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OLEENS THEATRE

The Air is Always Cool and Fresh

No Circalation of Old Alr. but Natural Ventilation, Comfortable, Healthy, and

Safe.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20

YOO-HOO!

Here's MarleÏTM The Star who

makes you LAUGH and CRY - but alm ways makes you HAPPY!

Marie

Finer

han "MIN and BILL'

DRESSLER

----tourbes

your heart

in a new and wonderful role--

EMMA

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer RETUR

with RICHARD CROMWELL JEAN HERSHOLT. MYRNA LOY Directed by CLARENCE BROWN

COLDWYN MAYER

∙ADDED: CHARLEY CHASE

"LOOSER Than LOOSE"

ia

Hearst News

NEXT CHANGE

Screen Fameless Comey

Edward Everett HORTON.

Screen's funniest

Coma.inn

Directed by James OBUZE

Once

Gentleman

(STAR

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.20)

NORMA

SHEARER

ROBERT MONTGOMERY

in

George {FITZMAURICE Production

TO-DAY AT THE

King's.

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

"Almost a Divorce."

Central.

"Miss Shanghai,"

Quoan's.

"Emma"

with Miss Yang Nei Mui.

with Maria Dressler.

World.

Misguided Love,"

Star.

King'u.

KOWLOON.

Strangers. May. Kiss,"

COMING.

"Daners in the Dark."

"My Sin."

"Heartbreak."

At The Villa Rose,"

Central,

* Corsair."

"A House Divided."

Queen's.

"Once a Gentleman."

World.

Star.

Tell Engined."

"Reducing."

"Great Meadow,"

"Its A Vise Child"

'DANCÈRS IN THE DARK."

JACK OAKTE AT THE KING'S.

A trade notice states:-

',

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1932.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.80, 1.10. 7.10 & 9,30 P.M.

KING'S THEATRE

Fandom's New

Blonde Queen!

DANCERS

ONCE A

GENTLEMAN."

COMEDY FOR THE QUEEN'S.

THE

DARK

a Garamount Picture

MIRIAM HOPKINS

The adorable actress "ol "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” In a role that makes your heart sing!

ין

JACK OAKIE WILLIAM COLLIER, Jr. EUGENE PALLETTI

•England Awake!”

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE

TEL. 25813

-NEXT CHANGE———— SUNDAY, 17th JULY GREATER & BETTER

THAN

"THE HOUSE OF THE ARROW"

"AT THE VILLA ROSE"

d Twickenham Film Production-Distributed by Warner Bra Picturne Lid

"AT THE VILLA ROSE”

with

AUSTIN TREVOR-RICHARD COOPER-FRANCIS LISTER.

GOSSIP & FACT.

is handed over to this underworld presided over by a bowler-hatted chief at board meetings, "M" becomes melodramatic

Jack Onkio off the screen is no A trade notice states:- different from the Oakie seen and Three studente who took part in heard upon it. He is out for the one of the annual Columbia 'Var.

Alas! Horr Lang himself has a He cannot resist. the laughs from morning to night ex-sity shows, "In Newport," as li-

The B.I.P. production England complex. cept when he is expected to be brettist, actor and executive, enjoy- funny: Then he closes up like aed their amateur theatrical experi- Awake!" commences with England temptation to exploit the fantastic enco so well that they decided to hard hit, just after the Napoleonic underworld of master-criminals and elam, that is, sometimes.

From the moment Jack's naturhinces on and off the give up their engineering and law Wars and continues to the present big business which he used in screen accounts for his wide poput devote themselves to the profesday, with an explanatory comminen-"The Spy." larity here and abroad. His keensional theatre. And all three later tary by Jerrold Robertshaw as the when the pursuit of the murderet seuse of humour and wise-eracking"arrived" on the stage and in Duke of Wellington. characteristics are so much a part the movies--and now stand high in of himself that he frequently gives the theatrical world. The lads bear impression that he is acting. It's the names of Edward Everett, Hor- the reverse that's true, for Oakie ton, Luther Reed and Kenneth on the stage, is more like himself | Webb. off the stage than most screen ecle- brities under similar comparison, Upon his graduation from De La Salle High School in New York, Onkie "went into Wall Street" as a very lowly clerk in a very busy office. He didn't do much work but he gave everybody in the place a

lot of laughs.

Of the three, only Horton played a role in the show. It was his first appearance on any stage, and it started him on a successful stage career which now includes a record of 300 different portrayals in a many plays as leading man at the

Gaus Gerrard's Next,

попасява,

"Let Me Explain, Dear" is which not even the unforgettable the title of the next starring acting of Herr Peter Lorre can vehicle selected by B.L.F. for the redeem. company's bright particular star, Gene Gerrard.

the

when May Leslie, society impresjoys the distinction of being one of in the production of "Lucky Girl,"hearsals for "Love Me Tonight"

sario, started to cast for the "Junior the best comedians in the movies.

-1927.

CENTRAL THEATRE

1.

The best ventilated Theatre in the Colony, with over 100 windows, which open at night, give fresh and natural air to the whole house. Our machine is of the biggest size-the sound is the clearest and the price is the highest. Wo have two large sized lifts for the convenience of our Patrons.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

at 2.80; 5.15; 7:15 & 9.30

THE NEWEST CHINESE SUPER SPECIAL SINGING AND TALKING FEATURE

MISS YANG NOI MUI

IN

"MISS SHANGHAI"

WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST. PRODUCED BY THE TIEN YI CO. OF, SHANGHAI.

SHOWING SOON

THE LATEST 1932 UNITED

Roland

ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE

WEST ORSAIR

t

United Artists Picture

Chester Moms

ALSO

THE NEWEST UNIVERSAL SPECIAL PICTURE

WALTER HUSTON & HELEN CHANDLER

IN

'A HOUSE DIVIDED"

"EMMA" AT THE QUEEN'S.

MARIE DRESSLER AT HER BEST.

A trade notice states:-

"AT THE VILLA ROSE."

A. E. W. MASON THRILLER FOR THE KING'S.

A trade notice states.- "At the Villa Rose, which is In "Embia," which is having its final screenings to-day at the Queen's coming to the King's Theatre on Hollywood Talks.

Theatre, Marie Dressler gives an- Sunday, depicts an unusually con- A fast moving comedy on

Paramount has turned one of its other of those brilliant dramatic į crived and executed mystery drama lines of the supremely successful biggest sound stages into a South characterizations which first sur that will keep the audience on their My Wife's Family," which it is American jungle for "Thunderprised filmgoers. when she deserted tip-toes right until the final de- confidently expreted to surpass in Below," starring Tallulah Bank comedy to play Martha in Annanouncement.

Madame d'Auvray (Barbara laughter values, the picture will be head... Miriam Hopkins has a Christie," and which in “Min and Majestic Theatre in Las Angeles-directed by Gone Gerrard, with new contract.... Maurice Cheva-Bill" won her the Academy award Gott), the mistress of Villa Rose, a berth which he held for ten years. Frank Miller and the same technilier and Jeanette MacDonald have for the outstanding feminine peris a kind-hearted and charming old lady, who had adopted Celia Her His reputation as a smart-crack-Motion picture work claimed him cal unit which has supported them returned to Hollywood to start reformance of the year. ing humorist spread afield and at the same time and he now en-

Miss Dressler is given a uniqunland (Nora Baring) when the young ...George Bancroft aud Comedian dramatic situation in Emma, girl's father had been sent to W.C. Fields were once cash boys in and she handles it with all the prison by M. Hannud,, the great League Follies," she suggested a His latest, the James Cruze produc- | " Vanity Fair "' Up-to-date.

Wannamaker's iu Philadelphia skill, sympathy and adroit combina- French détective. Madamé has two stage partnership that endured until tion, Once A Gentleman," is Whether the makers of "Vanity

.Tallulah Bankhand's eyes tion of humour and pathos which ruling passions, one a love of the 927: this time Lindbergh had just opening at the Queen's Theatre to Fair" are justified in transplant change colour under certain lights; audiences have come to expect of occult, and another the delight of

ing Becky Sharp to the age of usually blue, they often go brown..this distinguished actress. cocktails-in which she would cer

Mirian Hopkins will sing a story places her as the house as possible her priceless collection Luther Need achieved prominence

tainly have been at home-is French song in the English pro- keeper in the heme of a millionaire of jewels. Many vcople, including as an outstanding director. He has matter of opinion. But at least duction of the Russian drama, "The inventor whose wife has died a gang of international" crooke,

World and the Flesh."

and whose children have some covet an ear-ring in her collection, to look upon Emma 4.5 а the second ear-ring being possessedi second mother. When, however, by a millionaire, who also wishes the millionaire marries her and she to obtain its mate. By a peculiar

children take a different view. of by Madame into the role of m A little while ago it was said, the woman who has worked all her medium, and during one of her venturees left staring at reality in was "slipping." Her last three introduce their former servant to Suspicion immediately falls upon Celia, who had disappeared during a mirror, it is a tribute to Missor four Paramount stories were distheir friends as their stepmother?

Hanaud, the great The picture has been brilliantly the seance. Loy's acting as well as to the gal-appointing, her acting seemed to

have becomo-mechanised.

dirested by that master of camera French detective, is called in, and lantry with which Becky was en

Now she is with Warners', with and megaphone. Clarence Brown, how he, step by step, succeeds in dowed by her creator.

full control over stories, director, who recently produced such out unravelling the baffling mystery scenario writer and dialogue, and standing screen hita sa "Possessed" forms one of the finest set of Brown cansequences ever seen on the screen in she is said to be happy. Her first and A Free Soul."

The displaying upon her person as often

not the world agog by flying the morrow. Atlantic. Onkin, then just a "hoofer in a Broadway show, had drons of Hollywood. Lindburgh took a chance and made is--so will

been newspaper editor, playwright, she ought to drink them at a more I," anid Oakie to some associates,

So he went to Hollywood. Notining happened. For weeks and scenarist, and for the past five years reasonable hour than midnight. werks it was just the same, but has produced pictures for Para The production was not at all bad." Jack just smiled and waited.

One day, hunting a job at First mount and Fox. Two years ago he Miss Myrna Loy hardly conforms National studios, Onkio saw diree.became supervisor of production to, the Becky of the novel-who was, Are Always With Us." atarring becomes their mother legally, the set of circumstances, Celia in forced re

described de sinali and plain-but

tor Wesley Ruggles on the opposite with Fox Films. Kenneth Webb

at least she has dignity and in-

side of the street. He rushed across bus written many motion picture telligence. If at the end you feel and greeted the directer vocifer-

Misa Chatterton,

A film worth notice is "The Rich

Ruth Chatterton.

|ously, as though they were old-time scenarios, and has directed a num-a certain pity for the faded ad.with justice, that Miss Chatterton life for them. For how can they seances, the old lady is strangled.

friends. Ruggles was surprised, ber of pictures.

mystifled, even perturbed. Oakie, who knew Ruggles only by sight, had heard that he was about to start a new pleture. Ruggles pro- mised him three days' work, which were stretched into three weeks.

Eight months later, Dakić got his second "break" It was a good part in Clara Bow's starring picture, The Fleet's In." This led to a Paramount contract, and a few months later he was made a star."-

His most prominent pictures_aro "Someone to Love," Fast Cum- "Sweetie," "Hit the Deck," and "Touchdown," and be starred in "The Social Lion," "The Sap from Syracuse" and "Sea Lega."

pany,"

STRANGERS

MAY

KUS

AWORLDA

In Dancers in the Dark," which

is now showing at the King's Theatre, Oakle is co-featured with

Jr. and Eugene Palletto The pic-

"People Who Matter”

Mass Murdar.

PEOPLE WHO

"HATTER, to the advertisor árs the people who RA afford to buy his goods Most-of- theen people buy" and read, the y

A notable new film is "M," the film under the new arrangement always be depended on for unusual Hong Kong. Fritz Lang horror film at the Camrather bears out the contention that touches and the now Dressler vehicle Capable direction, of At the bridge Theatre, London.

she was badly handled by Par- is another instance in which elever Villa Rose," which was adopted by 1962M" might easily have been one

direction helps in raising a picture the A. EW Masun atoga.play_oL. of the films of the year. A patho

"The Rich Are Always With Us" for above the average.

the same name by the Twickenlam

AMOUDI.

logical study of a child-murderer

is to masterpiece, but it is offic The work of the supporting east Film studios, is by that most famous may be open to many objectione, tently directed and splendidly net-leaves nothing to be desired. Rich- of all English directors, Leslie Hin- but it can hardly fail to be drama-ed by Miss Chatterton and a good ard Cromwell as the youngest son

tic. As long as Herr Lang is con supporting cast, and the story rolls who remains loyal to his stepmother tent to show us the maniac, and pleasantly along on a tide of spark gives a performance which even the atmosphere of tension, horroring dialogue. Altogether a

"

come-outshines b

cott.

effective work in lent work is also done by the at and susplelan eroated in a German hack for Miss Chatterton, and Tol' able David.” Jean Hersholt, tractive Myrna Loy, John Miljan, 44 Miriam Hopkins, William Collier, Hong Kong Daily Press, || town by his crimes, is a something of a triumph for the as the millionaire, is as usual | Purnell B. Proti, Leila Bennett,

ways interesting, and at times mas THURSDAYTŪSATURDAY ture is an adaptation, of the, stage

play" Jazz King," by James Ash-

·66 REDUCING more Creelman

terly in its suspense and suggestion newcomers, Bette Davis and George sympathetic and convincing. Excel- Barbara Kent and Kathryn Craw-

(Continued at foot of next column.)ford. of horrors unseen.

Brent.

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