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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE, QUEEN'S D., WESTBOUND BUS
H
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
"Flying Down To Rio"
Advance Booking at AndersonS and the Thoatra Tel. 23730.
· King's
Queen's,
Dancing Lady"
Central
The Comeback”
(Chinese
Picture)
Oriental
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
ป
At 2.30, 5.15, 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.
LO MING YAU
PRESENTS
LILY YUEN
IN
'THE COMEBACK"?
21
WITH
KAO CHAN FEI-LEE KENC
M. NIKITINA
DIRECTED BY
CHU SHIH LIN
A UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE,
COMING
"UFA PICTURES PRESENTS
EMIL JANNINGS
-
IN
HIS LATEST STARRING PICTURE
"The Merry Monarch'
WITH
SIDNEY FOX
EUROPE'S IDOL OF THE SCREEN IN HIS
FIRST ENGLISH TALKING PICTURE
A UFA SPECIAL MUSICAL.
KAY FRANCIS
And Some Nice Frocks
Kay Francia noted as one of the best-dressed women on the screen, will appear in a complete wardrobe of beautiful erections designed by Orry-Kelly, brilliant new studio stylist, when hor latest Warner Bros, picture, "One Way Passage," in which she is again teamed with Wm. Powell, is showing at the Alhambra.
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Since the entire action of the film takes place on shipboard, with the sole exception of a brief stop- over at Honolulu, Orry-Kelly's col lection was designed primarily for -travel-wear-but-also includes some glamorous creations for evening. It is further notable in that it indicates a definite backward trend of fashion toward the "Pre-War Era"
"Life's Struggle" (Chinese Picture)
KOWLOON
Alhambra
One Way Passage"
Star.
Kai No Angel"
Majestic.
"The Jungle Mystery"
Queen's
King's
wwwww
Coming
"Prizefighter, and the Lady"
"Olsen's Big Moment"
Central
"The Merry Monarch",
Alhambra
Ladies They Talk About"
King For a Night"
Storm At Daybreak
Star
Luxury Liner
"Moonlight and Pretzels"
Oriental.
"DANCING LADY”
Final Showings To-Day
With Joan Crawford and Clark Gable headlined, a smashing par- ade of sizzling song hits, an eye- thrilling cavalcade of chorus en-" sembles, and a sensational Broad- way drama as story motivation, "Dancing Lady," which has its final showings to-day at the Queen's Theatre, towers to new heights in screen musical enter- tainment.
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Here is the Joan Crawford of old, the Ungeried lady of "Our Dancing Daughters," "Our Modern Maidens " and Our Blushing Brides," the Crawford who stam- pedes the box office, and leaves ém panting for more.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934.
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT.
[2,30,5.10.7.15] & 9.30 P.M.
KINGS?
TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR WORDS.. So they, set it to y
MUSICI
Heart-catching hits by VINCINT YOURANS
NING DOWN
WN TO RI
The new Brazilian dance, the CARIOCA
is driving the -narion mel.
atymad!
200 HEAR TH
BEASTIES [Pastalizing, CHRISEN HYPNOTIZING FR.M "CARIOCA" 10,000
ALSO
''KUSIC HIKES ME":
ORCHIDS IN THE MOSALIGHT "PLYING DOWY TO
* BEO"
MY
STARSI
Yes, YOUR Stars!.. DOLORES DEL RIO GENE RAYMOND. RAUL ROULIEN. GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE Direcalby THORNTON FREELAND. Lyrics by Edward Elias, Gu Kahn ☛
FLYING DOWN
Girls Insure Their
Lives
The beautiful motion-picture chorines have been insured. for their faces their figures and their limbs and hands, but those who appear in RKO-Radio's musical extravaganza, "Flying Down To Rio showing to-day at the King's Theatre, set a new prece- dent by having to be insured for their lives!
Teamed once more Cable, Joan plays her chorus role with all
The production, which for the she's got. She wears the kind of first time in talking picture his costumes that men admire and tory united air thrills and musical women try to copy. And when she comedy-drama, is climaxed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has top-complete staging of a girl show in ped them all with this musical mid-air. the performers enacting smash. The picture abounds with spectacles that stagger imagination
dances well she dances!
Among the song bits are Let's
and throbs with a romance that gorgeous numbers eclipse by far
the most alone would make the plcture, a
ambitions production grand evening's entertainment. spectacle ever placed upon the sil-
Robert Z. Leonard did a brilliant
ver screen. job of directing from the famous James Warner Bellah novel pub-. ished serially in a national ma-. gazine. Joan plays the part of the burlesque 'chorine who is de- termined to make good on Broad- way at any price. Gable is the hard- bolled dance director who treats
'em rough-on and off.
The cast, reads like an all-star screen, stage and redio aggregation -Franchot Tone, May Robson,
Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire, Ro- bert Benchley, Ted Healy, Gloria Foy, Art Jarrett, Grant Mitchell, Maynard Holmes, Nelson Eddy. Sterling Holloway and those de- vastating Ted Healy stooges.
Sammy Lee and Eddie Prinz proved their skill in the handling of the dancing ensembles. "These
CARNERA AND
BAER
Lu "The Prizefighter And The Lady"
A-match between Primo Car and Max Baer to decide the World Heavy weight Champioship title is more imminent now than ever before and may be arrangéd as early as next June.
This was the 'statement made by The designer, in a recent state Bill Duffy, the champion's American ment, expressed” his bellof that manager, when he and Carnera left women are tired of war, depression, the M-G-M studios on completion and it consequent simplicity, and of the new picture, "The Prize as a gesture of revolt have gone fighter and the Lady," in which the back to long, high-waisted princess champion and contender fought a gowns. leg-o-mutton sleeves, and ten-round screen battle many fur belows. Miss Francis, Heretofore there has been a wide echoing his view, suggested one of breach between Eser's managers and her own costumes, a typically Dolly ourselves," said Duffy, but during Varden frock of white organdie and
our long joint. stay at the M-G-M embroidery, with matching, flower-studios we had an opportunity to trimmed hat and fluffy paraadi, talk things over and came to an which she wears during a roman agreement that will bring the match tically beautiful sequence midst the many months nearer." palm trees of Hawali.
The prize-fight picture, which
Another who wears a full share opens to-morrow at the Queen's was of beautiful clothics in "One Way directed by W.S. Van Dyke and is Passage" is Aline MacMahon, who said to be the most authentic and plays the role of a bogus "Coun-spectacular of all time. Myrna teas," while William Powell, always Loy has the feminine lead and the sartorially perfect, has the leading cast also features Jack Dempsey, inale role opposite Miss Francis. Walter Huston and Otto Kruger.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
FINAL
TO RIO
their roles and their dances on the wings of planes soaring aloft over Rio de Janeiro,
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Other beauties do pull-offs from the ships and perform on thin air while wafted to earth via para- chute.
The story, dealing with the ad- ventures of an American Jazz
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 26332.
FROM THURSDAY EL BRENDEL and El's Belles
in a rapid-fire com- edy.
...with a dash of romance.
Olsen's
Big Moment
with
Walter Catlett Barbara Weeks Susan Fleming Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
"OLSEN'S BIG MOMENT"
Susan Fleming And El Brendel
bond leader in Brazil and his by Susan Fleming, who started to The longest engagement, yet beld romance with a beautiful native | ward movie fame from the back row gurl is enacted by Gene Raymond, of the Ziegfeld chorus, was BLI as "the boy" Dolores Del Rio, honths in Hollywood hospital. the girl." Roul Roulien, the South That contract expired last June, American rival, "along with Fred and Susan seems beaded for...ber Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the goal again. comedy relief.
Thornton Freeland directed. Vincent Youmans wrote the music, with lyrics by Edward Eliseu and Gus Kahn. Lou Brock supervised.
She went straight from Lilian Harvey's “My Weakness" to El Brendel's "Olsen's Big Moment, in which she plays the role of the girl who gete El foto a torrible amount of troüble. The film comes on Thursday to the King's Theatre, Go Bavarian." "Heigh Ho" "Eve- Miss Fleming is the living picture rything I Have Is Yours," "That's of one of the girls you read about the Rhythm of the Day" and liu the magazines, blue-eyed, Dancing Lady." You'll hear brunette, 106 pounds, five feet three- them plenty from now on!
and un-married. She was born in
CRAWFORD GABLE
IN THE NEW SENSATIONAL MUSICAL ROMANCE.
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Triumph }-
SHOWINGS TO-DAY STAR
MAE
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE
THE
**PRIZE-FIGHTER
AND
THE LADY'
with
MAX BAER PRIMO CARNERA MYRNA LOY
At 2.80, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
WEST
in "I'm No Angel"
SHOWING TO-DAY ALHAMBRA
KAY
DENTRE
With ALINE MacMAHON WARREN KYMER FRANK MCHUGA
POWELL-FRAI
QWELL-1RANCIS
In Warner Bros, Latest Hit:
ONE WAY PASSAGE"
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 0.20 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE-
Barbara Stanwyck
"LADIES THEY
TALK
ABOUT"
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
(March 13)
of
Auctions, Lammert's Sale Old and Surplus Victualling Stores, Kowloon Naval Depot, 9.30 a.m.
Cinemas
King's: Flying Down To Rio." Queen's: "Dancing Lady."" Central:-"The Comeback."
Chinese Picture).
Oriental:"Life's Struggle "
(Chinese Picture). World:-" Gold-Diggers Of 1933." Alhambra:-" One Way Passage." Majestic: The Jungle
Mystery."
Club'i
Star: "I'm. No Angel" Miscellaneous: - Rotary Tiffin. St. Andrew's Church Mothers'
Union, 3 pm; Weekly Service at "Wesley." 15. Ventris Road, Happy Valley, -8.30 p.m.
Moon-L Moon, 28th Day.
Principal Malls
Outward Air Mall for Europe by Andre Lebon 10.30 am, steamer 11.30 am, for Australia by Taiping 10.30 a.m., for America and Europe via Siberia by Pres. Cleveland 5 p.m.
Sports
Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Ladies' Section, LG.U. month-- ly medical' competition Course, Fanling).
(New
Sunrise: 6.35 a.m. Sunset: -6.31
p.m.
Tides:-High at 9.19 and 19.50; Low at 2.15 and 13.15.
WEDNESDAY
(March 14), "Auctions.-Lammert's Sale of Household Furniture, 8 Peking Road, top floor, Kowloon, 10.30 a.m.
4 SHOWS DAILY
6.30–5.15
1:15–3,30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE:
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 67222 TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
"The Jun le Mystery**
WITH
TOM TYLER.
ORIENTALE
THEATRE
2 DAYS ONLY TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
A
CHINESE TALKING PICTURE
in Cantonese Language
"LIFES
STRUGGLE”
WITH
Miss CHAN YUK MUI
in the leading role.
THE BEST CHINESE PICTURE
EVER PRODUCED.
Cinemas
King's Olsen's Big Moment." Queen's "The Prize-Fighter
And The Lady."
Central: The Merry Monarch." Oriental:-"Life's Struggle "
(Chinese Picture).
World: Midnight Mary." Alhambra:-"Ladies They Talk
About."
3 DAYS ONLY THURS, FRI, SAT.
THE SNAPPIEST
MUSICAL SHOW
OF THE YEAR..
MOONLIGHT
AND OPRETZELS
20 gurgaons pichs) .“. ầm big song hits in the picture that brings you Lee Carrillo Mary Brian
Roger Pryor. Herbert Rawlinson
Liten Miles.. Bobby Watson
NtRani Frawley'
Alexander Gray 24 Eaton Boys
Jock Dunery Frank & MIR Britten
MASSACRE OF WILD
BEASTS
Order to Kill All in Russia: Lure for Big Game Hunters
.'
The Red Army has been order- ed to destroy every tiger, well, bar, lynx and jackal in the en- tire Soviet Union. This will be an extraordinary task in view of the enormous extent of Soviet ter ritory.
Majestic: Arrowsmith." Star:-"Luxury Liner." Meetings:-Annual, Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 8A; Des Voeux Road Central, 11.30 a.m, Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., Special "iquidation" squads of F.&O. Buliding, 11 am, V.D.M.A., | soldierhunters are to be trained Cathedral Hall, 5.15 p.m.
1orthwitt: for, this massacre. It must be supposed, however, that; Miscellaneous: - Annual Pound some few of these "penicious Day, The Alice Memorial and Aff-beasts" will be temporarily spared liated Hospital, Bonham Road, from 11 am to 1 p.m. and from for foreign trappers to destroy. 2 to 4 p.m., Kowloon Union Church Womens Guild. 10 am.
Moor. I Moon, 29th Day.
Principal Malls
Travel Agency, which accepts only "Intourist," the Soviet Btatè
foreign currency, continues "to" ad- vertise" "hunting ́parties'' - on in- clusiye dally terms plus a jump sum in foreign money for each
Outward for Europe via Suez by animal liquidated." About E8, it Patroclus 2.30 p.m:
Sporta
Hockey Recrelo v. Radio Sports (King's Park); 5.10 p.m
|is stated, will be paid for fre stance, for each wolt killed, and about £30 for each bear.77
Successful "liquidations”” seem to be assured, for the Intourist's pamphlet says:
"The usual method of hunting Lawn Tennis.--Open Singles, J. bear in winter is by stalking. An-
W. Leonard v. Ho Ka LauL.
imals are driven out of their dens Rugby. Seven-a-Side Tourna- only to come up against expect- ment (Happy Valley).
Sunrise.-8.33 a.m. Sunset.-6.30
p.m.
Tides. High at 9.35 and 20.42. Low at 2,50 and 14.06.
ant hunters, each concealed in his numbered place."
Each party will be accompanied by a professional hunter having dozens of beans and sometimes. hundreds of wolves to his crèdits: to keep them out of dangera ma
New York and went to school there. until, a student at New Wayburn's dancing school, she was chosen by
The final general meeting of bim for one of the Ziegfeld phoruses. creditors and shareholders of the Two years later, she went to Weldon House Ltd, in liquida George White's Scandals for a tión) was "abandoned on Baturday season. Then Columbis took her to afternoon owing to the absence Hollywood. Next came a season of a quorum. The report of the with Paramount for whom she play liquidator, Mr. Woo Yes-tent ed the loads in Million Dollar showed that," "after final” realGRE Logs" and "He Learned About tion of assets, a dividend of 38 per Women.'
cent, was, paid to the creditors,
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