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CENTRAL

THEATRI

FAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUG.

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre-Tel. 95720,

TO-DAY TO TUESDAY

At 2.80, 5,15, 7.15 & 9,80 P.M.

AIRMAIL

Different from any air picture ever producédi Revealing for the first time on any screen a flesh- and-blood story of the men who fly the air mail- and of the wo- men they lovel TREMENDOUS In scope!...TERRIFIC in drama.

With RALPH BELLAMY, Gloria Stuart, Pat O'BRIEN, Slim Summerville. Directed by John Ford, Presented by Cart Laemmle. A UNI- VERSAL PICTURE.

WEDNESDAY

Maybe

it's hokum...and

- maybe it's gospel

truth!.

You may try to laugh it off but are you sure these things don't. happen?... Come and see!

TIFFANY THAYER' feusalianal

13 WOMEN

Startling on the screen! WWW.IRENE DUNNE RICARDO CORTEZ/ JILL ESMOND MYKNA TOY Directed by George Archokbord

· Devil ✪ Selznick, Exec Producer –

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY FEBRUARY

TO DAY ONLY

2.30, 5,10 7.15

King's

The Woman in Room 13."

&" 9.30: P.M.

Queen's.

"Grand Hotel,"

Central.

"Air Mail."

Oriental.

Star.

Transatlantic."

KOWLOON

Majestic.

Millie."

"Peach o Reno.'

King's

COMING

The Big Broadcast," "Hat Check Girl." "Six Hours to Live."

Queen's.

"Pack Up Your Trouble,"

Central,

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"Thirteen Women,"

**Sweepstakes."!

World,

"Hell Divers."

*Cuban Love Song."

Oriental,

Star.

"Tarzan the Ape Man."

But the Flesh, is Woak.". Everything's Ronie,"

Night Court."

Majestic

The Trial of Vivienne Ware."

CANTON CINEMAS

Tai Tak,

"The Doomed Battalion." Wing Hon.

Hot Saturday.". Thung Wih.

"Rackety Rax." Sun Kwok Man Theatre. "Bachelor's Affairs." Bun Wah Theatre,

"Bird of Paradise." Pearl Theatre.

Pack Up Your Troubles

A Woman

HONGKONGS FINEST.O

Mad With Loval

A Man sa

Mad With Jealousy!

Murder--the blazing climax! But you'll never guess the amazing solution! And you'll never forget Landi is her most flaming role! Effsen

LANDI.

The

Hoary Kleg's Produzion

WOMAN

in

ROOM 13

Kolph Bullamy Myma Loy

From the stage play by Samad Shignon, Mon Murcia and Precival Wilde

FOX PICTURE

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

GRAND HOTEL.” "AIR MAIL" AT THE

Great Picture at Queen's

"

Grand Hotel" leaves one sprechless, it is impossible to clarify ones impresions, one feels

CENTRAL

"THE WOMAN IN ROOM 13"

ELISSA BANDI AT KING'S THEATRE

Film fans who have been clamor ing for more Elissa Landi screen stories will find their answer at the King's Theatre where "The woman in Room 13," ber latest Fox emo tional drama, is now playing.

In this stirring portrayal of pretty young divorces's fight to make her break from a revengeful ex-husband a clean one, Miss Landi" FAITHFUL PORTRAYAL OF is revealed as an actress of mani-

AN AIR PORT

The interior of a government, air rather as if one had sat through àasil relay airport is seen for the super revue, in which every scene frat time on the screen, at the was a big scene and played by big Central Theatre to-day, where people, scenes coine crowding po Universal's "Air Mail" is play

one's memory, the one overlapping the other, the whole is too big to see in perspective after one visit to the theatre.

We have had all star casts bc- fore: generally the films have toon a success. We have had two star pictures. when unless one has dominated both neered less than their best, but here we have a stupendous galaxy of stars each one uf whom has a full and characteris

e part to play.

ing.

plane

fold charms and appeal. The diversity of moods she is called upon to portray enable her for the first time to enact to normal emo tion of a present-day American wife in a believable and logical story...

BOOKING AT THE

THEATRE TEL: 25313

& 25332.

TO-MORROW

Star

Radio Land In a My Every

Heart-stirring Romance 1

The BIG BROADCAST

a

Fiction

STUART ERWIN

BING CROSBY LEILA HYAMS BURNS & ALLEM KATE SAMITH MILLS BROTHERS BOSWELL SISTERS

TRACY ARTHARINERY VINCENT LOVEZ

CAB CALLOWAY

ARE HIS ORCHESTRA

A GREAT HEART · STORY OF THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE ̈“MIKE."

THAT PROBLEM OF

EXCHANGE!

[CAUSES BLOWS AND COURT PROCEEDINGS

A quarrel over the rate of ex change between a customer and oul. two money changers, which minated in the former receiving as black ave had its sequel at Cen-. tral Magistracy yesterday, when two money changers, Loung. Fat: and Mak Luen of 199, Connaught Road: Central wore summoned for assault.

Detective Sergeant J. Gould ap peared for the prosecution, and the defendants were represented by Mr. G. 8. Ford.

According to Sergant Gould" tho defendants' complainant went to

shop on the evening of February 7 After changing 820 in Chung. Nam Bank notes for which the defendants gave him 818.30, Hong Kong cur rency, the complainant" took out Another dellar of the Central Bank, and asked the defendants how much Hong Kong money they would pay for. it. The second defendant said that he would pay 80 cents, which the complainant remarked was too little

Te defendant was then alleged

to have callad complainant a fool, ater to which the complainant strongly objected. A quarrel sub- Bequent arose, and later the de- lendinuts together with several fokis were alleged to have assaulted the complainant. The complainant then Xan Away and later returned" with &uropean police officer who ar rested the two defendants.

Défendant's Story,

After the complainant and two- other eye-witnesses had given ovi dence bearing out Mr. Gould's statement, the two defendants then went into the witness-box and said that the complainant was the first to start the trouble. When they said that they would pay 88 cents for the dollar, complainant became. abusive and accused them of try- ing to swindle him. Complainant then threw an ink-stand, which was on the counter, at the second de VETERAN NURSE DIES AT 10 fendant. The first defendant took a cash tray and tried to frighten the complainant' away..

WORKED WITH FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND LIVINGSTONE

Miss Jassie Lennox, who was a personal friend of Dr, Livingstone, the African missionary, and Flor ence Nightingale, has died in an Edinburgh nursing home at the age of 109.

Both defendante denied having assaulted the complainant and said that the assault was commit- ted by a passers-by who did not approve the complainant's belliger

The friendship between Missent attitude. Lennox and Dr. Livingstone and His Worship, Mr. Wynne-Jones, his wife originated in 1882, when however, disbelieved the defence and Miss Lennox, a qualified nurse, found the first defendant guilty of. travelled with Mra. Livingstone assault, sad bound him over in the from Durban to the mouth of the sum of 850 to be of good behaviour. The summons Zambesi, where she witnessed the for twelve months. meeting between Mrs. Livingstone against the second defendant was

dismissed.. and her husband.

To her death she had in her pos session Dr. Livingstone's "Last Journals," presented to her by Misa Nightingale, with the inscrip

tion:

She is seen as an unhappy wife "Offered to Miss Lennox in men married to a philandering hus- ory of her old friend Dr. Living band; she is pictured as a spirited, stone, and with an earnest prayer (

Patterned after existing capable, independent woman who that we may each of us be enabled utations where mail pilots change had made a success as a composers to do our duty as he did, each in in their daily scheduled flights she has the happiness of romance our own work to which we are across the continent, the airport with a devoted new mate; then, when called. (Signed) Florence Night

her new happiness is threatened, ingale, London, July 1, 1875." scenes show the great relief map

she fights with every ounce of har of the flying planes dotted wi its movable tags which indicate energy to protect the man she loves

and the positions of the mail planes, accepting blame, censure The radio broadcasting and receiv.shame.

is

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ing station which continually In The Woman In Room 13" checks with the radio-equipped Miss Landi is surrounded by ships for position and weather con- notable cast of screen celebrities, another interesti including Ralph Bellamy, Neil ditions feature of the port, and the emer Hamilton, Myrna Loy and Gilbert zenuy paraphernalia such as "crash Holand. The photoplay was direct shear," resque trucks, skis and ed by Henry King from a Guy snowshoes, fire stations must be Bolton adaptation of the stage suc continually ready to succor flyers coss written by Samuel Shipman, It is Miss Landi's sixth American who crash or become lost in the Max Marcia and Percival Wilde. film. She recently starred in "The lonely mountains regions,

Yellow Ticket" and "Devils Lot- tery.!!

O'Brien,

There are the Barrymores, John and Licarl, the latter gives a most moving performance, Wallace Beery in a part which gives him a chance to show his ability, Joan Crawford in a difficult it interesting role, and Greta Garbo really allowed to net for once. Her scene early in the picture when she refuses to go Ralph Bellamy, Pat to the theatre is one of the finest Russell Hopton, Slim Summerville, bits of dramatic art I have seen. Gloria Stuart and Lilian Bond are To describe Grand Hotel" is featured in the absorbing film, almost impossible to criticise it directed by John Ford. adequately one would need" to see it at least twice-but, one can ad- mire and applaud and urge every 1one to go and see this truly great

picture for themselves.

E.M.B.

THE BIG BROAD-

CAST

STAR WHO SINGS IN ALL

LANGUAGES

any foreign language, representa tivos of that country will soon be calling to greet him as one of them- selves Italians, for example, lis- ten to his rendition of "Vesti la Giubba" and dash down to shake Iris hand. Bussians, on the other hand, resent any intimation that he's not from dear ol St. Peters burg, once they've heard him do

"Volga Boatman."

ing

That, however, is just the begin- ning. Let him sing in German, and the Germans will be in; in French, and the French will be in; in Spanish, and the Spanish will be in.

the

They all claim Arthur Tracy! Tracy, known to millions of It's all due to natural fair for radio listeners as "The Street languages, which set him on his Singer is hailed by practically search of new tongues when he was every nationality in the American a hoy, and still keeps him occupi- melting pot as a follow-country-ed, Tracy explains. man. And it's because he con speak so many languages so fluent In The Big Broadcast" he is seen with Kate Smith, Burns and Allon, the Mills Brothers, the Bos Tracy ie featured with Stuart well Sisters, Vincent Lopez and his Erwin Bing Crosby, Egils Hyams: Orchestra, and Cab Calloway, and and a large cast of other radio his Orchestra, v

favorites in "The Big Broadcast," The picture is the, stor of Cros-

a romantic comedy coming to the by's inability to

King's Theatre next Sunday,ly due to his

Weary-radio-studio olicials h

have,

learned that when. Trasy singa in pea (Continued “at foot nj. next Columny i his broade

4. SHOWS- DAILY

So

Darwin,

The greatest and most profound work that has ever been written on philosophy, viewed from a ration alist standpoint, was the descrip tion applied to "The Origin of Species," by Professor C. J. Pat- ten, of Sheffield University, who delivered a commentary on Dar wia's master-piece to members of the Rationalist Press, Association, Glasgow.

Later she entered the Nightin gale Training School for Nurses in London, where ale worked for sev

Darwin, far more than any other eral years. She was one of six man, said Professor Patten, had nurses chosen by Miss Nightingale completely changed the face of to take up duty at Netley Hospi- human thought and learning, not tal, the first to be appointed by only in the sphere of biology but also in politica, in sociólogy, in re- the War Office.

ligion in short, in the whole the Sick Children's Hospital, Bel-gamut of human activities.

For 18 years Miss Lennox was at

fast.

When the Scottish War Memorial

An honoured Miss Lennox was was opened in Edinburgh in 1927 guest." The King and Queen and

with her on that occasion. the Prince of Wales shook hands

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JEAN HERSHOLT

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Greta GARBO

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JOHN

BARRYMORE

asthe roman- ric, Baron,

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LIONEL

BARRYMORE

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