CENTRAL THEATRE
TO-DAY to SATURDAY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20 p.m.
GEORGE
BANCROFT
FAY
WITH
WRAY RICHARD
ARLEN
IN
THUNDERBOLT
A Paramount Picture
NEXT CHANGE
GREATER THAN IN RIO RITA ! .
The golden- jé voiced songstress
of the silver screen at the light of ber brilliance!
BEBE
DANIELS
LOVE COMES ALONG
With
Lloyd Hughes Ned Sparke Montague Love
Pful drama of
■ glorious love!
Bookings at Anderson and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).
MAINTAINING
APPEARANCES
WHATEVER
ASSEMBLY ONE ESTERS, THE PER- SONALITY OF A SMARTLY DRESSED MAN IS FELT · AND RESPECTED.
TO BE WELL DRESSED IS A SOCIAL DUTY, AND THIS 18 KABILY CARRIED
COUT AT
BROWN'S
Daddell Street, 2nd floor
Opp, Gospel Ha}}
TA) 52056.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1931.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
CENTRAL THEATRE,
"THUNDERBOLT.”
Tese drama, in selling as in triguing as any over brought to he screen, comes to the Central Theatro to-day, when Thunder bolt," George Bancroft's new all. talking picture is shown. The gripping situations, surpassing The tremendous epizodes of "Un- derworld," pulse with "life-giving dialogue and sound.
Harlem, New York's Negro din- trict, with all its sinister," hidden underworld, is revealed on the screen as it actually is. Bancroft portrays the part of a hard-fight- ing gang boes in love with Pay Wray, Erie von Stroheim', beauti ful heroine of "The Wedding March." The girl repulses, Ban- proft and, in an effort to go straight, turns to Richard Arlen. They fall in love but Arten incura the enemity of Bancroft,
Bancroft, has sworn to kill young Arka, the Jikeable hero- aviator of the famous "Wings."" They are together in Sing Sing'a death house. Will Hameroft. kill the youth. Will he let Arlen be sent to the chairt Will Bancroft go to the chair?
Josef von Sternberg, the man who inde "Underworld," in which Bancroft made his initial grout hit, made "Thunderbolt."
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
"ROMANCE.".
"Talking pictures of wediting ceremonies, exhibited to coupler on every anniversary, will do much toward smoothing out martin tribulations."
Bo believes Clarence Brown, nated director, who sponsored tho first play-back", marriage.' when George Stohlman was married to Viola. Evans, screen player, dur- ing the filming of "fomance" at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio,
Miss Evans, working in the now Greta Garbo picture showing from Sunday at the Queen's Theatre, was married to Stohlman on the
set. When the ceremony was over, Brown presented the couple with a "play-back" recording of the nuptial vows, n microphone having been socreted near, the impovised altar.
"If talking pictures were made cf weddings, I think occasional viewing of the films would impress upon husbands and wives the sacredness of the vows they tank,' Brown declared recently. "Insty
11-18
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS.
THE YOUNGEST AND NEWEST MEMBER OF THE
OFFICE FORCE, WITH A TICKET FOR THE BIG GAME ON
THE 50 YARD LINE, WONDERING WHAT HE OUGHT TO DO WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE
COMPANY: IS ALLOTTED A SEAT BEHIND.
THE GOAL POSTS -
DIAMONDS."
(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
"WORTH, HIS WEIGHT IN formed by Colonel E. Alexander Powell, the American explorer, who has recently enjoyed special facilities to investigate Indian prob lems, and who has given the result of his inquiries in his Intest travel book, "The Last Homo of Mystery" (John Long, 188.).
AMERICAN AUTHOR'S VIEW
OF THE AGA KHAN,
If the Aga Khan is worth hit weight in gold to his Moslem followers, to the British, whom he Bo steadfastly befriends, he should be worth his weight in diamonds."
This striking sentence occurs in a detached, and in many respects original, view of present-day India
The tribute relates to the signal service rendered by the Aga Khan during a eritical period in 1929 at. Delhi" whereupon British official dom heaved a deep sigh of relief," since his eloquence and astuteness secured Mohammedan support in
GUJYAS WILLIANS
the resistance to Hindu demands for. "Dominion status within a year."
The peculiar aspects of Hindus re- ligious ceremonies are vividly de- seribed by Colonel Powell in the story of the temple at Madura and anclean gods.
The tendency of European firma to underpay their British employees in India, and thus lower the native respect for the Englishman, is rath-
lessly exposed.
"The Last Home. of Mystery is almost brutal in its frankness,
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CONSTANT ILL-HEALTH - COM- PELS RETIREMENT.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]"
Ruany, Jan. 20. -
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
The Doon of Canterbury, the The romance Very Rov, Hugh Richard Lawrie
sluger uf, Soi villo is Novar
Sheppard, D.D., M.A., well-known of a convent in connection with his broadcast on girl and a cafo. religious services, is resigning on February 28, on his doctor's advice, The Dean's health is improving steadily, but his doctor warns him not to continue his work in Canter- bury.
ro's finest talk-
ing role. Elle
gay wit, his passionate love making, his tragic acting, his
SCHNEIDER TROPHY RACE. | glorious singing, make this an
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(BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE,]
RUGBY, Jan. 20.
In the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister expressed his willingness to receive a deputation on the subject of the Government decision not to enter an official team for the Schneider Race, but doubted if it would serve much purpose Bow. Personally, he was keenly interested in the matter. He claimed that as the Govern-. ment decision was known 18 months ago they were not to blame if there were no British entry.
UNDER POLAR ICEFIELD.
PLANS FOR SUBMARINE ADVENTURE.
Preparations
for Sir Hubert
unforgettable event!
Ramon
NOVARRO
DONOTRY JORDAN
SUKEE ADORER NANCE ÖTKİL KRNEST TORRENCE
directed by CHARLES BRADIN
CALL OF THE FLESH
Wilkin's 2,100 miles voyage beneath the North Polar ice from Spitz- bergen to the Bebring Sea are. nearing completion, and, according to Commander Sloan Danenhower, who will have charge of the aul marine Nautilus the expedition will be ready to start next spring.
Commander Danenhower return-Meno Goldwyn Maya ALL TALKING ed to New York recently from France, whither he had gone to invite Jean Jules Verne, grandson
of the famous author, to officiate at the christening of the former U.8. Navy Bulmarine 0.12 next. Feb- ruary in Philadelphia,
NEXT CHANGE
Before the Nautilus Jenves for A smashing Fox Movietone Norway tests will be made under drama which crashes in and the ice off Nova Scotia.
Commander Dannahower is con- exposes the, glamourous fident of the success, of the expedi- nightlife of New York. tion, as the craft is equipped with evory possiblo scientific device to ensure the safety of the eighteen men who will comprise the crew. He expects nn average voyage of fifty miles a day under the Polar jén. The vessel will come to the surface every twenty-four hours to mako observations and report wherever practicable. The chief ob ject of the expedition is to chart the curve of the ocean bed in the vicinity of the North Pole.
ARREST OF A WIDOW.
BIRD FANCIER'S DEATH:
There was a dramatic develop. ment in connection with the mys terious death of Charles, Benfold, a bird fancier; of Oliver-street, South Moor, Durham, who was found battered to death at his home on December 8, 1030.
Police visited Joicey-terrace, Ox. hill, where the widow, Mrs. Jane Ann Benfold, has lived since the charge of murder. tragedy, and arrested her on
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She was later brought before the magistrates and was remanded,
Mrs. Benfold is in delicate health, and members of her family pointed out that her mother died that morning.
The Bonfold's two little daugh ters, Gladys and Ellen, have in the space of a month lost their father, seen their mother arrested on n murder charge, and lost a grand- mother with tragic suddenness.
Mr. Philip Snowden's acid ans- wer that he did not fotend doing anything in the matter of stabiliz ing Service pay and pensions was. only to be expected from a Chan- cellor, who looks upon the Fighting Servicce as little more than an ex pensive burden. The only consola.. tion the Fighting Services can find lies in the reflection that Mr. Snowden is not likely to be the arbiter of this question much longer, and that it is at least reasonable to hope that bis eucces-
MAN TROUBLE
with
DOROTHY MACKAIL
MILTON BILLS
KENNETH MACKENNA SHARON LYNN hading
AN ALL STAR CAST" directed by Berthold Viertel
See the startling revelations In this Fox all talking movietone, drama!
STAR
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be serving a Prussian junker. | HOLMES
Naval officers have a more definite
griovanco in this matter than those
In the Bister Services, in that they HERBERT
are further denied marriage allo wanco, To the average layman the periodical publication of an in dex" of the cost of living, always showing that this is cheaper than škatų paspaulsiciantly-issitating because he knows by practical: ex- Feridace that this is not in accord- anos with the fact, that although
CHARLA.
the world is said to be suffering: MARGARET: from a "glut, in commodity
ATAN
prices he has to pay, if anything LIVINGTON
just a wee bit more.
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