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CENTRAL

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THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

THE BAD ONE

Dolores Del Rio's first all-talk- ing pictuin for United Artists, The Bad One Showing at the Queen's Theatre with Edmund Lowe, includes many illustrious Alm names in its roster of sup- porting player.

Playing important character rles in picture replete with strong dramatic characterizations are Don Alvarado, George Fawcett," Ullrich Haupt, Mitchell Lowis, Yola D'Avril, Adrienno d'Ambri- court, Blanche Friderici, Ralph Lowis, Harry Stubbs, John St. Polis, Victor Potel, Raoul Proli, and Tommy Dugan.

George Fitzmaurice, director of this romantic comedy-drama of the Marseilles, waterfront cabarets, pre senta tho delectable. Miss Del Rio. an coquettish dancer and singer, while Lowe appears as a son-going Don Juan,

The director used only thorough ly experienced and time-tried scroca performers in this inaugural ap pearance by the star as a talking picture player. The picture brings Miss Del Rio and Lowe together for the first time since they scored so-conspicuous a success in "What "Price, Glory,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1931.

KING'S

THEATRE

HONGKONGS FINEST CHEW,

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30 5.10, 7.15 and 9.80 p.m.

RAOUL WALSH'S

WOMEN

OF ALL NATIONS

EDMUND LOWE

VICTOR McLAGLEN

GRETA NISSEN

EL BRENDEL

The battle of the century for the lady of the hour, makes the laugh hit of the year.

Fitzmauricecontends that the smallest "bits" in talking pictures should be in the hands and voices" of real, as well as recl, ac- tors and actresses. One uncon magnificent long shot being shown. vineing performance," he main- This was done out of respect for tained, "no matter it it is only a Queen Victoria, whose personality fleeting glimpse and a few words is still fresh in the memories of when the picture is finally assem-countless thousands who saw her bled, spoils the whole effect, Pic during her remarkable reign. ture actors with seren personali- tics who have had voice training

KING'S THEATRE.

WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS."

El Brendel is again featured as "Olsen'!! the dumb Swedish marino, who caused Molaglen so much trouble in “The Cock-eyed World" with his horse langh.

THE CONQUERING HORDE."

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SPICTURE

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE VICE SQUAD.”

Motion pictures many years ago answered the plea of actors who agreed with Robert Burns. "Owad smo power the giftie gie us, to see oursel's as ithers see us." To-day, Lalking plotures have also satished those who paraphrased the famous. quotation with a bear instead of the "' ece.”....

NEXT CHANGE THURSDAY, 29TH OCT.

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away your own, ears, thus losing the true sound.

Many are the stories of how players have reacted to their voices the first time they heard them. I tors atormed in rage and the ac- have heard of cases where the so- tresses had hysteries. But slowly they have come to know that they are bearing themselves as others hear them and the wise ones have perfected their own speech from this example from the screen."

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

SCIENTIST HONG KONG)

"Probation after" death" wus

The value, slus rendered to actors and actresses is inconceivable on the part of the layman," socording tress, who is to-day one of the most popular of screen personalities, the subject of the Lesson-Sermon The thrill which comes to an all Churches of Christ, Scien player who first hears his or her voice from the screen can be tist, on Sunday October 25 imagined only by those who have actually experienced this," says the Paramount player, who has the lending rule in' The Vice Squad " with Paul Lukas, at the Central Theatre

"The conquest of unknown regions While Victor McLaglen and which Columbus: achieved in 1492. Edmund Lowe are always at logger-was rivalled in a good many res

neuta more recently by the pioneers heads when they bury their identiof the south in 1567 when they atto Kay Francis, former stage ne ties to portray those two roistering, tempted to establish a trial from fighting leathernecks, "Flagg" and Texas to the rail terminus in

Karan Quirt, they are in accord that The first caravan travelling from these roles, are their favourites and the southern part or Texas to the they loves to play them. And that middle-western United States faced the public are in agreement with frful, odds: The terrors of In

dinga, curpet-baggers, floods and the two stars is bent ovidenced by wild animals are described in the crowds which are taxing to Emerson Hough's "The Conquor capacity the King's Theatre, where Horde," a Paramount picture starring Richard Arlen, which Raoul Walsh's Women of All comes to the King's Theatre on Nations" is now playing.

Thursday.

The Golden Text win Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour 18 coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Bon of. God: and they that hear shall live." (John 5; 257)^-- Likewise, the aid this has given Among the citations which com- players, is almost unbelievable.prised the Lesson-Bermion was the bave no hesitation in stating that following from the Bible." Jusus had no guide suve the compose and voice from the screen and gone

Like Columbus, the first caravano player has ever heard his first saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst the ntars None had over heen overorty without some benefit. If they nak him, Who art thou i knowing the trail. Those first few who had have been with their talents the that it was the Lord. Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and attempted it had never returned to richer. tell, the story.

Players used to long to see how giveth them, and fish likewise. This they appeared to the audience is now the third time that Jeans Then motion pictures came along showed himself to his disciples, and many of these stage stars went after that he was risen from the into the new medium and learned dead. (John 21:12-14) N to their benefit how they looked.

In this now screen portrayal of the adventures of these two sea- koing Don Junns, they love in any language and in any climo, whether it be the tropics, the snow covered"

Ja The Conquering Horde" the Scandinavian countries, the mystic first journey from the south to the Turkey or the prosaic Brooklyn. north is told upon the screen na it Nordic blondes in Sweden in actually occurred sixty-one years trigue them as do dusky, ravon-ago. The true story of the hard haired begaties of the hareras. The ships and suffering of the brave Brooklyn flappers have a distinc-hand was so thrilling that it re- tive appeal and their tastes have quired no change to achieve the no limitations physically.

supreme in drama, They love and they lose; some- The adaptation from the original Limes/Flagg gets a big break and Emerson Hough story was written sometimes Quirt," but they are by

Grover Jones and William ever battling chasing, pleading, Slavens McNutt, veteran team of tying, and they, reach the heights of talkie story writers thair amoure and rulventures when they are turned loose in the middle of a Turkish harom. Unlike "What Pries Glory" and "The Cock-eyed World," it is a ravishing, gorgeous and genuine blonde who eanses thoir hearts to Butter and their fists to fly, the beautiful Greta Nissen. Other dimscle are Fif Dorany, Marjorie White, Marion Lessing, Joyce Compton and Ruth Warren, with Bela Lugosi, Hump ulirey Bogart, Charles Judels and T. Hoy Barnes in other supporting, roles:

are now more than ever coming into their own."

The Bid Ong" is a vigorous comedy-drama of adventure, based on an original story by John Far frow with locales in the Marseilles cafea and on an island penal in stitution.

BERTA. “DIŠRAELL"

Margaret Mann, the little old character actress who, after years of obscure roles in pictures, sud- danly leaped to fams-for-horzon- dorful performance as the mothay in Four. Sons, is a member of tlie, cast of "Disraeli, George Ar lisa starring Vitaphone production for Warner Brothers, which coming to the Queen's Theatre on Thursday.

She is playing "Queen Victoria" and although the Queen's appear ance at No. 10 Downing Barber To honour Drneli is one of the most vivid sequences of the picture, Miss Man does not appear in close-up, only her entrance in a

Then stage players wished for an opportunity to hear themselves. In spanking a line on the stage one hoars his own voice far differ ently from the manner in which the audience docs. You have a sort of mental picture of how you are say. ing it, which colours your own valuation of the speech. You speak

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 280, 7.15 and 15, p.m.

Special Matinee at 8.15 on Saturdays and Sundays

How Goldin Hove

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Commences on Oct 27th

The Lesson-Sermon also includ- ed the following passage from the Christian, Seience textbook,.

Science and Health, with

Kay to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy This spiritual. meeting, with our Lord in the dayn

A new light is the morning meal which Christian Scientists commom- morate. They bow before Christ, Truth, to receive more of his res appearing and silently to commune with the divine Principle, Love. They celebrate their Lord's victorý over death, his probation in the flesh after death, its exemplification of human probation, and his spiritual and final ascension above matter, or the flesh, when he rose out of material sight." (p. 35.)

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BROADCAST BY Z.B.W ON TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY

355 METRES.

11 to 11,30 m Stock quotations. 11.30 am.—Chinsta programme. 19.30 p.m.-European programme,

1 p.m. Local time no weather

reporta

1.30 pm Rigby Press news, mail

notice, otc

&p.m.-Close down.

| 5 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 1710 10.30 p.m.-Europonn pro

gramme of Victor records sup-, plied by Messrs. Tsang Fook Pinno Co

7 p.m.-Btook quotations, mail

notice, etcry

7.00 to 7:32 pm-

Orchestrat

"Salome'n Dance (Richard Strauss)Leopold Stokowski and the Philadephia Orches Era-7259/7230.

Japanese Nocturne (Eichheim). Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphis Orch.-7200. "Finlandia" (Sibelius). — Royal

Albert Hall Orch.--9015, MAS 8 p.m.-Local time and weather

report.

7.39 to 8.40 pm

AAFOoncert.

Piano Solo Etude in D Flat

(Liset)

Piano Solo-"- In the Night ” (Schumann)-Harold Bauer

6828.

Song Zomire et Azor The Warbler (Gretry). — Galli- Curci (Soprano),—678€ Violoncello Solo Song With

out Words, in D" (Mondols. sohn)Pablo Casals-7193, Violoncello Bolo (a)Songs My Mother' Taught Mo (Dvorak); (b) Flight of the Bumble Boo (Rimsky-Korsa- kow)-Pablo Casals.—7193.- Song "Bolored, it is Morn

(Hickey-Aylward). |-

Song Ah Moon of My De

light (Lehmann). — Richard Crooks (Tenor).--9014; Instrumental Quartette-Theme and. Variations" (from the Emperor. Quartette) (Haydn)- Elman String Quartette. 0034.

Song- Clair de Lune (Moon. light) (Szule)-Dame Nellie Melba (Soprano), --6733," Violin Solo-Gypsy Caprice",

(Kreisler).

Violin Solo--"" Shepherd's Mad- rigal" (Kreisler). Fritz, Kreisler6712; /*--

Song Whon the King Went Forth to War". (Koenemann). Foodor Chaliapin: (Bass); 7109.

Duet for Two Pianos Valse

(Aronsky).

Duct for Two Pianos Im prompta-Rococco (Schutt) Harold Bauer Dasip Gabrik witsch-8162......

8.40 to 0.16 p.m.....

Chorus

___Days." Chorus

Variety,

Happy Go Lucky

إصاب

The Kinky Kids Parade. The Duncan Bisters.

19987.

Song" Rocky Mountain Rose" Song" Would You Take Me Back Again Johnny Mar- vin.-20000" Organ Solo-Berenade. Organ Solo-Indian Love Call Jesso. Crawford-22107, Quartetto Where Silvery Colorado Wends 1ts. Male Quartette Whore the Sunset Turns the Ocean's Blue to Gold-Peerless. Quartette.

"Malo

the

Song Moonlight Saving Time" Boug Right Now Maurico

Chevalier (Baritone)22723, 9.15 to 9.43. p.m.

Operatio

Song" Faust The Jowel Bong” (Gounod), Elisabeth Rotborg (Soprano), 170,

Orchestral The Valkyrie Fire Music (Wagner),-Symphony 4. Orch, 20006 M BOY Chorus Gioconda Sporting Forsting!" (Fonchielli ) Metropolitan Opera". Chorus

~0984,

Orchestral-Madame Butterfly"

Fantasic (Piccini) Viofor) Symphony Orch, 33750, Boug Bohemian Girl The Heart Bow'd Down" (Balfe). Clarence Whitehill (Bari- tone).—0122. ma

9.45 to 10.20 p.m. Quartette No. 16. in D-Minor ......... (Schübar!)-

(Denth- and - the - Maiden) — Budapest String Quartefta M-34

1st Movement Allegro," 2nd Movement--"-Andante

moto:

Movement-Scherzo

3rd

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UNITED ANTISTS PICTURE

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NEXT CHANGE

WARSER 1:ROS. pronunt

George Arliss DISRAELI

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ANTHONY BUSHIL

Meet him face to face, hear him speak for the first time from the screen. George Arliss, distinguished actor in a great dramatic master plece.

STAR

TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY

År 2.30,

0.6.20, 7.20 & 8.20.

JOAN

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Robert Montgomery

Anita Pade. Dorothy Sebastian Raymond Hackett A Harry Beaumont Production

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