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CENTRAL

MARTENOTS ETHER WAVES

THEATRE REMARKABLE DISPLAY AT

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

COMENS KELLYS

∙IN

AFRICA

It's hot time in Africa which Cohen and Kell дте turned loose in the jungle wilds. But it'll be a hotter time for you when you see their funniest picture

with

George Sidney Charlie Murray Vera Gordon and Kate Price

Showing To-morrow

THE MAN I LOVE

with

MARY BRIAN

RICHARD ARLEN

“A Faramount Picture

Coming Soon

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

"

ALF'S BUTTON

A Gaumont British All-Dialogue

„Pipauction, DD Directed by WRKELLINO |--~

Featuring TUBBY EDUN, ALF GODDARD NORA SWINBURNE POLLY WARD.

Based on WA DARLINGTONS Famous Fare Extravaganza

Bookings at Andersons and the Theatre (Tel. 25720),

STAR THEATRE.

I have this evening attended an advance demonstration at the Star Theatro of M. Martonota Ether Wave Insturment at which unfor tunately only. few persons were present. What was aron and heard was so extraordinary and so reilly fascinating, that we Came AWAY with the fooling that we must da all in our power to assure the pub

e of the interesting nature of the performance. There is a disposi- tion in some quarters to be suspici- ous about this concert and io re- gard it as a type of radio demons- tration. It is nothing of the kind, It is a demonstration of a unique invention which holds out bound- rss possibilities for the future of Music.

Shanghai's Enthusiasm.

The first convert in Shanghai was given to a half-filled hall; at the rext there wore many more peo- le présent; and at the final per. formance every seat was taken and people were standing in the pas-" ages. M. Martenot was pressed to" give two additional concert-donon. strations, but this would have meant postponing the Hong Kong date. Those who come to hear M. Martenot to-day may look for- ward to a very enjoyable evening.

A:MB.S.

Mr. Martenot brought with him his patented instrument, which is styled "Music from the Ethor," and the instrument resembles a small piano, but there the resemblance ends, for it produces music which might just as well come from a saxophone, an oboo or almost any- thing weird, ethereal music, hut music nevertheless, With it the in- ventor can produce the strains of an orchestra, a pipe organ, a she- the human pherd's flute, even voice.

.

The instrument has a keyboard similar to a piano's, but the koys do not operate hammers against wires. They are connected with. batterics and bulbs resembling the interior equipment of a radio re- coiving, net.

Played in Various Ways,

Any one with the slightest knowledge of music can play the Martonot, according to the inven tor, and those ignorant of music can learn to play it within a few weeks. The Martenot can be played in a variety of ways-by passing one finger along a wire suspended above the kerboard. or upon the keyboard itself, or from a distanco by control of the wire

"The instrument is not merely a curiosity, says Mr. Martanol, nor is it intended primarily to imitate the sounds of other instruments, "but to provide now resources of expression of composers-sonoritien hitherto unknown-and novel colour. effects to enrich the orchestral palette. The instrument is not nu- tomatic, employing no, such means as records or perforated rolls, The. lamps are analogous to those used in radio initial electric vibrations with the aid of appropriate gir. cuita.

Mr. Martenot, born in Paris thirty-three years ago,has been a concert pianist and sellist since boyhood. While a wireless instrucc tor during the World War be notie. ed that the apparatus for generat ing waves enabled to production of strangely beautiful sounds, and that was the origin of his inven- tion.

Mr. Martenot is accompanied by his sister, Ginette.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

CENTRAL THEATRE. "COHENS AND KELLYS IN AFRICA."

Universal studios, which has given to the world such brilliant super-productions as "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "King of Jazz," has turned its attention to a new ora of advancement' in the production of comedy features.

The Cohens and Kellys in Africa, which will be shown for the last time to-day at the Central Theatre, may be considered a real attainment in comedy screen-fare. Charlio Murray and Georgo Bid. ney, two of America's 'outstanding comedians of both screen and stage fame, are featured in this photo I play which has received the same careful attention to detail as its two prize pictures of 1930. Noi- ther money nor time hide. Bored to make "The Cohens and Kellys the finest ontertainment of its type. With an excellent cust of characters, hugo and beautiful settings for the physical making of the picture, The Cohens and Kol lys in Africa is in a class apart from usual film faroes"

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931.

KINGS THEATRE

AN

GRAND OPENING

ON

TUESDAY, MARCH 31st

THE MOST MODERN CINEMA THEATRE IN THE

FAR EAST.

De Luxe Seats, Special Audiphone Attachments, and perfect sound and

DON'T

MISS

ERNST

screen vision,

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

MONTE CARLO

Jack Buchanan

Jeanette MacDonald

A Paramount Picture

The Lovely Heroine of

“THE VAGABOND KING"

The Handsome Hero of

WAKE UP AND DREAM

SHOWING DAILY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15, 9,30,

BOOKING NOW OPEN AT ANDERSON'S „AND AT THE THEATRE.

PHONE: 25813.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"MADAM SATAN."

"Madani Satan" which is show- ing at the Queen's Theatre, most certainly, upholds Cecil. B. De

Milles long sustained reputation of being a master in the realm of the exotic and unusual.

The M-G-M director's now comedy with music, his initial tuneful photoplay, by the way, touches upon almost every conceivabló phase of entertainment. It treats af domestic discord. It has spicy and elever scenes in milady's boudoir. It takes you to a gorge ous masked tail aboard a Zeppelin, and finally brings you to the end of your seats as the airship teara loose from its mooring mast, and the guests jump for safety in para- cuter.

The plot of "Madam Satan" is laid entirely amongst the people of "high society," wealthy enough to give and go to parties on Zap- pelins, there to be attired as Henry the Eight," "Romeo," "The Call of the Wild." "The Spirit of Innocent Prido," or what have you Bob and Angola Brooks are married, but Boo's eyes have stray. od because Angela is a too-por- feet. wife. How Angola finally decides to fight for her love with the weapons other women uso, pro- vides the reason for the appearance at the Zep ball of the voluptuous, exotic, mysterious Madam Satan."

THE COHENS AND KELLYS IN SCOTLAND.”··

All the old favourites of" Uni- versal's famous "Cohens and Kel- lys" scries are together again in The Cohnes and Kellys iq Scot tand," hilarious comedy coming to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow.

The famous quartette consists of George Sidney, and Charlie Murray, Vora Gordon and Kate

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ∙AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.15 & 0.30.

'Cecil B.

De Mille

crashes thru-

o the Sex and Bilks of

Society with

the most dar-

ing of all- Talkies-

MADAM

SATAN

Price. All four played in "The by Jeanle

Cohens and Kollya," the first pic-¦ MacPherson

ture of the highly successful series

of which "The Cohens and Kollys

in Scotland" is the fourth. The J. includes E. notable cast Rateliffe, William Colvin and Lloyd Whitlock.

ין

GOLD DIGGERS OF

BROADWAY.".

One of David Belasco's most successful stage plays, The Gold Diggers," written by Avery Hop- wood, and adapted by Robert Lord, is the Warner Bros, and Vitaphono 100 per cent, natural colour, sing- ing, talking, dancing picture "in technicolour, which comes to the Queen's Theatro on Tuesday under the title of "Gold Diggers of Broadway."!

"Gold Diggers of Broadway" de. picts a different side of Broadway's colourful show world, bringing to the screen the private lives of New Yark's chorus girls-the inside stuff on the "grimme girls," as it wore. The brilliant cast includes Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Ponnington, Lilyan' Tashman, William Bakewell, Nick Lucas, Helen Foster, Albert Gran and a dazzling beauty chorus of

100.

CENTRAL THEATRE:

"THE MAN I LOVE."

Love, its ups and downs, B Richard Arlen and. the lovable Mary Brian can portray it, is the theme of the Central Theatro's at traction for to-morrow, the all-talk- ing picture, "The Man I Love." It is n super-romantic drama, directed by William A. Wellman, the man who mado

Legion of the Chadem "Ladies of the Mob" and "Beggara of Life. A strong cast hand.os the thoroughly human characters of the story.

Richard Arlen, who played op- posite Clara Bow in Ladies of the Mob," with Charles ("Buddy"!) Rogers in "Wings" and opposite Carroll in "Manhattan Cocktail," is here given a leading role opposite another popular favorite of the screen, the winsome Mary Brian

Baclanvon, the most talked of woman in Hollywood, as a result nt her, superb artistic characteriza tioás, has a motivating role; Hary Green, the well-known vaudeville comodian, has an important comedy part and Jack Oakie, a graduate of the vaudeville stogo and already a success in pictures, has the wise." ereacking part of a press agent

The picture tells the story of an ambitions young man who decidos to seek fame in New York The home tower girl to whom he is en gaged, follows him to the big city only to find that, through the in terest of a wealthy society woman, he has made an instantaneous guð-

CORR and, drunk with

has

enters into

living. The native jealousy. rival, and the home-town girl's des cision to leave him bring him to his acnes. It is a picture filled with emotion, bubbling with hum oar and packed with thrills

featuring

Kay Johnson Reginald

Denny Lillian Roth Roland Young

4 Metro

Golwyn

• Мом TALKING

PICTURE

NEXT - CHANGE

Bigger! Better! Funnier!

MÜRISAY and SIDNEY..

COHENS ANDKELLYS SCOTLAND

The hilarious return of the original "Cobens

and Kellys

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30 & 5.30.9

BEBE

DANIELS

***

SWIM GIRL SWIM

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