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CENTRAL

THEATRE NA,

TO-DAY ONLY

at

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

Lew

WORLD'S

CHAM-

PION

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

DAYBREAK

Lovers of Juve stories; gayly done, shading from elever comedy. to the very threshold of tragedy, Will undoubtedly take to their hearts "Daybrenk," the new Ra mun Novarro Metro-Goldwyn-May or picturo, which is showing at th Quoen's Theatre...

"Daybreakprosents Novarro, ns Khada, gay, love-adventuring lieutenant of Viennese regiment -No minn ad hofore the war The story was ever knocked

adapted by Buth Cummings and bim down!-

Cyril Humo from the colebrated But a woman's play by the uphiattentoil and un kies toppled him from his throne, cannily clever Dr. Arthur Schnite and a new chem-ler. There is: to. Daybreak" much "pion was born!

"

YRES

In

IRON MAN

His grastes

and

most fascinating rolo sinco

*ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN

of the irresistible atmosphere of Continental romance and intrigue which made "The Affaire, of Anatol" no diverting,

With a monocle clamped into one of his eyes, Novarro is quite a different person from the Spanish lover of his more recent presenta- tions, In Gay Madrid" and "Call of the" Flesh" Kasda, in; fact, carries one back in memory to that other rollicking tale of Teutonic military life, The Stud unt Prince,"

Ollier players who deserve men tion include C Aubrey Smith as the general, William Bakewell, Karon Morley, Kent Douglass, Glenn Tryon and Clyde Cook..

Jacques Feyder, the distinguish PRODUCTION ed French megaphonist, has done"

FRONT.

A TOD *BROWNING

00-featuring ROBERT ABXSTBONG and JEAN Harrow with Jolin Milian Bad

Nod Sparks. From the, novel by W. B. BunYTT, author of "Little Caesar" pro sontod

CALLI by **Lázuxur, produced

by CABI, LARMMLE).-

NEXT CHANGE

THE

ROMANCE OF

OPERA"

AN-ALL-TALKING,

SINGING, DANCING CHINESE PICTURE.

FIRST SOUND-ON FILM

PRODUCED

PICTURE

IN CHINA.

Featuring

Nur Mei Young

Foremost Chinese Film Star

and

Violet Wong

Known as

Tze Lo Lan

And An All Star Cast

Produced by UNIQUE FILMS, SHANGHAL

People Who Matter""

PEOPLE WHO MATTER to the advertisor are the people who can adford to buy his goods. Most of

people

these

and read the

a splendid job of direction, He Has retained intact all the essen tial, lovely, Continental qualities:

of the sparkling talḥ,

ni

"ON WITH THE SHOW*

An entire siage was built for: this action of "On With the Show," Warner Bros. 100 per cent, natür A colour, talking, singing, danc ing picture, coming to the Queen'a Theatre on Thursday.

It is se representing the Grat scene of a musical comedy, which

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER

HONCKONGS FINEST.CNEMA

SHOWING TO-DAY,

with

2.30 5.10, 15 AND 9.30 P.M.

LORETTA YOUNG.

JOHN WAYNE

PICTURE

The answer to why girls leave home is the answer to three maiden's prayers NOREEN, EDNA and MARCIA,

GIRIS LOST

in Chicagol

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE, TEL. 25313.

NEXT CHANGE 10TH, OCTOBER.

Will Rogers «avor_coppiest a „ribbon in's baduty contest

bur Katung Harrow Collar! And just tha sama, Guaráné", tood" not fa/wilt, fray at Jose Is shope, it will rust aut before it wound out.

Now does Will gat this way in and how does ho pass along.. the tie that binds? The mawue li ona of a thousand laught in

FOX

WILL ROGERS A Connecticut

Yankee

GY. by MARE TWAN

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN ... MYRNA LOY FRANK ALBERTSON

WILLIAM PARSILEM Deset by DAVID SÜTLES

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

There will be Special Showings on WEDNESDAY, 14th OCTOBER

when

The Entire Proceeds are to be given to THE YANGTSŻE FLOOD RELIEF FUND

Booking Now Open.

The Programme will be as follows:-

2.30 p.m. Charlie Chan Carries On

pm.."Dishonored"

6.10

p.m.

7.15 Vagabond King " 9.30 pm. Don't Bet On Woman

PRICES AS USUAL.

These popular pictures have been kindly lent

for the occasion by ad Messrs. PARAMOUNT FILMS OF CHINA, Inc. Messrs. THE FOX FILM CORPORATION.

Angeles Herald, who wrote one of the finest interviews ever printed. Oliver's impression of Rogers, after talking to him for several hours, is interesting. He said:

is laid in the South, and it is assignment of trying to get Rogers complete with a Colonial mansion,to talk for publication have depart the Mississippi River as a backed remarking that "Rogers won't drop, the prow of a steamboat and talk, because he'd rather save his wisecracks for his own writings." bales of culton as, props.

He is the most unassuming man Asked point blank,if that were the reason, Rogers, with tongue-in I have ever met in Hollywood. He chuk, says, "Maybe." The real is as unadorned as his printed- its true value. An all-star cast reason, however, is his innate words. He talks with siraple one

modesty.

"On With The Show" was photo- graphed by an all-colour process which brings out every shade in,

and 100, dazzling unuties aro is

his lavish, entertainment,

KING'S THEATRĖ.

"THREE GIRLS LOST,"

Telephone 25818,

LADY OWEN'S SENTENCE.

TO SERVE ORDINARY IMPRISONMENT.

1931.

Versailles, September 27-An important change in the sentence phased, on Lady (Esme) Owen, the French widow of an English knight, was made to-day by President Don

mor..

syllable honesty, in a low, slow One of his greatest fears since voice. You feel as though you were becoming a talking pictures star talking over the fence with a farm has been that he will be presented er resting his plough at the and of to the public as an actor who brags the field, Chatting about nothing about his work. For that one outside of the weather, crops and ronson, he insists on ecasoring all market conditions, like a flash a bit

Lady Owen was convicted last advertising copy that exploits his of wien humour comes out. You got January on a charge of attempting pictures, www to liking him more and more.

Tant Rogers is not hard to inter- Will Rogers latest starring picto murder the wife of her lover, view once a reporter gains his con- ture, the Fox production of Mark fedia and gets him talking on mib: Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee Dr. Gastaud, and was sentenced to jects he likes, was demonstrated re-will be seen and heard soon at the and a debonair rocketeer being in-cently he Bill Oliver of the Loe King's Theatre. volvod in their adventures, Three Girls Lost," Fox comedy drama, featuring Loretta Young and John. Wayne is now playing to capacity. erowds at the King's Theatre.

With a triple plot of three country girls and their various attempts to achieve romance in a large city, a rising young architec:

One of the trio is frankly a gold- digger; one is an innocent young ster who isla her heart run away. with her head, and the third, through her efforts to aid the other two; finds her own romance

resulttis

Careful casting and excellent direction have made Three Girls Lost talking picture of excep- tionally high entertainment quality. The chief characters are convinc ingly portrayed by Loretta Young, Joyce Compton and Joan Marsh as the feminine triangle and John Wayne and Low Cody in the thas culine roles.

Miss Young is the helpful men- ber of the trio, Miss Compton the unfortunate one and Miss Marsh the avaricious damsci. The work of Cody as tho suave gangster je ons of his most delightful performancer and Wayne, the frontieraman hero of The Big Trail; showg equal;¦ abilities, as a drawing room leading;] mani Ed

Minor roles in the production are: handled skillfully by Kathrin Olare; Ward and Paul Fix the latter, as Min Young's hometown admirar.

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE

Hong Kong Daily Press. Will Rogers will talk to anyone

on any subject but he is the lengt interviewed celebrity in the worlda Many newspaper men and woman, who have attempted the difficult

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 280, 7.15 and 9.15 pm.

Special Matinee at 5.15 on Saturdays and Sündayı

William Fox presents

LOVE

LIVE AND

LAUGH"

America's Singing Star in a drama of heart throbs. He was blind but LOVE led him like a beacon light.

LOVE

-WILLIAN FOX

GEORGE JESSEL

LIVE

ALL TALKING MOVIETONE DRAMA

LAUGH

News.

Added Attraction.

MENCING OCTOBER 8TH

"SEVEN FACES William Fox production.

five years reclusion.

has now

BRITISH LOW-WING

MONOPLANE.

NEW GYPSY" ENGINED DE HAVILLAND,

Enterprise typical of the spirit underlying the rise of Grond Britain to the leading plato, “among the world's diveraft exporting hations marks the imaginative development plans of the de Havilland Com pany, section of which was dis closed recently

Not content with the building of light monoplanes and biplanes which are world famous and have Bold in greater numbers than ans comparable craft the company is ex- poriraenting with three or four new types of aircraft, while the "Gipsy range

Pof. cooled power unita to be augmented by an entirely new inverted motor,

Many Novel Features.

The first of the new experimental craft to be completed is a low-wing motiopiane numbered 81 in the D.I..sories and styled the "Swallow Moth," and Mr. H, S. Brand, the firm's chief test pilot, has already taken it aloft for several trial flights. The new inverted engine, enlled provisionally the Cipay IV., provides the power and the airframe design includes ma

many novel features introduced to im- prove aerodynamical efficiency and to simplify control of the machine. in flight and on the ground.

་་

No Drop in Price.

Two or three other light planes are also being developed, one of them a biplane, and no decision may be expected for twelve months or so as to which of the designs will be adopted for production. Rum ours that the new, machine might be, sold at very low price: have no foundation; the market at present does not permit the aircraft" con structor to put down batches, of thousands of light acroplanes at a time and there is little likelihood of any very great drop in price for some time to come.

The Gipsy IV.," developing at normal engine speed around:50 hp., promises well, “Great care was taken in design to tuck away all potentially untidy components, such na o pipes, and the result is nti engine able to compare with the.. most ""bax-like " units

motor

FUTURE OF FLYING SHIPS.

MACHINE WEIGHING 35 TONS UNDER-CON- STRUCTION.

Marine aircraft. weighing up to

The remainder of her sentence 70 tons, veritable" flying ships" able to By farther and faster or, been commuted to ordinary.

alternatively, to carry a much

imprisonment. This means that the

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

HE PAID FOR HER LOVE

--and lost it!

RAMON

NOVAHO

brings now romantic thrills in this Arthur Schnitzler story of love, laughter and death in gay Vienna His finest role

with

HELEN CHANDLER JEAN: HERSHOLT C. AUBREY SMITH

directed by Jacques Feyder

DAYBREAK

ADDED ATTRACTIONS CHARLIE CHASE "GIRL SHOCK"

· TO-MORROW

ON WITH THE SHOW

The first 100% natural color, sing- ing, talking, dancing picture in Techni

color.

(STAR)

căn hộ nhà m henvler load, thảo quy oxiting li civil degradation, and Jegal die boat are visualised as immediate FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

abilities attached to the sentence of possibilities by Mr. H. O Short,

reclusion will now be removed and Lady Owen will enter into free ad- ministration of her property.

pioneer British aircraft constructor 92) who is still in the forefront of pro-

The case of Lady Owen arcused res in an article he contributes to the 1931-22 edition of The Air great interest in England and the Annual of the British Empire,

much

Continent had received i mitenco nus Preas. It had all the elements of a good story la titled, woman, jealous,. win a man by killing his wife; Á temperamental doctor, wavering be fitwehnin romantic intercat in an

other woman and attachment to his wife; and the wife herselfy deesived, toartul, furious, made the victim of a murderous attack by the other

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you want?

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Candied advertisement

words $1.00.prepaid for 3 insertions.

Technical Merits.

Metal construction, studied no- where more thoroughly or with greater success than in Great Britain, enables the dying boat do- signer to think in gizon which a few years ago

would have seemad wild-" out of court. Concurrant ad

vance in the science and practico. of aeronautica chiefly in the redue.

tion of " drag," (or registance to movement through the air) and in the design of aero engines, has fer ther smoothed the way..

One British Arm, the Super. marine. Aviation Works, is already: building a giant boat, which will weigh fully loaded, no less than as Fons who design provides for the luxurious accommoda passengers who will be addition to a.Jarge

brer distancos non-stop! to 1,500

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.

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