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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

THE MAYOR OF HELL

TRANSIENT LADY

Motion pictures are doing 1 Three of the most brilliant great deal when

they faithfully writers of the day are responsible mirror life; but sometimes they for Universala newest Alm, phenomenon of pleturing future "Transient Lady." which is coming events happens with almost pay-

to the King's Theatre on Thurs- chle preciseness.

"day, with a cast headed by Gene A most unusual case to light in Raymond, Henry Hull, Frances connection with James Cagney Drake and June Clayworth. latest pleture for Warner Bro- The original story was written thers "The Mayor of Hell" show-by Octavus Roy Cohen, and ran ing at the Oriental Theatre on serially in Liberty magazine.

Friday and Saturday. The entire background of the story is a boys reform school, with an exposition of conditions SO corrupts and practices so cruel that the picture

classified 3.3 may well be

the junior successor to "I'm A Fugitive From A Chain Gang."

Madge Evans has the leading feminine role in "The Mayor of Hell" Others in the cast include Allen Jenkins. Dudley Digges, Arthur Bryon, Shellla Terry and Frankis Darro.

ONE NEW YORK NIGHT

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is a glittering example of the masterly ability to portray every- day people. because they represent the vast majority of the public. So he laid his story In a Uttle southern town and made principals three skating rink pro- moters, a young lawyer and * small-town crooked polit clan.

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Two masters of the art screenplay writing were given the job of transforming "Transient Lady" to the screen. They are Arthur Caesar and Harvey Thew. Caesar is a graduate of Yale University, and gained tame as a playwright. writing. “Napoleon's | Barber." "Maker of Men" and Those who get a kick out of "Out of Severi Seas.' He has exultement in their nim enie written scores of screenplays, since Talament will find plenty of it in, going to Hollywood in 1930. the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayen mystery-comedy. "One New York Night" starting to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre.

With Franchot Tone playing the rule of a Wyoming raricher whu

Harvey Thew is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, who started his career as a newspaper reporter Before he entered the olcture.. field he wrote a book, "Cruise of the Wock." 2 stage and two

romes to New York to and a weploy. "Young America," and is precipitated into a murder mustaal comedies, "Playing Aroun mystery which happens in

the

hotel room adjoining his own, the story progresses from one reel to the other with uninterrupted ac- tion building up to a smash climax" and "final denouement.

Conrad Nagel is the "bad mad" of the plot, and with Una Merkel as the telephone operator, au- dlerces can be assured that there are plenty of laughs switched in between suspense and excitement.

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musles! ..comċdles, "Playing Around" and "Julls Sees Her." He started his picture writting back in 1915, and for years has been one of the real outstanding scenarists of Hollywood.

Incidentally. this is one picture where Una gets "her man" in the

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NON-STOP REVUE

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To-day when the

Doorlay's Non-Stop Revue, which arrived from Batavia after a successful season, with a star cast of 45 en- tertainers opens at the King's Theatre, their 24 hour continuous performance will be something the like of which has never been *seen locally. 41

ALLEN JENKINS HAROLD HUBER

- Evenings Zu cts.-36 eis.-56 eta.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1935.

ON THE STAGS TO-DAY at 6 and 9 80. P.M. only.

PROF. WILLIAM “DOORLAY'S

TROPICAL

EXPRESS

NON-STOP

!

REVUE

A NEW QUICK-FIRE PROGRAMME NEW ACTS! NEW SONGS! NEW DANCES!

TO-MORROW 19.30 70 3 P.M. CONTINUOUSLY Gone RAYMOND - Henry HULL. Frances DRAKE

IN "TRANSIENT LADY "..

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

QUEENS

THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5 10, 7.20 & 9.30

PITY ME-I had the most precious thing in life-and

threw it away!

ANN CARVERS PROFESSION

Merle Oberon and Leslie Howard is "The Scarlet Pimpernel,"

London Film, released through United Artists

THE PROFESSORS chosen young actors med

DREAM

Professor Max Reinhardt, dean or the theatre and the great producer whom all the leading players boast of having studied under, has fallen for Alms-book, line and sinker. Hollywood had been making tempting offers to him long. before he eventually agreed to make “A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Warners. He fought a little shy of the new- tangled invention, but now that he has tested it be cannot And sufficient superlatives to express his delight and admiration.

The screen is the art form of the Twentieth Century" he said.': "with it, we can bring every" thing to life again-Shakespeare, Shaw all the great

poets and dramatists will have 1 new meaning when they are filmed. All my life I have been trying to find theatres which are small enough to allow the slightest gesture and inflection to be seen and understood by the auctience. In Berlin, my favourite theatre, "held no more than three hun- dred people. Yet even there it was impossible for the WHOIC audience Lo see those tiny ges-" tures which the close-up makes 30 plain "

decided that the Near East, India, the Dutch East Indies and the Far East should be toured and as a consequence the company whien The intimacy of the cinema was formed from the talent makes possible a new style of available in their studios situated acting. The actor can express in Paris were assembled. They subtleties of meaning impossible left Amsterdam direct for Italy on the stage. But we must have and thence to the ports of call A new style of actor, too. I have on their way to the East.

The ...most spectacular per formance that they have to offer is entitled "A Trip Around The World in 8 Minutes" in which twelve nations are represented in their respective, National dances,

They have had a remarkably successful tour up to date, and I the confidence expressed by the management of this troupe of artists., is to be taken as criterion. Hong Kong will never regret being included their Itinerary.

Yesterday afternoon, at the Hong Kong Hotel, a "Daily Press, representative was accorded an interview with Mr. Egun: Loarch, stage manager of the company, who gave some very interesting Information regarding their tour since leaving Amsterdam a year include the former country as the

In all 70 acts will be presented, most of which are of a minute to a minute and a half duration,

The company has not missed Its share of misfortune a

for on arrival at Calcutta the tempera ture there registered 120. degrees. Four of the girls collapsed". five minutes before the curtain was due to rise, yet the show went on.

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Mr. Loarch said that he was not quite sure whether they would proceed to South Africa after tour- ing Japan, or go to Australia, but it was most likely that they would

climatic conditions in Australia

The Tropical Express" (as the would probably be unsuitable. company is at present known)

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formerly played In Europe 28 "The Brazilian Revué” under the management of Professur. Doorlay "With a single stroke of enjoyed considerable success brush," said the school teacher, wherever they went. They head taking his class around the office of the company is situated National Gallery,

Joshua Reg.- in Amsterdam

nolds could change a smiling face to a frowning face."

FTS FORMATION

The present company was form-

who have grown up and gained their experience in front of .the

than behind camera rather

the footlights. People were surprise- ed that I had chosen Cagney to play Bottom But Cagney or an actor like him, was the only possible choice. The old gran- diose actors of the theatre mere- ly succeeded in making Shakes- peare dui

POET OF ALL TIME. Shakespeare as they played his works, was not in keeping with the spirit of the times. Yet Shakespeare is a poet of all time, of to-day 13 much as of the Sixteenth Century. I was able to see George Robey "Henry IV," but I heartily ap- plaud the idea of using him in- the play.

WILLIAM POWELL

In Star Of Midnight'

Willam Powell, still Inmacu- Jave a tails and white de, still the last word in screen nou chalance, is running .Io darta another black hearted killer with the lift of an eye-lid, the flip er a cigarette and a tall glass of Scotch and Soda.

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Powel, called "Suare elders and smooth" by young- sters, has completely lost track of the murderers he has outw.cted since he became Philo Valce years ago. They must ran into dozens. His quarry is captured in the course of "Star of Mid- night," the new sophisticated mystery arama In which RKO Radio, through sheer inspira-- tion. has teamfed him with delightful Ginger Rogers, who can dance with Fred Astaire and act with the best or them.

Bill Powell has been one of the great

ngures of films for years and perhaps you don't remember that he bêgạn as the trackee and not the tracker. He' was a villain of the deepest dye in pictures for some years-until be became Philo Vance, the Sherlock Holmes of the Nineteen Twenties.

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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S :-

"Tropical Express Non-Stop.

Revue".

QUEEN'S:-

"Ann Carver'a Profession" ORIENTAL.-

"Silk Express"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA-

"Pursued"

MAJESTIC:-

"Count of Monte Cristo"

KING'S.—"

Coming

"Transient Lady"

QUEEN'S:-

"One New York Night"

MAJESTIC:-

"Red Morning" ALHAMBRA:~

"Black Sheep

ADRIAN DESIGNS

GOWN

For Comedian

Adrian has designed gowns fut all the glamorous women of the screen out recently he designed a gown for a man!

It happened this way. Sid Slivers has been cast to play.a role' with Jack Benny in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical, Broadway Melody Of 1936. Hils part calls for him to imper- sonate à French girl, "Arlette." in one of the comedy sequences. "Arlette," portrayed by Elear.o/ Powell, wears an Adrian-design- ed gown, so Savers had to "be fitted for the same type of dress!" Production is now under way.

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the John W.Considine, JI musical being directed by Roy Del Ruth Others in the cast

are

June Knight, Una Merkel, Robert Taylor. Frances Langford, Vilma and Buddy Ebsen, Nick Long, Jr., Harry Stockwell, Shir- ley Ross, Jeni LeGon, and Robert Wildhack.

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WAVE OF SUCCESS He has mostly ups in his career, and almost no downs, "The Thin

"The dances are being directen Man," last season, set him on a by Dave Gould, crestor of the now. wave of success,

"Continental” and the

and "Cavioca" nonchalant one not

can hardly fl Nacią. Herb Brown and Arthur all his film committments. in

In

Freed wrote the sons fact, parts are being hurled at his head so constantly that dur- Ing. work on "Star of Midnight” at RKO Radio ne that from now on he would make only four pictures a year. That he couldn't do justice to more than four good roles a season- and that probably we'd all get tired at him it he did more.

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If Shakespeare is played the screen by modern actors, with modern mannerisms, he wil be:20 esh and enjoyable in 1935 as he was over three hun- dred years ago. it

A Great deal depends on the success of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I am sure it will please the critics-I hope it will earn plenty of money.

If it does, "Shakespeare will come into Alms with a bang. M.G.M. are planning "Romeo And Juliet" Radio are consider- ing "Twelfth Night" Warners may make "Hamlet" with Leslie Howard in the lead and I may have a hand in that too), and Charles Laughton whom I con- sider the greatest actor on the screen, has told me that the aim of his life is to play. Lear.

"So can my mother," said the Professor Doorlay's Tropical Expres Non

ed in Amsterdam, when It was, small boy.

announced:

• FINEST TRADITION Powell's role in the new""Star of Midnight" is in his very Anest tradition." He is seen as Clay Dalzell, a lawyer who is lured into mystery-solving by a friend who loves the missing gil. His wardrobe is superb, and so is his apartment, and he plays the role with all the old Powell charm and acuteness.

What lew Powell fans know is that his long succession amateur sleuth rules led him into 2′′general interest in detecting and criminology.

Bill figured

Silvers collaborated with Jack McGowan "on the screen play taken from a story by Moss 'Hart Harry W. Conn has written ad- ditional dialogue

that if he was going to make a career of such parts He had bet- ter know what it was all about. He therefore made friends with

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ONLY

"TO-DAY

At 2,80, 5.20. 7,20 & 9.20 P.M.

The Count

OF

Monte Cristo

WITH

ROBERT DONAT

**

ELISSA

LANDI

TO-MORROW

"Red Morning

WITH

STEFFI DUNA

· REGIS. TOOMEY

Franchot Tone and Margaret Lindsay are the young lovers in Gentlemen are Born" First National's comedy-drama of col- lege lads who try to back the world,

ANN CARVER'S PROFESSION

Are

At The Queen's

domestic happiness and. professional success compatible? Does a man continue to love his Wife when her salary pays the bills?

These are the problems discus- aed in "Ann Carver's Profession," a Columbia picture closing at the "Queen's Theatre" to-day.

The story

concerns the career

I a woman lawyer whose sen- sational courtroom" exploits estab-. ilsh her as the outstanding fe- minine barrister of New York

Los Angeles police heads, dis- City. Her husband, meanwhile, is trict attorneys and criminal law-forging ahead slowly as an archit- yers, and has spent a lot of time

ect. but it is her salary which visiting trials ranging from nrst maintains their household. - degree murder court sessions.

cases to

night

Is it possible that their marriage can be happy? Or is domestic

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When you see "Star of Mid-tragedi. Inevitable, alght." with its thrills, humor Edward Buzzell, the director. and romance, you'll find the slick belleves this story is one of the Mr. Powell tangling twisted most significant yet written for clues with his airiest grace,

the screen in that it deals with nobly alded by the flame-that- problems faced by all profession- ched Ginger and a good cast. "al women. Fay Wray plays Ann

Few could ask for more,

motion picture audiences Carver and Gene Raymond her husband. Claire Dodd. Claude Gillingwater, Jessie Ralph, and Arthur Pierson are also cast in important roles.

Theatre

ALHAMBRA

BANTIE,

TODAY & TO MORHOW

At 2.80, 6.20, 7.20 & 9:30 pm.

SHE OFFERED HER LIFE TO SAVE HISI-

ran away from his lovel

But

PURSUED

PERT KELTON:

ARY AMES

HARDE

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