THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH
1985.
CINEMA NEWS
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ROLAND YOUNG - ALISON SKIPWORTH - REGINALD OWEN.
BING PUTS HIS HEART
"IT'S JUNE
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HIS HEART INTO HIS SONGS
"LOVE IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!
"WITH EVERY
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Here is my Heart
BING CROSBY KITTY CARLISLE
The singing sweethearts of "She Loves Me Not"...music that does things to you... hilarious comedy... exalting romance... make this the .top-notch picture of the year.
A Paramount Picture, Directed by Frank Tuttle. Songs by Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin, composers of "Love in Bloom". Addition.
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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
"Formking All Others," the most star-studded Alm since "Dinner. At Eight," will be seen at the Queen's Theatre on Saturday. With a cast as large and magnificent as the last year hit, the new picture is revolutionary in several respects. In the first place, the east is headed by three outstanding
GET READY MEN!
WARMER WEATHER COMING !
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Smartest Designs
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stars, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Coming In For A Dip? TUNIC
Robert Montgomery, who, while they
have played in teams, have never be
fore appeared together. Perfectly
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But, to the vast majority wintry weather spells. throat and chest troubles in a greater or lesser degree.
Respirolds, the new inhalant lozenges. There is protection, however, in The aromatic, antiseptic vapours As a light comedienne, Joan Crawford reveals a new side to many admirers, givon off by Respirolds whilst She is par excellence as Mary, Fark dissolving, slowly in the mouth, quick- Avenue to who is left standing at the ly rellevo coughs, bronchitis and nasal altar one minute and is pursued by catarrh, whilst the saliva flowing! two men the next. Billie Burke an down the throat soothes the inflamed
the nervous society matron, Charles Butterworth as Gablo's closest friend, membranes and eases sore throat. Frances Drako as the dark-haired airen, and Rosalind Russell, the girl chomists or direct from the Dr. Respirolds дго obtainable al friend, all turn in brilliant per-Williams Medicine Company, 451,] formances,
"The Affairs of Celitni"
Kiangai Road, Shanghai; 75 cents per Fredric March is writing the second battle of 40 tablets, post free. chapter of his adventures in growing a mustache. Chapter the First con- natural, human, swift and exciting cerned his desperate attempts to rid story, written by George M. Cohan, himself of a complex hireute adorn America's first actor, and played by mont after his brilliant success in "The him on the stage for two years. Royal Family", in order that he might Cohan is likewise the star of the reveal himself to the screen public screen version, adapted and directed clean shaven. The current opisode in- by the versatile and skiiful Rowland volves his attempt to re-cultivato the V. Lee. The supporting cast is Inrge lipgrowth for "The Affairs of Cellini", and preview audiences have praised his first film under his new contract the work of its leading members. with Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl Wynne Gibson, Dorothy Burgess, Ted F. Zanuck's 20th Century Pictures Newton, Walter Gilbert, Percy Ames company, in which he is co-starred and Cora Witherspoon head this with Constance Bennett, and which company. Clark Robinson's sets are United Artists brings to the King's said to be richly handsome. Theatre shortly.
"Caravan"
To be a rst-class actor, one must be born with a love for the theatre, such is the belief of Charles Boyer, leading favourite of the Continental stage and screen. "Caravan", Erik Charell's speetucular musical romance eaming to the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday. In "Caravan" Boyer appears as a nomadic violinist lover, with Loretta Young and Jean Parker as his leading ladies. Others in the cast aro Eugene Pallette, C. Aubrey Smith, Charley Gracewom, Noah Beery, Dudley Diggers, Richard Carle, Lionel Belmore, Billy Bevan, Armand Kaliz and Harry C. Bradley. Some 3,000 extras were employed in The scenes for massed effects.
"The Band Plays On" "Go Collegiate!"-is the theme of one of the most entertaining college pictures to be seen in many a day and which opened to an enthusiastle nudlonce yesterday at the Queen's Theatre. Tho pleture is "The Band Plays On", suggestive of just an- other football film, which it is not. Although America's national collegiate sport serves as the background of the story, it is in reality a zippy story of college and college students. Robert Young is again the veteran performor who gloriously with his role as Tony, the comca through idol of the gridiron and the "heart trouble" of lovely Betty Fornce. It is Miss Furness first leading role.. Stuart Erwin, Leo Carrillo and Ted "Free Love"! Whether caveman tactics are an aid film-Erwi os
Healy inject a happy medium into the the "boob" of the to marital happiness is the principle football aqund, Carrillo as held up for the public's opinion in lightful Italian campus tailer and the de- "Free Love," which opened at the Healy as the scheming brother of one Star Theatre yesterday. the case of tho players. Russell Hardie,
of a modern wife shown on the scrzon William Tannen and Robert Livingston
In this instance, interpreted by Gene-complete the cast.
vieve Tobin, there can be little doubt but that she earned the knockout blow meted out to her by Conrad Nagel, a patient. "hen-pecke!" hubby. Con- rad is most convincing as the long suffering husband whose temper is finally ignited by the spark created by the family doctor's stating that do mestic troubles could be simply solved by administering a spanking to his wife. Miss Tobin, who made her screen debut in "A Lady Surrendera," has covered herself with glory and assured herself a place in the select circle of im-favourites through her performance in "Free Love."
"Gambling"
Devotees of screen murder my- sterica are urged not to mles "Gambling", showing to-day at the King's Theatre. It is described as a
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