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starring SYLVIA SIDNEY
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A Paramount Picture
An American Tragedy" "Ladies of the Big House" strong dramatic plota with heart-gripping love stories.
'These have been the pictures in which Sylvia Sidney has scored her biggest success --and that is why we predici you will agree with us that "MARY BURNS, FUGITIV is her most brilliant triumph!
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE AH WILDERNESS!
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Ah Wilderness"
QUEEN'S:
"Mary Burns Fugitive"
ORIENTAL:-
"Little Big Shot"
CENTRAL:--
"Sweet Surrender"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA-
"In Person" MAJESTIC:-
"Niwits
STAR:-
"Public Hero Number 1"
KING'S:—
Coming
"Every Saturday Night" QUEEN'S:4
"4 Hours To Kar
ORIENTAL:-
"Travelling Saleslady"
CENTRAL:--
"East of Javu"
ALHAMBRA¦---
"Whispering Smith Speaks" "A Tale of Two Cities"
STAR¡---
"Love Me Forever" "The Informer".
TRAVELLING SALESLADY
"Girls who want to have a career
certainly should go in for selling," declares Joan Blondell, she has the stellar role in the First National production, Travelling Saleslady" which comes to the Oriental Thea- tre on Wednesday and Thursday. She bases her advice on personal experience.
"The Girl who has brains' can develop personality, and there's nothing like a feminine smile and lively personality to break down male sales resistance," she says.
"Women have one advantage over men in salesmanship. That Is their intuition Of course," she laughed, "it's called intution when we are right, but only a foolish, femine nation when we're not."
**Travelling Saleslady" is a hilari- ous story of a girl who nearly rains her father's business by selling cocktail flavoured tooth-paste for a rival firm when her old fashion- | ed parent refuses to give her a Job.
There is an all star cast which Includes besides Joan Blondell and Gargen, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Grant Mitchell, Al Shean and Ruth Donnelly.
MARY BURNS, FUGITIVE
"Baby Stars" o. the sent days are having their day once more in "Ah Wilderness!" which Ciar- ence Brown directed at Le Metru- - Qo dwyn-Maye: studios and show. ing at the King's Thutre to-day, starring Wulace Beely with Lionel Barrymore.
The youngsters, now in their teens for the most part, are play ing high school seniors in the
high school dance sequence Eugene O'Ne..l's Comedy of Re- collection.'"
of
PICKPOCKET CAUGHT
Au Old Offender
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Mak Chan, was brought before Mr. Balfour at the Central Mazis- tracy yesterday on B remand charge of the theft of twenty cents from an unknown person in Gough Street un Friday.
Detective Sergeant Quild stated that the district watchman saw defendant extract something from the pocket of a bystander: On seeing him, the defendant ran and. after a lengthy chase was eventu- ally caught by a constable in Staveley Street.
The defendant was seen to throw something to the ground while running. He was taken back to the spot, and two ten-cent pleces were found.
The district watchman and con- stable gave evidence.
One of them is Peggy Mont- gomery, known in silent pictures 13 "Baby Peggy," and w.o some years ago was one of the greatest of child stars. Her school days over. Miss Montgomery is now making a scrzen comeback as a grownup young actress,
Wlderness!" is literally a cross- section of of average American life of the period. with a story of adolescent love compared, with a more mature romance In the Cramatist's handling of plot.
Beery plays the bibulous Uncle Sid, and Barrymore is seen as Nat Miler the father. the role played watchman. His fokl arrested me on the stage by George M. Cohan before. It is not long since I came WI Rogers, respectively. Cecilla out of prison. The D. W. asked Parker and Erte Linden are the for some money for tea. I refused young romancers and Aline Mac- and he struck me. There was a Mahon plays the pathetic Aunt struggle and I. fell. The two ten- LUS. Mickey Rooney. Charlescent peces fell out of my pocket." Grapewin, Sping By'ngton. Bonita The Magistrate decided to con- Granville, Edward Nugent. Helen vict. Fitni and Tom Dugan are others. in the cast.
"EVERY SATURDAY.
NIGHT'*
If you really want to see how a typical American family lives what goes on in the home and what the real relationship is be- tween father and children, and at the same time get a full share of glorious and uproarious fun, don't fall to see the new Fox comedy drama, "Every Saturday Night." which comes on Thursday to the King's Theatre.
When asked what he had to say defendant from the dock stated:
"I am" known to the district
Sergeant Guild stated that ac- cused had previous convictions and was formerly a message boy in the Police Department, but was dis- missed.
Three months' hard" labour was imposed, to be fallowed by a year's police survelliance.
They money was placed in the
Poor Box.
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HUGE DRUG SEIZURE
Factory Unearthed
Two women, Ng Sze and Li Kiu, were charged with the possession The cast which makes up the
of 77,500 heroin pills at the Cen- happy. scrappy family and its cral Magistracy yesterday before Friends includes June Lang. Jed Mr. Balfour, Mr. F. Zimmern ap- Prouty. Thomas Beck, Springpeared for the defendants and Byington, Florence Roberts and pleaded not guilty.
others.
Mr. Grimmitt who prosecuted Jed Prouty, who enacts the role stated a raid was carried out on of the head of the family, has a the third floor of 68, Lockhart lot of old-fashioned horse and-Road, Wanchai, at 4.15. a.m. on buggy ideas which he endeavours March 14. They found a heroin to use in bringing up a big brood factory in full blast. Arising out of: of step-on-the-gas-youngsters. Na-a rald made on the same night,! turally such different ideas of a man, Wong Wing, was arrested living both being present in one at 197, Hennessey Road, in posses- family does not in any way tend slon of a small quantity of heroin, to cause perfect harmony in thewhile another woman, Kong Sam. home.
arrested at the same address, was
With such variance of ideas pre- sent in the family, you can readily Imagine the heated controversies between father and children, Such ttle matters as late hours, reckless driving, wild parties and not enough allowance, are just a sam ple of what poor old dad has to contend with.
SHOWING TO-DAY
SKINGS
EUGENE O'NEILL'S GREAT DRAMA OF YOUTH'S FIRST TEMPTATIONS!
starving WALLACE
BEERY BARRYMORE
PER LIGGEL
Aline MacMAHON ERIC LINDEN
CHARGE
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`CLARENCE BROWN'S production
AH WILDERNESS!
ZUORNE ONZILL
METRO-GOLDWYN-IRAYER,
CLARENCE BROWN „WALLACE BEERYONEL BARRYMORE glorious namas alt in the canol si do Americas sings and screen-e merging Whale talent now in one motion picture enfer
sent your awn heart will fall you in preall
"Why
don't you kiss mot Call
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Here!"
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To-morrow:-
4 SHOWS DAILY 8.30-5.15 1.12-0.20
PERSON"
GINGER ROGERS In Person
in
WITH
GEORGE BRENT
ALAN MOWBRAY GRANT MITCHELL
SAMUEL S. HINDS
Directed by
mast by San
A Seiter from
duction Productio
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EXO-KADIO PICTURE
GEORGE O'BRIEN "WHISPERING SMITH SPEAKS
To and DR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTALE
found to have 111,000 heroin pills⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY
and one ounce of heroin.
Mr. D. McCallum appeared on behalf of Wong Wing and dented the charge. Kong Sam, who was not legally represented. guilty.
pleaded
Mr. Grimmitt said a raid pras made at 5 a.m. March 14 and In All in all, the film storyts a gay Kong Sam's cubicle was found comedy of the typical average | several
receptacles containing American household and offers drugs, powders and pus. glorious entertainment for all the family.
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·PUBLIC HERO NUMBER 1
Diamatic detalls of the Govern- ment secret service" in its war on
Sylvia Sidney reaches the top of her form as a dramatic actress in her latest scarring vehicle, "Mary Burns, Fug.tive," #1 gripping. organ.zed cilme; the heroism of romantic drama of
Hearing of all three case was fixed for April 2 at 2.30 p.m.
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WHISPERING SMITH
SPEAKS!
When a rich man's son gets out
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an innocent the Federal men in ther perilous to prove that he is the match of giri hunted by the law, which work, and the trailing of a public his father, things are bound to opened to delighted and enthrall-enemy, in a story based on, actual happen, and they do in the thrill- ed audiences at the Queen's facts and cases, are the thrills of Ing George O'Brien picture. “Whis- Theatre on Saturday.
"Public Hero Number 1," Metro-pering Smith Speaks," showing Deeply moving, soul-stirring in Goldwyn-Mayer's new thriller now from to-morrow at the Alhambra "every scene, "Mary Burns, Fugi playing at the Star Theatre.
Theatre. tive," tells the graphic story of A drama immortalizing the un- A red-blooded, action-filled story FOUR HOURS TO KILL Miss Sidney, who owns a roads.de known soldiers of peace in their of railroading, Whispering Smith tea room in the Catskill Moun- relentless war agains: organized Speaks" stars O'Brien, with Frank "Four Hours to Ku" the new tains. She meets and falls in love criminais, the story, is aside from! Sheridan as his father, Irene Ware Paramount 11am, comment ng to-
with Alu Baxter, handsome, ex-
being breathless entertainment, as his romantic leading lady, and Morrow at the Queen's Theatre football hero. Unaware that he an eye opener to the pube, in Kenneth Thomson" as his rival, 14 is the screen paaptation of the has turned public cremy, she con- showing int mately what goes on O'Brien leaves the office of his uccessful Broadway stage hit, cents to marry him. Escaping in the struggle on the side of blustering father, Я rallroad Smail Miracle." by Norman with stolen bonds, he is wrapped the law drilly.
magnate, to learn something about
Krastia. The action of the story in Miss Sidney's restaurant, but Chester Morris as the adventur- steel ralls himself... The young takes place a most entirely in the taakes a getaway, Arrested as his ous Jeff Glune, and Joseph Callelainan works his way about the lounge of a Broadway theatre, and accomplice, she is sentenced to 15 as the fugitive crime overlord, are country. Finding a dilapidated old depicts the unusual drama that years in prison. Breaking jai] the centres about which the railroad with lovely Irene Ware in occurs in the lives of a group of with her cell mate, Pert. Kelton, amazing plot revolves. Lionel charge, O'Brien is intrigued and people in the space of four hours. the two girls escape. Not know- Barrymore adds both comedy and decides to wait around for develop-, Heading the well-rounded casting that Miss Kelton is in league pathos in the principal character ments.
SEE THIS WONDERFUL CHILD ARTIS IN A FAST ACTION COMEDY DRAMA
Meet SYBIL JASON 5-year-old Star Sensation in
"LITTLE BIG SHOT
GLEN DA FARRELL ROBERT ARMSTRONG EDW. EVERETT HORTON,
ONLY
2 DAYS TO-MORROW & HUR DAY THE FUNNIEST GIRLS IN PICTURES
IN ANOTHER GREAT COMEDY SENSATION! THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER'S ON THE ROAD!
Traveling Saleslady
JOAN BLONDELL GLENDA FARRELLI
MATINEES: 20c.-30 @ EVENINGS: 20.30c.-50c.-70c.
THE KING SETS PIPE FASHION
144,000 Order
London, Feb. 26.
Olymple and the White City, Lon- don, and at Birmingham,"
A New York buyer has bought up all the samples of the apple- shaped briar Maltese pipe whichi the King admired when he visited Olympia last week. A special wii- dow display of the p'pes is to be
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aro Richard Barthelmess, Joe with G. Men who believe Mlás role, as tho strange old physician, Although he only fills the post- Morrison. Helen Mack. Gertrude | Bidney will seek Baxter's hideout tool of .the underworld, end tion of a lowly track-walker, A man was fined for being M chea', Dorothy Tree and Roscoe as soon
she is free. Miss blonde Jean Arthur, with Morris, O'Brien is making more headway drunk. Before he left the dock to | Kerns.
Sidney gets a job in a hospital provides the romantic interest, with Miss Ware than his smooth pay the money he asked if he could The plot of the story concerns Here she meets Melvyn Douglas, The excellent cast - also features į rival, Kenneth Thomson, have a receipt, but was refused. Barthelmess a condemned mur- temporarily bind scientist who Paul Kelly, Lewis Stone, Pau! } Finally O'Brien uncovers a con-
"Your Worship." said the man, derer, who spends the last few falls in love with her. Pursued Hurst and George E. Stone.
spiracy to defraud. Miss: "Ware of believe in the Day of; hours outside prisen, minacled to by Baxter's gang who try to cap- The sensational prison break valuable ore-bearing. lands in
the wrist of his detective watch-; ture her, Miss Sidney is forced to the stampede of a thousand con- whloh his own father is involved.
New records will be announced ing a Broadway musical.
roam the country, a fugitive from victa, the breath-taking operation | A hair-raising, perilous dash to to-day when the British Industries "Well,
on that day it will be He effects his escape and Justice,, relentlessly pursued by sequence, where the doctor per- Detroit in a switch engine, brings Fair closes, after 10 busy days. made in New York. Following the "said to me, 'John Smith, you got changes the lives of the others in her, former sweetheart, Barter, terms a transfusion in a crook's } O'Brien «face to face with his
King's visit to this stand Malt drunk,' 'Yes.' I will answer, ‘and I, the theatre. His escape is not who refuses to give her up hide-out, the raid on the gangster father. From the old magnate, paid my fine." "Where's your re-i for freedom but for revenge and Seeking refuge in Douglas home, stronghold, running battles be O'Brien gets a grudging admission Charters and Vic Fotel, who are
has sold all her briar pipes. On ceipt? It will be said; and do how he achieves revenge is the two are about' to be married tween fast qutomobiles end that he has been outsmarted and outstanding in comedy roles. thousand gross have been ordered. you think it reasonable that I brought out, in a cleverly con- when Baxter appears, threatening other exciting detatis embellish blessings for his union with Miss Adapted from the famous novel by The island will be kept busy for should be obliged to lose my time celved climax.
to Ell Douglas. A thrilling climax the story as the audience follows | Wars.
Frank H. Spearman, “ Whispering | 12 months, the works will be ex- by going down to Hades to look The romance is carried out by brings the drama to an exciting the Federal men in their dan- In addition to the leading play Smith Speaks was directed tendel and employment increased for you and your clerk?"
·Jce Morrison and Helen Mack. end.
grous task,
ers, this Fox film features Spencer | David Howard, -
by 25 per cent.
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