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CENTRAL

CHEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

TAKE QUEEN'S MD., WESTBOUND BUS

King's.

"Zoo in Budapest,"

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

Queen's.

"

"What? No Beer t

Central.

Just My Luck."

Oriental

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.159.80 P.M.

Star.

Majestic

BEN TRAVERS ALDWYCH FARCE-

Ralph Lynn

JUST MY LUCK

With WINIFRED SHOTTER

Excellent Comedy and Charming Revianc

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

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

NEXT CHANGE

A STORY OF MODERN YOUTH:

The World Acclaims a Newborn Star

you're agen

unha depped

from

type

ས་ས

Fain in a day.

The

AGE OF CONSENT

A Drome of Love Under des Mau Bales DOROTHY WILSON, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell, Erie Unden, John Hal iday, Aŭsen Pringle - Drated by Gregory La Comp - Au MD MADIO Pam of Charm! David C. Salzadek, Esscativa Pradacar

ALSO

A SPECIAL FEATURETTE WHEELER & WOOLSEY

"

in

"OH! OH! CLEOPATRA!”

"JUST MY LUCK ”-

STORY OF A MAN WHO

CHARGED

"The Passionate Plumber."

KOWLOON

Skyscraper Souls."

Tell me To-night.".

COMING

King's

"Love on

Wheels.

Queen's.

World.

The Third String!

Strtly Personal.".

"Variety Programme." "Secret Service."

"Reaching for the Moon."

Central,

“Thỏ Age of Consent,” "Little Damozelie." Oriental.

Star.

"Emma."

Tarzan the Ape Man. "Dimes Ahoy."

"W. Plan." "State Fair."

STRICTLY PERSONAL"

"DRAMA OF A LONELY

HEARTS CLUBS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1933.

FINAL SHOWING3

TO-DAY

Ar

2.80, 5:10, 7:15 & 9,30 P.M.

HONGKONG'S FINETERA

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

DEFENSELESS IN A DEN

"ZOO.IN BUDAPEST

VIEWS OF THE CLEVER DIRECTOR

Millions of lovely Americans End There is as much adventure in their only friends through the ad- business as there is in leading an vertising.columns of the papers pub-expedition into hitherto unexplored lished by the matrimonially inclin-wilds. This is the opinion of Jesse fed "Get-Together. Clubs."

L. Lasky who speaks with the au- Strictly Personal," B. F. Schul- thority of more than 20 years' ex berg's Dew Paramount picture perience as one of the leading. which comes Thursday to the figures in the motion picture indus- Queen's Theatre, tells the inside try, as well as with the authority of story of these agencies to which a explorer who has ventured into swarm all the sex-starved, lovely unknown jungles. spinsters, widows, widowers and ba "The successful producer," he chelors who seek this means of re-say "must be daring, just as the lief from solitude.

man who must risks the dangers of There's real drama in these terunknown lands and unfriendly na ribly lonely folks who simply must tives, He must go far afield for have wives or husbands and seek the fresh, startling ideas, for new types correspondence and matrimonial of players, as an explorer, these agency route of getting them. days, must go great distances and The "Lonely Hearts" Cub is arisk many dangers to cover ground legitimate enterprise that sincerely not already charted." tries to overcome its members' lose- Lasky is adventuring, after twen Finess. Marjorie Rambeau and Edty years as production head of Pa- ward Ellis, its proprietors, who in-ramount, in an entirely new field vestigate every applicans for mem for him independent production for bership, and turn down those whose Fox Film and says he is getting a motives are not for the best inter big thrill from it as he did when be cats of all members, themselves get led an expedition into the Central a vicarious joy in bringing happi- American jungles several years ago. ness to those that trust them. With blazing a trail through territory them is Dorothy Jordan, their ward. never before explored by white men. An Eastern racketeer, played by Zoo in Budapest" is bis first pro- Louis Calhern, forces them to make duction for Fox. Gene, Raymond him a partner. turns the club into and Loretta Young are co-starred a rendezvous for those who ought in the film now at the King's Thea to realize the blackmailing possibi- tre.

lities, and kills a widow member

OF BEASTS

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

| FOX Film prasens « Jagse L. Lovky Production

ZOO IN BUDAPEST

with

Loretta YOUNG Gene RAYMOND O. P. HEGGIE Stary by Melville Beker and Jack Kirkland Directed by Rowland V. Lez

“WHAT! NO BEER?"

BUSTER KEATON AND JIMMY DURANTE AT &

THE QUEEN'S

The riotous comedy pair, Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante, make their latest co-starring appearance on the Queen's screen in "What No Beer!" a screaming satire on the currect beer controversy. Buster and Schnozzle" run their own brewery in this picture and cosse quently all the mechanism of a mo- dern brewery was installed at the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studios and set in operation, including a 1,000 barret boiler, vats and bottling ma- chines,

New Leading Woman.“,

BOOKING AT THY THEATRE

TAL. 25313

&25992.

Commencing To-morrow.

@ Mirthquake?

THE THIRD

STRING"

with

SANDY POWELL KAY HAMMOND

·A CHINESE PICTURE

66

SUCH HEROES”

with

HAU LAT KAN, GIU ÇAI HORN A UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE. PICTURE

"

THE THIRD

STRING

END OF THE DEPRESSION?

CANADA'S OPTIMISM

Toronto-In the midst of general agreement tha; Canada has- buro- ea "the" corner," with most branches of business and industry recording an improvement which "giren promuse of being more than season" ul, comes an appropriate tribute 13 the governments and people, ot Canada from Mr. W. C.Coulter, speaking as president of the Cana- dian Manufacturers' Association to the annual convention of that body.

►AGA LONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO PAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

FOLLOW ΤΗΣ CROWDS

to

the first picture

based on

the fun

and foibles

did Mr. Coulter, in this othe

nection:

Looking back over the four years since the storm broke, it is doubtful whether many will believe. that Canadians could have done much more than has been done to deal with the various crises, which confronted them.

They have Juanaged in some way to feed, clethe, hoise and find partial em

ployment for those who were in distress. The Dominion Govern. ment, the, aine Provincial Govern ments and the hundreds of county, township, city, town sad village councils have been called upon to perform almost superhuman tasks. The members of these governments have carried great responsibilities and undergone severe and prolong ed mental and physical hardships in discharging their public duties, while, at the same time, nearly ali of them had to earn livings for their families and themselves in their private capacities:

Editorial commentators general ly agree with him." This is the truth," says one writer whose words are typical "If there WAS one consoling side to BROAD COMEDY BY W. W. these bitter years it was the

JACOBS.

united effort of the Canadian people to make sacrifices for the depression's victims."... Taken all in all, it was a fairly fine proof. George Pearson, who directed the 10 brotherhood and of citizenship. W.W. Jacobs film The Third Those who had something of String," which will be shown at this world's goods shared them the King's Theatre next change, is willingly, and the public taxed it Britain's oldest director. He has self as it had never been taxe 1 be- been in production since 1913, and fore to pay for relief."": before that wrote film scenarios.

For the production he had con structed a replica of a typical water side inn, complete with all the usual appurtenances and pro- pled by a crowd of as authentic longshore characters as one could wish to see...

For the romantic scenes of the the

Kay Hammond presided, behind story, Phyllis Barry, seen recently whose first essay in film acting bar, while Sandy powell, apposite Ronald Colman in Cyna-this is, was vainly attempting to ra, was cast in the leading femi get another drink when I entered nine role. Miss Barry is the Aus- the studio. tralian musical comedy star who crossed the Pacific to seek stage fame on Broadway but was seized upon ne potential starring material for Hollywood. The cast also in clades such well-known players as Rosco Ates, John Miljan, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, Charles Dunbar and Charles Giblyn.

Sunday Powell is well known in vaudeville bad pantomime and probably better known for his gramophone recorda: One record ing in particular, "The Lost Police man," has sold over a quarter of & million

¤records.

The big climax of "The Thire tion of a story written expressly for

"What! No Beer is an adapta String" is the boxing match be Keaton and Durante by Robert

tween Sandy Powell and Alf God dard. Handled and played with Hopkins. The screen play is the a true sense of broad comedy and for her jewels. He tries to plant tistic expropriation."

work of Carey Wilson and addition burlesque, it evoked peale of the crime on Ellis, attempts to ab-

al dialogue and "gags" were con- While endorsing the campaign

laughter from the studio hands, duct Dorothy Jordan, and is only against speculative joboings one of tributed by Jack Cluett. The pro-who voted it as good as a Days, topped when Eddie Quillan, in the first moves after "harmonizaduction was directed by Edward pay-almost. " the role of a wise-cracking reporter, tion" of the films, as a just move, Easily" and other Keaton-Durante the ferocious

Sedgwick, who produced "Speak learns of the plot. The story is Breithaupt declares that it swiftly

Alf Goddard plays the role of brought to a tremendous climax in turned into "an unproductive anti-

comedica.

bruiser, "Bill Calhern's death and the return of Bemitiam-which-one-of-course-can

Luum whom Sandy accidentally The picture is replete with specta-knocks out. the club to its former legitimate parade in insas meetings, but o cular scenes covering the beer pro- Mark Daly as Peter Russet, and Other players are which no productive reconstruction blem from the excitement of the last Charles Paton se Sam Small You'll find Majorie Rambeau giv-work can be based. The practical election to the present fight in Con ing her usual excellent performance result of his campaign was that gress for legalization. But aided by and Edward Ellis scores again as all working Jewish dapital was the interpretations of Buster and he did in "I am a Fugitive" in withdrawn from the films, without Jimmy, current history takes a de- the unwilling owners of a which his characterization of the its being possible, despite all opticidedly ludicrous turn. Keaton and turning out 1,000 barrels of beer a browery bomber brought him screen fame. mistic prodictions, to replace it, Durante start out as a taxidermist day. "Another accident saves the Dorothy Jordan is appealing as the

and town barber, respectively, and when the police raid their plant and ward and Eddie Quilla, in the

wholly by accident find themselves catch them red-handed. role of the reporter, who wins her in the end, provides the light come- dy.

status.

GERMAN FILM INDUSTRY

HARD HIT BY HITLER'S ORDERS

to say nothing of the millions which the German films used to maintain its world artistic dominance."

"Besides this," continues Brei- thaupt, the autonomy' movement has robbed the German flima- of- a considerable number of irreplac able and excellent artists and a no less numerous group of valuable experts who to-day are being re ceived with open arms by the Almi industry abroad and thus, perforce are lending strong aid to Ger- many's competitors,

Taking the prophet's seventy.

The Gensor. "years as being, the average of a

Berlin. The German film indua: Breithaupt cites another EXED man's expectancy, it is quite easy try, formerly a strong member of ple which he declares heavily de- to divide it by half and imagine the international family and rated maned the film industry, namely all orla of things happening at second only to the Hollywood pro- the ban on the Alm, Last Will thirty-five, especially on the man's duction is in for hard sledding fol and Testament of Dr. Mabuse, a lowing ita harmonization" under crime film which was censored on birthday. That's the idea of "Just the new regime, according to Wolf- the grounds that it presented My Luck," Ralph Lynn's new pic ture. For thirty-five years, David Ertel-Breithaulpt, writing bad example to German youth. Blake had lacked enterprise; for

in the Berliner Tageblast.

"Dr Mabuse" was made by the In a lengthy article condemning German Universal and it cost one the same period Vesuvius Strom-the efforts at "autonomy" in the million marks a tidy sum in the boli had progressed. The two film industry, Breithaupt declares German film world. awooped experiences and emotions.that the process of harmonizing" "This film, writes Breithaupt, Then David woke up, and enter the German film industry has pro-meant pulling out of the red for ed upon

a business career for duced a splendid isolation" which thousands of movie proprietors who which he was totally unfitted by he predicte will end in both finen had already accepted and present- nature as well as by training. But cial and artistic catastrophe.. "Ied a series of less popular films, be achieved some sort of success creasing political demanda, moet some of them at a loss, on the because it was just his luck. There of which sprung from the party strength of the inclusion of "Dr.

many laughs in this

agitatora vocabulary and not from Mabuse," in their contructs. picture.

are

доту

the cultural perception, and which This film was forbidden on the end in race theory, have complet hasis of completely changed poli ed the disorganization of the in- tical conditions (from the time it dustry, which was never exception was made), writes Breithaupt, ally sound financially," writes "without its being taken into con Breithaupt. The industry faces sideration that this ban would the question whether, as a part of damage the entire German 6lm been ruder and more brutal than the impoverished and indebted industry out of all proportion to they are fo-day. Mr. A. A. German business world, it can the, "immoral effect" which the film Baumann

standa further economic and ar- itself might have had.

Never have public manners, in the streets, in abops, in restaur. anto, in all places of public resort,

4 SHOWS DALY

2.30-18 7.15-0.30

TAKE ANY THAN ON HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY ABSOLUTELY THE

FONNIEST PICTURE

EVER MADE]*· A RIOT OF - FUN;

BUSTER

KEATON

JIMMY

DURANTE

POLLY

MORAN

THE

TOMORROW-

ROAD WANGHAI TEL.

THURSDAY

HERE'S ANOTHER SCREEN MASTERPIECE L

The star who makes LAUGH and

CRY. --- but, al- ways makes you -HAPPY:

DRESSLER

PASSIONATE Mma

PLUMBER

RICHARD CROMWELI JEAN HERSHOLT. MYRNA LOY

MILITARISING. JAPAN'S IRON INDUSTRY

SURRENDER TO THE ARMY.

AND NAVY DEMANDS.

Tokyo. At the conference of the Commerce and Industry, War, the authorities of the Departments of Navy and Finance, held at the Legislative Bureau on the 7th, in- stant to settle the dispute over the question of supervision of the new Iron Manufacturing Company be tween the Department of Com merce and Industry and the Ser- vices Departments, the Commerce. Department authorities finally con ceded the claim of the military and naval authorities They agreed to the insertion in the Imperial Ordin ance in contemplation of a clause providing for the Minister of Com- merce and Industry's consultation with the War Minister and the Minister of the Navy in giving per mission to the suspension or aboli tion of certain businesses or to the disposal of important property such as are related to strategical, matters, of the Japan Iron Manu- facturing Company.

As to the scope of items relative fixed on consultation between the to strategical matters, it is to be authorities of the Departments concerned.-Japan Chronicle.

MAJESTIC

THEATRELL

Nathan Roed, Kowloon. Tel 57282 SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 á 9.20 p.m.

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

Sonnie Hale

inating" "Humorist in

TELL ME TO-NIGHT

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 Pictura

·FROM THURSDAY

“I'm for SALER

"I'm a lonely girl and I want

love, I want to satisfy thi

past-up desire of my hart,

She came to the Lonely Hearts® Club where sex was sold to the highest bidder!

STR

TRICTLY PERSONAL

MARJORIE RAMBEALI EDDIE QUILLAN DOROTHY JORDAN Diensted by RALPH MURPHY A Caracant Pictor

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS: TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20 720 & 9:20

WARREN WILLIAM

- the sorcen's new

idol and this

great cast:

Maureen

O'Sullivan Gregory Ratoff Anita Fage

erree

Teasdale Norman -

Foster

George

Barbies Jean

Harsholt

SKYSCRAPER

SOUL

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