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HONG KONG DAILY

SS. SATURDAY, MAY 7,

CENTRAL THEATRE

FINAL SHOW-NGS TO DAY

at: 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 .

Under A Mediterranean Moon

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7.10 & 9.80 PL

TO-DAY AT THE

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Queen's

THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND THE ONLY AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE IN EX

A PEACH

they kissed and for

OF A PAIR..

Janet and Charlie

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CINEMA

HONG TRONG

«Kopt Husbanda,

King's,

With Durothy Mackaill

Alsko and Princess Prabhow

Dalicious!

With Janet Gaynor and

Charles Farrell.

TOMORROW.

A DOUBLE. ATTRACTION -PICTURES-A VAUDEVILLE

Central.

Thoir Mad Moment."

World:

Star.

Half Shot at Sunrise.

KOWLOON

City Lights."

With Charlie Chaplin

COMING.

CHEEN TIVARA

Cool

The Air In AN Pand trei No Circulation of Old Air, but Natural Ventilation Comfortable, Healthy, and Safe...

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 230, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9:20

AM I HUSBAND

OR LAPDOG ?

BOUGHT "BOOT AND ...SOUL BY

HIS WIFE

got the world.

week of courtship

a night of fligh -one hour of loyal

Their Mad Moment

-NEXT

DOROTHY MACKAILL

2."

WARNER

BAXTER

From the novel "Bosquerie

by Eleanor Mercein...

CHANGE

A CHINESE SOUND-ON-FILM SUPER SPECIAL TALKIE WITH ENGLISH TITLES

"YESTERDAY AT PEKING"

with an All-Star Cast Produced by STAR CO.

SHOWING SOON BILL BOYD

INTED DESERY

A. PATHE FEATURE.

BASQUE DRAMÀ AT KEPT HUSBANDS."

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THEIR MAD MOMENT."

A Trade Notice Slates:- Fiction lovers who have enjoyed the many stories of Basque life written by Eleanor Mercein, in cluding her novel, Esqueris," were treated to rare entertainment yesterday at the Central Theatre where Their Mad Moment," "romantic drame based on the novel and fentyring. Warner Baxter and Dorothy Macksill, opened for its final showings to-day....

The picture deals with the love affaira of a scphisticated young American society gir) with a nativë'g Ваядие.

MARRIAGE DRAMA AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.

F!

A Trade Notice atates:-

he latest drama of modern mor

ringe to reach the seren, unfolds a novel treatment of the theme in "Kopt Husbands" now at the Queen's Theatre starring Dorothy Machaili and Joel McOren.

་་

In their gayest

fastest... hap piest romance ( with lots of laughs by Brandel

JANET GAYNOR

CHARLES FARRELL

Delicious

reitis

EL. BRENDEL⚫ Music by GEORGE GERSHWIN FAY - DICTURE

Fredric March, Nancy Carroll. Phoebe Foster reflect a moment between scenes in the Paramount Picture "The Night Angel"

THE NIGHT ANGEL.

STORY OF A PRAGUE...

NIGHT CLUB.

Says a Trade Notice:- The newest. Nancy Carroll-Fredric March romantic drama, "The Night Angel," will be. featured at the King's, Theatre, beginning" on Sunday.

*The Night Angel" is

*DELICIOUS."

COMEDY AND CAIETY.

Nancy Carroll Fredric March

A

THE NIGHT ANGEL

IN

MANTY

41

Paramount

Picture

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT

03

MIR MILED

SANDS & DAWN

MUSICAL COMEDY. ́ ARTISTS'

0#

HOLLYWOOD

ALGE 1

DICK LIEUTERIO'S

10- MASTER MUSICIANS 101

BT X PKWINKTON OF TERMO PERITUNÁ, HOTEL, MANAGEMTET..

A Trade Notice states:- Kil, flaming red tam o!! shanter, a little Scotch terrier, and delightful Bootch brogue are, the chief properties of Janet Gaynor in "Delicious," the Fox melody romance abowing at the King's an Theatre.

Queen's.

Danger Lights."

"Alias French Gortio."

King's,

"The Night Angel!

"Secrets of a Secretary." Central..

"Yesterday at Peking." "Painted Desert."

World.

Star.

"A Wild Rose

(Chinese Alma), "Trail of '99.***

"City Lights."

"Common Olay.

Blackmail

MR. NOVELLO'S NEW

COMEDY.

MISS URSULA JEANS'S GOOD FAIRY ROLE.

Mr. Ivor Novello has a pleasant mingham Repertory favourite Miss gift for writing amusing comedy

lines.

Cicely Ontes-persuades Felix the Prince to walk out. So back he His latest play, "I Lived With gous to the Maze once more no doubt You," produced at the Prince of to break up some other happy home.. Valee Theatre London, is liberally! This is a strange, unequal play. sprinkled with quips which provoke So long as it ie intensely serious, that immediate nipple of laughteritis in imminent danger of collapse;" in the audienco which indicates but always just in time, we are that they are without doubt enjoy given some little comedy scene which ing themselves. He has no peed makes all serenely happy once to force the pace with a number of i inore. doubtful sallies, whose only iden is Mr. Novello has a passion for to shock, but which actually mild playing irresistible young men who ly embarrass.

are insufferably rude and borrish, We start originally enough in the to all. He des is so admirably Hampton Court Maze, with Mr. that one positively forgets that Novello, as penniles Russian ordinary civility is really rather prinegling who accepts the offer of attractive. Glad, a decent, sheerful, suburban And his foreign aocant, which typist, to make his home at her mu-might so easily be tiresome, is splendidly consistent and convine- ing.

It is 'n splendidly acted ilm of a

ther's boarding-house in Fulham. Fox

problem which, judging by the audi Enca response, troubles a good many of both sexes to day. The problem of the rich wife and the Por i husband; is cleverly told in "Kept Husbands and offers, besides good drama, a thoroughly satisfying and surprising answer to the question.

Rich Girl, Poon Husband,

Telling of a rich girl who deter mines on marriage with a young and impoverished employee of her fathor's,, a young man with an Al

March is the public prosecutor, American football reputation and brilliant legal mind, who brings picture, also becomes dequainted

In fact, the whole of the Mal. It is pleasant to have Mr. Novello Li no funds, it cleverly shows the pit about the arrest and incarceration with her on the boat, as doen Elmaison" household is heading for home again, he is far too good to character with a passionate sin falls of the match and the ultimate of the countess only to arouse the Brendel, who is seen as Farroll's destruction, until its Aunt. Flossie-be exiled in the waates of the Bever-

hatred of tampastuous Nancy. and cheerful conclusion.

Felix the Princa duly instals kim- self at Malmaison (far so we name

Misa raula Jeans gives a beauti- our homes in Fulham), but he is ful preformance as Glod, the good original story, written and directed! As a Scottish orphan lassie, Miss anything but a little ray of surfairly of "Malmaison," and Miss by Edmund Goulding, the young" Gaynor is "first seen amid a gay shine. genius who wrote and directed and colourful peasantry in the

Then Holme looking very lovely, The

Under his induonce, the respect is an admirable toil as Ada, the Trespasser find The steerage of a large on liner

ablo ahift-dooved working father: vamp Devil's Holiday.".

| headed for America Her wistful take a mistress, the mother deve-

There are the obstacles of a needy stepmother, and'a rick rival in the way of true love, but after some trying situations, a really exciting climax solves al difficulties:

Baxter is unusually charming in Esteban and imbues the

the role.

cerity that stamps it' as A high point in his histrionic career.

A

1:

•

Both Miss Maokaill and Mr. Mo

{Miss Maukaill, too, has an un-

Oroa perform with ease and convin usually fine role, and her transition eingness in their roles. Miss, Mac from shallow society girl to kill to undoubtedly one of the woman of real depth of character finest actresses on the screen to day, and fooling is as well done and in "Kopt Husbands" she adds anything she ever has accomplish. to her laurels. Joel McCras com

paratively new to the films, in new red:

well established as one of the young Many interesting backgrounds, including the bench-at--Biarritz, Players His role of the irked and Land the rugged peaks of the unhappy husband whose wife pays Pyrenees, are seen in the picture all bills is splendidly accomplished. -which is replete with scenes of deep;

human interesÉ.............

Hamilton MacFadden and Chan-

dier Sprague, the directors, deserve much credit for the admirable way in which they succeed in following the book faithfully bringing this tender love story to the screen.

Za Su Pitta, Nanos O'Neil and

Wall Produced. #

Tastefully mounted and smartly produced, this Radio Pictare in an- other triumph of production fel lowing in the trail of such, Radio triumphs as Cimarron The Royal Bod" and other recent suo

ccasos.

Miss Carroll, in, the title role of charm and bubbling sense of humour Flops a liking for vodka one feels. Mr. Hamilton Gay's scenery both Miss Auriol Lee's production and the production, in

дя the immediately endear her to everyone, that the really could never have deserve a special mention daughter of an impoverished and including a troupe of Russian swallowed the stuff and Ada, the disgraced countess who owns and operates a notorious night club in

"I enjoyed "I Lived With You." Frague, the gay capital of modern

pretty, vacuous daughter, gors comAnd, to judge from the continual Bohemia.

pletely off the rails with her employ laughter at the final reception, s

did the audience,

tertainers who adopt her as one of their ow

Charles Farrell, co-star in the.

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When a brutal employce of the valet. The romance which springs beautifully played by that Bir-Ply Hills. conoocta a fiendish plot against up between Janet and Charlie on March, Naney's feelings toward the their first meeting is the theme of handsome young man change to love, and the ensuing avents, lead the picture. Their adventures, the audiencs through a series of which include a strange misunder- exciting and heart-tingling scenes in standing between them and Janet's which action and suspense are aver. present

threat of a spite marriage, carry The ending is a happy one.. them ashore where their troubles A big cast of Broadway stars are roles of this absorbing drama. seen in the colourful supporting are augmented by the persistence of Virginia Cherrill to win Charlie's affection, and of Lawrence Sullivan, an immigration officer, to arrest Janet for entering the country illegally

"DANGER LIGHTS,"merce at the Queen's Theatre,

A 'MAGIC PRINCESS.

APPEARS MYSTERIOUSLY AND TELLS YOUR THOUGHTS

A MIGHTY LOCOMOTIVE" USED IN FILMING.

A Trade Notice States: This is an age of speed, mochani cal and otherwise.

Everything must be accomplished Spontaneous gaiety and much in a bigger, butter and faster way, comedy are woven through the pie according to the twentieth century ground of George Gershwin music. ture which is told with a bankruto. This insludes six musical numbers,

With this in mind, RO studio

Winety Miles an Hour

Speed was necessary, they said, because the big feature of the pro duction is a five-hour run, with a

special train at 90 miles an hour. It

WBB made on a transcontinental railroad between Hütte, Montana, and Chicago Although many loco motives were used in the picture, there was one which embodied both speed and size-number munizi

with a spood of more than 100

but the best part of this year's ver- Aloko's act is well known here, sion is where it dates back to the time of Adam. The man varies the the words of which were written by executives sont & company of 100 miles an hour, more than 100 making of his woman from a "rib his talented brother, Ira Gershwin, headed by Louis Wolheim, Robert foot in length and with other fea to the present time pattern of n They are

"You Started. It wooden head and three lobg

Blah Blah Blah With You," "De Armstrong and Jean Arthur to the turen in proportion, it met every sticks She comes forth, a beau licious," "Somebody. From Home-northwest where the largest and requirement of George B. Seitz, dir Lawrence Grant are numbered the "Rib" does is to balance a thou-tifully garbed mind-reader, who where, Katinkitschke," and fastest locomotives in America wore ector, and helped make "The Ro among the many famous names of sand dollars or more worth of tells you all you are thinking and New York Rpsbody."! both stage and screen een in the without upsetting her equilibrium of thinking, One of the boat thingsymbolic of the spirit expressed in Radio Pictures all-talking rail greatest spectacle of the rails ever white, ostrich feathers on her head, few things you never dreamed The last named compotion foto or found for the filming of cord Rup" what, dritics say is the production.

For the feathers."

(Continued on: previous" column, the building in Amerion.

road drama, "Danger Lights," due almed.

Drama of Wise Wivest

and Sucker

Husbands

KEPT Husbands

Dorothy MACKAILL Joel McCREA Ned Sparks

A BADIO PICTURE

Directed by LLOYD BACON

BIG SUCCESS OF ADDED STAGE FEATURE

PROFESSOR ALEKO, PRINCESS PANTHEA, & COMPANY. Staging a Most Mystifying and Scientifle Exhibition of Telepathy Marvels. NEXT ATTRACTION

Radio's

Great

Heart

Thriller of

the Ball-

roads www

Overpow ering in

Drama...

Action

Sound!

DANGER LIGHTS

LOUIS

WOLHEIM ROBERT ARMSTRONG... JEAN ARTHUR

STAR

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,80, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20-

Charlie

Chaplin

CITY LIGHTS

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