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CENTRAL
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SHOWING TO-DAY
•
At 2.80, 6:10, 7:15 and 9:20 p.m.
TO-DAY AT THE
King's.
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Ladies of the Big House "? and Zimmy thu logless
swimmer,
British News Hecl, 11.46 1.1,
Central.
Tarzan The Tiger."
"Queen's.
The Rosary."
"World."
Sidewalks of New York,
KOWLOON.
Star.
Coquette,"
with. Mary Pickford."
COMING.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932.
SHOWING TO-DAY
KING'S
Another Dramatie
Smash Hit!
LADIES
OF THE
BIG HOUSE
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
ALSO
AN EXTRAORDINARY ADDED ATTRACTION SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT
OF
ZIMMY
The World's Champion Legless Swimmer
IN
A SERIES OF ASTOUNDING SPECIALLY
a Paramount PictureFEATS IN A
with SYLVIA SIDNEY
The "American Tragedy" Girl
GENE BAYMOND WYNNE GIBSON And A Draufatio Cast I
· CONSTRUCTED GLASS TANK 'ON THE STAGE.
EATS
DRINKS
SMOKES
AND
LIVES
UNDER
WATER!
YOU HAVE HEARD OF ALL KINDS OF DANCERS AND DANUES BUT COME AND SHB THE LEG- LEBS DANCER.
NEXT ATTRACTION
COMMENCING SUNDAY, 28th FEB: FREDERICK LONDALE'S
ROMANCE Fraught with danger... beset by savage beast and human vultures. That was the adven some "lot of
TARZAN
THE TIGER
with FRANK MERRILL
and NATALIE KINGSTON
King's.
Canaries' Sometimes Sing.” "The Yellow Ticket,"
One Heavenly Night"
Dr. Jekye and Mr. Hyde."
Contral.
The Age for Love."
"The Command Performance."-
A Woman of Experience."
Queen's.
"Guilty Hands."
World.
Star.
Silver Horde."
"Say It Will Songs."
The Sea Lion," Robin Hood"
"Pardon Us."
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.
TEL. 25313.
COMING SOON
"CANARIES SOMETIMES SING” with TOM WALLS YVONNE ARNAUD-ATHOLE STEWART A BRITISH PICTURE
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
'THE ROSARY."
The Age for Love" THRILLING TRIAL SCENE.
with
BILLIE DOVE CHARLES STARRETT LOIS" WILSON
MARY DUNCAN EDWARD EVERETT
HORTON
"CANARIES SOME- TIMES SING."
CLEVER LONSDALE
The Rosary," the remarkable British drama tha, is showing to-¡ ̧ The
COMEDY.
BY
GREAT ACTING LIONEL BARRYMORE
"GUILTY HAND," BILLED
'FOR THE QUEEN'S. Lionel Barrymore is featured as master killer in "Guilty
of Frederick the fascination Lonsdale's comedies for the public!
Ing.
that.
"TARZAN THE TIGER"
HORSES AND CAMELS FOUGHT DURING, FILMING
The age-old dislike of the horsej
tho camel was graphically illur trated during the filming of
Tarzan cho Tiges," Universaľa) vivid and exciting sound serial, thei first chapter of which is showing to-day at the Contral Theatre,
Ancient historians have chronicl ad how, in old battles, cavalry wai disorganized by stampeding the horses with camels, During a street scene in Tarzan the Tiger one horse became so unmanageable as the sight of camels that he nonr ly threw a rider ad hurled che entire scene into confusion. Suc conding efforis produced the same result, and the terrified horse An,{ ally had to be led off the set.
Frank Merril And Natalie! Kingston have the leading roles inf this stupendons jungle picture, based on Edgar Rice Burrougha' famous novel, "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar," The aorial was: directed by Henry MacRae,
"HEARTY
COMEDY.
SHOCKS FOR VICTORIANS IN A NAVAL OFFICER'S PLAY.
Hoarty stuff is "While Parenta Sleup," a new farcical comedy pro- duced at the Royalty Theatre Lon dou, last month.
Its author, Mr. Anthony Kim- mins, is a young naval officer, and one expects young naval officers to be hearty in all their ways, oven when these includo the portrayal on the stage of sofas, lingeries, pas- sionate love made to another man's wife, and the lavish consumption of potent cocktails.
It is remarkable that in this exo- tic atmosphere heartiness should have prevailed. But it does, chiefly because. Mr. Kimmins is using those subjects with as little guile as he would adopt when telling funny stories in the ward-room. Indeed, the whole of this play about two sons whose form of renotion against strict Victorian parents was to bring home two wemony one a sub- urban minx, and the other Lady the parental
Miss Frances Doble maden wel-Thingamybob, to
story.
Promising First Play.
come return to the stage as the more.. drawing-room in the small hours, aristocratic and less-dressed of too seeme like a rather long ward-room two hussies, the other being played by Miss Diana Boaunonta bril liantly comic performance with a true sense of character about it. Sir Nigel Playfair was an admir. able parent, though rather wasted, and Mr. Jack Hawkins was the heartier of the two sons.
"! Zimmy."
The author has written a promi- sing first play. But he must guard. against putting in lines in doubtful taste merely in order to raise a cheap titter. He can obviously be amusing-in a hearty way-without (Continued on provicus Column.}
GOSSIP
&
FACT.
Zimmy "the Legloss Wonder, 1
Timbuctoo.
to
day at the Queen's Theatre, is a ling not only in the brilliant dial Hands." Bayard Veiller'a now my. story, of love and self-sacrifice.gae, but also in the clever way his stery, drama which is showing on Mary Edwards and Vera Maper-stories give point to very sound Sunday at the Queen's Theatre as new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offer. ideas. Situations full of humour ing are half-sisters. They discover abound in his comedies, while at the
In this murder thriller Barry-
Walter Summers has left England by accident that they both love the same time one senses the morul in
now appearing at the King's Then as the advance guard for the pro- more contributes, in the opinion of
tre holds world records in All duction of the now B.I.P. Alm same man, Ronald overton. Neither the story,
aquatic sports, and has performed | Timbuctoo," and will arrive at Frederick Lonsdale is one of the cartain reviews, the best perform. is prepared to retire in favour of
very few who can write this way, ance he has given upon the screen.
bofore the crowned heads of Europe; Oran, North Africa, to prepare, the the other: Mary because her love is for it is an entirely different mat is characterization of the veteran
world He is just completing a Summers spent a busy time up- reciprocaled, and Vera because shelter writting mere farce and writ. prosecutor and attorney, facing the and audiences all over the civilized way for the Company:
necessity of killing a man himself, thinks that Ronald is toe "wealthying humour that contains a gibe at rises above the dramatic heights of round-the-world tour, thus carning to the time of departure superin-
certain types of people. His satire all his earlier heights, even includ
the title of Globe Trotter," when tending the accumulating equip to be given up so easily. Realising is given full play in Canaries.
in fact he never actually took a ing his triumph in "A Free Soul."
mam, arranging routes over the. that her only way of keeping him Sometimes Bing," the exceedingly. S. Van Dyke directed the pic step in his life! In a large tank 5,000 mile route from Elstree
Timbuctoo.. of unusual he performs many remarkable water A 1982 United Artists: Picture is by means of subterfuge, Vern clover comedy, will be shown at the turs with adroit ase
King's Theatre next Sunday. His camera angle and sound effects to
feata He was a contender in the lion to Mary about the nature of moral here is that one bird in a strenghten the bafflement and my Catalina Island ewim and says that he is going to attempt to swim the her intimacy with Ronald, and is so cage is happier and will sing story of the original story by Val-
merrily than if it has lor.
English Channel next season. trap where "as a deeply religious convincing that Mary surrenders a mate not suited to its personal-,
Kay Francis and Madge Evans tall the man she loves and prepares to itp
head the supporting east, Miss Francis playing the part of Barry the truth or "imperil her immert enter a convent,
more's feminine nemesis and MissThis week, says the News Chrant tress, and this time she has been al soul." She chooses to lia and.
Evans noting the part of his daughcle of January 30 there is remark- given a film which really gives her save her sister.
able evidence from London and opportunities. tor, paired with William Bakowell
New York of the supremacy of in romantic interest. Included in
Miss Garbo in point of popularity Dong's Back Chit,
Douglas Fairbanks obviously sa- in the film world. In the past the cast are C. Aubrey Smith, Polly Moran and Alan Mowbray.
seven days more than 100,000 people joyed himself on his holiday trip, have paid more than £10,000 to see which has now been turned into a "The Rise of Helga" at the World in 80 Minutes." Bis. "back- travelogue, entitled Round the pire Theatre in London. In ono week at the Capitol, in New York, chat throughout the film is often "Mata Hari" which has not yet using and sometimes instructivů,
A Chiness Ballet." been seen in London, has earned more than £25,000.
woman
" she
must
either
On her release Mary goes to ons place in which she knows
will find ponce the Convent.
the
at
On returning home after an in- terview with the Mother Superior, { The sacrifice so affects Vera that Mary hears a shot, rushes into the she rushes from the Court, After drawing room and finda Yera, re- wandering the streets, she buysa volver in hand, standing over the ziewspaper announcing the result of dead body of Oscar Dalmyne, & the trial, The verdict is "Not man with whom Vera had had an affair and whom she rejected on Guilty Self-defence."
meeting Bonald. Mary takes the revolver from her terrified half- sister, and while she da listening to her story of a quarrel, a struggle and an accident, the police enter. sacrificing love make Vers com. Standing as she is with the gun in pletely ropentant, and-shirking her hand, Mary is at once suspect- nothing-she brings Ronald to the ed, and, again sacrificing herself, convent so that she may confess to she confesson to the shooting. She the lovers the network of lion by
is arrested and charged with mur- which she had separated them. After her confession she leave them together in the garden, and walks into the convent. Mary and Ronald, depant, completely reconciled and full of happiness.
The example of Mary's self-
We now see a nun at her dove- tions-telling her bonds. It is Vora. She lifts her Rosary and "kisses the cross.
thore
"LADIES OF THE BIG
HOUSE."
"Ladies of
the Big House" which is now showing at the King's, Theatre, tells of a boy and a girl madly in love, and fate separates them on their wedding day."
The characters of "Ladies of the Big House" are genuine and be. "Continued on next Column.)
TO-NIGHT!
lievable. The action--and there is plenty of it-is swift and exciting. The suspense is keen and the not- iing is good..
TO-NIGHT!
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS
50%
AT. 9.15 P.M.
Wanchai, Hong Kong
رم
Third Change of Programme
30 European Artists der. At the trial Mary's counsel is convinced that he knows the real
Performing Animals 50 fruth, and recalling Torn to the witness box almost succeeds in LAST TWO MATINEES Saturday and Sunday at 4.18 p.m.
Children Half Price to Matinees only Booking at Montrio's Co. Sundays at the Cimraş. BOLDIERS & BAILORS IN UNIFORM Half Prics to Stalls & Second Chairs only
Mensgério open daily from 8.00 am. to 6.00 p.m.. HARMSTON. R. BELL, "A. J. CLOTHIER,
Representative.
Agent.
tricking her, but sho manages to hold on to her original story. Even- tually he puts Mary herself under examination and leads her into the
{ (Continued on Previor a Column) |
Proprietor.
Greta's Triumph.
I
"The
Tallulah Bankhead.
Tallulah Bankhead in Cheat," is a new Tallilah and im proved. Her husky voice has gone, except for two lines of song. Shet has definitely improved as an n
QUEEN'S
THEATRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 230, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9,20
The
ROSARY
MARGOT GRAHAMI -. ELIZABETH ALLAH GUT GEÁNLE
JOLM MINALLY
NEXT ATTRACTION.
ANOTHER LIONEL
BARRYMORE TRIUMPH!
He cheated the law, but Fate took an amazing revenga 1.
GUILTY HANDS
Directed by W. S. VAN DYKE
LIONEL
ayu Mixer
with
BARRYMORE
ΚΑΤ
FRANCIS
STAR
"A Chinese Ballet," the most TO-DAY TO SATURDAY important of the missing works of These two succosses, taked boxer Pater Warleek (Mr. Philip AT2.80, 6.20, 7.20 AND 9.20 thor with the extraordinary com. Heseltine), has been found. Mr. pany of six stars, including Jon Warlock, who died in tragic cir crowford and both Barrymores, to
support Miss Garbo, in "Grand custansea in December, 1930, wroteMARY
it in conjunction with Mr. Adrian Hotel," constitute porhaps the
Allinson in 1916, most emphatic personal triumph inl
Mr. Allinson stated yesterday: the history of motion pictufos. I had the idon of the ballet and “Dreyfus!! in: N.Z.
designed the setting, and then ask- Fed Peter Warloak to write the The recently reported broadcast music. He produced a clever bit of the story of "Dreyfus" in New of pastiche work, It was done in Zealand aroused the interest of the a satirical mood a type of humour Ministry of Education both in the to which he was inch given. We film itself and its historical and had the intention that it should be social appots. As a result the story performed either as a scene in a of " Dreyfus" was published in the revue or as a single not on that Education Gazoble. This shows variety stage, It was actually that the Now Zealand Authorities submitted at that time to Mr. Coche approve of "Drayfus" as healthy ran, but he had something else on Alm entertainment for their scholars hand. It was not unifo as well as document from which again. After my friend's death moral good, can result.
recalled the work and searched for
PICKFORD
"Coquette
sweeps you from eapti- vating romance to grip- ping drame.
A United Artista Ploture