CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. WILD ANIMALS
SAVAGE "APE MAN"!
FIERCE NATIVES AFRICA AFLAME WITH TERROR!
TOM TYLER NOAH BEERY, ́JNR., CECELIA PARKER AND MANY OTHERS IN THE MOST THRIL- LING PICTURE EVER FILMED. BASED ON THE FAMOUS STORY "THE IVORY TRAIL" BY TALBOT MUNDY.
JUNGLE MYSTERY
d
Coming Attraction
She knew what she wanted
how to get it
and
until the right man
crossed the primrose path of this wrong, girl)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17,
HOTEL SUITE FOR A DOG
Owner's Humorous Reply To Demand
REVUE SOON COMING
"HELLO HONGKONG" AT QUEEN'S
Five weeks is either an awfully long time, or equally short time, depending on circumstances. In CHAPPEL REPORT the show business, it is an excit ingly short time, as Henry Bellit will tell you if you were to ask him. The "five weeks" aubject was brought up in connexion with be presented in Hongkong at the the Broadway Revue which will Queen's Theatre next week.
vorces
(Special to "Telegraph")
Rockford, Feb. 16. Seven fatalities and three di were caused directly. In 1933 by affection of men and wo
ròport men for their dogs, a released by the Chappel Kennel Foundation here reveals.
Three persons-one a 10-year old girl-were killed in attempts to save pets from various forms
INFERIOR DRINKS
AMERICA AFTER REPEAL
SURVEY RESULTS,
(Special to "Talograph”)
New York, Feb. 16.
The United States is drinking much liquor of poorer quality than Henry had just that much time prohibition bootleg, and prices for to form his company, write the good whiskles still are higher than show, select his personnel, order for comparable drinks prior to, the costumes, stage settings and
Bootlegging still exists, but is definitely on the wand.
other accessories, rehearse the repeal, a United Press survey of company and get to Hongkong, large cities showed to-day, of disaster. Two dog owners thousands of miles from New killed men for injuring their pets York City. and one man committed suleide
-Most of the rehearsing was done bocnuse his dog had died,
Efforts of oflolls to improve The foundation report, compiled on. the broad Pacifie en route to annually in an effort to trace the Hongkong. In New York, Henry the quality of legal liquor and effects upon human nature of aen-had to pick his twelve girls from stamp out the illicit product scom timent for animal pets, shows that 500 who presented themselves for to be bearing fruit very slowly," three women divorced their hus- the trip-no small job in itself.
Such is the situation more than bands because of jealousy over Each had to meet Henry's ideals affection given to dogs. A Pitte for his show. They must have two months after repoal. At first burgh man took a six-month sen-talent, beauty, form, stage pre- Americans took the poor quality tence rather than obey a court or sence, and that element
and high prices good naturedly, der to kill his dog.
known nat."
but rumblings of protest are gain-
SHOT IN QUARREL:
better
In addition to the human ele-ing. ment Henry brings along the One man was shot in a quarrel newest electrical equipment for The situation was brought to the over n dog's pedigree and a 13- the most startling lighting and country's attention by the Secre- year-old boy was killed while cross sound effects. In one of the late [ary of the Treasury, Mr. Morgen- sing a railroad track on a.visitter it is safe to say you will start thau, when he announced a new to the grave of his dog.
Not all manifestations of this powerful love for animal friends brought tragedy In' its wake. A wealthy Idaho sheep raiser fur- nished laughter when he rented an entire floor of 28 rooms in a Chicago hotel rather than obey an order to confine his dog to one room.-United Press.
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30,
*5.10, 7.15 & ..9.30 p.m.
looking for your umbrellas, the "rain" effect is so realistic.
Alfred Hymas, private in the Lin- colnshire Regiment, was yesterday found not gulity by Court Martial of the charge of breaking a plate-glass window at the Jones and Company furniture shop in Kowloon.
offensive against bootlegging. United Press.
There, will be a meeting of the Legislative Council finance committee on Wednesday noxt at 2.30 p.m.
KINGS
HELD OVER!
Sorinany stayed to see it twice, we haven't had onoughseofstogo around One More Wook!
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
·TEL. 25313, & 25332.
FROM, TO-MORROW
WOMEN LOST THEIR HEADS OVER HIM!
$1984
QULLA'S
TO-DAY ONLY at 12,00, 2.30, 5,10, 7.20 & 9.30
The crowned heads comedy in a joy ride of lunacy 14
If the inmates of a nut factory were
dumped into a college of beautiful co-eds, you'll have this screamie a thousand laughs with a hundred cutles!
JACK PEARL
Jimmy
DURANTE
with ZASU PITTS, EDNA, MAY OLIVER TED HEALY ·
and his crazy stooges
Meiną Gilchryn-Mayer menu
Meet THE BARON
TO-DAY TO MONDAY
STAR
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 € 9.20
MARIE
DRESSLER.
WALLACE
BEERY
in
"TUGBOAT ANNIE'
Hankow Rd. Kowloon
STAR
99.
Phone
57795
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor-
PIUTURE
BENNETT
as the girl who slopped at nothing to make herself a
With
JOEL MCCREA
JOHN
HALLIDAY
PERT KELTON . SAMUEL HINDS
Directed by Gregory LaCava
A Pandro
Borman Production.. MERIAN C COOPER executive producer
An RKO RADIO Picture of course!
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COMING
Hello Hongkong
AN ALL-AMERICAN REVUE
20 Acts 20
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GIRLS
A
Paramount Picture
THE
BAR BROTHERS MARX
IN
"DUCK SOUP
SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCE.
TO-DAY ONLY AT 12 NOON
SPECIAL PRICES
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-8.30
:-D. Circle-$1.10
8. Stalis-70 cts.
F. Stall-50 ets.
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
And such nice heads, too? Oh, Henry! How could you? But all is forgiven for giving us this, the greatest picture since the advent of the talkies. LONDON FILMS
Charles LAUGHTON
in
The Private Life of HENRY VIII
Directed by Alexander Kurds. BELKAIKO TUREJ ESITUAS ARTISTS
ORIENTAL
THE LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
A super comedy
keeps you screnelane
for 2 solid hours.
A Hit
Picture with Roars
of
Laughter
1
and
R
RA
DIAVOLO
with
Stan LAUREL
Wonderful Oliver HARDY
Songs.
DENNIS KING
FLEMING
ROAD
WANGHAN
TEL. 28473
TO-MORROW-MONDAY TUESDAY
Here's A Real Good Picture.
Splendid Novelty Plenty of
Romance' Comedy
and
Action.
FACE in the SKY
with
Spencer TRACY
Marian NIXON
Stuart ERWIN
ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY at-12,15, 2,30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9,20
The GREATEST LAUGH of their Clowning Careers! WHEELER WOOLSEY
So this is
Africa
with RAQUEL TORRES
"THE GOOD EARTH":
PERMISSION: GRANTED TO FILM NOVEL
Nanking, Feb. 10. Government objections to the Aiming of the famous novel "The Good Earth" have been overcome.
Objections woro praviously!
...
COLUMBIA
ICFLINE
Ching has now bean. Renter
glvon
Mr. Pearl Buck, the author of "The Good Earth" arrived In Hongkong lact week, and during her stay here resided at the Repurse Bay Hotel. She departed for Nanking on Wednesday last, presumably, to asalet in the Alm- ing of exterior scenes for the plature..
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer · camera-
raised by the Government on the men have been in Nanking for avor a month, awaiting permission rounds that the novel discredited from the Chinged Government to the Chinese people, but permission take exterior scenes. The actual to film the exterior scones in story will be filmed in Hollywood,
Printed, and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, A 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong,