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NCENTRAL THEATRE.
\Paramount's sound Picture: Ř
SHOWING TO-DAY 2.80; 5.16; 7.15 & 9.30
A SPARKLING COMEDY OF SMART
SOCIETY AND MODERN MORALS
CONSTANCE BENNETT
"Sin Takes a Holiday
with Kenneth MacKenna
Bosi? Kathbone
. Rila LoRoy Loula Barsela
Duveled
PAUL STEIN
• marne 'lastuzu
Produse by...DLAR
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, APRIL
LAST TWO
DAYS
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
KING'S
A SUNNY BRITISH PICTURE THAT LIVES UP TO ITS TITLE
"SUNSHINE
SUSIE
HAS
RECENTLY
BROKIN
ALL
RECORDS
AT THE
HEAR
THE
POPU-
ᏞᎪᏒ
"
SONG
HITS.
1932.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.10 AND 0.20
SCORPIO
the KILLER
he defied society and ruled a great city
by terror!
Central.
Sin takes a Holiday."
Queen's..
NEXT CHANGE
The Secret Six.".
With Wallace Beary,
King's.
Sunshine Susie."
World.
"The Heroine."
(Chinese picture).
Konopolitze
KOWLOON.
Star.
Way For a Sailor."
COMING.
Ride with
RICHARD
ARLEN
Central.
The Common Law."
Queen's.
"Production:
LOVE AND LOVING AS AN EMOTION, AN ART, A SCIENCE ÄND A RACKET!
THE PRODUCTION IS LAVISHLY MOUNTED GORGE. OUSLY FURNISHED WITH GAY PARIS & NEW YORK AS BACKGROUNDS,
THE WARDROBE IS THE LAST WORD IN ULTRA- MODISHNESS.
"THE" DIALOGUE FAIRLY REEKS WITH WIT AND
CHARM
BY SPECIAL REQUEST
CONSTANCE BENNETT
IN
"THE COMMON LAW"
will be re-screened on FRIDAY ONLY
"SIN TAKES "A HOLIDAY."
FINE FILM AT CENTRAL.
EN
NEW FILM SAGA OF OFFICE GIRL.
WE LIVE IN OFFICES."
CAPITOL
THEATRE,
LONDON.
RENATE MULLER
* with
JACK HULBERT
OWEN NARES
AND.
MORRIS HARVEY
"THE SECRET SIX AT THE QUEEN'S.
INSTRUCTS AND ENTER. TAINS, SAYS WALLACE
BEERY.
More and more the motion pic ture, though still a potent means of entertainment, is coming to a place where it can ny vital suce before the public -So declares Wallace Beery, who plays the sinister Scorpio ip
"The Secret Six,"
Metro Qokday - Mayer's drums of American life, which is showing to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
fanow and should know. And this can be done, with do sacrifice of entertainment value.
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SUNSHINE SUSIE.
JACK HULBERT'S TRIUMPH.
7.
Admires of Jack Hulbert will thoroughly applaud this clover
Sunshine Susie,", which is now actor's latest characterisation in
showing at the King's Theatre, Gainborough musical comedy ro
mance.
tronadoes of laughter.
В
of
Susip herself, in the person
remembered not only for
be the
Renate Muller, is likely to
ふ
The Santa Fe Trail'
Down the roaring rout of romance.. Thrill to tho, now
Spanish heart-thief Rosita Moreno.
a Garamount Pictige
"Behind Office Doors."
King's
The Santa fe Trail "The Man I Killed."
Palnty. Days,"
"Delicious."
World,
Star.
Ka Tza Kin Sing"
Chinese picture..
"Untamed."
Three Musketeers."
فورم
Gold Diggers of Broadway."
BRITISH FILMS' GREATEST
NEED
PRINCE OF WALES GIVES LEAD
TO BUSINESS MEN.
THE
SECRET
A Great Actress. Looking at the last reels of
"From Nine Till Six," which were regned for the benefit of the Prince, I could not help marvell- ing that no British producer has. seen the possibilities of Misa Loufan
Once again the Prince of Wales: thing is spotless, everything is int glorified commissionaire in a Vien-ness men,
Hulbert has the role of a sort of has set an example to British busi its place, every device that can save time and labour has been installed. writes Mr. Campbell1f the right films are not turned nese bank. He has nerve," enter Dixon in the London Daily Tele- out the fault will be human, and possesses musical leanings sad is his age, he is a regular Alm-goor, Mr. Basil Dean should know prise, authority. He likewiseraph. Always representative of not (as in the early days of Bri the conductor of a society which studies was another proof that he land V. Lee he has a first-class-
tish films) largely mechanical. and bis recent visit to the A.R.P.
dramatic values, and in Mr. Row- discaursen musia in the local beer-recognises just what the film in director. Mr. Dean has also im "The motion picture can find drana," says Boery, in the vital
garden. Hia antica in the bear- dustry means or should mean-to
Great Britain:
ported number of garden, his quaint mannerisms with
American issues of to-day, and thus bring his top hatted, frock-coated choir. travelled men of his age in the
The Prince is one of the most- technicians. home valuable truths to the publicia dancing and his inimitable world: he has seen abroad what the --things the public has a right to antics infuse Into "Sunshine Susie" States. It is a platitude to say screen is doing for the United that not only foreign countries, but the British Dominions and Colonies, are anturated with Amori Shows Underlying Causes.
can ideale, manners,, speech.
Naturally foreigners are coraing Hampton Cliven the right mate Happy" Bong which runs ita more and more "In The Big House we showed.
40 accept the ria! she would be magnificent-as American point of view. melodious course through
I have subtly amusing as Miss Ellis Jef. prison conditions and the result of
talked to Chinese, Koreans, and frays, more versatile (for she is o. herding youthful prisoners with old
romantic story, but for a person-Japanese who refused to believe most moving tragedienne) than offenders. I am very proud that Iality that combines charm with that British ships or troops or Miss Edna May Oliver. It is
goods, could compare with Ameri-crime that she is not already one simplicity. Her diction is perfect can. The regular showing of the of the greatest stars of the British
American product. has had all the erreen. Victor Saville adapted the story
insidious effect of that process I was also impressed by the poiss and directed the picture, and the known as "plugging" which keeps and distinction of Miss Jeanne de legion of admirers of Owen Nares the emptiest of tunes beating on Casalis, despite the fact that she will delight in their favourite's role your brain long after the show is had little to do et say, and the for a humle clerk, finds his way to of a bank director who, mistaken over.
typically English beauty of Miss Powerful Support.
Betty Stockfeld, whom the Prince the heart of his little. Germasın
saw acting opposite Owen Nares. For all the interest most. British typist
Some of the other players, nota- captains of industry take in fimbly Mr. Richard Bird, did not im they might still be spluttering press me Mr. Bird is, I am told, across the screen in a nickelodeon a charming young man in real life... Americans know better. On the screen, a odd is the Some of their greatest Ananciers camera, he has no charm'at all." "Sunshine Basie is one of those are behind the film producers. pictures that will long be remera Film-making commande a measure bored, as it is the best musial proof reapest as one of the great in duction that the beren has yet dustries; most of the leading achieved.
Hollywood companies are directly controlled by Wall Street,
The work," as" Dr. Einstein A picture with a laugh clown pats it, is now industrialized, had a hand in it, since I have seen and her singing delightful laugh twist, with a surprising We live in offices, not homes," matrimonia denouement and 'uni- And at last the strange now fo versal sex appeal," is the Trade of America, of the whole civilized decription of Constance Bennett's world of big cities, is realistically
set forth in a film, new Pathe star production, Sin Takes a Holiday," which is show- ing at the Central Theatre to-day,
The Trade announcement continues: It is a fascinating, dazzling comódy that will delight every lover of the
screen. It is a story in which drama and humour are splendidly blended. It was admirably direct. ed by Paul Stein.
How we work in office, live in ofiens, drink in offices, if not eat in them, and carry on our romances in them is shown in Radio Pictures' drama of society-up-to-date, "Ba
hind Office Doprs," which 'comes on Thursday to the Queen's Theatre.
In the same way that outsido life invades the modern business office, The heroine is a simple, plain and the office invades the home, with rather dowdy secretary of a lawyer its stenographers visiting empley -the prototype of many women iner's apartments-with or without books-businera'
thetir
shorthand
homes with husbanda. And of course the average golf game is a business sessions
the widespread editorial compiti on it. The same is true of The Secret Six. The picture shows the underlying causes of the position brought about in large American cities through corrupt polities, gang rule, underworld interference with the machinery of the law, and the rise of underworld cars
one
Beery believes that many other valuable things will be eventually placed before the public in Elmet
Safe and sane flying, for thing," said Beery, who is a licens ed pilot and a leader in the move for safe flying and elimination of "stunting."
The now picture is a semational and underworld le, directed by exposé of American city politics,
George Hill. Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow and
Edwin H. Knopf, directora" of The Border Legion, co-direct and dialogue script by Edward E. from an adaptation by Sam Mintz. Paramount, Jr.
the modern business world, who, associates share the intimacy of Marjorie Rambeau. are featured. given the opportunity, develop into women of allure, and ascination, This girl suddenly Ands two of the most sought-after men in American Society seeking her favours." One in his life. For when he meets her of these, men is her husband, who again upon her return from Europe, had married her merely as a pro- the beautiful swan, he learns that changed from the ugly duckling into tection and convenienes. He had, she intends to divorce him to marry on the day of his marriage, sent a friend who, unlike him, had the her abroad alone, so that he would sense to look beyond the surface.
The Working Girl,
be free to continan his philander- ing-but with her as his legal wife, never so free but what he could use her when his flintations might take a serious turn.
The Wife Turns,"
Sin Takes a Holiday is a pic- ture that will win the sympathy of
Morris Harvery has likewise sa ager with amorous leaning and an amusing part, that of a staff mem- unhappy susceptibility to colds 1
"THE SANTA FE
"TRAIL."
The
Hand for Young Players. Why is the British screen B0 urgently in need of attractive young leading ment There must bo scores of them. "about; Holly- The more cultured (and more wood cannot have bought them all. conservative) British financier is The discovery of another Ronald still inclined to regard the ofnema Colinan, another Olive Brook, as a place where nursemaida and would give British alms the fillip butchers boys furtively hold hands, they badly need.
6
with Wallace
BEERY
Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau
GEORGE HILL
production
NEXT ATTRACTION
You can't
sfford to
miss
Behind OFFICE DOORS
MARY
·ASTOR
ROBERT AMES
STAR
Too old to acquire the film habit Our other great need is actresses themselves, they have no
concep- young enough to pass for in- FINE CAST IN OLD WESTtion of what the films already gonues, experienced enough to act, mean to the younger people of all with essentially photogenic faces. classes. "It would stagger them to We god half a dozen girls like TO-DAY & TO-MORROW know that the premiere of some Sylvia Sydney, Loretta Young, Blme attracts us smart an audience Barbara Stanwyck, Marian Marah, Ar 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20
DRAMA.
*
marks Athely's third in Southern White Cargo," makes his feature people have completely lost the is partly due to our snobbish atti GILBERT
The present trip to Hollywood created the rule of Witzel" in hundreds of thousands of young
Hooper Atahley, stage actor who as a theatre first night, and that and Miriam Hopkins California. He appeared to Los motion picture debut as the menace theatre-going habit.
Here again I think, the troublé | JOHN Angeles in 1910 as the lead in The in the Paramount dialogue Simiza-The day that British leading and Harrow match or fashionable tude to the screen. At any Ston Bird of Paradise" and two years tion of Hal G. Evarta novel, business men preceive that the film Grat might you may see a score of agone, Steve Crandall, the killer, Spanish Abres As The Santa industry offers not merely proft, in the New York company of Fe Trail,"
Broadway."
this adventuresome but a mission, we shall see the re The Actor
romanes of the old West, arrives naissance of British sentiment on hing been On
the next Thursday at the King's the world's screens. for
than fifteen Theatre. more
the working girl, for it is her story stage
1,
potential Alm stare. But it so happens that most English girls of The educated classes have no desire to become film actresses; and oven as she wishes it might be. It will years playing leads and being
they had, their parents would enchant the housewife, or it will starred in numerous stock com from an important role with Atchley, who came to Hollywood
Well-equipped Studios. offer horriand opposition bring to her beauty, brightness and panies throughout America. He
Some day, I hope, they will romancs-and to all men it will was formerly a member of the Wm. Richard Bennett in Jarrogan should be able to turn out pictures durable a career as (say) interior- "With studios like these we realise that film-acting is as hon- The highlight of the story comes appeal because it dialogus, so Fox stock company at the Academy joins a cast which includes Richard that will sell in Amerion, the decorating or playing bridge, and when he finds that the wife he took thoroughly expounds a man's point of Music in New York and, besides Arlen in the Starring role, Bosit Prince anid, at the end of his visit vastly more exciting Until then on for protection and convenience of view. And to everyone in Esty White Cargo and The Bird PATT
the femining load to Ealing essen not only to be a convenience
---thore-will-always be a scarcity of but instead the one real heart-break its sparkle; humour and brilliant the New York stage in Across the Junior Durkin. Otto Brower and dios are amongst the best-designed ners, distinguished appearance and
station in life it will have charm for of Paradiso," he has appeared on Lugone Pallette, Mitzi Groen” and
He was right. The ARP stu- young film actresses with easy man Continued si foot of next column.) battle of wits.
Street" for Oliver Moroso0.
(Continued on previous Column.) and equipped in Europe. Every a complete set of vowels,
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WALLACE
BEERY
WAY for SAILOR
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