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CENTRAL

ARTASEDUS

TODAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HÙNG HONG

Show Girl in Heywood."

Law Ayres and Genevieve

Queen's.

SHOWING TO-DAY

With Alice White.

King's.

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

The Smiling Lieutenant."

With Maurice Chevalier.

Central.

THE GREATEST

Up for Murder

Tobin

· OUTDOOR TALKING

World.

Iron Hero

MELODRAMA OF

DAREDEVIL

ADVENTURE

AND FLAMING LOVE

EVER SEEN!,

Chinese Pioturs, -

KOWLOON.

Star.

Madam

FANTASY! ADVENTURE] Queen's.

ACTION 1. ROMANCE!

What a lover!

THE

Up from the ocean's floor comes" this strange apparition!

A fearful monster to "the savage cannibals -but to their girl victim, her rescuer i The man she loves!

See

SEA GOD

a Garamount Picture

With Added Attractions l

Paramount Short Features

100%

Service

Bimbo's Iniation

NEXT CHANGE

MEN CALLED HER THE PERFECT WOMAN

The story

of

the most famous

ort

modal.in. Park!

Constance BENNETT THE COMMON LAW

'COMMON CLAY" hos CONSTANCE BENNETT played at greet a rolę

-COMING SHORTLY

Satau," with "Ro

ginald Denny and Kay Johnson.

COMING.

The Great Loven."

"On, Sailors Behave."

Central.

Sen God with Richard Arlen-

and Way Frag,

The Right to Love"

with

Ruth Chatterton, on Thurs, day,

Mothers Millions.

"King's....

East. Lynne."

"Bad Girl."

"Daddy Long Legs."

World.

Star.

Janat Gaynor and Warner

Baxter.

Love's Identity (Part 2)

(Chinese picture).

"Be Yourself.”.

Remote Control." "Golden Calf." "Rough Romance.

On Your Back."

HỒNG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 1931.

HONCKOND

SHOWING

TO-DAY

With

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Maurice

THEATRE

At. 2.80, 5.107.15 and 9.80 p.m.

Charlle RUGGLES Miriam HOPKINS

CHEVALIER

IN

The Smiling Lieutenant

A Paramount's 20th Birthday Jubilee Picture.

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

THE SEA GOD."

CLAIMS SCHOONER AS SACRIFICE.

A veteran shiling, schooner that And visited every port of the South Sea Islands during a long and varied career has made its last voyage. Sizzificed to the film in- dustry; it lies at the bottom of the Paine, a charred mass of wreckage.

As its career had been colourful, so was its ending. While flames burned through its seasoned tim- bers and rotting rigging, Bound; cameras. recorded the spectacle..

The funeral pyre was lighted for Paramount's: "The Sea. God," nautical adventure featuring Richard Arlen and Fay Wray.

R

Two hundred and seventy-two natives bore down on the doomed vessc. in fanthatic shell decorated war ennoca; staged a realistic mimic attack and then put it to the torch. Through being burned for the screen, the schooner escaped rotting at a dock. Its days of seafaring were drawing to an end and it was. selected for sacrifice because of that fnet.

THE SMILING

LIEUTENANT."

One of the screen's leading per- Honality, known the world over for his songs and his vivacity is abow- ing at the King's Theatre to-day in his new starring picture, "The Smiling Lieutenant," directed by Ernest Lubitsch, maker of "The Love Parade" and "The Patriot." He is Maurice Chevalier whose love-making and singing have "made him the idol of two continents.

The Smiling Lieutenant" is a Viennese romance founded on, the. musical comedy A Waltz Dream." It has the star of another Chevalier. acreen sliceess, The Big Fond," Claudette Colbert, in ode of the

AMERICA'S GIRL FRIEND

Alice white who is now appearing in the Queen's Theatre at traction, "Show Girl

in Hollywood."*

"THE GREAT

LOVER"

ROMANCE AND COMEDY

AT QUEEN'S.

Ates carry the main comedy burden. Torrence is Menjou's Valet, Ed wards a grand opera press agent, and Ates a stuttering reporter.

-Other players of prominence are Irene Dunne of Cimarron 21 ED aspirant for grand opera honours, who nearly" burns her fingers" Comedy and romance, cleverly owing to her ambition; Neil Hämil- Miriam Hopkins, in an equally im. mixed together, are the ingredients' ton of " Strangers May Kiss as portant role, and with Charlie of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The the young lover Hale Hamilton and Ruggles, a most lovable comedian, Great Lover," which will be of the Baclanova. MORGE in an "important supporting port

The story deals with the romance Queen's Theatre from Sunday.

Helen Twelvetrees leading feminine roles; and with

of a young lieutenant of the guards;

'HER MAN"

"The Great Lover was directed

"The Great Lover"

by Harry Beaumont of The offers whose smile gets him involved with two, women, one, a cabaret per Adolphe Menjou, the suave lover, Broadway Melody Our Danci former whom he loves, the other an in the title role which Leo Ditriching Daughters," "Our Blushing old-fashioned princess who lovce stein made ao famous on the stage him and whom he is forced to

Watch out for the date may How this marriage turns

RKO Pathe Picture.

AN EAST LYNNE

STAR

OPINION ON TALKIE- TECHNIQUE.

The high standard of talkies sup plied by Fox Movietone has gívah the actress and actor of the screen ach added work, according to Conrad Nagel, one of the Eras stars to attain success, in the now. medium and who is featured with Olive Brook in East Lynne, Frank Lloyd's Fox Film produci tion, starring Aan Harding. The picture is coming soon to the King's Theatre.

Conrad Nagel in “Eset Lynne.”

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"When I made my Arst talking. picture," says Nagel, there was auch to desired in the matter of accurate recording, and some pic tures certainly gave us voles of which we were far from proud.

Brides and Dance, Fools, » Ann Harting in “ East Lynne,. Dance" fame. Menjou provides the romance, It was adapted by Gene Markey sent of sound recording came a However, with the improve with his sparkling love affairs with { on her rival, is the theme of the six beautiful girls while Ernest and Edgar Allan Woolf: from the new hurdle for the player to clear

étage play of Leo Ditrichstein and i Better sound recording meant that Torrence, Cliff Edwards and Roses Frederick and Fanny Hation (Continued at food of next column)

| his life. topsy-turvy, and how the pawanted wild turns the" tables

romance.

ROMEO IN

PYJAMAS QUEENS

BUSTER KEATON AS

"LADIES' MAN,

In this, his latest picture, Buster Keaton has wandered into som thing of a cul-de-sac. Like many other Amorioan solo comedians, ho | gets his bent effects as an individual isolated in a world loss real, logs hunn, than himself. Unlike others ho personifies mind con- quering matter. His slow pers

brain piring fold of matter which MOVED, much too fast for him to keep up'

ranges

over

服

We

with tot ho plode on and dogs gedly wrents order from chaos. His victories over mischance are liko that of the tortoiad over the bare.

In "Romeo in Pyjamaa" have the same slow conquest of a hostile world. But it suffers bo- CRUSO all the characters

are, so to speak, on the same plane of reality as the star. One would not enll them human, but they are no more inhuman than be extremely im probable people, bub not grotesque.“ Still, he gets a good deal of fun out of a preposterous yard

yard, Circum stances compel him, a mild inoffen- alve man to play the part of a great lady killed. The ara amoris does not come easily to him; he learns with painful effort and fro quent referendo to written instruc tions. But in his dogged way, he loarna Thare is a good typical Keaton touch when he is sending of invitations to the wedding he has a dog sitting on the table, and keeps handing the stamps to it for licking Charlotta Greenwood, as an Amaronian instruotresa gallantry, plays in an admirably boisterous vein, and Cliff Edwarda is seen as an impudent bell-hop.

BRUNSWICK RECORDS.

ON SALE AGAIN LOCALLY.

in

Brunswick House" in Glouces ter Building Arcade is operated by The China Phonograph and Radio, Ltd., who are the sole agents for Hongkong and South China for The Brunswick Radio Corporation of New York. They will resume the distribution of Brunswick Products: which have not been in the market for over a year. Besides the re- cords this business deals in Bruns. wick Radios, Combination Radio. Gramophones, Cabinet model and Portable Gramophonës. “

The Company also sells "Melo- tone" Records. Melotone Records are manufactured by The Brüss wick Radio Corporation, but are retailed at a cheaper price as they do not represent work of the most famous artistes. The quality however, is just as good as that of the standard" Brunswick Record. Those who have not, bet able to obtain Brunswick Rooorda for some time will now be able to get them at The Brunswick House, where a large stock is always kept, and as the latest releases are ship- ned out by The Brinawick Radio Corporation new records are al ways obtainable.

JACK MULHALL, MINER.

STAR OF TO-DAYS PICTURE

AT QUEEN'S.

Jack Mulhall, screen star, hes found a new diversion. He has become a gold-digger who takes the precious metal right out of the ground. Following the completion at the First National Studies of Show Girl in Hollywood," which is coming to-day to the Queen Theatro, Mulball spent a week in the desert bills in Eastern Cali fcrnia prospecting for ore, which has become a fad with him. Alico White Eppears with him in Show Girl in Hollywood."

we must all be more careful of our diction. Each little flaw was cap tured by the microphone and our furture as taking picture stars, des ponded upon giving performances above technical, criticism, To-day an actor, or actress, must be able to not only express through actions and facial expression the emotion that, he or she interprets, but the voice must alsb. express these feel irigs.

af. This great improvement in ter

cording, and the development of a more critici, sense on the part of audiences has forced those who play in talking pictures to work harder than ever. A reel must be studied thoroughly and the player must get the feel of the part. It is im possible to deceive the camera, An udatum move, one inconsistent with the mood of the character, to more quickly detected the camera and of 200 Fadreen, then it is on the singe

the

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9:20.

A Show Girl throws. open The

wide

closed doors of the

taikle studios!

*MULBARE

BLANCHE SWEET FORD STERLING

JOHN MILJAN

Directed by MERVYN LEROY Based on story by J. P. MEVOY

A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE

NEXT CHANGE

The Great

VER

MENJOU DUNNE

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ploture

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 39.20

MADAM

SATAN

REGINALD