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TO-DAY AT THE IN THE
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"Our Relations“ QUEEN'S:-
"Vallant Is The Word For
Carrie"
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CHARLES COLLINS FRANK 'MORGAN
STEFFI DUNA
Dürvened by Land Carigen.
Demired in calor by Robert,
[deond Joner. Produced by Jake Igraški
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Charlie Chaplin
MODERN TIMES
·UNITED ARTISTE
WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY JACK LONDON'S "WHITE FANG"
SEQUEL TO "CALL OF THE WILD" A 30TH CENTURY PRODUCTION //
DUKE OF KENT CUP
FOR SKIERS
The Duke of Kent cup add-ing contest for amateurs will take place at Murren on January 13
Contestants must realde in non- mountainous regions which are 6 certain number of hours distant
from akl-country and must have spent not more than one month in the year at ski practice. The race has been instituted in order togallow business, men, students And city workers, who may be no Vices to compete on equality.
No well-known amateurs will be allowed to enter
TELEVISION
STUDIOS
A Performer's Impressions
TEAM WORK AT ITS BEST
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 28
Anniversaries and Holy Innocents' Day,
Cinemars.
Holidays. -
King's: Our Relations"
Alleen's: Valiant Is The Word
For Carrie
Central:-Les Miserable." Oriental:"Dancing Pirate."! World:Chinese Picture." Alhambra Sex Spollers." Majestie: Modern Times" Star:Times Square Playboy." Dances-Cheero Club Dance, s
p.m.
of
As he approaches through Alexandra Park, the "televisee" 15 confronted with a startling para dox, writes a correspondent in a Home paper. The Alexandra Entertainments Orchestral Con Palace, that scarcely credibie Vic-cert at China Fleet Club, 5.30 p.m. tor.an edince, with its imposingly *Meetings Half-monthly hideous medley of architectural Hong Kong Football Referees' Liyies, has been chosen to house Assen, in Sports Club, 8 p.m. the B.B.C.'s television studios. Miscellaneous St. Andrew's The corner occupied by the studios Club Open" Night, 9 pm, and offices has been dealt with Moon-Full Moon, 12.00 am. XI Recording to the strictly utilitarian Moon, 15th, Day. Day. requirements of the BBC. Noth Social-Y.M.C.A." Annual Christ- Ing could be more emphatic than mas Dinner to Service Men, 730 the contrast between the sober.m.; Kowloon Bowling Green Club efficiency of the new wing and the Musical "Hour" for Members and surrounding pretentiousness. The their friends, 6.15 p.m. tall aerial, a very graceful struc- ture, is a good example of en- gineering beauty.
You pass from a bright, spac- cus vestibule to severe corridors and store stairways where the hum of mighty motors penetrates Insistently. The two big studios, "If You Could Only Cook" otty, grey oblongs, serve for the MAJESTIC:-
White Fang"
"VALIANT IS THE
WORD FOR CARRIE"
of
a stage
The motion picture version Barry Benefield's best-selling novel. "Valiant Is The Word For Carrie," which is showing to-day at the Queen's Theatre, brings to the screen Gladys George, noted dramatic actress supported by an elaborate cast.
Miss George has been actress for many years but did not attract the attention of Holly wood until she made a new record in New York last year by appear ing in 700 successive performan- ces of "Personal Appearance." She is an actress of great charm and ability and big things are expected for her by Hollywood. ... "Vallant Is The Word For Carrie" is the story of Carrie Snyder, a woman frowned upon by "respect able" residents of a smen Lout s'anh town, and her friendship with a small boy. When the boy is forsaken by the world, she takes him, together with an orphan girl. and brings them up as her own The years pass and Carrie becomes a highly successful operator of a dry-cleaning business, The child- ren grow up and when it seems that all is serenity, a situation orises which leads to Carrie's arrest.
Before the trial she is faced with a dilemma, The children know, nothing of her past. To go through with a trial would mean that the whole tawdry story of
her former career would be parad-
ed before them. To plead guilty
and waive the trial would mean
long fall term.. But in that case The children would never know. She makes her decision in a thrill- ing climax,
Supporting Mies George are Arline Judge, John Howard, Kabel Jewell, Harry Carey Dudley. Digges and many others.
THE SEA SPOILERS
two systems, Baird and Marconi- Emil, which are employed in alter- nate weeks. I was included in a Baird week.
Sports.
Tennis-Ladies' Bingles Colony Championship Final, at UB.R.C., 3.00 p.m.
Guntise.-7.01 am Sunset-3.47
p.m.
KINGS &
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7:15 & 9.30 PM.
HAL ROACH STUDIOS presente
STANTORUM NASIL OLI
Two Stannies-¿WO. Ollies-face to face! Laugh to laugh, It's their grandest FULL LENGTH
FEATURE: 990
LAUREL HARDY
"The Mana Buc** Harry Lashmas
Directed by
A STAN LAUREL
production
OUR RELATIONS
Mad Gatlin Maya kerusa
ALSO LATEST M-41.-M. UAHTOUN IN TREHNICOLOSAL
BARNYARD BABIES:
NEXT CHANGE-
Tides-High at 9.50 and 20,21;/ Low at 3.05 and 13.30.
two
"OUR RELATIONS" The studios have inevitably bor- rowed much of their garb from Hardys were Almatized together at
When two Laurels und
Alm studios-clusters "of huge the King's Theatre to-day in the electric lamps, tall curtains and first showing of the latest Hal screens. Those who enjoy the Roach-M-G-M I'melight
feature comedy, aspire to be "Our Relations," it set the audience televized and bask in the marked-Into ly warm blaze of several 2,000 round of mirth and merriment.
one uproariously, hilarious watt lamps.
one.
should
One lean, sad-faced Laurel, and A LONG DAY
one pompous, jovial Hardy have television was a long been inseparable and irresistable in My day of
Rehearse from eleventhe entertainment world for ten a'clock until lunch, followed by a years, but in their current produc first transmission from 3.5 until tion they each acquire a twin bro- 3.25 and a second from 9.5 until ther portraying dual roles for the 9.25, but experience of this newly first time in achieved miracle of modern phy- scs is so exciting, there is so much to marvel and guess at, that the time goes swiftly.
I am being televised-a com- mentary on certain art objects. My first stance before the camera is chalked on the black floor of the studio and the announcer, oc- cuples it as the whistle blows the call to action." There is dead lence and I stand beside the an- nouncer, secking for my eyes an angle of refuge from the terrifia glare of the lamps. The an- nouncer has introduced me, and I take his place in the chalked area of vision. Vision, the camera, swallows the images and digesta them electrically in the rubber tubing by which it is connected with the transmitting apparatus.
SOUND
Sound is absorbed by the micro- Phone suspended from a land of crane which follows me as I move from one object to another. I am
feature-length
comedy. It's double-trouble and double-laughts in the most ever to confront-this team of stellar come. dians, et ko
Even their wives (Daphne Pol- lard and Betty Healy) didn't know or believe they had twin brothers in the new laugh hit, based on W. W. Jacobs' story "The Money "Box." And when they come sailing in on an old tramp steamer, as their own twin sailor brothers the way paved for a riot of buffoonery and new Laurel and Hardy pantomime and fantastes.
Thrills and excitement are added when gangsters, menacingly play- ed by Ralf Harolde and Noel Madi- sod, enter in quest of a fabulously Valuable pearl ring entrusted in the care of the sailor twins by their ships captain, Sidney Toler. The sequence on the picturesque dock whart for the finish Tanks as the most original and spectacu lar of the clever Laurel and Hardy gags,
scenes on the most complete and Lavish gayety is provided in the palatial pirate ship cafe set ever introduced
on the Screen--Irik Adrian and Lona Andre portray two beautiful and alluring "giris, surrounded by an array of fashion- ably-gowned women and smart men, and waitresses in pirate dress, with fine effect.
trying to realise various adms-to walk cleary and fluently, to help the sound and camera operators by synchronising picture and word. and to keep a wary eye on the clock, in order that the allotted may be killed, but not -time
exceeded.
For all the stupefying glare, this task is more stimulating than
Alan Hale as the burly walter, that or delivering in solitude James Finlayson as the honest en": sineer Arthur Housman as the
talk to the walls of a studio
west at Broadcasting House, Alaska.....Beal poaching......the adventures of the United States Coast Guard.-
There ine
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TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY.
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inebriated errant husband gives | | HERBERT MARSHALL "IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK"
"MODERN TIMES"
P
is a small audience of pro- splendid performances. In the naval JEAN ARTHURT" in' ** ducers, technicians and scene- beer garden. "It is the most Im shifters lurking in relative dark-portant cast ever to support the These are the principal elements ness and humanising the per- inimitable film comics. that comprise something "dine-formance. My comments end. Harry Lachman, directing, gives rent" in screen stories, for return to the chalked portion to Laurel and Hardy as, artistic and Univesal's The Sea Spollers," say and bow, good-night to those
realistic background that could which is showing to-day at the who receive my vocal image.
with distinction. For drama-ern Times." Charlie Chapin's new' Two years in production, "Mod- Alhambra Theatre.
the performance ""Our Relations." comedy, comes to the Majestic is easily the funniest and most Theatre for two days to-day, elaborate production. It is a Stan Laurel production.it
The story, which was written by Chaplin, is that of a factory worker in a huge steel plant, going through a mechanical routine of tightening bolts on a moving track? This night-mare of cold shining steel, mammoth dynamos, pulleys. leyers and switches to said to pro- ide a veritable paradise for Chap- Un's inimitable brand of comedy
out of Job, into Jal
SAILOR BOYS.
AGENTERTAINED
Besides these refreshing ete- ments of story, theme and back- ground, "The Sea Spollers,” offers John Wayne in his first starring rele under the Universal banner.
The breaking up of a relentless A very happy function took ring of seal poachers on the world place at the Ballors & Soldiers' famous seal rookeries of Pribiloff Home on the evening of Christmas Islands, is the central theme or Day, when a party or afty boys the story. While John Wayne, as drawn from the China Fleet, were Commander of a Coast Guard entertained at a dinner and party cutter, is chasing the poachers, his sweetheart: : played by Nan Grey, is kidnapped and held host age by the gang. the fee
John Wayne faces tests of courage and wine?" promotion through his thrilling exploits. The final struggle to capture the stronghold of the poachers is set to the exciting tempo of a pitch ed battle.
KOWLOON TONG FUNCTION
A novel feature of the social
in the Assembly Hall of the Home, functions of the Kowloon Tong under the direction of the Rev. Garden City Association are their and Mrs ECH Tribbeer and Chinese Dinner Dances On Sa members of the Entertainments turday night a large crowd, indul
Charlle doesn't last long on, this Committee. After dinner, games ged in merrymaking, until well in- | Job, however, and the blue denims and competitions were Indulged to the early hours of this morn of the working man soon give way in to the huge enjoyment of the ing. The dance band of HMS. to the more familiar baggy guests, who voted the evening a on Saturday,
trousers, huge shoes, hat and silick.
complete success. Prize winners Among those present were Mr. of the universally beloved little were Messrs. Robertson, Jackson W. C. Bimpson and party, Mr. P tramp Front then on Charlle's. and Thorburn.
W. Stapleton and party. Mr. H. Mife is a series of difficulties which Besides Miss Grey at as his The thanks of the Committee Blu and party, Mr. TE. Gregory, keep him hoppine in and out of |
leading lady, there is a supporting are tendered to the following local Mr. and Mr. Letao, Mr. R. Lee, fobs and in and out of all. But cast which includes Fuzzy Knight, firma, who sent along gifts for the Mr. A. W. da Roza and Mrs: Roza William Bakewell and Russel festive board: The China Em- Mr. and Mrs. A. EH Castro, Mr. Ricks Frank Strayer directed "norlum; « The Colonia) Dispensary; Lai Im Trng (the Hon. Secretary from a story by Stuart and Dor- The Gloucester Hotel The Hong of the Claby Messrs. Henry and
Tell McCowari,
Hotel, The Tabaqueria Filipina, „Albert Chan.
happy ending is provided by the the girl, a beautiful' gamin of the water front. played by Paulette Goddard, Charlie's lovely new lead ing lady. Other familiar faces in
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-NEXT CHANGE- TAUREL & HARDY in their greatest comedy bit. THE BOHEMIAN GIRL”
the cast are Chester Conklin. Henry Bergman and Hank Mann.
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