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CENTRAL

HEATRE

TAED QUEEN'S ED, WESTBOUND ars

Advance Booking at Andersons

and the Theatre Tel. 25720,

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 5.15 and 9,30 SHOWS ONLY

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"Down to Earth,"

King's

Queen's.

Central.

"Smilin Through." Ous all Night."

Oriental.

"Annabelle's Affairs."

Star.

KOWLOON

"In a Monastery Garden."

Majestic.

Penalty of Fame."

THEATRE CALENDAR

BEFORE

SLIM

16-17

18-10

20-02

$2

SUMMERVILLE

and

ZASU PITTS

IN

OUT ALL NIGHT

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

AFTER

A UNIVERSAL FICTUREK

"duced by Carl Läni

Directed by Sam Tay

sented by Carl Laemmle.

TO-MORROW

THE GLORY THAT IS

NEGRI flames on!

Radiance of Her Beauty... Sweep of Her Emotion Fire of Her Artistry..... At Lost Fulfilled on the Talking Screen"

THE NEW

Pola

NEGRI

WOMAN

OF FIRE AND BEAUTY... IN

A WOMAN COMMANDS

BASIL, RATHBONE... ROLAND YOUNG WITH B. WARNER Directed by PAUL L STEIN. CHARLES R. ROGERS

771desi

IKO RADIO PICTURE'

King's Theatre, "Down To Earth."

Smoke Lightening." "Pleasure Craise." ** Baroud,"

Queen's Theatre.

13-17 Smiling Through."

To-day Wo Live."

18-23

13-16

Central Theatre. "Out All Night.

17-19 20.

The Jungle Killer."

Woman Commands.

“TO-NIGHT IS

OURS

TO BE SHOWN AT QUEEN'S

This is to be shown at the Queen's Theatre and from all ag counts promises to be a picture of outstanding merit. The past is ac "excellent one as you all know, but in case some of our readers are not quite sure we will give it you again :-

Claudette Colbert...Frederic March. Alison Skipworth...Paul Calanangl. Arthur Byron.thel Griffies. Clay Clement....Warburton Gamble, and Edwin Maxwell. It seems fit. ting that we tell you something. about the author who has done so much for the theatre and screen, sa "shall give you a short biography of

his life.

Something About Noel Coward.

He has bera called the wonder man, and rightfully so.. He writes, hets, dances, sings, and although only 33 years of age has amazed the world. Mr. Arnold Bennett, British man of letters has said that there are men who pan dance and others who can write and others who specialize in certain lines, but there is only one man who can do them all, and that man is Noel Coward. He is far less-known to the movie public than he should be. A few may remember him for Private Lives" the play. of h ́s writing which Norman Shearer and Robert Montgomery noted on the screen. Two' more of his are cnm- ing out" Cavalcade” and “To- night Is Ours." He is called the wonder boy of the stage. There isn't a thing connected with the stage that he cannot do, and does it well: He has produced and by has directed, and with all that to is credit, he is only 23 years old. Mr. Coward was horn in London (England) of a good but not dis- tinguished family. He was educat- ed privately quiet, but steadily he passed his teens in writing and lehrning how to act. At 22 he crashed through to double success as a playwright and actor. Fix play I'll Leave It To You" was produced in London, with the leading role portrayed by none other than the young huthor him, solf. This is his third movie play but we feel confident that he will in a short time be equally as well- known to movie fans as well as the theatre audiences. Hollywood is, trying to persuade him to het in one of his playa.

CAVALCADE STORY 5

4

An Old Woman at 56.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933.

TO-DAY

TO:MORROW

2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

KINGS THEATRE

HONGKONG

THE "AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

Back to Ham and Eggs

His ritzy family pre ferred caviar and cocktails... but he brought them down' to earth.

WILL

ROGERS

In

DOWN

TO

EARTH

with

Dorothy

JORDAN Irene RICH

Story By Homer Crog

Screen play by Edwin Burks

Directed by David Butler

CURE

George O'Brien, daredevil Fox ster in a thrilling scene from "Smoke Lightning", adapted from a story by Zane Grey. 2PA

ITS A FACT

Cura Bow's come back picture.

Call. Her Savage " Broke all re--|

"SMOKE LIGHT-

NING

cords at the Roxy Theatre in New! COMING TO THE KING'S

Is in Wynyard, the lovely York. Evidently the "It girl"

English girl who scored terrific still bas "It." **

Her part in the Noel Coward

T

ま

of

success as Janet Marryót in the Fox The fight scene between Clara "Smuke Lighting from the story Film Cavaloade to be seen in

Bow and Thelma Todd in "Call"Canon Wallq" by Zane Grey, "is fim after film at the "Woman Who Her Savage is more realistic than an up to date tale of the cattle

Grows Old

any one might suppose.

country. It is said to be one of the most exciting. George any per as I did that of Jane story demand that she start at Wheeler fame has gold mine Betsy Kiny Ross are the cast Bert Wheeler of Woolsey and O'Brien's career. Nell O'Day and Marryot in "Cavaleade," but the age of 32 and end as old which assures him $100.00 a day and Miss O'Day furnishes the want Hollywood to play me in parts lady of 64. Her skill combined for the rest of his life. other than those of mellowing with that of Hollywood's expert motherhood, because after all I am

The village gossips are beginning nance to this western thriller, still a very young woman she says. make-up men fecsulted in one of the to say that Katharine Hepburn Little Betsy Roes is not quite ten most brilliant convincing ageing will give Lilyan Tashman & Closs years old, yet is claimed to be one Miss Wynyard was born near roles ever played on the screen."

ace for the title of best dressed of the country's crack riders he Her success may carry its own woman in Hollywood, Katharios trophies to prove this statement. Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and was

ellaction of cups and educated, in a London convent peculiar peraltics for Miss Wyn has her own ideas in styles, and This picture has its incale" in one school. She lived in London until yard in anxious, that she shall not even in a sweater and smock she'd last June and still has a flat-alt always have to play the same kind make the average, well dressed of the most picturesque and rug- Furnished and empty-in. Chelsea, of riles she wants to show the

ged pots in the U.S. western coun try: Its intensely exciting.. London. She is a bachelor girl, world that is just an actress Buddy Rogers, and Dick Powell Frank Atkinsan a British come And says her career means more to in any big port, and that she is are rivals for the attentions and dian of cote offers splendid sup- her at the moment' than any one only 90 ** Imryer enjoyed playing evenings, of Mary Brian who report. This is to be shown at the many

( 1 )cently startled Hollywood with an King's Theatre commencing Fri-

r,"

THE PICTURE that CAPTURED THE HEART of the WORLD /

norma SHEARER milen Through

woman jealous.

extremely unusual evening gown.

Kay Francia insists that if even- ing dressed for ladies become any, tighter, the old fashioned sport of sitting down will soon be a lost arty

The highest paid director, ia Sweden geta 3,000 crowns per film. This means $300.00, which isn't much when you consider that the picture may take months to make.

Ja E. Brown, who never touches

has

day.

tobacco, gets deathly sick when he has to smoke in a picture,

Karen Norley is a graduate of the University of California,

Ramon Navarro who is appearing at the Palladium, this week paid à visit to the Shepherd's Bush Studios on Thursday,

BOOKING AT TAN

**THEATRE TEL. 25313

& 25932.

NEXT CHANGE

THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN · THE WESTERN SKY:

GEORGE O'BRIEN

IN

ZANE GREY'S

Juten Laaky

NEW PICTURE EDITING SYSTEM

INTRODUCED BY LASKY,

Hollywood. Instead of editing pictures to match dialogue and Bound effects, as is now the _proc- tice, Producer Jésse L Lasky

"SMOKE LIGHTNING" henceforth will encourage the silent,

WITH

NELL O'DAY BETSY KING ROSS FRANK ATKINSON

A FOX PICTURE.

cutting of films,

Ty this system he hopes to make the pictorial action in his pictures self-explanatory and less reliant upon dialogue.

Under this new method, which is to be started with The Worst Woman in Paris?" the film will be edited silently, which the sound track muted. An understandable story sequence will be the goal of the cutters. When this is attained the sound complementing the action w be added.

The result" Lasky said, "will be a story that can be understood without explanatory dialogue. There will be less straining of the cars.to enteh voices and more entertain ment, since the story 'will stand on its own merits.

"I am influenced in doing this by the report that 12 out of every 100 persons attending picture shows are hard of hearing. An- other deciding factor was the desire to get back to the technique of silent films where clarity of story is essential for best audience "ap- preciation"

JOAN CRAWFORD They kept at this high-strung, ner

ON THE 1933 GIRLreak right up through prospenty

MOST VITAL IN ALL HISTORY

The girl of 1933 is the most vital" girl in feminine h.story, according to the Joan Crawford, perenially popular film star who makes her latest screen appearance

at the Queen's Theatre from Friday in To-day We Live, in which she is co-starred with Gary Cooper. The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production is based on a story by William Faulkner, celebrated author of Light in August" and **Sanctuary.".

.·

"Today's girl is an interesting

· combination. """of several strong forces which shook the world in recent years," stated Miss Craw. ford in a recent interview. "These are: first, the war; second, the period of devil-may-care directly following the war, third, the era of reckless, spendthrift prosperity previous to 1929; and fourth, the current period of the, depression.

In väluating all of these I think the cornerstone lies with thei years of the World War. Today, girls are for the first time resping the results of the independence which women had during the war. At that time they were given res- ponsibilities of considerable im portance. Certainly the job.of war nurse was no sinecure, nor the part of girls who waited with tears in their eyes for the return of lovers from dangerous errands as. I do

To-day We Live.".

in

"The result was that after the war girls shunned responsibility,

|

turned to gaiety and forgetfulness,"

vous, artificial and irresponsible

Then disaster came again Not disaster as we knew it during the World War ría bloodshed, but something equally vital in their lives, if not more so. Women who served in the war told their daugh- ters of the responsibilities of those days To-day, girls are lifting the burdens of their men by devising cheaper methods of eating and frock as attractive as one costing leaning how to make a two-dollar twenty timesne mitch. The present one costing twenty. acceptance es times as much. The present accept ance of responsibility by women certainly not the least important of comes from a variety of sources but

which carried its own bitter lesson:" them is the World War period

To-day We Live" is the first war romance in which Miss, Craw ford has been seen on the screen. With Cooper in the male lead, the east includes, Robert Young, Fran- chat Tone, Roscoe Karns, Louise Closser Hale, Rollo Lloyd and Hilda Vaughan under the directio of Howard Hawks, who produced "Scarface."

Mrs. Saphead rushed into her neighbour's honse without troubling to knock.

My dear she gasped. I'm in an awful state. I don't know what to do next!""

Whatever is the matter?" asked the neighbour.

I've just had a terrible warn- ing of approaching death."

«Goodness

me What do you

mean ??"

"Well," said Mrs. Saphead, "I bought one of those lifetime, foun- tainpans the other day, and now it's broken!"

Roland Young talk it out, while Genevievi very one they're talking out, looks on somewhat un

scene from

Pleasure Cruise," new Fox screen

AVEENS

FAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE TW

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 Shearer's romantic triumph! Glorious romance that will touch your heart!

SHEARER

FREDRIC

MARCH

LESUE

HOWARD

Smilin

Through

*Metofoligna Mayer

Directed by" SIDNEY FRANKLIN,

your own

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

CRAWFOR

COOPER

TODAY WE LIVE

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORRO

At 2.80, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20

In a Monastery Garden

JOHN STUART MUGAMHETAM JOAN MALDE · GINA MALD

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