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CENTRAL
CHEATRI
TAKE QUEEN'S ED., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720,
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 230, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M
WU DIP YING AND
SUN LAN CHAW
IN
"BLOSSOM TIME"
UNITED PHOTOPLAY RELEASE.
TO-MORROW
SAMARANG
ARTISTSK PICTURE
QUEEN
Into a night full of terrors she followed him if he died, she would diel For it was the law of SAMARANG that lovers must live... or perish... together 1
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934.
TO-DAY AT THE FINAL SHOWINGS
KING'S
CINEMA
HONG KONG
"To-morrow at Seven"
QUEEN'S
"The Women in His Life"
CENTRAL.
"Blossom Time" (Chinese
Picture).
ORIENTÁL
"Three Live Ghosts
KOWLOON
'ALHAMBRA—
STAR
"Cross Country Cruise"
"The Working Man".·
MAJESTIC-
• "All Quiet on the Western Front"
"THE LAST
"
TRAIL Coming To The
Oriental
George O'Brien and Zane Grey join forces
Last again in "The Trall showing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday. It is the latest story by the dean of adventure authors, and presents O'Brien with what is said to be one of his best vehicles.
The film is a "western" only in that its locale
the represents
But the plot plains of the West. has a central theme that involves adventure and intrigue of a truly cosmopolitan nature. It depicts)
TO-DAY DAILY AT 2.30. 5.10. 7.15
à 9.30 P.M.
•KINGS?
Breathtaking and startling is the sud- den unmasking of the slayer who killed. on the stroke of seveni
5
2
3
TOMORROW
AT SEVEN-
With
RKO ...
CHESTER, MORRIS RADIO
VIVIENNE OSBORNE PICTURE
"4711" PRIZE WINNING SEAT NUMBERS FOR 8th MAY.
9.30 P.M.
B. STALL F. 9
2.30 P.M.
5.10 P.M.
7.35 P.M.
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AT F. STALL 'S. 17 L. SEAT K. 13 D. CIBELE E. 27 2ND D. OTROLE G. 5 B. STALL E. 11 B. STALL D. 21 330 B. STALL. J. 19 F. STALL B. 7 F. STALL P. 19
PRIZES OBTAINABLE AT SINOERE COMPANY.
F. STALL 0.13
D. CIRCLE J. 23
BOOKING. AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
TO-MORROW MAD MAELSTROM-OF FEROCIOUS BEASTS
Thrill after thrill as animals, mad with blood lust,
barrià in Asia's.
deepest Jungles.
FOX PICTURE
DEVIL TIGER
Real! Genuine! Amazing! Scenes never witnessed before! Directed by CLYDE E. ELLIOTT
director of VERING 'EM BACK, ALIVE"
the transference of racketering] 46 'TO-MORROW AT frustrate the murder by flying off "THE WOMEN IN
methods Irgin beer-running in the
big city to cattle-rustling on the plains. It reveals a new type of opposition to hijacking-the daring
SEVEN"
opposition, to men who face danger Fast Moving Dramatives and other friends on the
At The King's
dally and to whom the bravado of racketeers is mere child's play.
"The Last Trail "has a twin keynote-romance and comedy, While the romance is in the hands The current attraction at the of O'Brien and "Miss Trevor, the King's Theatre, "To-morrow At comedy is reported as capably Seven" is a fast moving drama handled by such veterans of the that will appeal, to most cinema- laugh parade as El Brendel, Matt goers.. McHugh and Lucille La Verne. It Is
this combination of actors, representing the leading artists In each of thelt flelds that is said to make this film one of the outstanding adventure films in re- .cent screen history.
Directed by
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CHRISTINA
Garbo And Gilbert
Reunited
Featuring Chester Morris and Vienna Osborne, the story keeps the audience at a high pitch of anticipation right through. The film deals with the work of a fiendish murderer for whom no. thing presents an obstacle,
A wealthy merchant. who is sup- posed to have spent 3 fortune
celves a waming of death. His daughter conceives of a plan
CROSS COUNTRY hunting down the murderer re-
CRUISE"
At The Alhambra Theatre
Thrilling drives across half a continent. In a bus, a murder, and
a thrilling chase by Police in aerg
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert planes are featured in "Cross
are reunited as screen lovers after Country Cruise" which opened a
a picture separation of five years
season at the Alhambra Theatre
in the historical romance, "Queen last night, Christina." which open simúl:ape ously on Saturday at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.
An eloping couple suddenly And their plans dashed to the ground when the "unexpected" wife turns up and makes things uncomfort- ably uncomfortable. A wealthy playboy and companion jump into the picture and the inevitable love theme turns with disastrous re-. sults.
The picture contains a story that Garbo has had in mind for several years and for which she explored deeply into the
of archives Sweden's museums upon her last
visit to her homeland.
the
"Queen Christina" is, the story
to
TO-DAY TO FRIDAY
in an aeroplane, and remaining aloft at the hour at which the" murderer had threatened to strike. In spite of the presence of detec-
"plane." the murder is carried out. Every one is under suspicion. The detectives force the pilots to land the 'plane and they herd the sus- pects into an old mansión in the swamps. Here one cerle episode follows another until finally the murderer-stands revealed.
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HIS LIFE'
Showing At The Queen's
The Womeri in His Life," now showing at the Queen's Theatre, is, in short, a story of sensational trials; of life behind the scenes of the courtrooms and. attorneys' and later posed as the leader of a
offices and of a spectacular and kidnapping gang in order to trap
successful lawyer who sacrifices, his the murderer. provides many a
career in order to capture the mur- touching and dramatic moment. Apart from this highly dramatic derer of the woman whom he once
loved... and entertaining story, the acting
Otto Kreuger 'gave' a perfect of the supporting cast including. Ben Lyon, Una Merkel, Isabel characterisation as the lawyer, and Jewell and Roscoe Karns leaves the way he turns from his emin- ent position into that of a drunkard nothing to be desired, and a visit
(Continued on Previous Col.) to the Queen's is recommended.
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
aero-
The "unexpected wile" is mur- of Sweden's glamorous regent of dered and then begins a thrilling
who century seventeenth sacrificed her country and her chase across half the American throne for love and religious mo- continent by omalous and tives.
As portrayed by arbo, she is
plane.
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Although the story is hard to
a seventeenth century woman who believe it is interesting and sup- might have lived in the twentieth plies the theatre-goer with a new. century. On the throne she was a angle of an old theme. spectacular figure, who disdained
fashions the
and customs of
femininism for mannish garb until love overtook her.
Lew Ayres and Juné Knight in the leading roles do justice to themselves, while Alan Dinehart and Mina Gombeli also, do well, in the supporting cast.
The picture relates how Chris-
Engene Pallette, Robert McWade tina, besieged on all sides by wars,
and others make up for a very obtains peace for her country against the wishes of Swedea's good supporting cast who do thela lumphant armies. It is dur- share in helping to carry the ple- ing an incognito flight from the ture over.
worries of statecraft that she
meets
Gilbert, the handsome inch the queen, but she has never Spanish envoy, and falls madly in evidenced so great a diversity in moods, and she has never been love with him.
Their love affair irks the entire, more stunning o look upon. Gil- nation. They demand that Chris- bert is excellent as the Spanish Lewis Stone gives a human tina marry Prince Charles, who is envoy,
of chancellor, of her religious beller, and the touch to the role queen eventually 18 compelled to Lan Keith is an excellent vilain." expel her lover from the country. and the cast is aided by the fine The woman, however, win out work of Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey over the queen, and Christina ab-Smith, Reginald Owen. Georges dicates her throne to follow An- Renevent, David Torrence. Gustav tonio, only to and that he has Von Seyffertitz and Ferdinand, been slain in a duel. The final Municr.
shots of the picture in which Too much praise cannot be at- Christina is shown salling away tributed to Rouben.. Mamoulian from her homeland are immensely whose directorial skill has enrich- Impressive.
ed the picture with a feeling of The Tolais Garbo's greatest majesty which gives a fitting back- triumph. She is not only every ground to the stirring tale..
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TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
QUELA'S At 2.30, 5.10, 7:20 & 9.30 p.m
the
Women
IN
HIS LIFE
with Otto KRUGER
STAR
METRO SHORTS
At 2.30, 5.20, 7:20 & 9.20 p.m.
GEORGE ARLISS
in "The Working
with BETTE DAVIS
TO-DAY TO FRIDAY ALHAMBRA
THEAPRE
Lew AYRES CROSS
COUNTRY CRUISE
Man"
1J
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
SATURDAY
Garbo
RETURNS
"QUEEN
CHRISTINA"
"DEVIL TIGER
A Unique Jungle
Film
With the unrelenting ferocity of animals untamed, and the uncom promising cruelty of the jungle, it- self, “Devil Tiger", Fox Flim's saga of the wilderness, crashes across the screen of the King's Theatre, į beginning Friday. It is an engage. ment of the picture that has been halled as the most terrife of all animal productions.
"Devil Tiger" is the record of a group of people who cut their way! through the tangles.of the Asiatic jungle,woven by untouched nature for thousands of years. It is the picturization of man's latest battle with the elements. that have bal- fled explorers "for centuries. It is an expedition into bare danger. with nature and nature's killers as the enemies that will not quit fighting until they are entirely subdued.
This is the setting for "a story and a battle that thunders. high above any of the trials to which: mere man has ever been submit- ted.
It is no simple. tale of a group In quest of terror. It is more the steady pounding of catastrophe after catastrophe on the spirits of three intrepid souls until they are all but swallowed up by the ravages that are the jungle.
& SHOWS
DAIL
2.30–£13
1.15-0.80
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Sachan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20 P.M.
THE STORY THAT WILL
NEVER DIE. A PICTURE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU. PROFOUNDLY TOUCHEDE
Th
ERICH MÀRIA REMARQUE'S "great novel presented by ČASIL·LAEMALE, produced by CARL LARMMLE, Jr, directed by LEWIS MILESTONE.
ALL QUIET
ON THE
WESTERN FRONT
-TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY DIS
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
LAST 4 TIMES
TO-DAY
2
A
UNITED ARTISTS
PICTURE JOSEPH MISCHENCK® presents
Three
Live
Ghosts
NOT SO HOT!
Animals, reptile, insects as large as your hand! These were the daily fare of the three, thrown from the safety, and comfort or civilization Into the menacing elements of a wild world they barely knew. Swamps. Morrential rains. the moulding rot of age! Such was the "daily accompaniment of their
adventure.
FLEMING ROAD WAKOHAL
TEL. 29472
FOR TO-MORROW & SATURDAY HERE'S ANOTHER GOOD ZANE GREY THRILLING WESTERN PLAYED BY
A GREAT CAST.
The
LAST TRAIL
George O'BRIEN
CLAIRE TREVOR
EL BRENDEL
strange creatures drop from the tress to steal their food.” And then arapacious tiger, a beautiful lep- pard and a black panther fill their cup of adventure to overnowing.
But the final stroke comes with the appearance of the terror of jungle-Devil Tiger. Man-eater and merciless, he trails the group, waiting to spring. poised for the with
At one moment they' find them-attack. The Jungle seeths selves the helpless centre of a the fear of this super-beast. The arushing stampede of wild ele- group of three are now two, for phants, panic-stricken by the ap- one of them has fallen before the proach of the dreaded Devil Tiger.; onslaught. These two, famished, At the next moment, one of the | fatigued, ready for nothing, but party is in haño-to-tail struggle surrender, come face to face with
of crocodiles. with the deadliest
Devil Tiger. They must not be the battle taking place above wahasty; they must not but slow. ter only half of the time.
They must measure their moment With barely time to rest, they to the split second. The tensely become the forced witnesses of a climatic Instant comes in a crash... battle between a lon and a tiget. Man has once again conquered these
adversaries for age-old
beast! Jungle supremacy-the monarch- and the pretender to the animal throne.
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They push theft way through the all but impenetrable mass of wild- erness, certain that no life- could be maintained there, only to dis- cover the amazing secrets in the war for the survival of the fittest The rare Asiatic bear and the und versally despised hyena come to grips before their very eyes. And then comes one of the brilliant high lights of the film in a ferocious struggle between que of the party. death-dealing 40-foot
and
A
It took seven months to make this film in the jungles of Asia. It took the last ounce of courage of everyone concerned to
see It through." Marion Burns Kane Richmond and Harry Woods are the three whom Fox Film sent around the world to India, Siam, Indo-China and Malaya-to the few locales never before filmmed. Ab Lee, a seven-year-old wall of the jungle, was their constant companion. The entire adventure. was achieved under the supervision: of Clude E. Elliott, director of the" famous "Bring "Em Back Alve."
BOWLED
python. Here is a graphic ex- ample of an attempt by a reptile to wrest back the world that man has taken from him.
Their trek through the jungle is
I was watching a game of club studded by unceasing menace. cricket in one of the London parks Their path is blocked by the wild last summer, writes a correspon- life that does not wait for them dent. Near me were two Cock- to pass. The vicious binterong and neys who were arguing continu- the monitor lizard have it outously as to the merits of the op- as the three adventurers walt with Dosing teams. balted breath for the outcome. A tiger penetrates the home swamp of à giant crocodile and finds that he must struggle painfully for life it self. A sabre-horned water buf- falo meets his match in a crafty python. But the three and on to achieve the
Huge Insects:
When the home team put on a change bowler, Cockney No. 1 sald conndentlys/", "Bre bowler. Now you'll Greworksp
But the bowlet
push on three
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