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SKO-TADIO PICTURE. Produced By Vin Bouton
Starting Sunday
Camp
A SPECIAL PICTURE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
BRING THE KIDDIES",
TO SEE
MICKEY BOONEY AS THE TEN YEAR OLD BOY "KING'
with
TOM MIX
IN
"MY PAL THE KING"
DRAMA ETAGED IN
A SMALL KINGDOM OF EUROPE, PLENTY OF THRILLS ACTION AND HILARIOUS FUN,,
TO-DAY AT THE
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CINEMA
HONG KONG
"While Paris Sleeps."
Queen'e.
"Love on the Spot."
Central.
"Bring 'Em Back Alive."
Oriental,
"Politics,"
KOWLOON
Star.
"Young Donovan's Kid."
King's.
COMING
"Unholy Carden."
Quean's.
Speak Easily."
"Grand Hotel."
Central,
Star.
"My Pal the King."
"Thark."
"Old Dark House."
"Pench of Rano."
"Love Contract.”
Bachelor Apartment,'
Alias Jimny Valentino."
CANTON CINEMAS
Chung Wah Theatre,
"The Daomhed Battalion."
Tai Tak Theatre.
Devils Lottery."
Sun Kwok Man Theatre,
"Old Dark House." Wing Hon Theatre.
The Phantom President."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1932,
LAST
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· Gasp At The Paris That's Not In The Guide Books!
The real Paris that no. tourist ever sees, that no writer dares describe!
WHILE PARIS SLEEPS
VICTOR MCLAGLEN
HELEN MACK WILLIAM BAKEWELL
RITA LA ROY
Screenplay by Banil Wcoa
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong.
WHILE PARIS
SLEEPS"
VICTOR McLAGLEN
Directed by Allan Dwan FOX PICTURE
CHEVALIER MOST CHARMING
“ONE HOUR WITH YOU”
Maurice Chevalier is the only
big film star left who can make a
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UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
SAMUEL GOLDWYN presents
RONALD
COLMAN The UNHOLY GARDEN
Ал
"THE UNHOLY
GARDEN"
COMING TO KING'S ON. SUNDAY
shaven and disheveled auccess of an old-fashioned talkie.Ronald Colman is the aot incons In the earliest talking pictures the siderable promise in "The Unholy principal actors broke into song with plenty of rhyme and rhythm Garden," the new Samuel Gold. but without any reason in relation "yn picture which comes to the to the story for singing. In Mat King's Theatre on Sunday next. RIGOLETTO (VERDI) rice Chevalier's latest talkie, shown
EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE AT STAR THEATRE
In this adventure inclodrama by At the Regal Theatre, he and Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, Jeanette Macdonal do the same. Colman is seen as Barry Hunt, a But we are not bored by their sing- ing because they sing so merrily.
gentleman adventurer, a rogue who With each new talkie of his has seen better days and honester Chevalier shown one how far flung ways. With a motley crew of mur- his special talents are and how derers, thieves and other outcasts, Those who witnessed the per- formance of the Italian Opera 'they are denied full play by the he is hiding from, the police in a While Paris Sleeps" is a story Company last night enjoyed music limits of a type of talkie that has Sahara outpost camp.
capital.
AT THE KING'S
of
dual and collective effort of the group. Spying and intrigue and. flying desert rides and murders afe essential ingredients of the yarn..
A “STRANGER" IN ||| GEEN TRA
THE HOME
BEAUTIFUL ACTING IN NEW
LONDON PLAY!!
SCOTLAND AS GALILEE
* FOLLOW ME," BY TYRONE GUTHRIE
Wifether it proves popular or noty there is some beautiful thought and exquisito acting in this play. Though it may be described as "daring" in the fact that it treats of a Second Coming of Christ, among its merits are its reticences for its real study is just the re action of this upon quiet Scot tish family.
There is one scune in London, but those who expect a flamboyant display on the lines of an Academy problen picture will be disappoint ed. We noither hear nor see Christ Himself, nor are there any oromo- lithographic haloes or rays of light, Bat the human and modern analógy of the story of the Gospels is work-
ed out with remarkable delicacy, taste, and insight.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5, 10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
BRITAIN'S BEST
MUSICAL-COMEDY-
by Sapper
Adopted
LOVE ON THE SPOT
The family live in n Glasgow flat. The father, Matthew, is, of course, taxi-inspector. On his daughter's birthday he bursts in to declare that he has invited a joiner's son from Cullen, in Banffshire, whom he had found preaching and working cares, and also twelve issociates, all fisher- men. His wife, thinking he has gone mad, refuses to receive them. So they are taken into another. room, from which we hear cheery gongs, which the family try to drown by singing" **There is a Fountain? to the harmonium.
Sentance of Death.--
We then find ourselves in 's Lon den hotel-apparently near Euston
and hear of political riots, and of a trial and sentence of death- on what exact charge we are not told. One of the fishermen, An drew, comes in wounded by the mob, who had attacked him in a fried-fish shop.
We return to Scotland to find the home broken up. The children are going off to Canada. The father has left his work to, go on a street-corner tour to prove eviden- res of the Resurrection which have. arrived from the New Forest and Scarborough. He is also working with his wife-who remaina, faith- ful to him, though she does not bệ lieve on a book. "They won't think," he says quietly, while his wife types the manuscript, "that it was written by ordinary wee folk like us.
Alike in genre and purpose, the is a good deal: deeper than. The Passing of the Third Floor Back," which it naturally recalls The London scene is by a long way the least convincing. The acting, however, of fr. James Woodburn, of the Scottish National Players,
as thew, and cf. Mias Elliot Mas and Misa Dorothy Gibson as his wife-n perfectly drawn cha Scottish householt, and everything tha: happens there, vital and me
morable.
Also the production, by Mr. already better known as a produ Tyrone Guthrie himself, who is cer than as a playwright, is a nodel of careful grouping and com bined expression of setting and plays like those in which Seymour character. The reception was one
of quiversal enthusiasm. Hicks appears.
of the underworld of the French of a vocal standard that nowadays been the same since the time when One of the number, a wizened
Parisiens might shrug is rarely heard in Hong Kong. It their shoulders and laugh or be is difficult in grand opera to Bad Chevalier first inade his name on old Frenchmann, is believed to have annoyed according to their natures, persons reasonable physical the Ans. We have seen enough of hidden his plunder somewhere upon
the requisito but it is a picture of what most proportions with people like to imagine is a certain quality of voice able to act at all. him as a sheep in wolf's clothing- the premises, and to worm this in-racter and daughter, make the aspect of Paris-and, for a film,It was Punch who suggested that I mean it-bleating to any old formation from him is the indivi- what more is necessary 7
in such cases the audience should tune at any old time and play Victor McLaglen has what is for have its back turned to the stage ing the very devil with women
90 that while the ear was charmed, him an unusual role. Instead of a roystoring braggard, he is a broken the eye should not be offended. as only a man clean at heart can. man escaped from French Guiana, This was not at all necessary in We have also seen enough of the instead of a lover a broken heart the case of the Italian Opera Co. kind of talkie that has songs with: ed father, trying to watch over for Rigoletto maintained a high
out sense and a tall story withont"; the interests of his daughter who standard all through.
dramatic value in it. The best cherishes a pious memory of a hero
The second act gave us a delight who died at Verdun..
ful yandering of a solo by Gilda film producers know it, too, and
Chevalier is cut out for comedy The opening scene, showing the but the dominant feature of the that is why the old order of talkies hero's escape from the convict whole play was the singing of has given place to the new like romances is a great actor, but he settlement are extraordinarily Rigoletto-played by M. Cavallo,
14 Annabelle's Affairs," "Mata has not yet been given a chapos to powerful and if the film as it de whose rich resonant voice flooded
City Lights, Min and show how sery well he can act. In velopes does not seem to keep up the theatre with real music. His Hari," the promise of the beginning it at notes came across with power and Bill," and "Shanghai Express," "One Hour With You" he in the lenst introduces us to a clever acdignity when he and Gilda oecu tress in the person of Helen Mack pit the stage (Mlle. Valdi) the all of which the importance of same old go-lucky" big boy," as Jennette Mac- who plays the part of "Manon "audience was entranced, and the the story was not forgotten for the charming as ever. the convict's daughter.
singers were deservedly applauded sake of a song. Dramatic value is donald helps to make this talkin for many of their numbers.
going to be what matters most in most delightful. Light entertain the talkies of the future, and it ment of the best is provided, gener- will not be long before Maurice ously interspersed with songs and night cannot realise the excellence Chevalier's film Auesesses will be Roland Young. of the Italian Opera Company or all comedy dramas without songs, they would certainly not miss hearing them.
"While Paris Sleeps" is show. ing to-day and to-morrow at the King'a and will be replaced on Sun-
Music lovers and there must be many more than those who occu day by what promises to be a verypied the seats in the theatre last
fine picture.
If you are interested in Victor McLaglen's acting you should not misaWhile Paris Sleops" as i shows him in an entirely now rôle "and one which he handles well.
'LOVE ON THE SPOT"
YOUNG J. SINGER'S GOOD WORK
One of the most popular players. on the set during the making of Love on the Spot " now at the Queen's, was 8 years old John Singer, who plays the part of an hotel pago boy,
..
Surely Hong Kong has not been drugged to such an extent by movies and talkies that it bas ceased to appreciate "real music- music that is not distorted by the mechanical contrivances so common nowadaya We strongly urge our readers to find their way across to. the Star Theatre for the remaining performances.
SPEAK EASILY
COMING TO QUEEN'S ON SUNDAY
To see him picking up new dance steps from Richard Dolman, the musical comedy star who has the loading part in this picture, you'd think he had been in the job for suffering
Телта,
Jimmy
Although so young, be has insomnia!-- already appeared in a dozen films
starting with "High Treason" and
Schnozzle Durante is
from
might club
The long-nosed comedian now
"Lord Babs," Old. appearing with Buster Keaton in Speak
including
Soldiers
Never Die,"
Jack's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's.
Boy" and several others not yet Easily to be shown at the released
Although exceedingly clever at
mimicking and character work, he that he is never will probably stick to singing and dancing, and in ten years time you will be seeing him on the screen Land-stage-as-the-romantic bets.
Grundry, claims
to go
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POLITICS
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President-elect Roosevelt received
landslide, Funnier than Marie rozs for Mayor
JAPAN'S RICE CON- TROL PLAN
SEIYUKAI MEMBERS AND NEED FOR PERMANENT POLICY.
Tokyo, Dec. 20-The work of
the special committee of the Commission is making tardy pro- grew At the present stage, the private plans produced by indivi dual members are being considered but none is good enough to be made: the basis of general discussion. As there is a danger in existing cir cumstances of Bill not being drawn up in time for presentation to the coming session of the Diet, the special committee has applied to the Department of Agriculture! and Forestry for the drafting of a tentative plan which may form the basis of discussion in the com mittee.
drafting a Rice Control menico
In compliance, the authorities of the Department met to discuss the matter.It is expected that the tentative plan to be laid by the
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mittee will largely sim at the con Brol of rice in the colonies, regula tion of rice production, and the Axing of official price within limits. The agricultural members of the Seiynkai are giving earnest attan- tion to the establishment of a per manent rice policy. Practically all of thâm “are in avour of a MODO poly, but as the vigorous opposition of the Pears to the plan of mono- poly is taken for granted they are, not likely to sist on theirṛ] Since, however, they are persuaded that the distress of the farmzer "can not be relieved, unless
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