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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
IT'S A SMALL WORLD.
BABY FACE HARRIGTON
Fo years, Spencer... Trucy, the
There have been more preten- movie star, wanted a scar!
He envied the German duelling tous ones, but there has never students their privilege of being been in years a better comedy slashed down
with a filmed than "Baby Face Harring- the face
new Metro-Goldwyn- wound that would be indelible.ton" the
Now Spencer
Mayer production introducing the has realized
comedy team of Charles Butter- worth and Una Merkel having its initial showings to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre.
ambition.
his
On tits race is a scar, barely no- ticeable to the casual eye invisible on the screen. But it's 'there. Spencer's happy.
...
The scar is the result of h's re- cent skirmish with a dinner plate. tossed by Wendy Barrie in a scene in their new Fox Film comedy, “It's A Small World,” which comes on Saturday to the King's Theatre.
The plate cut an inch long gash In his forehead that
extremely
Swift nimble and funny, the new picture reflects utmost praise - on its producer, Edgar Selwyn; director, Raoul Walsh and-most of all-the ex- cellent cas、.
Charles Butlerwo. 13. Wille Harrington. took four
small-town clerk it Una Merkel is his socially ambi- tious "wife. Trying to be the man she binks h... Willie. gets involved with
'band
stiches to close, The doetös warn- ed him that a small scar might re- sult.. True enough! When the bandages were removed, he had a ttle white line between his eyes. for a memento."
"And to think of all the spills
of the tougest outlaws ever to man a machine gun. He lands in jail, and the outlaws extricate him.
I've taken playing pola without only to hold a'm captive at their
even a scratch to show for them.'
said Tracy. "A dinner plate got me the scar I've always wanted."
hide-out Meanwhile & blood- chilling man hant is on for his arrest...
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17,
SHOWING TO-DAY
ATA
2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30. P.M
\ AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
WHERE NO MAN EVER VENTURED BEFORE...THEIR PLANES BLAZED THE WAY TO NEW THRILLS IN THE SAVAGE HEART OF THE UNTOUCHED AFRICAN JUNGLE!
MR. & MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON'S
Supervised by Truman Tellay
BAB
AN AERIAL EPIC OVER AFRICA
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TEL NO. 2581
NEXT CHANGE
"THEY DIDNTS
fall IN LOVE
THEY crashed INI
TS A SMALL
TO-DAY AT THE
KING'S
CINEMA
Hong Kong
"Baboona".
QUEEN'S:
West of the Pecos"?
ORIENTAL:
"Peach O
Kowloon
MAJESTIC
Then my ↑ HEATRE.
Natin Road Kawloon Tel. 67222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 230 5.20, 7.20 9.20P.M.
ABOOK
A PLAY
AN OPERA
WORLD
MAJESTIC:-
"Emperor Jones"
ALHAMBRA
"You Belong To Me**
'KING'S.
Coming
"It's A Small World"
QUEEN'S:-
"Baby Face Harrington"
DRIENTAL:-
"Feet First"
"Whoopee" “Sunnyside Up"
hừa grueler than all of those....
A TALKING PICTURE.
Jake Krimsky and Guford Cochron Settent
PAUL ROBESON
in EUGENE O'NEILLS:
mperor
JONES
WITH DUDLEY DIGGES Baleased thru United Artista
Wendy Barrie in "It's a Small World." coming to the King's Theatre.
+ SHOWS
+ DAILY
1-20-538
7:15–6.20
THEE SONY TRAM OR HAJIV VALLEY BUB.
ORIENTALE
A REVIVAL JUBILER OF FUN WONDERFUL COMEDIES OF THE PAST FAR SUPERIOR OF THOSE OF TO-DAY.
ONLY
FOR TO-DAY ONLY 1 DAY TO-MORROW ***** WHEELER
BOBT WOOLSEY
[RKO-RADIO PICTURE
PEACH O'
4
RENO
HAROLD LLOYD
IN
"FEET FIRST"
FRIEDDIE. CANTOR. “WHOOPEE"
SAT
JANET GAYNOR CHARLES FARRELL
YOU BELONG
TO ME
"
At The Alhambra
"SUNNY SIDEUP"
THE QUEEN'S
West Of The Pecos
"West of the Pecos" which is aaving its rup at the Queen's
The story concerns the winning of the West. It opens at the close of the Civil War when Col Lambeth and his daughter Terrill decides to start life afresh and meets Pecos as he is leaving a
At the Alharibru Theatre yes-Theatre is a fine western picture terday Lee Tracy, the wise-crack-packed with thrills and excitement. ing comedian of the silver screen, entertained audiences with some last talking in "You Belong to Me," which had its premier showing. The picture is fast moving and in --a story that has an intricate plot,
Tracy excels himselt. He is sup-cantins after killing a man. ported by Helen Mack, who has the misfortune to be married to á cheap, double-crossing dancer, and
Later he joins their oulas and shares with them the perds of the
through the efforts of Tracy the Indian attacks. Despite the dis-
picture ends in a happy and satis- factory climax, but not before many complicated sequences have had to be disentangled
MOBIL Although Tracy is as jaunty as usual, this picture takes him awa
gulse of Terrill, as a boy
romance quickly rigens the
Comedy relief is thrown into this exciting and fast shooting picture where Richard Dix is seem at his best in the role of a bad man.
from his usual newspaper reporter Others in the cast are Martha roles, and affords him plenty Sleeper, Fred Kohler, Sam Hinds of opportunity for considerable and others.
The picture is above the average
The p'cture is entertaining, and ↑ of the usual western: disas
imatie seting
lovers gl
should not miss
"Redincam
exciting and
MR. AND MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON once more roam the savage reaches of Africa in their newest film, "Baboons" but this time by plane. Where man could never go before, they dared to fly! Above them are seen the two Johnson planes, “Spirit of Africe" and "Osa's Ark.” In the background is the mysterious Mt. Kenya, grim guardian of lost lands.
THE ST. LOUIS KID
Girls
not.
She smacks Jimmy a re- sounding crack on the jaw.
And Jimmy likes it so well he falls desperately du love with the
leading feminine role when she bawls him out for smashing her who meet a cave-mcar. Does Pat take it? She does lover, and want to win him over. hook, line and sinker. buld adopt the latest method as evolved in James Cagney's new starring pic ture for Warner Bros. The St.girl. He loves her so much he Louis Kid" which comes to the risks his life to rescue her from Alhambra Theatre to-morrow. kidnappers in a series of the most Jimmy is a hard-boiled, battling exciting and the most hilarious truck driver. He tries to strong situations the screen has seen in arm Patriela Ellis, who has the many a long day.
TO-DA
ONLY
,
Among Other Things Junior: "Dady. what is dew?" Daddy: "The rent, the note at the bank, and the instalment on the car."
The Proposal
BABOONA
At The King's
Without a doubt one of the most astounding revelations of the motion picture ́eră," is the new Martin Johnson adventure film, “Baboona,” now at the King's Theatre.
It 19 the guess of this reviewer that "Baboona” will furnish you With the biggest thrills, the most engaging "real life" comedy arid the most compelling adventure sequences you have ever beheld on a screen.
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Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson the greatest present-day explorers of wild lands have, dazzled the world time and time again with their explaits, and with their photographic records of gigantic conquests against tremendous odds, But "Baboona” relegates to second place anything that they or any- ohe else has ever brought out of the jungle!
This time the Johrsons conquer the jungles, the unexplored lands, the unknown people, from the alr Touring the fastnesses of Africa ini their two planes, "The Spirit of Africa" and "Osa's Ark." they look down into an inferno of unexplored lands, unbelievable and fantastic to civilized eyes. In every sense, "Baboons" is extraordinary.
Surpassing anything that has gone before it, this aerial epic over Africa stands forth ás, a master- plece. If any motion picture re- leased within the past five years warrants "road-showing," or a $2 box-office scale, "Baboona" does so.. Yet Fox, has released it direct to regular motion picture theatres. Boy: "If I had a million dollars, More than twenty months were
than the do you know where I'd be?" required in
making or Girl: "Yes, you'd be on our “Baboona," it is stated, and the honeymoon."
Johnsons flew some 60,000 miles above Africa while securing the film. Their adventures give added significance to the saying that truth is stranger than fiction, for here is a triumph of reality.
QUEEN'S
CONQUERED BY THE HEART-CRY OF A WOMAN IN DISTRESS !
Ar 2.30, 5.10.
7.20 & 9.80
P.M.
COLOUR CARTOON
TED FIO-RITA'S BAND
RICH
BIX
ZANE GREY'S
of the PECOS
AST of the
Hewn from
£3,000 PROFIT FROM BIG FIGHT
Petersen Gets £4,000
Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 2,
The takings at Wembley Sta dium for the Fetersen-Neusel agh! on Tuesday were over £18,000. This sum will gleid a profit of about £3,000, writes a correspondentada
I learn that Petersen, though he lost, will rece.ve a purse of about £4,000. Neusel's share will be 23,000
Mr. A. J. Elving managing;
tor of Wembley Stadium, who me the figures of the takin that he estimated that the
her reduced
10,000.
rec
BRITISH FILM ACTOR SUED
(Special Air Mall-Service)
London, June 29,
A suit for £4,000 has been started against Mr Colin Clive, the. Br tish stage and film actor, by Mr Frank Zeitlin, a New York theat- rical agent.
Mr Zeitlin contends that under
an agreement of May, 1933, he became Mr Clive's manager with a right to 10 per cent, of his earn--
cent ings
Since that date, Mr Zeitlin claims; Mr Cilve has earned £40,- 000, but has refused to give him an accounting..
WOMEN ARE BETTER IN BUSINESS
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 29.
As an employer of labour-he manufactures soft goods-Glas- gow's Lord Provost, Sir Alexander Swan, prefers women to ment workers.
"Women are far easier to work with than men," he fold a mixed company of students at a prize- giving yesterday in Skerry's Col- lege, Glasgow, "Wamen," he went
an,
"are far more pleasant than men in my experience: their brows do not go down so often as the other sex's. Besides, they do not have so many outside interests as the younger male element and ap- ply themselves better to their jobs. "I have been associated in my business career with 85, per cent. female Labour .... and I and girls nice to have about. It makes one feel young
ALHAMBRA
ARPENTEE
TODAY ONEY
at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.D.
OU BELONG TOME
LEE TRACY
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