1932-09-16 — Page 12

OFFEN THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

It rings true because it IS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932.

MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE

Pictures In Hong Kong

true!

46

MIGHT

with

this Star Cast?

COURT

Phillipe HOLMES

Walter BUSTON

Anita PAGE Lowla STONE

ALSO

The FINAL SERIES

of the M-G-M Flit Volce-Guessing Contest

NEXT ATTRACTION

Try His

How Love

Technique

·Meiro

Montgomery

gives you

'' new thrill la his most fascinating alm

BIOTURN

-BUT the FLESH IS WEAK

with

Nora Gregor Heather Thatcher Edward Everett Horton

Nils Asther

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NIGHT COURT," 'CARELESS LADY."

TENSE DRAMA AT QUEEN'S.

A trade notice states:--

CURRENT FEATURE AT KING'S.

Justice, to be properly adminis. A trade notice states:----

rred, must be as certain that the

Dyke,

"Careless Lady," a new

Fox

nocent are protected as it is re-comedy, opens this afternoon at the lentless in convicting, the guiky

This is the view of W.S. Van King's Theatre. It has nothing of well-known director and the slapstick about it, but is said student of eriminology, who screen to maintain a steady flow of laughs. "Night Court," new taikis through clever situations and bril-| drama now at the Queen's Theatre,

fed

which depicts the daring theme of liant dialogue, Jonu Bennett and political corruption in a court of John Holes hend a notablo cast, law. The picture is said to have

The story deals with the plight of | been based upon allegations direct-1

ed by investigating bodies against Sally Brown, a small-town girl who irregularities in the administration craves adoration instord of patron- of magistrate's courts.

age from the local boys Outerss "The story is entirely fictitious.

facts." th laying no claim to

ed by her cousin who returns from irector painted out. However. Paris with stunning gowns and an from the reports of various inquisi. intriguing reputation, Sally decide. torial groups, we learn that cases of purposely misdirected justice do to acquire a knowledge of the world and sets forth to conquer. In New exist.

A short time ago a police offi York she visits a speakeasy, is ar cer, pardoned from a penitentiary for a major crime, came out with, rested in u raid, and through the the statement that he was convine neeident of being mistaken for the ed that at least ten per cent of the wife of a well-known inan, is dis- felons in that particular prison,

were not guilty of the crime for missed in court. which they were convicted and

This accident gives ber the idea should not have been arrested in of going abroad as a Mrs. instead the first place. Again, a former

district attorney, freed from the of us a Miss because of the greater same penitentiary, voiced similar advantages in having a matrimonial belief. Instances of convicts bring status; So Saily takes the name of pardoned when the crimes traced

to them were confessed and proved

Mr. Stephen Illington" and de

are frequent enough to be noticed. parts for the Rue de la Paix, where On the other hand, flagranti ber money makes her a sensation. ases of the freeing of known cri-!

minals of charges of which they Unfortunately, however, Mr. Iling are generally known to be guilty, ton also makes a visit to Paris and are reported in the press from time is intrigued to find he has a "wife." to time. There is an element of

fixing done for political reasons Sally is dismayed, and when her or other considerations. That is a new "husband" rescues her from matter of common knowledge, alan adventurer, she floor hastily back though its netivity has been cur-

tailed to a very large measure by home for peace and quiet, only to recent exposures, I am sure. find that her marriage" has been

reported.

"We do not offer our picture in any sense as an expose. It has no

Desperately inventing a quarrel particular locale. Tho characters are drawn from imagination. If and a suparation to account for the is intended only as entertainment, bridegroom's absence, Sally is fur ther amazed to find that he has fol-

a human drama that might haplowed hor-under an alias, The

ben."

BUT THE FLESH IS

WEAK."

LONDON ROMANCE FOR: QUEEN'S.

complications that ensue lead to a swift climax.

"CAUGHT CHEATING"

HILARITY AND THRILLS AT CENTRAL.

A trade notice states:- For an hour's laughter scrambled with some good thrills and wrapped up in a real plot, we heartily re

unmend Caught Cheating" the Tiffany production in which Charlie Marray and George Sidney and an excellent cast are to be seen at the Central Theatre until tomorrow.

A trade notice states:-

It doesn't make any difference whether the character is a hero or a homewrecker, a coward or a thief -so long as it's interesting.".

This is Robert Montgomery's ans sers to the question of what role, he prefers to play. Montgomery is willing to play anything-if the ac.

Sidney is erroneously believed tor can get some meat out of the role. And this accounts for his as. by a king of the underworld to be tounding series of characters, all the anan he has caught his life He defes the the way from the stool pigeon cheating with.

The Big House" to the de- police to keep him from putting unair hero in "But the Flesh Is Sidney on the spot within 24 Sidney is all aquiver and Weak," his newest Metro-Goldwyn hours. Mayer starring picture coming to shies at every shadow until Murray comes along and promises to give the Queen's Theatre on Sunday,

"This fellow is un engaging him his million dollar's worth of enough character," Montgomery business if Sidney will show him saki, discussing the part. He's all the wild rights of the big town been raised to consider the world in other words, accompany him to He the Artists' Masked Ball with a his oyster--if he can open it. starts out to make money the easiest couple of beautiful janca. way-and there's a lot in his char- Now Sidney is positive he is go- acter that one doesn't admire. But ing to die of a gangster's bullet, when the real test comes he ads but his wife Lena has been making he can't lie to tho.

who's a great scene because he has let been loyal to him and I guess that his insurance Impre and his busi- TO-DAY & TO-MORROW makes him a pretty good guy after ness is bankrupt and she will be a penniless widow. Bo Bidney puts I've always liked charactera best on a hrave front and gore, with

Directed by

Jack Conway

(STAR)

all.

woman

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. that make you wonder what they'd Marry for the sake of the con-

new

Adventures

et Rich Quick

Wallingford

AM-G-M picture

with

WILLIAM HAINES

•LEILA HYAMS

do ext-characters that keep your interest alive. If the hero' is per feet you know his exact reaction

to every situation; he can do no

tract.

This gangster has an onemy in rival gangster, who calls on. Sidney and says he is his friend.

wrong, but seldom is ho really in He even gives him a gilt of a case tereating. But character with faults or roal humanity might do of Scotch and two gunmen for a anything at any time, and it is bodyguard. In his innocence Bid-

only in a crisis that it can really ney does not realize that this gangster is using him as a bait to

be discovered if he is basically i

hero or a villain. In "But the get the first gangster. Flesh Is Weak" there is just such

What a situation this makes at crisis. The hero goes along in a the masked ball! Gangster No. 1 very unhoroic manner until the big and his men are there masked na test comes, then we can discover, in policemen. Sidney's wile is there the climax, whether, he is really all as Juliet," keeping a tearful eye that he should ha

on her husband who has suddenly The new picture is a smart, ro become po- changed to her. And mantic comedy of London life bas. the gangster's cheating wife in rd on the English stage success, there also as none other thin thie The Truth Dame," with Montplavate for the evening of Bidney gomary asin fortune hunter who and Murray. The laigh and thrille tries to marry for money until he come fast and furious! falls in love with a poor girl and W. Scott Darling is wuthor of the Ands that money isn't everything story which was ably directed by Martin, There are trials and tribulations | Frank Strayer. Nil galore, all in comedy win. The Dorothy Christy. Robert Ellis. original stage play was a Tension | Bertha Mann. Fred Malatesta and and New York sensation.

George Regas are excellent cast,

LAST TWO DAYS

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

Careless Lady

JOAN COME

BENNETT

JOHN

BOLES

MINNA GOMMIEL WILDON HITRIÓRN

FOX PICTURE

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Jack

Paramount British Production

BUCHANAN of,,

MAN MAYFAIR

with Joan Barry Warwick Ward

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST TWO DAYS

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

HEARI

SOUND

WINGS

ILARA

ROGERS ARLER - SUNITY

-NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 15th SEPT.

"CAUGHT"

A Paramount Picturs.

RICHARD ARLEN LOUISE: DRESSER

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

Central.

"Caught Choating."

Que'

"Night Court,"

King's.

Caroloss Lady."

Oriental.

"Wings."

KOWLOON.

CENTRAL THEATRE

"Get Rich Quick Wallingford"

COMING.

"Nice Women,"

"But the Flosh is Weak,"

TELA

SHOWING

25720

TO-DAY

at 230; 5:15; 7,15 & 9.30 p.m.

THE YEAR'S NEWEST & GREATEST LAUGH PICTURE ITS EVERY TYPE OF PICTURE ROLLED INTO ONE. IT 18 FARCE OF THE BROADEST TYPE. IT HAS GRIPPING INTRIGUE & THRILLING MYSTERY. IT 18 DELIGHTFULLY NAUGHTY AND RISKY. IT HAS A BANG-UP GANG WAR, AND IT HAS

PLENTY OF "IT".

ster.

Central,

Queen's.

"Tarzan the Apeman,"

King's.

"Sinners in the Sun."

Star.

"Skin Deep."

Man of Mayfair."

Their own Desire"

"W. Plan."

Oriental.

"Caught." "Juno Moon."

"WINGS."

AIR SPECTACLE AT ORIENTAL.

A trade notice states :-

rel

Someone said it couldn't ba done." Mr. Someone Elsa disagro- The result was "Wings," Paramount's great spectacle of th air, which is showing at the Oriental Theatre to-day.

5 ל4

Presents-

TIFFANY CAUGHT CHEATING

Charlie

George

MURRAY and SIDNEY

The Laughing Truth about 'two chaps who did some high, wide and fancy stepping with two beautiful chisters

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"THE BIG MUSICAL REVUE"

But is wasn't easy. It was a now WITH field, and here are a few of the things Mr. Someone Else had to go through in order to win his point: The first essential was a story. 1 came from the. pon of John Monk Sauadors, one of the better-known authors of the day and an instruc- tor of aviation during the war.

Secondly, the problem. of over coming the slowness so typical of sir productions of the past.

Then wecks of preparation, the selection, of localities and the con- sideration of candidates for the cast. Nearly 500 pilots were inter viewed.

Thirty of the younger lending men in Hollywood took tests.

MODERNIST ART "RUBBISH."

PERVERTED TASTE AND BAD TEACHING.

SIR CHARLES ALLOM'S' STRUCTURES.

Sir Charles Allom, president of the Faculty of Architects and Sur- veyors, had some caustic things to say about modernism in art when addressing the conference of the Institute of British Decorators at the Painters' Hall, E.C. London,; last month.

"Doubtless in nature everything. is too slow for the modernist, even lips are too anemic," he said.

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TWO REELS OF CHILD ACROBATS, SONGS, DANCES & MUSIC ALL ACTED BY CHILDREN FROM 2 TO 14 YEARS OLD.

ALSO

"SPANISH RYTAMS" by FELIX FERDINANDO

NEXT CHANGE

SIDNEY FOX'S LATEST SCREEN TRIUMPH

NICE WOMEN

NEW BRITISH FILMS

AN EXPERIMENT IN PRODUCTION.

Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, one of the, his original part. most successful of English film

Arms and the Man. producers, who was recently op-

Six other Elstree productions

He referred to "this new school pointed by the British Interns now completed and shortly, to be

of painting, & prevalent on the tional Pictures, Limited, to super.

to mo

Lane.

Isabel Jeans,

"Thes

vise all their productions at the shown in London are "Arus and walls of Royal Academy," and said that, "with its crude untruth- Elstree studios, has arranged for the Man," the first full-length play fulness, it must be the product of Mr. Bean W. Lavy, the playwright. of Mr. Bernard Shaw's to be film. bad teaching and preverted taste.

to direct the making of a new film ed; Timbuctoo," produced in West Many of the pictures are little above the work of schoolboys entitled "The Case of Lady Cam Africa by Mr. Walter Sumars;

Old Spanish Customs,"" and girls, yet we find paintera of bor," in which Sir Gerald du

Fires of Fate, based upon a story! the highest ability excluded from

Maurier, Miss Gertrude Lawrence, its walls.

by Conan Doyle, and produced in Originally in art has in recent Miss Benita Hume, and Mr. Nige? Egypt under the direction of Mr. years been its curso. Statues of

Bruce will have the chief parts. Norman Walter: "Josser Joins the the type of 'Genesis' are certainly The dialogue has been written for Army," with Mr Ernie Lotings in original, but to my mind, a siander

the screen by Mr. Gilbert Wake the fitle role; and "The Maid of upon nature, and a proof of the inaccuracy of the reasoning of the field, the author of "The Marriage the Mountains," a screen version of of Inconvenience," Mr. Levy has Mr. Frederick Lonsdale's musical sculptor, though I am glad to be

comedy, directed by Mr. Lupino aware of his real capacity, for he never directed a film before. bas done masterful work when de-

Sleepless Nights. picting nature as she is, and not trying unsuccesfully to show cien Before the production of this Miss Isabel, Jeans, who has not Gim the Elstree floor will be occupi- been seen on the screen since the tion what she ought to do.

Living nature is no easy modeled by Bleepless Nights," a introduction of the talking film, for an artist, and modernism has musical film based upon an origm will play the part of Mrs. Durla sought to convey the difficulties by al story by Mr. Stanley Lupino, ther in the screen version of Mr fooling itself and some of theo will himself play the leading Temple Thurston's novel "Sally part, supported by Miss Polly Bishop," which is to be directed would-be critick."

Nature, however, would ultimate. Walker, Mr. Jack Melford, and for the British Lion Film Chr- ly prevail in all art and bring back Mr. Frederick Lloyd. It will brporation by Mr. T. Hayes Hunter,

directed by Mr. Thomas Bentley, Miss Jeans, who was last seen. Un- taste and the love of beauty.

It will be time to despair," he and will include & number of new the London stage in Counsel's concluded "only when men prove songs by Mr. Noel Gay, Three Opinion, appeared in a number of o necessity of their work by zeek-other subjects to be filmed this successful silent pictures, including ing for wives modelled on the dis- month are Leave it to Pamith, The Triumph of the Rat. The torted lines of some of their paint. film version of Mr. P. G. Wode Further Adventures of the Flag inge or sculptures--when perhaps a house's story, with Mr. Genie Cler Lieutenant," and Downhill." At Rima is depicted in the papers as rard in the cast; "Magento Street, the Walton-on-Tharges studios the a beautiful bride. But I prophesy in which Mr. Julian Bose, the floor is occupied by Raffles in Jewish comedian, will be able to which the principal roles are being that such a day will never come."

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He was not afraid that men of exploit bis humour; and for the played by Mr. George Barraud ande wealth and taste would abandon Love of Mike," a screen version of Miss Camila Horn, a German their preference for the old master Mr. H. F. Maltby's play, which actress, who some time ago appear painters in favour of the general will be produced by Mr. Monty od with Mr. John Barrymore in rubbish produced by the modernists. Banks, with Mr. Bobby Howes In The Tempest,