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CENTRAL CHEATRI

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Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

TO-DAY ONLY

TWO SHOWS At 5.15 & 9,30 P.M.

IMPERISHABLE DRAMA OF TWO HUMAN SOULS "AMID THE TUMULTUOUS CANYONS

OF THE CITY..

Fannie Hurst

P

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A Story of the Greatest Test Love Ever Faced In the Skill of a Surgeon's Hands Lay the Life of the Woman He Loved!

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OF SIX MILLION

“U” IRENE DUNNE

RICARDO CORTEZ

`OLEGORY RATOFE

ANNA APPEL

RKO RADIO.PICTURE

Directed by Gregory La Caba

TO-MORROW

5.15 & 9.30 PM.

LEW AYRES

AND

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

IN

"THE PENALTY

OF FAME"

A UNIVERSAL MELO- DRAMA OF NEW YORK NIGHT LIFE

TO-DAY

AT 12:30, 230 & 7.18 P.M.

THE STAR MOTION PICTURE COMPANY

PRESENTE

Miss CHEUNG YICK WAN

IN

"FOR THE SAKE

OF LOVE"

A SPLENDID STORY WITH CANTONESE & MANDARIN DIALOGUE.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

King's.

"Scarface:

Queen's

Make Me A Star."

Central.

"Symphony of Six-Millions."

Oriental,

Pack Up Your Troubles."

World

Star.

Vienese Nights.”

KOWLOON

"The Passionate Plumber."..

Majestic.

"What Price Hollywood”

King's.

COMING

"Greeks Had a Word for

Them."

Flowers and Trees"

Coloured Symphony. Second Hand Wife."

Queen's,

"Broken Wing."

Clear All Wires.".

dentral.

Star.'

World.

The Penalty of Fame.

For the Sake of Love."

5 Star Final."

"Tiger Rose.".

This Modern Age."

Oriental.

16

Life's Comedy.

"Arsene Lupin."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1933.

LAST TWO-DAYS

AT

|2.80, 6.10, 7.13

& 9.80 P.M.

\_BOOKING ΑΤ ΤΗΝ

KINGS THEATRE

HOWARD HUGHES'

·WHITE-HOT THUNDERBOLT

SCARFACE

PAUL MUNI ANN DVORAX OSGOOD PERKINS KAREN MORLEY BORIS KARLOFF

God-less; loveless, heartless, The fought, his brutal way up to the pinnacle of pow- er, only to be challenged by

a frail woman.

More Thrilling Dráma Than You Ever Saw, and ¿More To Think About!

HOWARD HAWKS

producilen

Adopted by Ben Heck from ske seral By Armañage Trail

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

·ALSO-

MICKEY MOUSE

IN

The WHOOPEE PARTY

COMING TO KING'S THEATRE

Sally Ellers' and Ralph Bellamy are cast as the representatives of different social strain in the new Fox screen plau, "Second Hand Wife," dramatized from the novel by Kathleen Norris. 2PB SYMPHONY OF SIX PENALTY OF FAME

MILLION".

I

NEXT CHANGE AT CENTRAL

Not only morsels of scandal, but STORY OF NEW YORK JEWS tragedy and sudden death aro in- cidents in the life of a New York columnist, as shown in "Penalty of Fame, Universal's newspaper drams which opens at the Central Theatre to-morrow, with Lew Ayres- in the starring role..

The world's greatest screen plays and novels are simple stories out of life.

Funnie Hurst-believes that this is true. All of the great books all of the great plays have been based on this formula

Bearing this in mind, Miss Hurst wrote a story of the America ghetto and called "Symphony of Six Million."

Ayres is seen in the role of a "chatter-writer!! on a great New York daily who supplemente his activities with regular radio broad casta, revealing indiscretions of well-known "people and bringing consternation to "playboy "Broad- wayites. Ayres, in the character of Now as a picture, this. poignant Larry Wayne, devotes his attention story of real people is showing for to bits of gossip and news of spicy the last time to-night at the Central interest until the daughter of a Theatre, co-featuring the RKO millionaire is kidnapped, and he Radio Pictures' favourites, Ricardo applies himself to the task of find- Cortez and Irene Dunne. The parting her. Receiving a tip from an: Cortez plays, is that of a boy of the ex-reporter who has been the source Now York Ghetto who overcomes his of many of his gossipy itema, sordid environment to become a Wayne establishes the fact that the famous surgeon and minister to the girl has been abchicted by a gang, wants of his people. Rich in sym-and fically delivers to the gangsters the core and is one to bring forth by the distracted father. But the an inspired performance,

girl is not produced, and Wayne Miss Dunne's role is that of a tearns from the head of all the teacher who brings to the tots of gangster, that she will not be re the teeming Ghetto the life and turned until the authorities discita colour of the world beyond their certain indictments against the push-cart horizon

arch-criminalaci

DONT FORGET pathy, the character is hunan, to the sum of $100,000, paid as ransom

THAT WHEN. You are at "Home

you

can get

the

HỒNG KONG Daily Press

SELFRIDGES.

Ming Hurst, who is universally re- By ayruse, Wayne confera alone cognized as one of the greatest of with the powerful super crook in living American writers, touches the latter's hotel suite When he the very soul strings of man in this goes on the air that night for his film romance.

regular broadcast, Wayne startles.

The author makes no compromises, his listeriers by saying, Right now in her stories. She writes the truth, I've got a story for you, that's a

As she see it, and pa her char honey To-night between six-thirty.

and and seven o'clock I killed. Roters from

No good to tell what happened," are real

La Cava directed "Sym You'd never guess but a Wayne phony of Six Million."

said It's a honey.

·AND.

SILLY SYMPHONY

Presents "FLOWERS & TREES"

STUART ERWIN, AND] ZASU PITTS

IN SYMPATHY-COMEDY AT

QUEEN'S THEATRE :"

Sympathetic, comedy will have a field day in "Make Me a Star," which is showing at the Queen's Theatre till to-morrow.

THEATRE

TEL. 25913

& 25332.

NEXT CHANGE

AT A COCHRAN REHEARSAL

GETTING MUSIC IN THE

AIR” READY

Come with Mr. Cochran and take a look at a rehearsal of one of his new shows-" Music in the Air" at His Majesty's Theatre. You might think that with a big play of this type there would be a rush and Cocar Hammerstein, the author of this show, who is also directing the rehearsals.

Commencing Thursday, durry, but that is not the way of

*15th June

THEY CAME TO BROADWAY TO HAVE

THEIR "BREAKS" RE-

LINED WITH GOLD !

HERE'S TO`OUR MINT-LONG MAY THEY GIVEIZ.

"What a riotous how! Is this fast-moving story of three girls who came to Broad- way" to have their "bronki." re-iled 1,

CAMUEL GOLDWYN

GREEKS HAD AWORD THEM INA CLAIRE

JOAN BLONDELL NADGE IVANS LOWELL SHERMAN DAVID MANNERS UNITED KÖTELE PETİN

· LUPE VELEZ ON DIET

HOW SHE KEEPS SLIM.

Are you up-to-date about diet ingt

Lupe Veles to-day declared that fashion in diet and exercise to achieve slendernes are quite as changeable as fashion in frocks and hats.

Miss Velez appears with Leo For not only is the story built Carrillo and Melvyn Douglas in up on the kind of laughs that have. Paramount's picture; The Broken heart pangs tucked under them, wing," which opens on Thursday but two of the four leading come, at the Queen's Theatre. diane in the cast, Stuart Erwin This alluring little Spanish and Zasu Pitts, are famous as exponents of the art of Pagliacci speaking star contends that the starvation diet modes of several Tike suasion of audiences.

years phet are as dangerous as they are out of fashion.

"Players in Hollywood haff found it ze sure and healthy way to be slender by eating three meals ever-ee day," declares Mias Velez, to Hollywood, stumbles into a "Massages and exerzeeses are almoo

This picture is based upon the famous Harry Leon Wilson-novel About the young man from the country store who wants to be

movie cowboy hero, goes

come

part of

1

gramme.

Mr. Hammerstein has a long list of successes to his credit, such as The Desert Song" and "Rose- Marie" and his methods are calni and quiet. He sits in the front row of the stalls and one would imaginė that he is about the only person in the theatre who is a spectator and not directly concerned in the work.

There is much coming and going. Gladys Culthrop is there and co- tumiers consult her every moment or sa on the dress designs for which she is responsible. Hyam Green baum aits near Mr. Hammerstein, in a startling pink pull-over and talks about Jerome Kera's delightful- music with Elsie April, who is play ing it on the piano in the O.P. corner of the stage. Resourceful Dan O'Neil, who stage managed the ponderous intricacies of Caval- ende," is here, there and everywhere with his shaafs of papers attending to the multifarious details of pro- duction. Frank Collins, Mr. Coch ran's general stage director is an- other whom long experience has taught that nothing is ever achieved by fusa,

Off-stage or in the stalls or occa sionally on-stage, when required, are; the members of the cast charming" Mary Ellis that jolly comedippus, Muriel Butcher; the young guard, Arthur Margetson and Bruce Car- fax: the old guard, Horace Hodges and CV. France; and then those two newcomers from the ranks of the Cochran Young Ladies, Eve Lister and Jean-Gillie, terribly keen and a little anxious, but shap ing wonderfully.

There you have the picture set. against the mow capped mountains of Bavaria, the nearer, thred-ply heights of which are not yet com- pletely cut out by the scene-makers, and all the time sits Oscar Ham mersteig in the front row of the stalls with occasional excursions br way of a gangplank over, the orchestra-well onto the stage to explain to the players exactly what. he wants. And it is all done with-- out the raising of a voice. -You might think all his instructions were given in a whisper and were kind of half-hearted, haphazard suggestions. Nothing of the soft! His main strength is that he knows- the play so well that he never needs a note and he could play every part without a prompt. Secondly, be knows he stage as few others do. He has been in the job all his life.

""

My method of exerzeese, is new.

studio and blunders to fame important-more important than butter for poor Lupe. Erwin plays the part of this serioze dieting, I think comic hero-worshipper who makes "When I find re scale going Everybody in Hollywood is doing good because he knows nothing of way up over 108 pounds, I start it now. For fifteen meanutes seting-and Miss Pitte plays the Lupe's own little slenderizing pro- everce morning I lie on my back.

doing bicycle movements, with ze small-town gossipy 1. 4 neighbour. Helen Jerome Eddy is My breakfast, it is only ze limbs, then I touch the floor from the girl friend who urges Erwin range or grapefruit juice, toast standing position fifty times, then on to the attainment of his ambi with honey and one cup of black I lie flat, on se foor again and tion because she loves him and has coffee. Lunch, it is better, with roll, from side to sido for still an a blind faith in his abilities. clear soup, zo juice of tomato and other fifty times."

Miss Velez, the Erwin's Among

According to more recent lettuce with mineral oil dressing. pictures are "Strangers in Love" Dinner, ze last meal of ze day, is above treatment guarantees a in which he played the role of a soup, a lean meat, ona vegetable, weekly weight loss ranging from Frederic March's always-broke one salad and black coffee. No two to five pounds... buddy; and "The Misleading, rolls, bread, potatoes, sugar ΟΣ Lady" in which he played the #ontssued on nezi Golumn hilarious part of "Bony," the escaped lunatic.

Miss Pitte, one of the West actresses in Hellywood, has been Sam" and Paramount's famous a number of short comedies post-war romance-drama, Broken with Thelma Todd recently. She Lullaby with Lionel Barrymore, was also iu Seed," "Peared and, Nancy Carroll and Phillipe Hol

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