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THE SHOWING OF PLUNDER" 15 POSTPONED. Commencing TO-DAY
"Ar2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. We are showing the Rare Picture of South Seas:
Romance
A Release of May, 1931.
A Picture actually
filmed in the prohibited land of the South Seas with uncivilized love affairs.
Tabu
Qerɔnow! Recess
with a cast of
Native Beauties.
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THE SILVER SCREEN.
CENTRAL THEATRE.
STOLEN HEAVEN.
Followers of the current musichl
flair for novelty will be interested in the unique colletion of tropical instruinenis played by the Hayana Casino orchestra during the Florida
scenes of Nangy Carroll's new
starring picture, which is having. its final showings to-day at tha Central Theatre.
The Havana orchestra has en joyed
season of unsurpassed popularity in New York's most ex- clusive night clubs, notably the fashionable. Central Park Casino, where the strains of their maracae, guiros and bongos furnish nightly dance music for New York's socially elite. The orchestra aggregation of fourteen picces is an unique collees. tion of instruments.
Is introduces the guire, which is nothing more than a tropical gourd with side incisions. A wire brush seraped over this, gourd produces aspund similar to the rabbing of ́abrush on a drum-head. “Maxacas are played in pairs. They are smaller and rounder gourds than the guiros, fustened to handles and - londed with shot. They are mani- palated in two-four time.
The claves, two sticks of a special kind of word, give off a musical sound when struck together. Bongos are knee drinus, held between the legs and beaten with the flat of the palus. The toner of the bongos vary, due to heating which loosens the skin drum-heads to de- grees of lautness,
The Havana Casino Orchestra. has been featured on the New York Palace Theatre bill, and record. ing companies have caught their strange rhythms for public distri bution.
PLUNDER."
The writer met a friend the other day who came, out here from Lon- don six months ago and who said he always felt home-sick owing to the Jack of British taste in the local amusements.
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THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND THE ONLY. AIR-COOLED THEATRE IN THE COLONY
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NEXT CHANGE
Victor McLaglen A DEVIL with WOMEN
with
Mona Maris
Ramphrey Bogart
and
Luana Alcaniz
Booking
at the Theatre. Daily from 11 am. Telephones: 25313, 25330.
of him. A little older And If you are one of those who feel grayer than in the days when he played in slapstick comedy home-sick, you should not miss and threw custard pies, the genius * Plunder," the British comedy
of comedy cuts a start figure in that is to be shown in the Central his soft cap, silky alpaca pile over- Theatre commencing to-morrow,
coat, soft-collared shirt, quiet gray The picture is laugh-provoking it and gray spats, and silver gray throughout and is made for English hair with the most beautiful
tnsics,
euri."
In brief, the story deals with
Quiet, serious, with a low, modu- Joan Hewlett, who is being delated voice, the dean of comi-tragio frauded of or inheritance from her pictures seems anything but the grandfather by her aunt, Mrs.master of slapstick whose oue-reel Hewlett. In trying to restore the
ers convulsed the world some years inheritance to her, D'Arcy Tuck back. Chaplin lonks more like an and Freddie Malone, an advan-English playwright, admits to a turer, conspire burglary together,.
great respect for Thomas Burke, in which Mrs. Hewlett's brother is plays tennis and the pipe organ nevidentally killed. How those two
for recreation and never travels meo outwit Scotland Yard and
with. less than fifty necktice. eventually nonplus Mra. Hewlett,
"City Lights" is the first pic you have to see them for yourself. ture the comedian has made in There are car-loads of laughters in three years. He calls it a romantic the plot.
comedy in pantomine. The picture was directed by Tom Walle, the famous stage-serpen comedian, with himself as Freddie Malone, Ralph Lynn, another noted comedian as D'Arey Tuck, Winifred Shatter as Jonn. Hewlett and Mary Brough as Mrs. Hewlett Herbert Waring acted as a stern but funny pelice inspector of Scotland Yard.
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QUEEN'S THEATRE,
CITY LIGHTS."
"GENERAL CRACK.”.
Nicknames usually find their be- ginning in some physical cecen- tricity or as the result of soma novel incident, but the name General Crack," the title of John Barrymore's first all-talking Vita- phone starring vehicle to be seen on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre, had an original source.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
ALRT LYIN
RALPH LYNN
Anil
TOM WALLS
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ROOKERY NOOK
The Celebrated Aldwych Theatre Fance by
BEN TRAVERS WE
TOM WALLS
KING'S THEATRE.
ROOKERY NOOK."
Some interesting features of Rookery Nook now showing at
TIM SERVICE
ARMS FOR THE AFGHAN
KING.
LORRY LOADS AT KHYBER PASS.
Peshawar,-Nadir Shah is belie
the King's Theatre are Gerald Pop-ved to be consolidating his pre- Kiss's trip for a few days' rest carious position on the throne of in a lovely little coltage suggested Afghanistan. by his sister-in-law, Mra, Twine, his
As I travelled up the thrilling cousin Clive's expectation of his Khyber Pass this afternoon I saw arrival, the beginning of the trou-lorry loads of rifles and ammuni ble soon after Gerald's departure tion bound for Kabul. Nadir Shah and the surprise which he encoun is believed to have bought them tered on his return from the garage from France, says the Nev's by his discovery of a beautiful girl | Chronicle correspondent named Rhods, decked in pyjamas I met the mysterious Abdul Gaf- and sitting gracefully on a table; far Khan, the leader of the "Red Rhoda's explanation of her unseen Shirts" of the North-West Frontier ingly attire and her presence in the Province, in the garden of his house and how the appearance of bungalow, Speaking very broken the sister-in-law, Mrs. Twine, her English, he said: husband and cousin Clive trans forma. “Ropkary. Nook" into long laugh after a series of side splitting situations, to everybody's satisfaction:
"A DEVIL WITH WOMEN.”
Sunshine pouring down into a rocky, arid canyon in the San Jacintos, a gaily attired group of film players vainly endeavouring to koep coal under beach umbrellas and in the moanty shade of roasting boulders; picturesque bandita"
"The Government of India mis. understands my naivement. I do not hate the British. I only want the same reforms for the Frontier Province as for the rest of India. I am not declaring against the pay. ment of revenus. I am a landown- er myself and I have paid my ro venue.
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do with Russia. It is an accident "My Red Shirta have nothing to
that their uniform is red. It was white, but it got easily dirty, so we changed it to red. 'Red Shirts is only a nickname."
The Barrymore hero, as the right ful heir to a dukedom, bore the sweltering under heavy cartridge of the big haciendo sequences of high-sounding name of Christian belts and Springfields; Director McLaglen's latest Fox Movietone Few of Charles Chaplin's millions Rudolph Augustus Christopher Irving Cummings calling "OK." vehicle, "A Devil with Women,"
This all talking movietone, which of admirerá can visualize the come- Ketlar. The first letter of each after a successful, “ take,” his voico opens its, next engagement at the dian na he is in real life. The for- name combined, spoels" Crack." A echoing down the canyon walls; King's Theatre, is an exciting romantic comedy drama of the forn figure in the ill-fitting coat, military leader of signal ability, Victor McLaglen excitedly pursuing tropica, with Molaglen as a devil. baggy trousers, dog-eared shoes, he is known throughout eighteenth a big diamond behind a rock and may-care adventurous soldier of battered bowler and pocket-edition century Europe as General Crack, proudly capturing him, to the fortune soeking war and women and mustache, who provokes such laughs the idol of soldiers and women and squeals of the feminine audience; Anding plenty of both. He also encounters plenty of rivalry in his n." City Lights" at the Queen's the fear of royalty,
"the mercury rending 123 in the sun, affairs of the heart from a young Theatre now; presents a strikingly Marian Nixon and Armida have and not much less in the shatic; American tourist, a réle enacted by
Humphrey Bogart, different front when off the screen.- the leading feminine roles in sup- Mona Muris and Liam Alcaois Adapted from Clemonts Ripley's During his recent persona! ap- port of Barrymore in General attired in chic gaily coloured silk novel, Dust and Sun,"**"** A. pearance in connection with the Crack," while Hobart Bosworth, overalls; rows of cars on the near Dovil with Women" gives a vivid idea of what a Central American nations presentation of his pic Lowell Bhorman, Jacqueline Logen, by highway with their tours os revolution is really like. Other ture, Chaplin on more than one Otto Maticson, Andres de Seurola,cupants avidly watching the pro-members of the excellent support Hong Kong Daily Press; occasion brought many a gasp and Douglas Gerrard, Philippe de Lacy; eeedings-thes are but a low of ing cast aro Mona Rito. John St William von Brinken, Theodoro
Polis, Michael Vavitch, MIR sigh from female admirers who Ledi and others have important the happenings during the taking | Jiminez, Joe De La Cruz, and blocked traffic in catch a glimpse parts.
(Continued at foot of next column.), Robert Edéson,
gools. Moat of these people buy and road tho
DR. BARNES AND THE CHURCH LEADERS.
'DISASTROUS « DIVERGENCE!: WITH SCIENCE.
Dr. Barnes, who has criticised the doctrine of the fall of man, 'and' of the Creation, said:
"I spent 20 years at Cambridge.
I know still something of the feel- ing" there. I am
that the Baro Church would gain, by having closer contacts with university thought.
Advances, of Science. "Biblical criticism as applied to the New Testament is lending to." conclusions en the part of soine scholars of a very
disturbing nature..
*The advances of modern scienet are having a profound influence on philosophy, and are affecting the whole background of, religious thought.
Ho reminded the House of cer tain books and articles and of the fact that the Dent of St. Paul's (Dean Inge) is announced to bu considering the religions implica tions of the new astronomy and the new physics. Dr. Barnes added:
"It would be a great advantage to have in the Lower House of Convocation men who live in the atmosphere created by this modern scientific knowledge.
Laying-on of Hande.
"If there had been able critics in the Lower House who had lived in hutch atmosphere, we should never havo had such resolutions on unction and the laying-on of hands in the form in which they now appear on our agenda as sent up hy the Lower Hause,
"It is most disastrous that the divergence between modern scienti fie spirit and Church leadoru should appear to be ingrensing, and anything that we can do to prevent such a development we çught to try to attempt."
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FOR THE WEEK
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20.
and dialy DESYLA-BROWN and HENDERSON
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End:
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JOHN
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TAINING PUMA
GENERAL
CRACK
John Barrymore* as splendid, romantle isol dier of fortune" in his first all-talking picture, "General Crack.”; With Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixón, Armfida, Hobart Bosworth. Directed by Alan Crodand.
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