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CENTRAL
CHEATRE
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"Advance Booking at Andersons" and the Theatre. Tel 26720.
COMMENCING TO-DAY
(At 2.80, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
THE SCREEN'S BIGGEST THRILL!
BOL LESSER presenti
BUSTER CRABBE
ANIW EDGAR RICE BURROUGES Story
TARZAN
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
King's
"1 was a Spy."
Queen's
"Tiger Shark"
Central
Tarzan The Fearless."
Oriental,
"Trick for Trick."
Lee Theatro... »
Star.
"Ladies Must Love."
KOWLOON
"Reunion in Vienna."
Majestic. -
The Mad Gause"
Klor's
Coming
"Falling for You,"
Queen's
Stage Mother."
"Solitaire Man."
Broadway To Hollywood".
Central
Star:
The Tempest."
"Woman Accused."
"Isle of Lost Soul."
Third String,” al
Orders is Orders".
World:***
"Made on Broadway." "Peg O'My Heart".
Oriental
Cracked Nuts
THE FEARLESS STAGE MOTHER
WITH
JACQUELINE WELLS EDWARD WOODS
A PRINCIPAL
"PRODUCTION
NEXT CHANGE
EUROPE'S IDOL OF THE SCREEN IN HIS GREATEST HIT!
EMIL JANNINGS
IN
"THE TEMPEST
(STORMS OF PASSION)
WITH
"ANNASTEN
AN UFA PICTURE.
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
Opening Picture For
ber
The Alhambra
One of the unique scenes in the Warner Brothers picture);
4 Gold Diggers of 1933," which will be the opening picture for the Alhambra Theatre is the song and dance. num- with 4 ilhiminated violina." Girls of the chorus play on these instruments in a gigantic ensemble, the lights being arranged to take. the shape of the fiddle, and bow, so that the music can be beard and the instruments sten playing the air after the figures of the players are blacked out, giving a startling ef feet. Gold Diggers" is a ma moth musical and dramatic spect acle based on Avery Hopwood's play and directed by Mervyn Le Roy. There is a noted all star cast which includes Warren Wilham, Juan Blnadell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keelor, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers!
H.M.8. Wishart arrives back from t Swatow this morning about am The Japanese craiser Kuma is ex pected from Foochow on Thursday next and will be in port for several days
To-morrow at the
Queen's
Alice Brady plays a leading role inStage Mother, theatrical dra- mia adapted from an original story by Bradford Ropes and filmed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and which will be shown tomorTOW/ at the Queen's Theatre.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1934.
FINAL" SHOWINGS- TO-DAY
ATM 2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30. P.M
KINGS
THE THRILLING STORY OF A
"BEAUTIFUL SPY."
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MADELEINE CARROLL CONRAD VEIDT
•
HERBERT MARSHALL
I WAS in A SPY
WITH
GERALD MAURIER
du
I WAS A SPY
Grand Film At
-King's
One of the most effective xenes She will be remembered for her
in "I Was à Spy" now showing at sensational personal hit in when
the King's Theatre, is that which Ladies Meet," and it is said that shows the arrival in Roulers of the she outdoes all of her previous port-firet victims of a gas attack rayals in the new picture Her role is that of a domineering "stage mother who forces her child to success on the stage through difficulties that create powerful hu man interest.
An exceptionally strong cast has been assembled to appear with Miss Brady. Maureen O'Sullivan plays the young daughter struggling for theatrical fame under her mother's guidaries. Franchot Tons is scen as her young lover, and is said to give another brilliant performance as in "To-day We Live," "The Stranger's Return and night Mary."
"Mid-
Ted Healy and His Gang. Phillips Holmes attempts the most mature role of his entire pic- ture career as Lord Ayicsworth who tries to win the affections of Miss O'Sullivan. Ted Healy, madcap
LEE THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
2
AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 E.M.
There's the devil to pay when they start to play-for they've learned the secret of luxury without worry!
LADIES MUST LOVE
SE
ITIS
“With JUNE KNIGHT NEIL HAMIL
ALLYO'NELL”, DOROTHY BURGESS, MARY CARLISLE,
French and British Tommies," and French Colonial troops are brought coughing painfully and mysti- fred at this new fate which has overtaken theth...
"Their appearance is the signal for a riot in the town. Five hun dred and more citizens form a de monstration which is only "quelled with difficulty.
GAUMONT-RASH -PICTURE- directed by VICTOR SAVILLE
EDMUND GWENN
"FALLING FOR YOU"
Full-of-Laughter
Picture
A
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
NEXT CHANGE- COMMENCING SUNDAY,
28th JANUARY.
A JOLLY" PICTURE OF LIGHT-HEARTED FUN.
JACK HULBERT
IN
FOR YOU
WITH
CICELY COURTNEIDGE TAMARA DESNI
DIRECTED BY JACK HULBERTSAND ROBERT STEVENSON "A GAUMONT BRITISH PICTURE
TARZAN THE FEARLESS
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
(January 37)
(XII Moon, 13th Day) Social Functiona-Whist Drive, China Light and Power Recreation Club, King's Park, 9 pm...
Entertainments--Madame Lottie Gordon's Concert, Helen May La Patitute,..5 p.m.
Theatres."
King's-"I Was a Spy." Queen's: Tiger Shark Central:-Tarzan The Fearless." Oriental:-Trick For Trick.” World fade On Broadway." Tai Ping:"King Kong."" Lee:Ladies Must Love? Majestic:The Mad Game," Star-Reuniga In Vienna,"
. Dances.
Dinner
Dance,
Rotary Club, Annual Dance Annual Supper Machine Gun Co., H.K.V.D.C., Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, e pm. H.M.S. Tamar's Dance, Gar- rison Lecture Hall; 8.30 pm.
..
Principal Mails.
Outward Air Mail for Europe by Corfu, palm.; steamer, 10.30 .m.; a.m.; for America and Europe via Siberia by General Lee, 5 p.m.
Sports.
Cricket.First Division, Craigen- gower v. Army (L); Second Divi- sion, Royal Navy v Club de Re- creio (L); Police v. Kowloon ̊C.C.. (L).
Football.Senior Shield, South China v Navy; Junior Shield, Club v. Borderers; First Division, Club v. Lincolns; Kowloon v. St. Joseph's: Second Division, Chinese Athletic y. Navy; Young Indians
Royal Artillery: Third Division, University v. South China; Royal. Air Force, Club de Recreio; R.A.. M.C. v. RA.S.C."
Hockey. Mamak Tournament, German Club v. Police; Caer Clark Cup, St. Andrew's v. Club de Recreio "A", 2.45 pm.; Hongkong Ladies v. YMCA, 3 p.m.; Cen- tral British Association v. Club de Recreio "B," 3" p.m.; Friendly matches, HK.S.RA, v. Punjabs, 4.30 p.m.
Rugby Club Navy (Happy: Valley), p.maafar,
Yachting Royal Hongkong" Yacht Club's First. Corinthian Race for racing yachts
Sunrise.-7.04 m.; Sunset-8.09. Tides-High at 10.10. and. 19.34;
p..
At The Central
Buster Crabbe, world-champion swimmer, who is accounted the Jack Hulbert and Cicely Court-most perfect specimen of young eidge lead in Falling For You" manhood yet, to appear on the a full-of-laughter. Gainsborough screen, plays the title role of the pleture, opening at the King's lad who was reared in the jungle Theatre to-morrow, the others and lived like the apes. Playing Low at 90 and 11.37.
roles are Jacqueline the cast being Tamari prominent
SUNDAY Alfred Wells, Edward Woods, Matthew Garry Marsh, Desni,
Philo
(January. 28) McCullough and Bruce, Drayton,
Tonle
O. B. Beltz, Selton Ivor Frank Lackteen. The serial was (XII Moon, 14th Day)
directed by, Bob Hill and super- Anniversaries and Holidays:- Clarence, Morton M'Glaren and Leo Sheffield.
The picture is fun of the up-vised by William Lord Wright, Sentuagesima Sunday,
Religions-Bervices at "St. She- roarious type of humour with from a story by Basil Dickey and
hephen's Church, Pokfulum Road, which the Halberts have made us George Plympton based on
opposite University, conducted by familiar. The original play is by original of Edgar Rice Burrough.
Tarzan the Fearless" is acclaim- University Christian Association,
Theatres. Jack Hulbert, Douglas Furber and Robert Stevenson; the lyrics by ed a new and and revolutionary Douglas Furber, the music by Vi-iden, in the production of "serials. Queen's:-"Stage Mother." vian Ellis and the scenario and Each chapter condenses the thrilla King's: Falling For You" dialogue by Claude Hulbert
of a feature in high-pressure ac-Central: "Tarzan The Pearless,' Jack Hulbert is now definitely tion and builds up to a climx that Oriental Cracked Nuts." placed in the front rank of the leaves the audience keyed-up and World: Peg O'My Heart." world's comedians. His subtle in suspense for the succeeding Tai Ping:-King Kong." sense of clowning, his fascinating, chapter. The serial recounts the Lec: "Ladies Must Love." rhythmic dancing and Jolly met adventures of a small band of ex- Majestic: The Devil's In Love." hod of putting over a musical plorers led by Doctor Brooks, Star: "The Island of Lost Soul"
Sports. number are artistic achievements archeologist, who have gone into essentially his own. When he is the African jungles seeking to Cricket-Police v. St. Joseph's
and learn College. partnered by Cicely Courtneldge prove the existerse
origin of there are no limits to their ex-the quisite foolery. In "Falling For tribe. The serial gets under way You." they are rival reporters, and with the capture of Doctor Brooks peculiar specimens, too.
in the sacred temple of the tribe of According to "Falling For You" Zar, his sentence to imprisonment when rival reporters get into the and probable death, lest he carry same story and cross each other's back to civilization tidings of the path, something has to be done to lost people and their god, Zar of Dance numbers that serve as a defeat the rival. In this picture the Emerald Fingers. background for the vivid story were Jack Hazelden (Jack Hulbert) and Succeeding chapters recount the created and staged by Albertina Minnie Tucker (Cicely, Courtneld- amazing adventures that befall the Rasch, who has staged dances in ge) have discovered that the weal-explorers in their search for the
Sunrise: 7.04 am Sunset: -8:06 treasure cave containing the sacred many New Yorks shows, including thy girl they are trailing to secure the Ziegfeld Follies and others. a story is on the cross-channel jewels of the Lost Tribe of Zar and pixx.
Tides:-High at 10.20 and 20.11; More than thirty girls in gorgeous boat on which they are also travel- the heroio deeds of Tarzan-in sLY- costumes take part in the revue ilers
ing the explorer and his daughter Low at 2.54 and 12.55. numbers which include " Dancing A somewhat peculiar woman he from death at the hands of the "Beautiful meets is belleved by Hazelden to natives and the savage beasts of on a Rainbow" and Girl. Settings and photography be the person he is seeking." He the jungle. are lavish in the most "ultra" of listens with -restrained glee to effects in lighting and musual scenic the story she tells and goes off to
give his Editor (Alfred Drayton) backgrounds.
master of stooge" comedy, at tempts his first dramatic role and is said to carry the part with as much success as any of his famous stage antics." Russell Hardie, as a young acrobat who marries Brady in the early sequences of the pic ture, has been seen recently in "Broadway to Hollwood."
Charles Brahin, who has filmed some of the screen's outstanding hits, including "Sporting Blood, "Washington Masquerade," and recently The Secret of Madame Blanche," is said to surpass all of his former films with his direction of "Stage Mother."
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DAILY 2.30–5.15 715-4.30
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TO-MORROW MONDAY-TUESDAY
HERE
THEY ARE AGAIN AND
FUNNIER THAN EVER.
TRICK WHEELER WOOLSE FOR TRICK
Ralph MORGAN Vidor JORY Sally BLANE:
İCRACKED NUTS
with DOROTHY LEE
Edna May Oliver
Stanley Fields Leni Stengel
E lost
white Football.-First Division, Bor-- derers v. East Lancashires; Recreio v. Chinese Athletic,
Hockey.
Buster Crabbe as "Tarzan" "per- forme prodigious feats of death- dating stunts, battling with lions, tigers, gorillas and amphibian rep- tiles making perilous giant awings from tree to tree through the jungle, and rescuing Mary time after time from the clutches of blood-lust savages.
FALLING FOR YOU
Jack Hulbert Coming
Again
To see Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge at work in "Falling For You" at the King's Theatre on Sunday next, ne screen journa lists say, is to enjoy a real laugh. They are in Switzerland in searat of an heiress and succeed in ex- tracting a lot of fun for themselves oize of the affair. But, the woman wine; she 'spote the heiress au euch, while her rival falls in love with a charming girl in distress, without having the ghost of an idea that she is "Dew' It is long after that he wakes up. In the meantime uch has happened:
You will
the
news.leaving beh
disguised Balinler.
the
the Edl
reveals her Identity, and Hazelden is red
dvetence:
-Mamak Tournament, Radio Sports y Central British, 10. a.m.; St. Andrew's v. United Hockey Club,
Facing-Fanling Hunt and Race Club Steeplechase (Kwanti), 230 p.m.
Yachting -Royal Yacht Club. Army...
Hongkong
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
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QUEENS
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ab 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
TRAGEDY LURKS
'neath shining seas I Every second brings ter- ror, a new daoger, a new thrill in this epic of the wave-tossed jungles}
EDWARD 6.
ROBINSON TIGER SHARK
with
RICHARD ARLEN ZITA JOHANN A First National Hit.
TO-MORROW
KISSES
JJ
for CASHT
Alice Brady in
new triumph
as a black-
malling Stage Mother!
STAGE
MOTHER
"will"
ALICE
BRADY
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN FRANCHOT TONE PHILLIPS HOLMES
TED HEALY Directed by CHARLES R. BRABL
TO-DAY ONLY SYAR
at 2:30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 pm
kidnapping racket FOX FILM Presents
The MAD GAME SPENCER TRACY
RALPH MORGAN
Directed by Irving Comming
Story by Wilam Cons
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
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