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THE STAR OF STARS IN A GLAMOROUS

STORY WITH A LONDON SETTING

The S moke

Screen o War Rid Morals of Peace!

CONSTANCE

BENNETT

Together they shared love— "alone she faced the penalty?

BORN

TO LOVE

JOEL MECREA

AŃ RKO PATHE PRODUCTION

SUNDAY

MORE THRILLS! MORE SURPRISES THAN YOU EVER SAW!

"LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO YOUR HUSBANDI'

The overlord of the under world com mended them to marry. Then

commandad., that death __should_separa

ats them!

BILL BOYD

BIG GAMBLE

THE

WITH

5. Rogers

WARNER OLAND DOROTHY SEBASTIAN JAMES GLEASON

COMING SOON

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

BACK

ALIVE

picturs

"the blood

ADS

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Thunder: Below

Queen's,

"Call of the Sea.”

Central,

***Born to Love,"

Oriental.

Star,

"Sporting Chanes.”

KOWLOON

Lord Babs."

King's.

COMING

"Business and Pleasure.'

LI

Blonde Venus.”

Queen's.

"Everything's Rosic.".

11 Chances."

Central.

The Big Gamble."

Bring 'Em Back Alive."

Tom Brown of Culver."

Oriental,

Star.

Million Dollar Lagu."

"Silver Hordo."'

"Sin Ship,"

** Transgression."

CANTON CINEMAS

Chung Wah Theatre,

* Friends and Lovers,”

Wing Hon Theatre.

"Devil and the Deep." Pearl Theatra. "Huddle."

Bouthern Palace.

"The Viking.” Tai Tak Theatre...

"Trus Life of Yuan Lan."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 16, 1932.

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TALLULAH

BANKHEAD

» « the exotic, the sophisticate a Imagine her the lower of

tropic car.

the only wait at

woman on haft a contiment, the

adored of an celed band of beatquared mer

Imagine it, you can, but SEE

THUNDER BELOW

A Paramount Picture:

WITH

CHARLES BICKFORD, PAUL LUKAS,

EUGENE PALLETTE ·

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

'BUSINESS "AND

PLEASURE

WILL ROGERS IN A NEW ROLE

Ji

Will Rogers continues his sensa tional career on the talking screen in Business and Pleasure, adapt ed from the best-seller novel, "The Plutocrat," by Booth Tarkington, in his latent Fox production commone ing on Sunday next to the King's

Theatre screen.

EVERYTHING'S

ROSIE"

ROBT. WOOLSEY'S COMEDY

AT QUEEN'S.

Hollywood comedy writers will sacrifice sleep any time for a joke's gake.

ORIENTAL THEATRE things nosic

MILLION DOLLAR LEGS

If what Hong Kong really needs is a great big laugh, you can get it at the Oriental Theatre next Sun- day and Monday when" Million Dollar Legs," will be the feature attraction. Le's been a long time since this city has seen such insane, hilarious buffoonery. There is nei ther rime nor reason to the picture.! It's dizzy. It's wild. It's sheer nonsencical farce, but there's a howl in every line of it and frankly, you will love it!

olive.

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They re Sam Laughing.

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WILL

ROGERS

BUSINESS

and

PLEASURE

WITH JETTA GOUDAL A FOX PICTURE

THUNDER BELOW AT THE KING'S

HOW TALLULAH WAS TAUGHT SHAKESPEARE

A United States Senator was Tallulah Bankhead's first, dramatic | teacher. Her instructor was her father, Senator William B. Bank „head, of Alabama, -As a result of This teaching Miss Bankhead is now starring in the production of Para- mount's Thunder Below," which is now showing at the King's Theatre!

The

in lessons always were Shakespeaream roles, enacted in their home. Sonator Bankhead has always been an admirer of the famous Bard and to-day is con- sidered one of the nation's most thorough students of Shakespeare

"Father used to train "mae in Shakespeare when I was at school lang, long before I went to New York to try me fortune on the stage," the Paramanat star-states."

Many are the times when 1 have heen Juniot to him Romeo." It was extremely hard, because I always knew father was as familiar with my speeches as his own and i worked in fear of forgetting,

Miss Bankhead's first, public ap-| pearance was as a successful con- testant in a beauty contest held by a Washington, D.C publication. The judges made their ward from photography and Miss Bankhead has the beauty and personality registers in that medium.

It was inevitable that Miss Bank- head should choose the stage as her vocation. She was brought up on drama. To act, to impersonate was an inherent quality of her tempera- mont, Her early convent and pri vate school education was followed by a course in a dramatic school and after graduation she immedi ately sought a job on the dramatic stage,

GOSSIP

FACT,

Bobt Woolsey, comedian, is The Super-Snore ),

What Lionel Barrymore Wants. scoring the greatest triumph of his Recording a lusty store for talk "What this country needs," re- caroor at the Queen's Theatre from Ling pictures required the efforts of marked Lionel Barrymore as he Sunday, in Radio Pictures' "Everymore than 20 men during a scene gingerly fingered a smoke somebody screaming in Bed Rust," featuring Clark had handed him," Is a good five comedy, written for him by Al' Gable, and Jean Harlow. A snore cent cigar that they don't put a Boasber whose jokes, vaudeville in very low on the register of vi-three-for-a-half label on.”

bration and requires the attention;* skits and writings are nationally colebrated. They are great, friends -but:

On April Fools' day, while this. film was in production, Bousberg, who had been in the butt some of Woolsey's practical humour, re- taliated in the following manner, while the Woolsey's were attending a midnight preview

He called the Woolsey: servant.

This is the City Water Depart cent," he said brusquely. This central water main has broken and the entire supply is to be shut off

in half an hour and won't be turn- ed on again for two days. Please take the necessary measures....

Won the Woolsey's returned.

ORIENTAL.

THEATREĽ

Rogers, in this newest comedy, has the role of Earl Tinker, middle western manufacturer, who takes

Set against the timely background his family on a sight-seeing tour of the 1932 Olympic games, the to the Mediterranean-and inciden- story purports to tell of the heroic home, far into the wee hours, they tally combines pleasure with m

achievements of a gallant little fell over pots and pans and tubs brilliant piece of business,

band of athletes from Klapstokia, and Tases, all filled to the brim The story, written by Tarkington These boys run so fast that they trip with water. Every room and all primarily as B defence of the over frightened rabbits and have available floor space was taken up typical American tourist and as an

to hurdle fleeing deer. They jump by something holding water. It answer to the satirical attacks yn

so high and so far that their na took them hours to bail the place the native son by Sinclair Lewis in tive mountain goata, essing them, out hie Main Street" and "Babbitt," "would be

consumed with

That evening Woolsey invited retaine much of its delicious flavour There's only one fly in the oint Bossberg and served him with a in the screen version. Few changes ment. The blonde charmer, Mata 28 course dinner-all water! were made to give the production Machree, is determined, for poli- dramatis forms as well as to serve tical reasons, that they shall Not as a proper vehicle for the Rogers' | win and using woman's age-old brand of humour.~~~~~~

wiles, stacks the cards against them. Wo find Rogers, then, as a salety. But then our hero takes a band- razor mammfacturer, who, through and well, come and see for your- strenuous competition by a number self just what does happen. of rivais, finds himself in a pre- carious business position. He em- Having decided to make barks on the ocean voyage with his comedy, Paramount took the next wife, his daughter, and a deep laid logical step and throw into it per plan to rescue his business and send; hapa the finest cant of, comedians his trade enemies down to defeat. ever assembled for any one picture, Aboard the de luxe liner he meets, Jack Oakie, W. C. Fields, Andy among others, Lawrence Ogle, en Clyde, Ben Turpin, Lydia Roberti, neted by Joel McCrea, a playwright,, Hank Mann, George Barbier, Hugh who is enjoying the fruits of Herbert, Dickie Moore and Susan Broadway success in vacation trip,

Fleming all have responsible parts to Algiers. Also among Rogers in this picture of super-laugha early acquaintances is Mme, MoYou'll forget all your troubles when mora, played by Jetta Goudal, you see Million Dollar Legs.” mysterious French lady of unusual, charm and brilliance...

Nagging Relatives.

A

Tinker has a desperate time trying keep track of her husband: He has Mra. Tinker, played by Dorothy struck up a strong friendship with Deterson, is a nagging wife, jealous Mmo. Momora. Pretending to be a of every move her husband makes secress, she finds out the teal rea Olivia Tinker, onnoted by Peggy son for his trip. She learns that Ross, is a young girl of 20, angry he plante to go to Damascus to ob- with her father for dragging hetain rights to the famous Damacus away from her sweetheart and de steel for his razor blades. - S termined to punish him for inter foring in by affairs.

--The-scene-shifts-to-Algiers und

tribal headquarters in the desert,, While Mrs Tinker and Olivia are desperately seasick, Rogers enjoys iving Rogera en ungsually wide himself. immediately. He doesn't scope for his individual brand of caro much for Ogle-who is hyper humour. These sequences are said critical and sophisticated, looking to contain some of the funiest scenes down from his Olympian heights yet credited to the famous, come- with disdam on the plain out

apoken_natural Americae, Enzi). Others in the cast are Boris Kari Tinker boy gay loff, Cyril Bing and "Jed Prouty, Ogle and Olivia snap at each other The direction is by David Butler at every opportunity, while Mrs from the adaptation and dialogue by (Continued at foot of next Qolumn)William Cónselman, -

**

of a full, crew to get the sound Payment Deferred” as Talkie, exactly right,

London Releases.

Says a London critic.

On no necount should you miss the magnificent of Dorothy Pater- Enemies of the Public-James son) in Payment Deferred" Cagney in a strong gangster film "I cannot recall anything on the somewhat spoiled by autting.

The Firat Mr. Fraser-A not screen that has left me so pro- oppressed very successful attempt to bring foundly disturbed, so St. John Ervino's comedy to the with a sense of the inevitability of Screen Henry Ainley, Joan Bar door. Mr. Laughton gives us no cheap histrionie fireworks. Though ry, Harold Huth, and Dorothy Marble. had little of the Dix play the chief roles.

As You Desire Me-An interest-Hobility, and his crime none of the ing adaptation of a play by Piran- grandeur, which the Greeks be- dello, with Greta Garbo as the wo. lieved to be inseparable from true "Payment Deferred" man whose identity is disputed; tragedy. Melvyn Douglas, her husband, and does succeed in suggesting of what Von Stroheim (surprisingly bad) the Greek meant when he the that "Man rolls darkling down the torrent of his fate," And I think Hollywood-A brilliant satire on Hollywood, mix it does fulfil that other requirement purge of tragedy that it should" ed up with strong drama. Con stance Bennett has one of her best the soul with terror and with

pity." parts, and there is a fine perform- ance by Lowell Sherman,"

Balories.

na the menace.

What Price

No, 17-Leon M. Lion repeats his success as the Cockney in a week, is the highest paid artist in Al Jolson, with $15,000 dollars a British thriller with laughs,

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