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CENTRAL THEATRE

TEL

The Best Natural-Ventilated Theatre in the Colony, that lias the Greatest Number of Windows and Electric Fans, Being Equipped With the Most High-Priced and Clearest Sound Equipment Available, & With Lifts Always Operating for the Convenience of the Dress Circle, Back Stall, and Uppar Circle Patrons,

SHOWING TO-DAY

at 2.30; 5.15; 715 & 9.30

THE GREATEST UNIVERSAL SUPER SPECIAL THRILLER. THAT HOLDS YOU, FASCINATES YOU, AND THRILLS YOU THROUGH & THROUGH.

A UNIVERSAL

SUPIR

ATTRACTION

Presented by

CARL LAIMMILS

A FRIENDLY WARNING

If you have a weak heart and cannot stand Intense excliament.

even shock, we advise you NOT to see this produciton. If, on the contrary, you ilke an unus ual thrill, you will find it in

"FRANKENSTEIN”

Produced by Carl team. ale, Jr., with COLIN CLIVE, MAE CLARKE,

JOHN BOLES, BORIS

KARLOFF, Dwight Fryn,

Edwürd Vas Sloan, Fredoric Kerr. Based

on the story by Mory Well- stonecraft Shelley, Adapted by John L. Beiger- ston from,, the play by Peggy Wabling. Directed by JAMES WHALE.

FRANKENSTEIN

THE MAN WHO MADE A MONSTER

SHOWN TO EXTRAORDINARY PACKED HOUSES DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS. TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT, PLEASE COOK YOUR SEATS EARLY.

STARTING SATURDAY

THE MOST WONDERFUL EKO SUPER SPECIAL FEATURE THAT THE PUBLIC HAVE LONG BEEN WAITING FOR

SUICIDE

FLEET

THE NAVY'S BIG PARADE

wil BILL BOYD, ROBERT ARMSTRONG, JAMES GLEASON & GINGER ROGERS.

SHOWING SOON

THE LATEST 132 UNITED

Boland

ARTISTS SPECIAL PICTURE

WETE CORSAIR

Singed Artists Picture

Chester Morris

CENTRAL THEATRE

PROGRAMMES.

FRANKENSTEIN' AND

SULOIDE FLEET.

A trade notice states:---

DUMB-BELLS IN

ERMINE."

STAR'S CURIOUS HOBBY.

"A"trada notice..entes:~~

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1932.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 8.10.

7:16 & 9.30 P.M.)

BOOKING

KINGS THEATRES

Who wouldn't, with Fredric March lead. ing the laugh parade as a gay, modern Romeo,lovin'where the lovin' is best- ina swift-paced story. that moves as fast as a honeymoon!

STRANGERS

with FREDRIC MAROH KAY FRANCIS STUART BEWIN

IN LOVE

a Paramount Picture ADDED ATTRACTION

BETH BERI

DANSEUSE

MISS BERI WILL APPEAR WITH

THE USUAL

PICTURE PRO- GRAMME AT 6.10, 7,15 AND 9.30 P.M. ONLY

PRICES AS USUAL.

SILENCE IS GOLDEN: So thinks Grein Nissen as she di creetly clamps her hand over the mouth of Brunell Fletcher, her luver, in the Fox Picture, "The Silent Wilness." "STRANGERS IN LOVE.

BRITISH EX-NAVAL OFFICER IN CAST.

A urade botice status ;---

1)

The story of a man who gave up the glamor of life as a commission- ed officer member of the British Navy for the lesser tinsel and brass buttons of a screen butler, is nug geted as one of the human interest atories incident to the production of Paramount's new action romance, "Intimate.'

THE SILENT

WITNESS."

LIONEL ATWILL IN THE LEAD.

A trade netice states: --~. Theatrical producers have been known to make great sacrifiers in order to sell their plays to the mo- tion pictures, and conversely, movie producers have been known to en- ter into some spirited bidding for stage production, particularly when that production was in the * gnash class.

-NEXT CHANGE——— SUNDAY, 3rd JULY

THE KISS THAT LED TO MURDER!

Who killed this woman who was always playing at love but never play- ing fair?

The SILENT WITNESS

wich

LIONEL ATWILL Greta Nissen Bramwell Fletcher

FOX FICTURE.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

Ji

Éing's.

HONG KONG.

"Etrangers in Love,"

Cantra).

And Beth Beri, Dansense.

Frankenstein."

Queen's

Skin Deep'

nd

Long Tack Sam.

World.

Star.

Huthority.

KOWLOON.

"Mon Call It Love."

COMING.

King's

The Silent Witness."

Daneers in the Dark."

"To-morrow and To-morrow."

Contral.

"Suicide Fleet.'h

"Coranir."

+ Queen's.

"Dumbells in Ermine."

"For Infantry Men."

"Tell England."

World.

Star,

Great Mendow,"

"Tailor Made Mon."

A Death Fearing Hero," ep. 2

Chinese flu.

"Song of the West.""

"Its A Wiss Child. "Shipmates."

"Grent Meadow."

"Tailor Made Men,"

FAMOUS FILMS RETURNING

AS TALKIES

AND ALL SET FOR CLARA BOW'S BIG COME-BACK.

"

The tattered rags of talkiedom," Griffith will not direct Broken which have lately so terribly thin, Blossoms,” Junot will give her are to be patched up by a series of own version of this latest blossoma hard-wearing fevivala, writes on the talkie bough. Her voice is Ernst Betts in the Buening Stand-infinitely more successful than Lil ard.

Han Giah's proved to be when she Revivals are in the air, and made her first and only talkie, American producers are telling the "One Romantic Night." But Lit old gang of box-office winners to lian Gish's spiritual frailty, whiel "jump to it."

made her a sort of lost child of the screen, has never been matched.

The Red-Headed Girl.

Look alive there, Myrna Loy We shall want you for "Vanity Fair." Show

leg, Spencer!

GIEENS TEARE

The Air Is Always Cool and Fresh

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

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20 (At2.30'usual pleturs programme only)

A Grand Double Attraction

Warner Bros.

Monte Blue SKIN

DEEP

DAVEY LEN

One

Woman

Loathed

His Ugly

Facs

Another

Cirl

Loved Him. Воскива

Fis Was Handsome

-On the Stage-

LONG TACK

SAM

The World Renowned

CHINESH MIRACLE MAN

with

Misses Mina & Nee-salong

and

Entire Troupe of WONDER WORKERS NEXT CHANGE

WARNER BROS. present

DUMB BELLS

"Broken Blossoms" will be prERMINE

Tracy! You're down for a Victor duced by the Fox Film Company, McLaglen part. Jump to it, Janet who are bringing Ciara Bow back Gaynor! You're wanted na parade to talkies.

in a Lillian Gisht part.

And Sari Maritza, too, Take a smart pace forward. They're going to revive The Ten Commandinents, and you are on star in it.

Now we are all present and cor- reck. Clara Buw, who does not come under the heading of revivals, is nevertheless" down for special duty.

I have already referred to Myron Loy's part in "Vanity Fair," which is to be shown some time next wock.

But how will Janet Gaynor figure in a Lillian Gish part?

›

The red-hended girl with the all- talking wink was announced recenst- ly to be making her earn in call. Her Savage a & fer of £30,000.

This is a picture with sprong emotional angles which will give Clare a chance to prove herself as a dramatic actress. She has al ways been little too funny in her fils for students of the red-bonded are to take her seriously.

But she has Are and a sort of recklesaness which combine to set up astonishing vibrations on the talkit apparatus. Her last two pictures, Miss Gaynor is to star in the love Among the Millionaires" and soms, which D. W. Crith made her justice. Talkie version of "Broken Blos-Her Wedding Night," did not do in 1914, with Lilling Gish and Richard Barthelmess in the leading parts.

Having undergone a severe course slimming instructors-they sent one of slimming under one of the Fox to her Nevada ranch for the pur-

Herdome pose--Clara is now ready to face the cameras again. buck" with a schoolgirl figure and to understand how to present a new personality has been the talk

That picture was one of the sen- sations of silent days, at a time when Griffith was monarch of all in surveyed. Griffith alone seemed

Nearly every human being has hobby-whether it be the collecting The Central Theatre kun broken of rare amps, antiques, coins, navy to begin a stage career in producer of the Broadway hit, "The lian, as Sternberg alone is success of Hollywood for months, ·

miniature bats, pipes,

books,

picture

He know the future American ad-

received

fu! with Marien Dietrich,

Different Types.

ور

A Crucial Test,

A former British naval officer, Leslie Palmer, featured with most mal example of this Fredric March and Kay Francis in een desire in my and sell was Strangers in Love" at the King's furnishes when the Fox Film Co Theatre tony, resigned from the poration was dickering with the many par records in its presenta tion of Universal's eerie Frank bottles or beetles, few indeed remain London and New York as a protege Silent Witness which comes in

of the late Sir Henry Irving.

talking picture form to the King's

She has been in rigid seclusion *ustein" which will be shown up free from the mania for acquiring

A member of an ancient family. Theatre next Sunday. to to-day only. It is understood oddments and remainders."

After witnessing the stage produc But Janet and Lillian are very with her husband, Rex Boll, ever that the everest critics throughout Robert Armstrong, who is fratur- that has contributed personages to the word have accuded this uned with Barbara Kent in Warner the empire for hundreds of years, tion several times the Fox officials diferent types, with only one thing since she married him last Decem- Palmer was educated in the Bri- made a fabulous offer for the screen in common- certain wistfulness, bor. I understand that her new usual film premier honours on Brothers Vitaphone comedy "Dumb-tannia and served as a commission- rights which the stage producer was which enrages the "moderna" but picture will be a crucial that of originality, thrills, direction, photo bella in Ermine showing Sued officer, with distinction in all ready to accept when a condition appeals to colonels, aunts, mothers, her screen, popularity, and that, if graphy, and in all probability box day at the Queen's Theatre, has one parts of the world for fifteen years, was inteposed. The actor who was very young people and very cld it succoeds, she may make another

Al for the same company, the of the strangest hobbies in

the people. office allmetion.

Whom she was as the height of her James Whale filmed the screen world,

Janet's public is terrific because mirals Rodman, Evans, Schley and playing the leading role in

Broadway production was the well edition of the famous 18th century i Though the husky yoning Mary Shelley's tale of the same favourite can no longer he called, an Eames when they were junior off-known stage star, Lionel Atwill, the is, always the Cinderella of fame in 1920 Clara received over with a wonderful cast including incorrigible child, he does still in cers aboard their respective ships and the movie people decided that talleie stars, realising the dreams 23.000 "far" letters in a single For are to make forty-eight pic- Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, John ist upon playing with nutches of the Coast of Chile in the early he was the only player who could and fantasies of distracted mouth.

nineties. Palmer

from give the role the necessary life and world. treasuring Marconi one of, the first official vitality on the screen.

Lillian Gish a first-rate tures during be coming year, "in- Boles, Mae Clarke, Edward Van hoarding itches to Sloan, Dwight Free and

otiur matches. This, in short, is his wireless messages sent to a warship The stage producer was inclined actress, with the most wonderful cluding a revival of "What Price She floated Glory ? with Spencer Tracy in the He was one of England to demur at first. The show was hauda on the secreon. famous screen players.

Hin collection includes matche at sea. The RKO super spacial feature Suicide Flost" will be screened from practically every country in foremost carmen, and now, thirty soon to go on tour and he wanted through her alms like a water lily part of Sergeant Quirt, and, pro- on Saturday immediately after the world. There is the earliest years later, he aspires to compete Mr. Atwill to play the lead in the and was always the orphan of some Frankanstoin." It is a story of type of Chinese match, just tiny in the Olympic gumes in Los An- ad show; But when the demands peculiarly tear-drenched storm.

of the Fox executives became in To-day both she and Griffith are Griffith's As an actor he played with the sistant Mr. Atwill was called into very nearly forgotten. the American Navy's part in the bits of rolled-paper dipped in wax Heles this summer. World War that reaches ita climax with crude uneven hand-dipped in a sea battle in which three sub. sulphur tips; there are the first leading stars of his day and direct the conference and when he express 1st picture. The Struggle," was marines, an entire division of six Swedish matches, braides French, ed and acted in their arst films desire to enact his stage role taken off after it had run for only

to the star's understudy. He once was summoned to Wind-1 Mr. Atwill role is that of Sir lay in the West End a week destroyers and n sixteen hundred German, Russian, Italian, Amer made in England in 1901. tous sailing vessel participating can and many others.

Most valuable of all, however, arr Castle to play a command per Austin Howard, an indulgent fa formance before King Edward and ther who accepts the responsibility The sailing ship, Bohemia, is sunk by shall fra from the submarines. In two examples of the first matches the King and Queen of Sweden. for a murder, which his pampered

They were thebestie, sequences the clipper ever made anywher

Mimo to the most playda xered in Indiaria. is burned and dynam Home Fray Ju od. The filin was directed by Albert druggist, in 1927, and were secured and Miss Kort in Damage on thinks he has committed to find is said by those who have seen the, Wakion Hoyburn, Mary Forbes, Rogell with Bill Boyd, Robert hy Armstrong at no small expone Ermine includes Beryl Mercer, circumstantial evidence that extri dramatic quality his stage perform."

Gleason, Claude Gilling cation and acquittal seem boyondance of the me part. Armatron, James Gleason, Ginger from a mateb factory in England James

water, Julia Bwayne Gardon, Ar- the realm of all possibility, His With Mr. Atwill in the picture are auch notables un Grots Nissen, Rogers hond the imposing cast that had them on display,

Mack, Bramwell Flecher, thur Hoyt and Charlotte Marriam, portraväl of the role on the screen

Continued at foot of nest jolumn.) Holen which include many thousand blue)

John Adolfi directed. jackets,

hobby.

The cast supporting Armstrong (Dontinued at foot of neat column,

ngo,

WALK

The dramatic high-light of that bably, Ralph Bellamy as Flags. picture was when the two Army sergeants cured each other in full- blooded Army style. The words were not in the titles, but they were of the players lips. absolutely clear from the movements

Fily. Regan and Herbert Mundin,

The production was Tree Marcel Varnel and R. L. Hough from Douglas Doty's adaptation of the ntage play of Jack De Leon and Jack Celestin.

YOUNG LOVE and OULD

with ROBERT

IDEAS!

ARMSTRONG - BARBARA KENT"- and a great east.

Wayward youth sets a fast pace for the town. basybodies.

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20

MEN CALL IT

Love

Adolphe

MENJOU

WORLDA FINAL SHOWINCE TO DAY

Ar 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 AND HUMANITY

9.20

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