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Horse Feathers."
Society Girl.'
Tess of the Storm Country,”
Fast Life". ·
"Five Star Final."
Central,
Hell's Highway."
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND RUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
King's
HỒNG KONG
A Farewell to Arms."
'Queen's.
"Prosperity."
Central,
"The Mayor's Nest,"
Oriental,
TO-DAY & TC-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
World.
A BRIGHT & SPARKLING
BRITISH PICTURE
FULL OF RICH HUMOUR
Vous rot
PILGRIM
THE MAN WIN! THE HONESTE
Sydney The Howard MAYOR'S NEST
RAS NGA PARSTOM JINÝ VER ANGELJALA MALKI DYKLĖTED IN P MACLEAN ROGERS „DirtCrowd ferraticies HERBERT WECOY
WESTERN BLOTNE VEM les incomu dr.
"Min and Bill."
Spenk Ersily.".
KOWLOON
Star.
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Feller Needs
Friend,"
Majestic.
King's..
Strictly Dishonorabje."
Queen's.
COMING
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
2.30, 5.10, 7.15
& 9.30, P.M.
abandon
C'S THEATRE KING'S
HONCKONC'S FINEST ONEMA
Two who began in passion's reckless defying a world gone mad with hate!
FAREWELL TO ARMS
with!
HELEN HAYES GARY COOPER. ADOLPHE MENJOU A Ghramount Picture
BOOKING
AT Tax THEATRE
TEL. 25313 & 25932.
— NEXT CHANGE -BY SPECIAL REQUEST-
THE FOUR
MARX BROTHERS
IN
..
HORSE FEATHERS
Mirth's "4- Horsemen
riding wild
through a college of lovethirsty
co-ads!
A Parwmomet Picture
HORSE FEATHERS ''
MARX BROTHERS AT THE
KING'S
"Horse Fenther,. latest of the mad, merry comedies of the Four Marx Brothers, opens very shortly at the King's Theatre.
Croucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo ars again cast together in A picture that affords them oppor- tunities for the same type of non- sense they presented in "Animal Catchers," "Monkey Business," and The Cocoanuts," their three pre vious movie efforts.
An amusing plot holds the pic- ture together. Groucho is a college president because that's the only way, it seems, hs can get his son, Zeepo, out of college. Zoppo has been there twelve years..
With the co-operation of Chico, village bootleggar, and Harpo,
village dogcatcher, he ultimately ac complished his object. +
Upon this frame is built many a comedy situation. Groucho talks at his usual rapid-fire rate; Chico puns in dialect; Harpo says no- thing and chases every blinda in aight and Zeppo makes love to. the best-looking girls available.
S. J. Perelman, Bart Kalmar and Harry Ruby, well-known humorists, wrote the book, Music and lyrics are by Kalmar and Rubby, and Norman McLeod, in charge of direction of "Monkey Business," directed the now picture.
HEALTH IN EASTERN
PORTS
FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 18, 1933.
Plague,
Cholera.
Cospa, Deaths.
23
DEATH OF ANNY AHLERS
Bassein Bombay
Batavia Prom-Penh
Calcutta Saigon
25
0
Small-pox.
1
0
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2.
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11
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178
Calcutta.
392
281
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Karachi
22
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Madras
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27
Rangoon
Natal Province
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Bangkok
Saigon
Tourane
Масло Amoy Shanghai
QUEENS TIBAI
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.
MORE WELCOME THAN A PUBLIC HOLIDAY!
Marie
DRESSIE
MORAN
Pollo
If what Hong Kong needs is a big langh
Here it is!
PROSPERITY
with ANITA PAGE NORMAN FOSTER A SAM WOOD
Production
ALSO
CHARLIE CHASE "in "High Cs".
WITH CLAUDE HULBERT
BOTH GUARANTEED. TO
MAKE YOU YELL WITH
LAUGHTER;
WEDNESDAY
W
SOMETHING NEW!
THE FIRST PICTURE OF THE TERRIBLE
UHAIN GANGS~
Every man in line had a target on his back. A thousand to one against free dom..butDukeEllis took a chance!
Brutal! TRUEI
The story of the choin
gangs
"HELL'S HIGHWAY
A SKO-RADIO
Picture of cont David O. Selenia ka Ezeceive Fredeem
Storring RICHARD.
DIX
with TOM BROWN Directed by Rowland Brows
YOUNG DOUG”
SUED
SEPARATION FROM JOAN CRAWFORD
Los Angeles, March 18-Follow- ing the commencement of an aliena- tion suit against Douglas Fair banks Jr., in the state court here, Mrs. Fairbanks (Joan Crawford) announced that she and her hus band had agreed to a separation, Incompatibility being given us the
reason..
Mr. Fairbanks defended her hus band against the charge of alienat ing the affections of Mrs. Jorgen Dietz, a member of the motion picture colony, and said that the charges were unjustifiable.
Stendy Company."
"A Bill of Divorcement."
"Nagarin."
"The Mummy."
"Explorers of the World."
World.
"Flying Fool,"
Oriental,
Star.
Painted Desert."
"Splinters in the Navy."
"The Chance of a Night Time."
ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S WORLD FAMOUS STORY AS YOU READ IT IN THE BOOK... SO YOU WILL SEE IT ON THE SCREEN.
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong、
PROSPERITY"
Marie Dressler and Polly
Moran at the Queen's
to Bee.
A FAREWELL TO
ARMS"
FIRST OF A “NEW CYCLE OF FILMS"
A new eral A rebirth of romance! Can it be possible, that "A Arma," the screen
MAYOR'S NEST."
SYDNEY HOWARDS SKIT ON BUMBLEDOM
SUICIDE WHILE OF
UNSOUND MIND.
London, March 18.-A vordict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned to-day at the inquest on the young German actress, Anay Ahlers, who was the star in "The Dubarry" which is now running at His Majesty's Theatre in London.
The death of the actress was caus- ed from the effects of a fall from a window of her flat, while she was walking in her sleep.
From beginning to end "The Mayer's Nest" is a scream. Sydney Howard has already been identifi ed with laughter-pictures,--He has been seen as a weaver-inventor, a football fao, a sailor and the bibu lous friend of a happy-go-lucky husband. In this new British, and Dominions, picture he graduates from being an itinerant trombone player to the position of Mayor. In the evidence, it was revealed And what a Mayor Bumbledon that death was due to a fall from has not yet produced his equal and, for the credit of all municipali-senca of mind.
a window during a momentary ab ties, it is hoped that it never will. As a chief magistrate he is as pic turesque as he is ludicrous, which is all to the good.
The doctory, at the hearing of the evidence, revealed a story of drinks, drugs, ill-health and de- pression.
"Prosperity which opened its run at the Queen's yesterday is not as wo had been led to expect, just a comedy. It is funny enough in parts but it is much more than
As children we were taught to that it is a story of high endenv- Farewell to
have respect for those sat in au our and courage, a human sort of version of Ernest Hemingway's thority over ua--a difficult lesson emblem of authority. Seeing that story which it will do us all good novel, which is now showing at to inculcate in these latter days. Sydney Howard is Joe Pilgram, We do not learn from "The Ma the omission does not matter a Maggie Warren (Marie Drissler) | the King's Theatre; with a chist
For's Nest" the municipality of great deal and the knowledge could was the president of a small town headed by Helen Hayes, Gary which Councillor Joseph Pilgramot possibly increase the admirable bank when the depression started Cooper and Adolphe Menjou, is was the chief magistrate, and, per to hit America. She saw her fami-
haps, that is quite as well in view ly pride and honour, her position; the herand of such a change?
of his conduct, particularly in the her home and her savings all going,
want Helen Hayes believes this to be police court. Here he presides at- and she faced ench loss with cour the cnac!'
tired in his robes, wearing his age humor and a determination to
chain of office, and accompanied by the Mace Bearer and the Borough win through.
"Prosperity" is not a picture of easy times; not a palliative, but a sermon. But do not run away with the idea that it is a just a picce of rather sentimental American preaching, It is not that, there is plenty of good commonsense and what is better good humor and good courage in the story.
moment
"It is necessary only to think of some of the successful films of the past few years," says Miss Flayes, to feel the difference manifest in 'A Farewell to Arms. Ernest Hemingway, I feel, wrot a very great love story, and that is what Director Frank Borzage has The done with the film version. story is great in its simplicity Frederic and Catherine meet and love. That tells the. whole of their story. How different it is from the hardboiled films the gangster, racketeer, night club and newspaper stories that have been so successful in the recent past.
Marie Dressler's Film! What it would have been with out Marie Dressler the leading role one hesitates to imagine, But she is there dominating ever
of the picture. Pally Moran as the friend with whom she is continually at logger henda plays well too, but one feels that Filma, I suppose, like every she is a little winded by the speed thing else, rup in cycles. The suc- and force with which Marie Dress com of one type always brings an ler plays.
avalanche of films of that type, Where the laughter counts, and But I believe that A Farewell to there is plenty of it; it is well Arms' is even more than the begin- deserved for the dialogue is good ning of a new cycle.
nor
and marry of the situations really, "The story of Catherine and Fre amusing. Yesterday's andienos deric is as old as life, but it is also liked Frosperity" and I predict modern. It is, I feel, an expres a very successful run for this pic-sion of the new romanticism, which turo. You will miss something has neither the sentimentality of the exceptionally good-if-you-fail to Victorian love storica the see it.
An amusing Charlie Chase come Catherina, for example. I've en- cynicism of the recent ones, Take dy preceeds the big picture.
joyed playing her son much because E. M. B.
she's real and She's fine. She isn't the Patient Griselda type of other roles I've played-the woman who HIGHWAY" lies down and lets life walk over her. Nor is she the self-sufficient, hard young woman that has been pictured so much since the Catherine is all woman, and such, is worthy to be the new ro mantic heroine.
'HELL'S
FULL OF THRILLS AND EXCITEMENT
war.
ES
Hell's Highway" is coming to WELL WAYEUR Vaubanka, prith, tho Sentral Theatre on Wednesday, de a matton ce fact, when» yçə having stolen the love of Mrs role. It is a story of prison and find that very few love at have with Richard Dix in the starring look back over screen history, you Dietz, and caused him to be falsely the chain gang and no doubt there i fashioned in the herole, mold, have accused in another matter to pre- vent him from filing suit. For all will be thrills and excitement in been filmed. Mostly, the cinema, as this, he claimed 850,000 damages, this RKO-Radio production. well as every other art form, has Rowland Brown not only direct contented itself with the story of The district attorney, Mr. Baron, "Hell's Highway, but also lesser emotions. But when you Fitts, revealed that, last December, wrote it, assisted in this latter come to think of it, that's about Dietz had been detained for ex task by Samuel Dritz and Robert right, too, isn't it? It's that the amination after attempting to sell Taskuzzofon story of Frederic and Catherine
Mombaan. Alexandria Port Said
One of the biggest orders, for. aeroplanes for commercial use ever placed in Great Britain-for twenty qualities of this satire on bumble-machines has been given by the dom. The Mayor's Nest' is dis-
Scottish Motor Traction Co. to the tinctly a picture for those who
De Havilland Aircraft Co.
to laugh. Who does not? "The Mayor's Nest" is now show- ing at the Central, and you must not miss it.
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Make an appointment today.
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21, Wellington Street.
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LAST 4 TİMES TO-DAY'
TRULY A GREAT SCREEN CLASSIC
A PICTURE THAT CREATED A BIGGER SENSATION THAT ANYTHING EVER PRODUCED FOR THE SCREEN.
A MOST WONDERFUL PIÙ- TURE OF LAUGHTER HEART- ACHES AND THRILLS.
MARIE
DRESSLER
Mern-Goktugn Maycz
BEERY
They say share or walmegethalie
Fairbanks & Decklace for 88,000 In the cart supporting Dix are should stand with the few instead MIN AND BILL.
The district attorney said that it Tom Brown Rochelle Hudson, C of the many, for only the few ever be dropped.-United Pren.
Henry Gordon and others,
reach truly heroio love.
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