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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:--

MISS REEVE-TUCKER CHOSEN

To Play In Paramount's "Booloo"

Picked by Paramount directors as the ideal girl to play the lead in

Her father, Mr. V. G. A, Reeve Tucker, told me, "It is quite a

"The King And The Chorus the nim "Booloo," 19-year-old Miss, thrill for us"

Cicely Reeve-Tucker, daughter of .."Girl"

well-known Selangor planter, has left Kuala Lumpur for Singa- pore.

QUEEN'S:--

"Wild Money” "The Robber Symphony"

ORIENTAL:-

"Polo Joe"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"Exclusive"

STAR:-

"The Lady Escapes"

MAJESTIC:-~

"A Family Affair”

THE KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL

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Two Items of far more passing importance to motion ple- ture audiences are found in the annoucement that "The King and the Chorus Girl." is to be present- ed on the screen of the King's Theatre beginning to-day. "

First, it will mark the American

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When I saw her at her parents' bungalow in Kenny Road

re- and cently, she looked happy beautiful. It came like a bolt out of the blue," she said. "But I have not inst any sleep over it, though naturally I am a little excited," writes a Times of Malaya" corres- pendent.

Miss Reeve-Tucker likes acting, She described to me how she went

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He is Visiting Agent for Guthrie and Co.'s group of estates. A few months ago he lived with his family on Banteng Rubber Estate, near Puchong, and was chairman or the Ulu Langat District Plan- ters' Association.

MALATAN BORN Miss Reeve-Tucker is Malayan- born. She went to England in 1924 to be educated at the Holy Cross Convent Belmont. Hertfordshire. and returned last October. "The part she will be asked to play in

to see Mr. Clyde E. Ellott and Mr. | “Rooloo" is that of a Malay girl.

John E. Burch, the Paramount directors, at the Majestic Hotel She went out of curiosity and not with any definite hopes.

They interviewed her and took pictures of her with a small still camera-as they had done of six "other F.M.S. girls.

CONTRACT READY

Then she heard nothing more until Mc. Elliott wired 'her from Singapore, asking her to go there with a chaperone-and that a con- tract is awaiting her.

debut of Fernand Gravet, famous MR. A.P. HERBERT

Continental film star.

Second, "The King and the Chorus Girl is the first picture made by the brilliant young War- ner Bros director, Mervyn LeRoy, who has made such successful

EXPLAINS NEW MARRIAGE ACT

films as "Little Caesar," "Five Star No Divorce For

Final" "I Found Stella Parrish," "Page Miss Glory.""I Am a Fugi- tive from a Chain Gang" "An- thony Adverse" and many others. The picture is a swift and hu- morous romance in which Gravet plays the role of a spendthrift young ex-King who, having lost his throne and kingdom, turns to the gateties of Paris. Then comes his rollicking, trouble-strewn and complex romance with an Ameri- can chorus girl, played by Joan Blondell.

AH WILDERNESS!

Practically the entire cast of Ah Wilderness!" that compelling drama of home lite, are reunited in the new M-G-M story of a typical American family. "A Family Affair," which opens to-day at the Majestic Theatre for a showing.

Lionel Barrymore, seen as the father in the earlier hit. again plays a typical head-of-the-house in the new picture, and Eric Lin- den and Cecilia Parker once again represent romance in its adoles- cent phases... Others featured in the cast are Mickey Rooney, Char- ley Grapewiri. Spring Byington. Julce Haydon, Sara Haden, Allen Vincent, Margaret Marquis. Gel- mer Jackson and Harlan Briggs.

"A Family Affair" was adapted to the screen by Kay Van Riper from the play, by Aurania Rourey rol and was directed.. by GeorRE Seltz.

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WILD MONEY

A racy comedy about a man whe wanted to be a reporter and who spent codies of other people's money to realize his ambition brings Edward Everett Horton and a Ane list of comedians to the Queen's Theatre to-day. In the uproarious "Wild Money."

Reno Cruelty

WARNING AGAINST

With light brown hair, grey eyes,

a slim, graceful figure and a plea- sant personality, she is a typical modern girl. She plays tennis and is fand of swimming, and has acted in school plays..

I asked her whether she would Ilke to go to Hollywood. "I would go to Hollywood and take up a film career if the chance were given to me." she said modestly. "Ike the pictures. But there has never been an actor of actress in the family."

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Anniversaries and Holidays- Ember Day.. Alfred de Vigny died. 1863.

Auctions. Crown Lands, at Dis- trict Office, South, Queen's Bldg.. 11 a.m.

Dances. Hong Kong Reel Club's

MISLEADING TALK first practice of the season. at

Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., broad- casting recently on the provisions of the Matrimonial Causes Act, which becomes law on Jan. 1. said

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divorce would not be granted because a husband spent too much time fishing. or because wife became a film star. "

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"Cruelty." he continued, "does not mean 'Hollywood' or 'Reno' cruelty. Legal cruelty has been strictly defined by the English Courts for a long time as 'conduct cf such a character as to have caus- ed danger to life, limb or health- bodily or mental-or as to give rise to a reasonable apprehension of such" danger.

"But danger to mental health does not, rightly or wrongly, in- clude what Americans know as mental cruelty."

Mr. A. P. Herbert

Helena May, 5.30 p.m.

Mails. (See Pare 16). Meetings-Helena May Christian (Fellowship, 10.30 am.. Shanghai Brownies living in Kowloon, at St. Andrew's Hall, 3.30

p.m.; Girl Guides, at Sandilands Hut, 3.30 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Annual General, of Hong Kong Reel Club, at Helena May, 5.15 p.m.

Moon-VIII. Moon, 13th. Day. Rehearsals,Philharmonic

So-

clety. Orchestral Section, at Sallors Home and Seamen's In- stitute, 8.45 p.m.

Social-Cheero Club Duplicate and Contract Bridge, 8 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola in Sergts' Mess, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Shamshulpo, 8.30 p.m.. Whist Drive and Tombola, R.E. W.O's, and Sergts. Mess, Welling- ton Bks.. 9.15 p.m.

Sports.--(See Page 10). Sunrise.-6.11 a.m. Sunset.-6.25

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Tides. High at 06.10 and 20.23. Low at 00.09 and 13.37.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Malls-(See Page 16):

Moon--VIII Moon, 14th. Day..

Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise.-6 09 a.m. Sunset.-8.30

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Tides. High at 00.35; Low at 08.40

ment to relleve these people with- out accepting the principle of divorce by consent, and that, in the present state of opinion, is not practical politics, to say no more."

It was true that "for the rich the Act was going to make divorce more difficult than before, but

as regards, the poor the big- gest thing Parliament had given to the genuine, hard case Was divorce for desertion. Nobody was bound to ask for a divorce because he or she was entitled to one. No innocent person, except a lunatic. could be forced into divorce if he or she disapproved of it.

PREVENTION OF BLACKMAIL

Referring to the section of the

Mr. Herbert said there had been much misleading talk and writing about the Act, and he offered a Based on the Saturday Evening warning, especially to poor people, Post story "Tightwad," by Paul not to belleve everything seen and Gallico. "Wild Money" includes heard, nor to write to Members of Lynne Overman. Lucien Little Parliament for legal advice. Every field. Benny Baker and Porter individual case was different. Hall among the list of funmakers Speaking of the much-discussed while feminine pulchritude and provision whereby no one may romance is supplied by Louise present petition

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for divorce Campbell, a newcomer "from the within three years of the marriage, New York stage, and lovely Ruth Mr. Herbert pointed out the value" Act preventing the use of a decree Coleman,

of the two exceptions: "Excep- nist for blackmail, Mr. Herbert There are only three perform- tional hardship" or "exceptional said that there had been many ances of "Wild Money," the 9.30 depravity." He added:

cases where the wife had obtained p.m. house being reserved for "In the other cases the hope is a decree but refused to make It "The Robber Symphony."

of course, that the carly offences absolute until the husband had

to hand will be forgiven, the early quarrels promised composed, and the marriage kept money. Under the Act, if there alive. If not, the injured party is was improper delay of this "Eind. not without remedy during the the other party might apply to

have the decree made absolute, three years."

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"Chinu Beas" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday. Mon- day and Tuesday has everything

over more

"Thope, and belleve," he con- cluded, "that the Act will fulfi the aims of all who have worked upon it; that it will be not only a great contribution to the sum of

"MP. NOT FOOLISH" The Act did not, directly at least, that any audience could want and offer any relief to the numerous is full of the stuff that put the couples who had formed voluntary picture business to the top of the separations. had agreed to part, amusement enterprises.

or had, perhaps, signed a deed of human happiness, but a source of "The yarn is packed with sus-separation.

great strength to the institution petuse and moves at lightning Many knowing people had writ-or marriage, which is the founda- speed, with the main characters | ten to the papers to say how ex- tion of the social life in this and (Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and traordinary it was that such coup- every Christian country.

"And as a grandfather and a Wallace Beery) backed by as finetes should have been forgotten. a cast as nas even been thrown "M.P.s are not always as foolish father of four Ane children, who for together for any one picture. all as they may appear. and there has been happily married under the masterful direction of was no forgetting, said Mr. Herbert. I nearly 24 years. I think and care.

a little about that." Tay Garnett,

"But it was impossible for Parlia

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AND THE

THE KING CHORUS GIRL

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JOAN BLONDELL EDWARE HORTON

EVERETT

ALMI URSZERNY - MARY MANS - JAK WYRAM - KEMY BIKEN - LACE ALBERSE - A KIEPYTU LEBBY PRSON.

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REMBRANDT"

ASTAIRE'S SISTER

This scotches, for the time being at least, the rumour that she was going to team up with brother Fred again, and we will see her dance with Jack, who taps no mean step, very shortly.

come

Lady Cavendish, sister of Fred Astaire and his one-time dancing partner, who has recently been

of bourse; now she has living in one of the ancestral homes of her husband "where the River back before the camera, there's no And if Shannon flows," is forsaking Ire saying where she'll end. land for a time to play in a new she and Fred were teamed there'd Jack Buchanan film, directed by be a huge curiosity public for the

Iuture! the famous Rene "Clair.

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