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Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files

The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week anded Feb. 2nd, 1913,

CINEMA SCREENINGS talent. Besides Norma Shearer thero aro Fredric March, borrowed from Paramount to play opposite the star, Leslie Howarde, than whem thero is more charming and sensitive character delineator, 0. P. Hożgic, Ralph, Forbes, Beryl Mercer. David Torrence, Margaret Reddon Forrester Harvey, Miss Shearer and March have dual-roles in this haunt ing'. and unusual story, which is Conversely, fraught with

drama. Audiences wopt and smiled moments of poignant alternately when Jane Carst prosented "Smilin' Through" as a stage play in New York, and it is to through transition to the talking ed to a vacancy on the Legislative be recorded that the emotional effect Mr. Montague Edo was appoint- Council caused by the absenco of screen is just as a

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NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

James Dunn's rise to fame spectacular. He became an over- night scroon senantion in his first picture, "Bad Girl," Sully Ellors had been in motion pic tures two years before she became conspicuous in the same production. "Hold Me Tight," the now Fox pic ture, marks their fifth screen appear anco non team, the others in "Ballor's Luck" and "Bad Girl In "Bad Girl," Dunn and Miss Eilersi

"Melody Blonde, Ivory-skinned, daughter of were married and, again, In "Hold Me Tiaht they are man and wife, the Norse Vikings, beautiful Greta

Sir William Robinson, a former confronted with an unusual problem. Nissen, with Charlie Ruggles in Governor of Hongkong left estate

King's Prank McHugh, June Clyde, Kenneth "Melody Cruise" at the Thomson and Noel Francis are other Theatre, in Hollywood's double-threat of £88,020, prominent members of the cast. Thej womark If movie roles become

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STILL AT NAIROBI:

But in "Tempest" which IR showing at the Central Theatre to day, as the thief whose philosophic Norwegian and European critics sand her praises, Miss Niosen came to New attitude towards prison is not reflect work to play the leading feminina COLONIAL SECRETARY. ed in that with which he regards his role in "Beggars on Horseback." She women, he returns in a characteriza- tion as finished, in detail as it is in golden hair and grace accurador proceeded to Hollywood where her

ILLNESS ACUTE stinct with life. Whether he is! making boisterous love,

arolee in "Lost a Wife," "The Wander- robbery, apeing the

"Love Thief and the original

London, Feb. 1. Slr Philip Cunliffe. Lister, reformer or blinded silent version of "Hell's Angels." Her

successes Included jealousy, he typifles, the city thief Inter

Trane Secretary for the Colonies, who whose outlook is excompassed by his atlantic," "The blurder of the Circus is suffering from throat trouble at Nairobi, was reported yester- "Torch Singer"

A "Tempest introduced a newcomer Claudette Colbert, as the hard. day to have had a relapse.

to

ight clubs, will bulletin, issued this morning, the local scroen in Anna Sten, whose hearted queen of the

"Torch

states he had a good night and beauty is equalled by her young be seen in Paramount a ability. Her "Anna" of "Tempest" is Singer," scheduled as the next change is holding his own.

the Alhambra Theatre. In

Lady Cunliffe Lister loft Lon- a prevacative; brainless creature, who at la crudely alluring fashion ends, or ners, Lyda Roberti and Baby le Roy. British Wireless.

DECs her cast are Ricardo Cortez, David Man- don yesterday by air for Nairobi. body to gain her own to divert the inevitable reprisals in Ralph Rainger and Lee Robin have vited to her loose behaviour. The

The written

number of new songs which forgiveness, Mimi spurns him. How director, from the opening scenes in will be presented by Miss Collort, in she finds the answer to her problem, a prison, to the final moment of the this picture. They vary from a furnishes a gripping climax to the Chief's pseudo-philosophic submisalon lullaby to the hottest of wailing story. to his fate, paints the development in "torch" tunes. The story, adapted Broadway to Hollywood.” decisive strckes that arrest the at- from Grace Ferkin'a "Mike," which The all-thino record for "finalo tention and substain high interest at ran in the Liberty Magazine, is Para- numbers" has been act in "Broad-

Mias Colbert's A high level, even for those whose mount's response to

way to Hollywood," Metro-Goldwyn- Inowledge of the German, language demand for stories of women who toy Mayer's vivid drama of three with the emotions of men. The Para- "Smilin' Through"

mount star plays the role of "Miralerations in the theatre. in which Alles Brady Jackie Cooper, Jimmy Norma Shearer returns to romance Benton," once simply Sally Trent, now Durante, Frank Morgan, in "Smilin' Through shewing at the the toast of the night clubs, as Evans, Eddle Quilan, Pay Templeton Oriental Theatre on Sunday. Monday dangerous as she is alluring. Now May Robson and Russell Hardio

sean to-morrow to even the will be and Tuesday. In this Metro-Goldwyn-famous, she is trying Mayer production she proves again scare with life which, more than once, Queen's Theatre. Five hundred dan- cers ID the largest singing and dramatic artists. It is a dazzling But the thrill of applause film, both as to beauty of production satisfy her longing for the child she in the biggest set over constructed and acting,

could be called the bore and had to give up for adoption in the great spectacle that furnishes finest neted picture of the year and when the man she wanted to marry the dramatic climax to the cavaleado who see it will support the deserted her. A nation-wide search of the stage. The spectacle is staged claim. For while "Grand Hotel" hnd using all the researches that wenith on a fight of two hundred steps a bigger array of stars in point of has made available, falls. When the proceeding apparently to sky number, "Smiling Through" does not man Minil once loved returns, learns where a gigantle figure of "Father suffer. by comparison in respect of of the birth of the child, and bees Time" is silhouetted..

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