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HEATRI
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
**When London Sleeps,"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1933
SHOWING
TO-DAY ÁT 2.80, 5.10, 7.15
King's
(The Hollywood Hi-Lights).
& 9.30 P.M.
Queen's.
Hot Saturday,"
Central.
It's a King."
Oriental.
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
"Hell Divers,"
World.
BRITISH HUMOUR
Tell England."
Star,
AT ITS BEST
Majestic.
SYDNEY
HOWARD
itsa King
DIRECTED BY JACK RAYMOND
HERBERS WILDX
AGENT
THE STORY OF AN INSURANCE WHO BECAME KING A DAY & A
# FOR
HALF.
GOOD MUSIC SMART GAGS-BRIGHT DIA. LOGUE.
NEXT CHANGE
IMPERISHABLE DRAMA OF TWO HUMAN SOULS AMID THE TUMULTUOUS CANYONS OF THE CITY.
Fannie Hursty
S
P
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A Story of the Greatest Test Love Ever Faced.
In the Skill of a Surgeon's Hands. Lay the Life of. the Woman He Loved!
Ο
OF SIX MILLION
IRENE DUNNE RICARDO CORTEZ 'GRIGORY RATOFF: ANNA APPEL" RKO RADIO PICTURE Directed by Gregory Lá Cava,
A Job?
Consult
the WANT ADS
KOWLOON
The Big Party?
Handle with Care."
King's,
Queen's.
COMING
"Scarface."..
"Make Me A Star.'
Broken Wings."
Central,
Star,
"Symphony of Six Millions."'
Passionate Plumber,"
" Star Final.”
World.
"Vienese Night."
"Tiger Rose."”'
This Modern Age.'
CANTON CINEMAS
Ohung Wah Theatre,
"Looking On the Bright Side."
Sun Kwok Man.
"Love Debt."
Sun Wah Theatre.
"City Mornings:"
Wing Hon.
(Chinese Picture).
Sign of the Cross."
Pearl Theatre.
"Red Dust." Southern Palace.
"Grand Hotel.”
KINGS THEATRE
SHONGKOND'S FINEST
A' DOUBLE ATTRACTION !
ON THE SCREEN
WHEN LONDON SLEEPS
A
STACKENHAM PLM STUXUNCE
PRODUCTION
FEATURING
HAROLD FRENCH
DIANA BEAUMONT
RENE RAY.
RELEASED BY THE BRITISH FILM DISTRIBUTION CO., LTD. HONGKONG,
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
'SCARFACE” AT "HOT SATURDAY"
THE KING'S
THE LAST WORD IN GANG FILMS
STARTS TO-DAY AT QUEEN'S
ON THE STAGE
AT 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ONLY.
BEX STORY & LEN MANTELL PRESENT
"THE HOLLYWOOD
HI-LIGHTS"
İNTERNATIONAL
REVUE
IN
A COMPLETE CHANGE
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'WHEN LONDON
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·NEXT CHARGE ———
COMMENCING SUNDAY, 11th JUNE
CHALLENGED BY: A FRAIL WOMAN
HOWARDS HUGHES
SCARFACE
Power-drunk, he reled a vast matropolis, with unchallenged might until flan Ing lustica sant him tumbling to his doom.
PAUL MUSI ANN DVORAX OSGOOD PERKINS KAREN MORLEY HOWARD HAWKS
Adapted by Bus' Hedu brán
SYMPHONY CF SIX
MILLIONS"
POWERFUL STORY COMING TO CENTRAL
"MAKE ME A
STAR
77
FILM OF POPULAR NOVEL COMING TO QUEEN'S
One of the most famous povels about youth and Hollywood- Harry Leon Wilson's story of the country lad who crashed the studio gates and made good-will be sepa as a talkie," Make Me a Star,”? at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday with Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, ZaSa Pitts and Ben Turpin head- ing the cust.
Critics have said that it is the dominating comedy-with-a-heart-tug in this story that gave it its in ternational popularity. Pars mount has faithfully transplanted the essence of the book into one of the most human, most entertain- ing pictures Stuart Erwin has ever done and the producers have wisely cast him as the leading man, the ambitous, blundering youth about whom the story evolves,
The action opens in a small town in Illinois where Erwin is the clurk in the general store, brow. beaten and held in cortempt bý almost everyone in the community because of his highfalutin ideas.
Helen Jerome Eddy, his plain, nabeautiful girl friend, joins him in his, rabid idolatry of Buck Ben son, the famous movie cowboy here, and urges him to go to Hollywood to emulate the exploits of the re- vered Buck. At last Erwin saves enough money to go to Hollywood. In the film capital he tramps from studio to studio, never finding the Elysium he had always believed was there.
"At last, through the kindness of Joan
Blondell, a hardboiled "double" for a famous "star,
Erwin gets his first job before à
camera,
He is virtually kicked into fame for the performance he gives as serious drama is so terrible that the directors see its great value ss hilarious comedy... and so he know why he has made good... succeeds, a seriocomic, who doesn't
His struggle, his dashed hopes, his burning ambition to make a success of himself are all shared by the abdiences that will see "Make Me a Star."-***
In the end there is happiness
The hero of this new film pro-
Symphony of Six Million" daced by the Twickenham studios is, which comes to the Central Thea: Tommy Blythe, a young sportsman,tre on Saturday, was screened yes whose flair for losing money places terday to a few persons privileged
I was and a twist and a thrill a him in the debt of Rodney Haines, to a preview of this film.
one of the lucky few and came surprise and a pleasure that make who keeps gaming boses After a rough day at the rass, Tommy away with the feeling that this this story altogether interesting wanders into a fair-ground, where Glm is an exceptionally powerful and entertaining.
one and should prove acceptable to Mo nieets, Mary, the foster-daughter of Lamberti, the fairground proa Hong Kong audience. prietor. Lamberti is about to close
The main roles are entrusted to down. Tommy, a knight errant,
two well-known celebrities in Re- promises to help the odd fellow tocardo Cortez and Irene Dunne who put the fair on its feet by finding are ably supported by a cast which £500. He keeps his promises.
The girl, Mary, is really the daughter of the aged Colonel Graham. Rodney Haines, the vil lain of the piece, is also a relative of the old man, under whose will
or who make themselves sick by riotous living, than by those who really need the services of a doc- tor.
יוּ
The climax comes when the doc i The story is that of a medical tor, who by now. is famous for
man in the city of Chicago, A
to perform a difficult operation in member of the Ghetto, the doctor his surgical work, is called upon come3 from humble beginnings.
a desparate effort to save his own The misery and sufferings which
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is restored to it in the final set
makes a masterly ending to a very powerful story.
Not until the picture was prac At least half a dozen players, tically completed did the producers
includes several familiar names, and players in "Hot Saturday, comparatively new to the picture the story of a girl who walked loving public, achieved sudden lame and prominence in Howard home from a Saturday-night date, laugher
United Artists picture, and awoke Sunday morning to and "Starface," said to be the net she might have spared herself the word in gangland films. In fact, trouble," know how it would end."
The picture, with Cary Grant, it is said
no production since Nancy Carroll and Randolph Seatt he will benefit if no other relative he saw a youngster inspired father. The effort proves unsuc turns up. Discovering the identity him to take up medicine. Hard cessful and he gives up in disgust The Miracle Man" has estaba leading roles, opens to-day at of Mary, Rodney proceeds to abduct study and application to the pr the medical profession,
How he ished so many players.
the Queen's Theatre. Mr. Hughes, in making the pic-į The reason for the enigma lay her. He imprisons her in a tower fession to which he had dedicated bure, selected his cast from the
above the gaming house, which his life made him an eminent phy kanwn.. making certain he got the in the fact that both Grant and entches fire. During a fight between sician and surgeon.
He devoted Scott, sensational young Holly ranks of the comparatively un- wood finds, both performed so wall the hero (who is now helping the bis time, at first, to the care of most perfect types available for
in trying to win Miss Carroll that police) and the villain in the the sick among the poors of his
Irene Dunde, as crippled ach role, regardless of previous the producers weren't sure which garage under the house, a shot is city and endeared himself to them ax office prestige.
one had greater audience sympathy.fired accidentally at a can of petrol, all. Hughes is probably the most The one who did have, they agreed, The fire scenes are among the best The story really begins when sweetheart of the doctor, kas the neting of the movie-makers. He should certainly win the girl. in the film.
this young and able medico is per leading female role in this vory known to have made more than
The performances are excellent. suaded by his family to seek wider human story that no one should Grant plays the role of a mil- O tests for an important role belionaire playboy, who has a sum-Harold French is a pleasing hero; fields and pastures new. He goes miss. The film starts at the Cen-
into the city and pass on from fore filling the part. He spends mer home near the town in which Francis L. Sullivan makes a real
AUCCESS to success until he tral on Saturday.
is months, in preparation on a picture Nancy lives, Scott is, a childhood villain of Haines; Alexander Fields
adda another success to his cockney famous. Meanwhile members of his while other producers spend weeks sweetheart, who wants her to marry triumphs; and Ben Field is good as family all benefit by his affluence.
and when he starts actual film him. ing he is convinced that his pro-, Nancy walks horne from a date Lambert. The wilting heroine is Throughout it all the doctor keeps one ideal before him--service for duetion will be right. More ex-
one Saturday when a tooamorous played correctly by Rene Ray, and pensive, perhaps, but in the long awain becomes too ambitious. Sun- Diana Beaymont appears as Haines the sick and the cripple. As an eminent physician however his run more economical, as the out- day she discovers that he has com-jealous mistress.
When London Sleeps" will be time is taken up more by wealthy standing pictures, particularly in bined with a number of girls
women, who imagine they are sick, this era of entertainment, return jealous of her popularity to spread shown at the King's Theatre on
(Continued on next Column), the most money at the ticket- the story that she had spent the Thursday.- windows..
night at Grant's house.
The title role in "Scarface." which comes to the King's Theatre next Sunday, is played by Paul Muni, a Broadway stage-star, who left the screen two years ago after making two pictures for Fox Cor- poration;
„years, was
The story costs her her job, and almost costs her her home. In this extremity she flees to Boott, to accept his offer of marriage. He is delighted until he hears the story, too. His first reaction is one of indignation. The wedding. he announces wrathfully, is off.
Then Nancy, hysterical, rushes to Grant, resolved that the rumour shall become fact.
Ann Ovorak, a girl who for three on the pay-roll of a ajor studio without receiving a single chance to display her talents, was given the outstanding! It is here that the producers were stumped. Would the audien- feminine, role and her performance Was a sensation. Today she is can be sympathetic with Grant's suave love-making, or with Scott'a sought by every producer in Holly awkward advances and his momen- wood for leading parts, although
tary rage! her role in "Scarface" was her first.
Ultimately they settled the pro- blem with a climax that in mid to be startling in its boldness.
Karen Morley, another girl who played in only minor parts, was given her first real opportunity in this picture, and the critica now gunman in "Scarface"-won him acclaim her one of the outstanding instant favour with Hollywood pro- actresses of the screen.
ducers and lavish praise from cri- Osgood Perkina, the original ties and the public. Walter Burns" in "The Front Vinte Barnett, for years
has Pago, alternated between stage been known in Hollywood as the and screen for years, and has approfessional rubber" appearing.) neared in many nictures. But not at banquets and parties as a paid until Scarface", was he given an " insulter of famous guests. Suic- ontetanding roic, which he enacted cessful as he was, producers hesitat with such brilliance that he is nowed to give him more than minor Hughes reaarded one of the foremost char parts in their pictures. neter actors in Hollywood. Spe gave him one of the prize roles of "George Raft, who resembles the the year is "Scarface" a comedy Jata Rudolph Valentino, has tried impersonation which he nerforms for vares to obtain parts in nie with such finesse that he, too. keng which might win him recogni made. roputation for himself tiek, His portrayal of the daoner overnight as one of the leading
(Continued at font of mert end character actors of the screen,"
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