WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1931.
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ROUND THE LOCAL Sunday, had saved his money for
CINEMAS.
Reviews from Official Sources.
"MONKEY BUSINESS.”
"Monkey Business," which, is now showing at the King's Theatre to-day, goes something like this
aways are
several years. determined to make an extended trip to Europe on a much needed holiday. A week bo- fore he was to leave Hollywood, the bank in which all his savings were deposited closed its doors,
A
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following_programme will The only break Halliday got waste broadesęt to-day from the Hong that he already had paid for his Kong Broadcasting Station: ZB.W. tickets and didn't lose that on a wavelength of 855 metres: amount. So he went to Europe 5-7 pm-Chinese Programme, anyway, but stayed only a few 6-6.80 p.m.Chinese Children's weeks, whereas he had planned a Concert. visit of at least a year.
On a trans-Atlantic liner bound
Returning from abroad, Halliday for New York the second mate die was cast for the role of "Henry covers that there are four stow- Graham" in "Transatlantic," in aways on board.
Yes, the stow the picture, turns out to be an ab-
playmates sconding your old
banker, fleeing with Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo. $3,000,000 of his depositors' funds. To elude pursuit they hide in the
Transatlantic" Edmund captain's cabin. Groucho poses as 'Lowe is supported by such screen the captain, runs the ship, and.est luminaries as Lois Moran, In the the captain's breakfast. Then he leading feminine role, Jean Her- threatens to put the captain in sholt, Greta Nissen, and Myrna irons as a stowaway,
His bluff finally breaks down and Groucho hides in the cabin of
a yeggman. He makes love to the
Loy.
"DIRIGIBLE."
yegg's wife, and almost gets. Being the wife of a newspaper bumped off when the tough hus-"headline" is a wearing business band returns. He wriggles out of for any woman. Fay Wray la will- the difficulty by agreeing to assisting to concede after portraying the rowdy. He is ordered to help such a wife in "Dirigible," the Zeppo put one of the yegg's Columbia pictures which will be enemy-hoodluma "on the spot." the next attraction at the Central But Zeppo falls in love with the Theatre.
rival's daughter, and complications The wife of a celebrity whose increase when it is discovered that profession is fraught with danger | Chico and Harpo have been hired has a particularly difficult role to as gunmen protecting her father. all. She must endure many hours
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COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL
Social Functions.
To-day Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant;
7-11 pm-European Programme Dinner Dances at. Peninsula and of Victor Records.
7,05-7:50 p.m.Operație, Chorus-
Faust The Fair' (Gounod), Faust-Waltz and Chorus
(Gounod),
Repulse Bay Hotels.
To-morraw Carnival Dinner Dances at Hong Kong, Peninqula and Repulse Bay Hotels.
January 6-St. George's Society's Metropolitan Opera Chorus Dance, Peninsula Hotel.
(9697).
Entertainments. Orchestral-
Walkure-Ride' of the Valkyrien
(Wagner).
To-day King's Rheingold-Prelude (Wagner),
"Monkey Business.”
To-day- Queen's "Dawn Patrol.”
To - day "Tabu."
To-day Majestic "Derelict."
Today Star "High Society Blues,"
Song-
Symphony Orchestra (9188),
Le Prophete Alt, Mon Filsi (Ah,
My Son!) (Moyerbeer), Orfeo ed Euridice Che Faro Senza Euridico (I Have "Lát My Eurdy- dice) (Gluck),
Sigrid Onegin (Contralto) (6803).
▸..
Piano Solo-
Die Fledermaus-Paraphrase
(Strauss-Godowsky),
Benno Molsaivitch (7257).
Addio (F. Paolo Tosti), L'Africana-Lead Me Toward the
Vessel (Meyerbeer),
Song-
Enrico Caruso, Tenor (7156) 8 p.m.-Local Time. 7.50-8.40 p.m.----Orchestral.
of torturing anxiety, and the ac-(a) Serenade (Moszkowski), When the ship reaches quaran-tress is authority for the state-fo) Aubade (Auber),
Lieberleid (Love's Sorrow) (Kreisler), tine a crowd of reporters, clumbers ment that a wife. In a case of aboard to interview the passen-'this sort, cannot be severely blam- gers. But Groucho reverses the ed for taking steps to frustrate Capriccio process by Interviewing the report-¦such a carear.
ers.
"TABU."
means.
In "Dirigible" Miss Wray por- trays the role of woman who is married to an aviator-one of the Navy's daredevil pilots who Meet Reri, the "t" girl of the doesn't know what fear Society Islands.
The wife endures loneliness and She is the discovery of F. W. worry patiently for a long time. Murnau, well known motion plc-but when her husband reveals his ture director. following a search plans to make a hop to the South among thirty jewel-like islands, Pole by plane, she revela. each set in n ring of coral in the In the Columbia picture Ralph Lustrous Oil Permanent Hair Waves Tahitian archipelago,
Graves plays the role of the fly- which are Large, Soft and Natural. The introduction will be coming husband, with Jack Holt in the Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oplete when the Central Theatre part of a dirigible commander Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Pack (any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani patrons see "Tabu," Murnau's pic who connives with the wife to cure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Con. Iture of the island life and its prevent the dangeroas hop. scientious, Artistle Work by Europeas gripping romances. Expert, Mr. Alexander.
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Rer is "the girl." After seeing tho guarded studio advance view
it was suggested that Murnau
"MAN IN POSSESSION."
A friendly and cheery smile can change her name to Eureka.
"Eureka," the motto of Cali-do more to set the day right than fornia, translates as "I have found a lecture or essay on mental dis-
cipline.
However, even though the great- There is no question that the
it will discovery of Reri and "it" wereling is genial and warm, coincident.
have no value unless the lips dis-
| it!"
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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (6802). Italien (Tschaikowsky), Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (6949-50). (Bizet), Royal Opera Orchestra, Convent Garden (0112-8).
L'Artesienne
8.40-9 p.m.-Instrumental. Violin Solo-
Menuet (Bach-Winternitz), Gavotte (Beethoven).
Piano Solo
Fritz Kreisler (1138).
Valec Oublies (Forgotten Waltz)
(Liszt), Capriccio in F Minor (Dehnanyi),
Vladimir Horowitz (1455). Violoncello. Salo-
(a), Songs my Mother Taught Me
(Dvorak),
(b) Flight of the Bumble Bee
(Rimsky-Korsakow), Song Without Words, in D
(Mendelssohn),
Pablo Casals (7199) 9-11 p.m.-Dance Programme. Fox Trot-
Sam and Delilah... Bidin' My Time
(28036)
(22807)
Theatre:
Theatre:
-Central Theira;
Theatre,
Theatro:
Home Mails.
To-morrow-Inward from Europe via Siberia (Zulderkerk),
Friday-Inward from Europe via Suez (Chitral); from America (President Taft); Ontward for Europe via Siberia (Empress of Japan), noon.
Miscellaneous
January 2-St. Stephen's College new school year begins..
January 12-14-Royal Sanitary Institute (Hong Kong Centre), ex- aminations in Sanitary Science, and for Sanitary Inspectors.
HE DELIVERS MILK- EACH DAY.
And Then Goes Back to Gaol.
Mr. Larson, a milkman in St. Paul, Nebraska, is serving a sen- tence for driving while drunk.
A gaoler awakens him at 2.80) д.. He takes out his van and makes his deliveries as usual, then returns to gaol, where he remains. until the early morning day. He will continue this schedule, until his sentence expires,
If I Didn't Have You,
Larson does thia under a new Now That You're Gone There's No Other Giri.
plan which allows prison sentences I'm Dressed up With a Broken to be so arranged that man with
(22768)
families may go on working.
All
Heart
Blue Kentucky Moon,
Fox
Trot
"Rerl's beauty is typical of the close a row of even, pearly teeth. Waltz
Brushing of the teeth has pure-blood Polynesian," Murnau
can be explained stated. "She has the unconcious technique that grace and lack of false modesty by Irene Purcell, the Metro-Gold- and reserve that comes from gen-wyn-Mayer actress who plays the erations of proud ancestry, living feminine lead in Robert Mont-
in a modern garden of Eden."- gomery's picture, The Man in
"THE DAWN PATROL."
My Moonlight Rosary Minnie, the Moocher, Heebie Jeebies
"The court must go very slowly in these days of unemployment to. (22820) avoid imposing undue hardships on familles," said the Judge when sen- (22763)
tencing Larson.
I Love You So Much, Dancing the Devil Away .......(22383) Jackass Blues,
Up and at 'Em
Walte
Hush-a-Bye, Fox Trot
Idolizing
(20108) | UNINVITED GUEST OF HONOUR.
Possession," showing at the Queen's Theatre on Friday.
"My tooth-brush paraphernalia When a terrific explosion of the is as complete as my make-up kit." divalges Miss Porcell, whose powder and ammunition used on a location in "The Dawn Patrol," sparkling teeth bespeak the care the First National-Vitaphone pro-ahe gives them.
"They include duction starring Richard. thelmess
What's Keeping my Prince playing at the morning and one for evening. Queen's Theatre, resulted in a call
of
now
Bar-
brush for
a tooth powder and a tooth
"I Love Louisa,
New Sun in the Sky..... (22755) of You Can't Stop me from Loving
You,
Charming?...
Former officers of marinės at (20270) Fresno, California, arranged to give a dinner in an hotel in honour D. Major-General Smedley Butler, who has retired from the command of the U.S. Marines,
When they were seated in the banquet hall they were surprised to find that the seat for the guest of honour was unoccupied,'!*N
"Where's the guest of honour?” everyone asked. Then the officer .(20266) In charge remembered.
(22672)
(22710) 191 Love You in my Dreams, Think а Little Kindly of Me,
(22876)
for his services, Dr. R. M. Myers paste, dental floss, a mouth wash and pumice stone. The powder Burbank, California, had a curious experience. William Red-is rubbed vigorously on the gums Waltz man, jun., powder expert was in. with the fingers before brushing, jured and the call was sent to keeping them firm and healthy, Fox Trot Myers. Speeding to the location, with the paste used for brushing. forty miles away, just as he arriv-
ed on the scene the doctor broke
his index finger as he closed the
door.of his.coupe. However, he BILL SMITH VERSUS BILL SMITH,
managed to tie his bandage and do his work in spite of his accident.
-“TRANSATLANTIC”
Nothing can stop Bill Smith from winning a municipal contestat Newburgh (New York).
There are two candidates for the John Halliday, who has one of post of, the city's seventh- ward the featured roles-in-Transatlan- supervisor. Both are named Wil tie," Fox talking picture produc- liam Smith, both are in the insur. tion starring Edmund Lowe, which ance business, and both have offices comes to the King's Theatre next in the same street.
In a Little Spanish Town, There's a Boatman on the
Volga
Whistling in the Dark, My Cigarette Lady
Darn Ya, Smile, I'm Crazy Bout my Baby Waltz
(22662)
You Will Remember, Vienna, Fox Trot
I Bring a Love Song
(22518) (20100) "Gimme a Little Kiss, Will "Ya?"
Huar
Hard-to-Got Gartie,
Katinks
Lonesome and Sorry
Walt D
Sweetheart Mentories, The Sweetheart of Sigma
Chi
(20081)
"Great Scott," he cried, "we for- got to invite him."
The hotel management refused to disregard General Butler's order that he should not be disturbed. He did not heat until after he had left the town of the banquet which was held in his honour.
11.08 pim-Close Down. All, records in the above Euro pean programmes are kindly sup plied by Messrs. Teang Fook Piano Co.
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