TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30; 5.30, 7.30 & 9.20 p.m.
AI
WELCH PEARSON
SIR HARRY LAUDER
'Huntingtower
WITA
VERA VORONINA
"Hoot Moai
I've some more
laughs up my sleeve.”
Parpaved Release":
THE MAJESTIC
Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Following on the death of Michel Prafie, of Agen, who succumbed to injuries sustained in a Rugby match at Bordeaux between Pau and Agen on May 4, the Pau three- -quarter back Taillantou was alleg ed to be responsible, and was tried by the Correctional Court of Bor- deaux. This was the first time in France, a Rugby player was tried for an accident which occurred in the course of play.
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Mistress
"Are there any ques- tions you would like to ask "
Now Maid: "Yes'm; where shall I park your car after I get mine in your garage 1
Lady: "I want one of your all- seasop cars,"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS THE PORCH HAMMOCK
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
WILMAS
GIYAS
THE DANCE OF LIFE."
Salesman: "What do you mean by- that "
SETTLES HIMSELF WITH MAGAZINE COMFORTABLY.
IN PORCH HAMMOCK
I;
Lady: "One that has both a radiator and a fan."!
Lady in Baker's Shop: "Your French rolls are really fär too small. I enn pús a whole one into my mouth at once."
Baker: "I can quite believe that,.. madam, but it's not the fault of the bread."
Husband: "And what did "you pay for that hat?"
Wife: "Nothing."
Husband: "Well, that is cheap f How Nd you manage it?"
Wife: "I told the milliner to sond you the bill."
་་
The teacher was putting ques. tions to the class.
"What do we call a man," he asked, "who keeps on talking and talking when people are no longer interested?"
Please, sir." replied a boy, Wa
'tencher."'
Customer: "I have spoilt my guit with your fresh paint"
Provision Dealer: "But didn't you see the notice, 'Fresh print' ?”
Д
Customer: "Yes, but I didn't take much notice. You have notice, Fresh Eggs, but they are not fresh.
CONTRAL THEATRE EParamount's Sound Pictures R TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Daily at 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.
ALL TALKING—ALL SINGING-ALL DANCING
a
Garamount
Picture
Glamorous! Dazzling!
The Stage: Sensation
"BURLE
SQUE".
On the Talk.
ing Screen;
Beautiful Girls ! Ravishing Costumes ! Catchy Scenes! Gorgeous Scenes 1
THE
in
Technicolor
DANCE OF LIFE®
HAL SKELLY HANCY CARROLL
A Super-Production
at
Popular Prices.
-NEXT CHANGE WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10-
You have seen and enjoyed RUTH CHATTERTON
IN
"CHARMING SINNERS”
Now You will want to see her in
THE DOCTOR'S SECRET"
Another Tense and Intriguing Drama of London Society
From Sir JAMES M. BARRIE'S Famous Stage Play-
HALF AN HOUR".
BOOKING AT ANDERSON AND THE THEATRE
(TELEPHONE 25720).
PULLS HIMSELF LABORIOUSLY OUT OF
HAMMOCK
TELEPHONE RINGS. WIFE CALLS FRED PERLEY-
WANTS TO SPEAK TO HIM. SCRAMBLES 'OUT
나
REMEMBERS HE LEFT IT ON TELEPHONE" STAND. PULIS HINSELF OUT, GROANIKG (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
POLA NEGRI'S LOST LOVE.
"NO SILVER CLOUD WITHOUT
'DARK LINING.”
"I filed my divorce petition to-day. Alse! love is dead between us, and my soul is crushed, for what is life without love?
I do not wish to speak of Serge. We were so happy once to- gether, but when two people cannot the live together affectionately divorce court is the only way out."
The lovely luminous eyes of Pola Negri, the renowned film actress, otherwise Princess Serge Mdivani, filled with tears recently as she broke the news of how the one great romance of her life had faded into disillusionment.
I would rather not speak of my marriage," she continued in her low, musical voice, which was 'chok- ed with sobs Irom time to time. It is simply a page of my life that is closed now-a page that was so happy while it lasted, but like so many worldly things which ends in sadness.
Ah life is like that! Never a silver cloud without a dark lining! Never a passionate love without a little heartstring aching!"
It was only seven months ago that Pola Negri had a happy recon- ciliation with Prince Mdivani, her handsome Georgian husband, fol lowing the divorce petition she filed in November.
IN FABULOUS SPLENDOR
Radio Pictura
brings to the
screen the greate
ast of" operatic
TOMMICKS
Flo, Zlegfald's
RIO RITA
with ...BESE
DANIELS
JOHN BOLES
OTHERS
and 1000
Directed
L'est REED
Glorified c.. glarksong glowing druns in' the most spectác» ular przsentation
ever offered b
CENTRAL
THEATRE
WIFE CALLS HE DIDN'T SHUT SCREEN DOOR, TIGHT
FLIES ARE SWARMING IN
SHUTS SCREEN DOOR AND RETURNS TO GET
COMFORTABLE ONCE MORE
RETURNS, BUT CANT FIND MAGAZINE ANYWHERE IN HAMMOCK
COMES BACK AND FINDS WIFE IN HAMMOCK. DECIDES HE'LL BE MORE COMFORTABLE IN
HOUSE ANYWAY.
7-9
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.E.W, ON
355 METRES.
A GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
TREAT
11 to 11.30 a.m.-Commercial News. 11.30 am to 12.30 p.m-Chinese
programme. ...
12.30 p.m.-European programme. 1.30 p.m.-Weather report.
p.m.-Close down.
6 p.m. Chinese programme.
YOUNG AVIATOR'S SAD
DEATH.
MISTAKE WHILE LOOSENING
- PARACHUTE.
-Ab
Rochefort, September aviation accident which created considerable sensation took place last Friday. A military aeroplane broke while it was in the air. The pilot jumped with his paracute which did not open and the aviator crashed to the ground. An inquiry
was immediately held which arrived
at the conclusion that the accident
7 p.m.-Europeas. programme of was caused by a mistake on the
Victor 'and H.M.V.records selected and
by part of the young pilot, who un- supplied Messrs. Moutrie Co.
consciously and under the excite Cavalleria Rusticana-Selectionment of the moment loosened his
(Mascagni), Creatore's Band.
Twelve women of generously ample proportions, rot, one of them weighing less than 180 pounds, got their "break" on the screen wheti Paramount made the all-talking, all-. singing, all-dancing picture, "Tho Dance of Life," from the successful stage play," Burlesque." The "becftrust" chorus has a composite poundage of 2,000.
00
The Amazon chorus appears in opening sequence of .** The Dance of Life," in which Hal Skelly and Nancy Carroll are fea tured.
· Fred Datig, casting direc tor, says that to find these women.
was the most difficult assignment he has ever had.
Gordona, Bennett and her daugh-
ter, Miss La Reno, were the first two to be signed. Miss Bennett has beer or the stage since she was three years old.. Miss La Rend, for
the past three years, has been a members of the chorus in Los Angeles burlesque show.
Cora Beach Shumway was the prima donna with Eva Tanguay in Sumbo Girl" in 1909. One of the largest and, hence, cue of the most statuesque ladies in the group is Charlotte Ogden with years of experience as a New York show girl behind her. Kay Deslys, an end” girl of the line, has been in the show business twenty years. Europe con- tributed Magda Blom, once a well known classical dancer of the Swedish stage.
The beef-trust" chorus work appealed to these women 45 & lark" and it was on this appes! Driector Datig coaxed them back to the limelight. They are to be seen and heard in the all-talking pic ture The Dance of Life" now showing at the Central Theatre.
"The Doctor's Secret."
The microphone is the severest audience in the world.”
The little inanimate instrument
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY TO THURSDAY
Ar-2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
LET'S
GO
PLACES
He learned about love In Hollywood, where
Movietone's brilliant singers and dancers
play
with Joseph Wagstaff
Lola Lane Sharon Lynn Frank
Richardson presented by "William Fox
NEXT CHANGE POLLY MORAN & MARIE DRESSLER
IN
that hangs over the beads of Holly- CAUGHT SHORT' wood's picture stars during the filming of talking pictures brought forth this opinion from Ruth-Chat- terton, one of the leading stärs, of the stage.
Miss Chatterton, who bas faced
Just Got Off the Chain and The parachute belt as he jumped clear theatre audiences in virtually every
Pirate, Sir Harry Lauder, Bari- of the machine. The result was
tone.
that the parachute became detached Targe city in America without a Gems from Bohemian Girl (Balfe) from the young man's body and
́tremor of self-consciousness, ädmits Victor Light Opera Co. Vito (Popper)
chat the microphone was a "mental Dance), Pablo Casals, Violon-ed to earth. cello Soloist.
A LAUGHING PANIC with ANITA PAGE
WORLD
and Spanish fell reparately while the pilot crash-hazard" to her during the first few TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
Poet and Peasant Overture
(Suppe), Victor Symphony Or chestru.
Zigeuner (Coward), Peggy Wood,
Soprano,
(Verdi),
If Love Were All (Coward), Ive
St. Holier, Soprano, Trovatore Selection
Creatore's Band, Unlucky Number Thirteen (Wes- ton) and Serenade (Tosello), Gracie Fields, Comedienne:
The Gondoliers."' Complete electrical
recording H.M.V. under the personal supervision of Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
BATHERS IN CLIFF FALL DILEMMA.
CLOTHES BURIED BY TONS
OF EARTH.
days she rehearsed on the sound stage for her role in "The Doctor's Secret," the Paramount all-talking picture based upon Sir J. M. Barrie's play, "Half an Hour," which comes to the Central Theatre on Wednesday."'.
When I look back upon it al
At 230, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20.
ti
THE CHINESE DRAMA
A
now," the remarked, "it ses VERMILION
amazing that a shining little in- strument could affect one the way it did me. The sensation, of course, disappeared by the time we had started production, although I
Several holidaymakers who had visited Luccombe Chine, a tav. ourite spot for bathing between Shanklin and Ventnor, lost all their clothing recently when tons of the lofty cliff collapsed.
Four of the visitors-Mr. and Mrs, K. C. M. Harris, Miss D Will- must admit that it is far more dif The Duke of Plaza-Toro (a shire, and Mr. J. Amos were from ficult to work in front of the Grandee of Spain), Henry Chingford. They had been hathmike than it is on the stage. Lytton.
ing and were preparing to dress We miss the reactions of the audi Arthur when a rumbling in the cliffs
The Cast:-
Luiz (his attendant),
Hosking,
Don Alhambra del Bolero (The Grand Inquisitor), Leo Shef- Selde
Marco Palmieri, Derek Oldham. Giuseppe Palmieri (Venetian
Gondolier), George Banker Antonio - (Venetian Gondolier)
Richard Walker.
Francesco (Venetian
Herbert Aitken. Glokgio (Venetian
Ronald Stear.
caused them to dash back into the ence, for one thing. The micro- water.
phone is cold and unresponsive, whereas any theatre audience gives out invisible responses to & player's That is why the performance.
Afterwards they covered them- aelve, with towels and on arriving at a house on the cliffs above they were lent sufficient clothing to en-microphone is such a severe audi able them to return to their apart ence.. ments at Ventnor.
Featured with Miss Chatterton Others who had a narrow escape in "The Doctor's Secret are Gondolier), were Mr. and Mrs. Kitchingham, B. Warner, John Loder and Robert
of Maidstone. Their child was in Edeson... Gondolier), the water, Mre. Kitchingham was sitting on a boulder and Mr. Kit- chingham was preparing to un- j dress when the cliff began to fall. They ran for safety to the water's erige.
"..
The Duchess of Plaza-Toro,
Bertha LewiĨE.
Casilda (her daughter), Mavis
'Bennett.
Glanetta (Contadine), Winifred
Lawson.
Tessa (Contadine), Aileen Davies. Fiametta (Contadine), Sybil Gor-
don
Vistoria (Contadine), Beatrice
Elburn
Giulia (Contadine), Doris Heming
Way.
Act The Piazetta, Venice,
(Date 1730). ...
9 p.m.-Weather report, local time.
and Press news:
Bir Harry Lauder at the Majestic,
....
To judge by his first appearance in Huntingtower" his first film venture, which opened at ~ thể Majestic Theatre last night, Sir Harry Lauder might have been a film actor for a lifetime. Every All Thro' the,, Night I Think of moment he is on the screen he is a
You and For You Alone, De joy to watch. Groot and the Piccadilly Orch. Harry, Lauder gives such life and Chanson (Frimal) and. Love's Gar. humour to the figure of the little den of Roses (Wood), Reginald | grocer, who encountered such Foort, Organist,
strange adventures on, a walking Mirage (Coates) and I Zingari tour, that the sympathy and liking (Leoncavallo), De Groot, Vio- we feel for him continue through- lin, David Bor, Piano, H, M. out the picture.. Calve, 'Cello.
Act IL-A pavilion, in the courDrake's Drum (Stanford) and
of Baratatiz(three months. later).
"The above loaned by courtesy of
Suite Francaise thoulds), the Band of HM Coldstream Guards The Arrow and the Song (Balfe) and Flower of the Desert
Outward Bound (Stanford), Foter Dawson, Bass Baritone One Kiss and Safely na in,
and his orchestra
。.
Merry Wives of Windsor-Over- ture (Nicolai), Victor Sym phony Orchestra. The Waltz Dream-Selection
"""
The boys who support the "star enter into the spirit of the tale with a Joyous abandon and thoroughness that is as delightful as it is successful in creating the
convincing and coherent and the continuity is strong throughout... The staging is splendidly handled and the direction is of the best.
(Lohr), Percy Heming, Bari-Strauss), De Groot and the Huntingtower will be repeat
tone.
3. Piccadilly Orchestra.
(Continued.at foot of nest colum 10.30 (Approx.)-Close down,
ed at the Majestie, to-day and to-
morrow
EGG
[Interpreter at All Performances)
STAR
THE CAT'S PAJAMAS
William Wellman
Production
a Garamount Picture
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 5.80 & 0:20.