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CENTRAL

HEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S UD., WESTBOUND DUS

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

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG.

King's

Lady and Gout,"

Queen's.

Control.

Oriental.

A SPECTACULAR & EX- PENSIVELY PRODUCED VIENNESE OPERETTA

Viennese Nights," Good Night Vienna,"

"Trader Horn."

KOWLOON.

Star.

"Sustu Lenox."

COMING.

King's.

Vamshing Frontier."

Movie Crazy."

Que d'a

Transgression."

Central.

THE IDOL OF LONDON' AND BROADWAY IN BRITAIN'S FINEST

PICTURE.

DELICIOUS

VENNESC ROMANCE ***

JACK BUCHANAN

ANNA NEAGLE

Good Night Vienna

RRITISH & DOMINIONS SUPER PRODUCTION

'NEXT' CHANGE

A New Type of Picture

The picture is so unusual so unique, so thrilling, so spectacular, 30 grip. ping that we urge you to see it.

WHITE HELL of

PITZ PALU

Breathless Thrills I

Featuring Gustav Diesel, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Peterson and Ernst Udet. Directed by

Dr. Arnold Frank and G. W. Pabit,

~A-Universal-Picture.

acreo-classic as "

Star.

!! Huddle."

White Hell of Pitz Pal.".

Is Everylndy Hans."

"Our Modern Maidens"

THE COLONY'S FINANCES

CREDIT BALANCE SLIGHTLY

REDUCED.

Financial statistics in the Gut. show that the erapent Gazette Colony's credit balance at the end If August was 812,320,611, compar ed with $13,153,016 at the end of July.

Revenue during August totalled; $1,995, 57, against $2,080,780 in the tre trait last year, while for the pechid from January to August in. clusive, the inean was $21,871,415, empated with $1,748,937 in the same period last year.

Expenditure during August was $2,860,001. against $2,293,038 in. 1931, whilst fur the eight months it ་!༢ $20.583, 233, ugnit:st $19,711,507 lat year.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1932.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.80, 5.10,

7.15 & 0.30 P.M.

GROW YOURSELF A NEW BRAIN, BIG BOY!!

“Do you think I'm going to stay in this dump just to hear a kid we never saw til yesterday call us Ma and.Pa? When night court is the

you and I ever marriage licensë

GEOR

BANCROFT

Lady and Gent

with WYNNE GIBSON

CHARLES STARRETT JAMES GLEASON

A Paramount Picture

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

"THE VANISHING FRONTIER"

OLD CALIFORNIA STORY FOR KING'S "

LADY AND GENT"

AT THE KING'S

A

VIENNESE NIGHTS"

FINE MUSICAL ROMANCE AT QUEEN'S

first Viennese Nights," the romancy wrillen directly for the serven by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II, was on- thusiastically received by a large andiever at the Queen's Theatre yesterday afternoon.

The story is that of Elan, cobbler's daughter, whose life is entirely changed by her father forcing her to marry a wealthy, officer.

ORIENTAL

TEL. 21473

FLEMING ROAD, WAHCHAI SHOWING TO-DAY

Viveinne Segal (Elsa) plays her part with great charm, her voice Sho TALE OF UNDERWORLDERS being delightful to listen to.

WHO MADE GOOD is nhly supported by Alexander Gray (Otto) and Walter Pidgeon (Franz). This picture, which is in "Lady and Gent," showing at A trade molice states:—

Vanishing Frontier," a story of the King's Theatre is a good films untural colours, ie certainly one of Old California, starring Johnny in a straightforward and unpre- the best shown in Hong Kong in Janner. The opening many months and should not be Mack Brown, and featuring Evalyn tentious Knapp, ZaSu Pitts, Raymond Hat shows the underworld of New York missed. The symphony, inspired ton and 3. Farrell MacDonald, prize-dighting and onbarets, the by Elsa, being exceptionally well opens at the King's Theatre On chief characters being a second rate rendered. and is a treat to music

bruiser and shrewish little lovers. Thursday next,

The story is set in the periodeabaret girl who lives with him. immediately following California's Slag. Bailey, the prize-fighter, has who annexation to the United States, an unsatisfactory manager

him but there is a but before the territorial gover-spongers on ment has been set up. Under com strong bond between the two, des- mand of an unimaginative officer, pite the efforts of the girl to The manager the United States cavalry enforces separate the men. martial law.

geta shot while attempting a burg Brown has the role of a Spanish-fary and the bruiser only just American who show his recent escapes implication. ment against the military rate by He and the girl then follow up organizing a band of guerillas toj un address given in a telegram to right the wrongs committed by the the dead man, hoping to get onto What they do soldiers. Like some 18th century something good. Robin Hood, he steals back from find is the Manager'a charming the cavalry the money they have little house in the country and also This taken from the natives, and then his very winning small son. restores it to the former owners, curious pair annex the place and

the picture

Miss settle down there, protesting and Knapp, daughter of a general, unwilling, and, they make good! Brown deeply in love with her. That is the merit of the film. The riaks his life to see her. Boon she story is well told, amsing and hu loves him, too. But there is much man, and it convinces. Of course it thrill action before the two are fin-is not quite free of "sob-stuff," but ally united. That occurs only after neither is life itself, and this pic- the military government has boen, ture does get down to ordinary life, and the amusing situations that replaced by a civil one.

The picture is filled with stirring arise as the two rather odd people and breathlem incidente. Battles grow into a community that likes between the guerillas and the them and takes them, for what they military, escapes from a convict are. ship, midnight rides through pro cipitous canyons, and many other. such sequences contribute to the suspense.

Into

comea

Good Acting.. George Bancroft and Wynne Gib can give skilful and intelligent rendership of parts that in leas abla banda would have been mere. TRANSGRESSION ?' 'AT”

ly irritating. Bancroft has a role QUEEN'S, THEATRE - of the kind that is usually associat- ed with Victor Maelagen, but TRIO OF FAVOURITE PLAYERS while Maclagen could have done the "rough house," he probably A trade notice-states:--- could not have made the manan. Beautiful Kay Francis, whose aspect of the prize-fighter so.con- rise to screen stardom has been vincing.

rapid, Ricardo "Bodu Geste, deserved and

Wynne Gibson's pert and ex- "Sorrel and Son,/"The Case of Corter, suave Villain of the talkies pressive beauty fits into the party Sergeant Grischa" and "Beau and Paul Cavanagh, notable stage, and she is particularly good in the Idral has handled the production star play the principal roles latter stages when the night-club

The story, from Kate Jordan's episodes unre very distant past.” with notable success, socording to

The Next Corner," deals One wonders a little where the advance information. Brenon con novel siders it one of his major triumphs with the mental torment of a young film is getting to, but a fine climax, An unusually competent support woman reared in the peace and is provided when the old bruiser ing cast, includes auch favourites as quiet of an English countryside who starts to teach his adopted son Nance O'Neill, Ruth Weston, John goes to Paris and struggles against now a famous athlete what prize 36 Polisand Adrienne d'Ambri. conscience and impuls when an fighting means. This is the reply ardent lover attempts to sweep her to visit from a boxing match The Powerful drama." Transgres off her feet.

promoter who tries to get the boy Herbert Brenon, director of auch into his clutches, sion will be the next change at

R.B. [Continued on Previous Voluma | the Queen's Theatre

court.

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RESURRECTION"

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JOHN ALUPE BOLES VELEZ

EDWIN" CAREWE'S

SENSATIONAL PRODUCTION

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.

BOOKING

AT THE

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-NEXT CHANGE-

NO WOMAN COULD RESIST THIS MAN'S MAN!

THE

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BROWN

NANISHING FRONTIER

EVALYN KNAPP

LASU PITTS • RAYMOND HATTON aParamount Release

A Mexican Robin Hood, fearless in danger and ardent in love! Ride with him to romance and thrills!

WUCHOW NEWS LETTER

BIG BLAZE OF WOODEN

HOUSES

-'--

(From Our Own Correspondent)

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Wrchow, Nov. 10. Thirty-two wooden houses the Stout Memorial Hospità! werd burnt down last week. The fire was enused by workmen who had been doing some cooking and were tod lazy to put out the fire when they had finished. A large number of people were rendered homeless and had to be housed in publie build inga.

The damage was estimated at $10,000,

The Head of. Wai Pat Kwan. The head of the notorious brigand Wai Pat Kwan is being exhibited in a glass jar of spirits of wine. A large number of people have been going along to the parade ground to see the grim relic of the "Red" chief who is credited with the des truction of 10,000. persons balore he mot with his own end. In a few days the head will be buried in North Hill and over the place a stone table will record his misdeeds.

Red Lights on the River.

It was in 1929 that the flotilin of beats that formed Wuchow's "red light district was burned. Since then the trade has languished. Now an enterprising business man has obtained, it is rumoured, per- sion to build and equip, a now flotilla on the old lines, but with al modern improvements. Proper ty owners on the banks of the Fu River, where these craft may be moored are already protesting

SWATOW NOTES

ANOTHER BIG FIRE

HUNDREDS OF MATSHEDS BURNT

(Prom Our Own Correspondent.)

SWATOW, Nov. 21. What proved to be one of tho worst fires during these last few years, broke out here on Friday last when nearly five hundred small huts and matsheds situated half way between the town and Kiniat near the sea-front were burnt down, accompanied by the loss of two lives.

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Stretching over a wide area these dwellings were teuanted by ricksh coolies and ethers of the labouring classes with an average of ve members to a family, hisides pigs and chickens:

The outbreak occurred shortly after midnight in one of the huts at the farthest must end, and was caused by a inan overturning a small up after he had fallen elrep when smoking opisu,

"All the fire appliances in town erived in good lime, but a shor tage of water precluded better work being done. The fire soon. spread from but to hut, and it took the firemen more than an hour the Before they conild subdur flames. Fortunately a smith wind was blowing ni the time and, had it changed the results would have been much more serious owing to Another hatch of bats being on the gast side of the houses ir Commer At one time the Salt cial Street. Gabelle fees were threat gued..

Many of the adiacent buts were also ut cut from the sparks blowing in all directions. As the Are seemed to be getting thicker and thicker each morent all the pigs and chickens were, let out from their quarters. What with their equaking and the gries of the fetror-stricken women and children the scene was very gruesome and horrible. About a thousand people werd watching the fire from every angle.

The officials of the Charitable Guilds and staffs were energetic in their work of relief. Wherever possible shacks and tents were put. by the roadside and 'gunny bars and other comforts supplied, Kit- son lamos were provided, besides a free kitchen for all and sundry, Up till now relief is being adminis- tered and subscriptions are being solicited for the purpose of re settling these poor people,

CAR DRIVER ATTACKED

TWO EUROPEANS IN STRANGE ESCAPADE,

accom-

A report was made to the Police on Friday by the driver of a public car, who stated that shortly before. 10 p.m., his car was engaged by two Europeans who wa panied by a Chinese woman. The men boarded the car at Garden Road and were driven to Belcher's Street, where they alighted, but on being asked to pay the fare, refused to do so.

The two men are then alleged to have set on the driver and while one held him down, the other drove the car back towards the city, They pushed the driver out of the ear in Des Voeux Road near the World Theatre and the man at once made

report to the Central Policr Station, A search party was sent out and the ear was found aban- doned at the Yaumati Ferry Wharf, but no trace of the Europeans or the young woman could be found.

PIECE GOODS MARKET CHAMBER OF COMMENCE REPORT.

The Imports-Prices Current Is sued by the General Chamber of Cominence states:--

The following reports have.

been received;

Drought and Plague of Worms.

There has been a quictor tone in Prospects for the rice crop are the market and no new business of poor, particularly in the Yung any importance can be recorded. Yuen; Poe Lau and Wat Lam dis- The local situation has been over tricts. There has been drought cast by the failure of two old estab- und a species of worm is causing lished native Piece Goods firms, re- havoc. The pest is being to some sulting for more bankrupt cargo ba extent counter-acted by putting ing thrown on the market. Clear- kerosene on the water in the paddy ances have been on a smaller scale fields. Possibly the remedy will be but prices for Staples remain worse than the disease.

BO SUN LOST AT SEA LOCAL POLIÒE INQUIRES

INTO TRAGEDY.

steady,

The latest Cotton prices to hand Are those of the 25th inst:-

Mid. American "Spot”.......... b.44d." Egyptian Sakel...

F.G.F. "Spot....... 2.566.'

Woollens

The market for Woollens is fairly slow on account of the mild weather, The No. 1 boatswain of the Em with prices sagging. Clearances are press of Russia disappeared from proceeding but there does not ap- the liner whilst on a voyage from pear to be any great demand for Shanghai to Hong Kong and it is goods. New business is confined to believed that he jumped overboard. a few small miscellaneous repeat Three men were detained by the lines for prompt shipment, with. Water Police when the Empress bout replacing costs relatively unchang arrived in Harbour on Saturday, ed: Trade in Wool Tarns and The disappearance of the hosts Rayon in reported to be quiet with wain is alleged to be connected with amall demand for “ Spot " cargo an incident in Nagasaki when three at depressed prices.

Japanese coal coolies were killed

when a life boat fell from the deck

of the C.P.S. liner. As result of leased.

the accident three members of the A report of the disappearance of Chinesa crew were detained by the the boatswain was, made by Capi Nagasaki Felice, but according to tam AJ Hoskin. The man w & message received by the local discovered to be missing at C.P.8, office, the man had been re- p.m. on November 21

QUEEN THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

The PICTURE of the YEAR! You Owe it to Yourself to See It!

Who can resist the temptations" of "

VIENNESE NIGHTS

where all tho world makes

lova!

SIGMUND ROMBERG

and

OSGAR HAMMERSTIIN, 2nd ROMANCE

-COMING SHORTLY—

KAY FRANCIS RICARDO CORTEZ PAUL CAVANAGH

Pitched the heart-beat of all womankind.

IBTENSE! COURAGEOUS! GRIPPING!

Directed by HERBERT - BRENON

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 &-9.20 p.m. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer›

Presents

GRETA GARBO

SUSAN LENOX

HER FALL AND RISE)

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