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CENTRAL
"EMBEDDE
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1932.
Contral.
SHOWING TO-DAY
SHOWING TO-DAY
Lonely Wives,"
Quee'.
The Squaw Man."
At 2:30, 6.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m'
With Warner Baxter.
King'o,
Tons of Money."
With Ralph Lynn.
World.
Girls Not Wanted"
Chinese flu,
KOWLOON.
The family
circle has to
be run on the square
Star,
OF
18 Karat Comady for Highbrows, Lowbrows
and All tho Krows in between.
with
Edward Everett Horion
Esther Ba'ston
Laura la Plants
Pastsy Ruth Milfor
Dirented by RUKBELI, MACK. Protrack by R. 1. KR Blameckoti A, B WOODY
7 Htage play:
"
Y WIVES
"Condemned:"
Ronald Colitan and Anu
Harding
COMING.
Central.
Waterloo Bridge."
The Age for Love."
"A Wah of Experience."
The Command Performance."
Queen's
This Modern Age."
With John Crawford,
King's..
"Always Goodbye,"
World.
Star.
Seurety of a Secretary," Claudette Colbors
Dhers Marshall.
Robin Hood."
Chinese film.
Bride of San Luis Ray,'
Love in the Hough."
B
KING'S
Farce.comedy that
"will make you roar with laughter RALPH LYNN
IN
"Tons of Money'
One Long Seream from Beginning to End
Dicealed by
TOM WALLS
A BRITISH PRODUCTION
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
NEXPOINTG3
WED. 17th FOB.
#n
Elissa Landi ALWAYS GOODBYE
with
FLEWIS STONE
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE, TEL. 25818.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
NEXT CHANGE
'THE SQUAW MAN.”
FAMOUS PLAY REVIVED
HE FOUND
HER ON
....erietrind if the world ...end of the rainbow. price of a good time... but his love the too great for her bruisod and " battered heart)
WATERLOO BRIDGE
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
with: Mam CLARES, Kent Douglses, Daria Lloyd; Bad Bonnett Directed by
JAMES WHALE.
COMING SHORTLY I
'AT QUEEN'S.
"LONELY WIVĖS,” ALWAYS
GOODBYE."
STAGE AND SCREEN FAVOURITES JOIN FORCES. LEWIS STONE AND ELISSA
LANDI.
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"The most pleasant engagement in years.",
Thus Lewis Stone, eminent screBa actor and the favourite of millions of movie goers summarized his work
Cne of the most enduring and "Evidence of the complete unifica popular stories the American stage tion of the stage and screen which has known made its loend talking has taken place during the past two pitture debut last night at the years through the medium of the Queen's Theatre, where it will be talking screen, is given by the the attraction for the next three superior cast assembled for "Lone-{ days. It is "The Squaw Man," ly Wives," Pathe Comedy which with Elisan Landi after the comple magnificently produced by Cecil B. boasts an all-star cast of players,tion of Always Goodbye," Fox DeMille for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and which was shown, with highly production, which marks the second
DeMille has assembled a remark fastering results" at the Central able cast for his presentation of
appearance of the lovely Europeaz stage and screen star in American
1:
"LONELY WIVES."
CASTE OF FAMOUS PLAYERS,
A decided similarity exists be tween the careers of Edward Everett Horton, who plays the principal rôle in Pathe's all-star force, Lonely Wives" and Russell Mack, who directed the picture.
Both men have functioned in the dual roles of actor and producer before coming from the stage to the screen., Mack was well known in
TONS OF MONEY QUEEN'S
FARCE FROM THE “ROOKERY NOOK" STABLE.
From the same stable as Rookery Nook," with the note probaver, and the same st
ק ·
Here is another gern. u tha
SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 2.30, 5.10, 7,15 AND 9:20.
TWO WOMEN
British crown. Tom Walls, as pro LOVED HIM!
ducer, and Ralph Lynn, as sta aro a duo, discovered by the talkies who have helped to raise British productions to a sbandarch of world- morit.
Story Earcial, as the story of a furdo should be
Allington is bosot by creditors who he unexpectedly lenrus thub his brother has died. Loft £30,000 which reverts to Cousin George of "Moxico on depth. Allington" and his wife fear that the £30,000 will be swallowed up by the ereditats. Allingbon decides to "die andre- appear as Cousin George.
Ho doos Bab the wife of the reat Cousin George, misled by his disguise, lings. herself in this Arme of her long-lost husband. Mrs. Allington objects und Cousin George has to die. He does, Ho re-appeurs disguised na the Rev. Ebenezer Brown..
Ho
One in silks and satips. the other clothed in savage lure and beauty!
The year's mightiest
drama!
BAXTER
WARNER
THE SQUAW
meets another "Cousin- George crook disguised as buch and whom Allington believes to be the goul thing. Then the genuine the consin turns up
Afthat juncture tho Rov. Ebenezer dianppears. Lator, the supposedly
grentest dramatie
doad Allington turns up to cisim || triumph of the £30,000, only to learn that after death dues and all the rest of the Ceell B. fees have been paid only a fow pounds are left.
"
De Mille
Honours-nimost all of them- weave themselves into onb laurel wrenth. This fits the brow of Ralph ||'with Lyon exactly. He is a genius 'of'] fürce.
That man, in the pin wheel, of "Tons of Money," which is now showing at the King's Theatre. II is never out of mind, oven when off the screen. Nothing to equal scre of the alight subtleties of iness had ever before been on the sorgen. He is the Chaplin of farce.
Opposita him plays Yvonne Arnaud with all that skill and Anesse. we expect of her.
And the same goes for that won- derful voteran Mary Brough, who flits and knits through the film.. Britain can be proud of this, fine- comedy.
sarned their fame through a unique conception of comedy.
Appearing also under Mack's direction 111 "Lonely Wives,
these joint capacities in and around New York for ten years, while Hor which comes to tho Contra ton has had his own theatre and Theatre shortly, are Esther Rals.. stock company in Los Angeles for ton, Laura La Plante, Patsy Ruth some time. Both men have also Miller, Spencer (Continued on next Column.) Maude Eburne.
GOSSIP
&
FACT.
Charters
T
ast
the famous Edwin Milton Royle Theatre last night. play, rated with Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben Hur among role is Edward Everett Borton, engagement next Wednesday at the
Appearing in an amazing dual
fins, and which will open its local | Daljur' Birthday.
The director, King Vidor, attempt- the first three most popular stage whose activities have been almost King's Theatre.
Frederick Dolius, the English ed the impossible, but it is clear tales the U.S.A. has known.
composer who, blind and paralysed, that it is not to be done. Stage is Time has not dimmed in any way equally divided between the foot- public enjoyment of this story, lights and the studio incandescants, Stone said, speaking of Miss Laudi, concerts of his own works given in never the two can most."
The fame of this little lady," histoned from a bath-chair in Queen's stage and sersen is screen-and
Hall two years ago to" the festival moving quickly between Englis Sharing honors in the two principal castles and the Arizona cattle feminino riles are Esther Ralston Renched me long before I had the his honour, was 70 on January 20,
world had supposed.
country. The action has becu moand Lauru La Plante, both fär-plansure of meeting her. Now, thar and not 09 as he and the rest of the Dynamic Acting.
bies,
Baxter Scores.
decade.
.
dernized, but the background is the aurites among Bim fans. same as in the past, a strong grip Ruth Miller, another popular ac-
Patsy I have worked with her, I heartily
Until November, 1929, Deliùs ha
David Lindau, who was about as ping me drama with a conflict un
treas who frat achieved success in agres with the critics who named believed that he was a year younger good as one could imagine on the blood tes, Indian and white, that the days of silent pictures, also her, that most amazing discovery than actually he is. Reference stage, was curiously ineffective on drips with box office" potential la an important éle
their artistic Hollywood has made in the last books give the date of his birth as the screen, although in other films
Hearty laughs punctuated
1863. It was the late Peter War-' lock, his friend and biographer, he has been noticeable in his who discovered that the actual date, dynamic' actig quality. Not even of his birth was January 29, 1602. Sylvin Sidney got over. Some of Tibbett'a Voice,
the crowd scenes are excellent, and that is the bost one can say for whit should have been
a profoundly pinteresting experiment.
! performances. Warner Baxter is convincing, as The leading charaêter rôles of the Miss Landi ita starred as the James Wynnegate, who after the picture are filled by Spencer Char!
and Mandis English episode becomes Jim Curs ters
Eume, both wondrous wise, clever in-
love, ton, ranch owner, If one is to com- veterans of many Broadway sucres-haroine of "Always Goodbye," a' pare him with those who have plays, although comparatively new to girl to whom romance is a game ed the role before, it could be well pictures. Both contributed much
not to be taken too seriously. She" said that he does it with more finesse to the evening's entertainment.
A
decided success with her policy of dismissing lovers with a casual "goodbye," until she loses heart and head over one-man,
That man is Lowia, Stone. It is
and suavity than his principal pra- The screen play was prepared by does very well, in fact, makes a decessors on the stage (William Walter De Leon, while the director Faversham), and in silent pictures is Russell Mack." Lonely Wives ** (Dustin Farnum and Elliott Dex-is a drama of marital mix-ups, tar.)
which old and young will enjoy... Lupe Velez is a splendid Na- turich. She doesn't speak twenty in the Apache tongue ne fraught JOAN CRAWFORD IN words of English, but her speeches, when she sees her boy being taken" WHOOPEE ROLE. to England, as the posse arrives-to arrest her for the murder of Cash Hawking, is without a doubt the
with significance. The final scene,
"The Age for Love" fines; thing this capable player has
with
BILLIE DOVE CHARLES STARRETT
LOIS WILSON
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•
At the Empire in London "The Cuban Love Song," directed by W. S. Van Dyke is being shown. It is a fairly, good musical show, limited, Film Censors and Love Scanes. in spite of his voice, which is ad mirable, by the personality of Law- The annual report of the British ronce Tibbett. Lupe Voler gives a Board of Film Censors, which, was fine performance, because she is published at the end of January naturally emotional.
dealt with the length and promin- There are two admirable perences of love scones in films and hintat Torrence, and the music by criticised, particularly by odúas formances by Jimmy Durrantie and other features which have besa this time is well known overywhere. tioniats. The direction by Van Dyke almost Mr. Edward Shortt, the chief persuaden me that he is worthy of censor, abated that they often issued the great reputation ho has man-directions to producers with regard
to "these contentious matters!!
Larceny Lane.
his gentleness, his culture, his charm and consideration, qualities she had never before found all in COMING TO QUEEN'S one man," that wins her; yet, she
has a endangered her on reputa.eged to obtain. THEATRE.
tion with daring escapades that slie Larceny Lane. "This Modern Age," with Joan fy not, fres to accept his love. It. Diana Charles Bickford scores an Crawford in the starring role and the villainous Cash Hawkins, and a cast which includes Paulina Tro-s her boldness in clearing her Roland Young's Sir John is up to derick, Neil Hamilton, Monroe name of suspicion that brings about the high standard he has set in pre-Owsley and Hobart Bosworth, w the starring climax of this roman-
be the feature attraction of the tie drama. Queen's Theatre on Thursday. The cast of Always Goodbye" The picture was adapted from is a notable one. In addition to
done.,, Eleanor Boardman is cffec tives as the English girl lead, Lady
vious pictures,
a secret love affair with a wealthy man about town.
It is this affair that brings disas-
“Larceny Lane," which is also
Larceny Lane," at the Leicester-
being shown in London is the Arat square Theatre, London, is another starring film of James Cagney, and of these pictures designed to exploit it was after this that he made the personality of Mr. James "Taxi" "Larceny Lane" is 3 much better flm than Targaer, who is cantering along the track that leads to permanent star which has been drawing crowds to doma, Already that astimable family, Together," and was directed by and Mr. Stone in the male lead, it
American story of a young bell Mr. Cagney's name above the title Nicholas Grinde,
includes Paul Cavanagh, who is hop" who finds it pays him to go of the pictures and, praying that The picture enables Mans Craw- also featured as well as Jolin Garon a rackot." This is with the the public, will endorse the faith ford to return to the "whoopee "rick, Frederick Eerr. Herbert help of the Hinen keeper in the they have in the young man. If you
LUPE VELEZ
MAN
Eleanor BOARDMAN Charlos Blekford and ́
dozen more stars!
NEXT ATTRACTION
Her finest
role-in a modern dráma set. in Paris
JOAN
RAWFORD
THIS MODERN
with PAULINE FREDERICK NEIL HAMILTON
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2:80, 5.20, 7.20 and 9:20
RONALD
COLMAN
the Mildred Cram" novel, "Girl Misa Landi in the starring role. the Regal. Ja is a conventional the Warner Brothers, Are Pits Condemned”
type of role which, made her famous Bunston and Lumsden : Hare.
"Birast Scene..
tay to the daughter, whose fiance refuses to marry a girl with such
hotel, played by Joan Blondell. a mother. The means by which the and which she temporarily deserted The photoplay was directed by Here is another good bit of dires complications are solved make form for the straight parts of "Paid," William · Gameron Menzies and tina. an extremely lively and up-to-date Dance, Fools, Dance and Kenneth MacKenna, former screen story.
"Laughing Sinnors,""
| netbr, who was last soen in "The The picture is replete with The plot concerns an American Man Who Came Back ¦and " Bịn opisodes of youthful exuberance and girl who lives in Paris with a mo- Takes A Holiday" It was adapt. a wide variety of luxurious settings ther who is ultra-modern and has ed for, the screen by Lynn Starling
(Continued on previous Column;)- from Kate Melisurin's story.-
MARY DUNGAN
EDWARD EVERETT
HORTON
1982 United Artists Picture and cosime
A great disappointment is "Street Scene." American reports had led on to suppose that here was some- thing unusual-in the way of films
entitled to your money then down decide that the new star ingot
will come the name and a search will be made for another star. If you say "I like this now fellow, James Cagney, then he will bo enabled to suord & swimming lath at his home in Hollywood,
His fate is in your handa
ANN
with
HARDING
LOUIS WOLHEIM