Page
CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY AND TO MORROW DAILY 2.30, 5.15.-7.15"≈ 8.30
JOAN MARSH
COMING TO THE KING'S
"Springtime For
Henry"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
12.30.5.10, 7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
Another great drama by
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25313 25332
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
THE LOVE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS
·NEXT CHANGE-
The drama of
the
[the writer of
an actress, who
hilarious comedy of a bachelor's
loved two men
LUCIEN
LITTLEFIELD
errors in the spring
which had
Laughing
for eight
--but who loved
glamour more!
FRANK ALBERTSON "Springtime For Henry,”
IN
GEORGE R.BATCHELLER.
AAL GEBLATION OF
RAINBOW
OVER
BROADWAY
COMING ATTRACTION
MARY BRIAN DONALD COOK REGINALD DENNY
IN
"FOG"
"THE NINTH GUEST"
Coming To The..
Alhambra
Eight persons, friends enemies, lovers. trapped in a penthouse high above New York City, battle a hidden and ruthless foe, in the Columbia production, "The Ninth Guest," coming to the Alhambra Theatre on Friday.
Broadway
months.
comes
.to the King's
Theatre on Thursday as
picture
with
a Fox
a clever cast
of
comedians including Otto Kruger,
Nancy
Heather
Mundin.
Carroll
Angel
·
Nigel
and
Bruce.
Herbert
"Show Boat"
क
The story differs from many modern romantic comedies in that it does not depend entirely
on
to
clever tricks
of dialogue.
double meanings and smart cracks get over its entertainment. It
fundamentally
is
a comedy-
drama with highly diverting and novel situations
with very
crisp and delightful dialogue to
bear
out and embellish those
situations.
of
The story deals with the hectic life of Henry Dewlip, a modern young bachelor whose adventures are chiefly concerned, in this in- terlude, with two women...one the wife of a friend, the other a self-righteous strait-laced disciple the "decent" thing." The former is perfectly frank in her affections and doesn't give a rap who knows it. The latter sces the four carat quality of his charac- ter in the rough diamond of his adventurous personality and seeks to reform him.... that is make him good enough for her ideals of what a husband should be. Both have wedding designs on his heart. A few very clever twista give the story a surprising and entertaining inish.
Otto Kruger has the title role of Henry Dewlip, the carefree and footloose bachelor. Advance re- ports from the pre-views indicate that Kruger gives charming performance, with just the right proportions of the sublime and the ridiculous to keep things moving on & plane of high
comedy. In this he has the skill. ful co-operation of Nigel Bruce, as the dumb friend, and Herbert Mundin, as the humorous butler: provide the interest. Heather Angel and Nancy Carroll
cape is impossible. The doors are clectrified. The nearest help is
EDNA
PAUL LUKAS and CONSTANCE CUMMINGS
FERBER'S GLAMOUR
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
"WILD GIRL"
At The Oriental
"Wild Girl," the new Fox To- mance featuring Charles Farrell, Joan, Bennett and Ralph Bellamy in the principal roles, comes to the Oriental Theatre on Wednes- day and Thursday. It's a stirring tale of the California. mining camps based on the Bret Harte Story. "Salomy Jan's Kiss.”,
B
The story hinges on the tem-
madcap mountain girl and a Vir- pestuous romance between
ginia youth who has trailed his sister's betrayer to the California Sierras soon after the Civil War. The colourful episodes of the Harte tale are presented the ef- forts of the girl's other suitors to attract her interest, the meeting with the stranger, his shooting of his enemy, the holdups of a stage. coach, the forming of a Vigilante posse, the capture of the stranger. the girl's fruitless endeavours to save him from hanging, his es-
that form the climax.
With Phillip Reed, Doris Lloyd, Joseph Cawthorn. Directed by William Wyler. A B. F Zeldman, Production. Presented by Carl Laemmle.
"GLAMOUR”
JESSE L. LASKY Production
SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY
OTTO KRUGER
NANCY CARROLL HEATHER ANGEL HERBERT MUNDIN
THE QUEEN'S
Now At The King's "Hollywood Party"
Coming
A theatre within a stage, and
This paradoxical situation was another stage within the theatre..
encountered in the production of
Fifteen hundred of Hollywood's "Glamour," the Universal drama ost beautiful girls take part in based on "the eternal triangle" the latest multi-star extravaganza, which is the attraction the Hollywood Party," Metro-Gold- King's Theatre to-day, with wyn-Mayer's new conglomeration Constance Cummings and Paul of joy and music, romance and Lukas in featured roles..
comedy, spectacle and syncopation which is coming on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre.
at
In one of the scenes made in this setting Miss Cummings and Phillip Reed who is seen as the third point in the human triangle, go through the stately tread of the thumba in an impressionistic setting of Spanish design. The music. "Rhumba Botte. Was
written especially for the number.
"Glamour."
а
The girls who take part in kaleidoscope Hollywood Party" sequences were chosen from some eight thousand candidates and ap. Dear with an elaborate cast which
includes Laurel and Hardy, Jimmy Butterworth,
Durante,
Charles
Folly Moran, Lupe Velez, Frances Wiliams, Jack Pear, Ted Healy and others of note.
יד
•
adapted from popular story by the famous Edna Ferber, was directed by William Wyler, and the cast supporting Miss Cummings and Lukas in- The picture brings an absolutely cludes in addition to Reed, such new form of entertainment to the other popular players as Doris screen. It is basically a logical. Yola with much romance as well into Lloyd, Joseph Cawthorn. Lita play leaning toward comedy but
forty stories below, on the street. cape, and the rapid series of crises Chevret, Luis Alberni and Before the action of the picture 15 finished six of the eight guests have been murdered or driven to
Penthouses Have superseded drawing rooms as locales for mur- der on the screen, at least. Ds-suicide. ually the penthouse is used as a locale merely because penthouses äre smart; In The Ninth Guest," the penthouse is a necessary part of the plot, for the situation could not arise in a drawing room.
The eight are invited guests to a mysterious party high atop a large down-town skyscraper. When assembled, they are told by a voice over the radio that they are in rapid succession to meet death. Es-
TO-DAY Arr
3.15 & 9.00
ONLY
1
The penthouse setting in "The Ninth Quest" is one of the most elaborate yet produced for the screen. Donald Cook and Gene-
vieve Tobin are the featured play
Farrell and Miss Bennett por- tray very different characteriza- tions from the roles they have heretofore presented on the screen
Bellamy enacts the part of a
d'Avril.
BENITA HUME
typical gambler of that era, and In The Worst Woman
In Paris"
ers in the picture, with a sup with Eugene Pallete 23 porting cast composed of Hardie | Albright, Helen Flint, Nella Wal- ker, Edwin Maxwell, Edward Ellis, Samuel Hinds, Vincent Barnett and Sidney Bracey. Roy William Netli is credited with the direction.
a stage
driver, Irving Pichel as the "menaçe," Minna Gombeli, Sarah' Fadden, Willard Robertson, Mor- gan Wallace and Murdock Mac- Quarrie in prominent roles, the supporting cast is a notable one.
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY
AT 8.15 & 9.00 ONLY
A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY
TO SEE
CHINESE CLASSICAL PLAYS
The Marlin Opera Company starring
Miss EVELYN CHEN
THE 1934 DANCE QUEEN OF CHINA AND R-C-A VICTOR STAR
will present
SERIES of CHINESE PLAYS
CHANCE OF PROGRAMME WITH EVERY PERFORMANCE
PRICES:
$3.30, 82.20, $1.10 & 55 cts.
(INCLUSIVE OF TAX)
From the studios of Fox Film comes Jesse L. Lasky's latest re- lease, "The Worst Woman Paris,?" showing at the Alhambra to-day. It is Mr. Lasky's Birth pro- duction as a producer under the Fox banner and is heralded as an- other great achievement in the career of this veteran producer.
The story revolves around" the, notorious exploits of a Parisian demi mondaine whose affairs are the talk of the Continent. Her relationship with a wealthy play- boy of Paris cavises auch unfavour- able comment, that she leaves the gay and smart fast-living Parisien night life, to seek romance and love in the quiet of America's mid- dle west. When at last she finds the love she had always dreamed of, she realizes that the shadow ...: her past is too great an obstacle. for her to overcome. She is oblig- ed to return to Paris once more to take up her association with her former comrade.
It is reported that. Adolphe Men- jou who portrays the wealthy man about town and Bealta Hume who portrays the Parisian beauty have the most important roles in their careers. In support of Menjou and Miss Hume, the cast is headed by Harvey Stephens, who will be re membered for his outstanding per- performance with Janet Gaynor in "Paddy, the Next Best Thing,” with Helen Chandler who here. makes a return to the screen after a long "absence. The remaining members of the cast include Mar- garet Beddon, Adele St. Maur, Leonard Carey, Maldel Turner and George Irring.
The film was written and direct=" ed by Monta Bell who also colla *borated with Marion Dix in adapt- ing the story to the screen. Dia logue is by Martin Brown.
1 x
an integral part of the drama, are woven the amazing spectacles and Hiting musics) numbers. These include the work
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:-
HONG KONG
***Glamour"
QUEEN'S:-
Marlin Opera Company CENTRAL:-
"Rainbow Over Broadway" ORIENTAL →→→→
"Gold-Diggers of 1933"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA :---
"Worst Woman In Paris"
MAJESTIC:
"Chance At Heaven"
STAR!--
"Carolina"
KING'S:
QUEEN'S
Coming
"Springtime For Henry"
****Wild Gold”
CENTRAL:
"Fog" ORIENTAL:--
"Wild Girl"
"Madame Butterfly": "Hips Hips Hooray"
“ALHAMBRA:--
"The 9th Guest".
STAR:-
!
"Playing Around”
"The Woman In Els tife"
4 SHOWS
DAILY
1.15 8.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE,
Nathan Road Kawloon. Tel. 57828 TO-DAY & TO-OBRW |At 2.80, 5.20, 7:20 & 9.30, P.M.
HE PAID THE DEVIL A FANCY PRICE
... for just one,
CHANCE AT HEAVEN"
By Viña Delmar,
author of "Bad
Girl."
With
TAKE ANY THAN ON MAPPY VALLEY BUB
JOEL MCCREA IGINGEN KOGERS
¿MARIAN XIXSNÍ
TAROT BEVINE Directed by William Seker, MERIAN C COOPER, are: utive producer
RKO RADIO Reture
ORIENTAL
LAST
4 TIMES TO-DAY YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE
THE GREATEST OF ALL MUSICAL SHOWS.
Gold Diggers
OF
1933
of three great song-writing teams. Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, Rodgers and Hart wrote the famous for "Carolina in the Durante, Jack Pearl and the huge dozens of other great song hits "Hello" number, sung by Jimmy Morning," "My Blue Heaven" and
cellophane-clad chorus of beauties; Hot Chocolate Soldiers," animat- also the Singing Wires numbered by Walt Disney as a "Silly in which Frances Williams appears Symphony" for the picture, is by with another crowd of beautiful Erown and Freed of "Wedding of and daringly-clad girls.
the Painted Doli” fame..
"Pre Had My Moments" sung by
By an amazing trick of camera. June Clyde and Eddie Quillan as ingenuity "Mickey Mouse," the the lave motive, was written by cartoon, figure, actually appears.
The House of Premier Showings of the Best Pictures at the Most Populer Pricol
FROM TO-DAY
FOX FILM
Written and Directed by Mone's Bel
ALHAMBRA
A Jesse L Lasky
Production
TUENTRE
AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20
Men DESIRED Her!
Women ENVIED Her!
She had more jewels than she could wear gowns that were the despair of xivals..... but she threw them all aside to find the love of her life..
WORST
WOMAN in PARIS?
with
Adolphe. Menjou
Benita Hume Harvey Stephens
Helen Chandler
FRIDAY
The Most Thrilling Gripping Lystery
ROAD WANCHAL FEL. 19478
TO-MORROW
& THURSDAY
HERE'S
- AN EXCELLENT WESTERN ACTION PICTURE. PLAYED BY AN ALL STAR CAST OF
SCREEN FAVOURITES
Wild Girl
RRELL BENNETT
BELLAMY
POK PICTURE
with human actors and stages the "Silly Synphony." A spectacular dancing number staged in a huge glass and cellophane set, the en-. trancing Musical Bar which whirls: bevies of beauties "in a rainbow- like effect, the sensational dance over the 'tables before the "Musical Wall"-a great orchestra suspend- ed in mid-air-are some of the added thrills of the novel produc-
tion
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY
The Screen's most illustrious Cast glorious love story vibrant with drám
JANET GAYNOR
LIONEL BARRYMORE
la
CAROLINA
with
Robert Young
Richard Cromwell. Henrietta Crosman
TO-MORROW
CHESTER MORRIS ALICE WHITE
THE 9th GUEST Playing Around”
with Donald Cook 8. Genevieve Tobin
Page 5Page 6