QUEENS THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, -7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
ARBO
Ramon
in a ne w
picture
is an event
TOVARRO
will thrill you at
he makes love to her!
MATA HARI
An Unforgettable Drama
with
LIONEL
ARRYMORE
LEWIS STONE
·ALSO IN THE PROGRAMME-
The 3rd Series of M-G-M Flit
Volce-Guessing Contest
COMING SHORTLY,
PALS!
-and
how
you'll
love
them
together!
AN ADULT PICTURE:
Gnopellin
JACKIE
Cooper
America's Boy Star and Lovable, Langbable
CHARLES
SALE
in a great drama
WHEN A
FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m
WARNER BROS.
The
Present
HOTTENTO
ROY DEL KUTH
'DISORDERLY
CONDUCT.
AT THE KING'S..
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
Queen's
HONG KONG.
***Mata Hari."
An interesting and well noted film is the impression given by "Disorderly Conduct" which will | King's. apon at the King's next Sunday.
After To-morn Central.
"Corsair,"
A very human story runs through sho' picture, which portrays Ameri- can politics and the American Polios Force, in a frank and sensa-World. cional ninnner,'".
"Oh Sailor Behave."
The leading players, Spencer Tracy and Sally Eilers form an Oriental. excellent combination in which
their respective personalities are
given full scope,
No one
Man."
KOWLOON.
over-
boot-
Star.
"Hottentot."
COMING.
Spencer Tracy, as Dick Fay is reclaced in rank for his zealousness in agresting & legger's daughter, Sally Eilors. Realising there is no chance of getting on in" The Foren " unless he resorts to the practice of the .. day, he turns crooked and accepts bribes from speak-easy proprietora.
His corruption reaches culming tion point when he is delegated to lend the raid on the night club from which he is receiving hush- money. The boot-legger's daughter present at the time of the raid and involved in a murder chargo of which she is innocent.
Out of spite for having him. re- duced in rank, Fay arrests the girl and threatens to charge her with the murder of this "bootlegger's Recomplice. He accepts mottey to forego his threat, is discharged From the force, and is sought "hy the man he double-crosynd.·
In n shooting fraens, which en-i sues he is badly wounded and de cides to return the money, Ull. mately he is restored to his former rank on the force and is rewarded by the affection of the authorcas of his former troubles;
Plenty of action is provided throughout this picture, and good support is lent by Ralph Bellamy and Ed, Brendel.
AFTER
TO-MORROW."
Queen's.
King's.
When 4 Fellor Needs a
Friend."
Disorderly Conduct." This is the Night."
Central.
Star,
Devotion. "Caught Cheating."
"Honky Tonk." Oriental.
"Sooky,"
prominence. He is Frank Borzage, Fox director, whose latest produc- tion, After Tomorrow," showing today at the King's Theatre.
Sonic years ago, Miss Gaynor and Farrell were just two of the many struggling extras in Holly- wood. It was Borzage, with his keen insight who took these two unknowns, put them in the leading and roles of 7th Heaven" through his own ability to capture an actor's artistry, made theur stars overnight,
And only last year Borzage added
THE DIRECTOR WHO MADE two more to the list of stars he
THE STARS.
James
has put in the spotlight. Dunn bad just arrived at the screen capital. Sally Eilers had been there for some time playing n important and minor roles. picked them for the lends in his
Hu
A trade notice states:- In their loud laudations of screen stars, movie fans-and newspaper and magazine writers ng well-are often prone to overlook the manproduction, "Bad Girl," and agaia or men who make these celebri: screen history repeated itself. ties, Janet Gaynor, Charles Fag In addition to Farrell and Miss rell, James Dunn and Sally Efiers Nixon, the cast of "After To- -much has been said and written morrow" includes Minna Gombell, about this. quartette of favourites, William Pawley, William Collier; but altogether too little has beenSr., Nora Line and Ferdinand heard about the one man who Munier. The film is based upon brought each of those stara into the stage success of John Goldon
(Continued at next column.} and Hugh Stange.
GOSSIP
FACT,
路
lions but for a change and a rest; they have worked for five years without a holiday. They are buth married-Mr. Laurel has a four- years-old daughter--and they are both unfamilar with the considera- tious which are supposed to wake it a miracle to be happy though married in Hollywood. When not at work, Mr. Hardy lives for the day he will find another stroke re- moved from his golf handicap,
McNaughton's Lie History,
Born in London, McNaughton is a member of a family that is fam- ous in lie theatrical profession, His father was Georga de Clerq of Black Justice" fame, and his mother, Georgie Wright, a Gaiety Invourite in her day. Itelated by blood and marriage are many cele brities, including the late Marie Lloyd, Jack and Evolyn,. the Paluski Brothers and in America the noted Nelson family of eircus while Mr. Laurel prays for the moment he may land that mythica!
Jainc.
At fifteen years of age, Gus be-ah about which no fisherman need gan his stage career with the celelio!
brated Conquest family (the great
rival to the Lupino's) and within Hollywood's Request.
a week had roplaced the principal Wanted. Half-a-dozen lamp. comedian in a burlesque on "Ham-posts. Must be genuine London; if lo." MeNdughton during the war possible with "pedigree." To be was the ton stone boxing champien shipped to America
of the R.A.F. He isn" suratoi golfer.
Ohevalier in Europe.
many
Hollywood has mado strange requests, but this is pro bably the strangest. The lamp. posts are wanted to give the au Maurice Chevalier left Holly thentic touch to the street scenes wood recently for his an of "Cavalcade," which the Fox nual holiday at his summer home people are to make in their Holly. ngár Cannes. Chevalier rewood studios. Winfield Sheehan, cently completed his work, who has charge, of production over iLove Me To-night, which thare, in making the request to his Roubed Mamoulian directed. A London office says: If the lamp few scenes without tih star remain posts have served for years in Pic to completa this new musical recadilly, Leicester Square, the mance which will probably be com Strand or Trafalgar Square, or pleted while he is in Europe. He any other London landmark, this will remain abroad until Septem- would make them doubly interest ber 15, when he leaves for Holly-ing g wood again.
Miss Dvorak Leaves: Hollywood, Laurel and Hardy,
Miss Dvorak, a brunette with Mr. Stanley Laure! and Mr the most oxpressive eyes on the Oliver Hardy, are in London on screen, suddenly left Hollywood bé. holiday, Mr. Laurel and Mr cause Warner Brothers, who were Hardy, although they have been as sub-contracting her-from-her em- sociated for five years in a part-ployer, Howard Hughes, the famous nership of increasing fame, have producer, would not give her a not developed "star consciousness" Balary increase. Although she was and are still delightfully surprised then world-famous, she was only by their success, says & London earning £50 a week, but Mr. writer. They are hard-working, Hughes, her employer, was making home-loving men who appreciatore prafton kere contract Thren d tremendously their popularity and years ago, Miss Dvorak was picked are embarrassed by it. Unlike out of a chorus To-day she is one most cinema stars, they have not of the most widely discussed of come to London to collect social! film storą.
TAI PING THEATRE
KINGS THEATRE AT WEST POINT.
SHOWING
TODAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.
The Stage Play of Young Love that Broadway Adoradi
After Tomorrow
with CHARLES
FARRELL
MARIAN NIXON
FRANK BORZAGE PRODUCTION
FOX PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY 4th, SEPT.
"I'LL PAY ANY
PRICE FOR THRILL!”
Rich enough
to do what she wanted, Pretty enough to get away with it!
DISORDERLY
CONDUCT
with
SALLY.
EILERS
SPENCER
TRACY
EL
BRENDEL
Dickle MOORE
Directed by JOHN W.CONSIDINE Jɛ. -FOX PICTURE
BOOKING TEL. 25313
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD, WANCHAI, SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2,80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.
Her Heart's Content
with
no
One man
A Paramount Picture
CAROLE LOMBARD RICARDO CORTÉZ
PAUL
NEXT CHANGE" SUNDAY 4th, SEPT.
JACKIE COOPER
AND ROBERT COOGAN
SOOKY
A Paramount Picture
BOOKING TEL 28473
OPENED YESTERDAY, WITH
A SKY BRIDE,"
Yesterday saw the opening of a new cinema house-the fine Tai Ping Theatre, down at West Point. It must be one of the biggest theatres in the Colony, is tastefully decor- ated and cooled by an adequate supply of both over-head and
desk" fans.
CENTRAL THEATRE
SHOWING
TO-DAY
at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p
THE LATEST UNITED ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE WALTER GREEN'S FAMOUS LIBERTY MAGAZINE NOVEL THAT THRILLED MILLIONS NOW BECOMES A GREAT SCREEN Yesterday the theatre was en fete decorated with flowers and gar. TRIUMPH. ROLAND WEST & CHESTER MORRIS NEWEST lands and extra showing of GREAT SUCCESS IN A SURGING, FAST-MOVING, HIGHLY- electric lights over the façade, THRILLING & GREATLY-ENTERTAINING DRAMA OF THE
The starring picture was Sky Bride," a picture with some of the
HIGH SEAS. most remarkable and unbelievable stunt #ying ever reproduced on the atreon. It is easy to say, "Oh it is all faked," but much of this looked far more like genuine nero- nautical fireworks than aludio: sets. The roar of the engines added tremendously to the affect of power. and speed and daring,
The story is in places a bit rough and ready. There is plenty of American humour of the hard- bollen kind, but the flying is the thing. If you are a dying fau go and see "Sky Bride" and then walk slowly through West Point. that lovely and amazing Piccadilly, plus Arabian Nights of Hong Kong till you embark in a car or a humble tram at the Whitty Street au.
R.B...
GRETA GARBO AND ROULETTE.
:
FRENCH LAW STOPPED HER
PLAYING IT,
A trade notiće states:-
Whit
French gambling casino without roulette?"
That's the question Director George Fitzmaurice had to answer during the filming of lavish gamblu ing pavilion scenes for Mata Hari," the Queen's attraction in which Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro are co-starred by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer,
The locale of the story is Paris
A MODERN PIRATE Who became the menace of the bigh scan only to bo conquered by a beautiful stowaway aboard his raiding craft!
ROLAND
WEST'S
ORSAIR
STALKING
CHESTER MORRIS
ALISON LOYD
UNITED
ARTIST'S
PICTURE
From WaltonGreen's Liberty
Magazino
Story.
SHOWING SOON
in the early days of the World War THE STAR OF STARS IN A
and the gambling casino 18 suppos ed to represent ♫ Jashionable rendezvous just outside the capital. Daly chemin de fer and other card games were allowed at the gaming) tables on the film set.
The reason for the absence o1 roulette equipment, explained Fitz. maurice, a native of Paris, is be cause the wheel game has beva ban- ned in France for many years, Contrary to the general idea of Parisian gambling. Possession of roulette wheels, he said, bringa atvere prison sentences and fines that prohibit "taking chances by gaming operators.
WONDERFUL STARTLING. STORY
ANN HARDING
DEVOTION
·A·LSO-
CHARLIE MURRAY & GEORGE SIDNEY
· IN THEIR NEWEST LAUGHING HIT
“CAUGHT CHEATING"
Chester Morris Corsair with Clison foyd
CORSAIR" AT THE
CENTRAL
REAL THRILLS WHILE FILMING.
A trade notico states:- Two weeks at sea with a deck load of pineapples sounds sale onough in any weather, espomally
Chester's "nover again" becomes
apparent.
31
Two large yachts, the Corsair skippered by Chester Morris, and tho
Quesedin t rum carrier, formed the nucleus of Roland West feet for the ocean scenes. In addi.. "tion" there were several launches and motor boats carrying camer. crews. For two weeks the expedi tion worked up and down the coast, out of sight of land, filming thril ling episodes.
West's entire fleet was equipped. with radio telephone apparatus, to mantain communication between boaty and the film studios in Holly wood. It also served for coui. munication purposes with the base of the filming expedition on Cata- lina Island, and with coastal" au. thorities in San Pedro harbour in the event of an emergency.
This is said to be the first use of radio telephone in the film mak÷ ing Rollo Lloyd and Robert Ross, who co-directed with West in the production of . “ Corsair "word ably to take and give order to the various units under their command while filming was in progress just as a war fleet would operate during an actual sea battle.
Dialogue Filmed at Bea
It was all necessitated by the fact Complete talking-recording equip. that Chester Morris was starring ment was installed, so the dialogue sequences were filmed actually at in Roland West's production, sea instead of having to be record- "Corsair." This is an adaptationed on sham sets inside the studio. of the Walton Green novel of the sound stages after the return to
Hollywood, a belt same name the tale of an All- American football hero who turns pirate,
Realistic Situation.
Corsair gives the real
down
low
on the rum fects which
A touch of war times was added by the use of camouflage for Chen ter Morris' boat. A disappearing extension for the bow, and deck housing were rigged up so that ins pleasure yacht could resemble a
freighter when coming, in sight, of
arum ship. The cargo of bombs added the danger of real adventuro
on a 90-foot steam yacht. But never again, says Chester Morris,ply between the Nova Scotia coast for the crew and actors, and was etar of United Artists picture and the Bahamas feeding the carried on desk to minimise dang "Corsair which comes to the Stream of launches, which the big or
Central Theatre to-day,
bootleg syndicates of New York Among the web-known players who shared the thrills and adven. Not, at least when the ping send out to the twelve mile limitares of the filming expedition with apples are of the Chicago variety, under the noses of the government | Chester Morils, ware Fred Kohler
bigh explosive bomba.
revenue, cuttera. It is the truth of Emmett Corrigan, Alison Lord.
A few fights wide Amerountable Situation revealed on an Maye fethot, Guy Seabrook Net boats, an unexpected storm and thor who at one time headed the Sparks, William Austin, Ray June the difficulty of taking movies on secret division of Prohibition En headed the Corsair cameral the high seas and the reason for forcement.