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Suicide--Fleat,”....

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.10; 7.15 and 9.20

Queen's,

Four Infantry Men."!

King's.

Cheaters at Play."

World.

"Song of the Weat."

KOWLOON.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932.

TO

GERMANY'S ANSWER

"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT” 4 INFANTRY MEN

Directed by

G. W PABST

TELLS A NEVER-TO-BE-

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"Song of the West."

“Daybreak,"

Strangers' May Kiss," "Its A Wise Child." Tailor Made Men."

CHEATERS AT

PLAY."

CROOKS AND. THRILLS AT THE KING'S.

A Game Like His Takes Nervel

A first class crook traveling the Aslantlo sa a first class passenger. Spending thousands to steal millitions for the girl be loves. Then finding his own father at the same perilous business!

CHEATERS

AT PLAY

Story by Louis Joseph Vance Directed by Hamilton MacFadden

FOX PICTURE

with a great sunt fashodi

Thomas MEIGHAN Charlotte GREENWOOD William Bakewell Barbara Weeks Linda Watkins Olin Howland James Kirkwood

'SUICIDE FLEET."

THRILLING SPECTACLE

AT CENTRAL.

FOX

PICTURE

For the making of "Suicidé Flect," the RKO'S greatest screen Priceless emeralds, international spectacle showing this week at the crooks, daring thefts and even Central Theatre, a strange feet, was more daring rescues, the catapult- ing of an airplane from the deck gathered in the quiet Maxican of a liner in mid-ocean, a bold water adjacent to Las Coronados kidnapping and other ingredients Islands, 23 miles from San Diego of a similarly, exciting nature vido a host of thrills for the audit consisted of two stately square ence of "Cheaters At Play" at the rigged sailing ships, ancient but King's Theatre:

still seaworthy survivors of the With Thames Meighan, Charlotte Yankee clipper era, ten United Greenwood, William Bakewell,

States warships, composed of four submarines and six destroyers and Among several tugs and lighters.

Was the the undersea vessels Argonaut, largest submarine in the U.S. Navy, which was built at a

For

· LINDA WATKINS seems to need a lit». Ela encouragement for something diagree- able in "Cheaters, at Play picture, and Ralph Morgan is right there to give it to her.",

cost of $8,000,000,

NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 10th JULY

Some hilarious gan churned out of mat- rimonial complications

IN

Sydney Howard ALMOST A DIVORCE

A Smiletform

A bright and jolly story of domestic troubles.

GOSSIP

FACT,

** Night World.**

Universal: are to present a film called Night "World, the entire netion of which takes place during a single night at a dance club'in à big city.

and has Lew Ayres, Boris Karloff," The film was produced on one set,:

and Mac Clarke in the cast.

"The Road Back.”

a

Huston, but Hell Divers convinced me that for "punch" and broad humanity ho is (Jannings ex- pested) the greatest actor on the

scroon.

Zane Grey,

Zane Groy, the big noise in

tough" fiction, whose privato hobby is big fish hunting, is leaving for the South Seas shortly, com- plete with camera, guns, and enough Most of the actors who appeared fishing line to stretch along Holly-

"All Quiet on the Westernwood Boulevard.

in

Front

are to have parts in its He intends to catch the hig

The unique armada was assorabled Boquel, "The Road Back," which follows, like sword Gish, and in order for a stirring action drama of the Remarqus has written, and which

on that was climaxed with the twat. C. Sherriff is adapting.

old clippers meeting a spectacular

Alexander,

They

to prove that some of his recant

fishing stories do not savour of the

·camera as a companion, to show the thing being done.

Ernest Lubitsch,

end to provide thrills for this are: Russell Glenson, Owen Davis, Angiera' Rest, he is taking the gleture. Shells from Davy sub- jun., William Bakewell, and Ben inarines closed the career of the two old vessels. which twice had been

They cannot quite make up their tesurrected from ships' graveyarda. They were built in Bath, Maine, minds what to do about Lew Ayres, Years after why took Paul Baumer's part in about the year 1870. their retirement from the silk trade,

"All Quiet " and at the end of the they were discovered in a Boston

boneyard" by Cecil de Mille who film was killed. Cael Laemmle, used them in the picture Thejun,, is very worried about it, and Yankee Clipper." It is quite a

This ia дл easy "Don't."

Ernost Lubitsch, the man with the wittiest and most cynical camera in Hollywood, has adopted a new rule, as director,

Ho has abandoned satire for tragedy, and appears now as a peace propagandist.

Any picture by Lubitsch is con- Quandary,sidered an event in the cinema-and

quito rightly.

coincidence that Bill Boyd, a nem is reported to be" sounding opinion ber of the cast, was starred in that outside the studio," as to whether picture.

or not he should be brought back The scenes in which the Navy ships, participated show a modern to life. sen battle photographed from ship. board, beneath the surface of the seas, and from the air. Naval air force planes from North Island were used for the, aerial filming. Electrically operated cameras tend ru by diving crews carried the Barbara Wooks, Linda Watkins, drama anany fathoms beneath the James Kirkwood and Ralp Morgan surface of the ocean, while other heading the notable cast, Chea- cqnipnions was mounted on tho tors At Play is as interesting a various ships to record every phase picture as has shown here fore some of the battle.

time.

The story deals with Mies Green-

pod's efforts to smuggle a price

less string of emeralds into the coun-QUEEN'S THEATRE.

try. Various international crooka have evil designs on these same jewels, which, do, in fact, vanish oh three occasion thus giving the re doubtable Meighan plenty of exersi ciso and trouble in recovering thent Meighan, it seems, was once a mas ter crook himself, and his knowledga of the tricks of the trade

Cons

handily as he disappoints the vari

ous malefactors.

ing of the guns and the very realistio scenes on the battle fields bring back very vivid memories of the dark of the war.

"FOUR INFANTRY MEN AN EXCELLENT, FILM.

"Four Infantry Men," coinmonly

hailed as the German reply to "All Quiet on the Western Front" is drawing-orowded housed to the Queen's Theatre where it opened yesterday.

Fritz Lang's Masterpiece.

Since he made" The Marriage Circle" in 1924 he has shown him- There is a possibility, that Fritzself a master of movie satire, and Lang's amazing crime film, "M" one of the most penetrating of based on the Dusseldorf murders, studio dramatists, may open the programme at the new Cambridge Theatre, London, when Mr. Eric Hakim and Mr. B. A. Meyer inaugurate it as a talkio

theatre.

He in Hollywood's great critic of the human race, bowling over kings and flunkeys with impartial zest. He mado "Forbidden Paradise" (with Pola Negri, certainly one of This is one of the most sensa her greatest triumpha),

Lady tional as well as one of the most | Windermere's Fan," "The Love brillianti: morder mysterica the Parado," "Monte Carlo,??______ talkies have yet produced, and is said to touch the high-water mark of Lang's career. Wallace Beery.* ́*

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Lussch to have fears for Wallace Berry; Iria gestures were becoming As one may imagine by glancing mechanical, his spitting, his squint at the title the picture is full of ing, his whole repertoire of tricks, action and the only drawback is were just a shade too familiar. In that the dialogue is not in English,

Hell Divers" he has the abrewd but in the native German tongue Picture fans, however, may findness to shed them all and play the consolation in that all the dialogue part of the Air Fores mechanic is reproduced, so to speak, on the almost struight."{'_- screen in English sub-titics, and The results are magnificent, hore they get a good grip of what is going

But his gift of satire is not the whole of big In The Patriot " and in ** Three Women" ho won't much dooper. In the first he gave Jannings one of bis-great, tragio +parts, and-in-the-second-presented-

a really superb study of feminino feuds and jealousies. That remark able film never had its proper amount of praise

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Lubitsch," a big figure, striding. bout the studio floor with a cigar stack in his mouth, doce not look an artist, hat his work proves him one. Somehow be has discovered

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Four Infantry Monis superb production and may also be described as very excellent onter tainment. We recommend it in the belief that it will satisfy even the most fastidious film fom **Before the feature film, the audienco is put in'good humour by The acting is very good and can make millions laugh or weep at we socret of selling his films, and

o comedy entitled "Matinee Idol followed by Kangaroo Steak," cartoon which had the house in continuous roar of laughter -----

Frits Kampers, Gustav Diessel, He J. Molbis and Jackie, Mounier are particularly to the fore. The boom (Continited "on-Predion¡- Column

When a plain-looking man of 50

will, he can call burself an actor, Berry, has not the polish of Note Arliss ar

int of Walter

yet retaining his artistic integrity.

Anybody who cay, do, that in Hollywood must be a genius, and in England in archangel,

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Throw out the whole board...

in

sea of laughs and thrilk.

SUICIDE FLEET

with

BILL BOTD ROBERT ARMSUPU

JAMES GLEASO GINGER ROGERS

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