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MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1931.

WHY CATS FALL ON ROUND THE CINEMAS aupromo comedy men.

THEIR FEET.

Prof.'s Pet Gives A

Demonstration.

"COHENS AND KELLYS IN ·

SCOTLAND,"

HILARIOUS COMEDY,

THE CHINA MAIL.

Baclanova

is charming in a strong role and Pat O'Malley, Leslie Fenton, and the rest of the cast deserve the highest praise.

"The Man Love" is the kind of picture that every one will love. It is entertainment well directed, well acted, and excellently portrayed. There is not a dull moment in the show from beginning to end. "The Man I Love" is one of the bright apots on the cinema calendar for the year here.

Genius on the stage or the screen le frequently found to go in pairs. and no one would dream of dis- sociating Potash from Perlmut- Professor Sir Gilbert Walker and ter, Leyton from Johnstone, or Ham his ent joined in showing why from Bud. In the game way falling cat always lands on its feet.Charlie Murray, the great frish-

was given American, comedian, and The demonstration

George during a discourse on the "Physics Sidney, famous for his Jewish of Sport" delivered by Sir Gilbert comedy characters,

are inseparable at the Imperial College of Selence in the public mind. Their double und Technology in connection with turn," if one might call it so, is al- the annual exhibition of the Phy- ways irresistibly funny, yet terial.

sical and Optical Societies.

very

Miss Brian's voice, singing the is especially theme song "Celia,"

It matches her worth hearing.

It is aweet personality perfectly. and gentle, yet strong and charae- Richard Arlen talka in the "The Man I Love" for the first time and on the screen, and Baclanova's de- lleisus accent is another point for the excellence of the picture, "The Man I Love" will be shown for the last time to-day.

Et ig only based on The cat was actually dropped up-fold, old stage "patter" side down some three inches from

amusing facial contor- a table, and during that short fall tions. Both are clever actors and righted itself. The professor. in their latest talking picture, in standing in a smoothly rotating which they visit the land of haggis turn-table, succeeded by

and bawbees, they are probably at jerks in turning himself complete their best. ty round by a method which he assured his rudience was the same as that employed by his cat.

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few

Highland Whoops.

When "The Cohens and Kellys in Scotland" was shown in the Queen's) First, he plained, the cat drew Theatre last night a considerable in its front paws and stretched out Scottish contingent was present and the back ones to their full length. greeted the many laughable scenes In this position it could rotate its and incidents (based on the tradi- front half into the required positional characteristics of the Scots, back of course) with applause and High tiop, while anly moving its half a comparatively

The film opens in small dis-land whoops. tante in the opposite direction. Edinburgh and the familiar sights,

Street, This was because the front half auch

as Prince's

the

papada. V

"GOLD DIGGERS OF

BROADWAY."

One of David Belasco's most

auccessful stage plays, "The Gold Diggers," written by Avery Hop- wood, and adapted by Robert Lord, is the Warner Bros and Vitaphone 100 per cent. natural colour, sing- ing, talking, dancing picture in technicolour, which comes to the

Queen's Theatre to-morrow under the splendid title of "Gold Dig- Бега of Broadway."

of its body was more compactly ar- Memorial, and King Arthur's Seat.

are shown, but the film was

un fortunately blurred throughout, due, probably, to some defect or

We "Gold Diggers of Broadway" de- weakness in the projector.

of Broad- have noticed this fault in ruany picts a different side Alme at this theatre and it would way's colourful show world, bring- be in the interests of the manageing to the screen the private lives ment to inquire into the complaint, of New York's chorus girls.

The In any

brilliant cast which is fairly general.

includes case, it is a pity that such first- Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, rate films should be given a poor Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington, reproduction.

Lilyan Tashman, William Bake- well, Nick Lucas, Helen Foster, and A dazzling Albert Gran.

Al Dubin beauty chorus of 100. and Joe Burke did the words and music; Larry Ceballos the stage presentation, and Roy Del Ruth directed.

"Its a Braw——.” "Tho Cohens and Kellys in Scotland" should be seen by every Scotsman as well as by all who en- "Waiter. there was a match on joy a hearty laugh. It is worth my plate with the chicken."

going to alone to hear Cohen try to "Excuse me, that was

the say "Its a braw, bricht, moonlicht

which, nicht the nicht,"

he im- asparagus."---

Lustige Blaciter, Berlin, ngines, is the foreigner's password for entry into the hearts of all guid Scotsmen, whilst the golf match be- tween Cohen and Kelly deserves to have a special mention in the his-

ranged and could therefore turn a'tory of that game. bigger distance with the same effort | than could the back.

In A Split Second,

Next the rat stretched out Ita

"HONEY."

A bright, musical-talkie romance "Honey" is now being screened in the Majestle Theatre, Kowloon, and the players are Nancy, Carroll, Harry Green, Stanley Smith, Lillian Roth, Skeets Gallagher, Zasu Pitts, and Mitzi Green.

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SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

• IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functiona

To-day-Tea Danco at Hong Kong Hotel.

To-night-Dinner Dances at Peninsula 'and Hong Kong Hotels.

Entertaiments.

To-day- Queen's Theatre; "Cohens and Kellys in Scotland."

Today Contral Theatro; "The Man I Love."

To-day - Majestic "Honey."

To-day- Star "Lovelorn."

To-day-World "Monte Carlo."

Tuesday King's "Monte Carlo."

Sports

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Hong Kong; 27th March, 1931.

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See Sport Diary on 12.

Meetinga

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Hong Kong, March 30, 1931.

HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC

THE

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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"THE MAN I LOVE.”

Romance, that quivers and throbe front paws and drew in the back with the life that is woven into it, ones, Just for the same reason.thrilled audiences in the Central

The story of "Honey" is simple,

bring its back half completely Arlen and Mary Brian, supported Gallagher are forced to don the Bank, 4 months' sight 1/- 3/16 Bald Sir Gülbert, it could then Theatro last night where Richard and tells of how Miss Carroll and round, without moving its front by a superb cast, sparkled in the chef's cap and butler's uniform, half far back from

The ensuing scenes Credits, 4 the vertical fast-moving, all-talking Paramount respectively. position. The 'time available for

are extremely amusing, much of the

Bight picture, "The Man I Love." these operations was about one-

being contributed by Harry Documentary, 4 Both Mary Brian and Richard fun eighth of a second.

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months' sight Arlen have given promise of great Green, Miss Roth and the juvenile Discussing the sport of boomer things in the past hut, in "The Man comedienne, Mitzi Green, Stanley ang-throwing, Sir Gilbert advocat-

I Love," they realise a glorious ful-Smith is Nancy's lover in the pic- ed a boomerang specially con-

The story structed so that it would fly the love affair of a boy and girl

filment.

dealing with ture.

Preceding the feature film is! straight, and showed a specimen which he had made with the usual who go to New York in answer to shown a most interesting newsreel curved shape but with the surfaces an ambitious urge and find only dis- in which Sinclair Lewis given ad- delicately adjusted by repeated ex-Appointment, is filled with the advice to young writers, and one hears On demand

Shaw paying periment. An instrument of this venture in which youth revels. Coorge Bernard type, he said, he had thrown about Arlen as the boy lover is great and, tribute to Professor Albert Einstein A splendid view of as the young man filled with the at a dinner. At a distance of 80 yards it pride of achievement, he is superb. the Dornier DO-X in light is also would t rise more than about 12 A shining thread of humour, featured.

Two musicals, "Jazz Preferred" feet high in the course of its tra- supplied by Harry Green and Jack jectory, and would not therefors Oakle, keeps the laughs going and "Toys," complete the pro-

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