12
QUEENS TEATRE
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
At 2:30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
Try His
New Love Technique!
ROBERT
Montgomery
gives you
a new thrill in his 'most fascinating tim
-But the Flesh Is Weak
with
PICTURE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1932.
MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE
Pictures In Hong Kong
"BUT THE FLESH IS" MAN OF MAYFAIR
AT THE KING'S.
WEAK."
EXCELLENT PICTURE AT
QUEEN'S.
Robert Montgomery and a hilari- Lous cast in an English comedy | romance is the abtraction at the Queen's Theatre, where, his latest! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "But the Flesh is Weak" is ming ling laughs and heart throbs for delighted audiences.
a
JACK BUCHANAN AND JOAN BARRY.
to
CHARMING PEER-AND- ACTRESS ROMANCE.
"Man of Mayfais" showing at the King's Theatre is an unusually, It is a real relief. pleasant film.
escape for once from tensa dramatics and all the rest of screen paraphernalia, to a very old and ever-popular theme, a peer wosing a dancing girl.
and when
The now picture is a filmization of Ivor Novello's famous stage hit,
The Truth Game," first a sensa tion in London and later, in New York, a bit with Billie Burke.
Man of May- Montgomery plays the clever but laughabls Max, impoverished young fair" is a story about pleasant aristocrat who resolves to marry people. William, Lord Kingaland, rich girl. He finds a prospect in has a reputation na a 'Don Juan,
wealthy noblewoman, works all
he persuades Grace his engaging charms, wins the Irving, the lovely young actress, girl's love-then falls in love with about whose private life nothing is ther best friend who hasn't a cont.known, to come and have supper in Torn between love and need of his flat, one gats a little apprehen- sive. But William is a gentleman, and when Grace appears from his bed-room changed into her work-a- day tailor-made he admits he is disappointed, at accepts the situa tion and drives her home. Grace's mother is a tee old woman, who keeps a lea-gardien, and our little Cinderella is a waitress by day and the rage of London by night; the mother having strong idens about Thrills of the Ascot races, Lon-proper station in life." don gambling casinos and famous When Jack Buchanan, the Man haunts of British society, all figure from Mayfair, becomea plain "Mr. as interesting backgrounds for the Hunter," and us such woes Joan smart story of love, money and, Barry, this olusive Cinderella, in their onsequent difficulties,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money-plus a sense of duty to the rich girl who can afford him as an ornamental sort of luxury, he finds himself in a side-splitting maze of mien troubles and complications, His wooing of the girl he loved is one of the funniest sequeness ever reened-and between the moments af uproarious clowning are many dramatic little touches and vivid bits of real romance.
Nora Gregor
Heather Thatcher 'Edward Everett Horton Nil Asther
Directed by Jack Conway.
FROM THURSDAY
HOLD YOUR BREATH!
THE GREATEST THRILL or 1932 is COMING!
MORE THRILLS than "TRADER HORN."
TARZAN
THE APE MAN
Directed by
W. 8. VAN with Johnny DYKE Weissmuller,
Neli ton.
Maureen O'Sullivan.
STAR
"TARZAN."
REMARKABLE FILM FOR
QUEEN'S.
rustic scenes, there is a really * delightful idyll. There are com. plications in plenty, which provde opportunity for the exquisite act- ng of Lillian Braithwaite, and Ellaline Terriss as the aristocrat and the cottage woman, who have this in common, the tragedy of a son in prison. There is an admir able stage valet, and Nora Swin- burne has a gond part as the society) woman in love with William. It is not for a moment suggested that Some the film is unsophisticated. of the theatre scenes are quite in the nineteen-thirties and so is the dialogue,
A trade notice states:- No little of the interest in "Tarzan," the Ape Man," film version of the widely-read Edgar Nice Burroughs adventure story,
Before the featured picture there opening on Thursday at the Queen's Theatre, lies in its unusual aggre is a very good cartoon,, and the news real contain an excellent gation of wild animals.
Among the many rare African picture of American dreadnoughts specimens to be seen in this picture at battle practice in an Atlantic are the brindle gnu, the axix deer, gale.
the James buck, the sable antelope, spotted hyenas, zebras, haloons, gorillas, hundreds of monkeys, ele- j plants, hippopotami and a dozen man-eating lions and leopards. Some of the most unusual animu!! thrills ever photographed were obs tained, including a terrific charge of elephants through a pygmy vil lage, destroying everything in their path.
"CAUGHT.”
R.R.
LOUISE DRESSER AT ORIENTAL.
A trade notide staten :--
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
Jack BUCHANAN
in
MAN of
39
MAYFAIR
with Joan Barry Warwick Ward
With Jack Buchanan as a fascinating Prince Charming, with adorable Joan Barry as a modern Cinderella. It's laughable, lovable, and entertaining all through!
*
A Paramount
BRITISH PRODUCTION
-NEXT CHANGE
THE STRANGE CASE OF CLARA DEANE
She gives of her heart, har joy, her happiness-te a girl who ter knowI, Soo, sympathise- laugh and cry!
with
WYNNE GIBSON PAT O'BRIEN -FRANCES DEE
*****i Paramoun
ORIENTAL
THEATRE,
SHOWING TO-DAY
Johnny Weissmuller, world's A powerful and relentless wo At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. champion swimmer, was given the man, stalking out hidden pages in title role of Tarzan because of his the history of the Wild West, remarkable physique. The cast in- comes to the soreen as "Calamity."
ludes Neil Hamilton, Maureen dance-hall owner, in Paramount's O'Sullivan, C. Aubroy Smith, Doris Lloyd, Forrester Harvey and Picture, "Caught," starring Rich- Ivory Williams, The production was directed by W.8. Van Dyke of "Trader Horn" fame.
THE STRANGE CASE
OF CLARA DEANE."
HOW THE LEADING LADY LEARNT HER JOB.
A trade notice states:-- The adage that there is a silver ining in every cloud is strikingly: demonstrated in the case of Wynne
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Gibson, who plays the most drama:
ard Arlen with Louise Dresser and Frances Dee featured.
Reader of western stories have been accustomed to find an unbrok- en diet of bad-man, 'sheriff's, cattle rustlers and gamblers, with women entering into the picture as the hardy and virtacus pioneers or the light and wicked dance-hall ladies. **Calamity," played by Louiss Dresser, holds equal rank with the men of the motley crew of the frontier, by command of the code that was enforced by nerve and. bullets. She was ready, with a gun,
fast on border repartee and "Ind] graduated in all, the lawlessness that ran abend of advancing civí- lization.
Cold and hard and calculating, Calamity rules a
gang of cattle
rustlers who made her dance hall, tic role of ner career. in Para the Bird Cage," their rendezvous. mount's "The Strange Case of Running through her character, At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. Clara Deano," which will be shown like the thread of motif in an
Norma
Shearer
in
THEIR OWN
DESIRE
ROBERT
opora, lies sternly-suppressed
at the King's Theatre,
She began her theatrical life in woman's sentiment. succession of flop" shows, and With these ingredients the plot. became a close friend of the sheriff | of " Caught" weaves itself into r0- who was sent to close them. In manes under Calamity's eyes, when fact, she opened and closed in so Arlen, as a cavalry officer, falls in many shows in Boston without ever love with a spurious dance "hall reaching New York that she used girl, Frances Dee. to cegard herself as a "stranded citizen of that towns.
Although the long series of un-
successful plays did not bring her
work to the attention of the public sho had rufes which gave her invalu
with RICHARD
ARLEN LOUISE 'DRESSER
It comes to the Oriental Then; tre to-day.
FRANCES ...DEE
art for Paramount in New York.
able training. Her parts changed in Nothing But the Truth," and
following several seasons of both
Paramount
All-Thrill -Talkie of Days in the Lawless West Ploture.
NEXT CHANGE. so frequently that she gained, in' a
THURSDAY, 22nd SEPT... short period of time, the same stage and screen work, came to experience ordinarily obtained morphe Gang JACK OAKIE
Hollywood. Her performance as a through years in 'stock
Despite the fact that misfortune her a Paramount contract.
Buster" with Jack Oakie, brought dogged many of the stage shows in which sho appoiied, Dame Fortune Deane Miss Gibson portrays three, Paramount Picture
In The Strange Case of Clara “JUNE MOON" amailed on Mies Gibson's screen different periods in a woman's life. career. ted at foot of next cott Featured with her are Pat O'Brien, BOOKING TIL 28473 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Picture (Continued at foot of next column.) | Frances Des and Dudley Digges
MONTGOMERY
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Central.
Nico Womea,”
Queen's.
But the Flesh is Wenk."
King's.
Man of Mayfair."
Oriental.
"Caught;"
Star.
KOWLOON.
Their own, Desire" COMING.
Central.
"Fast Companions."
Queen's.
Stog
Star.
"Tarzan the Apeman."
The Strange Case of Clara
Denne.*
"Devil's Lottery."
"Sinners in the Sun."
"Skin Deep."
"W. Plan,"
Oriental.
"June Moon.”
"NICE WOMEN," "AT THE CENTRAL.
"AN ILLUMINATING LESSON
IN LOVE."
A trade notice states:- To-morrow will be the final showings of Nice Women," the Newest Universal special comedy- drama which has been attracting unusual attention at the Central Theatre within these two days.
This interesting picture deals with a tangled love affair involv ing two bachelors, one rich and one poor, and three girls, all poor. One of them is a past master in affairs of the heart. This role is) played by fascinating little Sidney Fox, and her supporting company includes such well-known acreen favorites as Frances Dee, Alan Mowbray, Russell Gleason, Care! Myers and Lucille Webster Gleason,
"Nice Women," it is said, con- stitutes an illuminating lesson in love, and gives valuable pointers to members of both sexes. It does not turn out at all as you think it will, but as a picture you will be immensely pleased with it.
"Nice Women" is founded on the famous Broadway play of the same name by William A. Grew. It played, at the Foulton Theatre and has been a favourite with stock au diences ever since.
BANDIT HUNT IN LONDON.
1,000 POLICE TAKE PART IN STREET SEARCH.
CENTRAL THEATRE
25720
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.0; 6.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
THE LATEST UNIVERSAL SPECIAL COMEDY-DRAMA. A TRIPLE ROMANCE LEADING TO A OLIMAX THAT WILL MAKE YOU GASP WITH SURPRISE,
SIDNEY
FOX
NICE WOMEN
WITH ADDED ATTRACTIONS SLIM SUMMERVILLE NEWEST COMEDY & LATEST UNIVERSAL-SOUND NEWS.
SHOWING SOON
A THRILLING & STIRRING STORY OF. "CALIENTE" DAYS
MAURREEN O'SULLIVAN & TOM RON
IN
FAST COMPANIONS
"YOU'RE THRILLED EVERY. MÖMENT," SAYS' JUNE PHOTO: PLAY, ". " PACKED WITH EXCITEMENT & FUN!".
GOSSIP
&
FACT.
*
New ReleasON,
Owing to negotiations which are being made between the Alhambra and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the release of Grand Hotel" there is some uncertainty as to the releases
"Sheer Nonsense."
Miss Genevieve Tobin Cheva tior's Next "*
London, August 31-One thou sand police officers for three hours sarly this morning participated in the biggest mass bandits hunt Lon-to be made at the Alhambra this agog over the rumoured romane of don has ever seen.
month. "The Woman in Roon. 13," a Fox picture with Elissa Landi in the starring role up. ported by Ralph Bellamy, Myrna Loy, Neil Hamilton and Gilbert Roland, will follow Tarzan, the Ape Man," and Fox will also re lease, Man About Town, a new Warner Baxter picture.
Mr. Hale and His Wife.
That is how some of the American newspapers have put it, and film enthusiasts across the Atlantic ara.
the young U.8. lm actress.
But Misa Tobin is nobody a "next" ONE
A soft peal of laughter "was the":
first answer a reporter got what he mentiered the idea to Misa Tobin at her hotel in London.
Just faney that," she laughing- ly replied. Then, more decisively, Sheer nonsense and any other words like that you can think of." Claudette Colbert's New Hole,
The Commissioner of Police, Lord Trenchard participated in the operations which involved stopping practically every motor-car in the Streets of the Metropolis, guarding bridges and throwing cordons across all the main roads. The operations constituted this initiation of Scot- land Yord's new policy of dealing
The first joint production, "Hap- with the growing menace of bandits completion. For this picture, Mr. py Ever After," a now nearing
and car thieves.
Jack Hulbert, Miss Cicely Court- Nothing escaped the police and neidge, Mr. Edward Chapman, Claudette Colbert has been elect--
and Mr. Sonnie Hale were sent to ed the leading lady in George M luxury cars and Royal Mail vans Berlin. Mr. Hele had to leave Cohan's The Phantom President, aliko were stopped and searched, London at short notice, and as his which is rounding into shape ak the driver's licences examined and wife, Miss Jessie Matthewa, was Paramount. The cast for this satra under contract to play in "There on American politics now includes the drivers made to give their exact Goes the Bride," she was unable to Jimmy Darante, George Barbier, destination. The police on aerial accompany him. It was arranged, Louise Mackintosh, Sidney Tolor roads kept in wireless communica- however, for her to pay a short visit Jameson Thomas' and Julius Me Gion with. Bootland Yard.
Groups of constables over noarch to Berlin by air, and she and Mr Vicker Norman Taurog is the ed tube stations for any suspicious Hale dreamt of their return to the director characters who might be attempting Old House at Hampton when
"Happy Ever After" and "There Mr. Anthony Asquith's New Film, Goes the Bride were completed.
The first film to be directed, by MARTA ME Anthony Asquith for the Happiness Interrupted.
Gau- mont-British Film Corporation will
to escape underground. Fast police cars were used in a chase to round. up any cars which refused to halt.
areas, were alive with the flashes One of the most important talk-bo A Kingdom for Five and Six.” of powerful electric torches which ing picture enterprises of to-day is It has been specially written for the officers used to war motorists the association between the Gau- the screen by Herr Franz Schultz, Following the conclusion of the of London and Ufa of Berlin. As Mr. Asquith his during the last to pull up.
| mont British Picture Corporation the German dramatist.
starch, a conference was held in result of this association a sum few years produced "Under- Scotland Yard to investigate the re-ber of talking pictures are being ground, A Cottage on Dart sulte.. It is anticipated that further | produced in Gorman, French, and | moor,” and “Tell England," a film similar operations will be carried |English at the Neubabelsberg sta→ based upon Mr. Ernest Raymond's out with a view of discovering the dios, and the domestic happiness novel. The interior work, in can");} most effective way of dosing Lon of some of our most popular stars nection with his new film will bow don at the shortest notkerfis is being interrupted,
done at the Islington studios. Jos
The streets in less brightly lighted Homestay M
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