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CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY Daily 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30]

CHINESE PICTURE

"THE LOVE OF

FAIRYLAND'

WATCH FOR THE RETURN SHOW OF

"CIRCUS OF

HAGENBECK"

MOVIE NEWS

Allen Jenkin's 'contract has been renewed by Warners and he has been given an important part in "King of the Ritz" (which bas no connection with the Stan-. ley Lupino Alm of the same name.)

Heather Angel is now being considered as George Raft's lead- ing lady in Limehouse Nights." She will

thus replace Sylvia

Sidney,

Virg.nla Bruce who recently returned to the screen in Jane Eyre" following her divorce from John Gilbert, has been given the lead in "Dangerous Corner."

MURDER IN THE

PRIVATE CAR

At The Queen's

Theatre

Laughs and thrills, with 蟲 sprinkling of believable drama will unfold on the screen of the Queen's Theatre to-morrJW.

The picture is "Murder in the Private Car" latest product of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. The star is Charles Ruggles but the honours are about equally divided between Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hardie and some others of note. To say that is is one of Ruggles' best pictures to date is putting it mildly. To say that it is one of the most amusing and absorbing mystery comedies the screer ever has pro- duced is hitting much nearer the truth. It is a pleture that can be unhesitatingly recommended for the entire family.

Eerie situations arise constant- ly. A man is murdered. A glant gbrilla escaped from a wrecked circus train, swings aboard the car. In the night and adds to the terror, Hourly Miss Carlisle re- celves a nota warning that her end is near. Toward the climax, the rear car is uncoupled at the top of a steep mountain grade, and begins to roar backward down the hill out

Steel of control. shutters slide down from the roof, manipulated by an unseen hand, enclosing the occupants in an escape-proof corn. And from that moment, the comedy and thrills gain momentum like the rolling rocking car, and there's something doing every minute.

"Murder in the Rrivate Car" is entertainment of the better type. Those who like"heir movies with lots of action, plus thrills and laughs, should not miss it.

Warner Baxter and Rosemary Ames as they appear in "Such Women Are Dangerous," a Foz comedy-drama, combining ro- mance, spicy intrigus and tantalizing mystery.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1934.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT

(9.30, 5.10, 7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

KINO

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

HE TOLD Y WOMEN

ABOUT LOVE

And they all wanted him to PROVE

WARNER BAXTER

SUCH WOMEN DANGEROUS

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FOX MOVIETONE

NEWS"

AND

LATEST CARTOON 'GRAND UPROAR"

WONDER BAR

Smart-Looking Chorus Men

Who are Hollywood chorus wen-and why: Nobody seems to kuow, despite the fact that these. legions of forgotten

screen

play very important parts in the i success of lavish film musicals, and even out-aumber Hollywood's tamous chorines nearly two to one.

Whenever there is a prospective job they appear by hundreds. When the work is over they dis appear, not to be seen or heard from until a new musical picture starts. Where they live, what they de, what their hopes and ambitione are. no одо has knownL until 1ccently when the 110 of them who appear in "Wonder Bar", the lateat First National musical drama, now showing at the Al- hambra theatre, were pinned down to an exhaustive questionnaire.

The average age of a chorus man is 23 years, his height is 5 feet,

inches

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A FOX Picture

ROSEMARY AMES ROCHELLE HUDSON MONA BARRIE HERBERT MUNDIN

Rosemary Ames

station

attendants, soda-jerkers and he weighs 169 and salesmen. pounds, Of the 110 selected by Ninety-two of them are serious Busby Berkeley,. who created and about their work, while the re directed the gigantic ensemblesining minority do it for the for the picture, only 41 had ever adventure and thrill of being in aludied dancing with a career in the movies. After work 38 of view. The others had just picked them

return home to waiting

children.

it up.. mostly by necessity, and wives, and 18 of them, have managed to bluff themselves into jobs until they became proficient, Hollywood's male dancers hail from every state in the Union, ex- cept Florida, according to the representative group in "Wonder Far" The claim Alaska as their home, which might imply that it's too. hot in Florida, to dance, and tco cold in the Arctic not to.

"A Lady of Quality" which was SUCH WOMEN ARE When

made as a silent picture in 1932

is being rewritten to provide a vehicle for Margaret Sullivan.

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The Chinese Legation in Bolly- wood has passed the script of "The Painted Veil" which thus becomes the first picture with an Oriental background to receive official Chinese approval.

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Ten Minute Alibi" the play that ran for over sixteen months on the London stage la to be film- ed by British Lion who are also making a film of the B.B.C. fex- ture. "In Town To-night."

"Mississippi" the novel by Booth Tarkington, is to be made as a musical by Paramount. W, C. Fields will star supported by Lan- ny Ross,

Rochelle Hudson

DANGEROUS

At The King's Theatre

and

"Such Women Are Dangerous," a comedy-drama starring Warner Baxter, opens to-day at *the King's Theatre. The film com bines romance, intrigue mystery, and presents Baxter in a role that is ideally suited to his personality. Baxter finds himself the target of the love-making of three charming feminine stars. Rosemary Ames, Rochelle Hudson and Mona Barrie.

"Baxter as a handsome bache- lor-novelist is the admiration of nine million women readers, but three women are directly concern- ed with his private fe. One of them, his secretary, seeks to pro- tect him from the love of a young girl who aims to marry him, and also a married opera singer who

Is madly infatuated with him.

"The young girl commits suicide and the novelist la accused of the murder. It is reported that the humorous and exciting develop trents through which the navelist 13 extricated from this fortunate

situation provides

thoroughly amusing and interest

ing climax to the story

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The film was produced by Al Rockett and was directed by James Flood from the screen play by Jane Storm and Oscar M Sheridan

The chorus men are drawn from all social ranks, one being the son ot a governor of an eastern state.

not dancing before the cameras only 57 of them will do themselves into clerk, gasoline

TO-DAY.

ONLY

Despite the fact that they are working for First National, they don't list a feminine star on the lot among their favourites. Mae West and Helen Hayes split the honours. However, Jimmy Cagney gets first place among Hollywood's masculine stars.

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JAMES

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GINGER ROGERS

TARZAN AND HIS MATE

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Final Showing. To-day

Hollywood's newest imported picture star weighs 1,400 pounds! She is Daisy, one of the very few rhinoceroses in captivity, brought to Hollywood from Germany for her flim debut in the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer adventure feature. "Tarzan and Els Mate" having its final showings to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

Daisy was captured by natives in South Africa when she was one year old. For the past three years she was the big attraction at Carl Eugenbeck's Tier Park, at Stellingen, Hamburg.

For Johnny Weissmuller's new "Tarzan" picture, the script call- ed for a real rhinoceros, the most vicious of all African animals.

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A canvass of the leading zoos "end circuses was made but

rhinoceros was available in the United States. The search was Dalsy in Hagenbeck's Tier Park. extended to Europe and led to

The mighty Daisy was crated and all but wrapped in cellophane. for the long journey to M-G-M studios. En route, while on the water for thirty three days, she was attended by John Schildt, one of Hagenbeck's animal attendants, tor, directed the feature in which Cedric Gibbons, noted art direc- Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan are again seen in the romantic story of African adven- ture,

Only half of them hope to con- tinue as dancers, "others want to. play straight roles or else get some other job not connected with mo- tion pictures. The chorus - ranka to be able to sing better than the are merely an emergency measure common variety of bath-tub-tenour for them now. Ninety-six claim and 74 are musical.

QUEEN'S

TARZAN

AND HIS MATE

Tarzan mighty monarch of. the jungle returns to battle for his bride in the greatest thrill drams of all time

with de MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN NEIL HAMILTON PAUL CAVANAUGH:

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Tarzan And His Mato"

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"The Love Of Fairyland"

Chinese Picture)

ORIENTAL:-

"Heritage Of The Desert"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA;----

"Wonder BaTM*

MAJESTIC:-

"Hips Hips Hooray"

KING'S

Coming

"Change Of Heart" QUEEN'S :-

"Munder In The Private Car

THE WORLD CHANGES

Jean Muir's Career

From assistant stage manager to actress on the New York stage, and then to Hollywood, is the cir- cuitous route travelled by Jean Muir who appears in her first im- portant picture role with Paul Muni in "The World Changes," a Warner Bros First National pro- duction, coming to the Alhambra theatre to-morrow...

Jean might be called a cross be tween Garbo and La Bennett. Only, however, in size and colour- Ing. Of course, she isn't a bit like either of them. She is, how- ever, blonde, tall and slender, with blue eyes. There the re semblance ends

Jean Muir is fresh and wholly unsophisticated. But she is not precisely naive. She has travell ed in England and Europe. She has played in London and New York. She speaks French like a native and she has understudied Katherine Cornell.

She likes to stalk about in wet weather, letting the rain make rivulets down her face. Although her mother was a tennis cham- 'poin and her father was a golf champion, the only outdoor sport in which Jean inluiges is swim- ming.

Promise of big things that are expected by Warner studio execu tives of this actress may be see in the performance she gives fa "The World Changes" in which she appears in not only her own role but that of her granddaugh- ter at the same age as well

The picture' is a powerful épic of American life covering four generations from the founding of the family home in Dakota through its migration to Chicago, then on to New York and back to the farm..."

There is a powerful cast which includes besides the star and Miss Muir, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook Patricia. Ellis, Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee and many others Mervyn Lo Roy-directed the picture from the screen play by Edward Chodorov, based on the novel by Sheridan Gibney.

SCOTTISH-AMERICAN WAR MEMORIAL

(Special Air Mail Special;

Edinburgh, Sept. 7.

· Mr. David Kinley, LL.D., Presi- dent-Emeritus of the University of Illinois, has arrived in Edinburgh to take part in the seventh annf- versary of the unveiling of the Beottish-American.... war memorial on Friday. Dr. Kinley is a native of Dundee, who went to the United States as a boy, and he will give the principal address Professor H, Rushton Fairclough of Stanford University, California, a Canadian Scot, will also be present and give a brief address. The devotional part of the serv will be conducted by the Rev. James Lumsden, Ratho of, the Edinburgh Pres

the Church of Scotland,

Rev. Professor Hugh

who gave, the address at the anniversary two years ag

dersons will represent

the city in the absence of the Lord

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IR WOOLSEY

BERT and ROBERT (the cuckoos) dumb-crack their way to glory while the nation

cheers

HIPS HIPS• HOORAY

With Ruth Etting Thelma Todd Dorothy Lee

Janet Gaynor, who appears in

Change of Heart"

ALHAMBRA

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