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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

SEPTEMBER 16, 1932.

MENCING SUN., 18th SEPT. AT THE KING'S.

Jack

BUCHANAN

$6

in

17

MAN of.. MAYFAIR

with Joan Barry Warwick Ward

With Jack Buchanan as a fascinating Prince Charming, with adorable Joan Barry as a modern Cinderella. It's laughable, lovable, and entertaining all through!

•

▲ Paramount

BRITISH PRODUCTION.

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• OF UNQUESTIONABLE

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-EVERY DROP

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99, Queen's Road Central

Near Central Market

and at All Loading Wine Dealers.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

"BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK"-Inimitable Robert Montgomery givan another very convincing and charm. Ing performance in this intent picture of his which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Sun. in day. Starred with him Norn Gregor a newcomer to the American scroon, who

• brilliant SCOTOR Witty and sophisticated, the film is in adaption of Ivor Novella's play "The Truth Game".

success.

BUCHANAN OBLITERATED BY MOTHER-LOVE

*SEQUENCES

“MAN OF MAYFAIR” SPOILT BY BAD DIRECTING

FILM OF LOST POSSIBILITIES

NOTES AND NEWS BY "CELLULOID”

providing the required stimulus for of children, emotions with the full appreciation of the subsequent naturalness of a veteran., Behind scenes and studies. His use of sound all their exuberance, precocity and effects in the early sequences demons: tears however, the hand of trated once again what a perfect director is always in evidence, and

bo medium of expression they can

FTER the brilliant success tor is so intent upon "putting across" A of the British Paramount the mather-love intercat starts in in their production of Reserveda Mayfair drawing room and works

ups to a terrifle crescendo in a village is little need to for Ladics, one hardly expected tea house), that Jack Buchanan, con- them to fall down so badly as plete with song, voice, fect that dance, lips that form one of the most they do in their second offering appealing smiles on the Bercen, and to Hongkong audiences which a couple of interesting situations, is takes the form of Man of May completely lust. fair.

dis- Frankly I Am appointed in the picture. Care-

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POOR TECHNIQUE.

tho

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

16 117

118

Астова

1 A coroner's verdict.

Sounds like a drink, but if it is It is only a small one. 9 Fowls of foreign origin.

much more perfect than spoken lines. When a Feller Needs a Friend, Used in their correct form they par was no exception. Incidentally the acas a wealth of detad which spoken man with the megaphone in this dialogue, unless allied to perfect ex- M.G.M. film was Harry Follard, the pression on the part of the speaker, Australian

say anything. can never give. Of the players there "Snub" Pollard; Inter scored in the Charles Ruggles and Roland Young early knockabout Hollywood slap full scope for their talents, new in the way of cinema or were given studies which allowed atlek. Although it gave us nothing them whilst Lily Damita was delightful photograph, When a Feller Necda In From every viewpoint the picture a Friend was an outstanding ex- was a remarkably fine achievement ample of American slickness and goes along way in rating the production: superfluities eliminated, 10 You have probably caton part of

the German scientist. each sequence with a telling point, prestige of Hollywood.

and the moments of pathos and 12 Country of America. burlesque cut down to the bare 14 King of architecture. less direction ruins the work of INFORTUNATELY, the defects in EPIGRAMMATICAL ROBERT,

story presentation and character

looks as though Robert Montgo-necessary length. From an enter-10 Bond. such capable players as Jacki

English. mery, having discovered his tainment angle, it was thorough- 16 Foreign direction in skliful in Buchanan, Joan Barry and War-tulies are not rolloved by good cinema technique. Twice bad eut

19 The lunatic, the and the poet

are of Imagination all compact", wick Ward, whilst a surfeit ting ruins two scenes, and although niche as a purveyor of sophisticat-ly satisfying.

("Midsummer Night's Dream"). of "mother-love" philosophy at the opening there is an attempted wit and epigrammatical dialogue,

22 Poison. (which in itself is trite) obli- to infuse a rhythm in the cutting, it is doomed forever to bear the bur

May is lost in the succeeding sequenceu

bo A masculine or feminine start. terates the few intervals of gay which are drawn out to insufferable den of his load. He is given a lengths. One feels the need of typical part in the latest picture of action and laughable lines.

Frank Tuttle's hand with his extra- his to come to. Hongkong, But the ordinary eroation of atmosphere in Flesh is Wenk, which opens a season at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday He talks his way out of delicate and indelicate situations, throws in

W

sis

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CONTRADICTION

THEN I started to compare the gay happy-go-lucky and charm-

his

20

are The

of

King's

"Careless Lady."

"Night Court."

"Dracula." "Wings."

and generally speaking gives a per- formance guaranteed to amuse the men and captivate the women. The picturé is the screen version of

screen

"CHIC" SALES."

appealed to me more than Jackie there was one thing that ap it WAB the Cooper's "acting,"

SUNDAY'S SHOWS

King's "Man of Mayfair." Queen's "The Flesh is Weak." Majestic "Spy." Oriental "Caught."

ing Jack Buchanan of Monte Carlo THE CINEMAS TO-DAY his disarming smile here and there, with the irresolute, haggard-looking, disinterested Buchanan of Man of to Mayfair I found myself forced search for the reason for this con-

Queen's analy- tradiction. The moat the director.

Central "Caught Cheating."Ivor Novello's stage play The one back to the Bends

Truth Game, the story of which Majestic of Ernst Those delightful touches

Oriental

gives a somewhat false impression Lublloch in what was probably one! of

pictures Kreatest

Garden "Fifty Fathoms Deep" of the British aristocracy. Many

will declare that the new missing in Afan of Mayfair.

the a laughing, dancing and debonnig Jack

And, Nora Gregor, captures is submerged beneath

series

honours, whereas Montgomery's ud- quasi-comedy cum raclodramatic EUTANASZKYMUCH EASY

mirers will probably claim that it masterly display of "Chic" Sales, In an artist whom radlo brought ta cum philosophic sequences. The fla

very the limelight. Hollywood publicity gives Buchanan an entirely new per- This in the Night. Photography can is his greatest work to date. sonality and not a flattering one at be marked down as good, but the many respects it compares that. The only affiliation between

sound is a most uncertain factor and favourably with Private Lives, puts his age down at anything from not 20 to 40, but whatever it is, it is the two is the actor's sartorial per- numbers of lines are lost through though the situations are fection, and, thank heaven! not even fading, whilst in the opening scene, handled with quite the same effect. nowhere near the three-score-year- an incompetent director and ridicu-

heavy work of the orchestra The entertainment value of the and-ten of the Uncle Jonas he play- laus dialogue can rob the "Best dress-

is far too amplified, drowning the sel man in London" of this peculiarity, actors' dualogue and creating an unpicture, that is of the transient ed in the film. Many of his gags

of Afan noying distraction. The

type, cannot be denied. It offers and much of his business was of his seasoned playing was the Mgufair is that it is a film of tremen- comics to the action rite picture to spend way of passing an idle the pre-Spanish war variety, but necessary ingredient to offset the plethora of juvenile fooling... and pathos, as few films exist on their

disappointment

the very

dous possibilities, of which advantage day next. You will certainly find it hour. is never taken. The atory is light entertaining, and, had it been direct- and entertaining, there are at leasted by Lubitsch, would undoubtedly three clever and positively witty have been a really fine picture. See lines, and excellent opportunity is, anyhow. given by the author for some amus-

ing character studies. But the direc

"CARELESS LADY”—Starring, John Boles and Joan Bennett, which is now showing st the King's Theatra.

OF

**

INGENIOUS TUTTLE.

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JACKIE'S HISTRIONICS.

childish sentiment alone, and Ralph

25 How about this for n Saint of

olden days.

28 Town of France famous for its

Roman rains. Goal.

20

32 Northern school.

33 Arrest buttons to a halt.

34 Kind of book that has its out-

nile. 36 Part of your car.

Down

Though here is dearth it shows wealth from the carth.

2 Plea that has often saved

criminal from his deserta..

3 Early German artist.

2

4 A word of this nature often pre-

sents a difficulty to the

fogey" solver.

Hold

6 Some simple song with a pauso

at its end.

7 Irish politician.

8 Toilet work; or is it the claim

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

The following table issued by

Tile past week also presented as

with another opportunity of Graves and Dorothy Peterson, as the Kwangtung River Conservancy too Commission shows, the height of parents. were rather viewing the histrionies of the latest the

adult water in English feat on the dates Hollywood prodigy, Jackie Cooper, colourless to provide the an entirely different calibre was in When a Feller Needs a Friend, mature touch. Incidentally, Jackie named in the West, North and This is the Night, which held' sway at the King's during the first at the Queen's. Unlike Mr. Crom-Cooper's career should be interest-East Rivers: part of this week. In many respects males infant prodigy, there is no ing. The past years reveal a host

Hollwood infant prodigies, West River at a film of outstanding merit, it bonst-deception about the age of the of ed, apart from the interesting study child actors from Hollywood, and Freckles Barry, Baby Peggy and North user at it made in cinema technique, the nch they come and go in a never-ending Jackie Coogan, and where are they

Echo is still answering. fevement of being really entertain-stream, portraying the whole gamut now? Ing and amusing, Frank Tuttle, its

efficient and not vaimaginative direc-

to

of

But

is obviously

a disciple Lubitsch, and furthermore this film proves that he definitely has a flair for the same

type of material as that so successfully exploited by the inimitable German producer. This in the Night was the first but- standing picture made by Tulle. His early work such as Love Amang the Alililonaires, Sweetie, and others, which have been seen in Hongkong, were very ordinary in type and could not be regarded as serious attempts to express modern cinematic art.

CLEVER SOUND EFFECTS. HERE Tattle scored such a suc

ces in This is the Night was his quick recognition of the necessity of creating an atmosphere and rhythm by short sharp shots and the ingeni nus use of sound. In this respect he borrowed some of Chaplin's Ideas expressed in City Lights, and we saw the same principle applied, with equal success in Sunshina Susie. It throw the audience into a spirit of gaiety

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"NIGHT COURT”—Anita Page and Phillip Holmes are bere soon as they appear in "Night Court", an M-G-M production now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

Highest on Lowest Bapt..

Sept.

receant, on record. 14 Shiching 41.7 Tinguen. -45.7 North River at

15

0

14,4

19.0

0

10.9

9.1

Samshul+27.5-6.3 Exit River at

#heklung

..+18.5

2.8

1.2

7.8

21 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES

The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended September 16th 1911.

The rate of the dollar on demand was 18. 9.

180

of a quack?

11 Tukey's appendage may bơ ༣

hurdle.

13 Necessary constituent of

eclair.

un

17 "Damo's cano" (anag); sounds like unnecessary advice to dramatic critic.

18 One of the feline family.

ย

民

20 Time that is this cannot be

called dull.

21 Lively.

24 It is paradoxically true that

luck comes into golf in this. French resort.

26

27 A feature of most walnut furni-

turo.

80 Mole.

:

31 Mediterranean island.

Yesterday's Bolution.

BAS NOT AST I COUNTERPART EN "ADE WA O MAYS BREASTPLATE NE D MEDUC M-80-ERATI Y

EXCERPT TEM

MANAGER EATI KEPRESS BENEFIT TFY

C

PAGAN

EMU 31

OR SCHUTTISCHE

LEAD VETY E

SPEEDOMETER

PEY EH

Reducing treatments at least

⚫ make purses slender.

It was intimated that the Rev. C. H. Hickling would be concluding his ministry at Union Churchi

Hongkong suffered A serious 1912. shortage of rice, owing to floods destroying the crops in Kwang- từng

The annual report of the Douglas Steamship Co. showed a balance at A servants' registration and cm-profit of credit and loss account of was opened by over $53,000. · A dividend of 5 per ployment agency

cent. was proposed. Messrs. L. C. Fame and Co.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

It Takes Patience!

By Blosser

TEA SETS, COFFEE SETS,

CUPS AND SAUCERS

AT

G'VIAN! YOU CAN'T TEACH A DOG TO OPEN A DOOR BY TURNING

THE DOOR KNOB!!

JUST WATCH ME!

POODLE IS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT I WANT HER. TO DO...

FIRST I HAVE POODLE WATCH ME TURN THE DOOR KNOB ~ THEN I'LL HOLD HER MOUTH

UP TO THE KNOB AND TURN THE KNOB SOME

MORE-AND

OPEN THE DOOR

SHE FINALLY

YOU JUST TOOK HOLD OFS/VAIT..ANELL IT ALL ALONE, BOTH SO IN THE OTHER DIDN'T SHE?

ROOM AND THAT WAS

I'LL CALL ASWALL

"TO HER.

COME ON, POOPLE.. OPEN THE DOOR... COME

ON... DOOR KNOB...

COME ON, ..POODLE !!

WHAT DID 2 TELL. YOU!! MOST DOES WOULD TAKE ABOUT

TWO WEEKS TO LEARN THAT, BUT

Poopla DIFFERENT

Boy! I WONDER IP WILLIES NEW WATCH DOB COULD LEARN ANY

TRICKS

IS WILLIE'S WATCH DOS

SMART

IS HOT WHY SAY!! IF YOU HEAR A FUNNY

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