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"ROYAL BALINESE EDDIE CANTOR

DANCERS

เ

AT THE STAR

Legend And Folklore "Roman Scandals"

Showing To-day

the

upon

Some of the Balinese dances are performed:aby girls who begin a

Eddie Cantor, "elfin comedian, long and strict training age of six and are based

has new complications to make his legends and folklore,

banjo-eyes pop in "Roman Scan- One legend concerns "the life of dals," his fourth annual screen Ardjuno, the Don Juan of Java musical comedy for Samuel Gold- and the dance, depicts his love Wyn, With Ruth Etting, Gloria affair with Srikadi, the wife of Stuart, David Manners and this Subadra, which ended in disap-year's prize collection of Goldwyn pointment. Ardjuno was success beauties, the picture is at the Star

Theatre To-day. fut in all his love afairs until he mat Srikandi.

Taking advantage of the fact that Srikandi's husband was away for some time, Ardjuno made ad- vances full of confidence. but Srikandi was a faithful wife. The dance ends in A tragle climax Seizing Ardjung's own kris. Sri- kandi enda her life and Ardjung is moved to desperation. Eventually he throws himself down from a mountain to his death.

There is a mountain in Jeva named after him. "This beautiful dance is perform- ed by Ratu Idja, who plays the man's part of Ardjura and Dewi Ratna as Srikandi

"THE KEY"

Coming On Thursday To The Alhambra

A strange triangular love drama set in the background of the seething cauldron of the Irish re-

bellion comes to the Alhambra Theatre on Thursday, when Wern-

The season's fastest stepping and merriest tunes are promised in a rollicking yarn of adventure among the beautiful slave girls of ancient Rome, the Caesars and their ferocious Hons, which winds up in a charlot race as breath- takingly funny as the bull-fight in "The Kid from Spain."

Eddie has a lively and gay song in "Keep Young and Beautiful." The dancing feet of a hundred of Goldwyn's ace beauties pound out the fast and happy rhythm of Eddie's ditty and In the spectacu- lar Slave Market scene they chant a refrain to the heart-throbs of Ruth Etting's lament, "No More Love." The shimmering costumes ur' silver mesh in the dramatic dence Interlude in which Busby Berkeley has set Mias Etting's song make for an effect that has never before been seen .on the screen.

Wiliam Anthony McGuire adapt

cd the story from an original by George Kaufman and Robert

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1935.

TO-DAY ONLY

AT

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& 9.30 P.M.

•KINGS •

THIS is ENTERTAINMENT!..

The

No matter how many great pictures you've seen-here's one that's NEVER been on the screen before!...It's not only NEW, but it's really GREAT- in its theme of student nurses, its laughter, its tears and its heart-throbs! .......In the interest of superb entertain- ment, we urge you to see it !

JOHN LORETTA BOLES YOUNG

IN

WHITE

PARADE

A JESSE L. LASKY PRODUCTION

ALSO SPECIAL FILM

"M. C. L. AT HOME.'

BOOKING CAT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25313 26392

TO-MORROW

EVERY YEAR ONE PICTURE STANDS OUT FROM ALL THE RESTI

ANN

THARDING

JOHN BOLES

THE LIFE OF VERGIE WINTERS *

HELAN

EXO-KADIO PICTURE

Directed by Alfred Santóli, From the story by Louis Bromfield. Pandro 5. Berman, exec, producer

NOTE SPECIAL REDUCTION ON PRICES FOR 2.30 PM. SHOW.

Sherwood. Frank Tuttle directed SHOWING AT THE

the

the picture, Berkeley staged dance and production numbers, While Dubin and Warren wrote the songs for this United Artists release.

er Bros.' picture "The Key opens MARBLE STATUE

with William Powell in the stellar

Tole.

Powell and Colin Clive the bro- ther officers stationed in Dublin to suppress the rebellion, form two

OF SABRINA

of the sides of the of the triangle. Search For Original

while Edna Best, the wife of Clive

and the

former sweetheart of Powell, forms the third.

Cilve, a serious minded officer in the secret service, has never com- pletely, won the love of his wife, who has a strange infatuation for the gay and dashing captain, in the person of Powell

The outcome of this love triangle

is one of the big surprises in the picture which is revealed in a "thrilling climax,

The picture, which is based on the play by R. Gore-Browne and J. L. Hardy, follows the exploits of the Irish patriots in their uprising of the last decade and the efforts of the British to put down the

Of College Mascot

IN

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Feb. 12, to the London Press, Walter A. Dyer of Amherst

Writing

Mr.

College, Amherst, Masa, says: I

QUEEN'S

Evelyn Prentice

Popular demand has elected Myrna Loy and William Powell as the ideal married couple or the screen.

Box-office returns have proven they are the "best sellers" of man- and-wife teams in pictures, and they now repeat their two previous appearances in their third co- starring vehicle in the Metro- of Goldwyn-Mayer production "Evelyn Prentice," having its final screenings to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre.

tic

First, there was the melodrama- success," Manhattan Melo-

your readers can help me to solve am wondering whether any of

the mystery of the present where dramu." It portrayed Miss Loy as abouts of the marble statue of

adutiful, thoughtful wife and Sabrina, executed by William Powell as her political ambitious Calder Marshall nearly 100 years husband who rose to great public

go and exhibited by the Royal office. Academy in 1846 or 1847.

It was sold at Christie's in" 1880, and there the trall seems to end. art dealer who purchased her for

Their success in this picture led to a second one, "The Thin Man,'

rebellion. The daring deeds of the ance the records of Vokias, the ith Miss Loy and Powell again as

Sinn Feiners in their conflict with English officers furnish many a thrill to add to the romance of the film

Others In the cast include such talented players as Hobart Cavan- augh, Halliwell Hobbes, Henry O'Neill, Phil Regan, Donald Crisp, 3. M. Kerrigan, Arthur Treacher. Maxine Doyle, Arthur Aylesworth, Gertrude Short and Dawn O'Day Michael Curtiz directed the picture

from the Doyle.

screen play by Laird

husband, and wife.

Powell

£94, have been last.

In it Powell and Miss Loy pre About the middle of the last sented characterizations complete- century a number of replicas ofly contrasted to their first ap- this statue in bronze were sent to pearance together. "The Thin the United States. One of these Man" brought them back as a was presented to Amherst College pleasure-loving couple, in 1857 by Col. Joel Hayden, of frankly admitting he had married Massachusetts. Sabrina was plac- for money and Miss Loy reveling ed in what was then the college Bower garden, but it was not iong before her unclothed loveliness attracted the attention of ribald undergraduates, and she W&S draped in muslin, painted green, and subjected to other practical

COMING TO THE Joking

KING'S

The Life Of Vergie Winters

All the characters typical of an American small town are found in "The Life of Vergie Winters," RKO- Radio's dramatic romance starring Ann Harding.

Early in the '80's she was stolen E preside at a class banquet, and since then she has been the object of interclass rivalries, and even- numbered classes seeking to cap- ture her from the "odd-numbered classes, and vice versa.” Her adventures have been various and wide-ranging, and form a unique chapter in the history of under- graduate life in America.

Recently the Amherst Sabrine was returned to the College, to become a permanent part of the niemorabilia collection unless some enterprising group of stu- The doctor, the minister, the dents succeeds in spiriting her shoemaker and the girl in that away again.

of

hat shop are present. So too are Amherst historians, anxious to the inquisitive and gossipy old máte the history of Sabring com- maids, the village belles, the complete, are in search of a photo- munity politiciab, the pool hall graph of the original marble loafers, the rich banker, and the statue in its present location. social leaders, and the girls be- yond the pale of polite convention.

Against this background Iriends, neighbours, enemies and acquaintances, the love story of "Vergle Winters," the town mil- liner, and John Shadwell, son of the wealthiest citizen, unfolds and becomes a town scandal and 2 later a front page sensation.gba John Boles plays the leading mâle role and Helen Vinson is seen as the other member of the central love triangle,

Sabrina has played the part among Amherst undergraduates that "Phineas McLino" has filled for a generation or two of London students, Phineas, the mascot of the University College students, is a tall wooden figure of a kilted. Scotsman, originally a sign stand- ing at the door of a tobacconist and sunt dealer,

In classic story Babrina was the beautiful daughter of Locrine, a king of prehistoric Biltain, who was drowned in the Severn by Alfred Bantel directed the screen Gwendolin Locrine's divorced play from the widely acclaimed wife, and thereafter became the fiction story by Louis Bromfield, river goddess.

THE WHITE PARADE

Fnial Showings: At

The King's

"The White Parade" which is having its final showings at the King's Theatre to-day is a human and, touching story of the nursing profession, and one which will ap- peal to most women.

"THE LINE-UP"

Tense Drama Coming To The Queen's

An all-star cast enacts the im- portant roles in "The Line-Up." Columbla production dealing with the inner workings of a police de- partment, which is the next change at the Queen's Theatre.

William Gargan is featured as the young detective who combines business with romance when he -Most of the action is laid in a frees Marion Nixon of suspicion of modern training school for nurses, "robbery and then marries her. and the story deals chiefly with John Mijan is the "fence" for the the life of an American nurse from "fur thieves, Noel Francis being his the time she starts as a probation-alluring assistant.

to the time she is graduated. Her struggles and her yearnings for the outside world in order to be near the man she secretly adores, produce many a heart rob, pathos and laughter, which go to make the picture an enter taining one.

er

Loretta Young and John Boles have the leading roles and they ably supported by Dorothy Wilson, Muriel Kirkland, Astrid Allwyn, Jane Darwell and Frank Conroy,

The picture which is produced by Jesse L Lasky, Sr., is dedicated to the memory of Florence Nightin gale, founder of modern nursing,

The story of "The Line-Up" of- fers tense and exciting drama of love and the law and concerns it- self with the growth of "racketeer- ing as a gigantie, powerful social parasite.

Directed by Howard Higgins, it Is smooth and intelligent through-

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONC

KING'S:-

"The White Parade"

UEEN'S:-

"Evelyn Prentice"

ORIENTAL:-

"Treasure Island"

KOWLOON

MAJESTIC:-

"Down To Their Last Yacht"

ALHAMBRA:- "

"The Last Round-up"

Coming

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road, Kowloos. Tel. 57222. FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY A 2.30 -6 20. 1.20 & 9:20 P.M.

RIPPLING funest WAVES of joy! STORMS of laughter!

OCEANS of delight!

KING'S:-

"The Life at Vergle Winters"

QUEEN'S:

The Line-up" "Biography of A Bachelor

Gu!"

EXO

Radio Picture

ORIENTAL:-

"Son Of A Sailor "Merry Widow"

H..

ik

.4 SHOWS

2,20-5.13

1.18.8.20

DOWN THEIR LAST YACHT

with

MARY BOLAND POLLY MORAN. NED SPARKS SIDNEY FOX SIDNEY BLACKMER Diveted by Paul Sloane.

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A MAGNIFICENT SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT

CHOOKFUL OF

GALLANT ADVENTURES

AND HEART-POUNDING THRILLS!

• You loved them in "The Champ"-they'r

together again in Beery

Stevenson's Immortal story!

Cooper

TREASURE ISLAND

out. And whoever designed Miss MODERN CHINESE Nixon's "wardrobe deserves credit. for creating smart but simple and inexpensive-looking costumes, in keeping with her small income as à "check-room attendant.

Veracity

An artist claims to be able to paint a person's thoughts. Some

be remarkably true to life."

in the play-boy antics of her who becomes involved in a murder of his blank canvases are said to apouse and aiding him in his scandal- bilarious detective adventures.

Produced by John Considine and And now, in their third appear-directed by William K. Howard, the ance as a team, they appear as husband and wife in "Evelyn Pren-

new picture has a supporting cast including tice." Powell again is seen as a Wadsworth, Isabel Jewell, Harvey Una Merkel, Henry lawyer, a role in which he excels, Stephens. Edward Brophy, Cora and Miss Loy is his erring wife, Sue Collins and Jessle Ralph.."

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Laconie

"You're quite a stranger!"

couple of weeks."

Yes, Tre been in bed for a

"Flut."

Yes, and crashed."

GVILN'S

POWEL

There's a new joy in store for the thousands of movie goers who made this gay couple their favou rites when they saw thein in “The Thin Man."- "A laugh and a thrill in every fascinating foot for film!

UNA MERKEL

ro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.20 & 9.80.

Evelyn Prentice

ART

Many Beautiful Works On Show

Special Air Mall Service)

London, Feb. 12. By-way-of-prelude to the Royal- Academy (autumn' 'exhibition of Chinese art, there should be great interest in the show of contem- porary Chinese paintings, which is to open at the New Burlington Gallery on Feb. 21. Över 300 pic2 tures, representative of some 90 modern artists, will be exhibited. During the past year and a half these pictures have been shown in Geneva, Paris and Berlin, with much success and admiration everywhere.

Viscount Halifax la president of the Organising Committee," which includes Earl Winterton, the Dean of Canterbury, the Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady Gladstone, Lady Howard de Walden, the Warden of All Bouls, College, Oxford; Lt.- Gen. St. George Macdonagh). Sir: James Stewart Lockhart, Bir Deni- son Ross and Mr. Laurence Binyon, who has written a charming pre- face to the catalogue. The exhibi- Lon is held under the auspices of the China Association, China Com- mittee and the Universities China Committee, and, of course, of the Chiese, Minister.

It is to Mr. Liu Hai-su that the.. exhibition is primarily due. At 16 he founded an art school in Shanghai, which rapidly became the most noted in China. At 23 he held an exhibition of his own pictures in Tokio, and the Imperial family bought soma. -Lafer- Chinese Government sent him

rn azt in B

wice been hung in i

Larxemburg

withs

LIONEL

Barrymore

Then Mr. Liu was struck with the idea of showing the world what Chinese artists still can do he returned to China and made the collection how to be shown. The exhibition may surprise many to find that China is capable of producing

thany "beautiful WOTKS.

3)

ALHAMBRA

FUENTRE

TO-DAY & TO-M BROW

ZANE GREYS

the Last ound-up

„Based on ZANE GEETA HOWAT? AWTHE BORDER LEGION"

SCOTT

Barbara Fritchie ALSO SHOWING rantland Rice Sport

MARINE MARVELS

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