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CENTRAL
HEATRI
TAKE QUEEN'S #D., WEST BOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.
FINAL SHOWINGS |At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
A MIGHTY SAGA OF BRITISH HEROISM! ·
BLAZING) MIGHTY!" GLORIOUS?
FORD'S
PRODUCTION
The LOST PATROL
VICTOR MELAGLEN # 0 0 3 KARLOFF WALLACE FORD
From the novel, "Patrol”
- by Philip MacDonald/
RKO RADIO Picture"
REGINALD DENMY
Mania S
Cooper
SUBCL!!TO
TO-MORROW!
RETURN SHOWING TO POPULAR DEMAND THE BIG CHINESE MUSICAL HIT!
"BLOSSOM TIME”
with WU DIP YING
SEARCH FOR
BEAUTY"
Ends In Dialect Difficulty!
How to clarify fifteen different dialects, brogues and drawls of Paramount's international contest
winners?
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934.
TO-DAY AT THE FINAL SHOWINGS
CINEMA
HONG KONG
KING'S-
"Guilty As Hell""
"QUEEN'S
"Fashions of 1934"
CENTRAL
"The Lost Patrol"
ORIENTAL
"Secrets"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA-
STAR-
"Men in Her Life"
"Eskimo"
MAJESTIC
"I Am Suzanne”
KING'S
Coming
"Search For" Beauty"
QUEEN'S-
"20.000 Years in Sing Sing"
ORIENTAL
יז
"The Eskimo***
"Dinner at 8"
"The Penthouse"
The Kongo"
"Hold Me Tight"
ALHAMBRA—
STAR-
"Only Yesterday"
"Two Sisters"-
'Broadway To Hollywood" "Love On Skis".
SEE PARIS
In Fashions Of 1934
Cinema-goers who
never have
TO-DAY
·DAILY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
•KINGS?
WATCH-
the Killer!
You see oll, you know all but the police know nothing!
You'll get shivers, loughs and thrills galore as you witness the amazing proof that murder will out!
Guilty As Hell"
WITH
EDMUND LOWE VICTOR MOLAGLEN RICHARD ARLEN
ADRIENNE AMES RALPH INCE A Paramount Picture.
STORY OF SING
SING
And Some Human Touches
་་
been to Paris are due. for a verit- able Cook's Tour of the smart pla- ces of the French Capital and those who know the city like na-
A thousand stories concentrated tives are due for a vicarious thrill into one drama will be unfolded- from closeups of familiar land- on the screen of the Queen's Thea- marks in "Fashions of 1934", "the tre shortly. It is the First Na- First National picture. which showing at the Queen's Theatre with William Powell in the stellar
role.
15tional picture. "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing," said to be in many ways the most remarkable dramatization of human emotions ever attempted.
Action of the story, which pre- sents Powell and Bette Davis as
The screen play is taken from ૐ pair of amiable "chiselers," the book by Warden Lewis E. takes place before a background Lawes, of Sing Sthg prison. at of such glamorous, places as Ciro's Ossining. New York, and while it bar, the far famed Ritz, Foyot's deals with grim facts, has been
halled Prunier's the Folles Fergere and a
3.5 a realistic document typical cafe-cabaret in the Mont-that is far more fascinating than marte district.
the most colourful fiction.
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hearts of prison inmates that he could draw sa vivid a picture of the human side of the man be- He has been sit- yond the law.
that
ting on the lid of a human vol- cano at Sing Sing for many years and knows from Intimate associa- tlon the powerful passions stir the criminal, soul. His is a story of 1,000 men without women and 1,000 women that walt without for their men they can't live with" out.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
· TO-MORROW.
GET YOUNG-HEALTHY!
Down on the health. farm, where. Vanui like girls and Tarzan like men show you how to live right
SEARCH
BEAUTY
Miki Meja
30 International "Search for Beauty' Centant Wasari LARRY "E" CRABBE LDA CUPINO ROBERT ARMSTRONG JAMES GLEASON
A Paramount Picture
It is a picture that plays on the heart strings and brings the tears to the eyes; it also brings laughter and thrills.
Spencer Tracy, who set Broad- way by the ears in his role of
Killer Mears in "The Last"Mile,' takes the leading role of Convict Tom Connors, a "big shot" of the underworld, whose love and loyalty eventually send him to the chair for a crime he had not committed. Bette Davis has the leading femin. ine role opposite Tracy, as the little gunman's moll who was faithful to "her man" to the end.
There is an exceptionally strong cast.. which Include supporting such famous players of both stage and screen as Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Grant Mitchell, Warren Hymer, Louis Cathern, Edward J. McNamara, Shella Terry. Spencer Charters, Harold Huber and Nella Walker.
The picture condenses into one story the most dramatic, and spec- tacular incidents in his career u warden. These include the humor- ous and the romanta alde of the prisoners as welk a thrilling.episo des and the grim tragedies in the lives of the leading personalities whom Bing Bing hak housed.
Every phase of the life of the convicts of Sing Sing is touched upon. including their personal. loves, their friendships and their loyalties. It includes their daily routine and their contact with the outside world. and it includes the extraordinary incidents of prisoned
escapes, and executions.
Also seen are such well-known. Warden Lawes "Is the one and architectural and geographical fea-probably only man who has look-life, such as riots and killings and tures as the Place de L'Opera, Arced so deeply into the innermost de Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathed- ral, Rue de la Paix. Place de la Concorde, Rue de Rivoli, the left embankment of the Selne and, of course, the inescapable Eiffel Tow-
Dieterle,
er.
SHOWING TO-DAY
KLA'S
a
FIRST SENSATIONAL NOVELTY OF 1934
Director William stickler for accuracy, has attain- ed a masterpiece of exactness in presenting fascinating, picture
of smart Parisian life.
"Fashions of 1934, a comedy ro- mance. contains some unusual spectacles in a gigantic fashion show and a fan dance in which 200 beautiful girls take part. Busby Berkeley, famous musical comedy director, staged the fan dance- number.
There is a large supporting cast which includes such outstanding players as Frank McHugh, Verree Teasdale, Reginald Owen, Henry O'Neill and Hugh Herbert. The problem of clarifying the
A Real Treat diction of fifteen beautiful girls
When Fashions of 1934 commen- and fifteen perfect young men, selected throughout the English-ced its run at the Queen's Thea- speaking world for parts in "Search tre yesterday; the
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audience was
for Beauty coming" on Sunday given a real treat, so the advice to It has to the King's Theatre, and the others is "don't miss it."
everything to make entertainment studio officials guessing.
for all tastes and all ages. The Alm is very cleverly presented, and the most outstanding feature the spectacular scene in which an array of beautiful' giris clad only in a few feathers do a fon-dance, ir rhythm to music furnished 'by harps. Another unique feature fa the real human harp, and last but not the least, the beautiful girls in the latest in gowris created for 1934. William, Powell stars in the picture and has Bette Davis and Verree Teasdale as his lead- ing women. The two comedians are Frank McHugh and Hugh Re- bert.
The dialects, brogues, drawis and accents of the English-speak- ing countries from which the con- testants were selected offered serious major problem to the. studio for the company had to meet a production schedule.
On the shoulders of Phyllis Loughton, Paramount's diction coach. fell the job of polishing off the speak ing peculiarities of the girls, and boys from Ireland and "Bcotland, the Oxford twist of the English couple, and over-accented 'British of those from British South Africa, Australia, Canada and New Zealand,
American. winners of вегееп- fame opportunitles, selected from eight major districts throughout Gleason, Roscoe Karns and Toby' the United States likewise pre- Wing Erle Kenton directed. sented added problem with their The story is a vivid account of down-east Yankee accents and how two Olympic Games winners Southern and Western drawls, fight to keep away disgrace In addition to the thirty con- brought on by money-mad promo- testants, "Search for Beauty" fea-ters who use their charm and tures Larry "Buster" Crabbe.. Ida ability to further their crooked Lupino, Robert Armstrong. James I dents. "
FASHIONS OF 1934
10 GREAT LAUGH STARS!TM
TO-DAY ONLY
STAR
Warden Lawes book was dráma- tized for the screen by Wilson Miz- ner and Brown Holmes' and adapt- by Courtnay Terrett and Ro- bert Lord It was directed by Mi-.. chael Curtiz:
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m
COMING
"20,000 YEARS
IN
SING SING" THRILLING PRAMA
with
SPENCER TRACY-BETTE DAVIS
DIARY OF LOCAL
in
EVENTS
TO-DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 19.
Anniversaries and Holidays.-- Whitsun Eve.
Cinemas
King's: "Oulity...As Hell”, Queen's:"Fashions Of 1934" Central: The Lost Patrol" Oriental:-"Secret" World:-"Broadway
wood"
To Holly.
Alhambra :-"Men In Her Life" Majestic: "I Am Suzanne" Star:-"Beauties For Sale"
Miscellaneous
Claims against the Estate of George Arthur Richardson, late of
Middlesex, England, due; Kowloon! Union Church Y.P.8. Bathing | Picnic. 2.30 p.m.. St. Andrew's Club. 3.30 p.m.
Moon-IV, Moon, 7th. Day.
Principal Malls Inward from America and Europe via Siberia by President Jackson,
Outward Air Mail for Europe by Corfu. 9.a.m.; steamer 10.30 am Sports
Athletics. Inter-Varsity Sports (Caroline Hill), 1.30 p.m.
Lawn Bowls.-Sentor Division Craigengower C.C. "A" v. Craigen- gower C.C. "B"; Kowloon B.G.C v: Kowloon Docks R.C.: Kowloon C.C. Y. Police R.C. Olub de Re-
4 SHOWS DAILY
2.30–5.19
1.45-8.30
MAJESTIC
THEATREZ Nathan Road, Kawioon. Tel. 57222) TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.10 P.M.
will ope the
I Am Suzanne!
LILIAN HARVEY
Gene Rayn
NEXT "HIPS BIPS HURRAY”
H
CHANGE
JJ
with
WHEELER & WOOLSEY"
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
i
FLEMING
ROAD
WAKONAI
TEL... 26478
LAST 4 TIMES TO-MORROW!
TO-DAY
HERE'S A BIG
"PICTURE
YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS!
MARY
PICKFORD
Secrets
WITH
LESLIE HOWARD
creio v. Talkoo R.C.; Junior Divi- ston, Yacht Club v. Craigengower C.C.; Indian R.O. V. Kowloon B.G.C. Police R.C. v. Kowloon C.C.; Hong Kong Electric v. Club de Recrela; Civil Service C.C. v. Hong Kong Football Club.
Racing-Fifth Extra Race Meet- ing (Happy Valley).
Sunrise.-6.42.a.m. Sunset.-6.57
p.m...
¿
Tides. High at 2.58 and 11.56 Low at 4.06 and 20.18..
SUNDAY, MAY
20.
Anniversaries and Holidays. Whit Sunday, Pentecost.
|MONDAY-TUESDAY
THEA
STRANGEST STOKY
EVER UNFOLDED
THE SCREEN! THE HEART OF THE ESKIMO, REVEALED!
ESKIMO
WIFE-TRADERS
Cinemas King's:-"Search For Beauty" Queen's: Fashions Of 1934" Central:-"Chinese Picture" Oriental:-"Eskimo" World:"Broadway
wood"
Το Holly-
Alhambra: "Only Yesterday" Majestle: "Hips Hips, Hooray!”
· Star:-"Beauties For Sale" Moon,-IV Moon, 8th. Day,
Sports
ર
Athletics Inter-Varsity Sports (Caroline Hill), 1.30 p.m.
Sunrise--5.41 a.m. Sunset.-6,57 p.m.
Tides. High at 12.30. Low at 21.05.
LATEST IN HOLLYWOOD
COIFFURES.
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
THE BIGGEST PICTURE MADE
"ESKIMO"
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Epic of the Frozen North
TO-DAY ONLY
based on WARNER FABIAN'S
Dali mumdational novel
ALHAMBRA
THESTEE
Columbia pleture
∙LOIS'MORAN CHARLES BICKFORD
THEATRE DÉPRIRT
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
COMING
MAGNIFICENT NEW STAR
IN A TRULY GREAT PICTURE
MARGARET
SULLAVAN
Only Yesterday
Bette Davis looks at her
latest pictare,
colure, which
"Fashion
was created to
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