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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

The

SUNSET PASS

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rustlers' round-up-the raging prairie fire; and the gallop- ing cattle stampede are just some of the thrilling incidents in Para- mount's presentation

the twenty-eighth Zane Grey action picture "Sunset Pass" which comes to the Alhambra Theatre Kawloan next week, with an all western star cast including Randolph Scott, Tom Keene, Kathleen Burke Noah Beery. Harry Carey and Kent

Taylor.

It is a surging story of cattle rustling and the gang's break-up back in the wild days on the frontier with a cast that includes some of the leading portrayers at the carefree heroes of the great outdoors.

When, in a rustlers' round-up. Kent Taylor is wounded, captured and sent to jail, the gang and its leaders escape. Tom Keene, in the role of representative of the cattle- man's association, takes on the name of Jim Collins, famous out- law desperado of the frontier, and is sent to jail as Taylor's call-male to get information about the whereabouts of, the gang.

It's a real western, with the dashing type of story that has made this type of feature su popu- lar. You w like it from the opening round-up with its "gallop- ing horses and shooting rustlers right up to the blazing prairie fre and the thundering stampede.

VANESSA: HER LOVE. STORY

England is turning back the clock for Hollywood.

Classical stories of the British- that-used-to-be, stories of the 18th and 19th century, stories of high romance and heart interest seem definitely to have replaced all the other "cycles" through which the Ainis have pased in recent years

Tuh Flappers. gangsters and molls are hiding in the cyclone cellars of the cinema studio while storm of romantic great the dramas is raging unabated.

"Vanessa:

'Love Story," Her "David Copperfield", "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "Treuscre Island." "Jane Eyre" and now Dickens Tale of two Cities" la prospect all these and others are highlights of the new era of the

screen.

One of these, "Vanessa: Her Love Story" opening shortly at the Queen's Theatre has a story with Helen Hayes and Robert, Mont- gomery co-starred

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The locks have been broken off the libraries of great literature. and in the pages of beloved old books motion picture" producers are Ending inspiration for some of the most elaborate

Buns of

Hollywood's cinema history.

Strangely a great majority ol these stories seem to deal with

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1935.

TODAY ONLY

AT 2,30,5.10.7.15 & 9.30 PM.

VAIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

TO MORROW

THE QUEEN'S

The Captain Hates The Sea

The management of the Queer's England. Many are semi-histori Theatre offered the public a very cal: this fact indieates that Eng-enjoyable picture yesterday en- Ish history comes in very plea- titled "The Captain Hates the DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR sant doses, for upon pictures of Sea" It was a long string of this type. screen producers are lavishing their best efforts.

"Devil Dogs of the Air," a mighty romance of the flying marines, is scheduled as the feature attrac-. tion at the Alhambra Theatre in-

morrow.

The picture, which is the first Cosmopolitan production to be re- leased through Warner Bros., is hased on a story by Johr Monk Saunders dealing with the avia- tion corps of the US. Marines. It again brings together the inimit able trio who appeared in "Here Comes the Navy, James Cagney. Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh. Margaret Lindsay has the leading feminine role.

"RED MORNING"

Sail the briny deep seas of the world to the distant lands of New Guinea and the Fiji Islands, and see love, adventure, excitement and action a-plenty in these re- mote frontlers of civization!

laughs and hilarious situations from beginning to end. Together with the programme were two very interesting "shorts." Screen Snap- shots and a colour cartoon entitled the "Happy Land."

STEFFI DU

HEAD 100MET

IMITATION OF LIFE

Coming To The King's

A sombre but very moving story is "Imitation

of Life"

which is coming to the King's Theatre shortly.

Based on a novel by the well- known authoress Fannie Hurst, the story tells, in brief, of the business success, as well as family troubles of a charming widow and The story concerns ab adven-her coloured maid. They open a turous voyage from San Pedro pancake shop and in course of New York and on board the Santime, it develops into à nation Capador the complications and wide business marketing four. fun begins. Victor McLagien is a

Though prosperous, trouble am- And you can make your voyage detective on board trailing a crook bles along the maid's daughter in a seat at the King's Theatre and his accomplice. John Gilbert turning her back on the black and see these thrilling events is a newspaperman who falled to

races and determining to pass as "Red Morning," a gripping melo-

white, while the widow's daughter drama with a group of Hollywood

falls in love with u man who pro- favourites headed by Stem Duna

mised to marry her mother. and Regis Toomey enacting the story against the colourful South

Included in the supporting cast are 1,000 Marines who take part | Seas background.

The story is as exciting as the

Hollywood and is returning to New York to try to forget the woman he loves. Among others on beard are, a rich widow and c "woman with past. Walter Connolly acted the part of the captain ex ceedingly well.

Among others in the cast are

The picture, a Columbia Produc- tien, was directed by Lewis Mile- stone.-F. 8. T.

as extras or, in bit parts.

There are any number of dare-locale, and presents a thrilling devil flying stunts, with planes cruise into savage lands and waters | Alison Skipworth, Wynne Gibson crashing and men leaping from } with a dauntless ocean-bred young Helen Vinson, "Tala Birell, Leon their blazing ships in parachutes. giri. When her father's schooner Errol, Walter Catlett and others. Spectacular manoenvers of the is scuttled by his treacherous crew, Marine Corps. with the U.S.S. she takes the heim and souls into Macon, as well as scores of air- a course of daring action. Her planes in battle formation and a hairbreadth escapes from natives, dozen warships" participating, add her romance with a brave fighter, to the many thrills in the picfure. and their race to save a four- master from a dynamite blast lead to a dramatic and satisfactory climax.

DOLL'S HOUSE

Costs Nearly £100,000

Special (Air Mail Service). London, April 30. The most amazing doll's house in the world will soon be in London.

More than 700 craftsmen have worked on the house during the last nine years. It has cost nearly £100,000 to build and it is insured

for £84,000.

It belongs to a flm star, Miss Colleen Moore, who is bringing it on a three-year tour of Europe.

It is in appearance a miniature palace, nine feet square, with 20 rooms, and it is filled with tiny ob- jects of art which Miss Moore has received as gifts from all parts of the world.

There is running water in all the rooms, electric lighting from lamps

no larger than grains of wheat, and

tiny working radio set. ⠀

Paintings and Books

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The walls are decorated with miniature paintinga given

ROYAL OPERA DRAMA

Nearly A First-Night Catastrophe

(Special Air Mail Service).

London, April 30, opened brilliantly last night, in The Covent Garden Opera season spite of a narrow escape from a entastrophe.

The Perfect Brow The new chairman of the New South Wales Broadcasting Com- mission (Mr. W. „J." Cleary}" says that he has no time for highbrows --or lowbrows, cither.

The principal outcome of it all Is that the coloured maid 'dies of grief and worry, while the mar rlage arranged between the widow and her lover is cancelled for the sake of the daughter.

Claudette Colbert again acquit- ted Herself well in the role of the widow, but chief credit must gu to Louise Beaver who gives a brui- llant portrayal of the coloured maid. Richelle. Hudson as the daughter and Warren William as the object for romance by both mother and daughter, also played their parts to perfection. In short, the acting is sensitive and con- vincing.

"Imitation of Life" offers quite good entertainment and is worth

"Give to me brugs nor high nor seeing.-8. A. R.

flat-

You know the brow I mean; The ivory dome of culture's home

Should ever modest be

Yet not the low-thatched shanty

type

But, something in between, And you I'll show the perfect brow"

Which most appeals to me.

A brow that like Gibraltar lifts O'er eyes that glow and dream Means danger nigh for you and I----

In such there lurks a Will, A spirit proud that will not bend

But secretly may scheme

The situation

was saved by Lauritz Melchior's stepping in the eleventh hour to deputise for the. new Swiss tenor, Max Hirzel who late in the afternoon found himself Or Uncle Blurb to kill disabled by a cold,

When,

And one so low that it might fit after "God save King," Geoffrey Toye came before A lizard or a goat- curtain to make an announcement, No good to me! In it I see the audience was quite in the dark as to its purport.

A. fate condign for Crooners mine.

.

the

There was a gasp when Mr. Toye said that the new Lohengrin could not sing, and a round of applause which prevented him from finish- bying his sentence when the word famous artists, and in the library Melchior" was heard, and every- are miniature volunes written in one understood that the famous im their own, handwriting by well-personator of Siegfried, the Tris- known authors.

tan of many Covent Garden sea-

The dining-room is hung with sons, had agreed to fill the breach. tapestry, commemorating pictorial-

Ty the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table.

The Great Hall, fashioned in medieval style, is less than two feet high. Its floor is of onyx and. magnifying glasses are needed to appreciate the fineness of the wall carvings.

of pure gold, which can be played rom outside the doll's house by. remote control.

Emeralds, rubles and diamonds. have been used in the decoration of the doll's house, and over 401b. of gold have been used in its con-

From the celling of one roomstruction.

hangs a crystal chandelier, which To Miss Moore about the most

is a copy of the one hanging in the fascinating part of the house is

Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. The... ·*uryztála”, are tiny.diamonda.

the Visitors Book, filled with famous signatures photographical- ly reduced so that they can be read Andy Fifteen-Inch Organ -

only through a microscope. They Probably the most remarkable include the signatures of Prince part of the whole house is the George, Queen Marie of Rumania, Afteen-Inch, organ, Tashioned out and Noel Coward:

SHOWING

TO-DAY

The pirate and his trade;

He steals my prgrammes and he

takes

My profits by the throat And music true he doth pooh-pooh

Whose brow too fat is made. Then give me him who hath an

trch

Of brow, and who is bald--

A wrinkled brow that wonders how And why, throughout its days, It has to work and run the world

And pay each time that's called— The medium type that still hates

tripe

But for it pays and pays!

-Sydney "Sun."

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

The No. 259

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:——

"Red MorningTM

QUEEN'S :-

The Captain Hales The Sea":

ORIENTAL:

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BRITISH FILMS

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"The Little Minister"

Popular In Canton QUEEN'S

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, May 15. British dims are steadily gain- market ing favour in the China following the screenrag of Ince better pictures La Canton and other principal seaports. Talkies in English are popular in China to-day, as that langunge is under- stood practically by all the well- to-do people.

War pictures have never tauer to draw crowded houses, because the martial spirit among the masses run high as a result of Japanese invasion of the North- eastern provinces. The people are eager to have some; idea through the screen how fighting is done, ・・

Sophisticated productions "ano conventional' drawing room stuff do not appeal to the Chinese who prefer something thrilling and melodramatic like "All Quiet on the Western Front Flims show- ing soldiers and sailorg in action are bound to enrapture and de- light the emotional audience

Therefore British war films such as "Flag Lieutenant;".. “Men Like These," "Old Soldiers Never Die," "W.

Flan." "Middle Watch," "Tell England". etc. have met with good box-office success in all Chinese cities..

Theatre goers are in'erested to know the game of war, being un- der the impression that fighting on the screen represents to P great extent a real battle of the Great War.

Moreover, war pictures depict action rather than uttering wards, Although many Chinese uncer- stand English; the general public welcome a show full of action and excitement, preferably serial bombardments, and to hand. fighting, bayonet charges etc Together with Chinese sub-titles prepared by the theatrical man- agement, a fighting flai is assured cinema of a long run in any theatre.

Vanessa: Her Love Story" ORIENTAL:-

"100% Pure"

4 SHOWS DAILY

DIAMOND

DEATH

MADGE EVANS

TED HEALY

YOUNG

DAT PENDLETON

ON THE STAGE

The Wallaby Troupe

THE FAMOUS ACROBATIC DANCERS INCLUDING THE SENSATIONAL AND COMEDY "TRAMPOLINE" ACT AND

THE FROG" AUT.

TAKE ANY TRAN OR MAPY WALLKY, BUS

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2 MORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

DAYS

A VERY CLEVER MUSICAL SHOW WITH FAST MOVING ·ACTION AND HILARIOUSLY FUNNY COMEDY

A picture that ranks among the best.

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of the outstanding bits of the year.

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BISK POWELLE GINGER #UBERS 4 MILLS BROS. TER FONTAIN

stors from Seremban a

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Summer Prices Matinées 20 ets-30 ets Evenings 20 cís,-35 ets-56 ets.

THE OVERSEAS MARKETS

British Trade Figures

London, May 15. The expansion - in Britain's Overses Trade is revealed in the figures for April, published by

British comic, pictures are älse getting a firmer hold on Chinese movie fans. The reason is that the Board of Trade. Imports were 6 per cent. more than in April of British comedy can be easily un- derstood and apprecited by Chin- last year and those of the articles wholly or mainly manufactured ese people. While American plc-were of greater value than the any tures have dominated the

Chin-

ese Dim market, come of its him month since February 1932, ex- our is difficult to understand in cept last October. Exports show- the mind of the average Chinese ed an increase of 10 per cent. as compared with April, 1834, the who has no knowledge of Amer- fcan slang and no comprehension rise being due almost entirely to of dialogues with two much cca the shipments of manufactured colour”

There are none of these" objec- tions in plctures produced a

QUILN'S

TIDAL WAVE OF LAUGHS!

CAPTAIN HATES

THE SEA

A Lewis Milestani Prsnortinn story and Son on play by kaupa la te

A Columbia Picture

ALSO SHOWING

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AT 2.80, 5.10

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CHANGE

NEXT

HUGH WALPOLE'S

“VANESSA

HER LOVE STORY

ROBERT

MONTGOMERY HELEN HAYES

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

COMING SHORTLY, WEST POINT OF THE AIR”.

goods

For the first four months of the current year, the excess of amount Imports of merchandise

to £81.1 millon, or 2140 milión the *Corresponding less than In period of 1934.

Owing to the Easter Holidays there were fewer working days in April than in the previous month and comparisons were affected by this factor. The total value of imports for the last month was £59,944,000, for the month pre- Tious to that £50,503,000 and for April 1994 £56,328,000

Exports for the last month-to- talled £33,010,000 fro the month previous to that £35,932000, and for April 193430.100,000, i Re- export, April 24,203,000, March £4,472,000 and April 1934, £5,019," 000,(E

Elstree. What Kalph Lynn Sydney Howard says will.

the sides of any Engla

Chinese. This is due to the fac that English comedy sa seen, on the screen steers

cal expressions anda is

'oug

for everyone to:

During the four months of the current year imports amounted to £237,712,000 as compared with. £239,871,000 of last year. Exporis "amounted to £138,498,000 as com- pared with £124,813,000 of "last year, and re-export £48,089,000 as compared with £19,923,000 - of last year.

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