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COMMENCING SUN., 18th SEPT.

AT THE KING'S.

Jack BUCHANAN

in

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

BALLANTINE'S

AN OLD

FAVOURITE

OF UNQUESTIONABLE PURITY.

ALWAYS THE SAME.

Challantines

PURN SCOTCH

ESQUECER WEESKY

10 YEARS OLD

10 YEARS OLD

-EVERY DROP

OF IT!

OBTAINABLE AT

THE FRENCH STORE

99, Queen's Road Central Near. Central Market

and at

All Leading Wine Doalers.

.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

"BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK"-Inlmitable Rebort Montgomery gives another very convincing and charm- ing performance in this latest picture of his which comes to

the Queen's Theatre on Sun- day. Starred with him is Nora Cregor newcomer to the American screen, who

brilliant Witty and sophisticated, the film is in adaption of Ivar Novello's play "The Truth Game".

ScorG

J

Success.

POOR TECHNIQUE.

BUCHANAN OBLITERATED BY MOTHER-LOVE SEQUENCES

“MAN OF MAYFAIR” SPOILT

ABY 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, vétéran. Behind scenes and studies. His use of sound all their exuberance, precocity and effects in the early sequences demons-

or

in

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

Across

1 A coroner'a verdict.

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

trated once again what a perfectars however, the hand of the modlum of expression they can be director is always in evidence, and When a Feller Needs a Friend, much more perfect than spoken lines. Used in their correct form they pos- was no exception. Incidentally the acas a wealth of data which spoken man with the megaphone in this FTER the brilliant success tor is so intent upon "putting aerosa" dialogue, unless allied to perfect ex- M.G.M. film was Harry Pollard, the Af the British-Paramount the mother-leve interest tit starts in pression on the part of the speaker, Australian stock play

a Mayfair drawing room and works can never give. Of the players there "Snub" Pollard, Inter scored in the to little need say anything. in their production of Reserved ups to a terrific crescendo in a village is

of cinema for Ladies, one hardly expected ten house), that Jack Buchanan, com- Charles Ruggies and Roland Young early knockabout Hollywood slap

full scope for their talents, new in the way them to fall down so badly as lule with nong, voles, feqt that were given studies which allowed stick. Although it gave us nothing

dance, lips that form one of the most them they do in their second offering appealing smiles on the screen, and whilst Lily Damita was delightful photograph, When a Feller Needs to Hongkong audiences which a couple of interesting situations, is 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 rausing the production: superfluities eliminated, 10 You have probably caten part of takes the form of Man of May-completely lost.

each sequence with a telling point. this German scientist. prestige of Hollywood. I Frankly

dis- am fair.

and the moments of pathos and 12 Country of America. appointed in the picture. Care-

burlesque cut down to the bare 14 King of architecture. less direction ruins the work of JNFORTUNATELY, the defects in EPIGRAMMATICAL ROBERT,

atory presentation and character such capable players as Jack

studies azo not relieved by good looks as though Robert Montgo- necessary length. From an enter- 16 Bond..

English. Twice bad, cut- mery, having discovered his tainment angle, it was thorough- 16 Foreign direction is skilful in Buchanan, Joan Barry and War- cinema technique.

19 "The lunatic, the-and the poet wick Ward, whilst a surfeit ting ruins two scenes, and although niche as a purveyor of sophisticat-ly satisfying.

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

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

is lost in the succeeding sequences den of his load. He is given a

bo May

masculine or a feminine start. lerates the few intervals of gay which are drawn out to insufferable typical part in the latest picture of there was one thing that ap 23-

lengths. One feels the need of

the 25 How about this for a Saint of Frank Tuttle's hand with his extra-his to come to Hongkong. But the

olden days. ordinary creation of atmosphere in Flesh is Weak, which opens a season at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday. WH

WHEN I started to compare theme talks his way out of delicate and indelicate situations, throws in gay, happy-go-lucky and charm- ing Jack Buchanan of Monte Carlo THE CINEMAS TO-DAY his disarming smile here and there, and generally speaking gives a per- with the irresolute, haggard-looking,

formance guaranteed to amuse the disinterested Buchanan of Man of

men and captivate the women. The Mayfair I found myself forced to

version of search for the reason for this con-

picture is the screen analy tradiction. The most the director.

Ivor Novello's stage play The ais sends one back to the

Truth Game, the story of which of Erast Those delightful touches

Kives a somewhat false impression Lubitsch in what was probably one

Many of his greatest pictures

Garden "Fifty Fathoms Deep" of the British aristocracy.

screen of Mayfair. missing in Mun

nction and laughable lines.

CONTRADICTION

laughing, dancing

Gre The and debonair Jack

is submerged beneath a series of quasi-comedy, cum melodramatic cam philosophie sequences. The

film

King'a

"Careless Lady."

Queen's

Central

Majestic

Oriental

"Night Court." "Caught Cheating." ."Dracula."

"Wings."

"CHIC" SALES."

appealed to me more than Jackle

it was Cooper's "acting,"

SUNDAY'S SHOWS

King's "Man of Mayfair." Queen's "The Flesh is Wenk." Majestic "Spy." Orientál "Caught."

theNENDATA ANAL CONSENTO

will declare that the new find, Nora Gregor, capturea honours, whereas Montgomery'a nd- STACASAirers will probably.claim that it masterly display of "Chic" Sales, In an artist whom radio brought to very the limelight. Hollywood publicity Buchanan an entirely new por- This is the Night. Photography can is his greatest work to date. gives sonality and nut 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 are 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 situatione fection, and, thank heaven! not even fading, whilst in the opening scene, handled with quite the same effect. nowhere near the three-score-year- the and-ten of the Uncle Jonas he play- an incompetent director and ridicu-

drowning amplified, loun dialogue can r9o the "Best dress the very heavy work of the orchestra The entertainment value of

the picture, that is of the transient ed in the film. Many of his gags ed man in London" of this peculiarity, actors' dunlogue and creating an antype, cannot be denied. It offers and much of his business, was of The Freat disappointment of Man of

of noying Mayfair is

it in a film of tremen- comes to the King's Theatre on Sun-a splendid way of passing an idle the pre-Spanish war variety, but dous possibilities, of which advantage day next. You will certainly find it hour.

the

too

distraction.

picture

is never taken. The story 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 in it, 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 at the King's Theatro.

INGENIOUS TUTTLE.

JACKIE'S HISTRIONICS.

his scasoned playing was the necessary ingredient to offset the plethora of juvenile fooling and pathos, as few films exist on their

n

28 Town of France famous for its

Roman ruins.

20 Goal.

32 Northern school.

33 Arrest buttons to a halt.

34 Kind of book that has its out-

side.

35 Part of your car.

Down

1 Though here is dearth it shows

wealth from the earth.

2 Plea that has often saved

П

criminal from his deserts.

3 Early German artist.

4 A

A word of this nature often pro..

sents a dimculty to the

old-

fogey" solver.

at its end.

Some simple song with a pause

7 Irish politician.

8 Toilet work; or is it the claim

WATER LEVELS.

1

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

The following table issued by THe past week also presented us childish sentiment alone, and Ralph

with another opportunity of Graves and Dorothy Peterson, as the Kwangtang River Conservancy wero rather too Commission shows the height of viewing the histrionics of the latest the parents,

adult water in English feet on the dates Hollywood prodigy, Jackie Cooper, colourless to provide the 0F F 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 Rivera: part of this week. In many respects mles infant prodigy, there is no ing. The past years reveal a host Infant prodigies, a film of outstanding merit, it beast-deception about the age of the of Hollwood ed, apart from the interesting study child actors from Hollywood, and Freckles Barry, Baby Peggy and it made in cinema technique, the ach they come and go in a never-ending Jackie Coogan, and where are they

ing really

Echo is still auswering. lovement of being entertain- atroam, portraying the whole gamut now? ing and amusing. Frank Tuttle, its emcient

and not unimaginative direc- tor, I obviously 21 disciple of Lubitsch

and furthermore this film proves that he tee of Inaterial as definitely has a flair that so suce type exploited by the

for the same

པ་

inimitable German producer.

But

in the Night was the first out-

ding picture made by Tuttle, His

work such as Love Among the Millionaires, Sweetie, and others, which have been seen in Hongkong, were very ordinary in type and could not be regarded as serlous attempts to express modern cinematic art.

CLEVER SOUND EFFECTS. WHERE Tuttle scored such a suc

cess 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- our use of sound. In this respect he borrowed some of Chaplin's ideas as expressed in City Lights, and we saw the same principle applied, with equal success in Sunshine Susie. It throw the audience into a spirit of gaiety

"NIGHT COURT”—Anita Pago and Phillip Holmes are here: soon as they appear in "Night Court", an M-G-M production now

showing at the Queen's Theatre.

Hlabest on Lowest. Bept.

record, on record. 14

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0

0

14.4

18.0

10.9

West River at Norter at

North River at

Bambul +27,3 ~-5.0 East River at

Bheklung +10.6*8.6.

7.3

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.

of a quack?

11 Tukey's appendage may bo 3

hurdle.

18 Necessary constituent of

eclair.

ди

17 "Dame's cane" (anag.); sounds

like unnecessary advice to dramatic critic.

18 One of the feline family.

20 Time that is this

called dull.

121 Lively.

#

connot bo

24 It is paradoxically true that.

luck comes into golf in this... 26 French resort.

27 A feature of most walnut furni-

turo.

20 Molo.

81 Mediterranean island.

Yesterday's Solution.

BS NO TAST [COUNTERPART HIN AEWA U MAYS BHEASTPLATE N E ADUKT JOD MEDUC MSU ERA UY EXCERPT MANAGER TELL TALI

REPRESS BENEFIT OEAEMUT FE

FAC PAGAN OR 8 CHOTTISCHE LEAD

10

C SPEEDOMETER PEYE YRH

Reducing treatments at least make purses slender.

It was intimated that the Rev. C. H. Hickling would be concluding his ministry at Union Church In a serious 1912. Hongkong suffered shoringe of rice, owing to Boeda destroying the crops in Kwang- tung.

The annual report of the Douglam* Steamship Co. showed a balance st A servants' registration and em- profit of credit and loss account of ployment agency was opened by over 353,000. A dividend of 5 per Messrs. L. C. Fame, and Co cent. was proposed.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

It Takes Patience!

By Blosser

TEA SETS, COFFEE SETS,

CUPS AND SAUCERS

AT

G'WAN! YOU CAN'T TEACH A DOG TO OPEN AL

DOOR BY TURNING THE DOOR. KNOB!!

JUST WATCH MIG !!

POODLE IS SMART SHOUGH TO KNOW WHAT I WANT HER.

“TO DO

MRST I HAVE ·POODLE WATCH ME TURN THE DOOR KNOB - THEN ILL HOLD HER MOUTH'

UP TO THE KŇOB AND TURN THE KNOB SAME MORE-AND OPEN THE DOOR

SHE FINALLY, YOU JUST TOOK HOLD OF-WAITINI få "balar

IT ALL ALONE, DIDN'T SHE?

THAT WAS -SWELL

BOB GO IN

THE OTHER ROOM AND

I'LL CALL

"P HER...

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

ON DOOR KNOB...

·COME ON, POODLE !!

WHAT DO I.TULK YOU!! MOST DOES WOULD "TAKE ABOUT

"TUJO WEEDS TO

LEARN TIUKT, BUT

·POODLES.

·DIFFEUINT":

Bay! Z WONDER

-IA WILLIES- KIEW MATCH DOG COULD -LEARN ANY TRICKS

IS WILLIE'S WATCH DOIS

SMART

15 UG. WHOS

HEAR A FUNNY NOIDE AT NIGHT,

BARK!!

KOMOR & KOMOR'S

Chater Road.

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