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QUEEN TEATES
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
A BRITÍSIRCÓMEDY
That Drives Away Doprassion--
"SPLINTERS IN THE NAVY"
with SYDNEY HOWARD
NEXT CHANGE –
SOMETHING NEW
IN ENTERTAINMENT
AN ALL STAR
VARLETY PROGRAMME
NEWS
| MÚSIC
SPORTS
and.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932.
MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE
Pictures In Hong Kong
́SPLINTERS IN THE NAVY."
BRITISH FILM AT THE QUEEN'S:
A trade notion states:-
A visitor who had been invifed
"SINNERS IN THE SUN."
TO-DAY AT THE KING'S
A trade notice states:-
When Chester Morris faced the cameras for his opening genes in
to the Twickenham studios to see! Paramount's
"Sinners in the
scenes from "Splinters in the Sun" in which he is co-featured Navy" being taken, was standing, with Carole Lombard, le recogniz-
on the set, and entered into con versation with an attractive girl who happened tų be standing near, He saw some jew yards away an other very pretty woman, smartly dressed and enviously just about to take part in a нeene,
el a familiar free that brought back memories of his first day on n Hollywood picture set!
The chief cameraman was Ray June who photographed Morris' 'first picture, Alibi," and on that day three years ago, the actor's face was so sun-burned that June had to keep reminding him to "powder the polish off his nose."
"Pictures nad set-lighting were my husband, I'll introduce you." all new to me, and after a fow Imagine his embarrassinent., The hours I could have cheerfully boil- luvely lady, however, turned put to¦ed June in oil," Morris recalled. be none other than leg Stone, the
Can you tell me who that lady is over there 1' he asked his fellow visitor, who promptly beckoned to the other girl, and said, "That's
!·
"Singers in the Sun," now show.
famous "Splinters" female iming at the King's Theatre, is personator.
MIDNIGHT
DADDIES"
MACK SENNETT COMEDY AT CENTRAL
A trade notics states:- Nearly a century of comedy- making experience is embodied in Mack Sennett's new and first all- talking comody, "Midnight Dad- dies," which will be at the Central: Theatre, starting to-day.
Cameraman June's Art work on the Paramount lot. He has been a cameraman for seventeen years, 'éleven of them in Hollywood, starting in pictures in the days of the Pearl White serials.
***MERRILY WE GO
TO HELL'
NEXT PICTURE AT KING'S
A trade notice states:- Fredrie March and Sylvia Sidney. are playing opposite each other for Yot" Merrily the second time.
Mack Sennett, the director, has been making comedies on stage and We Go to Hell" is the first film Hein which they have played together. sereen over twenty-five years. is the oldest and most famous maker This picture is coming on Satur. of fun-films and is responsible for day to the King's Theatre. Their experience nt make- the success of such stellar comedy previous figures as Charlie Chaplin, Chester believe lave-making took place in At Conklin, Roscce Arbuckle, Mahle Denver several seasons ago.
was moving Normand, Al St. John, Buster that time, March
across the country from stock com. Keaton and many others,
The feature leads in the picture,pany to stock company and Miss Harry Gribbon and Andy Clyde, Sidney, discouraged by Broadway have been in comedy practically all conditions, signed with the same their lives. Gribbon started on the troupe. March was the leading stage twenty years ago, and has man and Miss Sidney the ingenue LAUREL and HARDYen in pictures for the last dozen for a season.
years. Clyde, too, has nearly a dozen years on the screen in addi- tion to a similar number on the comedy stage. Vernon Dent, play. ing a chief supporting role, has been making people laugh for nearly a score of years, while the experience in laugh-making films of the balance of the cast, including Addie McPhail, Rosemary Theby, Ana Bennett, Jack Cooper, Irving Bacon and others, brings the total number very close to the century mark.
in
"Chicken Come Home"
and
CHARLIE CHASE
in
"One of the Smiths"
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Specialty' Programme.
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9-20 p.m.
COCK OF THE AIR
COMING TO THE CENTRAL
March then went to Los Angeles where he played in "The Royal Family" and won
3. soreen con:
tract. Miss Sidney returned to New Work and, after several shows, scored a guccess in "Bad Girl" which likewise brought her
Paramount contract.
A HOUSE DIVIDED
A trade notice states:→
SHOWING TO-DAY
TODAY AT THE CINEMA.
HONG KONG.
Queen's.
Splinters in the Navy.
„King'
***Sinners in the Sun.” Gentral.
+
"Mid-night Daddies."
Oriental.
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m..
Light as
foam! Hard as icel
She is so light... so flexible...so re sistant! Flesh and dream! But can HB soften her heart for Love? That's where she's hard.. HARD
ICBI
SUN
SINNERS TRES
-NEXT
CAROLE
LOMBARD
CHESTER
MORRIS
ADRIENNE AMES ALISON SKIPWORIN
a Quamount Fiction
CHANGE
Two Lovable Stars!
Sylvia SIDNEY Fredric MARCH
Attaining emotional
grandeur
Ta bitter- sweet love. taleof1992/
Merrily
We Go to Hell
a Goramount Picture Directed by Dorothy Aruner ADRIANNE ALLEN
ORIENTAL
6 THEATRES?
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.
PICTURE
There is more action in "A UNIVERSAL House Divided." the Cniversal drama now showing at the Oriental Theatre. A House Divided " 'ia not an ordinary picture in any зерве. It is one which is filled with tense drams, with a high quality of setiap contributed by a A trade notico states:-
superlative cast and an engrossing Several hundred letters have been received by Roland Wast, story which sheas new light on the United Artists producer, who has age-old problem of the eternal. Chester Morris under contract triangle." A cost dramatic situa urging him to cast the young man tion develops when a young man in Tha Bheit"
"Ths Sheik ! was the late falls in love with his father's new Rudolph Valentino's greatest suc
mail order bridu, and the father. cess. It made him the idol of mil lious the world over and started discovers the condition which exists. the new era of dashing romance in the film industry..
The three leading players in this fast-moving screen story are Walter Chester Morris, former Broadway stagn, star, has many of the attri Huston, and n deliver perform
*He butes of the late Valentina
which ances
ure exceptional for beonme
overnight ·sonantion
their
strength and realism Not Alibi," his three years ago in vory frat picture, and since then picture of the current season has
an
his popularity has soared by leaps presented a trio-whose work is
and bounds as the result of his more uniformly excellent. Others" appearances in The Big House," who do good work are Viviau Oak- CHARLES KING & BESSIE LOVE | "The Divorcee." "The Case of land, Frank Hagney and Lloyd
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
CHASING RAINBOWS
Sergt. Grischa,' "The Bat--Whis pers," "Comair"
other winners.''
and several
Ingraham, 102 40
The locale of A House. Divided"! is full of colourful intoresc, with Big-Istest picture reveals him the scenes laid in a fishing village one of the best romantic comedians on the North-western coast of the in pictures. It is "Cock of the United States. Many of the inci Air," which comes to the Central dental characters are the rough, Theatre very soon and in which elemental men of the wild timber. Billie Dove is his leading woman country.
Star.
"A House Divided."..
King's.
KOWLOON.
Chasing Rainbows."
COMING.
Merrily We go to Hell"
| Quasnts,,
Central.
Variety Progratunu“,
Cock of the Air,' Fast Companions. "Night Work,"
Oriental.
Over the Hill." "June Meun."
BOLSHEVIST FILMS
FIVE THRILLERS" RELEASED
Moscow, Sept. 23,--To celebrate
CENTRAL THEATRE
€25720
TO-DAY, at 230; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
MACK
THE FUNNIEST COMEDY EVER BEEN SQREENED. BENNETTS BATHING BEAUTIES IN A MUSICAL FASHION REVUE FULL OF JOKES & FUN
MIDNIGHT DADDIES
MACK SENNETT'S BEST TALKING FEATURE
the 15th annivorary of the Bol shevik Revolution on November 7, the Moscow studios of the "B80-
yuskino" are releasing shortly five new balking pictures.
The first film of this serica "The Communist Youth" Organisation, as Leader in Electrifications, which is being directed by a woman, Mrs. Esther Shub, has just been com- pleted. The second film depicte the conquest of Trans-Caucasia by the Soviet; the third film is de dicated to international proletarian solidarity; the fourth shows the training of industrial workers which came from the various coun try districts into the cities; and the fifth, entitled The Return of Nathan Beekor" tells about the re turn of a Jewish inbourer from
COMEDY
Mack Sennett directed it, Harry
Gribbon, Andy Clyde, Alma Ben- nett and big cast of Beauts and Comics. It's Gorgeous—and Big
NEXT CHANGE
A BRAND NEW CHINESE SOUND-ON-FILM:
WONDERFUL TALKIE IN CANTONESE DIALOGUE
'A PRETTY ORPHAN on the FRONT "' SHOWING SOON.
SUPER SPECIAL FEATURE.
America to the Soviet Union and THE NEWEST UNITED ARTISTS
เ lus conversion to the Soviet idea... Transocean Kuomin.
A Versatile Actor.
We wonder how many people who
have seon "Devil's, Lottery," now showing at The King's Theatre, re- alize that whilst Halliwell Hobbes plays a
AN AIR COMEDY THAT ZOOMS RIGHT UP INTO THE CLOUDS
OF ENTERTAINMENT-TAKES YOU ON A CRIUSE THROUGH MERRY GALES OF LAUGHTER.
HOWARD HUGHESENT
COCK OF THE
AIR
landing part, that of Lord CHESTER MORRIS
Litchfield, in the story, he also "doublos" and plays a minor role in the same film. Film- fans will remember that when Trowbridge.
ALSO
(played by Herbert Muntin) the A CHARMING COMEDY PACKED
footman returns to the castle in toxicated, he is dismissed by a but ler who only appears once through. out the entire fim and then_only for a second. This butler is Halli wel Hobbes who is considered in American film circles as the only actor in Hollywood who can really do justice, to a rôle of this descrip- tion. He is therefore, usually cast
EDDIE
WITH DRAMA & LAUGHS.
QUILLAN.
NIGHT WORK
for butler parts. That he can play with SALLY STARE, FRANCES UPTON, NORA LANE
other role, an well is proved by his aplendid performance 28 Lord Litchfield.
QUEEN SALOTE
PLANNING SEAPLANE TRIP
TO LONDON
Queen Balote Toubou, ruler of the Friendly Isles, and the most picturesque queen in the world; is planting to fly to Londen.
This remarkable woman, who is well over six feet in height and of majestic appearance, has in structed an agent in Java to map out for her a seaplane flight. to Britain.
Queen Salote rules the Friendly Isles with the assistance of her. Consort, Premier Tugi, a Cabinet of Tongan Ministers, and Sir Ar- thur Fletcher, the Governor of
"A HOUSE DIVIDED" Fiji and High Commissioner of
WITH
WALTER HUSTON KENT DOUGLASS HELEN CHANDLER
3
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 2nd OCT.
the West Pacific.
The Quron is 32 years old and has three sons. She is the strong rst personality in the islands, and has no hesitation in telling ber 30,000 subjects just what the think of them,
She drives to Parliament overy" year in her own motor-car, and re- cently ordered a new model in order to keep thoroughly up to date. The Friendly Isles are "per-" haps the only place in the world
OVER THE|||where there is no uperployment
HILL"
with JAMES DUNN. BALLY EILERS MAE MARSH;
FOX PICTURE.
Every Tongan is given an allot- ment to cultivate,
The Islands have in favourable trade balance and in addition do not owe a penny in nations!, debt. Education is compulsory for chil dren from the ages of six tatt and the go-ahead Queen, who was herself educated in Auckland, sent her oldest on to Australia
see the world."!
to
GALA NIGHT AT THE PENINSULA
“ROSE ROOM" RE-OPENING NEXT MONTH
"Hugo and Josephine" internationally-famous cabaret dancers,
Shanghali
fistured artistes at the re-opsak
Ross Boom, Peninsula Hotel, on Saturday, October 8, when the winter season, festivities will be inaugurated.
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