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JOHN WAYNE

IN A UNIVERSAL FICTU

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The handsomest young be man hero of the screen I Six- feet-five of brawny, blazing youth hurled against Alaskan smugglers who stole his sweet- heart What fights! What romantic love scenes I What exciting entertainment)

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CIRCUS PICTURE

"BENGAL TIGER" A wonderful show

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“EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT":

A 20TH OX COMEDY with JUNE LANG THOMAS BECK: JED PROJTY!

TO-NORROW: BETTE DAVIS IN "SPECIAL AGENT

ALIBI FOR MURDER

Mystery story addicts are about

to be presented with a tale that

promises to put their prowess at

solving crimes to a real test. It

VETERAN FILM STAR DEAD

Hollywood,

The death has occurred nere of

is Columbia's new "Allbi for Mur- De Witt Jennings, the veteran film

der” which is showing at the Al-star-

hambra Theatre to-day, with Wil- Hester. 11am Gargan and Marguerite

Churchill in the leading roles. De Witt Jennings, who was born What appears to be the perfect in 1881 at Salt Lake City, was a crime is committed early in the well-known stage actor of consi- aims all concerned seem to have derably more than twenty years aims. He played important roles experience before he started in

airtight alibis.

The application of simple logic, the film's producere promise, will do much toward making it possible for audiences to detect the manner In which the murder was com mitted, the motive for the crime, and the guilty party. All of which should aid materially in making "Alibi for Murder" a really divert ing picture.

Besides Gargan and Mixs -Churchill, the cast includes Gene Morgan, John Gallaudet, Romaine

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1937,

TO-DAY AT THE Columbia Signs Continental

CINEMA

Hồng Kong

KING'S:-

"Love On The Run" QUEEN'S

"Damaged Lives" ORIENTAL:-

"Sea Spollers"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"Allbi For Murrier" MAJESTIC

***Thanks A Million" STAR ——

"Every Saturday Night"

KING'S:-

Coming

"The Garden of Allah" QUEEN'S

"Winterset"

ORIENTAL

"Bengal Tiger" ALHAMBRA:---

"Come Closer, Folks" STAR:-

"Special Agent" MAJESTIC:-

"Arrowsmith"

LOVE ON THE RUN

"Love on the-Run" will give you a thrill at every step celebrating the reunion of that most delight- ful of Jove teams-Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in their first picture Logether since "For Saking All Others."

Marked by the directorial wizardry of W. S. Van Dyke who must be getting tired of the plaudits heaped upon him for

"San Francisco," "Rose Marie" and "His Brother's Wife," the new Crawford-Gable romance unfolded itself with verve and spirit, prov- ing itself to be one of the most engaging and entertaining comedy melodramas of the year.

"Love on the Run" deals with an American heiress in Europe on a pleasure trip, whose millions are cordially desired in exchange for a shoddy title. When she dis- covers the facts in the case the wedding called on At that peint Gable enters the scene as a newspaper correspondent on the trail of a cable dispatch.

To avoid complications the girl arrees to dodge her almost In- laws by joinlag Gable in a stolen plane. He's no great shakes as a pilot. but they get off and in doing so Joan receives & huge bouquet of flowers thrust into ber hand at the airport.

In the air, they discover a note in the roses and from it fear that the owners of the plane are spies. The gift of roses was case mistaken identity but it gives Gable swell story to cable to his home paper.

THANKS A MILLION

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of

Irresistible song, crackling comedy and

heart-tugging romance f the speedy sequences of 20th Century's "Thanks a Mil- lien," the bright new musical with a million dollars worth of stars which comes to-day to the Majestic Theatre.

Star

In the wake of such names as Garbo, Dietrich and Luise Rainer. another great dramatic personality of continental Europe arrived in Hollywood to make her bid for the favour of American audiences on the screen.

She is Luli Deste, Viennese stage star, who has just been signed by Columbia Studios and will be star- red immediately by that company. As the Baroness Godfried Hohen- berg, wife of the late Austrian no- bleman, the dashing, vivacious and ' talented. Miss Deste has carved a place for herself at the top of the dramatic worlds of Vienna, Berlin, Salzburg and London:

Ing opposite Jan Klepura in "In The Sunshine" and appearing in a German production. "Sinouette.”

Columbia's story scouts are now searching the literary and theatre fields to find a story important enough for Miss Dosta's American motion picture debut.

TECHNICAL ADVISER

TO GRACE MOORE

Holding the portfolio of honorary technical adviser Mary Garden considered one of the greatest Peculiarly American in manner,

Toscas of all time, has been assist- except for a fascinatingly alighting Grace Moore in a sequence accent, she scored her blegest from "La Tosca" in which she ap- stage successes in translations of pears in her new Columbia musical plays that have been top fight production, "When You're in Love," hits on Broadway. The two most which is under the direction of recent of these were "The Last of Robert Riskin. Mrs. Cheney" and "The Night of January 16th."- Other stage triumphs in which she captured London were "Banquo" and "The Gay Princess."

At the invitation of Miss Moore. who is one of her proteges, Miss Garden spent an entire day on the set, coaching her in the scenes with Scarpla, played by Emery D'Arcy. Once or twice Miss Garden took the Columbia star's place before the camera, and showed her how she played and sang the part, at the Chicago Opera Company. "La Tosca" is one of the few operas in. which Miss Moore has never ap-

Miss Deste was "discovered" for American picture purposes by Marion Gering, Columbia director, when he directed her in "Thunder Over the City," made in London with Edward G. Robinson as the star. The Viennese beauty made two previous pictures in 1936, play-peared.

WHEN HARLOW

AN "EXTRA"

There was a time when Holly- wood "extras" stormed gates, hat- tled for Jobs, walked miles to studios.

Nowadays, however, they wait for calls, are often, furnished trans portation, are surrounded by com- farts and convenience unheard of in earlier days of pictures, and, on the sets, treated as well ġa stars.

Thus Jean Harlow, giamorous star who was once an "extra." compares their lives.

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Good News! THEY'RE TOGETHER AGAIN!

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Kissing and clowning...and.. kidding.........ia the happiest hit of them all! It's just GRAND...when Joan and Clark take that love Con the run"... with W. 5, {"Sau Francisco) Vas Pyke at the helm t

RAWFORD Clark GABLE- LOVE ON THE RUN

with FRANCHOT TONE REGINALD OWEN

M.S.Van Dyin Production Procwant by Joseph 1. Mazkiarasem

A. COMPLETE. TECHNICOLOUR. PROGRAMMI MARLENE DIETRICH-CHABLES BOYER in "THE

GARDEN OF ALLEN "

WAS ALHAMBRA

those days great many 'extra' were chosen at the side gate of the studio, so there

was always a crowd there that filled the street.

casting office assistant -would pick out all he needed, then an- nounce that there would be more chosen that day, and the 'extras' would go home.

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"To-day the studio calls the casting office, the 'extras' are not!- fled from there, and, if the call is

date back to the very early days

Miss Harlow's experiences do not the trip. Women 'extras' in parti- cancelled, provided with fare for

Casting Office was in operation. of "extra" work. The Central

cular are surrounded with protes- tion. through the state welfare bureau. Proper lunch on location. with its call system, when, on a

transportation to and from loca- dare, she applied for work and did

tion, hot meals at night or on far a day's "extra" work at the Fox studios. She loved it. She work-commodations if on location more off location work, the best of ac-

Richard Dix at Paramount, before ed as an "extra" two days with Hal Roach signed her for parts which led to "Hell's Angels," thence to "The Secret Six" and a contract Mayer that led to stardom,

with Metro-Goldwyn-

"I remember how we 'extras' used to go to coffee shops to get our cheques cashed, and usually near the studio was a place where this was done for a small fee," Says Miss Harlow. "Now 'extras' are paid in cash every night at the studio.

CLARK GABLE'S TALE "While we were making "The Se- cret Sis, Clark Gable told me of his own 'extra' experience, when, out of work on the stage, he ap- plied at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was made one of the tall sol- diers in The Merry Widow,' with John Gilbert and Mae Murray. In

BENGAL TIGER

Heralded as one of the most thrilling screen dramas, with a unique romance and colourful set- tings, "Bengal Tiger," a Warner Bros production, is showing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and

With Dlek Powell and Ann Dvorak enacting the chief roman- tic roles. "Thanks a Million" pre- sents Fred Allen, Patay Kelly, Paul Whiteman and his band with Ramona, Rubino. Raymond Wal-Saturday, with Barton MacLane, burn and the Yacht Club Boys,

June Travis and Warren Hull in They all act real parts in a real

the principal roles. stery.

The plot of "Thanks a Million" revolves about the griet and comedy a tanktown road company encounters under the masterful misdirection of Fred Allen,

Dick Powell. Is the featured sager of the company, and Ann Dvarak and Patay Kelly. Its dance ing team. But Dick doesn't want to sing through a megaphone, and Allan has some peculiar ideas about that and also about how they can make money, Bome hilarious clashes are the result.

Music for "Thanks Arthur Johnstes and include "I've a Milion" was written by Qua. Kahn and in such aims ag "Hit and Run, Got a Pocket Full of "Sunshine." The Gatety Girl” “Circus Days." The picture was personally pro-

within the Law The Deep duced by Darn! P. Zanuck Purple," "The Trial of Mary Dugan," "Two Arabian Knights," and "Beyen Keys to Baldpate."

Morgan's emergence from laser roles to prominent comedy parts.

D Ross Lederman directed Callender,” Egón Brecher, Drue Alibi for Murder, which is an Leyton, Wade Boteler, Dwight Frye original screen play by Tom van and Raymond Lawrence. It marka Dycke.

The story and screen play by Roy Chanslor and Earl Felton centres about the lives of circus folk both at work before the public under the Big Top, and in their private dressing tents. It is the inside story of this cian in the big tents, on their special train during the summer tour and in Winter. quarters.

than a day, are among the things 'extras' enjoy in their new life to- day. The studios try to do every- thing to make their work comfort- able and safe.”

Assistant directors, Jean adds, are polite to-day, but often were "some of the older "extras" can't not in older days of the screen. get used to it yet," she says...."To- day politeness is demanded by the studio managements, and 'extras"

must be given as much considera- tion as anyone in the cast. *The players, directors, and producers all insist on this."

All in all, says Jean, "extra" work to-day is far different from when she knew it, and even then it was far different from what it was in the earliest days of the

screen.

"Everything progresses. I guess that's the answer," she remarks.

CORONATION

Art Coated Paper For Programmes

coated paper for the official Coro- An order for 150 tons of art

programmes, has been

nation placed with Mesars. A Pirie and Sons, Ltd., Stoneywood Works, Aberdeen. These programmes will be sold all over the British Empire for the King George Jubilee Fund. told newspapermen that the Captain J. 8. Allan, director, works are busier than they have been at any period in their his tory. One of their recent big con- It is a real creua thriller, pretracts was the paper for the santing the acts of aeriallate, menua on the Queen Mary tumblers, riders and animal, trainers, with clowns and freaks of the side show, set in all the

acts are performed by actual picturesqueness and glamour of a real tent show. In fact the circus

experts of the sawdust trail, who were engaged specially for this picture.

Scenes of the greatest excite- 'ment" centre about the cages of the wild animals, where in the story. Barton Machane, a kor tamer, is so badly clawed that he loses a leg, and his lite saved only at the sacrince of the life of his amistant.

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AN "OLD FAVOURITE” FROM UNITED ARTISTS.

"We are working at full pressure just now, he said. Our average. output is 400 tons of paper a week.

the Coronation compared with 330 tons last year, When She Says, She's

"The order for the art paper for programines" is

Tired That Is News! being done in three lots of fifty tons each to suit the printing arrangements. It would represent

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has

Folk round her gasped. Wife of US. President is everywhere re-

garded as America' human dynamo

that simply can't feel fatigued.

Here are a few of her 1936 activi-

velt:-

Wrote a 100,000-word autoblo graphy.

a week and a half's output of our staggered her friends. First Lady Lea. During last year Mrs. Roose coating factory, If it were the only of Amerita shook hands with a order in hand, hakket mere 5,000 people at the White "About Afty men will be oc House and suddenly said: "It cupled on the job and the paper will be nis to rest when my hus will be sorted by about 150 girls. band's second term of once ends! The work fo being spread over a in-four years' time: I feel quite Derlod."

tired

Wrote 300 newspaper uricies. Made sixty-eight public speeches.

Wrote or dictated 89.600 lettera. Travelled 38,000 ralles....

And looked after the president.

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