CENTRAL
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUN
Advance Booking at Andersonя
and the Theatre Tel. 25720..
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M,
THE MANAGEMENT
take great pleasure in presenting BERT WHEELER
ROBERT WOOLSEY
The' World's Greatest
Comedy Team
TO-DAY AT THE
King's.
CINEMA
HONG KONG
Call Her Savage.”
Queen's..
Central,
"Night of June 13th."
"Hold 'em Jail.”
Oriental,
Sherlock Holmes."
World.
Star.
Letty Lynton."
KOWLOON
The Wet Parade.'
Majestic.
King's.
Devil and the Deep."
COMING
"Jack's the Boy."
A Passport to Hell."
Queen's. "
"Red Dust."
Madhme Butterfly."
Madison Square Garden;"
Central,
In Their
44
Latest and Most Hil- arious film
Star,
DENT WHEELER ROUT WOOLSEY
HOLD EN JAIL!TM
de 1 Pade this win & Hare Scrawli
CONAMAY GAINER-RINGDE AYES TOGAN XEURÉIN
A. Rereamingly
"funny comedy that
will keep
you
laughing from
start to finish.
AN RKO-RADIO SUPER
COMEDY
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
What
this
country
needs
Is a
darned
good
laugh-
and here
it is!
Slim SUMMERVILLE
ZASU PITTS
THEY JUST HAD to Get MARRIED
FINE FILM OF WAR, NOVEL
**A FAREWELL TO ARMS”
London, May People say that good novels and plays never make good films, This 18 nonsense, and this is bome out! by Frank Borzags's screen version
They Just Had to Get
Afraid to Taik."
Married."
Explorers of the World."
"Letty Lynton."
Song of My Heart:"`
"Huddle."
World.
Bridge of San Luis Rey." May Be It's Love,"
Oriental.
Tess of the Storth County:"
CANTON CINEMAS Chung Wah Theatre,
"Hot Pepper."
Sun Kwok Man Theatre.
Girl of tho Rio."
Sun Wah Theatre.
The Conqueror."
Tai Tak Theatre.
Mr. Leman of Orange."
Wing Hon.
Island of Lost Sonl.”
Pearl Theatre.
"Faithless."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1933"
TO-DAY
ONLY
AT
2.30, 5.10, 7.15) & 9.30 P.M.
HONCKONGS FINEST ONEWA
SHE'S BACK greater than ever
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, so 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 DILLON FOX PICTURE
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TEL. 25913 & 25332.
– TO-MORROW -
A BRILLIANT COMEDY.
FILM.
JACK HULBERT
h
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.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
(May 10).
(IV. Moon 26th Day). Ambulance Flag Day."
Final Meeting of Chinn Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. (in Liquidation), Messrs, Jardine Matheson's Offices, noon..
St. Andrew's Club Bathing Pie- nic, 3.30 p.m.
Whist Drive, China Light and Power Recreation Club, King's Park, 9 p.1.
Dances,
Tea Dances at King's Restaurant; Hong Kong Hotel, Gloucester Building, and Majestic Dancing Academy
Dinner Dances at King's Restaur- ant, Peninsula, Hong Kong, and Repulse Bay Hotels, and Glouces- ter Building.
Principal Malle, Outward for Europe via Suez by Carthage, 10.30 .n.in.
EXCELLENT COMEDY
AT CENTRAL
*** THEY JUST HAD TO GET
MARRIED
You'll laugh so heartily that you'll cry when you see "They Just Had to Get Married”, the. Univer- sal comedy which has been hailed as the funniest motion picture in years. It comes to the Central Theatre on Sunday, with its two leading mire played by the screen's greatest mnn-and-woman comedy Team Slim Summerville and Zasn Pitts.
Here is a picture which runs the whole gamut of comedy; from bit- ing satire to riotous farce, with a fast pace which at times will have. you, holding onto the arms of your seat, thrilling with dangerous ex- ploits at the same time you are shrieking with laughter.
"They Just Had to Get Mar- ried" is a comedy classic. The cast appearing in support of Summer rille and Miss Pitts includes Roland-
FINAL SHOWING OF NIGHT OF JUNE 13 Young, Verree Teasdale, Fifi D'Or
Pictures In Hong Kong “CALL HER SAVAGE"
JACK HULBERT AND WINNIFRED /
SHOTTER
IN JACK'S THE BOY
COMING TO KING'S THEATRE ON SUNDAY
“JACK'S THE BOY'
AT THE KING'S THEATRE ON SUNDAY·
i
give a wonderful performance- excellent when mixed up with. traffic or crooks, and fascinating when making love and erooning a romantic song followed by some. marvellous dancing. Cicely Court neidge is great as the proprietress of a pseudo-Boottish cafe, with her
the
Jack Hulbert, is now definitely delicious Conkney-cum-Scottish ac of Ernest Hemingway's "A Fare placed in the front rate of the cents Altogether Jack's well to Arms, which commenced world's comedians. His subtle Boy is the kind of entertainment what should be a long run at the sense of clowning, his fascinating that can be seen and heartily, Carlton, Theatre yesterday. J Fythmic dancing and jolly method joyed by everyone.
"A Farewell Arms is one of the of putting over" amunical num best talkies ever made. It has every. ber are artistic achievements essen- thing that a good film should have tially his own.
*
The film is to be shown on Sun
• Tae, Borderoms',Band.
There is an added attraction at the 9.30pm performance. By
nd permission of Lient. Col. G,
action, humour, pathos, vivid When he is partnered by Cicely and original characterisation, rug. Courtasidge (his wife) there are ged honesty and an endrag of al- no limits to their exquisite foolery. most unbearable poignancy. The They are perfectly matched in tragic love affair of an American Jack's the Boy" the new Gains T Baikas, D.8.0 The Band of soldier and a nurge serving on the borough comedy to the shown st Italian front has been handled the King's Theatre next Sunday, the let Bu, South Wales Borderers with tact and restraint, and as a they have abundant scope for their will rendere programme of music picture of one side of war the him brilliant-drollerithe stage. Book your vests early will rank with "All. Quiet."" Jack Hulbert as a tyro policeman. and avoid the rush
AT THE KING'S THEATRE TO-DAY
Clara Bow, most emotional of screen stars, has never been pictur ed in as entirely emotional role. Many times married in bar screen characterizations, she has never been shown as a mother.
GREAT GROWING OF GERANIUM
That California climate you've heard so mach about is often rather a nuisance, moving picture pro ducers have discovered.
Studio property men, called upon for a dwarf geranium of the variety commonly found in the eastern gec- tion of the country, to decorate Yet in Call Her Savage, her set in The Night of June 13," a initial Fox starring picture now picture featuring Clive Brook, playing at the King's Theatre, sh Lila Lee, Charlie Ruggles, Gear discards the flapperdom that made Raymond, Frances "Dee, Mary tensely-Boland, and Adrianne Allen, which her famous, portrays a dramatic role and depicts the rich is at the Queen's Theatre to-day emotionalism of mother love.
had to fight the climate to produce
Opposite the famous red-head is Roland, portraying the half-bred sweetheart who finally tames the wild blood that courses through the heroine's veins.
one.
Geraniums grow like weeds un- der the California sun, and when they bloom, they Are gigantic. Eastern geraniums, more effete, are about one-fourth the size of the California variety.
say and many other aureen players. If you fail to see this, you are denying yourself the greatest comedy treat in years. Don't miss it!
*RED DUST" AT THE QUEEN'S
CLARK GABLE AND JEAN HARLOW
The co-starring of Clark Gable. and Jean Harlow in "Red Dust," showing from to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre will prove of ex ceptional interest to movie patrons. Here are two of the most magnetic personalities ou the screen in "A vivid drama of Cochin-China Gable is a young overseer of a rab ber plantation, who has beaten the loneliness, fever, deadly heat and blinding dust storms that have broke so many men. Miss Barlow is a hrazen, seductive, hard-grained girl who tries to win a place in the overseer's. affections. Enter, an other woman, in the person of
Call Her Savigs" was adapt el by Edwin Buke from Tiffany Thayer's much-discussed novel;
So Studio oficials went out and Mary Astor, as the aristocratie and was directed by John Francis purchased geranium seeds. Plant-wife of a French engineer (Gene Dillon. Others in the supporting ing them in an Eastern-sized Raymond). The possibilities for cast include Thelma Todd, Monro geranium pot, they exposed them dramatic conflict and emotional Owsley, Estelle Taylor, Anthony to the sun during the day, but at crises
are obvious. The picture Jowith. Willard Robertson and night they placed them in an air-directed by Victor Fleming of Weldon Heyburn.
chilled room to stunt their growth | Wet Parade" fame, ie, reported The result was an Eastern-sized to be one of the outstanding pro
the Metro-Goldwyn- plant which wore rather an embar ductions on affair with another woman, com- rassed expression beside its fall Mayer calendar for the coming mits suicide. Investigators charge blown California cousins. " him with murder.
The geraniums were needed is Ench of his neighboura, ealled, background prop for scenes in upon to testify, lies to cover up" The Night of June 13, drama some petty skeleton-in-the-closet of set in the suburb of a large eastern his own, and it appears that Brook city. The film tells the story of is doomed to death when a drama Brook's legal fight for Hfe after tie elimax suddenly turns the his wife, suspecting him of an tables.
(Continued on previous column).
14 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-8.13 .7.16~2.50
(TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY HUIS,
ORIENTAL
TO-DAY ONLY GREAT DETECTIVE STORY CONAN DOYLE'S Master. Detective
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Played by
CLIVE BROOK
MIRIAM JORDAN ERNEST TORRENCE William K. Howard production
FOX PICTURE
PLÆRITING ROAD
WANGHAI TEL. 28478
TO-MORROW-MONDAY-
TUESDAY
THE SCREEN'S MOST ROMANTIC STORY: AMASTER PRODUCTION.
Thrill
to the love
that triumphed
over suspicion
GAYNOR Charles FARRELL
**The STORM:
of
TESS COUNTRY
Directed by Alfred Sabel"
D ̃FOX, PICTURE
year,
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Road, woon. Tel 57222 TO-DAY ONLY
QUEENT TEATES
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 0.20 p.m.
J
A 7-STAR HIT!
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 LEE- CHARLIE 380GLEE SEBE BRYMORE FRATICES DEA, BARY BOLAND
ADRIANNT ALLEN MA
a Guramount Picture
TO-MORROW
THE
PRINCE and PRINCESS
of
RECKLESS ROMANCE!
CLARK
JABLE
JEAN
HARLOW
the lovers incomparal IN
RED DUST
GENE BAYMOND
MARY ASTOR VICTOR FLEMING ·
production
Metode diluar Maiver narra
At 2.30,6:20, 7.20 8 8.20 p.m. STAR
DAYLIGHT MADE. TAWDRY
13
THE LOVE THAT THE DESFET NIGHT MADE SWEET!
/ TALLULAH BANKHEAD GARY COOPER Devil Deep
CHARLES LAUGHTON - CARY GRANT
Paramount Picture
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
A Giant Tomance of Today!
The
WET PARADE"
with
DOROTHY JORDAN
WALTER HUSTON
JIMMY DURANTE.
Goldwynshaver Picture
WORLDA
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 280-5:15, 7:15 & 9.20
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