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CENTRAL

A THEATRE MR.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7:15 & 9.20 p.m.

COLUMBIA FICTURES

The

DONOVAN AFFAIR

JACK HOLT

DOROTHY REVIER - WILLIAN COLLIERS: and an All-Star Talking Cast

It is the most grip- ping, compelling, dramatio and thril- ling screen play of the year!

FRAKKA. CAPRA @hexations

Commencing FRIDAY, September 11th.

First Time shown in This Colony,

An All-Talking, Singing

!!

Universal Super-Production With Four Big Song Hits"

RESURRECTIO

From

Count Leo Tolstoy's Famous Novel Starring

JOHN BOLES-LUPE VELEZ Directed by EDWIN CAREWE

Please Book Early to avoid crush.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TELEPHONE No. 25720..

TIPS FOR CONSTRUCTORS.

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What Size Reaction?

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Why this gront difference in value? There is no real reason. The particular detector valve used and the coil to which the reaction ir applied are both factors

By reducing the number of turns in the reaction coil itself, the capo city of the condenser must be in erraced in order to provide, ade. "quáto feedbackOno can use the #greater value of reaction condenser,

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

IRENE DUNNE IN SECOND MIGHTY ROLE AS SABRA

I love to lose myself in other menandinds, said Emerson, Irene Dunno changed that saying. to read, "the Edna Ferber mind, while playing "Sabra Cravatn Radio Pictures Cimarron." show. ing on Sunday at the Queen's.) Theatra

"No because of this one rule none, sho explains. "I have rend Miss Berber religiously for years for a period of 10 wooks. I annoted one of her hercines in

the stage play Show Boat

"In many ways my life coincides with the fictitious lives of Sabra and Magnolia, Ferber herolnes Like them, I'm an expatriated Southerner.

Although most of my life has boon spent in the North, I still have the deepest affection for the Louisville traditions of my fami

Miss Dunno, who recently went to Hollywood from the New York scores of stage; competed with

leading film netresses for the rôle of Sabra in "Cimarron." It was considered the Bercen, plum of the

BOTICA.

Sho not only portrays varians ages between 18 and 64, but chan ges her voice to that of a tremu- lous old lady.

Opposite her in the starring role, is Richard Dix. Others in the cast include Estella Taylor, Resco Ates. Georgie Stone and Edna May Oliver.

"CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE DONOVAN AFFAIR."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1931.

KINGS THEATRE

SEXY THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND THE ONT

FOR TWO DAYS ONLY at 2.80 5.10-7.15 and 9.80 PEL

Hearty 1766 Laughs

and they're

ALL NEW

TED HEALY

and his hilarious, Rocketeers.

Rube Goldbergs TO NUTS

SOUP TO

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. No. 25313..

ROMANCE OF A. MILLIONAIRE.

SAVED BY NATIVE GIRL IN

AUSTRALIAN BUSH

London, Sopt 2-Anticipations that a great experiment in the science of criminology will short

OLED THEATRE IN HONG KONG

NEXT CHANGE SATURDAY 12′′ SEPT.

EL BRENDEL FIFI DORSAY Mrlemon of Orange

PREHISTORIC MAN AT

BRISTOL.

A picture guzanKENĖ to bump off your blue

and pur a grouch on the spor

The skeleton of a man believed to have lain buried" for, perhaps, thousands of years was recently dis covered embedded in clay nearly 20 feet below the ground by workmen oxenvating in connection with jetty at Avonmouth, Bristol

bgambarked upon have been aroused by the death in London of Harold Smith, the British-bording. "Carbon King" of the United

Smith's lido romance, his strug

All lovers of mystery drama should hall with delight The Donovan Affair," the "Columbin dialogue production which opened at the Central Theatre yesterday This is one of the finest detectivegla and privations from a cabin atories and talking pictures that has reached the screen.

The stage play by the one name was a success, and the screen version leaves nothing to destre. The mystery Burrounding the strange killing of- Jack Donovan

at a dinner table" and "the Inter death “of another character in the same mariner and by the same means a carving knife-s found. The false clues are many The apparently contradictory act ing of the various people in the play confuses the mind until the denouement, which comes swiftly and is wholly logical as well as surprising.

The entire cast is above the average, Jack Holt excelling him. solf as the sleuth Dorothy Revier,

William Collior, Jr., John Boche, Fred Kelsey, Agnes Ayres, Whesler Oakman, Virginia Brown Faire and Ethel Wales complete a super- lative east..

No matter how many mystery. pictures are produced, we are als ways ready for more if they are of this calibre. The dialogue : un superb. It is good entertainmont and will appeal to all. The pic tures having its final showings to-day

RESURRECTION"

What is the greatest, love story. ever written 1. You lean 1 answer this question" when you have wit nessed tourrection, adapted to the talking screen from Tolstoy's immortal novel, which is to be chown for the first time in Hong Kong at the Central Theatre com mencing to-morrow.

"Resurrection" is a love drama that has stirrad many millions in many lands with its great depth,. its power and human sympathy, The Tlstoy novel has bouu trans- lated into twenty-eight languages. Its popularity has grown with passing years

boy and bush wanderer to a mil- lionaire induced in him a deter mination to do something for the good of humanity. His offer of a prize, for the most useful schomó of disposing of his fortune was won by a professor of psychology as "Columbia University, who re- commended the foundation of an institute of mental hygiene where young delinquents could come for advice.

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and

„Dempted be

Jolin Blystone

CONCESSIONS MADE. TO

FASCISM.

TERMS OF SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE WITH VATICAN.

Rome, Sept. 2-Reports cf complete reconciliation between the Vatican and the Fascist Govern

Only part of the left leg was miss.ment word confirmed to-day in an The teeth were perfect in form official statement declaring that, colour, and the skull was fo thanks to the mediation of the good condition." "No" clothing or Jesuit Father Tacchi Venturi and implements of any kind were found others, an amicable settlement had been arrived at in the question of the Catholic youth organisation It is expected that funds for Azzione Cattolica whose suppres the setting up of such an institusion by the Fascist authorities bo tion will be available when. Smith'a will is opened.

A romantic episode in Smith's ife occurred when he was lost and starving in the Australian bush and was rescued by a benuti ful native maiden with whom he fell in love. The girl died shortly afterwards but her dying gift, a greenstone, was cherished as a talisman by Smith until his death.

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY (Ending Sept. 12th)

∙Daily at 280, 7.15 and 9.15 pm.............

Special Matinee at 5.15 on Saturdays and Sundays Only

The hero has to fight against Nature, and has to tackle a complicated love problem- The Girl, Manuelita

who in real love with

MANCE

ROMA

RIO GRANDE

Added Attraction Fox Movietone News

COMMENCING SEPT 131H

William

INS

DUNCAN WARNER BATTER

MARY ANTONIO MORENO

John Boles is Prince Dmitri, handsome and stalwart, a roman tic soldier. Lupo Velez plays the great dramatic role of Katusha Maslova. Both are tremendous favourites of the talking screen.

Inappropriate sequencer All Singing, Dancing, Talking quisite music by Dmitri Tiomkin is presented

Song Romance: WARRIED

"Revarreelion” is the story of the awakening of a man's love for a girl he has wronged and neglect

as usually the best results are ob od. No drama has over expressed

tdin when there is a fair capacity the depth of a true love na doon

the nude care of detectoresurrection t

HE

DAY

Fox

THE SILVER SCREEN.

KING'S THEATRE:

SOUP TO NUTS.”

COMEDY OF FIRE AND

LOVE

Ted Healy and his gang Racketeers" contribute, most of the comedy in Soup: To. Nuts which opens at the King's Theatre tod There are plenty of amusing in- cidents in the picture and it should prove very welcome.

The story is about a gang of fres mon who appear to know all about | everything oxcept fire-fighting, and Fan- old shop-keeper who, kilowa, his „business to go to run while she spends his time on ingeniour juven- tions, one of which proves a great hindrance to the firemen when they. ure finally called upon to combat In real fre?

|

Tire old shopkeeper has a nives and when a young man comes along to take charge of the business bes

take

cause his father, happened to be funcio's chief creditor, the girl takes on justant dislike to him. Stanley Smith persists, however, in hia attentions to protty Lucile Brown and goes to the Firemen's Ball where he manages to get a. dance with her. When she finds out his identity, however, she dashes home and locks horself in her room with him knocking hard at the

At this point the firemen are called upon to prove their real worth, tour the city in their fancy costumes in search of the fire! They finally get to the shop which by this time is enveloped in flames and on the top of the landing, they find the young man overcome by the fumes They carry him out and when he finds that the girl ho loves- is still in the building, he dashes in and rescues her in true story-book fashion.

Most of the elements that make

up to light film,are, in fact, present, There is the romantic love affair, the drams with its necessary mo- ment of tension, heroiam" and, mock heroica, and the whole is well and truly flavoured with laughter.

"A Sad, Sad Story” is the bead- ing seen frequently above Rube Goldberg's a cartoons in the daily papers, but such a title couldn't by the widest- streich-of imagination be applied to his full-length sound picture, Soup to Nula, Fox Movietone comedy riot which is to have its opening at the King's Theatre to-day

cause of alleged subversive! pro- paganda gave rise e to the conflict.

The agreement provides for a strict limitation of the activities of the Azione Cattolica which will be do-centralised, its local groups being placed under the direct supervision of the district bishope These groups must confine them "Soup to Nuts?” is “a feast of selves to purely religious and fun concocted by Rube Goldberg,

said to outdo his comic strips-in- charitable motivities, all physical

puro ridiculousness ne the sound training being banned as well as screen outrivals the silent cinema.” any lectures or discussions on poli-

The story TAM NAGAR, MER

young tical or civil problems, though the love, playou against, a background of modern wise cracks. Stanley Vatican undertakes to instill the Smith, se the son of a wealthy spirit of patriotism into all mem, mortgage holder, enters the costume bers of the Azione Cattolica. Furthermore, the local groups must co-operate with the trade un ions wherever Buu whenever pos sible.

shop of Charles Winninger, prepar ed to take charge of the business. for its creditora

No sooner does his trio of cliciency experts begin their opera tions than Stanley meets and falls in love with; Winninger's nieve, The agreement is generally re- Lucile, Browne. She likes hira, 100, garded here as a victory of Fas- but before they have a chance to ciam over the Church, though it exchange pleasantries, she learns ja admitted that the latter scored that be is ousting her father and immediately decided that she hates a paint with the formal acknow- him. ledgment, that it shall have a share in the education of the Italian youth for which it had waged a long battle.

Ted Healy, who is a salesman in the store when he isn't loading around the fire station, with his racketeers, begins to do everything in his power to straighten out the trouble Naturally, they only heighten the tangle. But love,

Film Corporation executive dis somehow, finally, Anda away and

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WILD FLOWERS

NEXT CHANGE

YANCEY CRAVA A Giant Towering Among Men Who Were Men Great Fisted Mighty-Hearted. Holding Rela on an Empire Destiny Marked with Madness and Willad to the Devil

EDNA

TERBER'S

COLOSS

HARRON

RICHARDY DIX

covered her. She made her debut the why in this Instance provokes Am 2,30 6,20 720 & 9.20. in "Will Rogers Movietone success, one bilarious situation after an "They Had To See Paris Wille other

Brandel's Arst Fox talkie was Rhonero le a hot Fire GEORGE

Walsh's comedy,The Cock-Eyed men's Ball Goldberg's reproduc World Etions of the invention of Lucifer

Mr, Lemon of Orange is not uttro alarm answere the first picture in which Brendel Ted Healy and his gang of clown and Miss Doraay have appeared to racketeers, and a dozen other op gether They both played import portunities for the chaplayof ant roles with Victor McLaglen ip screamingly funny dialogue arc

Hot For Paris O GRATE

shown in the picture. In Mr. Lemon of Orange, Brendel, plays a dual role, that of Oscar Lemon the Swede from Min;| nesota, and Lemon's counterhart,

Silent McGee, bass of the El Bronde and Fif underworld and liquor racketeer Miss Dorsay impersonates Julie Le starred in the Fox

Lemon of Orange," Rue, acabarot anger, whose brother has just been put on a spot by Metro She socks to wreak her ro. yengo on Mr. Lemon, and the situa tions that follow are embarrassing for Brendel

The osat which suppo

ond Miss Dorisse

one;-and-izolader

Collier Ruth-

and Donald Dillawa yox

MR LEMON OF ORAN

the King's Theatre next both made their entree, into pictures by the same route big time Vaudeville-to

Brendel was doing : characterization, foumen Brøndel portant" wife, Flo Burt, when he age- and take his fyer on the

1 And Fif washinging.

on the Orpheum circuit when

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