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1933

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"A Lady's "Profession.

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SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE

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Thrilling drama based on on actual adventure of the great Besen, as revealed by M. Ashion Wolfe in American Weekly. With

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INTRIGUE AND EVIL..

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"High Stakes."

Majestic.

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COMING

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Painted Woman."

Zoo in Budapest."

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"Chiness Opperette Show," Reaching for the Moon.".

Central.

"Half Naked Truth" "Animal Kingdom."

"Secrets of the French Police." Oriental.

Star.

"The Miracle of God".

"Fireman Save My Child." "Secret Service."

SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE"

CRIME THRILLER AT CENTRAL

Y HONGKONGS FINES TUNEIN

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE ·

THE SQUEAKER

Adapted from the

Successful Play and directed by the Author EDGAR WALLACE

WITH

A Brition Lios Petianction

PERCY MARMONT-TRILBY CLARK ALFRED DRAYTON - ANNE GREY ERIC MATURIN

· GORDON, HARKER THRILLS, DRAMA, EXCELLENT REPRODUCTION OF PURE ENGLISH, AND CLEVER DIALOGUE, ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING PICTURE WE HAVE OFFERED.

"A LADY'S PROFESSION

ALISON SKIPWORTH WON'T

TELL HER AGE!

Alison Skipworth won't tell you Murders, master detectives, hyp-how old she is, but she does con- notien, abductions, and diabolical- fess two other facta.

deaths, ly plotted "accidental "

She made her stage debut at the spaced a breath-taking tempo, age of 22. And she's been on makes Secrets of the French Postage for 30 years. lice" one of the best pictures of its kind ever soreeted or written

See it, by all means, at the Central Theatre to-day.

the

Experts in higher mathematics may draw their own conclusions as to the age of the veteran charac- ter comedienne, who is featured with Roland Young and San Maritza in "A Lady's Profession," showing to-day at the Queen's Thea-

SINGAPORE ACTOR ON THE FILMS MR. MAURICE BRADDELL'S

CAREER

Maurice Braddell, who appeats in the film "Men Of To-morrow," is the youngest son of the late Sir Thomas Braddall, and so youngest brother of Mr. and Braddell of Singapore.

Born in 1900, educated at Char terhouse and Oriel College, Oxford, which is shown in "Men Of To morrow," heroin one the beat Eights Oriel has had sine the war as a freshman and so is quite different from the character por He only stayed at Oxford one trayed by him in the film. year as he wanted to go on the stage and not to the Bar. Through Sir Nigel Playfair, a friend of the family, he began in the Birming Repertoire Company and thereafter acted in London and America.

ham

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NEXT OHANGE COMMENCING SUNDAY,

2nd JULY.

MARRY ME”

STARRING RENATE MULLER

(THE`*~ SUNSHINE_SUSIE '', GIRL)

with

GEORGE ROBEY HARRY GREEN A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE.

THE PAINTED

WOMEN"

A SOUTH SEAS ROMANCE Spencer Tracy has at last gone romantic. The two-fisted be-man actor whose screen characterizations have won him the admiration of a rapidly growing army turns in a brand-new portrayal in The Painted Woman," the South Seas romance coming to the King's Theatre shortly.

of fans,

some

**MARRY ME” COMING TO KING'S

RENATE MULLER IN THE

LEAD

Some of the most tunefu) numbers yet heard in talking, films, are: sung in the sparkling new Ideal- "Marry Gainsborough picture,

Me", which comes to the King's Theatre, Sunday next; and those who recall the diverting picture, "Sunshine Busie," will learn with pleasure that they are sung by ita captivating star, Miss Renate Mul- ler.

So,Will The theme song, Somebody, Somebody Marry Me," is novel in the extreme, and de livered by various members of the caat in delightful and engaging circumstances.

Another catchy, tune is Early Birds," sung by the leading players as they rise from their bad in the opening sequences of the picture.

A Little Sunshine." sung by Renate Muller when she sits in a 'bus, eventually enticing all the our-locking occupants to join in the chorus, is very reminiscent of that ever popular number, "T- day I Feel So Happy."

Ian Hunter, Maurice Evans and Charles Hawtrey assist Mies Mul ler in another haunting number, "You're So Wonderful To Me," which they sing after she has bid- den them good-night, having put into exquisite order their antidy, happy-go-lucky fat.

Each song is presented in a novel and effective manner, undoubtedly enchancing the attractiveness of the

tunes.

Although the music is such an- attractive feature of Marry Me,' the picture is also notable for .ite humour and for a brilliant, cast includes of star artists which George Robey, Harry Green and Billy Caryll

One of the fincat picturce that has yet emanated from the British Studios, "Marry Me" in B élm that must not be missed."

AT THE QUEEN'S

COMEDY PROGRAMME

PROVES WELCOME The turrent programme at the Queen's Theatro, with A. Lady's Profession" starring Alisha. Skip- worth may well be described as a comedy programme as the manage ment has worked in something very attractive for those who are fond of bright witty comedy that does not reach the farcial stage.

the Overture and Following Paramount Newsreel, in which in- cidentally the attempt to phoot President Roosevelt is shown, there

As a rough-and-ready vagrant of the seven seas who is turning his hand to pearl-diving with success when he suddenly encoun-is a brief one-act farce "Beach ters love for the first time, Tracy Nut." It is a clever effort and he has previously done. Advance is followed by Irving Berlin's im- has a role different from anything some of the jokes are subtle. This reports, moreover, say that his per mortal song, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." The cartoon accompaniment to the song in fits st hit will throw you laughter."

formance in it is sensational.

Peggy Shannon, who was recent

seen in the title role of "Soceity Girl" and who if co-featured in the picture, is also heralded ag giving the outstanding portrayal support of such players as William of all her film efforts. With the He is a writer as well as a stage (Stace) Boyd, Irving Pichel, Raul Roulien and Laska Winter and and film actor and is the author, with an exciting an dunexpected Seymour Hicks' present play "It's story, this Fox offerings is schedul- You I Want," one of the outstand-ed to be unusually popular during its showings here. John Blystone directed, with Guy Bolton and writting the screen Leon Gorden version of A. C. Kennedy's pisy.

As taken from the memoirs of H. Asgton Wolfe, and combined with Samuel Ornitz's amazing story, "The Lost Empress," this Rko- tre. Radio Pictures offers all the Miss Ekipworth won movie fame thrills possible to pack into an after three decades of stage suc hour and a half of screen, entertain. cess when she played the leading role in "Madame Racketear." She Gwili Andre, as the lovely Paris Fas been featured in five other films flower girl who is abducted by since Night After Night," "He zarist plotters, hypnotized, and Learned About Women," "To-night presented as the missing Princess Is Oure," "If I Had a Million" Anastasin of Russia, fulfils all the, and "A Lady's, Profession." pronise she revealed in her early "A Lady's Profession" is the pintures. Gwili Andre is consider story of a couple of titled Britonsing London successes at present. ed by many to be the most beautii who suddenly discover that the fal woman on the screen- to-day. family pocket-book is quite empty, After seeing her in this picture it and set out to refill it by opening

cuat 15 or two and wrote some very inter- is ittle wonder how the impres speakeasy in New York. Miss

Skipworth and Young, en got out.

brother and sister, are in those esting articles in the London Presi ree. Miss Maritza is' Young's daughter.

cast 11.5

CUA-

A newroer "makes his bow in "Secrets of the French Police." He is John Warburton, as hand-

The Britons, entirely ignorant spine and as alle a young leading of American customs, and particn- man as ever canie from England to arly American underworld Hollywood Radio signed him to toms, involve themselves in sotne a five year contract as a result of amusing scrapes. Their principal his work opposite Mias Andre difficulties are not with the law, That fact is adequate comment on but with the bootleggers who sup his appearance and his abilities. iply them with their stock. The Another deserving of the highest latter, terrified at the thought of praise is Frank Morgan, long a joining the breadline when prohibi- Broadway stage

favorite,who tion is repealed, attempt to force enkes his debut as an, Rko-Radio them to buy more liquor than they player. Morgan, as one of Bertil- can sell.

on's detectives, gives a plausibility Miss Skipworth, battling gustily to the part that makes it stand out with the liquor syndicate, emerges from all others in the story. triumphant over the bewildered Others who come in for high praise bootleggers, who can't follow her are Gregory Ratoft remember him British tactics at all..

What Price Hollywood A romance between Miss Maritsa Arnold Koriff, Christian Rub, and and Kent Taylor runs throughout

the picture. Lucien Prival.

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Studied in Moscow. Two or three years ago he studied film work in Moscow for a month

about the Bolshevists. He has also clever psychological direction in worked in Berlin und Paris in the "Mudchen in Uniform") and Mau- films and in several English pic-rice Braddell found her directions tures, notably, as the dying airman for the psychology of the part won- in the Nurse Cavell picture. Sir derful but he thought it the most Oliver Lodge picked him specially difficult part he had ever had to do? for Raymond, but the picture was and was very nervous as to whether

never made.

or not he had got out of the part.

fle and his wife are personal, all that was wanted. The type of friends of Lebatine Sagen (the cele. character he portrayed is familiar brated German directress who dito all University men of Oxford and rected Madchen in Uniform" and Cambridge; Oxford in particular is who was specially engaged for "Men full of literary rebels and always. Of Tomorrow because of her has been

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Having thus keyed up the au dience, the management then pre- ing the adventures of noble sent's A Lady's Profession" show- English family (temporarily down on their luck) trying their fortune in America. Things become trying for them, but between Alison Skip worth as Lady Beulah and Roland Young as Lord Withers, they con- trive to keep the wolf from the door. To attempt to tell the story but would actually rob the delight would not only be a waste of effort that one might derive from seeing tions and should prove a good tonte this film. It is full of funny situa in this weather for those who need a. pick-me-up. A thin streak of romance runs, through the film. and adds to its attraction.

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A Lady by Birth

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LADY'S PROFESSION

ALISON SKIPWORTH ROLAND YOUNG SARI MARITZA

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