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QUEENS

„DAILY AT. 2-30+5·15 · 7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL.31453

TO-DAY

& TO-MORROW

GANGLAND'S IN`A

DEUCE OF A DITHERI

STEP LIVELY JEEVES!

with

ARTHUR TREACHER

and a cast of fun-makers

ADDED STAGE ATTRACTION

ANNA LOVTSOFF (SOPRANO)

At the 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. Shows Oply

SATURDAY

A Paramount Picture

DAILY

3.30.18

7.18-4:30

Carole Lombard - Fred MacMurray

"SWING HIGH, SWING ⠀

with. Dorothy

TÁST TRAM or Happy VALLEY BUS

Lamour

ORIENTAL

THEATRE JAVA

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FLEMING

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1937.

The Road To Hollywood

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"The King's Vacation" QUEEN'S:

"Step Lively. Jeeves" ORIENTAL:—

"Two In A Crowd"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:--

"She's Dangerous"

MAJESTIC:-

"China Clipper"

STAR:-

"3 Smart Hrls"

Any girl can crash Hollywood's gates and become a screen actress If she has the following requisites: A personality that arrests atten- tion.

Sumetent attractiveness to at- tract and make people like her.

Intelligence to adapt herself to any situation.

And if she is perfectly natural and normal mentally..

place in pictures for an unnatural person."

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Datig remarks that willingness to do any work at hand is a valuable quality in a new player. Every role, no matter how small, 15. of some benefit to a new-comer. "I long ago learned, personally". he remarks, "to do any work given | me and worry about nothing but

the money."

So remarks Fred Datig, veteran It was through this willingness of the show business, discoverer of | that Datig came to his present job, many of to-day's stars, and one of ] which, he says, he never really the screen's greatest Judges of star wanted. potentialities.

Datig believes dark eyes are Datig, casting director at the best suited to the camera but are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, not a necessity. He believes there interviews an" average of a hun- Is a better chance for young talent dred screen possibilities daily. He to-day than ever beföre, and çites often arranges tests himself, He the development given it at the was talent scout for the studios studio, where singers are coached before he became casting director. | and a studio dancing school is

conducted.

THE KING'S VACATION He is still a talent acout.

George Arliss, who returns to the screen at the King's Theatre to-day in his latest pictures for Warner Bros, "The King's Vaca- tlen," appears in a role' said to be perfectly Atted to his unusual talents, and a story belleved to be the finest of all his screen produc- tions.

The screen play is a rare com- bination of humour, dramatie sequences and, spectacular scenes. tinged with a delightful romance. It was written especially for Arliss

•LAST 4 TIMES TO:DAY by Ernest Pascal, author of "The

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IN A UNIVERSAL

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McCREA

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HE FOUND...

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SMARTEST GIRL IN TOWN"

Did Dickens "Lift" A Good Story?

how various scenes in the film first came to be conceived.

almost impossible to say

KEEP THE MSS.

K.C. Quotes Pickwick" And bent on directors of filma to pre-

Dr. Johnson

He suggested that it was incum-

serve. $1! manuscripts which showed the development of a, nim. from its basic idea to its final form. It would enable them to

came to be produced

Marriage Bed" who also adapted

ir to the screen in collaboration with Maude T. Howell.

"Pictures are actually crying for "With the stage on the decline: new personalities,” he says,

players of the future will come "What." Dallg was asked, "are | largely from Little Theatre move- the requirements for a flm star?" ¡ments," predicts Datig. "We have "PERSONALITY FOREMOST already received and developed "Personality," he answered, many such players; Robert Taylor, "comes first and foremost. And i for instance. Robert Young, Karen an appeararice that would suit our Morley, and many others." cameramen." He went on to The six most likely prospects" at elaborate. "It should be the kind | M-G-M for 1937 Datig lists as of personality. that arrests atten- | Stanley Morner, singing protege of tion on a person the moment that Mary Garden who played his first person walks into a room. It, must feature lead in Mama Steps Out, be an attractive, but not neces Virginia Grey, Lynne Carver, sarily entrancing personality. But Hugh, Marlowe, and Arlane Borg. an entrancing personality will Datig receives hundreds of let- even cover up minor defects in a ters from screeh aspirants,

"The person,

first paragraph usually tells us what we want to know," he adds.

"The seeker for screen fame must be absolutely normal,

STEP LIVELY, JEEVES! natural, and must be intelligent, alert and quick to adapt herself or himself to any situation."-

It's a strange America indeed that greets the utterly, utterly pro- per Arthur Treacher who, in the title role of "Step Lively. Jeeves!" now at the Queen's Theatre, tandis in the midst of cops-and-robbers fracas as he steps off the boat from "deah old England."

The second of the series of screen adventures of P. G. Wode- house's lovable "gentleman's gentleman" flmed by Twentieth Century-Fox finds Jeeves imper- sonating a British peer and claim- ant to the immense, uncialmed fortune of Sir Francis Drake. In "reality the unsuspecting dupe of a couple of swindlers, played to the hilt by Alen Dinchart and George Givot, Jeeves is taken to America to exploit the suckers, only to fall in with a tough gang and their moll, Helen Flint,

SHE'S DANGEROUS

The screen offering which ofens at the Alhambra Theatre to-day is Universal's "She's Dangerous}" featuring Tala Brell as" the dari-.. gerous female of the species. Cesar Romero, portraying a gang leader who steals $500,000 in bonds, becomes desperately in- fatuated with the lady, to his own 'undoing. Tala is an Insurance company detective sent to get evidence which will convict him.

The net is about to fall on Romero when circumstances sweep Tala into the trap she has set for him. The gang leader kills the chief detective a few minutes after Tala visits that officer. Suspicion points to her, and Romero is the only person who can prove her innocence. The gangster charters a plane to dispose of the stolen bonds in a distant elty. Tala goes along to keep track' to the bonds.

"CHINA CLIPPER"

A replica of one half of the world famous China Clipper was

constructed on a First National

sound stage for the picture of that title which comes to the Majestic Theatre to-day.

This model of the giant flying boat was used in sequences to the picture. The half of the ship

As to whether redheads, blondes, or brunettes are favoured in the atudios, Datig waved that off as immaterial. "Give me talent," he remarked. "and I'll take any kind of hair and then, what difference does it make?"

The matter of temperament Datis also dismissed as unimport- ant. If it crops up." he laughed, "there

dog are such things as houses. But seriously, tempera- ment is so unnatural, that It shows a fake personality in a pleture, and when the temperamental per- son sees himself or herself as others do. that person" very quick- ly becomes normal.

VALUABLE QUALITY

Every letter is carefully analy- sed, Aled, and those judged worth- while investigated.

"We can't indiscriminately bring in everybody." he declares. "This is a legitimate business and we must be sane to continue. Big business can't survive unless the people in it are serious, intelligent, and hard-working, and we could not tolerate anyone who would try to destroy what we are building up."

He cannot estimate the percent- age of those interviewed "who really have something to offer, but says that it is extremely small. There Is a road to Hollywood, but it is not a broad unobstructed. highway.. "It is more like climbing a greased Alp," says Datig.

"But spirit is a valuable quality DIARY OF LOCAL

in a player. We don't want peo- ple with inferiority complexes. Some people confuse spirit with temperament. We don't in the studios. One can have spirit, and be perfectly natural. It's not so with the other, and there's

no

MARIE TEMPEST

RICHLY MERITED

HONOUR

The inclusion of the popular actress Marie Tempest in the Coronation Honours list has de- lighted the London theatrical world, where she is held in esteem by both audiences and the whole theatrical profession...

EVENTS

THURSDAY, MAY 20 Anniversaries

and Holidays. G. K. Chesterton born, 1874; died June 14. 1936.

Auctions. — Crown Lands, at Land Office, Ping Shan, 11.30 am. Cinemas

King's "The King's "Vacation," Queen's:-"Step Lively, Jeeves." Oriental:-"Two In A Crowd." World-Chinese Picture"

Alhambra:-"She's Dangerous.”

Majestic:"China Clipper."" Star:-"Three Smart Girls." Entertainments.

- Concert Queen's Theatre.

Lectures.Theosophical Society,

at

6 p.m.

Meetings. Annuál of China Underwriters, Ltd., 4A. Des Voeux Marle Tempest has deserved Road Central, noon; Women's well of her world since first she Guid of St. John's Cathedral, in took London by storm as a very the Hall, 3 p.m.; St. Andrew's young musical comedy actress and Club Committee, 3.30 p.m.; Toc H. singer in "The Gelsba" as "O Mimoza San

From that moment her success was assured, and she proceeded to consolidate it by playing many other popular parts.

But musical comedy did not

amaze content her, and to the ment of her friends she decided to try the legitimate stage. Once again she took London by storm, this time in an amusing comedy called "The Marriage of Kitty."

After that the pubile was hers. to charm as and when she pleased, that was built is the forward

and this she has continued to do end, taking, in the wings, the four

up to the present day. As years motors, the radio and navigation went on she wisely adopted her- control room and the engine self to them, and for the third control room.

time took London by storm as a All work was done by experi- "Matron" in that enchanting play enced technicians from actual The Second Mrs. Fraser."

Supper Meeting at Seamen's In- stitute, 7.30 pm.

Miscellaneous-Claims against the Estates of Dhunjibhoy Sorabli Dady-Burjor; and Gladys Darling Lee Warner, dus; Entries close for Cheero Club Duplicate Contract Bridge Tournament.

Moon IV Moon. 11th. Day. Social-C{v}] Service Whist Drive, 9.20 p.m.:: Checro Club Contract Bridge and Mah Jong, 8 p.m.; St. Andrew's Club :"Open Night," 9 pm.

Sports(See Page 10).

FRIDAY, MAY 21 Anniversaries and. Holidays.---- Ember Day. Alexander Pope born, 1688. Small Fullness. (Hiao-man), Anctions.Crown Lands, at the District Ofice, South, Queen's

King's: Queen's

Cinemas

drawings and photographs of the

It was indeed sad that her hus-Bldg, 2nd floor, 11 x.m. giant airship. The whole setting band Mr. Graham Browne did not- was mounted on a large turntable live long enough to rejoice in the which allowed the plane to be honour conferred swung around so that it could be. photographed from any angle.

show in what manner scenes shot himself on principle atter eating half a crown's worth of

"INCREDIBLE".

It as unfortunate that many mulins. manuscripts had been destroyed.

"Was Dickenɛ a plagiarist? This question was put in Mr. Justice Crossman's Chancery Court in the action concerning the Bergner film- of "Catherine the Great," states, the "Evening New:6."

Mr. Justice Uroasman observed ¦ It was Incredible that Dickens Damages were claimed against that the production of some, should consciously have lifted" it, London Film Productions, Ltd., documents might have been con- although

was irresistibly who made, the film. The allega-clusive one way or the other. driven to the conclusion that he tion was that it infringed the "Unconscions plagiarism of a did take it. copyright of the play "La Petite most startling character is per- "They may have, both got the Catherine," written by Mr. Alfred fectly common," said Mr. Watson story from a common source," Poznansk (or Savoir) in 1930. As an example, he said that suggested the judge.

Mr. Trevor Watson, KG.. (for Dickens in "Pickwick Papera" had "That is possible," the KC. plaintifs), argued that it was "Ufted" the story of the man who agreed.

one

on, his wife. when she received the distinction" of being made a Dame Comman- der of the British Empire.

They were

a most devoted

couple, and Marlé was so heart- broken at his death (after a very short illness) last March, that she has decided to sell their home in Avenue Road, with its delightful garden-feeling she cannot live alone in the house where she and her husband spent so many happy

years.

The King's Vacation." "Step Lively, Jeeves." Oriental:-"The Longest Night.”- World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-'She's Dangerous.". Majestic: The Whole Town's

Talking." Star.The smartest Girl In

Town." Entertainments. Queen's Theatre.

Concert at

Lectures. Helena May Chris- tinn Fellowship, 10.30 am.

Meetings Cathedral Training Group, in Cathedral Hall, 7.15 p.m. She will, however, carry on with Moon-1V Moon, 13th. Day. her stage career. She is at pre- Social-Cheero Club Duplicate sent appearing in a play called Contract Bridge Tournament and "Escape From Folly," at one of Prizes, 8 pm the West End' theatres.

Sports. (See Pare. 10).

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SPECIAL NEWSREEL

..of the

HINDENBURG DISASTER

Received Direct from U.S.A.

by the "HONG KONG CLIPPER

Maybe the King can do no wrong But

P

you ought to see what the ex-King is

up to!

GEORGE

ARLISS

"THE KING'S VA

Warner Bros. rollicking comedy of jobless monarchs. With this fascin- ating new team of screen lovers

DICK. POWELL PATRICIA ELLIS

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She's

DANGEROUS

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