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"TRUE CONFESSION

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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

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KING'S:-

QUEEN'S:-

Elephant Boy"

"True Confession" ORIENTAL:--

"Night Must Fall"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:----

STAR:

"True Confession"

"Men In Exile" MAJESTIC:-

"History Is Made At Night"

KING'S:---

Coming

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"Ebb Tide"

URIENTAL:--

"The Merry Widow" ALHAMBRA:---

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MOST STARTLING THRILLER OF THEM ALLI Women mistook him for Prince Charjning, one woman wanted ..one wanted to marry him one wanted to to mother bin

murder him. It's the most unusual story over screened. UNLIKE ANY PICTURE HOLLYWOOD EVER "MADE!

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Norman Alley, ace Universal cameraman, whose film of the bombing and sinking of the U.S.B. Panay in the Yangtse on De- cember 12 inst, is at present being shown in Hong Kong:

GRAND ROMANCE

Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur, a fascinating new pair of screen lovers, slipped into town last night in a dlm romance as fresh and

sparkles with bright, gay, dippant dialogue that we wager you'll be quoting for weeks, ...

The handsome Boyer has never been seen to better advantage than as Paul Dumond, Paris man about town and glorified head waiter,

her charming best as Irene Vall, The occasion was "History is the New York mannequin who Mado at Night" Walter Wanger's yearns to break the bonds of her production for release unhappy marriage to the jealous, second through United Artists, and this domineering shipping magnate, story from the twin typewriters played by Colin Clive. of that inimitable team of Gene Towne and Graham Baker fairly

"Ebb Tide" _*

"Broadway Gondoller"

MAJESTIC:—

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"Love From A Stranger"

TRUE CONFESSION

"True Confession." which opens the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres to-day, is directed by Wesley Ruggles from an adapta- tion of the famous French play. "Mon Crime," by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr. It is the tale of a girl, the biggest natural liar that ever lived, who confessed to a murder which she hadn't com-

HOLLYWOOD'S UNKNOWNS, AT LAST MADE FAMOUS ON THE SCREEN “STAND-IN"

Want to see Hollywood? Want to get on the set and watch them shoot pictures? Want to find out how the lights and lenses are adjusted, how the glamour is turned on and off of your "favourite star? Want to get the low-down on the high-ups by personally inspecting the purileus of the film capital of the world?

It's easy: all you have to to is stay home. In fact, it's easier --because should you make the long trip to Hollywood you wouldn't see anything, inasmuch as vialtors are not permitted inside the studios.

Yes. the movies to-day are; pictures. He is somewhat thinner bringing Hollywood as-it-really-is than Bogart but has the same to you and me and the grocer and colouring and is exactly the star's baker. A picture called "A Star helght. He was discovered actual- is Born" began the epidemic of ly waiting for a street car งา Alms that are giving us all a Hollywood boulevard by a frantic hitherto undisclosed close-up of assistant director. Having no job the inside doings in the town at that time, Llewellyn accepted where modern Arabian Nights the offer. His most recent assign- tables are concocted overnight. Ainents were for the filming of End" total of five other productions Samuel Goldwyn's "Dead have carried on the cinematic and Walter Wanger's "Stand-In." Cook's Tour-and now comes the Dewest one. "Stand-In" a Walter Wanger production starring Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell.

"Stand-In" will present for the Arst time the activities of those invisible, unsung and completely anonymous boys and girls who serve only to stand and wait while soundmen, cameramen. electri- clans and assistant directors focus

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MONTANA COWBOY

-There is 3 Montana cowboy around Hollywood who is known as Slim. No one has been able to find out what the rest of his name is, but where Gary Cooper goes, there goes Slim. He is also the

star's stand-in. It's history now- how three cowboys came down from the north to work in the Aims a.s cowboys-they shook Ughts, re-arrange furniture and hands when they agreed always to fuss around getting the set ready for the star.

It's interesting work if you can get it. However, there's not only no future in it, but there's also little chance of obtaining such a job. First of all, there are only 1 limited number of first-line actors who are considered import ant enough to have stand-ins. Secondly. stand-ins seldom, ever, graduate into acting, since

look after each other and so they do, although the third has gone back to Montana to carry on the cowhand work for the other two. while Gary and Slim work In Hollywood.

When Gary signs a contract so does Slim, one as a star, the other as his stand-in. The ex-cowboy stood in for Cooper in Goldwyn's "The Adventures of Marco Polo," But Slim helps Gary in other

mitted just so that her struggling producers seldom look around the things, especially Interviews, which

studio los when scouting for new

talent. And, furthermore, the job le steady only so long as the star is working. his

husband can defend her and get .some publicity for himself.

MacMurray, who plays the part of the lawyer, brushes aside.

that him wife's attempts to tell she is innocent of the killing for which she has been arrested, and forces her to "confess" that she killed in self-defence.

along

The trial is conducted these lines of a self-defence plea, and Miss. Lombard is acquitted, with exactly the result that she had counted on. MacMurray is Miss deluged with cases, and Lombard receives a lucrative con- tract to write her life story for the newspapers.

NOT A DOUBLE

A stand-in is not, as you might have thought. a double for the star, Facial resemblance doesn't matter: stand-ins must only be of the same size and height, and have similar colouring and hair as the actors for whom they act as shadows.

On the set the stand-in wears the same clothes as the star and wears the exact shade of grease- paint: the latter is the more im- are Una portant because different lights Supporting the cast Merkel, Edgar Kennedy, Lynne are needed for different shades of Overman. Fritz Feld. John T. makeup, and there would, be little Murray, Porter Hall, Richard Carle point in wasting a lot of time get- and Tommy Dugan.

ELEPHANT BOY

ting the lights ready for one colour makeup only to have the star walk onto the set in another.

BUDDY ROOSEVELT

One of the few stand-ins who A new and remarkable boy star looks like his star is Buddy Roose- is introduced in "Elephant Boy," velt, who works for Ronald Col. which Alexander Korda is pre-

man, the star currently of the senting at the King's Theatre to-Selznick International production. day.

"The Prisoner of Zenda." Buddy He is Sabu, a 13-year-old Indian used to be a featured player in his lad who was discovered in India by own right, and he's now, standing- Robert Flaherty, co-director of the

in for Colman until he gets the film, working in the Maharajah's hoped for chance that will send elephant stables. This naive un-him back to the screen as an actor affected child is опе of the again..

brought to the screen. Women

Imost delightful personalities ever Twenty-one year old Connie will love him-his smile alone will Rae, who holds the floor while Joan Blondell rests, hopes some take care of that,

day to be a dramatic actress.

Gary doesn't uke. He answers most of the questions. Cooper never talks overmuch.

Although the camera 15 not interested in voice, and no vocal stand-in is necessary. It happens that in the case of Richard Foster. might very well the stand-in

brass. For Foster, in double. In addition to looking a good deal ke Leslie Howard, his star. hus a voice that resembles Howard's to an amazing degree. Add to that the fact that Foster comes from England, too, and the picture of a neatly-fitting stand-in is com- plete..

"KNOW THE GAME Foster, in his spare time, also stands-in for a number of other male stars. He explains the secret of his success thus:

"I know the technical detalls of the game. The cameramen ask for me for stars other than Leslie because they know that I'll be where I'm supposed to be. and they don't have telling me where and what to do."

to waste time

One of the most distinguished of the stand-ins is Brigadier Ges- eral Reginald D. Napier-Raikes. He is the pre-shooting duplicate doughty for C. Aubrey Smith. thesplan who plays the part of Colonel Zapt in The Prisoner of Zenda." Raikes perved. 20 years in the African political service for

10,000 square mile province of England and was governor of the

Calabar in Nigeria. For four years

"Elephant Boy" is rare and rest- Incidentally, Joan plays the title he was engaged in jungle fighting

role in "Stand-In," but on the set Ufe went on as usual, with Connie

against Derce natives serving the cause of the Central Powers dur-

doing the actual standing-in foring the World War.

the Actional stand-in.

One family that has practically a monopoly on standing-in is the Doyle household. Adalyn

Doyle

For his activity, he won the African general service medal and twice was cited in dispatches.

fur entertainment, right of the beaten track. The story, based on "Toomal of the Elephants." one of Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" yarns. tells of a little Indian boy, son of a mahout. who dreams of the day when he, too, will become a great elephant .driver like his famous grandfather, the renowned, "Toomal of the Elephants."

The film. was nearly three years in the making, two of which were to spent on locale in India. The Adalya's younger sister, Patsy, ing him in the Sports Club, Lan- and became don, suggested a journey to Holly- transfer of the Kipling story could promptly took over not have been in more sympathette Misa Hepburn's alter ego. About wood to relieve the ennui. hands than those of Robert the same time another sister, Flaherty and Zoltan Körda, the Katherine Doyle, began to stand directors who deserve the warmest in for Barbara Stanwyck, whom she replaced during camera" ad- congratulations.

justments for the Simuel Goldwyn production, "Stella Dallas." .!

The story of the general's Holly- was Katharine Hepburn's stand-in wood career, as disclosed by his until she was spotted by a talent friend Smith, is that Raikes found scout and carted off to New York it impossible to readjust himself

In a stage appear

play. to civilian afairs.. Smith, meet-

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A UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

Although General Rafkes admits he didn't know what Smith was talking about when he suggested a job as "stand-in," he came any- way, and after three years be- lleves he will have learned enough about the film business to aid the British screen industry when he a desk equipped with entirely too returns home.

many push-buttons; and finally,

Charlie McCarthy, that amazing radio and screen

Although the Howard-Blondell bänker, a human adding machine also has a stand-in whom he will aim is named "Stand-In" and is who finds that the movie colony Bejun, Jan. 17.

use during the filming of Samuel largely concerned with these per-resists the logic of heretofore in- The trial of the well-known Goldwyn's screen musical. The sons, the film is a sort of general fallible figures.

Follies." Ventriloquist survey of the different person- Goldwyn minister of the Protestant "Con- felsional" Church, Pastor Niemoel Edgar Bergen, Charlie's boss and allies that go to make up the

comedy, chose "the ler, who has been in prison since partner in last summer, will, it is belleyed in stand-in who is still nameless. competent circles, take place in Charlie's double w face the camera during setups, and in

Hollywood scane.

GENTLE FUN · "Stand-In" makes gentle fun of

smart and charming as the Parks and lovely' Jean Arthur is also at Berlin about the middle of Febru" other ways save year and tear on such familiar figures as the vam- |

in which it blooms.

The film is showing at the

Majestic Theatre,

ary before a special Court.

It is stated that as a result of the young actor's "nerves" preliminary enquiries Pastor Nie-

pire who does most of her acting

"Stand-In."

which includes

Marla Shelton in its cast. In ad- dition to Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart, was directed by Tay Garnett.

One of Southern California's with her tips instead of her face; Mr. Charles Daiby, of Greenham, "gar- moeller will be charged with vari-best-known amateur athletes is the foreign director with swollen Berks, a horticulturist for 67 years, ous offences against the law for Humphrey Bogart's stand-in. He. ideas of munificence that send the and father" of Newbury prevention of treacherous attacks is Russell Llewellyn, who plays budget skyrocketing; the producer deners, has been presented with baseball. soccer football and who would rather wrap his feet a cheque in recognition of his on the State and Party."

squash when he's not working in around a polo pony than around service.

Transocean News Service.

CONFERENCE OF OSLO STATES

Copenhagen, Jan. 19..

A conference of the seven coun- tries adhering to the Oslo Con- vention began here yesterday. The Oslo Convention was extended last year by the algning of a new trade pact between the seven Oslo states, and the present conference, which is expected to last a few days, has been called merely for

question as to whether it 15 the purpose of examining the deemed advisable to extend the pact for a further period. Tranioccan News Service.

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