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CENTRAL

HEATR

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUR

TO-DAY AT THE

King's

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"My Lips Betray."

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Thostre Tel. 26720.

Queen's.

"The Nuisance,

Central..

“King Kong."

World.

TO-DAY 4 SHOWS AF 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,80 P.M.

BREAKING ALL RECORDSI EDGAR WALLACE'S MIGHTY SCREEN

FANTASY!

Oriental.

"Sunshine Susie.”

"Three Who Lored.""

A beautiful woman 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!

"KING

KONG"

is loose!

from 16 o by EDGAR WALLACE and MERIAN C. COOPER With FAY WRAY ROBT. ARMSTRONG BRUCE CABOT 4 COOPER- SCHOEDSA CK Production

NEXT CHANGE

The detective mid the other fish both

had to take wHDET when the school

mart from lowe solved

THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER

With 17 EDNA MAY OLIVER

Koht. Armstrang James Gleason, Mes Clarke Dlaced by Georgs Archainband F

wiginal nors by

RKO RADIO Picture David O., Selznick jaxacnalna proåsacet,

・Stuart Kane and

ST FRANCIS HOTEL

MODERATE TARIFÉ

Star.

KOWLOON

The Secret of Madame

Blanche.

"A Lady's Profession."

Majestic.

King's.

COMING

"Hallelujah! I'm a Tramp."

"Moonlight and Pretzels."

Quean's.

"Pick Up!

||11

"Disgraced."

"When Ladies, Meet.

Central.

"The Penguin Poal Murder."

"Changeable Loves.”

(Chinese 'fim).

World.

Star.

..''Flesh."

Infernal Machine."

"Faithless."

Oriental

"Dixianua."

"Man about Town." Laughter in Hell."

J.

“HALLELUJAH, I'M A TRAMP”

And The Life History

Of Its Star

Al Jolson, was born in St. Peters- burg, Russia, which is probably why he likes hot weather. The hotter the better. He is happiest working out Boors when the California sun is blaz- ing out of a cloudless sky, and perfect ly contended on the set when everyone elsa is registering complaints about

the heat.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1933.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

"AT

2.30, 5.10.7.15

& 9.30.P.M.

.AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

· THE THIRD THEATRE IN THE WORLD TO SHOW

LILIAN HARVEY'S

FIRST HOLLYWOOD "PRODUCTION

"MY LIPS BETRAY”

THE "LOVE PARADE" OF 1933

WITH

JOHN BOLES and EL BRENDEL

A FOX SUPER PRODUCTION.

THE NUISANCE

Wreckage Cost Ran

High!

Buying street cars and automobiles to wreck, photographing an actress by the invisible light of an "X-ray," re- hearsing collisions and disasters and staging then, with trained stunt men, He has been working from twelve to ao accurately that "they deceive ex- eighteen bours a day at the United perts-these are some of the technical Artists Studio practicing songs, going feats that weut into the making of into huddles with everybody from excitement, comedy and romance for Joseph Schenck, the big boss, to ward-Lee Tracy's latest screen appearance. robe men, rehearsing with Madge Evans, Harry Langdon and other players, and nervously awaiting the actual filming of his new picture, "Hallelujah, I'm Tramp, which opens at the King's Theatre Sunday Next.

In it he forsakes his old robs entire ly for the character of a vagabond and park loafer,

Jolson, after a lifetime of tronping, still gets nervous during the first scenes of pictures or on his opening nights as the variest novice.

Smoking and gum-chewing are Al's chief dissipations. He does not in for intoxicants. He packs a good punch in either hand, and has been able to take care of himself physically since his knock-about boyhood days.

"The Nuisance," Metro-Goldwyn. Mayor's newfeature having its final showings" to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

Tracy is seen as a shystoy lawyer, whose principal business is chasing ambalances and working up faked accident, injuries and Iswanits, and who is finally tripped up when he falla in love with the blonde private detec- tive sent to ensnare him.

“THE PENGUIN

POOL MURDER”

"The Safest Place in

The World"

It took all but executive orders from President Hoover, Governor Roosevelt and Tammany Hall before RKO-Radio was permitted to shoot scenes of the historic New York Aquarium, form- erly Castles Garden, for technical use in filming Stuart Palmer's popular mystery story, "The Penguin Pool Murder," coming to the Central Theatre to-morrow.

The superintendent of the famous tourist maces in Rattery Park at first refused point-blank to permit came ramen entrance with their equipment for one reason only a mighty import- He ties up the traffic of a city, beant reason to him: murder never had meanders through comical troubles been nor could be done in the and difficulties galore, there are thrill-Aquarium. It is a calm, peaceful ing smashups, absurd sequences in a place, the safest in the world, and he great skating rink, chases and other wouldn't for the world have visitors vivid incidentals.

discouraged by any morbid fears, A big skating rink and all its Finally, RKO's New York technical patrons, too-were "rented" for the research department secured permis cars were wrecked for thrills. Daring to the New York Board of Aldermen- street traffic sequences were made by and by convincing the Aquarium expert drivers piloting cameras in and superintendent that the plot of the out add to the fast motion of the Penguin Pool Murder" is pure fiction picture. In the medical examination and would be treated as such.. sequence a real K-ray was naad för a weird photographic effect.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25392.

NEXT CHANGE. COMMENCING TO-MOHROW BUCK UPI LOOK UP! CHEER UPI ...

SINGI

persand, by JOSEPH M. SCHENCK

A

AL JOLSON

HALLELUJAH!

I'M A TRAMP!"

United

with

MADGE EVANS

FRANK MORGAN

Artist

HARRY LANGDON

A Lewis MILESTONE

Production

-The-first-picture---

Picture

ever done in "Rhythmle- Diologue"

WITH

FILMS SEEN IN LONDON

Three-Cornered -

Moon

Special Air-Mail Service

London, Sept. 19.

This story of a feckless New York family is one of the most charming and intelligent comedies since "The Royal Family of Broadway"; the sort of film that you would dare risk in & recommendation to all your friends. The lines are true and not too pithy, the situations honest and natural, and Claudette Colbert puta "them both over just a little better than your would think, possible. If you miss this"film you are losing s great deal of fun and at least one moment of grand emotional acting; like "Stranger's Return," this is one of those disarmingly supple pic- tures that turn out to be the best of the year.

DINNER AT EIGHT

This is a film with a ready-made audience it is unlikely that anyone will be able to resist avery name in its star muster, and no one will be wholly disappointed. It differs from "Grand Hotel in the method of presentation. · "Grand · Hôtel": was the better film, merging the individuality of the players into the unity of the plot. "Dinner at Eight" is the better star vehicle, breaking down the story into acting scenes for individual artists. The stars all say there pieces nicely, like good children at a prize-giving; the direction is straight stage stuff, running smoothly and precisely; the intrigue is good enough to carry your interest through a number of

6 NEW SONG disjointed scence. Dinner at Eig-

HITS

ht does not engage your emotions deeply, but it guarantees two hours of lavish entertainment with the service of a prince.

JUST SMITH

STORY OF "PICK ning romantic comedians on the

UP"

To-morrow's Attrac- tion at the Queen's

Mary Richards, leaving prison after having served her sentence is warned by Jim, her husband, who still has six years to serve for the same deal, to wait for him-or else.

Back in the city, Mary is destitute. She takes refuge in a taxi-cab on a rainy night, only to have the driver, Harry Glyon, threaten to throw her out. When he learns she has no home, he takes her to his.

Tom Walls is one of the most cun-

English screen, but so long as he insiste on "directing his own pit- tures we shall have to go on wait- ing for him to do something worth while, He may know all there is

to know about comedy timing be

hind the footlights, but he hasn' Tim Whelan knows about comedy begun to learn what man like

timing on the screen. "Just Smith" ing love to a new girl and stealing is just Walls in a new setting, mak-

will be booked all over the country, a new necklace in a new way.

and audiences will love it, and ite

success

will again prevent Mr. Walls from realising how very much better Tom Walls the actor without Tom Walls the director would be..

film that comes hot-and-hot from

THE FIRE RAISERS We have shouted so long and so Mary and Harry fall in love. Mary loudly for a journalistic talkie a becomes a switchboard operator in the taxicab garage. She quickly discovers the news of the day that it may that Harry is the ace cab-driver but doesn't know it. She develops seem a bit ungracious to grumble ambitions for him; wants him to buy when we get it. Gaumont-British A suburban garage. But he isn't so deserve full credit for putting the bot for that idea. He hasn't much topical theme of incendiarismon ambition and is satisfied. So Mary, the screen, and for getting the film by inferring an insult from the boss, out while the subject is still front- has them both fired, and they buy the page news. Their mistake is in mak- garage.

That afternoon Harry asks Mary to

ing it so obviously a stop-press item. Michael Powell, who directed it, marry him, but she cannot, she says has economical ideas ou continuity get a divorce without the newspapers of pounds a week. But he has yet She is already married, and cannot

that save his producers hundreds her one-time notoriety. site of the garage and informs hita of

to prove that he can think big. Mary's whereabouts,

When he is nervous waiting for the hilarious skating sequence. A dozension to shoot the pictures by applying reviving Jim's pal discovers the

scenes during those long waits when the lights are being adjusted and cameras set up. he munches on a raw turip. He gets a fresh kick every time he enters an airplane, but will walk up flights of stairs to avoid elevatora D this he is like King Vidor who goes him one better. He won't even walk up. Just doesn't leave the ground at all.

Jolson has driven some of the worlds highest powered cars, and can handle the wheel with professional skill, but be drives around Bollywood backing traffic in a small equipage of popular pake. (Guess).

He batea to be alone. Jolson can usually be found in a crowd. At any baseball or football game, boxing, or wrestling match, Jolson is invariably in the front row with a party of friends, and yelling the loudest.

He seldom writes letters but is the best friend and patron of the telephone and telegraph companies. His tele grams usually run into several pages and he talks long distance from Holly. wood to New York or vice versa, by the hour. He calls Mrs. Jolson every day.

Jolson's anonymous charities are legion. He has written the lyrics for many songs and given the royalties to charity and he had donated his servi- ces to hundreds of benefite "during his long career.

He has a rather original idea that lie should not do anything for himself that he can let some one else do, if it will help them" For instance be never shaves himself "because that's why we have

barbers":

THE CHEER-O CLUB

NEARLY $13,000 RAISED

Following are donations, to the Cheer-O Club Building Fand:- Mr. & Mrs. F. C. Hall

1.8.200

One case of diphtheric was re- Staff, Hongkong, & Kowloon

ported on Thursday.

The Sincere Co. Ltd., announce that in celebration of Confucius tirthday, all their stores will be closed for business on Monday, October 18th, for one day only,

Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.... Nursing Staff, Kowloon Hospital Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Taggart Mr. & Mrs. L N. Murphy Previously acknowledged

Total

والدة

100

40

250

160 ... 12,161

$12,947

Madge Evans is the heroine of The Nuisance," and Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth, Virginia Chorrill, David Landau, Greta Mayer. Herman Bing, Samuel Hinds and Syd Saylor have the chief supporting roles. Jack Con- way, who directed the submarine thriller, "Hell Below," fimed the new picture...

4 SHOWS DAILY

2.30–3.16

7.15-$30

The aquarium scenes were essential to the studio set building department in Hollywood, which has duplicated in. detail every interior feature of the New York Landmark

Robert Armstrong, Donald Cook and Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Mae Clark enact the combination of hilarious comedy and intriguing my. stery. George Archainbaud directed

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ORIENTAL

TO-DAY ONLY

RENATE MULLER JACK HULBERT

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TEL. 22478

TO-MORROW.

MONDAY TUESDAY

ANOTHER

ABBI RIOT!

BIG LAUGH.

OWEN NARES AND 100 OTHERS

IN

SUNSHINE

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THE -

FUNNIEST AND MOST

PRETENTIOUS

BRITISH

MUSICAL COMEDY

PRODUCTION. EVER MADE.

BERT WHEELER and ROBERT WOOLSEY.. 'Cuckoo Clowns

of "Rio Rita"

DIXIANA

BEBE

souty of

DANIELS

But all does not run smoothly. Harry now becomes really ambitions. He meets Muriel Stevena, daughter of the wealthiest man in the suburb, and she, infatuated with him, invites the couple to a party. Mary cannot-con- trol herself an she sees the brazen way Muriel "goes for " Harry. She creates

& scena

Harry, Mary consults a lawyer and Desperate in her fear of losing finds she can have an annulment of her marriage without publicity be cause her husband is a convict.

The day the papers come through, Harry is week ending with Muriel. When he returns he tells Mary one can't control love. Ele seks Muriel to marry him, but the ridicules him for aiming so high. He leaves in a rage.

In the meantime, Jim has called on Mary and threatened to kill Harry. To protect him, she goes away Jim.

Together in his hideaway, Jim die- covers sha" has freed herself of him. He tells her he wasn't released from prison. He escaped after killing a guard, and Mary will be booked as his outside pal

with

As the next development Harry reads of Mary's arrest with Him. Belling all his property, he secures the best attorney in town to defend her.

During the trial, Jin attempts to shoot Harry, but the gun doesn't go off. The powder has been removed from the shells. This convinces the jury of Mary's innocence. She and Harry drive away in his cab to be

married.

A lecture on "Settlement of In ternational War Debts" was deli- vered by Mr. N. Gustillo, MA (Com.) to members of the Law and Commerce Society at the Univer- sity last evening. The speaker re- viewed conditions in Europe and Americs after the World War, and the various plans adopted by America The Dawes Plan, Young Plan and the Hoover Moratorium in order to make the various nations to pay their War Debts

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Boul, Kowloon Tel. 67222 TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.

HER LARCENY WAS GRAND!....,

A Grand Dame "in" ́a. Grand

Show! Loaded With

•Laught Packed With Romancel

LADY'S PROFESSION

ALISON SKIPWORTH ROLAND YOUNG SARI MARITZA

VEEN.

SIG LONDITIONED THE STRE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20 p.m.

FIRST AID to “ blondes in distress!

Lee Trasy al- ways forgot his

·racket when & blonde Brossed his path!

He brings the laughs and thrills of "am

bulance chasing

LeeTRACY NUISANCE

IN THE

with

MADGE EVANS

FRANK MORGAN

CHARLES BUTTER- WORTH

19

Metro-Goldwyn Maya

MOTULE

TO-MORROW

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

THET

SHORE

OF MADAMI

BLANCHE

The soul of

& Woman smashed to save her son!

IRENE

Dunne

Lionel ATVIRA Phillips HOLMES

As Directed by

Charles BRABIN

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