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Mother's Millions."
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.13 and 9.20 p.m.
Central,
King's,
The Picture that wand
Rocked a Nation
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ROMANCE THRILLS!
Who
Is
She ?
Mother's MILLIONS
Who is she?--You'll find out when you see the comedy they're all talking about
the picture that introduces you to the most amazing set of young folks you've ever heard of....'. SEE the picture that bubbles over with merriment without the aid of Gin, Jazz or Jamboree With MAY ROBSON, Francis Däde, James Hall. Lawrence Gray, From the play by Howard McKent Barnes..
NEXT CHANGE
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
IN THE WORLD- was the unhappiest.. woman on earth!
See the story
of her tragic love
Constance BENNETT
The COMMON LAW
́Har Anast rola, her areolest triumph since "COMMON CLAY"!.
Star.
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Her Wedding Night,” With Clara. Bow.
Dawn Patrol, *-
KOWLOON.
Good-News."
Queen's,
COMING.
"Taughing Sinners"
With Joan Crawlord, "Love is Like That" Oh Sailor Behave,”
Central.
King's.
The Common Law,” '·
Charley's Aunt."
With Charles Ruggles and
Jano Collyer..
Sifonce."
With Clive Brook. "Meroly Mary Arin.” "Bad Girl.
World.
Star.
Tilly Bloomsbury"" A British Picture..
High Society. Blues." Beloved Martyr." (Chinese Fila).
*Deannite."
Love's Identity"
(Chinese picture),
"Be Yourself.”
(Part 2)
Ep. 4 (Chinese picture),
The Ghost Train,” New York Nights." “Viking.""
Ronkery Nook.".
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.
SHOWING TO-DAY
The best man
wing the "It"
girl in a marriage
muddle like this!
KING'S
AT
1920, 7.15
9.30 PM
Prettier "Fler" Than Ever!
CLARA BOW
IN
"Her Wedding
Night"
A Paramount Picture
with
Ralph Forbes, Charlie Ruggles and Skeets Gallagher
NEXT CHANGE
COMMENCING SUNDAY, TOTE JAN..
SILENCE
Garamount Picture
with
CLIVE BROOK. Peddy Shannon Charles Starrett-
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.
TEL. 25318.
MOVIE NEWS
ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.
James Hall and Frances Dade in "Mother's Millions "' at the
"Gentral Theatre.
"HER WEDDING NIGHT."
AT KING'S THEATRE:
CLARA, RALPH FORBES
AND RUGGLES."
Her Wedding Night," reveal- ing the amusing and romantic ad- ventures of a red-haired movie star who tries to escape her admirers, and a song writer whose lady friends make life miserable for him, is the theroe of Clare Bow's new hit at the King's Theatre to-day.
"Her Wedding Night," is an Avery Hopwood faree, with a auo- cession of comedy situations that bubble and froth in rapid crescendo to an exciting climax.
Ralph Forbes, the Handsome hero. of Beau Geste," and recently seen in "A Lady of Scandal,” with Buth Chattertou, gives full play to his talent for straight farce in this show And Charlie Ruggles, play. ing in his first Paramount Holly- wood studio pieture, brings his fresh humour to an important sup. porting role. Also, there's Skeots Gallagher's laugh-provoking Bori ousness to add spice to the comedy, and a trio of Hollywood beauties, Goneva Mitchell, Rosita Morena and Natalie Kingston,
MOTHER'S MILLIONS.acterizations which made the ori breakers and preparing to escape.
FELLER AND HER
CHILDREN.
سمجھ
The story opens in Paris wheed' Clara in battling a host of heart- ginal play such, a success.
to the south of France. On the The story deals with the trials trip, she is marooned at a small TALE OF A WOMAN ROCK- and tribulations of the son and sloping bride, wadded against her way-station and mistaken for an daughter of the richest woman in will to Skeets Gallagher, and, as the world. The girl is eagerly be is travelling under an assumed sought in marriage by ne'er del name, she becomes the bride, by proxy, of a man she has never even wells and fortune bunters. The mot. When the strangely paired "Mother's Millions," which open-boy is a mark for his mother's couple does meet there's a delight-
ful love story. ed yesterday at the Central Thea greatest rival, for the mother 18:1 dominating figure in Wall Street, tre, is an example of a good play
tyran in her own home, en transferred almost bodily to the devouring to bring up her children screen, and with equally good, 11 to be self-reliant, and to educate not better, résults. Howard Me. them in the school of life so that Kent Barnes wrote the play ori- they can retain and enjoy the ginally for May Robson, for whom heritage of wealth which she will it proved a financial and artistic leave them. The unexpected twists success. It was this success which of this story are highly effective and inspired her to use it for bor talk last night's audience enjoyed it all
thoroughly. ing picture debut..
Winnifred Dunn is credited with the adaptation but the chief thing
Frances Dado is one of the mont beautiful of the new screen genuch; James Hall and Lawrence
in-
is the vital and gripping perform Cray bear their roles with distinc- anos of May Robson. This is not tion. A word of praise should be: to be wondered it. The play was given Lillian Harmer for re written for her, and James Flood markable piece of characterization. very wisely retained the splendid Edmund Bresse of courts, is always dramatic olimaxes, the appropriate good, and is especially effective in comedy relief and the stage char- the role of William Baminnaen,
-CHARLES-RUGGLES UNA
JOAN CRAWFORD IN "L'AUCHING SINNERS"
WEARS ODD MAKEUP IN NEW PICTURE.
SILENCE.
CLIVE BROOK IN A MELODRAMA.
Silanes," the now Clive Brook- Marjoris Rambeau-Peggy Shannon motodinama, which comes to the King's Theatre. next Sunday is a gripping story of a man's betrayalį of the woman he loves, and his final
awakening to a greater love when his daughter is imperilled by the misdeeds of his own past...
Clive Brook, who plays the lond- ing role, is soon as the weak and handsome crook, whose love brings heart-broak to the woman who loves hia
Twenty years glaped between
| the early and final netion of "the story. Brook meets his daughter, grown to young womanhood, on- gaged to be married. Her father's past threatens her happiness, and' Brook, awakes at last to his own worthlessness, aucriAces himself to
savo her.
QUEENS
SHOWING TO DAY Ar 2.80, 6.10, 7.15 AND 9.20.
THE CELEBRATED DRAMA OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.
NOW
AN ALL BRITISH SUCCESS
SIR JOHN MARTIN: HARVEY
"Silonce brings Peggy Shon- non, the ad-haired beauty recently saen in "The Secret Enll," in two
of Dronk. The two characters which she portrays never meet during the action of the story, hub the oppor. tunity to play two contrasting röles gives an exraordinary opportunity. Marjorie Rambeau, the popular stage and serton actress, has the other leading fominine rôle.
roles, that of the wife and daughter The Lyons Mail
The moving picture brings one of the most popular stage molodramas to the screen. #Silence," a few seasons ago, was one of Broadway's hits. Paramount employed its an- thor, Max Marcin, to prepare the film serint and assist in the direc tion with Louis Gasnier. Marcin Has fately turned to picture direct- ing, and, with Gasnier, directed
The Lawyer's Secrot."
LAUGHS AT THE "STAR"
THREE LIVE GHOSTS'
GREAT FILM.
A
Joan Crawford hides her beauty behind grotesque makeup in the opening scenes of Laughing Sin- Bers," her new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayor starring vehicle which willing picture now showing at the come on Sunday to the Queen's doubtedly one of the funniest films Star Theatro, Kowloon, is un- Theatre.
"Three Live Chosts," the talk
ever shown on the local screen It is ons scream from start to
In thear scenes Joan performs a rube" dance number in a road-finish, and should not be missed by house, donning an eccentric make-those who like to hear real cock- up for the act, farmer's overalls,ncy as she is spoke." big straw hat, her face hidden by Though produced in America, a clown's nose and spectacles. The English actors predominate, giving purpose of the makeup is to accen- the production tunto the paties in the dramatic English atmosphere. incidents that follow immediately, disclosing the broken heart of the madeap right club entertainer.
Harry Beaumont directed the film from the Kenyon Nicholson stago hit. The Torch Song "
delightfully
The scone
is laid in London after the Armistice when three soldier. friends,. two officially shock, return home from German "dend and one crazy from shell. prison camps
The character act
ing throughout is excellent and the denouement is as startling as In it is unexpected.
share leading man honours.
Neil Hamilton and Clark Gable
eluded in the cast are Marjorie "Thres Live Ghosts has our Rambenu, Guy Kibbes, Cliff Ed unqualified approval. wards and a number of others. itt
Don't miss
The Intellectual Vamp
Has Arrived
BY ERNEST BETTS.).
If you want to see us distinguish-
Johndy, of course, wants to marry
ed, witty and arresting piece of acts Sara, especially after that alorm of
ing, go and sea Miss Ina Claire
Rebound"
In
tears in the garden.
Her policy up to then had been to say nothing, or to talk so lightly something deep bobind it. of love that you know there was
Miss Claire, in this picture, is the she is not a vamp in the ordinary koreen's intellectual vamp, and yet ange, he is much too charming
Miss Claire excele in these subtic for that, and loves with for foo deep feminine thrusts, and she vamps a passion.
her husbend back by sheer intellec if you watch her in this litual combat. She hab the frightful though it is more of a play than air of innocence you sometimes get alm-you will notice that she in a person who knows everything. acorns all the tricks of the accom- And she is quick as lightning with plished man-killer. She doesn't put her verbal retorts. an a gramophone record, or wait for the moon to come up or sing into ber young man's ear with the object of pinning him to matrimony.
Once, and once only, she bursts into tears, and is pursued into, a leafy glade by an all-talking cavalier But otherwise her tactics are alarmingly unorthodox. A
I enjoyed her performance im- mensely, because although Mias Claire is beautiful, she acts as if beauty doesn't really count when it comes to a crisis with the man she loves.
Sincerity
Beneath all her mockeries you can
more man, with nothing but his see how passionately sincere she is: brains and a cocktailshaker to help And she has a sort of check, him, cannot stand up to them. At burning pride touched with awost leant, it was impossible for Bill tones, which, on me at least, had i
most destructive effect.
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Two Types of Vamp,
Misa Claire, as Sara in the film i married to the totally worthless Bill Truesdale (Mr. Robert. Ames) After a month of marriage Hill falls for Evis (Miss Myrna Loy), a vamp of the most purple dye.
The two have fatal lunches to gether in Paris cafon; they stagger from on har to another, laughing loudly, And Ina hates it, and gets nervier avery minute, and more in volved in romantic hysteria.
The story, unfortunately, is too light for its characters. In the end, after getting out divores papers, the returns to Ball, though he has sworn nover again to beg for his love.
The acting of Mr. Robert Amos, Mr. Robert Williams (as Jobinity); Miss Myrna Loy, and Mr. Hale Hamilton is first rate. And while this is one of the best and brightest domestic comedias I have seen," I must warn you of its optical frani, fade.
She has scenes of stinging satire The émotions" fy” about Bil With her father and her young picture stojac wyhare witrikamike. "friend Johnny;
Evening Standard.
With
NORAH BARING BEN WEBSTER
ALSO SHOWING CINE REVIEW
and
JOINING UP
NEXT ATTRACTION
JOAN.
CRAWFORD
is here
In a
dramatic
talkie smash-
LAUGH
toith
SINNG
HellHamilton Clark, Gable Marjorie Rambeau Gay Kibbee
STARI
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30,5,20, 7.20 AND 9,20