CENTRAL
HEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND 309
Advance Booking at Andersons
and the Theatre Tal. 28730.
SHOWING TO-DAY
4
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933
FINAL SHOWINGS
HONG KONG
King's.
TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
Wild Girl,"
Queen's.
"The Woman Accused."
Central.
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
"Phantom of Crestwood."
Oriental.
With a deadly.
dart in her silver
hair, she lay there,
white and still.
THE
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"Carnival Boat."
KOWLOON
Washington Masquerade."
"Secrets of the French Police"
*I like trees better than men-they're straight!".
Majestic.
the way.
Any one of those colchons besacÙA wicked of the man shart.
King's.
WHO KILLED
JENNY WREN? · Now the world.
shall knowl
PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD
१।
with
RICARDO CORTEZ KAREN MORLEY Directed by J. Wolter Ruben
Screen Play by Bartlett Commock.
David O. Selznick, Executive
Producer. Merion C. Cooper,..
Associate Producer AIKO-RADIO Pichere of coc
NEXT CHANGE
ANN HARDING
Two women for every man... Ope to cherish. ...One to love.
Leslie HOWARD
The stage star of PHILIP BARRY'S sensational play, together with i superb cast
KINGDOM
of stars in
The ANIMAL
where
the best
ading
only kieman, after all.
With MYRNA LOY WILLIAM GARGAN Nell Hamil com Henry Stephenson Chaaa
Screen play by Horgaz Jackson. Directed by Edward H. Oriffick *KO.RADIO Picture David O. Selznick, exécutive" producer.
AWAKE 45 YEARS
MAN'S 24-HOUR DAY OF ACTIVITY.
...
Rain.
Queen's.
COMING
"Reunion in Vienna." "Cruiser Emden." "Smiling, Through."
Central.
Star,
Animal Kingdom.". "A Womar Commands."
"Under the Roof of Paris." "Dynamite (Sound on Disc)." "Downstairs."
World.
"Love Waltz."
Skyscraper Souls.
"Secrets of the French Police."
Oriental,
..
"Secrets of the French Police."
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WILD GIRL'
FILMING ADVENTURES IN NATIONAL PARK
F
While "location trips" in movie making usually imply "plently of extra work and worries for the director and his staff, they are hailed with joy by the players.
As a consequence, Charles Far- rell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy and the other principals of Fox Films' "Wild Girl" managed to combine good deal of pleasure with their business when the pro- duction got under way for nearly all of the picture was filmed in one of the finest scenic spots in the West, Sequoia National Park. Situated bigh up in the California Sierras among groves of giant trees and with vistas of snow-cap- -ped peaks close at hand, the trip was equal to a splendid vacation as far as the cast was concerned.
screen
Incidentally it happened to be the first "location" Miss Bennett
ber had experienced in career, and was Farrell's first since he made "The Red Dance" four years ago."
Rauol Walsh directed "Wild Girl," which is the current attrac tion at the King's Theatre. Taken from Paul Armstrong's dramatiza- tion of "Salomy Jane's Kiss" by Bret Harte, and with a support- ing cast headed by Eugene Pallette, Irving Pichel, Minna Gambell, Sarah Padden, Willard Robertson and Morgan Wallace, the film pre- senta a vivid romance of the gold. rush days.
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SHOWING AT THE KING'S
HONGKONGS FINESTONEJA
THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
Wild Girl
CHARLES
FARRELL
JOAN
FOX
Based on Paul Arwistrong's
..
"
BENNETT
RALPH
BELLAMY
dramatization
#7 BRIT HARTE'S famous story
#Salomy Jane's Kiss"
Directed by Raoul Walsh
·ADDED ATTRACTIONS-
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Sweet Music
BOOKING AT THE
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NEXT CHANGE. COMMENCING 'TO-MORROW
JOSEPH M. SCHENCK presents
JOAN
CRAWFORD
RAIN
with WALTER HUSTON
A deluge of passion In a storm of emotion
ARTISTE PICTURE
Lewis MILESTONE mudurum ALSO
COLOURED İLLY SYMPHONY BABES IN THE WOODS"
AND
MICKEY MOUSE IN
"KLONDIKE KID"
“THE WOMAN ACCUSED"
LAST SHOWING TO-DAY
THE PHANTOM
OF CRESTWOOD
HOLLYWOOD'S MOST-
BOOMED PICTURE
The picture which millions of persons have heard about!
The picture that inspired "two hundred thousand amateurs to tura
story
mystery story "writers!
The "moat talked-about Hollywood has ever produced!
Each of these rather startling phrases can be used to describe Radio Pictures' Broadcast Spacial, "The Phantom of Crestwood," now playing at the Central Theatre.
For never before has an author's work or a screen or a stage pro- duction had such a preparatory campaign as was given this fea- ture.
Planned and written both naa radio drama and as a scenario the opening instalments of this thrill. ing story recently were broadcast in six weekly sequences over the great Red Network of the Ameri- caa National Broadcasting Com-
pany...
Millions of listeners heard the "development of The Phantom of Crestwood" sach Friday night, These millions were arged, having heard all but the solution of the mystery, to write a 500 word and ing as they would solve it. And for the best endings cash prizes. totalling 86,000 were offered, via the radio, newspapers, and periodi. cals.
news-
Additional interest in this thril- ler of thrillers was aroused by a series of advance advertisements, in'. national magazines, city papers, and on theatre screen and billboarde throughout the country. Heads of the promotion estimate that a hundred million Americans and Canadians either have read or beard about The Phantom of Crestwood."
For such a campaign monthe of preparation were necessary. Other months, fewer in number were re- quired by the Radio Studios' in" Hollywood to make ready for and to film the story.. All in all, each Iactor considered, it can be claimed that "The Phantom of Orestwood": is the most famous mystery story of all time.
The cast in "The Phantom of Crestwood" is one of importance. Included are Karen Morlay, Ricardo Cortez, H. B. Wamer, Pauline Frederick, Ivan Simpson, Ten of the world's leading great-Anita Louise, Ton Douglas, Matty est living authors collaborated to Kemp George E. Stone, Aileen write "The Woman Accused," the Pringle, "Skeets" Gallagher, Sam nationally-known Paramount-Liber- Hardy and others to a total of two, ty Magazine novel, the picturization score. of which has its final showings at the Queen's Theatre to-day, featur. ing Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Louis Calhern and Irving Pichel,
You'll find the screen version of this story authored by coast-to-coast big sellers something to write home about, you'll agree whole-heartedly with the five million magazine read ers who sympathized with Glenda O'Brien when she fixat came to life
The story is by Bartlett Cormack and J. Walter Ruben, the latter directing the picture.
nowhere" that are becoming so popular nowadays.
An old servant of Glenda's goes to the dead man's apartment to destroy whatever clues may be left behind, just in time to rescue them from the hands of Stephen Besse- mer (John Halliday), Leo Young's on the written page, the creation partner, and the police. Bessemer. of Rupert Hughes, Vicki Baum, suspecte Glenda, pursues hereza a Zane Grey, Vina Delmar, Irvin S. police tag to the decks of the ocean Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J Pliner, in a spectacular manner for McEvoy, Ursula Parroit, Polan ees a confession, and has her ar- Banks and Sophie Kerr..
regled when the vessel returns to It's a story that derives its fan innd... cipation chiefly from the intimate How she is saved from police re- knowledge of life possessed by its tribution is told in an exciting authors who give to each character climax that features a thrill- the rhythmic pulsations of living ing duel between an ugly looking. beinge. Glenda O'Brien who, on "gat" and one of these sinuous Au Ker wedding eve, is face to face tralian "bull whips." with a murder charge is no ephe metal character of the shadow screen but rather a real woman, whose motivations and whose ac- tions you'll understand and ap
It will be "Sweet Music for all when you see John Barrymore and plaud.
Diana Wynyard in "Reunion in Vienna."- REUNION IN
VIENNA
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OPENS TO-MORROW AT QUEEN'S THEATRE
John Barrymore steps into AI- fred Lunt's shoes and contributes a brilliant portrayal, as the wild and amorous Arcbduke Rudolf von Hapsburg in the pictorial version of Robert E. Sherwood's play, "Reunion in Vienna," which opens. to-morrow at the Queen's Theatrs: Mr. Barrymore seizes every op- portunity to give bouyancy to the part. This Rudolph has the mad As you probably know, "Rain"ye, the recklessness, the zealous curio dealer, aged 73, of Port is an adaptation by Maxwell Anderness, with which he was endowed by 1 Elizabeth (South Africa).
son of the stage play by John Col. Mr. Sherwood. It is
A man who claims that he has dot slept for 45 years has come forward to make his case known after reading about the death of a woman who said she had not slept
for 20 years.
He is Mr. William Colson, a
THEATRE ON SUNDAY
a part "I have not slept a wiak for 40 ton and C. Randolph which in turn peculiarly well suited to the ver years and I never feel the need,"
was adapted from the W. Somerset Aatile actor, who appears to revel
Mr. Colson declared (says the Maughan story. It concerns itself in it.
The shadow
Central News,
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with a young woman of liber
translation of Reunion in Vienna" was directed I go to bed every night be- morals who finds herself quarantin- cause I formed the habit before Ied by cholera on a South Sea Island by Sidney-Franklin, who has to his "The Guards- lost the power to sleep at the age with other passengers of the ship everlasting credit of 28-and because there is nothing on which she has been bound for man" and Private Lives." As else to do at night."
Apia. The morals of the girl are usual, Mr. Franklin has delivered The most striking euse of long contrasted with the rigorous teach a beautifully staged film in which sleeplessness hitherto reported is ings of the reformet and the con- the tempo is precisely what is need that of Mr. E. T. Maher, a store- trast between the two provides theed. There is enough wit in the keeper of Heaton, Newcastle-on-background of the story. That, and lines to appeal to most person, Tyne, who lost his power of sleep the incessant rain whose monotony and the boisterous doings are very in the stage: as the result of pcycling accident finally drives the entire group to arouch as they were
work. The subtle touches of the state little short of insanity. in 1910.
original have been preserved clever Miss Crawford never has attained ly. It is, in fact, an adaptation such artistry as she displays here which is a distinct credit to Holly- and her costasy scame to, have in-wood, or rather, to Culver City spired every other member of the where the studios of Metro-Gold After vainly trying for a time to company. Houston and Gargan are wyn-Mayer are located. sleep, M. Kern settled down to superb, and so are Beulah Bondi, 94-hour-a-day programme of ac Guy Kibboa Maly Moore and tivity and the only distress he has Walter Catlett. This film is show suffered has been occasional-heading, at the King's Theatre to-mor ache.
A Hungarian Goverment official M. Paul Kern, lost the desire sleep after being shot on the East ern. Front in 1918,
Tow.
There are several excellent scenes devoted to the activities of this Vienues reunion and May Robson herself to good affect as Fratt, Lucher, who, on the stage, was acted
by Helen Wesley. There are the Hungarian Musicians who add flavour to this comedy and a toast offered to the portrait of Franz Josef And in the end, there is n of very appealing note, whe one Rudolph's friends begs to be allow.
Glenda, played by Nancy Car roll, murders Leo Young (Louis Calhern) with whom she had once been intimate when he threatens the death of Jeffrey Baxter (Cary Graat), a young lawyer, to whom she is to be married. She from the scene of the crime to leave Baxter's arms and the two.
runs
ed to go with him to the border. oh one of those ocean "cruises to
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WOMAN ACCUSED
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IRVIN S, COBR· GERTRUDE ATHERTON
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REUNION in VIENNA
with Diana WYNYARD
SIDNEY FRANKEL
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