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CENTRAL

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COMMENCING TO-DAY

nt

12:30, 5.10. 7.16 and 9.20 p.m.

YOUNG SINNERS

A virile drama of youth and its yearnings

with

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

Queen's.

On with tho Show "

King's.

All colour, singing and

** Ladies' Man."

Central,

daucing.

William Powell, Kay Fran- cis and Carol Lombard, and Nollie Farren's Whoopeo Girls.

Young Sinners"

Thomas Meighing and

THOMAS MEIGHAN. HARDIE ALBRIGHT

Hardin, Albright.

World.

Directed by košu šlystuna.

Heart Ache."

Chinese picture.

Star.

Free and Easy."

FOX

- NEXT CHANGE

Commencing Sunday, 15th Nov.

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'SO THIS IS

PARADISE

Part II.

Another all-talking, singing and dancing Chinese picture.

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KOWLOON,

Buster Keaton and 'all star cast.

COMING.

The Smiling Lieutenant,"

Maurice Chevalier-King's.

Daddy Long Lego."".

Janet Gaynor and Warner Bax-

ter-King's

"The Divorcee."

Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton--Majestic.

Lord Byron of Broadway."

Charles Rodgórs - King's.

"Heads Up."

-Star.

LADIES' MAN.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1931.

HONGKONG'S FINEST UNEMA

A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION PICTURES — FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY - REVUE

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20 P.M. WILLIAM

POWELL

IN

"LADIES MAN"

with

A Paramount Picture

Kay Francis

· AT 5,10, 7.15 AND 9.30 P.M, ONLY.

NELLIE FARREN'S WHOOPEE GIRLS

12 ARTISTES 12

IN

A THIRD COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME NEW DANCEST NEW SONGS!

NEW COSTUMES ...............

INCLUDING THE OLYMPIC TRIO

- COMMENCING THURSDAY, 12TH NOV.

Carole Lombard

#

HEADS UP

Pictures and Revie NELLIE FARREN'S

Starring

WHOOPEE GIRLS

Charles ROGERS Helene Kane

and Victor Moore

Paramount Pisture

BOOKING TEL: 25313.

IN

THEIR FAREWELL - PERFORMANCES Fourth Complete "Change of Programme

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

WHOOPEE GIRLS PUT ON A

NEW PROGRAMME.

"Strangers May Kiss."!

Brought to this country from Spain to play in foreign tims, Conchita Montenegro makes her debut in English-speaking pictures inStrangers May Kiss, Norma Shearer's

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer starring vehicle which will open at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday next.

new

Endies Man" the new picture yesterday at the King's, is very

In the picturization of the Ursula well worth seeing.

It is not

Farrott novel, Miss Montenegro pleasant picture, but it is splendid-plays the part of the alluring ly neted and the dialogue is really Labl Here is a page out of the hook of life, rather a sordid page (but not a lying one.

Spanish dancer. Previously she played in both Spanish and French version of Ramon Novarro's "Call of the Flesh.

Geo. Fitzmaurice directed Norma Shearer's new film from John Meehan's adaptation of the book with Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton sharing leading man honours.

boring and thankful fans opce again are enjoying their old favourite.

Dorothy Jordan and Hardie Albright, in the roïnantic leads, are co-featured with Meight while John Blystone directed.

Ladies' Man."

now

BRITISH FILMS FOR 800 U.S. CINEMAS.

13 FEATURE PICTURES.

British-made pictures will soon

GOSSIP AND FACTS.QUEENS

$75,000 WORTH OF SHOULDERS.

The latest Snthucement to hure people "into what I might be per

mitted to described us the West | End passion palaces, writes the fu gritie of a London paper, is the offer of £75,000 worth of Constanev

| Bennett's' shoulder-blades for the

modest aum of one-and-sixperies,,

Miss Bennett, an is well-known is reputed to receive the handy stipend of 300,000 a year, in con- sideration of which she deigns to grass about four Almas every season. In consequence, her epics represent: fortunes spent on histrionie tulent, inainly expressed, in the case `of' "The Common Law," in shoulder. blades.

Their Little Waya.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

AT 230, 5.10, 7.15 & 8.20.

ON WITH

THE

SHOW

IN TECHNICOLOR First 100% natural color, sizge ing, talking, dancing pistige. Hundred heavenly huma!, Hundred gorgeous" girls!

indeed, in this film Miss Bennett | proves herself the possessor of the must expressive blades OF the screen." We hardened emotionalists, who are used to having our happi- ness racked by this Junnings crouch-BY ind the Garba lounge, who know all about the Pickford smile and the Chevalier teeth, who have even heard of the Krauss blandness and have stared amazed as the Mont gomery manner-we emotionalists, I say, now have to contend with the Bennett shoulder-bindes.

Insure Them 1.

It is curious how nearly all movie actors of note emphasise their ges- tures with some feature or another.

Ronald Colman gets his best- effcets with his eyebrows, Menjou with his mouth, Norma Shearer achieves her sophistiented line by a hand gesture as the nape of the neck. Now Miss Bennett emoter vividly with her shoulder-blades.

She will have to follow Mistin- guett's example and insure her greatest asset.

Inst week we discovered be assured of exhibition through-melodrama with only one eye. It Wallace Beory achieving his best

out the United States. They are to be made specifically with that

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This is the intention of Mr. Jack Warner, the U.S. film magnate, who firm is organising a film studio at Teddington, Middlesex,

studio Afteen feature pictures will During the coming year at the

be made in English, and twelve in French.

Mr. George Arliss is to act in one of them on his return to England making. A Successful Calamity in America..

after

English Actress..

would be alarming if Miss Bennett. tried to get away with it on oply che blade.

SWIMMING AND DIVING.

EXCELLENT CURTAIN RAISER FOR” “STRANGERS MAY KISS."

Willaun Powall is one of the few men who can carry off the nick. name Bill with dignity, and "Bill"

Mr. Warner's plan is to utilise

Those who are interested in aqua- seems to suit him despite his suave historical subjects in place of fouds ties should not miss the opportunity manner. Although he is an out. among criminals, of which, he de- of seeing some of the best American swimming and diving talent in a standingly well dressed man he dis-clares, the public is tired.

special filta which the Queen's Then- Teddington is to be the Euro-tre will be screening in conjunction likes the idea of being considered penn headquarters of Warner with their film "Strangers May Kiss" which commences its rua at a dandy, and though he plays the Hros," said a member of the fres title role in "Ladies' Man"

the Queen's Theatre on Sunday. showing at the King's Theatre, he

The film opens with an exhibi- Under the title, Warner Bros. tion of the Amoriennoruwl by prefers masculine company and de- First National Productions a con "Buster" Crabbe one of the fas lights in roughing it on a mountain pany with a capital of £250,000 has test middle distance swimmers of trip.

been formed, and 'n two years' lease" | America. Crabbe's action is per of a studio at Teddington has been fect and a slow motion analysis signed, with the option of purchase over which the audience is taken later on.

shows how well timed are his strokes and how the leg boats, which the most advanced puzzle even swimmers, are worked in rythym with the pull of the arm.

William Powell has what is prob- ably the most difficult role of his carver and he plays it astonishingly well. We see him as James Dar- ricts, a man who finds it very easy John Meehan, noted New York to get all the best things in life playwright and stage director, pro- simply by letting women make lovepared the screen adaptation from Despite his wide stage experience

which "Strangers May Kiss":

washe never makes personal appear filmed. Identified with the stage for twenty-five years, as the author ances, and while he insists on the of such hits as a Man's Job

Starring

to him. That these sort of "best things turn to dust and ashes in BUTTERFLY WU This mouth at the moment when he believes that he is really in love Queen of Chinese Screenland.hianself is inevitable-but we are Ispard the happy ending which would have been an equally in- evitable anti-climax in the hands of the average director.

Hath

Shaw Pei Chen

Directed by S. C. Chang

Recorded by Pathe Orient Co.

Produced by

Mass Co., Shanghai.

COMING VERY SHORTLY!

ANN HARDING

in

“HOLIDAY”

The greatest picture of the year!

RKO PATHE Super Special.”

The most tragic part is that taken by Carole Lomard, of the daughter of Mrs. Fendley who is making life easy for James Darricott when the story opony. Rachel Fendley is a deeply fascinated as her mother and she has not yet learned to wear the arinour of utter selfishness that pro- feels the older woman,

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last season.

"Heads Up."

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English actors and actresses are

right stories for himself and works with the writers on his pictures, to be cagaged for the productions,

He

and "The Lady Lies, Meehan he is thoroughly unselfish in his but American methods will be used began film work for Metro-Goldwyn-

Mayer by preparing

additional parts, urging important scenes for-Anterican directors, technicians dialogue for The Divorcee," Missenced players in their roles.

other actors and aiding inexperi- and camera-men,"

Murder on the Second Floor Shearer's outstanding triumph of lives quietly with his father and is to be the first production. Work mother and has only two great

Colman friends Rooald

and Richard Barthelmess-he says that The United States Coast Guard the bopes to retire some day in is publicized for the first time in the distant future, to a home on its 140 years of existence in Heads the Riviera. Up," the romance-thriller with music which comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday next.

The plot has to do with the ad- ventures, and, the rumbace, di» u Coast young lieutenant in the

FINE FILM

The Whoopee. Girls,

Guaru Service who is plunged into DREYFUS CONQUERS NEW a glamorous assignment immediato- Nellie Farrens. Whoopee girlsly after his graduation. The role | appeared in an entirely new pro is played by Charles Rogers. gramme. The items are varied and

each has something to recommend "Young Binners."

YORK,

British International Pictures' it, but there are two outstanding

great emotional drama, "Dreyfus," turns, number 6 Russian Pot- Thomas Meighan's father wanted has again shown its quality on its purri which is lively, colourful him to be a physician, to-day exhibition in New York, where it and which the players most rident. Thomas Meighan can be sou in one, is how running under the title of ly enjoy, and the finale "Dance of of the featured roles of YoungThe Dreyfus Case," in the Warner the Nations," in which the awing Sinners," Fox comedy drama at the Theatre, Broadway. The story of of the music and the gay costumes Central Theatre. Young Meighan's its success in this territory is told contribute to the very happy effect. plans were not in sympathy within the following bald statersons those of his father.". All his froo which appeared in the New York The Hollywood Hi-Lights,

hours he spent either in or around" Film Daily" on September 2; theatres. While it was not' an“sasy", 1981. matter to convince the senior Meighan, Tom finally won his argu- ment. On the stage his first role was that of a “super," then he was given small bite and finally bo came a leading man starring in

After an extend engagement in Japan this company of Hollywood artists have arrived in Hong Kong and will open their season at the Star Theatre on Friday November 13 with one performance each day starting at 9.30m

uf

Complete stage equipment sconery and light effects will trans- form the stage into a galaxy ot colour, and the revue consisting of snappy acts of comedy and novelty will give. Hong Kong something now in ataga entertainment, Features of this show will ho girls and comedy, with a fast moving routine of up to the minute variety. Booking plans are open at Monirie's and the Star Theatre, Popular prices are the order$3.00, $2.00 and $1.00.

"Broadway Jones, "

DREYFUS' RUN

INDEFINITE,

"

The College Widow and The Dreyfus Case' will stay at the Warner on Broadway, for an Meighan's motion picture, debut indefinite run, it was announced was in The Fighting Hope" but yesterday by Warner's. Last week- it was his performance in "The end, box-office receipts amounted Miracle Man" that attracted world receipts amounted to Five Figures wide attention to him. Talking pic-For The First Time In a Year at tures added to his popularity when the Warner, according to a Warner

offeinl.' audiences first heard his stage

-und Australia trained mellow, Irish voice. In "The. Backet," his first talkie ap- A cable advice from Australia pearance, he proved an absolute states:i Dryfus opened Lyceum sensation-then suddenly decided to indefinite run-capacity business retire. But inaction became too still going big"

on it has recently been begun with Miss Pat. Patterson as the star.

More than 800 cinemas in the United States will show these British-made pictures

STAR TO CALL BOY.

FORMER ENGLISH COOGAN WHO HOPES FOR NEW CHANCE,

"Your call, sir."

A youth, not much over four feet, was hurrying along the corridors i the Saville, London's newest then tre summoning principals to the stage for the rehearsal.

A' call-boy new-but a few years ago a film star and hailed by the critics as the "English Coogan." His name is Bobbie Rudd,

The team of American girls which | won the 880 yards championship is also shown in action, the four of

them racing over two lengths of the bath, Hong Kong's swimmers and those interested in swimming would do well to see how well the girls of America can swim.

It is the diving however, which is the tit-bit of the film... To see the

NEXT CHANGE ---- SPECIAL REQUEST

WANNIBA

George Arlissin

DISRAELI

-COMINC SHORTLY-

NORMA

SHEARER

with

ROBERT MONTGOMERY NEIL HAMILTON

MARJORIE She found RAMBEAU

IRENE the freedom

RICH

In love she

craved, but her beart yearned for the

one man she

could

have t

not.

MAY STRANGER KI

half somersault, the fiving forward FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

somersault, the back jack-knife, the swan dive the one and half somer- sault and the ordinary back dive |by Johnny Riley, the high platform champion and by the winner of the national indoor championship is in itself a treat, but the film goes onн better when it depicts all these dives in slow motion so that the graceful form of the diver, from the moment of the spring from the platform to the flawless entry int the water, can be followed stage by stage.

The film is all the more interest- ing because of a low of running commentary which is a triumph of the talking picture of the “' movies,"

AND SO TO BED

„BUSTER KEATONGA Talks and Sings! See and Hear WILLIANÉ HAIMER:

ANITA FARK FRED NIBLO

LIORES SARIYIRDIM

"Oh, yos, I used to be a Almi star," he told the Daily Sketch recently. They used to come and fetch me from the school playground to go to the studios. I played in

Three Men in a Boat, Sam's "When I have finished my day's Boy,' and The Skipper's Wooing,' work," said Jeanette Macdonald, and then I went on for Hepworths the beautiful young film star, “1 and played with Henry Edwards, am rather tired. I do not like Christic White and Alma Tayiḍr.. going to too many parties. Canally "Attor that I went on the stage I go straight home. Then I get and played in a number of pieces everything ready for the following on tour. Then my health brake day for I always like to get done ALL LAUGHS! down and I was six months in hog-to-day what should be done, to-mor

row." And this meticulous atten- ALL STARSI pital; all my savings went.

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The

many morel

"I am all right now and glation to tíny details seems to put ber to get anything. Bobby Hoves, mind at rest for the night. who is one of the principals of this very last thing I do before I switch. show, has been a brick. He got off the light," she concluded, "is to, rioi!

see that my slippers are in exactly me in here and excose mie

the right place for me to pop my. feet into when I rise in the morn- ing."

And he disappeared up the cor ridor with "half an hour please " and a rap on one of the stars' doors.