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CENTRAL

HEATRE

¿TAKE QUEEN'S AD, WEST ROUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

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

A STORY OF MODERN YOUTH!

The World Acclaims à Newborn Stars

This is the part you've been reading about ....whe mapped from a type-

dom in a day.

The

AGE OF CONSENT

A Drama of Love Under the New Ban with DOROTHYT WILSON; Artine Judge, Richard Cromweli, Erie Linden, John Hei-, Bday, Alleen Pricigla. “Directed by Gregory La Cova și An MMC) RADIC) Mchure of Chorval David Selznich, Essentire Producer

ALSO

A SPECIAL FEATURETTE

- WHEELER & WOOLSEY

in

TO-DAY AT THE

Klug't.

CINEMA

HONG KONG

The Third String." "Such Heroes

(Chinese Picture),

Queen's,

Strictly Personal."

Central

The Age of Consent."

Oriental.

"Emma,?

World.

"Secret Service."

KOWLOON

"State Fair.".

Star.

Majestic.

N

King's

Love Contract."

COMING

"Love on Wheels."

Queen's.

Song of the Eagle."

Central.

The Unknown Singer." Belle of the South Seas "The Woman Commands,' Oriental.

Tarzan the Ape 'Man."

STRICTLY

PERSONAL

19

HEROINE'S REAL LIFE ›

ROMANCE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JULY 27- 1933

SHOWING TO-DAY

KINGS THEATRE

--- AT 5,10 and 9.80 P.M. ONLY.-

A mirthquake!

THEATRE

TEL. 25918

25992.

NEXT LOHANGE. THERE IS PLENTY TO LAUGH AT AND A WHOLE LOT TO CHARM- YOU IN LOVE ON WHEELS"

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE At 2.30 and 7.15 P.M. ONLY..

A CHINESE PICTURE:

HAU LAN KAN

LIU CHI CHUEN

IN

The THIRD STRING

The funniest odventure": of W.W.JACOBS trio of rascally sailor men,now "o mirth-provoking flim.

TWITH

SANDY POWELL

AND

KAY HAMMOND

KONT WELSHIPPE PRODUCTION

"SUGH HEROES"

WITH

TAN YING

"A UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE PICTURE,

Marjorie Rambeau's real-life ro THE THIRD STRING “TARZAN THE APE

mance; which took her out of the movies just after making a sensa- tional screen debut, has more of the elements of the dramatic in it than any play or film, in which she has ever appeared.

“OH! OH! CLEOPATRA!" Dorothy Jordan in Strictly Fer

NEXT CHANGE

9.15 & 9.30

OSSO FILMS

PRESENTS

LUCIEN MURATORE TENOR OF THE PARIS OPERA

in

'THE UNKNOWN SINGER"

A SENSATIONAL FRENCH TALKIE WITH ENGLISH TITLES.

12.80 2.80 & 7.15

A CHINESE FILM" WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT

PEAR LING

and

SUI LING SHEN

in

"BELLE OF THE SOUTH SEAS"

A UNITED PHOTOPLAY

PRODUCTION.

THUNDERSTORM FILMED

LIGHTNING PRODUCED IN

AT THE KING'S THEATRE

MAN

AT. THE ORIENTAL THEATRE

Repeats Own Name.

JACK HULBERT

In

THE AGE OF

CONSENT

CINDERELLA STORY IN

MODERN FORM

Cinderella, with her fairy god- mother beside her, has riden down Hollywood Boulevard again.

It's the oldest story, in the booki the tale of the nassuming cin derwench upon whom Dame For tune caste a smile and the Town of a princess. It's an old story and yet it is always new always thrilling.

Prince Destiny, with the golden. slipper of faire in his hand, found the foot of Dorothy Wilson parked beneath a stenographer's dunk at the Rko-Radio, studio

One week she was typing the script of "The Age of Consent," content with her #25 galaxy, happy to have a job at all in these times. The next week she was playing the lead in the story she had typed. And now she is making her debut in the photoply at the Central Theatre.

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Dorothy worked at the studio for. two years. She was of the prettiest girl on the lot. But it none of the directors over thought of suggesting screen test to Dorothy, she herself had even, Less interest in nebing. She had seen. pretty girls by the dozens eking. out a dreary axistence in the ranks of extras. Twenty five dollars a week

LOVE on locked wood enough to

WHEELS

WITH

LEONORA CORBETT GORDON HARKER.

A GAINSBOROUGH FICTURE,

“LOVE ON WHEELS"

JACK HULBERT AND GORDON HARKER

You will be able to appreciate the aleverness of this production when you me it next week,

Gainsborough Company came to an arrangement with Selfridge's to photograph and produce a num ber of scenes in this great store in Oxford Street, and for some consecutive Sundays this was done The result is that interest is ab solutely held by these authentic scenes and shots of Jack Hulbert in the role of Fred Hopkins, as

Dorothy.

And then one afternoon the Radio Pictures production head, finished reading the synopsis of." The Age of Consent, and requested the stenographic department for a com- plete script. 9

His mind was occupied with the story, his thoughts filled with the types which would best suit the roles of gay young college boys and girla

It was Dorothy who brought him. his script, and a sudden bunch caus- ed him to nak: Have you ever taken a screen test? Would you like, to:

nat?

Dorothy wasn't overthrilled. She was willing but not eager to be photographed and to have her voice recorded.

Her job as a stenographer at Rko was offered Dorothy shortly after she arrived in Hollywood from Mineapolis where she was born and educated. An employment agenty- gave the girl her choice between. calls from a studio and a wholesale paper house.

It's the story of Cinderella, all right. Or maybe the fable of the four-leaf clover just outside the front door of the man who roamed the world looking for one.

The current attraction at the

The Theatre,

Third Miss Rambeau returns to the King's screen to join Eddie Quillad and String," a screen version of one of.

For the first time in a British They gave her a script to read. “ the yarns of that famous humorist, sonal,'

of the

W. W. Jacobs, proved to be wel expose

get.

Learning to talk from the sim-film the atmosphere and action of the scarpt which she almost know acquainted club," rackety commenc

come fare indeed. Jacobs' Ginger, ing to-day at the Queen's Theatre. Sain and Peter, were true to life plest syllable was the difficult life in a huge stores has been cap by heart from having typed it sever dialogue problem mastered by tured. The film in which this hapal times. The test was taken, and and were responsible for practical Johnny Weissmuller, the world's

was signed for a term contract, and will be shown at the King's Thea Fifteen years ago, when she was ly all the mirth in the film. Kay champion swimmer, for his role in pons is Love On Wheels," whien Dorothy so impressed the boss sho winning her first success on the Hammond as Miss. Tucker, the

"Tarzan, the Ape Man," which tre on Sunday next the beautifully given the lead in the college play"

as her first part. '. stage, Miss Rambosu met Francis pretty barmaid with several strings will be showing at the Oriental produced Gainsborough film star A. Gudger, and" shortly thereafter to her how, was a distinct success. Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

ring the one and only Jack Hul- became engaged to him. The on- Those who have read Jacoba"

As an Englishman raised by apes bert gagement was broken, however, novels should make a point of see-

in the jungle as one of their own when she refused to give up her ing this picture, which has lost Weisarhulle was required to speak stage work. For years they did nothing of the wit to be found in only the most ridimentary vocal not even correspond. Then Miss the book and the somewhat un- sounds in early sequences of the Rambeau went to Hollywood to usual style of Jacobs', humour is adventure drama. When he meets make her screen debut in Min well preserved.

the heroine, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Bill."" There she met Gudger The boxing scene included in the in the jungle, she is supposed to again. Their love, quiescent story in which Ginger meets a teach him to talk.. throughout the years, was reborn. prize-fighter, both under the im Within a short time' they were mar. | pression that they "were battling, ried and Miss Rambeau renounced for the girla' love, was one of the stage and screen to go to Ashville, tit-bits of this funny film.

The only word he knows is bis

"The Age of Consent." which is M... her husband's birthplace, girl, needless to add, eloped with a own name, Tarzan," which he

based on "Crossroads," a play by where he had his summer home. third person after the "serap." repeats constantly in response sistant in the store, dancing aboux Martin Flavin' boasts a cast-com- They winter in Sebring, Fla.

The rest of the programme is to any spoken word Starting between the counters, with his posed of Eric Linden, Arline Jix- Miss Rambeau was persuaded to equally attractive, and mention with very simple one-syllable famous, grin and twinkling feet, ge. John Halliday, Aileen Pringle come out of retirement to play the must be made here of Camera words, he is taught to say me, which gain considerably in humour and Richard Cromwell.

Cocktails," where опе of the lending feminine role in "Strictly scenes, not intended to be funny, them in a halting and uncertain

"you," "we" and has to speak by the reality of the surroundings. ..

Victor Saville, the director, has Personal." She is cast as the

A Chinese coolie, aged 62, stated shows the music of various parts of tone of voice like a beginner learn made a splendid job of this film to be too old to be granted a rick- wife of Edward Ellis, of "I Am & the Empire. Hongkong is shown, ing how to talk. The feat required and proved that British producers sha driver's licence, was advised Fugitive" fame, who plays the role not as we know it, but as it exists as much study and practice as the can, when given the opportunity, by Mr. Wynne-Jones yesterday, to of an escaped convict Together in the imagination of the pro- task of learning long lines of give us as clever and witty a pro return to his native village. If he with Dorothy Jordan, their ward, ducers, Shown to a Hongkong diologue:

duction, as ever came from our stayed here he would probably they operate a "get-acquainted audience, such a film of course is A player in W. S. Van Dyke's, vals overseas club of the better sort. The ridiculous, but it is the very ridi- last

starve. Defendant was cautioned jungle drama, "Trader

Jack Hulbert is supported by a character of the enterprise changes cule of it that makes it worthy of Horn," found herself in somewhat brilliant past, including Gordon without a licence, and the Magis on a charge of pulling a ricksha radically, however, when Louis mention. No one should miss this of a similar predicament, for in Harker, who gives a fine study of trate directed the Police to get in Calhern, a "con man, recognizes fragment of cinema entertainment. this picture the heroine, Edwins a cockney bus conductor with a touch with the farmer with a view Ellis, and, under threat of ex

Booth, was not permitted to speak lively sense of Eumour, Edmund to making arrangements for the posure, forces, himself in as a part-

a word of English, having to learn Gwenn, a splendid actor, in the man's return to the country, ner. He devotes his attentions to

instead long lines of difficult Afri-role of general manager of the can tribal speech.

apparently wealthy widow, When she confesses that she is actually penniless, he kills her in a burst of rage.

The picture reaches a breathless elimax in his attempt to escape-to force Miss Jordan to flee with him, and to place the blame for the murder on Elia.

WILD GIRL" AT THE

KING'S

"SONG OF THE EAGLE

$5

The

20 YEARS OF AMERICAN

LIFE PICTURED

Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Jean Hersholt, Louise Dresser, Andy Devine and George E. Stone, play the loading roles in "Song of the Eagle," drama por Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, America during the past two de traying the march of events in Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette ades, which opens on Sunday at BDd Irving Pichel have the prin- the Queen's Thea cipal roles in Wild Girl," the

The picture, thrilling chronicle | feature attraction at the King's of war and pasce, of prohibition Theatre. Raoul Walsh directed the and speculation, of depression ana picture, based on Bret Harte's fascinating as it is useful was de- the scenes were filmed in Sequoia and the restoration of pros An array of nes apparatus as Balomy Jene's Kiss." Nearly all swings on into the future, dealing boldly with the question of monstrated at the annual inspec National Park among the famous perity. Balph Murphy directed tion of the National Physical | "big"tress", Laboratory. at Teddington, Eng

the film, produced for Paramount by Charles R. Rogers, land.

LABORATORY

A film showing a thunderstorm in representing the field of a storm progress over Central Europe was we have found that any protrud shown. Sueli a film has never heening object is liable to attract the made before"

ansh, which otherwise would go to

A new impulse generator, con- atructed by the Electrical Depart-

earth,"

The story centres around a res pectable upper middle-class brewing family, who, in 1916, the year the film opens, are enjoying a mild de- gree of prosperity. When war breaks put the following year, their two sons go overseas. Only one returns to join his father in a business that is soon blasted by

A method has been developed by ment for the study of lightning the Laboratory to determine the was demonstrated. It shattered a time required for the eyes tor prohibition. But they struggle bamboo stick with a million-volt cover their sensitivity after ex through the decade that follows, spark and the ensuing thunder-posure to glare.

maintaining dignity and respect. clap almost stunned the onlookers. These experiments are of vital in- The legalisation of beer seems to terest to all who drive cars at mark a return to the prosperity. "The apparatus is new, and a great deal of research into the ac- night, to whom the dazzle" pro and happiness they once enjoyed, tion of these highvoltages has yet hem is rapidly becoming more but they soon find themselves con- to be donin," one of the experts cute and to the pilot searching fronted by a problem that all for an airway beacon whose vision America muy face during the next said: “By means of a sheet of tin has been impaired by glances at his few months. The picture's aqlu-

(Continued von next column). illuminated instrument board, Lion is a daring out.

"Tarzan, the Ape Man" is a picturization of the widely-read Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Pro minent roles are played by Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Forrester Harvey and Ivory

Williams.

4 SHOWS

stores, and we have a new British 6lm find in the charming Miss Leonora Corbett, who dances and sings delightfully.

Altogether, "Love on Wheels" is a British film to be proud of and you can be sure of really enjoy ing it.

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY HAB”

ORIENTALE

TODAY ONLY

MARIFS BEST - PICTURE Rich in laughs,

in fears in thrills I

The

iakos

You -- HAPPY?

Move

DRESSLER

Emma

RICHARD CROMWELL JEAN, HERSHOLT. MYRNALOY

“WANGMA

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I'm for SALET

I'm lonely girl and I want

love I want to satisfy the

pent-up desire of my heart.

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

STRICTLY

PERSONAL

MARJORIE RAMBEAU

* EDDIE QUILLAN · DOROTHY JORDAN

**Direted by RALPH MÜRRET

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THE STORY OF YOUR GENERATION

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