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CENTRAL
CHEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Audersoas and the Theatre Tel 25730.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 280, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ENGLAND ACCLAIMED IT AS THE GREATEST SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT
THOUSANDS EXPECT IT
TO HAPPEN!..
OUR WORLD BESTROTÈDI
DELUGE
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RADIO
Picture
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spectacle romance l
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rules the waste of clvification!
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Peggy Shannon. Lois Wilson, SidneyBlackmer ..Matt Moore, EdwardVan Sloan
Ralf Harolda, Samuel Hinds Directed by Fella E. Feiss from the book by S. Pawler Wright. Sqauet Blichof, associole-producer
SEE THE MOST AMAZING DESTRUCTION
SCENES..
NEXT CHANGE
The GREATEST Musical Romance
✅ ALL TIME/
FREDERICK LONSDALES GREAT MUSICAL
ROMANCE MED
-NANCY BROWN
TO-DAY AT THE
King's
CINEMA
HONG KONG
My Weakness".
Queen's,
"Another Language.
Central,-..
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Oriental.
Star.
"King Kong".
"Alibi."
Majestic.
KOWLOON
"From Hell to Heaven,"
KING'S THEATRE Wednesday My Weakness." Thurs-Sat. "Ladles Must Love."
QUEEN'S THEATRE Wednesday"Another Language.” Thursday-Turn Back The
"Clock."
CENTRAL THEATRE
Wednesday "The Deluge."
"LADIES MUST LOVE"
At The King's
The bieyeling, craze is the Best popular fad which over struck Cali-
And the current mania for pedaling furiously about the coun tryside was introduced by none other--(as the announcers are prone to say) than Neil Hamilton, screen star.
Miniature golf was enormously popular in Hollywood a few years age. The fad died after one short summer of feverish zalivity. Not
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1933.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 4.30,5.10.7.15 & 9.30. P.M.
•KINGS
Lilian Harvey
She's loveliness personified.......a fas.
cinating 'new stär.
LEW AYRES
He tries to make her more bacutik) ...and then tries to make-hør:
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GIRLS! GIRLSI GIRLSI
Everybody's Weakness...the most beautiful in Hollywood - and film. dom's funniest comedians in the gayest; 'giddiest, snappiest musical romance by the greatest of all musical producers.
Weaknes
with
Charles Butterworth, Harry Lang- don, Sid Silvers, Henry Travers and Irene Bentisy. A. B. G. De- -- Sylva Production. Directed by David Butler.
OWEN NARES JESSIE MATTHEWS
THERE COES THE BRIDE
CAROL GOODMER
"HOLLYWOOD COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT BETTER.”—A
“DELUGE"
Overpowering Action!
At Central
wave
The world come to an end. A
tidal mammoth
sweeps around the universe in the wake of
destructive earthquake. Skys their founda
crapers crumble on tions. Mountains crumble. Ter- ritories bordering the soven ate completely devastated
seas
So do the first reels of "Deluge" introduce a distinct variant of the eternal triangle in the RKO Radio Picture showing at the Central Theatre on Wednesday, with Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson and Sidney Blackmer in the featured roles,
After the unheaval.. the dawn reveals a demolished world. Twen- theth Century civilization is ex-
"
BOOKING..
AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25932
- TO-MORROW –
There's the devil to pay when they start to play for they've learned the sacret of luxury without worry!
LADIES
MUST LOVE
Universal's great, comedy-drama with music. SEE IT!
With JUNE KNIGHT, NEIL HAMIL- TON, SALLY O'NEILL, DOROTHY BURGESS, MARY CARLISLE,
"TURN BACK THE CLOCK"
Clever Production
At Queen's
The most startling innovation in plot for a screen production ta Come out of Hollywod since the advent of talking pictures is to be. soon in "Turn Back The Clock", Lee Tracy's latest starring vehicle, to be shown from to-morrow at the Queen's.
revelation of The picture is a what might happen to a person who was given an opportunity to p lieve his life with the benefit of mature axperience. Events of re-
cent years and even months are brought into the unique plot writ. ten by Ben Hecht and Edgar Selwyn
In the role of Joe Gimlet. wise- "amall cracking, self-sufficient towner who leads a double exist-
ence, Lee Tracy delivers one of the most entertaining performances of his entire career. Es is" given a chance to double up of gag situa tions and he takes advantage of every one. Through dramatic se quences he lashes out with an emo ticani violence that adds terrific power to the entire production.
DILLY'S
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 &. 9.30 p.n . SOUNDING THE BATTLE-CRY
of
Why
can't
every
bride
our
marriage continue the way it started?
Why must we live our lives the way
other people want
us fa!"
HELEN HAYES
Mag Clarke wins new laurels for herself in the difficult role of Mary, whose sweetness is submerged by thé cares of marital life. She shows a depth of feeling that esta- bliabes her as one of the screen's foremost emotional actresses. Peggy ROBERT Shannan Elvina red-headed
shrew who complicates, hacy MONTGOMERY
first marriage and marries him in his second life," is outstanding in! animsympathetic role.
A forceful new screen personality is introduced in Otto Kringer, the noted stage actor who makes his
JUNE KNIGHTNEIL MAMILTON LADIES MUST, LOVE”
UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION
timot. A sparse group of survivor "MY WEAKNESS" Wlkie debut in this film. As Ted
gains an island was once
New York, On a nearby isle, Martin Webster rescues Claire Arlington from outlaw rapacity.
Martin falls in love with Claire Delightful Comedy
· and
"SUNDAY DISPATCH CRITICISM OF "THERE GOES THEbrought to the settlement when
BRIDE." KING'S THEATRE, DEC. 31.
il
HARRY WELCHMAN so with the bike. It is building BETTY STOCKFELD every year since Hamilton started ALBERT BURDON:
The maid & mountains
DIRECTED bu
it four years ago."
No actor in the Hollywood screen attention to colony gives more keeping himself in condition than Neil Hamilton. For years he has employed a personal trainer. That Litbe, lean figure is the result of
constant hard work.
"Four years ago," said Hamilton recently, "I took up bicycling sa s means of keeping down the excess poundaga. I covered many hun "LUPINO LANE dred miles of Southern California
Teaching The Stars
roads, ancased in heavy high-neck sweaters. In addition to the bene fits derived, I found it a wonderful derived, I found it a wonderful way to become acquainted with the country, and it was great sport
"Gradually other people took up. the sport, until today the roads An English girl from Manches are lined with hundreds of shiny ter has "Just obtained one of the new bicycles, and rental stations are ost coveted posts in a film stu-almost as plentiful as miniature golf courses used to be. Four
and
"She is Miss Phyllis Laughton, years ago we often had great diffi- at the Paramount Studios culty in locating a bicycle repair she will coach the stars in mat- shop, but we have no trouble on ters of speech, and department. this score nowadays. Bike Shope Belleving that the most attracare everywhere. tive speech for the films is blend of the English and Ameri- of the type commonly used in six can accent, it is quite possible day bicycle races, and with my that she may, in time, revolu- trainer I skim over the roads for onise the talking picture. " long periods at the rate of about think that the purest English is 18 miles an hour. And we don't found in the Midlands, Dublin just keep going around the block and the lowlands of Scotland." either. One of our recent tripe took 1 she says.
be to Palm Springs, 130 miles from Hollywood, with much of the road leading through the Great Ameri
a Lately I bought a French racer,
Miss Laughton left Manchester
at an early age, and when only can Desert, In, former years. I nine was playing child parts in
America. At eleven she was ''' 'ཏྟཱ
stage manager for a stock com pany's theatre! When still in her teens she got her first big job as stage manager for Lysistrata" in New York, and she is now only twenty-five. she fills the pool tion vacated by Miss Molse, who recently became a director for Paramount
often had to get off my bicycle, and walk up steep hills, but now I have
three-speed attachment on my machine, and hills have lost their terrore, I simply shift gears.
"Cycling is grand sport. If you bave not already become a fan, try it, and you will be a peddler from now on,”-
Hamilton comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday in Ladies Must Love," Universal's gay musi-
and lives with her. assuming the catastrophe had killed his wife, and two children.
Martin Webster
· Claire
Helen Webster and her children are found alive. He has not committ- ed bigamy, and yet has two “wives. cal picture in which he is featured He cannot surrender Claire whom He cannot he loves ag a wife. with June Knight, Dorothy Bar- gess, Sally O'Neil and Mary Car-surrender Helen whom he loves lisle. This tuneful, wisecracking comedy was directed by E. A da qually. The dilemma's solution is
a pulze-beating climax Pont, and its story details the amorous adventures of four of New
York's gold-digging damsels who toil not but live in luxury-some-
times.
"Deluge" was adapted from 5. Fowler Wright's best-selling story which was sensational in America and England. The manipulation
the settings, photography and lighting to depict world-wide des-
LEE THEATRE truction, of life and property is
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truly impressive.
Peggy Shannon as Claire, Bu
At King's
This marks the opening day of the first American motion picture to feature the Continent's most popular screen idol, Lilian Harvey, be is cofeatured with Lew Aytes in "My Weakness showing to-day at the King's Theatre
Miss Harvey, who will be remem bered by American audiences for her sterling performance in "Con-
MAJESTIC
THEATRE==
ney Blackmer as Martin and Lois Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 Wilson as Helen carry the melo-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW dramatic leads with intelligence,
brilliance and understanding. They At 2.80, 5.20, 7:20 & 9.20 p.m. enact the triangular drama under- standingly, emphasizing its pathoe and suspense, and in the climax especially offer gripping histionica
"ANOTHER LANGUAGE”
Fine Drama Queen's
Robert Montgomery and Helen Hayes play the leads in an inter- esting draina of human life in "Another Language.””
"It is the story of the eternal triangle, a young couple run away, and get married,, and on their return the bride is confronted by her mother- in-law who, is selfishly devoted to her sons, but antagonistic toward her daughters-in-law Mias Hayes is grand as the misunderstood wife, but at ends well for the young
folks however.
Robert Montgomery belog a box office attraction at all times needs no-introduction. There is also a Laurel-Hardy comedy on the same progra
well as an interest This is now play ing at the
Queen's Theatre."
FROM HELL TO HEAVEN
with
CAROLE LOMBARD JACK OAKIE DAVID MANNERS
ADRIENNE AMES From a play by Lawracče Nasard A Paramount Picture
money Wright, materialist and schemer, he provides powerful highlights in his scenes with Tracy, He is real and believable through both "lives."
Hilarious comedy is blended into the drama of the offering with players installer roles giving strong performances, including "C. Henry Gordon, George Barbier and
Clara Blandick,
Edgar Selwyn, who has scored with such screen hits as "Skyscra per Souls" and "The Rin of Made- on Claudet," applied his talents both in writing and direction of the picture.
gress Dances," makes her American debut in My Weakness," film said to posses every element neces sary for the perfect performance of this refreshing star. It has light- ness, humour, song, dance, romance and an indomitably carefree spirit. Miss Harvey is reported. Be the possessor of great versatility in every department of the dramatic art and her first Fox film is said to give her, every opportunity. My The story concerns a plain young girl who, quite by accident, becomes much sought-after person. It is more or less in the nature of a
Another Language
OLIVER.
STANTM* -LAUREL HARDY
in "County Hospital"
- TO-MORROW -
TRACY
TURN
BACK THE CLOCK
Imagine's chap in 1988 who finds himself back with the folks of 1910 !- His 1988 love thinque is so advane- ed that the girls woream for help. More langht than your family has" ever laughed-with Lee" Tricy - st his funniest!
with
MAE CLARKE OTTO KRUGER GEORGE BARBIER
(STAR)
wager that she cannot be made TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
attractive, that she is first put an
the road to fame for her beauty. At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
She follows victim with victim, until the very man who made the disparagraph wager falls a victim himself,
"My Wear has been pro duced under the supervision of Buddy DeSylva, producer of Janet Gaynor's unforgettable Say Side Up." He brings to his screen efforts an unbroken record of some
of the most successful productions of the musical stage. The story of My Weakness," is of his own authorship sad, with Leo-Robin and Richard Whiting, also wrote the music, and „lyrics.
The supporting cast includes Charles Butterworth, Harry Lang- don, Sid Silver Irene Bentley, Heary Travers, Adrian Rosley, Mary Howard and number of Hollywood's most beautifulgaris, among whom are Irene Ware Barbara Weeks, Enean Fleming Marcelle Edwards, Marjo Jean Allenang
„Dixie Frander. - Dat
ected the production from his own continuity
THE DRAMATIC
BRITISH
MURDER MYSTERY
it
'ALIBI"
introducing
AUSTIN TREVOR
"Hercula Poirot.
Famous French
Detective.
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