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Where the signal fires flare and the war drums beat... where the men of the Mounted grim ly patrol a primi- tive frontier-there a lone woman finds love, and a little girl learns couragel
Shirley TEMPLE
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ENTERTAINMENTS
LOVE is TRUMPS
FILM: "Shop Around
Corner."
the
James Stowarf
and
STARS; Margaret Sullavan, Margaret Sullavan in
James Stewart.
VERDICT: Lubitsch Fore.
A
ROMANTIC comedy adapted from the play by Nikolaus Laszlo,
It deals with the adven- tures of a young couple. who work in a shop in Budapest, unaware that each is the other's corre- spondence friend..........`
The story is slight but the director (Ernst Lubitsch) has made the most of his players and situations and provides excellent fare.
A parowly escaped suicide provides a dramatic highlight. the irony of the finale being that while, the sales staff of the shop have every prospect of a happy Christmas, the proprietor of the shop can only spend his celebrat- ing with the lonely office, boy.
Margaret Sullavan plays her part with competence, but it is not one which offers her much oppor- tunity. James Stewart appears in a role similar to many of his others.
Frank Morgan secures the honours with his telling por trait of the shop proprietor and reveals himself as much a mas ter of straight roles as he is of the "dithering" type.
*
* FILM: "U-Boat 29,"
*
STARS: Conrad Veldt, Valerle
Hobson.
VERDICT: First Rale and
Topical.
DIRECTOR Michael Powell,
whose energy, imagination, and technical ability have already given us "The Edge of the World," dips back into history for a story that is as topical as the front page of a newspaper. The film is "U-Boat 29.".
The Orkneys provide the set- ting, and 1917 the time. The hero is a German, a U-boat com- mander, who becomes for a brief spell a spy, helping to engineer a. U-bont attack which will cripple the British Fleet.
A young schoolteacher-charm- ing, despite her whiplash tongve
and a British officer are, secin- ingly his-accomplices-in-a-plot that is too good to be spoiled by telling in advance.
It is inevitable that "U-Bont 29" should bring audiences right the up against the realities of present. Last year it would have been accepted as just a first-rate thriller. For it certainly is first- rate.
The sweeping Scottish sen. scape makes a fitting back- ground for melodrama that goes with a swing, from the start, matching suspense with excitement, and dropping shrewdly into humour once in a while to whet the appetite for more of the grim stuff. Conrad Veldt's portrait of German commander. is as impres- slve as his physique and features, and he is helped by a
cast that never slips below excellence.
Brightest of the other players is perhaps Hay Petrie, us
ship's engineer, popping up from the sub- terranean depths like one of the seven dwarts to make repeated complaints to a sceptical skipper.
the
FILM: "Susannah of The Moun-
ties."
STAR: Shirley Temple. VERDICT: Gurgle, gurgle.
(717)
HERE we find the angel
child as the last survivor of an outpost of pale-faces who were scalped by Red Indians while making the puff-puff across Canada.
She came to live with the North-West Mounted Police, who, of course, lived in a fort on the North-West frontier.
Naturally the whole crowd of brave fellows were beleaguered by Rad Indians and shot at them across the battlements while the long line of relieving troops wound through the, desert sand gulded by the shouts of "Water, water."
As a matter of fact, the Com-
the mander
garrison accountably shared my own pre- judice about the relieving troops and sent the best looking man to tell Big Chiet he promised not tu send for them.
of
Uni
I can't think why, but it's no good asking why..
Anyway, they trussed the chap up and were all dancing round him Hcking their chops when Shitter tarned up on her pony and made the red men and the
"Shop Around.Tho
The Corner."
WHAT'S ON
TO-DAY
KING'S; "U-Boat 29," MAJESTIC: "The Gorilla." ORIENTAL:
the
"Smashing
Money Ring."
| QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA: "Shop Around the Corner."
TO - MORROW ORIENTAL: "Tower of Lon-
don."
QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA :
"Shop Around the Corner," KING'S: "Susannah of the
Mounties."
MAJESTIC: “Second Fiddle."
white men promise never to go to war again.
Shirley, of course, is perfectly- amazing, She cries, laughs, sings. smokes the pipe of peace, teaches the officers dancing, war-whpops and everything.
FILM: "The Gorilla." STARS: The Ritz Brothers... VERDICT: Giggly.
IN this film, the popular Ritz
Brothers break away from their usual musical roles.
Four
There is
still plenty of comedy but they are not permitted
to sing one of their absurdly amusing songs,
This time they are on the trall
of something as big 119 an times elephant and a hundred more nasty.
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, the film is thrilling in parts. The Ritz Brothers are assisted by Anita Louise, Patsy Kelly (who gives an excellent performance as a horror stricken maid), Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi
FILM: "Tower of London."
STARS: Boris Karluff, Basil
Rathbone.
Historical Drama.
VERDICT:
THIS is a historical drama
laid in the period between 1471 and 1485, dealing with the Duke of Gloucester's plot- tings to achieve the throne of England.
The period atmosphere and Court settings provide an excellent for this spaciously background staged succession of ducal plot and intrigue.
The highlights of the Alm em- brace the drama of the murders of the Prince of Wales, King Henry VI, Duke of Clarence and the Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower.
Forcefully directed, this m has two well-known stars In leading roles-Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone. They handle their parts capably and 'arc assisted by Ian Hunter, Barbara O'Neil and Nan Grey.
Little
Maids
From School Were Wel
TOUR little girls at school
at a convent in Roe Maureen hampton. Tomboy O'Sullivan; shy, romantic lit- tle Vivien Leigh; dark-haired Bridget Boland; tall, Irish "Paddy" Timmins."
They dreamed of "fame and ad- venture, Bridget liked to know how things were done behind the scenes; Paddy likes to travel.
"Murcon Ilked the limelight. Vivien preferred to dreum. No- body noticed her much.
So Bridget took them in lund, produced them in their first school plays, "Paddy" wrote up the pro- grammes. It was such a good showy.
Vivien was “Mirinda" in the "Tempest". Completely forgot her part, ran off the stage and re- fused to go on again. They left school.
Maureen, become a flm stur, gol her chance, through John McCor- mack. Vivien made her first stage- appearance in the back row of the chorus at Kew Theatre, She mar ried and had baby daughter.
"She'll never make anything." her friends said kindly, "she's loo dreamy and frait."
*
50 Vivien quietly rocketed to fame in a night in "The Mask of Virtue. Then she turned in films. Result: Sho got Hollywood's No. 1 part of "Scorleit" In "Gone With the Wind".
Bridget Boland wroje a book, "Wild Geese", a collection of 18th · century (imaginary) letters which astounded the critles,
She seized on the publicity and asked for a chance to write scripts for British National films.
She got it and has just finished "Gaslight".
--THE fourth girl? Well, Hongkong people should re- member her as "Paddy", who used to write the gossip column in the "South Chinn Morning Post."
She left here about a year ago to marry Lieutenant Charles Owen, R.N.
She's at Malia now, while hubby patrola the Mediterranean.
"Paddy" followed her desire to travel, and saw the world before she was married. She picked a place on the mup and went there, If she liked it, she saw an Editor about a job. That's how she came to Hongkong,
Four smart girls—all grown up,
BY the way. 7. Mmmy Hanley, young British flm player turned Militiamon, extracted from the Army after, one month's trying to play Cobb "In "Gas Light", (sec story above) at Denham, promptly collapsed with 104
temperature 'fu, Note from Hollywood: Dis- ney's Jiminy Cricket in "Pinocchio" will be tnore popular than Dopey. "Ninotchka," broke matinee records at the Empire in London, Garbo's old alm, "Anua Christic"
when she first talked),.. (the ond
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