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CENTRAL
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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
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Puppets of Fate."
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Stunningi Glorious! ROCKABYE
The Dramatic Meri-Cry of
• Million Mothers?
JORE MACRIA PAUL LUKAS
PATRE
YOU'LL LILYBET, THE SWEETEST LITTLE ACTRESS OF THEM ALL.
STARTS TO-MORROW
NOT HIS ARMS... NOR HIS MEN... NOR HIS RIFLES. COULD TAME HER
Broggart... rascal...
ber Caballero withthe ladies
to be flouted,
scomad, tricked, subdued
by this girl...
but what a girl!
GIRLY
THE BIO
with
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Face in the Sky." "Hot Pepper."
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Evenings for Sale." Payments Deferrod."
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Girl of The Rio."
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Afraid to Talk,"
Married."
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Grand Hotel."
Untamed."
American Madness,'
Arsen lapin."
May be its Love.".
Now Marals for Old.”
MR. ROBINSON
CRUSOE"
BATTLES AND ROMANCE IN THE SOUTH SEAS
the
"Mr. Robinson Crusoe," now Doughs Fairbanks picture, is now showing at the King's Theatre, and thus picture-goers will witness for the first time the new forte of the sprightly Hollywood star, a forta eraried with adventure in far- away places.
While Around the World in Eighty Minutes, the latest, Fair- banks picture, was the forerunner
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1933
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT [2.30, 5.10, 7.15)
& 9,30 P.M.
FIGHTING EAPING
BOUNDING!
LUNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
SHONCKONG'S FINEST ONEKA
Douglas FAIRBANKS
IN A MODERN COMEDY-DRAMA
ALIVE WITH ACTION AND THRILLS
Omr ROBINSON
CRUSOE
MICKEY MOUSE CARTOON
TRADER MICKEY
Dawn he wont, swinging from the home-mode volisy with one hand, Aghting off "the nativas with the othert.
SILLY SYMPHONY
'KING NEPTUNE
THE SHORTS THAT ARE WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION
GIRL OF THE RIO
of the new idea, it can not rightly FASCINATING LEO CARILLO bo included in it, for the reason
SOBER---AND FUNNY
CHARLES RUGGLES IN EVENING'S FOR SALE'
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DREAMING of Happiness The inspiring romance of a Venus in gingham ... raised to be the nation's ideal of beauty overnight by a Rem brandt in overalls.
FACE in the SKY
with
Spencer
TRACY
Marian
NIXON Stuart
ERWIN
FOX PICTURE.
ROCKABYE
CONSTANCE BENNETT AT
HER SMARTEST
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
(May 5).
(IV. Moon 11th Day). Chinese National Holiday (An- niversary of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's In- muguration as President of the Ro- public of China in Canton, 1921), Customs Holiday.
Anniversary of Death of Con- fucius (Sheng-ts-jih),
Sale of Lewarhold Property, Chine Auction Rooms, 3 p.m.
Jumble Sala, Hong Kong Union Church Hall, Kennedy Road, 2.30
p.m.
Theatres.
Queen's: "Puppeta of Fasc,” Central: "Rockabye.".
King's "Mr. Robinson Crusoe,"
Orientat: "Society Girl."
World: Svengali.”
Star: Love Race," Majestio:Girl Crazy."
Dancos.
Tea Dances at Gloucester Build- ing King's Restaurant: and Hong Kong Hotel
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel King's Restaurant, Penin-. sula Hotel; and Gloucester Build- ing.
Sports,
Athletica: Inter-School Sporti (Caroline Hill).
*FACE IN THE SKY"
ORIGINAL FILM WITH
STRONG CAST
Distinctly American in theme, yet marking a radical departure from American methods of treatment, "Face in the Sky," which comes to the King's Theatre next Thursday, promises to be one of the most in- evesting screen offerings since the coming of talking pictures. A not- able trio of filin favourites, Spencer Tracy, Marian Nixon and Stuart Erwin, have the leading plea, and the direction is by Harry Lachman. The plot concerns a travelling sign-painter, adways dreaming of vis glorious future. He meets a little country girl who is likewise a dreamer, With the aid of his clumsy helper, the painter assiste her in escaping from her drab oxis- tence on a Vermont farm, only to fall in love with her. They are separated when the farmer" over- All shades of grey are exceeding takes them, but meets again under ly smart this season. In "Rocka unique circumstances in New York
City. acceptance of this. She also estab- In the handling of the story, lishes several make-up hints which Lachman is said to demonstrate to should be taken note of by those who American audiences the ability that First of all, blue mascara is per pean directorial cirles. intend to wear any shade of grey, had made him a sensation in Euro- One of which has waited long enough to awarded the distinction of fect in this case. It is one item the few American painters to be the be accepted. Rut it must be used Legion of Honour by the French instance. judiciously. With steel grey, for government for his work, 'Lachman Blue mascara-ed lushes give a star- his creen efforts.
the effect is perfect. brings a keen sense of a artistry to like look to the eyes.
Tracy, hitherto famous for his "hard-hoiled" portrayals in pic Ruggles scored his first screen With a tone such as grey, rouge ent type of role. Miss Nixon is rouge tures, is cast in an entirely differ- success in "Gentlemen of the is indispensable. Just the faintest cast as the New England girl whose Press" in which he played the role touch is sufficient, hut colour there dreams lend her car beyond the [of a drunken reporter. So well did | must be.
confines of the farm and whose be play it, in fact, that for nearly two years after that he was cast na drunk in every picture in which he appeared.
that it was more a random photo- Leo Carrillo is the sort of screen graphing of a world tour than the bad man you'd like to meet even un picturization of sustained story, the darkest street corner. such as is "Mr. Robinson Crusoe." Swashbuckling by nature, ever
# Mr. Robinson
Charlie Ruggles has at least man- Crusoe was ready to play pranks or laugh at made in the most adventurous film his own expense, he is really Holly-aged to keep cinematically sober expedition ever undertaken by Fairwood's gayest caballero. This bril. over a period of a couple of months.bye," Constance Bennett proves her banka. While in no senso a literalliant stage and screen star, who The popular bemustached come. translation of the famous Crusoeupports Dolores Del Rio in KO-dian, playing the role of a waiter tale, it contains much that bears opening to-morrow at the Central musical romance, based on a story Radio Pictures Girl of the Rio," in "Evenings for Sale," Viennese the Crusoo flavour, particularly that Theatre, has an unique family his by I. A. R. Wylie, and with music portion dealing with adventures tory. He is a direct descendant of from the pen of Johann Strauss the upon a desert isto.
the Spanish Dons who ruled primi Younger, which operis on Sunday With characteristic enthusiasm,tive California before the coming at the Queen's doesn't touch so Dong goes Robinson Crusoe ons of the Anglo-Saxon. His grand much as a drop of "likker" in better in all that he does, but, un father was the first provisional the entire eight reels of the picture. like Crusoe, he does it with a sense Governor of the State of Cali And that, for Charlie, is one of humour, For example, Doug'sfornia.
thing, indeed.
na Friday is Friday the Thir In Girl of the Bio" he plays teenth. And the girl who, in the the swaggering Don Jose and if ole of dusky tropical maiden, you want to ser a real caballero furnishes the love interest is known
come to the Central. Theatre to As Saturday. And there are an tainment.
morrow. It is a real good enter- aibals and battles and always high adyenture of the rollicking sort for which Fairbanks is famous,
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"PUPPETS OF FATE" EXCELLENT FILM AT QUEEN'S
film
The theme of the tale," explain- el Doug, "is keyed in the pur- poseful character of modern "Puppets of Fate is n Robinson Crusoe who tackles and worth seeing and it shows that incets every emergency with this British producers are out to com thought: There's way out.'
In with Hollywood this is reflected a spirit of hope and optimism, a concrete truth that happiness is just around the comer."
The long chain of cinematic in- ebriations ended, however, with he didn't touch a drop until the "The Night of June 13," in which I
last reel of the picture. Trouble acted, except in the final sceno
The story is well told and ably and he didn't touch n drop in it in Paradise" was his next picture, where Joan (Isla Bewal makes either. And the record remains un- scine rather feeble remarks.
broken in "Evenings for Sale." in Godfrey Tearle ves, rather a
which the nearest he gets to But all of Doug's adventures in lished impersonation as Richard"ikker" is to serve it to patrons the region of Tahiti were not of the Sahine a private detective), while of the cafe in which he is a waiter. cinematic sort. And some
were Fred Groves (as Arthur Brandon, only remotely concerned with the the ceeaned convict) is excellent. picture. There was the occasion,
Russel Thorndyke na Dr. Munro for example, when one of his mostalan carries his part out well,
important actors disappeared up a
tree and stayed there for a whole to build a pent-house with hot and day. He was a trained monkey,
cold running water. It was for this Од one occasion fifty natives
that natives were gathered from worked all day and refused to ac neighbouring islands and atolls, and copt pay, saying they would be instruments began instantly to mate- blessed many times, às á hest moon
rilize
from ironwood, bamboo, appeared late in the afternoon and shells, swish, liana twige (for fishing would be excellent for an-ropes), pandanus leaves (for walls other month at least. And then and mats) and also from cocoanuts. there was the day that the natives What the natives cannot make froin held the picture up because they cocoanut, the tree and its bran- would not work on a feast day."
ches, is not in a mail-order cata- Forty Polynesians and Chinese, logue, Doug declared. uneary artisans, solved the big Doug took a gambler's chance in problem for the company when it the matter of a make-up artist. for this modem Crusoe's home. bit he remembered that u very creating the "props"There was not one available when he departed from San Francisco, In the
story Doug lands tropical island with capable one, John Pitcairn, had tooth-brush and romaina worked on The Iron Mask" and (Continued on next enlumn),
then had left for the South Seas
chnie to
upon only a
£1
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The picture, which is done in the Chevalier's "Love Me To-night," fresh, impertinent style of Maurice
(minued on next enlum
4 SHOWS
DAILY
3.30-15 7.15-0.30
Another hint concerns
These beauty hints from the star dainty features become the "face în of "Rockabye," RKO-Pathe picture the sky." Erwin here returns to at the Central Theatre to-day make the "dumb" rolex that orginally a combined effect which is pre-made him famous. nounced infallible.
Sam Hardy, Sarah. Paddlen, Frank McGlynn, Jr., and Russell Simpson head the supporting cast. Myles Connolly wrote the original tells its story with words, musicstory, the first to deal with the Marshall, Sari Maritza, and Mary ters, and Humphrey Pearson is and tricky camera effects. Herbert travelling fraternity of sign-pain-
Boland play important rules with credited with the screen play. Ruggles.
The film is the story of the romance between a penniless Vien- ace, nobleman and the daughter of a nouveau-riche middle-class family, American widos with a $3,000,000, complicated by the presence of an
bankroll.
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NOT EXACTLY GENTLENE
VICTOR McLAGLEN
Thostar determined to find him WITH N
I took weeks to do it, but he found him in the end, and Pitcairn work-
ed on the picture,
Another interesting sidolight de yeloped in the Tahitan wedding ceremony of Walter Pahlmann, chief of the Fairbanks technical staff, who married according to 'tribal custom Simone Terai, which in English mejing “ Grand, "-and who is a direct de pendant of the most famous chief
in the history of Tahali. More than
500 guests attended in full regalia, and the event consumed two days of feasting games had revelry.
Yay Weny Law Cody Eddie Griebes
Life was one-sheriff after another. Which was exciting but not healthy. Between" posses they tried their luck with girls. They should have stuck to sheriffs!...
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