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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKU QUEEN'S ED. WEST SOUND BUS

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1952

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT

2.30, 5.10, 7.15

King's.

HONG KONG

"Bondage."

& 9.30 P.X.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION !

ON THE SCREEN

The Midnight Follica."

Advance Booking at Andersons" and the Theatre. Tel. 25720.

Queen's.

"Fra Diavolo."

Central

"Mistress of Atlantis.”

Oriental

"Fast Life,"

KOWLOON

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY-

2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

ENCHANTING!

BEWITCHING!

EXOTIC!

Brigitte Helm

IN

MISTRESS

OF ATLANTIS

with GIBB McLAUGHLIN AND JOHN STUART AN ENGLISH VERSION OF PIERRE BENOIT'S

FAMOUS NOVEL "ATLANTIDE" PRODUCED BY NERO FILMS.

A FANTASTIC ROMANCE IN THE HEART OF THE

SAHABA.

TO-MORROW

She bungered for the

fame that died the night her chiki was born--and she grati- bed her greed for headlines when she put her own soD's

neck in the hang

Dan's DOOP.

THE PAST OF MARY HOLMES

From the story **The Goose Woman," by REX BEACH WES ERIC LINDEN HELEN MacKELLAR 'JEAN: ARTHUR Skastí“ Gallagher Directed by Harlan Thompson David G. Salpick out, grudnom. RKO-RADIO Picture

"FAST LIFE"

At The Oriental Theatre

Star.

Majestic.

Tons of Money."

Ladies of the Jury."

King's.

COMING

"Sweepings."

Queen's.

"Midnight Mary."

Central

Btar.

"The Past of Mary Holmes."

"What No Beer."

"Clear all Wires."

"Fast Workers"

World.

Conscience." (Chinese film), "Faithless."

"FRA DIAVOLO”

Laurel and Hardy as Bold Brigands

Garbed in outlandish wigs, plum- ed hats, and costumes of the Robin Hood era, Laurel and Hardy make their latest appearance. 10 "Fra Diavolo" a full-length production

in which the comedians are seen as

a pair of daring brigands whose

IT'S TRUE:

Torn from the pages of life...this

TH

story of a love- starved girl...con- demned by society to a life of sorrow

Fox Film presents

Bondage

Dorothy

Alexander

JORDAN KIRKLAND

ON THE STAGE

At 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ONLY. A COMPLETE CHANCE OF PROGRAMME

THE MIDNIGHT FOLLIES

WITH

15

ARTISTS

OF 1933-34

WITH

15

ARTISTS

A MODERN SINGING DANCING REVUE.

adventures must certainly be the "PAST OF MARY

funniest in which these inimitable wits have yet been seen on the talk- ing screen.

In their current picture now playing at the Queen's Theatre, they run the gamut of tomfoolery from flirting with milkmaids and being pursued by an unexpected bull to making a narrow escape from the hangman's noose and being enguli- ed in a variety of hazardous occur- rences out of all of which they in variably come out on top slightly bruised but smiling.

PLOT NEVER MATTERS.

However, as the millions of their followers have long since come to know, it is never the plot which matters in a Laurel and Hardy comedy. The bulky and always lightly annoyed Hardy has but to raise his eyebrows at his partner's irresponsible folly, and you have enough humour to make up a dozen

comedies.

HOLMES"

With A Brilliant

Recruit from the Stage

Hollywood, by a quick turn- about, has come to disregard a pretty face as the chief claim to box office value. Even as the stage is perpetuated upon traditions of fine acting by such artists as Duse and Bernhardt, the screen is be ginning to realize that it has fallen heir not only to the tradition of legitimate drama but also to its popularity and ite profits.

BOOKING AT TH THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25932.

-NEXT CHANGE

Lionel

BARRYMORE

SWEEPINGS

in a tidal drama of the rise and fall of a great American family, Yesterday wealth and power. Today the breadline!

From the famous novel by Lester Coher

SWEEPINGS

· ALAN DINEHART GLORIA STUART

RKO RADIO PICTURE

Mary Holmes: Herself and a dramatic make-up.

Being PADDY THE NEXT BEST THING

“BONDAGE"

Dorothy Jordan and Kirkland in Lead

"Say it with action whenever pos sible," is Alfred Santell's theory in directing motion pictures and he follows it by taking full advantage of the camera's extreme mobility.

For example, in an early scene of "Bondage," the current For suc- cess at the King's Theatre, featur- ing Dorothy Jordan, Alexander Kirkland and Merle Tottenham, Santell used a moving camera to make explanations which under ordinary methods would have, rai quired many lines of dialogue, s printed insert, and several photo- graphic setups

The acese is one abowing an am- bulance dashing up to a girl's board- ing home, doctors emerging, enter- ing the place and rentoring a sick girl Santell covered all of this action without a break and on one setup, by using a camera attached to a mobile steel crane.

Mounted outside the building, the camera picked up the arrival of the

Then speeding ambulance. Kirkland, who plays a physician,

entered the boarding home, it moved forward and upward so that the lens focused for a moment on the sign above the door. Continiu- ing its upward and forward pro- gress, it swept right through the window of the second floor room where the gick girl lay, and photo- graphed the action which continued

there.

Thus the identity of the building

and the girls inside was established without a break in the action or a word of spoeka explanation,

The wall-scaling stunt was just one of many aerobatin festa Santell had his camera perform in achieving smooth flow of action-narrative in "Bondage."

THE TAIMOSHAN

California, Nov. 2. The "retch Taimoshian, from Shanghai, with Ave British Naval Officers left here to-day for Eng- land-Reuter.

NORMAN DAVIS IN PARIS

Parla, Nov. 2. Mr. Norman Davis'arrived here from Geneva and is expected to nee M. Paul Boncour to-day- Reuter.

man

upon the life of a man who looked at the still smoldering ruins of Chicago's great fire and saw his life's work cut out for him. Build- ing from a bazaar in a stable among the ashes to a skyscraper depart ment store was his accomplishment." Leater Cabet's story, which al- ready has been published in four- teen countries, has been given à tremendous production. Thirty-six huge ests were erected for it.

Lionel "Barrymore portrays who Daniel Pardway, the builds "commercial monumenta that his children and theirs may enjoy the fruits of life. Others importantly cast with Barrymore are Alan Dinehart, Gloria Stuart, William Gargan, Eric Linden, Gregory Ratoff, Lucien Littlefield, Ninetta Sunderland, George Meek- stories comparable to the rise ofer Helen Mack and Eather Muir. Napoleon or the achievements of Cohen wrote the screenplay for his Buch men as Alexander Graham | own story and John Cromwell dir- Bell. Henry Ford, the Wright eeted. brothers, Mussolini and hundreds of others.

The performances now generously applauded-not only by hypercritical and professions! Hollywood audiences, but the public-are by character players.

The is the next Fox attraction, distinguished actors, Mary Mc Almost invariably these per-which is to be shown at the King's Connie the celebrated singer who farmers are well beyond the years

plays and sing a litting Irish song of callow youth. For instance.

at Paddy's gay house party; Marle John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore,

Tottenham, the giggling maid of Marie Dressler, George Arliss,

"Cavalcade", and many others are Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery

in the cast. and, the most recent of all, Helen MacKellar. who after a brilliant stage career, is making her screen debut in REO-Radio Pictures "The Past of Mary Holmes."

There is considerably more to "Fra Diavolo" than humour, al- though of course the antics of its two clowns play an outstanding part in the production. For one think there is the presence of Dennis King in the cast, hero of innumer- able New York show hits, whose portrayal of the bandit king, Dia volo, does not prevent him from singing several songs of definite asset to the picture. Then there is also the dashing. Theims Todd' as The recognition of character the flirtatious Lady, Pamela fornetors and actresses was notably in whose charms Laurel and Hardy augurated in 1928 when the Aca fall all over themealves. Y

demy of Motion Pictures Arte and The whole picture has been pro- Sciences selected Emil Jannings as duced on an unusually elaborate the best male actor of the year. scale with picturesque backgrounds. Others who have woo that distinc a massed chorus of some 150 voices tion are Warner Baxter, for a die and what seems like thousands of tinct characterization, George extras in the more spectacular Arliss, Marie Dressler and Lionel scenes. Hal Roach, director and producer of "Fra Diavolo," seerta- to bare outdone himself in the mat ter of costaming atmospheric set tings, and a meticulous care for spectacle and colour.

Among those who stand out in supporting roles of the picture are James Finlayson, Henry Armetta, Henry Armetta, Matt McHugh, Lane Chandler and Nina Quartero. In the end, however, it is that petu- lant, crybaby face of Laurel's and the exasperated gestures of Oliver Hardy that make you want to laugh until the tears stream down your face.

"

big boat smash up does take place is a marvel of combined motion pic | ture and marine engineering.

William Haines has never been offered a role with the virile punch to equal his sandy" in this fast- moving racing picture. He con- One hundred miles per hour tinues with the refreshing "wise- speedboat racing, the world's most cracking that has marked his thrilling sport, is shown in "Fast work in previous pictures, with a Life," the breath-taking action pic-new restrained performance in ture featuring William Haines that dramatic scenes that shows his real will be seen at the Oriental Thea acting ability. tre on Friday and Saturday.

Barrymore.

Helen-MacKeller's forte is de- picting personalities seen in real life. In "The Past of Mary Holmes" she has tremendous scope with the role of an opera singer who has become a dissolute recluse 'who broods over her colourful, and glamorous past. Her eccentricites and mad desire for publicity em broil the son she tries to hate and. his sweetheart in an intense drama.

"The Past of Mary Holmes" adapted for RKO-Radio Pictures, is from the story The Goose Woman" by Ber Beach, and was co-directed by Harlan Thompson and Slavko Vorkapich. Erio Linden, Jean Ar- thur, and Richard "Skeets" Gol- lagher are featured with Miss Mac- Kellar.«

"SWEEPINGS"

Romance of a

Business

Cliff Edwards is uproariouslyflame No effort has been spared to funny in his characterizations. of bring the roaring realism of boat Bumpy, the comedy mechanic who

Lester Cohen flatly declares

boy

racing to the screen, The camera complicates matters for Haines in his opinion, there is no was evidently mounted on a craft through the entire picture. His story in the love of following so close to the speeding ability at various comedy expres girl

racers that the results obtain start,sions in worked to the limit with Author of the best sellor, "Sweep ling efforts in reporduction How many screamingly funny situations collisions were avoided until the to give him, full opportunity.

ings," which has provided an epic

story for Lionel Barrymo

in the

Theatre shortly. Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter are again co-starred Margaret Lindhay, memorable for her worth in "Cavalcade," Walter Corpolly, one of America's most

RKO-Radio Picture which will be shown at the King's Theatre on Sunday next, Cohen says:

"I believe that the romance that lies in the development of a great industry or enterprise far exceeds and personal issue between man and woman.

"Who would compare a mere love affair," he seks, "with the story of Edison's struggle to perfect his phonograph and electric light It is my opinion that there are no love

4 SHOWS

DAILY

R-LIS 7.15–1.00

12

MORE

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

"I see great romance in their lives because, those men were doers. All of them started with great odds against them, but they rolled up their sleeves and went to work, || Nathan Road, Kowloon Tel 57222 cresting vast empires of riches,

"I based my book. Sweepings,

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALARY BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

· UPLANDINGS |

WANCHAJ TEL."SEATS

DAYE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

HERE'S A HIGH SPEED ROMANCE WITH A BREATH-TAKING THRILL

IN EVERY SCENE.

Smashing all world's records

for SPEED. → LAUGHS.

THRILLS!

FAST LIFE

TC-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.

PLEAD GUILTY! IT'S A PLEASURE!:

JADIES OF JURY

WII have the Www. Jumping with Joy! OUVER ROSCOPATES

JILL ESMOND

KIN MURRAY

NEXT OHANGES

BULEN

PAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

COMMENCING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

HE ROBBED THE WEALTHY—but he stole the ladies' hearts

FAR

DIAVOLO" with

STAN

LAUREL

OLIVER

with his songs!

HARDY DENNIS KING

BOGUS BANDITS who steal your laughs in a musical-comedy romance!

-COMING SHORTLY-

She was so bear-" dful, ber

victims

became

her

cap-

tors!

MIDNIGHT MARY

A story from life, of ́ a girl whose beauty no man could resist!

with

LORETTA / YOUNG RICARDO CORTEZ PRANCHOT TONE

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. A SHEER JOY!

BALPH

LYNN

“TONS

"THE UNHOLY MONEY

GARDEN

RONALD COLMAN

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