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CENTRAL THEATRE

HONG KONG DAIL PRESS FRIDAY MAY 20, 1932.

BOOKING

TEL

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

at 2.80; 5.15; 7.16 &-9.30

THE GREATEST & BEST CHINESE SINGING & TALKING PICTURE EVER PRODUCED, WITH ENGLISH TITLES

BUTTERFLY

"HAPPY

IN

S

WU

STARS”

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

A SMART BRITISH THRILLING COMEDY THAT IS AS WITTY AS IF IS EXCITING. AS CHARMINGLY

WILLAM HUTTER presents

ROMANTIC AS IT IS SUSPENSEFUL..

DENNIS NEILSON-TERRY BETTY STOCKFELD 77 PARK LANE

SHOWING SOON

THE NEWEST 1932 UNITED

SAMUEL GOLDVYN

ARTISTS SPECIAL PICTURE

RONALD COLMAN... "ARROWSMITH"

"UNITED ARTISTS **

PICTURE.

HELEN HAYES

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+

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NEXT CHANGE →→→→→ SUNDAY, 22nd MAY. Where have you been this week-end

and with whom

TODAY AT THE

CINEMA.

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King's.

Sunshine Suzie.

Central

Happy Stars

with Butterly Wa

Queen's

Work,

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with Douglas Fairbanks.

KOWLOON

Inspiration,"

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COMING.

“SUNSHINE SUSIE””

FEATURING A

RENATE MULLER, OWEN NARES, JACK HULBERT-MORRIS HARVEY

HINDLE WAKES

Ke Kathis Velsion of STEADY HOUGHTON'S

snational play Frosuring. SYBIL THORNDIKE

• JOHN STUART EDMUND GWENN BELLE CHRYSTALLand NORMAN M'KINNEL

ALLOUMONT-GINNSBOROVON PICTURE:

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"Hindko Wakes."!

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Dancers in the. Dark."

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MOVIE NEWS

"COCK OF THE AIR" HINDLE WAKES AT George Arliss, the G.O.M.

Dennis Neilson-Terry & Betty Stockfeld in '77 PARK LANE"

REAL GAMBLERS

IN A FILM.

LADY WORTH £50,000 A

YEAR AS "SUPER.'

A Trade Notice states:- One of the "extras" working in an important sequence of "77 Park Lane," he thrilling British talkie which comes to-morrow to the Cen-

'SUNSHINE SUSIE.

TO-DAY AT KING'S THEATRE.

اور

THE KING'S.

THE PLAY AND PLAYERS.

A trade notica atates

What is probably Britain's greatest sereen achievement to date, ills the bill at the King's Theatre next week.

I

Of The Talkies.

The best actor in Hollywood making public appearances in pri George Arliss, the GO.M. of vate-at-cocktail parties, at Falm talkies appear in a new film, ""The Beach, at his bungalow.".... in the Frening Standard. Silent Vaice. writes Ernest Betts

George Arliss was acting with Mrs. Patrick Campbell before the movies, commercially speaking, were born. He appeared with the famolis Mr. Fiske and under Charles Frohman He is a actor with a tradition.

The lying jades of the gossip par- jest. One glance through that lour find him an impossible sub Mussolini monocle of his and they are extinguished.

his wife and retires to his cottage Once a year he comes home with at Wealdstone: (Eng.) to think out his next picture.

Middle Watch,

World

"Story of Kiangtao."

(Part 1).

Btar,

Almost a Honeymoon.

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a story by

EDGAR WALLACE

·with WARWICK WARD

MARY NEWLAND HADDON MASON

NEXT ATTRACTION HER FOGOT THE GIRL BACK HOME When He Held A Cuban Lass In His Arma

PR

TIBBETT the Cuban

OFTEN RUN AWAY FROM HOME

Under

Cuban

Love Sene

Skies!

with

There has a large increase in the number of boys and girls reported to the police es "missing". The authorities are puzzled and hope Lupe Velez

stop before it becomes an epidemic, KAREN that the flow of lost children may Ernest Torrence.

W.S

VAIS DYER

"Hindle Wakes," a play of Lan- cashire life, was written by Stun ley Boughton over twenty years ago. It is one of the few plays that does not ago with time, and isn't old enough.

Hollywood has a tradition it In The Silent Voice," at the said a police official to a reporter, JIMMY

"Young people are so imitative, MORLEY

is as fresh, as provocative in

Regal and London Pavilion on: When Arliss was last in London Saturday, he plays a part, very dif- and the frequent announcements DURANTE theme as when it was written. It he said that he could never not in ferent form "Old English, Dis in the Press and also the broadcast Diracind is, in fact, coming to be regarded Therefore he had the utmost diffi Pa picture demanding sex appeal

raeli"

or "Alexander Hamilton." now as one of the plays of the cen-culty in finding films to suit him. Few Arliss Alms are without their the imagination of boys and girls

It is a tragic part, and although

by. 8.0 8 messages are likely to fre tury. It inaugurated a new school.

"It's no good baking me to kias tragic touch, they generally have a of school-leaving age." of drama which expressed the views he said. "I couldn't do it

somebody for a minite-and-a-half, happy ending cian of of the now social order, wherein

He is a musician "Let's talk about acting, my becomes stone deaf and has to find genius 'who the rising generation claimed inds. "dear fellow, I'm an actor.!!"

faith in humanity rather than pendence and set up a new code of chasm ser arated Mr. Arliss from deserts him when he loses his gifts It was then I perceived that a music. And the girl he loves relations between the sexes.

the plush and pulchritude, of as an artist.. This story is played to an intri-Hollywood. gulug conclusion against a vast, spectacular background of Lan- enshire at work and at play!

Not of the Order.

He is not really part of the Holly- This man Arliss is a phantom. wood order. He tramples on ons

Really; rather, a solemn affair, Bette Davis, petite young New York, has been given a long blonde who once played Ibsen in term contract with Warner as

percentage of it

Fortunately, only a very smal

the

missing never found again.

(STAR)

Mr. B. E. Ashbury, of the Char ity Organisation Society, said:

While it is hard to generalise, I

are reported missing to-day is that think one reason why more hoys their school life is very different TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9,20

Sybil Thorndike, Norman Me of its most sacred customs-that of result of her work in this picture. from what it was years ago,

A Trade, Notice states - Fraulein Ronato Muller, the Kinnel, Edmund Gwenn, John newest of theatrical "finds," has Stuart and Belle Chrystall All the come to the British screen after loading roles. notable career on the Berlin stage, or she has appeared in plays so diverse an Restand's, "L'Aiglon":

Born in Munich, aho started film

Misa Chrystall was born and bred at Fleetwood in Lancashire.

This young actress, now only 22 years old, came to London, some

tral Cinema, was a woman with and The Garden of Eden.” private income of £60,000 a year! Her pay for working in the work five years ago, has made five time ago to study for the stage pictures for Ula, and played at the Royal Academy of Dramatic opposite Emil Jannings. A lovely Art. She secured two small thea her poise, personality and delight Continental (blondes she displays trieal ongagements, notably in ful voice in Sunshine Susie, The Berg, and then played

TRAFFIC IN WOMEN.

Home Restrictions.

Demand for Women Continues.... In this way the demand for these.

To-day a boy who is at all bright unfortunate women has been les sened. But so long as even a few school is soon given responsibil. remain unregenerate, ty. He becomes a prefect and gets. there will still be an opening for used to handling boys When he some trafficking. Therefore, the leaves, school he still wants to ap latest task undertaken by the com

BLAMES LICENSED HOUSE countries

SYSTEM.

to

quonoe, which took a week to film,

Under the chairmanship of Ma-mittee has been the tightening up ply this sense of power. If he can was a guinea a day,ra

dame Rominciano of Honmania, the who conduct the traffic or those who existing circumstances for pastures. of the punishments against those not do so, then he will leave his The reason for his strange bo

League of Nations Committee for live upon the immoral earnings of eccentric Indy was a passion for which is now showing at the King's minor role in the Gainsborough al Traffic in Women has held its increases these penalties to a very I have handled hundreds of boys haviour on the part of the rich but

the Suppression of the Internation women. There is now in existence now. In other words, he disap-

|'an international convention which pears. gambling, only equalled by her pas Theatre, a musical comedy film in film version of "A Warm Corner," work of the Committes is shown imposition of a fine & dend letter, who have left home. They all have

annual meeting. The value of the considerable extent and makes the sion for the films and everything the Viennese manner, which has connected with them. She spends had an enormous vogue in Germany with Leslie Henson and Heather by the remark made a short while Prison is the best deterrent for a slightly different story to tell, most of her time on the Riviera, under its original title of "The Thatcher. Subsequently she haunt go by one of the traffickers. This such people and to prison they will with probable maladjustment in and is a well-known Agure at the Private Secretary Victor Savili od studios and casting directore, making things hard for us boys: 50omen Polis in order

League of Nations," he said, "is casinos of Monte Carlo, Nico Can produced the film for Gainsborougu nes and other nearby resorta, having Pictures.

and in something like despair she. Without any grast blowing of Women

their home life as one of the funda Police" won the reputation of being one of

In this airy and tuneful produc decided to give up stage and screen trumpets by patient work the protect the potential victims, the mental reasons. I would not say tat most daring gamblers at the tion, Miss Maller plays opposite aml return home to take up a busi: Committee has achieved that ten osgue of Nations advocates the that the boys of today are more tables.

Jack Hallbert and Owen Nares in

years ago would have seemed an

more extensive employment of When Altoit de Courville was a story which is set in the Austrian- ness careerTEMA impossibility.

women police. Wherever they have adventurous, but I hold that emo planning the gambling den sequenos capital, and which introduces into Then Miss Chrystall heard that

been tried, women police always tion plays a greater part in the 77 Park Lane, the lady was a narrative of commercial life some Victor Saville, who had directed

* Underworld.

seem to have had a good effect and modern boy's life then in the old so the committeo is trying hard to promptly got in touch with Mr. de .tuneful of episodes. It seems quite her in have first film, was to mak. By means of social committee of get other countries to experiment

days. investigation, whose members took with the countrymans Courville and asked to be permitted likely that the star of Sunshing Hindle Wakes, and wrote to him their lives is their hands and of special regulations the women to take part in the film pagam Susio is destined to enjoy a tre with the reant that he not very descended into the underworld, muste hall artiste is being prozace bler, so that for oven days ahemendous following here, and it is hopefully gave her an interview, they found out the foots. It was ed from the nefarious manager who would be able to indulge her two fairly certain that her Happy but her assurance gained her a teat, proved conclusively that the cause by paying low wages foross his to say. There was, of course, Topay, special fade gambling and films, Song" is going to be one of the and from about twenty candidates, of the traffic is the licensed house employees to prostitute themselves aged 19, why was found in a liner

musical hits of the seaso

she emerged the selected actress for system which used to be so prava Ghastly details of the system in the important and rather difficult lent in the continental countriesGreece and the Argentine rebound for America. Sha role of Jenny Hawthora." As The Committee has swung world brought to light in the League re- from home four or five times,

Hindle Wakea hea proved, she is opinion to such an extant that by port. The girls are only paid a

in

in London and board about it. She of the veliest, sanciest and most

at the same time,

Mr. de Courville was impressed by the request and was delighted

Into the

to comply with it as it was bis, tirely of ordinary film extras" desire to achieve parfection of at-would not be able to convey the mosphere abers all in this particu corrent atmosphero Many of the lon scope. He is an expert on other gamblars in he scone wore character by reason of being a there was the strongest oppositio gambling haunts, and it was his former or present habitues of con Lancashire girl with genuine un the movement is making headwa belief that crowd, composed entinental casinos, All specially enderstanding of and sympathy for In a large number of (Continued at Joot of next column.) gagod by Mr. de Courville.

“Jenny's character.si

Ehunespner tolerest, hiwa: besip-ba

an excellent "actress of consider slow degrees country after country tow

able promise, and furthermore she is abolishing the existence of such posed birage life and conviction to the places. Even in Trance where

ings a week and are sup supplement their synings

"When (Hrl" Vanish,

Of girls My Ashbury bad little

Tesson was tha

Jarbo

Hobart

MONTGOMERY

INSPIRATION”.

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