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KING'S THEATRE Commencing Sunday, 9th April.
THE DAUGHTER
the-knew and understood bar moder's plightt
She ---- bungered for
love and stoin it!
THE MOTHER
THE FATHER
He drove his
wife to decap: tion!
Samuel Goldwyn presents
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SYLVIA SIDNEY WILLIAM COLLIER, JR ESTELLE TAYLOR
KING VIDOR'S
PRODUCTION
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE"
THE FIRST
GREAT STORY OF TO-DAY
DRAMATIC!
THRILLING!
TIMELY!
A dramatic thunderbolt challenging It hurls a smashing the nation. answer to the question of the hour.
For dynamic action, for stark Suspense, for all those elements of -great throbbing drama..it stands alone incomparable.
The great story of to-day! Civing insight into conditions prevalent in America..
you
an
SENSATIONAL! Halled and acclaimed as one of the
greatest pictures of to-day praised by critics everywhere.
SPECTACULAR! Endlessly
gloriously amazing magnificent... powerfully drama- tic and touchingly romantic.
AMERICAN MADNESS
GREATER THAN A MOTION PICTURE WITH
WALTER HUSTON
QUEEN'S
SUNDAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, APRIL
1933.
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NOTABLE VISITOR.
CINEMA SCREENINGS.
GENERAL C.E. NATHORST
IN COLONY
An interesting visitor to Hong- kong Is General C. E. Nathorst, who is at present staying at the Repulse Bay Hotel.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY
THE THEATRES ·
By the time. "Street "Scene," the Samuel Goldwyn picturization of the Elmer Rice prize stage play, makes its appearence at the King's Theatre
1933 APRIL. 1933
CHEER UP LADY
MON 2 9-16 23
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3 10 17 24
| MON
4118 25
MON
5 12 19 20
MON
6 13 20 27
MON
7 14 21 29
MON
Thursday, motion picture star Monday.
the first magallude will have im- pressed herself upon the minds movie-goers. The new addition to the is Sylvin Hollywood of firmament is
whose actress, Sidney, young stage actr has been
Morning
Every Day.
General Nathorst has just retir-n ed from the post of Chief of the Philippines Armed Constabulary and is spending a short time in Hongkong prior to embarking on the Swedish vessel Canton. Al-short career in pictures
meteorle. For two years she had though General Nathorst is
dramatic Many people have that Monday known upon the Broadway American citizen he is going back on uut six months in Hollywood morning feeling every day. They to his birthplace, Sweden, where age, bu
has spread that
nership to always feel sluggish, depressed and international he will live in retirement.
The General has had a most in- teresting
an
IL
been
was only half-well. This is because their are never entirely only Inst February that Miss Sidney internal organs
but since free from waste matter. The ac- to the Philippines with the that time she has United Stater
beadaches, pletures and is not preparing a contaminate their bloodstream, reduc- Expeditionary pietur
energy, causing fifth. An her first break she was ing Force during the Spanish | American War in 1898, and after rushed into the cast of "City Streets" liverishness, poor appetite.
when Clara Bow was withdrawn as demobilisation in 1901 joined the the result of illness, so that Sylvia Armed Constabulary and has Sidney made her debut opposite Gary dose of Pinkettes produces the worked himself up in that force Cooper.
career. He first went was taken to Hollympleted four cumplation, however slight, is able to
to
the position of Officer Com- manding, from which post he re- tired last month.
"American Madness."
For such people the occasional
happiest results. Pinkettes, dainty little liver and laxative pills, are ideal, gentle as nature but highly Try a dose or two af efficient. One of the most compelling screen Pinkettes and note how your spirits He is, with the collaboration dramas of the 1932 season will make rise. Pinkettes are Liver and Luxa- Hongkong cinema-goers tive Perfection. All chemists can of his wife, who is a well-known its bow to
supply you. writer, completing a book of his when Columbia's "American experiences in the Philippines, opens a run at the Queen's
on Sunday. Considered tremendous and when this is published, which in
In scope and of sweeping power, should be in about six months, "American Mudness" is a film that ine" time, it will certainly make in- strikes at the vials of present-day Charles II in "Our Nell," the Rev. teresting reading.
America. Walter Huston, whose re Benjamin Cobb in Mariners," and actors his Shakespearean reles too numerous on the
has appeared in mention. He American hason
several British films in the role of visit to Hongkong. for he
rican screen is red, has the
ed, ha feature role of a
Holmes, Conan Doyle's passed through here on holiday clear-thinking banker whose several times, and he has a large and faith in people leads him submaster criminal investigator, the part circle of friends in the Colony.
cessfully through a run his bank he plays in "The Sign of Four," and an attempt to break up his home which is now showing at the Kings
3iadness" has a superb Theatre.
This is not the General's reputation as one of
the gre Sherlock
GAOL SURROUNDED
EMERGENCY SQUAD. ACTS.
ON FIRE ALARM
BEER ast, headed by Constance!
Cummings, one of
the
most talented
younger screen
and charming of the actresses. Pat O'Brien,
who made
"The Sign of Four."
(succeeding Bertram
Wallin),"
A Bit of Divorcement."
True of many motion pictures-of
of a it in
the role of Hildy Johnson in "The novels and stage plays as well--the Front Page" an unforgettable one, tille of "A Bill of Divorcement" cur- des- plays the part of an ex-convict whom rent screen feature at the Central
chance to make
Theatre to-day, does not fittingly laston has given a Great excitement prevailed in good in his banit: Kay Johnson, noted cribe the nature of the story. For
"Bill of Divorcement" is not the vicinity of Victoria Gao! for years as one of the most popular
results of shortly after, 10 o'clock last night stage actresses on the West Coast, divorce problem play, neither does it
touch upon the tragic. when the Emergener Squad surand remembered for her great per sudden marital discord, nor does it
is cast as rounded the prison to frustrate formace in "Dynamite,"
Huston's wife. Popular, talented any way attempt to draw a moral
from domestic infelicity or unfaith any possible attempt to cape by Gavin Gordon is the heavy,
fulness. Rather, the
the picture escends the prisoners in consequence of a
sheer sacrificial drama; to heights report of a fire having broken out
the drama
of woman's courage, marie in the cook-house.
Mr. Arthur Wonter is a Londoner dependency, and a young girl's trage The precautions were unueces- and made his first appearance un disillusionment.
the
The sary, however, as the fire was put the stage at Ryde, Isle of Wight, in
incidental to theme out by the prison staff with 1637 as Sir Thomas Tenby in "The store John Barrymore in what has greatest role; buckets in a short while. The Sorrows, of Satan", and his first been described as bis Fire Brigade was summoned and London appearance on the stage was a characterization new to hint and admirers several appliances responded, but at the old Globe Theatre in 1848 is new to his vast audience of antrees
Comte de Rochefort in "The Three and followers. Playing in
Are Katharine Hepburn, a their help was not needed.
Musketeera." Mr. Wentner, on the support Calm was restored immediately stage, has been seen, in such widely clamorous newcomer to the screen for Is predicted and Billle varying roles as A. J. Raffles, Ben whom stardomi
fur, Captain Hook in "Peter Pan Burke, one of the greatest actresses Hepplewhite in "Our Mr. Hepple of the American stage. The picture
after the incident.
It is said that a pile of waster paper in the cook-house had become alight.
as su
as Bim
white," Peter the Great in "Cather was directed by George Cukor.
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