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TO-MORROW THE

THE HONGKONG ✅ TELEGRAPH.

KING'S

COME ON! SCHNOZZLE'S PERFECT LOVER!

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S.PALOOKA

woman's heart in

UNITED

ARTISTS

PICTURE

by Ham Fisher

with JIMMY DURANTE · LUPE VELEZ STUART ERWIN - MAJORIE RAMBEAU ROBERT ARMSTRONG MARY CARLISLE

• THELMA TODD WILLIAM CAGNEY

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GVIENS

A RARE AND JOYOUS

TO-MORROW

PICTURE OF THE LONDON COCKNEY

"Britannia of

Billingsgate"

A

GAUMONT IDEAL PICTURE.

"The film earned more happy laughter and warm-hearted applause than I have heard in any cinema for years. Miss Loraine is more than good, she is gorgeous.”—Daily Mail

it.

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"This is grand stuff. Everybody will love Violet Loraine is magnificent, and she has an ideal partner in Gordon Harker, who has never been better."-Sunday. Pictorial.

TUESDAY,

CINEMA NEWS

NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

OCTOBER 16, 1934.

Aspirants to film fame have often wondered what they would do if they were suddenly taken from their normal occupation to a film studio to become the leading player in a ple fure. "Britannia of Billingsgato" a Gaumont British picture having its Initial showings. to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre has just such a atory. In this case the person who rockets to fame and fortune is woman who sells fish and chips in the Billingsgate market. Violet Loraine returns after a lengthy absenco from the world of entortalamont to make her talkie debut, and plays the role of the fish and chip vendor, with all that easy assurance and superb artistry that made her fantous on the stage. With her Is Gordon Harker an a oh market porter, who lemon- strates his special flair for Cockney character humour. His Billingsgato expressions, his rhyming slang, and his attempt to be a gentleman when fortuna comes his way, are facets of a characterization that sparkles with is reality. From start to finish the films is a riot of laughter which will be happily received by audience everywhere.

"Polocks"

on the New York stage, where she appeared with Richard Bennett, father of Constance, Joan and Bar bara and one of the country's fore- most actors. Upon her, arrival' in Hollywood, Mles Davis became a bit player. Her small parts, however, were acted so excellently, that whe was singled out by George Arliss to play an important role in "The Man Who Played God." Arliss' faith in the dramatic abilities of the blonde and beautiful Belle was justified, and Warner Bros, accordingly presented her with the long term contract, which nasures futuro appearances in important roles. "The Man Who Played God" also includes in its east such well-known stage and screen ptzformers as Violet Heming, Ivan Simpson, Louise Closser liale, Donald Cook, Oscar Apfel. Andro Luguet and others. Johm Adolf directed this bean picture, which has already chosen by many metropolitan critics as one of the "ten best" of 1932.

in

the

"Charlie Chan's Courage" Donald Woods, who plays the role of Bob Crawford, the Juvenile lead in Fox Film's "Charlie Chan's Courage", now playing at the King's Theatre, launched his screen career first talkio, "The Jazz Singer". Woods, who was going to college at the time and did lm extra work on school vacations, had a small bit in the film. With this small experience as a start, ho attempted to reach greater heights in moviedom. Al- though he made numerous motion pic

ure torts in New York and Holly- failure to convince the test depart

of them. His wood, nothing came ments of various motion pleture con-

If Irving Berlin thrills to a popular musical number, it must be good. When "Polooka", Reliance's TOW comedy starring Jimmie Durante Lupo Velez and Stuart Erwin, show ing on Wednesday at the King's Theatre, was being filmed in Holly-cerns of his ability did not, however, wood, Berlin was an interested visitor prevent him from striving for his on the net during the recording of goal Putting aside motion pictures the muelcal numbers. The world's for the time, he accepted a series of juvenile stock leads in Memphis, Salt most famous composer of popular Lake City, Los Angeles and Washing music liked them so well that his

ton. From Washington, Woods went publishing house, Irving Berlin, Inc. to Denver to play with another stock is hringing out "Like Me A Little

While there, a company.

Warner Bit Less, Lupe Valez number: "Inka Dinka Doo", Duranto's "unfinished symphony" of radio fame, sing in its

Brus. casting director wanted him to make a test. Woods told the director he was too busy to take the test, so form by Jimmie; and they paid his return fare from Den- comp.cicd "Polocka". A fourth number, "Count ver. The tests proved to be success Your Blessings" was speelblly writ tch by Ferde Grofe, Irving Cassed the film juvenile leads in "As the ful, and he won a contract. He play- and Edgar A. Gusat. Marjorie Ram-

beau, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carl Earth Turn", "Merry Wives of isie, William Vagney, Thelma Todd Reno, and "For Over San Francis and Gus Arnheim and his Orchestra.co." are featured in the Imposing support- ing east of this Harry a. Leverze Edward Small presentation released by United Artists,

"Viva Villa"

"The Little Giant"

(Continued on Page 4.)

As the screen's champion lady. snacker, Jimmy Cagney had best look to his laurels. In "The Little "Viva Viņa" Metro Goldwyn Glant," Π First National picture, Mayers caniate sur pleaded which opens to-day at the Alhambra inue screen's current crop of mTheatre, Eddie Robinson.out-Cagneys portant pocopiays in andeng at 100 Cagney. Outside of booting Mar- ven's anchor after one ut ine must garet Livingston in "Smart Money" and putting a bullet through Vivienne Havenstrous production pelous

Osborne in "Two Seconds Eddie has BIPLOTY.

10 krt its authente back-

been fairly gentle with the fair sex. grounus and its cuunuums 100 Bu

extra pluyera, motion picture He has shown no propensity to bat makers riskua acain-store than once. them about. In "The Little Giant," character, The Viva Villa?" expedition into the Eddie in a fairly tough

much lo interior of mico, ngnting, jungle who thinks nothing of severs and muunună cuiu, ranks wan crimes as bumping off a rival or put- The long musn into the Arte Circle ting chiselers on the spot. But he 100 "akuna" and the Boventurous buys the ladies off instead of slugging trck into Africa 1or "Trader Horn" them when they get too Importunate. as a daring' and ambitious screen enterprise. More than 11,000 miles were covered during the neutral tun- ing. Location acouiing parties who left. Holywood early in the summer of 1983 and zig-zagged through the entire interior, covered at least that much more. As many as 6,000 extra players, including federal soldiers and poon armies recruited from the vlitages, were used in some of the battle scenes. Through the saga runs a strong and dramatle plat, with Beery as Vila, and with Fay Wray and Katherine De Mille as the two most important women in his life. Others in the notable cast include Loo Carillo, Donald Cook, Joseph Schlidkraut Frank Puglia, Phillip Cooper, and Henry B. Walthall. Jack Conway directed.

"The

Man Who Played God"

Bette Davis, George Aruss' ingende lead in his Intest Warner Bros. pie! Lare "The Man Who Played God," which is coming to the Alhambra Theatre on Friday, has been rewarded a long term contract as a result of her portrayal of the ingenuo role in the picture. Miss Davis has been in "pictures" but one year, coming to

the screen from a brief experience

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