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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S CD, WESTDOUND" BUR

Advanco Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. SEE the terrific bartla

between an Eski-

mo and a ferocious polar bear which is about to de- your the girl ho`lovosi

SEE the hunger-mad-

dened Eskimos".

wild walrus hunt.......scores of giant sea beasts slain before your very eyesi

SEE the desperato Es-

"okimos' thrilling pursuit of a whala-lika saa. monster whose tall alone is bigger than 20 men!

SEE the crashing mass-

es of white death -pressure-ice that closes Its gigantic laws on man and boast alikel

SEE the sacrifice of hu

man lives that oth- ers may be spared.... the aged sealed to dla in lana- ly tombs of Ice and snow!

A UNIVERSAL SUPER THRILLER telling of the fight for life in the Frozen Narth. An Edward Small Produc- tion directed by Ewing Scott. Presented by Carl Laemmle.

NEXT CHANGE

COUNSEL FOR CROOKS OR PUB- LIC PROSECUTOR!

He Wray at Both, Che til the Woman He Loved Faced Him Across the Stanil ...

JOHN

BARRYMORE

with

HELEN

TWELVETREES

In Drama Dramatic as a Judge's Sentence!

STATE'S ATTORNEY

JILI ESMOND WILLIAM (Stage) BOYD MARY DUNCAN

Directed by. GEORGE ARCHAINBAUD RKO RADIO. PICTURE,

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933,

SHOWING TO-DAY AT

2.30, 5.10, 7.15

DAYLIGHT MADR TAWDRY THE LOVE THAT THE DESERT

& 9.30 F.M.

King's.

Devil and the Deep.

Queen's.

Blondie of the Follies."

Central,

"Igloo."

Oriental,

Mystery Ranch.”

World.

"The Dacon Patrol."

KOWLOON

Star.

Beau Huuks."

Majestic.

"Thark."

COMING

NIGHT MADE SWEET

KINGS

HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA

DESERT STARS,

THE WARM PERFUME OF THE TROPICAL NIGHT, THE SENSUOUS NOTES OF PAN ORIENTAL LOVE SONG..,

TALLULAH

BANKHEAD

GARY

COOPER

TA

AND

·

"DEVIL HE DEEP"

A Paramount Picture

with CHARLES LAUGHTON CARY GRANT

Directed by Marion Gering

BOOKING

AT THE

THEATRE

TEL. 25313 & 25332.

NEXT CHANGE. THURSDAY, 28rd MAR.

TWO SOULS LÖST... FOR LOVE'S SAKE

HELEN HAYES GARY COOPER

A FAREWELL

TO ARMS

ADOLNIE MENJOU

& PLANS SORTAGE Production

4 Gramaini Pictuent

in

f

ONCE IN A LIFE-

TIME

A SKIT ON HOLLYWOOD ·

The

-motion picture industry "kide" itself unmercifully in “Once Lifetime," the Universal comedy which comes to the Central Theatre on Wednesday.

This satire on fantastic produe |tion methods of Hollywood studios is one continual shriek of laughter, taking the audience not only into the forbidden precincts of the round stages during the making of a picture, but into the private offi- ces of reputedly great executives. In this hilarious production wà see incredibly "dumb" small-time vali- deville actor installed as supervisor of a leading studio, and acclaimed as the genius of Hollywood.

The exceptional cast appearing in Once in a Lifetime” includes Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon. Russell Hopton, Zusu Pitts, Louise Fazenda and many others.

Laugh? You'll howl! Don't miss "Once in a Lifetime.”

QUEENS THEATER

TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY At 2,80, 5.1Q, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m

A THRILLING PAGE IN THE LIFE STORY of a chorus girl

marion

DAVIES

MONTGOMERY

Metro-

Mayer

'King's,

A Farewell to Arms." "llorge Feathers."

Queen's.

"Bohind the Musk.”

Central,

"States Attorney,"

"Once in a Lifetime."

World.

Star.

+

The Mummy."

Middle Watch."

50 Million Frenchmen."

"Dawn Patrol." "Flying Fool."

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

A FAREWELL TO

ARMS"

FILM OF A FAMOUS U.S. NOVEL

"BEHIND THE MASK"

A REAL THRILLER BOOKED

FOR QUEEN'S

"Behind The Mask" is a shock er that will shock even those who

Far more iffeult than adapta tion of the ordinary play or novelaro naturally equipped with men- into a screen story, was the task tal shock absorbers. This Colum- of converting. Ernest Hemingway's bia film that will open at the quocéssful." A Farowell To Arma” into the picture which Helen Queen's Theatre on Thursday is Hayes, Gary Cooper and Adophe terrifying, electrifying, horrify Menjou will enact on the screen of ing, mystifying! It's a daring the King's Theatre, beginning tale of horror that will gine you Thursday.

to your seat with fright, but at the same time fascinate you..

That is the opinion of Benjamin Glazer and Oliver H. P. Garrett, the two gentlemen who accom plished the task.

TOLD THIS MAN

AND WOMAN

THEY BELONGED

TO OTEEN!

EACH

NO WONDER IN THE MAD MAGIO

THAT

MONENT THEY AZIZEN, LOVE!

CENTRAL THEATRE-

"IGLOO "A PICTURE OF THE FROZEN NORTH

Only the strong deserve to live. This is a tenet of the civilization of the Eskimos of the arctic, and one which they observe as a matter of firm belief. When a member of an Eskimo tribe has reached. an ad- vanced age, and has become so weakened that he cannot enter into the activities of the village, he is

often sealed in his ice house or

igloo, and there left to die. He may hasten the end by suicide, if he so desires, and often takes this method of ending, his earthly cares.

The observance of this custom is

shown in "Igloo," Ewing Scott's Universal drama produced by Ed- ward Small in the ice-bound Alas- kan village of Point Hope, and tre. Enacted by a cast entirely now showing at the Central Thea

componed of Eskimos, headed by a handsome stalwart named Chee-Ak, "Behind The Mask," relates the the

it is at once the most exciting and most intimate picture ever acts of a cruel, ruthless person, made in this land of eternal. ice who stooped to the most inhuman and snow. means to destroy anyone who in- terfered with his nelarious bus:-

We had a book which undoub telly rates 18 one of the most widely read in American litera

The tribe, seeking food and the ture," explains Glazer: "The noss. This dreaded figure known open sen, deserts its village and country is filled with Hemingway merely as Mr. X, was the myster the aged father of the heroine. But leaves behind, sealed in. his igloo, fans who would resent any great ious leader of a notorious dope in the story the daughter, second liberties being taken with this ring. He functioned through hook or the dialogue

gang, who worked for him faithed by the sympathetic. Chce Ak of "Yet we were faced with the fully without knowing his identi- another tribe, refuses to abide by problem of making the story ty. No one dares to find out. Al the custom, and insists that her dramatic, It is impossible to though he is only a fearful symbol father nocompany the caravan. photograph a novel. A novelist them, they now what horrible. In the making of these scenes it can describle-scenes-and-thoughts, faten the too curious have suffered was difficult for the Director to he can sweep over great explantaes at his hands. But the Secret Ber-

THESE TWO ...THEY FOUND:

ALL THAT THE HUMAN HEARTKNOWS OF ECSTASY AND BREAKING,

“DEVIL AND THE

DEEP

TENSE DRAMA AT THE

KING'S

It difficult to know what to say about Devil and the Deep" the new picture at the King's Theatre.

An attempt to arrange my im- pressions produces the following: clover piece of acting, I hope I shall Charles Laughton; an amazingly

Tallulah Bank

ice him again ... head has found a really good part

here and plays it woll. Garry Cooper; I like him, he plays with directness, simply and convincingly

The story is overwhelming, it is tense and terribly tragic... my attention has been held every moment of the fim... I am tired, not forget, a big picture worth but I have seen a picture I shall

playing and very well played. Tho production was excellent.”

When I try to put these im- pressions into words to sum up the picture I find myself hesitating. "Devil and the Deep" is too real for entertainment, too tragic for so goed that I feel I should have recreation, and yet the acting is been very sorry to have missed it. If you enjoy good acting and good production you should see picture.

E.M.B.

this

convince the old man that he was the action was only being simulated

SAYINGS OF THE WEEK

The really religious man, liko Job, gives up the attempt to under- stand God, and concentrates on living religiously-Mr. Julian Huxley.

In Russia they are spontaneously developing a Puritanism, without a sense of sin, but based on Jawa of hygiena and good form.-Lord Passfeld.

The Pacifists are in favour of insulting all the most aggressive Powers in the modern world, but of depriving us of the only means whereby such insults would be safe. -The Hon. Quintin Hogg.n

The restoration of real money- metallic money-is one of the ele ments necessary to the still possi blo, but increasingly doubtful, salvation of our social structure.- Mr. Hilaire Belloc.

What matters the judgment of the State Court? Away with the absurd sanctity of clauses-Herr Friesler.

I don't believe in going to war to enforce peace. Lord Lytton.

the delay of fash of lightning compared with The delay of the law is like, a

the Ministry of the Transport in dealing with Salter Report.-Lord Buckmaster.

I am inclined to think that the English should be criticized not for taking sport too seriously, but for not taking it seriously enough. -Mr. Robert Lynd.

To help the unemployed is not the same thing as dealing with unen- ployment.Sir Herbert Samuel,

The Oxford Union is more sway- ed by argument than any other liol. body I know.-The Master of Bal.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DRUG

ADDICTS

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, March 15. Drug addicts will face imprison- ment of six months and a fine not exceeding 8300 under the new opium Jaw which is promulgated by the. National Government to-day.

of time space. drama vice in determined track purposes mot MAJESTIC

must bring those things to life be- -fore your eyes

the dangerous person in spite of heavy-tosses they have suffered "We were faced with the fact through him. How Jack Hart, a that the book had been drama government agent finally learns the tized for the etage both in New identity of Mr. X and breaks up i York and Berlin. We analyzed the dope ring, provides drama these plays and discovered their packed with thrilling highlights, Inulta. The playwrights had surprise action and gruesome in- merely taken a pair of scissora tecidents, the hook and cut out the scence they could use,

Scenes that will bring cold beads

of perspiration on your forehead

mish with fright are in the hos

d make you clammy and squen- pital where Dr. Steiner destroys those who are considered "exces- nive" by Mr. X.

"We did not do that." Natural- ly a whole book cannot be photo raphed and presented in less than two hours. The first thing we did was to drop useless por tions of the plot which even n Hemingway lover will not miss.

Jack Holt, one of the screen's But on the other hand, in several most saly herose, plays the Secret cases we explained a

paragraph Servic

agent with his usual sin- into a series of scenes,

cerity. The extremely versatile- "But the screen play is Hem- and capable Boris Karloff, the ter ingway because we are using his rifying monster of "Frankenstein," story, his characters, his ideals and adds another interesting charac his actual words in all the major terization to his rapidly increasing

(Continued on next Column).

list, with a sinister portrayal in this new "horror mystery." Con- stance Cummings, Claude King, Willard Robertson, Bertha Mann and Edward Van Sloan are woll chosen for their particular parts. John Francis Dillan proves his directorial versatility with his ex cellent handling of the film, y

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kay scenes of the romance,A

Glazer; in operation with Gar- rett followed closely Hemingway's bory in the young American offi Foer in the Italian ambulance corps and the latter's devastating romance with an English nurse,

Continued at foot of next Column)! ture.

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2,20–519.

7.15-8.20

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2 MORE DAYS-TO-DAY-TO-MORROW A NEW KIND OF A WESTERN! THE BEST ACTION PICTURE YOU EVER SAWI

Thundering HOOFS-FLASHING GUNS

One man tearing his way through a desper ate band of treacher- ous killers to the heart of the girl he loved.

GEORGE O'BRIEN

MYSTERY RANCH

FOX Picture

with CECILIA PARKER From vel The Killer" by Stewart Edward White

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EXQUISITE COMEDY WITH THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST COMEDY

TEAM.

RALPH LYNN

THARK

SLOTSKOELFUN

with TOM WALLS. IT'S A BRITISH

DOMINIONS PRODUCTION,

PROTULO

Blondie

of the Follies

Directed by

BDMUND

GOULDING

ALSO-

RAMON GONESs

PRODUCTION

with" Bullo DOVE Jimmy DURANTE

Laurel & Hardy Comedy

"ONE GOOD TURN

NEXT CHANGE ————

A FIEND WHO LIVED BY DEATH!

JACK HOLT in "BEHIND the

MASK

with Boris KABLOFF.

Constance CUMMINGS

A Columbia Picture.

STAR

TO-DAY & TO MOREOW At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. LAUREL

HARDY

BEAU

HUNKS

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

"The BABY FOLLIES

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