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HONG KONG. DAILY
PRESS
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY AT THE
King's.
TAKE QUEEN'S 2D., WESTBOUND BUS,
Queen's.
ADVANCE BOOKING AT
ANDERSON'S
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
BLIND DATE!..and love that was always blind!
YOUNG BRIDE
Hot Fires of Youthl
..They Brought the "Millie" Girl to the Dawn of Romance and the Twilight of Love! HELEN
Twelvetrees
ERIC LINDEN ARLINE JUDGE
and
CLIFF EDWARDS ROSCO ATES Directed by
WILLIAM SEITER
REO PATHE PICTURE ₤
SATURDAY
RALPH LYNN
&
TOM WALLS
IN
BEN TRAVERS'
FUNNIEST FARCE
THARK
with
THE POPULAR
ALDWYCH CAST,
STRAIGHT FROM
N IN
RECORD RUN
LONDON.
BRITISH AND
DOMINIONS PICTURE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
"Horse Feathers."
"The Woman from Monte-
Carla."
Central,
Young "Bride."
Oriental.
Star.
•
My Pal the King."
KOWLOON
* **At the Villa Bose." Majestic.
"Bringing 'em back Alive."
King's.
. COMING
Booking on the Bright Side. Woman in Room 13,"
Queen's.
Strange Interludo.".
Grand Hotel."
Central.
Star.
"Thark,"
"State's Attorney."
Law and Order."
Air Mail."
The Flag Lieutenant."
Back Street."
"Leap Year."
The Mammy."
Thirteen Woinen.”
"Polly of the Circus."
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CANTON CINEMAS
Tai Tak,
Explorers of the World."
Wing Hon.
Forgotten. Commundraents." Chung Wah.
"Chondu."!
Sun Kwok Man Theatre.
A Joan in Art."
Sun Wah Theatre.
Bird of Paradise."
SHOWING -TO-DAY:
AT 2.80, 5,10 7.15
& 9.30 PM.
KING'S THEATRE
HONGKONGS FINESTIONE
One grand horse-laugh
kicks gloom where "X" Marx the spot!
4 MARX
BROTHERS Horse Feathers
A scandalous record of low Marx at college... or life among love- thirsly co-eds!
Not a grain of sense in the whole fead bog...
but one mad" burst of happy hysterics...set to gay music and garnish- ed with gorgeous girls!.
A Paramount Picture Directed by Norman Mcleod
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong·
NORMA SHEARER & CLARK GABLE
In "Strange Interlude"
ON SUNDAY AT QUEEN'S. THEATRE
Seldom has a woman's soul 80' relentlessly been laid bare as in Eugene O'Neill's drama "Strange Interlude."
This triumph from the pen of the man whom the whole world re gards as America's greatest play wright, reaches the screen at last with Norma Shearer starred with Clark Gable.
THARK"--A RALPH
LYNN PICTURE
BOOKED FOR CENTRAL THEATRE
|
GADUCHO
ZEPPO
HARZO
LOOKING ON THE
BRIGHT SIDE
IF ITS HARD-COME TO`THE KING'S ON SUNDAY
She is valle "Our Gricie" in her
native Lancashire," Our Grice," by her cockney admirers, and when you see her you realise why.
I wonder how many of you have seen a film in cold blood"-alone in in empty theatre. It's a pretty
THEATRE
TEL. 25313 & 25332.
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 5th FEB.
Gracie
Gracie
FIELDS
LOOKING on the
BRIGHT SIDE
with JULIAN ROSE- RICHARD DOLMAN
"GRACIE IS TREMENDOUS AND ASSURES THE SUC- CESS OF LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE,*"
AN ASSOCIATED
RADIO PICTURE
fim but she remains gracie, the meshire, kiss, Bull of her native quick wit and common sense.
She reminds one of Charlie Chaplin but there is an essential difference, Charlie is intensly con stions of every ounce of drama; he ives and feels every emotion he portrays, gracie is only serious haut love. Thats where she scorcs S tremendously. We should all for nearly all) like to think that we could be indifferent to success and failure, adulation and abuse that we could keep our heads in "Wonderland " ita "Alice" did and refuse to be frightened by the Queen of Hearts-but it is only the very young who think it
LIE DACOVER.
SHUTS OUT HOLLYWOOD SUN AND DIN
Lal Dagover, the exotic European who is now auchnuting the fans at: the Queen's Theatre 44 star "The Woman From Mouta Carlo, her first motion picture to be madź in America, is used to the dimness, silence" and seclusion of an oli world garden, between scenes 'on the lot and therefore the noise anil brilliant glare of the · California sunshine is not just to her hiking. Intorviewers find her in roours darkened by heavy drapes and drawn blinds, and lighted by cami- les. This is one phase of the divine Lil-another is expressed when she rides, awiins, fences' and plays ten- "The Woman Evin Moutie Carlo", is a First National' 'and' Vitaphone picture.
nis.
YOUNG BRIDE" · AT CENTRAL THEATRE
THE THREE LEADING LADIES DISCRIBED
Three distinct beauty types aré represented by the girls who carry the femining leads in Young Bride, the Rko-Pathe picture, with Helen Twelvetrees, Eric Linden and Arline Judgo, now showing at The Central Theatre." M
Miss Twelvetrees is a blonde of the wistful, dreamy-eyes types who nevertheless gives the impression of a volcano smouldering beneath a soft lovely exterior. Arline Judge who carries the love, rival role, is
a dashing brunette. Folly Wee ters, third of the trio, is a petite blonde, of the vivacious, party gir type which suggests "desirable bus
expensive" to the romance-hunting male. Playing opposite this array of loveliness aro Eric Linden, and Cliff Edwards, - William Seiter. directed the production.
THE LEAGUE'S YEAR
WHEREL
(Continued from Page 9.) opened with high hopes last Febru= ary backed by the signed petitions, of many millions, and nearly cravo to a dead-end in November, because Germany bad left it in July and the? Powers seemed unable to find any basis for any agreement which would mean effective disarmament on à large scale. It must not be thought that the intervening links waisted. The British, the American, the French pla prove at least this-the readiness of these Governments to adopt fa reaching raeasures of reduction. The task of adjusting their differ- ends of outlook is difficult but not impossible. Moreover, any preg pant ideas were introduced and much work done upon their elabora-. tion. Chief among these, the possibility of probibiting aggres Rive
weapons altogether baa stimulated much thought and pro- gress.
In December new hope was given. to the whole Conference by the discovery of a formula admitting in principle the claim of Germany to equality of status and the claim of France to security, Germany has therefore come back. In the early
SHOWING TO-DAY A 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
a Great Actress
ARRIVES
Dagover
Woman of aA thousand charms
AS
The WOMAN MONTE CARLO
from V
with WALTER HENTON WARREN WILLIAM, John Wray, deo, B. Stoba),
Bobert Warwick (20
FEATURETTE"
ANGEL
FROM Laying Bare ⠀⠀⠀⠀ the Heart, the Secret Thoughts, the Very Soul of a Woman!
Norma
SHEARER
months of 1933, it is, to be hoped GABBERS sevora test of its quality. It is not would be grand to be indifferant 'sion to the principies above named:
By to laugh alons or even to en-
seats round one. But at the pre- view of Looking on the Bright Side," which I saw yesterday at the King's, Our Gracie "my The significant advance of Brieracie too now-made me forget all tish pictures is again very evident that,
the work of giving practical expres.
about lovo, and "Gracie" anys and of reconciling all that is best
In short, 1932 has not bean e
joy a picture with a waste of empty, come on, its quite easy, why thin. the plans alrendy advanced will are only a pack of cards." She be set in hand with renewed grace
and vigour.. winks at you and stretches out a hand to you from that shadow world, you groet a fellow human being and make a friend for life.
That's Gracie, and the film is good too. It moves quickly, has human story, plenty of good songs and is admirably directed by Basil Dean.
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in a British and Dominions pro- In the opening scenes one won- duction which has packed the Ein- ders what ali the friss has been Gracie ́- Fields is not a pire during the week. This time it | about.
Thark" one of Ben Travers' beauty and quite awkward in her famous forces which will be show movements, But what a magic she ing at The Central Theatre on has within five minutes you like her, in fifteen she fascinates you, Saturday.
and in half an hour she enthralls you.
The leads being played by Ralph Lynn and Tom Walls, around whom
She is so human, the one humour the other members of the Aldwyou boing in that strange, stage world
was originally players the story written. During its adaptation to Like you she isn't for a moment the screen the author was in theken in by all the big words and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has pro studio adding to the effectiveness glitter. She, may be playing in a duced this fine dramatic work at the dialogue in the new medium.. which can be seen from Sunday at The result is an excellent picture Queen's Theatre. Sharing of tonic qualities. Depression is honours with Miss Shearer in this litted and trials forgotten 10 film is the popular Clark Gable. ! watching these experienced
the
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In Nina Leeda, Miss Shearer has capable comedians filling the arr the most vivid and penetrating with Taughter. The whole picture character that has as yet been reis punctuated with roars of mer vealed on the screen. Her's is the riment. Bo quickly does one sally soul which is stripped of pretense, follow the other that the witty showing a woman at odds with marks as entertainment extraordin- convention, hungering for a love which society forbids her to satisfy. ary and we have no hesitation in recommending this fine British film'
worth-while entertainment
Love Intrigue,
She is the woman who reaches Mary Brough, Robertson Hart. across the barriers of married re- Gordon, James, Evelyn Bostock and spectability to draw Clark Gable into the mazes of a love intrigue John Brierley are in the first-rate which blights the lives of all cast,
around her. And yet she is a wo
man who seeks only happiness-
selfish happiness but a selfishness
that has been forced upon her by players has been rotained in the
the blinduces of another..
Eugene O'Neill stunned the dramatic world when he put this woman and this play on the speak ing stage. For two years it held New York spellbound, M-O-M has! been faithful to the great man who wrbwr it in bringing his master- picce to the screen
The device by which the author revealed the hidden thong well as the spoke
Continged almon xoʻ
screen production. It is this fex- ture which has led critics, to hail as the most. Strange Interludo" revolutionary drama of the talking
Leonard who has had
on the hon
4 SHOWS
DAILY
|2.20–5.13.
7.18-8.20
You will enjoy every minute of "Looking on the Bright Side" and leave the theatre saying "Thats one of the very best films I bave ever seen." It begins on Sunday at the King's come along and give our Gracie a real welcome!
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ORIENTAL
FLEMING
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LAST 4 PERFORMANCES TO-DAY
A BRAND NEW IDEA IN PICTURES A WILD WEST CIRCUS FOOTLUOSE AMONG THE BLOODY POLITICS OF A SMALL EUROPEAN KINGDOM. ITS A MARVEL OF ACTION AND FUN.
MY PAL THE KIN
WHILE PARIS SLEEPS
18 4E SHOOKING AS PARIS ITSELF! thrills to the capital of excitement. Penetrate ite
its forbidden sperota!.
much gloom there are bright streaks Happy Year, but in the midst of which point to the possibility of the League of Nations shortly emerging from the tests it is nOW undergoing with renewed strength and hope.
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Rosd, Kowloon Tel. 07222, TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7-20 & 9.20 p.
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