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QUEEN TEATRE HOW THEY BEGAN

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20 SEVEN GREAT

LAUGH STARS!

KEN

MURRAY

NED

SPARKS BENNY BUBIN EDDIE FOY, Jr. LILYAN TASHMAN LOUISE FAZENDA

LEATHER NECKING

Fighting Fools of the Marine Corps Running Wild Through

the

Grass Skirt Bolt

Directed by EDDIE CLINE

-Also- Mickey's Musketeers

PATHE GAZETTE NEXT CHANGE

MARION

DAVIES

GABLE

STARS OF "ONE HOUR WITH YOU."

A trade notice stales--

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

Central.

Madonna of the Streets,"

Leather Nooking."

A recent poll of motion picture notables reveals the surprising fact, that very few of the screen" eele. brities set out with an early ambi.“, Queen's, tion to become actors. However, four of Paramount's feminino play. ers admit they had been." stage struck since early childhood. They are Nancy Carroll, Sylvia. Sidney, Claudette Colbert, and Tal- hinh Bankhead. Many assert that their presence on the screen was due to the mercat chance.

Maurice Chevalier's first job wsa pointing dolls in a toy shop. It was hore his desire to be an enter tainer was born.

Marlene Dietrich studied the vio lin and intended to become a con- cort violinist. but a twist in the path to nrusical fame put her on the singe instead.

George Bancroft's ambition was. to be a sailor so he joined the unvy. While in the service, ho became in- terested in amateur theatricals, and Inter secured stage employment.

Matrice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, who hend the cast of Chevalier's One Hour With You," became

their dramatio set in careers much earlier than the aver- nge artist of present day screen prominence. Chevalier was in his late teens, while Jeanette made her first public appearance at the nge of three in a charity play and was also professionally engaged nt the are of eight and definitely set in a dramatic career at forteen.

Klag's.

"One Hour with You."

World.

King of The Wild" (pt. 9).

Oriental,

Blar.

"The World and the Flesh,"

KOWLOON.

**Just a Gigolo,"

Centrai,

COMING.

**The Flood." "Reckless Living.”

Queen's,

"Polly of the Circus."" King's.

"Reserved for Ladies," "The Calendar,"

"One Hour With You," is the King'a Theatre's feature to-day. This is the second time these pro- minent screen stars bave headed the east of a major sercen produc. tion. Their appearance together | World, was in The Love Parade," one of the screen hits of two years ago.

She Wanted a Millionaire."

"Their Own Desire,"

Polling The Circus

Jeanette MacDonald in "One Hour With You."

ANctro- Golmyn Maytr

TITORS

(STAR)

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 WILLIAM HAINES.

Just a

GIGOLO

1

GOSSIP

FACT.

Marie Dressler in "Party,"

#1

More All-Star" Casts,

The film rights of Ivor Novello's The mammoth Grand Hotel, has play Party," now raming at the started an all-star picture vogue. Strand Theatre, London have been

Paramount, not to be outdone by sold to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer M.G.M. in the bigger and batter Company for about £10,000.

easts battle, proposes to parade all Marie Dressler will probably ap- its brightest names in "The Song pear in the part of the veteran ac- of the Eagle," an episodic historical tress (taken in the play by Lilian drama of the United States which Braithwaite) and Marion Davies in is to be the high light of 1932 pro- the role played by Bonita Hume. duction programme.

The play also is to be performed in the United States.

Monkey Business.

Mary Pickford met her husband. Douglas Fairbanks, at the steam- ship dock when the latter returned from Tahiti, and was not at all surprised to have Doug rush to greet her joyfully with a small monkey clinging to his shoulder.

Miss Pickford knows her hus- band. Sho would not have blinked

In view of the American back- ground, however, how they will st in parts for Dietrich and Chevalier!

*

Do You Know---

Colleen Moore is to make her come back in a picture called

Fleah," with Wally Berry?

Bill Boyd and his wife, who is Dorothy Sebastian, are to visit Eritain shortly!

Janet Gaynor is to play the Lilian an eyelash if he had walked down | Gish rôle în a talkie version of

the gangplank arm in arm with a

Polar bear.

"The Lost Squadron.”

Thrills in the air are plentiful

The Lost Squadron."

Somo of

the best American stunt airmen, in.:

cluding the redoubtable Dick Grace,

Broken Blossomna" ↑

Conrad Nagel says that only twenty-three film stars have "bead. line! salarien?

The Maid of the Mountains.**—— Lupino Lane has been introduc

perform some amazing aerial evoluing much rhythm and realism intd

tions in this picture,

WORLDA der Wallace Thriller,

TO-DAY ONLY

his production of the new B.I.P. musical film," The Maid of the Mountains,"

To the

of

accompaniment Another kind of thriller, is The Alfredo's Vagabond Band, Nancy Frightened Lady," in adaption of Browne as Teresa has enthralled the Edgar Wallace play, in which all bearera with her singing of the Gordon Harker scores heavily na lovely and popular waltz POTENT

“KING of the WILD' Cockney police officer. The fret while the bandite of Baldasarre,

(Part 2)

class acting of the all-star coat of theatrical artists makes, this picture applendid entertainment,

played by Harry Welchman, have. made the studio ring with their hearty chorus, Live for to-day d

"POLLY OF THE

KINGS THEATRE CIRCUS."

SHOWING YOUTHFUL HOLLYWOOD

TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

MAURICE

CHEVALIER

IN

One Hour with You

A Paramount Picture

with

Jeanette

MacDONALD

Genevieve TOBIN

Charlie RUGGLES

Roland

YOUNG

AMERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

Hear these Song Hits

"One Hour With You" "We Will Always Be "What Sweet-hearts"

Would You Do?" and others!

--ADDED FEATURES- LATEST PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS AND COMEDY

· HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY HINTS

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RACKETEERS INTERFERE.

A trade notice staten:- Borrowing a chapter from grown- up racketeer methods, Hollywood youngsters have started a system of their own to mulct "hual. money" from motion picture com/ panies making talkie scenes on out- door locations,

Alfrog Santell, directing "Polly of the Cireus," Marion Davies' new starring vehicle, encountered the Juvenile racketeers while filming garden scenes for this picture. In the midst of the scenes came a loud. hammering on a nearby building.

"Do you have to do that?" Santall demanded of the young sters.

"Sure," replied the spokesman. We are getting ten dollars for this job!"

Of course, ten dollars repaid them to quit work," for the time being, at least

The racketeers, whose creed in silence is golden," appeared on another location and repaired" a balky flivver until the director gave them enough money to take it to a garage,

Clark Gable plays opposite Miss Davies in the filming of the Mar garet Mayo play, which will come on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre. Included in the cast are C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton, David Landau, Ruth Selwyn and Maude Eburne.

16 PERSONALITIES.

GIRL SETTLES DOWN AS

SWEET AND AMIABLE."

London, July 1-An amazing story of a girl with 18 personalities rovented in the Lancet" by Dr. Alexander Cannon, assistant medical officer of Colney Hatch Mental Hospital.

Following an attack of meningitis

NEXT CHANGE t the age of 13, the girl develop

RESERVED LADIES

FOR

A Paramount Gicture

WITH

LESLIE HOWARD GEORGE GROSSMITH BENITA HUME

ORIENTAL

PLEMING HOAD, WANCHAI. SHOW.NG TO-DAY -

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.

A world gone mad-bows

to his rath- lass forcel

Mighty Ban croft la bis mightiest role with tho blonde sans

on they rel

GEORGE talking about?

BANCROFT

ATHERIN

WORLD FLESH

MIRIAM HOPKINS

Paramount Picture PRIDES INOL, TAX

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ed a secondary self, and began to write backwards,

"After a fow months," writes Dr. Cannon, "the periods of normal life became, shorter, and, in place of one secondary stage, various others showed themselves from time to time. Of these there were 16 in all."

The following states were noted, most of them being named by the patient herself:~

(a) Called herself "Thing";` was vacant; could not stand.

(b) Called herself "Old Nick ";

passionate and mischievous.

(c) Catalepsy with deaf-mutiem, (d) Spelt backwards. (e) Terror.

(f) Called herself "Good thing"; docile, but without power in her bands or feet. (g) Called hersolf "Pretty dear"; sweet and amiable, but could not write or spell.' ..

berself (h) Culled

"Mamic Wud"; recalled the events of childhood, N

CENTRAL THEATRE

TEL

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30

A POWERFUL, FASCINATING & DRAMATIC PICTURE OF REDEMPTION & LOVE.

Powerful Drama of a Woman's Redemptioni

SHE sold her soul for money but discovered it took more than that to buy it back!

Columbia Picturas protenti

MADONNA

Frem the Store

·W.B.MAXWELL

with

STREETS

EVELYN BRENT

ROBERT'AMES JOSEPHINE DUNH

IVAN LINOW

COLUMBIA

Mahrt

JOIDE

ROBERTSON

Evelyn Brent is Alluring, Fascinating & Beautiful

in the Role of an Adven- turess Who Falls Over

Head and Heels in Love.

withJan Idealist.

STARTING TO-MORROW

LOVE AND ROMANCE AMID A THOUSAND DANGERS MEN AND NATURE IN TERRIFIC COMBAT

powerful-magnetic-exciting!

FLOOD

PELEANOR BOARDMAN

MONTE BLUE DAVID NEWELL.

Broad Se JAMES TIMEING

SHOWING SOON

LOVE, 'DECRIT, SORROW, INDISCRETION, ROMANCE, EXCITE- 'MENT, LONG CHANCES, GREAT ENTERTAINMENT

MAE CLARKE and RICHARD CORTEZ

IN

RECKLESS LIVING

"MADONNA OF THE STREETS."

VISUAL IMPRESSIONS

FIX THOUGHTS BETTER

THAN WORDS.

A trade notico states:- Visual impressions, the appeal to the eye, tend to fix an idea with greater success than a verbal ex- planation. For this reason, studio executives in recent years have paid more attention to obtaining extre (i) Knew nothing and thought mely true backgrounds and atmos

she was just born. (j) Not stated.

(k) Called herself "Old Per-

suader", and asked for a- stick to strike people if they

would not do as she wished. (1) Called herself "Tom's darl-

nice child.

(m) Said she had no nome, and

was violent and unkind.

pheric surroundings for their pic tures: They realized to what ex- tent realistic settings lead an at- mosphere of accuracy and tueness to motion pictures. They saw how it helped establish their locale and in a way the motivating force be- hind some of the film's notion.

A striking example of this ten

"

'RESERVED FOR LADIES."

LESUJE HOWARD AS HEAD WAITER.

A trade, notice states -- Movie fans have an opportunity to see how a big hotel in rua in Paramount's Reserved for Ladies," in which Leslie Howard plays the leading role, and which is the King's Theatre's feature picture: beginning Sunday, next.

In this picture will be soen re- plicas of the kitchens and service stations to be found in the most efficient hotels. The picture also demonstrates many of the closely guarded socrets of an efficient head waiter, and the art of "dressing," a fashionable restaurant, an art that ensures that the right people. are placed whore they will be seen, the wrong people where they will not be seen, and divorced people where they will be seen, one is happy!

so every

In this picture, Leslie Howard en ing," and was apparently a dency is illustrated in "Madonna

of the Streets" the Columbia pro- açta the part. of the head weiter duction showing at the Central oi, one of the world's most aristo. Theatre to-day. The picture is an cratio restaurants. He demons- adaptation of "The Ragged Men- trates the suavity and efficiency of (n). Called herself "the dreadful anger" by W. B. Maxwell. The popular muttres d'hotel and, khowe story, much of which is laid in the why it is, such man command fabu- wicked thing?" threw her slipz Barbary coast and along, San lous salaries. pers into the fire in Atomnd enhanced by the accurata set Francisco's waterfront, is abetted

"Tommy's blind and

tings which the studio's technical; who has starred in a score of out- (0). Called herself

staff provided for this picture. standing underworld, films, has the lamb," and was

The opening shot of the dismal stellar lead in this story. She is waterfront section is particularly supported by a superior cast of idiotic.

impressive. It is a rainy, foggy players including Robert Ames, SDEN (p) Drow beautifully, although night Wretched figures passing here recently opposite Ann Hardling original self was unable to along the damp streets are vaguely in" Holiday," Josephine Dunn and

outlined in the fog. Street lights Ivan Linow, dok sed do draw,

aro reflected on the wet sidewalk, A; John 8: Robertson, who directed She finally settled down into starved car sneaks by in the orrie Madonna of the Streets" is one stage and was a fine light of the dim-lit lamps. Pover of the veteran directors of the in- ty, want, ugliness, all aro establish; dustry. He numbers “amorg, his haltby well-developed girl, who ed in this one tremendously offer successful films, The Road to Ro helped in the House, and was antive shot,

Annie Laurie,” The xious to learn typewriting to keep Evelyn Brent, sterling trouper Bingle Standard," " Captain Sai herself

(Continued at foot of scat column.) vation and Shanghai ladyne

mance"

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