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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933.
BOOKING
AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25813
QUEENS TIRATES
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7:15 & 9.20 p.m. MASTER OF MEN tool in the hands of a lovely woman i
SHOWING
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5,10 7.10
& 9.30 P.M.
HONGKOND'S FINEST CINEMA.
CHANDU LIVES ON THE SCREEN!" NOW YOU CAN BOTH SEE AND HEAR THIS MAGIC-MAKER IN THRILLING, CHILLING DEEDS OF DARING !
NEXT
& 23332. CHANGE
SUNDAY, 5th MARCH
CHANDU
Edmend Lowe and Irene Ware in two scenes from this exelting picture
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S ED., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 20720.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
THE GREATEST OF ALL THRILLERS | STARTLINGLY DIFFERENT
THE BEASTS HE KILLED WERE HUMANI
OZ
Now for thel
Brat time the cameras of
Hollywood dare to reveal what takes place in the abadow of
the Capitol!
with LIONEL
BARRYMORE
Karen Morley
Nils Asther
Directed by
Charles Brabin
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ALSO-
CHALK UP
HOPEKCON
A Sport Champion Special
FROM TO-MORROW WHAT A MAN Woman tamer, sure-shot gambler, playboy and wall Street wolf all in one! Promoter of wildcat stocks and bearcat blondes]
WILLIAM
JOWELL
In HIGH PRESSURE
with Evelyn Brent, Directed by
Mervyn Le Roy-A Warner Bros.-Vitaphone Hit!
(STAR
FOX Picture
Weird
Terro
Haunt and
mystery
dventure
CHANDU
radky dram
THE MAGICE
More
EDMUND LOWE -Bel-
CONAN DOYLE'S
'Master Detective
SHERLOCK HOLMES
matches wits with Modern Organized Crime and wins!
Played by
!
CLIVE BROOK "MIRIAM JORDAN ERNEST TORRENCE
William K. Howard production
FOX PICTURE
THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB
PRESENTS
“NINE TILL
BY
SIX
AIMEE AND PHILIP STUART
MARCH 14th, 15th and 16th at 9.20 P.M.
$4.00 to $1.00 (including Tax)
EVERY SEAT BOOKABLE IN ADVANCE RESERVE YOUR SEATS
NOW
CURRENT PICTURES IN LOCAL THEATRES
"CHANDU THE
MAGICIAN"
STORY OF THE "DEATH RAY"
A PERFECT ROLE
THE BLUE DANUBE'
J
U.S. SENATE DRAMA QUEEN'S THEATRE
at the
COMING TO CENTRAL
Herbert Wilcox can certainly be relied upon to give us something: unique in the way of film enter. tainment. His latest production, "The Blue Danube," which is scheduled for the next change at The Central, is something en- I accured every newspaper item I could find about the Senate and tirely different in every sense of all speeches and details of the tax the word in regard to film produc legislation," explained Barrymore tion. Written by Doris Zinkei- in a recent interview. By study-sen, the story is holding in its ing them I found out what sort of simplicity and gripping in its hu-
character a senator in action woud be.
Using newspapers to study for a
the expedient by: *creen role is All nations fear the day when which Lionel Barrymore prepared cience perfect the Death Ray, a for his part as the United States g capable of killing and destruc-
at anormous distances through satur in "The Washington Mas querade," new drama of national the mysterious forces of electricity.
Folitics ΠΟΥ showing Such a weapon is perfected by
Queen's Theatre. Robert Regent, kindly old inventor, a principal character in the fami- liar radio broadcasts, "Chandu The Magician," recently filmed as' a feature by Fox Studios with Ed mund Lowe enacting the title role.
When Roxor, the scheming, sinis- ter villain of the drama, played by Bola Lugosi, geto ponacosion of this deadly ray, kidnapping Regent and his family in the rocess, Chandu sets out to regain it and to rescue the inventor and his family. It is this central conflict that motivates the stirring plot of the picture to be shown at the King's Theatre on Wednesday.
The gua used in the picture was
constructed by Fox studio tech- nicians. It is in every way the eme bodiment of all scientists know of projecting through the air electrical TO-DAY & TO-MORROW waves of sufficient force to kill at
à distance. Roxor is unable to At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.operate the device, but tries by
every conceivable horror and tor ture to wring the secret of its opera- tion from Rogent, the inventor."
Constance
BENNETT
In
BOUGHT
How Chandu engages Roxor in a terrific battle of wills, forcing him. to stay the hand that is already at the lovers that will send death and destruction hurting around the univeme, supplies the thrilling climax of what is said to be one of the tensest dramatic scenes ever filmed.
"I don't know any senators and naver was in politics, but the news: paper and wire service items gave me a better idea than I could have obtained by actually being on the floor of "the S nate,"
Karen Morley has the chief feminine role in "The Washington Masquerade," and the cast also includes Diane Sinclair and Nile
Asther
THE MOST DAN- GEROUS GAME"
JOEL MCCREA AND FAY WRAY IN ** JUNGLE
ATTIRE
After spending eight weeks in nothing but a lion cloth for The Bird of Paradise," Joel MaCrea is Chandu The Magician" was again limited to the briefest sort adapted from the original radio of wardrobe for his role in "The broadcast and presents its most Most Dangerous Gaine" now show- stirring episodes. Irene Ware plays ing at the Central Theatre for the opposite Lowe in the romantic lend, last time to-day. with Bola Lugosi, Horbert Mundin, Henry B. Walthall and many other popular players rounding out the supporting cast. Marcal Varnel and William Cameron Menzies co- directed.
cast of "The Most Dangerous
W
Cast 08 a
young sportsman, wrecked on an island where a blood-thirsty Russian hunts humana like animals, Joel McCrea is to- ed out into the jungles in an old rair of khaki trousers and a shirt.
Fay Wray also presents a model
of what little clothes are left after'
A chase through "swamps" and
man drama. The direction is such that "The Blue Danube" will be acclaimed a British film of real- ly outstanding quality. The set- tings include a beautifully photo- graphed forest scene, with gipsies dancing and singing to wild, rhythmic, Romany music; the bail- room in the home of one of Hun- Budapest; the well depicted squa- gary's faireat aristocrats; a cafe in lor of a street in the poorer quar ter and a wonderfully constructed" carnival ball, where costumes are an inspiration to those seeking. ideas for similar events. Dorothy Bouchier and Joseph Schildkraut
HIGH PRESSURE
William Powell and Evelyn Knapp in the new picture at the Queen's,
THE BLUE DANUBE *
A scene from a fine British picture coming to the Central.
Mounted hands ́of hosted - guan
were Zdroffy pride and joy!
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
The story of a fascinating fend, strange and terribler
d with JOEL MCCREA Fay.Wray, Leslie Banks,' Robert Arm- 43- strong ... An RKO-RADIO Picture, of course!
Directed by trying Pichel, and Ernest B. Schondack from
tha stóry by Robert Connell
FIR-SCHOEDSACK Produzion
Desi
STARTING FRIDAY
ENGLAND'S CHARMING
MUSICAL ROMANCE
"THE BLUE DANUBE
WITH DOROTHY BOU CHIER, JOS. SCHILD- KRAUT, ALFRED RODE & HIS ROYAL TZIGANE BAND.
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS; PICTURE
achi
FILM'S GREAT
ACHIEVEMENT
Cotel
shown in 125 tree ft Bootland and England fimultaneously, and has in addi tion, been booked for well over 1,000 Coincident with the film " general release comes one of the widest advertising trade, - 11 nm: told by the chief of the "b.G.M. Corporation here that nearly 1,000 copies of Grand Hotel 2 havə been printed, for world, distribution Succese is always entoura witness, but sometimes it with it a minor tragedy
this case the resourceful public men cannot find in adjective that
Ganio," adapted from Richard jungles forests. Leslie Banks and Connell's short story classic and Robert Armstrong are others in the play the leads and are ably sup- Royal Tzigane Band. "The Blue tiah film industry and is a film that is not threadbars to emphasise the produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schnedsack..
Loklinura on Precious Column, ported by Alfred Rode and his Danube" is a oradit to the Bri- everyone will enjoy.
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