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CENTRAL

CHEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND DUB

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

King's.

Horse Fasthora."

Queen's.

"Prosperity,"

Central,

TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.)

The Mayor's Nest.".

Oriental,

"The Painted Desert."

World.

A BRIGHT & SPARKLING. BRITISH PICTURE

FULL OF RICH HUMOUR

PIEGRIM

・THE HONEST

Sydney The Howard

MAYOR'S NEST

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WESTERN ALTADOS MOLURSAM POFORT LAU

WITH CLAUDE HULBERT BOTH GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU YELL WITH. LAUGHTER!

TO-MORROW

SOMETHING NEW!

THE FIRST PICTURE

OF THE TERRIBLE

CHAIN GANGS-

Every man in line had a torgeton his back. A thousand to one against free- dom,bulDuke Ellis Jook a chance!

Brutall TRUEI

The story of

"Speak Easily."

KOWLOON

Star.

When

Feller

Friend."

Majestic.

"Sooky."

COMING

King's..

"Society Girl,"

Needs

"Tees of the Storm Country."

Queen's.

"Fast Life"

"Five Star Final,”

Central.

Hell's Highway."

"Steady Company."

"A Bill of Divorcement." **Nagana."

"The Mummy.'

11

"Explorers of the World."

World.

Star,

"Flying Fool."

"Splinters in the Navy."

The Chance of a Night Time.

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HONCKONC'S FINEST ONEMA

One grand horse-laugh

THE

kicks gloom where "X" Marx the spot!

4 MARX

BROTHERS Horse Feathers

A scandalous récord of

low Marx at college...

or life amang love..

thirsty co-eds!

Not a grain of sense in the whole feed bog... but one mad burst of happy hysterics...set to gay musicand garnish- ed with gorgeous girls!

A Paramount Picture Directed by Norman Mcleod

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong·

"C

GADUCHO

CHICO

TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY"

OPENING AT KING'S

NEXT SUNDAY

BOOKING

- ÁT Tán

THEATRE

TEL 25313 & 95382

— NEXT CHANGE: THURSDAY, 30th MAR,

The warmth of her kisses melted the social barriers that held them apart.

JAMES

DUNN

SOCIETY

GIRL

h

'SPENCER

TRACY

PEGGY

SHANNON

Based on the play by John Larkin, Jr. and Charles Benhan Dimeted by SIDNEY LANFIELD Fox Picture

'THE MAYOR'S

NEST"

A rich feast of laughter is the correct description of "The Mayer's Nest," the Sydney Howard picture showing at the Central for the last With the coming of "Tess of the time to-day. Sydney can be relied Storm Country" to the King's upon to extract fun out of the Theatro next Sunday, the army of most unpromising material, Here

“SOCIETY GIRL" "PROSPERITY, AT Gaynor-Farrell fans will see their is

ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR

JAMES DUNN

THE QUEEN'S

WHEN OLD-TIME PROPS

Training for his role in "Society Girl," which comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday, was as exact- ing and rigorous a grind for James Dunn as a pre-contest period is for a professional fighter. As Johnny Malone, middleweight contender for the crown and here of the picture, Dunn was required to enact two bouts before the camera, as well as to live the life of a fighter in train-ter to plough shares. ing quarters during the entire length of the film story.

WERE AT A PREMIUM Reproducing an old-time general merchandise store was one of the problems confronted by Sam Wood in directing Prosperity," the new Marie Dressler-Pully Moran comedy now playing at the Queen's Thea- tre. This type of atore, long out of existence, sold everything from but

Among the properties called for was a great coffee mill such as grocers used to surploy to grind coffee beans to sell in bulk Now, however, coffee comes in herme tically sealed packages and old

With hut

His conditioning for the part began a month before the starting date of the picture, with daily box- ing, bag-punching and road work, all with a professional boxer. To mills are hard to find the chain

keep from going stale, he alternated his ring training with more regular visits to the links. The change was much to his liking, for Dunn is one, of screenland's best golfers.

gangs

'HELL'S HIGHWAY

Storing

·R·ICH ́A ́R ́D

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ter, there was the same trouble Now it comes wrapped up in quar- ter-pound packages in vegetable parchment, a far cry from old fashioned methods. On the links, the qualities that "Getting materials for the set," have made Dunn a consistent film says Wood, the director, "bad us favourite Are emphasized. The hunting all over the state. But it sport calls for a combination of was an education in the progresa gentlemanliness, physical fitnessade in sanitary handling of food. and mental alertness, all of which Old bulk sales

are replaced by are ideally blended in this youngster nunchine-handled packages, ab- who definitely rose to fame as "Bed clutely sanitary, Sealed packages Girl boy friend. His drives have for crackers, for butter, pickles and power and are confidence as any the rest of the things sold in bulk golfer will verify. His middle-dis. bave eliminated almost all the-old- tance shots are perhaps the best time methods. Perhaps that's why: FAST LIFE” BOOKED FOR They are deadly. He usually lazy we're all so much healthier.

QUEEN'S

An IKO-RADIO Pichern of comi

Leventive Prodow

#TOM BROWN Directed by Rowland Brown

MOTOR-BOAT PICTURE

A complete change of wardrobe after every scene was necessary for embers of the cast appearing in Fast Life," the Metro-Goldwyn. Mayor motor-boat picture filmed at Catalina Island and which will be shown at the Queen's from Thurs day.

The flying spray from the racing boats drenched the players. After The racic scenes there were boat spills to be photographed, requir ing the autore to take more plunges into the briny,

Aben

clothing were used up, the only clternative was to stay wrapped in warm, blanketa between scenes and then climb back into the wet gar ments..

William Haines and Cliff Edward led the quick-change squad, with Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel and Arthur Byron also coming in for.

of glampness.

them well up on the green, a feat! requiring nice judgment of distance. His weakness lica in, putting. Some times he is never up, had,as Bobby Jones remarks, "nover up, never}

in?!

HELL'S HIGHWAY

"Prosperity" is a comedy ro mance of a small town, with Marie. Dressler and Polly Moran as bat Page and Noman Foster as their tling mothers-in-law, and Anita married children. Jacquie Lyn, But Duan is tenacious.

Tucker, Par is Jerry

Charles Giblyn, always his opponent. He generally Frank Darien and Henry Armetta follows a disastrous hole with an kave, important roles. expected eagle, whips a bad lie or an evil-looking trap with a sum mons on the reserve that sees him through. And if he faile, if Old Man Par begins to grin, Dunn grins back. He grins just as he does when he takes it on the jaw from his opponent in the ring in "So ciety Girl," and as he accepts the terrific beating around the heart given him by Peggy Shaunon, the

Hell's Highway, coming to the red-headed interest in the drama. Central Theatre on It is that grin, springing from the with Richard Dix in the starring Wednesdny heart, honestly, that has caused theule. They are the ditties of non- public to accept him. It might be ed man who, for want of a better the reason for his request for a cutlet of expression, sing away the handicap when he chooses a good age-long hours. In "Hell's High- way stern saga of chain-gang travail, more than a hundred R percu mer ure Bean and heard chanting at their toil,

partner.

Many songs that have never been; heard outside prison walls are sung by the "convicts" of the chaip gang in the UKO-Radio prochaotion,

directed by Rowland Brown, is

Liberty Bond," written especial With chains about thefi- legs. ed actor and composer who also ang "We Are Four Bums on ly by Clarence Muse, noted colour-keeping a low niythm, the ment plays one of the important roles in Henry Wille the Weerar,” the film. In writing the song 1248wing E High Bullies," Are Working on the Rail Muse said he was inspired by the road, hope that motivated the rowdy? The Lond In Heavy Captain, ants of the chain-gang nhsoners You Are Going To Lose Your

Man and many other. In the cast supporti "Tom Brown ol Hudson, C Henry olhor, koreen PİKTE

The outstanding musical number in the production, which was 100slinued on: Previous". Calumni).

favourites in what is said to be the most exciting dramatic offering they have yet iddo and a pictures very different from any of their vehicles.

adventures of a sea-captain's daugh- The story deals with the hector

ter who comes to live nshore for the first time in her life.

With

its opening sequences aboard the Captain's schooner and the picturesque settings of the scenic realism to its swift-moving shore scenes, the production adds a story. "Miss Gaynor's work as the fiery and independent fisher-girl and Farrell's performance as the care. for the first time, are reported to free youngster who encounters' love

ank among the star's first por. trayals.

Duddly Digges, fiss Gaynor's unele in The First Year," enacts

4 SHOWS DAILY £30--5.13 7.18–0.80.

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subject specially designed and written to exploit his talents. Uniformly aessful in all the films in which he has "appeared," he is at his very best in this British and Dominions production, directed by P. Maclean Rogera.

the rule of her nautical father in **Tess." Claude Gillingwater, June Clyde and Edward Pawley have the ther principal parts, with Georgo

Jennings also prominent in the cast, bleeker, Matty Kemp and De Witt

The direction is by Alfred Santell, who made Miss Gaynor's earlier "Daddy Long Legs" and Farrell's adapted from the novel by Grace "Body and Soul." The film was Miller White and the dramatization, by Rupert Hughes. S. N. Behrman And Sonya Levien wrote the screen

lay.

TAKE ANY TRAM DR HAPPY VALERY BUS

ORIENTALE

2 DAYS ONLY-TO-DAY—TO-MORROW

A MARVELLOUS CAST IN A CIGANTIC WESTERN PRODUCTION THAT'S BIGGER, BETTER AND DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING YOU'VE EVER SEEN.

BILL BOYD

THE

WAINTED ADESERT

HELEN TWELVETREES ond WILLIAM PARNUM

HOWANE.

THE CLIMAX OF SENSATIONAL SPECTACLE IS REACHED IN THIS STUPENDOUS WESTERN DRAMA YOU A glorious panorama of scenic beauty Thousands of cattle in a big stampede WIEL

Huge mountains blasted to the skies !. SE E Mule teams catapult into a big ravine

THE GREATEST WESTERN COMEDY. DRAMA EVER SCREENED I

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

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WEDNESDAY

(March (8)

(III. Moon 4th Day) Anniversaries and Holidays:-- Chinese National Holiday; (Aniver- sary of the death of 72 Martyrs at the Yellow Flowers Hill in Canton, 1911); Customs Holiday.

Lammert's Sale of Books, Maga zines, etc., Book Store, Ice House Street 3 pan. Furniture and Goods and Chattals of the late Mr. Kelly Sayce, 16, Ios House Street, 10.30

a.m.

Whist Drive; Seamen's Institute, é p.m. Lecture, Sailors' and Sol- dier' Hame, 8.30 p.m.

St. Andrew's Church Lenten Ser- vice, 6 p.m.

Meetings.

fa

New Territories Evangelisation Society, Hong Kong Union Church, Kennedy Rand.

Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd., St. George's Building, Chater Road, 11 a.m.

Creditors of China Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., at Joha Manaces & Co., Ltd., 7, Queen's Rond Central, 3.15 p.m.

United Ashestos Oriental Agency Ltd., Queen's Building, 3 p.m.

Dances.

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant; Hong Kong Hotel;

Gloucester

Building and Majestic Dancing Academy.

Dinner Dances at King's Restaur ant; Peninsula: Hong Kong; and Repulse Bay Hotels; and Glouces ter Building.

Principal Mailz.

Outward for Europe via Suez by Automedon, 2.30 p.m.

Sunrise 6.20 a.m.; Sunset.-8.37 p.m.

Tides-High at 11.11 and 23.47; Low at 4.34 and 17.29.

HORSE FEATHERS"

MERRY ANTICS OF MARX BROTHERS

Grouche Mark has decided to buy. an eskimo and make his own ice, The

hemustached bespectacled member of the Four Marx Brothera teain reached the decision during the filming of "Horse Feathers," latest of the insane comedies star- ring him and his three brothers, Chico, Harpoe, and Zeppe, now on display at the King's Theatre.

Chico, dialect punster of the quartet, is cast is bootlegger- bores holes in them, and them con- iceman: He takes cakes of ice,

ceala bottles of Rye, Gin and Scotch in the holes.

Though hardly more than a score of blocks of ice are seen in the pic- turo, it required many times that. number during production, for un- der the heated glare of studio lights, Call after call went out for more. the cakes of ice melted rapidly...

For what this is costing," re. marked Grouche, "I could bay an Eskimo and make my own.jce.""

Chico, as the bootlegger iceman," Barpo, as the town dog-catcher in "Horse Feathers, help Groucho, a college president, get his son Zeppo out of school after he has spent 12' years there as a freshman,

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If what Hong Kong needs is a big laugh Here it is!

PROSPERITY

with ANITA PAGE NORMAN FOSTER A SAM WOOD Production:

ALSO CHARLIE CHASE in "High Cs" FROM THURSDAY: COMING TO YOU!

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