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CENTRAL

CATRI

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

TODAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

TAKE quens'a RD., WESTBOUND BUS.

King's....

The Big Broadcast,"

Queen'a.

"Grand Hotel,"

-Central

**Air Mail,"

Oriental.

SHOWING

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

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

AIRMAIL

Different from any air picture ever produced! 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 love! TREMENDOUS in scope!...TERRIFIC in drama.

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

NEXT CHANGE

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!

THAY

13 WOMEN

Start

L

the screen!

Star.

Tarzan the Ape Man."

KOWLOON

"But the Filesh is Weak." Majestic.

The Trial of Vivienne Ware."

King's

COMING

Hnt Check Girl."

"Six Hours to Live."

Queen's.

Central.

Pack Up Your Troubles.".

Thirteen Women,"

"Sweepstakes."

Blue Danube."

"Once in a Lifetime."

"The Flag Lieutenant.

The Most Dangerous Game.

Back Street.'

"Leap Year"

World.

Star.

"Cuban Love Song."

Everything's Rosie."

"Night Court.”

CANTON CINEMAS

Tai Tak.

"The Doomed Battalion."

Wing Hon.

Int Saturday.'

Chung wah.

"Rackety Rax."

Sun Kwok Man Theatre. Bachelor's Affairs,"

Sun Wah Theatre.

"Bird of Paradise." Pearl Theatre.

Pack Up Your Troubles."

HỦNG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1933.

SHOWING TO-DAY Ar

2.30, 5,10 7,15 & 9.30 P.M.

HONCKONE'S FINEST ONEWA

EVERY STAR OF RADIO LAND IN `A "HEART-STIRRING ROMANCE!

Everyone famous...appearing

together in a drama of the

microphone... revealing their

trials...their struggles...their.

loves... their hates ... the real

story of the men and women

of the air.

THE

BIG BROADCAST

|| STUART ERWIN BING CROSBY

LEILA HYAMS

BURNS & ALLEN

KATE SMITH BROTHERS BOSWELL

a Paramount Picture

ARTHUR TRACY

THE STREET SINDE.

CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS ORCHEST

READ THIS GREAT

LIST OF RADIO CELEBRITIES!

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

GRAND HOTEL"

· AT THE QUEEN'S

MASTERPIECE OF FILM

ENTERTAINMENT

'HAT CHECK GIRL

"J

HOW SALLY EILERS WAS

** TESTED **

BOOKING AT THE

THEATRE

TEL. 25313 & 25392.

NEXT OHANGE THURSDAY, 18th FEB.

A ROYAL ROMANCE OF THE SOCIAL REGISTEKITE' AND THE BROADWAY CHECK GIRL TOLD WITH SPEED AND REALISM!

YOU CAN'T WINI

Better leave

the joy apota alone and go home.

HAT CHECK GIRL

A GOOD PICTURE AT THE KING'S

Sally EILERS Ben LYON

Fox

Picture

AIR MAIL'

AT THE CENTRAL

CANTON EXHIBITION

TO OPEN ON WEDNESDAY

F

the

On Wednesday, February 15, tha Canton Exhibition will be formally opened, and those interested, should avail themselves of the "tacilitica specially made for the free trans- portation of Hong Kong exhibits to Canton. For the past few days, the Hong Kong Oflice of Canton Exhibition in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Connaugh Road Central, has been busy puck ing Hong Kong products for ship- nent which include Chinese and foreign goods. Stalis, 8 by 6 It. may be obtained at suo, each, and space for advertisement may be booked through the Wing Ying Ad- vertising Agency, Bank of Canton Building.

Mr. Koam C. Lie, the Hong Kong representative of the Exhibition. has called on various foreign Con sula and Trade Commissioners in Hong Kong with a view to en lightening them as regards the aims und objects of tho Canton Exhibi- tion, and it is understood that those officers have expressed their will- ingness to persuhde their nationals to participate in the Exhibition.

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TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES

to 11.30 a.m.-Stock und ex- change quotations, weather ra port, etc., ye

11.30 am-Chinese recorded pro

gramme.

18.30 p.m.-European programme of Victor and H.31.V. records. p.m.-Local time and weather-

report,

by

1.15 p.m.-4 relay of the Hong.

Kong Hotel. Orchestra courtesy of the management (During the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio).

1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, etc.

p.us.--Close down,

to 6.19 p.m.-Selections from

." THE BIG BROADCAST"

All the world is writing songs and wasting its time doing so!

That, at least, is how it appears to Bing Crosby, radio star featur- od with Stuart Erwin, Leila Hyams and a large cast of other radio stars in "The Big Broadcast," ro mantic comedy of radioland, show ing to-day at the King's Theatre,

During the past six months he has received and sent back unread between 500 and 600 original songs,

The fights in the midst of a snow- he explains. Some hopefuls, sendstorm, its which two pilots lost their only music, some only lyrics and lives, and the thrilling rescue of some both words and music. Alla pilot in a snow clad crevice, where 3 are unsolicited and from unprofes-landing was impossible, are the sional, song writers.

Do you sand your letters by Air mail? If so, you should see the picture "Airmail which is at pre-2.15 sent showing at Central Theatre, to 8 p.m.-European programme This picture, although connected to 5.30 p.m.-A. concert. with the "air" is not an air-show. 5.30 to 6 p.m.-Children's concert but a film which tells of the hard-

from the Studio. ships of the airmail pilots and the risks they have to meet in the course. musical comedy. of their duties, sandstorm.6.18.to. 7.20 p.Variety,

hundred

pClosing snowstorm, etc and a and one dangerous things attached quotations, ›etc. to their profession.

7.30 to 8 pm. From the Studio.. A trumpet and piano recital, by Mr. Dave Saylor and Mr. Hugh Fowell.

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local stock

pm-Local time and weather

Nanchang do patches

indicate

report.

"I have made it a rule never to these there are also the humorous

main features of the picture. Besides 6.09 to 11.30 p.m.-Relay from the Getting a picture role in the

Ko Shing Theatre, "good old days,' (meaning the read these songs,' saya Bing. "In and romantic touches in the film. 10.30 p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press pre-talkie cra) was a very different the first place, usable songs for me the former supplied by "Slim". news. Grand Hotel," now at the

from the efficient and business-like would be few and far between and Summerville, and the latter by 11.30 pm-Close down, Queen's Theatre has justified even methods currently in vogue, ac-it wouldn't be worth all the time. Gloria Stuart and Ralph Bellamy. All records in the above Euro- the most extravagant expectations.cording to Sally Eilers, Fox Films Secondly, it is too easy to be ac-

The main action of the film cerpean programmes, are supplied by Produced by Metro-Goldwyn player.

cused of pirating a song if I hap Mayer the filming of the famous

pened to sing a song by a well

tros round a desert airport where Messrs. Moutrie & Co. tha, sisters and wives of the pilots The Studio programme · between Vicki Baum story marke a new "To-day un actor will be tested, known writer after I had looked live in agony for the fears of their 3.30 and 7.15 m. may, on any milestone in artistic achievement of a contract diseased, drawn up and

at one which happened to be simi menfolk, and where there-is to-day, day, be replaced by a relay from the screen.

signed-all within the space of alar."

and perhaps no to-morrow. There England, if reception of the latter This is not just another movie. few hours, Miss Eilers spys, Crosby's advice to would-be song is in part, material enough to make happen to be good. To call it an accomplishment would. When I began my first picture, writers is to stop wasting their the picture a thrilling and ajoyable be trite, And triteness is exactly The Good-bye Kiss, it was literal-time in writing music

entertainment, what "Grand Hotel" has avoided, ly weeks before I knew definitely Thare a little money in Bong aven where pitfalls invited the em- whether I would play the role at writing to day," he says. "Of the playment of undue dramatic license all.

thousands of melodies written each

that, with the arrival of General In this, Director Edmund Gould ing, is to be credited. He has pre-film as a big special,' and was in

"Mack Senett was making the year, only a handful are hits. And infatuated with him, persuades Chiang Kai Shek in Kiangai, a a hit, one that, becomes extremely: Erwin, a jilted lover who is still generil offensive will shortly be served the symbolism of Miss Baum's novel and captured much no hurry. As a matter of fact, it popular, seldom brings the author anxious to do anything he can for launched to round up Communists of the realism the stage play miss took more than a year to complete more than 88,000 These, natural-her, to buy the radio station and in that province. Chinese circles aurt of fore-minner of Hell's are by the leading composers." a network to re-employ Bing, believe that the Generalissimo, may

Accord- Angels in that respect.

The decreased sale of sheet music Erwin complies, with results that have to remain in Kiahgsi at lengt Of course, of paramount interestingly. Mr. Sennett took plenty of and records bas“ made sofig writ are dramatic and romantic, as two months. to the picture-going public is the time in deciding about me, and ing a gamble against too great odds well as amusing Ultimately the cast. Greta Garbo, John Barry Mattey Kemp and I worked several for novices, Bing believes."

wins his girl back again..k more, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone, hours a day in all sorts of scenes

In "The Big Broadcast" Crosby! Kate Smith, the Mills Brothers,

radio singer who loses his job de Cab Callowey and his Orchestra and canse he never shows up in time Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, "It was unusual, too, in those for his broadcasts, Miss Hyams, and Burns and Allen are among Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 67 Feel They Belong There.. days, for an unknown to be given (Continued on next Column) other radio stars in featured roles TO-DAY & TO-MORROW They're all there, but you are out to be a fuckly break-for me,os (a big leading role, but it turned

At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. scarcely conscious of the unusual it saved the years of extra and ness of it. They belong there and, bit work I would otherwise have. having witnessed their characteriza- tions, you cannot imagine the pic had to go through."

ed.

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30.5.10, 7.20 & 0.30

Never Such

Picture!

with

SEVEN

GREAT

STARS

Greta Garbo John Barrymore Joan Crawford Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lewis Stone Jean Eersholt

Comes to you!

the Greatest Entertainment

Ever Presented

FOL

Dirrard by EDMUND GOULDING from Vicki Baum's play

NEXT: CHANGE

BY SPECIAL

REQUEST

THE FUNNIEST PAIR IN PICTURES?

they're funnier

than ever!

ITAN

LAUREL

MAJESTIC OLIVER

Jean Hersholt, Wallace Rory befors he anally made tap his mind plays the role of an irresponsible Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer), MAJESTIC

Lional Barrymore and a host of that 1-would do for the part. other well-known players in a single

.cast!

ture being made without them. After a versatile screen career That is ample justification for that included everything from two- M-G-M's unprecedented daring in réel comedies and westerns" to placing so many golden eggs in one society dramas, Miss Eilers hit her basket, so to speak, s

Estrido in "Bad Girl" "with" her Greta Garbo is Grusinskaya, the brilliant portrayal of the repressed temperamental ballerina. John little shop-girl heroine. Since then Barrymore is the titled thief who she has forged still further ahead steals her goma-and love as well, with her performances in Dazice Joan Crawford is the sex-appealing Tom," Over The Hill" and " stenographer whose charms cause Disorderly Conduct," and has the downfall of Preysing, industrial | thoroughly confirmed her status 68 magnate, played by Wallace Beery, one of the foremost actresses” of Lionel Barrymore is the sick, little the screen factory clerk who goes to the Hor latest Fox role is the title Grand Hotel to spend his last days characterization in Hat Check in luxury. Stone is the doctor and Girl" which comes to the Kin

Heraholt, the chief porter.

Ace Bupporting Cast.

Others in the cast include Robert

Theatre Taxt

Lyon opposite her

Rogers, Monroe ing - cakt; - that

MoWatle, Puzzell B. Pract For Pierson Dowe dinand Gottschalk, Rafel Ott

Eulalie Jensen.

ano, Morgan Wallace, Telly Mar directed the pro shail, Frank Conroy, Murray Kin

| vell and Edwin Maxwell.

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"Goulding's camera treatment is

unique; and impressive. Instead of impo

bringing the drama to the audien

and allows it to see and hear.

is going on, quite as though ith

the cosmopolitan, thyr

The souting2 Bro Jandi

(Continuedra

-4.SHOWS

DAILY

STARE ANT TRIM OR HAPPY VALLEY S

ORIENTALE

TO-DAY-TO-MORROW-WEDNESDAY

ALL THE OTHER BIG JUNGLE THRILLERS FADE INTO INSIGNIFICANCE BEFORE THIS ·MIGHTY" DRAMATIC, BORKEN SENSATION, "

Bigger, better and more exciting than TRADER HORN"

TARZAN

THE APE MAN

LER

THEATRE,

The Radlo Drama That Electrified The Air!

VIVIENNE WARE

JOAN BENNETT

•Novel by Ken

K HOWARD

HARDY

return to teach

you how to

Pack Up Your Trouble

Hal Roach production

Metro

STAR

TO-DAY &

But the Flesh i

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