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TO-DAY AT THE
King's
CINEMA
HONG KONG
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND DUN
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tal, 23720.
AWING. «TO-DAY
280, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
BRITISH LION FILM CO.
PRESENTS
AN OUTDOOR MUSICAL
"Too Much Harmony
Queen's
Centras.
Oriental
"Sunny Side Up"
"LOVE ON SKIS "
WITH
JOAN AUSTIN-JACK LESTER
"RALPH ROGAN - BULL & BUSTER
COMING
""The more you double-cross men," the better they, like you." /CONSTANCE
Bennett
She stopped at nothing to make! herself a
BED OF ROSES
(Not so soft!)/ JOEL MCCREA John Halliday Part Kelion Samual Hinds.
Pandro
Production
ERIAN C.
COOPER, executive
producer
AKO RADIO PicTere
“DANCING LADY”
Crawford-Gable Success
"Dancing Lady," which opens on Saturday at the Queen's is bound to skyrocker Joan Crawford, and Clark Gable to new heights. Their success ugeller in "Possessed" will seem insigamcant compared to their triumph in their latest effort.
. Here is a picture with spectacle and splendour never before attempt- ed and that goes for uli úr must- cals heretofore, Dunting Lady" is. not just another picture. It is the screen's crowning achievement in the production of elaborate musical ex- travaganzaɛ.........
First you have one of the finest easts ever assembled-Joan Craw- ford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, Ted Healy and his stooges. Next you have a ténsely dramatic story, that would make a great picture without its extravagant musical background. Then you have the most pretentious production numbers. ever staged, with three hundred glorious beau ties to enhance these settings. And, in addition, you have song hits that promise to become sensations over- night.
The picture gives both Miss Craw-
"The Chief"
"Love on Skis'
KOWLOON
Alhambra
Star.
"I Love That Man""
"A Billion Dollar Scandal', Majestic.
The Penguin Pool Murder"
Queen's
Coming
"Dancing Lady"
King's
"Flying down to Rio"
Central
"Bed of Roses"
alhambra
Start
Ladies They Talk About"
"Don Quixote""
Oriental
"The Unholy Garden".
"BITTER SWEET”
The amazing Noel Coward. aut- hor of "Bitter Sweet," one of the most successful light operas in the. history of the English speaking stage, is hailed by erlites every- where as the theatre's most versa- tile play wright...
A perusal of Coward plays re- veals that he is easily entitled to
the honour. In "Private Lives,"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934,
SHOWING TO DAY
AT 12.30,5.10.7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
HOLLYWOOD'S PRETTIEST GIRLS
•KINGS
"TOO MUCH HARMONY
TOO MUCH
With the crooning star of 'Big Broadcast', 'College Humar':
BING CROSBY
Mad Mom of 'Close Harmony"!
JACK OAKIE Skeets GALLAGHER JUDITH ALLEN HARRY GREEN LILYAN TASHMAN and NED SPARKS
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
-NEXT CHANGE
COME ALONG! Sell your troubles for a SONG!
200 BEAUTIES CHOSEN
FROM 10,000
as you go.
FLYING DOWN/RIO
RKO
Punamount
BRAND NEW
SONG HITS
·RADIO
Meluz
HARMONY
The greatest sky spectacle ever born to rhythm!
With
DOLORES DEL RIO. GENE RAYMOND
· RAUL ROULIEN . GINGER ROGERS
FRED ASTAIRE Music by VINCENT TOUMANS
LEAD
years later, back in California | FILM ACTRESS'S FASHION again, the trio left Whiteman to Join an orchestra at the Cocoanut Grove. Bing made a few records as a "Sideline," and, of course, the programme from the Grove were broadcast. The records became
moviegoers found him sophisticat- Bing Crosby With Us best sellers, and when his orches-
ed, satirical and farcical, while in "Cavalcade," he was powerful, ""De- dramatle, and epochal. His
sign For Living" is risque and ultra-modern, the story of two men in love with the sume woman, all "of whom live together.
How, in "Bitter Sweet," a Un- ited Artists picture coming to the King's Theatre soon; Coward is frankly and delightfully sentimen- tal and romantic. The stage or screen never saw" a cleaner nor more wholesome play than "Bitter Sweet."
As a stage play, "Bitter Sweet" was first produced in London by Charles B. Cochran. It ran for, two years there before being brought to New York by the late Florenz Ziegfeld, whò presented it with Evelyn Laye in the leading feminine role. The picture veston, incidentally, is the first entertain- ment to ring the Ziegfeld name. back to American theatres since his death over a year ago.
Anna Neagle, sensational young British actress. who played with Jack Buchanan in "Good night Vienna" jumps into the front rank of movie stars through her per- formance in "Bitter Sweet. Of rare charm and talent,she, is-ideal- ly suited for the role of Sarl in the picture, and she is likely to achieve the same success in the part that Evelyn Laye' did on the stage.
Gene
Dolores Del Rio and Raymond, whose romance la the plot in Flying Down, to Klo" Sunday at the King's
ford and Gable, every opportunity to rave about, and the brilliant for striking acting portrayals, the casemble work and presentation of ong as the burlesque chorizo who is the mustel numbers sete a few high determined to get Broadwayams for spectacular, eye-filling and at any price, the other as the musi Juxurious film entertainment
cal comedy director who turns out The whole production, including to be one of the girl's greatest the adaptation of James Warner obstacles: Franchot Tone as the Bellah's novel. by Allen Rivkin and other man in Miss Crawford' life,P.J. Wolfson, the brilliant direction also scores in a memorable role of Robert.Z. Leonard and the dance The dancing-particularly Miss direction by Sammy Lee and Eddie Crawford's routines with the world-"] Prinz is a great triumph for the famed Fred Astaire is something, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
Again!
but
two
Most people want to become a success in their chosen professions. but Bing Crosby is content to let his sidelines curry him to fame. Although he has made -feature-length productions. Crosby His is rapidly reaching stardom, latest picture, "Too Much Harmony," is now showing at the King's Theatre. Always musically inclined, Crosby, while attending Gonzaga University, played in 1 small dance band as a "Sideline." Then he took a job in a real band as a trap drummer, and sang choruses as a "sideline."..
tra job was finished, the national. radio networks' wanted him."
As a radio star, Bing attracted the attention of motion picture studios, who wanted him for fimusicals. He decided to make one, as a "sideline," and came west to do ""The Big Broadcast" for Paramount
He came back again this year to make College Humour.", So great was his popularity that the studio promptly signed him as a star. Now Croshy is an establish- ed screen star, and his radio work is almost a "sideline" again.
Miss Margot Grahame, the film star, who is regarded as the best- dressed actress on the English screen, says that petunia is to be the fashionable colour this spring. When she was seen in London the other day she was wearing a frock of black velvet with a sleeveless three-quarter coat. On her blonde hair she wore a black organdie" scull-cap, ornamented with a black and white osprey plume, the black and white being reproduced in her matt kid openwork shoes.
playing in cheap houses. He brings her to New York with her In "Too Much Harmony," Bing partners, a pair of dumb comics, heads a cast including Jack Oakle," campaigns for her and gets into trouble over her. He discovers, too Skeets Gallagher, Judith Allen. Eventually he got a job as a Harry Green, Lilyan Tashman and late, that she is engaged to one of her vaudeville partners, and his vocalist with Al Rinker in the Ned Sparks. The picture, which Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. was directed by Edward Suther-own fiancee, a gold-hungry blonde, Paul Whiteman heard them, liked land, tells the story of a Broadway gets up in arms. And he remains them, signed them with Harry musical comedy star who becomes sunk, until the comics. find a way
to bring her back' to Barris, and they became White-enamered of a lovely little vaude- man's "Rhythm" Boys." Three villian he finds in the "sticks" show."
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
00
QUELA'S
HIS BIGGEST FLAME WAS A
RED-HOT MAMMA !§.
Ed WYNN
THE PERFECT FOOL
The Chief
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY STOR
the
At 2,30, 5.10, 7. 15 & 9.20 p.m.
FROM SATURDAY
JOAN
CRAWFORD'S
MUSICAL ROMANCE
"DANCING LADY"
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
A BILLION DOLLAR SCANDAL
Paramount's Drama with
ROBERT ARMSTRONG-CONSTANCE CUMMINGS
TO-DAY TO SATURDAYALHAMBRA
I LOVE THAT
MAN"
· EDMUND LOWE
NANCY CARROLL
· ROBCAT ARMSTRONG
LEUF CODY
EVECİNE VE BALLY JOC BÁOUR
Agaramount Picture
SCREEN SOUVENIRS
CENTRU
At 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
-COMING SHORTLY
Barbara Stanwyck
"LADIES THEY
TALK ABOUT
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
Thursday, March ̈8..
Cinemas
King's: Too Much Harmony.” Queen’s:
The Chief
Central-Her Elighness
mands."
Com-
Oriental:-"Sunny Side Up." World: "The Nuisance." Tai Ping:-"Hell Below." Alhambra:-"I Love That Man."
Majestic: "The Penguin Pool
Murder."
Star: "A Billion Dollar Scan-
dal."
Meetings. Theosophical - Society. Speaker: Dr. M. O. Pfister, M.D., on "The Influence of Mind on 'Body." 6" p.m.; Annual. Kowloon Residents' Association, St. Andrew's
hurch Hall, e p.m.;
MAJESTIC
THEATRE- Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222] TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 ₫ 9.20 p.m.
The schoolmarm from lown.who had never read a detective story stepped in and solved the crime! She's positively KILLING INST
PENGUIN
POOL
MURDER
Miscellaneous.-Whist Drive, Civil Service Cricket Chb, 8.45 p.m. St. Andrew's Club. Discussion Class: “Is' Our Modern "Business, System Un-. christian?" Church Hali, 9 p.m..
Moon-I Moon, 23rd. Day.
Principal Malls,
Inward from Europe via Suez by Ì) Ranchi.
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Religious.St. John's Cathedral Dedication of Memorial Service to Walter Leste Pattenden, 5 p.m.;: Lenten Mid-week Service by Bishop of Hongkong, 5.30 p.m.
Sports.
Hockey-Borderers v. East Lan- cashires, 430 p.m.; Radio Sports v. University, 5 p.m.
Lawn Tennis.-Open Doubles, S. A and H. D. Rumjahn v. J. A. E. Cassumbhoy and L. M. A. Razack; (Stand Court); C. A. Barretto and A. B. Remedios v. Capt. P. S. Can- non and H. Ower Hughes: Tsol
·Ping-fan and Tsui Yun-pul v. A. L.
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4 SHOWS
TO DAILY
1.20-515
7.15-0.00
WON EDNA MAY OLIVER Mac. Armstrong James CleatsA
Man Clarks"
RADIO Pigenes
Sullivan and W. A. H, Duff.
Sunrise -6.39 a.m.; Sunset-6.29 p.m.
Tides High at 2.10 and 13.30; Low at 6.17 and 21.51: "
TAKE UNY TRAN (HAPPY VALLEY DUB
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES
TO-DAY REVIVAL
OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS PICTURE
DON'T MISS IT!
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GAYNOR
Charles
FARRELL
SUNNY SIDE
UP
FLEMING:
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TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY RONALD COLMAN
IN AN ACTION PICTURE A superb comedy drama teeming with excitement, MAGNIFICENT.PË. DUCTIO8.
taw To This eliange land of sin und strengtē
SAMUEL GOLDWYN suisines
RONALD COLMAN The UNHOLY GARDEN
PARTESTS!
Aim to screen audiences.
A RADIO STAR
Besides the jokes which are inde ibly associated with the Wynnian humour, the picture abounds. ing Scores Hit On Screen thrills. A four-story building was
burned to provide one of the high With the hilarious, owi-eyed Edlights, and the spectacle of Wynn Wynn as its star, The Chief, comes to-day, to
the Queca's
Theatre.
The picture is unusual in that it is Wynn's fret and probably his only appearance this year,But it is also unusual in that the stor himself, comparatively unknown to the screen, is known by his voice in every home in America.
*
Wynn achieved fame first on the stage when, years ago, he originated the character he called "The Perfect Fool. He had made this catch phrase synonymous with his name when, in April, 1932, he first stepped before a microphone on a national hook-up as "The Fire Chief."
dashing dizzily through amoke-filled halls and dangling four floor above the street by an uncertain pair of suspenders is said to comprise
high-and-dizzy Inugh sequence which recalls Harold Lloyd's mosta, successful comedy.
For another sequence, a completa carnival was transported to the | M-G-M‹ studio in California merely
to give Wynn an opportunity. tussle with a wrestling bear.
Dorothy Mackaill, long a favourite with Queen's audiences, appears opposite the star' in his big produc tion. The cast also features Charles Chic" Sale, himself a star of the stage and screen; William (Stags) It took me seventeen years and Boyd, Effie Ellsler, C. Henry Gor about a million dollars in advertis-don, Mickey Rooney, Bradley Page ing to popularize, The Perfect Purnell B. Pratt, George Girot Focl," Wynn remarks, "but two Tom Wilson, Nat Pendleton and months after I first went on the alr
Bob Perry. "The Perfect Fool" was forgotten and I had become estáblished as "The Fire Chief”
talk to
It is in that role that Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer chose to present
Charles F. Riesner, who has filmed many of the most successful comed features of recent years, directed "The Chief" from a story by Arthu Caesar and Robert E. Hopina.
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