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MUST MEET ELMER! Ring Lardner's sizzling vise. cracker of the "You Know Me, All!" kind. Elmer's the world's greatest little playboy. He says so himself! And you will believe it when you SEE and HEAB him stepping around, sling- ing the slang, in
"FAST COMPANY
with
EVELYN BRENT JACK OAKIE RICHARD 'SKEETS" GALLAGHER a Paramount Picture Wise Cracking Comedy Romance. From the Stage Smash-Hit by RING LARDNER and GEORGE M.
COHAN:
ALL-TALKING
ALSO
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Sleeping Porch"
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"If You're in Low
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"The Rim Song"
Gallent Drama.
Mammoth Scenes" in Technicolor
Another Super-Production at Popular Prices. On account of Film being in 15 parts, the shows start promptly Daily at 2.00, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 sharp.
Advance Bookings now open at Andersons and the Theatro
(TELEPHONE 25720).
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930.
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST-TAKING JUNIOR ON THE TRAIN
By GLUTAS WILLIAMS.
PUTS JUNIOR BY WINDOW, AND SINKS BACK TO REST AFTER STREN- UOUS TIME PACKING AND CATCH- ING TRAIN
SIGHS REACHES SUITCASE DOWN FROM RACK AND GIB OUT PICTURE `BOOK
FINDS JUNIOR IS TIRED OF LOOKING OUT WINDOW AND WANTS TO PLAY WITH THE MAN BEHIND
PUTS SUIT CASE. BACK-AND SETTLES BACK TO REST
JUNIOR FINISHES BANANA” AND REPORTS HE'D LIKE TO 60 TO SLEEP IN HER LAP (Copyright, 1930, by The Ball Syndicate, Inc.)
GETS OTHER BAG FROM RACK AND GIVES HIM A
BANANA
7-19
15
TRIES TO INTEREST HIM IN PASS- ING SCENERY JUNIOR DECIDES HE WANTS HIS PICTURE BOOK
JUNIOR IMMEDIATELY LOSES PIC^! TORE BOOK UNDER SEAT AND
ANNOUNCES HE'S HUNGRY",
ALMOST AT ONCE DECIDES HED LIKE TO LOCK OUT OF THE WINDOW. AND 50 ON, UNTIL TRAIN MERCI -}" FULLY REACHES · DESTINATION"
THE SILVER SCREEN. Į recently with their charming per
"CHILDREN OF PLEASURE.”
formances, have returned to the Colony, and during their short season at the Star Theatre, Kow- loon, commencing Wednesday of
"FAST COMPANY."
"THE LAST COMMAND."
Jaanings has scored again, this time in a remarkable characteriza- tion as a military general,
His
ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH.
REMARKABLE AIR ATTEMPT POSTPONED.
Augsburg, Sept. 8.-Owing to a
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY TO THURSDAY Ar 280, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20,
sudden unfavourable change of the JOIN THE weather conditions Professor Picard PARTY!''
has postponed his attempt schedul-Youth
ed for to-morrow morning to asend in a balloon to the unprecedented altitude of about 16,000 metres,
In his last interview the profes sor stated: "This attempt has nothing to do with sensationalism or record-breaking nor da. 1. con- sider it unduly perilons. I father of a family and have four children so I am unwilling to in- cur any extravagant risks. Our aluminium ball-shaped gondola will
be hermetically closed as soon as we get into the upper strata but we
but w have an ample supply of oxygen so that there is not the slightest.
danger of asphyxiation. The bal loan is so constructed that it can resist all atmospheric pressure. By means of a sliding black which we can draw over whichever side of our aluminium sphere the sun happens to be shining on, we
cover
can regulate the temperature and
thug counteract the terrific cold estimated
and at between G0° 70 centigrade.
"I do not fear the danger of thunderstorms but would as a physicist welcome the opportunity of "coming into the cross-fire of electric discharges. When on the return trip we reach an altitude of 4,000 or 5,000 metres above the earth we will open the shafte on both sides of the gondola in order to
has its fling!
pleture
of jazz- mad
youth. More thrilling than
"Oar
Modern, Maldeas" or "Our Danding Daughters!"
CHILDREN
prepared to make parachute descent. Besides the parachutes" for ourselves the balloon itself da equipped with a special parachute enabling us to slow down the rate of descent if so required.
song composer, married so heiress ensemble, "Gypsy Nights," in con- The Last Command," and is now
When Irving Berlin, the famous this week, will present the ballet newest Paramount picture is entitled restore normal breathing condi- tions. My only anxiety is possible and attracted international atten- junction with the picture attrac-being shown to large audiences at earth as the balloon will then get trouble when we are nearing the tion, he might have inspired a pic- tion; "The Love Trap," starring the Majestic Theatre, Kowioon. hotter and hotter. In case of an ture plot. "Children of Pleasure," Laura La Plante in a feature that
This German actor presents in outbreak of spontaneous fire we are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's romance ofwill be having its initial screening this new production so commendable **Tin Pan Alley," tells the story at the Star Theatre.
a figure that it cannot be compared of a song writer and millionaire's
to those of "The Way of All Flesh" daughter which perhaps, was aug-'
and Variety.". gested by the former romance. "
Directed by Harry Beaumont, of The Broadway Melody" fame, and featuring Lawrence Gray in the title role, the new play showing at the Queen's Theatre to-night mingles heart interest with song liits and brilliant ballet spectacles Wynne Gibson, Helen Johnson, May Boley, Kenneth, Thomson, Lee Kohlmar, Benny Rubin and others are in the cast.
THE MONTMARTRE FOLLIES.
After very successful seasons in Carton and Maceo the Montmartre Follies, who delighted theatre patrons at the Queen's Theatre
TO-DAY
Daily at 2.30. 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
EMIL JANNINGS
"The Last
Command'
BOOK YOUR PASSAGE Who could forget Jannings
FIRST BOOK
and then send a Chit to 11. Ice House Street, ordering the Weekly Press to be sent to you for Three, Six, or Twelve Months--or longer! Enclose Notes or Cheque for $4, $8 or 816, and
WE WILL DO THE REST.
in Way of All Flesh" and "The Patriot." Here's his latest sensation..
A Paramount Supér Picture.
AT THE
MAJESTIC
Nathan Road, Kowloon
When he was a boy, Jack Oakie had two ambitions. He wanted to be a great film comedian and he wanted to be a great home-run bitter. He coulda't decide which career to choose, but with his ap-
pearance in "Fast Company,"
which is now showing at the Central Theatre, his youthful ambitions are realized.
Added to this remarkable charac- terization is an able director, Josef von Sternberg, who directed" Un- derworld," and a supporting cost that might be classed as “all-star," the list of players including Wil- liam Powell, Evelyn Brent and Michael Visarof.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 305 METRES
LECTURE ON ESPERANTO,
"The Last Command" is a story of the revolt in Russia, showing Jaanings as the mighty general, strictly military but beloved by his men. He befriends a girl but im- In this picture, based upon a famous story of the baseball prisons her companion, the girl in 11.30 am to 12.30 pmChinese turn saving him from deathTMát thẻ diamond' by Ring Lardner,
hands of the blood-mad revolution-12.30 pm-European programme. 'América's leading humorist and the creator of the You Know Me Alists. He then comes to America in 1.20 p.m.-Weather report.
series, Jack Oakie in the great comedian" he wanted to be, and he is also the great home-ran hitter in the guise of "Hurry Kane.”
"RIO RITA
search of this fair saviour, and there the thread of the story takes
strange twist.
It is a gripping story, one with poignant love and drama, mystery, and thrills, so different from The Way of All Flesh" that it is hard to believe the same star played in them both."
!
"Dorothy Lee, 18, diminutivo and
Great settings mark The Last pretty, lived for 17 years across the Command as an elaterate produc- street from the Radio picturession and the aeting by everyone, studio. From the age of 14 she particularly by Jennings, marks it tried to "crash the gate." She
as one of the greatest pictures ever couldn't even get extra work. She made.. took up stage dancing and went to New York. Fred Waring, the band. leader, saw her sad got her a part in his musical comedy, Hello Yourself
LESSON SERMON.:
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
"Substance was the subject of the Leason-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, September 14.
The Golden Text was: "If we hope for that we see not, then do
We
with patience wait for [# (Romans 8: 25).
Bort Glennon saw her and gave her an important part in Syn- cupation," Radio pictures' firet all musical talkie. William Le Baron saw her and gave her a long-term contract and now Dorothy, who looks like a John Held, jr., girl
Among the citations which com- come to life, is back across the street prised the Lesson-Sermon from the Radio pictures lot. She the following from the Bible! "And he said unto them,Go ye doesn't actually make a face at the into all the world, and proach the gatemen who used to stop bor, but gospel to every creature. And sho does give her car's cutout a these signs shall follow them that little tap as she rolls in.
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believe In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall tako Perponts; and if they drink any dondly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover! (Mark 16: 15, 17, 18)
11 to 11.30 a.tn.--Commercial News.
programme.
p.m.Close down.
6 p.m.-European programme of Victor records selected apd
supplied by Messrs. Tsang
Fook.
PLEASURE
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WORLD
Valse Serenade (Tschaikowsky) TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
and Russian Soldier's Song (Altschuler), Detroit Symphony
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20 Orchestra.
Marche Miniature (Tschaikowsky) and Polonaise in E Major (Liszt), Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano.
From the Studio, 6:16 p.m. Esperanto as a Univer
sal Auxiliary Language," by. Martha R. Root. Interpreter "Cheung Hok Nam
8.5 p.m.
Dorothy is one of the featured cast in "Rio Rita," the all-talking, all-musical Radio picture extrava- ganza, adapted from Ziegfeld's hit, which opens on Thursday at the Con
The Lesson Sermon also includ tral Theatre. If you heard her singed the following passages from Do Do Something in "Syncopa the Christian Science · text book, tion"
you'll want to go back sever. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker al times to hear her sing We Two Eddy: The substance of all devo Together in Rio Rita Bebe bion is the reflection and demon 5 Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, stration of divine Love, healing sickness and destroying sin. Our Georges Renavant and Robert Master said, "If ye love me keep Woolsey are in the cast.
my commandment (p. 241)
Tales from the Vienna Woods-
Waltz (Strauss), Marek Weber. and Orchestra.
A Brown Bird Singing (Hadyn Wood) and Mother. My Dear (Trehame), John McCormack, Tenor.
To a Wild Rose and to a Water Lily (Macdowell) and A De serted Farm and of "Er'er Rab- bit (Macdowell), Myttle Eaver,
Piano.
My Old Kentucky Home (Foster)
* and Carry Me Back to Old Vir
zinny (Bland), Rosa Ponselle, Soprano
Sleepy Valley (Waltz) and I'm Just a Vagabond Lover, Fox Trot, Victor Balon Orchestra:"/ Hamoureske (Dvorak) and Valre "Trieste (Sibolus), Mischa
Elman, Violin Soloist. My Sin and Singing in the Rain,
Jesse Crawford, Organist.
I Love You Truly and Just e Wearyin' for You, Dusolina Giannini, Soprano Humouresque (Tschaikowsky) and. Albumbiall Marguerite Bach- maninoff); Fritz Kreisler, Vio-
p.m. Relay from the Ko Shing
Theatre
9 p.m.-Weather report. 1S130 p.m.-Close down
JETTA
GOUDAL
IN
Fighting
Love"
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
-At 5.30 9.20:
BATTLING
with
BUTLER
SALLY O'NEIL