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CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

TO-DAY AT THE

Queen's.

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

"Laughing Sinners "

Central.

The Common Law.!

King's.

At, 2:30. 5.10, 7.19 and 9.20 p.m.

Silango."

World.

1.

Beloved Marty"."

(Chinesa Film);

KOWLOON.

Star.

The Viking,***

Another

Powerful

Love-Drama

Hit !

Gorgious Kay Francis, sweetheart of New York's brilliant attop- nay. For whom he risks scandal and prison.

WILLIAM POWELL

پرا

For the Defense agaramount Picture!

with

Kay Francis

NEXT CHANGE

MAURICE

CHEVALIER

AN.

in

ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

The Smiling Lieutenant

A Quramanunt Picture weith Claudette COLBERT

Charlle Bugtles

Miriam Hopkins

An Ernst

LUBITSCH Production

Queen's,

COMING..

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

Central.

"J

Charley's Aunt."?

With Charles Ruggles and

Juno Collyer.

Beyond Victory

"Shadow of the Law,"

King's,

With Willinen Powell.

For the Defense.

William Powell and Kay

Frans

Tilly of Bloomsbury,"

A British Picture...

Merely Mary Aan."

"Bad Girl."

World.

Stax

Secrets of a Secretary," Claudette Colbert

Horbert Marshall.

"Dynanite."

#ja

Love's Identity" (Part 2);

(Chinese picture).

"Be Yourself."

Ep. (Chinese picture).

"The Ghost Train." "New York Nights."

"Rookery Nock."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY, 12,

LAST TWO DAYS

KING'S

SILENCE

AT 2:30, 6.10, 7:15 &1.30PM

Lors oposed his heart and sealed his lipa! in life may

pay the penalty for

•his stubborn silence! why can't he speak?

with

CLIVE BROOK

a Garamount Picture

Marjorie Rambean Peggy Shannon Charles Starrett

from Max Marcin's play Directed by

LOUIS GASNIER-MAX MARCIN

-NEXT ATTRACTION

Heartbreaks and laughter in the funniest filmjever made

4)

"TILLY OF BLOOMSBURY"

with SYDNEY HOWARD, PHYLLIS KONSTAM.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. ~ TEL. 25313.

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG,

THE LEAKING GONDOLA?

HOW IT UPSET A FILM

LOVE MAKING.

Speaking of social etiquette, wha, should a romantic young man de when he is riding with his sweet- heart across the bay of Naples un- der moonlit skies, singing to her and whiepering sweet nothings 11 her ear-when, suddenly he discovere that the gondola has sprung a leak ↑ Charles King, who plays a lead ing role in Warner Brothers latest Vitaphone production, Ch Sailor) Behave" which is coming to the Queen's Theatre on Thursday, did neither when it happened to him.

It was during the filming of this: picture that the unfortunato in cident occurred to King. While re hearsing a scene with bis lady love, Irene Delroy, who plays the lead- ing feminine role, King suddenly discovered in the midst of his love.) making that the bottom of the gen dola in which they were riding was covered with water.

GABLE HITS BUT DOESN'T HURT.

ONE OF HIS JOBS IN ^^LAUGHING SINNERS.”

Phyllis Konetam as Tilly-of Bloomsbury.

SILENCE" AT THE

KING'S.

A RAKE AND HIS DAUGHTER.

THE BRIDGE OF

SIGHS."

FEATURE OF NEW YORK COURTS IN FILM.

"FOR THE DEFENSE" AT CENTRAL THEATRE.

''

TILLY OF

BLOOMSBURY."

WHEN PLANES AND WIND TOOK A HAND..

LITTLE TROUBLES OF PRODUCTION.

Of all the difficulties that arise during the production of a talkis, none are so aggravating and costly than those mysterious interruptions which interfere with the sound re- recording.

Thousands of pounds have been spent by sound, specialists in ro search work and many defficulties have been solved, but not all the King's Horses zad the King's mon can hope to conquer freak accidents Jack Raymond, when producing Tilly of Bloomsbury" 19 a talking picture for Sterling Film Co., Ltd., had been fortunate in escaping trouble until he was shooting soms 'exterior grounds. A ocstly set had beon erected, and the expensive cast was all ready to walk on. Sequences were cut and dried and rehearsed to perfection, .

HEROINES ARE

ALWAYS BLONDE! QUEENS

AUTHOR ON FILM STORIES.

Mr R. H. Mottram, author of The Spanish Farm," in the course of an address on "True and false romance, made some amusing criticisms of film stories. He said j "I must not be understood as finding fault with the, personnel si the screen picture industry, but what I do say is that the romantis tendency which should" stima!

ទ by the strangelical of its discoveries

läte

and

us by the beauty to which is should feat us, in baing prostituted to the mero passing of time in looking at, or listening to, or otherwise absorb. ing stuff that can ant best give a very distorted and uninformed view af life.

The Screen's Conventions, "The scroen story involves no strain upon the audience unless upon their Toredulity. It has its own conven

tions. You can tell the hero either by his slightly excessive good looks for his equally unusual misfortunes, The heroine is blonde." What con nection there is between blonde complexion and injured virtue have no idoa, but that there is a connection is being instilled into the minds of the whole rising gen- eration. I do not feel is very dread. tul that opposite to these two should be the sinister arook and the vamp woman, who is always dork. But

it does seem serious to me that a wäolo generation of school children should be told that virtue and auch washy virtue-always triumpha by accident, that tho, puntry of which they happen to be natives always wins, that old people; are generally wicked or maudlin, that rich people are always good. All these things are possible; they ord evisléntly usual at Hollywood. The thing that seems to me shocking that they are portrayed as being inevitable.

Audiences Not Gonvinced "And I do not believe even then that the majority of the now im mense audiences are convinced. My ronson is that: I see so many of them prtering or leaving these places of amusement during the progresa off a screen story as though it didn't malter. From this I argue that the tertainment is to put away anyhow, effective function of mechanical en- nohow in particular, that leisure which was supposed to be one of the erowning blessings of civilisation."

Half-way through shooting of ona difficult scene which was progressing splendidly, the faint droning of diy- tant aeroplane engine was caught by the mike and disturbed the re-: ocrding. The plane was flying high- and was but a speck in the clouds. Jack Raymond, expecting the plane would vory soon be completely out corridor of drama that long has noise of eno. plans disappeared in of the microphone's range, suspend. The Bridge of Sighs darked work. But as the disturbing heen ja New York land-mark, is used as one of the settings in "Fer placed by another. Then to make the "far distance, it was soon re- the Defense" which is showing at matters. WoTEE, 1 succession of Who

planes appeared, flying in alad, estad of the clouds, like a lot of buzzing been round g jam pot, only this time ly sensitive movie microphone, which tho, proverbial jam pot was a high- metaphorically speaking was tick-

'

"It was just play-acting for us," said King, "but under the cir-his laat hours in a cell, whon ali Condemned to death, spending cumstances it was really distract that stands between hira and fro ing, and as I thought. Director dom is a word, which he locka Arcie Mayo told us the scene was teeth. That is the opening scone of securely behind his tightly clinched all wet."

Silonce, in which Clive Brook, the Central Theatr Marjorie Bambeau, Peggy Shannon

The Bridge of Sighs is a covered and Charles Starrett are seen at span of stone that connects Tombs the King's Theatre. And, from the prison with the New York Crimin opening shot; the play is filled with al Courts building. Across it pri- thrills throughout its length.

schers are led from their sells o "Silence" is Alled with action the court docks; its name originateding up a thousand times more ex- from start to finish. Brook, as the from their thoughts and feelings Asponsively than a taxi clock. condemned man, reviews his law- they were led to trial or brougnt. less career, the career which brought back again following pronounce finished its performance and flow At long last the aeroplane circus ruin aad death to the one woman mcnt of their sentences. Some of off-one thought derisively, who truly loved him; up to the the most notorious criminals in the time when his daughter, grown world have made the, trip over the Hit him hard but don't injura menaced by the sins of her father's

to happy young womanhood, is historic bridge.

"For tho Dolonse": him!

presenta past: The plot reveals the awaken. William Powell as a brilliant This is one of the directions sed by life of crime,

ing of father love in a heart enllou- leriminal lawyer whe sarea' many a which Clark Gable had to follow

client from jail. But tho day Ревву

Shannon, playing two comes when he must summon every during filming of a dramatic scene roles in this picture, her second trick in his power to save the girl in Joan Crawford's new picture, screen, gives two separate and laughter. In attempting to win the since leaving the stage for the he loves from a charge of mans- "Laughing Sinnera," which is now brilliant performanoes, first as the case for her he is caught in the at the Queen's Theatre

In this sequence, Gable had to

wife, later as the daughter.

toils of the law himself, and faces knock down Neil Hamilton with period of about twenty years, and leaves audiences breathless.

The story of the picture covers a life, torm in jail. The climax one blow. Inasmuch as Director is interesting, also, as a graphic

Kay Francis is the sweetheart Harry Beaumont was aware that review of the times through which who is threatened with the ominous there is nothing so dianppointing many of the present generation trip, across the Bridge of Sighs into and unconvincing to mevio sudien have lived. Needless to say it has lifetime of imprisonment ces as an obviously faked fight he instructed the actor actually to

a'happy ending!. pummel. Hamilton. Obviously enough, however, the victim was to

Scott Kalk is the society. ne'er de-well who, starte all the trouble, Ho was one of the featured players All Quiet on the Western took him an entire morning to learn Chance" proved to be one of the by Oliver H. P. Garrett, a former "Street of "For the Defense" was written how to hit without hurting. greatest successes of the past year. (Continued on previous Column.)

bo spared us many block and blue New York newspaperman whees Front marks as possible. Gable claims it first movie story,

Thankfully, Jack Raymond re- commenced shooting, and in the tense scenes which following, soon forgot his exasperation.

Miss Williams in her daring Trick,

* Riding,, ⠀

will appear at Harmston's Oircus opening at Kowloon on January 25.

LONDON FILM GIRL TO

WED PRODUCER....

"

MISS. BETTY LAWFORD AND MR. MONTA BELL

THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Ar 230, 5.10, 7,15 AND 9,20

'

A

talkie

great drama going deep into a woman's heart! From the great stage hit, "Torch song.'

JOAN

RAWFORD

thrills you to your soul in

Laughing Sinners

>

ALSO SHOWING "BIG BILL TILDEN'S- SPECIAL

TOREKAND, BACKHAND, NERVION

NEXT CHANGE ———

ALL ABOARD

OH AILOR BEHAVE!

Hit the high seas of hilarity!

OLSEN and JOHNSON America's Funniest Clowns

with

(STAR)

TO-DAY & TO-MOEROW AT 2.30,5.20, 7:20 AND 9.20

Screened Entirely in

Coloni

New York-Mr. Monta Boll, an American Alm producer and direc. recorder signalled for him to stop London-born film actress, Miss

But it was not to be the sound tor, was married last month to the "THE VIKING" "Berry Mr. Raymond," he said, Betty Lawford. through and it is no use shooting City Hall, and Mayor Walker off- "there's a queer noise Coming The ceremony took place in the until we put it right." minute ocating pounds. The reason Miss Betty Lawford

ainted Mr. Bell was recently Once again a hold-up, and every divorced by his first wife. for the interruption was soon dis granddaughter of Mr. Charles D. iB the coevred, and was found to be the later, an English theatrical man- moaning and howling of wind ager. She made her stage debut through the microphone. Nothing Club in New York, inter appearing current which was passing right in "Henry IV." at the Players' could be done but wait for the noise in The Lady Lies" at the Little to subside or hope that the wind Theatre. She was in the Para would blow another way.

mount picture Gentlemen of the This eventually did happen and Frea with tompers and production costs Mr. Bell, who at one time was running high, work was resumed a newspaper reporter, was appoint.

Theatre commencing nextThurs of Paris: on Tilly of Bloomsbury, which will be shown at the King's Chaplin for his film, A

ed. AS BIKINnt producer by Mr im,A Woman He has since produced, day.

several big pictures

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