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CENTRAL
CHEATRE
TAKE QUEEN's KD., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720,
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,30 P.M
RETURN SHOWING TO POPULAR DEMAND THE BIG CHINESE MUSICAL HIT!
"BLOSSOM TIME'
with WU DIP YING
NEXT. CHANGE
UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE |
PRESENTS ·
"ORPHANS OF THE STORM"
A CHINESE PICTURE WITH ENGLISH TITLES
COMING
Bring-'em-Back-Alive
QUO
Back from Malaya
with liv
Ing camera
record of the strangest trade
man has ever
worked at!
A VAN SLUIER Production
Dimcted by Armand Denis RKO RADIO PICTURE
“ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1934.
TO-DAY AT THE SHOWING
KING'S-
CINEMA
HONG KONG.
"Search For Beauty"
QUEEN'S-
"Fashions of 1934"
CENTRAL
"Blossom Time" (Chinese
Picture).
ORIENTAL
"The Eskimo"
KOWLOON
·ALHAMBRA—
"Two Sisters" "
STAR-
*Broadway To Hollywood"
MAJESTIC-
"Hips, Hips, Hooray!".
KING'S-
Coming
"Sleepers East"
QUEEN'S
"20,000 Years in Sing Sing"
"Dinner At 8" "
ORIENTAL
"The Penthouse" "The Kongo"
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"Hold Me Tight"
ALHAMBRA—
"Only Yesterday"
STAR-
CENTRAL-
TO-DAY DAILY AT 12.30.5.10,7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
KINGS
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332
LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND!
"Love On Skis"
NEXT
CHANGE
"Wild Cargo"
BEBE LONDON & AN AUSTIN
Got In-But "Could'nt
Get Out
"The first car I ever bought,"
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Babe London, Stage and Screen Stat, from Hollywood, “was an Austin. I pulled a fast one over on the bay friend and I'll tell you how I did it. It was back In the days when the Austin Uar was a curiosity and not a gas buggy."
SEARCH
FOR
BEAUTY
with the 30 International
for Beauty
Presenting the pick of 176,000 contestants in the world-wide search for beauty.
and
LARRY "Buster" CRABBE ROBERT ARMSTRONG İDA LUPINO JAMES GLEASON ROSCOE KARNS and TOBY WING....
A Paramount Picture
“SLEEPERS EAST”
WITH
WYNNE GIBSON-PRESTON FOSTER
BARVEY STEPHENS MONA BARRIE
and kills him.
"A
FOX PICTURE
The girl, the only DANCE
CONTEST
SLEEPERS EAST" witness to the crime: flees to her
Tense Drama For
The King's
home town. There she meets her childhood sweetheart, who is still
deeply in love with her. In the Mr. Tommy Lee And
Miss Bella Ma First
The competition organised In connection with "Scandals" a Fox Film coming shortly to the King's Theatre, drew a very large atten- dance to the tea dance held at the Hongtong Hotel yesterday.
meantime, the Mayor and his grafting henchmen, seeking to win the coming, election, pln. the crime "Sleepers East," Frederick Ne- on a public, enemy. A prominent bel's best-selling novel makes its attorney learns the truth of the appearance as a Fox Film produc- murder, and goes to search of the tion at the King's Theatre, on girl while the trial is in progress. Thursday. The Alm is slated for He locates her in Ohio, where she 11 engagement of three days has gone to avoid the sincere at- wynne Gibson has the feminine tentions of her sweetheart. On the lead in this dramatic picturization train eastward, a teise battle of of a girl who could not make good wits, plots and trickery takes place. The successful competitors were in the city of her choke, but who It is a fight on one side to get the invited to the Bnal to be held on comes back to find herself the star girl to the trial, and on the other Saturday. Only the nainvers of witness in a crime that threatens to prevent her from testifying. The the first three pairs were an- the careers of many prominent outcome of this battle is said to nounced last night, but 1; is under- people..
bring the film to a tense and dra-stood that the first pair were Mr. Tommy Lee and Miss Delia Ma...
The second competinen takes. place this evening
Preston Foster has the masculine
The story concerns itself with a matic climax. young woman who is out on parole and down on her luck. She accepts a job as a paid companion at a bachelor party. After one the evenings of festivity, she visits a gambling house in the company
"We were at the Austin sales rooms in Los Angeles, and a sales man came up to me and said, "Get in and try it." So I squeezed in and everything was OK until tried to get out. And let me tell vou, trying to squash two hundred and sixty pounds out of an Austin in those days was no small job. The doors seemed smaller when I of the tried to get out and the wheel jammed me under the chin. And there I was. I got in, but uldn't get out! My husband thought of dynamite but the sales- man suggested that I either get out or buy the car. So the boy friend bought and I was forced to spend three weeks in the darn thing out
Miss Butterfly Woo Inn the garage, on a diet. I fell
Chinese Film
away to the size of a barrel hoop. and then when I did get out, I was pushed out and in doing so I took the whole side of the car out with me."
Those who like to note how far] advanced Chinese talking flims "But things are very different
have got in recent years, "should not miss the opportunity of seeing
nowadays. I found the new Aus.
The.
tin. just as roomy and comfortable
the current attraction at the Al- as any other make of car: hambra Theatre
showing Miss
duors are much larger and the Butterfly Woo, one of China's most Beats are wider which makes it so popular movie-stars in a talking- slaging picture called "Two Sis-"Now that speaks well for the
ters."
The show proved a great success
handy... well, why go onl
new Austina because I am now at my normal tonnage. I fell out of
in Shanghai where it drew crowd the latest model, at on my face.
éd houses for sixty days and the presence of this film in Hongkong has provoked great, excitement in Chinese circles. Those who saw the
just as gracefully and easily as if T'd been coming out of a speak- easy."
Miss London expects to, make a
plature yesterday are unanimous personal appearance here before that. Miss Woo has reached new continuing on her way around-the- heights in this film, which has world with her husband. been described as "China's greatest
picture."
£40,000. FOR ONE FILM
George Arliss And The British- Picture He Is To Make
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, May 1, Mr. George Arliss, in the Bremen, speeding towards his annual holi- day in England, talked to me to- day by wireless telephone "about the British film he is to make. Or rather I talked to Mr. Arliss..
Gaumont-British announce that he is going to make a flm for them in London in August, and I learn most reliably that he is to have the colossal and record 'sum of £40,000 for a British Ahm for
the job.
Asked if this ngure were correct, Mr. Arliss said: "That is a private matter which I refuse to discuss,"
lead opposite Wynne Gibson Other members of the cast are Mona Barrie, Harvey Stephens, Roger Imhof, J. Carrol Nlash, Ho- ward Lally and Suzanne Karen.
MacKenna directed
"Kenneth Mayor's son, a drunken spendthrift. While there, he picks from the screen play by Lester an argument with the proprietor | Cole.
SHOWING TO-DAY
FIRST SENSATIONAL NOVELTY OF 1934
FASHIONS OF 1934
10 GREAT LAUGH STARS!
TO-DAY ONLY
QULLA'S
STAR
The boy looked puzzled "I un- derstand," he
"but säid slowly. what do I do if someone shuts the door?"
At 2,30, 6.10, 7.20 &'9.30 p.m
COMING
“20,000 YEARS
IN
SING SING"
THRILLING DEAMA
with SPENCER TRACY--BETTE DAVIS
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
The CAVALCADE of the STAGE
"Broadway to Hollywood"
with ALIGE BRADY-JACKIE COOPER-MADGE EVANS
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
ALHAMBRA
THENTRE
China Greatest Production
"TWO SISTERS"
with BUTTERFLY WU
The Picture that ran 60 days at
the STRAND THEATRE-Shanghai.
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
COMING
MAGNIFICENT NEW STAR
IN A TRULY GREAT PICTURE
MARGARET
SULLAVAN
"Only Yesterday"
A TRYING TIME
In Search For Beauty"
mation
A unique problem" in picture production was solved at the Paramount studios when the thirty international contest win- nera in "Search for Beauty," now playing at the King's Theatro started s system of self-govern- ment.
The studio was tempórarily sty- mled "during the first few days the newcomers were on the lot in the matter of contacting them for -studio calls." The thirty young men and women had been gather- ed- from every English-speaking country in the world, and many
were.bewildered by problems of custom and travel.
With all of the thirty quartered at the Roosevelt "hotel, and with
various individuals and groups be- Ing wanted at the studio for differ- ent purposes, gray hairs were sprouting for those seeking to con- tact the contestants.
Then came the happy solution. with a girl designated as captain' or the Afteen girls, and a youth named to serve with the fifteen boys. All studio calls were made tu, the captains, and they were ret sponsible for rounding up the in- dividuals desired. The contact- „ants, in turTI, were required to check in and out with their res- pective captains.
The picture, "Search for Beauty," was directed by Erie Kenton "from a play by Schuyler E. Grey and Paul R. Milton. In addition to the thirty contest winners, the cast
4 SHOWS DAILY
-7.15–1.30
MAJESTIC
T.HEATRES Nathan Boad, Kowloon. Tel 57822 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
LER WOOLSEY
BERT and ROBERT (he cuckoos)
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dumb-crack their way to glory while the nation cheers
"HIPS •HIPS • HOORAY
With
Ruth Etting Theima Todd Dorothy Lea
boasts such stellar names as Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Ro- bert Armstrong. James Roscoe Burns and Toby Wing.
TAKE ANY TRAIN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUI
ORIENTAL
PLAMING ROAD
TỪ ĐIỂM DỄ
TEL. 28473
2 MORE DAYS TO-DAY-YO-MORROW
Eskimo
PRIMITIVE PASSION
Willingly they would lend their wiver to each other
but when the white men entered their paradise--. the Eskimo heart cried out for vengeance—a vengeance that neither chains nor terrors of the ley wilderness - could prevent
THE SCREENS GREATEST NOVELTY !
“FASHIONS OF
1934
First National Score
Again
of the most fashionable Parisian shops. The shop itself is a thing. of beauty but the gorgeous crea- tions in evening gowns and wraps,. sport- sults, riding and hunting costumes, negligees and Ungerie, are calculated to stir the interest and admiration of every woman. These are displayed by more than a score of beautful mannikins who strut their stuff on an unique re- volving platform.
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First National has dode 15 again. In "Fashions of 1934" starring Wil- Ham Powell which was seen yes As if this were not enough, the terday at the Queen's Theatre, Picture goes on to present a show they have come to bat with an- within the main show, a musical other smashing hit that kept revue a la Moulin Rouge, in which sings a catchy audiences roaring with laughter Verrec Teasdale
while 200 and held them with breathless in-air
stunning looking terest, marvelling at the rare giris pirouette and whirl behind. beauty of the Busby Berkeley ostrich feather fana.
spectacles.
Comedy drama it is, but there Is a magnitude about the picture which lifts it far above the usual in this type of production. For it combines mammoth spectacle with its spicy romance and hilarious situations.:
The story by Harry Collins and Warren Duff is not only timely, up-to-the-minute, as is usual with the film fare of the associated Warner-First National.companies but it reveals for the first time on the screen' the unique and highly amusing methods employed, by unscrupulous shop-keepers who steal and copy exclusive fashion designs from the world famous couturiers..
This mammoth spectacle, most beautiful and revealing fan. dance, is staged as only that mas- ter of musical creations, Bushy Berkeley, who is the genius of the specialty numbers of "Footlight Parade," "Gold Diggers" and "42nd. Street could do.
William Powell, who has the role of a dashing, high pressure promoter, enacts his part with more than his usual good humour- ed forcefulness. This is the sort of role at which, Powell is best and he makes a most amusing and personable character of the scamp promoter whose schemes to corner the Paris fashion mart·lesd to romantle entanglements and hilarious situations,
Milady of fashion will now Bette Davis is more charming learn how it is that her mald-or than ever as Powell's co-conspira- her cook can blossom forth in the tor and the rival with Verree Teas- latest of Parisian gowns, identical dale for his love. She plays her with her own, for which she has part with an ease and naturalness paid fabulous furs because of that is always pleasing. And her their exclusiveness. No secret. In blonde beauty and svelte figure fact, in the art of taking and act as a perfect foll for the dark purloining costume designs is left and tall Powell
The direction this been well unrevealed
A spectacle of special interest handled by miam women is a magniscent fashion an excellent dramatization by T. show set in the background of one Hugh Herbert and Carl Erickson.
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