CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG HONG
(The Hollywood Hi-Lights),
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND DCH
King's,
Bachelor's Affairs."
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel, 23720.
Queen's.
Men Must Fight."
Central,
KOWLOON
"Svengali.".
TO-DAY & TJ-MORROW At. 280, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
ONLY A MIRACLE COULD SAVE THEMI
"Destination Unknown,"
Oriental.
Star.
"Panama Flo."
Majestic.
"Sky Devil."
COMING
Werk Ends Only."
Queen's,
Hot Saturday.".
Make Me A Star."
→twelve desperate men and a footloose
woman adrift on a derelict ship!
With Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy,
Alan Hale, Belty Compson, Russell Hopton, Tom Brown, Rollo Lloyd. Story by Tom Buckingham. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Directed by Tay Garnett. Pre- sented by Carl Laemmle. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
DESTINATION UNKNOWN
WEDNESDAY
LAUGHS! LONG AND LOUD!
A TONIC FOR THE
BEAT & DEPRESSION
SYDNEY HOWARD
IN
King's.
Star.
Big Party."
World.
.{t
Modern Age,
"Viking."
*** Tell" "England.”
CANTON CINEMAS
Chung Wah Theatre,
"Hot Pepper."
Sun Wah Theatre.
Symphony."
Ving Hon.
Island of Lost Souls."
Pearl Theatre.
"Faithless."
Tai Tak Theatre.
"Business and Pleasure."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933.
FINAL
SHOWINGSMANNAY
TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
BOOKING
AT THE THEATRE
TEL. 25313
KINGS THEATRE
HONGKONG'S FINEST UNERA
A DOUBLE ATTRACTION !
ON THE SCREEN
He was fit to be tied
“BACHELOR'S
AFFAIRS"
WITH
ADLOPHE
MENJOU
MINNA GOMBELL, JOANMARSH. ARTHUR PIERSON.
FOX
-ON THE STAGE-
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.80 P.M.
REX STORY & LEN MANTELL
PRESENT
"THE HOLLYWOOD
HI-LIGHTS”
A TALENTED COMPANY IN MUSICAL COMEDY..
TO-MORROW & WEDNESDAY AT 5.10, 7.15 and 9.30 P.M. ONLY.
NOT A PICTURE-SEE THEM
IN THE FLESH PRICES AS USUAL.
Pictures In Hong Kong
..
'BACHELOR'S
AFFAIRS
Film and Stage Programme at King's
THE HOLLYWOOD" HI-LIGHTS
The King's Theatre drew big houses yesterday and deserved to was do go for the programme excellent including both stage and
screen entertainment.
We are glad to welcome the Hollywood Hi-Lights" back to Hong Kong. They are a jolly and accomplished company. Rex Story was delightful.
“HCT SATURDAY”
WAGGING TONGUES AND THE GIRL WHO WALKS HOME
MOUNT EVEREST
FLIGHT FILM ·
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PHOTOGRAPHERS' REPORTS
London, May 18. Copies of the daily continuity ra & 25332. ports made by the cinematograph- ers on the recent Mount Everest flight have been received in London by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Limited. The reporte show that even when the photo- graphers were engaged in so his- toric an occasion as the first flight over Everest they did their rou- tine work as if the event were an everyday occurredes. »
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
Love
wasn't
in her
contract
as a paid guest- but could she keep it out? WEEK ENDS
ONLY
with
Joan BENNETT Ben LYON John Halliday
Based on the novel by Warner Fabian Directed by Alan Crosland FOX Picture
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'DESTINATION
UNKNOWN
i
There is even a laconie touch in the report made on April 3, when Everest was surmounted. On that occasion the dramatic adventure was baldly chronicled by Mr. Bon- net de "Snow scenes over Eversst in the sun."
This bare outline of the great flight contrasts with the detail which is furnished on the occasion of other flights. A continuity re- port marked "Nepal-on the road to Katmandu" includes the fol- lowing entry -
re-
View of Pashpati temple from top looking down on to burning ghat and bathing ghat. The man. who burns the dead is poking the fire, which containa charred mains of a body. Close-up of tem ple attendant with offerings of rice, oil, and flowers for worship- ping in the temple of Pashpati. Shot of a Sadhu or religious as- oatia telling his beads seated in temple door. City of Bhatgaon. Golden gateway in Durbar square. Whether short or long, however, the reports indicate that an ex traordinarily interesting film is in the making.
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MADISON SQUARE
EC
GARDEN
STAGE FRIGHT" AN ASSET TO MARION NIXON
Marian Nixon's stage fright makes her one of the most desirable young actresses in Hollywood.
That's the opinion of the various men who have directed her in pic tures, and one shared by Harry Joe Brown, in charge of produc tion of "Madison Square Garden," drama set against the background of New York's famed institution of that name "and opening to day at the Queen's Theatre and in which she is featured with Jack Oakie, Thomas Meighan, Warren Hymer, William Collier, Sr., Wil- liam Boyd and ZaSu Pitts.
“WEEK ENDS ONLY!”'
NEW JOAN BENNETT FILM
The novel vocation of a "weak TENSE DRAMA AT CENTRAL end girl" is the one adopted by Joan Bennett in her latest Fox Blightly paraphrasing the old sai- Films vehicle, "Week Ends Only," lore chanty, there were 13 men an coming to the King's Theatre. Disa derelict's deck, and the cargo in covering that she is penniless after the hold consisted of five thousand her father's rain in Wall Strees | cases of rum. This is the tense and his subsequent death, Miss situation aboard the sailing vessel Bennett gets a job in a speakeasyPrices Rupert, drifting rum managed by her former butler, and runner on which transpires all the from this point achieves her new action of "Destination Unknown" the Universal sea drama which Misa Bennett, whose dramatid opens to-day at the Central Thea- artistry has recently bean enhanced tre. With their ship desperately her apparent ease. with the discovery of her talents cripped in a terrific storm, the 13
She walked home from a Satur- profession. day-night date.
บ
But she woke up Sunday morn ing to find she might have saved herself the trouble.
.
That briefly, is the story of "Hot Saturday," a film featuring Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll und Ran- dolph Scott, which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Thursday,
Miss Carroll plays the role of the girl who is made the subject of nasty gossip by women jealous of her popularity with men, and by would-be Don Juans disappoint "make" ed in their attempts to her.
.
One does not realise quite how elever his juggling act is until it
They
discover, one Saturday is over and then one wishes to see night, that she is missing from And it all through again. The chorus
get-together. their usual work well together and ench have while she is walking home to save their own necomplishment, as well; herself from a too-ambitious sui- our plays the piano, one has a really tor, they begin spreading the story good voice another plays the violin, that she is spending the night at and two more give clever solo! danves. The company has an ac.the nearby summer home of Grant, complished dancer in Miss Peggy a millionaire playboy, who has Chant, and that gay little lady, been attempting, in subtler fa Rose Lee, "brought down the sboin, to win the same game that the local boys have been playing house" with her sentimental songs
crudely. modern American sung in the manner.
;
The story costs her her job, al. We must not forget Mr. Ayres most costs her her home. Hysteri- Mantell who performs some clever cal, she flees to Scott, a childhood conjuring tricks to the accompani-sweetheart, who wants to marry ment of excellent patter.
her, and agrees to go through with the wedding: But, he boo, haare A complete change of programme the story, believes it, and calls it is announced for Tuesday,
all off.
Adolphe Menjou Himself Again, It is then that she rushes to
"IT'S A KING' Adolphe Menjou is his delightful Graut, utterly defiant. And the
AN
UPROARIOUS
BRITISH COMEDY
self again. Franidy he was not very climax that follows is startling in good as an American hand-boiled its boldness.
editor, or any of the other roles that
an unwise Bollywood tried to fix
on him. But here he is again, the it behoves a man to be careful be
wealthy bachelor, and in a fix with At an age when (Continued at foot of next col
a young woman.
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DEVELOPING & PRINTING
FILMS.
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IN TOWN
WITHIN 6 HOURS.
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gets caught by a pert little vampi, very pretty, very common, and full of coaseless of unbounding energy.
.Poor old fellow he is being fast rattled into his grave, by a dreadful course of fast life when a masterful partner takes the matter in hand and packs the young thing off to San Reng with an appropriate young mlin, while Adolphe in gently steer- ed into the arnis of a gentle and appealing secretary. The film is excellently Acted. Minna Combell simply lives her phrt, and you can't help liking-her, nasty little kitten that she is. There is a most amus ing valet and the little kittens elder sister, sort of American' Katisha, to lielp things along. A thoroughly good comedy presented by an ex- cellent team.
D.P.B
!
Like any amateur, actor, Miss Nixon in thoroughly frightened "every time she steps in front of the camera. Unlike amateurs, how- ever, who lose their fear once they've got used to being in the public gaze, Marian's fright lasts....
Its advantage lies in the fact that it's all internal. Never a bit of it shows through her charac terizations, and she is noted for
Directors like her because they know the reason for her nervous- rose is the seriousness with which she takes her roles. She puts so much into them, they feel, that it to a high tension...
"Madison Square Garden," her brings her entire nervous system
as a fine comedienne, is said tu men on board engage in a ruth
ve ample opportunity in this less battle of intrigue for posses- production to display both quali sion of the stricken vessel and the an which remain on board. The whis- ties, Ben Lyon at a carefree art ten gallons of drinking water student and Joan Halliday as ing male roles and present an, place of water, and the scant store amorous millionaire hove the lead- ky in the bold counot take the effective contrast in their rivalry, on board becomes the focal point
Halliwell Hobbes as the ex-butler of the plotting of & group of des- latest film, deals with a group of people who slip briefly in under ・the roof of the structure, and then who befriends Miss Bennett: Allan perate and unprincipled men.
And then f mysterious stow.
out again, their lives. charged by. Dinehart, Burton Church, Jon Arlege and other 6lm favourites away, known only as The Stran- are in the cast of this production.
ger, makes his appearance among the events in which they have par- Interesting, backgrounds abound the plotting desperadoes, and his ticipated. Like "Grand Hotel" and other one-locale films, it offers throughout the picture. A luxuri-presence brings about a miracu-
a kaleidoscopic view of lous change. An unexplainable
lives. ous lodge in the Adirondacks, a GGreenwich Village studio, a mil thing happens-a thing so without lionaire's home, an ocean liner and the range of possibility that the
men cannot believe a speakeasy that is a faithful repro-
The Stranger was Lloyd. duction of one of New York's most Veritably, exclusive and sumptuous resorts, wrought a miracle. And while serve as the settings for much of these events are taking place, a the action. Alan Crosland, who solitary woman hides below decks many successes in the cabin of a dead man, des-
"1 As
his first vengeance. has turned out "Week Ends Only during his screen career, directed perately in fear of the hands of
William Conselman Fox offering. wrote the screen play and dialogus successful povel "by Warner Fabian.
from
the
4 SZKOW'S
DAILY 8.30-5.13
7.15-4.36
their
eyes.
Pat O'Brien and Ralph Bellamy head the cast of "Destination Un- known," which also includes Tom Brown, Betty Compson, Russell
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THRILL GIRL OF "MILLIE"In another
“RKO`PATHE PICTURE
romantic hit!..
HOTUN
Twelvetrees
PANAMA FLO
RALPH
FOR TO-MORKOW AND WEDNESDAY:
A fast moving modern
Chinese talking picture
many
Hopton, Alan Hale, and Rollo
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TU-MORRÓW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
80 riotous minutes of spectaculor THRILLS and
NEXT CHANGE
"HANDLE WITH CARE”|
THE STRUGGLE
tings with songs and
FOR LOVE
superb acting and set
music.
JAMES DUNN
QUEENT TRAIRE
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
WHAT ABOUT THE
~WOMAN OF 1940
D
Will she have a new code of sex morals? Will she send her song to war?
MEN MUST FIGHT
A Mo-Goldwyn-Mayer an
answers these questions!
'wilh
DIANA WYNYARD (of overnight fame) LEWIS STONE
PHILLIPS HOLMES RUTH SELWYN -AISO SHOWING LAUREL-HARDY
in
Helpmates"
NEXT CHANGE
When her cheating found her out....she sought to make mar riage coves her sins!:
HOT
SATURDAY
RANDOLPH SCOTT
Charzamount
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
JOHN
BARRYMORE
SVENGALI
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