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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

NAVY AS BACKGROUND

QUEEN'S MELO-DRAMA OF SILENT SERVICE

LATEST BRITISH PRODUCTION

NOTES AND COMMENTS BY CELLULOID"

WHILE it cannot be classed dialogue: "No, I don't, like bat-

as an outstanding produc- tion in any respect, "The Call of the Sea," the Intest British film

Ung on a wet says the Lieut.-Commander to the girl who asks him to kiss her. These aro wit that writers, in the turns of England are gradually learning to rench here, now nt the spell success for British films. Au Queen's, is thoroughly satisfy-English audience will always op- ing entertainment, and gratify-preciate a line like that.

The forecnatle wit as dispensed

ing to those who are desirous of by marines and matelots is un- seeing, better British films. Aother feature of the flim designal

to entertain British audiences.

Chrissle White, a newcomer, is

typical Frank II. Shaw story, it

CURRENT SHOWS

TO-DAY.

Queen's: "The Call of the Sea", King's: "Thunder Below." Central: "Born to Love." Talping: "Grand Parade." Oriental: "Sporting Chance." Majestie: "June Moon." Star: "Lord Babs."

SUNDAY,

Contral: "The Big Gamble." Queen's: "Everything's Rosie.“

and Plen- King's: "Business

Bure."

Oriental: "Million Dollar Legs” Star: The Silver Horde." Talping: "Riders of the Purple

Sage."

Majestic: "Amateur Daddy."

moves along at an adequate the leading feminine and also mak- SCREEN OPERA [lng a brief appearance is Clifford tempo, and has the right blend MeLaglen, brother of the

of comedy to offset the melo-famous Victor.

drama.

comes

The Call of the Sea" from the Twickenham Studios of Warner Brothers and presents practically an entire new crop of British netistes, although those with long memories will recollect the handsome leading man, Henry Edwards, as the hero of the old British silent, "The Flag Lieuten- ant," which incidentally has just been made with sound, Edwards again playing the lend. The only

more

IN CANTONESE

SIR ROBERT

TUNG IN

TALKIE

Australian Company to Make "Barber of Seville" HOTTS a strong heart that can pro

HERE is an unusual feature at

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MERICA'S unofficial ambassador, Will Rogers, has opportunity the King's. Jotta Goudal plays the siren in this film taken from Booth

Tarkington's novel, "The Plutocrat."

AMERICA'S Vitin - Business and pleasure, Sunday attractions

UNUSUAL TWIST IN CENTRAL FILM

GANGSTER YARN WILL ROGERS AGAIN

"Ambassador of Mirth" in King's Feature STORY with an original twist OSE who want laughs for that

Etec A

duce opera

the screen. That is what the Melbourne Efftec studios are doing. Their unit programme is "The Barbor of Seville,

other in the cast known here is the Queen's this week, run-Williamson Imperial Grand Opera who want more than a fresh theme carries of "Business and Plea

Robert Ho Tung, addressing his audience in Cantonese.

of

to it is one of the merits of

entertainment will be well "The Big Gamble" Sunday attrac- catered for at the King's show on tion at the Central, and for those Sunday, when the droll Will Rogers The orchestra is that of the

is always himself told in a convincingly interesting aure." Will baton The bari-manner, there has been added an fuany, and though the laughs may be fewer and further between than almost hair-raising car chase and we have been accustomed to from pleasant leavening of neat houmoud. the Ambassador of Mirth, they are A world-weary gambler makes a good when they are come to. One bargin with a crook to whom he is scene particularly in which he man

an Eastern fortune heavily in debt. The crook takesquerades as

Bernard Nedell, the suave gangs-ing with "The Call of the Sea," Company under the ter of "The Innocents of Chicago," in the shape of a short of Sir Signor W. Aldrovandi. who seems doomed to be the bad man of British Alms..

Call of the? As cinema,. "The Sea" contains no new treatment, and its action reaches the very limits of tardiness without becomi- ing excessively slag, and although the ponderous dialogue seems in add to the suspense, there are few sequences that tag. At the same time, there are a few gems in the

The shots were taken in Ger- many while Sir Robert was on his tour. Sir Robert recent world speaks for about five minutes, and who what it's all about, those understand Cantonese should have no difficulty in following, for the sound is exceptionally clear and distinct.

TARRED for the

Grst time.

Woolsey wiscracks on his own in "Everything's Rosie," coming to the Queen's on Sunday. Anita Louise provides the rosianes.

cause considerable

out a life insurance policy for the teller and myatie is rich with antire gambler on the condition that he and should commits suicide when the policy laughter. matures, leaving the creditor to

In "Business and Pleasure" the collect the money. In order that there will be no difficulty in getting xenial homespun hero undertakes the money, the crook forces him to the role of an American razor-hlade marry, and before the polley ma-manufacturer who leaves for Europe tures the gambler realises that he to corner the market in steel and has found in his wife something to before achieving his object gets live for. How le attempts to himself into trouble with various square his deal without killing him-people, not forgetting his wife. self is told with an intensity which never weakens.

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The shots rash round from ship. board to desert, and the opening scenes on the liner enable Will to Bill Boyd plays with convincing bring in some quaint philosophy casc as the gambler, an Warner and wisecracks on the eternal joko Oland and Dorothy Sebastian con-of seasickness. "Get out and sit trast effectively the sinister under a tree," is Will's typical ad- crook and the appealing wife. vice.

oleful coun- Zasu Pitts, of the

Booth Tarkington admirers will tone is Apollo Granforte, and tenance and the fluttering expres- recognise "Business and Pleasure" "Figaro" is probably his master- Isive hands, and James Gleason are as the novel "The Plutocrat," and as amusing as ever, punctuating the main role of Earl Tinker has piece.

the film with as many wisecracks as been taken almost In tota from the

book. This only a beginning, ac- there are guncracks. cording studio executives. The An founded by Mr. F. the considers that

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37"

coun'

Nel

/which produced Dame Melba should be well to

The

Arc with grand opera.

It

ibr

to present most of the great tal classics under the Efftee fer. It has already a grand

TTS with the same old smile and in a familiar role that Rosene Arbuckle is coming back to the screen. The comedian is shown upper left as he appears today, and at right ne he looked when he was a star of the silent films. Below you ses him with little Billy Hayes and Alf Goulding, director, as they went over the script of Fatty's first picture in twelve years.

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Then there is "His Royal High- less." George Wallace's Ray Dennis. "The /comedy. C. J.

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"Ocean Oddities" is a painless the young method of educating idea in the ways of sen shells and other curiosities on the Great Barrier Reef. Mr. Noel Monk- man, his micro-cinematograph, and Eftne Film Productions are responsible.

With his wife and his micros. rope and his camera. Mr. Monk- man spent six months on the Barrier Reef. Under his micros- cope Mr. Monkman shows micro- Aropic plants in full bloom, and grotesque, tiny creatures which when enlarged on the screen arJ as ocean monsters.

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