1939-05-16 — Page 5

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LAST 2 DAYS TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

THE STORY OF

VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE

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The swift drama, of an adventurer's last stand.

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CHARLES BOYER

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KING'S:

Hongkong

"Prison Without Bars" QUEEN'S:

CINEMA & GENERAL

"The Story Of Vernon & Irene

Castle"

ORIENTAL:

"Algiers" CATHAY:

"Empress Wu Cheh Tien"

Kowloon

ALHÄMBRA:

"Squadron of Honour"

STAR:

"52nd Street"

MAJESTIC:"

"Spring-Madness"

KING'S:

Coming

"Hold That Kiss"

QUEEN'S:

"Ambush"

ORIENTAL:

The Bohemian Girl"

"You Can't Trke It With You* CATHAY:

"Nancy Steele Is Missing" ALHAMBRA:

"Ambush"

STAR:

"I Met My Love Again" "The Awful Truth" MAJESTIC:

"Stablemates"

"PRISON WITHOUT BARS AT THE

ĶING'S TO-DAY

INA CLAIRE DOESN'T WANT TO BE A STAR

INA CLAIRE ROPES HER FRIENDS OF THE THEATRE WI not be disappointed because she has to yearnings för stardom In her return to the hus.

Miss Claire, after several years of refusals, came motion pictures with one of the most unusual contracts.

back to

sho

She works for one year at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, then is given a year's holiday during alternate years to do As pleases. This means that the alternate years will take ber back to the stars.

$10,000 A WEEK

#

Deanna Durbin, the 18-year- old actress, earned $10,000. week last year. Her income for 1938, as reported to the United States authorities, approximately $120,000)

Clark Gable -Labourer!

WAS

She has resumed her picture career, not to a leading role, but in support of Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamar in I Take this Wo-

man.

ex-

"This, however I hope is only serving as a rehearsal for better things to come," Miss Claire plained. "But there is one thing I would like those friends who as- sociate me with the stage to know. I did not come to Hollywood to set the place afire.

"I am old enough to know that I cannot become box-office in motion pictures, Even if it could be so. I would not want to be box-office. . Workmen were laying gas On the stage, I did that pipe to Clark Gable's

which дея

made me most 'content. Although ranch, when a begrimed la- boarer appeared and

I may have been leading charac- ter in my plays. quite often on supervising the job.

the play itself and its theme over- "Hey," he said, "that's not the shadowed the individual players.

way to couple up pipe.".

insisted

He got down in the ditch and gave a demonstration. The work-

ป

AWAY FROM PLOT "You know, the trend of success- men protested to the foreman, who ful plays to-day is getting farther wanted to know what the labourer and farther away from plat. They thought he was doing.

have become psychological themes

"I've coupled 40,000 miles of that lead the audiences into deep pipe," he said. "This job isn't thinking, which plays of the past being done right."

seldom did. Therefore, the charac- After watching the labourer lay ter and what the character was pipe for afteen minutes, the fore-thinking was far more important a decided that he knew what than the name of the player in

lights on the theatre marquee.

he was doing...

"How'd you like to work for me.j "I hope to do in motion pictures starting right now?" he asked. what I did best on the stage, "Sorry." grinned the labourer. playing roles that I enjoy doing and know I can do. Such roles I shall be

Youth gets a fiing in the new "I have a job." Korda picture, "Prison Without The labourer was Clark Gable, are not box-office. Bars." which opens at the King's ex-pipe layer in the Oklahoma oll completely satisfied to leave the Theatre to-day, Five of the lead-fields, now a Metro-Goldwyn-May- box-office roles to those with ple ing players are twenty-one or er star. under. They are Corinne Luchaire,

ture box-office names. while I tag along in Interesting supporting

Korda's 17-year-old French dis-SPRING MADNESS roles. Whether they are literate

covery; Glynis Johns, 15, who scored a big success as the squire's petulant daughter in "South Rid- Ing" and Mary Morris, 21; Lorraine Clewes, 20; Sally Wisher, 18: each of whom is making her first screen

roles or of the ultra-ritzy aristo- cracy does not matter to me."

LITTLE CHANGE

AT MAJESTIC Laughable though it may be to throes of love and financial embar-after an absence of five years,” observe a youth in tire, double In her return to metion pictures rassment, it is a predicament that Miss Claire has found little change *ppearance.

Corinne Lüchaire, daughter of a that he learns at college are some-ment in equipment and

has its serious side. The economies in methods, but great improve- well-known Paris Journalist, was how less personal than those he material. signed by Korda as the result of rubs against in his search for a job

story her performance in a French ver-after graduation skin of "Prison Without Bars."

"Before, it seemed to be the cus- tom to film long. scenes without.. Glyrils Johns who revealed her- This, in a general way, is the interruption, as if they were com self as a brilliant actress in "South theme of Spring Madness," which plete stage

plays." said Miss Riding." has had considerable ex

will be Screened at the Claire. "Now I And the scenes perience on the stage.

Majestic Theatre to-day, With more choppy-shorter 'takes'. that Mary Morris, a striking brunette, splendid characterizations by strengthen interest in the pictures makes her screen debut in Prison Maureen O'Sullivan, Lew Ayres and by the use of varied angle shots Without Bars," and as a result of others, and expert direction by S. and the like. her performance, Korda has award- Sylvan Simon, the new picture pro- "Another most noticeable change ed her a long term contract.

vides heart-warming entertain-is the improvement in the micro- Lorraine, Clewes, a 'Birmingham ment.

phones. To-day. I find myself not. girl, was given a screen test last Maureen O'Sullivan has one of the least conscious of the mike's" year.

her best roles as a New England presence. Before, it frightened Sally Wisher, small, brunette, has college giri. Equal praise goes to me, darting at me like a snake only one professional stage appear-Lew Ayres, portraying a harrassed, and I was always playing to the ance to her credit, at the Open Air young man of Harvard, who loves mike' instead of the camera..." Theatre last year.

Miss O'Sullivan but comes to 3

All these girls have distinctive realization that" without a job he looks and personalities, and all play won't cut much of adgure 23 a Important parts.

STAR:

What a elory, what

FORBURON

the gayset

“street in all the world!

TOMORROW

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527

PAT PATERSOM«ZASU PITTS- and KENNY BAKER

Baingand thru United Aritata

JOAN BENNETT :

in

"I MET MY LOVE AGAIN"

ACROSS

1. Bereaved.

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5 Moat (5) M

8 Raise up (5).

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Hain Hwa Motion Picture Co. presents The Firat Great Chinese Historical

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EMPRESS

WU CHEH TIEN

Starring VIOLET KOO

and A Cast of Thousands

WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

TENANCY STABLE IS MISSING!

FRI.

Begins Fat. BY BLOCK - HEAD

An GM Riot

Waiter Connelly

Victor Molaglan-

Last Picture Together

Laurel & Hardy's

husband.

CROSSWORD

9 Angry (5)

10 Fights(5)

11 Organ of

hearing (3)

12 Press uù-- 14 Consum

able (7)

17 Vent (8)

19 Threefold (8).

22 False

bellever (7)

25 Charm (8)

28 Coal

product (3)

29 Ship's

room (5)

30 Sol (5)

31 Spectre (5)

32 Melodies (5)

33

of the

spin- (5)

DOWN

1 Card game (5)

2 Male bird (5)

3 Cajole (7)

4 Animosity (8)

29

NO.

5 First

|18

appearance (5).

6 Part of

hand (5)

7 Hurry (5)

13 Bestir (5).

15 Beverage (3):

derfoot (5)

16 Blossom (5)

18 Falsehood (3)

310

20 Grieves

about' (7) 21 Deed (f) 22 Literary

drudges (5). 23 Bird (5)

24 Fire im-

plements (5)

26 Month (5)

27. Upper air

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

"Solution No 309

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. -Rogation Day. St. John Ne- pomucen.

AUCTIONS.-Crown Lands,

District Office, Tal Po. 11.30

CINEMAS (See Column 3 of this

Pago)

DANCES. First Heats "of "Garden of the Moon"

the Dance

Contest, in Roof Garden, Hong- kong Hotel, 5 p.m. LECTURES.-ARP., Modified Full Course, at United Services Re- creation Club, Kowloon, 11 am." at St. John's Cathedral Hall. for Hongkong Arms, 5.30 p.m.; at La Salle College, 6 p.; Dio- ceaan Junior Girls' School, @ p.m.; Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m.; in Chinese, at. Queen's College, 7 p.m.; Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 7 p.m. Ta Tung School, Kak Hang Tsun Road, Kowloon, 7 pm; Chinese Y.W.C.A Bonham Road, 4.30 p.m... MAILS. (See Page 16).. MEETINGS. Annual, of Victoria Diocesan Missionary Association; In St. Andrew's Hall. 6 p.m.; Rotary Meeting, Hongkong Hotel, 1 p.m.: Kowloon Chess Club, In Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS-8

Stephen's

Girls' College Reunion of Alum- nae, from 3 pm

MOON-Chinese III Moon, 27th..

RELIGIOUS-Prayer and Fellow- ship Meeting at S. 8. House, 8.30 p.m. N

ACROSS: 5, Straw, 8, Arteries, 9.1 DOWN; 1, Candy. 2, Stork 3,PORTS (Bee Page 2)/ Happy, 10, Derision, 11, Unite. 14. Crash. 4, Denote. 6. Training 7 SUNRISE.-5.43a.m. SUNSET.— Wed: 18, Jocose. 17, Ignite, 18, Appetite, '12, Doctrine, 13, Fore- 6.55 p.m.

Tap. 20, Steed. 24, Pastoral. 25, most. 14, Wet, 15, Dip 19, Amazon TIDES.High at 06.48 and 18.43, Minor. 26, Hopeless. 27, Beats. 21, Strew, 22, Erler. 23, Flask.

Low at 00.14 and 13.10

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1939. —PAGE"

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY

SHOWING TODAY AT 8.30, 5.10. 7.13

9.30

P.M.

"A POWERFUL STORY HAS BEEN FAITHFULLY AND

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LONDON FILMS ALEXANDER KORDA PRODUCTION

CORINNE LUCHAIRE

A'S

SUZANNE

IN

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WITHOUT

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WITH

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31: ****

MARY MORRIS- LORAINI CLARES

United Artists Release

LATEST COLOUR CARTOON

"OLD MOTHER HUBBARD"

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ALHAMBRA

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SQUADRON

OF HONOR

DON... TERRY MART RUSSELL

Thurston Hall Arthur Lafz

Mais Lawrence

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A

THURSDAY

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Picture

"AMBUSH"

Gladys Swarthout

Lloyd Nolan

MAJESTIC

ETHEATRE'S

TODAY AND TOMORROW

HOW TO HOOK A MAN IN TEN RACY LESSONS!!!

SHE WOULD! HE WOULDN'T! (But These Five Gorgeous College Gals Fixed That!) Rowdily yours.. this dipsy. do of college romances! Lew Ayres, hit mar of "Holiday"", and "Young Dr. Kildare”, in his gayest, grandest love- idventure!

SPRING

The Day

NESS

Maureen

O'SULLIVAN LEW AYRES

Ruth HUBSET: Burgess MEREDITH. Ann MORRIS 8 - Joyce COMPTON. Screen Play and Produced by Edward Chadosos,

David on the Fay "Budaq Qas "Disected:by. E. SYLVAN FIMON A MITIO-GOLDWTEMATIK SIGITUSKE

THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY

Thrills Heart Throbs WALLACE BEERY

Roaring Laughter |

MICKEY ROONEY in "STABLEMATES"

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

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