ARISTOCRATS TO WIN MOTION PICTURE SUCCESS

Bruce Cabot is just three years ahead of one of Hollywood's cur- rent fads. For it's all the rage to-day for scions of blueblooded familles and society debutantes to try to get into the movies; and same of them appear to be in a fair way to succeed.

Cabot, however, has the jump on them all, and be not only won his first screen chance with- out mentioning his distinguish- ed family, but he changed his name for Dim purposes.

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The husky six-footer, currently appearing with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason in RKO Radio Pictures' comedy-mystery thril- ler, "Murder on the Blackboard,'

used to answer to the name of Jacques de Bujac. His family .. has been socially prominent for generations. A grandfather was French ambassador to the Unit ed States, and one of his uncles 13 Herman Harjes, or the Mor- gan. Harjes Bank in Paris.

hts Alm Jacques-Bruce to fans was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and educated at the New Mexico Military Academy and the University of the South, in Tennessee. During summer va cations, he earned his first money by working as a cowpuncher on a New Mexico ranch.

Conventional training struck the young student as being too tame, and he set out to follow trail. Cutting the adventure loose from family support, he worked his way to Europe as deckhand on a freight steamer, and vagabonded his way about the continent.

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Returning to America by the same method he had taken in

WALLACE BEERY AS A GREAT LOVER

Can you imagine Wallace Beery strumining a guitar by the light of a silvery tropical moon?

And singing a sentimental love

song?

Or being such a lady-killer that all the women fall for him on sight?

He plays such a character for the first time in his life in VIVA VILLA, com'ng to the Queen's theatre, shortly Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's spectacular story of the tempestuous life, and robust loves of Pancho Villa, the Mexican war lord?

For VIVA VILLA, despite its war-like title and the fact that it is the story of a great revolution- ary leader, isn't all battles and sudden death..

David O. Selznick, executive producer, said, explaining this phenomenonat markosnin

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a long time "We hesitated about making the life of Villa, even in a romanticized form. In common with most people, we believed that Vila was a man of Iron: á steely-hearted War-lord Without much sentimentä

"As we progressed in our re- search work, however, we were astonished to discover that Villa had a lighter side. And like most great wartbre, he was also

thing of a great lover.

We forma authentic records. of his marriages, for it appears that he enjoyed being married. We even interviewed two of his widows, who are still living in Mexico and why toidus authen- tic stories of his romantic con- que se for PN 2.

PERIPATETIC - ACTORS ́ ́. Hollywood, beleaguered and routed by censorship attacks, is throwing out, wholesale, all stories with adult plots or situathto the picture VIVA „VILLA. tions that are not worthy of Louisa Alcott, Et land trained to handle adult situations taste fully will have the edge on us in this matter.

So far as actor standards are concerned, the per patetie actor is the one who keeps most fresh- ness in his work and more ver satility in interprétations. -cAltafstandshavet afternated be tween the New York stage and Hollywood studios, as in the cases. of Helen Hayes and Walter Hus- ton, or between the motion:

tures of Hollyweds, and, the Hab slave and screen cases of Leslie Howard and Char- les Laughton, are cert better performances bound by the route Oakforniat

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we have woven the stories of villa's experiences is love. They provide an immuabg glimpse of the greatest gured in the pre- war kranen ed. Viz

Katherine. DeMille and Fay Wray are the objects, too-one, In particular, to whom he strums a guitar and sings a jove-song as Broop train thunders through the fight toward a battle that tl be fought on the morrow. BA

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Beery, in the first romantic role of his screen career, is expected

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going abroad, he worked for tima in the western of fields. Then he got a job as "sperring. partner for a professional boxer, bat lost it when he made the mistake of knocking out his boss.

After three months as an actor with the Goodman Theatre stock company in Chicago, he went to Hollywood and acquired part in- terest in a night club, adding to his other duties that of bouncer.,

Proximity to the studios arous- ed ambitions of a screen, career. He applied at the RKO Radio studios and was given the job of appearing opposite" film-ambit- ous beauties in screen tests. So well did he show up in these tests that he was placed under con- tract as a featured player.

As Jacques de Bujac, for all its aristocracy, was considered a dif- Acylt name for film fans to re- to was advised member, he chance it. The name Bruce Ca- bot, which he has been successful in placing and keeping in theatre lights, was chosen.

Cabot's first screen role was that of the villain in "Roadhouse Murder." In "King Kong" he played the hero role and rode to Teal fame with what was DC- claimed as an outstanding per formance. Then followed, “Mid- shipman Jack,". "Ann Vickers" and "Finishing School"

He has shown a marked ver- satility, switching back and forth between sympathetic and menace“ roles, and he doesn't care which he plays. All he asks is to be kept busy and given good strong parts, regardless of whether they are the sort audiences cheer or hiss.

"CHANGE OF HEART"

Coming To The King's

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It took real courage to cast Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in "Seventh Heaven" when they were. virtually unknown. But the claim with which they were greet- ed richly justified Winfield Shee- han, vice-president and general manager of Fox Film production, in giving them their great roles Even he, however, could not fore- see their future co-star popular- ity, which has carried them into their twelfth picture together, "Change of Heart" coming to the King's Theatre, on Saturday.

After "Seventh Heaven' came "Street Angel" and, later, "Sunny Side Up still remembered as the greatest of comedies with music. logically woven into the story.... More recently they played to- gether in Délicious and The First Year" total of eleven pics tures since their meteoric rise to fame.

Then followed a lull of eighteen months with no Gaynor-Farrell picture. The first few months it. was assumed that one would be along soon. Then letters began pouring in, first from America, them from remote parts of the world, inquiring when Gaynor and Farrell would appear together again, Ashe interval Hengthened. the letters Increased.

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TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME

Broadcast by Z.B.W. on 355 Metres

WEDNESDAY

1-2.15 p.mEuropean Programme, 1 p.m.-Local Time and Weather

Report..

1.03 pm-Recorded Music. 1.15 pm-A Relay of the Hong

Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill

Room

(by courtesy of the Management).

1.30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins,

Rugby Press News, etc., 2:15 pin-Close Down," 4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.

6-6.15 pm-Children's

Concerta

Studio

7-10.40 pm-European Program-

pm-tondon and New York. Stock and Commodity Quota- ..tions.

7.05-7.38 pm Concerto in A Mizor, Op. 18 (Greg) played by Arthur de Greet (Piano-" forte) and the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon Ronald,

1st Movement Allegra molto

moderato.

2nd-Movement Adagio,

3. Dance of the Marionette

(Winternitz). $-9.15 B. From the studio.

A Talk on "Yachting Breezes” by Commodore Frank Elliott. 9.15-9.30 p.Band Selections

Reminiscences of Scotland (arr.

Godfrey)The Band of H.M.. Coldstream Guards, Songs of Wales-The Regimental Band of HM. Grenadier Guards.

9.30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins,

London 1

and p.m. Stock Commodity Quotations 9.35-9.50 pm-A Jazz Piano Re--

cital by Rale da Costa;

1. Just by your Example.

from

2. Ridin' around in the Rain. 3. Music in the Air-Medley. 4. Dancing Batterdy. .9.50-10.30 pm.A relay

Daventry. (should reception. prove satisfactory. "The New Cunarder 534." The Speech of HM the King in reply to an address of welcome by Sir Percy Bates (Chair- man of the Chunard-White Star Company.j

3rd Movement Allegro moder figto molto é marmONTENT

Orchestral 7.38-8 pm--Light

Music

At Dawning (Cadman). The Waltzing Doll (Poldint)-- New Light Symphony Or chestra.

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Turkish Patrol (arr. Lloyd). The Forge in the Forest (arr. Lloyd)---The London Palla-

dium Orchestra. Vienna by Night (Komzak)- Marek Weber and His Orthes

・tra.

8 pm-Local Time and Weather"

Report.

8.03-8.30 p.m.-From the Studio, Selections by the "Music Makers" 8.30-8.50 p. From the Studio,

The 3rd of a series of talks 'on "Safety First and Sanity Becond" by The Rev. Father G. Byrne. 8.50-9. pur-Violin Solos by Fritz

Krekler.

1. Rondine (ona Theme by

Beethoven)-(Kreisler),.............

2. Polichinelle Serenade (Kreis-

directing the pictare under Mr. prominent roles John Blystone is Sheehan's personal supervision, Sonya Levian and James Gleason wrote the screen play from Mrs. Norris: -novel

There had been no doubt that this was the most popular roman bead the supporting cast, with tle team in motion pictures. But Beryl. Mercer, Gustave von Seyffor- It soon became apparent that the titz, Irene Franklin, Fike O'Hara phrase "America's Sweethearts" and other well-known actors in

the "World's Sweethearts.” | was entirely inadequate. They're Under the circumstances, their first co-starring vehicle after their separation takes on an added im portance. Mr. Sheehan determin ed to make it a picture utterly. different from any that these two had done before. He determined to present a new, grown up Janet Gaynor a vivid, vital, real-life berone in a love story with Char-years ago. les Farrell that would embody the most poignant emotions of the and romance as really lived to- day.

After searching through hun- dreds of stories, the perfect ro- mance was found in Kathleen Norris "Manhatten Love Song."" to be brought to the screen as "Change of Heart." It's a romance of modern youth, finding love and in a skyscraper world. romance Into it Kathleen Norris has writ ten many of her own experiences. It is real life dramaes.

James Dunn and Ginger Rogers

May Robson is to star "The Old Nest" for MGM. This pic- ture was made as a silent some.

Joseph Schmidt the "pocket tenor who recently completed "My Son Goes Round the World" for BLP. a returning to England later in the year to make a nim with a gipsy background.

Erich Von Stroheim is confes- sing that he changed his original name Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall, after paying a a numberologist. Ap- parently rich" is luckier as well

The Naming Ceremony perform-

ed by HM the QueenA Running Commentary on the Ceremony by Mr. George Blake will be relayed from MessTA, John Brown and Co.'s Yard, Clydebank, Glasgow." 10.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins,

Rugby Mid-day Press News. Further London Stock and Commodity Quotations follow- ed by New York Opening Que.

10.40 pmClose Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMME 9.45 p.m.. Time 'Signal from Big

Ben News Bulletin.

9.50 p.m., The New Cunarder: ad- dress of welcome to Els Ma- jesty the King by Sir Percy. Bates, Chairman of the Cunard Company: a speech by His Majesty the King: a running commentary on the Ceremony by Mr. George Blake. 11.30 p.m., News Bulletin (con-

tinued)

10.40: · D.m The Bournemouth

Municipal Orchestra, conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey, relayed from the Pavillon, Bourne mouth.

11 p.m.. Dance muste. a program- me of gramophone records. 11.30 p.m., Living Dangerously

With the North West Mounted, 2 tail by Mr. Lioner Bent. 11.45 bim, Eme: Vignal from Greenwich. The John Mac- Arthur Quintet, directed by ... John MacArthur, 12.15 am, Concert-by the Grimei

by C. H, Mercer, from Leeds. thorpe Brass Band, conducted

2.15-1.45 am, Reginald Dixon at 1a.m., News Bulletin **

the organ of the Tower Ball- room. Blackpool.

„BERLIN PROGRAMME

9. p.m., Dja Announcement (Ger-

man English) German Folk Song Programme Forecast (German,

**; ***English

9.15 p.m. A short Musical

gramma

Pro-

9.30 p.m. Aeroplane and Airship

Dr. Heinz Orlovius 9.45 p.m., News Bulletin (English) 10 p.m., Symphony Concert

Soloist Friedrich Rolf Albes 11.15 p.m. News Bulletin (German) 11.30 pm Field and Harvest, A

radio play by Heinrich Behnc ken

12.15 am News Bulletin (English 12.15 am. Dia close down (Cer-

man English)...

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