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CENTRAL
HEATRO
KEAT QUEEN's RD., WESTBOUND. SOR
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre. Tel 25720.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY!
At 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.80. P.M.|
BILL BOYD DOROTHY WILSON
IN
"THE GREAT DECISION"
A THRILLING DRAMA OF GANGLAND'S IN- VASION OF THE WEST
AN RKO RADIO PICTURE.
TO-MORROW
SUPERB PICTURES
PLESENTS
AN AUTHENTIC PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE GREAT WAR
A OBAMATIČ PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD WAR.
A PICTURE OF GREAT INTEREST TO EVERY BODY.
“SAILOR'S - LUCK”
At The Oriental Theatre
Fox Film's "Sailor's Luck", with; James Dunn and Sally Eilers, is the current attraction at the Oriental Theatre.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
King's.
HONG KONG
"Trick or Trick."
Queen's.
"Konge"
Central.
"The Great Decision."
Oriental.
Star.
"Sailor's Luck.”
KOWLOON
"Love on the Spos."
Majestic.
"King Kong."
King's.
COMING
The Masquerader."
Central.
"Hell's Holiday,”.
Star.
"The Deluge."
Oriental
My Lips Betray."
TRICK FOR TRICK
Now Showing At
King's "
HONG 1 KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1933.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30. P.M.
OKINGS:
EA DOUBLE ATTRACTION!
ON THE SCREEN
It Was All a FAKE! See how two magicians expose each other in this hilarious thriller.
Fex Film preseNIK
TRICK FOR TRICK
- Ralph MORGAN Victor JORY Sally BLANE
Directed by Nemliten Maafadden
MASQUERADER” |
At The King's
on Sunday
Ronald Colman in the famous dual roles of "The Masquerader" comes to the King's Theatre next Sunday.
ON THE STAGE
AT ALL PERFORMANCES HUGO and BLEY
PRESENTS
HENRY & CO.
THE INCOMPARABLE ENTERTAINER
ARTIST MAGICIAN THE SHOW OF...] WONDERS
FILMS FOR SCHOOLS
Important Programm Projected.
BOOKING AT THE *THEATRE. TEL. 26313 & 25382
NEXT CHANGE COMMENCING TO MORROW
It our deummonds Drummond, this fast-moving story of mystacy;" a rapid-fies mccmsion of sarpcions and suspense that losege you one- seuntly on edge + **
Ronald
COLMAN
de the SAMUEL GOLDWYN Freduction of
The Masquerader
ELISSA -LANDI
Directed by RICHARD WALLACE
"KONGO"
At The Queen's
LEAGUE REFORM VLLY'S
PROPOSAL
Dr. Benes To Visit
Paris
Paris, To-day.
The Foreign Minister of Czecho- Slovakia,. Dr. Edward. Benes, hai accepted the official invitation to visit Paris on December 24.
Following the visit of Dr. Benes, the French Foreign Minister, Paul Boncour will visit Warsaw and Prague.
Hence it is assumed that a com- mon policy will be discussed to- wards the Italian proposal for re- form of the League of Nations.- Reuter.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY
Large Haul In Chicago
Chicago, Dec. 7. Half a million dollars in coun- terfeit money, and s complete counterfeiting plant, were seized in a raid on a cottage here after the arrest of two men, one alleged 'to be' à henchman of Al Capone, who were found carrying $30,000 In counterfeit notes.-Reuter.
ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE
London; Dec. 7. In the House of Commons,, the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Runciman, said the negotin- tions for a new. trade. agreement with the USSR. were still pro- ceeding, and progress had been made.-British Wireless.
PRISONERS FREED IN
BAVARIA
London, Dec. 7. Five hundred good conduct pri- soners will be released from con- centration camps in Bavaria, “in
the overwhelming victory in the elections and the approach of Christmas”—Reuter.
"Kongo" the film showing at the view of
A pretty face alone will carry of the most successful melodramas preparing a production program ly needs an introduction to movie
no beauty to stardom in the tal kies. Ralph Morgan, stage star who has the featured role in "Trick For Trick the Fox film at the King's Theatre, de- clares those days have gone fore-
Dow
ver..
Theatrical experience had be come a necessity, he observes, and then proceeds to confess that Janet Gaynor and Norma Shearer are exceptions to this statement.
In its original play form, one the world has ever seen was made out of the strange human atory of two men who so closely resem bed each other that neither wife nor mistress could be sure. }
Elissa Landi, who brought so much warmth and vitality to The Sign of the Cross, and Juliette Compton have the feminine leads David with Colman's dual roles.
Halliwell Torrence,
Hobbes, Creighton Hale and Helen Jerome Eddy are in the cast.
Samuel Goldwyn has given his "Both possess a natural gift for
production of the English melo- "And acting," declares Morgan.
bright modern setting. there
Arb. a certain gifted few drama a
The background for its human whose instinct for acting will
drama is the labour up-risings offset long training in the thea-
and the political crisis that are tre".
the headliness of London today.
Howard Estabrook adapted the play to the screen; it, is based on John Hunter Booth's dramatiza tion of the navel by Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Queen's Theatre abounds in thrills and Scane
excellent photography. Jungle life is always exciting and entertaining and "Kongo" is not lacking in anything in first class Walter Euston entertainment... An important film company is
plays the part of Flint and Scarce. me of educational films which faba. He seeks revenge on a man will take five years to complete who is supposed to have stolen his Each year fifty pictures will be wife. There is a child born and made, the subjects including Flint suspects Gregg. He has the blology, geography, meteorology girl brought up in a convent letting physics and languages. French her believe the is to meet her will be the most prominent among father, when he sends for her, but the languages, and biology, will his motive is revenge. He learns be treated so as to advance from however that the girl is really bis elementary stages to the stand own daughter. The climax is ards of universities. A special reached when Gregg gets killed and studio is to be built; the sclent she is rescued by Flint who claims fic nature of many of the films her as his own. demands facilities for laboratory work not often to be found in studios.
There are 88,000 scholastic in-. stitutions in the country, and it is estimated that if only per cent of these install apparatus there will be more equipped schools
than there are cinemas. The ap- paratus need not be full size; after the Alms have been made on ordinary stock they will be re-
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DRIFTWOOD
By The Beachcomber
He pointed to Janet GayLor's portrayals "Seventh Heaven" and State Fair as indicative of her instinctive flair for the theatre.
He bestowed a similar accolade
In his direction of "The Mas-duced to sixteen-millimetre width, on Norm Shearer a for her per-
as used in home projectors. formate in "Strange Interlude" querader," Richard Wallace has
The reason why films have no "In that picture she followed such made it a successor to his impres- sive roster that includes such nota- really great actresses 38 Lynn
hitherto played a great part in ordered для ble megaphone achievements Fontanne and Pauline Lord", said "Seven Days' Leave" "Tomorrow education is that there have not Morgan." "She brought qualities to
been enough good the role, though lanking their ex- and Tomorrow', "Shopworn An-, perience, that rank her perform gel" and "The Right to Love". apee with theirs".
"The Masquerader" is the second pictures to make it worth while and last Colman screen play of to install the apparatus." With this programme, and the certain- the year,
"THE GREAT DECISION"
Showing For Last
Time To-day
Besides. Dunn and Eilers, the coin-
She's tiny-five feet ore and looks plete cast includes Victor Jory, Esther only four feet ten. Blonde but not platinum. Was a stenographer at the Muir, Sammy Cohen, Will Stanton, RKC-Radio Stadio until two months the script for her first
Frank Moran. Lucien Littlefield, ago. Type Age of Consent. Was Buster Phelps, Carley Wright, Jorry picture, Mandy, Gertosine de Neel, Phil Tend, selected to play a bit and her test was Frank Atkinson, Eddie Dillion and so good she was given the lead. Matt McHugh.
"Sailor's Lack" probably loans more to comedy than any previous team picture of the well-known screen pair. The story concerns a beach of
goca'
on shore-leave and their romantic adventures "while "dame- chesing",
Comedy, for the most part, is sup plied by Sammy Cohen, Will Stanton, the tipsy gent in "Me and My Gal" and Frank Moran, former heavy weight boxer. All are cast a sea faring pals of Dunn
The notion takes the sailors avery. where from a hilarious comedy scene in, a swimming pool to a battering gang fight in a marathon dance: hall Entwined throughout is the tender romance of Dunn and Eiler
Born in Minneapolis, she worked at the studio as a stenographer two years before being noticed as a screen possi bility. She doesn't drink, likes to read, dislikes personal appearances, doesn't like sweets, is single, wants to play a role in which she can wear gor geous clothes, and she likes the beack... driving..tennis...doga.
...
Never uses powder except for screen. make-ups, nor rouge, nor cold cream." Always has a tan, doesn't freckle, is shy, very quiet, has not "gone Holly- wood" with her sodden fame, lives: with a stenographer friend whom she used to work, wants to find time enough away from work to visit her home and parents in Minneapolis and is now to be seen for the last time to night at the Central Theatre in her second picture, "The Great Decision". as leading woman for Bill Boyd. She is under long term contract to EKO.
Sometimes the news the beachcom ber picks up can bring a smile to a few readers, but today there will be many who will learn with regret of the unfortunate disappearance of Lient Hall of the Flagship, Isobel of the American Navy. Lieut Hall was in the Colony a week or so ago and left only when the ship was to Manila. One day' out from Hongkong, he ported nisning and a search educational was made on board, only to find he had disappeared and that there was no trace of him. Nothing de finite is known as yet but it is sormis-
drowned. The Isobel bad Admiral Uplma, Commander of the US. Asiatic Flest on board at the time.
QUBAL
It is likely to be the last forty of a continued supply, thated that he fell into the sea and was some time since Colman has gone obstacle is removed and the cine-
long holiday sailing the ma may at last. become a
Sea and Aegean
roaming the cognised part of the educational distant places of the earth.
system of this country.
on " a
4 SHOWS
DAILY... 1.20---5,13 7.15-8.80
TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
TO-DAY ONLY DON'T MISS THIS FUNNY NAUTICAL COMEDY!
SAILOR'S
LUCK
JAMES DUNN SALLY EILERS
Te-
PLENING
ROAD МАЖНАЯ
TEL. 22478
TO-MORROW
MONDAY TUESDAY
22
THE BIG MUSICAL COMEDY
...WITH WONDERFUL SONG HITS.
SPICY
story of
a maid who made a King
Lilian
HARVEY
MY LIPS BETRAY
JOHN BOLES EL BRENDEL
The President Jackson which or- rived in the Colony yesterday morn. ing brought a number of wives of United States Naval officers, to their husbands who ∙Are at present stationed. bere. Among those who disembarked this morning were Mrs. Ethel Stabb and daughter, Mrs. Anno Zaun: Mrs. Jane M. Wells and her two daughters" Martha and Anne: Mrs. Gladys E. Feeney accompanied by har sons, Richard L and Robert E. Feeney; Mrs. Myrtle Lee Warren; and Mrs. Dée Crichten.
Mr. Sidney Gerber, prominent. Seattle business man who has been in the East for some months on business returned to Shanghai last night and will soon be leaving for the United States
He expects to return again sometime in March.
JAPANESE MUSSOLINI
London, Now, 15. General Araki, who is being mén- hioned as the probable head of militarist Government in Japan, is the leader of the Japanese Imperi- alists/He was largely responsible for the recent annexation of Man-
He is a clever orator and publi- cist and believes in Fascist sys-
em of government. Res
His photograph in uniform ap pears on almost every hoarding in Tokio. The key to his favour is to describe him as the Japanese Muc- solini.
Nazi
U.S. LEAVES FOREIGN GOLD ALONE,
Washington, Dec. 7. Foreign purchases of gold under the Presidential monetary pro gramme" have been hardly enough. to make good bridgework for s set of false teeth," declared Mr. Jesse Jones, President of the Re- construction Finance Corporation to-day.
The purchase of newly-mined domestic gold had, he added, pro-. ceeded on a fairly substantial scale. The R.F.C. had purchased a total of 354.000 ounces, valued at $11,350,000-Reuter
SHIPPING SHARES IMPROVE The sterling on New York was quoted 5.113, and in Paris at 834. Gold increased 9d to 128/9d. with a premium of Bd.
.
The Stock markets are idle. War Loan at 34% is unchanged and Kamrs are quiet but steady. British shipping..shares improved governmen- on anticipations of help to Wireless.
that industry.-British
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ARMS
COMMENCING TO-DAY A 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. “Trader Hörn” was great "Tarzan" was exciting-wait till you thrill to Kongo.
DEEP IN THE HEART of the KONGO !
A white man and his bloodthirsty ape,
ruling an empire
of savage blacks
A
MADMAN
WHO WREAKS HIS VENGEANCE on a woman's soul!
ONGO
with WALTER HUSTON :
LUPE VELEZ, CONRAD NAGEL, VIRGINIA BRUCE
ALSO SHOWING LAUREL and HARDY in “Music
Box"
STAR
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