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of
CENTRAL
SHOWING
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Framed! Because
he dared to love!
SHADOWS of SING SING
MARY BRIAN
BRUCE CABOT
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
NEXT. CHANGE
A MAD, MURDERING MEMAGE,
BELA “DRACULA" NIGHT OF
LUGOSI
WHAT WAS THIS UNSEEN MENACE THAT STRUCK IN THE DARK?
LEWIS STONE
The Bureau Of Missing Persons”
large
and
TERROR
MAN'S CASTLE
At The Queen's Theatre
Will "Man's Castle" do for Lo- retta Young and Spencer Tracy what previous Borzage directed pictures have done for other screen players?
His "Seventh Heaven" brought immortality to the team of Janes Gaynor and Charles Farrell. "Bad Girl" did the same.. for. Sally Ellers and Jimmy Dunn. Prac-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934.
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT
[2.30,5.10.7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
EVERY WOMAN'S HEART
WILL ACHE FOR HER!
She can only sit and wait
in anguith... to hear from the human beasts who itole her baby... while, the police report "Na news, yet.".
DOROTHEA WIECK.. ALICE BRADY
IN
RUPERT HUGHES' STORY
MISS FANE'S BABY
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE WITH
BABY LEROY
AT THE KING'S
"Miss Fane's Baby
In Stolen"
An exceptionally talented cast of players · appear the principal roles of the First National picture, "Bureau of Missing Persons." a humorous as well as thrilling revelation of the secrets in the Uves of those who strangely drop out of sight, which open to-day at the
From "Maedchen in Uniform" to Alhambra Theatre. It is a time-tically every picture he has direct- "Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen" is ly picture, suggested by the
ed has either made a star of the the screen leap that has been numerous sensational kidnap principals or added imperishable achieved pings that have roused the coun laurels to the crowns of those Paramount's new Continental star. Wieck,
ty.
There are seventeen players in the leading roles, all of whom have bad brilliant careers од both the stage and screen. The list is headed by Bette Davis, the blonde star of "Ex-Lade/ who also played the leading feminine roles in "The Cabin in Cotton," The Dark Horse," "The Work- ing Man" and many others. Miss Davis has a background of Broad-
who were already stars.
by
Dorothea
Before he consented to direct The film, "Miss Fane's Baby Is "A Man's Castle" to-day's attrace | Stolen," is now showing at the tion at the Queen's Theatre. King's Theatre. Alice Brady is Borzage insisted that he be all co-starring with Miss Wieck, while lowed to delay the starting of the Baby Le Roy, Jack La Rue, Alan picture until he could find just Hale and Dorothy Burgess are the right couple of players for featured. the stellar roles, of the picture. Several
teams were suggested, but rejected by the director.
It was
settled that Anally
IS STOLEN
"COME ON MARINES"
At The Oriental Theatre
"BOOKING AT THE ́ ́THEATRE Tx. No. 26313 26332
SATURDAY
SHE WAS AN
1.0.0. BUCKS
F:0 2 20
A million dollar baby left as security for o gorabling debt with
a swindler, 's pug. and a, pickpockat....... DAMON RUNYOR'S
Title MISS MARKER
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:-
HONG KONG
"Miss Fane's Baby Iş Stolen"
QUEEN'S :-).
"Man's Castle”
CENTRAL:-
"Shadows Of Sing Sing"
ORIENTAL:-
"Tiger Shark"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:-
“Bureau of Mustrig Persons”.
MAJESTIC:
• "Good Dame"
STAR:-
"Let's Fall In Love"
KING'S:
Coming
"Little Miss Marker" ALHAMBRA:-
"King Of Wild Horses" "Worst Man In Paris" "The 9th Guest"
STAR:-
"Carolina"
"Playing Around”
MAJESTIC
SEBAREA THEATRE÷ Nathan Road Kawiona. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 0,20 P.M.
HE COULDN'T GET TO FIRST BASE WITH HER!
and
ho was the home-run king!
SYLVIA SIDNEY FREDRIC MARCH GOOD DAME
L'à Purumnect Picture with ABOLPHE NENJOE DOROTAY DELL CHARLES BICKFORD SHIRLEY TEMPLE 4 1. P. Schuberg Productor
"This Side Of Heaven" CENTRAL:----
NEXT
CHANGE
THE ALHAMBRA
King Of The Wild Horses
"Night Of Terror" ORIENTAL
"Come On Marines"
4 SHOWS DAILY
FJB÷8.30
& B. P. Schulberg production "A Paramount Plature
TAKE ANY TRAS ÖR HÄPPY VALLEY BUBR
MU DER IN TRINIDAD
ORIENTAL
LAST
THEATRE
Rex, acknowledged throughout 4 TIMES TO-DAY
D
the country as one of the great- est horses ever trained by man, Come On Marines," long the makes his talking debut with two traditional plea of Americans in thousand other wild horses in distress, gains new colour, spec- "King of the Wild Horses," tacle and romance in the Para- Columbia feature, opening Sun- mount picture of that name show day at the Alhambra Theatre. ing at the Oriental Theatre on King of the Wild Horses", was Friday and Saturday. It combines filmed entirely on location on the remarkable photography with ex-Government Reservation of the cellent performances, to afford | Navajo and Hopi Indians $11 laughs and thrills in a rare hit northern Arizona. Not one scene of screen entertainment.
"Marines who'd rather fight than eat and rather love than fight and romance, aplenty amid usual jungle circumstances that abound in action and heart throbs In this rollicking tale of adven-
"Maedchen in Uniform" was, the spiritual portant of the tender relationship between a lonely Spencer Tracy should be the male school girl and her teacher. lead For the feminine lead, hun-picture admirably equipped Miss
tares in the tropics. made, and Wieck for her first. Hollywood production. The story ““Cradle
dreds of texts
were
This
way experience previous to en- tering picture work.
Lewls 8. Stone. the veteran screen and stage player, whose hundreds of girls were interview- work was so notable in "Granded, until someone suggested Loret-Song," by G. M. Martinez Sierra, the Spanish playwright, tells of Hotel," "Red Headed Woman" and ta Young. "The White Sister," has the role Miss Young 18 not yet, 21, and the affection of a nun in a con- of the chief of the missing per- the objection was made that she
sons bureau. His is the counter- part of the position held in the New York Police Department by Capt. John H. Ayres, the MAN who collaborated with Carol Bird on the book from which the screen play was written by Robert Presnell
Fat O'Brien well know stage player before he entered, picture work two years ago, has the ro- mantic lead. opposite Miss Davle O'Brien will be Temembered for h's
ki
was too young for the role. Tests,
went for a child left as a foundling
in the institution's care.
however, proved that she Was An original by Rupert ideal, Before one day's shooting Huges, it ran as a serial in the had been finished, Borzage and Cosmopolitan magazine. It is fast the officials at Columbia Studios in tempo, alive with drama and were satisfied that she was the one has as its central character a girl in the world for the role with temperamental Hollywood star. Tracy,
Although both Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young are firmly en- trenched players in the movie firmament, it is predicted that "Man's Castle" will add immeasur aably to their popularity.
work" in such pictures "Destination Unkown," Verhe Public Be Damned," "Flowing
Gold" and "American Madness." with which the picture is packed. Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins Hugh Herbert is a recent acqui-
Ruth and
It tells in staccatto fashion, the torture and anguish that comes to a mother when her baby has been kidnapped..
Trembling with fear and terror, she enlists the aid of every known branch of the law to help bring his safe return.
After an appeal to the nation's
child la her
found
Donnelly. all wellsition from the footlights while mothers, known Warner Bros-First Na- Alan Dinehart da equally known through the sacrifice and tional contract players, are rea as a stage and picture favourite selfishness of a poverty-stricken sponsible
for most of the fun and also as a director.
farmer's wife,
TO-DAY
ΤΟ
SATURDAY
QUEEN'S
A love-born of the fragile dreams of two hungry hearts..
·The most glorious love story since "ith Heaven" — YOU may think it even greater!
with
SPENCER TRACY LORETTA YOUNG Glenda Farréli Arthur Hohl Walter Connolly
A FRANK BORZAGR Production
MANS CASTLE
A Screni Gulld
·Picture
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30.
SELECTED SHORTS
uni
Richard Arlen, long a screen favourite, gives one of his best performances, and the picture serves to further establish Ida
Lupino, brilliant young English
actress. Roscoe Karns never drew
more laughs, and Grace Bradley
shows that she's both an actreas and an exceptional dancer.
"LITTLE MISS MARKER"
With Shirley Temple
With Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford and Hille Shirley Temple playing the prin- cipal roles, BP. Schulberg's Paramount Alm, "Little Miss Marker.", comes on Baturday to the King's Theatre
The film was directed by Alex- ander Hall from an original story by Damon. Runyon. Willam R. Lipman, Sam. Hellman and Gladys Lehman wrote the screen play,
In addition to the above fea- tured players, the film has" a sup- porting cast Including Lynne Overman. Jack Sheehan. Frank McGlynn, Er., Tammany Young, Sam Hardy, Warren Hymer, John Kelly and Craufurd Kent
The story deals with a new type. of screen character the Broad- WEY bookmaker. who doesn't make books but who bets on horse races, and who never goes to races. Early in the film'a litë tle girl, blonde, curly-headed and five years of age 's left with a grouchy, selfish bookmaker as security for a race bet.
The racketeera begin playing nursemaid to the tiny tot, and before long, she has learned their. ways and is talking their crude and wisecracking. Ingo. An un- usual and very dramatic finale is reached when they attempt to win back her innocent faith
Interwoven with this plot is a romance between the bookmaker and the sweetheart of the town's worst citizen."
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was shot inside a studio, and thousands of Indians as well as the herd of two thousand wild horses appear in the glamorous this and stimulating scenes of Spectacular picture.
and Early Haley
George B. Beltz, the supervisor, who directed "The last Frontier," "The Vanish- ing American" and "Wild Horse Mesa" selected, an excellent cast of screen players to portray the
white roles in the picture. Such well-known players as Wallace MacDonald, Ford West, Harry Semels and Art Mix are in the
supporting cast:
A PICTURE SUPERCHARGED
WITH SUSPENSE I IT'S TERRIFIC!
A PICTURE SENSATION
ROBINSON
INZAD
WANCHAL
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY HERE'S
A REAL LAUGH SENSATION! :: THE DEVIL, DOGS:
ARE IN A DEVIL OF A MESSI
COME ON
MARINES!!
*RA" RICHARD ARLEN SANKİDA LUPIND ROSCOE KARNS GRACE BRADLEY MONTE BLUE and TOBY WING
* Päronika #terura
Only two of the many Indian Every effort was expended by long parley did the Indiana give roles are played by white people. Haley. Seltz and, the studio to re- permission. This dance has never and this was permitted only after produce more faithfully than ever been photographed before, either three weeks had been spent at before an exact picture of the by a motion picture or any other the Columbia Studios testing colourful and curiously supersti- kind of camera more than seventy-five actors and tious life that the Navajos lead. The stampede of a huge herd actresses for the juvenile leads. They are the least modernized, of of two thousand horses, rounded
and uo from the mesas
plains Dorothy Appleby, who made such any Indian tribe still extent in.
One. Indication of the where they roam wild, have no a success of "Square Crooks". and America.
to which Columbia went, equal, for excitement and thum "Young Binners" both on Broad-length way and the screen, was chosen was the filming for the first time derous thrill. Even the stamped- for Wantma, and William Janney, in the history of the screen, the ing of the buffalo in "The Thin- cannot match the one of the most popular juveniles Butterfly Dance of the Hopi tribe, dering Herds"
on, the screen to-day, was given one of the most sacred of their scenes made in: "King of the the role of Red Wolf.
religious ceremonies. Only after Wild Horses."
The House of Fremfor Shewings of the Best Plotures at
the Most Popular Prices,
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
AT 2.30, 5.20,
ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.20
FHENTRE:
SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO AMERICA'S
LOST WOMEN-
and 300000 Human Bonia that vanish every year
.. into the void of the missing,
SUPER-THRILLS
picked from a hundred species. -life dramas and packed İnto con vermutional story.
MISSING PERSONS
SETTE BATIS-LEWIS DISTRES PAT 'BEK BLENDA FANLELL ALLEN JENKINS NOT DOBBELLS MEN DERBERT ALAN DINE
SUNDAY
REX THE WONDER HORSE
Icture that is absolut different
KING OF WILD HORSES
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
A Glorious
Musical Romance of Two Hearts in Love Time
LET'S FALL IN LOVE
with
EDMUND LOWE ANN SOTHERN
-SUNDAY- Janet Gaynor Lionel Barrymors
CAROLINA
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