CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD, WESTBOUND DUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
MATCHING WITS WITH A” MURDERING THIEF WHO TRIED TO STEAL A PRIN- CESS AND A THRONE
ROMANOFF PRINCESS
OR DUPE OF A MASTER MIND?
The expeer ley sudden
under the tek becurilul eyelash in Mars, wel
the sherplace of the
French Police disclosed
the clue that revealed an
avounding crimel
SECRETS OF THE
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
King's.
"The Spunker.
Queen's..
"A Lady's Profession.
Oentrál.
"Secrete of the French Police."
The New Fox Follies."
Oriental,
World.
Star.
"Loose Ankles."
KOWLOON
High Stakes."
Majestic. !.
*
King's.
Eventings for Sale."
COMING
"Marry Me."
Painted Woman."
Zoo in Budapest
Queen's...
World.
Metro's Variety Programme: 70,000 Witnesses."
"Chinese Opperette Show.". "Reaching for the Moon."
Central,
"Lady with a Past." "Half Naked Truth." "Animal Kingdom.”
FRENCH POLICE Oriental.
Thrilling drame based on on actual adventure of the great Bertillon, as revealed by H. Ahion-Wolfe in American Weekly.
With GWILI ANDRE Gregory Ratoff ... Frank IKO-RADIO Margon. David O. Selenich, PICTURE Scully products,
Bariton
SEE PARIS' STRANGEST MULTIPLE MURDER PLOT. EXECUTED BY
DIA. OF BOLICAL GENIUS
INTRIGUE AND EVIL.
NEXT CHANGE
CONNIE.. the supreme the divine... IN HER GREATEST LOVE STORY
Constance
BENNETT
疯
LADY WITH
A PAST
Bryond all doubt ber greatest... surpassing even ""BOUGHT" for sheer romantic thrill! Ex- riched by Hollywood's, Vaunted Magic!
BEN LYON
DAVID MANNERS
Dhamed by
EDWARD H. ORIFFITH
RKO PATHA PICTURE
AVIATION IN SIAM
CHEAPER FARES TO SINGAPORE !
BANGKOK, June 17. The Astraen is the largest and first four-engined 'plane to call at Don Muang. With a Dutch and Imperial Airways plane dying from Bangkok to Singapore weekly, fares will probably be reduced. The journey will take about the same time by either, service.
With the coming of the Imperial Airways there will be three oppor tunities a week of flying to Ran goon and back, which should be ample. Sooner or later there will have to be a civil aerodrome in or near the capital, and the long dis-! tance commercial services will pos sibly operate it jointly. Don Muang is primarily a military aerodrome.
In the near future we are promis ed an air taxi service between Bang- kok and Hua Hin, with week-end tickets. How near the senaide can be to Bangkok by plano. can be realised in that the Astraca""could" have landed at Hua Hin an hour. after leaving Don Muang on Sun day morning-if the landing ground had been ready,-and by the express trains the journey takes five to lix hours.
Star.
The Miracle of Goa."
Fireman Save My Child," "Secret Servicę.” SUMMARY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1933.
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT. 2.30, 5.10, 7.13 & 9.30 P.M.
BOOKING
MAKING
HONGKONG'S FINEST CNERA
THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
THE SQUEAKER
Adapted from the Successful Play and directed by the Author EDGAR WALLACE
WITH
A British Lion Production,
PERCY MARMONT-TRILBY CLARK ALFRED DRAYTON – ANNE GREY
ERIC MATURIN
·GORDON HARKER
THRILLS, DRAMA, EXCELLENT REPRODUCTION OF PURE ENGLISH, AND CLEVER DIALOGUE ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING OFFERED.
Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon and Heil Hamilton in "Lady With a
Past," coming to the Central.
THE SQUEAKER
EDGAR WALLACE THRILLER AT KING'S
It was very bad luck for the King's that the typhoon should choose last night to threaten the Colony, and keep everyone indoors, for the Squeaker, is a film in the real. Edgar Wallace manner.
There are thrills in plenty and that somewhat eerie atmosphere in which Edgar excelled. The story tells of queer crook, of his odd assistant, who has done time,
and an honest old Jew, also with an incident in his part who wishes his adopted daughter to marry the crook-whom he believes to be straight business man.
PICTURE WE HAVE
"HALF SHOT AT
SUNRISE
AT THE ORIENTAL THEATRE
The value of talking' motion pię ture to industries was strikingly demonstrated in the production of Radio pictures' all-talking wartime comedy," Half Shot At Suurise" opening Sunday at the Orientat
Theatre.
The enormous sum of money ex pended by movie studies, is not ex- plained by the so-lalled hugo. salaries paid to stars. The greater proportion of such fands go to industries which employ workmen.
Radio Pictures' executives proved this by revealing that more than $400,000 of the money expended on "Half Shot At Sunrise" went to industry. The items include:
cement
Two thousand sacks of and 700 tons of crushed rock and sand, sued in paving, streets of one huge set. Two thousand dollars There is a murder, and detective was spent for paint. Fourteen work and & seat finish. The acting thousand dollars went to public is excellent Gordon Hanker giving service corporations for power used comic relief as the tactful pro-in lighting the set for night scenes, prietor" of an odd club...
Nor must the Scottish news- paper man, Collie, be forgotten. Hong Kong will take a real delight in his accents, his deliberato move ments and other mannerisms,
Altogether the Squeaker is a fim to see in wet or fine weather,
CHARMING STUDIO
DEVELOPING & PRINTING
FILMS
QUICKEST SCRVICE
IN TOWN WITHIN 6 HOURS,
21, Wellington Street,
Tel No. 26767,
St. FRANCIS XAVIER
TAKE 'ANT, TRAM OR PAGET VALLEY BUÉ.
ONE
SPECIAL SHOW
ORIENTALE
BY SPECIAL REQUEST ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY
SUNDAY, JULY 2, 11 A.M.
MORNING
THE MIRACLES OF GOA
The unique and highly interesting picture taken by the Rev. Father Le Teller, J.
DEPICTING THE 1932, EXPOSITION OF THE BODY OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. With an interesting and descriptive talk by JEAN ARMSTRONG. Under the kind patronage and in the presence of His Lordship. The Right Rev H. Valtorta, Bishop of Hong Kong.
ADVANCE BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S Front Stalls $1.00.
Back Stalls 50 cts. Children, admitted to Dress Circle 20.
Seventy thousand dollars was paid the extra people employed. One hundred fifty thousand board feet of lumber
THEATRE
TEL. 25313 & 25392.
NEXT, OHANGE COMMENCING SUNDAY, 2nd JULY.
"MARRY ME”
STARRING
RENATE. MULLER
(THE ** SUNSHINE SUSIR'' GIRL)
with
GEORGE ROBEY HARRY GREEN A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE.
TITLED BRITONS AND A U.S. RACKETT
ALISON SKIPWORTH AND ROLAND YOUNG TO THE FORE
Alison Skipworth, the charming Madame Rac comedienne of keteer," is in trouble again in an hilarious comedy in the American tempo, "A Lady's Profession," It is now showing at the Queen's Theatre and featuring, besides Miss Skipworth, Roland Young, Bri Maritza,
SECRETS OF THE ~FRENCH POLICE
SHOWING AT CENTRAL
The intriguing theory that a daughter of the last Ceur.of Russia escaped the royal family's massacre by the Bolshevists in the Revolution of 1917, bobs' up in Rko-Radio Pie- tures' "Secrets of the French Po lice" now showing at the Central
Theatre."
The theory is not taken too seriously in the film. whose story" deals with the deftness with which the Surete, the French spret po lee, discover an imposture, In this instance, a Russian residing in Paris attempts to hypnotize a flower girl, who physically resem bles the Russian princess, into the belief that she the princess. Gwili Andre and Gregory Ratoff play the interesting roles of the flower girl and hypnotist. The screen stor is based on an actual case solved by the French secret polien. Others in the cast are. Frank Morgan and John Warbur Edward ton, and many others. Sutherland directed.
is
ARE THE ART OF PUBLIC
SPEAKING
LADY'S LECTURE TO SINGA. 'PORE ROTARIANS.
Singapore, Jube -So success- ful dil the recent Ladies Day at the Singapore Rotary Club prove that the club repeated the experi- ment, yesterday when ladies were invited to the weekly meeting at the Adelphi Hotel to hear Mrs. A. H. Dickinson speak on The Art of Public Speaking."..
Roscoe Kent Taylor, Karns and Warren Hymer.
Alison
As Lady Beulah Bonnell of "Twicket-on-Topping," Skipworth, leaves the safety of her ancestral home to rescue from his scrapes an impoverished nobleman, played by Roland Young. With his horse, Wellington, a far-too-intelli gent animal who persists in stepping on hats, Young comes to America to recoup the family fortunes only to get himself mixed up with the racket boys. He is rescued doally, the family fortunes" return to their pre-war condition, and everything is lovely with Sari Maritza and Kent Taylor on the receiving end of the romantic interest,
never been pictured quite WGS purchased
Thirty-three thousand dollars was Axpended for costumes. Two thousand dollars went into comme tics for making up the players. The remainder went into the hun dreds of incidentals which accom pany every production.
The motion picture business 19 essentially an industry, and a big one, according to Radio Pictures, and most emphatically not dedicat
ed to making millionaires of a few high-salaried players.
4.SHOWS
DAILY
1.33–5.15
|1.15---8,30.
$1.8
The American racketeer had humourously as he is shown in this picture. You'll love Keyhole Me Blusky, Nutty Bolton and The Colonel" who exhorts his boys to go out and sell liquor for the sake of the "wives and kiddies" before the government "muscles in on the racket."
It's sheer nonsense, but you'll delight in the humour that brings rippling giggles and loud guffaws the naive Babes in Speakeasy land" raise havoc with the silliest i racketeers you've ever seen.
TAKE ANY TRAM ON HÄPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING RGAD WANGHAI
2 BATS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW VERY ELABORATE
MUSICAL COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA
NEW
FOX
FOLLIES
El Brendel rollicking with some of movie. fone's ace comics finds that loving s
far of sweet ladies
at the same time is!:
quite a risky thing
HUNDREDS IN THE CAST
EL BRENDEL, MARJORIE WHITE, FRANK RICHARDSON,
Noel Francis, Wm. Collier Jr, Miriam Seegar. BEAUTY CHORUS OF 300 PRETTY GIRLS
TUNEFUL SONGS CATCHY MUSIC ELABORATE DANCES 1000 LAUGHS
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It was a novel subject and was handled with grace and conviction, the speaker laying stress on clarity of expression, the soundness of her advice being demonstrated effective- ly by the fact that she did not use
the microphone and no one in the large room had any difficulty in hearing her.
It was the biggest attendance at a" Rotary tiffin for many weeks past and Mr. W. A. Eley, the President of the Club, also evoked applause for his interesting remarks proposing a vote of thanks to the speaker,
in
WROTE 800 BALLADS SONGS NOT WANTED IN PRE-
SENT AGE.***
"I'm not doing anything at all To tell you the now, laddie. truth, I'm broken hearted."
The voice of the. 72-year-old com- poser of "Don't Go Down in the Mine Daddy" "The Blind. Irish Girl," and 800 other songs, trembled slightly as he spoke, in a tenement basement just off Walworth-road,
London.
Robert Donnelly, the Dicksna songwriter," is celebrating his golden wedding..
Of their 209. combined old-age pensions, 17s goes in rent. It is going to be a quiet golden wedding.
"I'm 30 years behind the times now, they tell me," he said, "be- cause my songs are all of family life. They don't want 'em now."
Once, every barrel organ in the country churned out his songs. Now
. Donnelly the compos er lives in the past. A bundle of tattered old news cuttings treasured in an inner pocket, some faded pic tures on the wall-one where he is selling his first big success "The
Irish Fusilier's Farewell."
MAJESTIC
THEATRESAA
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel 57222 |||| TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Love Connot be Bought
She Found, Though Some May Sell Honor!
Romance with heart- beat of Vienna, and: Songs of Straus
MARS
venings for Sale
SARE MARITZR
MARY, SOLAND.
NEXT CHANGE-
HOT SATURDAY
CARY GRANT NANCY CARROLL
VEER
UK ONDITIONED THEATRE
TO-DAY
& TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p SHE'S ON THE LOOSE AGAIN!
Madame Rack- etter is Back. "With a Hey
Nonny Nenny and a Hot-Cha Chal Her Fun- niest Showl..
A Lady by Birth ... & Racketeer at Hearth.
A LADY'S PROFESSION
AUSON SKIPWORTH ROLAND YOUNG SARI MARITZA
KOUTLANDE-SONALICIAL - VOAADA SEVEN
22 aiment Picture
FROM SUNDAY-
Two Bours of Joy! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
Burlesque Paogramme"
The LAUREL and HARDY Murder Case
CHARLIE CHASE in "Hasty Marriage
FLIP-THE-FROG
In "Africa Squeaks”
COLOURTONE BURLESQUE "A Hollywood
Premiere
MICROSCOPIC":
MYSTERIES:
"A Desert Regatta”
HEARST NEWSREEL
STAR
TO-DAY & T-MOBROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. FIRST SHOWINGS IN HONG KONG
WILLARD MAGY
STAGE LENS
LOWELL. SHERMAN HAB MURRAY KABEN MORLEY.
WORLDE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.80, 5:15, 7.15 & 9,2
LORETTA YOUNG- DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JE
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