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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20 (At 2.30 usual picture programms only
The ONE and ONLY
LONG TACK SAM
with
MI-NA and NEE-SA
and
Entire Troupe of WONDER WORKERS Your Last Chance to See This Most Marvellous Act!
-On The Stage-
WARNER BROS.
present
DUMB BELLS
in /
Ermine
TO-MORROW
THE PICTURE
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KÔNG.
Suicide Flect."..
Central.
Queen's.
King's.
Dumb-Bells in Ermine.”,
and
Long Tack Sam.
"The Silent Witness."
World.
Star.
(+
"A Death Fearing Hero," ep. 2
Chinese film.
KOWLOON.
Ship Mates."
Contral.
COMING.
Heaven on Earth.” ***Corsair."
Queen's.
*Four Infantry Men."
**Teil England.”
King's.
"Cheaters, at Play."
"Almost 'n Divorce,"
"Daneers in the Dark,"
World.
Star.
To-morrow and To-morrow,"
"Great Meadow."
"Song of the West,"
"Its A Wise Child."' "Great Meadow,"
Tailor Made Mon."
MISSES MINA AND NEE SA LONG.
TALENTED DAUGHTERS OF LONG TACK SAM.
If at the age of 22 you had
the travelled through all continents, been feted in the major cities of the world and seen: practically everything worthwhile seeing on this earth; if your natge was internationally known and re spected, and your beauty readily acknowledged everywhere what
would be your reactions, as a young lady, toward life in general and your future in particular ↑
For Miss Mina Lang, daughter of the famous theatrical wizard, Long THAT LIVES! Tack Sam, the answer is quite sim
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ple. "I have much work. to do, and that makes life interesting. I also have a lot to learn." Her younger sister, Miss Nisa takes a "All one's more romantic attitude. life is music," Miss Nisa recently said in Australia, "provided that one touches its notes correctly, and in titae."
press-book"]
Miss Mina, owns which probably is the most interna tional volume in the world, con sidering her age,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932
ANALASTA TWO
DAYS
·AT 2.30, 5,10, 7.43 2 9.30 P.M.
NGS THEATRE
WHOSE LIPS KISSED HER?
WHOSE HANDS KILLED HER?
She knew more about fascination than fair play. Her love story ended as a murder mystery written in scarlet headlines!
The SILENT WITNESS
Greta Nisson
Helen Mack
FOX PICTURE
with
LIONEL ATWILL
Weldon Hayburn Bramwell Fletcher.
Directed by Marcel Varnel and R. L.. Hough
THOMAS MEIGHAN, Charlotte Greenwood and l'illiam Bakewell have a lot of explaining to do when things begin to pop in "Cheaters at Play," new release from For Films.
"CHEATERS AT PLAY."
SOMETHING ABOUT “TALKIE” NOISES.
A trade notice states :—- Noises are more than an anaony
DUMB-BELLS IN
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AMUSING. FARCE AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.
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"Their Million Dolla Robbery Became a Million Dollar Romance!
CHEATERS AT PLAY
with a great cast including.
THOMAS MEIGHAN
CHARLOTTE
GREENWOOD William Bakewell Barbara Weeks Linda Watkins James Kirkwood
Story by Louis Joseph Vanco Directed by Hamilton MacFadden FOX PICTURE
SUICIDE FLEET."
EPIC OF AMERICAN NAVY.
A trado notice states:--
scenes
Two stately square rigged sailing vessols, last survivors of the Yankee clipper era, made their final voyage to participate in the big thrill in Suicide Fleet," the Navy's Big Parade, which is show- ing at the Central Theatre to-day. After their fast cruise čame honour ablo retirement at the bottom of
the sca
The closing chapter of their care-
ers was a glorious one, in keeping with the colourful lives they had lived. Instead of rotting in a har- bourboneyard," they wont down with banners flying, in action under submarine: shell fire,
The farewell voyago of the two ships, the Indians and the Bohemia, took them to Mexican waters off Las Coronados Islands to play dramatic parts in "Suicide Flext."- It is an interesting coincidence that Bill Boyd plays in this picture. It was for a Boyd starring Alm "The Yankes Clipper," that the vessels were resurrected from a Boston shing' graveyard by Cecil B. Da. Mille and brought areond the Horn.
She and her sister, Miss Nisa, who sings and plays the violin, are two of the mainstays of their fa ther's act. They met with great ovations in Mexico City. Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Or
A trade notice states:- leans,
Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Brussels, Madrid,
Have you ever known one of those Cairo, Capetown, Bombay, Cal cutta, Sydney and Melbourne, to ance to Hollywood's small frater-blue-nosed and obnoxious, persons inention just a few of the cities nity of sound technicians, who who go about poking into other where they performed. Critiques with the development of talking people affairs-one that you'd like to in English, German, Frenco and Spanish appear in Miss Mina's pictures, have acquired hearing get by the thront and slowly, just pross-book, which has travelled just superhumanly acute, as much as she has.
They have become so able to dif- Miss Nisa and Miss Mina 'both; were born in Vienna, where their ferentiate between clicks, roars, mother is at present and where they crashes, rumbles, squeaks, squeals, with Robert Armstrong and Bar have their home. But they hardly boom and hops that they can bara Kent, which is having it to the California coast. The cost the passenger liners, trains, air almost distinguished between the final screenings to-day at
over are at home. Their homes are planes, hotels and theatres in all of the principal cities of the world.
Convent Education,
sound made by a dropped pin on a ship's deck or an a bar-room floor,
There are, for example, one thou sanding hundred and forty-three different sounds catalogued and on file in the sound film library at the Fox Films Corporation studios in Hollywood.
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Built in 1870, the Indiana and Bohemia played between Canton and Boston for the silk trade. When steam finally swept the square
for the plonsure of it, throttle rigged sailing vessels off the sce,
There is just such a person in Warner Brothers Vitaphone comody, Dumbbells in Ermino'
the
the two ships went into dock, sup- posedly to rot away in scnile decay. De Mille saw and purchased them, having them sailed around the Horn
Queen's. He is one of those smooth, of this voyage is said to have been unctuous men who take it upon several times the original purchase themselves to fixug the rest of the
price. world. Ho goes too far, however, and gets a large dose of his own bitter medicine-through the so-call- od dumb-belis he has had arrested after, a speakeasy raid of his mak-
Take the matter of ships' whistlesing.
Since The Yankee Clipper" was filmed in 1997, the two ships had remained in dock at Los Angeles harbour, awaiting another opportu nity for service and fame. That chance came in Suicide Fleet." Repaired and their ancient hulls.
They spent their school-days toge ther-five years in America, a year in a convent in Shanghai, and three years in Vienna. They have been travelling with their father, and sometimes with their mother, in "Cheaters at Play," the new film It is only one of the high spots for eight years now, but contrary coming next Thursday to the in the hilarious comedy, which is to general belief they are not yet King's Theatre. The Fox Films directed by John Adolf and adapt dirod of travelling.
Bibrarian has precisely 12 suched to the screen by Harvey Thow Miss Nisa, the youngest of the Blasts, or sound track, in his From Lynn Starling stage success mado seaworthy, the two ships made
James Gleason their sisters believes that an active life library files. They range from the Weak Sisters"
last voyage under their own and little sleep aids the figure and pitiful piping of a fishing dory in wrote the dialogue. health greatly. Two years ago in fog to the fulminating boom of
Others in the cast are Bery! Mer power. Each carried a crew of Buenos Aires, she wrote an article the Europa.
cer, James Glenson, Julia Swayne twenty-five meni. for “La Noveln Semanal," A Take the matter of crashes. There Gordon, Claude Gillingwater, Ar In the big R.K.O.Paths spectacle, translation of which follows
are the sounds made by the amack; thur Hoyt, Mury Foy and Cher the Indiana and Bohemia played of a second-hand car into a bakery Iptie Merriam.
dund rôles. They served window, the splintery crack of a beer truck ruining a bridge, the
floating studio and location home nwful Bound.of an airplane crash- ing in flames, the noable burst of flying overhead" and in his eye will for the film unit of 100 players and the vice squad through a speakeasy come that pained, unbelieving, I'm technicians and in the climaxing door and exactly 306 others in the sorry-for-you look. Is the plane battle scenes of the production were climbing or descending. It is sent into acting, parts as objects of Swimming, Miss Nian confesses, category.i is her favorite sport. In Hono- None except a trained airplane tri-motor or a single 1 Maybe it's submarino attacks fo lulu I loved to go to Waikiki every pilot would know, for instance, in a power dive Perhaps it is Bill Boyd, Robert Armstrong, Jhines Gleason, Ginger Rogers bal night for a long swim. My other that there are as many different zooming. favorite sport is tennis. And also kinds of airplane and motor noises In the making of “Cheaters at Harry Bannister bead the, cast of I adore horse racing and greyhound as there are airplanes and mutors. Play," in which Thomps. Meighan players. The story; was writtena racing. That is how I am different None, that is to say, except the and Charolley Greenwood have the Commander. Herbert A. Jones c from my sider Minn. She icela keper of the noise storehouse at leading roles, the sound technician the United States Navy and dow vory uthusiastic about riding the Movietone City studios, Ask had to supply a varietyto three Linton made the screen adaptation. horses but my delight is to try to him for the noise of an airship different sounds ships, plane and Albert Rogell directed this big
RKO Pathe special feature pick a winner in every race. Rip) (Vontinued at fast of next column.incity.
I sleep vory few hours and eat little, Miss Niza stated. "We are taught when we were very small to alcep just a little less than, is neces- sary. I never sleep more than eight hours a day. Usually I sleep lesa, than that."--
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The best ventilated Theatre in the Colony, with over 100 windows, which, on
open all night, give fresh and· natural air to the whole house. Our machine is of the biggest size the sound is the clearest and the price is the highest. We have two large-sized fits for the convenience of the Patrons.
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FEATURE THAT TAKES THE PLACE BESIDE "ALL QUIET," "WHAT PRICE GLORY," THE BIG PARADE" AND ALL OTHER ENDURING SCREEN ACHIEVEMENTS. 5,000 IN THE CAST. 155,000,000 WORTH OF ACTUAL NAVY A BIG CLIPPER EQUIPMENT. A REAL VESSEL · SUNK. BURNT. A FLEET OF GIGANTIO, DESTROYERS IN ACTION ALONG WITH THE SUBMARINES. WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE WHOLE FLEET OF U. 3. NAVY DESTROYERS AND SUBMARINES AND THOUSANDS OF · GOBS BEFORE THE PICTURE CAN BE MADE POSIBLE. IT'S LOADED WITH LAVORS AND THRILLS THAT ARE HEARTILY WELCOMED BY EVERY FAMILY AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
Throw out the whole board...in sea of laughs
SUICIDE FLEET
BILL BOYD: ROBERT ARMSTR
JAMES GLEA GINGER ROO
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