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HONG KONG DAILY PRE
MONDAY APRIL 18, 1932
CENTRAL THEATRE
25720
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 230; 516; 7.15 & 980
A WONDERFUL DRAMA OF A BEAUTIFUL PATRIOT WHO USED HER CHARMS AS ARMS AGAINST THE ENEMY.
EKO PATRE
HELEN
"YOUR CHARMS
"ARE ARMS
AGAINST THE
ENEMY!”
"Silks and satins will be your uni form. Use your wits and wiles...your beauty and your fas- cination..."
A story of woman and war. The drama of a beautiful patriol
who was ordered. fo sin in order
to "serve!
TWELVETREES
WOMAN OF EXPERIENCE ROGERS PRODUCTION
SHOWING SOON
-SUE CAROL & REGIS TOOMEY
IN
GRAFI
THE FASTEST-MOVING PICTURE EVER SCREENED
AND
SLIM SUMMERVILLE
IN..
"FIRST TO FIGHT"
THE LATEST FEATURE-LENGTH COMEDY
ALSO
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DOROTHY MACKAILL & WARNER BAXTER
IN
止
"THEIR MAD MOMENT”
"A WOMAN OF EXPERIENCE."
HOW A SUBMARINE SCENE WAS STAGED
marine, infinite care and tremendous expense marked the efforts of Direc-
SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 2.30, 5,10,
7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
*She is
KING'S
the sweetheart
AN
ILLED
and God® "forgive me! Now I love
her myselft
ERNST LUBITSCH
PAO,QUCTION
a Paramount Picture
WAI
• Lioneli
BARRYMORE
Nency: CARROLL Phillips HOLMES
One of the performing pigs which will be featured in a special act commencing next Thursday at the King's Theatre.
"A HOLY TERROR.”
WITH SALLY FILERS A
RISING STAR...“
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Sally "Eilers, is co-featured with Guorge O'Brien in the Fox out doors, romance, "A Holy Ferro, coming next Thursday to the King's Theatro.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313
NEXT CHANGE THURSDAY, 21st APRIL A DOUBLE ATTRACTION PICTURES & VAUDEVILLE
A HOLY TERROR
GEORGE O'BRIEN SALLY EILERS
KITA LA: ROY JAMES KIRKWOOD
sedadle 10 WarE DOMKIN?:
AND
THE WONDER
SHOW
DIRECT FROM AMERICA includon
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
Dentral
HỒNG KONG.
A Woman of Experience:"
King's.
The Mar, E. Killed!"
Queen!
Flying High.'
World.
General Gracht.”%
Star.
KOWLOON?
Lottery Bride.
Central."
King's
COMING.
To-night or Never.
A Holy Terror
"Delicious."
The Miracle Man"
One Hour With You."
Queen's.
"Evcupe. リ
World.
City Lights."
4 BIG ACTS
Star:
Tilly of Bloomsbury."
"FLYING HIGH."
HILARIOUS' FARCĘ" AT THE QUEEN'S.
!
A FILM DIRECTING SECRET.
CLARENCE BROWN, ON
KEY SCENES.
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Seenes of incidents that of them; Ro it has to be played with unough selves seem unimportant, and which emphasis to be remembered. But are usually played in lighter vein, if played with too much empasis it degide the entire success of a would obviously plant an idea picture in wine casey out of ten of Withe is to come. rays Clamince Brown.. Metro-Gold In Flesh and the Devil, to take wyn-Mayer director. "It is the another instance, the key scene was handling of such "key, scenes," be, the one in which Lars Hansen pro- asserts, that sways
the entire action mised to look after Garbo when John Gilbert got into trouble over
a drama.
Brown, who is how directing the duch Joan Crawford and Roffers Mont-
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It was an incident that, at the
QUEENUS HIPAGRE
SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 2,30, 5,10, 7.15 AND 9:20
HOW THEY LAUGH WHE BERT LAHR
That dafy somio raperta his stage hit in this talkie panto of hilarity on the ground and way up in the air. Certainly, it's the one and only
George
FLYING HIGH
WHITE'S
gomery in Letty Lynton at the time it was played, seemed not of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studios, importance in itself-but it was the said: "At the start of a picture, lever that started the landslide. one finds the key scene. It is this "In Free Soul "the key scene t that sets in motion the train of came in a careless introduction of dramatic action literally the
Clark Gable and Norma Shearer by match that lights the train of powder that sets off the artillery, if
Lionel Barrymore. That scene was you get what I mean.
the first in which the play actually began to move. Earlier "sceneя
The current feature ut the Queen's Theatre, Flying High," "That scene has to be planned
hilarious over shown on the local Usually it is a scene in lighter started the story moving. is pure farve and one of the most and prepared with utmost care.tablished characters; that scene screen:Flying High has as.one
The fenst mistake in a scene of
of the leading players the elongated vein, and one must get just enough who needs no introduction to local of the audience and still not maka ture. Played wrongly, such a scene comedienne, Charlotte Greenwood, force into it to plant it in the minds this type can "effect the whole pie cinema fans-she appeared as re- cently as. last work with Eddie it too heavy,'”
can tell the audience what's coming Cantor in mole star role in "Flying High"
Palndy Days"
afterward. care, it might result in the audience Played with too little
becoming confused.
The
An example, the present
4).
Miss Eilers, at that time just out of Hollywood High School, had long chorished a desire for a screen career. With the hope of getting some extra work sho accompanied taken by Beot Lahr, a DOW picture Letty Lynton has its key her friend, Cable Lombard, who but for long conceded to be the most waiter, brings Miss Crawford and "One of the real wecrets of a comedian to Hong Kong audiences acene where Sidney Brady, as the was with Mack Sennett, to the imitate comedian on the American studio. It happened to the same stage. Other woll-known players Montgomery together for the first picture lies in the handling of its day that Sennett was looking for who take part in the gay melange time. It is a comedy scene. But first stop forward-just as the suc A new ingenue because a featured O'Brien, Kathryn Orawford, Char-This scene sets in motion the ma-its proper breaking in," or the of humour and song include. Pat up to that the story id exposition.cess of an auto-car depends upon player had walked cut on him fol-low Winninger, Hedda Hopper,
of the variations in equipment it lowing an argument over her wear-Guy Kibben und Herbert Braggiati. chinery of the dramatic action. success of an aviator lies in the The story concerns Rusty Kruuse From then on the conflict develops care given his first ground lessons.", was impossible for Brown to using a pair of pants as called for by (Lahr), elever mechanic but a the script in a particular scene." dumb bunny," who invents a new Sennett saw Miss Eilers, gays her, type of airship called the Aero- copter. An impecunious young
one of the available American subs.
AWoman of Experience is a screen test and then offered her promoter (O'Brien), befriends him. drama adapted from the play by a contract and the part the recalctThe new acrocopter company, how, John Farrow. Halen Twelvetron trant actress had been scheduled to the engine company conca to take ever, nourly goes on, the rocks when ia soon in the starring role of Elmdo,
away; the power plant of the air-
Larle.
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"
THE MAN F
KILLED.".
ACTING.
to, regard him as their son. The dead man's fiance falls in love with him, and ho confesses the truth fe
with
H
BB LA HR
CHARLOTTE
GREENWOOD PAT O'BRIEN ALSO SHOWING
BALI"
THE ISLAND PARADISE
Mercy Phledu nar: Mover PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE Amazing Drama of Hunted Men !
Against him-the hand of every man. With him-the heart of every womank
ESCAPE
Galsworthy's Immortal Drams with GERALD DU MAURIER Zidna Best-Mabel Poulton and a brilliant supporting cast Hunted...haunted-endlearly trailed by the man-pack Amazing drama of a man's fight for freedom!
BRITISH Production for
RADIO PICTURES
STAR
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY Ar 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9:20
DARING!
VIVID
GAY
her. She forces him to stay and to Although a very small part of the and is supported by an outstanding The part was in "The Goodbye ship. This is saved when O'Brien LIONEL BARRYMORE'S FINE assumed
sustain, with her help, the old, he cast including - William Bakowell, Kiss" and proved that Sonnott arranges for Rusty to marry Pansy Charles R Rogers production for
It is a sombre story, but very knew his potential stars: Other Potts (Miss Greenwood), an amor Lew Cody, Znau, Pitts, H. B. War-rolex followed, each advancing her aus waitress who craves to be the
finely told and acted, and it is a R.K.O.Pathe, A Woning of Exner, G. Henry Gordon, Franklin reputation with the film loving wife of an aviator.
film worth seeing, because it gets. A. Alm version of a story writton to grips with the war problem, or parience," showing at the Central Pangborn, Nance O'Neil; George Public Dry Martini," Show Of This nearly proves the undoing by Rostand, France's
Shows," Doughboys" "Sailor's of the pair, however, for on their living post, directed by Lubitsch, of resentment and gloom under greatest rather the problem of the aftermath Theatre to-day takes place in a sub, Fawcett, Bertha Mann and Edward Holiday Parlor, Bedroom And honeymoon, Pansy so detains Busty and with Lionel Barrymore in the which the belligerents suffer for
Bath" and "Let Us Be Gay." that he is late getting to the air leading role, cannot fail to be years after the fighting has ended. Vienna serves as background for studios to enact the role of Spencer to rest O'Brien for false stock showing at the King's Theatre is polished and forecful is over.
More recently she went to the Foxfield for the races which will demon production of significance and im There are moments of well judged "The
strate the new ship. Officers comportance. The Man I Killed," relief, and the acting of Barrymore this. story of a beautiful woman Tracy's moll" in "Quick Mil whose trail of many loves is halted licna Her performance won herryn Crawford, is in tours At the smitten with remorse for having but Phillips Holmes in at times out valce. O'Brien's sweetheart, Kathy teile of a young Frenchman, who is Naney Carroll plays her part well, Captain Cari Cook; a former lieu by her devotion to a young offer long term contract with that or last minute Busly arrives and killed a man in the War, and socks of his depth. His noting is, how- tenant commander of the German who has never-loved any woman belanization and the lead in.The dashes for the aerocoptor, "pursued out his victim's parents. His heart (over, interesting and the experienc navy, was retained to act as techni- fors. The plot unfolds an exciting opportunity for another personal when the machine taken the air and German doctor and his wife, and in his power. More use might have Black Camel, which furnished her by Panay. She hangs on to a wing fails when he sees the grief stricken of this role should sed an advance cal advisor and the result was an dramatic romance of this woman triumph
Holy Torror are Rita La Hoy, fun opportunities Busty aventual- lived for two years in Paris. Hittle she does shows her delightful JEANETTE MAODONALD. y fight between the two, high above ha softens matters by posing as a been made of Zasu Pitts, one of In the supporting-east of Athe clouds, is not the least of its friend of their dead son, who had Hollywood's real actresses. The Humphrey Bogart and James Kirkir descends, to be the hero of the The old people becothe extra akill. wood. Irving Cummings directed, hour."
ordinarily fond of him, and some
tor Harry. Jos Brown in the build ing of the undersen craft,
exact duplicate of the tremendously who has pledged herself, body and complicated main control room of soul, to the cause of her country only the Austrian U-boat No. 12 Because to find that neither belongs to her
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LOTTERY BRIDE
JOB E. BROWN