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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND'S
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 23720.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15. 7.15.9.30 F.M.
BRITISH LION FILM CO.
PRESENTS
AN OUTDOOR MUSICAL
King's
"LOVE ON SKIS"
_WITH_
JOAN AUSTIN - JACK LESTER RALPH ROGAN - BULL & BUSTER
-TO∙MORROW-
LO MING YAU
PRESENTS LILY YUEN KAO CHAN-FEI LEE KENG
IN "
"THE COMEBACK
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
CHU SHIH LIN JA UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE,
LADY READING'S ODD SHOES
Man Who Brought His Boots Back
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, Feb. 20. When appealing yesterday for clothing and boots for unemployed men and women and their child- ren, the Marchioness of Reading said that clothes "mattered an awful lot" when trying to get work.
"I know," she said. "because I ence appiled for a job, and I wore odd shoes and I didn't get it!"
Lady Reading, who made her appeal at the annual "meeting of
HONG KONG
Too Much Harmony"
Queen's
"Dancing Laig: "
Central.
Love on Skis "
Oriental
The Unholy Garden."
KOWLOON
Alhambra
Star.
"I Love That Man
"Don Quixote **
Majestic.
The Kid from Spain
Queen's"
King's
•
Coming
"Prizefighter and the Lady
Central
Flying down to Rio
"The Congelack
Alhambra
Oriental
One way Passage,"
*The Holy Terror**
"FLYING
DOWN
TO RIO"
Aerial volleyball with beautiful girls substituted for the halls is one of the thrilling features of RKO-Ba-... dio Pictures nuskal extravaganzer Flying Down to Radie" coming tomorrow to the King's Theatre.
In the production's climax
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1934.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2:30.5.10.7.15,
& 9.30 P.M.
HOLLYWOOD'S PRETTIEST GIRLS
•KINGS?
"TOO MUCH HARMONY"
With the crooning star of 'Big Broadcast', 'College Humor'
BING CROSBY
Mad team of 'Close Harmony'!
JACK OAKIE Skeets GALLAGHER JUDITH ALLEN HARRY GREEN
LILYAN TASHMAN
and NED SPARKS
"TO MUCH
musical show is staged in mid-air, Sensational Musical
ballets,
1
Society
6
BRAND NEW
SONG HITS
HARMONY””
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
FROM TO-MORROW
COME ALONG! Sell your troubles for a SONG!
200 *BEAUTIES
CHOSEN FROM 10.000
as you go
FLYING DOWN to RIO
ако RADIO
The greatest ský spectacle ever born to rhythm!
With DOLORES
DEL RIO GENE RAYMOND RAUL ROULIEN GINGER ROGERS
FRED ASTAIRE Music by
Picture VINCENT YOUMANS
"DANCING LADY"
And Plenty Of Thrills
Too Much Harmony," the sea- on the wings of giant planes souring
|sational musical comedy in which over beautiful Bio de Janeiro. The
these favourites appears, tells the thrills of this novelty include the
story of the love tangle that all but Joan Crawford and Clark Gable volley game, when the dancers hurl
ruins the Broadway show which fea-are paired again as lovers in "Dan: their partners from oue plane to an-
tures the sim. Bing Crosby, the cing Lady," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's other amd such other spectacles as
Eight of the ten players appeur-star, falls in love with Judith Allen, new musical production which is perial quaplaning and parachute, ing in "Too Much Harmony. The who comes to Broadway from a van showing at the Queen's Theatre.
Paramount filmusical, now playing deville act playing the tank, towns. In the new photoplay which is bas- The all-star cast includes Delores at the King's Theatre were Widely His fiancee, Liivan Tashman, a gold-ed on the sensational Broadway to Del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Ros known in stage and radio entertain-grabbing blonde, goes hay-wire when mance by James Warner Bollah, gets, Gene Raymond and Raul Rou-ment before they entered motion the sees him leaving her. Judith Miss Crawford has the part of a lien; as well two hundred beautiful pictures..
Allen's sweetheart, Jack Oakie, socks chorus girl who is determined to win him in the nose, mistrusting his ad-stage fame at any cost, girls selected from 10,000 applicants, Bing Crosby is still America's
best liked radio star Jack Oakie, ances to the girl, And there's any- Skeets Gallagher, Kitty Kelly, Lill Oakie and Skeets Gallagher, the browheat her. In prominent sup- thing but harmony in the show un- ical comedy director who tries to yun Tashman. Ned Sparks, Harry dumb comics, find a hilarious way porting roles are Franchet Tone, Green and Grace Bradley were of making things come out the way May Robson, Winnle Lightner, Fred. Broadway stage favourites in mu
they should.
Astaire, Robert Benchley and Ted Healy and his stooges. The picture
FILM SMUGGLED FROM AUSTRIA
[
Arthur Johnston and Sam Coslow,
sical comedy all except Miss Bradley having played in either the Foll- ies" or the "Vanities." -
authors of Please," "Learn to Judith Allen, who has the lead Croon," "Moon Song" and other are the only players whose trainingles for the show.
Death Sentence For opposito Crosby, and Shirley Grey tunes have written eight new melod
Man Who Took It
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London," February 20.
A film of the fighting in Vien- na, smuggled out of Austria, ar- rived in London last night after an adventurous Journey. The pho- tographer who made it is in an Austrian prison under sentence of death. He is:
John Dored; B Latvian, who was formerly photographer to the Rus- sian Imperial Court and who has during his career in search of ad- had many thrilling experience
venturous films.
After this Austrian fim had been the Ladies' Golf Union in London,taken he was arrested and put in asked that everybody should give gaol, and his camera was smashed. up the time and money expended He had, however, managed to send on one round of golf to the Per- sonal Service League,
away part of the film, and this Munich by Special messenger. was smuggled across the border to
In producing a baby's jumper made out of the top of one of her own stockings, Lady Reading ex- plained that the little patch on it was-not decoration, but necessitat- ed by her habit, of always makinig holes in her stockings" "just above the suspender."
Subsequently Lady Reading sald that old clothing that had been renovated and distributed by the Personal Service League had been responsible for hundreds of unem- ployed men getting jobs. "We have
At Munich specially charter- ed aeroplane waited to take the Alm to Paris, but made a forced landing, and the, parcel was sent to Paris by train, where it arrived at 9.30 am, yesterday.
From the railway station it was taken to Le Bourget and placed on board a French alr liner bound for Croydon. Fog compelled the machine to land at Lympne.
all had to wear old clothes at some The film was then put on B
time-I have had to. There is nothing to be ashamed" of in it," she added.
train for Victoria. and sent by road to Croydon to be cleared through the Customs.
"Clothing helps the unemployed man to re-establish his belief in
Efforts are being made through himself, and by that belief he is diplomatic channele 'to save able to face the world afresh. Dored's life. It is not the first There are
three defritte issues. time he has been condemned to One is health, the second is the death. He was sentenced to be getting of jobs, and the third is executed in 1924, when he return- self-respect-the re-establishing of ed to Russia to film Lenin's fun- self-respect.
eral. The British and American "We are now clothing between Diplomatic Services on that occa- 5,000 and 6,000 a week throughout ston secured his release after the United Kingdom.
six weeks. "Last week the Prince of Wales
forwarded us 800 greatcoats that Dored, who speaks ten langua- had been sent to him. Another ges, accompanied Sir Hubert Wil- gift we had was 850,000 boots, and kins on the submarlie Nautilus's another 2,500,000 yards of sewing expedition to the North Pole. cotton. Nowadays we order four When the submarine made its tons of knitting wool at a time.
Anal dive under the ice Mr. Dored You see by this the importance we photographed it from an icefloc place on clothes."
near by.
Gable enacts 1 hard-boiled mus-
was directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
They include Guess It Had To Be That Way," was limited to the Legitimate stage Thanks, Boo-Boo-Boo," "The sung by Crosby; and Black Moon- before starting their picture work. Day You Came Along" and "I light" and "Buckin' the Wind."
SHOWING TO-DAY
1
QULLA'S
CRAWFORD GABL
IN THE NEW SENSATIONAL MUSICAL ROMANCE
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Triumph!
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
(STAR)
At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 &.9.20
p.m.
NEXT CHANGE
MAX BAER PRIMO CARNERA'
in
“Prize-fighter with the Lady"
with
MYRNA LOY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
CHALIAPINE
10
“DON QUIXOTE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAYALHAMBRA At 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m.
I LOVE THAT MAN"
- EDMUND LOWE
NANCY CARROLL ROBERT ARMSTRONG '' LEWU CODY
Oeded by BANK JOU BAĞUN
A Paramount Pizjure.
SCREEN SOUVENIRS.
THEATRE
NEXT CHANGE-
"One Way Passage"
with
KAY FRANCIS
WM. POWELL
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
(March 10)
Auctions.--Lammert's
Sale
of
Household Furniture, 48, Morrison Road, top floor, 10.30 a.m.
Cinemas
King's:-Too Much Harmony,” Queen's "Dancing Lady." Central:-"Löve On Skis."
Oriental:-"The Unholy Garden." World: "The Phantom Or
Paris," Alhambra:"One Way Passage." Majestic: The Kid From
Spain,"
Star: "Don Quixate.” Dances.- Members Subscription Dance, Victoria Recreation Ciub, 9 p.m.; Tamar Dance at China Fleet Club. 8.30 p.m.
Entertainment-Concert, local. instrumental and humorous. num- bers, Kowloon Cricket Club, 9 p.m. Meetings-Wolf » Cub, St. An- drew's Church Grounds, 3 p.m.; Ping On Land Investment Co., Ltd., 28, Bonham Road, first floor, 2.30 p.m.; Creditors and Members of
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222) TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.80, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m.
| EDDIE CANTOR
IN
The Weldon House, Ltd... (In liqui- THE KID
dation). 25. Des Voeux Road Cen- tral 3 pm and 3.30 p.m. respec- tively; Annupl Meeting of Chinese YW.C.A.. at 38c, Bonham Road.
Miscellaneous-Distribution of Prize for Cricket, tennis, bowls, hillaris and bridge, Kowloon Cricket Club. 9 p.m.
Moon,-, Moon, 25th Day.
A SHOWS
NO DAILY
$30-513 7.15-8.30
FROM SPAIN
WITH
LYDA ROBERTI,
TAKE ANY TRAM OR MAPPY VALLEY QUE
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
FLEMING
ROAD
TEL. 2647a
TO-MORROW
& MONDAY
A NEW AND DIFFERENT
OF THIS THRILLING ACTION PICTURE | WESTERN PICTURE
" of
Missing Men and Women.
knew
Mu
Love
Tow in this strange land of
sin and sireni!
SAMUEL GOLDWYN mesents
RONALD COLMAN "The UNHOLY
GARDENTM
UNITED
Principal Maila
Inward from America by Pres. McKinley; Outward Air Mail for Europe by Comorin 9 a.m., steamer 10.30 am., for America and Europe via Siberia by General Sherman, 5 ¡ | p.m.
Social Functions-Whist Drive, China Light and Power Recreation Club, 9 p.m..
Sports Cricket-First Division: Royal Naval v. University (L), Craigen- gower v. HK.C.C. (F.); Second Division: South Wales Borderers "A" V. Royal Navy (F)."
Football-First Division: Royal Artillery v. Chub (Club ground), 4.30 p.m.; Lincolns v. Kowloon (Kow-. joan ground), 4.30p.m. .St. Joseph's v Borderers (Caroline H), 4.30 p.m.; Police v. Recreio (King's Park), 4.30 p.m.; East Lan- cashires v. Navy, (Bookunpoo), 4.20 p.m.; Second Division: South Çalna v. Young Indians; Third Division: Radio Sports v. Royal Air Force; Borderers v. Royal Engineers.
GolfCompletion of final round Royal Hong Kong Golf Club (Ladies' Section) Captain's Cup Competition.
"
Hockey-Caer Clark Cup: Cen-.. tral British Association v. Recreio "B" 2.45 p.m.; St. Andrew's v. Re- creto "A" 3 p.m.; HK Ladjes v
WITH A GREAT CAST"
A HOLY TERROR
GEORGE O'BRIEN SALLY EILERS
V.M.C.A. 3.15 p.m., Mamak Tourna- ment, St. Andrew's y. Kowloon Indians...
Racing-First Extra Race Meet- ing (Happy Valley), 2.30 pm.
Yachting.-Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's Fifth Corinthian Race for racing yachts.
Sunrise 6.38 a.m. Sunset.-8.30. p.m.
Tides.-High at 15.40.
SUNDAY (March 11) Anniversaries and. Holidays.- Fourth Sunday in Lent.
Cinemas King's: "Flying Down To Ria,” Queen's: "Dancing Lady” Central: The Corheback"
(Chinese Picture), Oriental:-"A Holy Terror." World "Gold-diggers Of 1933," Alhambra: "One Way Passage." Majestic: The Jungle
Mystery."
Star"I'm No Angel." Moon.-I Moon, 26th Day. Religious.--Rev. W. W. Rogers,: M.A., of St. Andrew's, conducts morning service at Kowloon Union Church, 11 am. Confirma- tion Service, 8t: Andrew's Church, 6 pm
Sunrise.6.37.a.m.; Sunset.-6.30
p.m
Tides. High at 9.23 and 17.24;: Low at 0.44 and 10.40.
Gene, Raymond, Dolobon, Del Rio, Raul Boullen, in “ Flyin
To Bio-comniencing to-morrow at the King'L.:
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