HUNG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY
SFINAL
SHOWINGS TO-DAT
CATATA
2.30.5.10, 7.15. & 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
Together... for the first time!
CLARK
GABLE
CLAUDETTE
COLBERT in
“It Happened One Night"
THE WORLD CHANGES
At The Alhambra
"If you miss it don't blame
-Matron Picture Mogotine
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
JOSEPHINE “C”
GOWNS
Exquisite Models
What exactly is a screen epic?
saw some most delightful The term has been used for such gowns at the Paul Rennet Salon outstanding films as "The Birth in St. George's Building writes
Nation," 3
"The Covered
correspondent; where a new Wagon," "Cimarron" and "Säver consignment of wonderful: "Jose-
C" phine
gowns has just Such exquisite models
Dollar."
a
If it means 3 picture which arrived.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1934.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TRL No. 25313 25332
TOMORROW
SHE LEARNED ABOUT SAILORS
A FOX Picture with
LEW AYRES ALICE FAYE
HARRY GREEN
- Frank MITCHELL Jack DURANT
TARZAN AND
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HIS MATE
At The Queen's
"Tarzan" has developed into one of fiction's largest industries" ! This fact was revealed in a recent survey made of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, famous author of adventure tales, whose
relates the history of a hero, a they are too!-... beautifully tailor- latest story, "Tarzan and His
family or a group in sweeping narrative style, with accuracy of detall and vigour of situation, then all advance reports must lead us to expect a true screen epic on Thursday next at the Alhambra Theatre. That is the time and place set for the first showing here of the new Warner Bros. First National special production
The World Changes" starring Paul Muni,
a
According to advance reports, The World Changes" covers span of some seventy-five years in the history and development of America. Between its opening and its close, the crisis and the triumphs of Our national life figure as background for the saga of an American family,
ed and. finished and all cut with slim and elegant lines that add grace and slenderness to every lovely you will certainly want to wearer. If you are young and
see them, while if you are not so young and not quite so lovely it is a wonderful opportunity to get something that wil bring out all Our beat points, and make you seek your looking-glass with a sense of satisfaction that is posi- tively rejuvenating.
Another great advantage at Paul Rennet's is that Mrs. V. H. Lan- ning is there now, to advise one to select just the style that suits one best. She has unerring taste and a very keen eye for colour, and seems to know at a glance just what one ought to wear,
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Mate with the leading roles' played. by Johnny -Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, is now showing at the Queen's Theatre.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:-
HONG KONG
I appened One Night".
QUEEN'S:-
“Tarzan And His Mate"
CENTRAL:-
"The Love of Fairyland" (Chinese Picture) |
ORIENTAL:-
"The Mystery Of The Wax Museum"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:-
"Wonder Bar"
MAJESTIC;-
"Bottoms Up"
KING'S:-
Coming
"She Learned About Sailors" "Hold That Girl"
ORIENTAL-
"4. Max Bros.""
DANCERS MAKE GOOD'
It might be a coincidence. ... it might be a new way to break into Hollywood.. but the three principals of Paramount's Alm- ALL OF ME—were all dancers on Broadway at one time. . .and they all danced together in one particular show,
The three are George Räft, Miriam Hopkins and Helen Mack,
Fred Perry the tennis cham- plon has received an Offer to star in a Hollywood pcture. "At Your Service." Els decis.om depends on the consent of the Lawn Ten- nis Association.
Carol Coombe has been given a a part in "Great Expectations" as her first appearance in Ameri- can pictures.
Helen Chandler is playing in "It's a Bet" for BIF. at Elstree. Her husband Cyril Hume author of "Flying Down to. Rio' is scenario writing for the company.
same
"And it all developed from the germ of an idea that I once wrote in a story for the Argosy maga- zine," relates Blirroughs on his large country estate of nearly 600 acres located a few miles from Hollywood.. "I tried to imagine what might happen to a
the jungle MISS PICKFORD who was raised in without the benefits of civilization with a constant struggle between environment. The heredity and character I evolved was "Tarzan" whose adventures are now follow- ed by millions".
mar
Altogether Mr. Burroughs has written sixty-eight stories. His Did you know that "Josephine books approximate the ten million gowns are British? Yes, it is quite mark in sales in the United States true that altho every line of them and Great Britain alone. His seems to spell the word Paris, they books have been translated into are actually made by a British seventeen foreign languages,' in- firm, and now that the slogan cluding
"Doing My Best For
Reconciliation
(Special
Mervyn LeRoy, who directed "I
Mail Services Am A Fugitive From A. Chain Gang," again worked with Paul
London, Sept: 5. Muni in "The World Changes. In
Miss Mary Pickford, to-day, addition to Muni and Miss Mac-
ciliation with her husband, Mr. discussing the prospect of a recon- Mahon, there is an unusually
Douglas Fairbanks, said:
The large and talented cast, which
Arabic, Czecho-Slovak, strangement with Doug was no includes Mary Astor, Donald Cook, "Buy British" is in every one's Danish, Norwegian, French, Fin- fault of mine. I am doing my Patricia Ellis, Margaret Lindsay,
mind, it is very nice to be ablenish, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Jean Mulr, Guy Kibbee score of others. The World to buy a beautiful dress, and sup- Polish, Portuguese, Roumanian, Changes" was adapted by Edward port the Empire, at one and the Russian, Spanish, Urdu, Swedish, Chodorov from the story "America same time. An evening gown in and in Braille for the blind. Kneels" by Sheridari Gibney.
QUEEN'S
TARZAN
AND HIS MATE
Tarzan"./ mighty monarch of the jungle returns to battle for his bride in the greatest „thrill drama of all time
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN
· NEIL HAMILTON. PAUL CAVANAUGHI
Metro
AT 2.30, 5.10
7.20 & 9.30
THRILL
A
MINUTE
a
silk tweed
best towards a reconciliation.
This is the first time that Miss Pickford has admitted that there is a possibility of a reconciliation.
She mentioned that Mr. Fair- with captivating. His stories were pirated in banks presented ner with a bou single shoulder-strap caught my Soviet Russia and the Soviet quet of "orchide when she left fancy at once, and a white dress Government took notice of it' Hollywood,: in a new, and charming material when it was discovered that they called "gauffre was quite lovely were being read in preference to
but I cannot possibly des- Bolshevik propaganda! ́ ́ cribe all the glorious frocks I rew .. you must really go and see them for yourself. ·
In 1929 "Tarzan" made his first appearance in a daily newspaper strip, and a few years later in. full page Sunday, coloured pages. There are now 112. newspaper
"BABY" BALLOON publishing the daliy ""Tarzan"
Ascends 17 Miles
(Special Ale Mail Service).
London, Sept. 5. An unoccupied "baby stratos phere balloon, consisting of A metal gondola attached to a fifteen-feet bag, was sent into the stratosphere at Chicago yesterday by Professor Arthur L. Compton, A Nobel Prize soientist.
strip, and 73 papers publishing the Sunday "Tarzan" colour page.
During a special radio broad- cast a club was formed on the Pacific Coast that now includes more than 125,000 members, all Interested in Tarzan".
And on the screen, Tarzan,
She made her statement when flying from Los Angeles to Cleve land, where she is to inaugurate the National Air Races
BABY LEROY
Stops A Film
~(Special÷Air-Mail Service).
London, Sept. 5. Lee Tracy and Baby Leroy are fellow-stars in the film, "The Lemon Drop Kid," "now being the Ape Man", made as one of the made in Hollywood first jungle adventure pictures. In They didn't know each other sound, scored a hit in every city before, and Lee Tracy decided it where it was shown until now was up to him to get pally. Johnny Weissmuller received as
So, in between the sets, he ses -high as 10,000 letters a month about amusing Baby Leroy. He, from "fans" in all parts of the made a funny face at him. country.
Baby Leroy didn't appreciate this sort of humour. He burst into- tears.
inside the gondola, was an automatic radio device which broadcast certain details, such as the temperature, barometric pres-, Mr. Burroughs passes most of sure, and intensity of the cosmicf his time on his large estate in the
And every time he sees Lee Tracy Pays
comfortable ranch house that is now he bursts into tears. were picked also his "work shop". When not ⠀⠀ Ann result the production of up by scientists on the ground. working on a novel he. raises the film is at a complete stand-
The radio ceased when the hogs, dairy cattle, horses, chickens still. balloon reached a height of nine and a half miles,
These broadcasts
At an estimated height of Beventeen and “a half miles the baldon burst
Professor Compton ·BR14).
periment and elin
and turkeys He believes that the The director has made Led Traor
promise that whe
appetite for "Tarzan" stories will never diminati –
"It's the circus; Burrou
ever Baby Leroy
keep his fun
MAJESTIC
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Bottom
Up
with
SPENCER TRACY "PAT" PATERSON, JOHN. BOLES
·
Herbert Mundin ▪ Sid Silvers Harry Green Thelma Todd Produced by
B. G. DoSylve
Jean Parker will Sing in her. new picture "Eave a Heart."" The song is called "A Little Ray of Sunshine."
Binnie Barnes has made good impression in Hollywood and will pe featured in her second picture, "Escapade." Nell Hamilton and Paul Cavanagh will play op pos.te.
Franchot Tone has three lead- ling ladies. Ann Dovrak. - Jean Muir and Margaret Lindsay, for "Just Out of College," the picture on which he is at present work ing.
Mary Pickford has been offered £1.000 a week to act in American radio playlets.
ALHAMBRA
FHLAFRE
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON
SHOWING TO-DAY
THE SHOW OF 10,000 WONDERS!
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