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NCENTRAL THEATRE.

\Paramount's sound Picture: Ř

SHOWING TO-DAY 2.80; 5.16; 7.15 & 9.30

A SPARKLING COMEDY OF SMART

SOCIETY AND MODERN MORALS

CONSTANCE BENNETT

"Sin Takes a Holiday

with Kenneth MacKenna

Bosi? Kathbone

. Rila LoRoy Loula Barsela

Duveled

PAUL STEIN

• marne 'lastuzu

Produse by...DLAR

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, APRIL

LAST TWO

DAYS

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

KING'S

A SUNNY BRITISH PICTURE THAT LIVES UP TO ITS TITLE

"SUNSHINE

SUSIE

HAS

RECENTLY

BROKIN

ALL

RECORDS

AT THE

HEAR

THE

POPU-

ᏞᎪᏒ

"

SONG

HITS.

1932.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.10 AND 0.20

SCORPIO

the KILLER

he defied society and ruled a great city

by terror!

Central.

Sin takes a Holiday."

Queen's..

NEXT CHANGE

The Secret Six.".

With Wallace Beary,

King's.

Sunshine Susie."

World.

"The Heroine."

(Chinese picture).

Konopolitze

KOWLOON.

Star.

Way For a Sailor."

COMING.

Ride with

RICHARD

ARLEN

Central.

The Common Law."

Queen's.

"Production:

LOVE AND LOVING AS AN EMOTION, AN ART, A SCIENCE ÄND A RACKET!

THE PRODUCTION IS LAVISHLY MOUNTED GORGE. OUSLY FURNISHED WITH GAY PARIS & NEW YORK AS BACKGROUNDS,

THE WARDROBE IS THE LAST WORD IN ULTRA- MODISHNESS.

"THE" DIALOGUE FAIRLY REEKS WITH WIT AND

CHARM

BY SPECIAL REQUEST

CONSTANCE BENNETT

IN

"THE COMMON LAW"

will be re-screened on FRIDAY ONLY

"SIN TAKES "A HOLIDAY."

FINE FILM AT CENTRAL.

EN

NEW FILM SAGA OF OFFICE GIRL.

WE LIVE IN OFFICES."

CAPITOL

THEATRE,

LONDON.

RENATE MULLER

* with

JACK HULBERT

OWEN NARES

AND.

MORRIS HARVEY

"THE SECRET SIX AT THE QUEEN'S.

INSTRUCTS AND ENTER. TAINS, SAYS WALLACE

BEERY.

More and more the motion pic ture, though still a potent means of entertainment, is coming to a place where it can ny vital suce before the public -So declares Wallace Beery, who plays the sinister Scorpio ip

"The Secret Six,"

Metro Qokday - Mayer's drums of American life, which is showing to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

fanow and should know. And this can be done, with do sacrifice of entertainment value.

|

SUNSHINE SUSIE.

JACK HULBERT'S TRIUMPH.

7.

Admires of Jack Hulbert will thoroughly applaud this clover

Sunshine Susie,", which is now actor's latest characterisation in

showing at the King's Theatre, Gainborough musical comedy ro

mance.

tronadoes of laughter.

В

of

Susip herself, in the person

remembered not only for

be the

Renate Muller, is likely to

ふ

The Santa Fe Trail'

Down the roaring rout of romance.. Thrill to tho, now

Spanish heart-thief Rosita Moreno.

a Garamount Pictige

"Behind Office Doors."

King's

The Santa fe Trail "The Man I Killed."

Palnty. Days,"

"Delicious."

World,

Star.

Ka Tza Kin Sing"

Chinese picture..

"Untamed."

Three Musketeers."

فورم

Gold Diggers of Broadway."

BRITISH FILMS' GREATEST

NEED

PRINCE OF WALES GIVES LEAD

TO BUSINESS MEN.

THE

SECRET

A Great Actress. Looking at the last reels of

"From Nine Till Six," which were regned for the benefit of the Prince, I could not help marvell- ing that no British producer has. seen the possibilities of Misa Loufan

Once again the Prince of Wales: thing is spotless, everything is int glorified commissionaire in a Vien-ness men,

Hulbert has the role of a sort of has set an example to British busi its place, every device that can save time and labour has been installed. writes Mr. Campbell1f the right films are not turned nese bank. He has nerve," enter Dixon in the London Daily Tele- out the fault will be human, and possesses musical leanings sad is his age, he is a regular Alm-goor, Mr. Basil Dean should know prise, authority. He likewiseraph. Always representative of not (as in the early days of Bri the conductor of a society which studies was another proof that he land V. Lee he has a first-class-

tish films) largely mechanical. and bis recent visit to the A.R.P.

dramatic values, and in Mr. Row- discaursen musia in the local beer-recognises just what the film in director. Mr. Dean has also im "The motion picture can find drana," says Boery, in the vital

garden. Hia antica in the bear- dustry means or should mean-to

Great Britain:

ported number of garden, his quaint mannerisms with

American issues of to-day, and thus bring his top hatted, frock-coated choir. travelled men of his age in the

The Prince is one of the most- technicians. home valuable truths to the publicia dancing and his inimitable world: he has seen abroad what the --things the public has a right to antics infuse Into "Sunshine Susie" States. It is a platitude to say screen is doing for the United that not only foreign countries, but the British Dominions and Colonies, are anturated with Amori Shows Underlying Causes.

can ideale, manners,, speech.

Naturally foreigners are coraing Hampton Cliven the right mate Happy" Bong which runs ita more and more "In The Big House we showed.

40 accept the ria! she would be magnificent-as American point of view. melodious course through

I have subtly amusing as Miss Ellis Jef. prison conditions and the result of

talked to Chinese, Koreans, and frays, more versatile (for she is o. herding youthful prisoners with old

romantic story, but for a person-Japanese who refused to believe most moving tragedienne) than offenders. I am very proud that Iality that combines charm with that British ships or troops or Miss Edna May Oliver. It is

goods, could compare with Ameri-crime that she is not already one simplicity. Her diction is perfect can. The regular showing of the of the greatest stars of the British

American product. has had all the erreen. Victor Saville adapted the story

insidious effect of that process I was also impressed by the poiss and directed the picture, and the known as "plugging" which keeps and distinction of Miss Jeanne de legion of admirers of Owen Nares the emptiest of tunes beating on Casalis, despite the fact that she will delight in their favourite's role your brain long after the show is had little to do et say, and the for a humle clerk, finds his way to of a bank director who, mistaken over.

typically English beauty of Miss Powerful Support.

Betty Stockfeld, whom the Prince the heart of his little. Germasın

saw acting opposite Owen Nares. For all the interest most. British typist

Some of the other players, nota- captains of industry take in fimbly Mr. Richard Bird, did not im they might still be spluttering press me Mr. Bird is, I am told, across the screen in a nickelodeon a charming young man in real life... Americans know better. On the screen, a odd is the Some of their greatest Ananciers camera, he has no charm'at all." "Sunshine Basie is one of those are behind the film producers. pictures that will long be remera Film-making commande a measure bored, as it is the best musial proof reapest as one of the great in duction that the beren has yet dustries; most of the leading achieved.

Hollywood companies are directly controlled by Wall Street,

The work," as" Dr. Einstein A picture with a laugh clown pats it, is now industrialized, had a hand in it, since I have seen and her singing delightful laugh twist, with a surprising We live in offices, not homes," matrimonia denouement and 'uni- And at last the strange now fo versal sex appeal," is the Trade of America, of the whole civilized decription of Constance Bennett's world of big cities, is realistically

set forth in a film, new Pathe star production, Sin Takes a Holiday," which is show- ing at the Central Theatre to-day,

The Trade announcement continues: It is a fascinating, dazzling comódy that will delight every lover of the

screen. It is a story in which drama and humour are splendidly blended. It was admirably direct. ed by Paul Stein.

How we work in office, live in ofiens, drink in offices, if not eat in them, and carry on our romances in them is shown in Radio Pictures' drama of society-up-to-date, "Ba

hind Office Doprs," which 'comes on Thursday to the Queen's Theatre.

In the same way that outsido life invades the modern business office, The heroine is a simple, plain and the office invades the home, with rather dowdy secretary of a lawyer its stenographers visiting empley -the prototype of many women iner's apartments-with or without books-businera'

thetir

shorthand

homes with husbanda. And of course the average golf game is a business sessions

the widespread editorial compiti on it. The same is true of The Secret Six. The picture shows the underlying causes of the position brought about in large American cities through corrupt polities, gang rule, underworld interference with the machinery of the law, and the rise of underworld cars

one

Beery believes that many other valuable things will be eventually placed before the public in Elmet

Safe and sane flying, for thing," said Beery, who is a licens ed pilot and a leader in the move for safe flying and elimination of "stunting."

The now picture is a semational and underworld le, directed by exposé of American city politics,

George Hill. Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow and

Edwin H. Knopf, directora" of The Border Legion, co-direct and dialogue script by Edward E. from an adaptation by Sam Mintz. Paramount, Jr.

the modern business world, who, associates share the intimacy of Marjorie Rambeau. are featured. given the opportunity, develop into women of allure, and ascination, This girl suddenly Ands two of the most sought-after men in American Society seeking her favours." One in his life. For when he meets her of these, men is her husband, who again upon her return from Europe, had married her merely as a pro- the beautiful swan, he learns that changed from the ugly duckling into tection and convenienes. He had, she intends to divorce him to marry on the day of his marriage, sent a friend who, unlike him, had the her abroad alone, so that he would sense to look beyond the surface.

The Working Girl,

be free to continan his philander- ing-but with her as his legal wife, never so free but what he could use her when his flintations might take a serious turn.

The Wife Turns,"

Sin Takes a Holiday is a pic- ture that will win the sympathy of

Morris Harvery has likewise sa ager with amorous leaning and an amusing part, that of a staff mem- unhappy susceptibility to colds 1

"THE SANTA FE

"TRAIL."

The

Hand for Young Players. Why is the British screen B0 urgently in need of attractive young leading ment There must bo scores of them. "about; Holly- The more cultured (and more wood cannot have bought them all. conservative) British financier is The discovery of another Ronald still inclined to regard the ofnema Colinan, another Olive Brook, as a place where nursemaida and would give British alms the fillip butchers boys furtively hold hands, they badly need.

6

with Wallace

BEERY

Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau

GEORGE HILL

production

NEXT ATTRACTION

You can't

sfford to

miss

Behind OFFICE DOORS

MARY

·ASTOR

ROBERT AMES

STAR

Too old to acquire the film habit Our other great need is actresses themselves, they have no

concep- young enough to pass for in- FINE CAST IN OLD WESTtion of what the films already gonues, experienced enough to act, mean to the younger people of all with essentially photogenic faces. classes. "It would stagger them to We god half a dozen girls like TO-DAY & TO-MORROW know that the premiere of some Sylvia Sydney, Loretta Young, Blme attracts us smart an audience Barbara Stanwyck, Marian Marah, Ar 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20

DRAMA.

*

marks Athely's third in Southern White Cargo," makes his feature people have completely lost the is partly due to our snobbish atti GILBERT

The present trip to Hollywood created the rule of Witzel" in hundreds of thousands of young

Hooper Atahley, stage actor who as a theatre first night, and that and Miriam Hopkins California. He appeared to Los motion picture debut as the menace theatre-going habit.

Here again I think, the troublé | JOHN Angeles in 1910 as the lead in The in the Paramount dialogue Simiza-The day that British leading and Harrow match or fashionable tude to the screen. At any Ston Bird of Paradise" and two years tion of Hal G. Evarta novel, business men preceive that the film Grat might you may see a score of agone, Steve Crandall, the killer, Spanish Abres As The Santa industry offers not merely proft, in the New York company of Fe Trail,"

Broadway."

this adventuresome but a mission, we shall see the re The Actor

romanes of the old West, arrives naissance of British sentiment on hing been On

the next Thursday at the King's the world's screens. for

than fifteen Theatre. more

the working girl, for it is her story stage

1,

potential Alm stare. But it so happens that most English girls of The educated classes have no desire to become film actresses; and oven as she wishes it might be. It will years playing leads and being

they had, their parents would enchant the housewife, or it will starred in numerous stock com from an important role with Atchley, who came to Hollywood

Well-equipped Studios. offer horriand opposition bring to her beauty, brightness and panies throughout America. He

Some day, I hope, they will romancs-and to all men it will was formerly a member of the Wm. Richard Bennett in Jarrogan should be able to turn out pictures durable a career as (say) interior- "With studios like these we realise that film-acting is as hon- The highlight of the story comes appeal because it dialogus, so Fox stock company at the Academy joins a cast which includes Richard that will sell in Amerion, the decorating or playing bridge, and when he finds that the wife he took thoroughly expounds a man's point of Music in New York and, besides Arlen in the Starring role, Bosit Prince anid, at the end of his visit vastly more exciting Until then on for protection and convenience of view. And to everyone in Esty White Cargo and The Bird PATT

the femining load to Ealing essen not only to be a convenience

---thore-will-always be a scarcity of but instead the one real heart-break its sparkle; humour and brilliant the New York stage in Across the Junior Durkin. Otto Brower and dios are amongst the best-designed ners, distinguished appearance and

station in life it will have charm for of Paradiso," he has appeared on Lugone Pallette, Mitzi Groen” and

He was right. The ARP stu- young film actresses with easy man Continued si foot of next column.) battle of wits.

Street" for Oliver Moroso0.

(Continued on previous Column.) and equipped in Europe. Every a complete set of vowels,

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WALLACE

BEERY

WAY for SAILOR

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