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CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.18- 9.30-
SUPERB MELO-DRAMA TO EXALT MILLIONS WHO'VE FORGOTTEN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE MOVED TO THE DEPTHS OF THEIR SOULS1
IDOL OF THE RADIO SET
HOW ON THE
PARKIR
PICTRST
WAY BACK HOME
ADDED ATTRACTION CHARLIE CHAPLIN
IN
Lilian Harvey In
"The Only Girl"
There is a winsome charm in "The Only Girl" which is coming to the Alhambra Theatre short- ly that will appeal to cinemagoers who like their entertainment ro- mantic and tuneful.
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Lulian Harvey has the role of Jullette, a saucy, hairdresser to the Empress Eugenie, and she is delightful. Her naturalness and pert humour is allowed full play.
"As Juliette she inspires her composer "sweetheart to write a waltz tune, dedicated to her, and this melody, sung by her to a supposedly dying duke, causes a great deal of heart-burning. The duke lives and determines
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d the singer of the haunting song. but his Arst difficulty is to find the song!
He names the unknown singer the only girl, but it is not before he has found the song and mis taken the Empress for his ideal that the fair Jullette comes into
THE RINK her own.
NEXT CHANGE
ORAY GRANT
IN
GAMBLING SHIP"
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
The music is tuneful and gay. and the atmosphere of the glit
tering and brilliant, courts of the Empress Engenle; à part mag- nificently portrayed by lovely Mady Christians, has been ex- cellently caught by the producers. Ernest Thesizer and Charles Bo yer also give outstanding, per- formances.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO DAY
AT
[2.30.5.10,7.15
& 9.30 P.M.”
TODAY IS
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY
YOUR LAST
CHANCE TO SEE THIS WONDERFUL PICTURE.
Will not be
shown
again
elsewhere this
season.
H.G.WELLS
The
INVISIBLE MAN
A girl loved him-- the world hated and feared him! See the most amazing picture of the year
With Gloria Stuart. Claude Rains. William Harrigan. Dudley Digges, Ung O'Connor, Henry Travers." Forrestär Harvey, Screenplay by R. C. SharTIA Produced by CNI Laemmis, Jr. Bi rected by James Whain. & UNIVER- SAL PICTURE,
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TEL No. 25913: 26392
TO-MORROW
FACING LOVES DEMANDS
SYLVIA
·SIDNEY
JENNIE GERHARDT
THEODORE DREISER
» A Guramount Pictor w
DONALD .COOK
- MARY ASTOK- **H SAWALNIA ++
„EN SCHULBERŐ A Ladie
Napoleon's throne, by financing Austria Italy, Prussia and England for a war against the French Em- peror, "anti-Semitic houndings per- sist until the escape from Elba. which time Rothschild's persecu- tors are forced to finance Water- Moo, on the outcome of which
Rothschild stakes all.
Some thrilling scenes show his final great triumph. Loretta Young. as Arliss' daughter Julie, and Robert Young, as an aristö- cratic young colonel, play a tender Jewish-Gentle romance obligato. C. Aubrey Smith, Boris Karloff and Helen Westly are grand' in character roles,
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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:
HONG KONG
The Invisible 'Man",
QUEEN'S :-
"Manhattan Melodrama”
CENTRAL:-
"Way Back Home"
ORIENTAL:
"Men Of Chance"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:
***Dreyfus".
MAJESTIC:-
'Animal Kingdom*
STAR:-
"Silver Dollar"
KING'Sing
"Jennie Gerhardt“
"While New York Sleeps" QUEEN'S :--
"Above The Clouds" CENTRAL:-
"Gambling Ship" ORIENTAL:-
This Day and Age" ""The Hidden Gold"
"Reaching For The Moon" ALHAMBRA:-- .
STAR:
"Havana Widows"
"To-night's The Night"
MAJESTIC
"GRAMS THEATRE: Nathan Bead Kawloon, Tel. 67222 TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
The birds knowit
The boos know it
We like to pretend that we don't know. But rich or poor, wiem or foolish, the best of us come only human. in "The Animal Kleedkam”
HARDING HOWARD
ANIMAL KINGDOM
PHILP BARRY
WIE MYREA LOT WILLIAM GARGAN Hall Hennddion · Banery Blephenson Bler Cheus
▲ 3.115
"CATHERINE THE GREAT presents the tempestuous tale of the heart-storms" of "a woman sṬurned by her imperial husband and torn between 'the claims of Love and Destiny. ELIZABETT BERGNER, starring in the title role of "Catherine the Great," acclaimed the finest actress in Europe, should prove the film sen- sation of the year. "Catherine the Great" will be released soon
AT THE KING'S QUEEN'S HALL
64 The Invisible Man'
"The Invisible Man" threatens to become the most effective of all the blood chilling creatures creat- ed by Hollywood for hair raising and spice tingling purposes. Showing at the King's Theatre, the unseen character who vanishes into the ether to upset the rhythm of the universe proves beyond doubt his right to a prominent position in the ranks of the krotes- que.
The Invisible Man" recalls the host of macabre creatures begin- ning with the contorted dwarf "Quasimodo" of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," a silent spectacle
SEASON
Promenade Concert: Enthusiasm
London, Aug. 13. Extraordinary enthusiasm
has marked the opening of the sea- son of promenade concerts at
Queen's Hall which Bir Henry Wood for the fortieth year is con- ducting smée Sir Henry first took over the conductorship at the age of 25 he has enormously sti- mulated popular interest in clas- sical and modern music.
of some ten years ago. The ugly. A few seats are avilable at these creature who dwelt in the ancient concerts and the majority of the cathedral was much more of a audience are quite unable to pro- human character than the ghoul menade, so great is the demand Uke "Phantom of the Opera" who for standing room, Programmes followed him at Universal Per- are now invariably broadcast and haps no early screen character In- the outside audience is” probalay spired as much horrOF as the reckoned in millions "Phantom" in his unholy love for | British Wireles pretty Mary Philbin. Both the "Hunchback" and "Phantom" sets remain standing on the back lots of Uiversal studios, as silent remiders of the screen ghosts of yeterday
Prool Positive
It was a friendly game of cards, way out West. Suddenly one of the players put down his hand. :
“'Ere,, wait a minute!” he said. you pre-This game ain't straight!"
Undoubtedly "Frankenstein" re- mains the most remembered of motion picture "nightmares" al though "Dr. Jekyll, or
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fer, "Mr. Hyde," of "Dr. Jekyll "wotcher mean?" asked his op- and Mr. Hyde deserves more than casual mention.
But The Invisible Man" tops these chilly creatures by perform ing his sinister deeds under the always scary cloak of invisibility.
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ponent aggressively,
"Wot do I mean?" asked the first man: "I mean you're cheat- Ing. You ain't playing the cards 1 dealt yer.",
Scene From "The House of Rothschild.".
20th Gentury-United drtiste:
THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD
George Aritas plays a character perfectly ordered for his rare ta- lent in this impessive, historic 'story of the great European Jewish banking family of five sons raised amid anti-Jewish programmes and persecutions, in Prussia. “All for one and one for all" is their mot- to.
Carrying, but the dying wish of their father, à ̈patriarch of the Red
Shield in Frankfort, the Rothschild brothers spread to the various financial Capitals of Europe. The great mystery of the continent is their system of ob- taining first hand information.
Nathan (George Arliss) becomes the money power of London, head of the International house....
Nathan (George Arliss) becomes
ALNAMBRA
MESTER
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON DAILY AT 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.20 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
THE PICTURE THAT WILL LINGER IN YOUR MEMORY FOR EVER
ILLIANT... ONE OF
THE MOST COMPELLING
FILMS YET MADET DALIS PATEI
CEDRIC HARDWICKE
DREYFU
Fiction
Look Out for them Coming Shortly
THEY BLEW HIS MAZUMA DOWN IN CUBA!
havana
widows
JOAN
DELL
The Alarm
While dressing, a man staying in a hotel wished to summon the chambermaid The only bell he could discover was in the bath- room attached to his bed-room. He rang several times without re- suit. Later, having dressed, he encountered the chambermaid in the corridor, and reproached her with having failed to answer.
"Which bell did you ring sir?! she asked.
"The bath-room bell.” *
Lillan Harvey and Charles Boyer in Th
“DREYFUS”
"Ah, but, sir, you shouldn't have A Screen, Masterpiece
used it. That's, only to be used in case you feel faint or drown in the bath."
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20
THE LOVE STORY THATA"
SCANDALIZED A NATION
Fabulous romantic epic of chir Want St Mic “and Blood demon, warging from the momen days "ol'emples, on to` the`rowing provesi.
EDW.G
Girl
COMING TO THE KING'S
"Jennie Gerhardt”.
mount.
By the long atin of colcidence, the only British journalist Ilving Sylvia Sidney is starred in the who actually reported the sensa film version of Theodore Dreiser's tional Dreyfus case for a London "Jennie Gerhardt," which comes newspaper throughout its tortuous
on Thursday to the King's Theatre progress for Afteen years Ernest She plays the title role with Smith viewed a talking picture Donald Cook, Mary Astor H., B. for the first time when he was in- Warner and Edward Ardold head- vited, by British international Ficting the supporting cast, Marion tures to see that company's pro- Gering directed the film a B. P duction "Dreyfus," which was Schulberg production for Para made at Elstreee Studios. He de- clared that he was amazed at the "Jennie Gerhardt is the story veritable reproduction on the of a woman who, as the result of screen of what had been for years her beauty and attraction-for men, universal" topic of controversy is caught by forces far too strong, with a amcerity and authenticity for her to battle. But she is ab that was astounding. He was the same time, ready to sacrifice particularly struck by the wonder everything for the man the Loves. ful resemblance that that noted Her first contact with life comes actor Cedric Hardwicke achieved when an elderly senator, deepl in his screen impersonation of impressed by her charm, Dreyfus, who, of course, be a court to her. When be saves her daily throughout the unfortunate brother from an inpending 1 officer's trials by Court Martial
sentence, she tries to repay his It is an interesting fact that kindness. The Senator promisas smith was present at the attempt-marriage on his return from a Led assassinaion of Maitre Labori, trip to
to Washington. But he is the advocate for Emile Zola, the killed in a railroad wreck. Their emment French writer who was child is born. tried for defamation following his Jennie gets work as article "J'Accuse", which denounced) maid to a wealthy woman, those who sentenced Dreyfus on latter's brother is attre false evidence Madame Labori, of This time Jennie, know British birth, summoned Smith as and their next few yea -a-countryman to her ambiance fully happy. But when he dis Immediately her husband had covers that he has a child, hồ been shot, and it was the journal whole attitude undergoes 1st who loosened Labor's collar change. In the events that and gave him temporary relief low Jennie is helpless, The while awaiting medical attention. ture reaches a poignant climax The bullet missed the lawyer's her attempts to right herself. spine by a hair's breadth, but he afterwards recovered
ROBINSON SILVER DOLLAR
NEXT CHANGE LESLIE FULLER
B.LPS Hilarious Laugh Riot
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
pay
like to the original, as a twi brother:
Smith possesses a remarkable collection of snapshots which he secured at the time, of the prin page torn from history is
screen masterpiece cipal characters in the Dreyfus
trial, and these were placed at the at the Alhambra Theatre
on-Roem
o-directors, of the
purpose
and going TİK
the cookery book””
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