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CENTRAL

TIBEANT DIE MAL

TO-DAY ONLY

"At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 and 9:20 p.m

TO-DAY AT THE

Central.

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

Are You There,

Queen's.

King's..

Up for the Cup."

Withy, Sidney Howard.

Doctors' Wives:"

British Nows Reel, 11.4 a.m.

World.

ARE YOU THERE

avith

Movietone

Musical

Farce

BEATRICE LILLIE

and

JOHN GARRICK

Olga Bäclanova

George Grossmith

Jillian Sand

A FOX PICTURE

NEXT CHANGE UNIVERSAL

presents CHAPTER ONE

TARZAN

TIGER

From the novel

'Jewels of

by

f Opal'

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author of

“Tarzan of the Apes

COMING SOON

BILLIE DOVE

Star:

"Sidewalks of Now Yerk."

KOWLOON.

"New Moon,"

Contral.

COMING.

"Tarzan The Tiger.'

The Age for Love."

The Command Performauçu,"

"A Woman of Expericace."

Quson's

"Dixiana."

The Rosary."

"Guilty Handa.”

King's.

Silver Horde,"

*Ladies of the Big House.'

The Yellow Ticket."

One Heavenly Night.”

"Dr. Jakya and Mr. Hyde "

World.

Star

Say It Will Songs, The Sen Lion,"

"Robin Hood"?

Pardon Us." "Coquette."

HONG KONG DAILY PRI

TO-DA

DAY FEBRUARY

KING'S

DOCTORS WIVES

with

WARNER BAXTER JOAN BENNETT Directed by FRANK BORZKOI Too much the doctor- not enough the husband. Too many pretty patienti. --not enough. "homely onas. Could anyone blame a neglected young bride for having her own Fling?

2.30 0.10, 7.15 9.30 P.M.

FOX

NCTURE

› TO-MORKOW

·Tarn, from his ma on thor wedding day by the head of tu Int But Jore binges on, in....

LADIES

OF THE

BIG HOUSE

A. Garamount Paber

with

Sylvia Sidney Gene Raymond

Wynne Gibson

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25319.

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

Gene Raymond, Sylvia Sidney and Director Marion Gening plan a scene for Paramount's "Ladies of the Big House'

"LADIES OF THE BIG

"HOUSE.”

"INTENSE DRAMATIC

-ACTION."!

Paramount presents a film of

intense

dramatie

action"

'DOCTORS' WIVES.

A DRAMA OF MARITAL SUSPICIONS.

ELSIE JANIS.

'CATS WILL SAY I ROBBED

A CRADLE.!?!

Miss Elsie Janis, the American natross who has revealed the nowe of her wedding on New Year's Eve to Mr. Gilbert. Watson, a business man 16 years her junior, has her own philosophy of marriage,

Lots of cats will say that he is only a child and that I robbed a cradle, "sho declared. "Let them -but I don't see why I should start "Doctors' Wives," the Fox drama the great gamble with one of my showing at the King's Theatre; r8* volves round the marriage of New own age who knows every move York's most successful young aur in the love game while I am only a geon with an assistance in his re-beginner. " Boarch laboratory. Her father had bean a doctor, from whom she had

rf

Then came another thought:

interited an idealistic respect for "One has got to love, one's hus

inen of medicine.

} band, no matter what the respective

After six months of marital hapages may be." piness, conflict enters the drama in

the form of suspicions and doubts

The world has known many

in the young bride's heart which are Elsies-mimic, musical star, produ- suddenly corroborated to her mind, cer, author, and now "Elsie the when she inadvertently discovers

what she thinks is an affair between Bride," and she remarked, "Of her husband and one of his charm. couse, I maed to say I would never ing patients.,

Without explanation to her hus-marry, but can't a poor girl change

'THE ROSARY,"

band, she seeks consolation in the BRITISH BEST SELLER ON Arms of another doctor, her bus

THE SCREEN. -

ing.

in

Ladies of the Big House," which will be the feature at the King's

band's life-long friend: This, she soon finds, is not what she wanted. Under an assumed name she takes up nursing.

hor mind?

"You ought to ace him. He is a big, handsoms athelete, well over eft in height. He is a blonde, and I come just to his shoulder," The development of the story presenta a vivid contrast between

How this transforms her previous When asked a week before if she the natures of two half-sistera, opinions of her husband, his work, were engaged she answered, "I Mary Edwards and Vera Manner and his strength, forms the drama-nover will be engaged."

She w& Vera is taken for a week-end tie climax of the picture...

then married. Warner Baxter, as "Dr. Juda by her boss, Ronald Overton," and when the latter meots and falls in Penning, the surgeon, has in this she said: He fills the grant com Speaking again of Mr. Watson; love with Mary later, she tells füle undoubtedly added to his panionship need that has been in Mary that she is going to have a screen laurels and Joan Bonnett baby, with the result that Mary proves by hor finished artistry in my life since mother left me (her mother died in July 1930). Har This picture has for its leading renounces her lover and attempts the difficult role of the girl who declaration that she is ignorant of marries bin, that she is deserving the ways of Cupid is hardly borne featured artists two talented play-to enter a convent..

Returning home from an inter-of her recent success ers who recently sprang into public view with the Mother Superior, ture, Victor Varconi docs well and go to the American Legion, As the other man in the pic-out by a statement she made five Mary arrives to find. Vera standing

when she said: over the dead body of Overton' the supporting cast includes Helene rival, Daimayne, but with the ad Millard, Paul Porcasi, Nancy vent of the police, Mary again Gardner, John St. Polis and Cecilia Borifices herself for her sister, and Loftus, confesses to the crime. After a dramatic trial, during which the

Theatre to-morrow.

favour.

Sylvia Sidney, who plays the leading woman's part, has a strong following, because of bar outstand. g work in "City Strects" with Gary Cooper, in "An American Tragedy with Phillips Holmes, in Street Scene with William Col- lier and in" Bad Girt.”.

*

She has as her leading man, Gene

· Raymond, who did very well in the Broadway stage production "Young. | Sinners." Recently he was featur. adin Personal Maid" as Nancy Carroll's leading man.

Raymond's 'light blond com- plexion is a pleasing contrast to Miss Sidney's dark, tresses in the "Ladies of the Big House," which is a gripping romuotis love drama, of the lives of two young people who on the eve of their wedding day are cruelly separated by the law.

The picture bas the strong punch of authenticity in its prison scenes. is dramatic pan-picture by the

screen adaptation and dialogue by 1982 United Artists Picture Louis Woltsenkorn.

The Age for Love"convict-author Ernest Booth, with

girl again lies nobly for her and Ronald to become reconciled sister's sake, a verdict is delivered with Mary. The picture closes more goes to the convent of "Not Guiltty," and Mary ones with the figure of Vera, the nun, Faro she kneeling at her prio-dion reciting

The Rosary,” is interrupted latar by Vera and the rosary Ronald, Vera to confess that she British picture, will be shown at the lied about the coming of the baby, Queen's Theatre on Thursday.

TO-NIGHT!

TO-NIGHT!

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS

AT 9.15 F.M.

Wanchai, Hong Kong Second Change of Programme

30 European Artists 30 50 Performing Animals 50 MATINEES Brory Saturday and Sunday at 4.15 p.m.

Children: Half Price to Matinees dalys,”

· Booking at Moutrie's Co. Bundays at the Circus

41

"I am just a romantic little girl. When I cannot sleep at night I count my past lovers. My love af- fairs have boon innumerable. That's my trouble. I love the condition of being in love so well that I steid. fastly refuse to marry.

Mr. and Mrs. Watson intend to live in the Hollywood Blm colony. at, Bevercly Hills..

4UP FOR THE CUP.”

SIDNEY HOWARD AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.

It is an astonishing circum- stance that while reflected fame": falls upon a town as a result of the eminence of one of its sons, his contemporaries feign indiffence- the absurd indifference born of jealousy. This fact was exemplified when Up for the Cap which is now at the Queen's Theatre, WAS being produced at Yeadon in the West Riding of Yorkshire

In one: socie-Sydney Howard, Tendon born and bred, and the star

SOLDIERE & BAILORS IN UNIFORE Half Price to Stalls & Second Chairs only of the picture, leaves his home rerly

Menagerie open daily from 8.00 am to 6.00pm.

W HARMSTON,

Proprietor

R. BELL,

Bepresentative

A.. CLOTHIER, Agent.

in the morning, He is supposed in the usual way to look the door with the immense Foy which fastens the Alontinued as font of neat column.)

LONDON'S FILM

FARE.

A BRITISH TRIUMPH.

COMING / STAR" IN A FINE WORK,

display

January 18There is of pictures in the West End cinemas this wook worthy of the attention of the intelligent picturogoer,

As the Empire is Greta Garbo in The Rise of Helgn," giving "a performance which juatilles her as one of the best and most interesting actrossos on the soreen. Alt tho Carlton is The Choat," in which Pallilah Bankhead gives her best performance to date."

At the Laicester Square Theatra thero will be the profoundly inter- esting debut of Mary Newcomb in the Twickenhammade Alm, Frail Women." Douglas Fairbanks is his breezy and entertaining" self in his ravel film Round the World in 80 minutes at the New Gallery.

Above all, there is "Service for Ladies" at the Plaza. This is o British-mado Paramount picture.

If we make films worthy of the world market, they will find their way, assuredly, into America. We oan do it if we apply our energics and skill to the task.

"Service for Ladies" is a com pleto case in point. The Paramount British Production Unit word re ticent before this film was shown. There was no need to be oxcept that it is a model frame of wind which might be recommended to our own producers, for hore is a film which fulls all that one hopes and expects from the British product,"

A Discovery..

It is extremely well directed by Alexander Corda, and it proves that, given good preparation and good direction, English acting both in small parts, which we know about befuze, and also in leading. barts, can be as good as anything which America can produce.

There is not a mail part in "Barvice for Ladies" which is not "adinirably acted and built up for the general effect of the film. Leulia Howard gives, in my view,

a better performance than he

gave in America, and the discovery is Elizabeth Allan.

Up to now I have always regard- ed her as a "feured "

player: This Alm discloses her, with good direction, as a big potential atar."'*

There in this film a typical example of how Paramount ap proaches the casting of a picture | in the case of Ben Field. After his performance in, "Sally in cur Alley," he might have been con demned to play small shopkeepers for the rest of his life, so admirable was he in that picture.

But in Service for Ladies" he. playa na an Austrian innkeeper, and he is equally good. In a word, Paramount have tackled this pic ture in the way films should be | ◊ tackled, and are tackled in Ameri- ca British Production Unit, one might say, "please copy:”

An

THEATREI

FINAL SHOWINGS

5.10, 7:15 AND 9.20-

AT 290,

A BRITISH COMEDY TO CHASE AWAY YOUR BLUES

The riotous adventures of a weaver up for the cap final!

SYDNEY HOWARD

UP FOR THE CUP

BENTISH & DOMINIONS PICTURE FOR FOOTBALL FONS

Who with g

JOAN WYNDHAM STANLEY KIRK

COMING SHORTLY-

BRITAIN'S BEST DR MA

ROSARY

MARGOT KURATENIE BASLADETA ALASAN

Jan 29 NALLY

ALSO SHOWING CINE MAGAZINE

and

**ACCIDENTAL TREATMENT''

STAR

Mary Newcomb's Debut.

The other new British flm view"Frail Womon," at the Leices- ter-square Theatre, is entirely dif ferent. It has been competently TO-DAY & TO-MORROW made by Morris Elves. It has what is known as a "strong situa

Ar 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20 tion But the situation, and, necessarily, the characters which are used to develop it, are of the ataga stagey.

Miss Mary Newcomb, making her first appearance in pictures,. gives an extremely competent per formance. It is almost impossible. to say from this Alan how great kør potentialities are. She cannot help being interesting and compelling,

But up against the naturalístic screen technique of Edmund Gwenn, who maker a whole house of bricks with little straw, har me thods are theatrical, It is difficult to make a stags actress completely to alter her methods for a different medium if the medium remains i theatrical.

door of the old fashioned homes and slip it through the letter box. and local tradition says that ini Bydney was Inte that morning- the old days he was usually behind his great invention Without a time--and his mind kuras død, "on thought he pulled the door behind him and without locking it drop: per the day into Vlatkar bizim i

Ah, he was always deft,” said

DRAMA!

MUSIC!

ROMANCE!

Lawrence

TIBBETT

Grace

MOORE

NEW MOON

The screen's most glorious voices singing "Love Come Back to Me.'

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