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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S ID., WESTBOUND BUS

ADVANCE BOOKING

AT ANDERSON'S

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

King's.

Rebecen of Sunnybrook

Farm."

Queen's.

May Be It's Love."

Central.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

"The Doomed Battalion."

Oriental.

"Crock."

KOWLOON.

At 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

The Smiling Fight- cr...The Woman..... and The Other Man... Fighting their emotional battle in the midst of the most terrific

war scenes ever

filmed...

Picturing the life struggle of two nations!

❤

A Mircel Vandel and Chas. Delec Production staged in Hollywood and the Alps. Directed by Cyril Gardner. Presented by Carl Liemmla, A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.

DOMED BATTALION

THE PICTURE TERRIFICI

NEXT CHANGE

BRITAIN'S GREATEST MUSICAL TRIUMPH

DELICIOUS VIENNESE ROMANCE ****

JACK BUCHANAN

ANNA NEAGLE

IN

Good Night Vienna

Star.

"Disraeli,"

COMING.

King's.

"Life Goes On."

Movie Crazy."

Queen's.

Young Donovan's Kid,"

"Huddle."

Central, .

Stur.

"Fit Night Vionan."

filet Train."

-Brown Sugar."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1932.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.80, 8.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

IT'S BEEN

A LONG TIME

since you've seen such ten- der, delightful, stimulating

romance .**

the kind that

makes the world seem kinder.

REBECCA of SUNNYBROOK

FARM

wish

MARIAN NIXON RALPH BELLAMY

MAE MARSH, LOUISE CLOSSER HALE Bon -Kare Dosaglas Wiertn's and Charlotte Thompson's play Alfred Santell production FOX PICTURE

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM"

THE DOOMED BATTALION"

CHARMING ROMANCE FILM GRIPPING WAR PICTURE AT

AT THE KING'S

In

CENTRAL

"The Doomed Battalion" is a "Rebecen of Sunnybrook Farm" Hollywood has gone backstory of the Austro-Italian campaign to those unsophisticated days when of the Great, War. It was directed "the world's by Carl Laemmls for Universal Pic- Mary Pickford was sweetheart." Now Mary Pickford tures and has been produced on the was one of those very file artista scale of the old spectacle film that who won intellectuals as well as D., W. Griffiths made famous. the ordinary average person for The story is well told and grips the film, and helped to place the the attention from the opening The carlier film whero it is to day both a an

scene to the finale. industry and as an art.

shota showing village scenes, with But the film, especially with the the ringing of the church bells, to advent of the talkie, wandered for announce not a festival but the de from Sumybrook Farm, As Mary claration of war are particularly Pickford herself said some three effective. Generally war is ussher- years ago to our representative, ed in amid popular enthusiasm and during her visit to Hong Kong. hysteria. Here another view is

we are dealing with

taken, and the shadow of grief and Lechnique. For a time we

party falla at once. bound to be crudo and heavy.

There are fighting scenes amid handed." So, the talkie becams

the rigours of mountains, and the the medium for

and arooks occottes, and while it soon outgrew action largely turns on the attempt early eruditics it is only strong of the Italians to dig a tunnel, enough to give a samples and natur- through the mountain of Collalto,

บ

new

arc

al story liko Rebeca of Sunny-on top of which a strong Austrian

по

force was stationed.

The Austrians get news of the Italian plan and Florin Dimai (Lais

brook Farm." There are heroica, and the Alm portrays the quiet lives of quite ordinary people -an impulsive girl a struggling Trenker) the hero asks his senior doctor, a sharp spinster and the village atheist. A delightful feature is the scenery-typical country Scenery of hills, meadows, hedge

officer for permission to go into the village where the Italians were stationed to try to find out when the mine would be fired. He nourly homesteads, common loses his life 'trying to pass the alike to England and the older Italian lines, but he returns. safely. states of America, The picture to his comrades who are able to shows familiar things, life and not

rows and

the nightmare of cinema, New York

For country-house-pins-mystery, If a

evacuate just before-the-explosion takes place.

This in brief ontline is the story,

ALSO

COMPLETE

SUBJECT

of

THE OLYMPIC GAM89

of

1982...

"MAY BE IT'S LOVE'

AMERICAN SPORT PICTURE

BOOKING

AT THE

THEATRE TEL. 25313, 25332.

NEXT CHANGE COMEDY-DRAMA -INTRIGUE AND MYSTERY,

now show- May be it's Love" ing at the Queen's Theatre, is en excellent lm, and no wonder with Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown and James Hall in the principai

parts. The story centres round

football match between

24

"LIFE GOES

ON"

WITH

ELSIE RANDOLPH HUGH WAKEFIELD

A Paramount British Picture.

INDECOROUS MODERN

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DANCES

La Rochelle, Dancing in the De- partment of the Vendee is being regulated by stringent rules pro mulgated by the Prefect.

Unpaid Correspondence. Guy Exter, Mrs. W. B. Harris, Long & Dammarhe Jewellers and Exporters. Dhan Singh.

QUEENS TEARS

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7,15 & 9,20 p.m.

WARNER BROS prosent

MAYBEITS LOVE

A college education minus the class- room with the All American football team" supplying A

salvo

thrills!

VITA

of

ALSO SHOWING "Blood and Thunder"

"Land of the Moħarajabs’

AND

BOY

NEXT CHANGE MAN WHO THRILLED

All danoes to which the public are invited must be under severe

THE WORLD! Up- supervision. Indécorous dances are forbidden, and it is illegal for a person under eighteen years of age to take part in a public bali

ton College and Parsons Col leg. The Upton College Eleven basn't defenied the Parsons team in twelve years, and because of this the Trustees of Upton insist that President Sheffield must resign it Upton does not heat Parsone in the coming reason's game.

Nan Sheffield (Joan Bennett) the president's daughter and a co-ed of the School and Speed Hanson (Joe

The undermentioned undeliver. nile registered articles are lying in the Returned Letter Office, All scandalous noises, violence, General Post. Office, and will be re- profanity, and invective are pro-turned to the senders on production hibited in dance hall, while intoxi- of the corlificate of pesting. De cated persons, curriers of arms or Hong Kong 130A, 7.3.32 to Shang- Canes must be forbidden entrance. hai; Hong Kong 550A, 6.4.39 to Each mayor is empowered to. x Shanghai Hong Kong 161C, 10.2.32 the hours during which dancing in to Shanghai: Cheungwan 20076 to legal, but it is suggested that mid- Oakland Calif.: Wantsai 500, 4.4.39 might be closing time. Special au to Shanghai; Wnutani 193, 30.1.32 thorisation for masked balls must to Foochow Hong Kong 9210, be secured.

0.4.32 to Manila. P.I.: Hong Kong 1034, 7.3.32 to Trinidad.. List of Unclaimed Radio Telegrams. 4103 0883 0794, from Chinchow; Saigon Jesu Hantocsing, from Dalmada Castro, 4, Granville, Kow loon, from Shanghai; 1078, from Swabow: 0010 7807 0781, from Shanghai:

from Binquanglung, Shanghai Leothelion, from New York; Ocinej. from Taihoku; 1758 from Amoy; 2888, from Swa- 4303, Bow.

Brown) the only star of Upton's eleven overhear the trustees' threat. Speed hits upon a plan and out-

The ecclesiastical authorities are lines it to Nan. The plan is for

co-operating with the Profect in en- forcing these rules, which have been American " toam for Upton. Nan to flirt and recruit a real "all-

put into forco in an attempt to 'disastrous im- Tommy Nelson (James Hall) enters

fight against the Upton under an assumed name

moral consequences of indecent mo- Nan) and is forced to work isdern dances," it is declared. having already fallen in love with way through college because his wealthy father thinks he is at Par. soms. Eventually Tommy discovers that Nan has lured each of the boys to play on the team by pre- him. tending that she loved 'Continued at foot of next Column)

ORIENTAL

TEL. 23473

THEATRE

FLEMING ROAD, WANGHAJ

TO-DAY ONLY At 2,80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 p.m.

Janet GAYNOR

Charles FARRELL

Fin

Merely Mary Ann

cynic would say, it all sounds like but there are hundreds of little in- BY SPECIAL REQUESTI

n. Marcus Stone picture, the answer

cidents which grip the imagination,

is that a large house thoroughly

and there is meaning in the whole

enjoyed a well-told, witty and well. conception of the picture.

soted story,

The "Doomed Battalion " is not Marion Nixon scores ↓ real perhaps a cheerful picture but it is

Commencing FRIDAY, 2016 ́ ́ NOV. MAURICE CHEVALIER

in

triumph Tebocca, and Ralph one which you will not easily forget ONE HOUR WITH YOU"

Bellamy's quiet acling made him and which-whether you are pacifist

an attractive bero, Louise Closser or die hard you ought, to see.

Hale was magnificent as Aunt.

Miranda, a right royal figure from.

tho Vistorian age, who spends her recommended, not as a permanent

tiane being not amused.**.

Mae diot, but as a welcome innovation.

March has a sinall part, but Al-

That rough old villain Mr. Cobb

There is also, by the way, an

prony Ethior, gives a fine study of excellent news real of the Olympic

The picture can be in all sincerity (Continued at foot of 12t Column)

Games.

R. B.

with

JEANETTE MÃDONALD

GENEVIEVE TOBIN OHABLES RUGGLES ROLAND. YOUNG

AN ERNST LUBITSCH

Production.

A PARAMOUNT" PIOTURE.

CLAUDETTE COLBERT'S

MILK BATH

IN DE MILLE'S "BIGN OF

THE CROSS "

The "distinction" of being the only film actress in the world ever to hava a milk bath goes to Clau- dette Colbert, who recently lived the life of a luxury-loring Roman empress for a motion picture

scene.

Miss Colbert, playing the part of Empresa Poppaea, wife of Nero, spent several hours disporting in a bath comprised of one thousand gallons of milk. The hath was Created by Cecil B. DeMille for, scone in his Paramount, spectacle, tor "The Sign of the Cross."

IDLE SHIPYARDS

LOWEST NEW TONNAGE

TOTAL ON RECORI

London, Oct. 14-Shipbuilding in Great Britain and Ireland now stands at n lower figuro than any hithario recorded by Lloyd's Regis

also

The returns for the quarter end- Not since Annn Hold took hering Sept. 30 show only 238,433 tons famous milk bath years ago has of new vessels in hand, this being there been a scene sucl. as the one lees by 178,059 tons than the total witnessed in Hollywood.

of a year ago. Moreover, the present Milk from 500 Assos.

figure includes about 100,000 tons DeMille, bases the scene which, is on which work has been suspended, one of the spectacular highlights of so that the amount of tonnage "The Sign of the Cross"-on his notally being constructed does not

Research torical fact.

disclose exceed 89,000 tons. that Poppaea, Empress of Rome in

Foreign constructions. ei A.D., took a bath every day in milk provided. by 500 asses. Not down, the present total of 002,034 only was her palaco supplied daily ons being 100,000 tons less than with fresh milk, but she insisted the work in progress three months on taking the 500 assas along when ago. Not for twenty-two years has the output of foreign yards reach- ayer, she went on a journey, in ored such a two abb. The following der that she might lave in her fa vourite bathing fluid even when tonnage is building in the five lead.

ing countries:: touring the Roman hinterland. The

Italy andden demand for milk brought

United Sintes unexpected business to local dai-

France rian. DeMille received the benefit of tinually low prices now pre vailing in Southern California and at the same time provided a bath at, a cost not much greater than a that Italy, the United States, and specially mixed liquid which might France are all building more ton have been had for the actress skin nage than Great Britain, whose a

Whon filming of the bathing secnie vual current output is only a few was comploted the milk was turn thousand tons greater than that of ed over to a large stock farm for Germany and Ewerlen respectively. feed.

During the last thron months only 10,837 tons were commensod in Tommy's father hears that his son Great Britain, this being the lowest is at Upton, and playing in the figure ever recorded. In the same. match and comes down to make noriod 32 572-tons were laid down. trouble, a most amusing 8001e fol- abroad, anda.

127,809.

194,703

100,265

Germany

:80,770

Sweden

.....

73,480

Assuming that none of this work has been suspended, it will by sean

lowa between the irato father So far as this country; ià con and Speed. After the match, woncerned, the motor ship appears to of course by Upton 12 to 7, the bo losing ground, fot of the 238,439 inevitable happy ending comes with tons i hand all bub 21.001 is. All explanatione accepted, both by represented by eleemoor, On the the angry father and suspicious son other hand, the motor ships build- and Nan wrapped in the loving em ing abroad (385,000 tons)xceed brace of her Tommy.

the steamer, total by 101.480 tons,

RICHARD:

Beloved stars of "Cimar

" and rod

Champ."

DIX

JACKIE COOPER

and

MARION SHILLING

YOUNG DONOVANS KID

'They now' stand Shoulder-to-should-

er in stirring drama from Rex Beach's "Big Brother

(STAR)

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 0.20 p.m.

The Greatest Comedy To Come to the Screen

MODO

K

A Masterpiece with

world famous GROCK

in the leading role

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