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QUEEN TEATRE CANADA BECOMING
TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW AT 5.10, 7.16 AND 9.20 (2.80 Picture Programme Only) RETURN OF LA- GREAT SHOW-
LONG TACK SAM
with
MI-NA & NEE-SA and Entire Troupe
A Changed Programme in Conjunction with an Unusua. Picture.
HONKY TONK
TUCKER
NEXT CHANGE
Is sacrifice for one's child a sin? If it is, that was
The SINdf Madelon Claude
with
HELEN HAYES supreme star of the stage
LEXIS STOVE
AZIL HAMILTON
CLIFF EDWARDS
JEAN BENSHOLT
HAMIE PRAVOST
A Meteor
$125 on-
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
STOR
SELF-SUSTAINED
"THE DEVELOPMENT OF
EMPIRE TRADE EVIDENCED.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1932.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
"Heartbreak.”
HONG KONG
Queen's.
"Honky Tonk and Long Tack
Sam.
King's.
Central
"Murders in the Rue Morgue."!
"It's A Wise Child."
KOWLOON.
An increasing Empire conseisus- -nees: in- Canada's foreign purchase is revealed by Government statis- ties issued recently. There figures. alow that Canada is becoming - creasingly self-sustaining and in reducing or imports is favouring those from the Empire to the detri. ment of those from other coun- tries, The Dominion Bureau of Statistics xury of Canadian trade for the twelve months ending April as compared with the proced-star.
ing twelve months, shows that
| Canada's imports from foreign coun- tries have dropped off by $200,308,- 610 or nearly forty per cent. to 0414,127,275 while thoug from the British Empire have deerensed only 259,802,708 or nearly thirty per cent. to $142,981,551.
World.
"The Great Lover,"
Queen's.
COMING.
"Sin of Madelen Claudet."
"Condemned to Death." "Tell England,"
"My Sin,"
Husband's Holiday." "One Hour with You."
Central.
Wings."
World.
On the other hand Canada's ex- port trade with Empire countries | King's. has been better sustained than that with foreign countries and the per- centage of her exports to the Bm- pire has increased from 37,194 per cont. to 38.51 per cent. while that to foreign countries has correspon. dingly decreased. Canada's exports to foreign countries decreased by $113,855,800 or nearly 20 per cent. to $250,103,979 while those to the British Empire decreased by 870,692,768 or 24.8 per cent. $219,291,004.
While Canada's export trade has suffered from world wide depression the Dominion has been able to
to
increase her world markets in a number of specific commodities such a apples, canned fruit, pickles, canned and preserved fish, onions and turnips, coarse grain, livestock, leaf tobacco, buson and hans, some
eats, mutter, cheese, eggs, dressed poultry and honey, stockings pulp and fibre boards, needles and pins, vacuum cleaners, soap, some chemi- cals, cameras, ete
LUNG-HAI RAIL CON- STRUCTION.
TROUBLE WITH LAND
OWNERS.
Nanking, July 11.-In connection with the eastern extension of the Lang-Hui Line from Haichow to Hankow on the northern Kiangsu coast, the Railway Administration is meeting with some difficulty in acquiring land for its construction It is learn that owners of land are opposed to the scale of compensa. tion fixed by the authorities, con- aidering it below the market value.
Upon receipt of this report, Mr. Chien Tsung Tso, Managing Direc tor of the Railway, despatched a company of railway guards to Hai- elow for the protection of workers now engaged in the construction in anticipation of possible violence on the part of the disgruntled land-
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30, 5.20, 720. & 9.20
ADOLPHE MENJOU { owners.-Kno Min.
TRENE DUNNE
IN
THE
GREAT LOVER
WORLDA
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
SHANGHAI AND EDUCATION
www.
Conisnued from Page 5.).
zoologien garden in the Native City' and plan to have it ready in thireo months.
** Censorship of filma-although the Board of Centora are in Nan- king, the eyes of the Board are still in Shanghai and we visit | cinemas to see that films are pro perly censored and the regulations are carried out.
With regard to the registration.
of private schools, 032 of all grades have been registered, this includes
a number in the two settlements. -
In order to control all privato schools, the best way is to re
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register them. Since 1928, 00 per cent. havé applied for registration, the other one per cent, are either mis- sionmry schools or those who do not, come up to the requirencats of the regulations of the Ministry, Il they don't come in we must enforce
IT'S A WISE CHILD our rules and close them, dews,
said Dr. Hau.
Star,
"King of the Wild."
Dance Fools Dance."
Abraham Lincoln." "On Approval,”
SOPHIE TUCKER AT THE QUEEN'S.
LONG TACK SAM'S AMAZING ACT.
A trade notice states:-
at
A dual existence is led by Sophie Tucker in Honky Tonk," Warner Bros. latest talking, singing Vita- phono production now the Queen's Theatre, in which she makes her initial appearance as a screen star, after many years as the premiere "red hot mumms" of the stage. Though she is the principal entertainer in a notorious night club, the story reveals that she is in reality a lover of home, and merely follows her vocation that her daughter may be maintain- fashionable European ed in school:
N
In this production the dynamic Sophie renders many of her hurri- caue songs, bringing to the screen the artistry that long ago catablish- ed her as
favourite of the millions.
Į
In "Honky Tonk" Miss Tucker is surrounded with an exceptional supporting east which includes George Duryen, Lila Lee, Audrey Ferris, Hahlon Hamilton and Jolm T: Murray.
Long Tack Sam.
Long Tack Sam and his clever troupe are again giving their anas ing performance. The show is in- doutedly one of the finest ever seen in Hong Kong.
A LITTLE
care in setting up an advertisement often doubles its selling power.
It is that little "extra-thought-and care, which
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given to every advertisement drawn up in the office of the Hong Kong Daily Press, which brings good results.
KING'S THEATRE
LAST TWO DAYS : At 2.80; 5.10, 7.15 -9.80 p.m.
CHARLES FARRELL
through
"HEARTBREAK:"
LOVE TRIUMPHANT AT THE KING'S..
A trade notice states:-
There is a very close parallel be tween the character of the real Charles Farrell and the charactor which he is portraying on the serven of the King's Theatre, in
Heartbreak," Fox romance love triumphant over all obstacles. Madge Evans is starred with him in the feminine leading role.
of
In the story Farrell is a young American attached to the U.S. em. Busy in Vienna. He falls in love with a beautiful Austrian countess enacted by Miss Evans. His love is returned and all seems to be de veloping to the consumamation of an ideal courtship when the con
ulsions of international conflict.
Farrell acci-
MADGE to, the two.
EVANS
dentally is responsible for the death of his sweetheart's brother,
He is so sickoned by this fatality that he deserts, but through the
HEARTBREAK ensuing disgrace a friend remains
to happiness
You women who know how to forgive will know that when her lips told him to go her heart would call him back.
A Fox Picture
CHANGE
-NEXT
SUNDAY, 24th JULY
Flimdom's
favorites-
LLULAH
BANKHEAD
FREDRIC
MARCH
"Sin
a
Parametert Pictur
OTEAMED, for the FIRST time! In a smashing DRAMATIC
EVENT!
BOOKING AT THE
THEATRE TEL, 25313.
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD, WANCHAI.
WATCH FOR “OPENING DATE!
1000
INSURES COMFORTABLE COMFORT,
SEATS
Good
FROM
NEW YORK.
PERFECT
COUND,
'י
true and his sweetheart keeps him, in her heart till they are finally reunited.
One can well imagine the samo sort of devotion being hestowed on Farrell in real life were he placed the same circumstances. He 15 one of the most popular members of de whole screen colony. Affable, unassuming. loyal, he is as free from professional jealousy, (15 chongh he had no standing among the stars whatever. And he is not only liked but admired. There is in him a strong streak of that New iginad devotion to principle which is proverbial, and which
similar to the moral courage dis played by the youth he portrays in "Heartbreak,**
Hardie Albright has the featur. fed part of the brother of Miss Evalia who falls before Farrell. Paul Cavanagh is 8. Austrian rival for Miss Evans' band while John Arledge is the loyal friend
"MY SIN."
"TAULULAH" FOR THE
KING'S.
A trade otice states:- "My Sin opens at the King's Thentro on Sunday, with Tallulað Baakhrad and Fredric March and a supporting cast of exceptional talent.
All the world knows of the as
CENTRAL THEATRE
25720
SHOWING TO-DAY
J
at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30
THE SCREEN'S
EDGAR ALLAN POE'S WORLD-FAMOUS CLASSIC OF HORROR BECOMES
GREATEST SUPER SPEOLL SHOCKER. MORE WILD & WEIRD THAN "DRACULA” MORE AMAZING & TERRIFYING THAN FRANKENSTEIN. TT WILL THRILL YOU, CHILL YOU & FASCINATE YOU FROM BEGIN- NING TO THE END.
SUPER SHOCKERI
We warned you ávést "Dracula. We wamed you again about, "Frankenst-in.” Now we wam you that the blood wit nun cold in your vains at the amazing, almost unbelievable flings you'll see. In this picture...the temible. things that chly Poa could Imagine and only Univayal clared plebete.
Wid
SIDNEY FOX and BELA LUGOSI
("Descode! Final), Leon Wercoll, Bert Reach, Brendan Hurst, Nebá Johnson, D'Arcy Canigen,
Murders
Cai Latnals, Jr.'
dormed by Robert Florey
UNIVERKAL PICTURE
Rue Morgue
S
POE
WE WARNED YOU ABOUT "DRACULA.” WE WARNED YOU ABOUT FRANKENSTEIN." NOW WE WARN YOU THAT THE BLOOD WILL BUN COLD IN YOUR VEINS AT THE AMAZING, ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE THINGS YOU WILL SEE IN THIS UNUSUAL & UNIQUE PICTURE
ONLY POE COULD IMAGINE IT--- ONLY UNIVERSAL DARED TO PICTURIZE IT! SHOWING SOON
THE AVIATION'S MARVELLOUS MASTERPIECE
PERFECTLY SYNCHRONIZED WITH SOUND,
a paramātri.
WINGS
tonishing success of Tallulah Bank. EDGAR ALLAN POE
head on the open stage, particular. ty in London where for eight years she became a veritable craze with English devotees of the theatre. And the Loudoner knows his drama tics. They are all schooled in the art of "make believe." They spot
THRILLER.".
BOOKED BY CENTRAL THEATRE.
calent instantly and never fail to A Trade Notice states: the Cen- award merit a generous acclaim.tral Theatre has booked Edgar And when talent is buttressed by Allan Poe's most famous story, beauty, then all London becomes" Murders in the Rue Morgue,” enslaved to the new queen of the
A half-demented doctor, intent on drams. This was Tallulah's setting for eight years.
SIN OF MADELON
CLAUDET."
NEXT CHANGE AT THE QUEEN'S.
A trade notice states:- Edgar Selwyn, who directed The Sin of Madelon Claudet," which will open at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. At sixteón, nu crossing the blood of a gigantic ape New York, where he secured a jon orphan and penniless, he came to with that of a living girl, animates as an usher at the Herald Square the terrifying story of "Murders Theatre. His is a typical Horatio When Miss Bankhead returned in the Rue Morque," Universal's Alger, career, for from this lowly her native land, Paramount imme.
strange drama which comes to the only the star of bis own plays, diately secured her for the stellar Central Theatre today, with Sidney Pierre of the Plains" and "The rále in "Tarnished Lady," "Fox and Bola Lugosi in the lend Arab," but subsequently became which she scored an unquestioned ing roles. It is the famous Edgar stage producers. Together with hir president of Selwyn and Company. victory as a screen star. of extra-Allan Poo story renovated for the brother, Arch Selywn, he has pro ordinary brilliance.
position ho rose to become not
Within the Law." With the com-
screen. Rumour from Hollywood duced some of Broadway's biggest In My Sin," Fredric March says "It is a Dracula" and successes, including "Dancing Mo thers" Gentlemen Prefer Blon plays opposite Miss Bankhead "Frankenstein " rolled into one des," "Fair and Warmer "and DIRECT VENTILATION,The play is a thrilling story of the and churned together in an ice
ing of talkies Selwyn has, body mo créant freeier. regeneration of two human dere The story is laid in Paris in the ing recently directed "Evs the
tively engaged in Hollywood, hav licts through mutual sympathy and year 180, and the sinister Dr. Fifth," "War Nurse" and Men
Call It Love," Mirakle, impersonated by Lugosi, Į an understanding love.
causos the death of three young ↑ Here is a story that demands an
women in his mad experiments, drams. actor of strength, versatility, and until the dumb affection of the Lugosi makes Dr. Mirakle an inherent sympathy for its leading gorilla is attracted by Miss Fox, in even more menacing figure than the character of Camille L'Ispan Dracula," the role in which he inale characterization. Paramountoye, Miraklo, feeling that Camille created a sensation last season, and
will form an ideal subject for for Miss Fox brings to the screen-the- made a wise selection when they ther experiments, captures the girl high ability and girlish beauty the ensuring events, it is said, made one of the coming stars of the with the assistance of the ape, and which have already marked ber as of "Murders in the Rue Merque motion picture. "Murders in the ture in the history of the talking Robert Florey and other promin the most grusomely thrilling pie Ruo, Morquo was directed by
scroon. The climax of the story ant roles in the picture are played. the most strenuous demands, yet he takes place on the roof-tops of by Leon Waycoll, Brandon Hurst,
WHERE THE BEST OF FIEST-RUN TALKING PICTURES WILL BE
PRESENTED.
POPULAR PRICES.
cast March for the part. He has a likable personality, and a reser THE LATEST WESTERN voir of dramatic ability ample for
ELECTRIC SOUND EQUIPMENT.
can be delicate when subtleties are Faris, in scanes which are said to Bert Reach, Betty Rom Clarke, be filled with suspense, and moving Noble Johnson, and D'Arcy Cor required in the part.
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