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CENTRAL
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TREAT TO-DAY
AND TO-MORROW 2.30, 5.15, 7.16 & 9.30
She tried to solve with her mind... what only her heart could decide!
Elissa LANDI
in
"SISTERS under the SKIN"
With
FRANK MORGAN
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT Story by 5. X. Lauren Adaptation puri mizen play by JO SWERLING
Directed by DAVID BURTON
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
--NEXT CHANGE
BUCK JONES
IN
"THE THRILL HUNTER"
HEADQUARTERS OF R.L.B.A.
Opened By The King
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Nov. 21. Number Sixty-six, Portland Place, the Cinderella's Supper of London bulidings, was opened by the King. who was accompanied by the Queen.
This is the new home of the Royal Institute of British Archi- tects the "building without cor- ridors." There is glass everywhere ---in the balustrading of the stair- case, in the vast windows, in the glazed and decorated doors.
The royal opening was part of "the centenary celebrations of the Institute Thirteen men met in à tavern in St. James's Street on a July evening in 1834 Their society. which received its charter from King William, the Fourth, has now grown into a "great Imperial or- ganization"-the phrase 18 Bir Giles Gilbert Scott's with 18,000 people in its field of influence."
As soon as their Majesties enter-" 'ed the building the President of the Institute (Bir Giles Gilbert Scott) presented the architect, Mr. Grey Wormer, whose plans were selected- from nearly 300 entries. Upstairs. in the fine-proportioned Henry Florence Hall, the leading arch!- tects of England and other pri- vileged guests had gathered for the opening ceremony.
Code of Practice
In his address to the King, Sir Giles said that the record of the past 100 years showed that the ob
FILM STAR INJURED
Geneveive Tobin In Car Smash
Hollywood (California), Nov. 21.
Miss Genevieve Tobin, the film stat, and her mother are in bed with Injuries as a result of their motor-carr skidding and crashing against a palm tree,
The car, which was driven by Miss Tobin spun round several times before hitting the tree.
The film star and her mother have both sprained shoulders and slight cuts.
They were on their way to Banta Barbara California, to visit Ge- nevieve's sister 'Miss Marian, Tobin, at the time of the accident.--
Miss Tobin, who is thirty, ap- peared in London in 1928 in "The Trial of Mary Dugan."
In this play she did not leave the stage for one moment, and the 'curtain remained up the whole time. Miss Tobin took the role of a girl accused of having mur- dered her lover, the play being an almost exact reproduction of an American murder trial,
Among the films in which she has played are "Hollywood Speaks." "Perfect Understanding,2 "Pleasure Cruise." "The Wrecker" and "One Hour with You."
Miss Tobin first appeared on the stage at the age of fifteen in New York, and she played in her first film thirteen years ago.
"At one time it was believed that she would be Maurice Chevalier's next wife, but the rumour proved as baseless as many others regard- ing film stars' marriage plans.
THE QUEEN'S
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
KINGS
"Again the thrill
of mighty passion
aud
great deeds!
IRENE
DUNNE
RICHARD
DIX
ang marca i *Cimarron '"
STINGAREE
SPECIAL ADDED
THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT PRIMO CARNERA ». MAX BAER BOUND AT ROUND WITH SLOW MOTION ON THE DECISIVE MOTION!!
THE GAY DIVORCEE
Famous Play Adapted
RKO Radio's "GAY DIVORCEE," which will soon be seen in Hong
To-morrow's Double Kong, is a clean and fresh musical
Attraction
From the art colony of Paris to a big league baseball field is the gamut run by Madge Evans in Just two pictures. Recently finish- ed with her role in "Paris Inter- lude," she was next cast as the feminine lead in "Death On The Diamond," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's sensational baseball mystery open- ing to-morrow at the Queen's in conjunction with the Rhapsody Girls Revue, Incidentally, she plays opposite Robert Young, as was the case in the Paris picture. Based on the original by Cort- land Fitzsimmons, author of "70,000 Witnesses," "Death' on the Diamond" deals with mysterious murders which occur during "a World
thrills Series. Its blended with comedy suppiled by Nat Pendleton, Ted Helay, Edward Brophy and Mickey. Rooney,
are
Robert Young plays the leading masculine role, that of the de bonair young baseball pitcher and Madge Evans is paired with him, Both give splendid performances. David Landau plays her father, manager of the team of the Cardinals; C. Henry Gordon
the arch grambler and Paul Kelly the. alert reporter who helps to solve the mystery.
In addition the above notable cast, many professional baseball players including Pat Flaherty, Dick Cox, Ivan Olsen, Ping Bodie. Red Berger and Bob and Irish Meusel are seen in action.
The play was adapted to the screen by Harvey Thew and Joc Sherman and the dialogue was taken care of by Ralph Spence..
Ribbon Building
"Your members have also given consideration to the problema raised by the rapid spread of build- ing along new roads and in coun jects of the Institute, as defined in try places of special beauty. To the Royal Charter, had been suc-focus the collective thought of the cessfully pursued. Their code of profession on questions such as professional practice had set a these is one of the many services standard observed by all the ele-rendered by the Institute. ments in the profession.
|*- "The Royal Institute has now The King, in replying, congratu-completed a century of useful work, lated the Institute on celebrating The enterprise of its members in Its centenary.
providing this new centre for its "In an age," he said, "when activities shows that they are pro- millions of men and women spend [viding for still greater responsibili their lives in a world of streets, the ties and greater saccesses in the. shape of these calls for thought, future. skill, and imagination Every bulld- ing, whether it be a cathedral, or
"I warmly
congratulate the architect who designed this beautf-
A factory, or a shop, or a city hall,ful building which I now have
forms part of a prospect on which many eyes will rest, and the design. er of the humblest dwelling has a "duty, not only to those who live in it, but to those who pass by
The provision of better homes for very many of my people is an urgent social need in which the Institute has taken a deep interest The subject is one for experts with wide knowledge and a broad out look.
much pleasure in declaring open."
In the Library, which contains 40,000 volumes and is the finest of its type Bir Giles Scott anked the King to accept a volume of contem porar, drawings of apartments in Buckingham Palace" designed – in 1852 by a former President of the Institute. All but two of the she bore the phrase, signifying the approval Prince Consort,
comedy film, alive with smart dia- güe, clever comedy situations, scintillating tune hits, graceful dance offerings, and a story that holds your interest from start to finish.
In Fred Astaire, the leading male, we find a new star-n ver- satule star, to be sure, who sings and dances with equal dexterity. And his ability as a comedian is no less than marvellous which should place him in the category. of a triple threat mau
Fresh from the triumph of "FLYING DOWN TO RIO," "Gin- ger Rogers, radiating more in- ger than ever, is again co-starred with the accomplished Astaire, thereby re-assuring screen fans that the Rogera-Astaire combina- tion is definitely established,
The presentation of "The Cou- tirtentai" by Miss Rogers and AB- taire is a grand production sum- ber with many beautiful girls and fleet-footed men participating. The number will live long in the memory of film fans,
**THE GAY DIVORCEE" is tar- en from the successful stage play by the same name and its story is not the least bit spotty, Ed- ward Everett Horton, mincing young English barrister supplies a great deal of the laughs with the ald of Alice Brady in her role as the slightly unbalanced aunt of the lovely Miss Rogers, and Brix Rhodes, a promising young Eng- lish player, is a positve scream as the professional co-respondent! In all "THE GAY DIVORCEE" is
splendid musical comedy and will appeal to any type of screen audience anywhere.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
ONLY
BODKING AT THE THEATRE T No. 25313 25332
RKO RADIO Pletara
WITH
MARY BOLAND
CONWAY TEARLE ANDY DEVINE.
UNA O'CONNOR.. HENRY STEPHENSON
ATTRACTIONS
ALVO SPECIAL TO PATHE NEWS THE FAMOUS CANADIAN DIONNE QUINTUPLETS, Exclusive and compestanakre pictures" of the TIVE BABIES 1843 All the world wants to see! How they lim, how they mi, bow they bathe, intimate glimpses of their home, their m ther, their lacher, shade Burson, guardians and them.BE/TUR.
DO YOU KNOW THAT........
Joan Bernett will have the feminine lead opposite Lanny Ross in "Mississipp!" W.C. Fields is the star.
Spencer Tracy has been cast tu play the lead in the film veralon of Dante's "Inferno" Also in the cast will be Clair Trevor Alice Faye and Henry B. Walthall.
A life story of Houdini is being written for filming by Columbla. The title part w be played by Fred Keating a brother magician and he will use some of the origi- nal `apparatus, owned by Houdini,
The report that Wallace Beery is coming to England to play in a picture for London Films, under
exchangearrangement M.G.M. is officially denied,
with
After one day's work on a Ted- dington „production "Murder · at Monte Carlo" Errol Flynn, a twenty-five-year old actor, has been signed by, Warner-First National British Pictures on a seven yeats' contract,
Cecil De Mille's next film after "The Crusades will be entitled "Chocolate" and will be set in Boviet Russia,
con-
The musical The Night is Young" starring Raimon Novarro and Evelyn Laye will tain a marionette episode by the Hollywood Marionette Theatre Group
Over £8,000 in taxes has been collected from the estate of the late Marie Dressler by the United States, Government
AT THE QUEEN'S
The Barretts Of Wim-: pole Street
Three Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award winners head: the cast of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street” one of the season's most..out. standing pictures and now showing at Queen's Theatre.
Norma Shearer in the role of the poet Elizabeth, is starred opposite Fredric March, as the ardent Robert Browning-the same team which broke all records in "Smilin' Thru," Charles Laughton, most recent Academy Award winner, appears in the grim and powerful role of the elder Barrett, his first Ameriasa picture since the international hit, "Henry the Eighth."
Sidney Franklin, director of mary of Mis Shearer's greatest successes, including "Smilin' Thru," was the genins behind the megaphone in filming the famous stage play.
The supporting cast is equally extraordinary and include Maureen O'Sullivan, playing the rebellious sister Henrietta, enamoured, in spite of her
grim father's
protestations, of the gallant Capt. Cook, the part play. ed by Ralph Forbes. Una O'Connor is the demure and faithfal Wilson, Norma Shearer's maid. Marion Clay ton makes a graceful bid to fame in the important role of Bella, mid- Victorian flirt. Others in the cast include Leo. P. Carroll, Ferdinand Munier, Neville Clark, Matthew Smit
Robert Carleton" and "Alien"
The Barretts of Wimpole Street* as one of the outstanding stands theatrical hits.
decade. of the
-Dramatization of a vivid page
torn from history, it is the story of the
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S
HONG KONG
"Stingsreg"
QUEEN'S:
"The Barretts of Wimpole
Street"
ORIENTAL:-
"Midshipman Jack”
CENTRAL:-
"Sisters Under The Skin"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:-
"Trailing, The Killer".
MAJESTIC:
'... "Spitfire"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Love Time"
QUEEN'S:—
"Death on the Diamond"
ALHAMBRA:~-~
"Dude Danger""
MAJESTIC
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The Screen's Disturbing Star
KATHARING
CENTRAL:-
"The Thrill. Hunter""
ORIENTAL:-
RADIO Picture
"Murder In Trinidad"
4 SHOWS VDAILY
1-15-4.30
LED BURM
Azihe Carolina witch girl whose faming love and fire to the
moviksinst
SPITFIRE
OCY ROBERT YOUNG RALPH BELLAMY MARTHA SLEEPER From the novel "Trigger"" by Lula Volmer... Directed by John Cromwell, “'. Maden C Coccer, Deceive products.. "A Pandro Bermen production.
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YOU'LL CHEER
AT THIS WONDERFUL STORY OF THE NAVYT SEE THE MIDDIES IN A FLAG-FLYING SHOW WITH A HEART GRIP Left, Right! Left, Right! Rules and Regulations!
With
It drives o fellow crasy when he's burning up
with lava!
The Spirit of Annapolis Today!
BRUCE CABOT
“LOVE TIME"
Coming To King's On Sunday
HERE'S ONE.
OF THE BEST MYSTERY PICTURES THE SCREEN EVER PRODUCEDI
Murder in TRINIDAD
NIGEL BRUCE HEATHER. ANGEL · VICTOR JORY.
FILMING GUNGA DIN
"Rudyard Kipling's best-known poem, "Gunga Din,” is to be the basis of a Hollywood nim..
Mr. Edward Small, who recently made "The Count of Monte Chris- to," will direct it for United Az-
A picture said to be unexcelled fists.
love..of two poets, Elizabeth Barrett for idyllic romance and gay, Kipling subjects fimed include and Bobert Browning- love pearly youthful appeal, the Fox Film "Without Benent of Clergy" and frustrated by her demoniacal father production, "Love Time,"
Elizabeth has resigned herself to a lingering destly, when correspondence with the poet Browning suddenly materialize with his handsome pre- sence in her own room. It was love at first sight between the fragile girl and her ardent admirer. With all the spisen "and cunning of his nature, the elder Barrett throws himself against this romance and thereon bangs the tale, interwoven with glimpses into the lives of the many Brothers and sisters in the historical menage.
QVLEN'S
The Lovers of “Smilin
Thru” Re-united in
a New Triumph!
Y
Nemo
SHEARER
Fredric
MARCH
Charles
LAUGHTON,
Ar 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
ME BABRETTS
WIMPOLE STREET
A Metro-Goldwyar
Mayer Picture .
is "The Light that Failed." Thé Gau scheduled to arrive at the King's mont-British studios have
an-
Theatre on Sunday next.nounced a "Soldiers Three picture Advance reports refer to "Love to be made by Walter Forde in Time" as the kind of a love story Indian settings, the whole world loves. The new film, which features the ex- quisite
English beauty, "Pa of spirited comedy supplied by a Paterson, and Nils Asther as the famous corps of funsters. Among principals of its romantic story, deals with the youth of the world-famed composer, Franx Schubert, and the first great love of his life.
Set in Austria in the early years of the nineteenth century. Love. Time" follows Schubert from his remote village home to the court of the Emperor at Vienna And with him goes the lovely Valerie
("Pat" Paterson), who, history
rolates, was the daughter, of 1, B nobleman high in the councils of the Emperor, though she was reared as a village maiden f
Many of Schuberts immortal compositions, among the famous ..., "Berenade"," *Musical**/**Inipatience""
delightful "Whó In Sylvía?” said to have been woven into story of "LO
Moment
and
and enhancing its mood moments "The musical climax of (the
Schüber
the latter are. Herbert a Mundin,
Georgia Caine and Roger Imhof. Harry Green, Lucien Littlefeld,
ALKAMRA
HEATRE
TO-DAY TO FRIDAY ETERNAL FEUD
WITHOUT MERCY!
RAILING KILLER
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