1932-06-18 — Page 9

CENTRAL THEATRE

TEL

SHOWING TO-DAY

at 2.80; 15; 7.15 & 9.80

1932 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

Sinclair Lewis's greatest Novel becomes Samuel Goldwyn's greatest Screen achievement.

HE FOUGHT FOR MAN....... and lost awoman!

O other age could have

N told this story... No

his o

other world has known such a man-fighting humanity's battles...his restless mind searching for truth.. steadfast heart clinging to the woman whose love he lost in his hour of triumph.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

presents

RONALD

COLMAN

Arrowsmith

WITH

HELEN HAYES

FROM THE NOVEL BY. SINCLAIR LEWIS' JOHN FORD EDDLETON UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

ADAPTED FROM THE MOST WIDELY READ REST SELLER NOVEL THAT HAD THE DISTINCTION OF BEING AWARDED BOTH THE PULITZER & NOBEL PRIZES.

PRODUCED & RECORDED WITH THE LATEST INVENTED

· NOISELESS » SOUND APPARATUS; THE STORY IS AT ITS BEST VIVID, "IRONIC & PICTURESQUE TRAGIC THE DIALOGUE IS HUMAN & ASTONISHINGLY CONVINCING. THE DIRECTION 18 OUTSTANDING AND THE ACTING IS INSPIRING AND BREATHLESSLY REAL

IT HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE FILM CRITIO AS ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR. SHOWING SOON

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

IN

"MADONNA OF THE STREETS"

COMING

ANOTHER 1932 UNITED ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE

CHESTER MORRIS

IN

"CORSAIR"

RONALD COLMAN'S

VERSATILITY.

SHOWN IN "ARROWSMITH".

AT CENTRAL THEATRE.

A trade notice states:---- Portraying one of the most strik- ing characters in moders American fiction, Ronald Colman, is show

ing nut the Central Theatre

to-day, in the title role of Ar rowamith," the motion picture which Samuel Goldwyn has made from the novel by Sinclair Lewis, Thus Colman fane will agair have an opportunity to see him returning

THE BEGGAR

STUDENT."

VIENNESE COMEDY ROMANCE.

A trade notice states:-

The Beggar Student opens at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.

It is a gay Viennese comedy romanes with exosilent music and catchy songs

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932.

FIKAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 0.10;

KING'S THEATRE

7:10 & 9.80 P.X.ALS-B

She Learned About Husbands

From Them

She realized that if her kisses wouldn't

hold him... her tears wouldn't bring

him back.., so she took lessons, in love from her husband's girl friends.

GOOD SPORT

FOX

PICTURE

Marguerite Churchill plays a quernly vola "in "^Ambasador "Bill," Fes pre duction starring Will Rogers.

"AMBASSADOR BILL."

HIGH JINKS, IN A BALKAN STATE.

Will Rogers took his wife with him when "They Had To See Paris' and again he was accompanied by bis "better half in "So This 13

with

LINDA WATKINS JOHN BOLES GRETA NISSEN MINNA GOMBELL| HEDDA HOPPER ALLAN DINEHART CLAIRE MAYNARD

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25813

TOMORROW

Will ROGERS

Ambassador

Bill

Greta NISSEN

Marguerite CHURCHILL

Directed by

"SAM TAYLOR

A. FOX PICTURE

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

HONG KONG,

King's

"Good Sport,"

Dentral.

"Arrowsmith.”-

Queen's,

"She's My Weakness." ***Gentleman's Fate,"

World.

Star.

King's.

KOWLOON.

Behind Office Doors."

COMING.

Ambassador Bil"* "The Silent. Witness,"

The Magnificent Lie." "Dancers in the Dark," Uontral..

་་

13

"Mndorina of the Streets."* "Suicide Floot.*

Queen's.

"Beggar Student." "Perfect Alibi,*'

She Couldn't Say."

"To England.”___

World.

Stär.

Parlour, Bedroom and Bath,” "Humanity

"

(Chinese film).

Story of Kiangton

(Part 2).

(Chinese film).

Kept Husbanda,”

Sins of the Children.".

++

"GOOD SPORT" AT ELISSA LANDI IN A QUEER

THE KING'S.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE

DRESSES.

A' trade notice states:-

It has been left to a lone male,

Gay S. Duty, to monoplane across

the world of cinema fashions and

FILM.

PEER'S HOUSE PARTY OF CALCUTTA

SWEEP WINNERS.

The Devil's Lottery," which, ther, who dies from suffocation in establish a new record for drama proved very successful in London, a cupboard.

lic expression in feminine wearing is based on the line: "We have Somehow or other he is exonerat- apparel. Formerly with Milgrim's to pay for everything in this worlded from murder at the trial. gown shop in New York and many-over luck.!”

12 Meanwhile, the crippled ex-officer

17

of the leading modistes of Paris, As Evelyn Beresford, Elisan has come on the scene, and there are Duty recently turned his designing Landi makes one of a party of a series of love scenes of a rather gemus to the screen and his first Calcutta Sweepstake windars who painful kind between him and creations for the films are now to are invited by 4 peer to spend a Evelyn Beresford.. bo seen in the Fox production, week-end at his country house.

Good Sport," which will be sureen- ed as the King's Theatre with Linda Watkins and John Boles in the lead ing roles.

He is a racing man himself; his horse wins the Derby, and he wants to see the effect of sudden, fortunes coming into the hands of people who do not expect them.

I do not for a moment believe

Jem, learning that Major Beres- ford cheated him at the card-table,; returns to the house and stabs him to death. Thore follows an investi- gation" by some obtuse detectives, who follow up the wrong trails.

As we know all about the mur

a dramatic mistake of the first or- der.

No amarter gowns have been seen in pictures the past season that. those which Miss Walkins, Minna that an English peer would invite der, having seen it, this is surely Gombell, Greta Nissen, Hedda Hopao" motley a crew to his house as per and Claire. Mayard are wear- ing in "Good Sport," which Ken neth MacKenna directed. Further more, they are gowns that give the stamp of authority to what one mus

expect to look for in the season ahead.

are chosen by Lord Letchfeld.

There is Mrs. Meech (Beryl Mer oer), the old-fashioned housekeeper" type, who puts her foot into it the moment she arrives There is her

son, Jem (Victor McLaglen),' a prize-fighter; Major Beresford, the Duty Erst visualizes his creations better half of Evelyn's dubious past on the girl who is to wear them and (Paul Cavanagh); & young and dot. then sets about to make his designs.ing couple nowly, in the toils of Inspiration plays

ex-officer cripple important love; and an role in the evolution and fabrics (Ralph Morgan).

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are its inexhaustible source. Ono Now, this is an excellent way to

Daravelling the Tangle.

QUEEN TIME

The Air In Always Cool and Fresh

No Glrealation of Old Air,

but Natural Ventilation,.. Comfortable. Healthy, and

Safe..

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 AND 0.20%

Young Love on

a Rampage!

Youth

"hits the

high

spots in great fan

show

SUB CAROL

ARTHUR

LAKE

SHES MY my WEAKNESS

Bousing racing

comedy romance that will bring you. brand-new plotur a thrills 1

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THE

BEGGAR STUDENT

SHIRLEY BALE.

LANCE FAIRFAX

From the world tomove

„operetto. By: CARL MILLÖCKER:

from JERRY VERNO

(STAR)

However, the various threads of crime are gradually disentangled. The gailty are punished and the FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 280, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 nnocent go free, except for the crippled officer, who ends up in a state of paralysis after supplying

the clue to the murder.

The ones of Elissa Landi is in-. toresting because she presents the problem of an intellectual star

of the best proof of his practica: begin á fim and would have been fighting her way through pictures sense in creating style is the way still better if Lord Latchfield had which do not give her brains or

which he daringly designs in been an eccentric millionaire accus media that upsets all tradition. tomed to oddīties of this kind.

For instance, in a formal gown

London," but in "Ambassador Bill." the Fox picture, coming next Sunday to the King's Theatre, he leaves his domestic consort at home, setting him free to become advisor for Linda Watkins, he substitutes to a queen, playmate of a youthful bronze sequins, in chiffon for his king and a player among the other draperies, instead of the soft tan members of the royal family. Aat crope, the material from which In real life, Rogers is a devoted the gown is made and which would husband and an indulgent father. be used by nine out of ten designers He has three children, Will, Jr., to give expression to the draperies, Then again, he wants a rose for win the Mary and Jimmy, the oldest being

Shirley Dale, the

latest British screen and " plays the lead, supported by Lance Fair. faz, Jorry Verns and Mark Daly, The plot deals with Lys efforts of

an ambrous Colonel to

to serious emotional impersonations, love of a girl much younger than Will Jr. who recently celebrated the collar adornment of ons of Miss he is. When she spurns him he his 18th birthday. The only thing Watkins many street suita. Does after his recent successen in light tries to put her in such a position comedy. Ronald, Colman has how that she will be glad to accept him Rogers has ever denied his family is he use patent leather! Or wool over displayed a great versatility in order to escape from the con telephone. He refused to have Or shillon Or the conventional Béquences. How his scheme fails, one in his home for obvious reasons. artificial dowers No, he does not. in his long screen carcer, and play we leave the picture to tell.

In “Ambassador Bill," Rogers This clever man creates a beautiful settings, beautiful

ed great of parts since he

Ar-

beauty much chance.

Her features require careful He is, at a matter of fact, alighting; she has a natural air of typical Forsyts of the old school, mystery which neede protection from admirably played by Halliwell too much studio glare, and above Hobbes.

all she requires emotional situations Things Go Wrong.

of a genuinely dramatic kind.

Her voice, deep and rather mța- " Things begin to go wrong at once,culine, like Greta Garbo's, needs Major Betesford, who is "broke," special dialogue of the "intriguing" tries to bully Evelyn into buying kind. I do not was why she should his silence with large lump of swenpstake, especially as she is falling in love with young Stephen Alden (Alexander Kirkland).

not get it.

tery is very well acted indeed, For the rest, "The Devil's Lot- especially by Paul Cavanagh and Jem loses £500 to the major at and photograpity-ary-above ru

Halliwell Hobbes, and the settings cards and steals it from his moproach,

WINNIE BELIEVES IN LAUGHING,

-LEADING LADY OF "SHE COULDN'T SAY NO.”

se que legitimate stage for motion gracious allons comety of inacts the hilarious réle of an white rose of ermine and, presto! pictures,

the romantic Beau Mark Daly are but a few of the American ambassador embroiled in sets a new fashion for the season. Geste," the comedy melodrama of many points of distinction this une the politics and royal loves of 1 "Bulldog Drummond," the tragic British talkie possceses Picture

For Minaa Combell, he designs a seriousness of Dark Angel" and!

goera here are assured of an engiamorous mythical kingdom in the formal gown of white satin, banda Condemned," the light farce of foyable evening's entertainment Balkans Between dodging revoluit with crystal tube beading and Devil To Pay," have all show when they go to see "The Boggar tions, and stumbling over the more then takes some of the banding and different angles of the actor who Student, has been called the premier per

jagged points of etiquette, he tea creates artistic and picturesque former of talking picturee..

cher the boyking, Bosball and starts draperies for her arms. It takes a rowsmith" is of course, his first ap pearance in the rule of an Ameri- delon Claudit and as major roles a Soone troop The stately mind that is fabric-conagious to do Winnie Lightner, who plays the

are Richard Bennett, and A. D. Ada Margoustic Churclátt, play lead that sort of thing effectively...leading role in She Couldn't, Bay. Supporting him in this transcripson, both famous veterans of the

No" the Warner Bros and Vita. tion of Sinclair Lewis masterpiecs legitimate stage, for many ra. ing role, that of the Queen-Regent, a

phone production which is coming believes that a good laugh can undo all the harm that has been done by a whole day of worrying.

"Never miss an opportunity to laugh" she says. "I do not mean just-a-woak grin, but a loud; hoaz by laugh. If you think the world is wrong, go on a laugh hant. IV

a suze euro and lots of fun. You can always find something to chuckle at in this funny, grand old world.ngine in eade

is a lengthy cast of faraonis" names. Myrna Boy, AlecB, Francis, Boulah † while other favorites in the cast arand, Arnold Korff and Ernest to the Queen's Theatre, next week, over, brooding and just stubborný

Opposite him is Helen Hayes, the Bordi, Claude King and Florence Greta

Hissen. Tad Alexander

Wood..

rage star who triumphed recently Britton are other well-known alati von Seyfering, as on the screen in The Sin of Maers who contribute to

The picture was directed by Sam (Continued at inut of next column.] ↑ Taylor. (Continuou al foot of next column,

smith.

Arrow-

"I know trouble is hard to 5ght, I've had plenty of it myssit. How refusing to anils is deadly. You have to snap out of it wooner ort later, so why not sooner ?”

A

MARY ASTOR ROBERT

AMES

Behind OFFICE DOORS

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 280, 15,7.15 AND 9.20 John GILBERT Leila HYAMS

“GENTLEMAN'S

FATE

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture.

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