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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 6, 1939.

SATURDAY ENTERTAINMENT

DEC. 9th

COME PREPARED!

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ITS LILTING TUNES FROM NOW ON I

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TO SEE AND HEAR SOME- THING THE SCREEN HAS NEVER ATTEMPTED BE. FORE !

GILBERT &

SULLIVAN'S

MIKADO

IN TECHNICOLOR

THE

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PAGE

MIKADO" RETURNING

Rathbone's Son

String KENNY BAKER Enlists for War

JEAN COLIN⚫Martyn Green Sydney Granville John Barclay and the D'OYLY CARTE CHORUS AT THE

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Grim reality of the European war struck home at the Basil Rathbone's when their son, Rodion Rathbone, 23, enlisted for service will the Royal Engineering Corps.

Rodion, born in London during the inst war in which his father received the Military Cross for service with the Brush Earndrille, thus becomes the first British subject in Hollywood Ito leave for Franco,

HONGKONG Gilbert and Sul- livan fans who missed the mid- night preview of "The Mikado”” this summer will be pleased to learn that the film will be re- screened at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres commencing on Saturday.

The complete cast and chorus of the D'Oyly Carle Opera Com- pany, most famous of all Gilbert and Sullivan troupes, whose mu- sical forebears first produced "The Mikado" on March 14. 1885, to start runs of 672 London and 250 New York por- formances, are featured in the film.

Kenny Baker, radio tener, sings the leading role to the bccompani- ment of the London Symphony Orchestra,

No other musical comedy can boast an audience as large as that of "The Mikado." By October, 1885, there were 117 companies playing it in every corner of the United States. By 1808 it had passed its 1000th American performance. it played for 550 weeks on Broadway,

In aiming "The Mikado" care was taken to present it in the best Gilbert) and Sullivan tradition. All the songs and score are presented intact.

All the comedy "business" intro- duced into the action by Gilbert, witttest man of lils day, and handed down from year to year by the D'Oyly Cartes, are in the film.

For instance on opening night, 1885, Rathbone's son is an engineer George Grossmith in the comic role training, having received a degree on of Ko-Ko, accidentally fell at the con- graduation from Clifton College inclusion of The Flowers That Broom. England. After a brief period in in The Spring" song. The audience! studio sound depurtinent, he recently howled. followed his father into the ueling profession.

Adopting the professional name of

John Rodion, he made his debus in "Dawn Patrol." He recently mished a part in Universal's "Tower of Lon- don," in which his father is starred. In the latter film Rodion had a taste of English warfare of 500 years ago when the War of the Roses was re- created for the Bim.

Glibert ordered the tumblo

to be kept in the part. hug since Beured in every "Mikado" perform- ance. Martyn Green, the "funniest)

fiving Ko-Ko, does it in the present motion pleture.

SULLIVAN

THE CINEMAS

In

King's: "Girls on Pròbation." Oriental "Spy Rug." Queen's: "The Saint

London." "The Warning.” Majestic: "Wife. Husband

and Friend." Alhambra: "Conspiracy"

"The Warning.”

20th Century-

Fox Visitor

MR. D. Goodman, 20th Century-

The costumes were designed by Fox Far Eastern Supervisor, arrived Marcel Vertes, world-famous painter. In the Colony yesterday morning en Geoffrey Toyè, authority on Gilbert

and Sullivan technique and long roule from Shanghal to Singapore. associated with the Covent Garden

Connected with 20th Century-Fox Opera Company, produced the picture

at directed the muste. Natalie In the Far East for the pust 17 years, Kalmus of the Technicolour Motion Mr. Goodman only recently returned! Picture Corporation was in charge of The colour photography.

from a visit to America,

New Trend In British

Film Production

A REPORT was recently circulating amongst British film. people that their films, during the war, may be made by mobile units touring the country in vans-operating one month, say, in the North of Ireland, another in the Lalce district-each unit' entirely self-contained and comprehensive, travelling its own actors.

Jahu Ambulance helpers are stationed

decontamination squads,

men

Such a plan, of course, is Fully-trained Red Cross and St. feasible. Odder things have in every duct. There are fire-fighter: happened and are happen-cks, and men with long- ing daily. Films with a handled shovels. small cast and a quick schedule might conceivably

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is more, cut free of the red tape worker, already trained in ARP of studio organisation, they drill, makes his way to his allotted Imight prove to be both virile and duct. The fire-proof doors the

Blm various

stages economic.

are promptly clored. A system of field telephones Conditions were very different manned at three key-points on the during the last war. British studio tot. so that emergency Arc- studios then were generally the fighting, demolition, or decontaminu- Gimsiest affairs, often glass-ton scutis can be sent to any point

ut a moment's notice. roofed, like gigantic conserva-

The A.R.P. organisation. which tories. Some of

numbers something like sixty men- more barns, hastily thrown to bees. Is entirely drawn from volun- HOUSE gether. The best had the solitary studio workers, who have given Elsa Maxwell, the famous Ameri-dity of the average village hall. up their evenings during the last year to attending lectures and preparing can party-giver, makes her cinema "NO BETTER SHELTER" debut in "Hotel for Women," the To-day, there are few better air for any such emergency. Cosmopolitan production for 20th raid shelters than British im studios. Century Fox, which will commence screening here next week.

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One or two studies, indeed, are re-manager, the senior warden and his garded as so secure that they have assistant are heads of the studio police been taken over for the storage of department. Other officers and train- city records and Government doen-ed helpers include the studio's master carpenter, the chief floor electrical ments.

The ground floor stage of one studio engineer, the head of the construc- has been recognised as the official air ion department, te restaurant MDR- ger. the company's, secretary, the crowded area. ruid shelter for a

chief accountant, the make-up expert, There, at the sound of the siren, you the head gardener's wife, the stills may find the children from the local photographer's wife, and many of the ish-und-chip shop rubbing shoulders clerical staff. with n £50 a turn comedian.

The studio Hacil has provided At another studlo he voluntary fire brigade and ambulance unit has been equipment, gas-proof and decontami accepted for years ng the smartest and nailon suits, steel helmets, and thou- best-equipped outnt in Le district. A sands of sandbags for vulnerable

stations. third, which, so far, has received no

Incidentally, one of the oddest official recognition from the locat A.B.. authorities, is equipped with camouflages of the war has been in- underground shelters that could house voluntarily provided by these sand- bag, ateliers. When sand ran short more than 3,000 people comfortably the boga were filled with earth from in case of emergency. Planned by the studio lots. After a few autuma the studios for the beneft of its own nights of rain, these bags began to employees, these shelters are open grout. By next spring il la expected any passer-by, and look like become that grass-grown mounds will cover ing the sanctuary for every house- all the entrances to the studio holder within hurrying distance.

· VAST AIR DUCTS The studlo in question was for tunate in. starting life with under- Around ducts for air-conditioning the stages that resemble, in a small way, the labyrinth of the Poris sewers. Equipment in the ducts themselves, and slight structural alterations in the exits and entrances, have turned then Irto almost ideal air raid shelters.

Wooden benches line the walls. There are barrels of water; paper drinking-cups, and a supply of food. In the central chamber, Uke a minin ture Piccadilly-cfreus Underground slation, where the ducts join, there is n frst-aid post with a nursing sister permanently in charge, -shining; steel cabinals of first-aid nccessories, stretchers, and all sorts `of' surgical appliances.

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