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CINEMA NOTES.
SAM WOOD DIRECTS "IT'S A GREAT LIFE.”
"The greatest asset of talking pic- Lures is that they give to the theatre- guer all the increased efficiency of Vision which come from the use of opera glasses, while freeing them from the fuss and worry attendant to carrying the clumsy optical devices.
"The close-up in
in talking
pictures
PING PONG LEAGUE.
'
RESULTS IN THE MEN'S SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP.
Three contestants have now entered the Sid, round of the above tourney as a result of the matches played at thei Kowloon Chinese YMCA, when Lal Pul-lum bent Siu Sul-shing (3 seta to love), Chang Sum-chuen beat Wong Tung-hoi (3 to 0) and Yuen Wah- chouk beat Ho Chee-keung (3 to 1), gives stiTer competition to the leg-In the 2nd, round another successful timate stage than all the other ad- entry was So Pul-yip who defeated
Kum Chan-man (3 to 0)..
vantages of the mallum put together
These comments were made by Wood, director of the new Duncan Sisters talking, singing and dancing picture, "It's a Great Life," which
Two niatches will be played off this evening at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, Leung Lin-cheang and Lee Koon-lan meeting Cheng Kwok-wing
is now at the Queen the and Lam Ka-huen respectively. The
"Lots of people have
real merit of the finest points, of a winners will enter the 3rd. round.
too much
merely because
it was too trouble to bring opera glasses," said
Wood.
tures, vond singing pic-
+
bring you the opera
glass close-up without the necessity af focusing, or weighing yourself down with a heavy instrument.
Fur- ther, you also get a vocal close-up' in the talkies which makes it possible for the last row of entertainment seekers to hear the words just as as those who sit in the more
front
ients,
wever, tot
to discuss the visual side only, let me illustrate by discussing a single number of "It's a Great Life, lovely song by Ballard Macdonald and Dave, Dreyer, called Following You', I am willing to take all rea- sonable
bets that this song will go over faster than any other of the This will many Duncan Sisters" hits. be so because the close-ups of the will give you the vivid faces two great performers at the most important points of the number. You won't have an opportunity to miss anything that will help to put the song over. Think of the difference! in a stage show. The poor fellow who is too far back' does lose a great deal of such a number,"
these
"The Rogue Song." "Learn to relax." This is the ad- vice of one of the loveliest women in
the world, Catherine Dale Owen.
Miss Owen, proclaimed the most beautiful blonde on the stage, who played the heroine opposite Lawrence Tilbett in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
The Rogue Song."
coming to the Queen's Theatre
on Sunday, Says that this is the one great secrets of woman's charm.
"The modern girl" she says, "in- dulges
in out of door sport, gets tanned, sometimes dances all, night, and so is put to for more physical exertion than her mother was.
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HOCKEY.
TEAMS FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
The following will represent the Hongkong Hockey Club second team against Somerset Light Infantry on Monday, at King's Park at 5.10 p.m.:
A. Borrowman, L. A. R. Duncan. 1. F. Nicholson (Captain), H. R. Petre, A. N. Other, M. E. H. G. Milis, H. A. F. Kerrick, S. Fox, S. Wade, W. A. Nowers, E. C. Fincher.
For their match against the Radio Sports at King's Park on Tuesday, at 5 p.m., the Y.M.C.A. will be re- presented by:--F. Atyeo, G. F. Recs, H. Mundy, G. Mitchell, A. N. Other, F A. R. Brown, A. Tate, G. Kearns, R. Ashton, W. H. Smith, T. J. Price,
and John McCormick, producer Miss Moore's pictures.
of
During the war Hickox was chief] photographer in the United States naval air service and upon being discharged turned to movies, where he rose rupidly to the fore.
"Lilac Time" has been called) "The most beautiful romançe", and centres upon two youngsters. One is Jeannine, portrayed by Miss Moore, a little French girl on whose mother's farm a squadron of young British Byers are quartered. The other is! Captain Philip Blythe, a ridiculously youthful pilot in that spectacular) and heroic division, the Royal Flying Corps, played by Gary Cooper.
"Journey's End."
"Bat this perpetual-motion style of living is easy, if she learns one secret --relaxation.
The all-talking, screen version of "Brief
rest periods do it and an "otrney's End," is the attraction at R. C. Sherriff's famous war play. important thing is, when resting, the Certral Theatre beginning to- change to a pair of comfortable house slippers. for the feet stond the day. It is a Tiffany-Gainsborough brunt of it all. On the set, between
production, recorded by R.C.A. scenes, always slip off my regular Photophone, directed by James Whale,
pumps and rest in comfortable soft slippers, and a few minutes between periods under the hot lights works
wonders,
in
Miss Owen plays a Russian princess The new picture, a vivid drama of adventure and love in the Caucasus. directed by Lionel Barrymore. Tib
by George Pearson and enacted by a cast including Colin Clive, David Manners, lan Maclaren, Anthony Bushell, Billy Bevan, Jack Klinger, Robert A'Dair and Charles Pitcairn, Thomas Whiteley, Warner
Gerrard.
"Journey's End" presents a picture bett, greatest living baritone,
one, plays of the France of world war daye. her lover, a swashbuckling singing.It is drawn by a playwright who was bandit chief. He sings a
a number of
in the front line trenches and knew:
The cast includes Wallace
Hal
have
gone
special songs in the big production, exactly what he was picturing. which was filmed entirely in natural The entire action of the play takes colours. Macdonald, Nance O'Neil, Judith place in a dug-out and the 100 yards of No Man's Land that separates the selli, Lionel Belmore, Ullrich British from the German trenches. Burr Melatosh, James Brad- It is March, 1918, before St. Quentin. bury Jr., and others.
Laurel and Hardy.
Many German pushes Roach before a big one is coming soon eunedy team, were
horrowed to The British lieutenants and soldiers) enact a couple of comedy Corsacks, Tibbett's
daredevil of a serving retainers. They Inject Captain, Dennis Stanhope, know that remedy relief with a series of side-
outfit-never Company-their
will splitting interludes.
retreat, and that there are na reinforcements in the rear. The Boche drive, therefore means "Taps" for them.
under a
"Lilac Time." Although he does not appear in a single foot of film, Shiney B. Hickox is one of the unsung heroes of the brilling nir sequence sech ini "Lite Time" First National's big need, now showing at the Majestic Theatre. Kowloon Colleen Manre is starred in the picture with Gray always drinking, getting courage in
or appearing oposite her. Hickox was chief cameraman in
shown in the play. The reaction of The four days before the attack are
the strain on the men is the subject) of the dramu. There is the reckless. yet masterful. Stanhope, drinking,
that way to stay in there and pitch
in in the fos
fashion, that has kept him
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ALEXANDRA BUILDING.
CENSURE FOR PEDESTRIAN.
NEGLIGENT WHILE WALKING.
A rider, censuring a pedestrian
charge
of twenty man that recorded in the front lines longer than any in connexion with the accidental and log fights that make the film is the
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in
DES VOEUX ROAD.
his machine through the negli gence of a pedestrian, expressed the opinion that Elford should be severely censured.
thrown from his motor-cycle after colliding with Thomas Elford, Portsmouth electricity worker,
Punnett, it was stated, was pro-
The coroner, Mr. Leonard War- ceeding very carefully on his ma- ner, said it would always be on chine, and it was alleged that Elford's mind that he had been Elford, not looking where he was the innocent cause of this man's going, walked into the motor death.. cyclist, who was picked up un- conscious suffering from a frac
of the most talked about in second inment. There death of a motor-cyclist, was add- tured akull.
his
-
Pedestrian's Duty.
A good many people, he added, were in the habit of walking across the road without looking to the right or left.
Osborne, his
hied to the verdict of a coroner's the fat and jury at Haslar Hospital, Gospert. history. The intrepid photographer placid Lieuteant Trotter, with
It was as much the duty of e Elford said he did not see Pun- pedestrian, however, to look about earned the respert and admiration of passion for food; the nerve-shaken An inquest was held on First- nett coming. the entire company by his skill and Lieutenant Hibbert: the boyish and Class Petty Officer George William
him when he was crossing the daring. He obtained several screen likeable Raleigh, who has just come
The jury, however, returning a road to avoid colliding with any- thrills that amazed such veterans as over from England: and the cockney Punnett, of the Royal Naval Bar- verdict of accidental death from thing, as it was for a motorist to George Fitzmaurice. the director, cook, Mason.
racks, Portsmouth, who was injuries received when thrown off try and avoid a collision.
COMMENCING QUEEN'S BOOK YOUR SEATS
Lawrence TIBBETT THE ROGUE SONG
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