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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTHOUND BUS
COMMENCING TO-DAY
is
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M
UNIQUE FILM CO."
PRESENT
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG
KING'S
"The Girl in 419"
QUEEN'S
"You Can't Buy Everything"
LI
CENTRAL
Mr. & Mrs. SIT KOK SIN
in
"SONG
PARADE
THE "GREATEST ALL- TALKING AND-SINGING PICTURE EVER PRO- DUCED IN CHINA, with Cantonese Dialog.
HIGH FINANCE
AND LOVE
All Blend In "You
Can't Buy Everything"
Wall Street, high finance, ro- mance and mother-love all blend in "You Can't Buy Everything." which brings May Robson to the talking screen in one of the most amazing vehicles ever provided for her..
The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, which has its final show- ings to-day at the Queen's Theatre
"Song Parade" (Chinese Pic- ture).
ORIENTAL-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1. 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY.
DAILY AT 2.30 6.10, 7.16 AND
9.30 P.M.
"All Quiet On The Western Front"
Identity theknown
May 20, 1933-«]0 ́P‚N.
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA--
STAR-
This Side of Heaven"
"Soldiers of the King"
MAJESTIC
"Ace of Aces"
KING'S—
Coming
"Bottoms Up"
QUEEN S
"The Mystery of Mr. X."
ALHAMBRATM
"Moulin Rouge"
ORIENTAL
"The Bowery"
"Terror Abroad:
"Broadway To Hollywood"
"Broadway Thru Keyhole"
إلى
shows her as a money-mad woman A NEW DIETRICH
Green,
Anancier, battling again financial giants. toying with the fate of banks and other Institutions, and, between Wall Street coups, depicts her other side as a mother.
Reminiscent perhaps of Hetty Miss Robson portrays a woman who, ilted by a young banker in her youth, has two the richest thoughts to become woman in the world and to get pennies, revenge. She pinches sends her crippled son to a free clinic, all to save for the great day.
She Anally has her chance. through stock manipulation, to wreck the lover of her youth, only
to find
that her son and the daughter of the banker are in love. In an intense dramatic scene she
FILM
"The Scarlet Empress"
(Special Air Mall Service)
RECORD OF CARE:
KINET
Blande FASTIGNEDE Zoom 419
Found unconscious aller
aucaliante "What
THEATRE
31
DOCTORT
French
when
artival
banuty- get her name",
she comes tie
Dr. Franch
Who knows this girli What secrets are locked behind the red lips of this sleep- ing beauty? What is The story behind.
*The
GIRL IN 419
JAMES DUNN GLORIA STUART DAVID MANNER: JACK LA RUE ••
BESCHULBERG
FRODUCTION a garamount Picture
"THE GIRL IN 419" and, as his patient regains con-
Now Showing At
King's
Shirley Grey, Johnny Hines and William Harrigan.
James Dunn and Gloria Stuart head the cast of "The Girl in 419," romantle drama set against the background of a police hospi- London, May 12. tal, now showing at the King's Marlene Dietrich appears as Theatre, In the supporting cast Catherine the Great in the new are David Manners, Jack Latue,
Friday aim at the Carlton on The period allows her dresses that sult her, and the rank of the character calls for photographic "The Girl in 419" is the story concentration on the star.
Her of Miss Stuart, found beaten al admirers need not, therefore, tear most to death and brought to the that
In bowing to the current hospital, and of Dunn, the young fashion in costume films she will doctor in charge, who is intrigued fail to be seen at her best. The by her beauty, and spends days noted for picture is
called "The Scarlet, in an effort to bring her to life. many Dressler-Moran hits, directed Empress," and she is described as He is finally rewarded by success. the picture, injecting deft comedy the Messalina of the North." and human angles into the story.
that Lewis Stone plays Burton. the banker-lover, and youthful Jeas Parker enacts his daughter, with William Bakewell as the woman financier's son.
learns
comes that mother-love above, the love of money, and a gripping climax solves her pro-
blem.
Charles F. Riesner.
That naturally ensures Marlene Dietrich does not have to step out of her usual screen char- acter. He return to Josef von Sternburg's direction also ensures Mary Forbes plays the society that character will be as glamor woman friend of the female finan-ously and incompletely expressed cial wizard, Reginald Mason the as usual.
family physician, and the son, as a boy, is played by Ted Alexander. Walter Walker, Reginald Barlow and others have adequate roles in the picture, the action of which begins in the Nineties, and extends down through the panic of 1907, giving accurate views of the finan- clat crisis of the Theodore Roose veit era.
THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN
At The Alhambra
---
The sacredness of the home, and the loyalty of a family to all its members are lessons that are vividly illustrated in "This Side of Heaven' the new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture now showing at the Alhambra Theatre.
The story relates the climatic events in the lives of various mem- bers of a family, all which takes place concurrently.
Lionel Barrymore plays the fa- ther who is threatened with in prisonment for" embezzlement at the all-important time when the family reaches high hopes of finan- clally reimbursing itself.
Fay Bainter appears in her first role as Barrymore's wife, and their children are Mas Clarke; Mary Carlisle and. Tom Brown.
Ample love interest is injected Into the picture by the romances of Miss. Cariisle and Henry Wada worth, and by the triangle of Miss Clarke, Eddie' Nugent, and Onslow Stevens
Humour is sprayed throughout the story by Una Merkel, who plays one of her most delightful roles as "Birdle," the family housemaid.
We see her, therefore, as a wide- eyed Princess leaving home for Russia There are scenes which Innocence and intimate girlish others which suggest the dawn of The Grand Duke Eeter, love. whom she is to marry, is shown as an ill-favoured lunatic; the Count Alexel, who brought her to Russia, is handsome. It would be clear whom she should love were the Count not a lover of the Em- press Elizabeth as well. The dis- covery of this hardens the young Catherine's heart: she subtly re- veals this by lowering her laches instead of being wide-eyed. She wears feathers instead of flowers, and everything becomes like one of those back-stage films in which two women are in love with a crooner...
almost The Alm, indeed; la musical; so many anthems and marches are played, so many bells and organs set pealing. The old Empress dies--for no apparent reason unless she is killed by the noise. Catherine then takes plea- sure in revenging her pride on the Count, and the plot Immediately thickens, bringing in murder 'and revolution and allowing the "atar* to gallop a great way in military uniform till she ends on the throne with her charger beside her in a scene that looks like a from a parisian revue.
The film indeed; bears more resemblance to that form of anter- tainment than to an historical picture. When we are not listen- ing to modern American we are trying to pick out the "main char- acters from the mass of grotesque Agures with which the director has littered the scene. These pro
tableau
vide. "atmosphere." The rest of the film provides nothing but a noisy and ingenuous spectacle presided over by a lady of exag
RH gerated loveliness.
TO-DAY ONLY
sciousness, he realizes he loves her deeply. She admits it is mu- tual but the girl refuses to tell who she is, how she was injured, why she was beaten. Dunn thinks there may be some connection with a gang murder that took place the same night. His con- viction is strengthened when arted gangster terrorizes hospital, attempts unsuccessfully to murder Miss Stuart, and
killed after wounding himself David Manners, another young physiolanı, The injury forever that precludes" the possibility Manners can carry out this life- long ambition of becoming a sur- geon.
an
the
is
The picture reaches its climax when Manners, discovering who it was who was responsible for run- ning his career, takes matters in-
to his own hands.
P.
B "The Giri in 419" is a Schulberg production for Para- mount.
She had millon's but discovered almost too late, that
YOU CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING MAY ROBSON
JEAN PARKER, LEWIS STONE A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW
STAR
CICELY
THE "MOST COMFORTABLE.
AND
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE IN HONG KONG. NEXT CHANGE-
Love Story Laugh Story! Song Story!
There will be.a lough on your lips and song in your heart, while there's a sob in your throat!
-With
SPENCER TRACY
"PAT" PATERSON JOHN BOLES
Herbert Mundia Sid Silvera Horry Grea Thelma Todd
Produced by 8. G. DeSylva
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FOX
دیر
BOTTOMS UP”
Another Musical
Comedy #
"Bottoms Up." described as a romantic comedy with music, will open at the King's Theatre on Sunday. Buddy De Sylva, the producer who was also responsible for "Sunny Side Up." is credited with another hit. Like his earlier success, "Bottoms Up" is reported to be a delightful romance with songs woven logically into the story.
"Pat" Paterson, lovely English comedienne, makes her American film debut in this picture. The other members of the cast are Spencer Tracy, John Boles, Her- bert Mandin, Bid Silvers, Harry Green. Thelma Todd, Robert Em-
At 2.30, 5.10. 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
TO-MORROW
"ROBERT
MONTGOMERY
in
"The Mystery
of Mr. X."
At 2.30.5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
COURTNEIDGE
in Gainsborough's Production
"SOLDIERS OF THE KINC
with EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
ALHAMBRA
PHENTEE
LONEL
BARRYMORE THIS SIDE
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m..
NEXT CHANGE
Constance
BENNETT
HEAVEN "Moulin
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Picture
Rouge
"COFFEE IN THE
MORNING
And Kisses At
Night!"
Many giggles and many blushes were heard and seen on the set of "Moulin Rouge," which Sidney. Langfeld directed for his latest 20th Century production. presented by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck and starring Constance Bennett.
'.
The embarrassment was caused by one of the songs which Miss Bennett sings, each verse of which treats of the marital life of a dif- ferent married couple, describes their domestic warfare and asky what on earth keeps them together. The answer to the question is sup- plied by the "chorus of the song: "Coffee in the Morning and Kisses In the Night."
"Moulin Rouge" comes on Sun- day to the Alhambra and World Theatres and is released by United Artists.
CURED He was spouting with great vigour against corporal punish- ment for boys, which he declared never did any good. Take my own case," he explained. “I was never caned but once in my life, and that was for speaking the truth":
"Well," retorted somebody in the audience. "It cured you”
4 SHOWS
DAIL
£20-£15
TJE-8.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
•Neshan Band, Kowloon - Tel: 57223 ¡TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 9,20 P.M.
He won a shiny.medal for killing men.... and the woman who made him a hero now fought for his burned out soull
RICHARD
DIX
"ACE OF ACES!!
With Elizabeth Allan- Ralph Bellamy Theodore Newton
Joe Sauers
Directed by J. Walter Ruben, from the stary by John Monk Saunders Merian C Cooper, executive producer.
TAKE ANY TRAM DR HAPPY VALLEY BUBO
ORIENTAL
ROAD WANDHA
TEL. 28479
2 DAYS ONLY-TO-DAY—TO-MORROW
BY SPECIAL REQUEST.
WE ARE SHOWING A NEW COPY OF THIS FAMOUS
WAR DRAMA
THAT STARTLED THE ENTIRE WORLD.
Directed by LEWIS
| MILESTONE
a Great Talking Picture!
ENCH MARIA, REMARQUE'S world-shaking novel transferred to the -screen in all its dramolle intensity and terrific thrill. "With Louis- Wolheim, Lewis Ayres, ..
John Wray.
ALL QUIETON
THE WESTERN FRONT
mett O'Connor, Dell Henderson, Suzanne Kaaren and Douglas Wood.
The flim satirizes the bluff of Hollywood. It portrays how three merry rogues and s girl with movie ambitions put on a swell front and crash the golden gates of the movie capital The girl, who has long cherished a love for a famous movie star, Boon finds herself skyrocketed to nim tame by her three rollicking com- panions. Before long she is play- ing opposite the man she has loved from afar. When, the girl and her three companions are found to be bluff, the situation be- comes embarrassing. But the Alm star, who has fallen in love with the girl, sticks by her and you'll want to see for yourself how it enda.
The four song numbers which give promise of being hits are "Waiting at the Gate for Katy," "Turn on the Moon," "Little Did. I Dream and I'm Thrown' My Love Away." The four well-known song writers responsible for these numbers are Harold Adamson, Burton Lane, Richard. A. Whiting and Gus Kahn.-
THE MARCUS SHOW
To Open Season Next Week
One of the most surprised per- sons in the Far East at the pre- sent time is, according to his own admission, A. B. Marcus, manag- ing director of the popular Ameri-.
can
révue troupe, the Marcus Show, which is due at the Queen's Bunday matinee, June 10, for a short engagement.
The remarkable manner 11 which the Chinese and Japanese theatre-goers have received the American type of extravaganza is the cause of Mr. Marcus' amaze- ment. At the time the projected tour of the Far East was een- nounced in United States several months ago, the Yankee showman was deluged with gratuitous ad- vice on what would please cus tomers west of the International: David Butler directed from his Date Line. With one accord the own "story and screen play which self appointed advisors declared he wrote in collaboration with B.that Oriental theatre-goers want G. De Sylvia and Sid Silvers.
heeded the opinion of Impressario Hugo, embarked his sixty seventy actors, choristers and staff
or
their entertainments alow and placid. Thus, the Marcus : Bhow" being regarded as the swiftest paced of all American song-girl- and-dance organizations, Was doomed to failure.
At this juncture Charles Hugo,
and sailed nearly 6,000 miles to determine by actual trial whether now director of tour, came into the gloomy prognosticators or Mr. the picture. For 2 quarter of a Hugo had the correct Idea. The century Mr. Hugo has sponsored success of the Tokyo and Bhang-amusement attractions ranging from rodeo to grand opera in the had engagements have become re-
cent theatrical history and has Far East Speed is es great an asset here as in Americane de- emphatically upheld the Hugo
clared contention that speed In enter
egarded
ament is as highly the Orients it in New York
capo or Ban Francisco,
Still a bit dubious Mr. Marcus
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