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CENTRAL

TAKE QUERY'S RD, WESTBAUND HÚS

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Plunder. "

Klag's,

Advanco, Booking at Andersons

and the Theatre Tel. 9572).

Queen's,

To-night is Oure. "

Contral.

Lucky" Devils"

Oriental..

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

Star.

Majestic,

"Down to Earth. 5

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

THE MO:T BREATH-

LESS THRILLER

The Golden West.

KOWLOON

Bachelor's Affairs.""*

COMING

Best of Enemies.”

411

EVER SEEN

King's.

**Cynara **

Queen's.

Devil is Driving."

Made on Broadway ?-

Central.

Star.

Down to Earth.""

"Emden."

For "fifty bucki

adayandthepick

of the damen"

heriskedhis neck

to make the

movies m-e-vno!

A thrill romance

of Hollywood's death-defying munk

then

LUCK DEVILS

With

BILL BOYD Barathy Wilson Willióm Gargan Rosco Atar David O. Selznick, executive producer. RKO RADIO Picture

ALSO

TIMINGʻ

A SPORTS NOVELTY WITH STUDIES OF TENNIS, GOLF AND

OTHER SPORTS

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

The lure of one woman's kiss sent him to prison & .. and the power of another woman's love saved his soul!

With Pat O'Brien, Marna Kennedy, Berton Churchill, Gloria Stuart, Tom Brown Produced Carl Laemmle Jr. Directed by Edward

Cahn. Presented by Carl Laemmie. A UNIVERSAL

PICTURE

JIM TULLY'S LAUGHTER IN HELL

World.

Laughter in Hell

"Emden.

Strange Interlude."

Majestic.

Bird of Paradise.

"Oriental.

Skyscraper Souls.

"CYNARA"

Ronald Colman's Modest Ambition

Ronald Colinan, has no intention of retiring. His season's work that saw the completion of King Vidor's picture of the international stage success, "Cynara" which Samuel Goldwyn will present at the King's Theatre on Wednesday and the forth coming "The Masquerader," brings him into greater activity than makes his future more assured..

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29,

TO-DAY ONLY AT

2.804 5.10, 7.162

& 9.30 P.M.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

BY SPECIAL REQUEST

THE BRITISH & DOMINIONS.

GREAT SUCCESS

"PLUNDER"

WITH

RALPH LYNN TOM WALLS

WINIFRED SHOTTER. MARY BROUGH.

ROBERTSON HARE.

THE FUNNIEST OF THEM ALL!

"TO-NIGHT IS OURS"

Noel Coward's Brilliant Wit

With Frederic March and Claudette Colbert as the stars, "Tonight Is Ours" opened on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre and provedl as delightful a piece of romanticism as has come this way in a long time.

“LUCKY

DEVILS"

How Stunt Men

View Life

Lucky Devils" brings a back stage close-up of the stunt man to the Cen tral Theatre. This thrill drama is portrayed by veteran bona fide stunt ers and a notable cast of RKO, players headed by Bill Royd.

discloses the stunt man's nonchalance

1933

BOORING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25392.

COMMENCING TO-MORROW RONALD COLMAN

IN.

"OYNARA'S

WITH

KAY FRANCIS PHYLLIS BARRY

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE.

"PLUNDER''

Return Of The Aldwych Gang

MR. COCHRAN ON

THE FILM

A Challenge To Mr. Dean

STAGE AND SCREEN

It is good news that Mr. Basil Dean is to return to the theatre, a medium in which his past schie-- vements inspire the greatest res- pect of all lovers of the drama, writes Mr. Charles B. Cochran in "the London "Observer." The as- surance that he will not be aban- doning" "work in Alm-production will be equally good news to lo- yers of the cinema, although as it happens I have not yet seen any of the Alms, he has directed..

But as he re-enters the theatri- cal list I must differ from him on his policy, of engaging his com- pany with an eye to young actors and actress who can act in stag- productions when he wants them to do so, and also in film-proque- tions when he wants them to do that.

Mr. Dean believes that "the art

of stage acting and the art of art alm-acting will have to be ever more and more closely allied." It is my own belief that they can- not.

I, too, have recently become in- terested in the film. Next month I join the Fox Film Company as associate producer, and I hope to be able to And and feed inta the world of moving pictures material in artists and plays which will be of the

highest service to it. But I can

see no other than a superficial re- lation between the screen and the stage. The acting technique and the dramatic form of either are poles apart.

This" "similarity" view which Mr. Dean seems to hold goes. a long way to answer the oft-repeat- ed question, "What is wrong with British Alms?"

"The picture that never stands still" is an apt description of " Plun- der," the talkie farce showing to day at the King's Theatro. for one day only, by special request. Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls and Mary Brough, all of them laughter-makers appear in the original roles they played during the long run of the Ben Travers farce at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Here is a farce that has no claims to sublety. It is the straight-forward story of a burglary and endless lying to extricate the criminals from a particularly awkward dilemma. Not the theatre might appear natural the sort of stuff from which copy-book and right in American films, di- reference to or maxima are adapted, just honest, up-rected without

dition and the playhouse · flu- and thrilling chapter of dishonesty.

sion, the characters are behaving naturally.

Too often in British films the characters are obviously acting -acting on a scale and with a tempo which in the conditons of

William Bakewell, a featured player, The flus is based on a play by Noel portrays the life behind the stunt man's daring acts, and the whys and Coward, author of "Private Lives' Colman has no intention of forsaking Therein lies the reason for the brilli-hia disrespect for death, his laugh at and many other outstanding auccesses. wherefores of his reckless courage. He Hollywood and building a feurial castle in his California seacoast estate on the ance of its dialogue and the light tragedy, his unwillingness to think of roarious entertainment from a long preoccupation with the stage tra-

hearted guisty of much of its action. Firebrand" and other romantic plays, Edwin Justus, Mayer, author of "The anything unpleasant in terms of him did the adaptation for the screen. Therein, the reason for its glamorous overtones. Stuart Walker, adapt both in comedy and high romance, has done his usual fine job of directing.

like some penitent monk or disgruntled Big Sur, to shut himself from the world lord. He enjoys life and the world

and his work too much.

He has a stretch of foreshore where with the construction of a tennis court, he will have his two favorite recre- tions, tennis and fishing. For the finest surf and deep-sea fishing in the world is practically at his door-step. His beach is called Wreek Beach, to warn off yachts.

The country is filled with relics of the California coast Indians favorite heroes of Robinson Jeffers, the poet who lives a few miles north. Overlooking Colman's land are the cedar groves where Harry Leon Wilson hid away to write "Ruggles of Red Gap". When the new convict-huilt coast road is through, he will be able to inotor there from Hollywood in a few hours.

But he thinks of it vaguely, as much an inreatment as a retreat. It seems to him as safe and secure us the brightly colored paper certificates with which Wall Street toys.

Colman has achieved financial security. He is not rich in the pro- depression sense, but no longer does he have to worry about the future.

That goal, his and every man's, is realised. Beyond security he sees no need nor sense in accumulating a large sum of money unless there is a genuine satisfaction and gratification in the work itself.

Now be would like to do the things that please him most.

"THE DEVIL IS DRIVING"

An Auto-Stealing

Melodrama

"The Devil Is Driving," rapid-fire nielodrama set against the background of organized auto stealing and its death-dealing ramifications, has been booked for the Queen's Theatre to commence on Thursday with a cast headed by Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Lois Wilson, Dickie Moora and Allan Dinehart.

Lowe, in the role of a good-natured, wise-cracking inechanic, is the central character in the picture, with Miss Gibson, cast as un equally good-natur ed, equally smart night-club hostess, as the girl in the case.

Through his brother-in-law; foreman in a garage, Lowe gets himself a job as "grease monkey." Then he disco-

Five Shanghai public organisa-Yer that the upper floors of the build-

ing serve a variety of purposes-none tion including the Chinese of them legitimate. There is a repair shop in which stolen cara are so chang- Chamber of Commerce, the Gen-ed in appearance that they can never eral Labour Union, and the Ning- be recognized; a paint shop and dry- po Residents. Guild, submitted a ing room, which aid In that task; a luxurious speakeasy; a penthouse in petition to the National Aviation which the directing minds of the en- League, requesting that the five terprise live in armed security.

It's of no consequence to Lowe until

As for Miss Colbert and March, these two extraordinary young players have seldom been seen to better advantage than in the role of the lovers, who meet in Paris, are parted, and find each other again for a night of love on the night before the girl's scheduled marri age to another man." They make one of the finest romantic tonins on the

screen.

self.

of the theatre. The loss which the through à

sustain

Other players assisting in the thrill- ing unreeling of a tunt man's feats and loves in Lucky Devils" include William Gargan, Dorothy Wilson,theatre may Rosco Ates Phyllis Fraser and Julie, certain drift of its public towards Haydon. The stunt men, under Bob the talking picture, with its wide Rose's supervision and Ralph Ince's appeal to all classes and races, 15 direction, include Rose, Harvey Perry, amply compensated for by the re- Dickinson, Baddy. Mason, and Duke venue which the theatre derives Green.

from such of its plays which are found to be suitable for adapta- tion to the screen, and such of its artists who can adapt themselves

with George O'Brien in the leading role brilliantly protrayed by such players

Secondary roles, too, are now showing at the Oriental Theatre.

An old family feud destroys the as Alison Skipworth, Arthur Byron love of a boy and a girl. The youth goes west where he meets and marries and Paul Cavanagh.

"To-night Is Ours" is not a picture another girl and a son is born. The It is thoroughly father and mother are killed by the Indians and the child is reared to man- hood by the savages, finally to become their leader.

to be missed! delightful!

"LAUGHTER IN HELL"

Powerful Drama At

Central

Laughter in Hell" the latest novel of that realist, Tiin Tully, who under- atands human emotions and passions and describes them so vividly, has beca screened by Universi. This film, which has set a nation talking comes to the Central Theatre to morrow.

It is a pictures that sounds the very depths of humanity. It is powerful- gripping-elemental-that kind of a picture that reaches out and grips you with its vivid drama. *Laughter in Hell" is first hand drama, right from the pages of life You'll never forget the man who loved a girl with all his honest Irish soul, and through her faithlessness found-laughter in Hell and another kind of Hell in the prison camps in the swamps beside...

Pat O'brien, Merna Kennedy, Gloria Stuart, Berton Churchill, Tom Brown, are all superbly cast in this great human story of mining riots and chain gangs.

See the picture, then you will realize why loving such women makes "Laughten in Hell."

"THE GOLDEN WEST"

At The Oriental Theatre

new aeroplanes purchased with his little nephew is seriously injured The color and romance of the south funda contributed by the people by an automobile which he discovers in pre-rebellion days and the adven must not be used in future civil belongs to the gang, and the boy's ture and excitement of the far west wars and that the words "Not to father, discovering the fact and soek in the days when the red man ruled be Employed in Civil Wars" being reverige, is himself brutally mar- the plains, ars blended in Zane Grey's pairited on each of the machines. dered.

"The Golden West", the Fox picture

O'Brien plays a dual role, the first during his successful career in motion picture. He is supported by a cast that includes Janet Chandler, Marion Burns, Bert Hanlon, Arthur Pierson, Edmund Breese and Emmett Corrigan The production was directed by David Howard, who also directed O'Brien în Mystery Banch, and "The Rainbow Trail".

The third annual convention of the China Engineering Institute will take place August 28 in the Wu-Ban University. An agenda committee of forty members has been selected to arrange also on the entertainments and tours of members of the institute.

4 SHOWS

DAILY 1.20-5.13

7.15-8.30

Jin

fault for dramatists to strive for It is becoming an international

“Alm technique' in the theatre, though in doing so they rarely achieve more than scrappiness at worst, and at best a rapid succes- sion of short scenes which "Sha- kespeare did to perfection three hundred years ago. In beginning to work in both fields. I hope

play and a -Alm is a. Alin. They have different alms, a different audience, different requirements, and any attempt to reconcile them too closely seems to me to be to the detriment of both.

never to forget that a play is a-

New Audiences The talking picture is the best thing which could have happened

with success to either medium.

The theatre must remain the aristocrat proud of its ancestry of centuries. She is a mother who has reared eager young sons who have gone to the ends of the earth and made a fortune, and she may and should accept with grace the money they send her. She is the parent firm which, in still producto ing men and ideas by which the subsidiaries, live, need not scruple to share in their pronts.

There is

nothing wrong with elther theatre or screen. Both are fine in their way. The masses must have their circus.”

A Diana Wynyard, an Elizabeth Bergner, may made herself equally at home in either medium, but such cases are rare. I tremble to think what some almirable screen artists would be like on the stage, and one can see every day in Bri- tish films first-rate stage actors failing on the flim.

Please, Mr. Dean, keep two dis- tinct compartments in your mind, and, be brilliant in both. .,

TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

·THEATRE JEA

LAST 4 TIME TO-DAY

A THRILLING ZANE GREY /WESTERN

COMEDY DRAMA!

Zane

carving an empire out of the West.

Gray's he

GOLDEN WEST

GEORGE O'BRIEN

FLEMING ..ROAD WANDHAI

TEL. 28473,

TOMORROW THURSDAY.

TREMENDOUS PICTURE!

A DRAMA

OF TODAY

SKYSCRAPER SOULS

queen of Snance controlling the

*ky pler

the flesh-and-blood theatre, Apart from creating new audien.. ces from the masses who, growing up with the silent picture and the radio," had never disembodied learnt the entertainment and the emotional reactions which man- kind has obtained from time im- memorial by means of the human voice and form of the living actor apart from this, the talking alm is a useful commercial by-product (Continued on previous col.)

MAJESTIC

THEATREZ

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7,20 à 9.20 p.m.

She dragged him to the altar-but

the halter broke.

BACHELOR'S AFFAIRS

with

Adolphe

MEN JOU

Miss COMBEL

Ashur PIERSON #Jour MARSH

Based on a play by James Forbes Divas tad by:

fred Werker

FOX Plaure

UZEN

FAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

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SCREENDOM VOTED HIM KING OF STARS!

KOEL CONARDS

You'll Vote Him. King of Lovers!

Stare of

"sign

of the

Cross"

Together

Again

TONIGHT IS OURS

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