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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

WE LIVE AGAIN

"We Live Again" brings Anna Step and Fredric March to the -screen of the King's Theatre to- day, in a provocative picturzation *of Tolstoy's prophetic novel, "Re-

surrection.".

It is produced by Samuel Gold wyn and directed by Rouben Mu- moulian as a brilliant addition to his chain of distinguished films that includes Greta Garbo "Queen Christina," Marlene Die:- rich in "Song of Songs' and Mau- rice Chevaller and Jeannette Mac- Donald in "Love Me Tonight."

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Sydney Howard makes a com- pletely new "departure in "Girls Please." He singst

And, strange as it may seem, his singing is more than competent. This may be traced back to the days when "ower Syd" was one of the leading figures of a concert party at St. Anneson-Sea, and in that capacity was called upon to sing in solo and concerted numbers. Then subsequently he was chief comedian of numerous touring re- vues where again his drolleries had to be supplemented by song and dance.

Jack. Raymond, who directed Girls Please.“- knows Sydney's capabilities better than any other Aree.or in Alms, and so was able to suggest the incorporation of a mus cal number in this production for the sake of novelty. But

"We Live Again" has nothing in common with the "Mana" that in- troduced Anna Step to the world of American films last year. As Zola's heroine in the story of gas- 1t Paris in 1870, the blonde young actress from Soviet Russia had 1ɔ play a part with which she had no native or temperamental sym- pathy. On the other hand, Miss Sten's new picture draws on every-hough it is new to the screen per- thing that she loves as a matter of temperament...

Miss Sten's new picture has an equal distinction in presenting Fredric March in one of the most interesting of three roles that will be seen almost simultaneously. He is the Prince Dmitri in "We Live Again." He has the name part in

"The Affairs of Cellini" with Con- stance Bennett, and beside his fel- low Academy prize winners, Norma Shearer and Charles Laughton. he appears in "The Barretts of Wim- pole Street" as the poët Browning Jane Baxter makes her American Alm debut in "We Live Again." She has been considered one of the most promising of the younger English film actresses. Others in the cast are C."Aubrey Smith, Jes- sie Ralph, Sam Jaffe and Mary Forbes.

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cona ity Sydney Howard the real Sydney Howard turns reminiscent syes back towards -Blackpool and : Annes in he days before the

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Another s range sight in "Gizis Please" is Sydney masquerading in female clothes. He has never done this before on the screen and only once on the stage, in a farce rall- edt's a Bov." in which the fun

was shared between himself and Leslie Henson

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Eo great are Sydney's powers u! mimiery, however, "that he emerges 23 one of the most delightful and amusing "dames" ever seen. His b'bulous toasts and "girlish" gès- cures will be remembered with joy by all whq see the film, which is coming to the King's Theatre on Tuesday.

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THE BEST MAN WINS

Two of the screen's most vizlie wise-cracking he-man Edmund Lowe and Jack Holtare teamed for the first time in "The Best Man Wins" the next change at the Queen's Theatre. It makes not only a rare but a crackling combination, which propels action, comedy and drama with the power of lightning flashing trom thunderheads.

Supreme in their own eletherits as screen individuals known for their degiveness, sharply etched characterizations, and flashing re- partee, Lowe and Holt together make the sparks fly from every scene, action and bit of powerful drama in this amazing photogra phic story of the hazardous, adven- turous lives of deepsea divers.

Lovely Florence Rice, the Broad- way favourite who for three years turned down all screen offers, is presented in her first important featured role opposite the two male stars. Bels Lugas, Bradley. Page and Fartell MacDonald are among others in the supporting cast.

The rowdy, robust screen" action starts when Love and Holt first scrap over the affections of the beautiful Miss Rice, with Lowe bearing a slight advantage." An accident during a salvage opera- tion, however, results in the am patation of one of Lowe's' arms. Unwilling to force himself upon the girl in such condition he dia- appears, joins a smuggling ring as a driver and ultimately sacrinces his life to save that of Holt's in an undertea encounter.

Wallace Beery who will be seen in "West Point Of The Air at the

Oriental Theatre to-day.

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HARDING TASTHAL

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THE QUEEN'S

Anu Harding At Her Best

The Alhambra Theatre manage- ment could not have chosen a better picture with which to launch One of the outstanding dramatic 'themselves into the Hong Kong entertainments seen locally is now movie: world. Yankee gangster pic-on view at the Queen's Theatre in tures always go down well with the the M-G-M picture The Flame crowd, however much they may Within.” appear to deprecate them but I The picture is rich in its drama- am sure that this one will be one tic acting. It is intensely interest- of the few that will earn more ing and the gripping sequences in

· bouquets than even facetious it will no doubt bring the question criticism.

as to whether such a ihing le James Cagney, the inimitable, really possible. takes the lead ng role of "Brick · Ann Harding as a doctor, is Davis" hard-boiled. New. York given charge of Maureen O'Sulli- lawyer of the East Side who throws van a very highly strung and emo- up a very promising practise to tionai girl, who had just been join the Government Department į saved by Herbert Marshall and of Justices in order to avenge the Henry Stephenson, two doctors who death of his old College friend are the friends of Ann Harding, Eddie Buchanan-payed by Regis after she had attempted suicide Tooney.

Gregory Rogers, the author of "G Men" has woven together a most interesting story based on the wonderful efforts of the United States to wipe out, what will ever be ablo on her history, the gangster.

This picture had a very finc re- ception in Shanghai and should be very well received by Hong Kong

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"We Live Again".

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„„NEW FIELD-MARSHAL

Promotion For The C.I.G.S.

The War Omee announce that his Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the promotion of General Sir Archibald A. Mont" gomery-Massingberd. G.C.B.. KO÷ M.G., LL.D., Colonel Commandanc Royal Artillery, Colonel Comman- Ine reformed adinistry and the dant Royal, Tank Corps," "Colonet": German naval ag.eement are Commandant · 20th. Burma' Rifles, among the topics discussed in this Indian Army, Chief of the Imperial month's reviews.

General Staff, to the rank of Field-

In the "Nineteenth Century" Mr. Marshal, in succession to the late Cyril Asquith, K.C., reviews the two Field-Marshat the Viscount Byng recent judgments of the judicial (G.CBG.C.MG., M.V.O.. DC.L... committee and finds the decision LED Colonel 10th Royal Hussars consonant with Imperial policy, ex-} (Prince of Wales's Own). pediency, and sentiment the first-

Archibald Montgomery-

Sir

fruits of the Statute of West- Massingberd has been Chief of the niinster a thing Itself of shreds Imperial General Staff since 1933,

and patches, yet a supremely in- when he succeeded Lord Milne, who portant charter of Imperial liberty. Was also promoted to supreme The nationalization of credits rank, while holding the First Mil- The success of the Artiglio in

examined by Sir Geoffrey Ellis tary Membership of the Army salvaging a great part of the

M.P., and is shown in its Socialistic Council. Of the two preceding bullion from the Egypt has given sense to be a demand which the promotions, Lord Cavan had been proot that the diver, with the devices now at his command, can savers of savings have every right CIGS and Sir Phillp Chetwode work effectually at much greater to resist, since most "credit" be was Chief of the General Staff in longs to them and is of their India before becoming Commander- depths than he could ten years creation; methods however at pre-

in-Chief. The last four batons ago. The old calculation was that a naked diver by filling this lungs sent employed for issuing capital have therefore gode to the Guards,

and the working of, company law Cavalry, and the R.A. (twice), with oxygen could withstand the need looking into preferably by the

The new Field-Marshal has taken. pressure at afty or even sixty feet- for a minute or two.. By the man City voluntarily, rather than by a leading part in the reconstruction force majeure." Mr. Hector By- of the Army and the development with a waterproof sult, a helmet,ater in the German Naval Re- of mechanization, "not only and an air-line work could be done aissance" "holds that Germany'a C.LGS. but in the field experiment=”

at least twice that depth; but operations at 300 and 400 feet-

decision to rest at sea oo

al work as General Officer Com- manding-in-Chief, Southern Com mand, and commander of the Ist

the Egypt lies at the latter depth strictly limited scale may prove a blessing in disguise; we can 110 -were impossible until the inven- longer acquiesce in the "American / Division at Aldershot. He has al- tion by a Kiel firm a few yen yardstick, and there can be no re- i‚ways kept in view the importance age of the all-metal diving-suitewal 18 months hence of treaties of the Territorial Army, not only which gives its wearer the appear-which haye, emasculated British as a second line, but as a first line, ance of a robot and makes move-

and under his guidance has been ment from one spot to another

developed th ecoast defence respon-

sea power. Signor Alessandro Lessona (Italian Under-Secretary:

almost impossible, but enables him of State for the Colonies) sets forth sibility of the TA, and the sug-

to withstand & pressure ten dr

when she is dissappointed by her more times that of the atmos. the past policy of Italy in Africa mentation of London's air defences.

boy friend, Louls Hayward. Ann Harding look Maureen O'Sulli- van in her charge and later Louis Hayward' is sent to a specialist who cures him.

Later they are married and on the anniversary of their wedding

they return to the states' and meet

the old doctors again. Here Louis Hayward confesses his love for Ann Harding and after a couple of ex- oslons everything ends happilly. "The Flame Within" is not only rich in dramatle acting but is something new in motion picture drama. It is soul gripping

and there is plenty that should engross the audience.

This picture is heartily recom- mended.--O.M.O.

phere.

THE OPHIR

and so leads up to the Abyssinian question: Italy has a duty to prɑ--| --- vide against dangers which threat- by concentrating the whole of the The Ophir, which set out from sa her in that direction. Lord Mel-naval forces of the Empire in home the Clyde recently to locate and chett in the "Future of Palestine" attempt to salvage the Lusitania, records the energetic growth of the oversea possessions, and the Medi

waters and leaving trade routes, is fitted with apparatus of this Jewish community; the velocity and terranean unprotected. Moreover, sort, and, since the Lusitania les energy of Zionism are likely to in- it is "moonshine" to say that Ger- at only some 280 feet, mere depth crease for many years to come, and many's naval strength. is "limited should be no obstacle to reaching Transjordania must come within for all time." Lady Milner, whose her. Nor, though it is twenty the Zionist area; the only way of article on "France, Italy, Germany, years since she was torpedoed, making the whole territory happy and Ourselves" follows, quotes need it be assumed that she has and prosperous would be that it opinion from those countries on the gone to pieces. If Dr. William should form a self-governing in naval agreement: "we can only Beebe, who in his bathysphere" stitution within the British Empire. clear our reputation by instantiy has gone down, to the astonishing depth of 2,500 feet, came on the

dissociating ourselves from this

British

"NATIONAL REVIEW **

THE CARRIAGE WINDOW

(Special Air Mail Service>

wreck of a great liner among the The "National Review" minces agreement and those who made it." London, July 18.

strange objects of the great deeps no words over the renunciation of Compared with these downright It is said thất thé arm of the

he" would find it flattened like a

sea-power, in. Home comments, what the National may law is long, and on occasion. it is

pancake by the pressure it endur-Waters for such is the effect of have to say about anything else is shown to be. There is a case in

ed. The Lusitania may be fairlythe navar agreement with Ger- bound to be a little insipid; but it point. In the year 1898, 'in a train.

intact. But reaching her is the many. It will take time for us fully may be noted that the General "making Its way to Vienna, a pas- railways are busy with holiday least part of the task ahead. to realize to what we are committed Election will, the Conservative. are at all alive to the senger rose and closed the carriage traffic, and it is a notorious, tact Decks will have to be demolished Inferiority in the Channel and leaders. window. Almost immediately are that rall travellers are roughly with explosive, and the bullion- the North Sea, with all that that situation, take place in October or other passenger rose without a divided into two classes. There room broached without scattering entails. It is a "most deadly" November" and according to “The word and opened it again. The are those who open the carriage the buillon. It was in this work agreement, which if adhered to Irishman," who writes on President performance was repeated There window and those who insist on that the Italians of the Artiglio must lead to the "elimination of Roosevelt's "house of cards," "the were words. Finally a face was having it shut. And by some im- met their greatest perils and the British Empire. In an article man does not live who could handle alapped, and the victim of the pishness in the nature of human achieved their greatest successes on it Vice-Admiral Harper asks, so monstrous a political unit fas assault lodged a complaint with fate individuals of each class are If a result at all comparable How does the Government propose the United States as a single unit"- the police, who took the offender's continually thrown together in the comes from the attempt on the to guard our coasts and trade in sooner or later it must split up into- name, and told him he would hear one carriage...

Lusitania a new possibility will be

the narrow seas? Only, he answers, its eight natural sections. more of the matter. They were We doubt if there is a single added to the enterprise of treasure as good as their word. The offen carriage among the thousands hunting in the depths which has der did hear about it. He was which roll their efficient way over drawn, the adventurous from the served with 3 notice, recently, British railways which has not early days of the Tobermory made his appearance, and was witnessed this familiar drama of galleon onwards. fined a few shillings.

human passion the tugging and Forty years is perhaps rather a counter-tugging at the window the long interval between the slap-strap, the black looks, and ping of a face and its just reward, | hard, words... The carriage window. for the slapper is bound to have is, in fact, one of the best-known forgotten his pleasure in the, blow, fountains of bad blood. in the and the victim his sense of pain modern world. Even as

these and affront. But the law must words are being read man is doggedly follow up its cases, and glowering darkly at man out tos there is something rather fine the corners of railway carriages about the peralstence with which up and down the land, Let them the Austrian police have struck to remember the Austrian who for- the trail while the Empire fell got himself even on his way to about them, and brought this laughing Vienas and the police „bad-tempered traveller to book at men who remembered him forty fast. Moreover, the stary could years after in a Vienna which not have been issued to the world does not laugh, quite so much as at a more opportune time. The it did

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Wanted: A capable housekeep er able to milk cows, to keep house for one.

Lost: A fountain pen by a man hair full of ink.

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