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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 6, 1939.

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DEC. 9th

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GILBERT & SULLIVAN'S

MIKADO

IN TECHNICOLOR

PAGE

THE MIKADO" RETURNING

GILBERT

Rathbone's Son

HONGKONG Gilbert and Sul-! llvan 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 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 260 New York per- | formances,' are featured in the film.

Kenny Enker, radio tenor, sings the leading role to the accompani- 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 playing it in

S KENNY BAKER Enlists for War corner of the United States

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

Grim reality of the Eurojican war struck home of the Baall Rathbone's when their son, Rodion Rathbone, 23. enlisted for service with the Royal Engineering Corps

Redlon, Lorn in London during the

ALHAMBRA last war in which his father received the Military Cross for service with the British Esendrite, thus becomes the first British subject in Hollywood to leave for France

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By 1008 it had passed its 1000th American performance. It played for 550 weeks on Broadway.

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

All the comedy "business" intro-

duced into the netion 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, 1885, Rathbone's son is on engineer by George Grossmith in the comle rate training, having received a degree on of Ko-Ko, accidentally fell at the con- graduation from Clifton College in elusion of "The Flowers That Broom England. After a brief period in at The Spring song. The audience studio sound department, he recently howled. Gilbert ordered the tumble

profession.

STOLEN FROM THE a father into the acting Adopting the professional name of SOUTH SEAS MAIDEN John Rodion, he made his debut in "Dawn Patrol," He recently finished fa port in Universal's "Tower of Lon- | dún," In which his father is starred. In the latter flm Rodion had a taste of English warfare of 500 years ago

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when the War of the Roses was re- created for the film.

to be kept in the part. It has since

ance. Martyn Green, the funniest figured in every “Mikado" perform- living Ko-Ko, does it' in the present motion pleture.

SULLIVAN

THE CINEMAS

King's: "Girls on Probation." Oriental: "Spy Ring." Queen's! "The Saint

London." "The Warning." Majestic: *Vife. Flusband

and Friend." Alhambra

"The Warning."

"Conspiracy"

20th Century- Fox Visitor

MR. D. Goodman, 20th Century-

The costumes were designed by Fox Far Eastern Supervisor, arrived Marcel Verles, world-famous painter, in the Colony yesterday morning ca Geoffrey Toye, authority on Gilbert and Sullivan technique and long route from Shanghal to Singapore. associated with the Covent Garden

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

and directed the music. Natalie in the Fur 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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John Ambulance helpers are stationed

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Such a plan, of course, is Fully-trained Red Cross and St. feasible. Odder things have in every duct. There are fire-fighters happened and are happen-and-decontamination squads-men-s ing daily. Films with a handled shovels. small cast and a quick schedule. might conceivably At the first threat of a raid the be made in this way. What enormous dynamos in the power- house tire eut off. Every studio

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various flim stages 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 frc- studios then were generally the fighting, demolition, or decontamins- flimsiest affaira, often glass-tion squads can be sent to any point roofed, like gigantic conserva-

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