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Leapin' Lardal
She's on the
scree
Fith Cuphon
Devido. Salunick executive producer
RKO.
RADIO Pictura
Based on the comic strip by Harold Gray... With MITZI GREEN MAY ROBSON
AND
THE KING OF COMICS
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
IN
"EASY STREET"
REISSUED WITH SOUND
AND MUSIC..
A SPLENDID PROGRAMME | FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.
SUNDAY
AN UPROARIOUS BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY, WIT: TUNE- FUL SONGS AND.
SNAPPY DANCING
Jack BUCHANAN
YES
MR BROWN
Jack Buchanan Dancs AND Singa
BE SURE TO SEE THIS BOOK YOUR SEATS BARLY!
BANK HOLIDAY
CATCHES STARS WITHOUT CASH
were
stars Hollywood's screen forced to use gum wrappers, cigar coupons, street car transfera and pages out of their pocket note books in lieu of cash during California's three-day bank holiday.
Peggy Hopkins Joybe related an
rubarrassment,
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
King's.
Queen's.
Face in the Sky."
Payment Deferred."
Contral
Little Orphan Annie”
Charlie Chaplin.”.
Oriental,
"Ber. Hur."
World.
"Untamed."!
KOWLOON
Star.
May be its Love."
Majestic.
"Society Girl,"
COMING
King'a.
Hot Pepper."
Queen's.
"The Secret of Madame
Blanche."
Central,
"Yes, Mr. Brown."
They Just Had to Get
"Men of Chancs."'
Married."
Afraid to Talk."
World.
Star.
Explorers of the World."
American Madness."
New Morals for Old."
CANTON CINEMAS Chung Wah Theatre.
"Hell's Headquarters." Sun Kwok Man Theatre.
Red Trouble in Kiange."
Sun Wah Theatre,
"Shanghai in Darkness."
Tai Tak Theatre.
A Soldier of 19th Route
Wing Hoz.
June Moon."
Pearl Theatre.
As You Desire Me."
Southern Palace.
"Three Wise Girls,"
Army."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933
SPECIALMANA
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY
A 3.30, 5.10
7.10 & 9.30 P.M.
KINGS THEATRE
HONCKONGS. FINEST
TWO SPLENDID SHOWS IN ONE I
SPENCER
ON THE SCREEN
MARION
TRACY NIXON
IN-
FACE IN THE
SKY"
with STUART ERWIN
ON THE STAGE
BOOKING AT TH THEATRE
TEL. 25313 & 26332.
- NEXT CHANGE
SATURDAY, 18th MAY
Making
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
(May 11).
(II Moon 17th Day).
Legislative Council Masting, 2.30
p.in.
p.00.
Theosophical Socioty Meeting,
V.D.M.A., Concert, St. Paul's Girls School, MacDonnell Road, 6.30 p.m.
Theatres.
Queen's: "Payment Deferred.". Central "Little Orphan Annie."} King's: "Face in the Sky."
Majestic: "Society Girl:"».
Oriental: "Bon Hor."
Whoopee
World: "Untamed.”.
with
Star: Maybe Its Love."
Directed by HARRY LACHMAN FOX PICTURE
Lupe
At 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. Only. KJERULF-ROMLER
PRESENT
HOLLYWOOD SCRAP-BOOK
5
Talented
Artists
Including
5
BARBARA TAYLOR KJERULF
World Famous Harpist.
CLAYTON ROMLER.
Master of Ceremonies, Eccentric Dancer, Featured in Paul Whiteman's--*KING. OF JÁZZ”
BONNIE KJERULF
Harpist, Dancer & Singer (The Child Wonder)
and
The French Comedians
DE TOURS.
In Characteristic Songs & Dances.
PRICES AS USUAL.
Pictures In Hong Kong·
FACE IN THE SKY!
AMERICAN STORY : EUROPEAN TREATMENT
While film critics make much of the contrast between American and European screen difference," says Harry Lachman, director of "Face in the Sky," the Fox film coming now showing at the King's
Theatre.
American practics depends more on the use of tense, well-written dialogue to tell the story, relegat ing the camera to a less important role, while in Europe the picture makers emphasize the camera as the principal narrator. In other words, the American method is based on
that of the stage to a great extent, while abroad they follow the techni que of the silent picture.
principal thing, and if it is well
'PAYMENT
DEFERRED "
STRONG DRÁMA FOR
QUEEN'S THEATRE
him
4
HOT PEPPER"
MUSIC AND DANCING IN CABARET FILM
Motion picture 'devotes who are demanding the return of screen mu- icals will find enough music and dancing in the Fox comedy, "Hot Pepper, to meet their desires. It
ANew Damel New, cock- eyed gags! New belly laughs!
HOT PEPPER
with
Victor
Edmund LOWE McLAGLEN
Lupe Vélezé
El Brendel
Brected by JOHN BLYSTONE
FOX PICTURE
A comedy drama with tha dhacantues Que and Flags miginally crested by Lance Scalings and Bherwell Asdepor
Dances,
Ten Dances at Hong Kong Hotel; Gloucester Building and King's Restaurant.
Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels; and King'a Restaurant.
'CAVALCADE'
QUEENS TIRATE
TU-DAY TO SATURDAY fat 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
MOTUJAR
he
A Murderer for
Fortune dared not spend.
ត
THE DEAMÀ CHẤT MADE TWO CON- TINENTS GASP!
PAYMENT
DEFERRED
COMING TO THE KING'S THEATRE
It is extremely well noted. Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert, Mundia, Una O'Connor, Ursula' Joans, Frank Lawton and Trone Brown are beyond praise."
Exquisitely English,
The most extraordinary feature of this film is that Hollywood has made it as English in setting, and spirit, and in speech as if it had been taken in the heart of London. It is the very soul and substance of England. It crystallises and glori fies the greatness of our land in a manner and on a scale beyond all praise. Only one more thing need, be said The magnitude of “Cava!- cade" is staggering and the magni- tude of the courage that must have gone to its making is even more staggering. Diana Wynyard emperb. Clive Brook's make up in this pic-
THE SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHEure was so realistic, firsb
IRENE DUNNE'S FINE
PORTRAYAL
as a
young man, later an officer, middle aged, and then old and grey,. Do not miss this great picture, as it is a rare treat indeed. It ran fór months at the Tivoli in London. They say that films are the religion of the people. After you have seen Cavalcade you will have to ad- it that there is some truth in this
New honours are won by Irene Dunne, remembered for the distine tion she gave to "Cimarron" and "Back Street," in the latest Metroclaim. is the coming attraction at the Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "The Se- King's Theatre. This picture de-cret of Madame Blanche," showing picts the latest adventures of the on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre returned from the front, is involved Payment Deferred, the immortal Quirt sad Plagg, the The drama covers a period of mor! version of one of London and New fighting and loving Marines por- than thirty years with Mise Dunne in a quarrel with a man who meets York's outstanding stage hits, trayed by Edmund Lowe and Vice- embodying her appealing role from the boy to be her son and to shield his death. By this time Sally knows now being shown at the tor MoLaglen.
girl bood .to middle-age. The Queen's Theatre till Saturday.
scenes reveal sweeping variety with him takes the responsibility for the Known as the mystery drama with
steadily mounting interest in the
tragedy "on herself without reveal-. the most startling climax ever de
intense life, drama,
ing her identity. It is enough for vised, "Payment Deferred" tells the
The heroine of The Secret of her that the boy has returned to her опев more. The startling story of a murderer who escapes
Madame Blanche is first seen aa detection for his own crime only to
young chorus girl in a New York be convicted later for a crime when
musical show of the "Gay 90's" he did not commit.
The production is taken to Eng. land and the picture then becomes life in London. There is even a story of theatrical and society view of the famous Kit Kat Club then the centre of London's night
Though they are
no longer in uniform, they are still the devil dogs created by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. The 1930 Flagg and Quirtare night club owners, and they dress in regala style.
The night clubs are the play The significant feature of the grounds of beautiful women and Yark productions, was the sensament in one of them is furnished play, both in its London and New tailor-made men, and entertain
performance tional
of Charles by the flaming meteor, Lupe Velez, Laughton as the middle-class Lon-and a chorus of singing and dan- murder his rich nephew to save Mias Velez sings don bank clerk who is driven to cing beauties. himself and his family, from a deb-"Ain't Going to Ring No More," tor's prison. It is this same Char- and appears in a dance that is said les Laughton who sancts the mur to be sensational. The music for "Hot Pepper" was written by Val Burton and Will Jason, well-known
This difference, however, is not as vital as the critics make it out to be. After all, the story is the told, the exact method used in the telling is a minor matter."
An American art student who derer in the film version. gained unusual honours in France as a painter before he turned his attention to the screen and directed Laughton, whose distinguished many films in France and England, work on the English stage has won Lachman is well qualified as an him the title of the English "Emil authority on European film sub- jects.
Called English" Jannings."
Jannings," makes his second ap. pearance on the American screen in Payment Deferred," his first hav- ing been as Tallulah Bankhead's jealous husband in "Devil and the
Composers,
new song.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Charlie Chaplin fans will be glad to see him again in a comedy which is to be shown at the Central Thea tre on Thursday, the 11th.
Another favourite Mitzi Green, The difficult role of the murder. the juvenile star, appears on the
same programme.
In "Face, in the Sky," his first production in this country, the director combines a purely Ameri- can story theme with the so-called Deep." European treatment of presenting
the narrative largely by means of er's wife is handled by Dorothy the camera. This combination 15 Peterson, who will be remembered enhanced by the photography of Leo for her excellent work opposite Garmes, recant winner of the Acade- Walter Huston in "Beast of the my Award for camera work.
City" Verreo Teasdale, who recent-
also in.
Spencer Tracy, Marian Nixonly seared in "Skyscraper Souls," and Stuart Erwin have the leading has the part of a blackmailing roles in the production, a whimsical French milliner, and the role of romance of a traveling sin-board the murdered nephew is played by, artist and a country girl. Myles Ray Milland. The cast Connolly wrote the original story, cludes Billy Bevan, Halliwell Hobbs with Humphrey Pearson turning and William Stack, out the soreen play and William Collier Sr. handling the dialogue highlights are the scene in which Among the picture's dramatio direction. Sarah Padden and Sam the bank clerk poisons his nephew Hardy head the, supporting cast.
the tense moment when his wife discovers his secret; his constant terror lest the body of his victim, SCREEN LOVE FOR GRETA buried in the garden, he discover
GARBO
JAPANESE STUDENT'S
SUICIDE
Tokyo. A note book in which was carefully written down the life story of Greta Garbo, the famous Swedish movie star, was found on the body: of Masahiki Nakano, a 19-year-old.
ed; the suicide of his wife, and the bitterly ironic episode in which the authorities seize the bank clerk for a murder of which he is innocent but which he cannot explain with- out confessing his real crime..
The screen adaptation (of “Pay- ment Deferred" was written by Ernest Vajda, and Claudine West. The picture was directed by Lothar Mendes.
She called a taxi student, who leapt to his death from pressed him, it in said,
to take her to the studio. Without the sixth floor of the Osaka. Kabuki-
a cent in her pocket, she asked the za
Inordinately fond of moving pic-
driver to stop at her bank on the Nakano graduated from Imamiye tures, Nakano is said to have been way. The notice of the holiday met Middle Schoot this year, but failed"in love with Greta Garbo.
her ab the door, and she was faced in the entrance examination to the In a letter, which he left behind;" with the immediate problem of pay-Kochi-Higher School, and the Tokyo | he wrote, “No; fears accompany ing an enorinous taxi bill the next Jikoien Medical College. This deme to the land of death. I shall morning
Continued at fond of mexi Golumn) | tour on the spring “Winds."
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2,30-515
部
life.
Keep Marriage Secret, So attractive is Sally that she draws many admirers, one of whom marries her. He is the son of a rich and titled jam manufacturer, and fearing to lose his father's Baancial support, he keeps the mar- riage secret. Sally submits to this until she learns that she is going. to have a child. Her husband. driven to distraction by his inabil ity to get money, commits suicide and his father takes the child from Sally.
With the passing years the eging mother comes to own a little tavern where one night a youthful soldier, (Continued on next Columni
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All this is poignantly realized in the acting of Miss Dunne, whole singing and dancing. Lionel Atwill earlier scenes gain charm by her has a forceful part as the father- in-law and the role of the ineffec tual husband is cloverly played by Phillips Holmes. Competent sup- parting work is contributed by Una Merkel, Douglas Walton, C. Henry Gordon, Jean Parker and Mitchell Lewis. As director, Charles Brabin brings out vividly both the drama- tic and pictoris qualities of "The Secret of Madame Blanche."
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