CENTRAL
THEATRIE WY
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
A 1981 PARAMOUNT SENSATION A picture you'll have lots to talk about when seen. SEE THE THRILLING TRUTH
OF A LIVING RECORD OF A DYING BAUE-I
The Daringly different drama
of the wilds no
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because it is reall
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Burden-Chandler Production
(Paramount) Glaren
NOTICE!
20 additional Fans wire installed in the house lately. Come and cool yourself!
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Velez
The
STORM
"People Who Matter"
PEOPLE WHO MATTER, to the advertiser are the people who can afford to buy him. gooda. Most of those people buy and road the
Hong Kong Daily Press-
THE SILVER SCREEN.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
SINS OF THE CHILDREN."
As natural hicture as has been scon on the borech in some time, roplete with both the comic and pathetic moments of life, is on view at tho. Queen's Theatre in the form of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Sing of the Children," which marks the initial screen appearance of Louis Mann, veteran of the stage.
The reasons for the life-like quali- ties of this picture lie in the sim plicity of its story of an old Ger- man barbor who has difficulties in
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raising a large brood of children, and the effective performances upon the part of Louis Maun in the contral role and Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams, Robert Montgomery, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Mary Doran and Jeane Wood as the youthful members of the cast,"
The story might be the biography of any number of immigrants who come to America and sacrifice them-- selves in the attempt to give their childřon a better start in life than they had.
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Adolph Wagenkampf, the barber of Sine of the Children," had his hands full, what with one sor who married into a higher social strata and became too good for bis par- enti; another who embezzled funds in the hope of perfecting an in- vention and was narrowly saved from a prison term; and a daughter who got into difficulties with a man who wouldn't marry her.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931.
KING'S
THEATRE
HONGKONG'S FINEST ONE
"
THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND THE ONLY AIR-COOLED THEATRE IN HONG KONG
SHOWING TO DAY
Ar 290, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20 P.M.
superb
drama
of the strangest
love and adventure story ever filmed
Edmund Lowe
COTLAND
YARD
FOX
PICTURE
with
JOAN Bennett
"Abraham Lincoln," and remain" Then I got my break,"` Miss
How the old Garman patiently sticks by his children and helped in Hollywood to lend lightness Merkel declares, “I got two lines them out of their respectiva dilemand gaiety to "Don't Bet. Onima play called Two by Two, and mas makes up an engrowing pic Women," ture which will linger in one's memory for a long time.
Sam Wood decurves praise for his direction which gives the right pro portion to characterization without impeding the notion of the plot.
" ABRAHAM LINCOLN."
W. Griffith's all-dialogue spectacle roming to the Queen's Theatre.
Fox Movietone fürce it lasted just two weeks." comedy co-featuring Edmund Lowe and Jeanette MacDonald, which comes to the King's Theatre noxt change,
Unusual as it may seem, har parents never offered the Icast of jection to her repeated assertions that she intended to become an actress That left only the custom-
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 16th AUGUST
DON'T BET ON WOMEN
FOX PICTURE EDMUND LOWE... JEANETTE MacDONALD
Sk 19 PVNÜANK_HOWAKO.
Booking
at the Theatre Telephone: No. 25318,
CENTRAL THEATRE.
THE SILENT ENEMY.",
Short as it proved to be, this en Back from Northern Ontario, gugenient was enough to attract William D. Burden. and William C. producers to Miss Merkel's possibi Chanler have brought a stirring itics. There followed in rapiditory in motion pictures of the succession rdles in The Foor life of the Ojibway Indians as they Nut, Pigs," Coquette," "The were before the advent of the white Gossipy Sex" Salt Water," anden.. Not only is the picture
a six weeks' engagement in vaude-realistic picture of Indian life, it ville with Lynn Overman..
The thunderous gallop of charge ing cavalrymen and the roar of Pannon and shricking shells help the audible recreation of Sheridan'sary years in school to be hurdled fore for silent pictures was run for thrills love customs, dangers and An old test made three years beis romantic story filled with the ride to victory in the battlefield bofore beginning her career. scenes of "Abraham Lincoln,”. D.
1. W. Griffith, when he was cast-interesting superstitions of the first Her grade school days were spenting "Abraham Lincoln." One look inhabitants of the American con- in Covington. Her high school at Miss Merkel's piquant Southerntinent. The picture is called "The diploma was awarded in Philadel- loveliness and she was signed. All of the sensational war "ahots" phin, since her parents had moved of this romance of the Emancipa to the Quaker city during the in-writing her name among the rank-
The rest is history that is rapidlySilent Enemy" tor's life-made for United Artists terim. Her other achievement of ing comedienoss of Hollywood. To
were photographed and miera note during her residence in Phila, date she has appeared in Abru in the wilderness, in its dramatic phoned in the green pasture landsdelphia was a perfect record as a ham Lincoln," Eyea of the of Northern California.
Though the battle scenes take up but a small part of the whole pic ture, Cristh has employed them, together with various allegorical devicca, ni effective expedients in symbolizing Lincoln's official and personal victory after "five "and a half years in the White House.
KING'S THEATRE.
"SCOTLAND', YARD.”
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William K. Howard, director of "Good Intentions" and also of the Fox Movietone dramatic thrillor "Scotland Yard," the current
feature at the King's Theatre, is a close observer and student of the detective drania..
Both of these successes feature Edmund Lowe in smooth-working, clever criminal rálek, so popular with screen audiences everywhere.
The success of such pictures," Howard maintains, " depends upon the thoroughness with which im- portant details are filmed, and the knowledge of the subject brought to. the drama, Both the screen author and the cast in Scotland Yard" have been in or lived in England, the locale of the story, and all except Edmund Lowe have attended school there. Even Miss Bennett, the leading lad attended school for a time in London,
"For authenticity in the opera tions of Scotland Yard, I had with me as technical advisor on the set: during the entire production Gerald Samson, an Englishman who at one time was junior private Kecretary to Mr. Lloyd Georgo and. who is intimately familiar with the inside workings of the famous British polica and detective · ·mor- vices. Thus we feel sure that tech- fically and dramatically, "Scot- land Yard is true to life in every detail.
Scotland Yard "was adepted to the screen by Garrett Fort from the sensational stage play of the same name by Danison Clift. The at- erllent supporting cast includes: Barbara Leonard, Lumadon Kare, Donald Crisp, Georges Ronevant and Halliwell Hobbes
DON'T BET ON WOMEN.”
Have you fallen for Una Morkel'a. delicious Bouthern drawlt ff not, then it is because you have not yet wen and heard this winsome, come- dienne who left the New York stage tó portray: Ann --Rutbledgoin
Sunday school teacher in the Hand. ley Grange, Reform Church, where she taught for four years.
World," The Command Perform- ance" and The Bat Whispers," William K. Howard directed.
PRINCE'S THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
(From August 13-15) Three Days Only. THE GIRL FROM HAVANA"
Fox Production
with
LOLA LANE & PAUL PAGE And Others.
AN Absorbing Drama of Tropical Love and Tropical
Thrills.
A band of society crooks, suspected of a
Jewellery theft, are pursued and
finally captured in
· Havana after a
6,000-miler
'chase.
by
a Lady
Detective who finds
Cuba a port of ROMANCE/
ADDED ATTRACTIONS :
1. Stepping Out
2. Hearst Metrotone News.
Comedy
3. Geo. Dewey Washington News
Daily Performances:
As Usual
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United Artiste press
ALIBI
The story is so much more than the customary travel picture made narrative of the struggle of a primitive people to survive, that it was taken over by Paramount. It is to be shown at the Contral theatre, starting to-day.
"We felt there was a'ield for a truthful picture of primitive In-. dian life," said Mr. Burden in an interview. "All other films about the Indiana have projected, not the aborigines, but the white man's notion of them further removed from actuality hy using standardiz ed Hollywood story patterns.
"In The Silent Enemy we have pictured a tribe of Ojibways in one of the years, when food was
ere. Everything in the picture
BACHELOR GIRLS. QUEEN'S
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servation-in complete agreement with my conclusions.
One of my most charming boho- lor girl friends (who has since gone abroad and ceased to be a bachelor) took up her quarters in a rather gay hotel just outside town, where there was plenty of golf, bridge, and dancing
How to be Saldah,
One lonely Sunday I asked her to lunch, tea, and dinner. Prior to lunch she produced, all her impedi menta from a sait case and request- ed my permission to take a bath as the hotel's pipes had gone wrong. Before the After lunch sigarette, amoke had blown away she was putting on her hat to "run round the corner to see a friend in another Aat for a few minutes, and there she stayed to tea..
The evening meal was an carly compromise of cold supper because she wanted to get back to her hotel and play bridge; and, about seven- thirty I was left to contemplate the thing I dread most in life-a lonely Sunday evening in London..
My friend is not normally badly behaved: it was just that I was enjoying the penalty of a fat-owner who has a close friendship with a bachelor girl determined to live overy minute of her life.4!
We all know the doubtful privi- lege of putting up. a bachelor
THEATRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20. A PICTURE FOR EVERY
Sont Danghter! --Father! Mother!
girl who comes to town for the night; the scuffle of unpacking, the general dislocation until the taxi whirls her away wearing the kind of dress that only bachelor girls can afford; and the final disorgani sation until she is in bed in the early hours of the morning, having been "too-dog-tired" to talk cozily... about the happenings of the even- ing. Later in the day she departs deploring the fact that she doesn't seem to have had a word with you, old thing!
Just "Blew In."
The other side of the bachelor girl is the ingenious way she has of appearing pathetic when things are a bit slow for her. As sure na you have arranged a nice little evening with the exact number of
phones or arrives without notice, men and women of similar in- tenesta, jour bachelor girl tele4 and all your plans *** gang ngley.** you aren't you would have been off If you are kind-hearted and if
her list long ago you make her welcome, and atro explains in her charmingly casual way to the rest of your guests that she "blew in" because everything else had fallen through and she was hond..
I sometimes get a bit of sardonic musemont out of imagining what happens when Greek mesta Greek; in other words, when bachelor girls get together on holiday and so forth. I suppose it is: case of the survival of the fittest. 1, also wonder what will happen to her when sho gets old.
She has considered very few people, and consequently very few can be expected to consider her. Even already I am beginning, to defend myself against the species.
ix true to life and history of the LUNACY IN ENGLAND
tribe.
Every night we would
Father with the leaders of the In. dians and the older men of the com- pany and talk over the events that were to be photographed next day,
AND WALES.
Thus the story was essentially writ INCREASE OF 1,774 CASES. ten by the Indians themselves."!
THE STORM.”.
Lupe Velez has suddenly dicided that stunting in a cold climate is not what it is cracked up to be...
In which is coming to her latest picture,
The
the Central Theatre soon, Universal told her that a double would' be used in filming the canoa scenes on location in the High Sierras In great dudgeon she informed the director that she would permit" no ine to double' for her,
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The total number of notified cases of mental disorder `în England and Wales on January this year was 114,181, and the proportion of males to females was 441 to 55.9. This was an increnso of 1,774 dur- ing the proceding year, the aver age annual increase for the previ gus five years being 2,050. This information is contained in the an- nual report of the Board of Con- trol (Lunacy and Mentil. Defci- oney) for 1030 published yesterday
The increase shown has no neces- You think I'm a coward,ao f
sary connection with the incidence I will show you. Everything I will population, but 18
of mental disorders in the general
the increase
du myself." In vain they explainshown by the excess of admissions ed that they weren't trying to in- evor · combined" deaths" and, dis- timate that she lacked courage, but charges. The shortage of accommo that it was silly to tako risky, dation has reached a critical stages doubly so because it was too cold.
“the Board states, and Hamediato In the event of a mishap she would action has become imperative."
be thrown into icy waters. Because
The difficulty of finding supervise she wasn't much of a swimmer, sping officers for mental defective accident would turn into a calamity colonies is emphasised, it being in those swift moving rapids.E!
But little Lupe has a determina-rged, that some means by which these officers may familiarise them- tion all her own. She finally had solves with, modern methods of her way. The socke was shot, Tupo handling and training defectives in a bobbing canoe) shooting the should be sought rapide. Luck was with them There was no noident, After the taking, and when Lupe was back on firm ground, the director asked her how it felt.
The Beard estimates that there are 200,000 mental defectives out side institutions, who need definite and prolonged hol if they are to remain in the community. Regret:|| is expressed in thie connection that occupation and, industrial centros are not being more rapidly develop
195 You know what was the matter with me I was plain fool," 7 was a coward poll to be afraid. 80 much quick water. And, me-I'm ed. ho, salmon. Next time I do! some-ŝi-RA table relating to deathe in in- thing silly like that you papk me stitutions shows that during the planty calligrarely, Jahanshook i pazemē, 212-pationto alielezionator hands with director William Wyler, 4,087;rinnlos, 4,228), giving, who had spent bad half hour death rate of 6.71 per cent., 1.33. worrying about his star and having below the rate for 1020, and the to direct at the sime time.
Icwest ever recorded,
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YOU'LL
laugh! You'll
ery You'll love it!
SINS OF THE CHILDREN
HERE is as fine a human
spread on the Talking Screen! A story of children's ingrați- tude, and of children's love. picture to interest every son every daughter, every father and mother. Dengan
A Cosmopolitan Production
** document, as has been
with
Louis Männ Robert Montgomery Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams
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AKISEPHIL SCHENCK.
D.W.
GRIFFITHS
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
WALTER HUSTON
UNA MERKEL
(STAR)
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 6.20, 7:20 & 0.20. John
GILBERT
A
powerful drama of confitering
Ne love!!
From
Tolstol's
The Living
**Corpse******
Redemption
ALLTALKING.....
GILBE
RENER ADOREE CONRAD NAGEL ELEANOR BOARDMAN