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Advance Booking At Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720, "
King'a
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
IT ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN A POLECAT ASKS
A FAVOR OF A SKUNK...
"One of them well wel up to find himself a cigar store Indian!
Rival peephole scribblers
they diabed oni scandal to
» sensation-greedy world!
IS MY FACE RED?
Story of the rise and fall
of Mr. Power's als boy "Willyam, noted columnis
and heavy LoveT.
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CONTEZ BILAN
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COMING
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Stopgering imaginative spectacle romancel
Blood fest
rules the waste
of civilization!
With
Peggy Shannon. Loli Wilson, SidneyBlackmer. Matt Moore, Edward Yon Sloan
· Raif Heroide, Samuel Hinde Directed by falls E. Faist from the book by S. PowerWright. Somet Bischof, asociate producer
EMERGENCY "CALL ....·
CINEMA
HONG KONG
The Masquerader." Queen's.
The Mystery of the Wax
Museum."
Central.
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"Is My Face Red."
Oriental
8tar.
"Young, Donovaus Kid."
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KOWLOON
"Mischief."
Majestic..
"King Kong."
Theatre Calender
KING'S THEATRE
13 "Final showing of the Mas- querader."!
14-16 "Perfect Understanding"
CENTRAL THEATRE
13-15 "Emergency Call" 16-19 "Deluge."
20 "Christopher Strong."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1933.
FINAL SHOWIEGS. TO-DAY
AT
2.30.5.10, 7.15)
́& 9.30. P.M.
KINGS •
RONALD COLMAN IN A DUAL ROLE THAT WILL GIVE YOU A DOUBLE MEASURE OF ENJOYMENT,
RONALD
EVEN HIS WIFE COULDN'T TELL THEM APARTI
(They looked and acted and talked so much alike)
Who was making love to her? Was it har husband? Or was it cho
| masquerader bu kirwel to double for him?
Ovi-Drummandı
"BULLDOG DRUMMOND”
COLMAN
IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN Production, of
THE MASQUERADER
with ELISSA LANDI ℗ Directed by RICHARD WALLACE
ALSO-
MICKEY MOUSE
PRESENTS
"YE OLDEN DAYS" ;
MICKEY MOUSE.
AND
A SILLY SYMPHONY IN TECHNI-COLOUR
**OLD KING COLE"
"MASQUERADER"
At The King's
Through the fog and the mystery of "might, Ronald Colman stumbles into the living image of himself and so starts off the stirring story of "The Masquerader" King's Theatre to-day,
at the
BOOKING MYSTERY OF THE
WAX MUSEUM
AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25389
-NEXT CHANGE:
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
FREEDOM' in MARRIAGE They married to be free..leach to do sa - asch d'estrod. Such was their Perfect... Understanding. How perfect was it?
Glacia Stand
Patrón Coep, Lol
Horia WANSON
IN
PERFECT UNDERSTANDING
with
LAURENCE OLIVIER HALLIDAY -JOHN
GENEVIEVE TOSIN MICHAEL FARMER A. United Artists Picture
42ND
STREET
Beautiful Chorus in Queen's Picture
A chorus girl can only got as far as her knees will take her.
A society leader is only as beau- tifull as her back. An actresa, or a
The thrilla and the heart-throbs dancer is a lovelier than her
Good Entertainment
At Queen's
Never has such an effectivá me...”
ange of thrills, chills, laughs arul
air of mystery been offered to the entertainment-loving publio as is to be found in The Mystery of the Wax Museum," by Warner Bros. which opens-to-day as the Queen's Theatre, Warner Bros. again have given the motion picture fame a superb piece of screen entertain-
ment.
weird, Among the
fantastic stories of crime and mystery that have engaged the attention of mo. tion picture writers and directars, this picture easily takes first, rank.. Every one of its scores of values is heightened by the finest colour photography that has yet been shown UIL the motion picture screen. In this respect, it may be said to surpass even Doctor X," which Warner Bros. produced last year. 28 ค sensational excursion into the domain of the fantastic.
Opening with swift, but sen. sabinal prologue in London, where a Russian sculptor has begun attract the attention of art con- noisseur through his extraordinary skill in the modeling of WRX figures, the story jumps to New York of the present day.
to
A series of mysterious crimes and still more mysterious disappear- ances of wel'-known people has begun to arcuse the police and the newspapers. Meanwhile, in his workshop in the heart of the metropolis, Igor, the sculptor, is quietly but steadily creating a new group of wax statues with which to people the now wax museum that he intends to
open in American city.
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It would not be fair to the pic- ture, not to those who have not yet seen "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," to disclose any further details of this powerful drama. Before it is over a young workman in the sculptor's employ, and his
beautiful fiance, become involved in the web of mystery; a beautiful chorus-girl's body disappears from the morgue under the very eyes of the police; and a daring woman newspaper reporter acting on a hurch sets out to solve the mystery, single-handed.
Aptly balanced against the my- sterious elements of the picture,
of the famous stage melodrama ankles. A choring is only as pretty are the uproariously funny scenes are brilliantly revised by Colman as her knees.
between the girl reporter and ber Managing editor.
entertaining manner,
in a smooth and polished produc- By their kuces Busby Berkeley, hard-boiled tion by Samuel Goldwyn Howard noted New York chorus master Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh Estabrook and Moss Hart adapted made his final selections of the 150 carry off these situations in a most
the various the screen play from John Hunter girls who make up Booth's dramatization of the Cathe.chorises included in the Warner rine Cecil Thurston,
Bros. new back-stage drams, "42d Street," which is coming as next change at the Queen's Theatre.
The process of eliminating by which the lucky 150 from 6,000 applicants was about as follows: ...
Playing with Colman in the dual roles are the patrican Elissa Landi and the dark, stately beauty of Juliette Compton, the one as wife, the other as mistress,
were chosen
As the Russian sculptor, Lionel Atwill gives a subtle and fascinat ing performance, that racks with the best things he has done in his career. As a WRX gonius, his power is infused into every scene of the picture in which he appears. Fay Wray, Allen Vincent, Gavin The story itself in one of the
Gordon, Arthur Edmund Carewe, First, Director Berkeley picked Edwin Maxwell and numerous most cherished and the most intri- guing of modern legenda. John three hundred girls with pretty other players contribute able sup Chiente, estranged from his wife, faces. From these he picked two port to the central figures and the Eve, is going to
who also bad pretty dramatic values of the story, The the dogs from hundred booze and dissipation, Making a ankles. He arranged this group thoroughness that marks "all casts critical speech in the House of according to height, the taller ones Commons, he collapses. Stumbling in the middle, the shorter ones on home then in the fog, he collides the ends. with his double, whom he installs destruction of our modern world. in his place in the seat of govern ment and his home. The strange are some exciting scenes problems of the wife and the mis- and amongst them one between treas trying to recognize in the Peggy Shannon and Lois Wilson competing for the husband, this newcomer a husband and a lover climaxes the acting honours with Chicote sinks lower and lower
and Matt Moore who build up to a terrifying climax.
Gloria Swanson and Laurence Oliver in." Perfect Understanding "
commencing to-morrow at the King's Theatre.
THE DELUGE
At The Central
“Deluge" is a daring thriller and
is a decided" box office attraction. It iasomething so different from anything ever flashed on a mot- ion picture screen. You must not miss this astounding drama of the
a
Central Theatre
"Emergency Call" is an R.K.O, picture with Bill Boyd and Wynne Gibson in the leading roles. The plot deals around a mob of crook- Boyd and they strike quite ed politicians who imperial
the friendship which ends up in the lives of men who save lives. There usual way. This film was direct- is plenty of action in this picture. ed by Edward Cahn and is to Miss Gibson is cast as head of a commence "Its run to-day, at the corps of nurses-She meets Bill Central Theatre.
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TWO GREAT SCREEN FAVOURITES- GALLANT MAN AND GALLANT BOY- THAT HAS THE CROWD CHEERING IN THE AISLES AT EVERY SHOW!
RICHARD
DIX
JACKIE COOPER Sensational Star of KIPPY YOUNG
DONOVAN'S
KID
AN RKO RADIO PICTURE
FROM BEX BEACH'S MIGHTY STORY BIG BROTHER"
ITE A GREAT STORY FILLED WITH LAUGHTER STRANGE ADVENTURES AND THRILLING TEIUMPHS!
2 BOBEEN IDOLS IN THEIR GREATEST PICTURE
There
Blackmer
both are worthy of special men- tion. The direction is wonderful and the camera work has been described as excellent.
"IS MY FACE RED?" Showing At The Central
A newspaper atmosphere, differ- eat from any ever before reflected upon the motion picture screen, is revealed in "Is My Face Red 7" the RKO-Radio fim now showing at, the Central Theatre.
The office shown is the inner sanction of a tattler columnist, the clearing house for intimate gossip, heartaches and anticipated divorce suite.
Except for the autographed pho- tographs of stage and reen be autics and Broadway celebrities, the office occupied by Ricardo Cortes, who plays the role of the columnist, resembles that of a big business executive: About it is none of the hustle and bustles of the city news room. Shirt sleeves
worried and eye shades,
editors and hustling copy boys are con- spicuously absent. Only a pretty secretary, played by Arline Junge, shares the place with Cortes. She answers the telephones, and takes in dication the barbed darts that go out to create emotion in the hearts of thousands
Playing the romantio lead with Corter in this revelation of a co- Jumnist's activities in "Helen Twel- vetress. She is seen sa a, show girl who provides her lover with many of his "low down tips.*** Others are Jill Eemond, Sidney Toler and Robert Armstrong.
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Director Richard Wallace has blended the romantic feeling and humour of which Colman is much a master with an air of mystery and thrills that suggest "Bulldog Drummond."
"J
appearing in all Warner Bros. pictures, again has resulted in a perfectly cast picture.
In the direction of the picture, Then he went along the line and, without looking at the faces, picked Michael Curtis has again demon- out the 150 prettiest sets of knees. strated his power as a master of crashing So in the final selection of the cumulative effect and
Technicolour the denouement. chorines in 42nd Street,"
and knees had it. The faces had to be photography is impressive" pretty too, and the ankles trim and adds immeasurably to the enter it goes almost without saying that taining qualities of the mystery. the legs had to be shapely between the ankles and the knees. But for
The
42nd Street" the girl who didn't "MIDSHIPMAID" have a pretty knee didn't have a chance!
The chorus girls appear in teau-Gay Musical Comedy
If "The Masquerader has any tiful ensembles of a musical spec ancestry in the past Colman pic tacle staged by Mr. Berkeley, and tures, it is surely "Bulldog Drum- which forms a show within the pic mond, for the new picture, fetare, the story being a dramatic ported as Colman's last for two epic of the theatre. years, is certainly a fitting swan "The screen play by Rian. James song to the Hollywood career of a and James Seymour is based on the distinguished motor and a gentle-novel of Bradford Ropes. It was
directed by Lloyd Bacon.
тап.
Lilian Harvey in her American screen debt, and Lew Ayres in what is reported as the most attractive role of his career, hape the featured roles in "My Weakness," the new production from the studios. of Foss.
2PB
At King's
"Midshipmaid commencing at the King's on Sunday is a gay musical comedy fraught with To- mance and laughter. If you are feeling at all blue the best cure you can get will be to go and see this picture.
The story is taken from a well- known story of Ian Hay's. Jessie Mathews a London girl takes the part of the heroine, as Celia New- biggia."
The plot inself is laid on board the flag ship.
girl Imagine a making her home with the officers
GULLS
SHOWING 10-DAY
At 2,80, 5.10, 7.20 & 9:30 p.m.
HIS... to do with
as he desires...
IS SHE WOMAN OR WAX?
THE MYSTERY OF THE
WAX
MUSEUM
ALL IN ZORCEOUS
TECHNICOLOR
troom Warner Bros., WIHL –
LIONEL ATWILL FAY WRAY
FROM SUNDAY-
Most sensa- tional show
idea ever con- ceived by the miracle" minds of Hollywood!
42
STREET
Warner Bros mighty extravaganza with 14 GREAT STARS 50 FEATURED PER- #FORMERS 200 DAZZLING BEAUTIES!
STAR
PO-DAY & TO-MORKOW
in the ward-room of a flagship,At 2.30. 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
add to this a string of Impossible. but amusing happenings and you get the whole story in a nutshell A hard headed business economist is hard to trick but watch the breezy way in which Jessie Ma-. thews does it and you will laughi Of course nobody can take the picture really seriously but in spite of ita gay, nonsense" you will cer tainly love it!
AMUSING EPISODES One of the most amusing episo des featuring Jessie Matthews in The Midshipmaid at the King's on the 17th, 18th and 19th, is where Edwin Lawrence, as the Bandmas ter of Marines, conduste bis band. in two sections. It is a joy to watch him at the task as he can only see one section at A time. One-half thinks that the overture is Mendelssohn's "Spring Bong and the other half thinks it is Tschaikowsky's 1812. Without seeing the scene, it is difficult to believe that a band could be wo funny, and that without any but foonery of performance
THE PICTURE SPECIALLY SELECTED TO BE SHOWN TO
H. R. H.
The Prince of Wales
Mischief
with
RALPH LYNN WINIFRED SHOTTER JEANNE STUART
British Production.
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