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CINEMA NOTES

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY-2 1937.

"The White Angel" The spirit of "The White Angel new from the screen of the Majestic Theatre yesterday, straight into the hearts of enthralled audiences. There

has ever played that gives such wide permitting her to pamper a "protex range to his talents, "Anthony Ad-of the rich" and for giving him the Versc" is a mammoth production freedom of the parlour. The hus based on the popular novel by band is further maffed by the wild Hervey Allen. Besides March, the expenditures and tall doings of his cast includes Olivia de Havilland, dizzy daughters. When his fortune Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Anita is Tost in the raffle of the stock mar- An important featured player and Louise, Louis Hayward, Gole Song-ket, he is saved by the butler who co-star for many years, Fredrie dergaard, Steff Duna, Billy March, finally falls for the sweet blandish- Match emerges na a full-fledged star Donald Woods and Heury O'Neil, ments of the dizzier daughter. Be- Bides William Powell and Carolo to the Warner Bros. production of Mervyn LeRoy directed.

"My Man Godfrey"

Lombard, the cast includes · Alice "Anthony Adverse," which 18

"Without King's Theatre to-day.

Dixon, William Powell attains the distinc-Brady, Gall Patrick, Jean

Alan Mowbray boing superstitious about it,"

tlon of being a butler for the nuttiest Eugene Pallette,

Auer, Robert Light and March, it seems significant that my family in the whole country, In the Macha

Gregory La first starring role should so closely Universal romantic comedy, "My Franklin Pangborn. parallel the first role that gave me Man Godfrey," which opens at the Cava, one of Hollywood's foremost my brenks' on the stage. It was the Queen's, Alhambra, and Star Thea directors, made the picture, - title role of Experience,' n play by

to-morrow. ires,

The charming. George Hobart. It was the sort of talented Carole Lombard is co-starred part that von through the entire with him in the screen offering, which fabric of the play. He influenced was taken from Eric Hatch's sparkle whatever part belonged to the othering, mirth-stirring novel of the same characters. He motivated the Bow name. Tho gay, Inugh-spangled was not a dry eye in the house when Of the lives around

him quality of the story was preserved this picture culminated in a smash- JC remained mure or leas by having Eric Hatch transpose his ing climax, with the "White Angel," the same, white every life that own book into the screen play. This in the person of Kar Francis, being touched his, changed. Anthony Ad- he did with Morrie Ryskind, noted décorated by Queen Victoria for her verse' is similar in all these respects. writer of many screen hits which in-courage and bravery and her service The only difference, is that Experi- } clude “A Night at the Opera." The to humanity. First National has ence' was allegorical, while 'Anthony screen narrative reveals Powell ns given the screen many fine produc- 13 of the cart, earthly. I have "forgotten man," being brought to a tions, but none have been greater always believed that actors gravitate very ritzy party by Carole Lombard, than "The White Angel" in dynamic toward certain types of parts. It is so that she may win first prize in a power, in sheer drama, pathos, not because of casting entirely, but Scavenger Hunt. Then he engages tragedy, romance and artistry. There because there are certain things to Powell' as the butler and the fun is that indefinable something in this

uctur which

reacls so definitely takes on a modder pace, This balmy heart throbbing drama that grips and that the role is part of his own per- family, generally known as "The holds the attention from start to sonality." Heralded ng the most batty Bullocks," includes: One baffled falsh. Miss Francis is always colourful figure ever to be screened, husband who has been thoroughly Anished actress, but never has she "Anthony Adverse is considered by gaffed by a slightly dafty wife. He been more splendid than in the role Fredric March the one character he is laughed at by society's riffṛaff for │of Florence Nightingale. She given

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to the character the fire of enthusi asm that makes it live and breathe on the screen. The two male leads are handled by accomplished actors, one an Englishman. Ian Hunter, noted both on the London stage and in American films, the other American, Donald Woods, known to In the every lover of the drama country. Hunter was never better than in his role of a British war cor- respondent aiding Miss Nightingale in her humanitarian work, por Woods as the dilettante lover of the Immortal nurse who follows her to the front and after a terrifle night dies on the battlefield in her arms. Others who do splendid work include Charles Croker-King, Phoebe Foster, George Curzon, Georgia Caine, Halli- well Hobbes, Eily Malyon, Montague Love, Ferdinand Munier, Lillian Cooper and Egon Brecher. In fact the entire east was well selected.

"Wedding Present"

The first of a series of screen plays be produced by the newly- organised B.P.

studio for

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release through

Sunt. "Wedding

Present," will be showing to-day at the Alhambra Theatre, with Jenn Bennett and Cary Grant in starring roles. The film is a fast-moving ro- 'mantic con

comedy set

against

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Junt of newspaper lite. the stellar

Nagel, Gene Lock-

B001, Corting cast are

Incz Courtney, Edward

Brophy and Damon Ford, Richard Wallace was director. Taken from

a Saturday Evening Post story by Paul Gallico, "Wedding Present" in- troduces Grant and Miss Bennett Da reporters on a a metropolitan daily. Their ability and pranks make them the joy and despair of their hard- hailed city editor, Bancroft. AB the story opens, one of these pranks puts hal proposed marringe of the two reporters. Ban

Bancroft resigns as city editor and Grant succeeds him. Intent on becoming a success, he forgets his playful

halt to a

nature and be- comes as hard-boiled as his predeces- sor. An argument with Miss Bennett results in her running away to New York, where she convinces herself she is in love with Nagel, a writer of inspirational books. Grant, quit- ting his job and following her, pre- pares to give her the most impressive wedding present of all time. The story's rapid-are laughs are added

to

by Brophy and William Demarest. Demarest is a New York gangster. whom Grant has saved from drown- Ing.

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"Sing. Baby, Bing" -Movie audiences may not known it, but that bright-eyed, dark- haired, round-faced, wise-cracking comedienne who keeps people laugh- ing

In so many pictures is a little Irish girl named Veronice Kelly. Audiences knew she was Irish, all right, but they thought her name was Patsy Kelly. It isn't. Patsy, who in featured with Alice Faye, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Ted Healy, Michael Whalen and the Ritz Brothers in the Twentieth Century-

the

Fox combination of hilarity, song and love-making, "Sing, Baby, Sing," which is showing to-day at Queen's Theatre, explains

that a police officer gave her the name of "Patsy," Menjou's part in this pic- ture is that of a tired and overwork-" ed celebrity who comes to New York- to relax by going on one continual spree. In, Alice Faye he finds the ideal target at which to hurl the lines of the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet"-and there the fun ber Kina Darryl F. Zanuck selected Sidney Landeld to direct "Sing, Baby, Sing" and B. G. DeSylva associate producer.

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