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ENTRAL
THEATRE
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TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andemons amci tho Theatre Tel. 25720.
TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 6.15, 7:15 & 9.80 P.M:
BRITISH FILMS PRESENT The Great National
Motion Picture
“THE DEEDS MEN DO"
A SYNONBONTBED VERSION OF THE FAMOUS BATTLES OF CORONEL & FALKLAND ISLANDS
-TO-MORROW
THE CUCKOOS ON THE LOOSE AGAIN, IN A MILE- A-MINUTE OF FUN, THRILLS AND LAUGHTER!
WHEELER WOOLSEY
3DET
chamberyck their way
to glory in a shower of pink chifon
HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY
with
RUTH ETTING THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE
Musis, lyrics and screen play by Harry Ruby and Bed Kalmar. Directed by Mark Sandrick, Metian C. Cooper, exec, prod RKO-RADIO Picture -
·FILMS AT THE POLO CLUB
about
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1934.
TO-DAY AT THE FINAL SHOWINGS
KING'S-
CINEMA
HONG KONG
"Devil Tiger"
QUEEN'S➡
"Queen Christina” CENTRAL
"The Deeds Men Do" ORIENTAL-me
"Henry the VIII.”
"KOWLOON
"Queen Christina”
ALHAMBRA-
STAR-
Facing the Music"
MIAJESTIC
"Lest Trail *
KING'S
Coming
"Three-Cornered Moon" "Gullty As Hell"
QUEEN'S-
"Match King""
CENTRAL-
"Hips, Hips, Hooray"
ORIENTAL
STAR-
"Murders in the Zoo"
"Secrets of Mary Pickford"
"The Eskimo"
"Dinner At 8"
"Another Language"
"THE MATCH KING"
Coming To The Queen's
Immediately upon the heels of the most amazing international financial swindle in modern busi- ness history comes First National's Match drumatte picture "The King." paralleling in screen drama the astonishing story one man's
TO-DAY DAILY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
KINGS
For the first time in history THE KING OF BEASTS BATTLES THE MONARCH OF THE JUNGLE
"In murderous frenzy the lion and the tiger struggle... dagger-like teeth bite savagely... claws like tempered steel rend living flesh...to settle the age-old question "Which
is king?"
DEVIL TIGER
ASIA'S FIERCEST JUNGLE BEASTS' CLASH IN MORTAL COMBAT!!! Directed by
CLYDE E. ELLIOTT director BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE”!
"DEVIL TIGER”
Real Jungle Thriller
1
The gigantic task of editing the
feet of film of 700,000
Devil Tiger." Fox Flim's sensational animal-adventure picture, which was nearly a year in the making in the Asiatic jungles, has recent skillful manipulation of matchesly been completed. It is now the to a colossal bubble that broke feature attraction at the King's only when general business de- pression revealed, the crackedness
Theatre...
in October, 1932, It was
that Clyde E. Elliot,
who
directed Back "Bring 'Em
Alive." left Hollywood with a cast headed by Marfon Burns, Kane Richmond and Harry Woods, and started for the other side of the world. A
*
or sound pictures that a screen drama has been made in its en- tirety in the virgin jungles of Asia.
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BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 26313
& 25339
TO-MORROW JUST ONE BIG SAPPY FAMILY
In a fog... in Dutchl In a daze...In Lovel Their private lives are a scream!
Claudette COLBERT Richard MARLEN
Hary
BOLAND
in
HREE CORNERED MOON"
A. Fareness) Picture
A
.&.P.SCHUISERG PRODUCTION
chasing a baby elephant, with
the the elephant falling into game-hunter's net trap, and thus escaping the
Some- panther.
great "We spent a whole year on the times we would have a
within our grasp. job, but the results prove that scene almost
have the tropical tor We were justified," declared El- only to
att.. "It was not a case of Tents spoil our chances. throwing animals into a pen and making them fight. We had Ave cameras. a specially constructed sound unit, and we stationed our cameramen in steel cages at the spots
"But in the end, we got what we went after. There's a night. between a black panther and a crocodile, a water buffalo and a and a python. python. a man
and
a Malayan a lion, the animals frequented. a tiger
bear
many Then we waited for the clashes.
and a
hyena, and "It took three weeks to get our more."
Elliott believes this production elephant stampede in northern Stam. We spent a week getting will prove a long step toward the the tiger-crocodile battle In India, often-discussed idea of sending More than 25,000 feet of film were complete filming units, including
to far exposed in shooting this fight Hollywood casts, which was made with the aid of of the world to make productions artifical lights. The fight started in their entirety. shortly after dark and lasted for Fuming of the picture carried Crew of six hours. Four cameras were
the company.
plus its 150.
into natives,
India, Siam. operated on the battle."~
Malaya." Indo-China
It took us several days to get
and
corners
a scene showing a black panther tons of equipment were carried.
SIMULTANEOUS
the financial machinations Seldom has the screen offered a ore dramatic subject than "The Match King," played by Warren William. Never has an actor had a "fatter part than the title role. Out of this real" life, world-catas-year later. he returned and star- Bangkok, May 2.
ted the arduous job of editing trophe, Author Thorvaldson and
and miles of wild A. member of the audience for
Houston. Branch
animal fights and Adapters wards the following account of hast week's entertainment at the Sidney Sutherland have concocted other thrills down to 7.000 feet... intensely dramatic screen play. "It is the first time in the history Riding and Polo Club:--
"The Match King" Is the story On Wednesday evening
of a man whose power and ambi one hundred and afty members on raised him from a Chicago and their friends had the pleasure street-sweeper to a world financial of seeing a number of cinema awer atop a pyramid of credit, Alms which were shown by. Mr. built on the ruins of other lives. Gordon Burt of the Asiatic Petro. It is the tale of a financial Jug- leum Company, Singapore, who
gernaut which once started could vas engineer to the British Arc-
not be stopped until it brought the ric Expedition of 1925, under Com-
financial world crashing down mander F. W. Worsley, D.SO., E. about its creator's ears. It is the M.R. The first reel was compos story of a man who was as ruth- ed chiefly of scenes in and aroundless in love, as in finance but who Singapore, and many members must have recalled only too vividly the pleasant days they spent bath- Changi. ing from the beach at Never again will they be able to repeat these pleasures as we un-
derstand that practically the whole stretch of beach has been taken over by the military authorities. The second reel was particularly appropriate to the Polo Club as showed a number of Italian .cavalrymen on what was described: as a cross-country ride, but which must have appeared to many as a series of almost impossible cir- cus feats. It was a most lightening film, and demonstrated particularly well the practicability and actual advantage of the "for- ward seat" which for so many
earned. to his sorrow, that a rec-
aning was inevitable in either.
Warren William, whose work in "The Mouthpiece" and "The Dark Horse" made him one of the most popular bright lights among the newer stars, plays the title role. Lili Damita, petite and intriguing, is equally vital to the story as the one unattainable objective in the
Match King's" ufe,
Here is a picture of epic propor- tions, told against a setting of lavish elegance. Here is realistic super-drama of the modern age
which races in breathless as- pense from one great city to an- other, from one European throne
· room to the next. Contrasting with the crushing, dominating years in England has been regard-; power of its principal theme is the
development of a tender love story
ed as suitable only for the show which threads its way through the ring, but which at last is being whole of the powerful drama. adopted even in the most conser- vative of all sports-the hunting" -field,"
...
"The Match King" is perhaps the most important picture of the The story of the This film was followed by the Dressent season. oMelal film of the British Arctic rise and fall of Paul Kroll, the man who dealt in billons arid Expedition of 1925. It was aj strong contrast to find ourselves whose word swayed national deci sitting in the open under a tropistons, holds the fascination of be- cal moon at the height of the ing so near to the truth that it hot season and at the same time hurts.
Damita, Glenda Farrell, Jullette looking at pictures of mile upon mile of ice. It must have been Compton and Claire Dodd all even a stronger contrast for Mr., share in the wearing of gorgeous Burt, who was re-living those six Gowns created for this picture. months which he spent on the Hardle, Albright, Harold Huber. good ship Island in the ice-bound Spencer Charters and numerous seas surrounding the North others in the long roster of ex- Pole. Mr. Burt and his fellow excellent players who appear in "The
be plorers to congratulated not Match King" were all selected for only on the valuable scientific da- their roles with particular care. te they were able to obtain but Howard Bretherton directed with also on the choice of their photo William Keighley as dialogue as- grapher.
The final film was composed of various scenes of yacht, and motor boat racing at Long Island.
sistant.
"The Match King" opens shortly as next change at the Queen's. Theatre.
QUEEN'S
At 2.30, 5,10, 7.20 and 9.30 P.M.
SHOWINGS TO-DAY
ALHAMBRA
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.20 P.M.
THE WHOLE WORLD HAILS HÉR TRIUMPHANT RETURN!
TO-DAY ONLY
Te
Mon durugg thrilling P meie beoutiful THAN EVER
Six
Garbo
QUEEN CHRISTENA
STAR
#At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.
STANLEY LUPINO
Facing the Music
"THREE-
CORNERED
MOON"
With Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert. who, with Richard Arlen and Mary Boland, 13 starred in "Three-Cornered Moon." which will open on Tues- day at the King's Theatre, once discovered that it doesn't pay to jest unless willing to keep, the joke rolling.
It was a joke that started her on her stage career and keeping that Joke rolling has been a cerious job that has taken her to the top of the screen heap.
The "joke" was this: Several
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan, Road, Kowloon, Tel. 57222 10-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 P.M.
years ago she was an art student MEN OF MUSCLE
In New York. At a léa shẹ met- Anne Morrison, the playwright of "Plus."
Jokingly. Miss Colbert said, "You should put me in your next play." Shortly after, Miss Morrison called her and put her in the cast of "The Wild Westcotts."
Miss Colbert now calls that a "nice little part" but it was pretty big to her then. To get her next cole, she claimed two years of ex- perience and became leading woman in "The Marionette Man." But SQ capable. was her per- formance that no one suspected the fib.
She made one sllent Alm 'but didn't really, take much interest. In pictures until talkies came in. Her Arst roles were in "The Hole In the Wall" and "The Lady Lies.”.
In her most recent Paramount picture, a B. P. Schulberg produc- tion, "Three Cornered Moon," Miss Colbert is seen, as a member of the for harumscarum family which, the first time, learns the meaning
* SHOWS
DERY
5.20–419
MUSCLE MEN
Which wins-the hard-riding soos of the open spaces or the mob tule of gangland? See this dare devil rider match his wits against the cunning of the underworld.
The
LAST TRAIL
GEORGE O'BRIEN
CLAIRE TREVOR
EL BRENDA LUCILLE LA VERME
'Mrosted by Jaman Tulog
the word 'poverty" when their widowed mother's "investments" 20-up th smoke.
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING ROAD
TEL 3847
2 MORE DAYSTO-DAYTO-MORROW THE WHOLE WORLD RAVED ABOUT THIS MARVELLOUS SCREEN PRODUCTION.
LONDON STIMÈS
CHARLES
LAUGHTON
-THE PRIVATE LIFE OF
HENRY VIII-
ALEXANDER KORDA
URITED ARTISTS
Henry was always a gentleman-he never chopped
off his wive's heads without first removing his hat!
GARBO AGAIN
Another Triumph For
"Greta
Queen Christina,"
LIONEL ATWILL
In "Secret Of Thè Blue Room"
You have thrilled, to the flesh- Metro-devouring fend of "Doctor X"-
chilled by the Goldwyn-Mayer's much-discussed you have been historical epic, that serves as eerie creatures of "The Mystery the reunion of Greta Garbo and of the Wax Museum"--you have
鞋 Gilbert", after -screen gasped at the snarling antics of
John
separation of five years. received an overpowering Mr. Hyde.
an ovation befitting the queen Now you are to have." Lionel portrayed when it | Atwill in his most harrowing of that Garbo opened on Friday simultaneously all screen thrillers, Universala at the Queen's and Alhambra "Secret of the Blue Room," which
is the next change at Theatres.
Imagine an old; musty, castle.
the
It presents a Garbo more beauti-Alhambra Theatre. ful and more alluring that ever seen in her previous pictures, Imagine a sinister master of the possibly because the making of house, a beautiful girl, a news- this picture has been Garbole paper reporter, a youth despera- tely in love and a handsome dream for many years.
Marine officer all hopelessly en- Not only has the picture ex- tangled in a web of unseen death tellent performances by a dozen-all striking blindly at a leering or more seasoned and talented
something that seeks to destroy players but "Queen Christina"
them, one by one. brings to the screen many of the
But for an even greater thrill most beautiful camera settings imagine such stars as Lionel At- seen recently in any photoplay will, Gloria Stuart, Paul › Lukea, The costuming. likewise, is re- Edward Arnold and Onslow vealed as one of the most Stevens in the principal roles of thorough and colourful tasks ever this picture which also includes injected into any plèture project, wiliam Janney. Elizabeth Pat- Kirkland, and It is the story darbo has want terson Muriel
ed to make since she began her James Durkin among its players. Alm career the only story, per Kurt Neuman, the European haps, that could bring her back master of the mystifying, directed to the screen from her two years the Alm, and that famous expert virtual retirement in the seclu- of screen photography. Charles sion of her Stockholm home Stumar handled the cameras.
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