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TODAY AT THE CINEMAS

HONG KONG

Bad Girl!

British News Reel,

SHOWING TO-DAY

King's

11.46-9 p..

At.2.30, 5.10, 7.18 and 9.20 p.m.

Central,

Beyond Victory.”

Queen's

A Free Soul," -

AHEAD-

With Norma Shearer,

the Roar of the Guns BEHIND-

World.

Too Late" (Chinôse film),

the Beat of a Broken Heart

BEYOND VICTORY

w! BİLL BOYD - JAMES GLEASON ZASU PITTS. LEW CODY • MARION SHILLING MART CARE •AM, RKO PATH F

Men as far apart, as the poles, five of them in No. Man's Land at the zero hour of death, and yet each with similar thoughts of the past, the mother, the sweetheart or the other woman.

A stupendous picture of destiny and the strength of human virtue.

NEXT CHANGE

She.

endured

the

embrace

of

bbw

strangers

at:a

dime

dance!

Barbara Stanwyck

Ten Cents a Dance

LIONEL BARR

Production

COLUMBIA PICTURE'

Based upon the Doppler 2008 PT Cants'a Dance"

KOWLOON.

Star.

The Duke Steps Out.”. COMING.

Only Saps Work."

King'e.

Merely Mary Ann."

"Socrata of a Secretary.".

Claudette Colbert. Herbert Marbhalt.

and

11

Central

Shadow of the Law."

With William Powell,

Only the Brave."

Gary Cooper and Mary

Brinn.

Charley's Aunt,"

Queen's.

With Charles Ruggles and

June Collyer,

"The Lady Refuses."

"Love is Like That,"

World:

Star.

* Two Stars" (Chinese film).

New York Nights."

The Ghost Train,"

HONG KONG DAILY

VEDNESDAY, JANUARY

KINGB

AT LAST A drama of love in which the husband gets a break!

JAMES SALLY

No Like The Others He had a new line She had a new slant. They kissed

and gave lovea newtwist

You, too will laugh,

DUNN EILERS

5

weep,

BAD GIRL augh

From Vina Delmar's sensational novel

Frank Borzage Productios

again

NEXT ATTRACTION

9.30 PM

A CHUCKLE IN EVERY, HUG! LAUGH YOUR

HEAD OFF AT ·

"ONLY SAPS WORK"

10ith

EON ERKOL, RICHARD ARLEN, MARY BRIAN, STUART ERWIN

A Paramount Picture

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL, 25313.

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

DIRECTOR ANALYZES

- NORMA SHEARER.

REMARKABLE SENSE OF DRAMATIC VALUES.

*

Clarence Brown found a new feminine mar beföre his camera for the first time in three years when he directed Nerma Shearer in "A Free Soul" her nowost Metro Goldwyn-Mayer picture which is showing at the Queen's Theatre. He has and Greta Garbo an star ip almost every picture since The Trail of '08.***

I

**To direct Mies Shearer," marks Brown, is to get an entire new perspective of picture making Never before have I'aten an actress|

Sally Ellers and Minns Gombell in "Bad Girl."

sc able to project, every shading of "BAD GIRL SHOW. 4 motion picture by Fox featuring

dramatic measing and still never lose the poise which gives har an in-

dividual charm,

Hard to Describe,

To describe Miss Shearer is, in way, rather difficult. She radi ates a something which spells re

ING AT THE KING'S,

LIFE IN HARLEM--NEAR NEW YORK,

" .

L

Jamba Dunn and Sally Eilers and showing at the King's

19 now..

Thoatre.

The Harlem which Mrs. Delmar -known is a' different one than that of Girl Van Vochten's Nigger Heavón." It is a white Harlem

Vina Delmar has lived the | dealing with $20.00 a wook typiste- greater part of her life amid the with men who marry on $40.00 b surroundings she so faithfully pro-week-with boys and girls who go finement do master what type of santa in her first novel, Bad up to the dance halls in the winter rôle who may be playing, and as a Girl," which has been made into and excursions in the summer. It result she can play rules that no other actress of the screen could at tempt. Take this story in particular. Adelu Rogers St. Johns wrote of a headstrong daughter of a famous lawyer, taught by her father a per- nicious creed of 'emancipation under which she dared things other

rls would have feared to do. But never does one forget, in Miss Shearer's performance, the aristo"", cratic background of the character

"Hor sense of dramatic values is remarkable. She can at a glance.j analyze scene, a character, or a script, and a sort of intuition leads her at onos into the most effective way of playing it. It is this intuitive dramatic sense that makes a first rats artist-it is something that one either has or has not-it cannot be learned. Greta Garbo has the same sense of dramatic intuition, and so, I am told had Bernhardt, Duse and other great actresses of tin stage."

Strong Cast.

A group of outstanding player. support Miss Sheaner in A Free Boul." Laulis Howard is seen as a millionaira

spartaman Lionel i Barrymars deserts direction for an other strong acting role as the heroine's drunken father; Clark Gable playa the gambler; James. Gleason the comic bedyguard and the aristocratio Lucy Bonumont grandmother.i

TO-NIGHT!

HARMSTON'S

TO-NIGHT. CIRCUS

AND ROYAL MENAGERIE

THE BARNUM OF THE EAST

AT 9.15 P.M.

Location Next To Panineula Hotel, Kowloon.

30 European Artists 30

•

is small, townish intimate," the sort of place where you can talk to a woman for ten minutes and known the important secrets of her life

12 as the author says. "Harlem is an entity that I bé- lieve can't be understand unless one has lived there for many years,” she explained. Though it is less than an hour away from "the very heart of Now York life, it is ne provincial and self contained as a community in the middle west. It has its own population, a popula tion that remains with it for genera tions. It has its own shopa-its. own theatren-its own tragedies and its own developments, independent, even ignorant of the rest of the city-New York This is the Har- lem I have tried to put in my book,"

Speaking of "Bad Giria” domin- ant theme in a recent interview, Frank Borzage, the production's director said, Bad Girl was fundamentally interesting, both as novel and as a stage play, because it dared to strike away from the current trend of sophistication in literature and drama and tell simply a human story dealing with

Iny people every

BEYOND VICTORY

FINE WAR FILM AT

CENTRAL.

Real estate values did not boom FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY in Culver City during the shouting | "Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.18 AND 9:20

of some of the soones for "Beyond Vistory, a 'Pathe pinture which doals in the background, with the World War.

One of the soquenork of the picture- portrays-the-bombing of an abno doned Franch town. To get the proper atmorphere of an early morning attack, the company hond, ed by Director John Robertson, was required to report for work at 3:30 am, while actual shooting began before, four.

Export engineers were on hand to so that the charge of dynamite was properly placed and timed so that there would be no danger, either to, the company or to property ad- jacent to the "forty seren" back of iho Pathe Studio where this part of the picture was filmed."

Out in Pyjamas.

to.

Evory detail. comed to be attoaded Howover, Director Robertson later admitted that he should have hired a town crier to go about warning the populace of this portion of Culver City 48. to the axpected attack." For with (the first" detonation · people came running from their homes clad in their night apparel, dread and dis- tress written upon their faces. 1t "requirati considerable persuasion on the part of Mr. Robertson and bis. staff convince the alaria citizens that they were in danger of nothing more dire than the loss of a Fow hours' sloop.

These territo explosions wers necessary since the quenes were not only to be filmed but the actual sound reproduced at the same time to give a degree of realism which could not be gained by any

trick" methods employed within the studio, Famous Playera.

Bill Boyd, Low Cody, Jimmie Gigason, Fred Scott, Russell Glen son and Theodore Yon Eltz take part in the war sequences. The story of Beyond Victory" which showing at the Central Theatre to- day, deals, with a group of men who are separated from their command and face almost certain death in a dugout. In the tension of the moment each one talks of the thing. or person in civilian life which uppermost in his memory.

Among the imposing case of fav ourites appearing in the civilian sequences aro Marion Shilling, Zosz Pitts, Taxi Arna, E. H. Cal- vort, and Mary Cars.

Jay

FAIR SEX IS STILL, ENIGMA.

THE LADY REFUSES" AN

ETERNAL THEME.

Nover

value,

take a woman at her face

And don't judge a woman's char- acter by the clothes she wears. have been used for womanly quali These points of estimate, which tics and virtuos, are it is suggest od, radically wrong in Radio Pie tures The Lady Refuses," dei- mencing to-morrow at the Queen's

Because her clothes create the im- pression she is not a lady Betty in hised by an anxious father to lay a lover trap for his erríng son. However, appearances belic hor real character and the woman emerges. triumphantly out of the tangle."

The Lady Refuses" is an in- teresting entertaining story of a triple love and renunciation direct cd by George Archainbaid

In the cast are Betty Compson, John Darrow, Margaret Livingston, Gilbert Emery and Daphne Pol

GOSSIP

& FACT.

La Pouyss' Revived.

Audran's musical comedy, L. Poupée," which was one of the cut- standing successes of the 'nineties, yas ravived with many signs of success at Daly's Theatre on Christ- mas ETO.

Miss Burke writes to the News. widely supported by managore, Chronicle: My resolution is being

actors and actresses, and variety performera."''

--"""Charity should begin at tong," Actors and actresses are contribut ing through their services for indre wears unexpectedly to miscellaneous charities than they well, but the play does not stand are to their own. People are n the test of time so happily,"

The music

Jelaware of the terribla conditions ex- Me. Mark Center as the doliating famong actors and actress, maker, Hilarius, is diverting, but and our own loontuical charities he--like nearly everyone elas in the receive such little support. from the chet is to apt to dot bis i'a and public that we

New Artists-New Acts-Now Clowns-Everything Now This Year" fcrosa hist' not..once but many ourselves have to look after

50 Performing Animals 50

Lions, Timor, Elephants, Panthers, Bears, Moukeys,

Geoso, Horses, Pontes, Kangaroos, etc. - MATINEES Children Half Price to Matinees only Every Saturday and Sunday at 4:15.

p.m.

PRICES OF ADMISSION (Including Tax) FULL BOX TO BOLD: 1 822:00 Second Chai SINGLE SEAT Box

8440 ·STALLE CARÍKT FIRST CHAJES

8-3.30

GALLERY

Booking at Moutrie's Co. Sundays at the Cirrus

Soldiers and SailORS IN UNISOEN C- Half Price to Stalls and Second Chairs only t Menagerie open daily from 8:00 am to 8.10.

ESTON

$2.20 8 1.10.

.55

* B. BELLES A. J. CLOTHIER,

Bepresentative. Agent.

times Perhaps they are all right {

Gracie Fields Gin,

Mins Gracie Fields has given to

home for poor, children the 105 which an eamed by her ten- minutes, broadcast. performance un Christmas night..

Broadcasting Corporatich to Resist When she, woaked by the Britis them after they had been forced postpone the Empire broadcast, Miss Fields saiduma de pr

A tense. drains. for Norma Shearer's finest talkie performance }

SHEARER

In a new

agrism

triumph--

A FREE SOUL

มติม :

LIONEL BARRYMORE.

LESLIE HOWARD,

CLARK GABLE

Metro Golden Mister

TO-MORROW

SHOT WITH STARK "HUMAN EMOTION !

The

Passion and Pathbf1"

Humour and Heartache

Lady REFUSES

: withi BETTY COMPSON Ivan Lebedin Tam Gilbert Ennery

Directed by

GEORGE ARCHAINBAUD

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.80,5.20, 7.20 A§Ð 9,201

THE

DUKE STEDS

i thinking that Christmas nudi ences like it. As his daughter Ale sia, Miss Jean Colin acts and sings with welcome lightness of touch, and her gestures and facial expres sion as the mechanical doll are very clever. Of the rest of the cast Mr Patrick Waddington a Cancelot the young monk who is sent out into the world in quest of funds, and Mr. Harry Hilliard as the old heap. Loromois, are the host successful.

I have never earned money on The Stags and Clarify,

Christmas Day and I do not want Mias Marie Burke hos. caused a to: If I

the money is stir in the English theatrioni pro- going to the fession by announcing that, in A fos of ong hundred guiness was future she will dos appear at any fixed, and this has bebu handled by charity performancas unconnected Miss Fields to a fund to furnish

JOAN CRAWFOI with the entertainmente professions and equip the convalescent home at unless a portion of the proceeds is Perochaven (Bussex), which she WILLIAM HAIN given to a theatrical Cr. Variety presented to the Musje Hall Ladis benevolent objept...

Guild some time agoli muodost

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