THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1932.
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
HAROLD LLOYD RETURNS
IN RIOT OF FUN
AT KING'S
SOCCER FEATURED IN NOVARRO COLLEGE ROMANCE
HOLLYWOOD'S COMING FILMS,
NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID.”
W sented
WHEN Movie Crazy is pre-, to carry un ordina picturo to at tho King's success. There is the sequence Theatre to-morrow it will be wel- where the unfortunate farold. in- comed not only as the best vited to a magnificent reception comedy that Harold Lloyd has and danco, turns the whole place confusion of rabbits.
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SHOWS TO SEE
TO-DAY.
Queen's: "Transgression." King's: "The Vanishing Fron- tor."
Central: "What Price Holly: wood?"
Majestic: "Caught Plastered." Star: "Our Modern Maidens." World: "Four Infantrymen." Oriental: "Oh, for a Man.”
TO-MORROW.
King's: "Movie Crazy.”
SUNDAY.
Central: "Scandal for Sale.” Queen's: "Huddle." Majestic: "Night World." Oriental: "Resurrection."
Star: "Sin of Madelon Claudet:"
It has been nearly a your since Harold Llyod's last film was screened here. His latest, "Movie Craxy," comes to the King's to-
morrow. Constance Cummings plays opposite.
which filmgoer. In fact. I may truth happier roles before, and Swede, But Garbo go home now," Spain, He is also acting as gen
fully say that Moric Crazy in a
made, but also as one of the out chickens, and mice because, inŁOKININKING standing talking-picture comedies error, he has put on a magician's we have yet had from Holly-coat. There is the episode of the larship to Yale, who fights the wood.
his best to ontrival him and the doing The Moak of Fu Manchu and film test, and there is the great anobbery of the patrician SODA and glorious Aght which is the 'with plebeian weapons, and whose rest of the staff rear and rush and The Invisible Man
Everywhere Hollywood, is sot. PERHAPS
DERHAPS College Days and climax of the picture. Filmgoers rough-house football technique is add to the confualun and bedlam.
to looked on with an unfriendly eyes. There are the usual neat touches ting to work in the biggest scale three, Only his to it in one's memories of the decide which of these
room mate Pidge re-and fargon that will bring smiles known for the past three years. 350 films in which Harold Lloyd episodes is the best.
mains loyal to him, ever believing to the faces of newspaperaien but Fifty-four pictures were finished has appeared in the past 15
in the line spirit that lies beneath which will be Greek to the layman, one week in September.
Ronald Colman is preparing to years, but certainly he has never S usual in Harold Lloyd the awarthy skin and shabby hat., and the happy ending comes in
editor portray his first dual role in the film version of the The Masquera,, hitherto done such
comedica there in a hand-At Inst through atormy passages the form of the yellow excellent,
by with Cupid and a hard fight to rushing off with the wife he has der, so well known in America and work as he does in Movie Crazy.plcked supporting cast, led
In almost all his pictures be- Constance Cummings, whose only win the wealthy girl he loves, nearly lost to start the American Australia, played by Guy Baten Post. Elisan Landi will play the fore this one the spectator was competitor in the list of Lloyd's against all the opposition of her equivalent of The Times. entertained by the excellence and lealux Indies in Bebe Daniels, people, he makes good on the fool- the precision of the material Louise Closser Hale, Robert Mc-ball field, acoring Yale's only gon! TOLLYWOOD is behind the leading feminine role.
times 7-never1
CIDNEY Franklin, the only rather than by Lloyd himself. In Wade, Kenneth Thomson, Sidney against Harvard whilst he is
The flowers have scarcely wither-i this story of
American in history to Alm-struck youth Jarvie, and Eddie Fetherstone are tortured with the pangs of appen- he is the whole show. The sit-included in a brilliant company dicitis, and wins his degree just ed on Ivar Kreuger but Warner tions are absurdly laughable in of players. And, as always in as he realises how dear to him Bros, are bringing out The Match become famous as a professional
nearly larold Lloyd's work, there is no-is the Alma Mater.
King, dealing with the spectacular bullfighter, plays an important role themselves, and they are
Cantor screen suicide'n career. Greta Garbo was in the new Eddle all brandnew, but their greatest thing to offend the most sensitive
★TOVARRO has been seen in offered a role in it being a slater music comedy, The Kid From charm is the manner, in Lloyd puts them over
talking picture to which children since ffuddle is not so much a com-
so Lily Damita has the part. War-eral technical advisor, Austrailan may safely take their parents.
pact story in the accepted sense, ren William, will take the title role. theatre-goers will be interested in Sign of the Cross is an old the film as the big cast includes as the epitome of a college career. OVERS of Roman Novarro will he has little opportunity to weave fashioned-melodrama, but it won't Phyllis du Barry, popular soubrette never been seen with such adorn be well catered for in Huddle. that web of colourful personality be when Cecil Blount de Mille has of revues who is also appearing ment as Lloyd puta upon it. There due at the Queen's on Sunday, which is his forte. Nevertheless inished with it. Already he has with Ronald Colman in Cynara.
the ancient Roman equivalent of Movie Crazy, but three episodes this time in plebeinn costume na a one Italian love song to guitar ac the crowds round the arena; the
laughter every flm
mercurial
"Choklit" boys wandering AL Jolsun will present at out as cach being outficient workman's son who wins a schol-companiment, practising his none women in the crowd complain that que in his melodious comedy, ten- too delicate wiles on his woman the seats are none too good; and, tatively titled Happy Go Lucky. It folk, suffering in silence and scoring Yale's only goal against best of all he has had posters put is called "photographic music," odda he ie sure to retain his hold out to advertise the feeding of meaning that every song and lyric Christians to the lions. In the pro-will be an essential part of, the on the legions of feminine fets duction to-day are Fredric March, story, and not just dragged in to that are his Inalienable property. Claudette Colbert, Charles Laugh give Jolson a chance to sing. The A cheerful foil to his romantic ton (English artist), Elissa Landi, famous Broadway composer- being is John Arledge who Tony'a mate plays the loyal and Ian Keith. There aro coliseums, lyricist team of Richard Rodgers Roman banquets, milk baths, and and Leonez Hart, who wrote tho brother through good and evil thousands of extras.
song numbers for the picture, are Ralph Graves 06 the stalwart] It is a day of all-star casts. Nino 'credited with originating the new college conch is probably the big names are advertised for idea. deeyrest and most winning of the Forty-second Street. Among them Incidentally, the picture boasts other characters, whilst Henry are Warren William, Kay Francis, an assemblage of comedians the Armetta portrays Old Amatto and Joan Blondell, George Brent, and like of which isn't been seen in Madge Evans supplies ocular Ruby Keeler.
one picture in years. Besides Jol- fascination as the clusive daugh- ter of a rich father.
THE Iden of a film-struck youth blundering into Hollywood
has been seen before, but it has
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WHO ARE THEY?-Three guesses. Not Mary Carr and Lionel Barrymore, nor even Alica Joyce and Hobart Bosworth, but Norma 3bestor and Clark Gable as they appour, their hair greyed, in the elder roles of "Strange Interlude," a coming, attraction.
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Hume- thing new in musical techni-
Then there's Prosperity still in son, the cast includes Harry Long- the cutting room. Marie Dressler |don, Chester Conlin, Roland and Polly Moran are making it. Young, Vincent Barnett,
Heina Colleen Moore is back on the Conklin, Tammany Young. Victor in Flesh, in a "stark Potel and Bert Roach. On tho screen
are Madge reultam" role, opposite Wallace feminine side, there
Evans, Bodil Rosing and Dorothea Beery and Ricardo Cortez.
Jean Harlow is making Red Dust, Wolbere, all comediennes. Chester with Clark Gable and Gene Ray-Erskin, noted Broadway producer, the voices of the college choir is mond. Boris Karloff (the eerie tel-directed under the supervision of amusingly handled. The excite-low who played Frankenstein) is Lewis Milestone,
NE episode will raise a horde of laughs; the spectacle of the drunken Tony being removed in a washing basket from the pavillon, his cries drowned neath
ment of the football game---vigor-
ously directed stuff this--will be Intensified by the fact that Yale plays British Soccer.
IN A well-regulated city like Hongkong, it is hard to imagine that newapaper revelling in the washing of dirty linen such as The Conict exist, but once that premise is swallowed, Scandal for Sale, the Sunday attraction at the Central, becomes almost con- vincing. But even then, the hectic newspaper rush depicted as well as in any other newspaper story, is [apt to verge on the ludicrous, as it did in Szumial Shret a year or so back. But it is good entertain- ment and alick direction
at its best.
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EVERYTHING In Scandal for Sale
rushes along at the breakneck |speed of a sub-editorial room going to press, Charles Bickford fills hta mighty lungs and roars as the Editor-in-Chief: Pat O'Brien does
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
ROMANTIC NOVARRO „managos to play the lovor, although the plot of "Huddle," due at the Quesos on Sunday, deals with soccer as
played in American universities.
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WELL, NOW WE HAVE POODLE ALL CRATED AND READY TO TAKE TO THE
DEPOT... I'LL PUT
THE ADDRESS
ON!!
'hi
YOU BETTER PUT THE ADDRESS ON FRONT,"TOO-
DID YOU SAY YOU'RE
TAKIN' POODLE TO THE DEPOT,
FRECKLES?
YEP! WE'LL PUT HER ON.
THE TRAIN AN' SHE'LL
BE ON HER WAY TO CASABA!!
BUT WHO IS GOING
TO PAY
FOR IT
?
{GEE,OSSIE! I NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF THAT.... IT COSTS MONEY
TO SHIP FREIGHT DOESN'T.
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OF COURSE! How COULD YOU BE SO DUMB? LET ME
SEE IF I CAN THINK OF SOME WAY TO DO IT
FREE OF
CHARGE, POR NUTHIN'!!
SURE! THEY TAKE EXPRESS C.O.D.-WE'LL SHIP HER AS EXPRESS.....
„MIGHT AS WELL-
DO IT RIGHT!!
CALA
I GOTTA HAND IT TO YOU, OSCAR-GEE... HARRY WILL BE GLAD TO PAY
FOR IT, WHEN HE KONIS HE'S GETTIN'
POODLE BACK
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