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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930.

CENTRAL THEATRE AR

namounts Sound Pictures R TO-DAY at 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

Girls!

Gary Cooper's here on seven days leavel He's appearing in his first starring. rjcture He wants to meet you all. Come and see how he looks in kilta. Come

and see him in the greatest Gary Cooper role you've ever even imagined!

GARY

COOPER "Seven Days Leave"

IN.

A Garamount Picture

See him as a gallant, fighting man of mys tery Hear his attrae tive drawling voice as

he speaks words of love

or war.

Parmount

Comedy and Newsreel.

-NEXT CHANGE, THURSDAY, OCT. 9th- FRIDAY, OCT. 10 (CHINESE NATIONAL DAY) SPECIAL MORNING MATINEE AT 11:30 AM. THE BIG PICTURE OF 1930

PARAMOUNT ON PARADE

Join in the Whoopee with 30 Famous Stars!

RICHARD ARLEN Singing, dancing!

CLARA BOW. --'

Strutting "It"!

OLIVE BROOK

Sleuthing the laffa!. RUTH CHATTERTON Stirring your heart!

GARY COOPER

Speaking his love!

i

SKEETS GALLAGHER

Starting the fun!

HELEN KANE

Booping a new doaji!.

ABE LYMAN

-and His Band!

ZELMA O'NEAL

"Wrassling" with Oakiet

BUDDY ROGENS

Crooning and June-ing

GEORGE BANCROFT

Fighting fox fun!

EVELYN BRENT

Slapping her pappy!

NANCY. CARROLL

Shaking a sugar-fool! MAURICE CHEVALIER

Poufing the posfe!

· LEÓN ERROL

"Dying "-to meet you !

HARRY GREEN

Isadore the Torcader!

DENNIS KING.

Singing and how!'

·· JACK DAKIE

Okay-ing the parly'1 WILLIAM POWELL' Solving your troubles i

"AND MORE'!

Book Your Seats Now.

Interested In Wireless?

Then look for some interesting

news in

the Daily Press next Thursday.

BURBAN HEIGHTS KEEPING COOL

WILLNES

DRAGS CHAIR TO END OF PORCH AND SIS MOPPING HIS BROW AND WONDERING HOW HEALL KEEP COOL TODAY

FLOPS INTO HAMMOCK.. FEELS A LITTLE HOTTER. WISHES HE HAD A DRINK, OF COLD WATER

DECIDES THERE'S MORE AIR STIRRING AT OTHER END OF PORCH AND MOVES CHAIR DOWN THERE

GOES UPSTAIRS AND GETS COOL DRINK. DE~ ODES HE WONT BE SO HOT IF HE SITS-IN- DOORS

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

SINKS INTO CHAIR, WISH- „TAKES HAMMOCH DOWIE,

ING WE HAD MOVED OUT

CARRIES IT OUT D. ONTO BACH-PORCH `BACK-PORCH AND PUTS WHILE HE WAS ABOUT IT IT UP AGAIN"

FEELS HOTTER. 6DES GETS INTO HEATED ARGU-| OUT TO SEE WHAT ́ ́MENT WITH FRED PERLEY | THE THERMOMETER · NEXT DOOR WHETHER THIS REGISTERS NOW IS WORSE THAN THE HOT ] SPELL OF 1927, AND FOR- GETS ALL ́ABOUT HOW HOT

HE IS.

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicats, Inc.)

THE SILVER SCREEN. remembered the characterization,

"SEVEN DAYS LEAVE.”

As a child Gary Cooper saw a famous actress play on the London stage. Now that same netress, has become Cooper's screen mother in

Seven Days Leave," Paramount's all talking picture playing at the Central Theatre,

Gary went to England with his parents, Judge and Mrs. Charles Cooper, when he was nine years old and attended grammar school in Dunetable, Bedfordshire, for three years before returning to his birth place, Helens, Montana.

Each Christmas while in Eng- land, the Coopers went up to Lon don to see the pantomimes that are presented at Drury Lane Theatre, and to tako in other leading

theatres.

Beryl Mercer, who portrays an

but it was not until his father visit ed the sound stage on which "Seven Days Leave" was being produced at the Paramount studios, that he connected Miss Mercer with the part. Judge Cooper recognised the actress immediately.

· Paramount on Parade."

8-9

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 335. METRES,

11 to 11.30 a.m-Commercial news, 11.30 a.m. to 19.30 p.m.-Chinono

programine.

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12.30 p.m.-European programme. 1.30 p.m.-Weather report. p.m.-Close down, 21;

D-European programme of records selected and supplied by Messrs. Trang Fook & Co.,

Children's Programme.

5 to 5.30 pin. (approx.)~~

Darice of the Toy Regiment:

Victor Salon Orchestra. Songs for Children."-Eryn Giles,

Soprano.

Songs for ́Childrerű!! ́---- Alico

Green, Soprano,

"Wynken, Blyken and Nod" and The Sugar Plum Tree,”--- Sally, Haulin Reading with inei. dental music...

"Three Billy Goats Gruff" and

The Little. Red Hen;""Geor- gene Faulkner, The Story Lady.

Band Music.

8.30 p.m. (approx.)→

The National "Game

March'

and **The_Blnek. Horse Troop."- --Sousa's Band.

The Whistler and His Dog" and The Warbler's Serenade."- Arthur Pryor's Band Trovatore Anvil Chorus. (Ver.

di) and "Forgo in the Forest." --Arthur Pryor's Band. "Pageantry "--March- and Colos. sus of Columbia "-March.- Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey's Band.

It's ́s Long Way to Tipperary

Victor Novelty Band.-

Vaudeville Music.

6 p.m. (approx.)~ "Kentucky's Way of Sayin' Good Mornin'" and "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again.”—. The Brox Bisters.

Although I eat anything I like and never limit my own menu," she continued, between bites of straw- berry short cake smothered with whipped cream, "I have stayed“ at 110 pounds ever since loaving high school. Activity, mental and physical, is the way, to keep, fit,”.... She is credited, by the way, with

Probably the greatest collection having the most porfect figure in of brand-new song hits ever gather-which Innet Gaynor and Charles Hollywood. "Sunny Side Up," in ed together in one sparkling screen Farrell are co-featured, will be seen. production will be heard when and heard on Thursday on the Paramount's talking, singing, danc- ing, laughing festival of the stars, "Paramount on Parade," opens its seven days' ran at the Central Theatre on Thursday

Two of the numbers, "Sweepin' the Clouds Away" and "Any Time's the Time' to Fall in Love,' are already sweeping the country vid the radio. The former song is one of the Maurico, Chevalier num. bera in "Paramount on Parade"; the second sung by Charles (Buddy)

old Scotch weman, who appoints Rögers and Lillian Roth... herself Cooper's mother in "Seven Days Leave," was at that time one of the leading actresca in London. The Cooper family attended a per- formance of "Milady's Dress" in which she had leading role. Gary

Spectacular I

Romantic!

ZANE GREY'S

THE

VANISHING PIONEER

JACK HOLT

MALESAILPOWELL THRO ADIELER

a Paramount Picture

Conflict, romance, thrills. Jack Holt reappears in a powerful study of the vanish- ing west by Zane Grey:

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.30; 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

AT THE

MAJESTIC

Hatban Road, Kowloon.

Queen's Theatre.

-** The Vanishing Ploneer,” ‚ Jack

Holt is back again in Zane Grey productions. Paramount has brought them back again to-gether in The Vanishing Pioneer" which" is now showing at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon.

The Vanishing Fioneer" is the latest- Zane Grey's production, star- ring Jack Holt. Faos also will be glad to witness a father and son both in the same production. We refer to young Tim Holt, son of the star, who is seven years old. For the time he is privileged to act with his illustrious father he does very well,

The supporting cast is oxcellant. William Powell, the sauve villain; as a leading and important part. Also Fred Kohler, the sneering one, who has brought fame to himself with George Bancroft, does an offer. tive piece of work: Sally Blane, one of the prettiest feminine ac

Jack Oskie and Zelma. O'Neal sing "I'm in Training for You," another lively hit song, and the rousing balled, "Let Us Drink to the Girl of My Dreama," in ronder- od by a famous group of setors, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Vir- ginia Bruce, Gary Cooper, James Hall, Phillips Holmes, David Newell, Joan Peers and Fay Wray,

Chevalier also sings "All I Want Is Just One Girl," and is mimicked by Mitzi Green. Clara Bow sings treeses on the screen, playa oposite True to the Navy." Nancy Car-1 Jack Holt. Others in the cast are roll introduces a great dance tune, Guy Oliver, Roscoe Karns and "Dancing to Save My Sole." Ruth Marcia Mannon. Chatterton'a contribution is "My Marine, a sentimental ballad with a therao like My Man." For fun Helen Kane croons. "What Did Cleopatra Say!" and Jack Oakie, Skeets Gallagher and Lean Erro! are convulsing, renduring We're 5 and 7 o'clock performances: the Masters of Ceremony Harry Green sings "I'm Isadore, the Toreador,"

The stage attraction presented by Mies Dot Faya and her. "Midcaps" was well applauded. They gave A very mappy programme, including the latest song hits, and will repeat their performance to-day during the

CAREER PREFERRED TO MARRIAGE.

Dennis King, of "Vagabond King" fame, sings a Russian Jovė; } song." Nichavo," and the sensa WOMAN PLAYWRIGHT ENDS

tional Italian tenor,. röcently

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ROMANCE.

Miss Anno Nichols, the play wright, and author of "Abio's

Irish Rose," who is in Los Angeles saye that her former fiance, the Marquis William de Lignemare, is suffering from a nervous disordor

brought to this country by Para- mount, Nino Martini, is heard in

Song of the Gondalier." Many of the interludes are filased in technicolor. Comedy, drama romance, and music are cleverly in tekspersed. And the whole is blends the result of her having broken ed into a joyous, intimate enteroff her engagement with him. Sho is sending the Marquis to her En tainment festivali.“.

eino ranch for a caro, p

“It was my fault for breaking off Sunny Side Up."

the engagement," she told the to porters. I must do what I can. Sharon Lynn, flm beauty and fea

Dieting is just a lot of nonsense to atone for its

"I anddonly realised that-marri- tured momber of the cast of ge would end my career, so I

broke off the engagement,” continu Sunny Side, Up," Fox Movietoned Miss Nichols.. musical comedy featuring Janet The Marquis do Ligaomaro was formerly an Attache at the French: Farrell tonges

pur and Clar

this bombshell into the ranks of working as manager... for Miss feverish dieters.

Nichols ho became engaged to her.

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"The I'll Be Happy " and " Are You Sorry." Jack Smith, Whispering Baritone.

I.

Married the Bootlegger's- Daughter" and "How's Your Folks nad My Folks."-The Happiness Boys.

Keep Your Skirts Down Mary Ann" and "If I Had a Girl Like You."Aileen Stanley," Billy Murray, and

and My Man is on the Make

I've Got It"-Helen Kane, Comedionne,

8.30 p.m. Chamber Music.

Quartettenty in C Minor" (Schu

bort).-Budapest String Quar-

*tette.

Chant D'Amour" (Stojowaki).-

Jan Paderewski, Pianist. Humoresko (Dvorak)-Mischs

Elman, Violinist.

(Han-

Ava Maria" (Schubert)—Jascha

Heifetz, Violinist. Harmonious Blacksmith

del)-Alfred Cortot. Pianist. Adagio (Bach).-Pablo Casals,

Violoncello Solo.

Operatic Gems, p.m.- "Rigoletto" (Act · 3)-Guisoppo

De Luca, Baritone,

"(Rossini). “Barbiere do Siviglia

Marion Talley, Soprano. "Bohemian Girl (Balfe)-Clay-

enco Whitehill, Baritono. "Carmen" (Bizet).-Maria Jeritza

with chorus "Carmen-Chanson du Toreador " Tibbett, (Bizet). Lawrence Baritone,

9 p.m-Chinese relay from the Kỏ

Shing Theatre.

a' p.m.-Weather report. 11 p.-Close down.

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