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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TO-DAY TO FRIDAY

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

Central.

The Sap from Syracuse."

Queen',

A. Free Soul"

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

With Norma Sbearer.

King's.

The Virtuous Sia.

World."

Star.

"Two Stars" (Chinese Alm).

KOWLOON.

The Locked Door."

Central.

COMING.

Charley's Aunt,"

With Charles Ruggles and

June Collyor..

Rain or Shine,"

Waterloo Bridge."

Side Walks of Now York." "Dixian."

"Lovely Wives."

Another great Grin Invasion, The Napo- loon of nifties land- ing you and his army of funleving f over the yolpe ku Hilarity. Yep, it's

A Woman of Experience."

Queen's.

King'a.

World."

JACK OAKIE

IN

The Sap from Syracuse

a Paramount Picture

Based on the Brand. way comedy unsh. With Ginger Rogora. ingene of "Young Man of Manhatten,"

Also

Paramount Sound

News and

Marry or Else

(Paramount Comedy)

NEXT CHANGE

Imagine AUNTY'S

emba

when

krasment

his skirt

fell off.

CHARLIE RUGGLES

June Collyer

Directed by AL CHRISTIE

in

The Mirthquake of the Ages! Team the celebrated slay by Brandon Thomai

CHARLEY'S

Aunt

A COLUMBIA PICTURE Produced by Christie

Look Out for

· 1932 United Artist Pictures at The Central Theatre. Take note of the

Mowing:-

Star:

Merely Mary Ann." "Secrets of a Secretary,"

Claudetto Colbert

Jerbert Marshall.

"Robin Hood."

"One for the Other."

Chinese m.

Lucky Fool,

Chinese Alg

Cels. Not Wanted,"

Chinese film.

Bachelor. Father." "Woman Racket." "Luminon.'

and

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1932.

LAST TWO DAYS

THE

KING'S

He Holds Her In His Arms-**

IRTUOUS

SIN'

Garamotte

icture

A maa who take what he wante-

A woman who wants to give

Can

he take love? Emotion rises to a tremundong olimar in

with

WALTER HUSTON

KAY FRANCIS.

and

Kenneth MacKenna

NEXT CHANGE

SPECIAL EXTRA SHOWINGS

ON

-" SAT. 6th, SUN. 7th. MON, 8th and TUES, 9th

AT 11.30 A.M. ***

PRICES INCLUDING TAX

LASGE

D. OU

ADULTI CHILDEIN

$1.50

$1.00

.752.

,500.

AEC

90c.

▼

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 9.30 P.M.

Janet

Charles

Gaynor Farrell

Hear the Song Hit "Kiss Me Good-night

Not Good-bye

"

Merely Mary Ann"

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313.

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

CAN NORMA

SHEARER RIDE

A HORSE?

WATCH HER IN "A FREE SOUL."

'HUMAN INTEREST.

ONE OF THE SCENES FROM THE SAP FROM SYRACUSE,

THE VIRTUOUS

SIN"

MERELY MARY

ANN."

CHARLES FARRELL'S CAPE

one,

COD HOME.

Once Cape Codder, always

دیکھو

That's an old Massachusetts may- ing and it appears to be true? AL least, the Cape's only representa tive in Sareandom, Charles Farrell, who is co-starred with Janet Gay: ΣΟΥ In the Fox romance, “Merely Mary Ann," coming next Saturday to the King's Phontre, has curtain- ly done his best to preserve the memory of his birthplace among the bills of California, So-called Spanish architecture, is the reigning motif in those parts Who Farfell depided to build a home on the shore of a tiny lake, just over the hill from the m colony, he wanted

* Cape Cod ¡ype of house. But the rostrie tions on that particular develop mont required "Spanish" styles, and Furrell had to draw 111.

petition and get the signature őt every resident in the district be fore he could begin building his cottage with its flagstone walls and dermer windowed, high gabled roof.

In the interior, too, Farrell's early surroundings are reflected

Ship models, Nauical charts, marine paintings are everywhere; His own rooms, designed like a ship's cabin, carries out the o fering spiris of his former back ground & spirit, that he keeps alive with the Flying Cloud," his ras ing sloup with which he has won suveral regitta éups in Fect.ni Fears.

Beryl Morter and J. M. Kerr- gan head the supporting east of Merely Mary Anu," which was

ROMANTIC CAREER OF ITS directed by Henry King

AUTHOR.

Many are the unproduced plays which to-day lie at the bottom of trunks, forgotten and beyond mil hope of iver being glimpsed across “CHARLEY'S AUNT "

the footlights Lajos Zilahy's COMING TO THE CENTRAL.play, The General," which has been made into a Paramount talk ing feature under the title of "The | Virtuous Sín," and which is now |showing at the King's Theatre, "is an axample of one of those rare re- of dead work. Last

ENGLISH WAYS ATTRACT AMERICANS.

re

A NEW BABY FILM STAR,

STOLEN GLORY IN HIS WOMEN."

Gary Cooper and Claudetto Col- hert must have hoon surprised to ace how a baby has "stolen" "His Woman."

Claudette i sotí ná n cabaret singer in Cuba, who wants toó rẻ: turn to New York. She pretends to be a missionary's daughter, and engaged by Gary Cooper, the

baby for whom he has made captain of a freighter, as nurse for Himself responsible.

Bat the "baby Richard Spire. runs away with the picture. He made the audience forget all about

and the reticent love of the manly Gary Cooper.

with a vengeance, Bridle paths in a group of newspaper men who hustle and bustle of American piece of modern playwrighting, the woes of the sensitive Claudette Britain and Amerien aro dotted visited the Faramount New York

with smartly-dressed equestriennes and equestrians and dude rastudio while the picture was in the ches relourishing.

making,

There is a "human interest" set in one of the sequences of Jack Books, plays and pictures about surrections Oakie's newest picture The Sapnglish life have always held a season, ten years after it was first King Richard III, who offered from Syracuse which is being lure for the American public. The written, the author pulled the his kingdom for a horse, may show at the Central Theatre.

Englishman's mode of living splay from its storage place, havo realized the health-giving qualities of riding.

The human interest" qualifica philosophy of life-his leisurely wrote parts of it, and was delight Riding is coming back, in vogustion was bostowed upon this set by manner is in direct contrast to theed to hear it acclaimed a master- existence. The English have learn after its presentation in Budapest So successful was the play that ed the art of living nonchalantly- of catering for their comforts and Paramount acquired the talkin In America Westera, saddies and Neither pretentious nor novel, well being. The American finds pictura rights and it is offered as chaps are preferred sne, while} other feel more shume in the the set attracted widespread in relaxation "perhaps in imagining "The Virtuous Sin," with Bay po dago samp English saddles.terest at the studio, and during himself in the Englishman's place. Francis, Walter Huston and Ken- Both give the followers that ex their visit, the nows men made four He derives a vicarious pleasure neth MacKenna in the leading uberance and "zeel so needed An trips to this particular scene. Each from the other's experiences, this age of sase and luxury, time their interest grew, and after

"Zilahy began writing as a result silence Then, too, there is the kindred Norman Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn- :

They speak the same of a serious wound sustained in Mayer's war of A Free Soul regarding it fa rapt minutes, Reveral

they feeling. chorused a deep sigh, a philosophie-nguage and in international the World War. Had it not been a "Oh, well and walked away. loquialism the English and Ameri for this, he would to-day

When Dan Doran, property mah

which is showing at the Queen Theatre today is an accomplished

horsewoman.

for.

In "A Fry Soul" she has he is, received the order cans are called cousins," opportunity of displaying her abil

rôles.

be

It is a lawyer. His legal education

ity for she rides with her loading for the requirements of the set it this close relationship, perhaps that was interrupted when Hungary on

gives rise to this curiosity in cach man, Leslie Howard in one of the read: The Old Braes Rail:" scenes of the picture.a

Scotches: Baig and Haig, John other's habits and affairs. There is tered the war. He was sent to the

Jameson,

aayopathy that exists between no Russian front as an officer. After White

several years of desperate fighting Dressed in sports wweater and Dewar, John beret and jodphurs and trim boots florso. Peter Duwaoh, Perfection, other nations.

The English drawing room drama and exposure, he was badly wound- Black and White King George. she makes an attractive picture if Ryen: Old Durham, Three Feather, has enjoyed a great vogue on the the enddie, Catering, trotting, hurdling and galloping, in all the Old Overholt, Old Crow, Wilson, American stage and screen, Equal-ed and for months lay in a Buda

Mount Vernon,

Ginly successful in The English farce.pest hospital. shows tho ease of a veteran,

Steninhnger, Piccadilly," For keeping youthful figure Cibery Dry, Clordon Dry

school-girl

complexion" Mias Shearer cites horse-back rid. ing as the ideal exorcise.

And

་

Hunter.

Geneva, Plays like "The Bird in Hanu, To pass the time, Zilahy began The Better Ole" and "Aren't writting., His first attempt was a We All," wore tremendously popu-

child, and danger did threaten When any danger threatened the

him, there were gasps of horror. When he rejected his bottle (which, for some reason, or other, had not been shipped with him) there were cries of delight,

· Richard Spiro will probably be- come a star and until he is b longer a baby will be in great de mand in Hollywood. He is certain- ly the making of "His Woman."

"BLUE DANUBE” AS A FILM,

A NEW TRIUMPH TOR

HERBERT WILCOX. -

"The Blus Danabe," which was shown in Londen last month is the firat British film to exploit an or chestra as its dominant feature.

Also, ahe declares that a sensi. idea how that of Kenton's new the Columbia Picture, produced by work "The General." No proda photographed and recorded picture tive horse can give one more strength than a dozen friends.

BUSTER KEATON IN SHIRT AND CURLS.

AN AMUSING "SHOW " EPISODE.

Can you picture Buster Keaton in a blonde wig and Russian pòa: ant woman's custaime? Can you further visualiza him as Cleopatra making a spectacular entrance into oriental palace carried DY Nubian slaves?

DIT

Keaton will be seen in both

LOVE" those guises in "Sidewalks of New

"AGE FOR LOVE

with

BILLIE DOVE

Around the World in 80

Minutes with Douglas

Fairbanks.

Tork," which will be shown to- morrow at the Queen's Theatre.

The incidenta odour de part. of a, "Show" for the benifit of a tee- mont settlement in which the hers of the story in interested. Those who are at all familiar with amatuer production will have an (Dextinued on next Column.)

comedy turns out,

The

CATREY

TO-DAY ONLY

Ar 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9:20 BY SPECIAL REQUEST

SHEARER

In a neto

triumph-

FREE SOUL

with LIONEL BARRYMORE

TO-MORROW

"I'll even prom- ise to like your

brother. little.

Buster

KEATON

shows what Love can domin his funniest

Sidewalks of New York

with

Anita Page

**: Cliff Edwards

STAR

lar. Of strictly English theme and book of poems which was publish atmosphere is "Charley's Aunt" ed. He followed these with his

It is true that this beautifully Christie, starring Charlie Ruggles, Aiding Keaton in the "show" coming to the Central Theatre on cer could be found so he put the has a story, in which Brigitte Helm,

(German), Joseph

Schildkraut Requence of his now comedy is. Clin Saturday. The story centers about work aside and turned to his sc-

(Austro-American), and Dorothy Edwards, who will hardly be re-life at Oxford University.

Bouchier and Desmond Jeans (Eng-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW cast includes June Collyer and cond play. cognized what with an elaborate

The latter drama, "The Sun Islish) play the character parts, but Russian general's scatume and a Hugh Williams. Al Christie direct

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20 In it is Alfred Rode (Argentinian) bushy beard,

jod,

Shining," became a sensation.

dad Tzigane (largely Hungarian) quick succession he wrote "The band who have the biggest show in

Clowns,TM "Icicle," the picture Biberia" and others. He also wrote the novel Two Prisoners," Something Is Adrift in the Water," "Deadly Spring an "My Greatgrandfather's Love."

Tan years passed while he was turning out ning plays, ove novels and 100 poems. “

TO-NIGHT

Musical TO-NIGHT ! HARMSTON'S CIRCUS

AT 9.15 P.M.

Location Next To Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon,

Complete Change of Programme I Everything New I

Second Programme better than the first I 30 European Artists 30 50 Performing Animals 50 MATINEES rey Saturday and Sunday at 4.15 p.m.

Children Half Price to Batisees only Booking at Montrio's Co. Sundays at the Circus Sound & Sirions in Union. Half Price to Stalls & Second Chairs onl Menagerie open daily from 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 pm.

W. HARMSTON R. BELLA.J.CLOTHIER,

Proprietorgatava Representativezanemari gunt::

Last year, he dragged "forth his first play and it was a tremendous

access in Europe.

They appear as a gipsy band, of which Joseph Schildkraut is a mam. bery with Dorothy Bouchier-ns- his dancing sweetheart.

There comes a passing siren in the person of the titled and wealthy Brigitte Helm

The

LOCKED DOOR

The whole thing has the dresini- news that the title may anggest, but Mr. Herbert Wilcox has mount- ed it lavishly in settings romantic and gay, and the music is very

LA ROO good indeed.

Following the purchase of hin In technique "The Blue Danube?: play by Paramount, he came to makes a nearer approach to the Hollywood for a short time to allent film than any recent produc work on material for the film. It tion, Dialogue y minimised in his first work to reach the screen.

In some respoct the detetand

He has since returned to Hungary acting sucoste is think of Destiond to be married and expects to coms Jeant, complete with monoole

to Hollywood again."""

the gipsy girl's officer husband,

ROD

BOYD

BETTY BRONSOM