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QUEEN'S THEATRE

GALA PREMIERE TO-NIGHT AT 9 P.M

MAX REINHARDTS servon production of SHAKESPEAREZ

"A MIDSUMMER

NIGHT'S DREAM”

accompanied by the immortal music of, FELIX MENDELSSOHN

* PRICES:—#8, #2, $1.50 & $1. This superb production will not be shown in Hong Kong at lesser prices for a period of not less than six months!

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1936.

TODAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Escape Me Never" QUEEN'S :---

"A Midsummer Night's

Dream"

ORIENTAL:-

"Star of Midnight” "Cowan and Balley"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"Love In Bloom" MAJESTIC:--

"Alias Mary Dow"

STAR:---

"Stranded"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Anna Karenina"

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4 SHOWS

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1.30-$19 TJ-8.00

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DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

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A MIGHTY FINE

COMEDY DETECTIVE MYSTERY PICTURE

"They'll made,

amuse and

thrill you

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POWELL

From the last and grant-

est mystery moved by Arthur Somers Roche.

Ginger

ROGERS

STAR OF MIDNIGEIT

RKO-RADIO PICTURE

FAREWELL PERFORMANCES ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME GOWANA BAILEYSBIG STAGE SHORY

All New Songs, Music, Dances and Comedy Stunts- Prices Matinees 20 c.-30 e. Evenings 206-80 e.—50 8.—70

STARE

SHOWING TO-DAY.

FRANCIS Stranded

A Warner Bros. Hit with

GEORGE BRENT PATRICIA ELLIS DONALD WOODS

-NEXT CHANGE- JACK BUCHANAN" "BREWSTERS

MILLIONS

'ANNA KARENINA”

"

To-day some excellent "talkie” films made in East Africa recently were shown to an audience of au, thropological and educational film experts. It was ahe first programme completed under the Bantu educa tional cinema project undertaken by a department of the Interna

"Brewsters Millions"

"The Case of The Curious

Bride"

ALHAMBRA : -----

"Anna Karenina"

“ANNA KARENINA”

Kay Francis has her most un- usual film role in "Stranded," the Warner Bros. plcture now playing at the STAR Theatre

'STRANDED"

Huge Sets Enhance Bergner's Appeal

TINY STAR-MOVËS AGAINST TOWERING

BACKGROUNDS IN

F

NEW FILM

Film producers sometimes choote very subtle and Indirect routes to reach your emotions. An instance of this is provided "by. “Escape Me Never," Elizabeth Bergner's new starring vehicle which is at the King's Theatre to-day with High Sinclair, Loon Quartermaine, Grif- fith Jones and other principals of the Margaret Kennedy stage hit. repeating their original roles.

Emphasizing the tininess and the helplessness of the appealing waif, Gemma Jones, who offers the great Bergner her greatest role, was the problem which confronted the art director here. And he met Warner Bros. latest service story, it by cunningly contriving over- "Stranded." opens at the Star sized settings for the tiny, down- Theatre to-day, with Kay, Francis at-heel gamin to move against. and George Brent in the stellarThe effect is astonishing. roles.

The Army, the Navy, the Flying Marines and the Department of Justice, have formed the back- ground for big Warner Bros.' screen hits. Now the United States Department of Immigration is

Throughout the production, which Paul Czinner directed for release, through United Artists. Gemma and her penniless com- poser friends Sebastian and Caryl Sanger.-are-contracted with the

"Anna Karenina," Greta Garbo's twentieth starring picture for detro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is the most ambitious production of her career,

he pictare, opening Saturday at the King's and Alhambra Theatre, used. The screen play by Delmer weathy McCleans, and the back- marks her 10th Anniversary with Daves is based on the story, "Lady the M-G-M studios.

The new film, based authentically with a Badge," by Frank Wead on Lou Tolstoy's immortal dassic, and Ferdinand Reyher, and is said presents Misa Garbo in a famous to contain more heart interest drama against a true background than any of the preceding service of imperialistic "Russia at the stories. height of that nation's glory fity years ago.

Fredric March, acclaimed for his roles in "We Live Again," Affairs of Cellini" and "Les Miserables," is co-starred with Misa Garbo ne the dashing Count Vronsky.

The picture is the first David 0. Selznick-who-

"Little brought Women," "David Copperfield" and nany other famous stories to the screen-has produced with Miss Garbo and promises to equal if not surpass all his other notable pro- ductions in authenticity, grandeur and massive production.

It brings together Miss Garbo and Director Clarence Brown for the sixth time and renews one of the most successful star-director

eams in the industry,

"WHITE COCKATOO"

grounds switch from tumble-down, alley lodgings to magnificent edifices, from the picturesque canals and palazzos or Venice to the smoky tenements of London.

Here the work of the art direc- tor intensifies the effect of these There is plenty of dramatic ac-

extremes by cunningly emphasiz- tion, nevertheless, a touch of paing the contrast between the two thos in the romance,

"A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S

DREAM"

brilliant

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE

KINGS

TO-DAY ONLY

DAILY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 0.30 PM

ELISABETH

BERGNER

ESCAPE ME NEVER

| DIRECTED BE DA PAUL CZINNER

AND WALT ROBBER KITTEN”

DISNEY'S

TO-MORROW :

TO-DAY &

TELEPHONE

No 95313,

| DERICTOR, QE PRODUCTIONS HERBERT WILLDR

Tax MONT BEAUTIFUL TEORNICOLOUR MILLI NIMIVONT

•, M.Q.M.

'GĦETA" GARBO————FREDRIO MARCH

in "ANNA KARENINA" • "PICTURE

MAJESTIC Al-2.30, 5.20,

TO-MORROW THEATRE

"ESCAPE ME NEVER”

fbackgrounds. For the interior of

Discovered In Vienns, by a dise the Neroni Palace in Venice, which

criminating scout" brought over is rented by the McCleans twq sound stages were utilised with to England, put straight into pro- colossal sets which Andrewjev, the duction with out the usual fanfare of trumpets and bally-hoo to signal art director, Russian Mendelssohn's famous Wedding modelled after well-known build the birth of another great "star"— March," familiar to all brides and ing in Venice. Although authentic such was the quiet rise of Elizabeth music lovers, is part of the score as to detail, these sets were scaled Bergner, who electrifled audiences of the music in "A Midsummer to one and one half times the size the day before in the premiere the Warner Bros. of the originals Faithful copies showing of her first Elstree vehicle. Night's Dream,"

"Escape. Me Never,” picture commencing, to-night at of early Italian tapestries, hung on the Queen's Theatre with a gala the spacious walls while a dozen And If anyone ever deserved all premiere. Few, however, ktow marble statues likewise over-sized, the fanfare and publicity—perhaps Hollywood had discovered her, that it was originally written for ornamented the staircase. a stage production of this Shake-

such would have been heren- evitable fate-Miss Bergner does for spearean classic.

Into this gargantuan setting bursts the tiny: Gemma Jones, It is used in the majestic pro-garbed in the childish uniform of then perhaps if even only for once cessional scenes, where Hippolyta

Hollywood would be right in its à school girl and apparently one choice of a really great player. and Theseus celebrate their, mar-

of a' culture-seeking group, Ac-

rage. In the Max Reinhardt ptually she is a Mttle impostor, a However, Elstree choose to be duction made for Warner Bros. hungry walf on a thieving expedi- quiet, and now critics all over the this episode was staged on

tion. The effect 18, of course, to world are raving! make the star appear tinier and more waifiike than ever

wooded hillside, on the top which the Temple of Diana gleams

white in the sun.

walk

A melodramatic murder mystery thriller guaranteed to send chills African Native Filmreeping up and down the spine, the next artraction at the

Her performance in "Escape Me Queen's Theatre, under the title of

Never" is magnificent-everybody "White Cockatoo." This пе

For another ambitious sequence, must see the picture. There is a The bridal couple ride in a great Warner Bros, drama, unlike most mystery plays, accentuates the coach, garlanded in flowers, drawn Almed in Italy, the Italian State pathetic theme throughout the Gor- Railway put a train and part of a story that gives Elizabeth ample romance angle very strongly. They four mettlesome horses attempts of two bands of criminals geously costumed out-riders and track at the company's disposal, opportunities to show her ability, the gracious gesture was which truth to say, she is not loath to steal a young American girl's scores of slaves accompany them. cut fortune, lead to three murders. Behind

white robed quickly counter-acted by the un- to se'ze. In addition there are the kidnapping of the heiress and neophytes of the temple, followed actorly behaviour of the one hun-Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Leon tional Missionary Council Mr an attempt on the lives of several by a troop of spearmen and hundred and fifty camera-bold extras Quartermaine and others, who re-

. C. Latham, one of the direc

from the neighbouring tain their stage roles, and are all tors of the project, has already others. An Amer.can engineer. dreds of men and ladies-in-walt-secured

To the strains of the village, who showed an unnatural superb,

"Escape Me Never" is truely s Soured 8,000 miles with it in East aided by a cockatoo, finally solves Africa and heard the judgment on

the killings and other mysterious majestic "Wedding March" the predeliction for close-ups and con-: it of forty-six native audiences of happenings in the packy French procession, in pomp and splendour.stantly marched straight into the splendid picture, and should on no

account be missed-"Redincam.” different kinds, but before another hotel,

wends its way. experiment is made the opinion of London experts is wanted. Most of the native audiences had never ssen film before, and they expressed astonishment and delight when they saw people of their own race pie tured in the familiar settings

IN KISWAHILI

The spund discs are for the most part in Ki-Swahili The films in- clude a good drama, in which a native chief is the principal charac- ter; a farco, in which the principal romedian, a boy named Manyaro, in a naturally gifted performer; za excellent travel film; and a number uf instructional pictures dealing with such matters se taxation, the growing of tea, soil erosion, the uses of the Post Office savings bank, | and so on,

Designed to suit the needs of primitive people, they re, of course, simple in form, but the natural and unself- acting is conscious - and the actual photo- graphy some of which, I am told. was done by a native camera man Greta Carbo's tenth anniversary after Jittle instruction-is surpris picture, "Anna Karenina," opening ingly good The object of the pro Saturday at the King's and Al-Ject is to discover the ideal film. hambra Theatres, has one of the programme for fotura

inative audiences. most impressive casts of feature players available.

The story, with a background of Imperialistic Russia at the height of that nation's wealth and splen- do, was directed by Clarence Brown

African

Bartholomew. "of "David Copper Deld," was called back from per- sonal appearance triumphs to take. over the role as Garbo's son.

Maureen O'Sullivan, because of her brillant work in "Barrett of Wimpole Street," was chosen, from an imposing list if candidates for Princess Kitty Shcherbatsky, and Phoebe Foster, Broadway stage star, abandoned the footlights to

Almost all of the characters m the novel are retained in the ple- ture, totaling forty featured roles. Heading the cast are Garbó, EB Anna Karenina, and Fredric March as Count Vronaky, her lover, Basit Rathbone was lured from the stage to play Karenina... Anna's play Princes Dolly, Anna's sister- ruthless husband, and Freddie fn-law.

10g.

mighty cast of Midrammer Nights The outstanding cast incluite

пос

Too E. Brown, Grant Mitchell, Hagti Hert

camera.

emlere to-night at 9 p.m. at the Queen's The Dick Powell, Jean Muir, James Chener, Olivia de Haviland. Mickey Rooney Anita Louise, Victor Jory. Nina Theil

7.20 & 9.20 P.B.

"Alias Mary Dow"

SOCIETY DEB OR DANCE HALL DOLL ?

FEATURING

Sally Eilers Raymond Milland

ALHAMBRA

THUATRE

TO-DAY ONLY

2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

NEBLOOM

A Paramount Picture with

GEORGE BURNS & GRACIE ALLEN JOE MORRISON DIXIE LEE

| TOMORROW]

A Superb Drama that Tops sil others

*ANNA KARENINA

GRETA

GARBO

&

FREDRIC MARCH.

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY IN

KOWLOON FLAT.

Jewellery Stolen

At 9.40 yesterday morning, five- mien armed with butchers' knives, committed a daring robbery at the first floor ct No. 185. Lalchikok" Road

It was reported that the men went to the house and asked to sce a broker who occupied a cubi- cle on that cor. The broker had just left the house, and as soon as the door was opened the mun rashed in and gagged and blind- folded the inmatea. Wong, Chi, a widow aged 30 offered some re sistance and received a cut in the hand.

After robbing the flat the "men excaped with a quantity of jewel- fery, the vaine of which is as 'yet' unknown. They fled in an unknown direction after having been in the nat for about half an hour, Ja!

"I want, same collars for my hus band said the woman, but I am afraid I have forgotten the size.” Thirteen and a half, ma'am'a suggested the shop, dasistant.

**That's-it. How did you

Men who let thei their collar

em, are: alway

for

thout thst size,

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