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CENTRAL

THEATRI

'TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUN

Advance Booking at Andersona and the Theatre Tel. 23730,

TO-DAY 5 SHOWS AT.

12.80, 230, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30

EDGAR WALLAGE'S

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

King's.

HONG KONG

"The Good Companious.

Queen'a.

"Rasputin and the Empress." Central,

"King Kong."

Oriental.

"Bird of Paradise,"

MIGHTY SUREEN

Stat.

FANTASY!

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

the sky, in the other! The monster ope tall as a steeple, rushes

over streets Brand: rooftops!

KING

·KONG“ is loose!

From an ideo by EDGAR WALLACE and MERIAN C. COOPER With FAT WRAY

ROBT.

ARMSTRONG

BRUCE CABOT A COOPER- SCHOEDSACK Production

NEXT CHANGE

The detective and

the other fish both

had to take witer when the school- már from lown solved

THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER

With

EDNA MAT OLIVER

James Gleason· Mas Clarko Directed by Gmeze Archalsband. Fren

Lowell Branchno and StuartPalmer, FUKO RADIO Piciaro Duke C. Salzaick, janesutive producer

F.A.'S NEW – VICE PRESIDENT

Mr. M. K. Lo Elected

MK Lo, the President

KOWLOON

"Heli Below."

Majestic.

Racing Youth."

King's.

COMING

"My Lips Betray.

Queen's.

"Nuisance.*

"Pick Up.

Central,

The Penguin Pool Murder.”

World.

"Public Defender.".

"tovable Enemies" (Chinese

.Film).

Three Who Loved,"

Star.

"Oh Sailor Behave."

"Secrets of M.M. Blanche,'

Oriental.

"13 Women, Irene Dunn and

Ricardo Curtez.''..

“KING KONG”

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933.

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

AT

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

A MUSICAL COMEDY!

GRACIOUSLY PATRONISED BY THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.

"

THE GOOD COMPANIONS

BASED UPON THE NOVEL BY J. B. PRIESTLEY

Staring JESSIE MATTHEWS

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EDMUND GWENN MARY GLYNNE A. W. BASKCOMB JOHN GIELGUD Directed by

VICTOR SAVILLE

GAUMONT-BRITISH PICTURE

"THE GOOD -COMPANIONS”

tor.

"BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332.

-NEXT CHANGE COMMENCING TO-MORROW THE THIRD THEATRE IN THE WORLD TO SHOW

LILIAN HARVEY'S

FIRST HOLLYWOOD

PRODUCTION

'MY LIPS BETRAY"

with

JOHN BOLES EL BRENDEL THE LOVE PARADE."

OF 1933

A SUPER FOX PICTURE.

Born in Warsaw, Boleslavsky be-Brick for London," that journal, came an actor, then a stage direc- according to a Reuter message, goes

on to say, that: When Russia entered the war, Poland was promised independence if its soldiers would join the Rus sian forces, and Boleslavsky, who

"Notwithstanding its rain" and its fog and its gloomy winters and depressing summers and notwith-

The Films Greatest Edmund Gwenn As held a lieutenant's commission with standing the ineptitude of British

Fantasy

There is something new under the sun-ares, and Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack, with their production of King Kong," have done it!

The producers of Grass and "Chang" have soared grandly into the realms of imagination for the super-fantasy "King Kong, the IKO-Radio Picture featuring. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot at the Central Theatre to

day.

Jess Oakroyd

of

It will always be a matter conjecture which of two very mous actors would best create the part of Jess Oakroyd, in the film "The Good Companions,"

, since ly one of them could play the role in the film.

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over

the Lancers, went with his men,

During the war they were station ed on the Austrian-German line near Halciz in the Carpathian Mountains, When the Russian armies rebelled and joined the re- fa-volutionists, the Lancera started the range wanderings which eventually led them to Moscow and home. First they crossed the Austrian hae, then started through the Carpath ian Mountains in a winding route, crammed with hairbreadth escapes and adventures, to the River Pruth, thence to the Dneister and eventu ally to the Moscow, railroad, pick ing up food, as they could and con stantly in danger of the Bolshevik forces.

Before the war "Boleslavsky was with the Moscow Art Theatre. For again with a year he acted as a cameraman in filling Heary the Polish-Bolshevik war in 1990. He then came to New York where old he produced The Vagabond King" and "Mr. Moneypenny" and colla- borated on "Three Musketeers," "Macbeth" and "The Miracle" Motion pictures beckoned him and he came to Hollywood as writer and director.

Originally Victor Saville selected Henry. Ainley, the celebrated Shakespearean actor, for the role. Filming had proceeded for about three weeks when Mr. Ainley was taken seriously ill. As this reco- very was a question of weeks, the With the late Edgar Wallace, filmi could not be held up for so Cooper conceived the extravagantly long a period, so filming had to fantastic idea of bringing the pre-emmence historic age into juxtaposition with Edmund Gwenn the modern age. First au expedi- Ainley's role. tion to a jungle island discovers The actors, of course, are surviving members of tife Jurassic friende. Between filming Gwern visit the other Age the pterodactyl, trachodon, found time to tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, tricer Jess" in the nursing home, and atops and others-ruled over by a to condole with him on his loss of giant ape standing more than fifty a very fine part.

Edmund Gwenn accepted the feet high.

role at

Не a few hour's notice. Then the ape is transported to was greatly worried at not having civilization--to New York, Breaktime to study his part before Alm- ing loose he tears through the ing commended. However, that wireets where people, automobiles, hasn't spoilt his performance, and street cara, elevated lines are like his portrayed with its Yorkshire so many tin tops beneath one's feet dialect is sheer delight, The one -where even the tallest buildings regret is that one

cannot have

in the world is no more difficult to more of him. climb than a tree!

"The Good Companions? sbow- The great "King Kong evening at the King's Theatre to-day. reaches into the sky and provides

a new menace for airmen. A snatch

at a plane pumping machine gun bullets into his tough hide, and it is doomed.

"King Kong" is a terror-the mightiest terror man, either in or out of fiction and of the movies; ever attempted to capture and sub

duel

The imagination of the story is

"RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS"

Now Showing At The Queen's

had strange careers, ranging from Film directors in many cases have Tod Browning, who started as a circus "barker to Charles Reisner

something to marvel at, but the who was once a prize fighter. But visualization of it-its production

is a miracle of modern science. It the strangest career of all in, the blends fancy with realism so magi-directorial field is that of the man cally that you question what is fact who directed John, Ethel and Lion. and what isn't!

el Barrymore in "Rasputin and the Empresa," which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre,

A FORMER LANCER He is Richard Boleslavsky, for mer Polish army lieutenant, who served with the detachment of Pol- ia lancers that aided Russia when she fought with the Allies in the World War.

There is romance, too, in "King Kong." Bruce Cabot in love with Fay Wray, finds the monster is his rival. It's new angle on the Beauty and the Beast theme. The fragile, golden-haired heroine is the first in millions of years to touch a soft, tender spot in the heart of this Beast, and for her he kills giant The former army officer, who terror and wreaks havoc with figured in mankind and its protection of cour-venture

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when,

amazing after

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the

wan

se terrorizes the girl, and thrills Revolution, his company the audience as well.

dered over half of Russia living. Extravagan with its surprises as it could until it reached War- Baw, Brst came to pictures &

of the South China Athletic As-and action, "King Kong sweeps writer. Then he wrote "The Way sociation, has been elected Vice one into a new realm of entertain President of the Hongkong Foot-ment and leaves one with something of a Lancer" and "Lances Down, ball Association in succession to to wonder at and talk about,

Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall..

Mr, Lo is also the Vice President of the Lawn Tennis Association and is well-known in the sports feld, being one of the foremost tennis players in the Colony, D

The election to the Vice-Presid ency of the Football Association was announced on Friday night.

London, Oct 8.-The engagement 's announced of Dr. Sze Ming-sac. eldest son of Dr, Alfred Bze. Chin- ese Minister to the United States, o Miss Bessie Yueh Ching-li el

tro stories of his experiences, which proved to be best-sellers.

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Because of his comprehensive knowledge of Russia, where for years he was a noted stage director," Boleslavsky was chosen to guide the drama of the fall of the Romanoffs in which John Barrymore plays s princs of the realm, Ethel the Crar- est daughter of Mr. Li Ming, Chair-ina, Lionel the "Holy Devil" and

Ralph Morgan the Car.

man of the Bank of China.

LONDON AS WORLD'S FILM CENTRE

U.S. Newspaper Attacks Douglas Fairbanks

people for taking films and not- withstanding the enormous organi- sation which has been created at be- Hollywood... London is to come the film centre of the world.

The London papers solemn ly assert that Mr. Fairbanks has decided to move the film in- dustry from Hollywood to London.

"But the London papers have

gotten the situation slightly upside down. The plain fact is that Mr. Fairbanks is not moving the film industry to England, but the film industry is moving Mr. Fairbanks

THE NUISANCE

Drama Of New York Racketts

Two hundred, people staged cabaret party, in a reproduction of a great New York night club, for two three-second flashes in a talking picture. This odd but elaborate action was filmed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for A sequence in "The Nuisance," new legal racket drama with Lee Tra- cy, which comes on Thursday, to the Queen's Theatre.

The scene shows Tracy propos- ing to Madge Evans in a night club.. Tables were set for two hundred. an elaborate set ..ar- ranged, and with this background of revelry, Tracy and Miss Evans, at a table near the cameras, ex- change twenty words. According to Jack Conway, director of the picture, scenes like this tend to speed, action in this particular type of picture.

USES BOGUS EVIDENCE

"Tracy plays a fast-talking shys- ter lawyer, engaged in an amazing ambulance-chasing business, In which with falsifed X-rays. ·`and other bogus evidence he uses for injuries of clients in accidents and amasses a fortune. Miss Evans is Ateminine detective sent out to trap him,

Hilarious accties In 3. great .skating rink, druma in a court- room, thrills in amazing accident

clever sequences, the

trick by the which the shyster tles up traffic of a city and other "adven- tures figures as dramatic high spots in the new picture.

An elaborate cast appears. Miss Evans plays, the heroine, Charles Butterworth” the "professional flopper" who throws himself be fore autos, dissembles injuries, and sues; Frank Morgan is the quack doctor who manufacturers. "medi- cal evidence," and John Miljan the. traction company attorney. Vir- ginia Cherrill, David Landau, Great Meyer, Herman Bing and Samuel Hinds have supporting roles. "The Nuisance" is Tracy's first picture since his outstanding hit in "Clear All Wires."

W

Tokyo, Oct, .a. The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha hds re-

National Government, to become an fused the proposal of the Nanking agent for the American cotton which is being brought to China through the Chinese cotton wheat loans, according to reports

bere.

and

to England. Mr. Fairbanks used to money will be used. The Japanese.

be a notable figure in the films,

but he has become somewhat passe

and has gradually descended from pictures to programme feature

and from programme. pictures pictures, to, travelogues, and from travelogues to London."

"

The Mitsui action as appreciated in various circles here as it is not known so far for what purpose the

fear the Chinese Government may use the money for military purposes or in an anti-Japanese campaign.~. "United Press"

The following military promotions have been recently Gazetted: 2nd. Lieute P. G. Parker, D. A. Kayll and A. G. L. Close (Royal Artille- LONDON'S REJOINDER ry), D. P. St. C. Rossier (Lincolns), This is the same Mr. Fairbanks. D. R. Stevenson and J. B. Harvey who made The Black Pirate, Argyll and Sutherland Highlan. "Robin Hood," "The Thief of Bag-ders) to be Lieutenants. dad," and a dozen other great pic- tures which brought prestige to the screen and millions of dollars to Hollywood. To write of him in such terms is as ungrateful as it is unmannerly..

It is also rather, silly. The "New York American" has, in fact, "got ten the situation all wrong." Mr. Fairbanks never suggested that he was going to move the film centre

the pendulum, bound to become more marked, from Hollywood to Europe.

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That swing has already lost Hollywood a large proportion of its. former foreign revenue. It is fact that a number of British pic- tures increased from 91 in 1928, to.

of the world. He is much too mod-156 in 1932, while foreign pictures

est and sensible a man. He knows dropped from 605 to 459. that though he is a distinguished The suggestion by Douglas Fair-

and welcome addition to the ranks banks, sen, that London may one day be the film centre of the of British film producers, organis- world, has inspired an attack inations for producing successful the "New York American."

pictures are already here. He was Heading the article "A Goldmerely speaking of the swing of

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THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

RICHARD WALTON TÜ, LY'S SENSATIONAL STAGE PLAY NOW A BLAZE OF GLORY ON THE SCREEN

DOLORES DEL RIO

and JOEL MCCREA

PACKED with thrills, eruption of a giant volcano, terrific

struggle with man eating sharks, battle with savage nativ

of the South Seas and 100 other thrills never seen before.

QUEEN

►AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2,80, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20 p.m. JOHN

BARRYMORE

as Prince Paùl, a role that wius him new fame

ETHEL

BARRYMORE

as the Czarina, added fame to the stage's brilliant star

LIONEL

BARRYMORE

as Rasputiu, a living portrait of unforgettable power

RASPUTIN

AND THE EMPRESS

A Memo Goldwyn-Mayez mÇTURE ?

with

DIANA WYNYARD

NEXT CHANGE

LEGS

ILAW. LOVE

and

J. Phinese

Stevens

couldn't live Without them!

LeeTRACY

THE

NUISANCE

with MADGE EVANS

MAJEZTIC STAR

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LAUGHS AMID THRILLS AND BACING SPILLS. SEE ONE OF THE SCREEN'S GREATEST COMEDY TEAMS. IT'S FAST! ITS FUNNY!... IT'S FINE WITH SLIM SUMMERVILLE,

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YOUTH

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW 0 & 9,20 p.m.

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 &

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