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CENTRAL THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN's RD., WESTBOUND BIS

Advance Booking at Andersons' and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

"A Picture for the Whole Family

THE GREAT

BRITISH EXPLORER

CARVETH WELLS.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1933.

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

AT

2.30, 5.10, 7.15:

King's,

HONG KONG "Pleasure Cruise."

& 9.30 P.M.

Queen's.

"To-day We Live"

Central.

"The Jungle Killer" Oriental.

"

Laural and Hardy's Variety Show,"

KOWLOON

"Blondie of Follies."

Star.

Majestic.

She Done Him Wrong."

COMING

PRESENTS

ТHЕ TRUTH Авост JUNGLE FIMS

King's.

Born Lucky"

Queen's.

My Wife's Family,"

Osatzat.

"THE JUNGLE

KILLER":

A FILM OF THRILLS AND LAUGHS.

A CENTURY PRODUCTION.

TO-MORROW

THE COLOSSAL GERMAN DRAMA OF THE GREAT WAR

GERMAN FILM

CORP

PRESENTS

“HELL ON THE WESTERN FRONT"

A TRUE BEFRODUCTION OF THE REAL BATTLES POSSESSION OF

AND

.' FOR

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!.

"VERDUN

DOVAUMONT.”

DONT FORGET

THAT WHEN You are at Home you can get the HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

SELFRIDGES.

To-night is Ours."

"Hell on the Westera Front."

World.

: ו'

Star.

"Skyscraper Souls.".

Love Waitz."

"Downstairs."

"Smart"Woman."

Three Who Lived." Oriental,

"Around the World in 50

Minutes."

KIINTO

BOOKING AT Tax THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332.

– TO-MORROW

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

WAS HER FACE RED!

She was surrounded by man, all desiring to hold her in their arms and when she w fusally succumbed, there was her husbandt

You'll keel over with langboer

when

FOX

you yet

PLEASURE CRUISE

DENEVIEVE

TOBIN

wich

KOLAND

YOUNG

HERBERT MUNDIN

RALPHI FORBES, UNA O'CONNOR

Próm mà Play by Auston Alfon

Directed by Frank Twisie

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong

PLEASURE CRUISE"

GAY ROMANTIC COMEDY

"Pleasure Cruise," said to be a

gay romantic comedy centering about a young wife' adventures during a marriage holidays; stares engagement to-day at the King's Theatre, with Genevieve Tobin and Roland Young playing the leading roles.

chine."

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MY WIFE'S

FAMILY"

BEAUTIFUL FROCKS FOR

STARS

The discovery of a dress designer who has recently returned from Hollywood and Paris is responsible for some very original and beauti- ful dressca in "My Wife's Family," the B.I.P. comedy directed by Monty Banks, which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Thursday.

BORNICK

Wertrusteell 5. Films Production

INGENUOUS. COMEDY,NAIVE ROMAN U E LIGHTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY ARE GOOD-

TALBOT O'FARRELL

RENE RAY JOHN LONGDEN

PESSUCED BY JERRY JACKSON DIRECTED BY JUCHAEL TOWELL

Kinematograph Weekly.

ALSO ADDED ATTRACTION At 7.15 & 9.30 Performance Dally THE IMPS DANCE ORCHESTRA

By Kind Permission of Lient. Col. B. d. de C. BÖYS, M.O. and Officers of 1st Bn. the Lincolnshire Regiment.

THE ART OF MR.his work appears only if the

WALT DISNEY

An Experiment In

Colour Films

(Special Air-Mail Service)

The Wolf and the Pigs.

الماري

em-

***TO-DAY WE LIVE ??»

STAGES A COCKROACH FIGHT

The only cockroach battle over filmed is to be seen in "To-day. We Live," the Joan Crawford-Gary- Cooper co-starring feature for

· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which is showing to-day' and to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre... th

Two of the insects were placed in a small enclosure "and" encour- aged to indulge in a snappy cock- roach boxing match, which Anally resulted in one of them being pushed out of the circle. Gary Cooper, Robert - Young,) Franchot Tone and Roscoe Kams acted as referees during the battle with Miss Crawford and Louise Closser Hale playing the part of cheer leaders.,

BORN LUCKY

BRITISH PICTURE OF “BELOW STAIRS.”

Life backstage and in the ser- vanta" quarters is amusingly com- pared. and contrasted in "Born Lucky." Westminster Films Pro- duction's film version of Oliver Sandy's novel "Mops," which is be- ing released by the, British Film Distribution Co., Ltd at the King's Theatre on Wednesday. · Michael Powell, the director, follows the career of his heroine from a cheap. music hall to the West End of London" via a domestic situation In the house of an aristocratic Dowager. "Earn Lucky” marks the flim" debut of the well-knowi singer Talbot O'Farrell, Rene Ray and John Longden head the sup- porting cast which includes Ben Welden, Helen, Ferrers and Bar- bara Gott.

A

DEENS

PAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE '

SHOWING TO-DAY

a6-2:30, 5.10, 7,20 & 9.30 p.m.

Jour

Your own beating heart... own quivering lips... your own tears and cheers will tell you best that here truly is a great motion picture ...one to sce‘again and again one to treasure in your memory !

THE STARS YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE TO-

GETHER!

CRAWFORD

GARY

COOPER

TODAY WE LIVE

HOWARD HAWKS

production

with

ROBERT YOUNG FRANCHOT TONE ROSCOE KARNS.

phasea be made to lie on the noun, saw, was the wood for the ark cut, not on the adjective. When he has Two cages were set up, a rhinoceros. done, and what artists of a thou was placed in one of them and a sand different styles might do tree trunk laid between A bold they were given an opportunity, a youth waped a red flag, and with so to use the film" medium as

ta such energy did the enraged rhino- give flexible rhythm and fluid ceros burst from cage one, with movement to pictorial art. There such accuracy did he propel him is no reason in principle why self into cage two, so sharp was his Leonardo should not have done, or nose-knife, that. by each transit a why he should have been ashamed plank was made. So did the por-. to do, the same.

cupines make themselves into hoist for supplies, and the mon keye, whose axes became part of

down: the orchestra, hew

the The waters rose the forests. storm came, the ark leapt between wave and sky. The white of the wave-crests slashed the screen to a lovely, swaying pattern of blue and white. Meanwhile, in the hold, all the animals, small and great, an ordered disorder, were sliding to and fro, to and fro, on the wet deck. The waters went down, the animals left the ark, not now two by two, but with their increased families. The rabbits were a colony already; there were enough puppies

ALLY blithe, tail-wagging to make a group round a tree. A comic artist, Indeed, Mr. Disney is that. There is a delicious absurdity in all his inventions. But that scene of storin

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London, Aug. 1. Not long ago Mr... Walt Disney The Silly Symphonies have. nous was chiefly known as the ingeniof the deadly staleness of the ous draughtsman responsible for

hon Mickey Mouse-in itself an aurable fame, for Mickey Mouse's adventures, with their speed and fantasy, were then, and still are, the delight and consolation of many

screen entertainment. Lately, Mr. Diane bes been pro ducing Silly Symphome in the co-

and two jour,

摄

more

screen. They call into being world of their own, and there 18 something of the Renaissance in their abundant vitality and fresh ness. The first is a story, already familiar in the nursery, of three pigs, two of whom were frivolous and built their houses of straw or twigs, and one provident, a comes of them builder in brick. Awolf Father Noah's Ark and Three Lit and blows the houses of frivolity tle Pigs, have now been privately away, but the house of brick re new sista bim. How the little pigs shown together with two

Mickey's dance their light-heartedness into Mickey Mouse cartoons,

Mail the hearts of their audience! With Gala Premiere and The Pilot.

what wild menace the wolf puffs himself up and blows! Away go the houses, and their going is part and the later sceno, when the pigs animals are rediscovering the earth of a dance. Away go the

Previously scheduled as Miss

The cartoons are good, particu Robin's first contract, "Pleasure

larly. The Mail Pilot." but the As the newly-wedded bride of the

praises of Mickey Mouse have Cruise" was postponed to allow the blonde actress to carry the story, Muriel Angelus has two been so often sang and so long feminine lead in "The Inferal Ma-striking frocks. The first is a deserved that there is good reason morning frock in lavender blue for passing swiftly over a new ad As its principal setting, the pic- suede satin, a material which is venture of his to discuss what is ture has one of those luxury liners calculated to give excellent photo-still a new development of his graphic results. It has a short creator's art The first point to which specialize in vacation

cape with a refined, clipped hip insist upon for there are many cruises on the high seas.

line, decorated with pique collars who refuse to take seriously any Romantic complications in an and cuffs, and piped with the same thing that is not superficially environment made to order for material are two deep flounces on solemn is that the making of the love affairs and intrigues, form the skirt. the basis of the story plot.

The cast in support of Miss Tobin and Young is a notable one that includes Ralph Forbes. Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Minna Gombell, Theodore

Eltz, Frank Atkinson. Robert Greig, and Arthur Hoyt. Pleasure Cruise" is from the studios of Fox Film.

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“THE JUNGLE

KILLER"

PICTURES OF A STRANGE

AFRICAN TRIBE

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for shelter, and their flight is as and there is the joy of renaissance near to a delicious nightmare as in all their grouping, these are not imagination may come. And what laughable only but moving also, so sedateness there is in the righteous that one is caught between merri- little pig! All the wisdom of ment and wonder and scarcely fantasy is in him, playing his knows, before this new art, which piano and defying the wolf, while way the balance of pleasure swings. his fat and foolish brothers-never breaking rhythm, never allowing the story to lose its shape-hide Estelle Brody, at one time well. Silly Symphonies. is an art. under the carpet or under the bed known in English pictures, is to The second frock is the master-brilliant and pure use of the cine- all of themselves accept these ex have her first Hollywood chance in piece of the modiste, being matographic medium. If they tremities most characteristic of a Radio Pictures' production. modern version of Peggy Wood's ceased to be regarded as tit-bite to small, round, irresponsible pigs. old fashioned gown" in "Bitter be enjoyed and forgotten when the Sweet." Designed in Bowered major ritual of screEN chiffon, through which runs a gold thread, it introduces for the first time on the screen the now mitten sleeve. Each gown is worn with a large crinoline hat with an artistic ! brim.

Dodo Watts in the part of a film struck flapper, has a particularly neat and smart frock in spotted shantung, ornamented with a three- and quarter cape

"artist's bow" in the same material. Ita. demureness has at the same time an introduction of sophistication in ite trim lines.

an

As the vamp Ellen Pollock wears a delightfully impertinent creation in two colours. The tight bodice with a diagonal neck-line is in spotted flesh-coloured satin, while the skirt is in black with a daringly futed hip frill, repeated in another frill from the knee to the ankle.

People that are interested in the habits and customs of the strange tribes of the world and aren't we all? have a real treat coming to them in "the Century "Produc- ; tions feature The Jungle Killer"} now showing at the, Central Thea- tre. In this film there are rare; shots of various tribes of Africa, 1s restricted to the women of the but the plece de resistence is the presentation of those strangest of all savages, the Ubang

tribe and is a custom practised by no other kind of human being. Though it makes them the ugliest looking creatures on earth, to them Many have seen and marvelled it is a mark of beauty. The uglier a at the few ving specimens of woman looks because of the size these unique human beings ex of her lips, the more beautiful she hibited in the side-show of a great appears to the braves of the tribe, circus, and there have been tan-

Mr. Wells points out that they talizingly short views of them in begin the deformation of the It was disclosed by Sanitary other motion pictures. It has e female of the species when they Inspector Kerrison in the Central mained for the producers of rae are babies by altting their lips Police Court yesterday that scrap Jungle Killer and Carveth Wells, and inserting a small stick to paper discarded in bind by affices adventurer and explorer extra make the opening permanent. In the Central districs are raked orary, to as to an you Then a small wooden diac le by Chinese, and sold to hawkers have been waiting for all you serted, then a larger and even who use them for wrappings.want to know about these strane larger hoop is put in to make the est of all navages, and wonderful Ups spread for revolting propor. This practice was & dangerous scenes of them in their native ions. You see such lips as. menace to health Mr. Wynne-

heath

ve never dreamed cruire your wo Jones imposed, a fine of $10 or fourteen days on a Chinese coolle These, you know, are the people mighmare, and at

about the who admitted raking rubbish in of the gigariti lipa, a wilful and Belt- -ficted deformation – which Connaught Road Central

drama is

Father Noah's Ark is still better. over, if it were understood that the having more substance and a richer essence of screen drama is in them invention. Noah himself is of and not in portentous travesties of rather coarser stuff than the finest. and Mrs. the stage, there would be no end to of Mr. Disney's wit, their influence or to its usefulness. Noah is a dull old ogress, but the It happens that Mr. Disney is a animals are the animals of a comic artist, but the significance of dream. How, without a circular

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