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THE HONGKONG TÈLEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1932.
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
WHAT THERE IS TO SEE
King's: "Amateur Daddy." Queen's: "New Morals for
Old."
Central: "The Lost Squadron" Majestie: "Up For Murder." Star: "Possessed.'
Garden: "After To-morrow." Taiping: "Two Orphans"
(Chinese).
ZWEMKOMUNISTEMOS KOMPETANI JAANANESEN
R
ECENTLY a keen film-goer
said to me. "with all the cinemas that we have in Hong-
kong and Kowloon 'it is a wonder
HONGKONG TO SEE MORE BRITISH
PRODUCTIONS
PROGRESSIVE POLICY OF CENTRAL THEATRE MEANS WELCOME VARIETY OF FILMS
SIX FRENCH · PICTURES TO BE SHOWN HERE
that we cannot get a better scheme of general improvement variety of films here and in and added excellence by studying particular British pictures", and the comforts of their patrons. although of course, it had to be New interior decorations, improv gently explained to him that the ed seating and vastly superior re- thentres in Hongkong had to cording and reproducing appara- pretty well put up with what tus add to the enjoyment of the was sent them and further that audience and is giving the cinema n definite status among our places
the display of British films must of amusement. of necesity be limited because most of the leading cinema
houses were under contract with
feel that the Central Theatre can go still further in their American producing companies, progressive policy. Several people it is welcome news indeed to have expressed to me the de- hear that the Central Theatre, Firability of the. Theatre having a under its new management is more central booking office. The securing early releases of British theatre itself is rather off
rather films and will be giving first runs beaten track meaning a
tiresome ricksha or bus ride to of them in Hongkong.
reach it, and if a booking office HE Theatre, in fact, has an-could be installed in the centre of Tomced an imposing list of
the city it would meet a much felt want.
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first run pictures for showinga in
the
the near future. Among the Bri-THE first offering under the
new management is the RKO-Radio Super, production
(By "CELLULOID")
RENATE MULLER the talented young Gorman actress, who is re- turning in the British film "Sun-
hine Susie" in the near future.
con-
SHOWING SUNDAY
King's: "Charlie Chan's
Chance."
Queen's: "The Wet Pórade.” Central: "Carnival,” Taiping
"Congorilla"
NEXT TUESDAY.
Oriental ""The Yellow Ticket”
that are refreshing? Another writes "Albert Prejean has the fascination of 4 Chevalier with the acting ability of a Frederic March." (High praiso indeed!) "Annabella la a thorough plot has been carefully preserved.
Ty intriguing It is a story about youth and ago,
heroine. She is and their eternal conflict, which "different" from the usual type and resolves itself in a novel and effec acts extremely well. There is in tive way. At the beginning, the the production the beat of silent parents worry so about their chil- technique with dialogue. Conse- dren's welfare that their efforts at quently there is plenty of action control develop into nagging. The and a wide range of settings, with children rebel, and break their na long speech sequences. Songa parents' hearts by going their in- are tuneful and set you humming. dependent ways. But, at the end, They are very well recorded." they themselves have developed веляе of responsibility.
R. Levy expects to show his The Mature here in the near moral, ab atated by the author, in that it does not matter whether future, probably sometime next children rebel against control or week, although the venue has not not. The great thing is that they 'yet been decided on. In case any should start life amid the influences of my renders should be scared be- of a good home. Miss Crews, who cause the dialogue is entirely appears as the mother, plays the French, I might point out there is part very much on the lines of only 26 per cent, dialogue and that She in any case English sub-titlen have Miss Braithwaite in London.
.
is a newcomer to the screen. Born been superimposed. in San Francisco, she has had a dis- tinguished atage career. She bas appeared in New York in such plays an "Ilay Fever" (Judith Bilsa), "The Silver Cord (Mrs. Phelps), and Pirandello's "Right You Are If
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learn with extreme interest of the visit to Hongkong of Mr. E.
Levy with his series of six French
of.
par-
tiah and Dominion output which have been booked are Carniel, with The Lost Squadron, and after view before the camera and the micro. Matheson Lang, who made himself famous both as a stage player and ing it 1 am not surprised that it phone there is always something You Think You Are" (Amalia).
has been showing to splendid to hold one's attention.
Richard as screen actor (in the silent ver
satisfy bia admirers, sion) with his remarkable charac-houses this week. As a spertacu-Dix will
lar entertainment it ranks with although this is not the Bame terisation; Good Night Vica,the beat that the American studios vehicle a Cimaron, and his per which is neclaimed by the London have given the world. Although
formance suffers accordingly. enities to beJack- Brichanan's best it has its weak spots (is it likely Robert Armstrong offers
fitus, for it is the first time we in effort to dile, not excluding his that Allied and German aviators vincing portrayal and Joel MeRea Hongkong have had a chance of delightful performance in Monte fought on November 11, 1918 with have you noticed how much like studying in any form the French Carlo The Blue Danube, with their eyes on wrist watches, bring Col. Lindberg he is?), successfully cinema. We have read much Dorothy Bouchier; the famous and fing down each other in flames alternates between boyishness and their advanced technique popular Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn until 11 a.m. and then packing ap manliness, as his part requires. ticularly under Rene Clair's direc combination In A Night Like This, and bidding one another cheery
ition, and direct contract with and their even greater success farewell?) the picture has
THE exploitation of the brilliant French films, will, I am sure, be
the Thark, and finally The Flag Lieut-tained action to guide it through enant, with I believe, Henry Ed-in none too easy path. The intro-lyn Laye by United Artistes
local film goers. The batch of wards in the part which he ori-duction is neat, driving home very One Heavenly Night, which has
which Mr.. Levy is pictures forcibly the disillusionment which just finished a successful run at have been produced since 1930, by
to show ginated on the stnge.
In this Colony 60 per cent. of the war heroes auf- the King's Theatre, can be
reLa Societe den Film Ono, and TTERE we are beginning to get fered upon their return home 'garded na fairly successful, have been acclaimed by London and the cream of the homeside from France and the other war although I don't think the silver American critics as being of out- productions, which will not only zones, whilst it also assists in screen improves the delightful standing merit. Among the noted delight the pro-British film-fan, sustaining the central theme of Mas Laye. Nevertheless there French screen players who appear but will give the eritids a better the story-the, unbreakable bond was certain charm, about
the in them are Annabella and Albert chance of obtaining an idea of the of comradeship of men who have picture which robbed any of the Prejean, Madame Jane Marnac and real progress of the English lived, suffered and laughed to-indifferent phases of their
thence. John Boles still suggests Two
in Muratore, the tenor of Paris Opera, studios, of which, although
we gether..
London critics write en- -have beard much, we have as yet,
self-consciouness in his acting, thusfantically
concerning theso
H
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had little chance to appreciate. THE
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director of a film
Bus.
goes
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THE effort to illustrate how a but his magnificent voice atones players. One mays "I should like for anything In this direction. to see Albert Prejean in a British visit to the Central Theatro hout his work is not so impres leon Errol walked off with most fam Exploited properly, be this week satisfied me that sive, although Erich Von Stoholm beinet har sa drell comedian wonid, i think; be the "hero rake" not only have the management makes as a good a jeh of it at his best. done the Hongkong public a good anybody could, and
better than turn by securing films of a high most. This great aetor-director grade, but they have carried this is magnificent, and whilst be
JIMMY Durante na the muff wearing prohibition agent and Myrna Loy as the cabaret proprietros in a scene from "The Wat Parade", which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.
Is
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of the year. This is the sort of jstarring material we want." I must ENTAL acrobats and reactions confess to a weakness for these. French pictures, There is a galety are remarkably well ex about their atmosphere and a ten- Prased in New Murels for Old, derness about their love stories which is now showing af The Queen's Theatre, and Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer have certainly made an efficient job of van Dru- ten's atory. Although the dialogue has been freely adapted and trans- posed, the new version is
con- sistent, and some of the added passages introduce pleasantly sparkling humour. The film has been directed by Charles Brabin. It is direction with a lively sym- athy and observation behind it: so that episodes, which, in other hands, would seem long drawn- cut and over-acted, always retain a feeling of sincerity Mr. Bra- bi excels in drawing from juctors the feeling of tense, uneom- ortable repression; so that the audience Saares with them the dreadful strain under which they reveal to ong another the emotion- at storms which lie beneath the plagid surface of their personali- N. The interview between the mother and her daughter, who has just brought hor flance to the house for the frat timo, is a mas- terly study of repressed enereles, The general plan of van Druten's
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
YE
OLDE ENGLISH
FAIRE.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH
GROUNDS, KOWLOON:
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 5th, 3 P.M.
KING'S THEATRE.
COMMENCING SUNDAY, 6th NOV.
CHARLIE CHAN'S CHANCE
Alder
IL A
OLAND KIRKLAND WARNER
-PUX PICTURE
BACK AGAIN-Jeanette Mardoquld and Maurice Chevalier have teamed up again and will be seen together in Hongkong shortly in their latest production "Love Me To Night"
On Poodle's Trail!
I A
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
Across Boon-dissolved
Parliament provides an Inadequate supply of food (two words). Address that Chinese as "plain Fu" (anag.).
10 Another easy anagram:. Lest
fur.
1 An ojaculation. 12 Uplift.
13 fo's a good fellow, though he
does show a queer spirit. 14 Lots of women still liko to neo themselves in this unfashionable material.
17 Pledge.
10 Stick to it and get the present. 21 When considering these aira
don't overlook the French one,
22 Whal Archimedes might have said-and will: good reason—. had he solved this clue.
24 A blow that's turned back. 24 Fitly describen the Anagram-
inatie beverage for a hot day. 20 Always room at the top. 31 Our armies swere terribly in Flanders,' cried my Uncle Toby
but nothing to this. For my own part, I could not have heart to-ny dug so)" ("Tri- stram Shandy").
32 As the Californian said
when
naked what ho did with ao inuchy fruit "Oh, we eat all we--and -all we can't,"
33 Negative' pole.
34 These must be made in the Pro-
fit and Logs account,
35 Fainly fragant, for fustidious feminine finery (two words).
Down
Not a very lucrative calling. Plunder..
4 Huo.
6 Foe.
6 Well, my pet, a local lotion will soon set that right (hidden).
난다
Spread, over with a 4. 8 "P.S. pin cols, Sir," though it's dimcult on this account (onag-). DA fine quality for success
life is made by cutting.
14 Hidden in Clus 6,
16 Seema rather 4
16
in
second-rate score for the winner: the others must have been fearful shots! Stato
differently.
18 Doesn't sound too, well--almont
pale, in fact,
20 Stop! before the hoax is fully
discovered.
23 'oes round, or get at in another
way.
25 The little sister is bot in her
checky ways, and will continue So, I LOST.
27 A rise in which you will have
Bound agreement.
28 Groups of animals having com.
mon charactoristics In general. 30 Stuck-in an apple pudding, 31 What a thore in some of these clues that delights a fisherman?
Yesterday's Solution.
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À FURE OF URBE AR TOP RHONE R EASTONS PADDY
FSFORCE E RT8 INGRATLINE S
WAKEFIELD
Castrol
XL
MOTOR QIL
The chosen lubri- cant for tests on land, sea and in
the air
Oil
„Wakefield
Castrol
Motor
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FRECKLES'
DOG, POODLE,
WAS PICKED UP BY THE
DOG CATCHER.
SO FRECKLES RACED TO THE
DOG POUND,
ONLY TO FIND THAT POODLE
HAD
BEEN SOLD!!
IT'S TOO BAD IT HAPPENED THIS WAY, BUT YOU KNOW, ALL OUR, DOGS ARE FOR SALE TO ANYONE WHO WILL
BUY THEM.....
I KNOW, BUT WHAT I WANT TO KNOW 15: WHO BOUGHT POODLE? CANT YOU FIND OUT FOR ME--
GUESS MAYBE I CAN... LET'S LOOK THROUGH THE FILE- OUGHT TO BE RIGHT NEAR THE TOP HERE.....OH, YES, HERE IT IS!! SOLD FOR: FNE DOLLARS,
TOO!
FIVE DOLLARS! YOU SOLD MY DOG FOR THẬT Z WHY ONE OF HER. TUB NAILS IS WORTH MORE THAN
"THAT!! ANHO
BOUGHT HER?
THERE'S THE CARD.....YOU CAN TAKE IT... A MR, DITMAR..... NEVER HEARD THE NAMG BEFORE, BUT
ED TELLS ME HE WAS
AWFUL ANXIOUS TO GET
"THE DOG "
CAM
DITMAR?
CHOW
ARTALM
SOLO
I NEVER HEARD
THE NAME BEFORE,EMER.... BUT POP'LL KNOW «ILL ASIC HIM. BUYIN" MY DOG. FOR FIVE DOLLARS....
I'LL SHOW 'EM U
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