JAMES DUNN and ALICE FAYE seem pretty pleased with one another, while the irrepressible team of FRANK MITCHELL and JACK DURANT look on. All four are featured in the new Fox Filar production *365 Nights in Hollywood”
UNDER-FED RATS FOR “365 NIGHTS IN
SCENE
Hollywood's boast that it can supply any kind of animal, bird, fish, reptile or insect for motion picture work at Д moment's
notice was challenged by director Rowland V. Lee during the film- ing of Reliance's "The Count of Monte Cristo," in which Elissa Landi and Robert Donat play the leading roles.
rats
Lee's aides experienced no diffi- culty finding rare types of par- Fots, a Malayan bear, a Chacma baboon and specimens of ringtail, spider and rhesus monkeys for the Marseilles wharf scenes, but locating a dozen under-ted for the Chateau d'If prison scenes, was a different proposition. Some camera-conscious: rodents were finally tracked down in a deserted Los Angeles warehouse, and they got the job. After several meal of cheese at the film company's expense, they were eventually dis- patched to the rat hereafter.
MOVIE NEWS
The major Hollywood Studios are frantically combing Broadway for artists with much musical-comedy or revue experience. The demand for such performers is stated to be comparable with that of the first musical cycle days of 1929.
Production on "Marie An- toinette" has been abandoned at Culver City Official "Pending events" necessitate the retirement from the screen of Norma Shearer for some time.
reason:
Ex-pugialist stars and directors will act as judges at the forth- coming boxing matches in the Hollywood Legion Stadium. Among them are; Victor. Jory, Alfred E Green, Al Jolson, David Butler, and George Raft.
Was
A Mickey Mouse Matinee held at the Leicester Square Theatre on December 21st in aid of the North-Western Child Guld- ance Clinic Gifts and
HOLLYWOOD”.
Beginning At The
King's
Halled as "the laughing low- down on the world's dizziest city," the Fox Film production. "385 Nights in Hollywood," will begin an engagement to-day on the screen of the King's Theatre.
All advance reports state that here at last is a story with a new slant on Hollywood. Written by Jimmy Starr, the movie colony's ace columnist and commentator. 365 Nights in Hollywood" tells th story of a girl, a boy and two adagio ice-men who turn the flick- er city upside "down"
The picture laughs at many of the foibles and the fancies of the screen great and their native heath. In particular it is said to hold its sides over the phoney movie schools which flourish in that centre of "side" and capital of charlatans..
Alice Fare is seen as a young screen aspirant from Peoria (of all places) Ilinois, while Jimmy Dunn is cast as a smart cracking picture director who bas had his moment in the sun and finds the shade a trifle chilly. Her problem is to get to the top. His is to get there too which is just about twice as hard once you've already been there...
Frank Mitchel and Jack Durant are a pair of slightly cuckoo ice- men who pick Alice as a star and then set out to pave the way for her success, Preview audiences are said to have roared themselves into the aisles at the merry antics of this team of zanies,
Here. It appears, is one of the fastest, funlest comedies in decade. To judge from all reports, a you'll cheat yourself of 365 loud laughs and 365 thrills if you miss "365 Nights in Hollywood”
a Gala "SILVER DOLLAR”
Tea for children were among the attractions, Tickets from 3s. 6d. upwards.
It has been decided that next picture for Mala and Lotus Long will be "Typee" based on the novel by Whyte-Melville, author of "Moby Dick." WS., Van Dyke will direct, and a great proportion of the Alm will be shot in the South Beas,
FLASHES FROM HOLLYWOOD
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At The Oriental ·
A picture filled with the thrill and romance of pioneer life in the mad gold rush days will be seen In "Silver Dollar" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday and. Thursday while Yola", and Paul the famous dancers will ap pear on the stage.
Edward G. Robinson, famous for his powerful screen „ charac- terizations, has the intense and colourful role of Yates Martin the Silver King, who rose from poverty to riches overnight Bebe New pictures going into im-
Daniels and Aline MacMahon mediate production on the RKO
head a notable supporting cast, Radio lot are "Roberta," mușical,
which includes Jobyns Howland, with Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and
DeWitt, Jennings, Robert War- Ginger Rogers; "Three Mus
wick, Harry Holman, Russell keteers and the first of the Middleton and Marjorie Gateson.
Simpson, John Marston, Charles technicolour features.
Becky Sharp," with Miriam Hopkins,
The picture presents Robinson "adapted from Thackeray's "Vanity as a rough miner with a "Midas"
Fair."
touch who soars from poverty to wealth and power. When romance who has stood faithfully at his touches him, he discards the wife.
side in the struggle for riches, and with a younger, more beauti
Irving Berlin, famous composer, has been signed by RKO to col- laborate in the production of a
big musical to star Fred Astaireful woman starts on a career of and Ginger Rogers Pandro Ber- man will produce with Mark Sand- rich directing, the same combina- tion that made Gay Divorcee."-
Sir James Barrie's famous-classic The Little Minister has been completed and was scheduled to open in the Radio Music Hall, New York during Christinus
eccentricities that startled the world. While at the peak of his Wealth and fame, his fortune col- Layees.
Murder in Tin Pan Alley" be the next Wheeler and Woo feature, production of which soon be under way
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30.5.10.7.15. & 9.30 P.M.
KINGS
THE MANAGEMENT WISH YOU ALL
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. Te No. 25813
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS-NEW YEAR. GRAND NEW YEAR DOUBLE ATTRACTIONS!
YOU'LL NEED A ZIPPER TO PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER: After Yurve splir your sides luughing at
365 NIGHTS
in HOLLYWOOD
JAMES DUNN ALICE FAYE
MITCHELL and DURANT
BUSTER KEATON IN
NEXT CHANGE
AND
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'THE GOLD GHOST”
DOROTHEA "CRADLE
"CRADLE SONG”
Hollywood is speculating about Dorothea Wieck. It is wondering whether history, in the case of this serenely exotic actress who took United States screen audiences by storm in "Maedchen in Uniform," will repeat itself and whether the old superstition, "all good things run in threes" will hold good for her Hollywood career.
"Cradle Song.", her first Ameri- Paramount, (coming at Saturday can picture just completed for
to the King's Theatrez, will be Miss Wleck's third screen pro- duction in other thau minor
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AN EDUCATIONAL COMEDY WIECK IN
SONG'
STUDENT TOUR
Coming Soon To The Queen's
A. PARAMOUNT PICTURE
"DAMES"
Opening To-day At The Alhambra
neck college athletic trainer and and
With Jimmy Durante as a rough-
"Dames" Warner Bros.' newend Charles Butterworth as an absent. I comedy romance, opens to-day at most spectacular musical minded professor, "Student Tour" the Alhambra Theatre, with an all one of the season's most sparkling į star cast headed by Joan Blondell, screen musical comedies is sche-Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, duled for early release at the Queen's Theatre.
Three hundred beautiful girls dance and frolic-in beautiful-and- This is the picture which intro-complicated ensembles that are duces the "Carlo," sensational new said to be the most novel and most ballroom dance number which is sensational yet created by that role. Her first, "Maedchen in Uni-weeping the world, and includes master of special numbers, Busby international form," skyrocketed, Miss Wieck to
a number of song hi ← fame. "Anna
Berkeley. Elizabeth," also made in Europe, cruited from colleges and univer-number of the catchiest songs of Young athletes and co-eds re- added to her laurels as a drama-sities for the body of the cast, the year, written by three teams of The picture is said to contain a tist and emotional actress.
which also include: Monte Blue, ace songsters, Warren, and Dubin, Maxine Doyle, Phil: Regan and other notables.
Fain and Kahal and Dixon, and Maxine Doyle, a brand new Powell, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell Wrubel. These are sung by Dick screen face, has the feminine lead and Phil Regan, radio's "Singing in the plature opposite Phil Re- Cop." gan, another newcomer screen
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With "Cradle Song," also, she stands in line, along with Ruth Chatterton and Helen Hayes, to be the third actress likely to register a success in a mother-love part. Ruth Chatterton, after appear- ing in several early talking pic-hitherto heard over the airways, His Fiting tenor voice tures, registered her great screen success in "Madame X" and "Sarah fans at large little more than an and Son." Helen Hayes, to screen
timate stage, held screen audiences unknown quantity from the legi
Madelon Claudet.” spell-bound in "The Bin of
Miss Wieck, herself, has fear for the reception,
uttle
She is equally matter-of-fact about the business of her acting She has no formula, she declares. But she is nervous at her work, and finds it difficult to relax from the time the picture begins until it is finished.
-SHOWING
TO-DAY
now wins more admiration when he renders several of the hit songs of the picture.
LWO
Delmer Daves, carries a definite The story, by Robert Lord and
plot which is said to be one of the most hilarions on record. Joan Blondell heads the cast in the role makers.....Durante himself, the gentlemen, and, who eventually Comedy is ably supplied by those of a chorus girl madcap who contrasting types of fun-delights in embarrassing dignited "dese and dem”,
expert," and weds a millionaire moralist. Charles Butterworth, whose drol- lery is almost pedantic. The com~
Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler bination is "wide open for side- furnish most of the romance as a splitting hour.
pair of lovers whose match is The story deals with, a round-unathema to their families. Three the-world cruise made by a group famous comedians, Zasu Pitts, Guy fly co-eds girl friends. It is lavish a large share of the comedy.
of college athletes and their love-Kibbee and Hugh Herbert, provide ly sprinkled with new music -and was directed for Metro-Goldwyn-Vinton, Sammy Fain and Arthur Others in the cast include Arthur Mayer by Charles F. Riesner.
Aylesworth.
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KING'S;-
365 Nights In Hollywood"
QUEEN'S:-
"The Merry Widow'
ORIENTAL:
"Wonder Bar"
KOWLOON
AIAJESTIC:-
""Viva Villa"
ALHAMBRA:---
"Dames"
KING'S:--
Coming
"Cradle Song" ORIENTAL:-
"Silver Dollar"
4 SHOWS
$30-$18 7.13-8.30
MAJESTIC
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Niva VILLA!!
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DICK POWELL DOLORES DEL RIO AL JOLSON RICARDO CORTEZ HAL LEROY GUY KIS BEE HUGH HERBERT FIFI D'ORSAY
THE MERRY WIDOW
Now Showing At The Queen's
the amazing devices, appealing "Basket weave dancing" and "musical retrospects" are among
with new effects to eye or ear, in Ernst Lubitch's spectacular pro- duction of "The Merry Widow" now showing at the Queen's Thea- tre.
The "Basket Weave" is a new cance executed by the Albertina Rasch ballerinas in the great Em- bassy sequence of the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer spectacle. Dances in differently coloured costumes weave in and out in an "over and under" movement exactly as reeds are interwoven in making a bas ket. The effect is amazing.
The "musical retrospect heaza in the sequence where Maurice Chevalier is on trial and. events of the past go through his mild. Instead of showing this by pictured scenes"dissolving" in- to each other, the music that ac companied the different events is heart, blending or "dissolving" from one air, to another just as the pictorial retrospect" is photo- graphed
The Embassy, sequence in the most eleborate in the haunting franscription of Franz Lehs gay Viennese romance. The
est set in the history of the housed It, hundreds of danc are seen, and it is here that the glamorous Merry Widow Waltz is presented
The co-stars are supported br Una Merkel, Edward Everett Har ton, George Barbier, Ruth Chan- ning, Donald Meer and others of note.Jeanette MacDon Maurice Chevalier," sing songs each and do it ver fully
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