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THE SILVER SCREEN.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931.

SNAPSHOTS OF A WOMAN GOING WITHOUT DESSERT

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

01840, by Bali Byndicati

· SARAH AND SON.

theatrical

CENTRAL THEATRE Ruth Chatterton's

TO-DAY ONLY

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7 15 & 9.20 p.m.

1

Meet this amazing woman! Millions

hail her as the first

lady of the Sercon.

SARAH AND

with

SON

Ruth Chatterton a Qaranoint Picture

Millions road the book aud rared about it!

Hire & W

ma's picture

nary Woman

Wil

je

stand late

1

NEXT CHANGE

"Only a Rose"

thrill your heart

as Dennis King, singe it.

DENNIS KING

IN

"The Vagabond King

*JEANETTE MicDONALD WARNER OLAKD

O.P HEGGIE ** A. Garamount Gietor

Bigger than "The Love Parade"

Bookings at Anderson and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

career has been a series of deres.) When she was fifteen years old she' went to Washington. D.C., to spend A Christmas vacation from an ex- elusive southern fishing "solool, The vacation was spent in a round of matinees. She became stage- struck, and told her friends that some day she would be a great theatrical star.

The other girls laughed at her but failed to discourage her. Then they daredder to go on the stage. She answered by getting a job the very next night in the chorus of a show that was playing the national enpital.

Five years ago a motion picture' producer offered Ruth Chatterton a huge salary to desert the stage for | The screen. She turned down the offer and word went around Holly- wood that Ruth Chatterton would dever appear in pictures."

But about 18 months ago she was in the film capital again. Ã ̈ pro. mineu director asked her to take IL screen test, just for fun." She refused. He looked at. her again and said, "You are afraid you won't make good on the screen, aren't you.":

That was a dare. She made the test the next day and it was pro- nounced a success. That test won her over to the screen as a medium for her art. A short time later sho was signed by Paramount to play opposite Emil Jaaninge in "Sins el the Fathers,”

Then came the talking films. Her first appearance on the audible screen wag in The Dummy." Then came The Doctor's Secret," "Charming Sinners", and "The Laughing Lady."

Her fifth all-talking production

SCANS PROSERTS ON MENU

LEANS FORWARD, WISTFULLY SCRUTINIZING TRAY OF FRENCH PASTRY WAITER. BRINGS FOR MRS. WIMPLE

REMARKS THAT OF COURSE A UTTLE PESSERT WOULDN'T HAYE HURT HER, THE REST OF LUNCH EON WAS SO LIGHT

VILLAGE "THEATRE."!

TRAVELLING SHOWMAN'S

MISTAKE.

showmen camo before the Bucking A case of interest to travelling ham County Bench, when Albert Flexmore, a showman, a was sym-

BIGHS AND SAYS SHE THINKS 'PERHAPS SHEP BETTER PO":

WITHOUT DESSERT

ASKS MRS. GIDSETTES THAT. BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE ON HER SUNDAE AND IS THERE MARSH- MALLOW AND WHIPCREAM, BOTH

··LOOKS AROUND, JUST TO SEE

WHERE WAITER IS, THOUGH SHE HAS NO IDEA OF ORDER ING ANYTHING

10-23

ASSUMES AIR OF NOBLE MARTYR-

·DOM WHILE FRIENDS ARE OR" DERING "THER DESSERTS

PICKS UP MENU AGAIN, JUST TO PASS THE TIME AWAY

WAITER POPS UP AT HER SIDE. DOESN'T WANT TO DISAPPOINT": HIM AND ORDERS A MERINGUE 6LACE WITH FUDGE SAKE

noned for using the old school at Thornborough for the production of stage plays, the building not being licensed as a theatre, and also for exhibiting two dogs and two inon-I keys contrary to the provisions of the Performing Animals Act,

Police evidence was that Flexmore said when spoken to that he had no iden that what he was doing was

a stage play. It was simply larce and comedy. There was no drama about it.

Flexmore told the Bench that he

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

THE UNHOLY THREE.”

In "The Unholy Three," Chaney's first talking pieture, which opened | yesterday at the Queen's Theatre; Climieyns, ventriloquial throws his voios into parrots, making them talk, and imitating the birds per- fectly. In fact, he became so pros, Beient that be practiced recording his imitations and then recording a parrot talking back, so that hi developed a replici one couldn't tell from the real thing,

The new picture Я vivid mystery story, in which Ohancy plays a ventriloquist, involved in a sinister plot with a giant and mid- got of the show, He hides from the police in the disquise of an old, woman, operating a

bird store,

imitating a woman's voice and also

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20;

HANEY

the voice of the parrots he sells Lila Lee plays the heroine of the new story, Harry Earles the mid- get. Ivan Linow the giant, Elliott Nugent the juvenile male. Jead. John Miljan, Clarence Bar THE

tou, Crawford Kent, and others are in the cast.

“OUR BLUSHING BRIDES.”

Our

Turning modern department store into a sound studio ovor-night was the task tackled by Harry Beaumont when he filmed Blushing Brides," Joan Crawford's new starring vehicle which will be shown on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.

Much of the action of the plot takes place in a department store where the three principal players,

started the show to earn a livelies Crawford, Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian, are employed. hood.

Joan works in the fashion salon, Anita is at the perfume counter and Dorothy works in woollons.

The Bench held that Flexmore had contravened both Acts, but fined him nominally ten shillings on each summons.

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for Paramount is "Sarah and PREMISES TO LET.

Son," hased on the best-selling

novel of the same name by Timothy

struggle to regain her young son

"Sarah and Son" is showing for the last time to-day at the Central Theatre.

"THE VAGABOND KING.”.

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To facilitate matters, Beaumont employed the regular store help as "extras" and moved his sound equipment, lights and camera para- phernalia in as soon as the closing. hell sounded on Saturday night

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Fire of the girle are decided blondes one is a ́brünette, two have dark hair and light eyes. Their average height is. five feet, four and half inches and their wright average is 123 pounds. They are from various sections of the United States.

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ROBBERS AND A GOLDEN KEY,

ROOM WITH £10,000 JEWELLERY.

Thieves gawed through a four-inch door and stole jewellery valued at nearly £2,000 from Messrs. A, E, Poston & Son, wholesale jewellers, Dowgate Hill, E.C.

They, overlooked, however, a key which would have admitted them to strong-room containing £10,000 worth of goods.

"I left the key in the strong- room under a slip of paper on my desk for my assistants to find in the. "said the manager, Mr. morning,' H. R. A. Broome, to a Press repre sentative.

After clearing two show-ensta of gold watches, cigarette case, and diamond rings, the thieves packed the haul in my office. The strong- room key was right under their. hands, but they missed it that was the best bit of luck we have had for a long time,

They apparently tried to forco the strong-room lock with a key of their own, but failed.".

The robbery was very boklly car- ried out. Clank Lane Police Station stands only a few yards away round the corner, and a policeman passes the showroom every 10 minutes on his boat.

chnage his voice now, as he disguises and changes his character!

The most amazing "and" exciting screen event in years!

A new Chaney with greater thrill and fasci nation!

with Lila Lee Kiliose

Nugeni

Harry Earles

Directed by

Jack Conway Goldwyn-

Based on the novel by TOD ROBBINS

Metro MU

TALKING

PLOTURS

NEXT CHANGE

JOAN

RAWFORD

Our Blushing Brides

Crawford

Dorothy

America's Dancing

Daughter is here now

In a picture of today that gets at the truth About modern love and marriage 'la. now and startling. [way. - Fashions and romance for the women! Drama and. thrills for the ment

tolth Hobert Montgomery Anita Page:

Dorothy Sebastian Raymond

Hackett

A

Harry Beaumont Production

ALL TALKING ATTIN

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Secreting themselves in a block At 5.30 & 9.20.

of offiers above the jeweller'a show-

"after, midnight, and bored a hole id the panelling of the wall Through thin they had a clear view of the main lock, which they sawed away bodily

Between 300 and 400 gold watches wors stolen, also 19 diamond ringe.

STATE STREET SADIE

CONRAD NAGEL MYRNA LOY

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