TO-DAY AT THE
King's,
CINEMA
HONG KONG
A Passport to Hell." City Mornings" (Chinese
Picture).
CENTRAL
THEATR
!!
TAKE QUEEN'S UD., WESTBOUND BUS
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and the Theatro Tel. 95720..
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
AUTHENTIC ENTERTAINING ! EVERY MAN, WOMAN & CHILD FROM 6 TO 60 WILL SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN!
"Explorers of the World."
Oriental...
Men defied the perils of the jungles and the "frozen waste- lands to give you this thrill of a lifetime!
PRESENT
RASPIN PRODUCTIONS WILDEST ADVENTURES
EVER FILMED
EXPLORERS WORLD
OF
THE
HAROLD NOICE
Brought to you
from the jaws
of death by
*
FAMOUS
EXPLORERSI
HAROLD MOORACKEN Siberian-Arctic Expedition,
GENE LAMB Tibet Expedition.
JAMES L. CLARK African Expedition.
Lt. Com. J. B.
STENHOUSE
Trans-Antarctic Expedition "LAURENCE M. GOULD Byrd Antarctic Expedition. -HAROLD NOICE Brazil Expedition.
SUNDAY
AT 5.15 and 9.30 P.M. ONLY
THE SEASON'S
DRAMATIC SENSATION
ERIC LINDEN SIDNEY
IN
FOX
AFRAID TO TALK
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
AT 12.30, 2.30 & 7.15 P.M.
ADJUDGED THE BEST CHINESE “TALKIE”.
MISS BUTTERFLY
WU
IN
THE FLOWER OF
LIBERTY"
WITH ENGLISH
SUB-TITLES.
Queen's.
Madame Butterfly."
Contral.
"Igloo."
KOWLOON
"Huddle."
Stor.
Majestie,
World.
King's.
If I Had A Million'
Maybe It's Love."
COMING
"Sinte Fair.”
"Golden West."
Rackety Rax."
Queen's,
"Madison Square Garden."
Central.
Afraid to Talk,"
The Flower of Liberty "
(Chinese Picture).
Star.
Innocents of Chicago,"
World.
Temple Tower,"
American Mariness,”
**Broadway Melody. "
#Wet Parafie "
This Modern Age."
Oriental.
"Igloo,"
CANTON CINEMAS
Chung Wah Theatre.
Hot Pepper."
Sun Wah Theatre.
"Symphony."
Wing Bon.
Island of 'Lost Souls."
Pearl Theatre.
Faithless."
Tai Tak Theatre,
"Business and Pleasure."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933
LAST MAMM TWO-DAYS
“HONGKONG'S FINEST ENEMA
AT 5.10 and 9.30 PM. ONLY
COLOR
SEX
white female twenty-one OCCUPATIONUM KRowm DESTINATIONUnknown.
ASE..
A PASSPORT TO HELL
Elissa
Paul
LANDI · LUKAS
WARNER OLAND ALEXANDER KIRKLAND
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Story by Harry Harvey
MEN WITHOUT HONOUR AND WOMEN WITHOUT HOPE IN A WEIRD ROMANCE OF THE TROPICS.
AT 11 A.M, 2.30 and 7.15 P.MʼONLY
“CITY MORNINGS”
WITH
JUANITA
WANG
AND
KAO CHIEN
FEI
A
UNITED
BOOKING
AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 26932.
STARTS SUNDAY
FROM THE HEART OF AMERICA
comes this deeply human drama of the romance ... excitement. - gayety....... adventures encountered
at the State Fair by an American family.
JANET
WILL
GAYNOR ROGERS
LIN
SALLY
AYRES EILERS
NORMAN
LOUISE
FOSTER DRESSER
FRANK
CRAVEN
"
VICTOR
JORY
HENRY KING
PRODUCTION
STATE
FAIR
PHOTOPLAY
by PHIL STONO
SERVICE
PICTURE.
A CHINESE PICTURE WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT.
MISS IRIS MONTGOMERY who is booked to appear at the Penin- sula Hotel in the near future.
A PASSPORT TO
HELL
"}
EXCELLENT TROPICS FILM
AT THE KING'S
the traitor and she destroys the evidence which would have cleared her, but incriminates him
Not an edifying story, as told in a few words, but the heart is an errant organ, and the heat, the Loneliness, the monotony of the jungle play the deuce with ordinary morals. There is something of the terrible atmosphere of a Joseph "A Passport to Hell" is a far Conrad tale in this film. The charac better film than its title suggeste ters are so intensely human and The title is in fact the only fault pathetic, struggling in the grip of that can be found with it, for in these forces of nature that sap the acting, in direction and the unfold-vitality and manhood. And to all ing of an extremely good story the that strain is added the horror and technique approaches perfection. bitterness of war. War in the
Once more that charming and tropics. This film gives an idea of beautiful actress, Elissa Landi, I what it means; not the fighting but plays. the role of the unsatisfactory just the added strain making what young woman, not nearly so bad is unbearable...
as people think, hub yet not by any
1
means so good as, to be uninterest If you like more than light, en- ing!
tertainment and a real-drama of She is deported from a British human nature in a strange and West African Colony to a Germanister setting you should go to
this film at the King's. one, and, as she arrives the war breaks out. After half a dozen Inentings the young son of the stern old Prussian Commandent marries
R.B.
her to save her from an internment were taken in Japan, which makes camp. He takes her to his jungle it all the more interesting. Charlis encampment, and then, while on an Ruggles is responsible for the expedition into the swamps she humour and is over funnier than meets and this time falls truly in ever. This picture has been run- lore with a brother officer of her ning for weeks at every theatre husband's. Can anywhere it has been shown, so do not There is an unpleasant apy in miss seeing it now at the Queen's cident in which her husband is Theatre.
Madame Butterfly
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
(May 96)
(V Moon 3rd Day). Queen Mary börn, 1867. British Empire Fair, Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon,
Sale of Crown Lands, District Office, South, H.K., 11 am.
Sale of Leasehold Properties, China Auction Rooms, 3 b...
Lammert's Sale of Household Furniture, 2188, Nathan Road, Kowloon, 11 am.
Aircraft Exhibits over harbour in front of Peninsula Hotel, 3.30 p.m.
Claim against the St. Francis Hotel, Ltd. dus.
AK-Ranks Danco in Aïd of M.CL. (Military Branch), Garrison Lec- ture Hall, 8.30 p.m.
Gala Night, Peninsula Hotel, Rose Room.
*Meetings, '--
Union Insurance Society of Can- ton, Ltd, China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., British Traders' Insur- ance Co., Ltd., Union Buildings, 11 a.m., 1.15 a.m, and 11.90 a.m.. re- spectively.
H.K. Practical Psychology Club, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 6 p.m. Theatres,
Queen's: Madame Butterfly." King's A Passport to Hell"
Central: "Explorers
,World."
Oriental. Igloo.
of the
World: "Maybe It's Love."
Star: Huddle.”
Majestic "If I Had a Million."
D'ances.
Tea Dances at Gloucester Build- ing; King's Restaurant; and Hong Kong Hotel.
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel King's Restaurant; Penin- sula Hotels and Gloucester "Build- ing.
*
Principal Malls
Inward from London by Antenor: from America by Pres. Polk and Pres. Jefferson; from Europe via Suez by Suya Maru.
Sports.
Billiards--Soldiers' Club Tourna- ment: 24th Battery Royal Artillery " Prison Officers" Mess, 6p.m.
Lawn Bowls:Open Champion- ship: J. Watson John Pooler (Craigengower C.C.), 5.20 p.m.
Lawn Tennis Hong Kong Area League: Kowloon. Section, "A Company, Lincolns Signals;
'EXPLORERS OF THE Hong Kong Section, R.A.O.C..
*
WORLD"
EXPLOITS OF SIX- ADVENTURES
Explorers of the World, a Raspin motion picture production, now showing at the Central Theatre, is a symposium of the exploits of six well-known explorers who have journeyed to the far corners of the earth in the interests of science and adventure.
"C" Company, South Wales Bor- derers..
Sunrise: 5.40 am.; Sunset: 7.01
p.m.
Tides:-High at 9.50; Low at $2.00 mid-17_15.
the near future. Among the most pretentious of these groups is a cóf. lection of eight great walruses from the Arctic Ocean north of the Siberi- an Coast. Their aggregate weight would be well in excess of 10 tons and two of them are more than 11 feet in length. These great prehis toric-appearing creatures were re-
Sylvia Sidney has added to her laurels in her portrayal of the Geisha girt in Madame Butterfly now playing at the Queen's Theatre. This talented actress holde one from start to finish in this story, so old and yet ever new. It is the love story of an American officer whoee ship is stationed in Japan, and while there he meets Cho-Cho-San. He is ordered back home, and-pro- mises the girl that he will return: The film takes, the anlooker rapid when the robins nest again. He does ly through Asia, Africa, South so in later years, but with a lovely America, the Arctic and the An-cently collected on an expedition American bride. He calls on Cho-tarctic. Cho-San, and when she seei the
In the American Museum of American wife realises that it is Natural History, in New York, in all over.. She then sends their son to her grandfather and ends her, life.
JI
Most of the scenes in this picture (Continued on previous column).
great ground floor ball to be known as the "Hall of Ocean Life," ja series of groups are now in the process of preparation and will be opened to the public sometime in (Continued on next Column).
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The Cameraman nearly Frozen to Death! The Director was Paralyzed with Cold! The Entire Cast is made up of Eskimos! The Artic Zone did its Worst to stop it! The Polar Bear did has Fiercest Stuff ! The Walruses turned Hell into Heaven!
GLOOK
SEE the hunger-mad
danød Eskimos’wild walrus hunt ... scores of giant sea boasts slain be-- fore your very ayasi.
led by Harold McCracken, who is one of the six men contributing to. this interesting as well as thrilling filmy Explorers of the World;" and scenes in the picture show these same walrus alive and in their native, icy babitat before and while they are being collected. Not only does the film, Explorers of the World," give one a very graphic in sight into this other and most spectacular side of Museum work, but it provides thrill, after thrill for the adventure-loving city stay- at-homes, and is something which once seen will never be forgotten.
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Road, Awloon. Tel 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
STORY AS GREAT
VAC ITS CAST!
MILLIO
1040 1000
GARY COOPER
CHARISE REGOLES
·FIELDS
MAR
GENT
QUEENS THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY AF 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. HE SHALL COME BACK WHEN ROBINS NEST AGAIN"!
Simple, Anguished Prayer of Her Death- Iass' Devocion!...
MADAME BUTTERFLY
[*** SYLVIA SIDNEY.
CARY GRANT CHARLIE RIGOLES WLICTED W MILLOR UUNG .P.SCHULDERG
• SHORTS ?!.
UNFORGETTABLE: DRAMA
COMING SHORTLY
LOVE!
DRAMAI
ACTION!
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
with -JACK'OʻKIE.
THOMAS MEIGHAN
MARIAN NIXON
ZASU PITTS
WILLIAN COLLIER="
WILLIAM BOYD
[LEW CODY" Quiemount Gicture A romantic story of
three man and two girls who
fight unseen Henemies!
ALSO,
faramounts
Sports Special
(STAR)
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW. At 2,80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
RAMON
NOVARRO HUDDLE
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayet meram
WORLDE
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