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4 SHOWS

1.30-8.18

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TAKE ANT ERANDE MANNY VALLEY Bran

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

ONLY

FLEMING

ROAD WANCHEI

TEL. 284TE

A FUNNY BORLESQUE. GANGSTER PICTURE The police bunted him... the underworld wanted to get rid of him... his wife wanted to divores him-but he was just a A comedy timid soul mistaken for Public Enemy No. "

rist of 1000 laughs. .

HE'S A TIMID SOUL

...but even his own wife thinks he's a tough gangster! You'll roar!

„BABY FACE HARRINGTONTM

with

CHARLES BUTTERWORTH UNA MERKEL · NAT PENDLETON St-G-M's Most Hilarious Comedy Hit:

Prices Matinees 20 a-30 £. Evonings 20 c.-30 c.—50 €.—70 e.

Ann Sothern in "Eight Bells"

A Columbia Picture

Showing next Tuesday at the Alhambra Theatre

STARE

SHOWING. TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

VOTED AS ONE OF THE TEN BEST BRITISH PICTURES OF THE YEAR!!!

FRIDAY

13

JESSIE MATTHEWS GORDON HARKER⚫ EDMUND GWENN SONNIE HALE

FRIDAY the 13"

Magnificent and unusual entertainment

A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE NEXT CHANGE

THE SUPER SHOCKER OF THE CENTURY !

KARLOFF

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

UNIVERBAL PICTURE

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.

SAT.

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 2.30 P.M.

A LOVE STORY GLORIOUS... TENDar, Strong)"

JANET GAYNOR

and

HENRY FONDA

The FARMER TAKES WIFE

A FOX Pitture with

CHARLES WICKEUNG • JAME WITHENS SLIM SUMMERVILLE - ANDY SEYAK RUGER MIHOF - MARKÅRET KAMILTON

GEORGE ARLISS

UNITED

"in "CARDINAL RICHELIEU”* ARTISTS'

QUEEN'S

DE THEATRE DRES

TO-DAY ONLY 31 2.30, 5.10, 7,20 « 9.30 PM.

TO-NIGHT

GALA PREMIER AT 9,30 'BECKY SHARP

BRINGING THE GLORY OF LIVING COLOUR

GALA PREMIERE Richelieu Still Baffles Arliss

Becky Sharp At The

"Queen's

1899 In

Becky Sharp stepped from the pages of Willam Make- novel peace Thackeray's famous "Vanity Fair to the American stage,

Langdon Mitchell, the brilliant yung playright

who Wrote the play, named it after the vivacious "Becky, who, 35 Theo 'keray's foll, had, a half century before, thrown "London's literary and social inner circles into a" turmoil such 25 few fictional characters have ever roused. Minnie Madden Fiske, then at the height of her great career

It became played the title role. her best known characterization. In thirty years she revived the play five times and made more the eleven hundred personal ap- pearances as Becky.

Even though George Arliss portrays the title role of "Cardin- al Richelleu" in the Darryl Zanuck production for 20th Century Pic- tures at the King's Theatre, to- norrow the star is stili baried by the man he impersonates

history.

is

Was Armand de Plessis-whose fame as Cardinal Richelieu written down in

in Gaming letters 2 politician cloaked

in the robes of ect clesiasm, or was he primarily a man of the church whose poll- tical involvements were incidental? In novels. blographies and plays, various writers have pictured Richelieu as bath hero and rogue. according to their interpretation of this red-robed genius who was the power behind the throne or Louis XIII of France..

gathered as much truth as, in the mind of this distinguished actor, seemed sufficient to present the evidence. But:

WILL LET PUBLIC DECIDE, George Arliss personally scanned at least one hundred of these books in preparation for his por- "Becky Sharp" has been seen on

trayal of "Cardinal Richelieu," both the silent and talking screen. The result of his researches was a The adaptions, however, were not conclusion to let the film publie from the Mitchell play, which 13 torm its own conclusions to the admittedly the only successful real character of the prelate adaptation of the novel ever writ-From the books he bad read. -he ten for the stage. Now the spark- ling vivacious minx comes to the the world again. This time on

gala- opening with a screen. premiere to-night at the Queen's Theatre, the talking screen and more-the full-colour screen. She has been selected to usher in a new era in motion picture making. Born in the halls of literature, Becky Sharp comes again with the warmth that colour will add to her colourful personality and the vital-fre that the artistry of Miriam Hopkins, stepping into the shoes of Mrs. Fiske, has breathed .Rouben into her greatest role. Mamoulian produced this Pioneer Picture screen drama for RKO- Radio release.

BECKY SHARP

The preview

famous of the R.K.O. im "Becky Sharp" "took place yesterday at the Queen's Theatre where it will be shown shortly. There was also a very pretty coloured short on Japan by Van Beuren. This inaugurates a new era in screen entertainment, It being the first full picture ever shown and certainly some of the colours are excellent.

The film is based on Thackeray's famous picture classic Sharp"

The principal

"Becky

charac-

ters are Miriam Hopkins as Becky Sharp, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the Marquis of Steyne, that very beau tiful girl Frances Dee. as Amella Sedley, Nigel Bruce as Joseph Sedley. The caste is a very full one so I refrain from giving more

names.

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In Becky Sharp colour has been skilfully employed and nothing could be more dramatically effec- 'tive than the episode of the famous ball in Brussels on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. The flash and glitter of the officers, uniforms in contrast with the ladies pastel-tinted frocks make a marvellous colour effect.

Miriam Hopkins plays with great vivacity, Sir Cedric Hardwicke gives a fine rendering of an Ambassador, and Frances Dee is excellent as Becky's friend.

This is an excellent film every- body should see it. HLM.

FILM STAR KILLED

New York, Oct., 30.

The film star, Gordon Westcott dted to-day from injuries received during a polo match.

Reuter,

"Books on historical characters are inclined to be misleading to an actor," says Artisa.

"In the case of Richelleu, at writers agree upon his greatness us being due to his personal pow- ers, but there are as many differ- ences about the way he used those powers as there are books upon the

man.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"The Farmer Takes A Wife"

QUEEN'S :-

"The Arizonian"

ORIENTAL:-

"Baby Face Harr ngton"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:—

"Manhattan Moon"

MAJESTIC:-

"The Great Hotel Murder", STAR:-"

"Friday the 13th"

Coming

"Cardinal Richelieu

In arriving at my characteriza- tion. I discarded those books writ- ten by present-day blographers. | KING'S:~ There is a tendency among writers. to-day to write merely for sensa QUEEN'S:-t tionalism. Their aim is to buil down those whom history has placed upon 3 pedestal, just as the "ORIENTAL: alm of earlier historians, was to exalt them.

A DANGEROUS PRACTICE "The writing of such blographles in the style of to-day makes more interesting reading, because the facts are supplemented by in- agination. But it is a very dan. gerous proceeding. Writers to-day are picturing Washington and Lin coin very differently from the herole ught in which earlier blographers placed them. This is a deliberate attempt of the writer to gain success for himself at the expense of his subject. Great men should be pictured in the light of, to their great and in relation deeds.

"This is the attitude with which I have approached my portrayal in Cardinal Richelleu." He is shown in this picture in relation to the dramatic events by which he rose to greatness. The evidence is pre- sented the public can decide for Itself its opinion of the man That, I believe, is the fairest way present a man around whom so much controversy has been raised."

"Cardinal Richelieu" was direct ed by Rowland V. Lee, for release through United Artists, with the supporting Maureen

J

"

"Becky Sharp"

"Here Comes The Navy" "Advice To Lovelorn"

MAJESTIC.

THEATRE~~-

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2,80, 5.20.; 7,20 & 9,20. P.IE

GREAT

HOTEL MURDER

EDMUND LOWE. VICTOR MCLAGLEN

Rosemary Ames Mary Carlisle

Henry Noi

C. Hemy Goutiqn

THE ARIZONIAN

H

Movie-goers eager to see Richard Dix in such a role as Yancy Cravat in "Cimarron" are said to have their longing appeased in "The Arizonian," his latest starring pro- "The Bride of Frankenstein" daction last night at the Queen's

Theatre.

STAR:---

**THE FARMER TAKES

A WIFE'

sheri rebuffs

the

As in the eple of Oklahoma, Dix is an unflinching supporter, of law and order, Visiting grafting ridden Sulver City, a mushroom town of the early West, he accepts the post of marshal and Cathe Janet Gaynor, who, ever since paigns against outlawry. He has her spectacular success int on ordinance passed which dis- Heaven" has looked for another arms the town. .He arrests ú ro.e. with similar acting opportun-

fellow officer's murderer 'single- Ee antagonizes the It.es, has at last found it in "The handed.

He crooked authority. Farmer Takes a Wife," the Fox Flim adaptation of the stage utc-

the town judge, cess, which is now at the King's; sheriff's tool. An action-crammed climax brings Dix to battle with the foe. The blazing ruins of the barricade county prison form a for the marshal's operatives, who are outnumbered two to one.

The blonde charmer of "The Informer" "Margot Grahame, is a prominent figure

"The Arizonian" involved in a romance with the peace-officer and his brother. Preston Foster and Louis Calhern, are also among the cast of this RKO-Radio Picture.

Theatre.

The Farmer Takes a Wife" Is

the magnificent, colourful story of the Erie Canal waterways in the 1850's, and the story of the lov: that grew up between a gir. of the canals and a boy whose heart was attached to the soil

Under Director Victor Fleming'>

lyric guidance, the flm sweepst from Rome, N. Y. to Utica, along the Eric waterways, picturing the ush fields of grain, the rich or- cast that includes chards, the gusty and humorous O'Sullivan, Edward life of the people who helped build, Arnold. Francis Lister, Douglas an empire out of a gang ing coun-far removed from Mr. Arliss as

Dumbrilie, Cesar Romero, Violet try. Kemble Cooper. Kathryn Alexan- der and Halliwell Hobbes.

George Arliss and Maureen O'Sullivan in "Cardinal Rishallow,”

Century Picture, released through United Artists

Scene from Becky Sharp' with Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Disraeli and as the working man. The dramatic confict lies in the An idealist who is cunning only to boy's efforts to win the girl to his be good He aas a tender side to way of thinking, and his battle for his nature, his interest in the "her "love with the hully of the, remance between Maureen O'Buill- canal, Charles Bickford.

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"FRIDAY THE 13th

new

the "Friday the 13th," Gainsborough picture, is a bril- Hant production, providing enter- tainment from first to last.

An ingeniously contrived picture wherein seven stories are told concurrently, the scenes alternate between the various groups characters, the passage of time throughout being recorded at in- terva's or the face of Big Ben.

An accident happens to the bus..

involving its passengers. two of whom are killed, but the accident brings a solution to the problems confronting the others.

Victor Saville. whose brilliant

direction of "The Good Com- panlone" and "I Was & Spy"

brought him internationa! fame, is responsible for "Friday the 13th." 2 dis- The leading players in tinguished cast are Jessie Mat- thews, Sonnie Hale, Edmund Gwenn, and Gordon Harker.

CARDINAL RICHELIEU

This fine film was previewed at the King's Theatre and will have its first showing on Saturday. Before the main picture, there is a de- lightful Mickey Mouse short in Technicolour which was thorough-

y enjoyed by all present.

The "scene is seventeenth cen- tury France, the court of Louis, XII the scheming of the Queen Mother and the counter-plotting of the Cardinal

It is Richelieu's ve for his country that motivates the story. According to the Arliss' reading of the part, France comes first in everything-even the Cardinal's spiritual master the Pope-must take second place when France's solidarity is endangered. So, you see Arliss as Eichelleu is not very

van, his ward and her noble joyer acted by Cesar Romero.

The plcttire is very elaborately etaged and the acting of Edward Arnold as Louis XII, was 'very An-and I recommend all Arliss fans to see it.

ALHAMBRA

PRESTEE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.80

.WHEN HE WOKE

UP he was

married to the opera star in

Head of double!"

her

CARE LAEMMLE PRESENTS

BICARDO CORTEZ DOROTHY PAGE.

MANHATTAN MOON

-STUART MALETA- "A STAKLET BERGUESIAM-

Froduction

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

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