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THE MERRY WIDOW

Final Showings At The Queen's

All the famous, songs of the Franz Lehar masterpiece, The Merry Widow are to be heard in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production ot the SZAJE

co-starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette

nane,

MacDonald and having its final showings to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

The romantic Vilia" is sufig by Miss MacDonald as are "Tonight Will Teach Me To Forget,"

Melody for Laughter and Widows are Gay." Chevalier's songs include "I'm Going to Maxim's" "Girls, Girls, Girls and together these two stars dance to the strains of the Merry Widow Walta" familiar and as loved to-day as years ago,

In addition, the Franz Lahar music. in it's original form embellishes the "Can-Can" ballet ut Maxim's, the Murshovian ballet,' the huge Albertina Rasch · waltz, ballet and other spectacular details.

Hundreds of gorgeously costamed players, huge and spectacular set- rings and unique efforts lend. fresh glamour to the picture.

The co-stars are ably supported by notable cast that includes Una Merkel George Barbier aud Edward Everett Horton, all three of whom supply many comedy situations. Others who hand in good performances are Ruth Chan- ning. Donald Meek. Sterling Walloway. Minis Gombell and a bevy of beautiful girls.

THE AMAZONS

History Repeating Itself

(Special Air Mall Service) "

London, Dec. 15.

If the Turkish Parliament, after giving womeri the vote, now allows themi to become soldiers--which many Deputies favour-history will

be repeating itself once more. That fierce tribe of female war- riots, the Amazons, was said to have lived in what is now the Black Sea littoral of Turkey.

to the

Shakespeare has recorded the graceful submission of their Queen Hippolyte

victorious Theseus.

Scholars, however, are not un- animous in regarding the Amazons as legendary. Women in other

parts of the world have undoubted ly regimented the pugnacity of

their sex.

Battalion of Death

In the eighth century a band of Bohemian Amazons killed or en- slaved all men who fell into their hands: The Dahomey army in modern times also had its Ama-

'zons.

*

The most recent instance was the woman's Battalion of Death, one of the strange phenomena thrown up by the Russian revolu-

tlon.

The name of the river is due to the assertion, that one of the original Spanish explorers of South america met fighting women on Its banks.

"PRINCE CHRISTIAN'S

OPERATION

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Dec. 16.

Prince Christian of Hesse's operation, which prevented him and the Princess from being pre- sent at the Royal wedding, proved more serious than at first expect- ed.

It is learnt, however, that he is. now making good progress at the elinic at Lausanne.

He hopes to go in about... a 'month's time to his villa at Cannes,

where he will spend the winter.

The Prince, who is half; Danish, is a second cousin of King George. He speaks perfect English and is very popular among the British colony on the Riviera

His wife comes of an old Ken- tucky

family. They generally entertain a good deal, the King `and Queen of Denmark being among their regular guests.

Their two sons are at Eton, but Princess Augusta; thefr elder daughter, who was presented at Court this year, is now with her parents at Lausanne.

They often come here, and were at the Vintage Club's Thames river party last summer.

"CRADLE SONG”

Showing At The King's

"Cradle Song," now showing at the King's Theatre is a moving hind convent walls. It tells of an story of frustrated mother love be eighteen-year old girl who enters the convent, leaving behind several younger brothers and sisters whom She had raised, and of her bringing up an abandoned child who first brings happiness and later grief to the sisters in the convent,

Dorothea Wieck, the much-ac- claimed star, is in the leading role as Joauna; the convent girl, and Evelyn Venable has the role of the adopted child; while the support ing cast includes Kent Taylor, Sir Guy Standing, Louise Dresser and Gail Patrick

CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON

Showing To-morrow

At The King's

First sixty-five hours. Then forty-eight.

Then twenty-four.

So it goes in "Charlie Chan In London," according to advance re- port, until only eight hours re- main in which Charlie may save from the gallows an innocent young man. This thrilling drama arrives at the King's Theatre on Sunday next,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5,-1935.

TO-DAY

ONLY

AT

2.30,5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

KINGS

dorothea

WIECK

"CRADLE SONG" The story of a nother who never had child

a

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

GIRL WITHOUT

A ROOM

Coming To-morrow

To The Alhambra

STUDENT TOUR

Opening. To-morrow At The Queen's

Filled with music, comedy, and the spirit of youth, "Student

Advance report Hkewise has it that "Charlie Chan in London" is. the swiftest and most enthralling of all Chan screen dramas to date,

Artists and models-Gay Parce-Tour, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Its cast headed by Warner Oland,lilting songs-sparkling comedy the creator and only interpreter and tender romance. of the wily Chinese sleuth, this

production which teams for the first time two of Hollywood's ace {" comedians, Jimmy Durante and Charles Butterworth,, comes to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow,

Such is Charles R. Rogera Girl new For Film is said to guarantee Without a Room" which is coming the most blase audience a first on Sunday to the class cast of quakes and shudders. Theatro with Charles Farrell and Alhambra

The cast includes a number of In current literature the en- Charlie Ruggles, Marguerite Chur-young players, most of whom are gaging Charlie has supplanted chili, Gregory Ratol, Walter Woolf sew to screen audiences, and the Sherlock Holmes and Philo Vance and Grace Bradley.

leading roles are played by two of as the world's foremost criminal

The picture is exceptionally them, Phil Regan and Maxine expert. On the screen this is clever and prefents some old Doyle. The balance in the cast is equally true. Oland has become so favourites in new characterizations filled by a bevy beautiful co-eds closely identified with the char- and some new favourites in their from the universities of California acter that he has received consi-screen debuts,

and the handsomest college athletes derable fan mail addressed simply,

thes well.

The to "Charlie Chan, U.S.A."

the

role in

Charles Farrell becomes comedian at times and does

ex-

ceptionally well. Charlie Ruggles usual in a part that suits him per- is just a bit mora madcap than fectly.

The leading feminine "Charlie Chan in London" has been assigned to gorgeous young Drue Leston, whose performance in "Charlie Chan's Courage" rated superlatives from the reviewers Drue is a recent Fox Film dis- covery and plans are already in artistis model. the making for raising

ad as an ingenue, blossoms forth Marguerite Churchill, remember- with a newly acquired sophistica tion to enact the title role as an

stellar status. Opposite Drue willian vamp has her first important. be Raymond Milland, talented screen role. She showed so much young newcomer to Hollywood promise in a tiny sequence of Too from the Broadway stage. Mena Much Harmony that she was "dis-

covered." She is a rare find. Barrie is another featured mem

Walter Woolf, a recruit from ber of the cast, appearing as an Broadway musicala, makes his de aristocratic Englishwoman, whose but in "Girl Without a Room life is saved by Charlie swift thinking.

Chan's and stculd receive flocks of fan mail from the impressionable "Charlie Chan In London" is ladies. And, of based on the famed stories of the Ratoff is funny,

course, Gregory late Earl Derr Biggers, though Director Ralph Murphy bas written

by Phillip

MacDonald, kept Jack Lait's story whirling well-known British novelist and along at a fast pace and the two author of such successful récent songs, Rooftop Serenade" and films as "The Lost Patrol" and You Alone," should-be highly

The Mystery of Mr. X". Eugene popular. Forde, with several "recent screen successes to his credit, has direct- ed the picture for Fox Films.

her to Grace Bradley playing the Rus-

In addition to its featured mem- bers mentioned above, the cast of "Charlie Chan in London" includes such well-known players as Alan Mowbray, Walter Johnson, David Torrence," Murray Kinnell. E. E. Clive, Elsa Buchanan, John Rogers and Paul England.

SCOTS GUARDS HISTORY

(Special Air Mail Service)

"London, Dec., 15. Shortly after the close of the Scots Guards Exhibition, there will be the opportune publication of an official history of the famous regiment. Sir Frederick Maurice is the author, and the period covered will be from the creation of the regiment to the eve of the Creat War. It is understood that with the aid of regimental records a most absorbing narrative has been compiled, and that eye-wit- ness accounts taken from the Journals of officers and men dur ing the campaigns in which the Guards have taken part bave been judiciously woyen into the main. theme. Some of these are said to provide Illuminating sidelights on: history. An unusual feature of the work is the incorporation of a complete list of officers who served under the colours of the regiment from 1842 to 1934

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TO-DAY

ONLY

picture introduces Carlo," new dance rhythin that is said to be the most important evolution in popular music in quite a good number of years.

well known team of song writers, Nacio Herb, Brown, and Song hits as "From Now On," A Arthur Freed, created this number New Moon is over my Shoulder,"

Phil Regan and his leading lady, College Hymn," "The Snake Dance and others are rendered by the former having a fine tenor voice.

1)

The story concerns a group of college boys and girls on a world cruise with. Durante and Butter. worth as their chaperons who get into more dificulties than any of them,

The story is about Farrell who is a nut artist painting what he feels and not what he sees. He wins & contest with his painting upside down and from there you take off to high for is it low) comedy levels.

BOOKING.

AT THE THEATRE TEL: No. 25813 26332

TO-MORROW

CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON

with

WARNER OLAND

A 70X PICTUR

SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION

ON THE STAGE" THE SIX HOLLYWOOD

BLONDES

NEW DANCES NEW SONGS

OUR NUMEROUS ANCESTORS

Old Strains Still Remained

(Special Air Mail Service)"

London, Dec. 15. Professor H. J. Fieure, of Man-

chester University who spoke at

the meeting in Edinburgh of the recently "established Scottish An- thropological Society, dealt with that dimcult problem, the race question. He held that in Britain, in spite of a great deal of inter- marriage, old strains remained, especially in the remoter localities. He llustrated how complex are. ancestor-hunting” activities by pointing out that each person now living had in theory 32,768 an- cestors in the late fifteenth cen- tury and 1,000,000,000 ancestors about the time of the Norman con- quest.

Si

Not Fully Nordic

Dealing with regional types in the British Isles, Professor Fleure

long-headed people than the east said it was being found that the west coasts have many more dark,

coasts. It appeared that the West- erners had some relation to the

On the East they found families population of South-West Europe. with physical characters resembl ing those of the "Beaker" people of the Bronze Age, but he thought it unwise to insist that the living people were necessarily descended from these early intruders. There was, however, evidence that there was a British population long indi

genous in the country, and it was neither fully Nordic not fully Me- diterranean.

QUEEN'S

CHEVALIER

HANETTE

AacDONALD

ERNST LUBITSCH

Production

Franz Lehar immortal remounta

of love and melody in many time

With the goy steers wine the

brillent director of This bo →Forside

1% mago kont

THE

MERRY WIDOW

Ar 2.80, 5.10,

7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING'S:-

"Cradle Song"

QUEEN'S

"The Merry Widow"

ORIENTAL:-.

"Lady Killer"

"Wan, Wan San Co.

KOWLOON

MAJESTIC:-

"The Bowery**

ALHAMBRA :-

"Dames"

KING'S:-

Sunday

"Charlie Chan in London"

QUEEN'S:-

"Student Tour"

ALHAMBRA

"Girl Without A Room" ORIENTAL:-

"Cockeyed Cavaliers"

MAJESTIC!—

"Operator '13".

4 SHOWS

·ATES 9.

2.0-5.15

T.JS-8.30

MAJESTIC

Pam

THEATRE:

Nathan Road Kawloon. Tel. 67222 TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20P.M.

'THE BOY

MAN

THE MAN

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CHINCH

ه تا این ها

WALLACE BEERY GEORGE RAFT JACKIE COOPER FAY WRAY & PERT KELTON

BOWERY.

TIME ANY TRAN OR MARRY WALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

LAST

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TO-MORROW

4 TIMES TO-DAY MONDAY-TUESDAY

-BIG DOUBLE

STAGE & SCREEN SHOW

Jatuet

Cagney

LADY KILLER

Bar Clerke

STAGE SHOW BY WAN WAN -AN & Co. Famous Chinese Magiciana THEY SAW A WOMAN IN HALF

RESTORING OLD MASTERS

AT EVERY SHOW!

Opinions Still Divided

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Dec. 15. Much

speculation has been aloused over the attitude Mr. Kenneth Clark, the recently appointed Director, of the National | Gallery, would adopt towards a proposal to restore Titian's." Bac- chus and Ariadne"

Mr. Clark says that he is un- compromisingly opposed to any Buch suggestion. Indeed, it is gathered that there is no likeli hood of the proposal passing the Board of Trustees if it should come before them officially,

It has been mentioned that the late Professor Roger Fry had been In favour of restoration, and there is no doubt that the matter is still passing through some minds in the art world...

Modern Befentifc Aids

The controversy whether old masters should or should not be restored is of long standing, and is capable of arousing the most bitter feelings.

Recent scientific developmenta give the restorer the advantage, at any rate in certain cases, of being able to examine a picture by means of infra-red and ultra- violet rays.L

Much of the old-fashioned type of restoration simply depended on scrubbing down the pigment and then repainting it.

Too often, this picture after

unlike an originat

CODYN

HERE

THEY ARE AGAIN IN THEIR LATEST COMEDY HIT.

WHEELER WOOLSEY

Merle maidenst Comely queerest.

COCKEYED, CAVALIERS

with

THELMA TODD DOROTHY: LIE

ALHAMBRA

THE NERE

LAST TIMES TODAY. THE NATION'S SENSATIONI

POWELL

SU PITT

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