HONG

KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933

CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S ID., WESTBOUND 'BUN

Advance Booking at Andersons and, the Theatre Tel. 28720

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5,15, 7,15 & 9.80 P.M.

THE FIRST OF THE GAUMONT-BRITISH. OF A PRODUCTIONS.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

King's.

"The Greeks had a word for

Them."

- Queen's,

"The Broken Wing.' Central,

Tell Me To-Night."

Oriental,

** Arsene Lupin."

KOWLOON

Star.

"Five Star Binal."

Majestic.

The Mummy"

A PRESENTATION TO BE PROUD OF!

COMING

King's.

"Second Hand Wife."

Dunson and the Garcin

Sisters"

Broadway Bad”.

Humanity...

** None Express.”

Queen's.

"Clear All Wires."

Fast Workers."

World.

This Modern Age."

"Passionate Plumber."

Skin Deep and Dumbbells in

Ermine.

Gay Diplomat."

"Cohens and Kellys in

Central.

Oriental.

JAN KIEPURA

Majestic.

Call Her Savage."

Star.

TELL ME

TO-NIGHT

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EDMUND GWENN ATHENE SEYLER

A GAUMONT ARGENE

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EARLY!

NEXT CHANGE

THEY'RE BACK AGAIN! FUNNIER THAN EVER!

Charf

SIDNEY MURRAY * COHENS KELLYS,

TROUBLE"

with

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

A Universal Comedy

On The Same Programme

HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XI Appears For The First Time On The Talking Screen In

The VOICE of the VATICAN

Reverently

Handled.

Intimate

Highlights

Of

Scanes

Inside & Outside Of St, Poter's Church See. Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel, Marconi and others. A Universal Single Beel Feature..

"Gay Diplomat."-- Loose Ankles."

Trguble."

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT

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THE MIN THEY "TOOK" CALLED THEM

"Gold-Diggers!" "Loralais!" "Man-Hunters!" "Adventuressesi”

BUT

GREEKS HAD AWORD THEM'

Premed B

SAMUEL GOLDWYN, `·.

Based on Zoe Akins' Broadway Comedy-succuss

with INA CLAIRE

JOAN BLONDELL.

LOWELL SHERMAN ·

MADGE:EVANS DAVID MANNERS

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Presents "THE BEARS & BERS

NOT "SHORTS" BUT SINGLE REEL FEATURES.

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

LUPE VELEZ AND THE ART OF DANCING

SPANISH STAR IN THE

BROKEN WING "

Lupe Valez, the tempestuous spart from the land of tabascu sauce and cayenne pepper, is not a cinema accident. She was well acquainted with the footlights of the best theatres in Mexico City be fure she aver stood before the lens of a motion picturo camera. Lupe ia Castillian-Mexican and was born in San Luis Potosi, of an aristo- cratic family of affluence and pro- minence, and well educated.

THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM "

CHILD STAR AND A BLONDE BEAUTY

BOOKING AT THE

THEATRE

TEL. 25319. & 25932.

TO-MORROW

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION!

ON THE SCREEN

SHE DARED

To Love Her Boss

SECOND HAND WIFE

with

SALLY EILERS Ralph Bellamy

FOX PICTURE

ON THE STAGE BUSTER DUNSON

&

THE GARCIA SISTERS

IN

SPECIALITY DANCES

AND

AL BALDWIN

THE AMERICAN COLOURED CROONER PRICES AS USUAĻ.

TELL ME TONIGHT CLEAR ALL WIRES

BRITISH FILM AT CENTRAL TO-DAY

LEE TRACY AS THE DEBONAIRE HERO

Stage actors coming to the screen film One of the most ambitious British should know the work of a filius of the moment is Tell Me cutter. It gives more knowledge To-night and pens at the Cen-of movements, camera angles, the tral Theatre today. It has a hap- whyfors for closeups and such de py ending, lovely scenery, and tail, than months of other experi- plenty of spontaneous gaiety to re- ence according to Lee Tracy, the commend it The tune threatens to

debonair hero of "Clear All Wires," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's filmization of the famous Broadway stage hit, which opens to-morrow at Queen's Theatre.

become thoroughly popular.

"Tell Me To-right" has been described as belonging to the moon

Tako light-and-roses school. world-famous tenor who is goaded to desperation by the discipline of his manageress, whisk him off to Switzerland for, an unofficial bli

'the

Tracy learned film cutting before he ever came to pictures, and says

INDIAN FILM STAR BROADCASTS

SINGER AND DANGER AT- LONDON STUDIO.

LONDON, May 18. Miss Devika Rani, the star of "Karma," the first all-Indian talk- ing picture, is to broadcast and televise to-night, when. the film opens at the Marble Arch Pavilion, London,

She will be heard in the after- noon and evening, and will be seen. and heard by television at 11.0 p.m. Listeners in India will also be able to hear Miss Rani, as the is timed for the Indian zone program- me at 4.0 p.m. English listeners will hear her in the National pro- gramme at 10,30 p.m.

Miss Rani has already broadcast from Continental stations, includ ing Berne, Basle, and Lausanne, but this will be, her first appear-

ance before the microphone in this country.

Besides being hailed as a new film star of singular beauty and and accomplishment, Miss Rani is Aromarkable linguist. She speaks German, fluent English, French, Italian, as well as her native Ben- is a gali and Hindustani, and singer of great ability in all these languages.

Poet's Great-Nicco.

Miss Rani is the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel M. N. Chad- huri, of the Indian Medical Ser- rice, who is very well known in the Madras Presidency, and a great- niece of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the greatest living Indian poet.

By her participation in "Karma" Miss Rani broke an age-long tradi fion in India that ladies of high casts and education should not per- form in public.

In the television programme Miss Devika Rani will sing an authentie religious chant, and will donee a religious dance, as performed by the truple maidens for thousands of years past in India. These dances and chants are still done in some parts of the South of India. Therefore for the first time mem- bers of the public will be able to see in their homes authentic ver- sions of Indian religious cere- monial.

HEAT WAVE IN UNITED STATES

о

New York, June 9.-The United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic seaboard continued sweltering to-day BE numerous deaths from drowning and prostra

on were reported.

About 100 drownings were re- corded.

In New York at 11 am, the thermometer registered 87, break

an all-time record for June &. In the Middlewest and Southwest temperatures ranged upward að

igh as 115 degrees.

escapes killing the Commissar of Police and is himself hit, is Mos cow's haro, then is arrested when the police learn of the plot, and it was his greatest asset. Between in this and other thrilling episodes

The film of the day men,

enemies.

every detail in story was checked by it.

fi

day, let him get mixed up with and scenes he initiated Benita Hume, in other parts of the world goen the beautiful British star making through comical troubles with wo- mistaken for a nimble-fingered gen: her American dabut is the picture,

armies, police and other tleman who has more than a good in the art. Years ago, fifteen years ago, to be idea of what the inside of a prison

before was always a hand, and

George Hill directed the produc- exact, there was a very pretty lit-cell looks like, lead in romance

the fast-moving tion with a elaborate cast that in- the blonde child with long golden gently at the right moment in the

cludes Miss Hume as the news- curls who was always cropping up person of a really beautiful girl,

Locales All Over World..

paperwoman who eventually mar in pictures. She was one of those and you have your stage all art for

ries the peregrinating journalist, very good, very pretty, very inna thoroughly good time, especially

Locales all over the world, only Una Merkel as the blonde chorine, cent movie children, and when she when the photography and dir

talked about is the stage play, sie James Gleason, as the comical disappeared from the screen, ittion are both excellent and the ac

shown in the picture. Elaborate Lefty," Alan Edwards, Eugene might have been taken for granted companying music delightful.

research reproduced a Moscow hotel Sigalof, Ari Kutai, C. Henry that she had gone to heaven because

Lya Lye. Lawrence overlooking the Kremlin, the head Gordon, she was so good.

quarters of the secret police into Grant, John Melvyn Bleifer and the person of Madge Evans and the loose snatching millionaires whose hands Tracy, as the AmeriGuy Ishez. anyone who had that too good from one another, quarreling makan news correspondent, eventually to live" idea has only to see her ning it up again, generally behaving falls, and the Red Army. In childhood she showed pro Broadway in Samuel Goldwyn's in a way that only the Grocks hadgetic and irresponsible newspaper. Sherman man, who steal his employer's nounced dramatic talent, and had The Greeks Had a Word for a

word for. Lowell to dance Them" incesssant urge

realize that it wasn't directed the picture as well as act chorus girl sweetie" is fired for Ler youthful that at all.

the same, tries to "frame" a big natural outlet for

This United Artists vigor and vibrant temperament. It picture showing at the King's ed in ib, and it was adapted to story by staging a shooting to get the payroll, narrowly the screen by Sidney Howard, back on is almost as natural for Lupe to Theatre.

(Continued on next column). dance as it is for her to breathe. If you want to remember what Pulitzer Prize playwright. -

20

It is an expression of her person. ality which has won for her the title of "champion glooma dia peller," affectionately bestowed by her associates.

But she has lately reappeared in

one of the three merry maids of

Madge Evans looked like back when she was a child star, just remem ber the small girl with muff and ringlets who sits on top of the cake of Fairy Soap. That was Madge. Evans. It is Madge Evans no Victor Fleming, who directed one more. Nowadays she is a tall, slim of her former pictures said that young woman, still blonde, but Lupe is the best morale doctor blonde in a totally different way, imaginable. Whenever she is not a way that enables her to play her working before the camera, she gold-digging role in "The Greeks busies herself entertaining the other Had a Word for Them" to the metabers of the company. Seeming taste of every millionaire in tho ly tireless, she will sing and dance picture. for hours while everyone who is otherwise occupied, gathers around

In between child-starring and her present eminence as one of the most promising young woman în pie her. Gloom, and that girl simplytures, she has been on the New York can not stay in the same vicinity.

stage, appearing in "Our Belters," Lupe very early in life deter-"The Marquise," and two plays mined to go on the stage as a dan-by George Kelly, "Phillip Goes and Daisy Maym"," Mexico City, she had something to cer. She is what is called a "na- Forth' offer and that something win-tural." Her finely shaped feet and Her acting in these fast two at slender limbs jumped to the cadence tracted the attention of the picture stantly recognized as talent. She of any old song or melody, and world again, and she was signed to promptly became a musical comedy her steps fairly beat the tattoo of play opposite Ramon Navarro in

"Son of India.” favourite, was shortly thereafter notes, while the" swish of her skirts

Since then she has consolidated by

opposite and the sway of her body vividly scouts from

her, reputation ** discovered"

expressed the motif of any musical Gable in Sporting Blood" and Hollywood and quickly became a composition.

with Lional Barrymore in Guilty cinematic personage of importance.-¡ ̈

Lupe really trained herself for Hands. She received the privilege

Clark

In this adaptation of the Broad

In "The Broken Wing," which is the stage. Starting with the of exacting approval from Samuel at the Queen's Theatre she features Mexican folk dances, she absorbed Goldwyn in these pictures, and she with Leo Carrillo, Melvyn Douglas, the dance technique. At a grand was immediately signed for "The

Greeks Had A Word for Them." and George Barbier in an intrigu opera ballet or a musical comedy, ing sweetheart role with a Spanish her quick eye caught the pattern way hit by Zoe Akins, she is tour- flavour, similar to "Hell Harbor,"

of steps with unerring accuracy, ao, ed ap with Ina Claire and Joan "The Wolf

Bong,"

and The when she finally made her entrance Bordell to portray the hilarious Cuban," in which pictures she won upon the musical comedy stage of adventures of three chorus girls on the praise of critics and wide pub

(Continued on previous column). (Continued at foot of next cal lid esteem.

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