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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S KD, WESTBOUND BUS
ADVANCE BOOKING AT
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TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA.
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· HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ́8, 1932.
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 6.10,
King's
Movie Crazy."
Queen's.
7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
"Bachelor Apartment."
Central.
Cohens and Kellys in Holly.
wood,"
Oriental,
The Big Adventure."
HE IS GREATEST IN 1932
2.80, 5,15, 7.15 & 9,30 P.M.
KOWLOON." :
Star.
SHOWING TO-DAY
LAUGH
at the
comedy
riot of
the year!
COHENS
KELLYS
HOLLYWOOD
GEORGE SIDNEY CHARLIE MURRAY June Clyde, Norman Foster Directed by John F. Dillon Presented by Carl Laemmle A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE
STILL GOING STRONG IN LONDON
UNRIVALLED BRITISH SENTIMENT IN ̧A FIRST RATE BRITISH PICTURE.
Ralph Lynn.Tom Walls AMIGHT LIKE THIS
GY BEN TRAVERS
A MENDU MÉLAISE OF FOOLIS
with
WINIFRED SHOTTER
ITS A REAL GOOD TONIO- 'PUNCTUATED WITH LAUGH.
TER; PEAL UPON PEAL..
A 1932 BRITISH DOMINIONS PICTURE.
COMING SOON
Ce of the big scenes in the jungle thriller! FRANK BUCK'S BRING EM
BACK
King's.
Tho Lady Refusen,!'
COMING:
Mischief,"
The First year,"
**** Blonde Yonas,"
Queen's.
Letty Lyalon." "Call of the Sea"
Contral.
Star.
Fanny Folly Herself." "A Night Like This."
Tom Brown of Culver." Bra to Love."
* Bring 'Eun Back Alive.
Leather Neeking,"
"A Lindy to love."
"Lord Babs"
World.
**Red Butterfly ep. 4"
(Chinese picture).
Chasing. Rainbow."
"Fire and Blood."
"Hook Line and Sinker."
CANTON CINEMAS
Wing Hon Theatre. Movie Crazy"
Southern Palace.
The Viking."
Tai Tak Theatre.
p for Murder.”
Sun Kok Man.
"Racing Youth."
HAROLD LLOYD Movie Crazy'
THE COMEDY SENSATION OF THE YEAR
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CONSTANCE CUMMINGS FEBDUCED BY HANDED LLOYD CORP.
A Paceman Belone
Harold's back again - This Time he's "Movie Crazy"...
it goes to his head ...to his heart... the most uproarious romince you have ever seen!
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
THE FIRST YEAR”
JANET GAYNOR-A HARD-
WORKING STAR
No screen refeurity has the self- facing modesty of Jauet Gaynor.
"
MISCHIEF AT
KING'S
ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
SCENES
One of the great charms of Mis-
THE VALUE OF
MAIL" * FAN
OPINION OF DIRECTOR OF ** LETTY LYNTON !!
BOOKING
AT THE
THEATRE
TEL. 25313,
& 25332.
TO-MORROW
RALPH LYNN
IN
"MISCHIEF"
with
WINIFRED SHOTTER JEANNE STUART JAMES CAREW
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS PRODUCTION,
A 5-YEAR PLAN" HITS JACK HYLTON
WHY HIS BAND DID NOT TOUR RUSSIA
Berlin, Oct. 30.-nek Hylton Fan mail to a motion picture and his band, at the moment I am director means a good deal more telephoning this message, should be than mere applause. So declares playing in Russia. They are, how- Clarence Drown, who directed Joan ever, playing in Prussia. And Mr. Crawford and Robert Montgomery Hylton has just told me why. in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's drama tic production," Lety Lynton," which will open on Sunday at the Queen's, Theatre. Molt fan letters, he says, contain actual informs
tion.
...
"Some of them offer construe tive critielam, some suggest new atorics, and often they make cast ing suggestion, giving the director a clue as to what actors people like to see in certain roles." anys Brown,
"The difficulty is," he said, "that the Russian Government takes such a long time considering. This Five- Year Flan staff seems to have be come a habit. It is not every one who can wait five years
The boys and I waited four the days in Königsberg, up on Polish-German frontier, for the Russian Government to make up their minds whether they wanted s
enough.
Or more right. to a spotlight posi-chief," the Ralph Lynn farce, is "I rend mine carefully and "often to go in or not. And that was loog
tion, if she cared for that sort of thing
Like Mande. Adams, she believes an adress should he known for her work, not by the gowns she wears, the glamour of her cocktail parties, the fame of her satellites, or the publie places in which she is seen.
She prob
camera,
the fidelity of the country-side scenes. Kentish beauty, trensares have been made considerable use of by Jack Raymond and the charts. ters fit with rare excellence into thin
вселен,
Nothing can be so funny as a Work, to her, is still the prin comedy that is played seriously and eipal thing in her life. ably is the best informed screen with a fais regard for logic and gins on the mechanics of pictures | commonsense making. For her own information
reasons why she has followed the progress of negative filam from the through the laboratory, to the cut Ting rooms, and had each opera tion, its purpose and reason, care-
fully explained to her by experts."
By the intensity of light and shadow on her face, she can tell when a set is lighted properly. Any cameraman who has ever work! ed with her can verify the fact that she has an uncanny wisdom of the psychology of camera angles, Hardly rer does an actor work with Janet for the first time-and this includes those with years of experience without profiting from Eome bit of her screen wisdom. She is perfectly qualified to direct
This is one of the
Mischief," which we are showing this week, is such a success, for each inalanor in neatly | dovetailed, achieving a flowery style du, not only sustains interest but enhances it. Ralph Lynn appears in this British and Dominions mirth-provoker and has never done better work.
Woman
Winifred Shoker,
James Carew, Jeanne Stuart and Kenneth Kove are also in the east
Another Ralph Lynn riot aptly describes "Mischief," the story of which was written by Ben Travers, many delightful author of
a picture, a fent that only one comedies. "Mischief" was the Alm has hitherto successfully selected for presentation at a mid- accomplished. Dorothy Arzner.
aight charity performance attended
As to her own work, Janet has by the Prince of Wales and Prince nover been satisfied with it, al George, and kept the whole mudi- | though during the six years of her | ence, including the Princes, in
stardom she has become symbolical laughter.
to millions of all that is expres. sive of happiness, Another of her enviable records is shared with Charles Farrell. Theirs is the most successful of all screen teams whose
Film laughter, and genuine laughter, too, is occasionally ex- tracted from utler abdities. "Mischief," the new Ralph Lygn
popularity has roustantly mounted picture, furnishes a rich instance.
through the years.
This pedlar of interferones calls at a country cottage at the moment a It was an increasing desire for too-generous fire sets the chimney an enlarged cibotional range that alight. Winifred Shatter, the oeu led Janet to profer more sophia pant, seizes a tin of table sally Licated rules, · For this reason Fox
forces the can into the hands of the Films obtained for her "The First startled Lynn and orders him, to Year," Frank Craven's well-known put out the fire. The normal man.
ALIVE romantic comedy, in which Charles would have poured the self-spon
< picture
- to quicken -------
the lood
vary kument
of
AEDRADIO PICTURE
orporation
Farrell for their first completely the blazing fire, but the hors in a -modern-roles
"Alim-farem, is-no, kas ordinary-man.~ Ralph Lynn climbed to the roof to pour the salt down the chimus. slipped and fell into a water butt,
The First Year," presaging the more emotional rules Janet is to portray' in the future, was dimcted
shown at the King's Theatre on not forgetting to retrieve the pow Sunday next.
aseless tin..
Governmant Invitation.
SIX BEAUTIES · IN FILM ATQUEEN'S"
PROMINENT IN “BACHELOR
APARTMENT"".
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One world-famous beauty of the silent seven, aud divo of, the most beautiful won. Lo enter pictares since the cinema began to talk, vio for beauty honoura in Radio Pie- tures Buehtlar Apartment
now at the Queen's Theatre..
Quite a change in bonuty styles, too, is evidenced by comparing, Mae Murray, beautiful as with the lovely newcomers.
All from Broadway.
ever,
Like Miss Murray, the newcome “ -Irene Dunne, Claudia Dell, Kitty Kelly, Noul Francis and Arlin Judge-came from Broadway.
Miss Dunne, of "Cimarron " fame. made her stage reputation inShow Bont. Sho..in mining lead opposite Lowell Sherman fol Bachelor Apartment,” zippy story of modern city life which Sherman also direcis
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She is of the showgirl type, tall and beautifully formed, graceful with brown hair, brown eyes and perfect features.
Miss Dell is blonde, tail, slender yet stately, Miss Kelly is blonde with dark brown eyes and a benuti. ful face; her figure is a symphony of alluring curves well trimmied by dancing down to the modern vogue.
Many. Types.
Miss Francia is also blonde, bat Miss Judge is small, lively, sirenes- quo and dark-full of life and
rep."
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Miss Murray will be remembered from the aureon's silent days when she was star of many a, picture. She looks as she did when shergamo from the stage to the movies, Int that is not at all as the Broadway. favourites of to-day look. Age-
of appearance
moved age has downward; she plays a matron Dow to their sophisticated iogenues while, by the old standards, ap- pearing to be as youthful as the ingenues of her day on the stage | and screen.
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· MOVIE CRAZY” AT THE KING'S
LLOYD'S SUPPORTING
PLAYERS
...
Never has Harold Lloyd heen? surrounded with as capable a group of supporting players, as apprar in Movie Crazy" with Constance Cummings, the comedy sensation of 1032, which marks the comedian's first screen appearance ทด two years, and which is now showing at have found valuable suggestions."į
the King's Theatre. Brown believes in the utmost care in even the smallest scene in al
Heading the group is Miss Com- picture. As a matter of fact, he the Russian Government had inmings, who is eintrusted with the most difficult role any leading lady has ever been given in a Lloyd says, every picture has in it a cer; vited Mr. Hylton to give a series of tain seemingly unimportant scene concerta in Russia, but all the in- which really is the "koy," or starts formation the Russian Embassy in
comedy, Mias Cummings proved her complete ability to take full the story of the play in motion, Berlin, the Russian Consul in
advantage of the opportunities and this scene has to be watched Konigsberg, the British Embassy in with great care.
Moscow, and Mr. Hylon himself offered by the part and gives au could extract from Russia was: outstanding performance.
The Government is still considers Next in line are Kenneth Thom-
Spencer Fon
Charles, Louise ing the question, "
Closser Hale, Robert McWabc, Harold Goodwin, Sydney Jarvis, Lury Beaumont, Dewitt Jennings, Eddie Fetherstone, Mary Daran,. Nouh Young. Constantine Roma noff and Arthur Housman.
Started Things" Hoving.
In Letty Lyton it was the scene on the ship in which Robori
So I decided that if they could Montgomery prganges to sit at Miss not make up their minds, I era: Crawford's table," Brown' explainsly could make up mine," said Mr. "That one was a comedy bit, but Hylton. it actually started the plot moving
We quickly fixed up Things up to then merely told the audience the nature of the charse ters and the general situation.
"The director has to recognize this key scene of his picture, be careful neither to underplay nor averplay it, and make it start the plot almost imperceptibly."
some more concerts."
And will you accept another invitation from the Russian Gov ernment for a tour I asked.
"We are still considering." r plied Mr. Hylton.
The new picture is a vivid drama Robson, Louise Closser Hale, Emma of society and intrigue based on Dunn, Walter Walker, and William the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Pawley. The locale is South Ameri An olaborate cast appears, includ- ca, New York, and a great liner ing Nils Asther, "Lewis Stone, May in mid-ocean.
ORIENTAL
THEATER ORIENTALE
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
WANGHAI
T. 28437 At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. FLEMING ROAD, TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS. SHOWING TO-DAY CHARLIE CHAPLIN
A REVIVAL OF HIS OUTSTANDING COMEDY PRODUCTION.
"THE BIG
ADVENTURE'
•Soy
OME of the now genera
·· ́tion of screen coinics are not bad, they đợ hand you a laugh now and then. Chaplin delivers continuous rears-of-ritious laughter- from the first real to the last, It-is-simply marvellous-the- way he is able to hold an audience spellbound. Don't miss seeing Chaplin in his” favourite picture Adventure".
Clyde Brockruan is credited with the direction. while. Vincent Law rence, author of a number of stagn plays and motion pictures, did the screen play and the dialogue, and incidentally, the dialogue is the brightest Lloyd has had in his thren talking pictures.
..
Agnes Christine Johnson, John Grey and Felix Adler collaborated with Lloyd in writing the story:
SUNDAY CINEMA VICTORY
BIRMINGHAM'S LEAD TO
ENGLAND!
Birmingham.The Birmingham justicus gave lead to other pro- vincial cities when they granted an application for the general open- of cinemas on Sundaya throughout the city.
ing
The application was made by Birmingham Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association,
the
"After meeting in private the jus- tices announce that, on the ad- vice of their clerk, they wore of the opinion that they had power to grant the application."
Mr. Harold Roberts, for the ex- hibitora, said: chit it was the un- animous opinion of the trado that cinemas should open on Sunday.
Mr. Donald Hurst, barrister, ahid that he represented the Chris- tian Bosial Council. He hubmit- |-|-tod-that-the-justices had no-power- to make the order. Mr. Hurst was -ovorzuled........but asked that his ob
jection should be noted.
Mr. Roberta pointed out the need' for. Bunday cinemas for the young people who aimlessly paraded thej
Ercols eg Sunday evening
He added that no people employ- ed on six weekdays would-be ras) quired to work on Sunday.A
QUENT HEAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
NOEL TRANCIS }}[She Had a Sweethe sfaltu Frúace, but She
MAE MURRAY MUdESTIRein. Brushed Dide's -Understmal Zara
CLAUDIA DELL' Se the Burlar
A hundred wo- mon on his trail
and the.ono who mattered just couldn't be
bothered!
You Can't
Keep Them
Away from
Bachelor
APARTMENT
IRENE DUNNE LOW LL SHERMAN Ivan Lebedell Mao Murray Claudia Dell Nemonn Kerry
NEXT CHANGE THE SCREEN'S Finest Lovers!
MONTGO
This
picture
will put beautiful Jɔin
and bindsome Bɔb at the top of the heap as the saroon's finest romalle pair!
CLARENCE BROWN'S' thrilling production
COMERY
LETTY LYNTON
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m
Passion and iathos !
** Hurr our and- Heartsche 1
REFUSES
BETTY COMPSON Ivan Labediff
Gilbert Emery
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