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THE. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934.
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Enchanting dances, brilliant moil. eruistic puttings of the old world cafes, the gay soclul whirl of Europe The loe-way principle-a theory and the furore of carly war fover in introduced to contract by P. Hal George Raft's latest starring picture, Paris thrilind are shown in "Dolora", Sims is one of the most valuable at the King's Theatre. Based on the instruments of the game. It is savage rhythms of Ravel's "Bolero" well employed in to-day's hand, Carey Wilson, Kubec Glasmon and which was played recently by Paul Horace Jackson have constructed a de Vries of New York City.
wellnigh fool-proof plot which has When Mr. de Vries in the Southed by Director Wesley Ruggles. been adeptly and convincingly develop. bid a spade, and North bid three George Raft who, to date has played spades, North was telling his part-tough "meance roles, has been keep ner that the hand was safe at four ing something from his public. Few spades. However, it gave South of any ball room dancers can equal a chance to go to three no trump, his, rhythule, techniques ant stage in the new location. "Four Frighten- if he desired.-
Now when South elected to show a new feature of his hand with his
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ị bid of four hearts, he was really And making a mild slam try. when North bid five diamonds he was saying that the hand was safe at six, as he also had a new feature in his hand.
When South went to five no trunip he was practically telling North that he held the king of clubs, because he was stating that there would be some advantage in having the hand led up to; there fore, he must have at least the king and x of clubs,
When North showed the ace of clubs with a bid of six clubs, and when South re-bid spades, North was justified in going to seven.
The Play
A spade opening might have de- feated the contract. However, when the hand was played, the queen of clubs was opened, and Br, de Vries in the South won with the king. South then led the ten of heurts and trumped in dummy with the deuce of spadea, A small spade was returned and won with the ace. The jack of hearts was led and trumped with the jack of spades. The seven of spades was returned. Fast discard ing a club, and Mr. de Vries won with the king.
He then picked up the two out- standing spades and discarded two diamonds from dummy.-East-let go his two hearts.
Declarer then eashed nee king of hearts, discarding a clab and a diamond from dummy. On the last heart, East was squeezed. If he let go a diamond, all the de clarer's diemonde would be good, so he dropped the ten of clubs.
Declarer then played the three
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of clubs and won in dummy with
presence.. Hà Bolero" performance as the famous Raoul, idol of London Sally Rand with that flamboyant fan and Paris, is superb. Then there's
which startled half the work during the Chicago World's Fair and return. ed her to her Arst love, the movies. She has an exciting screen prosence and is a competent actress, Carole Lombard, who wears slinky gowns as no other blonde siren of the screen, Teveals a technique equal to the other two. In two numbra she does with Georgo Raft, "Bolero" and "Raftero",
bard, che we hope to see more often.
sho introduces an entirely new Lom,
"Riptido"
pay. "While I was looking around the jungle, your idol was stolen. I shail start out now and And the thief." DeMille le still waiting to hear if the watchman found the Idol
ed People" in from the novel of the same name by E Armet-Robertson. It is the story of how four self-loving people have the vencer of civilization itelpped from them when they are forced to fight for life and love in n dense, dangerous Malay jungle.
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Norma Shearer offers another of her magnetic and fascinating per-1 formances as a modern woman with ultra-modern Ideals In "Riptide" her newest photoply which opened yeater as comedienne and dramatic actress PACIFIC SERVICE day at the Queen's. Lavishly pro. The heroine of "Female" demands. duced, brilliantly enacted by its star both elements. It is one of the mont and an impressive supporting
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diverse roles which Miss Chatterton and bearing the directorial stamp of that ace director, Edmund Goulding, star herself, one of the most satisfy has played hence, according to the who also wrote the story, the new
Ing. William Bloterio, director of Shearer vehicle stands out as one of the picture, has spun this daring story the finest productions to come from
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thrown into rellet by vomedy in and provides an entertainment of dis-!
en.otional scenes of depth and tensity. ture artistry. As Lady Rexford. in Miss Chatterton in "Female." With tinction in every phase of motion pic-A distinguished east appears with this daringly triangular Continental George Brent as leading man, and romance, Miss Shearer is regally such players as Ruth Donnelly, Lois superb. Never has she appeared so Wilson, Ferdinand Gottschnik and beautifully photographed or hand-
Johnny Mack Brown in important somely costumed. Her performance les, the star has splendid support. is nothing less than magnificent even
Others appearing in the picture aro more superb than her "Divorcee,"
Jenn Muir, Gavin Gordon, Sterling Motion Picture which won her the Academy of Holloway and Rafaelo Ottiano. The
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screen play is by Gene Markey and award in 1929. With the customary
Kathryn Scola. flair attacked to a Shearer film the star is provided with not one leading man but two. Robert Montgomery enacts the play-boy friend and Hor- bert Marshall is seen an the nober-minded husband. Each liver a
superb performance. Ed. mund Goulding performed gallant service as both author and director and schleves a screen product of un- usual merit in entertainment values, There is all the box office in the world crowded into his story and develop ment, with Miss Shearer's characteri zation giving both the women and men in the audiences something to thrill about. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, noted British actress, heads, the im- prossive supporting cast
the eccentric dowager. Other important roles are in the capable hands of such sterling players of Skeets Gallagher, Ralph Forbes, Arthur Jarrett, Earl Oxford, Helen Jerome Eddy, George Phyllis Cochlan, Howard Chaldecott K. Arthur, Baby Marlyn Spinuert, and Halliwell Hobbes.
"Feur Frightened People"
more de-
There is one watchman who will never again fall down on a job after the scare he got while working for Ceel B. DeMille in Hawali, during the alming of his latent Paramount pie Lure, "Four Frightened People", the which comes on Thursday to King's Tlientre. A huge Bialaysian idal, forty feet in height and weighing several thousand pooride, was erected
jungle location for exterior scenes. Before, the troupe, including Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland and William Gargan, was discovered that filming would be alatost impossible there due to almost incessant rainfall in that vicinity. DeMile ordered the bulky Image moved to another and dryer location, which was accomplished during the hours that the watchman was sneak- ing some sleep. When it camo to paying off all the native help at the end of the picture, the wateliman failed to show up for his money. He was finally locnteil, but refused to accept pay without a great deal of rring" have a confession to make", he said after he had pocketed
The nine of clubs was played and the declarer discarded his losing diamond.
The last two tricks were won
the ace, which caught East's jack., with the ace and king of diamonds,
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"Ever in My Heart" Romance of unusual strength and interest is said to mark the plot of Harbara Stanwyck's latest Warner Bros, picture, "Ever In My Heart. which opens on Thursday at the character of a Alhambra. In the New England girl ́a strong friend- ship exists between her and a cousin
and their families tako it for granted cousin returns from abroad with a that they will marry. But when the!
German professor she immediately falls in love with the professor and weds him deflance of her Paritan relatives. Their love runs smoothly und beautifully until the outbreak of the World War when friends and re- Intives turn on the husband and later on the girl horself because she will not give him up. But they are eventually torn apart when her hus- band is driven to return to Germany to join the army by the snubs and cruelties heaped upon himself and wife by their friends, Later Stan wyck as a canteen worker in France meets her husband, as he is spying on the Allied forces. It is here that the picture turns into one of intense dana as she is torn between her love for her husband and her duty toward her own country.. Otto Kruger, noted stage star, has the leading insculine role opposite Mlas Stan wyck, while the remaining members of the cast are all noted on stage and screen. They include Ralph Bellany. Hope Crews, Ruth Bonnelly, Laura Frank Albertson, Donald Meak, Clara Blandick, Elizabeth Patterson and Harry Heresford. Archie Mayo directed the picture from a screen play by Bertram Milhauser which is, breed on the story by himself and Geulah Marie Dix.
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