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QUEENTHITHEATRE AEROBATICS BY A
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9,20
ARRESTING STORY! CLEVER ACTING AMAZING THRILLS
ARTHUR WONTNER GORDON HARKER EDMUND GWENN
IN
CONDEMNED to DEATH
Adopted from JACK O·LANTERN
"Thrilling murder mystery/
A TWICKENHAM PRODUCTION
Preceded
by
GAUMONT
SOUND MIRROR
"AMERICAN MEDLEY”
Musical
CINE MAGAZINE
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A NATIONAL ·
EPIC OF NAVAL. HEROISM
MEN IKE THESE
In Admiration Of H. M. Submarine Service
A
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL
Picture
Ja Conjunction With
"OLD
SOLDIERS
NEVER
DIE"
Featuring LESLIE FULLER
(STAR)
TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW AT 2.30, 5.20, 720. & 9.20
TOM WALLS YVONNE ARNAUD, Edmond Breon, Winifred Shotter
ما
All Talking Pictor
of Freders
On Approval
WORLDA
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Ar 2:30, 16:16, 7.15 AND 9.20.
DANCE FOOLS DANCE
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
BOMBER.
EXCITING MOCK COMBAT
·AT REHEARSAL.
A twin-engined bombing hireraft, with gun positions and racks for heavy bombs, was thrown about in
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1932.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Queen's.
"Condemned to De
King'a.
Husband's Holiday."
Central.
the air like a singleseater during an exciting rock combat with ** The Last Love," three fighters at a rohearsal for World. the Royal Air Force Display at Hendon,
The pilot of the bomber-a Boul. con and Pani Sidestrand-was Ser. geant W. Methven, of No. 101 Squadron, and during the combat he not only performed a number of steep diven, Immelmann turns and sideslips, but also looped the miR- chine when he was hard pressed by the fighters.
It was a remarkable sight to watch the relatively large twin- engined aircraft turning and twist- ing almost as quickly as the single. seaters, and, had the fight been a real one, the three fighters would havo hnd the greatest difficulty in bringing the Sidestrand down.
"Fort" to be Destroyed.. Lator, a wock combat between throo Hawker Furies and a Hart day bomber seemed to go in favour of the Furies, so far as could be judged from the, ground. The Furies used their small margin of speed to place themselves in fav ourable firing positions under the tail of the Hart.
racd
Etar.
Dance Fools Dance."
KOWLOON.
"On Approval."
COMING.
Queen's.
"Men Like These."
?
"Tell England."
King's.
}
"One Hour with You." Central.
"Corsair."
World.
Coek of the Air."
King of the Wild" (part 2). "Their Ows Desire,"
“CONDEMNED TO DEATH."
EXCELLENT ENTERTAIN- MENT AT QUEEN'S.
A novel item in the Display re-i hearsal was the "tortoise between five Tiger Moths. The ma chines were required to fly over the Some murder stories are grip aerodrome as slowly as possible, ping, others are fascinating while without turning. One pilot kept there is that kind that holds one his forward speed down by con tinually stalling his machine steep ly and then pulling quickly out of the subsequent dives. In this man Hor he passed over the aerodroms in a series of curves.
formed.
in suspense from the word "go" up till the end. It would be safe, however, to say that "Con- demned To Death" has all these qualities and that is perhaps what makes it one of the best "talkies". of its kind seen on the local screen for inany a long day.
The aerobatics were up to the asual high standard and the wing drill by three squadrons of Hawker The story is good and the Hart day boabers was well per-plot excellent and as far as the acting is concerned, Arther Win- The scenery for the act piece with
Gorden Harker tur,
and Ed- which the Display will endmund Gwean, not forgetting the been almost completed on the far, supporting cast, play their parts side of the aerodrome. It represo well that very little is left to be sents a fort on an aerodrome. The desired for.
iden is that this fort is being used
In the story, Scotland Yard is
as a bomb store. During the Disconfronted with the task of tracing play it will be destroyed by bomb-down a maniac killer whose das- ing aircraft.
GUESTS AT THE PENINSULA,
tardly way of doing away." with his victims has the whole country ow the edge of their nerves, so to speak. Jim Wronch (Cyril Ray- mond) in the role of an enterprising young detective makes up his mind Major NU. Adams, Dr. V. A. to run "the killer" to earth. Jim Albers, Dr. S. B. Arenson.
is very much in love with the niece.
Major A. Barker, Mr. Berlin-¡ of a retired judge and much to his cioni, Mr. and Mrs. R. Bigazzi, amazement he learns that "the kill- Mr. E. G. Hird, Col. and Misses II.or's" intest victim is a doctor-friend and J. Boyd, Capt. J. W. Bundred, of his girl's uncle, Mr. G. D. Baruette, Mr. R. G. Butler.
Mr. A. L Caplan, Mr. R. L. Clark and family, Miss I. N. Clarke, Mr. W. D. Coffey, Dr. J.
F. H. Cogan, Mrs. E. Cogan, Gen.
In the course of his investiga- tions, Jim learns that in every in- stance "the killer's" victim hnd been a witness in a case in which Sir Charles Wallington (the uncle) had sont a man to the gallows,
Was the killer then someone iden-
M. A. Cohen, Miss S... Coben,tified with the dead man determin- Mr. W. D. Cooley, Mr. F. H. Craped, as vengeance, to murder, all the nell, Miss A. Cuenca.
witnesses who figured in that frial 7
Col. and Mrs. E. S. Doughty, Mr. R. N. Drake, Dr. and. Mrs. Drenkhahu, Miss W. Dyer.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Easterbrook, Mrs. B. Elder, Mr. Glynn Evans.
Miss D. Faye, Mrs. Ferrand, Capt. and Mrs. W. Field-Hook, Mrs. K. F. and Miss P. Friend, Mr. C. E: Frisque,
Mr. RW. Gardiner, Mr. I. H
The way in which the young sleuth sets about the business is too good to be missed so we recommend In visit to the Queen's Theatre whore excellent entertainment is nasured.
Before the feature film the sudience is put in good humour with three short, Almas all of which are really good. "Condemned To Death." has a run of three days.
KINGS THEATRE
LAST TWO DAYS
| At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
You Can't get away from this
Mr. Hasband,
even on
HUSBAND'S HOLIDAY
Qandanas Pieter
with
CLIVE
BROOK
Charli
RUGGLES
Vivienne
Osborne
Jullette
Compton
Harry Bannister
TO-DAY
- NEXT CHANGE
COMMENCING. SUNDAY 81st JULY
MAURICE
=
CHEVALIER
IN
'One Hour with You
A Paramount Picture
with
Jeanette MacDONALD
Genevieve
TOBIN
Charlie RUGGLES Roland YOUNG
AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
PRODUCTION
Bear these
Song Hits
"One Hour With You" “Wɛ Will Always Be. Sweat hearts" "What Would You Do?" and others!
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING ROAD, WANCHAI.
GRAND
HUSBAND'S
HOLIDAY."
REALISM AT THE KING'S.
A trade notice states:--- Audiences at the King's Theatra {„to-day" geb - an "intimata-vidw" of American family life, a view such na in real life would not even be
CENTRAL THEATRE
TEL
25720
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30
vouchsafed to near-relatives of the "THE LATEST CHINESE MOVIETONE SINGING AND principals involved. The things
TALKING SUPER SPECIAL - DRAMA'
that happen in this animated pic YANG NOI MUI & SUN KING LAM
ture of minor and major tragedies, amall and large joys,, are things
thab even inquisitivo neighbours in
real life would never dream could take place in that, house next door."
Clive Brook, hending the cast,
IN
THE LAST LOVE”
WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST
PRODUCED BY THE UNIQUE CO. SHOWING SOON
is auparb. He is the husband who! goes astray. Captivated by the charms of a beautiful young girl- THE LATEST 1932 UNITED about-town, he decides that this
ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE new, romantic love must replace ROLAND WEST & CHESTER MORRIS, THE WINNING COM- the boresomo stolidity of a domes-BINATION WHO CREATED "ALIBI" NOW TOGETHER AGAIN tie existence which has begun to IN THIS SURGING, FAST-MOVING DRAMA OF THE HIGH SEAS get very much on his nerves.
But his wife won't see it that
way. She tells him that this offeir is a passing fancy, too trival to upset the even tenor of their mar- ried life. Then there are their two darling children to be considered, Sho refuses to agree to be consider- ed. She refuses to agree to getting a divorce.
Brook is swept into a series of dramatic dilemmas, his wife de- cidos to accept the attentions of an old lawyer-aweetheart, and the girl in the case
suffers several re- lapses of conscience. Othed mem- bera of the family are vitally affect ed by the potentialities which get more complex, more dangerous, until a kindly fate intercedes and solves the whole problem, spread- ing a soothing balm of happiness upon the closing scenes,
Vivienne Osborne brings a nicely- tempered emotional skilfuluess to the role of the wife Juliette Compton, one of the bettor of the younger sirens of the talkies, puts vigour colour, emotion and realness into the rôle of the girl in the case. Charlie Ruggles, as a relativo of the family, provides many comedy |
bit.
The role of the two children are enacted by Dickie Moore and Marilyn Kownldon, a pair of youngsters whom everyone will Juve..
"MEN LIKE THESE.”
BRITISH. SUBMARINES EPIC FOR QUEEN'S.
A trade, notice states:~~
in
At Inst a film can be seen British cinemas which is not a tri- bute to the heroism of the Ameri- caur qution, but which without ex- oggeration extels the heroism of
our own men.
Poland
Werte CORSAIR
United Artist Pictóre........
Chester Morris
COMING
THE LATEST UNITED ARTISTS
HOWARD HUGHES
SUPER SPECIAL PICTURE
COCK OF THE AIR
CHESTER MORRIS
Maurice Chevaller and Genevieve Tobin in a scene from the latest Paramount production" One Hour With You" coming to the King's and Oriental Theatres on Sunday, July 31.
"ONE HOUR WITH
YOU."
A CHEVALIER-MACDONALD
COMBINE...
Men Like These," a title chosen by the critics at a private show of this impressive picture of the dan gera men face in submarines, does not pretend to be a reconstruction | of any tragedy on record. It shows us just what happens when a sub marine is rammed by a steamer.
Bix officials of the Admiralty ti whom the film has been shown have expressed enthusiastic approval of muster craftsman of cinematic pro- it. The Admiralty throughout the ductions, scores & hit in " Ono making of the film gave the direc-Hour With You." tor. Walter Summers, every as sistance, and lent Captain Brude 66 naval advisor.
Gear, Mr. W. F. Gemperis, Mr. Mis M. Manuk, Mr. E. J. M.|| OPENING | the interior of a submarine,
E B Gilder, Mr. L. L. Gilean, Mr. Gann, Mr. W. L. McKenzie, Mr.
W. T. Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. H. Melbyo, Mrs. M. Mien, Mr.
Gould, Col. and Mrs. F. E. Gowan,
Mr. T. M. Gregory,
Mr. and Mrs. C... M. Hall, Miss
Julie Hammel, Mr. E. Hanuman Mr. and Mrs. V. Havlicek, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hodgson, Mrs. L. Howie.
and Mrs. L. Miranda, Mr. O. Moji. zicok, Dr. and Mrs. T. Montinola,
Mr. A. H. Morant,.....
Mr-A-M. Parker, Mr. Palmer,
Mr W. O Pirio,
ON
SUNDAY,
$1st JULY
A trade notice states:- Once again, Ernest Lubitsch, the
Immediately after the completion
of Broken Lullaby," Lubitsch be came the director of Maurice Che valier's latest picture, One Hour With You," with Jeannette Mac Donald playing the featured Zeminine réle. This picture is a comedy-drama with musical inter- ludes and is similar in type and dramatic action. to. The. Love' Parnia" and "The Smiling Lieutenant. These pictures re- Rected Lubitsch's outstanding
which Mau directorial genius, in rice Chevalier in the stellar rótes delighted millions of theatre-goers.
When a youth in his teens, Lubitsch decided to
actor. He was successful. The
an
With Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald teamed to- Designs were lent to the art de gether for their best work, assisted partment of British International by players of excellent past por- Pictures for a model in reproducformance, and Ernest Lubitsch's
and also certain parts of the ma-
discerning eye and hand at the con chinery, which could not be copied trols, there is little wonder that stagecraft interested him and he in the studio
Paramount's "One Hour With became a successful director, Thers The rising of the water after the You" scores heavily
the now medium of dramatío ex- vessel is struck, and the heroic
M. F. Reck, Mr. F. C. E. Ron | AT 280, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 PM. waiting of the men until it reaches In the great motion picture in pression-motion pictures—wna - dall, Miss J. N. Robertson, Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Rabino, Mr. W. O.
Mr. T. Santos, Col. and Mrs. C.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Jennings, Mr. Savile, Mr. E. Scott, BI L
and Mrs. T. Jones.
ML Kadoorie, Mre. C. Kaye, Mr NW Koyworth,
M.
Mr. and Mrs, L. E. Lamorje, Mr B. Lano, Mr. R. F. Lazier, Col, DG. Lecky, Miss A, Ledesma, Mr
Scott, Mr. G. Smith, Mr, R.
Stillard, “Mr. L.. E. Stone, Mr. and
Mra: C. Byquia
Mr. J Thomson,
Travom
Mrs. A. Tromp. Miss M. M. Tyrell. Mr. and Mrs T. P. Ulderup, Mr LP. Van Calcar, Mr. M:
and Mrs. L1, Ledesma, Miss AJ. Van Schreven. Lopez, Mr. and Mra. V. Lopez
-(Continued on neti Columa)______
Mr. J. Watts, Miss P. Webster. Mrs. II. Toung
“ONE HOUR
WITH YOU
SPECIAL PRICES- FOR THIS PICTURE_ONLY D. CIRCLE $1.10. B, STALLS 85e.
STALLS 356.
a level which will compress the air
at
sufficiently to make it possible to dustry Ernest Lubitsch has a regaining prominence. Ite possibili- open the hatch, seem so real that
there is on suggestion that it took cord of directional accomplishment ties intrigued his ime place within an immense glass that is unsurpassed. Recently, tank.
ho turned his
The men, some of them old after many weeks of arduous work, silver, soreen and taste sailors, make their escape by means ma
ho completed Broken Lullaby, surprising results, De of-the-Davis èquipment, -and : you |
see them gradually rising to this pronounced by crities one of the sociated with U.F surface, where they are picked up best pictures of the year, and per many, he produced. by naval boats
Men Lake These will open at has the greatest, metaphysical pie the Queen's on Susday for a four
days', run,
ture drama of the decade
Deception," which international rep
gave