NEW MORAL CODE ADVOCATED.
CENTRAL THEATRE.S. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHI
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
THE YEAR'S BIGGEST LAUGH SENSATION!
HARRY.
LANGDON
SLIM.
Bubbling and sparkling with fun and frolic I
SUMMERVILLE
*BESSIE LOVE
SEE AMERIC THIRST
Directed by William Craft
also
Charlie Murray and George Sidney
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"DISCONTENTED COWBOYS' A. Universal Comedy.
Oswald, the Rabbit
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"WICKED WEST" A Universal Cartoon.
Starting Tue., May 5
"DAMES"
he calle thew. And how society's Iuscious ladies love him! A man's man crashes the woman world.
Here's his Intest love thrill hit.
GEORGE BANCROFT Ladies Love Brutes"
A Gazermanent Gietrom
2)
AND BIRTH CONTROL,
Philadelphin, April 90.-A special "committee of the Presbyterian | Church" to-day reported to the General Assembly in favour of the adaption of a new code which will recognise the desirability of birth. control
The code would provide sex. education for the ministry ami permit divorce on the grounds of desertion. It would permit the re- marriage of an innocent party to t divorce.
According to the report of the special committee these who suffer from another's wrong doing should not be barred from future happi- The report, defending its 1285. attitude toward birth control, says that often the Inck of restriction: birth wrongs children, especially when the conditions of wordly life are adverse to their happiness and the happiness if mothers.
Recently the Federal" Conucit of Churches of Christ in Americn stimulated a national controVVTRY when it reported in favour of birth control within the marriage, whion. The actions of religious body in re laxing their rigid objections to birth euntrol coincide with efforts to re- peal the years old federal laws forbidding the dissemination of birth control information.
COMING SOON
Paramount's Adventuro Film
of Wild Animals.
RANGO"
THE PRINCESS OF MONGOLIA.
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ARRIVAL IN JAPAN: TELLS OF LIFE IN DESERT.
Princess Papchap, consort of the heir to Prince Papchap of Mongolian and daughter of the late Prince Hsu, was the object of much unwel come publicity on the part of the Press in Japan on April 30 when it became known that she WA8 visiting the country incoguite under the name of Miss Mariko Honda." Slie Grst, it is stated, attracted attention by the remarkable elever. ness of ber dancing at certain fashionable resorts in the suburbs of Kobe,
Taken in Sumatra by ERNEST G. SCHOEDSACK- the Producer of "CHANG."
Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931.
Interviewed by reporters, she de. scribed the conditions attaching to her life in the Gobi desert. "We have about 2,000 troops under our command," she is quoted as saying, "and make it a point to train them in a military uniform and along purely Japanese lines. It took me, I remember, about a month to teach them how to salute their superiors.
is Just consider my difficulty. The soldiers before I trained them would file off the sights of their rifles on the ground that they were in the way.
This is my third trip to Kobe. Had I stayed away from dancing no one would have been the wiser.
I danced because hardly anyone noticed me on my previous two trips. I am here to make arrange ments with the Shochiku Theatre Company for the production of a Sino-Japanese amity film."
HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA
He knew those danger signals templing Lo dias. ter, but he was a reckless soldier of fortune, playing for high stakes in the game of love.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 & 9,30, P.M.
RENEGADES
FOX
PICTURES
LESSON SERMON,
FIRST CHUMI OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG,
"Everlasting Punishment"
Was
the subject of the Lesson-Bermon in all Churches of Christ, Scien- list, on Sunday, May 3.
The Golden Text was; "Evil puraneth sinners: but to the righte ous good shall be repayed." (Pro- verbs 13; 21)
Among the citations which com. pri d' the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "And Jesus, knowing their thoughts,
aid, Wherefore think ye evil in your herarts? But that ye may know tint the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith ho to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and
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nrose, and departed to his bouse,” | (Matthew 0; 4,0,7.)
The Lesson Sermon also, includ ed the following pausage from the Christing Science textbook, "Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: The destruction of sin is
A FOX MOVIETONE DRAMA'. with
WARNER BAXTER MYRNA LOY
NOAH BEERY
Booking at the THKATRE. PHONES: 25313, 25330,
NOW
IS THE TIME TO INVEST
IN
THE SILVER SCREEN.
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QUEEN'S THEATRE.
PAID!"
Intimate glimpses behind the bars of a women's penitentiary feature the dramatic opening scenes of "Paid." Jonn rawford's latest the stage hir picture based on
Within the Law.'
When new accounts are slow in maturing and business seems dull, pro- fits can be built up to normal level by investing in a carefully planned advertising campaign.
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"With Clem' Peoples, Los Angeles country juilur, acting in an ad- visory capacity, Director Sam Wood: had the seth faithfully re- produced from actual poual in- stitutions, including Bartillon gal- lery, barber shop, celt blocks, show- er baths, kitchen and library, re vealing the daily routine of female convicts.
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, più ture, which will open shortly at the Queen's Theatre, was adapted from the Bayard -Veillor stage, suc- erss by Lucien Hubbard and Char- les MacArthur, The supporting cast includes Robert Armstrong, María Prevost, Kent Douginss, John Miljan, Pura Prati ; and Hale Hamilton.
NEW MOON.'
New Moon," which opened at the Queen's Theatre yesterday, is one of the most magnificent pic- tures ever shown on the tocal
Directory and Chronicle
of the Far East
Bcreen. A thrilling and dramatic atory of Russian life is splendidly acted by a huge cast and the scenes, are beautiful and spectar sular.
"
MOVIELAND
FOR
THE WEEK
QUEEN'S
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20:
Drama!
Music! Romance!
TIBBETT
Lawrence
Grace
MOORE
NEW MOɑN
most glorious voices. are now heard to
The screen's gether for the first timel
Wait till you hear them
sing "Lover Come Back to Me"
with
MENJOU
ADOLPHE
The outstanding feature of the production, however, is the wonder- ful singing of Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore who yesterday held the packed luases spellbound.
Tibbett ኣጸ 1 swashbuckling lieutenant has a most suitable réle
and Miss Moore ndds' grace and dequity to the production, while Adolfe Menjou and Roland Young give splendid support.
Lovers of music and drama should not miss hearing and seeing." New Moun."
A conicdy, "Angora Love," foa- turing those inimitable comedians, Laurel and Hardy, makes a fobbing introduction to a splendid entertain- nient.
CENTRAL THEATRE.
"SEE AMERICA THIRST.""
A complete departure from the usual type of feature length come- dies, Sea America Thirst," DOW the attraction at the Central Thea- tre is one of the most extraordin- "ary and highly entertaining films that has ever been offered to the theatre-going public in several years.
ROLAND
YOUNG
directed by
JACK
CONWAY
Picture Slim Sumunerville and Harry Langdon, two of the screen's most mirth-provocative actors, be ing mistaken för two notorious!
rum running gunmen hired y
gang to "bump off" a rival leader and you have the essence of the plot of this hilarious satire.
Seldom have audiences boen offered funnier situations tha those created in this timely satire on gang life in America. The story deals with an asiting adventuro in the lives of two "knights of the road" who take leave from a side- door pullman and ure swept up by storm of circumstance which in- volves them in a succession of un- expected, events. They become un- avoidably affl'ated with a gang of rum racketeers, and the most hilari- our incidents follow in rapid suc. cession.
Langdon and Summerville, make A team which has seldom been equalled on the seroon. Perfectly cast for their roles, Harry and Slim sail through situations that go to make "Soo America Thirst
one.
of the most distinctive comedy of an impressive talking picture asa-
BON.
Bossie Love, who plays the part of an aide to the district attorney's
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Divine Life destroya death, Truth destroys error, and Love destroya hnte...Being destroyed, ain needs no other form of forgiveness. Does not God's pardon, destroying any one sin, prophesy, and involve the final destruction of all sin 1 (p.330)
tions of advertising schemes and rate cards.
Published by
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, L., 11, Is House Street, Hongkong..
is a lively factor in the picture, Other important characters are Mat played by Mitchell Lowia. thew Betz, Stay Whitlock.
Fields, Dick, Alexander-and
The story was written for the screen by Vin Moore and Edward Luddy and directed by William J. Craft, who recently erented "The Little Accident for Universal..
TALKING
POTVAR
ADDED ATTRACTION LAUREL AND HARDY
in
‘ANGORA LOVE" COMING SHORTLY ВНЕ OUTWITTED
THE LAW
BUT YIELDED
TO LOVE!
Three years in prison) then Lose cheated her of her revenge! JOAN
Grawford
The beautiful star in her most thrilling role---
PAID
with ROBERT ARMSTRONG
and
MARIE PREVOST
Mero-Goldwyn Mayer
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