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CENTRAL

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUN

Advance Booking at Andersonя

and the Theatre Tel. 25720..

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

THE MANAGEMENT

take great pleasure in presenting BERT WHEELER

ROBERT WOOLSEY

The' World's Greatest

Comedy Team

TO-DAY AT THE

King's.

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Call Her Savage.”

Queen's..

Central,

"Night of June 13th."

"Hold 'em Jail.”

Oriental,

Sherlock Holmes."

World.

Star.

Letty Lynton."

KOWLOON

The Wet Parade.'

Majestic.

King's.

Devil and the Deep."

COMING

"Jack's the Boy."

A Passport to Hell."

Queen's. "

"Red Dust."

Madhme Butterfly."

Madison Square Garden;"

Central,

In Their

44

Latest and Most Hil- arious film

Star,

DENT WHEELER ROUT WOOLSEY

HOLD EN JAIL!TM

de 1 Pade this win & Hare Scrawli

CONAMAY GAINER-RINGDE AYES TOGAN XEURÉIN

A. Rereamingly

"funny comedy that

will keep

you

laughing from

start to finish.

AN RKO-RADIO SUPER

COMEDY

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

What

this

country

needs

Is a

darned

good

laugh-

and here

it is!

Slim SUMMERVILLE

ZASU PITTS

THEY JUST HAD to Get MARRIED

FINE FILM OF WAR, NOVEL

**A FAREWELL TO ARMS”

London, May People say that good novels and plays never make good films, This 18 nonsense, and this is bome out! by Frank Borzags's screen version

They Just Had to Get

Afraid to Taik."

Married."

Explorers of the World."

"Letty Lynton."

Song of My Heart:"`

"Huddle."

World.

Bridge of San Luis Rey." May Be It's Love,"

Oriental.

Tess of the Storth County:"

CANTON CINEMAS Chung Wah Theatre,

"Hot Pepper."

Sun Kwok Man Theatre.

Girl of tho Rio."

Sun Wah Theatre.

The Conqueror."

Tai Tak Theatre.

Mr. Leman of Orange."

Wing Hon.

Island of Lost Sonl.”

Pearl Theatre.

"Faithless."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1933"

TO-DAY

ONLY

AT

2.30, 5.10, 7.15) & 9.30 P.M.

HONCKONGS FINEST ONEWA

SHE'S BACK greater than ever

A Clara Bow never before revealed. Given full scope to display her dramatic genius, retaining her vivid personality." And coming through with a performance so sincere, so forceful that it again places her high among the screen's great,

CLARA

BOW

IN

CALL HER SAVAGE

From the novel by Tiffany Thayer Directed by JOHN FRANCIS DILLON FOX PICTURE

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

TEL. 25913 & 25332.

– TO-MORROW -

A BRILLIANT COMEDY.

FILM.

JACK HULBERT

h

JACKS

the

BOY

WITH

CICELY COURTNEIDGE WINIFRED SHOTTER. Directed by WALTER FORDE.

A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE

Beleased By THE BRITISH FILM DISTRIBUTION CO., LTD. HONG KONG.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(May 10).

(IV. Moon 26th Day). Ambulance Flag Day."

Final Meeting of Chinn Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. (in Liquidation), Messrs, Jardine Matheson's Offices, noon..

St. Andrew's Club Bathing Pie- nic, 3.30 p.m.

Whist Drive, China Light and Power Recreation Club, King's Park, 9 p.1.

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 Malle, Outward for Europe via Suez by Carthage, 10.30 .n.in.

EXCELLENT COMEDY

AT CENTRAL

*** THEY JUST HAD TO GET

MARRIED

You'll laugh so heartily that you'll cry when you see "They Just Had to Get Married”, the. Univer- sal comedy which has been hailed as the funniest motion picture in years. It comes to the Central Theatre on Sunday, with its two leading mire played by the screen's greatest mnn-and-woman comedy Team Slim Summerville and Zasn Pitts.

Here is a picture which runs the whole gamut of comedy; from bit- ing satire to riotous farce, with a fast pace which at times will have. you, holding onto the arms of your seat, thrilling with dangerous ex- ploits at the same time you are shrieking with laughter.

"They Just Had to Get Mar- ried" is a comedy classic. The cast appearing in support of Summer rille and Miss Pitts includes Roland-

FINAL SHOWING OF NIGHT OF JUNE 13 Young, Verree Teasdale, Fifi D'Or

Pictures In Hong Kong “CALL HER SAVAGE"

JACK HULBERT AND WINNIFRED /

SHOTTER

IN JACK'S THE BOY

COMING TO KING'S THEATRE ON SUNDAY

“JACK'S THE BOY'

AT THE KING'S THEATRE ON SUNDAY·

i

give a wonderful performance- excellent when mixed up with. traffic or crooks, and fascinating when making love and erooning a romantic song followed by some. marvellous dancing. Cicely Court neidge is great as the proprietress of a pseudo-Boottish cafe, with her

the

Jack Hulbert, is now definitely delicious Conkney-cum-Scottish ac of Ernest Hemingway's "A Fare placed in the front rate of the cents Altogether Jack's well to Arms, which commenced world's comedians. His subtle Boy is the kind of entertainment what should be a long run at the sense of clowning, his fascinating that can be seen and heartily, Carlton, Theatre yesterday. J Fythmic dancing and jolly method joyed by everyone.

"A Farewell Arms is one of the of putting over" amunical num best talkies ever made. It has every. ber are artistic achievements essen- thing that a good film should have tially his own.

*

The film is to be shown on Sun

• Tae, Borderoms',Band.

There is an added attraction at the 9.30pm performance. By

nd permission of Lient. Col. G,

action, humour, pathos, vivid When he is partnered by Cicely and original characterisation, rug. Courtasidge (his wife) there are ged honesty and an endrag of al- no limits to their exquisite foolery. most unbearable poignancy. The They are perfectly matched in tragic love affair of an American Jack's the Boy" the new Gains T Baikas, D.8.0 The Band of soldier and a nurge serving on the borough comedy to the shown st Italian front has been handled the King's Theatre next Sunday, the let Bu, South Wales Borderers with tact and restraint, and as a they have abundant scope for their will rendere programme of music picture of one side of war the him brilliant-drollerithe stage. Book your vests early will rank with "All. Quiet."" Jack Hulbert as a tyro policeman. and avoid the rush

AT THE KING'S THEATRE TO-DAY

Clara Bow, most emotional of screen stars, has never been pictur ed in as entirely emotional role. Many times married in bar screen characterizations, she has never been shown as a mother.

GREAT GROWING OF GERANIUM

That California climate you've heard so mach about is often rather a nuisance, moving picture pro ducers have discovered.

Studio property men, called upon for a dwarf geranium of the variety commonly found in the eastern gec- tion of the country, to decorate Yet in Call Her Savage, her set in The Night of June 13," a initial Fox starring picture now picture featuring Clive Brook, playing at the King's Theatre, sh Lila Lee, Charlie Ruggles, Gear discards the flapperdom that made Raymond, Frances "Dee, Mary tensely-Boland, and Adrianne Allen, which her famous, portrays a dramatic role and depicts the rich is at the Queen's Theatre to-day emotionalism of mother love.

had to fight the climate to produce

Opposite the famous red-head is Roland, portraying the half-bred sweetheart who finally tames the wild blood that courses through the heroine's veins.

one.

Geraniums grow like weeds un- der the California sun, and when they bloom, they Are gigantic. Eastern geraniums, more effete, are about one-fourth the size of the California variety.

say and many other aureen players. If you fail to see this, you are denying yourself the greatest comedy treat in years. Don't miss it!

*RED DUST" AT THE QUEEN'S

CLARK GABLE AND JEAN HARLOW

The co-starring of Clark Gable. and Jean Harlow in "Red Dust," showing from to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre will prove of ex ceptional interest to movie patrons. Here are two of the most magnetic personalities ou the screen in "A vivid drama of Cochin-China Gable is a young overseer of a rab ber plantation, who has beaten the loneliness, fever, deadly heat and blinding dust storms that have broke so many men. Miss Barlow is a hrazen, seductive, hard-grained girl who tries to win a place in the overseer's. affections. Enter, an other woman, in the person of

Call Her Savigs" was adapt el by Edwin Buke from Tiffany Thayer's much-discussed novel;

So Studio oficials went out and Mary Astor, as the aristocratie and was directed by John Francis purchased geranium seeds. Plant-wife of a French engineer (Gene Dillon. Others in the supporting ing them in an Eastern-sized Raymond). The possibilities for cast include Thelma Todd, Monro geranium pot, they exposed them dramatic conflict and emotional Owsley, Estelle Taylor, Anthony to the sun during the day, but at crises

are obvious. The picture Jowith. Willard Robertson and night they placed them in an air-directed by Victor Fleming of Weldon Heyburn.

chilled room to stunt their growth | Wet Parade" fame, ie, reported The result was an Eastern-sized to be one of the outstanding pro

the Metro-Goldwyn- plant which wore rather an embar ductions on affair with another woman, com- rassed expression beside its fall Mayer calendar for the coming mits suicide. Investigators charge blown California cousins. " him with murder.

The geraniums were needed is Ench of his neighboura, ealled, background prop for scenes in upon to testify, lies to cover up" The Night of June 13, drama some petty skeleton-in-the-closet of set in the suburb of a large eastern his own, and it appears that Brook city. The film tells the story of is doomed to death when a drama Brook's legal fight for Hfe after tie elimax suddenly turns the his wife, suspecting him of an tables.

(Continued on previous column).

14 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-8.13 .7.16~2.50

(TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY HUIS,

ORIENTAL

TO-DAY ONLY GREAT DETECTIVE STORY CONAN DOYLE'S Master. Detective

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Played by

CLIVE BROOK

MIRIAM JORDAN ERNEST TORRENCE William K. Howard production

FOX PICTURE

PLÆRITING ROAD

WANGHAI TEL. 28478

TO-MORROW-MONDAY-

TUESDAY

THE SCREEN'S MOST ROMANTIC STORY: AMASTER PRODUCTION.

Thrill

to the love

that triumphed

over suspicion

GAYNOR Charles FARRELL

**The STORM:

of

TESS COUNTRY

Directed by Alfred Sabel"

D ̃FOX, PICTURE

year,

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road, woon. Tel 57222 TO-DAY ONLY

QUEENT TEATES

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 0.20 p.m.

J

A 7-STAR HIT!

Were you one

of the 3,000 people in this town within earshot of the crime.com- mitted on--

"THE

NIGHT

OF

JUNE 13

CLIVE BROOK LILA LEE- CHARLIE 380GLEE SEBE BRYMORE FRATICES DEA, BARY BOLAND

ADRIANNT ALLEN MA

a Guramount Picture

TO-MORROW

THE

PRINCE and PRINCESS

of

RECKLESS ROMANCE!

CLARK

JABLE

JEAN

HARLOW

the lovers incomparal IN

RED DUST

GENE BAYMOND

MARY ASTOR VICTOR FLEMING ·

production

Metode diluar Maiver narra

At 2.30,6:20, 7.20 8 8.20 p.m. STAR

DAYLIGHT MADE. TAWDRY

13

THE LOVE THAT THE DESFET NIGHT MADE SWEET!

/ TALLULAH BANKHEAD GARY COOPER Devil Deep

CHARLES LAUGHTON - CARY GRANT

Paramount Picture

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

A Giant Tomance of Today!

The

WET PARADE"

with

DOROTHY JORDAN

WALTER HUSTON

JIMMY DURANTE.

Goldwynshaver Picture

WORLDA

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 280-5:15, 7:15 & 9.20

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