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At The King's Theatre To-morrow

Scenes from "FINISHING SCHOOL" at the King's Theatre-Top to Bottam, Left Row: Adalyn Doyle, former stand in "girl for Katharine Hepburn who has been promoted to a role. ... Ginger Rogers and Frances Dee, the former as the insurgent student who leads the latter into a wid party.... Beulah Bondi as the prin- cipal rakes Frances Dee over the coals for her truancy and outside romance.... Frances Dee as the heiress who met her life's crisis In the supposed shelter of a swank institution of learning. Top to Bottom, Right Row-Ginger Rogers in one of her demure, moments, but planning mischief... Marjorie Lytell, New York stage player, who makes her screen debut in "Finishing School." Adalyn Doyle, Ginger Rogers. Frances Dee and Marjorie

Lyteli, "the Four Musketeers of Crockett Hall."

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"SON OF KONG”

Showing At The King's

"Son of Kong" showing at the King's Theatre, RKQ-Radio's plc- ture sequel to "King Kong” nas struck a stronger note of public appeal than its sensational pre- decessor. The new adventure spectacle Includes powerful romance between two of its human characters, and a menace monster that reveals a heart of gold.

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Many will remember the torrific punch of the original production, its terrific sequences and it's gigan- tic ape fascinated with a mortal girl,

According to Ernest B. Echoca- sack, who directed "King Kong " and who holds the same post for Son of Kong," the sequel, the terrors, dominating the first fan- tasy have been given a diferent application in the sequel, the plot

MOVIE NEWS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934.

TO-DAY ONLY

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&.9.30 P.M.

•KINGS?

The Twelve Foot Ape Befriended them On the Island of King Kong!

OFKON

SEE! The bats!

The earthquake!

To The sea serpent! The fighting monsters of

ROBERT ARMSTRONG HELEN MACK, FRANK REICHER, JOHN MARSTON VICTOR WONG, LEK KOHL- MAR, ED BRADY „. Dirani by ERNEST K. SCHOEDSACK MERIAN C. COOPER

“CHAINED"

Coming To The Queen's

RKO BADIO PICTURE

"HI, NELLIE!"

Coming To The Alhambra

Paul Muni, veteran of innumer- Sounding the modern note of intimacy and searching psycho-able. stage and screen successes logical reaction typical of the Noel

comes to the Alhambra Theatre Coward period, one of the most

to-morrow in his latest Warner Bros. picture, H1, Nellie!" Important pictures of the year that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer boasts of The story by Roy Chanslor a has a cast of only four major play newspaper man deals entirely with newspaper work and newspaper -characters In their contact with the outside world in the gathering of the sensational stories of the day.

era.

And while the cast of "Chained" is small, it is also potent. Clark Gable and Joan Crawford are co- Otto Kruger and starred, with

Stuart Erwin in support. The film comes on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre. There are other players of note on the official sheet, but the modern story deals primarily with these four,

tion than ever, is one of the most hillarious, as well as thrilling, dramas ever to be screened.

Muni'hes the role of a managing editor who is sentenced to write the Heart Throbe column because he has displeased the publisher. The manner in which he accepts his bitter pill, after writhing under Written especially for the screen the gibes of nia fellow workers, and and for the co-stars, as is the pre-works back into a stronger post sent trend, by Edgar Selwyn, noted director an producer, the photo. story picks up the life thread of a wealthy shipping magnate, Otto Kruger, and the girl with whom he is enamoured. Joan Crawford,

With no break in either physical or dramatic movement, it sweeps from the skyscraper to shipboard, where Joan meets and later falls In love with a young South Ameri-augh and Berton Churchill. can rancher, Clark Gable, who is returning with his friend, Stuart Erwin from a vacation in the States.

Quickly introduced, the charac- ters' lives, in Juxtaposition with one another, are followed against Eddie Cantor has finished his a constantly changing back-ground- latest comedy. "Kid Millions," and They are photographed in private will be in Enziand in time for its and in crowds, but no other char- opening there.

acters cross the main thread of the story.

Anti Harding will have Charles Laughton and Charles Boyer as her leading men in "Peacock Fea- „thers,” on which she is shortly to start work for an independent company,

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Jean Harlow has announced that she is thinking of adopting a baby. Her part in "Blonde" Bombshell" 'will have shown her how not to set about it.

Erich Von Stroheim is to play the lead in """The Crime of Dr.

Crespy." "The great Gabbo," in which he gave one of his finest performances, has recently been revived and released again.

Bon of Kong, becomes their friend

or which gets down to a more and bodyguard. The three of them, romantic. basis.

"Son of Kong." it is said, has more thrills but they are treated in a more sympathetic theme than in "King Kong."

"King Kong left, its real hero. Carl Denham, the explorer, hang- `ing in mid-air, so to speak, his. dreams of a fortune shattered by. Kong's reign of terror in New York "Son of Kong" carries on from

there.

the man, the maid and the ape, then go, side by side, in search of the buried treasure of a lost civilization, and together battle all the modern and pre-historic foes they encounter.

Robert Armstrong, who played the original Carl Denham, is again seen in that role, with Helen Mack playing the part of the girl, who becomes a stowaway on Denham's boat

Some thirty prominent players. including Frank Relcher, John Maraton, Victor Wong, Lee Kohl- mar and Ed Brady are in the cast, with direction by Ernest B. Bchoed.

" King Kong was conflict between heast and man, pre-historic mon- Eters and moderns; "Bon of Kong" Is the story of a union. The son of Kong, a gigantic white ape, is saved from death by Denham and Den- ham's sweetheart. In gratitude i sack.

Like the general treatment, the ending also bears the stamp of the

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FINISHING SCHOOL

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FRANCES DEE BILLIE BURKE GINGER ROGERS BRUCE CABOT JOHN HALLIDAY Directed by Wanda Tushook and George Nicholla, Jr. Merian C. Cooper, sxec. producer, Kenneth Macgewan, asto producer

RKO RADIO Picture

"AUNT SALLY"

At The Queen's To-day

Adapted by Tim Whelan from a story by Guy Bolton, Aunt Sally" ' which opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre, concerns the efforts of Sally Bird (Cicely Courtneldge) to get a part in the super cabaret of a new London night club to be

opened by Mike Kelly (Sam Hardy) an American night club king.

She falls to Impress the cabaret producer and is thrown out of the club, but undaunted. Sally returns and persuadés Mike Kelly to listen to a song. It is a failure in more sense than one and, she is forcibly ejected.

By & ruse Sally gets introduced to Kelly as a famous French ac- tress and she is engaged to star in the cabaret. Eventually, however,

is Sally herself who proves an enormous success.

The fun is fast and furious, and "the part of Bally gives Cicely Courtneldge every opportunity to entertain us with her comedy fool- ing delightful singing and expert dancing.

Glenda Farrell plays: opposite Muni in the role of a woman re- porter and the sweetheart of the managing editor. Others in the the Russian ballet cast include dancer, Kathryn Sergava, Robert The decor and spectacle was Barrat, Ned Sparks, Hobart Cavan-arranged by the well-known im- pressario, Edward Royce, and these scenes are claimed to be some of the finesh yet produced. Particu larly outstanding are the dance ensembles, for which the chorus were all carefully selected from The musical numbers, composed hundreds of applicants. by Barry Woods, are catchy and tuneful. They have already enjoy- ed considerable success and have recently been broadcast.

The story for a large part takes place in the city room of a great metropolitan paper which is said to be an exact replica of the local room of one of the New York dailles. Every detail of the aim is reputed to have been worked out in exact accordance with the practices generally followed by ac- tual newspapers and with the true press atmosphere.

Mervyn LeRoy directed the pic- ture from the screen play by Abem Finkel and Sidney Sutherland, the fatter two also being ex-news-

papermnen.

Tim Whelan, who directed, has cleverly combined spectacle and comedy and formed a first class background for Cicely Courtneidge. Her apache dance with a real live American gangster for a partner is riotously funny, ¡

modern Noel Coward influence. In one of the most dramatic moments of the story, the three discuss the

Sam Hardy, the well-knowzi decision which is to change the course of their personal lives, briefly but impressionably are Una American actor, plays the role of quietly over a

of morning O'Connor, Marjorie Gateson, Akin Mike Kelly and his forceful per- coffee.

Tamiron and Paul Porcasi. Ciar-sonality is a splendid foll to the

volatile Cicely. Other characters who appearence Brown directed.

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Coming

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MAJESTIC:-

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"Change of Heart"

"The Invisible Man"

ALHAMBRA:-

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"Mickey, House Silly-Sym- phony Programme”

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"Berkeley Square"

"Hell and Hign Water"

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MOVIE NEWS

After having received: a very the New fine receptiom from York critics, British and Do minious "Nell Gwym" was said to have been banned by the

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LONDON COSTERS

Annual Thanks- giving Service

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Oct. 17, The Church of St. Mary Magda- lene in Southwark was gay with... plumes and pearlles when the cos- ters of London came in their re-

marrows.

galia to make their annual thanks giving. The big, plain, shapely church, crammed to the doors with 700 or 800 people, was bright Cene Raymond has for some with chrysanthemums, Michacimas years been collectlong extensive daisies,and sheaves of com. In material for a screen life of Step- une corner stood a barrow piled hen Foster, the author of "Way high with enormous pumpkins and Down Upon the Swanee River,"

There was "a rather "Old Black Joe" "My Old Ken-touching sincerity, about the cos tucky Home," and "Oh, Susana”. ter's offerings. Theirs is not a He is now on the look-out for a formal bringing of pretty flowers producer who will make the pic- and bright fruits. They give the ture with himself in the leading things which they handle every rate.

day, and have no false sense of Incongruity in laying down packets. of sugar or shredded wheat among the grapes and apples. Many of them marched up the aislé bear-, ing huge loaves of bread two or three feet long, in their arms.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jun. and Gertrude Lawrence are to co-star in a film version of Murger's "Vie de Boheme." The picture will be Cirected for BLP, by Paul Stein-

When the pearly kings and Phillips Holmes is to play the

Queens had set down their- offer- leading role in the British Lion

ings and taken their places in the version o the successful play. "Tenenoir, where the bright coats shim- Minute ABI.” This will be his mered like mail in the half-light, first visit to England since be

the Vicar, Mr. A. W. Barker, con- Cambridge, in 1927. Bernhard went down from Trinity College.

ducted a remarkable service. One does not often hear a congregation Vorhaus-will direct.

sing as this one did, and one has never before, heard minister break off a series of prayers in or der to say, still kneeling, “Don't be afraid to sing the amen" When Mr, Jim Duckworth rose in his pearly coat to read the lesson he and Mr. Barker chaffed each other inconcernedly, but the lesson W25 grandly read.":

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Mary Pickford is planning to form AI American National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Washington. She hopes to Im clude George Arliss, Katherine Cornell, May Robson and herself among the directors.

-Bela Lugosi and Boris Karlor are about to have a feminine ad ditor to their "monster" ranks. The lady's highly peculiar name. in Majari Bojart, and she will make her first appearance with them in Dracula's Daughter.”

GVilbert Roland has been given. a contract by Fox, who intend to build him up as a big star Until racently he has been free-lancheg

Waltam Haines's coming picture; "Slim" is based on a novel by an author named William Wister Haines, Actor and author are not related

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MORRO CASTLE TRIAL

New York, Nov. Mr. William F. Warms, acting captain of the Morro Castle which was gutted by fire off the coast of New Jersey, on September 8, plead ed not guilty to five chari negligence when arra four other officers fore

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Parole Girl

RALPH BELLAMY MAE CLARKE

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