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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAXE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS

ADVANCE BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

King's,

HONG KONG

Thunder Below,"

Queen's.

"Call of the Sea"

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY - 2.80, 6.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

Cantral,

Oriental.

THE STAR OF STARS

"Born to Love."

"Sporting Chance." KOWLOON

ford Babs."

IN A GLAMOROUS

Star,

+

STORY WITH A

LONDON SETTING

King'i

The S moke

Screen o

War Hid

Queen's,

Morals of

Peace!

Central,

CONSTANCE BENNETT

Together they shared love— alone she faced the penalty?

BORN

TO LOVE

with

JOEL MCCREA

ANRKO PATHE

PRODUCTION

SUNDAY

MORE THRILLS! · MORE SURPRISES THAN YOU EVER SAWI

***LET ME

INTRODUCE

The overlord

of the under- world com0L 4- manded them to marry, Than commanded that death thold seper sts them!

YOU TO...

YOUR

HUSBANDI'

BILL BOYD

BIG GAMBLE

THE

WITH

Charles

R. Rogers Prodadian

WARNER OLAND

DOROTHY SEBASTIAN

JAMES GLEASON

COMING SOON

RKO-RADION PICTURE

One of the big scenes in the jungle thriller! FRANK BUCK'S BRING EM

BACK

ALIVE

płoturw to quickum the blood of ava

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VE YOU

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Sin Ship."

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• Friends and Lovers.”

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Devil and the Deep." Pearl Theatre.

"Huddle." Scuthera Palaca.

-The-Viking". Tai Tak Theatre.

True Life of Yuen Lan."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

TALLULAH

BANKHEAD

--the exptic, the sophisticate»« Imagine her the lower of

a tropic camp, the only white woman on half a contment, the adored of an exiled band of beat-crazed men -

Imagine it, if you can, but SEE

THUNDER BELOW

A Paramount Picture -

-WITH---

CHARLES BICKFORD, PAUL LUKAS, EUGENE PALLETTE

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

THUNDER BELOW":

AT THE KING'S

BUSINESS AND

PLEASURE,"

LEADING MAN'S EVENTFUL AND WHERE WILL ROGERS

LIFE

Charles Bickford, appearing with Tallulah Bankhead in. Para- mount's Thunder Below," which is now showing at the King's Thea tre, has enough irons in the fire," as the saying goes, to keep

WAS EDUCATED -

Will Rogers has spiked a ruinour that he is a product of Eton and Oxford after it began to appear that it was getting widespread credence. attended only two small American The popular humorist claims to have

a dozen men busy. To him, acting schools, both in, Missouri and one of

is

an enjoyable vocation with alluring cultural qualities.

Bickford is more business man than film actor. Besides, having the leading main role in Miss Bankhead's latest starring vehicle, which is his eight pieture in half year's time, ho owns a hog farm, chicken ranch, cafe, lingoria shop, garage, gas station and two whil ing boats. In addition he owns

them a military academy.

Rogers credits Arthur Brisbang editor and writer, with starting the report of his higher education.

Arthur and I kid each other back and forth in our columns," Will said recently. We thought folks that I, who never have been it would be a great joke to tell the

university except as a guest,

in

"What really got Arthur started," was that I made the off-hand re-

a half interest. in a pearling schoon- was a product of one of the world's er and has recently purchased a most famous universities. I thought small island near Jaya where co-it a good joke, too, and helped it coanute are grown, which he has along by saring that a man ought never seen. He has found time to to be allowed to live down his.

past. acquire the technique of a play- wright as well as that of an actor, and his third successful play, "Sandy Hooker," opened in Chi-mark, after attending my daughter's in February. His present graduation exercises, that I was glad I had chosen a profession' that didn't require any education. minant beting, but he thought I meant writing, I guess. Even when on the stage, Bick- I'll have to trot out my fav ford used to spend the summer ourite gag on Arthur, He's the months between seasons working world's greatest booster for avia- with construction engineering! tion; but he's never had a foot oll groups rather than taking a vaca- the ground. You can't conx him into tion at seaside or mountaina. He, & plane."

cago

plans ara, tu open a dude ranch near Ensenada, Mexico.

T

Engineer by Profession,

wae educated to be an engineer That many persons took Bris and served in this unit during the bane's little joke on Rogers norious war. After his college career, hely is indicated by the number, of want around the world as a sailor. mid they had known all the Limo letters the comedian received. Many Bickford was born in Cambridge, that Rogers was an Englishman, and Mass, and was educated in Boston that the cowboy background he Schools and Massachusette. In claimed was just publicity. tute of Technology. After complet ing his engineering education, he i Bet forth on an around-the-world! trip with, Roosevelt's fleet 88 a coal-passer.

His stock career includes engage ments also in Lynn, Lawrence, Havergill and Lowell, Mass,; New port, Rhode Island Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York: Philadel phis, Pittsburgh-end Harrisburg, Pennslyvania. St. Louis, Mo. and Chicago

Notable Roles:

?

"My Only Schools,**

The only schools I over attend- od,” said Will," were the Wille Hasser School at Neosho, Missouri; at Booneville, Missouri,"

Bogers has just completed his latest Fox film starring production, will be seen and heard on Sunday Business and Ploneure, which

Bext at the King's Theatre. It was adapted from the bost selling novel,

The Plutocrat," by Booth Tarking

ton.

His Brodway appearances, which carried him to stage, stardom," in- -*-*-*- clude Dark Rosaleen," "Flames," "Outside Looking In," "Glory Hal- in Dynamite." From this, he leluiah,” “Now Mare. Wonem went into leading parta in “ Anug “ Chicago,” “ Bless You Bister" | Christta,"!" Bouth Ben Rose, ***The and Gods of the Lightning." Son Bat" "Hell's Heroes Pane After ten years on the stage, he alon Elower, River's End,” entered motion pictures three years.

"Panama Flo The Squaw

ago when selected for the hero role) Man "** Ambition "⠀ “Pasta el Wlmatinued-al-ront of mist columa ↑ "Borneo "-and- Thunder Below."

BOOKING AT TAN TREATHE THL 25913;

-&-25332.

NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 18th, DEC.

They're Still Laughing...

at his performances in "A Connecticut Yankee"and"Young as You Feel.”

WILL

ROGERS

in

BUSINESS

and

PLEASURE

WITH JETTA GOUDAL A FOX PICTURE

Miss Ziziakova, the talented dancer, who will start a short sea. son in the Peninmis Hotel Hose Boom on the occasion of the Gala night on Christmas Eve,

Miss Zizlakova was very well received with her partner Bouvoris, both at the Cathay Hotel and the Little Club in Skangħai.

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· TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS, TO-DAY, TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY 1933 FIRST RUN in HONG KONG

RELEASE

The first steeplechase race of sound movies!

And what a thrillert.

SPORTING CHANCE

Chock-a-block full of action,

thrills and beart-throbs.

One of the year's best picturesse facturing BUSTER COLLIER CLAUDIA DELL JAMES HALL and EUGENE JACKSON

WHY MR. MAUGHAM WROTE IT

"PLAY TO SAVE YOUTH

FROM NEXT WAR.

Mr. Sommerset Maugham spoke from the depth of an armchair:- "I live on the Continent and every moment I see the countries of Europe arming themselves to the teeth as hard as they can go, and that is why I wrote my play

to try to protect the new. youth of to-day from dying in the treaches or losing five years, of their lives in a war that seems af most imminent.

He was talking to me about kis new play, "For Services Render- ed," which had its first night at the Globe Theatre on Tuesday.

The play, an ironic drama of pest-war life in an. English home, Was said to be Mr. Maugham's last, and the critics have labelled it as "brilliant as a'' peace-time "journey's End,' but bitter and cruel,"

Last Play-But One.

Mr. Maugham, as he talked to me, discounted the criticism and told in that it is his last play but

ane.

I have been working for ages on what I think is to be my last play," he told me, and I shall actually start writing it shortly.

"As to calling last night's play bitter," he went on, "well it might be more truly called a play about a bitter subject, a play on a theme which is in itself ironic, and I believe is being enacted in many unhappy war-wreaked homes."

Mr. Maugham walked to the window of his sitting-room and looked out on to the seething 'mass of traffic in Piccadilly.

The messige of my play," he said, "is to the youth of the world that is just coming of age. The youth that has never known the horrors of war, and to whom the men spiritually, mentally and physically wrecked by the war arej just a lot of tiresome old fogies.

"My play is not bitter in itself. But if the subject happens to be bitter or crual well 1"

· WOOLSEY FILM AT THE--- QUEEN'S

COMEDY OF SHAM AUCTION RING

The contagious lure of the sham suction ring, with its petty trick. eries and price. juggling, is the comedy theme of Radio Pictures' "Everything's Rosio" showing on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.i

Featuring Robert Woolsey in his first solo starring comedy, the picture catches the laugh-provoking highlights of carnival faker's career and takes him through a sories of comedy situations.

1

The auction scenes give Woolsey plenty of opportunity to engage in that light patter which first made him famous on the vaudeville stage and later as Bert Wheeler's parte ner in & mories of six Radio Picturce' comedies.

The story is from the pen of the recognized leader of Hollywood's humorists, Al Boasberg. The direc- tion is by Clyde Bruckman, who directed Harold Lloyd in his last three pictures. Anita Louise, John Darrow, Florence Roberts and. Alfred P. James are in the 'cast.

ADMIRAL SOLVES SUM- MONS PROBLEM

HUSBAND WHO IS IN A

BATTLESHIP.

An application for a maintenance order against a sailor, Herbert Henry Mills, now serving in the battleship Royal Sovereign, wGE "mado at" Aldershot Police Courts Car

It was stated that the wife no

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“A STIRBING NAVAL ADVENTURE

"THE CALL OF THE SEA“

RRITISH PRODUCTION

ALSO ALL BRITISH SHORTS AND

SIR ROBERT HO TUNGS

TALKIE

DEBUT

· NEXT CHANGE Cyclonic Comic of "Rio" Rita“

ROBERT

SCREEN'S GRANDEST BUFFOON

Carnival of laughs Big Time

thrills in a rousing farce

with a dash

of heartache

ANITA LOUISE JOHN DARROW

EVERYTHINGS

ROSIE

STAR

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A JOLLY SHOW..

A FEAST OF LAUGHS

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presonia"

Bobby Howes,

ENGLAND'S

Greatest Comedian

plied for a separation order on the LORD BABS”

grounds of desertion. The captain of the Boyd Foverage sidow over declined to accept service of“ thei summons as the ship was starting for a two-and-a-half years' cruise in the Mediterranean.

It was stated that the first port of call would be Gibraltar, but, on the advice of a magistratą, - Admira), J. Hawksley, the court decided that

Gainsborough Picture

JEAN COLIN

PAT PATERSON

ALFRED DRAYTON

Vandeville Manical

the mad aust first have a residence -- From:

at Malta, the headquarters during the cruise, and decided to take no detion untilthakahin-arrived.

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