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CENTRAL

HEATRE

TAKE QUBEN'S RD., WISTBOUND NỰN

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Elog's.

..

HONG KONG

Advance Booking at Andersons

and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

5.15 & 8.80 ONLY

LEW AYRES

'AND

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

"The Greeks ha a word for

Them."

Queen's.

The Broken Wing.

Gantral.

"The Penalty of Fame."

For the Sake of Love."'

Oriental.

Life's Comedy.!"

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IN

"THE PENALTY

OF FAME"

A UNIVERSAL MELO- -DRAMA OF NEW YORK

NIGHT LIFE

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THE STAR MOTION PICTURE COMPANY

PRESENTS

Miss CHEUNG YICK WAN

IN

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BOOK YOUR SEATS EARLY!

"CLEAN ALL' WIRES"

BRITISH FILM WITH BENITA HUME AS STAR

KOWLOON

Star.

Five Star Final."

Majestic.

"The Many?"

King's,

LA

COMING

Second Hand Wife." Flowers and Trees"

Coloured, Symphony."

Broadway Bad."

Roman Express."

Queen's.

Clear All Wires."

"Fast Workers."

World.

- This Modern Age."

"Passionate Plumber."

Skin Deep and Dumbbells in

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"Arsene Lupin.'

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933.

SHOWING TO-DAY

-A'r 2.30, 5.10, 7.18

& 9.30 P.M.

KINGS THEATRE

HONCKONG'S FINEST

THE MEN THEY "TOOK“ CALLED THEM ...

*Gold-Diggers!* "Loreleis)" "Man-Hunters!" “Adventuresses!”

BUT

GREEKS HAD AWORD forTHEM'

Presented By

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Based on Zoe Akins' Broadway Comedy-success

with INA CLAIRE

JOAN BLONDELL

LOWELL SHERMAN

-ALSO

MADGE EVANS DAVID MANNERS

WHAT GOWNS!

Designed and created by

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UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE-

MICKEY MOUSE

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NOT "SHORTS" BUT SINGLE REEL FIATURES.

Pictures In Hong Kong

'THE GREEKS HAD A THE BROKEN WING' WORD FOR THEM"

TALE OF THREE NAUGHTY

BLONDES

AVIATION FILM WITH THRILLS IN PLENTY

An airplane, travelling t an estimated speed of eighty miles an One blonde is usually enough for hour, was crashed into the haci

the Paramount ranch, one picture. A blonde heroine ada a asually means that the here must forty miles from Hollywood, for a be dark, and the female menace scene in "The Broken Wing," in dark too for contract. But in pro which Lupe Velez, Leo Carillo and ducing The Greek Had A Word Melvyn Douglas are featured and for Then showing at the King'a which commences to-morrow at the Theatre. Samuel Goldwyn upset Queen's Theatre. all precedent by getting not one i The feat was performed under blonde, nor two blondes, but three the supervision of Capt. E. H. blondes to play the leading roles, Robinson, a light commander of of the three merry maids af Broad, the California National Guard. way who bunt and skin millionaires No one was injured... all the year round.

That probably means that Mr. Goldwyn believes, blondes to have that special something which makes men behave the way they have to in this picture. Maybe it was be- cause, instead of just one heroins as usual, he had three heroines to

Sally Bilers has the leading role in "Second Hand Wife," the new Fox drama based on the widely-read novel by Kathleen Norris

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Benita Hume, the English screen and stage star who makes her firat appearance is an American picture in" Clear All Wires showing on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre was given her first screen test when she was eleven years old, and played her first stage.role at the age of sixteen. Miss Hume was born in London and was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She achieved outstanding notice for her stage performances in arrange for in "The Greek Had a and Word for Them." At any rate, the "Symphony Two Flats" "Party," and also scored, as the three chorus girls on the loose whose leading woman 1 opposite Leslie untics make this United Artists film Howard in Reserved for Ladies, one of the successes of the senson an English talking picture distriare all' as blonde as they can be buted in this country, Among hez Ina Claire, now become one of the other British pictures were "hpring most eminent screen comediennes, Cleaning, High Treason" and Joan Blondall and Madge Evans are (Continued at foot of next Column) The Constant Nymph."

Captain Robinson knows how to crash an airplane and perform alı kinds of hazardous feats in the air. But he won't do any of these things himself.

Recognized as one of the leading camera pilota in Hollywood, Cap tain Robinson was assigned to handle the technical details for two Paramount pictures, "The Broken Wing" and "Sky Bride," the lat ter featuring Richard Arlen and Jack Oakie.

"The Broken Wing" has only a few air scenes, but since they in clude the crash of a plane into the side of a house, they had to be perfectly, dons.

The speed and weight of the plane was calculated by Capt.. Robinson so that cameramen would not be endangered by the" plane plowing too far into the set and striking them.

One complete side of the hacienda was demolished as the plane crasti ed into the living room, stopping within two feot of where Captain Hobinson. had figured it would

Captain Robinson completed his. enlistment In the army air corps. Several years ago while Paramount was filming "Wings" at Kelly -field. - He joined the motion pic

ture company and has been acreen. aeronautical adviser, ever since, having piloted a plane, or directed air scenes in almost every air film made since then.

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He is now a fight commander with the California National Guard.

the three lucky ladies. They quar: rel, they cry on one another's. houlders, they pursue the hapless millionaire in company and singly, and all the while they live up worthly to their nickname of the Three Musketeers of Riverside. Drive, in penthouse apartments, speakersies, transatlante liners and taxicabs. This trio of hilarions characters last year made the Zoe Akins play from, which the picture: was taken one of the smask hits of New York Sidney, Howard, Pulit- zer Prize playwright, made the adaptation from the original.

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ARSENE LUPIN"

AT THE ORIENTAL THEATRE

Turning qut" Old Masters" in wholesale lots was the ambitious j enterprise on which a group of artists worked in preparation for the filming of Arsene Lupin," sophisticated Paris mystery drama, which opens tomorrow at the Oriental Theatre: The leading parts are taken by John and Lionel Barrymore.

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A DOUBLE ATTRACTION I

ON THE SCREEN

SHE DARED

FILM JOTTINGS

BRITISH FLYING EPIC®

PLANNED

Plaus to put British aviation on the cinematic map are being, deve luped at the Warner Bros. First National studios" at Teddidgton, where Irving Asher, executive in charge of production intends to commence on a big flying picture in-the near future. No casting de- tails are yet available, but the names of several celebrities are be ing considered for leading roles. The picture will have an elaborate production and will be notable for apectacular air thrills done on an unprecedented scale. An Italian version of the film has already been made, with the full support and co-operation of the Italian government, and ons sequence shows no fawer than fifteen hun dred aeroplanes taking off simul taneously.

Bits by the Wayside Last week an exhibitor visiting First National's London offices

To Love Her Boss raid bo didn't like to book "Twen

SECOND HAND WIFE

with

SALLY EILERS Rolph Bellamy

PICTURE

ON THE STAGE

BUSTER DUNSON

&

THE GARCIA SISTERS

IN

SPECIALITY DANCES

AND

AL BALDWIN

THE AMERICAN COLOURED' CRDONTI PRICES AS USUALL

'PENALTY OF

FAME"

FILM IN WHICH LEW AYRES

:

GROWN UP

The appealing youth whose "bril- liance flashed across the screen with the first important picture, **All Quiet on the Western Front," rose to popularity at first because of his boyish charm, coupled with the talent he display ed. Because of this, Ayres for several pictures was cast in youth ful role where this particular ap peal could be brought out. Either a boy, or a youth just turning man- hood the star faced the danger of perpetual screen adolescence.

Nearly a thousand paintings were required for the reproduction of the celebrated Louvre Art Gallery in Paris, an elaborate setting which is said to be one of the largest in; teriors ever constructed for film purposes. The paintings were copi He has longed for more nature ed from scale photographs of the roles which would give him an originale, measured and computed opportunity to prove his adaptabi- lity and his growing maturity. mathematically so that so far as

"Penalty of Fame" Universal's the camera eye is concerned, one cannot tell the difference between drama, now showing at the Central the originals and the copies. ! Theatre, is being hailed as the

The Louvre setting was used for most important picture for Ayres an exciting episode in which John since the unforgetable war drama, Barrymore, as the elusive thief, because in it he graduates com- Arsene Lupin steals the famous pletely from the parts which mark- painting, Mona Lisa," from un-ed his formative screen career. der the very nose of the persistent ¦- Penalty of Fame" tells the detective, Guerchard, played by story of a relentless" gossip ** Lionel Barrymore. The entertain columnist who is given the chance ing adventures of the charming to make his connections accomplish thief in eluding capture by the

a worthy purpose through an ex- detective make up what is said to citing chain of events, be one of the most interesting pic- Maureen O'Sullivan, Louis Cal

Walter Callett, Nance tures in which either of the noted; heru

O'Neill, Allan Dinehart and tany Barrymores has yet been seen,

others,

The story is based on the Paris atage success by Maurice LeBlane and Francis de Croisset and was directed by Jack Conway. In the (Continued on next column)

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ty Thousand Years in Sing Sing Бесацие patrons in his district. didn't care for musical and sing. ing talkies!

Loretto Young who is at present working with Richard Barthelmess in the latter's "hush-hush" talkie, European trip following the com pletion of the picture. She intends to visit the principal high spots, and her itinary includes London.

Lord Marley, deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, was a recent guest of Aline MacMahon at the First National studios in Cali fornia. Miss MacMahon is the nearest rival to George Arliss in entertaining celebrities.

The rarest sight in Hollywood is Warren William at a party. Wil- liam, de a slow study" and has difficulty with his lines. As a re- sult he sits up until the wee small bours every night when he is to a production, with a script for his companion

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Edward G. Robinson who rushed to New York following the comple- tion of "The Little Giant" in or der to welcome the "arrival"? of Edward G. Robinson Junr. has re-.

commence tura to California to his next picture, "Kingfish.'

SECOND HAND WIFE"

U.S. MATRIMONIAL DRAMA

Torn between" duty to his un- responsive and social elimbing wife and love for his efficient and beauti- ful secretary, a home loving hus band finds himself in the whirlpool of an emotional crisis. How he sur mounts the obstacles that confront him and marries the secretary," forms the pivotal point of "Second Hand Wife," the new For picture co-featuring Sally Eilers and Ralph Bellamy in the loading roles, com- ing on Sunday next to the King's

Theatre. →

The story is based on Kathleen Norris latest and most widely rend novel and, according to Msg Nor- ris, is based on actual circum- stances. Hamilton MacFadden pre- pored the story for the screen and directed the picture.

The cast, appearing on important supporting roles, includes Helen Vinson, who portrays the role of the faithless wife, Victor Jory, Clay Clement, Esther Howard, Effe. Elisler. Nalla Walker and Karol Kay, a child prodigy violinist, in the role of Bellamy's daughter.

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