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CENTRAL THEATRE

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SHOWINGS TO-DAY, at 230; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 THE GREATEST CHINESE, TRIUMPH ON THE SCREEN

HUMANITY

WITH THE SHENSI GREAT FAMINE OF 1950 AS BACKGROUNDS" A PICTUKS NOT EITHER THE CHINESE OR THE FOREIGNERS CAN AFFORD TO MISS.

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SINCLAIR LEWIS'S GREATEST NOVEL BECOMES SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S GREATEST SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT

SAMUEL GOLDWYN.

RONALD COLMAN

ARROWSMITH"

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

HELEN HAYES

SHOWING SOON

THE STORY OF A WOMAN'S LOVE & REDEMPTION EVELYN BRENT & ROBERT AMES

IN

"MADONNA OF THE STREETS"

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COMING! COMING!

THE GREATEST RKO-PATHE SUPER SPECIAL

BILL BOYD

"IN

“SUICIDE FLEET”

ALSO

THE NEWEST 1982 UNITED

HOWARD HUGHES

ARTISTS SUPER SPECIA'.

PROSANTS

AIR

COCK OF THE -CHESTER MORRIS

'HUMANITY."

A REMARKABLE CHINESE FILAM.

"THE MIRACLE MAN."

A FILM WITH QUEER CHARACTERS.

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A trade nolice statest

The Miracle Man' proyed for more interesting to work on than the average picture because there is only one part in the entire pro duction which may by enlied straight re," said Director Nor- man McLeod recently..

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The great strides made in the art. of Chinese motion picture produr- sion, are fully brought out "in "the United Photoplay Service film, Humanity." now showing at the Central and World Theatr. It Veveals how far Western methods and technique have been applied by this enterprising Am company, which was developed owing to dis- satisfaction with earlier producers. "Humanity" is a powerful and truthful drama of modern China. It opsus

wide the soul of the Chinese to foreigners To them now it is given to understand, and to understand is 'to appreciate the Chinese as a nation. The follies of youth in the gay cities, the uster Twing Pichol is seen as an atheist selfishness of some, and the remark-who does the power of God until able heroism of others, are portray- His own son is cured by a miracle. ed with realism and in detail to a John Wray, as The Frog, is an with his uicety. And against this touching obvious character adtor drama is the background of the body twisted into grotesque shapes. Shonsi famine of 1930, with all its : Robert Coogan is a pitiful little horrors and its piteousness.

crippled boy.

Some remarkable venes of the famine districts, take on the spot at the time, are worked into the story, giving the film a rare touch

of reality.

Sylvin Sidney plays a girl crook; hardened against life, cynical and seleming, who changes under the spell of the Miracle Man.

swi-fisted, Chester Morris is brutal, leader of a gang of crooks, a scoffer at anything good life until his regeneration.

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Ned Sparks appears as a "dend- paa" pickpocket.

Hobart Bosworth is the beloved, religious faith header kindly,

Boris Karloff has another of his weird character rôles as the half- caste Monuce.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.80, 8.10, 7:18 & 9:30 P.M

KINGS THEATRE

He Saves the Day for

His Friends

But He Saves the Night for His Senoritas!

The Romeo of Mexico, the Robin Hood of the Rio Grande. In a story loaded to the guns" with double-barreled action!

The Gay

FOX

PICTURE

Caballero

with GEORGE

O'BRIEN

VICTOR

McLAGLEN

CONCHITA MONTENEGRO

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG.

AT THE THEATRE TEL, 25818

King's.

SUNDAY, 12th JUNE

The Gny Caballerò;?" Jantra).

"Humanity'

SYLVIA

Queen's.

World.

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SIDNEY

CHESTER

MORRIS

IRVING PIOHEL JOHN WRAY ROBERT 0000AN HOBART BOSWORTH

THE

MIRACL MAN

a Garaman Gaw!

MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

Victor McLagles has plenty to do as one of the trading players in "The Gay Caballero, Fou picture, but there's always a moment to spare for the albering Conchita Mollemagre

"THE GAY

CABALLERO."

BRILLIANT SPECTACLE AT THE KING'S.

Magnificent scenery, picturesque native customs, and the enchanting architecture of the low, red-tiled abode structures of the great South west mark "The Gay Caballero," Goorge O'Brien's intest Fox pro- Virginia Bruce, as a frail invalid,duction which opened yesterday at of the soil is sharply contrasted and Lloyd Hughes, as the million the King's Theatre, with the thoughtlessness and heed-aire brother, both have character

Especially significent is "the "re Icoanem of youth, and the callons parts

cantina. The cantina in

It is in the famine district that the heroism of the humble tillers

nens of those within whose power it Florine McKimmey, us the un-

"POSSESSED".

BOOKED FOR

THE QUEEN'S.

JOAN CRAWFORD AND CLARK GABLE TOGETHER.

"Possessed, a Metro-Goldwyn, Mayer production starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, is due shortly at the Queen's Theatre, and from what I saw of it at a private preview yesterday. I confidently recommend it as a picture which should not be missed.

Star,

Elug's.

The Flying Fool.”

Humanity."

KOWLOON.

Thunder."

COMING.

The Miracle Mon," "Heartbreak.”

Dancers in the Dark." "Good Sport:"

Central.

Arrowsmith."

Cock of the Air." Suicide Fleet.??.

Queen's,

Tell England.' "Possessed."

World.

Star.

Sho's My Weakness.'

Story of Kiangtan “

(Part 3).

(Chinese film).

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney."

"Iron Marks.

Easiest Way."

"Escape."

"Recaptured Love,"

Behind Office Doore."

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

(Continued from Page 2)

Vocal "Duet Song of Love" (Schubert-Berte)-Lucy Isabelle Marsh and Royal Dadman.— 4013.

Violin Solo-"Fair Rosemary

(Kreisler),

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Violin Solo-Rondine.” (Kreis-

ler).-Fritz Kreisler-1350.

7 p.m.-Stock quotations, mail

notice, etc... 1.08" to "7.19 p.m.-

Orchestral. Marche Joyeuse" (Chabrier- Harichs-Victor Symphony Or

chestra,--30037..

Creole Rhapsody" (Ellington). -Duke Ellington and his Or chestra.-30049, 7,18 to $ p.p.-

Variety.

Orchestra Listen and Wonder" Medley of Hits."Marek Weber and his Orchestra.- V-30038..

Vocal Dirot I've Found ૉ.

Whole World in You." "Vocal

Duet - "Dainty Little Maiden."-Winnie Melville and

Derek Oldham.-B3716. Orchestral Tho" Maid of the

Mountains--Selection.

The

London Palladium Orchestra.~

C1881.

QUEENS SUPORE

Cool

The Air is Always C

and Fresh

No Circulation of Old Air, but Natural Ventilation. Comfortable, Healthy, and Safe.

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY Ar 230, 5.10, 7.15 AND 2:20

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURES TO“

PRESENT

THE

FLYING FOOL

BENITA HUME HENRY KENDALL

URSULA JEANS. WALLACE. GEOFFREY.

& DIRECTED BY WALTER JUMPERJ

;)

See THE GRAND NATIONAL Ia its Every Detail and from Every Angle in the British PATHE Gazette

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IS LOVE A CRIME?

Society Banght: to destroy them Because of it! Beautiful

JOAN

RAWFORD

In CLARENCE BROWN'S Boul-drama

POSSESSED

Kissed by the screen's most fascinating man CLARK

GABLE

with Wallace Ford Skeefs, Gallagher

STAR

Song--" One Alone. Richard FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.

The story is an old one, that of a country girl going to the city "lo make good, but the acting is some. Miss thing far above average. Crawford commands a large follow- ing locally and so doea young Gable who is hailed as Rudolph Valen- bino's successor; but oven the most ardent of their supporters will be delighted to find how they have excelled themselves in this talkie. It would not be fair to the other players if mention were not made: of them, Skeets Gallagher, Wallaco hurry among the crowded tables as Ford and Clara Blandiek, and al- the bar-keepers Inbour to quench though Marjorie White only up- insistent thirsts. A marimba band, pears for a very short spoli, she too, almost invariably found in such a deserves a word of praise. - Méxica cantina; furnishes the We are first introduced to Mine music which inspires Spanish dan-Crawford as a girl working in a cars in the rhythmic movements of paper box factory. She is unhappy the tango.

and has great ambitions; then by. Into this scene, in the picture, accident she ments a young follow moves the dramatic action of the from town who gives bar cham- stirring plot. Victor McLaglen, aspagne, and his promise to, do all O'Brien's friend and the only man he can for her should she decide to who knows the identity of El

go to the city. The girl takes him Goyota, "The Gay Caballero," at his word but arrives to find this rides us hurriedly to talk with young fellow not as ready to help 8.05 to 10.30 p.m.-Chiness Studio Linda Watkins, an American singer an she had at arst imagined. While Concert, in the cantina and an ally

of

is to save hundreds of livm. In the sophisticated daughter of Frank Production of an actual Mexican O'Brien and McLaglen against the Gable who takes her cut and thei

Darien, the character hotel owner,

The

gay whirl of the city, the son of a farmer involved in whirlwind romanes which laid riches at his fect, so blinding him to everything that goes on around him that the a major vocal production comes to novel, and originally standing in à heart-reading appeals of his faith the King's Theatre beginning next little Mexican town just below the fal and devoted wife but A Sunday. Sylvia Sidney and Ches- border. Open on one side as all momentary pang of remorse, to be ter Morris appear in the leading much desert buildings are, it is a brushed aside when the fair lady | Flex.

of his visions snaps her finger.

The picture is remarkable for it

Crooks (Tenor).---1370. Organ Solo-"A Musical Trip Ilound the British Isles.--Ro- ginald Foort--C2077- Vocal Drinking Bongs."-Jack Hylton and his Orchestra.- C2074. Orchestral Putting

Ritz "Selections. Orchestral "Happy Days "

Selection.-New Mayfair Or- chestra,-C1805.

on

the

8 p.m.-Local time and weather re-

port.

news,

in his apartments, she meets Clark 10.39 p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press

crust wiles of Paco Morales, sche friendship gradually develops and 10.33 p.m.-Close down.

All recurds in the above, Europena has the lone strigst part. The Gas Caballero, was modelled after ing land baron, portrayed by C. later ripens into something greater.

Henry Gordon. Miracle Man," famous as an out- the one described in Tom Gill's

Then complications set in, and he programmes are suppited by Mesers standing silent, and now refilmed as

The situation is brought about by cause of her love for him, she leads Moutrie & Co. the open conflict between O'Brien him to believe that she cares for her. and McLaglen, on the one side, and old sweetheart from the country.

This is after she learned that max showing how the Tunafaha Gordon and Weldon Heyburn on ringo for them would be impossible, the other.

in view of her lover's future: Fur-caught. First of all we are taken Further plat complications rise ious with jealousy, ho sends her to the fishing ground for sardines, running for the governorship of the have been caught (they are used no over the love of O'Brien and Hey. away, and it is only when be in and, after a fow thousands of these but for the same girl. Conchita town, and addressing a meeting bait for the tuna), we go. over the Montenegro, and finally end in the that he discovers the truth. To tell fishing ground for the latter, and how this came about would spoil we are also shown two men's strug hercules combat between the two be story. It has to be seen to be gle to land a seven-foot shark. Quite instructive and an appro giants, so vividly described in the Duvel, which forms a stirrings high-preceding this picture is prints admotiser for the much more.

(Continued at foot of next column, mjosable Cars to come. TM. Tight of the picture.

cast, The noting superb: the various moods, pity,

remorse the tnce. This picture makes it gaiety, ambision, fust, love, and possible. grand are depicted by wonderful! The story itself in a remarkable facial expression and this leads one tone. Various phases of Chinese life to the conviction that to under- fare embodied in it, and the drama stand the Chinese one, must read is from the pen of a mastera 1 the soul which is plainly shown in Chinese, himself, who understands

(Continued at foot of next column.) his countrymen,

rather large structure, through whose large and gracefully curved" arches one has a view of the patio, the hitching racks and the stables beyond.

Inside, u babble of English and Spanish voices intermingle as they converse over their drinks. Waiters

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CHANEY

KHUMPER

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