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"NOT EXACTLY GENTLEMEN."
Bud men trying to be good furnished plenty of laughs last night at the Central Theatre with the presentation of Fox Movietone's "Not. Exactly Gentlemen,"
Victor *McLaglen was very colourful in his latest role of "Bull Stanley" wanted for breaking the laws he should not have broken.
CHINA MATL.
and tense drama are thrown force onrush of the caribou as a spectacu- fully into rellef against the gay and lar climax, enthralling - atmosphère of pleasure ground Paris.
"SINS OF THE CHILDREN."
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS. ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL..
Entertainments.
To-day King's
Powell's excellence in romance and heart tugging drama, plus the Sam Wood introduced hie fascination of the Parisian setting, daughter to screen fans when plus the presence in the cast of two he directed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's superb actresses, plus an absorbing "Sing of the Children," which will story make "Man of the World" a open on Thursday at the. Queen's picture to get excited about. Carole Theatre. Miss Jeane Wond, just Lombard's great gift for dramatie out of college, plays an important Interpretation, her youth, blonde role in the picture. She has played "Man Of The World." beauty and vivacity are here given on the stage but is now on the their greatest chance for effective screen. expression. Wynne Gibson came to the screen after a long and success- ful apprenticeship on the stage.
"SCOTLAND YARD."
"The camera and the screen be-
Theatre;
To-day Queen's 'Theatre;
fle makes adequate use of his fiet,tween them have a habit of not Nugent and Henry Armetta are in The Fairy Sisters."
telling the exact truth about a girl's height and weight, although they
atally flatter her age."
and strength, and he gets in quite a bit of real character acting.
Aiding him in his role of bad man are his two cronies in evil, Lew
This is the opinion of Joan Ben- nett which she expressed while Cody and Eddle Gribbon. whe
than sufficiently fill their Studios. the
filming "Scotland Yard" at Fox picture in which Fay Wray turns in Edmund Lowe is featured in a dual
more
comic roles.
a delightful performance Le roland-which-will-be shown-at-the Carleton over whom "gentlemen" assume
interest.
the three a protectory
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"Not Exactly Gentlemen" iy pleasant romance built on a back- ground of the historic Dakota land rush in the '70s, are of the most interesting periods in the history of the United States of America.
Benjamin Stoloff did a nice bit of directorial work on the produc- tion.
"KIKL"
There was a mad seramble of ambition in Hollywood to see who would be Mary Pickford's leading man is her new United Artista picture: "Kiki," now showing at the
Queen's Theatre.
Reginald Denny won out. The question that interested Hollywood was:
Would a comparatively unknown actor get the opportunity of his life or would a player of established prostige be chosen?
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Theatre;
Theatre:
Louis Mann, New York stage "Kiki." star, plays the principal character role in the picture, an intimate"Not Exnetly Gentlemen."
Today Central Theatre; drama of American family life.
Leila Hyams, Robert Monte- To-day- Majestic Theatre; gomery, Fraucis X. Bushman, jun.. "Men On Call." Mary Doran, Clara Blandiek, Elliott
Today World the cast.
Today Star "Dough Boys."
Radio. See today's programme on page 11.
Home Malls Thursday-inward from Europs via Suez (Cathay).
STANDARD TIMES.
Sunrise and Sunset
in Colony.
Suprlee and Sunset in Hon Kong for August, 1931, Stan- dard time of the 120th Meridian East of Greenwich). ere as fol- lows:-
King's Theatre next.
"They make a girl seem bath taller and heavier than the is," continued Miss Bennett, "which is one reason, I suppose, why pro- ducers are se insistent upon girls August being of the ideally-slender type, The woman of medium height and alightly too tall and too heavy for weight-on-the-screen-appears-se-13- romantic and juvenile roles, while the very tall, very stout womun takes on almost gigantic propor tions.
"For some reason
romance and love and charm are associated in the popular -mind with the small slight and helpless and in need of woman, with girls that appear masculine guidance and support."
Although Miss Bennett did not gay as much, ahe, herself fulfils admirably all these qualifications, for she is admittedly one of the loveliest actresses on the screen to- day. Her role in "Scotland Yard" gives her ample opportunity for display of her charms, and the tender love story which she enacts with Lowe is filled with tense, human situations that afford her the beat opportunity of her career. to portray emotions.
Hobbes are featured
Several tests were made of rising young leading men and the names of a few noted actors were mention ed. They were considered by Miss Pickford and Sam Taylor, producer- director. The final choice Denny because of his rare ability David Torrence, Lumsden Hare, Barbara Leonard, Donald Crisp, and the fact that he fitted the char-Georges: Renevant and Halliwell acterisation.
in the dis- "Kiki," based on the successful tinguished supporting cast which play of the same name, concerns
WAS directed by William K. the glamorous adventures of a
Howard. harum-scarum girl who falls in love with a man in a different station of life and sets out to marry him.
Magnificent settings were created for the acroca play by William Cameron Menzies; supervising art director.
"Scotland Yard" was adapted by Garrett Fort from Denison Clift's sensational stage success of the same name. It details the life of a criminal who fought with his past, and deals with the persistent efforts of "Scotland Yard" to break Taylor has exceeded Miss Pick-him-down,-in-order to deserve the ford's previous triumphs which he love of a woman who trusted him. directed "My Best Girl" and "Coquette." He also directed "Thá Taming of the Shrew," co-starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair- banks
"MAN OF THE WORLD.”
"THE SILENT ENEMY."
Sports. See Sports Diary on Page 4.
Meetings,
To-day-Kowloon Football Club, Club House 6 p.m.
August 18- British Legion, Jardine's-Board-Room, 5:16-pm----
Lammerts' Auction. Thursday-At Sales
Cadillac Motor Car, noon.
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COMING TO
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SCOTLAND YARD
"The Silent Enemy," the great drama of the Ojibway Indians in thelr wild native haunts in North- ern Ontario, la a gripping story of primitive man's battle *for William Powell gives another existence against the cruel adver- breathless performance which sities of nature; a thrilling romance. makes "Man of the World,” HOW of love in the wild spaces of the showing at the King's Theatre, a Indian country. It will be shown dramatic screen sensation Ilke at the Central Theatre, starting "Street of Charice" and "For the 'from Thursday. Defence."
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The story of "The Silent Enemy"
As a gentleman in exile, an out is the natural unfolding of a 'tribal) cast loved deeply by two, women, story told simply and replete with one he loves and can't have, the exciting wild animal encounters, other he can have and doesn't want,' the play of human emotions, love, Powell is seen as a man ao enmesh-, jealousy, hatred and vengeance, all éd in crime that he cannot free portrayed by the primal people, the himself. This powerful role de- Indians themselves. mande the ultimate in acting It le an extremely interesting talent and gets it.
motion picture with thrilling In this story of love that comes sequences. There are an amazing- too late, of the fight of a man toly vivid fight between à mountain re-establish himself in decent a lion and a wolverine, the trek of ciety' for the sake of a girl ɓe knows Indiana through the snow as they to be far beyond his reach, romance look for game and the frenzied
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