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THE SILVER SCREEN.

CENTRAL THEATRE

BY SPECIAL REQUEST SHOWING TO-DAY ONLY

JAUK OAKIE

&

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"LOVE IN THE ROUGH."

One of the first orchestras to play-for-talking-plotura-recordings.. Earl Burthete's Biltmore Hotel Rand, and ita fainous radio sing. ing trio, returns to the film foll in Love in the Rough," Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's musical comedy: romance featuring Robert Montgo mery.

In the new talkio feature which is showing at the Queen's Theatre, the Biltmore orchestra is gesen cs well as haard in the clubroom scenes and the trio appears, with

POLLY WALKER Montgomery-dad Miss Jotdan m

"AIT THE DECK

Singing-Dancing--Colour

Starting Sunday

GOOD NURSE!

NIGHT

RICHARD IN

DIX

The

Love Doctor,

A Toy maker if thero ever was ono, Heart trouble's catching and the dbofor succumba to his beautiful nurse,

12 Marzanost Planet --

ACTION-LOVE-LAUGHS

Coming Soon

A Whole Jungle Fall of Laugh's

COHENS KELLYS

IN AFRICA

Coming

Soon

A GALAZY OF BRITISH STARS IN A BRITISH "TALKIE” PRODUCED IN A BRITISH STUDIO

ALFS BUTTON

A Caumont British All-Dialogue Proqustion Directed by WRKELLINO:

Rufaturing,

TUBBY EDLIN, ALF GÓÐÐARB NORA SWINBURNE POLLY WARD

Based on W ÁBARUNSTONJ Famous Fares Extravaganza.

Bookings at Andersons and – the Thestru (Tel. 25720).

several song numbers. The or. chastra made its film debut in "Broadway Melody."

Charles F. (Chuck) Reiner directed the new talkie with the supporting cast including Dorothy Jordan, Benny Rubin, Dorothy McNulty and J. C. Nugent.

"MADAM SATAN.”

Of all the various, collections owned by Cecil B. De. Mille, in- cluding old shawls and firearms, one of the most interesting "is un doubtedly his file of quine and jokes directed against his use in pictures of bathtubs, showers and other such ntatorial devices.

Since he first used a bathroom in "Old Wives für Ne" and sub- sequently in Male and Female," De Mille has been. hilariously hail- ed as the "Bath Tub King" of the Movies. For the nimiisement of bis friends De Mile has carefully saved al' jokes about his bathtubs.

Of the collection, the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer director considers

the picca de resistance, the one which states that "if the contents of all Cecil B. De Mille's bathtubs were emptied at one time, the re sulting flood would fill the Yale Bowl."

De Mille is stated to have a glass englosed shower,

Satin," Intest all-talking vehicle, which will open on Sun- day at the Queen's Theatre, Re- ginald Denny and Roland Yoing get under it with their clothes on in the hope of remedying the effects of what was evidently a rather hectic "night before."

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE LOVE DOCTOR.”

Fifteen yeni bgy, a young man with histrionic amb

budding tions sit in a New York, theatre and watched for the tenth time a performance of "The Boomer ang," the stage sucres of

Wallico Eddinger played the lead in the play and it was the youth's ambition to emulate the stage star in "The Boomerang,'

That youth was Richard Dix and his dream came true in Hollywood where he has just completed the picturization of the play undor the title of "The Love Doctor," which comes to the Contral Theatre to-morrow,

"The Love Doctor," is the story of a young physician who finds himself in the unique position of prescribing for love ailments, and Believing that he is immune from these pesky lore germs. But all Lou inte he finds that he has boon ensnared by his own rules for love,

MACEDONIA THE MYSTERIOUS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931.

HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

WATCH THIS SPACE

FOR

OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT

Proprietors :

CHINA. ENTERTAINMENT & LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.

KING'S THEATRE:

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

EAST AND WEST.

Yangisze Conservancy.

In view of tho urgent need for the dredging and improvement of the lower ronches of the Yangtze River, a conservancy programme entailing the expenditure of 0%, 200,000 for the Woosung-Hankow section of the river has been formu inted by the Yangtze River Con servancy Board under the Minis

try of Communications. To raise the necessary funds, the lovy of a surtax on goods transported to various ports on the Yangtze valley is contemplated:

T New Dredge for the Philippines.

The few river dredge for the port of Iloilo, now under construo tion in the yards of F. Schichau, Gm.b.H., Elbing, Germany; will be completed in about seven months and will be towed to the Philip pines by the new customs cuttor which is also under construction at the same yards.

The dredge will proceed to Iloilo ahortly on its own power. This dredge, unlike the dredger Manila, is not a sen going ship, it was ex plained at the office of Reither Akerman Company, local agenta of F. Schichan, but it will be able to make the trip to Iloilo unaided.

This is a suction pipe line dredge,, which according to specifications, ia capable of an hourly output of 300 cubic meters. It is about 42

A

a distano of 3,000 feet. meters long, 11 meters beam, and

It is to 1.48 meters draft, It is to be a ¦ bà 200 feet above the sed-fovel and stosin vesiet equipped with oil to be double-bridged. The upper burners. The ship is to have a bridge is for a double track rail- speed of nine and one-half miles way and the lower for traincare

and ordinary traffic.

per hour."

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The contract price of this dredge, together with 300 meters of float- ing pipe and 7,200 meters of land pipe, is Pac0,000, delivered, at Manila.

Shimonotek! Straits Bridge Project The business mon of Kyushu are evidently tired of waiting for the Government Railway engineers to solve the problem of providing direct rail connection with tho ninin island by means of the much discussed tunnel imder the strait between Shimonoseldi and Moji and are now advocating the con- atruction of a bridge.

drowth of Unemployed Tonnaga, tonnage idle in the principal ports A big increase in the amount of

of Great Britain and Ireland. were shown in the Chamber of Shipping's figures for January 1

Harbour Improvements,

Harbour-improvement schomos were undertaken during 1830 at a number of Scottish ports. ~ The big extension scheme at Glasgow is now nooring completion, and it is ex pected that the now dock at Shield- hall will be formally opened this year. The basin itself is complet ed, but work is still proceeding with the erection of goods shode and the provision of cranes and other cargo handling appliances. ! Leith Dock Commissioners are con sidering a scheme for the erection

of a new grain sfovator to take the place of that burned down some time ago. At Dundee extensions áre being made to the King Georgo 1. Wharf, and harbour improve. ments are being carried out at Aberdeen. With the aid of Gov- orament grants harbour improve- ments schemes have also been· un- dertaken at a number of the smal Jer Scottish ports.

Solentifie Wonders of the Fair.

The latest and most intricate scientific wonders of the warld were shown at the British Indus- tries Fail, held this year at Olympia, Lobden, from February 18-27 There were deriers for measuring the ́various degrees of "Whiteness" in white articles, for recording the temperature at # humber of scattered points on one

Indicator, and a lantern projector

which can throw a picture on a Areen without the necessity isť having a dark room. The "inter- ferometer is a British invention for detecting faults in the very high grade glass used for optical instruments. Britain's pro-omin- ence, in making the world's beat! quality lenses is partly attributed to this instrument. It is not gen- erally known that the majority of cinema films, including those made in Hollywood, are photographed through lenses designed and made in Great Britain; and are also pro jected on to the screen through British lenses Spectacle lenses used in Great Britain

used

to be imported, mainly. from the U.S.A;; at the British Industries Fair this year is one exhibitor who exporte eighty per cent of his lenses to the USA. the Robot, eye, which indientes Other interesting oxhibits will b

the almost imperceptible variations between shades of red, green blue, or any other colour; and a density meter which records the thickness of cloth and the density of chemic a's and metals

The New Cunard Veksøl.

Work on the great new Cunard

last. How serious is the amount is indicated by an examination of Lloyd's Daily Index carried out by a firm of British shipowners. The firm excluded oil tankers, largojih progressed so rapidly numbers of which are now unom pioyed, and counting vessels which were described as laid up or wore obviously lying idle, it was found that 1,122 vesel, ul nearly 5,000,000 tons gross, were unem-

A group of influential person- ages in Kyushu, including Pre-ployed. sidont Ohtagura of the Kyushu Tramway Company and President Asoh of the Kyushu Hydro-Elec- tricity Co., have proposed a plan to construct a suspension bridge across the Channel and hard ap- plied to the Fuktioka Prefectural Government for permission to pro- ceed with the project.

According to the plan, a railway with a capital of company Y.30,000,000, is to he established at Kokura to span the Channel by a bridge to be built between Waka. mekari Head on the Shimonoseki side and Hinode on the Mojl sido,

John J.

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15.& 9.20.

The Smile a-Minute

Talkle!

LOVE HE ROUGH

Maro Goldwyn Mayer ALL TALKING

Song: hits galore, pep, laughs, love It's a winner!

with

Robert

MONTGOMERY Dorothy JORDAN Benny RUBIN J. C. NUGNET

ADDED ATTRACTION

THE COLOURTONE REVUE "A NIGHT AT THE SHOOTING GALLERY".

HEARST

NEWSREEL

TO-MORROW

Dont

miss

CECIL B DE MILLE'S

Spectacular Production

MADÁM SATAN

JEANIE MacPHERSON The Last Word in

Spectacular Romance! Featuring KAY JOHNSON

REGINALD DENNY LILLIAN KOTH

ROLAND YOUNG

that the builders, believe they will be able to launch it in February of next year, instead of in June, as was originally planned. This means that the ship will be ready for her first transatlantic voyage This representa - `about many months before the specified date in the autumn of 1933. Men eight per cent of the total, mer. cantile marines of the world, ex-gro working full time on the. Clyde cluding oil tankers. The depres during day and night shifts, and sion in the oil tanker industry is makers of the ongines and other parts are also hastening their discussed by Mesara.

tasks as much as possible. Hun- Joobs and Co, in their hall-year-

review. Thioy point out that drods of different manufacturers are engaged on these special tasks, the present total tanker tonnage afloat is about 13,000,000 tons dead-ench one making one or more parts. weight, compared with 7,000,000 The funnels, which are being made tone deadweight in 1922, while the by Messrs. Brown, aro of enor lewest rates for clean vessels from mous size. Not only are, the en the Gulf of Mexico to the United gineering problems of this, under- Kingdom or Continent during the taking immense, but there are many very difficult problems of two periods may be put at 10s, ed.

transport involved in bringing to 'and 176. 'Od, a ton, respectively.

Glydeside some of the gigantic parts of the vessel Etorý night, whon ordinary traffic the teased; strange scenes may be witnessed in the Streets of Glaigow! Gangs of men assisted by ipecially bullt motor vehicles may be seen moving engine parta The stern bråcket by which the rudder will be at tached to the hull is too largo to be moved by road or fail, and has

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