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"HAROLD TEEN" THAT'S A GOOD

At The Alhambra

"Harold Teen" how showing at the Alhambra is a picture of a comedy romance. representing a composite Study of Young America.

In it there are no less than five song hits all cleverly sung and

pus over.

An interesting fact in conne tion with the singing of theso songs is that the two singers Rochelle and Patricia, have never before sung for the screen.

Each girl has Alled a number of screen roles in her respective career but never before has the occasion arisen for either to sing. before the camera. Both possess good valces, and their singing is heard to good advantage in this picture.

GIRL

Coming To The King's

The big attraction at the King's Theatre on Thursday, That's a Good Girl," is based upon the Bushanau produced and starred" famous stage. success. which Jack in at the London Hippodrome,

original, but with the exception The film is musical, as was the

from the stage show, all the music of "Fancy Our Meeting" retained in the picture was specially writ ten,''

Musical director of the film, and composer of the new music, is Philip Braham, author of Lime house Blues" and other famous popular numbers. a musician who can copy, compose, conduct and orchestrate a most rare combina- tion of accomplishments.

There is talented cast In "Harold Teen" the members of which represent the characters la The story introduces oue Jack Carl Ed's fanious comile strip. Barrow, played by Jack Buchanan Hal LeRoy, noted on the musical an impecunious young man-about- comedy stage, heads the list, town dunned by creditors and which also include, besides Miss beseiged by bailins, who suddenly Hudson and Miss Ellis, Guy Ribears that he can claim halt a bee and Hugh Herbert.

million pounds in the South of The story is the sequense to the france from an aunt he has never adventures and famous Carl character "Harold Teen,"

antics of the Ed comic-strip which

seen.

The

one

which

and distinguished young men, this being to protect Aunt Helen's ward, Moya, who also inherits half a million, from the attentions of fortune-hunting gigolos,

stipulation qualites, the bequest is that he must take with him, when he goes has always been a favourite claim the money, some attractive everywhere with young and old The picture is really much better than the comic papers suggest and one will leave the theatre with the catchy tunes in the ears and humming without knowing. The only even vaguely respect- Those who have not seen the pic-ble companions whom Jack can ture should do so to-day and it take are Timothy, and an opera can be recommended to those who singer, Francis Morny.

have

Moray is betrothed to a jealous

the blues to let this plc-onera singer, Berata, who only lets ture drive it away for them.

him on the understanding that Jack does not let him look at an other woman."

OUTCAST LADY

Spicy Programme At

The

Queen's

Based on the famous novel, The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen, "Outcast Lady," (now showing at. the Queen's Theatre with Con- stance Bennett and Herbert Mar- shall in the leading roles), is an excellently conceived, beautifully developed, and intensely enter- taining screen story.

The theme is strong but simple and deals with the devotion of a woman who being deprived of the only man she loves be-spatters

her own good name to protect, that of the husband who married her, and who committed suicide on his wedding night.

As soon as Morny gets to the South of France, he falls in love with Moya and from this fast, and the suspicions of Berata, the fun

emerges.

Jack Buchanan is supported by a firstclass cast, including Elsie Randolph, why recreates the role she played in the stage vession Vera Pearce plays Berata; Garry Marsh is Francis Moray: William Kendall is blithely vacuous as Timothy: Dorothy Hyson makes an attractive Moya: Kate Cutler ir the aunt

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY JANUARY 14, 1935.

•KINGS:

SHOWING TO-DAY

2.80.5.10.7.15 & 9,30 PM -

THE BAD GAL

OF THE GOOD

OLD DAYS 1

West

"BELLE OF

NINETIES"

ROGER PRYOR John Mack Brown Duke Ellington's Orchestra 4 Paramount Plature

BELLE OF THE NINETIES

Showing At The King's

ELMER AND ELSIE

Coming Shortly To The Queen's

After an absence of more than nine months. George Bancroft brawny film favourite, returns to the screen in "Elmer and Elsle", Paramount's screen version of the play "Ladies First" by George S. & Kaufinan and Marc

coming shortly to the Queen's Connelly

Theda Bars and most of the other motion picture vamps of yesterday were women about whom men wanted to dream. Mae West, now at the King's Theatre in her third Paramount starring film Belle of the Nineties," is woman

men like, because she is real..

Theda Bara and her sisters of the past two decades had to depend upon their melting languid manner to keep their mala eyes and

whose words admirers interested. Mae West has law Anthony Holles and Franka "change of pace" that involves Stamore play other significant these screen weapons, as well as parts.

a touch of hypnotism, Admirers of Jack Bucband That is the way Stuart Holmes, (and they pleased to know that he dances in with all the major charmere of the are legion), will be who has played in motion pictures bis new picture and sings in his past 22 years, has Miss West and own inimitable style. He is partner forerunners figured out. He ered on some occasions by Elsie has made a study of characteristics Kandolph.

of the women with whom he has The original stage

treatment, worked, was by Douglas Furber, and he has There is nothing more interest collaborated with Jack Buchanan ing to me than to bring into focus and Donovan Redelty on the screen the contrasting points of women adaptation. In consequence of who have made and are making this collaboration of dramatic screen history," Holmes, explained ability, production

and Sex appeal is the basis of un- filmic imagination "That's a Good derstanding for all the stars who Girl' comes to the screen as a have left their impression in films, complete motion picture subject, Theda Bara, to me the queen of entirely divorced from the stage vampires in the past, became the presented. There is constant move who worked with her personally technique in which it was irat dream ideal of all men, those ment in "That's a Good Girl" and those who watched her on the from the opening shot to the final screen, fade-out

"Her eyes had a dreamy quality Jack Buchanan himself directed with which she the picture and his most apparent languidness in front of the camera." accentuated her

sense.

Constance Bennett portrays well the role of such a woman and is ably supported by Herbet Mar- shall who has the difficult role of a man who is torn between love and duty. The supporting cast includes Hugh William Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Ralph Forbes, Elizabeth "Allen, Henry Stephen- son and Robert Lorraine who all do well in their respective roles Apart from offering, the above which in itself is good entertain- ment, the Queen's Theatre is also characteristic as director is a Here was a come-hither call which showing several shorts which are

painstaking and patient thorough she could express only in action indeed spicy in every sense of the

ness which cause him to go on un- word. The..wedding of H.R.H. the til he has extracted the maximum of Kent and Princess from the possibilities of the sub- Marina is one of the features, and ject at his disposal.

Much of "That's a Good Girl" there is a cartoon entitled "Soda Squirt," as well as "Twice Two,"

Duke

A

Theatre.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TR. NO. 25813

** 25982

"NEXT CHANGE SOINTILLATING MUSIC E COMEDY

JACK

BUCHANAN

THATS A GOOD GIRL

Elsie

RANDOLPH

Directed by JACK BUCHANAN

PURECTOR'S BACDUCTIONS ---

HERBERT WILCOX.

seen

AT THE STAR

Central Airport

Those who have not read or how commercial flying is worked, are strongly advised to pay a visit to the Star Theatre to-day when in the picture now showing "Central Airport" one will see a thrilling eple of the air which depicts the amazing daring. of the intrepid pioneers of com- mercial flying

The picture contains an un-

is co-starred with Sally Ellers of usually distinguished cast in sup port of Richard Barthelmess who

tures: Frances Fuller,

In this picture which also fea-such faine as "Bad Olth" "Over

The Hill, Dance Team" Roscoe croft plays the part of a bluster of & boother air pilot of Barthel- Karns and George Barbier, Ban-

Tom Brown who plays the part

ing good-natured braggart-

truck driver who is

totally im- mune to feminine influence and thoughts of ambition, until he meets Miss Fuller.

determines to make a success of When they are married he himself, any ald but décides to decline

mess give a very convincing bit of acting and was seen to ad- vantage in that part. Others in Mitchell, Claire McDowell, Wi- the cast are Harold Huber, Grant

lard Robertson And Charles Sellen although now well estab lished as leading screen character believes, with his boss, that this

from his wife

players, can He

boast of long theatrical experience on the stage is a woman's place is in

man's world.

in which they starred on Broad- and that chen".

way, All in all, the picture is one. the kit of realistic work in

connection How his clever and

with aviation in which dangers, engaging duties and all else him, while permitting him to wife actually wins success for

connected therewith are keep the illusion that he is a

interwoven and self-made man furnishes an en- missed M

with a plot that's all its own the tertaining and thoroughly humai

picture is one, that should not be story for this film.

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by Humphrey Pearson and the picture was directed by Gilbert The screen play was written

Pratt.

CHANGES IN EGYPT

Sir Miles Lampson, our High Commissioner in Egypt, who was "married a couple of days ago, will not have a long honeymoon.

wil resume control of the Cairo Residency on January 9,

His leave is up next week. He

you cannot. The latter has the you could anticipate. Miss West vocal advantage of being able to Miss West likewise has the burl a question or an answer to fundamental advantage of sex accentuate her pantomime."

Mr. Maurice Peterson, who has but combines it with a "change of

"Belle of the Nineties is a story handled a dimcult situation so ad- pace" from languidness to rapid of the good old days of the mirably during Bir Miles's absence, are action. She uses her eyes, too, Naughty Nineties; and presents. will return at the same time, is set in the South of France, and and in close association with her Mae West as a comedy with the famous laugh these scenes, and to add to the is hypnotic. It is not an inten Stuart Holmes is cast as the There are also to be changes in

to ensure complete authenticity in you can not help but feel that she Seauty burlesque queen,

the "American Victor Kelly, the new Counsellor, makers, Laurel and Hardy who pictorial. value of the film,a tional quality, but it is thore.

is leaving for Care in a day or 50 are never failing sounces of British and Dominions unit spent amusement to many dim-goers.

assistant to John Miljan, the the Egyptian Legation in London "From a purely analytical South's most vockless gaichler. a considerable time at Antibes, standpoint Miss West has added Miljan Roger Pryor and John Although the appointment of Eas with Jack Buchanan and all mem- the quality of uncertainty, too. Mack Brown are the men in her san Bey Babri as Minister here has bers of the cast..

trick walk and you do not know West introduces several typical can be regarded almost as a cer- That is, she swaggers in with that life in this film, in which Mae not been omcially announced it what to expect next. Miss BATE LOS,

FACTS VERSUS INK

Hitler Caricatures

Forty per cent of the picture consists of exteriors, and many of these were made at Antibes within sight and sound of the Mediter ranean, in some of the raost beauti-" ful grounds of the Cote d'Azur. Others were shot on a precipitous mountain road in a remote part of the Maritime Alps, ...

The interior shots are equally distinctive however, out-standing. in this respect being the mammoth opera sequence which took a week to make, and which includes a chorus of nearly sixty trained

(Special Air Malt Service)

London, Dec. 23. The 1934 edition of "Hitler in World Caricature," produced by Herr Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstanglingers.

head of the Press section of the Nazi Foreign Office has been published....

"For," he says, "nothing makes it easier to strike the vitriol-soaked pens out of the hands of those who belittle Herr Hitler and his work. than to compare their caricatures with the facts. Thus in the face of the deeds of Adolf Hitler they

The 130 cartoons of the year are almost without exception unfav ourable to the Hitler regime. This does not perturb Herr Hanfstangi.. The cover design shows Herr Hit ler looking down with amused to- ferance at the efforts of the car-will tall the victims caturists

cufe.

The book is entitled Facts ver- The caricatures are drawn from

is Ink Herr Hanfstang in his

preface says that it is designed to

be helpful to those German

paper/readers of both"

are inclined to be over

every corner

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QUEEN'S

ADDED ATTRACTION FIR

Constance

Fiction's Most Fascinating Ba 2A

BENNETT

Outcast Luday

HERBERT MARINALL

CAMPBELL WH LIANS

ALLAN

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P.M.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

"Belle of the Nineties"

QUEEN'S:

"Outcast Lady"

ORIENTAL:-

"Son of Kong”

KOWLOON

MAJESTIC:

"Love, Honour and Ohl Baby!"

ALHAMBRA

"Harold Teen"

LINGS:-

Coming

"That's A Good Gul" QUEEN'S

"Bables In Toyland"

ORIENTAL:

"Parts Interlude" ALHAMBRA

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For U. S. Naval -Delegates

(Special "Air Hall Harvice)

who have been representing the U.S.A. in the naval talks, have

London, Dec. 23. Adml, Standley and his colleagues

Christmas hopelessly missed any chance of getting back to America in time for

In case the wives of any members of the delegation should be un impressed by their plea of Minister is going to give schit

unavoidably detained the Prime to all the married members of the delegation, rese

This certificate will state solemn ly that the British Gover cepts full responsibility for fact that they were unable to sper Christmas with their wives, and very sorry! Whose Idea

Mr. Norman

Field of the State have their wives with explanation concern members of the

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TO-MORROW: AND WEDNESDAY

SEE PARIST IT'S LIFE, LOVE, THRILLS, GAFETY, NIGHT LIFE.

PARIS LOVE!

HOLLYWOOD BLONDES.

morated by the Cafe Aux Armes d'Angleterre.

-Rodin's monument to the Burg- hers of Calais recalls an occasion when the citizens did not welcome the English as in 1914

There is also a prominent monu- ment on the old Hotel de Ville to the Duc de Guise, the liberator of Calais, who caused that word to be engraved on Queen Mary's heart

Richelieu, who fortified Calais

monument. against possible English attacks in the following century, has also his

That Its people have long and conservative memories is shown by their still preserving the name of street. the Rue Royale for their principa

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