CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
" HONG KONG
The Kid from Spain."
TAKE QUEEN'S BD., WESTBOUND Bus
King's.
Queen's.
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.
SHOWING TO-DAY
FOUR SHOWS DAILY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 9.30 P.M.
A CHINESE PICTURE
THE MANAGEMENT WISHES. TO NOTIFY ALL OUR PATRONS THAT AS FROM TO-DAY THE THEATRE HAS BREN ENGAG R. FOR THE SHOWING OF THE SENSATIONAL CANTONESE ALL TALKING AND SINGING FILM
"THE WHITE
GOLD DRAGON'
FEATURING
Mr. & Mrs. SIT KOK SIN
THE POPULAR STAGE
STARS
· NEXT CHANGE
GLOOM SCRAMS! RIOT REIGNS!
Month's big fun show with the gayest clowns
that ever
hung
jury or anged the blues!
LADIES OF THE JURY
EDNA MAY OLIVER JILL ESMOND ROSCO ATES KEN MURRAY
RKO RADIO PICTURI
"I WAS A SPY"
A London Critic's Opinion
All-Comedy Prograramë."
Oantral.
"The White Gold Dragon"
(a Chinese Picture)"
Oriental.
"Girl Crazy."
Star.
Majestic.
KOWLOON
"Too Many Cooks."
"Best of Enemies."
COMING
*The Good Companious.?"
"Rasputin and the Empress,"
King's.
Queen's,
Central.
"Ladles of the Jury.”
"King Kong."*
Star.
Too Many Cooks."
"My Wifes Family. "Public Defender."
World.
"Smart Weman." "Beauty
Oriental.
talkie).".
Mart...
(Chinese
"A Fool's Bridal. Night" (Chinese picture in Can- tonese).
"Hell's Highway."
Birds of Paradise.”
RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS
Three Barrymore Hit Coming To Queen's
"Rasputin and the Empress," pro- bably the most discussed motion picture of the year, will commence
Thursday at the Queen's follow. ing its successful run at the Astor Theatre in New York and extended showings in the, principal cities of the United Stales.
John. Ethel
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTO
SHOWING TO-DAY
AF
2.30, 5.10, 7.15
9.30 PM:
LY
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
YOU KNOW IT'S FUNNY I
Eddie
FUN AS FAST AS EDDIE CAN CANTOR WITH A BULL BEHIND HIM - TUNES AS SNAPPY AS THE 76 LOVELIEST GIRLS "IN THE WORLD.
CANTOR
in
The KID FROM SPAIN
with Lyda Roberti, Sidney Franklin The Lovely GÖLDWYN" GIRLS
UNITED ARTISTS» PICTURE ALSO-
MICKEY MOUSE
PRESENTS THE MAD
DOCTOR
MICKEY MOUSE
and Lionel Barrymore are starred AT THE QUEEN'S
in the three principal roles of the production, appearing for the first time on the screen during their re- spective careers.
All Comedy Programme Proves Welcome
·AND-
THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN FRODUCTION
FATHER NOAH'S ARK"
A SILLY SYMPHONY IN TECHNICOLOUR.
GIRL CRAZY"
At The Oriental
Theatre
HSÄTRE TEL. 25313 & 25932.
NEXT OHANGE
A BRILLIANT - TALKING PICTURE VERSION OF J B. PRIESTLEY'S FAMOUS
NOVEL
"THE GOOD COMPANIONS"
STARRING
JESSIE MATIHEWS
WITH
EDMUND GWENN MARY GLYNNE A. W. BASKCOMB JOHN GIELGUD
GAUMONT-BRITISH-PICTURE-.
AQUATICS
Annual Meeting Of H.M. Small Ships
Excellent swimming was seen at the YM.C.A. bath yesterday when ff variety is the spice of life, the annual aquatic sports of HM
A large RKO-Radio Pictures all-star rol-small ships were held. licking comedy"Girl Crazy" gathering including Commodore which will be seen at the Orient-Elliot was present to see the sports al Theatre On Sunday, Monday | which were keenly contested. and Tuesday is a snappily season- ed entertainment dish. It offers won the 100 yards free style, while A. B. Fifferty (H.M.B. Wishart) mirth and melody, romance and the winner in the 820 yards was action, beauty and atmosphere. Boy Bosby (H.M.6. Suffolk). At in the cast are comedy stars, a
the conclusion of the sports, Com- child prodigy, Broadway beau-
modore Elliot distributed the ties Hollywood cowboys, Mexican prizes. senoritas, two gun men, and po- lished villains. The action shifts from city tenement. to western resort and ranges from riproaring chases to rhythmic
dances and
Rasputin and the Empress" is based on an original story by Charles MacArthur, well known for his work on "The Front Page,' "Lulu Belle" and other stage and screen dramas. The picture whe
That the all-comedy programme
gaining popularity in directed by Richard Boleslavsky, is
the author of The Way of a. Lancer", Colony is evidenced by the tact and "Lanees · Down," and for that the current programme at several years following his earlier, the Queen's presenting Metro I work with the Moscow Are Theatre, Goldwyn Mayer's all Comedy Pro- a prominent figure in Hollywood. gramme proved to be a good draw, Presents Intimate Details. Laurel and Hardy whenever The film is said to present with they appear on the local screen fidelity the personal details of the' are sure to attract film-fans, and career of Russia's "Holly Devil,"in their latest ↑ . picture "An- from his birth in a peasant com. other Fine Mess," they still munity in Siberia through his rise prove to be delightful comedians. to power, his association with the Their comedy lies not in witty Czarina and his mysterious control puns or in humorous dialogues, of the Romanoff court.
but rather in the, absurdly far-tender love scenes. cical situations that both of them have such a knack of producing.
John Barrymore has the part of Prince Chegodieff, intimate friend Ethel of the Car and Czarina.
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The contrast to the Laurel and Hardy comedy will be found in
Heading the imposing array of talent are the inimitable Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, who
start the film as city stickers and Eddie Quillan carries
"On the Loose." Here the comedy | ternera
£
4:
Mr. Gerald Yorke,, the foreign arrested correspondent who was during the Jehot campaign, bas passed through Kiukiang en route to Nanking to cover General Chiang Kai-shek's forthcoming campaign against the Reds in Kiangsi. Once Reuter's Agency.
is rather more subtle, but even in the romantic lead of a girl crazy this case, the farcical aspect of youth who transforms a respect- motion-picture amusement, especable cattle ranch into a whoopee ially as it appears in broad | dude resort. Mitzi Green, Holly-
The story deals with a girl crazy comedy, is not overlooked and wood's child nimic wonder, plays youth who is sent to the quiet of a this flim provoked as much a pestilorous little sister and the western ranch to cure him of his
weakness for beautiful beauty brigade, is faughter as the antics of Laurel romance and
headed by Dorothy Lee. Arline. He imports a snappy Jazz band, and Hardy..
Chevret a bevy of Broadway beauties, Judge, Kitty and Lita
and Chris "Pin dressess the cowpunchers in din- Stanley Fields
ner jackets and turns the ranch Martin play the shoot and run
into a playboy's, paradise. villain.
women.
Barrymore plays the Czarina, while Lionel Barrymore, last seen Zasu. Pitts and Thelms Todd in wind up as rough and ready wes-again Mr. Yorke is representing in The Washington Masquerade" and befort that in "Grand Hotel," is seen as Rasputin. The role of the Czar is filled by Ralph Morgan, and that of the little Czarevitch by Tad Alexander. Both Morgan and Alexander were recently seen in "Strange Interlude." Other im- portant roles are played by Diana Wynyard, the English stage star, C. Henry Gordon and Edward Amold. Charlie Chase, that clever come- dían who depicts comedy of the Ethel Barrymore's Debut. - In "Rasputin and the Empress,"
"foo" type, is in a class by him- dithcult to Ethel Barrymore makes her first self and while it appearance in a dialogue picture compare him with the others it and has her first film role in num is not unjust to say that he is ber of years. Her recent vehicles every bit as entertaining, as any on the legitimate stage include other comedian in the film world "Scarlet Mary," "The Kingdom of Gol," "The School for Scandal” and "The Constant Wife."
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Although Miss Barrymore has not previously appeared in a production with her two brothers, John and Lionel were seen in joint roles in "Grand Hotel" and "Arsene Lupin"
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London, Sept. 5. | "I was a Spy" (Tivoli).-This fine
Alexander Toluboff, Russian· ar. British picture flashes across the chitect, assisted is planning and de- horizon of the silly season like a signing the ambitious court and meteor, but we hope will not be cathedral backgrounds for the pic- so 8000 gone. It is a story of ture, which are mid to be among Belgium in war time, based on the the most spectacular of any utilized actual records of a spy for the al-in a talking picture. “. lies who worked as a nurse in a
German hospital, but it is con-
ceived in such a way as to spread form once the content has engng-
Jed his sympathies. beyond individual, experience to the study of two nations living at white-heat,
to-day!
is
On the whole the programme is an entertaining 'one, and coupled with it are two interesting, fea- turettes, showing bull-ighting in Mexico and Over the Seas to Bor- neo," whilst the Hearst 'Metrotone News contains some recent items of world interest.
THE KID FROM
SPAIN
At the King's
"I Was a Bpy" is a war film) without vituperation. It is mov- This picture still draws crowds, Victor Saville has directed his ing, and pitiful, but it does not and from the attendance it scene study or conflicting loyalties with rant. Madeleine Carroll does the that if you want to get a seat you a kind of austere passion that best work of her career because will have to book early as hundreds she comes to it like a woman with have been turned away. It is the denies hysteria, and keeps re- solutely free from sentiment. Like her senses raw; Conrad Veldt in finest film of its kind we have wit jects his German commandant, nossed Eddie Cantor continues to alls pictures, this one is en- tirely without affectations: Baville with all the pain and pity of an captivate his audience, in his in- man caught inimitable portrayal of a matador. never swanks, never uses tech unimaginative nique for technique's sake, never emotional turmoil Veldt's dra- Lyda Roberti has a winning person- leads the audience away from thematic stature is so immense that ilty and charms one with both her clear outline of his story. He there is no room for a hero on the singing and her acting. The makes films well because the con- screen beside him, and if Herbert Goldwyn girls are superb, and their tent means something to him, Marshall had been ever so much swimming beats are decidedly clever not because the form primarily less the Hollywood star, it is likely Intrigues him he is a good that his part in the conflict would enough craftman to find the right still have lacked significance.
This is splendid entertainment and we recommend it to all our readers if they are seeking diversion.
4 SHOWS
BULLY
735-8.20
2
TAKE ANY THAM DE PEAPPY VALLEY İLA
ORIENTAL
OPLJE NECROCS. ROAD MARSHM
TEL 23478
MORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
DAYS
THE SCREEN'S GREATEST COMEDIANS. IN THEIR FUNNIEST PICTURE.
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WHEELER WOOLSEY
EDDIE QUILLAN DOROTHY LEE
MITZIGREEN ARLINE JUDGE
GIRL
CRAZY
COMEDY SMASH HITI
FAST AND FURIOUS FUN!
2 HOURS OF BOLID LAUGHTER!
THEATRES
FILMS
Boom Sweeps Britain
London-The- West-end theatre boom is sweeping the whole coun- try...
Yesterday provincial theatredom came to the end of the most pro- fitable. August that it has known since the war-timè "boom",""
The secret of this surprising
seret of prosperity in the hottest August for twelve years is that the theatre is winning its fight against, the cinemas it is match- "Ing its"big" stars against the hig
stars of the screen....
Where once the West-end was bounded by the Strand: "and; Shaftesbury-avenue, it can now be said to le bétween Brighton and Glasgow.
اده از راه بازی
A typical case of the renaissence in flesh-and-blood, entertainment:: can be found in Glasgow itself, where all but one at the city's many play-houses are now open, the Theatre Royal raising its his- toric curtain again next Monday
Three months ago the King's Theatre was faced with its annual summer closing. Mr. Julian Wylie bravely decided to produce a local
revue.
That revue is still running!
Manchester, has John Van Dru ten's play The. Distaff Side" at Eleanor one theatre and Lady Smith's "Ballerina" at" another. while waiting for Miss Gertrude Lawrence's appearance in "Nymph Errant.** Newcastle will be host next week to Miss Marie Tempest and Mr. Owen Nares
Bristol's Shows.
Bristol has "The Maid of the Mountains". at one house and the D'Oyly Carte company at another: Birmingham has Leslie Henson in a musical comedy and the Reper- tory Theatre in full swing,
Professional repertory companies "are, indeed, springing up every- where: in Bradford, in Liverpool and in Glasgow.
In short, during the month that the theatres have "traditionally played to empty seats, and red- inked their ledgers, the box-offices have been doing really big busi- neas.
A good deal of this welcome, prosperity in an industry employ ing thousands of workers and, millions of capital can be credited to the truce between. Moss Em-
pires and Howard and Wyndham,
A Chain Of Houses.
These two firms 'control between, them some forty of the Anest theatres in the country, the majo rity of them larger than the average West-end house.
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The firm of Parnell and Zeitlin has also done much to create the boom. They decided over a year ago to tour big shows in a big
·Way. with nationally famous artists.
The footlights of Great Britain which only a year ago seemed destined to flicker out in a favour of, the cinema screen, are burning brighter than ever..
It is one of the miracles of the world of entertainment.
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nahan Road, Kowloon: Tel 67222 TO-DAY ONLY At 2.80, 5.20; 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.
WHILE THEIR FATHEE BAT- FLED THEY KISSED AND MADE. UP.
BEST OF ENEMIES
BULL
nother
FIGHTING
TODD
PITTS
On the Loo
OVER THE SEAS TO BORNE!
CHARLIE CHANE
The Tibisco Kid
COLOUR SCALES
Hearst Metrotone
FROM THURSDAY
JOHN
BARRYMORE
as Prince Paul, a role that wins him new fame
ETHED
BARRYMORE
as the Czarina, added fame the stage's brilliant star
LIONEL
BARRYMORE
as Rasputin, a living porti of unforgettable power.
RASPUTIN
AND THE EMPRES
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-M
|At 24307
Bubbling:
WHEELER
LEE
SCOE
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