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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 1932.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS: --

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 scemingly never-ending string of films that come to perpetuate the memory of those black years. Fourteen years after the cessation of hostilities and they seem to be coming' as thick as ever.

WHAT TO SEE

TO-DAY

King's: "Palmy Days."

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

Scyffortitz, C. Henry Gordon and Henry Armetta, popular associate of William Haines in life comedies,

HOTOGRAPHICALLY, The

Ponce Battalion is a gem, and

the cameramen have taken every od- Įvantage of the snowy slopes, gnarled trees and high crags that make up the exterior sequences.

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DEMEMBER Rebecca of Sunny- ԱՆ:

brook Farm in the old silent days, one of the films that gave Mary Pickford her title of the world's sweetheart? It is here in Central: The Doomed Batta modern garb, or should we say in

again, at the King's but now lion."

modern sound, with petite Marian

TO-MORROW:

SUNDAY.

King's: "Rebecca of Sunny

brook Farm.” Queen's: "Maybe it's Love." Majestic: "Suicide Fleet." Talping: "Daddy Longlegs," Oriental: "Merely Mary Ann."

Star:

"Grock."

BRĖŽIARAGING (MRESKOLE LEADING HOBBIES JASTREBINJECTIONNÉ

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

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3 Bring this and draw finally. 8 Present.

9 Nover rely on age; rather miti- gato trouble by using your own brains (hidden).

sionally bother him, there seems to be no reason why he should be mai.

11 This duck's a Chinaman,

12 It's cold in the office 13 but this is as warm as bees

Abuzz.

14 Though in France, you will And

an Englishman here.

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

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An emirent hero who is still but

boy at heart.

The Big Parade was the re puted classic of the silent cru, and the talkies have given us the realism of All Quiet, the Galli-

Nixon in Mary's part, but still with hired to other film companies for patronised it, but many stayed 10 Though head troubles may ocen poli Campaign of Tell England,

all the charm of the original story, many times that amount. Thousands, probably, have read

away. and the lighter side in Half Shot

So when England offered her as

false Again under Kate Douglas Wiggins' simple tale at Sunrise. It would appear

of American small town life, with salary, reputedly of £200 a week, Arbuckle assisted in the direction that all phases of the war have

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

Now ho has been covered and recovered, but

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

ordered out his as simple film and its faithful ad made by the industry in Britain, salvation. Warners

are giving now comes The Doomed Bat

herence to the book and characters, that it can afford to talion, which, in every respects,

engage him another chance. Can he take such highly-valued talent.

it, or is he too old? breaks fresh ground: that it is

THERE could not be a more un- Harry Green, the Hebrew.come- THER not just a repetition of the

sophisticated muiden than dian; Esther Ralston, Basil Rath- TO more stars seems to be ther usual war stuff'should be suf-the village to discover the time Rebecca, even including Judy Ab- bane, George Barrnud, and An- Nim of Hollywood to-day. No ficient recommendation, but that for the explosion and thereby save bott of Daddy Longlegs: there is thony Bushell, are all working more can these darlings of the is only one of the minor features, the battalion. Here is his conflict made that alm for Fox, also held Horn, the German beauty, and that ors, buy their own stories, and say a connexion, for Alfred Santell who happily in England. Camilla gods ride roughshod over direct of mind between desire to see his the megaphone for Rebecca. It is UE at the Central to-morrow, family and sense of duty melo-the same sugary kind of film, with silly-uss" comedian, Claude Allin- what and where and with whom, Da Dot Battalion, is a dramitic stuff, but artistic hand-foto dresses, and ter, are making The Return of they will act Universal studio product, done in ling rises it to a plane higher than babies. Direction is alow and ein Ragtes, and veteran Fred Warners Bros. and First Na the usual Universul lavish ayle, with more false hervies.

ple, which is just as it should be. Kerr will star with Jessie Mat-tional stars will no longer have and it for nothing else. Rebecca thews in The Man from Toronto. any hand in the selection of their Cyril Gardiner director and

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will be welcomed as a relief from Other Hollywood artists now stories or roles," announced J. L. continental cameramen.

in England are Roland Warner, vice-president of these wild west.

Young, George K. Arthur, and companies. Robert Milton. THERE Is nothing

"No future contracts with stars T

will carry Rebecca and in portraying 110 knows "Fatty" Arbuckle have any cholee of stories or roles. provision that they Marian Nixon goes along on trudi- the big-hearted little country girl, Wow Ten years, nge the crashave

Here w

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have a plot of exceptional strength, D. The Dumed Battalion gains Kanpsters and men from the wild bo

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ranker

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set in the snow and crags of the its distinct flavour of being not just Tyrol and showing for the first an ordinary war film. It is the most time on the screen, the Austrian silent.of talking films: dialogue is and Italian phase of the world sparse, and when it does come, It novel is with a strong foreign accent, struggle. The story is a one. There are two friends, an almost broken English. There is lonal lines that have stood the test Chaplin's only rival; 10 weeks ago pression the producer who must Austrían 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 investment in the picture they do not meet in mortal combat staccate of Vickers, but never to sweetheart: wistful looks: plaintive talkies.

should have 100 per cent, sélection on the battle field: they do not nerve-wracking degree. Apart years and the

We must uven conte face to face. The from one or two. typical Universal pulses of the blissfullisticuled im! The idol of every youngster in of the story material.

ignorant. Austrian

in the mob scenes, its simplicity seems She has only to be the same Marian the silent film days is starting all eater to the wants of the public, over again where he began-in and not to the likes and dislikes doomed battalion, Perelied on well in keeping with the quaint Nixon of After To-morrow and short comedy. It is a Vitaphone or individual players."" top of Mount Colalto and holding peasant folk who make up most of amateur Daddy. Ralph Bellamy production, and it will be released up the Italian advance. Below ho the story,

So here, Mr. Tempermantal Star, play the good Dr. Adam Land

endeth the second lesson. The can see his native village where his wife and the child he has not UIS Trenker, who also wrote Six and the blind soldier of The spectacularly. He came from no-linsisted

the scowling gungster of The Scerpt Arbuckle crashed as he lived-banks taught the first, when they on wholesale cuts in seen wait him. The Italian la in

the story, is a perfect stran: Mogwificent Lic. Perhaps the best where, and he went into oblivion. salaries. charge of the troops occupying the ger and so is Tala Birrel. Victor | nefing comes from the unknown After the scandal arising out of a village and slowly tunnelling under Varconi is better known, but apart who plays the athelst, Simpson, girl's death at a party, he was 711Y do some people talk Colaito to lay explosives. There from them, there are no big parts. Mae Marsh as Aunt Miranda is 'forced to leave pictures. He had W" about a second Valentino? is a strong twist to the story Among the minor artistes are the different to the motherly soul of to change his name: he tried to re- Clark Gable is good, but there will

the Austrian steals into.! famikür figures of Gustav von! Over the Hill and Louis

Closer turn under an assumed name, but be only Rudy," said someone the Hale deg Aunt Jane adequately. the women's clubs prevented other day. "I think it is a slur on ONCE England was Hollywood's in the only way he could, by Uh his memory to talk of a second.

when

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

has to

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

step-sister; it received only i Hollywood's discards. Now near-

tertaining. He began

every ship is bringing Ameri-club. Some eas film stars over to make 31 talkie in England. The leader

tum-

of the legion is Gloria Swan- She has her own 01. 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 Perfert Understand- ing. He is Michael Farmer the! wealthy young Irish-American, who followed her from continent to continent to get her to marry: him. And she has Induced Sir Nigel Playfair, the British netor- manager, to make his first flm with hor. For years he has re- fused to appear on the screen.

Then the promising newcomer, Laurence Olivier, seen in The Yellow Ticket, and the American atago and screen favourite, Gene- vlevo Tobin, are both in

Miss Swanson's company.

One of the most prized stars in England to-day is young Ann Dvorak. She

engaged in America at £10 a week; she made an instant success, and her salary was raised to £50, while she was!

WAS

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

of his

However good any actor is, re n night member there's only one Rudolph

co-stars Valentino."

COMING AT LAST-Breaker of long-run records in many parts of the world, "Vionnese Nighta” in booked for_ently showing at the Queen's. Thanes

Vivienne Seiga! and Alexander Gray, who provide the romance and singing of this gay musicomedy.

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I agree. Valentino was not a great actor; he was not oven a very good actor. I saw him in a revival of Tho Sheik a year or so ugo, 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- jed to be dallying with the idea of a talkie version of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with Clark Gable in Valentino's jold role.

Paramount is actually preparing to revive Blood, and Sand. It has Cary Grant, a young English factor, 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. Ing. Valentino's own brother tried, but without success, and Ricardo Cortez nearly ruined his career with this label. George Raft, who appeared in Dancers the Dark and Night World was hailed as the second Valentino, but has come no higher than small

roles.

23 Tore like a bird of brilliant

plumage when upset, 27 Called home by the miller's

daughter.

30 Sticking to it means separating. 29 One particular solver. 31 Pretend that fondness may arise

from it.

32 What the knight of old strove to

do to his opponent at the joust. 33 Corset as a guard.

31 Ecclesiastical Council.

Down

The Wheels of the Law!

1 Many, many pinis. 2 A little simple deduction will be

needful.

She, loved none bat (Marinel,” and eventually, he solaced her for her- 4 - anguish.

John was a young gentleman of small stature who vaingloriously

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claimed extrame rectitude on,

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

7 A hint is all you require.

13 Dismay is shown, and very na- turally, when father went back on a friend.

15 Not at all good in Paris.

10 Victorian novelist.

18 Weary out of the Church of

Scotland.

20 This is bent, and may be taken

for a dear cut.

21 An ingenious and is cold.

22 Simply Infernal.

expediant If the

24 Not so broad as it's long. 26 Likenesses.

26 Turns out.

28 Placed under a pit in a Perth-

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in screen version of that heart touching story "DADDY LONG LEGS."

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