CENTRAL THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 5.15 and 9.30 ONLY
THE GREATEST SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT OF THE
.1'
SEASON,
HE FOUGHT FOR MAN... and lostawoman!
Nold this story... No.
O other age could have
other world has known such a man-fighting humanity's battles....his restless mind searching for truth... his steadfast heart clinging to the woman whose love he " lost in his hour of triumph.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
presanta
RONALD
COLMAN
Arrowsmith
WITH
HELEN HAYES
FROM THE NOVEL BY SINCLAIR LEWIS
JOHN FORD ADOTOX
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
PLEASE DON'T MISS YOUR LAST CHANCE -TO-DAY at 2.30 & 7.15-
A SUPER CHINESE SOUND-ON-FILM
TALKING PICTURE
"HAPPY STARS"
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
BY SPECIAL REQUEST
· RE-SCREENING OF
THE GREATEST CHINESE TRIUMPH ON THE SCREEN
HUMANITY
"ARROWSMITH" AT CENTRAL THEATRE.
A DIFFERENT RONALD
COLMAN.
A track nobles atates:--- Ronald Colman in a film adapta- tion of the Sinclair. Lewis' best- seller,. " Arrowsmith," which is showing at the Central Theatre at 6.15 and 2.15 performances only for the last time to-day, is unusually interesting.
"THE PERFECT ALIBI."
THRILLER SHOWING AT QUEEN'S TO-MORROW.
A trade notice states:- Running in New York and Lon- don, the stage production of "The Perfect Alibi" the talkie version of which is coming to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow, enjoyed over- whelming suceeSS. Produced by Charles Hopkins and shown at the Charles Hopkin Theatre, New York, the play was well received there for two solid years. lt scored with
The Perfect Alibi is a Basil
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1932.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 8.10;
7.10 & 9.30 PM.
KINGS THEATRE
Smash Went The Laugh Record
The whole town, went wild with Bill last night. No wonder nations rocked and kingdoms shook with laughter..
WILL
ROGERS
in
AMBASSADOR BILL
FOX
PICTURE
with
Greta Nissen • Marguerite Churchill Gustav von Seyffertitz
Directed by SAM TAYLOR
A Fox Picture
A Scone from "Ambassador Bill," now showing at the King's
AMBASSADOR
BILL."
PINE COMEDY FILM AT
KING'S.
A trade notice states:
Theatre,
"24 HOURS."
ITS A VERSATILE SCREEN ADAPTER.
A trude notice states:- Modern New York City from one. pleasure haunts of the rich, to the
BOOKING
AT THE ..THEATRE
TEL. 25318-
-TO-MORROW-
The modern Babel laid bare! Where LIFE'S pum ping pulse" beats time in double measure! Where anything might happen and. does, in
24
HOURS
Picture
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
Queen's
HONG KONG,
The Boggar Student,"
· King's). «
Ambassador Bill"
Contrai.
"Arrowsmith.”
World.
"Parlour, Bedroom and Bath."
KOWLOON.
Star.
"Kept Husbandia,"
Queen's,
COMING.
"Perfect Alibi,”
King's,
She Couldn't Say." Tell England.”
"24 Hours."
The Magniscent Lie?" "Strangers in Love,"
Dancers in the Dark." "The Silent Witnesa.
To-mowow, and Te-morrow,"
Central.
Happy Stary.** Famauity."
Humanity" (Chinese Alm),
Based on
Louis Bromfeld's
Novel
World.
with CLIVE BROOK
Kay Francis
"Story of Kikagtun
(Part 2).
Miriams Hopkins Regis Toomey
(Chinese film).
Star,
Sins of the Childred,"
CHANCE AND THE STARS.
HOW THE FAVOURITES MADE GOOD.
"
A recent pool of motion picture, to be a sailor so he joined the warp. notables reveals the surprising tact While in the service, he became in. that very few of the screen celebri- terested in amateur, theatricals, and ties set out wild an early ambition later secured stage employment. to become actors. However, four of Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette Paramount's feminine players ad-MacDonald, who heal the cast of mis they had been, stage struck "Chevalier's "One Hour With You," since early childhood. They are became set in their dramatic careers Nancy Carroll, Sylvia Sidney, much, earlier than the average ar Claudette Colbert, and Tallulahtist of present day screen promin- Bankhead. Many assert that their cuce. Chevalier was in his. late presence on the screen was due to teens, while Jeanette made har Arst the merest chance.
public appearance at the age of hree in a charity play and was also, professionally engaged at the
Maurica Chevalier's Avat job was painting dolls in a toy shop.
It was here his desire to be an en-
tertainer was born.
Marlene Dietrich studied the. violin and intended to become a concert violinist, but a twist in the path to musical fame put her on the stage instead.
George Bancroft's ambition was
"THE BEGGAR STUDENT,"
"ATTRACTIVE HEROINE'S **FAME OVERNIGHT."'
་་
age of eight and definitely set in q
dramatic career at fourteen.
This is the second time these pro minent gereen stars have honded the cast of a major screen production. Their first appearance together was in The Love Parado, one of the scroon hits of two years ago.
"SHE COULDN'T SAY NO."
MUSICAL DRAMA COMING TO QUEEN'S THEATRE.
A trade notice atatea :
Will Rogers whose latest Fox pic hideous of criminals of less fortun- ture is showing to-day at the King's ate worldly endowment, as drama- Theatre to lists many of the crown tized in the Paramount picture, ed heads of Europe as his close per- sonal friends, and shows us that day at the King's Theatre, is fami- '24 Hours," opening next Wednes-
This picture is unlike any in
there are some real human beings iar territory to Louis Weitzenkorn, which the dashing Colman has
beneath the ermaine. As an American he made the screen adaptation appeared-unlike any ever made, for
Ambassador assigned to a glamor from the Louis Bromfield novel. that matter. It is a mental movie, English play-goers at the Royalons little kingdom ruled over by n
Weitronkorn knows his New York
A distinct novelty is supplied in a díguided story of a sincere young Theatre in London for more than boy king, be untangles the love and its people, high and low, for
A trade notice states:-
"She Couldn't Say No" the 'mun of science. In, making it, twenty-five week.
affairs of a king and queen.
in fifteen years of newspaper work
In The Beggar Student" Warner Bros. and Vitaphone pro- Samuel Goldwyn used, the good
The story opens with Will's 'wel-
he covered overy phase of metropo adaptation of the Viamese operetta duction which comes to the Queen's taste for which his productions are Daan production, released by Radio come" between the two opposing litan life, advertising man, colu by Carl Millocker showing now at Theatre 011 Friday co-starring famed.
Pictures. Adapted from A. A. forces of the weekly revolution. This, mint, short story writer, play the Queen's. Shirley Dale plays the Winnie Lightner and Chester Mr. Colman's performance ns Milne's The Fourth Wall," the however, is as nothing to the rewright, magazine and daily paper leading role. She is one of the few Morris. Arrowsmith "is probably the finest Alm is a thrilling mystery story, volution in court etiquette that ho
editor.
lucky girls who have won fame. ha has given. He is so completely replete with rapid action and starts himself. In one scene, hep
The newspaper career of the man "overnight," for though she has convincing that one forgets he is absorbing suspenas. It depicts the even suggests that they call quits usually the dashing devil-may-anre plot of two men to murder a former his formal representation because who became nationally known when had considerable stage, and operatic he wrote the stage success, "Five experience she had never appeared matinee here, and one accepts him police commissioner who had sen-he notices the queen has Star Final," included important on the screen until, s British Lion As the scientist:
tenced them to twenty-five year's' | fest." At other times, he teaches, | imprisonment more than a quarter the boyking baseball, and organizas Jobs, on the Tribune, Times, Call, official invited her to the studio for dramatic love story, beginning ini Helen Hayes, as the s student 60766 who marries Arrowsmith, is charm century ago.
ing The magic of her personality. The Furfect Alibi will remain makes the conventional little char-at the Queen's until Thursday It's
a Boy Scout troop. Another scene
World and Graphic. that is sure to release gates of laugh-In the early days of the World
a tesk.
."
The interpolation of numerous songs in a freen production usual-
ly signified & quality of comedy
or lightness, but this unusual MF,
....
talking picture tolls a highly
a cheap cafe and, ending in a hoặc Miss Dale has an excellent sing-pital room. But during the action
acter keonly interesting. The minor penat boasts of a group of capable tion handcuffed to a puritanica Bleeding Belgium," and when the blessed with more than her share of songstress of vaudeville and musica! ter is that ho goes through a revoluitzonker coined the phrase,ing and speaking voice, and is of the story, Miss Lightner, fathous United States entered the conflict good looks. She now liver in comedy, is heard in many of her tile ara played by such distia players, including Robert Loraine, senator who has come to investigat he joined the tank corps.
Battersea, but was born in the Fiji 'entertaining vocal efforts. Isles.
Dorothy Boyd, Frank Lawton, War- wiek Ward, C. Aubrey Smith, Ellis Jeffreys and others,
guished actors as Richard Bennett, A. E. Anson, Beulah Bondi, Alec B. Francia "Amusing little light comedy touches relieve the gravity of the story, which is a simple descriped research. It is not a convin tion of Arrowsmith's struggles as tional movie story. But it is in. teresting and excellently handled. a country doctor, his stoady davo, le is a dignited, ununun film; a tion to research, his Bght against credit to its star and to the movies. the obstacles to this rebellion It is your last chance to ges it to
fday and to mies it is to miss one of against organized publicity-exploit the greatest screen achievements of
the year.
(Continued at foot of mest volumn.
ila conduct.
The love, interest in the new film
......
The supporting cast of "She "The Beggar Student" is & is supplied by the lovely Marguerite cast include young Ted Alexander, comedy-romance with
Couldn't Say No" includes Sally Churchill and Bay Milland, a'dark,
the real Eilers, Johnny Arthar and Tully eight-year-old boy who is Viennas atmosphere and gay music. Marshall. Lloyd Bacon directed. young Irishman who is comparative-heralded as a veritable sensation; The settings are beautiful and lynex upon the screen. Miss Greta Nissen, who in said to have spacious, without being either Vic- Churchill will be remembered for clinched her "come back by her torian or ultra-modern, while the the least of it, a fine figure of her fine work in They Had To work in this Almi- Gustav. von Sos, Paris, The Big Trail Sevforsitz Arnald, Korff, and For
dinand Munier.
Riders Of The Purple Saga" and other pictures that have shown her
Sam Taylor, expert an humour, as a possessor of a striking talent former director of many Mary Pick Other important members of the ford and Harold Lloyd miocesses, (Continued at foot of nemi colums.) directed this produciton.
.:』,,"
gowne we foar will cause the ladies man." Jerry Vernie and Mark Daly to think envious thoughts! Lance especially the fatter Fairfax will also cause a fluttering comedy over well, a J of feminine hearts, for he is, to say a pretty brunette, also has a good (Continued at foot of next column) part.
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The Alr is Always Cool and Fresh No Circulation of Old Air, but Natural Ventilation, Comfortable, Healthy, and Safe.
TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20
A
Scintillating Musical Romance, Spiced with
Comedy
ITION LIQN PAN CONFORATION LIMITE
BEGGAR STUDENT
SHIRLEY DALE LANCE, FAIRFAX JERRY VERNO from the world famour!
operetta by. CARL MILLOCKER
ADDED EXTRAS PATHETONE WEEKLY Superb British Variety GAUMONT
SOUND MIRBOR
TO-MORROW
A-A MILVE'S SENSATIONAL
MYSTERY
DRAMA
with A Distinguished Cast Robert LORAINE C. Aubrey SMITH Dorothy BODY
A BASIL DEAN Produskon
The PERFECT
ALIBI
(STAR)
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.80, 5:20, 7.20 & 9.20
Dorothy MACKAILL Joel MCCREA
In
Husbands
GVODIDA
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY PARLOUR BEDROOM
BATH