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Duke of Norfolk Married

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The Duke of Norto'k, Premier Pear and Hereditary Earl Marshal of England, 'married Miss Lavinia Strutt, only daughter, at Lord Belper and the Countess of Rose- bery, at Brompton Oratory on January 27, states the "Times,"

The actual wedding service last- ed only six minutes, but the whole of the church-the largest Roman Catholic church in London. apart from Westminster Cathedral-was crowded although only ticket- ho'ders were admitted.

M.6s Strutt was given away by her father, and Lord Eidon was dest man to the Duke of Norfolk. The ride was attended by six or àesmaids-Lady Kachetine and Lady Winetride Howard (sisters of tne bridegroom), Lady Anne Bridgenian, Mas Pamela Digby, Miss Gillian Drummond, and Mas Naney Malco.thson—and six pages.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE

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**The Gay Desperado" QUEEN'S

"Wives Never Know" ORIENTAL:-

"Magnificent Obsession"

Kowloon

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"The Girl On The Front

Page"

MAJESTIC:-

"The Poor Little Rich Giri" STAR:~~

"I'Lisa"

KING'S :-

Coming

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"Go West Young Man" ORIENTAL:-

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STAR:

"Can This Be Dixie"

"Silly Billies" MAJESTIC-

"We Went To College".

"Deeds" Acclaimed "Best KINGS

Picture Of 1936”

New York critics acclaimed "Mr.

Deeds Goes To Town," Columbla's Brilliant Schedule

production starring Gary Cooper- Jean Arthur and directed by Frank Capra as the best picture of 1936.

[

For Grace Moore]

Eighteen of the city's film critics, Although production of Grace representing thirteen metropolitan Moore's current picture. "When newspapers, continuing their an-You're In Love" has caused the nual custorn, met on January 4, at Dostponement of the two" engage- the Hotel Victoria, New York City, ments with the Chicagʊ Opéra and balleted on the list of produc- company, set for December and a tions, best individual players, best national broadcast that was to direction and best foreign pleture. have taken place at about the Among the newspaper reviewers still has a musical programme same time, Columbia's screen star who took part in the proceedings scheduled for the new year that is were Frank A. Nugent and John probably the most Imposing of her T. McManus of the New York brilliant career. Times; Kate Cameron and Wanda Hale of the Daily News; William Bechnet of The World Telegram Hland Johnson of The Mirror;

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Her first appearance WB3 concert. followed on January 10 on a national radio January 18 Regina Crewe and Robert Garpolitan Opera House in New York by all appearance at the Metro- land of The New York American City. One of the most colourful Howard Barnes and Marguerite of these Metropolitan appearances Tazelaar of The Herald Tribune: will be a benefit performance for Irene Thirer and Archer Winsten of The Post: Rose Priswick of The

the French Hospital in New York. Journal: Leo Mishkin

Early in February Miss Moore of The returned to Hollywood for another Morning Telegraph: Dorothy Gates picture at Columbia Studios, which of The Dally Worker: Winston will keep her busy through Feb- Burdett of The Brooklyn Daily

ruary, March and part of April. Eagle: Seymour Roman of the Brooklyn Times Union; and Edgar Price, of the Brooklyn Citizen.

A gold medal was presented to Columbia Pictures by the critics

will suil for Europe for her third On April 24, the singing star

annual invasion of the continent. Her first appearance will be to a gala concert at Albert Hall. Lon-

at a reception at the Waldort-don, on May 3, in connection with Astoria on Sunday afternoon, Jan- the coronation of King George VI uary 24. The ceremonies with celebrations. New York and Hollywood linked

THE GAY DESPERADO by radio, were broadcast with Richard Watts, Jr., of The Herald Tribune presiding.

Romance, melody and laughter are the order of the day at the King's Theatre where Nino Mar- tint, the handsome singing star appears in "The Gay Desperado."

A far cry from the usual film featuring an operatic song-bird. "The Gay Desperado," directed by the inimitable Rouben Mamoulian, fast-moving, thrill-packed story, laid below the Rio Grande.

As a silvery-throated singer in a little Mexican movie house, Martini proves that he can act a well as sing. Martini is kidnapped

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was

Four appearances will follow at the Opera Comique and the Grand Opera In Paris, to be followed by a performance with the State The Frank Capra production Opera company" in Vienna and a recently adjudged the best special performance for Admiral film of the year by the "Commit- Horthy, Premier of Hungary. Miss tee of Exceptional Photoplays of Moore will be the first American the National Board of Reviews": star to appear, with the State "The Parents' Magazine" and Opera. A long list of concert headed "The Selectors" list of engagements in the capitals of "ten best "American films" and Europe will follow, climaxed by an "ten selections based on popular appearance before King Carol of appeal."

Rumania, one of the few European monarchs for whom she has not sung in the past. Miss Moore ex- pects to return to America in the early fall,

Clarence Budington Kellaria, authored "Mr. Deeds" and Robert Riakin did the adaption. In the long list of prominent acreen per-

by a bold, bad (and very ingenu-sonalities included in the cast are ous) bandit who worships Ameri- can gangsters and decides to adopt their methods, but is really a sen- timental, music-loving chap at heart.

He attempts to pull off a real American style kidnapping and his victims are the son of a wealthy American family, James Blakeley, and his lovely sweetheart, Ida Lupino. Carrillo invites his Ameri- can idol of the underworld, Butch the Blood, played by Stanley Fields to handle the ransom negotiations and then the fun begins! Martini and Miss Lupino fall in love and after a series of highly original and side-splitting situations, Mar- tini effects the release of the vic- tims in a novel and highly amusing way and the story ends on a joyous note.

Jean Dbon, George Bancroft, H.B. Warner, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, John Wray, Wyrley Birch. Ruth Donnelly, Emma Duna, Arthul Hoyt and Walter Catlett,

THE GIRI ON THE FRONT PAGE

to!

POOR LITTLE. RICH GIRL

tol

Alice Faye to hi-de-bo with! Jack Haley, to tap-a-toe with! Gloria Stuart to laugh and cry

Michael Whalen l make love

reason

Add to these Sara Haden, Jane Inheriting large newspaper Darwell, Claude Gillingwater and may seem to be a great deal of Henry Armetta and you have the good fortune, but it has its draw-

way Shirley Temple is backs, "The Girl on the Frontliterally surrounded by stars" in Page" discovers, in the Universal "The Poor Little Rich Girl," her picture of that title, which opens

brilliant new Fox hit coming to- to-day at the Alhambra Theatre.

day to the Majestic. Theatre.

A blackmail ring tries to set ita claws on her and her wealth, threatening her happ'ness and

WIVES NEVER KNOW reputation.

The most beloved husband and wife team in pictures Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland. returns to the screen of the Queen's Theatre in "Wives Never Know," first showing to-day.

With Adolphe Menjou playing the role o serpent in tae Garden of Eden, "W.ves. Never Know" deals with

happily married couple who take the advice of a self-appointed authority on love that they must go out of their ways to make their lives compl- cated in order to enjoy true hap- piness. What follows is a series of mishaps and misunderstandings which bring about complications which also almost wrecks their marriage.

Things are brought to a side- spilting climax when Ruggies, thoroughly aroused and determin-

Darryl F. Zanuck, chieftain of the Twentieth Century-Fox studios. so enthused over the story of "The Poor Little Rich Qirl" that he determined to make it the great- est Shirley Temple picture over to hit the screen.

Another tribulation of the front page lady is her hard-toiled managing editor, with whom she

Zanuck personally selected every is always squabbling. He has very member of the cast. definite ideas about how to run a minent actor in Hollywood was Every pro- paper and he does not intend "to considered tor the various roles et any mere female owner ruin and after deciding that the above portrayed by Edmund Lowe and immediately opened negotiations the newspaper." The editors were the ideal players. Zanuck the society, heiress is played by to obtain them for the film. Gloria Stuart.

In the picture. Michael Whalen Romance enters the city room of plays Bhirley Temple's immensely the publication, but the editor wealthy father who is too busy to almost drowns it in printers' ink. pay much attention his little girl. David Oliver is Edmund Lowe's Shirley runs away and, after a office boy, who attempts to double series of highly entertaining ad- as Dan Cupid's assistant.

ventures, is finally adopted" by The climax of the pleture is Miss Faye and Haley, a pair of reached when Gloria Stuart and out-of-work vaudeville performers Edmund Lowe trap the black-hoping for a break on the radio. mailers. The editor, Eke Homer, How Shirley brings success to nods for a moment. Then he dis-the team and romance to her covers that he is married to a daddy and Gloria Stuart. makes mere female and he rather likes the brightest, most modern, and

Temple miss has ever had,

ed to clear up the mesa, tricks the the idea, and gets to belleve she most deeply human story the little man who knew too much to get is a special feature edition. married into marrying the actress. Ruggies is returned to his niche as

his

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Husband, and Mary has the op-

community's Number One the life and people of California's portunity to know the sweetness

gold era.

of jealousy and the exultation which comes with forgiveness.

M'LISS

Student "Snobbery"

Edinburgh University's magazine

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TO-MORROW AND FRIDAY THE MONTH'S FUNNIEST PICTURE ! WE WENT TO COLLEGE "A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER COMEDY HIT !

SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT

Rapid Promotion

of a century. At the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, 13 years ago, he was a junior official in charge of the Malayan section. Since then he has filled. In turn, nearly all the higher posta in Malaya, including that of Acting Governor.

Eighteen year old Anne Shirley, who portrays the part of the un

Fifteen months agu, un his dity tamed mountain giri, Mlies, had "The Student" charges the Stu- first birthday, Bir Andrew Calde previously created, for the same dent Representative Council colt received his first governor- studio, leading roles in "Ahne of with allly snobbery". In inviting ship-Hong Kong. Now he goes to Green Gables" and "Chatterbox." the Universities of Oxford and

John Beal has been. scoring on Broadway where he withdrew in mid-run from the lead in the hit,

"Russet Mantle," to accept this ford and Cambridge are the only He has had a long period usability. costarring role opposite Miss Shir- Universities in Great Britain service in the East without leave, which do not possess a student

The romance, trageay, humour, and exciting adventures that ac- company young girl's gradua. ilon to womanly maturity in an early California, gold mining townley..

ACCOMPLISHED

Firm, tactful, and popular, he is Cambriage, but none of the other Ceylon, the senior post of the Co-

a brilliant linguist and an excel- English Universities, to the Fitzroy lonial Office governorships, writeslent speaker, and he writes, paints, Bell celebrations next month. Ox- a Home correspondent

and plays the piano with marked

Outside the church arge crowds gathered before the ceremony, and women broke through the police cordons, and crossed the road in a rush to see the arrival of Miss Strutt, as her car drove up to the church. Many others fol- lowed them across the road, swép- ing the police cordon before them. The first group of women to reach. the wall clutched the railings, but in a few moments they were being are woven into co-starring dra- These two young players are body modelled on the lines of the and is coming home in April for a crushed by the rest of the crowd, ma for Anne Shirley and John supported by a cast headed by Edinburgh S.R.C."Such self-holiday Members of the Royal Family Eventually mounted police suc Beal in the RKO Radio picture Guy Kibbee (as M'liss good na-abasement is unnecessary," the Ceylon. who were present were: Prince ceeded in preventing any more."Miss."

tured, worthless, and constantly editorial adds, "for we are cele- Arthur of Connaught, Princess people from crossing the road. The film is a free adaptation of inebriated father, Washoe) Moroni brating a genuine achievement of Alice, Countess of Athlone, and The crowd at the railings was the popular short story by Bret Olsen, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank our own, which the English pro- Lady May Abel Smith with her cleared away with some disaculty, Harte which, with its companion M Thomas, Barbara Pepper, Ar-vincial Universities have had the husband. Many members of the and it was seen that none of the pieces, made its author famous as thur Hort, James Bush, and Mar- good sense to copy and in many Diplomalle Corps also attended. women was seriously hurt.

the most forceful interpreter of garet Armstrong.

[ ways improve.”

before proceeding to

His rapid rise is an encouraging exemple of promotion by merit,

Bir Andrew made his name it the Malayan Civil Service in which he served for more than quarter

He has found the atmosphere of Hong Kong congenial to his artis tie tustes. The place has changed vastly since the pre-war days.

I am told by those who saw both shows that the recent production Chinese undergraduates of Hong of "Lady Precious Stream, by the Kong University, was far superior to the London performance.

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