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CLEOPATRA

Coming To Alhambra

And Central Theatres

Cleopatra, coming to the Al- "hambra and Central Theatres on Saturday isa remarkable and lavishly made production of Cecile B. De Mille. The story tells

the meeting of Cleopatra Egypt's Glamorous Queen and Caesar by the way of a rolled rug and her completely ensnaring him so that he wants to make but his wife and form an empire. His assissination leaves her on the mercy of his friend Anthony. played by Henry Wilcoxon, 'who also falls for her fatal charms deserting his country his army and his friends to be with her in Egypt

CHRISTOPHER

STRONG

At The Star

A Combination of frecklesy sex appeal, showmanship and in- lence should be an incongruity, but in Katharina Hepburn, it is Tot. The glamorous, vivacious. featured player in PKO Radiu Pictures "Christopher

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

KINGS

A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION

ON THE SCREEN -

ANNA NEAGLE &

StrongFERDNAND GRAVEY

showing at the Star Theatre with Colia Clive, Billie Burko, Helen Chandler and Ralph Forbes in support, thrives on contacts.

Olashing qualities constitute the secret of Katharine Hepburn's im mense vitality and refreshing na- ruralness cu the screen,

grace.

Katharine Hepburn's appeal courage, without which she could. not have wrapped an armor of bri vado around her when, she was s chili, and worn it gallantly as she bwagkered through adolescente, Remaining true to her and al-shedding shyness for poise and though threats of war, he clings to her, and finally defeated by Home, they choose death in pre- ference to slavery. The most striking scene" in the whole show are the performances on the very elaborate barge, Very good acting by the principals especially fan Keith as Octavian and Joseph Schildkraus 13 the sinister Herod.

At the 2.30 performance on Saturday, the winner of "Shirley Temple's" Tap Dance Contest, which took place at the Dance Display given by Miss Daisy O'Keefe, will be announced and presented with the silver cup. The six contestants are invited to see the picture.

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-KB

7.15---8.30

While other children grew up gracefully, without attracting un due attention, Katharine, because she was sensitive and shy, forced herself into a spotlight. It was an instinct for self-preservation which led her to demand attention, pren. though she dreaded it, and got it in her uccess. Her quick and dazzling etage

is velt knowa. And now, in "Christopher | Strong" RKO-Radio Picture, Katharine Hepburn plays her second screen role, and has already the leading featured part.

career

af

An interesting compound paradoxes is this slim young" ac- tress who can project more in- tensity by the turn of her bead than many actresses can by carn ing somersaults.

TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

LAST

THEATRE

FLEMING

ROAD WANGHAJ TEL. 2847E

TO-MORROW

4 TIMES TO-DAY FRIDAY-SATURDAY

ERNST LUBITSCH'S

SPECTÁCULAR

SCREEN VERSION

OF

THE WORLD'S MOST CELEBRATED

MUSICAL ROMANCE

MAURICE

CHEVALIER

JEANETTE

Za THE

MACDONALD MERRY WIDOW

12 BEAUTIES SELECTED

WILL DISPLAY LATEST PARIS STYLE CREATIONS. IN FILM 'ROBERTA',

Twe girls, representing the cream of the country's beauty crop" have been selected as the mannequins to display the latest feminine style creations in fash- ion show scenes of "Roberta," RKO Radio's film version of the Jerome Kern musical hit, which stars Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

A

FAST MOVING COMEDY

BETTER THAN ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIMB.:

FUN FOR EVERYBODY

PIEŠI PRATIONALR

COND

NTION

CITY

with

IOG STARS

FINAL SHOWING AT THE QUEEN'S

Biography Of A 'Bachelor: Girl

in

"The Queen's Affairs""

THE QUEEN'S

AFFAIR

Showing To-day At The King's

Except in the case of a "treak":" picture such as “King Kong", or "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," only a small percentage of cinema-goers ever take the trouble to consider bow the film they are watching has been made. Yet it must be obvious to everyone that a draw- |ing-room drama which is really an Intimate tete-a-tete greatly pro- longed is much simpler to Alm than a story calling, for lots of action and intricate crowd scenes.. Making & film is sometimes on par with organising a war.

- Although the action of "The Queen's Affair, which is at the King's Theatre to-day. takes place in summer it was actually Almed

winter in

time under weather conditions which

were

uncertain or very cold. There are numerous vast crowd scenes in the

ON THE STAGE

AT ALL-PERFORMANCES

13. 1935

BOORING AT THE

· THEATRE Tx. No. 25913 25332

-NEXT CHANGE

"YES" WILL BRIGHTEN

YOUR

AND YOUR HEART WILL SINGI

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

COLBERT BRIGHT EYES

SISTERS

SENSATIONAL AUSTRA LIAN TAP-DANCERS IN NEW AND FASCINATING DANCES AND SONGS. FEATURING THEIR PHENOMENAL STAIR- CASE DANCE.

A FOX Picture (with.

JAMES DUNN

Prod

Sol M. Wirtsc

Anny Neario and Fernand Graavey in "The Queen's Affairs"

E

palace courtyard set and on street scene: And although dark- ness fell between four and five o'clock in the afternoon filming proceeded for another four hours because Mr. Wilsox was anxious to secure shots of a forch-light pro- cession.

..

"PARDNERS"

Jackie Cooper At The Alhambra

"

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S

HONG KONG

"The Queen's Affair". QUEEN'S

"Biography of A Bachelor

Girl"

ORIENTAL:

"Merry Widow'

KOWLOON

MAJESTIC:-

"Vanishing Shadow"

ALHAMBRA:—

"Pardners"

Coming

KING'S:--

"Bright Eyes"

QUEEN'S:-

MAJESTIC

PAA THEATRE.

Nat En Road, Kuloos, Tel: 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20. 7.20 9.20. P.K.

SEE

The mon-

star of staat

*A Wicked Woman" "Enter Madame"

and wirel

ORIENTAL:

"Convention City!

A WICKED WOMAN

Opening To-morrow At The Queen's

An Europe they call her "Lady of Loveliness' and in America, in her first American picture, Mady Christians, famous Viennese stage and screen star. has reaped triumph in "A Wicked Woman"

Rays that

cut through stell The paralyzing ray gun] All in the serial san-

sation

VANISHING SHADOW

SECOND CHAPTER

with

ONSLOW STEVENS ADA INCE.

opening to-morrow" at the Queen's TO-DAY'S RADIO

Theatre. The new picture un- doubtedly establishes her as one of the greatest 'dramatic actresses in years.

PROGRAMME

(Continued from Faze 4)

11.50 p.m.-Chamber Music. Octet

by Franz Schubert for String and Windop. 166 Hàns

1215 am-News in English on

Priegnitz,

The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, a dramatic cross sec- tion of a woman's soul shows the glamorous star

of "The Waltz Dream" as a modern American woman, struggling to protect her loved ones while herself in the shadow of a fearful past. Based of the sensational fiction story, by Anne Austin, It gives Miss Chris- tlans a role that covers every hu man emotion. Her dynamic per sonality, beauty, and faultless act-p.m.-Music,

DJA and in Dutch on DJN, 1230 am-Close down DJA, DIN

(German, English).

RADIO MANILA.

ing hold her audience spellbound 6.10 p.m-Spanish Informational

from the first scene to the final fadeout.

Charles Brahin directed with deft hand, handling little human. touches; comedy interludes are woven into the amazing dramatic

The direction of the crowd was picture, and the story of the or- reffected throughout the day by

Jackie Cooper has a new ambi- ganisation which made it possible the same sectional system, so that

with easy control existed from the start.on in life as a result of his most plot and there is also a sensation to secure those .scenes maximum speed and efficiency is The cold was so intense that à recent Paramount picture "Pardal courtroom denouement,

Jean Parker is engaging and still ring of braziers were provided out

ners" which opens to-day at The an interesting one.

powerfully dramatic as the way- ward daughter, and William Henry injects both comedy and drama round them to keep warm This ranch must have plenty of as the youthful reporter Charles muffled up in scarves and over-horses, a lot of catale and, pre-Bickford gives a cirile performance coats which had to be reluctantly ferably some ruined shacks in

as the newspaper editor who be

AR

stand By at the British and

of camera range and in between Alhambra Theatre. He wants a shots the "supera" eagerly crowd-ranch-a big ranch.

ed

"It begins when the agent was asked to call a thousand extras to Dominions Studios at Boreham thousand people to his office and fald aside for the "take" which to play the game of-finding comes the heroine's lover."

Wood. He then summoned two

for a whole day from nine in the morning to eight o'clock at night: the process selection went on until the necessary thousand were chosen.

out when

Tamen

In the early hours of the even-things-lizards, bats and ather Others adequately cast are Ro- 48 when the temperature had horrors dear to the heart of a boy.bert Tarler Betty Furness Zelda still further Mr. Wilcox. All this is a result of the loca-Bears, Dewitt Jennings, Paul gave instrucaons that a hot rum tion trip to Strawberry Flats, up Harvey, Marylin Harris, Sterling ration should be served to every-near Sonora, California, where Holloway, Betty Jane Graham, one in the crowd and accordingly Jackle went with the Pardner Jackie Bearle and George Billings. a makeshift "bar" was aranged on company, which included, in addi one of the Studio Boors and the tion to Miss Lila Lee, Addison crowd came in section by section Richards, John Wray and Gavin

to partake of the warming refresh | Gordon Paul Sloane, who direct-The boy is hardly on his way when ment,

ed, also wrote the original suggest-the father commits suicide.

They were then organised into sections of Afty under section leaders and the members of each group were told to telephone their "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," leader to and

they the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would be required at the studio. “ film closing its local engagement At the Studio Herbert Wilcox The scenes in which this crowded by: Will James famous auto- Jackie is met in the West by to-day at the Queen's Theatre was waiting for 2 favourable took part were photographed from biography and the screen play was his father's old friend, Addison" with Ann Harding and Robert weather report from the Air Min four separate angles and one of by Agnes Brand Leahy and Bobby Richards with plenty of trouble of Montgomery co-starred, is said to istry and for numerous daya no- the most ingenious shots which Vernon.

his own. He does not want the present the brightest dialogue ever thing but a forecast or rain or fog

was obtained, was taken from a Jack plays the role of Scooter boy and plans to send him back East, West, North and Bouth

to come out of Hollywood.

was obtained... Then came the platform erected afty feet up the O'Neal, a child of the Chicago at once. But he gets a wire tell- are represented in the beauty Care was taken to preserve the prophecy of bright cold weather side of a studio chimney stack and tenements, whose father, faced ing him of the suicide and can- array. The girls are the final original lines from the stage play and the crowd was called.

looking down across the roof on with arrest, sends him West so he not bring himself to send the kid survivors of a series of elimina-"Biography," written by 8. N.

Shooting took place on the big the crowded street below.

shall not know of the disguace back to an orphan asylum, tions and tests which saw hun-

Jackie's father has told him or dreds of aspirants disappointed.

the warm welcome he will get The fortunate 12 will model

from Richards and, his wife, Lila costumes created especially for

Lee, but the latter has eloped with: the picture by Bernard Newman.

Gavin Gordon and Richards once internationally known designer.

thought to kill Gordon. Lia and The locale for much of the story

Gordon are hiding in the hills and action is à Paris style salon.

Richards, taking Jackie, starts a search for them."

PRETTY SCREEN ACTRESS

Behrman Anita Locs, of "Gen- tlemen Prefer Blondes fame, did. the adaptation.

Supporting the co-stars are Ed- ward. Everett Horton, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold and Charles Rich- man EH Grimath directed.

.

Noted for his translation to the screen of sophisticated stage hits Griffith has directed Ann Harding in "Holiday" and "The Animal -Kingdom" and "Paris Bound"--

three of the star's greatest suc cesser,

PUBLISHES VERSE

Lola Lane, the pretty fim player, is about to have a volume of her own verse published by the Robert Montgomery who, in the famous house of Harper, proving

course of a varied and colourful once and for all time that a lady film career, has played everything. poes, contrary 10 popular belief,from midshipmen to gentleman. can be young, lovely and a movie

ctress,

Lola is calling the "book" "Lines and Rhymes,” a title she thought between scenes of Murder on

crooks, is cast as an effervescent young editor in this picture.Miss Harding is the bachelor girl of the story but she doesn't remain a

| bachelor for long! What this

moon," in which she is bachelor girl knew about

at the RKO Radio | would all a book!- Ludacious

tidio in Hollywood. It will con- witty

ter

and short prose | Girl"

d is delicated to her off

of Bach hit with the

TO-DAY

ONLY

QUEEN'S

ANN HARDING MONTGOMER

The stars of When Ladies M[64€” Fogettime again in the "grandest entertainment of the season. ***.**.

Biography of BACHELOR GU

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON.EDWARD ARNO,

AT 2.30, 6.10

7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

Jackle takes to the cowboy life with him. He rides, does some. roping and is perfectly happy in his new environment until he learns that Richards is planning to kill Gordon. He has grown to love Richards and does not want to see him hanged. He argues with Rich about, his plan and , the latter tells the. boy of his ather's suicide.

finally ani

Richards, sadde by the

Period.

Perlod

6.30 p.m.-English

Informational`

I p.m.-Plano Selections by Johany Harris assisted by Guest Artist, Lily Raquba. 7:15 pm-Making Filipino History

1

in Hawail. 7.30 p.m.-La Insular and Cigarette Factory Programme, Juan Silos. Jr. and his String En- semble.

745 p.m.-Elizalde Cha Pro- gramme, Julio Esteban-Angulta 3 pm-Cebu Portland Cement

Programme.

8.15 pm- Everett Steamship Co.

proFTAMET

8.30 pm-Manila Radiolites, con

ducted by Luis Nolasco,

250 pm Stock quotations 8.55 p. Continuation of

Radiolites Programme: 10:15 pm-Dance Programme, 10.30 p.m.Sign Off

ALHAMBRA

THE NTPE

TO-DAY TO FRIDAY

JACKIE COOPER Pardners

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