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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

· 1934.

CINEMA SCREENINGS

LOAN REFUNDING.

QUEEN

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AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

THURSDAY

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NEVER... IN THE HISTORY of the SCREEN Has There Been a Thrill Drama to Equal This!

TARZAN TO

THE RESCUE Nerves of steel... muscles of iron... against the feroci- ty of the mighty monarch of

jungle!

Tarson and Als bride

Twins far

the

Make way for a Glant Thrill picture! Screaching thrills zoom across the screen! Never before-so many blood-ting- ling scenes...nover before- such primitive passion...pack. ed into one marvelous picture!

HE'S BACK!

The ane

and only

Johnny

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WEISSMULLER

WARNING! The Monago-

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ment will not be responsible MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

for reservations not taken up ten minutes before the opening.

A Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Picture.

They change so fast, there should ba a new picture at least once'a” year," for photographs of the children never grow up.

Make an appointment to-day THE MING YUEN STUDIO 17. Queen's Road Central (First Floor) (Between the H.K. Hotel and Dairy Farm Store, Queen's Road C)

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BIG CONVERSION SCHEME SUCCESSFUL

A dizzy melange of stars, benuli-j

Washington, Sept. 17. ful giris, catchy tunes and gorgeous The United States Treasury an- Bottings hit the screen of the nounces that the holders of the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, when $5,140,250,000 worth of Treasury "Hollywood Party,” Metro-Goldwyn- Certificates and the $680,000,000 of Mayer's much-hørntded joy-fest "on | Liberty Bonds have converted their celluloid, opened its engagement, holding, at the rate of 25 per cent. "Hollywood Party" in a fast-moving on notes maturing in four years.— syncopation-Alled portrayal of life Reutor.

In the mansions of the screen capital,

and Hollywood's faibles and folk ara Cosmopolitan Magazine. Featured In used in a hilarious story through the supporting, cast are Jameson which runs romancu. Thrills of| Thomas,

"Wonder Bar”

escaped wild animals blend with the Karas, Blanche Fredericl, Alan Hinle, Walter Connolly, Roseoa comedy antics of Laurel and Hardy Ward Bond and George Breakstan. Jimmy Durante, Polly Moran, Charles Butterworth and others. The rivalry between two "Jungle Stars,” each try-

Even good friends, enn be keen ing to cheat the ollier out of a cargo rivals. This was the situation that af llons; the appearance of Mickey existed between Al Jolson and Dick Mouse, Walt Disney's cartoon, actual Powell at the First National Studios ly working with human players during the production of the gigantle these are a few of the striking novelties in the picture. The Musical Wonder Bar," which will be present- musical and dramatic spectacle, Wall" a great orchestra mounted on a perpendicular wall, the side-split. c. nt The Alhambra Theatre on Ling

Saturday next. Both were working "Reincarnation" of Jimmy and singing in the same picture. It Durante, and other elaborate detail was all set originally for Jelson to for laughing purposes only, grace the sing three songs in that picture and different episodes of the fast-moving for Dick to sing three. In recent play. Son nunibers, interpolated in- to the picture as integral parts of the hus been more often in the publle's nths, however. Dick Powell's voice plot, include "Hello" sung by Jimmy Durante, Jack Pearl and dancing car than that of his predecessor.

Durante anal They mot chorus; a duet sung

months ago, during the Polly Moran: "I've Had My Moments" Alming of the picture 42nd Street, n love duet with June Clyde and Eddie in which Ruby Keeler, Jolson's wife, Quillan; Mickey Mouse's "Hot Choco-flat flashed toward stardom. But late Soldier":"Hollywood Party and when both were assigned to leading "I'ra feelin' High." A stellar aggre-roles in "Wonder Bar" and the public gation seres in the picture, including was told that each would sing in that Laurel and Hardy, Jimmy Durante, picture, a keen rivalry between them Charles Butterworth, Pully Moran rivalry even keener was that half way naturally developed. What made the Frances Williams, Jack Pearl and Ted through the picture the assignment of Healy and his stooges.

Joison wns changed. "Tarzan and Ils Mate" already sung the "Wonder Bar" An underwater battle between a number and Dick had made a record- man and a crocodile at a depth of ing of the waltz song. It was decided more than thirty feet will be shown then that the waltz number would be on the screen for the first time in better suited to Jolson, his personality "Tarzan and His Mate", thrilling ad- as well as his voice and that Dick venture story opening on Thursday at should sing the lively tuneful "Wonder the Queen's Theatre. Johnny Weiss-Bar theme song. It might have been muller is one of the combatants. In the end

friendship. of a beautiful the new picture, directed by Cedric Bacon took no such chances. Ho junt Gibbons, the swimming champion was had versions of the two songs put required to plunge into a river with away in the studio vaults to await a man-eating "croc" for a scene in his Inter judgment. And Jolson and which he saves the life of Maureen Dick Pawell remained keen rivals but O'Sullivan. To photograph the strange good friends to the end of the picture, battle a special camera device was "Wonder Bar" is a dramatic musical constructed to penetrate water depths. romance of night club entertainers in The resulting action will provide many Parisian cafe with spectacular Kasps in addition to the thrilla of numbers created and staged by Busby elephant charges, rhinoceros charges, Berkeley, in which 300 beautiful girls giant apes, and other jungle denizens take part. There is an all star cast be included in the picture. which includes besides Jolson and Appearing the cast with Weiss-Dick Powell, Kay Francis, Dolores Del muller and Miss O'Sullivan are Neil Rio, Ricardo Cortez and Hal LeRoy. Hamilton, Paul Cavanaugh, Forrester Othors are Guy Kibbee, Ruth Donnelly, Harvey, William Stack, Desmond Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda, Fifi, Roberts, and Nathan Curry, The d'Orsay and Merna Kennedy. rlory is based on the famous Actional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

to

Kungs

*Little Man, What Now?"

had

At last Do Witt Jennings has come out into the open. For 42 years this "It Happened One. Night"

noted character actor had appeared on Claudette Colbert doesn't belleve stage and screen, but it was not until that honesty is necessarily the best recently that he was ever called upon poliey. If she did, she might still be to shave his head for a role. But he a struggling artist in Greenwich | did it for the part of Kleinholz in Village, but thanks to a fow white "Little Man, What Now?",

Frank lies', she is now recognized as one of Borzago's romantic Universal drama the most important feminine screen which stora Margaret Sullavan with personalities. So Important, in fact, Douglas Montgomery. There were that she was selected from hundreds compensations, because Jennings TC- of applicants for the co-starring role ceived three weeks salary after the with Clark Gable in "It Happened Ona completion of the picture, the actor Night", the Columbia production not being able to accept another which comes to the King's Theatre engagement until his hair had again on Wednesday. Miss Colbert owes begun to appear on his shaven pate. her stage debul to a wager made at "Little Man, What Now 7 Is now a tea party. The guests were dis pinying at the King's Theatre, telling cussing the difculties of getting a a powerfully affecting story of the Broadway

role. The captivating struggles of a young couple against Claudette bet that she could get a the cruelties of the depression, The ke that! Someone took cast appearing in support of Mias her up on it and Miss Colbert, who Sullavan and Montgomery includea hadn't any histrionic ambitions at all, many other favourite screen players. was forced to explain her predicament

part just

who

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Bron.'

to her friend. Anne Morrison,

"As the Earth Turns" had just written "The Wild West, If you've never

believed cotts". Misa Morrison saved the simplicity in some particular form is situation by offering Miss Colbert the the most difficult thing in the world role of a maid who did nothing but to attain. you will after you see "Aa open a door or two. And Claudette The Earth. Turns," Warner played it, for what girl would turn homely-life drama of rural New down a dozen pair of sheer chiffon England, at The Alhambra to-morrow, hose, a five-pound box of her favourite The simplicity of a Malne farm sec- chocolates and a now hat? But the tion-its wood and stone fences. pro- Achool joke was on Claudelte herself, for vincla dwellings, cornfields, shu immediately succumbed to the houses, beautiful summers and snow. lure of the theatre. Other parts bound winters-becomes lavish and a ການ weren't so easy to get So she resort-gigantic undertaking

for the

ed to those white lies" and convinced producer. Robert Haas, Warner Bros. Brock Pemberton that she had been art director, and the assistants turned starred in stock companies every the trick. Production began, with most Jean Mair, Donald Woods, Russel! where, that she was the pron.ising actress the stage had ever! Hardie, Emily Lowry, Arthur Hohl seen and that his forthcoming, play, and Dorothy Peterson in the featured "The Marionette Man", would fall roles. Snowdrifts were made real lamentably unless she was given the snowdrifts by the production and art leading feminine role. Her bluff stalls. The beauty, almost breath- worked. She became a Broadway star taking, of a setting seldom seen in within six months of her debut as a motion pictures-since D. W. Grifith's maid. Frank Capra directed "It "Way Down East." The beauty of Happened One Night" from the Robert "Au The Earth Turns", a simple, Riskin adaptation of the Samuel symbolic type of grandeur, cannot be Hopkins Adama novelette, "Night surpassed in the opinion of art Bus, which recently appeared in the directors,

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PICTURE

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From the Cosmopolitan Magazine story. by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Screen play by ROBERT RISKIN

A FRANK CAPRA Production

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