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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"The Ghost Goes West" QUEEN'S:

"Next Time We Love" ORIENTAL —

"13 Hours By Air"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:---

"Country Beyond" MAJESTIC:-

NEWS FLASHES

Columbia Plans For Grace Moore

The return of Grave Moore to, on the set and the scree player Hollywood following an extensive have been quick to take advantage European vacation tour discloses of the situation, the fact that during der absence Columbia 8.udios have been far from Idle regarding her screen future.

Three important stories are

MOU

Edith Follows. at the moment, is leading in the marathon chess tournament with Crosby, Misa Evans and Donald Meek tied for

cord place.

being prepared for early

Crosby is anxious to learn wha alming with the popular operatic | started the rumor that chess in't atar at the head of strong supa child's game.. porting casts,

The first to enter production ·SIXTY-EIGHT NEW SETS FOR

is tentatively titled "Interlude"

and is scheduled to start before cameras within three weeks. The

of

"LOST HORIZON"

Stephen Goosion, art directo

Columbla Studios, designed story is based on an original from

And constructed sixty-eight in- the pen of Robert Riskin, who terior and exterior sets as back-

"Variety Programme" "Samarang"..

STAR:-

"Man Of Aran"

has play

also prepared the screen

*Coming

Frank

Successes

of

grounds for "Lost Horizon," Columbia's screen version Robert Riskin is well-known James Hilton's novel, starring for his writing. affiliation with Ronald Colman, and directed by"

Capra's direction of such Frank Capri. One set, represent- as "It Happened One ing the Shangri-La monastery. "The Poor Little Rich Gire Night" and "Mr. Deeds Goes To required three months to build. Town." and the two have been elaborate were the specifica- QUEEN'S:-

recently associated on tons laid down by Director Frank Columbia's forthcoming picturiza-Capra. Won of the James Hlton best-

KING'S:-

"Evensong"

ORIENTAL:-

most

"The Widow From "Monte seller novel, "Lost Horizon." star-

tr

Carlo" "The Singing Kid"

ALHAMBRA:→→

STAR:

ring Ronald Colman.

Director and cast assignments for "Interlude" have not yet been

"The Poor Little Rich Girl" announced.

"Dangerous"

N

"Intermezzo" is another Grace Moore production being prepared "Come Out Of The Pantry" for filming. It is based on an original story by Zoe Akins who also credited with the adapta- tion for the screen.

MAJESTIC:-

"City Lights"

'GHOST GOES WEST“

The hilarious adventures of a handsome and amorous ghost who accompanies a haunted Scottish castle to America, are depicted in amusing manner in "The Ghost Goes West," Alexander Korda's gay romantic.comedy which brings Robert Doriat to the King's Thea- tre to-day with Jean Parker and Eugene Pallette..

Donât is cast as Donald Glourie an impoverished Scotch nobleman who sells his haunted ancestral

castle to an American millionaire, and also plays the Jolly castla ghost.

The millionaire has the castle razed and transported to New York stone by atone and the ghost, be- ing a very conscientious shade. picks up and trails along.

Complications develop when the ghost turns up aboard the trans- atlantic liner and is mistaken for Donald, whom he very closely re- sembles.

The ghost appears at a fancy dress ball, and next morning a very surprised Donald receive first

prize for the best costume. The

WARREN WILLIAM-DOLORES DEL RIO ghost takes a wealthy American

bewildered The WIDOW FROM MONTE CARLO

SUN. AL JOLSON with SYBIL JASON

MON.

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£65,000 FILM OFFER TO

GRACIE FIELDS

US. Producers' Hopes

Miss Gracie Fields, the film and variety stage star, Is considering several offers she has recently had from Hollywood producers.

The sums suggested have ranged from £50,000 to £25,000 a picture, which is probably rather more than she earns in this country under her contract with. Basil Dean, of Associated Talking Pig- tures. The highest paid artist in the world, Greta Garbo, earns £60,000 a picture, but does пос make them so often..

Miss Fields's contract with A.T.P. provides for only one more Ülm.

check for $9,000.

The famous Rupert Hughes story, "A Nightingale Files Home" Is the third story announced by Columbia as a forthcoming Grace Moore picture and the story is 11 the preliminary adaptation stage

at the moment.

Grace Moore's extended vacation,

it is evident. hasn't impeded plans for her screen future.

only

ACTOR GETS THANKS John Boles, screen star, has jasi į received a letter from his mother. Mrs. John Love Boles of Texar- kana, Texas, in which she extends thanks for a recent gift, but ex- presses the hope that she will re- ceive no more of its kind.

of gratitude came this week from

The explanation for the message Boles, currently filming opposite Rosalind Russell iry "Craig's Wife" with Bille Burke Columbia's and others under the direction of Dorothy Arzner. mother the soldier's bonus recent-

He had sent his Iv granted him by the government

for his services overseas.

"I sent the money to mother. not only becease I know she would use it to advantage." sald Boles, ANIMAL PROBLEM

"but also because I sincerely be Shaggy faldan ponies.

leve it was due her. She like avakaole equines" In America every other mother, was the "one closely resembling Tibetan horse, were transported from western reservations to Hollywood for use in Frank Capra's recently completed Columbia picture. Lost Horizon."

many

en-

who suffered while I was at the frodit."

r:

Boles added that the theory of his mother's reaction to war was confirmed by the postscript to her letter of thanks.

Another livestock problem

"I hope." she wrote. "that. I countered during the filming o may never receive another such the picture was the necessity for Bft, for I trust it will never be yaks, which replace cows in Tibet. necessary for you to go to waLT The only yalks in america are again séquestered in zoo collections su Highlander cows, which are simi

in appearance. were substi-

lar

tuted for the occasion.

Ronald Colman has the starring role in "Lost Horizon" with Ed- ward Everott Horton. Jane Wyatt, Isabel Jewell Thomas Mitchell. H. B Warner, Margo and John Howard in the strong supporting

cast,

at back gammon and Donald is

CROSBY DEFEATED to receive the man's

Anyone who thinks that chess However, when Martin's pretty daughter Peggy Inside information on the sub- Isn't a child's game can get some (Jean Parker), whom Donald loves,ject by consulting Bing Crosby

serves the ghost making love to a pretty women and mistakes him for Donald, the young man realize the time has come to investigate.

The Alm reaches a surprise climax when Martin, who has de- cided to use the ghost to publicize Martin's Fine Foods, holds a re- ception for the press in the ludi crously restored and modernized castle.

Elsa Lanchester and Patricia Hilliard are also m the cast of the film which is released through United Artists. Vincent Korda de signed the Bets."

NEXT TIME WE

LOVE"

The King of Croon has learned. subject. He had fancied himself to his surprise, much about the

rather a good chess player until he discovered, this week, that can give him a Pawn and a Rook thirteen year old. Edith Fellows

and still beat him

FASHIN FLASH

A shimmering evening gown of silver lame, will be worn by Irene Dunne in Columbia's forthcoming production tentatively titled "Theo- dora Goes Wid," and features a curplus, form-fitting bodice and draped skirt with slight train. This exquisite dress is enhanced cape of the same sliver lame which falls away at the elbow and then drops' to the Boor in back to follow the grace-

further dramatized by a white ful lines of the gown. The cape

by ศ classic

fox fur banding.

"THE COUNTRY BEYOND"

The code of the Royal Canadian Informal chess matches between Mounted Police dictates that "they Young Miss Follows, and either always get their man." but in "The Madge Evans OT Crosby, have Country Beyond" which is being become a regular between-the- shown at the Alhambra Theatre diversion at Columbia to-day the gallant "mountie” wins scenes Studios where the trio le engaged his girl also, as he trails a killer in filming "Pennies From Heaven" through the frozen Northland.... under the direction of Norman Adapted from the popular James McLeod.

Oliver Curwood novel, the new Fox

man's gallantry, a girl's love and a great dog's devotion in a land beyond the laws of man.

The playing of chess constitutes | romance-drama is a story of a ani imporant part in the plot, for there are several sequences in the picture in which the character are required. to participate in the game

benent of the cameras.

The dog is Buck, the St. Bernard hero of "The Call of the Wild” who appears with Rochelle Hudson.” a consequence several ex- Paul Kelly, and Robert Kent in the cellent chess outats are on hand picture.

for the "Next Time We Love" starring Stewart Margaret Sullavali and James

opens

As to-day at the Queen's Theatre:

The story takes you straight into the glamourous Lives of a woman who is a stage and screen star, and a man who writes about im- portant world happenings in the far, exciting corners of the earth. These two. desparately in love.

MAN OF ARAN Twentieth Century-Fox and other marty.

-Directzit by ROBERT FLAHERTY

RGANILDRONDH FIRTUAL

Man's desperate conflict with nature in bar cruellest and Euroest mood. !

TO-MORROW BETTE DAVIS IN HEE

PRIZE WINNING PLOTUER |

DANGEROUS" with” FRANCHOT TONE

American firms have for some time cherished hopes of engaging Great Britain's most successful artist Whether she accepts -an American offer or not, Miss Fields will not go to Hollywood. It will be an essential condition of the con- tract that the picture jahall b made in Great Britain.

Another alternative is that at the end of the year she may re- tre altogether. She has made a fortune, and her tastes are markably simple;

Their adventurous careers are lifted to greater heights of human Interest when another man fails in love with the wife. 1 reveal what happens after that would spoil your enjoyment when you see.. "Next Time We Love."

Bupporting Miss Sullaven and Stewart in the cast are Ray Milland as the other man. Grant, Mitchell

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Musical Interludes by Gellman's Gloucester Quartette

as the producer, Robert MacWade Next Performance: Thursday, 1st Oct.

as Editor and boss of Stewart and re-Rointe Coshey as the son of Mar-

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