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CENTRAL
CHEATRI
SHOWING TO-DAY DAILY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30
THE SKY'S
THE LIMIT.... Outside the Three
Mile Limit!.
New kinds of thrills, with romance too, on the gilded decks of
GAMBLING
SHIP"
A Paramount Picturs with
CARY GRANT BENITA HUME JACK La RUE GLENDA FARRELL ROSCOE KARNS
NEXT CHANGE LANNY ROSS MELODY IN SPRING
IN
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
* SHOWS
DAIL
2.30–5.13
7.15-8.30
SYLVIA SIDNEY
In "Jennie Gerhardt"
•
Jennle
Gerhardt,"
screen
drama of Theodore Dreiser's famous novel, is the current at- traction at the King's Theatre. with Sylvia Sidney playing the title role.
The story, which caused a sen- sation when it was published is the second of Dreiser's works to reach the screen. The first. "An American Tragedy," roused Dreiser's protest when it was re- leased, for he claimed that the motion picture failed to retain his 'point of view, and he attempted to stop its showing. It was shown later with some of the changes he had requested.
Miss Sidney was also the står of "An American Tragedy."
In
"Jennie Gerhardt" she is support- ed by u cast including -Donald Cook. Mary Astor, H. B. Water And Edward Arnold.
"
She plays the role of a worn whose charm for men briak, ner to un' inescapable end. An elderly/ acnar, ner first suiter, is Fu In a rauroid wreck be, re thes can be married When her child is born she leaves ho ue, tries to start life again. Her second cultor, man, handsome, "wealthy young brother of her employer, refuses to marry her when he finds that. she has a child. It is to him.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
SAT
2.30, 6.10, 7.15
& 9,30 P.M.
KINO
however, that she devotes her life. SPENCER TRACY
Edward Arnold plays the role
of the Senator, with Donald Cook Interest, as the major romantic
H. B. Warner is cast as her father, and Mary Astor as the childhood sweetheart of Donald Cook who tries to win his affection from Miss Sidney,
TAKS ANT TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
LAST 4 TIMES
TO-DAY
4
THE YEARS BEST MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW: A RIOT OF LAUGHTER
SET TO MUSIC.
SITTING PRETTY
with
Jack Oakie Jack Haley Ginger Rogers Gregory Ratoff Pickens Sisters and the Hundred Hollywood Honeys ·
Taking a Chance
Little Moses had a brand-new ten-shilling note given to him for his birthday. Going to the local chemist, he had the note changed into sixpences and shillings, Then he went across the street to the grocer and got a ten-shlllng note for the change, He repeated this several times in different shops. Finally, his father noticed his actions and asked for an explana- tion.
"Well," said the small boy, "sooner or later somebody is go- ing to make a mistake, and it ain't going to be me."
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CECIL B.D.MILLE'S First Great Spectacle of Modern Times!
THIS DAY AND AGE
A Paramount Picture,
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WHALE BLUBBER
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Presa" (Copyright.)]` |
Berlin, Aug. 16.
One hundred and fifty thousand tons of whale blubber have been assured the German nation" by a special treaty signed on Thursday between the Norwegian whalers and the German Food Ministry.
The material is expected to be mainly used for the manufacture of margarine.-- Trauancen Kuo Min.
How He Come To
Hollywood
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
BACKS!
Disapproving backs ...cold shoulden... averted faces...Yet
the glories in ber duration . woman scomed, but a woman loved!
Sylvia SIDNEY
faces joyfully the reolilles of hungering love in
JENNIE GERHARDT
Now that Spencer Tracy has been made one of the four full- fledged Fox Film stars, he looks back over the past and thinks of how narrowly he missed coming to Hollywood at all.
After years of stock and me- diocre parts On Broadway, he flashed into prominence as Killer. Mears in "The Last Mile," a play that had a tremendous success in New York and on the road.
Several screen scouts saw Tracy and offered him picture contracts, but he was dublous. He, was a success on Broadway and he might not be in Hollywood. He was a firm believer in the "bird in the hand" axiom.
However, at the conclusion of the New York run, à Fox Film executive persuaded Tracy to try one picture. He agreed, but only on the stipulation that he could go back to "The Last Mile" for its Chicago. run. This
agreed upon and Allen Jenkins, now a featured picture comedian, was engaged for the part of the dama- tic "Killer" while Spencer tried on
cameras.
was
The irony of the "affair is that his first screen part was "Up The River," a satire on "the Last Mile." At the conclusion of the picture, Tracy didn't even wait to see, the results. He went to Chicago add resumed his old part in the play.
The reest is history. “Up The River" was a tremendous success. Tracy was a new personality and screen fans demanded more of him. A new long term contract was signed and he returned to Hollywood.
H
THEODORE DREISER'S
celebrated record of a woman's life with
Recently, Winfield Sheehan, vice president and general manager of production, elevated Spencer and stardom with his current picture, "While New York Sleeps" coming to the King's Theatre to-morrow. At the conclusion of this pro- duction, he will have a six week's rest before starting his next plc- ture 'Marle Galante,"
This is his first vacation of any duration since coming to Holly- wood and, of course, he is going 'New York to renew acquaintances.
GULIN'S
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30.
LOVE GAVE HIM THE COURAGE TO DEMAND HONORS THAT WERE RIGHTFULLY HIS AS WORLD'S GREATEST CAMERAMAN!
ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Robert Armstrong - Dorothy Wilson
Richard Cromwell
#teatim Pannelly Huy Willard Heill &
DONALD COOK
•MARY ASTOR
H.. WARNÈA --
· Directed by MANION BERING.
· LP SCHULBERG Anduction
( Cuci moment Gobar
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TEL. No. 25313 26932
TO-MORROW
EVERY MAN'S WIFE HAS
A STORY!
SPENCER TRACY
"WHILE'
NEW
IN
YORK
SLEEPS
A FOX PICTURE with
HELEN TWELVETREES
ALICE FAYE
HAVANA WIDOWS "THE - AVENGER”
A Real Snappy Comedy
Joan Blondell and Lyle Talbot form an unusually fine romantic comedy team in Havana Widows" the first National comedy drama which comes
to the
Alhambra, Theatre to-morrow.
The blonde Blondell plays a strictly comic role while the hand.
complexioned Talbot
some dark
plays his role straight, making a perfect fall for Blondell,
Showing At The
Alhambra
The hectic gold rush" days of 149 in California forms the back- ground of the highly exciting picture, "The Avenger" which is now showing at the Alhambra Theatre.
Buck Jones, the hero of many a cowboy picture of the "silent" days, is in the leading role as a miner, in a place where might is right" and where there is no law. not so much about life on the "long trail" as about the adven- tures of the miners.
There is plenty of action and thrills in this picture which is in- deed entertaining particularly to those, fond of a film with plenty of action,
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S :-
HONG KONG
"Jennie Gerhardt” QUEEN'S:—
"Above The Clouds" ORIENTAL:
"Sitting Pretty" CENTRAL:-
"Gambling Ship"
KOWLOON
'ALHAMBRA :-
"The Avenger"
MAJESTIC:-
"I Like It That Way" STAR:-
"To-night's The Night"
KING'S:-
24
Coming
"While New York Sleeps" "This Man Is Mine"
CENTRAL:-
"Melody In Spring" ORIENTAL:-
"This Day and Age" "The Hidden Gold" "Reaching For The Moon" ALHAMBRA:-
"Havana Widows"
BRITISH RADIO
SETS
Big Order From South America
The
London, August 17. radio exhibition - which opened at Olympia la sald to be More than 150 firms are exhibiting the largest of its kind ever held.
the latest develpments in wireless receiving sets and their accessories and about a quarter million peo- ple are expected to visit the show. This is the 14th of these annual ex- hibitions and each year they at- tract a large number of Home and Overseas visitors. Every part of British Empire and twenty foreign countries were represented among the buyers present to-day.
This is the first time the two have played opposite each other in the leading roles. It is also ope of the few times that Talbot has been cast to play a leading ro- mantic role, his lot usually being that of the villaing Misa Blondell, who plays a straight, comic, or ro- mantic heroine with equal facility, in this picture, is a wisecracking tler was groggy when the gong it is now reported to have a combination of all three.
As a gold" digging Broadway chorus girl in Havana on the hunt for millionaires, Miss Blondell with her pal, Glenda Farrell, create more spontaneous laughs than is usually found in half a dozen comedies.
The screen play by Eart Baldwin
badger game that takes it out of given a unique twist to the old
realm of snappy comedy. the serious class and into
the
Other members of the cast in- clude Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ralph Ince and Maude Eburne. Ray Enright has given the picture clever hand- ling in his direction.
“TWO - FISTED
BOXING
"Slashing Draw" At La Loma
Manila, Aug. 13. Young Teddy of Pagsanjan and Young Ternado of Baclaran fought a slashing eight-round bout to a draw last Saturday evening at the Pancho Villa Boxing Gar- den at La Loma.
The Pagsanjan battler fought at his best in the earlier rounds and punished Young Hernando with telling lefts and rights to face and body. The Baclaran ringster, however, weathered the storm al- thought at times the appeared in distress. The first four rounds were won by Young Teddy in con- vincing manner.
"In the fourth round Young Her. nando fought viciously. and rock- ed his opponent with devastating. punches to the body, The Afth found the two combatants trading blows freely with the Baclaran boy having an edge at the bell⠀⠀ The sixth saw Young Teddy hanging on for breath Bethe Baclaran nghter rained an sYB- lanche of blows to his head and midsection. The Pagsanjan bat
sounded.
The radio, industry in Britain has developed with remarkable ra- ploity in the past few years and
turnover of £30,000,000 a year, The seventh and eight rounds nearly four times as much as in went to Young Hernando by big 1931. During the arst hour after margins. He was complete master the opening of the exhibition to- of the situation, punishing his foeday, it was stated that £300,000 with vicious lefts and rights. Young worth of business had been done. Teddy kept hugging the Baclaran Among the orders booked was one boy to save himself from a knock for 300 radio sets for Bouth out.
America-British Wireless,
TO-DAY ONLY
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
S than Rad Kɔwloon, Tel. 57232 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ||At 2.80, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
I LIKE IT THAT WAY
Starring
GLORIA STUART ROGER PRYOR
with
MARIAN MARSH
J!
Sprightly romance with a night-club-background ... A delightful story of a Boy and a Girl-umballished with great song and dance numbers 1
With Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, Lucille Gleason, Marne Kennedy, Mae Busch, Story by Harry Sauber.
STORMY PASSAGE
Jardine's steamer the Yisheng. came into port after a very stormys passage from the north-. Early on Friday morning, k10th) several men. were alghted Coating on a rait. Four men were picked off. this raft, and later two more rafts were sighted and five mep picked up. A fourth raft
was · rescued; with fourteen men. Another steam- er the Hoishul picked up another eight' men. These men came from two junks that had capsized owing to, the rough weather. Only two men of the crews were lost.
NO NOISE, PLEASE!
(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press).
London, August 17.
To combat the noise nuisance, the chief of the London police has decreed that automobiles must nöth sound their horns, buzzers and sirens "during the night; The order takes effect immediately and after one week, severe anes will be dealt out. to of- fenders against the bye-law Transocean Kuo Min.
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON
CAN THIS BE THE
PHANTOM RIDER?
Look Out Men!
Those gold diggers are
at it again!
BUCK JONES at his best-tender-a man of passion, ona moment; a merciless killer. the next-forsaking all for revenge.
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents
BUCK JONES
in
--AT 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9.20
"THE AVENGER
with DOROTHY REVIER
Directed by Roy William Neill ·
1
also SCRAPPY CARTOON
and
The Mystery of Marriage
havana widows
Laugh Sing and Be Merry for
with
with JOAN BLONDELL
Glenda Farell Guy Kibbee
STARTING TO-MORROW-
"TO-NIGHT'S THE NIGHT”
(B.I.P's Hilarious Burlesque Comedy.) at The
LESLIE TULLER
(The Rubber Face Comedian)
STAR
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