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CENTRAL THEATRE

TEL

SHOWING TO-DAY, at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30

LOVE, DRAMA, LIFE AND LAUGHS WALK HAND-IN- HAND IN EVERY SCENE OF THIS MAD MEREY AND GRIPPING COMEDY DRAMA PACKED WITH THRILLS, SPILLS AND HUMOR.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.

SHOWING

TO-DAY AT 230, 5, 10,^.

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

DAY APRIL 14 1932.

KING'S

▲ 1932 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE Hear the sensational new Coy Conrad Song hits, "Yes, Yes and "Bend Down Bister."

Get Ready for a Shower of Joy!

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

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NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 17th APRIL

"I'm Afraid!

I live in a fear more terri ble chan medi.

eval cornice! For

any day now,

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Central.

King's.

HONG KONG.

Big Money,

Palmy Daya,"

"With Eddie Cantor.

Queen's, "

"Deau Ideal

World.

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QUEENS

SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 AND 9.20

Shocks

Humanity

With Unforgettable

Drama

BIG MONEY

with EDDIE QUILLAN ROBERT ARMSTRONG JAMES GLEASON Miriam Seegar Margaret:livingston Pathe Feature '

Directed by RUSSELL MACK

GET-RICH-QUÍCK - WALLINGFORD up-to-date a tow laughing, caro-freo would-be Crocans comes to light in this. nar merry conicity, packed: - with Thrills, spills, drama, humor and swift achoutko änest dialogus picture of the year.

-COMMENCING SATURDAY

A WONDERFUL DRAMA OF A

BEAUTIFUL PATRIOT

WHO USED HER CHARMS AS ARMS AGAINST THE ENEMY,

&

HELEN TWELVETREES

.IN

"A WOMAN

OF

EXPERIENCE"

with Lew Cody, William Bakewell and Zasu Pitts

A RKO-PATHE PICTURE.

QUILLAN TRIUMPHS

77

IN BIG MONEY."

GANGSTER THRILLER

AT CENTRAL.

"PALMY, DAYS"

THE KING'S.

BEAUTY AND POOR PLAIN EDDIE!

།

He was in the. right building. but the wrong undressing room! A big doughnut dunker outwite ting his pursuers in the gl's gym.

DESİ.

SAMUEL

GOLDWYN

* presents

He was in hot water with bevy of beaur ties taking sun bath?

Gorgon Chil

Loods of laughs!TM Scintillating Song Fils!

EDDIE

PALMY

Parith

my sweetheart, my friends will learn about

THE MAN I KILLED

a Glandminent Picture

with Lional BARRYMORE Nancy CARROLL Philips HOLMES

DAYS'

An

CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD

Om EDWARD SUTHERLAND" production; UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE.

THE MAN I

KILLED."

STRONG CAST AND ORIGINAL STORY.

The Man I Killed," Paramount's fourt-atikring Fromance drama of

a. big

COMEDIAN AND WISE-CRACKER.

BERT LAHR ON THE DIFFERENCE.

"There is a vast difference he tween a comedian' and & smart

ERNST. LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION"

Star.

KOWLOON,

The Slouping Cardinal,"

COMING.

Central

King's.

A Woman of Experience."

The Man I Killed:"

"Delicious."

The Miracle Man."

Ono Hour With You."

Queen's.

"Flying High."" "Escape,

World.

Star,

General Ctack," City Lights."!

Lottery Bride.' Tilly of Bloomsbury."

THE BEST ANTI-WAR FILM

MADE BY A MAN NOBODY KNOWS.

A new film director has made him up în ten minutes. bow.

His first picture,

War in Holl,"

It is one of the mest remarkable, openings to a film ever seen,

the days after the war, comes to cracker," according to Bert Lab one of the most amazing filme yet Behind this vast panoramig move. tao King's Theatro soon. The pro America's most imitated comedian shown in London, had its premiers ment Trivis bawla, out the com

who makes his talkie debut in at the Marble Auch Pavilion a mands of war. By repeating the

Flying High" which is coming to

month ago.

same words, such as shells" or The name of this prodigy (for" orders," which "emerge from an that is what he is) is Victor Trivas, unseen speaker, he gives you the

ducers have brought forward chat of film favourites to enhance the power of this original stary.

Lionel Barrymore plays the role

the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.

"A comedian has to be an actor,

of an embittered father whose youth- ful soldier son was killed in the saya Labs, a smart-cracker need Wardour-strest has never heard of impression of a tremendous cozous. war-and who suddenly realizes only be an entertainer. To one him. He is not in the Alm year son blowing up from all the that the French fathers had sons comedian, who can carry a whole books. The artists and the intellec capitals of the world.

too.

Nancy Carroll is cast as a very show on his own shoulders, you have romantic-minded German girl who one hundred smart-crackers, who falls in love with an ex-soldier of France, even though he has told her can get occasional laughs at a ban that he was the man who killed her quot. sweetheart during the war.

tuals and the wiseacres of the screen In No Man's Land, know nothing about him. Yet this

But soon he leaves this spacious unknown director has made a film which is not only a sensation in canvas and coricentrates on the Big "A smart-cracker needs only a

itself but is bound to have a pro- Five of his story. Most of the Phillips Holmes is seen as the fast, clever brain. young Frenchman who devotes his

He needed not found influence ou future talkies action is in the Hall" sector be

tween the lines. time, after the war, to seeking out know how to act." But of course if with any pratensions to seriousness. the girl whose name he found on she can't act, his fummaking field in

Mr. Arthur Jarratt, who books hseno letter in the pocket of the limited dead German, Tom Douglas, young

all the Alme for the 350 theatres of

"I ses about 500 films a year,

ther..

"But I sat up at this one. It is, in my view, the greatest war film wo have had:

ATtage star from New York and Lon A comedian must not only know the Gaumont-British Picture Cor

don, plays the part of the Ger how to produce and any clover linca,poration, said man soldier.

but he must also be able to play a Zasu Pitts, whose mournful complacency in the face of good part, sympathetically and naturally, and I yawn over a great many of fortune or bad has brought horA was cracker, on the other hand, widespread film fame, is the gossipy usually plays only himself. small-town German servant. Lucien Littlefield plays a French-hating hugybody who wanted to wed Nancy, after he learns of her sweet Louise Carter, New York stage heart's death. uctress and playwright, makes her screen debut as the wife of tha on forever in exact proportion to stara and pompous Barrymore,

The picture deals with life in a the genuine pains they take in Something New to Say,

"Wise-crackers have a short life. People, soon tire of their particular brand of wit and seek & now man with a new line,

"Comedians. keep going on and

As a wise cracking, crap-shooting Wall street messenger boy whose Years ago, Eddie Cantor found out unusual fuck wins him fame as a thut anything he had to say, any notorious racketeer, Eddie Quillan joka or any song, was always twich is quito 'n success. Featured in the as funny if he worked between" a leading rule of Pathe's comedy couple of beautiful girls. That drama, Big Money," which scor-tradition, born through the succes- od a decided hit at the Centralsive Ziegfeld "Follies that first small town, Holmes is the hero of developing their art. I have been Theatro yesterday, he achieved both made him famous, is continued in the production a former soldier a personal and artistic triumph.his picture career to his newest who finds love alone can erase the

a comedian for over twenty yours This is by far the most delightful "Falmy Days," which Samuel dialogue picture in which Quillan Goldwyn is presenting at the King's anguish which war-time horrors had

Theatro to-day.

atamped on his heart. hay thus fa appéhred:

Gangster pictures are plentiful, Cantor believes that his beady- but never a comedy version of the eyed, prancing person needs the

pokes fun at luck that never loses

' ..

Acas.

toire.

.

Those five, lying alone in the dug. out, one of them strack dumb with shell-shock, have got to go on living. And to, go on living they have got to come to each other's assistance:

That is the whole point of War is Hell" These men are separated only by their uniform. As human beings, they have no quarrel with Teach other.

the various task.

They get busy on

We have had films which glorify war and films which laugh at it. of renovation, patching and other This one knock the bottom out of UP, securing defences, cooking and

mending,

Soon they are getting on famous- ly-all pals;

War.

"War is it as much as 84% attack: They discuss the war

together and decide that the whole a film made business is a mug'a, game;

"I do not say it is a picture The negro step-dancer gives a and there isn't a day that I don't which will entertain everybody, but dance, the Englishman gives the find something new about the busi

I am suro, among the eight million Frenchman cigarette, the shell- people in London, there will be shocked) xuân gives rarning of a

tough, murderous crew of the un-contrast of stately and shapely his staff. One by one they were

"When I find something new, whe- many who will enjoy

I did.". derworld, who are not who makes girls. His effort has always been eliminated until only the sixty rther by accident or design, I listen the nation's laws, so long as they not to make himself funny by baggy mained that vore seen in "Whoo to the applause of the audience in Berlin under the title "No Finally, during a lull in the fight- can cop off the coin. "Big trousers or elongated nosce, but pre." Money is an adroit atory that rather to make himself the homely, Many of the girle of the first Then, at the next performance, I

unattractive little worn that is Contor talking picture did not have try the new gag again. If it gets | Man's Land." It has already had ing, the five come out of No Man's and the gangsters that pack a pursued and harrassed by all kinds to wait long for more than show over, I know that it is not a fluke,' a considerable auccess on the Con. Land together and march towards. "rod. Hence, there are dramatic of strange human menaces. No-girl recognition. Bleaner Hunt and I put it regularly in my reper

tinent. ::

the barbed wire, which they tear: scones that fairly lift one out of thing helps so much, Cantor claims, stepped out to be Cantor's leading!

Another girl,

What is thoro now that can be said down with their hands or batter one's chair, and incidents and wise as the onol, calm figure of a glori lady in that film.

Barbara Weeks, received a five year

destures Flanned. one with fied American girl,

about war!

down with their rifles.. cracks that convulso laughter. In this respect,

"Big

"Then they can see that I'm a contract from Goldwyn." She was

Victor Trives says many Money" stands alone in its claus poor feh-a mutt. People armpathise later selected as the ingenue in

People bave

new The Barbed Wire. been very kind in things about it. "Palmy Days" Another, Frances saying that my facial expressions man going to war for no better He shows you, a atrons of Oh Yeah" famo, James Ziegfeld marshalled Broadway's Dean, who did a rope dance are very funny. Back of these raison than because he hears a symbolical It is the barrier to un3-

Besides Quillan, Robert Arm-with me.

The barbed wire, of course, is Gleason who also shone in that stateliest showgiris as companions with Cantor, was signed to & long. picture, and Miriam Segar, a to Cantor, Brat in the various torm agreement and is now play expressions is a lot of long, careful drum banting and a band playing. derstanding between one nation and young stage actress of splendid ap- "Follies," later in Kid Boots" ing leading parts in a number of study. Alf of my gestures have pearance and magnetic personality, and the stage "Whoopee" It was important

pictures including been carefully thought out. I want who plays opposite Quillan, acquit for him that the phrase, glorify Goldwyn's production of themselves well. In addition to ing the American girl," was Grecks Had a Word for It" and them as furmy as I can get them

possibly "To-night them, there are players of promin- created.

Never without destroying the credibility of ence in the cost. These include Ro-

Another, is a promising young stage the character bert Gleckler, Charles Selloni, Kit

player on Broadway.

For example, take the character Guard, Myrtis Crinley and others When Semuel Goldwyn decided

Whoopee Giris. wall known to screen fane. The to make this first song-and-dance A dozen of the Whoopee,

Rusty Krause which I play in direction by Russell nok, who picture out of the New Amsterdam girls continued their association Flying High Imight exaggerate piloted Quillan in "Night Work" Theatro success; he brought on with Cantor and Goldwyn to the Rusty's actions a lot more than 1 You see man coming from their was fascinated by every foot was all that could be asked for practically the entire company of new" Palmy Daya. Their never do but I always take care that homes in thousands you to three of it. Though it is a German pic while the photography, by John Whoopoe," showgirls and chorna ending search for new feminine your sympathy with the dumb nations drilling at once in me-ture it is perfectly intelligible, all Moscall was more than excellent both. He gathered together two bauty brought recruits from Broad mechanis and his troubles i nover chaninal fashoe of movemmt, one through, as the important soqtonces

Big Money with its suspense, hundred of Hollywood's most de way, from Hollywood and from all lost. It you geaned to like, Busty on top of the ather; you me lovers are spoken in Engikat thrills and laughs, is a distinct | corativo femininity The entire of the capitals of the world to feel sorry for him, you would drawn into the battle-line from Many thanks, Mr. Trivas. You novelty and a credit to E. B. Derr, group were subject to examination that Cantor ons continue his proud become just a wise-cracker And quiet fields and romasstic diss; you have done a great job of work and its producer. I is a human story after examation of the most rigid beast of playing with the most ad I have said, character comedy hoar bugles sounding over the produced the best anti-war Alm-yek that every fan will appreciate and kind by Canter and Goldwyn and beautifulgirl in this or any lives forster, while wise-oracking cradles of newly-born babas. "onjoy...

(Continued at fast of next column) world"

Ernest Betts in the Evening, Stap dies in a day.

You see the whole of Europe fare dard.

The Sixty Prettiest,

OF

"The

that," says Trivas, in effect.

“Thousand's went to war like another.

Those who want to learn anything

carpenter, a Jewish tailor, & British loaves Eisenstein, Pabst and the He shows you Eve men-a German about the latest in sound-film pro- duction must not miss this film. It officer, a Negro step-dancer, and a grandees of talking techniquş yards Trench navvy, all fung together in behind,

shell-hole in No Man's Land, f Some may consider the whole the war area

He brings you by fatal staps to thing a chaos of sound and fury, dignifying nothing....1 did not think

Tiashes in Spec tacle & Gross Morocco's Fiam;; ing Skies!

BEAU IDEAL

RALPH FORBES LORETTA YOUNG IRENE RICHS 1000 OTHERS In Mighty Sequel

to. 'BEAU GESTE

NEXT ATTRACTION WATCH FOR BERT LAHR!

That daily comic repeats his stage bit in this talkie panfo of hilarity on the ground- and way up in the air. Certainly It's the one and only

George

WHITE'S

FLYING

HIGH

with

BERT LAHR

CHARLOTTE

GREENWOOD

PAT O'BRIEN

MKOPIE TURF

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THE

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ARTHUR WONTNER

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SHERLOCK HOLMES

y

by the late

SIRADACHERS SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The

SLEEPING CARDINAL