THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1932.
CINEMA “SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES”
HAROLD LLOYD RETURNS
IN RIOT OF FUN
AT KING'S
SHOWS TO SEE
TO-DAY.
Queen's: “Transgression." King's: "The Vanishing Fron- tier,"
Central: "What Price Holly-
SOCCER FEATURED IN NOVARRO wood?"
COLLEGE ROMANCE
HOLLYWOOD'S COMING FILMS.
NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID."
W1
In almost all his pictures be-
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all randnew, but their greatest lmgoer. In fact. I may truth- chim in the mauner in which
vd puts them over.
fully say that Moric Crazy is a
Majcatie: "Caught Plastered." Star: "Our Modern Maidens." World: "Four Infantrymen." Oriental: "Oh, for a Mon."
TO-MORROW,
King's: "Movie Crazy,"
SUNDAY.
Central: "Scandal for Sale," Queen's: "Huddle.”
Majestic: "Night World.” Oriental: "Resurrection."
Star: "Sin of Madelon Claudet,"i
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It has been nearly a year since Harold Llyod's last film was screened here. His latest, "Meris Crazy," comes to the King's to-
morrow. Constance Cummings playa opposite.
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THEN Movie Crazy is pre-, to, carrý an ordinary picture to sented at the King's success. There is the sequence Theatre to-morrow it will be wel- where the unfortunato Harold, in- comed not only as the beat vited to a magnificent reception comedy that Harold Lloyd has and dance, turns the whole place Into ( confusion of rabbits. made, but also as one of the out- chickens, and mice because, in 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 arship to Yale, who fights tho wood,
film test, and there is the great anobbery of the patrician sous his best to cutrival kim and the doing The Mask of Fu Manchu and and glorious fight which in the with plebeian weapons, and whose rest of the staff roar and rush and The Invisible Man. PERHAPS
ERHAPS College Days and climax of the picture. Filmgoers rough-house football technique is add to the confusion and bedlam. Everywhere Hollywood, is set- Grandma's Boy come nearest may fight among themselves to locked on with an unfriendly eyes. There are the usual nent touthes ting to work in the biggest scale to it in one's memories of the decide which of these three Only his room mate Pidge re- and Jargon that will bring srilles known for the past three years. wore flalehed 350 films in which Harold Lloyd episodes is the best.
mains loyal to him, over believing to the faces of newspapermen but Fifty-four pictures. has appeared in the past 15
in the fine spirit that lies beneath which will be Greek to the layun, one werk in September.
Ronald Colman is preparing to usual in Harold Lloyd the swarthy skin and shabby hat, and the happy ending comel in years, but certainly he has never AS hitherto done such excellent comedies there Is a hand- At last through stormy passages the form of the yellow editor portray his first dual role in the work as he does in Movie Crazy picked suppornnings, whose only win the wealthy girl he loves, nearly lost to start the Ameritan der, so well known in America and by with Cupid and a hard fight to rushing off with the wife he has film version of the The Manquera. Australia, played by Guy Batos fore this one the spectator was competitor in the list of Lloyd's against all the opposition of her equivalent of The Times. !
Ting indien la Behe Daniela.poople, he makes good on the foot-
Post. Elissa Landi will play the the precision of the material Louise Closser Hale, Robert Me-ball feld, scoring Yale's only goal TOLLYWOOD is behind 'the leading feminine role. rather than by Lloyd himself. In Wade, Kenneth Thomson, Sidney against Harvard whilst heH
times?-never{
QIDNEY Franklin, the only this ator of a film-struck youthJarvis, and Eddie Fetherstone are tortured with the pangs of appen- The flowers have scarcely wither. S
jincluded in brilliant company dieltie, and wins his degree just ed on Ivar Kreuger but Warner
American in history to ho is the whole show. The situs- tions are absurdly laughable in of layers. And, as always In as he realises how dear to him Bros. are bringing out The Match become famous as a professional themelves, and they are nently Harold, Lloyd's work, there is no-is the Alma Mater.
King, dealing with the spectacular bullfighter, plays an important role thing offend the most sensitive
suicide's career. Greta Garbo was in the new Eddic Cantor screen TOVARRO has been seen in offered a role in it being a sister music comedy. The Kid From talking picture to which children since idle is not so much a com-so Lily Damita has the part. War-eral technical advisor. Australian THE idea, of a film-struck youth may safely take their parents.
pact story in the accepted sense, ren William, will take the title role. theatre-goers will be interested in blundering into Hollywood
old-the film as the big cast includes as the epitome of a college career,
Sign of the Cross is on ag been seen before, but it has 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 bas of revues who is also appearing mont as Lloyd nuts upon it. There due at the Queen's on Sunday, which is his forte. Nevertheless finished with it. Already he has with Ronald Colman in Cynara. is laughter in every film frame of The mercurial Novarro in garbed speaking with an accent, ainging the ancient Roman equivalent of L Jolson will present some- Movie Crazy, but three episodes this time in plebeian costume as a one Italian love song to guitar ac-Choklit" boys wandering through atand out as each being suihielendworkman's son who wins a schol-companiment, practising his none the crowds round the arena; the thing new in musical techni- too delicate wiles on his woman- the seats are none too good; and. tatively titled Happy Go Lucky. It women in the crowd complain that que in his melodious comedy, ten- folk, suffering in silence and scoring Yale's only goal against best of all he has had posters put is called "photographic music." odds he is sure to retain his hold out to advertise the feeding of meaning that every song and lyric on the legions of feminine fane Christians to the lions. In the pro-will be an essential part of the that are his inalionable property. Claudette Colbert, Charles Laugh-give Jolson a chance to sing. The duction to-day are Fredric March, story, and not just dragged in to A cheerful fail to his romantic ton (English artist), Elleen Landl, famous Broadway being in John Arledge who Tony's mate plays the loyal and Ian Keith. There are coliseums, lyricist team of Richard Rodgers lova Roman banquets, milik baths, and and Leonez Hart, who wrote the brother through good and
thousands of extras. Ralph Graves Де
song numbers for the pleture, are stalwart the
It is a day of all-star caster Nine credited with originating the new college coach in probably the big names are Advertised for iden. deepest and most winning of the Forty-second Street. Among them Incidentally, the picture boasts othor characters, whilst Honry are Warren William. Kay Francis, an assemblage of comedions the Armetta portrays Old Amatto and Joan Blondell, George Brent, and like of which hasn't been seen in Madgo Evang supplies ocular Ruby Keeler. fascination as the elusive daugh- Then there's Prosperity still in son, the cast includes Harry Lang
Jone picture in years. Besides Jol- ter of a rich father.
the cutting room. Marie Dressler (don, Chester Conklin, Roland and Polly Moran are making it. Young. Vincent Barnett, Heine NE episode will raise a harde
Colleen Moore is back on the Conldiu, Tammany Young. Victor
in Flesh, in a gcreen
"stark Potel and Bert Roach. On the of laughs; the spectacle of the drunken Tony being removed Beery and Ricardo Cortez.
realism" role, opposite Wallace feminine side, there aro Madge in a washing basket from the
Evans, Bodil Rosing and Dorothea Jean Harlow is making Red Dust, Wolbere, all comediennes. Chester pavilion, his cries drowned neath with Clark Gable and Gene Ray- Erskin, noted Broadway producer,
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WHO ARE THEY?--Thres guesses. Not Mary Carr and Lionel Barrymore, mor oven Alica Joyce and Hobart Bosworth, but Norma Svarer and Clark Gablo as they appear, thole hair groyed, in the older roles of "Strange. Interlado,” a coming attraction.
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composer-
the volees of the college choir famond. Boris Karloff (the eerie fel-directed under the supervision of amusingly handled. The excite- ment of the football game-vigor low who played Frankenstein) is Lewis Milestone.
ously directed stuff this-will be Intensified by the fact that Yale playa British Soccer.
TN A well-regulated city like
Hongkong, it is hard to imagine that newspaper revelling in the washing of dirty linen such as The Comet exist, but once that promise is swallowed, Scandal for Sale, the Sunday attraction at the Central, becomes almost con- vincing. But even then, the heetle newspaper rush depicted as well (as in any other newspaper story, is npt to verge on the ludicrous, ns it did in Scandal Sheet a year or 80 back. But It is good entertain- ment and alick direction at its beat.
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EVERYTHING in Scandal for Sale
rushies along at the breakneck) speed of a sub-editorial room going to press. Charles Bickford fills his mighty lungs and rears, as the| Editor-in-Chief: Pat O'Brien docs
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
ROMANTIC NOVARRO manages, to play the lover, although the plat of "Hoddie," due at the Queen's on Sunday, deals with soccer ne
played in American universities.
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