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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'» ED., WISTBOUND Bui.

Advance Booking at Andersona and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

A WALLSIAN COMEDY WITIL A FLAVOUR OF ROMANTICISM!

TOM WALLS

LEAP YEAR

HE DOMINATES EVERY SCENE

A BRITIS & DOMINIONS PICTURE

STARTS - SATURDAY

THE BEASTS HE KILLED

WERE HUMANI

Mounted heads of kunted p wora Zoro. pride and joy!..

THE MOST DANGEROUS

GAME

The story of a fascinating fiend, strange and terrible! with

JOEL MCCREA.

Fay Wray, Leslie Banica, Robert Aren strong... An RKO-RADIO / Picture, of course!

Directed by Irving' Pichel and Erant

#. Schoediack from

Madery by Robert Con.mult

A COOPEL-SCHOEDBACK Production

Klavid.

Locative Produce

MASTER OF STAGE MAKE-UP

FAMOUS ACTOR REVEALS

HIS SECRETS

A great master of stage mate- up revealed some of the secrets of his art to a press representativa.

TO-DAY AT THE

King's

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Forgotter Commandments."'

Queen's,

"The Lodger.”

Central.

"Leap Year."

Oriental.

"Fair Warning World..

Flying High."

Star.

Majestio

KOWLOON

"Men Like These."

Oll Dark House."

King's.

COMING

He Learned About Women."'

Queen's,"

"The Washington Masque;

rade."

Central.

"The Most Dangerous Game." "Blue Danube."

"Once in a Lifetime."

World,

The Flag Lieutenant."

Back Street.

Dawn."

Oriental.

Star.

Mother and Son."

Trial of Mary Dugan."

CANTON CINEMAS

Tai Tak,

Struggle for Love."

Wing Hon.

*A Trip Around Kwangsi:' Chung Wah.

Society Girl,"

Southern Palace.

"Hell Divers."、 Pearl Theatre.

But the Flesh is Weak."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1933.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

2.30, 5,10 7.15. & 9.30 P.M.

HONCKONG'S FINEST ONEWA

It Shows You What Happens When

the world we live

in sets up New Mor

ale, Puta love on

a different plane!

FORGOTTEN d by spectacular epoder from the (FCH & DEMILLE %%, THE TER ECHIMATIOMENTS-

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong.

C

HE LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN

STUART ERWIN AS ECCEN.

TRIC MILLIONAIRE

FILM STAR FROM

· TIENTSIN

IN FORGOTTEN COMMAND: MENTS" AT THE KING'S

wit

SARI MARITZA

GENE RAYMOND MARGUERITE CHURCHILL

IRVING PICHEL, it Paramount Puttere

FOG IN THE LODGER"

THRILLER OPENS TO-DAY

AT QUEEN'S

Have you ever experienced a thick November fog in the middle of August ? Not Well, you should have been at the Twickenham Studic while they wera making. "The Lodger." By means of stink bomba" and dever lighting, a per- fect fog effect was obtained, while outside the entry was bathed in the bright sunshine of a summer heat wave. A visitor to the studio said it would be a relief to get

NEXT

BOOKING

AT Tay THEATRE

TEL. 25313 & 15932

CHANGE

SUNDAY, 26th FEB.

Fifty Million Rich and Never Kissed!

He

.......... But Sha Soon Fixed That!

Learned

about

WOMEN

with

STUART ERWIN: ALISONSKIPWORTH SUSAN FLEMING A Garamount Gature wi

WELSH NATIONAL THEATRE

MR. LLOYD GEORGE PRE SENT AT INAUGURAL PERFORMANCE

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The Comedy of Good and Evil," by Richard. Hughes. Ants Theatre.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

(Continued from Page

FRIDAY S (February 24).

(Ir Moon 1st Day). Anniversaries and Holidays-St. Matthias.

Annual Meeting of China Provi dent Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd.," Exchange Building, noon.

Meeting of Kowloon. Bowling: Club, 3.43 p.m.

"Ramble." from Sailors' & Soldiers' Home,

p.. Tea Dances at Gloucester Build- ing; King's Restaurant; and Hong Kong Hotel.

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel: King's Restaurant: Penin aul Hotel and Gloucester Build-

ing

Sports.

| Hockey :-Mamak

Tournament: Signals e Vetoran (Marina), (4,15 p.m. Friendly matches: Hong Kong Hockey Club "A". Jat Regiment (King's Park), 5.15 p.m. Lawn Tennis:-Open Singles: D 8. Green . Tu Tak Cheuk; S. A. Rumjaha Y. Hachiuma; Wong Fuk Name. "M.. W. Lo. Open Doubles Chan So and Ho Wai Hing D. H Hazell and W. E. Williams; G. Gamble and C. A. Wright F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang: Ho Ki Lau and Yew Man Kit JW.Leonard, and Y. Hachiums, Goldman and E. C. Finchor v. T. C. Monaghan and C. E. Holmes: Ng Sze Kwong and; Taui Wai Pai . W. C. Hung and Chiu Chun Chiu.

Principal Halls,

Inward from America by Pres. Madison; from Europe.via Siberia. by Rajputana

Outward for Europe via Siberia by Chmorin, 9.30 a.m.

Sunrise: 8.40 a.m.; Sunset: 6.94. p.m.

Tides-High at 10.20 and 21.24; Low at 3.44 and 14.41.

CINEMA CHAT

Parhaps it is merely coincidence, but Norma Shearer is just superati- tious enough to believe there may be good luck in numbers, letters and other symbols. In her case, the lettere has been recurring so often she almost feels it to be a omen of good fortune.....

Miss Shearer calls attention-to

Certainly the Principality might have represented itself more large ly and warmly. None the less Miss Evelyn Bowen and the other or canisers of the Welsh National Theatre are heartily to be con gratulated upon having got this most desirable thing well and truly the fact that, in addition to her out of the blazing heat into a nice started at the Arts. Mr. Lloyd own name starting with "," her cool log, but on being admitted to George was among the audience, the sound floor he found out that

last two pietures, Strangers May

the temperature was by no means

Sari Maritza, continental motion

The playing of Mr. Richard Kiss and Stranga Interlade, start Stuart Erwin plays the role of picture sensation, will appear in November, but corresponded rough-Hughes The Comedy of Gooded similarly. And, to cap it all, A young man with 850,000,000 and her first American-made film, Paraly with his iden of Hades,

and Evil," produced by Mr. Robert her lateat picture, Smilin' Through, a lot of book knowledge, who never-mount's "Forgotten Command. "The Lodger" opens today at Atkins, was just as good as could also has the same first letter, and be, Miss Christine Silver, as the Franklin, whose first name begins, it will be directed by Sidney clergyman's wife with the runaway

theless has never even been kissed, ments" at the King's Theatre to the Queen's Theatre. in "He Learned About Women,' day

She

THE WASHINGTON MASQUERADE”

THE STAR

leg given her by the devil, has with the important latter, done nothing better. The sincere

Reasoning further along cabba-“ wader and half-pathetia fayness listic lines, Miss Shearer points out wore there without a flicker of die.. that 3 is the magic number of the illusion; and her Welsh accent mystics, so Smilin' Through, her Beened just as natural na

third picture beginning with an Fewlass Llewellyn's,

Mr."" should be her lackicat picture And with Fredric March, Leslie

QUEENS TIRAL

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20

ALSO SHOWING

PATHETONE WEEKLY

·FROM SUNDAY

THE

ZOLOZ

MASTER OF MEN alool in; the -'hands

woman

Now for the

first time the cameras of Hollywood dare to reveal what takes place in the shadow of the Capitol

with LIONEL

Mr. Jack Twyman, as the good Howard and Ralph Forbes formBARRYMORE

comedy in which ho is featured When she arrived at New York with Alison Skipworth, Susan from Londen a few months ago, Fleming, Grant Mitchell and Gor score of Gotham newshawks gather don Westcott, which comes to the ed round to get her life (22 years); King's Theatre next Sunday.

story and to bask in the sunshine Erwin, who declined stardom of her sparking, "Tt-full" emaile. after scoring a sensational success, They learned that she is one of oddly enough, in the picture, "Make the most comopolitan of all the re LIONEL BARRYMORE FINDS man himself and Mr. Richard Me A Star, does as many strange cent Hollywood acquisitions.

Goolden, as Ownin, were others to things in his role as the eccentric She was born in Tientsin, China;

be specially remembered. If. Miss young millionaire in "He Learned March 12, 1910. Her father is Eng

Jenny Nicholson as the cherub of About Women."

lish, her mother, Viennese.“

Lionel Barrymore has the screen's wickedness grow a little tedious at He inherits a vast fortuna and learned to speak English from her west and an a daughter in the finish, she was hardly to blame. The Washington Masquerade," I was a remarkable performance awakes to a sudden realization that parents, and to speak Chinese from drama of the national capital, for a child. it's about time he saw life. On his their household servants. She was which will be shown from Sunday first venture out into the world, proficient ice-skater. This may at the Queen's Theatre. She is he stumbles into an auction where Account for her strong, well-proper Diane Sinclair, Philadelphia society i

Itioned legs. At nine she learned the services of the unemployed are being offered to the highest bidders, to ride donkeys and long-haired girl and stage actress, who was re-

cently signed to a contract by Washington Masquerade" Born He impetuously bids high when Manchurian ponies.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Miss Bin- Miss Fleming monats the block, The fret and only movie ahe saw clair was "discovered in a Phila. Dutch parentage and reared in In Dutch Guiana of French add and, at her request, when Miss in China was "The Kid" Chaplin delphia stock company and plays America, the youthful actress bas Skipworth, her friend, and old ne epic with Jackie Coogan. Greatly her first role on the screan in Theored heavily on the stage. She treas who hoa seen better days, is impressed, she decided that she lov (Continued on next Column) offered." He gets them both. jed pictures, but had no ideza, at

is a singularly beautiful brunette. that time, about becoming an ac Bewildered at first, the two wo-tress men cook up scheme, Miss Skip- At the age of twelve, en route worth araftily lays plans for mak from Tientsin to London, she stop Complication, amusing but drama ped a few days in Hollywood. There

Mies Flaming Brwin's wile. tio, begin developing when Miss she witnessed the filming of a scene Skipworth's ex-husband and an un- Douglas Fairbanks Robin scrupulous companion try to chisel Hood," and promptly determined in, too.

upon a theatrical career. From that time on, her education, har read- A startling conclusion upsets ing. even her athletic diversion, everybody's plans.

bave all been directed toward her objective success as an actress.

It was Cedric Hardwicks. He sut in his dressing-room at the very young man, Queen's Theatre making-up as the

At eighteen, she went to Hungary where she procured her first part es an old man and a young man in a picture. Several inconsequan- He made his face, look thousands tial roles followed. Then she sp of years old, and than, just as peared in a picture made by Sascha cleverly, turned it into that of a Company, which led to a contract with the Gaumont Company of. Make-up for the films is more London, which starred Miss Maritza man who lost his sight in the war. difficult than for the stage. Cedric in "Greak Street" "Bed and Break

A delicate pensil lining here, & Hardwicke does both. One of his fast," and "No Lady." deft touch of colour mere the cleverest film efforts was the mil. Later she was starred by UFA finished effect was wonderfully lionaire in Rome Express. realistic.

in Monte Carlo Madness,'

which was producted in Berlin.

From The great secret," the actor' de-among hundreds of actresses inter- That is the real tost of the art,clared, is not to regard the face viewed for the starring role in the said the actor, the lifelika crea- as a canvas. In the old days when much discussed Water Gypsies"

an actor was a Chinese mandarin she won the coveted part.

This "Every one should try to master one night and a young man fresh picture was followed by "Two-way the art," said Cedric Hardwicke. from Eton the next a mask of Street" produced by United Ar

: Few people are really satisfied grease paint was all right. But to tists in London,

tion."

with their own faces. I like to sit before my mirror and turn my real face into a different

Films More Dimoult,

In Shaw's Back to Methuselah" Cedric Hardwicke made up both

(Continued on next Columns

day stage, and audience each de- mand more of the actor. He must

make-up be nearer to life in his acting and

In "Forgotten Commandments! the plays the role of Anya, pweek sort of professor Mat by Irving. Fiohel playa the part of Paul, Then he dashed away to play the medical student and part which his simple, true-to-life Churchill in biker make-up Buggested the blinded Theater war hero.

4 SHOWS DAILT

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ORIENTAL

THEATRE

FLEEING ROAD

WANGHAR-

TEL: 28475

LAST 4 TIMES-TO-DAY STARTING TO-MORKOW

A REAL WESTERN THRILLER A MOST SENSATIONAL'

THATS JUST ALIVE WITH ACTION.

FAIR WARNING

T'S the

plest, shoot-

in'est

outdoor

romance

that

George O'Brien

ever clanked

opur In

GEORGE O'BRIEN

· MELO-DRAMA OF -GAY LIFE IN RENO

GAMBLERS ALL! See

MOTHER SON &

- A STORY OF

RENO and GAMBLING

KIMBALL YOUNG CUTAR UIST

story that grips one brentuloss interest.

ing a triumvirate of leading she is further entrenched in the

laws of good luck.

Karen Morley Nils: Auther directed by

Brabin”

MAJESTIC Charles Brabis

THEATRE

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel: 57222 TO-DAY TO · SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

WHO?

THRILL

OLD

DARK HOUSE

the Universal Picture from J.B. Priestley ĽHOVEI

KCARE CIF MELVYT DOUGLAS,CharlesLaugh ton, Directed by JAMES WHALE Presented by Czil Laemmi

Bay the fate of 1. E Mon hanging on & lovely charman's wing!

4 Zoprost of Thrilld

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MEN LIKE THESE!

A NATIONAL EPIO OFƏ

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WORLD:

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IN

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