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QUEEN TEATRE

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

Fast

Fascinating

Intriguing I

Gay!

WISE GIRLS

JEAN HARLOW MAE CLARKE MARIE PREVOST

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

FROM SATURDAY·

"I want to

be

-- as you

desire. me !"

GRETA

CARBO

in

thrille you as only Garbo can

AS YOU DESIRE ME

with

MELVYN DOUGLAS

ERICH von STROHEIM

OWEN MOORE

you

When Garbo makes love live it! The most alluring of etars in her Guest' romance!

Directed by GEORGE FITZMAURICE

STAR

TO-DAY & TC-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

BLACK COFFEE

with AUSTIN TREVOR

as "Hercule Poirot"-the famous French detective

WORLDS

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

JACK HOLT

"Behind the Mask

Comfortable Seats

Best Sound

B

Perfect Vision

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1933.

HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA

AN EPIC OF CHINESE LIFE

MILESTONE IN CHINESE MOTION

PICTURE HISTORY!

Booking At

The Theatre

Tel. Nos.

25318,

25332.

A

THE GREAT STRUGGLE FOR LIVELIHOOD IN CHINA'S GREAT METROPOLIS -A STORY OF A SACRIFICE THAT IS GREATER THAN DEATH!

LO MING YAU Presents:

LILLIAN China's Foremost RAYMOND

YUEN

166

Screen Stars in

KING

SHANGHAI

NIGHT"

A CHINESE SILENT PICTURE WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT AND ENGLISH SUB-TITLES.

Directed By

Produced By THE

Commencing

THURSDAY, 13th APRIL

AT

11.30 A.M. 2.30 & 7.15 P.M. ONLY

FEY MOU PHOTOPLAY SERVICE, LTD.

Tears and Laughs, Heart-Breaks and Ecstacies, Wealth

Poverty, Hope,

and Shadows,

CURRENT PICTURES IN LOCAL THEATRES

STREET SCENE": AT THE KING'S

IN

A TALKIE "PIONEER

THE CAST

William Collier, J.. is one of the youngest stars in Street Scene," the Samuel Goldwyn picture at the King's neatre to-day. Hollywood still calls him Buster Collier,

The way Buster fools, however, he should be wearing a pair of false whiskers, for he is one of the pion- cers of the talking films. He play ed one of the leading roles "The Lion and the Mouse," the first screen play with audible dialogue. In appearing with Sylvia Sidney and Estelle Taylor in "Strest Scene" young Collier once more as sumes the status of a pioneer. For this Elmer Rice prize drama which ran two years in New York, is the first screen play to be filmed in a eingle set. It is also the first playi to be brought intact from stage to screen and the first to be filmed without interiors. Needless to say it is entirely in dialogue.

Comparing "Street Scene" with The Lion and the Mouse," says Collier, is like comparing Tulton's first steamboat with the Leviathan, As a pioneer he remembers his first talking drama as, in reality, a silent drama. The play was first filmed as a silent. Then some of the sots were moved to a sound- proof stage and a few scenes re- taken with spoken dialogue, which were then inserted into the play in the cutting room.

"SAY IT WITH MUSIC "*

You are going to enjoy Jack- Payne and his band in "Say it with Music " It is one of those screen porelizce which pistillagam deligin in. The clever musician and the band which charmed you for years in the B.B.C. programmes lives on the stage with such fidelity that you feel you are, listening to the actual hand

"Say it with Music" is now show- ing at the Central, and you can't afford to miss this delightful mani- cal show:

**ROBBERS' ROOST"

A PAGE OF ARIZONA HISTORY

An actual occurrence in the an- nals of Arizona history forms the basis of Robbers Roost," the | George O'Brien-Maureen O'Sullivan feature coming to the King's The tre on Thursday.

In writing the original novel, Zane Grey drew on the "hi-jacking" of a wealthy British rancher's herd some thirty years as the theme around which he wove an unusual type of romance. On the screen the stealing is done by William Pawley as the unsuspecting rancher's fore man, with O'Brien an unwilling member of his gang.

Reginald Owen portrays the ran cher, with Mies O'Sullivan as his sister and Maude Ebume-as their aunt. Prominent roles are handled by Walter McGrail, Robert Greig and Doris Lloyd. Louis King directed the film at the locale of the original event.

"ME AND MY GAL " SPENCER TRACY AND JOAN BENNETT

Spencer Tracy has been promoted. After playing numerous" harness bull' roles in many pictures, he appears as, a radio car detective in- "Me and My Gal," the Fox comedy coming to the King's Theatre very shortly.

In this capacity he breaks up a gang of bank robbers and racketeers, a substantial reward for earns bringing to justice a merciless kill- er and finds romance with a pretty young cashier employed in a res taurant, a role enacted by Joan Bennett. Tracy and Miss Bennett played the leading roles in "She Wanted A Millionaire," but were not teamed following that success until they were cast in the featured parts of "Me And My Gal."

They are supported by a company that includes Marion Burns, who was widely acclaimed for her per

aurice Chevalier and Myrna Loy.

and

Bright-Lights

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

King's.

HONG KONG

"Street Scope." Queen's.

"Three Wise Girls." Central.

** Say It with Music,!' Oriental.

World.

Star.

The Grand Parade."

"Behind the Mask."

KOWLOON

"Black Coffee."

Majestic.

Murder by the Clock,''

King's.

COMING

**Rubber's. Roost.""

"Shanghai Night"

(Chinese Picture). Me and My Gal” "Handle with Care." The Front Page." Queon's,

As You Desire Me." "In a Monastery Garden." Central,

"The Mummy."

Nagana."

"Explorers of the World."

World..

Red Headed Woman,'

"Hell Divers."

"Arsene Lupin,"

Oriental.

Star,

"Caught Plastered."

"Pack up your Troubles.": "Chance of a Night Time."

High Pressure."

› CANTON CINEMAS

Wing Boo

Love. Debt."

gun Wah Theatre,

For the Sake of Love,"

Southern Palace.

Unholy Night."

Pearl Theatre.

"Divorce in the Family.2 Tai Tal.

CINEMA STARS'

SALARIES%

Hollywood Drive" for Economy

WILL ENGLISH FILMS BENEFIT?

Another "drive" against the high." salaries of Hollywood film stara is auder way..

Many of the contracts mads in boom days are now expiring, and sa unusual situation exists in the industry. Among the stars involved in the move to bring salaries into line with the times are:

Maurice Chevalier, Gloria Swanson Ruth Chatterton

Ronald Colman

George Arliss William Powell

Ana Harding

Four Marx Brothers.

Contracts for these "big money" natnes now range from £1,600 n week to £50,000 a picture,

Whether anything will cune ol the negotiations for new contracte is problematical, for some of the performers who have gained mark ed success on the stage are known to be casting glances towards of fers from other centres."

£1,600 a Week,

Thus, Ann Harding may take a stage engagement in England, while Maurics Chevalier intends to make one picture in California and one in France each autumn.. His contract, is said to provide for four more pictures at the rate of two a year and guarantees aguinat infringement upon his salary, re- ported to be £200 a day.

Mr. Arliss may rusticaté for a time in England or go back to the stage. Mr. Colman is considering arest in the British countryside, but his contract specifies that he must return within a year or give notice of his intention to do sɔ, otherwise it may be terminated... Gloria Swanson may make pic tures independently or Bign trp with one or two large organisa- tions. So far na is known, Ruth Chatterton and William Powell are still holding out." "They have steadfastly refused to take euts which would leave Miss Chatter- ton with a mere £1,800 a week, and Mr. Powell with £1,600.

Welcome in England.

Hollywood admits that the fantas tic salaries paid to stars stand in the way of a sound adjustment of the film business to present condi tions. But talk of agreement Amongst producers to limit salaries. has invariably come to nothing. The people who draw the public will doubtless always command. their price.

Stars point out, too, that huge salaries are often paid to execu tives of doubtful ability to "super- vise"; economies, the players sug- gest, might begin here,

One or two of the actors named are supposed to be "slipping" with their public, and a out in salary or retirement is only a maz ter of time. Either Mr. Arliss or Mr. Colman, however, would be welcomed eagerly by British stu-. dios, though nobody in Englandy paid anything. approaching the salaries they have had in Hollywood,“

has

ever been

In England, as in America, there is much unemployment among ac tors, but stars with world apperi, are badly needed, and (by increas ing the demand for English pro- duct) might easily improve rather than aggravate conditions there.

The recent agitation in America against the employment of foreign. ers specifically exempted stars like Colman and Chaplin, who were. bald to be necessary to the-bust

пед.

BRITISH FILM SUPREMACY

CENTRAL

THEATRO

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTDOUKD BUS

Allvance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel: 25720.

SHOWING TO-DAY jat 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

GET READY FOR A MUSICAL TREAT---- ENGLAND'S MOST POP. ULAR ENTERTAINER.

IS HERE

"It & British & Dominions Asduction JACK PAYNE AND

HIS BAND

SAYITWITHMUSIC ORIGINAL MUSIC INCLUDE!

"

LOVE IS THE SWEETEST THING

GOOD MORNING

MISTER SUN

AND

I'LL DO MY BEST TO MAKE YOU HAPPY"

NEXT CHANGE

IT COMES

TO LIFE!!

A museum mummy,

some to life to battle modern science for his love of a borlad

pasti... The year's biggest thrillt

KARLOFF

in

THE UNCANNY

THE MUMMY

With ZITA JOHANN David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron, Story by Nisa Wilcox Panam and Richard Schayer, Pro- 'duced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Directed by Karl Freund. Presented by Carl Lammie, A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.

It was confidently predicted to me to-day that the world's film. production will be centred in Eng- land within the next few years. This statement, was a calm som- ming-up, of the tendencies of n great industry which is seeking its natural centre, from where can reach out to the far corners of the earth by routes that are equidis- tant. The vagaries of our climate

Mno Clarke has gone regalj, fare, thanks to the remarkable Ermine is the most distinctive lea

teebnical advance, no longer a ben

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ture of the exquisite gow dicap to the sensitiveness of the by Mas Clarke in the camera. Our studios are among bis drama,

RAGAL MAE CLARKE

Word

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