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CENTRAL THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW ONLY At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

A THRILL PICTURE SUCK AS YOU GET ONCE

IN A LIFETIME.

THIS PICTURE GİVES A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF

MANAGUA AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE

:

LAST WEEK.

Columbia Pictures

APERINT

A THRILLING DRAMA FLOYE (<ADVENTURE/

with

JACK HOLT LILA LEE RALPH GRAVES and an All-Star supporting cast

A BEAUTIFUL

love tale um- folded against a series of unbr. ilavablu air leats By seasoned dere. devil pilotst A picture of breath- taking calibre The classic of the

dramas.

air

MADE WITH THE COOPERA- TION OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS,

FRANK R.CAPRA

production

ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, LAUGHTER, TEARS, SUSPENSE, AND A COLOURFUL AUTHENTIC

BACKGROUND.

Starting Sunday

A 1031 PARAMOUNT

SUPER-PRODUCTION

At last! The talking screen

has found a second GRETA GARBO in MARLENE DIETRICH The new German screen beauty who is the rage of two continents in Ho buried himself alive in the Forelin Legion to forget wom en like her!

She Gives Love a Start- ling cancel

Signifi-

MOROCCO

GARY COOPER MARLENE DIETRICH ADOLPHE MENJOU

a Paramsuit Picture

Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre (Tol, 25720).

THE SILVER SCREEN,

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

THE SEA DAT.""

Tin nth degres of thrills is renched in the new Metro-Goldwyn; Mayer marius melodrama, "The Sen Bat," which opened last night at the Queen's Theatre. Fighta above the deran but principally underwater feature this original story by Doruthy Yost,

menace"

The novelty of the involved in the plot is one of its greatest dinrian When two sponge divers, John Miljan and Nile their Asther, fight underwater, differences are made unimportant y the appearance of a monster sea int, wue of the two ton giant rays which infest tropical watere. "More deadly, than sharks, they crush divers in their ouense blanket wings,

Asther's death by one of these éreatures starts the springs of a powerful plat revolving about Charles A. Bickford, an escoped minister's clothing; convict in George Marinu, her soddon inthor, superintendent of the enncession; John Miljan, villainous diver, and his unwholesome companions, Gib. son Gowland and Boris Karloff.

Bickford and Raquel lead in acting honours. Bickford is magni- ficent in the scenes where he is forced, for his own protection, to take the duties of his ministerial garh seriously. Mias Torres gives a splendid characterization of a white girl enmeshed in the super. stitious voodoo worship of natives.

REMOTE CONTROL,

Edward Nugent bangs up the most unique talkie record in film- dom. He plays a part all through "Remote Control" without his voice ever being heard!

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931.

THEATRE

KING'S

HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

SLICE

OF

MUSICAL COUNTRY GOLF LIFE! GLORIOUS IN TECHNICOLOR, CHUCKFUL OF LAUGHS AND LOVE!

FOLLOW THRU

CHARLES

ROGERS

NANCY

CARROLL ZELMA O'NEAL. JACK HALEY

-SCHWAB MANDEL

PRODUCTION

a Paramount Picture

KING'S THEATRE.

"FOLLOW THRU."

SHOULD MEN PLAY FEMALE ROLES?

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA AT

CAMBRIDGE.

Had John Webster been born three hundred years later he would havo mando a, fortune 'ns the writer of film scenarios, writes a London dramatic critic.

His "White Devil," performed by the Marlowe Drainatic Society. at Cambridge, has moments of real poetry, it is true, but it is

SHOWING TO-DAY essentially film stuff.

·AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30

PRICES Including Tax. Logo Seats ..i ...$2.20...

Dress Circle Back Stalls Front Stalls

...$1.70 ..$1.10

.50

Booking at the THKATRE Only. PHONES: 25313, 25330.

Patrons are requested to call for Reserved Seats, 16 minutes before the show-No Reser- vation can be guaranteed after that hour.

MASKED MEN OUTWITTED.

FIGHT IN. LONELY POST OFFICE.

By flinging a lead weight through a glass panel to give the alarm Mrs. Harrison, wife of the sub-

Competition is the spice of love's and "Follow Thru," is the sugar of entertainment, plenty of com petition, plenty of hilarious in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy, plenty of, throbbing postmaster in Verdant-lane, Cat- feature, in which William Haines is romance, and a real golf story that ford, S.E., foiled masked and arm- starred and which will be showing goes outdoors for its entertainment.ed raiders who attempted to rob at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday,

Charles Rogers and Nance Car- the post office Nugent is cast as the radio broad-ral head the brilliant coat of carling station 'engineer. All his Follow Thru," all Technicolour, work goes on behind a sound-proof glass partition and all his converst- tion goes into a télophone.

Mary Doran plays oposits Haines in the picturization of the stage play and the supporting cast in cludes Charles King, John Miljan, Polly Moran and J. C. Nugent.

CENTRAL THEATRE..

"FLIGHT."

Fate in the form of a national motion picture exhibition stapped in and changed the life career of Ralph Graves, one of the featured players in "Flight," the Columbia all-talking aviation film now play ing at the Central Theatro..

which open, to day at this theatre.

There's fun galore in "Follow Thru," what, with Lelma O'Neal, that lively little lady of Varsity Drag" fane and her side-kick, the comic Jack. Haley, and jolly' Eugene Pallette, heading the fun force and there's excitement too in the big out loor golf, scenes, with woman fighting woman for a man's love,

*

"Follow Thru" is essentially a comedy, but the entertainment value is considerably heightened by the introduction of several snappy seng numbers. They are:-"But A Peach ton up your Overcoat,' of a Pair" "1 want to be bad." ete. Rippling with laughs, alive with cately music, filmed entirely in Technicolour, based on the craze of the hour, golf, the picture was produced under the Showmanship eye of Schwabs and Mandel, makers of "The Desert Song,' High," etc.

His family had decided that he war to be an engineer. His great grandfather, his uncle, his father and other relatives had been en- gaged in the engineering pro- fession. Ralph was educated to fol tow in their footsteps. He graduat ed from the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, & metallur. The Bishop's Trousers. gical engineer. But his heart was nut in his work; he had a yen to o into the movies. He decided that engineering would have to get along without one member of the Graves family.

Queen

A story of the late lamented Bishop Hoars of Hong Kong is told by Fleet-Surgeon W. E. Home, R.N., in The Times, In Hoog Kong thirty years ago, he says, the Bishop of Victoria, (drowned, alas later in a typhoon, a great However, he did not find it an ensy matter to reach his goal. It loss to the Church), dealt with a well-known local Chinese tailor, was during the Motion Picture Ex- position in Chiengo that he got his who sent his bill, which the amused First Beron opportunity, Universal Bishop showed me, to "J. C. Vic. for making "ono Pictures was conducting a contest toria, Esq.." uffering the leading male role op- pair of racehorse trousers." posite Violet Mersereas to the young man best qualified. Ralph Graves was selected. His first pic ture was Men Who Have Loved Mo,"

Graves achieved a substantial Buccess, notably in D, W. Grifith's * Dream Street." He confesses that he got a swelled head and bo

Ho gan to lose his perspective. then decided to quit the screen and resume an engineering career. For two years he worked with the Hughes Tool Company of Houston, and though he proved himself a auocess in his family profession, ha could not forget the screen. Ita lure eventually brought him back to Hollywood.

He entered the commercint end of pictures. Ralph wrote, directed, and neted in pictures for Bennett, Warner Brochers and Columbia Pictures. His work in the follow. -ing-pictures lins been given high

Before the men escaped there was a sharp struggle in the shop.

The premises are part post office and part grocery store in a lonely lario. Mrs. Harrison was behind the post office counter, while her con Oswald was on the grocery side.

Creeping in with black masks over the upper part of their faces, two men came up to the counters,

"Put them up," they ordered, covering Mra. Harrison and her son with revolvers.

Mask Torn ON. What followed was told to the Press by Mr. A. O. Harrison, the postmaster,

"My son had his back to the man. when be pointed the revolver at him," he said. "He turned round, seized the man, tore his maak off. und wrestled with him.

While they wore fighting my wife grabbed a voight from the scales and hurled it through the glaas panel of the side door in the room where 1 was sitting.

"Her action alarmed both men, and they rushed to the door. All three of us followed them, and dashed up the lane. A hundred They leapt yards away a car with its engine Tunning was waiting.

on it and disappeared."

A description of the car and the raiders was telephoned to Scotland Yard and all main of the Flying Squad operating in 8.E. London, warned by wireless, acouring the area.

were Boon

Units of the now mobile farco were posted at strategic points on main roads.

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nal Woman" "The Glad Rag Doll""

and "Submarine." Besides playing

ano

of the featured roles in "Fight," he wrote the story. He is indeed a versatile man.

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Raffles

Noughts and Grosses.

In the famous "conjuring.scene," Bhor of some of its details, he even makes use of a dumb-show finch- back-n special device of the films.

But a film director would have insisted on botter cuntinuity and on more consistency in the draw- The sudden ing of character. "compassion of the Iago-like villain, Flaminico, would require more explanation even in a film

Unnamed Actors.

The actor who took the part (no names are ever printed in the prò- grammes of this Society) neted with unflagging gusto, but he scenied? overthrown in the end by Webster's quaint psychology. Yet you could write n history of Flaminco's

gradual declension on the basis of bis, outburst to his mother, who, by the way, was evidently familiar with Ophelia's nad scene.

Webster saw. the world as charnel-house, but his charneters have the elements of life in them. The obscurity of "The White Devil" is caused by the situations having been imposed on the charactera, This makes it a difficult task for the neturs.

Women. Played by Men,

it the Cambridge performanco several of the undergraduates were remarkably good, notably the Car- dinal Monticelso, the Francisco. de Modicis, and the Brachinao. The Vittorin Corombona was a hand. some and statuesque lady, and dis played real power in the trial scene, But I cannot get accustomed to women's parts being played by men. In Elizabethan day's the boys no, doubt passed inustor. The Vittoria would have been splendid in a silent film-but when she talked.

The performance as a whole was much too slow, and it was evident the play had not been fully rehear Bed Match of it aroused laughter in the wrong place. This was partly due to Webster's quaint nnävotá, but largely to the acting and produc tion.

The Mummers."

In the afternoon I looked in at a performance of Congreve's "The Way of the World," by the Mum- bers, a new Cambridge dramatic so- riety that allows University women to play and engaged a professional producer, A. E, Filmer.

The performance had style, and J. E. L. Birch'a Mirabell, C. C. McLaren's Witmoud, R L. Dresch field's Petulant and A. Cooke's" Fainal would have been perfect if their speech had been a little less "natural" Kathleen Tower's Millamant and Sybil Hawkey's Mrs. Marwood were above the average achievement of amateurs.

The Mummers have made big strides in the three years of their existence. Sone day the older dramatic societies of Cambrilge will follow the lead of Mummers and allow women's parts to be played by women. It has been done for some years at Oxforl. In drama, obsoleto questions of the equality of the sexes. Cambridge may continue at any rate, there should be no

in its refusal to recognise women students, but it must recognise thein as indispensable to drama,

ECONOMIC ACTION IN EUROPE.

GERMANY DECLINES TO DEPOSIT HER RATIFICATION:

Geneva, April 1.-Germany to day notified the League of Nations that, despite approval of the Reich- stng, she will not deposit with_the- Scoretariat of the League Gor- nany's ratification of the Leaguo's International Convention for Con- werted European Economic Action,

The German notification to the League of Nation's Secretariat de clares that the ratification of the The old lady, who usually signed Convention will not be deposited. her pension form with a cross, not because of the inability of the Lenguo to make the Convention being able to write, put a gircle in-effective..

A majority of the ratifications of stead of a cross. This post office

re-dependent upon the deposit-of. pensioner. "Well," replled the Germany's, Heneo, it is understood

DO THE REST.clerk cormacked upon this in the other signatories of the Convention

old lady," ye- see, I get married that the ratifjentions already, de again last week, so I've changed. posited will be allowed to Inpss be

cause of the German action," my name."

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The

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with

Charles Bickford

Nils Asther Raquel Torres George Marion

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THREE FRENCH GIRLS

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