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CENTRAL

J TREATDIE MU

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 4th & 5th July, leh At 2.80, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

TABU"

The Rare Picture of Tropical Beautics.

Commencing MONDAY 6th July

LON CHANEY'S

LAST BUT EVERLIVING

PIECE

"The PHANTOM

of the OPERA"

Talking Picture with Best Parts in Technicolour.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

'KING' THEATRE

"A DEVIL WITH WOMEN,

Just as it takes nine tailors tc make a man, it takes nine coun- Trick

to make a Victor Melaglen according to a survey of birth places of the people who made his latest Fox Movietone vehicle, "A Devil with women," now, slowing at the King's Theatre

With Meaglen himself born near. London and his loading lady, Mona Marix, native of Buenos Aires, Hollywood's "foreign legion" sucms well represented. Michael Vavitch, the bandit eader in the film, comm from Russia Luana Alcaniz and Mre. Jiminer both hail from Spain; Mona Rico comes from

Mexico City, and Joe Rodriguez

from Guatemala

Of the technical staff, William Darling," the art director, is a native of Hungary and the as- sistant director, Charles Woolston- hulme, is a Londoner by birth. J

A Dovil with Women," appro- priately enough, has a foreign back- ground to match, being laid in a mythical Central American coun- try with a bandit uprising serving to motivate the exciting acting of the story. Melaglon plays a "natural" role, that of an adven-" turous soldier of fortune in the country's army, with a newcomer from the stage, Humphrey Bogart, Las his rival in love and companion in way, Irving Cummings direct- ed the picture, with George Middle. tou as ampuinte producer. It is the

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DUMP OF ARMS IN IRISH MOUNTAINS.

RAIDED BY CIVIC GUARD.

Lois

"THE DANCERS.”

Moran beautiful and talented young screen actrees, was a featured dancer in the ballet "L'Opera", in Paris when she was induced to leave the stage and pay, the leading roles in, two no. tion pictures. She fell in love with the work and decided to ecn- tinue in it.

The first rate this intriguing little blenite girl enacted in the United States was the leading character in "Stolla Dallas" and

she was such a sensation that the most prominent roles in many pic- tures quickly followed.

After her widely acclaimed suc- cess in The Music Master," she was signed to a long term con traet by Fox Films and has ap- peared in the leading fominins

CHAMBER GUARDED BY MINE. roles of such outstanding all-talk-

Sensational finds were made by officers of the Irish Civic Guard, ho discovered and raided the headquarters of a republican or ganisation in the recesses of the

Dublin mountains.

ing screen plays as "Behind Tho Curtain," "Song of Kentucky," Music." "Not Damaged" and "Words and

Miss Moran portrays the lond- ing role in the Fox Movietone Dancers," which was adapted, for drama of modern youth, "The the screen by Edwin Burke from the sensational stage play of the' Maurier and Viola Tree, in which same name by Bir Gerald Du Richard Dennett toured the coun- try with his daughter, Barbara. Miss Moran portrays Diana, a Hundreds of thousands of rounds faith and tender romance and then young girl, first made lovely by

In addition to documents, relat ing to the netivities of a militant and treasonable organisation, the Guards found:

of ammunition. Fifty rifles.

Dozens of automatic pistois, and A number of Lewis guna,

"This munition dump was guard ed by a trapmine, which would have exploded on the slighto touch.

The entrance to the chamber was by way of a stone' doorway, four feet square, concealed by ivy and other plants. It gave entry to a chamber some twenty feet square, constructed of cement and concrete.

· Thore was bedding, with sleeping uccommodation for a number of men, tinned food, rations, and

tents.

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Victor McLaglen

A DEVIL with WOMEN

FOX

with MONA MARIS, HUMPHREY BOGART and LUANA ALCANIZ

Directed by IRVING CUMMINGS

-At 5.10, 7:16 and 9.30 P.M. Only- SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT PEGGY AND GUY

... OF

First Appearance in Hong Kong

An Acrobatic Duo from the Leading London Theatres and Clubs.

THE N

NEXT

TRACTION

DANCERS

with

ing to woo her," and the dramtatio Matahi is prevented from continu phase of the story begins.

Reri is n giri of sixteen out of "nowhere" to be the star of a nonths ago she was as unknown to great moving picture. Until a few

the public as Hollywood is unknown

tempted with horrible doubts and disillusionments brought about by a life of gaiety and jazz. V

Walter Byron, who played, op posite Miss Moran in "Not Damag the male frature honours with Mas ed," and Philips Holmes share Clarke and Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the other featured feminine roles, "The Dancers," which to her. » tre opens next week the King's Thea

Waa directed by Chandler Brague:

PEGGY AND GUY.

LOIS MORAN FOX

“THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA,"

"The Phantom of the Opera," which is to be shown at the Central remembranes to Lon Chaney, known Theatre on Monday, is a kind of

as the man of a thousand faces,

and the real master of the screen. Before the work of the filming

In making this picturo, Lon was started, Murnau, the director Chaney, after experimenting for of this rare picture, and his asso-three months on different make-up,

PICTURE

parts who not only could play the role but would act as a foil, for Chaplin.

Early in production, when his selection had been made, Chaplin

were going. Much footage had was dissatisfied with the way things

been filmed, but he had it all thrown out and started casting again. This time he chose Harry Myers, the player. who gave so splendid an account of himself in

ciates conducted a beauty contest in designed what he believed to be the the silent films as The Connections /

the Society group, finally choosing strangest facial disguise in his Beri of the island of Bora Bora, career. The story, from the famous the King's Theatre by Peggy and

An excellent show is provided at as the heroine of the Alm.

mystery tale by. Gaston Leroux, Guy, English aerobatic dancers.

After the picture was finished, deals with the strange character Though handicapped by

rough cut" of it. She who cast a sinister influence over Itori saw a the smailies of the stage, the cave made no comment upon the effect of the brilliant Opera House, and was KING WILLIAM'S HEAD.

man and the cavewoman dance is the film on her future in screen made as the successor to "The particularly effective. Even santy Among the articles found was the wear in this weather but nothing finished forever.

leopard skins must be trying to land, for her work as a star was She will never stolon head of the King William to daunt these most active and be in films again,. for the simple statue which used to stand in Col-energetic performera..

Guy's dance with n dummy part. reason that there is more fascina lege Green; Dublin, but was de ner was also a clever and model tion for her in her beloved native stroyed with explosive a few years piece of work.

island of Bora Bora than in any There is to be a complete change other place imaginable.

Matahi, the leading man in the picture, is one of the most mar vellously set up young man who ever appeared before a motion pic turo cameras He is a Polynesian The Phantom of the Opera" is native of Bora Bora. His physique now a talking picture with the beat is like Appollo's. Though he had part of it in beautiful colour film never seen nor heard of motion. pictures before he was chosen as the hero in "Tabu," he stood well of shyness and noted like a veteran before the camera without any sign of the screen,

ago.

A large quantity of high explo.of repertoire on Sunday when "The sive in the damp was blown up by Dancers" is being shown for the the Civic Guard. The sound. was first time. heard in Dublin, about seven miles distant.

Documents which were found re Jute to the activities of an illegal organisation which the Froo State- authorities are making a determin ed effort to suppress The Minis tor for Justice made a reference to this organisation in the Dail recently, WA St

force.'

CENTRAL THEATRE."

TABU.

"Tabu," the word from which The picture at the Central Theatre gets its title, is a word of sacred connotation in the Polynesian lan

1

Yankee."

*GENERAL CRACK.”

John Barrymors, who has charmed America's most distinguished star, two continents on the stue, appears

on the screen as the star of "Gen- eral Crack," Warner Bros special,. scheduled to open as the Queen's Teatro to-morrow.

Dome" Hunchback of Notre Huge sets wore constructed for the opera house and the weird cellars

In the title role of "General and catacombi below in which much Crack," adapted by: Walter of the mysterious story is enacted thony from the George Pready his custom of portraying a cripple a gypsy princess and a nobleman, in the picture. Chanoy abandens novel, Barrymore enacte the son of tom" is bodily sound, but was born loader of his time. in this production, as the Phan who becomes the greatest military with a face that strikes terror. The •The role of Genéral. Crack is s designing of this face was Chan-constant condict between inherited cy's odd task

traits. The story is laid in middle Europe during the early part of the eighteenth century

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QUEEN'S THEATRE,

CITY LIGHTS."

In addition to making his initial baw, as General Crack, Barrymore' also plays the father of his charge- tor in the prologue, and annets his father's ghost in later soones

The oxceptional cast appearing There is good reason to believo,

The island of Bora Bora, where selects the players who appear in Heart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan, in his support includes Lowell Bher the Minister said, that there is

the picture was screened, has been his pictures with great cafe and Otto Matieson, Philippe do. Lacy, As in overything ho does, Chaplin mang Marian Nixon; Armida, conspiracy to upset the State by guage, according to Robert termed a veritable paradise on earth deliberation. In City Lighte," Andres de Begurola, Douglas Ger Flaherty, co-director of the film by the director. He declared that his now comedy which is showing at rard, William Van Brinken; Then- ILLEGAL DRILLING! - which was entirely photographed in that island was vitually untouched the Queen's Theatre, one of the dors. Lodi Nick Thompson id

the island of Bora Bora in the The authorities believe that the Society Islands of the South Pacífic. - by the comméras of modern kamen- huge dump of arms and ammuni.“ Tabu” means “mored #210 und. It is the contention of Murnan that principal caracters is an eccentric Curt Rayfold, pigenavn tion disecvored at Killakee was the touchable bajond the reach of no place on earth is more nearly treats Charlio like his long lost in palating dramatic canvases on millionaire who, while, drank, Alan Crosland, whose adroitness principal headquarters of this ordinary human." In the picture, pristine than this tiny but besuti brother, but when sober looks upon, a wide scale, places him among the illegal organisation. They have ter the beautiful native heroine, ful gem in the Pacific suspected, its existence for some is declared tabu" by the chief- "Tabu" will have its final show Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the tips sweeping tale of bourt intrique and him sa a total stranger, his Dr.top-notch directors, directed this time.

tain of her tribe. Thus her lover inge to-morrow.

pling bowl, demanded an actor of gypsy love.

LONE DEATH IN THE SNOW.

ENGLISHMAN'S FIGHT

FOR LIFE.

Edmonton (Alberta).-A, weather- bleached skeleton, some of the bonos of which show traces of having been gnawed, by wolves, are the only romains of Mr. John Noel Bonnett, agad 18, the student son of a wealthy Englishman. The young man disappeared on a lonely' trail across the Rocky Mountains at the beginning of last winter.

of las The Beloton is being sent home to England A

Mr. Bennett set out alone on Oct.

It

19 to make the journey from the Peace River region in North Al- berta through Pine Pass to Prince George in British Columbia. was not until the discovery of the akeleton by guide lato in May, after a search lasting seven months, that anything was heard of him,

Lying beside the skeleton the guide found the dead man's riflo and his diary. This tolls a brief but moving tale of his last terrible experiences before the wild took him for its victim.

On Nov. Mr. Bennett wrote that progress seemed hopeless, but he was not worrying. But bext day he loat his horse, axe, and gun, and apent the day recovering thom." Two days later. he made the disco-. very that he was going in the wrong direction, and he was obliged to retrace his stopa. The horse was now without food.

He next wandered about in the rain, with his food supply ever dwindling until Nov, 0, when he shot a wild duck and ate it raw," The only other food left was one tin of beans and a little tour. On Nov. 11 Mr. Bennett wrote that he had abandoned the horse, and that raw flour was his only food, AI

On Nov. 18, in 'n Inst flicker of hope, Mr. Bennett made his final entry in the diary. It was that he expected to reach Macleod (Alberta) in about a wock. But before' that week had passed the snow was co vering his body,

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John Barrymore zi splendid, romantic sol dier of fortune in his first all-talking picture, "General Crack.” With Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Armida, Hobart Bosworth, Directed by Alan Croalacid.

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