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FANTASTIO & WEIRD THRILLER OF THE YEAR.
Pounds with Drama Starties with fhrills
Burns with Passion! Shocks with Surprise!
EVERY SENSATION KNOWN TO
MAN EXCEPT THE LOVE OF WOMAN!
"HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1932.
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EAT 2.30, 0.10, 7.10 & 9.30 P.M.
KINGS THEATRE
a Paramount Picture
24
HOURS
with
CLIVE BROOK KAY FRANCIS MIRIAM HOPKINS REGIS TOOMEY
Life in a. ferment! Emotion that" Burge in a frenzied, dramatio turmoil A play of New York life as it is lived by those who LIVE!
Based on
LOUIS BROMFIELD'S famous modern novel.
BOOKING
AT THE THEATRE
ENOJIE TEL. 25818
TO-MORROW
DOUBLE ATTRACTION
BETH BERI DANSEUSE ALSO
From the
Woman's Angle la hor life Justifled P Men condemns hori
RUTH CHATTERTON
in
THE MAGNIFICENT
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
Queen's.
King's.
HONG KONG.
She Couldn't Buy No
24 Hours."
Central.
World.
star.
Frankenstein."
"Story of Kiangtao"
(Part 2). (Chinese film)."
KOWLOON.
Gentleman's Fato."
Queen's.
COMING.
"Skin Deep."
"Dumbells in Ermine."
Long. Tak Sum"
"Tell England.
'King'e,
▲ Paramount LIB"
Picturo
The Magnificent Lie,"
and Beth Beri, dann use. Strangera in Love." "Daneers in the Dark." "The Silent Witness"
To-morrow and Tomorrow.
Central.
Suicide Fleet."
World.
"Shipmates."
Star.
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QTEEN TEARE
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Safe.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20.
**WATCHING
MY DREAMS
GO BY"
DARN FOOL
WOMAN LIKE
ME"
"
FRANKENSTEIN
.
--THE MAN WHO MADE A MONSTER
And he lived in misery, and died in shame... hend or friend or fabled monster?...or a soulless wretch with mechanical brain? ...hunted by a thousand men... the only thing he feared was fire! a. a man-made monster with "
the strength of a dozen min, he made no concession to life or love!
A UNIVERSAL SUPER ATTRACTION PRESENTED BY CARL LABMMLE
WHS COLIN CUTE, MAX CLARKE, JOHN KOLES, MORIS BALOFT, Dwight B, Kwazul Van Bland, Troderie Kare. Damé apen the Mary Walkingcrude Sarley Bory. Adapted by John 1. Bidaverse bom she play by Pagar Makiling. Produced by Carl› Canada, )
De by JAMES WHALE
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SUICIDE FLEET
THE NAVYS BIG PARADE
with BILL BOYD, ROBERT ARMSTRONG, JAMES GLEASON & GINGER BOGERS.
'FRANKENSTEIN”-. THE SUPER-HORROR
FILM.
dead organisms can be made to live. During their rewarches they eat ed in "Dr. Cecil Reynolds, the Inmous alienist of the notoriou Hickman murder trial in Los A geles. He is an internationally re-
THE MAGNIFICENT
LIE.'
BASED ON LEONARD.
MERRICH NOVEL.
A trade police states:
CC
SHE COULDN'T
SAY NO."
AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE -TO-DAY.
Grent Medow.”
Tailor Made Men,"
"Parlour Bedroom and Bath."
Men Calk It Love." "Its A Wise Child."
A HIGH-SPIRITED LONDON
PLAY
ANOTHER SUCcess for iVOR NOVELLO.
WARNER BROS.
prosent
She Couldn't Say NO
and
WINNIE LIGHTNER CHESTER MORRIS
A BOMBSHELL OF ENTERTAINMENT!
SINGING, TALKING COMEDY SENSATION !
"Men Without Skirts"
Ivor Novello's now play, "Party," Novellp's characters are paraly im London is enormously amasing, and any attempt to identify them.) TREATS produced at the Strand Theatre aginary," and strongly deprecates EXTRA:
predestined succeSR. But whether shall only say that you will have is true to life or not, I am afraid
no difficulty in identifying the cannot tell you, writes W.A.D. in original for yourselves, the London Daily Telegraph.
a.
Hollywood is making a great Ruth Chatterton neuled
no effort to internationalise itself. It teacher for the few words of French stars have to learn a language she was required to speak for her something between their own und role in The Magnificent Lie," the that spoken in England. Mortorer next. Sunday's attraction at the talent of a kind and from all King's Theatre. In fact, had the nations is welcome.. But Hollywood entire dialogue been in French, the remains, as it should do, American
And then, Miss Braithwaite her star would have been perfectly, at at heart. However far a filtu may
self hus, if I may so pit it, to go Pase. She speaks, reads and writes wander in time or place the native a "sending young actress after a through the hoop. For who should the language fluently.
| foundations remain
strong and fashionable first night, at a time turn up at the party, but Botty solid, under the flimay set that re-when the dramatic critic, having Pollock, to do her imitations of presents Morogo, Paris or ancient finished his notice, is seeking his stage celebrities, and whom should A Donble Attraction
Rome,
- The Magnificent Lie,” based on Lenard Merrick's popular nuvel. "Laurels and the Lady." introduces Miss Chatterton as the America The great virtue of “She Could- born daughter of French parents, an't Say No," showing to-day at the safe entertainer in New Orleans.Queen's Theatre is its hundred per There, masquerading as a famous cont. American quality: No, conces French actress, she wins the lovesion is made to foreign sentiment, of a sincere young lamberman. The It is a real Home product. role is said to be one of Miss Chat-
terton's strongest dramatic parts since she deserted the stage for the ECTFOX.
The story tells of a music hail artist, accomplished, but not in her first youth, who loves 21 young racketeer who has turned his back
The party in question is given by
innocent equch.
ske imitate first but Lilian Braith-
However, one theatrical gather- ! waito 1 ing is, I take it, much like another;
A Family Jest and certainly Mr. Novello has
The whole affair is, in fact, an caught, and Atholo, Stewart (his
elaborate and extremely happy jest producer) has preserved, the spirit
by the theatrical world at its own" of overy stage party I have ever attended. He has hit off with wiek- expense. But so that the public | ed certainty that mixture of good shall not find itself left out of a family joke, there is a story which nature and cuttiness, of honest
binds the whole affair together and humanity and sham" personality, Ralph Bellamy plays opposite the
which is the hallmark which thetaris what might otherwise have theatre sels upon those who serve it. been a brilliant charade into a play. star. He is the young New York stage star recently signed by Parartiste's manager he meets and laves
The setting gives the author all The Honours of the pruning vare i kinds of satirical opportunities. shared with Miss Braithwaite-who another, young, rich, beautiful Iris,
Lilian Braithwaite, for instance, is shattoringly comic-by Benita played by Sally· Eilers. Winnie Lightner, the older woman carries earlier generation, makes the hit (haps forgive me for saying that she appearing as a famous actress of an Hume. This young lady will per-
ou bravely though she cannot help of the evening with a performance used not to be able to act at all mure and more despair creeping into in the superb manner of a certain when I add that she has now learnt her theme song " darn fool wo-lady, whom I shall not name (since to act a lot. And her vitality is the programme insists that all Mr.
£
hew make screen finch" His selection followed a
on the old habits. Chester Morris
plays the part to life. As the
long surch in Hollywood and Hroudway for the ideal leading man to play opposite Miss Chatterton.
Stuart Erwin, also included in the featured east, has, in The Magnificent Lie, his ant oppor man like me." It is a very upto tunity to mix dramatic ading with date version of Il Pagliace, the his well-toown laugh-making antics. development being something in the Other character parts in the story
manner of the famous Al Jolson were carefully filled by Berthold "yele of films.
SHOWING AT THE CENTRAL | cognized psychiatrist "and brain Viertel the director.
THEATRE.
A trade notice atates:-"- Scientists, philosophers and me- į dical men for centuries struggled with the most portient fact of life. That fact is life itself. The liter.
Frankenstein, ens of ary
まる
surgeon. He acted as guest adviser to James Whale during the filming | of "Frankenstein." Whale oaked him if he thought that audiences would regard the central idea of "Frankenstein," the creation of a monder from collected bits of hus man wreckage, as utterly prepos teruus
'24 HOURS" AT KING'S THEATRE.
CLEVER CHARACTER
ACTRESS IN LEAD.
A trade notice states:-- After more than the usual number
Those who want to escape from the ordinary film and to see a por- trayal of pathos, mixed with wise- eracks and plenty of songs will no doubt enjoy this film.
R.B.
MONTE BLUE AND
DAVEY LEE.
IN "SKIN DEEP 'AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.
Monte Blue, giant among stars, has in his support Davey Lee, tions for her stage performancen tiniest of stars in Skin Deep in "Shylock," in which she played the latest Warner Bros. all-talking
amazing...
While Joe Marks, casting direc- tor, was interviewing the tot's mother, Davey wandered out on the lok, and was later discovered, by his frantic mother riding picka
back on the shoulders of Al Jolson,
The two had already decided be- tween themselves that Davey was to have the part,
After seeing a Borean text of Davey Lee, Jack Warner, produc- tion manager, expressed the belief the title rôle for seven month, and Vitaphone picture opening to mor- that the child was ideal, having "San. Up.". Miss La Verne for years has plternated between Bread- way and Hollywood.
row at the Queen's Theatre.
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much of the charm that Jackie
created a monster, is of course a
"Dr. Reynolds told me," said Jules Verne idea, although Mr. Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley, whoWhale, that lighting and elec
As all the world knows four-year-Coogan, showed" in earlier screen wrote the story, lived half a cen-ricity destroy human life. Since
old Davey Lee was the first player rdles, together with utter lack of tary before the great French seien. this is so, why cannot lightning and of serena tests given a host of ac
electricity create it? I don't know tresses from stage and photoplays, Her recent pictures include "The to be chosen for Al Jolson's "The self-consciousness. The child has tific romancer. When Carl Laempile,
that it can, and neither does any Jr., and James Whule, who body else to-day, but it ia a ques- Paramount chose Lucilla La Verne Great Meadow," "The Doorway to Singing Tool," and it was his an elfin twinkle, a shy humour and produced and directed "Frankenstion that will arome a lot of think for the pact of "Mrs. Dackleherst" Hell" and "An American Tragedy," astonishingly natural work as the a way of playing his part that is tein, which will be soon at the Naturally, Frankenstein is the dialogu film of Loris Brow She plays the mother of the "fate tiny tragic figuro, Sonny Boy" quite irresistible.
was nada as a vehicle for theatrical
Jolson again chose. Davey to sup-| Central Theatre to-day were attorly entertainment and not to stimulate field's "24 Hours," to be shown at tossed Olyde Griffiths in Par- that caused Warners to olevate him
amount's ambitious filmization of to stardom-and to present him in port him in Bay It With Gongs," absorbed in the preparation of the scientific thought, but we wanted to the King's Theatre to-day.
the delightful comedy, "Sonny In Skin Deop" Davey plays story, koy discovered to their make absolutely certain that Dr. Miss La Verno, creaton the part the Theodore Breiser novel.
|| Frankenstein's methods would con..
the part of the son of the district amazement that there worn many form to medical practice and the of the crooked hotel proprietor and
24 Hours reveals how a big The selection of Master Davay as attorney who has prosecuted Jos man on tience living to-day who methods which have been, are, and Clive Brook, Ray Francis Mirian city's social set is awakened to the the Sonny Boy" meant a triumph, Daley, causing his sentence to Bing will be used for years in the Labors Hopkins and Regis Toomey are proper relations of husbands, wives for the screen children who were Bing Daley's wife maker him be thoroughly believed that in the futaries of the world to produce this ture, life can be "created. In fact, one supreme miracle-the creation other featured players.
and lovers, when one of their numbeing considered by the Warner lieve that the prosecutor has designs the experiments of Dr. Creet and of life I don't think that even the.
Remembered in London as the ber is mysteriously murdered, sad Bros costing office.
on her and when fron, from prison medical mon could find any faul American Retreas who won “Dr. Aaroya, both brilliant medical with Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory (ontinued of foot of neat refemm.) · popular member of the set.....
the guilt wrongly attached to Davey, for he won out all by him tonding to kill him. This decision And it de a personal triumph for he goes to the attorney's home in- men, have goue far to prove that methods in this production,"
zalf.
is changed by the coming of Davey |
Bay,"
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HUMANETTES
PATHE Gazette
TO-MORKOW
Warner Bros. present
Monte Blue
One
Woman
Loathed His Ugly
Face
Carl
SKIN
Another
Loved Him
Becau He Was Handsome
a
DEEP
WITH
DAVEY LES
-On the Stage- LONG TACK SAM The World Benowned CHINESE MIRACLE MAN
with
Misses Mina & Nee-sa Long
and
Entire Troupe of WONDER WORKERS
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2:30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20
JOHN
GILBERT
The Tensely Exciting Melodrama,
Gentleman's
Fate