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JACK BUCHANAN'S FIRST

BIG CHANCE

Another Jack Came From

There is little outstanding in the career of Jack Buchanan from an amateur singer-dancer in a Glasgow company to world- wide fame on the stage and the screen. His rise was smooth, as if fate had specially prepared a "feather-bed” road for his shoes to tread. Only one incident can be traced to the influence of luck and that was the turning point of his ambitions, the point. at which he left minor patla for good. Apart from that incld, ent, he has earned every inch of the fame that is now his.

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signed a contract with her. It has been renewed regularly ever since. and neither has regretted it at any

Jack. Buchanan first saw the light of day in Glasgow on April 2, 1891, narrow escape for a man who has become known as Eng-time. land's most priceless comedian.

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Cold Reception

Els first appearance on the stage took place in, a small music hall in his native village, and he was booed off the stage. He was a persistent believer in his own holl- ity, however, and in time arrived at London, the Mecca of a 1 British actors and would-be actors. That was after he had made his first, professional appearance

at the Grand Theatre in Glasgow in 1912.

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Four years ago she found herself Jacks leading lady in "That's A Good Girl," and the show for 18 months. This was followed with "Stand Up and Sing" and the pair were irrevocably teamed in the public mind,

Cautious

While the latter production was D. persuaded her to enter the films. in progress, Hitchcock, of B. and

dolph's brain became apparent, for Again that astuteness of Miss Ran-

instead of rushing in where most Five years' steady but not un- fools would have done, she refused. successful slogging in minor parts to be exploited on the strength-of were at last rewarded when an

her stage fame, with the possibl- other Jack-Jack Hulbert, with-ity of spelling what she immediate- drew from the leading role in aly recognized as what might be show called “Cubbly," which Andre

come a good thing. Chariot intended to put on in the autumn of 1917, A young actress recommended Buchanan, of whom Andre had never previously heard. Suffice it to say that Buchanan got the job at £25 a week and became famous overnight.

Within four years Jack Buchan- an had gone into management on his own: and produced "Battling

BRITISH COMEDY KING

Jack Buchanan appearing in the current attraction at the King's Theatre, is at his best in ""Tha's A Good Girl"

Butler in which he played the part of Butler. Previously he had produced 'My Nieces," a musical at the Queen's Theatre, London, In this show, a chorus girl named Eiste Randolph caught his eye, and he told her that she should do well some day.

A Minor Part

He saw her again a year later when an accident had given her

the leading part in "The Follies Cabaret," in which, if you remem- ber, Jack Hylton's Band was star- red:

Jack was then just planning to produce "Battling Butler;" and not knowing that Elsie was play- ing a leading part, he offered her a minor role in his production.

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Elsie Randolph took minor parts only, to "see what she looked like!" Cinemi fans know what happened. "Brother Alfred." "Life Goes On,""

Yes, Mr. Brown" (her first Am with Jack Buchanan; it seemed that the two had to be drawn to- gether again), "Night of the Gar- ter, and then the current film at the Nanking, “That's A Good Girl,"

Before this, however, Buchanan had already crashed the screen in "The Happy Ending" "Confetti," and a Bulldog Drummond episode in the silent days, and then, in the sound era, "Man of Mayfair," "Goodnight Vienna," "Yes, Mr. Brown" and "That's A Good Girl." I almost forget to add the film which made hin cinematically. great-Monte Carlo," directed in Hollywood by Lubitsch, with Jea- nette MacDonald as his leading lady.

It is rather fronic that Jack Hul- bert should have given to his greatest rival in English comedy to-day, the chance which put him on the road to fame. But I am certain that the last to regret it would be Jack Hulbert.

“OF HUMAN BONDAGE"

The King's Next

Change

He belleved that dreams and human bondage are the stuff of which mortals are made,

He himself was in bondage-to

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 1935.

LAST TWO-DAYS "AT 2.30,5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

•KINGS•

Good Yes Mr.

The Scintillating Star of Night Vienna ” Brown At His Best!

Jack

and

BUCHANAN

THAT'S A GOOD GIRL

vita

Elsie Randolph

DIRECTED

BY

JACK BUCHANAN

A British & Dominicana Phaduction :

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"PUPPY, LOVR" (MICKEY MOUSE) **SING WITH THE STREET SINGER " (MASTER ART ORGANLOGUK).

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SUNDAY

LESLIE HOWARD

With

OF

HUMAN BONDAGE

BETTE DAVIS

FRANCES

DE E KAV

RKO

JOHNSON REGINALD

RADIO

Picture

Directed by John Cromwell. A

DENNY

Pandro S. Berman production,

Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in Of Human Boudage coming to

REGISTERED.

NURSE

Showing At The Alhambra

the King's Theatre.

the famous nurse who tells all there is to tell about nurses in love and the men who take their kisses living more amazing drama In one crowded hour than you wil live in an entire life time. This is a pulsating story torn from the hearts of a gallant sisterhood. This picture deals with the glowing romance of a nurse in a metropoli- tan hospital

Supporting Miss Daniels are John refreshing to see Halliday allowed Halliday and Lyle Talbot, and it is

vihainies and play the role of a to lay aside his suave, insinuating

a woman, a beautiful worthless Many a time the question pope he worshipped with a strange question and many others are all and utterly selfish creature whom up "Are nurses women?" This passion stronger than love more answered in the picture "Register-devoted lover in this picture. He is powerful than reason.

ed Nurse" starring Bebe Daniels as the chief surgeon in the hospital in

This is the poignant role Leslie Howard plays in RKO-Radio's fim "Of Human Bondage," which will of the Somerset Maugham novel,

King's Theatre, be next Sunday's attraction at the

As Philip Carey, well bred, artistically inclined medical student "who is doubly sensitive And here is where we discover because he is lame, he meets in Miss Randolph an astute busi- Mildred, a waitress, and is at first 1.ess woman as well as a good intrigued and then enslaved by comedienne. She refused to listen

Buchanan's protests when he, discovered that she was already in an excellent part, preferring to cast her lot with the comedian.

No Fool

her.

The girl takes what, he has to offer, but gives nothing in return As her power over him increases, Carey marvels at himself and cowers before the scornful rebukes to his own manhood. He is This was considered by many of chains which bind him to Mildred, powerless to break the mysterious her contemporaries to be an idio and even the love of an intellec tic proceed nz, to throw up a star ctial woman of his own class Is It for a minor role under the cable to free him from the direction of a producer who was still a novice, however ambitious Le might be. But Esle was a far- seeing girl, and she knew which

way the wind was blowing.

As she expected; she soon had a chance to play an important

part for which he

fed, opposite Bucha

her heart and sout that nig

vincial th

the show was

Bette Davis plays the excep bondage. tionally powerful role of furing, soulless Mildred, Johnson portrays the tries in vain to break the of the solish-walti will be

Alan Hale

TO-DAY

ONLY

which Bebe Daniels is a nurse and the rival of another Doctor Lyle Talbot, for her love

TO DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

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"That's A Good Girl"

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"Elmer and Elste

ORIENTAL:

“Rasputin and the Empress"

KOWLOON

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"Parts Interlude"

ALHAMBRA;-

"Registered Nurse"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Of Human Bondage" QUEEN'S:--

Crime Without Passion"

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ELMER AND ELSIE vers who murders for the love of

Attraction At The Queen's

“Elmer and Elale, now showing

With Frances

Bebe Daniels enacts the featured role, that of a beautiful woman who tum to nursing after her marital life has proven a fallure. The romance of the picturé centres about this nurse, for while other at the Queen's Theatre nurses have love affairs, Bebe is George Bancroft - and the one over whom the two lead-Fuller in the leading roles, la ing surgeons of the institution be-

human story dealing with the Halliday are the two surgeons; Tel-couple come rivals Lyle Talbot and John problems of almost every married

whom love is a thing of passing his abulty to bot the unscrupulous doctor to truck driver, who fally believes in Bancroft is seen as an ambitors

moment, while Halliday hay a sin- cere affection for his nurse,

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a woman, and who is trapped be cause he made his crime 200 perfect."

In the feminine leading role is Margot, the pretty exican who has thrilled

ew York, Hollywood and Madrid her. Apinish. dancing. Sharing honours vit

two afford contrasts i her is Whitney Bourne, These in ractar types of beauty and are heading for

tardom.

Produced at the Astoria, New fork, studios as one of the four

ed the resources, A new Hecht- Arthur pictures,

Crime Without Passion" employ

one make himself amort remarkable technica successful business man and

great name, but without any help Other Cinema News on Pare from his wife The latter played by Frances Fuller, however wins success for him but allows him to think he is a self-made man and her devotion as a wife adda many touches to the story...

The supporting players include Roscoe Karns and George Barbler, both of whom help to make the picture an interesting as well an enjoyable one.

GEORGE BANCROFT FRANCES FULLER ROSCOE KARNS GEORGE BARBIER

CRIME WITHOUT PASSION

Showing To-morrow At The Queen's

ALHAMBRA

TOD

the

&TO MORROW

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