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CIEEN STEATE

The Air is Always Cool and Fresh

No Circalation of Old Air, but Natural Ventilation, Comfortable, Healthy, and

Safe.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.10, 7,15, AND 8.20 GERMANY'S ANSWER

ΤΟ

"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"

4

INFANTRY

MEN

Directed by

G. W PABST

TELLS A NEVER-TO-BE-

NERO :SUPER

FORGOTTEN LESSON!

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

King's.

Cheaters at Play,"

Central,

"Heaven on Earth."

Queen's.

"Four Infantry" Men;"

World.

slar.

"Song of the West,"

King's.

KOWLOON.

A Tailor Made Men.

COMING.

Almost a Divorce,"

Dancers in the Dark."

"To-morrow and To-morrow.":

Central.

"Corsair."

Queen's.

"Emaia."

"Oneon Gentleman.'

World.

Blar

Tell England."

"Misguided Love."

"Reducing."

#Great Mendow.""

"Daybren."

"Strangers May Kiss." "Its A Wine Child."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY JULY 9, 1932.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10

7.10 & 9.30 P.M.

KING'S THEATRE

A Game Like His Takes Nervel

A first class crook traveling the Atlantic as., 1 first, class passenger. Spending thousands to steal millions for the girl he 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.F

wich in grant ome· Lanbudlag'

Thomas MEIGH AN Charlotte GREENWOOD William Bakewell Barbara Weeks Linda Watkins Olla Howland. James Kirkwood

PICTURE

BOOKING

∙AT THEI THEATRE TEL. 26813

TO-MORROW

Some hilarious gun churned out of mat- rimonial complications

Sydney Howard

IN ALMOST A DIVORCE-

A Smilestorm

A bright and jolly story of domestic troubles.

CENTRAL THEATRE

TEL

over

The best ventilated Theatre in the Colony, with 100 windows, which, he

open all night, give fresh and

"natural" air to the whole house. Our machine is of the biggest size--the sound is the clearest and the prlos is. the highest. We have two large sized lifts for

convenience of the Patrons.

SHOWING

the

TO-DAY

at 2.80; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30

A HAPPINESS PICTURE FULL OF LOVE, LIFE & LAUGH- TER, WITH A POWERFUL, THRILLING SPECTACULAR NATION BACKGROUND AND THE FAVORITE OF A SUPPORTED BY A NEW WISTFUL CHARMER, ANITA LOUISE. IT'S A SWEETHEART PICTURE FOR ALL THE SWEETHEARTS OF THE WORLD AND FOR EVERY CLASS: OF CIOVIE-GOERS.

REALISM & ROMANCE

́ • ••.--. MIRTH & DRAMA HEART APPEAL & ECTIC THRILLS.........

NOT EVEN THE FLOOD WATERS OF A MIGHTY RIVER COULD KEEP THEM APART

delightfully tender, tarman drama with all the emotional appeal of "Seventh Heaven."

wood by RUS

SELL MACK, „with ANITA LOUISE, Harry

Beresford, Elizabeth Patterson. Produced by CATI Laemmis, Jr,

-

GREATEST WAR-FILM EVER MADE

TO-MORROW

THE PRIDE AND JOY OF THE SCREEN!.

Marie

WEEK-END RADIO PROGRAMMES.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W ON 355 METRES:

DANCE MUSIC TO-NIGHT.

.1

11 to 11.30 a.m.-Stack quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programine. 12,30 p.m.-European programme of

Columbia records supplied by Mesars, Anderson Music Co.

1 p.m.-Local, time and weather report. Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra by cour tesy of the management. (Dar- ing the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio).

1.30 p.m.-Mail notice, etc.

2.15 p.m. (approx.).-Close down.

4 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme.

11.30 p.m.-European pro- gramme.

7 to

She'll

make

you laugh

and cry! As fine as

"Min and Bill"

DRESSLER

touches your heart in a now and wonderful role-

EMMA

Metro Goldhtyn Mayer

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.30, 6:10, 7:15 & 9.20

William

HAINES in 'A TAILOR MADE MAN"

WORLDS

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY SONG of the WEST

7 p.m.-Mail notice, etc.

7.03 to 8.30 p.m.-A programme of records from Z. B.W.'s Library.

7.03 to 7.20 p.m.-

Light

Vocal Gems from Opera

"Mignon" (Thomas), "Tales of Hoffmann" (Offen

hench).-Grand Opera Co.

(Verdi). "Rigoletto" Opera Co. 7.20 to 7.43 p.m."Sonata in C Minor" (Grieg), played by Marjorie Hayward and Uas Bourne (Violin and Pianoforte) 1st Movement-Allegro molto ed appassionato

2nd Movement-Allegro molto Allegretto expressive alla Ro-

inanza

3rd Movement--Allegro ani- mato.

? report.

7.45 to 8.15 p.m.-

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MOVIE NEWS

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

CHEATERS AT

PLAY."

LAUGHS AND THRILLS AT THE KING'S.

A trade notice statcs:

"FOUR INFANTRY- MEN."

FINAL SCREENINGS AT QUEEN'S TO-DAY.

A trade 'notivo atates:- A grim and stark tragedy in which the Great War, as

'ALMOST. A

- DIVORCE.”

SYDNEY HOWARD FOR THE KING'S.

Marjorie Hinner, the charming-

How the Navy solved the problem

British stage and film actress, has, of launching airplanes from fighting

the loading feminino part in ships was one of the many interest-through German eyes, is revealed," Almöst k Divorce," which is com ing things the "Cheaters at Play " "Four Infantry Men" may aptly ing to the King's Theatre next

ture,

stea

CARL LAEMMLE presents

LEW AYRES HEAVEN ON EARTH

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

WITH AN UNUSUAL SPECTACULAR CLIMAX THAT HAS NO EQUAL

Bolara

SHOWING SOON

́ARTISTS, SPECIAL FEATURE

developed the unfortunate habit of THE LATEST 1932 UNITED spending evenings out with his pati Mackintosh instead of looking after her. Time after time Mrs. Leighton leaves her husband for ever," but he had always manages to persunder her that he will turn over a few leaf.

She has the role of Sunday, company learned during the filming be described as Germany's reply to of the flying sequence in the pic Universal's All Quiet on the Mrs. Richard Leighton, a young Western Front." Produced by married woman whose husband, With this scene calling for Bar-Nero-Film with all dialogue in after five years of married life, has | bara Weeks and William Bakewell German, the picture is adapted from to take off from the deck of a liner the novel by Ernest Johannsen, in the vessel's mail-plane and no "The Four from the Infantry," and liners of this character available, was originally entitled. "Comrades company "borrowed" the of 1918." It was directed by the the U.S.E. California and made its famous G. W. Pabst and is an ex-

as scheduled, incidentally cellent piece of character study.

Thors is little atory continuity. discovering how the ingenuity of naval experts overcaine & seemingly Rather the action is concentrated impossible obstacle.

upon a group of infantrymen as ro presenting the lot of all the fighting men in the German ranks. Trench

Acenes

Modern naval planes, oven the slowest, must travel at least 00

8 p.m-Local time and weather miles per hour to get enough" Hft" mortars, rile fire, gas, machine to risa into the air, the players gune, and big guns pound their way learned. This is easy on the long through the film and clear the way deeks of an aircraft carrier, but im-for the final and most powerful possible on the small clear deck sequence of all, which takes place space of a battleship or cruiser, yet in a hospital at the front.

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Light Orchestral Music,

Bavarian Dance, Op. 27, No, fis * (Elgar). ..........

Bavarian Dance, Op. 27, No. (Elgar), London Symphony Orchestra conducted Air Ed ward Elgar, O.MA- The Slouping Beauty-Waltz (Tschaikowsky),

Men

it was imperative that every fight | without legs, men without eyes, men E craft of any size should be able, with their abdomena shot away, men to carry and launch its own planes turned into stark-mad maniacs by in ease of nord,

the horrors of the battlefields! It Accordingly the experts designed is a soquence that is not easy to n rigid steel truss that could be forget. So realistic and terrible are * Hungarian Dance, No. 5 in F mounted on a turret or & deck its horrors that they linger for a Sharp Minor (Brahms) space, with a sliding carriage on long time in the raind. Drama- Royal Opera Orchestra, Convent. Garden Shepherd Fennel's

flance

(Balfour, Gardiner). Royal Opera Orchestra, Convent at Spanish-Dance, No-12 (Most Towsky).

"Spanish Sorenade" (Bizet)

Now Light Symphony Orches tra

18.15 to 9.03 p.M.-**

Concert Items.

On their fifth anniversary, after afow well-chosen words, she really leaves him, and bewildered Richard is consoled by friend Mackintosh. They both get very tight, and in one of the funiest scenes in a film comedy they both endeavour to un- Their dress and get into bed. effects in this direction will keep you in fits of laughter.

Sydney Howard, the popular film comedian, has the role of Mackin- tosh, and (this is for the ladies) if ever your sweetheart or husband has a friend like him, beware..

MARIE DRESSLER IN

EMMA."

A trade notice states: Marie Dressler, idol, of the screen,

WELL CORSAIR

Shibed Artists Picture"

"HEAVEN ON EARTH."

Chester MOIS

RIVER DRAMA AT THE CENTRAL.

A trade notion states: Low Ayres is no longer self-con- scious, when he is working before the camera. Early in his career, be " took the cure” in a big way.

"In my first pictare," said Lew recently, I WLA Bo self-conscious

top which a seaplane could rast tically the picture, by sheer force will be seba to-morrow at the that I seemed to be all hands and This carriage, connected with of this one episode, rises to heights | Queen's Theatre in her newest star feet. The picture was “The Sop modified gun, is so arranged that that have rarely been surpassed in ring vehicle, "Emma" an intimate the firing of the gun sends it zipping | picture production.

to the opposite end of the truss, This heavy tragedy is nevertheless literally catapulting the plane into not without its light spots. The the air at whatever speed is neces- love affairs of some of the soldiers, sary to maintain flight:

in The Kiss" and before the pic ture ever started, I became decided ly numb very time I thought of. the coming ordeal. And then came the first day of filming. To add to my confusion, I learned that my first scene was to be a tender love passage with the great Greta Garbo l'hersoll

"Over in a corner of the stage, I considered this with a sort of terror for a few minutes and then All self-consciousness suddenly left me. It had literally been scared out of me. I lost it because I simply

day trying to keep entirely on myself for every second of the

had to lose it. I kept a tight rein story of American family life. homere," and though I had a very Hiobard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt and Myrna Loy-have-important supamall part, most of which found its porting roles.

The picture prosents Miss Dress rating place the cutting-room- my wind any thought of chu ler in her first straight character floor, as the saying is, I shook like ment, realizing that it was a case including an incident involving portrayal since Min and Bill,

which won her the Academy award a clog dancer every time I stepped of now or never. Well, it worked for the best performance of any in front of a camera. I realized actress in the industry in 1031. The

kept this ap would soon wriggle off the screen and I had already altogether,

definitely that made up my wanted to stay in motion pictures. (

In making the sequence, Miss Carl's wife and his trusted friend, Weeks and Bakewell bad the honour: provide a relief from the war of being among the first civilinos horrors. to experience the thrill of such a launching, and while both admit the shock of the sudden, start is severe, and they claim they would be only too dessa, glad to do it again.

Song ger):

Piano Soin Ballade

Major. (Chopin Op. 38). Alfred Cortot Vocal Duet Trot

There ("Veronique

Vocal Duet The Yezonique Quntinued

in Cheaters at Play," an exciting adventure romance of the high seaty which is now showing at the King's Thomas Meighan and Charlotte Theatre. The plane soone is only Greenwo #have leading roles one of the many thrilling moments

-the picture rez

story is by the same author, Frances that if Marion, and the production was directed by Clarence Brown, whose last effort was the Crawford-Gable hitPossessed.

Miss Dressler is seen na the faith ful servant in the home of a rich man. She is a second mother, to his children but in the end the furn against horns the result of a dramatic will contest.

econd engagement, several

Was with Grüta: Garbe:

and Findyo never since been

self-conscious in front of a motio

Ayres comes to the

Theatre as D

special-feature

Central

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