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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS.

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 23720.

TO-DAY ONLY

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

"The Most Dangerous Game."

"Black Watch."

HÙNG HONG

King's,

**Chanda,"

Queen's.

"High. Proszuro,'

Central.

Oriental,

At 2.30, 5,15, 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.

World,

"Dawn."

KOWLOON

STARTLINGLY DIFFERENT

Star.

Bought.".

Majestic.

THE BEASTS

13 Women,"

THE GREATEST OF

ALL THRILLERS!

HE KILLED WERE HUMANI

24 Mounted beads

of hunted pen wozu Zaraki's pride and joy!..

THE

MOST DANGEROUS

GAME

The story of o fascinating

fiend, strange and terrible! with

JOEL MCCREA Fay Wray, Lasilo Banks, Robert Arm=" strong... An 'RKO-RADIO

Picture, of course! Directed by Irving

Michel and Emed

à. Schodack from

the story by Robert Corne!!

A COOPER-SCHOIDSACK Production

TO-MORROW

David C. Selznick, Executive

ENGLAND'S CHARMING

**

MUSICAL ROMANCE

THE BLUE DANUBE

WITH DOROTHY BOU- OHIER, JOS. SCHILD- KRAUT, ALFRED RODE & HIS ROYAL TZIGANE BAND.

N

JA BRITISH & DOMINIONS

PICTURE

WOMAN'S. BEST FRIEND

Tea is every woman's friend, what is more comforting when one is tired or sad than a cup of tea 1. What easier to make or more' re- freshing when taken?

King's.

COMING

Sherlock Holmes." "Blonde Venus,'!*

"If I Have a Million,”

Queen's.

"Red Headed Woman." "Lash.'

Central,

"Blue Danube."

"Once in a Lifetime."

"The Rondhuuse Murder.'"

The Flag Lieutenant.” Back Street.'

"Igloo."

"States Attorney."

"The Mummy."

World.

Star,

"Millio".

"Beâu Hunks,"

"Are You Lining."

Night Cour

Fifty Million Frenchmen.”.

Hell Divers"

* Dawn Patrol."

*Laugh and Get Rich."

CANTON CINEMAS Wing Hon.

Trouble In Paradise."

Chung Wah.

The Golden West.!?

Sun Wah Theatre.

Is My Face Red?”

Sun Kwok Man Theatre.

"Hide Out,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933.

SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5,10 7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

་་

KING'S

HONGKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

CHANDU LIVES ON THE SCREEN! NOW. YOU CAN BOTH SEE AND HEAR THIS MAGIC-MAKER IN THRILLING, CHILLING DEEDS OF DARING!!

FOX

Picture

CHANDU

E. MAGIC

EDMUND LOY

BOOKING AT THE THEATER TEL. 25813 & 25992, NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 8th MARCH

CONAN DOYLE'S

Master Detective

SHERLOCK HOLMES

matches wits with Modern Organized Crime and wins!

Played by

CLIVE BROOK "MIRIAM JORDAN ERNEST TORRENCE

Willian? 1. Howard production

FOX PICTURE

THE HONGKONG' AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB

PRESENTS

"NINE TILL SIX"

BY

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

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

'CHANDU · THE MAGICIAN"

MYSTERIES OF EGYPT AT

KING'S THEATRE

"THE BLUE

DANUBE

ROMANTIC BRITISH FILM

JEAN HARLOW'S PAST

THE GUNWOMAN” OF THE FILM.

SHERLOCK HOLMES"

CLIVE BROOK IN TITLE ROLE

"Sherlock Holmes," the new Fox.

one of Conan

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

(Continued from Page 1.)

FRIDAY (Marchi 3).

(II Moon 8th Day). Lenten Discussion for Women on Is There Moaning in Evil" Helena May Institute, 10.30 am.

Meeting of Hong Kong Interna-- tional Amateur Swimming Associa tion, Lane Crawford's Restaurant, 8.13 p.m:

S.P.C.A. Ball, 'Peninsula Hotel. Society of Yorkshiremen Cabaret Dance, Hong Kong Hotel.

Dances.

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

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel King's Restaurant; Fonin- sula Hotel; and Gloucester Build- ing.

Sport.

Hockey-Friendly match: Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" v. H.M.S. Cumberland (Navy ground), 8:16

p.m.

Lawn

Tennis-Exhibition by Japanese Davis Cup team (Hong Kong C.C.).

Meeting-Hong Kong Interna- tional Amateur Swimming Associa tion (Lane Crawford's Restaurant), 5.20 p.m.

Principal Matła,

Inward from Europe eia Suez by Hakusan Maru; from America by Pres. Harrison; from "Europe via Siberia by Fushimi Maru.

Outward for America and Europe ria Siberia by Pies Madisoti,, 3 p.m.; for Australia by Tanda, 4.30 p.m..

GLEEN TIRATE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20 p

He's HOT! Burning up the town with his wisecracks! Setting femine hearts on fire!

William

owen

THE MOST DAN HIGH PRESSURE

GEROUS GAME":

A HERO OF CHARACTER

Professor Lovejoy cited Joel McCrea, now playing in Rko-Radio Pictures' "The Most Dangerous Game" as the "ideal type" of leading man.

"Boys with pretty faces can never find a place on the soreen. Leading men must have lines and character in their faces.” UN

"A young fellow without drama. tic training has the most and best chance to succeed in pictures. Ho can begin at saratch and learn mo- tion pictura technique in the pro- per way...

McCrea enacts the role of the

Jean Harlow's past experiences as a "gunman's moll" on the screen have not made a brazen wo man of her. She is still "Gun-picture, based on shy."

Doyle's most thrilling tales, comes fighting hero in The Most Dan

gerous Game." With this ideal This fact was betrayed during the to the King's Theatre Sunday next, leading man are Fay Wray, Leslie

Clive Brook, who, plays the grest Banks and Robert Armstrong. filming of "Red Headed Woman,"

detective, finds himself, in screen adaptation of the sensation-junction with Scotland Yard, pitted al Katharine Brush novel in which Miss Harlow will be seen in the title role at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.

con-

against the arch criminal, Moriar eruited from both sides of the ty, and a band of gangsters -

Atlantic.

Other members of the cast of the picture are Howard Leeds, Alan Shaw, Herbert Mundin, Brandon Mowbray, Arnald Lucy, Montague

Hurst, Lucien Prival, Roy D'Arcy, Stanely Fields, Eddie Dillon and Robert Graves, Jr.

For all the rattle of machine gung of her past films, when Miss

How Moriarty sets his traps, Harlow was called on to take which

A

are quickly sprung by "pot shot" at Chester Morris, in Holmes, and how the detective ex- "The Blue Danube," the British this picture, she was afraid to terminates the gang and sends and Dominions picture, which opens pull the trigger for the first time. Moriarty to the death cell, form Edmund Lowe, in the title role at The Central next change, is a Jack Conway, who directed "Red the basis of what is said to be one of "Chandu The Magician," radio's romantic musical divertissement, Headed Woman," therefore, took of the most thrilling and exciting favourite entertainment, will ap which strikes an altogether new time out while the actress held tar-screen dramas ever produced. "Scotland Yard," "The Trial of pear in the Fox Film, version of line in British productions. The get practice. the famous mystery drama at the opening of the story is laid in a King's Theatre begining to-day. gipsy encampment in sylvan glades. In addition to Lowe na Chandu, Entrancing music is played by the large cast also includes Bela Alfred Rode and his Royal Tzigane Lugosi as Raxer; Irene Ware as band, the earlier part of the film Princess Nadji; Herbert Mundin being almost entirely musical;" blonde complex," adapted the Brook. Ernest Torrence, outstand

heart strings. music and song that grip at the

As the comical cockney, Miggles, Waldon Heyburn as the cunning Ab- bullah; June Vlasek as Betty Lou, and Henry B. Walthall as Regent, the inventor.

The emotions are not spared as the drama develops, and the sorry. plight in which the gipsy is left as cites one's sympathy. a result of his own "weakness ex

Two superb actors, with many splendid achievements to their credit, Lowe and Lugosi are said "The Blue Danube" is a splendid to create a pair of real-life charac. film and its unusual angles will ap-i terizations entirely in keeping with peal to all. The beautiful Viennese the radio serial upon which the stir-music is alone worth going a long ring drama is based. Lowe easily way to see.

tops his former role of magician

in The Spider," while Lugosi,

with his slinking shadows and star-

ing cyes, is more sinister than in BOY-STAR PLAYS GROWN- "Dracula.

Adhering closely to the radio. episodes from which, it was taken, the picture features weird oriental costumes, settings and effects in keeping with its Egyptian locale and the supernatural, magical ex ploits that have made. Chandu famous.

UP ROLE

IN HIGH PRESSURE, AT

THE QUEEN'S.

The Jackie Cooper of his day, one of the first young screen actors The dramatic premise of the plot able to produce real tears before is based on Chandu's effort to re- the movie camera, has grown two But there is, of course, tea and cover from Roxer the powerful, or three feet taller and several tea, and there is a world of differ Death Ray with which the cunning years older and is now playing as once in the way it is made. If the conspirator intends to destroy eivi a juvenile in the Warner Bros. water is fresh and caught just on lization. The attempt to rescue picture, "High Pressure," starring the boil and the top is good you from him the loved ones of his William Powell, opening to-day for have a drink which it is hard to family, including Regent, Dorothy, a three day's running at th equal....

Betty Lou and Bobby, all familiar Queen's. "Rickshaw Brand Tea packed characters of the thrilling radio

by the famous Brooke, Bond Com-mystery form what is reported as He is Ben Alexander, named by pany of Ceylon, has been awarded, a breath-taking sub-plot. ten gold medals for purity, strength

Marcel

Varnel

D. W. Griffith as one of the three or four outstanding child actore of and flavour. The large volume of Cameron Menzies, both known for in." Boy O Mine, which the old. and William all time. Bens played for Griffith sales in Hong Kong indicates its past achievements in the field of timers are apt to rememberMore popularity.'.

weird and spooky screen Exportation direct from the Gar- drama, co-directed from Philip tion by the crifics for his, work in melo- recently, he had world, wids, cita- dena in Ceylon results in the price, Klein's and Barry Conners' screen "All Quiet On The Western Front, to consumer being much lower than adaptation of the original radio in which he played one of the lead- other tons of similar quality.

en 2 King coder.

episodes.

Miss Harlow, famous as a plati- num blonde, appears as a red-head for the first time in this film. And Anita Loos, whose literary fame is everlastingly associated with the Katharine Brush novel to

Ecreen..

■

The film was directed by Wil- liam E. Howard, who directed

Vivienne Ware," "Transatlantic" Miriam Jordan, English stage and "The First Year' for Fox. beauty, who made her film debut Films. in "Six Hours To Live," opposite Warner Baxter and John Botes, enacts the leading feminine part, sharing the romantic interest with the i ing in menace parts, portrays the role of Moriarty. Reginald Dwen, distinguished Englash actor, well known on both the stage and screen, appears as Dr. Watson, devoted friend and ally of Holmes.

(Continued on next Column)

In the cast with Miss Harlow are Cheater Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel, Henry Stephenson, May Robson, Charles Boyer and Harvey Clark,

4 SHOWS DAILY 2,30-5.13

|7-15---8.20

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ORIENTAL

PLEMING ROAD

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TO-DAY-TO-MOBROW AND SATURDAY

A GIGANTIC PRODUCTION WITH THOUSANDS IN THE CAST. An extraordinary photo play that is alive with colour, action, thrills and romance.

JUST ANOTHER ONE OF OUR SUPER-FEATURE PICTURES THAT YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO MISS,

The BLACK WATCH

beautiful wamuun risked an empire for love

and the mari who loved her risked even morE.

A Man's Man becomes a Lady.

tiller to save his country

ILLIAM

VICTOR MʻLAGLEN

MYRNA LOY DAVID ROLLINS

ROY D'ARCY

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TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.

TIFFANY

THAYER'S

13 WOMEN

Stording on the screen! ww IRENE DUNHI

RICARDO CORTEZ/ JILL ESMOND MYRNA LOY Dincled by George Arcbulabord · David Selick, Esc Producer

FROM SUNDAY

Red

Her

Flaming resses

Were a Danger Signal Which No

Man Heeded I

HEADED WOMAN

with JEAN HARLOW CHESTER MORRIS

LEWIS STONE, LEILA HYAMS, UNA MERKEL

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7:20 & 9.20 p.m

Constance

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