CENTRAL THEATRE
TEL
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30
THE GREAT CHINESE PICTURE
WITH ENGLISH TITLES
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932.
LAST TWO DAYS
* AT 2.30, 5.10.
7.18 & 9.80 P.M.
INGS THEATRE
HUMANITY 24
WITH THE GREAT SHENSI FAMINE
OF 1930 "AS BACKGROUNDS.
-SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES-
DRESS CIRCLE.... $1.00: BACK STALL
(including tax)
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55 cents.
·STARTING TO-MORROW-
THE GREATEST UNIVERSAL SUPER SPECIAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR & THE MOST FANTASTIC & THRILLING PICTURE EVER BEEN SEEN THROUGH THE TALKING SCREEN,
A UNIVERSAL
LI
SUPER ATTRACTION
Presented by
-CARI LAEMMLE
A FRIENDLY WARNING If you have a weak heart and
cannot stand Intense excitament or even shock, we advise you NOT to see this producilan. If, on
the contrary, you like on unus val thrill, you will find
PFRANKENSTEIN'
in
Produced by Carl Larm- mis, ir., with COLIN CLIVE, MAE CLARKE, JOHN BOLES, DORIS KARLOFF, Dwight Fryä, Edward Yum Sloan, Frederic. Kaze, Bored
on the story by hory Wall stonecraft Shelley. Adapted by John L. Balder- stop from the play by -Peggy Webling. Directed by JAMES WHALE.
FRANKENSTEIN
THE MAN WHO MADE A MONSTER
SHOWING SOON--
THE RKO-PATHE SUPER SPECIAL FEATURE
SUICIDE FLEET
THE NAVY'S BIG PARADE
"FRANKENSTEIN."
THRILLER AT THE CENTRÁL THEATRE.
THE MAGNIFICENT LIE."
AND AN ACTOR ON LIES OF ALL SORTS. -----
A trade novice states:-
a Paramount Picture
"MY VOICE IS MY FORTUNE."
HOURS
ALICE DAY ON GOOD, LOOKS AND HARD WORK..
A trada notice states:-
with
CLIVE BROOK KAY FRANCIS MIRIAN HOPKINS REGIS TOOMEY Life in a ferment! Emotion that surge in a frenzied, dramatic turmcil. A play of New York life as it is lived by those who LIVE!
Based on
LOUIS BROMFIELD'S famona modern novel.
'SHE COULDN'T SAY NO."
WINNIE LIGHTNER AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.
A trade notice states:-
BOOKING
AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25818
-NEXT CHANGE- SUNDAY, 26th JUNE A DOUBLE ATTRACTION BLTH BERI DANSEUSE
----- OSTY
From the Woman's Angle in her life justiãod 2 Men condamns her!
RUTH CHATTERTON
in
"THE" MAGNIFICENT
A Paramount IR
Picture
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Queen's
'King's..
HONG KONG
She Couldn't Say No"
**$4 Hours."
Central.
Humanity,"
World.
*** Bumanity?"
Star.
KOWLOON.
Gentleman's Fite.""
Queen's,
COMING.
Suicide Fleet." "Skin Deep."
"Dumbetis in Ermine
"Long Tak Sam," "Tell England."
King's.
"The Magnificent Lio."
and Beth Beri, danseuse. "Strangers in Love." "Dancers in the Dark," "The Silent Withesa." "To-morrow "and To-morrow."
Central..
"Frankenstein."
World.
Star
"Shipmates."
Gront Medow."
"Tailor Made Mon." "Story of Kinnylan."
(Part 9).
(Chinese fla)..
"Parlour Bedroom und Bath."
"Men Call It Love.".
Its A Wiso Child."
GOSSIP
FACT.
Is it always hopeless when a girl lavishes all her love on one man Thesiger in Hollywood. and receives none in return? Cus tom decrees that a woman shall be the pursued one. In view of this should she retire and suffer in silence or fight with all her feminine wiles for the possession of the one she feels to be her man?
Ernest Thesiger has been captur-
The remark, that a pretty Ince gets one nowhere in pictures these often days has been repeated so that it has become hackneyed,
Alice Day who appears in sup- port of Monte Blue in Warner Bros. all-talking Vitaphone picture, Skin Deep" due Sunday at the Queen's has all the good looks that any girl could nak. In spite o! this she has found that it takes the many additional qualities to
Ket
ad by Hollywood. He will make his first appearance in Priestley's
The Old Dark House."
Gangster Themes.
į
Pits purchase.
Do You Know:----
置
That Maurice Chevalier still ear) ries a piece of shrapnel in his right Tang, a result of his wound during the War?
Gangster themes are not disap. That he was decorated with the This situation forms the basis of
are merely being Croix de Guerre, for bravery peuring: they story of She Couldn't Say treated from a new angle that of Ontry during the War
to the top, or even to see foothold / No," the Warner Bros. and Via-the criminal lawyer who defends į
in talking pictures.
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"Sometimes I think that good looks are an actual handicap " serts Miss Day. "You know shut. there is a strange belief that under good looks there is usually a vacuum as far as brains are concerned.
phone production starring Winnie them. The Mouthpiece is hav- Lightner and Chester Morris, which
ing a box-office success everywhere
Adolphe.
+3
is opening at the Queen's Theatre in America, and "For the Defence" and, Saate's Attorney ard to to-day.
The fasuous Winnie is shown as follow. an entertainer in" a night, club, desperately in love with Jerry, the former racketeer who has become This is the result of the other manager. Bas Jerry (played by assorted beautiful but dumb line.Chester Morris) is decidedly not And yet when all is said and done the woman who is appearing in pictures is supposed to be really Attractive must be pretty. Mustn't alie 1
interested..
Winnie tells Jerry of her great love for him and bags him to give up the society girl who, Winnie feels is interested in him merely
"Of course when I say pretty I bocause he is entirely different from do not actually mean that fragile the men she has been accustomed
linging vine sort that used to be tu meeting.
This is the Night,"
at
Says a London critic of Lily Damita and Roland Young in "This Is the Night":~
Musical comedy presented with glamour... Story of private lives in Venice, to accompaniment of moons, Adolphe Monjou har resumed lagoons and emotional disturbances. work in America. His next picture Film is very well acted and shows will be "Fancy Free," with Joan Lily Damita at her most tantalis- Marsh and the English comedian ing. Roland Young and Charles Herbert Mundin. Alfred Werker Ruggies pile on the humour, which is good, and a new actor, Cary ia directing the picture for Fox.
Grant, makes ur impression. In Nancy Brown.
front, rank of shows,
After scores of applicants had been tested, a young Australian ac! Film Stars and Phones. tresa, Mias Nancy Brown, who is Tulking with Blm stars is harder at present a member of the Palace than with the Sphinx for the gener Theatre Company, London, has been al public; at least one knows where The Maid of the Mountains."have their telephone numbers listed given the role of Teresa in B.I.P.'s to find the Sphinx. Few players
so popular" continued Miss Day. He insists upon proclaiming his "Times have changed and since love for the other girl, and Win- women began to find their way ie, after a futile fight, leaves the about and declared their indepenity broken hearted. Months Inter udence the type of heroine has changJerry's eyes are opened but it is 8he is a brunette, 92 years of age, in the directory. Preparing for and studied at the Royal Academy pictures is no easy task and in-
are disastrous tarruptions of Dramatic Art.
Between scenes on the Ruth Chat arton set at the Faramount Holly
the art wood studio, Stuart Erwin was lend ing a discussion on lying..
od pearly 1,000 people in certain Everybody can
el decidedly.
But in talking pictures. there is
All the time.
too late.
for
2
" is not
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Cavalcade" to Cost £200,000.
rest and study,
"
The
The Fox Film Corporation is re-
It would hardly pay do try call
Bally
ing a list of names on the chance
star. There are
QUEEN THEATE
The Air is Always Cool and Fresh No Circulation of Old Air, but Natural Ventilation, Comfortable, Healthy, and Safe.
TO-DAY & TO-MOREUW AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20
**WATCHING
MY DREAMS GO BY"!
DARN FOOL
WOMAN LIKE
ME"
WARNER BROS.
present
Whe Couldn't Say NO
ard
WINNIE LIGHTNER CHESTER MORRIS
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A BOMBSHELL OF
ENTERTAINMENT !
SINGING, TALKING COMEDY SENSATION !
EXTRA: TREATS
"Men Without Skirts"
HUMANETTES
NEXT
PATHE Gazette
ATTRACTION
A Double Attraction
Warner Bros.
present
Monte Blue
SKIN DEEP
DAVEY LER
On the Stage-
The World Renowned
A trade notice states:- Universal obviously want in to the production of its weird thriller,
"She Couldn't Say No Frankenstein" starting at the
There are lies, and lies," said Contral Theatre from to-morrow
so much to learn and so much to just a song and dance flu. on the famous huge scale of "The the enger bus bewildered gomit Hunchback of Notre Dame," The We'll start with the minor de Phami of the Opera," "All Quiet grecs of prevarication and work study that one must be on the alert filled with absorbing drama.
supporting cast includes on the Western Front" and king up to the flagrant forms...
Now, there's the tennie-wecnic
"No longer can one expect to be Eilers, Johnny Arthur and Tully ported to be perturbed by the for that one may be a slightly disguis. LONG TACK SAM of Jazz.!!
"Mob spenna" of the film utiliz lie, just a step below the tiny
qualify that told how-and-what-to-do" and to be Marshall. Lloyd Bhem directed midable cost of bringing "Caval-d name of a
Robert Lord and Arthur Caesared that the picture will cost $800,000
PAngeles, directory; not one is Mar portions of the atory and Director class. Then comes the little lie.able at once to do it. Now we stand the screen play was written by cude" to the screen. It is estimat twenty-five Dietrichs in the Los CHINESE MIRACLE MAN
(about £200,000 at the present rate
lesto. The twenty names of Marx Misses Mina & Nee-sa Long James Whale enhanced that ember Lots of people mix the little lie characterize. We must speak and It is an adaptation of Benjamin M
of exchange).
might send one on a wild chase entire, Tyrolean with 'white, and use it daily. Fa by adding an string band to the picture in still thors, mothers and sweethearts have in speaking secure just the right Kay's play of the same name.
inflection to get over the point of
Mrs. E. R. Tinkor, wife of the for the comediane There is even popularized this form. other scenes.
The ordinary big lie and the
the speech.
former president of the Fox Coma Frances Dee and a Chester Morris Colin Clive plays the abarhed
pany, is said to have recommended listed; neither is the film player. medico who succeeda in acientitual-crazy-lie, I'd rink next. They're ly manufacturing human life, and very popular with golfers and Mas Clarke, John Bolea, Boris, fishermen." Karlod, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan and Fredonick Karr com plete the east To Kart fails the lot of playing the role of the monster which Lon Chaney longed ho play.
P
'24 HOURS" "AT KING'S THEATRE.
WATSON.
FJ
with
and
Kutire Troupe of WONDER WORKLES
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.
"Of course it was a great honour that came to me when the Wampaaj How about the darn and the selected me as a baby star in 1928. dirty le interposed Sam Hardy."
"I was coming to these two," That was a prize greatly to be dev
"Ever since the announcement of "They fit most sired because those men are hard | A MISTAKE, ABOUT MINOR
feet tall weighs 170 pouncis and ad- explained Erwin.
mits it has been quite a few years; iny arrival in Hollywood I have poker players when they arrive oiled and any girl that was named home and tall their wives about!
had to show exceptional qualities
since he was a minor.
been getting mail advertising child. All thous who saw "Dracula" will their winnings and losings,
Then there's the huge fe, the It is a badge of honour one can be
A trade notice states!-
Signed by Paramount for just one ren's clothes and receiving phone "And then
Minor Watson is having a diff be much impressed with the ramark able work of Dwight Frys and Ed. gigantie lie, the tremendous lie, the vary proud to wear. ward Van Sloan. But the Mons-colossal lie.
"One evening a woman telephoned teah, this is one of the really At that monent Miss Chatterton the talkies1: 1 have so enjoyed cult time convincing Hollywood picture, 24 Hours," in which calls from people who think I'm astonishing things in the picture walked onto the set and Director working, with Mr. Blue. He is that he did not come from Now Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Mirias a kid actor," explained Watson.
Mitzi You know, it is almost inevitable Berthold Viertel ordered rehearsals
Coogan, Jackin Cooper, when one has been led to expect for the next scene in "The Maoni barner and studious about his work York for the purpose of trying to Hopkins and Regia Toomey r
Green, Junior Durkin, Jackie Seerl dobut in this dialogue edition of I replied I was Mr. Watson. She
Louis Bromfeld's" novel at the said she had a boy in pictures and The Tensely Exciting Melodrama. great, thrill that the realization is ficent Lis," her new starring pic that it inspires all who come in steal the screen: Jaurels of Jackofentured, Watson-makes his film and asked for Mr. or Mrs. Watson)
"The part he plays in Shin and other juveniles.
she wanted him to meet, my son, Watson, one of Broadway's best-
King's Theatre to-day. Derpia bis greatest and he por known actors, with recent. plays
Immediately upon the completion Minor. trays the loan with sincerity and such as It's a Wish Child," "This
Howdy of this production he hastened to "It is an old family name, but sympathetic understanding. One is Thing Called Love,"
spiritual growth." change but of the montal and men
dapppointing Everyone in Coliture, in which Erwin, Ralph Bel, contact with him. farnis ir geritin that the monsterlamy and other talented scroon is going to be a thrill, but for once, phiyers will be seen at the King's they won't be disappointed. Thi Theatre next Sunday. monster, with its semblance of hu-j
man appearance, human adtions, i
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still gives ment overwhelmingim-(mechanical motivation. He is the conscious not only of the physical-King" and These Modern Wo New York for work in George M.I guess I should have changed it
pression of the supernatural and most uncanny creature that has ever Continued at fast რnext column.) [ stepped on the goreen.
to his credit, is about six (Continued at foot of heat column. Cohan's new play, “Friendship."
to Adult when I came of age."
GILBERT
Gentleman's
Fate