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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TATE QUEEN'S RD., WÄSTBOUND BÙS
Advance Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre Tel 28720.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
Something must be done about this hospital graft!
Lave musi was while there man roca with
death
Emergency
Coff
Adramatic expo- sure of the ambu- lance chasing
*gocket
QVAL BILL "BOYE WYNNE GIBSON WILLIAM GARGAN BETTY FURNESS OTOROL & STONS
Directed by Edward Cahn from the KO screen play by John B. Clymer and
IN RADIO Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Merian C
Meture Cooper, executive producer.
COMING ATTRACTION
When does a night watchman find time for
love?
ROMANCE”
tells
with
all!
GINGER ROGERS NORMAN FOSTER GEORGE SIDNEY
Eobert Benchley, Laura Hope Crows, Guina WILLHAS
Directed by William Søller from the novel by John Walls.
Marian C Cooper, erec,
RKO RADIO
utive producer.
Picture
PENTHOUSE
Warner Baxter Com- ing Soon To Queen's
With Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy at the top of an impressive cast, "Penthouse," the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Cosmopolitani pro duction, from the pen of, Arthur Bomers Roche, will be shown from Sunday at the Queen's:
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
King's
The Mad Game."
Queen's.
"Beauty for Sale," Central.
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"Emergency Call."
Oriental,
Star.
"Payment Deferred.""
KOWLOON
"The White Sister."
Majestic...
"Little Orphan Angię.”
Klog's
Coming
"One Man's Journey.”
Berkeley Square.
The Power and The Glory."
Queen's
"Penthouse."
Central
"Rafter Romance."
Uriental
The Great Decision,"
BEAUTY FOR
- SALE
At The Queen's
Reminiscent of "Our Dancing Daughters", which established box;
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30.5.10.7:15 & 9.30, P.M.
KINGS
CRACKLING
MELODRAMA
PACKED WITH SPEED,
ROMANCE AND
THRILLS. WHIZZING
ALONG TO
A TER
RIFIC CLIMAX.
office records in silent films and THE MAD GAME
was the forerunner of new vogue in screen entertainment, "Beauty for Sale" opens to-day at "the Queen's Theatre as a new Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer offering in which three girls ahare story interest.
It is recalled that in the sient hit Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian were the feminine triumvirate upon whom attention way. focused.
In the new film, based upon the sensa-
Faith tional
Baldwin novel, "Beauty," the trio is composed of Evans, Una Merkel and Madge
lorine McKinney, three sharply contrasting types.
Falls for Married Man.
At The King's
Opening to-day at the King's Theatre is Fox Film's latest release, The Mad Game". The story em- braces what might be called the crime, country's most menacing kidnapping.
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Presents
The
MAD GAME
Tracy Spencer
CLAIRE TREVOR, RALPH HORGAN Directed by Irving Cummings Story by William Conselman.
ONE MAN'S JOURNEY
Lionel Barrymore Coming Again
to King's
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BOOKING FAT THE THEATRE TEL. 26313 & 95$32
NEXT CHANGE : FROM SUNDAY
Lionel
BARRYMORE
5 STARS
in a heart thrill«. ing drama of flashandblood!
EXO RADIO Picture
ONE MAN'S JOURNEY
with.
MAY 2015ON DOROTHY JORDAN JOIL M«CLEA FRANCIS DIE
"EMERGENCY CALL"
At The Central
DIARY OF LOCAL VLLY'S
EVENTS
TO-DAY
(January 4.)
(XI Moon, 19th Day) Anniversaries and Holidays.--- Customs Holiday.
Auctions--Lammert's Bros'. Sale of Household' Furniture, 32, West Hall (Top-Floor) Mody Road, Kow- loon, 10 sm.
Meetings-Theosophical Society, against
6 p.zn. ---
Miscellaneous.-Claims
the Estate of Vasiley Leontievitch Golotzen, late of Tientsin. due: "Whist Drive, Civil Service Cricket
Club, 8.45 p.m.
Theatres.
King's:-"The Mad Game.” Queen's: 'Beauty for Sale." Central:-"Emergency Call" Oriental:-"Payment Deferred:" World:-Free Soul'
Majestic Little Orphan An-
nie."
Principal Malls. Inward from America by Em- press of Russia; from Australia by Taipling: Outward for America and Europe via Siberia 10 a.m.; for Australia by Brisbane Maru 1.30 p.m.
Hockey
Sports.
N!
Central British v. Radio Sports, 5 pm. St. Andrew's v. Re- creio, p.m.; Fifth Battery, H.K.S R.A. v. Medway.
Sunrise 7.04 a.m. Sunset.-5.52 p.m.
Tides-High at 12.51 and 22,53 Low at 5.55 and 16.05.
(FRIDAY)
(January 5.)
(XT Moon, 20th Day.) Auctions-Lammert's sale furniture, sales room, 2.30 p.m.
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Miscellaneous Rehearsal, "The Pirates of Penzance," Cathedral Hall 8.30 m.; Bishop Hall's Dis- cussion Group, Bishop's House, 8.30 p.m. n
Theatres.
Queen's: "Beauty for Sale." King's: The Mad Game.” Central:-"Emergency Call" Oriental: The Great Decision." World:Free Soul." Majestic:Hell's Holiday."! Star: "The White Sisters."
Dances.
George's Society." Annual Peninsula Hotel, 9 pm. Principal Mails,
Inward from America by Pres. Polk: Outward for Europe via Suez by Terukun Maru 1.30 pm; for America and Europe via Siberia by Pres. Grant..5 p.m.
Sports.
A swift-paced picture, red- blooded drama of the heroism of the hospital ambulance service,
st. RKO-Radio Pictures' "Emergency Ball, Call' showing 'to-day at Central Theatre with Bill Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan and Betty Spencer Tracy, who has the lead-
Remarkable instances of curce Furness, the adroit direction, and ing role, portrays the part of an exgangster who is double-crossed effected by obscure healers in cases the fast and actionful story. by his associates and rail-roaded to given up by science find a parallel
Moving with the speed of an ex- Misa Evans is the girl who, faced, prisad for a five-year term. Der in a dramatic situation of One Press train and
teeming with thrills and suspense, Emergency with the collapse of family for- ing his stay in the penitentiary his
Chess. Kowloon Chess Club tune, turns to work in a beauty former aide terrorizes the country Mun's Journey", REO-Radio Pic- Call" is a striking buman docu- parlour to make a living. In spite with his new-found racket the
tures starring Lionel Barnymore at ment of the colorful careers of a Championships. Senior, H. W. Ran- young ambulance doctor and his Tracy is released
dall.v. C. M. Sequeira; J. C. Faers.. of the fact that she sees world-hatch-racket.
driver. Bill Boyd, as Joe Bradley, v. Lieut. H. Beamont; B. "Soltan v. liness about her, and falls in love. from prison to aid the government the King's Theatre Sunday, with a married man, she manages in wiping out the now dread His One of the tense moments of the is the idealistic and courageous B. W. Paul; P. Yvanovich v. A. D. to preserve the niceties of her knowledge of the underworld soon film is reached when Dorothy Jor-interne. William Gargan, as Steve Sequeira; Junior, L. Sequeira v. A Birinkoff M Cunfetti V. U. Southern breeding. The romantic gains Tracy an entrance into the dan lies in a hospital, slowly dying Brennan, is a wise-cracking devil | J. interest in this regard is satisfac-dominating ring of kidnappers, after an apparently successful oper may-care driver. Their dangerous Santos; Guy Ling. F. Evans; Dr. torily terminated in a happy end- He secures all the inside information. The most skilled surgeons and exciting adventures in oppos-H. D. Matthews v. T. E. Parry,
a dramatic climax. tion necessary to aid the authorities and physicians have done their best ing a gang of ambulance chustag ing after
· Contract Bridge.-Fourth Round Miss Merkel, on the other hand, and at the same time rescues the for her, but are baffled by a seem racketeers provide the action.
open Tournament, (Sports Club), is a capricious little gold-digger. two latest victims of the ring. ingly hopeless case. Then Barry-
5.30 p.m. also employed in the fashionable
"The Mad Game" is said to give more, in the role of an obscure beauty saloon, where the perfumed walls listen to boudoir secrets, that Spencer Tracy a remarkable oppor-country physician, steps in. He would make a Broadway columnist tunity to display the acting atility brought the girl into the world, saw her through a tragic crisis in ho so ably manifested in his role as blush. She is immortal in a hilari Killer Mears in The Last Mile her life, and he understands the After a wide search for the girl to To Miss McKinney, a compars-play opposite Tracy, Claire Trevor, Where science failed, love, sympa- tive newcomer to the screen, falls who was last seen in The Last thy and understanding win. With the more tragic role. She is the Trial" with George O'Brien, was out a drop of medicine, or recourse little beauty parlour girl, who selected for the part. Others in the to a miracle of surgery, he saves accepts. the "word of the owner's son that they are to be married cast, notable for its careful selec- her by arousing her will to live by climax when Bradley, thirsting to tion are Ralph Morgan, Howard; promoting penitence upon the part When he leaves for Europe on the Lally, J. Carroll Haish, John of her erring husband. eve of their marriage, she ends Miljac, Matt McHugh, Kathleen This is but one of the many dra
Burke, Mary Mason, Willard Ro- matic situations rife in what is said Threaded into this daring, mobertson, John Davidson. Paul Fix to be Barrymore's greatest picture, dern story is the intimate lives of and Jerry Devine,
In addition to Miss Jordan, Lionel the three girls and the marital
Irving Cummings is responsible Barrymore's supporting cast inclu- drama of a lawyer and his socially- ambitious wife. Otto Kruger, as for the direction of the production. des May Robson, Joel McCrea, Bush and the lawyer, has the leading ro- The story is by William Corselmani Frances Dee, James
directed mantic role in the picture. Alice who collaborated with Henry John others. John Robertson
"One Man's Journey.?! Brady, as his duttery wife, has sou in the screen play. featured prominence in the cast.
ous manner.
her life.
Others in the picture are May
Robson, Phillips Holmes, Eddie Isobel Nugent, Hedda. Hopper,
Jewell. Louise Carter, John Roche
and Charles Grapewin
Most of the action in the picture an ultra-modern takes place in beauty salon which was built at the MG.M. studio, complete in every detail for the elaborate pro- duction Lavish scenes in apart- ments, penthouses, a houseboat and exquisite exterior settings add to the pictorial value of the fex-
Directed by the masterful touch of W. 8. Van Dyke, who brought türa. such notable productions
Richard Boleslavsky, who as
Last
*Trader Horn," and "White Shad-screened "Rasputin; and the Em- ows in the Bouth Seas to the press" and "Storm at Daybreak," screen, "Penthouse" presents a directed.
modern and laudable picture of
New York's "high spots-the Mad
Manhattan that Walter Winchell-
and 0.0. McIntyre have glorified adventuress with oriental eyes, has
as one of the
at last come into her own in this in the public press.
most Filmed almost entirely in set-production tings that represent the lavish beautiful and alluring women to penthouse world atop New York's grace the motion picture screen. skyscrapers, the picture captures As Gertie Warted, the night club. the pulse of the great metropolis girl, she appears in one of the strongest, most appealing and most roof-top life. A
worthy performances of her career.
Warner Baxter, Layer,
As Durant, a society lawyer of New York's upper classes and who
Mae Clark, after misfortune has kept her from a public life for many months, also makes a start-
La cast out by society, Warner ling come back to aim prominence
Baxter gives one of the finest per-
sa Mimi Montague, Other note-
formances of his colourful motion worthy performances are given by Dicture career
C. Henry Gordon, Charles Butter
Myrna Loy, who, in past appear-worth, Phillips Holmes and Martha ances, has been seen as an exotic Sleeper."..
از نیورو
4 SHOWS
DAILY 1.50-5.13 7.13–0.80
human heart.
TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUR
ORIENTAL
TO-DAY ONLY CHARLES LAUGHTON IN HIS MASTERPIECE.
PAYMENT DEFERRED
THE THBILE", SUPREME:
with CHARLES LAUGHTON"
Maureen
O'Sullivan
FLEMING ROAD
TEL. 28475
TO-MORROW
& SATURDAY HERE'S
"A DAEN GOOD ACTION PICTURE
SOMETHING. DIFFERENT FROM THE USUAL, FILM FARE,
SEE
THE GREAT
DECISION
BILL BOYD
CHARLES SH
CHIC SALE
An ICO-RADIO) Pidyes al sour
Trapped in an abandoned ware house, where they have been lured by a fake emergency call, Bradley and Brennan engage in a savage hand-to-hand fight with murder- ous ruffians. Police come to their ald, but not before Brennan has been stabbed in the encounter and an operation is necessary to save his life. Bradley performs the de 5.15 p.m.
licate surgery.
Golf Conclusion of Final Round Hockey Punjab Regiment v Taggart Cup (Ladles Section).
Hongkong Borderers, 4.15. D-L Hockey Club "A", Club de Recrélo, 5 p.m.; Navy v. Fleet Lower Deck, 4 p.m.; Royal Signals v. University Sunrise-7.04 a.m. Sunset-5.52
Tides-High at 13.20 and 23.29; avenge his buddy, tracks down and Low, at 6.30 and 16.44. .corners the racketeering chief; The climax of this pulse-stirring drama picture is the death of the gangster at the hands of Brennan's sweetheart-nurse, superbly por- trayed by Wynne Glbaon
The action races to a sensational | P.,
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Boyd, who may always be count-Neihan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 ed upon for superlative charac- rugged hero, terization as a garners additional laurels by his
TO-DAY ONLY
role in "Emergency Call," Gargan At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
makes a bid for stardom with his remarkable performances as the ambulance recklessly gallant driver. Miss Gibson displays un- usual versatility. that up-and- coming starlet, Betty Furness, is good in a brief but "Important part
CHINESE MISSION GOES TO GERMANY
Will Vint France And Britain Later
Rome, Dec. 29, The Chinese military mission headed by Gen. Yang Chleb, chlef of the Nanking Military School, which arrived in Rome on Decem- ber, 12, has left for Germany, Britain and France will later be visited. All expenses of the mis- slon, during its eleven days" "stay:- which are estimated at £1,000, have been paid by the Italian Government Beuter,
Berlin, 'Dec. 29, The Chinese military mission arrived to-day and members were guests at a reception given by Mr Tang Be Tung the Charge
d'Anaires. This was attended by number of oficials of the Reichswahr Ministry, as well as by leading Chinese realdents in Ber
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– BRITERS GREEN IS MOR
rend of Taughter. Land Toural
LITTLE
ORPHAN ANNIE
ALSO SHOWING
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
EASY STREET
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
EJ"
Meet CAROL, JANE and
LETTY three daughter of A modern
skin-game who choose thrilling paths
to
marice!
To
BEAUTY
for&
SALE
with
MADGE EVANS
ALICE BRADY
"ALSO SHOWING
NEWSREEL : FROM SUNDAY
WARNER
BAXTER
finds love and
baffling mystery!
In ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE'S
Penthouse
MYRNA LOY
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
HELEN
HAYES
CLARK
GABLE
M
The White! Sister
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