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QUEENS THEATRE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1932.
SHOWING TODAY MOVIE NEWS
At 2,80, 5.19, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
HONG KONG'S HEARTIEST Pictures In Hong Kong
LAUGH OF THE SEASON.
BUSTER
The
Funniest
Trio in
Films!
KEATON
JIMMY
POLLY
AT THE QUEEN'S
BUSTER KEATON AT HIS
BEST
Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante and Polly Moran head a hig cast in The Passionate Plumber, which pened yesterday at the Queen's
Theatre.
The plot concerns the hilarious adventures of Keaton as a French plumber's assistant who gets into all sorts of difficulties when be at tempts to repair a lady's bathtub. He is signed to a contract by the Pady of the house as a "volunteer lover" and many embarrassing mix-ups occur before things are straightened 'out to everyone's satis
taction.
Among the comedy's highlights are the plumber's riotous duel with the villain, his ingenious method of raining admittance into an exclu. sive gambling resort, his exploits in keeping the heroine from Fun-
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""**CONGORILLA" AT THE KING'S
MOST AMAZING FILM EVER SHOWN
AUDIENCE HELD SPELL BOUND
A Trade Notice state- Gorillas in raortal combat, # and pygmy courtship, wedding honeymoon with huge elephants, ferocious lions, mad rhinoceri, and ther wild beasts as witnesses, a woman narrowly escaping white death from a charging rhino, a river alive with Bonting islands of Besh and slithering reptiles, the capture of two kings of the apes and hyenas menacingly teasing a lion and his kill. These are just Ja few of the unparalleled thrille and sights revealed by the jungle picture, "Congorilla," made by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson who also appear in it. Incidental- ly, it is the only talking picture ever entirely taken in the African jungle.
DURANTE ning away with her fickle over as
MORAN PASSIONATE PLUMBER
THE
- NEXT CHANGE ·
EDGAR WALLACES
per his contract, his impersonation if a doctor when caught in the heroine's bedroom in a compromis. ing position and a hilarious quar- rel in which the bill for broken dishes must have run up to. ap palling figures.
Keaton has never been in a more diverting role and the antics of Daraute and Miss Moran are ably
The audience screen hins never beheld so sensational a spectacle as that which "Congorilla " can boast, When the Johnsons are not man-eaters they are battling battling the elements. When the
ате conquered, supported by the work of Irene elements
lurk Purcell as the beroine, Gilbert monaces
in their path. Holand as the villain and Moha Sounds, weird penetrating, that Maris as the "other woman
humans have never heard, yester day held King's Theatre audiences spellbound.
"THE FRIGHTENED EDGAR WALLACE
LADY"
with
CATHLEEN NESBITT
GORDON HARKER
A Gainsborough Picture`
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY
THRILLER"
COMING TO QUEEN'S THEATRE
A trade notice slaten:--
|
HOW
Drama and romance of sort no auther could ever hope to create play outstanding parts in "Con- gorilla." The backdoor of civiliza- tion is battered down and beyond it one sons sights no human eye has sren before. A civilization alive with menaces a million years old. Three-foot humans and eight-foot monsters! A grotesque race of.hu- mana, pawns of the jungle, shun- ning the sun-and never seeing it.
There is no shadow of doubt that Aisla Crane, who is aflanced to the young Lord Lebanon, heir to a rent estate and list of a fanioca line, is distinctly frightened, What B that frightens her; impels her Lo Consider leaving Marks Priory and the opulent futare it offers The prospect of becoming her ndyship seemingly does not en- chant her she is terified by some hing malignaut that overshadows the ancient house, and is cloud provides moments, memory of which
While the revelation of the goril- las' haunts furnishes a feature that the spectator will never forget; the Johnsons' asven month stay among the pymies of the Itura Forest,
ing the life of the peer she is-to-will be enhanced by time. These
wed.
The girl cannot probe that secret. secret which the strong-willed dowager Lady Lebanon hides from the world, a accrat which Scotland Yord ultimately wrests from her but at what `n cost!
pygmies afford dramatic studies that contribute importunitly to making "Congorilla " entirely different from any sourad picture shown on any screen to date.
Not a phase of the native life of these tiny humans is overlooked. There were births, deaths and wed- dings during the Johnsons' sojourn with these little people. And there are thousands of them appearing in "Congorilla" You see them talk, sing, dance and trying to imitate their white guests. Their avery secret, hidden from civilization for centuries, is exposed in this pic
What Aisla cannot fathom is how easily the perpetrator of two de termined murders evades detection. It must be someone within the walls of Marks Prior, that ancient nt of the Lebanons. But whoint Step by stop, this Edgar Wallace thill-diama renches its grim and unexpected climax, a climax that is n mastorpices of ingenuity and thrill, an ending that not even the most seasoned film-lover could have foreseen. This," said one of our Hending dramatic crities, when The Case of the Frightened was first produced at Edgar Wyndham's Theatre "la
* Cungorilla," now showing at The the King's Theatre, is without Wallace at his very best." film version will be found even
doubt the most amaring and more thrilling and fascinating than
thrilling ever shown on any screen. the play.
-At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 pm. Indy"
JOHN
GILBERT
in
The
Phantom
of Paris
with
LEILA HYAMS-
LEWIS STONE JEAN HERSHOLT
AUBREY SMITÉ "Adapted from the novel." Cheri-
Bibt," by Gaston Leroun"
·Directed by JOHN 8. ROBERTS Metą Goldwyn Mayer nerUSE
Directed by T. Hayes Hunter, thest includes Cathleon Nesbit, Norman McKinnel, Gordon Harker, Emlyn Williams and Belle Chry
tall. The picture will be the next attraction at the Queen's Theatre.
"HEAVEN ON EARTH".
RIVER DRAMA AT ORIENTAL
A trades notice states': Low Ayres is no longer sell conscious when he is working be Fore the camera. In my first Picture,maid Aew recently, "I was so terribly self-conscious that I seemed to be all-hands and feet.
turc.
overy
bo in The Kiss,' and before the picture even started, I became decidedly numb
timo thought of the coming ordoal. And then came the first day of filming. To add to my confusion, I learned: that my first scene was to be a tender love phanage with the great Garbo herself.
"Over in a corner of the stage. I considered this with a sort of terror for a few minutes, and then Fall self-consciousness--suddenly Jell me. It had literally been scared out of me. I lost it because I ain ply has to loss it I have never since been self-conscious in front of
motion picture osmera."
Ayres comes to the Oriental. Theatre to-day, as the star of his latest Universal pictare,-"Heaven on Earth," a colourful Mississippi River drama in which Lew playe direct-
My second engagement, several the role of a"" shanty boater" of months later, was with Greta Gar the South's White trash fforifiuurd at foot of next column-ed by Russell Mack,
KING'S THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7:15 & 9.30 p.m.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
Queen's,
HONG KONG
"The Passiounto Plumber."
King'e.
"Congorilla."
Astounding! Ontral
„Civilization's, Weird- est Sights And Most `Amazing Escapades
In An Empire of Thrills.
MR. & MRS.
MARTIN JOHNSON
GORILLA
THE ONLY TALKING PICTURE ENTIRELY WAGE IN AFRICA SE
IT'S DIFFERENT!
See it!
FOX
Plature
-NEXT CHANGE- TALLULAH BANKHEAD FREDRIC
MARCH
"MY SIN"
A Paramount Picture
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
LAST TWO DAYS
At 2,80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m
YOU'VE WANTED SOMETHING HERE DIFFERENT Ir Is!
Happiness
Picture Full of Love, Laughs and Romanes with a Power fal, Thrilling Spectacular Climax and the favorite of the Nation.
LEW AYRES
IN
HEAVEN ON EARTH
LA UNIVERSAL PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE JACK OAKIE
JUNE MOON"
SPARAMOUNT="PIOTURE.
"Life's Comedy (Ep. 2). Oriental.
"Heaven on Earth."!
atar.
KOWLOON.
Phantom of Paris."
CENTRAL THEATRE
257.20
WE ARE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL COM- MENCE SHOWING THE BEST SUPER & SPECIAL, RADIO, UNIVERSAL & BRITISH DOMINION PICTURES OF 1982-33 FROM THE BEGINNING OF NEXT MONTH.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
GREATEST CHINESE SUPER SPECIAL TALKING PICTURE WITH MARVELLOUS TECHNICOLOR SEQUENCES
THE NEWEST &
COMING.
Queen's.
The Frightened Lady.**
"Arsene Lupin,"
King's.
My Sin."
"Aren't We All."
"One Heavenly Night,"
Amateur Daddy,"
Central.
Star.
" Arrowsmith"
"The Duomed Battalion."
Show Girl."
Midnight.
"Immediate Possession."
Orlonial.
June Moo!."
BUTTERFLY WU
IN
"LIFE'S COMEDY"
EPISODE TWO
ADAPTED FROM THE MOST FAMOUS NOVEL TO BE DIVIDED IN 6 THRILLING EPISODES. WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST. PRODUCED BY THE STAR CO.
SHOWING SOON
BY SPECIAL REQUEST RE-SCREENING OF
REAL WAR MEDALS RONALD COLMAN IN "ARROWSMITH "
AT HOLLYWOOD
SOLD BY HARD-UP. VETERAN
And
The symbols of valour heroism, the andels bestowed up
A 1932 UNITED ARTISTS SPECIAL PRODUCTION. COMING! COMING!
THE PICTURE TERRIFIO! THE “ALL QUIET" OF 1932.
"THE DOOMED BATTALION"
With TALA BIRELL, LUIS TRENKER, VICTOR VARCONI.
on the brave by countries in the THE LATEST UNIVERSAL SUPER SPECIAL FEATURE. World War, have been sacrificod
on the auction block of need and hundreds of them will be worn on the breasts ni motion picture supers, it was recently learned in Hollywood.
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GOSSIP
FACT.
More than 1200 military decora. tions have been garnered from all parts of the world by Paramount for the use of players appearing in uniforms. A shipment of 100 Croix de Guerre arrived in Holly. wood from New York recently.
Everyone of them is real and
The Barrymore brothers, John tress who is reported to have left they were bestowed upon men at impressive carémonies during and, and Lionel--the first is mentioned Hollywood because she was dissa- after the war. A Croix de Guerre first because he acquired fame first, tisfied with hor treatment. "It is given for wiping out an machine gun nest, one for carrying
спету
Barrymore Brothers.
Miss Ann Dvorak is the film, ac
that I a wounded offeer to safety, an Academy Medal-have been cast to, have been offered £200 a week to other for bringing down an enemy gether in the engrossing mystery appear in filme in England, white airplane, are among them. Some
**Arzano Lupin,” the one a I am getting merely £50 a week in
but never won the Motion Picture quite time to leave now
of them were sold by the familica film,
of soldiers who died in action. thief, the other an officer of the Hollywood," she told a London re- They always have been the last law. John steals the famous Mona porter. "But I am under a seveR treasure given up in angt Lies. It will be recalled that six year's agreement with
against poverty.
Warner
The decline in the money value millionaires actually purchased Bros, and so far I have only serv of medals fourteen years after the copics of it, thinking them real, ed one year;
Unless my lawyer finds a way war made it possible for Paramount At any rate Lionel sets out to find'
to secure the French medals for $1 the film crooks and recover the out I shall have to return to work each. The stars and the palms for
for the other six years."
She went to England for a holi- day.
additional citations for bravery picture. John kidnap his daugh cost twenty-five cents ench extra.ter, while Lionel falls in love with
The establisments where WIT
a police spy. And the plot thic. crossce are made are forbidden by kens. Henry Armetta, James Mack New Halbert Film,
law to sell them even for theatri
cal purpose, it was explained,
Some of these medals and many tent in the supporting parts, Italian ones will be used in "Fare
and Mary Jane Irving are compe
"Love on wheels," Jack Hul- bert's newest picture, is a comedy romance, with music by Jean Gil- bert. Jack is a shy shop assistant
*
well to Arms," Paramount's pie-
*
ture of Ernest Hemingway's best- Gold Hair and Black.
selling novel, a romance of a_de
serter and a nurse played by Fre-note that black-haired Hugh Wil-damsael occupying daily an ad- Incidently it in interesting to who admires from ofør a beautiful dric March and Helen Hayes, -
Among the Italian medala owned liams has been chosen to play op
by the studio arò the Military posite Gladys Cooper in the new Valour medal, one 50 rare that play, "The Fire Bird." there were only twenty-six living
He will certainly provide an of-
joining seat in the Bushey to Ox
ford-circus Green Line bus.
Gordon Harker as a kind heart-
holders at the time of the Armia fective contrast to her golden faired bus conductor, does his best to
tice in 1918; the War Cross which ness in their love scenex. was given to 300 of the Americans who served in the Italian forces: Ann Dvorak,
the Military Order of Savoy and The Order of the Crown of Italy.
.....
HEALTH IN EASTERN
**PORTS
The following health bulletin of Enstern porta, "for, the week-ending October 8, has been issued: -
Plague
Alexandria Beirut
Cholera,
Calcutta Manila: Pnom Penh Baigon Amoy Canton Shanghai
Alexandria Basrah.. Bombay Calcutta Madres -Negapafum
Tuticorin Pondicherry Muntok Saigon
all-pox.
Casca. Deaths!
Miss Ann Dvorak, the film actress, and her husband, Mr. Leslie Fen ton, arrived at Southampton in the Olympic a few weeks ago.
A CALCUTTA DINNER
'CASTE HINDUS SIT WITH UNTOUCHABLES
help on the romance, which is not all plain sailing, because the girl is rich and the prospects of our hero not so good especially when he gets the sack from his job at a famous Oxford Street store,
KADAKORAM EXPLORER
FAITH CURE IN CHINESE
TURKESTAŃ- ·
Calcutta. A mixed gathering of Simla-The repont lecture bera about 500 caste Hindus, men and by Mr. Visser. Consul General for women, und "untouchables" parti- the Netherlands, on his Karakoram cipated in a dinner which was held explorations was a greater success. at the Arya Samaj Hall, in Corn- even than the first wallis Street, Calcutta.
The lecturer testified to the
The object of this inter caste din- nor, it was stated, was to advance arkable efficacy against illness of tho pills made of nothing but their the cause of the removal of un-
"
touchability. Four hundred tickets prdinary bread which his hosts in were sold to the public and 150 Chinese Turkestan gaye to all their persons belonging to the untouchelling visitors whoever they might able" classes wore invited to join be Faith did not move the Kara koram mountains, but certainly the dinner.
The arrangements were excellent banished such ill-effects as they had
on the Explorere heal and good fellowship prevailed...