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CENTRAL
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ADVANCE BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S
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Thunder Below,"
Queen's.
"Call of the Sea"
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY - 2.80, 6.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
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THE STAR OF STARS
"Born to Love."
"Sporting Chance." KOWLOON
ford Babs."
IN A GLAMOROUS
Star,
+
STORY WITH A
LONDON SETTING
King'i
The S moke
Screen o
War Hid
Queen's,
Morals of
Peace!
Central,
CONSTANCE BENNETT
Together they shared love— alone she faced the penalty?
BORN
TO LOVE
with
JOEL MCCREA
ANRKO PATHE
PRODUCTION
SUNDAY
MORE THRILLS! · MORE SURPRISES THAN YOU EVER SAWI
***LET ME
INTRODUCE
The overlord
of the under- world com0L 4- manded them to marry, Than commanded that death thold seper sts them!
YOU TO...
YOUR
HUSBANDI'
BILL BOYD
BIG GAMBLE
THE
WITH
Charles
R. Rogers Prodadian
WARNER OLAND
DOROTHY SEBASTIAN
JAMES GLEASON
COMING SOON
RKO-RADION PICTURE
One of the big scenes in the jungle thriller! FRANK BUCK'S BRING EM
BACK
ALIVE
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Everything's Rogie Chances."
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Sin Ship."
Transgression."
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• Friends and Lovers.”
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Devil and the Deep." Pearl Theatre.
"Huddle." Scuthera Palaca.
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True Life of Yuen Lan."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
TALLULAH
BANKHEAD
--the exptic, the sophisticate»« Imagine her the lower of
a tropic camp, the only white woman on half a contment, the adored of an exiled band of beat-crazed men -
Imagine it, if you can, but SEE
THUNDER BELOW
A Paramount Picture -
-WITH---
CHARLES BICKFORD, PAUL LUKAS, EUGENE PALLETTE
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
THUNDER BELOW":
AT THE KING'S
BUSINESS AND
PLEASURE,"
LEADING MAN'S EVENTFUL AND WHERE WILL ROGERS
LIFE
Charles Bickford, appearing with Tallulah Bankhead in. Para- mount's Thunder Below," which is now showing at the King's Thea tre, has enough irons in the fire," as the saying goes, to keep
WAS EDUCATED -
Will Rogers has spiked a ruinour that he is a product of Eton and Oxford after it began to appear that it was getting widespread credence. attended only two small American The popular humorist claims to have
a dozen men busy. To him, acting schools, both in, Missouri and one of
is
an enjoyable vocation with alluring cultural qualities.
Bickford is more business man than film actor. Besides, having the leading main role in Miss Bankhead's latest starring vehicle, which is his eight pieture in half year's time, ho owns a hog farm, chicken ranch, cafe, lingoria shop, garage, gas station and two whil ing boats. In addition he owns
them a military academy.
Rogers credits Arthur Brisbang editor and writer, with starting the report of his higher education.
Arthur and I kid each other back and forth in our columns," Will said recently. We thought folks that I, who never have been it would be a great joke to tell the
university except as a guest,
in
"What really got Arthur started," was that I made the off-hand re-
a half interest. in a pearling schoon- was a product of one of the world's er and has recently purchased a most famous universities. I thought small island near Jaya where co-it a good joke, too, and helped it coanute are grown, which he has along by saring that a man ought never seen. He has found time to to be allowed to live down his.
past. acquire the technique of a play- wright as well as that of an actor, and his third successful play, "Sandy Hooker," opened in Chi-mark, after attending my daughter's in February. His present graduation exercises, that I was glad I had chosen a profession' that didn't require any education. minant beting, but he thought I meant writing, I guess. Even when on the stage, Bick- I'll have to trot out my fav ford used to spend the summer ourite gag on Arthur, He's the months between seasons working world's greatest booster for avia- with construction engineering! tion; but he's never had a foot oll groups rather than taking a vaca- the ground. You can't conx him into tion at seaside or mountaina. He, & plane."
cago
plans ara, tu open a dude ranch near Ensenada, Mexico.
T
Engineer by Profession,
wae educated to be an engineer That many persons took Bris and served in this unit during the bane's little joke on Rogers norious war. After his college career, hely is indicated by the number, of want around the world as a sailor. mid they had known all the Limo letters the comedian received. Many Bickford was born in Cambridge, that Rogers was an Englishman, and Mass, and was educated in Boston that the cowboy background he Schools and Massachusette. In claimed was just publicity. tute of Technology. After complet ing his engineering education, he i Bet forth on an around-the-world! trip with, Roosevelt's fleet 88 a coal-passer.
His stock career includes engage ments also in Lynn, Lawrence, Havergill and Lowell, Mass,; New port, Rhode Island Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York: Philadel phis, Pittsburgh-end Harrisburg, Pennslyvania. St. Louis, Mo. and Chicago
Notable Roles:
?
"My Only Schools,**
The only schools I over attend- od,” said Will," were the Wille Hasser School at Neosho, Missouri; at Booneville, Missouri,"
Bogers has just completed his latest Fox film starring production, will be seen and heard on Sunday Business and Ploneure, which
Bext at the King's Theatre. It was adapted from the bost selling novel,
The Plutocrat," by Booth Tarking
ton.
His Brodway appearances, which carried him to stage, stardom," in- -*-*-*- clude Dark Rosaleen," "Flames," "Outside Looking In," "Glory Hal- in Dynamite." From this, he leluiah,” “Now Mare. Wonem went into leading parta in “ Anug “ Chicago,” “ Bless You Bister" | Christta,"!" Bouth Ben Rose, ***The and Gods of the Lightning." Son Bat" "Hell's Heroes Pane After ten years on the stage, he alon Elower, River's End,” entered motion pictures three years.
"Panama Flo The Squaw
ago when selected for the hero role) Man "** Ambition "⠀ “Pasta el Wlmatinued-al-ront of mist columa ↑ "Borneo "-and- Thunder Below."
BOOKING AT TAN TREATHE THL 25913;
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NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 18th, DEC.
They're Still Laughing...
at his performances in "A Connecticut Yankee"and"Young as You Feel.”
WILL
ROGERS
in
BUSINESS
and
PLEASURE
WITH JETTA GOUDAL A FOX PICTURE
Miss Ziziakova, the talented dancer, who will start a short sea. son in the Peninmis Hotel Hose Boom on the occasion of the Gala night on Christmas Eve,
Miss Zizlakova was very well received with her partner Bouvoris, both at the Cathay Hotel and the Little Club in Skangħai.
ORIENTAL THEATRE
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· TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS, TO-DAY, TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY 1933 FIRST RUN in HONG KONG
RELEASE
The first steeplechase race of sound movies!
And what a thrillert.
SPORTING CHANCE
Chock-a-block full of action,
thrills and beart-throbs.
One of the year's best picturesse facturing BUSTER COLLIER CLAUDIA DELL JAMES HALL and EUGENE JACKSON
WHY MR. MAUGHAM WROTE IT
"PLAY TO SAVE YOUTH
FROM NEXT WAR.
Mr. Sommerset Maugham spoke from the depth of an armchair:- "I live on the Continent and every moment I see the countries of Europe arming themselves to the teeth as hard as they can go, and that is why I wrote my play
to try to protect the new. youth of to-day from dying in the treaches or losing five years, of their lives in a war that seems af most imminent.
He was talking to me about kis new play, "For Services Render- ed," which had its first night at the Globe Theatre on Tuesday.
The play, an ironic drama of pest-war life in an. English home, Was said to be Mr. Maugham's last, and the critics have labelled it as "brilliant as a'' peace-time "journey's End,' but bitter and cruel,"
Last Play-But One.
Mr. Maugham, as he talked to me, discounted the criticism and told in that it is his last play but
ane.
I have been working for ages on what I think is to be my last play," he told me, and I shall actually start writing it shortly.
"As to calling last night's play bitter," he went on, "well it might be more truly called a play about a bitter subject, a play on a theme which is in itself ironic, and I believe is being enacted in many unhappy war-wreaked homes."
Mr. Maugham walked to the window of his sitting-room and looked out on to the seething 'mass of traffic in Piccadilly.
The messige of my play," he said, "is to the youth of the world that is just coming of age. The youth that has never known the horrors of war, and to whom the men spiritually, mentally and physically wrecked by the war arej just a lot of tiresome old fogies.
"My play is not bitter in itself. But if the subject happens to be bitter or crual well 1"
· WOOLSEY FILM AT THE--- QUEEN'S
COMEDY OF SHAM AUCTION RING
The contagious lure of the sham suction ring, with its petty trick. eries and price. juggling, is the comedy theme of Radio Pictures' "Everything's Rosio" showing on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.i
Featuring Robert Woolsey in his first solo starring comedy, the picture catches the laugh-provoking highlights of carnival faker's career and takes him through a sories of comedy situations.
1
The auction scenes give Woolsey plenty of opportunity to engage in that light patter which first made him famous on the vaudeville stage and later as Bert Wheeler's parte ner in & mories of six Radio Picturce' comedies.
The story is from the pen of the recognized leader of Hollywood's humorists, Al Boasberg. The direc- tion is by Clyde Bruckman, who directed Harold Lloyd in his last three pictures. Anita Louise, John Darrow, Florence Roberts and. Alfred P. James are in the 'cast.
ADMIRAL SOLVES SUM- MONS PROBLEM
HUSBAND WHO IS IN A
BATTLESHIP.
An application for a maintenance order against a sailor, Herbert Henry Mills, now serving in the battleship Royal Sovereign, wGE "mado at" Aldershot Police Courts Car
It was stated that the wife no
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20 p.m.
“A STIRBING NAVAL ADVENTURE
"THE CALL OF THE SEA“
RRITISH PRODUCTION
ALSO ALL BRITISH SHORTS AND
SIR ROBERT HO TUNGS
TALKIE
DEBUT
· NEXT CHANGE Cyclonic Comic of "Rio" Rita“
ROBERT
SCREEN'S GRANDEST BUFFOON
Carnival of laughs Big Time
thrills in a rousing farce
with a dash
of heartache
ANITA LOUISE JOHN DARROW
EVERYTHINGS
ROSIE
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
A JOLLY SHOW..
A FEAST OF LAUGHS
IDEAL FILMS LTD.
presonia"
Bobby Howes,
ENGLAND'S
Greatest Comedian
plied for a separation order on the LORD BABS”
grounds of desertion. The captain of the Boyd Foverage sidow over declined to accept service of“ thei summons as the ship was starting for a two-and-a-half years' cruise in the Mediterranean.
It was stated that the first port of call would be Gibraltar, but, on the advice of a magistratą, - Admira), J. Hawksley, the court decided that
Gainsborough Picture
JEAN COLIN
PAT PATERSON
ALFRED DRAYTON
Vandeville Manical
the mad aust first have a residence -- From:
at Malta, the headquarters during the cruise, and decided to take no detion untilthakahin-arrived.
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