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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

Metr

supreme star of the stage

LEWIS STORE

KEIL HAMILTON

CLIFY EDWARDS

JEAN HENSHOLT

PIE PREVOST

From the play "The Lullaby"

FUETNO-NOLDWYN MAYER,

Also-

"CALL the COP" Boy Friends Comedy and

HEARST NEWS

TO-MORROW

ARTHUR WONTNER GORDON HARKER EDMUND GWENN

IN

CONDEMNED to DEATH

Adopted from JACK O LANTERN" 'Dhrilling murder mystery

STAR

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D. W. GRIFFITH'S Supreme Achievement

“ABRAHAM LINCOLN"

with

WALTER HUSTON

FWORLDE

PROGRAMME. ·

(Continued, from Page 11.)

Song "I Did Not Kuow" (Bing-

ham and Trolere).

Song- Two Eyes of Grey" (McCiocchi). -The Han, W. Brownlow (Baritong).—DB772. 'Cello Solo" Danzas Espanolas, No. 5" (Graundos), Gaspar Cassado.-L2048.

to 10 p.m.****

From the Studio.

Selections by the R,M.S. Empress

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1932.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

Dentral.

30 Fathoms Deop"?

Queen's.

"Sin of Madelon Claudet,"

King's.

Two Kinds of Women?"

World.

"King of the Wild."

KOWLOON.

of Canada Orchestra ronducted | Star.

by Mr. G. Redfern,

Programme.

1. March-Colonel Bogey" (AI-

ford).

Waltz Spring, Beautiful

Spring" (Lincke),

Abraham Lincoln."

Contral.

3. Selection

The Mikado "

(Sullivan).

4. Entr'acte-(n) "Phanten Bri. gaite" (Mydelleton) (1) "Moonlight Dance" (Finck),

5. Selection -- "Sounds from Scotland" (Myddleton).

0. Suite In a Persian Market"

(Ketelbey),

7. Selection" Musical Switch '*

(Alford).

Murch-"Knights and Ladies"

(Zamenik),

10 to 10.30 p.m.-A programme of

Columbia records.

Variety.

Song "That's What

About You,"

I Like

· Song--" What Are You Thinking About Baby 1"-Phyllis Robins (Comedienne).—DR653..

COMING.

"The Last Love.” " Wings."

Queen's.

"Condemned to Death" "Men Like These." "Tell England.” King's.

"Husband's Holiday.”

One Hour with You."

World.

"Dance Fools Dance."

Star,

**On Approval."

"SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET."

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT THE QUEEN'S.

A trade notice states:-

Banjo Solo-" St. Louis Blues.".

It is not good for actors to ming Instrumental-"Some of these

le too much with the general pub Days"-Eddie Peabody-DB713. Vocal Duct-"Hold My Hand- Hic, in the opinion of Lewis Stone.

Hold My Hand,"

"The public falls in love with

Vocal Duet-"Hold My Hand-the character you play, nover with the Music."-Jessie the individual," asserted the dis

Turn on Matthews and Sonnie Hale.

DR700.

Vocal Duet-Horatio Nicholl's

Gipsy Melody."

tinguished screen actor in a re

cant interview. "The result is

that when a movie-goer meets an

Vocal Duel-"Wittle White Lies."uctor in private life, he is invari-

→→Lay Lar

ID 8347.

nind Johnstone.

10.30 p.m. (approx.)-Rugby mid-

day Press news.

16.35 p.m. (approx.).—Close down, All records in the above European programmes are supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.

DEATH AT AGE OF NINETY-TWO.

FORMER MEDICAL OFFICER

IN STRAITS.

ably disappointed. He expects to iaret a person resembling and acts ing like a character in a specific story he has seen on the screen, whereas, away from his paint, an actor becomes just one of the boys.'

Krenzr

"And this rule works both ways,' continued Stone. It is hard on

anaetor to meet merabers of the

KINGS THEATRE

FINAL SHOWING✨

TO-DAY

TWO KINDS OF

WOMEN."

FAST : MOVING PICTURE AT

KING'S.

A trade notice states:- Irving Pichel, the famous prose cutor of the equally famous talkie, An American Tragedy," is bock

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. in the legal business again, this

The Yes Girl and the No-Girl

Two

KINDS

OF

WOMEN

with

Caramada Plature:

Miriam Hopkins Phillips Holmes Wynne Gibson

. Stuart Erwin.

Irving Pichef Based on play,

"This Is New York,” by Robert E Sherwood

TO-MORROW

You Can't got away from this Mr. Husband, even on &

HUSBAND'S HOLIDAY

with CLIVE BROOK

Charlis

RUGGLES

"

Vivienne

Osborne

Jullatte

Compton

Harry

public, to bask in their pleasure in his work and then to puzzled fight come into their eyes, This puzzled light is sure to comio, for the theatro-going public expects tre múch of an actor when they meet him face to face. They have seen him in a picture, acting a a high pitch of dramatic fervour, Lundos, July 19-The death has and

then when they inect occurred at the age of 92 of Dr. the

Letor on the golf Thomas Irvine Rowell, M.D., C.ML,

course or at a party, they find him C.M.G., formerly Principal Civil just another labourer, like thein Medical Officer, Straits Settle-solves, relaxing comfortably from| mente.

a day's work.

Dr. Rowell's association with the

"The actor's business is to create Colony ceased as long ago on 1600,

an illusion. The better illusion be when he retired owing to a break-creates, the better actor be 18.' And down in health. Born in Aberdeen no matter how fino a fellow an as- in 1810, he first came to the Colony tor may be personally, he

CARNOL

in 1888 as acting Colonial Surgeon in his periods of relaxation hope to meet the exaggeratedly heroic

In 1879 he became Principal Civil Medical Officer and Public Health Officer. In 1879 he was a member

idals which his fans hold up for him.”

of Sir William Robinson's mission Stones has increasingly gone in to Siam to invest the King with for versatile characterizations in the G.C.M.G. He became Presi-his

screen

work. In his latest dent of the Bingapore Municipality vobiele The Su of Madelon

Bannister

THURSDAY, 28th

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD, WANCHAL

ime as the Senator from South Dakota in Paramount's filmisation of Robert E. Sherwood's play,

This Is New York," which is now showing at the King's Theatre'a serven under the title, Twe Kinds Of Women."

Since his first appearance for Paramount as the hide-bound, stodgy farmer husband of Ruth Chatterton in her second re-incar nation The Right to Love," Pichel has been assigned 70 some of the biggest portrayals offered by Paramount in subsequent pictures.

Ile was

the idiot son of th Istrangely haunted household in

Murder by the Clock," the for.)

giving, father in "The Road to Reno,"

and the incorrigible bar. gainer of The Cheat" with Tal- lulah Bankhead.

In Two Kinds Of Women," Fichel is the prond political leader nd provincialist who has set his Blans for success upon a platform righteousness. Upon every public occassion he lets go an elocutionary indictment of New York and its wickedness, and every time he does so there, is a respon

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severe

siro laugh of derision from his would-be cosmopolite daughter, Miriam Hopkins, When the pair go to New York on a business trip,

and she gets mixed up with the

types of characters she had 'read

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Where Life Is Measured in Seconds A Love Drama is Untangled! Thrills as Boundless As the Sea!

fifty fathoms deep

JACK HOLT

In a Lovin', Fightin' Role With Loretta Sayers Richard Cromwell - Mary Doran

Directed by

Roy Wat. Neiti

A Columbia Picture

NEXT CHANGE

about in the ultra-modern magazi- THE LATEST CHINESE MOVIETONE SINGING AND nes, there is a situation that is far from easy for Pichel to reconcile..

Two Kinds of Women" is! good, fast, plot-and-action stuff; with the characterizations all that one would expect from such cap- able performers as Pichel and Miss Hopkins, Phillips Holmes, Stuart

Erwin, James Crane, Stanley

Fields, Jowphine Duno, Vivienne) Deborne aud Robert Emme: O'Connor.

"HUSBAND'S

HOLIDAY."

CLIVE BROOK COMING TO THE KING'S.

A trade notice states:-

Juliette Compton, George Ban- croft's leading woman in his latest picture, "Rich Man's Folly," will be seen in another characteri ention at the King's Theatre, when Husband'a Holiday" comes there to-morrow.

Her newest part is that of Chris tine Kennedy, the beautiful young! woman who causes all the domestic trouble in this Paramount, talkie, based on the novel and play, "The Mirrago Bed," by Ernest Pascal.

TALKING SUPER SPECIAL DRAMA

YANG NOI MUI

IN

י

"THE LAST LOVE

WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST

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WINGS

CONDEMNED TO

DEATH."

BRITISH THRILLAR FOR

THE QUEEN'S.

A trade notice states:- For "Condemned to Death," the

"FIFTY FATHOMS

DEEP."

STARK REALISM AT THE CENTRAL,

A trade motice states- How on earth-or 'under the of Darth-did the sound staff Columbia Pictures record the un derwater scenes in "Fifty Fa thoms Deep This is the question that can't but puzzle you after seeing this melodrama at the "Con- tral Theatre, where it remains un til to-morrow with Jack Holt. playing a paricularly daring diver and Loretta Sayers and Richard

film adaptation of George Good- 'child's famous play, "Jack O' Lantern," the enthralling drama of dual personality, Julius Hagen, Clive Brook plays the leading the astute chief of the Twickenham role in the production, that of Film Studios, got together a real George Boyd, the straying husband, y remarkable array of talent. Ar-Cromwell giving excellent support Charlie Ruggles is econ as Clyde thur Wontner recently created al WATCH FOR Saunders, a "near relation," who sensation both in this country and lives in perpetual foar of his nag-America for his magnificent per OPENING DATE!ging wife part which Ruggles formance of Sherlock Holmes in carries off with his customary The Bleeping Cardinal" (also a laugh-provocation, Vivienne OsborTwickenham film), and largely as INSURES

ne is cast as Brook's wife an allotted the part of the High Court a result of his great triumph was COMFORT,

unromantic little woman of the Judge, who is hypnotised into an GOOD

middle class, who has never learn-suming a dual personality. An ac. VENTILATION,od the secret of kooping a husband Wontrer is terrific in this role. tor of great experience and power, PERFECT BOUND.

1000 COMFORTABLE SEATS DIREOT

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at home but who finds out how be. fore the story.

Two other famous British stars also play important parts in this fine thriller. Gordon Harker and Edmund Gwann both have the kind of role in which they excel

I

In the days of the silent drama 1, cameras were devised that would photograph scenes under water at considerable depth, but it is Columă

bin who first demonstrates that sound under water can also be re- corded. Just how this was lone mains a deep secret, buried among for Fifty Fathoms Deep" TẾ

the members of the recording crew, The swish of the "divers" sliding" down the deep water-the hiss of.

in 188, In the following year his Condet which is having lis final WHERE THE BEST OFdequate amount of " sex appeal and Harker has plenty of oppor electric torch used to free the diver

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY of bo

KING of the

WILD

with

Walter, MILLER

VORA LANE

Dr. Rowell studied medicine in Paris and Vienna, besides Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

hookth-broke down and he was screenings to-day at the Qusan'a obliged to retire in 1800 at the age Theatre, ko plays the unusual part-

of a bogus Count who tu

turns out to be the cleverest jewel thief in Europe. The picture, which serves to introduce the New York stayc He was responsible for much star, Helen Hayes, to talkies, was useful work in the Singapore of adapted from the Edward Knob his day, and it is recorded that lock stage, hit, "The Lullaby" and under his aareful management the was directed by Edgar Selwyn. Tan Tock, Seng Hospital became Stone's fellow cast members include Neil Hamilton, Cliff Edwards, dean "Harsholt"and Marie Prevöst,

a model of poor house and infr. Ary combined.

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escaping air from the exhaust in the diving helmet-the slapping sound of fish an they callide with the divers in their efforts to escape this now monster of the deep.

Then there is the crackling of the

"imprisoned in the wreck the voides coming down through the phôn from the tender anchored on the Gillian Lind, the well-known surface, three hundred feet above. West End actress, makes her firm All this and more make up the per- talkie appearance in "Condemned sonifications of realism to Death in a powerful emotion-"Fifty Fathoms Deep

tunity to display his great drama tio talent as well as his famous comedy....

Miss Compton, as the chief trouble-maker in the triangle, is af necessity the possessor of an

She didn't have to look through-a make-up kit for this accessory-for sho has plenty of natural char

quality which she displayed with effectiveness in Unfaithful,

Morocco," "Rich Man's Folly," and others,

ni rule, in which she is said to re- thrilling story of the adventures Juliette is, like Tallulah Bank veal great sincerity and depth of on land and under son of two hul, anther southern girl who feeling, and Jane Weish, the pre-divers of widely differing tempere of the south and went to New York the rummuutle lead. Other members

look off the shackless of society ty young English fim star, has ments. They get into a firm whoo.

luta career on the stage Like of the strong supporting cast are Tallulah, she became a hit in Lon- Cyril Raymond Griffith Hure- Son later. She returned to the phfeys. H. St. Barbe West and T United States only a year or so Gordon Blyth

ago, after working in British-made This film opens at the Queen's. pictures for tøvern! seasons,

“Theatră” to-morrow.

is a

they both fall in love with the some girl and both nearly die, at the highly dangerous depth of three hundred feet before they learn the triftth Dorothy Howell, and Roy Chanelor are its authors and Boy William Well directed.

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