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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.

CINEMA “SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

ROMANTIC VIENNA

AS BACKGROUND FOR COMING FILMS

AROUND

WHAT TO SEE

TO-DAY.

Central: ""Good Night Vienna:" Queen's:

Kid"

"Young

Donovan'

King's: "Life Goes On♫

Star: "Brown Sugar." Majestic: "Laughter,"

Taiping: "Delicious."

Oriental: "One Hour With You"

TO-MORROW.

Taiping: "Over the Hill."

SUNDAY.

NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID"

pre-war Vienna can populace showed pecuilar dir-l there is a romantic atmos-ference of opinion. phere of beer gardens and dreamy waltzes of which nove-TTS INGREDIENTS are lilting! tunes, glorious voices, maa- lists and film writers have neversed bands, love lyrics,

n little failed to take advantage, and two theatres are this week offer-humour and gay scenes done in an improved technicolour. Although ing u8 entertainment built written direct for the,screen, it is against a background of military purely a stage extravaganza of the regalia, vivacious girls and the Student Prince type, except that carefree life that appeared to an unlimited screen gives a mob subordinate everything else in of a thousand where the days when Vienna was monarchy. At the Central to-irritating waita while a couple of Vivienne Selgai. Bort Roach and day begins the British Inter-comedians gag in front of a cur Louise Fazenda provide what little national production, Good Night tain to enable the scene shifters to

prepare the next

King's: "Lady and Gent." Queen's: "Viennese Nights." Star: "Susan Lenox." Oriental: "Trader Horn."

the #tage gives a hundred, and there are noERKEZÆRØNNEJUNERIE:CINIMEGUTHERN ZONAMIRNOTZAN

elaborate ket. Vienna, with Jack Buchanan, But in plot, it has the usual de- and the Queen's will run Vien- fects: hackayed theme to give some nese Nights, a Warner Brothers' reason for the vocal outbursts. Cinemetagraphically, it is simply extravaganza, on Sunday.

ntage production photographed.

humour there is.

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LTHOUGH equally as fascin- ating, the tunes of Good different Night Vienna are of mould. The song of the same name

BOT

W X7HERE the plot does leave sung idea that Vienna was a city

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Two favourites in Richard Dlx and Jackis Cooper provide the interest in "Young Donovan's Kid," now at the Queen's

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character and theme, there is en-lish artiste, a mighty "lootenant" that of Viennese Nights and The Champ and the others, but married and a credit to the village:

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is written to a tango tempo and feminine. Elsie Randolph is the THE TITLE attraction at the King's on Sunday, Lady and In typical Jack Buchanan weak link: there are flashes

with merit in her work but other shots Gent, is to be taken ironically, for OTH productions convey the

Puff Rogors when we first meet style affording a contrast however the beaten track

her singing at one of New York's inhabited entirely by humble sold- lers and flower girls with grand is that the hero does not marry the the robust outbursts of Viennese are not even in amateur class.

harmony heraine: that is left to their rea-Nights. Here again we have beer the gardens aplenty, tilltary uniforms

TILM producers must satisfy all shadier night clubs is anything but opera voices raised in

Buchanan's ro-

tastes, and doubtless that a lady and the abbreviated form of without provocation: where the pective grand-children for sald inhabitanta lived solely on story covers 50 years and wanders and gay nights.

to why Jackie Cooper is allowed to f1 gentleman is more suitable than the schnitzel and foaming tankarda, from Vienna to New York and mance with the lower girl in shat- and their existence nothing but a back again. Alexander Gray, ntered by the war; he returns

and anguish, In Young Donovan's passes, so do the lights of Broad- combination of the two. Be that newcomer with pleasing appear-find himself minus his wealth and talking picture theatres with his full for Slugg Ralley, a boxor, who ance and robust singing voice, the girl at the top of the concert shrill cries of boyish exuberance as seen better days; but, as time Kid now at the Queen's, he displays way fade and the end of the film Is it may; the impression la pleasing one, and although the two humble drummer in the Emperor's singer tree.

In which they live. DLOT is even more flimsy than the same trembling upper lip as in sees Puff and Slagg respectably productions differ in treatment, army, and Walter Pidgeon, Eng- tertainment enough for those who are rivals for the hand of Vivienne

cobbler, relies entirely on two catchy tunes Fred Niblo has given him more Who has wrought this astonish- te, ne length of celluloid. A trifle incon-ing change? No other than the of couple

opening little orphaned child of Slagg's require only a catchy tune or two Seigal, daughter of

Jean Hersholt with social aspira-and

is his usual self, Bistent too, for in and colourful acones.

with military shots, Niblo launches on to these friend, who tions. He wrecks love's young Buchanan

the although garbed

of Quick picious reader may say to himself, 467IENNESE NIGHTS" has in dreams and girt marries

this, then, is another of those films "Vits invour that it comes from patrician. The drummer malgrates epaulettes most of the lime, but brief vignettes and rapid black-outs when, who was shot by the police the pens of Sigismund Romberg to America where he has a nag- has few opportunities to display that were the feature

and a job in a pickle the Buchanan wit that has made filions. It is a technique

Flappers who have a secret passion are busy performing sentimental and Oscar Hammerstein, the Ame-xing wife rican musician and librettist whe factory. The same eternal trian-him the London light comedy mirably suited to gongater flims in which the hands of little children jalthough the existence of the small jumped into the picture with)gle arises between the grand-favourite. Anna Neagle lifts up a

иге perfect underworld tale.

Ted la undoubtedly the pivot of the Desert Song, Student Prince. New children, but this time there is no tuneful, if low, soprano opposite for Richard Dix will revel in this miracles; but the answer is that,

stage mistake. Moon and a host of other

believe all the plot, the film as a whole is quick Written direct- musical romances.

WELTER of catchy tunes) DMITTEDLY Herbert Wilcox, I ballyhoo shovelled out of Holly moving and sophisticated to a de- that promise to send an

the megaphone, wood, there is a huge army of film ree. who held a chequered carcer: in Australia it

rush 10 gramophone in almighty "flopped" in some cities, but

alshops, is the redeeming feature. had a hard task in making Good sub-ellitors there, who concentrate Sydney, although intended us

triile worn and Night Vienna interesting, for the their erudition and general know- stop-gap, eventually run for more The Alm is a

and anachronisms than six months, shattering Al sounds suffers consequently, but action of the plot is never fast and ledge on making filme fool-proof, Jolson's Jazz Singer record. Lon- it cannot wholly conceal the first furlous, but the slow tempo that and to advise directors for

Gray and scema unable to be detached from avoidance of don received it well, but the Ameri-class renderinga. by

musical romance, is accentuated foolish mistakes. Either the blue- by trite platitudes and an exasperat-pencillers are falling down on their ing it in the action while the jobs or the directors are placing: obvious happens. Comparison amall regard on the observation of with Buchanan's Hollywood film, the kesk-eyed public, for few films Fante Carlo cannot be overlooked, can pass the critical eye without and one sighs for a Lubitsch touch some slight error being detected. of delicate satire. The latter half moves along breezier than the opening shots. How mortifying. as Jimmy Durante would say: first impressions are never more per Imanent than in cinema.

ly for talking screen It has had

Walter Pidgeon and Vivienne Seigel featured in the gay musical ramence, "Viennese Nights," duo at the Queen's on Sunday.

him, and the rest strangera,

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The crop of films showing this week is particularly rich. In Young Douvan's Kid, Burpliced and casnocked Jackie Cooper Is seen (and heard,) carolling gaily o Sankey and Moody tune in n church choir of boy sopranos. Very nice Catholic NOTHER regrettable aspect too, only it happens to be

of British flims is that they Church. But Amerien may be the in the world where seem to be following the apparent only place Hollywood campaign

the Catholic services are different. propagation of the idea that the!

for

And then a shot of the crowd

Englishman is essentially a silly leaving the church portals shows

one girl without a hat!

CAN HE COME BACK-Rokcom (Fatty") Arbuckle, Chaplin's only ago, who is to make a film acon. rival as a screen comedian 15 years

#croca CATOOF.

ss. The remark comes after

Jack Buchanan in Good Night i visit to Life Goes On, current fen-

style of jazz ture at the King's. I was looking Vienna sings in a forward to seeing some more of that was unknown in pre-war days, of an the accompaniment Hugh Wakefield, after his breezy to playing of Lord Grenham in orchestra including steel guitar Scandal sounded the knall of his

guitar with utcci Aren't We All? and was disap and Spanish

adjunct to an

Wynne Gibson as Puff Rogers pointed at the role allotted him strings. As an

has been sets the pace, and her achievement The book, "Sorry You've Troubl-orchestra, the guitar

in ultering a succession of "wise- ed" from which the film was taken, added only in recent years.

Perlod pictures always contain cracks"-there is no English word may have portrayed "Diny" Ems- worth as a Wodehousian English pitfalls and three films either show which can quite catch the texture man, in which case I commend the ing or expected put the clock back of Puff's conversation-as though film makers for not changing the some years. A close scrutiny is not he were a woman with a mind and character, but the painting of always possible but Jack Buchanan feelings, and not an automaton wise man as a buffoon is regret takes a tailed cont out of nearly 20 well coached in America's latest table. Of course, had Emsworth years of mothballs and it is the dictionary of slang, is remarkable. not displayed arrested mentality elegant modern cut of the typical George Bancroft admirably sug- but done the obvious things, there Buchanan, and while the gangsters' rests the peculiar blend of stupi- would have been no story, which is ladies of Young Donovan's Kid ap-dity, shrewdness, and good-nature ally in a point for consideration. Jack pear in what we are led to believe which is Slagg, and the acting in Raymond's treatment of the my were a la mode in 1914, the males general finds a valuable

themselves in up-to-the Stephen Robert's swift, imagina- stery plot is an advance, and the sport

tive directing which catches the Australian artiste, Belty Stock-minute kit mostly.

But maskee that anyway. Who film's many moments of effective field, seems one of the few English film players who can compete in was it that said "The Play's the comedy and, as it were, holds them

He was right after all. up to the light. appearance with the Hollywood Thing?"

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HARRY

REDFIELD'S (LETTER FROM

CASABA, ARIZONA,

EXPRESSING

HOW

LONESOME

HE WAS

FOR HIS OLD

DOG, HAS

TOUCHED FRECKLES

WEAK. SPOT...~

GEE! I WISH THAT

HARRY HADNT SENT

THAT LETTER... BUT, BY

RIGHTS, POODLE IS

HARRY'S DOS... I'VE MADE UP MY

MIND!!

WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU

DECIDED TO DO. FRECKLES

I'M GOING TO SEND POODLE TO HARRY OUT IN ARIZONA.... YEP! AS MUCH AS I HATE TO LOSE

HER!

THAT'S RIGHT, FRECKLES! YOU'RE ALL RIGHT! I BET HE MISSES HER

JUST LIKE A

SISTER!!

AW, BUT LOOK HOW THEY LIKE EACH OTHER, WILL YA!! GEE, DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU OUGHTA GIVE POODLE BACK?

Blo

RKG U. & PAT.OFF.

© 1992 NT NLA SERVICE, THE.

NOW, WHY DID YOU GO AN' SAY THAT? L FEEL BAD ENOUSH, TH' WAY IT IS... NOW

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!

Is FRECKLES BEGINNING

סר

WEAKEN?

HE WANTS TO DO THE RIGHT THING

WHAT WOULD YOU

DO?

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