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Advance Booking at Andersons
and, the Theatre Tel. 35720,
SHOWING TO-DAY
2.80, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
BY SPECIAL REQUEST
The city shrieks
in terror!
¡A Cooper
Schoedsack
Production
IS LOOSE!
From tiden conned by Edgar Walleer and Marian C. Cooper. W FAY WRAY, ROB. ARMSTRONG, BRUCE CABOT, Dould O. Selenick, extreme brodMDW.
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At forry he discovered hid over a new leaf and became. & crook!
den power. So he turned
JOHN
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MYRNA LOY
Ovices is H. D'alceda D'Amor Daniel C. Solonial, secule andat Aa 250-BADIO 'Platone of vorani,
TO-DAY AT THE
King's.
CINEMA
HONG KONG
"The Shadow."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1933.
TO-DAY
AND TO-MORROW AT
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
A DOUBLE ATTRACTION I ON THE SCREEN
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
Queen's."
"The Eagle and the Hawk.” Central.
King Kong."
Oriental.
"Hell Below."
KOWLOON
Star."
Tell England."
Majestic.
"The Blue Danubë.”
Theatre Calendar
KINGS THEATRE Wed-Thurs-Shadow, Fri-Sat. Cleaning "Up.
QUEENS THEATRE
The Engle and The Hawk. Night After Night.
Hold Your Man.
CENTRAL THEATRE Wed.-Friday King Kong. Sat.-Mon.-Topaze.
"THE EAGLE AND
THE HAWK"
Brilliant Flying Between Rivals
The roar of airplane moters, the scream of wind through struts and braces, the rat-tat-tat of death- dealing machine-guns and, above them all, the friendship and hatred that flourishes between.men enga- ged in flying to death--this, briefly is "The Eagle and The Hawk, story of wartime aviation, which has its final showings to-dhy at the Queen's.
THE BRIGHTEST THING
IN DETECTIVE TALES
ELIZABETH ALLAN
IN
"THE SHADOW
B
WITH
HENRY KENDALL JEANNE STUART
A BRITISH PICTURE
--- ON THE STAGE
...
AT 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ONLY.
THE WORLD FAMOUS
ACROBATIC TROUPE
"ABELLO"
NOVEL SCENES, DANCES AND OTHER ACROBATIC FEATURES. ENEVER SEEN BEFORE.
RAFT ROCKETS
TO FAME
Frederic March and Cary Grant His Dancing Admired
play the two leading roles in the picture. Jack Oakie furnishes comedy interest and Carole Lom- bard romantic interest.. Walker directed.
Stuart
Can
The story by Jolin Monk Saun- ders, author of "Wings," centres around two wartime flyers who are an unbeatable combination in the air but the bitterest of enemies on the ground. March is the pilot, a brilliant, reckless flyer who out-manoeuver anything else in the air. Grant is "the observer; » a skillful, ruthless" gunner, who can fill anything in sight with a load of deddly machine-gun bullets. Between them, they soon win fare and honour.
But in their personal relations, they are not nearly so ideal as in their professional ones. March hates Grant for his cold delight in killing: Grant hates March for his sensitiveness to death. Ultimately Grant discovers his pilot has begun to crack under the strain. What happens then brings the picture to a startling denouement
Hollywood's famed "suicide squadron-the organization of stant pilots who risk their necks potting planes through required maneuvers participated almost en
ing air scenes.
masse in the Alming of the thrill
"KING KONG”
By Royalty
There's many a curious detaur on the path to fame.
following a queer circuitous route, is a youngfellow who started out as a boxer, who took up dancing to improve his foot-work in the ring, who soon was a better dan- cer than a boxer, who graduated from the ring to the stage, and from the stage to the movies.
Latest to reach that goal, after
role in
He is George Raft, who skyroc- keted to fim fame through sup- porting roles in "Scarface,”. "Dan- cers in the Dark," and "Madame Racketeer," and who is played the featured
"Night After Night," showing from to-morrow at the Queen's with Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West and Allson Skipworth. Whe picture is from Louis Bromfield's novel, "Single Night."
fighting region of New York City Raft, born in that hard-boiled
where the "Forties" meat Tenth
Julius Hogen presento
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25813 & 25332.
-NEXT-CHANGE-
COMMENCING FRIDAY 17th NOVEMBER. GEORGE GEE
THE MAN WITH A 1000
FACES: MAKES YOU"
LAUGH IN
"CLEANING
UP"
WITH
BETTY ASTELL DAVY BURNABY A BRITISH PICTURE.
ELIZABETH ALLAN
and
HENRY KENDALL
GEORGE COOPER 24 Real Al Production ? ?
COMMENCING TO-DAY
**TOPAZE".
Central Theatre
Showing Again At applauded and personally com-elever portrayal this promises to be
Central Theatre
"
He bad thrilled and suffered in titantic struggle with mamoth and weird prehistoric creatures, yet had never known the heart tingle only a women can arouse!
King Kong" giant, ape, triumphed for millions of adven ture-filled years, yet this Beast was po. mightier than puny man when he saw Beauty for the first time
had
Avenue, boxed in the feather-John Barrymore, in the funniest weight division while in his middle role of his career in this tim 'teens. He also played baseball.brought "to the
screen from its As soon as dancing became his Broadway Triumph Myrna Loy hobby he turned to it for a vis his leading lady," and is responsi- ing, and became a favourite at all ble for much of the success of this the big New York night clubs. daring comedy. It has some rather Later he visited London and was venturesome scenes, and added to
mended by the Prince of Wales.
real good entertainment Others in Something of the lite he led and the cast are Luis Alberni Regin
ald Mason, Jobyna Howland, people he knew, is incorporated in Jackie Searl, Frank Reicher and directed by Archie Mayo and the story of "Night After Night,"
founded upon & Bromfeld "story that is a slice of life from the heart of the "big town" The role played le that of proprietor of a Popular little night club and form- er dancer, pugilist and ball play- eri
Raft is the one man in the
in the person of Ann Redman. A triangle. love story of the plot. An tiny doll in the hand of a babe is unusual type of romance is work- JEAN HARLOW IN larger than Ann in the great banded out between the new screen
SINGING
of her fearsome admirer!
hero and the character played by The fifty-foot ape's mighty éry of Miss Cummings; also an equally with beauteous Mae West of Diamond LU": fame,
ROLE"Kong Kong!" gives title to "different" one
King Kong," the REO-Radio Pie ture that claims to have achieved
Song Hit Composed the pinnacle of screen imagery.
Especially For Her
Jean Harlow sings for the first time on the screen in "Hold Your Man," the new Metro-Goldwyn Mayer feature co-starring Miss Harlow and Clark Gable.
Fay Wray plays-Ann, and Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot port-. ray the two intrepid adventurers who, with the girl, discover “King Kong" in his jungle lair, capture him through his strange interest in the girl, and take him to New York where, when he thinks the girl is in danger, he rins amuck through
With the inmates of a women's the streets. reform school for an audience; "King Kong" brought back by Jean renders the number at a special request to the Central piano in a number described as Theatre to-day. "ultra-torchy." It is a new song
hit written especially for the pic-man whose love put her behind ture · by Naçio Herb Brown and prison bars.
CARGO OF HAM CAUSES FIELDS TO CRACK WISE
The other day, a tradesman appeared at the reception 'deak of. Paramount Studios carrying on his shoulder, & carton bearing the trademark of a popular brand of canned ham.
He was just enquiring the way to the star's dressing room, building when W. C. Fields passed by,
"commended Fields, "Carrying coals to Newustle,"
Arthur Freed, noted "Broadway Sam Wood directed the new film, Melody" and other popular mus- which will be shown at the Queen's cal-air composers.
next Sunday from an priginal story by Anita Loos. Included in the cast are Stuart Erwin, Dorothy A trick cyclist, who was arrested Burgess. Muriel «Kirkland, Garry in Connaught Road for giving an Owen, Barbara Barondess," Paul | exhibition with his hands and feet. Hurst and Elizabeth Patterson on the handlebars, was inad 25.
The Lumber is heard elsewhere in the picture through orchestra tions, but is sung by Miss Harlow in the reform school scene to ex- prass he ache in her heart.for the
Lowden Adams,
A SHOWE
DAILY
$30-18
AT THE KING'S,
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FILMS AND STARS
Marie Dressler Still Most Popular
(Spestal Air-Mail Service)
London, Oct. 25.
A questionnaire filled in by 9,440 exhibitors in the United States, who were asked to name the stars found most popular, has given the following result:
Women." Marie Dressler, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.
Mer
Wallace Beery, Clark Garble and Lionel Barrymore.
It will be noted that those rising young players, Miss Carbo and Miss Dietrich, 'are not mentioned
Team Work
•
But obviously such" lists mean very little. How much of the drawing power of, say, "Min and Bill is due to Miss Dressler, and how much to Mr. Beery Are they both to have full marks for a suc- cess to which each probably con- tributed 50 per cent.?.
"A Free Soul" was a box-office winner, but to set it down as a triumph for Miss SOD, William Powell, James Cagney, and Kay Francis.
Mr. Brown is also quite popular- In parts of the English provinces where the Marx Brothers are de- tested, the humour of Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn is condemned as highbrow, and Cockney comedy is rejected because of the Oxford ác- cent.
Ann American flappers revere Harding, Constance Bennett and Norma Shearer as the embodi ments of Continental sophistica- tion. The Continent rejects all three as typical American misses,
Speaking' generálly, small towns everywhere detest vamps and men. of the world. So do children. .A -recent Scottish census showed that Adolphe Menjou was the player most disliked by both boys_and girls, with Miss Garbo and Miss Dietrich not far behind.
....
If We All Agreed
"One man's meat". The old proverb might have been coined to suit the films. You may see in Katharine Hepburn nothing but a big-mouthed young woman with a strident voice. I think she is mar- vellous-the greatest discovery sinice Garbo. You may adore Uttle- Ruby Keeler as the embodiment of sweetness and light; I see only what William Archer would call a disciple .of Terpsichore and "Variety a hoofer," "
It is as well If we all agreed on these little matters what dis- may we should witness at "some Hollywood premieres, and at others. what mad pursuit, what struggle to escape, what wild ecstasyl Let discord flourish, prejudice die hard. and the warring tribes of fans never perish from the earth,
The New Pictures
gangster, C. Henry Gordon bis
"Crooks in Clover" (Empire). Tival, Myrna, Loy a new sort of They said gangster pictures were night club girl, and Charles But-finished. What nonsensel Holly- terworth & butler who succeeds in wood does nothing quite so well, being very funny indeed without and I, for one, hope "Crooks in moving a muscle of his face. A Clover" starts a new cycle. It is exciting, ingenious and amusing, picture you mustn't miss.
with some of the wittiest dialogue "One Bunday Afternoon" (Pla-ever heard on the screen.
Warner Baxter is a "mouth- za). The success of "State Fair" has inspired a rush back to Main piece, Nat. Pendleton, a likeable Street. Here is another small-
(Continued on previque col.) town story, quite admirably told. The characterisation is firm and convincing, and the acting of Gary Cooper. Nell Hamilton, and es- pecially a newcomer, Frances Ful- ler, is first class,
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MIRACLE MASTERPIECE
Edmund LOWE
Lois MORAN
WITH ALFRED RODE AND HIS ROYAL TZIGANE BAND.
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COMRADES-
OF THE CLOUDSI
Doodly enemies #s the greend ......... Khawn and Foured throughout. Hie Men's Sky? Star1
EAGLE
HAWK
Story by author of "Wings"
PREDRIC
A Paramount Picture
MARCH
CARY
GRANT
CAROLE LOMBARD JACK OAKIE · ·
TO-MORROW
From the fonements
to Park Avenue... ard all
through
the love of many women I
Low-born,"brutal, he became Alled with the glory of love for the lady who sits alone.
NIGHT
AFTER
NIGHT
with
GEORGE RAFT
CONSTANCE CUMMINGS
WYNNE GIBSON MAE WEST and ALISON SKIPWORTH
Directed by Arcive Mage. From a story yavis Bromßeld
a Paramount Picture
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BRITAIN'S GREATEST!
Romance of Glorious Youth
TELL ENGLAND
THE IMMORTAL EPIC OF GALLIPOLI Druhá by
ANTHONY ASQUITH
GEOFFRY HARKAJ
CARL HARBORD. FAY COMPTON. TONY BRUCE,
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