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QUEENT THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
IT WILL MAKE SCREEN HISTORY!
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer again
creates screen Bistory with the -presentation of
Upton Sinclair's daring drama of the soul of America to-day!
with
Dorothy JORDAN Robert YOUNG Lewis STONE
Walter HUSTON Jimmy DURANTE
Neil HAMILTON
A
*Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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THE
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TO-MORROW
BY SPECIAL REQUEST:
TO-DAY AT THE
Eig's,
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
"Charlie Chan's Chancy,"
Queen'.
The Wot Parade."
Central.
"Carnival."
Orlontal,
star.
*Twp Orphans.”
KOWLOON.
"Son of Indin."
Klog's.
COMING.
Sunshine Susic."
Queen's.
Hell Divers,”
Happy Ending."
"The Innocenta of Chicago,'
Central.
Star
"Night World."
"The Doomed Battalion."
"The Rosary."
The Ghost Train."
Oriental.
"Yellow. Tirket."
LEVER BROS. CONVERSION SCHEME
Lever Bros., the big soup com- bine, is taking advantage of the tall in interest rates by putting forward A big conversion scheme. It pra- poses to redeem £1,289,780 of 5 per cent. Debenture stock, 50 per cent. of which will be replaced by a new b.c. stock, the remaining £1,000,000 being repaid in cash.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1932.
FINAL
SHOWING
[AT 2.30, 5.10,
77.15 & 9.30 rг.M.
HONGKONG'S FINEST CNERA
The Arch-Detective of The Screen
-UNMASKS
HER FACE! -UNVEILS
HER PAST!
—AND SOLVES *
The PERFECT CRIME!
CHARLIE CHAN ́S CHANCE
Warner
A FOX PICTURE
Alexander ... H. B.. OLAND KIRKLAND WARNER Linda Watkins • Marisa Nixon Diched by JOHN ALYSTOWE
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
DOROTHY JORDAN 'CHARLIE CHAN'S
THE SHY GIRL
NEW CHANCE IN "THE WET PARADE"'
Wallace
A trade notice states:-
BEERY
GABLE
HELL
DIVERS
They're all raving about It is thrilla, its laughs, ita romance,
its grand
acting by Beery and Gable, and its marvelous cast! It took a year to make, and the U. S. Navy cooperated.
Directed by GEORGE HILL
with Conrad Nagel, Doro- thy Jordan, Marjoric Rambeau and Marie Per
vost.
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20,
& 9.20 p.m
RAMON NOVARRO
y^ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor's Son of India"
CHANCE"
CHINESE DETECTIVE IN NEW YORK
NIGHT WORLD"
COMING TO CENTRAL
A trade notice says:- "Night World," the lightning paced Universal drama of the Grent White Way, and what goes on behind the gay scenes in Broad-
pleasure way
palaces" Night World," the revealing sensational exposure of the cafe racket which i causing comment all over the Unit ed States, comos to the Central Theatro next Thursday.
There is a kick in every scene in this picture. Lew Ayres stars ar gives his greatest emotional charac
A trade notice siztes:-Warner terization, and Mae Clark is the They used to say that a Southern Oland, concerled to be the greatest sympathetic chorus girl who stirs
in
accent was a handicap talkies but Dorothy Jordan has found it anything but For Miss Jordan's Tennessee drawl gave her the big- gest role of her talkie career,-mine- ly that of the heroine in "The Wet Parade," now showing at tho Queen's Theatre.
interview. In reeent
Mise Jordan made no bones about the fuct that sho didn't think she stood
delineator of Chiness roles on the screen, appent's as the character created by Earl Derr Biggera in "Charlie Chan's Chance," now
playing at the King's Theatre,
In this Fox picture Charlie Chan iy sent from Honolulu to New York Cits to study the crime-detecting methods of the metropolitan police. While hero he is called upon to
a chance of getting the part for solve what appears to be the per
which a large number of Metro-fect crime. Finding clues overlook. Goldwyn-Mayer players made tests
ed by others, he solves the murder
his emotions. Boris Karloff who ehilled you in "Frankenstein" is the happy-go-lucky dance hall pro- prietor whose underworld activities make things happen in a large and exciting way. There is not a dail
mament in
Night World,"
ORIENTAL
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COMMENCING
TO-MORROW
SUNS
RENATE MULLER
SUNSHINE SUSIE
WITH
JACK HULBERT OWEN NARES MORRIS HARVEY
VICTOR SAVİLLE
A GAINSBOUGH PICTURE..
EVE AND THE
SPEAKEASIES
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INNOCENTS OF CHICAGO BOOKED FOR QUEEN'S
A trade notice states:-
How Eve in the shapely form of Margot Grahame is responsible for
the shooting-up of two rival gangs in the boot-legging underworld is hilariously told in "Innocents of Chienge," the new B.J.P. comedy sutire which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Thursday.
The Universal Milk Co. Inc. a elnak for wne of the biggest bouza. mekers in Chirago, is owned by Tony Costello whose greatest rival is Spike Gaian. Spika hits on the brilliant idea of marrying ́hís daughter Peg to the only too will ing Tony, thus amalgamating the garius. but does not reckon with Tony's catie-Lil, who venta the vinks of her wrath on all and sundry:
CARNIVAL" AT THE
CENTRAL
MATHESON LANG IN
DRAMATIC ROLE
British
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nud
"Carnival," Doniulons production, which is al present showing at the Centralf Theatre, is a highly drainatie film with Matheson Lang perhaps at his best.
CENTRAL
THEATRE
(TAXE GUZEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUA
ADVANCE BOOKING
AT ANDERSON'S
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
In this picture you see him as Silvio Stono, a popular actor whose dovotion to his foolish wife. Sime At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. netta (Dorothy Bourchier) pearly
eanses him to commit murder when HERE IS ONE OF THE provoked into a jealous rage. MOST OUTSTANDING BRITISH PICTURE OF
THE YEARS
Both are down to appear in Othello" at a theatre in Venice during Carnival time, Silvio to play the title rôle and his wife, Desdemona. On the evening before the opening performance his wife asks him to take her to the Carni val, but he has to go to the bodiside of a dying relative. His wife when becomes angry and goes with Counti Andrea (Joseph Schildraut) one of hor many admirera,
The next evening when the play was in progress, Silvio learnă di his wife's escapade and in the mur der scene in the play, he attempte to kill his wife in real earnest, and the curtain is rung down, Silvic failing in a fit.
In the end, however, the couple patch up their differences.
The picture, on the whole, wär quite worth seeing and, but for the tiresome repetitions of the scenes in
:
the carnival, would have probably MATHESON LANG
been one of the best pictures of the year.
DUELS IN PARIS
J
AN AMERICAN WOUNDS TWO
FRENCHMEN.
CARNIVAL
·EVENING STANDARD: THIS IS A REAL MOVE
STARTING THURSDAY
LEW AYRES
AND
Paris, Oct. 2.That duels took place some ten days ago between al well-known American and two pro minent Frenchmen, and that thei former was victorious is reported by the Chicago Tribune. One of the Frenchmen is still critically MAE CLARKE ill.
It is expected that a third due! will be fought between the same] American and a friend of the two wounded Frenchmen. No police action is being taken, as the duela took place on private ground. If, however, the injured Frenchmban dies, it is probable that the police will intervene, according to the paper.
Tho "Tribuno
saye the duels took place as the result of an insult alleged to have been offered to th
No names have.
American's wife.
been published.
DUNLOP DIVIDEND An ingenuous young Englishman, Lloyd, arrives from England, to take over, in all good faith, the London, Oct. 2.It is announced "Universal" and generally mulds by the Dunlop Rubber Company to the confusion by refusing to that interim dividends will be paid step into the matrimonial breach on October 31 on the "AB" vacated by the vanquished Tony, and "C" Preference shares. Twelve What happens when Lloyd's months ago interim Preference divi uncle, who presumably had beendends were deferred, but full pay- "put on the spot" arrives and monts were made at the end of the forces Spike to buy the racket | financial year. from his nephew, must be seen to be believed.
With Margot Grahame as Lil, and Henry Kendall as Lloyd, au Bernard Nedell and Binnie Barnes, this is a film you must not miss,
No Ordinary dividend was forth. ✔✔ coming for 1031, but it was stated today that the question, of the will be considered when the re dividend on the Ordinary steeka
"It wris just the sort of rôle I'd after a series of thrilling advent 2,80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,80 p.m.) ported by a strong cast including sults of the full year's working are
been begging the studio to give ine," explained Miss Jordan, "but I really thought somebody else
tures. He brings the murderer to justice, while the police of New York and a detective from Scotland Yard are attempting to fasten the
Miss WU SAN
IN
would get it because of the fact crime uti a beautiful girl and fier"The TWO ORPHANS"
that the characterization is a far ory from what I'd been doing be.
admirer.
Alexander Kirkland, handsome fore. I've always had to play shy, young actor from the stage, who #4 EUT- demure, and somewhat timid girls, made his screen debut in whereas, this Southern girl in The render," for which be won the Wot Parade fights her way through praise of critics, protrays
role
all sorts of dramatic conflicts second in importance only to that Others in the cast in- There's nothing ahy or timid, about of Oland.
clude H. B. Warner, Marian ber: In fact, she has plenty of opportunities to express herself in Nizan, James, Kirkwood, Ralph
no uncertain terms.
Not Keen on Hammocks.
Morgan, Linda Walkins and, James Todil.
how Trink"
Charlie Chan's Chanco " 18 John G. Blystone's fifty-fourth It's hardly necessary for me to directorial effort for Fox Films and say that getting a chance to play is said to be one of his best. Barry. totally different réle like this i Conners and Philip Klein prepared pretty much of "break. Every the story for the screen. They also one knows that most players dislikercle the screen play and dialing being confined to one sort of char for The Black Camel," "Charlie actorization. In the first place,.it Chan Carries On" and "The Rain. monotonous, and, moreover, it doesn't give you a chance to prove what you're worth. Naturally, it's harder than just being yourself. Anyone can swing in a hammock work than the art of walking across while the hero puts his arms around a set properly or showing off your you and tells you how beautiful face at the best cnimera angles. Un- you look in the moonlight. But | usual rôlér may be hard work but that doesn't get you very far, the reward of knowing you can You'll be swinging in a hammock, tackle a part foreign to your us for the rest of your screen.life. ture and carry it off is well worth And who wants to do that than İNA
Trying-to-make the portrait of — “I have been told-it-isn't fashioh--| this girl accurate and convincing able any more to talk about careers aften had my nerves on edge. I and that sort of thing. Well, I "don't mind admitting it. There are hope I will be forgiven if I still so many little things that have to think of the screen sais caroer and be watched, so many slant land hope to do all in any power to gat angles that can make or mar a ahead for I can't so much fun in riley But you can be sure I'm not sealing still and doing everyone sorry, I was assigned the part, de elee pass you on the way. Which spite all the worrying. that went is why I consider it a break to with it. If taught me some new lave played this role in "The Wet screen tricks and made me realise Parade. If they put me back in that there is a lot more to him hammocks after this well, retinued at foot of nees column know I'm just no good!!!!
100% CANTONESE
... DIALOGUE ENTERTAINMENT ASSURED IN THIS SPECTACULAR CHINESE FILM UNITED MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRIAL LTD. PRODUCTION ADDED ATTRACTION Chinese Songs by Talented Songstresses will appear in every Performances CHANGE OF PROGRAMME NEXT CHANGE COMMBROING THURSDAY, 10th NOV.
helpless hopelota beartaick
YELLOW TICKET
EUM LANDI
ascertained."
GOSSIP
FACT.
Film Actor Married..
Theodore you Eltz, the film actor, who has married Elizabeth Lori mor, a well-known Bociety girl, at Tia Juana, Mexico,
***Tarewell to Arms."!
With the signing of Mary Forbes,
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Dietrich Bings.
IN
NIGHT
WORLD"
A Universal Picture.
COMING SOON
The All Quiet" of 1882
Battalion
For the first time since "Morocco" Marlene Dietrich will sing in a motion picture when she appears as It's A Universal Super- the title character in the Para mount-Joseph Von Sternberg, pro- duction, Blonde Venus."
Miss Dietrich, will be heard in four Bongr
one of the screen's leading charne Well Again,
ter actresses and the mother of. After a long absence through ill Ralph Forbes, Paramount has com- ness Henry Baynton is returning
Production
CHEAPER RICE FOR BRITAIN
ploted the cast of "A Farewell to the age in Beeld. He is PLANE FOR ESTABLISHING
to Akms."
taking Lewis Waller's part of a bullying counsel in a revival of
Helen Hayes and Gary Coopers" The Butterly on the Wheel."
are co-starred with Adolphe Menjou
ma, ng ABS "Lives of Bengal Lancer.":"
MILL IN LONDON.
London, October 29.-Pions are under way, according to which & large rice mill,, on the most modern
in the principal supporting role. They enact the nurse, the ambulance The Lives of Bengal Lanoer," lines, will be erected immediately. driver and the surgeon.
which has been in preparation for on Thames-side of a group of London. In other rales. made famous by more than a year by Paramount, as business men, who will work in Ernest Homingway's popular novel to-be-directed by Stephen Roberts, conjunction with a group of Burm are Jack La Rue as the priest, according to an announcement from rico-millers, The scheme Je regard- Mary Philips as Ferguson, Blanche Paramount Scones for the scree ed as an outcome of the Ottawa. Friderici as the head nurse, and version of this adventurous story agreements, under which one penny Mins Forbes as Miss Yan Campen were filmed last fall and winter by per lb. duty is to be imposed on
Other roles are being played by a Paramount company that spent foreign rice... Henry Armotta, George Humbert, several months in the interior of It is hoped that the products af Frad Malatesta Tom Ricketter mothern India There are many the mill will be on the market by Robert Cauterio and Gilbert Emery. scenes of wild animals in the In- next February. It is anticipated Frank Borsage, of Italian parent dian jungle, as well as film shots that the wholesale price of ricet age, is directing the production of the British Lancers. An impos milled here will be about 270/8 winch was prepared for the screening cast, headed by Clive Brook, tan, whereas: Spanish rice, plus the by Benjamin Glazer, and Oliver H. Fredric March, Gary Cooper and new duty, will cost the distributor
Garrett
hidbard-Arlan will be featured about 22 ton.