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ENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking st Andersons
and the Theatre Tel. 25790.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 PM
THE
CUCKOOS ON THE LOOSE AGAIN, IN A MILE A-MINUTE OF FUN, THRILLS AND LAUGHTER
WHEELER WOOLSEY
SGST
dumb-crack their way to glory in a shower of pink chiffon
HIPS.HIPS HOORAY
with
RUTH ETTING THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE
Mulle, lyrics and, terasa play by
Horry Ruby and Bert Kalmar,
Directed by Mark Sendrich.
Merlan C. Cooper, exec. prod
RKO-RADIO Picture
TO-MORROW
Twelve men
RKE RADIO Picture.
fost in the world,
Jos: themselves
and to the women
they loved. They dared to laugh as..
death stalked juu shad!
JOHN FOID'S PRODUCTION
THE LOST PATROL
with
Victor Melagian
·Boris Karloff Walihin Ford Leglasit DoRRY
Trom the novel, "Pairof":" by Phuis MacDonald
MERIAH C'COOPER
Executive producer
BABE LONDON
On Visit To Hong Kong
Mrs. P. H. Burnette, Jr., known to millions of movie fans all over The world as "Babe London." ar
rived in Itongkong this week from Shanghai, where she just COMI-
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
www
HONG KONG
"Three-Cornered Moon"
KING'S--
QUEEN'S
"Match King"
CENTRAL-
*Hips, Hips: Hooray"
ORIENTAL-
"Murders in the Zoo"*'
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA ---
"Secret of the Blue Moon”
STAR-
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"Another Language”.
MAJESTIC-
KING'S
"Second Hand Wife"
Coming
"Guilty As Hell"
QUEEN'S—
"Fashions of 1934"
CENTRAL..
The Lost Patrol"
ORIENTAL·
"Secrets of Mary Pickford"
"The Eskimo"
"Dinner AL 8"
"The Penthouse"
"The Kongo
ALHAMBRA
"Only Yesterday"
"GEORGE WHITE'S
SCANDALS
Watch for these song hits from
George White's Scandals.
Six smash hits and a lot of great production numbers are included in George White's Scandals.
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The song its are Hold My Hand. Nasty Man. Sweet and Simple, My Dog Loves Your Dog, So Nice and Six Women...
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The production numbers are Following in. Mother's Footsteps. Cabin in the Cotter and Cotton in the Cabin and Every Day is Father's Day.
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These last are big, spectacular
and ensemble numbers will not be published in sheet music form.
pleted an Little Club."
engagement at. "The
Mr. Burnette, Jr.,
known only as the husband of Miss London, and most of the time called. Mr. London, is a well-known vaude- ville song writer and is the com- poser of all the numbers Miss London uses In her act.
"We met in Honolulu, while I was making a picture there," said Miss London. "Later I went back to the Islands for a vacation and
HONG KONG DAILY. PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1934.
SHOWING
·TO-DAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10.7,15
& 9.30 P.M.
BOOKING THE BLUE ROOM
KINGS•E
CLAUDETTE COLBERT RICHARD ARLEN MARY BOLAND
IN
THREE-CORNERED MOON.
Teremount Picture with
Wallace ford Lyda Roberti Tom Brown. Joan Marsh HardieAlbright Wm. Bakewell
THE WOMEN'S DELIGHT
Fashions Of 1934" Farrell in The Big Shakedown "
Although William Powell and Bette Davis have both been work- ing at the Warner Bros. First National studies for about two
years they were cast together for the first time in. Powell's latest starring picture, Fashions cf 1934" which will be shown from Friday at the Queen's Theatre,
and with Pat O'Brien in "Bureau of Missing Persons."
.Such popular players às Frank McHugh, Henry O'Neill, Verree Teasdale, Reginald
ада Owen Hugh Herbert are east in the more important featured roles." Other character parts are enacted by PhilUp Reed, recently recruited from the Broadway stage. Gordon Westcott, Etienne Girardot; Wil- In this picture Bette has the lam Burress. Dorothy Burgess, Icading feminine <role
opposite Nella Walker, Spencer Chatters. Powell, the two heading a cast George Humbert, Frank Darlen, that is a large and exceptionally Harry Beresford and Helen Free- talented one. Powell has long man. been a star, while "Bette but re- cently rose to stellar rank. al- though she has beer playing featured leads ever since she won s11ccess in an ingenue part in the Who Played God.". George Arliss picture, "The Man
Bette was given her first stellar role in Ex-Lady" and more re. we both meet again. Mr. Burnettecently was co-starred with Charles was writing songs for some vaude- ville acts then and I got him to write a special number for me.
"After that, he wrote others, that is, when he was not serenad-| ing me with a Ukelele in the Ha- waiian moonlight, Later en he said the fatal word, and I said OK....after that. I guess you know the rest,"
Miss London was asked how she liked Hongkong and she said, "It's beautiful and restful and has a charming personality of It's own. We have our own home in Hono- lulu, but we are coming back here, later on the spend the winter."
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
TO-DAY ONLY
HELEN
HAY
TEL. 25313- & 25332
- NEXT CHANGE-
SEE THE MURDER
JOIN THE MAN-HUNTI From the start only you know the killer! To the ind you?" get thrills and laughs galore!
"Guilty As HellTM
EDMUND
LOWE
VICTOR
MLAGLEN
RICHARD
ARLEN
ADRIENNE AMES RALPH INCE
& Paramount Picture
LOVES OF CASANOVA”
Upon his return to Hollywood following a three week boat trip to Havana Jesse L. Lasky, Fox «producer, announced that he would Soon produce an elaborate flim to be known as Löves of Casanova starring the French actor Charles Boyer, who is working currently in Erik Charrell's Gypsy Melody. Springtime for Henry from the Benn Levy play, another of the Lasky productions, will henceforth be known as Forbidden, Lips and will be placed in production next Monday. Frank Tuttle, is schedul- ed to direct and Nigel Bruce and Leslie Banks are the only players announced for the cast so far. Early in March another Lasky nim. Grand Canary will get under way. This is the A. J. Cronin best seller in which Warner" Baxter will be starred and which Irving Cum-
"Fashions of 1934" has been halled as a highly amusing comedy drama in which Powell, as a high pressure promoter, corners the Paris and New York fashion marts,, The picture also carries spectacular mings will direct.
numbers, chief of which is a fan dance with. 200 beautiful girls. There also is a glamorous fashion show with beautiful models dis-
QUELA'S
WARREN
WILLIAM MATCH KING DAMITA
FIRST NATIONAL HIT
STAR
"Another
playing the latest in gown's
women's
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m
FRIDAY
WARNER BROS.
Javish "FASHIONS
of 1934'
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
ROBERT
MONTGOMERY
Language
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ALHAMBRA At 2.30, 5.20; 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
The
TRENTEE
SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM
COMING
A MAGNIFICENT NEW STAR. IN A TRULY GREAT PICTURE
· MARGARET
And A Murder
is Gloria Stuart beautiful Gloria Stuart can act. Gloria Stuart can paint. ⠀⠀ Few people.] know that "she can sing.
It is a strange thing that in the first picture in which this beautiful actress has had an opportunity to play the plane and sing, that it should be the prelude to a man's death. This Incongruous action takes place in "The Secret of the Blue Room." which is showing ät the Alhambra Theatre. It is a mystery melódrama with thrills in every foot and chlifs around every corner. It was adapted by William Hurlbut from a foreign stary by Erich Phillip and has been given a gorgeously, creepy production by Universal Kurt Neumann, -who directed. has assembled a cast in- cluding Lionel Atwill, Paul Lukas. Gloria Stuart. Onslow Stevens, Muriel Kirkland. Edward Arnold, William Janney Russell Hopton. Elizabeth Patterson, and James Purkin. Charles Stumar, the mas ter of creepy shadow, who photo- graphed it. took full advantage of a remarkable castle' especially Built at Universal City:
This castle includes among its rooms, a guest chamber known as the "blue"room" in which three murders have been committed. As a consequence, the roorn has been supposedly closed for twenty years unt one night the beautiful daughter of the house sang a song, then things begin to happen which make one of the wierdest tales ever put on the screen.
& SHOWE DAILY'
2.30-13
MAJESTIC
THEATRE- Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57292 TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
You'll End
the answers
in
Kathleen
NORRIS'
SECOND HAND WIFE
with
Sally
EILERS Ralph Bellamy
Helen Vinson Directed by Hamilton MacFadden Fox Picture
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY EUG
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING
ROAD WANCHA
TEL. 26473
2 DAYS ONLY-TO-DAY-TO-MORROW THIS IS NOT A. JUNGLE PICTURE 1000 TIMES MORE THRILLING THAN ANY WILD ANIMAL FILM EVER MADE !
DEATH SET FREE!..
MURDERS
THE
with
CHARLIE RUGGLES LIONEL ATWILL KATHLEEN KONKE (The Faulker Wassen! LAIDOLIN SCOTT +JOHN LODGE'
GAIL PATRICK
A Paramount Picture |
Smashing Thrill Novelty
THE MATCH KING
Powerful Acting At
The Queen's
The Match King" is a daring picture with an epic quality born of its proximity to truth, Adroitly and ably handled by a large cast cf expert players, the story of Paul Kroll begins when he is, a street. sweeper in Chicago, carries him to dizzy heights of power and wealth' and ends when the "inevitable" reckoning against a superman who built his success upon the backs. of his weaker If more honest con- temporaries, finally comes.
Dramatically timed for release at a moment, when the whole civilized world is still echoing its astonishment over the collapse of
It is the story of a man who what was supposedly one of the built a financial, monster which world's greatest fortunes, The made him, for a time, almost the Match King." First National's ruler of the world, a man who newest screen sensation, opened pulled the strings that made the yesterday at the Queen's Theatre puppet heads of nations dance, but with Warren William and Lill who failed in keeping the one thing Dámita in the leading roles before that finally mattered to him, the an enrapt audience.
love of a remarkable woman "and High finance and high handed so lost everything in on world- methods of romance. share almost surtling catastrophe. The picture equally in this thinly disguised has a tremendous scope and is paraphrase of the life and career touridless in its appeali of the most amazing swindler of the century.
It is not often in the life of an actor that so rich a part comes True it is that the names are his way. Warren William as Paul changed and that the locations and Kroll is subtly convincing, ironical- associates of Mr. William in this ly true to type. He does his best fascinating story of pyramiding work here and Miss Damita ex- credit and complicated love, are all cels all past performances in her fictitious. Truth and fiction meet role. Glenda, Farrell, Jullette InThe Match King" and result Cempton, Harold Huber, Hardle in an astounding climax of con- Albright, and others are excellent- Aleting passions and spurious finly cast and acquit themselves with ancial miracles. - "pa, «**
high honours."The Match King"
No picture fi months has car was directed by Howard Brether- ried the dramatic wallop that culton with dialogue direction credit minates this screen dzama. The ed to William Keighley, work of Warren Williams, whose The screen play was adapted by own screen career has been almost Houston Branch and Sidney as spectacular in its way as was Sutherland from a novel, "The that of the "Match King" in his, Match King" by Einar Thorvald
bas the best chance of his life and con..
he gives it everything that could to expected and adds more than
a touch of sheer gentus. Lil
SULLAVAN Danita, as the aloof and mysteri- SINO TURKISH TREATY
Only Yesterday"
nus actress who Ligured roman- tically in the life the ablest windler of modern times, is lovely L'eyon
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