TO-DAY AT THE
King's,
CINEMA
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933.
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15
HONG KONG
& 9.30 P.M.
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE" quems's RD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons
and the Theatre Tel. 25720;.
NOW PLAYING At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M:
A TERRIFIC DRAMA OF THE GREAT WAR
"Born Lucky"
Queen's.
"To-day We Live"
Central,
"Hell on the Western Frout.” Oriental.
"Around the World in Eighty Minutes with Douglas Fair.
banks."
HELL ON THE WESTERN FRONT”
WITH BEAL BATTLE SCENES. ASSEMBLED WITH CO-OPERATION OF VARIOUS GOVERN "MENTS.
NEXT CHANGE
THE PICTURE THẤT WILL LEAVE YOU
BREATHLESS!
A thrill fo mance of men who make the movies move! ...Hollywood's deuth-defying 'stunt men.
RKO
RADIO
Picture
Derothy Wilson, Wif- Na Bergan, Roscoe Atos David O. Sepulch, daczęlve producer
Sidney Franklin in the "Eid From Spain"
Star.
KOWLOON
Smart Woman."
Majestic.
I. Take this, Wonku.“
Queen's,
COMING
My Wife's Family.' To-night is Ours." "Devil is Driving."
Central.
Star.
"Lucky Devils."
"Three Who Lived." "Down to Earth.".
**Emden."
World.
"Emden,"
Strange Interlude.
HELEN..
HAYES
and CLARK
GABLE The White Sister
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·AROUND" THE
80.
WORLD IN A
MINUTES"
At The Oriental
Theatre
Jules Verne staggered the hu- man imagination when he wrote his "Around the World in Eighty Days," a. feat which at the time was thought incredible. Post and Gatty made the Verne prediction look foolish by 'fiying around in a little more than eight, days, and this may be seen at the Oriental
Theatre.
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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY
THE ROMANCE OF A MODERN
BOR
Westminster
films Production
CINDERELLA !
LOKY
-Also
Added
WITH
TALBOT O'FARRELL". RENE RAY, JOHN.. LONGDEN Producted by
JERRY JACKSON
Directed by
MICHAEL POWELL.
A BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY
1) PICTURE.
Attraction-
AT 7.15 & 9:30 PM. PERFORMANCES DAILY. THE IMPS DANCE ORCHESTRA
BY KIND PERMISSION OF
LIBUT. COL. J. E. DE C. BOYS, M. C. AND
OFFICERS
THE BAND OF THE 1ST, By.
"THE LINCOLNSHIRE "REGIMENT WILL PLAY SELECTIONS FROM "BORN- LUCKY” AND "THE GOOD COMPANIONS” 'CONDUCTOR:-0. S. TROWT.
MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong
TO-DAY WE
LIVE
With Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper
"MY WIFE'S FAMILY"
-NEXT
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25913
& 25332.
CHANGE-
AN EPIO DRAMA OF LOVE. TREACHERY, SACRIFICE, UNDER MOROCCAN SKIES.
WITH
REX INGRAM.
ROSITA GARCIA ARABELLA FIELDS. A BRITISH PICTURE.
LAUGHTER IN HELL
AT THE CENTRAL THEATRE 27-29
IN CAVALCADE
Clever London
Children
the
Dick
Henderson, Junior, young English boy who makes his début as a screen actor in the Fox Film of Noel Coward's “Caval- cade," has returned to England to continue his education. Before he left England two years ago, when the his father Dick Henderson, English vaudeville star commenced
an
American stage tour: "Dick, Junior, was at a Convent School in Seaford. His twin sisters who are two years his sentor are now at school there. but Dick who was born at Paddington is to go to onė of the English public schools--ex- actly which is not yet decided. During their stay in America, Dick and his sisters were carefully guarded from American influences. not, as their mother says, because the Hendersons have anything, but admiration for America and the Americans, but because they think It is well for the English to remain English as the Americans always remain American.
In the Cavalcade" aim Dick plays the part of the young Ed- ward, Marryat a fe taken up as the character reaches manhood. by John Warburton, an English actor who was born m. Maghuil, Liverpool and has been in Holly- wood for several years
Shella MacGill who plays with Dick in the "Cavalcade" film was born at Hendon in 1928 and is the daughter of Patrick MacGill the well-known Irish "novelist and dramatist, and Mrs. MacGill who is also a writer and lecturer of dis- tinction.
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BORN LUCKY
TO BE SHOWN AT THE KING'S THEATRE
CDR CONDITIONED THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY At 2,80, 5.10, 7.20 & 0.30 p.m.
Your own beating heart Jour own quivering lips your own tears and cheers will tell you best that
here troly is a great motion picture ... one to see again and again one to treasure in your memory!
THE STARS YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE TO-
JOAN
GETHER!
CRAWFORD
GARY
COOPER
TODAY WE LIVE
A
HOWARD HAWKS production
with
ROBERT YOUNG FRANCHOT TONE ROSCOE KARNS.
-SPECIALITY "London - City of Tradition"
Laughter in Hell the picture to be shown at the Central Theatre is the latest novel of Jim Tully,
Born Lucky," the British fim who understands human emotions and passions, and describes them that is to be shown at the King's so vividly, it has been screened by Theatre is an excellent story, well that told, and the photography is very Universal. It is a picture sounds the very depths of human good indeed. Rene Ray, who plays ity, and is first hand from real the leading feminine re' is ad- Ufe. "Merna Kennedy, the bewit- mirably suited to the part. She is ching titian haired beauty heads dainty, and as the little singer who Monty Banks took his company
the east, and is supported by Pat eventually. rises to fame handles "up the garden path" for film pur-O'Brien an old favourite. In this her part very well indeed. She is poses when he directed the B.I.P story he is wanted for murder and befriended by an old fellow called production, "My Wife's Family."
hunted Hike an animal he goes to Turnips who quarrels, with the In a country garden setting Els the door of a young girl who takes producer, who throws them both The original announcement of tree's Art department surpassed him in, and suffera in the end for out. They meet a young author "Today We Live," now having Its its previous studio horticultural her one good deed to help a fel- called Frank Dale who is attract- final showings at the Queen's efforts with artistic ingenuity. Trim low man in distress. It is excitinged Miss Ray otherwise called 10 the extreme. Showing how Mops. Turnips gets into some Theatre as Joan Crawford's first green lawns, interested by war story, was sufficient to pique paving, form an elegant design often an innocent person is sus- trouble, and It put into prison. In the curiosity of this
central arrangement of pected, and how very difficult it is the meantime Mops is employed revlewer. cound
does not treat her very kindly. Modern generation roles. have so flower beds These were composed at times, to prove innocence, It by an aristocratic old lady who
is a stirring drama and so real exclusively engaged the attention of real soil in which a fine show that it will appeal to every per- while here she again meets young of the vital Miss Crawford that of blooming geraniums and rose son. Do not miss seeing it at the Dale, who, in the meantime has GENE GERRARD YOU war and melodrama seemed novel
planted. A rockery Central Theatre on the 27-29. when linked with the name of blazing with blossoms and ever- this popular 'star.
grown with creeping nasturtiums "Today We Live," however, surrounded an ornamental pool in
trees were
and loud quicks.,
crazy
+
launched
his play, and Mops is offered a part much to the dis- tress of Dale's fiancee. Everything ends well for our heroine, however,
Theatre where it is to be shown. You will be delighted with the picture as the cast-15 a very good one.
serves to emphasize the fact that which ducks disported themselves A SUCCESSOR TO but do not miss seeing it at King's Miss Crawford is a particularly with much preening of feathers i
And the actress. well-rounded tombined appearance of this star the with Gary Cooper has given screen one of its most interesting and engrossing romances..
"
All leaves for the Front.
[
with
A rustic summerhouse roses round the door" and thileh ed-roof, is the chief feature of the
film's background, and is finally blown up with its sole occupant, a baby grand. Enclosing the gar- "As Diana, an aristocratic Eng-den on three sides was a fine box lish girl, Miss Crawford receives hedge, trimmed into archways ten word of the death of her father feet in height, while the fourth wall at the front on the day in which is of brick shaded by leafy trees.
ber brother. Franchot Tone, and This beautiful garden is the set
her childhood sweetheart, Robert
hilarious happenings Young, join the British navy. ting for Shortly after, word comes that which all picturegoers will appre Cooper, the American officer whom cints when "My Wife's Family is Diana has come to love, has been presented at the Queen's Theatre,
to-morrow. killed in an airplane crash.
Engaged in the most dangerous game of the war, that of launch- ing torpedos at enemy craft from tiny speed-boats, Tone and Young are at death's door every moment of their service.. Forgetting to- thinking only of morrow. and to-day, Diana, gives herself to the from man who has loved her childhood and then Cooper comes back! It is a thrilling moment on
the screen --
LYDA ROBERTI
STARRING IN THE KID FROM SPAIN
GRETA GARBO?
་་
Hollywood's Latest Mystery Woman
London.--Are film stars born or are they deliberately made by directors, camera men and public ity experta? It is a question we cannot avold when a new star ap- pears. Are the astronomers busily and delightedly on the lookout, or is the news shouted into their ears? These thoughts are started by the coming of Katherine Hep- burn.
TRAGEDY OF REAL LIFE TO BE FILMED
A real life tragedy of pre-war. days the shooting of Stamford White by Harry Thaw in & New York roof garden, to avenge the a screen honour of Evelyn Nesbit is to be Though the made the subject of drama by M.G.M cast has not been definitely settled. It la proposed that Jean Harlow. shall play the beautiful artist's model with Franchot Tone as Thaw- and Clark Gable as White,
Miss Hepburn is Hollywood's latest mystery woman, and there
The real Evelyn Nesbit became a is no doubt that her mystery is be- ing cleverly exploited. At Arat, it film actress some years after the was stated or at least tumoured death of White and attained con
that she was a millionairess, who siderable prominence as a star of acted for the fun of the thing. silent pictures.
There was romance and glamour
in it. The story changed almost from day to day Now she is no longer very rich; her father is a decides to go home to her Island
Baltic. surgeon. But the story has made in the its way in the world. The public
Garbo as Measure of Cinema
Success.
Cooper, first despising the two
Lyda is a lose wolf. She travels Englishmen as cowards, takes a trip with them in their torpedo alone and lives alone. She likes boat and comes back with a re- her own company best. Her hair vised opinion. During a bombard is the colour of white wool, she is has become "Hepburn conscious" ment, Young is blinded, which as slender as a lily. She has
Miss Hepburn's fim debut was binds him even closer to the girl always been somewhat of a puzzle whose pity he mistakes for love. to the members of her family who in "A Bill of Divorcement." Her
The problem of Great Garbo has In an attempt to forget Diana, have never been able to under-reception in England was mixed. Cooper asks for a desperate air stand her. Possessor of a most She has a dominating personality been a dominant one for a long and a decidedly harsh voice, but while. Her position in the film mission to sink's ship. At last re-fascinating smile she is very popu alizing Diana's love for the avia- lar on the Samuel Goldwyn lot, there is no possibility of ignoring world is unique. She is the mes tor, Young pursuades Tone to take the boys think a great deal of her. her. Now she has made her se-sure of cinema success. By her is of "Christopher Strong" tresses as Marlene Dietrich and him out on the torpedo. boat for It seems that Eddie Cantor had cond appearance in the film ver- computed the worth of such ac
sure death chance at the same never seen her until he met her son
Now comes Dougins I airbanks inviting the public to accompany him Around the World in 80 Minutes." Doug actually spent several months on his jaunt to the strange and far-away places Several hundred thousand feet of film negative was shot during the expedition. But all this has been chip, thereby insuring the safety of on the set when the picture was adapted from Clbert Frankau's Anna Sten. When a new star has being made. He describes her as novel of the shine name. In this appeared in Hollywood. It has been boiled down to exactly eighty Cooper. They do not return.
"To-day We Live! Ja without a mimic and a genius, thinks she she has converted nearly all her asked at once, Is, she another minutes, running time on
doubt one of the most human is one of the coming stars in adverse critics. Her harsh voice Garbo?" It has been assured nothing higher screen.
the
stories of the war and Howard musical comedy, stage and screen has been found attractive; her that there can be In condensing his lengthy fim Hawks is to be congratulated for On the completion of the Kid angular movements almost, irresis or further Fairbanks has returned only the his masterful direction of a fine From Spain" she is bound for Newtible. She is it was bound to
The trouble of the Japan Indus highlights, the most colourful per-screen show. Miss Crawford and York where she is to take part in comel-the missing Greta Garbo; sonalities encountered and the un- Cooper make a brilliant romantic a stage production. This actress usual events and sites, visited while team and the effective work of is particularly interesting to the the new Greta Garbo for whom the trial Savings Bank of Osaka with he was the guest of oriental Young, Tone, Roscoe Karns and folks out here since she hails from world was waiting. She seems to its 100 discharged employees has contri Shanghai When you have seen solve again the question Who been settled, on condition, that the royalty, China, Japan, Siam, Indo- Louise Closser Hale also China, India, Hawall and the butes to make this picture one of her in this picture you will all will be Garbo's successor when bank will pay half the discharge
stored to sound standing. A Philippines are the countries which the most enjoyable seen on the agree that she is a star of the that temperamental Swede finally allowance when the business is ro
(Continued at foot of next col screen in some time.
anest order. form the basis for the Am
TO-MORROW
THE PICTURE WILL BE LITER- ALLY A BIOT WHEREVER IT IS SEEN
Sunday Dispatch,
MURIEL ANGELUS in
MY
WIFE'S
DOOR WATTE
MAKY GODDE
CHARLES PATON TOM HELMORR MOLLY LAMONT
BYTORAL
kavear
HAROLD
FAMILY
STAR
TODAY TO FRIDAY
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
MARY ASTOR
and
ROBERT AMES
brilliant
comedy
WOMAN
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