CENTRAL
THEATRE HI,
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
2.80, 5.10. 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.'
An All-Talking, Singing
1981
Universal Super-Production First Time shown in This
Colony.
With Four Big Song Hits
Four Big Songs: "While the Volga Flows" Sing to Your Eyes 'Baby's Lullaby
!: Song of the Gypsies
Count Leo Tolstoy's Famous Novel
The greatest love story ever written now transformed into a 'Talkie'
Starring JOHN BOLES-LUPE VELEZ
Directed by EDWIN CAREWE
ALSO SHOWING. Slim Sammerville, in
OOH LA LA
George Sydn
"
"COHEN ON THE TELEPHONE"
Please Book Early to
avold crush.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TELEPHONE No. 25720.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
CÍMARRON.!
Thirty years of thrills, packed into two hours of breathless enter tainment Such is Cimarron," Radio Pictures dramatization of Edua Ferber's epic story of Okla homa, starring Richard Dix as the colourful Yancey Cravat The Sim is showing at the Queen's Thuntre and scored one of the most notable hit of any production in several months. It is one of the most significant productions since the advent of talking pictures,
Smashing, dramatic punchies coma in rapid order Yancey leads Blays. Lon the Kid
the great land rush Yountia Moots
in
mortal_combat, Champions the Osage Indians), Thwarts his own love, Sabra, to save Dixie Lee and dies that others may liya All in one gripping, awe-inspiring production. A
Although there are tremendous spectacles parades of covered wagons. great herds of cattle
the town of Osage as it ap- peared in three separate cras uil gushers they have not been allowed to interruptor detract from the -absorbing plot
The thirty-three characters and thousands, of pioneers have stepped right from the pages of the Ferber novel
Dix's portrayal of Yancay un doubtedly is his groatcat rôle and. Irene Dunne a Sabra is tho dramas ticsönsation of many sOBSONS.
Estelle Taylor is Dixie Leg. por... sonified; Nanga O'Neil as Felice
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1931
HONCKONCS FINEST ONEMA
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 AND 9.30 PM.
ON THE SPOT News EL BRENDEL is in town.
So is FIFI DORSAY.
FIFI dances at “The Golden Slipper, where a gang of crooks hang out
Vanable neares Buster Collier give EL BRENDEL
A wonderful performance as The Kid" Rosco Ates is a better Jonso Rickey than the original, whils George E. Stono as Sol Levy s exceptional. Loo Yountis, the oit one, and Robert McWade as Louia Hoffner, the undertaker, are at their best. Edna May Oliver, stage atar, ia marvellous as Mrs. Trac Wyatt,
KING'S THEATRE,
* MR LEMON "OF ORANGE."
FIFI DORSAY
CENTRAL THEATRE.
ThinksBRENDEL is the
BigShotofCANGLAND
Sings MyRacket Is You
When BRENDEL gazes into them eyes, he loses those balance!
For hilarious and exciting details see
Mr.Jemon of Orange
NEXT CHANGE COMMENCING TO-MORROW
UP THE RIVER
Spencer Tracy Claire Luce Warren Hymer
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313.
THE CONTRARY ENGLISH.
MR. H. AL FISHER'S PICTURE.
which moans, Box-Offico. Director, would most assuredly be legitima tized in the case of Mr. Bogell. And this title, given to him by many executives in the motion pie ture industry, is justly deserved. "Not because he has directed hun- dreds of interesting motion pic tures, but because he knows the fundamentals of directing. The Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Warden of same technique that he applied to New College, Oxford, speaking at a picture in the silent days de basa luncheon at the final session of
** RESURRECTION.”
Nearing the completion of its El Brendel, famous Swedish disengagement at the Central Theatre, lect comedian, achieves the ambi- "Resurrection" is drawing capa- tion of a lifetime in "Mr. Lemon of Orange," the Fox comedy now city audiences daily. The Tolstoy showing at the King's Theatre, in epic of prince and peasant which which he is co-starred with Filhas been published in almost every Dorsny.
All comedians sigh for the forbid. language is a throbbing, emotional den fruit of tragedy. Elis, no narrative splendidly portrayed by exception. Always he has plast. John Boles and Lupe Velez in the applied to the newer talking pic
and publicly yearned to principal roles, straight, part. Now his suppressed Boles has never given a finerture era. kuony desire has been liberated. Ho as screen performance in the role of complishes his long sought object in Prince, Dimitri His golden voice this production in which he plays is also given broad expression in La double Péle,
several dramatic episodes with the His straight part," while not little peasant maid, Katusha Mas exactly Hamlet, is far from his lova, played exquisitely by Lupe usual assignments. It is that of Velez. "Silent MoGee," gangster chief-
Critics have agreed that in "Re. tain, who chews aigars and swal
traction, this Gery Latin star
lows the juice, and rules the realm
of bootleg booze.
demonstrates a rare understanding of deep drama for the first time in a screen role, and proves herself a great dramatist actress..
Theatrege
NOT PHILISTINES.
the City of London Vacation
Course described certain English characteristics and English instity- ticas.
Albert Rogell now heads the logell Productions, Ltd., a com- pany formed for the purpose of trust that our foreign vist of action moving talking pictures, tore," concentrating upon the producing
Mr. Fisher said, "have and they offer as their first produc- taken the opportunity of acquaint tion, Aloba," which is the attrac
and English women during their Aloha justifies the confidence stay in this country, for we are on tomorrow at the Centraling themselves with English men
placed in Rogell by his associates, not without interest Brendel is very much impressed with this role, so much so that in
The first of a series of four pictures We have a knack of allowing for Tiffany release. "Aloha," con- ourselves to be governed by other ed serious and discussed the gangs. duced and nothing has been spared to perfect screen entertainment have a Highlander as our Prime la recent interview he actually turn-
The story has been faithfully pro:tains the basic technique necessary people, and at the moment we ter problem from a rather sound that could add to its magnificence The cast, alone, speaks volumes for Minister. point of view, all things considered, and realism. Director Carewe has the production. Hended by Ben
"Then wo practise a game--the Most gangsters I ever saw of fulfilled his promise to preserve the Lyon and Raquel Torres, it also game of cricket-which is entirely heard of were sick men," he said. spirit of Tolstoy's work to the final includes Robert Edeson, Alan Hale, mysterious to Celts, Latins, and Mostly they are the products of chapter which keeps the audience Thelma Todd, Marian Douglas, Slava. It in a game of great lums where they were reared in in suspenso until the last 70 feet, Otis Harlan, T. Roy. Barnes, intricacy and many surprised, 6th and dirt. With one or two of the film,
Robert Ellis, Donald Reed, Dickie game of great delicacy, which has "exceptions, you never heard of a
man in good health turning to Ross Tapley, and others of the sup Phail, Phyllis Crane, Al St. John English prose. It is pursued with Nance O'Neil, William Keighley, Moore, Marcia Harris, Addie Me-inspired some noble passages of crime as a livelihood. The weakling porting cast offer fiue performan and Rita Roy. The story is con enthusiasm by Polynesians, and makes the gunman.”
Ces Resurrection is truly corned with the adventures in practised with great virtuosity But this unnatural solemnity great picture and bids fair to take society of a half-caste girl who is some of the Indian princes. could not last. Next he was grin- its place among the superior screen transplanted from her tropical ming: I rehearsed this gangster plays of the decade. To-day, is the island to San Francisco by bry rôle at home, and practised talking last day of its engagement in this husband. It is a romance with tough, and making facer at a mir Colony.
highlights of happiness and sorrow, ror. I got so scared of myself a
comedy and tragedy. The action couple of times that I looked under
almost entirely take place in San Francisco and aboard a palatial yacht. The women in the cast are beautifully gowned by Corinac, Inc. of New York
the beds before I could get to sleep,
Brendel's other, role in the picture is the purely comic one of a toy salesman whose resemblance to McGee creates amusing, complica- tions for him..
UP THE RIVER.”
When Maurine Watkins created the part of "Dannemora Dan "in her original story for "Up The River" Fox Movietone picture, she' ever dreamed that the player who was to play the role would be ro well qualified for it. Besides being a burglar of exceptional skill, Dan" is supposed to be a firec class catcher on the penitentiary baseball team,
Warren Hymor, who portrays the
Commencing TO-MORROW character "Dan," received his base-
ALOHA
BEN LYON RAQUEL TORFEST And All Star Cast
bal education at Yale University. In the more hazardous art of bur- glary, he served his apprenticeship in the Fox Movietone drama "Born. Reckless, in which he played the purt of Big Shot."
Up The River, which opaus to-morrow at the King's Theatre, is t hilarious Tex Movietone comedy, depicting high life behind high walls Spencer Tracy teams with Hymor to furnish much of the comedy in their roles of two hard- boiled birds who sprout wings and become emissaries of Dan Cupid in tlig romance between youngsters." Claire Luce and Humphreys Bogart interpret the young lovers in the largo cast, which includes Willlim Colliert Sr. Joan (Cherie 5- Lawes, George MacFarlane, Sharon Lynn, Nock Francis, Goodoo Mont gombay, Edythe Chapman und dozens of other accomplished trou-
pora
"ALOHA."
If the picture business were a college institute instead of an enter tainment studio, the degree B.O.D.,
:i
PRINCE'S THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
Daily at 2.80, 7.16 and 9.15pm.
Special Matinee at 8.15 on Saturdays and Sundays Only,
SRUM FOX pescads the flagt Viennego ÁLL, SUNGING-DANONG-BALÍKING SONG
MARRIED IN HOLLYWOOD
KEHANCED MEIRRAY ORMATEARIS"
A PRINCE in LOVE
with
AN ACTRESS-the matter sounds ridiculous!
But CUPID knows how to handle the situation.
Just think of the name Hollywood, and you can rest assured there will be plenty to see.
Added Attraction: FOX MOVIETONE NEWS: NEXT CHANGE
William Fox "ON THE LEVEL
"We have a Church-the Church of England-which is Erastian in its constitution, Calvinistic in Its doctrines, and Reman in its fitual.
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aro in
"Our Public Schools reality private schools. We have an affectionate veneration for a Peer, but we take good care to tax him heavily and prevent him exercising, any power,
We set out to be a practical. nation, but in truth our great dis tinction lies in the fields of lyrical poetry and of landscape painting
We are often very careless about our artistic life, and we have givan the world the impression that of all th Powers we are the most Philistine. That I believe to be a profound error. While extremely radical in politics, we are extreme Jy conservative in society."
A New World.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY ZBW, ON 355 METRES.
11 to 11.30 a.m.-Stock quotations. 11.30 am. Chinese programme. 18.30 p.m.-European programme. 1pm-Local time and weather
report t
1.30 p.m.--Rugby Press news, mail
notice, etc.
Relay of speech Inom Rotary Club
tilin,
p.m.-Close down,
6 to 8 p.m.-European programme of Victor and H.M, Y. records
supplied by Messrs. B. Moutria & Co.
to 6,30 p.m.--
Orchestral..
An America in Paris" (George Gershwin), Victor Symphony Orchestra with George Gersh win.-32003/2004.
"Ballet Egyptien Suito:" (Luigini)..
-Now Light Syinphony Orch.- 01233/C1234.
p.m.Stock quotations,
notice, etc
0:30 to 7.20 p.m.
Variety.
mail.
Song Always in All Ways."; Song- Beyond the Blue Hori.
zon. Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano),--22314", "
Organ Solo-Jeannine I Dream
of Lilac Time,”
Organ Solo-" King for a Day.”
Jesse Crawford-21681.
THEATREVAS
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Ar 2.30, 6.00, 7,15 & 9.30.
-YANCEY CRAVAT. A Giant Towering Among Men Who Were Men. Great-Fisted Mighty Hearted V.. Holding Rein on, an Empire Destiny Marked with Madness #and Willed to the Devil l
EDNA FERBER'S
COLOSS
ARBON
Richard Dix Lane Dunne Estelle Taylor
Song When Twilight Comes, Reading Cast of
I'm Thinking of You" Song-Calling Mo Back to You,""
John McCormick (Tenor), 1107
Hawaiian Orchestra Marin,
Marir
Hawaiian Orchestra" Girl of My Dreams"-Walter Kolo moku Honoluluans-2126 Humorous Song Like the Big
Porta Do." Humorous Bong-"I Think of What You Used to Think of Me-Gracie Fields-B2923, Organ Solo Sylvan Scenes"
H. Vincent Collier, Organ Solo-" Now I'm in Love.”
Reginald Foot-B3301
7.20 to 6p. Quintette in F
Minor Brahms Op.34). Played by Harold Bauer and. the Flonzaley Quartette (Piano 9 Violas, Viola and 'Cello).—
1st Movement Allegro. пол
troppo."
2nd Movement "Andante, un
poco Adagio".
3rd Movement Scherzo " (Alle-
gro), MA
report.
4th Movement- Finale."!
8.03 to 11.30 p.m.-Ko Shing Thee p.m.-Local time and weather
tre relay. 10.30 p.m. (approx.).-Rugby mid-
day Press news. 11.30 p.m.-Close down,
THREE WOMEN IN BOAT.
A BOATWOMAN FINED.
Bitting at the Marine Court yes- térday Comdr, Newill imposed a fiue of $50 on a boat-mistress for using her sampan within the har- bour limits to convey women for the purposes of prostitution, In addition the defendant, who had a previous conviction for the same offence, was warned that if she came up again her licence would be canceled. And
The defendanda story whs' that the women got into the boat and Lord Gorell, earlier in the day,
naked to be taken ashore when she" had delivered the last lecture of the
was called alongside a Jardine course. Referring to the complete boat. Against this, Sergeant change in the mode of human life Roberts stated that a seaman on which had come about in recent board the as. Taiping hailed the years, Lord Gorell anid: "It is h
now world we are living in, which
defendant's sampan. When witness
has entered upon the very biggest, got alongside he found the three most complete and most rapid of all women on board, one of whom
wore ao clothing, changes that has ever swept over mankind,
The first effect of this great change with which we are faced to-day is the restlessness of evory- one. How often does one hesr people say Oh, let's go and buzz off somewhere. My conviction is that this new world is exactly 13. years old and you cannot expect boy of 13 to be quiet and to ha troubled much about duty. He will begin to settle down as he Tonahns manhood. porn har en
We have noise everywhore to day. People like it. I know of
What do
you want?
you want
Classified
anything to buy or
one distinguished young author who 25 words $1,00 prepaid
can only write well when the wire
Jess and gramophone are turned oa
at the same time in the room.”
Insertions.
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