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CENTRAL
THEATRE TO-DAY'
AND TO-MORROW 2.30, 6.15, 7.15 & 9.30
Life was a puppet in her hands but love was her
master!
ONCE TO EVERY WOMAN
RALPH BELLAMY
FAY WRAY
TRAILING THE KILLER Coming To The Alhambra
It is
common knowledge "that motion picture productions, like anything dependent upon public favour, run in cycles, as witness the various cycles of gangster. pic
AT THE QUEEN'S
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY,
SHOWING TO-DAT
The Barretts Of Wim-2.30.5.10, 7.15
pole Street
Tas Queen's Theatre is screening & picture which can fairly rank with the best dramas that have been shown in the colony for a very long time. "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" enjoyed good houses during the week-end, and judging by the good opinious ex- pressed on all side, the picture has mado a wide appeal.
The story is that of a Victorian family." Mr. Edward Moulton- Barrett (according to the stand- ards of that age) was 4 proper and upright an. He had certain ileas of propriety which strike a* of the present generation 18 "terribly mean,, but which were in the days covered by the "story, quito the thing to do. Normin Shearer and Maureen O'Sullivan Elizabeth and Hearietta Bár-
were the two principal suf- rett ferers from the elder Barrett's righteousness and there seemed to be little light in their lives until the approach into the story of Eabert Browning (Frederick March) and to some extent Cap- tain. Surtees Cook (Ralph Forbes). The picture began with Elizabeth Barrett a sick woman, without the will
live. The ไป
advent
of Trowning gave her the strength to struggle to health, in spite of her tatber's ignorance and selfishness. face recovered, she found her father in the way between herself and Browning. "You are all I bove says the old tyrant, "and if you leave me, I shall be terribly lonely. Elizabeth is torn between love and happiness on the one xide, and devotion to her father on the other. One particular hit of selfishness snaps. for ever Elizabeth's devotion to her father and she goes out of his house .... and out of his life.
..With Henrietta, her Father is
& 9.30 P.M.
DECEMBER
KINGS
HER BEAUTY MADE MEN
even brothens betray each other!
...Zola's voluptuous daughter of the boule- vards, brought to flaming life by Ameri ca's bright new star!
Sten
Anna
IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRODUCTION OF »
NANA
WITH
PHILLIPS HOLMES - RICHARD BENNETT --- MAE GLARKE ~ 1! MURIEL KIRKLAND-
LIONEL ATWILL
A
Beleased Thru UNITED ARTISTS
ALSO WALT DISNEY'S
CHINA
SHOP
A SILLY SYMPHONY IN BEAUTIFUL TECHNICOLOUR,
LAST
gain a perfect Ogre, although 4 TIMES TO-DAY
here too he laboured under the belief that he was doing good. She, too, denied the one thing in life that was dearer to her than nl the comforts of Mr. Barrett's house and in her case, the climax is just as touching.
There are many humorpus "mo- ments throughout and the picture is undoubtedly one of the best we have seen, for a long time
tures, sex pictures, war pictures, STAR THEATRE
ete. In every instance it will be
found that one outstanding pie
ture has started á vogue and a
host of imitators. Which is all by She Loves Me Not
new ia
way of a prelude to saying that "Trailing the Killer," the World Wide Picture which
Paramount's adaptation scheduled to open at the Alhambra | current season's outstanding
of the
Theatre on Wednestly, is an out theatrical success "She Loves Me standing production which will Not." starring Bing Crosby, and inevitably start a new Vogue in
Miriam Hopkins, showing to-day screen presentations.
at the Star Theatre trents movie- goers to the strange spectacle ot the film industry poking fun at Itself.
Herman Raymaker, the director of this unusual picture, has taken for his theme a simple story of tbo Northwestern sheep country and the ever present
menace of that merciless kiiler, the pada or mountain lion, the most ferocious beast of that continent. The herders find evidence to them suspect a trapper's dog killing their Bocks. The finding of the dog by the mangled body of his master convinces then and the dog is hunted like a beast of prey; Then follow remarkable, acenes of life in the woodlands with the animals themselves as the only ac toTH.
A GREAT STORY!
A GREAT GAST!
A powerfully
dramatic story after nightfail!
of New York
Behind the masks
of the gambling crowd in the
city's smart night life!
4 SHOWS
DAILY
7:13-16.00
Tąki kmi Tram OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
10 1934
BOOKING.
AT THE THEATRE TEL No. 25313
26332
NEXT OHANGE-T
STINGAREE
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
Clark GABLE William POWELL Myrna LOY-
MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
DEATH ON THE DIAMOND
Coming To The Queen's
Directed by Edward Sedgwick,
TO-MORROW
"With
MARY
BOLAND CONWAY TEARLE ANDY DEVINE Henry Stephenson -K-O RADIO PICTURE
ROAD >
WANGHAI
TEL. 2847E
Left, Right! Left, Right!
& WEDNESDAY Rules and Regulations!
A CLEVER
COMEDY
DRAMA.
MIDSHIPMAN JACK SAYS
"To blazes with the navy
I'm
in love! ANCHORS UPI The middies are. coming in a flag flying
show!"
“STINGAREE”.
The King's Next Change
W
It drives a
fellose crazy when he's burning up with love!
IDSHIPMAN
With
The Spirit Annapolis Today!
BRUCE CABOT
General of all Australia. Later he shocked the British Empire by attending a theatre in Melbourne, wearing the Governor's' · ` ́füli regalia. He managed to escape
With him he took Hilda Bourerie, celebrated beauty
and
operatic star of the period. A faw days later the woman reappeared, with a story of having been taken Late in the 1870'a the populous to Stingarne" mountain lair. sections of Australia were ter- She seemed peculiarly unäffented rorized by a notorious, dashing by her experience, and refused to "Stingarce." Robin Hood -bandit, called press prosecution.
AIZODK his depredations was! the kidnapping, of the Governor
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
KING'S:-
"NAR**
QUEEN'S:-.
The Barretts of Wimpole
Street"
̈ORIENTAL:-
"Manhattan Melodrama”
CENTRAL:-
"Four Aces""
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:-
"From Headquarters"
MAJESTIC
"Cockeyed Cavallers"
KING'S:-
Coming
'Stingarse"
ALAJESTICI -
"Spitfire"
ORIENTAL:-
"Midshipman Jack"
ALHAMBRA:-
"Trailing The Killer" "Dude Danger"
"NANA"
Showing To-day At The King's
All the vanished colour, fra- grance and elegance of Paris in the 1870's was revived at the King's Theatre to-day where
Nana Samuel Goldwyn's long heralded introductory "American" screen vehicle for his glorious new star, Anna Sten, arrived.
All you have heard and read of Miss Sten's ravishing beauty, her unique and irresistible personality, her great histrionie ability, you will, this reviewer belleves, declare inadequate as a true estimate of this really great new star on the Hollywood horizon. -...
As the scarlet heroine of Emile Zola's famous novel, who rises from street gamin, to music hall star and toast of Paria, Sten is a revelation. Not only does she look well and act well, but she sings well into the bargain a plaintive ballad-entitled "That's Love," writ- ten for her by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart as a finale to an exciting revival of the can-can with which Paris shocked the world, » ̈
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MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nathan Road Kawkan. Tel. 57232 TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW [At 2.30, 5,20, 7,20 & 9.20 P.M.
WHEELER
12632
WOOLSEY
COCKEYED
CAVALIERS
A wyle of olden chivalric Gay muìckd" Comich happenings! Comely maidens Jain to ce
THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE
NOVRETEN
Buals and hoher be WIII Inson and Val Buen kam. Prodjo & Borusan, matablen modsouri
NEXT CHANGE.... 'SPIT ̈ FIRE'
VITE
KATHARINE HEPBURN.
"FROM HEAD- QUARTERS”
Showing At The Alhambra
Eugene Pallette, who has the
Warner Bros. production, "From role of Bergeant Bogga in the
Headquarters," which is the cur- rent attraction at the Alhambra like for detective roles, but has Theatre, used to entertain a dis
changed
"his v
his mind since portrayal of Sergeant. Heath in the 8.8. Van Dine mystery stories.
Frior to the making of "Froni Headquarters," Fallette had play- ed a return engagement" with Wullam Powell in "The Kennel Murder Case." Before that, ple- ture was completed, he had been cast for "From Headquarters," in which he is associated with Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore New- ton, Robert Barrat, Henry ONeill, Murray Kinnell and others:
Fallette has won considerable fame as a blustering police oficial Ward Mack and Harry Wag: of the old school, and has an un- staff Gibble have selected events from the life of Zals's notorious natural instinct for the detection falling memory "for crooks and -a
courtesan and "woven : them into
of crime. He plays this sort of an absorbing and moving screen police officer against George Brent play that skilfully combines ro-
in the role of a highly intelligent marice and realism, pathos and a and scientific investigator, who touch of raucous comedy,
solves crime by the most modern methods.
"From Headquarters" thrilling and mysterious double.
ir is based uu the story by Cart Young and Madge Evans, and C. the opera star about, and for whom evidence throughout the produc murder case, which takes place in f
A
In the course of the antics of this lightfooted, comedy, that has been, convulsing Broadway audien- ces for months, "She Loves Me Not lambasts the motion picture industry, as thoroughly as any ofing shortly to the Queen a Theatre, "Death Uu The Diamond" com its severest critics, by presenting is the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
"Stingaree" was never heard, of a ludicrous picture of the after Lensational detective thriller that
againin Australia. But for effects of one of the craziest pub-
The deft hand of Dorothy: will entertain in a new fast-moving
years the various capitals of the lieity. stuntsone thet might form.
world wondered about the tall. Araner, Hollywood's only successful easily have happened but never
stern handsome man who followed woman.. director, is in constant did-in motion picture history."
The plot of the film begins land Fitzsimmons, author of "o, Henry Gordon, David Landau, the seamed to have the utmost tion: Goldwyn muy consider him- The stalking of a helpless puppy when a little night-club dancer. 000 witnesses." A series of my Faul Kelly, Edward Brophy, Ted devation,
self well repaid for the eighteen police headquarters, while officers bya alinking puma, delightful witness to a Philadelphia murder, sterious killings in a baseball team, Healy, Nat Pendleton, Ralph The remarkable romance between long months spent in preparation, are grilling suspects in the küling comedy scenes between a she-wolf
the opera star and the bandit is for every detail is polished and
of a millionaire Broadway playboy, takes refuge in a Princeton dor-climaxed by the abooting of a Bushman and Mickey Boobey are and her brood, hunters and the
told in RKO Radio Pictures finished. The sets and costumes the diamond, before others of note in the cast player on
Revelations of police methods in bunted in their fight for existencetary. The father of one of the 60,000 screaming fans, form the The picture was filmed with the current romantic melodrams,
detecting crime and hunting down and the spectacular, sensational boys who is protecting her is a
basis of the amazing plot, and cooperation of the St Louis "Stingaree," so-starring Trene are magnificent and authentic.
criminals are made in the baffing ending wherein the mountain lion motion picture magnate, faced hilarious comedy sud romance Cardinals, and together with other Dunne and Richard Dix, with No more romantle player than
screen play. and the dog come to grips at the with dire rum if his forthcoming
woven into the thrills in a famous baseball players, they ap- Mary Roland in a featured role, Fhilips Holmes could have been end of the trail.
"college picture" is às terrible as unique bit of fim fare,
pear and are seen in action in the coming... on Wednesday at the found to play the handsome young he thinks it is.
The romantic leads are Robert || swiftly-moving drams.
King's Theatre."
Lieutenant George Muffat, in whom Nana Anda her one real, great, traglo passion. The love. scenes are moving and beautiful ⠀ Lionel Atwill is very convincing as Colonel Andre Muffat, Georges elder brother, who falls an unwill- ing slave to Nana's witchery and subsequently wrecks the romance and Ke of his young brother. - As the fatuous old Greiner, dean of the Paris music halls, who loses his head over Nana and raises her to the heights, only to drop her back Into the gutter again warpe learns of her love for the romantic young Lieutenant. Richard Ben- nett is superb.
Francis McDonald, Heinle Cook- lin, Jose da la Cruz and Pedro Rogas comprise about all of the cast" and "while their work is ex- cellent, no acting" could possibly compare with the fourfooted beasts in their natural state.
"Trailing the Killer" offers an evening of stirring and unusually interesting entertainment. It's a genuine screen treat, produced by f. F. Zeidman.
-K
Bo, to save himself disaster; he decides to sign up the dancer and cash in on the resultant publicity...
The intervention of gangsters, police and the dean of the univer sity transforms the affair into a hilarious comedy of misunder- standing and lightning action. When the commotion and hubbub susides, Crosby and the dean's daughter are in love, the dancer is in the movies and Princeton is again swelling in its sacred quiet. Appearing with Crosby and Miss Hopkins are Kitty Carlisle, as the dean's daughter, and Henry Stephenson, as the dean, and in the supporting cast are Warren Hymer, Lynce Overman. Judith A sixteenth century polyptych Allen, George Barbler and Vince
BELGIAN ART TREASURE
(Special air Mall Service)
London, Nov. 15.
has just been discovered in the lit¦ Barnett.
tle church of St. Julien at Ath
Rainger and Robin, and Gordon
which is within a thirty and Revel wrote a series of new mile radius of Brussels. It is hit tunes for "She Loves Me Not.". considered by experts to be a including the already popular fine specimen of that particular Love in Bloom" Eliott Nugent period, when art was, to such an directed from a screen pay by extent induenced by Italy as td Benjamin Glazer. cast a shadow on the orign of al-
most every Belgien painting, VOL
The newly-found paintings are unknown, but
in four panels, measuring 30 in. by tive Flemish art
twenty inches. They are elaborate-sumes that the panels are the work
ly painted on both sides, and bear of a local master of the
the figures of Christ, St. Antony diocese, who was consciously or un-
the Hermit, St Nich
and
St Catherine. The author is
consciously unaware of the Im- pörtance of foreign schools.
Are
SHOWING
TO DAY
GVLEN'S
The Lovers of "Smilin'
Thru” Re-united în
a New Triumph?
Norma
SHEARER
Fredric
MARCH
Charles
LAUGHTON
Ar 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30.
P.M.
MEBARRETTS
WIMPOLE STREET
dietro. Goldwyn. boyer Picha0
Mae Clarke and Muriel Kirkland as Bâtin and Mimi, Nang's cronies of the old boulevard days who benent handsomely by her success. and ill repay her for her ben ficence hastening the tragic of her great love, prove a sple foil for Anna Sten's Blavi and with her, form a mary effective tro.
Owen, Jemiá:
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ALHAMBRA
TILATED
TO-DAY & TO MORROW
FROM
HEADOUARTERS
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