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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

Showing At The King's

Robert Donat, handsome Eng- lish screen and stage star who makes his first appearance in an American picture in the title role of the Harry M. Goetz-Edward Small milion dolian Reliance pro- duction, "The Count of Monte Cristo," could have started his

Hollywood career two years earlier

than he did,

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The young actor turned down an offer to play opposite Norma Shearer in "Smilin' Through," the part which Frederic March finally took, because he did not want to leave London at that time.

Later, he appeared in "The 'Private. Life' of Henry VHI" tha British picture which introduced him to American audiences, but it was not until he was, offered the role of Edmond Dantes in Re tance's filmization of the Alex andre Dumas classic, released through United Artists, and now showing at the King's Theatre, that he consented to transfer his talents to Hollywood.

In "The Count of Monte Cristo," Donat shares stellar honours with Elissa, Landl, heading a large and triposing cast including Sidney Blackmer. Louis Calhern, O. P. Heggie, Irene Hervey, William Farnum, Raymond Walburn and others. under the direction of Rowland V. Lee.

THE HOUSE ON

56TH STREET

The Oriental's Next Attraction

B

Few stories are said to offer star a wider range of dramatic opportunkies, or à more dazzling background, than are afforded House on 58th Street" showing at beautiful Kay Francis in "The the Oriental Theatre on Wednes- day and Thursday..

professional gambler, whose beauty As the orphaned daughter of a

wins her immediate success in Broadway's gayest musical shows, and makes her the toast of the town, as one of the "Floradors" girls, Kay Francis undertakes rôle completely different from any- thing she has ever attempted be- fore.

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The story opens in the New York" of thirty years ago, when the marriages of the "Floradora" to millionaires was the talk of the world.'

The story opens in the New York Theatre, home of a

generator's most celebrated musical shows, Sherry's the Casino at Monte Carlo and other famous resorts of the years before war are faithfully reproduced on the Warner Broth- er's stage Miss Francis has some of Hollywood's best known players associated with her in the picture. Gene Raymond, Jehn Halliday. Ricardo Cortez, Margaret Lindsay. Shella Terry and Henry O'Neill have other important parts in "The House on 56th Street".

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لله سالم و - مدو

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1935.

TO-DAY ONLY

AT 3,30,5.10.7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

KINGS

ALEXANDRE DUMA'S

"THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO"

WITH

THE STAR FIND OF THE HOUR ROBERT DONAT

"AND

THE INSPIRED ACTRESS, OF MANY HITS ELISSA LANDI

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TOGETHER WITH A SUPERB CAST OF 500'

A RELIANCE FICTURE RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS

ONE NIGHT OF

LOVE

Next Attraction At

The Queen's

Does to-day's American gul have any chance of winning fame in an artistic career against. the competition of foreign artists?

an

In "One Night of Love" which will be seen at the Queen's Theatre on Thursday you will see the grief and struggle such ambition involves. You will see, In glamorous foreign settings, the adventure and beauty that makes such a struggle worthwhile.

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Edmond Dantes obtains the millions" in buried treasure, and then, as THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, goes to

fame Paris where bls. enemies become three of the richest and most powerful men. Unre- cognized and gaining their confidence, he encompasses their ruin. **THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO." releasc) through United Art- ∙ists is now showing at the King's Theatre.

CUCKOO IN THE NEST

"

Jady," who starts at once for the inn, accompanied by her spouse, a dissipated old major,

Meanwhile Peter experiences a night the reverse of exhilarating, He camps on the floor, while Mar-

Happy Farce Coming guerite occupies the bed.

To The King's

Things definitely commence to happen when Major and Mrs. Bone arrive, closely followed ; by · "Marguerite's husband, and Peter's wife. How Peter is eventually res-

an exhilarating climax.

"A Cuckoo in the Nest" is stored to his wife's favour, furnishes picturisation of the famous farce by Ben Travers (which played to packed houses at the Aldwych Theatre, London. for many months), which is coming to the King's Theatre on Wednesday

Tom Walls, who directed the picture, plays the role of Major Bone, a middleaged toper, whose excellent make-up renders him al-" most unrecognisable. The.com- bination of Lynn and Walls is This pletire is important, for it brilliant, their sense of comedy and brings together the famous players | timing being Rever at fault.

dext.

Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn, and Yvonne Arnaud re-enacts the role also introduces once again to the of Marguerite Hickett which she "public many other members of that played in the original stage farċe. happy band of Aldwych players. The veteran actress, Mary Brough whose work in "Rookery Nook" is Mrs Spoker, while Robertson and "Thark" won universal appre-- Hare plays the role of a parson.

ciation.

Here is a film that is a lot of happy laughter from start to finish, arising out of the complications which ensue when Peter Wyckham meets at a rallway bookstall an old friend, Marguerite Hickey, a meet- Ing witnessed by his wife, who, Imploring Peter to join her, is carried away by the train

Finding that Marguerite is bound

A word of advice. Don't miss "A Cuckoo in the Nest". It's the happiest and most laughter pro- voking picture offered to the public for many a day.

The Dubs

The skipper and the engineer for the same destination as him that steering

were arguing. The latter said. self, Peter, hires a car, which

a ship was much breaking down, lands the pair at gines, and the captain raid look- easter than looking after the en- the village of Malden Blotton, ing after the engines was child's where they are forced to seek a play compared with steer commodation for the night at the They decided to settle the lotal fin. There is only one bed-argument by changing places room available and the landlady After ten minutes deems them husband and wife had to admit he was beaten, when Marguerite' signs the register

"Mr. and Mrs. Mickett

But trouble la tn store for Peter,

the

Mec, he shouted, "I can't

the cagines to start?"

That's all right, replied the

is wife haaphoned her engineer, "ye needna bother we're mother, Mrs. Boze, a vinegary old"

aground.”

Ex

The story of "One Night of Love," is largely the true story of Grace Moore, star of the picture, a Tennessee gizi who made spectacular struggle upward to musical comedy and grand opera. In "One Night of Love" Miss Moore emerges as,& sensational motion picture per- "sonality, glorious, dazzling

figure. Miss

Moore ran away from her objecting parents to study voice in New York city. She worked in a Greenwich Village cafe to earn her meals, Winning a singing role in musical comedy, she spent most of her pay on more voice training. When roles Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue in 1923, '24 and 25 brought big pay, she saved to study in italy with Mary ́Garden,

When Miss Moore

obtained

A

Metropolitan Opera audition in 1926, and lost, she made a bet

that she would sing at the Metro- politan in two years. And like the story of "One Night of Love" it was her concert debut in Milan which won her a Metropolitan. contract just two weeks before the two years were up.

VOLTAIRE

Coming To-morrOW To The Alhambra

George Arliss, who possesses all the average actor's reverence for Shakespeare found himself saying uncomplimentary lines about the world's greatest poet-playwright during the filming of his latest Warner Bros. picture "Voltaire”. coming to the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE (TRG. No, 25813 126392

TO-MORROW

TOM WALLS

AND

RALPH LYNN

WITH

YVONNE ARNAUD

A Cuckoo in the Nest

"A

•Hilarious Comedy

by

BEN INAVIÀ:

CRESCENDO

OF LAUGHS"

-DAILY MIRROR.

"YOU MUST LAUGH AT RALPH LYNN" -NEWS-CHRONICLE.

THE GAY BRIDE

Current Attraction At The Queen's

Swaying. twenty chorus girls through the air on giant swings In perfect rhythm to music was the dificult dance novelty, achieved for "The Gay Bride," farce of post-prohibition New York recently filled by the Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer.....: studios with Carole Lombard and Chester Voltaire perhaps the greatest

Morris featured. It is the cur of French playwrights, was noted rent attraction at the Queen's for his ability, bis sardonic

Theatre. In order to accomplish humour and his conceit. He is

the effect it was necessary for a known to have made many slight-

of fifty men and "торе Ing remarks about the English-hangers to operate a maze of man named Shakespeare who had

pulleys in the sound stage roof. preceded him to fame by

As a given signal a series of ten hundred years. Some of those ropes were

"pulled" at a time. lines were lifted from Voltaire's just like stops on an organ. One works and Incorporated in the line of swings would move for- dialogue used by Arliss in the

ward followed by the rest of the picture.

chorus girls for a rhythmic sway- ing during the number.

**

So, as Voltaire, Arliss utters sarcastic comments on the ability

of the great Bard of Avon-he keeps his angers mentally crossed -as Voltaire may have done too

while he says them

...

wew

An emergency crew with His

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

"The Count of Monte Cristo”

QUEEN'S:-

"The Gay Bride"

ORIENTAL

"You Said A Mouthful"

KOWLOON

MAJESTIC:-

"Murder in the Private Car"

ALHAMBRA :--

""

"Now and Forever"

KING'S:

Coming

"A Cuckoo in The Nest"

Bulldog, Drummond"

QUEEN 'S:-

"One Night of Love”

ORIENTAL:-

"The House On 56th Street"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Voltaire"

MAJESTIC

The House of Rothschild"

4 SHOWS

| DAILY"

MAJESTIC

THEATRES Natton Road Kowloon. Tel. 67222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY A £2.90, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20P.M.

IN THE

Murder PRIVATE CAR Charlie Ruggles

UNA MERKEL MARY CARLISLE RUSSELL HARDIE

NEXT CHANGE

GEORGE ARLISS

IN

THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUN

RIENTAL

LAST

THEATRE

4 TIMES TO-DAY

THE FUNNIEST COMEDY

THE SCREEN. HAS EVER PRODUCED!

LEBROWN

in A First

Nations!

*hats wish

GINGER ROGERS

"FARINA"

"YOU SAID A

MOUTHFUL"

MOVEMENT

nets stood by on the side-lines of THE NEW DEAL the set. They were prepared for action in the event any of the swings, at a height of 40 feet in

girls' lives were otherwise endan the air, became entangled or the

gered..

The unusual number created and directed by Chester Hale features Carole Lombard and

dance." Arthur Jarrett during the "swing

The picture is an elaborately mounted production of the gay court life in the palace of Ver- sailles where Voltaire was a tre- quent visitor during the time, of Louis XV. This highly dramatic and intensely exciting drama of court intrigue and political strife is based on the novel by George

The new picture is a hilarious Gibbs and E. Lawrence Dudley. farce based on Charles Francis. Among those in the cast are Coe's famous Doris Kenyon, as Mme. Pom- padour, Margaret Lindsay, Theo- including Alan Mowbray, dore Newton, Reginald Owen and directed.

Adolfi

John

French and Spanish music, form All the charm of European the charming and thrilling back scene and people, all the glamour ground for this exceptional, of life abroad, all the glorious romantic motion, pläture.. The beauty of the finest Italian, handsome Tullio

LAST

TWO

DAYS

magazine story,

"Lord Snowden To

Join Ranks

*Special Air Mail Service}"

London, Jan. 23. "Lord Snowden's decision to foin

"Repeal" and has a notable cast forces with Mr. Lloyd George, Chester Morris, Leo which with a fine sense of the Carrillo Sam Hardy, Nat Pendle dramatic, he has announced on the ton, Zasu Pitts and others

eye of the launching of the " New Jack Conway directed with John Deal is not really surprising.

They have long been close friends W. Considine, Jr. as the producez,

and neighbours

Italian born screen lover, playa the romantic lead opposite the famous songstress, Victor Schert Carminati, zinger directed.

QULLN'S

CAROLE

LOMBARD CHESTER MORRIS

THE

Gay Bride

FROM FEBRUARY

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7,20 & 9.30.

P.M.

"ONE NIGHT OF LOVE"

Lord Snowden relates in his Memoirs how as the time of his differences with Mr. Lloyd George over the taxation of land values In 1931, the ex-Premier was inter- viewed about their personal rela tiona

Mr. Lloyd George' said:

"I cannot understand why any- body should suppose that because we exchanged a few dozen yerbal half-bricks in the House of Com- mons we should in reality be any- thing but first-class friends

may be bitter enemies in the House of Commons, but down here we are just good neighbours."

· Lord Snowden also recalls the conversations between himself and Mr Lloyd George-m the summer of 1931, when the latter suggested the formation of a common Free Trade front.NE

Leader in the Lords.

In the event of the "New Deal" obtaining suficient supporters to warrant the formation of a new party, Lord Snowden would be its obvious leader in the House Lords

On the other, hai

night not permit

Ime he spoke in

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ROAD WANCHAT TEL.: 29473

TO-MORROW

& THURSDAY

THE

SENSATIONAL MYSTERY

PICTURE

OF THE TEARI

Kay Francis

THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET

is fairly certain to join Mr. Lloyd George, and Lord Melchett. Lord Strabolgi," and Lord "Reading are among the "possibles"

The group would form a power- ful nucleus in the Upper Cham- ber.

ALHAMBRA

HEATRE:

LAST TIMES: TO-DAY

Be tor and Bigger Picture from Paramount

* Prince Charming a few politics on how to handle the fale asx)

OW AND FOREVER

STANDING CHARLOTTE BRANY

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