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CENTRAL

TAKE QUEEN's RD., WESTBOUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tol. 25730.

TO-DAY TO THURSDAY At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

THE BIG PICTURE THAT GRACED THE OPENING OF THE NEW ROXY THEA- TRE, NEW YORK.

ANN HARDING

Two women for every! tra... One': to cherish. One to love.

Leslie HOWARD

The cage star of PHILIP BARRY'S sensacional play together with a superb cast

of stare in

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

King's,

**Rain."

Queen's.

"Reunion in Višana.!!

Central.

The Animal Kingdom."

Oriental.

"Secrets of the French Police"

World.

Love Waltz."

KOWLOON

Star.

Majestic.

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Sons les Toits de Paris."

"Unfaithful."

King's.

COMING

Queen Kelly."

Down to Earth."

Warrior's Husband."

Queen's.

"Cruiser Emden.” "Smiling, Through,"

Central.

Blar.

The Speckled Band." "A Woman Commands.

Dynamite (Sound on Disc). Downstairs."!

World..

Skyscraper Souls."

Oriental

only human, after all.

Kingscup.

The ANIMAL KINGDOM

W MYRNA LOT WILLIAM GARGAN Neil Hamilton Henry Stephanica Chree

Screen play by Horses Jackion. Directed by Edward H. Oriflick -RXO.RADIO Plenere David O. Selznick, executive producer.

FRIDAY

A BRITISH THRIL- LER THAT GRIPS YOU FROM START TO FINISH.

LYN HARDING AS DR RYLOTT ** THE SPECKLED BAND

CONAN DOYLES GREAT SHERIDON HOLMES PRISTERA

BRITISH AND DOCVARONS PICTURE ·

SEARCH FOR LEADING

LADY ENDS

BINNIE BARNES CHOSEN

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REUNION IN VIENNA"

AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE

A really excellent programme is being offered by the Queen's Thea tre to its patrons, and as "Reunion In Vienas is one of the best pic tures shown in the local screen for many a long while, we cannot but recommend it to all im fans, in-

clading the section who are so hard

to please!

low,

HONG KONG DAILY. PRESS, TUESDAY AUGUST 8,1933

LAST

O-DAYS

AT (2.80, 5.10, 7:1 § 9.30 P.M.

HONGKONG'S FINEST LADJA

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE-

A STORM OF EMOTIONI

JOAN) The Bigk nlæg star of stars? At the pouk of her. server in the meat talked-aḥ picture of the yaari JOANIAL THE SCARLET WOMAN OF THE SOUTH SEAS!

JOSEPH M. SCHENCK Presents

JOAN

CRAWFORD

UNITED ARTISTS

· PICTURE

(Courtesy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).

RAIN

-with WALTER HUSTON

A LEWIS MILESTONE Production

ALSO ADDED ATTRACTION

MICKEY MOUSE-

·Presents KLONDIKE KID

AND

BOOKING AT TAR

THEATRE

TUL. 25313 & 25332.

-NEXT CHANGE Commencing Thursday, 10th August

GLORIA

SWANSON

IN

QUEEN KELLY

UNITED ARTISTS

BABES IN THE WOODS A Silly Symphony in Technicolour”. HIGH COST OF BRITISH PICTURES £75,000

„MICKEY MASCHE

:65

THE

WARRIOR'S HUSBAND

**

HILARIOUS COMEDY. DUE NEARLY HALF THE YEAR'S

BUDGET SPENT

AT KING'S

"The Warrior's Husband," which is due at the King's Theatre short ly, is a picture that should not be missed by those who like comedy it is a roaring farce from begin uing to end.

Originally a successful Broadway play it was adapted for the screen

Ralph Spence and Sony Levien

by

The story is staged in the period of Ancient Greece and takes place in the land of the Amazons, where women ruled and men's place was in the home.

The power of the women lies in the Girdle of Diana sad the plot centres round the attempt of the Greeks to dispossess the Queen of the Amazons of this charm.

The British film industry has reached half-way house. For the past six mouths there has been a boom in talkie production at home, following the suferise success of incidental home-made flus 1939

in

Since January every studio of the major British companies has been working day and night to finish its product.

PICTURE

Bitter Sweet starring Anna Neagle and Ferdinand Graavey), The Private Life of Heary VIII (Charles Laughton), £75,000.

I Was A Spy (Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, and Conrad

Veide), £70,000.

Sleeping Car (Madeleine Car- roll and Ivor Novello), £60,000.

That's a Good Girl (Jack Buchanan), £50,000.

Never Come Back (Tom Walls), £50,000.

PROBLEM OF BRITISH FILMS

TOO MUCH BROAD FARCE

London:-The two principki changes of the week, "Orders is Orders" at the Tivoli and "The Eagle and the Hawk" at the Plan, provide an excellent example of the emential difference between current English and American pio tures. No one could deny that "Orders is Orders" is good enter- Tainment, of its kind, and will probably be very popular in the country, but who will say that it: is a high quality: film? In "The Eagle and the Hawk" Paramount have made not only a real film, but" they have also successfully shown a problem of psychology on

the" soreen.

It is this essential difference of point of view which makes one wonder about the fafüre of Bri tish films. They have improved. technically until they are the equal of all the world. But when are we going to see true British films, rather than entertainment films, made in England, with Eng- lish stories and the English char acteristics portrayed, and not just "screen-com-theatre entertainment with little or no relation to the wmaterial of the screen, real

life!

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There is one clear example of

films. difference in "these two "Orders is Orders" is an adap-.. tion of Ian Hay's and Anthony Armstrong's successful. Shaftesbury play of the Army, In it, Cyril Maude gives an outstanding per- formance of a completely ""stages Colonel. He has to play as the Americans used to portray British": Army officers.

In The Eagle and the Havk there is also a British officer, job is to send aviators” and their observers to certain death very oftens He has to keep his squadron up to a high level in morale and” ability. Paramount have gone out of their way to cast this part with the greatest care. The realis that Sir Guy Standing (Is his title

necessary on the programme 1) creates a real type of the true British Army officer as the fighting men knew him in the War. - Originality Wanted. Ne

It may be asid, that "Orders Orders" is sheer farce, that it makes no pretence to be anything else than mere entertainment. But are not all our films, like that. velopment whereby original süb nowadays? Can we show any de jects are treated-except those which have to deal with Contin- ental sleeping-cars or Vienna }

Can we say that we have really. made a rexl British Alm yet. (he- yond The Good Companions which is certainly as English as every United States Alm ja au- thentically American f

PENINSULA HOTEL

CONCERT

LAST SATURDAY'S SUCCESS

Cost: £30,000 Each. ✨ Such films es Falling for Tou (Jack Hubert), Waltz Time (Evelyn Layo), It's a Boy (Leslie Henson), Channel Crossing (Mathe Now comes a critical pause, -0.

son Lang), The Ghoul (Boris Kar Quite apart from the main attrac

In January & total expenditure loff), Britannia of Billingsgale tion, the programme includes a

of more than £3,500,000 was au- (Violet Loraine), and Orders is very interesting news reel, and

nounced for 1933. Super-filmas to Orders (James Gleason), have all "Puppy Love," one of the funny

out-do Hollywood's most amb coat well over £30,000 apiece to cartoons, sends the audience into

tious efforts were planned, follow-produce roars of laughter and put them in

ing the United States decision, on! These gutes compare siarming- Enjoyable entertainment a good humour for what is to fol-

account of the depression, to re- ly with the average Hollywood again afforded at the Peninsu duce annual costs from £90,000,0do budget per picture at present, To Hotel se last Sunday's Sympho The producer of the featured

to £10,000,000,000,

day production is almost at a Concert provided by the picture was happy in his choice of

standstill the companies are adopt band of the Hong Kong & Eha with How the Box-Office. the cast, for with the leading roles

One hilarious incident leads to

Nearly half the money allocated ing a policy of wait and see. "hai Hotels, Ltd., under the in the capable hands of John Barry another and the story comes to a for production by the British If the British film push of 1833 doctorship of Mr. A. Gellam, at more and Diana Wynyard, one can climax with the defeat of the companies this year has already fails it will be partly owing to large and appreciative gathering not but feel assured of excellent Amazons after Hercules had cap been spent. The vast new one "factor the acarcity of leading being present? entertainment. But it doen nöttured the Girdle for the Greeks.

Caumont British organisation women. stop there for the supporting case The picture was meant to be

Hollywood exactly the op- which announced a million-pound, are quite above the usual standard farcical and for that reason such schedule in the New Year, has posite obtains. Really important while the musical scores are wel terms as "Scram Lay: Of," already expended Inore

than women stars are "resting" because rendered by two "gypsies."" etc., are intermingled with digni£400,000 on aleven fims. Its plan of the evergrowing problem of

The same programme is belag fied and classical expressions. ned total for the year is thirty finding leading men. offered to-day and to-morrow, and

films. "those who have not seen it yet will do well to go to the Queen's and spend a couple of delightfully cool hours, watching delightful picture.

FILM OF ROYAL NAVY

AERIAL AND SEA MANOEUVRES.

Special Air-Mail Service)

LONDON, July 16. The Admiralty has granted per mission for the making of a full- length "flm, Featuring the Royas Navy. This permission, under Admiralty censorship, carries with it the co-operation of the Atlantic

LONDON, July "18 Mr. Harry Coho's search for leading lady to play opposite Leslie Howard in the Columbia Picture Corporation's first big British film, The Lady is Willing," is ended. He has chosen Binnie Fleet,

Barnes...

The picture will be made by the She has played in many popular Sound City Film Company, Shep- British International films and a number of stage shows, including the 20th. The provisional title fa perton; shooting will begin about "Cavalcade." (In Cavalcade" she White Ensign, and the direc was the girl who song "Twentieth tor Lt. Cmdr. J. L. F. Hunt. Ceptury Blues.") Production of The Lady a Willing" is to begin at Elstree on Wednesday.

ON THE DOLE

Elissa Landi as the sister of the Amazon Queen scores a big hit and shares the honours of the love in terest of the story with David Man ners, who is also very good. Mar jorie Rambeau plays the dominat ing, iron-willed Queen, white En est Truex, as the goy and shy hus- band who Anally comes into his own as head of his home keeps one laughing all the time.

Some fine scenes of classical buildings, of chariot races and the whole atmosphere of the period are shown, but it is as, a comedy that. the picture, acores-it cannot for a moment be taken seriously.

ERNEST TORRENCE LEAVES: £2,000

SMALL ESTATE OF “BIG

MONEY" FILM STAR”“

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Cmdr. Hunt, who has served

LONDON, July 18. with the Fleet all over the world, Ernest Torrence, the Edinburgh recently directed "Karma," the actor who became one of Helly first all-Indian talkie, and was wood's favourite "bad men," has also associated with the successful left. only £2,000.

A

British submarine film, Men Torrence died in New York on Like These." He is now on the May 15 on his way for a holiday staff of Sound City,

in Britain, and his will has just

Constance

Quest for Time, Now it is the turn of the box- office to speak. Will these e Many of them have been seeking talkies meet with the same public additional fame recently in Eng approval as some of the big British land. Ann. Dvorak, successes (such as "Jack's the Cummings, Sally Eilers. Thelma Boy" and "Rome Express" did Todd, and Bebe Daniels have visit last year?

ed London this spring. Loresta Young Una Merkel, and Folly Moran are on their way. As

These are this year's big British films, and their cost.

-4 SHOWS

DAILY

00-13/5

7.15-0.30

TANK ANY TRIM OR HAPPY VALLEY BARƏ

ORIENTALE

TO-DAY ONLY

YOU'LL LIKE THIS FAST ACTION STORY.

ROMANOFE PRINCESS FOR DUPE OF A MASTER MINDT

Jackie Cooper the famous boy About £10,000, will be spent on heen filed, says a Rauter mesinge EBITS OF THE

film star, has had his salary reduc

ed to a mere 8200 per week.

It pains me very much to know About Depression's latest blow Jackie Cooper, poot Wee soul,, Will Have to go upon the dole i How can he feed his face unique On a couple of hundred quid a week t

The thing's absurd! It can't be Being a fim star's not much fun!

done

"White, Ensigo," Casting is now from Los Angeles. He bequeathed in progress. Actors and actresses all his property to his widow, are not, of course, allowed on his Elise Reamer Torrence.

To the public Torrence is gre Majesty's ships, and therefore a great many ship interiors and ex fully remembered for his tough old- feriors will be reconstructed at the timer role in The Covered studios. Aerial as well as sea Wagon." He had played in other mancurres. will take place, and films, such as Tol'able David" and the producers hope that White "Peter Pan (in which he wo Ensign will be: Britain's answer Captain Hook),

to such American films as "Hell He was a big money” mann. Yet ·

he leaves only £2,000. Below" and "Hell Divery."

FRENCH POLICE

Barillon

Thrilling drong based on an vacial adventure of the great

Berillon, as "revealed by H. 2Ainen Wolle de Amarron-

GWILI ANDRE

·Gregory, Katoff” UTFAK Purjun, Daved O' Selznick PICTURE iscvlivé producer/-257-

TOMORROW & THURSDAY

THRILLING BRITISH AIR DRAMA.

DOROTHY BOUCHIE

Several old favourites figured id an attractive programme of well. selected compositions and, on the whole, every number was most heartily received:

These concerts at the Peninsula Hotel have proved to be decidedly". attractive features on Bunday nights and another is in course of preparation for next Sunday-

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THEATRES at Nachan Road, Kowloon. Tel 57292 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7:20 a 9:20 fm.

Unfaithful

AUBENC

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SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.:

Another Stage Play Immortalized

on the screen !

Direct to you now from its tremendous

stage success!

The gayest and most daring of all romances

JOHNS

BARRYMORI

REUNION in VIENNA

Diana

WYNYARI

A SIDNEY FRANKLI

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