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CENTRAL THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY

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

S. 5. Van Dino's Most Daring Philo Vance Thrill-Mystery.

Murder dans before your eye! Yasse right

ช the potaet Vira

sumprole defy you to plek

the Kulity porn! Mint**

THE BENSON MURDER

CASE"

"with"

William Powell

a:

Guramount

Picture

with

WILLIAM POWELL as PHILO VANCE

Wednesday, Apr 29

ALL OUTDOORS 1

RICHARD

ARLEN

MARY BRIAN

the screen's

Hweetest

sweetheart!

a fighting lover you can't resist 1

Zane Grey's "THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS

HARRY GREEN

The comic

cowboy I

FRED KOHLER

burly badman of Bancroft's bits.

A 1981 PARAMOUNT PICTURE

COMING COON

THE HIGH AND DIZZAT COMEDY THRILLER!

HARRY

LANGDON

SLIM

SUMMERVICLE

BESSIE LOVE

Bubbling and sparkling with fun and frolic 1

SEE AMERICA THIRST

Directed by William Craft.

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

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

*THOSE THREE FRENCH GIRLS."

Those Three French Girls," which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will -present on Thursday, at the Queen'a Theatre for three days, might well be subtitled "Making Whoopee in Paris," for this talkie farce contains as amusing a series of incidents ente sented with the French capital us

s been shown on the sereca for some time...

1;

Heading the group of revellers, in the cosmopolitan production is Reginald Denny, who, as the spor- live nephew of a wealthy, English, peor, nikes the rounds of the Parisian pleasure resorts and res turis to his uncle's home with an ill-assorted group of companions, | including the piquante Fifi Dorsny, Į with whom he has fallen in love:: two American ex-doughboys in the persons of Clif (Ukulele Ike) Ed- wards and Edward Brophy and their two girl friends,, portrayed by Yola d'Avril and Sandra Ravel,

The unfortunate uncle (George Orossmith) has, his hands full with! kis uninvited guests, whose enprices eventually land them in jail, but the series of complications are finally : unravelled and all ends well.

The story is the joint work of Dale Vai Every and Arthur Freed, with dialogue by that wittiest of humorista, P. G. Wodehouse. Hairy Beaumont, who scored with "The Florodora Girl" and "Our Blush- ing Brides," directed, and is anid, to have outdone himself in the (matter of lavish scenes and spark-

ling situations,

CENTRAL THEATRE,

*THE DENSON MURDER

CASE."

Detective stories, and mystery stories are two different things, arcording to William Powell, Para- mount screen star, whose three por trayals of Phili Vance in S. S. Van Dine's detective thrillers have made him an authority on the subject of crime for amusement. Me je up pearing in his third Philo Vance picture, "The Benson Murder Case" at the. Central Theatre for the last time to-day, Tho series of **

murder cases" from the pen of S. 8. Van Dine, The Canary Murder Case," "The Greene Murder Case" and "The Benson Murder Case," are strictly detective stories, says Powell. He points out that the author makes no attempt to trick his audience. Trick lics entirely in the province of the mystery thriller.

"THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS."

Screen fans themselves select the girl friends and boy-friends for favourite stars. Screen fans, there i fore, have brought Richard, Arlen j and Mary Brian together again in

The Light of Western Stars, from Zane Grey's pópúlar story to be shown at the Central Theatre to.

morrow.

Arlen and Miss Brinn made such ahit in The Man I Love," their frat all-talking picture together, that, what Paramount undertook to make The Virginino," they were both cast in supporting roles to Gary Cooper. Then, for Arlen's firat starring picture, Burning Up," Misa Brian was again brought forward as leading lady.

The popularity of romantic cou- ples in pictures is carefully gauged by fan comment in mail received at

the studio and in fan magazines,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1931.

HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5,10. 7.15 & 9.30.

BY REQUEST FOR 3 DAYS ONLY

INGAGI

(GORILLA)

With Sound

MILLION TURIS FROM THE HEART OF AFRICAN JUNGLE

CREATURES & FOUND THAT ARE APPARENTLY. HALF APE &

HALF HUMAN.

Booking at Theatre, Phones: 25313, 25330,

After 15 YEARS of research and 3 YEARS in the home

GENERAL

Announces a

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ACCESSIBLE FREEZING

REGULATOR

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This the broadest warranty ever offered with an electric refrigerator--- means that for at least three years. you are protected against service expenses on the mechanism of the Monitor Top.

It is a guarantee based on the ex- perience of nearly a million users. For the past three years, General. Electric Refrigeration has served. them constantly, faithfully, making

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and every effort is bent to meet that is one of the outstanding achievements in the industry.

public taste in casting screen lovers.

Miss Brian is a popular leading

lady, the fans enjoying her performi-

ances, with several of their favourite General Electric offers you the widest range of refrigerating service-ice cubes, four different malo stare In. "The Virginjan,"

she was leading lady for Gary zones of temperature, sliding shelves, small operating, and a score of other advantages.

She

Cooper, and again supported that star in "Only tho Brave." also found favour opposite Charles (Buddy) Rogers in Someone to Love and River of Romance."..

"The Light of Western Stars" is Arlen's second western picture for Paramount. Again, the youthful star will be seen in an outdoor rôle, such as be played in. The Virginian." The picture is another fof the outdoor-all-talking--action! molodramas which Paramount brought to perfection with its great all-talking opic of the West. It is the first Zano Gray western to be filmed with dialogue"

A

On View at

Hong Kong Electric Company, Ltd. General Electric Company (China), Ltd.

Andersen, Meyer & Company, Ltd.

DAVID HOUSE.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.BW. ON

355 METRES.

11 to 11.30 a.tn.--Stock quotations. 11.30 h.m.-Chinese programmo. 12.30 p.m.-European programino, ip-Weather report, local time. 1.30 p.m-Rugby Press. nows, ate.

pain. Close down.

6 to 8 pm-European programme.

of Columbia records supplied by Afbssra, Anderson Music Co.

6 to 6.40 p.m.

Variaty,

of

Glail-

Orchestral Nights

ness.The London Novelty Orchestra.-MN201.

1-

Humorous Song" In Grent. Grandma's Days. Florance Oldham.-DB410.

Entertainment-The Isle of Kootch" Norman

Hootehn

Long-DB412,

Entertainment-1 Had to Go and Draw Another Pound Out-Norman Long:-D3415. Chorus-Is Yor Maminic Always Will Yo?"-Kit Koen and Male Quartetto.-DB418.

-Song- He's Been a Long Time

Gorn."--Kit Keen (Baritone).. Organ Solo" My Sunshine Camo on & Rainy Day.”— Terance Casey-DB429. Humorous Song There Bennt No Flies on We."-Billie Rich- ardson, West Country Humor- ist.-MR294,

Humorous Song - Gooseberry Tart."-Billie Richardson, West Country Humorist.-MI291, Voen! Duet-" Makin' Wicky-

Wacky Down in Waikiki, Layton and Johnstone.-DR120, Voeni Duet-"Bathing in the Sunshine."Layton and John- stone.-DB429,-

6.40 to 7 p.m.

Octeltes.

Perpetunia Mobile

(Weber, arr. Crooke).-J. H. Squire Celeste Oelette.-9287,

"Valse Caprice" (Rubenstein, arr.

Crooke).-J. H. Squire Celest Octetté-9287,

Chant Sans Parole" (Tschaikow-.

ski, arr. Scar).-J. H, Squire Celeste Octette.-9287,

"An Irish Love Song * (Squire),-

J. H, Squire Celeste Octette.- 9609.

"An Old Church Legend" (Tri- Doen).-J. H. Squire Celeste Octette.-DB12,

|7 p.m.-Stock quotations.

7.02 to 7.27 p.in.-.

Band Selections.

The Nightingale and the Frogs

(Eilenberg),

The Parade of the Tin Soldiers' (Jessel). The Band of H.ML, Royal Airforce,—MR200, Hyde Park Suite-Sunday Morne. ing Church Parado-Rotten Row - On the Serpentine- Around the Bandstand" (Jalo- wiez). The Regimental Band of I.M. Grenadier Guarde.--

DX921. Regimental March Medley,"

Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards.-9090,

7.97 to 8 pm.

A Concert.

Duct-(n) To My First Love*

(Hamilton and Lohr), (b) "You'd Better Ask Me (Lover and Lohr),

Duet "The Little Irish Girl '

(Ten hemacher · and · Lohr)--- Dora Labbette and Hubert Eisdoll.-DB4:31.

Piano Solo - Wiegenlied “' (Schubert and Godowsky). - Jose Exhaniz-D2338,"

Song Song of the Highway" (May)-Raymond Newell (Bari tone).-DB130,

Violin Solo-"Roumanian Folk

Dances" (Dartok - Szekely). Joseph Szigeti-2200

Duet In An Old-Fashioned Town” (Harris and Squire).— Joan Foster and Peter Mac. ready, MR292

Piano Solo~" Paraphrase

Rigoletto Quartetto" (Verd Liszt).-Irene Scharrer.-2305. Ap.m.-Local timo,, weather report,

8.03 to 11.20 p.m.-Ko Bhing Thea-

tre relay.

11.30 p.m.-Close down.

MOVIELAND

SFOR

THE WEEK

QUEEN'S

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

KING

VIDOR

who made "The Big Pa- rade," now brings the talkie's mightiest drama!

BILLY the KID

with John Mack

BROWN

Wallace BEERY Kay Johnson Karl Dane

SPECIAL

GRAPHIC SCENES

OF

LOCAL TRAIN DISASTER

Braddon

fake'a exte)

Tens

NEXT CHANGE

PARIS BOUND!

Embark

`on a voyage of thrils in this oyo-full, ear-full, laugh-fnil faros plot!

with Fifi DORSAY Reginald DENNY CLIFF EDWARDS, YOLA D'AVEIL, BANDRA BAVEL, GEORGE GROSSMITH

Charmele

Zominate you)

Those

THREE FRENCH GIRLS

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