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CENTRAL

[ THEATRE WAT

TO-DAY AT THE

King'a.

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

Trans-Atlantic."

SHOWING TO-DAY [Queen's.

Dirigible."

The Ghost Train." Central..

At 2:30, 5.10, 7.18 and 9.20 p.m.

World.

Dawn Patrol,"

KOWLOON.

A Powerful Story,

Teeming with

Action and

Suspense!

The Big

Thrill Picture of

1931.

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

"DIRIGIBLE"

with

JACK HOLT RALPH GRAVES

FAY WRAYE

A FRANK CAPRA Production

A*

COLUMBIA PICTÚRI

NEXT CHANGE

Who

1s

She ?

Star.

King's.

Three Live Ghosts."

COMING.

Hor Wedding Night." "Marely Mary 'Aon." "Bad Girl,"

Queen's,

"The Lyon's Mail."

Love is Like That," Laughing Sinners," O Sailor Behave," Central.

Mothers Millions." The Common Law."

Constance Bennett. "Are You There?"

World.

Star.

With Bentrice Lillie.

Charley's Aunt."

With Charles Ruggles and

Jane Collyer.

High Society Blues."

deloved Martyr."

(Chinese Film);

"Dynamite."

HONG KONG DALY PRESS TUESDAY JANUARY 5. 1932.

GS

THEATRE

RONGKONGS FINEST UNEX

LAST TWO DAYS AT 230, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.30 PM.

with

EDMUND

Α

When 5 Days' Love

LEAZYAL

LOWE

Love's Identity"

(Part 2)

LOIS MORAN

""

(Chinese picture).

"Be Yourself."

Ep. (Chinese picture).

"The Ghost Train."

"Gond NewL"

New York Nights."

"Viking."

"Rookery Nook”

við

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Tangled lives unravel amid the Greta Nissen luxury of an ocean greyhound

Myrna Loy

mean a

lifetime of living!

PICTURE

Directed by William

**K. Howard

NEXT CHANGE-

with

Ralph Forbes Charlie Ruggles Skeets Gallagher

and

Happy days abead! The Red Head catches tho handsomest lover on the screon, Ralph Forbes 1

CLARA

BOW

Her Wedding Night

"A Paramount Picture

MR. WM, WALTON'S "BELSHAZZAR'S

FEAST:"

NEW WORK A TRIUMPH ...FOR BRITISH MUSIC.

London, Doc. 12-Lust night's B.B.C. concort will possibly.come to be regarded as an historie oc- casion, for young Mr. William Walton's Bolshazzar's Foust," a work of immensa "significance, was being given for the Arst time la London.

is

Here is oratorio with a difference. oratorio as regarded by the modern" school, for Mr. Walten is only twenty-nine. Far behind the conventional religious composition of the sadute Kupollmaister) with ita Mendelsschnian choruses, ita prim little arina, and ita recitativos after the manner of Handol,

The composer has taken abac baric and dramatic subject, and has trented it with an abundance of stashing rhythm, his recitatives being confined to unaccompanied islamations Vadmirably sung by. Mr. Stuart Robertson)" o 21 pronounced Oriental bingo. Vitality and Vigour. The chorus shout away gaily in triumph-in,, very' truth happy Incise

hear or wailin lamentation, the latter much less

to

frequently, since the exultant and victorious note is uppermost,

The vitality and vigour of the whole thing are amazing; sc aro its cloverness and, above all, the essential sanity of its inspiration. Mr. Walton is never odd for the sake of oddity. Although he makes full use of modten resources, he nover does so with affectation, "Belshazzar's Feast" is greatest achievement in British music for any years-and it would be hard to find within that period anything the Continent has pro dused to compare with it.

MOVIE NEWS Why Berlin Leads Paris

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

THE GHOST TRAIN" "TRANSATLANTIC."

AGAIN.

RETURNING TO THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"The Ghost Train" will "return to the Queen's Theatre to-day is a capital blend of thrills and laugh- tez.

The story is of passengers stranded for the night on a way side station in Cornwall. They are warned by the station-master fore he goes off duty that the place is haunted, and he tells a gruesome story of disaster years ago and the hunting of the line by a train which comes screeching through the night. To look on it is to court

death.

MOTHER'S

MILLIONS.'

LİNER'S CARGO OF BEAUTY

AND TALENT,

"HER WEDDING NIGHT.'

CLARA BOW AND CHARLES RUGGLES.

Anchors weigh! Full speed! ahead! Those who like romanee liner flavoured with the Juxury of a big Charles Ruggies mannerisms of King's Theatre where the Fox hot simulated, according to those recommended to the speech, his chief comedy asset are drama, Franoatlantic," with Ed-who know him at the Paramount the lending roles is now sailing its ef clipping off his words in the mund Lowe and Lois foran in Hollywood studios. Ruggles' style entertaining course,

British manner, at the same time pronunciation purely

From the moment Edmund Lowe, using

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lips aboard the 9.8. Transatlantic, his cherub smile. as suave and debonair gambler American, is as 'natural to him as" to escape the district attorney's graft probe, until the ocean grey prises of my life when I first heard It was one of the grent sur hond docks at its European port my voice from the screen" Ruggies only to Lowe, but to his fellow and always with me and to which things happen rapidly, and not teenfls. "It's something I have passagers whis include Leis Moran 1 had paid little attention up to grinder, impersonated by Jean Her-ayered from the shock yet." is daughter of a German lens that time. I haven't entirely re- sholt, and an absconding banker. played by John Halliday, whose temperament, quick, nervous, alert Ruggles voice is indicative of his. nefarious operations have cost Herts everything that goes on about sholt his life savings.

To add to the complications Dialogue script girls at the Para Halliday is accompanied by his mount studios in Hollywood, where wife, Myrna Loy, and aboard ship luggles recently worked in the new is also Halliday's-light of love, &Clara Bow, hit, Har Wedding

him.

FINE FILM COMING TO THE le portrayed By Greta Nissen. Night," booked for showing Thurs

CENTRAL.

If you're worried about not hav ing enough money, you'll get doubie your share of enjoyment out "Mo., ther's Milliona," the Universal pic. ture which will be the next attrac-| tion at the Central Theatre. This picture presents a highly diverting and, at times, strongly dramatic story of folks who had to fight their wealth for their own happiness.

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Love gives about the best per-day next. at the King's. Theatre, formance of his career while Luis claim they have had twice as much Moran is as-sweet and convincing mark to do since Ruggles invaded 29 ser. Greta Nissen, the blonde Hollywood. Dialogue script girla and Myrna Loy are good as ever. take shorthand notes of every line the players speak while they are before the cameras, to secure an unquestionable record of any chan-, ges from the written script that might be made while words are attored.

"DIRIGIBLE."

MADE BY THREE EX-ENGINEERS.

By curious. coincidence, all three of the men, chiefly responsible for "Dirigible," Columbia's air speci

Ruggies, after habit derived from long experiences as a vinyas comedian, #

3.8 he goes Baga, 11 important oues, but, at the through hit soenes, forgetting no in playing for the laughs,

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In Her Wedding Night,"

The leading figure in a fabulously al showing to-day at the Central Baggies has a part in Clara Bow's wealthy woman with fighting Theatre, started in life as enginefrat screen faree comedy with Ralph heart, who bents the crooked maniors. pulators of millions at their own engineering at the Virginia Mili and Skeeta Gallagher,"

Jack Holt specialized in civil Beste" and "A Lady of Scandal," Forbes, the romantic hero of "Beau gning. But hers is a fight for me tary Institute, and followed the happiness of others, and the manner work at various times in his career after graduating, but has never

TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY... MARTIN HARVEY AND

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in which her triumph is reached forms one of the most entertaining, engineer.

pretended seriously that he is an "THE LYONS MAIL." talking, pictures of recent weeks. Ralph Craves comes of a long: Frances Dade, one of the coming prepared for a career in the pro- line of engineering ancestors, and youngsters on the screen to-day, has fession of his father and grandfa- a leading part in the picture which ther at the Caso School of Applied. was written especially for Mayown

Science in Cleveland, O., bis homel Robson, beloved character star of jurgy

Ho took

սր metal. Cinema nudiences will be privileg and worked 蹈! the legitimate stage. Others in the tor

ite to see, some very interesting time, but soon cast of screen. favorites are James up to go on the stage. Once since "The Lyons Mail," showing to- gave double-exposure photography in Hall, Lawrence Gray Edmund turned to the engineering profes Martin Harvey, who plays the starting his picture career he re-morrow at the Queen's. Sir John Breese, Elinor Flynn and Lillian sion for two years, but again gave famous dual role, will actually be Harmer...

it up to answer the call of the aes as the good Lesurques address- The picture was adapted from the

camera and footlights.

isg Dubosc, his vilianous counter- stage play." Mother's Millions," by Howard McKout Darnes. It was

Mother's MILLIONS adapted for the screen by Winifed

Dunn, James. Flood directed.

the California Institute of Technameraman on "The Lyons Mail" Frank Capra,director, attended mit. Sydney Blythe, who is chief cology, as a chemical engineer in his achieved some very remarkable into the army and did not return with Baynham Hoari, the chief 18, but almost immediatly went chamatic effects in collaboration. to engineering, after the war.scand engineer."

in the Film Race.

[BY ERNEST BETTS.}

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Londen, Dec. -To-day eno al the most interesting of our talkie I have been talking to Miss Mul- visitors from the. Continent leaves ler about the big European talkie London for Berlin to continue her push in which she has had a share, work in films and the theatre. and I am now able, to plore the She is Miss. Renate Muller, the veil of "graceful anonymity which young Gorman actress who made has hitherto obscured her talents an instantaneous hit in Sunshine to English eyes. Susic," the new Gainsborough Mias Muller, whom I would film at the Capitol Theatre, describe as a magnetic blonde, with Miss Muller's visit is a reminder brown eyes, the leng, slender eye.. of the increasingly powerful link brown of the film star, and a very which now exists between London keen sense of humour, has mado and Berlin, not only in talkies but talkies in Berlin, Rome and Lon. in social and cultural matters 'don. Berlin is always talking to through her films..

It used to be Paris which was) Berlin and then took up the theatre the predominant attraction. When professionally," she told me. "I Rene Clair made Sous les Toits toured Germany in musical comedy de Paris" and Le Million," and dramatic roles, and gained ex- everybody talked of French filma perience in all kinds of parts. and the French advance in talkie My first talkie I made in 1929 technique. Daring esthetes flew to with the boxer, Max Schmeling, Paris to be in the movement. Lon-for Terra Films, in Berlin. don drawing-rooms abook with! "After that made a film, in Gallic enthusiasm.

Gorman, with Emil Junning. Unfortunately, French films have called The Darling of the Gods. failed to produce a star, for It was just after he had made The Vanda Greville, who played the Blue Angel, which brought such lead in known over here.

Le Million, is not really fame to German talkies.

"After that I went to Rome and Berlin is making the stars and appeared with Gustav Frolich in thrusting them into the broad light "The Song of Love, which we made of day-while Paris aleeps,

Gorman and French, so I can Miss Renate Muller, who comesperience in talkie-making."

really claim seme international ex- from the Berlin school of talkie. Miss Mulier is still under con artists, had already scored a Contract to make two or three films in- tinental success in "The Private be in French, German and Eng Germany, the first of which will Secretary," the original of "Sun-lish. Then she hopes to come back shino Susio in Germany, before to London to appear in musical she came to Londen. Sho knew talkie. British films will be the comedy-and perhaps another the whole thing by heart.

gainer by it.

GOSSIP AND FACT. Madge Kendal, by whom he had ason and a daughter. The marri- age was dissolved eighteen years

ago.

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Mr. Bertie Meyer.

Mr. Bertie Meyer, the well- Lealie Henson's Plans. known theatre manager who is pre- Leslie Henson is to remain faith entingElizabeth of England at ful to faree, which, considering the Cambridge, London, has be that profitable venture,

"It' come engaged to Mica Rosemary Boy," is hardly surprising. The Ames, an American actress. Miss same company, or the more; pro- Ames, who is in her early twenties, minent parts thereof, which appear is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.ed in this farce at the Strand Thea Knowltcu L. Ames, her father be-tre are busy rehearsing another one ing a newspaper proprietor in of the same type. In this Leslie Chicago, She received a stage Henson. himself, Vesta

Sylva, training at the Royal Academy of Austin Melford and Bydney Ho Dramatic Art in London, and was ward will appear, and it is shap lately appearing at the Phoenix in ing in very promising fashion, "Late Night Final," a play deal-This is no indication that it wilf ing with the methods of the less be produced in the near future, if reputable American newspapers, at all, at the Strand Theatro, where Mr Mayer, who is 34, was former Counsel's Opinion continuer ly married to a daughter cf Dame do very well

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 AND 9.20

BY SPECIAL REQUEST THE BRIGHT AND MYSTERIOUS DRAMA! A BRITISH SUCCESS

IN EVERY SENSE OF

THE WORD

GHOST

TRAI

ILE:

JACK HULBERT & CICELY COURTNEIDGE

47%

IN THE GREATEST MYSTERY THRILLER EVERSCREENED › TRAIN PLUNGES OVER

· BRIDGE—EXCITING' —' WEIRD-MYSTERIOUS!

TO-MORROW

THE CELEBRATED DRAMA OF THE ENGLISH STAGE

NOW

AN ALL BRITISH SUCCESS

SIR JOHN MARTIN HARVEY

The Lyons Mail

With

NORAH BARING BEN WEBSTER

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW. AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9,20

IMPRESSIONS OF

THOSE ROLLICKING

"JONES"

H

"THREE

GHOSTS

LIVE

"SPOOFY"

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