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MY AMERICAN WIFE

COMING

with Frad Stone • Billie Bucka Emost Cossart • Grant Mitchell Binaried by Harald Young -A Pargament Pattern

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MUMMY'S BOY'S"

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Watch them rip crime-land wide open to smash its sinister

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TOP-SPEED ROMANCEÏ

HUMAN CARGO

Claire TREVOR BRIAN DONLEVY

ALAN DINEHART RALPH MORGAN // - HELEN TROY RITA CANSINO Lave Frauen Saint Word

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Brides are like

ROSS ALEXANDER

ANITA LOUISE

Air National Picture

84th

that

24 ROBERT DONAT in 39 STEPS"

26th MADELEINE CARROLL * GAUMONT-BRITISH_PICTOKE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S ;-

"Secret Interlude."" QUEEN'S:-

"My American Wife" ORIENTAL:-

"Human Cargo".

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :-*

Too Touch To Kli". MAJESTIC:-

*Imitation of Life"

STAR-

"The Princess Comes Across”

KING'S:

QUEEN'S

Coming

"Murder By An Aristocrat"

"Mummy's Boys" ORIENTAL:-

"Poor Little Rich Gl" ALHAMBRA :----

"Walking On Air“

STAR:-

Brides Are Like That" MAJESTIC-

The Law In Her Hands"

**TOO TOUGH TO KILL'

Dynamic ana ölourful, Colum- tia's "Too Tough To Kill," which features Jory and Sally O'Nell, opening to-day at the Alhambra Theatre, is a robust story of a courageous and brawny engineer. played by Jory, who fights the elements of nature and a gang of murderers to complete a tunnel project within set time.

When cave-Ins, explosions, land slides and deaths occur with too frequent regularity on the project Victor Jory. as John O'Hara, is put n charge or the project," At the same time Ann Miller, a beau- tiful and competent newspaper reporter, played by Sally O'Nell. is sent to construction camp by her paper, which is supporting the project, to discover what is held ing back progress."

"IMITATION OF LIFE"

"Maniacent" may be a much abused word, even in Hellywood, but nothing else will adequately" | describe "Imitation of Life," the Fannie Hurst novel which John M. Stahl made into a picture for Uni- versal, starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William coming to-day to the Majestic theatre.

It is a magnificent production. Some notion of the scale on which this film has been prouced can be gained from the fact that "one single setting cost $10,000, ing about this set was ordinary. The cost came about the set perfect merely to make and authentic.

WDA

Noth- extra-

In all, 48 'sets were built for "Imitation of Life." One of these a complete town house in New York City. containing 15 rooms, a real kitchen and a gai-

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20.

Anniversaries and Holidays- Winter Solstice (Tung-chin),

Auctions.-Public Roup of Race Ponles. at Hong Kong Jockey Club Paddock, Happy Valley, 5.15 p.m. Cinema Projectors, etc., at 9 and 11 Kansu Street, 10.30 am, Kowloon.

Cinemas

King's-,'Secret' Interlude." Queen's:-"My American Wife."

·Central;---"M". Robinson Cru

Boc."

:

Oriental:-"Human Cargo." World:"Chinese Picture."

Albambra:"Too Tough To

KIN."

Majestic: Imitation Of Lifa”. Star:--"Brides Are Like chab” Dances-Carnival Dance, at gt.

den behind it. This garden was | John Ambulance Headquarters, sodded with actual - grass and | Tai Hang. Road, 9.00p.m. flowers were planted there." From Entertainments.-"Jack and the the garden a view of the East Reanstalk," at Y.M.C.A., 9.00 p.m. River was seen in the distance.

Meetings-Annual, of Royal Model vessels capable of operat-Bong Kong Golf Club, at Messrs. ing under their own power were made for this scene and a small scale replica of the Fifty-ninth Street Bridge was erected in the background., A system of tiny moving electric lights in proces sion across the bridge indicating traffic in the night scene shot in the garden was effective.

น

Absolute realism was Insisted on for this production. In the early sequences, Claudette Col. bert operates a restaurant, spec- falizing in flapjacks. For the week spent in shooting this se- quence, a tank of real pancake batter was mixed, cooked and eaten every day. The daily cost of the food used in this restaur- ant. bread, butter, tea. coffee. doughnuts. cake and ple was amazing. A replica of the famous Atlantic

City Boardwalk was built extending over 250 feet and furnished with shops, and booths,

An apartment furnished in modernistic style was built for Warren William's home and the New York town house which was Miss Colbert's home was furnish- ed in every room in Adam style from fireplaces to picture mould- ings. A deep sea fishing expedi- "When Miss O'Nell discovers that tion was outfitted to bring in a that the chief assistant is plan- collection of rare fish to stock ning to murder a, group of miners nine small aquariums in the set- work'ng deep in the mine, and kill ting. representing Warren Will- Jory as well in the catastrophe by lam's study. William is a marine exploding a charge of dynamite in scientist in the picture. This ex- order to stop work on the project. pedition was out of sight of land It is Miss O'Nell who races into the tunnel to save the miners and had to be chartered for this voy. for five weeks. A fishing ship

the man she realizes she loves.

age. Tank tricks were hired and Fine acting is featured, in every filled with sea water to bring the scene of the picture and the work tsh to the studio in their own

of virile Victor Jory who has c

Jardine Matheson's Board Room, 5,30 pm: Annual Christmas Drew at Kowloon Cricket Club, 8.00 p.: Hong Kong Hockey Assen. Council, in St. Andrew's Church Hall, 5.30 p.m.; St. Andrew'a Church Counell, 6.00 pm.

Miscellaneous. - Rotary Timin Hong Kong-Hotel.

Rehearsals. "Eljab," Hong Kong Singers, Union Church, Kennedy Road, 5.30 p.m.

Religious. Christmas Pay, Masefield's "Coming of Christ," in St. John's. Cathedral, 9.15 p.m. Social-Cheero Club Christmas

Draw and Tombola, at Royal Ar- Whist Drive, 9.00 pm.: Christmas

tillery Sergeants' Mess, Queen's | Road. 8.30 p.m.

Sports

Billiards-Steel Coulson's Lea- gue. RE. Mess v. P.O. Mess; G.S. Mess Y. CS.C.C.; R.A. Mess 7.

CUC RW. Fusiliers v. D.RO.

Meeting-Annual General Meet: ing of Royal Hong Kong Golf Club (Messrs. Jardine. Matheson and Co., Ltd. Board Room), 5.30 p.m. Racing-Auction of Race Ponies (Jockey Club Paddock). 5.15 pm.

Moon-XI Moon, 9th.Day. Bunrise-8.55 am. Butiset-544

p.m.

Low at 9.22 and 22.46.

Tides. High at 238 and 16.09

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23.

Anniversaries and Holidays.----- St. Victoria, V.M.

Auctions.-Household Furniture, at Lammert's Hony Kong Sales

hard fet for tough guys is out-element. The setting. Itself be-Room, 2.30 pm.

standing MES

ONell's perfor

yond all this initial expense, cost upward of $10,000 to outfit, with mance is obarming and capable its plate glass tanks and sheet The fast-tempo director Ross

iron, reservoirs from which they Lederman maintained throughout

were refilled.. the picture gives "Too Tough To All in all, Imitation of Life" Kili a nerve and pulse-tingling ranks among the most sumptu-

robustness.

Ward Bond, Thurston Hall, Geneous production ever made. This Morgan, Frank Rice. Robert Gleck was not extravagance, but econ- ler and Johnny Arthur are includ-cy. Fannie Hurst. In "Imita- tion of Life" rote a magnifcent ed in the supporting cast.

story. Universal has strained every nerve to make it a magni- ficent picture in a magnificent setting.

"MY AMERICAN WIFE"

Cinemasu

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'King's: "Murder By An Aristo

crat." Queen's: "Mummy's Boys." Central: "Mr. Robinson Cru

Oriental:-"Human Cargo." World:"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-"Too Tough To

KIN."

Majestic:-The Laws In Her

Hands"

COLONEL LINDBERGH Committee, 8.30 pm,

TAKES, DE VALERA FOR FLIGHT

A light, romantic story is deftly and amusingly told on the screen of the Queen's Theatre where Paramount's breezy romance, "My American Wife," which is

Mr. De Valers, Preșdent of the showing to-day with Francis Executive Council of the Irish Free Lederer and And Bothern in star-State, went for his first fight in an ring roles.

aeroplane on recently.

Star:-"Brides Are Like That" Entertainmenta-Jack and the Beanstalk," at Y.MLO.A., 9.00 pm: Meetings.--St. Andrew's Club

Miscellaneous.---Claims against the Estate of Winifred Alured Comyn Platt, due: St. Andrew's, Chi- dren's Christmas Tree and Glit Service, 6.00 p.m.; St. Andrew's Fellowship of Youth Carol Party Tour of Central Kowloor, leaving

Church at 7.30 p.m..

Religious. Christmas

"Play, Masefield's "Coming of Christ," in St. John's Cathedral, 9.15 p.ṛ

"Moon-XI Moon, 10th. Day:

Sunrise.-6.58 a.m. Sunset-5.14

Tides.-High at 01.21 and 15.20; Low at 08.35 and 20.26.

My American Wife" is taken:

He was making a vist to the from an original by Elmer Davis- and directed by Harold Younghel Aerodrome, Co. Dublin, and

Air Corps headquarters at Baldon Young has chosen a cast of season- Colonel Lindbergh, who is visiting ed character players to back up the Trish Free State in connection the stars, headed by Fred Stone with the new Transatlantic air-p.m. and Billie Burke and including services, gave him a

"Joy ride" 'SECRET INTERLUDE” Loretta's Interest in pictures is among the toppers Ernest Cossart

over the city in his private mono- she · meyer misses and Grant Mitchell.

plane. The lovely wide-eyed beauty, seem any Her hobby a Lederer's role is cut out for the Loretta Young, who is co-starred photograph and she carries a star he is cast as an European

with her at a nobleman who marries an Ameri- the end, Stone prevents the break- with Robert Taylor in "Secret In-small camera -terlude," the Fox romantic hit at times. Her particular delight is can girl of wealth, Miss Sothern.ing up of the Lederer-Sothern the King's Thea Fe currently, dis- te snap her friends and associates and returns with her to her family romance, which has headed for covered early that she was in na 1: Informal poses when

Reno... tney home in Arizona.. aren't looking.

varied parts available.

اد

rent that

COLUMBIA. SIGNS CHILD

?KINGS?

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9 30 P.M. SHE HAD A WOMAN'S REASONS walking out on the man she loved!

THE PERFECT LOVE TEAM!

for

Robert TAYLOR Loretta YOUNG

"SECRET INTERLUDA

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PATSY KELLY

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BHURT IN TECHNICOLOUR" in À MOUNTAIN PASS”

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MURDER BY AN ARISTOCRAT” with LYLE TALBOT MARGUERITE CHURCHILL

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"BOSS OFF

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TOO TOUGH

TO KILL

VICTOR JORY SALLY O'NEIL

Thurston Hall Diested by 0. Psa LudremANT A COLUMBIA PICTURE

Special Christmas Attraction "WALKING ON AIR

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Ann Sothern

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Claudette COLBERT

FANNIE HURST'S

IMITATION OF LIFE

1. Uhévírant Pictura

TO-MORROW AND THURSDAY

A THRILLING COMEDY DRAMA CRAMMED WITH ACTION J

"THE LAW IN HER HANDS”

A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE WITH MARGARET LINDSAY GLENDA FARRELL

COMMUNIST ⠀ “CELLS'

IN YOUTH GROUPS

Prelate's Warning

·

ligion and social order. It was true that the Communist Party, strictly so-called, was not a large body in England, but it exercised control over many subordinate or ganisations, through which its inv. fluence reached into well-righ

Miss Burke, mother of the girl, "His part in "My' American Wife". Her entrance into the movies, danger of being "typed" as an ac-

determined to capitalize on her is a new type of role for the marking the fourth generation of -trem fit only for certain roles and

Yachting and riding are her

Lederer: the her family in theatricals. 5-year- daughter's new title or Countess romantic Francis began to encourage the casting favorite exercises but she doesnt and on the decorative effect of the fact that he appears to some old Patay O'Connor was signed to A warning against Communist every department of the nation'i directors to put her in the most like to swim. Lorétta is five feet. Count's medals and braid. She sequences in cowboyoutht. "in-ga long term contract at Columbia attempts to secure control of re. Those organisations often

three inches in height, and weighs

harmisse, high-sounding Her parents were sternly op ninety-eight pounds. Her hair is begins a systematic social cam dichtes how new. While allowing Studios recently, it is announced youth organisations was given by bore posed to Loretta becoming a golden and her eyes blue.

paign, with him as ammunition, him to do his ane job of portray Daughter of Jack and Mildred the Archbishop of Liverpool re-names, and assumed the mark of juvenile actress and they bounded

and gradually draws her daughtering a polished, titled foreigner, it O'Connor, members of the famed cently, when he addressed the an- philanthropy, and even of rell- fiet off to Rottona, convent where secret Interlude," Loretta to seeing as her way

at the same time gives him ;'a "O'Connor Family" troupe of ❘nual meeting of the Catholic tous plety. Count Ferdinand you and a chance to prove that he is more vaudeville and musical show, reYoning Men's Society In the Communism was essentially the remained practically through plays a personal mald who falls in out her childhood

love with Robert Taylor, a million-Reidensch, however, is irritated than merely an actor who looks, nown, Patsy was featured for 38 County Theatre, Wirematheistic, mate flatic and his- Wetta graduated, her area. It is just the type of He likes the West, and has deter- good in uniform.

weeks, at the Irish Village in the During the past twelve months," | "ruptive. That a doctrine so crude. Water Polly Ann Young, had al- role that she delights in, being mined that he'll settle down on a Fred Stone's performance of, World's Fair in Chicago two years he stated, an intense campaign | barbarous Irrational mad destruc-

anleyed a foothold on the emotional romantic and taged ranch. learn cowboy ways, and course, is superb, as the Doeltave, ago.

had been instituted with that ob- 14tive at all humen tights and liber- teen and the introduced Loretta with light comedy.

follow Miss Sothern's old grand-Western old-timer, he is as, con- Patay, 43 inches tall and welch-Ject. There was evidence that ties should in Teas than twenty Roy Del Ruta directed "Becret father, Stone, in wresting his liv vincing as he was in a almilar: ing 45 pounds. is an exceptionally within a considerable number of years finve seized dominion over- Infrelude, and Raymond Grifthing from the soll,

role in "The Trail of the Lonesome, talented child. She sings, dances, the youth-organiëstions there | vast part of the human race, sur Wals Rasociate producer. The up Gradually the couple drift apart, pine. Cossart, gentleman's gentle tenders impersonations and clever were persons, some of them fnessed the presence behind Vorting cast Tentüfen Patay Kelly, and stone, who at first hated the man to Lederer in the alm, characterizations. Her first screen exeptive pandans, who were Communist movement of a power

or uncon that could be described only Bash Rathbone and Marjor Gate- right of his new grandson-in-law; turns in one of: sterling butler assignment has not yet been an- working consciously

grows to be hia best friend.. In vilet comedy roles,

selously for the destruction of Te--"diabolic,

to the film world by permitung

her to substitute when the was 11

one day. Loretta made gold with

à renfrance and came home with

« contract for the leading feminine role in "Laugh, Clown. Laugh,"

son.

nounced.

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