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CENTRAL

TRENERE

SHOWING TO-DAY

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Central..

Mother's Millions."

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

King's.

Quaen's..

"The Lyons Mail."

The Picture that w

"

Rocked a Nation

with Laughter.

NEW-UNUSUAL-

DIFFERENT-MYSTERY

-DRAMA-COMEDY-

ROMANCE THRILLS!

Who

Is

She ?

Mother's MILLIONS

Who is she?--You'll End out when you see the comedy they're all talking about..... the picture that introduces you to the most amazing set of young folks you've ever heard of

SEE the

picture that hubbles over with. merriment without the aid of Gin, Jazz or Jamboree! With MAY ROBSON, Francis Dade, Lawrence Gray.

James "Hall; From the play by Howard McKent Barnes.

NEXT CHANGE

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD- was the unhappiest woman on earth!"

See the story

of her tragic love Constance BENNETT

The COMMON LAW

Har finest rola, her areatest triumph since "COMMON CLAY'I

Her Wedding Night" With Clara Bow.

Dawn Patrol,"

KOWLOON.

atar.

"Good News,

COMING.

Central.

"The Common Law,"

King's.

Constance Bennett,

Charley's Aunt."

With Charles Ruggles and

June Collyer,

!' Silonce,"

With Clive Brook.

Morely, Mary Ana."

"Bad Girl."

Tilly of Bloomsbury,” A British Pieters..

Queen's.

Laughing Sinnors

With Joan Crawford. Love is Like That." "Oh Sailor Behave," World.

Atar.

High Society Blues." "Boloved Martyr." (Chinese Tin). "Dynaanita."

Love's Identity"

(Chiness picture).

"Be Yourself."

(Part 2)

Ep. 1 (Chinese picture).

The Ghost Train?

"New York Nights." "Viking."

"Rookery Nook,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY

LAST

DAYS

The best. man

wins the "* It" girl in a marriage muddle like this!

JANUARY 8, 1932

KING'S

2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 4.30 PM

Prettier I "Tier Than Ever I

CLARA BOW

IN

"Her Wedding

Night"

AParamount Ploture

with

Ralph Forbes, Charlie Ruggles and Skeets Gallagher

NEXT CHANGE COMMENCING SUNDAY, 10TH JAN.

SILENCE

Garment Picture

CLIVE BROOK Peggy Shannon Charles Starrett

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 95313.

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

THE LYONS MAIL.

FINE ACTING IN THE OLD TRADITION.

MELODRAMA AT THE QUEENS.

There is an ail British programme at the Queen's Theatre to-dily to Saturday-a most interesting news- ren, a comedy of the early days of the war called Joining Up." and that favourite old melodrama, "The Lybos Mail," which, if its picture form" reveals itself in rather different aspect.

TRANCES DADE and JAMES HALL

Frances Dade and James Hall in Mother's Millions", at the

Central Theatre.

&

CAREER.

HOW HE ROSE TO LEAD IN İ "MOTHER'S MILLIONS."

Most people in pictures work up from a humble beginning, but this in

SILENCE."

WITH CLIVE BROOK AND PEGGY SHANNON,

HER WEDDING

NIGHT

CLARA BOW ON THE RIVIERAL

Pi

Clara Bow, all dressed up in new's trousseau right from Paris, plays her first straight farce rule.

Her Wedding Night," the

QUEENS

THEATRE E

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20

THE CELEBRATED DRAMA OF THE ENGLISH STAGE

•NOW

SUCCESS

King's Theatre feature for to-day, AN ALL BRITISH Ralph Forbes, Charles Rugglos aud. Skeets Gallagher are also in the *cast.

"

Avery Hopwood; author gf Fair and Warmer," "The Gold Diggers, Tho Girt in the Limou atac,"

"Ladies' Night," The Bat Getting Gertie's Garter,** "The "D:mi-Virgin." The Beat People" and "Little Miss Blue. beard," a great array of Broadway atnge hits... wrote. "Her Wedding Night" In this Clara is cust as a red-haired movie star asking reclusion from a host of suitors.

"Not a moment of dramatic ne tion," says Frank Tuttle. It's all for laughs and laughs for all." And Tuttle, who directed "Swee- tie," "True to the Navy," "Loyo Among the Millionaires," as well as Her Wedding Night," knowa his laughs, and he knows Clara Bow.

The story opens in Baris with. Clara preparing for her fight into the south of Franer. On the train ride, she is mistaken for an eluping bride, married to Skeets Gallagher in spite of herself, and, as-Galla- gher is travelling under an assumed name. Clara really becomes, the wife of a man she has never met, Ralph Forbes. Then Charles Ruggles complicates the picture with his droll humour and a bevy of beauties, including Goneva Mit- chell, Rosita Moreno end Natalie Kingston, and things start to hap pen. The finish ia n. great love

"Silence" which a few years ago thrilled Broadway audiences on the atage, has been brought to the serced by Paramount" under, the gene, with Clara and ber strange direction of Max Marcin, its husband headed for 3 honeymoon in author, and Louis Gusnior, and Venice.

will show at the King's Theatro here, beginning on Sunday.

The thrilling melodrama has been filmed with Clive Brook playing the rule which H. B. Warner made famous on the stage, Marjorie Ram

beau and Peggy Shannon have the

"THE COMMON LAW."

APARIS STUDIO PICTURE.

The Bohemian life of the Paris chief feminine parts, and Charles art colony is pictured in Constance Starrett,

who played opposito Bennett'a new film for BKO Patho, Marian Hopkins in... Fast and

"The Common Law," will be the

Loose," earries the juvenile róla, next attraction at the Contrai.

Theatre.

"Silence is the story of likable, and handhome crook whose crimes Many of the scenes are played bring ruin and death to the women in a Parie studio. Some of the lis joves, His daughter, while most unusual are those depicting baby, 19 taken from him, and

SIR JOHN MARTIN HARVEY

The Lyons Mail

brought up in the home of a kind "The Four Arta Ball" in full foster-father. Youre later, crook, still pursuing his lawless part in the ball sequence, ninety re

the swing. Five hundred players take career, meets his daughter. When

the girl is threatened with diagrac four of whom are beautiful girls and ruin because of her real in dresses made after these worn father's past, the crook, by a great by models at the Paris festival sacrifice, attempts to shield her,

With

NORAH BARING BEN WEBSTER

"

ALSO

SHOWING

CINE REVIEW

and

JOINING UP”

NEXT ATTRACTION

JOAN

CRAWFORD

is here

in a

dramatic

talkie

smash

LAUGH

with

SING

Nell Hamilton Clark Gable Marjorie Rymbeau Guy Kibbee

STAR

Only the girl's great love and sour- Henry Clive, the American TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

age save him from death,

painter, who has studied in Paris, Clive Brook playa" the central acted as technical director for the

SINNERS"rive Brook plays the central

"LAUGHING

AT THE QUEEN'S.

WITH JOAN CRAWFORD AND HARRY BEAUMONT.

haired Peggy Shannon, who made art colony sequences." her sereen debut in "The 'Serret Joel McCrea, the hero of Miss Call," plays two roles in "Silence." Bennett's recent picture, Born To She is seen as the wife and daugh Love" plays the American artist ter of Clive Brook, but the two

characters never meet in the story in The Common Law." Other nction.. The plot covers a period featured roles are played by Lew of twenty years, the early sequences Cody, Robert Williams, Hedda going to pre-war days of hobble

mont were associated in the making gardens for their action.

Joan Crawford and Harry Benu-kirts, old fashioned ears and beer Hopper, Marion Shilling and Paur

not what happened to Lawrence of motion pictures for the fourth Gray, the clever juvenile of "My time when "Laughing Sinners" ther's Millius," now playing at was screened at the Metro-Goldwyn. the Central Theatre. Gray has the Mayer studio under Beaumont's distinction of starting a produc direction and with Joan in the {tion super-intendent and working starring role.

down to the extra lad,,

Ellis,

WHAT HOLLYWOOD THINKS OF

LAST YEAR'S PICTURES.

The con of the play naturally remains, and Sir John Martin Harvey gives a magnificent example of the careful and exquisite net he of the period when the play was young, that period in which his- trionic art probably reached its zenith in England.The Lyons" Mail," like "The Bells" and other LAWRENCE GRAY'S dramas of "the period, is a "play written round one part.

If the netor taking that part fails the whole play falls with him, but it he succeed he carries everything with him to the pinacle of success.

Sir John Martin Harvey succeeds. The lovely notes of his voice, his perfect dietion, and his ability to make every movement, even to the smallest gesture, siguifennt and interesting, dro the result of care. ful training on the lines of a great tradition. The film does not appear to move as quickly as the play, but it has been staged with a

The star first played under Beau- It seems that in 1921 when young | mont's guidance "in""Out Duncing realism impossible without the Gray was looking for something Daughters," and followed this with ources available to the film pro- interesting in the way of work he "Our Blushing Brides" and the duced. The first scanes in Lesur came to Hollywood and got himself recent" Dance, Fools, Dance." The guca' houss would be attractive, and a positic with the Famous Players new Crawford film which is coming interesting simply on count of Lasky Company & production to the Queen's Theatre is an adapta. Academy of Motion Picture Arts Barrymore for his performance in Awards of the her work in Men and Bill" and their setting against which the de-auperintendent He held the job tion of the Kenyon Nicholson stage and Sciences have a meaning to the "A Free "Soul," both of which licate beauty of Norah, Baring and for two years, and then went to hit, "The Torch Song."

2! the charm and dignity of her acting New York to scok greater oppor. Neil Hamilton and Clark Gable sends the applause of the crowd or Goldwin-Mayer productions.

Hollywood cominunity which tran- pictures were ineidentally Metro.. gain full value. A glimpse of the the stage, but not satisfied with share leading man honours in this the approval of the critics. The

tunities; While there he went on highwaymen huddled under fen- New York, returned to Hollywood Rambeau, Guy Kibbee, Cliff Ed. film and the cast includes Marjorie fless trees is revealed by the light determined to stay.. of the moon (or by some device sought work in the studios, this short, George Cooper, George F. And so it was that he again warda, Roscoe Karns, Gertrude which admirably simulates it) and time as a film actor-and he was

Marion and Bert Woodruf so gains a significance never dreams given the shance to play extra rôles of on the stage. The moli scenes, In the studio where he used to be asis only to be expected, gain production superintendent.. enormously.

However, his rise was rapid, and Miss Robson is starred in the prin Robson's son, a lovable scapegrace. he was soon put on the list of icipal role as she was in the original Dressler were duly crowned King got three different awards (1) as contract players. wasn't a great stop to juvenile Hall, Frances Dade,

From there it play. Others in the cast are James and Queen" at the annual awards the best produced film of the year,

The Lyons Mail is well worth seeing simply for the magnificent noting of Sir John Martin Harvey, But it is besides that a thrilling story which does not ixil to grip and excite you even when you know the deponément before the curtain ia lifted.

Edmund

ANNUAL

The annual

ACADEMY AWARDS: TO MARIE DRESSLER

AND LIONEL BARRYMORE.

Academy judgment is that of pro- the best direction, "Cimarron" was "Skippy" gained the prize for

though it is interesting to note that Patrol" was judged to have the fessionals judging professionals voted the production while "Dawn the opinions of the Academy tend most original story... to parallel those which come from the public.

Lionel Barrymore and Marie

It is interesting to note that "Cimarron," which was not really a big success hore in Hong Kong

leads. With the advent of the Bresse, Lillian Harmer, Elinor dinner of the Academy of Motion (2) Howard Estabrook got the talkies he scored greater success Flynn and Lea Winslow. James Picture Arts and Sciences held at award for adaption for his work on than before. In Mother's Mil Flood directed the production, lions," he plays, the role of May which is based on the play by Ho the end of, 1988 in Hollywood Misswarded a prize for his art direar "Cimarrón,' (9) Max Boo was (Oontinued at foot of next column.) word MeKent Barnos,

Dressler gained, the awarded for tion of the same film.

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