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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUERY'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 25720.
10-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
UNITED
PHOTOPLAY SERVICE CO.
PRESENTS
"OVER THE
BILLOWS
WITH
LAI CHEUK CHRUK
AND
WOO AL SING
A CHINESE PICTURE PRODUCED IN HONG KONG.
NEXT CHANGE
ENSLAVED.
by conflicting emotions. Her heart cried for love ...yat her hand reached
out to destroy. !"
SUPERNATURAL
CAROLE LOMBARD
AANDBLPH SCOTT VIVIENNE OSBORNE H. 4. WARNER HALPERİNİ PRODUCTION LPANERAI OF "WHITE ZUMAL"). 1 Paramous Gitur.
"SUPERNATURAL"
Coming To The
Central :
How unscrupulous spirit-med- "employ sleight-of-hand jums" tricks to dupe the gullible out of large fortunes yearly is de- monstrated in "Supernatural" a tale of the spirit world, which comes to the Central Theatre. soon with Carole Lombrad, Rand- olph Scott, H. B. Warner and Vivienne Osborne in the leading roles,
"Supernatural" is a sympathe- tic story of spiritualism, but one of the major characters in the story is a "phoney" spiritua list. who toys with forces and does not comprehend. The film reveals how he uses various tricks to pro- duce apparent spirit effects.
A brass trumpet, thrown casu- ally on the table, starts to utter words apparently from spirits, a table floats, spirit: messages are written mysteriously on a slate: spirit rappings are heard; and numerous other phenomena take place. The film shows how he does them all
'The story centers around Miss Lombard, a wealthy young hei- ress, who, upon the death of a beloved twin brother, becomes easy prey for a fake-spiritualist a tole played by Allan Dinehart. In the meantime, Miss: Osborne, betrayed to the police by Dine hart, is executed in the electric- chair for murder. H. B. Warner, as psychologist, is attempting an experiment upon the murderess to prevent her, spirit from wreak- ing the revenge which he is sure it is plotting. But the experiment goes amiss, and the spirit of the murderess enters into the body of Miss Lombard, and plans to use. the girl to wreak vengeance on Dinehart.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
Berkeley Square."
King's
Queen's.
"I'm as Angel."
Central.
(Chinese Picture)
Over the Billows."
Oriental
To-Day, We Live."
"Marry Me."
Lee Theatre
Slut
*. KOWLQUN "
"Made on Broadway."
Alajestic.
King's
ly Lips Betray."
Coming
“Samarning.*
Lincan's
"Golden Harvest.""
"Love and Luxury,"
Central
Start
"Tarzan The Fearless", "Supernatural"," "To-morrow at Seven."
Pick. Op."
"Story of Temple Drake."
Made en Broadway,”
Lee Theatre.,,.
"Cyrarn
* A GREAT SUCCESS
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press " (Copyright.)]
Berlin, Jan. 13.
In order to show his strong, in- terest in German art," Chancellor. Adolph Hitler was present at the first release of the Ufa talkie "Wil- helm Tell" which was a great success-Transocean Kuo Min,
LEE THEATRE
"TO-DAY ONLY AT 12.30, 2.30, 8.30, 7.30 and 9.30 RENATE MULLER- (THE "SUNSHINE SUSIE" CIRL)
fu
IN
MARRY ME
A MERRILY MUSICAL MATRIMONIAL MELANGE!.
WITH
HENRY GREEN-GED. ROBEY BILLY CARYLL-IAN HUNTER
A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE.
TO-MORROW
COULD YOU RALL
HIS MISTRESS A
· "RAD' WOMANT·
COULD YOU CALL
BLOOT WOMANY
RONALD COLMAN CYNARA KAY. FRANCS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1934.
... LAST TWO-DAYS AT 3.80.5.10.7.15
& 9.30. P.M
•KINGS
SUPERB ENTERTAINMENT
Leslie Howard, a young American of 1933- ported by his own wish into the romantic past. Heather Angel, a girl of another century...the girl of his dreams.
There never has been
like theirs since the world
FOX FILM Presents JESSE
BERKELEY
SQUARE
| feature picture
wil go on o
Sell from the
(MOVIE)
INTYPES
TWIN DUKES AND
A DUCHENS
FACING THE
MUSIC
ALSO
LESLIE HOWARD HEATHER ANGEL
Valerie Taylor Irene BrownC Beryl Mercer Directed by Frank Lloyd (who directed "Cavalcade") From the play by John L. Balderston
ADDED
FOX
ATTRACTIONS MOVIETONE
British Film Coming
To Central
The most elaborate and spectacular scenes ever devised for the background of a comedy film are those where were produced for B.L.P.'s.
"Facing The Music." Though it was but the ais-en-scene for the Hilarious adventures of the irresistible Stanley Lupino a complete opera
Fex
NEWE
ITSELVAZ
BERKELEY SQUARE
Fine Film at King's
Pretty screen faces may look Like pretty good, faces to some bea- ple, but to the studio make-up man they are something else again
Denis Phillips, of the Fox Film studio make-up department locks critically at those faces for a live- He studies them, knows their peculiarities by. heart and
hood.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
-FROM WEDNESDAY—
OUT OF THE DEEP- SAMARANG-A
VERITABLE TROPICAL.
PARADISE,
SAMARANG
LOVE IN A NIGHT FULL OF DANGER AND THRILLS !! Where it is low that lovers must.live.or parish...together
• UNITED ARTISTS FICTURE
“SAMARANG”
Coming Soon To King's
The title to the best, physique on the screen now held by Johnny Weissmuller with Buster Grabbe, a close contender will soon pass to a rank outsider, it is freely predict- ed in movie circles, For Ahmang, hero of "Samarang," a B. F. Zeid-
catalogues" them in a new and man-United Artists picture, which
novel manner.
Thus a good face to Phillips is a "Grade A" feature, not because, the skin is the type you love to touch, but because it, the face, is perfect from the make-up point of view. Phillip's grades his faces "A", "B", "C" for the purpose of budgeting make-up expenditures and allotting time for work. The "A" faces require but 10 minutes
house was bui t in the Elstree Stadios This theatre bad in addition to an auditorium (stalls, boxes and orchestra pit) a fullsized proscenium and stage. As much of the action takes place behind the curtain, the stage me chanics, wings"lies" and lighting have been reproduced in detail and were, like the huge curtain, in working order. On the stage, in specially designed settings, many of the princie pal scenes from the opera "Faust" and the finale of "Tristan" and "Isolde work by the make-up experts; the as 45 were produced for the film. Music "B" faces up to 25 minutes and lovers will be able to thrill to "The the "C" faces as much Jewel Song," the Soldiers' Chorus, Mephistopheles Serenade; the Sextetie "Light is Ait; the ballet music; the immortal trio in the Prison scene from "Faust" and the glor salt B.I.P. of the finale of Wagner's opera Symphony orchestra of sixty picked Jose instrumentalists accompanies Collins in her film role of prima donne playing Marguerite and Isolde with Dennis Hooy as Mephistopheles and Darroll Richards as Faust.
minutes.
op-
Heather Angel, who plays postte Leslie Howard in Jesse L. Laksy's "Berkeley Square" to-day at the King's Theatre, has a per- fect "A" face, says Phillips.
"Her skin is smooth and evenly colored and is completely devoid of check hollows and wrinkles. I consider her the has no bad spots that must be ironed out.".
To.do full justice to these remarkble scenes, Harry Hughes, the director
Facing The were secured for employed a camera crane. This ap paratus which was specially built to Music" by travelling uninterrupted B.LP.'s own design, enables the camer shots above the heads of the audience, aman to travel at any height, in any over the orchestra, and on to the direction round or above the setting stage, and thence either swinging with speed, ease and accuracy. From round to film Lupino in a box, or the the platform at the end of the craue's girl of his heart is the opposite side rigid arm some remarkable scenes of the theatre.
4 SHOWS
DAILY 2.30-13
1.155.15:30
· TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB.
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
PLEMING TOLD
WANGHAI
TEL. ZBATI
2 MORE DAYS-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW TWO SCREEN IDOLS IN THEIR GREATEST PICTURE.
he only stars who have consistently delivered The
first class entertainment, year in and year out, without a flop-now deliver a delightfully diffe rent picture —plus more novelty, comedy and thrills than ever before.
Joan CRAWFORD Jary COOPER
TODAY WE LIVE
will shortly be seen on the 'screen at the King's Theatre, has a build which eclipses them all.
But the strange part of it is that Ahmang, himself, doesn't rea- ize it. In fact, he doesn't, even know he is an actor...
It all happened this way. Ward Wing who directed "Samarang." spent days and days searching the various tribes in the Malay Penin- sula for a hero for the story which he was going to make. He, was very meticulous about the type he selected The reason for that was the fact that his wife, Lori Bara, had written the story and had a dennite rind picture of her hero.
Imagine their disappointment to find that the Malays, in general were not more than five feet six inches in height. That would be a mere pigmy on the screen and in the Kothing to inspire awe feminine mir.d.
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"I'M NO ANGEL”
Mae West At The Queen's
Solely on the strength of per- sonality, Mae West is about one of the strongest screen attractions to-day. Her latest pleture. "I'm No Angel" now playing at the an absolute Queen's theatre is record breaker. In this film she Is cast as the "cooch" dancer of a side show, then the star of a big circus, and later as the restred lady of Teisure, whose only occupa- tion is to snare willing men. It is decidedly Miss West's ploture. Cary Grant is the hero of the story. he is involved in a breach of 'promise action in which Mae West sues for heart balm. The courtroom scene is the high light of the picture. This is great en- tertainment and we strongly re- commend it for a couple hours of diversion.
GOLDEN HARVEST
Coming Soon to the Queen's
The gentle pastoral quality of the farm-the mad hysterical activity of the wheat pit.
These two contrasting scenes serve as the dramatic background for Paramount's epic romance. "Golden Harvest," produced by Charles R. Rogers, which is show- ing from Thursday at the Queen's. Richard Arlen and Cheater Mor- ris give strong capable performan- ces as brothers, raised on the. farm, who separate to go their own ways, Arlen as a radical lead- er and Morris as a wheat specula- tor.
Julie Haydon is the farm girl and Genevieva Tobin the city girl. The story is woven by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Casey Robinson far away from any pattern of other farm romances.
Hete we see the modern farmer, breaking radical and aggressive, the law to save his, farm, loving his family and his soll. We see spectacular riots and the revered excitement of the wheat plt.
The farin scenes and the pit scenes are authentic. The former were filmed during a three weeks' location trip to the wheat country near Pendleton, Oregon, and the whead plt scenes were shot on the floor of the Chicago" Board Trade,
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of
As the story starts. Morris is re- turning from a European trip. It has ruined him for the farm." He is about to break of his engage- ment to Julie Haydon when she tells him she loves Arlen, Morris Arlen becomes the speculator. marries Julie and stays on the farm.
Hard times come. The large. farm dwindles in size while Morris is rolling in wealth and luxury. His father and brother refuse his ald Arlen, the radical farmer, starts a strike and Morris finally joins with him to "bull" wheat.
The "climax is truthful and hor- est. And "Golden Harvest" is a Four weeks they spent making picture of epic proportions that trips by automobile, canoe, on foot everyone should see. through trackless jungles and bra- ving the dangers of meeting.count- Tribe after less savage beasts. tribe was visited, Neighboring is- lands were scanned for a hero, but it seemed to be in vain.
Wing's entire crew marked time while he explored every nook and cramy of the vicinity in search of a suitable hero.
"One day, while on his way to the home of a trible, he encoun- tered a group of natives. Like most of the inhabitants of the region they were friendly and in- vited him and his party to dine with them" As they approached the village one man stood up head and shoulders above the rest of them.
Wing's heart skipped a beat as he spied him and calling to the rest of his party "There's our hero," he darted through crowd. d
the
It took a good deal of verbal persuasion ta persuade Ahmang to act before the camera,, He was a Dyak head hunter and felt that his place was, with his tribe and not doing anties in front of a little box.
Wing made the almost fatal mistake of offering him money for his acting. But he soon learned that Dyak disdain of such paltry things ns money precluded Ah- mang's accepting anything.
With all the advantages of tra- dition, of vessels and of efficiency in our favour, cannot we offer the little extra service and willingness to oblige, which would reserve for us our passenger traffic Hal Winter in the Nautical Magazine,
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Road, Kowloon Tel. 67222 T-DAY & TO-MOREOW at 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
INTRIGUING
·Romance with a con tinental flavor-
spicily set to
MUSIC
Lilian
HARVEY
MY LIPS BETRAY
JOHN BOLES EL BRENDEL
* Maude Eburse
Kent BUDWE Hey Stephenson Directed by JOHN BLYSTONE From the play "Der Komel BANKA RAOK
FVLLNS
SHOWING TO-DAY- at 2,30, 5.10 7.20 & 4.30 p.m.
"A Good Girl Good at the Right
Things
CURVACIOUS:
MAE WEST
in
"I'M
NO
ANGEL"
with
CARY GRANT
A
Paramount Picture.
(STAR)
TO-DAY & TO-MOBROW
At 2:80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M
Montagement
Sally Eller
MADEO BROADWAY
with
MADGE EVANS
Directed by
HARRY BEAUMONT
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