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CENTRAL
HEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S XD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons » And the Theatre Tel. 95720.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
LO MING YAU Presents
"ROAD TO GLORY"
WITH
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HỒNG KONG
Design for Living "
KING'S-
QUEEN S-
Roman Scandals"
CENTRAL
"Road To Glory" (Chinese Picture)
"Meet The Baron“
ORIENTAL-
LEE-
"Maid of the Mountains"
KOWLOON
TAM YING & CHANG-KWAN LI]| ALIAMBRA---
A UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE.
WEDNESDAY
A daring pilot risking his life in the Air Mail ser- vice... swooping through skies thick with the "BLACK HAWK'S” vul. tures... bad men of the -air who strike and dis- How long can sppear. they outwit the law with their terrible cunning? See-
THE
AIR MAIL MYSTERY
LEE THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY
At 12.39, 2.30, 5.80, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
o tematu,
MAID VOUNTAINS
HANCY BROWN-HARRY WELCHHA! ISFITY STOCKFEID - ALBENT BURDON
GENS VALORTON PINGE GENUDE GARRY MANAGE
LUKKE FANA
TO-MORROW
IRENAE MULLER
IN
"Roman Soandals
STAR-
"Song of Songs"
MAJESTIC
"Cynara"
KING'S--
Coming
"The Bowery"
QUEEN'S-
"Man of Two Worlds"
STAR-
ין
LEE--
"These Charting People"
"Sunshine Suste"
CENTRAL
"The Air Mall Mystery"
THE BOWERY
Another Triumph For
the
Wallace Beery
be
Certain authorities on the subject hold that the song quoted above robbed the once vest mile on face of the globe" of its glamour; there are others just as certain the advent of prohibition) turned the Bowery into the drab and bedraggled street it is to-day. Leaving such disputes.to those who delve into the achives of for- gotten glory, if glory it can called, it must be admitted that the, wicked old eighties and the naughty nineties are jammed with as colourful accounts of brezzy goings-one as can be found in any period of American history...
In casting about for a story to set their new 20th Century com- Joseph M. in motion, pany Schenck and Darryl Zanuck came across a yarn called "The Bow- cy," written by Michael Simmons
Solomon, and B. R.
and 1:1- mediately ceased their quest for a getaway vehicle. Rich in comedy and dramatic "high spots.." "The Bowery," laid in the day of Chuck Connors,
allas the Major of Chinatown, "and Steve Brodie, who either did or didn't jump. off the
world Brooklyn sporting
and theatrical celebrities as John L Sullivan, Carrie Nation, Frankie Bailey Maggie Cline, Bill Muldoon, Buffalo Bill and Jake Kurain.
To tht lot of Wallace Beery, who can do more with a smirk or a silly grin than most leading men can do with 'an entire film of act- ing. falls the task of bringing to he screen one of the most pic- time "esque characters, of the when the Bowery was in full flow-
r. He has now added to his overflowing gallery of silent and talking screen portraits the char- zcterization of Chuck Connors, as
be seen when "The Bowery" pens as a United Artists on Thursday at the King's Theatre. With all due respect to the rich colour of George Raft's Steve Brodle and Jackie Cooper's Swipes, the newsboy, in "The Bowery,” the characterization of Betry as Connors is more striking. If ever a part was tailored to the talent of Wallace Beery, that part is Chuck Connors, guide, and friend of celebrities an humble Orientals, and a fancy dresser according to his own notions. of flashy elegance, That was George Washington Connors, the Bowery leader whom. it la Wallace Berry's privilege to introduce to the cinema public. Not only is, Berry a natural for the Important job of reincarnat- ing the wit and mannerisms of Connors for the screen, but he also bears a striking physical re- semblance to the former Major of "Chinatown.
One of the most famous stories about Chuck, and which is shown in "The Bowery," deals with the time Carrie Nation invaded a ball of the Chuck Connors' Association and was hit on the head with a bottle in the hand of one of the red-haired beauties in attendance. The excitement ended when the
“SUNSHINE SUSIE police answered a riot call
WITH
JACY MULBERT & OWEN NARES
That Beery is in his element
· amidet "such hullabaloo, can · well
ha, imaginied by all who have fol- lowed his varied and extensive type of roles,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT - 3.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
TWO
KINGS
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 #25332
FOR ONE and ONE FOR TWO!
Coward's
Paramount
DESIGN FOR LIVING
with
FREDRIC MARCH GARY COOPER
An ERNST LUBITSCH Production MIRIAM HOPKINS
NEXT CHANGE
WALLACE BEERY -GEORGE RAFT-JACKIE COOPER
"THE BOWERY” ●
IN
"THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS"
Final Showings At Lee Theatre
The Maid of the Mountains
comnienced at the Lee which Theatre yesterday and which will Anal showings to-day, have Its
beauty and surpasses both in
expectations of even thrills the the producers themselves."
The hauntirig melodies which have been hummed all over the
world by all people are brought
once more to your ears as an ac- companiment to one of the most
thrilling and romantic stories the
screen has yet offered.
Nancy Brown, an exotic and screen
talented newcomer to the
As in the leading role, playing op- posite that popular actor, Harry Welchman. The support includes such versatile players as Betty Stockfeld, Albert "Burdon and Renee Gadd.
Many of the scenes were fined in one of England's most famous beauty spots-Cheddar Gorge. The tim may indeed by called a super- production and it is our recom mendation that you pay the Lée Theatre a visit to-day.
SLEEPING
THROUGH AN
MAJESTIC
THEATRE:
EARTHQUAKE Nathan Road, Kowloon Tel. 57222
Lee Tracy As A Reporter
"Advice to the Lovelorn," th: latest production of Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck's new 20th Century Pictures, will be the attraction at the Alhambra on Thursday.
The wise-cracking Lee Tracy is seen in the starring role, as 2 young reporter on a Los Angeles daily whose propensity for hard liquor dauses him to miss the big- gest story of the year by sleeping peacefully through an earthquake.
As suitable punishment, his edi- tor demotes him to the humiliat- Ing post of "agony" column con- ductor Tracy attempts to retaliate by giving` the wildest advice: thai ever appeared in newspaper column. with the result that he brings down upon his head... the wrath of frantic mammas and wronged Indies and gets himself embroiled in several highly melo- dramatic situations, some of which ! develop comle and some. alas. highly tragic consequences,
TO-DAY ONLY
¡At 2.30. 5.20, 7 20, & 9:20PM.
TO BE TRUE MEANT
TO BETRAYI BUT BETRAY WHOM?
His mistress? His wife? Himself?
What would you Jhon denel
xiplaytuttype
krar-string).
Senderly, wor
Sys a harpiron harinatraman... a veritable symm phany of teor
and, laughter.. of which perund yourself a part,
RONALD
COLMAN CYNÄRA
KAY FRANCIS
Birdied by UING MABOR
VOY
MATES PICTURE
Pretty Bally Blane plays the sweetheart for whose sweet säke Tracy tries to worm his way out of the humillating job. Featured with Sally are Isabel. "Jewel, Paul Harvey. Judith Wood and May Boley. Sterling Holloway, C. Henry Gordon, Jean Adair, Matt Briggs, Impressive cast. Al Werker direct- Charles Levinson, Adalyn Doylɛed this United Artists release from and Etienne Girardot compete the story By Leonard Paskins.
UNITED ARTISTS "PICTURE
4 SHOWS DAILY
DESIGN FOR LIVING
Gary Cooper Nearly "Steals" Picture
Noel
his
Coward' can forget tears about surrendering his brian child, "Design for Living" to the movies. For with Fredric March. Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper and Edward Everett Horton as the principals, Ernst Lubitsch has done masterful job of direction
SHOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY TO-DAY
QUEEN'S
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 and 9.30 P.M.
ALHAMBRA
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.20 P.M.
A PAGEANT OF
LUSCIOUS SPLENDOR UNMATCHED 'SINCE. SHEBA'S DAY!
ADDED ATTRACTION
EDDIE CANTOR
IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRODUCTION OF ROMAN SCANDALS
WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONY "LULLABY LAND"
TC-DAY & TO-MORROW
with
RUTH ETTING GLORIA STUART DAVID MANNERS and the GOLDWYN GIRLS
Rölaned thru UNITED ARTISTË
STAR
- Paramount's
At 2.30, 5.20, 720 & 9.20 p.m.
's Gripping Drama
"SONG OF SONGS"
with
Marlene DIETRICH
9.30-8.15
7.16-8.30
TAKE GET. TRAN DR HAPPY VALLEY HÚS
ORIENTA
THEATRE
FLEMING
ROAD
WANDHAI
TEL. 28472
2 MORE DAYS-TO-DAY & 10-MORROW ANOTHER BIG DOUBLE COMEDY BILL! 2 REAL FUNNY FEATURES ON THE ONE PROGRAMME
JACK PEARL DURANTE MEET
THE
BARON
BIG" MJSICAL REVUE SONGS-DANCES MUSIC-LAUGHTER HILARIOUS FUN.
STAN
OLIVER
LAUREL HARDY
IN THEIR CIRCUS LAUGH RIOT "THE CHIMP ”
from the Ben Hecht script. Para AT THE QUEEN'S
mount's screen treatment of the
celebrated comedy is now showing
at hte King's Theatre.
If the recent Trouble in Para- dise" was hinted at as the high- water mark of Lubitsch subtlety, may that remark now be caucell- ed in favour of a superior work? Kere the celebrated Lubitsch touches exceed great expectations.
Eddie Cantor Proves
Great Draw
The Queen's Theatre enjoyed full houses in each of their four performances on Saturday and yesterday, when they screeped "Roman Scandal" in which that
enter- Too numerous to mention Indivi-popular and delightfully
taining comedian, Eddie Cantor. dually,
they perhaps reach their
takes the main role.. apex in the nuptial chamber scene Eddie Cantor needs no introduc- between Miss Hopkins and Hortontion to the Hongkong public and coming to the Colony in a picture and in the morning aftermath whch affolds such an excellent. when the husband takes a good medium for his peculiar talents.. swift kick at the little wedding he once more enhanced his re- gift from March and Cooper, who putation among local talkie fans,
Those who have zot seen Eddie. forthwith make their suspicious Cantor's latest picture should make the characters played on the it a point to do so as it means two hours of good, healthy fum. appearance.
Eddie's latest picture is every bit as good as "The Kid from Spain, which proved so popular at its first appearance In Hongkong.
The finesse and colour display ed by March and Miss Hopkins was more or less expected of them in the characters played on the
Some idea of the entertainment afforded by the picture can be stage: by Coward and Lynn Fongated by the fact that among the various episodes in the story is one tanne, and they fullied all the
in which Eddie is appointed official anticipation but the surprise of food taster to a Roman monarch the show was Gary Cooper as the who had escaped poisoning about artist, the role played behind the a dozen times. To a long list of footlights by Alfred Lunt. Like
dead food-tasters Eddie's name is. March, Miss Hopkins and Horton, he proved himself a master of in- nuendo.
added, not because he was poison- ed, but because he was ordered to be executed by the Emperor 16x refusing to taste food! S
Another scene shows Eddie in the The most gratifying feature of torture chamber. While the pro- The picture is the fact that while ducers have managed to eliminate Ben Hecht re-wrote the play, not the gruesome aspects of torture, one single situation or climax of they have introduced to the who the original was delected. All are all the lighter side of this grim here, bristling with the Coward practice of the Dark Ages. In the dramatic sense, individuality and hands of Eddie Cantor, a torture Iesourcefulness-
scene becomes one in which the audience is provoked to great
short, Design for Living bliarity should go on your list of pictures In addition to the main picture to see. After that you can in- there is a very clever cartoon m dulge in an engaging Httle game colours, called Lullaby Land, of wondering lust what mine out which forms a suitable prelude to of ten other directors would have a really funny picture. Don't miss done with this colourful modern the present opportunity of seeing. version of the funniest eternal one of the best humorous, fins of triangle, you've ever seen.
the year
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