1931-04-20 — Page 3

CENTRAL THEATRE

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

WHOOPEE."

The Queen's Theatre enjoyed very good houses yesterday, at the opening of thà, United Artists talkie "Whoopee" featuring Eddie Cantor. The production has been described as a musical riot and

To-day to Wednesday rightly so, and there is, much that

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

SUCKERS—

SINNERS-SAINTS!

She toyed with them- laughod at them-Until she was caught in the web of her own emotions!

appeals to those who care for this sort of entertainment.

The production is on a lavish. scale, as one would expect, when two such celebrities of the theatri- eal world as Samuel Goldwyn and Florenz. Ziegfeld combine together. There is much that is wilty, hilarious and amusing in the picture which should prove delightful entertdimnent even for the most serious-minded.

Another attractive denture of thy film is that it is all technicolour snaking, the dresses and seines bes 3ng delightfully bountiful to tea at. Eddig Chutor, one of Ameri en's most, noted comedians, is cer tainly a good entertainer, and the supporting, cast, which includes "Paul Gregory. the silver-voiced tenor, and Elvaner Hunt, is no

Jess fascinating, Taken, all in all

it must he conceded that "Whoopee"

sparkling pradiction.

You know this Nancy

is

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The Devil's Holiday

NANCY CARROLL

The Devil's Holiday

A Garamount Pitize

But I

Do you know this one?: A new fiery, up-to-the- minute

mies, who

play at

lovel

It's a 1931 Paramount

Attraction.

NEXT CHANGE

EVERY GIRL IN LOVE--- EVERY-LOVE LORN YOUTH

EVERY MAN AND WOMAN

will want to see this startling revelation of the lore intrigues of the hautiful ladies of the most romantic court of Europe.

BOUDOIR DIPLOMATI

with

Betty Compson Ian Keith Mary Duncan Jeanette Loff Lionel Belmore Lawrence Grant

The Spicy Affairs of

A Master Lover.

IT'S A 1931 UNIVERSAL SUPER-PRODUCTION,

Booking at Anderson's and

the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE DEVIL'S HOLIDAY."

T

"The Devil's Holiday" a Nancy Carroll picture is how showing at the Central Theatre. It is an original play by Edmund- Goalding, usational author direc for who wrote and directed Gloria Swanson's The Trespasser.

Goulding chove 21 tylically American docale-the Mid-Western wheat country, for this stirring romance drums. It concerns the lives of God-fearing farmers and the enemybreed, the urbanites who attempt to prey upon then.

As a gold-digging manicurist in, league with 'severni tricky ales men, Miss Carroll gets a comuniş- sion for wining and dining the farmer-buyers of agricultural im plements. After sho gets them "gaga" about her, the salesmen put over the finishing touches by closing the sales. It's an "on-the- lovel racket, but it's no exactly open and above board, and there comes a day when Naney regreis that she ever engaged in it, for al falls in love with Phillip Holaya handsome young son of u wealthy farmer, after she has bait- el hini for a deal with a tractor

salosman.

Heavy emotional scenes follow when Nancy tries to compromise her mode of living with the sim- plicity of life to which Holmes has been necustomed. The story has many stirring, dramatic moments. Included in the supporting cast

.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1931.

THEATRE

HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

SHOWING TO-DAY

INGAGI

HYPNOTISM AT CAMBRIDGE.

SECRET SEANCES BY UNDERGRADUATES,

MEDIUM INJURED BY -MESMERIST'S ERROR.

A wave of interest in hypnotisma is passing over Cambridge at pre- Bent and is winning fresh recruits from anong undergraduntes every day.

The present eult of hypnosis in Cambridge appears to have origin ated during the long vacation of inst year, when a small circle of undergraduates who were spending their vacation at Cambridge, de cided to enliven their otherwise uneventful lives by carrying out

ara James Kirkwood, Honart Bossome bypnotic experiments,, worth, Ned Sparks, Morgan Far- ley, Jed Printy, Paul Lukas. ZRSU Pitta, Morton Downey, Guy Oliver, Jessie Pringle, Wade Bote- ber, and Laura La Varnie.

INGAGI."

JUNGLE FILM AT KING'S.

THEATRE.

"Ingagi," an amazing film of the African jungle, is now shewing at the King's Theatre. It is inevit able that many who see "Ingagi will believe it to be a fake that such an astonishing story as that

"

With Sound

A MILLION THRIS

US AFNICAN JUNGLE!

CREATURES FOUND THAT ANE APPARENTLY. UMF APE &

HALF HUMAN

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

Ans

Considerable anusement caused by the tragi-comic case of An undergradunts who consented to be put into a tranee, in order. that his mesmerist might try the well-known trick of saying. "There is nothing wrong with your right hand," and at the same time hit ting it with a red-hot poker.

Unfortunately the experiment was a failure, ans-the mesmerist hit his subject's left hand by mistake- and badly burnt it.

POTENT WEAPON FOR HARM

Hypnosis is the name given to ad artificial form of sleep in which the hypnotised person becomes more open to accept suggestions made by others. It is therefore, of great value is certain mental disturbances, when the doctor has to induce his patient to take a more healthy view of life.

A person who is frequently hypnotised tends to become moro open to accept suggestions mads to him while he is awake; his charac ter acquires a suggestibility which may be a real disadvantage to him. For example, he in daily life. will find it harder to resist tem- ptations to self-indulgento in ono form or another, unless such a risk has been guarded against expertly in the stage of hypnosis. Such precautions are, naturally onough, not taken by the experimenter-who is only trying the process for fun or curiosity,

Potant Weapons.

Far too much has been made of

Rutions.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W, ON

335 METRES

PIANOFORTE RECITAL AND EUROPEAN LECTURE:

11 to 11.30a.m.-Stock quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme,

19.30 p.m.-European" 'programine.

1 p.m.-Weather report, loenl time,

bc.

1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, 2. p. Close down.

3 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme.

to 10.30 pm-European, pro- gramme, of Victor records sup- plied by Messrs. Thang Fook Co. "

7 p.m.--Stock quotations,

7.02 to 7.33 p.m.-

Concert Items,

Instrumental Trio-The Prince." Instrumental Tri-La Sorella."

-Victor Trio,—68926. Song- Solveig's Song" (Sun) shing Song). Imey Isabella *Marsh (Soprano),—-401-4, Violin Solo-Slavonic Dance No, 3" (Dvorak and Kriesler). Violin Solo Indian Lament " (Dvorak and Kriesler).-Fritz Kriesler,-7225,

Song" The Hazel Dell” (Raoi). Olive Kline with Male Quar télte.--4003.

Violin Solo-"Ave Maria" (Scha- hert and Wilhelmj).— Mircha Elman.-7103.

etc.

8 p.m.--Weather report, local time,

7.33 to 9.43 1.12.

Variely.

Piano Solo Sweet Savannah

Sue."

Piano Solo-"Ain't Misbehavin","

-Thomas Waller,-22309. Chorus Evenin."The Revei-

lers.-21507.

Harmony Whistling - Swance River."--Bob Ma¿Qimsey-V99. Jawaiian Guitar-" Minnehaha." -Sam Ky West's Harmony Boys,--91763.

Chorus Etiquette, Blies.” Chorus-"Where Did You Get That Name"The Happiness Boys.-21707.

Piano Solo-"I'm Yours," Piano Solo-"If I Could Be

With You One Hour To-night."

Hurley Kaylor.-22570. SongCowboy's Lament.".

Harry McClintock.-1701.. 8.15 to 0 p.m.-

Orchestral.

-Alfred Cortot and the Lon- dop Symphony Orch.-6734., Daphnis Et Chloe" (Ravel).- Boston Symphony Orch.-143-

7144.

"Spanish Song" (Mendelssohn). "Beautiful Night" (Offenbach),— International Concert. .Orch.—

33830.

the risk of instilling oriminal im-Variations Symphonique" (Fránek) pirises into a hypnotised person; there is a strong, natural resistance in normal persons to anything of the kind. But can the experimen- In inexperienced hands, however, tor be certain that his victim is the process of hypnotisiag is un-normal? If not, ha is incurring questionably dangerous, and much grave responsibility, even if he only real harm has xen done, sometimes suggests the performance of silly One of Cambridge's smaller colby persons who had no ill-inten

The suggestibility may tions, but were only experimenting have results other than he wished. leges was the scene of these early

Recovery from the trance stage is Hypnosis should only be induced An undergraduate sometimes slow and even incom for definite medical purposes, and experiments. who has been in contact, with the plate, the experimenter having always under experienced direction, so that any unexpected results may movement since its origin said that gone much further than he had these experiments were first of all. Any intention of doing, and have treated appropriately without ing brought about A condition delay. It is a most potent weapon condueled in a light-hoarled man- which he has no idea how to treat. for good, and for harm. The plea This is rendered all the more sant sense of power given to the ner, but are now taken seriously. "Undergraduates are surprised," possible by the fact that normal successful hypnotiser is one of the people make the best subjects for chief causes of the popularity of he said. "to realise what powers hypnosis, and no experimenters this "stunt," a dangerously com- they possess, and many of them making aso of their friends are mon "stunt" to-day, but there is now practise hypnotism in ear-particularly liable to trouble, by really no need to gratify the vanity reason of their success exceeding of those who are prone to a most their expectations.

undesirable form of "showing off." best."

The speaker said that in his

own _college_he_could mention the names, of at least half-a-dozen under- who regularly beld

of a woman given annually to the gradunter

gorillas, living in companionship hypnotic scances. "I have reason

to believe" he added, "that in other. colleges the cult is even more wides

pread. It appeals not nely to the neurotic and highly-strung under.

with them, and apparently hearing sub-human children, could be retu ally photographed, and so in large measure proven, seems too strange to be true, and the luck of the explorers altogether too good, especially when one knows how graduates, who might be expected much can be faked by the cinema to dabble in occult sciences, but also to normal, healthy-minded peo-

camera,

But the "internal evidence for

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SECRET SEANCES.

the veracity of the picture is prettyple who are first attracted out of a good. Had it been a fake; had spirit of curiosity," many of those wonderful pictures of wild animal life been obtained as has, we believe, been suggested within a few miles of Los Angeles they would, one feels, have been a great deal clearer and even more wonderful. The film shews signs of

Hypnotism is practised under! conditions of great secrecy; and it

is doubtful whether the University

its travels. Not a few of the pic or college authorities are aware of tures appear to be under exposed, what is going on. One tutor said here and there light has got in. 1 that he had no idea that any such this is a fake it an artistry in faking which one does not expect

of the productions of the cinema world. But whether. "Ingagi, in,

practices existed..

"I can well understand,” he said, what a bad effect hyzmofiam.would.

as it claims to be, a true record of have on certain types of young amost-amazing_adventure,or, whether the actual travel record men; but I think that the authori has been padded out with pictures ties would have considerable diff taken under casier conditions, it is culty in suppressing it." 8 picture of quite exceptional in terest The animal photography is wonderfully good and "Ingagi" is not a film which one will forget.

Soma undergraduates have, how every learnt by bitter experiments of their own free will

♪

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11, Ias HOUSE SÆBLER.

From the Rhino to the Danube " Medley (Hhode). Gerhard Hoffman's Orch.-60000,

a to 9.20 p.m.-

From the Studio.

Pianoforte Recital by Mr. Harry

Ore:

1. "Civotte with Variations""

(Remean).

2. Sonata No. 92 First Move-

ment" (Beethoven).

3. "Fantasy Impromptu" (Cho-

pin

4. Movement" (Debussy).

5. Javanese Song" (Beelig):

6.Shepherd's Hey"

ger).

0.30 to 10 p.m.--

From the Studio.

(Grain-

A talk on the "Society for Pre-

vention of Cruelty to "Animals ”- hy one of its members.

10 to 10.30 p.m.-

Operatic.

"Song""" "Mignon-I'm Fair Tha-

nin" (Thomas).-Madam Ameli- ta Galli-Curch (Soprano),110, Song "Bohemian Girl The Heart Bow'd Down" (Balfe), Clarence Whitehill (Baritone).

-~-~~-0732.

Orchestral Margarethe Pot

pourri"

(Faust Selections)- (Gounod: and Weber).-Marck Wober and his Orch.-08006. "Les Huguenote Noble Sira I

Salute You" (Meyerbeer). Sigrid OneginT Contralto).

$140.

Martha-Like a Dream" (Flo- tow).-Beniamino Gigli (Tenor),

7009

10.30 p.m.-Close down,

MOVIELAND

FOR

THE WEEK

QUEEN'S

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

Marvellous I Snappy! Gay!

FICHAR ZIGHED

EDDIE

CANTOR

Whee

WALTER CORALDSON

Larica BRAHM From the the Comedy by

HELLIANA APTUHON: MAGARĖ

of TECHNICOLOR

Ziegfeld lins outdono himself

in this, the most gorgeous of all spectacles!

"UNITED" "ARTISTY PICT

!

·Added Attraction "AN IRISH

FANTASY"

UNITED ARTISTS'.

SPECIALETTE.

NEXT CHANGE

KING

VIDOR

who made "The Bid Pa-

rade, now brings the talkie's mightiest drama!

BILLY the KID

with John Mack BROWN Wallace BEERY Kay Johnson Karl Dane

COMING SHORTLY

FOR WARKER BROSI

SHOW