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CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY, at 230; 5.16; 7.15 & 9.30

A WONDERFUL DRAMA OF A BEAUTIFUL PATRIOT WHO USED HER CHARMS AS ARMS AGAINST THE TUNDMY,

RKO PATRE

HELEN

“YOUR CHARMS

ARE ARMS

AGAINST THE

ENEMY!”

"Silks and satins will be your uni- form. Use your wits and wiles... your beauty and your fas- cination...".

A story of woman and war. The drama of a beautiful patriot

who was ordered" to sin in order

to serve!

TWELVETREES

A WOMAN OF

OPERIENCE ROGERS PRODUCTION

SHOWING SOON

The Newest 1932 United Artists Special Feature GLORIA SWANSON

IN

"TO-NIGHT OR NEVER"

— ALSO

SUE CAROL AND REGIS TOOMEY

IN

GRAF T”

AND.

SLIM SUMMERVILLE

IN

"FIRST TO FIGHT"

A WOMAN OF EXPERIENCE.”

HELEN TWELVETREES · AND HER SCREEN ROLES.

"THE SLEEPING.

CARDINAL."

SHERLOCK HOLMES AT THE STAR THEATRE.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932.

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He was in the Fight building but the wrong undressing room! A big doughnut dunker antwit ang his pursueri in the girl's gym-

He was in hot

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GOLDWYN

· presents

EDDIE

CANTOR

Gorgeous Girls! 'Loads of laughs! Scintillating Song Hill

PALMY DAYS

winch

CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD

JAN, BOWARDI SUTHERLAND production

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"I'm Afraid!

... I live in a fear more terri- ble than medi

eval torture! For

any day now.

my sweetheart, my friends will learn about

THE MAN I KILLED

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Queen's,

HONG KONG

Benu Ideal"

A Woman of

Central;

"Palmy Days,"

World.

With-Eddie Cant

Dixlang."

KOWLOON.

The Sleeping Cardinal"

Queen's.

COMING.

Flying High" "Eroupe."

Central

To-night or Novor

The Man I Killed;" "Delicious."

Q Garamaatt Platter

with. Llonat BARRYMORE Nancy CARROLL

Phil HOLMES

King's...

An

ERNST LUBITSCH

„PRODUCTION

MOVIE NEWS

| On the Screen in Hong Kong.

Phillips Holmes, Nancy Carroll and Lionel Barrymore, in Ernst Lubitsch's "The Man Killed a Paramount Picture

THE MAN 1

KILLED."

EDDIE CANTOR'S BLAND NONSENSE.

"PALMY DAYS-A SKIT ON MAGIC!

#

-44 The Miracle Mun?

"One Hour With You"

World.

Star.

General Crack.!!! "City Lights."."

Lottery Bride." ***Tilly of Bloomsbury,

"BEAU IDEAL” THE SEQUEL TO "BEAU» GESTE."

Radio Pictures is showing at the Queen's Theatre its talkie to the silent "Beau Geste." The new la is called Bean Iden) after Percival Wren's continuation of the

his first tale of the Gastes, and it. has been directed by Herbert

Brenon who produced "Beau.

Geute."

Vivid Screen Drama.

A thrilling and intensely vivid Eldie Cantor usce the bland non-} picturization of the concluding sensc of his newest picture, chapters is the story, of the Gestes, Palmy Days," now at the King's Beau Ideal is robust entertain- Theatre to attack spiritualism andment and certainly as thrilling if fortune telling" Eddie Cantor ap

peurs as the unwilling assistant to not more so than Benu Gestë.” ļa gang ef yako mystics, through Mr. Brenon is among the best which s revealed some of the tac-directors of the screen and "Beau ties of the graft that annually is Ideal" does much to enhanco his said to mulct the "American public}; out of 8125,000.000.

The occul scenes of "Palmy Days" supplant the wild and wool- ly west monkey shines of Whoopee" as a background for Cantor. To gót detail and experience and atmós phere for the pietura, Eddie visited

reputation.

"

Star Cast.

I

Headed by Ralph Forbes, who created the role of John Geste in Beau Geste" the part he takes in Beau Ideal, the cast includes"

ed." One should expect to work sight hours a day in any business but in the moties it means home work every night, in addition to numerous fortune tellers in New Loretta Young, as Isobel Brandon,

VIEWS OF PHILLIP HOLMES long and uncertain hour on the set. York, Los Angeles and other cities. Irene Rich Lessor Vail, Loni

---ITS HERO.

Comparatively speaking the work

Cantor believes that the popular-

of stage acting is a cinch. The ity of fortune telling is due to the Stengel, Don Alvarado and others, Phillips. Holmes, who is still in

hours are easy and always the game, wide dissemination given nowadays many of whom appeared in the

silent." Beau Geste," There's no now dialogue to learn to genuine scientific knowledge. his twenties, completed his thir-,

People knowing nothing each day and you learn a great deal teenth screen characterization in

of The story takes us back to Helen Twelvetrees, starring in the This excellent Sherlock Holmes

dis- picture. A Woman of Experi-film is showing to-day at the StarThe Man I Killed the Paramount about acting by repetition of a role science lock upon each new

Morocco again and to the fierce covery na another miracle," Eddie ence, sooving at the Central Thea. Theatre, and admirers of the great love-drama which is to be shown at light after night." tra. to day, has often remarked that est of all fiction detectives, should the King's Theatre.

For this last renson Phil would claims, "They know that the radio

Arab hordes, to the Foreign Legion, she has been very fortunate in the take the opportunity of seeing the

like to do at least one play a year. ear hur ä 'He says that he prefers sym

voice mysteriously to the alluring dangers of the secret type of roles she has had to por Baker Street expert at grips with

Yoush is an oboxinus term to through the air and catch it by cities of the desert, to pungent tray. She developed a real fond-his great rival, Professor Moriarty, pathetic rôles, but ho's willing to

It is quite a thrilling film and the portray tarnished young men, be back to his alma mater two years your voice carry to the Great Be-In "Beau Ideal" you will find all! Phillips Holmes. When be wont mechanical device. Then why can't hattle drama and poignant drama. ness for the character "Frankie" in "Her Man, and Millie in the scone where the unfortunate dupe of picture of tlant uaine. "Both the Professor listona to a sepulchralang 'overy part is an experience

ago, one your after ledving, he was yond they ask! Einstein is a girls, she said.

Wara definite voice coming from behind the faded that shouldn't be missed. characters whom I felt I had to painting of a cardinal is admirably I don't care how good an actor study and understand. There was conceivod, Holmes and Lestrade a richness about them that is quite have their usual battle of words, is," said Phil, if he doesn't have lacking in sweet ingenue roles. My and Lestrade, for all his stupidity, good parts he will never catch on lucky star was still with me when is by no means behindhand when I am one of the believers-that tho in "A" Woman of Experience."arrest have to be done, Here was a woman with personality Arthur Wontner is "Holmes the is made then he can save a weak But there was something just a

familiar lean figure of the old play and character, A woman with a sioned by men, who could still fallas in all British films there are little

[:

4.

appalled at the youth of the under wizard for his fourth dimensional the ingredients of a thoughtful and graduates."

hypothesis. Haven's spiritualists well-executed drama of "special"- "What made them seem so dealt with a fourth dimersion.”

proportions, a real screen achieve- Methods of fortune telling have

callow" he asked. "I know they

1 was giron a chance to do Elsa "constabulary duties" of raid and lay makes the star. After the star/are the same as when I was there varied; Gantor discovered. Whether ment and

for.'

little bit annoying, about it.

ten

one

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BRITISH THRILLER

it takes the form of peering at an

It takes time to fi "gags "in astrological chart, staring into a fire-bowl in which questions are motion pictura comedies. There (Continued on Previous Columin.): past, disappointed in love, disillu- Strand Magazine illustrations, and, The next two or three years I And That sot me wondering supposedly being burnt, reading fore, after Charlotte Greenwood in love. This role was one that I thumbrail sketches of character that expect to be the hardest of my life. about the young screen players cards or palms, in visions from a had to haul Bert Lahr through a thought was really worth working are a delight-in this film & mil-1 must make a great many pictures Aren't there too many of us in com crystall bail (usually phoney,

conta genuine one

$75,000) lionaire who has been fivered at and most of them must be good. My parison to the number of older the mysteries of

or window by his legs forty-two times leaves,thei The story briefly is this--Elga cards, and a rascally bootmaker are finds herself the centre of a politi- outstanding. Mention must also be ambition, of course is to become a to be get over as soon as possible.

ployers, Youth is really something answer is always the same that for a scone in "Flying High," abe

it's rubbish. en intrigue in Vienna Under made of the faithful reproduction star and make fawor pictures but The kind of roles. I would like.

was decidedly, ready to call it quits. Cantor and government orders she must pretend of the Baker Street muddle, with spend more time on each in pre- to play are at opposite ends of the David Freedmen

his co-author, Lahr weighs around: 180 pounds, an attachment with a man she dis the files of newspaper cuttings, the paration and production. Te jus, dramatic scheme. Melodrama with Ryskind, gathered together actual

and Morris Why," said the elongated Char- ARTHUR WONTNER likes in order to obtain valuable test tubes and retorts, the violintify this I must work hard arst, action; on the other is the quiet instances of mediums, exposed by lotto, don't they ever cast me with information which ho alone can and the shubly slippers Holmes is, It's the old story,"

in an adventure of pastoral type of thing that is full the late Boudini, the Smithsonian midgets? impart. At the same time a young after all, another Peter Pan! Becoming a stage star is more of character delineation.

Ins! Jute;, and by the police "of officer, falls in love with her, and

difficult than becoming a scroen I want to do! Peter. Ibbetson various cities. So palpably faked Burt Lahr, one of Amorion's most aho with him. The conflict between | sam

star, Phil believes. The stuge star and the studio has told me that I were all the methods of these my famous comediane and Charlotte must have a more perfect technique may when I am ready for it ties that it required only the slight Twitching your eyebrows and shift- Ho considers An Americat est touch, of exaggeration to make Groonwood, are stars of

Flying ing your weight from your left to Tragedy his greatest rôle prior to uproarious comedy of them. Bo High"

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's

1

R.B.

her real love and her pretended Harry Joe Brown, associate pro- love, linked up with her rather ducer at the RKO Pathe studio, shady past, furnishes the material directed the picture, for this absorbing picture.

The supporting cast includes Wil your right foot are important The Man I Killed." In this new.Palmy Days," despite its trana riotous musical burlesque which is The film was adapted from John Ram Bakewell, Lew Cody, Zasu Hostures.

fest plotura boja: co-starred with Farrow's play "The Ragiatored Pitts, E. B. Warner, O Honry But screen work makes heavier Lionel BarryMOTO

parent nonsense, may be said to and Nancy have a basis in real. He and actual showing to-morrow at the Queen's Woman,

by Job Farrow himself. Gordon, Tranklin Pangborn, Nance inroads on your time," he declar-Carroll.

fact, Cantor claims.

Theatre. (Continued at foot of next columm.) O'Neil and Georgs Fawcett,

SHERLOCK HOLMES

by the late SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The

SLEEPING CARDINAL

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