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THE GREAT

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TO-DAY AT THE

“CINEMA

HONG KONG

Pleasure Cruise."

King's.

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Today We Live

Central.

The Jungle Killer”

Oriental.

Laural and Hardy's"

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KOWLOON

She Done Him Wrong."

Staz.

Blondie of Follies."

Majestic.

CARVETH WELLS

PRESENTS

COMING

THE TRUTH "ABOUT JUNGLE FILMS

King's

"Born Lucky".

Queen's.

My Wife's Family.

"THE JUNGLE KILLER"

A FILM OF THRILLS AND LAUGHS.

A CENTURY PRODUCTION,

WEDNESDAY

THE COLOSSAL GERMAN DRAMA OF THE GREAT WAR

GERMAN FILM

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"HILL ON

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A TRUE REPRODUCTION OF THE REAL Battles

FOR

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"VERDUN AND

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BORN LUCKY

To-night is Ours,”

Central,

"Heli un the Western Front."

World.

"Skyscraper Souls."

"Love Waltz.”

"Downstairs."

Star.

Smart Woman."

Three Who Lived.'

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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

NEXT CHANGE

WAS HER FACE REDI

She was surrounded by men, all desiring to held her in their semi--and when she finally succumbed, there was her husband!

You'll heel, over with laughter

your ne

FOX

PLEASURE CRUISE

TOBIN

BOLAND

YOUNG

HERBERT MUNDIN.

RALPH FORBES, UNA O'CONNOR

From the Play by Ansten Allo

Directed by Frank Testla

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"TO-DAY WE LIVE" |

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“JUNGLE

KILLER"

THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN AFRICA

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MAUGHAM ON THE

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"The Narrow Corner"

Westruct

flime Production

"INGENUOUS COMEDY, NAIVE ROMANCE. LIGHTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY · ARE GOOD"-

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TALBOT O'FARRELL

RENE RAY JOHN LONGDEN

Mouta 1 JERRY JACKSON BIANCITA. BY SUCHAEL POWELL

Kinematograph Weekly.

Also THE IMPS DANCE ORCHESTRA

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By Kind Permission of

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and Officers of ..

1st Bn. the Lincolnshire Regiment.

SIR IAN HAMILTON

INDEFATIGABLE GRAND

OLD MAN

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London.-Sir Ian Hamilton was barn in Corfu eighty years aga. To-day he is one of our few real- ly Grand Old Men..

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What a life he has lived! He was in the Afghan War, the Boer War, the Nile Expedition, the Burmese Expedition and the De- fence of Ladysmith. Then he served as Military Representative of India with the Japanese Field Army in Manchuria. And he went to work with enorINQUA gour during the Great War Commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary force.

His famous message

to Bird- wood at Anzac will always be ro- membered:-"You have got to get through this difficult business. Now you have only to dig, dig, die, until you are safe.

Now he devotes much of his time to upholding the rights of

QUEER

MAER CONDIZIONED THEATRE

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· Your!

Your own beating heart own quivering lips... your owar tears and chears will tell you beat that! here truly is a great motion picture one to see again and again one to treasure in your momory'),'

THE STARS YOU'VE" ALWAYS WANTED

JOA

TO SEE TO-

GETHER!

CRAWFOR COOPER

the ex-soldier. They say he gats GARY

more than thirty lettera a

day, who

many of them from men hope he will find work for them. He does the best he can

Recently he inaugurated Empire wine, week at a West End hotel, and paid a graceful tribute to some of the Empire's vintage.

П

He is one of the most indefa- tigable men of his age. He is call- ed every morning at a quarter to seven, which is earlier than most British business men of half his age.

Sir Ian writes in bed most morn- ings from the time he is called until they bring his Scotch' ost- meal porridge at alght o'clock or 30.

After that he gets up and tackles his day's letters.

Really, there seem to be more early risers among the elderly men then among the young ones these days.

some young Danish giant, wrap- ping himself in illusions whose shattering he cannot survive they all stand out from the vivid East Indian background, with stereosco-Hyde Park before breakfast. Mr. pic clarity.

Mr. Fairbanks' "Progress. “ Just how clear they will be tu PHILOSOPHY, DRAMA AND with its searching analysis and those who have not read the book,

A STORM

Mr. - Baldwin, often ・ walks, in

Ramsay MacDonald is usually sit- ting down to breakfast with Ishbel by about eight o'clock

But the real terror of the slack young man is Mr. Gordon "Bel- fridge, who runs the big depart- ment store in Oxford Street. He always gets there by nine o'clock in the morning!

MEET FOR FIRST TIME AT

"HUSBAND'S BURIAL

IN #

TODAY WE LIVE

HOWARD HAWKS production

with

ROBERT YOUNG. FRANCHOT TONE

ROSCOE KARNS.

SPECIALITY. "London

City

of Tradition"

ironic tang, I do not know; but I think the film will be found enter- taining despite the fareshortenings and mutilations. The setting and Londen, Aug. 1.

the characters will have for most What an artist is Mr. Maugham! people the charm of novelty, and TWO WIDOWS AT FUNERAL How easily, yet without Thacke-4 the long storm scene is magnificent ray's didactic condescension, he the most brilliant, technically, conjures up his characters and that I have ever seen. evokes the spirit of tragedy, tem- The acting is uneven, Douglas pered always by his own cool and Fairbanks, Jar, as Fred, the han]- ironic temper!

KANSAS Aug. 11 some young Australian whom wo- His latest novel, "The Nar

Two widows wept, to-day, at men find irresistible, gives the best row Corner," has been done by performance of his career. He has Deeds, war-time American ace, who the funeral of Captain Edward, Warner Brothers into a film, show-lost his earlier "toughness" and ing at the Regal. I strongly ad has developed into one of the most vise you to see it--and this though talented young leading men on the there has been flagrant dishonesty screen-strong, sincere and admir in the matter of, treatment and aably. restrained. good deal of the tale's distinction has been destroyed

Dudley Digges, too, is excellent as Doctor Saunders, Ralph, Bella my does all that is asked of him us Eric, and William V. Mong and Reginald Owen are well cast as the reprobate Swan and his cultured she had never been divroced from GENE GERRARD shiftless son-in-law.

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Rich Character Drawing.

omissions

bock was too full of "ment," the

Mis-cast.

But two of the vital characters

was killed in Canton some weeks

age while demonstrating an aero- School. BL

.plane

the Canton Aviation

Mrs. Marie Deeds, who claimed to have married Captain Deeds at Shanghai a few days before the fatal crash," was one of the chief The other was Mrs. Betty Deeds, who declared that

mourners,

the dead captain,

NEXT CHANGE "THE PICTURE- WILL BE LITER ALLY

RIOT WHEREVER IT IS SEEN"

Sunday Dispatch.

Apparently unaware of each | MURIEL ANGELUS; haug an other's existence, the widows met

Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper are co-starred for the first time in this interesting picture

Ask a friend what the most uw playing at the Queen's dangerous anual in Africa is has and the invariable answer will be Theatre. Miss adapted herself particularly well The Lion."-but acording to to the role of an aristocratic Eng. Carveth Wells,

described by "the gay lish girl Gary Cooper and Gil. Lowell Thomas Da hert Young both suitors for her blade of exploration" "who does! and have enlisted and so has her the descriptive talking in The brother. portrayed by Franchot Jungle Killer" the Century Pro- Some changes and Pane, a new comer, but well on duction now showing at the Cen-ware, I suppose, inevitable. The the way to stardom.

Joan istral Theatre the lion is not dan characters were drawn with such very lovely, as we see her in herrous until made so by man, insight and power that half a Ambulance Corps uniform, so The lion is certainly not nearly dazen of them each cried out for a that she may be near those she dangerous as an almost in- picture to himself. The scoundrel-are not so happy. Arthur Kohl, substantiating the claims of Mrs.

ly Cockney skipper, afraid of though a strong enough actor, is loves. Her lover is reported kill-visible little big, the jigger.

...nothing on earth but his wife, too big and derainating a figure The jigger is a tiny fles which with his dyspepsia, his obscenity for the Cockney skipper, an ob harrows into the toes and under and his passion for sea-burials- scene little sparrow of a man who the fingernails of unfortunate kind in English literature, and I men to thrash him." And Fatricia, here is the greatest creation of his trades on the reluctance of bigger travellers, swelling the flesh to do not except Huish in "The Ebb Ellis was mis-cast as the bercine. the "extent where sometimes toes Tide."

Mr. and fingers drop off. African

Maugham's Louise, while Dr. Saunders, the tolerant real enough, had a certain dreams, pest is not a native of the coun- opium-smoking philosopher, who like radiance which Miss Ellis fails try at all. It was brought there teaches that life is short, nature to suggest; and the instinctive pas hostile, and man ridiculous; Swan, sion of the original emerges as a from tropical America.

the cackling old blackbirder, and rather commonplace penchant for his futile son-in-law, who has spent "petting" of the normal

ve years on a translation of the kind. In others words. Miss Ellis ter's only dowy: Eric, the hard has not yet fearsed to act. "Lusiad" that is to be his daugh is a pretty young American who

ed, and she

turns up.

marries Gilbert

Young, but her former sweetheart Both boys are ever- tnally killed and she marries the nan of her lieart,

BLUE-EYED BABY STAR

OF

A FAVOURITE AT ELSTREE

Carveth Wells will throw red pepper into the faces of African lions, but be maintains a great Four months old Geoffrey Frost respect for the insignificant of Elstree made his debut as a ligger. film actor at the British Interna- tional Pictures' studios where he appeared 23 the baby in "My

Wife's Family" directed by Mon- YOUTHFUL HUN-

by Banks. He became a great favourite with Muriel Angelus, Amy Veness, Ellen Pollock, Molly Lamont and Dodo Watts, and al- though his mother was in atten- The world-famous vaudeville dance at the studio he spent most headliner, Talbot O'Farrell, makes of his time, when not on the set, his film debut in "Born Lucky." the in their arms.

Westminster Films Production will This sudden advance into the be shown at the King's Theatre on spotlight and great admiration Wednesday. "Born Lucky" is the however, led to one or two tem

TER ARRESTED

ACCIDENT AT WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN

flm version of the Oliver Sandya peramental outbursts on the part White Cloud Mountain, one of novel "Mops" and was produced of the young star and only the the natural beauty spots at Can- by Jerry Jackson and directed by using antics of Gene Gerrard, ton, was the scene of a serious ac Michael Pawell.

prior to the shooting of important cident Rene Ray and "baby" scenes, brought back the young student out hunting for day. or so ago when a John Longden head the support-aunshine of Geoffrey's smiles after birds with a shot gun inadvertent ing cast and provide the romance. April showers. while the rest of the cast includes

ly hit another youth causing him such famous names as Ben Wel has to have blue eyes. Geoffrey was not in company with the The baby. "My Wife's Family" greivous bodily harm. The victim den, Helen Ferrera and Barbara when submitted to the Casting young sportsman, but was airless- Gatt,

directors was found to be admir-ly sitting high up on the branch of ably suited to the requirements of tree quite out of sight of any pas the part.

The Dlm concludes with the only really grazed the body of the seraby. The bullet from the gun dynamiting of the "baby" conceal-lad, but fright caused him to lose + Regulation 10 of the playground, ed in a summer House, but to allay his balance and, falling from his Regulations "has been rescinded alarm it must be made clear that perch; he sustained, serious body. and the following substituted. No the baby, in this instance, is a wounds. The youthful sportsman male person over 13 years of age grand piano, and the confusion was arrested, but the police realis- shall use any swing. spring into which all the characters are ed that the shot fred was purely board, or other appliance, erected thrown is caused by the mix-up of accidental and he was later releas in the playgrounds for the use and the two "nables" seeds He was advised however to amusement of children, or any "My Wife's Family" will be pre- pay a certain sum of money to seat which is set apart for the sented at the Queen's Theatre on his victim as compensation and use of women and children only. Thursday.

this he accordingly did.

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at the funeral, where Mrs. Betty Deeds demanded that she should be shown the marriage certificate Marie Deeds. The Shanghai bride, however, did not produce the car tificate, declaring that it was hard- certificate to the grave of a hus- 1 customary to bring a marriage

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