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CENTRAL

THEATR

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BES

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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

Advance Booking at Andersons

King's

and the Theatre Tel, 23720.

SHOWING TO-DAY

FOUR HOWS DAILY

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,80 P.M.

A CHINESE PICTURE

"THE MANAGEMENT - WISAKS

TO NOTIFY ALL OUR PATRONS THAT AS FROM TO-DAY THE THEATRE HAS BEEN ENGAG. ED FOR ONE WEEK FOR THE SHOWING OF THE SENSATION- AL CANTONESE ALL TALKING AND SINGING FILM

"THE WHITE

GOLD DRAGON"

FEATURING

Mr. & Mrs.

SIT KOK SIN

||

THE POPULAR STAGE

STARS

NEXT CHANGE

GLOOM SCRAMS! RIOT REIGNS!

Month's big fun show with the gayest clowns

that ever hung a jury or hanged the bluesi

LADIES OF THE JURY

ERNA MAY

OLIVER JILL ESMOND

ROSCO ATES KEN MURRAY.

RKO RADIO PICTURE

"The Kid from Spain."

Queen's.

"Gabriel "Over the White

House."

Central,

The White Gold Dragon"

(a Chinese Fieture)

Oriental,

Stat.

"Smoke Lightning.

KOWLOON

The White Devil.”

Majestic,

Laughter in Hell'

King's.

COMING

The Good Companions"

Queen's.

"All-Comedy Programme."

Central.

Star,

"Ladies of the Jury." "King Kong."-

"Too Many Cooks." "My Wifes Familly. "Public Defender.

World.

"Smart Woman." "Beauty Mart.

(Chinese

talkie).'

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1933.

"SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.80.8.10, 7.15 &9.30 F.M.

KINO

AIR-CONDITIGNED THEATREN

YOU KNOW IT'S FUNNY!

Eddie

FUN AS FAST AS EDDIE CAN CANTOR WITH A

BULL BEHIND HIN - TUNES AS SNAPPY AS

THE 76 LOVELIEST GIRLS. IN THE WORLD.

CANTOR

in

Che KID FROM SPAIN

with Lyda Roberti, Sidney Franklin' The Lovely GOLDWYN GIRLS

VÄITED ARTISTS PICTURE

·ALSO·

MICKEY MOUSE

PRESENTS THE MAD

DOCTOR "

MICKEY MOUSE

Pictures In Hong Kong

“THE GOOD COMPANIONS”

Coming To King's Next Week

All who have travelled the road" with Inigo Jollifant, Jess Bakroyd, Morton Mitcham, and a host of other merry "vegabonds,"

"SMOKE LIGHT- NING "

At The Oriental

Theatre

Although many girls reach

:-

and have followed the fortunes of screen fame while still in their Susie Dean with keen interest, will teens, the newest feminine aspi- learn with pleasure that these lov-rant for film honours had yet to able characters of J. B. Priestley's celebrate her tenth birthday. famous novel, "The Good Com Betsy King Ross, who came from panions." epme to life in a magni- her Texas ranch to enact one of Scent talking picture to be seen at the two feminine leads in George the King's Theatre next week:

The initial screening of Toe Good Companions" was gecorded the gracious patronage of Their Majesties the King and Queen, Is was, in fact, the King's firat talkie. This royal approval of a brilliant Taken from Zane Grey's "Can- British talkie brought to a happy you Walls," the pictare presents

O'Brien's latest Fox Picture,

"Smoke Lightning" now showing at the Oriental Theatre, owns trunk full of cups, trophies and medals which she won through her amazing riding skili.

-AND

THE

SAMUEL GOLDWYI. PRODUCTION

"FATHER NOAH'S ARK" A SILLY STPHONY IN TECHNICOLOUR.

"THE KID FROM SPAIN"

Stars At King's Theatre To-day

Eddie Cantor in "The Kid from Spain" had to assume importance as a production pretty much in the same way that a skyscraper takes on height and aize. The big screeix musical comedy that brings the beady eyed comic in company with Lyda Roderti and the famous Gold wyn Girls to the King's Theatre, day, in the work of many hands and minds.

T

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TAL. 25313 &95332.

NEXT: GHANGE

BRILLIANT TALKING" PICTURE VERSION OF L B. PRIESTLEY'S - FAMOUS

NOVEL

ff

THE GOOD COMPANIONS"

STARRING

JESSIE MATTHEWS.

WITH

EDMUND GWENN MARY - GLYNNE A. W. BASKCOMB JOHN GIELGUD

A

JUAUMONT-BRITISH-PICTURE.

and a wild tear through the Mexi- can border, past the emigration officials disguised as Don Sebastian 11, famos matador, into amazing complications in the love affairs of his comrade and some disturbing amorous business on-his own.

Kalmar and Ruby made their contribution more than co-author- skip of the story with McGuire; they provided "The Kid: from Spain with three songs that nothing less than inspired Eddie Moonlight," "What a Perfect Cor- ; Cantor numbers. Already. "In the bination" and "Look What You're Done are to be heard from every loudspeaker in the land..

WORLD'S UNLUCKIEST FILM STAR

Miss Mary Nolan Reveals

Divorce Secret

"Miss Mary Nolan, the file stac, has just revealed that her husband. Mr. Wallace T. Matrery, divorced her sight months ago. Miss Nolan, who is 29, has been called the "world's unluckiest film star.'"

She spent an unhappy childhood in "a convort. Then she entered the fanus Ziegfeld Follies, where her beauty book New York by storm.

She married Wallace Macrery and thought she would be happy at last, but in March last year she and her husband had to appear bes fore.the Courts accused of failing to pay the wages of workers in a dressmaking business which they ran together. That business went bankrupt.

Four nicths later. states Reuter, Mary announced that she intended to divorce her husband because they were "a drawback" to each other. But now he has divorced her instead.

FILM STAR'S TARTAN

Miss Anna May Wong Inspects New Glasgow Store

A tartan skirt and the were worn by Miss Anna May Wong, "the Chinese Elm star, when she visited the extended section of Lewis's Royal Polytechnic in Argyle Street, Glasgow, on Saturday, accompani- ed by Lord Provost A...B. Swan and Mrs. Swan.

Miss Wong's tour coincided with the opening of four floors of the new building.

Her inspection of the premises aroused great interest among the large crowd of shoppers.

MORE GOLD FROM THE

EGYPT

The Artiglio's Visit To Plymouth

(Special Air-Mail Service).

Bept. 12: Work on the sunken liner Egypt from the salvage steamer Artiglo was suspended on Baturday night on account of the tides. From August 11 to September when the conditions were only occasion-

Were ally favourable, there

56 working hours.

The Artiglo arrived in Plymouth at 12.30 yesterday and 1änded 27 bars of gold of different sizes,.} about 8,400 sovereigns, and 214 bars of silver, of a total value of about £57,000 Up to date 73 per of the sovereigns,. 78 per cent. cent. of the gold bars, and 944 per cent, of the silver in the Egypt has been recovered.

Vice-Admiral E. J. A. Fullerton visited the Artiglio to-day and was

Sorima Company. Captain Caru, and the chief diver, Mario Raf- faelli, who was congratulated on the successful work of his suction apparatus.

The Artiglio left at 6 pm. for Brest,

When Edche and Miss Roberti sing their songs. the picture has an other excuse if one is needed for the introduction of beautiful, girls, Each background makes them look received by Count Buraggi, of the different and more beautiful. First Two years ago, Eddie Castor in the dormitory, with the morning and his boss, Samuel Goldwyn, sunlight pouring through the high talked over the idea of having a

casement windows, the polished story in which Eddie would appear Hoors and the marble columns, with Brooklyn who grew up to become their slumbers and climbing to as the pop-eyed Jewish brat from dozens of maidens arising out of the world's greatest bullfighter. their roof garden pool for a Vaguely, it had some foundation. in plunge later in the cafe scene io the career of Sidney Franklin which Matador Eddie is honoured, signed the dances and the ensem and the star, to Eddie registered it their ebony tresses flat and glisteneffects and detaile of background; They liked the idea, the producer appearing as dark-eyed senoritas, bles; Richard Day planned and executed the elaborate scenic under the title of The Kid fromning under Lace-capped mantillas; kлowa,

Leo McCarey, directed the story: then in the moonlit garden, with and Alfred Newinan wielded the Cammanding in its support the long, flowered transparent gowoS insists are the loveliest this side of dream; and then, for the finale in. al effort from any British studio. his wing. Thereafter one

mpressive musical treatment. As a novel Mr. Priestley's epic has follows another in this production beavan. Lyda Roberti, Ruth Hall the areas, as the pride of Mexico, added to the enjoyment of many which we believe surpasses all of Robert Young, John Miljan and olive-skinned beauties for whose thousands at home and abroad; as the star's previous offerings.

Noah Beery and a cast of a bun amilemen gladly gamble with a stage play, The Good Com-

David Howard directed "Smoke from Spain takes Eddie from

dred people, the story of "The Kid death. panions" was brought even more Lightning." and the cast including girls' dormitory to a bank robbery vividly to life, but it is only just the beauteous blonde, Nell O'Day,

climax a production rightly regard- (Betay in the "role" of a wealthy or talents of 75 girls that Galdwyn in which they float by, as in a conductor's "baton and conceived ed as the most ambitious directori. phan whom O'Brien takes under

to assert that the screen veron. unhindered by the limitations of the footlights, brings to a famous work of fiction a new and stirring. ly vivid interpretation.

Seldom has a great novel been

GABRIEL OVER trangiated to the screen with such

THE WHITE HOUSE"

Excellent Film At The Queen's

White

meticulour regard for atmosphere. This epic story of a troupe of en- fertainer, their ups and downa, their loves and hates, their striv-

thrin

Virginia Sale and Clarence Wilson. Frank Atkinson, Morgan Wallace,

HOLLYWOOD PARTS-

YOUNG SCOTS

Girl

ings and contrivings, makes the Ayrshire Man And Edinburgh' most fascinating picture in the world." The Good Companions," in fact, is vibrant life translated to celluloid for the entertainment of millions to whom the wonders of the story have yet to be made known.

"Gabriel Over The

The leading players are Jessie House," now showing at the Matthews, John Gielgud, Edmund Queen's Theatre, 1.8 an extra Gwenn, A. W. Baskemb, and ordinary story of a President of Mary Glynne. the United States, who, from a jovial, Insincere and evasive poli- tican suddenly becomes hard and

short the picture mainly. decisive, after a motor, accident.

He fires the Secretary of War concerns the doings of a modern and asks for the resignation of president and of the present con- his enttre cabinet when they dillons in the United States, and hesitate to support his move to in view of its place of production

feet again..

(Special Air-Mall Service)

London, Sept. 12 Two young Sents have been chosen by Ernst Lubitsch, the film director, for 'a picture,The Search for Beauty", which will be started at Hollywood on October 15, They are

Miss Gwen Lilian Gill, 17 Hope Crescent, Macdonald Itoad, Edinburgh;^and.

Mr. Robert Sinclair Scott, SP

Roare, Skelinorlie,

Miss Gill won the local competi

rekeve the Unemployed Army! it is somewhat daring, for it aption at Poole's Cinema, Edinburgh, He demands that Congress give parently attempts to give Freal-and. Mr. Sinclair the coolest at him, the powers of a dictator! He dent Roosevelt à lesson! Green's Playhouse, Glasgow. Both fights directly with the "King" of It is an excellent film and went to London for final tests the racketeers, and sweeps the should not be missed particularly country of all its evils.

by those who wish to get them The story is brought to a stir-selves acquainted with the White ring climax when the President House! Walter Huston as the dies after he has affected a peace President is outstanding while the treaty between the United States rest of the cast including Fran- and the foreign powers and, after chot Tone and Karen Morley give he has put the country on its excellent support.

Miss Gilf was at work yesterday morning in a draper's shop at South Bridge when the news was taken to her. There was an ont burst of clapping among her fellow. assistants She is 18 years of age and regards the decision as a great opportunity for her.

4 SHOWS

DARY

7.15-12.30

7

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