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CINEMA SCREENINGS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1933.

ON THE ROAD TO

SUMCHUN --

(Continued from Paga 6.) court Fortune and Chance, say on a trifling thousand to start with,

NEW MINISTER,

LIU CHUNG-CHIEH TO GO TO GERMANY

Shanghai, Aug. 24.

"To-night In Ours" is the fourth time ho has been east with Miss Colbert. They played together in "Manslaughter,” Honor

Among NOTES SUPPLIED BY Lovers," and "The Sign of the

THE THEATRES

The Noel Coward story centres around a young woman who has toss- Talbot O'Farrell, the world-famous ed aside the responsibilition of a variety star, who maisen his screen kingdom for a ling at Paris, and

It is learned locally that Liu debut in "Born Lucky." the Went wealthy young Parisian who inalets minater Films Production are present sharing the fling with her. To- and if you should be successful Chung-chich, who has just retir- inf

at the King's Theatre, anw him-gether they chase giddily about the (and there is no reason why you ed from the post of Vice-Minister self act and heard himself sing for French capital-but their moments should not be so excopt, it may de, of Foreign Affairs in favour of the first time in his life. It seemed alone are moments of burning, deep your proverbial bad luck) why, Tang Yu-jon, will be appointed like a

a dream," he said, "to sit in a flowing passion. Alison Skipworth, you are still honoured and welcome Chinese Minister to Germany.

and watch myself and to hear Arthur Byron and Paul Cavanaugh all the same on those houseboats. theatre myself sing. The voice did not seem head the supporting cast. Stuart my own which, I believe, in a well Walker directed. known fact that one's voice

novor seems the same to oneself as it does to others. It doesn't even seem like me up there on the screen.

When I sing my Irish songs in shown I always try to direct my sung to the last row on I have to sing to the while audience and if anyone in the last row cannot hear me, the effect is lost,

of

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"On the screen, this is all changed, it is much more intimate. Hy means every-one in the the close-up, audience sees and hears me as if they were in the front row of the orchestra stalls. Although in reality I am singing to a camera and inlerophone, it appears that I am singlug to every "Individual member of the audience,

Reuter.

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THE TRUTH! "What marvellous hospitality ing to his class. "Lucky Devils

you say. What uncommon per-

It has carried on for more than Women who narry slut men—splencity! You. #greo those five years. daredevils who flaunt death and dan gentlemen of the syndicate have It even makes a profit.” ger-are hazarding

their

future, anticipated and seen to every opines Bill Boyd, featured player of thing. 'You charmed-nay, Outside of the Buerod circle of "Lucky Devils, opening to-marrow at you are overwhelmed, and perhaps syndicate members 110 ono

will the Central Theatre, stirring melo-are remorseful with having won ever know what the amount of dramatle romance of the film atunters, those five hundred dollars after that prost has been, but it must However, wamen will marry heroes, proof of Buch I boundless have necumulated to an apprecl daredevils, salesmen, tramps, actors, hospitality? Impetuously you able figure to have enabled the or clerks, regardless of a more man's opinion or admonitious. Furthermore, tuik of returning your winnings to business to continue. for so long a woman will marry her choice be these benevolent gentlemen? But under those conditions. cause she hopes for his constant atcalm yourself. You are about to tendance, Boyd asserted.

be absorbed in a few facts-in the A stunt man's wife cannot expect) TRUTH. him to be stendy mate. Besides,

"This Casino pays $1,000 a day Hod-declater, she wen with certainty for military protection. he ever apprehensive of his safety. The thrilling reveintions in "Lucky Devils", demonstrates this fact, Boyd explains.

SUICIDES GRAVE.

As we fell to computing the many thousands of passengers carried out to Sumchun by the British Section of the Kowloon- "But to sit down a theatre and

It employs a staff of 400. Canton Railway in a year, and also hear and watch yourself is a very strange and unrent sensation. I know

of every Hongkong visitor, accord-Raliway Department Profits, two It pays the railway fure home the part they played in last year's perfectly well what I am going to do

(Continued on Next Columns.) and sing when I come on the screen,

Boyd portrays the head stunt man

objects in the rock gardens outside but I feel on inward sinking feeling in "Lucky Devila"

with William

caught our attention. something may go wrong and that Gargan, Dorothy Wilson, Rosco Ates,

The first a fe-size statue of the although I am there I shall not be Julie Tinydon and others featured, "heavy" roles to play the outstanding Goddess of Mercy. (Here they. able to help my screen self. It is Ralph Ince directed the stunters, who title-role part and a cast that includes have converted her Into a Goddess like dreaming something fantastic include Bal Itose, Duke Green, Dick Warren Hymer, Marjorie White, of Chance), such as hurtling through space and Dickinson, Harvey Perry and Buddy William Holden, C. Henry Gordon, The second a shrine with 2 subconsciously realising that You Manen.

Peter Gawthrone, Jason Robards, votive tabiet at which some women have no power over your netiona

Betty Francisco, George Hrent, John had been, hopefully, burning in- T. Murray, Goodee Montgomery, John cenaed tapers. Swor and other film favourites."

"Baroud"

"Born Lucky" is adapted from the novel "Mups" by Oliver Sandys and

was directed by Michael Powell.

"Chnelle Chan Carries On"

to-morrow.

BUA-

Adhering with unusun fidelity to

We were lost in admiration of story Other members of the cast besides Earl Derr Biggers' noted

this further proof of a grent Rex Ingram, induced to speak on Talbot O'Farrell are Rene Rny, John of the brilliant Chinese detective who

of the new Ideal magnanimity of mind in the gentle- Longden. Ben Welden, Barbara Gott,carries on" after the Scotland Yard various aspects Helen Ferrers. Roland Gillette and inspector is wounded by the muck picture, "Baroud," his first essay in men of the syndicate. Truly, the sought criminal, Charlie Chan Carries the talkies, gave a glowing account lethal weapon was being held out many others.

On, Fox mystery picture is showing of this colourful and spectacular pro-in a sugared coating. It appeared "To-night, is Oura.“

at the Oriental Theatre to-day and ductgroud", explained the producer to those gambling halls had been to us that every whim of the visitor Frederie Maroh, winner of the 1982 award of the Acaden.y of Motion

The tale opens in the Scotland Yard of The Four Horsemen' and other satisfied. That is, with the ex- Picture Arts and Sciences for the best headquarters in London, with the newspletures that have made xereen his- ception of one--| SUICIDES' performance of the year by a male of the murder of an elderly American tory, will revend to the screen public GRAVEYARD.

is co-starred with Claudette millionaire. In Nice another of the strange and colourful life of a But waith What Is that mat- player, intre 1 Ours, screen "round the worlds party in killed, richness they, can never have adaptation of a play by Noel Coward, and a little farther on, in Sun Remo, petted. It is a life as full of shed for, whence sweet sounds of music come? Hath not music author of "Private Lives," which a woman whom the inspector counted and adventure as the Middle Agesels to deter the morbid mind ronica to the Queen's Theatre on on to indentify the criminal is herself set a life contemporary with our own. Sunday.

the sordid deed? There murdered. Baffled Inspector Duff goes in my opinion, 'Barouf may well take March won the award, the highest to Amerien tu investigate the ante- the place of romantic period ms (again without any charge) our of the various members of such of Zentia, with this added at despairing souls soothed by music

may as Scaramouche' and 'The Pri-nguish

be stilled, in the power of the motion picture cedenta

ndustry to bestow on the backs of his the party. work in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Al Honolulu, where Duff goes to traction-that it is modern. And the and merriment, in the interval of March has been one of the busiest intercept the group on their last lap, more film-lovers become interested in waiting for that homeward-bound

of 'Barou players in Hollywood during the past and to visit Charlie Chas, the inspec- the entrancing settings of

train, for which a little while few months. He played the male lead tor is shut down and Chan "enrries the more likely are they to wish to before a cumshaw ticket, had been in Cecil B. De Mille's "The Sign of on," and manages to trap the murderer see these places for themselves.

and the Cross." He was Norma Shearer's as the vessel is nearing port.

"Baroudis coming to the King's pushed into our nervelcas lending man in "Smilin' Through." Marguerite Churchill and John Theatre next Sunday. Lovers of the shaking hands, by a satellite of a syndicate He is featured in "Lives of a Bengal Garrick sustain the love interest, with spectacular, the romantic and unusual, those gentlemen on Lancer," now in production,

who could see to everything. Warner Oland forsaking his customary are strongly advised not to miss iti·

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