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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934.

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300 dazzling beauties in breath-taking dance routines actually staged under water! Just one of the amazing surprises in Warner Bros.' new show of 1000 thrills! "42nd Street" and Gold Diggers" actually surpassed by the master makers of musicals—in a show so different it's like a new forin of entertainment!

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CINEMA SCREENINGS

*NOTES BUPPLIED BY

THE THEATRES

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With the advent of the now musical, eyelo, Warner Bros foremost pro- ducers of auch shows, of which "Foot- light Parme," which opens to almul taneous showings to-day at Queen's and Alhambra Theatre, is an outstanding example, may well be tormed the "Ziegfelds" of the motion picture world. "Certainly no

other producer has been ablo to turn out any musical picture that can compare with "42nd Street," "Gold Diggers of 1983." They seem to have the knack of turning out tremendous musical hits with great numbers of beautiful girls, unique and mammoth ensem bles, and unusually catchy songs, plus strong story backgrounds. The threa musicals nu for produced have aur passed the most magnificent and spectacular settings ever seen Ziegfeld Follies. Revivad interest in musicals in in part due to better knit and more defined plots than formerly and to the uniqueness and the magnificent scale of the ensembles and danes numbers. "Footlight Parado" is said to have not only a strong comedy drama plot with hilarious situations, fast moving action and sparkling dialogue, but it surpasses its predecessors in the magaliude of Rs numbers and the beauty and originality of their set tings.

"Chance at Heaven" Marje Harris in a demure country belle, vivacious but without gilter. Blacky Gorman is the handsome, at- tructive owner of a small town gas atation. Glory Franklyn is n daz- aling creature from another world, beautiful and dangerusly alluring. Around this unusual trio, Vina Del- mar wove the romance, comedy and adventure of "Chance at Heavent, the serial story from Liberty Magazine now on view at the King's Theatre in an RKO-Radio Picture featuring Joel McCrea na Blacky, Ginger Rogers as Marie and Marinn Nixon as Glory. I Prepared to marry, Blacky and Marie are separated by the appearance of Glory, vacation from New York. She finds Blacky a welcome relief from her smart society elique in the big city which sho thought boring, and he becomes deeply infatuated with her. The dramatic situation rapidly evolves' into a climax which almost per: manently endangers Blacky

and Marje's "Chance at Heaven".

"Take A Chance"

Janics Dunn, June Knight, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Dorothy Lee and Lona Andre constitute the extraordinarily bril liant cast of "Take a Chance" the Paramount musicni extravaganza pro- duced by Laurence Schwab, showing at the Central Theatre for the last time to-night. There are a number of hilarious sequences made against the 'background of a society charity bazaar al awanky Long Island estate and also something entirely new, goofy travelingue, a la Graham McNamee, which forms a background one of Cliff Edwards' "clever ukelele numbers. All ends happlly af- Ler, Dunn, Edwards, and Misa Knight win great acclaim as members of Rogers now show,

for

"Bed of Roses"

To ita feats of dividing oceans, levelling mountains and producing sixty-foot apes, Hollywood has added. two more notable achievements in transporting the Mississippi River to the flm colony, and the Mardi Gras carnival of New Orleans to an RKO- Radio studio sound stage for "Bed of Roncs" starring Constance Bennett with Joel McCrea and John Halliday coming to the King's Theatre on Fri- day. River ateamboats, cotton boats, In section of the lever, an entire New Oréleans Squaro decorated for the Mardi Gras, à palatial apartment and a women's reformatory are among the more elaborato backgrounds for the action. The story of "Bed of Roses" concerns a beautiful blonde adven- turess who goes on the gold standard with the idea of making millionaires pay for her beauty and love, Emerg ing from the reformatory, she travels

on the primrose path to a penthouse, and then trails the Mississippi to find real love with an humble river captain.

"A Bedtime Story"

The charming Maurice is back once

more with bis pouting Chevalier lip, his witty banter, melodious songs, and the gayest collection of alluring sweet- hearts that Hollywood was able to Jurnish. The picture is Paramount's "A Bedtime Story," showing for the last times to-day at the Queen's Theatre with a featured cast includ- ing Helen Twelvetrees, Edward Everett Horlon, Adrienne Amer and Baby Leroy Norman Taurog direct- ed. Little Baby Leroy-"Monsieur Bab-ce" to you—who, you will remem- | ber, was selected from thousands of competing infants in California to play this role in the picture, is back- ground for the title, the story and Its most delightful comedy and romance. He does things that no year-old infant has ever done on the screen before, and you'll applaud him as the screen's latest slar. Chovaller, too, is charm- ing in his usual "naughty" manner. singing four song hits that the radio has played for months but which you to Chevalier sing them.

"Penguin Pool Murder"

*

Edna May Oliver and James Glen- son compriso a joyous comedy part- who

sprinkle

tense mystery moledrama with snappy fun and solvo two murdere, two love affairs and several other serious matters of crime and romance in "The Penguin Pool Murder" showing at the Oriental Theatro to-day and on Thursday: Miss Oliver portrays a tall, angular, outmoded schoolmarm in this RKO- Radio thriller. She dressos like Queen Mary of England and carries aaliver-handled large-knobbed_black) nmbrella, rain or shine, fair or cloudy. With Gleason, nu a smart-aleck, wise-- cracking, Imow-it-all police inspector, Miss Oliver makes "The Penguin Pool Murder" a laugh-packed, fast-moving comedy-mystery. The mystery of "The Penguin Pool Murder" is snappi-

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