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SHOWING TO-DAY

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BRITAIN'S MOST

POPULAR COMEDIAN

TOM

The

WALLS

BLARNEY STONES

WITH

ANNE GREY"

SPARKLING DIALOGUE! DELICIOUS SITUATIONS! HERE IS REFRESHING ENTERTAINMENT

FOR EVERYONE, A. B. & D. PICTURE.

COMING

A beautiful womon in one hairy hand... an airplane. pulled from

the sky, in the other! The monster ape

-tall as o

steeple, rushes

over streets and-rooftops!

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'KING

KONG"

is loose!

Fran go udra by EDGAR WALLACE and MERIAN

C. COOPER With FAY WRAY ROB?. ARMSTRONG BRUCE CABOT SCOOPER- SCHOEDSACK Production

THE BLARNEY

STONE?

Fine Picture At

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LAST TWO DAYS

**Cavalcade.”

Queen's.

"The White Sister."

Central

Che Blarney Stone."

Oriental.

Star.

**Grand, Hotel."'

KOWLOON

"Modady of the. Heart," Majestic.

Tonight is Ours."

COMING

KING'S

"The Infernal Machine." The Kid From Spain."

Queen's.

"Gabriel Over the White

Central.

***King Kogy."

Star..

Public-Defender,"

"White Devil'

World.

"Queen and the Nun."

(Cainess Fim)..

Prosperity."

Oriental.

House."

"The Cuban Loye Sung?

“INFERNAL MACHINE'

How Genevieve Tobin Became A Star

Education abroad has its advan

THRILLING ENTERTAINMENT-

Titanic in its Power!

CAVALCADE

PICTURE OF THE GENERATION

THE WHITE

SISTER"

by Noel

Coward THREE seething decades of relent-

less change sweep before your eyes plaguing nations, threatening empires, smashing civilization...a Cavalcade of mobs and monarchi

Ithe march of time measured by the beat of a human heart. mother heart... triumphant in its courage and steadfast faith.

40 Featured Player-Cost of 3500 A FOX Achievement Produced at Fox Movietone City

Cages as well as its disadvantages, Magnificent Acting by

ia the opinion of Genevieve Tobin, the dainty Fox Fimm star whose first picture under her new contract is the comedy romance the In fernal Machine. opening next Wednesday at the King's Theatre, in which she is co-featured with Chester Morris.

Miss Tobin, as a child, was tuken to France and was a pupil at L'In titute de l'Etoile, which is located near the famous Are de Triomphe ia Paris.

country

You certainly learn a lot of things about your own that you never learn in your own schools," she says. " much of which is true, Lat for some reason or other is omitted

from American textbooks..

+

"I had to unlearn a lot of Ameri- can history, for instance, that was aught me at home. And I learned a lot of things in American school about France that I never taught in Paris.

WNA

Helen Hayes

The White Sister," which began its run at the Queen's Thea tre yesterday, Helen Hayes gives one of the finest portrayals of her career. The part of Angela Chiaro monte, daughter of an Italian Prince, who became a nun because she thought her lover had been killed in the war, fits her to per- fection and she has unbuutided scope for the dramatic and whimsi cal acting for which she is justly

well known.

It is doubtful whether a better leading man could have been found for her than Clarke Gable, aa Gio vanni Sevori, the dashing Air Force Lieutenant who sweeps her off her feet

"

"CAVALCADE"

*

Final Showings At The King's

MADE BY BRITISH IN

HOLLYWOOD

How did Hollywood manage to film Nyel Coward's great English pageant play. "Cavacade" which plays at the King's Theatre today, without once giving away the fact that the people and the scenes were not actually in England? the following facts.

"An diea may be gathered from Practically all of the three thou sand "extras" used in the crowd scenes were British or Canadian settlers. Lieutenant Colonel Mage who took part in the relief of Mafeking, and Sergeant Fred Cop- pins a Canadian V. C. amongst them.'

Several leading members of the from England and Diana Wyn cast in Cavalcade" were fetched

BOOKING AT THE THEATHE "TEL. 25318 & 25332.

-NEXT

CHANGE COMMENCING WEDKESDAY,

27th SEPTEMBER.”

WHAT A MANI With one kiss he stole a rich man's fiancee, gave a thous sand people the jitters and rescued a ship from an explo sion that never happened INFERNAL MACHINE

with

CHESTER MORRIS GENEVIEVE

TOBIN

VICTOR JORY ELIZABETH PATTERSON Novel by Carl Sloboda Directed by Marcel, Varnel

FOX, PICTURE

"GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE !!

Coming To Queen's On Thursday

new

Today's most vivid headlines froan. Washington form the engross ing subject matter of Gabriel Over The White House," Cosmopolitan - Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer production which comes on Thursday, to the Queen's Theatre and bids fair to be one of the

greatest sensations in screen his tory.

The anonymous novel on which the picture is based is already a literary sensation. Appearing early in February, it immediately leaped into the best-seller class. As the first photoplay which has taken a Euited States President through the turmoil of modern days, it is considered to be the most daring motion picture ever produced.

Walter Huston Featured. Walter Huston heads an excep tional cast 15 the Hon. Judain Hammond, President of the United States, around whom an amazing chain of events revolves. Huston is an expert on Presidents, having portrayed both Lincoln and Grant for the camerak Karen Morley,

who scored in that other picture of national affairs. The Washing" ton Masquerade," plays the mys terious woman in the white House. The young Broadway stage star, Franchot Tone, recently seen with Joan Crawford in "Today We Live," has the role of the Presid ential secretary, Arthur Byron is seen as Secretary of State, and the cast also features the popular child "actor Dickie Moore; C. Henry Gordon as Nick Diamond, Liquor

Nanking. September 21.-Mr. Wang Ching-wel," the concurrent Minister of Foreign Affairs, recei- ved last evening Mr. Arika Ariyoshi, Japanese minister to China, at his official residence. They exchanged. views on current “affairs in North

the past 30 years before the film China as well as Mr. Huang Fu's was started. They found among Shanghal-Central Press

conversation with Ariyoshi at

other things that in 1900, during the Boer War, not one per cent. of the cigarettes consumed to-day were used. Mare pipes and cigars were stoked.

Then there was the equipment for the troops for the South Afri Can campaign. Rifles then were longer and the men wore gaiters in- stead of puttes.

Hollywood took no chances: the made in America! result is a perfect British filmm

Hongkong cinema-goers will have their last opportunity to view "Cavalcade" at the King's Theatre today, and to-morrow. The film is one which should not be missed and the majority of those who have seen it are agreed that it is pro- bably the best ever shown in Hong- kong.

The complete interior of a Lon don pub was shipped to Hollywood for the film and twelve London slum streets, were built for the great coster market scene. constructed "Cavalcade"

Most imposing of the specially There is a report to the effect Hollywood was Trafalgar Square first appearance in Hongkong. sets in that the film has been cut since its with Nelson's Monument and the This is not the case and those who. four huge tions at its base.

take this Inst opportunity of see- Square, surrounded by the town who saw it on the night of its

Another striking set was a com- posite of Grosvenor and Brekeley ture in as complete a form as thoge ing "Cavalcade" will And the pic-

house of London's upper ten."premiere In less than three weeks the square was built, grass sown planted with iron railings all round futility of war

Seldom has there been a film with and threes auch a powerful appeal against the and seats and asphalte, walks all which shows the history of Britain DA "Cavalcade,"

were set

during the past thirty years be ginning with the Boer War and ending with the dawn of 1933. The Africa, days of anxiety and then embarking of troops for South the triumphant return of the sur vivors, the passing of Queen Vic- toria, the Coronation of King Edward, the loss of the Titanic. the coming of the World War, the more modern time, the meeting of of the Socialists are included in this mad celebration of peace and in

the various Conferences, the rise film, the theme of which is tó portray war as it affects the aver- age woman,

The story is an exceedingly fine It is a broadening experience, one with a thrilling climax. Angela however, and it gives a child poise Chiaromonte, about to be married yard, Clive Brook, Herbert Mun-

Berkeley,

Flaming scarlet boxes of Queen Victoria's reign, a venerable old typical London taxicabs, and six London General horse-bus: three old hansoms and open landaus were

Complete sets of Britian's war posters were ac

"

and self-assurance to be able to to a rich and tedious gentleman din, Irene Browne, Frank Lawron, also taken over to Hollywood. converse accurately in another lan: from Rome, meets the galant Una. guage than her native tongue. Lieutenant when he runs into her Merle Tottenham and all the rest recruiting

O'Connor, Ursula Jeans, Another great advantage of eduen father's ear and they are at once

are British. tion abroad is that you are more attracted to each other. This first- a less forced to learn about minute attraction becomes

Frank Lloyd, who directed the tually used in the film and even famous artists and masterpieces of thing more on the eve of her wed-lived his boyhood at shepherds of English postimen to rap instead art. We had certain days when we ding when the Lieutenant "crashea" Bush. London, where he attended and the British method of starting some film was born in Glasgow, and such apparent trifles as the custom

went to the famous galleries, and into a party given by her father, an L. U. O school.

of whistle when they deliver letters. I certainly learned more about Prince Chiaromonte (Lewis Stone). such things in Paris than I ever She discovers that she loves him

trains by waving a green flag were would have learned at home, even and is just telling him so when her

carefully cheeked up by the ex- in an art school."

perts," father finds them. He is furious Strangely enough the starting and warns Angeln to give him up, sequence of the "Internal Machine" telling her for the first time that places Miss Tobin in Paris as, her mother committed suicide after beautiful American girl. chaperon just such an affair. Angela, how ed by her dunt, on their way home. ever, is too much in

On her last day in Paris she Giovanni" and hurries after him to love with into violent contect by the barracks. On the way there is means of a laxicab collision-with a terrible accidens in which her an American youth who has just father, who is pursuing her in an- about" decided that life is no longer other car, is killed. worth living. From then on

comes

hilarious arise.

Angels blames herself principal. Marcel Varnel directed. Thely for the tragedy and for many cast also includes Vietor Jory, days refuses to see her lover but Elizabeth Patterson, Mischa Auer, in the end she is reconciled to him J. Carroll Naish, Edward Van-only to have him taken away Sloan. James Bell and Arthur immediately by the war. They part sorrowfully, planning to get 'mar Hohl. King, whom Hammond wipes from ried when he returns." the face of the earth; David

But news comes through that he Landau, Samuel Hinds, William is killed and, heart-broken, think- Pawley, Jean Parker and Claire ing that God never intended her Dubrey..

to be married," Angela enters The story starts showing Ham- Convent mond as a jovial, bluffing politician

But the Lieutenaar is not killed.

full of platitades and a facility for and he returns, after many months avoiding direct action.

After

But he comes back soon, alj 'ilis same," to the" Hospital where she is working, montally wounded, and dies in her arma,

Central Theatre

serious automobile accident, a new, his fiance a non: The climax is in a terrible prison cape to find "The Blarney Stone," a British harder Hammond amerges, a Pre reached when he tries to persuade picture, now showing at, the Cen sident who forces the resignation of her to break her vows, Sher tral Theatre, is a film not to be an inept cabinet, who makes Con- mains firm, however, and tefiser nissed.

gress give him the power of and, in the end he leaves, promising Tom Wals as Tim Fitzgerald, a dictator, who face and solves the

never to come back, penniless Irish gentleman is true to problems of racketeering, únem. life, "Share" bia brogue, coupled, ployment and European debts. with the Irish stories do the real Gabriel Over the White House" thing.

was directed by Gregory La Cavu, Aune Gry, as an affectionate sio who won attention for his note ter to Lord Robert Douglas is worthy production of Symphony There are some magnificant scenar sweet. The story differs from the of Six Million." The picture was in the picture, ranging from the anual Hype associated with Tom "adapted from the anonymous novel interior of a church to aerial com Walls. Pathos is combined with Carey Wilson with additional beta and the horror and filth of A dry humour and draws forth a dialogue by Bertram Bloch and prison camp. The picture is a long tear as well as laughter, technical supervision by Eugens one, there being only a Newsreel The scenes are well laid and we Thackeray, former Washington preceeding it, but every inch of the hope to see more of Tom Walls in correspondent for the New York film is worth seeing and we can strongly recommend itERAN

Auch parts.

.

World.

former M. P. for Nottingham, and

Captain Reginald once

in the Secretariat of be League of Nations at Geneva, adapted the screen play from Noel Coward's original.

settled by experts who looked into Intricate technical problems were every phase of British life over

4 SHOWS CANY

vealed in the successive use of gas, Strict attention to detail is.re-

ineaudesent, carbon and modern story unfolds. eletric burners as the "Cavalcade" MAJES

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