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QUEENS

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The Fastest-Moving Mystery Ever To Come

Drummond's Way 1

Adventure as roman

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Drummond himselli

"BULLDOG DRUMMOND

COMES BACK"

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7JOHN BARRYMORE "JOHN HOWARD

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On The Stage "THE CIRCLE OF DEATH "

On The Screen WAKE UP AND LIVE"

Walter Winchell

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Directed by Gus Main:

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A comedy detective mystery thriller.

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JACK BUCHANAN

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"THAT'S A GOOD GIRL”

with

Elsie Randolph "Vera Pearce Dorothy Hyson

TO-

Fredric March Charles Laughton MORROW.⚫ in Victor Hugo's "LES MISERABLES"

LAWYER MAN

The cast of an honest young lawyer

a big city's politicians

BETTE DAVIS IN “DANGEROUS”

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:----

"Lawyer Man"

QUEEN'S:—

"Buldog Drummond Contes

Back"

ORIENTAL:-

"Nobody's Baby"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:--

"Sophie Lang Goes West"

STAR:-

"That's A Good Gir!”

MAJESTIC:-

"Dangerous"

KING'S:-

Coming

"The Good Earth" QUEEN'S:-

"Wake Up And Live" ORIENTAL:-

"The Case Of The Velvet

Claws"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Robber Barons"

STAR:-

"Les Miserables" MAJESTIC:-

"The King and The Chorus

Girl"

SOPHIE · LANG GOES

WEST

A great cast, an able director and a fast, clever story combine to furnish a fast-moving and en- tertaining picture in "Sophie Hang Goes West", which has its run at the Alhambra Theatre to-day. This is the third picture built around that famous fictional char- acter, Sophie Lang, who is a menace to Jewels and heart alike. The title role is played again by the lovely Gertrude Michael, who tits the role perfectly. Miss Michael is surrounded by a cast of

with talented, actors,

Sandra Storme, Lee. Bowan and Larry Crabble playing the leading parts. The story of "Sophie Lang Goes West" begins when Miss Michael,' us "Sophie" is being followed by police in New York. She realizes that, she will be trapped if she stays in the city any lenger so she disguises hereelf and boards a train which is bound for Califor- nja.

She has no ticket and the po- lice is after her, but Lee Bowman, -! who is a screen writer returning to Hollywood, meets her and protects her from detectives, although he is not sure himself that she has any legitimate reason for boarding the train in a disguise.

The supporting cast. includes Jed Prouty, Robert Cummings and Barlowe Borland all add to the excellence of the film

BULLDOG DRUMMOND

A fine character returns to the screen with the new picture, "Bull- dog Drummond Comes Back." which opens at the Queen's Thea- tre to-day.

The picture brings a new. Drum- mond to the public in the person of John Howard, who plays the role with eminently satisfying dash and humour. This latest picture lives fully up to the high tradition set by previous Drummond plctures, being as thrilling and breathless, a mystery as the public is likely to see this season.

ROBBER BARONS

WHEN AN ACTRESS CAN MAKE HARD.BOILED PROP MEN BAWL. SHE'S PUT A SCENE OVER!

That's Exactly. What Luise Rainer Did During Making

Of The Good Earth"

"It is always fun to net although It is hard work, But the most fun is when you have to act and still not use any of the things you've learned about acting."

This enigmatic

of

utterance Rainer Viennese Luise

is the summing up of her impression of her newest role as O-Lan, the Chi- nese wife of Paul Muni in "The Good Earth,”, next 'changé at the King's Theatre.

"This woman." she explains. "probably could not speak or un- derstand more than a hundred words. She is slow, stoical, never showing emotions, almost the same as the ox she feeds in the stable. Still within her are all the cmptions every woman has. We had to let the audience know of these emotions, yet could not have her show them as "she had to stay in character.

"In other words. I tried to show what was in this woman's heart without using any of the expres- sions, tones, inflections, or any- thing we usually use in acting to show these things."

talks. What is it? He turned, worried, toward Miss Rainer, who was looking straight ahead, with eyes that appeared unseeing.

"What is it?" he demanded. a new note of alarm in his suddenly stac- cato speech.

Miss Rainer gazed ahead, her face immovable. Tonelessly came the answer.. "When I was a child in the famine-when the chil- dren died-they first dled--here." She touched her forehead. Not an inflection. Not an expression. Nothing but these unseeing, eyes. that leaden tone.

And two electriclans, handling the Hghts, looked up with tears streaming down their cheeks. That's how Lulse Rainer acts with- out using the usual tricks of act- ing.

4.

nothing Was Apparently

too much of an effort to Miss Rainer in her desire to make her char- acterization

the convincing. In famine sequence she was supposed to look thin and drawn. Make-up and lights were designed for the effect. But when Miss Rainer ar- rived for the scene she looked thinner before the make-up was applied. Director Franklin ques- tioned her. 77

"Oh, yes, I have lost eleven pounds. I started four days ago, not eating anything, so I would. look thin enough!"

Paul Muni, who as Wang Lung had much the same problem, and who was listening grinned. "Just The scandalized director hustled now did you do it?" he inquired. her 10 the cook-tent

the

& hearty

"Never do a thing like that again." he said sternly. "You can ruin your health!"

"1 Just thought hard and then } location and stood sternly over her It showed in the eyes," explained') while she consumed Miss Rainer. "They were all lunch at his orders. had to convey my emotions with in this role-the eyes. The face, it couldn't show anything ever.".

During one day's shooting the company Was working In I Chinese hut on the great farm lo- cation, in the famine sequence. Two little boys were crying be- cause the ox was supposed to be killed for food.

"Come." went "don't cry. You Look at your doesn't cry." A shadow crept over his face as he approached the little

Muni's speech. are little men. little sister. she

girl.

"Oh, no." answered Miss Rainer. "I have done it often on the stage in Europe. All it does is give me a better appetite afterwards.""

The star's one cause for grief was her Chinese hairdress. “I didn't mind," she declared, "mak- Ing myself ugly for the part for that is what the part called for. I wanted to look Chinese in every way, but just the same my, wig bound my ears back and it 'was an awful feeling." Which is the only complaint she had about the

"She never cries any more." He picked up the child. "She never whole picture.

Luise Rainer and Paul Muni in. "The Good Earth"

DANCING DISPLAY

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

The dress rehearsal in connec- tion with Miss Violet Capell's an- nual dancing display will take place at the King's Theatre on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Sunday, November 21, at 10 a.m. Anniversaries and -Holidays.- The actual display will be present-

·

Hela

Dance,

General Valentine Baker, died, ed at the same theatre on Wed-1-1887. Rodin When a fival capitalist obtainsnesday, November 24 at 5 p.m.

died, 1917. Yuen Festival (Hsla-yuan-chieh). the controlling interest in the Erie Railroad, Jim Fisk, one of the

Cinemag-(See Page 5). Dances Cheero Club most colourful of the early captains

8.30 pm. of industry, merely has additional stock issued. until he has enough shares to regain control. Thus is Fisk's unique career dramatized in RKO Radio's "Robber Barons," co- starring Edward "Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer and Jack Dakle, supported by a mammoth

cast.

а

Fisk's senational rise from calico peddler to railroad tycoon and his flaming romance with Josie Mansfield, one of America's most alluring sirens, are dramatic- ally portrayed in the film.

Rowland V, Lee directed the photoplay, produced for RKO by Edward Small.

"Robber Barons" has its run at

will be presented before Judge A picture that is said to give Public when William Powell's latest Bette Davis an even greater op picture for Warner Bros., "Lawyer | portunity to display her rare the Queen's Theatre to-day. Man," opens at the King's Theatre dramatic genius than did "Of Hu-

the feminine lead.

to-day with Joan Blondell playing man Bondage" or "Bordertown" | stark drama, featuring both the has been booked for the Majestic | glamor and the shadows of Broad- It is a

new sort of story for Theatre for one day:

way life. It is the story of the Powell, fast-paced drama which The picture is the Warner Bros. most brilliant actress of her day, runs a rapid gamut from ward drama "Dangerous," in which Miss who was loved by many, but who cases on the East Side to big budi- Davia la supported by Franchot loved only her own career and who ness cases which jerk him out of Tone who has the leading maścu-sacrificed everything, and every- his little corner of the world and line role and Margaret Lindsay, body to her ambitioną. “ deposit him in an elaborate sulte again her rival in love..

Then, a falleni idol, she becomes of offices.

"Dangerous," which has been an object of scorn, sodden with But it's drama relleved by plenty hailed as a masterpiece wherever drink, and pitled even by those "of comedy.

it has been produced, is sbeer, she had ruined.

Louise Campbell and John Howard furnish the love interest for the exciting new adventure mystery, **Bulldog Drummond Comes Back," playing st the Queen's

Theatre

TOW

Entertainments.-Vaudeville Con- cert at Queen's Theatre, 9.30 p.m., and Fashion Parade by Mme. Chif- fon, in aid of North China War Relief Fund.

Mails.New Year Parcel Mall for Great Britain closes at G.P.O. and K.P.O. at noon, per s.s. Aeneas.

Meetings. — Annual, `of Grand

Hotel Des Wagon Lits Ltd., Ex- change Blog.. 2nd. floor.

дооп Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild, 10 am.

Miscellaneous. - Claims

against

the Estate of Joan Taylor Smith due: Hong Kong 'Art Club Annual

Exhibition at Gloucester Bldg, 8th. floor, 10 B.D. to 7 p.m.

Moon.-X Moon. 15th. Day. Social-Kowloon Union Church Mah Jong Drive, 3 p.m.; Cheera Club Mah Jong Drive. 3 p.m.: Whist Drive and Tombola in Gár- rison Sergis Meas, Queen's Road, 8.30 p.m. p.m.; V. D. M. A enter tains All Saints Chinese Church Members in St. Andrew's Hall, 8.30 pm.

Sports-(Réé Page 101. Sunrise.-8.37 a.m. Sunset.-5.39

p.m.

| Tides,--High at 08.29, and 20.00. Low at 02.23 and 13.46.

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LAWYER MAN

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JOAN BLONDELL.

HELEN VINSON, SHEILA TERAY ALAN QINEHART, ALLEN JENKINS DAVID LANDAU, CLORE Duna

GALA PREMIER THURS, AT 9.30 P.M. OPENING FRIDAY at. 2.00, 4.30. 7.10 & 9.35 P.M. PAUL MUNI LUISE RAINER in

"THE GOOD

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SHE LOVES DIAMO

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SOPHIE LANG GOES WEST

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Henry Gordos

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ROBBER BARONS"

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