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CENTRAL

VTBEATPIE (1,

Commencing TO-DAY Daily at

2.80, 5,10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

An All-Talking, Singing

1981

Universal Super-Production

First Time shown in This

Colony.

=> 2044

With Four Big Song Hits

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

(CIMARRON,

Members of the fourth estate "vill And an especial appeal in Radio Pictures: “Cimarron, opening on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.

The evolution of the printing art from the makeshift shop of 1880 to the modern and efficient plant of 1930 graphically portrayed in the Edna Ferber story.· ́

The average. Oklahoma printing establishment of 1880 was equipped with a ashington hand press, elam jaw press, and such accessories as Jake shears, dresser-top: atone," typo and type cases, shooting stick, wedges, chases, ink, sponges and paper stock.

In 1991, Yancey Cravat, played by Richard Dix, added a Gordon press, proof press, casting boxes; cutters and more chases to this e lection."

In 1993, he bought. motal quoins, keys, a Diamond Cly press, yook press, folders, job preases and the first model

of that modern giant

of the composing-room-a Linotype machine

Most of the old fashioned print/ ing material was obtained from amall towns in out-of-the-way places. This involved many months' search.

Cimarron," adapted from the Ferber novel by Howard Estabrook, was directed by Wesley Ruggies with an all-star cast.

RESURRECTION

With

Songs

"While the " Volga Flows"

"Sing to Your Eyes", Baby's Lullaby", Song of the Gypsies

Count Leo Tolstoy's Famous Novel

The greatest love story ever written now transformed into a

'Talkie'

Starring

JOHN BOLES-LUPE VELEZ

Directed by

EDWIN CAREWE

ALSO SHOWING. Slim Summerville

in

“OOH LA LA”

George Sydney

'In

COHEN ON THE TELEPHONE"!

Please Book Early to

avold crush.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

TELEPHONE NO. 25720.

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ALOHA

with

LYON-HIQUEL TORNES: And All Star Cast

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"RESURRECTION,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931.

KINGS THEATRE

HONGKONG'S FINEST ONE

THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND THE ONLY AIR-COOLED THEATRE IN HONG KONG

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 and 0.80 P.M.

Hearty 176 Laughs

and they're

ALL NEW.

with

TED HEALY

and his hilarious Rocketeers.

Rube Goldbergs TO NUTS

SOUPT

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. No. 25313.

SIRDHANA MYSTERY

SOLVED.

- NEXT CHANGE SATURDAY, 12TH SEPT.

To"

EL BRENDEL FIFI DORSAY Mr.semon of Orange

A picture guaranteed

to bump oll your

Ones and put a grouch on the spot,

suspect, and when the vessel reach ed Hong Kong the local authori ties went one better und took the man into custody for the duration of the ship's stay in port. It is understood that Sherstneff will be

mediately before she sails for Shanghai to-day.

RUSSIAN DEPORTED FROM placed on the Sirdhana ugsin im-

Tenewed attention is being drawn this year to the great author, Count Leo Tolstoy, whose, remarkable novels include Resurrection, just AND brought to the talking acreon as a super production, with John Boles and Lupe Velez in the leading roles The picture is now being shown at the Central Theatre commencing from to-day.

The Centonary of Tolstoy's birth is being observed by the publication of a special edition of his novel,

sponsored by, the Tolstoy Society, through the Oxford University Press, and edited by Aylmer Maude, who was a personal friend of the great Russian author,

INDIA,

A CHINESE "WANTED **

AT SINGAPORE.

The alleged mysterious arrest of two European passengers of the air. „Sirdhana” which was reported in

the Press yesterday afternoon was.. solved last night by a Daily Press

representativa."

was

Although the police were most reticent about the affair it was as certained from other sources that a The Tolstoy Society, which has Russian named I. I. Sherstneff was found to be frequenting the military its headquarters in London, is com· posed of ranny notables in Europa camps at Quetta, India, and was and America. Lady Maud Warren arrested and recommended for de der is president, and the vice-pre-portation. He was placed on board Sirdhans at Calcutta with sidenta, include Miss Jane Addama, John Drinkwater, John Galsworthy, Shanghai as his ultimate destina-elected to travel either as a deck

tion.

Hamlin Garland, Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, Robert Underwood

The Official Eye, Johnson, W. B. Maxwell, Pro, Gil bert Murray, the Countess of Ox- Each time the "Sirdhana entered" ford and Asquith, Prof, William port en route police officers boarded Lyon Phelps of Yale University, the ship to keep an eye on the

Sybil Edwin Arlington, Lady Smith, J. C. Squire, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Lady Desborough, Maurice Baring, Miss Mary Borden, the Hon Mrs, Alfred Lyttleton, Hon Charles R Crane and Miss M Muson-Manheim, "who is the repro- sentative of the Tolstoy Society in America.

The introduction to each of the novels in the Centenary Edition is by a distinguished writer. In tho case of "Resurrection," the intro duction is by H. G. Wella. The edition has been endorsed by numer ous prominent people, among, theat George Bornard Shaw, and many other notables' abroad.

***ALOHA.”

Raquel Torres is the originator of a new dance that Ben Lyon has named the Mosquito Wiggle. Is Alohn," the Tiffany production soon to be shown at the Central Theatre, Miss Torres plays, a half-⠀⠀ caste native of a tropical iale. As. auch ebe is called upon to perform a native dance after the manner of the "Hula.

While this was being photograph led in the strikingly beautiful jungio.}||

exterior sets, the assembled troup noticed that Mias Torres was pune, tuating her dance with vicious. ̈ rhythmic slaps on her thigh. Direc-

tor Albert Rogel! stopped the ne tion of the scene and informed her that he believed the slap on - the. thigh was incidental ↑ to some of the low-down American dances and asked her to stick to the native coa- ception.EKS

The scene started again and once more the thigh-slapping was inter polated. Action was stopped and Miss Torres was given, an oppor tunity to explain thing she was in Record with the director's wishes | but could not refrain from swatting the mosquitos. that were no pro valent. Lyon immediately named for her conception of the Hula, "Doin' the Mosquito

The problem was finnlly solved by' one of the unsung heroes of the mo |tion picture, industry. The prop | man zume to the rescue with-oil-61- citronella. It is believed this is the first time citronella has been uned as a necessary prop in the pictures.

##bracted by:

John Blystone

EXPLOSION ON BOARD CRUISER:

30 CASUALTIES. ON- JAPANESE SHIP.

Tokyo, Sept. 5,-A gas-tank ex- ploded on board, the Japanese crui- ser Notoro early this morning na the vogsol lay in Yokchama har- bour. Six men were blown over- board by the explosion and there sra thirty more casualties.

Immediately after the explosion

THE SILVER SCREEN.

KING'S THEATRE.

SOUP TO NUTS"

Regardless of how comionl they. may be, the Inventions of Lucifor G.Butts, made famous in Rubo Goldberg's cartoons, are invariably mechanically correct. Years ago, when the inventions first began

to appear, Rube pictured a bird' being released from its cage by à string which was supposed to open the door when pulled. As a matter of fact, the drawing showed that the string would close the door. rather than open it and over three hundred letters of protest wore received by the cartoonist after the carton was published. Henca, to the day, Goldberg has bocu careful to keep his apparatus mechanionily perfect!

Many duplicates of the wall

the known inventions were used in the Fox Movietone production of "Soup to Nuts," which is Rube Goldberg #

first story effort for the audible. serdon and which can be acón at the King's Theatre to-day with an im- pressivo. array of celebrated come diana.

To story, marked throughout with Goldberg's characteristic humour, deals with the love of a wealthy

young boy for a girl whose father WAS an impractical dreamer. Through his tendency to waste time on foolish inventions, he loses ... the costume shop, which is their live- lihood: The boy; baing the son of. the chief creditor, takes charge, much to the girl's disgust. Then fun begina And fun in the Gold borg sense should be hilarious enough to keep any audience in continuous merriment de tas

Heading the long list of noted comedians is Ted Healy, with his gang of funsters, who is featured as the salesman who tries to help save the business. Stanley Smith and Lucile Browne are the lovera and »Charles Winninger, veteran. character actor from the New York stage, is the father, Francis McCoy. the charming little blonde recently discovered by Fox Films, and Hallam Cooley complete the east for this hilarious masterpiece of modern comedy which Benjamin Stoloff directed.

MR. LEMON OF ORANGE.!

This business of being funny is the toughtest job in the world. Take it from El Brendel, premier. Swedish dialect comedian, who, has

been making people laugh for near

the vesse got, under way andy twenty years

I used to think it was tough stonmed" out of port for fear of on the stage, El, says,,

"when 2

::

A "Hard Up" Deportes With regard to the other 'Euro- pean arrest,' it seems that a man named Russell was also deported from Calcutta, and decided to go to Shanghai. Owing to scarcity of funds bo decided to travel ̈asa Hong Kong he was apprehended by deck passenger. Upon arrival

producing evidence that he the police, who, however, upon his neither destituta nor a criminal, re

a further explosion. She was fol-would work a long time on a joke leased him with, apologies. He also will continue the journey to Shanglowed by the cruisers Ashisara and and finally get it polished. up, and hai with the Sirdhuna.

then when I'd spring it sometimes Nachi, which are assisting in ex-I wouldn't get a giggle. I discover tinguishing the fire which followed that everyone has a different ed the explosion" and also search of humour. That is, some people will laugh at something that ing for the bodies of those blown won't be funny to others at all. into the sea,

**" I don't mean that they wouldn't:

Even see the point of the joke. when they saw it, often times, thay wouldn't like it.. People razz come- digns for falling back on stale jokes sometimes. But it is an aw ful temptations to take some gag you know everyoun will laugh at and use it again and again.. When you start out into new fields, you never know what is going to hap

£

The passenger said to be wanted. by the Singapore police was Chinese who had booked a second class passage on the ship, but had passenger or in hiding. When the local police searched the ship for him on her arrival in the Colony he could not be found, but it is be.. lieved he was arrested ashore Inter in, the day.

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY (Ending Sept. 12th) Daily at 2.30, 7.15 and 9.15 pm. Special Matinee at 5.15 on Saturdays and Sundays'Only.

The bero has to fight against Nature, and has to tackle a complicated love problem-

The Girl, "Manuelita

who in real love with

him

ROMANCE

RIO GRANDE

Added Attraction:

Fox Movietone News

COMMENCING SEPT. 19TH

William Fox presents

WINS

VARNER BAXTER

All Singing, Dancing, Talking

Song Romance:

*MARRIED IN HOLLYWOOD"

MÁRY DUNCAN ANTONIO MORENO

by Motherine

·ALFIND SANTEIL predod

THE

DAY.

A Navy Office communique states that 12 men wore seriously wounded and 27lightly. The cause of the explosion is now be ing investigated.

A later communique gives the

total casualties at 33.

Five were killed on the spot, One is missing. One succumbed after being taken to hospital. One officer, Lieutenant Tomcshire Pen, Nishimura, nine petty officers and two sailors were seriously injured and 14 others slightly injured,

Lieutenant Nishimura has died in hospitaltMus > !uf

Brendel is the hardest working comedian in the business and is cone stantly-at work figuring out my situations, or improving on old ones to be certain that they will- get laughs.

While the official investigation into the pause of the explosion

When he is getting ready for a has not yet been completed, the new niotuid, everyone he comes in officers believo that gasolene contact with in Hollywood" knows. vapour batween the walls of the

Lit. "He's always bubbing over with | minor tanks ignited.

new jokes

Three planes on the decks forn and alt, were seriously damaged,

Although the Bamen caused by the explosion were suppressed in half a minute the damage done

was extensive and the repaira will

tako a long time and involve considerable expenditure,

RACEHORSE'S "WILD JOURNEY.

LONDON TRAFFIC HELD UP: PEDESTRIANS SCATTERED.

"I try them out on a lot of: people. El confesses. If most of them laugh, I'm sure they strike other people as funny as they do. me, so I know I can use them in a picture with the desired results." Dorsay in his latest Fox Comedy. Brendel is co-abarred with. fif

"Mr. Lemon of Orange" which will be seen and heard soon at the King's Theatre.

In addition to the stars, the must includos. Williams Collier, Sr., Ruth Warren, Donald Dillaway and Joan Castle,

John G. Blystone, veteran direc tor of Fox successos, handled the megaphone, on this production.

HUGE U.S. LOAN OVER- SUBSCRIBED.

ELEVEN HUNDRED MIL- LIONS BOND ISSUE

London, Sept. 5-A racehorse carearing through the stṛoots sur- prised holiday-makers in the busy part of Brighton. After taking part in a race on the Brighton racecourse, the four-year-old horse Midscope slipped, threw his jockey, made a wild dash from the course and galloped across the Downs into the tow, scattering pedes-

Washingten, Bept. 3.-The-issue: trians" and holding up traffic, of $100,000,000 United States.

Ita progress

was eventually bonds, required to meet-last year's pluckily stopped outside the Royal national deficit of *00,000,000, Sussex Country Hospital by has been over subscribed. 25, James William Clarke, an olderly Part of the issue, namely outpatient, who had just lett the 8300,000,000, was distributed": "first institution. On seeing the horse as one and one-eighth, per cont. galloping towards him, Clarke one-year certificates, his part ran into the roadway and, throw was over-subscribed four times.

£8500,000,000у" ing his armu round the horse's The remaining neck, managed to bring it to a which is in the form of three per. atandstill Clarke handed Mids- cent. bonde maturing in 20 p, 24 Loops over to the police, from whom years has now also been over- it was claimed later by a stable subscribed, according to-an-ans boy

The animal was unhurt apart nouncement mal by the Treasury from a few scratches,

to day

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