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QUEENS THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20 p.m.

A BRITISH COMEDY

That Drives Away Depression

"SPLINTERS IN THE NAVY"

with SYDNEY HOWARD

- TO-MORROW

BY INSISTENT DEMAND The Return of

TARZAN

THE APE MAN

Directed by W.S. VAN DYKE

Nell ton, C

Manroon.

O'Sullivan.

(STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20.7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1932.

MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE

Pictures In Hong Kong

"SPLINTERS IN THE NAVY."

BRITISH COMEDY AT THE QUEEN'S.

A trade notice stalen - One of the many notable features of "Splinters in the Navy," is the uumber of attractive songs that are put over during the course of the film by the inimitable troupe et war comies. Rog Sine, that meest charming of "Ladies," has ag catchy melodice which he sings with his accustomed verve. The first of these, Say Good-bye," is a first- rate foxtrot: while the secul, I've fallen in Love," is the sort of tune you feel you must whistle; in fact, Reg had all the Twicken ham studio staff whistling it.

1

"MERRILY WE GO

TO HELL

"1

"TENSE DRAMA" AT THE

KING'S.

A trade notice states:-

Two stars of Major Brilliance! Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March shine together in a drama depict- ing modern youth, burning life swiftly, laughing uproariously, Youth dissipating thoughtlessly. with everything to win, flaunting the conventions, playing with love, gambling with destiny.

Fredric March portrays the de- caraless vastating courage of a appetite for carousing. He stakes talent, love and happiness against the vicarious pleasures of riotous living, then near tragedy jerks him back to sanity.

Hal Jones, the famous "Splin

Love, unters the story adroitly. ters" comic songster, мігіня "Tinker, Tailor" with Reg Stone; In youth March falls in love with a girl. It was a transient affair, during the singing of which there i

but it raised in his mind an ideal, re some delightfully amusing]

which in Int years complicates camera effects. But it is the theme his married life with Sylvia Sid

"Call of the Sea," nhoutney, and almost leads of tragedy. sony, which everyone will be crazy; a i

Sylvia Sidney' gives a splendid really beautiful melody, sung by portrayal of the young wife who Wilfred Temple

reverses her own headstrong course, and valiantly fights to stem the course of hur husband's irrespon

++

A HOUSE DIVIDED"sible life. Her final act of tragie

A NEW TRIANGLE ANGLE

portent definitely establishes her- self as the primary interest in his life, rather than the false idealism born cf an early infatuation.

Adrianne Allen, a blond beauty of the English stage, who recently featured in the Broadway stage show, Cynara," plays the sirea

A trade notice states:- Strikingly dramatic action char- zetorizes "A House Divided," Universal's powerful story show ing at the Oriental Theatre, with Walter Huston, Kent Douglass and Helen Chandler in the featured with the subtle effectiveness roles.

The story is laid on the North- western coast of the United Stairs, where a thin veneer of civilization covers the elemental passions of hoth men and women.

A situation fraught with possi bilities is brought about when hurty, domineering Seth Law secures a wife through an adver- tizoment in a matrimoniul maga zine, and the bride promptly falls in love with his son. This boy bas seritive nature and is the very antithsis of his father. The strug- gle between these two brings into Continued on neee column,}

of a trained artist. A new face on the American screen, attractive and intriguing, with a that's distinctly English.

charm

play all the moral, psychological and abysical force of both.

Walter Huston is the father. Kent Douglas is his son and Helen Chandler

is tho mail-order bride." Other important roles are played by Vivian Oakland and Frank Hagney. The picture was directed by William Wyler from à magazine story by Olive Edens.

CHESTER MORRIS in a scene from?

COCK OF THE AIR

PINE FILM AT CENTRAL

AIR

Moore Yola D'Avril,

Walter Catlett, Vivien Oakland and Louis Alberni, *IN

Lavish settings, qud daring but deft treatment of a bold theme, combine to make "Cock of the Air" the sensation of comedion. A trade 'notice states:--

The story, concerns the exciting "Cook of the Air comes to the love-match between the romantia Central Theatre to-day. This Are" of the American service, Howard Hughes latest production, played by Morris, and the "Toast and once again the producer of Paris," enacted by Miss Dove.. The Front The complications, which ensue Hell's Angels,""

and Mis- when the manter" Page and other Alm. sensationsstress of romance meet on com- ernshee through with a hib-picture.mon ground form the basis of an Cock of the Air," a United amazing and highly-spiced tale of Artists picture, is a brilliant pic love and adventure in a World turization of a daring sby. It i War background. ____

... comedy,... Morris, as the gay romancer for minus the usual yulgarity associate the first time, is sensational. This ed with sophisticated pictures performance has already won for

Extravagantly produced, and him an army of new faos, particu brilliantly directed. Cock of the larly among the feminine con Air Basheer entertainment from tingut mor start to finish; je donglyr

CHARLES KING & BESSIE LOVE is ultra-sophisticated

Metro-Goldwyn-May@F977,

CHASING RAINBOWS

I in playe

cast

raded by Chester Morris, and rted by Billie Dove, Matt

Bilthy Dove is seen in a vampinh Impersonation for the arst time and gives the most intriguing pe formance of her career.

SHOWING "TO-DAY (At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 à 9.80 p.m. A DOUBLE ATTRACTION! Two Lovable Stars!

SIDNEY Fri MARCH

Attaluing emotional/* Krandeur In histor sweet love tale of 1932/.

Merrily We Go to Hell

A Paramount Picture

-ADDED ATTRACTION— DAILY at 5.10, 7.15 and 9.30 P.M. ONLY. RETURN ENGAGEMENT

OF

BETH BERI ZIEGFELD FOLLIES STAR IN A DANCE REPERTOIRE,

NEW COSTUMES NEW DANCES

ACCOMPANIED AT THE PIANO) by

MONIA- LITTER. Acclaimed, hoth by ZIMBALIST and HRIFETZ, THE MOST BRILLIANT, PIANIST IN THE FAR EAST.

Prices as Usual

NEXT CHANGE

"MILLION DOLLAR LEGS"

WITH

JACK OAKIE. W. C. FIELDS BEN TORPIN ANDY CLYDE

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.

ORIENTAL

THEATRESTNA

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.

UNIVERSAL PICTURE

A HOUSE DIVIDED

with

WALTER HUSTON KENT DOUGLASS HELEN CHANDLER.

TO-MORROW. "OVER THE HILL'

with ryb JAMES DUNNI SALLY FILERS MAE MARSH POX PIOTTE

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

Queen's.

HONG KONG.

"Splinters in the Navy."

King'a

Morrily We go to Hell"

Dentral.

Cock of the Air.”

Oriental.

A House Divided.". KOWLOON.

"Chasing Rainbows."

Star.

Queen's.

King's.

COMING.

Tarzan the Ape Man." Variety Programme,

#Million Dollar Lega,” Central.

"Night Work." "Fast Companions."

Oriental.

"Over the Hill.”. "June Moun."

MILLION DOLLAR

LEGS"

A JUGGLER LEARNS HIS

TRADE

A trade notice states:-

The electrle light bulb orashed

CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY-

at 2.80; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

THE NEWEST UNITED ARTISTS SUPER SPECIAL PRODUCTION.

Hero of a hundred rollicking flirtations, THIS DON JUAN of the AIR wòn down to crushing defeat under the withering fire of a Woman's Scorn; They fought it out-THIS flaming, Frenzied Battle of hearts-in, warplane and cafe, at the front and behind the line of gay PAREE.

1.

THE CREAM OF COMEDY SPRINKLED OVER A SOARING DRAMA OF SKY HIGH THRILLS.

She Made Aviators Keep

Their Feet on the Groundf

A siren who nearly wrecked the Allies and asky devil up in the clouds an love! She made his head go round like a propeller! There's a parachu full of laughs and howls in this gay comedy of perfume, pyjamas and Parisi

HUGHES

FASSTATE

to the bare floor with a resounding HOWARD

Flop," and words of disgust and disappointment tumbled from this lips of the thirteen year-old boy. Not that the bulb was any good, for it bad long ago been discraded.. But it was an essential part of the boy's act. Without that blob, the cracked billiard ball, the beer mug and the rusty egg-beater were use. less. For the lads was learning the art of four-artido juggling.

During the filming of." Million Dollar Legs, Paramount's Olym pic Games farce which comes to the King's Theatre on Wednesday next, W. C. Fields, who is featur ed with Jack Oakie, Ben Turpin and Hank Manu, told the story, of his difficult apprenticeship in the art of juggling. Although a mere boy he was fifteen at the time of

UNITED

ARTISTS PICTURE

OF THE

WITH

AIR

CHESTER MORRIS

· ADDED ATTRACTIONS

"FOLLIES OF THE DAY":

V

hin first professional engagement- WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST OF WELL-KNOWN BEAUTIFUL

he created all his own juggling | YOUNG DANCES & ACROBATS...... PRODUCED BY THE LAURO tricks and made his own appara. FILMS Co. of france. 2 REELS OF OLD & NEW: DANCES.

tua.

ENTIRELY IN TECHN(COLOR WITH THE MOST MAGNIFICENT

I didn't have any money to go see highly paid jugglers and copy their stunts," he said. "Neither could I buy material from supply houses. So I used may articles. which lent themselves to juggling

and made up my own routine,

& LAVISH INVALUABLE SETTINGS & BACKGROUNDS THAT. ARE QUITE NEW & NOVEL OF THE PUBLIC.

PRICES AS USUAL

SHOWING SOON

As a result, I had novelty when 1 A CHARMING COMEDY PACKED

finally got a chance.

"I evolved one trick with small- cups on the ends of rods, catching small balls in the cups and con- tinuing to juggle meanwhile. 1 made the roda from broom sticks and took the cups from the oil hurners in my rooming house, I drilled holes in the latter and nail- cd them to the broom sticks.

Without money to buy tights,

I had to do a tramp act with my old, tattered clothes."

Even after he had attained in ternational success, Fields, always used only the simplest articles in juggling Kitchen utensils, tennis balls, fight globes from the foot. lights and practically any movable article were his props. He inters- persed his offerings with acrobatics and worked up a number or pan- tomime comedy acts such as his famous golf game."

In 1923, after many years of stardom in Zingleld's. "Follies.' Fields entered motion pictures in "Eally of tho Sawdust." With Paramount, he made a long list of productions, and in "Million Dollar Legs, returns to his old producing company after a brief retirement.

DONT FORGET

THAT WHEN You are at Home

You

can get the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SELFRIDGES.

WITH DRAMA & LAUGHS

י.

EDDIE QUILLAN.

NIGHT WORK

with SALLY STARR, FRANCES UPTON, NORA LANE

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

WE ARE GLAD TO^ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL COM- MENCE SHOWING THE BEST SUPER & SPECIAL BADIO, UNIVERSAL & BRITISH DOMINION PICTURES OF 1932-88. FROM THE BEGINNING OF NEXT MONTH.

Claudette's 'New House."

GOSSIP

FACT.

lease for the month will be "While Claudette Colbert has just taken Paris Bleeps,

a now house, which she likes so much-that she finds great difficulty Film to Cost Over £85,000," in tearing herself away everyIt is announced that Pabst, the morning when she has to leave for German director, has been engaged the studio. It is right on the top by Nelson Films to direct the talk of a bill, and in the grounds 1 Alm of "Don Quixote," which is to a large swimming-pool. There are he made in English and French; aire to be some lively bathing par-with Chaliaping in the file part d ties there in the very near future. It is estimated that the cost of the film will be over £85,000, and Chro Lyniapins, who has an interest in the tor, *** with Joan - Frefts, will kiceive over £25,000. It Robert Mintgomery kis, probable that George Roboy will Lplay the role of Sancho, Panza, but, Hotel, enchantar no suggestion of an English Megpródug part suitable for the part of Dut

reine has found favoUT./

tys

Ma Lotty Crawford

co-starring, leased before.