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LONG TACK SAM

with

MI-NA & NEE-SA and Entire Troupe

The Act That Recently Scored

**UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS A Changed Programme in Conjunction with an Unusual Picture.

HONKY

TONK

TUCKER

VITAPPAS

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Is sacrifice for one's child a sin? If it is, that was

The SIN of

Madelon Claudet

with

HELEN HAYES

supreme star of the stige

LEWIS STONE

NEIL BABILTON CLIFF EDWARDS PAS DEBSHOLT

-MARIE PAKTUST

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

AT 2.30, 5.20, 720, & 9.20

CHI

HILD

WIRFLESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY ZB.W ON 355 METRES.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 1932.

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

TO-DAY AT THE

KINGS THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY`

Central.

"Frankenstein.”

Queen's, ma

"Honky Tonk and Long Tack At 2.80, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

Sam.

King's.

11-to-11.30-a.m.-Stock quotations, 11.30 am-Chinese programme. 12.30 p.m.-European programome of Victor and H.M.V. records. p.in.-Local time and weather

report. A relay of the Hong World. Kong Hotel Orchestra by

courtesy of the Management. (During the intervals recorded

music will be broadcast from the Studio.)

2,13 p.m.-Close down.

3 to 8 p.m.-Chinese programme.

9 p.m.-Loun time and weather-

report.

9.03 to 8.43 p.m.

From the Studio.

A recital by Miss Florence Paton

(Pianist) and Miss Ann Hen derson (Violinist).

Programme.

1. Pianoforte Solus (a) "Dance des Bacchautes ", Gounod) (b) * Invaria" (Florence Paton).'

2. Violin Solos--(a) Kauzonet. ta" from the Violin Concerto by Technikowsky (b) "Minuet (Mozart).

3. Pianoforte Solos-(n) "In the

Flower Garden"

(Gade) (b) "Appassionata'** (Florence Paton).

Violin Solos-(u) "Paraphrase on two Russian Folk Songs" (arr. Kreisler) (b) "Rondino un a theme by Beethoven" (arr. Kreisler).

5 Pixuoforte Soto:-(a) Ro- man' (Raff) (b) • Valso Impromptu" (Raff).

6. Violin Sulos-(a) “Chant Hin- dou" (Rimsky-Korsakov) (b) "Serenata" (Toselli),

Star.

At The Villa Rose,”

*Daybreak."

KOWLOON.

"It's a Wine Child."

COMING.

Central.

"Wings."

Queen's.

Sine of Madelon Claudet." "Condemned to Death."

1

"Tell England,"

King'a.

"Heartbreak."

"My Sin."

World.

"King of the Wild." "Dance Fools Dance."

Star.

"Abraham Lincoln." "On Approval."

LAURA GUERITE.

www

TO APPEAR AT REPULSE BAY HOTEL

Miss Laura Guerite, the well-

known Zeiffield's Follies entertainer,

who scored such a brilliant success i at the Peninsula Hotel last Satur day, is appearing to-night at the Repulse Bay Hotel during the special dinner dance which takes

7. Piano Novelty--(a) “Waltz in

Blue” (Bauker). (b)" " Mad | places from 8'p.m. till midnight. Fingers" (James),

8.45 to 19.30 p.m.--A programme of Victor and H. M.V. records.

4.15 to 9.15 p.m.—

Operatio.

With a munificent store of amus ing monologues, brilliant with patter, songs which are sung with much force and abandon, and vary- ing turns with clever unpersona- tions, this artiste's entertainment

Song Mignon -Polonaise" will undoubtedly be a repetition of

(Thomas) (I'm Fair Titania).- ber former successes.

7110.

Song-" Barbiere di Siviglia-A Repulse Bay Hotel lends itself Little Voice I Hour" (Rossini) to the charm of such functions and --Mndam Amelita Galli-Curei (Soprano).

the dinner dance to-night promises to be a happy hugury of a sparkling evening.

Orchestral Samson and Delilah -Bacchanale" (Saint-Saens). Orchestral Damnation of Faust -Rakoczy March" (Berlioz).-** Philadelphia Symphony Orches tral directed by Leopold Stokowski.-4823.

Song" Mignon - Ah,

Little

Thought the Maid" (Thomas). Song" Mignon-Farewell, Mig- non" (Thomas). — Beniamino Gigli (Tenor).-0005, Song-"Aida-Return Victorious" (Verdi), Elisaboth Nathberg (Soprano).-7100,

0.13 to 0.50 p..

Orchestral.

"HONKY TONK."

SOPHIE TUCKER AT THE QUEEN'S.

out

A trade notice staten:- When Sophie Tucker comes on to t the floor of the great New York night club in Honky Tonk,"

12 Overture" (Tschaikowsky, the latest Warner Bros. talking,

Op. 40),-Royal Opera frches. tra, Convent Garden. --9025/ 0023.

singing Vitaphone production which opens to-day at the Queen's Thes

Engen' Onegin"-Waltz (Tachai-tre in conjunction with Long Tack kowsky), Royal Opera Orches- tra, Convent Garden,-D020. "Minuet" (Baecherini). *18th Century Dance"

Bam's act on the stage and sings her torrid ditties, she doesn't need (Josto ach

Haydn) Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

250.

"A Day in Venice" (Nevin).- Victor Salon Orchestra and Group-0478.1

0.50 to 10.30-p.m.

Variety.

Fox Trot I Wish I Could be

Blue P

Fox Trot" When I'm Alone."

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra.-22734,

Humorous Bong-Out in the

New Mown Hay,"

She can be perfectly natural, for she has filled this self-samo rûle în; real life on countless nights. Many years of her life have been spent as an entertainer in night clubs- mistress of ceremonies, singer of

and songs,

general life-of-the- party.

CHARLES FARRELL

through

MADGE EVANS

HEARTBREAK

to happinets

You women who know how to forgive will· know that when her lips told him to go har heart would call him

2. back.

A Fox Picture

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SUNDAY, 24th JULY

Flimedom's

favorites-

ULAH:

BANKHEAD

FREDRIC

MARCH

My Sin

Paramount Picture

OTRAMED. for the FIRST time! In a smashlog DRAMATIC

EVENT!

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313.

ORIENTAL

FLEMING HOAD, WANCHAI.

WATCH FOR

OPENING DATE!

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Much of the action of "Honky Tonk" takes place in the Honky.

Tonk Cafe, with Sophie, capering

1000 COMFORTABLE BEATS DIRECT

FROM NEW YORK.

INSURES COMFORT, GOOD VENTILATION,

Humorous Song So Tirol." chorus girls, throngs of gay merry.

Ann Penn B2003. ⠀

Chorus Somebody's Knocking

at Your Door"

makers, toy balloons, serpentine

and clackers, hectic atmosphere of whoopee.

י,

Chorus Let Us Choor the ---Weary ----Traveller."--Uticn--In- The production was directed by stituta Jubileo. Singer-2052, Lloyd Bacon, and the cast includes Fox Trot Then There Eyes" Tex Trol The Little Things in George Duryen, Lila Lee, Audrey Life."-Gus Arnheim and his Ferris, Mahlon Hamilton and John Cocoanut Grove Orchestra, T. Murray, Song- With a Song in My

Heart"

Song" Through-

Franklyn

........... Baur: (Tenor);–229931. Selections" Varginin.", Selections" Funny Fate."-New

Mayfair Orchestra.—C1688. 10.30 p.m. (approx.)--Rugby mid

day Press news.

All records in the above European programmes are supplied by: Messrs.. Moutrie & Co.K

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"HEARTBREAK.”

HIGH ROMANCE AT THE KING'S.}

A trade notice stats:-

True romatice, as hy dramatist; knows, requires a poper setting shey tell us,

Then, to flourish, a

it must liave a beautiful heroine stirring to the imagiation and a THE hero

of surpassing brivery.

But, for romance to live, the vital clemont is still lacking. That is opposition. Without position, ro. mance withers and dis of its own Bentimentalities.

This is not a solemncoluma from "Advice to the Lovern," nor a dissertion on the psychology of the affections; merely a pelude to the fact that "Heartfeak,"· Fox

drama which co-stars Charles Tax rell and Madge Evans and is now showing at the King' Theatre, in said to be an outstanding example of these elementals caried out in a beautiful romance which become" almost hopelessly tangled in the moat trying kind of onflict.

For its romantic futting, the locale of the dramm jis Vienna home of the waltz, city of beautiful women, scene of gaty, charm, dreams-romanes!

The heroine, is Malge Evans, lovely golden-haired, | blue-eyed, emotional actress but cently re- turned to the screen after a laps

she of years during which time "grew up" from childhood rôles, Mis Evans, you will call, WAS

CENTRAL THEATRE

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at 2.30; 6.15; 7.15 & 9.30

GREATEST FANTASTIC THRILLER THAT IS BREAKING

MORE THEATRE ATTENDANCE RECORDS THAN ANY PICTURE EVER MADE

A UNIVERSAL SUPER ATTRACTION

Presented by CARL LAEMMLE

A FRIENDLY WARMING W you have 'a'weak heart, and cannot stand Intense expitament jar even shock, we advise you NOT tore this production. If, on the contrary, you like an unus» | wal thrill, you will And it in

#PRANKENSTEIN"

Produced by Carl Leest.

miu, Jr., with COLIN CLIVE, MAS CLARKE, JOHN BOLES, NORIS KASLOFF, Dwight Frys, Edward Van fisan, Frederis Kerr. Sand on the story by Mary Wall- fionacraft Shalfay, Adaptedby John L. Balder- sion from the play by · Faggy Webling, Directed by JAMES WHALE.

FRANKENSTEIN

the famous child star of some ten THE MAN WHO MADE A MONSTER

years ago.

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Charles Farrell is the hero. ÅB ย handsome, educated, wealthy young American diplomet. in the Vientiese Embassy, he mics and is | UPPER CIRCLE charmed by Miss Evans it the rôle of an Austrian countess i

Then enters the opposition; "Heartbreak," quite in keeping - with the depth of its romace, pre sents conflict three-fold; miķortuús, jealousy, struggle inevitably foes of

romance.

Bardie Albright, ng Miss Evans, twin, is the one whole austortune causes Farrell's through a dreadful mistake. Paul Cavanigh, Farrell' rival in love, provides the elements of jealousy. The war, which Be

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THE AVIATION'S MARVELLOUS 'MASTERPIECE. PERFECTLY SYNCHRONIZED:- WITH · SOUND

CLARA BOW

"WINGS"

parates the sweetheats and sends WITH CHARLES ROGERS, RICHARD

ABLEN,

the friends at each ofer's throat, GARY COOPER, JOBYNA RALSTON & EL BRENDEL

is the final blow that di but crushes

iner hopes or eventiju happiness, thus fulfilling all requisites of true romance.

"MY SIN

A trade notice statis

Can you uefine 1"1 - No! Well, nobody can adequately. It is one of those words ne teels-jual senses; yet It his become ex coodingly forceful En indicating personality. It is to that other word "churm;" yet entirely dif ferent in its descriptive signific ance But we all instantly ro cognize both qualities when we see "It" a person possessing either

charm,”

"SIN OF MADELON

CLAUDET.

BRILLIANT CAST FOR THE QUEEN'S.

A trade noticò states:-

Heading the programme at the Queen's Theatre starting on Sun-j The King's Theatre opens next day is "The Sin of Madelon Clau- Sunday with the billiantly fasc

or

nating picture drama, "My Sin," det," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's' ad. with Tallulah Bauklead in the stes aptation of the Edward Knoblock lar role, radiating joth "It" and

ebarm" at high fotential. stage success," The Lultavy, withi Tallulak has "the vorro of the high-light blond, the charm of a cast that includes Helen Hayes, impelling beauty, finely cut and Lowis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Ro exquisitely moulded in both face

Hersholt, Marie Prevost, Karen Morley and others

and guro and that hypnotic albert Young, Cliff Edwards, Jean lurement which is called

It." From her first Dah on the screen, Tallulah captures the mind, intri gues the imagination and leads one through the intricacies of a dra. matie story, touching the depths of emotional despair and reaching the heights of an Intelectual and social regeneration,

Fredric March, co-starring with Miss Bankhead, has the reputation of being fully adequate to his rôles.

"People Who Matter"

PEOPLE WHO MATTER, to the advertiser are the Peopl who can afford to buy his gooda Most of these people buy and rind the

Hong Kong Daily Press,

ed a criminal, the nearest he has ever come to it being the disreput able lawyer of." The Secret Six." As the artist, who deserts the heroine, Neil Hamilton is cast in a rôle less sympathetic than those of "Strangers May Kiss, thus giving him an opportunity-to-prove- a hitherto little revealed versatility, Cliff Edwards and Marie Provost,

as a newly married couple who are constantly at each other's throats, provide many of the laughs in the picture,› Comedy lovers know what to expect of both Edwards and

Miss Prevost, who recently scored outstanding portrayals in "Side walks of New York" and "Sport. ing Blood," respectively. Miss Hayes, who makes her firs

The Sin of Madelon Claudet,? appearance on the screen in this which is an adroit combination ot picture, is the young netress who

romance, comedy and melodrama, recently scored on Broadway in tells the story of Madelon who runs "Petticoat Influence," and previ away from home with Larry,

...

ส

An

ous to that play created on envi-American artist, in order to avoid marrying an unattractive man ef able reputation for her work in

Her father's oboosing. When Larry ມ ແ Coquette,"

Every Woman unexpectedly deserte bar and their Knows," Dear Brutus "

4.

and infant son, Madelon gains the

Mr. Gilhooley. She portrays friendship of Count Boretti, a man

of unlimited means. the young French girl, Madelon.

The Count and Madelon are about Claudet, who makes a fatal mis-1

be married when Suzette, a ito stop when she slopes to Paris with former flame of Boretti; exposes a young artist and is soon aftor to the polica nga notorious jewel involved in the scandalous arrest thief. Madelon is 'implicated in the of a jewel thief who has befriend charge and is thrown into prison. When she comes out she becomes u od her.

wanderer, always accking her boy, The thief is played by Lewis to whom she dares not reveal-her- Stone, who makes an abrupt de identity because she has been a parture in this role from his suave jailbird. The eventual reunion of

and poised characterizations. "Homance" and "Inspiration."

mother and son provides age-

grossi

and stirring climax to the

the first tims Stone has play:

stor

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