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CENTRAL
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TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG DAILY
nt.
Strangers May Kiss)
Norman Shearert
HONG KONG
SHOWINGS TO-DAY
Queen's
2:30, 5:10, 7:15 and 9.20 p.m.-
牛彩凰明百般有寿歌由對部飯
Central
整天此刻
So this is Paradise."
World..
SO THIS F
PARADISE
Part II... Another all-talking. singing and dancing Chinese picture.
Starring BUTTERFLY WU
Queen of Chinese Screenland.
-With
Shaw Pei Chen
Directed by. S. C. Chang
Recorded by Pathe Orient Co.
Produced by The Mass Co., Shanghai.
NEXT CHANGE Commencing 19th, ALL DIALOG DRAMA.INITE LEFT
LADIES
FLEISURE
BARBARA STANWYCK LOWELL SHERMAN
KALPH GRAVES
LIPPY!
PEPPY!
JAZZY!
GAY!
FRANK
MICHAL GANCITY
"The Brat, Starring "Sally
O'Neil
Chinese picture.
Emperor Chin Lung"
Chinese Picturo
KOWLOON.
"Ons Mad Kiss.”··
COMING.
Hold Everything "Comedy.",
-Queen's
"The Smiling, Lieutenant.""
Maurice. Obevalier-King's.
"Daddy Long Legs."
Janet Gaynor and Warner Bax-
ter-King's
"The Divorcee,”«.
Robert Montgomery and Neil. Hamilton-Majestio,
"Lord Byron of Broadway,"
Holiday
Star.
Anne Harding.—Contral, ' "An American Tragedy "
Phillips Halmes and
Sylvia Sidney.-King's
** The Brat."-
NGS
THEATRE
ADICKONCS FINEST ONE?
SHOWING TO DAY
At 2.80 8.10, 7.16 AND 0.30 PM.
The BRAT
Sally O'Neil
Frank Albertson Virginia Cherrill
Which will he choose The Reamp in scanty skirts or the hot house Rowerof Dark Avenue?
MOVIE NEWS
FILM FIGHTS SERIOUS COMIC AND MERELY FEMININE.---OUR
MODEST STARS..
a true Hibernian, shë didn't see
six brothers since childhood. Being There are ways and ways of get red, but saw green and the result ting realism into a fight scene in ing notion is said to be nothing the movies. One method that on-short of cyclonic. joyed favour in the early days was fer the director to take each of the
The Brat," which was adaptea participants aside just before the, for the screen from Maude Fulton's combat and tell him that his oppon-well known stage play of the ane ent had been making dirty dige name, features Miss O'Neil in the about him..
titio" rále, that of the little slum But in planning the rough-and-girl courted by an eminent novelist tumble, wrestling match between Sal who takes her to his country "home
Sally O'Neil' as a Bowery Cinderella and Frank Albertson as har Long Island Romeo in the Fox comedy romance, "The Brat PA
in the hope that she might furnish colour for his next book.
ly O'Nail and Virginia Cherrill that forme one of the most hilarious scenes in The Brat," the Fox pic Dinehart, who makes his screen des The novelist is played by Allan. ture which is showing at the King's but in the picture, while Frank Al COMING VERY SOON | Theatre, Director John Ford was bertson acts the wribor's younger
ANN HARDING
brother. June Collyer and William
unable to use this tried-and-ture Collier, Sr., are also featured as 15 system, for the reason that the girls Min Cherrill and the cast is dome have been warm friends for years plete with Farrell Macdonald, Mary Consequently, he applied now tac Forbes, Albart Gran, Louise Mack- tica The morning of the battle,intosh and Margaret Mann. ho took Mins Cherrill into a quiet corner of the set
"When you get into this rumpus
'
"Strangers May Kiss."
Ford told her, "take a good healthy
Fashions in automobiles are slap at Sally. She's Irish, and she'll changing among stars of the screen,
"HOLIDAY” a great scrap when she gets dread cars and liveried, chauffeurs
The Greatest Picture ever made l
Watch out for the date.
RKO-PATHE Super Special Production,
mad, but I want to be sure she does don't drive into the film lots as fro get mud. One good wallop from quently as they used to. Instead you, and we won't have to worry film celebraties are driving, then about any retakes.!!
selves, usually in small roadstorm Accordingly a few seconds after This is not an economy wave. They the twe began,Mias Chorril obey keep the chauffeurs and big cara ed instructions. Her palm landed home for state occasions. They've sgainst the O'Neil jaw with a crack just learned what pleasure it is to that could be heard all over the big drive onesalt in one of the new stage. It was, Miss O'Neil confess singll roadsters, te ed afterward, the hardest blow, she
had ever experienced despite the
the Queen's Theatre in "Strangers Norma Shearer, now playing af many boute she has had with her May Kiss," wheels into the Metro-
Goldwyn Mayer studios in a small gateman bears that inby litle foot, coupe with a trick horn. When the be immediately ows that has Shearer is in the offing. Robert lending, men in the picture, both Montgomery and Nail Hamilton, have small roadsters for going to bead, who has a featured role, usual- to work purposes; Marjorie Ram-
arrives at the studio in a small black coupe
Greta Garbo, whom you would expect to match her exotic soreen characterization with nothing less than a Rolls-Royce fools everybody. un usual by driving to work in an inconspicuous Ford!
Hold Everything."
The most hilarious prize fight in the history of the screen is shown
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 22ND NOV
"A WARM
CORNER
Starring
LESLIE HENSON
A BRITISH PRODUCTION
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313.
MAGIC VIENNA,
is búzado oú the successful comedy which had a |'prolonged run at the Prince's Theatre, London. It is not mere- fly a canned play,.......... The situa
tions were deroloped, with an ayer on the sinematograph.medium, and the action received as much care as the dialogue. Practically the whole, of the original-stage cusb appears | in the picture. The one exception in that the part of Peggy a per- trayed in the film by Miss Belle Chrystal,"
A Warm Corner is Leslie Honson's third film, but his Arat taixio." His talking voice land- mirable. The picture is also the luisial tulkie offort of Austin Melford us ther dro!! sinplaten). and of Miss Connie Ediss (who contributes so lively and amusing, a rendering of the part of Mrs. Corner) Hoather Thatchor is thó Mimi af the story, and gives a viva- cious interpretation of the siren who early "brought the gay Mr. Corner to grief, Artbur Wellesley
admirable as the friond of Corner's youth; and Toni Bruce, as Lady Bayswater, the former barmaid who acts the aristocrat.. Comedy can have ita realistic tou ches. Kim Peacock, who enacts the fiddling nobleman with ag mach suavity, is a professional violinist.
In the supper scene, Almed at one in the morning, in which Leslie Benson struggles with an oyster, ne fewer than three dozen of the aucey- lent ones were supplied to him and aaoh of the other artists concerned The oysters were real! the champagne was not! Heather Thatcher will carry in.
"The City of Charm1"
That was Vienna's undisputed her memory to her last day her post-war title. As a setting for, three hours in and out of the bath, love and romande it. was without a in the scune in which that useful rival.
Lovely a woman, music, dashing The bathing beauties in the Lido
domestic article figures. officers, colourful uniforms the set are proudly described as real brilliant trappings of royalty, spark- beauties
The Italian: ing wine-there were the ingredients waiters' nationality is guaranteed! that Vierma the gayest capital in Belle Chrystal and Kim Peneock, Europe.
who appear in the bathing pool All of this the Vienna of the scenes, are warranted expert Imperisi Hapsburg-has been re swimmers. picture. In this magic setting sent at the telephone, Leslie Henson created as the background for this In his immensely amusing incid hungry girl of the people vie for made. Henson spends four minutes love-starved princess and a love has one of the longest close-ups ever the heart of Maurice Chevalier's at the phone, and manages to keep
The Smiling Lieutenant,
the audiencó in continuous lough ter. A real feat of acting t
ENGLISH GIRL" WEIGHED UP'
NATURE TO BLAME FOR DEFICIENCY IN CONTRAST TO
AMERICAN SISTER, SAYS ELISSA LANDI.-
F
"Nature gave the English girl, u And, again, the women don't lot but not quite enough, I think." live for therman as they do here. Klissa Landi, sitting back in her They dress and act independently suits at the Dorchester with this of them and to please themselves, preface, went on to tell me just You never see the waltzing round what the American, girl is (writes the male as in the old world."
"The men
in Hold Everything, the alla Daily Sketch correspondent). colour, all-talking Vitaphone musical comedy produced by Warner Bros., and coming soon to the Queen's Theatre..
One of the contestants in this comedy battle is Joe E. Brown, the comedian who buy risen to new heights with the advent of the talk- ing picture.
Miss Landi is now an international filin star and Hollywood in and suggested. Waltz round them," I will continue to be, her permanent "No, not that either. They just
playing small parts on the English a thing to be sought for its own address. Not long ago she was realise that physical perfection is stage and, after a brief spell of auker stardom, crossed the water.
Neither is Holly wood the modern Babylon,
Don't mistuke me," she said.
1 am speaking of myself and A star lives very quietly, Miss English product. Id America I
The bout which takes its place as the laughing high-spot of this should be ashamed to go cut in the Landi asid It is only when you ontertaining film is one of the pre-morning looking like a wet rag. read the fan magazines that you liminaries to the main event which No one worries much over here: realise you are supposed to be showa Ocorges Carpentier, striving The average American woman going famous. Otherwise you drive about to wreat new laurels from the heavy-out marketing prepares her toilette in a Ford and often do your own weight champion of the world, in with the same meticulous cafe as cooking And 'nobedy minds any contest which is Alled with thrills if she were going to a fashionable body else. At the same snack-bar and oxcitement..
In addition to Carpentier and got us beat. The cult of physical Garbo, but no one mindst
dance. The simple fact is they have someone may may,There's the Brown, the cast of Hold Every-perfection is brought to the stand They couldn't work over here. thing includes Winnid Lightner, ing it bad with the ancient They would be mobbed out of exist Sally O'Neil, Dorothy Revier, Ed- Greek mund Breese, Bert Ronch and Marion Byron. Hoy Del Rath directed.
GLORIA SWANSON WEDS AGAIN,
SECRET MARRIAGE TO IRISH SPORTSMAN.
Major John Murray, Chief Ma gistrate, of Elemford New Found- ladd announced that on August i
he secretly performed a ceremony
ence,
BRITISH FILMS ON WAVE OF PROSPERITY.
RECORD - BOOKINGS.
QUEENS
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.80, B.10, 7.15 & 9.20. THE YEAR'S FINEST PICTURE
NORMA
She travels the path modern ro-
mance in the
most talked
of picture in years.
HEARER
STRANGERS MAY KISS
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PETRA
rth Robert Montgomery
·Neil Hamilton Marjorie Rambeau. Irene Rich
NEXT CHANGE -----
HOLD
EVERTHING
with
JOE E BROWN
WINNIE LIGHTNER Singing, clowning laughing their way through with sparkling logue brilliant usor. Technicolor.
Hald Everything
..for "HOLD EVERY
"HOLD EVER
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
Ar 2.80, 5.20, 7.2 &9.20 JOSE
boom these days, and it is an
is good to hear the word
· MOJICA!
marrying Miss Gloria Swanson the fact that British film producers are fampus motion picture actress to Dow on the biggest wave of pros- Mr. Michael Farmer, a wealthy perity in the story of the industry. Triah, sportsman:
ONET MAD KISS
English firms are so popular that they are booking to four times the figures they did in silent film days
Mayor Murray said that the secret wedding of Miss Swanson and Mr. Farmer was solemnised at The suspension of the gold stand- the home of Mr. Dudley Field aird has noted as a further stimulant Malone, an internationally known to production, and all the first-class lawyer of New York, prominent studios are working at capseity It Liberal and vic leader is only question of time before
Mi Swanson, in wedding Mr. another of the major American com Farmer, entered into her fourth binos start a production
unit in this marriage contract. Not long agcountry
she divorced James Henri la Baily | This will follow the example of de la Falaise, the Marquis, de inthe Faramount and Warner.com. Coudrays of Vendes, France, The panies, who are now providing em titled Frenchman was Miss Swar, ployment for many English artista "son's third" husband,
and terimicians at their studios st Elstree and Teddington
Beginning her career as a mouse extra bisa wanson rose rabid The revival in the British. Alm 150 stardom on the silent sliver industry is due to its co-operation: screen and later in the talkies" with the best brains of the London She ly considered one of the most stage and the wide appeal of the popular of motion picture actress English voice."