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ENTERTA
QUEENS
SHOWING TO DAY AT 2.30. 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
SHE'S NEVER LOOKED SO LOVELY.....AND
BAY
SHE'S NEVER HAD SUCH A CAST!
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I FOUND STELLA PARISH
·IAN HUNTER - PAUL LUKAS - SYBIL JASON
NEXT CHANGE
BETTE D'AVIS ACCLAIMED THE BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
in
"SPECIAL AGENT"
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4 SHOWS
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2.30~5.19 7.15-3.30
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TAMCHAI TEL. 28473
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1936.
TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KINGS:--
parlle Chan at the Circus"
QUEEN'S:--
"I Found Stella Parish"
ORIENTAL--
"Whipsaw"
CENTRAL:
"The Invisible Ray"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
The Invisible Ray" MAJESTIC:—
STAR
"Mary Burns, Fugitive"
""Roberta" -
KING'S:--
Sunday
"Magnificent Obsession"
QUEEN'S:~~
"I Found Stella Parish" ORIENTAL:-
"Rose Marie" CENTRAL:
"The Invisible Ray" ALHAMBRA :---
"The Invisible Ray" MAJESTIC:-
"The Big Broadcast of 1930'
OLAST 4 TIMES TO DAY STAR:-
A WELL COMEDY THRILLER IT'S VERY FAST AND FUNNY,
MYRNA LOY Whipsaw
SPENCER TRACY
TOMORROW MONDAY TUESDAY.
A MOST AMAZING SCREEN
PRODUCTION
BIGGEST MUSICAL
THRILL OF 1936!
Triumph for its singlag stars, string romance, hit songs, spectacle!
Jeanelle NANNYA
MACDONALD NELSON EDDY Rose Marie
with REGINALD OWEN ALLAN JONES
The Kinging
"Niaghty. Marietta
Mazo-Goldwyn May
● MATINEES: 20:30e ✪ EVENINGS: 20c-30c.-50c.-70c.
STARE
SPECIAL TIMES!
At 2.30. 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY"
The Old Favourite" Every Body Has Been
Waiting For !
IRENE
DUNNE
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ASTAIRE
GINGER
ROGERS
in
· JEROME KERN'S brilliant musical hstage hit.. screen- zed in a sunburst,
(of song)
Now dicace SURSATIONE by the
of
"Gay
Divorced
ROBERTA
world of
Love,
loughs and Rhythmi
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RANDOLPH SCOTT, HELEN WESTLEY, VICTOR VARCONI,
CLAIRE, DODD . . and Holly. wood's stateliest beauties in fashion's most ravishing creations!
TO-MORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY
Merian C Cooper's Mightiest of Spectacle Dramas !
“THE LAST DAYS
OF POMPEII"
AN BRO
KO RADIO SUPER PRODUCTION
A new team of film sweethearts who have been acclaimed wherever the picture has been shown, is composed of gorgeous Kay Francis and Ian Hunter, handsomest of English stage and screen stars, who will appear in I Found Stella Parish," the First National drama showing to-day at the Queen's Theatre,
I FOUND STELLA PARISH
The First National picture "I found Stella Parish" which is being shown at the Queen's Theatre to- day, has Kay Francis portraying the role of beautiful and talented actress in a powerful drama of a woman's secret past.
The story concerns the mysteri- CUS but brilliant actress who reaches the pinnacle of success "The Last Days of Pompeil only to topple into the depths of despair through the betrayal of the, man she has learned to love. Separated from her child whom she has placed in hiding, with a faithful retainer, her love turns to bitter hatred. She is torn by a ter- riffic emotional stress that eata into her heart and makes her life. a horrible nightmare.
THE INVISIBLE RAY
tral
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A picture which created unaspal inters on the part of its tire production
"Invisible -Ray. "the Universal drama now
playing at the Alhambra and Cen- How this young journalist who Theatres with Karlo "and has so terribly ruined her life by Bela Lugosi in the starring roles.
bringing to light the scandal of During the progress of the story there are any startling scientific her secret past learns that the experiments which have not yet Geen accomplished in real life, and the methods used in achieving the desired results for screen purposes occupied the constant attention of everyone working in UI on the picture
woman he has ruined loved him
and his battle to undo the wrong he has done and the clever ruse he employs to bring her back, to the path of success leads to an astounding and Intensely dramatic climax.
Ian Hunter, noted British actor,
One sequence shows Karloff, by means of an invisible light ray,
gives an exceptionally fine portray- bringing from the heavens an actu
al of the young journalist who al reproduction of events in the starry nebula Andrineda millions ruins the life of the woman who of years ago, and the entire glass loves and trusts him and then helps dote of his great laboratory is her back to love and success. Paul filled with the blinding fight of Lukas has the role of an unsuccess- Suns and Stars brought downful sultor and manager of Miss through the ages. Later Kartoff Francis, Remarkable acting is given aliscovers Radium X, a substance aby Sybil Jason the child actress thousand times more powerful than
who portrays the daughter of Miss radium. and by its use погош-
Francis. olishes strange scientific feats which are literally hair-raising. As result of being poisoned by the mysterious element his hands and face become luminous in the dark, and the producing of this effect was one of the most difficult ever attempted in film work,
"Invisible Ray" was directed by Lambert Hillyer, and the cast ap pearing with Karloff and Lugosi includes Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Beulah Bondi, Walter Kingsford and Violet Kemble Cooper. The picture was produced by Edmund Gainger.
"ROBERTA"
The year's gayest and mos colourful musical romance comes to the screen when Irene Dunne. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers open in RKO-Radio's film version of the Broadway, hit, "Roberta," showing at the Star Theatre for one day only.
Featuring the singing of Mies Duine, the dancing and singing of Astaire and Miss Rogers, and a brillant display of feminine fashions by a regiment of beauti- ful mannequins, the production. offers sparking "entertainment of tremendous appeal.
Others in the cast are Jessie. Ralph. Barton MacLane. Walter Kingsford, Harry Beresford, Joseph Sawyer. Eddie Acuff and Robert Strange.
SPECIAL AGENT.
WEEK-END RADIO PROGRAMMES
[Continued from Page 4.)
8.30 p.m-The Commodore Grand Orchestra, directed by Harry Davidson. From the Comme- dore Theatre, Hammersmith. Suite, Mediterranean: (2) Italy (Barcarolle) (3) France (Car- neval (Ansell). Hymn to the Sun (Solo Violin, Charles Vor- Zanger) (Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Fletcher). "Carnaval des papillons (Harry Rowe Shelley. arr. Schmid). The Whistling Waltz (Harry Woods). Daddy Leng Legs (Kenneth Wright) Selection, The Chocolate Sol- "dier Straus. arr, Lampe).
9 p.m.-Greenwich Time Signial. 9 pm The News and Announce-
ments.
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9.20 p.m.--Dance Music, 9.45 p.m.-Close down.
at
TRANSMISSION 3 Two of the following trequencies will be used:---
GSG 17.79, Mc/s (16.86 m.), GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.), GSD_11.75 Mc/s (25,53 m.), (from 3.30 p.m. to close) 10 p.m.-Big Ben, A running 'com- mentary ΟΣ the Wightman Cup, from Wimbledon. 10.25 p.m.-Great Britain v. `U:8.A. A' running commentary on the International Palo Match. From Hurlingham.
11.50 p.m.-A running commentary on the Wightman Cup from Wimbledon.
12
midnight.-Greenwich
Signal
Time
12.15 am, The News and An-
nouncements.
12.35 a.m.The BBC Dance Or
chestra. directed by Henry
Hall
1 am-Close down.
That there is something new in disclose their hidden hordes of gold motion plctures has again been and land them behind prison bars. proven by Warner Bros, whose, George Brent, in the role of a special features based on the work- newspaper reporter, falls in love ings of various Governmental de- with Bette Davis, who plays the partments have been bright lights | confidential secretary of a super in the entertainment world for the crook, and between them they past year.
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It was this company that filmed the extremely successful "G Men" the first time the operatives of the Department of Justice were made the subject of dramatization.
Now Warner Bros. have another and even bigger success in the Cosmopolitan Production "Special Agent" which is due shortly at the Queen's Theatre.
Everyone has heard about these special. Agents. Everyone knows how they have used the income tax laws to jail arch criminals whose wealth, political influence and cun- ring made them immune to local and state laws. But few outside of Melody and dance numbers and the inner Government circles know the lavish fashion displays all are how they operated, the dangers woven logically into + fast-
they faced, and the daring they moving, thoroughly plausible story used to track down the criminals,
which combines tender romance with gay comedy.
Love Interest.centres about Miss Dunne and Randolph Scott, al- though there is more than a sug- gestion of romance in the battle of wits between Astaire and Miss Rogers and their teaming of danco wizardy.
The story revolves about the comedy-rich situation of an Ali- American football player falling heir to a fashionable Faris' gown. shop. The girl bero and his band leader pal set the world of fashion agog, the hearts of the mademol- selles a-twitter, and the feet of the Parisians aflame during the course of their hectic adventures, Jerome Kern, king of musical comedy composers, wrote the music for the screen production. In addition to the original songs, among them "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," from the stage show, new Kera songs written especially for the film, are presented.
FINAL
Enally get the evidence which lands the "Killers" behind the bars. Never has Miss Davis had a part more sulted, to her talents, and she plays with exceptional skill the role of a girl trying to help the government and at the same time. in deadly fear of her life which she knows will be forfeited if the, criminals find her out.
.
Ricardo Cortez is again the villain The part is tailor-made for him, being that of a ruthless, but cool, resourceful and polished criminal. He portrays the charac-. ter with his usual sangfroid.
Charlie Chan at the Circus on Page 12:
SHOWINGS MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
THEATRE:
SYLVIA SIDNEY
Guilty of aiding the man the loved
Mary Burns, FUGITIVE
T
MELVYN GOUGLAS - ALAN BAXTER +
At 2.30, 5.20.
7.20 & 9.20 PM.
Sunday:—JACK OAKIE in “THE BIG BROADCAST of 1938′′|
TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5 10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ANOTHER GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION ! ON THE SCREEN
NEW
STYLE
SONG
AND
DANCE
SHOW
FROM SUN.
A FOX picture with
Warner O ́LAND
KEYE LUKE
OLIVE BRASNO
ON THE STAGE REX STORY PRISENTS
NINE O'CLOCK REVUE'
9
TALENTED
ARTISTS,
6
GORGEOUS
DANGERS
SNAPPY COMEDY - SENSATIONAL DANCING
IRENE DUNNE-ROBERT TAYLOR is "UNIVERSAL
"MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION"
AT THE
CENTRAL
NATHAR ROAD KOWLOON
CAR PARK: DIRECTLY OPPOSITE
PICTURE
QUEEN'S, ROAD, CENTRAL CAR PARK: JERVOIS STREET
ALHAMBRA
THEATRES
SHOWING TO-DAY
HE DREW HIS
WEIRD POWER FROM
SUNS, PLANETS
AND STARS!
His monstrous machine captured the rays of heavenly bodies as they battled fiercely millions of years ago! Now he sought to destroy the world with them becauJO his own world of love. crumbled about him!-
Carl Laemmle presenta THE GREAT
KARLOFF
and BELA LUGOSI
THE
INVISIBLE
RAY
Universal's Weirdest Drama!
with
FRANCES DRAKE
and
FRANK LAWTON
An Edmund Grainger Production Directed by Lambert Hillyer
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