HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933
-TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
King's
Queen Kelly."
"Cruiser Emden."
"The Speckled Band!!
Oriental,
Destry Rides Again."
World.
Hell Below?"
KOWLOON
CENTRAL
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Advance Booking at Andersons and the Thoatre Tel. 25720.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ||At 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9,80 P.M.
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE
SHERLOCK HOLMES
STORIES
Lyn Harding
Queen's.
Central
Star.
"Downstairs."'
Majestic.
Flag Lieutenant,"
COMING
Raymond Massey
King's.
Athole Stewart
"Warrior's Husband."
IN
Queen's.
"Smiling Through.
Today We Live."
"THE SPECKLED
BAND".
CONAN DOYLE'S GREAT MYSTERY THRILLER.
A BRITISH AND DOMINIONS PICTURE.
SUNDAY
t. 5.15 and 9.30 * SHOWS ONLY
BEFORE..
SLIM
SUMMERVILLE and
ZASU PITTS
IN
OUT ALL NIGHT
-the picture in which the screen's famous “lovebirds"ElytoNlag- are Falls-ANDHOW!,
... AFTER
AXUNIVERSA
Carl Directed by Bum sented by Cail
for the first time since the peach blossom fragrance of "The Student Prince," in the old days of silen. filme.
"Down to Earth.".
Central,
"Out all Night.”
World.
Star.
"Skyscraper Souls."
Unashamed."
Washington Masquerade."
"Strange Interlude."
"Monstory Carden. "Humanity."
Sydney, Aug. The Australian airman, Air commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, will travel, to England, as the guest of the Royal Netherlands Airways in a Fokker mail plane leaving Batavia on September 6.
From England, the airman will go to Holland on a mission con- nected with aviation.--Reuter...
“QUEEN KELLY ”
GLORIA SWANSON SCORES AGAIN
Queen Kelly," the current attraction at the King's Theatre, tells of a pretty romance between a Prince and a village maid in an imaginary Kingdom. The lead- ing roles are in the capable bands of Gloria Swanson, so well-known to local film fans, and that ver- satile actor, Walter Houston."
Regina V., and Queen of the little kingdom of Coburg-Nassau, is violently attracted to Prince Wolfram, a popular member of her Court. She is determined to marry him sad draws up a great programme of celebrations for the marriage ceremony.
FINAL SHOWING
TO-DAY
CAT [2,80, 5.10, 7.17
& 9.30 F..
HONGKONG'S ONES TONERAS
THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
GLORIA SWANSON
IN
QUEEN KELLY"
WITH
WALTER BYRON, SEENA OWEN
AN ERIC VON STROHEIM PRODUCTION MUSIC COMPOSED BY ADOLPH TANDER SOUND SYNCHRONIZED
A UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
LAUGHTER ON THE STAGE
A DIFFICULT THING
TO' DO!
who have learnt to laugh the long
On the stage those laugh best
est.
DOWN TO EARTH''
WITH DOROTHY JORDON
AND WILL ROGERS
Southern girls, for some reason, are rarities in Hollywood film' cir cles Whether this is due to the numerical superiority of Northern gentleman refuses to allow his femi- maidens, or whether the Southern
nine compatriot to visit the capital of screenland, no one seems to know. But the fact remains that only a handful of leading ladies hail from below the Mason Dixon line.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TEL: 25313 & 25932.
-NEXT CHANGE-
-COMMENCING" TO-MORROW
“All right, then, WALK
home, you flat tire!"
Uproarious comedy to- manes in the land where women woo and men jepel advances,
THE
WARRIOR'S HUSBAND
with
Elissa LANDI Marjorie Rambeau Ernest Truex David Manners
From the play by Jutlan Thompson Directed by Walter Lang
AJessel, Lasky Production Presented by Fox Film
"DESTRY RIDES
AGAIN
SHOWING AT ORIENTAL
THEATRE
business.
CLASSICAL SATIRE IN MODERN IN WAYS
CRUISER EMDEN
STARRING WAR FILM AT
THE QUEEN'S
Oruiser Emden" just those. two words but to many they hold a world of meaning and the mere mention of them brings back memories of those dark days of the War. But even if they do. rake up sad memories, the present generation must be taught the history of those dreadful years and it is no exaggeration to say that for educational purposes, the Alm bearing that title and which opened its run at the Queen's Theatre yesterday is one which is worth seeing nay, it is a film which should not be missed.
The film may be described as a story of a chivalrous foe and a gal- lant gentleman and is full of se tion from the start. We have all read about the way the· Emden met her "Waterloo" in H.M.S Sydney. That has been described of the greatest naval engagements of the Great War but to fully appreciate it, ona. must see the picture.
A3 one
A very pleasant time may be spent at the Queen's Theatre for apart from the feature film, there is a very interesting featurette entitled "Clever Animals" "
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which Katharine Hepburn haa when the play was enjoying its successful run in New York and on, the road.
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It is described as "female Doug Fairbanks" type of part, and Miss Landi, whom many peo ple regard as the epitome of re- serve and dignity, has the time of her life romping about in the role of an Amazon Army general who could whip any man in a fair fight and drink any mån under the table.
I think "The Warrior's Hus band' is a delicious satire on modern civilization," she says. "It burlesques the masculine type of woman, so prevalent nowadays, and pokes mubtle fun at females who aspire to wear the family trousers."
Admitting that everything from the depression to little Johnny's measles have been blamed on the war, Miss Landi ascribed the de- cided change in feminine tempera- ment in recent years to the same,
ostine
never intended them to be. It is good fun, but it also has a strong basis of fact and truth."
The scenario writers at Universal City found a great many of their What many recognized as a new the famous western star. The rea- cognized as men's equals during stories for Tom Mix rejected by freedom for women they were re- son was that Tom Mix had never the world conflict," she says. “"bas That is a maxim which may not
taken a drink or smoked tobacco become license in our generation. be always true. Some people,
on the screen. Neither has he
All this parading the streets having neither the physical nor
ever gunned a man, except in self in men's clothes and attempting to spiritual equipment for laughter,
defense or in prosecution of offiusury man's place in the businese Dorothy Jordan, whose appealing cral business. - screen could never be taught it if they
world is just a manifestation.. tried for years. I have been very personality has brought her swiftly "Destry Rides Again" filled all
up the ladder of film fame, is one of the requirements of a Tom Mix Women have become pursuers in- much struck recently, however, by of the most noted of this handful. Picture. It will be seen at the stead of the pursued. the number of otherwise capable She was born in Clarkesville, Tea Orienta! Theatre to-day and to "I think "The Warrior's Hu....... young hopefuls who think them nessee, and received most of her morrow and will portray a new bind' will do a lot toward showing selves ready to appear in a play education in the South Intending side of Tom Mix- the talking a lot of women just how ridiculous without, quite evidently, having had to become an actress, she went to part. Tony, however, will connne it is to try to be something nature any lessons in laughter at all. New York to study dramatics, and his forensic efforts to gestures.
Upon them it may be impressed while there entered musical comedy. that laughter on the stage-above tarsd roles, and while appearing She soon went from chorus to fea- The Prince, however, is in love all when a certain amount ol on Broadway in "Treasure Girl" with a pretty village maid, whose speech goes with it is as difficult was signed to a contract by Fox beauty and charm have attracted and highly technical a thing as Film executive and went to Holly- him. He is opposed by the singing. It can only be made per- wood. There she played in "Black
fect by arduous practice. The neo- Magic" and "Fax Movietong Fol but escapes from the queen, jalace just before the ceremony,
phytes are not alone to blame. Ilies," later going to M.-G.-M. for have heard even admired profesa series of films that included "De- to elope with the village beauty sional actors and actresses choking vil May Care,Singer of Seville,
Gloria Swanson as the pretty and wheezing, making noises like "Min And Bill" and "Hell Divers." Elissa Landi, who has climbed village maid, plays her part to the whinnying of a horse, the gulp- turned to Fox, is in Down To fame during the last three years, Her latest role, for which she re-rapidly up the movie ladder of perfection and is ably supported in of a jazz-band, or the souffling Earth," Will Rogers, newest laugh is more enthusiastic over her rote by Walter Huston and Seena of a dog at a burrow, and calling hit which opens at the King's Thea in The Warrior's Husband," her
it, laughter.
tre on Wednesday. She appears as newest picture, than any part she The right kind of heart-easing the Bancee of Rogers" "son", Matty has had since the "left Broadway laughter clear, ringing, musical-Kemp. Irene Rich, Mary Carlisle, and definitely cast her lot how rare and how magical in its: Theodore Lodi and Brandon Hurst Hollywood. effect it is! What would have are in the cast of the film, which She has the role of "Antiops," happened to Viktoria and Her David Butler directed.
{Continued on next column) Hussar if it had not been for Oskar Denes and that infectious laugh of his, which "set the audi- ence, off" on one of the poorest jokes imaginable}
Swan.
NORMA SHEARER IN “SMILIN' THROUGH”
WISTFUL ROMANCE FOR QUEEN'S THEATRE.
Nothing could have been more "spontaneously" lovely than the laughter of Ellen. Terry. She tells us in her "Memoirs" that it was drill which she went through as a the result of a kind of laughter-·|
child. She was trained to take in her breath just at the right time, so as to be able to throw it out
Norma Shearer has turned her back on her screen past. 1p "Smilin' Through," ber latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production which opens on Sunday at "the Queen's Theatre. Miss Shearer has a role far removed from those which have taken her along the bypaths which lead away from again, boldly and gaily, from the convention.
back of the palate to the back of Miss Shearer's role in "Smilin''the gallery. Through" is frankly tinged with Will anyone who heard it ever sentimental romance. It is com- forget her laughter and that of pletely devoid of that sophistica- Dame Madge Kendal, chiming to tion which marked her charac-gether" like two gipsies on a terizations in "Strangers May horse," in "The Merry Wives of Kies," "A Free Soul" and "Strange Interlude."
Windsor Or Fred Terry's laugh as Charles Burface in the Screen Scene of "The School for Scandal'”” 1. Every revival since has seemed dend without it.
In "Smilin' Through". she por trays two different girls whose ro-
Tells Poignant Story. mantic experiences affect the life
The story abounds in pathos. of one man at an interval of fifty
ears. First, as Moonyeen Clare, Ever since Jane Cowl first pre
in 1888, she is the betrothed of-a sented it on the New York stage, young English aristocrat, played it has served as the model by
with Fredric March as her lover. nant
'Smilin' Through has
To what extent, I wonder, is laughter taught in our dramatic schools1 I believe it would be un
by Leslie Howard. Later in 1014, which sentimentality in drama is enormously popular as well as fruit- she becomes Kathleen Sheridan, measured. "As sweet and poig ful thing to arrange, not merely a Sidney Franklin directed this come to be a phrase" by which ori-solitary ordeal but a laughter-class,
tics point their comparisons ca
cach member of, which would have,
M-G-M production. Others in the cast are O. P. Heggie, Ralph For- bes, Beryl Mercer, David Torrence, Margaret Seddon and Forester Harvey
In thus turning to wistful to under instruction, to make the mance, Mise Shearer sheds the
women of the world" character others happy (Continued on orevinna colcom】 · Isughing scene.
some familiar
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THE GREATEST OF ALL L WESTERN STARS IN ONE OF THE MOST ROMANTICALLY EXCITING COWBOY PICTURES EVER SCREENED.
PESTRY HIDES AGAIN
WITH TONY HIS FAMOUS HORSE AND A GREAT CAST OF FILM STARS INCLUDING CLAUDIA DELL, EARLE FOXE STANLEY FIELDS. AND ZA SU PITTS MAKES. THIS THE BEST WESTERN THEILLER OF THE YEAR, SEE THE KING OF COWBOTH IN THE BEST PICTURE-- HE EVER MADEU
Mi Landi is co-starred in this Jesse L. Lasky. for Fox Film with Ernest Truex, while Marjorie Rambeau, Helen Ware, David Manners, Maude Ebaren, Helene
Madison and Lionel Belmore are playing strong supporting roles. Walter Lang is the director of the production," which comes to King's Theatre on Saturday.
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IN
The Flag Lieutenant"
BOMANTIC LOVERS IN DRAMATIO BELLSPROTAOFE
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A
TO-DAY & TO-MORKOT At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m
THE STIRRING EPIC OF THE SEAT
"CRUISER
EMDEN
Based on the daring explaits of the greätext "wen -- ralder". In · history).
FROM SUNDAY- ROMANCE that will TOUCH your HEART!
NORMA
Tenderness and teara
in Norms Shearer's romantic truimph! Glorious romance. that will touch your.. heart!
SHEARER
FREDRIC
MARCH
LESU!
HOWARD
Smilin
Through
Directed by SIDNEY FRANKLIN.
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. The Comeback of a Brilliant Screen Star ...
GILBERT
returns to greatness in his own role
DOWNS
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