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CENTRAL

PRATAUDE

Speotal Extra Showings

Dally from To-day to Tuesday:

at 12.80 p.m.

USUAL DAILY SHOWINGS At 2.80, 5.10, 7.18' and 9.20 p.m.

FUNNY ENOUGH TO MAKE A CAT LAUGH OUT LOUD!

Imagine

AUNTY'S

embarrassment

when his skirt

fell off.

CHARLIE RUGGLES June Collyer'

Directed by

AL CHRISTIE

in

The Mirthquake of the Ages!

From the celebrated

play by Brandan Thomas

CHARLEY'S

Aunt

A COLUMBIA PICTURE Produced by Christie

With Added Attractions

ต

Screen Snapshots No 6

Birds of a Feather

NEXT CHANGE

JOE COOK

in

RAIN OR SHINE”.

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

Look Out for

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

Around the World in

80 Minutes

with

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS ****AGE

GE FOR LOVE?

with

BILLIE DOVE

TO-DAY AT THE

King's

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

Marely Mary Ann.”

Contral.

16.

Janet Gaynor and Charles

Farrell.

Charley's Aunt."

Queen's.

"Sidewals. of New York?

World,

Star.

Two Stars" (Chinese film).

KOWLOON.

**Woman Rackcod,"

COMING.

King's.

"Secrets of a Secretary."

Claudette Colbert

Herbert Marshall.

and

Central.

"Rain or Shine."

Lonely Wives."

Waterlon Bridge,"

"A Woman of Experience."

Queen's.

World.

Star:

Dixiana

"Bobin Hood."

"Ono for the Other."

Chinese film.

"Laky Fool

Chinese film.

"Girls Not. Wanted Chinese film.

"Five and Ten,' "Lummox."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1932.

SHOWING TO-DAY

KING'S

If You Have Ever Loved You'll Love These Lovers!

AT 11.30 A.M. 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM

SPECIAL EXTRA SHOWINGS

To-day and Sun. 7th. Mon. 8th: Tues. 9th Ar 11.30 A.M. PRICES INCLUDING TAX

Lod ADULTS 1.70 CHILDREN

JANET GAYNOR

and

D. O, B. Si

F: 8.

1.00

.35

.50

.30

.90

ADDED ATTRACTION

MAGIC CARPET

SERIES

CHARLES FARRELL merely Mary Ann LX TILE ROUGH:

Her love melted the bars

of caste and convention "which caged their souls.

DIAMONDS

AND

"BACK SPAGE

ON BROADWAY

BOORING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 24313.

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

Janet Gaynor's wistful parting from her sweetheart, Charles Färrell when she learns from Beryl) Mercer that she has inherited a fortune in Merely Mary Ann,” For Hicture.

“MERELY MARY

ANN."

A GAYNOR-FARRELL PICTURE.

HALF MILLION COST OF "SETS."

FOR "DIXIANĂ" COMING TO QUEEN'S.

More than a half million dollars

CHARLEY'S AUNT"

"AT CENTRAL THEATRE.

SLOW DEATH IN QUEEN'S

SIBERIA.

FATE OF GERMAN COLONISTS:

"CRIME" OF BEING,

RELIGIOUS

A description of the fate of old German colonists in Bolshevist Russia is described in a princeza letter, successfully smuggled across the Soviet frontier,

Written six weeks ago from Sibarin and dealing with current events, this heartrending document. tells of Moscow's evident doter mination to exterminate by every crual means possibls "the German peasant element throughout the land.

Gorman cologists were introduced into Russia during the weign of Peter the Gront, and over since chat

tima German agricultural workers have "omigrated to Russia and been naturalised, but have re- tained a German communal spirit of industry and perseverance" and their language. Their

present

crime in the oyes of the Soviet 18 not that they are "foreigners," but that they are a religious people.

For obvious reasons name and places are excluded from the fol lowing letter, but its authenticity can be solemnly vouched for:

Rotting in Prisons,"

The latter begins abruptly

must live and end our lives surrounded by felds of ice and in impassable forests, while others are patting in prisons or skulking in caves and

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS hollow trees. As regards those sim

COCKATOOS AND EDUCATION!TM

Harmston's circus" continues to draw large and appreciativo andieners, and bath to-day and all, week (including Sunday) matinees will be given every day at

next

prisoned, we hear no more of them.

It must not be thought that wo

THEATRE

TO-DAY TO TUESDAY A 2.30 610, 7.15 AND 9.20

Specia performances

at 12.00 noon at Heduced Prices.

How They Welcomed Him to the Sidewalks of New York!

KEATON

Sidewalks of New York

Mayer

PICTAR

You'll howl at Buster as the dude millionaire who falls in love with ca gale from the East Side!

including

are suffering more than other With a great cast of fun-makers. Russians, but am apoaking of our own suffering in order that our plight may be brought to the netice of the public and to make another' protest to the League of Nations, and to other civilised centres,

"We are living in the north as victims of the white death, It is lighten the terrible jot of the wo strange that no one has dared to

men and the innocent children. The 4.15 p.m. as well as the evening per-only consolation of the German formance at 9.15 p.m.

poasant is his belief in, diving, jus: tice. Why have we been sent to oxilo? Because we remain true to God and will not descend to the Communist ideas so unworthy of mankind, ¦

No. a programme, which starts to-day, ahowa Little Peter ne "an, eccentric equestrian, and on Monday Mrë. Harriston makes her first ap- pearance, during this season, in Hong Kong, and will introduce a party of very entertaining and highly educated cockatoos. The rumour that the whole staff of the Education Department of the Gor- ernment have been requested to at tend and take notice is denied'!

In case it should be raining, don't bo doterrod the tent is built to keep out tropical rain..

£1,000,000 LEFT TO RUSSIA.

CHICAGO MERCHANT'S

BEQUEST.

17

Our life was a life to work? but we are not prepared to enter the collective farms and thereby give up our faith. The world for gote, that Communism is built not only on an economic basis, but also on atheism, with an attitude women and children and a complete sur render of personality which ta German colonists refuse to admit.

On what definite charge we have been sent to exile we do not know. Last July they came to our village and simply gave us the order that every living soul must be on the train in twenty minutes. We could not take anything with us. My sister had even to go bare.. footed as her shoes were being. mended. We did hot know where they were taking us, for how long, or why. It was to Siberia Drey took us, and the sufferings of the journey are beyond description. ⠀

Ten Deaths a Day.

In this Siberian village we live in barracks. We are all work-and wo know what that word means. All men and women must work from early morning to, late at night. For us there is no such thing as an eight-hour day. Our wage in every day a plate of vegetable soup with- out mont and a balf pound of stale, sour bread. We are all famishing here.

ANITA PAGE CLIFF EDWARDS

A BUSTER KEATON

Production.

NEXT ATTRACTION IN GLORY:

COMES

Unbridled World “of. Carnival Flestires. ...in the Feverad Last Hours of Mardi Gras |

D

RADIO'S MIRACLE SPECTACLE

BEBE DANIELS EVERETT MARSHALL. BERT WHEELER ROBT. WOOLSEY

STAR

Mr. Julius Rosenwald, the Chi- cago merchant philanthropist, who was buried with simple rites, ex- pressed & death-bod wish that £1,000,000 of his fortune should be plodged" to Soviet Russia for the colonisation of Jews in the Crimea.

It is revealed to-day that he call- ed his children to his bedside and Rosenwald Family Association as a corporation to carry on his charit. able enterprises. Mr. Rosenwald gave away £10,000,000 during his STAGE STARS IN THE CAST Ingt wishes will involve a further 7,000 familion, but we are dying off lifetime, and the fufiment of his Thore were in this arcu about expenditure of £9,000,000.

at, about, an average of tell a day.. In the series of pictures in which

"Charley's Aunt," now showing

In addition to the £1,000,000 plod. They simply come with a wagon, Janob Gaynor and Charles Farroll

were spent in creating acts and at the Central Theatro, certainly ged to the Soviet, ho leaves £800,000 pitch the dead on it, and cart them have been co-starred and which oc

away without word.or coronopy. costumes for "Dixiana" Radio of its talent. Since the advent of Children; £80,000 to Beirut Univer- No relations are allowed to attend robbed the American stage of plenty to the Berlin Dental Clinic for cupy a special niche in the film Pictures original musical dram talking pictures, the films have sity and further legacies to Chicago the funerals, such as they are. world," probably "hone has achieved (which is coming to the Queen's done this consistently. Actors and institutions. Virtually the entire Like the caranses of dogs they are the beauty, piquancy and winsome Theatre on Wednesday,

actresses are attracted to this new remaining estate in bequeathed to dragged off, and beapad together.

Our German villages are prac medinm. They lost nothing of the his sons, Lessing and Williams, and 1100s of "Merely Mary Ann" which This way disclosed by Max Ree, stage lure, with the exception, of his daughters Mra. Adele Levy tically all destroyed, the in opens at the King's Theatre to-day.io Pictures art director, who de course, of the direct audience reas Mrs. Edith Stern and Mr. Alfred habitants deported, imprisoned, or the Marely Mary Ann" is no idea! signed settings for the story of the tion, and in place they gain a Stern. They will have full respon shot All who remain arte vehicle for these two gifted artistes old. South which features, Bobe stage could never offer.

number of advantages which the sibility for administering the Rosenworthless, If a stage wald philanthropies.

"Not far from us many other who make the most of a charming Daniels and Everett Marshall,

Garman colonists have arrived in TO-DAY & TO-MORROW star get the opportunity, he is

bxile. They have told us that our story of London boarding bouso

"Six mammoth seta were design former allegiance and pledged it onces remember him best for his work version into enttle atalle. In the

more than glad to relinquish his

homes have been torn down for con- AT 2.30, 5,20, 7:20 AND 9.20 life-Miss Gaynor is most appeal of for six of Radio Pictures new to the newer art-the talking in two comparatively recens musical Bouth," from where some of the new- ing as the simple and hard-worked sound stages," Ree, said.

TOM MOORE conssos, Battling Butler," and maid-of-all-work and Charles Far these cost in the neighbourhood of ast of "Charley's Aunt, is a films has completely bolipsed his terrible-all hope of salvation icht Practically every member of the Queen High." His success in Siberia, we hear that conditions are comers had been deported to. rell is perfectly cast as the hard-up. 100,000 to build and furnish! budding virtuoso.

former atago star. Many of them stage career however.

They tell me that the only religious Special menting must be made of There was, for instance, ro. are making their screen debut with

Previous to his screen debut with rights allowed are those exercised Foremost, English tear, who, for the dockitos Theatre of New Orleans, a social course, is the star-Charlie Ruggles. Halliwell Hobbes, prominently crist Bory] Murter, once famous on the plien of Cayetano's famous circus this production.

of Beaune Eagles in Jealously," by foreignors and under foreign Landlady, virtually steals the rendezvous of 1840; a complete in Although Ruggles has been appear in Charley's Aunt, was an im- picture. Her portrayal of a very erior of no old Louisiana planta ing in some minor film productions portant stage character. He has according to what we are told, the

"Many villages are empty and

the final touch to pun of the finest salon; two New Orleans streets; as "the drunken reporter in "Gon year 1608. Hugh Willions, Flors utterly the German colonists, na difficult part is. Aawless and adds tion home; a Louis XIV. quantling before his memorable performance been associated with it since the idea of the Soviets is to destroy | ns over shown in Hong Kong and invish Mardi Gras scenetlemen of the Press," it was really Sheffield and Rodney MaLennon, they have given up hope of turning

Patrons are reminded that there which occupied two of Radia this picture which made him a name make their motion picture debut in them into Communists The will be an extra morning porforin, Pictures mammoth now sound to be reckoned with in the screen Charley's Aunt." Their roles are thorities, here pauly ny that the ance at 11.30 am., starting to-day stages.

world. Previous to his soreen de important once. Doris Lloyd and world public opinion would be Pou till Tuesday. There will be no It took more than 6,000 yards but, Charlie Buggles had a long Flora Le Breton are othera the od if they aly the formän" | screenings of British news reals dur. of silks and satins to produce the and fairly successful career on the cast who were drafted from the colonists whores ing these days, as was announced by 300 crinoline gowns. That ran into stage. Los Angeles theatre audi stags. All in all the stage has done head orbers, mistake in our issue of yesterday.

Continued at foot of next column.) right by our Charley's Aunt Fray Lor!

a lot of mone

"Ench of Borden.

protection.

and

BLANCHE SWEET

IN

THE WOMAN

RACKET

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