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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932.

CINEMA “SHOTS” AND “SEQUENCES”

"THE DOOMED

BATTALION" TOUCHES MANY NEW NOTES IN WAR FILMS.

"REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM" RETAINS CHARM OF WIDELY READ NOVEL.

NOTES "AND COMMENTS BY “CELLULOID"

ONE of the most seldom

considered legacies of the European war is the seemingly never-ending string of films that come to perpetuate the memory of those black years. Fourteen years after the cessation of hostilitics and they seem to be coming as thick as ever.

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repetition of the

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WHAT TO SEE

TO-DAY

King's: "Palmy Dayu."

Queen's: "Happy Endings." Central: "Caught Plastered." Oriental: "The Yellow Ticket." Taiping: "Follow Through.” Star: "Disraeli." Majestic: "Congorilla."

| Seyfertitz, C. Henry Gordon and Henry Armetta, popular associate of William Haines in his comedies,

HOTOGRAPHICALLY,

Tho

PDoomed Battalion in a gem, and

the cameramen have taken every ad

of vantage tho Bnowy slopes, gnarled trees and high crags that make up the exterior sequences,

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EMEMBER Rebecca of Sunniƒ- brook Farm in the old silent days, one of the flims that gave of the Mary Pickford her title world's sweetheart? It is here again, at the King's but now Central: "The Doomed Balta modern garb, or should we say, in

lion."

TO.MORROW.

SUNDAY,

King's: "Rebecen of Sunny

brook Farm.'

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in

MAYBE IT 197-James Hall and Joan Banett in the Warner Brothers film, "Maybe it's Love?" due at the Queen's on Sunday,

away.

read

So when Englund offered her a

It is

DIRECTION IS perhaps were will be welcomed as a relief from

Can

veteran

Fred

falno name

are

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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3 Bring this and draw finally. & Present.

9 Never rely on age; rather miti- gate trouble by using your own braina (hidden)

10 Though head troubles may coca- Bionally bother him, there seeme to be no reason why he should be mai.

bees

Il Thin duck's a Chinaman. 12 It's cold in the office- 13 but this is an warm as

Abuzz. 14 Though in France, you will find

an Englishman here.

17 Roof covering of which Tun- bridge Wells contains some well- known specimens.

in eminent hero who is still but

n boy heart,

Tore like a bird of brilliant

plumage when upset.

27 Called bente by the miller's

anughter.

29 One particular solver.

Sticking to it means separating. Pretend that fondness may arise

from it.

12 What the knight of old strove to

de to his opponent at the joust.

The Big Parade was the re- puted classic of the silent era, and the talkies have given us the

modern sound, with petite Marian

but many stayed Nixon in Mary's part, but still with hired to other film companies for patronised it, realism of All Quiet, the Galli-

all the charm of the original story, many times that amount.

under a Again poli Campaign of Teil England,

Thousands, probably have and the lighter side in Half Shot

Kate Douglas Wiggins simple tale of American small town life, with salary, reputedly of £200 a week, Arbuckle assisted in the direction at Sunrise. It would appear! Queen's: "Maybe it's Love."

its lovable characters, and thou little Ann Dvorak came. This in of several feature comedies.

Now he has ordered out his that all phases of the war have Majestic: "Sulelde Fleet,"

sands more will relish this equally itself is significant of the gaina

giving been covered and recovered, but Taiping: "Daddy Longlegs,"

as simple Bim and its faithful l-made by the industry in Britain, salvation. Warners

afford to

Can he take Oriental: "Merely Mary Ann."herence to the book and characters, that it

engage him another chance. now comes The Dommed Bat-

Star: "Grock."

such highly-valued talent.

lit, or is he too old? tulion, which, in every respects,

TWERE could not be a more un- Harry Green, the Hebrew.come- breaks fresh ground: that it is:

TO more stars seems to be the sophisticated maiden thanjdian; Esther Ralston, Basil Rath-

An- Naim of Hollywued tu-day. No 19 not just a usual war stuff should be suf-the village to discover the time Rebecca, even including Judy Abane, George Barraud, and ficient recommendation, but that for the explosion and thereby save bolt of Daddy Longlegs: there is thony Bushell. are all working more can these darlings of the

in England. Camilla gods ride roughshod over direct-23 Here is his conflicta connexion, for Alfred Suntall who happily is only one of the minor features, the battalion.

the bat between desire to see his nude that Bim for Fox, also held Horn, the German beauty, and that ors, buy their own stories, and say

the megaphone for Rebenea, of daty: melo- the same sugary kind of film, with "ailly-ass" comedian, Claude Allis- what and where and with whom UE at the Central to-morrow, family and sense DUE

Warners Bros. and First Na-30 The Doomed Battalion, is a dramatic stuff, but artistic hand lots of hay, print dresses and ter, are making The Return of they will act.

Direction is slow and sim- Raffles, and the Universal studio product, done in ing rises it to a plane higher than babies,

ple, which is just as it should be. Kerr will star with Jessie Mat- tional stars will no longer have Rebecca thews in The Man from Toronto, any hand in the selection of their the usual Universal hvish ayle, with more false heroics.

and if for nothing else.

artists now stories or roles," announced J. I. Other Hollywood director and Cyril Gardiner

England Are husy in

Roland Warner, vice-president of these continental cameramen. Here we

The Boomed Battalion gains gangsters and men from the wild wild

west.. have a plot of exceptional strength

Young, George K.

companies. Robert Milton.

"No future contracts with stars set in the snow and crags of the its distinct flavour of being not just

nothing new is THERE Tyrol and showing for the first an ordinary war film. It is the most

will carry a provision that they time on the screen, the Austrian silent of taiking films: dialogue is

Rebecca and in portraying

now? Ten years ago he wasWe believe that in this diny of de- and Italian phase of the world sparse, and when it does come. It the big-hearted littir country Xirl. Wo knows "Fatty" Arbuckle have any choice of stories or roles.

novels with a strong foreign accent, Marinn Nixon goes along on trudi- struggle. The story is a

There are two friends, almost broken English. There is tional lines that have stood the test Chaplin's only rival; 10 weeks ago pression the producer who must Austrian and an Italian.No. the rumble of big guns and, the of time from the days of the world's he was told he could come back to make the investnient in the picture should have 100 per cent, selection they do not meet in mortal combat staccate of Vickers, but never to sweetheart: wistful looks: plaintive talkies.

Apart yours and the unsophisticated in The idol of every youngster in of the story material. We must on the battle field: they do, not nerve-wracking degree.

ignorant. the silent film days is starting all eater to the wants of the public, The from one or two typical Universal pulses of the blissfully even come face to face.

the mob scenes, its simplicity seems She has only to be the same Marian over again where he began-in and not to the likes and dislikes Austrian is n ranker irt

well in keeping with the quaint Nixon of After To-morrow and short comedy. It is a Vitaphone of individual players." "doomed battalion," perched on

So here, Mr. Tempermaotal.Star, top of Mount Colalto and holding peasant folk who make up most of Amateur Daddy, Ralph Bellamy production, and it will be released

has to play the good Dr. Adam Land

endeth the second lesson. The the Italian advance. Delow be the story.

and it is hard to associate him with early in the new season.

Arbuckle crashed as he lived-banks taught the first, when they

wholesale cuts the scowling gangster of The Secret nee his native village where

Siz and the blind soldier of The spectacularly. He came from no-insisted Ronnificent Lie. Perhaps the best where, and he went into oblivion. faalarles. # acting comes from the unknown After the scandal arising out of a

some Simpson. girl's death at a party, he was ZHY do who plays the atheist

WXbout a second Valentino? Mue Marsh as Aunt Miranda is forced to leave pictures. He had different to the motherly out of to change his name; he tried to re- Clark Gable is good, but there will Over the Hill and Louis Closer turn under an assumed same, but be only Rudy" said someone the adequately. the women's clubs prevented it. other day. I think it is a slur on NCE England was Hollywood'. Then he tried to earn his living his memory to talk

step-sister; it received only in the only way he could, by cn However good any actor is, re- ป night member there's only one Rudolph

one.

up

CAT

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his wife and the child he has not UIS Trenker, who also wrote seen wait him. The Italian is in the story, is a perfect stran

Vletar charge of the troops occupying the ger and so is Tala Birrel. village and slowly tunnelling under Varconi is better known, but apart big parts. Colalto to Iny explosives. There from them, there are is a strong twist to the story Among the minor artistes are the

Austrian sicals into familiar figures

when

the

of Gustav von

LATEST SCREEN SWEETHEART-Marion Mixon, who is specializing in sugary roles these days. She is Rebecca of the widely known "Rabecca of Sunnybrook Farm," coming to the King's on Sunday.

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Arthur.

and

on

Hollywood's discards. Now near-tertaining. He began

of his co-stars Valentino.".

ly every ship is bringing Ameri-club. Some can film stars over to make

talkie in England.

son.

The leader

(of the legion is Gloria Swan- She has her OWI com- pany in Ealing (England) now, making Perfect Understanding, On her British talkie she is bringing to bear all the dynamic force and amazing energy that have characterised her work since she became a star.

Her new husband will appear! with her in Perfect Understand- ing. He is Michael Farmer the Irish-American, wealthy young

who followed her from continent. to continent to get her to marry induced Sir him. And she has Nigel Playfair, the British actor- manager, to make his first Rim with her. For years he has re- fused to appear on the screen.

Then the promising newcomer, in The Laurence Olivier, seen Yellow Ticket, and the American stage and screen favourite, Gene- Miss vieve Tobin, Are both in Swanson's company.

One of the most prized stars in England to-day I young Ann Dvorak. She WIS engaged in Amerien at £10 a week; she made an instant success, and her salary was raised to £50, while she was

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

COMING AT LAST-Breaker of long-run records in many parts of the world. "Vianness Nights" is booked for early showing at the Virienne These ВГО Queen's. Seigel and Alexander Gray, who pravida the romance and singing of this gay musicomedy,

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people talk

of a second.

I agree.

Valentino was not a great actor: ho was not even a very good nctor. I saw him in revival of The Sheik a year or so jago, and young people round me tittered. But he brought glamour to the screen--and I think he took It away with him when he died.

Metro-Goldwin-Mayer is report-

ed to be dallying with the iden of A talkie version of The Four Horsemen

the Apocalypse, with Clark Gable in Valentino's jold role.

Paramount is actually preparing to revive Blood and Sund. It has Cary Grant, a young English actor, in Rudolph's old part, And that is not all. Fox has signed Henri Carat in Paris-because its executive, Winfield Sechan, believes that he is a second Valen- tino.

Ever since Valentino died there has been "another Valentino" com- own brother ing. Valentino's

and SUCCCBA, tried, but without Ricardo Cortez nearly ruined his career with this label. George Raft, who appeared in Dancera in the Darke and Night World wis hailed as the second Valentino, but has come no higher than small

roles.

3 Corset as a guard.

31 Ecclesiastical Couneli.

Down

The Wheels of the Law!

1 Many, many plats.

A Kitle simple deduction will be needful,

3 She, "loved none but Marinel," and eventually, he solneed her for her

4 --Anguish.

6 John was a young gentleman of small stature who vaingloriously

claimed

extreme rectitudo

on

very insufficient evidence. May Adam cut short be a great part of the Empire.

A hint is all you require.

18. Dlamay la shown, and very no

turally, when father went bacic

friend.

on a

18 Not at all good in Paris.

18 Victorian movellet.

18 Weary out of the Church of

Scotland.

20 This in bont, and may be taken

for a dear cut.

21 An ingenious and is cold.

22 Simply infernal.

expedient if the

124. Nat so brond as it's long.

25 Likenesses.

20 Turns out,

28 Pinced under a pit in a Porth-

skire village near Blair Athole. Yesterday's Solution.

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