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CENTRAL

THEATRE MAY

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

2.80, 5.10, 7.16 and 9.20 p.m.

HIS KISS IS DEATH |

Yet none can resist his allure

Dead 600 years, he lived by night on the blood of

the living

Tho strangest, boost fascinats

ing obszacter

in fiction, in

the greatest of all-thrillers-

ORACULA

TOD

BROWNING'S

Createst Production

with Bela Lugosi, David Manners. Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sidan.. Herbert Bunston, Frances Dade, Charles Gerrard,

Presented by

Produced by

Carl Laemmie Carl Laemmle, Jr. Based upon the play adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker's novel of the same name.

NEXT CHANGE

Lew

YRES

In

IRON MAN

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"SINNERS HOLIDAY"

The following is the experience of nearly two hundred extras dur ing the Alming of Sinners' Holi day, the Warner Bros and Vita- phone melodrama fonturing. Grant Withers and Evalyn Knapp which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre

"Hired to furnish atmosphere in the amusement park, which forma the background of this Conty Is land story, the lucky players were no only furnished small change with which to try choir luck. the various pleasure, and gambling concessions, but were given the usual fee for doing it...

And to make their jobs seam oven. more like a dream, every man, woman and child was furnished with all of the hot-dogs, candy and soda-pop that they could consume

"Sinners Holiday" is n thril ling cross-section of amusement park life, bringing to the aeroen a human story of love among the racketeers and one of the most. gripping murder mysteries over flined,

Those appearing with Withers and Evalyn Knapp who play the featured roles are James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Lucille La Verne, Noel Madjeon, Otto Hoffman, Ray Gallagher Hank Mann and War ren Hymer. John Adolf directed.:

"DAYBREAK."..

It's tale of romantic times which have passed and will never

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1931

KINGS THEATRE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

MURDER BY THI CLOCK

a Garamount Fiction

A Trill in

every Shiver 1

William Boyd: LilyanTasbman. Regis Toomey Sally: O'Nofl

The Most Comfortable and the Only Air-conditioned Theatre

In Hong Kong,

Daily at

2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

TWO BEST SELECTIONS

FROM PARAMOUNT'S

LATEST

PRODUCTIONS

BOOKING AT THE

THEATRE, TEL, 25313.

Mrs. Rinehart is one of America's foremost women novelists. The dar ing directness of this story I Take This Woman, is typical of. her actionful style. The locale, shifting as it does, between fashion: abla, dance-mad New York and the wild country of the West, and back again, adds delightful variety to

come again." It is thus that Ra Tashman as Laura, Regis Toomey mon Novarro characterizes "Day break," the Arthur. Schnitzlors Cassidy, the cop, Irving Pichel drama, in which he will he soon as Phillip, Sally O'Neil na Jane, to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre, and many others..

Daybrenk" stated Novarro, denla with Vienna, Viennese cafon. and Viennese army officers before the World War. It revolves round Lieutenant Willi Kasda, a perfect. Symbol of the careless, care-free Few modern writers have more life led by offers in great regi-best-sallars" to their credit than menta during the golden days of Mary Roberts Rinehart whose re- the picture."

pence...

I TAKE THIS WOMAN.".

een fiction

CENTRAL THEATRE.

DRACULA,UDSON

Perhaps no other actor in the his

NEXT CHANGE

He promises her undying love! She promises him love while it lasts 1

modern

gro-drama.

I TAKE THIS WOMAN

a Caramelo Gatire

Gary Carolo

with

TRIPLETS IN A TWINKLING.

THE SCIENCE OF QUEEN'S

COSMETICS..

IN THE DRESSING ROOM OF A STAR

THE MAN WHO HAS MADE UP THOUSANDS OF FACES.

The lovely stara of Hollywood, who recive so mucic adulation that

it seeme hardly credible.

do not get bored with.

the desperate love making

tivo man is a work day afai

who appear to be able to change n husband with as little trouble or emotional atress as the averagó woman experiences in changing hor frock, have all of them to pay court to one man There is cer tain satisfactiom to be derived from the thought. This man has the right of entry to nearly every dress ing room in Hollywood, he has seon the ratura as they really aro and it is be who has indirectly brought them to atardom. Max Factor is the make up king" of Hollywood

Antar may be as wilful, cap ricious and troublesome na she likes once she is an acknowledged star. The director, one imagines, taken more cerders than he gives where one of these lovely creatures is concerned, but not sa the wake up specialist, because stardom depends in the beginning, and, în the end, on beauty, and beauty in the eye of the camera depends on correct make up

booklet

In an interesting little. which describes the Society Make Up recently put on the market by Anx Factor, some details are given oftlig development of the science of cosmetics. It was discovered years ago that the ordinary powder and rouge appeared, when photo- graphed under the studio lights, off colour,, and odd unnatural effects frequently occurred. Mix Factor's cosmoties were the result of careful experiments in the colour harmony necessary for a successful plioto- graph, and are used exclusively in the studios.

SCIENTIST'S PROPHECY OF Not unnaturally the beauties of

FUTURE STATE..

London, Sept. 20. Some start ling theories about the divisions and numbers of the world's popule tion of the future were-enunciated by wine acres of the British Asso clation to-day

the sorcon demanded a make up which would make them look as | lovely" when they appeared in public as they did on the serion. Society Make Up is the result of that demand, and since it has been put on the American market it has gained very wide popularity with women, pe

It is now to be bad in Hong Professor Julian Huxley, the Fong and ein be obtained during eated biologist and writer, pre- this week nt Lane, Crawford a the dicted that the prevalent practice. ing On Company, Ltd, and at of contraception would go seriously the King's Dispensary, A repre sentative will give daily conanīta affect the world's population that even countries where overpopulations during the week at Watson's tion is now threatened would with and there will be daily demonstra in a century be in danger of de- tions at Sincere's population.

eengation, "Lost "Drilling hard and loving hard were the main things in life to Eostasy, comes to the King's the Kasda of twenty-five years ago. Theatre screen to-morrow under the This men had few responsibili- ties. They wore the most im-title Take This Woman," portant citizen of their city, 1 Lost Ecstasy had already They wore flattered as good equalled the selling success of looking, dashing demi-gods. Little. of the modern materialistic atti Mary Roberts Rinehart's best-known tory of the American theatre has tude had entered into the picture books when Paramount contracted became so associated in the minds of

"Romance and the art of living for the moving picture rights,

the public with a character he has well were their principal concerns.

Take This. Woman features played on the stage as Béla Lugcal, Their positions wore secure for life. They had no necessity of Gary Cooper and Carole Lombardi who created the title role of Count worrying about political considera in its cast. The drama involves a Draculs when the strange vampire tions, jockeying to get the other fellow's job, etc. They lived only petted child of wealth; Carole Lom play, "Dracula," was first produced for their friends, for the joy of bard, whose scare-line escapades in New York, and who has since living and for love,

have involved her father in trouble been seen in the character in every "Kanda, with his Austrian uni-

off to the important city in the United forms, close hair-cut and montele, and sundal. Shipped is very different from the two family ranch in Wyoming for States. Spanish gentlemen I have done re-punishment, she meets, flirts with, cently, in 'Gay, Madrid' and 'Call of the Flesh. I am glad, however, and unthinkingly marries Gary porecnality has beeu entirely over-he asserted, had not increased, in to have had the chance to do him Cooper, a range rider. Then the looked, and he has seemed actually on he represents such a glori-spoiled darling learns something to be Dracula, the most terrible ous past era of human life.

InDaylireak" directed by about life, on a barren little ranch. vampire of Central Europe, The Jacques Feyder of France, Novar- The marriage runs a mad course, screen version of this hair-raising ro is supported by Helen Chandler, but the wilful bride, with the road story, just completed by Universal, Tenn Hersholt, C Aubrey Smith, opened for her escape, finds the has is now showing at the Central William Bakewell, Karen Morely bound herself to her strange hus Kent Deliglass, Glung Tryon and band with ties stronger than any Theatre, with Lugosi in his original

others.

KING'S THEATRE

MURDER BY THE CLOOK.”.

The strange and mysterious story of a man who was murdered twice in a single evening, is told with spine-chilling effectiveness in Por- amount's * Murder by the Clock," at the King's Theatre today. The story contres around the luxurious mansion of the cranky hut wealthy old Mrs. Julia Endicott. She lives there with her son, the strong-fram- od. but child-minded idiot, Phillip:" her housekeeper. Roberts and her maid, Jane

Shortly after" Horbert Endicott, her nephew, tomes to visit the house old fra. Endicott is found dead- murdered. She has willed all her money to Herbert, cutting Phillip gut of the bequeute. Herbert in DA pected of the crime. He in a weak. ling and a drunkard, subject to the conniving power of his wife, Laura:" LiqutValcour of the police is nasigned to the case. Several hours after the funeral of the elder Mrs. Endicott, Herbert is found strang lad to death, Phillip is suspected.: But the family doctor brings Her- | bort to life again, using adrenalin. As Herbert is about to tell who * killed?” him he is shot dead. - An- Even the traditional "Here's

other bullet wounds Tom Hollan- stranger. Let's have half a brick at der, Laura's lover, who had been him will take on a new and friend-in the room.

Stunning Drink,

ly meaning if the missile is port-It is all packed full of high- sherry or champagne in concentrat voltage, excitement, and ed for

Audionos does bot kaow, the identity

the

To be stunned by a pound or so of of the culprit until the last few Moselle accurately aimed, wopld moments of the bio's unwinding s probably be a more merciful process | Excellently directed by Edward then the consumption of some boot Sloan, this story is abetted by a hiskyand hardly more swift great cast of character performers. moto William Boyd, am Valcour Lilyan

man-made law.

By most theatregoers his OWA

rôlé

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY (Ending Oct. 3rd)

At 280,715 and 913 pm. Special Matinee at 516 on Saturday and Sunday.

William Fox

WOMEN EVERYWHERE with J. Harold Murray and Fifi Dorsay

It is terrible to "know" when you 000 they have been caught by using wrong guide man has a narrow escape and anally won the girl who aved him after taking a char into tho Legion

ANGE

MAGA

Added

Attraction?

Comedy

Fox News,

Dadan

Professor A. M. Carr-Saunders, Charles Booth Professor of Social Science at Liverpool University, de cared that the world's population had increased four-fifths within three centuries Races of Euro pean descent, he said, would cease in increase within three genera tions and Indiaj Japan and Java were coming to the same position as the Chinese, whose population, afty or eighty years because the country could held no more people. On the other hand, Dr. F. A. E. Crew, Professor of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, ing into and conquering the eastern regions of the Pacific by porceful mugation. Their adaptability was

́said that the Chiness' were twIZIN-

such that they were likely to populate a far greater portion of

NEW EXPEDITION TO NORTH POLE.

NAUTILUS COMMANDER STILL ENCOURAGED:

SPECIAL VESSEL MAY BE BUILT.

*PATIB, September-27—Captain Dunenhover, commander of the aubmarine Nautilus, in

which Sir Hubert Wilkins made an unsucces ful attempt to reach the North Pole

under the ice arrived here today.

Interviewed by Reuter, Captain Danenhover said he hoped to un-

10 Barthelot Herben Professore second expedition to the

Dr. Lancelot

of Social Biology at the University

of London, expressed his belief in

an ultimate state of affairs when all human beings would be repro- duced, in « multiple births when women, having twins, and triplets would not waste more time giving birth to a large family than a max did when he played golf on the excuse that he needed exercise other than shaving and talking,

U.S. PLANS NEW FLOOD DRIVE

|

North Pole, but not with the Nautilus, which in his opinion had ended her career,

Ho did not know what the plans

of Sir Hubert Wilkins were, but, supposed he was going to construct perfect submarine, using the valuable information gained on his venture in the Nautilus.

The Nautilus, which belongs to the United States Navy, was lent to Sir Hubert Wilkins for his projected journey to the Pole. Bod

luck seemed to follow the submaring

wherever she went and a week nga, when the returned to Bergen, Nor way, from Long Year City, Spitz, bergen, Sir Hubert Wilkins paid off the crew, CAMPAIGN TO BE LAUNCHED Intensely cold. FOR CHINESE SUFFERERS

The United States of America will be asked to contribute, liber- ally for the rolief of the flood sufferers of Ching through an 10 tensiva campaign which will be launched in that country on the anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Republic, according to" a cablegram received here" yeater. day by Mr. E. O. Losenstine. "As-" sooiste General Secretary of the National Christian Council of China NDAN

The campaign will be handled Jointly by the China Famine Re lief. Ine, USA a permanent organization in the United States through which the majority of America's funds come annually for famine relief fere the Foreign Missions Council of North Ame oh and the Federal

upon followin),

Plocal orga

The crew said that when the sub-

marine dived under the Polar, 400 bap they were intensely cold in spite of the fact that the vEBLO) had a heating apparatus and escl of them was wearing three of thick underclothing and plen of top clothes. A layer of ice two Inches thick formed on the inside. walls of the submarine,

The Nautilus, which is still at Bergen, in to be re-delivered to the United States Navy at an Atlan the port Though aah

reach her objective, she made one of the most remarkable Journeys over undertaken by a submaring, roaching, a point within 400 miles of the Pola

Inymany.quarters.

that, even if Bir Hubert Wi builds a new and better sunma

abio

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2:30 5:10, 7:15 & 9,20,

WARNER BROS.

Present

SINNERS HOLIDAY

Take time off for Bad: Behavior-It will do you Good!

With

Grant Withers Evalyn Knapp

NEXT CHANGE

HER LOVE HE PAID FOR

and lost it

RAMON

NOVATIO

brings new romantic thrills in this Arthur Schnitzler story of love, laughter and death in gay Vienna! His finest role? with

HELEN CHANDLER JEAN HERSHOLT. 0. AUBREY SMITH

directed by Jacques Feyder

DAYBREAK

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.80 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.

BELLAMY

TRIAL

LEATRICE JOY

GEORGE BARRAUD-

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