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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAXE QUEEN'S ED., WESTBOUND BUS'

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

King's.

Advance Booking at Andersöns and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

"Sailor's Luck."

Queen's.

TO-DAY TWO SHOWS

5.15 & 9.30 P.M.

HER SECOND MARRIADE MIANT NOTHING TO HER FIRST HUSBAND

AN

HARDING

in the story of o woman"whe yearned

for the love of the scapegrace huswand she had divorced

"WESTWARD

PASSAGE"

These Charming People."

Central,

"Westward Passage."

Oriental

Homicide Squad.'

KOWLOON

"Big Time."

Majestic.

"Men of Chance.

Star.

King's

COMING

** Loved You Wednesday," "The Midnight Follies."

Queen's

The Sign Of The Cross,'

"Summer Lightning."

Central.

World.

LAURINCI OLIVIER

with

EKO FATHE PICTURE

12 80, 2.30 # 7.15 P.M.

A CHINESE PICTURE,

COMI VG SOON

BRITISH & DOMINIONS

PRESENTS

RALPH LYNN

ENGLAND'S BRILLIANT

COMEDIAN

IN

"SUMMER

1

"Tell England."

Star..

"Payment Deferred"

**Fast Life."

Oriental.

"Laughter in Hell"

"Hell's Angles."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT

2.80, 5:10,7.15 &9.30 P.M.

CROCKED IN

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY

IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP

Lovesick at sea and sea- sick ashore... You'll laugh one minute and laugh the next at this hilarious tale of a gob who made love to a nautical-minded * beauty in a bathing pool.

SAILOR'S LUCK

Sally

EILERS

Sammy COHEN

Directed by Kumul Walih

Victor

James

DUNN

JORY

FOX PICTURE

Pictures In Hong Kong

"WESTWARD PASSAGE"

Ann Harding in a Divorce Drama

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Have writers usurped the place of preachers in moulding public opinion on morals?

Twenty years ago the views men and women und divorce were mostly the outgrowth of their religious train novels, motion pictures and delling plays exert the deepest influence on the ethical standards of the great majority.

LIGHTNING" ing. Today, socioligists claim, best

zeith

WINTFRED SHOTTER

A HILARIOUS BRITISH COMEDY

Chinese Actors

Actresses

If this is true, many women will find a sane consideration of their pro- blems in "Westward Passage," now showing at the Central Theatre.

Ann Harding, who brings to every role she plays an honesty which appeals to men and women alike, as

young

SAILOR'S LUCK"

With Victor "Jory A

Future Star

"I LOVED YOU WEDNESDAY"

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25913

& 25392.

·FROM SUNDAY

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION I- ON THE SCREEN

A Woman Aflame

Warm... Toy. Ing. Wavering betwee Warner Bax- ter's strength and Victor "Jory's flattery

Wedne

WARNER BA

* MELISSA LANDI VICTOR JORY: MIRIAM JORDAN.

ON THE STAGE

THE MIDNIGHT FOLLIES OF 1933-34 ALL STAR STAGE SHOW A MODERN SINGING DANCING REVUE. WITH 15 ARTISTS.

With Elissa Landi & Warner Baxter Theatre

"I WANT TO BE BAD"

How Claudette Became A Roman

Empress

"I want to be had," insisted

Claudette Colbert, dark-haired, dark-eyed movie star.

"O.K.", ssid Cecil B. DeMille, noted movie director. And Clau- dette got the most villainous fami- nine role Eollywood has had to offer in some years.

She is cast as the Empress Pop- paea, beautiful but cruel consort of Nero, sixth and last of the Cresurs, in DeMille's "The Sign of the Cross," which opens to-morrow at the Queen's Charles Laughton, Broadway and London stage favou- rite, who made his movie debut in "Devil and the Deep," with sensa- tional success, plays the role of Nero. Frederic March and Eliasa Landi have other leading roles, and nearly 7,500 other persons are mem- bers of the cast.

Miss Colbert went to great pains to secure the role. Competition was strong, for under the new system of exchanging actors recently put in effect in Hollywood, players under. contract to every studio in the film capital were eligible for the role. And even stars fight to get them- selves jobs in DeMille's pictures,

That was part of Miss Colbert's renson for wanting to be Poppaca, The other part, she admits, was that she was tired of good-girl roles. Since her entrance to the movies, after winning stage Buc- cess on Broadway, she has never played a role that called for more mild naughtiness. Being too good gal in her roles was beginning to get on her nerves, she said.

DeMille had interviewed over a score of outstanding women players. when Claudette came along and de- manded 's screen test in the role.

“THESE CHARM- DeMille watched her while she took

ING PEOPLE"

the test. Then he turned to the cameraman. "You don't have to bother to develop that negative,” he told them. "I've seen enough.”

Claudette got the role.

Amusing Film at the ful cross-section of life in Rome

Queen's

"The Sign of the Cross" is colour-

when the events in the career of Nero were building up to a fateful elimax. The incidents which occur. red during the 48-hour period with which the film concerns itself were to play a vital part in shaping the future course of history.

An old Army Colonel who "sponges on his wealthy son-in-law, and a Most Hollywood actors have played

The Theatre Managers are to be neglected wife who elopes with her husband's secretary, who turns out to stock at one time or another. And congratulated on the very excellent be the son of the Colonel's butler form fare they are offering this week in the theme of a highly harming they still love to recall those seasona

awaging and But few of them, even the old-timers, the way of moving pictures "I entertaining have trouped the country as consis Loved You Wednesday" is another Pooling picture, these charming "SAILOR'S LUCK” tently as Victor Jory. Victor has of the Fox Film's successca, and Queen's Theatre. Cyril Naude, the played "tabs" in the Springfield, "Rep those who were priveleged to wit well known.comedian who was last Shows" in Cleveland: one-nightness the preview operetta stands in positing with the show. The leads are in the much to the laughter by his "uncon were delighted seen in "Orders is Orderers," is in the leading role, and, as usual, contributes tedrama in New York, and dramatic and musical stock from coast to coast very capable hands of Elissa Landi,scious" humour. The other players, Warner Baxter, Miris Hopkins including Godfrey Tearle, Nora and from border to border,

"He is not sahamed of the fact that 2nd Victor Jory. They are at Swirbame and Anthony Ireland are he washed dishes, dug ditches and their best, and we will have to adwell cast while the settings in an sweated in the lumber camps of mit that Miss Jordan almost steals atmosphere of English Society are several different states, when jobs for the picture from Miss Landi. The artistic and the photography beyond actors were few and far between. Jory story deals with the affairs of a the average standard. is the virtual definition of the work certain young lady of the stage who "trouper".

Jory's screen career promises to be as colourful, if not more so, than his countless seasons as an actor on the legitimate stage. Perhaps yon BEW

Besides the delightful story, the

DEEN

AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY.

At 2.80, 5.10, 7,15 & 9,20 p.m.

CYRIL

MAUDE. "THESE CHARMING

PEOPLE"

A Paramount

British Production

- TO-MORKOW

·ROME CRUMBLEDI

While Mad Nero, Effeminate Monarch, Plunged His Pagan Empire lato the Flameil Yau Spectacle! Mighty Drama! A Pansioneta Love-Story! Cecil B. DeMILLES

The SIGN CROSS

Roaul Walsh's successes and you Sailor's Luck is another of

will enjoy this even better than

What Price Glory."

It tells the the tale of whose adventures in this story. will keep you in fits of laughter. The worldwise girl is the attrac- tive little star Sally Eilers, The

THE a love-sick sailor,

is in love with two men, and finds picture shows some wonderful scenes supporting cast is a splendid one,

thera: We see Victor Jory who is glimpses of planes over the Channel married making violent love to and of ship launching in a Glasgow

the star of this film RKO-Pathe Pictures has made from Margaret him as the barker on "State Fair. Vicki Meredith na. Miss Landi is dockyard. The film which is the first and James Dung in the leading Ayers Barnes' sensational novel.

In Westward Passage' wife divorces a sulky, selfish husband and to marry a man who offers her a mature affection and respect in place of the less stable but more passionate romance of her first love. Although the security of this second marriage FIRST COMBINED PERbrings the peace and contentment she had sought, the woman learns the old FORMANCE FOR 20 YEARS lesson that first love never completely

dies,

sprang into overnight prominence with the portrayal of that role, and was immediately cast in a prominent part in "Sailor's Luck", now at the King's Theatre. He has a Fox Film contrast and the initiative and ambition to be- come a great film star. There seems to be no dobut about that. Victor Jory is already well on his way to stardom.

He was born in Dawson City, Al aska, on November 23, 1902. Be at-

Warner Baxter

MAJESTIC

and Victor Jory is again seen in this with Will Stanton. Buster Phelos Frank Moran, Esther Muir named, they plan a holiday, but at produced in England by Paramount is male role. Lucien Littlefield plays the last minute he receives a wire based on the play written by Michael the role of the henpecked hus- from his wife, (Miss Hopkins) and Arlan. It is having its final showings band he is exceptionally good in as to admit to the young actress today and those who like British this part since he has played it that he is unfortunately married. humour at its best should not miss no less than 75 times. This is to She goes to South America, and this opportunity,

be shown at the King's Theatre. makes a great hit on the stage. While there she meets Warner Bax- ter who is an engineer and falls in love with him" She returns Paris and meeta Victor. Jory who down. It all ends very nicely how- The first combined performance of for a woman in love with two mea is tended schools in that city and in attempts to take up things where /erer; and we see Chinese Actors and Actresses for over the intriguing problem presented in Vancouver, B. C. When he was stilla he had left off, but she turns him carry off to the altar." twenty year will be given in Hong Kong on Thursday and Friday nights. Permission had been granted for Mr. Sit Kok Sin, the well-known Actor, to act with his even more famous wife, formerly Miss Tong Sust Hing, in the Ko Shing Theatre, Queen's Road, (opposite the GC.E.) on behalf of the New Hotel Fund of St. Stephen's College Stanley. On Thursday night part of the proceeds and on Friday night the whole of the proceeds will be devoted to this object. The theatre în being given free.

Mr. & Mra. Sit Kok Sin have recent ly returned from Canton where their performances drew full houses and

any theatre-goers even from Hong Kong made special visits to see them.

Irene Vanbrugh Does

Some Films

The happiest and the safest course

youngster, his family moved to Pas adena, California, and Victor was sent to the local high school.

"Westward Passage and the dramatic solution of the picture offers some sound advice to every husband and wife whose marriage has become

Afterwards he attended" Junior College at Fullerton, California, and tangled. Pitts and Juliette Compton support

Laurence Oliver, irving Pichel, Zanfinished his education at the Un the star. Robert Milton directed.

"LAUGHTER IN

HELL"

At The Central

irersity of California in Berkeley He remained there a little less than's year, leaving the institution to go on the stage.

Jory had started play-acting while in high school, and appeared in every sort of pageant and amateur., play presented. During his vacations - hẹ got his first touch of stock, and played "small bits with a company offering melodramas of the sawmill variety.

That started him on his long trek Bround the country. From Vancouver he went to Salt Lake City, ever to Cincinnati, down to Cleveland, in Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Den That passion, drama, and tragedyver, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Mem enter into the lives at humble people phis His route sounds like the call in just as real a manner as they do in of train announcer. the lives of other classess, is power In 1831 he went to New York and Miss Treno Vanbrugh is appearing fully shown in the Universal picturiza

W&8 crat in featured roles in in a file now in production at Tedd- tion of Jim Tully's "Laughter in Hell" "Berkeley Square, Tonight or ington entitled "Bead of the Family" which will be seen at the Oriental Never What Every Woman Nnow." Bhe made her first visit to the studio Theatre to morrow and Saturday. and Truth Game." Finishing this to-day. Mt. Edmund Gwenn lane of the most realistic screen and played the role of Allissandro in This intensely human film is doubt, engagement be returned to California This is not her first screen appear plays. It will be refreshing to see the Ramona pageant at Hemet, Luce, she was in the all- such a simple, extinseled story pre-While playing in this pageant in 1832 star production of "Masks and stated with such moving, effect. Faces" made during the war The picture is laid in the Southeas signed to Fox Film contract. hore, but she was resisted all blan- where a stalwart Irish youth and his dishments to appear in talking picture lather are bound very close together down to the procent." She had an with the memories of the wife and argent offer front Hollywood last mother who is in her grave. year."

in the cast.

hich

altogether seductive in a part welcomes this talented actress back to Pat O'Brien in the authentic, role of her proper place on the screen. Bertou The film engagement does not, of the Trish youth surpasses anything Churchill, Gloria Stuart and foul, course interfere with her appearance this talented actor has yet done on Brown give polished" performances, an “Dinner at Eight" at the Falace, the screen for sheer power of and Arthur Viaton;: Douglas. Dum- where she has not mimed one per- characterization. A role demand- brille, Clarence Muse and Tommy formance yet as the hostess, Mra ing much is handled with Conlon are likewise excellent in their.

Oliver Jordan.

convincing art. Kerns Kemedy in i roles.

There see

some gorgeous gowns worn in this production.

(Continued on next column).

TAME ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUŠ

FLEXING

: 4_ SHOWS.

DARLY 930-1,19

ORIENTAL

TO-DAYMONLY

SENSATIONAL POLICE MYSTERY

THRILLER

Co-starring LEO CAR

·RILLO and MAR BRIAN, with Noah Beery,

HOMICIDE SQUAD

TEL. 29473

TO-MORROW

AND

SATURDAY

"DRAMA

Produced. Carl Laszi Jr. Directed by Edward Cabs,'

·Praiented" by

AUNIVERSAI

PICT

JIM TULLY'S

LAUGHTER IN HELL

THEATER

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"ONE THE WOMAN... ONE..THE LOVER.. ONE. THE MASTERI

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