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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 14th, 1929.

STAR IN UNCOMMON POSE.

DOUG AND MARY TOGETHER. In "The Taming of the Shrew.?

And why not!

...For X'mas!

A Gift of Shoes,

THEY ADMIRABLY FIT THE OCCASION AND ARE AN EVER WELCOME ITEM.

All these models are

Stock numbers:

21.17

Myrna Loy, a Warner Brost star, is shown above in a rather unique setting.

ANOTHER “HYMN OF HATE."

Ex Kaiser Lets Himself Go Once More.

Douglas Fairbanks as "Petruchio," and Mary Pickford as "Katherine" in Shakespeare's comedy, Taming of the Shrew."

In

Can you imagine dignified Mary poured it from every quarter. Piekford falling off the back of Shakespeare should be played this way or that way. One couldn't do a horse into a bag of mud?

or that on the screen. No, of course you ban't-neither this can anybody else. But she does fact the number of suggestions so just that and a lot more in her bewildered the couple that they new picture. And the "reason in threw them all out and decided as few that Mary and her dynamic hus-to follow the book with

as possible with the band, Douglas Fairbanks, have changes become moriung's newest comedy screen as a medium.. team for one, picture, Shake- Real Slapstick Comedy,

"Every actor and actreng whe There's a lot to be said about has afepped before the footlights the noted author's tale of how in the role of Petruchio and little spitfire niet her match with Katherine have had their own in- Mary playing Katherine, the Httle terpretations of the two charac- spitfire, and Doug portraying ters," Fairbanks and Miss Pick- Petruchio.

ford declared. "We studied every. Interpretation and then proceeded) with our screen version.

speare's "Taming of the Shrew."

in their careers, ·

Star Together First Time, For one thing, this film brings

"To us Shakespeare was an ex», Dnag and Mary together on the screen for the first and only time tremely human individual whose wit was far from subtle and whose Both already are considering stories for indivi- genius lay in his ability to put Discussing the alleged hunger The letter of invitation to dual starring Vehicles to be made gorgeous phrases into the mouthe

ex-Brigadier-General Waters

to upon their return from a European of his characters. "Taming of the blockade of Germany, the

in" theme as a Broadway musical Kaiser said: "England must an-Doorn began: The ocean of abuse, tour this autumn. Another feature Shrew" to us is just as modern swer to Heaven for that atrocity."vilification, Infamy, slander, and is that Mr. Slapstick himself plays show. The comedy is broad, the tiem. Nothing has been spared in husnorous. That is the way we In a reference to reparations he lies which has rolled over me com, an important part in this produc- lines sparkling and the theme said bitterly: "If justice was ing from Landon, discloses making the film a real comedy in have brought it to the screen."

Hollywood's newest comedy done all, those milliards of marka spirit of debused and venomous the broadest sense of the world.

Thatred, which I had not expected in making. "Taming of the team spared nothing in order to should be repaid.”

Doug and Mary are make their picture a real slapstick Brigadier-General Waters says from a country whose national Shres

believe the comedy. If you can't ex-Kaiser is unrepentant, and that the ex-Kaiser's beard and hair sorrows I shared when they lost pioneering" Shakespeare

many their great Queen, and I mourned silver sheet and they are doing that now, you will when you see at holds violent anti-English are white, but he looks

it just at a time when the vogue Mary fall off the above-mentioned He King Edward. views is contained in an artièle by years younger than his age.

"My whole life has been filled for musical productions is at its horse or when you see her sock

height. If this film is successful, Doug over the head with a stool. Brigadier-General W. H. Waters, takes a great deal of manual exer-

with the hope of establishing a

as all indications point that it will describing a visit in the ex-Kaiser, jeise.

"understanding between be, it probably will be the fore-

to retain every bit of Shake- and published in the Quarterly Re-! Regarding criticism levelled better

against him, the ex-Kaiser said: Britain and Germany, which might ranner of other Shakespearean spearean flavour in the picture. view.

Many of the lines had to be cut Brigadier-tieneral Waters wasy hide is now elephantine," lead to an agreement or an alliance, productions.

The announcement was out in order to put the story into When invited to Doorn as part of an though Brigadier-General Waters but all my quiet labour has beenį

the utterly and wantonly destroyed. first made that Doug and Mary nine reels of celluloid film. But attempt to counter what the ex-article gives evidence that

4421 were to put "Taming of the all of the lines used are spoken Kaiser describes as "the vile in-felephantine hide is easily pene-Instead of nu ally 1 became

Shrew on the screen, suggestions just as they were written İtrated. trigues of British statesmen."

arch-fond, the Hun Attila."

Abundant

evidence that the

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Every effort also has been made

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KAYAMALLY BUILDING. OPEN TILL & PM.

MING TOMBS IN KWANGSI.

The old Ming Tombs, seen above, are some twelve li outside of Kwelin, Kwangsi Province. Kweilin' was the southern capital during the Ming Dynasty, when Princes were sent from the Im-

perial family in Peking to reign over the southern

Lefritory.

WREN AND THE GREENWICH HOSPITAL.

The Wren Society's Volume will be devoted this year to Greenwich Hospital and plans made by Vanbrugh and Wren are now on exhibition in the Sir John Soane Museum. Our picture gives a view of the Hospital, ns it is to-day, looking

from Greenwich Observatory.. (Times copyright);

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