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1931
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COMING ATTRACTION:
PARAMOUNT PRODUCTION
THE
DEVIL
a Caramount Station
Hy with
Skeets Gallagher Stuart Erwin Carole Lombard Lilyan Tashman Norman Foster
QUEEN'S THEATRE
"STEPPING OUT.".
pting a stage play so that
it is transferred to as it was in the foot-
and still build
on distian motion picture ince, is the font accomplished by Einer Harris, playweight, in the jease of Stepping Dut," his "Now York, slage, success, which ho ad- apted personally to the talkion for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Featuring Charlotte Groonwood, | Leila Hyams, Reginald Donny,
Lilian Bond and Cliff Edwards
is therreurrent attraction at the Queen's Theatre and
Harris worked out his own scroen, version, retaining all the salient | hits and Inughs of the stago play, which took Now York by storm. Incidentally, Miss Bond, who play.
and
rd Cleo on the stage, plays the Samo vamp in the picture, with Meran Tennedy as her companien. Harry Stubbs, Richard Tucker, Kane Richmond, and Wilson Benge are also in the cast. Charles F. Riesnor of "Reducing"
Caught Short" fame, directed.
The picture is a hilarious ro mance of two oil millionaires who try picture production in Holly. wood and who have jealous wives. Hollywood and Agua Caliente ars Locates for screamingly funny plot of gold diggers and jealousy.
"MEN CALL IT LOVE,”
1 thera over was such a thing a 100 per cent. stage cast in a moving picture it is in Men Coll It Love" which will open to-mor row at the Queen's Theatre for three days
Adolphe Monjou, who, is featured talkie, a picturization of
wi
the Vincent Lawrence stage hit, 'Among the Married," began his carver on the stage long before en- tering pictures. Loila Hyams mada her stage debut when she was six years old and Norman Foster aut only was featured in Broadway productions but wrote them as well before entering talkies, Mary Duncan, who shares leading hon- ours, also is a stage recruit, Hedda Hopper has years of stage success to her credit and Robert Emmatt
Keane is the Keane portion of the
famous Keane and Whitney team. And not to everlock the urbc.
BOOKING AT THE THEATERtor. Edgar Selwyn, who also be
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gan as a stage actor but is more famous as a playwright-producer."
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SONG OF KENTUCKY”
Human hatred. generally
originates from
Class Distinctions You'll see this in the picture.
·Added Attraction-
Vinsent Lopez
And
Willi
Lone
Lois Moran, Joseph Wagstaff
Directed by
Lewis Seller.
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CHARLIE CHAN
CARRIES ON
with WARNER OLAND
PICTURE
NEXT ATTRACTION COMMENCING TO-MORROW
George
Bancroft
Derelict
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE,
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KING'S THEATRE.
DERELICT.!!
but somehow, you feel out of it, almost an exile, your interests after all, have been for years in the Far East. You long for news, but friends don't write.
A veritable floating motion pic tura, studio went to sea for the fiming of George Büncroft's new starring picture,Derelict which the King's Theatre will show on Thursday next..
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CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON. even come to Hong Kong when an:
WARNER OLAND AT THE
KING'S.
Waract Oland, the Lamous screen Chinese impersonator, makes his last appearance at the King's Theatro to-day in his now talkie, Charlie Chan Carrice On," a
attempt is made on the life of pretty Pamela Foftor. (Marguerite Churchill), the grand daughter of the murderer's first victim,
At Honolulu, Charlie Chan first cames on the scene because it is in his office that the inspector-who bad come all the way after the culprit is shor by the mystery man. The latest crime helps Char
THE FIVE YEAR PLAN
(Continued from Paga
In reply to
Divorce:
question on
riage ho said irreg! relation ware discountenanced and if neopla word found "living in, an irregular union, the Soviet required them to get married, but, being married, either party could obtain a divorce
at any time The theory of mar 'ringo was that it was a puroly private concern
As for religion, they were prin- mipally reacting against the supert stition and obscurantism of the old
Church:
sooner or later: there would be), revival of religion, in a healthier: farm,
At the moment they had not bogun to feel the hunger for spiritual things, "Communist youth at present was occupied with science and economies as youth generally is with its new toys".
SOVIET METHODS FOR
GREAT BRITAIN?.
G.B.S. WANTS A FIVE YEARS PLAN
Mr. George Bernard Shaw ad- dressed members of the I.L.P. Summer School, doar Wolwyn He asid
"Here have I been preaching Socialien all my political life, and hero at last is a country which has established Socialism, definitely made Socialism the basis of its whole political system, a country. which has definitely thrown over private property and turned its, back on capitalism
It has succeeded in conducting industry Miklostre Plann successfully by that sys tem, and political : constitution successfully on "that system.
The fact that they are making such a success to-day is not so anormously creditable You must remember they are working in con- ditions which to us would be almost ideal. They are working their machine with oil in its bearings. Wo are working
our
machine with sand in its bearings
Youth Who Set
Mr. Shaw, describing his visit to Russian factory, said that a youth, wearing a Lenin Order, was presented to him as having set the biggest pace in carrying out the Five-Year Plan
"I said to him," Mr. Shaw re lated, "If in England you, pet double the pace of your follow workmen you would not be a popular character. You would be called a slogger, and would run a certain chance of having a brick dropped on your head in a quiet
equipped with powerful genorat.gripping detective story which haslie to make up his mind to travelane. If you are going on at that
car. tor sound-recording units, A pentry shop, a set building de partment, a paint shop, a proper ty department, a film developing laboratory, and a camera repair shop, as well as all the other many and varied work units required for a motion picture production, pus to son for a cruise of many dayer Derelict is the first sea, aper tacle that Paramount has mads since "Old Ironsides," and it was the first time in the history of the studio that modern sound equip mont bed been available for such
production.
:
attracted such, large crowds to the theatre during its run.
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The story is about a murderer who travels in company with a crowd of world tourists, and de- spite the fact that he commite three murders and attempts a fourth during the course of the tour, his identity is unknown until the end of the trip when Charlie Chan (Warner Oland), a Chinese detoc tive, brings him to book by means of a somewhat simple trick:
I was at the Theatro yesterday and enjoyed every moment of the "mystery film. We aro first of,
to San Francisco with the tourista and though his company is general- is resented he carries on the in- vestigations which finally lead to the arrest of the mystery mana
Bailing though it is, the film is not without its humorous, de for included in the cast are and Marjorie While Warren Hymer who provide just enough fun to make the talkin the success it it. Regarding Warner, Oland himself, he might just look upon "Charlie Chan Carries On! sa a great accomplishment.-FMA.
rate you stay in Russia. (Laugh- ter.)
"They are all working for efficiency. In this country that youth would have been spoiling the. elances of his fellow-workers That friction does not exist in Russia--
We want a: Five-Your Planchere very badly. They want a Five-Year Plan in America, very badly. Why don't they have it? What would British workmen say to the Plan 1
in perfectly Booth. The workere put, their backs into the Plan because they know what they put into it, they
British statesmen believe thom- solvonly far superior to Russian statesmen These men who are at the head of affairs in Bussis ars not only in the enormously morally superior position of communism” but they are intellectually superior.
3. People. Who Disappear;
par
The feet of vessels consisted of
Bemarking that capital punishwill get out threo pil-burning freighters of given a glimpse of Inspector
Dove's office at Scotland Yard when I ment had been abolished in Russia, about 4,000 tons each, a three
the officer receives a message to the Mr. Shaw said that murder could masted schooner, drafted from the effect that a member of a world be committed on very favourable: Bouth Sea Island trade, and five tour company has been murdered terms an average of four years smaller craft of one and two mast f specifications In addition there a hotel. From this point on. There is, of course," he went were a number of tuys, tenders and 1 wards the film becomes & story ofón, "shooting for political offences,
how the detectives of the Yard-ara, That is very difficult for us barges to transfer equipment be ** faced with the problem of who cum- dorstand. If a Husman tries to take tween ship and shore, certain quences Foing Almed on an jaland And Love the coast of southern Cal
But LOVE
obstac
inally Wins: W
mitted the murder. Investigations reveal the Idet that one of the com- pany de guilty, but who to
Suspicions first fall on the director of the cruise and up to
The largest part of the pictural the end hras made aboard the fleet of ver sritha sik sols as it cruised in open, NEA
Lip coast of lower. California, and invicinity of Ban Pedre harbour
and here
tin
advantage of the the system, and by speculation or any other way tries to enrith himself hd disap
Deari
After a few days his relativos
that the
per
but, as the story haps like to send
licat
and after a few.
comes back or dis relataven aro:
nd murder in comny more foo -za- we go along we that he has been shot!
They have to begin, by reading Marx They look upon, us de im- „beciles, and we cannot,, regiao, wa
tolimbecilen
They have a system fireproof-bell, fireproof obviously ing the superla that nobody, not evon a hardened Conservative could go there and the
hope of the world.. with our
are running to the nigo of the
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 230, 5.10, 7615 & 201
ried se
but ne
their wives? and not with
their bands
hus Don't miss this laugh riot!
STEPPING
OUT
with this five sta cast of famous makers
CHARLOTTE
GREENWOOD
REGINALD DENNY
LEILA HYAMS
LILIAN BOND
CLIFF EDWARDS Directed by CHARLES F RIESNER
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in WAYntief
MEN CALL IT
Love
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