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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. The Greatest Comedy To Come to the Screen
GROCK
A Masterpiece with the
world famous 'GROCK'
in the leading role N.B. The first & reels of this wonderful production are in the German language as the scene is laid in Germany, but full ex- planatory titles are employed; the remainder of the picture is entirely in English dialogue.
FROM SUNDAY
PALS!
--and how
you'll
love them together! AN ADULT PICTURE:
JACKIE
COOPER
America's Boy Star' and Lovable, Laughable
CHARLES:
Chic SALE
In a great drama
WHEN
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1932.
MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE
"Pictures In Hong Kong
'WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND.".
NEXT CHANGE AT THE QUEEN'S.
A trade notice states:- Perhapa few picture-goers who are accustomed to seving Charles
“WORKING GIRLS" AT THE KING'S.
A TALE OF PRETTY SISTERS.
"Working Girls" showing at the King's Theatre is an unpretentous but quite amusing film, telling of Chic" Salo on the screen ia dof: the adventures of two pretty sis- portrayals of wrinkled groy-bearded ters who come to New York from old men have any idea that the the South to seek their fortunes. versatile, Mr. Sale is in reality One is hard-headed, the other is an extremely young chap, without not, but she makes up for it by A line in his face.
being the prettier of the two. In When a Feller Needs a Friend," coming to the Queen's Theatre next change, Chic" Sale and Jackie Cooper have co-starring parts and the former appears as Jackie's elderly Uncle Jonas, who
is bent on overcoming the youngs,
ter's fear of "mixing in" with
ther boys.
Prior 20
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There is a wayward young lover, and a very solid archeologist who falls in love with both girls in turn The story, however, is less import- ant than the scenes at the strict
hostel where the girls live, at the night clubs they visit and the young man's flat, where the love-making
provides a nice model as to how that sort of thing can be done. the production
The two young girls, Judith When a Faller Needs a Friend," Wood and Dorothy Hall, act ex- Jackie Cooper had seen
"Chic
tremely well together and carry the sale only in his film characteriza film, which gives the impression of tious. When the eight-year-old star being a "try out" for Hollywoods was introduced to Sulo he blinked, promising young things. It has a rubbed his oyes and decided that certain merry ingenuousness about someone must be trying to play ait, and is quite good entertain joke on him. Later on, during the screening of the picture, it was Jackie's greatest delight to sit by and watch Sale devote an hour or
ment,
H.B.
more to the paistaking details of "THIS IS THE NIGHT."
character transformation.
"When a Feller Needs a Friend"
is an adaptation of the late William Johnston's novel,
"Limpy," the
story of a crippled boy who ba comes a "regular feller" in spite
of his physical handicap. It is!
Ba
TO-MORROW'S OFFERING
AT THE KING'S.
A trade notice states:- Old-time film cutters do not sigh
said to represent Jackie Cooper's for the "good old days," accord·· most vivid and best balanced screening to Jimmy Smith, one of the róle to date, following such successes members of his craft who has been "Skippy" and "The Champ," | connected with the picture indus-
try for more than twenty years.
Smith, the cutter who was assign- ed to work on "This Is the Night," recently reminisced ou the set at the Paramount Hollywood studios as Lilly Damita, Charlie Ruggles,
THE BELOVED
BACHELOR."
CURRENT PICTURE AT THE | Roland Young, Cary Grant and
ORIENTAL.
A trade notice 'states:-
Thelma Todd rehearsed a scene in this musical romance, which comes
to the King's Theatre-to-morrow.
"It wouldn't have been safe event
"The Beloved Bachelor," which to walk on the set in the so-called is showing at the Oriental Theatre good old days,'
said Smith. to-day, is Paul Lukas' first picture Some actor or actress probably in which he plays the title role. He would have tried to tear me limb|
as assigned to this important part from limb for leaving him on the because he has earned distinction Aough his excellent work in such cutting room floor in a previous pictures as "The Right to Love," picture. The cutters were the real
man, The Vico Squad" and
FELLER Unfaithful," "Anybody'e Wo; villains of Hollywood in the actors' NEEDS Ay others.
FRIEND
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW||
eyes.
Heading the support is Dorothy "Pictures are carefully planned Jordan, who recently appeared in "Shipmates" with Robert Mont to-day and story values, charne gomery, and in "Min and Bill "terizations, enmera angles, and con- with Marie Dressier and Wallace tinuity are determind before shoot Beery. She is beautiful-and a sincere and effective actress.
ing starts," observed Smith. "Un•]}
Charlie Ruggles provides the necessary fottage is kept to the very bulk of the comedy. He upholds minimum. his reputation as a mirth-maker in elbow-bending roles. He was the
"In the old days many pictures
big hit of Charley's Aunt" and were made after they were shot. At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9:20 pm the star of "The Girl Habit."
We had to wrestle with hundreds of Vivienne Osborne is cast as the girl who loved and lost in this thousands of feet of film. Some- story. It is her first Paramount times actors worked for weeks, talkie. She is a vivid, appealing gloriod in their rules they were sure girl, with a trace of sophisticated would make sorcon history, a poise that provides an interesting
Lupino Lanes Latest Largest and Longest Laugh Vehiclel
NO LADY
EYISH PROD
and.
contrast to her youthful charm. She wound up on the cutting room floor.i created the lead in "Aloma of the That's when the cutter sneaked out South Seas, later playing it in of the theatre by a side door and London for Belasco. She scored in went home by side streets after the The Three Musketeers with Den-first showing of the completed pic- nis King on Broadway,
turo.
"DEVOTION."
COMING ON SUNDAY TO CENTRAL.
"Of course, the cutter was taking! his orders from the director and studio heads, but some of the eld time, actors and actrcascadidn't bother to shift the blame beyond the cuttore: y
& double rôle one as her charoting self, and the other a dowdy, middle-: aged governess.
The manager of the Central Than tro announces the opening on Sun- A cast of extraordinary propor day at that theatre of. Ann Hard-¡tions has boon assembled about this Fing's new Rko Pathe production, always dependable star. ---Leslie Devotion her first starring Howard plays the masculino Jend, vehicle of the now season, made and in lesseroles are such fue from Pamels Wynne's well-known character players as O.P. Hoggie, navel, "A Lilite flat in the Tem Robert Williams, Dudley Digges, Louis Closser Hale, Allison Skip- It is a new type of picture for worth, Tempo Pigott, little Douglas Miss Hurding in which she plays Hcott and many others. Robert Kirstinued at foot of next column,), Milton directed..
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Central.
"Wings."
Queen's,
Grock."
King's.
Working Girls."
World.
"Politics."
Oriental,
"The Beloved Bachelor."
KOWLOON.
star.
"No Lady."
COMING.
Queen's.
It's flee work
It you can get It!
WORKING GIRLS"
#
a Garamount Picture
with
PAUL LUKAS FRANCES.DER
CHARLES ROGERS STUART ERWIN.
ALBO
CARTOON
"BABBLING BOOK” "NAUGHTY CAL"
- TO-MORROW
Hey, Mister!
Look out...she's..... trying to marry you, and
THIS
IS THE
NIGHT
κα
Garzamonent Picture
wiab
Lily Damita Charlie Ruggles Roland, Young Cary Grant
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
LAST TWO DAYS.
At 2,80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.
Joyous
Love-Story-
with
PAUL LUKABEL DOROTHY JORDAN CHARLIE RUGGLES.
The
BELOVED BACHELOR
a Garzmount Pictur
„NEXT OHANGE SUNDAY 11th, SEPT.
THE ROAD
TO RENO
A Paramount Picture
LILYAN, TASHMAN CHARLES ROGERS PEGGY SHANNONJU
BOOKING TEL.: 28473.
* When
A Foller Needs Friend."
King's,
This is the Night." "Carelous Lady." " Man of Mayfair.” Central.
Blar.
"Dovotion."
**Caught Cheating."
Stopping Out." "Song of the West."
Get Rick Quick Wallingford" World.
"Inundation of Treasure City'?
(Chinese picture).
"Love and Parentage"
(Chinese picture),
Oriental.
"The Road to Reno."
GUESTS AT PENINSULA HOTEL.
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SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.80; 6.05; 7.20 & 9.35 p.m. (Please note the change of time
owing to the length of the picture) THE MOST WONDERFUL AIR EPIC OF THE WAR “ACES * WITH MARVELLOUS SOUND & MUSICAL SYNCHRONIZATION
A tragic flood of leadi
Madly be fred round; after round into the Vitala of the ship of the air that bore the insignila of the entry.
How was bo to know that the plot was the pil be believed desti-wife very pal ko had been avenging!
It's the most stirring climax the screen his given And it's but not of a host of towering "moments lo a mighty, picturs that will carry you over the clouds to a thousand thrills. AS tually led tuilca iigis in the air.
the picture which thrilled Broadway for more than a year. It's, the pictam Loaden, Paris and all the bág Cities of the world hailed as she greatest sereym amatergicos. – It has won a rising volume of praise,
"WING
WIN
CLARA BOW CHARLES (BUDDY) ROGERS RICHARD ARLEN GARY COOPER
DRESS CIRCLE
SPECIAL PRICES
$1.10; BACK STALL
The following are staying at the Peninsula Hotel: Major N." U Adama, Mr. J. E. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Atkinson, Mr. G. Beck- with, Mr. E. G. Bird, Mars. F. Bowern and son, Col and Misses H. and J. Boyd, Mrs. O. Brockle- bank, Capt. J. W. Bundred, Mr. THE QUEEN OF THE SCREEN AR
0. D. Burnette, Mr. B. G. Butler,
Mr. A. L. Caplan, Mr. R. L. Clark
Picture
55 cents 85 cents (including tax) UPPER CIRCLE & FRONT STALL
-STARTING SUNDAY
IN HER LATEST SUCCESS
and family, Dr. J. E. H. Coga ANN HARDING
DEVOTION
With LESLIE HOWARD, DOBIS LLOYD, ETO.
SHOWING SOON
THE GREATEST LAUGH PICTURE OF THE YEAR.
CHARLIE MURRAY & GEORGE SIDNEY
IN THEIR LATEST LAUGHING HIT
CAUGHT CHEATING
Mrs. E. Cogan, General M. A Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Craig, Mr. F. H. Crapnell, Mr. F. Crem- ers, Mr. and Mrs. Delcourt, Col and Mrs. E. S. Doughty, Dr. and Mrs. Drenkhabn, Mr. F. J. Easter- book, Mr. F. 8. Elias, Miss D. Faye, Mr. C. R. Ferrajoto, Mrs.. Ferrand, Capt. and Mra, W. Field Hook, Mr. and Mrs. Finley and. son, Mr. R. H. Fischer, Mr. J. Frisque, Mr. R. W. Gardiner, Mr. I. H. Geare, Mr. E. L. Gilson, Mr. W. T. Goodwin and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gould, Col' and Nr. F. E. Gowan, Mr. T, M. Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. C. M Hall Mrs. W. Hannevig, Major A. L. Harris, Mr. E HauSUMATICI, Mr. Theo Henriques, Mr. and Mr. G. H. Hodgson, Mrs. L Howie, Mr. and Mr. F. Jones, Mr. J. Jorgensen. Mr. L. Endoorie, Mr. E. A. Kinsey, Mr. T. 8. Kil kenny, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Lamorie, Mr. G. B. Lane, Mr. P. A. Laroche, Ir. R. F. Lazier, Col.. J. G. Lecky, Mr. and Mrs. J: Ledesma and family, Mr. G. Mark, Mr. E. C. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. E. MeDiarmed Mr. E. J. McGann, Mr. Y. L. Mckenzie, Mr. E. K Melbye, Mrs. M. Mien, Mr. A H. Marant. Miss Vera Mouzoff, Mrs. J Murphy, Mrs. D. Norman, Mr. Palmer, Mr. A. M. Parker. Lt-“Thark.” Comdr, JM Park, Mrs. J. H Paxton, Mr. W. G. Pirie, Mr. B. Trax, Mr. A. Preston, Mr. F. Beck, Mr. F. Reinehagen, Mrs. A Reinshagen. Mr. F. C. E, Rendall, Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Rubino, Mr. W. C. Ryan, Mr. A. Salnikoff, Col. and Mrs. C. Savilo. Mr. F. Scott. Mr. L. Boott, Mr. E, G, Binith, Mr. R. Stillard, Mr. L. E.. Rjone Miss T Sertlanowa, Mr." As the run of Rookery Nook! LG. Thompson, Mr. J. Thomson, was drawing to a close Tom Walle Mr. G. Travers. Mrs. A. Trome went to Ben Travers and asked him Mr. J. Turner, Mian M. M. Tyrell,
OSSIP
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FACT.
Thark" was the third farce by
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Mrs. Buster Keaton Wins Divorce. Mrs. Natalie Talmadge Keaton
Bon Travers to bo presented. The obtained a divorce, from Joseph first was "A Cuckoo in the Nest," Francis (Buster) Keaton, film the second Rookery Nook.""A cumedian, after testifying that he Cackos in the Nest" ran nearly a neglected her. year, and "Rookery Nook" ran more than a year,
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Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Ulderun, Mr. to write a forco about a haunted TP. Van Calcnr, Mr. M. J. Van house. And write it for the Schreven, Mr. J. Watts. Miss P.usual Aldwych cast," he added, Webster. Mr. A. J. Wejemann,, ME. S. Vinterhaltem, Miss E Wolnizer, Mrs. L. I. Young.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS;
The testimony was corroborated by her sister, Constance Talmadge Netcher, ex-film star.
Mrs. Keaton told. Judge Joseph Sproul that her husband's impul siveness had caused her, consider able mental suffering, particularly when, last April 4, he took their two children, Joseph and Robert, and attempted to fly to. ¿Mexico. with them despite her proteste
She said the comedian remained Away from home, returning, at late and unusual hours without offering her an explanation of where he had been OKI KSIMALAGE SE
By this time the cast of Ralph Lynn, Tom Walle, Mary Brough, Robertson Hare and Winifred Shotter was an institution in Lon don's theatre-land. They had a fol-
Goisler informed the court that n lowing, and their public would have been disappointed if they had property settlement had been made and that Mr. Keaton would have not continued to appear together custody of the children.
Accordingly, Ben Travers wrato "Thurk, and as ho wrote he en-
Jack Hobbe visaged the actors who would play: the parts his pon created. He saw
for Double Trouble Tom Walls as the peppery Sir He on which Harry, Hughes is now tor Benbow, Ralph Lynn, ampruus about to start production at the irresponsible, Mary Brough as the studios, has con completed by the indignant Mrs Todd, Robertson addition of Jack Hobbs, Haro as the solemn and timed.play the part of Eustace, friend Hook Winifred hotter as the Henry who has to impersonate, charming Kitty Stratton. The re-own double and the char sult in that Thark one of which will be portrayed" by Xong, September 8, 1939, the best of all the Aldwych farces. Verno..
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