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CENTRAL

CHEATRE

TAKE QUERN's, &D., WRSTBOUND JUS

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA.

HONG KONG

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 95720.

King's

The Man from Yesterday."

Queen's.

Divorce in the Family."

Central,

The Back Street.”

Oriental.

Old Dark House."

World.

FINAL SHUWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

ONE OF 1932'8. BEST PICTURES. ·

A GREAT STORY MAD

INTO A GREAT HUMAN DRAMA

He:

"I respect and love

my wife, but I idolize YOU. You have sacri. ficod averything for me. And now what does life hold for us?

God help us, what can we do?!!!

She: "Hush! You are the

man I love, the man I will love for. ever. That's all that matters.

FANNIE

HURST'S

BACK STREET

With IRENE DUNNE, JOHN BOLES, George Mecker, Zasu Pitts, June Clyde, William Bakewell, Arletts Duncan, Daris Lloyd, Pauf Weigel, Jane Darwell, Shirley Grey, James Denian, Walter Catlett, Robert MeWade. A JOHN M. STAHL Pro- duction. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Presented by Carl. Laemmle, A "UNIVERSAL PICTURE.

SHOWING TO MOBROW

A tremendous HUMAN DRAMA picturing the ter rifle struggle for life in the Arctic Circle.....Enacted by Eskimos midst the menace of fierce wild beasts and "Aerce? Nature?

00

GLOO

An Edward Small Production directed by Ewing Scott Fi sented by Carl Liqmisie: A UNIVERSAL PICTURE1.

But the Fleal, is Weak."

KOWLOON

The Middle Watch."

Star.

Majestic.

*** Trouble in, Paradise "

King's..

COMING

Devil and the Deep." "A Farewell to Arina." "Horse Feathers."

Queen's.

Blondie of the Follies." "Behind the Mask."

Central.

"Igion."

"Once in a lifetime."

"States Attorney."

World.

The Mummy."

Ducon Patrol"

*Middle Watch,”

50 Million Frenchmen."

Oriental."

Star.

"Mystery Ranalı,"

Dawn Patrol"

"Flying Fool."

Majestic.

"Thark."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 18. 1933.

TO-DAY ONLY

Ar 2.30, 5.10, 7.15

& 9.30 P.M. ·

He

KING'S THE AN

ONCKONC'S FINEST CNEWA

A bottle of wine-

cames

out of her past as

The

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

MAN FromYESTERDAY

Claudette

WITH

Clive

COLBERT BROOK

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong-

DEVIL AND THE

DEEP'

TO-MORROW AT KING'S THEATRE

the

"Devil

and the Deen " Tallulah Bankhead-Gary Cooper film which opens tomorrow next at the King's Theatre.

* IGLOO" 'AN ESKIMO

TALE

BOOKED FOR CENTRAL THEATRE

The world's last surviving re- presentatives of the stone age the Eskimos.

are

“STATES ATTORNEY”

WITH JOHN BARRYMORE AND HELEN TWELVETRESS

John Barrymore and Helen Twelvetrees head the cast of "States Attorney," the Rke-Radio picture coming to the Coufial Theatre next week.

Telling a fast-moving story which combines colorful romance with tense drama of the criminal court-

room, "States Attorney" presents Barrymore as a debonair prosecutor who wins the ladies and convicta the criminals with dash and fire. Miss Twelvetrees plays the girl who teaches him what love means,

BOOKING.

AT THE

THEATRE.

TEL. 25313 & 25332.

- TO-MORROW →

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

BANKHEAD

GARY

JA

COOPER Devil the Deep

and

a Gammount Giature

GRACIE FIELDS

A LADY OF FOUR MILLIONS

|

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(March 18)

(II Moon 23rd Day.) Annual Meeting of St. Stephen's College Association, 4.30 p.m.

Muasang College Prize Distribu- tion and Official Opening of New Assembly Hall, 3 p.m.

་

Annual Dance of Steal Coulson's Billiards League 8.30 p.m

Jumble Sale, St. Andrew's Church Hall, 3 p.m.

Theatres.

Central; "Back Street."

Queen's: "Divorce in the fami-

King's: "The man from yester day,"

Oriental: "Old Dark House.” World: "Squaw Man." Star: "Middle Watch." Majestic: Thark."

Dances.

Tea Dances at King's Restaur- ant Hong Kong Hotel; Gloucester Building; and "Majestic Dancing Academy.

Dinner Dances at King's Re- staurant; Peninsula, Hong Kong, and Repulse Bay Hotels; and Gloucester Building.

Sports,

Athletics.-Queen's College Meet- ing (Causeway Bay), 2 p.m.

St. Stephen's College, 2.30 p.m. Cricket-First Division, Craigen gower 2. Navy (L); Hong Kong C.C. . Civil Servics (F); Second Divi sion, Navy v. Craigengower (L); Police . Recreio (F); Civil Servica

. "Hong Kong C.C. (F).

Football Shield Competition, Borderers. St. Joseph's, First Division, Kowloon Navy; Club r. South China; Royal Artillery v. Lincolns; Second Division, Eastera v. Lincolns; Club, Navy; Border- ers v. Chinese; "Royal Artillery v.. Tsung Tsin; Third Division, Signala e University; Recreio v R.A.S.C.;

Chinese Lincolns. Athletics; Taikoo . Radio; St. Joseph's e. Royal Air Force.

Hockey-Caar Clark Cup, Hong Kong Ladies v. Y.M.C.A.

Racing-Second Extra

Race

Meeting (Happy Valley).

Shooting.-Hong Kong Rifle Club monthly shoot, 2.30 p.m.

Yachting.-Commodores' Cups

Principal Mails. Inward from Europa via Suez by Haruna Maru; Outward for Europe via Siberia by Haruna Maru 10.30. a.m.; Air Mail for Europe by Heli- kon, 12.30 p.m.; for Europe via Busz by Hekotaki Maru 5 p.m.

February 15th must have been a Miss great day for Rochdale. Gracie Fields, Mr. Archie Pitt (her husband); Mr. and Mrs. Fields (her fatliar and mother), Councillor Dutton (the Mayor of Rochdale). Mr. White (her school-master), Mr. Robert Brierley (who made her first clogs), and Mrs. Bertha Schofield ( old friends of the family who keeps an off-licenen in Rochdale and tells good stories) were all enter tained to a Lancashire luncheon at the Trocadero. The occasion was the pressing of the four millionth to Gracie's family, and he remem- record by Miss Fields, and the hosts bered her warbling in his shop when Others in the cast are William were the gramophone-record makers. he was repairing her clogs when she (stage) Boyd, Jill Esmond, Mary His Master's Voice Company. Her was a little girl" Ta-ra-ra-boom- Ducan, Raoul Roulien and many first record was made in June, 1028. de ay "it was. He had two lads in others.

The only singer who may have ex-

the shop who made clogs and war Starting with a police raid on a ceeded Gracie Fields' number was blod, and he rememberer crying to fashionable night club,, the action Caruso, but in his timo figures were her Say, Gracie, that's 'nough.. awings swiftly into a night court not carefully kept. At the luncheon Let some of t'others have a go:” The picture, which marks Cooper's

where trials, & battle in a prize the waitresses wore shawls and Gracio sung at a concert in a silver- retus to the screen after several months spent hung in Africa, is These strange people of the frozen ring, a secret wedding where the clogs, and the fare was broth, fish grey dress, and he made silver grey set in a port on north coast of North have preserved their langu- wrong girl gets the gold band, and I and chips, hot-pot with its appro clogs for her to wear with it. The Afrien, Miss Banshend is cast as age almost unchanged since the a street shooting affray, all play printe rect cabbage, and the drinks first pair he made for her when she was twelve months old, and they the wife of a submarine commandawn of civilization, because their their part in leading up to the were beer and tea

Ignoramuses expected

had brass nails all round. He pro der, who is insaley jealous of her life is in the main still that of dramatic climax in which Barry She meets Cooper and falls .. love the stone age inhabitants of Europe. more bares his soul in an impas. Fields to be short, with a broad, duced the exact copy and presented with him, to discover later that he It is thought by scientists that the sioned plea before a jury. George humorous face, must have been sur them, to Gracie there and then.

Mr. White, her schoolmaster, de- is a new member of her husband's Eskimos, most of whom are found Archainbaud, who made the scusa prised to see the elegant, lisson,

in Alaska, originally came across tional aviation success, "The Lost highbrow lady who entered the hallscribed her as one of the shyest girls the narrow Bering Sea from Asia, Squadron," directed the picture with her Rochdale bodyguard, the in the school, terribly reserved, as they are Mongolian in type, and The story written by Louis Stevens, men complete with large gold keeping herself to herself, very members of their race still exist and Gene Fowler is the author of witchchains. But this queen of low particular whom she made friend

the Asiatic the screen play.

comedy, when she spoke or listened with, but ones made she stuck to in small groups on

to something that interested her, her friends. She was always gon cast.

had humorous, flashing expressions erous. She was eraart and intelli- that made. other people look like gent, but somehow they never gave imitation human beings. To have her a chance at the school operet good looks and expressiveness of tas. The Mayor of Rochdale also this astonishing voitage has fallen gave his tribute. When Gracio to few of the world's singing stars. Fields went to Rochdale, he said, She seemed greatly pleased by the oven Princess Mary did not colleët whole affair, but allowed her old a bigger crowd. Rochdale friends to do the speak-

crow.

When the husband discovers the situation, he gets the two of them atroard his vessel, hends it for a freighter, and turns the controls over to Cooper just as it crashes, The sub sinks, and while it is lying crippled on the posan floor the two men battle with their wits for the

woman.

The role of the husband is played by Charles Laughton, noted. British stage star, who makes his first screen appearance in this picture,

"BACK STREET AT CENTRAL

LAST SHOWING TO-DAY.

Fannie Hurst's most absorbing

Gracie

The name of Eskimos was origin- ally applied to the Northern In- dians by the Algonquin tribe, and means "eaters of raw flesh." This well describes this half-savage race, since much of their exclusive ment diet, including whale, walrus, polar bear and seal, is eaten without cooking. They live in small family story, "Back Street" is showinging, lighting them up now and then or tribal groups, without chiefs, for the last time to day at the Cen and devote their lives entirely to tral Theatre, with John Bolee and hanting and fishing, constantly Irene Dunne in the leading roles. battling with the elements in the John M. Stahl directed "Back icosbound wastes of the Arctic in Street," with Gladys Lehman in CLIVE, CLAUDETTE AND A order to live. In stature the Eski- Continued on Previous Column)

"C

THE MAN FROM YESTERDAY"

WAR MARRIAGE

With Glaudette as the woman who married in baste, and Clivo Brook as the husband she loves and regains, The Man From Yester day" provides two fascinating PT

sonalities for audiences at the King's Theatre.

mos are almost invariably short,. with long heads, high check bones and straight eyes.

Iglao," Universal motion pic ture drama recently filmed in and about П

the ice igloos on Point Barrow, storm-swept village of Alaska, and said to be the most remarkable picture ever produced The story, reminiscent of the in the Arctic, comes to the Central famous Tonnyson classic, Enoch Theatre on Sunday, telling a thril- Arden, is modern, dealing with persons, and evente in the capitalsling and intimate story of the lives of post-war Europe.

of these strange people. "Igloo" Brook, a British officer, marries was made by Ewing Scott, who Claudetto after a whirlwind court- ship during a leave of absence in spent seven months in the village, Paris. The whine and blast of and who obtained for the leading bombs are hear as they become role in the picture

a stalwart Jan and wife in a speedy ceremony

in the cellar of a ruined building. young Eskimo named Cheek-Ak, Their honeymoon is spent in a taxi-standing more than six feet in cab. Several hours later, Brock height, and regarded by his fellows bids his bride farewell to return to

as a veritable giant. duty in the battlo-line. Several weeks later Claudette reads the nawe of Brook's death DHANALA

Despite her lose, Claudette carries writing the screen adaptation.. on courageously, but with the pass- ing of months, she throw off the This popular novel follows the heart-breaks-for-the-husband who life-long-romance of Roy Schmidt. has gone, and, after the Armistice, and Walter Saxol, and the story fall in love with Charles Boyer, a

span of twenty years. The brilliant young. French surgeon.

include June east While travelling with him

William Switzerland. Claudette discover

George Mecker. her amazement that Brook is alive.

Zasu Pitis and many peters Bends him

pital nearby

bos

uthen.

'A SHOWS

DAILY

2,30-5,13

7.15-9.30

with her laugh or friendly jeer.

Rochdale on the Great Gracie,

Mr. Brierley, the old Rochdale elog maker, lived next door but one (Continued on next Column)

TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUD

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROAD

WANDHAI

TEL. RAYA

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY STARTING TO-MORROW

HERE'S THE BIG

"

PICTURE

THAT OUT THRILLS- FRANKENSTEIN

OLD DARK HOUSE

The Great Myster

Picture ! | | ~A–Great Cust. KARLOFF,

Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laugh- ton, Gloria Stuart, Lillian Bond and many others in the most exciting picture ever produced.

A NEW KIND OF A WESTERN.

NEW. AND GREATER THRILLS THAN EVER BEFORE.

MORE DRAMATIC THAN ANY-FICTION.

GIEORGE

O'BRIEN

MYSTERY RANCH

with

Cecilia Parker

From novel "The Killer" by Stewart Edward White.

Directed by David Howard

FOX Picture

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road, howloon. Tel. 57222 TU-DAY ONLY

lat 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

Shut up...and kiss me!

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

with MEREAM HOPKINS BY FRANCIS. HERBERT MARSHALL

Charße Regalar - Géward Everett Morton

"Here's breath

less romance for every girl who wants strong arms about her... for every boy who risks ca resses that in timatel

QUEENT: THEATRE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 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 1-

DIVORCE FAMILY

IN THE

WITH

Jackie COOPER

Conrad Nagel Lewis Stone Lois Wilson

A METEO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE ADDED

"SNOW BIRDS".

A Metro's Sport Champion Special Latest HEARST NEWS

From

TO-MORROW

A THRILLING

PAGE IN THE LIFE STORY of a chorus girl

Merion

DAVIES

and

MONTGOMERY

Robert

Godem Mate

Blondie

of the Follies

HARON BAYIS

with Billis BOVE Jimmy

“DURANTI

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7 20 & 9.20 p.m

TIAE FAMOUS COMET STAM MÁTE Mail-

STEPHEN KING-HAUL:

he

MIDDLE WATCH

Smith OWEN NARES.

SWORLDS

FINAL SHOWINGS TO DAY® BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK

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