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Trade Notes

DAVID COPPERFIELD

Through the years Charles Dickens romances have held first place in the hearts of the world have brought laughter and tears. the glow of happiness to untold millions. Now Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer is proud to have its dream of bringing his masterpiece, "David Copcerfield" to the screen realized. The picture opens to- day at the Queen's Theatre.

Directed by George Cukor and produced by David O. Selznick,

has this great work, of Dickens

been faithfully adhered to in all its details and spirit.

the

· The cast assembled is one of the largest stellar ones. It in- cludes ltde Freddie Bartholomew David who portrays the young Copperfied. Frank Lawton adult one.. Maureen O'Sullivan creates the role of "Dora, Edna May Oliver, the immortal role of Aunt Betsy Lewis Stone plays the gentle Mr. Wickfield, Madge Evans is seen as Agnes, Lionel Barrymore plays grizzled old Dan Peggotty and Elizabeth Allan plays David's young and tragic mother. Others who give good performances are Herbert Mundin, Jessie Ralph, Henry Williams and many others.

Acclaimed one of the most sen- sational hits in recent years. "David Copperfield" has been more widely heralded than any other picture since the advent of sound

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AFTER OFFICE HOURS

In "After Office Hours." new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production there are many new' and startling innovations. The first is the co- starring team Itself, Clark Gable and Constance Bennett, who share honours for the first time, and in a picture worthy of their tre- mendous popularity.

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Second is the story, a murder Avenue a Paik mystery against background, which lete the dience see who is the murderer and how the "perfect crime" was committed, then watch a skilled investigator in action.

Other innovations are the gowns worn by Miss Bennett, a brilliant wardrobe designed by Adrian and likely to set the styles for the sea-

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1935 –

BOKINGS

2.30.5.10.7.15

& 9.30 P.M,

SHE'LL BREAK YOUR HEART WITH HAPPINESS

THE FIREBIRD

ANNE

OF

GREEN GABLES

W ANNE SHIRLEY, "Anne

TOM BROWN 0. P. REGGIE HELEN WESTLEY

·Beind when the book by L. M. Montgome published by L. C. Pup & Can Tris'

As noted for his acting as for Anita Louise disclosed hitherto his personal popularity, Gable concealed talent during the pro- turns in a flawless performance asduction of the Warner Bros. pic. ture The Firebird" which comes the newspaper editor who solves

to the Central Theatre on Sunday: the crime--and the romantic who. The young actress is an accom wins the girl. The girl is of course plished ballet dancer. Miss Bennett, who plays his so-

lalite cub reporter.

With scope and imagination in- vesting such details of production as settings. photography and de- torations, the new plcture is de- finitely slated for a resounding success, and is due shortly at the Queen's Theatre..

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DRAMATIC

SPORTS, "PICTURE

DEATH

-DIAMOND

YOUNG EVANS

MUSIC IN THE AIR

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"Hollywood is noted as a melting

pot and a land of contrasts, but It's still unusual for the oldest and the newest of featured payers to be brought together in the same picture.

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however, *This happens. "Music in the Air," Erich Pom- mer's Fox Film production, which brings Gloria Swanson and John Boles

the together again' screen. The picture is due at the

King's Theatre:

on

The old and the new, in this case, are Hobart Bosworth and Jane Lang, Fox Film's "mystery girl."" Bosworth "Grand Old Man of the Screen," can claim to be

the veteran of them all. He made

the first picture ever fined in California a two-reeler called "The

Sultan's Power," which was pro- duced on the roof of "a Chinese laundry near Echo Park in 1909.

Besides the four players nention- ed, the cast of "Music in the Air" includes such celebrities as Doug- lass Montgomery Al Shean, Re- ginald Owen and Joseph Caw

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ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Despite the fact that the title role is carried by a sixteen-year- old girl, an all-veteran, cast brings REO-Radio's version of the cele- brated novel "Anne of Green Gables" to the screen. It is now showing at the King's Theatre.

Anne Shirley, who plays the title role of LM Montgomery's story, has been acting before the cameras since she was three years old. That means thirteen years of screen, experience during which she played important roles in scores of films,

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ALL NEW NOVELTY. DANCES ON THE STAGE : HANK BROWN DOROTHY ST. CLAIR UKIE LEE

nas

RAIN

THE

SILVER STREAKS

Joan Crawford, who will be seen in "Rain" at the Star" Theatre to-day is herself far more interest- ing, more vitai, than say role sne

Created

upon the spleen. westless, moody, high-strung," ane makes iuliuse of avery, huur as i she felt that life is all too short. She is a brilliant example of the modern girl, whose courage and ambition thrust all eise aside,

Anyone looking into those wide, gray.blue eyes must know she was born to be an emotional actress. It has taken time, of course-for the young woman started life as a dancer-but she is finally reaching her niche, and in her recent pic tares she has displayed a marked finish and a polish in her acting increase of dramatic power, a

that place her among the most im portant film stars of the day."

The picture was made in its en- tirety by United Artists over on Catalina Island, and the company was permitted to "go native" for the two months It required. Sub merged in her part, Joan became Sadie Thompson, with froway curls, cheap clothes and flashy jewelry. So earnestly did she con- centrate upon this character that she permitted herself to gain 9. few extra pounds,

czperience to his credit: He was carried before stage footlights by bis mother when he was Bix months old, und has been a part ever of the theatrical business slice,

Like Anne Shirley, whose "bosom friend" she plays in the film,, Gertrude Messinger started acting at the age of three. She has been playing featured roles in pictures ever since.

Murray Kinnell and Charley Grapewin both are character vet- Brown, at twenty-one, has al-erans with brilliant stage and most that many years of acting screen records.

During the Alming of a scene in which Stravinsky's "Firebird is played, Director William Dieterle asked Miss Louise if she could dance a few steps in keeping with the scene to denote carefree abanduti,

She did more than that. She started to whirl and piroutte, executing a beautiful dance for the benefit of the camerax Upon its completion everyone on the set but applauded enthusiastically, the young actress, thought little of the incident, admitting that she had. studied ballet dancing in the early part of her career,.

THE GILDED LILY

Delightful Picture

At Central

With Claudette Colbert in the leaning foe ADE Gilded Lily now showing at the Centra Theatre is a gay and hight-hearted comedy which is thoroughly en- joyable

Alias Colbert

us

geen the romantic soul. giri

&

who expects love to blow her three feet off the ground." Until the fateful moment-and love-arrive, she is content to sit on a park bench with her shipnews reporting pal, MacMurray,

muach and In The Firebird"" Anita has a popcorn, role which exemplifies the spirit of

Loves arrives-and parts. Through the Arebird, bird that a series of extraordinary incidents, Hungarian legend, delights in which are both amusing and enjoy. basking in the warhth of consumable Miss Colbert becomes the most ing fames, or, in the picture, of snught-after and popular night

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TO-MORROW

GLORIA

Swanson

JOHN BOLES

DOUGLASS ANAL

MONTGOMERY

Music in the Air

An Brick Penner Presbustion

REMOVING A GIANT TÉLESCOPE

From Oxford To London

(Special Aur Mall 'Service)

London, April 8. One of the largest astronomical removals of recent years began at Oxford this week with the dis- mantling of the 24-inch refracting telescope of the Rad-cliffe Obser- vatory, for its journey to the Im- perial Institute, London.

Movable parts of the telescope alone weigh seven and a half tons, and, in addition, there is the mov- able floor of the obsevatory and the revolyng' dome. It is expected that the whole will be packed and dispatched in three weeks.

Built in 1901 by Sir Howard Grubb, at Dublin, the telescope was installed in the buildings pre- pared for it by Mr. T. G. Jackson the following year. In Oxford it has been used for estimating the London University has acquired it proper "motions of the stars, and

TO-DAY AT THE

KING'S:

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"Anne of Green Gables" QUEEN'S:—

"David Copperfeld" ORIENTAL:-

"Death on The Diamond"

CENTRAL:-

"The Gilded Lily"

MAJESTIC

KOWLOON

"Bulldog Drummond Strikes

Back"

ALHAMBRA:

"Tow Suss"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Music In The Air" ORIENTAL:-

"Mandalay" "Dude Rangers"" "Student Tour" "Circus Clown" ALHAMBRA :--

"The Glided Llly" CENTRAL:-

"The Firebird"

THREE RECORDS

Held By Seaplane

(Special Aly Mail Service).

London, April 8:

An impressive demonstration of the practicability of the projected air service between California and China has been given by one of the seaplanes specially constructed for engined Sikorsky cilpper weighing use on the Pacific route, a four-

19 tons. This has flown 2,500 miles In 17h 16min, establishing a dis- tance record.

passion.

club entertainer on two continents. There is an all-star cast which But the series of mud and excit largely with a view to parallax ob-

servations. includes besides Miss Louise, Fing episodes bring her 'finally to

that she really It is the only telescope Verree Teasdale Ricardo Cortez, the realization

in the Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, loved only one man and never knew country to be equipped with a

floor which can be raised or lewer- The course followed was a wide Dorothy Tree, Helen Trenholme, it. Hobart Cavanaugh and Robert Assisted by Fred MacMurrayed by means of hydraulic pressure. circle over the Atlantic from the Bazrst.

and Ray Milland if the principal Six or eight people can be raised base at Miami, with the Virgin romantic roles, Miss Colbert gives with the floor to suit the level of. Islands, in the West Indies, as the an outstanding performance in her the Instrument. London Univerturning point. The machine car- topnotch comedy veln, with short.

sly proposes wtimately to estab-ries a crew of ste and delightful sequences of the

Ish the telescope on d site near dancing and singing she first in-

its present observatory" at Mill troduced in Torch Singer."

TWO ALTERNATIVES

For British Government.

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, April 8. Britain's foreign policy is now clear.

The Government is prepared to move in either of two directions.

What those directions are was stated by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons debate on the European situation..

The responsibility for ending the present tension, he said:

"Does not rest entirely upon this island. Other people have to make their contribution too. and Germany will have to make her contribution if we are to agree. That is the better, met- hod.....

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"The Gilded Lily," a delight, where it will reinforce the 24 inch reflecting telescope; and the ful picture and should be seen.-

other instruments already in the S.A.R.

possession of the Univeralty.

system of select and special combinations.

assistance for against the danger in midat..."

our

Alliance and Counter-alliance

The meaning of those words is that Sir John is going to Germany, and that he is hoping to effect an agreement

of the European Powers, including Germany; buð that, if he fails, this country will enter into an alliance with France. An alliance with France would mean an alliance with Russia.

An

alliance between Britain France and Russia would mean a "For if that is not the method, counter-alliance between Japan then what is the alternative? | and Germany. The alternative is bound to be a far less satisfactory system, a

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Unkind

Tailor (seeing a doctor at, the funeral of one of his patients) — "My word, and you are a lucky

man.”

Doctor "Why so?"

Tailor"Because you never have any of your bad work returned."

Very Inelegant

A woman entered the butcher's shop with her small ⠀ daughter, Some "tripe was displayed on the counter, and the little girl asked what it was.

**Tripe, dear" replied her mo- ther.

"That's funny," said the child, At present Japan has no such | “daddy says that's we get over understanding with Germany. the wireless."

QUEEN'S

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No one but Charles. Dickens could have ̈written this tenderand. moving love story, No one but M-G-M could have given it the mer velous, star-studded production it cried out.for!

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JOSEPH M

Romati Colman

BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK

with LORETTA YOUNG !!

It returned" with enough petrol for another 550 miles, despite the fact, that it had already excceded by more than 100 miles the dis- tance from San Francisco to Hono- lulu, the longest hop in the service. which it is hoped to Inangurate this summer...

Three records are claimed:

World long distance for sea- planes, held by Cmdr. McGinnis, who new 2,399 miles last year between California and Honolulu in a navy patrol plane.

American Jong distance, and American

seaplanes.

closed course for

The owners of the machine, Pan- American Airways," are gratified at

the performance of a new direc

tien-anding compass used in fight It was proved to have an effective range..of 1.800 miles.

Other similar machines, some of which will be even larger, are being built to carry passengers and mail between America and Asta over an 8,500 miles route, which will include five stops at small Pacific, islanda

THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW AT THE

CENTRAL

NATHAN: ROAD." KOWLOON.

CAR PARK: DIRECTLY OPPOSITE

QUEEN'S ROAD". CENTRAL CAR PARK: DERVOIS STREET

ALHAMBRA

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Tax Two Fizst Box ThuataIS AT THE MOST POPULAR PRICES. (To Central take Buses No. 4 or 5 going West. Booking at Moutrie's)

CENTRAL ALHAMBRA

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

at 2.30, 5:16,:7.20 & 9.80 p.m.

Orchids fai YOU Claudette Colbert

TO DAY & TO-MORROW xt 830, 5.20, 7.20 ₫ 9.20 p.m.. A Gaumont-British Picture

ANPEIN

COPPERFIELD

With's star oast of

for gweing is another picture every bit os

pened One Hight"

Condette COLBERT

The GILDED LILY

·FRED MacMURRAY -RAY MIELAND #G/AUBREY SMITH, EDWARD GRAVEM

Also Paramount

BRITISH News

CONRAD VEIDT

JEW SUSS"

"THE GILDED LILY."

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