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'ONLY

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TO-DAY AT THE

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HONG KONG

King's

Dance Team."

Queen's.

"Chances.".

Central,

"The Big Gamble."

Oriental,

Disorderly Conduct.?

KOWLOON

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932.

SHOWING

TO-DAY (AT-2.30, 5.10,"

7,15 & 9.30 P.M.

KING'S THEATRE

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION!

ON THE STAGE

AT 6,10 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. only

Sin Ship.

COMING

King's.

SIDE STEPPING LOVE WAS THE ONLY STEP THEY COULDN'T DOI

THE CELEBRATED

"Doctor,

"serious?"

Bloade Venus,"

„Queen's...

Downstairs.

Central.

•ď mare scratch on her foot stated it all... marted the most deliciously intimate romants you ever thrilled

the most brilliantly sparkling comedy you ever laughed at... the most de lightfully daring DRAMA you ever experienced

Produced by Card Lxammla, dí. from the novel by Donald Henderson Clarke, Presented by Carl Lremmie. Directed by JAMES WHALE

LEW AYRES

MAE CLARKE, UNA MERKEL JOHN HALLIDAY, ANDY DEVINE

IMPATIENT MAIDEN

FREDAY

THE PICTURE OF THE HOUR!

HOMICIDE SQUAD

Dedicated

to the

Polico

Force. in Their War Against the the. Oriminal, Lawless, the Evil

Co-Starring LEO. CARRILLO. MARY BRIAN

WITH

NOAH BEERY- RUSSELL GLEASON

A Universal Picture.

COMING SOON

One of the big scenes. in the jungle thriller

FRANK BUCK'S

BRING EM

BACK

ALIVE

picture Atis quicken the blood

Inpatient Maiden,”

Bring 'Em Back Alive." Tom Brown of Culver."

Star,

rd

Transgression."

CANTON CINEMAS

Sun Kwok Man Theatre,

"Cohen and Kellys in Holly-

wood."

Chung Wah Theatre,

The First-Yeur," Wing Hon Theatre.

Life's Comedy."

Tai Tak Theatre.

Big Adventure.".

Greepy-Crawly.

A round-up of all the available reptiles, lizards and toads is now being made by scouts from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for the many terrifying scenes in. "The Mask Of Fu Manchu," the story of a Chinese criminal..

AUSTRALIAN TRIO

JOHN- PRIORA

GOLDEN-VOICED TENOR

JAMES

BERTINI

VAGABOND VIOLINIST

DUNN

SALLY

EILERS

Sweethearts of "Bad Girl"

Dance Team

Directed by Sidney Lanfield

Story by Sazah Addington FOX Picture

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

“LOVE ON THE SPOT"

FORTHCOMING AT QUEEN'S THEATRE..

++

HARRY STORY

AT THE PIANO

"THE BEST BIG

TIME ACT"

TO PLAY THE FAR EAST

SINCE THE VISIT OF

SIR HARRY LAUDER

“DOWNSTAIRS AT THE QUEEN'S

JOHN GILBERT AS A VILLAIN

TO BE SCREENED ON SUNDAY

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"Downstairs" which introduces John Gilbert to his soreen fans in a startling new departure `as Д sinister but colourful villain, is the attraction coming to the Queen'

* DANCE TEAM AT THE KING'S

FEATURING FAMOUS FILM Theatra on, Sunday.

LOVERS

James Dunn and Sally. Eilers, wh overnight, became reigning sensations of the screen with their "Bad marvelous portrayals in Girl" and who confirmed their sucess in Over The Hill," comes to the King's Theatre to-day iu

"Dance their third feature offering, Team."

further triumph for the Queen's Theatre." This was the verdict of a member of the small audience who by special invitation attended the pro-view of the film Love On the Spot" at the British Film Distribution Company's studio yesterday, and we feel sure that a similar verdict will also be accord ed the film by film funs and local patrons of the theatre when they Presenting these youthful stars have the pleasure of viewing it on in an entirely different type of its release early next week. story. "Dance Team" is said to For Love On the Spot." is easily exceed End Girl in its human- one of the best British "talkies"ness,, its realistic and natural situa shown here for sonic time, and adds another laurel to the wroath de servedly won by Radio Pictures, Ltd., who, with Basil Dean as pro- ducer, is helping to establish as the fact that British films will in time suceced as American and Ger- nian have done before them,

Based on the novel Three of a Kind" which, apart from the " Bull. dog Drummond" series, is Sapper's most popular work, the story of Love On the Spot" bhe gained rather than lost, as sometimes hap pens, by its being re-written for the screen, and it is pleasing to note also that whereas most novels of this type when adapted for the stage or film are hacked and cut to such an extent that quite often even

tions and its tender romance. It revolves around the struggles of two ambitious youngsters, who on the cash capital of a dollar and ten cents, set out become success- ful ballroom dancers on Broadway.

"break"

The misadventures of the two in trying to get a foothold on New York's rialto, with Dunn being. thrown out of various establish- ments; their first real with an engagement in a chop suey palace, nuly to see Miss Eilers sprain her ankle on their first evening; their struggles to save money for another attempt by joy of success when they, score on the opening night at a smert night club and find themselves the sense tions of Broadway and Dunn's in-

the author fails to recognize his own ability to stand good fortune all work, in this case the story relend a good amount of pathos and mains practically the same as when humour. first conceived and written by the author,

While danying "plays a big part in the theme of the story the picture is said to deal more It is a little difficult to say under with the problems that confront what heading "Love On the Epot" Dunn and Miss Eilers off the dance is to be placed, for it is a combina floor. Their battles with their tion of the three most popular problems of rarsance as well as means of entertainment adopted success and their attempts to sids by the theatre, musical comedy, step love in their endeavours to straight comedy, and drama, all two step to fame, supply laughi mingled to such an extent that at and tears to the picture, according the end of the entertainment one is to advance reportą, Heft wondering whilet realising that! The film ientand-upon the suc

an excellent show has been witness-cessful movel of the same name by ed, what the demite aims of the Sarah Addington. It was adapted producer were when undertaking for the screau by Edwin Burke, the the work of placing before the public man whose sparking loss helped this special film.

to make "Bad Girl" the rensn- We feel that it would be spoiling tional hit it was. The supporting the plekkuro of impanding patrons - cast is faade up of a group of stage. were wo here to divulge the plot and scream" celebrities, including ** Love, On the Spot but it in Minna "Gombell, who also played

worth while stating that it has with Dunn and Miny Biler gangster, theme and that the story Bad Girls," Ralph Morgan, is handled and acted excellently by Harry Beresford, Nora + Lane, a number of well-known British Charles Williama, Edward Crea stage and soreen stars. The Queen's-dall and Chairs -Maynard, - The Theatre Management have been ex entire inczis of this Fox Film tremely enterprizing in arranging duction which was directed to show this.. tulgië op co-incident Sidney Lanfaldar New with the Christinas holidays for the comedy element of the film is de finitely, in keeping with the spirit of fun which prevails at this sea LOD.Love: On the Spot should therefore be one of the entertain

ments we intend to visit during coming week as the sec will greatly help towar bug Christaraz a

was

The story of" Downstairs written by Gilbert himself. Ori ginally he intended to direct Erich von Stroheim in it, which gives some hint as to the nature of the extraordinary role in which dil bert upsets all precedents, and ab andons his former type of romantic

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

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THEATER

TEL. 25313 & 25332.

NEXT CHANGE- SUNDAY, 26th DEC. MARLENE

DIETRICH

“BLONDE VENUS

MARLENE DIETRICH FILM FOR KING'S "

The crash of the Garman' mark,

QUEENS TIRAGES

TO-DAY

BATURDAY

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

in the early pos-war period, put "TEN SHUN!”

Marlene Dietrich in the movies:

The glamorous foreiga atar,

Tatest whose

"Blonde pioane, "Venus" comer to the King's Thea

tre on Sunday next, recently res vealed tone long before she won overnight fame in *Morocco," her first American peitaire, she had had movie experience.

I had bocu studying violin, and had just given my first recital,"

“BLONDE VENUS” she explained, when Carnally

A Paramount Piture;

HERBERT MARSHALL CARY GRANT Directed by JBSER YON STERNBERO

heroes for a villainous characteriza-

tion

Downstairs is a tense drama laid in the servants' quarters of a European castle with Gilbert, as a chauffeur, spreading a web of in- trigue that enmeshes the entire household until a fantastic rovenge ends his plotting.

Virginia Bruce, whose betrothal to Gilbert was announced during the making of the picture, plays, the heroine as the maid and l'au) Lukas enacts the avenging butler who lures the philandering chauf- four to a terrible doom.

suffered an economic collapse. My mother and I were practically de- stitute, and in an effort to earn somo money I tried work" 'anan, extra at the UTA studios. Dated

I worked at this for several months, and then decided, to try the singeIt was from there that I went back to the movies,"

+i

It was while Miss Dietrich was appearing in a musical comedy in Berlin theatre that Josef von Stomberg, suminoned to Germany to direct Emil Jannings in ““The Blue Angel saw her nad immedi ately, signed her for the feminine lead in the picture."

When it was completed, he brought her to Amerion to star in "Morocco. Following its suc cas, the English version of The Blue Angel" was put on display in American theatres...

Blonde Venus," her fifthi Efig- Hali-languagh, picture, presents Miss Dietrich in the role of a woman, who, to save her husband's wife, accepts the love of another n. The climax comes which the ushand discovers the fact.

ANTHONY BUSHELL AND FAIRBANKS, JR.

IN CHANGES !' ÁT. QUEEN'S THEATRE

of

Anthony Bushell, who plays the brother-of-the-star-in-Chances. the First National romance of the world war starring Douglas Fair- banks, Jr., now showing at the Queen's Theatre, is a native

He Westerham, Kent, England was captain of the cricket team, stroke of the college crew and wou boxing trophy in the middle- weights while in Oxford where ho won his B.A. He left school to enter the Royal Academy of Drama tic Arts in London.

don plays, he toured the provinces After appearing in several Loo- For a year then returned to the Hedda Hopper is seen as a coun-metropolis to take a part in James teas with whom the chauffeur has Gleason's Is Zat So" which en- an affair; Reginald Owen plays the joyed a nine months run. He came baron in whose ancestral eartie the to America to play the lead in dramatic events are laid; Olga The Cardboard Lover". Biclanova plays the pleasure-loy-Jeanne Engles. - ing baroness and Bodil Rosing has the role of the love-starved cook whose life savings are stolen by the unprincipled chauffeur. The cast also includes Otto Hoffma, Lucien Littlefeld and Marion Lessing,

Vem Back:

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ORIENTAL

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DISORDERLY

CONDUCT

BRENDEL TRACY EILERS

with Action and Excitement brings many a Ne tirring story of Police Life. A mixture of Politics and Graft söö pens to an honest policeman who turns crook el Brendal hands

of laughs as the DUMB Patrol Man, str

with

His fino work in "Disraeli" when he supported George Arliss, was followed by woreen roles in "Show of Showa," "Lovin' the Ladies,"

Journey's End, Flirting Widow" and "Three Faces Eatt." Anthony Bushell traces his an- cestry to the thirteenth century, Colonel Anthony Bushell was knighted in seventeenth century for bravery in the Parliamentary War. After the death of Henry VIII Katherine Parr, one of his many wives, married a Bushell. Mr. Bushell is the husband of the screen actress, Zelma O'Neal.

AT THE ORIENTAL THEATRE TO-DAY

SALLY EILERS IN DIS- "ORDERLY CONDUCT

Disorderly Conduct, the new Fox picture, which opens at the. Oriental Theatre to-day is repon- sible for the ascendancy of two stars in the movie firmament. One of them-Bally Eilers strengthens her position in the film world by one of her best performances. Spencer Tracy is the other one who by sheer power of acting, lifts him- self into the realms of stardom.

Miss Eilers, as the spoiled daug hter of an influential politician, has a role that requires every ounce. of that young actress's ability and experience, it is a role vastly dif ferent from the one she played in "Bad Girl and is proof of her great versatility

Tracy, as the motor cop who do cides that being honest only gets him into trouble but that a double crossing career offers proft and ex- citment, Tracy turns in one of the finest and most colourful perform anées the speaking screen has yet put forth it is well worth the price of admission just to see this splendid actor go through the gamut of emotions resulting from ble de cision to be dishonest and the sub- sequent realization that lowas font the wrong track after all

Ralph Bellamy, deserves honours as the upright police captain Ef Brendel, Dickie Moore, Ralph Mor Ranger Allan Dinehart, Charle laetapevine Mid other “violablari lal |the cast call de canvincing-workini!

their parts The direction W. Considine,.. Jr.,

Anthony McGuire's story

John

Here's Doug Jr. in his first

starring role

DOUGLAS

FAIRBANKS.JR

CHANCES

Glorious Spectacular-the One Great Story of the warl

with ROSE HOBART ANTHONY BUSHELL

·HOLMES HERBERT

MARY FORIS

Life probed to ita depths by the pen of A. Hamilton Gibbel

"ÅLSO SHOWING- THE GOLF SPECIAL "MATCH

PLAY"

NEXT CHANGE The Comeback of Brilliant Screen Star.

an Unforgetable Role!

GILBERT

returns to greatness in his own role

DOWNS

A Bachelor prepetual honey-moon.

Just the type of ro the Gilbert you want to see

with PAUL

LUKAS

STAR

TO-DAY

SIN

SHIP

LOUIS MARY

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