Page
CENTRAL
THEATRE 4.
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
"Du Barry, Wonun of
Passion." With Norma Talmadge and
Conrad Nagali
-Queen'1.·
2:30, 8.10, 7.15 and 9:20 p.m.
King's..
ZANE GREY'S
Contral
THE BORDER
The Chauce of a Night-time." British Picture with Ralph Lynn and Winifred Shotter.
The Border, Legion."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1931.
HONCKONG'S FINEST ONEHA “
AN ALL BRITISH FILM WEEK. A
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.:
British screen
Zaur Grey Novel
with
Richard Alan and Jack Holt.
farce at its
World."
very best.
"
with
WINIFRED"
SHOTTER
ROBERT
ENGLISH
British Pietare, on
Thursday
only. King's..
KENNETH.
LEGION'
Huro."
Chinese Picturo.
KOWLOON,
Movitone Follies of 1030."
COMING.
The Bas Whispers"
Romantic Thriller.--Queen's.
Bed and Breakfast."
RICHARD
WITH
ARLEN HOLF
FAY WRAY EUGENE PALLETTE A Garapenant Picture
NEXT CHANGE
Commencing Thursday
After "Sarah and Son, and after Anybody's Woman," you expect the unexpected get it
and
from
RUTH
CHATTERTON
"The Right to Love
a Garmount Pature
Wah
Paul Lukas The story of a love
that dies and LIVES again!
Coming Shortly!
"Carl Laemmle
presents
"MOTHER'S
MILLIONS"
With
MAY ROBSON
James Hall
Frances Dade
Lawrence Gray
Edmund Breese
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
Warin Corner,"
British Picture with Leslie Fan- son. on Friday and Satur- day-King's
The Night Love" with Ruth
Chatterton, on Thursday. Centrnt.
Mothers Millions."—Central.
East Lynne."-King's
Bad Girl."King's
The Smiling Lieutenant."
Maurice Chovalier-King's. Paddy Long Lega."
Janot Gaynor and Warner Bax-
ter-King's
RALPH LYNN,
KOVE THE CHANCE OF A NIGHT-TIME
sta Ciren Funnies Car Rookery Nook” —es
THURSDAY ONLY
BY SPECIAL REQUEST RE SCREENING OF
"BED AND BREAKFAST":
STARRING JANE BAXTER RICHARD COOPER
A picture that keeps
you amused all the
time.
Directed by
HERBERT WILOOX
and
RALPH LYNN
A British Production
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BY SPECIAT. REQUEST RE-SCREENING OF "A WARM CORNER" STARRING LESLIE HENSON
CONNIE EDISS
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE Telephone 25313.
MOVIE NEWS
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ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.
| DIRECTOR WHO WAS "THE CHANCE OF A
NEVER AN ACTOR.
Can
N
NIGHT-TIME."
RALPH LYNN FUNNIER
THAN EVER.
THE BORDER LEGION.
HEIFETZ 48,000
HOURS OF VIOLIN
PLAYING.
RUSSIAN TALK FILMS....
BOYS AS ACTORS.
STORY OF THE ABANDONED
* CHILD.
The Russians, who have gained a name in Berlin for the high quality of their silent filtus, have now laun ched on alkilms, the first two were recently shown in that city.
The first thik Alm, "Enthusiasm,“ Is an experimental work dosing with sound affects which can..be ob tained from machines, zines, sirens. Its main object is propa ganda for the Five-Year Plan. However much it many impress a Russian pensant, it is certainly noti suitable for West Enropoan con sumption, and left a Berlin audi- ence, however sympathetic, entirely cold.
The experiments with sounds fail chiefly because the talk film ap- paratus is indistinet; thus one has to listen for about an hour a series of repulsive noises and watch industrial work which most people here have seen in their midst.
The second sound alm. The Road to Life," is as interesting and enjoyable as the firms la tiring. It is a story of the Soviet authorities' efforts to round up the thousands of deserted childran and teach them useful occupations.
Insomuch as the Rósainn announ- cer explains to the audenes that what they will see in the ln now belongs to history, and that the Soviet has solved the problem of her abandoned children, the anter tainment id propaganda, for tho Soviet authorities. themselves admit at home, that the conditious child life are still appalling.
Taken alone, however, the film is not propaganda after the แลนด Russian madel, but faithfully tells the story of how a social worker- succeeded on novel lines to reform about a hundred boys who had been given up to crime. In this tice the success of the film: the boys are
not acting, but living, and every-
body is his natural self,
We first see the thieves at work Heifetz, who will be heard in fin Moscow. Every little trick is recital here at the King's on Decem carefully studied, and is an enter ber estimates that he has playedtainment in itself. a violin for 48,000 hours during his Later we are shown how the life. That is the equivalent for young criminals are rounded up in playing nearly five and a half yearssion of social workers debates an a night battle, and how a commis steadily, twenty-four hours a day without a break and no time for sleep or meals. The figure includes both the time he has spent giving concerts and practising.
ZANE GREY FILM.
Zane Crey's romantic West is brought vividly to the screen in At the age of thirty, Heifetz has Paramount's Intest drama "The twenty-seven years of playing he Border Legion," the current attrachind him. He himself does not re fion nt the Central Theatre. member a time when he could not Richard Arlen is the bero, Fay play the viulia any more than you Wray the heroine, and Jack Holt, that beloved portrayer of Zane Grey Western rates, is his own swagger. the daring robber hand.
John Barrymore once said that Sam Taylor, producer-director for nited Artists, knows more about ating than any director in noviou
The feet that Ralph Lym and pictures. Yet Taylor has never Winifret Shotter head the cast in been an actor. The nearest he ever
The Chance at a Night-time," at so it, he admits, was indication to Hong Kong film-fans of the King's Theatre, is aufficent in-
charides.
the excellent fare that is being However, the cast in Norma offered. "The Chance of a Nighting, handsome self as the lender of Talmadgo's new Starring picture,time" is another triumph for Barry, Woman of Passion," British producers and is, as good, ngfers with Barrymory. They depictures such as "Bookery Naok
if not better, that Lynn's former elure that Taylor taught them new and Plunder," which so delighted phases of dramatic characterization focal audiences recently.
the production which is gbowing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
The cast includes Conrad Nagel, William Farum, Ulrich Haupt and Hobart Bosworth.
Norma Talmadge...Stor of DaBarry Woman of Passioni
STOP WATCHES TO CONTROL LIGHTS.
The charge of the "light brigade" nt United Artists Studios ran into henvy money for Roland West dur- ing the making The Bat Whis реть. "fanturing "Chester Morris, which comes to the Queen's Theatre as next change.
The packed houses which greeted, the picture yesterday were kept in continuous" and hilarious laughter throughout and there can be no doubt that the film is due for a very successful run.
Ralph Tyan has never been fun- nier und Mine Shotter is as 'charm- ing and piquante as ever. The management of the King's" is to be congratulated in giving the Hong Kong public really good British films and we are informed thas it is their intention to increase the British "quota ' as time goes on.
We can heartily recommend "The Chance of a Night-time" as a phe ture which should not be missed.
COMING
TO THE
KINGS.
Jane Baxter in "Bed and Breakfast."
Arlen has the role of Jim Cleve, a young cowboy who is forced to become a member of Jack Holt'k band. Holt, star of Submarine," Flight" and a number of other recent won much of his screen fame Pin Zane Grey rôles. Of the twenty- four Zane Grey storios filmed by Paramount, Holt played rolex in eloven. He has a villain part in
remember a time when you could not walk. For his fingers were trained for frldling when he was a years old. His father brought him a instrument of quarter sizo. and started him on his first lesson." From then on throughout his child- hood he averaged four hours a day practising. His first public appear ance was made at the age of five. It is his sonst that since the age of aeven he has been a self-supporting Peitizen...
Heather Thatcher in A Warm Corner," returning to the King's on Friday and Saturday..
their futuro treatment.
It is decided that na nil methous
of compulsion have far failed. the boys will be asked to follow the trainor of their own free will.
The young criminals are so taken aback to find themselves put on trust and left unguarded that they make it a point of hand to ful- low their trainer. We sex them! going by train to their fature school, and then, lenining shoemak- Ing and carpentry."
Boys' Revolt,
The producer never forgets t leave the boys to net naturally. Time and again there are uproars and little incidente af disorder. But the work of training pro- gresses until the winter when, owing to ice and foods, industry is at a standstill.
The trainer goes to MosCOSY TO seek counsel. In the meantime" wa witness a revolt among the boys and watch them wrecking the whole factory, formerly convent, and establish mob rule.. This scene is brilliantly produced.
Finally, the trainer comes back with a toy railway, and the boys are taught how to build a railway line.
Now and again sentimental in- cidents are introduced which strike one as being 'unfortunate in that they are unlikely.
Thus at the end we see how the railway line is triumphantly open- turned to morning when it is dia- ed, but how the celebrations are
covered that the most popular boy has been murdered by his former employer; a master criminal, while
HEIFETZ swaggering, masterful villain who
"The Border Legion," but he is a GOSSIP AND FACT. The was surveying the line.
THE
The light brigade" consisted of WORLD-RENOWNED
a dozen electricians who sat in a row before compliented electric panels. They had to devise an entirely new method of control to supply the lightning effects for 100 sets used in the production.
VIRTUOSO
OF THE VIOLIN
"
will giye In order to time the dimming of lights, or their endden increased ONE RECITAL ONLY
brilianes, automatic stop watches
on
at
9.80 P.M.
were installed on the control panels. FRIDAY, DEC. 4TH
"The Bat Whispers" is a comedy. mystery. In the unst nro Una Morkel, Gustav Von Seyfertitz, Ben
Bard, Бедусе Hampton, Spencer Charters, Charles Dow Clark, William Bakewell. Maude Eburne, S. E. Jennings and Hugh Huntley.
PLAN NOW OPEN.
BOOK BARLY.
wine sympathy and it is reported to be one of his finest characteriza- tions. Fay Wray has the only im- portant woman role in the story. The plot, set in the gold-rush days in California, is a story of stirring uction with thrills, suspense, dar ing, courage, runiance. Otto Brow- er and Edwin H. Knopf directed the picture, and filming was done in the beautiful natural back- grounds of the California high Sierras. where many spectacular seenes were made.
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THE CHANCE OF
NIGHT-TIME..
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Mias Bilic Dove is appearing in mount, with Irving Pichel in the the film version of Mr. Ernest as lead, Mr. Pichel was recently seen cal's novel, "The Age for Love." as the mad youth in "Murder by It will be produced by Mr. Howard by the Clock." Hughes, who made Hell's Angels,"
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Buster Keaton will shortly be
D. W. Griffith has just completed seen in "Side Walks of New York," dealing with the problems of Ameri
film entitled "The Struggle," described as a" Metro-Goldwyn
laugh thriller."
Anita Logs and John Emerson. can middle-class life. ΙΣ F 4
饽
*
in
Miss Norma Shearer has the lead Private Lives," now in produc- tion at Hollywood.
Two cinema circuits have been formed in America for the presents- tion of films to children.
The
wisdom
out"
WOS
"try.
10
Punch" says The Chance of a Night-Time" is
very funny, thanks to Mr. Ralph. Lynn's cons8- Atent belief that family lawyers should behave liks lunatics. One of his most amusing lapses is when. on leaving his client's house he car ries away the garden gate in lieu of his attache-case. Such men may
fully justified the' cnag of The Chance be bad as legal advisers, but they of a Night-Time," the new British are good for movie audiences. Misr and Dominions farco-comedy now Shotter aaa professional dancer showing at the King's. To test the with a passion for Mr. Lynn, which value of the picture as entertain- would be inexplicable were it not ment, it was given a trial presenta instantaneous, is as bharming ation at a Londen Buburban cinema she always is.
approximating most closely to the try-out was a great success, the au audiences of the West End. The
dience being remarkably enthusina- tio.
[BY BEN TRAVERS.]
Produend at British and Domi- nions. Studios, Boreham
Wood, England..
Direction of Productions: Her bert Wilcox.
THE PLAYERA: Ralyh Lynn as.... Honry Robert English as... Gen. Rackham. Kenneth Kove as... Swithin Ding Galvani as Louis Bolero Sanday Wilshin as Stella Winifred Shotter as Paulina Gay
Directed by Herbert Wilcox and Ralyh. Lynn.
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Miss Gloria Swenson's new pic ture is called "To-night or Never."
The Man with Red Hair," based on Mr. Hugh Walpole's novel, is announced for production by Para- (Oontinued at foot of next column.)
The following week the pic- turs" went into the bill at the Plaza, the Paramount theatre in the West End of London, and creat od a British reccrd for that house.
QUEEN'S
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
NORMA
Vivid I
Daring I Vital!
TALMADGE
SAM TAYLORS
PRODUCTION
"Du BARRY WOMAN PPASSION
wh
CONRAD NAGER A SVIEZDAM KARNEME
TO-MORROW-
"JOSEPSE KE SCHENCK FAHINTS
BAT
WHISPERS
UNITED AATISTI
ROLAND WEST'S
PRODUCTION
CHESTER MORRIS
A man and a girl pit their brains against the sinister mind of an arch or minal: who has baffled the greatest datoctivos.
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 8.20.
EW
Movietone
FOLLE
1030
El Brendel
moking, love Majorie White
singing love
William Collier, Jr:
begging love
Noel Francis speaking love Frank Richardson
'shouting fove Miriam Seegar
coolna:love.