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CENTRAL

HEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUN

Advance Booking at Andersons and tho Theatre Tel. 25720.

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

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

ONE OF 1932'S BEST PICTURES.

A GREAT STORY MADE INTO A GREAT HUMAN DRAMA

He: " respect and love

my wife, but i idolize YOU, You have sacri ficed everything for me. And now what does life hold for ust God help us, what can we do?"

She: "Hush! You are the

man 1 løve, the

man I will love for- ever. That's ali that matters."

FANNIE

HURST'S BACK STREET

With IRENE DUNNE, JOHN BOLES, George Mecker, Zanu' Pitts, Juna Clyde, William Bakewell, Arlette Duncan, Doris Lloyd, Paul Weigel, Jane Darwell, Shirley Grey James Danlan, Walter Callest, Robert MeWade, A JOHN M. STAHL Pro- duction. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Fr. Presented by Carl Laemmle, A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.

SUNDAY

A tremendousTM HUMAN DRAMA picturing the ter rific struggle for life in the Arctic Circle.....Enacted by Eskimas midst the menace) of farce wild beasts “and Aercer Naturs!

GLOO

An Edward Small Production irected by Ewing Stolt Fing Tented by Carl Eremita) 2. UNIVERSĀL PICTURĖJ

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 P.M. ONLY.

King's.

The Man from Yesterday."

Queen's,

Divorce in the Family

Central,

"The Back Street,"

Oriental,

"Old Dark House."

World.

The Squaw Man."

KOWLOON

The Middle Watch."

Trouble in Paradise

COMING

Star.

Majestic.

King's.

-

Davil and the Deep.

Horse Feathers.”

Queen's.

Blondie of the Follies."

Behind the Mask.

Central.

Star.

"Igloo."

“Once in a Lifetime."

"States Attorney."

The Mummy."

"Dacon Patrol."

"Flying Food."

World.

"But the Flesh is weak.

"Dacon Patrol"

"Middle Watch."

50 Million Frenchmen."

BAG OF HUMAN BONES

FOUND IN STREET CORNER

The police made a strange' dis- covery in Second Street on Tues day, when they came across a sack containing human bones.

The sack was conveyed to the Central Police Station.. It is pre- sumed that it must have been dropped by a doctor or by a medi- eal student.

He

HONCKONC'S FINEST CNEHA

A bottle of wine-

came=

out of her past as

The

MAN

a lobster and a song meant life and love. For death to Capt. Clyde

FYESTERDAY

Claudette

WITH

Clive

COLBERT BROOK

FINAL

BOOKING

AT THE

THEATRE

TEL. 25313 & 25332.

CHANGE

SUNDAY, 19th MAR.

NEXT

Daylight made tawdry the love that the desert night made sweet! TALLULAH

BANKHEAD

GARY

COOPER

and the

Devil Deep

A Paramount Picture

PERFORMANCE

At 9.20 P.M.

THE HONG KONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB

"NINE

PRESENTS

TILL

By

AIMEE AND PHILIP STUART

SIX

19

Popular Prices: $4.00 to $1.00 (including Tax)

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong.

MINE SHAFT AS A PLAYGROUND

| IN JACKIE COOPER FILM AT

QUEEN'S

Jackie Cooper had A real, honest-to-goodness mino shaft, élevutor and all, to play with when he enacted the tiny hero of Divore in the Family, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's vivid drama of children and divorce.

The "mino" was dug at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios: great hole with elevator, ore buckets and hoists, all worked by levers and a donkey.engine, Jackie was at the lovers every minute

THE MAN FROM

YESTERDAY"

CLIVE BROOK IN WAR

ROMANCE

America almost lost ita lending English film star when Clive Brook, on a recent visit to his native Eng land, was approached by a British film company with an offer to star in an English-made production

Brook refused the offer,

Brook, who cut his English visit short to return to Hollywood for his role in The Man From Yes- terday," said, "England, as this tims, cannot expect to make sue cessful motion pictures without the acting talent and technical skill now Hollywood alone. "Rotambulator,” Or Without such an organization, no inchine that sends the camera thing could induce me to make a traveling all over the sets for

ffect-shots was another gavourite picture in England.” plaything

between scenes.

• The

of the youthful star,

available__in

In "The Man From Yesterday,”. and he became a proficient at showing at the King's Theatre, manipulating it as the cameramen, Brook is co-featured with Claudette "Jackie," says Charles F. Rieslar European stage star, makes his Colbert. Charles Boyer, the popu- ner, whe directed the picture American screen debut in this pic

appenra 10. have a strong mechanical bent. If he doesn't

ture. Brook pointed to this.com remain an actor when he grows up evidence of the way Hollywood at. bination of supporting strength as I am willing to bet that he'll he

tracts acting talent from every an enigneer.

*

Problem of Divorce.

source.

"The Man From Yesterday" is the story of a romance begun in Paris The new picture is a vivid during the exciting war days. drama dealing with the problems Brook, on a short leave from the of children whose parents divorce front marries Claudette, and, al- and remarry. Jackie is soon ar a most immediately, departs for duty. atenchild. and comedy, pathos, Later, he is reported killed. Clau- drama and thrills are all mingled dette develops n friendship, for in the poignant drama. The story Boyer, which, in time, turne into is bagel un an original by love. Years paas before she again Maurice, Rapl Conrad Nagel, finde Brook, a broken man in a Lewis Stone, Lois Wilson, Jean, her outworn duty and her newfound veterans' hospital. Torn between Parker, Maurice Murphy, Law-love, Claudette chooses to fulfill her renco Grant and Richard Wallace duty to the man who is her hus are in the eat.

band. Brook, however, solves her problem in a curprising way.

Among the thrills are asensa |tional wreck und river resom,

dramátic moment, when the doctor operates and gives his blood to. save-the-life-of-his stepson, and bilarious comedy details include the doctor's office by the gang and the comical

for the added dialogue suppli Lynn Starling

Thestrago

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.

**BACK STREET

HUMAN DRAMA OF HUMAN HEARTS "

As a human drama of human hearts, no motion picture shown en a local screen in saveral seasons has excelled "Back Street" the Univers- al screen play which opened yes- terday nt. the Central Theatre. This noteworthy production is ant adaptation of Tannie Hurst's wide ly read story of the same name, and the film version does full jus tice to the original novel of the noted authorera.

DEVIL AND THE

DEEP"

TALLULAH AND GARY COOPER

Romantic. lighting has struck a second time at a certain oasis on a certain stretch of California do

sert.

'NINE TILL SIX

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL

PERFORMANCE

The A.D.C. gave, another very successful production of "Nine till Six" at the King's Theatre last night to a large and appreciative audience.

If we might make a suggestion, the lighting was somewhat on the strong side. Otherwise the show was excellent. The last perform- ance is being given tonight.

RADIO OFFICE EMPLOYEE SUMMONED

REFUSES TO PAY COMPEN- SATION.

William J. Chanson of the Gov ernment Radio Office was summoned by Yam Po Wah for assault at Central Magistracy yesterday.

The complainant said that on March he was waiting for the lift when he was pushed by the defen- dant and struck in the face without any warning. He had previously been threatened by the defendant.

The defendant said that on the lay in question, he accidentally pushed the complaint. The Intter struck him and he retaliat ed in self defence.

His Worship (Mr, Schofield) then remarked that as both parties ap- peared to be on bad terms with each other, he would bind them over in the sum of $100 to be of good Ixhaviour for one year. Camplain- ant and defendant both said they had had to pay medical fees and the latter refused to pay compensa- tion to the complainant.

His Worship :-Case remanded to the 22nd instant at 2.30 p.m. Evidence must be called and should want the doctor to to give evidence...

Tributes to Their Wives,

I

coma

Lord Runciman's keen apprecia tion of the part played by his wife in building his great career recalls the words of two other famous mod

When Lord Reading retired from the office of Viceroy of India hè said of his wife I should be. want. ing if I did not say what a'support she was to me.. She encouraged mo in my difficulties, and by her work amongst the women of India she did more to curo racial animosity than perhaps any work I could have done."

The other was Mr. Henry Ford; "If the British are the only people who can pioneer, it is because their wives go with them. Their idea of life is to be help-mates. real part- nem of their men, to build life with them. I know this from experience, my wife was one of ten Sadly enough, there was a catch children of a British woman who each time-a battery of movie can went to America when she was 15. eras were on hand to catch each We have been partners for more and every development. For the than forty years." first occasion was the big romantic scene from "The Sheik," starring the late Rudolph. Valentinó. An

because

Irene Dunne, who plays the lead-the second was for Devil and the mob, she is rescued by Cooper, and ing feminine roles, is altogether do- Deep," starring Tallulah Bank the two seaking reet, ride out into lightful as the spirited young girl head and Gary Cooper. It opens the desert. At the oasis they dis who finds true love when she least on Sunday next at the King's Thea-mount, and, impressed by the love expected it, and gives up every tre.

liness of the night, they yield to its thing else in like to follow the dic The oasis is on the Lasky Ranch enchantment. tates of her heart. That her lover not far from Los Angeles. Most of Later, the husband, a submarine is a married man and cannot pre- the desert action of "The Sheik" commander, gets them aboard his vent an affair which continues over was filmed there more than ten craft, takes it to sea and sinks it, a span of twenty years, because it years ago. When locations for de-na his revenge. is vital, fundamental, soul-stirring. bert sequences of Devil and the The Lasky Ranch has been the set- Much of the credit for the com- Deep were being considered, it was ting for other notable desert scenes, plate success of this picture must decided to use the same spot.

including those of "Morocco," in The scene in "Devil and the which Cooper was featured with go to John M. Stabl, who has handled the entire story with a Deep" which was filmed on the lo- Marlene Dietrich, doftness and a degree of artistry cation occur after Miss Bankhead, which have served to surround the driven to distraction by the nug picture with an unusual degree of ging of her insanely jealous hus- charm. Gladys Lehman has made band, rushes out into a crowd of an excellent adaptation of Fannie Moslems, celebrating a religious Hurst's story, do leas may be said festival. Nearly crushed by the (Continued on Previous Columns | (Continuent on next column i

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OLD DARK HOUSE

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QUEENS THEA

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2,90, 5,10, 7.15 & 9:20 p.m

CAUGHT IN THE WHIRLPOOL OF DIVORCE! A startling drama of adult lives, with Jackie Cooper in his greatest dramatic role!

DIVORCE TFAMILY

WITH

Jachie COOPER

#

Conrad Nagel

Lewis

Stone

Lois Wilson

A METRO-GOLDWIN-MAYEH PICTURE ADDED

"SNOW BIRDS"

A Metro's Sport Champion Special Latest HEARST. NEWS

From

SUNDAY

A THRILLING PAGE IN THE LIFE STORY of a

chorus girl

marion

DAVIES

and

Rotiert

MONTGOMERY

Blondie

of the Follies

A MARCHE DAVIE

PRODUCTION

with Billie DOVE Jimmy DURANTE

STAR

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2:30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p,m.

"THE FAMOUS COMEDY

JAM HAY KH STEPHEN KING-HALL.

The

MIDDLE

Q

PARADISE

SUMAR HOPKINS FRANCIS HERBERT MARSHALL D [Charlie Ruggles - Adeart Everett Martes

Here's breath- less-romanet for every girl WHO-WIDTS strong arms: about hen for every boy

who risks ca resses that ing timatel

with OWEN NARES.

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"The SQUAW MAN"

DIA STUART

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