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CENTRAL

THEAT WE

SHOWING TO-DAY

TODAY AT THE

SCINEMA.

HỒNG KONG.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY

LAST TWO

DAYS

KINGS

THE

(Eing's.. is

Monkey Business,”

""

Wisnes its Friends and

Queen's

AT 2.30, 5,10

Patroas

The Man in Pessoasion,??

at 2.80, 6:10. 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

Dentral.

7.1689.30 PM.

**Dirigible."

World.

"New York Nights."

KOWLOON.

Star,

Let's Be Gay,"

A Powerful Story,

Teeming with

Action and

Suspense!

The Big

Thrill Picture of

1931.

Love...lure... hatred...perils ..........adventure... everything is in the sensational

"DIRIGIBLE"

with

JACK HOLT RALPH GRAVES: FAY WRAY

A FRANK CAPRA Production

A

COLUMBIA PICTU

King's,

COMING."

Trans-Atlantic.".

Merely Mary Ann!! "But. Girl"

Queen's.

"The Ghost Train."

Love is Like That." The Lyon's Mail."

Oentral

"Mothore Millions."

Common Law."

With fuck Holt.

The Common Law,

Charles's Aunt"

With Charles Buggles and

Jane Collyer.

"Are You There "

World.

Star,

With Beatrice Lillin,

"Dawn Patrol,"

"High Society Blues."

Dynamite."

"Love's Identity

(Chiness picture).

"Be Yourself.

(Part 2)

Ep. (Chinesa picturo).

Romaner."

Three Live Ghosts," "Gond Nuws."

Chico,

Harpo

Groucho, Zeppo THE

$4 MARX

BROTHERS

Monkey Business

a Paramount Picture

MOVIE NEWS

A Happy Xmas and Prosperous,

New Year

1932

A DRAMATIC SCENE FROM "DIRIGIBLE" SHOWING TO DAY AT CENTRAL THEATRE.

"DIRIGIBLE."

A FILM OF THE ANTARCTIC

NEXT CHANGE

Who

She?

Mother's MILLIONS

"MONKEY BUSINESS."

AND THE MAD MARX BROTHERS.

"Monkey Business" which is now

34.

TRANSATLANTIC."

AND AN ODD COINCIDENCE.

Coincidence, which embryo

BOOKING

AT THE

THEATRE

TEL. 25313.

NEXT CHANGE

TRANSATLANTIC

-

44

with

RICTURE

NOT

EDMUND

LOWE

LOIS MORAN

THE MAN IN

POSSESSION.'

CAPTIVATING FARCE AT THE QUEEN'S.

.In his second starring vehicle, "The Man in Possession," now at the Queen's Theatre, Robert Mont gomery is seen in the amusing role of a butler who eventually marris his employer. This is Metr Goldwyn-Mayer's film version of the H. M. Harwood play which achiev ed considerable success both in Le- don and on Broadway.

The part is right up Men!- gomery's alley, affording him every opportunity for the sophisticated drelleries that made him one of the most popular players on the screen to-day,, Somehow Montgomery ea say and do things with an air of frank innocence, not to say raivety, that would possibly fall flat with suggestion coming from 2 Foss skilled player. He is engaging, a all times and as a farceur has no peer on stage or screen in the opin- fon cf this reviewer.

Sam Wood who directed the new feature, as achieved the distinction of successfully transferring a fare to the talking screen without in- terpolating extraneous scenes and actica to escape a tendency to bore-

On July 11, 1807, Salomon August showing at the King's Thostre to-thors always are cautioned to avoid doom, His tempo, is a swift and

your

GOSSIP AND FACT.

And Boo Bed

When you are making a plotuse from 10a.m. till about 7 pm,

and theu van only just manage a quick sandwich befo e

bita of dinner or

|ble; ovoning; porformanos as a thous

tre, 'you really haven't"ány"life o1| your own at hil-and that's what I've been doing for nine months out of the last year" said dainty Joan Barry, of "The Barrotte of Wila polo Strost And, of couran,*** ahe went on, I've not the slighte desire to go out to parties when I've got through my work at Insa

it's straight home. for me, and minutes after I've had a glass of hot milk I'm sound asleep.

"The brief intervalą what I've only s theatre part to play acem like... holiday and then. I can assure y in a few weeks I make up for an those months and go out evoly | night..

Andree and two companions climb day, it goes something like this- ed into the basket of "small and

On a transatlantic liner bound think in real life.

occur much more often than we in kepping his story within the fragile balloon which was moored covers that there are four stow-liday, who has one of the featured for Now Fork the second mate dis

walls of the tiny English cottage For instance, consider John Halhe manages to an astonishing de- at Dane Island, on the edge of the aways on board. Yes, the stow-roles in Transatlantic," Fox talks. His deft direction cf. tha frozen North, and with confident ways smiles signalled that the ropes which Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeepo Edmund Lowe, which ones to the render to her romantic butler 18 old playmates ing picture production, starring scenes of the dashing widew's sur held their craft be cut. The bal-captain's cabin.

To elude pursuit they hide in the King's Theatre next Sunday.

Croucho posen loon rose slowly and, caught by the as the captain, runs the ship and money for several years, determin

Halliday, who had saved his splendidly done. wind, began to travel in a north-eats the captain's breakfast Thened to make a trip to Europa on a

Miss Greenwood agoras. custerly direction. Soon it passed iron as a stowaway.

he threatens to put the captain in much nedted holiday A week he Not the least of the causes for beyond the range of human erozi His bluff finally break down the first lap of his journey, the bank hilarity in the film is Charlesto

fore he was to leave Hollywood on and, with the exception of frag- Tand Groucho hides in the cabin of in which all his savings were de Greenwood, who steps out on her montary notes brought back by car passenger wife, and almost gete, not a depositor has recovered a cent,

Pa passenger. He makes love to the I posited closed its doors To date, own, as the long-legged maid in the Pier pigeons, it vanished into the humped off when the husband re-

The only break Halliday got, was

tempestuous household, Miss Green" mists of the north, seemingly be

turnu. pi

Tom Kennudy, the dim-witted tickets and didn't lose that amount. Montgomery and their scenes toge that he already had paid for his wood is a perfect running mate fci yond the range of human kon. first mate, has a tough time of it, so he went to Europe anyway, but

The contrast between this expedi-chasing the boys all over the ship. stayed only a few weeks, whereas ther are among the highlights of the tion and the one which in Columbia. Thus the afore busy on, he had planned a visit of at least rady production. Picturas latest feature

must catches and Chico, "Dirigi- but they pose ng harbers, get him ble," starts for the frozen sough, sleep in the chair and "commit was cast for the role of, "Henry stage, plays the widow role with Returning from abroad, Halliday Irune Purcell, from the Kew York is extraordinarily vivid. This mayham" on him. Then Harpo Graham in Transatlantic." in Anasse, leaving nothing to be dear" pieture, showing at the Central "gets a yon" for the manicurist and the picture, turns out to be an Theatre to-day, presents in realis chases her from stem to stern of absconding banker, fleeing with ed in her characterization. the detail the start of a giant air- the boat. ship for the icy, wasters of the South When the ship reaches quarch-

$3,000,000 of his depositora' funds, Pole and after many complications, tine a crowd of reporters clambers the man who shoots the banker with favorite players as C. Aubrey

I could have played the role of smotional and otherwise, the arrival aboard to interview the passen- much more feeling," Halliday said. Smith, Beryl Mercer and Reginald of another huge dirigible at this gore. But Graucho reverses the But at that, I was able to give Owen who, with Montgomery, com objective.

process by interviewing the the financior a sinister quality I

ro-

A year.

Included in the cast are such

In Dirigible," Frisky Pierce, porters.

might have lacked if I hadn't had plete the Dabney family about what a famous airplane pilot, starts in As a dimana gangster gives a my unfortunate bank txorienen." the hilarious plot rotates Alan his airplane over the last ice bar party in honour of his daughter. rier that keeps him from his ob- The rival outfit kidnaps the girl. Lowe is supported by an exception les Forrester Harvey and Yorke In Transatlantic Edward Mowbray is excellent as Sir Chur jective, the South Pole. Ha like and the picture winds up hilarimm; [ally strong cast, with includes such Andres is accompanied by two com-ly in a big barn with the mad screen luminaries as Leis Moran, Sherwood complete the cast. panions and this expedition also antics of the indefatigable brothers in the leading feminine role. Joan mrat with a mishap that maroons assisting finally in the roseus of the Harsholt, Greta Nissen and Myrna" them in inaccessible icy water.

girls.

Loy.

Whatever you do this wenk--don't- miss this uproarious faren

just love drowsing myself up,

generally in my favourite colour i ser let, and going on te supper par ties: though I don't out much there," Lunch is my one big, solid, satisfying meal of the day. In the morning I only have a cup of weak te":

Menjou and Margaret Bannerman, Adolphe Menjou is acting in Bri tish films. Eric Hakin, who pr duced "The Outsider, completal by transatlantic telephone a cou tract with the famous film actor us co-star with Margaret Bannermat in three films" to be made in this country. Menjou lest Los Angels: by plane or New York, and eight days later commenced acting in "Two White Arms" at the We bley Studies in eight days' tim He has been engaged, according to: officials in film circles, at the highest. salary ever paid in this country almatar. American distribution of the three films is guaranteed.

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Country House Film Studios,

It's an Interesting sign of the times that whereas a couple of years ago an English country house of any size or importance which came into the market was suggested by the agents as suitable for convert sion into either a school or a coun try club, it is now more usual for then to be offered for film studios,

The head of one of the largest British producing companies states that during the past month of October he has boon notified of h fewer than seven country homies with view to their, development in th direction.

The He Man

Margaret Carlisle, the actress, who is engaged to Leon Ceeley, tod a battalion of New York repcrtera, by whom she was interviewed that she is marrying an Englishman be. cause she wants to be bosend.

FALSE HEROES?

AUTHOR CRITIC OF CHAPLIN AND CHEVALIER PUBLICITY.

Criticism of the

"false hero worship" which attended the re ception of Maurice Chevalier and Charles Chaplin in London way.

THEATRE A

SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 230, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20

Robert

The Star with the Million Dollar Personality

MONTGOMERY

hla

new

hit-

Man

en Possession

With

Charlotte Greenwood Irene Purcell C Aubrey Smith

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FOR ONE DAY ONLY !

BY' 'SPECIAL REQUEST"

The BRITISH Success

GHOST TRAIN

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JACK HULBERT & CICELY COURTINEIDGE

IN THE GREATEST: MYSTERY THRILLER EVER SCREENED TRAIN PLUNGES OVER, BRIDGE EXCITING — WBRD-MYSTERIOUS...

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mada by Major Beith (Ian Hay), TO-DAY & TO-MORROW the author.

NORMA

Addressing the Anglo-Swedish AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 AND 8.20 Soriety in London on Present Day Drama," he said the chief opponent of the theatre was the cinema, and the principal weapon of the cinema in competing with the drama was the enormous apparatus of public- publicity on the arrivals in London ity. Instances were the effect at of Chevalier and Chaplin..

They placed themselves unra servedly in the hands of their en ployers publicity agents with sha tering resulta.” All the machinery ef mass suggestion and false he worship was employed on their he balt. These publicity campaigns must have cost thasands of pouille inch.

"They were the two greatest publicity stunts ever worked in London. Public curiosity reacheil stupendeus. heights Celebrities al

Chaplin. Even the Prime Ministe evely grade wera infected and they sought to we photographed with Mr. fall, I am sorry to say, and invitel M Chanlia to Chegnar.

He did not think it wise for the vulgarity, theatre to compete in this sort of

of Ent more fish, and intern Advertsing campaigns in favour frait had made people fish con scious and fruit conscious, and he suggested that something of the same sort bo adopted by thoaten managers

SHEARER

"LET US

BE GAY"

THE YEAR'S OUTSTANDING TALKIE

Marie Dressler. Rod La Rocque Gilbert Emery" Hedda Hopper

A Robert Z Leonard Production

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