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TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
It rings true because it IS
true!
HIGHT
Gottuyn
Mayer
lth
COURT
this Star Cast:
Thillips HOLMES
Walter HUSTON
Anita PAGE Lewis STONE
•ALSO
The FINAL SERIES of the M-G-M Flit Volce-Guessing. Contest
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Try His
New Love
Technique
Metro- Gothryn
Mayer
POPIS
Montgomery
gives you
B new
thrill in his mos fascinating Alm
-BUT the FLESH IS WEAK
with
Nora Gregor
Heather Thatcher
Edward Everett Horton
Nils Asther
Directed by
Jack Conway
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
WARNER BROL
SONG
OF
THE WEST.
JOHN BOLES VIVIENNE SEGAL
JOS E. BROWN
Bobetky BAY JUDIT
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1932.
MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE
Pictures In Hong Kong
"NIGHT COURT.”
"THIS IS THE NIGHT”
SHOWING TO-DAY AT THE SPARKING FILM AT KING'S.
QUEEN'S.
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A trade notico states:-
Eutertainment values have, cer- thinly been weaned away from Broadway, their stronghold to years, by the omnivorous, talking pictures-as witness This Is The Night," Paramount's extravagant- ly funny and musical. show which is now showing at the King's Theatre.
A trade notice atates:- Phillips Holmes, who plays the male lead in Night Court," which opens to-day at the Queen's Thea tre, is a member of that family theatrical tradition shared by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and John and Lionel Barrymore. This popu- lar young player is a "chip off the old block for he is the son of Lily Damita, the leading lady of Taylor Holmes who was one of the This Is The Night," only recent matinee idols of the stage and ly completed a successful run in silent screen,
the highly remunerative "Sons O' For those who enjoy the intimate Guns' Charlie Ruggles, who details of a film colebrity's life, let seems to have turned his full time it ba,known that Holmes still lives to work in the talkies, was former- with his family in the Los Angeles ly one of the leading funny men at house in which he spent his child, the Great White Way. - Roland hood. He considers himself a fair Young, always singer but confines his grins to the 'comedy entertainment whenever his bathroom. He is addicted to blue name appeared in lights in connec neckties. He enjoys meeting inter- tion with Rollo's Wild Cat," esting people, but on the other hand, if a party is boring, he is the first to leave. He loves to sleep and sometimes spends all day dozing on the warm sand at the beach.
He likes to dance, to cut toasted checsa sandwiches, late at night and to watch his father rehearse in the theatre. He has never been engaged or rumoured, romantically. Never eats onions, Likes to mow the lawn. Won't buy stocks. Sel dom attends first nights.
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'BUT THE FLESH
WEAK.".
sure-bet kor
Beggar on Horseback and other theatrical works of their kind, is the third member of the hilarity' confectioners iu "This Is The Night."
In this show Lily Damita is n beautiful Parisian actress whe i hired by Charlie Ruggles to pose as tho. wife" of Roland Young. This decoption is necessary to fool Gary Grant, young business mau, with whose wife, Thelma Todd, the bachelor Young had been cunght in a gay moment, by Grant just-back- from-a-long-trip. When Young dis IS plays his wife" to whom he is very ostentatiously attentive, Grant will be fooled into thinking that Young's "affair" with Thelma wAA nothing serious. That is Ruggles
COMING TO THE QUEEN'S. theory and Young gladly plays his
A trade notice states:-
part in it.
Sunday.
Robert Montgomery is quiet, soft-spoken person who displays home of the wise-cracking charac- He is honest to telling of bis teristics which are usually associat pleasure at finding himself popular, ed with his work on the screen. He Most players tell of how weary they does have, however, a fino sense of are of the crowd's adulation. Not Froad bumour. The charra which Roht. Montgomery. He gets a hig won him stardom in Metro-Goldwyn kick out of the crowds that flock to Mayer pictures in readily discerni- | sea him in person whenever he is ble when he speaks."
recognized.
Overworked as they are when Bat, on the other hand, his mo. used in conjunction with screen denty is shown by his dress and stars, the words "honest" and ¦ demenvour, neither of which are of "modest "acem most applicable to the order that would attract any this young player, who is starred Endue attention. Montgomery in" But the Flesh is Weak," com- dresses and behaves like any other ing to the Queen's Theatre on young fellow who has found himself
(Continued on next Column.】 a pretty good berth in life.
·NITA MARTAN & GEORGE SIDNEY IN CAUGHT CHEATING 4 Tiffany Production
“CAUGHT CHEATING" give what the public wants and
what the box-office needs.
Their talents have been doubled
LAUGHS AT THE CENTRAL, by the talkies. Both have had much
A trade notice states:---
Caught Cheating" is every type.. of picture rolled in one. It in farce of the broadest type! It has u domestic angle that can be taken
and great success on the stage and know the laughter value of every little tone of voice.
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W. Scott Darling, author of the story and continuity, with FranceA Hyland has provided lines that are juicy with comedy, Director Frank
08 serious or lightly as you like | Strayer has kept the tempo lively,
as the
It has gripping intrique and thril- The cast leave no room for im ling mystery. It is delightfully provement--Nita Martin naughty and risque.. It has much gangster's cheating wife and Doro- spectacular beauty for the eye! It the Christy as her friend. Robert has a bang-up gang war! And it Ellis as the orima king and Frei has plenty of It."
Malatesta as his rival, Bertha There is no customer so satifed Mann as the wife who fears she is da the one who comes out of a going to be a widow, and George theatre laughing there is no better Regns, Tenon Holte and Gertrude picture for laughter satisfication Sutton complete the cast.
than "Caught Cheating." -No
Caught Cheating is not only
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
THIS NIGHT
IS THE
Garamoun! Picture
with
LILY DAMITA
CHARLIE
RUGGLES
BOLAND YOUNG
-ADDED FEATURES-
LATEST PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS Cartoon
"A HUNTING WE WILL GO"
TO-MORROW
When a Careless Lady Meets a Carefree Man! · Oh, the things you'll sagi
Careless Lady
whit
JOAN
BENNETT
JOHN
BOLES
MINHA GOMBRIL WELDON NIYBLEN FOX PICTURE
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
THE
FALSE MADONNA
& Gramount Pictor
with
KAY FRANCIS WILLIAM BOYD CONWAY TEABLE
TO-MORROW CLARA BOW CHARLES ROGERS
comic pair more clover than Char: risibility knockout, but its thrills WINGS
lie Murray and George Sidney,
will be you in knots of excitertent. Charlie And George Sidney hava It is opening at the Central Thea- been screen partners for six years tre to-day. Patrons should bring and they have never ronde a flop. their children to see it as there is Comedians Inay come and go in a special sided netraction called Timelight, but Murray and Sidney" Big Musical Revue" which is a can always be depended upon to great favourite film for the kiddies.
A Paramount Picture
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This is the Night"
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Caught Cheating."
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Seng of the West."
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Careless Lady,"
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Nice Women."
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"But the Flesh is Weak."! "Tarzan the Apeman."?
"Their own Desire" "Skin Deep."
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CARELESS LADY.”
NEXT CHANGE AT KING'S.
A trade notice states:-
Hollywood is, revealing a few of her disappointments to Wolden Heyburn, one of the newest ox Film players. In making "Caro less Lady," the Fox Films comedy
CENTRAL THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 230; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
THE YEAR'S NEWEST & GREATEST LAUGH PICTURE
ITS FUN IS INFECTIOUS—ITS LAUGHTER IS
to be shown at the King's Theatre SPECIAL on next Thursday, the script called
for Heyburn, in his role as the
New England golf champion, to win a hard-fought title match by siuh-TWO
ing a long stymied putt at the last bole,
m+
A professional golfer. was ployed to make the putt for the young-actor, but found, the pin very clusive in several consecutiva putts.
The camerninen nú last decided taj make the preliminary" "take" of Heyburn waggling his putter. With i all cameras grinding Dr. Heyburn stepped up, waggled, and putted.
CONTAGIOUS ITS THRILLS ARE EAMPAGEOUS!
Presents:
TIFFANY CAUGHT CHEATING
Charlie
MURRAY
George SIDNEY
The Laughing Truth about two chaps who did some high, wide and fancy stepping with two beautiful chislers
WITH
ADDED ATTRACTION FOR THE KIDDIES BE SURE
TO BEING YOUR CHILDREN TO SEE
"THE BIG MUSICAL REVUE”
REELS OF CHILD ACROBATS, SONGS, DANCES & MUSIC ALL ACTED BY CHILDREN FROM 2 TO 14 YEARS OLD. FIRST TIME SHOWN IN THE COLONY. ALSO
"SPANISH RYTHMS" & LATEST SOUND NEWS. NEXT CHANGE
SIDNEY FOX'S LATEST SCREEN TRIUMPH
“NICE WOMEN”
The ball rolled nonchalantly around ODD JOBS AT THE STUDIO
the stymie, curved back and plop. ped into the hole!
The actor was jubilant until Director Kenneth Mackenna step-- ped up. "That's great," he said. "and it's just too bad the cameras weren't ready to take the complete shot."
MAN WHO PUTS THE SWEAT ON ACTOR'S BROWS.
The public demand for novel pre sentations on the screen has created
perhaps the most highly organised collection of odd jobs in connection with any activity. A recent survey
Joan Bennett and John Boles have the leading rôles în “Careless Lady" which deals with the adven tures of a repressed New England girl who starts out to get export ence, and seductiveness. after she finds the local awains unresponsive of strange occupations reveals an to her charms. Guy Holton wrote the screen play and dialogue from the original story by Reita Lam bert.
THE FALSE
MADONNA."
CURRENT OFFERING AT ORIENTAL.
A trade notice states:-
ces, to Great Danes as large as ponies, all kinds of riding horses. and bees-gentle bees preferably..
Break-Away Furniture. Another man specialises in mak- amazing number of people working ing "break-away furniture which at strange occupations.
is used for fight scenes an
and other One of the specialists often indestructive action. A special par demand is the perspiration arous light wood is used in the con- tist." He provides the moisture struction. This wood crumbles and for the brows of trembling witnesses, breaks at a light touch, This for courtroom scenes. His supply man's work is very important when of "beads of sweat" is carried in player is to have something a small container operated by a
broken over his head as articles pressure bulb. A few quick sports made of this material cannot hirs and any player can be made to anyone. appear as labouring under the A crew of jewellers are regular stress of intense heat or emotion.y employed at M-G-M to maintai the very delicate parts of mega is kept constantly nger
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Kay Francis attains new distinc- tion in "The False Madonna" busy going over new exterior set phones and other devices used in for it is the first Paramount pic-tings to give them the required ap-
aound equipment that require.pre ture in which she plays the title role.
pearance of weathering and anticision work. The sensitive plati- As the contral figure in this inquity. He removes all traces o
num wire in light valves is vituo tensely interesting romance-drama, recent construction by working in broken during scenes requiring eho is given the greatest opportu
nity in her carser to add a dis, shadows and dark streaking to give gunshots. A spare valve is placed tinguished portrayal to the note an aged effect. When the founda- in the recorder after the break, and worthy list which includes "Street.
the jeweller begins his repair work of Chance," "Gentlemen of the tion of his work is accomplished
at once. Other odd occupations in Press," "Illusion,” "The
Coca with paint, he applies the finishing clade the "real sound effect nuts,"
"Behind the Make Up," touches with dust. from a spray, scouts, who go out with reco.ding Dangerous Curves". ""Let's Go Native." "The Virtuous Sin," and applies caked mud by "hand "24 Hours" and "Girls About
apparatus for days at a time to Then there is the strange respon obtain barnyard noises, railroad
Lown."
Miss Francis, the daughter of an ability of the animal casting offects, city trafic, and other sounds actress, gave up a proposed business director" who has to provide any needed to provide atmosphere carcer to go on the stage. Alter required beast, insect, fish or say production. playing with the Stuart Walker Stock company in Indianapolis, thing else that might come under Cincinnati and Dayton, she went to the classification, of "not human." Broadway and became a connation in a short time.
In
** The False
Chariot Garage.
In the transportation department. an expert can provide every sort
Among many requests filled by Madonna," the "auimal casting director which is now showing at the Orion- during regular production activity of vehicle known to have been used tal Theatre she is seen as the
sophisticated demi-mondaine Who are those for loud chirping crickets, | by man. Also a large " chariot operates with gang of internn high jumping grasshoppers, anor garage," is maintained, housing an tional " confidence. crooks in a scheme to mulet a wealthy young
cient and period conveyances ing, bulldogs, trained circus cla man out of a million dollar inherit plants, snakes, rabbite, tords, cows, all kinda van de ance Posing as the lad's mother a pair of trained bulls, all varie expression from redle to mis Hollywood has changed the olt she finally falls in love with the boyfer, of dogs from Tis," world's so genuinely as to reform her crook- od life.
Se pa gen elephant to
smallest canins weighing 15 oun to a Taj Mahal.
from: A milligram
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