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DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
Friday, November 30. Anniversaries and Holidays. *St. Andrew's Day..
Auctions. Sale of Crown Lands, District Office, South, 11 1.M.: Sports Goods, Lammert's H.K. Sales Room, 10.30 am.
Cinemas
King'a: "Trouble" Queen's:-"Just Smith" - Central:-"Chinese Picture" Oriental:-"Sadie McKee". Worlds-"The Women In His Life." Lee: The Deeds Men Do" Alhambra:-Jimmy The Gent." Majestic: Tarman And His Mate." Star:-"I Was A Spy"
Ball
Dances. St. Andrew's Feninsula Hotel, 9.30 p.m.: Garri- son Lecture Hall, 8.30 p.m.
Entertainments Concert Church Hall of All Saints, Homuri- tin. 7 p.m. in aid of CMS.
$6
TROUBLE"
Attraction At The
King's
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Never has Sydney Howard been seen to such advantage as in "Trouble," his latest British and Dominions picture, which is de- Lighting audiences at the King's Theatre to-day.
The story is light-hearted writ- ten round the exploits of a pair cr Jewel thieves on a pleasure. cruise bont,
Sydney Howard "appears 5 Horace Hollebane, a ship's steward, whose fund of earnest endeavour is only equalled by his capacity for making mistakes in most of which he is alded and abetted by his friend, Steward Nobby Clark.
The fun begins when Hollebone turns sleuth and starts to track cown the crooks oy his own Meetings. Religious, Helena peculiarly eccentric methods—In- May, 10.30 am: V.D MA Com-spired by a hundred pound reward mittee, St. Andrew's Hall, 9 pm and a sympathetle interest in a 8., and S. Vocational Training girl passenger who is falsely ac
Class, 5.30 p.m.
Church
Miscellaneous-Union: Practice in Oratorio Music, 5.30
p.m.
Moon-X Moon. 24th Day.
Principal Mails Christmas Parcel Mall for Amer ica by Pres. Hoover, 5 p.m.
Sports
Billards-Steel Coulson League. St. Patrick's Club v., Royal Engin- eers; Royal Artillery v. Garrison Sergeants.
on:
Golf. Completion First Round Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Ladies Section Railway Cup Competition and Entries Close for
Taggart Cup Competition.
Hockey-Army Trial (U.S.R.C. Ground), 4.15 p.m.; HMS. Kent v Hong Kong. Hockey Club Juniors (King's Park), 5 p.m.
cused.
The cruise is presented in all its details The passengers are seen on the games deck, in the gym- unasium, at a concert, at a fancy dress ball and at a gymkhana- and against such backgrounds the development of the plot. and the unfolding of the laughable episodes take place.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934.
TO DAT ONLY
AT
(2.30,5.10.7.16) & 9.30 P.M.
•KINGS
Sydney
HOWARD
BY
DUDLEY STURROCK
UNITED
TROUBLE
DIRECTED BY
P. MCLEAN ROGERS
a British & Dominiono Production."
THE SCARLET
EMPRESS
Aoupas župioddna se
પા Howard is excellent, and we noticed particularly the splendid character Studies by George Curzon, Muriel Aked, Wally Patch. Hope Davy, Dorothy Robinson, George Turner To-morrow's Feature and Betty Shale.
Maciean Rogers, the director, again demonstrates his comedy ré-- source and his understanding of Sydney Howard's" particular style.
Lectures. Surg. Comdr. A. E The success of a comedy neces- Phillips on Hockey Umpiring (Na-sarily is bound up with the direc- val Dockyard),, 5.30 pm.
Sunrise 6:45 2.I
P.01.
ין
Sunset.-5.38
torial handling. but it may be sald that material, stellar portrayal and direction have in “Trouble" com- Tides-High at 1.31 and 17.56; bined to present something out of Low at 10.05 and 22.21
the ordinary out of comedy enter- Saturday, December 1
tainment. Don't fall to see it. Bazaar. --- Munsang College. p.m.
Cinernes
King's: "The Cat's Paw
Queen's: "The Scarlet Empress" Central:"Chinese Picture" Oriental-Sadie McKee"
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World: "The Women In His Lite.". Lee: "The Deeds Men Do" Alhambra Jimmy The Gent." Majestic:-Tarzan And His Mate" Star: "I Was A Spy",
Dances.-H.MS. Tamar.
p.m.
8.45
Miscellaneous, "Rose Day." (8treet Sale of Roses); Tombola, Garrison Lecture Hall. 7.30 p.m.
Moon-X Moon, 25th Day.
Sports
At The Queen's
"The Scarlet Empress which more than Justines its advance heralding as Marlene Dietrich's greatest starring opportunity and Director Von Sternberg's most pretentious production opens to- morrow at the Queen's Theatre.
Based on a diary by the glamor- ous Catherine the Great of Russia, who ruled her country with an iron
“THE CATS PAW" hand and yet was ruled by roman-
Next Change At The King's
Llc, impulses, "The Scarlet Em-
Fress" must be rated a spectacle
by any standards of judgment It goes beyond lavishness of produc-. tion and artistic beauty, however. In that it is one of the most grip- ping dramatic stories yet to reach the screen.
Miss Dietrich, as Catherine,. An entirely new field of produc; offers a characterization which tion possibilities has been opened compels attention throughout the
JIMMY THE GENT
Showing At The Alhambra
The difference between being merely a personality in pictures and a player with real interest in accurately representing the per- sonality he is playing, is well (D- ustrated by the famous haircut James Cagney wears in "Jimmy The Gent." the Warner Bros. picture which opens at the Alham- bra Theatre to-day.
Cagney, studying his role in "Jimmy The Gent," got his own mental pléture of it, and beat it, down to the barber's and got his hair cut tough zippers up the back and just a style-you know,
know ledt on top to brush if the inclination ever, arises.
But the studio had different ideas. Stars aren't so easily made that a chance can be taken with haircuts. Haircuts have 'been known now.
to unmake stars before
So the studio voiced its objec-"
up to Harold Lloyd with the as-picture. John Lodge, a comparations. Delay the picture, it said, sured success of his, first venture
tive newcomer among leading men,
in filming an original story, The scores decisively in the role of Cat's Paw comes to the King Count Alexei. Sam Jaffe as the Cricket-First Division, Hong Theatre, on Saturday. Kong C.-C. v. Royal Navy (L); Not in his many years of comedy idiotic Grand Duke Peter and Louise Dresser as Empress Elizabeth like- series of Civil Service C.C. v. Indian R.C. making, except for
purchased Irom Tom wise make the most of colourful (L): Craigengower C.C. v.. Com-stories bined Schools (F): Second Div Dorgan (Tad), famous cartoonist, roles.
More alon, Royal Navy v. HKCC. (L): nearly eighteen years ago, has
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than forty supporting sonalties of the Imperial Russian Court of 1750.
Produced by Paramount, "The Scarlet Empress" in a final analysis of the year's productions, inevitably must attain recognition at the top of the preferred list.
until Cagney's - halr grows out again.
But when was a studio ever able to make the little stormy petrel of the movies do what it wanted. From grapefruit bashing to kicking in the nether souta portions, Cagney has always done
owners of which had died, as he And he saw him with
Indian R.C. v, Civil Service Cc. Lloyd aver made a picture from a players portray the various per- what he wanted.
published story. There were sever; (L); Kowloon 'C.C. v. Craigeal reasons why he never operated gower C.C.. (F),
from stories other than those Football.-First Division, Kow-created by himself and staff. He leon v. Club (Kowloon Ground). felt that in producing from stage St Joseph's v. Fusiliers (Caroline plays or popular published stories, Hi, 4 p.m.; Second Division. He would be robbed of the surprise Kowloon v. South China, Navy v element which he used to feel so important to his peculiar style of Eastern, 2.30 p.m.; Lincolns Royal Artillery, Club 7. Royal comedy. Engineers, 4 p.m.; Third Division, Railway v RAMC, v. Fusiliers, RAO.C., Radio v. Recreto, Police v. Royal Air Force, 2.30 p.m.
v.
Lloyd's ideas in this regard have taken a turn to the left, occasioned by his desire to do something en- tirely different from anything he
screen carcer. He figured to make
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STRONG IN THE WIND
"Wot!" protested the horrified
And be particularly wanted to show the tough little mug who digs up heirs to large estates, the
ne him. that haircut.
"It's a swell haircut," one of the executives of the studio is quoted as saying. "I drive bugs out of the potato patch,”......
"Jimmy The dent” is based on. the hilarious comedy romance by Hockey, Caer Clark Cup. Has before attempted in his long horse-dealer-Phis-ere-orse-old? Laird Doyle and Ray Nazarro and Come orf it. guv'nor. Why, 'e's a adapted to the screen by Bertram a radical change in style, and in darned good orse-and strong in Milhaurser. In "The Cat's Paw he has done the wind, too, believe me!"
the cast with just that He depends more on story, situation characterization, and dialogue, rather than on the fast-running gag sequences to Lloyd pictures. The change, however, has not resulted in a diminishing of the laughter qualities of his picture, but the results are obtain- ed in a more legitimate way.
C.A v. Et. Andrew's (Y.M.C.A. Ground), 3 pm.
Racing-Twelfth Extra Race Meeting (Happy Valley), 2 pm,
Rugby-Club የ. Navy Club Ground), 4 p.m.
Yachting. Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's Becond Champion- ship Race for Racing Yachts.
Sunrise-8.46 a.m. Sunset-5.38
p.m.
Tides:-High at 2.34, and 18 06: Low at 10.46 and 23.54
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AN AMERICAN JOKE
Helping the great comedian in his laugh-provoking efforts is a sterling cast of supporting players headed by Una Merkel, with the list also including George Barbier Nat Pendleton, Grace Bradley Alan Dinehart, Grant Mitchell, Fred Warren, Warren Bymer. J. Farrell MacDonald, James Douler, Edwin Maxwell, Frank Sheridan, Fuzzy Knight and Vince Barnett.
Special Air Mail Service}
London, Nov. 12. Senator, Huey Long is at it again. Once more be has come into the news-this time" because he has to defend a $500,000 suit for libel brought against him by Mr. Samuel and Roy Turk.
T. Ansell, the former Judge Advo- cate-General to the United States
Army.
Sam Taylor directed "The Cat's Paw" with the danes numbers handled by Larry" Ceballos. The music was written by Harry Akst
tical existence of this Senator.
The case arose as the result of a By astute use of the various poll speech from the floor of the tical machines which play such an Senate during an investigation by important part in America he has Congressional Committee of an become s power in his own and election of a nominee of Benator neighbouring States,⠀⠀ Long.
⠀⠀ In spite of this the American
It is difficult for anyone not an public at large regards: him as a
American to comprehend the poll- I good joke.
| Jimmy are Alice White, Allen Jen- "Ah, yes, he must be," the cus-kins, Alan Binehart, Arthur Hohl tomer retorted. "I can see that and other poled actors Mickael He's blown all his teeth out!"
T.DAY
ONLY
Cartix directed,
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25313 25332
TOMORROW OUT OF THE
TEAPOT INTO
THE TEMPEST!]
Fox Picture
HAROLD LLOYD THE CAT'S PAW
JUST SMITH
At The Queen's
"Just Smith" having its anal showings to-day at the Queen's) Theatre sparkles with wit and laughter from beginning to end. It is one of Frederick Lonsdale's brightest stories and gives Tom Walls an excellent role as a light- fingered crook, who Likes the ladies but prefera to collect their superfluous wealth, -
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Tom Walls is in his best form. his rapier wit and delightful. in- souciance placing him as one of the Anest personality-actors in British
We see him as Smith, a mystery
with man, mixing
the "best people" on the Riviera and soon appreciate his interest in their wealth. His fellow conspirator, a Mr. Mortimer, is a supposedly well-to-do man with a yacht (a part splendidly played by Hartley Power) and they invelgle a rich, American anob and "her daughter to stay, aboard their yacht, with a good sprinkling of titles.
The daughter (delightfully play- ed by Carol Goodner) instead of falling for the title so carefully caught by her mother, falls love with Amith
in
"Although in love with her, Smith determines to get her
realising that he cannot hope to mother's bonds and to that end,
marry the girl, persuades her that she had better marry her mother's choice, the Duke of Bristol
She gets engaged aboard the yacht and a grateful mother in- vites the two crooks to stay at her country house. There the fun begins, particularly when a valu.... able necklace is stolen and Smith, although innocent, is suspected.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
KING'S!—
HONG KONG
“Trouble".
QUEEN'S:-
Just Smith"
ORIENTAL:-"
"Sadie McKee”
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA :--
"Jimmy The Gent”
MAJESTIC:--
"Supernatural”
KING'S-
Coming
"The Cat's Paw
QUEEN'S:-
"Scarlet Empresa” «
ORIENTAL:----
"Fashion of 1934" "Private Jones"
ALHAMBRA:
STAR:
"This Sporting Age”
"She Was A Lady"
"Rasputin" "Pilgrimage"
4 SHOWS
· BAR
2.30-5.13 1J3–0.80
MAJESTIO
THEATRE
Natuan Babi Kowloon Tel. 5722 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9 20 P.M.
TRANSFORMED!
The split of o -murderes enters
the body of a
lovely, Inno«. cent girl... It's
·UPERNATURAL',
CÁBOLE LOMBARD
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Geramount Pictor
NEXT CHANGE
"SON OF KONG" with ROBERT ARMSTRONG
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ORIENTAL
2 MORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
DAYS
SPLEENING
ROAD
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BIG DOUBLE SHOW SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE AT ALL PERFORMANCES
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A trio of fast stepping dancers that's about the best that ever came to the ext.
BIG STAGE AND SCREEN SHOW WITH NO ADVANCE IN PRICES
Joan CRAWFORD
SADIE MCKEE
ALWAYS THE SAME POPULAR PRICES
MATINEES 20 cts-30 cth. EVENINGS 20 cts - 80 óta.-50 cts, -80cta.
DANCING
DISPLAY
Rare Treat At King's
Something new and ambitious in Ballet dancing was offered to a large and appreciative audience at the King's Theatre at 5.15 pm. The subtlety of the dialogue is yesterday when the principals and refreshing and the film has been pupils of the Vers Volkova Dan- produced by Tom Walls with all cing School presented "Les Syl- his talent for English light-phides,” in aid of the Hong Kong. comedy.
Society for the Protection of Chi- dren.
Carol Goodner, Anne Grey, Veronica' Rose, Eva Moore, Peter Gawthorne and Reginald Gardiner all contributé fine performances,
QUEEN'S
Jom
Walls
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
JUST SMITH'
from FREDERIC LONSDALE'S Gay Story of a Society Crook
with
ANNE GREY-CAROL GOODNER-
HARTLEY POWER.
Ganmont British Production
The display which was distin- guished by a wonderful array of dresses and scenery was modern without being modernistic and was exceptionally well "put for- watd" as evidenced by the lond applause accorded after every item.
The principals, Vera Volkova and George Goncharoff, who pro- vided the main attraction with three ballets, displayed a high des gree of technique and rhythm while the pupils gave valuable support in the smaller, but im- portant, items.
The "ballet để coi phi cora prised of children of local resid ents, gave several delightful exhi bitions while Miss Biella Best pro- vided one of the highlights of the entertainment in a solo Oriental dance The Misses Yvonne and Hilary Martin were also outstand Jng in a pas de trois" with Gon- charoff
Mts Bowes-Smith, whose | VOCAL talents, have been “solopr appreciated in the Colony, render ed a very pleasing, song "Sing Sing. Break into Bong with her hus band at the plans.
SHARE-THE-WORK
The teacher was having her trials, and
finally wrote the mother: "Your son is the brightest boy in my class, but he is also the most mischievous. What shall 1 do?"
The reply came duly: "Do es you please, I am having my won troubles with his father."
ALHAMBRA
FRONTEE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW 3
JIMMY
V GENT
JAMES CAGNEY BETTE DAVIS
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