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CENTRAL

THEATRE 5,

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

נ-ן.

Dixihna" with Bebe Daniels

and Evorott. Marshall,

· Queen's..

TO-DAY ONLY

King's.

At 2.30, 6.10, 7.18 aid 9.20 p.m.

FUNNY ENOUGH TO MAKE

A CAT LAUGH OUT LOUD!

Imagine AUNTY'S

when his skirt

fell off

Charlie RugGLES

June Collyan.

Directed by

AL" CHRISTIE

'in

The Mirthquake of the Ages!

From the "celebrated. play by Brindon Thomas

CHARLEY'S

Aunt

A COLUMBIA PICTURE Preduced by Christie-

With Added Attractions

Screen Snapshots No 6

Birds of a Feather

Commencing To-morrow

JOE COOK

in

"RAIN OR SHINE

11

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 FOR LOVE'

with

BILLIE DOVE

"Moroly Mary Ann."

Central.

World.

Star.

Janet Gaynor and Charles

Farroll.

Charley's Aunt,"

Lucky Fool."

Chinese flm.

KOWLOON.

Five and Ten."

Marion Davies.

COMING.

"Squaw Man.

Queen's,

King's.

"The Gang Buster."

Jack Onkie,

Secrets of a Secretary." Clandette Colbors

Herbert Marshall.

and

Central

"Rain or Shine."

World.

Lonely Wives."

Waterloo Bridge."

A Woman of Experience

Robin Hood:

Cirls Not Waaled."

Chinese film.

Star.

11

** Lummox.”

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 1932.

TO-DA

ONLY

KING'S

If You Have Ev. r Loved You I Love These Lovers!

JANET

A 2.30, 5.10, 7.15.

& 9.30 P.M...

NEXT CHANGE

The Wise-Crackelgor His is a charmed life-- thing can bump off 8 gift for oviedy. Come take a joyride with --

GAYNOR OAKIE

CHARLES FARRELL Merely Mary Ann

Her love melted the bars of caste and convention which caged their souls.

The Gang Buster

* A Queencent Glit

with Joan Arthur WIHam Boyd

~BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL 25913.

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

Only a bird in a gilded cage-but Jones Deynor's little songster helps kar to win the heart of Charles Farrell, the sccentric musician in "Merely Mary" Ann," For romance co-starring thiss two favories,

MERELY MARY

ANN."

JANET GAYNOR'S OPINION OF ROMANCE.

Janet Gaynor, the charming heroine of Merely Mary Au gives the following thoughts on romance" os a subject for the films:-

Here, then, is the secret of the romantic picture's triumph over ita companions; it satisfies the hid den longings of its audiences to a greater degree than type of film,

way

othor

To take an example from my 10wn career, consider 7th Heaven." While Frank Borzage's war scones

"THE GANG BUSTER.'

JACK OAKIE'S SWEET- HEARTS AND SUCCESSES.

LAST CHANCE TO SEE CHARLEY'S AUNT.

AT CENTRAL THEATRE

'TO-DAY.

GRETA GARBO'S

MAGIC.

IN FILM WITH AN ARTI FICIAL MORAL.

The Rise of Holga." Greta Garbo has, tho nagic of personality.

Even her low and slightly guttur- al voice has an individuality of its own, and if you heard it coming from a blank screen you would be improssed. It is like no other voies,

I have heard of the stage..

In "The Rise of Helga," shown at the Empire Theatre London, last month, she seeks to portray a young, Swedish girl who runs away from u forced marrings, is befriended by a young engineer, and, when their love dream is anded by his baying to leave on business, sho is agnia obliged to run away from her pres pective husband.

Then she joins a cireus company, and against hor will becomes the mistress of ito proprietor, and is crat off by her lever when hò Ands her. But when he has taken to drink she finds him, nnộ, by the power of love, they start ŵ new life.

The moral of the Alm 'is artificial

Greta Garbo makes the girl the rather liatlera victim of cironm- stances. She is flotsam on the stream of life.

Greta's Limitations,

As she

young girl rebelling against a marrings she does not desire she nète with subtlety and

| naturalness. She is less good whow

the girl is a woman of the world," and in the portrayal of passionate devotion she is unsympathetic and dull

As a matter of fact, this famous film star has a limited technique as

actress.

Her face has the elusiveness and the want of definite expression of a mask

take the place of acting.

Charley's Aunt," the famous farce of Oxford University life, produced by Christie, is having ita final showings to-day at the Cen-

When the story and the situations trak Theatre. It has been scelain.

are not carrying her along she ex- Led by press and public wherever it

presses nothing. She trusts too has played. The reason for the enmue to her famous personality to thusiastic acceptance of this farea is that it is a long succession of laughs. Four hundred and twenty Eleven pictures and ten screen two sure dre" laughs have bee sweethearts have marked Jack counted. The simple, hearty fun Oakie's rise to stardom sincs he that follows on the students trick first attracted notica with his part of turning one of their number into

Bow in. opposite Clara

"The an old lady so that their sweet-

hearts should be encouraged to visi Floot's In." His latest starring them under protection" convales picture is The Gang Buster," audiences everywhere.. which tells of American racketeer- ing.

Clark Gable is always an inter- eating actor, but the part in this film does not suit him. Everyone, however, will want to see these two stars in the same 3lm, in the Newa Chronicle.

I

'THE SQUAW MAN."

COMING TO QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Great care was lavished in bring ing this play by Brandon Thomas. to the screen. The role needed an Dakle, who started his strangoutstanding comedian and the one career as a "runner for a bond choan was Charlie Raggler, who house on Wall Street, and graduatis in a class by himself so far as

sophisticated comic portrayals ar ed to musical comedy by means of concerned. It is at difficult role, Vivid, thrills in an English castle

·

a Junior League benefit perform and required unusual ability., Itand on an Arizona eattle ranch Anco, was just a free-lancar in

la the firet time that a female im-characterien, Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood when he landed a job.

personation was played on the "The Squaw Man," which is con in the cast of" The Fleet's' In "

talking screen.

ing to the Quren's Theatre on Sun- and won a Paramount contract.

But Charlie Ruggles, is peculiar day. The contract led, step by step, toly adapted to the delineation of a starring rank,

The story tells of the adventures difficult title roles. He is a veteran With Charles Rogers and Mary star of musical comedy and was exiled for a theft he didn't commit, and the pathos of the Englishmaril Brian, he played in "Someone outstanding in a number of New Love," and, with Florence Vidor, York Successes. His picture work saved his life, only to have his who marries the Indian girl whe in Tong War." His comedy re includes Gentlemen of the Press,"

sweetheart from Great Britain ally began to stand out, however, The Lady Lies," "Roadhouse when he played with Clara Bow Nights" and "Young Man of later, when he is the father of a come back into his life seven years The Wild Party," and his star Manhattan." It is safe to predic.half-Indian boy, ring contract followed, with "Fast that his performance in Charley's Company" introducing his name Aunt" will go down in red letters The piece abounds in extraordin "in lights to the public. Fast in motion picture history." ary camera shots, well-done with

had Everlyn Brant in

some sort of a trick crane, by Hal Company

"Rassum The sconic investiture, shop in the wilds of Arizona, is of unusual beauty,

44

that picture were equalled at

the leading woman rble. that time only by those in "What In "Sweetie" he carried a comic Price

Glory"

and The Big lead, opposite Nancy Carroll, and, Parade, very fow, as I have dia in that picture, his crooning of Alma Mammy" made him A Of all motion picture themes-covered, remember them. The ru

comic-singing star. Another scar success, mystery, romtace, advosmanes between Charles Farrell and role followed in The Social ture, comedy and the rest-there is myself comprises their "principal Lion," in which he made love to Mary Brian. Bap from Syra one that will always prove popular.recollection of the production-and cuse brought him Ginger Rogers Romance, is favorite theme of this also seems to be the case with to lovo, and two leading women,

Jennette MacDonald screen fans. Perhaps a cynic would most of our subsequent filma, devount for this on the grounds In our latest appearance toge that we like what is most unattain-ther, "Merely Mary Ann," Fox able, and that for every ten who picture (showing today as achieve successor nuventure, only King's Theatre) the romance be one finds romance, Romance is un- tween Mr. Farrell as an extatris doubtedly the rarest thing in life composer and myself as a servant brand new girl-friend Jean Ar Most of us find some degree of girl in the boarding-house where be sticcess, many have an existence in which adventure and action play lives, constitutes the motif of the no small part, but few really en story. Against a background of the counter romance other than the dingy London establishment, and juvenile crushes" of our school then of the Devonshire cottage, this romance carries the tale along, but Consequently, although only a with its rather unusual characteri

days.

the

In the cast with him are June Collyer, Flora Shefeld, Doria Lloyd, Hugh Williams, Rodney Me Lennon and. Halliwell Hobbes, 1 Christie, a master hand in the direction of comedy: handled the production,

TALKIES AND TEACHERS.

history

www....

The three main protagonists are Warner Baxter, Lape Velez and Eleanor Boardman. Baxter 'is" a virile, "Jim Carston Lupe Velez undoubtedly does her finest work as the Indian girl. Eleanor. Boardman is, warm and sympathetic as "Lady Diana...

Capable performances are also offered by Charles "Bickford, Ro- land Young, Paul Cavanagh, Ray- bymond Hatton, Julia Faye, Dawit. Jennings, J. Farrel McDonald, Dickie Moore and Mitchell Lewis.

and Kay HELP IN HISTORY LESSONS. Franois, succumbed to his charm in "Let's Go Native." "Bea Lega" saw him as the sailor sweat- heart of Lillian Roth.

In The Gang Buster, his latest comedy hit, which will open at the King's Theatre soon. Oakis has

her talent to more serious drama, titur, who has heretofore confined appearing in William Powell's Street of Chance" and as one of the suspects in," The Canary Mur

der Case."

London-Teaching motion pictures is an improvement on the traditional method of teach- ing, nocording to a repert juro isau- od by the Historical Association, in which Miss Frances Consite com experiments in schools of various piled the findings of three years of

grades.

The-investigation is said to-beve shown that the film in particularly

valuable for older children in senior and secondary schools, while pupils below the age of nine derive

pictures than from oral lessons.

RAIN OR SHINE."

JOE COOK FACES ALL WEATHERS.

Jos Cook, who makes his film de

or Shine," coming

bafora long 10

handful of us rench it, all of us zutions, will be found, I think, A HALF HOUR IN ENGLAND. los advantage from the moving but in the screen version of "Rain

dream of this emotional goal, and somewhat different from any of our a romantic motion, picture crystal

earlier pictures together. Different, lizes the dream into something but no less romantic, more tangible. A truck driver and

a stenographer and a farme worker

TODAY'S NEWS REEL AT KING'S THEATRE

will be intrigued by a film mystery, amused by a comedy, anjoy a Wes fut half hour in England and the tern or an adventare picture-but a number of people taking advantage romantic pruduction does more of the enterprise of the King than this-is but for an hour; Theatre management shows a grati i let them respond to the thrill fying incranao Details of the prom 1 of a romance, that, for the moment,gramme will be found in our

they themselves are living.

advertisement: column.

As regards the make-up of the the Central Theatre literally went film itself, tests have shown that through fire and water in the mak interest centres on action rathering of this spectacular comedy than on setting.” Films of historical

The fires scene in the manuscript .novels are not recommended, and calls for a terrifle downpour of the expensive spectacular film is rain, and the last scene likewien. Then there is a sequence of the also thought likely to prove un-

depicts the burning suitable. The investigation has pictura wilion

down of a complete circus. In be shown the need for scenes arranged in a definite sequence and selected tween there are interludes where for the deanite purpose of history the famous California sunshine is

There is a complete change of programme for the all-British news reel, being shown at the King's Theatre to-day from 11.45 a.. to These reels give a really delight (Oontinued on previous column... teaching..

much in demand.

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QUEEN'S

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY "AT 200, -6.10, 7:15. AND 0.20

Special Showing at NOON

at REDUCED PRICES

MIGHTIEST

DRAMATIC

SPECTACLE OF THE AGES -

Unbridled. World of

Carnival · Ploszutros:

...ju the Fevured: East

Hours of Bardi Gras į.

DIXIAN

with 1.

BEBE DANIELS EVERETT MARSHALL BERT WHEELER 5,000 others

NEXT CHANGE

WARNER BAXTER in Cecil B. De Mille's

***THE

Production

SQUAW MAN"

Lupe Velez Eleanor Boardman Charles Bickford

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20

Marion

DAVIES

in her finest talkie-

FIVE and TEN

with Leslle Howard Richard Bennett