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CENTRAL

THEATRE.

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUN

Advance Booking st Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25730'

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

She branded ber self with sia te

gave her baby!

NO OTHER WOMAN

IRENE DUNNE

CHARLES BICKFORD

GWILI ANDAE. ERIC LINDEN From Eugene Waker's stajo i

Woman” Directed by J. Waker Riben

An RKO RADIO Picture of course? David O. Selorick, Executive Producer

ADDED ATTRACTION

A SPECIAL THREE.

REEL MUSICAL FEATURETTE

"SO THIS IS

HARRIS"

STARRING

PHIL HARRIS

NOT TO BE MISSED

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

A NATURAL FOR

THE GROWN UPS AND THE KIDS

BENNIE F. ZEIDMAT

PRESENTE

HELL'S HOUSE

WITH

AND

A

HUMAN SYMPHONY

FOR ALL AGES

JUNIOR DURKIN

PAT O'BRIEN

DIRICIES #

HOWARD HCGIN

It has class sparkle-color vonery ----speed--balance" and spontaneity, That's why Photoplay Magazine honored it as one of the desi pic- tures of the month,

HONG KONG'S MOST MODERN CABARET

NOW OPEN YELLOW DRAGON DANCING ACADEMY

"Address: KING'S THEATRE BUILDING

6TH FLOOR,

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

King's.

HONG KONG

It's Great to be Alive.

Queen's.

Peg My Heart." Central,"

No Other Women!"

Oriental.

Star.

"Hot Pepper."

KOWLOON

"As You Desire Me.".

Majestic,

"Bird of Paradise.”

King's.

COMING

"Cavalcade"

Queen's."

Women, Who Plny."

"King Of The Jungle"

Central.

"Hell's House."

Star.

"The Great Jasper"

"It maner WE Rio Grande." "Looking On The Brightside”

World.

"Divorce In The Family"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1933.

SHOWING

TO-DAY-

AT 3.80, 5.10, 7.15

& 9.30 PM.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

"What am I bid for

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH?"

A modem Don Juan... heart. whole....... fancy free ... sound of wind and limb...put up at auction to a host of

gorgeous, love-starved girls.

FOX

IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE

Raúl ROULIEN.

Gloria STUART

Edna May OLIVER Herbert MUNDIN

Directed by Allred Werker From a story by John D. Swain

DIANA WYNYARD AND

CLIVE BROOK

Appearing in "Cavalcade the Film of the Year, Showing at the

# King's Theatre, on Wednesday........

"IT'S GREAT TO MAN BEHIND THE thought Margot was the woman for

·BE ALIVE” ·

Excellent Light Comedy

}

SCREENS

His Opinion of Cavalcade"

(Special

(Special Au-Mail Service) "It Great To Be Alive" the eur

London, Aug. 23. rent attraction at the King's Winfield Sheehan, vice-presid- Theatre is a very acceptable light ent of the Fox Film Company, is musical comedy, which should prove to be a genuine "blue-chaser, for here on a holiday. He is a small all who caro to see it.

man with a Pickwicklan glint in The theme is an unusual one and his eye. Lake тапу another lends itself to the farcical situa leading figure in Hollywood, he tions contained in the film. Ajumped from journalism Into diseases comes to the world which films. Before the war he was” á gradually kill off the male popula-reporter un the "New York tion. The newspapers are full of World"; to-day he controls the reports of deaths from everywhere production of fifty films annually," and the women gradually take up costing an average of 300,000 dol.. alf the important posts in every j Mt. Sheehan was the power be-% country.

hind the timing of "Cavalcade". They try to get up man-the result, after much experi-, the stars, and inspired many of ment, comes to naught. Then, like the Ideas in the production. Then a bolt from the blue, they discover į

him she'd not stand in the way, but she is sure he's making a great

mistake.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL 25313 & 25332,

NEXT CHANGE THURSDAY, 14th SEPTEMBER A DOUBLE ATTRACTION I ON THE SCREEN JESSIE MATTHEWS

IN

THE MAD DOG

ASpecial Au-Mail Servios)

London, Aug. 23. From Hollywood comes a new Interna- Alm which may cause ponal" complicationis,

The story is by Mr. Herman J. Mankiewicz, a former correspond». ent of the ew zork Times," who nas hau experience of Europe, It EST called Ine Mad Dog of Europe: The "mad dog" Is Herr Hitler; the subject of them is his treatment of the Jews.

The motion picture is to be made by Mr. Sam Jaffe, who has

“THE MAN FROM realened from his position as as-

TORONTO”.

with

IAN HUNTER, FRED KERR A BRITISH PICTURE

ON THE STAGE

SITSON MA

NOTED CHINESE VIOLIN İST, Accompanied by HARRY ORE

"NO OTHER WOMAN"

sociate producer, at the R.K.O. Studios to devote his whole time. to his new project. -

There is significance in Mr. Jaff's resignation. It means that. the big motion picture companies, although largely Jewish-controlled and therefore, sympathetic to the sufferings of Jewry, will have nothing to do with so controver- sial a subject.

FILM COMPANIES: TABOOS

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, Aug. 29.

Film companies have their ta-

boos.

and racial.

which arouses

controversy. stronger feelings in the United States than any-" where, is one of them.

Even so harmless a film as 'Dis- raell" had to be temporarily.with- held from certain preponderantly anti-Jewish towns in, the United States unti a later plcture in which Mr. George Arliss also star- red had created an interest in the actor himself whine transcended local prejudice against the sob Ject of "Disraeli.""

Somé Alm companies bar War subjects. Others will not handle religion. Few will touch 1 "poverty" story. But the strong- actor himself which transcended est Hollywood taboo is against picture themes concerning Inter- marriage between white and black

Great Divorce Court races.

Scene

Irene Duane, Charls Bickford and Gwili Andre give a new" verve to

the eternal triangle with the vital ty and realism of their performances in No Other Woman," RKO- Radio Picture now at the Central

Theatre.

BUYING FILM STORIES

An author who a year or so ago could get £8,000 ar £10,000 for the film rights of his books, to-day will receive only £3,000,

.That was an instance of Holly wood's new economy regime men- tioned to me by an American visitor with the intriguing name of Jake Wilk who is here buying stories for one of the biggest Hollywood con-

cerns.

Anna, played by frene Dunne, lives in a steel town and hates the furnaces belching 'soot, sparks and fumes "over everything even over I have paid as little as 2100 for her soul. Jim Stanley, on the other a film story and as much as £30,000 band, loves to toil and sweat before in the past," he said.. those great fires, making steel-price, I believe, was that paid not work for a strung man. And he is by my firm for the screen rights of a man and strong! Bickford por- the play 'Broadway': it cost trays Jim..

£43,000.

has

Jim wins and weds Auna. While Jim makes steel, she runs a board- ing house. When Joe, whom Jim scorned because he always "pushed a pen" in an office, finally perfects a new dye formula and pro- cess they all become rich through using the money Anna's thrift bas saved to start a company for mak ing and marketing it.

The record

After talking with Mr. Wilk I am more than at a loss to know why 80 many screen plays seem to be alike in plot and treatment. For he told me that his firm, Warner Brothers, who gave the world its first talkies, employ some thirty readers of stories and preparers of selected synopses for the higher ox ecutive officely to examine.

On top of that thero are" twenty- Jim and Anna find themselves in five staff writers who construct the a new world." Jim loses his sense actual working scenarios of chosen of values. Putting over a business subjects None of the other six or become as thrilling as making steel. seven leading Hollywood "concerns New employ fewer experts in the story

department, I learnt, and some em So I suppose Holly ploy more. wood has between 300 and 400 of these story experts.

"I'll not divorce you, and I'll not let you divorce me, she says. But she finds herself helpless to-trips from Pittsburgh to avert the test, and they next meet York on business take on a new in the divorce, court at a trial that and spicy flavour when he meets bursts one dramatic bombshell after Margot, played by Gwili Andre. another. The biggest one is exploded Margot marks him in marriage.. by Irene Dunne in a tremendous The affair becomes common gossip. truth of the lying testimony against making a fool of himself-she be scene in which she concedes the Anna tries to prevent Jim from her, in order to keep her child.lieves he is only on a spree from It's Miss Dunne's big moment-in which he will recover.. If she fact, the big moment of the picture

and she is splendid.

(Continued on previous column).

4 SHOWS

DAILY::*: 2.30-5.13 1.10—8.85 ||

1

TAKE ANY TRAM OF HAPPY VALLEY HOS

ORIENTAL

FLEMING „ROAD'

TEL. 284TE

a synthetic He took the decisions, collected 2 OF TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

a man, living like Robinson Crusoe, ;'

mic.

he spent £300,000 on it.

The Story Hunt

I asked Mr. Sheehan whether the success of "Cavalcade" would encourage his company to tackle another British subject.

His Pickwicklan glint becarie more intense.

V

on an uninhabited island. He had been spared from the world epide- Gangsters (all women; mind!) set about to snatch this priceless treasure of a man for themselves. They get there just before the gov ernment and bring him back to civilisation to be auctioned amongst the ladies, and what a price they offer for him! Young ladies and older ones, pretty girle, and others not so pretty join in the bidding, until the authorities raid the Luc Mr. Sheehan, as it happens, is tion room," arrest the gangster and not going to Turkey, and be told march off with their prize. Being me he was going to talk over the only man in the world, the matters with Mr.. Noel Coward nations hold a conference at which next week. It is just, possible. Mr. all the woman put their heads to Coward may be induced to write gethor to decide what they should direct for the screen.

"Give me the story," he "sald," | and I'll make the picture. T America we are prepared to go anywhere for a story. If I thought there was a story in Turkey I'd go there to-morrow..

do with him. He threatens to com

mit auicide if they would not let

him have his own way and the Stuart plays opposite him, reader can make many guesses as to In addition to the main attrac what he does, but not ona ina tion there is a good one act farce hundred will guess right I called "Neighbour Trouble. It is Raul Rolien takes the leading a very clever comedy that is sure male role in the film and Gloria to appeal.

DAYS

IF YOU WANT LAUGHS

See Flagg und Quirt, frolicking, #ghting and chasing new dames. through the New York night clube.

Edmund LOWE

Victor

McLAGLEN

HOT PEPPER

Lupe Veler

Directed by Joka Blyzżona

El Brendel

Fox Picture A

THEY SUPPLY THE LAUGHS TRAT THIS OLD DEPRESSED WORLD NEEDS MOST: Glory in their new antics. Making passes at a new dame and making saps of themselves »

FASTER AND SCRAPPIER THAN EVER!

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TU-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.

The precinct- melodrama

• ON THE SCRETS IN ALLLAZI

Q'GLORY!

BIRD OF PARADISE

Dolores Del Rio and Joel McCrea John Halliday, Craighten Chaney, Richard “Skootu" Ballagher, Bart Homel, David

Q. Selznick, Executive Producer. “RKO-ZADIO Pictura

KULER

FAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.90, 5:10, 7:15 & 9.20 p.m.

LAUGHS? Certainly TEAR and HEART- THROBS? Yes! DRAMA ? ROMANOEP, Plenty!

MARION

Davies

FG O

HEART

Sad moments, glad mo

they're all here.

ments

in the story of immortal Peg that has won the heart of the world!

with ONSLOW, STEVENS J. FARRELL MACDONALD JULIETTE COMPTON -A ROBERT, Z. LEONARD - Production

Producion

FROM WEDNESDAY-

WOMEN WHO PLAY

From the play Spring Cleaning

by Frederich Lonsdale

with.

MARY NEWCOMB, BENITA" HUME JOAN BARRY, BARRY JONES, GEORGEBARRAUD, Directed by Arthur Rosson

A PARAMOUNT BAITISH PRODUCTION

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m

RETO

Metro-Goldwyn-

Mayer PICTURE

AS YOU DESIRE ME

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