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What Mail Reviewers Say.

"FEET FIRST."

You will scream and probably get into hysterica with laughter when you see Harold Lloyd in his first talkie Aim "Feet First" now being shown at the Majestic Theatre to crowded houses, You will gasp with fright at the scenes where. Mr. Lloyd is on a skyscraper, but there is enough to laugh at and that helps immensely to abate your nervousness [*

We see Harold Lloyd as a sales- man in a big shoe establishment, and through his flattering, though funny, phrases which he voices to all the lady customers alike, he wins great admiration. However, later hu finds himself on board a liner bound for the States from Honolulu. He has no money, and here the comedy begins in plenty. No matter how comical the film, there must be the inevitable 'ro- mance, and thie la supplied by Barbara Kent to a nicety. Robert MeWade, Lillianne Lieghton, Alec B. Francis and Noah Young are also included in the cast.

"THE LONE STAR RANGER."

ever written preserved in modernts-

ed version.

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL:-

For sixty years or more, East Lynne" swayed audiences from one end of the country to the other. It was translated into almost every tongue, and the theatre

geers of France and the Latin countries crled over the troubles of the lovely Lady Isabel, even as did those in America.

The original play was written in 1861 and was produced to crowded houses everywhere. sidered the one mainstay of many'

con Д near-broke dramatie company; for they could always count on this old stand-by to secure an interested Feet First." and enthusiastic audience.

It was

Entertainments. To-day Kings. "Dishonoured."

To-day Queen's. "Dance Fools, Dance."

Today Central "Ex-Flame."

Today

Majostle

To-day World In "Ex-Flame" Miss Marianyik Jan Mae." Nixon playe opposite Nell Hamilton

To, day - Star with Norman Kerry and Judith "Lone Star Ranger." Barrie, in the other two featured roles.

It holds still more attrac- tion when the cast is including also such players, as Snub Pollard, the old time favourite comedian of the screen, and little Billie Haggerty, the lovable little chap of four aum- mere with beautiful eyes, chestnut hair, and a skin like peaches and cream.

"DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE"

Joan Crawford

presenta two extremes in her new Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer talkle, "Dance, Fools, Dance," which is showing at the Queen's Theatre.

In this graphic cross-section. of An interesting "Cow-Boy" pie-Chicago's underworld, the glamor- ture, featuring Sue Carol and ous star reaches both the heights George O'Brien, is now showing. and depths of the social lane, en- It offers good entertainment. The acting the most dramatic and grip- picture will be on the screen until ping role of her career. It is in to-morrow. Some imposing and every sense a fresh triumph for beautiful scenes of Wild West Miss Crawford and reveals her grandeur are shown.

capabilities as a dramatic star There are thrils in plenty, and a more deeply than any other role happy vein of romance runs she has essayed. through the story.

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from, the Hong Kong Broadcasting. Station Theatre; 2.B.W. on a wavelength of 863

·

metres:

Theatre;

:

6-8 p.m.-European Programme of Victor & H.M.V. Records kind- Theatre; ly supplied by Messrs. S. Moutrie

& Co.

Theatre;

Theatre;

Theatre:

Home Malle. To-day Outward for Europe via Siberia (Asama Maru), 6 p.m.

via Suez (Antenor) 10.30 a.m. via To-morrow-Outward for Europe

Siberia (Terukuni Maru) 6 p.m.

Sports.

See Sports Diary on Page 4.

Meetings.

To-day-Sanitary Board 4.15

p.m.

To-day-Mid-Levels Residents' Association, Messrs. Shewan Tomes Board Room, St. George's Building. 6.30 p.m.

6-6.40 p.m. Variety.

Orchestral-

In a Cafe on the Road to Calais, Beautiful Love,

Victor Ardon & Phil Ohman's Orchestra (22000).

Song.........

Fancy Our Meeting,

Lilian Davis, Soprano (B2797). Sorg-

Now You're in My Arms, If You Should Ever Need Me,"

Gene Austin (22687).

Chorus of Forest Birds

Forest Murmura

Actual Recording from Reich's Avery, Bremen (V17),

Hawaiian Music- Kane's Blues, Hula Girl,

Kane's Hawalian's (20701). Song--

Say a Little Prayer for Me, The Little Old Church in the Valley,

Morten Downey (22874), 6.40-7.15 p.m.-.

Love Brutes," "Derelict" and "Scan-Suite from the Music to "Le Bourgois dal Sheet."

That "Scandal Sheet" comes to

the King's Theatre on Thursday.

"WHAT MEN WANT." The burning question of the day

in The query of life sphere-

every

What men want? Answered in masterful fashion by the pleasure-loving existence of the fast society set in the Univerzal all-star special all-talking produc- is tion "What, Men Want," which coming to the Central Theatre.

Warner Fabian wrote

Want."

a. great

Harry Beaumont directed the Supporting the feature picture new Crawford talkie from the la a comedy "Perfect Days" kome story by Aurania Rouverol that of the scenes of which, if exag-belies its title by being perhaps the story in "Flaming Youth;" he has gerated and prolonged a trifle too most fascinating story of all the written a greater one in "What Men much, nevertheless cause much gangster plots yet to reach the laughter and amusement,

public. In another short, "On the March," good singing is provided.

From Other Sources.

"DISHONOURED..

A swaying lamp cord, a scene presented through the frame of a door, a pendant chandeller such

Gentilhomme" (Richard Strauss),

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (M101). 7.15-7.25 p.m.-Operatic. Lohengrin-Prelude Act III. → (Wagner),

Played by Victor Symphony Orchestra (9005). Barcarolle (Offenbach),

from "Tales of Hoffmann", Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo

(Mascagnl),

The New Light Symphony Orchestra (B2877).

Concert,

7.25-8 p.m.-A

Piano Solo-

Tango (Albeniz), Soaring (Schumann),

Song

Wilhelm Bachaus (1445).

In the Gloaming (Harrison), Jock O'Hazeldean,

Mary Garden, Soprano (7254). The Malden with Flaxen Hair

(Debussy-Hartmann),

Gay parties, giddy love affairs-Violin Solo and underneath it all the same all- embracing question:

What men went?

Lester Vail, a newcomer, plnys opposite Joan with charm and a splendid acquittal of his role. Wil-

With a marvellous cast, including liam Bakewell is cast as Joan's bro- ther for whom she makes a tragic Pauline Starke, Ben Lyon, Barbara sacrifice, and Clark Gable is the Kent. Robert Elle, Hallam Colley sinister gang chieftain. Cliff Ed-and other stars; with a gorgeous- wards lays aside his ukulele toness of production unsurpassed and negotiate a difficult

directed by Ernst Laemmle, the straight dramatic part. Others in the cast picture is supreme.

Don't fall to see this intriguing, are William Holden, Earl Foxe, revealing who offer splendid performances

film of sophisticated Furnell B. Pratt, Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Marsh and Russell Hopton, ~ 4.

En Bateau (Debussy),

Song-

.

Frita Kreisler (1358).

Flower of the Desert (Lohr), The Arrow & the Song (Balle),

Percy Heming (Baritone) (B2763). Piano Solo-

Scarf Dance (Chaminade); The Flatterer (Chaminade).

Hans Barth (26346). 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather

pleasure and primitive passions Report, Youth must be served-and youth 8.93-11 p.m.-Ko. Shing Theatre serves itself in ita own reckless Relay.

11.30 p.m.-Close Down.

simple devices give the impression of depth, the third dimension, to motion picture settings, according to Josef von Sternberg, the young directorial genius whose recent pic-

The whoopee scenes that open way. tures, "Morocco" and Dishonoured," the picture dazzle the audience and question- both featuring Marlene Dietrich, wind up with a daring midnight have created a stir in fan and tech-swimming

nical circles alike.

orgy reminiscent of Joan's earlier dancing-daughter

י,

"Dishonoured," his latest achieve-films. ment, which le now showing at the King's Theatre, la filled with instances of his peculiar discovery. In one sequence of the story, Mar- lene Dietrich and Gustav von Seyf- fertitz have a scene before an enor- mous map, filling one wall of a mag-

nificent and imposing apartment. A desk in the foreground, loaded with chemical apparatus, serves to show the depth of the scene. Other Instances of the Von Sternberg technique are easily discerned throughout the picture.

"Dishonoured" is Von Sternberg's third successive picture featuring Marlene Dietrich, the new star who

"SCANDAL SHEET."

腻

For women must solve the

What men want?

"THE 'GREAT MEADOW" Whole families, as well as In- dividuals of those familles, have a definite part in the dramatic structure of "The Great Meadow," Charles Brabin's stirring talking picture of ploneers in 1775, which will open at the Queen's Theatre

WOMAN'S COURAGE.

Dacoits' Threat to Throw Child Out of Train.

JEWELLERY THEFT.

throw a child "The Great Meadow" was adapt-from the window of a moving train Institute, well-known Eastern, preped from the best-selling novel by dacoite broke down the resistance school at Port Deposit, Md.

Elizabeth Madox-Roberts,

of-a-plucky-Bengali woman, who ex-

That George Bancroft was born in Philadephia.

That he was educated at Tome

That he left school in search of adventure and enlisted in the navy in his teene.

on Thursday..

Threatening to

"We are accustomed to thinking deavoured to frustrate an attempt of stories in terms of four or Sve to steal jewellery.

Individual characters," stated A Bengali employee of Arthur That he was in Admiral Dewey's Brabin. "Occasionally, however. Rutler and Company, while travell command, a youthful gunner aboard a tale comes along which permits ing with his sister and two children the US.S. Baltimore at the battle the handling of Afteen or twenty between Darbhanga and Bhaptihal, of Manila Bay.

principals, with equal ease, by sub on the Bengal and North-Western dividing the group into families, Railway, encountered thieves who and using each family as an in-entered the female compartment dividual dramatic unit."

and attempted to remove boxes con-

That he organised theatrical groups. among his mates in the various naval vessels on which he

sailed to ports in the four corners The story of "The Great taining cash and jewellery.

made a sensation in "Morocco," after Von Sternberg had dlacover ed and featured her in one picture, "The Blue Angel," made fa Ger- of the world. many. "Dishonoured," the story

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Meadow is considered a pat, in- The woman, who was asleep, That he performed an act of dar-stance of this sort dealing with the awoke, clung to the boxes and would of an Austrian woman spy, is Von Ing by diving under the hull of the hardships of a trek of Virginians not allow them to be removed. Sternberg's own story, and has battleship Oregon to ascertain dam- across the Alleghany, Mountains to The thieves threatened to throw Victor McLaglen, Lew Cody, Gusage caused by a submerged rock Kentucky in 1775. It is concern- one of the children out of the win- tav Seyfertitz, Warner Oland, and near Peking in 1900.

ed with effect of these hardships on dow of the fast-moving train if she ALEXANDER That he was awarded a scholar the Hall, Jarvis, Harrod, Lucas, would not surrender the boxes. Barry Norton in the cast.

ship at the Naval Academy in An-Scruggs and Perry familles. All She yielded and the intruders es napolis for hia courageous feat. of those names are prominent in eaped with the boxes,

"EX-FLAME.”

Because the week-end was apolled

by typhoon and patrons have in creased rapidly during the past two days the Central Theatre has de cided to extend the engagement of "Ex-Flame" for one more day's run to-morrer. Me pas ***Ex-Flame," produced by Direc-

That he tired of academy restric- the Virginia and Kentucky his This is the second train robbery tions and "cut loose" for Broadway tories of the period. James Harrod in the province during the last two where he determined to make good founded Ft. Harrod, now the weeks. an an actor-and did, appearing in "Kentucky Plonear Memorial Park""

a number of hit productions.

at Harrodsburg, the "Cradle of the That he was one of the first of Weat."

the New York actors to join the The tale of "The Great Meadow," company of picture makera in with its dangers and its Indian James Cruze'a "Pony Express.". fights; first puts Berk Jervis into. tor Victor Halperin for Liberty That some of his most important the Hall family by his marriage Productions, has all of the pathos, pictures are "Old Ironsides" with Diony, and then carries the drama and humour that made Mrs," "Underworld," "The Dragnet," newlyweds, in the company of the Henry Wood's great play. “East. "The Wolf of Wall Street," "Thun- others, along the Wilderness Road Lynne" one of the greatest plays derbolt," "The Mighty," Ladies to Ft. Harrod.

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