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Why won't this boy talk.

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Id Give My Life

A FATIMORui Biature with SIR GUY STANDING FRANCES DRAKE-TOM BROWN Richard A. Bowland'ı Traduction - Diensted by Déwin

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MARY OF SCOTLAND"

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DENIS KING, MAGNIFICENT BINGING STAR IN

FRA DIAVOLO IN ANOTHER MAGNIFICENT SINGING HOLE.

"

IN

THE VAGABOND KING"

with

TOMORROW

JEANETTE MACDONALD

WARNER OLAND

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"White Fang"

QUEEN'S:---

"T'd Give My Life" ORIENTAL:-

"Anything Gloen"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA ------

"Sky Parade"" MAJESTIC:-

"Moonlight Murder””

STAR:-

"The Vagabond King”

KING'S ——

Coming

"His Brother's Wife" QUEEN'S:-

"Mary of Scotland". OBIENTAL:-

"A Midsummer Night's

Dream”

ALHAMBRA:-

"Mary of Scotland"

STAR:-

"The Return of Sophie

Lane"

MAJESTIC:-

"Desire"

.::

"WHITE FANG"

The lawless North-country vibrant with romance and drench- ed with drama, once again flashes across the screen in "White Fang" Jack London's thrill-laden sequel to his "Call Of The Wid," which opens at the King's Theatre to day.

NEWS

VERSATILE STAR

FLASHES

"THE LONGEST

NIGHT

Fay Wray is considered one of the most versatile actresses. In

Julle Haydon, who has just Bollywood. Her roles vary from

completed the feminine lead in straight leading women to adven-"A Son Comes Home," has been society designed, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a featured role in "The Longest Night," mystery thriller 'by' Cön-

and Fitzsimmons

turesses, attorneys, butantes. Ingenues heroes in "horror" plctures and 8 clover young woman on the loose in New York, accused of grand larceny. The latter part is the role she enacts in her latest Columbia pro- duction.

FORMER STAR RETURNS

Vera Steadman, starred for Fears as a comedienne in the silent days of motion pictures, has been

Miss Haydon is remembered for Coward in "The Scoundrel" Robert the hit the scored opposite Noel

Young and Florence Rice again aire teamed us the leaders in the picture, following their success in "Sworn Enemy."

Others featured include Leslie Feuton, Janet Beecher, Etienne Girardot Samuel Hinds, Sidney Toler. Ted Healy, Olin Howland, Kitty McHugh, Catherine Doucet,

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2 SU. 3.IC. 7.15 & 9.30 P

cast for a role in "Theodora Glóen Tommy Bupp. Johnny Hyams and}}] Bir

Wild." which is now being filmed by Columbia Studios as a starring picture for Irene Dunne with Melvyn Donglas

HEAVYWEIGHT DOGS

MAKE DEBUT

Minor Watson Errol Taggart is directing with Lucien Hubbard and Samuel Marx as producers:

“CAMILLE*

for

Signed by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer or the role of Gaston in Camile, Rex O'Malley recently arrived in Hollywood and at once joined the cast assembled Greta Garbo's new picture. s his first Hollywood role after a career of many outstanding suc- cesses on the Broadway and Lon- don, stages.

This

Two newcomers to pictures, one Ave years old and the other two. and weighing a total of 268 pounds, are to be seen on the screen soon La one

of Hollywood's most im portant productions.

The screen novices are St. Bernard dogs named Tom and Jerry, owned by Ronnie Renfrò, During the present summer well-known trainer of motion plc-Malley has been directing plays ture dogs, and are making their for Lawrence Langer at the Coun- movie debut in Frank Capra's try Playhouse in Westport. Не Columbia production, Lost Hori- was released from this engage- on to be released shortly with ment in order to go out to Holly- Ronald Colman heading a strong wood. Recent Boardway attrac- cast.

tions in which he has appeared include "Revenge With Musle" and "No More Ladies." He began his

Featuring an exceptional cast

The massive canines, weighing headed by Michael Whalen and 140 and 128 respectively, have a Jean Muir, and including Silm daily menu which could not, by Summerville, Charles Winninger any stretch of the imagination, be the original "Cap'n Henry" of termed modest. They daily con- radio fame, John Carradine, Jane ume 12 pounds of hamburger and Darwell and Thomas Beck, "White three pounds of dog biscuits. Each Fang" is a stirring story of, ad-

is fed a quart of milk and four venture ranking with the screen's

eggs dally, in addition, in order to greatest outdoor dramas.

keep the coat' shiny and glossy.

Whalen, fresh from trumphant roles in "Professional Soldier" and, The Country Doctor," has his

most ambitions part and gives DIARY OF LOCAL

promise or becoming one of the Outstanding young men of the' screen. Jean Muir, loveller than evar in a setting as picturesque as her own beauty, contributes a noteworthy performance while the remainder of the cast is uniformly

good

EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11.

Anniversaries. kad

Halidays.-Armis.

Slim Summerville and Charles tice Day Martinmas. Scottish Quar- ter Day Half Quarter Day, King Winninger. especially, deserve Victor Emmanuel 11 of Italy bora, tention for their hilarious comid 1800. characterizations.

SKY PARADE"

Cinemas.

King's White Eang.""

stage career in London, played

with the Birmingham Repertory, understudies John Glerud, was seen opposite Gertrude Lawrence 1 Chariot's Revue and brought to New York by David Belasco for léuding role in The Bachelor Father."

£7,000,000

FILM DEAL

Gaumont-British

The biggest deal in the nistory of the British cinema Industry, by which Mr. John Maxwell, chair- man of the Associated British Picture » Corporation, wil gain financial control of the £7,000,000 Gaumont - British” organisation, was "reported recently, says the "Morning Post.”.

Queen's "I'd Give My Life." Oriental :-"Anything Gosé.” WorldChinese Picture." Jiminte Alen hero of "The Alr

Alhambra Sky Parade."

It was stated that Mr. Maxwell Adventures of Jimmie Allen" most

Majestic Moonlight Murder.""

had bought the Ostrer Brothers'. popular radio serial on the ether

Star"--"Vagabond King”

interests in the Metropolis and waves, has been brought to the screen, and in his first picture eadem Association Armistice

Dances.--Royal Engineers Old Com- Bradford Trust Company, which Dance, controls the Gaumont-British Pic- Sky Parade" which opens to-day Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.; Cheereture Corporation by virtue of Ita at the Alhambra Theatre, Jimmie Chab Dance, 8.00 p.m.

hojding of 2,915,000 Ordinary 10s. adds new laure's to the fame Miscellaneous.-Retreat at Tao Forg

shares of the Corporation. which fils radio "performances Shea Christian Monastery, near Shatin, have earned.

"The Sky Parade" is the full thrilling story of man's conquest of the air; of the transformation of flying from the early stages of dare devil stunts into the safe. sure, dependable force which 1 has now become.-

from 2.00 to 5.00 p.m.; Sirdet Sale of Poppies: Armistice Ceremony at the Cenotaph 11 s.m.; at Chinese Memorial, eester Hotel. 11.4 a.m.; Fashion Parade at Clou

John's Cathedral War Memorial Cross Religious-Laying of Wreath at St.

after 3.00. Service: Armistice Day Service at St. John's Cathedral, 9.30 The film goes back to the days a.m.; Special Remembrance Service st Ammediately following the

St. Joseph's Church, 9.00 .m.; at St. Andrew's Church, 16.40 s.m.; at Kow with the realization of a group of locu Union Church, 10.15 .; Hong wartime flyers that if this great Krag, Singers render Brahms' "Re new world of air travel is evertquiem" in St. Andrew's, st 9.00 O. P. HEGGIE be made useful, it must be chang- p.m.

A PARAMOUNT

MUSICALE

**

THE SMARTEST MYSTÉRY COMEDY OF THE SEASON ! "THE RETURN OF SOPHIE LANG GERTRUDE MICHAEL

SIR GUY STANDING

BAY MILLAND

held as a weapon over the head of the Governor's wide.

war

11

ed from a side-show performance Social-Whist Drive, Soldiers' Home' into something solid and steady, and Seamen's Institute, 9.00, pan. ** The caất consistą besidas. Jimmie

· Sports Alen, Willam Gargan Katherine Athistles-Booth China A. A, Heel DeMille, Kent Taylor, Billy Lee and ing "aroline Hill. Bennie Bartlett.

Football-Combined Berglass v. Best- of Colony (Cinh, ground); 40 par 1)

Yachting, Sweepstake Beers. Moon,-IX. Mopy, Sak, Day Banrise64 m.

"MOONLIGHT

MURDER".

The exact terms of the deal are to be announced at a later date. Meanwhile, the following state- ments were issued on behalf of the two companies,

tons between Messrs. Ostrer and

Adsociated British-Negotia-

Associated British Pictures in re- gard to the control of Gaumont- British have been proceeding for some time, with a view to preven- ting it from passing under foreign control.

"NOT YET COMPLETED"

"Negotiations are now practi- cally completed, and a joint state- ment of the position by Associated Butch and the Ostrer. Brothers will be lasued ister. "

Gaumont-British “It is not ac- curate to say that a deal has been completed between the Gaumont- British Corporation and Mr. John Maxwe.E" Discussions are Tides,High at 7.50 and 19 proceeding between Mr. Mark | Low “M 1:40 MİLA′ 13.06 ́,

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12.

With a spectacular grand operate setting for a climacteric sequence, "Moonlight Murder," Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer & new mystery romatice dealing with the slaying of a tenor a member of the gang, and has before an audience of twenty been convicted of murder. The thousand at the Hollwood Bowl come to-day to the Majestic Governor refuses to intercede. on the boy's beha

Theatre

Her son

King'a com/Whitár Tang” kh

Frislángthing, Jou?! -Chinese Picture.

I'D GIVE MY LIFE?”

Give a nne cast, an outstanding story to file formula, which has been followed, in “Td give my Life which opens to-day at the

As the tenor, Leo Carrile mak Queen's Theatre.

The march to the gallows along his best appearance as a anger Adapted from the "The Noose" the grim last mile state. Etien since his musical comedy days, on Star The Beturn of Sophie Lang famous stage success of ten years comes a speaking dramaties the stage

The new". picture co-

Hockey-118th

Jack

LONDON'S

WHITE FANG

Sequel to "Call of the Wild” with

MICHAEL WHALEN

ALSO SPECIAL

JEAN MUIR

SPORT SHORT : JAI ALAJ” SATURDAY BARBARA STANDWICK ROBERT TAYLOR in

M.G.M. PICTURE

HIS BROTHER'S WIFE

ALHAMBRA

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SHOWING TO-DAY

A Sensational Screen Presentation of Aviation

way to thrilling adventure!

Allen ŠKY PARADE"

THE

William Canyon-Katherine DeMille

Kent Laylor-

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HISTORY'S OREATEST LOVE STORY I

"MARY OF SCOTLAND"

KATHARINE HEPBURN * FREDRIC MARCH

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MOONLIGHT

MURDER

WINE CHESTER MORRIS MADGE EVANS LED CARRILLO • PLANK MAHUGH “BINITA:KUMI » GRANT MITCHELL KATHARINE ALEXANDER-1-1, CARROL HAIN

PROVIDE OF EUCRÍ KOUAIS mevED KARN

A Mean Goldwyn Mayer netur

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ERNEST LUBITSOH'S BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY

A SINCE TROUBLE IN PARADISE"

MARLENE DIETRICH IN

GARY COUPER

DESIRE

▲ Paramount Pizvaz.

Starting in

were followed by equally persia | film business in 1912 tent"denials.

a small way he became associated WiLiT. Kir, Arthur Dent, and acquired an interest in Wiardous Russ, of which company he is still chair- man.

AMERICAN REFORES AMERICAN

Last week the deal was finally Ostrer Managing Director of declared to be "off" but the film Chilathont--British, and Mr. Maxwell, industry was filled with specula-

UPHELD : ENGLISH WORK The outcome of these discussions, | tion again en, learning that Me whiteyer, it may be, wif it is Sidney Rent Pethe reading side of the trade he Having faxillarised himself with expected, be the subject of a joint | Century Fox, had arrived in Lon-“ statement."LAN

under

turned out

don and was conferring with Mr. then embarked upon film pro- The reference In the first state-Indore Ostrer. It was believed duction and in 1927 took over meat to foreign control" relates that Mr Kent's mission was to studios at Elstree which to the negotiations which have smooth over objections which the banner of British been proceeding for the past Inter months between Mr Iaidore Ostrer, had raised against certain aspects many excelent films at a time of Gaumont Britiah, Mr. Joseph of the merger.

when the prestigë of Eliiki nims was at its lowest eźb, Schenck Chairman of Twentieth Century Fox Flima, and his brother, Ms. Bilcotas Schenck, of Logw's Incorporated, the parent company

Matro» Goldwyn Mayer

Begiment

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ago "T4 Give My Life" is as vital pria, which strikes with the force features Chester Morris a and forceful as thing as the of a sledge hammer because of detective solving the mystery and Radio Morian), Edithes or your favourite news its unexpectedness, bringing hap Madge Evans as a laboratory, ex- Snooker Fo paper. Starting with the fightiness and peace to suffering in-pert who assists in unraveling the rice 0.0.ENES Y CUCs Royal an earnest, honest Governor to cents and straightening four baling case Grid his state of a plague of rac tangled lives...

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Suzrise-6,28 km.

If Mr. Maxwell's offer is finally, accepted it will mean, of course, that control of Gaumont-British remains in this country. It will also make him easily the most Powerful figure, in the British film. trade, controlling upwards of 630

The capital of Associated Britian 18 £4,000,000, with a Debenture issue of £3,500,000, and that of Gaumont-British £6,250,000. The total assets, of the latter Corpora

as disclosed in the last nee sheet, amount to £13475-

former firm own 283

Persistent reports that a deal had been completed between the three interester which would in- cinemas Tide High 651 and 19.30, volve control of Caumont-British Mr. Maxwell, who was formerly Hugh, Grant MIEHET #HAT Omere: i tow at 0,55 und 1231)

passing into American hands, a solicitor in Glasgow, entered the cinema and the acter

The cast includes Duncan Ren- keteers who control it, the story The cast includes Sir Guy aldo, Benita Hume, J. Carrol, Whish, moves swiftly through the thrills Standing, Tom Brown, Frances EL S. Warner Katherine Alexan of the revival of a twenty year Drake and Janet Beecher, Direct der. Robert McWade Franz MC- -old-zenridal which is revived and Fed by Edwin T. Marin”

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