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́ ́TO-DAY AT THE

CİNEMA

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

JULY 4, 1933.

CENTRAL

THEATRE

!

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND SER

HONG KONG

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

LAST

TWO-DAYS

Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

King's.

Marry Me,"

Queen's.

Metro's Variety Programme:

Central

The Half Naked Truth."

NOW PLAYING

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

AN UPROARIOUS COMEDY!|| Oriental,

Only a tent show dancer.. He swept her'

to fame on a wave of bally- hoo!

"Half Shot at Sunrise."

KOWLOON

This human gasbag told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but

"THE HALF NAKED TRUTH

A million-Laugh- power" romance in the world of bunk

With

LUPE VELEZ and LEE TRACY

Eugene Pallette Prank Morgen

Perection and Rice

RKO

RADIO

by Outory La COM

Pickers

Berit O. Sequel,

asogative producer

NEXT CHANGE

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

Constance

BENNETT

K

LADY WITH

A PAST

Bryend all doubt her greatest... surpassing even **BOUGHT” for sheer

romantic thrill! En

riched by Hollywood Vaunted Magicl

BEN LYON DAVID MANNERS

Pred EDWARD H GRIFFITH

RKO PATHE PICTURE

HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS

WEEK ENDING JUNE 24

Plague.

Casea. Deaths Baghdad Rangoon akses 1 Prom-Penh... $

Cholera.

2

Bombay

Calcutta

Rangoon

Chittagong indara Cebu

38

Small-pox,

Bassein

Bombay

Calcutta

Cochin

Karachi

Madras

Vizagapatam.......

Colombo

"Shanghai

Typkus.

adria:

198

Star.

"Fireman Save My Child."

Majestic.

They Just Had to Get Mar-

ried."

COMING

King's,

Painted Woman.

"Zoo in Budapest.”

Queen's.

70,000 Witnesses.' Hell Below."

She Done Him Wrong." World.

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

Central.

Star.

++

Lady With a Past," Animal Kingdom."

Broadway Bad." "Chances."

Oriental.

"Danger Lights.""

HONGKONGS. FINEST CHA

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

RENATE MULLER (THE "SUNSHINE SUSIE" GIRL)

IN

"MARRY ME"

WITH

HARRY CREEN-GEORGE ROBEY-BILLY CARYLL

IAN HUNTER-MAURICE EVANS.

A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE.

8,500 patrons have already seen "Marry Me"

in the King's Theatre. Book your seats early.

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

“MARRY ME' AT KING'S

CERTAIN TO PLEASE RENATE MULLER'S

ADMIRERS

"LADY WITH A PAST"

'THE PAINTED

WOMAN"

NEXT FEATURE FILM AT THE KING'S

Most Southerners are supersti- tious, and naturally Peggy Shan- non who plays the featured femi- nine rofe in the Fox picture, "The Painted Woman," which opens on

BOOKING AT Tan

THEATRE

TEL. 25319 & 25332.

NEXT CHANGE ANOTHER BIG DOUBLE ATTRACTION!

ON THE SCREEN

The PAINTED WOMAN

with

Spencer TRACY Paždy SHANNON William Boyd Irving Pichel

Directed by John Blyto

Fox

Picture

ON THE STAGE

CHIN

LOO

COMPANY OF 22 CHINESE JUGGLERS AND ACROBATS. MARVELLOUS BAR WORK! " UNBELIEVABLE BALANCING | SENSATIONAL ROPE TRICKS! JUGGLING & MAGIC!

* PRICES AS USUAL

BOOK EARLY.

"DANGER LIGHTS" AT THE ORIENTAL

"WORLD'S FASTEST TRAIN. USED IN "DANGER LIGHTS"

This is an age of speed, mechani cal and otherwise. Everything must be accomplished in a bigger, bet- ter and faster way, according to

FOOTBALL MURDER

MYSTERY

· 70,000 WITNESSES COMING TO QUEEN'S'

70.000 Witness," the football mystery drama starring. Phillips Holmea, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles and Johnny Mack Brown, commences on Thursday at the Queen's Theatre.

The story is of the mysterious murder of a stellar halfback as he dashed for a touchdown. A packed stadium suddenly sees him stagger, stumble and collapse, dead. How And why his death was caused is the problem worked out by a élever de- tective.

Brown an ex-football star, has the role of the victim, with Holmes s his buddy. Miss Jordan is the latter's sweetheart, and Ruggles, his usual wise-cracking self, is a reporter covering the game.via ra- dio. David Landau, out of villan- ous roles for the first time in some months, is the detective.

The picture was produced for Paramount by Charles R. Rogers.

PRINCE CHICHIBU, OF JAPAN

CELEBRATES 31ST BIRTHDAY

Toxro, June 24.. Yasuhite, Chichibu-no-miya, heir throne of presumptive to the Japan, celebrates his 31st birthday. to-morrow and will be the recipient of numerous honours. To Japan- ese the prince will be 32 years old, as the residents of Nippon, in common with other Orientals, con- sider a child one year old at birth and the day of his birth is his first birthday.

The Prince likely will spend the day with his wife, the Princess Chichibu, who formerly was Miss Setsu Matsudaira, daughter of Mr. Tsuneo Matsudaira, ambassador to Britain, and before her marriage a commoner. He will call on his next older brother, Emperor Eiro hito, and probably on his mother, the Dowager Empress Sadako, dur- ing the day and will be guest at an elaboraba dinner at night. The Prince was married September 28, 1923, following his return to Japan because of the illness of his father, the late Emperor Taisho.

+

Active Professional Life,

Prince Chichibu is a captain in the army and spends much of his

be found for the filming of Radionoeuvers. He is honorary president preparing for the full military ma Pictures' all-talking railroad of the British and Siamese Associa drama, "Danger Lighta," to be tions in Tokyo and fills all the so- screened at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday the 5th.

no exception. Her beliefs lean to Thursday at the King's Theatre, is the twentieth century rule were to time in active service. He now is. ward the efficiency of rabbit's feet- especially the left hind foot of a big buck cottontail-and she has a collection of these articles

CONSTANCE BENNETT AT numbering nearly a hundred.

CENTRAL

TOW

With this in mind RKO studio executives sent a company of 100 headed by Louis Wolbeim, Robert Armstrong and Jean Arthur to the northwest where the largest and this picture. Please don't forget fastest locomotives were founded for

to bring your friends and families Lights.

cial duties of an heir apparent, al- though Japanese never refer to him as such, foeling such a title might be construed be a slur to the Em- peror and Empress because they have no son.

But-and here's the point of it they work!

"When I was a little girl down Constance Bennett looks her love-in Arkansas," the actress say, "I "Love is like football" says one liest and gives the best performan-humps and bruises and stubbed had the customary number of of the characters in the "Gains barough laugh-hit, Marry Mee of her career in "Lady With a core and twisted ankles. Later, now showing at the King's Theatre Past," the RKO Pathe screen ver while going to schoal, I started to as a tea of Alpine Club and the Alpine Club. which stars Renate Muller the sion of Harriet Henry's famous "Sunshine Susie" girl. "You have novel, which will open at the Cers

tral Theatre on "Friday"," to use strategy, a scientiɓe method of attack. And so it happens that. the lovely Ain Linden, recordist in a gramophone factory, "gets her

nian."

By setting her cap at an elderly charmer, she enables the man she

adores (he is captivated by the pro- spect of an advantageous marriage) to realise what he is about to lose. He realises it just before it is too late, and, thus brings to a happy conclusion a most engaging and melodious story.

Dazzling gowns-seventeen, to be exact-are worn by the screen's best dressed star. Miss Bennett'a ward- robe is a fashion show in itself with appeal to men as well as women.

Starting with one of the best stories ever assigned to her, Miss Berinett was given a hit director, a sterling supporting cast and an ex- ceedingly lavish production all re- sulting in excellent entertainment.

collect good-luck charms and tried all of them in turn. As soon as I began on rabbits' fect, my troubles stopped and I haven't had any!

since.

"I landed in Ziegfeld's chorus, the dream of every show girl, with in a week of reaching New York and kept right on going up without the usual disappointments and. dif- ficulties. I love, motoring, and drive everywhere and have never had an accident of any kind. Those rabbit's feet have certainly been good to me."

"Lady With a Pist is an ultra- modern comedy on the sophisticated Painted Woman" was given to her Miss Shannon's rule in "The When it is realised niso that three side, with just enough romance to great comedians, George Robery, : add dash and flavour. The characas a direct reward for her scintil. ters are hunian and speak brilliant lating work in the title role of the

(Continued on next Column) lines which ring true for all their wittiness, the situations are unique and amusing and the theme is o fundamental appeal.

Harry Green and Billy Caryll, have notable parts in "Marry Me, it should be evident that laughter finds no small place in the picture.

"Marry Me" is regarded distinctly worthy-successor to "Sunshine Susie and is certain to please Renate Muller's legions of admirers, who have been waiting mnast anxiously for her next pic ture. They will not be disappoint

ed.

"HALF NAKED TRUTH'

AMUSING COMEDY AT CENTRAL

Twenty-four dancers who equally combine expert dancing ability and beauty of face and body, appear in The Half Naked Truth,” RKO. Radio Picture at the Central Thea

The story relates a society girl's adventurous evolution from wall flower to charmer in international settings. The action starts in New York, where Venite Muir, a mem ber of a fashionable younger set, sees herself passed up by the méo who prefer, her no more beautiful': but gayer girl friends.

Popularity continues to elude her until she goes to Paris and falle under the teaching of a dashing gigolo. Under his expert tutelage, she begins to acquire beaux and a past. It is this past which makes her a heroine in the eye of her hars tofore indifferent New York friends. including a certain young man whom the girl believes is destined to marry me.

Supporting Mies Bennett in Lady With a Past" are Ben Lyon,

tre to-day. The girls were selected David Manners, Albert Conti, Mer from a score of applicants by Dina Kennedy, Don Alvarado and rector Grogory La Cava. They are

20

of uniform height, and have dia

The Loes

the

salaries of bis

B.

Thomas

| played splendid grace in their dau

6 routines, it is said. "The Halki

many others.

Naked Truth" features them in Shirley Chambers are also cast in

Broadway musical comedy in which

this original saly by Ben Mark Lee Tracy is s King of Ballyhoos son and HiSwanson, for which has placed his client after skyroc Bartlett Cormack and Corey Ford ikoling her to the front-page head-

lineasi

wrote (the adptation. The film ras suggested by Phantom Fame," biogrophy, the late Harry Reichensbach Broadway's ballyhoo

• Velez is co-featured,

stte, Trank Morgan and vut foot of gezi columm

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30–5.13.

7-16-6:20

The Prince is in robust health and a great patron of sports. He Club of Great Britain, a member is an honorary member of the Ski of the Alpine Ski Club, the Swiss

of England." He climbed several Swiss peaks during his stay in Europe in 1928 and frequently goes on mountain "climbing expeditions in the Japan Alps, not far from Tokyo,

حمده

recent Fox picture, "Society Girl." It shows her as a fiery South Seas eiren whose hectic romance brings about the many thrills of the pro-If your wife is not as pretty or duction, and she gives what many good-looking as she was, it may be critics declare is one of the finest that she finds life with you rather performances of the year. Spencer wearing. The Rer. T H. Curtia. Tracy has the male lead opposite her, and the cast includes William (Stage) Boyd, Irving Pichel and Raul bulien, John Blystone di- rected the production. Leaon Gor- doa wrote the continuity and dialogue of this screen play by Guy Bolton which is based on A.C. Kennedy's, original story.

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SENSATION

HALF SHOT AT SUNRISE

THE

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THEY JUS HAD to GET MARRIED

SLIM

SUMMERVILLE

and Ex

ZASU

PITTS

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

Presented-by¥?? "Cad· Laumm/q/ -

„With Keland-Yeaks, Fil D'Orsay, Vares Tresdale, C. Aubery Saki, Hanry"Ärmeln, | Cara 'Sus: Colling, Serennplay, by. Sledys

Lehman and H2 M.-Walker. From 5. alay by Syilf Harmeet, Produced by Carl Jsemmie, Jr, Dieocied by Edvard Lady Frätemed by Call LaemmlerAi

UNIVERSAL PICTURE **

NEXT CHANGE

NAGANA?

TALA BIRKLI HELYTA

VEEN

►AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

The COOL NG PLANT IS NOW IN FULL OPERATION TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. 2 HOURS of JOY!

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's

Burlesque Programme

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

FROM THURSDAY

70000 WITNESSES

PHILLIPS HOLMRE-BOBOTNÝ JORRAIN" CKABLE DOGALES » JOHNFY NACK SERGE - Chan the seal de Codland and

A Paramenent Picture

It will excite

every nerve in your body!

COMING

HE BELOW

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20 pu

JOE

ROWN

FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD

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