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ENTERTA
QUEENS
OPENING TO-DAY AT 2.3 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
THE BIG DANCE PARADE OF STARS AND LAUGHSI)
COLLEEN
4 Srows
DAILY
2.30-5.19 7.13--3.39
DICK POWELL
RUBY KEELER
JACK OAKIE • JOAN BLONDELL March Herbert-Louiss Fazenda - Paul Draper 100's Of Girls 1 Seng Hits Big Chibur Number -NEXT CHANGE -----
BURSTING WITH EXCITEMENT
BOULDER
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE AH WILDERNESS" "CRIME AND
KING'S
CINEMA
Hồng Kong
"Crime and Punishment" "Tommy's Revue”
QUEEN'S:-
"Colleen"
ORIENTAL:-
"Ah Wilderness"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :---
"Crime and Punishment" MAJESTIC:-
"The Case of The Curious
Bride"
DAM"
STAR-
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TAKE ANY TRAM OR HARRY VALɩky Bua
ORIENTAL
THEATRESSES
TO-DAY
FLENINA
ROAD
WANCHAT
TEL. 28473
• TO-MORROW.
AN UNFORGETTABLE SCREEN SENSATION !
HE WAS SO YOUNG
ACLARENCE-
BROWN
PRODUCTION
SUN.
•
and she was
so provocative!
Youth in the wild- erness of first love and temptation... in the screen droma that you'll cherish as a glow- ing memory!
Ah Wilderness!
EUGENE O'NEILL'S"
Great American Drama... d' nation-wide stage success....on the screen of last!
starring WALLACE BEERY
*" LIONEL " with
BARRYMORE
ALINE
MacMAHON
ERIC LINDEN
CECILIA PARKER SPRING BYINGTON
Muver«
MON HAROLD LLOYD “MILKY WAY”
TUES.
MATINEES: 20c.-30e ✪ EVENINGS: Z0c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
ESTARE
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
Romance etched against the bullet- riddled background of the War Be- tween the States!
* por pelania
MARGARET SULLAVAN
So Red The Rose"
* Paramount Picture with
WALTER CONNOLLY
Randolph Scott
Directed by, King Vider
NEXT CHANGE
WENDY
眩
JOHN
BARRIE HOWARD
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IN MILLIONS
IN THE AIR'
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A golfer was driving of about a foot in front of the teeing mark. The club secretary happened to come along at that moment.
"Herel" he cried indignantly "You capt do that! You're dis- qualified"
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PECULIAR
FAMILY TRAITS
OBJECTS OF NEW BUREAU OF HEREDITY
Lundon, May 11. Pecular tamily traits which may have been handed down from one ¡generation to another 'are being sought by the newly formed Bureau of Human Hereditary.
The Bureau, which has its head- quarters in Gower Street, London, W.C aims at building up a store- house of information about in- herited characteristics. no matter how strange or weird they may be. Mrs. C, B. S. Hodson, honorary general secretary of the Bureau, discussing Its alms and objects with a reporter, said that in farm- ing and stock-breeding a know- ledge of hereditary had proved sa taluable that bureaux had been set up dealing with plant and animal gentics, where information was carefully collected and made avail able to agriculturists.
"Until now there has not been a similar service. for those interested in the question of human heredi- tary" said Mrs. Hodson.
We know that as the result of ré- numerous experiments and search work a mass of information 'on this subject exists, but it has never been collated and made available for the people needing it In addition to the facts ob
those who have tainable from made a close study of heredity and have conducted experiments, we also want any help which the man- in-the-street can give with regard to family characteristica."
Mrs. Hodson said, that it was thought that it would take the Bureau about three years to collect all that data,
"We shall then be ready to an- swer any inquiries we may receive.
"What for?" demanded the play-and any, advice we can offer will
"You're driving off in front of the mark."
The player looked at him with pity. "Away, you idiot," he said tersely, "I'm playing my third -strokej"
be given free," she said.
Mrs. Hodson pointed out that three classes of people who urgent- the the information ly need Bureau seeks are the medical pro- fession, educationists, and research workers.
"So Red The Ruse"
QUEEN'S :—
Coming
"Boulder Dam"
ORIENTAL:--
"Milky Way"
MAJESTIC:-
STAR:
"Strike Me Pink"
Millions In The Air"
SO RED THE ROSE
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AT THE ORIENTAL
"Ah
Wilderness!". Eugene O Neill's great stage drama, brought to the screen in elaborate form will be the attraction at the" Oriental Theatre to-day and to- morrow.
A smashing triumph for both Wallace Beery, who stars as the and Lionel lovable. Uncle Sid Barrymore. who plays the father "Ah Wilderness!" tells the story of a family in an intensely naman manner and with charac- ters every person in the audience can recognize.
role.
There is hilarious comedy in it. charming romance of both youth and middle age, and moments or dynamic drama that holds the audience in its spell.
PUNISHMENT” ·
AT THE KING'S AND "ALHAMBRA ·
"Crime and Punishment" a stir- ring drama vividly portrayed on the Bcreens at the King's and Alhambra theatres by Edward Arnold and Peter Lorre and a capable cast gives us food for thought on the present day crimes.
The story as unfolded on the screens thus:
Raskolnikov, (Lorre) & Studeny is starving to death in his garret even though he has sold a brilliant article on the criminal mind. Des- perate, and feeling that a man with his mentality can commit the per- fect crime, he murders and rots a wretched pawnbroker. He thinks everything is planned perfectly; but he has not provided against his gnawing conscience.
The youthful romance is charm- ingly carried out by Eric Linden and Mickey and Cecilia Parker, Rooney, Spring Byington, Charles Grapewin. Frank Albertson, Ed- ward Nugent, Bonith Granville and
The Inspector (Arnold), suspici- and tor- Helen Flint are others who deserve.
ous, dogs, his footsteps mention for excellent performancements him by innuendo, hinting that the net is closing in. When to be an innocert man is about convicted for the crime. Raskol- bikov breaks down, and confesses.
"BOULDER DAM”
two Sung
Patric a Bils sings numbers in her role of a night club enter.ainer in "Boulder Dam" Warner Bros.' picture which is coming shortly to the Queen's
Theatre.
The songs are "My Long Gone Baby Came Home" "and "Todding Along with You? written by Mor: Dixon and Allie Wrubel.
*
Both were
"Boulder Dam" is dynamic Margaret Sullavan, who recently drama of a little dancing girl who gained the favour of motion p.c- redeems a sh rker and fugitive from justice through love. Besides ture audiences as the star of "The Good Fairy" und "Only Yesterday"
Miss Ellis the cast includes Ross Alexander. heads the cast of Paramount's
Lyle Talbot, Henry O'Neill, Eddle Acuff, Egon Brecher and scores of others.
screen adaptation of Stark Young's best-selling novel. "So Red the Rose," which is showing a the Star Theatre to-day. In support of Miss Sullavan are Walter Connolly, Janet Beecher. Randolph Scott and Harry Ellerbe.
the
Ich s picture. a poignant romance of the South during the War
States. between the
Miss Sullavan is cast as Vallette. beautiful daughter of an arista- cratic Southern family which, with fortitude and courage faces
brave the ordeals of those
and terrible days. "So Red the Rose" tells the story of Vallette's" (Miss Sullavan's) struggle to keep bright her love for the man of her heart who is determined to ignore the cause in which his family and friends Armly believe.
Randolph Scott is east as her sweetheart, Duncan, giving young Scott his first important dramatic role,
Mr.
Walter Connolly. distinguished actor of the stage and screen, is lovable and appealing as Vallette's kindly. aristocratic father: and Janet Beecher s excellently cast as Vallette's mother. Others who small distinguish themselves in but effective roles are. Harry Ellerbe, Elizabeth Patterson in a
characterization of strange
sarcastic re- mpoverished and
Dickie Moore. Harry iative:
coloured ac:or, Ellerbe and the Daniel Haynes, one of the stars of "Green Pastures." cast as an old and faithful family retainer.
an
"COLLEEN"
In "Colleen" the Warner Bros.' picture which opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre. and in which Bobby Connolly staged the produc- Jon numbers, legs will be less im- portant than backs.
There Is more to it than that, much more but it loses its potency
the conflues of a review. There is Sonya. the miserabl young girl. played to a ahish by Marian Marsh; Raskolnikov's mother and sister, played by Elisabeth Risdon and Tala. Birell respectively. There is Girlov, enacted by Douglass Dum- brille, who wants Antonia, the sis- ter: Ditri, played by Robert Allen, who also wants her; and Lushin. played by Gene Lockhart, who al- most gets her. And there is Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the stage star. as The Pawnbroker. All of these performances. no matter how small, contribute materially to the super- la ve nature of the production.
"Crime and Punishment" will long go down in film history as a classic to be remembered.
TOMMY'S REVUE
Prior to the picture being screen- ed at the King's Theatre, "Tommy's Revue" was presented on the stage. Connolly has covered the lower by a troupe of beautiful girls in a extremities of his dancing girls varied programme of songs and and has uncovered. their backs.
dances. The girls certainly danced One hundred of the mos. beauti-with grace and after the Russian ful backs in the world will be seen in the "You got to Know How to Dance" number. One of them is Ruby Keeler's.
Dance was presented, the "Shadow Waltz" was loudly applauded. The culminating Item "the. Hula-Hula" was well received. The technique of the Hawaiian dance was beauti- fully captured by the dancers and the applause was well merited
In selecting his dancers, Con- nolly had "three women beauty specialists choose the girls with the most perfect backs from the hundreds of dancers tested. Orry- Kelly then designed white back-
The The house had been newly paint- less gowns for the troupe. gowns are ankle length and only ed, and the mistress of the house when the girls kick are their legs was surveying the result. seen, and then just for a moment. "Colleen" is a stirring musical comedy with an all star cast which is headed by Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakle Joan Blondell Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda and- Paul Draper.
""Could you spare time to scrape the paint off the windows?" she asked the workman.
you can
"Certainly, ma'am, lend me a coin," replied the man,
Having nothing smaller than half a crown, the lady. lent him that. Draper the famous interpreta-Half an hour later the man return- tive dancer of Broadway, makes his film bow in this picture. He has been the rage of New York and in this picture he does some of his finest lyric dancing.
ed to her a worn and thin sixpence. "Buter-wasn't it half a crown
I gave you?" stammered the lady.
"It was," said the man with em- phasis; but it's worn down a bit."
Paul Draper (left) the year's sensational dancing find, makes his screen debut with Dick Powell. (centre) Buby Keeler (right) and the greatest all star cast since "42nd Street" In Warner Bros.' new, bigger and faster musical romance "Colleen," which opens at the queen's Theatre to-day. Other headliners are Jack Oak 'e, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Lonus Fazerds and Marlo Wil-
son. There are hundreds of pretty dancing girls.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
LAST TWO-DAYS AT 2.30, 5 1C, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION!
ON THE SCREEN
EDWARD ARNOLD
in Dostoievsky's
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
with PETER LORRE
Marian March - Robert Allen and Mrs. Patrick Campbell Directed by JOIZF VOM STERNBERG a 0. P. Schulberg production
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
ON THE STAGE AT ALL PRRFORMANCES
COMPLETE.CHANCE OF PROGRAMME.
“TOMMY'S
REVUE”
12 Talented. European Artistes !
8 Charming Girls!
Now Acts! Gorgeous Costumes! The Genuine Rhumba, Carioca, on- tinental, Hotcha Hawaiian Dances- Tap Dancing. Eccentric, Daring Acrobatic, . Turas knel Dance Novelties!
Brilliant
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RD, KOWLOON-DARY BY :
& 9,30 TEL. 5.
TO-DAY & TO-MURROW
THE MOST POWERFUL DRAMA OF MODERN TIMES!
Zing into life with motional im-
monumental
achievement!
Edward
Cornold
CRIME
AND
PUNISHMENT
PETER LORRE
Manan Marsh
Robert Allen and Mr. Patrick Campbe
Directed by JOSEF VON STERNBERG
COLLIMBIE PICTUR
THEATRE
FINAL
SHOWINGS MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
Sue PERRY MASON New King of Crime Hunters
"THE CASE OF THE
CURIOUS BRIDE
WARREN WILLIAM
JAAN TAHN'* SINGLAY - ZELEN JENZAIDAN
At 2 20, 6.20,
7.20 & 8.20 P.M.
SATURDAY:- EDDIE CANTOR in “STRIKE ME PINK"
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