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AND AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE IN HONG KONG..
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THE GREATEST ALL- TALKING AND-SINGING PICTURE EVER PRO. DUCED IN CHINA. with Cantonese Dialog.
CINEMA
HONG KONG
"Bottoms Up"
QUEEN'S—
"The Mystery of Mr. X”.
CENTRAL-
"Song Parade" (Chinese Pic- ture).
ORIENTAL-
"The Bowery" WORLD....
"Moulin Rouge"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA--
STAR
"Moulin Rouge”
"Sohs of the Desert"
MAJESTIC-~*`
"Little Women""
Coming
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 4
SHOWING TO-DAY DAILY AT 2:30, 5.10, 7.15
AND
9.30 P.M.
KING
THEATRE
1934.
"BOTTOMS UP"
Excellant Picture At
J
The King's
**Bottoms Up." which opened yesterday at the King's Theatre. is reported to be rich in comedy. romance and the glamour Hollywood. Against this back- ground. Suddy DeSylva has filmed
a romantic story.
KING'S
"Midnight Club"
QUEEN S
"Riptide"
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"Pat Paterson, charming im- portation from the English stage.. takes her 'American film debut in "Bottoms Up." Playing the ro- mantic leads opposite Miss Pater-
, are Spencer Tracy and John Boles. The comedy situations are contributed mainly by Herbert Mundin, Sid Silvers and Harry Green. Other members of the im- pressive cast are Thelma Todd. Ro- Bert Emmete O'Coonor, Dell Hen¬. derson. Suzanne Kaaren, and Douglas Wood,
j.
"Terror Abroad“
"Broadway To Hollywood"
"Broadway Thru Keyhole" "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath"
HOLLYWOOD
TAKES UP
DICKENS
David Copperfield As
A. Film
(Spécial Al-Mall Service)
London, May 30. Since the unexpectedly gratify ing reception of "Little Women" The picture contains four song and other maidenly stories of re- numbers that promise to be hits.cént date have convinced the film They are. Waiting at the Gate producers that there is a market for Katy," "Turn on the Moon", fut "old-fashioned" (as "Little Did
distinct
Bottoms Up
with SPENCER TRACY. "PAT" PATERSON • JOHN BOLES
Herbert Mondin » 5id Silver Harry Green Thelma Todd
. CL D«Sylva • Directed by David Butler
NEXT
CLIVE - BROOK – GEORGE RAFT
IN
A
CHANGE
PARAMOUNT
PICTURE
"MIDNIGHT CLUB”
with ALISON SKIPWORTH – HELEN VINSON
TRACY'S FINEST
ROLE
In "The Show-Off"
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has the pick of screendom's stars and stories. has never produced a funnier motion picture than "The Show-Off." starring Spencer Tracy and showing at Alhambra Theatre from Thursday.
Adapted from the famous stage play which set Broadway in
dance and long-run records all land. the picture abounds in the comedy situations that come
to
a habitual braggart. It is said tobe Tracy's finest rote. The
I Dream" and "I'm from "costume") pictures. there ale of laughter and broke, atten- Throwin' My Love Away. Each has been a hurried dusting of the of the numbers is reported to be literary classics, and we may ex-over the United States and Eng- catchy and tuneful. They are in-pert a pretty heavy list of nine terwoven with an entertaining teenth-century adaptations in the tale of three merry Logues and a near future. girl with movie ambitions, who The studio favourite at the mc- put on as swell front and crash nent is Dickens, who has sudden-supporting cast Includes such fay-. ourites as Madge, Evans, Henry the gates of a Hollywood studio, ly come into prominence after ten Through the methods of her three odd years of neglect. The Amert Wadsworth. Lols Wilson, Grant Mitchell, and Claude Gillingwater. companions, the girl finds herself can library demands for the Dic-Charles F. Riesner, who has made playing a part opposite a famous kens novels, are heavier this
some of the great screen comedy male star she has secretly loved.
year than at any time in re-
hits of all time, directed. David Butler, directed from his cent history, and the flm chiefs. own story
and screen play on ever slow to neglect these box- which he collaborated with B., G. orice indications, have announced. DeSylva" and Sid Slivers. Harold at least four, and possibly five, im-" Adamson, Burton Lane, Richard A. rending Dickens productions on Whiting and Gus Kahn are res-
their new schedules. ponsible for the song numbers.
TWO WAYS OF
DRESSING
The British contribution is the Gaumont "Pickwick Papers," with Gordon Harker as Pickwick. It is rumoured that Warner Brothers of America are also contemplating a version of Pickwick, with Guy Kib- bee in the title role. Two other American offerings will be A Tale of Two Cities, with Leslie Howard and Great Expectations recently
Making Ready For A sequired by Universal.
Dance
An even more ambitious Dickens project is the M.G.M. "David Cop- perfield, which should take the floor in June. Some of the roles in this picture will certainly be After viewing the capers of Halled in Hollywood, and one selec Cha San, The Silver Goddess," the dancing luminary of the Mar- cus Show, which will appear at the Queen's starting Sunday, aspirants stage fame and emoluments might paraphrase the words of Brig. Young by crying "This is the life" A word from the young woman herself would serve to make usuld- be emulators seek positions' as lady truck drivers' or stevedoresBER.
to
Ha Cha's contribution to the gay proceedings occupies less than seven minutes before the footlights but sixty minutes are required to don the vestments of bronze paint
of Elizabeth Allah as: tion, that young David's mother, has already been made out. But producer Da- vid Selznick, Director George Cu- kor (of Little Women"), and scen- arist Howard Estabrook plan to fill most of the forty character-parts from unknown actors on this side.
The trio arrived in England last week on their search for native talent. They are definitely plac- ing resemblance to the Dickens- "originals" above all other consi- derations in, casting, and hope to sail back to America shortly with a cargo of obscure but characteris
and both the 'boy and the adult David.ga
to
and balf that time to remove it. tie Thesplans, including Uriah
Where more than a single per- Heep formance is given during the day the metallic covering must be washed off after each Failure to do so, would occasion serious re- sults. While the paint is not poisonous, it covers the pores with
an impervious fim.
They intend in passing, study the Buffolk country where the story was laid, to take 'pho- tographs for guidance in repro-. ducing East Anglia in Hollywood although there has been a sug- "gestion that some of the Mama Ha Cha San and La Fanette. will be made in this country-to whose Danse D'Eventall (Fan consult original manuscripts in- Dance) is another sensational the British Museum, and possibly Marcus feature, are sisters. While to confer with various members the former must undergo the of the Dickens family. tedious of painting and depainting. This looks like an ambitious pro- La Fanette can make ready for gramme, even for a director who contribution by the application of recently transplanted Louisa M. a coat of taleum and economical Allcot's home clear across a con- bita, of court plaster.
tinent in a travelling bag.
"THE MYSTERY
OF MR. X"
Showing At The Queen's
"The mystery of Mr. X." opened Its run at the Queen's Theatre on Saturday and attracted capacity houses to every performance..
The story is both entertaining and thrilling for it has an unusual background, diferent"-from other thrillers, in that it shows very little of the activities of the mur- derer but more of the suspect, a gentleman crook, who is brillantly portrayed by Robert Montgomery.
The coincidence of the theft of a diamond and the murder of a policeman in the same place makes the police believe that the one who steals the stone must be the murderer. Incidentally Robert Montgomery is the thief but not the murderer and from this you
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW...
Robert
MONTGO
QULLA'S
MYSTERY OF MR.X
with ELIZABETH ALLAN - LEWIS - STONE
ALHAMBRA
SIMULTANEOUS SHOWS TO-DAY
CONSTANCE
A SWEEPING MAGNIFICENT
ROMANCE WITH MUSIC! Thrill to: "COFFEE IN THE
- MORNING"
"BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
**THE SONG OF SURRENDER”.
STAR
TODAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30 5 20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
can probably gauge the rest of the story.
-
The way Montgomery forces his friendship on the Commissioner of police and eventually makes his daughter falls in love with hind provide the highlights of the plc- ture but the thrilling part of it comes towards the end when Montgomery with the police hat on his heels disguises as a police- man and catches the murderer,
an ex-
The picture is well worth seeing for apart from the unusual and entertaining plot, it has cellent cast which includes Eliza- beth Allan, Ralph Forbes, Lewis Stone and Harry Stephenson.
The Last Straw
Jane T wants to give notice. Sir."
Mr. Brown: "Why, whatever is. wrong. Jane ?”
"Well, Bir. I 'aven't minded Miss Veronica using my angers as glove stretchers, nor putting the missus's new shoes on to make room for her corn, but I ain't a- going to sit on the family Bible for two hours to press leaves for young Master Eric. nor nobody!"
At 2,30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
COMING
NORMA
Shearer
"Riptide"
WORLD
BENNETT
OULIN ROUGE
FRANCHOT
TONE
TULLIO CARMINATI- and ́RUSS. COLUMBO. BOSWELL SISTERS
Directed by SIDNEY LANYIELD
20th
A DARRYLE. ZANUCK production | CENTURY,
Rafanal thru-UNITED ARTISTS
FICTURE
Metro's Comedy Riot
SONS OF THE DESERT
with
STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY
|DIAMOND STOLEN
But Only An Imitation
The Drayton diamond has been stolen! The victim of the sensa tional robbery is no other than Ro- bert Montgomery, motion plc- ture star. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studioland is still agor at the my- atery which has not as yet been solved. Fortunately for Mr. Mont- gomery and M-Q-M, the 25-carat stone was made of glass. It was a prop diamond supplied for the new detective thriller, "Mystery' of Mr. X," in which Robert Montgomery is starred. and which opens to- marrow at the Queen's Theatre.
As Revel. engaging young gen- tleman thief, Montgomery was to have stolen the gem with the in- tention of planting it on the body. ot" "X", London's notorious killer, to claim the Insurance reward. Scotland Yard is in hot pursuit.
When the company reported, for work one morning to finish shoot- Ing the sequence, the gem could not be found. Someone had stolen the stolen diamond!
Thinking it was a practical joke. Director Edgar Selwyn questioned Lewis Stone," Ralph Forbes, Henry Stephenson, Forrester Harvey and other members of the cast. No one knew,
Finally Selwyn had to change his "shooting" schedule for half a day while another sparkler was fashioned by a local jeweller.
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"MOULIN ROUGE”
A Smart Musical
"Moulin Rouge" which opened yesterday at the Alhambra and World. Theatres marks Constance Bennett's first appearance, in a dual role as well as hér first 20th Constance Century production: sings two charming numbers in this sparkling screen musical--- Coffee In The Morning and Kisses in the Night" and "Boulev ard of Broken Dreams"--and her alging voice is a delightful sur- prise. The picture is a presenta tion of Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F Zanuck and Was "released through United Artists.
"Moulin Rouge" is the story of an ambitious young wite who tries desperately to secure her husband's consent to renew, her she theatrical career, , which abandoned a few years before: to marry him. He stubborrily refusés, belittling her talent and asserting it is her business to be a home- taker-not a puppet of the pub Tic. How she wins her point, the clever ruse which she adopts in
Constance Bennett
"Moulin Rouge"
order to prove her ability and Carminati, who will be remember- above all the humorously drama-ed for his exceptionally nine work tic situations resulting from his in Strictly Dishonourable" which capitulation to the charms of a had a run of 76 consecutive weeks siren involving him in the predi- in New York and also in "Music cament of making love to his own In the Air which ran for uver wife without knowing it, form one 50 weeks in the metropolis of the most entertaining tales Helen Westly, another Broadway which has come to the screen for favourite, more than does justice. many a day.
to the character of Mrs. Morris, lifelong friead and coach ambitious and, aspiring Boswell, Sisters and
Franchot Tone plays the par of the domineering husband with fins restraint, making the char- acter highly understandable as the counterpart of thousand
halves who believe woman's lace is in the
lead, is in the hands of
milk
the
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