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TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 $ 9.30 The Fastest, Funniest Fight to-a-Finish Love Story You've Ever Seen!
"The BRIDE COMES HOME
Paramount's Comedy with
FRED
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Riffraft"
QUEEN'S:
"The Bride Conles Home" ORIENTAL:-
Top Hat"
CENTRAL:-
ROBERT
"East of Java"
CLAUDETTE COBERT MacMURRAY YOUNG
— TO-MORROW
The Oc standing Urama of the Seasou "FOUR HOURS TO KILL" with RICHARD BARTHELMESS
TAKK, ANY THAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUR
FLEMING
4 SHOWS
DAIL 1,30-5,15
7.30-8.30
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 PERFORMANCES TO-DAY
ROAD
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Showing to crowded houses at all performances THE GRANDEST AND MOST POPULAR MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW EVER CREATED!
with Edward Everett Marlen,
Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Erie Blora. Directed by MARK SANDRICH. Pandro S. Burmes
Production
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FRID ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS
in
TOP HAT
With gay and reckless tunes by IRVING"
BERLIN
RKO-RADIO PICTURE
DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
UNLY
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SOMETHING NEW IN SCREEN PRODUCTIONS A NEW KIND OF A THRILL PICTURE I
the fastest train on earth, blaz- ing a new thrill trail in a grip- ping romance of the rails!
THE
SILVER STREAK
with
SALLY BLANE
CHARLES STARRETT
R KO
HARDIE ALBRIGHT
RADIO
WILLIAM FARNUM
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY At 2.80, 6.15. 7.20 9.20 P.M. FIRST SHOWING IN THIS COLONY AND IN CHINA! ADVENTURE WITH A VENGEANCE!
PRESENTS
EAST OF JAVA
Charles BICKFORD
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ON THE STAGE →→→.
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Ficture
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW BUYERS BEWARE! WIVES TAKE CARE!
Here'couse the orig. inal gimme girls that men ju can't try "No" tel
RAN BLONDELL FARRELL
GLENDA
TRAVELING SALESLADY
WILLIAM GARCAN
HUGH HERREPT
RIDAY AND SATURDAY GARY
ANNA COOPER and STEN in THE WEDDING NIGHT"
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"That man wants me to lend him some money. Do you know anything about him?"
"I know him as well as I know you. Don't lend him a cent, old man"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :----
land"
MAJESTIC:
STAR:-
"RIFFRAFF"
Jean Harlow has never disp ay cd her versatility as an actress to better advantage than in "Rii- traff," which is showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
Teamed whh her for the first time is one of Holywood's finest the actors, Spencer Tracy, and two mas no opening to get the most out of the powerful and sweeping story, which mixes the most hi arious comedy with the most touching pathos.
CHARLIE CHAN IN COLONY
LAST TWO-DAYS
Short Trip To See China
And now, Mt. Warner Oläna, world famous as Charlie Chan, 13 He arrived yesterday on ere. board the Thiyo Maru unheralded. He received us in his cabin witn that charming suave manner that ke depicts on the screen, the.
gentleman. evincing courteous
that those peculiar mannerisms have made him beloved. by millions of film followers.
The story of "Riffra invades & brand new locale, the commer- cla fishing flest that plies the waters of the Paclic of Southern California. Much of the story takes place in the fishing village
It Was quite by chance Mr. great Callornia adjacent to the "Wanderer Of The Waste- metropolis a community affilated Oland said that he took up pro- with the city, yet entirely separat-traying Chinese characters, though ed as though in a different world. the character Charlle Chan, him- There the fishermen and their self, was based on a real man-A families live their lives, and work Pan Ah of Honolulu, who was a out their destinies without con- friend of Mr. Oland.
Discussing the eleventh of the tact with outside Influences.
"Rifraft tells of the love c1 series of Charlie Chan pictures, Miss Harlow and Tracy. love which has just been completed and is called "Charlie Chan at the that transcends man-made yet is masked with a vet of rough Circus," Mr. Oland said that he badinage that
entirely had just received a telegram which conceal its depth and sincerity. It referred to the picture in question,
of and which stated "Preview one presents Miss Harlow in
personal performance her most unusual roles. an angel knock-out,
"Werewolf of London"
Traveling Sales Lady"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Break of Hearts"
QUEEN'S:-
"Four Hours To Kur "Mary Burns Fugitive"
CRIENTAL:-
"The Sliver Streak" MAJESTIC:
"Helldorado"
ALHAMBRA:—.
"Thanks A Million" CENTRAL:--
"The Crimson Trail"
WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND
cannot
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laws.
13.
of the waterfront who marries & superb. Louise Joins me in 'send- to you both Jack." braggart and a bully and spends ing love the rest of her life trying to re- "Jack." Mr. Oland explained, was
lls manager, form him.
FOUR HOURS TO KILL
The trip out East was decided "Rifraft" cannot be rated too and
"almost overnight." Mr. Oland Highly. Romantic, dramatic thrilling, it embodies the qualities found that he had two months to
picture that make the motion
spare before going into production of entertain-of "Charlie Chan at the Race- premlere medium m2n1. You are sure to spicy
t course" so he made up his mlad He is accompanied to see China adenut from open ng scene to
by his wife, and during his stay in Hong Kong, the travelling star and his wife plan to visit Cantot.
Although Mr, Oland's knowledge As Tony Mako, the unforget- of the Chinese language is very table character outdoor
in Paramount's neagre, through als long study of A
of the Wasteland," "Wanderer
Four Hours To K," coming to his parts as a Chinese, he had ac-
Theatre Queen's outstanding because of its origin-
shortly, quired a fair knowledge of the the ality of plot and humaneness of
Richard Barthelmess plays the country's philosophy. He said that characterization topped with 'rip-
part of a man sentenced to death, he had come to. Hong Kong and the that marks
the East to pick up something- roaring LLON
who spends his last few hours of freedom in evening up
old what it was he did not exactly age.ess popu.arity of Zane Grey
know, as he had no definite ideas westerns, will be shown on Tues-
yet-that would help in in his day and Wednesday at the Alham
work.
bra.
colourful
drama
Laid against the picturesque desert country of the West in the of out.aws days
bands when roamed the desert, wastes preying on gold prospectors, Wanderer centres its Wasteland"
بین
the
story about Dean Jagger, young Easterner who, on his way to the badiands, meets and falls in love with Gall Patrick also traveling her to the gold country with parents.
Upon his arrival, his ne'er-do- well brother is accidentally shot in a crooked card game and Jag- of the ger, unjustly accused
Ed- crime, flees into the desert. ward Ellis. a. kindly old prospec- from tor, finds him half dead exposure and thirst, and becomes his friend. Doomed to wander the wastelands, a fugitive Justice. unable to
A
score.
During
intermission an
scapes
?
f1cm1 his
The action of this melodrama, adapted from Norman Krasna's
Ee wished, however, to see as hit play, "Small Miracle," is set entirely within EL Broadway much of China as he could. An revelation was the Theatre. Barthelmess is brought interesting to. the theatre by, the detective fact that all of the Charlle Chan were made under the whu 1 escorting him to prison. pictures
he supervision of a Chinese technical. guard, but, adviser. He will probably join the instead of ficeing: hides within Empress of Asta on March 20 and the theatre, awaiting the arrival change to the Empress of Britain of the man who squealed and at Shanghai, allowing himself a In the few days in both parts. He plans sent him to his death. meantime, the drama of others in be back in Los Angeles on May boy 2. During his stay in Hong Kong the theatre cloak-room who has stolen and "faces. tall, a he will reside at the Peninsula rich woman planning to run away Hotel. with her sweetheart, a philanderer caught in his game-are rising to their climaxes. The solution: of all these le dramas is found by the shot that evens Mako's score.
LOVE FOR CHICKENS
Lp Tony Six Men In Dock For Theft
ΣΤΟΥΣ
to return
Chan Leung-mo, alias Ah Ying, **BREAK OF HEARTS' civilization. Jagger becomes
alas Ah Chung. 28. Chiu Mul- member of a gang of renegades,
tsal, 36, Lam Kel. 23. Lean Hei scenes Really sou-surring love headed by Larry "Buster" Crabbe.
san, 32, Li Shing. 34, all pleaded" Finally rebelling against their un-have been enacted for the camera scrupulous tactics irinocent wetween Katharine Hepburn and guilty to having robbed La In. gardener, or six chickens and E at a matshed at. Kowloon hat prospectors,..he revenges himself Charles on them in a thrilling gun battle, Hearts," showing on Thursday at Tong on January 31, when they when they attack his benefactor, the King's Theatre, Eilis. and hold Miss Patrick captive.
!
on
Boye
In **Break 1
While Boyer, Ido: of the French appeared bafore Mr. Justice J. J. stage and screen. has been halled Hayden yesterday at the Criminal as one of the great lovers or flims, Sessions and were each sentenced Lam Ping-chi, 26, pleaded not Hepburn, never before has been to 18 months hard labour. cast in a role offered her so great
was withdrawn.
f
In a crashing dramatic climax that held this reviewer spellbound with its skillful blending of a tense but surprise finish, Jaggor an opportunity to disp ay her tal-guilty and the case against him
returns to the scene of the crine with Miss Patrick to give himself
the up, to find that changed completely.
town
has
ent for romantic love.
"She combines the fire of an
Diga Nethersole with the repress on of a Duse," said Phep Moeller, director. "I am amazed at her emotional range from the most THE BRIDE COMES HOME intense, lyric abandon to the most subtle nuances." He declares that for beauty and power he does not belleve tat Hepburn's ove scenes with Buyer ever have been dupli-
A joking remark' made in a ay manner at an afternoon tea some years ago in New York started at
cated on the screen:
"Break of Hearts" tels the story of a young composer who marries
Mr. J. B. Prentis, for the Crown, his said the complainant, and family were awakened at midnight by Anding the defendants in the hut binding some of them up with'
escaped and string. L Shing threatened them with a knife. Iu the defendants then ran off with the stolen property.
Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden sald the er'me was a serious one be- cause it might have given rise to bloodshed and killing. Defea-
chain of events that has brought Claudette Colbert to the pinnacle of Hollywood stardom and made
c famous maestro but leaves him "dants had pleaded that they had her one of the nation's most ad-
when she believes that her love no food, no work and no money They mired theatrical personalities.
to him to return to the country. necessary 1. no longer This lovely lady of the screen
His plunge to the depths of des- would be amply provided for in the future. R$ a sentence of has just completed another plc-
eighteen months hard labour. ture for Paramount, "The Bride pair and his regeneration through her love make an enthraying pic- Comes Home," in which she is
It is a Pandro 8. Berman, would be imposed. featured with Fred MacMurray, seen as her leading mom in "The production for RKO Rado. Gilded 11ly." This
closes to-day at Theatre:
new
the
Alm Queen's
Lure.
KINGS:
At 2.30. 5.10% 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
SHE MAY NOT BE A "LALY"
but she's all woman from the heart out l
Jean with "honey-brown" bair
-in a new thrill romance
ira. for
We
Jean HARLOW
RIFF RAFF
SPENCER TRACY
KATHARINE HEPBURN
**FROM"
THORS.
in
UNA MERKAL
JOSEPH CALLEIA
-CHARLEN BOYER
"BREAK OF HEARTS”
RKO
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NATHAN AÐ, KOWLDON,DAIL
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WHEN A SIX-GUN WAS THE LAW!
Adolph Tukar presents
Zane
FINAL
A dynamic drama
of the old west ...
when romance rodė
the ranges...ayam by the ace writer
of saddle sagas ...
Grey's
"WANDERER OFF WASTELAND
THE
A Paramount Picture with
DEAN JAGGER - GAIL PATRICK EDWARD EA LIS
"BENKY BAKER - LARRY "BUSTER" CRABBE
Paramount Shorts
SHOWINGS MAJESTIO
TO-DAY
Wednesday:
THEATRE:
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 2.20 F.M.
Carl Laemmle presents A Universal Picture
WEREWOLF OF LONDON
with
HENRY HULL WARNER OLAND VALERIE HOBION
RICHARD ABLEN
HELLDORADO with MADGE EVANS
TRAVELING SALESLADY
Blondell for the affections of the.
She is the handsome Gargan. proprietoress of a chain of drug stores and gives her business to Gargan, but takes it away when she ands that romance is develop-
Joan Blondell, in the title role, scenes of the now Moffat "Tunaei, ls as sim and beautiful and as that put Denver on the main line full of pep and ginger as ever. "SILVER STREAK"
of a transcontinental railroad and
This is the first picture in which required twenty years to drill, are
she has appeared since she quiting between Gargan and Mas
Blondell. The
the screen a few months ago to According to reviews, the pic-
Hugh Herbert "has never been Recording on the motion picture screened for the first time,
become the mother of a bouncing
funnier than as the inebriate i ture offers Mlas Colbert in one of screen the crowning achievement great invention of medical science.
century
baby boy. Her acting is snappy of railroading, The Drinker Respirator, commonly
inventor of her most clever performances to fa
a toothpaste with date. This dark-haired alluring, RKO-Radio's The Silver Streak" called the. "iron lung," that is a
to sufferers
cocktail flavours.. from long and full of herve and she handles with skill and young lady was born in France showing at the Oriental Theatre boon
Wednesday and
Grant Mitchell does excellent Thursday, paralysis, also is shown for the every situation but came to America when she on
WII lam Gargan plays opposite work as the conservative, tooth-. WHA
thirteen and set out to be Frings to the public the first first time. Scenes of the Chicago artistry.
Miss Blondell in the leading mas-paste manufacturer who thinks come an artist. She was studying glimpses of the new streamline World's Fair, where part of the Zephyr, pictura was filmed, are to be seen. Burlington at the New York Art League wher. train at a tea, she met Anne Morrison, rechristened Silver Streak" for Others scenic backgrounds include culine role as the star salesman of that women know nothing about the famed Royal Gorge and the a rival concern whom she worsts business and Al Sheen, formerly of Gallagher and Shean, plays the the playright. More as a joke the picture.
Aside from its strong element of beautiful Colorado River country at every turn.
The story is not without its role of the up-to-date manufac- than anything else, Miss Colbert
of love turer, with great humour, and The love interest of the story in asked Miss Morrison for a part in trama, "The Silver Streak is west of Denver.
cinema show-case of indeed & the latter's new play, "The Wild modern wonders. In addition to carried by Sally Blane, as the romances and share Westcotts." To her utter amaze- the fast new train, the first pie daughter of the railroad president, tangles. In addition to its comedy. skill. Ruth Donnelly also adds to
scene as the jealous rival of Miss Blondell, tures of the Boulder Dam are and Charles Starrett as the young for Glenda Farrell-appears on the the comedy as the mother of Miss ment. Miss Morrison gave her a big role.
brought to the screen. The first engineer,
the
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