CENTRAL TO-DAY AT THE
HEATRE
TAXE QUEEN'S ED., WESTBOUND BUS.
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tol. 25740.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
BRITAIN'S MOST POPULAR COMEDIAN
TOM
The
WALLS
BLARNEY STONE
WITH
ANNE GREY
SPARKLING DIALOGUE! DELICIOUS SITUATIONS! HERE IS REFRESHING ENTERTAINMENT FOR EVERYONE, A. B. & D. PICTURE.
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
A Cantonese Talking Picture
"THE WHITE
16
GOLD DRAGON'
jeaturing
Mr. & Mrs. SIT KOK SIN
Well known Chinese Stage Stars
COMING ATTRACTION
A beautiful woman in one hairy hand... on airplane. pulled from the sky, in the other! The
monster opa
-tall as o
steeple, rushes over streets and rooftops!
KING KONG"
is loose!
Pesa on ang be
EDGAR WALLACE and MERIAN C. COOPER edith BAY WRAY
ROBT
ARMSTRONG
BRUCE CALOT
LCOOPLA
SCHOEDSACK Production
CINEMA
t=
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1933.
AT
BOOKING THE
3.30, 5.10, 7.20
& 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
Tar 25313 & 25392.
HONG KONG
King's.
"Cavalcade."··
TO-DAY ONLY
-NEXT
Queen's.
"The White Sister.'
Central,
"The Blarney Stone."
Oriental.
Star.
"The Cuban Love Song."
KOWLOON
"Looking on the Bright Side."
Majestic.
To-night is Ours.".
COMING
KING'S
"The Infernal Machine." The Kid From Spain."
Queen's.
Gabriel Over the White
House."
Central,
"King Kong."
Star.
"White Devil."
World.
الرحيم
"Queen and the Nun""
(Chinese Fila).
"Prosperity."
THRILLING ENTERTAINMENT-
Titanic in its Power!
CAVALCADE
PICTURE OF THE GENERATION
by Noel FOX Coward
THREE seething decades of relent
Tess change order before your eyes. plaguing nations, threatening empires, smashing civilization...a Cavalcade of mobs and monarchs
*
the march of time measured by. the beat of a human heart. mother heart... triumphant in its courage and steadfast faith. 40 Featured Players - Cast of 3500 A FOX Achievement Produced at Fox Moviatoné City
Pictures In Hong Kong
"KING KONG "
The Great Prehistoric Monster!
m'נ1
“ CAVALCADE
A Beautiful Adventure
.
Cavalcade
is unique as screen entertainment, so much so that it almos defies description by this commentator.
There is no "plot" in the con-
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}}}
"INFERNAL
MACHINE
Versatile Varnel In
The Lead
Chartered accountant, actor, war veteran with five years' service, director of stage plays and motion pictures in two languages are some of the activities; Marcel Varnel has crowned into thirty-eight busy
years.
accountant.
CHANGE
TO-MORROW
WHAT A MANI With one kiss he stole a rich man's fiancee, gave a thou sand people the jitters and rescueda ship from an explo- sion that never happened INFERNAL MACHINE
with
CHESTER MORRIS GENEVIEVE TOBIN
VICTOR JORY ELIZABETH PATTERION Novel by Carl Sloboda Directed by Marcel Varnel
FOX PICTURE.
GABRIEL OVER
THE WHITE-
"HOUSE"
Film That Will Cause Controversy!
Undoubtedly the most sensation- al story ever written about Wa- shington, "Gabriel Over the White House" will come on Thursday to the Queen's Theatre to provide. a talkie drama thrilling from its
Neo Coward's Cavalcade, " With a sensational admixture of transferred to the screen by Fax
A native of Paris he was educat- the prehistoric and the modern in Films, showing at the King's Thesed in Chaptal College there, at very opening reel to its staring story of fantastic imagination, tre, and received a genuine oration Charter House, in England, and conclusion. Walter Huston triumphs of with a great performance as Pre- the French Conservatory, RKO-Radio makes a bid for an all from a capacity audience.
record with its spectacular
Dramatic Arts in his home city. sident Jud Hammond and in a production, King Kong featur-
Then he took a business course in series of scenes as realistic as ing Fay Wray,
Robert Arms-
college and qualified" as an expert newsreels forces Congress to give I him the powers of a dictator, trong and Bruce Cabot, and in the
His father wanted him to follow, solves the unemployment problem. napie role great animated 10-foot the hilt to a proportion com strained meaning of the world, it in his footsteps as manager of the ends racketeering and brings for parable
Paris markets, but young Varnel eign debt uncertainty to a close, with monsters of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. instead a vast sequence of plots preferred the stage: After playing The story throughout has a ring As a production," King Kong" which Director Frank Lloyd has a variety of "roles" for three years, of authenticity. Brilliantly direct- contrived to make always abs-ne became a stage director, staged by Gregory La Cava, it will un- was two and a half years in the
and with making. Early in 1920 the first orbingly interesting research inquiry was sent to lead-which he has achieved effects which plays with such famous ac ing paleontologists throughout the work. The studio had a vital in- terest in the appearance and habita Coward has women the story of of such primitive monsters as the the Marryot family, father, mother pterodactly, the brorstotaurus, the and two sons, their servants, a but tyannosearus and the dinosaur. ler and maid and their daughter, Did these formidable creatures,, with a masterful band against a now extinet, run, hop or fly when background which encompasses his fast pursuit of their prey? torical events between 1900 and the What, exactly, were their propor tion? Activo reconstructions of
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fairly lifted the audiene out of its
seats,
present time.
He presents a terrife indictment
tresses as Duse and Rejane:
He entered the war as a private and was discharged five years later as a first leutenant. He was twice taken prisoner by the Germans, but escaped each time after re- covering from injuries. directed "Countess Maritza," "Cir Days cus Princess," "Sunny "Street Bingera," "Ladies AI," "As You Desire Me" and " "Melo" for
In 1925 he came to America and
troversy and talk wherever it is doubtedly stir up a world of con shown Huston has never had a more stirring role" and an excellent supporting cast includes Karen In the White House, Franchot Morley, as the mysterious woman Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore. C. Henry Gordon, David Landau, Samuel Hinds, William Pawley Jean Farker and Claire Dubrey.
THE WHITE
SISTER
Finely Acted Film At Queen's
A new pair of screen lovers, Helen Hayes and Clark Gable, made their appearance yesterday' at the Queen's Theatre in Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's much-discussed talking-picture version of the undy- ing F. Marion Crawford romance,' "The White Sister. The combina- tion is a particularly strong one. Under the careful direction of Victor Fleming they do a beauti- ful job of one of the most stirring love stories in literary history. ·
The "story of the aristocratie Italian girl who falls in love with A soldier on the eve of her marri age to a man of her father's choice gives both Miss Hayes and Gable every opportunity for romantic portrayals of the first order: Whether it be in the lighter, scenes of the carnival at the start of the picture or at the dramatic moment when the soldier whom the heroine believed to be dead returns very much alive, the work of the two atars is at all times touching and effective.
One always expects good acting
·from Lewis Stone and these ex- pectations are well fulfilled in his "role" as the father who forbids his daughter's romance. It is to be regretted that his appearance in the picture 13 so short. Louise Closser Hale as the family servant
unother offers
of her flawless character portrayals fecked with humour Splendid · supporting work is done by May. Robson, Ed- ward Arnold and Alan Edwards. "The White Bister" is a picttire which, deserves to be underscored. in any moviegoer's list of worth- while productions
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THE BLARNEY
STONE
Tom Walls Film At
Central
"The Blarney Stone" now show ing at the Central Theatre" with Tom Walks in a role that suite hi down to the ground.
ד'
He plays a fascinating Irishman with gift of the gah” that "talks" him out of numerous difficult situations, and in the open- ing, of the story, by A. R. Rawlin- son, he is threathened by Sinn
His .... barney Feiners, who calmly burn his house about his esra.
saves his own skin, however, but leaves him sleeping on the Thames Embankment!
Later he gets a job in the City and soon talks himself into becom ing a wealthy financier, but does not succeed in saving himself from prison.
Tom Walls directed this British and Dominions production and he it," the comedy blending with the has made a very excellent job of drama in a thoroughly satisfactory manuer. Anne Grey is his leading lady and Robert Douglas plays an this sophisticated Walletan comedy
such monsters were to enact roles against those responsible for the the shuberts in New York" He tor, Jory, is the third he has important part. You will enjoy:
drams.
present muddled state of world previously had directed one picture directed His others were The Silent Witness" and "Chandu, the in the motion picture.
affairs, but ends on a high note of in Paris. It took a year
He signed a Fox contract in 1931 | Magician Advance notices stated and a half of gallant optimism that all will "go
"Internal Machine.!" tremendous work to collect the well if we carry on with courage and his present production, a that the data, assemble it for practical pur and faith."
comedy romance, the "Infernal adapted from a novel by Carl pozes and construct dozens of Most of the principals will be Machine," opening next Wednes Bloboda out-distance all his other reptilian and other monters in
new to American audiences, al day at the King's Theatre, with work because of its sustained pictorial Morris and Genevieve humoruu, quality and exact scale.
though the all-star cast contains Chester
Clive Tobin featured, together with Vic- charm. such familiar
names
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During that time, and before a Caméra erank was turned, the Brook, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Piggott, John studio had ereated the largest and Mercer, Tempe most varied collection of prehis, Lionel Belmore and Billy Borth, toric colossi in the United States. Diana Wynyard in the role of In the early part of 1932, Merian Jane Marryot, gives a magnificent C. Cooper, world traveller, adven- performance which marks her as turer and associate producer for Hollywood's greatest discovery" Brook far ex RKO-Radio Pictures started film in several years, ming operations with Director ceeds the best work he has ever Ernest B. Schoedatek, his old part done before in a picture while the performances of Mundin and Una ner on many foreign trails.
O'Connor · "in character roles, actable contributions' in SATODA soting.
&
It wasn't just a case of pointing camera at a group of people Scores of creatures dating back
Ursula Jeans and Frank Law inte the dawn of life had to be ton, who carry the young love animated in smooth motion and in interest, - are vory capable per relation to the normal movements formance, Miss Jeans being espéci- of human beings opposite to whom ally effective in her singing of the they were to perform. The methods, Twentieth Century Blues, Irene employed in constructing them and Browne, Merle Tuttembam and photographing them are known to others of the large cast add great- no one outside of Cooper, Schood-ly to the enjoyment of the picture, sack and their scientist, assistants. Lloyd's direction leaves nothing to The magnitude of their year's be desired He has shown a COT task at the camera is clearly seen plete again that the rightly ranks
wood's director.
in the resulte. One scene shows a among the very first of Holly battle between the mammoth ape and a tyrannosaurus, largest of prehistoric reptiles,
Still another is a desperate run. ning fight between this giant ape "King Kong and scores of men while a white girl is held tightly clutched in the beast's paw
Cavalcade" is a beautiful ad venture that everyone should ex
perience,
battle against a squadron of army pursuits and bombing plane.
For adding and abetting other Chinese to steal a pure, containing 82 cents, a man who was brought before Mr. Balfour, The most spectrumlar scene of all It is said that the prodigious yesterday and was sentenced to one concludes the picture King Kong phantasy King Kong" makes in month's hard labour. It was sald seeking to escape the torments of significant any film heretofore pro- that the defendant impeded the man, climbs the tallest structure duced. The picture comes to Hong victim while a colleague extracted in New York, and there, with the Kong carly next month, at
girl at his feet, wages losing Central Theatre. the purse.
4 SHOWS DARY ENES
TRAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUB.
ORIENTALE
TO-DAY & TO MORROW
THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINGER INA MARVELLOUS PICTURE OF THRILLS, LAUGHTER, WONDERFUL SONGS AND GLORIOUS MUS.C.
· HERE'S A GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL PICTURE
THAT EVERY ONE SHOULD SEE.
TIBBET
In the spell of the troples and ca
THE CUBAN.. LOVE SONG
A trio of rolicking mäcknes
In Cubaand how they fail for the Senoritas) Action
and a million laughs)
LUPE VELEZ-
ERNEST TORRENCE
t
MAJESTIC
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At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 d. 9.20 p.m.
BRILLIANCE IN ITS CAST! PASSION
IN ITS STORY!.
TONIGHT SOUR
FREDRIC MARCH
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...
PANO CONDITIONED THEATRE.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20 p.m.
CLOTHED IN ETERNAL ROMANCE:
HELEN
HAYES
CLARK
GABLE
เฟ
The White Sister
with
LEWIS STONE
LOUISE HALEMAY ROBSON
FROM THURSDAY
Startling!
The Birth of
NEW Nation!
GABRIEL
with
OVER THE
WHITE HOUSE
A módon, plázsze chor ja uniika may other modios "pičomen in the
smopolitas Production,
WALTER HUSTON
KAREN MORLEY, FRANCHOT TONE. ARTHUR BYRON," DICKIE MOORE
Directed by GREGORY LA GAVA
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 6:20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
BRITAIN'S
BEST COMEDIENNE
GRACIE FIELDS
"Looking
on the Bright Side
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