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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'A BED, WESTBOUND AUS

ADVANCE BOOKING

AT ANDERSON'S

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

LEW AYRES

AND

MAE CLARKE

IN

"NIGHT WORLD"

A Universal Picture.

COMING

Envoys of Business...Thoir Home is the. Road... Their Job is Keeping a Jump Ahead of the Whirling Century... Here They Are in Dram Exciting as Their Days... Hectic

48 Their Nights.

TRAVELING

Husbands

EVELYN

BRENT HUGH HERBEAT S

ALDERTSON'

CONSTANCE CUMMINGS DOROTHY PETERSON

PAUL

BDANE

PICTUAL

Human as the Heartbeat of the Women They Leave at Home to Wait and Watch and Wonder!

TO-MORROW IT WILL BE THE TOPIC OF THE TOWN.

COMING

The All Quiet" of 1982

Battalion

It's A Universal Super-

Production.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1932.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

HONG KONG.

King's.

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

"Love Ma Tonight.)

Queen's.

"Cracked Nuts"

Central.

"Night World,"

Oriental.

This is the Night."

KOWLOON.

Star.

"Guilty Hands,"''

King's.

COMING.

** Rebecca

of

་

Farm."

Queen's.

Happy Ending.

Central.

Star.

SHONGKONG'S FINEST EXEMA

WORLD'S GREATEST ENTERTAINER!

Sunnybrook

MAURICE

Travelling Husbanda,"

The Doomed Battalion."

Variety ProgramNne.'

** Desrnoli."

Oriental.

Ambassador Bill,"

with

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

CRACKED NUTS”

COMEDY AT THE QUEEN'S

"Cracked Nats" at the Queen's is quite an amusing comedy, with Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, two of the seyren's' favourite coine- dians.

The story is ventred round the assasxjuation of one King by an- other Wendall Graham's (Hert Wheelers love for Betty Harring fu (Dorothy Lee) is opposed by her Aout Minnic (Edas

May

| Oliver), who thinks he has too much. In an ingy and ton little sense.

"LOVE ME TO-NIGHT"

MAURICE AND JEANETTE IN A FANTASY OF FRANCE

The new Maurice-Jeanette film, Love, Mr Tonight," showing at the King's Theatre, is in rather n different win from their previous preletions. It is a fantastic Ebu queer mechanical fantasy of pho- Tography, and of mentality. There Is à cynical detachment, a sprite of calculating impishuess through it all.

Maurice, a Paris tailor, pursties one of his creditors to a magnif-

attempt to prove" himself useful, Wendall invests his fortune in a revolution in the Kingdom of El cent chatean whose inhabitants

live back in eighteenth century days. There is a magnificent old duke, three maiden sistern-a most odd and amazing trio, a nightmare

of shrill old age-and retainers to suit, including a perfect ogre of a batler. There are also two young

Doranta, with the understanding that he will become, King

At the same time Zauder Ulysses Parkhurst (Robert Woolsey), 'known as Zup for short, engages the pre- | sen; rules íu a cṛup game, winning the kingdon, When Wendall ar rives at El Duranta, Zup ja auton-girls, our of them 'Jeanette, burn. ished to see Wendall, a former pal.

Wendall demands die kingdom and it is decided to settle the inat ter by dugi. Wendall wins and under the agreement must assassin ate Zup. The execution day ar rives. A bomb intended for Zup unexportedly explodes, tearing & hug hole in the ground and bring ing in an oil gusher. Wendall and Zay call off the nssassination and Aust decide to fonn a republic, Minnie withdraws her objections and Wendall and Botty marry, sa

all's well that ends hell."

to ing

escape, and KUL to Into this inad, Paris, and life. queer place, bursts Maurice, vital, self assured Maurico, who is per.. sunded by his terrified creditor to pass himself off as a baron. This is tracked down by a half-witted' pedant-about-the house, but then an exiled royalty is hinted! The old ladies, the Duke and the two girls, swallow it whole fall for him, and complications follow usual film lines. Then there is a grand, un- masking.

The tricks of cecho; of repetition of an niṛ from place to place

"AMBASSADOR BILL" | (started in Sunshine Basic and

AT THE ORIENTAL

Tonight's the Night-have" developed.

Maurice sings a song: All Paris sings it; gypsies round their camp fire; soldiers on the march, take it up. In time the trick will be When togors, wise jateat Fox overworked, but at present it has starring picture, "Ambassador the elements of surprise and Bill" opens to-morrow at the Oriental Theatre, first broke into humour, and a breaking of new fame as vaudeville's cowboy philosu- ground in the art of the films.

pher, he'd often finish a story and

"Good luck that time. The trick

a rope trick with the remark:

and the joke came out just.event" | WOW!.........

R.B.

He made it look like an accident Ambassador Bill" is heralded but it's an art.

as a Rogers natural," ". In it, Everything that Rogers does is we see the famous self-made diplo the perfection of casual, efforties, mat" as the philosophical Ameri- natural art. On the radio, as can reabassador to a little kingdom syndicated humorist and front torn by royal loves and political pago paragrapher, in musical revues intrigue. Seen with Rogers in this Fuad in movietone comedies, he cap-new-comedy-drama-are-sovaral papi

tivates millions. He's an Americanlar favourites, including Marguerite habit and an international' hit Churchill, Greta Nissen, Tad Alex Where there's a Will there's ander, Gustar von Seyffertitz and (Continued at foot of next Column) | Ray Milland,

LOVE ME TONIGHT

A ROUBEN MAMOULIAN PRODUCTION

You'll soon be sing- ing his new hits! *

PICTURE BOOKS, PAST

AND PRESENT ́ ́~

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AND GIRLS AT VICTORIA

AND ALBERT MUSEUM

London, Oct. 1.-On Oct. 14th the Princess Royal opened an Exhibi- tion of English Illustrated Books for Children at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Nearly two thou- mud of the illustrated books pub- |lished for children during two and A half centuries are on view--n most fascinating - collection, beginning with 1. silver-mounted hurnbook about the size of the mirror in a woman's handbag, which was made in the middle of the sixteenth cen tury, such as, it, is said, the child- ren of the great Duke of Marl horough used to learn the spelling of lord, lady, and very well to-day

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THIS WIGHT

IS THE

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CHARLIE

RUGGLES ROLAND YOUNG

TO-MORROW

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Ambassador Bill

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MARIAN NIXON RALPH BELLAMY

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The title of the earliest real book in the collection, dated 1072 is "Visible World, or a Picture and"

thiet Nomenclature of all the Things that are in the World." Books printed between 1672 and 1918

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QUEENS THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.90, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20 p.m.

THE GRAND

LAUGH ARRIVAL OF

KINGS OF CUCKOO KINGDOM

Out of the Booby Batoh and Unto the

eroan.

Squirrel Dooging, bizzy be fenders of Their Cuckoo Kingdom.

JOY KINGS RETURN

WHEELER WOOLSEY

Ramparing Riot <SV

- of fun!

CRACKED NUT

with

DOROTHY LEE

NEXT CHANGE Tense Emotion

Stark Realism

are displayed in a series of cases in the Returned Lots of Thrilling Incident

tween them are a series of original ed to the senders on production of

certificate of posting. drawings for illustrations. George

Hong Kong 130A to Shanghai, Cruikshank (1792-1878) makes a fine, Hong Kong 586A to Shanghai, to Shanghai, showing both in books and original Hong Kong 151C

Shoungwan 20678 to Oakland, drawings. Tenniel's interpretation Calif., Wantani 100 to Shanghai,

of Lewis Carroll is well represented! Wanlesi 193 to Foochow, Hong by original drawings and an actual Kong 9310 to Manila, P.1., Hong engraved woodblock of Father Kong 103A to Trinidad.

List of Unclaimed Radio Telegrama. William" and "the young man has been lent by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. A selection of the books pub. lished since 1918, mostly clad in bright paper covers, cover a long, series of tables,

Jones Enjoys Roast Goose,

Yeunglookan. Alico from Shang-, hai, 4103 0053 6794 from Canton, Tungleechan, Kowloon, from Bang koksub, 4164 from Canton, 4101 1378 8503 from Canten, 46 from Cho- lan, 1976 from Bangkok.

GOSSIP

& FACT.

S

and this item was followed by Glad-

The nal of Norman, Lee's new. dy Sewell, armed with a sentimen- comedy for B.I.F.. "Money Talks," tal ballad. recently declared the dining room "Double Trouble" an the Highway, scene to be the best over." "It was

The sight of an elderly gentlemaa filmed one cold noraing at mid- day, and when dinner was served ruggling with air aged, caion the Hide of a country road, attracted in the form of roast goose with appropriate trimmings, and the any sympathetic helpers, recently until they discovered a film camera artista approached the table with a good appetite. The one who most camouflaged in a nearby hedge and appreciated the fare was Grifiths found that Harry Hughes was busi Jones who had been in strict train-ly producing exteriors for is now ing for the past two weeks in pro-B.I.P. comedy, while the would-be paration for his fight scene with!

Great Showmanship.

Kid Berg, the whirlwind boxing driver was soon recognised as Jim champion, later in the picture. my Godden, well remembered for Jones caught his trainer's eye, his Doe Knott in My Wife but blandly pointed to the lines in Family." the script"Jimmy eats heartily," Drary Lane Profits. -

"Grand Hotel," is a lim which- Lord Lurgail, presiding at the will do a lot of good in the prestige ehareholders meeting of the Then of the sinema industry, and, ills tre Royal, Drury Lane, London, clover and dignified exploitation by said that the long and successful Mr. Sam Eckman, Metro's chief in run of "Cavalcade" had again England, is an object lesson in pinced the theatre on a profit-car-showmanship. I hope the British ing basis,

film. chiefs whose iden of putting a Mr. Noel Coward had promised film over is by asking critics to. the first refusal of any future play trade shows long before the film is he might write, which, in his opin: shown publicly, will match the re- ion, would be a success at Drury sult, of Mr. Eckman's system of Lane.

presenting an outstanding attrac tion...

Becomes Star Overnight.

Gladdy Sewell, the well-known Elstree Stumps, variety star, who makes her screen Viola-Tree, who is making her debut in Noman Lee's B.I.P. film debut in a leading part in comedy, Magenta Street," bas be Monty Banks B.I.P. comedy"For come a revue star overnight. In the Love of Mike is using a shoot- this film. she plays the part of ing stick in her characterization of lodging house slavery with operatica nouvelle riche hostess. In the unbitions. For reasons of his own film she perches on it in the garden. Julian Hose, the popular Hebrew drawing-room or anywhere that comedian, in the end insists she fatigue might overcome her. She shall be starred in a revue he is has found it even more useful for backing, in the hope that she will taking a few moment's rest when help, unconsciously, to make the waiting on the “sot!! between. show a failure. For the scenes, a scenes and now the other members revue was staged in the studio, and of the cavie, for its loan whan the proscenium, stage and audito Miss Tree is working. It is parti riumspecially hulk. A shappycularly in demand for Rene Maur chorus with Mary Charles, another ready, whose beach priamas" dh kỹ interesting newcomer to B.I.P: put bathing pool scene, are so tight the over a new number, "Money talke, is not illaxed to sit down,

Stirring Spectack-

The

HAPPY ENDING

TK ON LAN HAN, poemas drama

ANNE GREY BENITA HUME & GEORGE BARRAUD Demelines JÚLKADWI BR

GAUMONT BAITISTE PRODUCTION

A human story of a married philanderer who reapa the whirlwind in the loss of h's wife's love and denial of re- cognition by his young daughter.

TAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. IS THERE THE PERFECT

ORIME?

See this thrilling drama

KAY

with:

FRANCIS

LIONEL BARRYMORE

Guilty Hands

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

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