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CENTRAL
HEATRE
KEAT QUEEN'S RD., WESTROUND BUS
ཟ་།
Advance Booking at Andersons
and the Théatre Tal, 90730.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
UNITED FILM PRODUCTION CO. OF BANGKOK PRESENTS
SIO KIT YUEN
AND
SUI KWAN WOO
'IN
"LOVE REDEEMED "·
AN ALL TALKING · PICTURE IN. CAN- TONESE DIALOGUE
PRODUCED AMIDST THE SCENIC BEAUTIES OF BANGKOK.
NEXT CHANGE
300 Miles an hour~ then thecrash! She tried to bribe
the devil with a burstofspeed...nat
cotic thrills to still the beast within. The crimson fames offierce desire burn ed higher as she
flew. You can't win!
CHRISTOPHER STRONG
RKU
RADIO
Picture
The personal arry of a million doughurs With
Kathnim
HEPBURN
COUN CLIVE BILLIE BURKS
Ralph Forbes
Helen Chandle
DOROTHY
NEX
"CHRISTOPHER STRONG
At The Central
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A combination of freckles, sex- appeal, showmanship and difference should be an incogruity, but in Katharine Heptura, it is not. The glamorous, vivacious featured play. er in RKO-Radio Pictures' "Chris- topher Strong" coming to the Central Theatre soon with Colin Olive, Billie Burke, Helen Chand- ler and Ralph. Forbes in support. thrives on contacts.
Clashing qualities constitute the secret of Katharine Hepburn'a im- mense vitality and refreshing na- turalness on the screen,
Katharine Hepburn's appeal is courage, without which she could uot have wrapped an armour of bravado around her when she was a child, and worn it gallantly aa she awaggered through adolescence. shedding shyness for poise and
grace.
"
While other children grow ip gracefully, without attracting un- due attention, Katharine, berinse she was sensitive and shy, forced herself into a spotlight. It was an instinct for self-preservation which led her to demand attention, even though she dreaded it, and got it in ber Buccess. Her quick and dazzling stage career is well known, And now. in "Christopher Strong' RKO-Radio Ficture, Katharine plays her second screen role, and bas already the leading featured part.
An interesting compound of paradoxes is this slim young actress who can projext more in tensity by the turn of her head than many actresses can by turning somersaults.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
The Midshipmsid"
King's
queen's,
"42nd Street,"
Central,
Oriental.
Love Redeemed”.
(Chinese, Picture)
The Warrior's Husband."
Lee Theatre
Star.
The White Zombie".
KOWLOON
"Du Barry, Woman of Pas-
sion".
Majestic.
"Don't. Bet on Love."
King's
Coming
Case."
Greatest
**Charlie Chan's
"Nine O'Clock Revue."
Queen's
**Another Language."
Central
Star.
Christopher Strong."
"Woman of Passion." My Wife's Family." Reunion in Vienna,"
World.
"Smiling Through.” "West of Broadway, "Men without Law"
Oriental,
The Phantom of Crestwood."
"MIDSHIPMAID"
Now Showing
'King's
At
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 2.30.5.10.7.15
& 9.30. F.M.
the
KINGS
midshipma
TO-DAY AT 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM. ONLY
BY KIND PERMISSION OF
CAPT. E. MANNERS, R.N., H.M.S. "SUFFOLK" AND CAPT. C. G. SEDGWICK, R.N., H.M.8. "BERWICK" THE COMBINED ROYAL MARINE BANDS OF H.M. SHIPSSÜFFOLK” AND “BERWICK,”
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
Gay, irresponsible nonsense is Wells' Film Coming.
To Central
Charles Laughton, famous char- acter actor, portrays the half-mad scientist, Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls" coming sood. Crea- tor of beast-men he believes him-
brought to the screen by "Th Midshipmaid", a Gaumont British picture now being shown at the King's. It is a naval comedy, and tells of the visit of a Naval Econo- "mist to the Fleet at Malta. Un- fortunately for the success of his plans, the pompous old boy, (Frad Kerr) is accompanied by his daughter (Jessie Matthews). While he is locking into, matters of ad-self possessed of God-like powers, ministration, with a view to apply. Others in the cast of this fantastic
H.G. Wells romance are ing the economy axe to which he
Bela plays lip service, his daughter is Lugosi, as leader of the beast-men; breaking hearts in the ward room. Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams and For his benefit a ship's concert is the Panther Woman". organised, and all the fun of the Fair grows out of this endeavour to provide something that is really economical. It is all very good fun and bright entertainment, to be recommended as a first-rate cure for, the blues.
LEE THEATRE
LATEST WESTERN ELECTRIC SOUND SYSTEM TO-DAY TO THURSDAY At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30.
STRANGER THINGS ARE HAPPENING THAN YOU EVER DREAMEDI
Look at the people secr you! They may be thring, walking...breathing under the spell of
"WHITE
ZOMBIE
WLIED...ALIVIKO Aglamarnos love into
of 11le und demthi
BELA MRACRAN LUGOSI A VICTÓR &`ERWALD, HALPERIN
UNITED ARTISTS
POPULAR PRICES
65 cts., 35 cts., 20 ct. & 10 sts.
42ND STREET Splendid Picture At Queen's
Health insurance was taken out by Warner Bros. on all of the first line chorus dancers in the mam moth dramatic spectacle with music" and dancing, "na Street," which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre.
definite
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL 26313 & 25392
-- NEXT CHANGE-
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
CHARLIE CHAN RETURNS!
The all-sesing
eye of Charlie. Chan solves
murdar-and brings together twa swest- hearts torn apart by suspl-
cian and fear.
CHARLIE CHAN'S
Greatest
with
CASE
Warner Oland Heather Angcl
From a novet
by East Ocer fien purs Surected by Hamilton Mcfadden
M
"THE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD"
At The Oriental
Theatre
“CHARLIE CHAN'S
GREATEST CASELL'S
Coming To The King's
Impersonating a boy in a fea- tured role of a famous London stage success. Heather Angel em-. barked on a sensational theatri- cal career which has taken her completely around the world, and to virtually every spot on the face of the globe.
The noted little actress hardly completed her initial dramatic training than she became known from the Italian Riviera to the Orient as one of the leading per- sonalities of the drama. And leaving an indelible impression in the theatre world of India, Gibral- tar, Ceylon, Malay, China, Burma,. Egypt, and the entire European continent, Miss Angel has arrived in America. Under the Fox Film Corporation banner, the actress has embarked on a screen career predicted to be equally promising.
Nine months of small roles at the Old Vic theatre in London served as ground-work for the diminutivé actress, and prepared her for the feature by charac- terization in the London stage version of the "Sign of the Cross."! Her next stage venture was in "The Merchant of Venice,” in which she toured the provinces for eighteen months.
Walle playing a featured role in the play, "Oktoberting" at the Gate Theatre, London, producer of the associated Sound Film In- dustries of Wembley, England; re- cognized her to be perfect for the role of an Italian girl in "The City of Song." It was this picture that directed Miss Angel's ta- lents to a new medium,
has
Miss Angel, christened Heather after the popular Scotch flower,
just completed "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" in which she is featured with, Warner comes to the King's Theatre on Wednesday.
and t
Q
CHARITY DINNER DANCE AT CHINA EMPORIUM
Widely Supported By Chinese Community
The charity dinner "dange held
When a lady of uncertain repu- tation but of breath taking beauty decides to call a convention of four of her past admirers, and when she A Hollywood epidemic of "fu" goes so far na to invite to that broke out during the production, meeting the wives and sweethearts and ench girl's part was so impor of those somewhat startled gentle on Saturday night at China Em- tant it would have been hard to men, high drama as well as great porium by the Y's Men's Club was replace, her once she had started embarrassment is bound to result. a thorough success,. the function work, for each one had a definite
"From this novel situation springs receiving the unstinted supported place, and represented a
the tense mystery of Radio Pic-of a large number, of members of idea in the dance numbers.
Not content with insurance, how-tures' special," "The Phantom of the Chinese community. Can life be created? H. G. Wellsaver, Busby Berkeley, who created Crestwood which will be seen at. thinks so. The world-famed author and staged all the ensembles, placed the Oriental Theatre to-morrow who forted the British scientific the girls, 150 in all. under training and Thursday. This is the $6,000 world more than a quarter of a
rules as strict as for any football prize radio drama recently broad- century ag with his fantastic squad. A training table was esta caz, except the final sequences, conception of men
from blished under the strict supervision over the NBC network of 5 sta beasts was ridiculed, laughed at of the studio doctor and dietician. insa contest that has brought to light, hundreds of thousands of and mocked for his conception,
amateur authors. Today perhaps, we are apprca- ohing the first, tentative steps to
created
The girls were put through re gular exercises on the studio lot in the fresh air, in addition to their dancing exercises. The studio doc-Ruspicious
The cast of the picture is an
ce: Included
are:
The proceeds of the dance will be donated to the health education
campaign of the Club.
The purpose of the campaign is to educate the poor classes of Hong Kong in matters of hygiene and discase prevention. The Club maintains a free school for poor children at Sai Ying Poon, under the direction of Dr. Y. H. Tsao.
new horizons in the world of creator, kept a rigid tab on the girls, Karen Morley! Ricardo Cortez. A similar school will be opened at
tive biology. And the authrity for this is Dr. Raymond L. Ditmar, curator of the Bronx Zoological Gardens and renowned authority on animal life.
Wells tells of his beast-man, sad bis panther woman in the fantastic novel, "The Island of Dr. Moreau' which has reached the screen as "Iland of Lost Sculs."
looking down their throats every morning, making them say "ah" and giving them homeopathic doses if they showed the slightest signs
of fever.
Studio" police were enlisted to keep an eye on the girls to see that they disobeyed none of the rules, Special coaches were used to take them to and from the studios and their homes, and the girls were de Dr. Ditmars tells of an even finitely warned that there was to more fascinating experiment be no night club life during the clothed in full reality, actually taking of the picture. taking place at this moment in New York city.
•
"There is". Dr. Ditmars reporte, an experiment in progress at the Rockefeller foundation by Dr. Alex Carrel and his assistant, Dr. Rosenberger, in which living tissue, taken from a chicker, has been kept alive, nourished, matured" and ite growth controlled for several years nowall by the invention of an artificial lung and heart, and the application of synthetic bioad.
"Wella is much,"like Jules Verne, went on Dr. Ditmars," yet Verne was closer to the truth of realiza- tion. Verne's conception of the submarine in his tale of the: Nau- tilus has been borne out with "amaz-
ing exactitude. Verne know what' was possible, and was more cau-.. tious than Wells. Today, the sub- marine is almost as fine a devolop ment as the Nautilus, conceived in the imaginative brain of Verne.
"Of Wells' idea, we have no proof", Dr. Ditmars stated empha tically. It is fascinating to template, und undoubtedly irresis tible as a story and picture. But not even in cross-breeding of the species of animals has there been any real success."
con-
In Island of Lost Souls" Wells, through his mad axientist, Dr. Moreau, shows how be believe Jungle beasts may be turned into a form of man. Moreau's greatest triumph is the creation of his "Panther Woman", whose emotions are those of a woman, yet whose basic instincts are the jungle's,
H.B. Warner Pauline Frederick, Ivan Simpson, Tom Douglas, Aileen Pringle, Matty Kemp, "Sheets Gallagher Sam Hardy. George E. Stone and many others. J. Walter Ruben directed from a script by himself and Bartlett Cormack.
Daniels, George Brent, Una Mer kel, Ruby Keeler, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell. Ginger Rogers and Allen Jenkins
So well did these rules work out 42nd Street" is a highly drama that none of the girls were caught tic story as well as a musical spec- by the epidemic germs during the tacle. It was taken from the novel making of the dance numbers. of back-stage life by Bradford "42nd Street," a story of theatri- Ropes and adapted for the screen cal life, carries an all-star cast in- by Rian James and James Sey cluding Wamer Baxter, Bebe mour. Lloyd Baom directed..
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WARRION'S HUSBAND PHANTOM OF
ELISSA LANDI Marjorie Rambeau
* Ernest Truex
David Manners
CRESTWOOD
RICARDO CORTEX® KARSH KORENT
Directed by 3, WA
Saturday's dance was a complete.
Kowloon City in the near future."
present. Mr. Peter Sin in a brief speech welcomed the guests and the excellent dinner served by the Emporium as well as the music made the evening a very enjoyable one indeed.
success there being over 250 people
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