CENTRAL
HEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND AUS
HONG
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
SHOWING
KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933
HONG KONG
TO-DAY
AT 2.80, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720,
King's.
The Golden West."
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 280, 5.15,7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
"Dunson and the Garcia
Sisters."
Queen's:
Central,
"Cohens and Kellys in
THEY'RE BACK AGAIN! FUNNIER THAN EVER!
Gathe
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 Scones
Inside & Outside Of St. Peter's Church See Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel, Marconi and others. A Universal Single Reel Feature.
SUNDAY
Played Across Two Con timents... From Parts Boulevards to Manhat- tin's Pent Houses. .
Lily Damita
Tantaliding Tempestuous
In Laughter and Heartache.
Ever Glamorous, In Vibrant Drama Sumptuous Settings
MADAME JULIE
With LESTER VAIL ... O. P. HEGGIE. Directed by VICTOR SCHERTZINGER. An RKO-RADIO Picture
WOMEN! This Produc tion Reveals Nowel Paris Styles for 19321
FLIGHT OVER MOUNT EVEREST
"Fast Workers "
Trouble."
The Voice of the Vatican."
the
Oriental.
• Lifes
Comedy "
(Chinese
Picture).
KOWLOON
..
Star.
Loose Ankles.”
Majestic.
Madison Square Garden."
COMING
King's.
Hume Express."
Queen's.
**Wiser Sek."
"A Lady's Profession.
World:
**Bat Whisper."
Rcaptured Love."
Central.
* Madame Julie'
Star,
Viennese Night. High Stakes."
Majestic.
LE
A Passport to Hell."
:/
HONGKONG'S FINEST UNITA
BOOKING AT THE
THEATRE TEL. 25313
& 25392.
THE ONLY AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE IN THE COLONY
A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION !
ON THE SCREEN
AVAST THRILLING SPECTACLE
Only Zane Grey could have written this dra- matic story of two gener. ations of fighting Amer- ican pioneers Zane Grey's
The
GOLDEN WEST
with.
GEORGE O'BRIEN
Directed by
DAVID HOWARD
FOX Picture
Pictures In Hong Kong
COMING TO CENTRAL THEATRE
ON THE STAGE-
AT 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M. ONLY A THIRD COMPLETE CHANGE
OF PROGRAMME.
NEW DANCES-
NEW COSTUMES. BUSTER DUNSON
સ
THE GARCIA SISTERS
ALSO.
AL BALDWIN
THE AMERICAN COLOURED
CROONER
IN
NEW SONGS.
"THE WISER SEX
SIDELIGHT ON THE MAKE-
UP MAN'S TASK
NEXT CHANGE
The Film of the year
ESTHER RALSTON.
CONRAD VEIST Harald Huth Cedric Hardwicke Joan Barry⚫ Gordon Harker Donald Calibrob Frank Vosper
DURECTED · In: WALTER FORDE
ROMET
"A FINE BRITISH TALKIE...
AS GOOD AS 'GRAND HOTEL'.":
THE PEOPLE.
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ROME EXPRESS
WONDER OF INGENIOUS TECHNIQUE
"Rome Express," the first flra to be made in the new Gaumont British Studios, is probably Bri- tam's most ingenious picture. The action takes place on a train, seen on the screen speeding by night stand day neroes the Continent on Which is to say, that after you've its long and fateful journey from properly applied flesh tinte, pow-Paris to Rome.
To modern wizards of make-up, as much as to oldtime barbers, the first thirty thousand faces are the hardest.
WHEELER AND WOOLSEY IN BANGKOK
TWELVE HOURS HARD!
BANGKOK, June 9.
Mr. H. Woolsey and his wife and Mr. B. Wheeler arrived in Bang- kok yesterday afternoon after four o'clock by special train from Don Muang; they left again by special, train before five o'clock this morn ing, and by now should be in Cat cutta
In between they saw the Grand Palaco,, dined with the Prince and Princess of Kambneng Beira at the Trocadero Hotel; appeared before the audience at the Chalerm Na- korn theatre; visited the Chalerm Krung theatre to see the progress of the work and give expert `ad- vice; appeared before the audience at the Princess theatre; ran the gauntlet of New Road identified" by local film fans; were guests of the American Minister (Mr. David E. Kaufman) to supper at Hell- mann's restaurant; made their mos quito nets about half-past one, and were hoofed out again and sent coffeeless and breakfastless to the railway terminus round about half. past fourish this morning.
At dinner last evening when Mr. and Mrs. R. Woolsey and Mr. B. Wheeler were the guests of the Prince and Princess of Kambaeng Bejra, the company included, Mr. David E. Kaufman, Mr. Kenneth F. Rotter, Mr. asd Mrs. Andrew G. Lynch, Mr. Charles E. Brook- hart, Phya and Madame Dona- vanik, Phya and Madame. Sathien, Phra Dhamau and daughtar, Luang Siri, Mr. K. L. Li, Mr. and Mrs. Herman F., Scholtz and Mrs. J. H. Brett-Bangkok Times."
Parallel to the panorama,, which was painted a very dark grey, ram The a track carrying a camera. studio was thrown into complete for darkness save
& spot light affixed to the camera. Between the spot light and the model a strip of board, slotted at intervals, inter- vened to cast moving train light- ing reflections on the countryside, as the camera, moved along and made a film, which later was also
back projected."
Train noise--for example, the roar set up when an express dashes under a bridge and the rhythmic drumming of the wheels were specially recorded on sections of the GWR by sound cameras. The ro corded sound was then dimmed down and cunningly blended with the spoken dialogue.
The studio reconstruction of the Gare de Lyon could not, of course,
der, mascara and what not, to some But the giant locomotive, belch-be built to the exact dimensions of thirty thousand actors and aging steam and smoke, never left the tresses, you know your cosmetology to a split eye-lish."
the great Parisian terminus, large- though the Lime Grove studios are." The missing portions were therefore reproduced in a beautiful scale model suspended at an angle to & special camera in front of which, at another angle, was a fine quality mirror
Lime Grove Studios The whole train was assembled there under the In the past ten years, Tom direction of railway experts.
The only shots" taken outside Cameron of the Paramount New the studios were those employed in York stadio, has averaged a dozen creating the illusion of-speed. For people to be made-up every day of
Some of the quicksilver this a cameraman journey on the an annual working period of 250 real Rome Express, and filmed the on the mirror was then removed to an exact outline to permit the days. When he feats time-dragging countryside as it scurried past the on his hands at the studio, although windows of the train. His pictures studio set to be filmed simultaneous were afterwards back projected "ly with the reflected model in the the temperamental people of the in the studios on to ground glass untouched portion of the mirror. screen are not inclined to let one in soreene placed at an angle to the The work was so carefully done that
train charge of their professional appear-
set." Therefore, when the set and mirrored model match per« caméras filmed the action in the fectly and absolutely correctly as to ance languish in quiet, Cameron train, they also photographed the proportion and perspective in the supervises the make-up of many racing landscape as a passenger resultant picture which reproduces
would see it from his sent.
all the noise, bastis and din of a players in Broadway productions.
Producing the same effect for great railway station.. He had charge of giving all night scenes was a particularly in- Rome Erpress which will be effort. Obviously, the shown at the King's Theatre next facial "O-K's on the sets while genious
cameraman who travelled through Sunday.. The Wiser Sex" was in produc-France and Italy could not film tion. This modern draman of a girl after eundown. So in one of the whose audacity and alert wit saves large Line Grove stages was as- sembled wonderful panoramic ZANE GREY'S RED INDIAN her lover from a murder charge, model about 40 feet long, and, con-
STORY
will headline Claudette Colbert, taining midget stations, forms and minite advertisements, Melvyn Douglas, Lilyan Tashman houses.
pigny telegraph posts, tress, fields bills. gently undulating and William Boyd at the Queen's and Theatre on Sunday.
(Continued on next Column),
GEORGE SIDNEY and CHAQUE HURRAY The COHENS AND WELLYS IN TROUBLE"
UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION
THE COHENS AND
KELLY IN TROUBLE'
FIRST RATE COMEDY AT CENTRAL
Those who are tired of the
THE GOLDEN
WEST"
The advent of Zane Grey's The Golden West," the new Fox pic. ture opening an engagement at the realism of life, the Depression King's Theatre to-day, marks the renaissance of Indian drama, the aren't we all-will find a welcome return to popular favour on a new relief in seeing "The Cohens and and much large scale of the story the Universal of the struggles between the whites Kelly in Trouble" comedy co-starring George Sidney and the redmen. It serves, how and Charlie Murray, which opens ever, only as the background for at the Central Theatre to-day. what is said to be one of the most
romance
intriguing romances ever brought Sidney and Murray have a
to the screen, a story that. pivota splendid supporting cast, which about a. family fend, a adde much to the production which torn apart and rekindles after a may be called, without exaggera-lapse of twenty years in the hearts tion, the best of the Sidney-Murray of the son of the boy and the series. Among those who add to daughter of the girl.
the laughs are "gravel-throated " O'Brien portrays a dual role and Andy Devine, the inimitable Jobyna in the second part of the picture Howland, Maude Fulton and Heary appears as the leader of a tribe of Armetta, while Frank Albertson Indians who adopted him when and Maureen O'Sullivan lend con- they burned a settlement of the vincing portrayals as the young shites, and massacred its entire lovers.
population "The Golden West" is reported as the most spectacular The story concerns Patrick Kelly, of any of the Tox Film outdoor tug boat captain, and Nathan romances featuring O'Brien in the Cohen, retired business man, who leading role...
cornes to see him after an absence. Janet, Chandler enacts the lead- of many years. The mon ure just ing feminine role, also a dual part.. Gaumont British, who are film. ing this expedition have every starting to have their fun when a Another important role is portray- son to be proud of S. R. Ronnett, Young revenue officer falls in love ed by Marion Burns, a leading with Kelly's daughter, unbeknownst woman from the New York stage, their cameraman who in the first
The cast also includes Bert Han flight ever made over the mountain to him and Kelly hates revenue lon, who is matrasted with the prin continued to work his camera in officera Kolly ex-wife also appears cipal comedy role; Arthur Pierson, spite of an accident to his oxygen to collect, back alimony, the men Edmund Corrigan, Onslow Stavens, supply, and with a consequent risk are suspected of rum-running, and Frank Hagney, Julia Swayne Gor- to his life.
a general complication starts the don. Hattie McDaniels and nearly
Also
Iso in the expedition are Geof action off. There are yachting 1,000 exacts and Indians frey Barkas and A. Fisher, the trips, rum boats chases, and plenty The picture was directed by former as director and the latter of ather excitement as the plot David Howard, who directed as camera colleague to S. R. Bon-comes to a more or less happy O'Brien in "The Rainbow Trail,”
and "Mystery Ranch.
-ending,"
4 SHOWS
DAILY 230-5.19
7.16-8.30
1
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DUNN
ILERS
JAMES
AD GIR
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Thrills!
Love!
John GILBERT "FAST WORKERS
ROBERT
with
ARMSTRONG MAE CLARKE
-NEXT CHANGE-
SOCIETY GIRL SPIES ON MOB
TO SAVE LIFE
OF HER LOVER
THE
WISER SEX
amount Picture
with Claudette Colbert: Melvyn Douglas Lilyan Tashman-
William Boyd.
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Romance!
Drama!
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JACK BAKFE HORAS MERERAN MARIAN BOON ZASU PITTI
•LEW CODY!
-NEXT CHANGE-
"A PASSPORT
TO HELL
Wil ELISSA LAND
PAUL LUKAS.
TO-DAY TO
SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 &,9.20 p.m.
LOOSE ANKLES
Mix-up of Mirth and
Marry-ment.
Adapted from play By Bam Jaoney
with LORETTA YOUNG and DOUG, FAIRBANKS, JR Louise Farenda. Otis Harlan, Eddie Nugen
FIRST NATIONAL VITAPHONE PICTURE
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