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CENTRAL

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

Queen's.

The Bat Whispers."

King's,

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

The First Lady of the Fercen in the first dual role she has ever given to the world.

Flesh-and-Blood Drama- Searching the heart of every woman who loves, has loved—or. hopes to love..

A

"

After "Sarah and Son,"

and after "Anybody's

Woman," you expect

the unexpected -- and

get it

from

RUTH

CHATTERTON

IN

*The Right to Love"

Parameter is

With

Paul Lukas

The story of a love

that dies-and LIVES again!

NEXT CHANGE

Commencing Sunday

.his whole life's happiness hang on her word

Did his vision of glorious love ... come true ?

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AYRES

UP MURDER

?

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE Presented by Carl Laemmle With Genevieve TOBIN

Dorothy Peterson, Richard Tucker, and other favourites.

Directed by MONTA, BELI. From his own original story, It's Low Ayres greatest!

Romantic Thriller.

A Warm Corner."

Contral.

British Film with Leelio

Houson.

The Border Legion."

ZADO Grey Novel

with

Richard Arlen and Jock Holt,"

World.

"From Hero."

Chinese Picture.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY DECEMBER

KINGS

KOWLOON.

Star.

Lon Chaney in "The Unholy

Three."

AUSTIN MELFORD

COMING.

QUEEN'A

ENTIAL:

The Hottentat:""

The Right to Love" with Ruth Chatterton, on Thurs- day.

Mothers Millions.”:

The Common Law -- with"

Constance Bunnett

King's:

The Smiling Lieutenant."

Maurice Chevalier.

East Lynne.'

Bad Girl"

Daddy Long Logs."

World:

STA

Janet Ciaynor and Warner

Baxter.

Ji

Love's Identity (Chinese

picturo),

Madame Satan." Remote Control."

HONCKONGS FINEST ONEWA

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2:30, 6.10 and 7:15 pm. ONLY BY SPECIAL REQUEST RE-SCREENING OF LESLIE HENSON

THE WARM CORNER

With

Connie Ediss, Heather Thatcher “Directed by

VICTOR SAVILLE.

A BRITISH PRODUCTION

COMMENCING SUNDAY, 6TH DECEMBER

Maurice

***THE

CHEVALIER

SMILING LIEUTENANT**

A Paramount's 20th Birthday Jubilee. Picture

With CLAUDETTE COLBERT Charlie Ruggles, Miriam Hopkins

An ERNST LUBITSCH Production:

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MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG

THE BAT WHISPERS. "THE SMILING

AMID LUXURIOUS

SURROUNDING.

Luxurious furnishings thas would

LIEUTENANT."

MAURICE CHEVALIER ÁT THE KING'S.

The

KONG.

tingly, he insults a visiting prin cess, who, captivated by the smiling soldier, persundes the king, her fa

KIM PEACO.K

THE HAPPY “FAMILY.""

HOW THE RIGHT TO LOVE" WAS FILMED.

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Those who crave domestic bar- mony may learn a point or two from a motion picture studio eam- pany at work. A group of oute ther, that he is the man she must marry. Chevalier is forced into a hundred men and women usually nomeral marriage, but he tries to comprise the crew and cast of cach continue his affair with Claudette picture Family.", An example da" if nothing had happened.

Miriam, the princess, prim and of studio compatibility was showi do credit to a Long Island man- which produced the Maurice Cheva-palace, and berates her for stealingties who contributed to the record-

atar-director partmenship.proper, Cella Claudette to the by the ninety diversided personal sion, were dued by Roland West in lie, at the Kings The Love Par- her husband. Claudette ridicules

the sets for his Cuited Artists pro-Ernst Lubitsch, bave made another ideas.

ade," Maurice Chevalier and Miriam's old-fashioned clothes and ing of The Right to Love,” Taking this eue, Miriam Paramount's new Ruth Chatterton duction The Bat Whispers." ferollicking love drama. Supporting transforms herself into a beautiful feature drama, which is having its turing Chester Marris, which is the star are Claudette Colbert and butterfly. Claudette, seeing the Miriam Hopkins, and Charlie Rug now at the Queen's Theatre.

gles, the joyous comedian.

Among the important items were

costly Oriental rugs, rented from a private collection at considerable expense and magnificent pieces of period furniture in the gloomy austere Italian style of the Middle Aga. The paintings and old or onamental articles followed out the shadowy, mystic motif required for the mystery comedy drama...

gives

The Smiling Lieutenant Chevaler ample opportunity, white Oacar Straus, and Clifford - Grey, prepared the original music and words respestively?

:of

music in The Smiling Lieuten-

In commencing on the use ant,'

Jesse L Lasky, the Para- mount producer said: "Although music on the screen may not be this time, we have had innume generally favored by the public at "rable requests for more of Maurice. Players appearing in the produe class by himself and "The Smiling Chevalier's singing, He is in a tion include Caa Merkel, Gustav Lieutenant" will give him ample Von Seyfertitz, Grayce Hampton, opportunity to present the type of. Ben Bard, William Bakewell, Epen-ng which the world public do

mands from him." ser Charters, Charles Dow Clark, Maudo Eburue and S. E. Jennings.

FAMOUS RACERS IN] "THE HOTTENTOT."

Blue ribbon and silver: cup"win-| nora are included in the array of thoroughbred horses that appear in "The "Hottentot, Warner Bros.' latest production, which comes to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow for a run of three days.

Suchi well known race horses as L' Elegant, L., A. Murray, Charles Jiggers, Skyward and Chisanthy appear in the thrilling steeplechaso in this oxciting screen version of the atago success of Victor Mapes and Willie Collier. All are registered. thoroughbreds and have won races before fashionable throngs.

In this story of a young lieuten ant whose handsome presence, and

Warner Bros. called upon the Maurice Chevalier in the "Smiling famous stables of " Curley

"Eagles

in Southern California to supply the thoroughbred steeds for "The Hottentot," all the harass used the production being owned by him and maintained at his vast ranch.

Lieutenant,

captivating love-making win the hearts of two girls, Chevalier sings five songs. They are "Breakfast Table Loyo," "Jazz Up Your Lin- The "cast of alage and screen gerie," That's the Army," "LOVE favorites seen in this comedy special for To-day," and "What Can Thoy. Includes Edward Everett Horton, Expect of Me" Both Miss Colbert Patey Ruth Miller, Edmund Broase, and Miss Hopkins join in the airig- Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Otto Hoffman, Douglas Gerrard and Maude Turner Gordon. Roy Del Kuth directed.

ing, gett

Chevalier, the lieutenant, falls in love with Claudette, a cabaret per- former, and is oblivious to the charms of all other girls. Unwit-

turn events have taken, sudenly anal showing at the Central Then- leaves the state and Chevalier, en-tre to-day. From the director tranced by the new Miriam, falis in love all over again with his wife, Richard Wallace, to the property The Smiling Lieutenant will boys, good manners are the unwrit show at the King's Theatre to-mor: ten law of the company.

TOW..

Mariam Hopkins..

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

'PLANNING TOUR" OF FAR EAST,

15

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Dec. 4. The Morning Post to-day con. tains a reference to the future plans of Charlie Chaplin, the famous film comedian, etating that it is understood he proposes to undertake a tour of the East, in cluding India, China and Japan,

Claudette Colbert.

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Miss Chatterton smiles her "good mornings" and her "good nights" to everyone on the act whether or not she is exhausted from the day's work.

Wallace's voice, is never raised . irritability, although nerves might be near the snapping point throug delays.

The replacing of half a dozen cameras to meet the requirements of the sound engineer does not rurf fe the good nature of Charles Lang, tho

company cameraman. The hairdresser misses her lunch to complete quick coiffure changes for Miss Chatterton, as a matter of course. The electricians adjust and readjust tons of equipment placid- ly when the director hits upon a aories of new angles.

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The Gordion Knot must be untied a dozen times in the course of h day's ahooting on the studio set, but each new crisis is met with atudied tranquility and haleyou harmony is undisturbed.

Ley Ayres' comes to the Central Theatre on Sunday, as the star of

Up for Murder," the Universal love drama which has just been completed under the "direction of Monta Bell.

A WARM CORNER.”

On its re-screening, ́the. Britisli picture A Warm Corner" again attracted a buge crowd - at the King's Theatre yesterday.

GOSSIP AND FACTUEEN'S

The Ronald Colman moustache in

beeeming very popular. It consista

of thin hirsute strip along the lower part of the upper lip. One morning, an observent person in Picendily, in a space of filty yards, passil Four young men who had adopted the fashion.

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*

Dorothy Mackaill, the Yorkshire film star, was recently married to Mr. Neil Albert Miller, the Ja waiian sugar planter. Mr. Miller took out a marriage licencu whun Misa Mackills visited Honolulu in April, but owing to a legal hitch the ceremony was not performed, Miss Mackaill, who is "twenty-six | and is said to earn £300 a week, has three times been reported as. engaged. Her first husband was Mr. Lothar. Mendes, the film direc tor, from whom she obtained a divorce in 1928,

A message from Tia Juana, Lower California, says Tom Moore, the veteran Alm actor, and Miss Eleanor Merry, who is also wol known on the screen, were married there on October 27.

From a Londen Diary.

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The big private party, to which I went on at midnight, was splendidly organised affair. Wher over, one happened to be loud speak erg anyouncing' the results were near at hand. I do not think I have ever seen so many celebrities under one room. Peers, Ambassa dors, clerics, commercial magnates, actors and actresses, film stars, a tists, novelists and posts mingled. together in a chaerful, friendly

way.

All these people are of the kind that reckon to know everybody, but one modest little greyheaded man threaded-his-way-through-the-erowd- ed rooms, and was quite unrecogniz ed. It was Charlie Chaplin

Peter Gawthorne began his stage career in Australia and then went co Hollywood, where he acted in sever al pictures, and got a valuable in- sight into the methods of the pie ture kinga His reappearance o.. the London stage will be in C. K. Munro's new play." Bluestone Quarry which deals with some of the effects of industrialism and gives us a conflict between the dominat ing and altruistic types of char acter. "It is a fine play," said Gawthorne. The Stage Society are doing the piece. It was the Stage Society which first produced." Jour ney's End."

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Said beautiful Benita Huone "Life has to be arranged quite differently for, stage and Alm work, and, of course, the film life is much more strenuous. When I was on tho stage and knew that I could sleep as late as I liked the next morning. I always went out to supper. nefer could manage a meal before acting, so after the show I was re- ally hungry, and then, too. I loved' the change and the company it was all so much more cheerful than solitary food in my flat! But when I'm making a picture, I have my morning tea at 4.30—30 that rules out late nights and I leave, for Elstree before eight. I drive my- self "there and, vory tized out, 1, make the return journey about eight at night! When I arrive home get into a wrapper or Pyjamas and take my time at my ease over a dinner-supper, have a game, with my Pekinese, Tai Pin..read the pa pers or a book, and am in bad ba- fore eleven!

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"Gipsy Blood," directed by Cecil Lewis for B.I.P. brings Bizet's fam

opera Carmen" to the screen as a cinematic story, with a musical accompaniment and inter polated arins. Swiftly moving aë- tion, the romantic love story, and thrilling drama, debar the film from being merely a canned opers, and the addition of Bizet's beautifur melodies enhance the appeal of the picture. Much of "Gipsy Blood; “* was actually filmed in Spain and the introduction of a real bull- fight is one of the high lights of the filmo

plastio face and an excellent talkie voice. His work is as polished on the screen as it is on the stagé and he never palls. Connie Edias makes a good foil as his wife who finds it hard to live up to the new-

No better plot than that of "A Warm Corner" could have been selcoted as the medium of Leslie Henson's introduction to talkingly acquired wealth and castle. She. pictures.While it does not call on him to sing it gives him every opportunity to display those quali- ties that have made him England's premier comedian.

Ita plot and laughs come from embarrassing situations but it is

sometimes cuts rather a pathetic, and is, at her best in the clever malaprops that interpolate for: lines. "He came over with the Mor- mona with William the Concubine,” is an example.

Heather Thatcher and Austin

HEATREZZ FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5,10, 7.159.20.

JOSEPI SEL SCHENCK PAMENTE

THE

BAT

WHISPERS

(UNITE

ARTIST

ROLAND

WEST'S

PRODUCTION..

WITH

-CHESTER MORNIS

A man and a girl pit. their brains against the sinister mund of An arch criminal who has baffled the greatest. detectives.

NEXT CHANGE RIDING DYNAMITE !

WARNER BROS おい!!!

The

HOTTENTOT

Barrington

ket on The Hatedtol and couldn't sit down for a work!

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON - PATSY RUTH MILLER- EDMUND BREESE

SAGES DETAL PLAY BE VICTOR AMICS, UNG UNGAIK GOSSALA, Duncombe ROY DEL REGIS

(STAR)

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 6.20, 7720 6.

LON

HANEY

a break away from Rookery Milford, of the original stage cast,THE

Nook" and the other Aldwyth 'farges, it is really clover and full of quips and satire, mainly on the

| new rich.

Leslie Henson as the maker or 'millions and corn-plasters is söldom off the sorcon, and relies on his (Continued on next Column.)

also do exceedingly well. Direction photography and camera arrange ments are good and at list it osems that British producers have over- come their penchant for prolonging

A Warm Corner deserves full

marks.

talks

UNHOLY THREE

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Picture

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