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CENTRAL

... TKNEATRIE WU

SHOWING TO-DAY

8.80, 8.10, 7:15 and 9.20 p.m.

PASSION 1 HATE!

ALOHA

Half Savage! Half Naked

A Child of Nature

She lifted a man to the Glory of Heaven only to cast him into the depths of Hell and Damnation with her Native Heritage. BEN LYON RAQUEL TORRES

And An All-Star Cast

Directed by...

ALBERT ROGELL

A TIFFANY PRODUCTION

SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION"

Nothing Like It. Even Shown Before. THE TIFFANY CHIMPS

THE LITILE COVERED "WAGONZA

An All-Talking Comedy With a Cast consisting Entirely of TRAINED MONKEYS

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PHONE NO. 25720.

BE SURE TO GET A SEAT.

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ANOTHER TIFFANY

PRODUCTION

THE

DRUMS

Starring Warner Oland-June Collyer And A Famous Cast

WATCHE

A Fox Movietone Special

MEN WITHOUT

WOMEN

Featuring

KENNETH MACKENNA And An All-Star Cast

What do

you want?

anything wint stops buy or

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words $1.00 prepaid

Insertions.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Cliff Edwards and his famous. ukulele bring forth a new song hit in Shipmates, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's first starring vehicle for Robert Montgomery, which will come on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre

The new song number is titled,; I'm Looking for Someone to Caro For, and was written by Roy Turk and Fred E. Ahlert, popular composers. Edwards singa the song: ns musical background to the romantic love

scence between Mont-

gomery and, Dorothy Jordan, who plays opposite him in the pictures. Harry Pollard directed the thril ling navy story tha cast in- Iluding Ernest Torrence, Hobart

Bosworth, Gavin Gordon, Joan March, Edwkard Nugent, E. Allyn Warren, George Irving, Hedda Hopper, and William Worthington.

"CIMARRON,”

"You can't take pictures here.

This set is not completed," said a visitor to Wesley Ruggles, when viewing the town of "Dange," con structed at the Radio Pictures ranch for "Cimarion,” starring Richard Dix.

"It is completed," said the director.

"Why, some of the buildings are"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

SHOWING TODAY

HONGKONG'S FINEST ONDA

UP THE RIVER

with

SPENCER TRACY

Claire Luce Warren Hymer

Directed

by

JOHN

FORD

only half up, everything is un- "THE DRUMS OF JEOPARDY." painted and there are boards, nail kegs. and planks scattered all' around."

That's exactly what I want." exclaimed Ruggles. ""The town" of Osaga in Cimarron' was a hat- constructed boom low. This is an exact reproduction?

Most of the dramatic action in the Edna Ferber story, now, en

the screen at the Queen's Theatre, takes place in the town of Osage. As the story progresses os doca the town. In the end it is a seething city of skyscrapers.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"ALOHA:"

Can you take a beautiful wild creaturo and acclimate her to the effote atmosphere of riches and society? Can you put a gorgeous Bird of Paradise, in a guilded cage without breaking. ite gallant spirit?

“Aloha," the Tiffany special production featuring Ben Lyon, Raquel Torres and an all-star cast commencing to-day at the Central Theatre, tells the story. of u wealthy young. American who mar ries a tropical beauty and takes

her to his aristocratio San Fran cisco home.

But Jann was only half native. The white strain of her father, made her feel superior to the mem- bere of her mother's race, who were darker skinned than she, And when she went among her hun- band's people all the courage in her wanted to be like his friends. but it was so hard to

to understand

their ways,

For instance, why must she wear

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a hat that hurt her ears? Or shoes that, pinched her test, or evon stockings on her legs that had nover been covered Or why, above all things, wear those things. called girdles with their garters that hurt you when you sat down Why were the things she did so simply, so naturally and so ingo cently, so horribly shocking to her. husband's relatives and friends 1

Comedy blonds with the romance and drama of Alcha," an origin al story by Thomas H Inco and

J. G. Hawks, directed by Albert Rogell and produced by Bogell Productions, Ltd, The cast in sup port of Ban Lyon and Rageu Torres includes Robert Edeson, Alan Halt, Thelma Todd, Marian Douglas, Otis Harlan, T. Roy: Barnes, Robert Ellis, Donald Rood, Al St John and Diokis. Moors,

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The Most Comfortable and the Only Alr-conditioned Theatre in the Colony.

Daily at

2.30, 5.10,

715 & 9:30 PM.

ANYWAY you look at it. * Up The River "' is a lead-pipo cinch. Laughs so close together they lock step, sixty days of comedy in sixty minutes of film.

A WOMAN A FLAME with the secrets of—and a man who was still a wide-eyed boy. Chanca

brought them, together in an embrace no force could part..

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE

TEL. No. 25313..

"KING'S THEATRE.

UP THE RIVER,"

NEXT CHANGE

BODY

and

16, 1931.

SOUL

CHARLES

FARRELL

ELISSA

LANDI

Humpbay

Myrna Loy

Bogert

"convict garh, she went through her

first real scene.

TODAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

THEATRET

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

355 METRES.

11 to 11.30 a.m.--Stock quotations. 11:30 am-Chinese programmie 12.30 p.m.-European' programme, 11 p.m.-Local time and weather

report, Pa

1:30 pm Rugby Press nows, mail

Dotice, stad Megane n. Close down

3 to 7p.m.-Chinese programme.

6 to 6.30 pm-Chinese children's

programme.

7) to 10:30 pm Suncan, prof

granime of Columbia reporda supplied by Mesars, Anderson Music Co.

7 p.m.-Mail notice, etc.

7.65 to 7.30 path

Band Selections

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"Paul Rubong, Memories" (Rubens) |46Iyan Caryll Memories,' (Chryll),.

—Debroy Somera. Band,—9984. Les Sirenas. (Waldteufel),"'

es Patineurs (Waldtoufel).

Reg. Band of HM. Grebadier: By Guarda. $403. Sa

The Evolution of Dixie " (Lake). Reg. Band of H. M. Greundior Guards DX228.95

7.30 to 8, p.

Light Pianoforte Solos,

"Let's Go Nativo."" "Safety in Numbers."Billy

Mayerk-DR$87.

Any Time's the Time to Fall Sn

Love wor "Sing You Sinners Bil

Mayerl-DB£24.

"Lova Race."!.

"Sons O' Guns"-Billy Mayor--

DB188.N

The Birth of the Blues."

"My Heart Stood Still."Edythe-

Baker, 9217. 8 pim-Local time and weather

report.SMA

8.05 to 8.32 p.m.---.

Operatio.

Song Madama Butterfly-One

Fine Day" (Puccini). Song" La Baberna They Call Mo Mimi (Puccini)-Doris Vane (Soprano)-0612 Band The Meistersingers — Selection (Wagner)-The Rag, Band of H. Grenadier Guards.9$24. T Song Romeo and Juliet Tis

There All Hail! Oh Tomb" (Gounod)

Well, what do you think of tho sat, Joan" inquired Director John Ford, during this first day's work. Only eight years old, blue-eyed, It looks just like home," came brown-haired and freckled, she back the quick reply, "although counts safe crackers, convicted that wall, pointing to a stur murderers and eminent sareen stara corner of the lot, “isn't quite among her most intimate friends right, But that gate over there is There you have Joan Lawes, nick just like the South Gate at home," named by her envict friends The settings were not the only

reminders of home to little Joan2 The part she enacts in Up The River,"

"The Drums of Jeopardy," the Tiffany picture to be shown at the Theatre at the next Central change of programmme are figures, suspended on a famous necklace, If a drum should be received by a man it is an omen of death, ac It be cording to superstition. Yongs to the Petrolls, Russian royalty. One of them gives it to his sweetheart and when she dies" Cherie.". Daughter of the warden her father returns the druma-o of Sing Sing Prison, she was born

within the walls of that penal, in by one,

stitution, and up to three months age had scarely been outside of her town of Ossining.

Froin Russia to New York the Petroffs flee to throw the avenger, off the scent. But he has the cleverness of madman... Ho knows everything--he is every where. Nowhere are the Petroff safe four men doomed to die for the sake of revenge and only one of them guilty.".

showing at the King's Theatre, is exactly the role she plays in real life, that of the warden's daughter who goes about Thon come the call from Holly-spreading sunshine among the pri wood, and "Cherie," boarded the soners. The only difference is that train for the film capital to enact asing Bing the prisoners are look- her first and featured role in theed upon as being: unfortunate, while Fox Moviotone laugh riot, pin this hilarious movietone they The River."

consider themselves pretty lucky w be inmates of good Old Ben- sonata."

An American girl dragged into

She met the various players with the danger because of her lova.

whom she was to makes her screen for the youngest prince; and her comical nunt providing laugh debut, namely, Spencer Tracy, when the tension gets too trut Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Hum "The Drums of Jeopardy" is a phrey Bogart, William Collier, thriler, featuring Warner Gload; Sr., to name but a few. She June Collier, Lloyd Hughes and a famous cast including Wallace took her screen tests, her make-up

**George

Fawcett tests, her voice tests, and at last MacDonald. Mischa Auer, Hail Hamilton,

Ernest Hilliard, and

Florence came the day when, against a back- Lake.

ground of hundreds of extras

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY (Ending 17th) * At 2.80, 7.15 and 9.13 pm.

Special Matinee at 5.16 on Saturday and Sunday.

Starring Victor Melaglen, Lilyan Tashman,

Fifi Dorsay, William Harrigan.

A WONDERFULLY GOOD LESSON for cheap love makers

A workman becoming Manager of an Estate Company, that seems "get rich over night, fail to realize that he is in no he way qualified for the job, so there must be something behind it,

BODY AND SOUL.”

There was a time when Charles Farrell was never seen on the screen except in the company of that dainty star Janet Gaynor. They made their initial success together in Seventh Heaven" and climbed side by side to stardom in Street, Angel," Sunny Side Up" and

High Society Blues,"

This season, however, Farrell has appeared with thres different lead- ing ladies, not counting Miss Gay nor, with whom be, recently scored so heavily in "The Man Who Came Back."

In Body And Soul" which coming to the King's, Theatre on Saturday, Farrell's new leading Indy is. Elissa Candi," Miss Landi, who makes her American screen debut in this Fox Movietone drama," Is the English actress who proved

a real senantion; in European Alms nad on the Broadway stage previous to her coming to Hollywood,

InBody And Soul," complica- tions of a sensational nature follow the arrest of a young American officer in the R.F.C. during the World War, when he is accused of boing in league as well as in love with a woman app

Myrna Loy, who gained a large.. following by her siren röltz in "The Black Watch" and "Renegades," is also featured, as is Humphrey Bogart, formar Broadway star, who recently appeared in the Fox Movi

Up The River and Other prominent members of the cast are Donald Dillaway, Ian Maclaren.. Pat Somerset- Goodies fontso

Added Attraction : “Happy Birthday" & Fox News. Devil With Women."

COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 18TH. M. G. M. picture “PAGAN”

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Song Romeo and Juliet-Ah!

Fairest Sun" (Grunod)-Wil- liam Heseltine (Tenor),-76.

to 0.16 p.

Variety.

String Quartetto" Kawaiban String Quartette Honolulu

Hawaiian Silver, String Quar tette.3431. VES Song Happy Days and Lonely

Nights

Bong Beloved."Ruth Etting.

(Comedienne).-5110.

London Street Noises Begu

charap Place, Brompton Road, Leicester Square," Explana tions by Commander Daniel.- 0413.0

Band Spanish or Castanet Dance. Highland Military Band 4571

Descriptive Ballad

Ar 230, 5.00, 7.15 & 9.30,

WANCEY CRAVAT

A Giast Towering Among Men Who We Men Great-E Mighty Hearted. Holding Rela on an Empire Destiny Marked with Madness and Willed to the Devil·l

EDNA FERBER

Richard Dix) Irene Dunno Estelle Taylor Honding Cast of 959 40,000 Superlative.

Artists NE Wes Burgles Production

NEXT CHANGE

THE LATEST BRITISH SUCCESS

FROM PUC (PCMts-boost QAGARICK Theater

Success

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DODO WATTS: [DONALD CALTHROP: "Caller | LAMONT DICKSON

Descriptive Ballad My Ain Folk!! Columbia Dramatie Players DX200

Song-Ten Cents a Dance,227. Song Love is Like That." Ruth Esting (Comedienne). DB440 /

9.15 to 0.55 pm

A Concert Violin Solo Caprics Viennois." (Kreisler). Naoum Blinder. DX7

Dowden and Bealy) Dorn Vocal Duet-Moon-Enchanted

Labbetto and Hubert Eisdell. with the. J. E. Squire Celeste. Octette.---980S, AND

Pianoforte Solo-Tango {* (Al-

beniz)

Pianoforte. Solo

Moment

Musien" (Schubert Godowaký).

Leff Poushnoff-4830, Pen Vocal Quintette Songs of Ola Erin-Medley (air:J. Fran- cls)--The Maestros-DX232, Organ Bola "Toccata in " (from Symphony No. 5.75 (Widor)-Quentin M. MadLean. DX66. F...

Song Tha Organ Blower."

(Medill and Barker). Song- Sinners. and Saints

(Lockton and Geehl)--Raymond Newell (Baritone)-DX200. 9.55 to 10.29 p.m.---

Musical Comedy "Folly to be WiseSelection. (Hupfeld, Ruby and Braham).. -Porcival Mackey and his Band-DX910,, .

Nippy A Couple of Fine Old Schools" (Eyton and Mayor), Clifford Mollison and Arthur

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Nippy" Whild.

(Epton and Mayarl) Artbur Riscoe and Betty Shale DBaar, The Wone of the Drum"--Bold/ 'tion" (Ellis "and Finek), Her. man Tingles and his Orch.---

The Belle of New York?

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10:28 pm-Rugby mid-day

70.30 p.m

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