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“JUST SMITH”

At The Star

In his new picture, "Just Saith," Tom Walls takes us aboard a yacat to further his plans. Althougli

something of a man of mystery by his ingratiating manner he is

HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS

At The Alhambra To-day

"Hollywood Speaks, shailed as a

closeup of the glamorous life of the movie..colony, will come to the Alhambra Theatre to-day.

received into, if not heartily wel-powerful dramatic story giving a comed by "society. "To himself and his friend Mortimer he is a crook. high-class, Toney." but still a croo's. Hoodwinking dear

Genevieve Tobin, who scored such Mrs. Linkley, lady in love with

a hit in Maurice Chevalier's "One "titles" and all the tinsel Implies. Hour With You," plays the leading he entertaina her and titled role in this Columbia production party aboard Mortimer's yacht. In which shows the rise of a young this way he secures an invitation girl from obscurity to stardom. to the lady's country home where Pat O'Brion, the breezy young

a jewel tobbery occurs, the policeman who appeared in such good called in everybody suspected and advantage in "The Front Page all cleared, if not cleared, up.

and other films, has the role of

This is the mere skeleton of the the movie columnist who fighta comedy, written by Frederick Lons-her battles. Lucien Prival, Raif

dule and staged as "Never Back," which Gaumont-British and have adapted to the screen Tom Walls, playing the title role directed,

Rita Come Harolde,

La Roy, "Loai Stengel and Anderson Lawlor com price the rest of an excellent cast

Of all the pictures dealing with Hollywood, this is said to be the first treating the subject in ja realistic and dramatic manner. It is described as a characteristic story of an ambitious girl's strug gles to reach the top of moviedom, and how, for the sake of the man she loves, she throws it all to the winds,

Smith is a character very much within the orbit of Tom Walls, and he makes that very present- able gentleman-crook an engaging personality. Unfortunately for his nefarious plans Mrs. Linkley's laughter Mary falls in love with

showing scenes of studies and setė.

Dealism is the keynote of

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

GAT. 2.80.6.10.7.15. & 9.90 P.M.

KINGS

WILD! WEIRD!

WICKED!

BLACK

KARLOFF

and BELA LUGOSI

in a story suggested by EDGAR ALLAN

POE

With David ManaRTO, Jacqueline Weils, Lucille Lund, Henry Armette. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer Presented by. Carl Laemmle, A ÚNIVERSAL PICTURE

Hollywood Speaks," as the film ROYAL WEDDING

him at a time when her mother "Hollywood Speaks" takes aud- is wishing her on to the Duke ofiences on tour through Hollywood, Bristol. Leslie Perrin's la His Grace and Carol Goodner the daughter who very much prefers Smith, He has to be brutal to turn her bare- faced offer down. Between these characters and Anne Grey, one of the Duke's discarded affaires, there is a good deal of clever by-play and the delicious situations are cleverly handled.

points out the temptations and pitfalls which the aspirant for stardom must screen

guard

against..

Hollywood Speaks" was direct-

ed by Eddie Buzzell, who made

FILM

"The Big Timer." The story is ad Duke & Duchess To

The comedy on the yacht turns original by No

he

man Krasno,

to serio-comedy at country author of the stage hit, Louder See Own Marriage

house when a valuable necklace is Please." Jo Swerling did the

missed from a walisafe and De-adaptation and dialogue,

tective Inspector Rolls (Peter

Gawthorne) suspects. everybody in turn, fastening at last upon Smith who, however. never stole the Jewels. Rolls was non-plussed.

The mystification of the detec- tive officer is the high light of the play and here. the varying situa- tions are bright and amusing. The competence of the cast raises "Just 6mith" to a high, standard, and this new Tom Walls' feature is an excellent popular attraction,

Technically "Just Smith" reaches

UNCERTAIN

LADY

Showing To-day At

The Queen's

"Uncertain Lady the Universal production opening to-day at the Queen's Theatre is a daring de- noument of modern wives and Gau-old-fashioned husbands, who can't

high-water mark. In settings Monte Carlo, on board the yacht and at the country house--photo- graphy and recording this mont-British production again re- feets the resources of the Shep herd's Bush `studios.

LIGHT TENDED BY 3 WOMEN

Cape Town.

Maintained at a cost of £45,000 year which is met by charges on shipping, the South African light- house service now ranks among the

best in the world.

woven

round

these

TREASURE ISLAND

Coming To The Queen's

*BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE T. No. 25313 25332

NEXT CHANGE ON THE SCREEN

TILLIE ANDGUS

A Permanent Plotaro wit

W-C-FIELDS Alison SKIPWORTH BABY LAROY

ON THE STAGE

WAN WAN SAN

CHINESE ENSEMBLE

SILVER JUBILEE MEDAL

The King's Personal Gift

London, Nov, 27. (Special Air Mail Service)

More than 200 years of acting

authorized a experience packed into one picture The King has London, Nov. 27.

is the notable casting achievement medal, which is to be known as the Often it has seemed very unfair for "Treasure Island" the most King's Silver Jubilee Medal, to and sad that a picturesque wed-widely read story of pirate ad-commemorate the twenty-fifth an- ding ceremony should offer so venture ever written, that has niversary of hie accession to the much delight of sight and sound been

'Chrone, and has commissioned. Sir transferred to the screen the two

Goscombe John, R.A., to design from the Robert Louis Stevenson the medal. The medal will be

by Meiro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The picture comes on Saturday to to receive it, on a ribbon in the worn, by those fortunate enough

the Queen's Theatre.

to everybody-except principal participants.

The humblest guest is at liberty to see and hear his OT her All; dresses, pageantry, lights, music, dowers make a picture that will stay pleasantly in the memory of everyone else

Not, Alas, For Them But for bride and bridegroom, who cannot even see their own retinue making its graceful way behind them. It is a very different

inake up their minds. Genevieve Tobin, playing the leading femin- ine role, is uncertain whether she should give up her husband tomstter.

of

Edward

the "other woman" if she's guar- The two are the pivot for all anteed another husband: Just as "this magnificence and are debarred good. When finally she thinks from so much as a spectator that's the only thing to do, ima- glimpse of it. gine the amazement

Lord Dudley's Cinema Everett Horton (her husband) Perhaps Lord Dudley, too, when she makes him a business thought of this. In any case, be proposition to replace himself has had a very happy idea which and she will let him go.

will make the Duke of Kent's wedding an exception.

Spectators Too

book

sume way as a Coronation or Wallace Beery, one of the most military medal, seasoned veterans in pictures, is The obverse of the medal bas playing Long John Silver, one-portraits of the King and Queen, Crowns and legged pirate with blood in his both wearing their eye and friendship in his heart the King also wearing the Garter For

more than

twenty years robes and collar, and there is the Wally" has made them laugh, inscription "George V, and, Queen cry and tremble ever since he Mary, May 8th, 1935" first appeared as a Swedish girl The reverse side of the medal in a two-real comedy.

will have the Royal cipher with Jackle Cooper, with only three the Imperial crown, and the twe years of acting experience but dates. May 6, 1910, and May 6,

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING'S:—

"The Black Cat” QUEEN'S:-

"Uncertain Lady"

ORIENTAL:-

“To-morrow At Seven"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA :---.

"Hollywood Speaks"

MAJESTIC: —

"Sadie McKee"

KING'S:—

Coming

"Tulle and Gus"

QUEEN'S -

"Treasure Island"

MAJESTIC:

"Manhatten Melodrama"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Mickey Mouse" programme ORIENTAL:-- ·

"She Learned About Sailors"

4 SHOWS

£30-3.13

1.15–4.20

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road Kowloon. Tel 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW (At 2.90, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 PM

CRAWFORD

Sadie McKee

FRANCHOT TONE

GENE RAYMOND EDWARD ARNOLD ESTHER RALSTON. SPECIAL MATINEE PRICES FOR THIS PROGRAMME 10 cts., 20 cts.. 80 cte. &

40 cts..

-NEXT CHANGE

CLARK GABLE

"Manhattan Melodrama"

TAKE ANY TRAN OR MAPPY VALLEY BENE

IN

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST 4 TIMES

TO-DAY

THE SEASON'S BEST MYSTERY THRILLERS! IT'S JUST ALIVE

WITH ACTION !

5 MINUTES 'TILL DEATHI

The mystery slayer never failed to get his victims on

the stroke of seven!

TOMOMor TOMOCION SEVEN

CHESTER MORRIS VIVIENNE OSBORNE Jenkian deny, Jonkonton, RKC-RADIO PICTURE Directed by Ray Enright

Produced by JEFFERSON Per Corp.

already acclaimed as one of the 1835. Both the King and Queen DESPOT OF THE

most phenomenal of all child gave Sir Goscombe John sittings stars, in his role of Jim Hawkins, at Buckingham Palace. The models are already finished and are at the boy adventurer, is said to have the finest dramatic opportunity of Royal Mint, where the dies will be

his career.

made and where the medals will be

Lionel Barrymore celebrated his struck. The medals will be of the There is laughter galore in this

twenty-fifth year on stage and size of half-a-crown. About 80,000 He has had a cinema installed screen when he started his will be struck, and given by the amusing and highly sophisticated.

King as a personal souvenir to story of uncertain ladies and cer- at Himley so that the Royal bride portrayal of the immortal Bully persons in the Army, Navy, and tain gentlemer.. You're sure to and bridegroom may see the Bones, henchman of Captain Air Force, and to Diplomatists, Innumerable romanees have been be well entertained by the antics spectacle of their own marriage on Smollett, most bloodthirsty pirate civil servants. and others in this

when they arrive at gleaming of that screen comedian, Horton the screen

of them all. It is estimated that country and throughout the Em- guardians, but according to Mr. H. and the brillant Genevieve Tobin. their journey's end.

Barrymore has appeared in more pire. The King and Queen have C. Cooper, the Union's chief light- The supporting cast includes Paul

than 200 plays and pictures since expressed their pleasure with the house engineer, it is doubtful whe-Cavanaugh, George Meeker, Doro-

he first scored in "The Copper- toodels. bead" in New York and played in ther any imaginative, work is so thy Peterson and Renee Gadd who absorbing as the true stories of how makes her first American screen

"Friends" for D. W. Grimth in in this University

of considered the birth some of the famous lights came appearance

1909. into being. Mr. Cooper has been breezy comedy-drama.

picture dramas. control of the Union's lighthouse

To Lewis Stone, stage and screen

service for 31 years.

idol for more than thirty years. goes the part of Captain Smollett, the man who pilots the good

The day of the old sallorman as lighthouse keeper has 'passed," says Mr. Cooper.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S STAR

ON THE WANE

(Special. Air Mail Service)

London, Nov. 27, The movie world is ready for a new rage Shirley Temple's vogue 1 waning so rapidly that the rocket "which shot up with such tremendous momentum would seem to have a lenden weight - upon it for ite downward are. Not that the Little Temple fails in say measure. She is as astonishing in"

Modern Knowledge." To-day the keeper must under- stand engine plants, electrical ap- paratus, fog signals, morse wireless, dag and lamp signalling and me- teorological observations. The South African lighthouse service hac wireless telephones in 1921 and wireless.telegraph in 1914. "Occasionally the keepers have little excitement. Cape St. Francis light was once struck by lightning her last picture as she was in the the lamps were shattered and the first one. She has been over apparatus burnt out. Those men exploited roles disproportionate set to work and improvised a light to the architecture of the story which was kept going until day- have been written in for her. break.

A child occupies just so much talu legitimate interest in any prepared for adult entertainment. Etretch that interent, into fields where it doesn't rightfully belong and you not only weaken the picture but you shorten the profes sional usefulness of the child

Women's Heroism

"All three keepers on Bird Island put out in & dinghy to rescue two other men who were drowned in spite of their efforts. The Keepers then found they were unable to re turn to the island owing to the

The Hepburn vogue has settled force of wind and sea. So the woown into measured appreciation. men kept the light turning "all"

Hepburn will always have her night.

enthusiastic followers and I am As far as they knew, their hush-one of them, even when she isn't ands might all have been claimed up to her best. I love to watch by the sea. These brave women that amazing countenance, the were unable to operate, the proper play of light soross it, the swift burners, but they carried their changes, the spiritual currents ordinary household lamps into the Eut our dear public wants to tower and, pushed the leases round plunge into a new frenzy over ty hand

rome, movie star:-

It seems only just that, having provided an occasion of the greatest rejoicing and one of the finest pleces of modern pageantry the rest of the world, they may themselves enjoy it as if they also had formed a part of the great crowd waiting and watching outside.

for

TO-DAY

AND

-TO-MOKROW

ship Jispaniola in search of pilot. gold.

In leading character roles are Otto Kruger Nigel Bruce, Charles "Chic Sale" and others.

QULLN'S

0000

Edward Everett HORTON

Genevieve

TOBIN

Ar 2,30, 5.10,

7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

UNCERTAIN LADY

THEATRE

Sir Arthur Pinero's Method

PLANMIG

ROAD WANCHAL TEL. 38478.

TO-MORROW

& SATURDAY-

HERE'S

A RIP-ROARING-

COMEDY

SHE

LEARNED ABOUT SAILORS

EXTRA FEATURE. "KRAKOTAO””,

Natures most spectacular phenomenon. Giant submerged volcano in deadly eruption.

WHALING FLEET

Capetown, (Cape). One of the biggest, fleet of whal ing vessels that has ever been" as- sembled for operations in the Antarctic-since the record season of 1929-30 is now on its way South from Norway.

Twenty-two factory ships and about 150 whale catchers, employ- ing over 5,000 men, are to operate.". Two other factory ships may be

(Special Air Mail Service).

London, Nov. 97." Bir Arthur Pinero's methods in the theatre were once described by sent to reinforce this "armads." a manager, "48 ** dalightfully dea- potio." He attended every rehear-play the next three acts as magnifi iai, never allowed the smallest cantly as you have played the departure from his script, and first, I shall be a made man." never altered it during production. When he came back for the final He would act every part in the curtain, the house was on its leet play himself in order to show the cheering Mrs. Patrick Campbell cast exactly how each line was to had recovered her nerve. be "spoken.

I

Also, ke Mr. Eden Phillpotta, Le rarely attended his own first nights. *** After seeing the dress rehearsal," he said, I cannot bear going to one of my plays for several weeka."'

Tact

But once he did attend a first Light, Alexander Woollcott, the New York dramatic critic, tells the story.

It was May 27, 1893, the first night of The Second Mrs. Tan- queray

As soon as the curtain rose, Pinero, having staked his all on an cbscure provincial actress for the title role, slipped out of the theatre and vanished into the sheltering darkness of St James's Parku N

The actress, disturbingly beauti- ful but indisciplined and in expert, had been good in rehearsal, Could she keep her head on a first night?

Pinere, unwilling to watch yet unable to stay away, hurried back For the finish of the first not

Making Poukos

There George Alexander, had always disapproved of the selection told him that the pretty provincial had lost her nerve,"

Pinero brushed him aside and went straight to his leading lady's dressing-room. He took her hands in his and kissed them: dear he said, “11 only You

ALHAMBRA

BHI STRU

|| 10-DAY & TU-MORROW

HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS

wood with

GENEVIEVE TOBIN PAT O'BRIEN

Columbia Picture vendiracted by

EDDIE BUZZELL

Story & Dialogue by

Swering Normon Krasna

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