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CENTRAL

THEATRE U

SATURDAY:

At 2.80. 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m

A PARAMOUNT.1981 SUPER-PRODUCTION,

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

FREDRIC

MARCH

"Honor

Among Lovers

Gardmount Patioe

with

OF ARLES

BUGGLES

and.

GINGER ROGERS

"Directed by DOROTHY ARZNER Euroendom's

outstanding

Woman dir- ector

NEXT CHANGE

GENEVIEVE TOBIN

CONRAD NAGEL ·· Zasu Pitts, Monros Owsley, Slim Summerville.

From Sidney Howard's

stage success

· Directed by Hobart Henleys

FREE LOVE

-EPSTEIN'S “GENESIS.”

WHY SHETFIELD WILL NOT EXHIBIT IT.

SheffieldIt is not likely that

Epstein's" Genesis” will be eX-

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE,

MWAY FOR A SAILOR

Fourth of July, night is no time for peaceful shipwreck. Sam Wood discovered" "this while, at- tempting to film thrilling ship wreck in the waters of the Catalina abannel for Way for a Sailor,“, John "Gilbert's now Metro-Goldwyni Mayor talkie which will open at the Queen's Theatre to-day, with Wallace Beery in a featured char- actor role.

Every time Wood turned his cameras upon a scene, barrages of dreworks illuminated the "skies, booming explosions rent the air and turned what was to have been the scene of tragedy into a festive occasion.ph

Lolla Hyams playe opposite Gilbert in the picturization of the. Albert Richard Wetjen novel and the, supporting cast includes Tim. Tully, Polly Moran and Doria Lloyd

STEPPING OUT."

Agua Caliente, Mexico's Monte Carlo, figures in motion pictures for the frst time in Stepping. Out,"

Metro-Goldwyn. Mayer's hilarious adaptation of the stage play. It is a story of oil million- aires who essay, motion picture, pro duction and got into the toile of gold diggers Action ranges from Hollywood to the resort below the border.

Leila

Charlotte Greenwood, Hyams, Reginald Denny, Lilian Bond, Cliff Edwards, Merna Ken- nedy, Harry Stubbs and others are in the cast. Charles F. Riesner of "Caught Bhort" and Reducing " fame, directed the comedy-romance. which will be shown on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.

KING'S THEATRE.

"TARNISHED LADY,"

An aura of sophistication, sur- rounde him. · At the same tiine despite his apparent dignity, he has. a charming informality that makes him one of the most engaging film players on the screen. He is Clive Brook

He appeals to the ageing spinster as strongly as to that heroing of yellowing fiction, the flapper. "Men like him because he is one of them, yet ho is not of the backwoods, strong-arm type. He is the perfect union of the suave and the sharp- witted, and is known as the man who never uses alibis.

1 first met him at the Paramount New York studio where he had come from Hollywood to appear in "Tarnished Lady" now showing at the King's Theatre, the story written for Tallulah Bankhead and

Brock's benefit by Donald Ogden Stewart. The film was being direct

ed by George Cukor, the man who' guided The Royal Family of Broadway" through its paces on the screen..

Brook prefers to work in the East more than on the West Coast because he is essentially metro- politan in his tastes. The theatre, for one thing has its beadquarters in New York and a great number of his friend's live thore, a social asset that he finds most helpful ia occupying his off-screen moments.

In Hollywood, Brook is a member, of a clique of actors, composed of Ronald Colman, William Powell, Richard Barthelmėsa and himself. He owns a Doberman Pinscher dog in which he has a great deal of pride. He walks it in company with Ronald Colman, who has George, the little white wire-haired terrior that was seen in his picture.

· CHARLIE CHAN CARRIÈS,

ON."

Finding a real pearl in a twenty | rent bowl of oyster stew, or buying an old, volume in a second-hand book store and discovering it to be a priceless ärst edition, are the only experiences comparable to the thrill a film studio · feels', when 'a' player signed to do!! heavy !! rôles turns out to be n, good comedian.

In this instance we mean Warren' Hymer. Like Wallace Beory, Stuart Erwin and other noted comedians, Hymer began his film career, 24 a deep-dyed villain. For signed him in the early days of the talkies, and at that time Hymer looked to the studio ore like a tough, hard guy and nothing else. Hymer breathed villainy all over the place inSpeakeasy, The Girl Froca Heaven," The Lone Star Ranger " and other offerings in which many dark and dirty deeds were done

hibited in Sheffield. The curator of the Mappin Art Gallery, the mudiy

When Director, John Ford, mado wipal gallery in Shefħeld, Mr. J. W. Men Without Women, he cast Hymer in a grim wort of comedy. Baggaley, said that he does not heavy re, and wiscapres about the think "Genesis is a suitable ob studio scratched, their heads, and anid: What goes on here--is this ject for public inspection. There Hymer hiding something 1: - Sadl

"The something proved to be * is no doubt that if it were to come brilliant talent for comedy situa to Shoffeld thousands of people tions. When Up The River was made and then Seas Beneath,” would want to see it," he said, "but both under Ford's skillful sliree- tion. Hymer became a synonym for the majority of them would be the humour about the studio. It now sort who would flock to see a two-sreras fairly certain that the screen will neo Hymer as a henvy, no hexded calf I do not think the ca...more

*** MARTHA Charlie Chan hibition would reflect credit on the which opens on

artistio

advance

day! leg's Theatre, Hymer and Joris White onset the rdles: Chicago racketeer and his wife,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 1931.

GS

KINGS THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

TALLULAH

BANKHEAD

CLIVE

BROOK

Tamished Lady

A Garamount Pictur

howls of delight which are said to greet their activities are significant of the ability of these two fun- | makers.

Warner Oland has the title role of the keen Chinese detective and Marguerite Churchill and John Garrick the romantic leads in this Fox version of the noted Earl Derr Bigger's novel, which Hamilton MacFadden directed.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"HONOUR AMONG LOVERS.".

Out of a total of sixty-four men and women used as "college types for a sequence in Para- mount's new modern talking pic ture drams, "Honour. Among

Lovers, it was disclosed that twonty-six of this number actually owned degrees or had attended various universities of the highor

order.

Almost all the extras on the set who were at collego participated in their "Alma Mater's" dramatic activities. A good number of the men, chosen 5r the bits because of their physical appearance, played on their varsity elevens.

Of the principals in the cast, Fredric March is a University of, Wisconsin man, Monroe Owsley at- tended Loomis in Connecticut. Claudette Colbert was educated in France and Ginger Rogers was schooled in Texas, Charles Ruggles once took a course in a prop, school, but that didn't last long. His pen chant for the stage. Be

get the better of him.

Honour Among Lovers," direct ed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the foremost woman directora of to day, from an Austin Parker story,

...

MONEKONES FINEST ONE,

TIME:

5.10, 7:15 9.30 p.m.

Her future belong to. her husband I Hen past belongs to her

self 1 BUT

past catches up wit

her future what?

Charlie Chan

solves three mystery) murders

drama of

sustense

ina terrific

that

takes you round he world,

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE

THL No. 25313.

opened yesterday at the Central Theatre. It is medeno love drama, dealing with a pretty Lorckerage secretary, who, spurne tempting offers from her handsome young employer, marries the man of her choice, and in a tremendous climax, discovers that she has been blind to the weakness of the pre- fegred man,

"FREE LOVE.”

If you had a wife who spent your money as fast as you could make it; who paid no, attention to the manner in which your home was run; who thought only of parties

CHANGE NEXT WARNER OLAND

CHARLIE CHAN

CARRIES ON

PETROL TIN LIFEBUOY.

2) HOURS BATTLE IN ROUGH SEA,

clinging to an improvised, float in, heavy seas of Colwyn Bay for two and a half hostrà, two young Fleetwood yachtsmen" were ressued in dramatic circumstancos.

The men Erlo Williams and Thomas Anderson, were aniling thoir yacht Mystic from Fleetwood, Llandudno She became fast on a Bandbank outside the Conway estuary and was being pounded to ploces, by henvy

They Inshed together the boat's water tank and a patrol tin which,

was washed, against their foot, and,

lashing themselves to this improv-

ised float, climbed over the side.

and cast adrift.

Fortunately two women bathers saw the men struggling in the strong current some distance from ↑ the shore and motored in to- Con-

way to give the alarm.

motor-cruiser, the Rose Marie.

at once put out to the rescue, but was driven back by the heavy sons,

A second motorcruiser, Patricia, managed to make headway, through the waves, and the two miên chủ were by this time completely cz-

hausted, were located near

Perch buoy and roseus

THE TARNISHED LADY.

TO-DAY AT THE KING'S.

The Tarnished Lady," featur ignorant of the fact that he had ing Tallulah Bankhead and Clive just been struck a severe blow in Brook opens at

the King's Theatre the stock market, and he jumped to-day and from what I saw of the to the conclusion that she decided film at the pre-view, I venture to to leave him because he was now i predict very heavy bookings at the poor man. Theatre during the runs of Miss Bankhead's first talkiezak

Perhaps the best part of the film comes out at this stage. It shows Miss Bandhead in the role of o struggling woman, working in a and beg her to return to your if all her talkies are going to come shop for herself and her baby boy home." An than, she agreed to re- turn provided that she might have up to the standard of the Tarnish-who came after she had left her her own quarters and come and od Lady, everything points to a husband. Despite the fact that she go as she pleased.

very heavy food of letters and learns now that she really loves requests for autographs every mora-him, she does not tell her husband. ing for Miss Bankhead by her " fan about the baby, I do not want him to take me back because of the

If she deserted you, taking your children with har and if you were Tallulah" enjoyed a popularity in love with her enough to go to second to none as a stage star and

And if she had an affair with your best friend Well-what would you dof..........

This is the situation in which Steve Farrier, played by Conrad Nagel, is placed in Free Love,"

Universal all-talking drama, which comes to the Contral Thea tro on Sunday,

What Steve does to his wife, Genevieve Tobia?" is a surprise "to her at least, and it will be a sur prise to you, one, which you will pot want to miss.

mail.

Here is a story which will ap| TALLULAH peal to every man and wife in the solony. A story of a young couple, madly in love with each other un-. til the time when the wife decides: to "go modern" and then it is just ono big battle until the hus band goes caveman.

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 280, 7.18 and 8.15pm.

(August 27-29).

Special Matinee at 8.18 on Saturdays and Sundays Only.

Big laughs! Big thrills I Big stars! "BIO TIMB”

AND “ BIG TIME” is a

PROBLEM for women

of every kind

LEF TAUN

Added Attractions:

Rio Rlta Girls

Fox Movietone News.

COMMENCING AUGUST 80TH

Sludindi

Days

CHEER UP AND SMILE'

BANKHEAD

IN

THE

TARNISHED

LADY

As regards the film itself, Tar baby, she says, but when she nished Lady" is very good enter him come into the shop wit tainment Miss Bankhead finds her friend of hers, womanlike sho self in the position of one who cides she must never lose him. She has to choose between marriage for goes out of her way to win him

love and marriage for money, the back, and father, mother and the

is forged to take the latter coursb to get out of debts which were, in curred in her foolish efforts to koop-up appeara and though

her husb

little boy are happily united again.

Strangely enough there in 20 lingerio sceno, but Miss Bank- head has a way of kind-putting j neroi

many, I dare 107,

cnty of Tall

head's

local threatrès.

will be

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 20.

GILBERT and Beery in a herman team that will win the laugh-and-thrill championship!

JOHN

they

battled

World

round

GILBERT

with

WALLACE BEERY

Jim Tully, Leili Byamı, Polly Moran

SAM

WOOD

production

S

way

for a

sailor

FALL TALKING MIYULA

NEXT CHANGE

They stepped

out all right this mar ried set but not with their wives-

And not with

their

bands

hus

KEPPING

OUT

star

with this five cast of famous fun- makers

with

CHARLOTTE

GREEN WOOD

REGINALD DENNY

EILA HYAMS

BOND

CLIFE EDWARDS

STAR

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

AT 2.30 5.20 17:20 & 0:20:

WRUAH FÓRM

MARRIED IN HOLLYWOOD