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HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH Her December 6, 1939.

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HONGKONG Gilbert and Sul- livan fans who missed the mid- night proview 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 Carte 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. per- formances. are featured in the film.

Kenny Raker, radio tenor, sings the leading role to the accompani Iment of the London Symphony

Orchestra.

No other musical comedy can boast un audience as large as that of "The Mikado." By October, 1885, there were 117 companies playing

Starring KENNY BAKER Enlists for Warry coming United States.

JEAN COLIN - Martyn Green • Sydney John Barclay and the

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STOLEN FROM THE

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

Rodion, born in London during the ast war in which his father received the Military Cross for service with the British Escadrile, thus becomes the first British subject in Hollywood

to leave for France.

By 1898 It had passed its 1000th American performance. It played for 550 weeks on Broadway,

In AlmingThe Mikado" care was taken to present it in the best Gilbert and Sullivan tradition. All the songs und score are presented Intact.

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

For instance on opening night, 1085, Rathbone's son is an engineer by 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 u

In The Spring" cong. The audience studio sound department, he recently howled. Gilbert ordered the tumble followed his father into the acting to be kept in the port. It has since profession.

Artured every "Mikado" perform-| ance. Martyn Green, the funniest

SOUTH SEAS MAIDEN John Rodion, he made his debut in living Ko-Ko, does it in the present

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Adopting the professional nome of

“Dawn Patrol,” Ile recently finished la part in Universal's "Tower of Lon- {don," in which his father is started. In the latter im Rodion had a taste of English warfare of 500 years ago when the War of the Roses was re- fcreated for the film.

motion picture.

SULLIVAN

THE CINEMAS

King's "Girls en Probation." Oriental: "Spy Ibig.” Queen's: "The Saint In

London." "The Warning." Majesile: "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 Toyé, authority on Gilbert

and Sullivan technique and long route from Shanghai to Singapore. associated with the Covent Garden

Opera Company, produced the picture Connected with 20th Century-Fox and directed the music. Natalie in the Far East for the past 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.

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with picks, and men with long ing daily. Films with a handled shovels. small cast and a quick

THE DRILL schedule might conceivably At the first threat of a raid the be made in this way. What enormous dynamos in the

house are cut off. Every studio is more, cut free of the red tape worker, already trained in

A.R.P. of studio organisation, they drill, makes his way to his allotted might prove to be both virile and duct. The fire-proof doors

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are promptly closed. A system of field telephones Conditions were very different is manned at three key-points on the during the last war. British studio lot, so that emergency fre- studios then were generally the fighting, demolition, or decontamina- flimsiest affairs, often glass-tion squads can be sent to any polit roofed, like gigantic conserva-

The AR.P. organisation, which tories. Some of them were mere barns, hastily thrown to numbers something like sixty mein-

bers, is entirely drawn front volun- HOUSE. gether. The best had the solitary studio workers, who have givea Elsa Maxwell, the famous Ameri-dity of the average village hall.up their evenings during the last year

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The chief A.R.P. officer is the studio Cosmopolitan production for 20th rald shelters than British film studios, manager, the senior warden and his Century-Fox, which will commence One or two studios, indeed, are reassistant are heads of the studio police !screening here next week.

garded as so secure that they have been taken over for the storage of department. Other omeers and train- elty records and Government docu-ed helpers Include the studio's master carpenter, the chlet door electrical. The ground floor stage of one studio engineer, the head of the, construc- has been recognised as the official air tion department, the restaurant mana- ger, the company's' secretary, the raid shelter for a crowded area. chief accountant, the make-up expert, There, at the sound of the siren, you may find the children from the local the head gardener's wife, the stilis

photographer's wife, and many of the Ash-and-chip shop rubbing shoulders

clerical staff. with a £50 a turn comedian.

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Incidentally, one of the oddest ometal recognition frora the local AR.P. authorities, is equipped with camouflages of the war has been in- voluntarily provided by these sand- underground shelters that could house bag shelters, When and ran short more than 3,000 people comfortably the bags were filled with earth from In case of emergency. Planned by the studio lots. After a few nutumn the studios for the benefit of its own nights of rain, these bags began te employees, these shelters are open to sprout. By next spring it is expected any passer-by, and look like becom-that gruss-grown mounds will cover ing the sanctuary for every house- all the entrances ta the studio

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