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CENTRAL
THEATRE
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Advance Booking at Andersons sud the Theatre Tel 25720.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY-
At 280, 5.15, 7.45 & 9.30.P.M.' BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
·PRESENTS
BEBE DANIELS
IN
"THE SONG. YOU GAVE ME"
WITH
VICTOR VARCONI A. B. I. P. SPECIAL.
TO-MORROW
"I WANT TO SIN AND SUFFER! ...and all I do is suffer!"
The Goody Girl el the Ipate-Wipsie Wash Cloth radio hour stripped off her sweet disguise
and told the oficials
of the company
lacen of life!
the
Professional SWEETHEART
The wild romance of e radio star Wah GINGER ROGERS NORMAN FOSTER ZASU PITTS FRANK MCHUGH
A IKO RADIO
Panra of coursel
Allan Jankie, Gengery Letoff, Edgar Kannody, Avelun ttlefield Directed by Will.com Salter kom theory by Marine Won Liian C Cooper, pedrear
WHERE HE
LEARNT
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG.
King's
Wills of Gold"
Queen's.
"Day of Reckoning"
Central.
"The Song You Care, Me" Oriental
"The Mad Gand”.
KOWLOON
Alhambra
"Her Bodyguard”-
Star.
"Midnight Mary'
Majestic.
“Mi· Robinson Cruso;"
Queen's
Coming
"Bombshell
"The Chief
"Dancing Lady"
King's
"il
"Song of Songs" "Too much Harmony"
Central
Professional Sweetheart"
Alhambra
"Ladies They Talk About" Star:
Hold your
Man"
Sally Ellers, the vivacious star of "Walls of Gold"
HER LIFE MADE
MISERABLE
By A Number Of Stars!
Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy, together for the Brst time as co- stars, are said to have provided the biggest truckload of laughs to roll out of Hollywood in the hilarious picture, "Bombshell," which is showing from Sunday at the Queen's.
The production is described us a pictorial record of Hollywood laughing at itself, a story woven around the myths and rumours that have flown out of the Alm capital and presented in a com- posite of humour and laugh-pro- voking situations for the amuse- ment of the movie-going public. It is based on a play by Caroline Francke and Mack. Crane, adapted
to the screen by Jules Furthman and John Lee Mahin.
Miss Harlow, in what she admits to be the most unusual role of her career, Is seen as a glamorous screen star whose life is made Iniserable by the antics of her press agent, Lee Tracy; her liquor-loving father, Frank Mor- gan; her false lover, Franchot Tone; her director, Pat O'Brien; her secretary, Una Merkel: her brother, Ted Healy and a score or more of other well-known
THE TUNE! personalities who constitute what
“Day Of Reckoning A Lively Film
is practically an all-star cast.
Directed by Victor. Fleming. """Bombshell" tells the story of the rise to fame of Lola Burns, char- acterized by Miss Harlow, her 1:umerous love affairs, her family wees, her troubles with her pro- "Jallhouse Jazz" is. the newest ducers, her attempts to adopt a contribution to musical effects for baby, her eventual flight from the talking pictures! The strange glare of pubilcity and anally her mixture of prison sounds were conquest of true love. blended together for one of the Together with the featured most novel "orchestras" ever players already mentioned, filmed, in "Day of Reckoning." cast of "Bombshell" includes" In- drima of city prisons which is now van Lebedeff, Leonard Carey, Mary showing at the Alhambra Theatre. Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith and Júne
Leading the "band", or an old Brewster. cracker box covered with a sheet
of tin and several dented plates
was one colopred gentleman by
the
the name of "Whimpy". He and the ukelele banged forth with whacked the tin with two sticks one of the latest fox trot numbers. and to mark intervals cracked the "That's perfect, men!" compli- tin cans between beats. Support-mented Brabin.
ап
ing him, in harmony was one "It oughta be good," said the
from "hummer" made
old coloured "Mr. Whimpy." "I prac- tobacco can and a ukelele fashion- ticed that tune in the Los Angeles ed from a large cigar bak To county jail for six months." complete a quartette,
another
The cast of the new picture with
member, clacking a pair of spoons Richard Dix in a starring role together, joined the group.
includes Madge Evans, Conway
At a signal from Director Char-Tearje. Una Merkel and Stuart les Brabin, the collection of tin Erwin.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934.
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT
12.30, 5.10.7.15 & 9.30 PM.
BOOKING
KINGSE
HIDING BEHIND WALLS OF GOLD
She shut out the romance the had waited years to find...only to learn that gayety and luxury were emply substitutus for love."
Kathleen Norris'
WALLS
Deeper by
· Kenneth MacKenna
LATEST
FOX
GOLD
SALLY EILERS
NORMAN FOSTER RALPH MORGAN
Rosita Moreno
ALSO
CAMER
THRILLS."
FASHIONS"
MOVIETONE "FILMING THE
NEWS
RochellaHudson
MOVIE" TINTYPES EMMAS
DILEMMA"
MARLENE AT HER BEST
The Song Of Songs" " of Mussolini.
At The King's
Miss Dietrich pald numerous visits to Scarpitta's studio in ad- vance of the picture so that he could outline the classic Dietrich igure. The task occupied over Probably the most important five weeks of his time. Never be inanimate actor ever cast for fure. it is said. has a studio eng- motion picture is the life-size nude statue of Marlene Dietrich, which plays fully as important a role in the German star's newest Par- amount pleture, "The Song of Songs," as though it were one of the principal actors of the cast.
The picture, adapted from Herman Sudermann's world fam- ous novel, will begin on Sunday at the King's Theatre.
Ruben Mamoulian, director, com- missioned S. Cartaino Scarpitts, one of America's best known sculptors, to design the statue, Scarpitta, who has a studio in Hollywood. recently was commis- sioned by the Italian Government to do an heroic equestrian statue
·TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW
' '
aged a truly noted artist to create such a statue or painting for Alm purposes.
Miss Dietrich, an orphan, Hives with a cruel, slatternly aunt in a drab, ugly apartment. Across the street is the studio of a handsome sculptor. They fall in love, and the sculptor makes a beautiful statue of her. An orge-like Baron falls in love with the statue. His desire to possess, the original, his ultimate marriage to Miss Dietrich, and the heartache and tragedy. that follow before she eventally finds listing" happiness all are caused by the statue.
The Song of Songs presents Miss Dietrich in what is consider-
SHE WANTED. LOVE AND LUXURY'
RICHARD
-would you brand
this wife chand?
"DAY of RECKONING
DIX
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Powerful Drama
with MADGE EVANS-STUART ERWIN
נו
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
STARI
THEATRE TEL: 25313 .&.25992
FROM SUNDAY
One at the world's great love stories comes to the "star who can make it vs.
Harlene DIETRICH
IN
"THE SONG.
OF SONGS"
A ROUBEN MAMOULIAN
PRODUCTION
A Paramount Picher with BRIAN AHERNE LIONEL ATWILL ALISON SKIPWORTH
THE SONG OF SONGS HER SONG OF LOVE FROM THE HANDS OF THE MAN WHO TOOK HER HEART.
AT THE KING'S
Sally Eilers In Walls Of Gold
the
The current attraction at King's Theatre, "Walls of Gold" featuring Sally Ellers is que which should not be missed for the story Is intensely human and is based on theme which one chimes across in, everyday life.
Pretty Sally"Eilers as a suCCESS. ful business girl with a flair for clothes attracts Norman Foster, à young man about town. He intro- luces her to his uncle, (Ralph Mor- gan) wan likes to entertain in a grand manner and who has a weak- ness for women.
Forster 18. roused when Morgan fordes an expensive chinchilla coat
ed to be her finest acting role. Her supporting cast includes Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill. Alison Skip- worth. Hardle Albright .and Helen' Freeman.
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
· NEXT "CHANGE
JEAN
HARLOW
In
"Bombshell"
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
A GIRL WHOSE BEAUTY NO MAN COULD RESIST
"MIDNIGHT MARY"
Metro's Drama
Loretta Young-Ricardo Cartez Franchot Tone
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
ALHAMBRA
HER
FIDENTRE
BODYGUARD
EDMUND LOWE -WYNNE GIBSON ́EDWARD ́ARHOLD.
BERG
PRODUCTION.
At 2.30, 6.20; 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE-
Barbara Stanwyck
"LADIES THEY
TALK ABOUT?
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
(March 2)
Cinemias
King's: Walls" of Gold." Queen's: "Bombshell." Central:-"The Song You Gave
Me."
Oriental: "The Mad Game," : World:-"Forceful Way" (Chinese
Picture).
Alhambra!--" Her Bodyguard." Majestic:-"Mr. Robinson
Star: Hold Your Man." Meetings:-Annual,
The
Crusoe,"
Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's Offices, noon.
Miscellaneous:
Rotary Club Tiffin Meeting, Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden, 12.45 p.m. Lecture
by Dr. Kagawa at Cathedral Hall, 530 p.m.
Moon: I. Moon.. 17th Day.
Principal Malls
Inward from America by Presvl Johnson, from Europe via Siberiat by" Kashima Maru, from Australia by Nanking, from Europè vid Buez! by Hosang. Outward for America ind Europe' via "Siberia by Pres. Grant 5 pm. Outward Air Mail for Europe by Soudan 5 p... steamer 6 p.m.
Social Functions:-V.D.M.A. Re- ception, St. Andrew's Church Hall,
p.m.
4. SHOWS DAILY
2.305.13
7.15-1.30
MAJESTIC
EATRE
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel: 572) TO-DAY & TO-MORRO) jat 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20
EIGHT!
APING
BOUNDING
Douglas FAIRBANKS
Omr
CRUSOE
ROBINSON
·TZKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD WANONRE
TEL. 20478
2 DAYS ONLY-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
A SCREAMING HEADLINE SENSATION::
THE COUNTRY'S MOST MENACING. OBIME...
DOUBLE-CROSSING KIDNAPPING RACKETEER'S,
Love was the leait of the mad
game they played together! -
FOX FILM Prasents
The MAD GAME
Spencer Tracy
Claire Trevor Ralph Morgan Directed by Irving Cammings
Hockey
Hockey-Hong
Club "A" v. Fleet Lower Deck, 5 p.m.
Sports
Kong
Lawn Tennis:---- Open Singles: Capt. P. S. Cannon v. Ng Kam Chuen Open Doubles:
Im
Tak
Cheuk and W. C. Hụng v. Chry Clium Chiu and Lee U-wing.
Sunrise: 6.44 am Sunset: -6.27
p.m.
Tides:-High at 10.41 and 22.11 Low at 4.10 and 15.36.
SATURDAY,
(March 3) Anniversaries and Holidays:-St Stephen's College Founders' Day:
Cinemas
King's:-" Walls Of Gold." Queen's: Bombshell,” Central: The Song You Gave ** Me."
Oriental:-"The Mad Game.” World: "Forceful Way (Chinese
Picture). Alhambra:-"Her Bodyguard," Majestic:-"Mr. Robinson
Crusoe."
Story by William Comeliom
$
"HER BODY-
GUARD"
Wynne Gibson And Edmund Lowe Together
Edmund Lowe and Wynne Gib son play "the leading roles in "Her Bodyguard," romantic comedy produced for Paramount by BP Schulberg, which is now showing Fat the Alhambra Theatre. Edward Arnold, Johnny. Hines, Marjorie White, Alan Dinehart and -Fuzzy Knight head the supporting cast.
"Her Bodyguard" is the amusing? story of the love affair between a
beautiful stage star and the pr vate detective assigned by a |jëalous "sugar daddy'. to guard her from rivals. How the girl and the bodyguard outwit "everyone else and and happiness together) provides a highly funny talestate
Miss Gibson is cast as the star,
Star:-"Hold Your Man.” Dances Bachelors' Dance, Craigengower Cricket Club, 9.15 p.m.; Annual Ball of the Fanling Dinehart, playing the role of her Hunt and Race, Club, Peninsula producer, is a gentleman with n Hotel, 9 pm, HM.S. Tamar's ship's tentions. Arnold cast as a million Company Dance at Garrison Lec-aire, is another elderly fellow with approximately the same “idea: ture Hall, &.30° p.m.
Arnold hires the bodyguard, osten- *- Principal Mails
sibly to protect the star's jewels, Inward from America by Em- but actually to see that Dinehart press of Canada.
Outward for doesn't make any progress with Australia by Tanda 2.30 pm, for her.. South Africa and Europe "via Buez; Wynne is incensed when Lowe, by Kashima Maru 9.30 am, for the detective, Brst appears on the Europe via Siberia by Suwa Maru. scene, but soon 3.30 p.m
she sees the humour of the situation. Lowe is so capable, a bodyguard that even the man who hired him can't get;
upon Sally Eilers. He breaks off any wherenear the star. It's not with her and in resentment marries long before they're in love, and Bally's younger sister. Meanwhile from that time on, things move Morgan press bis attentions. so per- along at a hilarious pace sistently that Sally, heartbroken at Foster's impetuous marriage accepta Melody" a new song hit by Sara Coslow and Arthur Johnston, la the older man,
introduced during the action of "Her Bodyguarti." *
"Where Have I Heard front
programme is quite entertaining
Morgan borever, turns out to be & disappointment for once married he used his marriage as a cloak for his agurk with other women. This nitimately proves his undoing and the end of the tale is not difficult particularly a camera study of to guess
changing fashions since the nineties, Supporting Sally Bilers is Bech-called Filming the Fashions
This alle Hudson, Norman Forster and Alm will have to be seen to be ade Ralph Morgan. The rest of the preciated.
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