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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1986.

Jean Harlow will be seen at the King's Theatre, starting next Sunday in “RIFFRAFF", «- dramatic story of the waterfront. As Hatle, whose hardboiled exterior masks the softness banoatli, Miss Harlow abandona her famed platinum tresses for the first time" since her celebrated portrayal of "Red Headed Woman," and once again appeare an‚a brunette. Spencer Tracy ie the loading man in "Riffrasf", and the

supporting cast features Una Merkel and Joseph Callwin,

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· Horace's wile from "Top Har"

IT'S TIME TO SING AND WHISTLE!

The Repression is Over!

You can laugh your darn fool head off WHILE YOU SWIMmm IN HARMONYI.

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Doctors all agree...

Everybody needs a good gigglant this time of the year!

,RKO-RADIO. PICTURE 'Directed by

Ben Stofon

Alta producit.

·Zida-Mymensina

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The pick of the rising storlète în

quickstep musical comedy.

With HUGH HERBERT HELEN BRODERICK Roger Pryor *• Fred Keating Eric Blore • Phyllis Brooks

Evelyn Pen, Jahnny Mercer, Ray Mayer, Jay Hod, Sonny Lament, Ronald Graham

Hit Songst Santa Claus Camoin the5pting;

"If You Were Mine,”. "Eenie Meenia Minië.

"Mo," "Meet Miss Americo," "I Saw Her of Mr Eight O'clock."

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CINEMA NOTES

Claudette Colbert and Fred Mac- Murray, who met with such wide favour as a light romantic team in their first Paramount picture, "The Gilded Lily," are brought together again in the new-comedy-romance, "The Bride Conics Home," next attrac tion at the Queen's Theatre, "Tho

Bride Comes Hone is an original Cross story written especially for Miss Col bert by Claude Blayon and though It resembles The Gilded Ly that It treats of the problems con- fronting young lovers of to-day, its originality makan it one of the most amusing screen farces of the year.

"Steamboat. Round the Bend" 'Volcanoes explode, nations declare war, quintuplots are born and Pre- aldents como and go-and Will Rogers nover fails to issue the crowning com ment on whatever has just come to pass. Then, in a motion picture scene, a sweet little girl and. a nico boy are married in a prison and Will Rogers the shrewd, garrulous, im- perturbable logera-chocks up, sheds tears and can't think of 'a thing to say! It all occurred during the flim

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brings the picture to A romantic

of Will Rogers new starring vehicle, "Steamboat Round the Bend" which comes on Thursday to the King's Theatre. The scene was the wedding of Aune

Shirley and Joha McGuire. Eugeno Pallette, the sher- iff, was performing the ceremony. Pallette called for the ring, Rogers standing nearby was supposed to hand it to McGuire and say, "It belonged to your mother. In the background a negro chorus wens humming a de- lorous chant, the spiritual "The Enige's Nest". Suddenly the thing became too real for Rogers. Thoro was a lump in his throat, tears were starting to his eye. He knew that if he uttered his line it would be choked and spoil the scene. So he said noth- ing, passed the ring with a gesture the cast of "Your Unclo Dudley" fen. that was more eloquent than anytures John McGuire, Rosina Law- speech. When the scene was finished rence, Alan Dinehart and Marjorie no one spoke, not even the electri-Gateson. Eugene Forde directed the ciank. And Director John Ford

FOTU picture, which was produced under the reasoned that if the scene affected supervision of Edward T. Lowe, and his case-hardened audience in that adapted from the popular play of the fashion, it would have a hundrel same name by Howard Lindsay and times more effect in a theatre. So Bertrand Robinson, "Your Uncle the scene stood, not according to the Dudley was prepared in screen form script, but infinitely more human and by Allen Rivkin, affecting. "Steamboat Round the Bend's" plot revolves about the romance of the two youngsters, but its comic interludes are furnished by the hilarious rivalry of Will Rogers and his old friend Irvin Cobb as com- peting steamboat captains. Sol M. Wurtzel produced the picture,

the

"Escape Me Never"

role

"Escape Me Never," the film of the sensational singe hit, comes to the Star. Theatre to-day with the brilliant star, Elisabeth Bergner, and many of the principals of the original Lon- don cast, including Hugh Sinclair, Leon Quartermaine and Griffith Jones. The Margaret Kennedy play offers the tiny Austrian actress, who was last seen by lm fans in the title of "Catherine the Great," her Anest and most lovable role as Gemma Jones, the little waif who is found wandering about Venice

half

starving and given shelter by Sebastian Sanger, peti- niless young composer. Paul Czinner, Miss Bergner's trilliant director-his- band, directed "Escapo Me Never." which like "Catherine the Great" was released through United Artista, Carl Zuckmayer wrote the screen play for this B. & D. production. Others, prominent in the cast are Ireno Van- brugh, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Lyn Harding and Rosalinde Fuller.

The Irish In Us"

Everyone who goes to the movies and everyone does knows that James Cagnoy, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh would make any picture in teresting. Their work in Here Comes The Navy" and "Devil Dogs of the established them as a trio, after each had reached a high place among screen luminaries as individaul stars.

Air

And now Warner Bros. ha

have given

these stars a story, "The Irish In Us," that revolves around the lives of members of a New York family having is root in Ireland. Because it a picture of Irish life in New York, It Jumps from tears to laughter, from bitter family brawls to ovid ences of brotherly love, from

romance to drama, from thrilling action to robust humour. Mary Gordon, as the Irish mother of the three stars, is the middle-aged unknown who, a year

ugo, was cooking In a Hollywood restaurant, and who had occasionally been used as an extra in thu movies. The love Interest

centres around Olivia de Havilland, a beautiful new. The ever-increasing demand for ease and comer. Allen Jenkins as a broken down, pugilist turna in the best act- riding comfort, and the effect this has had ing of his successful career.

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"Your Uncle Dudley"

With all the whimsy pathos and

at

genuine comedy at his command, Edward. Everett Horton renders portrait of a small town hero who had to take a number of kicks to get. wise to himself in "Your Uncle Dud- ley, the comedy now a tho

Tomnatic

role, Horton plays the part of a man who has a pathetic weakness for silver-loving cups and

banquets. Lois Wilson, who has persisted in lov Ing him for many years, docan't like. the way things are but hopes for a It comes when Horton's

changister demands, that he 201

turn money loaned him years before and when friends turn deaf ears to his pleas for n touch. Hortan doen an about face that startles his fellow eitikons and creates a number of hilarious-comedy altuations mand

elimax. In addition to Miss Wilson,

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