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CENTRAL

THEATRE V„,

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1931

HONCKONG'S FINEST ONEMA

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

Quean!■.

| 2.80; 5.10: 7.15 and 0.20 p.m.”

Hold Everything." Comedy..

King's.

The Brat," Starring Sally

O'Noil

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9:30 PM.

Central.

ALL DIALOG BRAMA ANTIF LIY

Ladies of Leisure."

Lowell Shermann.

World.

Emperor Chin Lung,"

Chinese Picture

with

PICTURES

LADIES OF LEISURE

BARBARA STANWYCK

LOWELL

SHERMAN, RALPH GRAVES

ZIPPY

PEPPY! GAY!

"JAZZY

FRANK CAFRA

KOWLOON,

Lord Byron of Broadway.!!

COMING.

"The Shuling Lieutenant."

Maurice Chevaler-King's.

Daddy Long Legs."

Junot Gaynor and Warner Box-

ter-King's

The Divorcee."

Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton-Majestic.

Holiday"

Anne Harding-Central.

An American Tragedy ** Phillips Halmes" and

Sylvia Sidney.---King's.

NEXT CHANGE!

Starting Sunday

Another British Success

Bert Coote

In

GREEK STREET

• Gaumont-British Talking & Singing Production

COMING VERY SOON !

The BRAT

Sally O'Neil

LIL

and

Frank Albertson Virginia Cherrill

Which will he choose— The camp in scanty skirts or the hot house flowerof Dark Avenue?...

•

PICTURE

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

A WARM CORNER."

One of the outstanding screen comedies of this, and many years "A Warm Corner comes to the King's Theatre on Sunday."

This comedy-i British production adapted from the stags play re- cently at Prince's Theatre, Londen, sets out to tickle the risible facul ties of audiences, and it does so with a gusto and á success that leave the spectator panting.

This is not to be wondered at sines the chief fun-maker is Leslie Henson, perhaps our premier come. Į Jian Henson's face play in the picture is itself a rich comedy. His bustle, his comedy sense displayed { in a hundred gestures and move- Duts, and his clever use of his veice keep the merriment ab tap note. One scene in particular, his panicky attempt to get a telephone number quickly, in a perfeus joy tr watch. He is supported by a band of brilliant Artistex, including Connie Ediss, Austin Melford and Heather Thatchie.

The comedy is broad and never subtle, and the play simply sparkles with witty Bullies. Best of all, the picture gets clean away from the

of wore fault #talkies "their static quality. "A Warm Corner is dynamic. It rushes along in n constant stream of action, with fre- quent changes of cone,

As a rule the story of such pro ductions does not count much. But the story of "A Warm Corner "

A New Star is coming.ure rising

LOVELY

ANN HARDING

in

"HOLIDAY".

Linne Lightner in "Hold Everythir »

A Warner Bros, Productu

̈de soi, and trimmed with prach silk- Ince in applique motif. The skirt its exemptionally full, the fullness being noquiried through gedels run ning the ful length from hem to waistline.

Miss Collyer also wears a besuli: ful black lace gown with this sho wears diamond ornaments and hor hair is held in place with diamond Then there is a black and clasps. white crepe street ensemble, with which she wears a black and white "Empire" felt.

Virginia Cherrill wears a smart black velvet formal gown with a wrap of white velvet and an after- noon frock of apricot silk lace. Over the latter she wears a bright red velvet wrap. She is seen in a smartly tailored riding costume and a beige woolen frock with chocolate brown jacket.

Both girls wear some most ht tractive pajamas during the course of the play which is heaping laurels upon the brow of little Sally O'Neil, and all other members of the enat, for that matter,"including Frank. Albertson, Allan "Dinehart, William Collier, Sr., and Mary Forbes. John, directed the produc- tion which is the talking screen's version of Maud Fulton's papalar stage play of the same name.

GREEK STREET.

NEXT CHANGE COMMENCING TO-MORROW

AN INTERVIEW

WITH MAURICE

CHEVALIER.

BY DAVE KBENE.

There's one thing about. Afaurier. Chevalier that makes him stand out from his fellows. You can hear him coming. I visited the Paramount New York studio one afternoon at the time Ernst Lubitzel was direct- ing "The Smiling Lieutenant." As we descended into the depths of the labyrinth of stage I heard the inimitable chanteur singing "Hello. Beautiful' from around a

corner.

I stopped and awaited his ar rival. He was dressed in the uni form of aut Austrian lieutenant, blue coat with three silver stars on the collar, grey trousers with black strip,--and a magniflegt sword. Although he looks exceedingly well in military clothes, I learned thas he doesn't quite relish appearing] in them, because they are more or Joss stiff and formal. Even a tuxedo

a niilitaristie geb-itp,"

A WARM wins preference with Maurice over

CORNER"

Starring

LESLIE HENSON

A BRITISH PRODUCTION

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE,* Taz. 25313.

JUST A GIGOLO.

William Haines, who has done almost every other form of athletics in pictures, made his debut as a steeplechase rider, and contributed a few sensational lepps on horseback during filming of Just A Gigolo," his latest comedy romance which is showing on Tues- day at the Queen's Theatre. The

Joe E Brown a Hold Everything"

A Warner Bros. Production

"1"

sportsman, hence the riding.`ae- tivities.

for an entertaining romantic talkie, in the picturs is that of British romanticists serves as a background'

near Los Turis Lake Haines' rôle Creek Street," which comes to the Central Theatre to-morrow.

"Greek Strent," atmosphere is re- dolent of the brighter side of Lon-known as one of the most versatile Haines has long been performers on the surcen; having don's night life, tells the story of

automobile racers and numerous a homeless little girl, who is

byen couched in the intricacies of bisseball football, the driving,, of other sporting activities.

be-

How He Has Changed.

As he approached and shouted a cherry "hello I took a hasty survey of the man and compared him with a Chevalier I know a year

ago after his Innocents of Paris " or the Chevalier I knew five years Lago in Paris at the time when he was appearing in "Paris en Fleure, the French mien Ho rotains, I found his buoyant quality, bis infections charm is ap- parent even before he has a chance to speak. But where his work is concerned the old devil-may-cure attitude has disappeared.

This impressed me with the fact that being internationally famous is not quite whan it is popularly supposed to be The weight of curiosity and adulation hangs heavy on a star's hoad: In Chevalier's ense it has made him increasingly anxious to please his huge public, nevertheless, was struck with his obvious good health and cheerfu} spirits.

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"HOLD EVERYTHING."

LAUGHS AND FIGHTS AT THE

"QUEEN'S.

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Hold Everything, which opened yesterday at the Queen's Theatre, is one of the funniest comedies over screened. With Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown in the leading rdles, delivering the clever dialogue, there is a riot of laughter frum start to finish.

And it brings us intimate views of George Carpentier, the famous French boxer who gave the redbubt. able Jack Dempsey such an inter- esting afternoon a few years ag Not only are we shown the train- ing activities of Carpentier in pre- paring for a fight for the heavy- weight championship of the world, but we see the battle itself, with all the feverish excitement that attenis. such affairs.

Winnie Lightner, w recent recruit from, the stage, “get over "a most magnetic personality in the leading feminine role, and proves an admir able fail for Joe E. Brown, who in personates a "dub" prizefighter 12 a manner that brings a constant

THEATRE

TO-DAY TO MONDAY AT 2.30, 8.10, 7.15 & 1.20.

WARNER BROS

PROSENT

HOLD EVERYTHING

with

JOE E. BROWN

and

WINNIE LIGHTNER

In the funniest comedy you've ever seen! Five songs hits and a chorus of seventy-two unkissed, sunkist beaution and more, laughs than a studio full of custard plan. With a cast including Sally O'Neil, Georges Carpenter, Bert Roach, Edmund Breese and, Abe Lyman and his Band, What a combination for Superlative on- tertainment!?

Hald Everything

"HOLD EVERTTHING"

HOLD EVERYTHING”......

Has Everything

NEXT CHANGE

William

Haines

GIGOLO

with IRENE PUROELL C. AUBREY SMITH CHARLOTTE GRANVILLE"

LILIAN BOND

succession of laughs, Sally O'Neil, A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture as the sweetheart of Carpentier, is capable and altogether "charming, while other good characterisations

Ronch and others. Dorothy Ravier, „Jack Curtis, Bert

There is a wealth of beautiful settings in Hold Everything, and the director has produced a picture which may well take its place as one of the outstanding successes of the

'curroot season.

keeps one keenly interested all the is what a man chooses to make of The Soho beloved of novelists and fick riding was done on a location are supplied by Edmund Breese, time. Briefly it is the tale of a her. A girl of the streets will be wealthy corn-plaster maker, named come a lady if she is treated as Corner, who leaves his obese and one. "Ladies of Leisure" drama middle-aged wife, und steals off, for tizen this fact in the case of an a gay time, to the Lido. There no idealist artist and a gold-digging gets entangled in a love affair, and party girl. bolts home But his sins, in the What makes this picture really shape of his Lido acquaintances, one of the prizes of the hoonefriended by the young Italian come tropping after him, one by the superlative acting of the entire one, and with each arrival the very chat. Seldom has it been my oppor- prietor of a little cafe. In gratitude, warm Mr. Corner finds the tempera.tunity to see assembled in one film for his kindness she sings in the

cast of this calibre. It includes little cafe at night time. This is just a bare outline, of a

Her reputation as a singer spreads. in addition to the three stars men- | and a unscrupulous roue and comedy which is one of the very tioned above-Marie Prevost, best of the brilliant group of Bri-George Fawcett, Nance O'Neil, cabaret producer invites her to np tish comedy productions which have Julietta Compton, and Johnnie Pear in a big cabaret show. The between him and the girl has the recently put the British studios de Walker.

The extremely capable effect of hastening her decision finitely on the "movie" map.

director Frank Capra has turned Italian boy protests and a quarrel An Ideal Gainsborough Picture, out another winner. Don's miss directed and adapted" by Vietor this dramatic triumph.

sign a contract with the baret Saville, from the play by Arthur

producer. Wimperis and Lauris Eylie, it in most certainity a picture to see,

LADIES OF LEISURE.

LYA DE PUTTI PROTESTS.

DISPUTE OVER FILM STAR'S

It has been brought to the screen on a very lavish scale. The staging way. The girl repulses the advances

Thornfter the story pursues PASSPORT AFTER HOLIDAY is superb-the acting excellent and the stery will hold your interest of the roue and is helped in this and then some.

THE BRAT.

IN HAVANA.

Miss Lya de Puttí, the vivacious Hungarian film star, is involved in

JASCHA HEIFETZ.

AND HIS VIOLINS.

Juscha Heifetz and his wife, who was Florence Vidor, the famous Faramount film star, arrive on the 3rd of December. They are stop

ping over for one day in the "Colony, en route to Manila and the

Straits Settlements. Mr. Hoifetz will give one_concurt at the King's Theatre on December 4th ut. 8.30 p.m. His programme will consist

Schubert,

限台

a dispute with the U.S. immigrain the main of the works of such tion authorities. When she landed famous composers at New York after staying in Havana she was stopped on the ground that her passport had ex- pirad.

y an elderly baronet. Finally, of course, the lovers are happily united as happens in all the best stories.

Sari Maritza, a charming young actress, is the femining star,, and Ladies of Leisure," the Colum-

her appearance in this film will bin all-talking drama of New York

bring her into public favour. Wil night life with Barbara Stanwyck, Aside from the widespread in liam Freshman, a handsome young Lowell Sherman and Ralph Graves, terest in Bally O'Neil's delineation ster, is the hero, while the parts of opened at the Central Theatre of the title role in "* The Brat," the the roue and the olderly baronet ser A triumph of the talkingThursday night. Frank Capra, the Box Film production now current played by Martin Lewis and Bert

director who turned out such films at the King's Theatre, women are Coote respectively.

to Havana for a holidny, Screen.

Flight,' "Submarine” and

enthusiastic over the clothes worn Those witnessing the film will cer- Misa do Patti, a brunette of aris- handled the megaphone. The film by Virginia Cherrill and June Col- mainly be pleased with the many tocratic birth, in the widow of Count is adaptation of a David Bolasco lyer, two of the film's prominent tuneful numbers which, with the Louis Christianson, a former mem stage play by: Milton Herbert players.

romance, the happy comedy of Bart ber of the staff of the Swedish Em- Gropper.

Among the lovely creations worn Coote and the atmosphere of Lon-bassy in Berlin. She was at one by June Collyer is a stunning green (don's night life together constitute time premiere danseuse in classical velvet evening ensemble, the wrap a very bright, entertaining and Russian ballet at the Winter Gar gown is fashioned from moussleine | popular talkie.

don, Berlin,

R$

A RKO-PATHE

The story is not a complex one, Super Special Production. It proves the theory that a woman being trimmed with mble. Another

Miss de Putti strongly protested, contending that she bad only been

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Lola, Vitali, Bavel, Debugay-Hoff- man, others Mr. Hoiletz will bo accompanied on the piano by Mr. Isadoro Achron.

This is the third world tqur öf Mr. Heifetz, and there are many musical devotees in the Colony who will remember his previous tour in 1923, and the concert" ho gave here in 1027.

Fascha Heifetz is the owner of one of the world's few remaining Stradivarius violins, and also owns Guarnarius - which insured for U.S.$23,000.

(STAR)

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY:

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.

TTE took love where ho found it, and turhed it into a song.

HE

An eye-and-ear entertainment you'll love!

Lord

BYRON

of

BROADWAY

Metro:

POTS www.d

Charley Katey Habelind Terry

CUM Edwards Marlon Shilling

·with.

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