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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1932,

IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS.

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CINEMA SCREENINGS

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

A scene played by instinel, Ro bert Montgomery asports, is better than a scene rehearsed a dozen times --and the more rehearsals, tho sta believes, the more pitfalls for the actor. Montgomery has always de pended on "firat hunches" from the time he made his first picture, " This la College," and kicked a foot ball between goal posts in a fleat scene. Ilo wasn't able to do it again. although he tried all day. "If the neter knows his lines," says Mont gomery, "he can danh in and do a scene with snap and ginger-but the more he rehearses, the more tired he becomes, until he reaches n point where he misses a line. That's the cret of Clarence Brown's direction. In his direction of Letty Lynton' Joan Crawford, Nils Aather and my self all noticed it. He never gets

cast

INT'L nervous, and that means the likely to. He-rehearses once for the camera angles as a rule, then 'shoots' his scene, unless it's something very ane is always ni Intricate. Everyone case. Louise Closter Hate, thirty- five years on the stage in New York. and more or lean new to pictures, told me that working in Letty Lynton she was not nervous, for the first time since she has been in pictures." Brown agrees with Montgomery an the dangers of too many rehearsals. "Letty Lynton" is now showing at the Queen's Theatre..

"Thunder Below."

nervousnex

"Poise in that quality which uaun!. ly distinguishes the veteran from the alage novice. It is merely a matter af confidence." said Tallulah Bank- head, theatre and film star récently "Polas in the ability to appen: thoroughly at home, unshaken by utterly without and stage-fright," declared the star or Paramount's "Thunder Below," which will be shown at the King's Theatre this week. with Charles Bickford Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette and Ralph Forben in the featured man- culine roles. "Therefore, it is na tural that if one is confident of man- tering any situation, poise is a result. It is as easy as the cantinued the former atar of "Turnished Lady" and "My 'Sin." "However, it is n ab eay to achieve, unless an actress in born with no self-consciousrean, with out four of others and with an un- failing memory. If puise has to he cultivated, it requires experience in meeting situation, much contact with strangera and eureful study in all forms of speech delivery and ature business"

"The First Year."

talks tuo "The average woman much and thinks tas little." deelnees|

Fox player, Minna Gombell, the "And," she adds. "I am one of those average Women. I know I talk A great deal more than is good for me. "For instance. the other day 1 cunfeased I had turned down two pro- posals af marriage. The fact found: its way into print and, since then. I have been honoured by two more of my mnie friends who want to beat wedding bells ring. That is, thes I want to hear them in my company. "I'm not ready to marry: I haven't learned to cook yet, und as for darn- ing socks, I'm a green hand. career is all that interests me now I expect, however, the time will come when I shall marry and settle dowr and, perhaps, raise a family. I shal not fook for a tall, dark and hand- I shall out

pick some man. Rather

looking some ordinary

mule who co smile and who, in a pinch, is able to Luk a dinner. I have always admire wes en mook and--and soldier g Miss Combet is to be seen at the

Theatre with Janet Gayno A 100;

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and Charton Farrell in the "The Fir Year." The film was. directed by Willam A. Haward from the scree

laptation of Frank Craven's stagt steces of the same name.

"Born to Love."

A bud sneaker system, similar That used in the amplification

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public addreusos, was employed h Paul Stein in directing the r

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