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CENTRAL
THEATRE NUM
TO-DAY ONLY
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Tarzan The Tiger."
Central.
At 2,30,,5.10, 7.15 and 9,20 p.m.
[Queen's......
The Rosary,"
King's,
World..
Tegless
Star,
Ladies of the Big House"
and Zimmy-the
swimmer..
"Sidewalla of New York,"
• KOWLOON,
Cuquette,"
with Mary Pickford.
COMING.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.
LAST TWO DAYS
KING'S
A Grand Double Attraction I
Another Dramatic
Smash Hit!
LADIES
OF THE
BIG HOUSE
AT 230, 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
A Paramount PictureFEATS IN A SPECIALLY
with
SYLVIA SIDNEY
The "American Tragedy" Gir
GENE RAYMOND
WYRNE GIBSON !
And A Dramatic Cast I
· CONSTRUCTED GLASS TANK ON THE STAGE. EATS
أخير
DRINKS UNDER
"SMOKES »
AND WATER!
LIVES
YOU HAVE HEARD OF ALL KINDS OF DANCERS. AND DANCES: BUT COM AND SOB ТАЕ LEG- L999 DANCER.
NEXT ATTRACTION
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
Central.
**ToFable David."
"The Agå for Love.”
"The Command Perforinance,”
A Woman of Experience."
Queen's.
Guilty Hands."
Silver. Horde."
King's..
Capuries Sometimes Sing,”
The Yellow Ticket"
"One Heavenly Night."
* Dr. Jekys and Mr. Hyde.";
World.
Say It Will Songs.' "The Sea Lion." "Robin Kood."
star.
"Pardon Us."
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313.
NEXT CHANGE
JOSIPH
MEEGEERIMOTO'S
GELATOSTSTOMY;
BROUGHT TO THE
TALKING SERUN
COLUMULA PICTURES
NOTABLE
DAVID
featuring RICHARD CROMWELL
with
The Picture
JOAN PEERS
NOAH
the
World
will Remember
Columbia
BEERY
JOHOL BEYEFONE
· POLICEWOMAN GRACIE FIELDS.
́PLANS FOR HER NEW TALKIE
COMMENCING SUNDAY, 28th FEB. FREDERICK LONDALE'S
"CANARIES SOMETIMES SING’
with TOM WALLS YVONNE ARNAUD-ATHOLE STEWART A BRITISH PICTURE
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
"THE ROSARY,”
RUMANTIC AND WELL ACTED
PICTURE AT THE
QUEENS
Rosary "ht
Florence
The Bubelay's famous novel but is quite as romantic and emotional a story. splendidly acted throughout and no, praise ean, bej too high for the admirable diction of the play- ers (or possibly for the eficiency of the recording) for every word in clearly audible The story tells of two half sisters, Mary quiet and religious minded, Vera gay and pleasure loving. The same man.
WYNNE GIBSON
in Ladies of the Big House “
A Paramount Picture
is loved by both and is attracted "LADIES OF THE BIG fres to Vera and then to Mary.
HOUSE."
Neither of the sisters know the identity of the other girl" of FINE ACTRESS IN IMPORT- whom, the man spooks when bo changes his allegiance from Vera, to Mary, and both of them have kept the name of the man they love from
ANT ROLE.
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caught and convicted of murder, though innocent, is the featured at Ptraction at dhe King's Theatre,
Mina Darwell made her oveen debut in the second motion picture ever produced by Paramount. It WAS Brewster's Millions" and was produced in the historic barn that was the original Paramount studio. Had she arrived in Holly wood a week Booner Miss Derwell would have been in Paramount's first Alm..
Miss Darwell returned to the stage after two years and returned to pictures to make her talking screen debut in "Tom Sawyer. She is one of the older school of melodramatic and repertoire 'stage artists, and has played hundreds of roles in all parts of America.
FILM OF THE PRINCE.
HIS DAYS AS A FARMER.
A film introducing the personal interests and activities of the A. Stanley Williamsony and was Prince of Wales has been made by privately shown yesterday at the Phonix Theatra.
..
"Jane Darwell, the Widow Doug-
Naturally, there are no special ins of Paramount's" Tom Sawyer photographs of the Prince, but the
includes many "topicals and Huckleberry Finn" was ro- film signed, by that company, to portray which have not been often shown,, When the truth has to be faced one of the quietanding roles in the and gives a good idea of how hard
the other.
by both Vera seizes on a weapon House featuring Sylvia Sidney
romance. "Ladies of the Big his Royal Highness has to work.
which she knows will conquor her and Gene Raymond. sister. She whispers of a week-end The picture, which is a love story
and consequences. Mary docides to of two young persons who get mix- ed up with gangsters, and are
leave the field to her and to enter
Miss Gracie Fields is "going into training for her nexs talkie, convent. A further complication
in which she will be a palicewoman, is caused by the accidental murder She is to take the part of a Liver. by Vera, of another, earlier; lover. pool girl, who walks to London, in When the police come on the sceno search of fortune and adventure, Mary gives herself up and Vern and joins the women's police force, accepts the sacrifice. Marg's trial Her husband, Mr. Archie Pitt, has which follows gives an opportunity written the scenario, and will pro for some of the beat acting in the duce the film. Miss Fields asid: play and if the ending errs on the "What you have got to imagine side of sentimentulity it is at all is a country gird, dressed in a ni-events a conventionally happy" form several sizes too large for her, one,
arresting everybody in sight, and Bo "The Rosary" is a firm to nes pathatially sincers that she makes because it is such a pleasure to be people laugh and. sympathise with able to follow every word of a play her alternately,
with one besides the fact that it is admirably acted
To got the correct atmosphere
I mean to All up my odd moments watching a London policewoman on duty, and registering her reactions to the many things that go around her.
on a
I am worried about my height. Have you seen a policewoman sit, Jin. fall?"
The whole cast is good but, per haps, the honours go to Elizabeth
TO-NIGHT!
There are also pictures of the Prince's farms in Cornwall, where he is known as the Duke.
The aim will be publicly shown. in the West End in a few days.
4:"
TO-NIGHT!
GUILTY HANDS."
DIRECTOR, USES OWN COLLECTION OF GUNS.
BRITISH NAVY IN FILMS.
PUBLIC APPROVAL.
Should the Navy, Army, and Air! Force tako pant in the making of; Breth filmy ¥
Mr. Justies Charles thinks, not. In a cave heard list menth hosief apperred to him to be qurtaj Inmeritable that our ships and our anmen should be ixed re produce ins. Thore was to him soined hing yery sordid in it.
Judging by viawa" expressed the following day, the British public does not agree with Mr. Justice Charlos.
的
Cinema"patrons say they would like to see a great Jon! more the British fores. They are tirea of American Alms which, with the onthusiastic co-operation of the United States Government authori ties, exhibit American sailors, sa- men, and airmen ag chu world' brat,
The British Admiralty, in answes to inquiries "preferred do muke ne axmanent on Mr. Justico Charles.
statomont and to leave the public. to judge.. But it does not propost to change its official policy in the| matter of film making.
Thus attitude is to give all the assistance is reasonably can to Bri tish film producers.
The Daily Mail Film Correspon dent writes:
An American film called "Diri gible" is the most important re lease of this week. It is made with the onthusiastio co-operation of th American Government and the fight. ing forces conearned, the idea boing to prove to the worlik that she Unit ed Staten" Services are paramount.
Many men of our Air Service. who have seen American: Alms like "Hell's Angels have said to me: "There is nothing which has been done by American Alm producers:
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QUEEN'S
THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2 30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 0:20
"The
ROSARY
MARGOT GRANAME .. ELIZABETH ALLAN
JOHN MINALLY GUY NIWALL
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ig featuring their own forces which ANOTHER LIONEL could not bo bettor done here if
British producers had the same co- BABRYMORE TRIUMPHI [operation from the Government des partments.?!
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CANARIES SOME-
TIMES SING."
HOW THEY TRIED TOM ·
WALLS PATIENCE.
"Extraneous disturbances"
дре
the bane of the Talkie" direc- tor. A cough, perhaps the drop- ping of an aspirate,
fe or any sound at the moment the
W. S. Van Dyke's collection of microphone is alive is dreaded..
Tom Walls, who directed
guns and primitive weapons cume
"Can
in handy during filming of Guilty aries Sometimes Sing," which will be shown at "the King's Theatre Hunds,"
Bayard Veiller's new next Sunday, says the fear that mystery drama which will open on something untoward will happen Bunday at the Queen's Theatre with during the taking of a scene is Lionel Barrymore in the featured róle.
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very wearing.
The possibility of disturbance is always in one's. mind-and there The adventurous director, whe 2 other little troubles. He told of the canary which was an im- acquired the collection of weapons purtant super in "Canaries Some- during his trips to the South Seas! times Sing." "Percy" was re- and Africa, used the gun, khivos,quired to be disconsolate and, there- fare, quiet in his age. But the a "background property people selected a cock bird spears and rifles as for the hunting-trophy room scenes which persisted in singing and in which much of the dramatic sc-spuited three or four acches. Then tion of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer they introduced a hen bird which, film takes place. Many of the arms after the manner of her sex, twit were gathered during the making tered when she should not have of Trader Horn."
done.
Shows Versatility.
"Guilty
Van Hands" gavo Dyke an opportunity to show, his versatility in the directorial feld for while the picture is replete with the same feeling of thrills, saepensc and unexpected action which made his other pictures so popular, it is his first venture into the straight mystery drama and ong of the fow occasions on which he has confined his activities to the M-G-M studios rather than taking his company on an extensive location jaunt.
Barrymore plays an astarte stud ent of murder in the picture. The caut also includes Kay Francis, Madgo Evans, William Bakewell, C. Aubrey Smith, Polly Moran and Alan Mowbray.
CHILD TAKEN BY
CROCODILE,
FOUR-YEAR OLD GIRL .PLAYING IN RIVER..
Townsville, (Queensland), Ján. 4. A four-year-old
child, Betty Doherty, was taken by a crocodile in the Seymour River at Halifax this morning
The four Doherty children were. playing a shont distanes from their home on the bank of the river, when a crocodile appeared. A 10- year-old lad immediately took alarm and carried one child up the bank. out of danger, and, returning, had just picked up four-year-old Booty
"TOL'ABLE DAVID," when the saurian seized the childr
STORY OF VIRGINIA
TAIN FOLK.
Deg and dore her from the boy's grasp, threw her backwards into the MOUN.river, then turned around and fol-
lowed to where the child had dis appeared beneath the water.
An intensive search of the river The United States boasts of an walers and the bank so far have
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS unique and unusual genre of peo, failed to reveal any trace of the
AT 9.15 P.M.
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Third Change of Programme
30 European Artists 30
50 Performing Animals 50
い
LAST TWO MATINEES Saturday and Sunday at 4.15 p.m.
Chlidren: Haif Pries to Matinees only Booking at Moutrie's Co. Sundays at the Cirens Allan as Ver Walter Piers SOLDIERS & BAILORS IN UNIFORM Half Price to Stalls & Second Chairs only
***Captain Mannering," the girls father, and Charles Groves
Menagerie open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. na Hornett," The two counsela
B. BELLA, J. CLOTHIER, W.HARMSTON, are also oroollantly played by John
Proprietor.
Reproemiative Agent MoNally and Victor Fairiey.
Crocodiles are very numerous in
ple in ita Virginia and Tennessee missing child. -.-.- mountaineers. Those people aro entirely different from any other the reaches of this river, and, ai
though during food times aro Boct or group in the states.
A particularly clear-cut charac severe monace to stock and cattle,
tor study of these hardy illiterates, they have never previously been with their peculiar moral codes, known to be so venturesome. their aimple living standards and
amazing bravery, is found in
Columbia Pictures production of They are a law unto themselves. "Tol'able David," which opens at
He cheated the law, but Fate
Zook an amazing revenge I
GUILTY HANDS
Directed by
W. S. VAN DYKE
Meng Goktuum Muve
LIONEL
with
BARRYMORE
KAY FRANCIS
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20
MARY
PICKFORD
"Coquette"
A newcomer, a young antist nam-2:44 the Central Theatre on to-morrow. od Richard Cromwell, depicts the Director John Blystone depicts role of Tol'ablo David. He in vivid fashion what happens in possesses the naivete that makes the mountain country when the him ideal in the role of the simple, member of any family is wronged, nature loving lad depicted in the revealing the workings of the ensu-story. Others in the cast are Joan ing feud and the manner in which Peers, Noah Beery, Henry B. Wal the family's mon measure out ju thall and George Duryea. John tics without the aid of law courts G. Blystone handled the direction (Continued as foos of next salumin.) of this production with artistry.
sweene you from capti vating romance to grip- ping drama.
United Artists Picture
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