CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S BD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720,
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
BEN TRAVERS ALDWYCH FARCE-
Ralph Lynn JUST MY LUCK
with WINIFRED" SHOTTER
Excellent Comedy and Charming Remane
AN UPROARIOUS COMEDY WITH ENGLAND'S GREATEST. LAUGH MAKER AT BIS BEST!
A. B. & D. SPECIAL DO NOT MISS IT!
NEXT CHANGE
A STORY OF MODERN YOUTH!
The World Acclaims a Newborn Star
This is the gif
fram o`type-
dum a day.
The
AGE OF CONSENT
A Drams of Lowe, Under the New Rules with DOROTHY WEICH, Artina Judge, Richard Cromwell, Eris Länden, John Hot liday, Alleen Pringle '• Garncial by Gengary La Coma + de 13C) LACIÓ) Fakes of Curm) David Q. Selznick, Executive Producer
ALSO
A SPECIAL FEATURETTE
41
and-
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WHEELER & WOOLSEY.
in
"OH! OH! CLEOPATRA!”
GIRLS REJECT NUDISM
SO A YORKSHIRE SCHEME-
FELL THROUGH.
Nudism, which has such a large following in Germany and Ameri- ea, makes no appeal to the girls of Yorkshire and Derbyshire where scheme to found a nudist colony in the Holpe Valley has fallen through because of lack of their support.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
King's.
HONG KONG
"Zoo in Budapest.” -
Queen's.
"What! No Beer”.
Central.
Just My Luck.":
Oriental,
"The Passionate Plumber,'
KOWLOON
Skyscraper Souls"
Star.
Majestic.
King's.
Tell me, Tonight."
COMING
The Third String." Love on Wheels.
Queen's.
"Strictly Personal,”’
World.
Variety Programme.” "Secret Service.
"Reaching for the Moon."
Central,
The Age of Conscent." "Little Damozelle.' Oriental.
Star.
"Tarzan the Ape Man."
"Dames Aboy."
"W. Plan."
"State Fair."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1933.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
AT
2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
HONCKONES. FINDSTOPIN
THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
DEFENSELESS IN A DEN
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
ZOO IN BUDAPEST “AGE OF CONSENT,
66
PEST
Animals And The
Mowgli " Hero
In Revolt
FILM OF BEAUTY AND
THRILLS
Zbo. in Budapest," showing at the King's, is one of those rare films in which an artist, and not merely an efficient craftsman, has been allowed to direct. There are "extraordinarily / “beautiful scenic effects and amazing animal studies all the hate, the fears and the repressions of this captive jungle ure displayed with rare skill and the night scene has pathos shown with an unerring hand. But above that "the producer works & most cynical and touching harmony of hinted and misunderstood humans, and of their counterpart emotions in the beasts. Thus the fierceness of the eaged tigers Ends its reflect ed in the sudden savagery with which a group of charity orphans taken to the zoo to show how much better of they are than the animals suldenly band like young wolves
STORY OF U.S. COLLEGE
LIFE
OF BEASTS
The snarls of infuriated wild animals in mortal combat was the weird accompani- ment ofthis strange romance.
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ZOO IN BUDAPEST
With
Loretta YOUNG Gene RAYMOND O. P. HEGGIE- Story by Melville Baker and Jack Kirkland Directed by Rowland V. Lae
BOOKING
AT THE
THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25392
NEXT CHANGE
• thirthquake.
"WHAT! NO BEER?".
BUSTER KEATON AT THE
QUEEN'S
Buster Keaton and Jimmy Du rante, the famous comedians, can be seen at the Queen's Theatre to- day in "What: No Beer," a really funay picture about the American Beer racket.
The story tells of two "lunatics" who, thinking that prohibition end ed, bought a brewery, and later found out that they didn't know. how to make beer!
Besides the two comedians, there is an exceptional capable castin cluding Roscoe Ates, well-known for his stuttering, Phyllis Barry, who make her film debut in this picture, John Miljan and Edward-
"THE THIRD Brophy
STRING"
wită
SANDY POWELL KAY HAMMOND
A CHINESE PICTURE
"SUCH HEROES"
with
J
HAU LAI KAN, KHI GHI SURE
A UNIRD PROTOPLÄT SERVICE PICTURE
“THE PASSIONATE THE THIRD STRING
PLUMBER"
AT THE ORIENTAL
THEATRE
The world's smallest canine "actor" plays an important role in The Passionate, Plumber,"
riotous Parisian fare will be show
ing at the Oriental Theatre on, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with Buster Keaton, Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante and Polly Moran heading
This
an ace comedy cast.
The dog's name is Fifi and be weighs exactly six ounces. When education interferes with most extraordinary canine is of a happiness, throw your schoollooks variety known as Maltese veggjer, a out the window and follow your rare species. The tiny body, a natural impulses.”
scant five inches long, is covered What ever sort of iconoclasm or with 4 Buffy white fur that gives sacrilege bearded colleged profes- it the appearance of tiny poodle. sors might call that outburst, it The dog'a bark is about equal to nonetheles is the new credo of the the squeak of a medium sized campus, according to H.-N, Swan-mouse. son, former editor of College Hu mour who assisted in the produc tion of RKO-Radio Pictures' "The Age of Consent" coming to the Central Theatre on Wednesday.
Closely associated with univer sity life over a period of ten years, Swanson is qualified as an autho- rity on the morals and manners of the undergraduate of to-day:
And in Swanson's opinion the student, boy or girl, who finds a col- lege course interfering with hap piness, is well advised to put ambi tion, marriage, travel or any other deep desire ahead of a diploma.
"For, years," says Swanson, "it has been an American credo that university sheepskin is a prize worth any sacrifice.
In "The Fassioante Plumber Fif plays the part of a small men her of Irene Purcell's household is which Durante is a sort of butler and Polly Moran holds the position of maid. Keaton, as the plumber, comes to the house to make some bathroom repairs and through various complications is finally as signed to take Fifi out of an airing. The result of what starts out as an innocent stroll are said to keep audiences in a continuous uproar.
his characterisation differs coosi-
wholesome entertainment of 4
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A DELIGHTFUL W, W. JACOBS FILM
The film is directed by Edward Sedgwick, and to those who want... a hearty laugh, we strongly recom mend them not to miss it.
OLD BLUE FUNNEL LINER
SOLD TO JAPANESE SHIP- BREAKERS.
It is now aix years since the famous Blue Funnel liner Yantaze Wag sold to owners in Manila and renamed Macoria for general ser- vice, which usually kept her be tween the Philippine Island and Japan
She is still very well remember. ed, however, and many will be m terested to hear that sha has just been sold to Japanese scrappers.
She was one of the steamers built W. W. Jacobs' delightful trio of by Messrs. Workman, Clark and rascals, Ginger Dick, Peter Busset Company for the China Mutual and Sam Small,become gloriously
Line before it was amalgamated articulate in a talking film version with Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co., of. The Third String," their fun-being a single screw cargo steamer miest. adventure, which will be
of nearly 6,500 tons." Launched in 1809, she was specially designed for the Eastern service, and when the China Mutual was purchased by the with their arrangements excellently. Blue Funnel in 1902 she fitted, în
shown at the King's Theatre next
change.
fickle Miss Tucker, his pals droli, Ginger's hopeless love for the double-crossing attempts and his vain but Homeric encounter with burly Bill Lumm are just the right ingredients for a screen comedy that has humanity as well as hu
During the war she was left en- tirely to her owners use until 1917, when she was requisitioned immediately began to get into by the Shipping Controller, and trouble, although no harm, came to her. Once in 1917, and again in the spring of 1918, she was the sub- ject of determined attacks by the German submarines, but in each case she got off scot free Ma
After the war she was used very York, and Manila, with occasional largely between Liverpool, New runs to India and Australia, and was sold to Madrigal of Manila in- Japany was improving its standard so the spring of 1997 because the com-
rapidly with the new ships which were being added to the fleet."
in its composition. Sandy Powell, Mark Daly and Charles Faton as the incorrigible trio, Kay Mammond as the girl with three string to her bow," and Alf Goddard as "Bill Lumm," have skilfully caught the spirit of the author's engaging characters, Similarly George Pearson has, in his direction, maintained the at- tractive atmosphere of W. W. coba popular series of yar
"The Third String," in short, is British comedy with a ready made" popularity that ensures its appreciative acceptance by audi- ences everywhere.
JUST MY LUCK
EXCELLENT PART FOR
RALPH LYNN
"Just My Luck' is generous in the number of laughs it gives you, a bombastic "go-getter" from being: because Ralph Lynn develops into
a timid, spineless music teacher- almost afraid of his own shadow, and certainly afraid to walk un-
derably from the ususi "silly ass" role with which we have become isn't half as important as finding
"As a matter of fact, a diploma familiar. To add to the attractive- the happiest channel for each indiness, Ralph Lyan is rarely off the vidual life.
screen, and Just My Luck" with to help one of their number to and a girl are faced with the pro- rural backgrounds, is really good, "In The Age of Consent, a boy its charm of setting and beauty of escape. There Are pompous blem of whether to continue their humane, and in a flesh you see educations or marry. I feel that pompous old birds.
Most of the film is the love idyll the picture provides convincing pleasing light character. Just of the escaped orphan and a sort proof in mupport of my premiss My Luck" is now playing at the der a ladder. In this new picture of Mowgli of the Zoo; and, in the that happiness is paramount. end the animals get loose and have The Age of Consent?! is based a glorious free-for-all, elephants on and tigers particularly working off their old scores. Just a glorious hour of jungle hatred and fighting, and then with nets, and hoses, and fire, man prevails and the mutiny in the Zoo is suppressed.
STRICTLY PERSONAL'
DRAMA OF A “GET ACQUAINTED CLUB"
The Universal
1.
Martin Flavin's successful Broadway play, "Cross Roads,"
Dorothy Wilson, Hollywood's newest. "Cinderella," Eric Linden, Richard Cromwell, Arlins Judge, John Halliday and Aileen Pringle head the large cast. Gregory La Cava directed.
for many years. It serves as an intermediary in the courtships, which are conducted entirely, by mail.
***** Strictly Personal" centres around a "get-acquainted club" in an American town, where the 'ro- muntically inclined actually get to-
Young men in the Holmfirti England's oversupply of women. neighbourhood flocked to the nudist will end up as American, and Cmon promoters standard when the idendian farmers' wires, if the Univer-gather, instead of conducting their was put forward, but the young wo-sal Correspondence Club, of Lon romances via postage stampe. Prin men held back, and the scheme don, has its way failed.
"If women had shown more inizations terest, the plan would have stood Murphy, director of "Strictly Per Miss Jordan, cast as their ward. a good chance of success," said one of the promotors. "But, it isonal, drama coming on Thurs Their club is a reputable establish- difficult to get them to view the day to the Queen's Theatre with ment until Louis Calhern, a "con Nudist cult in a proper and im and Dorothy Jordan in leading is Under threat of exposure, Marjorie Rambeau, Eddie Quillan man" drope in and recognizes E- personal light."
roler. For the picture deals with Calhern forces his way into a part- Women, when approached, clearly the "get-acquainted clubs, which nership, and devotes his energies indicated that they did not object are patronized by shy bachelors to an apparently wealthy widow. to enn-bathing in swimming suits and hopeful spinsters, seeking When she confesses that she is real. or other suitable costume, but did mates, not favour nudiam.
The-plan wai
to make the camp and the colony on the hilly moors of the upper reaches of the Holme Valley, or in a woodland glade near Holmfirth
cipal characters are Edward Ellis, Correspondence of "I Am a Fugitive" fame, who Club was one of many such organ- plays the role of an ex-convict; investigated by Ralph Miss Rambeau cast as his wife; and
ply penniless, he kills her g
The London organization, he The picture reaches breathles found, deals particularly with men climax in his attempt to force Miss in American and Canadian farm Jordan to accompany him.” ing areas, and with women in oscape flight; and England, where the feminine popu- blame for the murd lation has exceeded the masculine No: 0
Central Theatre.
(Pontinued" of previous colemn).
TAKE AW Tasť OR HAPPY VALLEY BR
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
2 MORE TO-DAY & TOMORROW
DAYS
IT'S A RIOT!
THE YEARS LAUGH FESTIVAL ↑
3 LUNATICS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE !
BUSTER
KEATON
STMMY
DURANTE
MORAN
PassioNATE PLUMBER
STHREE TIMES HASTA EIGHT
NNIER" THAN
TWO MONEY CHANGERS-
WANTED
Warrants have been issued by the Canton police for the arrest of Chan Hoi Shan and Chan King Shan, formerly manager and trea- surer respectively of the Li Wing Money Exchange at Tai Wun Road, Canton. The two mention- ed men are wanted for embezzling in: destroying socounts connected funds and for the part they took with the business.
MAJESTIC
THEATER
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 620, 7.20
IF YOU LOVE LIFE DON'T MISS THIS PICTURE, THE OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT
Sonnie Hale
TELL ME TO NIGHT
VEERS
PAIS CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.10, 7:15 & 0.20 p.m.
FOLLOW THE CROWDS
to
the first picture based on the fun and foibles. of the return of
beer
BUSTER
KEATON DURANTE
JIMMY
monster
brewers of laughs
WHAT! No Beer?
with ROSCO ́ATES:
PHYLLIS BARR JOHN MILJAN
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
FROM THURSDAY
“I'm for SALEP
T'es a lonely gidi and 1
lore. I want to satisfy the
pent-up desire of my hunyt.. my soul te
She came to the Lonely Hearte Club... where sex was sold to the highest
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
MARJORIE RAMBEAU EDDIE QUILLAN·· DOROTHY JORDAN Divalil' by RALPH MURPHY,
A Paramount Piction
STAR
TO-DAY & TO MORROW
2.80, 6.20; 7:20 & 9.20
WARREN WILLIAM
the screen'e n010. idol and this great cast
Mauroon
Sullivan
Gregory Raton Aníta Fage
Norman
Foster
George
Barbier Jean
Herabolt
SKYSCRA SOUL
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