HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1930.
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THE SCREEN'S MOST
LOVABLE LOVERS
Bashing teach scity' glittr to the real thing love! The thrilling lovers of 'Abie's Irish Rose” in
a singing, dancing lɔra- story.
Illusion
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CHARLES (BUDDY)" NANCY ROGERS CARROLL A Paramount Picture
ALSO
PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS
Hot Dog" " & "I Come First "
PARAMOUNT SOUND COMEDIES. NEXT CHANGE
William Powell, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray Clive Brook & Noah Beery
IN
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Bigger than Beau Geste
By the makers of "Chang"
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(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicata, Inc.)
GLUYAS WILLIAMS
TODAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.
ATTRACTIVE STUDIO
CONCERT.
11 to 11.30a.m.----Commercial News. .11.30 am to 12,30 p.m.-Chinese
programme.
gramme.
12.30 p.m.-European recorded pro- 1.30 p.m.-Weather report. Euro-
gramme continued.
2 p.m.-Close down..."
0 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 7 p.m.-European programme of Columbia records selected and supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music.Co.
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Acta 1. and II. of the Opern Manon "by Massenet under the direction of Mons. Eli Coben of the Opera Comique, Paris.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
** ILLUSION" AT CENTRAL
THEATRE.
When the debutantes of Park Avenue society rub elbows with the denizens of Broadway's stage, sparks are sure to fly and hearts are sure to break in one or both of the rival camps.
That is the working formula of
Arthur Train's novel "Illusion!' and it is also the recipe for Pora- mount's all-talking picturization Rogers and Nancy Carroll and which co-features Charles (Buddy) which is now showing at the Cen tral>Theatre..
The Four Feathers."
A war in which the casualties j were almost as large as those of the world conflict forms a thrilling background for Paramount's "The Four Feathers," current venture of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, soldier-of-adventure producers.
Late statistics place the loss of life in the World War at 8,543,515." asserts Schoedsack, while the Dervish rebellion against the Bri-
tish in the African Sudan in 1881 cost more than 6,000,000 lives.
"Native losses were many times those of the British. Unschooled in civilized warfare and inspired by their religious feelings, the, blacks proved absolutely fearless. Buddy is a successful magician. Prominent in these battles were the Nancy is the partner in his act. Fuzzy Wuzzys whom Kipling has Both are circus-reared. Both are immortalized in song and poetry as troupers. But Buddy is society-first class fighting men. conscious, and he begins to get himself liked by the idle rich who are amaware of his far from elite background. He pays court to a young heiress who likes him very much until she learns that he is only an old circus man's son. Then she jilts him.
In the meantime, Nancy, who was Second Movement from "Sym-She goes right on with her magic Buddy's first love, in disconsolate. phonie Pathetique" (Tachai- kowsky) and Scene de Ballet (de Berliot), Squire" Octette. Carmen- The Toreador Song (Bizet) and Tannhauser-O Star of Eve (Wagner), Harold Wil- liams, Baritone.
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2
Hungarian Rhapsody No.
(Liszt), New Queen's Hall Or chestra
Tales of Hoffman - Barcarolle (Offenbach) and Cavalleria Rus ticana-Intermezzo lascagni), Organ Solo by Terance Casey." Melodious Memories-Regal Cine-
ma Orchestra. Making A Talkie-Descriptive Sketch by Clapham and Dwyer. Hungarian Dance No. »3 and ́0 (Brahms), The Bombardiers," Les Millons D'Arlequin-Serenade (Drigo) and Ave Maria (Schu- bert), Violin Solo: Efrem Zim- balist.
Mephistopheles, March (Douglas) and Langland Bay Mareb (May), The Carlisle St Stephen's Brass Band
9 p.m.-Weather report, local timė
and Press news.
STUDIO CONCERT.
9.05 p.m.-
1 The Hilo Harmony Boys(
Rohala March and
"Pagan Love Song."
9. Mrs. G. Leib, Mezzo Soprano
Songs selected.
3. Mr. Abrahams, Violin Solo- ist Les Adieux” (Berasati);
4. Mr. A. Brock, Baritone (6) "Shipmates: O'Mino (Sander- soa) and (b) Just a Cottage Small" (Hanby).
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3. The Hilo Harmony Boys-(a) "What Is This Thing Called
Love" and (b) A-l-o-b-a"
6. Mr. and Mrs. G. Leib, Voral
Duets
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heart is not in the stage any more. act, using a new partner, but her At this point in the story an amaz- ing and thrilling anti-climax is introduced. It would not be fair to reveal this bit of action here." The story is fast-moving through
Each characterization is clearent and vivid.
The musical interludes which form logical inter- dialogue are exceptionally pleasing missions for the fast and snappy
duit.
to the ear.
WARNERABI
Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hillanow Story of a Shy Men Who Backed & Broadway Show
WHAT HAPPENED TO FATHER
WARNER OLAND
FLOSELLE FAIRBANKS WILLIAM DEMAREST
VEKA LEWIS-JONPE MILJAN BALETSH ST FOR AD
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And it was in the Fuzzy Wuzzy country that Cooper and Schoed. saak re-enacted battle scenes of the Dervish rebellion.. Hundreds of Fazzy Wuzzys who appeared in the film sequences of this story by A. E. W. Mason, are the sons of men who actually fell before the guns of riflemen.
Continent with 60,000 feet of ex
Upon their return. from the Dark
thrilling wild animal close-ups, posed film of battle scenes and Cooper and Schoedsack directed the plot sequences at the Para- mount Hollywood studios, with Richard Arlen, Fay Wray. Clive" Brook. William Powell, Theoder ron Eltz, Noah Beery and George Fawcett acting the principal rölta. The plot deals with the regenera to Africa and braves the perils of tion of a cowardly soldier who goes native warfare and jungle wild-life to save his former comrades from death at the hands of the tribes.
men.
The picture has been rated as the best spectacle-thriller of the year 1999. It comes to the Central Theatre on Sunday next.
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