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TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
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1 to 11.30 a.m.-Stock quotations,
BRITAIN'S GREATEST! 1.30a.m.-Chinese programme. A Romance of Glorious Youth
TELL ENGLAND
THE IMMORTAL EPIC OF GALLIPOLI Directed By N ANTHONY ASQUITH'
GEOFFRY BARKAS
with
CARL HARBORD,
FAY COMPTON.
TONY BRUCE,
ALSO SHOWING
THE LATEST PATRE NEWS
AND
"NOTES and NOTIONS"
NEXT ATTRACTION A Happy Leap Year
to
Robert
You!
Girls!
Brush up
an your Loap Year techniqua-Bao
the 1932 romanca I
12.30 p.m.--European programme of Vietor and H.M.V. records. **9|1.p.m.-Local time and weather report. A relay of the Houg 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. 2.13 p. (approx).-Close down. top.m.--Chinese programinė.
to 6.20 p.m.-Children's Concert. to 10.30 p.m.-European pro-
Aramme.
[ to 5 p.m.--A programme of Victor
and H.M.V. records,
4.03 10 7.30 p.m.--
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1932.
TO-DAY AT THE
King's
CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
The Spy."
Dentral.
"Murder in the Rue. Morque."
Queen's.
World.
Tell England."
"Trader Horn." Oriental.
Star.
"Dude Ranch."
KOWLOON.
"Sidewalks of New York."
King's.
A Concert,
Piano Solos-" The' Children's Corner Suite Solection
Central.
(Debussy). Alfred Cortot.- 7147,
COMING.
Misleading Lady." "The Outsider."
To-Night or Never,” "Corsair."
Song" Margaret at the Spia | Queen's.
ning-Wheel
(Schubert).-
Lovers Courageous.”
Maria Jeritza (Soprano)-6701. Violin Solu-" Seutch Pastorale "
(Saenger).-Yehudi Menuhin.-
Star.
World.
051 Chorus Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" Till the Wind became
Whirlwind
(Coleridge
Taylor).-Royal Choral Socioly --1930
Piano Solos-" Tho Children's
Man in Possession."
Hold Everything." Oriental.
"Shadow of the Law."
Rich Man's Folly,"
A
Corner
Suite"
Debussy).-Alfred
7148.
Song- Midnight
Selection
Vocal Gema.-Light Opara Co- C1020.
Cortot.-
Review"
"Futtin' on the Ritz "-Selection -New Mayfair Orchestra.- €1803.
(Glinku).Peter Dawson (Bass 9 to 9.30 p.m. —
Jiaritone).-1988.
p.m.-Local time and weather re
port,
7.30 to 8.10 p.m.-
C.
Orchestral and Band Music,
Huldigungs March" (Wagner)
-London Symphony Orchestra.
-D1271
Selection of Leslie
Stuart's
Songs
(arr. Hume).-Band
of H.M. Coldstream Guards.-- C1023:
From the Studio,
"The Selections by
Team!
9.30 to 10.30 p.m.-
Melody
Selections by the R.M.S. Empress of Japan Orchestra under, the direction of Mr. W. A. Storey.
Programmie.
* from the Nut-Cracker Suite
1. Overture "Miniature"
(Tschaikowsky).
9.
Badinage" (Victor Herbert).
3.
lar)-London
Palladium Or.
Suite From the South (Nicode).
chestra.-C1854.
"Nautical Moments" (arr. Win-
"The Daughter of the Regi-
mont"-Ovorture (Donizetti).- Members of La Scala Orchestra. Milan.--C1654.
3.10 to 9 p.m.-
Musical Comedy and Light Opera,
The House That Jack Built "- Selection (Novello).-New May. fair Orchestra.-C1791.
C
Intermission
1. "A Great Big Bunch of You"
(Warren),
2.
Snuggle on Your Shoulder"
3.
Three Guesses" (Whom do
(Lombardo).
I Love) (Akst).
Intermission,
1. "Wee MacGregor Patrol"
(Amers).
Melodious Memories", (arr. Finck).
10.30 p.m-Rugby mid-day Press
LEWS,
Miss Hook
2. of Holland "---- Vocal Gems (Rubens).-Light|| Opera Company.-C1989... Dear Love Selection (Wood Tunbridge and Waller).--New Mayinir Orchestra-01792. C.B. Cochran's 1030 Revue " (Continued on seat column.)
MONTGOMERY LOVERS COURAGEOUS
IN
by
FREDERICK LONSDALE
with
MADGE EVANS
ROLAND YOUNG.
ROBERT Z LEONARD
Production.
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m
Buster
KEATON Sidewalks of New York
10.35 p.m.-Close down.
All records in the above European prograinmes are supplied by Messrs. Moutrie & Co..
GOSSIP
FACT.
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plumbing business. The excitement More Male Stars.
This is certainly a year for "the
is over what Radio ought to do with him. Some say be should play screen lover, for just as soon as grotesque rules and be boomed as new one is seen for the first time Lon Chaney, jun. Others say that
e is promoted to stardom. The atest to make this leap into film would be exceedingly bad taste. fame is Warren. William, who has David Selznick is reported to have nade only two films to date, "Hon- juvenile and retain the noma decided to make him just another ur of the Family," with Bebe
Creighton. anics, and The Woman From Monte Carlo," Now Warner Brothers are to star him in "The Mouthpiece," from the play by Frank Collins. Morvon Douglas, Ilorin Swanson's leading man in Tonight or Never," is; also to each the star class soon, under the, Samuel Goldwyn banner..
Used to Being "Killed.”
Clark Gable is rg ́nocustomed to eing shot or killed for his sing int he admits he didn't quita feel
When Eve Out-does Adami
Hollywood is in the throes of the greatest sex war in history. The problem of the wife who out- strips her husband in the fight for a place in the sun, already becom ing verious in everyday spheres, is enormously intensified here in the screen, colony, where wonon can earn wealth and fame undreamt of in the past.
Ann Harding, lonely and miser- it home where he turned her in able, is back from the Heno Laughing Sianers," Joan Crawdivorce party" that became in
ford's picture.
evitable when she became a head- Before coming into pictures, line star and Harry Bannister, be- Gable was famed for his brilliant came "Mr. Ann Harding. " characterisation of Killer Mears in
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The Last Mile," a rôle that Have You Heard. seemed to pattern his screen career. That Stella Mcore, the young When he first played with Miss English actress who gets her first Crawford in Dance. Fools, real screen break with Ruth Chat Dance," he played the part of the terton in. Once a Lady," is Mrs. gangster chieftain and was appra Patrick Campbell's niece! priately shot down and killed in
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the laat reel white Lester Val walkThat Jill Esmond, who makes her ed off with the girl. In "A Free screen début in Once, & Lady, Soul," in which he played with is the dughter of Henry V. Esmond. Norma Shearer, he met a similar English playwright and anthor of
and.
Gaynor and Farrell Together Again. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farret next will be co-starred in Eave
"When We Were Twenty-Ong!".. That six-year-old Suzanne Ren- some, who also plays in "Once a Lady playing Ruth-Chatterton's daughter in the carly sequences, hina
KINGS THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 à 9.30 p.m.
THE SPY
with KAY JOHNSON NEIL HAMILTON JOHN HALLIDAY A FOX PICTURE.
TO-MORROW
The
MISLEADING LADY"
tits ·
CLAUDETTE COLBERT EDMUND LOWE STUART ERWIN
A Paramount Picture
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Cowboys and Fun are Made-to-Order in
Dude Ranch
A Guramennt Grature.
We will JACK OAKIE STUART EBWIN JONE COLLYER HITZI GREEN
TO-MORROW
A Henit," to go into production appears in adore than 100 pictures WILLIAM
it the Fox Film studios in Cali- fornia shortly James Dunn of Bad Girl" and Dance Team," noo-was-considered as Miss Gay or's next film partner, but another itory has been selected for Dunni..
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Another Lon Chaney.
since babyhood?
*
That Tom Douglas has been alain with a famous gun? The revolver used to "kill" him in a scene for "The Road to Reso has, during its long career, onderl the lives of characters played by Pola Negri, Estello Taylor, Evelyn · There is some excitement in Brant, Adolphe Menjou, Jack Hollywood over the signing by Holt, Wallace Beory, Gary Cooper, Hadia Pictures of Creighton Richard Dix, and Tom Meighan Chaney, twenty-four-year-old son That George Bancraft was the of the late Lon Chaney, who is six first screen actor to eliminate make- fest two inches tall and was, until i up on the screen? Now, most ae- lately, happily engaged in, the tors do not use it.
POWELL Shadow
of the aw
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PERILS OF FILM WARFARE.
SEEN IN “TELL ENGLAND
AT THE QUEEN'S.
A trade notice statesi-
Many were the adventures of the Alm company which, under the direction of Anthony Asquith, took part in the scones depicting War on the Gallipoli Front which were en- acted for the camera at Malta, and though the sinking of a lighter with the panteramos aboard and sundry other narohearsed incidents, tobis place, it was the peril of the sup- per beer when the film day 'was dons that caused the most conster nation.
Hundreds of soldiers were attack- ing several barrels of beer, served out to them by Asquith and his co director, Barkas, when one of the most imposing explosions of the day took place. A large box of amoke bombs, standing-by for emergencies, accidentally caught fire and burst. with a tremendous cloud of black smoke that completely enveloped A the entire production unit. petty-officer was hurled into the air and landed, surprised but unhurt, some way down the hill, and the chief cameraman was severely burned. But, emerging from the smoke cloud, two coal-black and unrecognisable direotors called for. chears the beer was saved |
"LOVERS
COURAGEOUS.”
ROMANTIC COMEDY FOR THE QUEEN'S.
A trado uotice states:-
Ilobert Montgomery is starred by Matro-Goldwyn-Mayer in "Lovers Courageous," which will open on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre. The picture, a romantic comedy, was written especially for the young favourite by the noted Eng- lish playwright, Frederick Londs dale, whose "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" proved so successful a vehicle for Nerma Shearer,
Madge Evans, who recently scored in Guilty Hands" and Son of India," has the feminine lead and the large supporting cast includes Roland Young, last seen in "The Guardaman," Frederick Kerr, Re- ginald Owen, Baryl Mercer, Evelyn Hall, Halliwell Hobbes, Jackie Searl, Norman Phillips, Jr., and Alan Mowbray.
The story concerns an idealistic Englishman, who runs away from home because his father objects to
CENTRAL THEATRE
357.20
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.80; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
EDGAR ALLAN POE'S WORLD FAMOUS CLASSIC OF HORROR
BECOMES THE SCREEN'S GREATEST SUPER SPECIAL SHOCKER
Prefering
BELA
LIGOSE SIDNEY FOX
Dar!
"From aperate came,” cried this maniacal man of science, . “most we ding out ancestors?" A-nakiem zealot seeking -
bride for the goalla....... a people aroused.........a city stamned... Never in your theatre-going have you seen anything like EDGAR ALLAN POE'S perten story daringly brought to the screen.
Proveted By Robert flares. Fronted by Carl La
MURDERS
IN THETM RUE MORGUE
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BY SPECIAL REQUEST-RE-SCREENING OF
GLORIA SWANSON IN TONIGHT OR NEVER
his ambition to become a play "MISLEADING LADY""MURDERS IN THE
wright. Impractical as he is adven. turous, he drifts about as a sailor, cowboy, hotel porter and what not, until he meets an admiral's daugh ter in South Afrion: Although her parents rush her back to England to hasten her marriage to a titled barrister, she run away on the eve of her wedding and marries the would-be playwright. Playwrights de not seem to be much in demand in London and the couple' go from bad to worse with dreams of suc- cess always around the corner Eventually the bride is driven back home, but her young husband, goaded by desperation, finally puts over a successful play.”
"THE SPY."
VIRILE DRAMA AT THE KING'S.
A trade nótico states:- Like the oily tongued villains of all good melodrama, John Halliday is apt at portraying the polished man-of-the-world. The chief differ ence between the stage variety and Halliday is that hip experiences and knowledge of the world have equipped him to play such a rôle without affection.
NEXT CHANGE AT THE KING'S.
A trade notice states: Although Claudette Colbert has been non-resident in France ever since her sixth birthday, she still enn speak the tongue of the country
RUE MORQUE
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MYSTERY AND THRILLS AT CENTRAL.
A trade notice states:-
As a writer of weird and grue.
of her nativity na fuently as she some mystery stories, Edgar Allan does English. It is because she Poc stands at the head of American in conversation with her mother. uses the Gallic almost exclusively
authors. His merbid" tales have Now there are a number of studio never been excelled, either in in forms like rushes," limp,"genuity of plet or in powerful de "Shota and "Stills," which do
not have exact French equivalents seription of horror..
As a result when Claudette mixes Born in Boston in 1809 Poe died these strange words in her home in Baltimore in 1849, but during French conversation while toiling
her mother about the studio work his short lifetime he produced many of the day, Madame Colbert regis stories which have become classics ters much of the bewilderment of of literature, Moody, sensitive and a young scholar attempting for the
first time to grasp & dificult sub aloof, his manner was exactly what ject...
one would expect from a man whose However, with her stellar dough-brain evolved plots of such weird ter for a tutur, Mother Colbert strangeness. received a diploma in studio alang, Perhaps Poo's most famous story a day or so after Claudette had is “Murders in the Hue Morque, completed work on The Mislead that horrifying tale of the most ing Lady," her now Paramount ghostly crimes in the history of picture which King's Theatre will | Paris, with a gigantic gorilla as headline to-morrow,
one of the 'leading, actors in the Now when mother calls daughter tragedy. This story has just been. I gained my polish in the to ask when she will be home for adapted for the screen by Univers- rolling stone manner," Halliday dinner and Claudette answers, " 11 al, and the seroon play presents oxplained, on the set in Movietout faut que je vais voir les rushes," Bela Lugosi, and Sidney Fox in the City where The Spy" was being Mrs. Colbert understands and the rules of what has been described as filmed under the direction of Bort-dinner is set back an hour.
the motion picture's most hair- hold Viertel. And like the stone
raising drama, Robert Florey, the polish was all I got,
himself a native, Parasian, directed the picture, and other important parts are enacted by Loon Waycoff, Brandon Hurat, Bert Roach, Betty Ross Clarke, D'Arcy Corrigan and others OMON
I made a fortune before I was twenty-one; B160,000 was my share
of a Goldfield, Nevada, claim dur- ing the first year of the gold rush. Money came easy, and I spent it
"DUDE RANCH.”:
the same way. Within three weeks FINE COMEDY AT ORIENTAL Local theatregoers will have an
after I. had sold out, the gamblers took me for everything I had,
After that, the bright lights of the stage attracted me and I took,
A trade notice states - Jack Oakie goes Western
opportunity to see Munders in: the Rue Morque" again. It is showing at the Central Theatre up- into to-morrow only.
Fallette, Mitzi Green, Cecil Wes- ton, Cisries Sellon and Start
a job which the late Nat Goodwin Dude Ranch," the tornado of cffered me out of kindness. I re-mirth now playing at the Oriental mained with the company for threc Theatre. In this picture he will be. yaara, travelled all over the East, seen for the first time in a real and Europe, and returned home cowboy "gol-up." A broke. But the polish! Ah! That's. But Jack isn't supposed to be the Erwin, how I became the polished man-of- Richard Arlen type of horseman of Frank Tuttle, who directed "No the world!" Begoll the real Western pictures, He is Limit and It Pays to Adver Holliday portrays the title role supposed to be a member of a tie, bossed Dude Ranch. "He in "The Spy, showing to day at travelling troupe who are stranded was picked as one of the most im the King's Theatre, a characteriza- near a "dudo rach" in the Rockies portant ten directors in Hollywood, tion that gives him every oppor- and who pose to read red-blooded by Variety, leading magazine tunity to exercise the cruelties and Western types to give the tender for the show trade, deep intrigue he ao loves in his foot ranch guests a thrill: The romantic interest in capably The comedy effects from this furnished by Juno Collyer, New dramatic res
Kay Johnson and Neil Hamilton situation are boundless and Oakie York social registerite who farn) are featured in the tempestunus gets laugh values out of all of | cu cinmatic a few years ago and romance woven into the plot of this them. He is supported by such who made the words charmand sensational drama of the Newable purveyors of fun as Eugenie béanty mean something in the Russia
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