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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S RD, WESTBOUND DUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

MATCHING WITS WITH A” MURDERING THIEF WHO TRIED TO STEAL A PRIN- CESS AND A THRONE

ROMANOFF PRINCESS

OR DUPE OF A MASTER MIND?

The expeer ley sudden

under the tek becurilul eyelash in Mars, wel

the sherplace of the

French Police disclosed

the clue that revealed an

avounding crimel

SECRETS OF THE

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

King's.

"The Spunker.

Queen's..

"A Lady's Profession.

Oentrál.

"Secrete of the French Police."

The New Fox Follies."

Oriental,

World.

Star.

"Loose Ankles."

KOWLOON

High Stakes."

Majestic. !.

*

King's.

Eventings for Sale."

COMING

"Marry Me."

Painted Woman."

Zoo in Budapest

Queen's...

World.

Metro's Variety Programme: 70,000 Witnesses."

"Chinese Opperette Show.". "Reaching for the Moon."

Central,

"Lady with a Past." "Half Naked Truth." "Animal Kingdom.”

FRENCH POLICE Oriental.

Thrilling drame based on on actual adventure of the great Bertillon, as revealed by H. Ahion-Wolfe in American Weekly.

With GWILI ANDRE Gregory Ratoff ... Frank IKO-RADIO Margon. David O. Selenich, PICTURE Scully products,

Bariton

SEE PARIS' STRANGEST MULTIPLE MURDER PLOT. EXECUTED BY

DIA. OF BOLICAL GENIUS

INTRIGUE AND EVIL.

NEXT CHANGE

CONNIE.. the supreme the divine... IN HER GREATEST LOVE STORY

Constance

BENNETT

疯

LADY WITH

A PAST

Bryond all doubt ber greatest... surpassing even ""BOUGHT" for sheer romantic thrill! Ex- riched by Hollywood's, Vaunted Magic!

BEN LYON

DAVID MANNERS

Dhamed by

EDWARD H. ORIFFITH

RKO PATHA PICTURE

AVIATION IN SIAM

CHEAPER FARES TO SINGAPORE !

BANGKOK, June 17. The Astraen is the largest and first four-engined 'plane to call at Don Muang. With a Dutch and Imperial Airways plane dying from Bangkok to Singapore weekly, fares will probably be reduced. The journey will take about the same time by either, service.

With the coming of the Imperial Airways there will be three oppor tunities a week of flying to Ran goon and back, which should be ample. Sooner or later there will have to be a civil aerodrome in or near the capital, and the long dis-! tance commercial services will pos sibly operate it jointly. Don Muang is primarily a military aerodrome.

In the near future we are promis ed an air taxi service between Bang- kok and Hua Hin, with week-end tickets. How near the senaide can be to Bangkok by plano. can be realised in that the Astraca""could" have landed at Hua Hin an hour. after leaving Don Muang on Sun day morning-if the landing ground had been ready,-and by the express trains the journey takes five to lix hours.

Star.

The Miracle of Goa."

Fireman Save My Child," "Secret Servicę.” SUMMARY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1933.

LAST TWO-DAYS

AT. 2.30, 5.10, 7.13 & 9.30 P.M.

BOOKING

MAKING

HONGKONG'S FINEST CNERA

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

THE SQUEAKER

Adapted from the Successful Play and directed by the Author EDGAR WALLACE

WITH

A British Lion Production,

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 OFFERED.

Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon and Heil Hamilton in "Lady With a

Past," coming to the Central.

THE SQUEAKER

EDGAR WALLACE THRILLER AT KING'S

It was very bad luck for the King's that the typhoon should choose last night to threaten the Colony, and keep everyone indoors, for the Squeaker, is a film in the real. Edgar Wallace manner.

There are thrills in plenty and that somewhat eerie atmosphere in which Edgar excelled. The story tells of queer crook, of his odd assistant, who has done time,

and an honest old Jew, also with an incident in his part who wishes his adopted daughter to marry the crook-whom he believes to be straight business man.

PICTURE WE HAVE

"HALF SHOT AT

SUNRISE

AT THE ORIENTAL THEATRE

The value of talking' motion pię ture to industries was strikingly demonstrated in the production of Radio pictures' all-talking wartime comedy," Half Shot At Suurise" opening Sunday at the Orientat

Theatre.

The enormous sum of money ex pended by movie studies, is not ex- plained by the so-lalled hugo. salaries paid to stars. The greater proportion of such fands go to industries which employ workmen.

Radio Pictures' executives proved this by revealing that more than $400,000 of the money expended on "Half Shot At Sunrise" went to industry. The items include:

cement

Two thousand sacks of and 700 tons of crushed rock and sand, sued in paving, streets of one huge set. Two thousand dollars There is a murder, and detective was spent for paint. Fourteen work and & seat finish. The acting thousand dollars went to public is excellent Gordon Hanker giving service corporations for power used comic relief as the tactful pro-in lighting the set for night scenes, prietor" of an odd club...

Nor must the Scottish news- paper man, Collie, be forgotten. Hong Kong will take a real delight in his accents, his deliberato move ments and other mannerisms,

Altogether the Squeaker is a fim to see in wet or fine weather,

CHARMING STUDIO

DEVELOPING & PRINTING

FILMS

QUICKEST SCRVICE

IN TOWN WITHIN 6 HOURS,

21, Wellington Street,

Tel No. 26767,

St. FRANCIS XAVIER

TAKE 'ANT, TRAM OR PAGET VALLEY BUÉ.

ONE

SPECIAL SHOW

ORIENTALE

BY SPECIAL REQUEST ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY

SUNDAY, JULY 2, 11 A.M.

MORNING

THE MIRACLES OF GOA

The unique and highly interesting picture taken by the Rev. Father Le Teller, J.

DEPICTING THE 1932, EXPOSITION OF THE BODY OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. With an interesting and descriptive talk by JEAN ARMSTRONG. Under the kind patronage and in the presence of His Lordship. The Right Rev H. Valtorta, Bishop of Hong Kong.

ADVANCE BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S Front Stalls $1.00.

Back Stalls 50 cts. Children, admitted to Dress Circle 20.

Seventy thousand dollars was paid the extra people employed. One hundred fifty thousand board feet of lumber

THEATRE

TEL. 25313 & 25392.

NEXT, OHANGE COMMENCING SUNDAY, 2nd JULY.

"MARRY ME”

STARRING

RENATE. MULLER

(THE ** SUNSHINE SUSIR'' GIRL)

with

GEORGE ROBEY HARRY GREEN A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE.

TITLED BRITONS AND A U.S. RACKETT

ALISON SKIPWORTH AND ROLAND YOUNG TO THE FORE

Alison Skipworth, the charming Madame Rac comedienne of keteer," is in trouble again in an hilarious comedy in the American tempo, "A Lady's Profession," It is now showing at the Queen's Theatre and featuring, besides Miss Skipworth, Roland Young, Bri Maritza,

SECRETS OF THE ~FRENCH POLICE

SHOWING AT CENTRAL

The intriguing theory that a daughter of the last Ceur.of Russia escaped the royal family's massacre by the Bolshevists in the Revolution of 1917, bobs' up in Rko-Radio Pie- tures' "Secrets of the French Po lice" now showing at the Central

Theatre."

The theory is not taken too seriously in the film. whose story" deals with the deftness with which the Surete, the French spret po lee, discover an imposture, In this instance, a Russian residing in Paris attempts to hypnotize a flower girl, who physically resem bles the Russian princess, into the belief that she the princess. Gwili Andre and Gregory Ratoff play the interesting roles of the flower girl and hypnotist. The screen stor is based on an actual case solved by the French secret polien. Others in the cast are. Frank Morgan and John Warbur Edward ton, and many others. Sutherland directed.

is

ARE THE ART OF PUBLIC

SPEAKING

LADY'S LECTURE TO SINGA. 'PORE ROTARIANS.

Singapore, Jube -So success- ful dil the recent Ladies Day at the Singapore Rotary Club prove that the club repeated the experi- ment, yesterday when ladies were invited to the weekly meeting at the Adelphi Hotel to hear Mrs. A. H. Dickinson speak on The Art of Public Speaking."..

Roscoe Kent Taylor, Karns and Warren Hymer.

Alison

As Lady Beulah Bonnell of "Twicket-on-Topping," Skipworth, leaves the safety of her ancestral home to rescue from his scrapes an impoverished nobleman, played by Roland Young. With his horse, Wellington, a far-too-intelli gent animal who persists in stepping on hats, Young comes to America to recoup the family fortunes only to get himself mixed up with the racket boys. He is rescued doally, the family fortunes" return to their pre-war condition, and everything is lovely with Sari Maritza and Kent Taylor on the receiving end of the romantic interest,

never been pictured quite WGS purchased

Thirty-three thousand dollars was Axpended for costumes. Two thousand dollars went into comme tics for making up the players. The remainder went into the hun dreds of incidentals which accom pany every production.

The motion picture business 19 essentially an industry, and a big one, according to Radio Pictures, and most emphatically not dedicat

ed to making millionaires of a few high-salaried players.

4.SHOWS

DAILY

1.33–5.15

|1.15---8,30.

$1.8

The American racketeer had humourously as he is shown in this picture. You'll love Keyhole Me Blusky, Nutty Bolton and The Colonel" who exhorts his boys to go out and sell liquor for the sake of the "wives and kiddies" before the government "muscles in on the racket."

It's sheer nonsense, but you'll delight in the humour that brings rippling giggles and loud guffaws the naive Babes in Speakeasy land" raise havoc with the silliest i racketeers you've ever seen.

TAKE ANY TRAM ON HÄPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

FLEMING RGAD WANGHAI

2 BATS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW VERY ELABORATE

MUSICAL COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA

NEW

FOX

FOLLIES

El Brendel rollicking with some of movie. fone's ace comics finds that loving s

far of sweet ladies

at the same time is!:

quite a risky thing

HUNDREDS IN THE CAST

EL BRENDEL, MARJORIE WHITE, FRANK RICHARDSON,

Noel Francis, Wm. Collier Jr, Miriam Seegar. BEAUTY CHORUS OF 300 PRETTY GIRLS

TUNEFUL SONGS CATCHY MUSIC ELABORATE DANCES 1000 LAUGHS

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It was a novel subject and was handled with grace and conviction, the speaker laying stress on clarity of expression, the soundness of her advice being demonstrated effective- ly by the fact that she did not use

the microphone and no one in the large room had any difficulty in hearing her.

It was the biggest attendance at a" Rotary tiffin for many weeks past and Mr. W. A. Eley, the President of the Club, also evoked applause for his interesting remarks proposing a vote of thanks to the speaker,

in

WROTE 800 BALLADS SONGS NOT WANTED IN PRE-

SENT AGE.***

"I'm not doing anything at all To tell you the now, laddie. truth, I'm broken hearted."

The voice of the. 72-year-old com- poser of "Don't Go Down in the Mine Daddy" "The Blind. Irish Girl," and 800 other songs, trembled slightly as he spoke, in a tenement basement just off Walworth-road,

London.

Robert Donnelly, the Dicksna songwriter," is celebrating his golden wedding..

Of their 209. combined old-age pensions, 17s goes in rent. It is going to be a quiet golden wedding.

"I'm 30 years behind the times now, they tell me," he said, "be- cause my songs are all of family life. They don't want 'em now."

Once, every barrel organ in the country churned out his songs. Now

. Donnelly the compos er lives in the past. A bundle of tattered old news cuttings treasured in an inner pocket, some faded pic tures on the wall-one where he is selling his first big success "The

Irish Fusilier's Farewell."

MAJESTIC

THEATRESAA

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel 57222 |||| TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

Love Connot be Bought

She Found, Though Some May Sell Honor!

Romance with heart- beat of Vienna, and: Songs of Straus

MARS

venings for Sale

SARE MARITZR

MARY, SOLAND.

NEXT CHANGE-

HOT SATURDAY

CARY GRANT NANCY CARROLL

VEER

UK ONDITIONED THEATRE

TO-DAY

& TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p SHE'S ON THE LOOSE AGAIN!

Madame Rack- etter is Back. "With a Hey

Nonny Nenny and a Hot-Cha Chal Her Fun- niest Showl..

A Lady by Birth ... & Racketeer at Hearth.

A LADY'S PROFESSION

AUSON SKIPWORTH ROLAND YOUNG SARI MARITZA

KOUTLANDE-SONALICIAL - VOAADA SEVEN

22 aiment Picture

FROM SUNDAY-

Two Bours of Joy! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's

Burlesque Paogramme"

The LAUREL and HARDY Murder Case

CHARLIE CHASE in "Hasty Marriage

FLIP-THE-FROG

In "Africa Squeaks”

COLOURTONE BURLESQUE "A Hollywood

Premiere

MICROSCOPIC":

MYSTERIES:

"A Desert Regatta”

HEARST NEWSREEL

STAR

TO-DAY & T-MOBROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. FIRST SHOWINGS IN HONG KONG

WILLARD MAGY

STAGE LENS

LOWELL. SHERMAN HAB MURRAY KABEN MORLEY.

WORLDE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.80, 5:15, 7.15 & 9,2

LORETTA YOUNG- DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JE

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