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SHOWINGS TO-DAY, at 230; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 THE GREATEST CHINESE TRIUMPH ON THE SCREEN Lay Shao Shao & Raymond King
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HUMANITY
A THROBBING, PULSATING DRAMA OF EXTREME EMOTIONS, PERFECTLY ENACTED BY A PERFECT CAST. NEVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF CHINA RAS THERE BEEN REVEALED THE DEAMA OF MILLIONS SUFFERING & DYING FROM HUNGER, THRILLING & HEART-RENDING SCENES AC- TUALLY TAKEN IN SHENST DURING THE GREAT FAMINE OF 1980 3PECIALLY PRODUCED BY THE UNITED PHOTOPLAY, SERVICE LTD. WITH ENGLISH TITLES. ITS A PICTURE NOT EITHER THE CHINESE OR. THE FOREIGNERS CAN AFFORD TO M198.
SHOWING SOON
EVELYN BRENT & ROBERT AMES
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IN
MADONNA OF THE STREETS',
ALSO
THE LATEST 1932 UNITED
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ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE
RONALD COLMAN.. ARROWSMITH”.
HELEN HAYES
UNITED ARTISTS.
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"SUICIDE FLEET"
HOWARD HUGHES
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COCK OF THE AIR -CHESTER MORRIS
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Raymond King and Lay Saso Shao in one of the scenes in "Humanity" an outstanding Chinese film, now showing at the Central and World Theatras.
'HUMANITY."
A REMARKABLE CHINESE FILM.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1932.
·TO-DAY!
ONLY
AT 2:30, 0.10,
7.16. &.9.30 P.X,
NGS THEATRE
GIRLS
about TOWN
Light-hearted, gay, they go about the business of snaring men's hearts for the fun of it. And business is good until one of them falls in love
for keeps!
'THE FLYING FOOL.
FILMING A SCENE IN A SEWER.
A Trade notier states: mm)
with
Kay Francis
. Joel McCrea Lilyan Tashman. Eugene Pallette
"GIRLS ABOUT TOWN"
AT THE QUEEN'S.
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Humanity "
Queen's
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No Lady."
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SOMETHING DOING. EVERY SECOND! Breath-quickening Action! Heart-quickening Romance!
The Gay Caballero
Gold diggers who would wish to im- prove their technique should pay, a 1 A thrilling incident occurs in visit to the King's Theatre this' week "The Flying Fool which is open and "Giría About Town." They ing tomorrow at the Queen's Then will be instructed in the gentle art tre, when Henry Kendall, the hero, is thrown, drugged, into a sewer of getting something for nothing by the side of the Seine to lip help by two very charming young, women joss until the tide rises and floods in the persons of Kay Francis and it out. By lifting the grid, a body
The ease with can float out into the river, later Lilyan Tashman, to be "found drowned" with po which these beautiful girls commit what amounts to larceny from the evidence of foul play.
For this scene a huge tank was, álled with water to a depth of ten person is a joy to behold, a joy feet and in it were placed the that is equalled only by one's cameras, lighting equipment, and
GEORGE
O'BRIEN
VICTOR
McLAGLEN-
CONCHITA
MONTENEGRO
A FOX PICTURE
Girls. About Town."
Hamaty
KOWLOON.
Star.
To Oblige a Lady,
Central.
COMING.
Arrowsmith," "Cock of the Air.
Suicide Flett."
Queen's.
"Tying Fool." "Toll Engiand," "Ponncased."
"She's My Weakness." King's,
The Gay Caballero." "Heartbreak,"
"The Miracle Man" "Dancers in the Dark
Good Sport.
World.
Star.
"Story of Kiangiam "
(Part 2).
(Chinese Alm).
"The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." "Iron Marks."
"Thunder."
Easiest Way."
POPULAR BRITISH PAIR
HERBERT MARSHALL AND EDNA BEST IN THE FAITHFUL HEART."
The latest Herbert Marshall-Edna whom Ange loved in his days at the Best picture; (The Faithfulinn.
Heart, is one of the best senti
He feel he must look after her,
mental talkies produced for a long and. a bitter foud at once springs tinic. It was presented at the New up between Ango's fiancé and the Gallery, London, last month.
Mr. Marshall and Miss, Best are: becoming as powerful a BOUR 25
new arrival.
Edna Best's Dual Role, "How this situation develops i Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. will not disclose, for it would give The picture, based on Mr. Monck-away some very skilful and inter- ton Hoffe's play, relates how eating drama," anys a London Waverley Ango (Herbert Mar critic. But all of it is handied shall), third officer on." The Mexi- with insight, sympathy and hu- can," mests Grace Andaway, niece mour, and pictorial beauty of of the owner of an inn at South high order. ampton. Be calls her "Blackle."
The period is the nineties, with pork-pie hats and hoaps of gents lity. Grace and Ango become in volved in a love affair, which is abruptly cut off by the young off cer having to sail for Sputh Africa.
Twenty Years After.
1
"Edna Best plays the part of the two. Blackies. It is an extremely effective performance, charming and sincere,
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"The same may also be anid of He is the Mr. Herbert Marshall. best sentimentalist of the British
and neither he
Edna Bor Best overdo it. Anne Grey, Laur-
screen
Twenty years later, having gain-ence Hanray and Abhole Stewart ed a V.C. in the South African, are first-rate in supporting roles, Waf, he returns to England as the "Finally, I must praise Mr. Vic fiancé of Diana Oughterson (Anne tor Saville, who carries his reputa- Grey), daughter of Sir Gilbert tion one stage further in this pic- ture. He shows more than compe- Oughterson.
Sho bullies him into "Society": tence in his handling of a theme and into other responsibilities ko which, when all is said, has it cannot afford. He is "broke." He delicacies, and he has directed the whole thing in a free and pleasing only has his Army pay
style without an ounce of over-em- V.O. ··
phasis.
and his
However, all is more or less set tied for the wedding, when sudden ly Blackie the Second turna up like a bolt from the blue. She is the daughter of the first Blackie
His photography is very good, and gets away with good atmospheric ahots all through.
some
"There can be very few people who will not enjoy The Faithful Heart."
Scale" by falling in love with a AN ENGLISH HAROLD rich young man and reverting the straight and narrow path with
a vengeance, much to the disgust
The course of true love fails to run at all smoothly-does it evor,. anyway -and an old associate in. the person of a husband, of whose existence Kay Francis had tactfully
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ground of the Shensi famine of 1980, with all its horrors and ita piteousness.
Some remarkable scenes of the famine districts, taken on the spot at the time, are worked into the story, giving the film a rare touch of reality.
It is in the famine district that all the necessary appliances. Wal amazement at the gullibility of the of her partner in crime.'
ter Summers the director, and rich men on whom they lavish their The amazing strides made in the the heroisma of the humble tillers Claude Friese-Greens the campers attentions. It is making a little too. man, together with their staff were much in these enlightened days to art of Chinese motion picture proof the soil is sharply contrasted with the thoughtlessness and head- duction" are fully brought out in lessness of youth, and the callous-
all suitably attired in waders, but expect us to believe that a man LAIDAA a large not so Kendall, who suffered the astute, enough to
A trade notics states:- the United Photoplay" Service film,ness of those within whose power
No Lady now on its final "Humanity," which in now show-it is to save hundreds of lives? water ordeni in silence and plus fortune and keep the greater part omitted to inform her lover, crops
Central and World In the guy whirl of the city, the fours. Not once, but ten times waal of it from his wife will fall for the up at the worst moment and nearly screenings at the Queen's is
this scene sancted beford Summers first blonde hussy who puts her spoils everything. Nearly, but not hilarious farcical oxtravaganza in
interesting ing at the
son of a farmer is involved in a gave the O.K. and it was falt that arms round his neck and give her quite, for after. an
the screen's fist pantomime tradi- Theatres. It reveala. how
ber whirlwind
presents worth thousands of dollars, climax comes the inevitable happy tion, which completely captured the laid. romano0 which
Kendall was a "hero" indeed.
without getting anything in return ending.
holiday spirit. western "methods and technique riches at his feet, so blinding him to everything that goes on around
- apart from the aforementioned There is no moral in this story,
Briefly it tolls the adventures of have been applied by this enter him that the heart-rending appeals
-and-one-can-see-the-show-in-a-son-- 'prising Blm company, which was of his faithful and devoted wife a foreigner has lived in Chino, or However, Kay Francis seems to dition of complete relaxation: the one, Pog, on holiday at Blackpool, who is mistaken for the accomplice eause but a momentary pang of how intimate his relations with find the saps and makes an e-brain is not called upon to over developed owing to dissatisfaction
the Chinese have been, only after cellent living out of it, as does her tax itself in mastering any competing to wreek a British glider that
of a gang of conspirators prepar remorse, to be brushed aside when' with earlior producers.
the fair lady of his visions snaps accing this picture will he be able partner, Lilyan Tashman. These problems of supercivilised man and "Humanity" is a powerful and her fingers.
to see deep into the soul of the girls play the parts of two "assis women, nor are the heart strings their own machine may win. truthful drama of modern China, The picture is remarkable for its Chinese.
tants" who help a business man to wracked and torn by any emotional course, Pog foils them in the finish, It opone the soul of the Chinese enst The aging is superb the The story itself is a romanable put over his big deals, that is to efforts of the Minnes. Francis and but not before we have been
galed with siap-stick, musical wide open to foreigners. To them various moods, "pity, remorse, one; Various phases of Chinese sky, they add kisses and hugs to Tashman. now it is given to understand, and gaiety, ambition, lust, love and life are embodied into it, and the the usual cigars and champagne an The picture is not a master-comedy, knockabout and burlesque to understand is to appreciate the greed are depicted by wonderful dramm is from the pen of a master, order to induce a receptive mood in piece-that may possibly have al- Chinese as a nation. The follies facial expression and this leads one Chinese himself, who understands the man who is required to sign on ready been deduced from the title
to the conviction that to under his countrynien. For it is not a the dotted line: " "of youth in the gay cities, the utter
selfishness of Rome, and the stand the Chinese one must rend markable heroism of others, are portrayed with realism and in detail to a nicety. And against this touching drama is the back-
re-
carcsa.
gift in everyone who can under- KayFrancis, of course, spoils
what might have been an anterost ing exhibition of "Gold Digging, How It Is Done On The Grand (Continued at foot of next colum.)
the soul which is plainly shown in stand the soul of his own country the face. This picture makes it men, This is what makes the possible, for no matter how long story, the acting and the picture
Continued at foot of next oglumn.itself doubly remarkable.
but it is good entertainment, and as such it is recommended..
Assisting the two ladies already oft-named are Joel Macron, art Eugene Fallotte.
A.ES
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Of
Lupino Lame as Pog is in his ole ment and with his brilliant gags and stunting, established himself as an English Harold Lloyd. Tho crowd and thrill scenes of the film are on a large scale "and" carried out with a soat uncommon in Bri
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