1932-06-04 — Page 3

"

Page

3.

CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWINGS TO-DAY, ai 2.80; 5.15; 7.15 & 9,30

A SUPER" CHINESE DRAMA WITH ENGLISH TITLES

BUTTERFLY WU

IN

"LOVE'S TRIANGLE"

with an All Star Cast Produced by SHAI STAR CO

-COMMENCING SUNDAY-

A THROBBING, PULSATING CHINESE DRAMA OF EXTREME

"EMOTIONS, PERFECTLY ENACTED BY A PERFECT CAST

HUMANITY

NEVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF CHINA HAS THERE BEEN REVEALED THE REAL DRAMA OF MILLIONS SUFFER ING & DYING FROM HUNGER,' THRILLING & HEART---- RENDING SCENES ACTUALLY TAKEN IN SHENSI DURING THE GREAT FAMINE OF 1930 PRODUCED BY THE UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE

+

SHOWING SOON

THE LATEST 1932 UNITED

'SAMUEL GOLDVYN

ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE

RONALD COLMAN.

“ARROWSMITH

HELEN HAYES

UNITED ARTISTS

PICTURE

COMING!

HOWARD HUGHES

COMING!

COCK OF THE AIR

CHESTER MORRIS

“HUMANITY."

EPIC OF CHINA' AT THE

CENTRAL.

ARTISTS PICTURE

Min-che's early ambitions.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10.

MINGS THEATRE

7.10 & 9.30. P.M.

May job as

'sure allows! me to know

You can get away with anything

if your family's in the social· swim, says this pretty routal secretary.

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

and Herbert⟫ Marshall in

society from the Sylvia insidy is in an awful scraps and 19 must/ help

SECRETS

about disumb

Why

$

OF A

SECRETARY

are

milllors alway

a Garamou Gicture

SECRETS OF A

SECRETARY."

A RICH GIRL WHO LOST HER MONEY.

A trade notier states:

What do society girls do when their family fortunes suddenly vanish 7

In most instances, such bereit young ladies have been known to plange right into the workaday world and make commercial succes. ses out of lives, that once had been

NO LADY" AT THE

QUEEN'S.

LUPINO LANE RUNS WILD.

A 4rude notice states

1932.

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE TEL. 23813

TOMORROW

They LOVE

.to. make

You LAUGH!

GIRLS

ABOUT

TOWN

"A Paramount Plature

with

Kay Francis Joel McCrea Lilyan Tasbinan

TODAY AT THE ~

CINEMA

Quean's.

HONG KONG

The Royal Bed." King's.

"Secrets of a Secretary."

"Central.

"Love's Triangle."

World.

Star.

The Easiest Way,"

KOWLOON.

Danger Lights.".

Queen's.

COMING.

"No. Lady." "Flying Fool." "Tell England."

King's

Girls. About Town,"

Dancers in the Dark."

Central.

"Humanity. # "Arrowsmith."

"Cook of the Air."-

World.

Star.

"Story of Kiangtan"

(Part 2).

"Humanity"

(Chinese Alm).

"The Last of Mra. Cheyney."

"To Oblige a Lady." "Thunder."

"Easiest Way."

THE NEXT TALKIE VOGUE

WILL ENGLAND BE BEHIND - AGAIN?".

¿

What is to be the next talkie based on actual murder cases. "The rogue? Why doesn't England jet Famous Ferguson Case is one of a vogue of her own instead of ful- them. lowing America?

If you were one of the many thousands who witnessed Lupina Lane making his big British screen comedy, "No Lady, at Blackpool last summer, you will have an op- portunity of recognising yourself We have invariably been a good on the screen. Perhaps you wora six months behind American themes one of those who took part in the in talkies. We followed America film; & small part such as waving in war filma aftorThe Big Par- hands, or shouting "Hooray," ade" hade scored: well, here's your opportunity to ses how you register as a screen ac

After America had produced "The Last of Mrs. Choyner we

7

An aerial comedy, "Cock of the Air," to be shown locally" 300

in another picture likely to start- a flutter of wings over Hollywood. The humorous side of flight has not been treated before, save in isolated passages.

Political satiro, is also scheduled

The country lad decided to leave rodained mainly for squanderous tor, for No Lady" comes to the thought of Frederick Lonedale and for screen treatment.

s home and all that was dear to him for Tientsin. He entered, the university and won high boncurs.

activities.

"Secrets of a Secretary" has to do with the activities of, just such a

The horror of the great famine in Li Shi-yi, the campus dirt, ook girl-Helen Blake-played by Cinu-

Shanvi in 1080, vividly and realis a fancy to him, and it was not tifully portrayed with authentic suprising that he was pleased with scenes Aimed a the spot, is the her attentions and soon fell en background for "Humanity," a tirely under her charms. dyoumic drama of Young China,"

Three years passed, and the more

ity heroes and its wasters, its wir money. Min-che's parande sent, the

dette Colbert at the King's Thea tre to-day.

In this story the heroline is even more than ordinarily burdened. She has acquired a husband who turns out to be a worthless fortune-hunter

iues and its sins, its sublime devo more he neglected his studies and who, as soon as he sees their money tion and its callong selfishness.

guing, goes himself, diserting the much-cubittered girl,

the lower become his position at Never befors in the history of the university. Later, a terrible China has thers" been revealed the famine came to Shensi. Letters

!

But she gets employment

+1

Queen's Theatre to-morrow.

For Over B

month Blackpool crowds were alternately thrilled and amused, at the spectacle of Lupine Lane descending from a sixth storey

hotel window using an umbrella as parachute, Lapino walking into the Fier, Lapino crashing a glider on sea from the end of the Central

the beach or parading the North Pier clad in feminine attire,

the merits of smart society drama.

When America had flung her Navy into Hollywood we made Middle Watch." Edgar Wallace, and The Flag Lieutenant" and "The his library of arock fiction followed an intensive crook vague across the

Atlantic.

The present movies fashion did pot originate in England, but in

scarcely one subject which is not Germany. In short, if you study the history of film movements, ther taken at secondhand.

Europe v. America, There are those who hold that en-that America is following Ger Europe is already ahead of Ameri- many, France and ourselves.

But surely this is in matters of technical interest, as in the linking up of music with narrative and in the general freedom of the camera from talkie asphyxis

shows amazing gifts here.

In themes-no. Amerien still

A film of Harley Street, describ. The Hotel Vogue.

ing the whole drama of docteng, Blackpool rallied round wonder-

would be, a new theme, A film. afforded, Mr. Lane in the making Train" or "Tell England." But

Occasionally we make an original, about farming would be a new fully and every assistance was flm of our own, like The Ghost theme-sży, Sheila Kayo-Smith's "Sussex Gorse." A film about family holidays as the English son- of the film. "No Lady" is the they do not start a vogue,

Why didn't we make "Grand side. third British subject made in that Hotel, a grand theme-already- This miscellany is offered, with town and there is a disposition to succeeded in America by Hotel free world ecpyright to all British Hollywood of the North.

"Continental?" Why aren' regard Blackpool as the futur

we producers in search of a new vogue, making Magnolia Street? Who A these is not to be confused is producing Arnold Bennett's "Im-with Now backgrounds or with porial Palace"?

plats or technique. These are simply the avenues of expression.

drama of millions suffering and were sent to Min-che in Tientsin, social secretary for a wealthy fami: dying from hunger. Thrilling and but he was too busy with the picly with whom she had once been on

Indonao interest was aroused by heart-rending scenes actually taken parations for the marriage he wis a par socially. The father and Lupino's newspaper advertisement in Shansi during the famine of 1980 about to contract with Shi-yi, to

mother of the family treat her with for sixteen bathing beauties to act are shown.

the respect that her calior status in the film with him, and hundreds A drama of life and death a peronta now penniless, died in their stratum demanded. But of applications were received and

their young daughter Sylvin is just

province teeming with life, yet within a short apace of time with death staring it in the face.

It is a story from a modern period of China's history revealing

give them any attention. Flis

hanger and grief. Jo Lian, "his wife, parted with her little son in exchange for rice, but it was too late to ovo thom. Overwhelmed with grief and having no further, mena

J

a trifle snooty.

When the British Lord who is coming to marry this young woman arrives he falls in love with Clan deste. Meanwhile Sylvia has been carrying on a dangerous affair with Claudette's renegado husband.

The situation is tense and the

modern probleme. She solves thom

interviews granted before the lucky

sixteen wore anlected. Several Jocs!

Scouts found themselves prominent by having small parts in the film, and a typical Lancashire "salt's" chest expanded greatly when he played in the film and had a whole

ling to recite.

The proprietors of the Piers, the Tower; the Amusement Park, and

a little known phase of life, which, to find food, she, too, was about even if known, is seldom heeded. to die. She lingered on waiting A drama of extreme emotions, per for ber husband to return and did problems faced by the heroine are the open air baths all afforded as fectly enacted by a porfect cast, in-not wait in, wain, for Min-che, .cluding such well-known Chinese finding his new wife untruthful artista ne Raymund King and Lai and realizing the seriousness of tho Hung.

famine, rushed back to his native city, just in time to see Jo Lian

who died in his arms.

تر

in a modern way and the picture sistance, and the Blackpool Life- is ended with a brilliane series of boat Band turned out in style for scenes in Which

acting and plot ten parade along the front. Herman Darewaki and his band are also seen sion have full sway. Betty Lawford, who made her talkie

The rdle of Sylvia is played by and beard in the Alm..

debut na Walter Huston's daughter in Gentleman of the Press,"

George Metax, Paramount's newest importation from the Lon den stage, plays the part of the villainous husband.

The Story.

Five years befora the great famine in Shensi, in 1930, Chan Min-cha, graduate of a middle of the play. shoul, was living on his father's Other stars in the production ari farm. He was content with his Berton Churchill, publisher"in the peaceful rural life until he met newspaper play "Give Star Final" Broadway where he recently finish hit old class mate whose story of on Broadway and Mary Bolanded a part in "To-morrow and To-morrow," plays the part of the ben subces at college in the big who just anjobed a successful lung British nobleman who saves the day city and later 25. a high official in ran as the war of "The Vinegar for Claudette in the closing scans Tientsin, aroused, ónos again, all! Trea." Hilarious Broadway comedy.

Horbert Marshall, a favorite on

(Continued on previous column)

Public interest in the film and Lupino Lade was so great that it was almost embarrassing for him to walk about, and but for the wholehearted co-operation of the police, work on occasions would have been impossible.

The only hope one sees of Britis: filme leading the world in this. matter is when we produce "The Good Companions." That spacious and picturesque story will bring the maypoles out on every atudio

green,

America has already unnounced that her next phase of production- or one of them--will be "thrilleza

"

GIRLS ABOUT

TOWN."

BRUNETTES PHOTOGRAPH BETTER THAN BLONDES,

The theme is some big central idea common to nearly everyone- something representative and sweep ing.

"Love on Wheels," for example, is a theme of the motor highway and of big shops. That it carries out ideas of advanced technique is nerely incidental,

with a striking roault.

"Kay Francia is a splendid photographic subject. Her hair is dark and when high-lighted in unusually beautiful.

"Men are easy to photograph ex- cept those who insist on wouring no make-up. Very few are blood, In Girls About Town, Joel McCréa and Eugene Pallette ar brunette are while Allan Dienbart has hair streaked with gray. For photo graph purposes gray hair is the same as blond.

A trada notice staten:- Motion picture cameramen -not-gentleman.They prefer brunet-

tea.

Brunettas are far easier to photo! But as to what guntiemen really graph than blondes, 'in the opinion prefor; Paramount leaves it so of Ernest Haller, of the motion Town. It is a picture that reveals open question in. "Girls About picture camera, who photographed the activities to two super-diggers, Girls About Town," which comes portrayed by Miss Francis add to the King's Theatre on Sunday Miss Tashman. The brunette falls next. Before leaving, the town, Lane,

in love with a handsome young man through the medium of a newspaper, blondes, such as Lilyan Tashman, and innocent and apparently, dur

"The difficulty in photographing and the blond helps her to effect thanked all concerned for their in that they offer tittle contrast to the able romance. valuable aid, and in addition rolight skin, all blond into one an the leading man tiers in the camera. Light hair, light eyes, "Joel McCrea plays the rule of marked that he could see no reason other if the cameraman doem't cast are gents... why Blackpool, saould not one, day know his business Hallez said, Dipshart, George Bestier, Ander become an important film producing "Artistic lighting, however can be on Lawler, Lucile Webster Gleason contre.

made to separate these fight, tonen and Robert. McWado:

QUEENT TIMORE

The Air is Always Cool and Fresh No Circulation of Old Air, but Natural Ventilation. Comfortable, Healthy, and Safe.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20.

Laughter of Delighted Millions Kings Kound

the Globe. to set a. New Standard in Screen FarGe!

THE

OYAL ABED

LOWELL SHERMAN

MARY ASTOR Great character stars in a master-piece of farge- "Gey. Sprightly. Intimate!

NEXT CHANGE

Lupino Lane's Latest Largest and Longest Laugh Vehicle!

NO LADY

A GAUMONT, BRITISH PORNCTION A SUPER TALKIE COMEDÝ CHOCK FULL OF EXCRUCIATINGLY FUNNY, AND HIGHLY THRILLING STUNTS

AND SITUATIONS

CINEMIC

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9:20

TheFirst. Great Rail- road Heart- Thriller 1 Louis

WOLHEIM Robert ARMSTRONG Jean ARTHUR

DANGER LIGHTS

WORLDA

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

THE EASIEST WAY with Constance BENNETT