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THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY, TO-MORROW & SATURDAY at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9,80
A SPARKLING COMEDY OF SMART SOCIETY AND MODERN MORALS
CONSTANCE BENNETT
"Sin Takes a Holiday
wh Konnath MacKenna Basil Rathbone Rite-Lakey clauis, doriula
hed by
PAUL STEIN
AN EAS
froded by DLM
LOVE AND LOVING AS AN EMOTION, AN ART, À SCIENCE AND 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.
-FRIDAY ONLY:
BY SPECIAL REQUEST
RE-SCREENING OF
CONSTANCE BENNETT
IN
"THE COMMON LAW"
"SIN TAKES A HOLIDAY."
THIRTY-TWO MAGNIFICENT SETS ON VIEW.
Now York-Paris-New York. Three distinct phases of architec tural design and interior decorat ing modern, period and characted
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932.
TO DAY ONLY
AT 2.30, 5,10,
7.15 & 9.30 PM.
KING'S
A SUNNY BRITISH PICTURE THAT LIVES UP TO ITS TITLE
"SUNSHINE SUSIE"
HAS
RECENTLY
BROKEN
ALL
RECORDS
AT THE
CAPITOL
THEATRE,
LONDON.
RENATE MULLER
with
JACK HULBERT
* OWEN NARES
AND
MORRIS HARVEY
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 26313
TO-MORROW
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Queen's.
HONG HONG.
"The Secret Six,"
King's.
With Wallace Beary.
"Sunshine Susiq,"
Central.
"Si takes. & Holiday." World.
Star.
Herodia
"The Heroine.".
(Chineso picture).
KOWLOON.
Way For a Sailor."
Kelly the Kid."
Lady's Moral
Sleeping Cardinal.'
HEAR
THE
POPU
LAR
Ride with
SONG
RICHARD
Queen's,
HITS.
Eddie Cantor..star of "Palmy Days"
"THE SECRET SIX."
FIFTY DIFFERENT SETS
USED.
"PALMY DAYS.""
NEW FORM OF MUSICAL COMEDY,
ARLEN
The Santa Fe Trail'
Down the roaring rond" of romance. Thrill to the new
Spanish heart-thief Rosita Moreno.
a Garumaini Petroë
COMING.
"Behind Offer Doors
Get Rich Quick Wellingford."- "Benu Ideal
King's,
The Santa fe Trail,"
"The Man
"Palny Days,"
Killed,"
"Delicious."
Central.
"The Common Law."
World.
Star.
Ku Tze Kin Sing." Chinese picture. Dixiuna."
"Gold Diggers of Broadway."
GOSSIP & FACT.
Sunshine Busia" in London.
Sunshine Susies in its ahir teenth West End week at the Marble Arch Pavilion, says the London Evening Standard of March 7. This film is now showing here at the King's Theatro.
Charlie Chan's Ohance."'
In Charlie Chan's Chance ** Mr. Warner Oland is seen again as the famous Chinese defective with an eye for a criminal and an sar for an epigram. This is quite a clever story with a very capable
cast.
Here we have hir. Wäher Öland, supported by Mr. H. B. Warner, Mr. James Kirkwood and Mr. A exander Kirkland,
The Woman Front Monte Carlo Misa LIL Dagover is one of the most dazzling artists of the screen. To British filmgoers she is known
directors
ATA
Nancy Neale.
Another English chorus girl is on the road to fame. She is Nancy Nenle, a pretty naiural platinum" blonde of 22, who at very short notice has at the Alhambra, played
lending role at matiabe perform ances of "Waltze, from Vienna." Lilian Davies.
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT, 290, 5:10, 7:15 AND 0.20
SCORPIO the
KILLER! he defied society and
ruled a great city by terror!
Production
2
THE
SECRET
The late Miss Ellian Davies, Who. was 37, was born at Lynmouth, Devon, and educated at Cardif at Drury Lane in 1918 in the She made her debut on the stage chorus of Shanghai. Eleven years later she achieved fame in her for the title part in Polly," night. Sir Nigel Playfair chose the sequel to the "Beggar's Opera" It was produced in December 1022, and both the production and the leading lady made an immediate Afterwarde she appeared in the title role in Katja the Dancer" in "The Beloved Vaga bond," "Song of the Sea. the Queen in The Three Musite.
and as teers. During the last three years she appeared as principal hoy in
виссень,
Draylar** in America."
Aut
more
a star of the frst rank all pantomime. She was playing in but advertisement. She made has Jack and the Beanstalk first appearance in The Cabinet Manchester when she "was taken ill. of Dr. Caligari," one of the most Mr, Julian Wylie, who had a great famous of all silent films. Since deal to do with fashioning her care. then she has appeared with Mr.er, said: "I first engaged her for: Ivan Mosjoukino in "The Secret the Drury Lane pantomime because. Courier," with Mr. Emil Jannings she had more dignity and charm inTartuffe, and as the star of than anyone else on the musical are represented in the settings.
Hungarian Rhapsody," one of the stage. She was the ideal combina. New York is the locale of the open-
loveliest films ever produced. tion of singer and actress. ing scenes. The action then shifts:
Fifty separato and distine eets. Eddie Cantor in "Pulmy Days," Dagover was to go to Hollywood 1
"When I heard that
Miss ranging from a replica of a city to Paris and other fashion centers greet, that was changed three times which Samuel Goldwyn is coming ahuddered wriles a London eri- The tremendous evation afforded The wide sweep of the action in
in its entirety to a penthouse on day heralds the advent of a new and
to the King's Theatre on next Sun-tic 80 "many European "Sin Takes a Holiday" called for of Europe, with the closing scenes
the roof of a great office building, kind of song-and-dauce picture. gente have been broken in its and a further glowing tribute has Dreyfus" by American audiónces. laid in New York.
of original is extremely gratifying to B.I.F thirty-two settings in widely vary
were used in the filming of The Samuel Goldwyn is taking the frat movie machine. Among the modernistic settings Secret Six ing locales on both sides of the are the bachelor apartment of a Mayer's vivid drama of political in bringing about a new order.
Metro Goldwyn-
just been received. The Motion Pic Allantis, and Paihe took full ad-wealthy New Yorker, the grand life and the underworld, showing Painy Days," like its predeces- however, goes to show that Miss case will probably establish an en "The Woman from Monte Caglo." ture Herald save The Dreyfus vantage of the opportunities afford: salon and first class stateroom of to-day at the Queen's Theatre. The dance routines, staged by the same even in a poor story which has provits run is completed. Already it is. sors, has elaborate and intricate Dagover romains supreme artist, ormous Amorican gross record when a new trans-Atlantic liner, New picture sets a record for the num master that presided over "Whosed too great a handicap for even estimated to have grossed ed to make this Constance Bennett York and Paris night clubs and ber of settings in any single film pee," Buaby. Berkeley. But they such an experienced player as Mr. than two hundred thousand dollars. Vehicle the last werd in modern mo- seven Parisian shops. Considerable production. tion picture production.
furniture was specially designed
are different kinds of numbers. The settings for this story written and constructed by studio experis of a crooked city political boss who exist in "Falmy Days" But at the a commander in the French Narystory founded on historie fasta,
The story traces the rise and full
in this country and has the advan by Robert Milton and Dorothy for these modern sets!
Chorus girls, for instance, don't The story presenta Mr. Huston as ages of English dialogue and the rales the underworld to use it as same times, there are dozens and The commander is supposed to have which are expected to ensure its a tool to gain political power. The dozens of Hollywood's most decoratuarried & vife of doubtful charac- longevity in American markets as story is by Frances Marion author tive girls. They are waitresses in ter. He and his officers play out it falls into neither a cycle classi Bennett is seen as a, secretary who The period structures include
of The Big House" and Min lives in drab surroundings. Thon Franch villa of the Louis XVI ora and Bill" and was directed by Eddie Cantor presides as efficiency.
the super-baka-shop over which tho usual triangle dramh.
"fication nor one of time limit." aho inds herself possessed of and a de luxe suite of the famous George Hill. Wallace Beory plays. money, leisure and a lot of marital hotel Crillon. For them costly the principal role as Scorpio, the expert. Or they are customers in problems.
į draperies were imported from stockyards worker who becomes polite imposing lunch room.
France and they were completely includes Lowis Stone, John Mack manner are being prepared by the
ical car of a city. The largo cast Other productions in the furnished with authentic period Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Hollywood studios, in which song Twenty-five thousand yards of pieces.
Rambeau, Paul Hurst, Clark Gable, and dance is used only as an eason- specially prepared sound absorbing, The home of a New England Ralph Bellamy, John Miljan, tial part of the story, not as some fabric, one of the largest shipments justice of the pance and the spart DeWitt Jennings and others. thing dragged in while the story of this type to reach a motion pic-nent of three New York working: ture plaat, were used in the con- girls are among the characted bot Among the sensational scenes, in waits. struction of the settings. With this ting. In addition, a section of the valving in many cases, elaborate And so the picture fans, by ...re- new type of material employed ice rink at St. Moritz, famous Al-inventions, for recording and film fusing to acept the stage form of Private Secretary this gay and throughout, there was not a harsh pine resort and the stands and parting, are the blowing apart of a play musical concily, have created for sparkling musical piety film musical hits. It has enchanted reverberation or echo in any of the of the track of a French automobiler-piano with machine guns in themselves a new tind of screen enjoyed tremendous Continental Germany as it is certain to enchant
Cairns are representative of widely i
リ
varied walks of life of two contin
Draperies from France.
ente. In the early sequences, Miss!
Improved Film Material,
thirty-two settings. All hard walls racing speedway were constructed night battle of vigilantes and the
spotting" a man; the sensational tertainment,
A
new
Walter Huston.
5
with Wallace
BEERY
Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau
GEORGE HILL
production
TO-MORROW
You can't
afford to miss
Bebiml OFFICE DOORS
MARY
ASTOR
ROBERT
AMES
STAR
[FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY “SUNSHINE SUSIE." (Paul_Abraham, of Vikotia and Ar 2.80, 6.20, 7,20 AND 0.20 The Hussar fame is responsible for the music). It has an engaging, JOHN clear-cut story full of comedy, and
BRITISH FILM WORTH SEEING.
Under its original title of The
melodies that everbody will soon GILBERT be humming or whistling. Above all it is different!!
The theme song if it can be 16 described To-day I Feel 80 Happy is one of Miss Muller
vogue, helped largely by the per music loving. Britain. Another and surfaces were eliminated or so "Bin Takes a Holiday," which is hordes of the underworld, and a
sonality of Renato Muller, one oti" Just Because I Lost My Heart to protected that they absorbed, rather showing at the Central Theatre to breath esa race in speed boats. An
the brightest and most accomplish You" is just as certain to be popu than reflected, sound,
ad of the stars of the German lar. With such favourites in the day, is one of twenty specials which entire replica of a city street was five years later, and then once more Sunshine Susio" which is who is soon in riotously-funny The fabric material all was dyad Pathe will produce this season constructed
as it might have looked four or stage.
cast as Owen Nares, Jack Hulbert, in colour combinations chosen to Kanneth MacKenna, Basil Rath Goldwyn-Mayer studios first as it razed and rebuilt as a 1931.
mear the Metro-
dow showing bring out the best photographic bone, Rita La Roy and Louis Bar would have appeared just after One of the most elaborate settings beatz bezal theolo shine Busina Gainsborough
at the King's role, and Morris Harvey, Sun: values and provide harmonizing tels are featured in the leading the war; then razed and rebuilt was the replica of a great court, dious backgrounds for the action played roles..
airiness of musical ture directed by Victor Saville, har Paul L. Stein was the Continued at foot of next column) Mom; for the sensational murder comerly romances is the Viennese fall, the ingredients, that go to the
trial of Wallace Beary
manner. It is gay. It is tuneful making of a really popular success
an the various" nettings.
director.
WALLACE BEERY
WAY for SAILOR