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CENTRAL
TABELATE...
SHOWING TO-DAY
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
Queen's,
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
The Squaw Man"
King's.
A Girl You Will Always Remember!
With Warmer Baxter,
"Always Goodbye."
A Pioture You Will Never Forget Identral.."
HE FOUND
World:
HER ON. Star
arons-rond if the world ............d of the menhaw......... prica, of a good time... but his love wha to great for her bruised and Entered heart!
WATERLOO BRIDGE
A UNIVERSAL, PICTURE
with- MAR LARKE, Kont Donginan, Doria Lloyd, BU Bonnull Directed by
JAMES WHALE.
COMING ATTRACTION
TIFFANY presents
The
With Elissa Landi,
Waterloo Bridge."
Girls Not Wanted."
Chinese Alm,
KOWLOON.
Bridge of San Luis Ray,"
Queen's.
COMING.
This Modern Age."
With Joan Crawford.
Up for the Cup."
"The Rosary."
King's."
The Yollow Tickat."
་་
One' Heavenly Night"
Dr. Jekye and Mr. Hyde"
Central,
World.
The Command" Performance." The Age for Love."
A Woman of. Experience."
The Sea Lion,"
Sidewalks of New York."
**** Robin Hoodi“
Star,
1:
"Pardon Us," "Coquette,"
Lave in the Rough."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1932.
GVe
SHOWING TO DAY
KING'S
AT 230, 5.10, 7.15
&#.30 PM
An English Cast with American Direction.
Mayfair at her
Teet-Scotland Yard on her trail, but her love belonged to her victim. A daring game of hearts and
diamonds.
Elissa Landi
ALWAYS GOODBYE
PICTURE
NEXT, ATTRACTION
with
LEWIS STONE
COMMENCING SUNDAY 21st FEBRUARY..
DOCTORS' WIVES
12
WARNER BAXTER JOAN BENNETT
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
ALWAYS
GOODBYE.
ELISSÄ LANDI'S BIG SUCCESS.
public alike, that studio executives
throw precedent to the four winds and starred her in, Always Good: bye," her second picture.
In Always Goodbye " Miss Lundi impersonates Lila Banning, who has set the pace for Mayfhira? : society
nt the coast of her small for-
J
WATERLOO,
BRIDGE.'
KENT DOUGLASS FILM AT
CENTRAL THEATRE.
"different "gbar.
In the first place, Kent has fired
The rond to stardom in motion, tune. "Bankrupt, she realizes that of Universal's Waterico Bridge" Kent Douglass, featured player pictures is a long and weary one she has been leading a life or at the Central, is Hollywood's most and it takes years for the fortu above, her moans yet she dreads rate few over to gench the top. Yet the thought of inking Jown to as all traditions are smushed, so'middle cinas life. Her tempestuo29, was, this one, and the actress who fiery nature then leads her into a i accomplished the seemingly impos- series of adventures which soon! aible was Eilaan. Landi, the scintil- enmesh har in a network of mystery lating English actress who is star- and suspected., crime. How she favourably received by critics and finally clears her name of ail sus-
COMMAND PERFORMANCE
You're Commanded To
SEE IT! By order of the Grand Master of Entertain. ment! Here's romance and love, intrigue and adventure, life and breathless living! Something rare and unusual in screen fare, with a mighty cast of stars including NHIL HAMILTON, UNA MERKEL, HELen Ware, ALBERT GRAN and others. From the screen play by C Stafford Dickens. Directed by WALTER LANG.
N' JAMES CRUZE PRODUCTION)
COMING SHORTLY I
e Age for Love"
with
BILLIE DOVE CHARLES STARRETT LOIS WILSON
MARY, DUNCAN
EDWARD EVERETT
HORTON
1932 United Artists Pisture
Lewis Stone Shows His Famous Heart Of Flame Diamond To Elissa Landi. The Brilliant Star Of The Fox Remantle Draho, “ Alwars, Goodbye"
King's Thontre:
school days to answer, the call of the New York stage, and took a very short time to climb from hits to singular recognition in "Desire Under the Elms, Kempy," The Copperhead,Volpone," and a long list of footlight bits.
THE SQUAW MAN
CECIL B. DE MILLE THRIL LER OF ENGLAND AND ARIZONA.
The Squaw Han, Cuoil 3. De Mille's new Mosro-Goldwyn-Mayer
talkie thriller of England and Arizona, will be offered at the Queen's Theatre for Anal showings to-day by an extraordonarily fine film cast.
Not one or two but ten outstand- ing players portray the various Inôles of the famous Edwin Milton:
Royle stage succoss
The carers of these players Lukken collectivaly make a very fatoresting. tabloid' history of the motion pie- ture industry.
Warner Baxter, playing the for- tured male role of Jim Carston. was just a ordinarily successful: player until talkies came in, when *** In' 'Old Arizana? made him al
star overnight.
Climbs Ladder,
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 230, 6.10, 7:15 AND 9.20
TWO WOMEN LOVED HIM!
One in silks and jatins. the other clothed in savage Inre and beauty!
The year's mightiest drama!
BAXTER
WARNER
SQUAW MAN
THE
Lupe Valez, appearing the greatest pathobic Indian girl, Naturich, re-dramatic presents that small group of foreign ||triumph of. players, who by virtue of extra
ordinary creative ability, have Cecil B. forced themselves upward to the De Mille very, kopinost rungs of the cinematic ladder. Cecil, E. De Mille says of
with the work of Miss Velez in “The
Squaw Man" She gave me the LUPE greatest emotional response I have ||VELEZ had in a picture since the days of Gloria Swanson."
Eleanor Boardman who plays Lady Diana got her chance with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company when after a competition, she was selected as the Eastman Kodak girl.
Charles Bieford deserted the stage" about two years ago to become the most popular "he-inan" cá tho screen. Roland Yobag and Paul Cavanagh are two clover young English stage actors whom talkies brought to the films.
Old Time Star,
Thon he wont home to Pasadena for a rest, steering clear of pictures as he always had. But the movie agents were not to be denied, and out to Pasadena they went to carry him back for the male lead, oppo site Joan Crawford ju "Paid." From thero, picture offers come in torrents, and although he still secretly hopes to "return some day J. Faarel McDonald, playing Big to the stage, the critics have atamp
Bill, the ranch foreman, was a mem- ed the brilliant young actor as a certainty for continued stardom,
ber of the famous old Biograph and he will, in all probability, have Company which produced "David- more difficulty in leaving CaliforWark Griffith, Mary Pickford and a nia and the screen than he had in leaving high school for the stage.
Kent's private life is now that of any son at home. His bobbies are mostly all within the fences that separate the huge. Douglass estate
MAE CLARKE AMI KENT DOUGLASS="WATERLOO BRIDGE"
UNIVERSALPIƏYİLDİ
with his family very nearly since from the rest of the world. Ho he can remember. The luxurious still has the same dogs, or their apartments, the slaberate parties heirs, that he had when he was a and other Hollywood trimmings child. He still has the same library that usually characterize the movie of his favourite books, greatly on- står have never entered into Kent's | banced, of course, existence.
Wicked Hollywood? He never He left Los Angeles in his high | heard of it f
"DOCTORS' WIVES.”
ORIGINAL STORY COMING TO KING'S THEATRE.
soore of other stars.
Mitchell Lewis and Harry North. rup are two particularly interesting members of the cast of the talking version of The Squaw Man," be
puse in 1903 at Wallack's Theatre, the played in the original stage vorsion in which William Fayer- sham played the star rõle
The Squaw Man" was adapted for talking picture purposes by Elsie Janis
Extraordinary, photography by Hal Rosson is a future of the film. Scenic effects range from a' strik ing fox hunt in England to rugged penka and desert landscape in the
Bad Lands of Arizona.
"THIS MODERN
AGE.
STORY OF PARIS, COMING
TO QUEEN'S
A highly sophistiented story of Paris is told in This Modern Age," which brings Joan" Crawford to the Queen's Theatre.
Mias Crawford plays the role of a young woman who has not seen her divoros mother since„ child- hood. They are rounited and react more like friends than" mother and daughter," for the ultra-modern was a story rich and compelled in parent does the same things her human interest, and one element daughter does, When her daughter necessary for all great screen finally falls in love with the son drama Warner Baxter was chosen of conservative Boston aristocrata; to portray, Dr. Penning, the success-
it is this ultra freedom of her
that ful and ambitious surgeon of the mother's
breaks up the story; but who is cast, for the young TomBure. The lever doesn't want a idealistic, pretty, suspicious, emo girl whose mother runs around." tional doctor's wife presented
A serien of exciting evänts lead up to the denouement, which is capped more difficult problem,'
with a surprise climax.
a
Together, gives Miss Crawford The picture, which was adapted from Mildred Cram's novel, "Girls
opportunities in the whoopee!!! type of part with which she has beons successful in the "paali although the story obviously has it serious moments
Eleanor D BOARDMAN Charles Blekford and as dozen more,stara?
odlayn-Mayen merusa
·TO-MORROW"
Her finest role-in
a modern drama set in Paris
JOAN
(RAWFORD THIS
MODERN
PAULINE FREDERICK
NEIL HAMILTON
Metro
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5,20, 7.20 AND 0.20
cory thrill
THE
famous novel, in the film
SAN
BRID
LUIS
red in the Fex picture Always picion and wins the one man gha
* | :: In choosing. “Doctor's Wives" as Goodbye," now playing at the really loves, and cannot say the most suitable material for
Only after innumerabic "tests of Warner Baxter's latest Beraan, offer. Always Goodbye to furnishes ing, coming next Sunday to the Bennett finally chosen for the caveted every available actress was Joan It took but two pictures to raise one of the most surprising climaxes King's Theatre, Fox selected role of "Nina Wyndzam, a doctor's
unusual dramatic theme played. Miss Laudi to the very pinnacle of that have been seen on the solesa in against a background never before daughter who marries a doctor to become one with a legion of women. featured on the screen,BA Almdom. Coming to this country many a week.
While many novels, plays and condemned to obscurity under the to enact the leading role in the In support of Miss Landi & most screen dramas have featured the title of doctors' wives
BorvioCA of doctors, none have The story revolves about their"} Pauling Frederick, as the mother, Broadway stage production, "A able cast with Lewis Stone and brought realistically the hopes, am- tempestuous romance and marriage is also given a chance for clever Färewell to Arms," Fox Film, exéon-Paul Cavanagh in the featured of their wives to attention. Con- young doctor's wife falis prey to Neil Hamilton, who scored with hitions, conflicts and inner doubts which goes on the rocks when the acting and the cast also includes tives were so impressed with her roles. John Garrick and Lumaden sequently, when Henry and Sylvia the auspicious sown in her mind by Norma Shearer ip ". Strangers” May Lieferant's novel was suggested to | her mother who insists that women Kiss "Monroe Owsley, recently performance that they offered her a Hara have the other important the For script departout, it was patients make love to her husband. sen opposite Glorin Swanson in featured role in the recent screen parts. William Cameron Menzies recognized as a most powerful qub- She is finally made to understand Indiscreet Hobart Bosworth, that her suspicions are entirely Emma Dunn, Albert Conti drama, "Body and Stu Her and Kenneth MacKenna co-direct-ipt, Frank Borzage, the director's duty to humanity is justly celle Corday. Nicholas Grinde sooner had I read the unfounded on fact, and that a doa- Adrienne d'Ambricourt and Mar- characterization was so ral, and so edi
tor, doclared, then I knew hero greater than his own personal life. directód.
ject for screen entertainment.