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CENTRAL

YHEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 8.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

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Biggest Picture

Bnenett has made

Yet!

GLORIFICATION OF

LOVE..." LOVE PAINTED

THIS PICTURE. LOVE

NOTE THIS STORY."

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

Her finest rols; her. areatest triumph since "COMMON CLAY''I

NEXT CHANGE,

Gorzious Kay Francis, aweetheart of How York's brilliant silor. деу. For whom he risks scandal and prison.

WILLIAM

POWELL For the Defense

a Garamirent Gicture

with

4

Kay Francis

TO-DAY AT THE

King'a

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Silence."

With Clara Bow.

Contral.A

The Common Law

Queen's.

Laughing Sinners"

World.

Beloved Martyr."""

(Chinese Film).

KOWLOON.

Star

The Viking."

H

COMING.

Central,

**Charley's Aunt.".

With Charles Ruggles and

Funp. Collyer.

"Beyond Victory."

Shadow of the Law.

With William Powell

For the Defense."

William Powell and Kay

Framois.

King's. *

Tilly of Bloomsbury:

A British Pieturo.. Merely Mary Ann." "Bad Girl,"

Queen's.

..

Love is Like That." "Oh Sailor Behave," World,

Star.

"Dynamite."

"Love's Identity"

(Chinese picture).

"Be Yourself."

(Part

Ep. (Chinese picture).

The Ghost Train." "New York Nights."

Rookery Nook."

CONSTANCE

·THE "

2)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1932.

SHOWING TO-DAY

KING'S

SILENCE

AT 280, 5.10, 7.15. 9.30 P.M.

"Love opened his heart and sealed his. lips!

is life may

pay the penalty for his stubborn allanco why can't he spouk?

with

OLIVE BROOK

Marjorle Rambeau

Peggy Shannon

a Paramount Picture Charles Starrett

from Max Marcin's play

Directed by."

LOUIS GASNIER-MAX MARCIN -NEXT ATTRACTION-

Heartbreaks and laughter in the funniest film ever made

"TILLY OF BLOOMSBURY"

with SYDNEY HOWARD, PHYLLIS KONSTAM.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.

TEL. 25313..

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

BENNETT'S

TRIUMPH.

하

COMMON LAW" AT THE CENTRAL.

Constance Bennett is the star in the RKO "Pathe picture, The Common Law,” which opened Saturday at the Central Theatre, and the role is particularly duited to her beauty and talent,

The story is about an artists' model with advanced ideas of love and the man she joves who 'is modern in everything but love.

A scene from Silence" now showing at the King's.

SILENCE" AT THE

KING'S.

نی

Excellent acting in dramatic film "Silence," now showing at the

The art studio scenes are parti. cularly well done, and the scene representing the Parisian Four Arts Bail with its gorgeously costumed women stands out. Henry Clive,, the painter and illustrator," acted as technical director for these Parisian scenes. He had to con- duct a real beauty contest in order King's Theatre gives a dramatic to make a suitable selection of glimpse of one of those aspects of Constance Bennett undoubtedly American life which are so astonish. liked the role of Valorin West, ing to English people. Nover for moment dces the quality of her characterization lag" Throughout the picture she plays with understanding and restraint.

beautiful girls for the scene.

There are a group of under world figures, rather pleasant people some if them, but who all know some-

TILLY OF

BLOOMSBURY."

HOW THE LEADING MAN-

WAS INSURED.

#

COLONIES DEMAND BRITISH FILMS.

SUCCESS OF " DREYFUS” AND "MY WIFE'S FAMILY."

•

LAUGHING SINNERS"

AT THE QUEEN'S.

JOAN CRAWFORD AS SALVATION LASSIE,”

Admirers of Jean Crawford, and they are legion, have the apportun ity of seeing their favourite star in the prim garb of a Salvation Army lamaie " Laughing Sinners,"

now showing at the Queen's..

Miss Crawford plays the role of Ivy Stevens, a young and beautifu! cabaret singer who is deeply in love with a commercial traveller, Howard, played by Neil Hamilton. Their love developes into

intrigue in which they Boom completely happy. Howard, how- Lever, leaves the girl to marry a rich helress in his home town, and "Ivy is saved from suicide by a handsome young Salvation Army captain in the person of Clark Gable,

For year she retains a Salvu- tion Army worker, and finds hap.. piness in a platonic association with her deliverer, until there occurs a chance meeting with hor former lover in a small town. There fol- lows a sorica of dramatic scenes in which Join Crawford fights and at ono time yields to the urge to re-

rn to hor former ways of living. The outcome of the struggle, be tween the two sides of her nature forms the climax of the picture.

MISS NORAH BLANEY.

TO MARRY SURGEON AND LEAVE THE STAGE.

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www.

London-Romanice is to end "a famous stage partnership-that of

The Colonies strongly endorse the Miss Gwen Farrar and Miss Nerah principles of Empire Trade when Miss Blaney is to marry Mr. Basil Blaney-within the next few weeks:

the Old Country is able to supply Hughes, a Bradford surgeon. the right material for their feeds.

The couple met in the operating

An excellent illustration is furnitheatre of a Bradford hospital when

shed by the BUCCCES of

"My

Miss Blaney was taken ill during)

preterum of pantomime.

Wife's Family" at its recent mieres in the Queensland and toria territories in Australia, which

Miss Farrar in the musical play, Lutely she has been. starring with

Wondor Bar."

proves that this pictura contains the Miss Blaney and Miss Farrar re- formula of real "entertainment,

sumed their partnership last year after nearly four years of separa The Tivoli, Brisbane, reports tim. They had parted in America packed houses all day and the in 1920.

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S.R.O. sign was riecenazy every Last year Miss Blaney, in an un- night of the run. Local opinion defended petition, asked for the places My Wife's Family"

dissolution of her marriage with

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the best British film so far; thus Philip B. Durham, a theatrical: (*** puanager and, ngent, and Lord The Middle Watch, which was Merrivale pronounced a decree nisi. acknowledged as the biggest talkie The decreo was made absolute on success Australia had seen, vields

December 14. pride of place only to B.I.P. pro duot

At the same time

Dreyfus" was doing business at the Brisbane Win- ter Garden, which was quoted by the theatre management as being "more than "satisfactory."

WAX WOMEN BURNED

: HUMOURS AT A FIRE.

There were queer scenos nt, & fire which alarmed shoppers and others at Hackney,

The blaze was in one of the Lon-

Miss Bennett has an excellent Wing" of life behind prison wall during the filming of a production. the biggest attendances registered don. Co-operative Society's shops in '

supporting cat-Joel, McCrea, Low One or two of them as the story who directed the Sterling Co.'s Cody. Robert Williams, Hedday! Hopper, Marion Shilling, and

Paul Ellis.

Paul Stein directed. The screen play was adapted from Robert W. Chambers' novel, The Common Jay" by John Farrow.

M

M

The entry of talking pictures into the field of modern entertainment calls for a new method of insuring highly salaried film stars against any unforeseen accident that might mar the smooth running of a Talkie director's schedule. Every moment

costa big money, and Jack Raymond a talkie "Tilly of Bloomsbury" has progresses move right into different social status, from the the rare reputation for Sticking

to schedule" underworld to society, but, and thin

But there many a alip twiz is the most amazing thing to snobour and lip, so Sterling Film Co., bish England-when chance throws Ltd., have insured Sydney Howard, them in the company of their who is playing the part of Still- bottle in Ian Hay's well-known former associates, there "OH SAILOR BEHAVE!"

comedy--not only on general lines embarrassment on either side and

but principally for loss of voica, SCREEN VILLAIN IN COMEDY the society man" drops right back

The premium was a very heavy into the idiom of his early days.

quer in view of the usual writer It is a story of a man who

epidemic in England, of colds and Lowell Sherman, ond of the cherishes so great a love for the girl influence. This can be understood fereen's most popular villains, for win his nearly married in his when one considers that Sydney akes the heavy roles for a comedy ath that he is willing to face the Howard, was, at the same time play- characterization in Warner Bros. Now production, Oh Sailor Be scaffold to keep scandal from being an important comedy part at

which comes to the Queen's |

am.c after she in dead story the Strand Theatre, in" Theatres on Thursday. maja

It's Sherman, who supports Olsen which the acting of Clive Brook Boy. A strain on the vocal chords und Johnson. in their first screen males human and credible. The there must be for any artist who, vontura, eesays the rôle of à Ruasina

cast is extraordinarily good, besides absorbing the ass! moky count-Kosloff, by name-married

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Brisbane results were confirmed in Melbourne where My Wife's Family at the State Theatre, had

since ie beginning of the year. Exhibitors and exploiters alike are jubilant as to the quality of this all British comedy,:

Well-stroet.

burst through a window and destroy Those in the street sa fames.

Christmas decorations and gooda displayed for sale.

on the premises, and they left hur There were only a few shoppers

theatre and studio is not any new experience to Sydney Howard, forriedly... be was appearing at a West End! There were no casualties-except theatre when he also was playing An oyo witness of these tragedies among some wax figures of women." opposite Madeleine Carroll in the told a reporter Ne successful talkie version of French

- I was watching the flames when Leave, also produced by Jack Ray- I saw the wax figure of a woman. mony for Sterling Film Co., Ltd:

lurch sideways, reel, and then sub- There have been many iartances,

side,

PINKA. in the past when ballerinas have Then another in the same. taken the precautionary measure of way."

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insuring their legal boxare their: A woppen, owner of one of the hands, stage magiciane theft fingers, stalls which i lined, the pavement and so on, therefore, strange though said:-

it may sound insuring Sydney I collected my eggs and bacon

against the loss of

to Irsue Delroy, but only interest-tepecially perhaps Jahn Wray as atmosphere of a West End Audi- Howard cd in his own welfare. "Oh Farry Silvera, the crook who, resorium, further straina: the larynx, voice during a talkie production, Sailor Behave!" gives him every mains erocked and Marjorie Ram-when the next day at the studio"it is a most logical and sonsible opportunity to indulge his little scon flair for comedy, and he beau the fascinating widow, who where peculiar and varied inflee

proceduralek, dostal art

rankes his role & memorable one."

ran a saloon and wanted to marry tions of voice are necessary for theTilly of Bloomsbury" will be Irone Delroy who plays the Clive Brook, " feminine lead in the new Almap.

proper interpretation of comedy pears opposite Charles. King.

lines But-this appearance in

Silence is a film to see.

seen at the King's Theatre com- mancing next Thursday,

them on a batros" as quickly as I could, and loaded

The manager of the shop said nasistants. got to work, with fire ex- linguishara, but the flames add sucif held that they could not be put out until the fire brigade arrived.

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

SHOWING 1

Ar 2.30, 5.10, 7,15 AND 9.20

A great talkie

drama going dẹep

into a woman's >heart

great om the

**Torch song."

...

JOAN

hit,

RAWFORD

thrills you to Our soul in

Laughing Sinners

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SPECIAL FOREHAND, BACKHAND, BERVICE

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ALL

ABOARD

WARNER BAGS

OH AILOR BEHAVE!

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OLSEN and JOHNSON, 'America's Funmilost Clowns

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