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CENTRAL
THEATRI
TEAT QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BES
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatro Tel. 25720,
SHOWING TO-DAY 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
ALL IN NEW TECHNICOLOUR
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG "King of the Ritz,"
Ling").
Queen's.
"From Hell to Heaven,
"Fanny Foley Herself."
Central.
Oriental.
Cavalcade.
Star.
سب
KOWLOON
"Rome Express."
Majestic.
"The Texas Bad Man,
COMING
"Devil's In Love."
YOU'LL LAUGH WITH TEARS IN YOUR EYES
King's
Queen's.
"Storm at Day Break."
Edna May OLIVER
BELOVED STAR OF "CIMARRON"
#t
FANNY FOLEY
· HERSELF
JOHN DARROW HELIN CHANDLER HOBART BOSWORTH ROCHELLE HUDSON
MEL BROWN PRODUCTION
RKO
NEXT CHANGE
"Murder in "the Zoo."
Central.
Star.
"Toy's (Chinese Picture).
Smiling Through."
Frighten Lady. "
World.
Men Must Fight."
"Get Rich Quick Wallingford,”
"KING OF THE RITZ“
Now At King's
Theatre
"Act naturally but do not net.**
This paradoxical advice is offer-
ed to screen aspirants by Carine
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1933.
LAST
TWO-DAYS
AT
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
CONDITIONED THEATRE
A PRODUCTION OF OUTSTANDING CHARM AND ATTRACTIVENESS, LIGHT-HEARTED AND GAY FROM BEGINNING TO END.
BRITISH LION - BAINT BOROUGH
Picture
ROYAL
STANLEY
LUPINO
AND
BETTY
STOCKFELD
IN
KING OF THE RITZ'
WITH
HUGH WAKEFIELD...
HENRY KENDALL GINA MALO
Gallone, the producer of the de- THE DEVIL'S IN
lightful Gaumont film. "King of
the Ritz" showing at the King's
Theatre to-day.
"It is only when actors forget
that they are actors that they are valiable in front of a camera,
LOVE"
says Mr. Gallone, who demands of A Stirring Love Story
every player in his pictures, whe- ther they be stars or atmospheric bits," that their reaction to any situation be natura).
. "The Devil's In Love", the Fox film that presents Victor Jory as a full fledged star, comes to the King's Theatre next, Sunday.
It
Forget the camera's presence," he admonishes. "Realise that this ittle thing you are to do is not a great national event: acts Jua is the story of a young surgeon would net in real life but do not who proves his innocence of a act."
murder by a willingness, to sacri- When making "King of the Ritz'fice his own Ute.
1. The sincer" portrayals of Stanley Lupino, Betty Stockfeld, Hugh Wakefield, Gina Malo", and Henry Kendall being feature,
A CHINESE Mr. Gallone's advice was adheres The locale of the
PICTURE
LO MING YAU
PRESENTS
LILY YUEN
:
IN
"TOYS"
A UNITED PHOTOPLAY
PICTURE.
shifts
plot from the seething seaport towns of Africa, across burning sands to the peaceful atmosphere of a mission. And with the changes in locale comes a corresponding change in the outlook Of the
COMMUNISTS & principal character.
FIRE TRIAL
Arrest For Perjury Demand Refused
Berlin, November 18: 'To-day's
of the proceedings Reichstag fre trial dealt with the last remaining witnesses, chiefly Communists. whose statements CANTON TO STAND ALOOF essential to the case, dealt for the most part with technical issues of lesser interest.
At the beginning of the story
BOOKING AT Tax THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332.
-NEXT CHANGE- COMMENCING SUNDAY 26th NOVEMBER.
He ran away from life...from *the past...
from lava!:) Until he' met a girl who gave him cour ago to face fate. (FOX FILM Presents
THER
DEVIL'S
LOVE
IN
with
WITH
VICTOR JORY LORETTA YOUNG HERBERT MUNDIN
· VIVIENNE OSBORNE A FOX PICTURE
he finds himself at a Foreign Stanley Lupino and Betty Stockfeld in "King of the Ritz" commenc-
Legion post, healing the wounds and the illnesses of these strange soldiers. The murder of the commanding officer throws sus- picion on him and he is forced to dee to the protecting confusion of the seaport. A derelict among other derellets he meets two women almost simultaneously one the proprietress of a resort,
other 2 the
wholesome visitor from another country. Torn bq-t tween the attraction of these two
the
to
women, he wavers between sink-. ing to greater despair and rising
his above
circumstances Canton, November 23.
The two witness Jankovski and regained honour. It is only when The position of the Kuomintang
-cloakroom of scourge attacks his old Legion South west Executive Committee, Kasten from the
the Reichstag building, were on post and
natives threaten representating the views of the Kuomintang leaders in the South-duty at portal No. 2, from 8 until its occupants with slaughter, that west, made public yesterday their 2 o'clock on the day of the fire.he reverts to his old self, clears Both declared with emphasis that himself of the murder. charge. telegram concerning the дет
Torgler did not leave the Reich-and movement in Fukien.
women. stag building between those hours. Stating "that the Kuomintang Southwest Executive
They had never seen the accused Committee la unable to join their cause bq-van der Lubbe in the building at
the any time.
Witness Dittbender, at present detained
cause .Fukien repudiates Kuomintẳng, the circular telegram says:
Messrs. Chen Ming-shu, L. Chi-camp hsin and Hsu Chien declared on
chooses
between
the
two
ing to-day at the King's. Theatre.
“STORM AT DAY struggle of a
BREAK” Coming to The Queen's
THE CONQUERORS
Coming To The Central Theatre
"The Conquerora" will be show ing at the Central Theatre ch Wednesday, is the first picture – to reach the screen with an optimistic thought for the current, ceonomic problema.
Not only does the picture tackle the current depression, but it goes back to the business slumps of 1873 and graphically discloses the inevi- table recovery that followed ench One.
Here is a production that should revive hope in a nation that has repeatedly weathered the economic storms to return in etch instance a stranger and better nation than over before.
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There is a mighty sweep to this picture that unfolds on the screen the romantic and commercial pro-" gress of the United States.
It is a celluloid education within an entertainment. In an Hour and half, through the miracle of talk- ing pictures, one is privileged to sit in an ansy chair and see parading by the most significant sixty years of progress of America, and, the amazing and beautiful story of Caroline, whose belief in her young husband Roger, equalled only by her belief in the future of the United States,
This belief inspired to found a hank the Brst bank of Fort Allen, Nebraska. And when that bank tottered on the brink of failure, and ultimately went down" in the panic of 1993, it was the great fore- sight of Caroline that made not only Roger, but others, see that this country would survive to enjoy the fruits of more glorious and pros- perous years."
Richard Dix and Ann Harding and their "director, William Well- man, and David O. Selznick, the executive producer of RKO-Radio who had the foresight to make this picture, have employed every, re source of the motion picture.indus-"! try to make this picture equal to its inspiring theme.
BIG OPIUM SEIZURE
Three Tons Of Drug Found in Villa at Marseilles
Marseilles, November 19. Three tons of opium in
cases were discovered by the police to day, in a villa here. Three French- men have been arrested.
The authorities are baffled how such a quantity could have been smuggled ashore.-Reuter.
ter Huston, as the husband, has a woman between | difficult role which he carries to loyalty to her husband, old enough superb heights in his final stirring to be her father, and love for a scene of self-sacrifice. dashing young cavalry officer. All
Phillips Holmes also gives the Ingredients of powerful drama
grand performance as 2. genial are here, intrigue jealousy, Intense drunkard. The rotund Eugene love and bitter hate. The colour- Pallet.e and Louise Closser Hale ful foreign settings, the rapid-fire
are an excellent comedy pair; C. action, and the thrilling climax in Henry Gordon is again convincing- which a man drives himself to ly villainous as the traitorous death óver an embankment, all
"Panto," and Jean Parker makes Colourful, different in its back-contribute to make this a picture good all the flattering things said ground and import from the usual which forces. the spectator to sit about her after her work in "Ras- run of romances, "Storm at Day- up and take notice.
putin and the Empress" and ""The break will be shown from Sun-
Secret of Madame Blanche." Ric- day at the Queen's Theatre.
hard Boleslavsky's direction is of "the best have had such a surfeit of Ameri- can drawing room tales, that this story laid in the back 'country of Hungary during the World War comes as a pleasant and invigorat- Ing. surprise.
We
In the featured role, Victor Jory The love story, is a particularly has what is by far his most fascinating. one, depicting the important part
.on the screen. Loretta Young has the leading
at the concentration feminine role, and the supporting Sonnenburg, secretary of cast, headed by Vivienne Osborne "Red Help" from June 1927 until and David Manners, include C.- November 20 that they have February 1933, declared that Henry Gordon, Herbert Mundin,
was impossible that either Dimi-Emil severed connections with the Kuo-
ChautardTM and J. Carrol mintang and have, abolished the trov, Taney or Popov have ever Naish. Wilhelm Dieterle directed
SHOWS DAILY 3.30-8.13
Walter Huston Superl No little of the distinction of Storm at Daybreak" is due to its
flawless "acting. Kay Francis as the woman torn between loyalty and devotion plays her role with | a passionate `ardor. Nils Aather does the best work of his career at the cavalry officer who is forced to turn on his best friend, and Wal-
TAKE ANY TRÀM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB, U
ORIENTALE
Kuomintang Bag of bright sun on been at the Red Help office since from the story by Harry, Hervey 2 MORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW a blue sky. They also declared 1927. At one time a certain Yu and the screen play by Howard that they have formed a workers gosiay who bore a distant resem- Estabrook,
and peasants government.
That blence to Popov used to cali.
government has reached an agree
iment with the Japanese and in-
GROTHE'S ALLEGATION Answering a question by Dimi.
ternally it has formed a nalon prov. Dittberger said he had never with the Communists.
heard that the Communist fight. Outwardly the Fukien governing detachments were ever
held ment says that its against in a state of preparedness of Chiang Kai-shek, but its policy any emergency.
results in giving Chiang, an ex-trothe, whose assertions yes- cuse to offset the glory of the terday created such a sensation 19th route army for suppressing when under cross-examination by the Communists and resisting the defending counsel on Friday adhered to his assertion "that Japanese aggression.
Such action is against the pain- Kempner had said quite distinct- ciples of the Kuomintang and ly that Torgler had been admitt invites foreign invasion and the ed in the Reichstag building and spreading of Communist activi-hidden there with a number of ties. The harm done will be in- people, carrying inflammable ma- calculable.
terial, while the fre managed by Popov,
Dr. Back, defending counsel for Torgler, then suggested that Gro- the be arrested for perjury, but
Our basis of political existence the is the Three Principles of People and nationalism and have decided not to join the Fukien movement-Central Press
itself
was
the prosecutor declined.
With, this meeting, the Berlin One of th tex British-built proceedings were ended. The court Egyptian planes, while flying to will continue its labours on day from England" to Egypt. Thursday next in the buildings of crashed in flames near Blangy, the Supreme Court in Leipzig about 25 miles east of Dieppe.
Transocean.'
TROLLEY-BUS
SYSTEM
May Be Increased In London.
London, November 22.
A bill is to be promoted by the during the current session of Parliament London Transport Board
miles of tramway routes to provide for the replacing of 90 in the outer suburbs of London by trol ley buses....
#
A trolley-bus Bystem already operates over 18 miles of route in the South-Westem suburbs-Bri tish Wireless.
DAYS
GREATER THAN ANY PICTURE YOU EVER SAW E
To Courage..To Loyalty ..To all Life's Gallantry In a world distressed — amid-the whirling chaos of three decades this mother will make for you "a strange heaven out of unbelievable hell.”
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FROM HELL
TO HEAVEN
with
CAROLE LOMBARD JACK OAKIE DAVID MANNERS
ADRIENNE AMES "from a play by Lawrence Hazard a Paramount Picture
-FROM SUNDAY
WHO SHALL BLAME HER?
Bound to old loyalties-
caught up in a new love. -who shall blame this wife for what her heart made her decide?
KAY FRANCIS NILS ASTHER
TORM AT
DAYBREAK
STORM
with WALTER HUSTON
PHILLIPS HOLMES
·Directed by Richard Boleslavsky
(STAR
TO-DAY & TU-MORKOW
At 2.30. 5.20, 7.20 & 9:20 p.m.
ROME
ARME ESTHER RALSTON, CONRAD VEDT, Jean Berry, Gordon Harko :- Cèdrid Hardwicka, Drusted Waller Forde
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