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TO-DAY AT THE

CENTRAL

HEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatro Tel. 25720,

SHOWING TO-DAY.

Oriental.

CINEMA

HONG KONG

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1933

TO-DAY ONLY

AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15

King's.

"The Sign of Four."

Queen's.

& 9.30 P.M.

"Svengali."

Central.

"A Bill of Divorcement."

"Body and Soul."

# KOWLOON

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

Star.

Majestic.

Behind the Mask,"

States Attorney."

SEE HIM IN THE PIC-

TURE THAT WILL

LIVE AS A RECORD OF HIS GENIUS!

King's.

Queen's.

CLEMENCE DANE'S

SENSATIONAL ENGLISH STAGE SUCCESS.

JOHN.

BARRYMORE

A's great at drama as this year will pro- duce!

D...

an RKO

RADIO PICTURE of course

"A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT"

With KATHARINE HEPBURN, Billie Burke, David Marineos Directed by George. Cukor. David O. Selw nick, Executive Prochow

Que of 1932's ten Bent Pictures.

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Street Scene."

"Robber's Boost,"

American Madness." 3 Wise Girls.".

"As You Desire Me."

Central.

Say It with Music,” "Nagana.

"Explorers of the World."

Oriental.

World.

The Sea Wolf."

"Fast Life,"

Behind the Mask."

"Private Lives."

Star.

Private Lives."

"Black Coffeo."

"Ben Hur."

CANTON CINEMAS

Wing Hon.

Love Dabt."

Sun Wah Theatre.

For the Sake of Love."

Southern Palace.

"Unholy Night."

Poarl Theatre.

Divorce in the Family,"

Tal Tak.

"Panama Flo."

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MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong·

AMERICAN MADNESS

FILM OF BANK RUN AT QUEEN'S

:

The worst kind of riot in the world for vehemence and hysteria is

bank riot. Hunger marches, strikes and even 1ynchings pala into insignificance before the white hent of personal injury that fires a mob of frenzied bank depositors who clamour for the savings they think

have lost.

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+

STREET SCENE

SYLVIA IN FEMININE LEAD

›

By the time Street Scene," the Samuel Goldwyn picturization of the Elmer Rice prize stage play, completes its appearance at the King's Theatre on Sunday, a new motion picture stare impered inagnitude will have impressed herself upon the minds of movie goers the country over,

The new addition to the Holly.

That is the conclusion that Walter Wood Armament i Sylvia Sidney, the young stage actress, whose Hiustom arrived at after getting & short career in pictures has been tumultuous taste of a bank run in meteoric. For two years she had his latest feature picture, "Ameri- been known upon the Broadway can Madness," & story that plunges dramatic stage, but six months in without fear into the heart of the Hollywood has spread that ac- America of to day, answering ques-quaintaneeship to international pro- tions millions are asking, pointing portions. the way out.

bank-run

scenes

A HUGE BLACK CAT

BARRYMORE'S MASCOT IN

SEVENGALI "

Leo, a trained black cat, provides atmosphere for John Barrymore's "Svengali," the Warner Bros. pro- duction now at the Queen's Theatre. It was Leo's taste for sardines, as well as a budding affection for Barrymore, which kept the animal within the camera angle during the filming of scenes.

"

Some kind of a pet alwaysap- pears in a Barrymore icture In General Crack" it was a monkey.

In The Man From Blankley's it was the now famous Egyptian Scarab. In Moby Dick" it was Peter, a giant St. Bernard, rather thun the whale, which enjoyed Barrymore's particular cinematic affection. In keeping with the sinis ter character he plays and the evil intent he pursues, Barrymore is the symbolic black ent to lick his shoes and to purr an accompaniment to his weird music,

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BOORING

AT THE

| THEATHE

TEL. 25918 & 25992.

TO-MORROW

Drama that tears at your heart.

Stift your soul... Paralyzes your ematian... Leaves you breathless!

Samuel Goldwyn

KING VIDOR'S produccion

GENE

with SYLVIA SIDNEY WILLIAM COLLIER, JR ESTELLE TAYLOR.

#

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(April 8).

(III Moon 14th Day). Anniversaries and Holidays. Anniversary of the Opening of First Parliament of China,

King of the Belgians born, 1875. Variety Concert, Volunteer Head- quarters, 9.30 p.m.

Opening for the Season, Lane, Crawford's Kiosk, Repulse Bay,

H.M.S. Tamar Dance, Garrison Lecture Hall, 8.30 p.m.

Catholio Lenton Mission: Fr. Byrne, SJ on "In The Fighung Lane," Catholic Cathedral, Caine Road, 6 p.m.

Annual Dinner of Law and Com- merce Society of Hong Kong University, Lano, Crawford's Res taurant, 8.30 p.m.

Theatres,

Queen's: Svengali."

Central: "A Bill of Divorce-

ment."-

King's: "The Sign of Four." Oriental: "Body and Soul." Work: Lovers Courageous." Star: "Behind the Mask," Majestic: "State's Attorney."

Dances.

Ten Dances at King's Restau- rant: Hong Kong Hotel; Glouces tor Building; and Majestic Dancing Academy.

Dinner Dances at King's Restau- runt; Peninsula, Hong Kong and Repulse Bay Hotels; and Glouces ter Building..

Principal Malls.

Taward from America by Frea. Jefferson."

Outward for Europe via Suez by Ranpura, 10.30 a.m.

Sports.

Cricket-First Division: Cham- pione v. Rest (Pokfulam); Civil Service v. South Wales Borderers

A BILL OF DIVORCE-|(F); Wayfoong (Hong Kong Bank)

MENT"

BARRYMORE IN A POST-

WAR TRAGEDY

What becomes of the pathetic sheil-shocked men who return to their homes from the war and at tempt to pick up the threads of their lives?

It is one of these shell-shocked soldiers who serves as the centrat

character in the dramatie RKO- Radio Picture, "A Bill gf Divorce. ment," starring John Barrymore af the Central today..

The

Barrymore plays the role of a roken wrath of a composer who trics to adapt himself to the changed conditions he finds in his home after a long absence. sacrifice of his daughter to insure his and his wife's ultimate happi- nesa supplies the strongly dramatic theme of the picture. Billie Bake, Katharine Hepburn, David Man

ners,

Paul Cavanagh, Henry Stephenson. Elizabeth Patterson and Cayle Evers comprise the sup- with telling effect by George Cukor. Forting cast which was directed

CHOPSTICKS

A LUSTY AND PROMISING

TWO-YEAR-OLD

Chopsticks," as we predicted when the first number appeared, las maintained its early promise,

v. Taikoo (Butterfeld &. Swire). Second Division: Champions Rest (8ookunpoo).

FootballShield Finals Senior South China . South Wales Bor- South derers; Junior: Navy Wales Borderers (Club ground), 2.15 p.m. First Division: Police v. Club de Recreio; Láncolna v. Kow loon. Third Division: University v. Royal Air Force; South China. v. Chinese Athletic, Lincolns v. Royal Engineers.

Yachting:-Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's Third Corinthian

Race.

humbler associations of provincial

owns 1. They appeal, like choco- Iates and caramels, to something, pleasantly elements, and perhaps a little childish, in mankind.

Chopsticks has done well to keep itself on these lines. It tells a lot of Hong Kong people about them- selves, and those who do not yet figure in its pages know, that their turn will come. Light and amusing gossip, pictures of pleasant placed and people, light reminiscences, & very modern story, by a modern exactly what her generation thinks and does, and let the elders take it young person, telling her oldes

and be damned! And the elders, with a sigh, confess that that sort of tale is rather botter done now, than in the past by the imitators and Eleanor of Frank Harris Glynn.!

r

ever before.

R.B.

Accompanying the cat was & train er, who acted as keeper between the cat's appearances, and saw that the stock of sardins did not diminish. After formal introductions, in which Parrymore warned the cat about the dangers of life as a-motion pic ture actor, no one was allowed to feed Leo except the star. As a re- sult, before the picture was three

Chopsticks has never failed to days in production "Svengali " It was only last February that End a pet that gladly followed him

give a half-hour's amusement, and now on our deek, shows that it is Realism almost got out of bounds Miss, Sidney was taken to Holly wherever the script said he should,

the second anniversay mumber: and found a very comfortable niche at the Columbia studios when the wood, but since that time she has go.

The black cat showed marked for itself in Hong Kong, Such ex-going as well. if not better than were made for completed four pictures and is now "American Madnes." About preparing a fifth. As her first affection for the lovely Marian cellent Home productions as the and "Bystander." "Sketch." thousand "extras" were called to break she was rashed into the cast Marsh who makes her soreen debut

as Trilby. Wherever she went, the Tatler" have made the type of portray the collective role of a mad of "City Streets" when Clara moh that some of them had enacted, Bow was withdrawn as the resultat, like Mary's lamb, followed af light, amusing and well-illustrated nal savings went down in the made her debut opposite Gary up to the belief of the producers, these periodicals found in every who make her screen debut as the club men's, women's and mixed→→ vortex of some actual bank filure. Cooper.

In "American Madness," to- Her work was so impressive that cinema find of the year. Her por from the solemn portals of the trayal of Trilby is not alone made Athanan, where dignitaries of morrow's attraction at the Queen's she was chosen for the principal memorable by her beauty and charm Church and State, read them over to the Theatre, goaded by a false rumour feminine roles in "An American but by a depth of understanding, tea and buttered toast,

(Continued on (nezt Valumn)' the Theodore Dreiser quite amazing in one so young which grew to mammoth proportions Tragedy," under the encouragemeent of lips, novel, and "Confessions of 1 which are often eager to spread Go-ed," and then came the prize word of disaster whenever that role of the lot that of Rose Maur- disaster doesn't concern the posses rant in Street Sceno," Countless sor of those lips, the frantic deposi-young woman of Hollywood had tors rush into the bank of which been angling for that part, but Miss Walter Huston, as Tom Dickson, is Sidney's work made her the out- president, wild at the thought of standing choice. And now she has impending poverty, scrambling over No. 1 Dressing Room at the Para- one. another in a hysterical assault mount Studios, with the world at: on the tellers' windows.

her feet,

SAY IT WITHMUSIC individually in real life when their of illness, 20 that Sylvia Sidney ter. Miss Marsh in "Svengali" lives

ORIGINAL MUSIC INCLUDE!

LOVE IS THE SWEETEST THING "

"GOOD MORNING MISTER SUN"

AND

“I'LL DO MY BEST TO MAKE YOU HAPPY”

∙HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS

(Continued from Page 12.) China Export Import and Bank Co., Tel. No. 23250, A.S.O.C., as from April 6, 1933.

No. 2017 Pto. E. Lubeseder, China Export, Import and Bank Tel. No. 23256, A.S.C.0, s from.

Einanating from a robbery, which. occurred in the bank the night be fore, when 850,000 was stolen, the actor, who can stand having his cont word had spread through the town torn his face muddied, or any other that Dickson's bank had failed,

inconvenience with the serenity of then, that he had stolen tho money! himself, finally-that he had ab- a sincere trouper, remarked, after sconded with all of the bank's Bur- the riot scenes that they were the plus $6,000,000. Mercury himself

worst he had over encountered. could not have earried the world.

"American Madnem," in which faster than it flew through the

& virile, channels of gossip. Caesar himself Huston is featured as could not have whipped his Tonth Legion into any greater ardour for courageous bank president who will venge and retribution than raged bet his bottom dollars on any man through that mob as it marched on ha con trust, and believes that cbar- the bank.

anter, not collateral, is the proper excurity for loans, is one of the most

April-"6" 1933 And when the ript quied, two old No 2048 Pla H. Liermion: women and six man lay on the floor; Habade, Ltd., Tel. No. 23772, bruised and disheveled. A.B.C.C., as from April 6, 1933.

Huson himself had his cout wrench No. 2049 Pte. J. A. Bisch, H.M.ed off his back and his waistco Naval Yard, Tel. No. 30061 Eat. 58 A.8.0.0 as from April 8, 1933.

W. H G. GOATER, Capt, Adjutant, H.K.V.D.O,

Hong Kong, April 7, 1933.

torn. The doctor on the Columbia

lot, was called to adni

aid

Huston, that

stirring, sorgen dramas, that: Colum- bia has ever produced. It is show- ing

the Queen's Theatre to-mor

The supporting cast includes Con- stance Cummings, Kay Johnson, Pat O'Brien and Gavin Gordon."-

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2.80-8.13 7.15-8.50

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None Knew His Secret, But She and the Man He Threatened to Hang!

in Drama That Sweeps Him-from. Crooks Counsel to Public, Produtor What ampled Hot an

BARRYMORE

STATE'S ATTORNEY

HELENETWELVETREES.

DUNCAN

QUEENS THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

HE'S MASTER OF HER MIND BUT NOT OF HER HEART!

JOHN

BARRYMORE

SVENGALI

MARIAN

MARSH

ASTRILBY

Barrymore at his

bent

With the sansational new star find he him- self selected! En- acting the weird- est

drama of woman's passion over almed | A thrill no fod can resist !

ALSO CARTOON COMEDY

TO-MORROW

DARING! TIMELY! ORIGINAL!

Greater than a

Motion Picture

AMERICAN

MADNESS"

with

WALTER HUSTON Kay Johnson Constance Cummings. Daring, Sensational theme, closest to everyone's heart to-day, giving you an inti- mate insight into conditions of present-day America,

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"BEHIND

the MASH"

JACK HOLT

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