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CENTRAL

THEATRI

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND STA

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 25720.

10-DAY & TO-MORROW

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933.

FINAL SHOWING

TO-DAY Ar

2.30, 5.10, 7.15

Klog's,

Warrior's Husband,”

& 9.30 P.M.

Queen's.

་་

Smitin Through."

Qentral,

Out, all Night."

At 5.15 and 9.30 SHOWS

Oriental.

ONLY

star.

Tell me To-night."

KOWLOON

Strange Interlude.'

Majestic.

"Penalty, of Fame."

BEFORE..

COMING

SLIM

SUMMERVILLE

King's.

and

Down to Earth."

ZASU PITTS

Queen's.

IN

To-day We Live."

Central.

OUT ALL NIGHT

-the picture in which the screen's famous "lovebirds"AytoNing- ara Falls-AND HOW!

AFTER

AÏUNIVERSAL-PIC

duced

Ditsated by

sented by Cari' Las

NEXT CHANGE

THE GLORY THAT IS

NEGRI

flames on!

Radiance of Her Beauty... Sweep of .... Her Émotion..... Fire of Her Artistry..........

At Lost Fulfilled on the Talking Screen IHE NEW

Pola

NEGRI

OF FIRE AND BEAUTY... IN

A WOMAN COMMANDS

BASIL RATHBONE... ROLAND YOUNG...H. B. WARNER Directed by PAUL & STEIN "CHARLES R. ROGERS

RKO RADIO PICTURE

"DOWN TO EARTH”

WITH WILL ROGERS AND

IRENE RICH

World.

A Wiman Commands."

Skyscraper Souls." Unashamed."

SJONCKUNG'S FINEST. CHEM.

THE AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

| WHERE WOMEN WOO AND MEN

ARE WILLING

An uproarious comedy romance in the land where women are the traveling salesinen and men are the farmer's daughters.

From the play by Julian Fhampeon Adopistian cad dialogue by Ralph Spence Directed by Walter Long

A Fox Picture

Produced by

Jesse L. Lasky.

THE

"Marry me. and make an honest man of me."

WARRIOR'S HUSBAND

with

"Washington Masquerade."

ELISSA LANDI

Oriental.

Star.

Annabelle's Affairs."

"In a Monstery Garden." "Humanity."

Girl in the Moon"

WARRIOR'S

HUSBAND"

HOW ELISSA LANDI'S LEADING. MAN BECAME

AN ACTOR

come

Ernest Truex

Marjorie Rambeau · David Manners

-Also Added Attraction- ‘HÖLLYWOOD ACCLAIMS CAVALCADE”.

You'll see all the popular stars visiting the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at the Grand Opening of the best picture of 1933 "CAVALCADE". "They will speak to you through the microphone.

NORMA SHEARER

AND ALL-STAR CAST IN

..

* SMILIN' THROUGH

Norma

Shearer in

"Smilin'. Métro-

Chance played a large part in David Manners' life, and several times when he seemed destined for Through," directed for

future absolutely foreign to Goldwyn-Mayer by Sidney Frank thestr.cals, there has anlin, with a supporting east headed abrupt turning in the road. by Frederic Marca, Leslie Howard, His first school years were spent O. P. Heggie and Ralph Forbes, is in Caards and then his education scoring a distinct success at the In this lavish was continued in New York City, Queen's Theatre. to which his parents moved when production Nonas Shearer for he was seven years old. He had the first time in her career plays an absorbing interest in forestry a dual role. and tock that course at the Uni-

In this she duplicates the feat versity of Toronto until his interest of Jane Cowl, who starred in the switched to theatricals. "Hebe original New York stage produc. came identified with a little theatretien. Miss Shearer portrays both had his father cut off his allow

ance.

Undaunted, Manners got a typing job but continued his interest in theatricals. His stage work even. tually led to Broadway, and he appeared in

"Dancing Mathera," which starred Heien Hayes, and also inHe Who Gets Slapped"

He was unable to get a role for a long period, and he applied for a job with the Durlacher Art Gallery of New York and London. He kept this job for three years. Then he came down with a severe cold and a doctor prescribed a con plete change of climate. He weat to Arizona and became a cowboy

on a dull ranch, but his castern accent gave him away and he was

fired.

He returned to New York to hent

the tragic Moonyeen in the hoop skirted Victorian sequences and Kathleen Sheridan in the modern scenes around which the happier "romance of the tale centres.

Second Unusual Venture.

WILL FAULKNER

MAN WHO WAS SCARED

BY HOLLYWOOD .

BOOKING

AT THE

THEATRE

TEL. 25313

& 25392.

TO-MORROW

ARE YOUR LAUGHING 1 PANIC ROGERS IS A

IN SILK PANTS IT'S HIS FUNNIEST PİCTUREM

America's Jester

He was dressed like a king and he felt like an idiot.

Fullof side-splitting laughter

WILLAB

ROGERS

DOWN

TO

EARTH

Vie Dorothy JORDAN3

"Irene RICH ·

Matty Kemp

Story by Homer Croy Author of "They Had To Sew Parte" Screen play and dialog by Edwin Burke Directed by DAVID BUTLER

FOX Picture

--

scaring me at first, impressed itself

immensity of the proposition, from

upon my imagination.

Out of all this came To day We Live." Some one told me once that there was nothing new in war- stories. I didn't believe it. I have read plenty of war stories em- phasizing borror. But I had con- The man who shocked the literary sidered a new angle. There was no world into recogning him has stronger force in the war than that rn galvanized the aim of the of the women behind the linca, wor talkie with his first venture into rying praying for their men risk. that medium. This man is William ing their lives in a hail of hostile Faulkner, author of To-day We shot and shell. That is the feeling Live in which, Joan Crawford and I tried to get into "To-day We Gary Cooper make their first co- Live." starring appearance starting on Friday at the Queen's Theatre.

Faulkner, whose striking novels,

Light in August" and "Sane tuary, placed him as the greatest American literary discovery of the past decades, has made two trips Hollywood About his first to hangs a story: When Faulkner first came west to write a story for the talkies, be stayed two days and thee was missed, turning up finally at his home in Oxford, Miss.

Never Uses Typewriter. Faulkner as a writer is as un-

usual as his writings. Unlike most authors he never uses a typewriter. aud

GLIMPSES OF GREAT PEOPLE

ELLEN TERRY

DY JULIAN B. ARNOLD --

Like many another famous ae- tres, Ellen Terry began her drama- tlo career at an early age. She was sight years old when, in 1866, sho acted the part of the boy Mamillius

The Winter's Tale," at the Princess's Theatre, London, and two years later she appeared aa" Prines Arthur in King John." With touring stock companies sho Billed many roles, making her first notable hit as Olivia tav Wills's ver- sips of The Vicar of Wakefield," at the Court Theatre, London. Her impersonation of that charac- ter so delighted Sir Henry Irving that he engaged her as the leading lady under his management of the Lyceum Theatre, thus commencing a long and artistic partnership, to the-fame and success of which her own attractive personality add- ed no small part,

With Irving.

It was in 1879 that Ellen Terry became associated with Irving's dramatic productions. Her resid. ence in London being" near to that of my father we saw her frequently, My younger brothers went to school with her two children, Gordon and Edith Craig and a close friend ship formed between the great ac- tress and my sister, Mrs. Lily Graham. That intimacy finds such charming expression in a letter written to me by my sister soon af- ́ter the passing of her friend, Dame. Ellen Terry, that 1. venture to quote some of its paragraphs:

"Do you remember the day when we met Ellen Terry searching for a gold thimble in Cromwell Road, and how she set us youngsters to find it, promising the biggest box of chocolates in London to the suc cessful one. The gold thimble was never found, though we searched. for a week-but we got the choco lates!

The Ring

She used to give us the stage. box at the. Lyceum so that, when acting her roles, she could run

across the stage to us and whisper meranges. Once when she was act ing Fortis in The Merchant of, Venice, and had come to the clos ing scone where her ring had to be produced by Bassania, and was not forth coming, the hurried in her apwing-run down the stage to us pretty band, said in a whisper dan young folk and holding out her gerously audible to the rest of the audience, Look, children, here's the ring. It was on my finger all the time! And with a soft laugh, und the guilts finger pressed against her lips, she fled back to her

it place among the actors:

nerer dictates. He writes

An Old Hand Bag. She had a habit of carrying a every line of his stories in painful long-hand, a handwriting which is capacious and most disreputable old perhaps the smallest on record. hand-bag into which she would stuff One page of it is equal to six type theatrical programades, librettos, written pages. At home, Faulkner letters, handkerchiefs, a mirror, a lives in an old, white-painted frame bottle of perfume, pencils etc., house some miles from the imali | When the bag bulged too dangerous- town of Oxford (U.S.A), They she would ask us to help her reef house, built before the Civil War, it with coils of twine.

Explains Why He Left. When interviewed recently at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, is large and comfortable, although during the filming of To-day We sanitary conveniences exist only in Live the noted writer explained the backyard, oil lamps furnish which the reason

for his unexpected light, and only recently telephone service was put in. But Faulkner

It is Miss Shearer's second ven- ture into the unusual in drama Her previous departure was in

Strange Interlude," in

she had the singular experience of "French leave.” - both speaking and hearing her! "I was scared by the bigness of and his wife like the quiet sim silent thoughts expressed audibly. this whole motion picture proposi-plicity which goes with life in this

Faulkner. In the speaking screen version tio," said

"Smilin' Through," Miss taken around and shown miles of Shearer has an advantage

of

which

I was

Jane Cowl was not permitted in stages and hundreds of thousands

manner.

the stage production. First as the of dollars worth of equipment. I young brother, intended bride and then

8.4

the.

dressed in their suddenly got the idea that it was Eton suits with big white collars, ward of Sir John Carteret, the all too big for me, and off I went and taking their faces in turn be However, no sooner got home tween her heads, give to each boy. role which Leslie Howard plays, a job and, through friends was promised one on a Hawaiian sugar Miss Shearer is able to return in than. I sat down and quietly a kiss. Always she had to have plantation En route to the new

fantasy to the mind of her brood thought over the whole thing. The something to love and to expend her position, he stopped off in Hollying lover-in which moments of more I thought of is the more the love upon. wood and was introduced to James reverie she appears twice in a Whale, who was preparing to direct single scene.

"Journey's End" for the screen. Thus, although the story covere

elape of time a fifty years Manners got a leading part.

Now be ia lending. man for Elissa during which Leslie Howard grows Land, who is co-starred with Ernest from youth to white haired old Truex in "The Warrior's Husage, Miss Shearer remains youth- band, Jesse L Lasky production ful throughout. It is, the star for Fox Film now at the King's concedes, her severeat dramatic Theatre.

test to date, not excepting har dificult role in "Strange Inter Tude"

of them why, I naver understood, since I was practically unknown it the-tifae.

Also Play Dual Roles.

Frederic March and Leslie Ho- ward, as heads of her dramatic “Those roles, though, established cast, also have unusual trials in me nicely, and thereafter I bað no

characterization. March, like Miss trouble getting ussignments. But Shearer, has two roles in the quite aide from the distinction of story In the beginning he is playing opposite Mr. Rogers, it is Jeramy Wayne, rival of Leslie a marvelous experience to be Ass Howard for the hand of Moonyéen ciated with him and get his ideal Later he portrays the son of Jore- on things at first band. I don't my Wayne, returning to England believe that anyone who has bean at the time, the country is pre- with him can ever forget it.paring to enter the World War.

"Down To Earth," which comes

"Most of the success I've bad in picture, I owe to Will Rogers."

Irene tich thus expressed her indebtedness during the making of Rogers' · latest offering, "Down To to the King's Theatre on Wednes Earth."

day is Rogers eighth talking pic "Most people think I started beture, and continues, the hectic od ing his Wife in his first talkies, vanturee of the Peters family which "The Had To See Paris" and began in "They Hnd Ta Bee "So This Is London, Miss Rich Paris

Besides Mias Rich, the east in explained. The act is however, aludes Dorothy Jordan and Matty that will gave me my first real Kemm in the juvenile leads. Mary chance thirteen years ago, at 4: Carille, Theodore Lodi, Brandon time when I w

Of the three principals Leslic Howard alone retains a single identity. But his role is no less intricate, for it requires a trann tion covering three distinct ages.

An director of Min Shearer's production of Smilin' Through,” Bidney Franklin is, repeating the service he performed in Norma Talmadge'silent production,

The present castris,

was just beginning to Hurst and Clarence Wilson David the finest to reach the get a foothold in Hollywood Ho Butler directed for Fox Filme addition to those had been signed to make a series of with Edwin Burke. writing the it includes pictures for Paramount, and select screen play and dialogue from the Torrenc rd me as his leading woman in seven

Homer Croy story

& SHOWS

DAILY

4.30-5:5

7.15-8.35

· TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUN

ORIENTAL

TO-DAY ONLY

THE SCREEN'S BEST MUSICAL COMEDY

PRODUCTION:

Jan hiepura

CHAR

DEBONAIREM

TELL ME TO NIGHT

VLAMINCI

ROAD

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2 DAY'S ONLY TO-MORROW THURSDAY

A GREAT COMEDY PLAYED BY

A GREAT CAST.

'ANNABELLE'S

AFFAIRS

ONALD.

She was composite of contrasta.

Her merriment was as lovely, and full of promise as April's sunshine.

It. changed to pathos and tears as suddenly as the coming of an April shower. I have seen her, as Olivia is the tragic ending of The Vicar of Wakefield," rush from the stage, with real tears filling her eyes, înto the wings where sat her son and our (Continued on Previous Column)

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THEATRE:

Nathan Hoad, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 6.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.

MULENS

LAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. ROMANCE that will TOUCH your HEART!

NORMA

Tenderness and tears in Norma Shearerë. romantic triomph't":-

Glorious romance. that will touch your heart!

4

SHEARER

PREDRIC

MARCH

LESLIE

HOWARD

Smilin'

Through

Directed by SIDNEY FRANKLIN,

-NEXT CHANGE Your own beating heart... your own quivering lips... your own. cheers and tears will tell you best! that here truly is a great picture." THE STARS YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE TO- GETHER!

RAWFOR

COOPER

TODAY WE LIVE

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20pm

PENALTY OF

FAME"

LEW AYRES

MAUREEN O'SULLIV

IKLIER

GABLE

STRANG

INTERLUD

NEW

STEP IN

TALKING

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