CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
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"STRANDED".
The cycle of picsures that have various departinents of Govern ment services for background now complete. The must remaining branch, the Department or Im- migration is covered in the new Warner Bros., picture, "Stranded commencing
the Queen's
"THE SCOUNDREL”
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30. 5.iv, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
and
Noel Coward, the hope despair of tum producers these many years, revcals now that his raluctance to enter one-time motion pictures in any capacity nad actually hidden his eagerness to get nto this strange, new and
ascinating field
Now starring in the Hecht- production"The
Scoundrel." coming on Saturday to the King's Theatre. Coward asserts that he had never before ventured into Alms because he feared that he might not be suc cessful in this new fie.d. from the man whose prowess a drama:ist, actor and composer, of music has won him renown" "in every civilized city of the world'
Theatre to-day. -Instead of the fast and furious,"MacArthur action of the fighting branches, immigration offers more human the water- Through interest. front headquarters of this service pass all types and nationalities' hopeful young men who see nothing but opportunity in this world; sad-eyed mothers with, no thought except to find a retuge from the storms of South Europe: bewildered children hanging to the coat of a bereaved father who has crossed the ocean. in search of forgetfulness; busy oficials patiently trying to understand and to explain. gray-haired couples huddled in corners wait- Ing for American sons and daughters to and them.
"MURDER ON A HONEYMOON"
Baffling mystery sp.céd with harious comedy, udventures and the glow of romance, is presented in RKO-Radio's "Murder on 'L Honeymoon." follow-up picture to The Peaguin Pool Murder" and "Murder on the Blackboard," ali written by Siri Palmer showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
Carrying the same delightful characterizations
brought that them high acclaim n the pre- vlous pictures, Edna May Oliver. character comedienne par cxcel- lence, and James Gleason, tamous for his wise-cracking roles. seen again as the schoo"-teacher- slenth and the police inspector,
respectively.
are
ESTARE
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.29, 7.20 & 9.29 P.M.
WEDNESDAY'S
CHILO
With
Edward Arnold
Karen Morley
Frankie Thom as
RKO
RADIO Ketura
TO-MORROW SYDNEY HOWARD
in
“IT'S A COP"
A United Artists Release
4 SHOWS
7.15-8.30
That.
"I really wanted to try the
"I wanted. films." says Coward.
the experience. I always like, to learn new things. But I've never tried the movies before because I feared failure."
rl
"IN CALIENTE
"In Caliente" First National's latest musical, opening this, week-. end at the Queen's Theatre. Ita all star cast as neaded by Dolores Del Rio, Pat O'Brien, Leo Carilio josad Edward Everett 'Horton. Sèpres or teautiful girls appear in numbers created and directed by Busby Berkerly who staged the big hits in 42nd Street,” “Wonder Bar" and "Gold Diggers of 1935" and scores of other Alm musicals, Two famous song writing teams Warren and Dubin and Dixon and Wrubel, wrote the songs for the Berkerley production numbers they include "Muchacha." "Lady In Red" and the little song "In Caliente",
WITH
EDNA "MAY" OLIVER
JAMES GLEASON
RKO-RADIO PICTURE"
|| MURDER ON A HONEYMOON
NEXT CHANGE
NOEL COWARD in "THE SCOUNDREL"
PARAMOUNT
PICTES
MOVIELAND NEWS
Alfred Hitchcock, d.rector of "The 39 Steps," the most success- ful film ever produced by Gau- mont-British, is now at work on The secret Agent. It is based on the "Ashend:n,' stories by Somer- set Maugham..
Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Robert Young and Peter Lorre are named for the leading roles.
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George Arliss is taking the part of a meek-and-mild civil servant in his new film for G-B and this will be followed by Pepys, the script for which has just been completed
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Another American ainr, Una Merkel, is to come over for The Wrecker, the railway drama by Arnold Ridley, who wrote "The
HOLLYWOOD ALL Ghost Train"
AT SEA!
Hollywood is going to sea very rapidly...Four of the eight_Para- mount productions now before the camera centre around ships of various kinds. *
Everything from the most palu- tial of modern trans-Atlantic liners to tramp steamers has been built by the studlo carpenter shops,
Mae West' started her new Para- mount picture-Klondyke Lou-in the captain's cabin of a 'tramp ship of 1898, Miss West and Victor McLaglen, who has just received a big contract after his work in "The Informer," will spend at least three weeks shooting in the cabin, under the direction of Raoul Walsh:
Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Frank Morgan, Ida Lupine and Charlie Ruggies have "boarded an Atlantic liner for the scenes of Anything Goes--film version of the musical success at the Palace Theatre,
The most anusual set is that for Carl Brisson's Ship Cafe, which is the stokehole of a collier. Inciden- Í rally, 'Carl had to, go into heavy training to shovel coal into the furnaces.
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Coronado, which features Johnny Downs, Jack Haley, Eddy Duchin, the famous American band leader, Leon Errol and Betty Burgess, uses a yacht for background in one sequence,
And when the company goes on location at Coronado Beach, Call fornia, it will use anything from a canoe to a battleship.
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ORIENTAL
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FLENDIG
ROAD
Basil Dean, who has lately beer. directing a fim on the life of Mo zart, has in hand a film-cycle of Shakespeare's plays, beginning with Twelfth Night and The Tem-
_pest.
Betty Fields, &.ster of Gracie Fields, is having her first starring role in Sitting on Top of the World, which is being made at Sound City studios.
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY A 2.80, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
FRANK BORZAGE'S
"STRANDED"
with
Glamourously Amourous
KAY FRANCIS.
Tully Losch, the dancer, has been secured to appear in Street Signer's Serenade, which Herbert. Wilcox is making with Arthur Tracy (the original "Street Bin- ger") and Anna Neagle in the principal roles.
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Other musical films on the way are She Shall Have Music (Twic- kenham with Jack Hylton and his Band; Sunshine Ahead (Cric- klewood) with Jack Payne and his Band; and an un-named film (Rock) with Harry Row and his Band-not-forgetting-Mrs:---Roy- (Princess Pearl of Sarawak). The Wolzikowsky Ballet are appear- ing in the Hylton picture.
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J. B. Fagans The Improper Du- chess, being made by City Flims. shoua make a capital screen story. Yvonne Arnaud appears in
"MEN OF THE HOUR"
Ask Richard Cromwell, talented juvenile actor, how he keeps him self physically fit and he'll "kowl with "inughter!
For, according to Cromwell, whose latestTM Columbia picture, "Men of the Hour," in which bo is featured with Wallsee Ford and Billie Seward, showing at the Al- hambra to-day to Friday he never gets a chance to go soft.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S
Hong Kong
"Murder In A Honeymoon"
QUEEN'S:—
"Stranded"
ORIENTAL:---
"Kansas City Princess"
Kowloon
ALHAMERA:----
"Men Of The Hour"
MAJESTICA.
X
STAR:
Chinese Picture
"Wednesday's Child"
KING'S:
Coming
"The Scoundrel" QUEEN'S:-
STAR:-
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"Caliente"
"It's" A 'Cop" "Oeorges White's
"Maybe these drawing-room ac tors, who do nothing all day but exchange guy. repartes between drinks on the screen, I mean-have | MAJESTIC:—— to worry about keeping it, but not I declares Cromwell,
"Every picture I maks keeps me on the go. I get more exercise on the set, while I'm working, than most professional athletes," be continues. In 'Lives of a Bengal Lancer, I rode horseback for daya on end I climbed scaffoldings, groomed horses, and jumped like an antelope all day long, to say nothing t walking miles between my dressing-room, and the various
her original rows and the up-locations." Porting cast include Felix Aylmer, "Gerald Barry, Hugh Wakefi Hd and James Carewe.
Alexander Korda : came back from America more convinced thun ever that colour films are bound to become the rule. In Tess Laan six months,he expects to be making all his films in col·
HOME FOOTBALL FORECASTS
(BY RANGER)
The following is the list of fixtures for Saturday, the 23rd inst, The teams in bold type are tipped to win,
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GRIMSBY LEEDS U.
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Sheffield W.
Portsmouth
Middlesbro Huddersfield
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BIRMINGHAM
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CHELSEA
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Wolverhampton. Aston Villa. Preston: Brentford.
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Everton.
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Bolton W.
Liverpool.
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Derby C.
MANCHESTER C.
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SWANSEA T. WEST HAM U.
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Aldershot BRIGHTON BRISTOL C. COVENTRY Exeter MILLWALL
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QUEEN'S P.R.
SWINDON
2 DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW THOSE WISE-CRACKING GOLD DIGGERS ARE GIRL SCOUTS NOW!
Doing their daily good deed ..and doing him good! Just picture the fun when these Merry Manicurists hitch-hike u gay Pares!
KANSAS CITY PRINCESS
Warner Bros. Ht with the Comedy Star of "DAMES",
JOAN BLONDELL
HUGH HERBERT GLENDA FARRELL
Prices Natinees 20 €–80 6. Evenings 20 u.—30 6÷50.670^6.'
NEW PORT
TORQUAY U. Watford
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Barnsley. Huli City.
Luton, Northampton. Cardiff C. Bristol R.. BOUTHEND
Gillingham Clapton, O. Crystal P.
Notts County.
Bournemouth.
Reading
DIVISION IIL (NORTH)
HARTLEPOOLS
MANSFIELD TOWN OLDHAM ATH
ROTHERHAM
TRANMERE R WALSALL WREXHAM
V.
Rochdale.. Accrington 8: Southport Crewe, York C. Barrow. Stockport,
N. Brighton. Chester.
Lincoln O. Chesterfield,
SCOTTISH LEAGUE DIVISION 1.
Rangers.
ABERDEEN Albion
ARBROATH
AYT
CLYDE
·DUNFERMLINE
HAMILTON
Hibernians PARTICK -QUEEN'S PARK
ST. JOHNSTONE. Dandée
CELTIC. Kilmarnock, Third Lanark. Hearts. MOTHERWELL Airdrie. D Queen Of South,
our at the new Denham studios. Meanwhile, he is busy on Cyrano de-Bergerac, with Charles-Laugh- ton tak ng th part or the large- nosed romantic.
Capitol Films are to maxe a fum version of Pagliacch with Tauber in the chief singing role. Karl Grune will direct.
They are also do.ng a new ver- sion of When Knights Were Bold, with Jack Buchanan and Fay Wray. The supporting cast in- cludes Garry Marsh, Kate Cutler, Robert Nalnby George Ide, Aub- rey Fitzgerald and. Charles Co- boru, who at 84 is making his film debut. He is to play the old- est inhabitant of a village which presumably had never heard of the "Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo!"
For All Eternity, one of Marion Grierson's beautiful productions, this time dealing with the cathed- rals of England, is, I hear, to be shown at the Empire, Leicester Square, during Christmas week.
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Douglas Fairbanks Junior has founded Criterion Productions to make films here. 'His first pic- ture is Jeffery Farnoi's The Ama- teur Gentleman, with hitself and Elsa Landi in the chief roles..
Cameras will soon start grinding of "what is declared will be the most elaborate full-length fea- ture production ever attempted by Laurel and Hardy. Balfe's famous light opera, THE BOHEM- IAN GIRL, is to be transferred to the screen by the Hal Roach stel- lar funsters and no time or effort will be spared in giving it an appropriate presentation and set- ting. Roach will personally, super- vise the filming.
Hollywood's most recent da tinguished arrival is Jimmy Savo,, tamous stage and screen .come- dian, Savo, who was accompan- „ied by, his bride of but a few days, Nita, Farina, is under contract to the Hal Roarh studios where he w21 appear in a series of comedy productions, the first of which is ALONE, ALAS!
1935 Scandals"
"Baby Face Harrington"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE:
NATHAN ROÅD, KOWLOON := TO-DAY & TO-MORROW. At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.80 P.E.
CHINESE PICTURE WITH CANTONESE
DIALOGUE
FRIDAY
"BABY FACE
HARRINGTON
WITH
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CHARLES BUTTERWORTH UNA MERKEL
MAE WEST AND THE LION
Mae West, blonde star of Goận” 10 Town, haa-been Könited in the figurative sense a great many.times, but she has just learned that she has been lonised in fact,
She received a letter the other day from the curator of the Washington Park Zoo, in Oregon, saying that a Honess had been named after her.
with For those
astronomical minds, it might be added that Mae was born under the sign of Leo.
THE FILMS OF 1940
Actors And Backgrounds
Stand Out In Bold Relief
Patrons of the movies in 1950; microphotography-the_ placing will see actors and their back- of reduced-size images on film or grounds standing out in bold re- paper, will play an increasing.y important part 10 education, llef as they did when one looked at photographs through the old- where only a few copies of a pa-- fashioned stereoscope that laid per are riceded.. on the parlour table, it was pre- Cicted here to-day at the tail con- vention of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers.
Besides promising "third-dimen- s.on Alms" Homer G. Tasker, president of the society, forecasta" that five years hence motion pie tures will be coloureri so natur-j ally as to be "almost inconspicu- ous," where sound apparatus will be perfected to such a degre that noises will seem to be com ing from the appropriate location un the screen,
Basic Facts Achieved "Papers to be read during vur four-day convention describe means for making all these things come true," Mr. Tasker declared in his presidential address. "The fundamental research," he said,
is already in progress. Actual accomplishment' simply waits up-" on the commercial application of scientic facts already discovered and laboratory models now in ex- istence."
Describing in detau "the im provements that are to be made," Mr. Tasker declared that within the next five years sound will be reproduced over a frequency range or from 30 to 10,000 cycles with smoothness and reality and that disquieting and disillusioning background hofses will be "sup- pressed to the point where the volume range, at expression will be comparable to the original sound sources..
"Colour," he added, "will have achieved its majority and wall clothe the picture in the raiment of a gentleman, neither shabby nor blatantly but in such excel- lent taste and perfection of de- tall us to be almost entirely in- conspicuous."
The meeting began on a keynote of progress when the delegates viewed a short silent film produc- ed in 1894 entitled "The Kiss" and were allowed to compare it with an excerpt from "Page Miss Cory" in which a "sound movie was produced within a "movie" ta make a photograph come to life. In b's opening address, Mr. Tas- ker paid tribute to a Frenchman, Eugene Maret, father of the motion picture? who invented th photographic gun to record the motion of a bird's wing, little knowing that a great amusement industry was to follow his exper-
by poli
Eugene "Porky" Lee, chubby nineteen months old baby, bas fust been awarded a long-term, motion picture contract by Ha Roach and will soon appear “in "Our Gang" comedia. The young ater, who hails from Fort Worth, Texas. strikingly resembles "Bpanky, the little leading man of the popular juvenile screen group, and because of this will probably be seen playing brotheriments roles in future "Gang" produc tons.
Watson Davis, director
·Science Service, „ predicted that
"In making available the writ-
ten
records and picturiai
of sclence," he explained, "ma photographic duplication promises to take the library to the research worker in
districts isolated through the fact that micro-nim copies of printed literature can. be made and distributed at lese than 1 cent a page,"
Several of the larger daily news papers are now experimenting in
plan to keep their fles of an nual volumes on film instead of paper.
Most persons think only of flim in the standard size of 38 milli- meters (about one inch) in which. he declared. But as a matter of... fact, a vast amount of recording is now being done on 16-ml- meter fim. He said experiments are in progress looking to exten- sive use of 70-millimeter film for large newspapers and maps."
ALNAMBRA
THENTRE
OPENS 10-DAY-
(at 2,30, 5.20, 7.22 §. 9.30. F-M.,
Love takes a back. seat in a ride of thrills as the newsreel stunters race to scoop: "hot newsl
MEN
OF THE
HOUR
RICHARD CROMWETT BILE SEWARD AS WALLACE FORD
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