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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR

You can call a US Marine a „"devil dog," or, most any other name, but smile when you dub him as "leatherneck," or. prepare for battle.

This warning was given to James Cagney, and other members of the troupe which went to the marine fying field on North Island, San Diego, to make scenes for the new Cosmopolitan production, "Devil Dog of the Air." which is being released by Warner Bros. and is showing at Central Theatre.

None of the marines are able to explain why the cognomen, "lea therneck" is ofensive. They de- test 11, huwever, as sailors in the U.S. navy despise the appelation "gob" or "swab."

More than 1,000 Marines take part in the picture which is a thrilling drama, with some of the snapplest action and most hart- ous comedy ever screened. Others

in the

cast include Pat O'Brien, Frank McHugh, Margaret Lindsay, Helen Lowell. Johnny Arledge. Ro- bert Barrat. Russell Hicks and Gordon Elliott.

the pro- Lloyd Bacon "directed 'duction' from the screen play by Malcolm Stuart Borlan and Earl Baldwin, based on a story by John Monk Saunders.

MARIE GALANTE

SWEET ADELINE

Whatever changes take place in picture production; as 'in the world in general one problem remains--- the eternal"question:

"What shall the ladies wear?" Sometimes, as in the big mure- als, the problem assumes an agYTA- vated form. Here the trouble is wholesale.

In "Sweet Adeline." the Warner Bros. production which comes to. the Central and Alhambra Theatres on Sunday, Irene Dunne, the star, has thirteen changes of costume. while afty-four dancing girls have stx changes each, a neat little total of three hundred and thirty-seven gowns. Nine other principals in the cast have an average of seven changes each, another sixty-three.

Add to this the three changes of nifty male dancers and the single changes of sixteen "bit" players and the grand total explains why the Warner Bros. wardrobe depart- ment's 150 seamstresses and twelve tailors were an unduly busy crew during this production.

Miss Dunne, one of the most popular stars of stage or screen, heads the all star cast in "Sweet Adeline," which is the ultimate in musicals, for which Warner Bros. are famous.

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The production is taken from tamous Broadway musical comedy hit by Oscar Hammerstein II. and Jerome Kern, and is one of the greatest entertainmentä to come to the screen, with rollicking comedy, thrilling episodes, exciting romance and spectacular scenes in which scores of Hollywood's most in "Mariebeautiful girls take part.

Ketti Gallian. slender, youthful, vivacious. makes her long anti- cipated screen debut

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935,

LAST TWO-DAYS

ATRAS 2430.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 PM.

KINGS

SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION THE SPECIAL FILM OF JUBILEE CELEBRATION: "THE CHINESE PROCESSION " INCLUDING DISPLAY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

The cycle of fashion in Interior decoration has made the AU- thentic Colonial interiors, used on the sets of Paramount's "The Pur- suit of Happiness,” starring Francis Lederer and opening to-day at the Alhambra Theatre, even more au courant than they were 150 years ago, when they were originated.

So much so that after working in them Jean Bennett, who is featur- ed with Charlie Ruggles and Mary Botarid, decided to furnish a room in her Hollywood home in precise- ly the fashion that our Colonial forefathers used in the 1170's, the

Gallante," which will come to the King's Theatre on Sunday.

While extensive preparations NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS Period of the picture.

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and exhaustive research work on at the the story were going on Fox Flim studios, for some months, Ketti was diligently pour- ing over English books with her, tutor. Mile. Gallion now speaks English proficiently retaining only that slight trace of her tongue which she needed for her

the portrayal01 "Marte."

Every actor in the

Universal picture "Night Life Of The Gods" which comes to the King's Theatre to-day had a double. There were twenty-one players

Miss Bennett was particularly impressed by the early American tables and chairs, made of maple: the hook rags, the pewter, table ware and the "hobnailed glasses and pitchers All the pieces used and twenty-on the set came from valuable one doubles. There was also a early American furniture collec- native dog: He had double too. tions

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not doubles drew.. These glamorous cent in salary. But they cost way bundling success by Lawrence

the company almost as much as stars they doubled for, $25,000 all told.

Winfield Sheehan searched far and wide for the right girl to play the little French walf whose heart- breaking existence. In the Canal

provides the

theme

Успе "Marie Galante." Characteristically. anill he found her, Mr. Sheehan decided to bide his time.

Unexpectedly, last Spring. 5000 miles away from Hollywood where "Marie

Galante" rested in the story files of the Fox Film studios, the executive, on holiday in Lon- don. saw the very girl he wanted. She walked onto the stage of the Lyric Theatre, to dazzle a packed house with her performance as the

only feminine member of a large cast. The play was "The Ace," a

London hit.

Next day Mile. Gallian had a Hollywood contract. It was De cember before she was free to come to California, While "The Ace" played to capacity. the little French actress was inundated with other stage and screen offers which she had to refuse.

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And that was not all of it. The doubles had to have doubles too. This was because they were statues made out of plaster. Each one of them was a life size

likeness of

the actor or actress which it re- presented And, because they were statues and yet had to be photo- graphed in different poses since they acted in the movie, each statue had to have several doubles made to resemble itself with the exception of a changed posture.

This all sounds as fantastic as something out of Alice in Wonder-

Adapted from the recent Broad-

Langner and Armina Marshall, "The Pursuit of Happiness" is comedy of love and fashions in courting of the early American times.

£20,000 FOR HIGHLAND ROADS

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NIGHT

LIFE

GODS

"ANOTHER ASSAULT ON EVEREST

(Special Air Mail Service)

hus

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TH. No. 95319 25932

MARIE GALANTE

FROM

SUNDAY

A FOX Fichra with

SPENCER TRACY KETTI GALLIAN NED SPARKS „HELEN MORGAN

DEPUTISING IN DIVORCE CASES

(Special Air Mail Service).

Londoni, April 18.

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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S

Hong Kong

-“Night Life of the Gods”.

QUEEN'S:-

"Behold My Wife"

'ORIENTAE;-

"Outcast Lady"

CENTRAL:-

"Devil Dogs of the Air"

Kowloon

MAJESTIC:—

"Love Time"

ALHAMBRA:---

"The Pursuit of Happiness"

Coming

"Marie Galante"

"Whirlpool"

Lawyers, the writer imagines. | KING'S:- will be distinctly favourable to the proposal made by Mr. Bayford | QUEEN'S:--

appoint a Commissioner of Divorce to try matrimonial suits at Assize.

to

Londons. Aprij 18, Undeterred by fallure, Mr. Hugh Rutledge declared in "The Dally Telegraph" after the attempt to 1933: Conquer Mount Everest in "We believe that the ascent is

It is part of the proposal that River

weather." good! possible,

the That unquenchable faith is again when unoccupied at Assize,

could Commissioner

be called to be tested. The announcement

upen, if required, to assist the is now made that Mr. Ruttledge Divorce Judges sitting in London. will lead another British expedi-To enable that to be done, some tion next year in a further endes- special enactment would appear to

be necessary. vour to reach the highest point on

world's

Не the

surface. known glorious failure; everybody will hope that, with the experience gained in the splendid efforts of the past, success may be achieved on this occasion. Whether It is or not will depend not "upon the courage and endurance of the assured, climbers, for those but upon the incalculable hazards of the weather, and the still un determined question whether the last spear-like peak of the great mountain is accessible to human foot in conditions in which physi- que is taxed to its highest.

all

arc

of

Some

A fact not generally known is that if an Assize judge feels him- self overweighted with work, he has authority to request counsel to give him assistance.

This is done "now and again,' I can recall Mr. Cassels acting in this capacity... The counsel 30 employed receives no remunera - tion, and is not called a Commis-

'sioner,

It is, however, not likely to be when some Judicial overlooked vacancy" arises.

VANISHING ALIENS

The New Equipment

Assurance is given

the

(Special Air Mail Service). thorough equipment of this new i An item in the Estimates for the expedition by the fact that it will

London, April 18. be organised by the Mount Everest Department of Agriculture for

London's foreign population is Scotland for the coming financial Committee, upon which the Royal year which has escaped general Geographical Society, the Alpine undergoing a considerable change, I have attention is the provision made Club, and the Himalayan Club are says a correspondent.

been comparing, Lord Trenchard's in

renewed represented. The for assisting local authorities the Highlands and Islands to im- attempt is only made possible bygures for 1834 with the statistics land and it is all of that. It shows prove and extend, their transport the good will of the Thibetan for 1830. I find that there is a what happens when the movies are facilities. For a number of years Government, which again, throws general reduction in every nation-

in the ality except one. fured into following the delirious-now the sum allocated for this open its closed frontiers ly funny imagination of an au-

purpose has rot exceeded £8000, cause of science. Its action will thor like Thorne Smith, who wrote but during 1935 no less than meet with full appreciation in this the novel from which the Unt £20,000 will be available, which is country. Without its consent and versal movie comedy was made. generous recognition of the need the aid which it has extended to Smith got the idea that all sorts for better roads and piers. In these explorers any attempt to solve the of fun could had with a

areas. It is hoped that the most last. secret of Everest could not be Mr. Ruttledge and scientist with a sense of humour, urgent cases will be met by this undertaken. who discovers a way of turning increased fund, though it is under- bls. companions enjoy high pro- human beings into stone and stood that there is no Iztention n mise of success from the accumu stone statues into human beings. the part of the Scottish Office to This scientist, Hunter Hawk, play-consider giving 100 per cent. grants ed by Alan. Mowbray in the pic- tor any schemes. The maximum ture, petrifices his disagreeable re- will be 75 per cent.. and the re- A unique story, cleverly turned,latives and some others worthy of mainder will have to be met by excellently

beautifully the fate and winds up by going to acted,

the local authorities, either in cash staged, that is "Hehold my Wife," the museum and brlaging the or in Jabour. In suitable cases Sylvia Sidney's new starring pic- statues of the ancient gods and application to

the Ministry of ture starting its local run to-day goddesses. to life and turning them Transport for assistance will also

the Queen's Theatre. Miss loose on Broadway.

be permissible +Sidney who has played a variety of nationalities in her screen carcer, is this time cast as an in- dian maiden and she brings all the charm, all the petite wistful,

at

BEHOLD MY WIFE

be

WHIRLPOOL

Jack Hoit, the perennial favourite

ness to the role that audiences of motion picture fans since the have come to expect of her. She

early days of Zane Grey's "Wan-,

is more than capably supported by derer of the Wasteland” and “Light Gene Raymond who playą op- of the Western Stars" transition to pasite her. H. B. Warner and the screen, is again the popular Juliette Compton 2.5 well 38 beroic Agure in Columbia's drama- Monroe Owsley are among thetic production, "Whirlpool," the strong supporting players,

next change at the Queen's

Raymond-ls cast as a wealthy Theatre.

son of wealthy parents. madly in From the opening scene to the, love with a girl from what his thrilling climax, the aim is replete family regards as a "lower social" with intense dramatic interest, ex- stratum Their efforts to break up citing situations and breath-

the affair drive the girl to suicide taking suspense. In the role of and Raymond, broken hearted and Rankin, small-time carnival own- Infuriated, slams out of his home er, Holt is sáld to provide a power- vowing vengeance.

| ful characterization' equal to any in Numbed by his tragedy, be his distinguished career. drives his car grimly across the Committed to the penitentiary country to crash It. finally, in New for twenty years, owing to the Mexico. There he meets Toulta death of a small town "hick" in a the Indian gir, played by Sylvia carnival brawl, he returns' after Sidney. An idea strikes him completing his sentence to a world what better way to revenge him- unlike the one of his youth, Bitter self on his family than to marry and resentful for his incarceration, herto bring this "savage" back he turns hig-shot racketeer. His to their exclusive salon as his flourishing profession receives a

This he does and what follows 1s sometimes grim, sometimes amusing sometimes tragic but a ways dramatic denouement.

powerfully dramatic set-back, how- ever, when his name is linked with that of his innocent wife and daughter, who all these years had belleved him dead.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

All

Beven thousand Russians havý With them have disappeared. gone three thousand French sub-. jects. The most remarkable re- duction is among the Italians, who, one would assume, would form London's most stable alien popula tion. Two thousand five hundred Italians have either returned to Mussolini or are creating a new lated experience of the past.

known. Soho in some other country. the main difficulties are Whether they are surmounted on The Swiss colony is down by

we this occasion or not. may nearly three thousand, while the depend that those who head the Poles, Belgians, Dutch, and Ame- not turn back ricans have all been reduced by a expedition will until they have added another thousand or so. worthy chapter to the lengthening. The only increase is one of seven- the Germans," record of climbing among the hundred among

some no doubt Nazi refugees. highest peaks of the Himalayas.

QUEEN'S

The real

story behind the headline.

"SOCIETY PLAYBOY WEDS INDIAN MAID"

Adolph Zuker orREGNID.

Sylvia Sidney BEHOLD MY WIFE!

with GENE RAYMOND

B. P. SCHULBERG Production.

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Love Time

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A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW Mount Bundling In the Parlor

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THE PURSUIT

OF HAPPINESS

TOLAND

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