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CENTRAL

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SEE AND HEAR LIVING AFRICA!

THE BLACK HEART OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA

BELGIAN AND

FRENCH CONGO - THE

.DUCK-BILLED WOMEN

-THE PYGMIES

MOST AMAZING LION

FIGHTS. EVER SCREEN-

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Mica Speaks

THE STRANGEST ROMANCE EVER FILMED F

COLUMBIA PICTURE

Commencing To-day Grand Attraction of the Year! The Smartest Entertainment. of the "Season I

Dick Leuterio. and His Capitoliona {A Puramount Picture Orchestra is Hollywood.)

PROGRAMME

1-SHOOTIN' STARS

(The latest hit in New York with something different. Malody) 2.-CAN YOU READ BETWEEN

THE LINES?

(Sweet music with violin duet) 3.AY KALISUD

MUSIC

JAZZ

TO-DAY AT THE

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HONG KONG.

"Africa Speaks."

King's.

Daddy Long Laga."

Janet Gaynor and Warner

Baxter.

"The Ghost Train,”?

Queen's,

With Jack Hulbert and

Cecily Courtusidge.

World.

Golden Calf,"

Star.

KOWLOON.

"Be Yourself."

Fanny Brics, in the lead

Queen's.

Central.

COMING..

Sporting Blood."

Dawn Patrol."

Man in Possession."

The Toxan,"

"Her Man" with

Helen

Twelvetrees, Philip Helmes

"Mothers Millions."

"Dirigible."

With Jack Holt,

King's,

World.

Star.

The Girl Habit."

With Charles Ruggles.

Love's Identity" (Part 2).

(Chinese picture).

Be Yourself."

Horock."

Ep. 4 (Chinese picture).

Yu Tong Chun "

picture).

"Trespassor."

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"Call of the Flesh

(Chinese

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931.

HONGKONG'S FINEST. CENA

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 230, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.30 P‚M.

SHE LIVED HER DREAMS

A romance as sweet as that first kiss and as human as life itself. It will thump your heart and stir

soul." your

DADDY LONG LEGS

JANET GAYNOR

WARNER BAXTER

Directed by Alfred Santell

from the play by

Jean Webster

NEXT ATTRACTION

FOX

PICTURE

CHARLES RUGGLES

IN THE GIRL

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

"DADDY LONG LEGS.""THE GIRL HABIT."

MOST AMUSING.

With a simple profoundly human ¦ CHARLIE RUGGLES AT HIS story that million have laughed and yopt over," Daddy Long Legs, provides notable entertainment. fot Hong Kong seroon patrons to-day at the King's Theatre

Some residents of Long Island think Charlie Buggles so amusing they can't contain themselves, Who they see him on the screen they explode with laughter, and when they view him in person they burat all reserves and go into parasys, When the Roggle's unit was him,

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ACROSS AFRICA'S RIVERS.

EXPLORER'S THRILLING ADVERTURES: SHOWING AT

CENTRAL.

The jungle regions of Africa ars one of the few areas which civiliza tion has so far left untouched judging from Paul L. Ecoller's GC- count of the difficulties he encoun- tered on a recent trip through the French Congo district. Hoefler who represented the Colorado-Afri can Expedition, says, that only on

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GOSSIP AND FACT.

Two London Favourites.

London's longest current The Barretts of Wimpcle Street, will finish its fifteenth month" at. the Queen's Theatre on January 2 Two days later it will be aucceeded by a revival of the comady record- breaker, Eden Phillipotts' "The Farmer's Wife," which recovered after a bad start in 1924 and achter. ed 1,320 performances, Cedric Hardwicke will play hie old part of Churdles Ash, and Bir Barry Jackson proposes to engage many members of, the original com, bany as possible.

Henry Ainley in a “ Talkie," |

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Some time ago Mr. Ainley was. anked to devote his beautiful voice to é apokon film record of the

Bible. The idea pleased him, but for various reasons the scheme cans to nothing.

Marking the first time onai charming Janet Gaynor and the polished Warner Baxter hare menu co-starrod, this Fox Films' producing exteriora for "The Girl Habit' few occasions were he and his mon

Honry Ainley is to make his first tion of Jean Webster's well loved at Now Hyde Park, LI., the na-able to find ferries strong enough "talkis" appearance in the film tives. gathered just outside the circle to carry their heavy trucks across version of the Haymarket Theatre play is confidently expected to go of technicans and actors and watch the streams. For this reason the dew attendance records at the higed the comedian go through a baby crossing of a river was fraught with success, "The First Mrs, Fraser," picture house during its run. Both kid-napping, sequence with Denalu danger. Impromptu bridges were under the direction of Mr. Sinclair

constructed, then the trucks were Hill. the leading players are ideally The incident proved so funny unleaded and pulled across suited, to their roles, and an ex-that laughter arose spontaneously ropes. The man who steered had cellent supporting cast, headed by from the crowd every time Direc ticklish job-if he made one care- tor Eddie Cline ordered a take less turn he ran the risk of plung Una Markel, John Arledge, Clauds Microphones being as sensitives na ing the truck and himself into the Gillingwater, Sr., and Kathlyn they are the sequence was three torrent below-frequently a drop of fifty feet or more. Interesting mo- Williams, and splendid direction times spoiled by this occurrence combine to make "Daddy. Long police force was called out on a

After this the New Hyde Park tion pictures of Ecoffer's experien-

cas. nze shown in Africa Speaks' Logs," one of the real cinematic laugh call." His work scnsisted now running at the Central Thes- treats of the year.

in tiptoeing around politely ask tre, "Judy's" Baring tirado against

jing people not to smigger, her oppression in the "Orphan Home," "Pondleton's" decision to send her to college, the dawn of love, misunderstandings and final Those who we "The Girl Habitaturs, and,is, therefore, doomed to without fear of police interference ture, and what will interest every there may laugh their heads off failure,

What interested me in this pie body, was not the pact but the quality of the acting, saya a London critic..

(Arranged by Paul Whitem au o reunion, are but a few of the story's New York)

4-OHINESE JUMBLES

MODERN MUSIO

(Arranged by Dick Lautario himself. Lyric by Apollo Arevalof SBOUNCIN' AROUND

(Record arranged and played) by Dick Louterio's Capitolians, Columbin Records) Piano, Mr. Disk Leuterio Mr. Apolo Arevalo, 1st, alto saxophone baritone, clarinet, and singer, Mr. Tabelo Sevilla-2nd, tenor saxo

phone, baritono, clarinot and Tiolin.'

emotional, peaka.

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Delightful settings, a group of highly lovable children ja the "la- stitution sequences, a clever adapto- tion of Miss Webster's play by Sonya Lovien, and Alfred Santell' telling and always sympathetic direction, all aid in making "Daddy Long Legs" a genuine trest for picture lovera,

THE HEROINE OF “SPORTING BLOUD.”

Mr. Wenceslao Tobias ---- 3rd. 'alto saxophone, baritone, clarinet and violin. Mr.. Santos Mandez-

Trumpet and THE NEXT QUEEN'S THEATRE guitar player.

ATTRACTION.

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The scene was finally perfected | ===== without extraneous noises and it is one of the hilarious highlights or drink i'll give up the man 1 the finished film which comes to the love." It is a pact, but it is a past King's Theatre a Thursday next.

made outside the bounds of human

NORMA SHEARER

3-SHINES.

IN A ROW OF STARS.

Hare is a film which is littered with stars. There are five of them in A Free Soul."

In the centre of this star parade is Miss Norma Shearer at the top

tellectual fores of, his acting.

P 'man

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Street. Scene..

Elmer Rice, whose play, Street Scene," a being made into a talkie in Hollywood, by King Vidar, has added a new word to the language. Describing his career as a drama

ist, he says: "I am a product of New York and lived in more than one house that might very well have boon the same house as King sion of "Street Seene." I am Vidor empictures in the screen ver coking forward to the enscreening of this masterpiece,

Sherlock Holmes Talkis.

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Miss Shearer has never done flair work than she does here, and Mr.

Nobody could look more like Barrymore, who always carries a Sherlock Holmes come to life than sort of magnificence about him, Arthur Woutner, who made an om compels your attention by the inphatic auccess in The Sleeping Cardinal," and who is now pers man who, on his own.confession is the hot lights of the Twickenham He makes, you sympathise with a piring in his dressing gown under a drunken waster and responsible studio for another Holmes picture, for his own daughter's ruin.

What happens is that Jan's father Wontaer is supported by some in- "The Missing Rembrandt. Mr. of her form. And the impressive finds his prohibition campaign in nebula encircling her cousists of Mr. the hills & complete failure, not teresting people. There in Jane Welsh as the beautiful heroine, Lionel Barrymore. Mr. Leslie Ho-withstanding the way Jan soothes ward, Mr. Clark Ciable and Mr. him to sleep on the thrilling Call more important to the films than James Cleanson..

fornian heights. When

she was to the exploits of Connu Father or Lover.

wants a drink he doesn't, apparent Doyle's detective in the original.

There is Minnie Raynor, still Mr. Brown has made superb ly, want a mountain. entertainment of this picture and They come back to earth. Where busy actress after the celebration has been brilliantly served by his upon Ace Wilfong, who is

of her Both stage anniversary a year gang- players. It is the story of a girl ster and has a crude, cat-like charm ago, as Holmes landlady. blown about like a shuttlecock on |--I need not describe the magnetism And we are to have Miles Mander Madge Evane, who plays the the winds of three obsessions. of Mr. Clark Gable relentlessly in a character part-doped and dis- heroine in "Sporting Blood," Mo Jan Ashe (Miss Norma Shearer) pursues Jan.

sipated again, Ian Fleming as a is obsessed with the idea that she But Winthrop relentlessly pur- greyhaired. Dr. Watson; and that tro-Goldwyn-Mayer's drama of must save her father from drink. sues Act. They are men of, des clever young man from the Embassy turf, coming on Wednesday to the She is obsessed with the idea of perate desires, determined to win and the Phenix, Francis L, Bulli- Queen's Theatre, literally grew up marrying Ace Wilfong, whom her Jan or to die in the attempt. Mr. van, in his first talkie performance

father loathes, and she is obsessed Clarence Brown makes you feel the as the leading villain. in the movies. Sho started as a with her relations towards Dwight thunder in the air. Something" is baby actress of the age of three in Winthrop, to whom she is engaged going up with a bang which will Odd Shots. the old Fort Lee studios, supported which is not possible in this exact

She wants to have it all ways, echo to the gods on high.

It is a great acting film, bogiu- Ethel Clayton, Holbrook Blina and ing world. She wants to be a free ning slowly, and then whipping you others, then left the screen, to go out. So she avoids the complics- into a sense of something tremen to school. She returned to play in tions of falling in love, turns down dous happening. I have no hesita com-"So of India," followed by her drunken father to the hills.

her two young men and takes lier zion in telling filmgoers to go,

:Al Jolson" is likely to be “fem- and see it, because I am sure they will pictured in a new musical talkie, the present film. She's only twenty She says to him: "If you'll give enjoy it. It is the best nating film

Bons o' Guns," with Lily Damita (Continued on-ness Column;) --- have seen for a long time, and (Continued at foot of next column.)

Mr. Bernardo Guerra-2nd. Trumpet...

and singer.

Mr.. Moises Expeleta-Trombone and

tenor saxophone. Mr. Gregorio, Alberto - Bass, Tuba Helicone, and Counter Ban. Mr. Larrry Rull Drumms, Traps

and singer.

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Lawrence Tibett has made a hit in a new musical, talkie,

The Cuban Love Seng.'

ANN HARDINGS

LATEST SUCCESS. QUEENS

SENTIMENTAL--BUT A

GOOD STORY,

Wo have most of us seen Ann Hardings delicato and moving per- formance in Ease Lynue."

Miss Harding's latest film s "Devotion," according to the Lon- don Buening Standard.

Mr. Leslia Howard appears with her. Mr. Howard, who made such | a hit in "A Free Soul," has a' god- liką, poise, a romantic distinction,

a crisp, way of speech, which should i make the fortunes cf any film.

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Ho is also tremendously intellig||

geat-o intelligent that when you ses him noting in a poor part you

can also bee what he is thinking

of it.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2:30, 6.10, 7:15 AND 9.20

BRIGHT AND MYSTERIOUS DRAMA I

A BRITISH SUCCESS

IN EVERY SENSE OF

THE WORD:

GHOST TRAIN

Now" Dovotion" is a sweet nud sentimental story which has proved- its box-office merits over and over again. It is the story of Shirley Mortimer (Miss Ann. Harding), whi becomes governess to David Trona | little, boy because she feels that that.

is the only way she can legitimate-

ly fall in love with him

The scene ia in Loudch, and Mr. Trent, who is a lawyer, lives in the Inner Temple,

Shirley leaves her comfortable home, where she has mas Trent, and disguises her beauty in a Vic torian wig and other dowdy accou treprents, so that Trent shall not suspect that she is angling fór his affections,

Hidden Besuty.

"Lovers of Miss Harding's sculp tural beauty will shed a tear at th thought that it is disguised for so loag. And I am with them. Mis Harding has that vory rare beauty on the screen, boauty of character. I wish there wore mors of her type to replace the magazine covers which are the sot preludes to so many

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Well, her plan goes forward! She looks, after Trend's bey, Derek; and she looks after Trent. She conduct. a subtle and bewitching campaign against Trent,

She brings him to when na decan't want it; she prevents him smoking too many cigarettes; ana makes him drink soup instead of brandy, becauso it is better for him

Unfortunately Trent introduces Shirley' to an artist friend of "his, named Harrrington, whom he has

saved from death in a murder cha

Barrington promptly paints Shir ley, makes love to her in his studi

and asks her to run away with him.

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This is where the real Ana Hard- ing correa in.

During that one. scene you perceive that she is the olever, rebellious, and idealistic wo-l man whom we saw in "Holiday. "

Tears stream down your checks at her eclipse, and fall into the foun tains of the Inner Temple.

A Good Idea..

Shirley Batly turns down the elopement scheme proposed by Har rington, only to discover. shortly afterwards, that Trent has a wife. Trent in the meantime has dis covered that Shiridy is not a gov erness at all but the dream and delight of unscrupulous artists,

Being a lawyer, he speedily gets a divorce from his wife and Shir-

for the marriage ceremony. loy's bonnet and wig are laid aside

to

I recommend "Devotion" those who enjoy a simple story told with the maximum of senti montal appeal, And I recommend it to those who would go a consi derable distance to see Ann Hard- ing, and Mr Leslie Howard in any picture.Ernest Beth in Evening Standard

and Eddie Cantor, after a long ab- sence from the screen."

Pola Nagri, in making pictures for Radio-Pathe in America, and has just completed A Woman Com mands."

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"Michael and Mary" and "Car- nival" are two British pictures likely to do wall in Amerios, '«s« cording to Variety," of New, York

James Whale; who directed)| Waterloo Bride" De the Capitol this week, has just completed Frankenstein," "with"Colin Olive and Boris Karloff in the leading. parts.

--See-

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