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HONG KONG DAILŸ PRESS.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935,

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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

Brewster's Millions"

"Chick" McQM, Hollywood ace cameraman. got the shock of his life when he landed at Ajaccio in Cors.co to ftim background scenes for "Brewster's. M. fons," coming to the King's Theaire, the Herbert Wilcox production starr- ing. Jack Buchanan He looked round. blinked and exclaimed. "But say, this is California!”

He

amazingly saw

similar scenery cactus, palms, cypresses and picturesque rocky coast. Even the fact that every other inhabitant seemed to carry a gun was like a breath of home. "I could have

in sworn I wis California," he told Jack Bucha- nan, the star, a few hours after Buchanan arrived to begin loca-; tlon scenes. "But these Corsicans have one over us. I can get my. American cigarettes cheaper here than in America. A swell coun- try?""

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Chick's "camera unit spent a! week, in Corsica and "boxed" some beautiful shots which form the background for several im- portant sequences in the Jack Ruchanan dim. They took plc- tures of the harbour at A celo er the yachting sequence, and spent a lot of time in the moun- tains filming material for the equence where Jack 1s едр tured by bandits., Picturesque scenes were also. lmed in the towns and villages to complete the pictorial backgrounds of this excellent comedy with music,

"SANDERS OF THE RIVER"

In Hollywood the late Edgar Wallace 15 known primarily through his detective stories and mystery thrillers--which he turn- ed out at an amazing rate of speed. His chief bid for enduring fame, however is more likely to rest upon his authenic stories of the African Jungle. These stories -the Bosambo and Sanders serles

are enjoying a belated vogur at present not unlike the craze for Rider Haggard a few gentration A screen version of "San ago. ders of the River," has been pro- duced by Alexander Korda, and is being released through United Artists with Paul Robeson, Lestin Banks and Nina Mae Mckinney in the leading roles.

4 hours

1.30-5.19

5,15-0,00

Edgar Wallace obtained his knowledge of the upper Congo country from intimate experience He was a member of the British Puttive Expedition of 1807 that ended with the capture of the mysterious Walled City of Benin In reprisal for the treacherous massacre by the natives of an unarmed party of elg.teen. Eng- lshmen. He did not accompany the small British forca that penetrated the jungle. He was at that time a corporul in the Röyal Army Medical Corps' and remained on the West Coast at the Expedition's base. But he saw the prisoners-connibal Binis. with sharply fed teeth and and horrible trophies dargling from their necks as they were brought In. and spoke to soldiers and marines who took part in

the actual capture of the Wailed City.

LAL SOUDARANED UMARRA

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

JACK

BUCHANAN BREWSTERS

A MILLIONS

**** LILI DAMITA DIRECTED BY THORNTON FREELAND

A Buitish & Dominové Bantichik

"THE FILM HAS BREATH AND SPARKLE AND A GOOD STORY"

-Glasgow Herald

ALSO

MICKEY MOUSE in “TWO.GUN MIOKEY" A NEW WALT DISNEY

NEXT

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"HOURAY FOR LOVE" CHANGE with Ass Noturas —Gene Raymond • RADIO

Wallace remained in the Congo AMERICAN STAR

area for some months, absorbing

in his own words, "the sights :,, and sounds 15 blotting paper absorbs water." The result of his studies was the Sanders epic, now translated onto the screen. The was directed by Zoltan Korda, who led his production unit into the very jung.e-land where Wallace had gained his material. The flim expedit on spent five months in the country around the headwaters of the Congo River. securing scenes c native life never before med. and making recordings of native songs

and ceremonial chants. More than three-quarters of the entire flm was made in Africa and more than 20,000 natives ser- ved as movle_extras. -

JOAN MARSH BACK TO M.G.M.

After an absence of two years from the studio where she won her start in pictures, Joan Marsh hes returned to Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer to play a "role "iņ ANNA KARENINA. co-starring

Greta Garbo and Fredric March.

During her absence from M-G- M. Miss March declares, she set forth to "find herself." Between picture engagements, she studied art, worked in a gown shop, and sang on the radio.

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TEL. 28473

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

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TO THE LOVELORN AN EXCELLENT COMEDY

NEWSPAPER STORY.

Sure!

but what

will HE

220

VISIT

live on?

JOKOVINEX

LEE TRACY Advice to the LOVELORN

DARRYL F. ZANUCK

predeation, with

SALLY BLANE

Prices Matinees 20 c.—30 c. Evenings 20 o.—80 e.—50 ¢ −70 c,

STAR

SHOWING TO-DAY

A CRISIS TO HIM!

A CIRCUS TO YOU!

B

$10 RAISE

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON KAREN MORLEY. ALAN DINEHART GLEN BOLIS Story by Peter B. Kyne

NEXT CHANGE "GREAT EXPECTATIONS "

. Director Clarence Brown secur- 3d her for the role of Li, a young and unaffected girl who falls to win the heart of Count Vronsky.portrayed by Fredric

March..

Produced by David O. Belznick.

the Tolstol classic serves 75 Gar-

bo's twentieth Hollywood

film and her tenth anniversary plc- ture.

in- The supporting cast cludes Basil Rathbone. Maureen "C'Sullivan, Freddie Bartholomew, May Robson, and Gyles Isham.

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY "The South Seas could not come to Hollywood, so Holywood went to the South Beas!"

IN ENGLAND

Douglass Montgomery In Island Fling".

A

Douglass Montgomery, young American star of "Little Man, What Now" and "Eight Girls in

been a Boat," has

signed to make a British fim by the City Film Corporation.

The film will be a South Sea romance entitled "Island Fling," based on Commander King Hall's novel "Bunga Bunga." Production starts on Monday at the Walton Studios.

Montgomery came over to Eng land a few weeks ago on holiday,, meaning to return to the New York stage. Arrangements for finding a taule play mistired and he extended his holiday to Paris.

There he was met by Mr. Hut- chinaon, of City Films, who sign- It is possible ed him up at once. that he will make a second film before returning to America.

A180 in the cast of

"Island

QUEEN'S

O THEATRE PANA

SHOWING TO-DAY as 2,80, 6.15, 7.20 & 9.80 P.M.

RED

Glory's "Waiting at the Flaish Line.

if they ever get there! Rammince in them inibar a mamuse an shar dersberit, quod danisma play tha mat dangerous gune maa wa devindt

HOT TIRES

LYLE TALBOT • MARY ASTOR

HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP

Tough Training For Sir Guy

LEROY SPEAKS

Sir Guy Standing, famous Para. mount actor, who is featured in "Gentlemen of the Navy" is one of the people who "have" fought their way through the world...

When he was five years of age, his father, Herbert Standing, who was one of the best amateur boxers of the time in England, taught him the art of self-defence in a way that few youngsters of to-day could stomach.

He would place Little Guy on a table, box with him-and pot gently and finally knock him off

the table, but he always had one eye on his son to see if he was go- ing to cry, and above all to see if he would get back on the table He was never disappointed. Guy always scrambled back for the second round.

When me was Afteen he was stranded in Newcastle, after join- ing a stock company against his father's wishes. So he shipped aboard a barque carrying 'boal to London. The crew thought they would ha sport with the lad, but Sir Guy had a fight every day of the voyage, and won them all.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

Brewster's Millions"

QUEEN'S:—

"Red Hot Tires" ORIENTAL-

"Advice To The Lovelorn"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :-

"8 Bells" MAJESTIC:-

Chinese picture.

STAR:-

"310 Raise" ·

KING'S:--,

Coming

"Hooray For Love" QUEEN'S :-

*The Devil is a Woman"

STAR:-

"Great Expectations"

ALHAMBRA :-

"Red Wagon"

MAJESTIC:

"The Raven"

"ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN "

At The Oriental Theatre

There is a

full-fledged earth- quake in "Advice to the Lovelorn". starring Lee Tracy in the leading roles which will be screened at the Oriental Theatre to-day and

Later, when Quy worked his way. to second mate on a square rigger, he found that to maintain dis cipline a hard fist was the best medium. We used to have to at our way through the fo'csle whenever we had d new crew," sald" | to-morrow. Sir Guy.

And to this very day he keeps boxing a fast four or five rounds with his trainer at least three times a week.

Fling" will be Betty Davies, Who ANNA KARENINA MOZART'S LIFE

£20,000 contract to City Flims, Alfred Drayton, and important American woman star not yet' announced. Harry Hug- hes is directing.

GEORGE ARLISS TO:

STAY IN ENGLAND

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George Arliss has decided make no more Alms in Hollywood. His decision to remam in Bri- tain is probably due to the fact that he has to pay double income tax if he alternates his work be- tween the United States and Lon- don.

Mr. Arliss starts this month his next British picture at the Shep. herd's Bush studios: The story is based on Edgar Wallace's "Mr. J., G. Reeder" detective stories.

Period stories based on Samuel Pepys and Cagliostro have been suggested as future subjects.

FROM PAGE BOY TO GENERAL MẠI GER

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Four years ago Harry Murray was a page boy at the Paramount Theatre. Manchester.

Now he has been made Garieral Manager of the same theatre, suç ceeding the late William Green- Aeld.

bulit two villages as they existed one hundred and fifty years ago-s the largest village capable of ac- commodating 200 famules of "islanders.

"When the company left Holly- wood on the unusual "location" jaunt. more than 100 tons of equipment were taker along. The tonnage was augmented on the return voyage by "propa" from the South Bens to be used in the Tersely. Director Frank Lloyd picture. These included full- thus explains why he took a pro- grown palm and breadfruit trees, duction company of record size to mighty war сапсев, and ten the South Seas to photograph smaller CaroCS. Also, scores of scenes for Irving Tralberg's pro- other packing cases wery Alled duction of .MUTINY ON THE with tools bowls, weapons, cocoa BOUNTY for Metro-Goldwyn- | palm leaves, cocoa-nuts of pil Mayer.

'alzes and hundreds of other odds and ends that will become 3 vital part of the sea drama,

Lloyd warited South Sea actors, and He needed hundreds of them for the tropical isle sequences. In "the famous James Hall-Charles Nordhoff story of England's most dramatic maritime mutiny

The cast that Lloyd totalled 2500 men, women and hidren. With the aid of Polyheslons, he

With the company back in Hollywood, timing of important scenes with Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, and Charles Laugh- ton In the leading roles, is to be launched at once. Producer Thal- berg announced.

WINS AWARDS

More Laurels For Garbo

The

London, (By Mail fim, "Anna Karenina," starring Greta Garbo, Fredric March and Freddie (Copperfield) Bartholomew' has won first prize

at the

International Film Ex-

hibition here. Twelve nations, including Britain, competed, and 84 Alms were shown to 8QmA 38,500 spectators.

The colour Blms were a great success. "Becky Sharp" was ap- plauded as being the

Arst ex- ample in which colour became a practical element

As special prizes are given for the best Italian Aims in cach category. Italian producta scarce- ly entered into the competition. "La Casta Diva" won the Mus-.

· solini Cup as the best Italian film. It is based upon the life of Bel- lini, the Sicilllan operatic com- poker, whose centenary is now being celebrated.

Paula Wesely, the famous Au- trian actress. who starred in

awarded "Episodes," waz

first prize for the best female inter pretation of the year. The French actor, Elanchart, won first prize for his performance, in "Crime and Punishment."

The Associated Artists' DM- ducer, King Vidor, was awarded the prize for the best director, while the laurels for the best car- toon of the year were inevitably carried off by Walt Disney with "Band Concert."-

BRITISH SUCCESSES

The "Daily Telegraph" Flim Correspondent writes:The final awards

something of are triumph for British pictures

"Escape Me Never" has won the prize for the best foreign pro- duction showing Italian Есепед and "The Seagulls," made by Gaumont British Instructional. Films, the prize for the heat entry inita class t-

"Banders of the Hiver in which Paul Robeson sings magnificently. has been given a cup by the City of Venice for the film with the best musical accompaniment,

FILMED

Little Talk But Lovely Music

Mr Basil Dean, who finds time to direct the affairs of one of Bri- tain's fastest-growing flim com- panies-Associated Talking' Fic- tures as well as to produce for the stage, indicated to me in a talk in Glasgow yesterday that we may well look forward to the forthcom.ng screening of the fim he directed this summer, hased on the life of Mozart.

Much of the story, which was written by Margaret Kennedy, was directed in Vienna and Salz- burg. with the official support of' the Austrian Government; but the really interesting feature la that Mr Dean seems to have been E ploneer among British pro- ducers in "cutting out the talk."

There. La very little dialogue in the film, and even natural sounds have been suppressed, emphasis being placed on the lovely music. The result has been wide-spread

Bookings for the film abroad, and

there seems little doubt, that it will be equally successful here.

An unfortunate factor, as Mr Dean pointed out, is that the pro- ducer of films such as "Whom the Gods Love" is at the mercy of the exhibitor. A large number of cinemas are fitted with sound ap. paratus which cannot do justice to the musi

Another Interesting film which has been almost completed, is "Midshipman Easy," a version of Marryat's famous story prepared for the screen by Anthony Kim- mins, and featuring Hughle Green, the young star of wireless and variety fame. Mr Dean tells me that Carol Reed, the young director of the film, has "won his spurs" In this production.

Gracle Fields is busy on a new film for the company, and Annabella, the international star, will start work in December on "Ballerina," a film version from the novel by Lady Eleanor Smith

Mr Dean says that he would like to produce a Scottish film

but" in view of the extensive pro-

gramme announced by the dom- pany that is 'not likely to mature for some time.

"Advice to the Lovelorn" is the story of a wise-cracking reporter

On

a Los Angeles newspaper. whose editor punishes him for sleeping through an earthquake and missing the biggest story of the year by demoting him to the post of "Agony" column pilet.

Sally Blane is seen Cppasite Tracy, while others who are pro- |minently cast in his support are Isabel Jewel. Paul Harvey, Judith Wood, and May

Boley. Sterling |Holloway, C. Henry Gordon, Jean Adair. Matt Briggs, Charles Levin- son, Adalyn Doyle and Etienne Giradot complete the cast.

LYLE TALBOT SATISFIED

Lyle Talbot has final y gratified a boyhood amb.tion. His boyhood dreams and plars to become a automoblie racing driver werc thwarted by his parents, but the popular actor got a chance to in- dulge in the cng suppressed desire in his latest plcture "Red Hot Tires" commencing to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

Talbot portrays the role of a daredevil racer and the film con-

is many

sequences revealing Lae thrills and hazards of the race course,

"Babe" Stapp, nationa ly known racing champion, taught Talbot the rudiments of the exciting port and the actor proved to be ar apt pupil. He became so fas-. cinated by it all, as a matter of fact, that rather than sit on the sidelines between scenes walting for his call, he spent every avail- able moment behind the wheel of one of the racing cars.

The picture is a thrilling tale in which daredevil drivers fight for the love of a beautiful girl. The cast includes besides Talbot, Mary Astor, Frankle Darro. Roscos Karns and Cavin Gordon, D. Ross Lederman directed.

DAYTIME BEAUTY

"A well-groomed effect all day is possible for the business girl, believes Karen Morley, who is co- featured with Edward Everett Lorton in "810 Raise," the new Fax Film comedy-drama

at the Star Theatre, which concerns a business romance.

Dow

Miss Morley's idea is to bring the neocszary makeup cosmetics, generally left on one's dressing table, to work.

เ

Pour part of your favourite foundation lotion into a tiny bottle, put some of your regular face powder into a wall box, get another container of cream rouge and a jar of hand cream, and then arrange everything in a box in the corner of a desk drawer."

MAJESTICI

HITHEATRE

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

CHINESE

TALKING PICTURE

FRIDAY 8th

"The RAVEN"

WITH

KARLOFF

&

BELA LUGOSI.

`AND SEE THE WORLD”

"Join the #ims to see the world."

Such is the advice of "Louis Surecky, whose job as production manager also involves the selec- tion of proper settings and locates for. Paramount Aims.

"Any famous resort or celebrat- ed scenic beauty in the world car be duẞlicated within a few miles of the alm city," he said, "and often more realistically."

*Here is

a comparative guide list which Serecky's search for

loped:- the past several years has deve

8.5

Swiss Alps-la the High Sierr-

French River-along the Paci- fe palisades, Santa Monica Bay coastline.

Louisiana swamps and ever- glades-country

Lagona

beach.

near

Monte Car-Agua Callente. The famous Kyber pass of India -at the Parmount ranch.

Blue Ridge mountains of Vir- ginia-in E.g Bear valley, Cur- north"-regions Wood's "frozen around Mt. McKinley.

It was Sarecky w.1o discovered the typica: rolling prairies of the Oklahoma Country-ncar Bakers- field, California, where the classic "Cimarron" was photographed.

HENRY SAYS "NO"

As soon as he finished his role of Richard Coeur-Ge-Lion in Cecil E DeMille's Paramcunt spectacle, *The Crusades" Henry Wilcoxon made an announcement.

He said that he wil muke no more costume pictures until he has also establisted himself with the American and British public in modern roles.

ALHAMBRA

ULATEE

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 &. 9.30 P.M.

It's women last!! To hell with chivalry...when mutiny rides the seas!

OMM

Ann Zothe 8 BELLS

RALPH

BELLAMY

with

JỌ X 14

BUCKLER

Thrested lik

GROT WILLIAM NEELL A COLUMBIA PICTURE

TO-MORROW

RED WAGON"

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