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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BON
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Thontra Tel 95720.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80; 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE
PRESENTS
LILY YUEN & GRACE LIN
IN
عالم
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
King's
The Private"Life of Henry
VIII."
Queen's.
"Night Flight."
Central."
"Fragments of Life"
Oriental
(Chinese Picture).
"White Gold Dragon"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934.
TO-DAY ONLY
AT
12.30, 5.10, 7,15
& 9.30 P.M.
BOOKING
KINGSE
EVERY WOMAN GOT IT
IN THE NECK – Eventually
LONDON FILMS pressar ||
Charles LAUGHTON
The Private Life of HENRY VIII
Dissaed by Almende Karda
MILLARD TILU HROZEN AKUMUL
KOWLOON
Alhambra
"I am a Fugitive from a
Chain Gang"
IN
Star.
THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25392
-NEXT CHANGE
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
Anniversaries and Houdaya:- Ember Day.
of
Auctions-Lammert's Sale Household Furniture, 180. Na- than Road. Kowloor, 10.30 a.m.
Cinemas.
King's: "The Private Lia
Henry VIII.” Queen's Night Flight." " Central:-"The Fragments Of
Life" (Chinese Picture) Oriental: "The White Gold
MAJESTIC
THEATRERAS Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tal, 87222 [TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 8.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Forty Maddening Maidens on ¤ Maiden Cruise
Fugitive
with two innocent men wha
From A Chain Gang.”
Dragon”—(Chinese Picture). Alhambra: "I'm
10
"The Nuisance,”
“THE FRAGMENTS Majestic.
OF LIFE"
A CHINESE PICTURE
WITH
CHEN CHUN LI-LEE K'ENG
COMING ATTRACTION
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURE »
PRESENTS
BEBE DANIELS
IN
"THE" SONG YOU GAVE ME"
WITH
"VICTOR VARCONT
A, B. I. P. SPECIAL.
Elstree Invents “Fried Fog" *
BETTER THAN LONDON'S
"PEA-SOUP SPECIAL"
"Melody Cruise.""
Theatre Calendar
KING'S THEATRE
18-21
+92-21
25-28
21
The Private Life of
Henry VII
Emperor Jones
The Power and the Glory.
QUEEN'S THEATRE
22-24
Night Flight
Attorney for the
defence
35 9.30 p.m. Henry Belt's Revue
Hello Hong Kong
21
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
I'm a Fugitive from.
a chain gang
Silver Dollar
CENTRAL THEATRE
20th-21st
22
Bed of Roses "
Chinese Pisture
TO-MORROW
At the King's Theatre
THE EMPEROR JONES
The Players: Paul Roberon, Dud- ley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Wash Pington, Rudy Elzy, Blueboy O'Connor. Directed by Dudley Murphy.
፡፡
It is curious that more of Eugene O'Neill's plays have not been made into pictures. This one waited for. ten years. Finally Dudley Murphy, who had written a script long be- fore talkies came in, persuaded Gord Cochrane and John Krim- sky to take a chance on it. As soon as the producers signed. Paul Robeson to play the lead their risk of a fallure became practically in- visible. Robeson gives a magnifl- cerit performance-so good on fact that the play shows signs of creak- ing,
The creaking occurs when. The Emperor Jones ceases to ug the story of a brash, free-andeusy Pull- man porter who makes himself king of a tropical island and when It becomes instead a Lomnew lat fantastical account of how be ar- rives at his sad end. "Brutus JJnes starts out as a God-fearing Papt- ist, proud of his unlform, ais vier- ed cap, and his black girl Dolly. Presently he becomes involved with a slick high-yellow sweetheart,.on whose account he kills his best friend with a razor. Sent to a chain gang, he kills a guard and escapes to a cattle boat bound for Jamaica. When he sees an island with an inviting beash, he swims
shore. He shoots chaps with the
natives, bluffs a white trader (Dud- |ley Digges) into giving him a part- nership, and finally terrifies the king-hat-into little coloured gen- silk hat-into handing over tleman with a British accent and a the throne.
Fog is not rare enough to be a novelty here in England: every body has at some time or another tasted a "pea-soup special" Now the movie people have invented a
Jones's plan is to clean up: en- variation. They have been making ugh money on the island to keep fried fog for a whole week, while him in luxury for the rest of his outside the Elstree studios moto-life, but just before he has what he thinks is enough his subjects
rists have at times been meander-revolt. There comes what was in- ing and cursing through the thickest natural fogs Hertfordshire tended to be the most impressive sequence in the picture-Jones's effort to run away, his mounting
bas ever seen.
"British International needed a terror in the forest that lines. be- natural fog effect for some scenes tween the palace and the coast, filmed aboard a British destroyer and finally his death-when his for the Alm "Contraband." The subjests pump him fully of the real stuff was not good enough for saver bullets which he has made them: they opened the studio believe are the only kind that can doors and it poured in, but the do him any harm. "movie people always want some- thing better than nature can provide, so they decided to cool up some fog on their own:
A gas ring was laid and some one fetched a real frypan. Into this homely looking utensil a pro perty expert poured some chemical powders the nature of which he declined
It may be that the forest episode is an exception to the otherwise sound rule that anything that can be done on the stage can be donë better in the movies, Or it may be simply that the Emperor Jones is so real a person by he time he reaches this stage that it is impos- sible, even to oblige O'Neill, to con-
to disclose, because he fuse him with a funny-paper
us!" at the sight of a white night- gown flapping on a clothesline in the dark.
said he had "private uses to which black-amoor, yelping "Laway help he might like to put his fog samel- times, and why should he tell?"
The powders went into the frypan; they sizzled like sausage but smelt like nothing on earth. The "fog" rose in volumes, settling down. about the huge destroyer deck, but to exact plans, and full scale is a model of any one of the two-funnel vessels in the British Navy. The whole studio went int
We are complaining about the end of The Emperor Jones mainly because the rest of it is so good.
Manners as the Naval Commander, and Clifford Mollison as the stow. away
reporter. took
newspaper
a haze! the diretor and the their places on deck, and Elstree cameraman-Robert Milton and had once again performed the Claude Friese-Greene went into a the miracle of improving upon huddle--the lights went on. David: nature
ALSO
"THE PIED PIPER'
A SILLY SYMPHONY IN TECHNICOLOUR
"EMPEROR JONES"
FINAL SHOWINGS "TO-DAY
STARS IN THE EPIC OF THE SKIES!
NIGH
FLIGHT
Many Gohtu on Marr
JOHN BARRYMORE HELEN HAYES CLARK GABLE LIONEL BARRYMORE-R. MONTGOMERY-MYRNA LOY
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
LEE
TRACY
STAR
JOHN KNASKY and GIFFORD COCHRAM' present
Paul ROBESON
IN EUGENE O'NEILL'S
amazing story
EMPEROR Jones
=NA'DUDLEY DIGGES
Baked Pre Unked Arkata
A SILVER BULLET HIS BABITS FOOT - BUT IT FROVES A BOOMERANG TO EMPEROR JONES! -
"THE SONG YOU
GAVE ME”
"THE SONG YOU GAVE ME" will be the song everyone' is hum- ming when the New British In- ternational aim of this title is shown at the Central Theatre next { week.
Majestic Melody Cruise." Star: The Nuisance."
Entertainments:-A. D. C. Pro- duction, "Ten Minute Allb!,” Royal Naval Canteen Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
Meetings:-Annual, The Hong- kong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., Messrs. Jardine. Mathe- son's Offices, noon; Hongkong Iron Mining Co., Ltd., Messrs... Jardine, Matheson's Offices, 12.15 p.m.; Fin- ance Committée, Legislative Comm- cil. 2.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous: Whist Drive. Sedmen's Institute. 9 p.m.; Kow- loon Union Church Women's Guild, 10 a.m.; Birthday Entertainment
"Sailor's Supper
and Soldiers'
Home, 8 p.m.
Moon: First Quarter, 2.05 p.m. I'Moon, 8th. Day,
a.m.;
c.m.
Principal Malls.
Outward for America and Europe via Siberia. by Tatsuta Maru, 8.30 and by Empress of Asia, 5
Sports. Cricket-St. Joseph's College v. Central British School
Hockey-Hongkong Hockey Club
4 SHOWP
TO DAILY
2-20-$19
tried not to ..slip.. bue SLIP "AHOY}"
NAUGHTYCALI NUTTYCAL MUSICALI
MELODY
CRUISE
With..
CHARLIE RUGGLES PHIL HARRIS
OLITA MISSON, MALIOBE SATISON, HELIN. MACK, Chay Chandar. Jmé Bramatur, Shirley Chamborej
Мнение and врать для бани! Zarun and Yai Barion
· Dunched by Alark. Sománch Manon C Conpa, moculve produca Avon Bra ducer, Lowe Brock AD RKO-RADIO Picture of oursel
TAKE ANY TRAN OF HAPPY VALLEY BUR
ORIENTALE
2 DAYS ONLY TO-DAY & TO-MORROW POSITIVELY
THE LAST SHOWING OF THIS FAMOUS CHINESE TALKING PICTURE IN CANTONESE LANGUAGE.
Mr. & Mrs. SIT KOK SIEN
in the
Bebe Daniels, the famous Holly-WHITE GOLD DRAGON
wood star who came to England expressly to star in this picture. plays the part of a musical comedy actress, and her romance in the story begins when a young man presents her with his first com- position.
Noel Gay, whose song hits are as rumerous as they are popular, specially wrote this haunting num- ter for Bebe and filmgoers who collect her glorious voice in "Rio Rita can Imagine the treat that awaits them in "THE SONG YOU GAVE ME
S
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
COMING
Henry Bellit's BROADWAY REVLE
"Hello Hongkong"
in
20 ACTS 20
At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
MADGE
EVANS
"THE NUISANCE"
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
ALHAMBRA At 2.30, 6.20, 7 20 & 9.20 p.m.
FAUSTRE
THE LASH THAT RIPPER ACROSS IS FLESI NOW YEARS THE HEART OF AMERICAS
PAUL MUNI CIAWAFUGITIVE
NEXT CHANGE-
ED. G. ROBINSON'S
masterpiece
"Silver
Dollar"
A First National Picture,
SHOWING ON FRIDAY & SATURDAÝ
PATHOS
COMEDY
ROMANCE
A TERRÍFIC OLIMAX ... SUSPENSE
THIS MAGNIFICENT PICTURE
HAS THE ALL!
Helen HAYES
Sister
The White GABLE
senlore
Hero Goldwyn-Maye METİNE
Bt. Andrew's Club, 5.p.m.- Lawn Tennis.-Open Singles, Lt. A.C.C. Miers v. Ho Ka-lan; J. A. E. 1. Cassumbhoy v, R. R. G. Hoare; J. W. Leonard v. Capt. P. S. Cannon or Ng Kan-chuen;. Tsui Wai-pui v., H. Owen Hughes; C. A. Wright v. Tam You-fong; W. C. Hung v. W. A. H. Duff; 8. A. Rumjahn v. Lai Kwong-tsun; Open Doubles, C. Fincher and L. Goldman v. M. W. and M. K: Lo.
Sunrise: 6.61 a.m. Suriset:- 8.23 P.01.
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Tides:-High at 1:59 and 14.20; Low at 6.44 and 22.10.
The Power And The Glory.
The Power and the Glory new Fox Production coming to the King's Theatre la onë of the major experiments in the dramatics of the screes since the birth of motion pictures.
Spencer Tracy and Helen FinerA portray a romance of unusual depih in "The Power and the Glory" Ferne: Lesky's new production for Fox Film
Central Theatre
The picture featuring Spencer Tracy, Collen Moore, and Ralph Morgan, will uaher in a radically new style of story expression, call- 'ed "narratage." A third person is employed as a narrator and tells the action story of the principal characters as it occurs, to him and without regard to tradi tion and eccépted standards of continuity. The story starts with the most dramatic moment in the man's life, his death, and from that beginning runs down through his life to his youth Lorry Evans in "Bed of Roses" Spencer Tracy, in the leading Rio-Radio Pictures' intriguing role has a charcterization' that has drama of a reform school graduate, been heralded as the outstanding falla in love with Dan, a handsome one of his career. It is said to captain of a towboat after exchan be present him with almost un-ging her face and figure for limited opportunities for a varied Stephen Paige's luxuries. Lorry portrayal of personality, Colleen even belleves that Dan could be Moore, absent from the screen for hers for life and prepares for three years makes her return in
marriage. the leading feminine role opposite. Tracy:
Missippi River, and a realistic women's reformatory.
"BED OF ROSES" Constance Bennett portraying
Her career strikes a sang wheni "she is cautioned against binding Dan without revealing her past life.
The drama of Bed of Rose Joel McCrea as Dan, John Hall centres about Miss Bennets against dayas Paige Per Kelton and the colourful and picturesqua Bamuel Hinds are featured in backgrounds of the Mard supporting roles under the direc-caralyat in New Orleans, tion of Gregory La Care,
"(Consimied on previous ecluma.
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