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HEATRE
TAKE QUEEN': RD., WESTJOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.
TO-DAY & TO-MOKROW
At 230, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
THE MANAGEMENT
"
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
King's.
Call Her Savage."
Queen's.
Night of June 13th.”
Central.
** Hold 'em «Fail.”
Oriental.
"Sherlock Holmes."
World.
Letty Lynton."
KOWLOON
The Web Parade."..
Devil and the Deep."
COMING
"Jack's the Boy."
take great pleasure in presenting BERT WHEELER ROBERT WOOLSEY
"Star
Majestic.
King's.
The World's Greatest
Queon's,
Comedy Team
Red Dust."
Central,
Iu Their
Latest and
Most Hil-
arious film
BEST WHEELER KOST-WOOLSEY
HOLD IN JAIL!
K TO MÁS Bet with 3 Phone Serami
ESNAMATULIVER ROSCOE ATES EDGAR KERRER
A screamingly
funny comerly that
will keep
you
laughing from
start to finish.
AN RKO-RADIO SUPER.
COMEDY
SUNDAY.
What
this
country
needs
Is a
darned
good
laugh-
and here it is!
Slim SUMMERVILLE
ZASU PITTS
THEY JUST HAD
GET
MARRIED"
The
ADS
WANT
SAVE YOU
TIME
A Passport to Hell"
They Just Hod to Get
"Afraid to Talk"
Married."
"Explorers, of the World."
CANTON CINEMAS
Chung Wah Theatre.
"Second Hand Wife."
Sun Kwok Man Theatre.
"Destry Rides Again,"
Sun Wah Thestro.
"The Wild Current.”
Tai Tak Theatre.
The Painted Desert."
Ving Hon.
"Life Goes On."
Pearl Theatre.
"The Lash." -
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933
LAST TWO-DAYS AT
(2.80, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.30 P.M..
PHONGKONGS. FINESTONEW SHE'S BACK
greater than ever
Pictures In Hong Kong·
SENSATIONAL FILM |"CALL HER SAVAGE”
OF COCHIN-CHINA
WITH GABLE AND JEAN
HARLOW
"Red Dust," opening on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre presents the interesting combination of Clark Gable and Jead Harlow in a tur ulent story of Cochin, China. The picture is based on the Wilson Collision stage hit of the same title,
+
NOW SHOWING AT KING'S
THEATRE
a
Theatre goers were afforded real treat in. "Call her Savage," now playing at the King's Theatre, As Nasa, Clara Row does soine fine work, and although this is the first picture she has made for two years, she has not lost any of her charm. In fact we think she is at her best
A Clara Bow never before revealed. Given full scope to display her dramatic genius, retaining her vivid personality." And coming through with a performance so sincere, sa forceful that it again places her high among the screen's great.
CLARA
BOW
IN
CALL HER SAVAGE
From the novel by Tiffany, Thayer Directed by JOHN FRANCIS DILLONİ FOX PICTURE
BOOKING AT THE
THEATRE
TEL. 25313 -& 25332.
· NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 21st MAY
A BRILLIANT: COMEDY
FILM.
JACK HULBERT
JACKS
the
BOY
WITH
CICELY COURTNEIDGE WINIFRED SHOTTER. Directed by WALTER FORDE,
A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE BELEASED BY THE BRITISH FILM
DISTRIBUTION CO., LTD.
HONG KONG
|LAUGHS GALORE AT |" JACK'S THE BOY”
THE CENTRAL
BERT WHEELER AND ROBERT WOOLSEY
IN GREAT FILM
Bent Wheeler and Robert Woolses are in Hong Kong, and it is there fore most-itting that the Central Theatre should put on "Hold 'em Jail" at a time when the local fin fans -are aaking for more pictures by this world-famous team of migthienakors. G
The picture opened what is bound to be a very successful run at this theatre yesterday, and although there were large crowds demanding
in which is depicted the dramatic in this powerful drama. She is seats in the first three perform triangle which results when the ably supported by a strong cast, ances, I do not think that we have aristocratic wife of a French enginnd all those who have not seen seen a bigger, rush for admittance ner visits a tropical rubber planta. this picture should make a point in the history of local cinemas thán tion and falls in love with its over of going to the King'e Nasa there was at the 9.30 performance, seer, thus engendering the hatred Springer the daughter of Pete What was the reason for this then of a defiant, hard-boiled girl of the Springer, and Clara Jennings, goes Just a simple announcement to the dance hall variety, who has prior into the most awful tantrums, and effect that Bert and Robert, to claims on the man.
how she inherits this savage trait gether with Mrs. Woolsey would be Cable, of course, has the role of no one knows, but it is suspected at the theatre. Contrary to the overseer, a part totally differ that she is in reality the daughter expectations. however, the famous. ent from his recent successful por- of a half breed Indian with whom pair did not make any appearance trayal opposite Norma Shearer in her Mother has had an affair. Her on the stage but they were accorded Strange Interlude." Mies Har father comes upon her one day in x positively royal" recention when law, fresh from her triumph in the woods, and finds her wreaking they visited the dress circle, the "Red Headed Woman," plays the her fury on Moonglow the half stalls and the gallery on their hardened plantation girl who, breed, whom she lashes with a whip. tour of "inspection." though scorned at first, subsequent-She almost falls in love with him, If the picture itself, there can be ly proves that sufficient sex appeal and so is sent away to a finishing nothing but praise for the way in and strength to live the brutal life school in Chicago.,
which. Wheeler and Woolsey eur of the tropics give her an indis Her temper makes her the sens passed all their previous efforts. putable advantage over her more tion of society and though she vivilized rival. Mary Astor is soon shocks people for months her life as the engineer's wife, and Gene is a round of parties. Raymond as her husband who re turne from a distant engineering job to find his wife and the overseer in a compromising situation.
·F. M.
A DELIGHT FROM START TO FINISH
"Jack's the Boy" is sheer delight from start to finish, surpassing any previous achievement in screen comedy with the greatest case. Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtnoidge give performances so excruciatingly funny that you will be reduced to laughter.
Jack Hulbert and Cicely Court neidge! What a glorious comedy team We are showing their latest film "Jack's the Boy next Sun. day, and we absolutely guarantee that you will enjoy this joy picture even more than Sunshine Susie. We cannot be more de finite than that? The story gives this grand pair every opportunity. of raising laughs and when you see Jack Hulbert in the role of P. C.. Brown getting the traffic in a hope less tangle while on noint duty; chasing a crook, in a baby Austin car with his head and shoulders protruding through the roof: fol lowing the same crook into Madame Tussaud's and then arresting a wax figure instead of the thief to name but a few of the screamingly funny incidents you know what a treat is in store for you.
Winifred Shotter, who supplies charmingly the love interest in Jack's the Boy." believes in quick changes. One month before the pro duction commenced on this film, she was riding with her husband and two black servante through the forests of Nigeria. West Africa. A telegram brought her the offer of this part, and a month later, after
race back by air, sea and land. she was on the Gainsborough Bet looking the embodiment of Bond Street elegance and Rue de la Paix chic.
TAKE ANY TRAN ORÍSAPPY VALLEY BUB
It is no exaggeration to say that, the house was in a contiurial fit of laughter and at the end of." Hold She hears from her husband whom Jail, the audience left the has been taken ill. in New Orleans theatre with that pleasant feeling and later is told by a Doctor that having had more than their she is going to have a baby and that money's worth!. her husband'a weakness can be in- herited. Her allowance is out, by her husband, and she is too proud to appeal to her father for help for she has led him to think that her marriage was a success. Her baby is born, but not a word, to her family about the birth, of the child. Mary Boland, oted stage star She goes out one day, and, oo her turns to the films to play with return finds her baby dead. The Clive Brook, Lila Lee, Charlie only comfort she finds is in the ap Ruggles, Gene Raymond, Frances pearance of Roland who brings her Dee, and Adrianne Alen in The the news that she has inherited a
** NIGHT OF JUNE 13
MARY BOLAND'S RETURN TO THE FILMS:
Night of June 12, a film showing it is an exciting picture and our fortune. Everything ends well, but at the Queen's Theatre..
Miss Boland'a last effort on the advice to you in do not miss it, legitimate stage before her de The ladies will like it too, as there are some gorgeous gowns worn by parture for Hollywood was in
Face the Music, & musical show the stars. which enjoyed a long run on Broad-
Way.
The Night of June 13," how-
ever, is not her first moving picture. Last season she made two Udirned at fact if west "folumn) films at Paramount New York
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The Night of June 13, is drama set in a suburb of a large eastern city. Four families, living in adjacent houses, find their own lives bound up with the lives of heir neighbours than they realized when the wife of one man commits. suicide and the husband is inadver tently charged "with murder,
At the trial, each neighbour lies to cover up some petty deficiency of his own, and it appears that the innocent husband is about to be hanged when a dramatic climax saves him and reveals the chiplicity of everyone concerned.
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ORIENTAL
TO-DAY and TO-MORROW
ROAD
WANGH
A wierd “fascinating story that is full of, mystery, action, and thrilling adventure.::
SOMETHING NEW IN DETECTIVE DRAMA
The World's Master Mind of Crime Detection ataken his BECULAR ISOIS (and his love against modem scientific lawlessnesĮ.
NAN DOYLES
SHERLOCK HOLMES
CLIVE BROOK
MIRIAM JORDAN ERNEST TORRENCE
FILM STAR'S FIGHT QUEENS TIRAGER
FOR LIFE
ERNEST TORRENCE DANGEROUSLY IN
(Special Air-Mail Bervice)
London, May 2.**
While actually on his way to England, Ernest. Torrence, the Bri- tish screen actor, has been struck. down by illucas, and is not ex- pected to recover.
He has been to England only once in 27 years. Now, it seems, he is not destined to ses his native land again. He lies in the Ameri Dan "hospital in New York, anxi- ously watched by his wife.
Mr. Torrence is known to legions of Almgoers as the genial villain of a hundred films many of then classics of the screen.
The Covered Wagon," "Pater Pan," "Captain Blood," and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" are just a few of the pictures which have brought him fame..
The Famous Twinkle.
His dour humour, and the famous twinkle in his eye, joined to excep. tional gifts as a character actor, have made him one of the most fovable personalities on the screen. Children are among his greatest. admirers.
He was born in Edinburgh in 1878, and though known the "world" over as a Scot, is actually a na¬ turalised American.
Mr. W. J. O'Bryen, the theatri- cal agent, who has just come back from Hollywood, travelled on the same boat with him on the sea route to New York. They were to have
to England together. Mr. O'Bryen saidīja segja "Ernest Torrence has been a friend of mine for many years. It is terrible to think of so fine an actor and, so great a character and- denly cut off from the opportunity he had cherished for so long-s holiday in the old country. TA
I only hope he may recover, but I know from cables I have re ceived that his condition is deepe rate.
Mr. Torrence's last visit to-Eng- land was in May, 1930.
SALLY!
Sally is winning all hearts by her brilliant and high spirited per- formances at the Peninsula Hotel Diouer Nances, etc.
MAJESTIC
THEATREAT
Nathan Road, Bloon. Tel 57222 TO-DAY & Tu-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. DAYLIGHT MADE; TAWDRY THE LOVE THAT THE DESERT
NIGHT MADE SWEPTIV TALLULAH BANKHEAD GARY
COOPER Devil Deep
CHARLES LAUGHTON - CARY GRANT
}TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
47-STAR HI!
Were you one
of the 3,000
people in this town within earshot of the crime com =. mitted on- *THE
NIGHT
OF
JUNE 13
"CLIVE BROOK LILA ZEZ. `CKABELS RØGGLES GERE RAYMOND
| FRANCES DES, BABY BOLADD
ADRIANNE ALLEN
A Paramount Piction
FROM SUNDAY
THE
PRINCE and PRINCESS
of
RECKLESS ROMANCEI
CLARIC
GABLE
JEAN
HARLOW
the levers troum
IN
RED DUST
CHEE RAYMOND **MARY ASTOR
ATOR FLEMING
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW:
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.28 &9.20 p.m.
A Giant Fomance of Yoday I
The
WET PARADE"
with
DOROTHY JORDAN
WALTER HUSTON
JIMMY DURANTE
EWODEDE
"TO-MORROW
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