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MOND

CENTRAL

TRENT RİB

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Central,

SHOWING TO-DAY Eng's

HONG KONG.

Dirigible."

Trane Atlantio.”

Queen's.

At 2.80, 5.10, 7:15 and 9:20 p.m.

The Man in Possession."

World.

A Powerful Story,

Teeming with

Action and

Suspense!

The Big

Thrill Picture of

1931.

Love...lure... Shatred...perils ...adventure. everything is in the sensational. "DIRIGIBLE"

with

JACK HOET

RALPH GRAVES FAY WRAY

(

A FRANK CAPRA Production!

A.

COLUMBIA PICTURE

NEXT CHANGE.

Who

Is

She?

Mother's MILLIONS

Star.

"Now York Nights."

KOWLOON.

Romance;

Central.

With Greta Garbo.

COMING.

Mothers Million"

Conunon Law."

With Jack Holt

The Common Law."

"Charley's Aunt."

With Charles Ruggles and

Jane Collyer.

"Are You There ?"

King's

With Bentrico Lillie,

4

Her Wedding Night"

Merely Mary Ann."

"Bad Girl."

Queen's.

World.

Star.

Love is Like That."?"

The Lyon's Mail."

Dawn Patrol."

High Society Blues,"

Dynamite."

Love's Identity" (Part 2)

(Chiness picture).

Be Yourself

Ep. (Chinese picture).

"The Ghost Train,"

Three Liva Ghosts." Good News."

KINGS THEATRE

HONGKONGS

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 230, 5.10, 7:15 AND 9.30 PM.

with

When 5 Days' Lova

TRANSATLANT

EDMUND

LOWE

LOIS

MORAN

Tangled lives

with

unravel amid the Greta Nissen luxury of an ocean "greyhound.

Myrna Loy

mean a

lifetime

of living!

Directed by:

William

NEXT CHANGE-

Ealph Forbes Charlie Huggies Skeets Gallagher

and

Happy days ahe d! The Red-Bead estehes the handsomest

.. lover on the

seroon.Ralph Forbes 1

CLARA

BOW

K. Howard Her Wedding Night

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

"TRANSATLANTIC." "THE MAN IN

HER WEDDING"

NIGHT

CLARA BOW AT HER BEST.

LOVE. IN A DE LUXE LINER.

One of the most interesting pic tures of the season is now being show at the King's Theatre.

It is "Transatlantic," a-fox pru duction, which has a long list of screen favourites, headed by Ed

und Love, in its cast,

POSSESSION."

ROBERT MONTGOMERY SCORES AS A BUTLER

Robert Montgomery turns butler in "The Man in Possession" which is "now showing at the Queen's Theatre. a

ด

racenera

d Paramount Picture

LYA DE PUTTI.

11

FILM VAMP WITH THE SORROWFUL EYES.

HOSPITAL WALK THAT COST

HER LIFE.

New York, Friday-The late Lya Do Putti," Hungarian im vamp who died in New York from blond poisoning fought steadily against her illness-until Tuesday. Then she got out of bed, eluded the nurses and reached a corridor. She was found wandering about the hospital.

Her Wedding Night," the fast and funny Avery Hopwood farce which come to the King's Theatre

Transatlantic, briefly, has to

This adventure brought on the Thursday next, might have been do with the fangled lives"of

dozen or so "men and women who In his new vehicle. the young.

pneumonia. For two days she 'lay written expressly for Clara Bow, art out from an American port for Siar appears as the hero of a de-conscious; then she died. And for, in it, the red-haired star has a Unknown to each other before the an English butler to accominoduse "walk along the hospital corridor Europe aboard a de fuze diner. lightful masquerade, impersonating now it is revealed that but for her role that fits her personality and vesselslips its mecrings, they a dashing young widow-in-distress, her life. might have been saved, talents to a "Her Wedding tangle which takes the entire voy the story unfolds, also taking the speedily become involved İzl A In fact, he goes a bit farther, as Night" is pure, light-hearted fun, fage across the Atlantic to unravel place of her absent lover.

Art of Vamping. "Hor Wedding Night" is jolly and class pambier of the Robin Hood screen version

Aboard is Edmund Lowe, a high Sam Wood directed this hilarious Lya de Putti was only 29 years psuedo-serious. "Her Wedding type. Ho also find Loia Moran, wood stage hit and has endowed of the vamp than any other woman' of the H.M. Har-old, but she knew more of the art Night" tells of the adventures of daughter of an old German lens the production with a a red-haired movie star on vaca grinder, played by Tean Hershoir that never relents. The dialogues as on the films or on the stage. tion in Paris and of her fight to a wealthy banker; his wife-Myrna action is swift despite the some common with the voluptuous Clare Then, too, there is John Falliday, smart and sophisticated and the In appearance, she and little in. escape her suitors. What could Loy; Swedish dancer-Greta what cramped locale of the English Bow. Lya de Putti was slight, with uit Clara Bow better than that?

Nissen, and other fascinating cottage. Úlara Bow's youthful, light-

figures.

Montgomery is smilingly at ens an alluring igure. Her hair was Lows befriends Miss Moran, and in even the most disastrous me hearted, appeal is at its best in she immediately falls in love with mants of his masquerade and offers the colour of copper. But it was in force comedy of this kind, into the handsome, debonair gambler, perhaps the most engaging per her eyes that seemed to hide a world which not a mement of real serious her husband from Greta, Nissan,

Miss Loy enliste his aid in saving, formance of his career.

of sorrows that she jound her drama enters. Clara, on ber mad and Lowe has plans of his own for supporting cast as the maid-of-ali Charlotte Greenwood tops the fight to the south of France to taking over some of Halliday's sur work who becomes a committos-of plus cash, with which he is fleeing, one to watch the new butler's antics escape her self-styled sweethearte, from his tottering bank. is mistaken for an eloping bride.

with profound' suspicion, which is more than justified when she dis and on top of that denial came Skeets Gallagher, traveling under

covers his familiarity with the this solema summary of men as they an assumed name to help out his

Miss Moran is sweet and lovely

mistress' boudoir.. friend, Ralph Forbes, is

may be vamped: mis- Ag the young German-American taken for

en eloping bride girl, concerned over the fate of her groom.

father who almost loses his mind at Before either of them the news of the bank, disaster. Stroheim, and he cast her an im af more Northern races. knows what is happening, they are Hersholt, of course, gives an ex married by an ambitious and oblig. collent account of himself in the

character role of the old German. ing small-town mayor, and, as William K. Howard, has directed 8keets uses his Resumed name in this picture with a renk feeling for signing the marriage register, values. He has never let the story which he mistakes for a hotel replausible and absorbing.

get out of hand, and it always is gister, Clara finds herself wedded to a munn abe has never met.

of

Lowe is convincing as the light hearted and light-fingered gentle man who lives by his wits

“DIRIGIBLE.”

LEADING LADY AND, HER

HUSBAND.

tured the attention of Erie von

portant part in "The Wedding

greatest power.

Yet she always denied that she was herself anything of a vamp;

"Franchmen, I think,

tre the hardest to vamp in real life. Men.

are the

"Englishmen - know very

easiest.

little of them; I cannot say "

GOSSIP AND FACT

Actros and Pickled Onions,

Mario Burke's confession that son

đ

is famt of pickled onions has intri- Kurt her admirers immensely gallery girl approuched her after a receni performance and asked if it wory true,

My rugther makes.

pickled onions," she said, "and I'd love to send you a bottla. But evon Maria's incorrigible sense of humbur boggles at the possibility of someone handing her up a bottle_of pickled onions at a first-night--in-- stead of a bouquet!

*

Gangster Drama,

Will anyone who goes to the Ra gul Cinema London and sees Hus ton in "The Star Witness" place his hand en his heart and swear that there is no farther interest in gangster pictures

"The question was put by Ernest Betty of the Evening Standard. Ho, like all the arities, finds this story of a terroriasd family some thing new in gangster films, bia+ part of the old war veteran, Grandpa Summerill (oleverly play- ed by Mr. Charles Sale), who, whene

all the rest are cowed, brings the gang to justice, being an appor ing featuro.

Contrasting with this strong drama is "Expensive Women," in- which. Dolores Costello returns t the screen to take part in a clever and sophisticated comedy of life in the smart set.

Mary Boland Jolas Paramount,

Mary Boland, Broadway star of "The Vinegar Tree;" has signed a ecutract whereby she becomes a fea tured player in Paramount pictures. Miss Boland recently appeared in Personal Maid" and "Scenoty of a Secretary.",

The beat of the human heart has been recorded for the first time for. a talking picture production.. Thu sound effect was actually sceared; by Houben Mamoulian, who is directing Fredric March and Miriam Hopking in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as the Paramokus studios. The super-sensitive micro- phone was placed over March's heart and recorded like the thunder of a bass drum.

Joan of Arc Returns,

"Passing Through Lorraine," produced by the Arts Theatre Club in London has the effect of a good joke too elaborately played. The sotme is a farmhouse in Lorraine five centuries ago, into which wan ders one of the many girls of the perfod who pretended to be Joan of Arc, miraculously returned to earth after her martyrdom. The speech and the characters, however, ave those of today. Thus a pair of troubadours behave like stage. nowspaper reporters, the village priest reminds one of Mr. George Robey and a cynical neighbour talks rather sa though ho has just been reading Mr. Aldous Huxley. Mr. Lionel Hale, the author (a former editor of Isia"), shows that he has both humour and dramatic skill in this fantasy, but the idea would be improved by condensation:

June's Future.

Search is still being made for, a suitable play cr-fures in which June (Lady Inverclyde) will return to the West End (of London) early in the New Year. In the meantime

March," This was the beginning of her success, There followed a fong list of achievements which advanced To talk with her for only a few her to the first rank of stardom, minutes was to learn that love had Among the pictures on which she played a profound part in her pri climbed the ladder of fame worn Tale life.

Legion of the Condemned," All this public talk of love,

June is anxious that her forth "Thunderbolt," and "Tour Fon affairs and divoros frightens me,” coming visit should not be inter- she said: "People will soon begi.preted as indicating any change in Her first talkie rôle was in the to think that no film artist can be Paramount picture, The Legion happy in, marriage, That is not of the Condemned" opposite Gary true and it is not good for the Cooper. Following this she play films, vie

thors

When Clara and Forbes mest each other as man and wife, things start to happen. Charlie Ruggles, the incomparable comedian

ed leading roles in “ The Sea. God" || "I-I know what love can be. 1 and The Texan," and was cast have loved and, been loved, "Queen High" and other hita, com-

in the principal feminine rôle of But my love will be my own plicates overy situation, aided by

Columbia' Dirigible, which is secret. Every true artist has her Often, when one member of a playing at the Central Theatre to reserve" a bevy of Parisian beauties, in the marriage partnership attains a day. plade med gang pada

She was married twice, first to persons of Geneva Mitchell, Rosita place of prominence in the public Curicasly encugh, though her hus: Baron de Putti, a Hungarian army Moreno and Natalie Kingston, But The exception is to be found in the though she has been a passenger dissolved, to Ceunt Louis Christia)

oye, the other sink into oblivion band is an air authority, and officer, and when this marriage was this strange marriage, which seems caso of Fay Wray, and her husband.numerous times in heavier-than-air son a Swedish Embassy official in headed for the Parisian divorce Mr Saunders the screen scenarist and lighter than air ships, Diri Berlin, who died in 1925. court. introduces a Venetian" luney

and histrionic ability of alim, brownxibla is the fret big air picture Lya de Putai's favourite drone was Miss Wray is a screen star of in which this actress has worked. a white silk priams suit, buttoned note and Mr. Saunders is author of Mise Wray was born in Alberta, tightly near the ankles and vanish- suah well known sorden vehicles as Canada September 1907. In ing into openwork silver slippers "Her Wedding Night" love-and-Wings," "The Dawn Patrol, appearance she is delicate, and I she fult at all cool, she would laughter all through. Frank and a series of short stories in a semingly slight, but in reality, she throw over har shoulders a loose Tutele, the man who made "Love popular magazine..

ia a crack tennis playe, n'fine golfer coat of pink silk and a scurt of Beginning her mopio career as the an an all-around athlete, Among the Millionaires" and leading woman in

many colours, shingað, 7 A Century She is a prolific reader with At Eistras, "Sweetie," directed "Her Wedding comedy, the personal attractiveness vart fund of general knowledge Tas footlights and the otlight Night Clara Bow is more attrae and histrionic ability of slim, brown which she puts to practical use in were her friends throughout her haired, blue eyed Mim Wray cap heining Hor husband to revise some short life. It was as a child balles

(Continued an nezi Column.) of his manuscripts.

(Continued at foot of next colume,)

mean?

tive than she has ever been before..

hor plans te marry Mr Lothari Mondes, the American film director. "Nothing is further from the case," she says in a cable to Mr. J. D Davies, her London agent.

dancer that she fret a appeared on

Germany, co-although the was the stage, in Berlin. It was in Hungarian-that the first Yound

film fame when she appeared with Emil Jannings in "Vaudeville.",

vift succession. Then she came to

Buccosses followed each other.

Elstror in 1029 to make the Bri picture The Informer."

to Hollywood After that she would

would not go back She believed that the future of the films lay not in Hollywood but in Germany and England,

tish

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 AND 9.20

Robert

Star with the Million. Doliar Personality

MONTGOMERY

his

new

The Man in Possession

With

Charlotte Greenwood Irene Purcell C. Aubrey Smith

TO-MORROW

FOR ONE DAY ONLY! BY SPECIAL REQUEST The BRITISH Success

GHOST TRAIN

SEE

JACK HULBERT 6 CICELY COURTNEIDGE

IN THE GREATEST MYSTERY THRILLER EVER SCREENED

TRAIN PLUNGES OVER BRIDGE-EXCITING — WEIRD-MYSTERIOUS,

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 AND 9,20

Greta

Garbo

in her triumphant successor to Anna Christie

Romance