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CENTRAL

THEATRE 4,

SHOWING TO DAY At 2.80. 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

MARY NOLAN Edward G. Robinsta

Owen Moore

Rockallife. Fellowes

Outside

the Law

Watch for "RESURRECTION

An EDWIN CAREWE production Starring

JOHN BOLES-LUPE VELEZ

adapted from

Count Leo Tolstoy' famous story,

HEXT CHANGE

COLUMBIA FICTURES

The

DONO

AFFAIR"

JACK HOLT DOROTHY REVIER WILLIAN COLLIER? » and an ill-Star Talking Cast!

It is the most grip-" ping,・・ compelling, dramatic and thril- ling screen play of the year 1

"FRANK R.CAPRA

"Ordstimo

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

TELEPHONE NO. 25720.

STAR THEATRE.

THE TRIAL OF MARY

DUGGAN."

The

They who have not soen Trial of Mary Duggan," now show ing at the Star Theatre will find it well worth a visit. The fim con sists of a long and extraordinarily

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

PARDON US.?

"Pardon Us," the Stae Laurel- Oliver Hardy comedy now showing at the Queen's Theatre, is on the whole one of the funniest films that havo over been shown in the Co lony. Perhaps a little too much is made of a certain American ver bal gesture of contempt—which may bo humour in Amerion but is the essence, of vulgarity in England- but apart from the fooling of die tasto which this will engender in the minds of the fastidious,, oga: may be assured of leaving the theatro after the performance with one' appetite for humour of the lighter kind for oner antiated.

The producers claim that in this film they have travestied modura. prison pictures,' a'claim that every one who sees the film will sub- atantiate.

The story deals with the adven- turor of two amateur bootleggers who are caught and imprisoned at the outset of their career. Their antics in a large penitentiary, their attempts at breaking prison and the unintentional quelling of a serious riot by Stan Laura) us- ing a Thomson "sub-macbipe gun about which he knows nothing, have been very humourously trent- ed by the producer. The satira on- American prison life is also CX- tremely well done, and serves to lift the film from the level of mere laughter-provokers. into the realms of those of roal merit,

"Pardon Us" is excellent: enter-

tainment and I make no apology for my repetition when I say that it is the funniest film that has been shown in Hong Kong for many montba

At its first showing on Sunday afternoon the house was packed, which in these low days, should in ilgelf be good and sufficient re- commendation for any movie show,

"IT'S A WISE CHILD."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

HONGKONGS. FINESTONETA

SHOWING TO-DAY The Most Comfortable and the

CLARA BOW

"kick in:

a Garamount Picture

Can a great love-like

her-fail?

"RESURRECTION."

“Resurrection," Tolstoy's immer tal love epic, with John Boles and Lupo Veles, will be shown soon at the Central Theatre,

The gamut of emotions through

Only Air-cooled Theatre

Hồng Kong.

TIME

2.30 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.

NOTIGLA

Patrons are requested to call for seats reserved, fifteen minutes before the show for which they are booked. No phone reser- vation can be guaranteed after that hour.

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE, TEL No. 25313.

falls in love with the peasant ward; of his aunts. Before the first real is over, that white love has turned to purple passion,

Then in rapid-fire succession come despair, abandonment, buoy- ant humour and utter indulgence, life, death, and a spiritual rebirth

1931

NEXT CHANGE THURSDAY, 10th SEPTEMBER

with Ted Honly Frances Medoy Stanley Smith

Rube SOUP TO oldberg

FOX

NUTS

IT'S A GREAT WORLD. AND ITS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE

.“ GLORIOUS.?”

"Mesh

THE SILVER SCREEN.

KING'S THEATRE

"KICK IN

Convinced that the sparkling Clara personality displayed. Bow in her long screen career as America's favourite flapper · had deprived the motion picture public of the deeper talents of that po pular actress, Paramount execu tives have planned a long series of omotional roles for the red-headed. actress Her Brst tramatic part. In Kio

hailed ha -plew Bow

revelatio

her deb

ing at the

in serious drama.

apted for the king wereon from the stage success of the same name. In it, the "It girl has an exact- ing role which cests her capacity for amotional portrayal to an un usual degree. In love with an ex- convict hounded by the police, Miss Bow is called upon to pert ray a character whose feelings range over the emotional spectrum. with lightning-like rapidity.

The supporting cast, as well as the story, of "Kick In" was eclect ad with great care to give Miss Bow every possible advantage in her first dramatic part. Regis Toomey, recently seen in George Bancroft's "Scandal Sheet," has the Jeading male role, a role which, for

the first time on the talking, screen, gives him a chance to match is superb performance in "'Alibi,” his first sensational success,"

Wynne Gibson, the sceptical wife of Jack Oakie's recent comedy, "Juso Moon," Leslie Fenton, Donald Crisp and Paul Burst are also in the cast.

"SOUP TO NUTS”.

Comedy based on the situations of everyday life, and a love story that might have been enacted he- tween the young couple next door, features Rube Goldberg's contribu tion to screen mirth, "Soup to Nuts," Fox Moristone which is to "bend" the attractions at the King's And as for jazz, Mr. Young Thontre next Thursday added, I think it is much more Ted Healy and his inimitable suitable for people of my age than gang of Racketeers head the im folk dancing, for in jazz you can posing list of fun makers which talk your time over it, but in folk includes such well-known audible Sylva Nadina, Edward Cecil,dancing you have to us much more screen players as Frances MeCoy, Vivian Winston, and others walletive and alert Charles Winninger, Stanley Smith. established in the talking pictures (Continued at foot of next column. Hallam Cooley, George Bicked and

Tattoo Wm. H. Tooker.

This modern world and all the young people in it are glorious !

These were the words, refreshing Marion Davies and Director Ro-which Blanche" Walsh of the folowing degradation, imprison and surprizing in a world of burt Z. Leonard have proved one

stage and Mary Garden in operament, exile, bitterness and yearn-frowns and criticism, of Mr. Ernest of the most prolife and successful

ing, sacrifice and Resurrection" Young, presiding at the City of star-director teams in picture his- have been swept in the part of itself, London Vacation course at the Lory. This combination of talent Katusha Maslova is now, the courecIn the supporting cast are Nance Holborn Restaurant is responsible for the new comedy of Lupe Velez, while John Boles O'Niel, the well-known stage ac. "It's a Wise Child," which will assumes the chracter Cf Prince tress, as Aunt Marya; William open shortly at the Queen's Theatre Dmitri which br Herbert Bock Keighley as the gay Major Schoen

Director Leonard has been at the helm in no less than air of Miss bom-Tree created in Londen in boch; Rose Tapley as Aunt Bophya; 1900-Tree created in London and Gross Cunard, Michon Blerk, Davies comedy successes The poss

The joyous, care-free spirit of pular serena comédienne first ap youth is to be found in the open peared under "Leonard's direction

ing episodes wherein the Prince in April Folly" and followed this with The Restless Sex," "Tho Cardboard Lover," "Marianne” and The Bachelor Father."

Miss

In "It's a Wist Child, Davios is said by advance sconts to have achieved her greatest. comedy characterization, to date.

The story deals with the wildly extravagant effects that may re- sult from gossip in a small town. The stage play on which the new film is founded, ran for å solid year on Broadway and was adapted to the screen by its author, Lau ence E. Johnson

After seeing preview of the photoplay, Johnson remarked that Miss Davies had derived 110 per cent. from the possibilities of the part. The star herself admitter to friends that she had never en- joyed playing a role quite so much as the one in "Its a Wine Child

Misi Davies has a wealth of sup- porting talent. Prominent on the cast list are Sidnoy Blackmer. James Gleason, Polly Moran. Marie Prevost, Johnny Arthur and Ben Alexander.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"OUTSIDE THE LAW."

"Outside the Law" a thrilling story of the underworld, with. Mary Nolan in the principal role forms the attraction at the Cop tral Theatre to-day.

According to advance reports from Universal City, neither time. nor money was spared in the pro- duction of this all-talking picture drams, and the result in a picture of unnaual excellence. One especi, ally lavish scéne reprosents the Chinatown section of a metropoli tan mity, two blocks in length," and crowded with a motley collection of

37 interesting types.

thriting court scene, The action is the robbery of a bank was made An exciting sequence detailing. ina United States Court and one in one of the leading financial in hopes that it is not a true represtitutions of Los Angeles members sentation of how.cases of murder of the cast working throughout

are investigated.

several nights in this unusual”

location." For these scenes · L Norma, Shearer makes a very vast quantity of lights, cameras lovely heroine, and hete the highly and sound equipment we set "

within the bank, while gräst' pul- omotional role of the prisoner ex ating portable generators; used tremely well. II, 7 Warner, as for supplying electric ourront, the bullying prosecutor, Lewis lined the streets nearby

The film has a most unexpected Stone as the defending Counsel, climax Mary Nolan has the who withdraws from the case, and principe role wita Owen Moore. Raymond Hankett as the brother of playing opposite her Edward G the prisoner, who scender a Robinson Whore Tame on the

Broadway, stage" is a well-known)

PRINCE'S THEATRE

JACK M÷DONAL

Presents

Direct from the Wilds of Darkest Africa

Fearless-Peerless

PAUL PEDRINI

AND HIS

ROYAL ZAMBESI BABOONS

Captured by Paul Pedrini

the Wilds of Gorilla Land (Darkest Africa)

and now

っ

Smith, popular young juvenile, and Lucile Brewno recently elevat d to lending roles by Fox Films after her work in the “Last of the Duanes, are the lovers around which the highly complicated and farcical plot revolver.

Benjamin Stologg, veteran direc ter of more than thirty comedies for Fox Films, handled the me gaphone on this, scintillating story from the pen of America's foremost cartoonist,

The story unfolds with the efforts. of an enterprising young man to win the love, of a girl whos. 121- ele's business had been brought, to ruin, through neglect. Complica tions arise when the girl Tearns that the boy is taking over the business through the fact that, bís. father is the chief creditor! » -Sho refuses to have anything whatsoev er to do with him

From this auspicious beginning their affair advances from, bal to very much worso, each step being azigmented by the clowning of Ted Healy who portrays the wise guy salesman in the picture. Of course, Ted's frolicsome gang help him out to the near detritaert of- the young lovers,

。,,, Finally, the business burn, which brings things to a disastrons cli- max save for one fortunate înci dent. It is that incident that places/Spup to Nuts in a fold

THE MOST ASTOUNDING GROUP OF BABOON ACTORS IN VAUDEVILLE! apart from the vauziran of scre

Baboon Jugglers

Baboon Actors

Baboon Artists

Baboon Comedians

Baboon Contortionists

Baboon Risley Acts Baboons that do

everything but talk.

PAUL EEDRINI, the Famous Big Game Hunter

Peul Pedrini bas tramped the unknown Jungles of the World for the Missin Link between, Monkey and Mankind, The Royal Zambesi Baboons are the nearest approach to Human Beings, and were trained by Paul Pedrini in their

shur Native Jungles of the Belgian Congo,

dan hide

most eccontria delence, are the player the character of the gang THERE IS NOTHING BETTER IN VAUDEVILI

· lenders of a strong supporting caat.:

Ioader.!"

A

SO DON'T MISS IT II

en camedics and marks it as "one" of the most screamingly funny comedy romances over Almed,

Referring to the modern girl

girl and har liberal use of the lipstick, Mr. Young said to his audience: Even it you are not all art teachers, don't you think, accepting the modern world as you do, that you might teach some of your girl pupils how to apply their lipstick 80) that it would enhance their. charma' instead of detracting from: thơm na is so often the case.co -Remarks which fell from other apeakers wor

Some of the most stupid, men

I have oven, dawn'", bove, bujn- milllodnires, *- 34: Frank Rescue. Secretary of the Royal Society of TencheraNANA

The modern teacher must be Interested in the modern world- Lair: Peren Nunn. Principal of the su

London Day Training Collage

21

The theatre is a delightful way

of educating people, It is the jam in which the powder can be given so that people can enjoy. taking Mion Gwen Françon Panpics,

THEATRES

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 230, 5.10, 7..15 & 9.200

THE LAUGH RIOT OF

THE SHASONE

PARDON

Us"

STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY

ADDED ATTRACTIONS HEARST NEWSREEL with LOCAL NEWS

TRAVELOGUE

DOGWAY MELODY

WILD FLOWERS

NEXT CHANGE →→ SO INNOCENT

yet she had the pick of the men

You've seldom soon as funny

screen version of the stage play that ran on

Broadway!

MARIAN

ITS a

Marion Davies

Pro

dustion Directed

by Robert J.

Leonard

ASE CHILD

with

SIDNEY BLACKMER JAMES GLEASON. Polly Moran, Lesles-Vai

Marie: Prevosť?

STAR

TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY AT 280, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.

NORMA SHEARER

The

ALL TALKING Picture Hit!

The Trial of

MARY DUGAN