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CENTRAL
THEATRE
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SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. SEE the terrific bartla
between an Eski-
mo and a ferocious polar bear which is about to de- your the girl ho`lovosi
SEE the hunger-mad-
dened Eskimos".
wild walrus hunt.......scores of giant sea beasts slain before your very eyesi
SEE the desperato Es-
"okimos' thrilling pursuit of a whala-lika saa. monster whose tall alone is bigger than 20 men!
SEE the crashing mass-
es of white death -pressure-ice that closes Its gigantic laws on man and boast alikel
SEE the sacrifice of hu
man lives that oth- ers may be spared.... the aged sealed to dla in lana- ly tombs of Ice and snow!
A UNIVERSAL SUPER THRILLER telling of the fight for life in the Frozen Narth. An Edward Small Produc- tion directed by Ewing Scott. Presented by Carl Laemmle.
NEXT CHANGE
COUNSEL FOR CROOKS OR PUB- LIC PROSECUTOR!
He Wray at Both, Che til the Woman He Loved Faced Him Across the Stanil ...
JOHN
BARRYMORE
with
HELEN
TWELVETREES
In Drama Dramatic as a Judge's Sentence!
STATE'S ATTORNEY
JILI ESMOND WILLIAM (Stage) BOYD MARY DUNCAN
Directed by. GEORGE ARCHAINBAUD RKO RADIO. PICTURE,
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933,
SHOWING TO-DAY AT
2.30, 5.10, 7.15
DAYLIGHT MADR TAWDRY THE LOVE THAT THE DESERT
& 9.30 F.M.
King's.
Devil and the Deep.
Queen's.
Blondie of the Follies."
Central,
"Igloo."
Oriental,
Mystery Ranch.”
World.
"The Dacon Patrol."
KOWLOON
Star.
Beau Huuks."
Majestic.
"Thark."
COMING
NIGHT MADE SWEET
KINGS
HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA
DESERT STARS,
THE WARM PERFUME OF THE TROPICAL NIGHT, THE SENSUOUS NOTES OF PAN ORIENTAL LOVE SONG..,
TALLULAH
BANKHEAD
GARY
COOPER
TA
AND
·
"DEVIL HE DEEP"
A Paramount Picture
with CHARLES LAUGHTON CARY GRANT
Directed by Marion Gering
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NEXT CHANGE. THURSDAY, 28rd MAR.
TWO SOULS LÖST... FOR LOVE'S SAKE
HELEN HAYES GARY COOPER
A FAREWELL
TO ARMS
ADOLNIE MENJOU
& PLANS SORTAGE Production
4 Gramaini Pictuent
in
f
ONCE IN A LIFE-
TIME
A SKIT ON HOLLYWOOD ·
The
-motion picture industry "kide" itself unmercifully in “Once Lifetime," the Universal comedy which comes to the Central Theatre on Wednesday.
This satire on fantastic produe |tion methods of Hollywood studios is one continual shriek of laughter, taking the audience not only into the forbidden precincts of the round stages during the making of a picture, but into the private offi- ces of reputedly great executives. In this hilarious production wà see incredibly "dumb" small-time vali- deville actor installed as supervisor of a leading studio, and acclaimed as the genius of Hollywood.
The exceptional cast appearing in Once in a Lifetime” includes Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon. Russell Hopton, Zusu Pitts, Louise Fazenda and many others.
Laugh? You'll howl! Don't miss "Once in a Lifetime.”
QUEENS THEATER
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY At 2,80, 5.1Q, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m
A THRILLING PAGE IN THE LIFE STORY of a chorus girl
marion
DAVIES
MONTGOMERY
Metro-
Mayer
'King's,
A Farewell to Arms." "llorge Feathers."
Queen's.
"Bohind the Musk.”
Central,
"States Attorney,"
"Once in a Lifetime."
World.
Star.
+
The Mummy."
Middle Watch."
50 Million Frenchmen."
"Dawn Patrol." "Flying Fool."
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
A FAREWELL TO
ARMS"
FILM OF A FAMOUS U.S. NOVEL
"BEHIND THE MASK"
A REAL THRILLER BOOKED
FOR QUEEN'S
"Behind The Mask" is a shock er that will shock even those who
Far more iffeult than adapta tion of the ordinary play or novelaro naturally equipped with men- into a screen story, was the task tal shock absorbers. This Colum- of converting. Ernest Hemingway's bia film that will open at the quocéssful." A Farowell To Arma” into the picture which Helen Queen's Theatre on Thursday is Hayes, Gary Cooper and Adophe terrifying, electrifying, horrify Menjou will enact on the screen of ing, mystifying! It's a daring the King's Theatre, beginning tale of horror that will gine you Thursday.
to your seat with fright, but at the same time fascinate you..
That is the opinion of Benjamin Glazer and Oliver H. P. Garrett, the two gentlemen who accom plished the task.
TOLD THIS MAN
AND WOMAN
THEY BELONGED
TO OTEEN!
EACH
NO WONDER IN THE MAD MAGIO
THAT
MONENT THEY AZIZEN, LOVE!
CENTRAL THEATRE-
"IGLOO "A PICTURE OF THE FROZEN NORTH
Only the strong deserve to live. This is a tenet of the civilization of the Eskimos of the arctic, and one which they observe as a matter of firm belief. When a member of an Eskimo tribe has reached. an ad- vanced age, and has become so weakened that he cannot enter into the activities of the village, he is
often sealed in his ice house or
igloo, and there left to die. He may hasten the end by suicide, if he so desires, and often takes this method of ending, his earthly cares.
The observance of this custom is
shown in "Igloo," Ewing Scott's Universal drama produced by Ed- ward Small in the ice-bound Alas- kan village of Point Hope, and tre. Enacted by a cast entirely now showing at the Central Thea
componed of Eskimos, headed by a handsome stalwart named Chee-Ak, "Behind The Mask," relates the the
it is at once the most exciting and most intimate picture ever acts of a cruel, ruthless person, made in this land of eternal. ice who stooped to the most inhuman and snow. means to destroy anyone who in- terfered with his nelarious bus:-
We had a book which undoub telly rates 18 one of the most widely read in American litera
The tribe, seeking food and the ture," explains Glazer: "The noss. This dreaded figure known open sen, deserts its village and country is filled with Hemingway merely as Mr. X, was the myster the aged father of the heroine. But leaves behind, sealed in. his igloo, fans who would resent any great ious leader of a notorious dope in the story the daughter, second liberties being taken with this ring. He functioned through hook or the dialogue
gang, who worked for him faithed by the sympathetic. Chce Ak of "Yet we were faced with the fully without knowing his identi- another tribe, refuses to abide by problem of making the story ty. No one dares to find out. Al the custom, and insists that her dramatic, It is impossible to though he is only a fearful symbol father nocompany the caravan. photograph a novel. A novelist them, they now what horrible. In the making of these scenes it can describle-scenes-and-thoughts, faten the too curious have suffered was difficult for the Director to he can sweep over great explantaes at his hands. But the Secret Ber-
THESE TWO ...THEY FOUND:
ALL THAT THE HUMAN HEARTKNOWS OF ECSTASY AND BREAKING,
“DEVIL AND THE
DEEP
TENSE DRAMA AT THE
KING'S
It difficult to know what to say about Devil and the Deep" the new picture at the King's Theatre.
An attempt to arrange my im- pressions produces the following: clover piece of acting, I hope I shall Charles Laughton; an amazingly
Tallulah Bank
ice him again ... head has found a really good part
here and plays it woll. Garry Cooper; I like him, he plays with directness, simply and convincingly
The story is overwhelming, it is tense and terribly tragic... my attention has been held every moment of the fim... I am tired, not forget, a big picture worth but I have seen a picture I shall
playing and very well played. Tho production was excellent.”
When I try to put these im- pressions into words to sum up the picture I find myself hesitating. "Devil and the Deep" is too real for entertainment, too tragic for so goed that I feel I should have recreation, and yet the acting is been very sorry to have missed it. If you enjoy good acting and good production you should see picture.
E.M.B.
this
convince the old man that he was the action was only being simulated
SAYINGS OF THE WEEK
The really religious man, liko Job, gives up the attempt to under- stand God, and concentrates on living religiously-Mr. Julian Huxley.
In Russia they are spontaneously developing a Puritanism, without a sense of sin, but based on Jawa of hygiena and good form.-Lord Passfeld.
The Pacifists are in favour of insulting all the most aggressive Powers in the modern world, but of depriving us of the only means whereby such insults would be safe. -The Hon. Quintin Hogg.n
The restoration of real money- metallic money-is one of the ele ments necessary to the still possi blo, but increasingly doubtful, salvation of our social structure.- Mr. Hilaire Belloc.
What matters the judgment of the State Court? Away with the absurd sanctity of clauses-Herr Friesler.
I don't believe in going to war to enforce peace. Lord Lytton.
the delay of fash of lightning compared with The delay of the law is like, a
the Ministry of the Transport in dealing with Salter Report.-Lord Buckmaster.
I am inclined to think that the English should be criticized not for taking sport too seriously, but for not taking it seriously enough. -Mr. Robert Lynd.
To help the unemployed is not the same thing as dealing with unen- ployment.Sir Herbert Samuel,
The Oxford Union is more sway- ed by argument than any other liol. body I know.-The Master of Bal.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DRUG
ADDICTS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, March 15. Drug addicts will face imprison- ment of six months and a fine not exceeding 8300 under the new opium Jaw which is promulgated by the. National Government to-day.
of time space. drama vice in determined track purposes mot MAJESTIC
must bring those things to life be- -fore your eyes
the dangerous person in spite of heavy-tosses they have suffered "We were faced with the fact through him. How Jack Hart, a that the book had been drama government agent finally learns the tized for the etage both in New identity of Mr. X and breaks up i York and Berlin. We analyzed the dope ring, provides drama these plays and discovered their packed with thrilling highlights, Inulta. The playwrights had surprise action and gruesome in- merely taken a pair of scissora tecidents, the hook and cut out the scence they could use,
Scenes that will bring cold beads
of perspiration on your forehead
mish with fright are in the hos
d make you clammy and squen- pital where Dr. Steiner destroys those who are considered "exces- nive" by Mr. X.
"We did not do that." Natural- ly a whole book cannot be photo raphed and presented in less than two hours. The first thing we did was to drop useless por tions of the plot which even n Hemingway lover will not miss.
Jack Holt, one of the screen's But on the other hand, in several most saly herose, plays the Secret cases we explained a
paragraph Servic
agent with his usual sin- into a series of scenes,
cerity. The extremely versatile- "But the screen play is Hem- and capable Boris Karloff, the ter ingway because we are using his rifying monster of "Frankenstein," story, his characters, his ideals and adds another interesting charac his actual words in all the major terization to his rapidly increasing
(Continued on next Column).
list, with a sinister portrayal in this new "horror mystery." Con- stance Cummings, Claude King, Willard Robertson, Bertha Mann and Edward Van Sloan are woll chosen for their particular parts. John Francis Dillan proves his directorial versatility with his ex cellent handling of the film, y
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kay scenes of the romance,A
Glazer; in operation with Gar- rett followed closely Hemingway's bory in the young American offi Foer in the Italian ambulance corps and the latter's devastating romance with an English nurse,
Continued at foot of next Column)! ture.
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7.15-8.20
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Thundering HOOFS-FLASHING GUNS
One man tearing his way through a desper ate band of treacher- ous killers to the heart of the girl he loved.
GEORGE O'BRIEN
MYSTERY RANCH
FOX Picture
with CECILIA PARKER From vel The Killer" by Stewart Edward White
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RALPH LYNN
THARK
SLOTSKOELFUN
with TOM WALLS. IT'S A BRITISH
DOMINIONS PRODUCTION,
PROTULO
Blondie
of the Follies
Directed by
BDMUND
GOULDING
ALSO-
RAMON GONESs
PRODUCTION
with" Bullo DOVE Jimmy DURANTE
Laurel & Hardy Comedy
"ONE GOOD TURN
NEXT CHANGE ————
A FIEND WHO LIVED BY DEATH!
JACK HOLT in "BEHIND the
MASK
with Boris KABLOFF.
Constance CUMMINGS
A Columbia Picture.
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