THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933.
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES" Whiteaways
ANOTHER
ROLE FOR FRED Dorothy Wilson, William Gargan
MARCH
| led by director and actors. William Boyd is excellently cast, and good Aupporting work is accomplished by
and Rosco Ates. In addition there' Ja showing a sports novelty under the title of "Timing," which in- eludos several interesting studies in golf and tennis. In the latter Mrs.
"CYNARA" SURE Helen Wills-Moody is photographed
TO APPEAL
COLMAN'S GREAT PERFORMANCE
(By "CELLULOID")
In the course of a tournament match, Slow motion camera is brought into use to illustrate her | perfect time in ground strokes and; volley. This programme has its Anal showings to-day.
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Tthe Majestic Theatre, that de-
monial comedy Bachelor's Affairs, with the inimitable Adolphe Monjou in the lead starts a short run to-day.
APART from that box- This is one of the best
office success To-Night romances of the year. The dialogue Is Ours, which has been to sparkling, the situations perfect
providing enjoyable entertainment at Queen's Theatre, the end film offerings Hongkong have been what below standard.
did
for the suave Man-about-Town
light Menjou, and the whole thing effi
the clently handled by director and his assistants. Minna Gombell, Arthur week-Pierson, Joan March and that old in favourite, Herbert Mundin are in-
cluded in a carefully chosen some-porting cast.
A
sup-
the Queen's To-Night Is T
Outra continues. Hollywood
HONGKONG hot like seem to
derstandable. In endeavouring.
the versatility of Frederic March, and here we have him dispensing
الله
The Mackey Twins, whose polished dancing will form an additional attraction at the King's Theatre from Sunday next,
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TF ever a fades out just as boisterously. She
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enjoy.
YOU CAN SEE THESE TO-DAY.
"To-Night Is Ours"
TOMORROW.
Queen's King's Central
"Plunder"
"Lucky Devils"
"Bachelor's Affairs"
Majestic
"Golden West"
Oriental
"Down To Earth"
Star
"Cynara"
King's
"Laughter In Hell”.
Central
Skyscraper Bouls"
Oriental
"The Devil is Driving"
Queno's
"Cynara"
King's
Central
Oriental
THURSDAY.
"Laughter In Hell" "Skyscraper Souls".
cees hor home, very politely but quite disinterestedly.
HIS interest Is aroused only when-the-girl-manoeuvres an- other meeting at a local swim- ming gata. "Even thon he, is not casily drawn into intimacy. Not- hing could be more natural than the way in which he eventually finds himself playing the part of the girl's lover, and all the time hating himself for betraying his wife. The situation grows de- sperate when the wife returns. There is a brilliantly acted bed- room acerie, in which she slowly realises the change in him. Then, tragedy-poignant, disastrous, and utterly undeserved-envelops all three characters.
in his first excursion into the passionate love and a little light talkies, to accomplish the dual comedy. The picture is not to be task of playing lead and direct-taken seriously from any view- ing the picture, Rex Ingram point. Any attempt so to do means
bad Paul Cuvnnagh is before the camera dances which few others seemed to become inextricably | disillusionment, and it is a
is Tap, eccentric and all other types KING Vidor's direction is sen sitive to the last degree. With confused. The general result moment when you begin to find one has a suspicion that he
in your threatening to steal the picture of stage dancing is included in extraordinary intuition, he per- was so poor that one found it yourself picking holes
The whole from the featured players. This their programme and their apmits you to see (in nine casos, out difficult to find the slightest bit favourite screen star.
of the mostpearance at the Klug's for
one of ten) exactly what the people in complimentary .to his silent thing is superficiality personified. young man is one
It is neatly, sometimes deftly, polished actors on the screen, and week will prove one of the best his film are thinking and
why, productions of The Four Horse treated by Stuart Walker the in this picture he rids the part stage attractions Hongkong has it is doubtful if such penetration men and the Garden Of Allah.irector, and whatever its defects of its artificiality and offers u enjoyed for a long time.
has ever before been displayed Alison Skip-
In screen drama. The standard in construction and continuity, the most pleasant study.
picture enabled one of acting requleed a naturally THE management of the King's virtuosity of Karl Struss, the worth fades into the picture and
really to know its characters high, and the players are not Theatre wisely took the film off, cameraman. enanot be denied.
Is not seen at her best during the to see into their hearts and unequal to the demanda made on and to-day, as a prelude to King Vidor's Cynort, we have four showHE picture has two extraor-short time she is before the camera minds-then Cynara is that film them.
Tdi pills were murients the and microphone.
After seeing it (as you must on Ings of Plunder, which, i con- sider, IR
it starts a the
run at the King's RONALD Colman's Jim Warlock best
LTHOUGH strictly speaking Theatre to-morrow) you will reel ÍB # full sized portrait
that you have actually met Jimfer stercoscopic
almost and Walis ig offered accepts an unusual amount of scope her to give up ideas of marriage↓ cinema, It is, perhaps, not entirely to reveal his latent talents as a to March as she must return to out of place to mention a forthcom- purveyor of light comedy, and with her throne in one of the Balkaning attraction on the stage at the the rest of the famous cast to assist states, and the second, the final King's Theatre. Starting on Sún- him, including Ralph Lynn, Wini scene. This reaches a high pitchday next, September, the Muckey fred Shotter, Mary Brough and of mblo-drama which leaves an Twins, one of the finest dancing combinations over to visit the Far Robertson Hure, the fun is laid on fanpleasant recollection.
East, are appearing on the sloge thick and fust.
PEYOND this the film proceeds at the King's, in support of the FOR the best all-round entertain-D along fairly normally to its screen programme.
Claudette in
the first is the scene
and formed that it is imperative for
Aldwych cast pietures. In this Colbert's boudoir when she is in- A this has nothing to do with the
Tom
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ending. The
make
ment the Central Theatre offer-appointed happy
goed Adreme
Hix month's, aeuson at the Cani- ing at the present is as good as actors on the whole
both
in Shanghai have any. Lucky Devils, which gives work of their scripts and vivid impressions of the risks taken March and Claudette Colbert add made these two dancers univer- by "stunt" men in the studios and some of these distinctive touches sally popular. Popularly known educated on-location-in order to obtain the which have put them where they na the "boys with the reallam of the thrills, is wall hand are in the cinema world. "When | feet", they bonat a repertory of
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Frederic March and Claudetto Colbert as they appear together in
"To-night is Oura" at the Queen's Theatrø. " Warlock, and you will understand | X-ray-ish quality, derlving 息 quite clearly how he came to be good, dent from the actor's own led into a passing affair with a personality, but completely in line shop girl while still genuinely in with the author's evident idens. love with his wife. Superficially, Kay Krancis makes one feel the Warlock is a cad. Actually, he is conflicting, emotions of the wife, a man of honour, who remains so that at the end, when the sem- faithful to his wife in his own blance of a movie "happy ending" fashion. That is the whole point is reached, there is no suspicion ol the story, and it is perfectly that it is just a concession
lustrated in the picture. popular taste. The girl, Doris-a convincing character-ia THE seods of Warlock'a physical beautifully played by Phyllis Bar- unfaithTulness ore sown 'when ry, a newcomer with obvious Clemency, his wife, goes off to ability, and there are good, though Venice (why Venice?), on the not outstanding, performances by anniversary of their marriage, Henry Stephenson and Viva with a silly little sister who fa in Tattersall. danger of making a fool of her-
to
self over a young man. The pre-THE English atmosphere is de- text, to say the least. is too eidedly shaky. London Is flimsy. The girl should have been suggested chiefly by fog, lamp- stapped and sent to bed. But it posts, taxi-cabs, and policemen, is enough for Clemency, and away and there is a near-ludicrous Im- she goes to Venice, leaving
pression of a country swimming- disgruntled husband to his own gala (redeemed, however, by an devicos. Warlock, returning to extremely clover impromptu bachelor habits, goes out with his speech from Warlock). The friend, John Tring, and an ac dialogue. le sound except at odd cidental meeting with two girls in moments, when it verges on stage a restaurant introduces him, more rhetorte. Although fundament or less unwillingly, to Doris Loa, ally a play, this is an intelligent, who lives in "Tottenham" and thought-provoking and highly en- works in a shop in Shaftesbury tertaining picture. The producer, Avenue. They go to the pictures the players, and, above all, tho (where they laugh at Charlie director, deserve due credit for Chaplin In A Dog's Life) and he their achievements.
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