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FIRST NIGHT show-talking

Song Hit

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIù baturday, FEBRUARY 4, 1937.

Of 1936 Was 'Alone'

Do you remember the most played tune

of 19367

Was it "Musle Goos Round" .... or "These Foolish Things" 7

Independent survey conducted by an English newspaper revealed these facts and opinions.

1. Unofficial vote, collected from twenty-five honest citizens, on the question, "What tune did you get most tired of in 1936?" gave this result:-

14. "On the Beach at Bali Bali."

9. "Red Sails in the Sunset" (this was really

a 1935 number).

1 "When the Poppies Bloom Again.”

1 "Alone."

Last voler (a woman) has the best memory. Tune that was broadcast most in the year was "Alone."

Nexi in radio popularity (according to publishers' record) was "Gotta Dance My Way to Heaven."

ENTERTAINMENT PAGE

REAL INNOVATION

AT MAJESTIC

THEATRE.

A daring innovation in einems entertainment

is announced by Mr. C. Goldin, Manager of the Majestic Theatre,

Commencing to-morrow, patrons of this Nathan Road house will see, for the first time in Hongkong, a double-feature programine, Two full length films will be screened, with an intermission between each.

Double-feature programmes are universal in Australia and South Africa, and are shown fa almost every second run house in the United States. In latter country, distributors have fought hard to end. the system, under which, they say, they have to givo claemaddicts two films for the price of one. But double-lengil programmes still remain. Hongkong's misfortune is that in our single-feature programmes, we get many "quickle" or third-rate pictures as the -only attraction-pictures that were made simply as

All-ups for double-feature films.

I publie patronage of new arrangement At Majestic Theatre is entisfactory. Management an- nounces that, auch programmes will be regularly glven. They may revolutioning entertainment in Hongkong.

BUT a band leader, who should YOLA AND PAUL RETURN

know, since he has to pleasë

both publisher and public, gives

these three:--

1, "Musie Gors Round." 2, “Check

TO ROOF GARDEN

to Check," "When the Poppies TWO of Hongkong's great favourites are back again.

Bloom Again."

No. 2 there is interesting. It is the only one of the Astaire-Rogers Alm numbers from "Top it," "Follow the Fleet," and "Swing Time to rate a mention. And they've been well played, better publicised.

Solemn thought by this depart- ment: Most played number, “Alone." Best-liked number (by this depart ment)-1, Nearly Let Love." 2. "These Foolish Things" 3, "Music Goes Round,"

Music Salen Were Low

BRITISH music industry has had

a pretty worrying time in 1930. With sheet-music sales lying low and disc antcs modest, all efforts have

Remember-

there is more in

Ovaltine'

·-more in Health- giving ingredients. -more in Quality -more in Quantity -more in Value

Yola and Paul, dancers extraordinary, are making their third re-appearance in Hongkong-surely a record?--and wil give three numbers in Hongkong Hotel's Roof Garden to-night.

Since they left Hongkong on July 18 last year they have toured all over this part of the southern hemisphere. Their travels have taken them to Japan, North China, the Philippines, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, India, Singapore and French Indo-China. They played three seasons In faffles Hotel in Singapore-also a record--and were presented to Hong- kong's Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, nt the Jubilee of Taiylin gala in September 1935-shortly before he came to

me to Hongkong.

Yola and Paul both hail from different countries within sight of the lue Danube. Since they left their homelands, they have toured prac- tleally all over the world, the last three years being spent in the Far East. Incidentally, they are the only European team to win First Prize in

an annual Tango competition held at Buchos Aires.

In addition to to-night, Yola and Poul are scheduled to appear of the tan dance in the Roof Garden to-morrow afternoon.

were

been concentrated on radio boosting: The public countered the second

months by showing, os the and swing.

B.B.C. countered the drst attack on, an even greater determination by banning paid arrangements of hit to stick to sweet music. Stuff they

songs..

understood.

hildren need nourishment to resist winter ills

Growing children need more nourishment than ordinary food supplies. That is why 'Ovaltine' should be their daily beverage. This delicious food-drink supplies in a concentrated, correctly balanced and easily digested form, all the nourishing elements and vitamins that are essential for healthy growth.

Happy, healthy children are those whose regular daily beverage is delicious 'Ovaltine'.

Long experience proves that 'Ovaltine' is with- out equal for giving and maintaining, robust health, sound nerves and abundant vitality. 'Ovalting' makes an irresistible appeal to Even those children, it is better than milk, children who dislike milk will drink it eagerly when 'Ovaltine' is added. 'Ovaltine' not only transforms milk into a delicious beverage, but makes it digestible and much more nourishing.

AT THE CINEMAS

Shakespeare And They

Speak

BERGNER HAS STAKED "AS YOU English

ALL IN HER

LATEST FILM

THERE is more of the stuff savings into the production of "As

́of human drama in the last three years of Bergner's life, since she sought asylum here, than in a dozen plays. Take just these incidents....

January 9, 1933. She appears at Prince's Row register office, London, marries her director, Paul Czinner, promptly dis appears.

April 6, 1933. Back again; this time heralded by C. B. Cochran as the world's greatest actress, exiled by Hitler (she is a Jewess of Austro-Russian par- entage), looking for

career.

n Tiew

She makes a film about Catherine the Great for Korda, making no sceret of the fact that she does not care much for the subject or the method,

You Like It."

The Sim takes fourteen weeks to shoot; a strike, Bergner's illness

£100,000

delay it costs mount00,000.

up and up until finally the fira is finished at a cost

of £150,000.

All her money is in it-everything. It is the greatest gamble of her life. By now, Sir James Barrle has appeared on the stage. He is at Elstree daily, advising, helping. He is a rabid Bergner fan; she a Barrie fan.

One day she discovers they stand exactly the same height. That clin- ches it. Barrie writes a Biblical play for her, "The Boy David." Bergner is to play David.

January, 1930. Rehearsals stort at His Majesty's, Almost at once rumours of trouble get about. Sud- denly Bergner collapses, rusted, desperately 11, to be operated on for a perforated appendix. She has been in pain for months, "The Boy David" cost is disbanded.

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March 24, 1936. The geniol figure Dec. 8. 1933. Cochran presents of Sam Goldwyn appears in London. her in "Escape Me Never" In Lon- To the general surprise he announces

publicly that he has been don. She is an overnight sensation.

The play runs

Bergner at the nursing home. to capacity for eight months; then closes as Berg-

She has (1) signed a five-year ner's falling strength demands rest.

contract with United Artists; (2) She has not been seen on a London stage since.

March 8, 1034. Nazla march through Berlin streets shouting "Down with Bergner!"

Cochran talks of another play, but she leaves for New York to show them "Escape Me Never."

For the next twelve months she works hard on Broadway and at Elstree on a film version of the play which is rewarded by mony thousands earned and in the bank, and a small gold statuette sent her by Hollywood (a place to which she will never go) for the crack per- formance of the year,

It must have been at that point that the stars suddenly change for

her.

STAGE

A.D.C.

Cancel

Play

DIFFICULTIES in connection

with the script of "The Shining Hour", which had been provisionally chosen by Hong- Hating working for others, she kong's" Amateur Dramatic So- forms her own Olm company. Help-ciety as their second production ed by Joe Schenek, she puts all her

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TEST ANSWERS

In a Lonely Lone

The solution of the mystery was simple enough-once In- spector Playfair had hit on it. Schlechten had just arrived from Berlin. Berlin time is ал hour ahead of ours, and Schlechter had forgotten to put back his watch. Hence the alibi which the Butcher at first appear- ed to have was not an alibl ́át all. He was duly tried and convicted of the murder.

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ORIENT.

(3) Anagram of ASCOT, (4) "The Lion and the Uni-

corn."

(5) Anagram of RICE, "Eric,

or Little by Little." (8) "Wherefore

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for 1936-37 season has caused abandonment of plan to give this well-known play.

A.D.C. is now apparently "all up in the air" regarding plans for balance of season, and it has not been definitely decided whether to go on with another production.

"We hope to be able to do some- thing, but have no play in mind at present" a Committee-man told me Blast night.

Big blow to ADC. is loss of Mr. E. G. Smith-Wright, who is leaving Hongkong on leave on March 10, so will not be participating in any fur». ther activities this season.

AD.C. prospects have not been heightened by large number of rivals who are entering field during the next two months. Philharmonie, Y.M.C.A., Club de Recreio ore all in active rehearsal.

CLUB DE RECREIO'S A.D.Č., which

has remained quiescent since it produced "Madame Jotte" four years ago, is to enter the lists again this season, and has under active rehear- sul vaudeville numbers which should prove popular in local entertainment fleld.

Gus D'Aquino is in charge of pro- duction, and Club de Recreio expect to throw open doors in mid-April,

CONTEMPORARY "Previewer" of

South China Morning Post an- nounces annual ballot to discover Hongkong's Most Popular Flim Star for 1036-37. In three previous con- tests, Ginger Rogers has easily topped pool on two occasions, and late Marla Dressler once, This year there are several new favourites who should be around the tops.

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ALTHOUGH chorus rehearsals of Philharmonie's "Street Singer" have been in progress for some time, cast of principals has not yet been decided. Philharmonic is holding an audition next week, following which 'cast will be announced, George Goncharoff, who did similar work for "Maid of the Mountalas",

directing chorus, and production is again in excellent hands, of Cyril Brown,

Lindsay Lafford is replacing A. B. Yule, who has been transferred from Colony, as Orchestra Conductor.

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Amateur Y.M.C.A. Dramatic Society has Rending of four one-act plays on Thursday night, and is also expected to announce casts next week. These plays, which

will include "The Bishop's Candle-

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suck" from "Les Miserables," will

3 be produced in West Lounge in

April.

Rev. J. MacLean, who wrote script

of successful "Tack and the Bean- stalk" pantomime, is actively

Monthly Notes reports a. good-

ly profit from "Jack and the Bean- sinks".

LIKE IT"

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ELIZABETII BERGNED

agreed to go to Hollywood to re- cuperate at the Goldwyn home,

March 25, 1036. Cochran, with emotion in his voice, denies every word of it. He says Goldwyn never saw Bergner, and that the next thing she'll do when she's well will be to go straight back to the Barrie play for him.

Same time, same day, Murray Silverstone, Sam Goldwyn's business colleague, says maybe Sam didn't actually SEE her, but she's signed that Ave-year contract to make ple- lures for them as, when and how she ilkes.

This will not interfere with her obligation to Mr. Cochran.

Signs Contract

getting

Summer 1936. Bergner well, at Madeleine Carroll's country home near East Grinstead, She orders black drapes for all the win- dows; her eyes are troubling her.

August 1936. She algns a contract with Max Schach, of Capitol Films. She is now busy on "Dreaming Lips" at Denham. To interviewers, she says the very next thing she does will be "The Boy David" for Mr. Cochran,

"Hearts Divided"

Theatre: King's

TWO pictures recently placed on the market, "Hearts Divided"-cur- rently showing at the King's-and "Love in Exile" (Caumont-British) have themes that are familiar to all ̈ who read their newspapers in Decem- ber and January.

Both studios strenuously deny, how- ever, that their flims were prompted by King Edward's romance, and both point out that the plctures had left the studio before the constitutional crisis arose at Home.

In "Love in Exile" King Regls VI (Clive Brook) voluntarily abdicates his throne for a beautiful commoner. In "Hearts Divided". Captain Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the French Emperor, finds romance with Betsy Patterson, of Baltimore.

There is some historical foundation for the romance In "Hearts Divided", which is, in addition, a Alm of more than usual merits.

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Film: "As You Like It." Theatre: Queen's. THE audience of film critics clapped. A Shakespeare play had been filmed in which-bar one-each play- er spoke good English,

There seem to me three dia- tinct reasons for your possible enjoyment of this film.

You may want to hear the work of Shakespeare: you will enjoy Leon Quartermaine's Jaques, In particular his rendering of that speech you learned at school and haven't been able to forget (that's it: "All the world's a stage"); Sophie' Stowart's Celin; Henry Ainley's volee.

You may want to see Bergner; stil she never escapes from her twisty-twirly-1itle-girlie charm, coas her "oos," and has appeal for both sexes when she a dressed up as a boy.

"You may want to see Laurence Olivier-either for his Orlando or for himself.

Both are good, although the part of dreamy, love-rhyming Orlando quenches the flery Olivier who was so thrilling as Romeo.

Even in the early part, before he has seen Rosalind, "Olivier seems In little bowed under by his burden, not quite the rebellious youth who would challenge the wrestler Charles.

If you are at all interested in the welfare of Alms, you should certainly sea this one because the enre with which the play has been cut, east, costumed and directed, deserves applause.

Miss Bergner, among so fine a group of English actors (1 forgoi lo mention Austin Trevor's Deau earlier on-In this small part he makes him- self memorable), has two handicaps.

One cannot help nolicing her accent or having hoped that she would be more Rosalina and loss Bergner.

Particularly, I think you'll like the scene in the Forest of Arden, where Orlando and Jaques express their amicable disilke of each other's company. It is funny,

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