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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BES
Advance Booking at Andersons
and the Theatre Tol, 23720. -
FINAL SHOWINGS
5.15 and 9.30 P.M.
YOU HAVE READ THIS BOOK BY REX BEACH NOW YOU WILL WANT TO SEE IT ON THE SCREEN,
She bungeted for the isme that died the night her child war born-and she grati
Sed her greed for headliner when the
put her own" son's....... neck in the bana,
man's noose.
THE PAST OF
MARY HOLMES |
From the story, The Goose Woman;' by REX BEACH With ERIC LINDEN HELEN MacKELLAR JEAN ARTHUR "Skeets"Gallagher Directed by Harlan Thompson David Selenic ENG, STACION RKO-RADIO Pieturs
2.39 and 7.15 P.M.
CHINESE ATHLETIC
PICTURE.
TO-MORROW
ACTIONS! THRILLS! TOM
MIX
and TONY
In the pic..
ture made
to order
for kids
from alx to sixty..
male and. femalet
The
TEXAS
BAD
MAN
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. With Lucille Powers, Fred Kohler, Willard Robe ertson. Directed by Edward-Laun mis. Story by Seck Canningham,
· Presintud kry Cal Leomnia,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1933.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
LAST TWO-DAYS.
AT
HONG KONG
2.30, 5:10, 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.
King's.
"Sweepings."
Queen's.
"Fra Diavolo."
Central.
The Past of Mary Holmes."
Oriental.
Star:
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"Hook Line and Sinker."
KOWLOON
"What, No Beer." Majestic.
"The Unholy Garden."
King's.
COMING
Rackety Rax"
Queen's,
"Midnight Mary."'
The Eagle and the Hawk,"
Central.
Star.
Summer Lightning."
"Texas, Bad Man."
"Clear all Wires."
"Fast Workers."
World.
"Conscience." (Chinese film). "Faithless.""
"FRA DIAVOLO"
Laurel and HardyTM "Antics" at Queen's
Laurel and Hardy, conceded to be the most popular comedians on the American screen, make their latest appearance 111 遽 feature-length comedy in Fra Diavolo," a story of a pair of rollicking bandits, based on "Auber's famous opera
COM
The picture is reported to be the most ambitious yet undertaken by the noted pair of "Pardon Us" by "Pack Up Your Troubles," its cast. including such outstanding names as Dennis King, the noted singer and stage star, and Thelma Told, who has contributed to the humbur of a long list of screen productions.
HAL ROACH PRODUCTION
Also involved in the hilarious in- cidents of the latest Laurel and Hardy opus are James Finlayson, Lueille Brown, Arthur Pierson, Henry Armetta, Matt McHugh, Lane Chandler, Nena Quarters, Wilfred Latens. Junes C Morton and Carl Harbaugh. The screen adaptation of the comic opera was made by Jeanic MacPherson and
the picture) was produced and directed by Hal Roach with Charles Rogers Assisting,
The story of the two friends who tura bandits in retaliation for being
Lionel
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
THE GOLD FLOWED IN FROM MILES AROUND! ·
His children and their seed, to the end of time, would never have to worry "America's iron man” had it all figured out... but his sons and daughters are in the breadline today!
BARRYMORE
ARKO-RADIO PICTURE of course! David O. Selznick, executive producer
CHRAJESTIC ANAL,
in the tidal drama of a famous family. into heart-throbs
welded
SWEEPINGS
From the novel by Lester Cohen With ALAN DINEHART GLORIA STUART, Eric Linden William Gorgon, Gregory Ratoff "Directed by John Cromwell
Victor McLaglen here gives the first graphic illustration of what is commonly called "going ga-ga," as the lovely Greta Nissen works her wiles. They have the leading roles in "Rackety Rax," the new Fox comedy of rahrah racketeers and frantic football.
"THE PAST OF
wheed of their lite avving just MARY HOLMES"
when they meant to retire is per- meated with humour from opening to finish. For instance, Hardy is senteneed to be hanged. Laurel is given the hangman's assignment. Laurel and Hardy flirt with couple of milkmaids. Laurel waves a red handkerchief. A bull gets the waving invitation and charges.
:
Dramatic Murder. Film at Central
By mistake Laurel takes a drink A reporter creating a story for containing a sleeping powder and the sake of a sensational scoop, a presently falls asleep on his feet, prosecutor playing politics' and Since it is necessary for him to a mother greedy for personal pu- keep awake in order to perform the blicity doom an innocent boy to function of man-servant to Diavolo, the electric chair in "The Past of the bandit chief, Hardy, bas Mary Holmes," RKO-Radio Pic tough time saving him from being killed.
ture thrilling audienes at the Cen-
tral Theatre with the sheer power During a seemingly dull moment, of its drama and its splendid act- Laurel becomes restless. He beginsing.
hin the pourt will not believe that
she lied to she goes out and finda
the real murderer herself, and the
picture ends thrillingly, with Mary
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-NEXT CHANGE- COMMENCING WEDNESDAY, 8th NOVEMBER.
HB bought a college so his football team would? have a place to sleep.
RACKETY RAX!
VICTOR McLAGLEN GRETA NISSEN
NELL O'DAY ALLAN DINEHART ARTHUR PIERSON, Directed By ALFRED WERKER
́A FOX PICTURE.
"SWEEPINGS"
At The King's Theatre
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The star of "Sweepings is sup- posed to be Lionel Barrymore. He is good-he always is—but then he is one of the few great actors of the modern screen. But in "Sweepings" the honours go not to the famous Lionel, but to Gre- gory Ratoff, who gives a magni- ficent interpretation of the part of Abe, the Jewish hired man. From the moment he first appears in s glorious quibble over the amount of wool in a "bargain" "pair of socks, to "the climax in that, great scene where he breaks. Daniel Pardway with the knowledge that he owns a major share in the store, Abe is the most outstanding per- sonality on the screen...
Helen Mack as Mamie, the one-- night love of the youngest son, has only a very small part, but she plays it to perfection; and her final gesture with a flourish · of skirts and a cheque for five thou: sand dollars is a marvel of polish- ed acting.
The rest of the cast is ordinary and the story not particularly in- teresting: but fine photography and very clever charges from scene to scene lift the am from the usual rut of slowness with a moral. The first flash of the fire that swept Chicago from end to end is
most dramatic.
After that the story drags a little
in its effort to cram too much of
setting fire to the shack and its the Pardway's life into a series of souvenir-photographa, clippings short shots. and a record of her once glorious Lionel Barrymore's transition voice and going to take up a 'new from "pride of fatherhood to dis- life with her son.
illusion is 庭 wonderful study (though it is hard to believe that all the family sould have turned It is announced that the wed-out quite so badly! ding of Mr John W. Walker and Miss Rosa Young, dadghter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Young of Macao will take place shortly.
DAILY. 1.30-8.15
7-15---4.30
The film is preceded by, a news reat of a different kind, and ẩn excellent travelogue of Paria. Well' worth being seen. So be early.
TAKE ANT TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
PLEMING (CAC) WANCHA)
YEL. ZBATE
fumbling with his hands. He ori- Helen MacKellar, a stage favou- ginates what is called the "kricesy, rite for years, gives a performance 2 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
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earry, nosey" gume, and soon the of great depth and feeling as Mary entire household, including the Holmes Ever since the loss of her soldiers are fumbling all over them- golden voice when her son was born, selves in order to master the sim- Mary has nourished a great hate ple process of mingling knees, ears for him. She persecutes and re-. and nose together.
| viles him at every turn." refusing to let him take her out of the hotel in THEY'RE UNDER SUSPICION which she lives in squalor. When 1 ho falls in love with Joan he learns Meanwhile Dennis King, the ban from his spiteful mother that he has dit king, flirts with Lady Pamela no name to offer a girl, (Miss Todd) and steale her money. Erie Linden and Jean Arthur, as There is a hue and cry for the the girl, decide that nothing should bandita's scalp. In an effort to save deny their love. There is an epi an innocent porson from, being sodo, in the girl's past, too, that accused of the theft, the comedians need to be overlooked-an epiasde Etheridge, find themselves looked upon with that her manager, suspicion.
doesn't intend she shall forget. He And then they are captured by the insists that she meet him at night: soldiers who also have the bandit in a Jane--and that is how he comes chief under control. They are sen- to bo'murdered. tenced to be shob, The future looks Because the lane led paat Mary'a ashack and only she heard the ahots glum. No hope in sight. Not friend among a thousand people and saw the car with one light turn How they come through these out of the lane, she is the key complications and how they help witness Backing again in the lime- effect a reconciliation between the light-flattered, photographed and young lovers, in addition to nium important she heaps lie upon le orous other ticklish moments, serve until she finds it is her own son to make "Fra Diavolo" one of the she is accusing. funniest of the Laurel and Hardy laugh epics.
The boy cannot believe her when she vows that, after all, she loves
DAYS
LOOSE
AGAIN
IN ANOTHER RIOT OF FUN! MERRY MADMEN OF THE SCREEN
WHEELER WOOLSEY
Heading the Pa.... rade in a Slam.
Bang Circus of Nonsense!
Dorothy LEE
RALF HAROLDE
Jolyne Howland Natalle Moorhend
Disscred by:
BIE CLINE
HOOK
LINE and
SINKER
COLONEL BLOOD
FILMED
An Artist Talks On Film-Making
Film producers, divided in all else, have one article of faith to which they..cling. It is that costume spells ruin, at the box- office.
Defying this conviction, with only such as The Birth of a Nation," "Ben Bur." "The Cover- ed Wagon," "The Ten Command- ments,”; and ""The Sign of the Cross" to encourage them, the Sound City company are ..busy. bringing to the screen that en- gaging scoundrel Colonel Blood.
It should be a great success, Blood is a fellow who needs the verve, the amplitude 01 the screen, to do him justice. must have had the perve of a Capone, or he would not have.. come within an ace of getting Away with the Crown Jewels: Charles II, a pretty good judge, evidently found him good com-
He
pany; and At the end of his Tower adventure, when his daring looked like coating him his head, he faced disgrace and death with a cool effrontery that probably did more than anything else to win him his mysterious pardon. Charles presumbly considered him to amusing a ruffian to lose. HIS FIRST FILM.
"Colonel Blood is being direct- ed by W. F. Lipscomb. It is" his first attempt. A scenario writer and
dramatist something of a (his "Clive of India" is to be done shortly-I believe at Windsor). Mr. Lipscomb has always cherish- ed the scenario writer's inevitable ambition to direct a picture
Well, Sound City have given him his chance, and I believe we shall hear more of him. He has an alert intelligence. a sense of humour much subtler than some of his Hulbert epics would lead one to expect, and enthusiasm. enough. to acquire a sound work- ing knowledge of his period.
It is too early yet to judge his first film as a whole, but I shali be disappointed if it is not full of action, character and amus- ing incident. Pepys solemnly pro- phesying the speedy end of tea- drinking, the King running away. from his statesmen to play with his perpetual-motion machine- out of such human touches he is rightly trying to build up a lively and credible picture of his age. A VETERAN AT 22.
Frank Cellier is playing the mid- dle-aged Irish adventurer (Blood seems to have been about Mr. Cellier's build), and Allan Jeayes the King..
Also in the cast is a newcomer to the screen, Mary Lawson. Miss Lawson has been on the stage for thirteen years and 19 now a veteran of 22 When she was 9 her sister (aged 14) decided that it was time they set to work. They got a job on the stage, and have been working ever since, in London or on tour, in pantomime musical comedy revue, stock, re- pertory and anything else that offered. More recently Mary Law- son has appeared in "White Horse Inn" and "Casanova,”
In
"Colonel Blood" she plays Pepys maid Suste, a demure little creature who eventually loses her job because Mrs. Pepys suspects her husband of a warmer interest than becomes an employer. Mr. Lipscomb, who picked her out, has. a high opinion of her ability and predicts a brilliant future.
Yet another interesting person on the lot is Laurence Irving, Sir Henry's artist grandson, who is
doing the art direction.
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At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
ACTIO
Intrigue Gasps
Suspense Thrills
Romance
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
PABEENTE
RONALD COLMAN
The UNHOLY
GARDEN
1-
BULEN
AER CONDITIONED THEATRE
TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
F
HE ROBBED THE
· WEALTHY—but hè
'stole the ladies' hearts
"FRA
DIAVOLO"
with
STAN
LAUREL
OLIVER
with his
songs!
HARDY
DENNIS KING
BOGUS BANDÍTS
who steal your laughs
in a musical-comedy
romance!
-COMING SHORTLY-
She was so' bear-
Hiful, her victims becaus
her
cap tors!
MIDNIGHT MARY
A story from life, of a girl whore beauty ko man could resist!
with
LORETTA YOUNG
·RICARDO "CORTEZ PRANOHOT TONE.
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
BUSTER
KEATON
JIMMY
DURANTE
monster brewers of laughs
WHAT! No Beer
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