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SOMETHING TO RELISH
AN
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EXUBERANTLY FUNNY PICTURE
A DARING DEBUTANTE WHO CLAMORED FOR 'LOVE IN A
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE | MAJESTIC DIARY OF LOCAL
KING'S
CINEMA Hong Kong
"Anthony Adverse" QUEEN'S:-
Meremy Man Godfrey"
ORIENTAL:—
* "dworn Enemy." CENTRAL:
"Dancing Pirate"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA;---
"My Man Godfrey" MAJESTIC:—
STAR:
His Brother's Wife"
"My Man Godfrey."
KING'S:—
Coming
"Kelly The Becond."
QUEEN'S
THEATRE
January Schedule
January
3. 4.
5.-His Brother's Wife with Barbara Stanwyck, Robers Taylor (MGM).
6, 7,--Things are Looking Up with
Cicely Courtneidge,
8. 9.-Sworn Enemy with Robert
Young, Florence Rice (M G.M.).
EVENTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 4. Anniversaries and Holidays. - Blessed Angeli
Gineinas: ( King's:--"Anthony adverse," Queen's:-"My Man Godfrey." Central: "Dancing, Pirate," Oriental "Sworn" Enemy," World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra :--"My Man. Godfrey." Majestic: "His Brother's Wife". Star: "My Man - Godfrey, Meetinga-Women's Guild of BL. John's Cathedral, in Cathedral
10, 11.-Laurel and Hardy Variety
Programme and stage at- | Hall 3 pm. traction.
12, 13.-Moscow Nights with Baur,
Penelope Dudley ` (London: Film), and Stage Attraction. 14-Rio Rita with John Boles,
Miscellaneous — St. Stephen's College new Term opens.
Moon -- Moon, 22nd Day. Last, Quarter, 10.22 p.m.
Social Service Men's Farewell Dance to the East Lancs. Regt--in
Bebe Daniels (RKO Radio). 15.-Manhattan Melodrama with | YMCA. West-Lounge, # p.m.
with Clark Gable, Wilfları Powell (M.G.M.). 16.Top Hat with Ginger Rog- 258. Fred Astaire (RKO Radio).
"Walking On Air"
ORIENTAL:
4
"Rio Rita"
17, 18,
ALHAMBRA!~~-~-
The Big Game" MAJESTIC:—
STARI
CAROLE
LOMBARD
“MY MAN GODFREY
with
ALICE BRADY GAIL PATRICK JEAN DIXON
-THURSDAY
At the QUEEN'S "WALKING ON AIR" Gene Haymond · Ann Sothern
An B.K.O. Picture.
4:SHOWS
DAILY
2.30
$20
720-930.
WEDNESDAY··
At the ALHAMBRA Juno Travis & Philip Huston in "THE BIG GAME."
An E.K. O. Picture.
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A DARING ROMANTIC DRAMA OF A MAN AND WOMAN IN SAVAGE SITUATIONS THAT WILL DIGAOSHOLD · YOU SPELL 'BOUND LUCIAL
BEAUTIFUL BARBARA ROMANTIC ROBERT
STANWYCK-TAYLOR
JEAN
HERSHOLT
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Destory
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in this paws of axelting,
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A SPARKLING AND DIVERTING BRITISH COMEDY ! | CICELY COURTNEIDGE
IN "THINGS ARE LOOKING" UP"
DAILY
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"BORDER FLIGHT”
· JOHN HOWARD - FRANCES FARMER
"Things Are Looking Up"
"Border Flight"
CENTRAL:
"Madame Butterfly"
"ANTHONY ADVERSE”
Hi
"Anthony Adverse" is the last
11
19.Last of The Mohicans with Randolph Scott, Heather Angel (U.A.).
20, 21.-Postal Inspector" with Ricardo Cortez (Universal), 23, 23.-Women Are Trouble with Brian Donlevy, (M.Q.M.) and Stage Attraction.
24, 25,
26.-Piccadilly, Jim with Robert
Montòmery. (M.Q.M.).
word in magnificent screen, enter-"MY MAN GODFREY"
talament.
This truly anxiously awaited Warner Bros. production, showing to-day at the King's theatre, held audiences in a spell or breathless suspense are reel after reci unfold-
Sports
Billards. Entries close for the Bing Kong Amateur Billiards As- sociation Championships of the Colony.
Sunrise.-7.04 a.m. Sunset-5.52
p.m.
Tiden High at 102 and 15.20;
TUESDAY, JANUARY: 5 Anniversaries and Holidays.- vigti of the Epiphany.
Cinemas.
King's: "Anthony Adverse." Queen's: "My Man Godfrey." Central:--"Dancing Pirate,”
Oriental:-"Rio Rita." World!--"Chinese Picture.” Alhambra:My Man Godfrey."
Majestic:-"His Brother's Wife," Star:-"Border Flight." $ Lectures Rev. K MacKenzie
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LAST TWO DAYS AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.
THE MANAGEMENT WISHES ALL THEIR PATRONS
APROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
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MERVYN L=RİY
ALSO-TECHNICOLOUR LET IT BE ME”
MERRY MELODIES
NEXT CHANGE MG.M. PICTURE
4 SHOWS
DAILY
7.16--6.30
"KELLY THE SECOND' with PATSY KELLY CHAELET CHASE
TAKE ANY THAN OR HERRY VALLEY BJE
ORIENTALE
FLEMING
WANGHAI
"My Man Godfrey" is a gay de-Dow on "The Greatest Englishman LAST 4 TIMES TO▪DAYƏ
penair modern comedy, light as on the 18th Century," at Helena thistledown, madder and merrier May, 5.30 pm, than a million March häres master Meetings.-K. Branch, English
ed the vivid story of Hervey Allen'sing the multiplication table. This Association, at Helena May, 5.30 Universal laught flot starring monumental literary classic.
The picture follows the romantic adventure of Anthony Adverse through five countries, across the seas and over three continents. For mammoth sets, for colourful and picturesque backgrounds, for dynamic action, for the unusual characterizations of its tremen- dous cast from, Fredric March, the atar, down to the smallest bit play ers for the glamour of its romance, fts human interest and sheer, un- adulterated entertainment, this picture is unsurpassed.
Warner Bros. have again accom- plished the apparently impos-
sible,
Annual, of Ht. Andrew's William Powell and Carole Lom- | Church Mothers' Union and 'Fare= bard, is showing at the Queen's, well to Mrs. E. St. G. Kirke, 3'p.m. Theatre to-day,
The screen story relates the
adventures of William Powell, portraying a butler in the delight- fully dizzy Bullock family. One daughter, played by Carole Lom- bard, falls in love with him, Her sister tries to have him jailed. The maid falls in love with him, too. The mother likes him, but she has & parlour pet or her own.....
The fun gets faster and more furious every second, with laughs bursting like bombshella. The cast includes such excellent players as
Miscellaneous. Rotary Tihin, Rong Kong Hotel,
Moon.-XI Moon, 23rd, Day, ' Sunrise.-7.03 am, Sunset.-5.51 Tidès-High at 0.13 and 14.38: Low at 7.26 and 19.08. p.m.
"BORDER FLIGHT”
1:
The staccato rattle, of machine sun are, the roar and whine of speeding planes "dog-fighting" high above the Pacific, and
A THRILL PACKED COMEDY DRAMA EXPOSING BIG MONEY RACKETS I
SWORN T ENEMY
ROBERT YOUNG
FLORENCE RICK JOSEPH CALLEJA - LEWIS BYONE Dimeni by BRASS Kita • Prodland Svłacha Malband
SPECIAL! TO-MORROW ONE DAY ONLY
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THAT MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL COMEDY will all its captivating songs, music and spectacle.
It has a tremendous cast with Allee Brady. Goll Patrick, Jean thrilling hand-to-hand battling of PICTURE THAT YOU'LL LOVE TO SEE AGAIN
ninety eight speaking parts and 2,500 bit players and 'extras.
But all this, while full of colour, la but the background for a drama of human life. It's loves and hates, Its hopes and its disappointment; its desires and its passions; its yain and futile struttings and its vast achievements.
Dixon, Engene Palletté, Alan Mow brug. Mischa Auer and Robert Light, The picture was made by Gregory La Cava, one of Holly- wood's foremost directors.
name,
My Man Godfrey" is taken from the novel of the same written by the master of modern comedy,, Eric Hatch. The screen play is the work of this brilliant humorist and of Morrie Ryskind, noted author of such screen hits to the heights of dramatle fire as ¦ as "A Night at the Opera.”
Frederic March has given the screen some wonderful portrayals in the past, but never has he risen
in the title role of this pletüre.
His Anthony is a living, breathing perion, stepping out of a book into real lie on the screen.
He is ably supported by Olivia de Havilland, who came to screen prominence with her work in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Captain Blood" This is Miss de Havilland's first great emotional role and she rises to it with true artistry.
HIS BROTHER'S
WIFE"
Guardsmen and smugglers runs through "Border Flight, which is showing to-day at the Star Theatre.
The film tells a dramatic tale of missions of the United States Coast high adventure and dangerous
Guard air corps. air corpe
Officers of the aided in the alming.
عائلة
The crackup of two planes" the pancake landing of a thrid which has lost its landing gear add to, thrills of the story.
Two members of the corps, John Howard and Grant Withers, become rivals for the attentions of the same girl Frantes Farmer. "In the course of the story, one 15
BEEF DANIELS.
Dont Wheeler
Deathy Loo Don Alvarado
And A
JOHN BOLES
RIO
Thousand RITA
Others
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discharged from the service and Censor But Still A
Film Fan
Barbara Stanwyck and Robert | joins a band of fur smugglers with Taylor form the screen's newest which it has been nighing. romantic teard in "His Brother's Wife, which comes to the Majes- tic. Theatre to-day.
The dramatic fain comes in a pitched rattle of the forces of the MR. WILL HAYS TALKS Coast Guard and the smugglers,
OF CINEMA Taylor, regarded as the most closing.ins. hand-to-hand fight, sensational box-ofhce draw since | Last breath-taking, shot la: of ä Clark Gable first leaped to fame, comes into his newest leading role following such hils as "Private Number," "Small Town Girl" and "Magnificent Obsession!"
W. 5. Van Dyke, the man who made such outstanding pictures as "San Francisco," "Rose Marie" and "Naughty Marietta," directed "His Brother's Wife,"
power dite of a plane directly onto the smugglers ship, bringing the wreckage of both in an explosion * "Border Flight" wurtains itá pace as a top fight thriller and give an insight into á Hittle-known branch of government service as well.
"RIO RITA"
CENTRAL
THEATRE
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY át 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30 P.M AT THE MOST POPULAR PRICES
PIRATE
Other love of Anthony are
Mr. Will Hays, who has been de- found in the characterizations,
peribed as the "Gaur of the Ameri- portrayed by Stem Duna, a fiery
can Film Industry and the half caste with whom he lives in
dictator of American Aims,” wäs his African slave mart and Gale
entertained by the British cinema- Sondergaard, voluptuous and
tograph industry at a lunch at the passionate housekeeper. Both
Trocadero Restaurant recently. give unusually fine interpretations.
Mr. Hays is on a short visit to Edmund Gwenn, the famous
Europe. His official office in English actor, gives a wonderful
America is that of President of the portrayal of John. Bornyfeather
Motion Picture Producers and the grandfather of Anthony, who The new picture, adapted to the
Distributors of America. He is an sells his daughter into a loveless screen by Leon Gordon and John That magnificent musical pro- ex-Postmaster-General, chairman, match for the price of a title. Meehan, also features Jean Her-duction of yesteryear, with all its president, or director of countless
CHARLES COLLINS Anita Louise has never appear, sholt who has become tremendous haunting melodies will again, be American concerns, and chief film'
FRANK MORGAN
STEFFI DUNA: ed more beautiful, nor has shely popular as the result of starring shown at the Oriental on Tuesday, censor. ever given a better performance roles in "The Country Doctor" and Against the most lavish sets, Publication of the Lord Moyne
La 100% NEW TECHNICOLOR than as the daughter, who, mar- "Biris of Mån,“ se
played, and sung the magnificent Report by the Committee of the ried to a Spanish ́grandee, refuses Also in the cast are Joseph Cal- drama of the Mexican borderland Board of Trade on the British tim
TO-MORROW to give up her handsome Irish lela, the screen's leading "bad by Bebe Daniels, John Boles and,a industry at the end of last week
1. DAY ONLY army officer.
man." John Eldredze, Samuel 8. jubporting
cast af hundreds has raised considerable con "MADAME BUTTERFLY” Claude Rains gives and excel-Hinds atid Phyllis Giare,
Mighty vocal choruses, inspiring troversy in the trade. Mr. HayS lent portrayal of the Spanish His Brother' Wife" tell of a dance routines and beauty assem- visit to England at this time was mitted to him for censorship. grandee as does Louise Hayward as young scientist about to embark biles show the endless posibilities therefore, looked upon with con-
"It is not my purpose to discuss the young Irish lover.......
on his aretácientific dxpedition.of the speaking screen. santsiderable interest, and it was ex- here any controversial matters" The members of the cast are too On the eve of leaving New York In the huge, cast are Robert
for the tropical jungle, Taylor. Woolsey and Bert Wheeler, crack ected that he would make a state- he explained. "Co-operation, is the the youll scientist, goes on his comedians of the original showment of importance at the lunch. number one essential for the final Mr. Hays, however, spoke for a success of an industry so com- finat fiing and meets Miss
Don Alvarado, popular screen pla long time without once entangling plicated as ours, with all the elo- Stanwyck in a gay gambling yer; Dorothy Lee,, dapper sense himself in the British controversy ments of science muald, beauty, casinoG THE UNTER DE tion of "Syncopation Helen
REST, BEAUTY, INSPIRATION art, and public relationship mixed For ten days, their romance pro- Kaiser. Follies beauty Georges
"I am a movie fan, gentlemen, together in the same cauldron gresses and Taylor decided to for Redevant Tiny Sandford, Bam sake the expedition, remain in New Nelson and Eva Rosita. More than he said. "I like movies with the co-operation and confidence" York and marry Miss Stanwyck a hundred glorious girls, the Pietro enthusiasm of a youigater, for the Mr. Hays thus summarised his views on the popularity of modern Als P
numerous to mention in their en- tirety, but among those of special prominence who do exceptional work are Billy Mauch, Donald Woods, Henry O'Neil, Pedro De Cordoba and George R. Btone...
Two operatic sequences. staged by Natale Carossio, add to the beauty and magnificence of the picture,
Original music that fits not only the scenes, was written for the production, by Erich Wolfgang
·Korngold. ⠀
Specja) tribute must be paid., to the direction of Mervyn Leroy, and the screen play by Sheridan. Gib ney.
Ills is dissuaded from doing so by Cimimin grand chorus of eighty his brother, and he accompanies male voices and the lamed Radio Hersholt into the Jungle to trace Pictures symphony orchestra are the cause and find a cure for fa- among other features,minet tał spotted fever a
Meanwhile, to avenge herself, Pentru PRO
Miss Stanwyck marries Taylor's girl lures him back to New York- brother and forthwith deserts him. to and her married to his own The young scientist's love for the brother.
happiness they bring for the beauty they spread, for the in-
"Mickey Mouse," he said spiration they bring, and the re- llef they provide from the burdens cheered and laughed at by the of the day. I just like them
most cultured. George Arliss is This statement is testimony to cheered by the masses. Yet, in Mr. Hays's remarkable power of Turkey, as well as New York, the endurance, for every tim that is most popular star is probably made in America has to be sub Shirley Temple."
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