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THEATRI
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And the Theatre Tel. 25720.
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
A GREAT BRITISH CAST IN A QUARMING MUSICAL ROMANCE
Lilian Harvey
BEAUTIFUL & VIVACIOUS
HAPPY EVER AFTER
Þeith JACK HULBERT
SONNIE HALE AND
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG King's.
***Cynara."
Queen's.
Central.
Oriental.
The Devil Driving.
Happy Ever After.
Call Her Savage. "
Star.
KOWLOON
Cruiser Emdn.
Majestic.
Tarnished Lady."
COMING
King's.
"Best of Enemies. “ "Dangerously Yours. "
Queen's
Made on Broadway "
Billion Dollar Scandal, Peg My Henrt, "
Central.
Star.
Up for the Derby,
Brother Alfred. "
Words and Music, ** Divorce in the Family.
"
World.
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Girl in the Moon
Under the roof of Paris. Blonde of Follies "
Majestic.
Bird of Paradise. '*
Oriental.
'State Fair. "
“CYNARA”.
CICELY "COURTNEIDGE. || Colman-Hollywood's
¡A, "GAUMONT-BRITISH« PICTURE.
NEXT CHANGE
A SNAPPY BRITISH FILM WITH LAUGHS FOLLOWING ONE AFTER ANOTHER
Sydney Howard
UP the DERBY
For the
-EXCELLENT COMEDY YOU'LL ENJOY-
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS PRODUCTION.
CHEMICAL WARFARE
SCHOOL
For The Japanese Army
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Bachelor"
Ronald Colman denies that he is
a woman-hater. He likes women and woman like him. Somewhere
the mysterious labyrinths of rumour and gossip and publicity there was germinated the report that the star of the picturized Cynara" at the King's Theatre to- day.
"runour
The failure of his own marriage had not made him cynical toward all marriage. But because he is an Englishmau, because he is discreet runs rampant that r Colman shies of women,
The gossips will cackle and the busybodies will bore away, but Colman stands reticent, retiring and unwilling to be drawn into u discusion of these things, which he rightfully believes belong purely and simply to him."
Mindful of his position in the public eye, he has gone his way quietly and unobtrusively bringing te a screen atar something of the I mystery and fascination that obtain- ed in the day of the bygone legiti
inate stage.
easy.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY," SEPTEMBER 2, 1933.
TO DAY
ONLY AT
2.80, 5.10,7.15
זין
46
& 9.30 P.M.
KINTORY
TO BE TRUE MEANT TO BETRAYİ-
BUT BETRAY WHOM?' His Mistress? His Wife? Himself?
What would you have done?.
The SAMUEL GOLDWYN Preduction of
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
RONALD COLMAN
N.
CYNARA
KING VIDOR ·
UNITED ARTISTE PIŠPURE
ALSO ADDED ATTRACTION":
MICKEY MOUSE
PRESENTS
BUILDING A BUILDING
AND
BIRDS IN THE SPRING"
A SILLY SYMPHONY IN TECHNICOLOUR.
MICKEY AMOLISE
SUNDAY AT THE CENTRAL
Lillian Harvey And Jack Hulbert In "Happy Ever After"
"HAPPY EVER AFTER"
Jack Hulbert, Britain's most screen comedian has
Just after the war he married versatile Miss Thelma Raye of the English quite a different type of role in stage. They had been appearing "Happy Ever After now playing together in a melodrama, The union at the Central Theatre. was not a successful опе. That He plays the part of Willie, a isn't news, of course. Because of window-cleaner, pals with a col- geographical differences (Miss Raye league Sonnle Hale) until they in England and Colman in Holly both fall in love with a delightful wood), severance of the tie was not little girl up from the country, Only a legal separation who possesses one ambition, and could be effected. And so it stands. that is to be a Hollywood film
Ou the screen, he continues to be
star. Their companionship is apolished cosmopolite. Of the broken by quarrels over the fair screen, he remains 1 popular
charmer and although the onlook bachelor, charming, sincere And
er gets a lot of laughs out of the cimcumspect.
For years Ronald Colman had situation they become very gloomy. Jack Hulbert invests his role been the inseparable companion and with a whimsical kind of humour London, August 18. Japan is to establish a chemical friend of Richard Barthelmess and that, while in contrast to his more warfare school for its army to train William Powell. When Barthelmess robust methods in "Jack's The troops to fight against poison gas at married Jessica Haynes Sargeant, Boy" is very pleasing to waten tacks, saya a British United Press there were those who sit in figura. He succeeds in gaining sympathy message from Tokio.
tive rocking chairs who predicted as well as laughs and his Wille This is one of four major improve that it meant the dissolution of
is a very human fellow, whose. ments in army eficiency which are now being carried out. The others; Hollywood'a three musketeers: But) affairs Hulbert makes of consider the went placidly on, corps, an aviation school, and two except that it took on a fourth mus- Harvey is the girl in schools for training non-commissioned keteer.
A couple of years later William officers.
Major-general Shinotsuka, now at Powell again started the rocking of tached to the infantry school, is ex-chairs which rock so easily. He pected to be appointed director of the married Carlos Lombard and to the phemical warfare school.
whienering cacophony this meant surely that Ronald Coleman would be left out in the cold, cold world.
How did these feminino ineur" An alleged assault on a Kwong ions affect the coleman situation, Wah" Hospital employee by four
сат find students had a sequel before Mr. Most days now you Schofield, at the Central Magis him at the Barthelmess beach hou tracy yesterday, when Li Kwong at Malibu...
were
}
!
"
Yuen, Tau Sai Kwong, Chin Tabass in a not too harmonious trie He will probably be carrying the Wing and Ho Kam Pui charged with assaulting Lam Kui singing "White Wings"," Ning and Lam Yau at the Ko Shing Theatre. The first defen-
question.
TALE OF MOTOR
ROBBERY
The Devil Is
Driving
Edmund Lowe, Wynna Gibson, James Glesson, Lois Wilson, Dickie Moore and Allan Dinehart, con tinue their dramatic activities in
| The Devil I Driving," which has its final showings to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
dant was fined $60 or six weeks' "The constable has always got hard labour and bound over in his eye on me whenever I go out 8150 surety for one year, the Magis on the bicycle," said a pretty trate holding that he was "the Chinese girl, Mow Cheung, when The plot of the picture is deve principal Instigator in the assault, charged before Mr. Schofield, atloped around an entirely new theme and the second and fourth defen the Central Magistracy yesterday-the operations of one of the gangs dants fined $10 or fourteen days, with having ridden a bicycle in a of organized auto thieves who and bound over in 850 each for dangerous manner in Hennessyoperte in every large city in the one year. The third defendant Road at 1 am that morning country, and then reselling them was discharged, his plea of not Mr. Schofield remanded defendant .... Lowe plays the role of a méchanic guilty being accepted by the police.until to-day.
in a garage which is operated by
BOORING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
- TO-MORROW
ON THE SCREEN
Buddy Regeri
·Marian Nixon Frank Morgan Jasaph Cawthorn
Greta Nieren
in
BEST OF ENEMIES
Thay did the klesing
and
· left the fight-
Ing to their
dudz.
A FOX PICTURE
ON THE STAGE
THE SENSATIONAL
MACKEY TWINS
WITH THEIR EDUCATED FEET"
NOVELTY TAP DANCERS MUSIC BY PENINSULA HOTEL · ORCHESTRA.
"CALL HER SAVAGE”
At The Oriental Theatre
Clara Bow's new picture "Call Her Savage," first of the flame- haired star's productions for Fox will be seen at the Oriental Thea-
"MADE ON BROADWAY" Story Of New York
Politics
Described as a glittering, pano-'" rama of New York life from Bat- tery Park to Harlem, “Made ...on Broadway comes to-morrow to the Queen's Theatre with Robert Montgomery and Sally Ellers, two of the screen's most popular younger players, co-starred for the first time,
Montgomery is said to have an- other high-speed comedy role as Je Bidwell. super-fixer. * wise guy" and debonair gambler who hoodwinks society and reaps 2 harvest on Broadway. Miss Ellers "undergoes an interesting character development as the bedraggled cafe waitress who is rescued from a watery grave by Montgomery and subsequently becomes one of Manhattan's most pampered play- girls.
The unusually strong cast also features Madge Evans as the ex- wife who tries to help Montgomery decide a course of action during his mad career as a high-pressure public relation's expert, and the the supporting players include comic. Eugene Pallette, C. Henry Gordon. Jean Parker, Ivan Lebe- deff, David Newell, Vince Barriett and Joseph Cawthorn.
Courtenay Terrett Story, Made on Broadway is based on the story, "Public Relations," written by Courtenay Terrett, une of New York's newspapermen who witnessed many "inside" scenes during his years of metropolitan reporting in one of the city's most colourful administrations. Report is that actual incidents from his own experience were worked into the picture with persons and places thinly disguised under ficti- tious.
The picture was" directed by Harry Beaumont whose work on such modern-day photoplays as "Faithless," "Unashamed." "Dance, Fools, Dance," and "Our Bushirig Brides," has given him the reputa- tion of being Hollywood's master on sophisticated comedy themes. The current production is said to be replete with Beaumont's typical" "extravagance in the matter of luxurious settings and spectacular backgrounds for action among the New York smart set
"BEST OF ENEMIES
tre for the last time to-morrow Buddy Rogers Return
drama
a To The Films
She is far loveller than ever, more poised, dignified,
Mas. and eertainty and confidence which should re-establish her as the one
The secret is out as to Buddy really great star of the screen.
Rogers' return to the movies. It The story is a stormy-plotted
is simply a case of his personality romantic
affording her and versatility so ideally fitting the every opportunity for a full dis- role in "Best of. Enemies" that he play of her emotional ability, from stood out as the only star in Holly. the head-strong wilfulness of her wood who could do it justice. youth to the sublime tenderness of
It means that Buddy Rogers is mother love. Through flirtatious cast as a typical American boy who courtship days, a hasty and re- has a pentheat for music and saxo- pented marriage, and the reckless, phones. The part in "Best of careless, carefree escapades there- Enemies might well have been after, Clara "leads three men 2
written to fit Rogers' versatile per- merry chase in the picture.
sonality. In the picture, just as in They are Gilbert Roland, her his life, he is seen as a collage boy! halfbreed Indian sweetheart who whose extra-curricular activities in wins her in the end; Monroe clude composing the school's misi Owaley, her worthless husband; al shows and directing a jazz and Anthony Jöwitt, her
weak-band. willed suitor following her separa- tlon
porting cast are Thelma Todd, ber honeyhaired rival; Estelle Taylor,
Others prominent in the sup
such a gang, The place is equipped with facilities for remarking cars in extremely brief periods.
Easy-going and good-natured, Love suspects the nature of the enterprise but paya little attention to it until his young nephew is the gang's operations, and the boy's seriously injured as the result of father, demanding a showdown, is
as her mother; Willard Robertson brutally murdered. Wynne Gibson, whose good-nature Heyburn."
Then Lowe, with the assistance of as her stern father and Weldon
had matched his own, goes on rampage that ends the picture with
breathless, dramatic climax. The role of the child is played by six-year-old Dickie Moore. James Gleason is his father and Loie Wil- the leader of the band of thieves. son his mother. Allan Dinchart is
4 SHOWS
* DAILY
2.30-5.15
·7.15-0.00
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has been appearing on the stage and radio with his own orchestra.
With Marian Nixon in the lead-
feminine ing
röle, "Best of Enemies" comes to the King's Theatre next Sunday,
TAKE ANYTRAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BOR
ORIENTAL
TO-DAY ONLY DON'T MISS SEEING
TILIS FIERY DYMANIC
SCREEN STAR IN THE BEST PICTURE OF HER CAREER,
CLARA
BOW
CALL HER SAVAGE
FLEMING
ROLD WANSHAL
TAL
TO-MORROW
MONDAY TUESDAY:
A
SUPER PICTURE
WITH A SUPER CAST OF SCREEN STARS JANDRADE WILL GAYNOR ROGERS
*LÓW * SALLY AYRES EILERS
FOSTER DRESSER
RAVEN
VICTOR JORY
HENRY KING
PROBNCTION.
STATE
FOX
FAIR
It might be said that Buddy has been preparing for this role ever since he forsook the movies than a year ago. In that time he | (Continued on previous column).
mora
MAJESTIC
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TALLULAH
BANKHEAD
CLIVE
BROOK
Tamished Lady
a Garamirant Picture
At 2.30 & 7,20 PM. CHINESE PICTURE
QUEERY
ALE CONDITIONED THEATRE
STO-DAY
FINAL SHOWINGS
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20 p.m.
THUNDERS OUT OF
THE HOUSE OF HELL ON WHEELS
DEVIL IS
DRIVING
LEDMUND LOWE MAWYNNE GIBSON LEONĖS ŠUKADOW ROIS WILSON NICHENÕMME
GE ALEAN DINEXALT
A Paramount Picture
NEWSREFL
BETTY BOOP
Cartoon
·TO-MORROW
"g'ittering
panorama
of the wicked- "est street in
the world!
The fast-moving, hilariously
thri liog tale of the wise guy who Was the CHAMP
of Broadway but a CHUMP for a blond!
ROBERT
Medio
Fotuan
Maryer
MONTGOMERY SALLY EILERS MADE ON BROADWAY
with MADGE · EVANS Directed by HARRY BEAUDONT
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m
THE STIRRING EPIC OF THE SEA!
"CRUISER
EMDEN
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