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TODAY AT THE CINEMAS
HONG KONG
Bad Girl!
British News Reel,
SHOWING TO-DAY
King's
11.46-9 p..
At.2.30, 5.10, 7.18 and 9.20 p.m.
Central,
Beyond Victory.”
Queen's
A Free Soul," -
AHEAD-
With Norma Shearer,
the Roar of the Guns BEHIND-
World.
Too Late" (Chinôse film),
the Beat of a Broken Heart
BEYOND VICTORY
w! BİLL BOYD - JAMES GLEASON ZASU PITTS. LEW CODY • MARION SHILLING MART CARE •AM, RKO PATH F
Men as far apart, as the poles, five of them in No. Man's Land at the zero hour of death, and yet each with similar thoughts of the past, the mother, the sweetheart or the other woman.
A stupendous picture of destiny and the strength of human virtue.
NEXT CHANGE
She.
endured
the
embrace
of
bbw
strangers
at:a
dime
dance!
Barbara Stanwyck
Ten Cents a Dance
LIONEL BARR
Production
COLUMBIA PICTURE'
Based upon the Doppler 2008 PT Cants'a Dance"
KOWLOON.
Star.
The Duke Steps Out.”. COMING.
Only Saps Work."
King'e.
Merely Mary Ann."
"Socrata of a Secretary.".
Claudette Colbert. Herbert Marbhalt.
and
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Central
Shadow of the Law."
With William Powell,
Only the Brave."
Gary Cooper and Mary
Brinn.
Charley's Aunt,"
Queen's.
With Charles Ruggles and
June Collyer,
"The Lady Refuses."
"Love is Like That,"
World:
Star.
* Two Stars" (Chinese film).
New York Nights."
The Ghost Train,"
HONG KONG DAILY
VEDNESDAY, JANUARY
KINGB
AT LAST A drama of love in which the husband gets a break!
JAMES SALLY
No Like The Others He had a new line She had a new slant. They kissed
and gave lovea newtwist
You, too will laugh,
DUNN EILERS
5
weep,
BAD GIRL augh
From Vina Delmar's sensational novel
Frank Borzage Productios
again
NEXT ATTRACTION
9.30 PM
A CHUCKLE IN EVERY, HUG! LAUGH YOUR
HEAD OFF AT ·
"ONLY SAPS WORK"
10ith
EON ERKOL, RICHARD ARLEN, MARY BRIAN, STUART ERWIN
A Paramount Picture
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL, 25313.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
DIRECTOR ANALYZES
- NORMA SHEARER.
REMARKABLE SENSE OF DRAMATIC VALUES.
*
Clarence Brown found a new feminine mar beföre his camera for the first time in three years when he directed Nerma Shearer in "A Free Soul" her nowost Metro Goldwyn-Mayer picture which is showing at the Queen's Theatre. He has and Greta Garbo an star ip almost every picture since The Trail of '08.***
I
**To direct Mies Shearer," marks Brown, is to get an entire new perspective of picture making Never before have I'aten an actress|
Sally Ellers and Minns Gombell in "Bad Girl."
sc able to project, every shading of "BAD GIRL SHOW. 4 motion picture by Fox featuring
dramatic measing and still never lose the poise which gives har an in-
dividual charm,
Hard to Describe,
To describe Miss Shearer is, in way, rather difficult. She radi ates a something which spells re
ING AT THE KING'S,
LIFE IN HARLEM--NEAR NEW YORK,
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Jamba Dunn and Sally Eilers and showing at the King's
19 now..
Thoatre.
The Harlem which Mrs. Delmar -known is a' different one than that of Girl Van Vochten's Nigger Heavón." It is a white Harlem
Vina Delmar has lived the | dealing with $20.00 a wook typiste- greater part of her life amid the with men who marry on $40.00 b surroundings she so faithfully pro-week-with boys and girls who go finement do master what type of santa in her first novel, Bad up to the dance halls in the winter rôle who may be playing, and as a Girl," which has been made into and excursions in the summer. It result she can play rules that no other actress of the screen could at tempt. Take this story in particular. Adelu Rogers St. Johns wrote of a headstrong daughter of a famous lawyer, taught by her father a per- nicious creed of 'emancipation under which she dared things other
rls would have feared to do. But never does one forget, in Miss Shearer's performance, the aristo"", cratic background of the character
"Hor sense of dramatic values is remarkable. She can at a glance.j analyze scene, a character, or a script, and a sort of intuition leads her at onos into the most effective way of playing it. It is this intuitive dramatic sense that makes a first rats artist-it is something that one either has or has not-it cannot be learned. Greta Garbo has the same sense of dramatic intuition, and so, I am told had Bernhardt, Duse and other great actresses of tin stage."
Strong Cast.
A group of outstanding player. support Miss Sheaner in A Free Boul." Laulis Howard is seen as a millionaira
spartaman Lionel i Barrymars deserts direction for an other strong acting role as the heroine's drunken father; Clark Gable playa the gambler; James. Gleason the comic bedyguard and the aristocratio Lucy Bonumont grandmother.i
TO-NIGHT!
HARMSTON'S
TO-NIGHT. CIRCUS
AND ROYAL MENAGERIE
THE BARNUM OF THE EAST
AT 9.15 P.M.
Location Next To Panineula Hotel, Kowloon.
30 European Artists 30
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is small, townish intimate," the sort of place where you can talk to a woman for ten minutes and known the important secrets of her life
12 as the author says. "Harlem is an entity that I bé- lieve can't be understand unless one has lived there for many years,” she explained. Though it is less than an hour away from "the very heart of Now York life, it is ne provincial and self contained as a community in the middle west. It has its own population, a popula tion that remains with it for genera tions. It has its own shopa-its. own theatren-its own tragedies and its own developments, independent, even ignorant of the rest of the city-New York This is the Har- lem I have tried to put in my book,"
Speaking of "Bad Giria” domin- ant theme in a recent interview, Frank Borzage, the production's director said, Bad Girl was fundamentally interesting, both as novel and as a stage play, because it dared to strike away from the current trend of sophistication in literature and drama and tell simply a human story dealing with
Iny people every
BEYOND VICTORY
FINE WAR FILM AT
CENTRAL.
Real estate values did not boom FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY in Culver City during the shouting | "Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.18 AND 9:20
of some of the soones for "Beyond Vistory, a 'Pathe pinture which doals in the background, with the World War.
One of the soquenork of the picture- portrays-the-bombing of an abno doned Franch town. To get the proper atmorphere of an early morning attack, the company hond, ed by Director John Robertson, was required to report for work at 3:30 am, while actual shooting began before, four.
Export engineers were on hand to so that the charge of dynamite was properly placed and timed so that there would be no danger, either to, the company or to property ad- jacent to the "forty seren" back of iho Pathe Studio where this part of the picture was filmed."
Out in Pyjamas.
to.
Evory detail. comed to be attoaded Howover, Director Robertson later admitted that he should have hired a town crier to go about warning the populace of this portion of Culver City 48. to the axpected attack." For with (the first" detonation · people came running from their homes clad in their night apparel, dread and dis- tress written upon their faces. 1t "requirati considerable persuasion on the part of Mr. Robertson and bis. staff convince the alaria citizens that they were in danger of nothing more dire than the loss of a Fow hours' sloop.
These territo explosions wers necessary since the quenes were not only to be filmed but the actual sound reproduced at the same time to give a degree of realism which could not be gained by any
trick" methods employed within the studio, Famous Playera.
Bill Boyd, Low Cody, Jimmie Gigason, Fred Scott, Russell Glen son and Theodore Yon Eltz take part in the war sequences. The story of Beyond Victory" which showing at the Central Theatre to- day, deals, with a group of men who are separated from their command and face almost certain death in a dugout. In the tension of the moment each one talks of the thing. or person in civilian life which uppermost in his memory.
Among the imposing case of fav ourites appearing in the civilian sequences aro Marion Shilling, Zosz Pitts, Taxi Arna, E. H. Cal- vort, and Mary Cars.
Jay
FAIR SEX IS STILL, ENIGMA.
THE LADY REFUSES" AN
ETERNAL THEME.
Nover
value,
take a woman at her face
And don't judge a woman's char- acter by the clothes she wears. have been used for womanly quali These points of estimate, which tics and virtuos, are it is suggest od, radically wrong in Radio Pie tures The Lady Refuses," dei- mencing to-morrow at the Queen's
Because her clothes create the im- pression she is not a lady Betty in hised by an anxious father to lay a lover trap for his erríng son. However, appearances belic hor real character and the woman emerges. triumphantly out of the tangle."
The Lady Refuses" is an in- teresting entertaining story of a triple love and renunciation direct cd by George Archainbaid
In the cast are Betty Compson, John Darrow, Margaret Livingston, Gilbert Emery and Daphne Pol
GOSSIP
& FACT.
La Pouyss' Revived.
Audran's musical comedy, L. Poupée," which was one of the cut- standing successes of the 'nineties, yas ravived with many signs of success at Daly's Theatre on Christ- mas ETO.
Miss Burke writes to the News. widely supported by managore, Chronicle: My resolution is being
actors and actresses, and variety performera."''
--"""Charity should begin at tong," Actors and actresses are contribut ing through their services for indre wears unexpectedly to miscellaneous charities than they well, but the play does not stand are to their own. People are n the test of time so happily,"
The music
Jelaware of the terribla conditions ex- Me. Mark Center as the doliating famong actors and actress, maker, Hilarius, is diverting, but and our own loontuical charities he--like nearly everyone elas in the receive such little support. from the chet is to apt to dot bis i'a and public that we
New Artists-New Acts-Now Clowns-Everything Now This Year" fcrosa hist' not..once but many ourselves have to look after
50 Performing Animals 50
Lions, Timor, Elephants, Panthers, Bears, Moukeys,
Geoso, Horses, Pontes, Kangaroos, etc. - MATINEES Children Half Price to Matinees only Every Saturday and Sunday at 4:15.
p.m.
PRICES OF ADMISSION (Including Tax) FULL BOX TO BOLD: 1 822:00 Second Chai SINGLE SEAT Box
8440 ·STALLE CARÍKT FIRST CHAJES
8-3.30
GALLERY
Booking at Moutrie's Co. Sundays at the Cirrus
Soldiers and SailORS IN UNISOEN C- Half Price to Stalls and Second Chairs only t Menagerie open daily from 8:00 am to 8.10.
ESTON
$2.20 8 1.10.
.55
* B. BELLES A. J. CLOTHIER,
Bepresentative. Agent.
times Perhaps they are all right {
Gracie Fields Gin,
Mins Gracie Fields has given to
home for poor, children the 105 which an eamed by her ten- minutes, broadcast. performance un Christmas night..
Broadcasting Corporatich to Resist When she, woaked by the Britis them after they had been forced postpone the Empire broadcast, Miss Fields saiduma de pr
A tense. drains. for Norma Shearer's finest talkie performance }
SHEARER
In a new
agrism
triumph--
A FREE SOUL
มติม :
LIONEL BARRYMORE.
LESLIE HOWARD,
CLARK GABLE
Metro Golden Mister
TO-MORROW
SHOT WITH STARK "HUMAN EMOTION !
The
Passion and Pathbf1"
Humour and Heartache
Lady REFUSES
: withi BETTY COMPSON Ivan Lebedin Tam Gilbert Ennery
Directed by
GEORGE ARCHAINBAUD
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.80,5.20, 7.20 A§Ð 9,201
THE
DUKE STEDS
i thinking that Christmas nudi ences like it. As his daughter Ale sia, Miss Jean Colin acts and sings with welcome lightness of touch, and her gestures and facial expres sion as the mechanical doll are very clever. Of the rest of the cast Mr Patrick Waddington a Cancelot the young monk who is sent out into the world in quest of funds, and Mr. Harry Hilliard as the old heap. Loromois, are the host successful.
I have never earned money on The Stags and Clarify,
Christmas Day and I do not want Mias Marie Burke hos. caused a to: If I
the money is stir in the English theatrioni pro- going to the fession by announcing that, in A fos of ong hundred guiness was future she will dos appear at any fixed, and this has bebu handled by charity performancas unconnected Miss Fields to a fund to furnish
JOAN CRAWFOI with the entertainmente professions and equip the convalescent home at unless a portion of the proceeds is Perochaven (Bussex), which she WILLIAM HAIN given to a theatrical Cr. Variety presented to the Musje Hall Ladis benevolent objept...
Guild some time agoli muodost
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