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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S BD., WESTBOUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720,

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.

BEN TRAVERS ALDWYCH FARCE-

Ralph Lynn JUST MY LUCK

with WINIFRED" SHOTTER

Excellent Comedy and Charming Remane

AN UPROARIOUS COMEDY WITH ENGLAND'S GREATEST. LAUGH MAKER AT BIS BEST!

A. B. & D. SPECIAL DO NOT MISS IT!

NEXT CHANGE

A STORY OF MODERN YOUTH!

The World Acclaims a Newborn Star

This is the gif

fram o`type-

dum a day.

The

AGE OF CONSENT

A Drams of Lowe, Under the New Rules with DOROTHY WEICH, Artina Judge, Richard Cromwell, Eris Länden, John Hot liday, Alleen Pringle '• Garncial by Gengary La Coma + de 13C) LACIÓ) Fakes of Curm) David Q. Selznick, Executive Producer

ALSO

A SPECIAL FEATURETTE

41

and-

"I

WHEELER & WOOLSEY.

in

"OH! OH! CLEOPATRA!”

GIRLS REJECT NUDISM

SO A YORKSHIRE SCHEME-

FELL THROUGH.

Nudism, which has such a large following in Germany and Ameri- ea, makes no appeal to the girls of Yorkshire and Derbyshire where scheme to found a nudist colony in the Holpe Valley has fallen through because of lack of their support.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

King's.

HONG KONG

"Zoo in Budapest.” -

Queen's.

"What! No Beer”.

Central.

Just My Luck.":

Oriental,

"The Passionate Plumber,'

KOWLOON

Skyscraper Souls"

Star.

Majestic.

King's.

Tell me, Tonight."

COMING

The Third String." Love on Wheels.

Queen's.

"Strictly Personal,”’

World.

Variety Programme.” "Secret Service.

"Reaching for the Moon."

Central,

The Age of Conscent." "Little Damozelle.' Oriental.

Star.

"Tarzan the Ape Man."

"Dames Aboy."

"W. Plan."

"State Fair."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1933.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT

2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

HONCKONES. FINDSTOPIN

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

DEFENSELESS IN A DEN

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

ZOO IN BUDAPEST “AGE OF CONSENT,

66

PEST

Animals And The

Mowgli " Hero

In Revolt

FILM OF BEAUTY AND

THRILLS

Zbo. in Budapest," showing at the King's, is one of those rare films in which an artist, and not merely an efficient craftsman, has been allowed to direct. There are "extraordinarily / “beautiful scenic effects and amazing animal studies all the hate, the fears and the repressions of this captive jungle ure displayed with rare skill and the night scene has pathos shown with an unerring hand. But above that "the producer works & most cynical and touching harmony of hinted and misunderstood humans, and of their counterpart emotions in the beasts. Thus the fierceness of the eaged tigers Ends its reflect ed in the sudden savagery with which a group of charity orphans taken to the zoo to show how much better of they are than the animals suldenly band like young wolves

STORY OF U.S. COLLEGE

LIFE

OF BEASTS

The snarls of infuriated wild animals in mortal combat was the weird accompani- ment ofthis strange romance.

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ZOO IN BUDAPEST

With

Loretta YOUNG Gene RAYMOND O. P. HEGGIE- Story by Melville Baker and Jack Kirkland Directed by Rowland V. Lae

BOOKING

AT THE

THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25392

NEXT CHANGE

• thirthquake.

"WHAT! NO BEER?".

BUSTER KEATON AT THE

QUEEN'S

Buster Keaton and Jimmy Du rante, the famous comedians, can be seen at the Queen's Theatre to- day in "What: No Beer," a really funay picture about the American Beer racket.

The story tells of two "lunatics" who, thinking that prohibition end ed, bought a brewery, and later found out that they didn't know. how to make beer!

Besides the two comedians, there is an exceptional capable castin cluding Roscoe Ates, well-known for his stuttering, Phyllis Barry, who make her film debut in this picture, John Miljan and Edward-

"THE THIRD Brophy

STRING"

wită

SANDY POWELL KAY HAMMOND

A CHINESE PICTURE

"SUCH HEROES"

with

J

HAU LAI KAN, KHI GHI SURE

A UNIRD PROTOPLÄT SERVICE PICTURE

“THE PASSIONATE THE THIRD STRING

PLUMBER"

AT THE ORIENTAL

THEATRE

The world's smallest canine "actor" plays an important role in The Passionate, Plumber,"

riotous Parisian fare will be show

ing at the Oriental Theatre on, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with Buster Keaton, Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante and Polly Moran heading

This

an ace comedy cast.

The dog's name is Fifi and be weighs exactly six ounces. When education interferes with most extraordinary canine is of a happiness, throw your schoollooks variety known as Maltese veggjer, a out the window and follow your rare species. The tiny body, a natural impulses.”

scant five inches long, is covered What ever sort of iconoclasm or with 4 Buffy white fur that gives sacrilege bearded colleged profes- it the appearance of tiny poodle. sors might call that outburst, it The dog'a bark is about equal to nonetheles is the new credo of the the squeak of a medium sized campus, according to H.-N, Swan-mouse. son, former editor of College Hu mour who assisted in the produc tion of RKO-Radio Pictures' "The Age of Consent" coming to the Central Theatre on Wednesday.

Closely associated with univer sity life over a period of ten years, Swanson is qualified as an autho- rity on the morals and manners of the undergraduate of to-day:

And in Swanson's opinion the student, boy or girl, who finds a col- lege course interfering with hap piness, is well advised to put ambi tion, marriage, travel or any other deep desire ahead of a diploma.

"For, years," says Swanson, "it has been an American credo that university sheepskin is a prize worth any sacrifice.

In "The Fassioante Plumber Fif plays the part of a small men her of Irene Purcell's household is which Durante is a sort of butler and Polly Moran holds the position of maid. Keaton, as the plumber, comes to the house to make some bathroom repairs and through various complications is finally as signed to take Fifi out of an airing. The result of what starts out as an innocent stroll are said to keep audiences in a continuous uproar.

his characterisation differs coosi-

wholesome entertainment of 4

[

A DELIGHTFUL W, W. JACOBS FILM

The film is directed by Edward Sedgwick, and to those who want... a hearty laugh, we strongly recom mend them not to miss it.

OLD BLUE FUNNEL LINER

SOLD TO JAPANESE SHIP- BREAKERS.

It is now aix years since the famous Blue Funnel liner Yantaze Wag sold to owners in Manila and renamed Macoria for general ser- vice, which usually kept her be tween the Philippine Island and Japan

She is still very well remember. ed, however, and many will be m terested to hear that sha has just been sold to Japanese scrappers.

She was one of the steamers built W. W. Jacobs' delightful trio of by Messrs. Workman, Clark and rascals, Ginger Dick, Peter Busset Company for the China Mutual and Sam Small,become gloriously

Line before it was amalgamated articulate in a talking film version with Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co., of. The Third String," their fun-being a single screw cargo steamer miest. adventure, which will be

of nearly 6,500 tons." Launched in 1809, she was specially designed for the Eastern service, and when the China Mutual was purchased by the with their arrangements excellently. Blue Funnel in 1902 she fitted, în

shown at the King's Theatre next

change.

fickle Miss Tucker, his pals droli, Ginger's hopeless love for the double-crossing attempts and his vain but Homeric encounter with burly Bill Lumm are just the right ingredients for a screen comedy that has humanity as well as hu

During the war she was left en- tirely to her owners use until 1917, when she was requisitioned immediately began to get into by the Shipping Controller, and trouble, although no harm, came to her. Once in 1917, and again in the spring of 1918, she was the sub- ject of determined attacks by the German submarines, but in each case she got off scot free Ma

After the war she was used very York, and Manila, with occasional largely between Liverpool, New runs to India and Australia, and was sold to Madrigal of Manila in- Japany was improving its standard so the spring of 1997 because the com-

rapidly with the new ships which were being added to the fleet."

in its composition. Sandy Powell, Mark Daly and Charles Faton as the incorrigible trio, Kay Mammond as the girl with three string to her bow," and Alf Goddard as "Bill Lumm," have skilfully caught the spirit of the author's engaging characters, Similarly George Pearson has, in his direction, maintained the at- tractive atmosphere of W. W. coba popular series of yar

"The Third String," in short, is British comedy with a ready made" popularity that ensures its appreciative acceptance by audi- ences everywhere.

JUST MY LUCK

EXCELLENT PART FOR

RALPH LYNN

"Just My Luck' is generous in the number of laughs it gives you, a bombastic "go-getter" from being: because Ralph Lynn develops into

a timid, spineless music teacher- almost afraid of his own shadow, and certainly afraid to walk un-

derably from the ususi "silly ass" role with which we have become isn't half as important as finding

"As a matter of fact, a diploma familiar. To add to the attractive- the happiest channel for each indiness, Ralph Lyan is rarely off the vidual life.

screen, and Just My Luck" with to help one of their number to and a girl are faced with the pro- rural backgrounds, is really good, "In The Age of Consent, a boy its charm of setting and beauty of escape. There Are pompous blem of whether to continue their humane, and in a flesh you see educations or marry. I feel that pompous old birds.

Most of the film is the love idyll the picture provides convincing pleasing light character. Just of the escaped orphan and a sort proof in mupport of my premiss My Luck" is now playing at the der a ladder. In this new picture of Mowgli of the Zoo; and, in the that happiness is paramount. end the animals get loose and have The Age of Consent?! is based a glorious free-for-all, elephants on and tigers particularly working off their old scores. Just a glorious hour of jungle hatred and fighting, and then with nets, and hoses, and fire, man prevails and the mutiny in the Zoo is suppressed.

STRICTLY PERSONAL'

DRAMA OF A “GET ACQUAINTED CLUB"

The Universal

1.

Martin Flavin's successful Broadway play, "Cross Roads,"

Dorothy Wilson, Hollywood's newest. "Cinderella," Eric Linden, Richard Cromwell, Arlins Judge, John Halliday and Aileen Pringle head the large cast. Gregory La Cava directed.

for many years. It serves as an intermediary in the courtships, which are conducted entirely, by mail.

***** Strictly Personal" centres around a "get-acquainted club" in an American town, where the 'ro- muntically inclined actually get to-

Young men in the Holmfirti England's oversupply of women. neighbourhood flocked to the nudist will end up as American, and Cmon promoters standard when the idendian farmers' wires, if the Univer-gather, instead of conducting their was put forward, but the young wo-sal Correspondence Club, of Lon romances via postage stampe. Prin men held back, and the scheme don, has its way failed.

"If women had shown more inizations terest, the plan would have stood Murphy, director of "Strictly Per Miss Jordan, cast as their ward. a good chance of success," said one of the promotors. "But, it isonal, drama coming on Thurs Their club is a reputable establish- difficult to get them to view the day to the Queen's Theatre with ment until Louis Calhern, a "con Nudist cult in a proper and im and Dorothy Jordan in leading is Under threat of exposure, Marjorie Rambeau, Eddie Quillan man" drope in and recognizes E- personal light."

roler. For the picture deals with Calhern forces his way into a part- Women, when approached, clearly the "get-acquainted clubs, which nership, and devotes his energies indicated that they did not object are patronized by shy bachelors to an apparently wealthy widow. to enn-bathing in swimming suits and hopeful spinsters, seeking When she confesses that she is real. or other suitable costume, but did mates, not favour nudiam.

The-plan wai

to make the camp and the colony on the hilly moors of the upper reaches of the Holme Valley, or in a woodland glade near Holmfirth

cipal characters are Edward Ellis, Correspondence of "I Am a Fugitive" fame, who Club was one of many such organ- plays the role of an ex-convict; investigated by Ralph Miss Rambeau cast as his wife; and

ply penniless, he kills her g

The London organization, he The picture reaches breathles found, deals particularly with men climax in his attempt to force Miss in American and Canadian farm Jordan to accompany him.” ing areas, and with women in oscape flight; and England, where the feminine popu- blame for the murd lation has exceeded the masculine No: 0

Central Theatre.

(Pontinued" of previous colemn).

TAKE AW Tasť OR HAPPY VALLEY BR

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

2 MORE TO-DAY & TOMORROW

DAYS

IT'S A RIOT!

THE YEARS LAUGH FESTIVAL ↑

3 LUNATICS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE !

BUSTER

KEATON

STMMY

DURANTE

MORAN

PassioNATE PLUMBER

STHREE TIMES HASTA EIGHT

NNIER" THAN

TWO MONEY CHANGERS-

WANTED

Warrants have been issued by the Canton police for the arrest of Chan Hoi Shan and Chan King Shan, formerly manager and trea- surer respectively of the Li Wing Money Exchange at Tai Wun Road, Canton. The two mention- ed men are wanted for embezzling in: destroying socounts connected funds and for the part they took with the business.

MAJESTIC

THEATER

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 620, 7.20

IF YOU LOVE LIFE DON'T MISS THIS PICTURE, THE OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT

Sonnie Hale

TELL ME TO NIGHT

VEERS

PAIS CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.10, 7:15 & 0.20 p.m.

FOLLOW THE CROWDS

to

the first picture based on the fun and foibles. of the return of

beer

BUSTER

KEATON DURANTE

JIMMY

monster

brewers of laughs

WHAT! No Beer?

with ROSCO ́ATES:

PHYLLIS BARR JOHN MILJAN

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

FROM THURSDAY

“I'm for SALEP

T'es a lonely gidi and 1

lore. I want to satisfy the

pent-up desire of my hunyt.. my soul te

She came to the Lonely Hearte Club... where sex was sold to the highest

STRICTLY

PERSONAL

MARJORIE RAMBEAU EDDIE QUILLAN·· DOROTHY JORDAN Divalil' by RALPH MURPHY,

A Paramount Piction

STAR

TO-DAY & TO MORROW

2.80, 6.20; 7:20 & 9.20

WARREN WILLIAM

the screen'e n010. idol and this great cast

Mauroon

Sullivan

Gregory Raton Aníta Fage

Norman

Foster

George

Barbier Jean

Herabolt

SKYSCRA SOUL

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