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TO-DAY

Starring LUIS

AT THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933.

KING'S

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TRENKER

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CINEMA SCREENINGS

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

Packed in an array of twelve modest-looking tin cans lles a trea sure, representing a vast amount of cash and of human endeavour, Inte these humble containers has been crammed the work of 6,000 men, women and children who worked many days toward making The Con- querora" the mightiest of all present day motion pictures. The work of the humblest carpenter to the highest executivo is Inscribed on strips of celluleld contained in those cans. And long before the film was ready to whirr through, tho cameras, many writers, technicians, historians and other specialists spent months in vi paration. para

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Beck

out the colour- ful highlights to Inject into RKO Radio's spectacular saga of American history. An entire city, showing its growth through the years from 1870 to 1982, was built and rebuilt during. the Alming of the picture which co- stars Richard Dix and Ann Harding in a a great cast of great names. To show the various stages of develop ment the town during the span of sixty years, more than four hundred carpenters wero constantly kept busy building and rebuilding the structures, that made up the city. "The Con querora" makes its debut at the Cen- tral Theatre to-day.

"Pilgrimage"

Henrietta Crosman is of peculiar

· breed of crusader. She actually hom the courage of her convictions. Since childhood, Miss Crosman has been a lover of animals and she has dedicated her life to making their lives happler. She carries her creed to the point of actual practice. She never eats ment and never wears fur-because she be- loves it is wrong to kill animals. for such purposes. The veteran actress, now under contract to Fox Film, holds memberably `in a number oť. animal protective opponent of vivisec- tion. Mise Crosman, who has had one of the most colourful careers on the American singe, haa boon an actress

since she was sixteen years old. Her first picture for Fox is "PI- grimage", a powerful story of an embittered mother, coming on Sunday next to the King's Theatre,

"Murders in the Zoo"

Savage beasts replace the cus tomary lethal weapons in "Murder in the Zoo," mystery melodrama, which Is coming on Friday to the Queen's Theatre. Charlie Ruggles, Lionel At- will, Kathleen Burke (the Panther Woman), Randolph Scott, John Lodge, and Gail Patrick head the picture's cost. Atwill plays the role of an em- inent zoologist, insanely jealous of his wife, Bliss Burke.. On un expedition In India to capture animals for a zoo, he abducts "n ian who had kinued his wife while he was drunk, news up his lips, and leaves him to the merelen of the tigers, Back in America, he finds his zoo in soro Anancial strults. Ruggles; its press agent, has seran- ged a dinner in the carnivora houBO for the city's wealthy, 'and intends to solicit them for funds. Atwill sees to it that a second man whó has fal- len in love with his wife attends the dinner. The latter, at the height of the festivities, suddenly serennia paik; collapses and dies. His wife, suspecting her husband, rashes to the zoo officials to Inform them. But be fore she can do so, she is dead." Scott, a young scientist attached to the zoo staff, finds evidence linking Atwill with the two murders. Atwill attacks him, then turns the animals loose. The pletare reaches a breathless elmax during the debacle which follows.

"The Rebel"

in

Luis Trenker, internationally known as a sterling actor, an expert moun- tain-guide and skiier, but above all for his deeds of daring and valone as commander of the Austrian Kaiser. jaeger during the World War, is now appearing at the King's Theatre in "The Kebel," a Universal Special pra. duction, in which he assumes the role of a zealous, impassioned patriot dur- ing the Napoleonic era. Trenker, with Edwin Knonf, write the story and directed The Rebel" He is thoroughly familar with the locale of the play, for he was born and brought up in the Tyrol in the little village of St. Ulrich. As a boy he familiarized himself with the dangerous

us mountaių passes of his native land and acted ocensionally as guide to visiting tourists. As he grew older his ex- ploits became widely known and be ansferred them to the screen. Must of the productions in which Trenker has appeared feature as a vital part of the story his tremendously fascinn ing talent of conquering wild mour- tuin peaks. In the story of "The Rebel" he hair experience which he as a lone operator passed through during the War, rébullding them of Cours to suit the time and elreum A- tuneex <f the plot. Vilma Banky makes her re-entry into pictures in. "The Itobe" and "Victor Varconi in also prominent in the cast ·

"Storm at Daybreak"

There is a terrific quality of sin- ebrity in M-G-M'% "Storm at Day- break," having its final showings to day at the Queen's which makes this picture one of unusual charm and distinction. A tale of the age-old attraction of youth for youth, it is nover-the-less far different from the usual triangle drama. Laid in the seething Balkans at the, outbreak of the World War, its narrative encom- passes the plight of deserters, Includes a spectacular assassination and then centres ca the conflict of a woman who loves a young officer but refuses to be dialoyal to her husband.. It has an amazing twist, one which must be sean to be appreciated. For charac- torization, it is hard", to choose bo tween the three principal protagonista. Kay Francia offers a memorable por- trayal as the wife, Nifs Asther is ex- collent as the young officer and Wal- ter Huston makes, the most of his gripping role the husband who in too old for his wife..

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