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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 1935.-

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CINEMA NEWS

NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

- KOWLOON-CANTON

SUCCESS OF THE NEW K.C.R. EXPRESSES

In view of the success of the Springtime is love time in the gay-special express trains running be st of world cupiti, as audiences will tween Kowloon and Canton, which roon discover when Paramount's "Paris in Spring" opens at the Queen's

wore started on the Arat of the Theatre on Hurday. Mury ERI month, it has been decided both to atre! Tullio Caraminati head the continue the service and to reduce

east of this *** of highter the fares as from Saturday, August

and songa WOVOA

aronianti 24.

story. They are two people who juve

each other very dearly, but who just This decision was made nt a wont admit it. Carminati, in a fi of meeting yesterday between Cap- desperation, threatens to commit sui-tain R. D. Walker, Manager of the elde and even goes to the Eiffel Tower British section and Mr. Lee Lu- to carry out his threat, and mots chau, Manager of the. Chinese sec- there fila Lapine, a lovely girl in ton

a similar plight. Rather than com

mit suicide, they decide to combine The new fures are to be us fol- forces and make their respective lows: Third class, 70 cents, (re- weethearts furiously jealous. The duced from $1.20). Second class

works so well that Mix Elix

sweetheart, get ingether

in self

d Ralph Binkey, Miss Lapin'!$1.80, reduced from 32.60). No return tickets will be issued in pratection. Polles pursue Carminat these classes. First class fares who is elarged with abdieting Miss will be reduced from $5 to $1. Lapine, but he cut the girl tee to and the return fore will be $7.50. le grand mother's nicestral castle on t The fares from Canton, in Can- The out-pkirts of Paris. There on currency, will be: 1 st, class, iamh confusion and trisunderstanding.? $5.60 (return teket $10,501, 2nd. The wrong couple are rupposed toeings $2.60, 3rd. class $1. La narved to each other, rada biluri-

ז' ד

x fically reaches its elim

If these trains are a success the

when Mic Els and Carmianti arePervice will be naugmented and a appily rejoined, and Miss Lapino train leaving Canton at 7 a.m. kas

inkely decide that they flen suggested.

ie muurid.

The Countess of Monte Cristo"

:

it

The amazing adventures of a ikile, Conway who directed Metro-Golf, gn- motion picture extra girl, who carried Mayer's mystery "On New York un her make-believe in real life, is Night" showing at the Queen's deftly told in "The Countess of Meute | Theatre to-day, "Celebrities are to Cristo", coming to the King's Theatre be glimpsed larify, chaly characters on Sunday. Making a dramatie it working outside the law, naive travel. from her stude and riding out of legs seeking excitement and rea the pir ture in which she was playing a tin sophisticates huryd with life. girl dared to enrry her businessmen key to feverish pitelt, ase with her and tried to get away all passinge to and fro under one roof, with

The becomes in making for the most unique roes. solved in all sorts of embarrassing section of life ever seen in one place, situations and finally in implicated in Statistics show that more suleises the arrest of nu infamous cri

criminal, occur in hotels thue in any other is a delightfully and intriguingly publie gathering place, a circum-t; disclosed in this Universal eingly for which hotels, however, are not drama. Fay Wray and Paul Lukas responsible. It is her interestis are happily team in the romantic note that free children are born in semences, while splendid, support-

art-this mad rendezvous of transivsS, ing cast includes Fatay Kelly, Re-

Re."One New York Night" is laid in a Kinald

Owen, Carmel Myers, Paul hotel where a

people from Page, John Shochan, Robert MeWade various walks of life become involved and many others of importance. Put in murder mystery that is said to this one down on your must see list. induce as many chuckles as thrills. It will keep you fascinated from first Franchot Tone nun un Merkel are rol to last.

eu-fentured in this story. Others in the cast include Conrad Nagel, Harvey and Louise Henry, Stephens, Steff Duná, Charles Starrett

dozen

"Transient Lady".

"

tance

to

"Bird of 'arudine" Filmed "Bird of Parase", now at the Star Theatre, is perhaps one of the best kamwn play's ever prodused. 'The pathetic remuner of Luana, a child į of nature, who falls Impelessly in love Speaking of sullering for art's sake, with a white man, and as hopelessly Gene Raymond, lienry Hulf, Frances sacrifices her love, required a setting Drake, June Clayworth and ther in sympathy with the euldine charmeemikers of the east of Universal's ter of her heroism. That there old King's Theatre, carried large and sun- "Transient Lady," now showing at the no other setting than Hawaii was dry black and blue bruises on their easily apparent to David (. Siz bodies for a large part of the time executive vice president in charge of} all RKO production.

Thu the they were filming this picture.

The production wheels

reason was a roller skating sequence motion. King Vidor, a master of in which they all have to skate. subtleties atus poelie screen phrasing stand up on these pesky things, the most of them did not know how to was engaged to direct and the rùm

were Hel in

No

pany ide the long sen journey to t was that most of these film Honolulu, In production, "Bird

stars lost their balance and their g Paradise" is

is tremendous in scope.

nity as they crushed again and again money was pinched to

to the floor, Director Edward Buzzel had his principals practising for an it is interesting to note that ing on this sequence, but most of that in entire day before they started shoot- the company hire na cate practice day was spent in falling

Hawaiian primitives, alt is ne-

realistic saga of 10mance, make

respect

cupants, men, women, babies, goats getting up again. They stuck do it, and duges. for the spectacular these players was surprising.

however, and in the end the skill of mating dance scem,

HITTAN

"One New York Night"

sient Ludy is the picturization of There is more compact drama in the same name which ran serially in Octavus Roy Cohen's famous story of the average American hotel than an Liberty magazine. It was adapted for be found under any one roof in the the

the opinion of Jack Arthur Censar.

wortel.

This

Come to

screen by Harvey Thew and

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