CENTRAL THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
-
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.30
THE GREATEST CIRCUS OF THE WORLD NOW ON THE SCREEN.
CARL HAGENBECK'S
100
ATTRACTION!
CIRCUS
CIRCUS
MEN WHO
TAUNT DEATH
TO WIN YOUR SMILE
CARL HAGENBROK
1.00 TRAINED ANIMALS!
IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT IN THE RING THIS IS THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO SEE UN THE SCREEN.
4 SHOWS
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BE
FLEMING ROAD
DALA
130-$13
7.15-3.30
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES
TO-DAY
THE BEST · ACTION PICTURE MIX EVER MADE! IT'S ALL THRILLS.
TOM
MIX HIDDEN GOLD
Johnny Mack Brown will lead in eight Columbia pictures this season. It is intended to give him Jack Halt's place in action melod- ramas, while Holt is promoted to more pretentious material.
Maureen O'Sullivan has joined the cast of "Hide-Out" the next Robert Montgomery film. Loretta Young was to have played the part, but has been prevented by
liness.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
TEL 284TH
TO-MORROW
& SATURDAY A SMART STORY»
WITH
A MILLION DOLLAR CAST
A MODERN COMEDY.
Douglas Farbanks
BEBE DANIELS, REACHING
FOR THE
MOON/
small child. All her schooling was obtained in the film 'capital
Miss Marsh is the athletic type and excelled in basketball when in school, She is five feet two inches in height and her weight is one hundred and
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934.
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT 2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
IRENE DUNNE
in the story of a wife who swallowed her pride, and went to war against a love) thief in her home. shouting a woman's battle cry...
Hands Off!
A Pandra S. Barman Praduction. MERIAN
ative producer. RKO RADIO Picture
"THIS MAN IS MINE"
Wal
CONSTANCE CUMMINGS
RALPH BELLAMY KAY JOHNSON
Charles Starrett, Louis Mason, 2 Sidney Blackmer, Vivian Tobin Directed by JOHN CROMWELL
THE MAD GENIUS
Marian March As Leading Lady
Marian Marsh, who for the sec- ond time appears as leading lady to John Barrymore-this time in "The Mad Genlus,"" the Warner Bros. picture showing to-day at
Theatre. the, Alhambra
might
have been unknown.but for her' elder sister, who while working as an extra used every means avall able to see that Marian got chance for a screen test,
The tates willed it that Warmer Bros. were at the time looking for new players and many were giv- en an opportunity to face the cameras. Marian, in turn, thought of her brother, Edward Morgan, and the two went together in the studios, both bad tests and both secured contracts.
Marian's big moment came when she was 'taken to Mr. Barrymore, who, though sick abed, at the time, was looking for a leading lady to lady the part of Trilby in "Svengal". Many were called for tryouts, but Marian was chosen, She looked the part and when the star heard her read some of the lines, he was convinced that no one else would do for Trilby.
Beside Bowerlike and appealing beauty of face and form Miss Marsh evidences the rare ability of entering into the personality two pounds. She of the part she plays. Perhaps greatly resemble Dolores Costello.
the fact that the blood of English, wife of Mr. Barrymore.
Miss Marsh has appeared recent-German, French and Irish ances- ly in "Svengall," "The Road to tors flows in her veins, alds her Singapore" opposite William Fo-in catching varying moods.
well Five Star Final" opposite She was born on the island of Edward G. Robinson, and in "The Trinidad and was brought to Holly Mad Genius."
wood by her parents while still"
QUEEN'S
Offering her heart with reservations!
Unwilling to lose one precious moment!
Park Avenue learns about love from two people who have nothing else
Fredric
Miriam
George
MARCH HOPKINS RAFT
Ar 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30.
"ALL OF ME"
“YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL"
Joe E. Brown's Latest
Joe E. Brown does some plain and fancy aquaplane stunts in his latest comedy hit; You Said a
Mouthful" the First National pics
tura which is Coming to the Alhambra Theatre on Sunday, in this he is alded and abetted by Preston 8. Foster, both of whom are adepts with the sea planes in which they are hauled over the rough waters of the Pacific, at Catalina Island, at a terrific speed.
Joe playing the part of an art- less youth, is induced to step on the board through a misapprehen- sion, but manages to stick on by luck and finally topples into the water through sheer awkwardness.
Joe's ungalainess is stimulated for pleture purposes, and when he plunges into the water it is really his skilled diving that makes it appear to be a fancy accident.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TYL. No. 25313
25338"
SATURDAY
EARL CARROLLS
For Every Gorgeous Gir↑ There's A Melody « » « attd'
MURDER AT THE VANITIES
L
with the
MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS IN THE WORLDY
66
CAR) BRISSON VICTOR McLAGLEN
ALL OF ME
Showing At The Queen's
With Fredric March, Miriam Hop- kins and George Raft in the lead-
ing at the Queen's Theatre is an ing roles "All Of Me," now show-
exciting story of two young girls
who hold different views regard to love.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:
HONG KONG
This Man Is Minë"
QUEEN'S:-
"All of Me"
"CENTRAL!——
"Cart Haganbacks Circus" ORIENTAL:-
LEE:-
"Hidden Gold"
"King Kong"
KOWLOON
ALHAMERA:—
"The Mad Gentus":
MAJESTIC
STAR:
"All Men Are Enemies"
"The Woman. Between"
KING'S:
Coming
"Murder At The Vanities
ORIENTAL:-
Reaching For The Moon" "The Sitting Pretty" "The Wild Girl" ALHAMBRA:-
"You Said A Mouthful" "The Sitting" Pretty"
"REACHING FOR THE MOON"
At The Oriental Theatre
Tossing away millions of dollars in a gamble for a girl's love is no-
thing to a romantic young man who is confident that he can al- ways make more money, but that there is only one girl worth" win-
One of " them, Lydia, the daughter of a millionaire, although yearning, for romance, declines toning. return the true love of a strug- gling engineer. Dön, while the other girl, Eve, in exactly opposite circumstances, finds happiness in her ex-convict lover, Honey..
Behind this background, is woven a human story which be gins as soon as the four people meet together by chance.
During the evening Eve (Helen Mack) complains of feeling all, and while Don" (Fredric March) secures a taxi, her lover, Honey, (George Raft) steals Lydia's (Miriam Hopkins) pocket book,
In the hallway of Eve's tenement, Honey is met by a probation off- although he has never swim beeer who finds the pocketbook one fore. Many new and novel comedy gags have been injected by Robert. Lard and Bolton Mallory who wrote the screen play,
The story by William B. Dover is filled with uproarious sitizations in which Joe wins a marathon race
Ginger Rogers, Shella Terry, Farina of Our Gang"" comedies bon are among those in the sup- Guinn Williams and Harry Grib-
porting cast. The picture was directed by Lloyd Bacon.
THIS MAN IS
MINE"
Showing At The King's
If you are a neglected wife, or a straying husband who seeks love. and understanding everywhere but at home, you will find your problem picturized and-solved in the RKO-Radio- comedy-drama, "This Man Is Mine" in which Irene Dunn is starred and which is now at the King's Theatre..
The story, which is said to be based on the findings of modern psychologists, deals with a phase of American home life that is all too frequent, that in which the husband and wife are continuing to live together solely from force of habit, all the ardour gone from their original love. It then sug- gests a highly radical cure for this deplorable condition by showing how a courageous young wife and mother snapped her husband out of his lethargy by deliberately throwing him at a siren in the hope of, causing him to become surfeited with her pseudo-love.
Miss Dunne is supported by e brillant cast which includes Ralph Bellamy Constance Cummings, Kay Johnson, Sidney, Blackner, Charles Starrett, Louis Mason and Vivian Tobin. John Cromwell directed.
That's the key to the dashing comedy-drama starring Douglas Fairbanks, with Bebe Daniels as the heroine which will be showing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Ultra-modern and sophisticated, brillant in fashiotis, settings and comedy.
It anticipated the trend two years hence and has backgrounds of a modernistic nature created by William Cameron Menzles.
New York is the principal locale. with Fairbanks, as a phenomenally 'successful stock broker who throws all commercial activities aside to pursue a girl who charms him away from the stock market. Bebe his person. Honey is arrested and Daniels is the new type of society sent to prison while Eve is taken girl, immensely wealthy, made for to a reformatory. Meanwhile Don luxury and actively going in for and Lydia have quarreled, and
aviation. parted. The latter receives a' let-. ter from Eve and responds to her plea for help.
*
Edward Everett Horton, one of the foremost drawing room comped-. ians of the age, makes the picture The way in which they plan sparkle with laughter and excellent their escape the course of work is done by a tried and true which both Eve and Honey are cast including Jack Muhall of stel- killed, provides many an exciting | lar fame, Claud Allister, Emmett moment, and the picture is Corrigan, Walter Welker, Junë brought to a thrilling elsmax when MacCloy. Helen Jerome Eddy, Lus- Lydia is arrested for being an ac- na Walters. Full Tead and Adrien- complice.
ne d'Ambricourt.
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THE MAD GENIUS
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ALL MEN ARE ENEMIES
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"THE FUGITIVE,
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