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QUEEN THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY.

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

SOMETHING NEW

IN ENTERTAINMENT

A ̈ ALL-STAR

VARIETY PROGRAMME

NEWS

MUSIC

SPORTS

and

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932.

MOVIE NEWS KINGS THEATRE

Pictures In Hong Kong

VARIETY" AT THE QUEEN'S

LAUREL AND HARDY AT THEIR BEST

A novel feature was. introduced the Queen's Theatro yesterday when they gave a variety entertain

Iment.

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'RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE"

ZANE GREY THRILLER FOR KING'S

A trade notice stater:-- "Vinegar Road, "Oatmeal " Herman Nolan, Dick Martin, Hunter, and "Ki Yi" Lyon are range riders.. They've veteran

The show commenced with very exciting Olympic events, then fol; rounded up herds since their legs lowed the thrilling picture showing could "straddle a cayuse. They're

America ishermen in

catching not very easily impressed-especi Sharks and Swordfish, the Shark ally by movie cowboys-but they being de largest ever caught in think a lot of George O'Brico. the Pacific Ocean, by rod and line.

"One of the Smiths" featuring LAUREL and HARDY Charlie Chase was very amusing, it

in

"Chickens Come Home "

and...

CHARLIE CHASE

in

One of the Smiths"

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Specialty Programme.

NEXT CHANGE

YOU'LL

HOLD TIGHT TO YOUR SEATS

Wallace

BEERY

Clark

GABLE

HELL

DIVERS

The world is raving about it Its thrills, its laughs its romance, its grand acting by Beery and Gable, its marvellous cast! It took a year to make and the U.S. Navy ico-coperated.

STAR

begins by his, travelling in a train with numerous pieces of luggage, inchiding an enormous tuber, he has great difheulty in getting this along with all his other luggage, into his birth, finally he manages to straighten things up, so tries to get undressed but when getting one shoe off forces his foot into the tuber and is unable to get it cut, eventually his foot is released but the tuber thrown out of the train and lands round the neck of a pass. ing horse, he cannot leave the tuber, and so he jumps on the horse, and off he goes, he gets into many muddles but in the end all enda well. ·

B

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"Mexicana"

vory pretty colour revue consists of a large hall in Mexico where girls and men sing Maxican songs, dance in chorus and the nien do tap dancing, "Chickens Come Home" is really one of Laurel and Hardy's beat flms.

When this opens Hardy is seen fas managing director sitting at his deek as usual he does everything wrong, such things as putting the wrong end of his cigar into his mouth. One of the girls enter to say that there is a woman one of his passed girl friends to see him, talie has only come for money which Hardy won't give her, so they fix 7 o'clock to settle things up, but nothing will go smoothly for pobr

The reason for their good opinion of George is that while they were working with the burly star on his latest Fox western feature,

Riders of the Purple Sage," which will be shown at the King's Theatre on Sunday, they watched him perform the feat referred to above, the most dangerous a cattle hand can be called on to execute; turning a stampeding herd, during A sequence of the picture.

The scena occurs when enemies of Marguerite Churchill, the feminine lead in the picture, stampede her herd of longhorns. O'Brien, who ia staying at the ranch to protect ler, from these foes, sees the dan- ger and rides to the rescue. So far the seene progressed according to pla

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But one of the "micnace play. ers became for zealous. He rowel ed a steer along the flank with his spor, and a prepared stampedo turned on the instant into a "real

one.

By this time O'Brien was near the head of the herd, which was bearing down on the tent colony where the players lived on loca tion. It was too late to stop. Tearing round the vanguard, O'Brien came up with the leading steer. He flung himself from his saddle onto the animal's horns, put every atom of his strength into a bal klogging twist and threw the brute to the ground. Deprived of

their leader the cattle milled round, slowed down and stopped. The stampede was

halted and a

one of extreme realism photo-

graphed.

Noah Berry and Yvonne Pelle Hardy his wife comes to the offertior are also to be seen in featured to tell him that she has arranged roles in this famous Zape Grey a dinner party for 7 o'clock, Hardy frontier romance. is in a fix and doesn't know what to do so he makes use of Laurel, ha tells him to go and see the lady, which he does but she won't see him, and after breaking up the house sho eventually arrives at Hardy's house plus Laurel, they are introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Laurel Soon the woman fainte and Laurel and Hardy in turn carry hor up and down the house, at this moment Laurel's wife appears and chner him with an axe

MILLION DOLLAR

LEGS*

SKIT ON OLYMPIC GAMES

A trade notien states:- Exactly fifty nations were enter

There was a crowded house yes- erday at the Queen's and no doubted in the 1992 Olympic games which

gramme.

+4

HELL DIVERS"

COMING TO QUEEN'S ON

SATURDAY DR.

1 it is such an excellent pro-were hold at Los Angeles recently.

The first of the modern Olympic. Games were held in Athens, in 1800. The connecting link between these and the ancient Olympiads, which have been traced back to 775 B.C., was the Olympic games of old in 1766 by Richard Chandler. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, great Frenen sportsman, decided to attempt to build up the French race physically through the medium of an intensive vational programme of athletics.

Finally, in 1893, he directed an The first talking picture to fea-open letter to the athletic authori ure the geweet and most insa ties of countrica all over the world. sional type of navy aircraft, the aghting-diving bombers, is Hell proposing a revival of the Olympic games. He called a meeting in Divers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's aris in 1894 to discuss the idon, Fivid drama of the air which will some on Saturday to the Queen's and a surprisingly large number of Enthusiasm Theatro with Wallace Beery and delegates attended.

A trade notice states :---

ran high, and it was determined to hold the first revival of the games in 1896..

Because of the historial associa

Athena.

The name

CONTOR

Clark Gable in co-starring roles.

The new picture, in which pro minent supporting roles are played by Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, Marjoric Rambeau and Marie Pretions, it was decided, naturally, vost, was filmed aboard the aircraft that the first revival be held at carrier Saratogs, amid. the thrills of the Panama manoeuvres.

Famous navy aviators and ships TO-DAY TO SATURDAY are seen, in sonaational stunta

and Beary, himself a licensed avia At 2 80, 5.20, 7.20 & 0.20 p.m. tor, personally flics in his role of

Πανελ "C.P.Ö."

Hell Whole squadrons Divers," evolutions with hundreds detajle were filmed through co operation of the Navy Department.

of

"Olympic" from Olympia, a sacred Valley in Elia, Greece, which was the site of the ancient Olympic games. Greek a term used to designate a period tradition places the first Olympiad. of four year's time, as 778 to 772 B.C. Reference is made in many

JOB E BROWN of planes in the air and other casen to similar festivals as having

Hold Everything

with

WINNIE LIGHTNER

been the custom. even five and siz centuries before that time The year 778 B.C. however, is placed on the officials early Greek calendar as Olympiad 1.

The contests in the ancient Olym pics consisted of various trials of strength, skill and

enduranoo.

9 tor was a garland of wild olive which, according to Elean Legend, was the prize originally bestowed by Hercules: There were noex-lieroware in ally twenty-four events, eighteen-in-which men took pensa accounts" in those days

"Million Dollar Legs," now part and six in which boys engaged. showing at the King's Theatre is n skit on the Olympic Games.

The only prize given do the vic- (Continued en Previous Columns.

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. A DOUBLE ATTRACTION I

Screen's Giddiest Mugs in the Olympic Team that Jack Built

MILLION DOLLAR LEGS

JACK

OAKIE

W.C

FIELDS ANDY CLYDE

BEN TURPIN

A PARAMOUNT PIOTURE.

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

BETH BERI

IN

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES STAR NEW COSTUMES NEW DANCES ACCOMPANIED AT THE PIANO by

MONIA LITTER. Acclaimed, both by ZIMBALIST and BLIFETZ, THE MOST BRILLIANT PIANIST IN THE FAR EAST:

Prices as Usual

—NEXT CHANGE

RIDERS of the PURPLE SAGE

GEORGE O'BRIEN -MARGUERITE CHURCHULL

NOAH BEERY

From the great Borel by ZANI GREY

A FOX PICTURE.

ORIENTAL

TO-DAY ONLY At 2,80, 5.15, 7:15 & 9.80 p.m.

The Low-Down on The HI-JACKERSI

They pass up million

dollars worth of loot for

million dollars worth of lovel

CHEATERS AT PLAY

„TROMABU CHARLOTTE

· MEIGHAN GREENWOOD W.BAKEWELL BARBARA WEEKS A FOX PIOTURE

TO-MORROW BELA LUGOSI

"MURDERS IN THE" RUE MORGUE"

SIDNEY FOX UNIV RSAL-PICTURE,

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

Variety Programme.

Queen's.

King's.

Million Dollar Legs."

Central.

"Ceck of the Air."

Cheaters at Play."

·KOWLOON.

Star.

**Hold. Everything."?

COMING.

Queen's.

*** Tell Divers."

The Passionate Plumber." log'm.

Riders of the Purple Sage." Longorilla.

Amatour Daddy,"

One Heavenly Night."

Central.

"Night Work"

Fast Companiona."

Oriental.

Murders in the Rue Morgie." *'' Delicious,"

CHEATERS AT

PLAY"

FINE FILM AT ORIENTAL

A trade notice states:- Most of the leading names in the rosters of stage and screen to-day are those of one-time youngsters who early decided to become play- ers, and stuck with the notion in- stead of abandoning it for solde other occupation. And Thomas Meighan himself was one of these. Born and educated in Pittsburgh,

CENTRAL THEATRE

TE

25720

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

at 2.80; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. THE NEWEST UNITED ARTISTS SUPER SPECIAL PRODUCTION.

A CREAM OF COMEDY SPRINKLED OVER A SOARING DRAMA OF SKYHIGH THRILLS!.

A THRILL-SHOW TO MAKE YOU GASP!·

A LAUGH-SHOW TO MAKE YOU HOWL!.

An Aviating Romeo Who Took a High Flier_in_Love and Laughed at War! The sky was the limit with this dashing, dare devil who started out to fight the enemy but lost in the battle of love! He left a trail of broken hearts crashing through Europe and bombed his way to Paris with laughing gas!

HOWARD HUGHES

PRESENTS

Pock AIR

WITH

OF THE

CHESTER MORRIS

ADDED ATTRACTION

where his father owned a foundry "FOLLIES OF THE DAY”

supply company, the boy was

parentally destined for a medical WFTH AN ALL-STAR CAST OF WELL-KNOWN BEAUTIFUL career, but had much more curiosity

regarding the theatre than he did YOUNG DANCERS & ACROBĀTS. PRODUCED BY THE LAURO over the anatomy and diseases of FILMS CO. OF FRANCE. 2 REELS OF OLD & NEW DANCES perfect strangere.

During his college days, at St. ENTIRELY IN TECHNICOLOR WITH THE MOST MAGNIFICENT Mary's he found an outlet for hi & LAVISH INVALUABLE SETTINGS & BACKGROUNDS THAT inhate dramatic yearnings in ARE QUITE NEW & NOVEL OF THE PUBLIC. student plays and this, comfirmed

his own belief in his theatrical fu-

Lure, but his father was dubious. DRESS CIRCLE Finally and with much apprehen-

sion the older man allowed him, to

bocome a super in a stock com. pany then playing in the

city-

SPECIAL PRICES

$1.00;

BACK STALL (including tax)

***

55 cents.

STARTING TO-MORROW

hoping, probably, that a taste of A CHARVING COMEDY PACKED the real thing would discourage the

youngster.

His performance in films made him the greatest drawing personal. ity of the screen, and his services wore in consant domand. This bowever, had one bad effect-it in- terfered aeriously with his golf, which ran a close second to pictures in the actor's affections. Accord ingly, in 1999 he finished the final

EDDIE

WITH DRAMA & LAUGHS

QUILLAN.

NIGHT WORK

sceno in The Racket," picked up with SALLY STARR, FRANCES UPTON, NORA LANE his hat and strolled off the set,

waving, goodbye to all concorned & RIOT OF LAUCHTER, SPARKLING WIT, CATCHY SONGS, and announcing that ho wus PATHOS, CHUCKLES, INDISPUTABLY THE FINEST DIALOGUE through with pictures forover. & SINGING COMEDY OF THE SEASON.

For two years Meighan stuck to

his resolution: the atmosphere around almost any country club you could mention was filled with little white balls, each soaring merrily from the Meighan" woods and irons, and the ex-actor actually lived in golf attire."

However he returned to. Holly- Wood last summer and plunged back into the old familiar career grown back to its former eminence..

His latest vehiclo is "Cheater At Play," which is showing to-day at the Oriental Theatre. The story is one of adventure and romance on board an ocean liner, and, with a cast that includes Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Weeks, Wil- liam Bakewall and other celebri- tica, is said to be one of the most exciting, pictures of the season.

COCK OF THE AIR"

THRILLS AND HUMOUR AT CENTRAL

A trade notion states:-

Howard Hughes' widely-acclaim ed comedy extravaganza, Cock of the Air wilt Billie Dove and Chester Morris is now showing at

the Central Theatre,

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

WE ARE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL-COM-/ MENCE SHOWING THE BEST SUPER & SPECIAL RADIO, UNIVERSAL & BRITISH DOMINION PICTURES OF 1982-88 FROM THE BEGINNING OF NEXT MONTH.

GOSSIP

&

FACT.

BZX

¤, Olonetan.

The actor and athlete will annet the part of Strabo, who made bis Christians for living hunting

H. Clonstan, a New Zealander; who is walking round the world, has stepped into the film busi. Néro. ness. Having traversed New Zea

Pendleton joins a cast licaded land, Australia, Canada, Alaska Frederic March, Elissa Landi, and the best part of the United Claudette Colbert, Charles Laugh States, he is now doing the British Isles before trekking thro- ton, Ian Kaith and Tommy Con- ugh the Continent and the Orient. It was while visiting the Cathodṛal j at St. Albans that he learned of Marie Drossier Queen of the Box"

the proximity of Elstree and des cided that a world tour was in- complete without a visit to Eng-

lon.

Office.

Maria Dressler, of the mountain-

This sensational and much talked about United Artists comedy has been a tremendous hit in New York and other metropolitan land's premier fim studio. Ac-ous face and cloaked ankles, has centres whers it has already play-cordingly he arrived at the studio superseded Norma Shearer and ed, and it has attracted crowded and was taken for a tour round Greta Garbe as unchallenged queen the sats. Bo interested was he of the box offices. Close behind her audience the last few days.

"Cock of the Air is a spicy satire which concerns the pranks and passions of a gay aviator during the World War

that Norman Lee enrolled him as a German soldier for a scene in "Jossor Joins the Army,"

Bign of the Grom."

comes Jane Gaynor, the eternal and respectable Cinderella of the talkie screen. Affong the stars who have played their part for the "More-and-Bigger-Babies” depart- ment of the Decency Driva" ars

It presents Cheater. Morris in his first real romantic and comedy im personation, and also reveals the Nat Pendleton, former Olympic Norma Shear Helen Twelvetrees, alluring Billie Dove in a new typewrestler with a record of winning Mary Astor, and Bebe Daniels, 437 consecutive professional matThese mothers are loth to have of characterization.

Others in the cast includes Matt 1-ches”; has been signed for z sup their umber exploited for publicity Moore, Yola D'Avril, Louis Alber- porting role in Cecil B. De Mille's spa¥post/46up when they Ini. Walter Catlett and Vivian spectacular romance of pagan when word goes our that He

Oakland.

Home, The Bign of the Cross,wood's honour is at stake

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