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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

CASINO, DE PARIS

**THE ARIZONIAN"]

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1935.

TO-DAY

CINEMA

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.159.30 P.M. LESLIE

notorious bandit who, extrated by [HOWARD

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ity

Film Critics for Daily Variety and Film Daity, present ut he Hollywod preview

of the Gravanganza, has written raye - aletermination to see fair-play, "A happy combination for cooperates with the law views. the fans and Warners, is Al Jolson round up of desperadoes ou the and Ruby Keeler," writes Daily Western Frontier is found in The Variety. It is an interesting. Arizoufan” the new screen attrac- wall written story of modern show tion coming to the Queen's Theatre businessTh.. direction in exrop- at an early date, starring Richard tionally good and the idea is un-Dix. As one of Dix's important. usually refreshing. Film Day support, Preston Foster plays the goes to even grenter lengths. Lauderstwhile bandit, Tax Randolph ing the Jolson-Keeler pruduction The Lown sheriff,

2

MERLE OBERON

crooked "The SCARLET PIMPERNEL”

"Tops for musical spectacles-authority who despises Dix as a It is a Jolson-Keeler picture all peace officer calls in the bandit the why." suy this eminent from

frame his hideout to authority. "arid they give Dix. Realising how the sheriff's plenty, Jelwon shines and with renegades have cornered the Mar Ruby's dancing "a standout. Pateyshal, the bandit rallies to Dix's Kelly must be mention for her support and, Dix appoints him a Pomily The ensemble nuaiters are deputy sheriff, made to mean something, because the dancers dance instead of mor- ing about "on mechanical pieces

dnserveg Bobby Connelly credit for these "numbers

Supporting members of the cast of "Casino de Paris" which opened last at the Queen's Theatre, in eludes Patsy Kelly, Glenda Farrell, Helen Morgan, Barton MacLane, Sharon Lynn, Benny Rubin and Gordon Westcott

4 SHOWS

much

Thereafter. Tex Raiolph be comes one of the worst-and best- deputy inarshals known to Silver Ho devotes his life to a City. clean-up of the West, n" decisive fruens between rival forces ending his career in the climax.

"The Arizonian" RKO-Radio Picture, was directed by Charles Vidor with Margot Grahaine and Louis Calhern in Dix's cast.

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THE BIG

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...EPIC OF THE END OF GANGDOM!

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Prices Matinees 20%.-30 c. Evenings 20 c.-80 e.—50 -70 e.

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MICKEY MOUSE

A UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

ALSO MICKEY MOUSE IN "MICKEY PLAYS PAPA

A NEW WALT DIANEY

NEXT CHANCE

JANET GAYNOKTM HENRY FONDA "THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE" A FX PICTURE

THE QUEEN'S

Casino de Paris

QUEEN'S

CARS THEATRE PAS

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 .M.

THERE'S THE SHOW

YOU SHOUTED JO8:

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Casino

GLENDA FARRELL PATSY KELLY HELEN MORGAN

"THE FARMER TAKES

A WIFE".

"Civilization

marched westward

over the turbulent Eric waterways

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Paris de

LADY HAIG'S GIFT

four-male-an-hour boats and Memorial Window In

men and

strong

an hammered out

empire

held the love of beautiful women with their brawny fists.

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Ruby Keeler, the sensational star e: "42nd street," "the musical that

e-popumrised musicals" as screen entertainment, and 41 Jol- son, the Mammy singer who de-

That is the glamorous, action- mtely may be said to have "putalled picture of America in the over the first talkie pleture ever roaring 1850's which Fox Film's produced, are absolutely tantaliz-The Farmer Takes a Wife" brings ing in their first vehicle together.on Wednesday to the King's which is being screened at the Queen's Theatre to crowded per- furmanices.

Of late, cinema fans have justly complained that Ruby Keeler has not been given sufficient oppor. tunities to shidw her wonderful abilities as a dancer but this pic- ture was made for the express purpose of affording her every op- portunity to satisfy her fans in this respect. I can definitely state that she not only satisfies every one on this question, but she has never done better, even in her fine per- formance in "42nd Street,"

Jolson, who is her husband in private life, excels himself also. It would in fact be hard to say who really puts" the show over," but with the two of them together, they make an irrestible team.

They

Most of the dance scenes are spectacular to say the least. Holly wood's famous chorus beauties have been recruited for this picture THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL without any apparent account for

expenditure or costliness: are there in legion and perform some intricate evolutions that are new even to the die hard cinema fan, who might reasonably assume that he has seen all there is to see in spectacular dance scenes.

The smartest frocks ever, worn "The Scarlet Pimpernel" leaves by a little girl ou the screen!" aeritic vainly groping for superla- That we the proud boast of Lives, longing to find one that has Director Irving Cammings when he not been lessened in value by its For this started to work on Shirley Teminists in advertisements. ple's new starring picture for Foxw Alexander Korda production.

at the King's Fin's Carly Top," and how well showing to-day.

the unquestionably he has lived up to it can now be Theatre, is

finest British picture of this or any seen to-day at the Alhambra..

She starts out in gray-blue other year, and probably deserves flannels and coveralls," Bays Cum- the prize for the film produced an

describing Shirley's new where during 1934. It merits mings, costumes. Those are the clothes superlatives of the highest value.

need You don't

Im to she wears when she is a little gir

tell was Baroness in an orphanage, but as the story you the story; that unfolds she appears in secession Orczy's task twenty years ago and of the cutest clothes imaginable, she did it several hundred per cent. But 1 designed and created for her by better than I could now Rene Hubert, stylist of Fox Filmaan tell you that Leslie Howard is And, Anally, in the closing Sir Ferey Blackeney to the life; there are tlus dresses that the magnificence of the settings *cener

leaves сле spellbound nighties, bathing suits and neces- sories, ail giren to her by her mil- Alexander Korda achieved lionaire stepfather, played by John greatest success as a producer yes. The Private Boles. They, of course, are the even remembering

Life of Henry VIII: that Morie masterpiece of the wardrobe."

Oberon is exquisite 45 Lady by Shirley in her newest starring Blakeney; and that I could see ffort, convinces one of the truth this 6lm again half-a-dozen times, af Cummings assertion. Among and probably will.

A preview of the wardrobe worn

In addition to all this, the picture is kept alive by a back stage story, which, if not entirely new, at least is human, and it is here that one sees Glenda Farrell giving able support, to the prin- elples. One should on no account miss this picture.

"REDINCAM."

that

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London, Oct. 10.

Leslie Howard's performance is 4 sheer delight, and by far the finest he has ever contributed to the

the eighteen changes created for Shirley, are many adorable gar iments, any one of which would make a little girl's heart miss a screen. The foppish London club- man and the "demmed elusive Pim- few beats for sheer joy.

ward with incomparable polish,

charm and resource,

Theatre.

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About the tender love story of Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda, the stars of the picture, all of the exaltement, humour, romance and near-tragedy of this never to be forgatten epoch centers.

Miss Janet Gaynor is a girl of the Brie waterways, fascinated by the nomadic, gypsy-like existence. Fonds is a boy, who works on the canals merely to

enough money to but the farm be bas always wanted.

earn

Although these two realize that there is this fundamental differ- ence between them, they cannot help being drawn together by love, As the picture progresses. Fonda's, fortunes prosper and he prepares to withdraw from the canal. But Miss Gaynor boileres that he is running from Charles Bickford, the Canal's bully, and his rival for her affection.

Walter D. Edmond's widely-read novel, "Rome Hau;" was the basta for both the stage play and the picture of The Farmer Takes "a Wie." In the supporting cast of the picture which includes more than fifty speaking parts, are 8Um Summerville, Andy Devine, Roger Inhof. Jane Withers and Margaret Hamilton,

Winfield Sheehan produced "The Farmer Takes a Wife," which was directed by Victor Fleming.

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SWASTIKA HAULED

DOWN

Garrison Church

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Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"The Scarlet Pimpernel"

QUEEN'S:-

"Casino de Paris"

ORIENTAL:-ray

"Reckless"

MAJESTIC

THEATREYS

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30..5.20." 7.20 &. 9.20. P.M.

Love is his law!

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:--

"Curly Top"

MAJESTIC:

小

"Under The Pampus Moon"

KING'S :-

Sunday

:." "The Scarlet Pimpernel" QUEEN'S :-

"Casino de Paris"

ALHAMBRA:---

"Curly Top"

ORIENTAL

"G-Men"

MAJESTIC

"Her Love Story"

London, Oct. 10. ROLLS-ROYCE

A number of blinded and dis- abled ex-soldiers were among those. present at St. Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot, yesterday, when Captain Sir Ian Fraser, the blind 50 H.P. With Twelve M.P., unvelled a memorial window to all ranks of the 1st Army Corps who were killed in 1914.

The window, which symbolises peace, is the gift of Lady Halg and her three daughters. It faces one. which the Duke of York unveiled in the church last year in memory of Earl Halg, who was General Officer Commanding at Aldershot before going to France with the British Expeditionary Force 1:1 1914.

Detachments from British Legion branches in the district provided a guard of honour for Lady Haig.

When unveiling the window Sir fan Fraser said that Halg and his men made history early in the war when they stood between us and the enemy, while the nation made ready to defend itself.

At the unvelling. Lady Haig stood beneath the window with Mr. E. H. Sharp, a disabled man employed" at the British Legion poppy factory, who assisted in the unvelling ceremony,

UNSURPASSED HEROISM

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The Rev. Professor G. S. Dun- can, of St. Andrews University, who was Haig's chaplain at General Headquarters, dedicated the wing dow. He said that in 1914 the o- cers and men under Falg accom- plished feats of endurance and heroism unsurpassed in the whole history of the war.

Cylinders

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London, Oct 10,

A new Rolls-Royce is announced to-day, For six years the 4050 Phantom II, has carried on the. Rolls-Royce tradition of the best car in the world.".

It now gives place to the Phan- ton III. a more powerful car in- corporating many striking depar tures in design. Its leading fen- tures are:

Twelve cylinders in two rows of six arranged as a

V of so degrees.

Four carburettors, two feeding each row of cylinders

Independent suspension of the front wheels.

All gear silent," including «re-

vers:

Over-all length reduced with- out reducing body length

"Twelve per cent. greater en- gine power, but chassis weight reduced by 8 per cent.

Chassis price £1,850, against. £1,800 for Phantom II

Annual tax £38 58 (50.7 h.p. R.A.C. rating), against £33 (43.3 h.p. R.A.C. rating).

A 12-cylinder engine is nothing new for Rolls-Royce; who produced their Arst motor of this type 20 The preacher, the Rev. J. Lynn. "years ago. Since then it has been, Deputy Chaplain General to the used with triumphant success in Forces, said the window would be the air and on the water, and the a perpetual reminder to younger uew car power-unit

Qwes much generations of soldiers of the vir- to the lessons learnt in those The swastika flag has been tues of their fathers. In these Gelds. hauled down and the Austrian two windows, he said, Haig and his colours hauled up in its place on a men again stood face to face.

After the service Lady Haig in- | tiny island that has been the op-

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London, Oct. 10.

ject of a diplomatie incident be-pected the guard of honour and A memorial tablet, which Jet- tween the Foreign Offices in Berlin also the British Legion detach

and Vienna

hart Callants' Club has placed in the wall of Prince Charlie's House at Jedburgh, was unveiled on Saturday by the Duchess of Atholl, M.P."

Although it is only a patch of ground 400ft, long by 200ft, broad

near Vornbach, on the river Lan, which is the boundary between The tablet, which is of stone Bavaria "'and Upper Austria, in-

numerable stiff Notes claiming house where Prince Charles Ed-respective ownership have been

"Curly Top" is the appealing pernel" are both portrayed by Hand suitably inscribed. marks the tale of saring, little orphan girl, who brings happiness and romanes to the charming millionaira who adopts hor.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MYSTERY

ward Stuart lodged on 6th and exchanged.

came into.

The

ments.

AD

THE DUKE OF KENT'S VISIT TO LANCASTER

.

INDEPENDENT FRONT WHEELS

It is considerably, lighter than the existing one, and the greatly Improved power-weight ratio gives, it is claimed, not only higher ma- ximum speed and liveller top-gear performance, but increased re- finement in running and road be-. haviour generally.

The adoption of independent front-wheel suspension by Roll- Royce is significant; it probably toreshadows its general use. by British car designers. In this system the wheels arз 'carried at the outer end of a lever system of the wishbone type, controlled by helical springs working in oil.

(Special Air Mail Service)" The settings in which one detects. but only with difficulty, the magic 7th November while marching It all began when the Nazis

London, Sept 28. hand of Nedd Mann in support of southward through the Borders in

power in Germany.

The Duke of Kenc is to pay his Vincent Korda are consistently the '45 Rebellion.

One day a detachment of storm first vial. to Lancaster a week to- fino; and the attention to detail is Provost Wells Mabon, president troopers seized the island, which

he will open the day when remarkable in such scenes as the of the Callants' Club, presided, was uninhabited, and hoisted the

128- Grenville Bail, the outdoor boxing and those present included Lady swastika, leaving a

new Langthwai.e storage. permanent ring, and the quillotines in Paris Stratheden and Campbell, Alice guard on duty near by.

Thus each front wheel has s servoir, which was undertaken as and Boulogne.

scheme wide range of movement 'up and Lord and Lady

unemployment relief Island has since provided amazed to cost £250,000. A story with the gripping in-

efect upon the It down without The rest of the cast is extremely Maxevell Scott, terest of a Sherlock Holmes mys-competent Merle Oberon is a do- Lady Stratheden, Lady Margaret a refuge for Austrian Nazis flying Nigel Kerr, and Mr. Bertram Talbot, trom the police, and after swim-

has been constructed by direct la- movement of the body. Great rid- tary and the scenic beauty and ac-lightful Lady Blakeney,

pour within three years two years ing comfort results, especially in tion of a "Covered Wagon" or Bruce a realistic Prince Regent, county convener.

ming over they have been able to

under the time estimated and well the back stats, and the improved Wheels,"

The Duchess of Atholl, after find "Wagon

Paramount's and Raymond Massey, sinister but

sanctuary, Repeated

steering and road-holding should now Zane Grey thriller, Rocky real, is ideally cast as the villian recalling historical incidents as-mands for extradition were in-

within the estimated cost.

high average speeds sociating the Duke of

When he arrives at Lanthwaite permits of Mountain Mystery" is coming to Chauvelin

Athafl'e variably dismissed. the Alhambra next Tuesday.

ancestors, Lord George, Murray,

But in the duel for possession of accompanied by Lord Derby, the without lurching or swaying.

Increased comfort is also sought with Prince Charlie's visit to the island Austria has at last won Duke will be received by the Ma Scott, veteran of many Zane Grey them" shares in his valuable radium

Jedburgh, gald that oking the day. Her right to the terri-yor of Lancaster and over four outdoor" action stories, who is mine. coupled with Ann Sheridan, Texas The superintendant of the mine

years tory has been acknowledged by hundred guests, including the lord we could, she hoped, take a det the Wilhelmstrasse, so the swaster and the mayor of some twenty mayors of Liverpool and Manches- beauty, in the romantic leads. is mysteriously murdered by a

view of the rising and tika and the "permanent guard eight Lancashire boroughs, Other The supporting cast has Charles black horseman and shortly after ached

Chic Bale in another of his one of the old man's nephews suf- whatever we might think about have now been removed. famous rural

characterizations, fors the same fate. Scott, assisted its purpose, we could do full justice' and Mrs. Leslie Carter, famous by Bale, arrives on the scene to character actresa, who makes her solve the murders and falls in love with the of the old man's nieces. screen debut

The Duchess remarked that she More." Ballle Veitch proposed tham, MF., Parliamentary Accret- The action of "Rocky Mountain played by Ann Sheridan

was wearing the white cockade votes or thanks, and on behalf of lary to the Board of Education: The Mystery "a laid in an abandoned When, in the course of events, worn by Lord George Murray the Caliante Club Mrs. Wells Babon Duke will be the guest of the cor-

Ita only the girl disappears, Scott re- Western mining town.

presented the Duchess of Atholl poration at Innch. He will leavS inhabitant is an aged recluse who doubles his efforts. In a dramatic throughout the rising.

After the unvelling pipers, pay-with a niiniature picture of Lancaster later. by air from Scale summons his nephews and nieces and gripping final climax he funda

the lament "Lochaber No Queen Mary's House."

Hall for London. to his deathbed so, that he can give her again and reveals the criminal. ed

Eleading the cast is Randolph

back after nearly 200

to the magnificent "loyalty of the men who rallied to a lost cause.

guests will include" Lord and Lady Strickland, Lord Clanfield, Lady Ashton, and Mr. Herwald Ramsbo

in the new chassis frame. It'pro- vides for wider and more comfor- the positions of the brake and table rear seats, while changes" in

gear levers on the driver's right allow him easier entrance to his seat from the off-side. New fea- tures to please the owner-driver also include a large steering-lock, scif-adjusting tappate and a 33. gallon petrol tank

·

The Phantom III will be on view with many different body styles at Olympia.

WARNER

BAXTER

and KETTI

GALLIAN

UNDER the PAMPAS MOON

NEW FILM COMPANY

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Londari, Oct. 10. The formation of an important new British fim-producing com- pany. Criterion Film Productions Ltd., was announced yesterday.

The chairman is Capt. A. B.... Cunningham-Reid, M.P.. and the Joint managing directors Mr. Douglas Fairbanks. Jum., and M. Marcel Hellman, the Continental

producer.

Mr. Fairbanka, who has been planning the new venture since Hollywood, he come here from tells me that four p'ctures a year have beep planned, all for world release through United Artists. at an average cost of from £80,000 to £120,000

Work on the first picture an of Jeffery Farnol's adaptation best-seller. "The Amateur Gestle- man," will be begun at the B.I.P. Studios. Elstree, on Monday week.

Preference

Priest-in-Charge wanted for EL Mary's Ash, Vale, Catholle essen- tial. Fast bowler preferred.

Church Times."

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ALHAMBRA

HENTRE

SHOWING 10-DAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7:20 & 9.30 P.M.

Shirley

TEMPLE

SINGS

AND

DANCES

Curly Top

A FOX PICTURE with

OHN BOLE CHELLE HUDS ANE DARW.E joduced by WINFIELD SHEEH

Directed by loving Cumming

Music by Ray Henderson

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