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QUEEN THEATRE

The Air is Always Cool

and Fresh da

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

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.10, 7,15 AND 9.20

The Screen's Funniest Comedian

TODAY AT THE CINEMA.

King's.

HONG KONG

Dancers in the Dark,”

Central,

The Pearl Necklace,? J The Age for Love,"

Queen's.

"Once a Gontleman."

World..

Star.

"Reducing.".

KOWLOON.

"Strangers May Kiss,"

King's.

COMING.

"At The Villa Roso,"

*My Sin."

"Heartbreak,"

Central.

"Coranir."

Queen's.

"Ben Hur,"

"Tell England."

EDWARD EVERETT

World.

HORTON in

"Great Meadow."

Star.

Scremt

LOIS WILSON King Baggot

Once

Directed by James CRUZE

Gentleman'

-Also- UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWS

NEXT CHANGE THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD-

An M-G-M Picture,

BEN= HUR RAMON

with

NOVARRO

Now In Sound

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9,20

NORMA

and ROBERT MONTGOMERY

in George FITZMAURICE.

SHEARER

Production

"Its A Wise Child."

WEEK-END RADIO PROGRAMMES.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W ON 355 METRES.

DANCE MUSIC TONIGHT.

11 to 11.30′s.m.-Stock quotutions. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme. 12:30 p.m.-European programme of Victor and H.M.V. records.

I p.m.-Local time and weather report Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra by courtesy of the Management. During the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio.)

1.30 p.m.--Rugby Press news, etc. 2.15 p.m. (approx.).-Close down. 4 to 7 pm-Chiness programme.

to 12 midnight.-European pro-

of

grammo.

to 7.95 p.m.-A programme

H.M.V. records supplied by Messrs, Moutric & Co.

Varioty.

"Further Old Songs, "-Played by Jack Hylton and his Or.

chestra,C307.

From Erik Chareil's White House Inn"-Vocal Gems- Light Opern Co.-C2929.

“HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1932.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10: 7.16 & 9.30 P.M.

KING'S THEATRE

Fandom's New

DANCERS

Blonde Queen!TM

IN THE

DARK

A Paramount Pictur

with

*

MIRIAM HOPKINS The adorable actress of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,"

In a role that makes your heart singl

JACK OAKIË WILLIAM COLLIER, Jr. EUGENE PALLETTE

BOOKING

AT THE THEATRE

TEL 25313

TO-MORROW.

GREATER & BETTER

THAN

"THE HOUSE OF THE ARROW"

** AT TER VILĻA ROSE”

& Twickenham Film Ponductamnu Distributed by

Warner Bros. Pictures Lak

"AT THE VILLA ROSE"

with

AUSTIN TREVOR-RICHARD COOPER-FRANCIS LISTER.

MOVIE NEWS

GOSSIP

FACT.

Gangster Films Come Trust and your wife will probably leave Harold Lloyd Ann Harding, you. Lest any cynic find Mr Bick James Dunn Ben Lyon, Bebe ford's fate something less than Daniela, Jackie Cooper, Douglas hideous, I hasten to add that the Fairbanka, John Gilbert, and editor's as dies, this best friend is George Bancroft are among the drowned in an' Atlantic fight, and stars who are employing muscular he is himself "framed " private protection as a result of the flood of threatening letters which have lately reached the studios.

Britishers Successi

The must fashionable of Holly- "C.B. Cochran's 1930 Revue"-wood's bodyguarda is Jim Davies, Vocal Gems.-Light Opera Co.- the Welsh boxer, who besides acting C1030.

as a personal attendant is also a i * knocker-up" to 23 leading cele- brities,

8 p.m.---Local time and weather re-

port.

7.25 to 9.30 p.m.-A selection of re-

One of his jobs is to call at the cords from Z.B.W.'s Library, 7.23 10 8.10 p.m. Symphony No. houses of his clients at whatever 4 in F Minor" (Tachaikowsky, hour they are needed for the studio Op. 36)-Played by the Philand get them on the set in time for delphia Symphony Orchestra the first "take" of the day. under the direction of Leopold Stokowski.

2nd

Carte.

Tallulah's Pot.

into a

compromising situation and hit heavily on the hand-not, I regret to say, fatally.

Mr. Bickford mistakes violence and noise for strength. The Lost scene in the film is the end of the acted by Pat O'Brien, of The

['plane, brilliantly conceived, and

Front Page."

the

1

*DANCERS IN THE DARK."

ACTION AND ROMANCE

AT THE KING'S.

A trade notice states:- Heart-break set: That's what

the

Hollywood called the pretentious dance hall setting erected at Paramount West Coast studio. On this set 500 extra players served as atmosphere background for the pic-

ture drama "Dancers in the Dark." featuring Miriam Hopkins Jack Onkie, William Collier, Jr., . aud Eugene Pallette.

Work for the so-called "Extra" has been hard to get during th past year. This picture gave need

work in

toward eventual screen stardom.

#

famous

CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 5.15 & 9.30 P.M. ONLY-.:

2 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

1932

Made By Howard Hughes,

Dynamic Producer Who Gave You! HELL'S ANGEL" & "THE FRONT PAGE"

BILLIE DOVE & CHARLES STARRETT

IN

"THE AGE FOR LOVE"

WITH MARY DUNCAN, LOIS WILSON, EDWARD EVERETT HORTON DIRECTED BY FRANK LLOYD AT 2.30 & 7.15 DAILY

THE LATEST CHINESE MOVIETONE SINGING AND TALKING SUPER DRAMA

CHAN YUK MUI & WU SHAN

IN.

"THE PEARL NECKLACE"

ADAPTED FROM THE WORLD-FAMOUS NOVEL PRODUCED BY THE UNIQUE CO., 'SHANGHAI SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES OF ADMISSION FOR ALL SHOWS

DRESS CIRCLE

$1.00; BACK STALL

(including tax) SHOWING SOON

THE NEWEST 1932 UNITED

Roland

55 cents

ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE

Wath CORSAIR

Cur

Dekad artists Picture

ity.

"THE AGE FOR LOVE."

BILLIE DOVE AT THE CENTRAL.

Chester Moms

A trade report states :— A new Billie Dove in revealed to

Hailed heretofor as

"The

The must

“BEN-HUR."

COMING TO QUEEN'S TO-MORROW.

May McAvoy, who plays the Tovely Esther'in "Ben-Hur," Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's great screetl

the motion picture public in "The triumph coming to the Queen's cd employment to many people wito Age For Love," which is showing Theatre to-morrow, came into great had once seen better times, held at the Central Theatre at 5.15 and screen prominence a few years ago high positions, and some who had 9.30 p.m. today.

when she appeared with Gareth oven achieved fame in other voca-

After more than a year of vaca-Hughes in Sir James Barrie's tions. Among these were the youth- tion and preparation, the charming'

Sentimental Tommy," Her talent "Magnolia Street" as a Play.

was immediately recognized and Edward Knoblock is collaborating ful, and the more hopeful, who re-and talented Miss Dove has been

brought back to the screen by Ho..she was placed under a long-term Dancers in the Dark" as a step ward Hughes, the youthful produ- contract to appear in Famous with Boverley Nichols in "Even Barded their extra ong," which is to be presented at

She Players-Lasky productions. of "Hell's Angels," Queen's Theatro, London.

In this crowd was a man who, Front Page" and other pictures, in

terminated this contract, later ac- Mr. Knoblock has also started

cepting the feminine "lead" in work on

a dramatic version of eight years ago, was

a brilliant vehicle which at last

'1" Ben-Hur "' opposite Ramon No- Louis, Golding's best seller, Mag-director. He directed Bebe Daniels, justifies her great beauty and abil. 1st Movement Andanta zostenuto

Gloria Swanson and many other

varro, for which she went to Italy nolia Street"-which will present -modorato con anima.

The reason why players frequent-

and. California. La some aspects of similarity to his celebrities. Now he is atmosphere Movement - Andantino inly alter their privata phone num

She also appeared in other lead- modo di canzona.

bers is not so strange as it seems, task with "The Good Companions," for Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie, 2rd Movement-Scherzo, Pizzicato

ostinato.

In some mysterious way, numbers the canvas in both cases being large William Collier, Jr., and Eugene beautiful woman on the screen," ing roles in "The Enchanted Cot- Pallette. Another man, sixty-five Miss Dove, in "The Age For Love," tage," "Tarnish," "Three Women" a United Artiste release, proves the "My Old Dutch" and "Lady 4th Movement-Allegro con fuoco. are broadcast. Tallulah Bankhead, and the figures numerous,

This play is to presented by years old, a small-town bank pre 6.10 to 0.10 p.m.The entire musical recently lost her pet dog. She Julian Wylie, but it is not proposed sident, lost his money during the is a great actress as well. She is Windermere's Fan." May McAvoy

numbers of the Opera serted a lost ad, in the newspapers, to stage it until the autumn. "Patience" (Gilbert and Sul-asking the finder to communicate

past two years. A girl, so beauti. positive revelation, and by her is a little mite of a thing, born livan),

recorded under the

ful she may some day achieve performance in this picture she has and reared in New York City, and goal, galdly worked for the usual more than regained her old-time she first became connected with British Directors should all go to extra chaque. A star 511 Saville, popularity, and again takes her Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when she

Spain, she came to Hollywood a see "Letty. Lynton," and consider year ago expecting to become place among the premier actresses posed as Madga Kennedy's littla the-gaiety of the ship-board-scene featured player. In somo quality of the screen." played by Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery, and explain, work for living expenses.

she was lacking and now takes any

It is no secret, that Miss Doye's owns a beautiful house in Holly Lapino Lane's New Contract. bow it in achieved. By contrast The author of a best selling novel popularity, at one time second to wood but divides her time between

Lupino Lane, who is at present the play, of wit in the average alm

seven years ago also worked as an none among the feminine satellities the West Coast and New York directing "The Maid of the Mounds like badminton with a piece of extra. He has lost his literary tains," has been signed up by Bri- dough for ball.

touch and is grateful for a few in pictures, had dwindled consider-City. tish International: Pictures on an Joan Crawford is improving with daya extra work now and then. ably as a result of a succession of ther long-term contract, Lane was every film. As for Robert Montgo A former screen star whose name inferior vehicles. Admittedly, she responsible for such successful inery, he has in this film the hardest was once in lights and who was B.EPcomediasas Love Lies, role that any actor can play known throughout the world, half needs a superlative picture to re- pense which fascinates you until

The Love Hace, which is released hardest because it looks the easiest a dozen former featured player store her to favour with the public, the very ead. this week, and "The Innocents of Rage, hysterice, tears these things once admired by thousands of fane, Your have just this in Age For Supporting Miss Doge in and bl Chicago," the gangster burlesque rei are easy to simulate. But to have and several hundred, who have been cantly presented in London and nothing to do but be charming and atmosphere players for from Love." Indisputably, it is Miss the most brilliant castá ever which has been received with, ac amusing that is a task that might to fifteen years, are meeting on Dove's first performance in one of venled in a picture. It includes clamation in Americs..

appeal. Coquelin

common ground at the foot of the the outstanding pictures pince the Edward Everette Horton, * Lois Mr. Montgomery-surely the most ladder.

screen learnt to talk Embellished Wilson, Mary Duncan, and Char delightful young actor on the screen

All consider their troubles "but with modern dialogue, vitalized intern

· Hymn=291—"' Oft in danger, Oft

makes it all look not morely temporary sat-backs Thus "Dan with sophistication, and dynaniu les Starrett, who plays opposite -in Woe."

If English producers tend to bor simple but inevitable. He is charm cors in the Dark, which is now fu action The Age For Love": Miss Dave. Herton in at his best, Prayers-Venite, Lesson, Benedie row the foreigners, clothes, Hollying without being self-conscious, showing at the King's Theatre, gave is one of the most polished pieces Miss Wilson and Miss Duncan have

tus Creed Prayers,

wood producers just as certainly amusing without loss of diguity, timely aid to half a thousand screep of entertainment that has come to take in each other's washing Altogether a remarkable young fplextras at its inception. The pic theoreen in a long time, Its never given better performances,

"Scandal for Bale," featuring | low.

ture, an adaptation of the play characterizations ring true to lile, and

4nd, Sterrett & comparative new Charles Bickford, has the same old Nils Aather, one of the, forbignoza " Jazz King," is a story of youth its modernistic settings are among comer, alevátea hirisoif Address The Rev, TN Lewis theme and the same old lesson-that temporarily defeated by the talkies,ful sophistication in which action the beautiful ever Almed, and the front rank of leading men by his

Bryan, B.A., §.OF., CE if you buit a yellow journal you makes a return to the screen in and romance are cleverly interplot moves with a tempo and sus- ~(Continued on Page 11) will make a great deal of money Lotty Lynton.

(Continued at four of test solumn;) { work-in-this-ploture.

direction of Rupert O'Cyly with her by telephone. She gave! Joan and Robert.

no name or address, yet dozens of persons called-who knew it was the star's home, saying they had a lost dog for her to look at.

9.50 to 12 midnight.-A relay of the Peninsula Hotel Dance Orches tra by courtesy of the manage- ment. (During the intervals recorded music will be broad- cast from the Studio). 10,30 p.m.-Rugby mid-day From

nows.

18.midnight. Close down."

SUNDAY.

3.15 to 10 a.m. (approx.)-A relay of the Military Parade Service from St John's Cathedral Voluntary."Delbruck in Eb."

STRANGERS

MAY

KISS

WORLDS

Hymn 40 Onward Christian

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY REDUCING"

Another Newspaper Story.

-mingled:

sister In The Perfert Lady" Sha

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