CENTRAL
THEATRI
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG" DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933.
SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.13
HONG KONG
& 9,30 P.M.
Advance Booking at Andersons
King's.
and the Theatre Tel. 25780.
"Rome Express""
Queen's.
TO-DAY
AT 5.15 & 9.30 P.M. ONLY
Played Across Two Con- thents. From Paris
Boulevards to Manhat tan's Pent Houses..
Central.
Oriental.,
"The Wiser Sex."
The Woman Between."
"(Madame Julie).
The Black Comel,”
The But Wispers.**·
KOWLOON
World.,
A Lady's Profession."
Lly
Damita
Tantalizing... Tempestuous, a In Laughter and Heartache... Ever Glamorous, In Vibrant Drama ... Sumptuous
Settingi
The Woman Between (Madame JULIE)
With LESTER VAIL .. O. P. HEGGIE. Directed by VICTOR SCHERTZINGER. An RKORADIO Picture
WOMEN! This Produc. tion Reveals Newat Paris Sules for 19321
Star.
Viennese Night."
Majestic.
"Hot Pepper.."
King's.
COMING
The Squeaker". "Marry Me."
Queen's.
World.
"Recaptured Love." "Loos Ankles."
Central.
"Tell Me To-night."
"High Stakes."
Oriental.
AT 12.30, 230 & 7.16 P.M. Miss BUTTERFLY WU
IN
"THE CURRENT"
TO-MORROW
BY SPECIAL REQUEST
AT 5.15 & 9.80 ONLY
THE FIRST OF THE GAUMONT-BRITISH- OF A PRODUCTIONS.
A PRESENTATION TO BE PROUD OF!
Jan kiepura
CHARMING & DEBONAIR
TELL ME TO-NIGHT
T
BOOK YOUR SEATS "BARLY !
AT 1280 280 & 7:15
"VIOLET WONG RAYMOND KING
IN
"OVER THE SEA"
UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE.
Star,
#
"Reberen of Sunnybrook
Farm."
KINGS THEATRE
ESTHER RALSTON
Dazzlingly beautiful and daarbogly succesful as a flai star, she inecimia. ates herself to save her young lover from reaping the harvest of his erunnal days. This sacrificing lave story, powerful as it is, is but a small part of the giganter super
THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
ROME EXPRESS
with
CONRAD VEIDT
HAROLD HUTH·· JOAN BARRY
A GAUMONT-BRITISH PICTURE Directed by WALTER FORDE.
"A FINE BRITISĖ: TALKIE
THE PEOPLE, 'GRAND HOTEL'.".
Pictures In Hong Kong
ROME EXPRESS
AT THE KING'S'
THRILLER THAT MOVES FASTER AND FASTER
AT THE QUEEN'S
THEATRE
"THE WISER SEX "
Its something different to the Railway travelling has one thing ordinary run of pictures and most Claudette Colbert, about it that we take for granted. entertaining. Accidents do of course happen, but always refined and dignified, risss ordinarily speaking a train is as safe to new heights in The Wiser as your house. Most of us find it! Sex." boring, and unless you have a Mis Colbert, who is the leading lady in this, plays opposite Melvyn wagon lit, at night it is positively Douglas, who is her fiance. She uncomfortable. The din, the cramp-thinks he is devoting too much of el quarters, the utter lack of his time to his duty. Piqued, she, Privacy all get on your nerves, and sails for Europe with an admirer in Rome Express," that one sure and her mother. Rankled by his
abserice, removed. sweetheart's
Douglas foundation, safety, is Crooks are hunting crooks, and launches his campaign with renew- fighting over a stolen van Dyke. ad vigour, thereby endangering his To the rest of the passengers-the life. His position is made more cloping couple, not very sure of procarious when his cousin Fran- chorus girl cach other, the nerve strained film chet Tone becomes infatuated with
Lilyan Tashmen, a star and the barassed secretary of
AS GOOD AS
THE WOMAN
BETWEEN"
FRENCH DRAMA OF WIFE
AND DAUGHTER
Radio Pictures' "The Woman Between," concludes its showing at the Central Theatre to-day.
The picture tells the story of a young and beautiful French mo diste, played by Lily Damita, who marrios a wealthy widower and in cars the bitter, unrelenting hatral. of his daughter.
-NEXT
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TFL. 25313 & 25932.
CHANGE
PERCY, MARMONT
The SQUEAKER EDGAR WALLACE
GORDON HARAU I
A GREAT BRITISH TALKIE ADAPTED FROM THE LATE EDGAR WALLACE'S GREAT STAGE SUCCESS OF THE
SAME NAME.
A
LADY'S PROFESSION
TITLED BRITONS ON THE US. LIQUOR RACKET
NEW FILMS IN
LONDON
THE LITTLE GIANT
Comedy of a Chicago bootleg baron' who retires under the Roose-" velt régime and goes in for Culture in a Big Way, but finds that even the best people have their racket. The picture 1558 a machine-gun technique, and if one shot misses, the next is dead sure to get its mark The weakness is an attempt. to take the love interest seriously; if we could just laugh at that one thing more, the film would be a of America'a grand cavaleade absurdities.
THE SONG OF THE EAGLE
A saga of American beer, and American bootleggers. It is a bit difficult for European audiences to get the particular heroic elant of these liquor epics to about ninety. two million otherwise reasonable people, but web-get the feeling that we are up against an urgent national problem. The acting isn't good enough to make us worry much how it works out in individual cases.
"
CENTRAL AIRPORT
First-class comunerein hokum, that gets better as it goes along, and ends with a scene of an air- plane landing in the fog, guide by a thousand motor horas, that the urantgarde may accapt as a classic of contrapuntal sound in about six months' time, William Wellman directs crisply and melodramatical- ly: Richard Barthelmess and Sally Eilers almost trick you into be lieving in their facile emotions; and the story-writer whacks up his excitements at a good pace
POSSESSED
This film was made and shown in America in Clark Gable's early days as a heroic lover, bat a, new and purer version has been pre pared for the English market. Here you may see the honest "work- ing girl, secretly married to the rich young politician, and learning under his tuition how to pronounce champeenyonge" correctly, how to sing a love-song in French, Ger. man, and English, and how to eat ice-cream with a fork. Nobly dis owning him when he runs for Governor, she stands up and clears his name of scandal at a public meeting, after which they embrace on the back stairs, and we are left happy in the assurance that Come What Will. They Will Be Together. Epatant! Wunderbar! Dandy!
terrified at the thought of impend
The story of a pair of penniless itled Britons who attempt to re coup their fortunes by opening a apeakeasy in New York is
Theatre, Alison Skipworth, f Lady's Profession, comedy which opens on Wednesday at the Queen's "Madame Racketeer" fame, plays
employment wave among bootleg. The new wife is subjected to evil the leading role, with Holanding repeal, and the consequent un-
comedian, Hollywoodite, sharing featured to take more liquar than they can" innuendo, to social ostracisms, Young, bemustached crot intrigues and heartless cam- and Sari Maritza, golden-haired Bers, is forcing all its customers paiga of degradation.
Vail, honours with her. Also in the use.
Miss Skipworth puts the liquor The qast Includes Lester
Kent Taylor, 378
boys to fight in hysterically -nius-, ing fashion. O Poggie, Lincoln Stedman,
Mise Skipworth is cast as Blanche Frederici, Ruth Weston Karas and Warren Hymer.
A romance between Miss Marit and Miriam Seegar. The picture, which was adapted from the Broad-English noblewoman entirely igno way play by Irving Kaye Davis, rant of the financial facts of life, za and Taylor, cast as the son of
Miss Maritza, throughout the picture. as his first assignment on his Radio uneducated, but was directed by Victor Schertzinger Young, as her brother, is equally an American millionaire,
Young's daughter and Miss Skip- worth's niece, at least has ideas on the subject. Pictures contract.
and onetime friend of Douglas, new story should like to make a flm in e vile millionaire, the journey be the darling of an underworld chief. comes not a nightmare but the lower In a breathless climax the lady has England," he stated, "but I always regions of the Inferno. The great timed things so that the hunter do such crazy wild stuff in out-of train is a veritable instrument of becomes the hunted, and the intend-the-way places." destiny, strong and ruthless, while ed prey is in complete command of
!
"I camut you what it will be called," he said. "I am just writ ing it for amusement."."
Douglas, Junior, is at work on a the men and women inside it fight the situation. The cast is an ex-romantic novel, the first he has ever and quarrel, like galley slaves at celiant one and we recommend "The written. their beaches. They may be cooks, Wiser Sex" for a good evening's
entertainment waiters or passengers, important or The ladies will be more than in- unimportant, but the train subterested in the stunning gowns worn merges them all and cats their in- by both the Stars. dividuality. That is art, and very We also wish to make special fine art, for the director has his mention of the splendid cooling players well in hand. They all act system" installed. We understand it well, and perhaps Harken, as the is the very latest. Do not miss this amiable bore, who blunders into excellent picture, it surpasses any. every delicate and awkward situathing we have seen for a long time. tion, was perhaps the best of them.
all.
1
Starting like the train itself, a f to slowly, the action guther speeds. Faster and faster it moves, like the Red Queen in "Alice Through the Looking Glass and all to remain in the SLIG place-an Elstree studio!
But you forget that, and
THE FAIRBANKS IN ENGLAND
"NOT MAKING FILMS " (Special Air-Mail Service)
LONDON, June 6,
you watch, as the crowded audiences Mr. Douglas Fairbanks and his yesterday watched, breathlessly, tillson, Douglas, landed at Southamp at last the great train draws slowly ton last night from the liner Europa. They have come to Europe into its terminus, and awaits more for a holiday before embarking on adventures on the way back. For a big game hunting expedition in by the end one gets the idea that British East Africa. this homeless monster could never In an interview Mr. Fairbanke cover its iron roadway without said that he is writing a new film
Continued on next column). strange doings aboard,
CHARMING STUDIO
DEVELOPING & PRINTING. FILMS
QUICKEST SERVICE
IN TOWN WITHIN 6 HOURS.
21, Wellington Street,
Tel. No. 28767.
Mr. Fairbanks, senior, stated that he had not brought his wife, Mary Pickford, with him because the does not like travelling.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
· 9.15--8.30
cnet
Roscoe
When they finally discover that
rulia
Without mechanisation, the great-
the family fortune has shrunk toer part of the world's existing a lean zero, they decide to go to popuation would never have been America to recoup. Young is sent
-on first, and when Miss Skipworth and Miss Maritzz arrive on Ame rica shores, they find him running an unprofitable speakeasy,.". Not at all certain of how or why it's done, Miss Skipworth sets about putting the enterprise on its feet. Her major problem is her battle with a liquor syndicate, which, (l'ontinued on next Column)
TAKE ANY TRÄN OR HAPPY VÄLLSY BUS,
ORIENTAL
TO-DAY ONLY-
THE BEST DETECTIVE STOLY EVER SCREENED! JUST ALIVE
WITH
THRILLING SENSATIONS.
BLACK
CAMEL
·with
WARNER OLAND
Brilliant CHARLIE CHAN
solves a South Seas murder.
PLEMING ROAD
TEL. 2847
TO-MORROW. WEDNESDAY. I
AND
STORY FROM THE FAM OUS BOOK READ
BY LOVE
MILLIONS MATCHLESS PRODUCTION.
REBECCA F SUNNYBROOK FARM
MARIAN NIXON
ALPH BELLAMY. Bald on the play by Kate Douglas Wisen and Charious Thompson.
born.-Prof. T. E. Gregory.
QUEENT THEATRES
IG-DAY & TO-MORBOW At 2,80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
SOCIETY GIRL SPIES ON MOB
TO SAVE LIFE
OF HER LOVER
THE
WISER SEX
A Gurazmerent Picture -
Claudette Colbert Melvyn Douglas Lilyan Tashman William Boyd
FROM WEDNESDAY SHE'S ON THE LOOSE AGAIN! Madame Rack. eteer is Back.... With Hey. Nonny - Nonny and a Hoi-Cha Chal Her Fun- niest Show!.
A Lady by Birth A Racketeer at Heart!
LADY'S PROFESSION
ALISON SKIPWORTH: ROLAND YOUNG SARI MARITZA
· A. Gevenement Pichov
STAR
MAJESTIC TO-DAY & TOMORROW
T.HEATRE ARE Nachan Boad, Kowloon Tel 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 £ 9.20 p.m.
Dames are DYNAMITE
to these flicking, flirting, fight fools What Price Glory? and "The Cock-Eyed Wo were only rehearsals for
HOT PEPPER
EDMUND LOWE DEVICTOR McLAGLEN Lupe Velez
El Brendel
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Is Love
That Is
Born of
Gayety REAL
LOVE?
Viennese Nights
The picture that has startled the world!
Sigmund Romberg Oscar Hammerstein 2rid
Romance
WORLDA
TO-DAY TOMORROW
At 2.30, 5.15.7.15 & 9.20 p.m
The BAT
WHISPERS
with CHESTER MORRIS
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