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CENTRAL
CHEATR
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUB
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tal. 25720.
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
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UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE.
PRESENTS
"WIND'
WITH
"TAM YING & KOO CHIM FEE
A CHINESE PICTURE WITH ENGLISH TITLES
COMING ATTRACTION
Francis VEDERER
Elissa LANDI
in the story of a man from Earth's far places... whose noble passion "clashed with the sugas costed morals of our strange world...
MAN OF TWO WORLDS
with
Henry Stephenson J. Farrell MacDonald Directed by J. Walter Ru- ben. Merion C. Cooper, ex- / ecutive producer. A Pandru
5. Bergen produition
RKO RADIO Picture
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S—
HONG KONG
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"The Last Trail"
QUEEN S
"Her Sweetheart" CENTRAL
Wind" Chinese Picture)
ORIENTAL
The Bat Whispers"
LEE
A Night Like This"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA
STAR
Gipsty Blood"
Turn Back The Clock "
¿MAJESTIC—
Too Much Harmony"
KING'S-
Coming
Design for Living
QUEEN'S-
"Roman Scandals "
ALHAMBRA
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
*Roman Scandals "
CENTRAL--
NEXT
Man of Two Worlds
CHANGE
STAR-
Terror Abcard"
Oriental
LEE-
Mr. Robinson Crusoe"
Peach O'Reno"
DISMISSAL OF CAPT. MATTHEWS
"Chinese Seamen's Union Takes Up Case
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, April 11
Macão
The Chinese Seamen's Union is waiting a reply from Mr. H. B. Luz, Secretary of the Hong Kong. Canton, and
Steamboat Company Ltd., with regard to their agitation to reinstate Cap- E. W. Matthews, former master of the steamer Kirishan or to pay com. pensation for his dismissál,
In espousing the cause of Cap- tain Matthews, the local branch of the Chinese Seamen's Union holds the views that he joined the
ANOTHER FILM Union 1931 and should be entitled
DISPUTE
to all privileges of a member, Like' all seamen's unions in other parts of the world, foreign mariners are welcomed to be members, hence there should be no objection to Captain Matthews joining the local
Germany Objects To Union.
Captured"
Berlin, April 11. Films are again the subject of Anglo-German diplomatic repre- sentations.
The government have protested
ground that it is a hate alm and defames officers in the old German
army and have demanded drastic censorship or its withdrawal.
The British Government has re- plied regretting its inability to com-
to Britain against the American ply as it has no control over the
film entitled, "Captured," which decisions
01
local municipal
is being shown in Britain on the authorities. Reuter.
LEE THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
HOLLICKING
ТАБОВ
•KINGS:
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25913 & 25992
ROMANCE AND ACTION
RIDE AGAIN...
-Hair-raising stunts. high-speed action... and dynamic romance .., as a dare-devil rancher takes a mob of gangland racketeers for a ride.
FOX FILM presents
The ZANE GREY'S
LAST TRAIL
with
GEORGE O'BRIEN
CLAIRE TREVOR-EL BRENDEL
Directed by JAMES TINLING
AN ERNST LUBITSCH PRODUCTION.
"DESIGN FOR LIVING"
WITH
FREDRIC MARCH-CARY COOPER-MIRIAM HOPKINS
"ROMAN
Eddie Cantor's Latest
Success
Eddio Cantor, elfin' comedian, is new complications to make his banjo- eyes pop in Roman Scandals," bis fourth annual screen musical comedy
for Samel Goldwyn. With Ruth
Etting, Gloria Stuart, David Manners and this year's prize collection of Goldwyn beauties, the picture comes on Saturday for simultaneous show. ings at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.
1.
The season's fastest stepping and merfiest tunes are promised in rollicking yarn of adventure among the beautiful slave girls of ancient Home, the Caesars and their ferocious lions, which winds Up in a chariot
TO-DAY TO FRIDAY'
SCANDALS”
race as breath-takingly funny as the bull-fight in The Kid from Spain."
Eddie has a lively and gay song in "Keep Young and Beautiful" The dancing feet of a hundred of Göldwyn's ace beauties pound out the fast and happy rhythm of Eddie's ditty and in the spectacular Slave Market scene they chant a refrain to the heart- throbs of Ruth Etting's lament, "No More Love." The shimmering cost umes of silver west in the dramatic dance interludes in which Busby Berkeley has set Miss Etting's song make for an effect that has never before been seen on the screen.
William Anothony McGuire adapted the story from an original by George Kaufman and Robert Sherwood, Frank Tuttle directed the picture. Berkeley 'staged the dance and pro- duction numbers while Dubin and Warren wrote the songs for #this
United Artists release.
QULLA'S
HER HAPPY BIRTHDAY PICTURE!
Marie
DRESSLER Lionel BARRYMORE
IN
Her
SH SWEETHEART
CHRISTOPHER BEAN
FINAL SHOWINGS. TO-DAY (STAR)
A "PARAMOUNT
PICTURE
"DESIGN FOR LIVING"
How It Was Produced
Filming a close-up of an intimate love scene between Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Ernst Lubitsch's Paramount filmization of Noel Coward'e" Design for Living", which is coming on Sunday next at the King's Theatre required the services of more than forty people behind the scenes.
The writers, as originators of the scene, were the first unseen" factors "in the making of the shot. These in- cluded Nos! Coward, the play-wright; Ben Hect, who adapted it for the screen, and Director Lubitsch himself. The actors, March and Miss Hop- kins, were the next important personalities. Each of them had atand-ins", who posed for the focus- ing of the lights. Besides, Miss Hop-
·
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE
EDDIE CANTOR
in Samuel Goldwyn's Gorgeous Production of
ROMAN SCANDALS'
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
LEE TRACY in Metro's Novel Comedy
"Turn Back the Clock"
FUN
FAST
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
?
AND
The inimitable twain, in, irresistible comartų RALPH LYNNĒTOM WALLS
A Night Like This
THE_UPROMOUS AMOUNICH CONSON
ON MEN TAWERS
FURIOUS
TO-MORROW
WHEELER—WOOLSEY
IN
"PEACH O'RENO'
WORLD'S GREATEST CLOWNS TURN Town TomY-TEEVY A DOCTORS OF
Divonar de RENO
ENGLAND'S BEST!
ALHAMBRA
GIPSY BLOOD
PIHENTRE
Inspired by the WORLD FAMOUS OPERA CARMEN
TOM BURKE MARGUERITE NAMARA
1.30, 6:20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m..
FROM SATURDAY
EDDIE CANTOR
in Samuel Goldwyn's Extravaganza
"ROMAN
**
THE LAST TRAIL
Romance And Comedy
George O'Brien and Zane Grey join forces again in "The Last Trail," the new Fox Film production that has its Opening at the King's Theatre. It is "the latest story by the dean of adven- ture authors, and presents O'Brien with what is said to be one of his beat vehicles.
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The film is a "Western" only in that ta locale représents the plains of the West. But the plot has a central theme that involves adventure and intrigue of a truly cosmopolitan nature. It depicts the transference of racketeering methods from beer running in the big city to cattle- rustling on the plains. It reveals a new type of opposition to hijacking-- the daring" opposition of men who face danger daily and to whom the bravado of rackteers is mere child's play.
In selecting Vlaria Trevor as his leading lady in "The Last Trail," O'Brien pays tribute to her perform ance with him in the recent Life in the Raw." Miss Trevor is a new- comer to the screen, whose success on the New York stage is the reason for making her one of the most sought; after actresses in the film colony.
"The last Trail" has a twin keynote -romance and comedy. While the romance is in the hands of O'Brien and Miss Trevor, the comedy is reported as capably handled by such veterans of the laugh parade as El Brendel, Matt McHugh and Lucille La Verne.. It is this combination of actors, re- presenting the leading artists in each of their fields, that is id to make this film one of the outstanding adven- ture films in recent screen history.
Others in a cast of notable perfor mera and J. Carro! Ninsh, George Reed, Ruth Warren, Luis Alberni and Edward Le Saint. James Tinling, the, directer responsible for some of George O'Brien most successful pictures, also
SHOWS DAISY 4.0-5.3
5
MAJESTIC
ERZAN THEATRE LITRING
Nathan Road, Kowloon.. Tel 57228 TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30. 5.20, 7.20, & 9.20P.M.
"TOO MUCH
HARMONY"
A Frenchount Picture with
BING CROSBY
JACK OAKIE" SKEETS GALLAGHER Judith Allen Harry Green'· Lilyan Tashman ·Ned Sparks
directed "The Last Trail." The screen play is by Stuart Anthony.
TALL ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
A. MYSTIFYING CGMEDY DRAMA
WITH A THRILLING CLIMAX
ROLAND
ChE WEST'S
கதியா
Thispers
CHESTER MORRIS
kins required the help of a hair- dresser and personal maid.
The company business manager ar ranged the practical financial details for shooting the scene,, and the set designer rafted plans for the set, and a carpenter, draper, set dresser and two property men executed his men- tal conception of the background Four electricians "it" the scene,
under the direction of bead camera- man, Victor Milner, and has two ascistanta.
A sound mixer swung the mike over the heads of the actors, to catch their dialogue, and back in his sound proof booth the sound engineer re. corded their words on film.
Director Lubitsch bad two assist ants, who supervised details so that he could devote himself entirely to the actors
A script girl sat by his sido, record ing his comments on the various scenes and checking them off for the guidance of the film editora.
The cutter assigned to the film also was back of the cameras, studying the action, so that he might tell his assist ant, back in the laboratory, how the scenes should be pasted together.
The still cameraman also figured in the proceedings, snapping a picture of the actors to be used in advertising and publicity on the film.
Design for Living," which also stars Gary Cooper and Edward Everett Horton, is the amusingly en- tertaining story of three hearts that beat as two. It's an intimate, enlig. tening picture of a woman who loved
two mien
PLEMING
ROAD
WANGHAI
TEL. 28478
TO-MORROW.
& SATURDAY
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
ROBINSON CRUSTE
ALSO
3 LITTLE PIGS MICOEY MOUSE THE MAD DOCTOR.
TWO GREAT
STARS Together At The
Queen's
Large crowds were attracted to the Queen's Theatre yesterday when "Her Sweetheart" (Christopher Bean), one of New York's outstanding hite, was given for the tirat time on the local. screen.
With the principle roles in the hands of Miss Marie Dressler and that versatile actor, Lionel Barrymore, the success of any film is guaranteed, but when the support rises to the occasion in grand style and give the two principals & backing that is worthy of really well-seasoned stars, little else need be added.
The story of "Her Sweetheart " (Christopher Bean) deals with the family of a country doctor and their servant, Abby. They learn that the paintings of an obscure artist whom the doctor once befriended are now worth a fortune. Those they had have disappeared with the exception of one, & portrait owned by the servant. The kindly doctor under the lash greed becomes a scheming fraud antil the dramatic denouement in which he returns to his better nature under the influence of the kindly Abby.
of
We can only add that we recommend the film without the slightest hesita tion as a really super-production and one that should on no account be missed.
NATIONAL BANK OF INDIA directors have been able to carry
(Special Air-mail Service)
forward £249,790," a' kimilar sum to that brought in, whereas for 1932 the "carry forward" was drawn on to the extent of £30,000. Balance-sheet London, Mar. 27.
inovements are in most cases small. The report of another-Indian ex- The largest is a reduction in bill of change bank, the National Bank of exchange from £6,807,000 to £3,554,000 India which, in addition to its Indian for which a smailer holding of Treasury establishment, possesses interests in Bills is mainly responsible. It is en- East Africa, shows earnings for 1933 couraging to find that the downward almost identical with those for the course of the chief advance item- previous year, the total for 1938 being namely, discounts, loans receivable, a few hundreds larger at £450,783. It de, has been checked, the total has not been necessary, however, to showing an increase of nearly £200,000. make a further appropriation to con This doubtless, reflects the slight im
SCANDALS" tingeneles account for the past year, provement noticeable in soms Indian
and while again adding £50,000 to the industries, notably jate and tea. The officers pension fund and maintaining holding of Indian, Government rup The dividend at 20 per cent, the securities has increased by £1,174,600
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