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BOOKING AT THE
THEATRE
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CENTRAL
TAKE QUEEN'N RD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advanco Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tol. 25720.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20 P.M.
STUNNING!...GLORIOUS!
THE STORY OF THE GIRL WHO FOUGHT FOR LOVE AND LOST!
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG Mischick
King's.
Queen's.
יי
Oriental,
World.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933
TO-DAY MAA
ONLY
AT.
[2.30, 5.10, 7.15)
CHONCKONC'S FINEST CHERA
A FILM THAT WILL KEEP YOU IN
A CONSTANT RIPPLE OF MIRTH.
& 9.30 P.M.
Puppets of Fate."
Central.
Rockabye"
|_Suriety Girl"
"Svengali.'
KOWLOON
Stat.
"Love Hæce,"
Majestic.
*F
Scandal-You, my nema's been dished around. But why should they blame mat They're going to take you away from es dorting. Judy just can't live without her baby!
Constance
BENNETT
Stunning Glorious! ROCKABYE
The Dromanc Heart-Cry of
David O
Selznick,
Everyber
Proceed
YOU'LL
Million Mothers!
JOEL
Wah
MCCREA PAUL LUKAS
Jose ad by Cheruya cukor in my he
Set Bedr
LILY BET,
** diri Crazy,"
King's.
COMING
Mr. Robinson Crusoe '
Face in the Sky."
Hat Pepper."
Queen's.
Evenings for Sale." Payments Deterred.'
Central
World.
Girl of The Rio."
Little Orphan Aonie." They Just Hul to Get
Men of Chance.” Afraid to Talk."
Married."
Explorers of the World"
·Grand Hotel**
"Entamed,"
Ameriona Madness."
Oriental,
Star,
*Not Exnetly Goatlemen,”-
Arsen Lupin."
May be its Love."
New Morals for Old.”
RALPH LYNN-WINIFRED SHOTTER
MISCHIEF
*I ENJOYED THAT! BAID THE PRINCE OF WALES
:
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS PRODUCTION
RELEASED BY THE BRITISH FILM DISTRIBUTION CO., LTD HONG KONG.
Pictures In Hong Kong.
FATHE
· MISCHIEF
THE
SWEETEST LITTLE ACTRESS
OF THEM ALL.
NEXT CHANGE
NOT HIS ARMS... NOR HIS MEN... NOR HIS RIFLES. COULD TAME HER
Braggart...rastai...
bas' Caballero with the ladies... to be flouted, Kornod, tricked, subdued..
by this girl...
but what a girl!
GIRL
THE RIO
with
DOLORES DEL RIO LEO CARRILLO NORMAN FOSTER
HERBERT BRENON'S
DRAMATIZATION OF WILLARD .. MACK'S SENSATIONAL STAGE HIT 'THE DOVE'
RKO RADIO PICTURE
NEW CHAIRMAN FOR R.G.A.
THINKS OUTLOOK IS NOT. ENCOURAGING
London, April 20. Mr. W., J. Gallagher who bas been vice- president of the Rubber Growers Association since 1929, was elected chairman at the annual meeting of the Association to day.
The retiring chairman, Mr. Nicolas C. S. Bosanquet, moving the adoption of the annual report stressed the necessity for co-opera- tion. The door was still open but until it was made use of the policy of the Association remained the e as that declared at the inst meeting.
+
Any suggestions made by Holland and the Netherlands Indies includ-! ing the control of native rubber pro- duction would receive the most care- fut consideration of the Associa- tion:
Mr. W. J. Gallagher, in his speech accepting the chairmanship. said he did not think the immediate outlook was encouraging. He did not share the belief that the indus- try would come back to a sound condition by the mere application of the laws of supply and demand. He would do everything in his power to bring about an adjustment. between production and consump- tion.
GODFREY TEARLE
Some of the really funny inci IN PUPPETS OF FATE
dents in "Mischief," the new Ralpb
half sharp," he has to be dared"
in
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ROCKABYE
.CONSTANCE BENNETT'S
TRIUMPH
TO-MORROW
GLORIOUS!I
A MODERN
COMEDY-DRAMA THAT SEETHES WITH ACTION AND THRILLSI
Douglas FAIRBANKS
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Mr ROBINSON CRUSOE
„UNITED.
Hurling though apoca shot from a rutopali aver a flaa) af connibal beats to his own yacht. ... half a mile away
ARTISTS
*A PICTURE
MR. ROBINSON
CRUSOE"
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
(May 4)
(IV. Moon 10th Day) Ladies' Whist Drivé (Police Branch, 1.6L), Helena May In
stitute, 3 p..
Lammert's Sale of Leasehold Property, Sales Room, 3 p.m.
Annual Meeting of Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Truelty to Animals," Messrs," Jar- dir, Matheson's Board Room, ¡3.15 p.m
Concert by Pupils of Mr. F. Mason, AR.C.O., L.T.C.L., St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Theosophical Society Meeting, 6
pn.
Drama and Concert, St. Andrew's Club, Church Hail. 9.30 p.m.
Theatres.
King'a: "Mischief." Queen's Puppets of Fate." Central: Roëlbye." Oriental:"Society Girl." World: Svengali” Star: Love Race." Majestie Girl Crazy."
Dances.
Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Gloucester Building, and King's Restaurant.
Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels, and King's Res
taurant.
--
Sports.
Billiards. Garrison League: B.A.M.C. Lincolns; South Wales Borderers Royal Engineers: Small Units . Royal Artillery.
fawn Tennis.-Hong Kong Area League (Kowloon Section): Royal Signals D Company. Lin. calis: Hong Kong Section: "A" Company, South Wales Borderers i R.A.S.C.
Principal Malla. Outward for Australia by Mel- Bourne Maru, 3.30 p.m.; for Ameri-- ca and Europe ein Siberia, by Em press of Asia, 3 p.m.
Sunrise.-3.40 n.m.; Sunset.--6.51
p.n.
Tides High at 1610; Low at
A JOYFUL STORY OF SOUTH 23.38.
SEAS
When Douglas Fairbanks cast about for an idea for his current
America must salute a new dra matic actress of the first rank-in the person of Miss Constance Ben-production, "Mr. Robinson Crusoe,"
nett.
RKO-Pathe's
to
coming to the King's Theatre on must be a joyful subject that would the Friday, he demanded one thing. It
and prove not only entertainment in these days of long shadows, but carry an optimistic and hopeful note. Doug spent more than a year
Yesterday she came sreen of the Central Theatre in those who saw her and felt the in-
"Rockabye," pact of her personality educated in the fundamental pro- blems of women...
measure
were
Lynn comedy, aleving at the King's this work, have never been equalled.
Godfrey Tearle, the hero For instance, Ralph Lynn, as Ar Puppets of Fate," which opens. thur Gordon, a well-to-do young to-day at the Queen's Thea- man, decides to visits a friend intre, was her in New York in 1861, the country and, on arrival, he hut made his first stage appearaner enquires his way to the cottage, and in 1803, 25 the Little where she is staying, The yokels Duke of York in Richard the
in serious contemplation before he send him three yards" down the Third." He is now one of the most
hit upon his subject... road to the local hackney owner,
.It took the chic, somewhat famous and experienced actors on
In a word, it is a tale of a mo. who, when asked if his coachi can
ever-glamorousdern Robinson Cruzor, who finds the English stage, and has played sophisticated and stand the strain of taking out in-
an euorioa variety of parts He Miss Bennett to prove what theolohimself upon an uninhabited island. forms him that, as the driver is
excels in Shakespeare and has play.gians, moralists and psychologists Instead of being depressed and giv to do it and told that he can't!
ed leading roles in all his plays. often failed prove that a woman's ing up, he pitches in and makes primary hunger is for mother: the best of things through sheer The horse is similarly affected, hav- Other famous parts he has acted.
hood; and that no Brown in
of grit and perseverance. ing been trained by the "half have heen Valentine sharp", youth, so you can imagine in Peter Pan. Frank Taylor in "Quality Street." Captain Hook
fame can compensate, her for a fai lure to satisy this hunger. The the gar time Ralph Lynn has on The hand of Promise, Waverley Kay and airy Constance, even went the hackney and your enjoyment of į
a step further in her portrayal of "Mischief."
Ango in The Faithful Heart,"
Judy Carroll, gifted but rather Jeanne Stuart, a newcomer to Daniel Farr in "The Laughing erratic actress. She proved that the talking screen, is a charming Every Wonian Knows," Chico in and vivacious actress, and one, judging her performance in "Mis Seventh Heaven," and Mirabeli chief the latest British and Domiin The Way of the World." He nions' film production to be shown also succeeded. Franklyn Dyall as here next week, who will go ahead Weaton in White Cargo and in British films. She wears clothes inade one appearance in musical beautifully and speaks in a clear, coinedy in Tinn. well-modulated voice. "Mischief" He has also had a distinguished is an all-round, excellent comedy, film career, having appeared in and if you can resist Ralph Lynn, many silent films, and his last talkie star of the film, with his joyous Was
Michael Afleu's "These banter and Winifred Shotter then Charming People," certainly keep away?
"Mischief." which is showing at the King's Theatre.
TWO STARS OF FACES IN THE SKY **
Lew Ayron,
Janet Gaynor,
Lady," John Shuud in "What
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·MARSHALL-MARITZA A CHARMING COUPLE
IN VIENNESE COMEDY.
"Evenings for Sale," which opens on Sunday at the Queen's is a romantic comedy of post-war Vienna, with Herbert Marshall, phenomenal star of "Trouble in Paradise," in the role of an im- poverished nobleman, and Sari Maritza (18 the very charming daughter, of a, bourgeois merchant,
Brad an a story by I. A. R Wylie, the film tills how Franz and Lela (Marshall and Maritan) meet at a masked ball, and how Franz, who had looked eagerly forward to suicide on the following morning, finds that he wants to live so much that he is even willing to accept as aphid entertainer, in a cafe.. run by his former butler. There he moele Jenny Kent (Mary Boland), an American widow in Vienna for a vacation, and quite innocently, the simple-hearted Jenny becomes the third in a strange triangle.
The film is a charming and de-. lightful piece of entertainment, dia- tinguished both by its cast and by its brilliant direction at the hand of Stuart Walker. It is not to bo missed.
badly crashed,
No comment on "Rockabys' could be complete that did not pay tri- bute to the splendid acting of Jool McCrea as the playwright, Jobynn Howland as Judy's no- ther, and Paul Lukas as De Sola, the manager who secretly and hopelessly loves Judy.
even 1 talent for winning mes away From their wives proves to be a hollow thing, a pitiful vie-
tory.
WALT DISNEY CARTOONS
NEW COLOURED SERIES
of Mickey Mouse and the "Silly Walt Disney, the famous creator, Symphonies," has not been content to rest upon his laurels and confine himself to black-and-white as his sole medium of expression, but has experimented with colour, to the delight of the eye and the great satisfaction of his host of admirera.
Yesterday was shown privately it Gathering about him a band of the King's Theatre, the first of the co-workers, Daug set forth for the new coloured cartoons to reach Seas, and after cruising about for Hong Kong, one of the Silly weeks selected an island far from Symphony" series, entitled "Trees civilization to work out the start and Flowers." It has all of. Walt of the story, right on the ground. Disney's delightful whimsicalities, In the cast ara William Farnum. with the added charm of colour. long a star in his own right, Miss He employs only pure colours," Maria Alba, Earle Browne and sing them with amazing success, others. Edward Sutherland direct and the result is something, unique. ed, and Tom J. Geraghty worked Doubtless he will have many with the star on
the story and imitators, but to Walt Disney be dialogue.
longs the credit of having intro Suced the new medium, which has enhanced enormously the value-of his cartoons. If this is a fair sam ple of what we are to expect in the future, Walt Disney will, I fancy, greatly increase the already large circle of his admirers in Hong Kong.
Miss Bennett proved these things by the intenan reality of her port rayal. Hera was 113 slice of life that must have sent many a wo. "It is a joyful story of the South man haine wondering whether the Seas,' said Doug, made in an emancipated sex has not chosen; earthly paradise and song to the wrong road after all. Formantic fantasy of to-day. Herete Connie did not play Judy Carroll. fore most pictures of life in the is She was Judy Carroll-the great lands have depicted the drab and actress who, because, of the ironic the sordid... the staggering beach twist of destiny that deprives her cambers, the wasters and ne'er-do- of marriage and motherhood, be-walls-unpleasant people in unplea comes a person who only keeps on sant surroundings and situations. living because she is tremendously "The them of the tale is keyed brave.
in the purposeful character of a Judy, as portrayal by Constance | modern Robinson Cruse who tack Bennett, stande forth a greatles and meets every 'emergency with character a diamond in the rough, this thought: There's a way out. sparkling, with wit, courage and In this is reflected a spirit of hope compassion; yet withal, a slip of a and optimism, a concrete truth that girl, pretty badly benten, pretty "happiness is just around
(Continued on previous column.
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