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ENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKU QUEEN'S XD., WESTBOUED SUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25790.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M. Bebe DANIFIS - Clifford MOLLISON
SOUTHERN D
and
AMY VENESS
MORRIS HARVEY
HAL GORDON
MAID
LUPINO LANE
THE GLAMOUR AND ROMANCE OF THE SUNNY SOUTH
A COLOURFUL ROMANTIC "MUSICAL COMEDY-COM- PANION TO "YAID OF THE MOUNTAINS,” “ AN- OTHER BRITISH INTER- NATIONAL MUSICAL ROMANCE.
LEE THEATRE TO-DAY ONLY
At 12:30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.)
A CHINESE WAR PICTURE TO-MORROW
DRAMA ON YOUR VERY DOORSTEP!
Benooth your window gossip tips open the Ilves of your naigh- bors! The hand of faïe
thunders above the noise of traffic and ́echoes" throughout the
world)
·From
the
Puilizes
prizo
play
Samuel GOLDWYN
presents
STREET SCENE
with SYLVIA SIDNEY
Wm. Collier, Jr. and Estelle Taylor
a
"KING VIDOR
production
Valled 'Artists
.Picture
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
KING'S— ..
"Hips, Hips. Hooray."
QUEEN'S→
"Eskimo."
CENTRAL-
"A Southern Maid."
ORIENTAL
LEE
"Sign of the Cross.”.
"Chinese War Picture."
ALHAMBRA
KOWLOON
"Footlight Parade.”
STAR
Meet The Baron."
MAJESTIC
Olsen's Big Moment."
KING'S-
Coming
"Mama Loves Pupa."
QUEEN'S-
"Sons of the Desert."
ALHAMBRA—.
Gallant Lady."
ORIENTAL
"The Jungle' Mystery."
"ESKIMO"
Excellent Educational Picture
Mighty epic of the Arctic; a saga of love and passion that flamed in sub-zero temperature: the greatest film record ever made. of a native people who defy death In order to live these are a few of the elements that distinguish "Eskimo," which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre as one of the most spectacular films of all time.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1934.
LAST TWO-DAYS-
AT 2,30,5.10,7.15 & 9.30P.M.
KINGS
BERT
WHEELER
ROBT.
WOOLSEY
The cuckou captains of skikdustry
dumb-crack their way to glory...
in a shower of pink chifon, while
the goofy nation cherrs
HIPS HIPS HOORAY
with Ruth Efting, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee. RKO-RADIO PICTURE
HIPS,
"HIPS,'
Laugh Riot At The King's
U
HOORAY”
and Ruth Etting, as pilots of a
super-fast racing car.
The curves of mountain roads annoy them. The comedy pair settle this matter by racing down the sides of the mountains. eliminating the curves. Snow Held to be the most spectacu
on by lar and thrilling of all profes- halts them. They carry sional, sports, authomobile racing providing the race car with skis. for the first time is accorded They And that they are having outstanding burlesque treatment difficulty in passing other cars. In some of the farce sequences Pumping buoyant helium gas into of "Alps, Hips. Horray." RKO-their tires, they soar over any Radio's musical extravaganza starring Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
this rapid Are musical,, wheeler and Woolsey find it
necessary to flee from the long arra of the law, and decide that Not only has the grandeur of the most efficient way in which frozen wastes been captured tor to fee is to join a cross-nation they Away "race. sight and hearing, but in addition automobile the picture contains vivid human dash from home from business, drama that is heart-stirring in
from Thelma Todd. Dorothy Lee tenderness. Intimate appealing scenes of Eskimos in their inves and hates provide a realism that could only be equalled by actual experience among peoples of the North.
Smashing thrills thunder across. the screen in- a breath-taking background for native adventure; thousands of carlboy on the ram- page charge the hunters and then an Arctic are stampeded into lake; hundreds of maddened wal- rus rip fishing boats to pleces; hunters attack polar bears with small ivory spears; ice floes crash and jam with their rumbling brought to the sound screen in terrifying volume.
TUELS
And through all this spectacle the love story of Mala, Mighty Hunter, who battles the scourge of the white man to protect the ones he loves. There can be no praises for his acting. because he lives before the came- ra as do all the other natives in the cast. There is not a moment of "camera consciousness" during the entire picture.
Joseph Sauers, Edgar Deering, Edward Hearn and other white! men in the cast are powerful in j their portrayals. Two roles of special interest are played by Col W. S. Van Dyke, as Inspector
"SONS OF THE Watte of the Canadian Mounted
DESERT"
Hardy And Laurel, Score Again
If you are interested in the grief you will entail should you lle to the little woman" in order to get away fon your lodge's conven- tlon, see Laurel and Hardy's--full- j
Police and Captain Peter Freu- chen as Captain of the whaling Dyke directed ship. Col. Van- scenes while he acted and Cap- tain Freuchen author of the book "Eskimo," gref a beard and long hair to keep his part, realistic. Van Dyke has again proven that ha is the most capable of all "travqlling directors." His im record of the North will live in the history of all expeditions with sound, and camera.
length comedy, feature, "Sons of ly riotous comedy. It will keep the Desert," coming on Friday, to the entire family roaring. the Queen's Theatre.
It's a funny story and the comic pair make it even funnier. As the husbands who have to deceive their wives in order to attend the "Sons of the Desert convention in a distant aftuation after comic situation unfolds to their extreme discomfort in each case
Hardy's meeting with his prac tical-joking brother-in-law effec tively and humorously played by Charley Chase, a star in his own right, creates laugh-provoking situations that add considerable life to the film
Mae Busch, as Hardy's" hard- bolled wife, and Dorothy Christy, the beautiful, if nagging, stanter's cry-baby tactics and as Hardy's disgust at his mate's spouse of Stanley's, prove perfect dumbness have never been better folls for the buffoonery of this ini- portrayed than in this exceeding mit le duo of comics.
SHOWING TO-DAY.
The BIGGEST PICTURE ever made!
obstacles filght.....
which obstruct their
Chickens, motorists and pedes trians are frightened out of many years of life as the mad bair dash to the coast, and eventually into an insane finish.
"Hips, Hips, Hooray" features this and other fantastic sequences in its story which was written by Edward Kalmar, "Mark Sandrich- directed and Dave Gould staged the spectacular dance sequences.
ESKIMO
A
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" Epic.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
STAR
JIMMY DURANTE
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
FROM THURSDAY
Why speak of LOVE
...When there is so much laughing to be dodel
Charlie
RUGGLES
Mary
4714
BOLAND
IN
Mama Loves Papa
A Paramennt Pieters wit
LILYAN TASHMAN WALTER CATLET GEORGE S'ARSLER direcher by NORMAN MALBO
PRINCE'S SCOTTISH TIES
The Prince of Wales's accep- tance of the office of president of the Royal Scottish Corporation follows upon his retirement from the "presidency of the Highland Society of London in favour of the Duke of Connaught. His Royal Highness held the latter office for one year, but this new appolat ment is not limited in tenure. The late King Edward was presl- dent of the Royal Scottish Cor- poration from 1869 to 1901-the to the year of his accession throne. The Corporation deals with all cases of distress among Scottish people in London... and gives a pension to many aged poor in the Metropolls. The Prince of Wales accepts the presidency on the understanding that, by doing" so he is giving his 'general sup- port to all the individual Scottish scolettes which contribute to the maintenance of the Corporation.
The Prince will preside at the next annual dinner of the Cor- poration on St. Andrew's Day.".
A
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE
STAN
LAUREL
in
OLIVER HARDY
'Sons of the Desert"
Metro's Riotous Comedy
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
JACK PEARL
MEET THE BARON"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Comedy
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAYALNAMBRA
TREXTRE
FOOTLIGHT PARADE
WARNERS SPECTACULAR EXTRAVAGANZ
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE-
ANN
HARDING
"Gallant Lady'
CLIVE BROOK United Artists Production
“MAMA LOVES
PAPA"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE:
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel 57922
Charlie Ruggles And TO-DAY ONLY
Mary Boland
Mary Boland and Charlie Rugg- less, who have been featured i together
numerous recent pictures, are co-starred in "Mama written Loves Papa," a comedy especially for them, which opens on Thursday at the King's Theatre." Norman McLeod, director of the Four Marx Brothers in most of their screen appearances, directed.
"Mama Loves Papa" is. story which permits both Miss Boland and Ruggles to display their par- ticular types of comedy to the best advantage. They are cast as a middle-aged couple who live out- side a big city and commute to town each day. Ruggles to tease fellow office-workers with his puns. Miss Boland to absorb ideas of culture" on popular. lectures.
After one of these lectures, Miss Boland decides' her husband must dress in formal clothes on every possible occasion. The next day he goes to work in cutaway and Dowler. His boss, spotting the clothes, immediately, concludes there was a death in the family, and gives him the day off. Charlie wanders into the park, where he is mistaken for a city official and forced to participate in a dedica- tory exercise.
The city's political boss, dissatis- fed with the park commissioner, decides Charlie would do as well. as any one else, and appoints him to the job, and a series of hilarious. events follow.
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In addition to Miss Boland and Ruggles, the cast includes, Lilyau
4 SHOWS
DARY
130-15
7.15 8.30
At 2.30. 5.20, 7.20, & 9.20P.M
* 7miny!
Yumping What a
Riot!
Olsen's Big Moment
EL BRENDEL
Walter Catlett
Barbara Weeks Susan Fleming Dieeted by Malcolm St. Ca
"..
Tashman, Walter Catlett, and George, Barbier in important roles.
TAKE ANY THAM OR HAPPY VALLEY MUD.
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
DON'T MISS. THIS MARVELLOUS PICTURE
IT'S
THE SCREEN'S MOST STUPENDOUS. SENSATION.
CECIL B. DEMILLES
The SIGN
OF
THE CROSS
EVEDOSC MARCH ELISSA LANDI
CHARLES LANRON and 7500 others
Ann Harding Talks Of "Gallant Lady".
Could a woman do 17-Would it be possible for a mother to be own daily associated with her child and yet never reveal her true identity?
PLEKONO ROAD WANCHAS
TEL. 28478
TO-MORROW
& THURSDAY
A
MIGHTY THRILLER OF WILD MEN AND WILD BEASTS OF DARKEST AFRICA.
The JUNGLE
MYSTERY
Qu ADVENTURE STORY
DINNER ON THE SUFFOLK
Admiral Dreyer To Entertain
That is what Ann Harding has
Admiral Sir Frederick and Lady to do as Sally Wyndham, in "Gal-Dreyer will be hosts to-night at a
lant Lady in which she is starred
by Joseph M Schneck and Dar 21 F Zancuk's 20th Century pic
ture.
·
dinner, followed by a dance," on
board E.M.S. Suffolk Forty guests have been invited to the dinner, which will begin at eight o'clock, while invitations have been issued to about 350 persons for the dance, which will start at 9.15, Admiral Bir Frederick and Lady Dreyer, assisted by Lieutenant Commander Tours, will receive the guests per- sonally as they come aboard the.
1.
"Yet," says Miss Harding, if I were called upon to make such, a sacrifice in real life, I'm afraid I wouldn't be big enough to do it." This United Artists release, which will be the film" attraction at the Alhambra Theatre commencing to-morrow reveals the story of a British flagship.
Among those invited to the din- woman who, in order to become. the legal mother of her legitiner are Governor General Frank mate child, marries the man who Murphy, Mr. and Mrs William adopts him, "without revealing to Teahan, Major General and Mrs. elther the fact that she is really Frank Parker, Admiral and Mrs. the child's mother.
FB Upham, Consul General "It is problem no dramatist can Thomas Barrington, Mr. and Mrs. solve," asserts Mias Harding "nor HT. Fox, Mr. and Mrs. A. HAK do I think that any mother can Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Laurence solve it The authors of this Mr. and Mrs. N. Williamson, Mr. story have affered one solution, and Mrs W. E. Little, Mr. and but they make her pay for the Mrs, C. A. Clear. and Mr. and privilege of mothering her boy by Mrs. J. R. Herridge.o
Launch service for the dinner. exacting the penalty of silence.
"I have a daughter, so I know will start at 7.15, with boats call what it would mean never to being at the officers landing at able to call my child my own segaspi Garden and at the Army Frankly I believe the urge would and Navy Club landing. Launch be too strong for me. This is service for the dance will begin at a story that every woman is going 8.15 and will call every fifteen to have an opinion about, depend- minutes thereafter at the same
landings. Ing upon her own experience and views of motherhood.
The question of whether it is fair mother or not
In this story it is the wisest to the child whether a
.....choice of mother once having renounced her and logical;" claim through force of circums- Sally Wyndham, concedes this tances, should permit the youngs- brilliant young star of the stage. ter to remain in ignorance of his, and screen, but in my own, heart parentage it all involves of hearts, I know I could not be a vitally dramatic problem and brave enough to pay the price that one which spears the language of Bally pays
#silence) every woman, whether she be a
the price of
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