1932-04-11 — Page 3

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932.

ROUND HONG KONG S

CINEMA THEATRES

MAIL REVIEWERS.

"GET-RICH-QUICK-

WALLINGFORD,"

PERMO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

THE

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. His on a wavelength of 855 metres quick (845 K.C.'s) :~-~

To

The Saturday Evening Post. magazine stories find E

5-6.15 p.m. (approx.)--A_Run- market and great popularity, him, it is a fertile and almost un-ning Commentary from the Hong touched field. Lastly, then, Cantor Kong Cricket Club of the closing The characters of J. Rufus Wal- has his family to consider-Ida, his stages of the Tennis Finals for lingford, Schnozzle and Blackie wife, with whom he grew up in the the Open Championship of the Duw, 28

George East Side tenements of New York, Colony (Singles). protrayed by Randolph Chester, which have ap- his five daughters, ranging in age peared in the Cosmopolitan from four to fifteen. He knows that Magazine, are ably enacted by Wil the more of a career he has, parti- liam Haines, James Durante and calarly on the stage or 'sere Ernest Torrence, respectively, in night work, its consta. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presentation and public attention, the leamily He likes Cali- "New Adventures of Get-Rich- fe he will have. Quick Wallingford" playingfornia. He thinks it a fine coun- The film try in which to bring up the At the Queen's Theatre.

He has a great was directed by Mr. Sam Wood, who Cantor girls. has been responsible for many fine mansion in Great Neck, Long Island, productions. Haines gives a scintil- that is closed during his Hollywood lating performance in the capital sojourn.

nak

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This is how a system of terrorism has been afflicting a civilised com- munlty ---

"Muscling in and impregnably en-| trenching itself not fully in every city of the forty-eight States, bat in the towns and villages at the na- tion's cross-roads, and in the farm-

6.15-7 p.m.--Chinese Recorded Programme.

7-10.30 p.m.-European Pro-

of Victor & H.M.V. Re-ing communities. with gramme *ravel, corda.

7.05-7.33 p.m.-Variety, Orchestral-

The Singing Fool-Selection,

(B2994),

Song-

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Social Functions.

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Pustertainments.

Theatre;

Theatre;

To-day-King's "Muscling is not only in the la-"Palmy Days."

To-day-Queen's bour unions, but in the white "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.”

collar professions.

"Taking over plants and factories:

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That

Theatre:

De Groot & His Orchestra producing both the basic commodi- "The Unexpected Father."

To-day Majestic ties and the household necessities.All Quiet On The Western Front." Humorous Song

1 Lift Up My Finger and I Say "Acquiring control by machine-

Today - Star "Tweet, Tweet",

gunning and bombing of 75 perBilly The Kid." Gracic Fielda (82999). cent. of the country's economic pro- She's Funny That Way.

cesses, including, as in New York Gracle Fields (B2999). City, the transportation and ship- Song-

ping facilities, Lonesome That's All,

Lambert Murphy (4004). Organ Selo

'S Wonderful, Roll Away, Clouda,

Edward O'Henry (B2896).

A Run With the Darktown Hunt,

Scott & Whaley (B2988). Humorous Song

Before I Go to Sleep,

Dialogue-

-

The Lay of the Lady's Vote,

Anona Winn, George Baker, Harold French and Leonard Henry (B9017).

Weary River,

Gene Austin, Tener (B2995). 7.35-7.44 p.m. 1812 Overture (Tschaikowsky),

Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden, conducted by Eugene Goossens (9025-5). 7.44-8 p.m.-Sea Shantles. (a) D Shallow Brown, (b) Miss Lucy Long,

role of Wallingford, a happy-go-! And so Eddie Cantor is wonder- The fortune-telling exposures lucky man. He is ably supported ing. by Durante and Torrence, the trio of "Palmy Days" help him none at being responsible for much laughter.jll. The film reveals a ridiculous! cruok story, in which, inefdentally. there is none of that "give-him-the-i

Four years changes the topogra- works" talk, or, even "you're going for a long ride"! But, it is only phy of "the changeless desert," filmdom that can produce a film of eording to Herbert Brenon, famous this type, which tells of the adven-director. Brenon med his silent float classic "Beau Geste," on America's tures of three crooks, who bogas business firms, and are, for "Sahara"-the sand wastes of the must part of the time, successful in Sonora desert near Yuma, Arizona.

This was

in the Spring of 1926.j dodging the long arm of the Law.

Leila Hyams, as the girl who re-Four years later, when he was Song. forms Haines, is pretty and acts about to produce its sequel, "Beau: The supporting rast includes ideal," for Radio Pictures, showing| well.

Wednesday at the Queen's Guy Kibbee, Hale Hamilton, Robert on MeWade, Clara Blandick and Wal-Theatre, it occurred to the director and his staff that the original 'sets' ter Walker.

used In addition, there is shown the of "Beau Geste" could be latest Hearst newsreel which is as again, since scenes were to be taken. interesting as ever, and a musical, that represented the which features Gus Van and Joe with some of the same characters. When Brenon went to Arizona on a Schenck.

cation hunt he found his sets in one spot, and his backgrounds on another! The "sets" hadn't moved. it was a case of the mountain com- (a) On Rock Me, Julie, jing to Mahomet, or, during the four (b) Oh! Didn't it Rain

years, two ranges of sand dunes (a) Git on Board, Lil' Chillun, Editie Cantor insists that he has and a wide valley between them (b) Dere's No Hidin' Place a future, that goes beyond current had moved away from the ruins of success, in "Palmy Days," now at the movie fort a distance of three! the King's Theatre. But, what it miles! The wind, shifting the sand sand is he doesn't know. Since the before it, had moved the Samuel Goldwyn picture is meant to mountains at a rate of slightly less One range be a for-laughing-purposes-only ex- than a mile a year! posure of spiritualism, fortune tell-had passed directly over the movie ing and such occult pastimes, Canter set, buried it from sight, and 'then, makes his role as an unwilling as- like a wave of the sea, passed on, Beem so that the old ruins, made famous sistant to a fake spiritualist

in "Beau Geste," were again un-

OFFICIAL SOURCES.

"PALMY DAYS."

the more real.

-CIRE

same

spot.

In the way of a future, Cantor is covered. contemplating a good will tour of While repairs would have restor Europe under the auspices of ed the set for use, the scenery was Samuel Goldwyn. Eddie hasn't irreparably gone.

1

(e) Walk Him Along Johnny, (d) Johnny Comes Down to Hilo

(arr. Terry),

John Goss & the Cathedral

Male Voice Quartet (B2940).

(arr. Burleigh),

(arr. Brown),

Faul Robeson, Basa (B3033). 8.03-8.45 p.m.--- Symphony No. 4 in F Minor

(Tschaikowsky),

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowskt (6929-31).

1st Movt-Andante sostenuto

moderato con anima.. 2nd Movt-Andantino in modo di

canzona.

3rd Movt. Scherzo Pizzicato oa-

tinato.

4th Movt-Allegro con fuoco. 8.45-9.20 p.m.—

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The foregoing are among the many amazing statements made in

April 18-China Entertainment & Investment Co., Limited, "Muscling In." published by Faker Land and Faber.

extraordinary meeting, King's The author is F. D. Pasley, the Theatre Building, 5th floor, noon, former newspaper man who wrote April 14-Hong Kong General) the biography of Al Capone. That Chamber of Commerce, general was an astonishing book, but Its meeting of importers. Chartered successor will probably be found in-Bank. Bldg., 4.15 p.m. credible by those who have not been April 19-A. S. Watson & Co., permitted to see the inside of the Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, 11.30 s.m.

United States.

The ferm "muscling In" is the gangster's way of describing his extortion of money from tradesmen and from legitimate trade.

According to Mr. Pasley-and; undoubtedly he is right "the brazen operations of the racketeers! Put the robber barons of the Dark

April 21-Wm. Powell, Ltd., 6, Des Voeux Road Central, 11.80 a.m.

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Ages to the blush. No form of Cross-Channel Air Pilot's

business is too modern for them to consider. They are museling in,

Problem.

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finding ways to cut into the profits The capabilities of the cross- of every form of legitimate busi-Channel air service underwent ness, and working out ingenious novel test when three heavy weight methods of squeezing a dishonest boxers, aggrogating 50 stones, em- percentage out of every honestly barked under the anxious eyes of

earned dollar."

The Dead Shots.

the pilot.

Previously Carnera, who was one

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on

The story opens with the gun-of them, provided the officials ut

Paris airport with play practised on James Lynch, the the

scale's businesa agent of the Chicago Coal conundrum, as the Teamsters, Chauffeurs, and Helpers which every passenger must Union. That was the beginning of be weighed would not regis- ter his weight. After much muscling in, several years ago.

But the scete swiftly changes to discussion, the formality was over- the reign of the Dead Shots, who come by an official deciding to take at one period controlled thirty-three his word that he weighed only 20

stones. Chicago Labour unions.

In chapter two Capone-the

The only thing The Entire Musical Numbers of "frial colossus of racketdom-arrives on

been to Europe since he went to that remained to do was to build England on his honeymoon in 1914, a replica of the fort on the new to sing

single number insite of the unstable landscape!

is The song

Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, "Charlot's Revue."

Love the Irene Rich, Lester Vail, Don Al- still remembered,-"I Ladies." Than. the goggle-eyed varado, Otto Matieson, Paul Mc- comic has two stage offers under Allister, Leni Stengel, Hale Hamil- advisement. One from Florenz ton and other favourites appear in Ziegfeld for a new "Follies" or pos- the "Beau Ideal" cast. Forbes and sibly a "book" or story show, and McAllister were m "Beau Geste." another for Eart Carroll's "Vani

ties." A year ago, when Cantor" THE UNEXPECTED FATHER" went westward after his long stage

run

the scene.

Then came the pilot's problem of disposing the bulk so that the 'plane would lift and of seeing that it was properly balanced.

The crossing was comfortably ac- complished.

by Jury" (Gilbert & Sullivan),

Recorded under the direction of Rupert D'Oyly

It is related that between 1928 Carte (C-4).

and 1931 the Federal Government 9.20-10.28 p.m.-A Concert.

spent nearly two hundred thousand Orchestral-

The Germans, Neusal and Coronation March (from "The Pre-dollars to put him and his brother

Guhring, who were recently beaten phet" Meyerbeer),

Ralph behind prison bars. Philharmonic Symphony This statement speaks for it by Carners, were the other boxers. Orchestra of New York self:-

(7104),

Song

Ciribiribia (Pestalozza),

Bacio (Arditi),

Lucrezia Beri (Soprano) (1202).

A newly rich bachelor! A gold-Instrumental Trio~~ in "Whoopee," to make the

Trio in D Minor memorable picturization of the New digging fiancee! An orphan child,

(Mendelssohn, Op. 49), Amsterdam Theatre hit, he promis who dreams this Bachelor into an ed himself and his family (meaning actual daddy to get out of the his wife, lda, and his five daugh clutches of a bootlegging aunt! ters), that he was through with the threatening society wedding i stage forever. No one challenges starry-eyed nurse!! his right to change his mind,--that

A

A

Played by Alfred Cortot (Pianist), Jacques Thiband (Violinist) and Pablo Casala (Cellist) (DB1072-5).

Ist Mort-Molto allegro, agitato. 2nd Movt-Andante con moto tran-

qatilo.

3rd .Movt-Scherzo.

4th Movt-Finale.

The Lute Player (Alitsen), The Floral Dance (Mona),

There you have all the star- is no one, except Eddie and hispangled ingredients of Universal'e family. Cantor's literary activi scintillating comedy, "The Unex- ties are becoming increasingly sucpected Father," which opens at the cessful. So much so, in fact, that Central Theatre to-day. Put them Song Eddie is seriously contemplating a all together and into the hands of more intensive concentration on that such players as Slim Summerville, field. "Caught Short was an out ZaSu Pitts, Cora Sue Collins, Al-ed it at the Universal city from a standing success; ac was "My Lifellson Skipworth, Dorothy Christy, tremendously funny original story Currently, Claud Allister, and you have the by Dale Van Every. You remem- "Yoo! Hoo! Prosperity" is attract most hilarious, funny, pathetic and ber Freeland directed the famous ing nationwide attention in book altogether delightful comedy of the "Whoopee." Don't miss it! form after its serial publication in season. Thornton Freeland direct-dering, but it's great!

Ta -In Your

Hands,"

Bringing Up Father.

were

"If a man wanted to open a chandising (bootlegging) had been speakeasy in Chicago he saw Al, for put on a chain-store basis. the Capone syadijate operated as "Towels and table linens a monopoly, controlling not only the bought through a Capone company traffic in beer and booze for the and undered by

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In the end the shovelling of snow and the repairing of pavements and

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