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THEATRE

COMMENCING TO-MORROW 15TH THURSDAY

HIGH SOCIETY WASNT TOO HIGH FOR THIS CHORUS GIRL

COLLEEN MOORE Social

Register

IT IS THE FIRST

RELEASE IN HONG KONG.

STRAIGHT IS THE WAY

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CHAINED

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Coming To The Queen's

Drama

interest

pathos human and a fair sprinkling

of humour-all these are to be

in found

the

picture. Lew Straight is the Way" opening to morrow at the Queen's Theatre.

At The Queen's

the

If you want an evening of royal entertainment hurry .to Queen's Theatre where Joan Craw. ford and Clark Gable's new co- starring vehicle is having its Bral showings to-day.

It is titled "Chained" and "was, directed by Clarence Brown, who

gave us "Sadie McKee." Joan's

last.

"Mounted in lavish 'Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer style, beautifully

It is a story that requires the photographed and replete with a services of finished actors, for

drama of

the Is the gripping travails of one of New York's East Bide families-and of the problems of life and love that entangle a returned ex-convict who is deter- mined to keep to the straight and narrow path

Franchot Tone tops the cast with his portrayal of Benny, the boy just out of prison. It is an entirely new characterization for Tone, one proving his ability to handle difficult dramatic. roles, 2 notch and should boost, him higher toward,stardom.

as the aging May Robson, mother who fears the return of her boy to his old habits, gives a performance equalled only by her work in "Lady for a Day.**

Gladys George, recently of the New York stage, makes her screen debut as Shirley the girl who tries back Benny's but Ins, to win love. She brings a new type of "ramp" to the screen and we pre- dict bigger things for her.

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Karen Marley. after a too-long absence from pictures, makes triumphant return as Bertha, the girl who has been faithful to Benny through his long imprison- ment.

Other good performances sre contributed by Jack LaRue, C. Henry, Gordon, and William Bake- well.

F.M.Ş. GOVERNMENT'S RELIEF MEASURE

In order to afford a measure of relief to the coconut industry, the Federated Malay States Govern- ment has decided to grant in or estates respect of coconut small-holdings, planted wholly or predominantly with coconuts, a '50 per cent. additional waiver of iand rent in 1934.

The effect of this 'concession, in the case of lands exceeding 10 acres in area, is that:-

(a) the rent on planted areas al- ready enjoying the rebate for land cultivated with coconuts under the Land Rules and paying $2 an acre will be re- duced to $1 an acre;

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1934.

TO-DAY ONLY

AT

[2.80.5.10.7.16

& 9.30 P.M.

KINGS

HE BROKE THE SWORD OF NAPOLEON

WITH A STROKE OF HIS PEN! -

That a father's dying wish - mother's trusi -four brothers loyaly-might be fulfilled"

series of well-knit, fast-moving "GRAND CANARY"

scenes. It is one of the best pic- cures to be offered in many month.

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Clark Gable plays the kind of Coming To The

A

role the public has been clamour- ing for, that of a young rancher

And In South America. modern New Yorker girl who falls In love with him; Joan Crawford gives one of the £nest per- formances of her vivid career,

by Edgar Selwyr. especially for the screen, and adapted by John Lee Manin, "Chained" is a vibrant, powerful

Written

drama of modern morals.

manners

and

King's

Tense drama, enacted amid set- tings of vivid beauty!

This, advance reports declare, describes "Grand Canary," Jessä for to the

Lasky's latest production Fox Film, which "-- comes

King's Theatre, on Thursday.. In the stellar Warner Baxter. while opposite him. w be seen' Madge Evans, who also was his screen sweetheart in "Stand Up And Cheer."

The supporting cast is equally good, with Otto Kruger as the gentlemanly Mr. Field, Marjorie Gateson as his wife, Stuart Erwin as Johnnie, Gable's irreverent friend, and Una O'Connor as Amy, Joan Crawford's sympathetic com-It was filmed

panton.

Diane (Joan Crawford) is the girl" to whom Field has been de- voted.

When his wife refuses to divorce. him, Field urges Diane to take an ocean voyage to forget her disappointment. On the boat she meets Mike (Clark Gable) and falls in love in spite of herself. A day on his South American ranch convinces her there is no one else in fe for her.

She returns to explain to Field, but finds he has obtained the

divorce.

"Grand Canary" was produces from the recent best-selling novel of the same name, by A. J. Cronin.

against authenti-

cally reproduced backgrounds of Grand Canary, one of the ploture- sque Spanish-controlled Canary Islands, and the settings are raid to strike a new note fra exotic beauty.

$

The Cronin novel was especially purchased by Lasky as a Baxter starring vehicle late last year and has since been adapted by Ernest Fascal in conference with Irving Cummings, who directed.

The picture takes its title, from the setting on one of the Canary

JOSEPH M. SCHANCE ****ağlı

GEORGE ARLISS

in the DARRYL F. ZANUCK production

THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD

BORIS KARLOFF

LORETTA YOUNG

ROBERT YOUNG HELEN WESTLEY

WRITER ANNU

ALSO WALT DISNEY'S

.** GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS

A HILLY SEMPIONE

EX THCHNICOLOUR

BOORING AT THE THEATRE TEL No. 25313 25932

·TO-MORROW

Warner BAXTER

in

A Jesse L Lasky Productan

GRAND CANARY

A FOX Picture

with

MADGE

EVANS

Things look dark for Dolores Del Rio in this scene from Madame Du Barry," Warner Bros intimate tale of the famous courtesan's life.. The gentleman with the quizzical expression is King Louis XV. Well,^/ we'll let you in on a secret... he's really Reginald "Owen, who plays

the part in this film, coming to the Alhambra Theatre

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QUICK SERVICE, DRESS

SALONS

An unusually brilliant autumn programme will mean that every- опе connected with the social To save him suffering. Islands, the action of the story uk cuts use next few weeks. round must. put in much overtime

they arc married. She meets bringing together the, characters Mike a year later in New York on the Spanish Isle during the and in an effort to stifle her love yellow fever epidemite. Baxter's for him, rushes with her husband role is that of a doctor who is to their Lake Placid cabin What cast by coincidence in the midst happens when. Mike follows must of two epidemics, one love, the

other yellow fever. be seen to be appreciated.

"Chained" is a great picture, sure to bring new laurels to this famous team.

FILM STAR'S DIVORCE

Gloria Swanson's Fourth

Los Angeles, Nov. 7! Miss Gloria Swanson was to day awarded a divorce her fourth-from Mr. Michael Farmer, Iriah aportsman

screen star accused her husband of

(b) unplanted areas will also pay on grounds of extreme cruelty. The

$1 per acre only.

In the case of lands not exceed-nagging." His quarrelsome habits ing 10 acres in area, the effect of made her extremely upset" and inter-

the concession, will be to reduce fered with her movie work, Miss

the rent, which is in the majority

..

Swanson testified. He repeatedly found fault with her and her frienda

of cases less than $2 per acre, by and on many occasions quarrelled half...

with her throughout the night," she alleged.

Reduced By Halt

The couple were married in West- chester County, NY, on August 10, Applications for this concesalon 1931, before the screen actress divorce should be made to the Collector from her third busband, the Marquise of Land Revenue of the district in Heari de la Falaise de la Condray, was final. As a result, a second wedding which the land is situated. The question of the eligibility of ap-ceremony was performed at Yuma,

Ariz, on November 9 of the same year. plicants for the concession is a Miss Swanson attained stardom matter for the discretion of the from a humble start as a bathing State authorities.

In cases where rent has already been paid for the current year.

beauty.

Her first husband was Mr. Wallace Beery, whom she divorced. She later married and divorced-the late Mr. any excess of payment as a result H. K. Bombon, Los Angeles cale opera- of the grant of the waiver will be tor. Her third husband, the Marquis, carried forward as a credit to now is the husband of Miss Constance

Bennett, soreen star. 1935.

Recent rumour has linked: Miss

In the event of rent not being swanson's name with that of Mr. paid by December 31, 1934, the ar- Herbert Marshall, the English actor, rears will be carried forward at but both have denied being any more the full rate.

than friends.

art, dancing and singing are more necessary, they feel, just now, if they are to play their parts in the Not So Little Season.

Dress experts have, to meet a new need for quick service shops. now that boatesses are so busy, and a new development. in the

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

"The, House of Rothschild"

QUEEN'S

"Chained"

ORIENTAL:-

"Headline Shooter"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA:~~

"Lily Turner"

MAJESTIC:

"Poor Rich"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Grand Canary"

QUEEN'S:-

"Death Takes A Holiday"

ORIENTAL:----

"The Working Man"

Tarzan and His Mate" "Men in White"

ALHAMBRA¦—

#20 Million Sweethearts"

One at a Time

A youth, about 14 years of age, en- tered a grocery store one morning.. "Give me a package of pancake four," he ordered, in the heavy baritone voice which he was just starting to acquire."

The clerk turned to the shelves, when the young man thought of something else. “And a can: of corn," he added, in a shrill fal- setta valce.

"

"One at a time," said the clerk. "T Can't wait on both of you 'at once."

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heart-beat story of the menwhoscoop the screen!

RALPH BELLAMY- – JACK LA RUE

GREGORY RATOFF, WALLACE FORD, ROBERT BENCHLET

dress world had been the recent "LILLY TURNER" role opposite the star, with Guy

who wants a new dress but has no time forfitting. Not to be "out-

As there is to be an extra number. Opening of a salon for the woman of charity functions, debutantes, for the time being, are turning their attention from those dress-making and cooking courses which their sisters attended in large groups last season. Classes in dramatic

moded, an enterprising restaurant

in the heart of the West-End is making a special point of catering for society's busiest men and wo- Miss Rambeau in playing the

men. A well-mapped out series of comedy role of. Mother Heiningway,

dress parades is held here, each noon, between the hors d'oeuveres matron of a Santa Cruz hotel of

and the fish. Bo we can acquaint questionable repute, is returning to Fox Film studios for her second | signment."

ourselves with the latest fashions Her role in Lasky productions.

Others in the cast include Zita and, perhaps choose our winter other role was as the queen in Johann, Roger Imhof, H. B. Warn-wardrobes, without wasting a mó "Warrior's Husband," a perfcrmer, and Barry Norton

ment of valuable time!

TO-DAY

ONLY

ance that earried her present as-

PULLN'S

AT 2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9:30

P.M.

banCRAWFORD Clark GABLE CHAINED

OTTO KRUGER, STUART ERWIN A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pleture

The soreen's perfect lovers in love again 1 The grandest thrill the acrean can give- When Clark takes lovely Joan in his arms!

Showing At The Alhambra To-day

the

Clothes

may still make woman, according to the ancient proverb, but rich and costly gowns will have nothing to do with the success of Ruth Chatterton in First "Lilly. Turner," her latest National picture, which opens to day at the Alhambra

Miss

Chatterton has always been conspicuous for the smart- ness and elegance of her costtimes. but there is neither smartness nor elegance in anything she is called

this upon to wear in

amazing drama, of a travelling raedicine show performer.

with but one exception, the star never wears, a gown that., could be called chic or fashion- able The single exception is the wedding dress she wears when she is married to a supposed matinee Idol, at the beginning of "Ly Turner's" story.

The most sensational features of Miss Chatterton's wardrobe are the costumes of pink tights and Himsy draperies she wears as an oriental dancer, and the brief, re-

vealing attire in which she de- monstrated to her small-town audiences the virtues of "Doctor McChil's Marvelous Reducing Formúla,

These costumes are, to say the least, a startling departure for Miss Chatterton, and will doubt- less surprise her followers as much as the uncompromisingly realistic manner in which she sets forth the character of Lilly Turner.

George Brent has the leading

Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Marjorie Rüth Gateson, Robert Barrat, Donnelly,"Grant Mitchell and Gordon Westcott in important coles.

The picture is an adaptation of the play by Philip Danning" and George Abbott, with William A. Wellmán as the director: The adaptation for the screen is the work" of Gene Kathryn Scola.

Markey and

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