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Blood Sust
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Peggy Shannon. Lois Wilson,SidneyBlackmor Mait Moore, Edward Van Sloan Ralf Harolde, Samuel Hinch Direcind by Felix E. Feist from the book by S. Fawler Weight, Samvel. Blichoff, associate producer
SEE THE MOST AMAZING DESTRUCTION
SCENES
COMMENCING "TO-MORROW
The GREATEST Musical Romance
< ALL TIME/
FREDERICK LONSDALES GREAT MUSICAL ROMANCE Balle
NANCY BROWN HARRY WELCHMAN BETTY STOCKFELD "ALBERT BURDON-
The maid & mountains
DIRECTED by
“LUPINO LANE)
"MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS"
B.LP. Sets A Record
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
'King's
HONG KONG
"Ladies Must Love".
Queen's.
"Turn Back the Clock." Central.
*Doluge." Oriental.
Staz.
"Me and My Gal"
KOWLOONTM
"Shotgun Pass".
Majestic,
""Trick for Trick."
Coming
King's
There goes the Bride".
Berkeley Square.'
Queen's
"Tugboat Aunie."
"Beauty for Sale"
"Penthouse."
Central
Star:
"The Maid of the Mountains."
"Marry Me."
"Hindle Wakes.”
"Waite Sister."
World.
""Fra Diavolo."
"Free Soul."
"Reunion, in Vienna".
Oriental
31
"Laurel & Hardy, Burlesque."
"LADIES MUST
LOVE"
At The King's
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1933.
FINAL SHOWINGS' TO-DAY
AT 2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30, P.M.
OKINGS
Four wicked derlings who tried to learn the
·Seacret of living in lux.../ ury without working........ Bea how they managed it in this uproarious comedy-drama with music!
LADIES MUST LOVE
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE pre cutted by Car! Larintule
With JUNE KNIGHT, NEIL HAMILTON, SALLY O'NEBL, DOROTHY BURGESS, MARY CARLISLE. Oscar Apiel, George E. Stone, Virginia Cherrill. Suggested by a play by William Hurlbut, Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Directed by E, A, du Pont.
“THERE GOES THE BRIDE"
an
The distinction of having been booked for the entire Gaumont- British Circuit before being trade- shown, falls to "There Cães, The Bride", the joyous Gainsborough- British Lion musical comedy, which atars Jessie Matthews, and Owen Nares. It is regarded as the most delightful British comedy romance. boudoirs of Broadway's to date, and as The
outstanding ladies of the evening form the triumph for Jessie Matthews, whom setting for much of the story of
the Daily Mail" critic refers to "Ladies Must Love", the gay Uni- creating a sensation.
"Here versal musical picture now at the charm and impudence", writes the King's Theatre with June Knight film correspondent of the Newn and Neil Hamilton in featured Chronicle are conveyed with such The story revolves around four an easy naturalness, and she is so
different from any seductive girls who live in a lux-heroine, that I was not surprise urious penthouse apartment on New to learn that the Gaumond-British York's notorious avenue of intri- gues. From this penthouse the ac Company have signed her on a two
years' contract". tion swings bo a large cafe, and later to the streets of New York,
Jessie Matthews and Owen Nares in "There Goes the Bride" which opens at the King's Theatre to
morrow.
where many amusing incidents take place. Ax ultra-modern touch is brought into the story when the
other screeu
"Thers Goes The Bride", will be
Sunday,
BOOKING. AT THE THEATRE TEL." 25313 & 25332-
TO-MORROW
JESSIE MATTHEWS
IN
"THERE GOES THE BRIDE”
with
OWEN - NARES JERRY VERNO CAROL GOODNER.
A BRITISH PICTURE.
A SCENE FROM BJP.'S “MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS."
able rates. Laughs, thrills, tears
POPE'S
GLOOMY
> OUTLOOK
Modey Ever Needed For Waging War
Rome, Dec. 23.
were
Sterilisation is condemend by the Pope in his Christmas address to the Cardinals. The Pope says that of such prac¬ the inconsistency tices in the light bf religions teach- ings was clearly set forth in the Papal Decree of 1931 and in the Encyclical Casti "Connubbi, which sternly condemend sterilisation.
More prayers
necessary during the present international situation, the Pope told his hear- era. He declared that the inter- national situation was bound up with uncertainties, distrust, and the ever clashing interests of best fruitless negotiations. The comment I can offer is that no one knows what the outcome will be."
The Pope, deplored that “money. money, money is ever needed by e world to wage war."-Reuter.
A Case for Prayers
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TRACY
TURN
BACK THE CLOCK
Imagine a chap in 1993 who Büde himselt back with the folks of 1910 His 1983 love-techinque is so advanc ed that the girls stream, for help. More laughs than your family has aver laughed-with Lee Trazy ate his funnient!
"with.
Rome, Dec, 24.. The traditional delivery of the to "the Papal Christmas wishes Cardinals assembled in the Vatican on Saturday morning paradoxical- from ly contained a quotation Napoleon as the most hopeful com- ment on the threatening world, situation to-day, Recalling Bona parte's words, "waging war re
then again quires money and money," his Holiness nevertheless the present tension. As assayed such that "one must pray, pray, TO-MORR
and pray again."-Transocean.
AMERİCAN ACCUSED OF
SPYING
Found With Documents Of The French War Ministry.
Paris, Dec. 24.
The examining Magistrate yes- terday questioned the American," named Smith, Implicated in the apying organisation recently un- in Paris. The covered
prisoner admitted having had relations with several other accused.
The Magistrate, in the presence of Smith and his wife, broke the seals of a parcel enclosing four documents found in their hotel documents
y
the police. The bear the mark of the War Ministry, and are marked "secret.". They contained letter and technical military notes,
Yesterday, Smith had a conver-
shown at the King's Theatre next TUGBOAT ANNIE and tense drame all have their sation with the American Consul-
"TURN BACK THE CLOCK"
At The Queen's
With Mazie Dressler as Annie, redoubtable feminine skipper of Puget Sound, and Wallace Beary as the irresponsible bit irresistible much heralded filmization of Nor- man Reilly Raine's Saturday. Even ing Post stories, opens to-morrow ut the Queen's Theatre.
Final Showings At Captain Terry, Tugboat Annie,"
Queen's
The pictur: marks the first co- starring appearance of Miss Dress "If somebody tled my hands ler and Beery since the memorable couldn't talk!"
"Min and Bill"
Mervyn Le Roy. Directs Lee Tracy was pacing back and
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, who forth along the edge of a set on his new picture, "Turn Back the directed "Gold Diggers of 1933,
"Little Caesar" and olber hita, the Clock," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama having its final showings new picture tefis a vivid story of, to-day at the Queen's Theatre. Northwestern Waterfronts with the The cameraman had just asked wo central figures cast in inimit hini, to confine gestures during a scene so the camera could take In a difficult side angle..
"I'd be glad to hold down on my gestures if I possibly could," groaned Tracy. “But if you con- fine me in this scene so the angle depends on my eliminating hand. movements, I am afraid we will be
all day getting it. And I probably. scene is transferred to a beer gwill act like the devil when you den, with a horde of customers
do!" The most ambitious film setting quaffing the foamy fluid, and the ever attempted in a British studio four girls, now somewhat down on was constructed for the new British their luck, singing and dancing on International Pictures musical pro the stage at one end of the encle duction, The Maid of the Moun-sure. As a distinct contrast to tains" which is to open at the those perfectly lawful somes are Central Theatre to-morrow
other episodes laid in a New York For the first time since that speakeasy, and all sorts of gambling famous and much discussed restau- gamos in operation.
Supporting June Knight and Neil a whole rant mene in "Piccadilly," sound stage was filled from wall Hamilton in Ladies Must Love to wall by one set. The scene, as are Dorothy Burgess, Sally O'Neil, filmgoers will see, is a mountain Mary Carlisle, George E. Stone ravine and rocky heights which to- and other well known players, and wer to the roof, while in the centre the tuneful picture was directed by
a narrow path leads down to E. A. de Pont.
pool fed by a waterfall that tas
cades from an opening 50 feet! above
the men under the direction of
Tracy settled down in a canvas back chair to rest for a moment! before the next "take" and con- tinued the explanation of the great value he places on gestures. "To me a hand or arm move- ment is like a punctuation mark" on a typewriter, the accelerator. of ar automobile, and the volume control on a radio. When I ex- claim at something during a scend my arm goes out as naturally as though it were attached to my tarynx. The louder I talk the more arra movements I make.
Through years on the stage I' have developed gestures into such
a habit that I really can't talk as definite a part of acting as facial
On the mountain rides are caves their chief of more properly Lupino and tiny paths down which goats Lane, the producer, prepare to at nimbly skip, while horses and don out in search of booty, koys frot sedately up and down the Its construction in only five days expression or voice Intonation. bridle paths. In a clearing is the was a record even for B.LPs ex- When my arms start going. I-am brigand's encampment and here the pert Art department, and this was principal scenes are enacted. A the net referred to by a recent visi- really getting warmed up. gypsy band, which, are in reality tor from America who stated that scene and when I don't realize Alfredo's Vagabonds, provided imilar one in US would have gestures in my action, it is" as music for the general revelry as taken three times as kng to build near reality as I can believe.
4 SHOWS
IMMY
2.30–5.15
share in the narrative.
Miss Dressler plays the aggres- sive feminine tugboat captain whose husband, Beery, is a shiftless drun- kard. Throughout various enter taining episodes they are seen in hilarious quarrels and difficulties. Then their son grows up and be comes the captain of a liner. To save him from a wreck the "useless" father comes through with an heroio sacrifice.
-Havas.
Among the story's highlights are the race for the wrecked ship, Beery's comical theft of the tug's hawser and ite denouement, the breaking up of the school's com
mencement programine, the hilari ous celebration aboard the liner. when Miss Dressler samples the punch, the stirring wreck sequence. Robert Young Again
the run of the tug to, the rescue through churning seas, and Beery's Robert Young, last seen in "Hell big moment" when he enters the Below." plays the son with Maureen firebox of a boiler to plug its leak O'Sullivan in the juvenile romanticing tubes and thus saves the andan- lead. Prominent roles are also gered ship of his son. played by Willard Robertson, Tam- many Young, Frankie Darro, sek Pennick and Paul Hurst, Much of the picture was filmed with ac- tual tugboat thrills at Seattle Har bour. Hundreas took part in some of the film's spectacular scenes,
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SHE ASKS FOR EX- CITEMENT AND SHE GETS IT IN THIS MYSTIFYING MIX-UP OF MAGIC.
"TRICK FOR TRICK
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MAE CLARKE OTTO KRUGER, GEORGE BARBIER
TO START YOUR
NEW YEAR RIGHT!
MARIE
DRESSLER
BEERY
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They're at it again! The greatest lovers" "Min and Bill in joyous re- union another laugh- packed, thrill filled voy age on the seas of matri- mony!
TUGBOAT ANNIE
STAR
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COLUMBIA: PICTURES PRECEDE
TIM MCCOY
SHOTGUN PASS
Where Love and Adventure Is Thail Shot with Gunfire!
* With Yirginia Lee Corbin, Directed by J. P. McGowan
*Columbia
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