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CENTRAL

PULENTRE

TO-DAY ONLY

at.

2.30, 5.10. 15 and 9.20 p.m.

YOUNG SINNERS

A virile drama of youth and its yearnings

with

THOMAS MEIOHAN

HARDIT ALBRIGHT

Directed by Jaba Biyalons:

Commencing TO-MORROW

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天此如

SO THIS G

PARADISE

Part II,

عرصہ

Another all-talking, singing and dancing Chinese picture.

Starring

BUTTERFLY WU

Queen of Chinese Screenland.

With

Shaw Pei Chen

Directed by

S. C. Chang

Recorded by

Pathe Orient Co.

Produced by

Mass Co., Shanghai.

TO-DAY AT THE

Queen's

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

"Disraeli Georgo Arliss

King's.

"Hends Up."

Charles Rodgers.

and Nellis Farrenjs Whoopee Girls.

Central.

Young Sinners"

Thomas Meighan and

Hardia Albright..

World.

Heart Acho."

Chinese picture.

Star.

"Puttin' on the Ritz "

KOWLOON,

and Hollywood Higlights-

Revue

COMING.

The Siling Lieutenant"

Maurice Chevalier-King's.

"Daddy Long Legs."

Janet Gaynor and Warner Bax

ter-King's

The Divorcee."

Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton--Majestic.

Lord Byron of Broadway?!

---tar.

Strangers May Kiss"

Norma Shearer.--Queen's. Holiday!

1+

Anne Harding-Central: Girls Demand Excitement" John Wayne and Virginia

"Cherrill-King'a

An American Tragedy

Phillips Halmes and

Sylvia Sidney-King's

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14, 1931.

KINGS

THEATRE

HONGKONG'S FINEST CNET

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

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 P.M.

PICTURE

HEADS UP

With

W

CHARLES ROGERS

Helen Kane

and Victor Moore

A Paramount Picturs.

AT 5.10. 7.15 AND 9.30 PM, ONLY.

NELLIE FARREN'S

THE HOLLYWOOD HI-LIGHTS.

CHEERFUL AND CLEVER TROUPE AT STAR THEATRE.

A really good music hall; show---- quite reminiscens of the old Eaglish music hall manners being put on at the Star Theatre by the Hally. wood Hi-lights Last night, sai tão opening of their season-they are playing to-night, Sunday, and Monday-and they had. what is rather rare in Hong Kong, a large audienco, that was ready to laugh

WHOOPEE GIRLS and appland without stint.

12

ARTISTES

12.

IN

THEIR FAREWELL PERFORMANCES A COMPLETE CHANGE OF

PROGRAMME

NEW SONGS, NEW DANCES, NEW COSTUMES INCLUDING THE OLYMPIC TRIO

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

GIRLS demand EXCITEMENT

3 For -Thrills T

John Wayne Virginia Cherrill

*

and

Marguerite Churchill

Booking at the Theatre. Telephone No. 25818.

MOVIE NEWS

'DISRAELI AGAIN-LIVELY REVUE AT THE STAR-WHOOPEE GIRLS'

FINAL PERFORMANCE- NORMA SHEARER.

"Heads Up."

Dr. Forster, the Juggling Jater, some of us have soon before in Hong Kong, His pattar is inex- hausrible, with a number of slaver hits, and he is very capable con- | Jurgr, "with new and bewildering

tricks.

A newcomer is Mia Peggy Chunn, pretty and vivacious ducer, while Eathor Valley sings really well and the violinist-we believe-her-name-is-Patsy Shannen- achieved no small success in hold ing her "audience,for an effective piece of serious playing, for which 'an encore was demanded..

Rex Story and Rose Lee had some amusing moments in their akit. It was however on the long side in a show which depended upon its success for speed, move. ment and change.

It is not often that we get real dive performors in Hong Kong, now that the talkies are here, and good troupe like this is very refreshing after a long course of shadow show," We, hope Holly wood Hi-Lights will have a great sudoes here wherever they go and keep the travelliage company" flag flying in the Far East.

MILLIONAIRE AND STAR.

DENIAL OF RAQUEL TORRES ROMANCE.

This was the answer of Mr. Wil

vamp.

Mr. Leeds did not dispute vasi. he had recently made a gift to the actress of a bracelet worth £4000, hut he definitely denied that they contemplated marrings.

"Girls Demand Exaitement."

With the exception of Seymour Felix, the directar, most of the big figures in "Girls Demand Ex- citoment," Fox Movietone produc tion, coming next Sunday to the

If you married all the persons Kings Theatre, has been to some would be pretty busy

to whom you give presents you! university. Harlen Thompson, who wrote the story, is a graduato of liam Leeds, the millionaire and former husband of Princess Xenia the University of Kansas, and of Greees, whon naked whether he Ralph Block, who supervised, intended to marry Miss Raquel "STRANGERS MAY KISS."!

rule of the rugged adventurer, with,

A palatial 130-feet yacht acts as

graduated from, the University of Torres, the famous Mexican alm whom she embarks upon an uneon-

the acting for Heads Up, Para Michigan. John Wayne, who plays DAZZLING PERFORMANCE, BYventional' romance.

mount song and talking musical the leading male role, is a Univer NORMA SHEARER

George Fitzmaurice has directed romance which is now showing atsity of Southern California bor this film from Joha Micahan's the King's Theatre, with Charles

Rogers heading the cast. The yacht who was also a star football player adaptation of the sensational book, endowing it with a pictorial back- is the property of a wealthy New there, and Virginia Cherrill bails Raquel Torres, born in 1908 at ground against which races the Yorker who prefers to remain from the University of Chicago. Hermosillo, in Mexico, has lived in dramatic plot to a sweeping climax. anonymous, it is powered with Other universities represented are Los Angeles for a number of years.

Diesel motors and is operated by Columbia, The supporting cast is particularly

Five years ago she was an usher Cornell, Washington. crew of thirty-two imposing, including such players

scamen. and Idaho,

in a Hollywood cinema.

She got as Marjorie Rambeau, Hale Hamil Converting this luxurious pleasure

White Shadowr Seymour Felix, learnt in the her film chance in ton. Irene Rich, Conchita Mon-craft inte tenegro, Jed Pronty, Albert Conti,

practical sound studio School of Experience for he was of the South Sens.". was one of the most difficult prob-in vaudeville from his school days, George Davis and Henry Armetta.

lems ever faced by the Paramount later became a producer of vande In the picturization of the daring As Lisbeth, the modern girl who technicians, hut the installation of ville acts and eventually rose to novel by Ursula Parrott, Missis convinced that men believe in a

special sound-recording plant fame as Amerien's foremost genius double standard, Miss Shearer aboard a barge anchored near the of the dance ensemble. He staged Shearer essays tho most glamorous negotiates a difficult characteriza-yacht solved the difficulty. Use many novel dunces for such musical rôle of her career and undoubtedly tion. Yet she makes it a convincing of the new camera blimps" or achieves a grouter performance than ape and when she takes her mad miniature camera booths simplified reducers an Ziegfeld and George

White. the task of the camera men. in "The Divorces," which won for fing at life you feel the humility of her realization that, after all, her so wide an acclaim from Press conventions are man-inade laws and public, when it was shown here and women must remain within the some timea ngo.

boundary, established by a mug social system.

The exquisite beauty and artistry of Norma Shearer is dazzlingly demonstrated in Strangers May Kiss,"

dier new Metro-Goldwn- Mayor starring vehicle which is coming to the Queen's Theatre

to-morrow.

Two leading men whe support the star in her latest offering, are "Strangers May Kiss is un- Robert Montgomery and Naildoubtedly Mies Shearer's most Hamilton, the former playing the facinating and powerful dramatic part of the devoted but hambls portrayal and marks probably the

weetheart, the other enacting the Zenith of lor amazing art.

H

#Disraeli.**

Practically all the cast, ünder the direction of Victor Scherzinger, appears in the yacht sequence. In We are glad to have that splendid addition to Rogers the featured film" "Disraeli " again at the players include Helen Kane, Victor Queen's 'It is not only well acted, Moore and Margaret Breen. Tho it is interesting, dramatic and in- story is an adaptation of a stage telligent. Tragedy and comedy are musion comedy of the same name not wanting, but neither are allow which was an outstanding auccessed to overshadow the picture of that in New York."

strange man of genius-Disraeli..

',

REJUVENATED.

Hollywood has had a rejuvenat ing effect upon one English actor. Paul Cavanagh, who is back in London on a short holiday before returning to full a long contract, looked just about his thirty-odd years before he went out; now he looks less than thirty, and friends have commented on the inct.

He puts it down to the fact that he drinks, nothing but home brewed beer, goes to one party in six months and leads the simple but strenuous life,

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.30,- 5.10, 7.15-&-9.20.-

THRILLING

DRAMA!

GEORGE ARLISSIN

"DISRAELI

TO-MORROW

THE

YEAR'S BEST PICTURE

NORMA

with

ROBERT

MONTGOMERY

NELL

HAMILTON

KARJORIE BAMBEAU

JHEARER

STRANGERS MAY KISS

Mart Goldwyn Mayer mestne

STAR

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 3.20, & 7.20

COMING VERY SHORTLY I

ANN HARDING

in

"HOLIDAY”

The greatest picture...

of the year!

1 RKO-PATHE Super Special

NELLIE FARRENS' WHOOPEE GIRLS' FAREWELL PERFORMANCE TODAY AT THE KING'S

Harry Richman

Puttin ON THE Ritz

At 9.30 THE MOME

“HOLLYWOOD HI-LIGHTS:

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