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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER

THE GREATEST ENTERTAINERS IN THE WORLD NEVER DREAMED THERE COULD BE SUCH ENTERTAINMENT!

Creation's severest critics-yot they stood and cheered when Warner Bros. unveiled this great attraction at a secret preview for celebrities of stage and radio!

Sunday you will see why I

42nd STREET

--A picture to zero about?”

-JACK PEARL

The show that set Broadway lights dancing again! Dazzling array of sters) More than 50 featured players! The all-American beauty chorus of 2031-- Hit malodies that are sweeping the nation! Two spectacular shows in one with a complete Broad- way musical comedy presented scene for scene while the heart-gripping story races on?....... with WARNER BAXTER, BEBE DANIELS, GEORGE BRENT........and 11 other great atarat

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-BING CROSBY

"A realy great mumical?" .

-PAUL WHITEMAN

"The best show f'rn ever seen!" ~MORTON DOWNEY

CINEMA SCREENINGS

NOTES SUPPLIED BY

THE THEATRES

"Three good tunes and a kick in the panis for your wow blackout. Can you make a hit show of it?" Thesa aro the first sentences in Bradford Hopes' novel, "42nd Street,” and they colour the length of Warner Bros? now gigantic picture of the same nam which open on Sunday at the Queen's, In the picture, the words are address. ed to Warner Baxter, who plays the role of a veteran stage director with a hundred hits to his credit. What ho does to the three good tunen and the kick in the

42nd Street, form the basis for But not quite all of it. Warner Bros. have gathered together In this tale of the Rialto's backstage a gripping dramatic skry of the theatre of to-day, of the problems, heartaches and tears, the good times. lighthearted camaraderie and carefres days, when there's money in the poc ket, forty weska more of work ahead, and nothing to worry about, all of which

make up slago existence. Chorus girls to the number of about one hundred and fifty-stars, diree- xrs, singers,, songwriters, hoofers, crooners, comics, heavies, Juvenilor and ingenuer-they're all there. And Warner Baxter, Babe, Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Ruby Koeler (Mrs. Al Jolson), Guy Kibboé, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers, Warner Bros. were the first to try musical

pictures

on, a lavish scale, and, onough was learned from them to assure the pro- ducers that there was a public demand for dramatic plotures with the music and dances. The result of some three years preparatory work on this theme. na resulted in "42nd Street," per- haps the first picture to incorporate music and dance into the story in a dramatic manner.

"Red Dust" At the Oriental.

The co-starring of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in "Red Dust", will be acreened at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday, will prove of exceptional Interest to movle patrons. Here are two of the most magnetic personalities on the screen in a vivid drama of Occhin, China. Gablo le a young overseer of rubber plantation who has beaten the loneliness, fever, deadly heat and blinding dust storma that have broken so ronny. nien. Mins Harlow is a girl who tries to win a place in the averacer's agections. Enter another woman, in the person of Mary Astor, as the aristocratic. The possibilities for dramntle conillet and emotional crisen pro obvirun. The picture directed by Victor Flem- ing of "Wet Porado" fame, is report- ed to be one of the outstanding pro- ductions co-the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer calendar for the coming year.

"Mystery of the Wax Museum”

Many of the scenes in "The Mystery of the Wax Museum,' the Warner Bras, picture that commenced its run yesterday at the Queen's and which is Bald to be the most exciting. thriller of the year, were of necessity made behind locked dors, as the girls who appear na models for a war sculptor, were required to appear in what is known to the art world un "the altogothor." In order to reproduci exact likenessan of these girls' figuros, planter casta were made xf their bodica first. Then the casts WATA used for the wax reproductions. Lionel Atwill, who plays the leading role ду the sculptor is said to give a performance of haunting power and uncanny reality. After a fire which molts and totally destroys his London collection of wax effigies of famous beauties and infameua characters of history, he comes to a large American city, where his increasing display of amazingly lifelike "statuca" in the nude arouses the suspicine of the police, Glenda Farrell plays the fominine lead as an up-to-the-minute girl reporter who ferrets out the mystery. saves the life of a girl "model" who is about to be the victim of a maniac, nees that . number of twisted love affairs including her own go straight. Others in the big cast are the beautiful Fay Wray, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Holmes Her- bert, Monica Bannister, Edwin Max- well, Gavin Gordon, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Do Witt Jennings, Pat O'Malley and Thomas Jackson, Michael Curtiz directed with his usual Continental flair for the myster fous sensational.

"Perfect Understanding" Ever since Gloria Swanson - munced several months ago that she Intended producing a picture with an English locale, fans have awaited Its showing with considerable curiosity. It is now showing at the King'

subtle, Theatra. Smart,

and a touch of sadness, it han all the ingredients for a roaring success. Gria herself ahows all the ability and scintillating personality which has marked her for mer successos, and in addittion she has developed to a marked degree the tenderness which was a feature of "The Trespasser" Gloria has "Perfect Understanding" a role which (Continued on Page 12.)

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