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TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
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HE'S IN THE ARMY! A MILLION LAUGH'S!
LEE
TRACY
-in his most brilliant role ...as the wha-cracking, discipline-hating soldier- son-brother whom only his mother understood.
WHE GLORIA STUART, Donald Cook, Emma Dunn, Shirley Grey, Frank McHugh, Russell Gleason, Walter Catlett, Story by Richard Schayer. Adapted by Samuel Spewack, Bella Cohen, George Jessel. Produced by Caril semmie, Jr. Directed by Russell Mack, Pra- sented by Carl Laemmla.
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
PRIVATE JONES
SUNDAY
ENGLAND'S AIR
· CLASSIC ON THE
SCREEN!
DOROTHY BOUCHIER
& HARRY MILTON
in
The KINGS CUP
SIA ALAN COBHAM Charming Romance and air Thrills.
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS PRODUCTION,
ALSO
THE GREAT HEAVY-
WEIGHT TITLE BOUT
"THE WALKER- SHARKEY FIGHT"
A_VIVID ROUND BY
ROUND ACCOUNT OF THIS GREAT CONTEST.
inscrutable eyes of his know a lot about hypnotism.
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CAST AND DIRECTION
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HONG KONG
The Old Man."
¡ King's
Queen's
"Hell Below, "*
Central.
"Private Jones."
Oriental.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
Ar
2.80, 5.10, 7.15
Star.
The Most Dangerous Game."
KOWLOON
"The Guardaman."
Majestio.
"Symphony of Six Millions.
COMING
"White Zombie."
Klog's.
World.
"Zoo in Budapest,"
"Hottentor."
Central.
The King's Cup.'
Majestic,
Golden West."
PRIVATE JONES
LEE TRACY IN THE NAME PART.
Lee Tracy, blond dynamie actor featured in Universal's wartim drama, Private Jonts at the Central Theatre to-day, is one of the busirst actors in Hollywood. Tracy has finished seven pictures in eight months. "Private Joue"
soldier,
said to show Tracy at the peak of his talent as a faat talking, wisecracking, rebellious also includes in its large and talented cast, Gloria Stuart, Ber- ton Churchill, Russell Gleason, Emma Dunn, Donald Cook. Rus- sel! Mack directed "Private Jones."
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WHITE ZOMBIE
STRANGE ACTOR IN A
"CHOSTY PACT
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Bela Lugosi, who will be seen at the King's Theatre on Saturday when White Zombie" для its premiere, is as much a Hollywood superstition as is Greta Garbo. More, in fact, for even the elusive Garba can be seen in public once in a while.
Lugosi's very name has become synonymonia with strange, secret powers, and this is not altogether due to Dracula and his other
ecrie portrayals. There is some. thing of amy.erious, hypnotic quality about the
man himself, particularly about bis deep-set eyes, and the reason appears to be that he has probed life too deeply.
But probing life is just what he has devoted his thought to. Seldom has he dwelt upon this am bition, for he has few intimates and, with the exception of his
& 9.30 P.M.
SJONCKONG'S FINEST. UNEMA
THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
THE BRITISH LION FILM CORPORATION. LTD.,
Presents MAISIE GAY
IN
The OLD MAN
ANNE GREY,
By EDGAR WALLACE
WITH
CECIL HUMPHRIES,
LESTER MATTHEWS, DIANA BEAUMONT.
IN THE "OLD MAN" MAISIE GAY REVEALS HERSELF AS A BRILLIANT BRITISH RIVAL TO MARIE DRESSLER.'
SN
-DAILY HERALD.
An unusual combination of achievement and romance marks the roles played by Boots Mallory and Alexander Kirkland in the new Fox drama, "Humanity".
"THE MOST DANGEROUS
GAME"
studio visits, he is seen in public AT THE ORIENTAL THEATRE infrequently. He remains in his in- accessible retreat in the Hollywood moutaing and his constant com panion is a half-wild malamute dog which howls at night just as if it were more wolf than domestic pet.
When men have faced death and lived. When they have gone through any major crisis-victory or defeat..
To whom do they turn? A woman!
2PA
HUMANITY
FOX FILM TO BE SHOWN
"AT THE KING'S
"NEXT CHANGE- COMMENCING SATURDAY, 15th JULY.
WHITE
SHE
WAS
NOT
DEAD...
NOR ALIVE...
ZOMBIE
during
BELA (Dracula) LUGOSI
A VICINO A MILAN
HALPERIN
Relagued by
UNITED ARTISTS
K
performing his every desire!
WOULD YOU
KNOW A ZOMBIE
Ir You
SAW ONE?
THE QUEEN"
History and Retias unlike Kipling's proverbial
East and West, can be made to meet.. The screen has produced history, true to fact, and at the same time has injected enough fiction to make a gripping and compelling piece of entertainment out of "Hell Below," Metro Goldwyn Mayer's "Big Parade of the Ocean," which to-day ab the Queen's
opens Theatre,
Telling the story of the sub- marine fleet, it shows real sub- marines in action, torpedoing tes troyers, blowing up a fort, bottling up a harbour and executing sen- sational nanoeuvres at the bottom of the ocean. There are vivid scenes of a battle flout in an artillery duel with a fortified city, and mzing undersen action in which a submarine dodges depth bombs, is later rescued after being scemingly doomed at the floor of the sea, and participates in 1 varied series of thrilling adven-. True To History
turos.
These incidents, all true to his. tory, were filmed with actual sub- marines, reproducing seetly what happened during the World War off the coast of Italy. Through the co-operation of the United States Navy, the spectacular episodes were filmed. at the Pearl Harbour naval base, us the last word in
authenticity. Before this back- grotid of hair-raising thuills, there is the fiction-the romance in which Robert Montgomery, as the submarine lieutenant and Madge Evans, as the daughter of his commander, figure.
:!
Montgomery gives a new and more serious type of portrayal as the young lieutenant who is torn between love and duty. His work is at all times arresting and per
JEANETTE MACDONALD FILM meated with a warmth that makes
·ABANDONED
What was to have been Jeanette Macdonald's first film. The Queen, with Herbert Marshall as hero, has been suddenly abandoned on the eve of starting production at Elstree, states the Daily Herald film correspondent,
Mr. Herbert Wilcox, chief of British and Dominion Films, an- nounced that it would be impossible to complete it owing to both stars being compelled to return to Holly- wood almost at once.
was
a flesh-and-blood individual out of his characterization. Walter Hus. tam is flawless as the submarine's stern commander, and Jimmy Durante teams with Eugene Pal lette in hilarious comedy sequences that punctuate the thrill, Madge Evans is charming to look at and poignantly dramatic as the heroine, and the talented young Robert gives further evidence of his poten tiai stariom in a small but unfor- Able supporting getable part.
by Edwin Styles, John Lee Mahin, work is given the featured players David Newell, Sterling Holloway and Charles Irwin..
Econes
Scenes To Gasp At
an
That does not explain the curious
A spectacular. Italian street chr delay over"The Queen," however. nival, an admiralty ball, vivid The announcement of this film Italian town, the suspense-creating
of an air raid over made at w luncheon last
scenes in the hold of the doomed January For three months an ex-submarine, and the unforgettable pensive United States renario clime in which the huge fortress writer, Mr. Samson Raphaelson, is dynamited to bottle up the has been at work on the story enemy harbour-these are scenes preparation and the American which offer the spectators some director, Mr. Sam Taylor, arrived thing to guap at and to talk about to start work.
Inng after they have left the theatre.
A number of British artists have been expecting a call to the studio, any day to begin their parts, and Mr. Wilcox also announced he bad gaged a United States minera. man and an expert "cutter" from Hollywood, expressly forThe Queen,”
It throbs with every emotion, it The star unintentionally put all
is down-right, down-to-earth mate of his philosophy into one para-
And this situation never varie rial, written around graph one day recently, when an according to Merian C, Cooper, people, and depicts the hopes, everyday interviewer inanaged to corner him who, with Ernest B. Schoedsack, frailties, desires and in short tells at his home. Lugosi had been produced the RKO-Radio Picture you of the demands made of looking off into space toward the be playing at the Oriental Theatre above the desire to obtain wealth. deserves a deal of praise for the The Most Dangerous Game" will, doctor who puts his duty and ideals Pacic Ocean when he suddenly Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Never has there been swerved around and said:
Mon turn to women for many which gives such a true, sympathe Boots Mallory,
a picture excellence of his performance, "Purple, thousands of them, things," declares Cooper. "It may
and Alexander chained by monetony, afraid to be for understanding, for praise, tie characterization of ordinary, Kirkland support him as well as think, slinging always to certain. for sympathy or for love,'
honest family physician,
many other stars of note, who en ties and terrified by the unknown.! They live like ante. I want to get prize short story by Richard Con Heaven" by Harry Fried,
The film which is based upon the taken from the story Rond to tribute their share in making this
film a success, away fren people. I must get pell, tells of a man who creates a
Watch for the away somewhere I can be free..
date 'at ¡ opening horror to stimulate his mental and Ralph Morgan is the Doctor, and Theatre.
the King's physical desire for a woman,.
T
"And I can do it soon, too. Not "He cannot love until he has many more years and I will have known, the thrill of the hunt with a enough of this world's goods to human being as his prey,' Dursue my own course and to pay explains.
Cooper for whatever research I desire to Such an atavistic creature is make. I'm going into the moun the man, who by his savage in tains, completely away from peo-stincts, dominates The Most Dan ole, to study."
gerous Gaine.*"* That is the longest speech anyone don and New York stages, enacts Leslie Banks, famed on the Lon ever heard Lugosi make in Holly-this nonsual screen rofe. Others in wood. But it proved what every- the cast include Joel McCrea, Fay one believed that he is a mystic Wray and Robert Armstrong. and that he will not be happy until he is off by himself.in a re mote mountain retreat, where he can think out the things which have been on his mind aince the
war.
"I have lived to completely, I think, he said ori a subsequent, occasion. "I have known every human emotion. Fear hate, hope, love, rage, despair, ambition all old acquaintances, but they have left nothing to offer me. during which he seems to be con. I must know what I have learned, Only study and refleétion remain, versing with some unseen presence. I must analyze all my, theories and He caine, of course, from a corner be alone to think." of the earth rich in superstitious
Certainly, Bela Lugosi is an un-
are He is given to unac happy man. countable moods, spells of silence
And
legend, and the fact that he was Bela Lugosi has specialized in forced after the war to flee for his cerie portrayals. He bas charac lile did not aid in ridding his mind, terized fouls in torment, inscrut of what was planted there at birth.able and mysterious roles.
Only one thing can be certain those who know as much of him as about him, and that is that any that there is totacthing in his own it is possible to know are convinced weired jugredients in his nature are bound to be marshalled upon the nature which mirrors these odd. side of good rather than of evil, as roles, They are certain that those always happens in his screen roles. (Continued on previous cišumn).
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The beasts he killed were Men! Startling, strange and terrifying is the story of this fascinating fiend ............. who lured ships to doom on the rocks, then" drove the male survivors into his island jungle to be trailed like animals!
THE MOST
DANGEROUS GAME
Win JDEL M«CREA,Fay Wray Leslie Banks, Robart Aŋostrong
SEE THIS FIEND WHO INVENTED A NEW THRILL!
The picture owes much of its success to the brilliant direction of Jack Conway, who has achieved a meritable feat in tieing together the threads of the plot and in giv
ing the picture itä effective balance of love, dramatic power and comedy relief. "Hell Bellow" is a picture which will not be soon forgotten.
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TO-DAY to SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.
SYMPHONY OF SIX MILLION
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THE THRILL OF A LIFETIME!
SUBMARINE WARFARE
DRAMATIZED ! '
Such scenes of anderies Earring you've mayer witsawadi Unbalievable. Naver belare never again! You'll think yasa'ca. sining inside a subegarine. You'll erd eine very thrill al being theral
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M-G- seret loveas? slun veida photography ic shrifik... helt below
“NO FUTURE—
NO PAST... Tonight is ours"
Was it fair that her marriage to an invalid astdier should slop their mad, glorious ro mance!
TRAPPED AT BOTTOM OF OCEAN
The Kane Irida the submarine nte no grip. plas you'll actually hold your breathi
ALONE ABOARD SUBMARINE
· LOADED WITH
T. N. T..
Costumingin exar ára. Ran ning the gamus of death to blockade sharbor.
JIMMY DURANTE FIGHTS A KANGAROO
day
Schnottola was never fun- gio. He's a multor ing mailorder dendheryl
Hell Below
with ROBERT. MONTGOMERY
WALTER HUSTON
MADGE EVANS - JIMMY DURANTE
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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