1935-09-18 — Page 4

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.

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Aubrey Smith's Plan

You remember how Gaumont British recently brought C. Aubrey Smith back to his native England to play a leading part in the Kip- ling film, "Soldiers Three?" Mr. Aubrey Smith has been here for quite a litle while, but the Alm he came over to appear in is still a long way off. He thinks, he may not be in it after all.

Production has been postponed until later in the year, and it is unlikely that he will be able to re- main in Britain. In fact, he may be returning to Hollywood, in a a week or two, because he is wanted there for several films.

He has, however, made good use of his time while he has been with us. He arrived when they were re-arranging the casting for the Maurice Elvey film "The Tunnel."

Conrad Veldt had been given · a leading role in this, but had to be released in order to fulfil his contract with Alexander Korda. So the part intended for Veldt was rewritten, Leslie Banks was brought in to play it, and an en- tirely new part was created for Aubrey Smith, with a view to strengthening the cast.

The prob.em now arises of who 1 to replace Aubrey Smith in "Soldiers Three" 'should he de- finitely drop out. It will not b easy to find a substitute for him. "Gaumont British are hoping that he may find time to come over from Hollywood again towards the end of the year.

If he does, it will be his third appearance in a Bin introducing Khyber Pass.

There Was & Khyber Pass sequence in "The Monkey's Paw." It was 'med a mile or so from the studios.

There was another one, as you know, in "Bengal Lancers." This, too, was filmed not far from H3}- lywood..

And of course. The Khyber Pass scenes for "Soldiers Three" will be done in the Gaumount British studios at Shepherd's Bush, al- though they will incorporate real "shots" of the location brought back from India by Cleattrey Bar kar(What? Suured Aubrey Smith Is that he has never been to the Khyber

ANNA STEN'S PARTY

Anna Sten

cocktail gave 2 party last week to tell the Press all about herse f and her first English Alm.

There was nothing of the aloof glamour star about her. It was difficult o imagine why she had bee. h.d.ng herself. She was in the friendliest possible mood. She handed her own cigarettes. She personally welcomed every- But she had not very much to tell us that we did not already know:

.on.

Although she was enthusiastic about her picture," "A Woman Alone," which goes into produc- tion towards the end of the month, and very keen to come un- der the direction of Fedor Otzep again, she confessed that she hadn't seen the script of the film, because it had not been complet- ed, "I have a good part, though." said. "The story has a Russian background and I appear as 2 Russian girl"

She went to great pains to.ex- plain that she was not "fed up" with Hollywood. Anything but. Two or three stories are already being discussed for her out there. and she will be returning before long. She wouldn't say, however, with which company,

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At the present moment, she is not worrying about her films. She is leaving that to her husband, Dr. Eug:ne Frenke. Her worry it seems, is a far more feminine and natural one. She is trying to rent &sultable house to live in while she is in England; and is Anding. it by no means easy to get just the sort of place she wants.

Fish Stories The gold-digger and the nsher- Both were talking shop. about the one that got away

man

Light Reading" Doctor, how am I?" quavered the patient, annonce

"Oh, you're much better,” replied the medica, breeally, but I would n't start reading any serial stories. All I were you k

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STARDOM FOR EDNA MAY OLIVER

Irving Thaiberg announces that he is plannng to fim the Mary Roberts Rinehart story, "Tish," with Edna May Oliver in the lead.

This means that Miss Ouver may regard herself as a star henceforward, for the part she will play is essentially a starring rcle. The story was originally bought for the late Marle Dressler a short while before her death. Later. t was shelved and has not been heard

since, except for a

·Vague suggestion that it should be offered to Constance Collier on her arrival la Hollywood from England.

It will now be completely rev- vamped with a view to suiting it to Mias Oliver's particular style. and will probably go into produc- tion around the end of Septem- ber.

DIE AFTER DIE

Johnny Downs is the boy who's alive but he won't get up. Un- less the director tells him he can. Johnny is doing his usual stuf in Bo Red The Rose, which King Vidor is. directing for Paramount. He was the first juvenile in the " old "Our Gang" comedies, but le. only recently returned to the screen after a long time on the stage. In the last nine months his record, has been four pictures -our deaths. So Red The Rose brings him to five."

His Cast picture for Paramount was The Clock Strikes Eight, In this he was strangled while play- ing the piano. In the picture before that he died naturally in the one before that he was push- ed off a cliff and in the one be- fore that he was hit on the head with a mallet and then shot.

STANLEY TO JOIN IDA Ida Lupino is getting ready her Hollywood home for the visit of her father, Stanley, who is ex- pected to foln his wife and daughter in November for a aix weeks holiday. Ida has just completed her role in Para- mount's Peter Ibbetson, in which Gary Cosper and Ann Harding co-star.

DE MILLE'S BEST

in

The acknowledged master of screen spectacle the greatest handler of mob

scenes nimdom the producer of ***The Ten Commandments"; "The Sign of the Cross" and "Cleopatra" Cecil B. DeMille, has completed his most ambitious and spec- tacular picture to date.

The "story behind the scenes" o' The Crusades the latest-19 technically interesting in itself.

Eight months were spent on research-delving into books. pictures, music, costume dealing with the 12th century period of the Third Crusade-before A Wig turned. And-to 'camera

mention the end-next-more than 300,000 feet of film went into the cutting room.

The "sets" built for the film covered a total area of 284.000 square feet, the biggest of them being used for the storming ef Acre scene, in which nearly 1,000 players took part.

All kinds .0% mediaeval armoury-swords, crossbows, dag- gers, arrows-were made in the studio by skilled artisans. Many of these replicas are to be pre- sented to museums in the near future.

THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE

The most amazing "prop" ever built in a studio was the giant catapult built to the specification o DeMille, after much poring Built over of historical tomes. of huge timbers with massive metal fittings, the great war ma- chine weighed · 11 tons and measured 40 feet in length, by 20 feet in height and 20 feet In width: And it hurled two-ton boulders?

the Bigger stil, but without mechanical genius. came the slege tower on which the Crusad- ers stormed the walls of Acre. This stood fifty feet high and weighed 35 tons. A hundred men could be, accommodated on its five floors while thousands could clamber up its steps and cross z wall by means of the drawbridge lowered from its fourth floor.

Henry Wilcoxon, the English actor, and Loretta Young, head the cast in the roles of Richard Coeur-de-Lion and Berengaria. Katherine DeMile, is Alice of France. Other well-known names In the cast are C. Aubrey Smith. Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale. George Barbier, Montagu Love, Hobart Bosworth, William Far- num and Lumsden Hare..

Incidentally, when DeMille is- sued an appeal for works dealing with the Crusades, his repies Included books and pamphlets on the anti-Psittacosis parrot "crusade", the Two-Hours-For-. Lunch "crusade" and the Safety- First "erusade"!

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FOREIGN STARS

Of Hollywood

The Americali film public, ac- customed to regarding every Hollywood actor 'as an American.- has been astonished to find that one star in every four ts foreign- born. The precise total is, 28 out of 98.

England leads the foreign coun- tries, Sweden can point to Garbo. Germany to Dietrich, Russia to Anna Sten, and Mexico to Dolores del Rio, Lupe Velez and Ramon Novarro, but England has:

Chaplin

Leslie Howard,

Charles Laughton. Herbert Marshall. Clive Brook, Ronald Colman, George Arliss.

Robert Donat, Roland Young.

Frank Lawton, Evelyn Laye.

Sir Guy Standing Merle Oberon.. America, however, still claims the biggest

star. box-office as well as such outstanding favourites as Clark Gable, Ro- bert Montgomery, the Barrymores. Wallace Beery. Joan Crawford, Kay Francis and Ann Harding. Norma Shearer was born in Ca- nada, like Marle Dressler and Walter Huston,

Statistics also show that the average age of stars is 39 for men and 30 for Women.

THE DUKE OF

YORK

The Duke of Yorg turned cameraman for a short time dur- ing his recent visit to the boys' camp at Southwold. H

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Noticing a British Paramount News sound truck with cameras fixed on the roof; following him round the sports ground, he walked over and asked one of the operators about the working own hand "ofit. "I have my

cine-camera. and I ат very Interested in this", sa'd the Duke.

J. Gemmell, the British Para-. mount News cameraman, ex-

cather plained how the

was worked, and the Duke success- fully took it over, getting some good "shots" which were released next day in the newsreel.

MAE WEST'S NEW

SCHOOL

Mac West, scintillating Para- mount star of GOIN' TO TOWN, is going to start a school to teach modern girls how to wear cor- sets! She has already engaged two specialists in the art of cor-. setry for she insists that any girl who works with her in her next plcture must have balance, grace ......and a waspwaist"...

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Mae's next Alm-tentatively titled "Klondike Lou" is a story of the Alaskan gold rush days when men were men and wonien were waisted,

Warner Oland and Stepin Fetch!t in "Charlie Chan, in Egypt.” Showing at the King's Theatre.

WARNER OLAND and “PAT" PATERSON have the leading roles in Fox Film's latest mystery thriller, "Charlie Chan in Egypt." Charlie Chan faces a new enemy and strange conditions in this, his most baffling a

STAR BECOMES FILM CENSOR

One of the old-time stars of the silent films Marguerite Clarke-has become a film censor.

Senator. Huey Lang. dictator Governor of the State of Louis- ans, appointed her a member of h's new,Censorship Board in New Orleans.

Miss Clark, who retired from the studios 12 years ago, "is" "now"

Mrs H Palmerston Williams. She was Mary' Pickford's chief rival from 1914 onwards, being equally. diminutive and dark.'

Her cher Alins were based on famous fairy tales, but in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in 1918 she "dou bled the roles of Toopy and Lat the Eva--the earliest use of trick photography,which enables player to appear as two char acters simultaneously.

Miss Clark was the first screen artist to receive £100 a week in salar

TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME

Broadcast by Z.B.W.

on 355 Metres

12.30 to 2.35 pin-European pro-

gramme..

12.30 p.mRecorded music... 1 p.n-Local time and weather re-

port.

1.15 p.m.-ong Kong Hotel Or

chestra,

1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins,.

Rugby Press News, etc. 2:15 p.m.-Close down. 2.10 p.m. Close down.

4 to 7 pm-Chinese programme.

6. to 8.15 p.m.-Children's Studio

...Concert.

7 to 11 p.m.--European programme- 7 to 7.17 p.m.-"Ballet Egyptien

Suite" (Luigihi),

7.17 to 7.30 p.m.--

A Pianoforte Recital by Ethel Leginska Moments Musleaux (Schubert,

Op. 94).

7.30 to 8 p.m.-

-Variety

Yodel-Down the old road to

home.-Jimmie Rodgers. Band-Memories of

Nicholls.

Horatio

Orchestra "Revudeville" Memo-

ris.

Orchestra Twenty-Five Years of

Musical Comedy,

8 p.m.-Local time and weather re-

port.

8.03 to 8.25 p.m.-

From the Studio

"The Mythology of the New Zea- land Maori" by Mrs. T. W. Lewis.

2.25 to 8.38 p.m.-

Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffins 1. It don't mean a Thing: Happy Feet: Everybody Loves my.. Baby; I Got Rhythm.

2. Memories of You: Rain;

Goodbye Blues.

3. Dinan:

After you've gone;

Nobody's Sweetheart.

4. St. Louis Blues; Some of these

Days.

8.38 to 9 pm-

1

Band Music

Ruy Blas Overture (Mendels-

sohn).

Tancredi Overture (Rossini). La Source Ballet (arr. Winter-

bottom).

The Smithy'

(Michaelis).

in

the Wood

The Turkish Patrol: (Michaelis).

9 to 9.15 p.m.-A Relay - of the

Daventry News Bulletin (Copy- right by Reuter).

9.15 to 9.30 p.m.---

Selection of Russian Melodien Waltz of Russian Melodies Beauty Waltz.

Down the Mother Volga. Pas D'Espagne 'Waltz. Shining' Moon

Song).

CINEMA NEWS 9.30 to 10 p.m.-

A ceremonial cloak, a replica of the one worn by Cardinal Riche- heu, was recently shipped from Rome to Hollywood, where It was donned by George Arliss for his portrayal of the title role in Darryl Zanuck's production for 20th Cen- tury Pictures. "Cardinal Richelieu," based on Bulwer-Lytton's famous work, which was adapted for the BCTeen by 'Nunnally Johnson and Cameron Rogers. "It is to be re- leased through United Artists

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Three months ago Clark Gable refused to buy Carl Spitz's" dog. "King, for $100.

Today Carl Spitz refuses to sell Clark Gable the same dog for $1,000,

That is one answer to the ques- tion "What price fame in Holly wood?" Three months ago, Splitz brought his St. Bernard, King, over to 20th Century Pletures to play with Gable, in Darryl Zanuck's production of "Call of the W The dog had never worked in a picture, and Spitz,. a bit dubious had a substitute St, Bernard ready, which he expected to put into King's place. He thought so little of the dog, he offered to sell it to Gable at the price quoted above:

But King has proved so apt. a. theaplan, that today Spitz says he Would not sell him for $25,000. As a matter of fact, the St. Bernard already has earned him about one-arth that Agure in his first picture. And after "Call of the Wild," King should be established as a fall-fledged star in his own right, Spitz belleves. Which means that his salary will just about equal that or President Roosevelt,

Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Morse and Billy Symphonies, re- leased through United Artists, is gradually achieving a reputation In his own homes as maste His most enthus astic dining-room

(Russian Folk

From the Studio Selections by The Music Mak-

ers."

10 p.m.-Big Ben: Reuter Press

Bulletins.

10.10 to 11 p.m.--Dance Music 11pmClose down.

BERLIN PROGRAMME ·

DJA, DJE

9 p.m.-Call DJQ.

(Gerin." Engl.): German Folk Song, Programme Forecast

Engl.).

9.15 p.m.Harvest Songs

(Germ

and

Harvest Dances" Performed by the Praetorius-Kreis," Conduc- tor: A. Strube. -- 9.45 pm

News in English on DJQ, DJA“ and, in Dutch on

DJB.

10 p.m.-Variety Programme:

An entertaining musical hour. 11 p.m.--Concert of Light Music. 11.15 p.m.-News in German on

DJQ, DJA, DJB.

11.30 p.m.-Current Events. 11.40 p.m.-Concert of Light Music. 12.15 am-News in English" on DJQ, DJA and in Dutch DJB.

12.30 a.m.--Close DJQ, DJA. DJB

(Germ,," Engl.),

tan is his small daughter, Diane, who says, " Papa made, it's good." And she's usually right. The newest confection to come out of the Disney kitchen is a creamy dessert with a provocative name:"

"MICKEY MOUSSE

Smooth one heaping tablespoon of four into one heaping table- spoon of butter and work in three egg yolks Add pint of mak, a Httle at a time until it reaches the boiling point. Then add half cup of sugar and mix thoroughầy. Add. the white of the eggs, beaten to a light froth and cook, for two minutes. Vanills to taste. constantly and avoid boiling. Pou into dish and allow to cool