Page
CENTRAL
THENTRE
TO-DAY ONLY
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG.
Central,
East of-Borneo,"
Queen's,
At 2.80, 8.10, 7.15 and 9,20 p.m.
Five and Ton."
King's.
World
Two Years in the
Jungle to Stage the star.
Greatest Thrill
Melo-Drama Romance
Ever Screened !
HAND-TO-CLAW con- Alicts 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
||
in
"Sargie's Playmate"
With Marion Davies,
Hush Money."
Gold Diggers of Broadway."
KOWLOON.
Dynamite."
Contral.
COMING.
"Lasca of the Rio Grande""
Beyond Victory."
With Bill Boyd.
"Shadow of the Law.
With William Powell,
"Only the Brave."
Gary Cooper and Mary
Brinn.
Charley's Aunt"
Queen's.
With Charlca Ruggles and
June Collyer.
A Free Soul,"
King'.
World.
star.
*
With Maria Shearer.
Love is Like That?
Bad Girl."
Merely Mary Ana?
Secrets of a Secretary."
Claudette Colbert .and
Herbert Marshall
Too Late" (Chinese film).
Two Stars" (Chinese fl).
Ghost Train.”
New York Nights."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1932.
TO-DAY ONLY
KING'S
"HUSH MONEY”
with
JOAN BENNETT HARDIE ALBRIGHT OWEN MOORE "MYRNA LOY
Directed by
SIDNEY LANFIELD
NEXT CHANGE
JAMES DUNN
EILERS
SALLY
FOX
BAD GIRL
AT 2:30, 5.10, 7.15- & 9.30 PM
A man's past is
A woman's'
his wife's.
past is
hor own.
T
This girl's rose up to beat her down but a kindly cop un tangled a sazri thatwould have Led her life.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE, TEL. 25313.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
“BAD GIRL" AT THE
KING'S...
A STORY OF MISUNDER- STANDINGS.
Bad Girl which will be show to-morrow at the King's is an un usual picture and has been receiv ed with a good deal of comment, some good, some bad, wherever has been shown.
it has been praised because it is an attempt to show the drama of
"HUSH MONEY."
A FREE SOUL."
A WARNING TO FATHERS.
A Free Soul" which is to be shewn at the Queen's to-morrow is a film which ought to be seen by free thinker and others who talk about living according to their con- sciences ipstad of trying to placate Because they do this, and because a divinity in whom they feel too their doings are recounted on the superior to believe.
The heroins of A Free Soul" front pages of every big newspaper is the reason that Hush Money"(Norma Shearery is taught by her a Fox production directed by Sidney father that she is to stand on her Lanfeld, co-featuring Joan Bennett own feet and accept complete and Hardie Albright, now at the responsibility for her own actions, King's Theatre, was filmed for the. Getting a living without work is audible screen.
but there comes a day when he re- pascime which has survided Owen Moore is a debonair, suave,proaches himself for his teaching. through the centuries. In the older gentleman with a faculty of not. Then she, as the stronger of the two, days suparating a mate from hising the best people and then trim. money wwerade practice. It ming thom. Jonn Bennett, almost takes command, and, in exchange usually took the form of a few blows on the verge of starvation through for giving, ap the man to whom she and the exchange was made. circumstances, is taken in by Moore.
FILM OF THE "SWELL MOB.".
the
HOW I MET DICK QUEEN'S
TURPIN,
AND WHAT I HOPE TO. MEET AT HARMSTON'S.
I haven't seen a oleus," said an aitting behind me on the Star Ferry, since I was a kid, an' then I saw is freay lying full length with my head under the bot- tom of the tont," I was, unfortu mately, a nicely brought up little girl, so though I have memories of soveral girounes.I have none 80 entrancing as this, for no one will persuade me that a stolen circus in not infinitely better than pna au joyed under the chaperonage of a nurse,
who pureluates the funny. sayings of the clowns with com- plaints about the discomfort of her seat, and admonitions as to the correct behaviour of little ladies." But I do remember ons wondar- fab thrill. The high spot" as they call it now-a-days of the cir|
Dick Turpin's us one year was ride from London, to York." Timo after timeBlack. Beas" tora across the ring ventre à terre with the gallart highwayman on her back, at every fifth or sixth cross- ing stopping at a wayside ina in order that, Dick might refresh him- self with a tankard of beer and a cias from the landlord's daugh- ter. It yts during a panas' while the in sign was being changed to indicate a further arage in the journey, that hearing whispering, somewhere beneath me, I noticed an overlapping in the red cloth that covered the tiers of board. scats where wo sat, and, parting the cloths, peered down. There beneath me was Dick Turpin' seat. ed on Black Beas, cracking pen nuts while he waited his cue to gallop across the ring again. I drew back, a little scared, perhaps a little disliusioned, but Dick put ting his finger to his lips passed me up half a dozen nuts, ther wayed his hand before shaking the reing and moving off to the point from which he was a moment later
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY PAT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20
"I DIDN'T TRY TO BUY YOU! IT'S A L'E!!
Poor little rich girl! But all her father's millions couldn't buy love for her!
DAVIES
in her finest talkie-
FIVE and TEN
› Metro Gorlegm MayeT HOTOM
From the great American novel by TANNIE HURST
... with
LESLIE HOWADS
Richard Bennett Iréne Rich Kent Douglass Mary Duncan
to emerge to flash across the ring | A MARION DAVIES PRODUCTION and pull up in" mid gallop for a moment's dalliance with the girl of
the Blue Boor." Dick Turpis
day on-and for one reason or on- was one of my herces from that
other I've never
since.!
seen a circus
Now the procedure is te trick the and is forced to become one of the is attracted forces her father to give
Plus change plus c'est lu man with the money, make him tumang. C. Henry Gordon is associat-up drink. She does not in fact
ed with Moore and conducts a fake really believe in the free soul "même chose. I suppose that that doctrine, but they are to find that is as true of circuses (or should it
every day Me, and disliked probit over, and like it. ably for the same reason,
Tae story tells of a young couple who marry in haste and who, though they are very much in love, C 100 raw to run smoothly i double harness. They multiply un- į ecessary understandings and very newly come to grief over the fact that though both are pleased at the thought that they are to have child, neither will admit the fact through a mistaken idea of
pre- tending to fall in with what belioves to be the other's feelings! on the subject.
th
The merit of the film is that it sets out to show the sort of tangles, that may appear in the lives of ordinary people, and is never be comes really incredible, though the picture secins to be over-coloured in places The disadvantage les in the fact that to most of us there is not much entertainment in seeing other people making blun ders just a shade more foolish than thoso we make ourselves; we benze Homething suspiciously like moral!
But whatever ta merits or de merite-which everyone mist de
Commencing To-morrow cide for themselves there is rumo
with
Carrillo.
Johnnie Mack
n. Dorothy
Brows, Bites Bummervilis,
Frank Campeau,
LASCA
Motion picture husbands remember thur, water” birthdays's Harda &bright says it with pearls n Juan Bennett in the Fase drauma, “Hush Money
they cannot get away from the rê- sults of having adopted it' ns creed.
41
Conflict at Creeds.
Л
The prophet of a revolutionary creed generally comes to grief be- cause those with whom he comes in contact will not understand it, and so it was with these two,
"Jan"
the daughter who was to do exact-
be circi) as of love, but as I read the programme of events for the 1st night of Harmeson's Circus, it seems that things have changed a little. Instead of Dick Turpin on "Black Beas" I shall see Mise Palomar leaping the gap 00 8. motor cycle--I refuse to accept my husband's cynical suggestion that I might recognise my early fame
ly as she liked, wished, unfortun-under the title of "The Bounding ately, to enjoy the experiment of Jockey," who appears in the Risley act, later in the programme. At | having a love affair with a man in
a different rank in life-but he all events I am going to see. Harth- ston's Circus aid, though I don't didn't understand her creed, of- freedom, and she is finally extricat expect I shall be given a handful of peanuts by any member of the ed from a particularly unpleasant
troupe, I do anticipate spending situation, by another man who has
a very interesting and entertaining to face a murder charge as a result.
time on Monday, evening. His acquittal, after the impassion- od pleading of the girl's father, is one of those mysteries of American Alm law to which we have become
"FIVE AND TEN.
SHOWING AT THE QUEENS.
TO-MORROW
The spots
light now
shines on
1 great
star in
a great picture!
ORMA
SHEARER
thing about **Bad Girl" which holds your attention. It is well The beetle-browed gentry with the detective agency. Hardie Albright accustomed but none the less tho acted, the words Bre clearly caulifowered cars and menacing is co-featured with Joan Bennett as brinj досала BOLC moments of spoken, and there are touches of countenances have been replaced by her husband.
intense drama and gives both Lionel· humor which frobably you will the good looking, smartly tailored, is What happens when the gang remember when the details of this soft spoken crooks, in many cases make an error, fall into the hands Barrymors, as the father, and little, comedy of errors of Amerimen of education and former refine of the police and get terma up Norma Shearer, as the girl, a cin middle class life have been ment.
the river is told in the screen chance to really act. overlaid and obliteraic in your To-day the successful racketeers play. Also what happens, when o mind by thrilling stories of the live like millionaires, frequent the girl leaves prison and wants to go to see if only for the acting of Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle
A Free Soul" would be a film jungle, the underworld and the haunts of wealth, and, until their straight and a friendly detective. Lionel Barrymore which is good which is now showing at the FINALL SHOWINGS TO-DAY sents of the nighty,... :-
game is exposed, mingle with the determines to help her furishes 1 hest society:
sensational climax to the story. throughout and magnificent in
purta. But it is a good story as Queen's Theatre. well and one which nooda tolling In the picturization of the popu dark-eyed senorita of, the dance Joso Santa Cruz, Lasca's half For It is not, I think, among the best oflar Fannis Hurst novel, Miss Davies halls, a lenderly murderous cattle
Norma Shearer's pictures, though eclipses her own achievements
E.M. B.
"L'ASCA OF THE RIO GRANDE.'
FINE FILM OF MEXICAN BORDER.
Marion Davies turns dramatic in Five and Te," her new Metro
Gwner who likes his women beautifugese, Haid Indian admirer, and she looks very lovely all through somedy star, blending, humour and
E.M.B:
ful, and a handsome Texas Ranger Dorothy Burgess, of "In Old she is so well cast as she was drama with an expert touch. As in lovel
Arizona" and a host of hits, is pidumo y 401, ur | Jennifer, daughter of newly-rich The picture is packed to the brim Lasca. The erstwhile All-American with hard-riding, gune,
lilling Spanish melodies, and romantic football star and featured player scenes, and is a photographie clas of Coquette""Billy the Kid," aie, according to reports. There is Montana Moon" and "Our
parents, Miss Davies offers a do lightful and sincere performance, convincing and appealing in chazni, Lamlie Howard plays opposite the Richard Bennett and Irene Rich star in the new production con Lace of the Rio Grande a thrilling cattle stampede, a reus. Dancing Daughters, John Mack play the parent roles and Kent tributing an engaging performance Universal's remance of the Mexican ing gun-light between the half- Brown, is seen as the
the strapping Douglass is the young brother, whose as the society we'er-do-well who tragle suicido brings a crashing somehow manages to conquer lofty border, will be the next attraction brood's neno-too-careful sharpshoot- Texas Ranger. at the Central, With Leo Carrillo, ers and the Rangers and sous of Edward Laemmle, well known climax to the story. Others in the ambitione under the guile of the John Mack Brown, Dorothy Bur-the Beason' choftest comedy, director of "Cheating Cheaters" cast are Mary Duncan, Loe Berang capricicus daughter of the chain gees and Slim Summerville in its furnished by Slim Summerville and directed Lasca of the Rio or, Arthur Housman, George Iry store magnate. His misunderstand principal rúlen, men dena g Frank Camponua wap Meekend Grande and is recognized for hiting, Halliwell Hobbes, Charlesing of her motives provides a uni
Based upon the Frank Despirer Lo Carrillo, suave star of the expertnes in filming the outdoor Giblyn Henry Armetta and Ruth que twist to the plot,
Selwyn, "Lasca," the story, concerns stage, and screen, appears an ideal action pictures.
of the RIO GRANDE
рості,
(Continued on previous column.)
STAR
AT 230,5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20.
CECIL B.
DE MILLE'S first Talking
MITE
with
CONRAD NAGEL KAY JOHNSON CHARLES TA GUBICKFORD
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"
Picture
Page 5Page 6