CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S ED., WESTBOUND BUG
Advance Booking as Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720,
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
TO-DAY AT THE
King's.
CINEMA
HONG KONG
"It's Great to be Alive." Queen's.
"Peg O My Heart."
Central.
"Hell's House."
Oriental,
"Hot Pepper."
KOWLOON
As You Desire Me." Majestic.
Star.
A NATURAL FOR THE GROWN UPS AND THE KIDS
BENNIE F. ZEIDAIN
PRESENTS
HELL'S HOUSE
HUMAN SYMPHONY FOR ALL AGES
**JUNIOR DURKIN
WITH
AND
PAT O'BRIEN
DURICTED BY HOWARD HIGGIN
It has class-parkle-color vanary" —speed—balance and spontaneity. That's why Photoplay Magazine honored it as one of the best pic- tures of the month.
NEXT CHANGE
MEN HATED -
and envied him!
WOMEN DENOUNCED
and adored him)
No wife could resist him cept his own!
RICHLARD
in the saga of free lance lover...sho "incanted-time is
... ex.
GREAT JASPER
with WERA ENGELS EDNA MAY OLIVER Disected by J:Walter Ruben David O. Selznick,
amesative producer
ALSO
RKO RADIO
A CENTURY OF PROGRESS
THE CHICAGO WORLD FAIR BROUGHT TO YOU TO SEE!
Bird of Paradise."
King's.
COMING
"Cavalcade"
The Man from Toronto,
"Soldier's of the King."
Queen'a.
"Women Who Plag.".
"King Of The Jungle"
Dentral.
Star.
"The Great Jasper"?
Romance of Rio Grandes"
"Looking On The Brightside"
World.
"Divorce In The Family'
Oriëntal.
"City Light."
MARION DAVIES
IRISH BROGUE
How She Learned It "Peg O' My Heart”
Sure, and it was Hughey O'Bryne the old hotel doorman, who gave Marion Davies the lift of her Irish brogue for "Peg O' My Heart.”
Marion's rippling brogue in the part she plays in her new starring vehicle, now showing at the Queen's Theatre surprised even her best „friends. The natural charm of it captured the hearts of all the hard- boiled crew that workeed on the production at the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer studio..
Where Did You Get It?
#i.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER -12, 1933.
LASTE ́TWO-DAYB
AT
2.30, 5,10, 7.154 & 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
“What am I bid for
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH?“
A modem Don Juan...hearts. whole... fancy free... sound of wind and limb...put up at auction to a host of
gorgeous, love-starved girls.
FOX
IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE
Raul ROULIEN
with
Gloria STUART
Edna May OLIVER Herbert MUNDIN
Directed by Alfred Werker
From a story by John D. Swain"
Jessie Matthews and Ian Hunter in The Man from Toronto"
Coming Thursday at the King's Theatre..
"Where did you get it?" the "THE MAN FROM
interviewer asked the vivacious star.
Marion's eyes blinked roguishly! "Sure, and it was brought over from the ould "sod by Hughey O'Bryne himself!" she replied, lap-
TORONTO"
sing for the moment into the dialect Some Amusing Sussex
of the character she portraya.
Hughey O'Bryne, she explained, **ay doorman at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles for many years
Scenes
"HOT PEPPER"
At The Oriental Theatre
BOOKING Ат Тик THEATRE TEL. 28813 & 25332.
NEXT OHANGE THURSDAY, 14th SEPTEMBER
A DOUBLE ATTRACTION !....... ON THE SCREEN JESSIE MATTHEWS
IN
“WOMEN WHO PLAY" To-Morrow at Queen's
Theatre
A sparkling comedy of modern manners, with a daring and ori ginal plot, is "Women Who Play," A Paramount British Production. which opens to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre. It is a screen version of Frederick Lonsdala's
brilliant stage success, "Spring
Cleaning." and Lonsdale's scintil
"THE MAN FROM dating wit has been preserved in-
TORONTO
with
IAN HUNTER, FRED KERR A BRITISH PICTURE
ON THE STAGE
SITSON MA
NOTED CHINESE VIOLINIST Accompanied by HARRY ORE
“IT'S GREAT TO
BE ALIVE".
tact in the dialogue. A Lonsdale comedy is always a splendid vehicle for polished acting, and "Women Who Play" has one of the most imposing castà ever assembî- ed for a British picture. Mary Newcomb Benita Hume, Georges Barraud, Joan Barry.. and Barry Jones are seen in feature roles. Edmund Breon, Gerard Lyley. Sylvia Lelle Peter Evan Thomas, Mary Hamilton and Frank Lacy "are other members of the ane cast.
The story deals with the desper- ate means taken by Richard Sones, George Barraud), a "successful novelist, to save his wife, Margaret (Benita Hume), from a set of worthless triflers, who pose as her friends, and, who, he ́ ́ fears; will inevitably drag her down to their level, Among these people with too much money and too little to do, are Ernest Steele (Barry Jones), an attractive philanderer, who starts a flirtation with Mar-.. garet then finds that he has fal- len in love with her: Fay (Joan
disillusioned Barry), a
"bright young thing” who still retains some decent feelings, Archie Wells (Ed- mund Breon), a rake̱ who, while conducting an affair with his friend's wife, carries on with the chorus girls, whose shows he fin- ances, and Bobby (Gerard Lyley), an exeminate youth who goes into raptures over the colours of lamp- shades.
Start To-Day at King's Mary
Theatre
--It's Great To Be Alive," the new Fox musical, comedy," has its pre- mier to-day at the King's Thea- tre. Rual Roullen, Idol of the South American stage and screen. has the stellar role, and is "sur- rounded by a large group of per- formers that includes all of the most beautiful women of the Hollywood film colony.
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After a vain appeal to Margaret to give up associating with these.
·decadents, Richard persuades Mons.
Newcombe), an actress whose work he admires, to pose as a woman or the streets, and then introduces her as a guest, at his wife's dinner party. This daring ruse succeeds in its object, but , there are some bitter quarrels, and hard lessons to be learned on both sides before the final happy re- conciliation of husband and wife.
£160 A WEEK AT 16
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, Aug. 23. The story concerns ́`Itself with
Miss Ida Lupino, the 18-years- the strangle sitization of one soll- tary male in a world of millions
old actress daughter of Mr. Stan- of women, all men, but this one, ley Lapino, the comedian, left are wiped of the globe, and the Southampton yesterday en route for Hollywood to fulfil a contract. conjecture about "the last man on earth" becomes a reality. The fact with the Paramount Company at a salary of £160 a week for three this one man happens to be a popular aslator who has been cast years on the basis of a 40-week away on a desert island, is said to year. contribute heavily to the hilarity ter was going to Hollywood be- Mr. Lupino said that his daugh-
The supporting cast, headed by Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver. and Joan
.cause British producers failed to Twelve Herbert Mundin, includes recognise her worth.
Arm had Marsh, Dorothy Burgess, months ago a British
10. a week for a Quirt and Flagg, the immortal Emma Dunn, Edward Van Sloan offered her
twelve months' contract, and од Gréig. More than Marines, portrayed by Edmund and Robert
Friday, the same firm had again Lowe and Victor McLaglen in the 10,000 of Hollywood's most gor-
offered her a contracts. but at a Fox comedy, Hot Pepper," now geous girls take part in the pro- showing at the Oriental Theatre duction which launches Raul Rou
in appear
B evening lien on career of American dress and sa owners of rival night screen stardom. clubs. They still love them and William Kernell, who has a leave them, but fight-chiefly for the number of established song-hits
艺届
immaculate
Story value apart and you can "He always had such a nice way take it that "The Man From of greeting people na he opened the Toronto" coming on Thursday at automobile doors," she continued the King's Theatre, is one of the
He is quite a character and his wittlest and funniest films seen for affections of Lupe Velez who enacts fame has travelled all over the world a very long time the new Jessle the principal feminine role. El through association with guests at Matthews picture, which Sinclair Brendel plays a comedy part. Sing the hotel. I always used to mimic Hill has made for Gainsborough.ing and dancing choruses are feat his brogue. So when I was cast za affords us some delightful glimpses ured in the night club scenes, Peg and realized I needed an Irish of rural Sussex. dialect, I immediately thought of old Hughey.
A
to his credit, it responsible for the music and the lyrice in "It's Great To Be Alive." Among his new songs to be heard in this film are Goodbye, Ladles," "T11 Build a Neat," "It's Great To Be Alive" Here is the English countryside Swain. The dance ensembles were and Women! Women! Women!
The direction is by Alfred Werk- as we know it, unchanging. un-created and staged by Sammy Lee, "I found he had a new job over spoiled country such as the nerve- premier dance, director of the Ziger. Paul Perez and Arthur Kober "Folltes". Earl Carroll's wrote the adaption and the dia- in Pasadena "at the Hutington! Wrecked towndweller occasionally geld Hotel, and sent word for him to
Amberley, in Sussex,Vanities and a score of other logue, from the story by John D. come and see me on his days off was the location chosen for many Broadway musical sensations. (Continued, ar previous columu), I brought him down to my house of the shots, and as can be im- and let him sit down and talk with agined, the invasion of movie out letting him know why. The camera and recording apparatus brogue rolled off the tip of his created no end of diversion in the tongue with the blarpey of his tales, locality, " and bit of Celtic wit.
nouns.
dreams of.
a
Sinclair Hill has collected "After he'd leave I would get out number of the quaintest possible my script and hurry through my types for this most amusing pic- lines, putting the words into Hug. ture. For example, the village Inn, bey's brogue, remembering na best with its crowd of beer-drinking I could how he'd twist this around yokels, more closely approximates and put the cart before the horse, to the real thing than anything so "to speak, with his verbs and 80 far done on the alms. His types are so perfectly natural that one. suspects them to have been hired locally for the day. - II, on the Before long I found I could cther hand, the portion of this shape the lines into brogue of my village inn are professionals, then, own. Once you get the swing of it their performance cannot but be the dialect flows along naturally, regarded as other than a triumph Maybe it's the Irish in me that of characterisation. - helped. But if any credit is due it i
"Credit Hughey O'Bryne
belongs to Hughey O'Bryne.
“Of courte it is more difficult to
play a role that demands a dialect A ZANE GREYTOM MIX
PARTNERSHIP
since you have not the dialogue to remember, but also the unfamiliar diction. However, it wasn't all hard work because we managed to inject lots of fun in it with every Tom Mix, the cowboy alm actor, body on the set talking in some sort announces that he and Zane Grey, the author, are planning, to form of brogue between scenes!!
in Peg My Heart Misa partnership for the production Davies plays the role created on the 95 Western motion pictures Pro- stage twenty-one years ago by duction will start early in Novem Laurette Taylor. Onslow Stevens ber. Zane Grey's fund of Western is the leading man and the cast in-stories will keep the new company, cludes J, Farrell Alan Mowbray, | supplied with" flm material - Tam Doris Lloyd, Robert Grieg, Nora Mix, will star in most of the pic Cecil and Geoffrey Gill,
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LAUGHS P. Certainly ! TEAR
and HEART- THROBS? Yes. DRAMAP ROMANCE PE Plenty Į
MARION
Davies
Sad moments, glad mo ments
they're all here
in the story of immortal Peg that has won the heart. of the world!
*
with ONSLOW STEVENS? J. FARRELL · MA÷DONALD JULIETTE COMPTON
A ROBERT Z. LEONARD Production
TO-MORROW
WOMEN WHO PLAY
with
From the play Spring Cleaning
by Frederich Lonsdale MARY NEWCOMB 'A BENITA "HUME, JOAN BARRY, BARRY JONES, GEORGEBARRAUD,
Directed by Arthun Rossen.
A PARAMOUNT BRITISH PRODUCTION
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 92.0 p.m.
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