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CENTRAL

[G THEATRE WAL

TO-DAY. AT THE

Central."

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

"Rain or Shina,"

Dixiana with Babe Daniels

TO-DAY

ONLY

Queen's.

At. 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 and 9:20 p.in.

King's.

GET READY FOR THE

BIGGEST LAUGH

IN YEARS.

A REAL 3-RING CIRCUS

PLENTY OF

SIDE-SHOWS.

Actions-Laughs-Thrills

JOE COOK

in

RAIN OR SHINE"

A Great Columbia Picture

Coming Attraction

"The Age for Love"

with

BILLIE DOVE

CHARLES STARRETT

LOIS WILSON

MARY DUNCAN

EDWARD EVERETT

HORTON

A 1982 United Artists Picture

COMING SHORTLY Į

The Family circle has to be run on

the square

L

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18 Karat Comedy for Highbrows, Low brows and All the Braws in betweon

with

Edward Everett Horton

Esther Ra'ston Laura la Plante Pastay Ruth Mil'er

Dirruled by RUBBELL MACK Frefuted by I. V, DARU-

Durd on A. I WOODH' Stage play

Y WIVES

and Everett Marshall..

The Gang Buster."

Jack Calcio.

British News Reed: 14.45 a..

world.

Lacky Fool"

Chinese film.

KOWLOON.

Star.

Lunmox."

Central.

COMING.

The Age for Love,"

Lonely Wivda,”

Watering Bridgo."

A "Woman of Experience"

**The Command, Performance."

Queen's.

"Squaw Man."

King's.

Tons of Money."

With Ralph Lynn.

"Secrets of a Secretary"

World.

Claudette Colbert Herbert Marshall,

and

"Robin Hood."!

"Girls Not Wanted:"

Star.

Chinese fl.

"Condemned."

Bridge of San Luis Ray?

"Love in the Rough."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1932.

OMO SELLING ARAN

TO-DAY ONLY

KING'S

AT 2.30; 5.10, 7.15 & 9:30 PM

JAKIE

IN

The Gang Buster"

a Paramount Picture

TO-MORROW

RALPH LYNN

IN

TONS OF MONEY"

ONE LONG SCREAM FROM BEGINNING TO END

A BRITISH PICTURE

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313,

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

A Scane from "Tons of Money" Coming to the King's Theatre;

TONS OF MONEY."

WITH RALPH LYNN & CO.!

When it is possible to point to a farce that established the fame of

miccesBCH

EL

ALWAYS

-FIVE MILES OF DAMASKS.

NEEDED FOR "DIXIANA.”

About 5,000 yards or almost five miles of damasks and velours, trinuned with costly gold and silver fringe and lined with gilk, were used for draperies for Dixiana,”

"THE GANG BUSTER." Radio, Pictures original singing

THRILLS AND LAUGHS AT THE QUEEN'S.

drama now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

The material was made up at RKO audice in Hollywood by Frank Vert, chief draper, and his staff. It cost many thousands of

The Gang Buster which is now showing at the King's Theatre, is Į dollara. · really funny, and fully of thrills. The hard-boiled cronks of the Big Town take Jack Oakie for a ride and he takes it! It's a laugh-in surance policy.

Here is comedy excised in melo drama. Oskie tears into the under- world for a riot of fun. Onkie days are here again a daze of rapid- fire action comedy-melodrama.

And there's romance, with Jean Arthur, who proved hop ability in such pictures as The Greene Murder Case, and both the "Dr. Fu Manchu stories; with William Boyd, who fought Cury Cooper in The Spoilers to a standstill. and stood. George Bancroft on his

Our forebears of 1.840 believed made extensive reanach into the in lavish draperies, said Vert, who history of this period. "There- for nothing but the best in Dixiune could reproduce on the screen the extravagance of Louis- iana's curly baronial families."

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LITTLE HAL IN THE SQUAW MAN,"

COWBOY OUTFIT FROM CECIT. DEMILLE.

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Five-year-old actors don't know

GOODBYE."ear in Derelict, Oakie fights it much about salaries and care less.

ENGLISH ACTOR IN THE LEAD.

out with Boyd, Francis McDonald, Tom Kennedy, Harry Stubbs Con- stantin Romanoff and Ernie Adams, the entire roster of the most un-

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Such mattera &re Гог their grown-ups to worry about. gentlemanly gentlemen in Holly-nt with tiny chaps, sümbero, cap,' But a gift of a real cowboy out-

wood.

theatre hitherto called a white

A. Edward Sutherland, who put gun and jariat--that is something? Paul Cavanagh, the daring ad- Jack through his paces in Sap Dickie Moore, who plays the elephant and begun a run of

venturer in "Always. Goodbye, from Syracuro" end" The Social! that no other London the Fox romantic drama, starring getting the most out of him. And Mille's latest production," "The

Lion," has proved his ability at role of Little Hal in Cecil B. Du theatre can parallel, it is clear that it has what the American's terms Laudi, which will open nost Berey Heath, co-author of "Let's Squaw Man," which will be shown Wednesday at the King's Theatre, Go Native" and "Safety in Num on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre, ** entertainment plus." "Tons of Money" is the farce and that is a recent Hollywood import from wrote the story especially for

the gay grinster, Loudun auccess, which made the the English and New York" stage. The story deals with the under Aldwych the Mecca of hilarity, has He was born in Chislehurst, world gangs of the big city who now been made into a talkie which

are, carrying the newspaper head- convulsed a critical trade audience Kent, the son of a British army lines to-day. It laughs at them at a special London presentation, officer. After taking his degress at But the laughs are accentuated with The picture cast inchidee Ralph Cambridge he went to Canada. real thrills and suspense. Thero's Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Mary Brough and Robertson Hare, all There he worked on farms and in of whom neted in the original stage the woods-doing any job that came production," This along Abould

along. stamp the flu, na something out of

the common. It is more than that-- He served for nine months" with it is n first rate British pieture the Mounted Police after which he produced by Tom Walls who knows began the practice of law, for which how to extract every ounce of fun he was educated. His most note. from a rare farcical story. It is barrister in Cagadu, was the revi worthy achievement, while activo a coming to the King's Theatre acon.

tion that Edmund Lowe brought to she screen with such success.

sion of the statutes of Alberta,

Following the war, in which he served in the Canadian forces, he remained in England. The stage had always, held a fascination for

A movie contract was signed in him. In 1024 he obtained his first December, 1929, and his first ple role with London Luro was

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company,

undercurrent of seriousness to

will never quarrel with the direc tor about the money paid him for the part. In Dickio's mind De Mille is the most generous man that evor lived

For at the conclusion of "shoot-.

the picture which sends. Onkie's fun ing," DeMille presented Dickin with skyrocketing into relief. It's the full costume even to a big, blue hilarious and bysterio! The Gangbandana. which the child actor Buster" in a Gloom Buster".

A CENTRAL THEATRE...

ATTRACTION.

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURES.

Commencing this month, the Cen tral Thontre will be showing the

wenta in the Western soquence of the picture.

Playgoers will recall the role of Little Hal as one...of the fattest child parts in the entire history of the drama. Dickie was chose for it because of extraordinary work, he has done as a child player since he was only ten months old.

ISLANDS TO

THE WORLD.

***NANOOK !! DIRECTOR TO MAKE FILM THERE.

One of the most important steps which has been made yet for berteg British pictures is to the credit of Michael Baledu, the producer for Qaumont-Britial Films." He bas sbruck the first considered, definite blow for a British film which, in all probability, will go round the world, and all honour should he hia.

He has engaged Flaherty, the director of Nanook" (still ane of the growest ilms ever mada) and Tabu" to make a Aim in the Aran Jalands,

Flaherty will spend a long time over that film but he will mnka it wt A vory low cost, because he is one of the great experts of the world. His film is practically cornin. of ex- hibition throughout the markets of the world-"Tabu " was beltno 197 - ledged in Amorien na being one of the most finely-shot of the year, in spite of the fact that it did not have the exploitation is deserved.

Flaherty' Aran Islands" film should be a "trailer" for taking Gaumont-British flas into Amori en, nad Michael Balcon is the Ars Englishman who has taken the practical" slep of visualising this assortial fact, and, onco again I say, all honour to him.

An internating sidelight on Bal eon's individual decision to engage Flaherty will be notiead this week. Schoedsack, the director of "Chang "

for and RangD "* Paramount arrived in Britain on

his way from India to America, where he is on contract with Para mount.

Schoedsack, who, ty of the same hype as Flaherty-thoroughly in dependent-determined to go hia own way in the cinema. He is, like Flaherty, an adventurous man and takes his wife all over the world' wherever picturo-making calls him.

"Bengal Lanoar,"

While in India he made "Bangn) Lancer. Although an American. he did hot try to secure the sid of diplomalie and contular' advan· tages. By persuasion of his own personality--and this add follow of obtained the assistance of all the eft, sin, has any amount of the British military units he required in the Khyber Pass to make this Alm.

Two months ago one would have asked what British companies would have done the same." Now that Michael Balcon has engaged Flaherty, one has every hope that he will the the manifold resourceà of the British Empire which are waiting for him.

'ז,

THE ONE WORD SPEECH..

MOST DIFFICULT THING IN "TALKIE" ACTING.

The most difficult job an netor has in talking pictures, and the most important, is the handling of scenes in which the dialogue con- sist of a single word."

The speaker was Cecil B. DeMille, pioneer producer, responsible for the talking picture triumph, "The Squaw Man," which, M-G-M will open to-morrow n the Queen's

Theatre.

"Ther best dialogue is always, the shortest," stated DeMille, for the very obvious Con that the quicker you get your dramatic point over the greater the reaction you will secure from your audiencs. "As there can be Do shorter lines than those of one word, the importance of them need not be Ktressed!

Dangerous "However, it is also true, that one line speeches are fraught with great danger for the actor. In a long speech mistakes of diction, emphasis or enunciation can be covered up or slurred over, but with one word lines you are through when that word is spoken.

"Yes" and "No" are the two most common ong word lines of dramatic value. In The Squaw Man ? Paul Cavanagh accured Warner Baxter of being in love! with his wife, Baxter's reply | Woll 1 in splendid example of the one word type of dramatic line. And we have all heard." and 7" used by a character to break into and interrupt au long tirnde, for dramatic purpones, Dear and "Darling" are of course extreme- word line that has been almost a ly familiar. 801" is singlo law in molodrama for untold years. "Cive me an actor who can do one word speech correctly and without faltering and I will show you an actor !

Strictly Unconvention Within five years he become one of first of the 1962 United Artists pio of them. The other pictures that by Lucinan Hubbard and Lenere d. The Squaw Man" was adapted. al." Since then he has had for England's most popular leading furen which they bought at a very

are expected to be shown shortly Coffee from the famous, Edwin bured roles in Grumpy," The men, and was featured in such high price. The picture that has are "Te-night Or Never" which Milton Royle stage Classió. Eleic Virtuous Sin," "Davil to Pay, stage productions as Potiphar's already been advertised is "AR is described as the best Gloria Tunis provided the dialogue. The

unfaithfuly," "Born to Love Wife," "Lady

"Her For Love" featuring the boautiful Swanson performance. May,"

Cock Or locale is laid fifty-fifty between and “The Squaw Man."

Fast," and "Scotland Yard,” Billie Dove and directed by Frank The Air," Howard Hughes pro- English high society and Arizona A Fox contract came as the re-i After the success of Scotland Lloyd.

duction, featuring Chester Morria

Elennor Baxter, Lupe Valez, ward for splendid work in Always Yard in London, it was brought United Artiste products, are not and Billie Dove, "Around The

Boardman, and Charles Bickford Goodbyn," in which Lewis Stone to New York for an extended run. cd for their quality and not quant- is nine featured, and John Garrick Hero it was that Cavanagh gained ity and this is the reason why they World in 80 Minutos" with Doug, head the large cast, which alro, in- las Fairbanks, Dr. Arrowsmith, eludes Roland Young. Paul Cova- and Lumsden Hare have important his first American recognition as are the most expensive pictures, with Ronald Colman, Corsair, nagh, Raymond Hatton, Julia Faye, Taler William MacKenna ea Roger Fallon, the characteriza Theatro-goers should not miss any another Howard Hughes production

DeWitt Jonnings. J. Farrell Me (Continued en Previous Caluma)-(Continued at foot of next column.) | featuring Chestor Morris, * Donald. Dickię Moore and others.

directed,

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QUEEN'S

THEATRE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2:90, 5.10, "7.15 AND 9.20.

Special Showing at NOON at REDUCED PRICES

MIGHTIEST

DRAMATIC

SPECTACLE OF

THE AGES

Unbridled World of Ріворится Carnival

...in the Faveroil Last Hours of Mardi Graa!

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with

BEBE DANIELS EVERETT MARSHALL BERT WHEELER 5,000 others

-TO-MORROW

WARNER BAXTER in Cecil B. De 'Mille's

THE

Production

SQUAW MAN"

with

Lupe Velez

Eleanor Boardman Charles Bickford

(STAR)

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2:80, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.20 -

Josaph 14,3chanck

LUMMOX

Bred on the Rock, Sanzstion” by .

annie Hurst A HERBERT BRENON PRODUCTION

Winifred Westover Ben Lyon-William Colfer, J Edna Murphy

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