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CENTRAL
THEATRD
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BOB
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.
COMEDY-DRAMA-INTRIGUE
HONG KONG.
SHOWING
TO-DAY.
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7,15 & 9:30 PM,
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
King's,
"Life Goes On,"
Queen's.
A SPECTACULAR & EX- PENSIVELY PRODUCED VIENNESE OPERETTA
"Young Donovan's Kid,” Central.
Good Night Vienna.”
Oriental.
"One Hour With You."
KOWLOON.
THE IDOL OF LONDON AND BROADWAY IN BRITAIN'S FINEST
PICTURE.
DELICIOUS, MENNESE ROMANCE **.
JACK BUCHANAN
WITH
ANNA NEAGLE
IN
Good Night Vienna
A RRITISHI & DOMINIONS SUPER PRODUCTION.
·NEXT CHANGE
A New Type of Picture
The picture is so unusual so unique, so thrilling, so spectacular, so grip- ping that we urge you to see it,
WHITE HELL of
PITZ
好
PALU
Breathless Thrills! Featuring Gustav Diesel, Teni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen and Ernst Udet. Directed by
Dr. Arnold Frank and G. W. Pabit.
A Univeraal Picture
COURT CIRCULAR
(Special Air-Mail Service)
LONDON, NOW, & THE QUEEN, attended by the Lady Joan Verney and fir Harry Verney, visited the Display of Japanese Ceremonial Festival Dolls at the Arlington Galleries, Bond Street-in-nith of the Obayzo, Hospital for Children. Her Majesty was received by his Excellency the Japaness Ambassador and Madames Hntoudaira
Star.
"Brown Sugar."
COMING.
King's.
** Lasly and Gent,”
Vanishing Frontier."
"Movie Crazy."
Queen's.
Viennese Nights." Huddle."
'Central..
"White Hell of Pitz Pafu.''
Oriental.
"Trader Horn.””
AND MYSTERY
WITH
"LIFE
GOES
ON"
HUGH WAKEFIELD
ELSIE RANDOLPH WALLACE GEOFFREYS
À PARAMOUNT BRITISH PICTURE.
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
"LIFE GOES ON"
THE ROMANCE OF A TELEPHONE GIRL'
ENGLİSH MYSTERY PICTURE
AT KING'S
"Life Goes On," now showing at the King's Theatre, is an English picture the scene of which is laid
"LIFE GOES ON"
IDYLL OF YOUNG LOVE
" VIENNESE NIGHTS" FOR QUEEN'S THEATRE
A trade notice states:--
The City of the Danube, is the locale for many of the beautiful scenes of Viennese Nighta" the Warner Bros. production, coming on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre This glittering, natural colour, idyll of young love is the first story
ROMANCE OF A BIG HOTEL done directly for the screen by
A trade notice states:-
A set of extraordinary interest Was at the Paramount British studios at Elstree for "Life Goes On," which is now showing at the King's Theatre.
Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Ham morstein, 11. The cast includes Walter Pidgeon, Vivienne Segal, Alexander Gray, Jenn Hersholt, Louise Fazenda, Bert Ronch, Alice Day and many other Broadway
favourites.
The story is that of a girl who is forced by her ambitious father to marry a rich man instead of the Much of the notion of the pie a inspried by her to compose a poor musician she loves, and who
ture takes place in a large and up-symphony. Though the two Are parted for years the symphony is completed as though by miracle- and the disappointed girl-after fifty years hears it-while her lover's grandson-complete the cycle. of undying love,
in one of those luxurious hotels to-date hotel, and in order to rasi. which appear to be exactly the same | Hitate the shooting of certain scenea the world over.. Arnold Bonnett and to increase their effectiveness
in tote. Mr.. Lawrence Williama, art director, was therefore called upon to design and create it,
For just under a week between fifty and sixty men worked day and night, and at the end of that time the result of their labours was one
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FLEMING ROAD, WANCHAI
SHOWING TO-DAY
of the most ingenious interiore ever At 2.80, 5.15, 7.16 & 9.80 p.m. created at Elstree.
was the first writer to see the it was thought advisable to build romantic possibilities of a story of the whole ground floor of the hotel villany working beneath the surface of a luxury hotel the author of "Sorry You've Been Troubled (from which Life Goes On" was adapted) has followed the Bennett madel fairly closely, There is one really original aspect of the film, however, that the hero-a typical silly assin manner is really effeo tivo, and he is not a Scarlet Pim- The hotel Boor is complote in pernel who appears a fool out of every respect, and built solid deliberate policy.
throughout, with the outside and Hugo Wakefield has a very skil-partition walls rising to a unioform. ful piece of acting to his credit height of twenty-five feet, and made he never descenda to caricature but so strongly that they can bear bat gives us all the time the man with teries of lights and men attending an irritating maaner who has cour them. It area is 6,630 square foot, age and a alow surpness of brain that once certain of a fact cannot and covers all the available space be shaken by the most ingenious of the new stage added recently lying.
and it comprises a reception Vesti-
Tho two other men play
ย
big part the villains Warwick bule, a telephone switchboard, two Ward and Wallace Geoffreys are lifts, a main staircase leading to the also good
"second floor," a cocktail bar, an The women's parts are taken by Elsie Randolph is the telephone girl onean travel bureau, two lounges with a romantic streak, and Betty connected by a corridor, and a writ Stockfield, pretty and appealing, aa ing room. Its architecture is ab- "Lady Sheridan," who gtas tragi-solutely modern, and distinctive Ica- | cally-mixed up in the affair
ture of the set is its perfect repro-
"In brief the story is that a finan sentation of a marble entrance hall, cier arranges to most Lady Eheridon It is furnished throughout in mo- in a private room of an hotel un-dernist style.
known to the lady's husband, ". One No detail has been overlooked. of the two villains seen an opportu | The swing-doors at the entrance re nity for blackmail, while, when ally swing. The lift doors work the financier dies, the other villain, smoothly, with just that particular his accretary, envisages a fortune noise peculiar to lift doors. The
if the news can be hidden while (aigus_announcing Talephones, Thoa-
tre tickets, Lifts and Ocean Pass. age are all in place.
design is so compact na to bring all the components of his hotel floor within the scope of the camera.
he manipulates the market.
"Ridgeway Emsworth," hack in London after three years in the At the same time Mr. Williams- wild, sees the dead man and senses that something is wrong. He tries to enlist the help first of the hotel manager pid thon of the talephone girl. The firet fails because the manager is in partnership with the secretary, the second bonus to a very satisfactory conclusion, Phoebe of the Exchange Board with both villaina frustrated and romantically inclined and wants the traveller and telephone girl at koln Lady, Sheridas to avoid the beginning of a romance, "Life solidal.a
"Good" On"" is worth socing, because it's an unusual story and really well acted.
Gradually howov the tangled threads are straightened out to lend Fontinued as foot of next Column)
MAURICE CHEVALIER
One Hour With You
2
AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
1 Game Pieces - Al
Directed by
DEANETTE McDONALD
"CENEVENT TORIN CHARLIE MUGGLES
*) BOLAND YOUNG
NEXT ATTRACTION. Commencing SUNDAY, STIL HOV.
PRIMITIVE HATE changed to PREMITIVE LOVE!
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NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 27th NOV.
"I'M SCRAMMIN' BACK TO BROAD- WAY-YOU BIG
BABOON!"
GEORGE
BANCROFT "Lady and Gent"
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WITH
WYNNE GIBSON
·CHARLES STARRSIT JAMES GLEASON
a Paramount Picture
To her, a speakeasy was Home, Sweet Home. To him a fight- ring was the family circle! Until a young- ster from nowhere took them over - and made them over!
"LADY AND GENT"
AMUSING FILM BOOKED
FOR KING'S
A trade notice states:- James Gleason has been popping from one side of the camera to the other and back again, these many
years.
Just at present, he's out in front of it. a featured player with George Bancroft and Wynne Gib son in Lady and Gent," current- ly on display at the King's Theatre on Sunday next. But there's no telling when he's liable to duck around in bask; to write again for the screen, instead of neting for it, In "Lady and Gent" he plays a character role, na a big city sporting geat friend of Bancroft, He has had other front-of-camera roles in comedy shorts and in such films ns "It's a Wise. Child" and "A Free Soul."
',
Back of the camera, he has been writing dialogue and stories for the
EXCHANGE RESTAURANT.
CONCERTS
THIS AFTERNOON AND 9 P.M.
ON SATURDAY
QUEENS THEATER
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. M-AN AND BOY THRILLED
The Management of Exchange WHO Restaurant has arranged another of
the delightful afternoon' concerts by THE WORLD! the orchestra of H.M.S. Suffolk, for to-day
There is also to be a congert by the same orchestra at 5.mil on
| Saturday evening.
Bandmaster W. Lang, will be the conductor on both occasions.
Programme.
The programme for this after- noon is as follows:-
1. Standard Overture by Suppe-
"Pique Dame."
2. A Nautical Selection on Popular.
Aira-"A Life on the Ocean."
3. An Egyptian Serenade by Lincke
"Amina.***
4. Excerpts from the Musical Comedy" The Song of the Drum,
5. Concert Valse"The Dream
Princess", by Ancliffe.
++
B. What' 'Next "--A Fascinatingg Potpouri of Melodies Recalling
the last Half Century-Finck,
T. Intermezzo by Lotton Bocreta"
8. Excerpts from the Musical
Comedy "The Desert Song- Romberg.
GOD SAVE THE KING. Conductor: W. Lang, Bandmas: ter, R.M.B.
CHINESE RECREATION CLUB
RESULT OF ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
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The Hong Kong Chinese Recrea- | tion Club has elected, the following officers for the year 1932:-
Chairman-Mr. H. S. Mok. Hon. Secretaries:-Messrs. Luk Kang Cheung and Lau Man Kui.
Hon. Treasurer:-Mr. Ho Ka Chi, Committee:-MOBSTA Ng Szo Kwong, M. W. Lo, Ho Ka Lau, Y. K. Mok, Wong Ping Fah. Pang Tzo Ming. Lee Yu Wing, Tro Chung Yun, Wong Kwok Fong, F. H. Kwok, Lau Man Kwang, and Yung Chung Man.
Acreen ever since talkies made their debut,
He is also a writer of distinction as far as legitimate productions are: concerned. He wrote "It Znt So?", successful. alang-comedy, while pro- duction shows for summer stock in Milwaukee several years ago. "The Fall Guy," "The Shannons of Broadway," and other successful stage shows are also from his type- write
"Lady and Gent," in which he has on important role, is the story of big town big shota who face dramatic and amusing events after they move to a smaller city.
GOSSIP
&
FACT.
*
were
Men of To-mÖRTOW.
Roumanis, accompanied by his mo "Man of Tomorrow," a Londenther, H.R.H. Princess Helena, her Film picture, is a story of ander. Royal sisters and the ex-King of graduate life at Oxford and its Greece, made a complete tour of aftermath in London, produced by the studios. Among the new films!
production Miss Leontine Bagan, who made they saw. in "Madchen in Uniform," Much of "Bleepless Nights," "For the Love the picture was taken at Oxford of Mike," and "Money Talks." and several scenes were shot in Though anxious to fulfil another Magdalen College and on the river, engagement, the Royal party was The story, adapted from Anthony so interested in film production, Gibbs's Young Apollo," concerns that it romained over an hour be an athetic young man who is sent yond the scheduled time for de down from the Varsity for attack parture.
ing it in a paper he edite. His More recently, another distin- protest was due to his room being guished visitor, was Admiral Sir wrecked by fellow-students who Sidney Freemantle, could not understand anybody pre-
ferring Beethoven to bump supper Stara Botura. festivities.
Gracie Fields Success.
Two popular B.LP. stars have returned to Elstree from the sen side Gene Gerrard, bronzed, and fit, has left behind him a well-sarn- ed holiday at St. Margaret'sat Cliffe, near Dover, a beautiful spot
As a contrast from Mayfair and Oxford Bottinga there is the new Gracie Fields picture," Looking he discovered while on location for on the Bright Side," at the Capitol Let Me Explain Dear," his latest
RICHARD
Beloved stars "of "Cimat”....
ron" and Champ
DIX
JACKIE COOPER
and
MARION SHILLING
YOUNG DONOVAN'S KID
They now stand Shoulder-to-should-
er in stirring drama from Rex Brach's "Big Brother”
·ALSO SHOWING- CARTOON
'Jumping Beans" NEXT CHANGE
Who can resist the temptations of
VIENNESE NIGHTS
where all the world makes
love!
and
SIGMUND ROMBERG
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIM, ZAR ROMANCE!
which has hamble London dwellings film. Leslie Fuller, having con-TO-DAY & TO-MOBROW as a Background. The story, which cluded a successful season at Mar- |doesn't matter, has been fashioned
as a vehicle for Miss Fields to once ate with his Pedlers, is now turn. At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m ing Alm-wards once more, Both! more display her genius as on these fun makers are now busily
INITIAL SHOWINGS artist. She gives a great perform considering new Alm subjects for
IN HONG KONG ance as a middle-class miss, who early production. falls in love with a barber song-
writer, and eventually becomes & Rita Lupine. great stage star.
Danger for Jarry.
Rita Lupino, having already ap peared in three B.I. P. filme," has returned to Elstree to play a small A number of exteriors are to be part in Thomas Bentley's." "musical" | Aimed for * Double Trouble" (ten- ! Bleepless Nights." Since her de- tatively titled), but the loca but in "Money for Nothing" tion, of these are to be followed by Strip, Strip, kept strictly secret as they "Hooray," in which she danced "a will show Jerry Verno, performing routine of her own designing, and a setisational climb from the street "A Bachelor's Baby," in which to the first foor balcony of a block she had an important part, Ritz of fats, and it is possible that a has been taking a great interest in crowd of onlookers might distract: Alma. Her father declares that sho his attention From this dangerons reads every film magazine English, fest with unfortunate resulte American and Continental, publish
ed and is an authority on all the latest films and film stars, You ber. father E and he also Sleepless
Royalty Bee New Films.
* The B:1:1 %studios have entertain-, may, hava heard, ed some „Royal sad distinguished visitor
The Crown Prince
ichas
her name is Stas appears with R{t
of Nighte
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