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QJFENS THEATE
FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m
MANY MEN DESIRED HER
GRETO
IN
-her heart she kept through the years, for one alone!
The lovely,
glowing, my- stic star of the screen at
height of her glory!
AS YOU DESIRE ME
-Marty Monona
with Melvyn Douglas · Erich von Stroheim Owen Moore,
Directed by
George Fitzmaurice
ADDED ATTRACTION · Thelma TODD
Zasu PITT
in "Let's Do Things"
· TO-MORROW,
In a Monastery Garden
JUVUS HAGEN Jephia".*
JOHN STUART HUGH WILLIAMS JOAN MAUDE - GINA MALO2.
Beveled an MAURICO Sirev
STAR
TO:DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
RALPH LYNN
in the riotous comedy "The Chance of a Night-Time"
with
WINIFREDSHOTTER
WORLDA
TO-DAY ONLY*
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
"HELL DIVERS"
with
TO-DAY
ONLY
AT
(2.30, 5.10, 7.15)
& 9.30 P.M.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933
SHONCKUNG'S FINEST ONEWA
“A Girl Don't Know
What to do...
If she lets a fellow maul her, lie thinks she's no good. And if she doesn't, he thinks she's old-fashioned"
You'll roar at this rollicking romance
Me and My Gal
with
Spencer TRACY Joan BENNETT
Marloa Burns George Walals
Directed by Raoul Walsă
Fox Picture
.** SOME
GIRLS ARE LIKE" MOTORS-
V
YOU'VE GOT TO CHOKE THEM ΤΟ
GET THEM STARTED!” ·
BOOKING
AT THE
THEATRE
TEL. 25319 & 25332.
TO-MORROW
#Grown-ups
make me tired. with all this -kissing busi
noss!"
Fun for the whole family
HANDLE WITH CARE
with
James DUNN
Boots MALLORY:
EI BRENDEL
Buster PHELPS Screen play by Frank Craven and Sem Mintz - Directed by DAVID BUTLER FOX PICTURE
CURRENT PICTURES IN LOCAL CINEMAS
'AS YOU DESIRE
ME"
GRETA GARBO AND HER
OPPOSITE NUMBER
In following the career of Greta Garbo, currently to be seen at the Queen's Theatre in As You Desire Me," one is struck by the fact that the Swedish star's leading men have been, almost without exception, sided greatly in their own film careers by their association with Miss Garbo.
CARNIVAL BOAT”.
ROMANCE OF THE LOGGING
CAMPS
Bill Boyd, the popular athletic star of action romanes has one of his best roles in "Carnival Boat" which will be showing at the Cen- tral Theatre on Thursday.
This Rko Pathe picture is the first romance of the logging camps since sound was, combined with most beautiful mountain and tim.. "motion" pictures. Some of the
berland scenery ever caught by 'the camera is the background of the absorbing action of this adventure- romance of the big trees. It was filmed in the High Sierras of Cali
One of the most striking examples is Robert Montgomery, who appear.fornia. Colourful scenes aboard a
ed with Miss Garbo in "Inspira tion," a characterization which cen tered the attention of fans on. him. and was the stepping-stone to star doro. Clark Gable is another whe has been mentioned as an aspirant for film stardom in the not-too- distant future. Gable played op- posite Greta Garbo, in Susan Lenox," and has been in constant demand ever since.
Lew Ayres was practically un- known at the time he played a role in Misa Garbo's last milent film, "The Kiss," but shortly after this picture was released, he jumped to the top rung of screen popularity John Gilbert was a star in his own right long Before his association with Miss Garbo, but there are many who place his performances with the magnetic Swede in Flesh and the Devil" and "Love" above his earlier work.
contrast to the outdoors, carnival boat offer entertaining
Boyd plays a young lumberman. who fails to live up to the hopes of his father, & veteran of the timberlands. His love for a show. boat girl, played by Ginger Rogers, takes his mind off his duties in the logging camp. His father's at- tempt to make his "chip off the old block" get down to serious busi ness causes a rift between them. When the father works over-zealous ly to cover-up his son's weakness and deliver their quota of timber, he nearly loses his life piloting a timber train down the mountain, But Bill sees the runaway train, risks his life to reach in and saves his father. The girl proves her worth and her love for Bill in a novel way for a happy ending. The
* MAJESTIC
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Miss Garbo's latest film "As You Desire Me," again presents leading man relatively new to the screen, namely, Melvyn Douglas, who only recently left the New York stage to appear opposite Gloria Swanson in To-night or Never." If precedent means anything, he'll be a star some day,
THE MUMMY" AT THE
CENTRAL
STRANGE TALE OF
ANCIENT EGYPT,
"The Mummy" is having its final run at the Central Theatre to-day, with Karloff in the star- ring role of the mummy dead 3000 yeara-yet alive today. The High Priest of a dim yesterday roaming a modern city in search of the
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Brutalf TRUE! The story
of the
chain gangs
"HELL'S
vestal virgin he loved when the HIGHWAY pyramids were young ! Finding
her in the person of a beautiful Storringen
society girl, fighting for her with RICHARD
all the strange power of a forgot
ten scienos. Its unusual!
Ite
DIX
thrilling Again you have the great but with
Karloff of Trankenstein" and he TOW BROWN
The lash and the sweat box couldn'terush the spirit of Duke Ellis, whose heart
went back to the girl who waited and prayed i
will thrill you in this masterful Dited by Rowland RADIO
WALLACE BERRY-CLARK GABLE} production. It is your last op Brown. David O. Selz Pictures
portunity to see "The Mummy."
nick, Executive Producer
THE HORROR DEPARTMENT
Owing to the increasing popula- rity of mystery and horror films, the Paramount studios have esta blished. a Myetary Department for the manufacture and opflection of instrument of terror to be used as "properties" in their films.
The equipment at present inclu- des apparatus for torture cham- bers and strange surgical instru- ments used in "The Island of Lost Souls. The bizarre apparatus used by Charles Laughton as the scientist also is thore.
The most terrifying articles of all are those collected for use in "Murders in the Zoo," which will feature Charles Bugglos, Lionel Atwill and Kathleen Burke. This is to be a "horror picture which will surpass all others."
Another Good Picture of Jean Bennett,
| FAMOUS STAR QUITS HOLLYWOOD
DRIVEN OUT BY HOME WRECKERS
"Because I refuse to divorso my husband, Frank Fay, and be- cause. Hollywood is equally doter- mined to force me to do so. ha and I are quitting this bunch of Homa-wreckers and are going to England to live,"
ity, they begged to be released
from the contract, which, natural- ly, Fay instantly agreed-his prids forbidding he should do anything plse. They then discovered that I had it. So then I became a big shot, while my husband remained out of the picture.
"Since then these Hollywood anakes have done everything in their power to start trouble be tween Fay and ma, using exact- ly the same arguments they did before, only reversing our posi tions..
"I am not, running away be Barbara Stanwyck, the famous cause I am afraid of them, but film star, made this remarkable | life's too short to live in such a statement to a correspondent to a contemptible community, London paper, when all Hollywood is discussing the 14,000 aliena tion suit brought against Douglas Fairbanks, junr, by Mr. Jorgen Dietz, of Los Angeles.
Joan Crawford, Douglas's wife, declared to me that she would stick by her husband, but later she announced a separation. In the suit Fairbanks is accused of alienating the affections of Mrs. Dictz.
"I have never been to England, but Fay played a season there in 1920 and adores London.
"What is good enough for him is good enough for me. We've no offers either from British film con- eerns or theatre managers, and we definitely are not of the smell army of American film people who are now 'longing to make a film in England.
"All we want is peace and free- dom from scandalmongers, and Die, this Fay assures me we'll find in
The properties" include 100 pickled snakes, stuffed dizards, New York," Barbara told
"When we first came here from Chinese dragons, eerie statues,
"We plan to arrive there in the early summer and settle there per manently."**
skulis and weird types of monkeys. "ay was a big shot and I was London. In addition there is a completely nobody." (Curiously enough, sha nevar dalls Ler husband by his equipped zoo of wild beaste- in- cluding thirty lions, leopards, ti- first name, despite adoring him). gers, one hundred alligators, tw him Broadway's idol and brought tices from the London critics when "His fifteen years' vaudeville made. Frank Fay received glowing no- hundred snakes and a large as- sortment of monkeys.
him a long-term contract at a big he played there seven years ago salary with Warner's, whereas I and Barbara Stanwyck's sensa was only so much excess baggage tional success in a dozen talkies "Then Hollwood did its best to makes her one of the most-sought- persuade Fay to walk out on me, after stars in Hollywood. telling him bluntly that I was a handicap to his screen career, but as it happens he loves me, and he told the troublemakers to go and fly a kite
The "Crime of the Century," in which Jean. Hersholt plays a scien- tist and hypnotist, the "proper ties" include peculiarly shaped re- torts, test tubes, quear paintings and a number of weird statuettes.
picture 'concludes with a crashing climax when the dynamiting, of a log jam gives the star an oppor tunity to prove himself a herd.
4 SHOWS
DAILY 2.37-5.15
7.15-8.30
"
Hollywood Snakės, "When the movie magnates de- cided he lacked a screen personal-
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NOW SHOWING-FEW DAYS ONLY THE MOST SENSATIONAL CHINESE PICTURE EVER MADE]
"THE LOVE DEBT
In Cantonese Dialect
with
LAIMING FAI
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DEPICTING
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Carnival Boat'
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SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
IT COMES
TO LIFE!!
A museum niommy, come to life to battle modern science for his love of a buried' pasti... Tha year's biggest thrilli
KARLOFF
THE UNCANNY
in THE MUMMY
ZITA JOHANN David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron. Story by Nina Wilcox. Putnam and Richard Schayer, Pro- duced by Carl Laammie, Jr. Directed by Karl Freund. Pratenied by Carl Laemmie. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
NEXT CHANGE
ROMANCE CRASHES THE BIG TIMBER!
Bill BOYD
Love Fires Honor's Spark
in this son of the tall timberlands
CARNIVAL
BOAT
HOBART BOSWORTH
FRED KOHLER GINGER ROGERS
Directed by ALBERT
ROGELI
CHARLES R.ROGERS PRODUCTION
RKO PATHEPICTURE
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