CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUG
...
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY “
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1933.
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT
230, 5.10, 7.15
KINGS
CHONCKONES. FINEST ENEMA
MAKING WHOOPEE, WITH LUPER.
HONG KONG
King's.
Hot Pepper.""
& 9.30 P.M.
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel, 26720.
Queen's.
"The Secret of Madame
Blanche."
Central,
Yes, Mr. Brown."
Oriental.
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
Speak Easily."
World.
"Huddle."
AN
KOWLOON
Star.
AND
Grand Hotel,"
Majestic.
UPROARIOUS BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY, WITH TUNE-
FUL SONGS
SNAPPY DANCING
Jack BUCHANAN
YES.
MR BROWN
Jack Buchanan B AND Sings BE SURE TO SEE THIS BOOK YOUR SEATS EARLY!
THURSDAY
ONE MAN HER MATE.. ANOTHER HER MASTER!.
King's.
ப
Teas of the Storm Country"
COMING
Call Her Savage","
"Fuck the Boy.'
Queen's.
"Night of June 13th.”
"Bed Dust."
Central,
14
Men of Chance."
They Just Had to Get
Married.”
"Afraid to Talk."
Explorers of the World."
CANTON CINEMAS
Chung Wab Theatre,
"Second Hand Wife."
Sun Kwok Man Theatre.
"Destry Rides Again."
Sun Wah Theatre.
The Wild Current."
Tai Tak Theatre.
"The Painted Desert." Wing Hon.
"Life Goes On."
Pearl Theatre:
"The Lash."
Hotter and
peppier than
**What Price
Glory" and "The Cock-
Eyed World"
A new dame!
New belly laughs! New cock-eyed gags!
Flagg and Quirt trade their uniforms. for boiled shirts and'
stage the battle of the century for a hotcha mammz
HOT PEPPER
A mesedy drama with
the chaman Qilit
and Fbe original7 conted by Laureat Stallings and Pazwall Anderson. J
Lupe Velez
Edmund LOWE Victor McLAGLEN
El Brendel
Directed by John Blystane Fox Picture
7
BOOKING
AT THE
THEATRE
TEL. 25318 & 25932.
NEXT (CHANGE
WEDNESDAY, 17th MAY
WAITING TO BE TAMED!
Alluring to men who feared her fury...envied by women whose hate she despised ...storming. through life ...in search of her mas lar.
CLARA
BOW
CALL
JÄVAGI
From the novel by Tiny Thoyer Chiracter by John Francis Dillon
FOX PICTURE
SECRET OF Mme.
BLANCHE 2
A FINE STORY AND GOOD
ACTING AT THE QUEEN'S
"The Secret of Madaine Blan- cho vindicates once more that, whether on the stage, in a book, or on the films, there is nothing to beat a good story, clear out and exciting. The film now showing at the Queen's tells of the havoc wrought in the lives of three people. by a proud and unscrupulous oki aristocrat. Ile wrecks his son's life, because the lad has married A beautiful and accomplished American actress, and the weak, un- happy youth kills himself. He steals the grandchild, and brings him un to be another handsome young rotter, like his father. You see him as a Tommy, in Francs during the War, reading 'a love- letter from a little French girl to his massmates, and then setting out to seduce the silly, innocent, French peasant. He takes her to Paris, to a disreputable cabaret. He gets drunk and is laid out, and the proprietress sends the girl home. Her infuriated father follows to the cabaret, and the lad shoots him an self defence. The proprietress is his mother, come down in the world. How the film ends, it would he unfair to any except that there: is an astonishingly good trial scene, with a first ratë denonement."
Irene Dunne plays the mother excellently, especially in the earlier sequences, as the care-free actress, and again when she is the rage of A Marseilles sing-song house.
Lionel Atwill and Phillips Holmes act well as the Victorian aristocrats, father and son, but one sighs for the late Norman McKin- nell, who would have made the father more than the American idea of a lianghty Englishman. Douglas Walton plays really excellently. a the young rip of a Tommy, with a manner that goes down with every- one. The honours go to. Irene Dunne, especially in her, song, num- bers, and to this young actor, who lives bis nart in a way aatonishing" in one who cannot have known the War except by hearsay.
The feature film is preceded by a very good travelogue of Morocco, and some interesting Olympia ath letic pictures.
QUEENT THEATE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20 p.m. EVERY WOMAN HAS A LOVE SECRET. What was
THE
SECRET
OF MADAME
BLANCHE
The soul of
a woman smashed to save her son!
IRENE
Dunne
with Lionel ATWILL
Phillips HOLMES
Directed by Charles BRABIN
A Mera tinhheim Maver vieruni
FROM THURSDAY-
47-STAR HIT!
MARY
ASTOR
RICARDO
CORTEZ
JOHN
HALLIDAY
Men
of CHANCE
Three Great Stars, in Drama of Woman Against the World.
RKO-RADIO PICTURE Story by Louis Weitzenhorn Directed by
OFORGE ARCHAINRALID
LOCAL MAPS
Peak District,
Kowloon,
Victoria,
New Territories.
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
HOT PEPPER"
AMUSING FILM AT KING'S THEATRE
WORLD'S GREAT LAUGH MAKERS
Due Here To-day
BERT WHEELER AND
ROBERT WOOLSEY
Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool-
NIGHT OF JUNE 130y, the famous comedy team, once
· APPLE PIE AND TEA PLAY THEIR PART!. Four screen stars and a dancing
Apple pie and and singing chorus of beautiful sacred portals to two Ontario, tea opened women in settings that are the last California, housewives. work ia lavishness are features of They were permitted on oca- the Fox comedy, "Hot Pepper, tion" during the filming of "The depicting the most recent adven- Night of June 13," a picture which turers of the immortal Marines, opens on Thursday at the Queen's Quirt and Flagg, which open Theatre as the result of their cu- Saturday at the King's Theatre.
linary skill. In this hilariously funny produc-
tion: Quirt and Flagg cast aside heir uniforms and appear in even- ing clothes. They battle for the laves of women, ride in barequip ped limousines and live the lile Reilly would have liked to live as owners of swanky night clubs. Quirt and Flagg become the life of Broadway and form the back- grounds for lively doings, where women and song vie with wine and
топед.
a pair of clowns on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in America, and i now starring in RKO Radio Pic tures, are scheduled to arrive to- day in Dollar Liner President' Hoover.
tr
Wheeler and Woolsey.
Bert and Bob first came into pro- minance in "Rio Rits," RKO Ra dio's successful musical extrava- ganza. So well were they received, that they were promptly starred in The Cuckoon," which was a box-office sansation. Since then,
R.B.
YES, MR. BROWN”
MUSIC BY SUNSHINË SUSIE" COMPOSER
"Yes, Mr. Brown" is a modern light comedy, with musical numbers by Paul Abraham, the composer of the music of "Sunshine Susie " and Viktoria and Her. Hussar," It tells the story of the American, Mr. Brown, proprietor of a world wide toy manufacturing company, whose search for romance while risiting his Vienna branch causes the branch manager, played by Jack Buchanan, several hectic hours, and involves a group of
Messrs. Wheeler and Woolsey are the on a pleasure. trip around world and are stopping at various ports in the Far East before con- tinuing via the Suez Canal to Europe. They ата coming here from Japan, and Shaughai. They Clive Brook, Lila Lee, Charlie will stay in Hong Kong until Sa Ruggles, Gene Raymond, Frances turday any will then in they have been starred continuous people in a succession of enbar Dec, Mary Boland, Adrianne Al- P. & O. Liner Carthage for Singa cently, when the two parted com: Jack Buchanan as the branch man
ly by RKO Radio until very re-rassing matrimonin situations.
Elsie Randolph appeara opposita len and other members of the cast, pore. During their atay here, they pony temporarily. working on outdoor secenes of the
They joined 1 stay at the Peninsula Hotel. picture in the little Southern Cali
forces together again and made an ager's secretary-a character giving Fornia town, insisted that the "no
These two comedians are very
independent film, but they have scope to her talents as a comedien since renewed their contract with ne. The part of Mr. Brown is visitors" rule be broken in their well-known and very popular in favour.
RKO Radio Pictures, and their taken by Hartley Power, the Ameri- Hong Kong All of their films are enthusiastically received locally seen in Hong Kong in the very posite Yvonne Arnaud in The two most recdat offerings will be an character actor, who played both European and Chinese, and near future, viz-"Hold 'Em Jail Improper Duchess."" ;- the latter particularly consider and this pair the best comedians ou the Wheeler and Woolsey are accom-
"Diplomaniacs " screen today. Their most recent panied by Mrs. Woolsey, and dur offerings "Caught Plastered," drew great crowds to the Central, "Peach O'Reno" and "Girl Crazy" and were also well-patronized dur
The housewives were Mrs. R. B. Ruther and Mrs. Ethel Wiggins. Mrs. Buther won her way to the players hearts by baking apple Ater he has become the owner of pies for them; and Mrs. Wiggins, a string of speakeasies, Flagg dis- formerly of Hull, England, ap- covery little stowaway on one peared daily on the sets with of the boats comprising his rum pot of tea for those who wanted it. fleet. He attempts to send her Brook and Miss Allen, both Eng back to South America but she lish-born, were the chief Mrs. Wiging showings in subsequent ran puts up a fight that, for action, gins-boosters. outranks anything brought to the screen.
previously The scenes were taken in Ontario because it more closely resembled This role is portrayed by the the suburb of an Eastern city than fiery, sex-appealing Lupe Velez any other available location in who, assisted by El Brendel, the California. Here wore found Swedish dialect comedian, escapes block of our houses arranged al from the boat and becomes a sen- most exactly as those called for in sational and sizzling dancer in, the script of the picture. Flagg's night club.
The story deals with the predi Flagg is a favourite with the lit cament faced by Brook after his tle dancer and other beautiful wo- wife commita auicide and authori- men with whom he has surround-ties, insisting her death was mur- ed himself until the appearance of der, place him on trial for his the suave Quirt. He then gets the life. His neighbours, each intent air. They battle chiefly for the' on covering up some petty deficien affections of Pepper, the dynamic cy of his own, lie in their testi little stowaway-dancer who in the mony, and he is on his way, to the end outsmarts both of them. Ideath house when
Girls, music and dancing add climax saves him and shows up the much colour to the gorgeous night, neighbours.
club scenes. Aside from the fea-i
tured players, important members! of the cast are Lilian Bond, re-
Gloria Roy, Boothe. Howard, and
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.cently elected Waipas Bahy Star,
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FAMOUS CHINESE
CAMERAMAN
TO PHOTOGRAPH "THE POWER AND THE GLORY"
James Woog Howe, Hollywood's only Chinese cameraman, who re turned recently from a four months trip to Europe during which he filmed 50,000 feet of atmospheric material for Fox films, has been assigned as chief cameraman for The Power and the Glory" Jesse L. Laiky's production for Fox, which will co-star Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore."
Rusa Clark, each of whom give a notable performance.
houses.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
1.30–515 7.13--3.80
Messrs.
ing their sojourn in Hong Kong, MAJESTIC
ment will be in the hands of Pea- arrangements for their entertain. cock Motion Picture Co., Inc., dis ributors in China and Hong Kong of RKO Radio Pictures,
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ORIENTAL
FLEXING
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THIS PICTURE PROVIDES MORE LAUGHS THAN ANY THREE COMEDIES EVER MADE !
BUSTER EN
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Easily
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BURANTE
1024 THELMA TODD and scores of lapaty skómi
directed by: 1RWARD
SEDGWICK
A BUSTER
KEATON
THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.
Nathan Road, Kowloon: Tel: 67220
PERFECT
The very romance that YOU would have written for these ever popular screen lovers.
Jannt
GAYNOR
Charles
FARRELL TESS
STORM COUNTRY
Dirvelig by Allred Somell
Were you one
of the 3,000 people in this
town within eanshot of the crime com. mitted on--
*THE
NIGHT
"OF
JUNE 13
CLIVE BROOK LILA LEB CHARLIE BIGGLES GENE BRYNCHE FLUENCES IES, DHÁKY BOLAND ADRIANIE ALLED
a Paramount Hote
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