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QUEENS
TO-DAY ON. Y AT 2.30, 5.15, 720 & 9:30 -
TWO FOR TONIGHT
you're going to tingle when Bing
sings in his fanciest,
fastest and best amusical comedyl
By CROSBY
BENNETT
Mery
oland
-TO-MORROW-
A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF ADVENTURE
packed into this miracle of metien pictures!
CAPTAIN BLOOD
Win ERROL FLYNN - OLI
LIONE
DI HAVILLAND
WILL BASIE PATHÉONE
halmo Todd
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936.
TO - DAY AT THE HOLLYWOOD IS
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Last Of The Pagani" QUEEN'S:
"I'wo For To-night"
ORIENTAL:-
"Front Page Woman"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Mutlay on the Bounty"
MAJESTIC:---
"One Exciting Adventure" STAR:-
"Smart" Gr"
EING'S —
Coming
"The Last Days of Pompeli" QUEEN'S:-
"Captain Blood" ORIENTAL:-
Front Page Woman" ALHAMBRA
"Annie Oakley" "Gentle Julia" - MAJESTIC:
STAR:
"Cardinal Richelieu"
"Alice Adams"
CAPTAIN BLOOD
fact ANY TRAM DA HAPPY VALLEY BUS
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2DAYE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW
✔DAYS
A STORY TOO HOT FOR COLD TYPE!
B ette says, Men are what goiters are to science... a pain in The neck 1" She proves that getting away with murder isn't the balf of what a gal has to do to beat a man at his own game. ACTION! SENSATION! THRILIST LAUGHS !" Bette Davis Bares Story of Notorious-
FRONT-PAGE WOMAN
Man-Hunter Turns Thrill-Hun- ter and Spills Sensational Truth About Famed Love Slayer
HER MOST DARING ROLE
H
Geo, Brent Tries To Tame Her in Warner Bros.' Headline Dramatic Shocker
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STARE
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
"Listen sistex, dear...you may be smart looking. but I'm smart... and you're not walking off with
the man I love!"
Agip Zeer praJAY||
SMART GIRL
A Parinstal Piciors with
IDA LUPINO
KENT TAYLOR GAIL PATRICK JOSEPH CAWTHORN
Dirstied by Aubény kosta. „Walter. Woupar Pračcation
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY KATHARINE HEPBURN in ALICE ADAMS" RKO RADIO PICTURE -
TWO FOR TO-NIGHT
TOO EXACTING
WILL ROGERS'S HUGE SALARY
Lady Charles Caven- | £65,000 From Films
dish And That
in 1934 Film Offer
Plymouth.
New York.
Wil Rogers, the Comedian, im star and politietan, who was killed Lady Charles Cavendish (Adele with Wiley Post attempting to fly Astaire, the dancer) landed at Ely to Europe across the Arctic ast mouth to-day on the French iner August. received an, income Le de France with her husband £65,000 from the Fox Film Cor. after visiting her brother, Fredporation in 1934. He earned a Astaire. who is making films in large sum also from broadcasting. Hollywood,
This is revealed in the latent list
of
She has returned a vegetarian. of high saiaries paid in the United teetotaler and disbeliever in make-States, which shows that Janet
up.
Gaynor, who received 50,000 She told me that she had had a from the Fox Company, was one screen test in Hollywood and hart of the best paid actresses of that received an offer to make Alms year. Shirley Temple, the child there.
star even in. 1934 earned £5.000. Others in the 1st are:
FRED AND GINGER ROGERS "I do not think 1 shall accept," she said. " is too exacting in Hollywood.
T. Watson, head of International Business Machine Corporation,
F.
£73.000. I am appalled by the way people work. They earn every penny thest get and I do not think i could stand it."
no
She added that there was truth in the statement that the flim partnership between her brother and Gluger Rogers was to b broker "The rumour that I Was to suppant Miss Rogers s absurd." she said.
BIG FILM DEAL
British Syndicate's Purchase
Details of a huge fim des has been concluded
Which
of
A. Courway. president Lever Bros. £60,000.
.Ltd. US. branch,
W. Chrysler chairman of the famous motor Arm. £40,000.
A Sloan, Jun., president of Gene-||| ral Motors, £10,000,
Jesse Lasky, film producer, £31- 000.
HIGHLY-PAID FILM STARS Some of the most highly-paid film actors' were:
Wamer Baxter, £37.000.
Frederic March. £31000. Maurice Chevalier, $30,000;
George Arliss, £25.000. Clark Gable, 18,000.
Charles Laughton, £13,000... Nancy Carroll. £10.000, Claudette Colbert. £7.000. Several f'm directors and pro- Showing at the Queen's Theatre portant City group and the Univer- £20,000.
by an im-ducers wert pald
than more from Thursday First National pre-sal Picture Corporation were sents Rafael Sabatini's "Captain Blood" a story of adventures of the $02.
nounced.
an-
The deal is not a merger. It is DOCTOR'S QUINS" FILM
PROTEST
a direct buy into Universal by "a Convicted as rebels and senten-private British syndicate, and ced to slavery in the West Indies. from it
arises a comprehensive Reter Blood perfectly acted by working arrangement between the Doctor," in which
The film called "The Country Errol Flynn in his first American American Universal Picture Cor-
the famous picture is very well supported by poration and the British General denounced as "an insult to the en- Dionne quintuplets appear, 13 an alt star cast among them are im Distributors. Limited. Lionel Atwill as Colonet Bishop, a
Undet
tire medical profession" by Dr. the terms of the dea cruel plantation owner and his. Universal
James J. McCann, M.P. for Ontario. niece Arabella enacted by Olivia will be distributed in the United British United Press, that the film
Pictures and Newsreel
Dr. McCann said, according to de Haviland who buys Peter Blood Kingdom by General Film for ten pounds.
tributors, Limited. Others are Basil Rathbone as
Certain British made pictures Levasseur, Guy Kibbee as Hagthor- released by General Film Dis- Be and Henry Stephenson as Lordtributors. Limited, in the United "W/Boughby.
Kingdom will be distributed in all other world territory (including United States of America) through the already existing Universal Exchanges.
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The climax which shows the bombardment of Port Royal in a battle between the English and the French ships is a fitting finish to a splendia production full of vigor. ous action and impressive specta cle. Olivia de Haviland makes a very charming heroine and Errol Flynn is a splendid figure of
Production at Universal City in fighting man with chivalry and ro-Hollywood will be reorganised and there will be complete collabora-
mance.
ter
SMART GIRL:
a
Kent Taylor, featured with Ida Lupino and Gall Patrick in Wal-
Wanger's Paramount thin, "Smart Girl,"coming to-day to the Star Theatre, says that the old Hollywood saying that to be a suc- cess every potential star must deve- "Two For To-night." closes to- top bis ego, must consider himself Queen's Theatre, w.th
Bing better than anyone else and must Cresby, Joan Bennett, Mary Bo blow his own horn, the louder the land, Lynne Overman and Ernest better, is just so much 'Tot".
Cossart.
W
"The first requisite toward suc-
"he said is a sincerity to- your work. No matter where
Bing portrays the role of 毽 ce struggling youngster, a singer who gets mistaken for а playright, you work, you have to be sincerely writes a play for the wrong" girl
interested to be able to get beneath
in a gay musical romance, cram the surface and prove your worth, med with comedy moments and Personally, I also consider oppor- rollicking situations. The songs,tunity and chance very important. by Gordon and Revel. include Opportunity and chance gave me "Two for To-night," "I wish I my break," were Alladin," "Without a word of "I did a lot of variúns things be-- Warning" and a number of others fore my chance in pictures cante. Mary Boland is cast as the I tended cattle; played a saxoptione mother of three sons, two of in an orchestra; trimmed shop whom are popular song composers windows; was a shipping clerk in and
the other a singer Ring a meat factory, carried cement on Crosby. In their attempt to sell a building job; tended gas burners a song to- a stone deaf music in a nut and bolt factory and sold- publisher, Bing is injured in an Awnings from house-to-house. airplane accident. WhEe he is admit. I never succeeded especially recuperating in B hospital, his at any of them.
to a Overman.
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mother asks the plot for $50,000. "Smart Girl," the' exciting story damages. The plot turns to be of a three-cornered romantic bat- Miss Joan Bennett the secretary tle between two sisters and the theatrical producer, Lynne man they both love, presents Kent Taylor as the man. One girl want- As Bing tries to explain the de- How they both win is told in a ed his money, the other, his heart. tails of the accident Overman
dramatic, sophisticated style. thinks it a great idea foton Blay Bldrey Blackmer and Joseph Caw- for his star, and commission Bingthorn are also in the cast.
to write it
Many hilarious
complications
Mr. C. M. Woolf and Mr. Her- bert Wilcox become directors o* the Universal Picture Corporation of America.
Will
will "put Canada in bad light throughout the word, and is with. out foundation because of the
epidemic conditions and lack K hospital facilities it deplets.
"I protest against the explo`ts -
ton of one of the wonders of the world by such a distasteful picture just to sat'sy American greed for money."
tion between Hollywood and London instara, story material, talent, and technicians.
Universal City will be used by British unit
A new film star, portraying the glorious scoundrel whose name became the terror of kings, Errol Flynn, 6 ft. 4 in. of fight- ing manhood, will come to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow in the title role of the Cosmopolitan production "Captain Blood,”
heralded as the year's most exciting motion picture.
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KINGS
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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5 1C, 7.16 & 9.30 P.M. THREE ATTRACTIONS IN ONE PROGRAMME
LAST
Pagans
MALA ·AND,
LOTUS
Beauties in Cast of 5,000!
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer icture
ALSO. 'AUDIOSCOPIKS?
THE BIGGEST NOVELTY SINCE TALKIES! PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST
TIME ON THE SCREEN,' EXPLANATORY REMARKS BY
THE PETE SMITH RED AND GREEN GLASSES SUPPLIED TO EVERY PATRON.
-AND LAUREL & HARDY
·
IN THEIR
LATEST COMEDY
**LIVE
GHOSTS"
1
NEXT THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII"
RKO
OHANGE with PRESTON FOSTER ALAN HALE BASIL RATHBONE PICTURE
ALHAMBRA
JAN RD, KOWLOOM: DARY AT 2,30-370-720 & 9.30 «TEL. 50 686
BY SPECIAL REQUEST! SHOWING FOR ONE DAY ONLY
$2,000,000 FILM THRILL!
They broke avery law of
the Seven Seas...fighting,
loving, sealing an Island
Poradire in a South Sen
Edeni. One of the great
adventures of all time,
lives again in a screen epic
it took two years and two
million dollars to moksl
ON
Mutiny s
THE Bounty
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAT
staring CHARLES
LAUGHTON
GABLE
CLARK
with FRANCHOT TONE
·Herbert Muide » Eddie Quillan
Metro-
Maytr
Budiay Bigyan- » Downld Citri i Göźliwyn
A Frank Lloyd Production
Associate Producer: Albert Lowka
MAJESTIC
ONE
истих
THEATRES
At 2:30, 5.20,
-7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
Exciting
ADVENTURE
WITH BINNIE BARNES, NEIL HAMILTON THURSDAY: GEORGE ARLIES
IN
RICHA
|LASZLO FOR H. K. LAST OF THE PAGANS?”
HOTEL
Dreamy romance of the South Bess; the fury of a tropical typhoon; maelstroms of primitive passions and emotions, and the
To Feature At Dinner naunting loveness of a Pacific.
Dances
Paradise--all these elements are woven into a' sometimes haunting.. sometimes exciting. sometimes Entertainment of a particularly romantic drama in Last of the striking nature will feature durmg Pagans," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's the dinner dances at the Hong saga of the islands now showing Kong Hotel on Friday, 24th and at the King's Theatre. Saturday, 25th April, when Laszio
It is gripping entertainment, of vice with the Council, Educated in Schwartz. the eminent Hungarian an unusual sort, therefore hard to MR. GIMSON TO BE
London he joined the Public Works Violinist Humorist and Caricaturist describe. It has thrills galore. It COMMISSIONER
Department in May, 1913, and has will contribute some amusingly shows the audience intimate do- been continuously attached to that clever novelties. Succeed Mr. Harpur In Department since, with the drept
tails of native e to rise to a The inimitable artiste, who is crescendo of emotion, and it tells tion of the period of the Great on his 4th World Tour, has gained a delicately romantic story of love. Public Works Post-
War when he was absent on mill exceptional popularity throughout. And it is all set in island scenery ary service. At the end of the his travels The press in London. of almost breath-taking beauty. War he resumed as District New York and Bombay has paid Mr. A. F. Gimson, Deputy Comgineer, from May, 1918. In 1931 trbute to him in terms such as missioner of Public Works, 8.M.C., he was promoted Chief Civil En-Brillant Hungarian Tolinist sparkling with humorous enter has been appointed to succeed Mr. ginčer, and in March, 1935, he be "Combines #Talent? "Out- tainment and Laszlo will be pre- ing to produce the play with the C. Harpur as Commissioner of Pub-came Deputy Commissioner of Pab- standing Success, Wit of the seating free Caricatures to money a rich uncle has just lette Worka when the latter retires lie Worked
Musical
World."Entertainment patrons. It is suggested that those. ""Laughing | intending to be present for the g dinner dances should make early "“evenings, promise to be | reservations,
follow, including a seltzer water orders Bing to leave, telling him batte in a night club where Eing the deal is off. has gone with the star to get imora material for the play.
Miss Bennett sees Crosby re- hearsing a love scene with the star and she walks out on him, with the simultaneous arrival back from Europe of Overman who also
Braest Cossart. Overman's but ler, comes to the rescue by offer
Shanghai, Apr. 17.
him. Miss Bennett returns to say in June, it was learned yesterday. The promotion of Mr. Gimson to unlike any goodbye and all ends on a gay Mr Cimson's promotion comes the Commisionership will become around the World musical note...
after a long and distinguished set-effective on June 15-(N.C.D.N;}~
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