CENTRAL
THEATRO
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Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.
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
King's.
HONG KONG
"Second Hand Wife."
the
"Clear all wires.”
Dunson and Sistors."
Queen's,
Central.
Tell Me To-Night."
Oriental.
World,
*Gay-Caballero.”
"Passionate Plumber."
KOWLOON
"A PRESENTATION TO BE PROUD OF!
Star,
Gay Diplomat.'
Majestic.
King's.
Call Her Savage."
COMING
Broadway Bad."-
"The Golden West."
Humanity.
"Rome Express."
Queen's.
Fast Workers."
*Wiser Sax."
World.
+
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1933
f
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
AT
2.30, 5.10, 7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
Garcia
"Skin Deep and Dumbbells in
Ermine."
Gay Diplomat.”
Central,
JÁN KIEPURA
Star.
TELL ME
TO-NIGHT
SONNIE HALE & MAGDA SCHNEIDER
EDMUND GWENN ATHENE SEYLER
A GAUMONT-HMITËSH PICTURE
Biden ASATOŁ LITWAK
BOOK YOUR SEATS EARLY!
NEXT CHANGE
THEY'RE BACK AGAIN! FUNNIER THAN EVER!
Chole firma SIDNEY MURRAY
COHENS&KELLYS) in 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
j
The VOICE of the
VATICAN
Reverently
Handled.
Intimate
Highlights
Scenes
Of
Inside & Outside Of St. Peter's Church See Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel, Marconi and others. A Universal Single Reel Feature.
Cohens and Kellys in
"Loose Ankles.??
Trouble,"
HONCKONG'S FINEST ENF
A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION!
ON THE SCREEN
SHE DARED
To Love Her Boss She knew his wife neglected him...knew he starved for affection. Ashis secretary had the the right to give him the love his wife denied him?
Kathleen Norris'
SECOND HAND WIFE
with
SALLY EILERS
Ralph Bellamy
Helen Vinson
FOX
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
THOSE DELIGHTFUL "FAST WORKERS
GARCIA SISTERS
CAPITAL PROGRAMME AT KING'S
D
LAUGHS AND QUICK ACTION
ON THE STAGE
BUSTER DUNSON
&
"THE GARCIA
SISTERS
IN
SPECIALITY DANCES
AND...
AL BALDWIN
THE AMERICAN COLOURED
CROONER
PRICES AS USUAL.
TELL ME TO-NIGHT
DELIGHTFUL PICTURE AT
THE CENTRAL
POLISH TENOR'S GREAT
SUCCESS
BOOKING AT Tax THEATRE TEL 25913
& 95992.
-COMMENCING TO-MORROW-
Cash in, Baby... while you're ahead in this Broadway game. If you don't break it, Broadway will break you.
Foz Film Presents
BROADWAY BAD
with
JOAN BLONDELI RICANDO CORTEZ
Ginger Rogers, Victor Jory Adrienne Amas
Story by William R. Lipman
and A. W. Pozor.
Directed by stuntY LANFIELD
QUEEN'S THEATRE
"CLEAR ALL WIRES"
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
(Monday, June 19).
Auctions.
Sale of Crown Laid, P.W.D.. Offices, 3 p.m.; Lammert's sale of household furniture, 407, The Peak,
10a.m.
Cinemas,
Kings" Second Hand Wife." Majestic Call Her Savago." Oriental:- Gay Caballero." Central:"Tell Me To-Night." Queen's: Clear All Wires."' Star: Gay Diplomat.". World: Passionate Plumber," Dances.
Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Gloucester. Building; King's Res- thurant; and Majestic · Dancing Academy; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant. Moon.
V Moon, 27th May,
Social Functions.
Whist Drive for Service Mon, European Y.M.0.A., 8.45 p.m.
Sports,
Lawn Bowls, Tennis, and Water Polo.
Sunrise,
p.m.
Sunrise: 5.39 a.m.; Sunset: 7.10
Tides:
C
High at 0.50 and 20.23; Low at 13.40.
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BROADWAY BAD'
MUSIC AND GAIETY
Blazing a new trail for motion. picture ntertainment, "Broadway Bad, the Fox Film coming to, the King's Theatre on Tuesday, com- bines galety, music and display of feminine beauty with tense emotion- al drama.
Featured in the cast are Joan Blondell, Richardo Cortel, Ginger Rogers, Allen Vincent, Victory Jory, Adrienne Ames, Philhead, Francis McDonald and Spencer Charters. Sidney Lanfield direct- ed,
Lee Tracy, as the spectacular
Heretofore gay music, sparkling newspaper correspondent, in "Clear dialogue and arrays of beautiful All Wires," showing at the Queen's girls have been associated with Theatre, takes the audience through sophisticated comedies or other films a regular fizz-pot" of journalism. of fight vein. In "Broadway Bad" Putting aside all conventions and they form a natural and colourful. background for the dramatic story The picture-going public in Hong obstacles, which usually beset a re-
of a girl who fights a winning Kong has meldom had such fine porter, he sweeps triumphantly battle against circumstance and the entertainment offered to them as in through everything including "red-handicaps of an undeserved reputa "Tell Me Tonight the current i tape.' No place is impossible for tion. film at the Central Theatre. Good him to reach, and if there is no houses attended all the perform news he makes it by. staging some ances and came away satisfied, that thing, they had seen something worth The final scenes when he is fired while. There is something delight-
by his bosa, and frames the shoot
Previously cast as a happy-go- lucky beauty with a fund of wise. cracking, philosophy, Miss Blondell is introduced in this picture de s dramatic actress. It is the type of role she has always wanted and she
With John Gilbert and Robert fully new in the way of film entering of a dingy nobleman for a 18 is said to look upon it as the great-
tainment in this picture and if you Armstrong teamed as two riveters like music mingled with a touch of story are typical of his way of
inclination; Mae
doing things. Unfortunately for romantic of
him, however, his plans go astray Clarke, Muriel Kirkland, Vince comedy, don't miss this one! Barnett and Virginia Cherrill for
at the last minute, and, instead of hilarious comedy,Fast Workers,
the bullet, finding the nobleman, it the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer thriller
finds his own shoulder, and ho at once becomes the hero of Moscow, where the scene is set.
The stars in this splendid comedy romance include Jan Kiepura, the eminent Polish tenor, whose magni-
or skyscrapers and the men who ficent voice has earned him the build them is to be shown from title of a second Caruso. He sings Wednesday at the Queen's.
some excellent pieces in the film and undoubtedly Hong Kong cinema "fans" will be looking forward to bis next film.
Those very charming and clever young ladies, The Garcia. Sisters, quite brought the house down" at the King's Theatre yesterday. They are extremely pretty, beauti: Fully and rather daringly dressed, and their dancing has an unusual combination of suppleness and polish. How they must have work-
John McDermott's play, "Rivets," ed to get it so good, and yet how furnished the basis for the screen they enjoy it, and they carry story which has scenes filined on top the audience with them. Perhaps it of Manhattan's tallest buildings to is the coolness of the theatre that serve as a breath-taking setting for extra the nction between Gilbert and helped, but there is an
On the ground they ordinary verve and vitality about Armstrong.
become involved in an odd "mar their performance.
that finally results Buster Dunsou supports there riage bargain well and his dancing is better than in a deadly quarrel on a girder
ninety stories in the air. his singing, but perhaps he would! Action between the two riveters is reverse that opinion with more lightning fast and leads then through a series of situations that Al Baldwin is a great favourite are packed with laughs and thrills in Shanghai. Frankly he was not through the entire picture. Mae happy in his choice of songs. If Clarke is the point of feminine con- he'd give 18 some of the old tention and succeeds in delivering a Plentation ditties, or the real strong characterisation as a lady of reputation. Vince "spirituals," with the orchestra i questionable
aongs.
as chorus and muffled accompanied, Barnett's clowning on top of the building provides many laughs be would go down excellently.
All members of the "supporting When he did something on that cast, including Muriel Evans, Ster line, in part of his skit on a negroting Holloway, Guy Usher, Warner preacher, you could see the artist Richmond and Robert Burns, con coming out. If he would give us tribute performances that are a de even such an old favourite as "I've finite asset to the comedy-drama. got shoes," the place would be at his feet.
The direction by Tod Browning who filmed many of the late Lon *Second Hand Wife.”
Chaney's successos, shows his skill- Sally Eilers is" a clever and ful ability at "timing" trills to charming actress, and she be quite huild audience to a terrific climax a good part in "Second Hand at the finish. Wife." The story tells of the L'ontinued at foot of next column).
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selfish wite, the lone husband and the lady who brings consolation. The story is well told and well acted, but one cannot get away from the British notion that if divorce and clamouring were a bit harder to get, wives in. U.S.A. wouldn't be quite so impossible, and husbands no pathetic. Still, "Second Hand Wife is good en tertainment and a suitable finish up to an enjoyable programme..
The News Reel.
The Nows Reel is of exceptional interest, with views of the ill-fated Akron, the meeting of Mr. Hamsay MacDonald and Signor Mussolini, and a parade of troops and Brown shirts in front of Herr Hitler and President Hindenburg:
Sonnie Hale, has the role of the comedian in the film and he kept the audience laughing with his re- sourceful comedy-fooling.
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He gets reinstated in office, but a rival reporter ancaks out his part the affair and he is ordered out of Russia, but lands a job in China. Tracy is ably supported by a good cast including Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason, and Alan Edwards.
.......
D.P.R.
Magda Schneider, like Renate" Muller, is an actrees who seems to be ooring with vivacity and as Kiepura's sweetheart, has a fairly big role, which she carries admir. Susie" will know what I mean.
that "Tell Me To ably. Taken as a whole, "Tell Me when I say To-night" is an excellent picture night" is a light musical-comedy and those who have seen "Sunshine which is every bit as entertaining.
(Continued on next Column)
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ere's an outstanding O'Brien picture, because, we've got Victor McLaglan and the fiery Conchita Montenegro in
the cast to stamp this as one of the best outdoor motion picturen ever made.
The
Gay Caballero
GEORGE
O'BRIEN
VICTOR
McLAGLEN
CONCHITA
MONTENEGRO
FOX PICTURE
UNDA WATKINS
Directed by ALFRED WERKER"
est opportunity of her screen career. Thirty of Hollywood's prettiest girls, selected from hundreds for beauty of faca and figure, and de- coration to many of the scenes. Among there scenes are some filmed in the interior of a Pullman car.
Gordon Wiles designed the colour- ful modernietin settings in which the action was filmed. the Acadeiny of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award for 1931- 32 for his "Transatlantic" settings. William R. Lipman and A. W. Pezet wrote the story. The dialogue and continuity are by Arthur Kober and Maude Fulton.
Wiles won
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Nos oder do u know in advance how you're usina na like a picture! Howe's one that gurament enjoy mant. Certainly of's the great stup Pris, laugh for tough, shrill for thei)" 5. Cheers for Lan Tracy who plays
tha naha of the romancin
whom 'the world alzu. When it com
mana-Milamic cables son
to head-linas, what aman? And
whan ha raghes for a
Ho
better ser for yourself?
KIWELT
M-O-M STARI
THIS SETS
A RECORDI
LEE TRACY
BENITA UNA
JAMES
HUME I MERKEL | GLEASON-
CLEAR
ALL WIRES
Pin the alp
pas by Belly and Serial Sarwach and produced by Homens' Goressed by
GEORGE HILL A METRO-00LDWYN- MATER PICTURE
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Love!
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IN
FAST WORKERS
with
ROBERT ® ARMSTRONG MAE CLARKE
STAR
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