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*Advance Booking at Andersons
And the Theatre Tel. 25720,
SHOWING TO-DAY
2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
A SOUL STIRRING HUMAN STORY BOLLING ACROSS THE SOREEN IN MIGHTY HEART-BEATS OF A NA. TION IN TURMOIL!
RICHARD
Romance that springs from the soll we love ... Drama wrenched from the tumult of on empire" in "creation!
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HARD
with EDNA MAY OLIVER GUY KIBBEE, Directed by WILLIAM WELLMAN David O. Selznick Executive Producer
NEXT CHANGE
SYDNEY HOWARD
NIGHT
of the
GARTER
Winifred SHOTTER & Elsie RANDOLPH
UNITED PRTISES
A LAUGH EVERY MINUTE!
Va a Briticle & Sominiona Prodizilion
“PILGRIMAGE”
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
King's.
"The Rebel."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1933.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
2.80, 5.10, 7.13
HONG KONG
& 9.30 P.M.
A
SENSATIONAL
"Money for Nothing."
"The Conquerors."
Queen's.
Central,
Oriental.
Star.
The White Gold Dragon,
KOWLOON
"South Sea Rose." Majestic.
"Night after Night."
King's.
COMING
"Pilgrimage.
Queen's.
"Murder in the Zoo."
"Strangers Heturn."
"Kongo."
Central
Star.
The Night of the Garter."
The Deluge.'
"Frightened Lady."
"Burlesque Programme. "Calendar."
Love ou the 'Spat."
Oriental
"Looking on the Bright Side."
World.
J!
"Right of Wonen." (Chinese
film).
"Susen Lencs."
"The Kid
"MONEY, FOR
NOTHING"
Comedy At The Queen's
the. The current attraction at Queen's Theatre "Money for No- thing" proved to be a very accept. able ploture and is just the type that one would want to see to chase away that tired feeling en- gendered by hard work during the day. The film has a sufficient element of scientilating humour about it to make it appeal to one and all.
There are
some very clever
ROMANCE
IN STUPENDOUS SETTINGS!
WITE
LUIS TRENKER. VILMA BANKY, VICTOR VARCONI
A
UNIVERSAL PICTURE
REBEL
THE CONQUERORS
Excellent Pioneer' Film At The Central
-Packed in an array of twelve modest-looking tin cans lies a trea- sure representing a vast amount of cash and of human endeavour.
into these humble twelve con- tainers has been crammed the work of 5,000 men, women and children who worked many days toward making "The Conquerors" the mightiest of all present-day motion pictures,
The work of the humblest car-
jokes in it and the plot moves penter to the highest executive is quite rapidly. Seymout Hicks inscribed on strips of celluloid con- and the supporting cast include ained in those cans. well-known stars; including Char-And long before the film was
ready les Farrell...
cameras, many writers, technicians, historians and other specialists spent months in preparation,
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The story commence in Monte Carlo where Seymour Hicks Jeff Cheddar contemplates sul- elde. A nice" girl comes on the scens, and is led to believe that Hicks is someone who could save her father's fortune. Hicks allows himself to be persuaded to leave allowing the for London where. deception to carry on, he deve-
lopes an unusual situation, where- by the fortune of the pretty girl
and her flance' is saved.
to
whirl
through the
For six months these experts scanned the pages of United States' history, seeking out the colourful high lights to Inject into RKO Radio's spectacular saga of Ament can history,
"THE REBEL" Showing At The King's
Vilma Banky.come back!
"Absent from the motion picture studios for nearly three years, the beloved "Hungarian Rhapsody " has taken back the threat of per manent retirement she made follow- ing marriage to Red La-Roque and once more graces the screen with her blonde loveliness in Universal'a "The Rebel," in which she appeari opposite Luis Trenker now at the King's Theatre,
Seven years
Vilma Banky arrived in America, absolutely un- known. In the next five years was! developed into one of the greatest drawing cards sad most finished actresses in Hollywood. And the story back of ber rise to film pro- minence in one of the most internet- ing ever to come out of the film capital.
BOOKING: ΑΤ ΤΗΝ THEATRE TEL. 25913 & 25332.
NEXT CHANGE COMMENCING SUNDAY, 3rd DEC. She Closed Her Heart
to Love"..
and brought bitterness into the lives of those dear to her ...before suffering taught her sympathy and understanding
PILGRIMAGE
The Triumph of A Great Love
HENRIETTA CROSMAN HEATHER ANGEL NORMAN FOSTER MARIAN NIXON Story by . A. R. Wylie Directed by John Ford.
"MURDERS IN THE ZOO"
Melodrama At The
Queen's
"Murders in the Zoo," mystery melodrama featuring Charlie Ruggles Limel Awill, Kathleen Burke (the Panther Woman). Randolph Scott, John Lodge, and Gail Patrick," has bern booked
to open to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre.
"Murders in the Zoo" centres around a sadistic madman in-. On sanely Jealous of his wife. a trip to India. to collect new specimens for a zoo in which he is interested; he sews up the lips of a man who, while drunk, had kissed his wife, and then leaves him to the mercy of "jungle tigers En route back to the US. he notices that a fellow-passeng- er is paying too much attention to his wife, but he does not act immediately.
The Zoo, in financial atress, has meanwhile arranged for a great banquet to be held in its carnivora house. To it are in- vited the city's wealthy, to be solicited for funds to aid it in the crisis. The jealous husband, sees to it that his wife's admirer is present. Then, at the height of the dinner, the latter screams suddenly in pain, collapses and dles The dinner breaks up as hysterial guests fee. The wife, convinced that her husband has had some connection with the killing, rushes to tell zoo officials her suspicion. But she is brutal- ly killed before she can carry out her plans.
ZOG
A young scientist, on the staff ultimately discovers the truth, but the madman turns the wild beasts loose and attempts to Bee. The picture comes to breathless climax in the debacle that follows.
LONDON AIR-- MAIL LETTER
(Continyed from Page 1)
As long ago as last year there was talk of another post for the popular General, as he then was.
However, the Duke saw the wis- dom of allowing him to complete the preparation of his Chicago fight. That was a triumph.".
UNSELFISH LEADER.
A friend who knows him well tell me that he had an insight into General Balbo's qualities. as.....a leader when the Italian Schneider Cup team was defeated by the British at Venice in 1927.
Fis one thought was to temper the blow for the brave · young Italian airmen who had tried, against hopeless technical handi- caps, to save the day: To him, of course, the defeat meant much more even than to them.
It was due largely to his deter-
lately
Handlella Croeman and Norman Foster have two of the leading roles in Samuel Goldwyn discovered her
the forthcoming Fox production, "Pil when he was in Europe searching
grimage," heralded da one of the im- for 4 leading lady for Ronald
portant screen plays of the weason, LPD From 1873 to 1933-every breath Cotman. It just happened that he America has breathed in its gnt noticed her picture in a shop win- lady in "The Eagle" and "The Sonmination that Italy now holds all growth and commercial deve dow in Budapest and, after a of the Shaik," and with Colman in those air records which were lopment--is portrayed by "The week's search for the original, gave "The Magic Flams," "The Winning Great Britain's
AN ORNATE COACH. Conquerors" with fidelity to the in despair. Meanwhile Miss of Barbara Worth" "The Night
I had a glimpse yesterday of the You would think that like most
romance and growth of a great Banky heard of Goldwyn's search, of Love" and "Two Lovers." pictures, the hero marries the nation.
Four years ago she settled all Lord Mayor's Coach, all newly fur- heroine in the final scene, but in
William A Wellman, the direcgot an interview with him and was the "Money for Nothing." final tor, did not make: "The Conquer-signed to her first American com- persistent rumours that she was benished for Thursday's ceremony, tract within twenty-four hours coming interested in any one of the Is there any vehicle still in use scene is. nothing like that. The org" within the confines of studio after their meeting.
prominent motion picture actors more lavishly, and variously, de- ending is definitely unusual and walls. Twice he took his crew and Miss Banky was born in Hungary who besieged ber by marrying Rod corated?
When built a century and a half- sends you away chuckling over company to northern parts of of a prosperous family, which had LaRocque and almost simultaneous the many funny situation through- California to photograph in their suffered great reverses during the ly announcing her retirement from ago ita ornamentation was en-
trusted to an Italian painter.. out the story.
own settings some of the stirring war. Although she had had some the screen.
one of Unfortunately, as more than one dents in the production.
They are regarded as experience in motion picture acting Coopertown,
reputation had ples. Recently she and Rod decided comfort of the great old coach 1s with German and Austrian film moviedane happiest married cou-Lord Mayor has complained, the companies, her
screen by no means comparable with its, scarcely spread outside of Germany that resumption of her,
career would in no way interfere magnifcence, and Hungary....
Coming to America she was im with her marital happiness so the Universal's offer of a mediately established as the film accepted find of the year, with her delightful comeback as the heroine in "The performance opposite Ronald Col Rebel," which has another silent man, in "The Dark Angel." Even day favorite, Victor Varconi, in
In addition to the main attrac- tion a short comedy entitled "Good Medicine" is included. This is one of those short films that is
full of wit and fun that puts one in very good humour for the main attraction.
At
California,
Wellman photographed, a duph cate of the first train that ever
travelled west.
At Stocktown, California, the di- rector employed more than 500 men and women to participate in the canal boat sequence. "Each sequence in the picture, drive him from her life. But, in which treats of the three major later years, she sees just such a depressions that have visited the romance' as was her son's being United States only to release their shattered by a selfish mother, and clutches in the face of an ever- she devotes herself to the saving rising prosperity, has been accord- of the two strange lovers
Herrietta Crosman, who will be ed the same falthfulness of expert
casting and production. remembered for her. splendid character portrayals on both the An entire city, showing its growth through the years from stage and the screen, playa, the 1873 to 1933, was built and rebuilt lending role of the mother who during the filming of the picture knows it is not too late to correct which co-stars Richard Diz and. her life's greatest error.
Normen
Ann Harding in a great cast of Foster plays the part of the con
great names. she sends to his death, and Marian
This was the city of Fort Allen, Nixon is seen as his sweetheart, Nebraska the little town which the innocent victim of the mother's Roger and Caroline Standish, play- wrath. Heather Angel, young English newcomer to the American ed by Dix and Miss Harding,
Norman Forster And
Marian Nixon Score subsequent years, is the
one
their home, It was there that Roger founded the first bank and, with Caroline, succeeded in having the railroad brought through the city in which they believed
Herben is the young lover who, in travelled by stage-coach on their means honeymoon. It was there that the through which the mother effects couple, entranced by the romantic "Pilgrimage," the new Fox her own reform. Others in the east and commercial prospects of the western frontier, settled to make drama, comes to the King's Theatre are Maurice Murphy, Hedda Hop: next Sunday. It is heralded as per, Francia Ford, Jay Ward and of the outstanding motion Frances Rich. A number of screen picture productions of the current stars of the past have important roles Among these are Lualle La
To show the various stages of The story of the film is reported Verne, Charley Grapewin, Robert as one of the most unusual ever Warwick, Louise Carter and Betty
development in the town during to be presented on the screen. It Blythe,
John Ford directed, the produce the span of sixty years, more than revolves around the love of B mother for her son which becomes tion from the story of the same four hundred carpenters were con- w tense that it turns into a burn name by I. AR. Wylie. The stently kept busy building and re- ing hatted. It is the story of a screen play was written by Philip building the structures that raade mother" who acode" her son to war Klein and the late Barry Connors, up the city and death in order to keep him with dialogue provided by Dudley From the ends of the country, research workers to ferret out old. from marrying the girl he loves Nichols William Collier, Sr., is the director and his stac sent She is philosophically content with the dialogue director, ... the fact that the girl will not have Bome of the most elaborate aethuggles, old planos and other au- her son, even if it does mean that tings recently seen on the screen thentic articles of distant periods, he must remain only, & memory in are said to have been built for this And now The Conquerors rest her own heart. She tries to brush Fox production, one of the most him from her conscience. She is important strong in her determination to schedule.
ing between screenings in a dozen
on the Fox Filmt alm cans makes it debut at the
Central Theatre, to-day,
greater success followed with her the cast and which was directed by portrayals as Valentino's leading! Trenker and Edwin II. Knopf.
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THEY ALL LOVED HIM!
NIGHT
AFTER
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When lights are low... passion
fomas brightest
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.18 & 9.20 p.m.
Saucy! Slick! Scintillating!
INTERNATIONALE: PICTURES OF
Seymour HICKS
GIRL BETTY STOCKFELD
MONEY
Mothing
DONALD CALTHROP Directed by MONTY BANKS
that
all "Contains contributes towards comedy success."
Daily Sketch.
-FROM FRIDAY
Terror-Swept Epic of a Monster More Savage than his Beasts!
·HE KILLED --
FOR LOVE AND LOVED
TO KILL!
Drama That Scales the Pasks of Bar- reri Telling the Story of a Monster
·Mer®HideousThan the Feästi. He Cagad!
IN THE
MURDERS
ZOO
Smashing Novelty Fraught With Thrilla, Fired by Romance!
CHARLIE RUGGLES" LIONEL ATWILL KATHLEEN BURKE Ch Father Furni KARDOLPH SCOTT="JOKN LODGE
GAIL PATRICK - A Give upt Pictur
(STAR)
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FOX presents
"SOUTH
SEA ROSE"
LENORE CHAROUS
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