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CENTRAL

TIME/NTDEVA,

SHOWING TO-DAY

TO-DAY AT THE

Queen'o.

At 2:80. 5.10, 7.15 and 0.20 p.m.

King's.

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

"Dixiana.”

With Babe Daniels.

Ladies of the Big House "

Jund Zimmy-the legless. swimmer.

British News Reel, 11.45 am.

Egntral,

*Tarzan The Tiger,'

World.

"Sidewalks of New York.

KOWLOON.

Star.

*New Moon."

COMING.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

SHOWING TO-DAT

KINGS

Another Dramatic

Smash Hit

LADIES

OF THE

BIG HOUSE

A Paramount Picture

with

SYLVIA SIDNEY

}

The "American Tragedy” Girl GENE RAYMOND WYNNE GIBSON

And A Dramatic Cast?

NEXT

7

AT230, 5.10, 7.15 9.30 PM.

ALSO

AN EXTRAORDINARY

·ADDED "ATTRACTION SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT.

OF

ZIMMY

The World's Champion

Legless Swimmer

WIN

A SERIES OF ASTOUNDING FEATS IN A SPECIALLY! CONSTRUCTED GLASS TANK ON THE STAGE. EATS

DRINKS

SMOKES "

AND

LIVES

UNDER

WATERI

YOU HAVE HEARD OF ALL KINDS OF DANCERS AND DANCES BUT COME AND SEE THE LEG. LESS DANCER

ATTRACTION

COMMENCING SUNDAY, 28th FEB. FREDERICK LONDALE'S

◄ ROMANCE

Fraught with danger... beset by savage boast and human vultures. That was the adven- some lot of

TARZAN TIGER

THE

with FRANK MERRILL

and NATALIE KINGSTON

Queen's.

The Rosary."

Guilty Hands."

"Silver Horde."

King's.

Canaries Sometimes. Sing," The Yellow Ticket." "One Heavenly Night."

"Dr. Jekye and Mr. Hyde:"

Central.

The Age for Love,”

"The Command Performance.” "A Woman of Experience,"

World,

C

Btar

"Say It Will Songs,

"The Sea Lion."

Robin Hood:"

(1

"Pardon Ca,"

-Coquette."

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 28319.

COMING SOON

"The Age for Love"

with

BILLIE DOVE

CHARLES STARKETT

LOIS" WILSON

MARY DUNCAN

EDWARD EVERETT

HORTON

A 1982 United Artists Picture

"TARZAN THE TIGER."

LOVELY AND ADVENTUR- OUS HEROINE.

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"CANARIES SOMETIMES SING"

with TOM WALLS YVONNE ARNAUD-ATHOLE STEWART

A BRITISH PICTURE

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

Wynne Gibson and Sylvia Sidney in a tense scene from Paramount's exciting drama, "Ladies of the Big House"

SYLVIA SIDNEY'S EARLY ADVENTURES.

وکا

CANARIES SOME-

TIMES SING.”

ANOTHER TOM WALLS' COMEDY.

HISTORY OF DARTMOOR.

MOST HATED OF ALL

PRISONS..

NO ONE GETS AWAY."

1932

THE ROSARY."

SENTIMENT AND THRILLS,

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY

If you enjoy entimont mixed up: Ar 2:30, 5110, 7.15 AND 9.20

in equal proportions, with thrills you will And The Rosary" the i British drama showing to-morrow at the Queen's much to your liking.

By Special Request

By the way, it was produced by Every Audience Aghast¦. that clever actor, Guy Nowall,

who

acted in and directed many charm. Spellbound! Before Jug pictures in the days of silent Radio's Miracle Drama 1

films.

The Rosary" provides Margot. Grahame, now a recognised beauty of the English screen, with a sym pathetic role which suits her subtle and charming personality. It is the old story of love and sacrifico, a story ever appealing to the huma mind with the music of the song running through the story. The settings designed by Tamon Carter are particularly fno, us is also th photography of Basil Emmot

Mary Edwards played by Marget. Grahame, and Vera Maungring. (played by Elizabeth Allan, are half-sisters, They both love the same man, Ronald Overton, playad by Loskie Porrine. Neither is pra (pared to retire in favour of the other Mary, because her love is re- ciprousted, and Vera, because the thinks Ronald is too wealthy to lose. Vera lies to Mary about her intimacy with Ronald, and she 19 so convincing that Mary prepares to enter a convint. On returning home after interviewing the mother superior, played by Irene Rooke, afury hears a shot, she rushes to the drawing-room, and Ands Vera with rovolver in her hand "ata ding over the dead body of Oscar Da mayne, played by Robert Holmes Mary is discovered by the polico with Vora's revolver in her hand. She is arrested and charged with murder. She lies to save her sis- tor. The sacrifice deeply affects Vera, and she rushes to the court, and after wandering is a frantic state of mind through the stroots, nt last dares to buy a newspaper, and rends that the verdict is "Not Guilty" On her release Mary goes to the convent; but Vera brings her lover to her, and when they are reconciled 'Vorn enters the convent und "kisses the Cross," It is a moving film, very finely acted: The cast includes Walter Piers, Charles) Groyer. John MoNally, Victor Fairley and Sydney Grahame.

GOSSIP AND FACTS.

**Zimmy the Irrepressible.

There is no fako, about Zimmy: the "half man wonder," who ap pears at the King's Theatre to-day:: Dartmoor prison is the most hat well as we do with a pair of legs He gets around without legs as ed of the mental establishments ud-and, perhaps, his greatest font is ministered by the Home Offer,

Familiarly known as Moor" by old offenders owing to its situation in the bleak moor- lande of Devonshire, the prison has an unenviable reputation for iron disciplineo.

The

in being cheerful. He has a smilo that isn't artificial or that: isn't) put on for theatrical purposes. Life has done ita best to lick2immy but he has come up smiling and has refused to be beaten down.

He has perfected himself in ... thè

It has been said that it is as hard. extremely difficult science of swim a labour for a warder to serve in

ming and diving and has no equal Dartmoor as it is for a man' to

to-day in navigation on the water, be a convict there.

The prison is in the dreariest.ho will outstrip all rivals in long Placed on equal basis in the water; coldest and foggiest region of the distance swimming, high and fancy moor.

diving and endurance tests while submerged in the water. Madge Evans Grown Upda

***Tom Walls will soon be as well known to film fans as he is as art actor-manager" says the "York- shire Evening Nowa In turn. ing to talking picture production

The building of the gaunt, grim he had the advantage of having at bis command a succession of bright prison within the high circular wall farces with dialogue and situations was begun in 1800 to quarter worked out with clockwork Prec War, who were at that time kept French prisoners of the Napoleonic Bion, and * Canaries Sometimes Bing will be shown at the King's in hulks at Plymouth.

The population was increased in Theatre next Sunday, is just 28 welcome as, and no less amusing 1818 by a draft of American prind Carne Wilbur ? than, Rookery Nook' and 'Onsoners, Approval. Though restriction in

worn on the Bible.

its setting, there is no restriction Although guarded by a battalion

in the fight 40 men were badly in- juired.

wilt, Ethel Clayton, Alice Brady, Do you remember Robert War-

Montagu Love, Harold Lockwood

They were stars of the public favour when Madge" Evans, began her film career with the old World Film company when she was six

in the amount of laughs it creates, of militia, the French and Ameri-years old. Tom Walls, in the dual capacity can prisoners rioted in 1812, and of director and leading player, han given us the polished article, and at the same time grand entertain- ment fare."

!!

"LADIES OF THE BIG Raymond continued: "I was suddenly aware of a charige in HOUSE."

Miss Sidney acting. She became convicts sealed & 32ft. wall and more intense; the audience became escaped: Again the nat WAR mero alert. There was a crash on thrown around the desolate district, the stage,

The audience was death-Bloodhounds amisted in the search ly still; there was not a snigger and the fugitives were traced to in the house. Miss. Sidney continu-their hiding place and taken back, ed her vibrant but collected per- Five months later two men made A number of interesting angede formance; but the bottom had fal- dash for the wall and got over

len out of the basket and the police it. They were soon caught, Fow, if any, girls in pictures es regarding Sylvia Sidney's ear- still had to pretend not to see the A month ago, a prisoner serving have led us adventurous B

ly stage and screen experiences revolvers. By her capable acting a ton years' sentence tried to escape life as Natalie Kingston, beautiful were told at the Hollywood Para Mins Bidney held the attention of during a fog, but he was found

hiding in a niche in the wall. mount studio, when she and Gene the audience and anved the scene." Raymond were on the sets making

screen

heroine of Tarzan the Tiger,"m sound serial, in three parts, the first part of which is showing to day at the Centra Theatre.

horses,

Ladies of the Big House," a. ro- mantic story of two young lovers, cruelly separated by the law just before their wedding day, which is the feature picture at the King's Theatre to-day.

Miss Kingaton, the heroine of two previous Universal foutures, Tar zan of the Apes" and "Pirate of Panama," has ridden on

Miss Sidney's first stage role," ramels and elephants. She has said an old friend," called for a been at touch-and-go with lions, good old-fashioned, blood-curdling Ligors, leopards, alligators and

aeroam as the curtain came dowä ather dangerous baste. Once she at the end of the second act. The was almost battered unconscious audience was so terrified by it that by heavy surf.

Miss Bidney became a specialist ju

succession of plays. It took her making, Miss Kingston declares

some time to live down her, repata- that the constant dangers and ad- tion as the terror actress, ?'. vonturen have a strong appeal,

Gone Raymond snid he witnessed Frank Merill again plays Tarzan the following trying situation: in Tarzan the Tiger, which is Mion Bidney was playing a scEDG based on Edgar Rice Burroughs once in which she picked up a novel, "Tarzan and the Jewels of waste paper basked full of revolvers Opar.". The picturz was directed and carried it from a room under by Henry MacRae.

the nose of the polico,"

Yet, despite the perils of serial-stage screams as a curtain cus in

TO-NIGHT! ·

TO-NIGHT!

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS

AT 9.16 P.M.

Wanchai, Hong Kong

Second Change of Programme

30 European Artists 30 50 Performing Animals 50

MATINEES Every Saturday and Sunday at 4.15 p.m. tự

Children, Kalf Price to Matinens only

Booking at Moutrie's Co. 4 Sundays at the Circus

A vivid description of scenes in the final year of the Americans' in- tornment there is given by Sir Basil Thomson in his book" The History of Dartmoor Prison:"

"First, a vast tunnelling schema with every man sworn on his Bible to secrecy, and plans to seize all. the fishing craft in Torbay and get across to Franco, then, in April, 1815, hell let loose over a mainly misunderstood demonstration at the main gate, followed by panic and massacre,

The Inhospitable Moor.

In 1848 the punishment of pri- sonore by transportation ceased, and the old war prison, became, în 1800 a convict establishment.

To-day the prison in half farm, half factory

In the whole of its history as a convict prison ne prisoner has ever succeeded in making good his escape, Even if he gote clear of Princetown, he is faced with stork, inhospitable region, with many miros and turbulent streams, oftan completely shrouded in mist, Cold, exhaustion and privation | nearly always "result in the pri soner's recapture. There have been exceptions where man have got 21. far as the seaports, but they, t20, įbove always been brought back.

Up to His Neck.

To-day Madge is grown up and s regular leading lady, playing her latest role with Lionel Barrymors in "Guilty Hands," which will opes at the Qudou's. Theatre on Sunday next.

W. 8. Van Dyke, directed the now feature. for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, from Bayard Veiller's latest my atery drama, written directly for the talkie screen.

Included in the cast are Kay Francis, William Bakewell, C, Au- brey Smith, Polly Moran and Alan Mowbray.

Greta Garbo Puzzle.

A report that Grata Garbo has booked rooms at a London hotel, has surprised and puzzled the Lon doa" "representatives of Metro 'Goldwyn-Mayer, the company with which she is under contract (wri tea" the News Chronicle Film: Cor respondent).

Apart from the fact that Miss

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Flung in Towering Magnihound...

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Clark Gabla.

Clark Gable is suffering at the hands of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, says 'a. London critic. He is being In August, 1924, soven prisoners. transmogrifed from a dynamic

+

made a dash for liberty from one

character actor into an all-too-

SOLDIERS & SAILORS IN UNIFORM Half Price to Stalls & Second Chairs only of the farm fields. All were recap-piqasing leading man. They may.

Menagerie open daily from 8:00 am to 6.10 p.m.

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Proprietoria

Espresentative.

A. J. CLOTHIER Agent,

Eured. One man was found im be right, from the point of view morsed up to his neck in a pool of the American. " femma " public,

In February of last year two but personally. (Continued on Previous Column.)"

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