CENTRAL THEATRE
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A PARAMOUNT SOUND PICTURE
A BEAUTIFUL
HISTORICAL PICTURE
THEME SONG **REDSKIN" DISTRIBUTED FREE
IEF'S
CRIER
Jskin
Kon, some day you will be called to lead your Navajo people. Go to the "whitt man's college. But come back to me
an Indian." And he came back, handsome, educated, a leader but...h outcast from both faces.......a Red.
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Dix's great- est. Filmed in color,
a Paramount Picture
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William Powell
Helen Kane
Fay Wray Skeets Gallagher
in
"POINTED HEELS"
A Thrilling Play Elaborately Garnished with Comedy, Songs and Dances.
With Gorgeous Revue Scenes in Technicolor.
Bookings at Andersons and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930.
THE FAMILY ALBUM-RADIO COMPETITION
DECIDES TO ENJOY SOME GOOD MUSIC THIS EVENING, TUNES IN ON SNAPPY ORCHESTRA
WIFE SUDDENLY REMEM BERS SHE MUST CALL UP MRS. GIDGETT, WOULD HE MIND TURNING THE RADIO OFF FOR JUST A SECOND
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SEE! HEAR! Eddie Quillan, Sally O'Neil
In
"THE SOPHOMORE
The great American col. lege talking picture- a touch down in screen entertainment—a dialogue film of supreme merit.
see
If you've never laughed before, you will when you "The Sophomore "--- it's wonderful--it's great -you'll regret missing it.
TO-DAY
BECOMES AWARE OF CONSIDERABLE SHOUTING IN HALL, CATCHES 5 XE- THING ABOUT SAUITING OFF THE RADIO.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
SHUTS IT OFF, MILDRED, UPSTAIRS, WAS TRIVING TO MANE MOTHER, DOWNSTAIRS, HEAR TO ASK DID HER GWE DRESS COME BACK FROM THE
WASH
PACES FLOOR WHILE WIFE AND MRS. 6106ETT- DISCUSS FOR HALF AN HOUR WHAT COLOR TICKETS TO. HAVE TOR THE CLUB LECTURE
FAMILY QUIETS DOWN. TUNES IN
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TELEPHONE CONVER- DOORBELL RINGS, AN- SATION ENDS AT LAST - NOUNCING MR; AND,
TUNES IN
MRS. DIMMICK FOR THE EVENING. TUNES OUT WITH A SIGH
(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
CONVICTED BY FINGER PRINTS.
ONLY EVIDENCE AGAINST THIEF.
GAYAD WILLIANTS
PALACE NO MAN MAY ENTER.
ADMISSION REFUSED EVEN TO POLICE.
Evidence in the form of a talk A counters who values the com- on the finger-print system of deter-pany of her women friends more tion was given to the jury in athan'a lost dinden worth thousands case at London Sessions last month. of pounds is the talk of Budapest The case was one in which Charles to-day. She is Countess Marietta Christmas (31), described as a book- | Vichy,' the divered wife of Count maker, was charged with breaking Raphael Vichy, a famous Hur aad entering premiers at Charing garian aristocrat. Cross Rond and stealing three saxo- phones and a clarinet. There was an alternative. indictment of reciv Ling the articles kapwing them, to
have been stolen..
Sergeant Sidney Birch, from the fingerprint department, Scotland Yard, explaining the system of ex aruining. fingerprints, said that. since 1901 320,000 people had been identified by their finger prints without a single error. He had personally examined thousands of: prints and had never found two alike in all their characteristics.
In this case finger prints found on a picco of broken glass at the premises at Charing Cross Road At 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. ma's. Sixteen characteristic lines were compared with those of Christ
on Christmas's finger prints were
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PROGRAMME OF DANCES
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DINNER DANCE
TEA DANCE
DINNER DANCE
DINNER DANCE
THURSDAYS
TEA DANCE DINNER DANCE
DINNER DANCE
FRIDAYS
TEA DANCE
DINNER DANCE
DINNER DANCE
SATURDAYS
TEA DANCE
TEA DANCE
DINNER DANCE
SUNDAYS
DINNER DANCE
ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY DURING TIFFIN. TEA DANOE
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Mr. Cecil Whiteley, K.C., asting deputy chairmas, pointed out to the jury that the only evidence against Christmng was the finger- print impression.
Christmas's plea was an mibi. that he was not near Charing Cross: Road on that night. He was, he said, drinking with a woman friend antil midnight... He then went home.
Christaus, who had a list of pre- rious convictions, was found guilty and sentenced to twenty months". hard labour.
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As in the case of last year's divi- sion of the continental short waves, entire agreement now provails be tween the United Statesad Canada with respect to the alloca- tion of both short and long waves for aeronautical radio services America's fast expanding aviation "radio" services and Canada's, now have at thoir command a sizeable block of low frequencies as well as high-frequencies-for-broadcasting- weather information and instruc tious to and from planeg for radio- beseon guidance of aircraft in fight and for inter-airport coin- munications. Under a newly adopt- ed scheme for coordinating the air- ways communications and radio aids to navigation in Canada and "the United States, it has been "do, oided that the international call- ing, frequency of 33 kiooyeles bo kept free from signincats to craft or stations other than those engag-
tional lighte. In addition, Ameri Can and Canadian radio-beacons operating on the same frequenes must be situated at least 750 miles apart
The diadem, a valuable jewel of the period Louis XIV., disappeared trom the Budapest palace of the countess, but the police are power less in their inquiry into the theft, Lecause the counter has peculiar ideas about men, and never allows a man to enter her palace.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
"THE BISHOP MURDER CASE."
The Bishop Murder Casn, play- ing at the Queen's Theatre, is ‘an example of what keen direction and intelligent acting can do with ra spect to putting over a successful mystery story on the screen.
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all- talking thriller succeeds where so inany have failed, because it put over its illusions effectively without wrsorting to the usual hokum ag8o- elated with this type of screen fary. Nick Grinde and David Burton, co- directors, were inspired with a num- ber, of original touchez which make this hair-raising vehicle very much worth while, not only from the view- point of entertaining but also as an insight into what effects may be achieved with export photography.
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY, Ar 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20.
THE BISHOP MURDER
CASE
The PERFECT MYSTERY THRILLER
Philo Vance meets his most sin ister opponent in a battle of wits that will leave you breathless! Van Dine's best-seller-now Talking Picture Sensation'!;
with
The plot, adapted from S. S. Van Dine's best seller, centres about the i death of four individuals whose murderer has the gruesome babit of leaving beside each victim, a black chess bishop and a jeering note written in Mother Goose" rhyme. To find this mysterious "bizhop." is the job assigned to detective | Philo Vance, played in a finished BASIL RATHBONE, LEILA manner by Basil Rathbone. While HYAMS, ROLAND YOUNG the audience is led to suspect almost every character in the cast, the identity of the murder is not revealed until the closing sequences of the film.' This denouement is distinctive in being arrived at through logical steps rather than through an expected coincidence
or some of the other shopworn mystery "giveaways."
How Garbo Tilai,
Good taste is evident throughout Greta's new starring vehicle, "The Kiss" which will come on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre. "The new picture, a drain of 'Continental life, was filmed by Jacques Feyder. noted French director, with sound synchronization.
Those who have never been abroad will be particularly interested in the foreign settings, which have been constructed with a faithful adherence to the originals. The scenes include reproductions : of
She surrounds herself with a regi. famous French chateau gardens, in- ment of femalo servants and secreteriore, a dog show, a courtroom,
aries, of whom she entrusts her and a prison.
affairs.
As there are no women detectives on the staff of the Budapest police, and as there is no Sherlock Hol
es among the personal of the countess, the recovery of the diadem is expected to present a difficulty
and take a considerable time.
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Supporting Miss Garbo Conrad Nagel, Anders Randólf, Holmes Herbert and Low Ayres, a newcomer to the screen.
Remarkable Sound Effects in Dix` Drama.
Sound effects and music, perfect- ly synchronized with the action of the picture by Paramount's new processes, enhance the natural beauty and majesty of Richard- Dix's latest starring picture, "Redskin." The picture, more than two-thirds filmed in natural colour, is a new epic of the West, a companion-piece for the famous Richard. Dix masterpiece. The Vanishing American."
GEORGE F. MARION.
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a woman
storm-tossed by life.
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The finest dramatic role of the' flaming beauty of the screen!
GRETA
GARBO
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THE KISS
with CONRAD NAGEL
WORLD
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY- AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.16 & 9.20,
"Interpreter, at All Performances.
TIM
No paius were spared to make this picture, which will show at the Central Theatre to-day, one of the greatest ever placed on the screen. Newly perfected Technicolour pro- éesses, designed to photograph the scenic beauty of the famous his toric places of the West just as they" appear to the eye, were contracted" for and used with remarkable re sults.
A special theme song, “ Rothkin,” which has already won universal approval from radio and dance
orchestra audiences, in introduced in the picture and a splendid chorus of men and women chant the Loriginal Indian songs, including the well-known wedding chant of the Navajos.
During the ceremonial-dangco-iu several sequences of the picture, the best of the tom-tems and the low singing of the Indian braves and square add to the realism.
Midi Helen Clark, Victor record- ing artist, sings the theme song"
of the during this showing of film and the Paramount orchestra ofre carries the musical score throughout. The song was written by J. 8. Zamenik and Harry 6,
pincese
one of the mast
Sonia Abeautiful historical
made. The scenes were made in the Indian country in. Arizona and New Mexico and hundreds of Indians appear in important 67.
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HEROES of the WILD"
Episodes 7 & 8
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TO-DAY to SATURDAY At 5.30 & 9-20)
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