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THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING

It is our guess that "The Whole Town's Talking" which is the next the Queen's Theatre change at will be hit. Unsurpassed in en- tertainment value and boasting one of the outstanding perform- ances of the year in the seric- comic characterization by Edward

Robinson. "The Whole Town's Talking" is a robust, exciting and hilarious comedy-drama. "It is u decided success, and, one that will keep the whole town talking for A long time.

The story concerns the hilarious adventures of an inoffensive frigh- tened little clerk who is mistaken for the country's most sought- after gangster.' He is given a "passport" by the authorities to identify him ai all times. HS.. gangster

counterpart, however frightens the clerk into hiding.! nights while he uses the "pass- part" to carry his criminal activities. Jones, the clerk, finally develops an undernourished cour- age when his dream-lave; the love-

1s ly Jean Arthur. kidnapped by the gangster. In a startling and

climax sensational

he captures the criminal, wins the girl and "discovers to his owTL satisfaction

that he's a man's man.

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Others in the cast of. this fast- paced, thrilling comedy drama aré Wallace Ford, Arthur Holi. Arthur Byrch Donald Meek and John sup-

Wray. They lend excellent port to the principal players.

4 SHOWS

1042

1.16-20

HAVE A HEART"

A new-star has skyrocketed in-

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to the Hollywood heavens, and in the vivid brillance of her perform- arce Jean Parker wink the highest screen laurels with her first star- ring vehicle. "Have a Heart" The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro- duction showing at the Oriental Theatre. to-morrow and Saturday.

The story of her romance with. James Dunn. playing" Jimmie Maherty, employee of an ice c

company those heart is as warm as its produes is cold, is a blend o wholesome simplicty packed pathos and comedy."

with

Dunn contributes one 05 the outstanding performances of Mis career. and is an ideal romantic screen partner for Miss Parker.

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Hilarious comedy relief is plled by Ura Merkel and Stuart Edwin who are again teamed in antics that won bursts of laughter from the audience. "Muriel Evans scores in a small role as Helen the vamping secretary.

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conviction Firmness and added to the cast by Willard Ro- bertson, as Schauber, "manager of the ice-cream company. Edward Brophy adds more comedy as a super-salesman. and Paul Page handles an unsympathetic role with skill, as the young sulter who leaves Miss Parker when she is crippled.

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Last Round-up

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THRILL AFTER THRILL

TO-MORROW

& SATURDAY INTENSELY

HUMAN STORY Beuutifully enacted, a blend of sunshine comedy and drama. JEAN PARKER

HAVE@HEART James Dunn

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Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets.-30 ets.Evenings 20 cts.-85, eta.-55 cts.

"THE MIGHTY BARNUM”

"YOU'RE TELLING ME"

It's all in fun, of course, but if It's a pity the great P. T. Bar-

Para- num didn't live to share the fun! "You're Telling Me," the that Wallace Beery and a pair of mount film starring W. C. Fields. Hollywood scenarists had prepar- which

came to the Alhambra

ing "The Mighty Barnum," 20th Theatre on Friday, is to be relied upon, then the millennium bas ar- Century's

the story of screen

rived. world's greatest showman, which comes to the King's Theatre on Saturday. For Barnum was, by his own admission, a man who loved a practical joke.

"Barnum had the typical Yankee sense of humour of his Connecticut boyhood," say Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, who concocted the "and screen play,

carried it

through to the very end of his life. In his day humour which did not carry at least a modicum of physical discomfort to the abject of the joke just wasn't 'humour,

"Even when he was the butt of the prank, Barnum was not with- out appreciation for the ingenuity involved in it. He recites with relish in his autobiography the tale of the time when the head of a 'show he was travelling with pointed him out to a mob of irate villagers as a murderer they were hunting with intent Barnum's new suit was ruined and he was almost strung up before the perpetrator of the prank saved him. And yet he seems to have borne the man no malice."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1935.

"LAST TWO-DAYS

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& 9.30 P.M.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION!

ON THE SCREEN

HELLDORADO

A Josse L. Lasky Production

RICHARD ARLEN MADGE EVANS

Ralph Bellamy

A FOX PICTURE NOTE OUR NEW PRICES

THE LEMON DROP KID

At Alhambra

The dynamic Lee Tracey is fea tured in "The Lemon Drop Kid" Which started its run at the Al- hambra' Theatre yesterday.

Tracy to the part of a “Hör- sey" gentleman, who induces a mil- fionalre to back a horse which falls to turn up at the winning post In the order he so confidently predicted.

He is ther. forced to the con clusion that a change of climate would probably be necessary for ris health and finally finishes up in a small town where the unly horses pulled carts and were 3 source of worry to Bo-one but their owners. However a litle bit ct this town went a long way, and friend Lee has just decided that he has had enough when he meets a girl and then discovers that hor- the ses are not by any means

*} chief causes of trouble.

The cast includes, in addition to Tracy. Helen Mack the Girl

as Minna. Gombell, William Frawley. H, B. Walthall and last but not least, Baby Leroy.

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Damon Runyon, author of sev- eral Cinema hits write the story and the Director was Marshall Nellan, "Lemon Drop Kid" will provide fans with a hour and a half of pleasant entertainment. Tracy is once again seen in sou quick witted dialogue sequences............ N.A.E

THE GIRL FROM® MAXIM'S

Four of England's greatest come- dians take leading parts in "The Girl from Maxim's," a delightful film of the Gay Nineties. Fran-

ees Day. George Grossmith, Lesile Henson

and

Stanley

"For as a feather-brained inven-

Holloway tor. Fields has perfected non-up- settable drinking glasses, a non-

are supported by one of the finest sticing golf ball. non-melting high-

assemble. All English casts ever ball ice and various other buman the sparkling galety of the period aids for which man has been wait-is recaptured again by Alexander ing since time immemorial,

which

Korda in "The Girl from Maxim's.” the dialogue is said to be the wittiest ever written for a Britis

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Of course, some of them are patterned after the trick Babe Goldberg devices. but they're in the picture nevertheless. Amonz

The settings for this film are the film brain-children. Fields demonstrates are a murder extremely lavish and no pains were chair, a device" for blowingous spared to make them "authentic in matches and an aid to easy Breathing. Fields explains the murder chair in this wise:

to lynch.smites him on

"You see, when a burglar comes hi and says "Stick 'em up.' „you become friendly with him, ask him to have a drink and invite him to sil down in this chair. His weignt releases a lever and this iron bail files up from the back of the chair. the sconce and kills him deader than a doornail,” In "You're Telling Me." Fields who is supported by a well-round- eu cast including Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Joan Marsh and Adrienne 'Ames, doesn't get very far with his inventions until he meets a regal princess from a European country, who sets the town right about turned out to be a cheap, varnish-him. And then, when one of his ed lithograph, and how he once gags does hit, why he's the big offered to buy from his home town shot for sure, and his daughter is "deacon a plece of salt meadow accepted by the banker's son

that he himself had owned for

And with no less alacrity he confesses to being taken in by a man who sold him a valuable oll painting of Jenny Lind which

several years.

So the man who introduced the Swedish Nightingale to this coun M. Schenck presentation in the try, who made fortunes from the light he would have preferred. midget General Tom Thumb, the That, at least, is the conviction" of Cardiff Giant and the Wild Man the authors of this colorful fim from Borneo and who coined the story in which Adolphe Menjou,' statistical axiom that there's a Virgina Bruce, Rochelle Hudson sucker born every minute" will be and Janet Beecher are also im- shown on the screen in this Joseph (portantly carti

every detail. Songs and dances of the period are included and a

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THE MIGHTY BARNUM

DARRYL F. ZANUCK P2DQUETION with ADOLPHE MENJOU

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DANCING, SINGING, COMIC, ACROBATIC A. delightful company of clever artistes, who have won a triumphant success in Europe and in the Far East. AT 239, 5.10 & 7.15 PM.$1.10-70 cts.. & 40 cts, INCLUDED)

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"HELLDORADO

At The King's

Boasting of a "notable fast and with thrilling sequences, the new Fox picture "Helldorado" DOW showing at the King's Theatre will afford film tans the opportunity of seeing once again the famous combination of prodocer-director in the new Jessë L. Läsky-James Cruze production, "

"Halldorado is the story of a group of eleven stranded strangers, cut off from the world by clout- burst and food. who find adven- ture and romance in an abandon- ed California ghost town. More particularly, it is the story of a beautiful young heiress, the mil- lionaire who is about to marry her, and the footloose young adven- turer who teaches her that she is Just a woman after all,

There is a modern gold rush as a climax to this vivid story with armies of hungry gold seekers sweeping down upon the old de- serted town, now but a shell Of former glory.

Richard Arien and Madge Evans play the young adventurer and the heiress with outstanding skill and prominent in their support are such important players Ralph Bellamy. James Gleason, Henry B. Walthall, Helen Jerome Eddy, Berton Churchill and Stépin Fetchit..

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ROCHELLE HUDSON

JANET BEECHER

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

(TAX

MINISTERS ON THE FILMS.

Mr. Chamberlian The Star

78pecial Air Mail Service)

London, May 29,

On Thursday morning an au-. dience of Cabinet Ministers, M.P.s. candidates, and agents saw the premiere of the new propaganda film of the National Government. In the front row ct the Carlton Cinema sat the Prime Minister. near by sat Sir John Simon, Mr. Billot, and other celebrities intent on seeing themselves as others are gourig to see them.

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The Alms are divided into those in which a Minister is discovered sitting at a desk and speaks, with only

Occasional downward glance at his manuscript, while

closer the camera moves

and closer. The camera has treated various Ministers with different degrees of justice and mercy. The Prime Minister's voice is effective. but his pose was sombre, and his script lacked clarity: Sir Jobu Simon's height has been exag- gerated by the camera, which evi- dently was pointed slightly up- wards, and so distorts the perspec- tive and gives the hands undue prominence.

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Mr. Chamberlain is the star. With the picture is seen on thewhat, another surplus?" he ex- stage that delightful, company,

claims, giving a delighted bounce The Mezey Revue in a series of

in his chair, and then enthusiasti- dances, songs and comic aerobatic caly explains his Budget. which all go to make up a delight-

Mr. Baldwin's film is more im-

CO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KINGA:-

"Kelldorado"

QUEEN'S :-

"The Ciri From Maxim's OBIENTAL-

"Last Round Up

Kowloon

MAJESTIC:~

"Flaming Guns"

ALHAMBRA:-

"The Lemon Drop Kid

KING'S

Coming

"The Mighty Barnum"

QUEEN'S:-

"The Whole Town's Talking"

ORIENTAL:-

"Have A Heart".

ALHAMBRA :----

"You've Telling Me"

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Friendship With Germany

London, June II.

The Prince of Wales in address- ug the "O.d Comrades" as he called the ex-service men of the British Leglou at their conference

FILM OF AN OLD PLAY

"Drake of England"

As

(Special Air Mail Service).

The English cinema will soon De

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representations of the galleries of

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In London to-day, made cordial monarchs reference to the German Nation. Madame Tussaud, and in "Drake The "Idea of a deputation from of England," at the Regal this to have figures seem the Legion going to Germany has week the commended itself to me, sald the come straight from that Institu- Prince. I feel there could be no

tion. They move, of course, but more suitable body to stretch forth mechanically. They are figures, the hand of friendship to the Ger- Bot as they should be, living Interpretations of past personages. Juans than we, ex-service men.

character of Elizabeth and who fought them—and have for-

would tend gotten all about in the Great the story of Drake

themselves well to the modern War.” ...."

handling of history.. But the The Prince said he had discuss-directors and scenarists of Elstree ea this suggestion with the Pre-are unwilling so to handle it and sident of the Legion, Major Gen-taking an old-fashioned play they eral Sir Frederick Maurice. proposal was greeted with loud ner.

His Alm it in an old-fashioned man-

cheers.

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The

fim is of

The story of this new British The Prince also referred to the film is that of the play "Drake," various activities of the Legion in- by Louis N. Parker. It was last cluding the finding of work for seen in London rather more than the ex-servicemen, helping those in twenty years ago, and the atmos- special trouble and providing phere caught in this clothes and other forms of assis that period of the theatre and tance to the unemployed in the not of the Elizabethan ages. Con- distressed areas. He expressed sequently it is useless to complain himself as heartily in favour of that the balldings and gardens lack authenticity, and that the bringing the younger generation

from breastplates come

This is a organisation of this work, "For, hey but a wardrobe.

picture of a play which

was said, we are none of us getting any written to be produced in a thea- younger,"

ful and entertaining programme. I aginative in conception. An aerial into their ranks to carry on the

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full chorus of beautiful English dancers was specially recruited.

The Girl from Maxim's" 13

without doubt another of Alexan- der Korda's screen eples. It opens its engagement to-day at Queen's Theatre,

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the

Patient: "Well, the book says that my son was injured in the fray."

view of Parliament, then Mr. Bald- win starts discussing the achieve

cents of the Government. Gradu~ like the Cheshire cat instead of ally Mr. Baldwin's face dissolves

the smile, the voice remains-and is replaced by miners going to

British Wireless

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GERMAN PRESS PLEASED (special to "Hong Kong

· Daily Press") work. As he discusses each in- (By Taingraph, · Copyright, · Tele dustry, views of it are shown. In graphs sengen. Ordinance. 189$. the Industrial viewa and in the Received, June 12, $80 p.m.) films on agriculture and Scotland

Berlin, June 12. the photography is magnificent. An appeal in favour of

The Alms of this illustrational Anglo German "understanding, Information Wanted

type are far the most effective. made by the Prince of Wales at There is a fine conclusion to one the annual assembly of the British Patient: "What part of the

film, where "the wheels of indus- Legion, was warmly welcomed by body is the fray?"

try" are shown in operation; the press here. The frank state- Doctor: "What are you talking spindles, crankshafts move with ment by the heir to the British about?"

increasing velocity, while a home- throne, which certainly was not ly Scottish voice asks the voters made without the government's not to delay this industrial re- consent says "Berliner Lokalan- covery.

zelger" in a front page leader, clearly shows the change of view which is taking place in England and which particularly” is evidenced by the demands made by the Dominion Premters on the occa- sion of the King's Jubilee.

The front line soldier who learned to respect the enemy is the best" mediator when war and hatred is to be overcome. The heir to the throne, spoke as the front une soldier and his words were more than mere gestures. The spirit shown by them and the British War Veterans League's ap- plause is the best start for the forthcoming negotiations.

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Similar sentiments were express- ed by Berliner Tageblatt" which says, “for a long time it had been clearly understood by all classes of the Germany people that the various frontline soldiërs, assɔ- ciations were better able than anybody else to supplement the efforts of high diplomsey as, am- bassadors of goodwill between the nations. The forthcoming visit of the British war veterans gains special significance in view of the fact that was announced by the Prince of Wales-personally — Transocéan Kia Hin,-

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in the theatre, look right because they belong to the theatre have a habit of looking wrong on the screen.

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