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CENTRAL

THEATRI

TODAY AT THE

TAXY QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUA.

ADVANCE BOOKING AT

King's.

ANDERSON'S

TO-DAY to SATURDAY 280, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

Now It's On

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"Lily Christine!?..

Queen's,

“Unashamed.”

Centrai,

"Old Dark House," Oriental,

*** Sentland Yard,” ·

The Screen! Star.

OLD

DARK

HOUSE

KOWLOON

"The Beggar Student.”

King's.

COMING

"Love Me To-night:"

* Phantom President."

"Sky Devils."

Horse Feathers."

Queen's.

The Guardsman.”

Skyscraper Souls."

Central

Bird of Paradise." Thark."

Oriental,

**White Hell of Pitz Palu.”

Stor.

•

Polly of the Circus."

Call of the Sea."

Sapaw Man."

CANTON CINEMAS

Tai Tak.

Miss Shanghai."

Eun Kwok Man.

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Bring 'Em Back Alive."

Wing Hon.

Blonde Vents.".

Thang Wah.

The Woman in Room "

Scuthern Palace.

"Cracked Nuts."

thrills

Pearl Theatre.

thrills

thrills thrills thrills

thrills

OLD DARK HOUSE

With KARLOFF, MELVYN DOUGLAS, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart, Lilian Bond, Pro-' duced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Directed by JAMES WHALE. Presented by Carl Laemmle. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

SUNDAY

BKO-RADIOS MILLION DOLLAR SPECTACLE

ON THE SCREEN IN A BLAZE O GLORY!

Richard Walion Tully's World- Sweeping play! KING VIDOR'S

Stirring spectacle

RADISE

A drama of forbidden love beyond

- the pole, of white man's morală,

R.K.O

RADIO

Picture

David O.

Sulanick Executive

Producer

DOLORES DEL RÍO CHÉ JOIL MÆCREA.

A Job?

Consult

tha

WANT ADS

"Hell Divera."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933.

TO-DAY ONLY

Ar 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

HONGKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

Michael Arlen's most brilliant novel comes to life in a picture.that' reveals all his "inner knowledge" of the secrets of London's fashionable haunis!

CORINNE GRIFFITH

3m

"LILY CHRISTINE "

with MARGARET BANNERMAN

and COLIN CLIVE

by Michael Arlen

Directed by Paul Stein

A PARAMOUNT British PICTURE

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong-

"LILY CHRISTINE '

AT THE KING'S

AN ACCIDENT AT HYDE

PARK CORNER

A lorry driver knocked down a well-known flm actress in a busy

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THE OLD DARK

HOUSE"

RARE THRILL AT CENTRAL, THEATRE

The thousands who are crowding into the Central Theatre these days to see The Old Dark House" get something besides the rare thrill which this picture guarantees. "LOVE ME TO-NIGHT" They got an eyeful of Gloria Stuart. This young beautiful blonde is pointed for stardom, no less.

HOW MAURICE SINGS TO

BRITISH SOLDIERS -..

"How, Ya Gonna Keep Down on the Farm, After They've Seen Paree "

Horia Stuart got the breaks," says the envious.

BOOKING

AT Tax

THEATRE

TEL. 25313 & 25332.

TO-MORROW BY SPECIAL REQUEST:

Maurice

CHEVALIER

Singing songs, mak- ing love, fas. cinating everybody

in his mast

human picture!

LOVE ME TONIGHT

with JEANETTE

MACDONALD

CHARLIE RUGGLES, CHARLES BUTTERWORTH and MYRNA LOY A Rouben Mamoulian Production

A Parozzount Picture

The romance of a tailor wha 1owed up the heart of every

woman in Paris!

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FILM NOTES FROM LONDON

Royal Cinema Map.

The Duke of Gloucester is very busy with final preparations for his shooting trip to the Sauda

hich is planned to start in the hyst days of the new year. In the limited equipment he is taking two cinema cameras are the important

QUEEN STRATE

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

SHE DEFIED THE POINTING FINGER OF

save a live!

items, and the. Duke, whose Army SCANDAL-to treining has made him 2 very methodical man, is having a course of lessons from an expert in the us of the cameras.

Mr. Charles Laughton.

On Dec. 19-Mr. Charles Laugh

ten, who has been working hard at Hollywood and taken part in six films, renched Southampton, and remarked how glad he was to ba in'" England once again. Mr. Laugh- ton is tired of adulation of being. mobbed by girls in New York and of all the glare and glamour of Hollywood.

Ho saki: New York overwhelms me, and once I had to beat a Eur ried treat from a stove when the shop-girls, recognised me, stoppėd hasinew, and tried to raise me shoulder-high. They are now be ginning appreciate British films ia Americ, but it is surprising how even the most famous.of Loa- don actors are unknown."

The last film in which Mr. Laugh- ton has taken part is The Island of Lost Snula," In regard to this film he remarked: "They packed a whale company, of us, on board a small boat and fook us to Catalina | Island, off the Califoraian coast.

The journey in itself would have made the most wonderful film } could think el. We were packed on board for four days with directors and cauera men and a whole enngerie of wild animals. There wer 60 people in the small boat. with lions, tigers, a puma, monkeys and every other animal imaginable, We struck rough weather and all were masick. The lions roared and the parrits chattered incessantly. C made friends with i great leopard, for fortunately I did not have to appese on any set with him. Wint a journey

Mr. Laughton made his first real hit in The Devil and the Deep,"

ROLAND YOUNG'S STRATE-fallowed it up with a persona!

GIC MEASURES

FILMING WINTER IN MIDSUMMER.

starring Helen TWELVETREES

with

ROBERT

YOUNG LEWIS STONE

EAN

HERSHOLT

JOUN MILJAN

triumph, in "Payment Deferred" and another hit in "The Sign of FROM the Cross." As Nero he plays the harp while Rome is seen burning (not the fiddle). His make-up took two and a quarter hours every day. Roland Young knows how to keep which meant he had arrive on cool under camera fire.

the set nt. 6.30 ́aïm, Now he has During filming of a scene in the just finished, playing the sinister Alfred Lunt-Lynn: Fontanne talk scientist in H. G. Wells's. ** The ing picture, The Guardaman,” Island of Dr. Moreau." which will be

screened at the Mr. Laughton intends to stay in Queen's Theatre from Sunday, London six months, do a play, or

enter Young was required to

a two, and then go back to Califomia house wearing & heavy winter over to make three more pictures for

Paramount. coat, muffler and gloves.

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A Famous Cameraman,

Mr. James Wong Howe, the famous Chinese, whose work in

Transatlantic,"

* Peter Pan,"

The day on which this episode was made was the bottest of the fear in California with the tent perature several degrees above hundred. Young appeared imma culate as far as screen audiences and other notable fims has put him were, concerned for he never took in the front rank of screen camera. his coat off.

men, is in London. Mr., Howe wes born in Canton, but, left China at the age of 4.

If he had done so impromptu

Gloria Stuart did get the breaks. So does most everyone who is look ing for them. The trouble with Emost people is they don't know. what to do with them and are not

humour would have been contribut prepared for them when they do ed to the sequence for all the comeGloria Stuart was. She is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player ware a society girl, born to the purple, beneath were his trousers! but she did not care much for iety Her mother noted that as a child Gloria was for ever acting and she made opportunities for her daughter.

He didn't know it at the time, London street, but the police took but when he sang a song of that no action against the parties re-

title in English in a Parisian music sponsible for the accident. In ball one night, Maurice Chevalier tual fact the driver of the vehicle was one of the most skilful and was laying the foundation for his experienced men on the road, and movie career.

Later

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· UNASHAMED " AT THE

QUEEN'S THEATRE

When asked how he became a cameraman, he explained simply that a friend had told him that a cameraman was quite a good thing. to be Actually, cameramen of Mr. Howe's standing are more precious than gold. and earn as much as most stars. He is entranced with LEWIS STONE AS DEFENCE holds certificates of proficiency in The French star, whose latest

the photographic possibilities of ATTORNEY. the running of automobiles.

Little school plays and scripts picture, “Love Me To-night

London, and spends his spare time comes to the King's Theatre ngai weli done. Then came Kerke Lewis Statie, who plays the de gazing Trafalgar Square with The accident was pre-arranged by Paul Stein the director of the Paron Friday 13th instant, learned ley and the little Theatre at the fence attorney in Unashamed," a photographic eye, and exploring

English as a prisoner in a German University of California.

now at the Queen's Theatre, was such odd corners as the Adelphi amount British Production. "Lily Camp during the World War under Morris Ankrum at Cornell born in Worcester, Mass. He is Arches. the Thames Embankment Christine," which will be showing Ronold Kennedy, an English she resolved to be a stage actress equally distinguished as an actor and Covent Garden. Of the women at the King's Theatre to-day,

soldier incarcerated with him, and she get a chance at the Pasa-and an army officer. Following a stars he says Clare Bow is the The incident forms one of the taught it to him.

dena Community Playhouse, where renowned stage career, he came to easiest to photograph, and of the most thrilling scenes in this pro-

Carl Leaiamle saw her and signed the screen, where he has become the rien, Charles Ferrell.

cinema's foremost character actor. duction. Before it was filmed cor-

Recent Stone bits include "Grand rectly, nearly a whole day was spent in rehearsing the scene in the

Lynton," "Night Court? Hotel," "The Wet Parade," "Letty and studio, and it had to be shot se veral times before perfect results

"Mata Hari," were obtain. In the story, Lily Christine is run over by a lorry

When he escaped and returned to her up. Paris, Chevalier got himself a job The Old Dark House" was a singing in a music hall. British and American soldiers on leave from what to do with it. She is in the break but Clefia Stuart knew just the battle front made up a large bay. portion of his audience.

One night he had as inspiration.

at Hyde Park Corner, the junction Why not sing them a song in their of several streets in the heart of own language? London, which has presented a

'problem to the traffic control experts Chevalier racked his memory and r many years. In order to en- got together the words of the one act this scene within the studio English song he know: "How Ya walls, the site was erected and a Gonna Keep Em Down On The number of private motor cars and Farm; "After They've Seen Paree 7: taxi-cabs were hired. An officer When he sang it, his British-Ameri- from Scotland Yard who is an ex- can audience went wild. pert on traffic control assisted Paul

Encouraged by his first success. Stein, the director, in regulating he repeated it night after night, the intersecting streams of traffic. learning more and more English By careful timing and rehearsal,

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the driver of every vehicle in the songs until he had a large reper. toire. Even after the war ended

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scene knew exactly where his car and the soldiers went home, he kept should be at any moment in the scene, so that the intentional - French sudiences liked it, whether singing in English becauM cident" should he the only one or not they understood the words. When everything was ready, Corin- |

ne Griffith stepped into the rond It was the knowledge of English and the lorry Aung ber to the that enabled him to accept-a-cou ground. The fall impact was taken tract with Paramount, in America, by Miss Griffith on her outstretched and develop into one of the Eng hand and the lorry came to un fish speaking screen's most popular. instant standstill; but so swiftly personalities.

did everything occur that not onc

Love Me To-night," his latest who sees the accident on the screen picture, finds him cast as a tailor could guess that it was being en-who falls in love with a princess netod for at least the twentieth sud he sings several new song hits.. time. The slightest, miscalculation He goes through many amusing cir by Mia Griffith or any of the gumstances in Kemoving the boulders moving cara would have produced blocking their path to happiness a serious accident. As it was the touben Mamoulain directed the actress suffered no worse harm than Donald, Charlie Ruggles Charles production, with Jeanette Mac several bruises and faddered stock- Butterworth and Myrna Loy in

chief supporting ruler,

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IRISH FREE STATE

ELECTION

FREE SPEECH FOR BOTH SIDES URGED

(THROUGй BEUTER'S AGENCY.

DUBLIN, Jan. 11. THE big parties in the Irish Free

State are united on the im portant point of the election cam paign namely, determination to maintain ordez,

Mr. de Valera, in a speech at Navan," appealed to his supporters

"YOU

Bayard Veiller

who wrote: "Paid" and

"Trial of Mary

Dugan," has now

created his

masterpiece of

thrilling drama!'

Never 5 situation in any picture i

SUNDAY

COULDN'T DISGUISE YOUR KISS!"

But had ske

really recognized her bus- band's love-making? ALTREZD

Fontanne

famous Theatre Guild stars now make their Lalkie debut in the picturization of their Greatest

stage

Buccess:

GUARDSMAN

abith

Roland Yourd

Zasu Pitis

Mam Goldwyn Mayer

STAR

to give his opponents an undistur-TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

bed hearing..

|A6 2.80, 6.20, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m General O'Duffy, Chief of the Civil Guard, announced that ́· if necessary the whole army would be available to preserve peace and safeguard full liberty of expresson.

Two hundred and forty candi dates will be nominated to day." They are equally divided, one hundred and twenty for the Treaty with Britain and one hundred and and twenty against, - Both sides "express confidence. The Cosgrave Party leaders ara proclaiming that when they...” are returned, Mr. Cosgrave will imme diately journey to London and will achieve a settlement within three dayı:

BEGGAR STUDENT

SHIRLEY DALE LANCE FAIRFAX JERRY VERNO the world famous CARL MILLÖCKEL

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