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ENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY DAILY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30
CHINESE PICTURE
"IRON BIRD"
UNITED PROTOPLAY SERVICE PRODUCTION.
NEXT CHANGE CHINESE PICTURE
"AFTER MARRIAGE"
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COMING ON THE 10TH, FRIDAY A UNIVERSAL THRILL KEN MAYNARD.
IN
KING OF THE ARENA
BRITAIN'S NEW FLYING BOAT
To Carry Fifty Passengers
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, July 15.
The biggest passenger flying
boat. with the exception of the
German De-X, which was
never
pur into service. has been designed
by the Blackburn Aeroplane Co., of Brough. It is to carry fifty pas- sengers. and will be fitted with alx engines of about 650 h.p.
to the boat.
“FOR LOVE OF YOU"
At The Queen's
British Flims present
comedy.
The scene is set at Venice. Carlo the tenor is jealous of his wife. Jack and Jim are staying in the same hotel and in the next room. Jack overhears, a quarrel between, Carlo and his wife: He decides to get off with her and give her a good time. There is carnival and they all have a good time and plenty of champagne. Too much fin" fact; and Jim Ands himself asleep under Carlo's wife's bed. How Jack extricates him is a story; but he does only to "be caught himself.
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and The comedy is light,
the carnival scenes and music are very lively.
World's Melting Pot
If New York is the acknowledged *melting pot of the world" Holly- wood may lay claim to being the must cosmopolttan centre in the motion picture field. A careful survey of the natal cities of mere- ly the outstanding stars in the Alm city reveals representation of practically every important nation in the world.
Many European cinema, centres
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934.
LAST TWO-DAYS AT 2.30,5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES
Music that weaves a magic spell-ro-
mance that touches the depths of human emotion...
EN FALL IN LOVE
with
EDMUND
LOWE
Ana Sothern – Miriam Jordan Gregory Ratoff
have been handicapped in com- "STAND UP AND
peting with Hollywood because of domestic regulations and quotas
miting the number of allen im- portations. Prospects for interna-
tonal fame in foreign-made pro- ductions are very slight, and it is
reason that
for that
European stars encourage offers from Ameri~ can producers which in most cases are eagerly forthcoming. Stars from all over the world flock to Hollylwood.
nature of
at the
It wil be comparable Short six-engine „ flying
The cosmopottan which was an experimental type Hollywood's artist ranks is exem- built for the Air Force. It will in-plified strikingly in the cast of the corporate the single-spar wing con- Columbia musicale, "Let's Fall In struction invented by Mr. Duncan Love" showing to-day
King's Theatre, Edmund Lowe. starred in the film, is a native sor. of California. He was born in San Jose, a small agricultural city several hundred miles, north of Hollywood.
son.
Instead of two main spars, the wing is built, on a single tubular metal spar, tupering to the wing extremities and carrying fuel in its thick centre portion, thus ob- viating the usual tankage and saving much weight.
The system has been success fully Incorporated in other Black- burn aircraft. In the case of the "Segrave" light transport machine It reduced structure weight by 42 per cent. and increased the pay load by $2 per cent.
The new flying, boat will be a high-wing monoplane. Four of the engines will be housed in the leading edge of the wing, and the other two in "the trailing edge.
Estimates of performance are not stated, but speed and great range have been designed for, and boat will be an oceangoing, self- contained craft for trans-ocean mall, and passenger services.
J
It may be recalled that at the time the six-engined military Ay- ing boat was designed the Air Ministry also commissioned a com- mercial sx-engined flying boat. construction of which was begun by the Supermarine works at Southampton. Owing to the need
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CHEER!"
Coming To The King's
Journey's End
*(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 15..
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is as
This Old Trafford ground is a complete surprise: I expected to And a patch of grass surrounded by a lot of dark, satanic mills. But there is neither mills nor patch of smoke in sight. The horizon beyond the low-built stands clear us if we were upon the top .. Two young stars will be seen to- af a hill The turf is as green as gether in "Stand Up and Cheer!", a billiards table-greener than my musical extravaganza coming to billiards table and the sky is full the King's Theatre on Sunday.
of white, angry heat. a perfect place and a perfect day for incubat Madge Evans, one of the fewing runs."-Mr. R. C. Sherriff on
the Test match.'] present-day stars who began her pictura career when she was scar- cely more than a baby; is one, and the other is the four-year-old. "find" of the season, little Shire- ly Temple.
"
Miss Evans' debut in motion pic- tures was made at the age of four. Of the screen for several years, attending school, she returned to win an even more prominent place
through her acting ability and beauty..
Ann Sothern, the glamorous new screen And who is starred with Lowe, is the only other American- born player among the six prin-
her cipals though
ancestry is Her birthpiece Sweddish.
is in Valley located
City North
Little Shirely, Fox Film officials Dakota,
belleve, will be precipitated into Mirian Jordan, who plays Ed-fame very soon. Her work in early
of ""Stand mund Lowe's fiancee. was born in sequences
Up and London, England, and arrived in Hollywood via New York. Gregory Ratoff, born
in Samara, Russia, came to California by way of Ger- many and Broadway. Greta Meyer left Germany for Broadway, but did not come to Hollywood until after she had toured the entire United States with stock Com- panles. Tala Birell, born in Roumania, went Arst to Berlin, then Vierina and London, but from there direct to Hollywood, with no professional stop-over
way.
On Broad-
David Burton directed "Let's Fall in Love," which relates the story of an unknown girl who is taken from a circuscus concession to
for economy the centrict was can become a sensational screen dis- celled and work on the boat atop-overy. Herbert Fields wrote the ped.
LEE
original story and screen play.
THEATRE
TO-DAY & TOMORROW
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Sonile Hale-Lillan Harvey Jack Hulbert
A FIRST
UFA-GAUMOUNT
-BRITISH
PICTURE
in
2 new
arrangement,
combining
charm of
story in
Bove!
settings,.
'Happy Ever After with superh
"FASCINATING ROMANCE IN 'A COMEDY THAT, 'IS DIFFEREN”.
technique.
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I must arise and go now, to Old
Trafford I must go, Where erlaket is played on a slag.
heap and the sky, s
is darkened
with woe;
I must leave the Kennington par- pas and the Oval so wide and free,
cheer!" won her a long term con- tract.
h
Miss Evans, by the way, admits that she awes at the thought of the Shirley has to remember. During her child-starring days. talkies were not even thought ọf..
ALM AMBRA
THESTRE
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.30
TO-DAY
TO
SATURDAY
He wasn't In the Social Register but he meant more to this beau- tiful deb than all the playboys "In her stag line
COMING OUT PARTY
A Jezza Lasky Productio?
Frances Dec Gene Raymond Alison Skipworth Nigel Bruce Harry Green
Directed by John Blystone
BOOKING AT: THE THEATRE
TEL. No. 25913.
25332
SATURDAYT- HATS OFFL
STAND UP CHEER!
WARNER BAXTER
MADGE EVANS • SYLVIA FROOS
JOHN BOLES - JAMES DUNN
AUNT JEMIMA - SHIRLEY TEMPLE APA PICT HE
And hie me away to Old Trafford to the grassless slag and scrée. And I shall collect much" soot there, for the soot cones dropp- ing slow. Where the dark, satania factories close round in a menacing row. Ah, would I could stay at the
Oval, where
nightingale throbs his strain.
the
w
From the top of the Phoenix Gar
Works or the pubs in Kennington Lane!
For I am the perfect Cockney, of
race renowned of old,
And, although I write upon cricket,
it seems 1. was never told That this Northern waste of Old Trafford, which made me feel so Blue,
Is renowned for space and light and turf the whole of the cricket world through.
So here I sit. In the sunshine and
marvel more and more
At the utterly unexpected things that existence holds in store, "
At Hendon civilisation stops; but.
I own, as & candid friend,.. That even Old Trafford is not so
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S
HONG KONG
"Let's Fall In Love"
QUEEN'S—
"For Love Of You"
CENTRAL
“Iron Brd". (Chinese Pic- Lure).
ORIENTAL-
"Bulldog Drummond"
WORLD...
LEE
"The Chief"
"Happy Ever After
ALHAMBRA
KOWLOON
"Frontier Marshal”
MAJESTICTM
STAR
"Come On Marines"
"Golden Harvest"
KING'S-
Coming
"Stand Up And Cheer" "Madame Spy"
QUEEN'S-
"Sadle McKee"
"CENTRAL
“After" Marriage” "King of the Arena"
ORIENTAL
The Rome Express" "The Smoky" *Jimmy and Sally"
4 SHOWS
DAIL
2.30-5.13
7.15-8.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Road Kowloos. Tel. 57292 |
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.20, 720 & 9.20.P.M.
SHOULDER ARMS
RIGHT
COME ON
MARTNES!
A. Paramount. Pierra wiki
RICHARD ARLEN. IDA LUPINO ROSCOE KARNS
"Four, Frightened People" "Going Hollywood".. ALHAMBRA—-
"Coming Out Party”
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ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES
TO-DAY
THE INTRICATE, BAFFLING, SENSATIONAL
MELODRAMATIC HAIR-RAISER OF THE YEAR.
Ronald COLMAN
BULLDOG
bad when you come to the jou DRUMMOND
ney's end.
When we are too old to play golf, it is time to die.-The Prince of Wales.
(STAR)
HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON DAILY AT 230, 5,20, 7.20 and 9.20 TO-DAY ONLY
Drams of ba Frenzied Whoa! 319 'GPRCHETTO"..
and the lerlured
Uself i' born?
GOLDEN HARVEST
FÍCKANS ARLIN CHESTER MORIES DIMEVIEVÉ KOREM. BORON STİL ALM BEACH
Directed by
Picture
TO-MORROW
A FIRST RUN RELEASE "SECOND FLOOR MYSTERY
*WITH
GRANT WITHERS
The Daring Exploits of
Fiction's
Most Reckless
Adventurer?“
COMING OUT PARTY
To-day's Attraction At The Alhambra
FLEMING
ROAD WANGMA TEL. 18428
TO-MORROW
& SATURDAY THE VERY BEST BRITISH PICTURE. YOU EVER SAW I HAS SPEED, ACTION, AND A STAR CAST.
A GAUMONT- BRITISH PICTURE
An old romance is revived-
ESTHER RALSTON and HUGH WILLIAMS in a scene. from one of "the greatest pictures ever made
ROME EXPRESS
TEN TON CAKE
Preparing For Centenary
Weighing ten, tons and contain- ing one hundred newly-minted so- Capitalizing on the genteel head-vereigns, the world's largest birth- lines or to-day's society pages, and day cake will be a feature of the playing a searching light on the Melbourne Centenary Celebrations. debutante racket, Fox Film's latest victorian products will be used in release, "Coming Out Party," will the cake mixture, the principal offer the lowdown on high life ingredients beizig 4 tons of fruit. when it makes its appearance on ton of almensd 11. tons of but- the screen of the Alhambra Theater, 1 tons of four and 36,000 tre to-day.
eggs.
The film, produced by Jesse L.. Lasky, is reported to have been staged on as grand and pretentious a scale as any party that may be tendered by a name out of the social register- -
...The cake will be cut into 250,000 pieces, each 1 or in weight, which will be sold in sealed boxes at a nominal price and every buyer will have a chance to secare one the 100 sovereigns A special build- ing 50 feet high sild 300 feet in pus secrets of the social circles, circumference, reproduction of the such as how ambitious mothers cake, is being bullt to house the
The film is said to reveal numer-
fight for the best coming out. party""nights why a "social. secretary gets a 10 per cent. rake- on on a debutante orders, where all the men come from for parties, and a host of other enlightening detalls that the society page never tells
of
Dammoth confection. Arrayed.
around the building will be 59
giant candles while the 100th can- dle, surmounting the whole display, all be it at the opening cere mony. A dance palais on the first floor will be the scene of the £500 Centenary dancing competition. ⠀
This is the setting for the story of a debutante who is deeply in love with a struggling young vio- linist. Through a misunderstand-in time to forestall the girl's forced ing, the lovers quarrel, and an in- announcement of marriage to a timate reconciliation follows On wealthy man-angut-town. the night of her party, the young Prances Dee and Gene Raymond girl learns that her sweetheart is have the romantic leads, and head. leaving for Europe, to fulalla con- a cast that includes such stellar vert engagement. She tearfully names as Alison Skipworth, Nigel. agrees to marry him upon his re- Bruce, Harry, Green, Gilbert Emery. turn, though she knows it will be Marjorie, Gateson, Clifford Jones, too fate The butler, who is ex- Jessie Ralph and Germaine de tremely fond of the girl, learns of Neel
her predtesment, and hastens to John Blystone directed from the get her sweetheart off the boat play by Gladys Unger: before it sal They both return | L. Lásky Jr
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