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CENTRAL
Showing To-day
At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15, and 9:20 p.m.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA. HONG KONG
King's.
Bush Money,"
Central.
Eart of Borneo,!!
Queen's.
"The Man
They couldn't
Arrest.'
World.
(British Picturo).
Cold Diggers of Broadway,"
KOWLOON.
Star.
ynamite."
Two Years in the Jungle to Stage the
Greatest Thrill
Melo-Drama Romance King's
COMING.
Sourate of a Secretary."
Bad Girl."
"Merely Mary Ann.
Ever
Screened !
Claudetto Colbort
and
Herbert Marshall.
Central.
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HAND-TO-CLAW con-
Ritts with wild beasts....
"
a volcano in eruption. Lava flow wiping out palaces and huts
all
the dangers of the tropic jungle all a living moving part of the great est action-romance-drama ever brought to the talking screen! A picture you'll never forget. Don't miss
It !
"EAST OF BORNEO"
with "
ROSE. HOBART CHARLES
BICKFORD
Directed by
GEORGE MILFORD IT'S A UNIVERSAL SUPER-PRODUCTION
Also
Slim Summerville
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"Sargie's Playmate
NEXT CHANGE
Loo Cerrillo, dohnnia Mack Brown, Dorothy.
Burgess, Silm
LASCA
Lasen of the Rio Grande."
Beyond Victory,"
With Bill Boyd.
Shadow of the Law."
With William Powell.
"Only the Brave."
Gary Cooper and
Brinn.
Charley's Aunt.”1⁄2
Qoon's.
Mary
With Charles Ruggles and
Jupe Collyer,
A Free Soul."
With Norma Shearer.
Hive and Ten," with Lelia |
• Howard and Irene Rich. f
"Love in Like That."
World.
Star.
Too Late" (Chinese film)..
Two Stars" (Chinese 6b),
Tha Ghost. Train."
New York Nights."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.
SHOWING TO:DAY
KING'S
"HUSH MONEY"
with
JOAN BENNETT . HARDIE ALBRIGHT OWEN MOORE MYRNA LOY
Directed by
SIDNEY LANFIELD
NEXT CHANGE.
DUNN EILERS
JAMES SALLY
FOX
BAD GIRL
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
A woman's
past is
her own.
This girl's rose up to beat her down but a kindly cop un tangled a snarl that would have blassed her life.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.
MOVIE NEWS
ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.
POWERFUL DRAMA.
FOX
PICTURN
TEL. 25318.
A man's past is his wife's.
HOW EAST OF BORNEO" WAS FILMED.
FAR EAST TROPICS SEARCHED FOR SCENES
"2"
RECENT BRITISH
PICTURES.
CRIME, SPORT, FARCE AND „THE COUNTRYSIDE,
unboy of successful Unitąsi. recently Kingdom pictures havp heen tende shown including the Following:
Splinters in the Nary is broad comedy with misic and songs, the length is 8,920 feet and the leading comedian
is Sidney Howard.
Mon Like These dopics A disaster in a, submaring nird is, a realistic picture of the survivory" fight for life on the, Sen bed, The 1outgt!bh
4,200 feet
13
the feature players wve Batten and Sidney Seward
nud. Julin
Dr Josser, K.C." is a broad farce in reels, featuring Ernie Lotinga,
Ryncx" features a well-known actor of the sileup British screen - Stewart Ron-with whom appear. Dorothy Boyd and John Longdan. This is a mystery piny of modern life with a length of 1,273 feet,
Out of the Blue ia a comedy with music adapted from
Little Tommy Tucker,” featuring Gene Gerrard and Jessie Matthews; the length is 7.842 frot.
ENGLAND'S COUNTRYSIDE.
The Great Ghy Rond" features Stewart Rome. Frank Stanmore nad Par Paterson, and is a story of tramp lite with the action in cluding life on the open road, scenes as a village fair and domes lic settings. The longth is 8,000 fout
endousy is drama adapted from the play 4 The Green Eye." featuring Malcolm Keen,' with a
·length of 7,187 feel
"Glamour" is a dramatic subject featuring Seymour Hicks, Margat Grahame and Ellaline Terriss; th length is 5,421 feet,.
"Chin Chin Chinaman” la don cribed as a light character drama featuring Leon M."Lion and Elland Beth Allen, and Wasp length off .4,339 foet.
The Shadow. Between" fentures Godfrey Tearle, Kathleen O'Togo Land Olga Lindo, and is announced "as a drama of emotionat abpeal ot
· 7,935 feet.
A FOOTBALL FILM.
picture featuring Sidney Howard, Up for the Cup" is a football
pand is 6,870 feet long, it contains.
some typical British humour."
"Deadlock "" features Stewart Rome, Majorie Hame and Warwick Thirty thousand miles for, atmos. Ward, and is a crime story of 1,600 phere!
feat. Nothing better ilustraces the 'BAD GIRL" COMING TOinking of a motion picture that care and expense involved in the
THE KING'S.
the meent trip by a "sound unit from Universal studios to film scenes, for East of Borneo," the Sally- Eilers, who plays the title Far Eastern drama which is show. rôle in Bad Girl," Fox Filmas the Central Theatre to-day.
Starting from Hollywood the version of Vina Delmar's celebrated company stemmed across the Pacific vel of mother love, coming to the to Singapore, where a yacht had been chartered for them. In this King's Theatre on Sunday, is a veser! they thoroughly, covered the New Yorker by birth as-is dames Far Eastern countries, visiting Dunn, who plays the young husband in this gripping story of a typical New York couple.
Sumatra, the Straits Settlements Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, Many of the scenes were obtained far in the interior of the Malay country, the company journeying for more than 400 miles up the
Rian River in the Malay State of Penang.
A girl. Miss Eilers attended the Horace Man school in New York hut finishad her education at Fair fax High School, Hollywood, her As a result of the trip, extend- ing over six months, many unusual amily having moved there in 1926.
Booties were accured for the picture, Having matured in the sinema which has been hailed as an out- capital, with numerous friends en-standing example of technical per
fection in a motion picture. gnged in the film industry, it was only, natural that Sally, should turn "FIVE AND TEN." to the more colourful and romantie from thoughts of a secretarial eareur
Placid intervals in a "gentleman's" lift. Owen More and Myrna Loy
"in a sms from the Fox drama, "Hush Money,
"HUSH MONEY."
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STORY OF A NEW YORK GANG.
IRENE RICH HAS CHANCE TO BE WICKED!
money.
jene of screen acting.
Har big chance came one day when she visited the Mack Sinnett Stadio with Carole Lombard. At luncheon she attracted the atten-
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DOROTHY BURGESS AN IDEAL "LASCA.”.
LOVELY BRUNETTE IN CENTRAL THEATRE FILM.
سعاد
Dorothy Burgess, dark, seductive and takmited is the girl chosen by Carl Lainule Jr., to play a senorits of a famous poem, to the en," the fiery Mexican dancehall
The otion picture version, Lasca of the Rio Grand," is the at the Central nert attraction Theatre, and has Leo Carrillo, John Mack Brown, Slim Summervill and Frank Campeau in its cast in
Burgess.
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Hindle Wakus visa.. talking adaptation of the play of that name dealing with Lancashire life. The featured players include John. Stuart, Sybil Thorndike and Nor man McKinnel, the longth is 7,008 fest.
NEW SEYMOUR “ HICKS ROLE. ·
AS D'ARTAGNAN OF TO-DAY.
CLEVER LONDON.COMEDY BY WALTER HACKETT.
"THE GAY ADVENTURE" By Wal- tor Hackett, Whitehall Theatro London.
A brilliant and delightful play was Mr. Walter Hackett's Christ was present 110 the Whitehall Theatre London.
one.
The idea is a peculiarly happy It is that four modern man should meet · at a restaurant "t enlebrate the fact that they are the descendants of Dumas' Three Musketeers with, of COUTRO, D'Artagnan's representative - ind that they should go out into modern unfamiliar street and find adventure still
waiting for them.
Mr. Hacket is so conscientious that, after introducing un to Darn ton (Mr. Seymour Hicks), Ara (My, Eric Maturia), Porter (Mr. Richard Gray) and d'Allary (Mr. Charles Quartermaine), he switches
back to episodes in costuma show-
burlesque D'Artagnan making love to Miss Marion Lorne as Con- stance. All this-if we are to have
A wicked woman at last ?'' Hush Money," Fox, film which This was the enthusiastic greet
ing with which Irene Rich wal-tion of Sennett who wis seeking a ia now showing at the King'sed her role of the philandering girl to take the place of Alice Day Theatre, is about a gang of what muther in Five and Ten "Marion who had walked out on him follow. might be called high grade racket-tarring Vhicle which is coming to ng an argument over Miss Day Davies new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer eers, immaculately clad gentry who the Queen's Theatre today, wearing mends! pants in the pic-screen. frequent the opere, the exclusive: For years I have been a trust-ture.
Sally agreed to wear the nighi dlabs, the fashionable hotels ing but downtrodden wife on the and have, apparently, plenty of screen always dressed in calicoes, pants and the public agreed that waiting at home. while some other 'she whe a bit in "The Goodbye woman was enjoying herself with Kise." Through increasingly im. Owen Moore is the chief racket-my husband in the bright lights.";
kho enid. "Now I am going to portant rélca in comedies, she ad addition to the beautiful Missing us Mr. Hicks as a kind of cer, debonair and suave, who induces
my own for avanced in auch „pictures as Joan Bennett, a beautiful girl down have some fun of
change. No more weeping and Martin.
Marringe, *** Trail
A recruit from stock companies on her luck, to accept his patronage.asting and drab clothes. I have" Broadway Daddies," Show of and the stage, the brilliant actres Later, she finds, to her dismay, his true calling and she can do nothing tight gorgeous costumes to wear Shows, The Long, Long Trail" has passed her many sisters of the She Couldn't footlights who stormed the talking except become one of the gang andand, believe me, there isn't any "Doughboys," and
woman on earth who enjoys Bay No." She was chosen as a sercen in vain. pose as the wife of Moore who uses.
beautiful clothes any more thap 19 · Wampas Baby Star in 1928, an event After a startling success opposite her as a bait in become acquainted
Miss Rich last plaved the tragic which she considers equal in im Warner Baxter in "In Old with wealthy visitors to New York.
Eventually the gang is rounded of the wife in Strangers May portones to her first role as a de Arizona," the retraced her steps to up and sent for intermittent terms Kiss, and her nesigment to the finite step in her carent,
the stage to be starred in White Another is that of her marriage | Cargo " and W The Bird of Flame." up the river," Released frome in the new Davies picture fol- prison the determines to go straight lawed her acclaim in the Shearer in June of 1930 to Hoot Gilson, Then came the Lasca enil, and and meta Hardie Albright, with film by critics throughout the coun-which followed prominent work the producers now have her marked with Buster Keaton in "Sailor's for stardom and an uninterrupted whom ho falls in love. They are married, she becomes the mother of Robert Z. Leonard directed the Holiday, and Marin Dressler in screen career, if they have their
Then came another various ways about it. a boy but the spectre of the past picturization of the Fannie Hart" Reducing."
"Parlour, Bedroom arises in Moore, released from novel in which "Miss Davies is with Keaton,
Leslie Howard plays op. and Bath," and one with Norms a long while-certainly since "The prison, who attempts to black-mail started.
Shearer in," Let Us Be Gay."
her.
At this point the dotective posite the abar. enters again into the scene and ho straightens out her problem but at
terrife cost da the story reveala. Joan Bennett does fine work" as Janet Gordon and revṇals" now. talent as an emotional · actress. Albright is especially good, and fine work is also done by Moore sa the blackmailer and Dougins. Cosgrove kes the detective, Myrna Loy." 0. Henry Gordon, Hughie White,
·Cegroel Haft, and child netor, Ronald Cosby Sidney Lanfield'a
of the RIO GRANDE direction is more than satisfactory.
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS
OPENING AT KOWLOON-MON. NIGHT, JAN. 25
60
EUROPEAN.
30
ARTISTES
NEW BIG ACTS
50
PERFORMING
ANIMALS
Mun in Dress Clothes-and zomer thing that no other English actay. could do. His little scenes with Misa Marion Lorne-herself at her very best-are masterpieces of hall humorous, wholly sincere, exprey. sion,
There was a great recention: að the finish to which both Miss. Lover and Mr. Hicks responded. He gave us good news of Mies Ellaline Terrisa just in his own way. The missis's last words were," he said,
If
you got a chance, give the audience my best love, ir
¿
it at all-needs a deal of speed- ing up.
Sympathetic Irony. Afterwards, however, we come to an altogether happy development Darnton finds himself mixed up with a murder in the suite abové, in which d'Allary's wife (Miss Nora · Swinburne) is Implicated, not to urention Misa, Marion Lorne ng ber wholly innocent friend. Fired with the wish to emulate is an cestor, he olimbs in as the window of d'Allary's house, knocks down u polico-inspector, and goes back to the restaurant to find a lost brace- let. In the and the whole thing proves to be spoof, and the meeting cf the desoondoms a ruso" on the part of a couple of crooks,
Perhaps it is the sense of this possibility all through that helps. to give to Mr. Seymour Hick performance us the naturally timid and wholly unromantic but yet| anrnest modern D'Artagnan, an exquisite flavour of sympathetic irony. In its best moments it in. hner than anything he has done for (Continued on Previous Column;}·
QUEEN'S
THEATRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.00 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20
"I DIDN'T
TRY TO
BUY YOU!
IT'S A
LIE!"
Poor little rich girl! But all her father's millions couldn't bay love for her!
Marion
DAVIES
in her finest talkie-
FIVE and TEN
» Ham Golluyn Mayiz
From the great American noud by FANNIE HURST with
LESLIE HOWARD Richard Bennett Irene Rich
Kent Donglass Mary Duncan
A KAARION DAVIES PRODUCTION
NEXT ATTRACTION
The apot- light now
shines on
a "great
stár in
a great
picture!
NORMA
SHEARER FREE
UL
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30,5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20
CECIL B
DE MILLE'S first Talking, Ned picture
MITE
with
CONRAD NAGEL “KAY JOHNSON CHARLES
BICKFORD
Katro-Goli
Mayer