1940-02-14 — Page 8

WAKE UP YOUR

LIVER BILE

J

Without Call-And You'll Jump Ost *F Bed Fall of Yim and Vigour.

Your Hver should, pour out two plata of Tiguald bile into your towels daily. If this balle lenot Rowing freely, your food toesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels, Goa bleate up your stomach. Yog gat runssipated. Your whole system is poleonteed and you feel sour, sunk and the work tooka punk.

A mero bowel movement dosas't, get int the entire. IE inked klown famous Carter's Little Liver Plite to net these two pints of bila fusing freely stud make you feel “up and up". Harınless, gantle, yet amusing la making ble How freely, Link for the name Carter's Tillie Tdvor Pifla on the red packe sze, Refuse anything elas.

NEW SOUTH,SEA LIP COLOUR GIVES LIPS NEW ALLURE!

Badi that forcinata ....... Isætur that intrigus

... smoothness that captivates!

Youth Sea reds... the glamor ous little South Seumalden's own alluring colours.....here they are. seady to west your Bos with new enclinatment...new luster..... now sparkla...new softness and smoothness, They are the shades uf the new TATTOO trans ent ligurtick and one of them li sure to gamesly suit you. And

how you'll love TATTOO'S loyalty co your own lips; it's so stubbornly indelible, it simagoly

won't learn zeur lips for someone else's! See the five shades at your favourite kom, Various sizes ut prices to fr every purse. TATTOO your tips!

CORAL....EXCITIC....NATURAL....PARTIE, „HAWATIAH

TATTO

YOUR LIF

For your complete benuty treatment, use Tattoo Powder, Rouge and Muscara (Cream with brush) Sole Distributor: Auw Pit Seng's Trading Co., Ltd., Hongkong.

SHOP TO BEST ADVANTAGE

THE

ASIA.COM

OI-KWANABLDO

FOR GROCERIES BUTCHERIES FRUITS GREENSTM & SUNDRIES

DELIVERIES

LEAVING DEPOT 7. A.M. 12.NOON 4.PM,

NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR MONTHLY CREDIT

TELEPHONES

RETAIL & ACCOUNTS DEPT 20416 AVHOLESALE & GENERAL OFFICE 22338)

Mr. Motorist!

OVER

Save

50%

JON YOUR TIRE BILLS

DON'T THROW YOUR OLD TIRES

AWAY

Ready in 2 days.

All' aixos

Our Super Tread Process w}}}· re- build your worn tyros

maklar them" New for Bafe Driving.

THE HONGKONG TYRE CO.

* PAS

66

ENTERTAINMENT

Wednesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 14, 1940.

With

PAGE

The

LONELY WIFE

"Gone Wind'

991

RECENTLY the cinema event for which America has waited for three years

took place in Atlantic, Ga the premiere of the Tech- nicolour film "Gone With the Wind."

Governor Eurith D. Rivers proclaimed..n Statewide holiday and 300,000 film fans lined up for seven miles to watch the procession of motor-cars which i brought Vivlen Leigh, Clark Gable, his wife Carole Lombard, Producer David O. Selznick, Laurence Olivier and others from the air port.

The night before the premierej of the film a costume ball was held. At the premiere, hundreds of de- lighted Georginus elapped, cheered. whistled and wept at the historical acquences.

New York Debut

de

In

the

The film was also shown at New York's Astor and Capitol Theatres; and win haited unanimously by all

Olivia an excellent nlm. Havilland, fames Stewart,

Will Hays, David Selznick. Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, the Vanderbilt clan, nearly Doris Duke Cromwell and every millionaire and his wife

York were New

present al screening.

rek three years to make this n from a novel which Margaret Mitchell took seven years to write,

Producer Selznick's Arst trouble was to reduce the 1,037-poge novel to a workable Hollywood script,

Sidney Howard, one of the ablest seript writers, urrived in Hollywood Throughout in the spring of 1937. that summer, together with Selznick and George Cukor, he worked on the first script When inished it W3x found to be too long so they made i another script. In 1938, many famous writers were all working on the script.

Search for Star

Production Atiblly started but re- sulis came slowly. For two years Selznick had nobody to play the part | of Scarlett O'Hara so polls were taken and scouts despatched through- uirt America, During the liming of one of the first scents-that of the Burring of Atlanta-Myron Selznick took Vivien Leigh with him on th set and invited his brother "to meet Scarlett O'llara.”

When the news game out that she had been given the part, 'a few pro- tests were heard. On the whole, however, the Southerners were piensed to hear that an English girl and not a Yankee had been chosen for the part.

American cinema fans unanimously voted that Clark Gable must play Rhett Butler,

VIVIEN Leigh, who appears as Bbarlett O'Hara in “Gone With the Wind", shown as the arrived for the Atlanta premiere of the Alm. Stio was in- troduced to audiences over a nation-wide hook-up by Mayor Hartsfield of Allanta,

AT THE

Film Of

CINEMAS Prehistoric

Queen's ind

Alhambra:

"Wizard of Oz" (Judy Garland. Jack Haley. Bert Lalır)

Oriental: "Adventures of Robin Hond" (Errol Flynn. Ollela de Havilland!

Majestie: "Society Lawyer" (Walter Pidgeon. Virginia Bruce) King's: "Young Mr. Lincola" (Henry Fonda)

Best Films Of 1939

ACCORDING to the "Sunday Times" here are the ten best films of 1939:-

Tribes

WORD comes from Holly- wood that David W. Griffith and Hal Roach are pro- ducing a picture in which they are looking backward, past the birth of the cinema at which they officiated, to 1,000,000 years B.C.

Roth are reported to have admitted that "it is a screwy iden," but, nevertheless. sounds a good one.

Dawn Ago

age,

even on

SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

You'll be home for lunch, won't you, Bob?

Oh, sorry, but I forgot to tell

| you I'm quing out with some

of the boys this afternoon

Ha's always out, Scottie. Even which he's kome ha hardly talks, I know I've been run-down and dull-looking, but I don't deserve to be trusted,

like this!

·MARY DECIDED TO TEACH

BOB A LESSON ---

AT HER MOTHER'S HOME.

You're a very foolish girl! You've let yourself get tired out and nervy You look about fifty." How can you expect Bob to be interested.

Now you go back home and see a

doctor!

Dear Bob,

9. know you don't want me any

more, so I'm going home where go am wanted.

See that Sale gets his food all right.

MARY GOT HOME

BEFORE BOB AND BURNED THE NOTE, THEN SHE WENT

TO SEE HER DOCTOR-*

AND ***

it

SO - HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT

A WONDERFUL CHANGE CAME OVER MARY —

They are collaborating on a screen "Stagecoach". (American): version of the dawn

titled Director, John Ford. Lead-į “'1,000,000 B.C." This effort of theirs ing players. Claire Trevor., in effect. a silent

picture. John Wayne.

opens in the present era, on à con- versation between n scientist and

"La Femme Du

Selznick also agreed with them that į he should cast Olivia de Havilland as Melable Humilton, Leslie Howard ns Alsley Wilkes and Laura Hope Crews as Aunty Pillypat..

Then-Selznick cast-Thomas-Mit-(Erench) Director. Marcel Pagnol. Some young people and fades_back. choll as Gerald O'Hara and Battic Leading players, Raimu, Genetle, a million years, with the scientist's McDaniel as Mummy.

Four

Hour

Show

In January 1939, Die Alming of "Gone with the Wind" commenced in earnest and six months later the final scenes were taken. The culling of the film then began, Over 225,000

|Leclerc.

Boulanger"

voice continuing as a commentary. "Professor Mamlock" (Russian); Each sequence thereafter begins with Directors, Adolf Minkin and Herbert

a cloud "shot," according to Mr. Raort. Lending player S. Mex-

Grimith's plan, and then the camera (French): Director, comes down to the action. Raymond Bernard. Leading players,

inki

"Hostages"

Mary

AD

... and, Doctor, I even wake tired

From what you tell me, Mrs. Norton, your trouble is Night Starvation. You see,

even at night you go an using up .energy in heartbeats, breathing and

other automatic actions. In your case,

this has also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood.

All this causes you to wake tired, feel and look in-down and "Hervy: Recent tests kave proved that Horlicks is what

people need for that....

SIX WEEKS LATER

Darting, I'm proud of you.

You're so bright and gay, so full of life

THINKEL

BOB LOVES ME AGAIN, THANK GOODNESS FOR HORLICKS

feet of fin bad to be cut and spliced Saturnin Fabre, Charpin, Larquey. The story deals with two prehis- Do you feel worn out, depressed and nervy? into moving picture short enougly "Les Gen Du Voyage" (French): loric tribes the Rock people, a to exhibil. After working day and Director, Jacques Feyder. Lending rugged race, and the Shell tribe, i

The

night, Selznick and his staff finally

players,

Francolse Rosay, Plerre gentler and more kindly group. The Take Fresnay produced the finished film which runs for just under four hours,

"Wuthering Heights" (American); civilizing of the former by the latter picture has to make about Director, William Wyler, Leading by means of the charm of Carole $5,000,000 before it begins to earn

players, Laurence Olivier, Merle Landis, the leading lady, who softens Oberon, any profits at all Dow Jones re-

"Only Angels have Wings" (Ameri-the savage heart of Victor Mature. ceipts of this film might bring share-can): Director, Howard liawks. Lead- the leading man, forms the theme of holders in Loews Incorporated up-ing players, Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, the picture.. wards of $1 per share.

2

TALISABETH Bergner (above)

who has not made a Nim' for a year or so, is preparing th get back to the studio. She han chosen a light comedy, esiled "King on Her Fliger," which. has a very charming nibry. More than that cannot be said at pré- ment since she is lli with throat trouble at her home in Surrey. Her husband, Dr. Paul Crinner, who will direct to film as usual, In ill with laryngils too."

"On the Night of the Fire" (Brl-

tish); Directors, Brian Desmondi No English is spoken by the pre-

Hurst. Leading players, Ralph Rich-historic characters, which will mean, ardson, Diana Wynward,

as Roach pouts out, that the foreign The Marx Brothers at the Circus" market can be completely exploited (Americon); Director, Edward Buz- zell. Leading players, the Marx by United Artists, the, distributing

Brothers.

company, simply by changing the "LA Rete Humaine" (French): commentary. The incomprehensible

Director, Jean Renoir. Leading play-language which the ancients use cra, Jeni Gablu, Simone Simon,

The "Sunday Times critle adds: presented something of a problem. -"Anatole Liivak's "Confessions of

Nazi Spy" nearly went into the list. Sa did Anthony Asquith's

"French

Affair.".

Without Tears,”- Frank

Dialogue Trouble

of Miss Florence Menany

the

Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washing-studie research department was as- ton", Marce! Carne's "Qual des signed to prepare prehistoric dialogue. Brumes" and "Hotel du Nord" and She obtained glossaries of four ex- the first half of Leo McCarey's "Love tinct American Indian tongues-the Ofo, the Biloxi, the Natick and the Chaplin Film

Bontock-Igorot. From these she On the other hand; most think complied two languages, one for each that 1030 was a lean film year-tribe: But (and a shocking commen- especially in regard to farce films. try it is on the propenalties of the There is still nothing from Chaplin, civilized ear) when spoken, these un- though at last "The Dictator" is sullied primitive polyglots suggested production: no successors to Harold such double-entendres that they had Lloyd or Laurel and Hardy except to be scrapped. The dialogue is now Laurel and Hardy; and two failures more McEnany than anything else. from Fernandel which have just about wiped out the credit he fald up with "Virtuous Isidore."

At its inception, "1,000,000 B.C." By way of comparison we had scientific theory, but when Roach and was meant to adhere to recognized that willy British telfie "A Girl Grimth realized Must Live" with dialogue by Frank would have to appear at naturel. that their players Launder In the best follywood with only a matting of body hair to manner and a patchily brilliant pro-screen them from the Hays office, duction from the Marx Brothers they decided to endow their charac- Our Own Correspondent,

tera with n knowledge of the art of [hide-tunning, Having gone so far, (they remembered that "after nil, Ute {sereen is meant for entertainment,” and now their scenario contattis specimens of the fauna, of -almost, every geologie age.

METROPO

ROOM BATH

$6 -

FOR CENITIAL

CLEAN

COMFORTABLE

This picture, which is under con- tract with tlie King's Theatre, will be shown here as early as possible.

K2

Do you even wake tired?

HORLICKS

Guard Against

NIGHT STARVATION

Then you will sleep soundly ~ wake refreshed and have extra energy all day

A. R. P. EQUIPMENT

GLASS

RESPIRATORS

FIRST AID OUTFITS SEALING TAPE

(Makes Doors & Windows Gas-proof)

PAPER

REINFORCING PARCHMENT (Prevents Shattering of Window Panes)

BLACK OUT REINFORCING PAPER (For The Next Black Out)..

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Tel. 20269.

St. George's Building,

C1.