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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S 20., WESTBOUND BUS

"Advance Booking at Andersons and the Thostru Tel. 25720.

F:

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

A NATURAL FOR THE GROWN UPS® AND THE KIDS

BENNIE F. ZEIDMAN

PRESENTS

HELL'S HOUSE

NITH

AND

A

HUMAN SYMPHONY

FOR ALL

AGES

JUNIOR DURKIN

PAT O'BRIEN

DIRECTED BY HOWARD HIGGIN the cless-sparklecafor variety -speed-bolance and spontaneity. That's why Photoplay Mogazine honored it as one of the best pic- tures of the month.

NEXT CHANGE

MEN HATED

and envied him!

WOMEN DENOUNCED

and adored himl

No wife could resist him... ex- cept his own!

RICHARD

in the sage of a fro

lance lover...spho mcanced thine is

GREAT JASPER

widi WERA ENGELS EDNÁ MAY OLIVER Directed by J.Walter Ruben David O. Selick executive producer

ALSO

A CENTURY

TO-DAY AT THE

King's.

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"It's Great to be Alive."

Queen's,

"Women Who Play,"

Dentral,

"Hell's House.

Oriental.

"City Lights,"

KOWLOON

star.

"Romance of Rio Grande.".

Majestic.

Homicide Squad."

Theatre Calendar

Queen's: Wed Thursday, "Wo-

men Who Play."

Friday "King of the Jungle." Central: Wed-Friday "Hell's

House."

Sat Tuesday, "The Great

Jasper." Kings: Wednesday, Gala Perform-

ance "Cavalcade."

* Thursday, The Mar From

Toronto.

Twenty-two nationalities make up the cast of the best men in Pazn 'mount'e

Lost The Island of Souls,"

George Raft. who will be seen in the new Paramount picture, in- her Cover Man," is said to be the fastest dancer in the world.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.

FINAL SHOWINGS

.TO-DAY

AT

1-

2.30, 6,10, 7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY

"What am I bid for

می

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH?"

A modern Don Juan...heart. whole...fancy free... sound of "wind and limb... put up at auction to a hour of gorgeous, love-starved girls.

IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE

with

Raul ROULIEN Edna May OLIVER

Scene From "The Man From Toronto.

THE MAN FROM

TORONTO"

KING'S THEATRE

This is a Gainsborough Picture, and, judging from the cast it pro-{

"There

-Gloria STUART Herbert MUNDIN

Directed by Alfred Warker- From a story by John D. Swain

HELL'S HOUSE" Strong Drama At Central Theatre

"Hell's Housė“

a human sym- picture

tre with Junior Durkin, Pat

mises to be most amusing. Jessie phony for all ages, the Matthews posing as her own

now showing at the Central Theż parlour maid, does some exceed- Ingly clever acting. Some eminent critic describes this as a worthy O'Brien.-Bette Davis, Junior Cogh-

to successor

Goes The lan, Emma Dunn, Charles Grape- Bride" another very successful win, Mary Elden and many other British production. There are screen players. some hilarous situations in this film, and we heartily recommend It. The cast includes Ian Hunter, Fred Kerr, Margaret Tarde and the ever popular Jessie Matthews. This is to be shown at the King's Theatre on Thursday.

** 'KING OF THE JUNGLE"

It deals with a youngster with ideals and so, ke every boy of about fourteen or fifteen, is highly flattered when a man who knows policemen and every big football and baseball play, calls him pal, why there isn't anything this kid wouldn't do for him.

There

BOOKING "AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25813 & 25332.

NEXT "OHANGE COMMENCING TO-MORROW A DOUBLE ATTRACTION I

ON THE SCREEN-

!!

IN

JESSIE MATTHEWS

"THE

FROM]

with

IAN HUNTER, FRED KERR A BRITISH PICTURE ON THE STAGE

SITSON MA

NOTED CHINESE VIOLINIST Accompanied by HARRY ORE

Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook portray the two characters in the For production of Noel Coward's "Cavalcade," around whom the march of world events patterns its drama.

"THE GREAT

JASPER" Central Theatre

This is from the novel by Fulton Oursler and an R.K.O. production. Richard Dlx plays the lead with Wera Engels and Edna Maj Oliver. As a story "Hell's House" is na- Critics claim this is even better tural and human. It could happen than Mr. pix's portrayal. In to any boy and doeg to many. "Cimarron" and a decided box are dramatic highlights office attraction, The "Great Jas- that bring a tear, but again there per is specially interesting and are situations that cause hearty very amusing. Miss Oliver as Ma- laughter. There are problems that dame Talma is as usual, grand. bother boys of this age and which All the characters in this picture provide laughs for the grown ups are true to life and exquisitely Buster Crabbe, world champion who have troubles of greater pro- played by a cast of stars who han- swimmer and newesmer to the pensity to cope with dally.

dle their respective parts with in- movies and Mabel Stark, veteran "Photoplay Magazine accorded telligence. It is decidedly Dix's animal trainer, both owe their it special mention and importance best role since Cimmarron so do present state of health and comfort by designating it as one of the not miss this when it is shown at to the nerve and courage of Bruce, best pictures of the month." Humberstone," young Hollywood

BEASTS ATTACK A STAR!

director.

eyes,

t!

the Central Theatre commencing Howard Higgin directed "Hell's Saturday..... House” for B, F. Zeldman, Pro-

duction. Paul Gangelim wrote the screen play.

2PA

“IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE”.

Catchy Musical Numbers

The only composer in Hollywood who could write music to please the. Irish tenor, John McCormack, has written all four of the songs "It's for the musical comedy. Great To Be Alive," in which For Film presents Haut Roulien as an American screen star at the King's Theatre to-day.

The composer is William Ker-

THE GOOD COMPANIONS” The Clood Companions is a yarn of the falling road. It is a pano-Betray" tama of the show business on

Humberstone, co-director of "King of the Jungle, wild animal thriller which opens at the Queen's Theatre on Friday risked his own life on two separate occasions to hold savage lions and tigers at bay alter the cameras and one of his first tour. Every one who has read they had pounced on the swimmer scenes with a herd of righty lions Priestis's Rovel knows, it detalls and the trainer with blood in their Later the brawny, youth became actexperiences of three rebels customed to working with the beaste Jess Oakwood rebels against his When tigers with which she was and they became acquainted, with life in Yorkshire mill. When he working attacked Mabel Stark, him. But, in this first meeting, one gets the sack he setses the oppor feminine wild animal trainer, Hum-of the lious forgot he was acting tunity to go south to the places berstone grabbed a club and rushed and leaped at Crabbe, bearing him he has read about and longs to into the molee. He managed to hold to the ground. Once more it was see. Inigo the teacher rebels the bigers at bay for the precious Humberstone who succeeded in against teaching, and the drudgery seconds required to drag Miss beating off the brute, allowing of his occupation Be loathes the Stark to safety.

Crabbe to escape with but minor headmaster and his nagging wife. A few days later, while still re- Iacerations..

Miss Trant spends years nursing ceiving congratulations for his dis-King of the Jungle" centres za invalid father, who eventually Humberstone again proved himself in the jungle in the company of intention of seeing the country. deserving of a hero's medal. This lions, who is captured and brought Twenty miles from Litchfield they time it was Buster Crabbe world to America to perform in a cirbus, come upon a party of stranded ac swimming champion enacting the The picture comes to a climax when tors and actresses called the Din role of the Lion Man in "King of fire breaks out in the circus, and ky Doos who change their names The the Jungle, who was the center the wild animals break loose from to the "Good Companions." of an attack on their cages to spread death sad spirit of the novel is magnifcently

It was Buster's first day before ruin in the city streets.

produced by Victor Saville with its

nell, When John McCormack was in Hollywood preparing for the Diming" of "his Picture, "Song O My Heart, a hundred well-known composers write and submitted songs. McCormack meludes only one of them in his picture, "A Páir of Blue Eyes," by Kernell.

Kernell, whose arst screen song was "Sally Of My Dreams, abso wrote all the muste Liian Harvey and John Boles sing in y Lipa

The four songs in "It's Great To Alive are "Goodbye" Ladles," with 18 Hollywood beauties!" Build A Nest, with Gloria Stuart; "It's" "Great" "To Be' the Only Man Alive," with 10 Beauties, and “wo- ment Wannen!" Women!” with Her Bert Muridin...

Incidentally, Roullen himself has composed more than 150 pieces T- cluding a tango, Adios Mis Farres, which in 10 days sold a million seven hundred thousand records and half a million copies

--

A

OF PROGRESS" play of courage and quick action, around the lien man, a youth raised dies and she buys a car with the of sheet male in South America.

THE CHICAGO WORLD FAIR BROUGHT TO YOU TO SEEI

story of understanding and mis- understanding. Its hopes and its

FILMS SEEN IN LONDON

And Some Candid

Criticisms

(Special Air-Mail Service)

Aug. 23rd.

The Stranger's Return This is one of those close, intimate studies dă ordinary lives that King Vidor can do magnificently, and it is not just the farm sounds off screen, and the realistic chores of cooking, charning, dish-washing. that bring his Middle West homestead to life. He knows how people act towards one another ander ordinary.couth- tions as well as in heightened emo- tion, and he knows-which is raver the pace to play that action The scene of the reapers' supper should go down into history with his river! scene from Bardelys The Magni- ficent" as a superb example of technical timing-working ravenous ly up to its climax of repletiou, and resolved on a glutted laugh.

The playing, and direction of the play ing, is so good that you feel the seductive swing of Miriam Hope kins's body, as a moment when the senses should have been dormant, as a kind of savage, shock. Thore are not many films in which, one false movement becomes remarkable, and the few that there, are, are worth a considerable effort to see.

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My Lips Betray. Lilian Harvey's first film in. America was originally titled" His Majesty's. Car," and the change of title seems rather un- necessarily unkind. The present Lilian Harvey is no different from the German star from Muswell Hill who collected bouquets, all over Europe; she does her old stuff just as well as ever." But for once in their history the American technical experts have slipped, up over the exploitation of a star. The camera- man, Le Garmes. who knows just what to do with the lighting of a staircase and can make the stream- fines of a motionlsss car exciting, has not been able to isolate the charms of the Harvey face, while the sound-crew have been peculiarly unselective. The film itself is mo delled closely en German musical comedy lines, and presents the es- capades of a cafe singer who is quite innocently taken to be the king's mistress. The situation is ingenious and the treatment light-handed; only it seems a little odd to show Lilian Harvey doing badly all the things that for years past she has proved she can do so well.

Mama, Loven Papa.

This rather unengaging title conceals 11 comedy of ernest auburbanity that is quite first- class entertainment for most of: its length. Mama and Papa are middle-aged and kindly and happy in their ineffectualities; Papa pan- ders to Mama's yen for culture, and Mama still laughs admiringly at Papa's little jokes. All goes well with them and the film until they také a header into high society; then fun and observation go to the wall Luckily, the society sequences are short, and the laughs many and long. Try it.

at a gala performance in aid of the unemployed and enjoyed it to the utmost, as all others who wit- nessed the picture. Do not miss it when it is shown at one of the local theatres. Jessie" Matthews plays the lead and many other screen favourites.

I'm Back again!

Meet me

face to face

at the Oriental

see me for the

fint time at popular prices

"City Lights the best

sever (more.. Charlie

Chaplin

HONG KONG'S MOST MODERN CABARET

NOW OPEN

tears and laughter. Inim|| YELLOW DRAGON

DANCING ACADEMY which provides the maximum of

“......Address: Commis entertainment. Their Majesties the King and Queen were present KING'S THEATRE BUILDING

6TH FLOOK (Continued on previous col.)

SUPERY

PAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW

At 2:30, 6.10, 7.16 & 9.20 p.m.

WOMEN

WHO PLAY“

with

From the play Spring Cleaning by Frederick Lonsdale MARY NEWCOMB, BENITA HUME, JOAN BARRY, BARRY JONES, GEORGEBARRAUD, Directed by Arthur “Rosson

4 PARAMOUNT BRITISH PRODUCTION,

Pi Lonsdale's brilliant dialogue. Worth seeing."

Daily Mirror.

--FROM FRIDAY-

CROWDED THRILLS!' MAMMOTH SPECTACLEI

STRANGÈ ROMANEE]..

OF

KING TH JUNGLE

ALSO

THE LION MAN

(BUSTER CRANSE) SFRANCES DEC

A Gunnest Pictor

BETTY BOOP'S

LATEST

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 92.0 p.

ROMANCE

RIO GRANDE

WARNER BAXTER

MARY DUNCAN ANTONIO MORENO

*Canquistador: "ÄLFRED SANITI

A FOX Pictare.

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