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ENTRAL

THEATRE

FEAT QUEEN'S ED., WESTBOUND BUS

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

The Masquerader,"

Advance Booking ss Andersons

and the Theatre Tel- 26730"

King's.

Queen's.

"Kongu,

Central

"Hell's. Holiday

Oriental.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 6:15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

SUPERB PICTURES

PRESENTS

AN AUTHENTIC PICTORIAL RECORD

OF THE GREAT WAR

DRAMÁTIC

PRESENTATION OF"/

THE WORLD WAR:

A PICTURE OF GREAT INTEREST TO EVERY BODY.

WEDNESDAY

Ambulance heroes race with death

THROUGH POLITICAL BARBED WIRE!

RADIO

Picture

OVAL BILL BOXD. WYNNE GIBSON WILLIAM GARGAN Betty Furness George E. Stona

A dramatic dis-

closure of graft

in the hospitals DATE LINE

Directed By Edward Conn' from the screen play by John B. Clymer and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Marion C Cooper, executive producer.

MAGNIFICENT

FILM

History in British Film Production

This year has been a remark- able one in the history of British Alm production, Studios built re- gardless of expense and with the technical equip- Ancst possible ment have just got into their stride, and are now delivering Blms of first class entertainment value.

From time to time: anim

Star.

My Lips Betray."

KOWLOON

The Wedding Behearsal.'

"King Kong."

Majestic.

King's.

COMING

"Charlie Chan's Greatest Case"

Queen's,

The Mystery "of the Wax

Museum."

"send Street."

Central.

Star.

Emergerey Call,"

*****lischief.”

"Men Without Land."

MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM Coming To The Queen's

In "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," the Warner Bros, pro- duction which will be shown at the Queen's Theatre on Wednesday, the producers feel confident that they have achieved something far off the beaten paths of motion picture entertainment. It is cal- culated to startle the most sophis- ticated theatregoer, and stir the most jaded palate.

Even among chronicles of crime and mystery this picture strikes a

Warner Oland combe to the TEEN again as the famous detective, Charlie Chas, in the new For screen play, Charlie Chan's Greatest Case," 1PB

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933.

SHOWING. TO-DAY

MAT

12.30,5.10.7.15)

KINGS

ROLALD COLMAN IN A DUAL ROLE THAT WILL GIVE YOU A DOUBLE MEASURE OF ENJOYMENT.

| ́IVEN HIS WIFE COULDN'T TELL THEM APARTI (They looked and acted and talked- so much alike)

RONALD

Who was making love to her? Was it her husband? Or was it the masquerader in hired ito double for him?

Out-Drömmends.

"BULLDOG DRUMMOND"

COLMAN

IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN Production of

THE MASQUERADER

with ELISSA "LANDI • Directed by RICHARD 'WALLACE

Atso

MICKEY MOUSE

PRESENTS "YE OLDEN DAYS"

MICKEY MOUSE

"KONGO" Showing At The Queen's

In "Kongo" a Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer production now showing at the Queen's Theatre, Walter Hus- ton, lavishes his amazing skill of character acting an as gripping and sensational story as the screen yet has seen.

It is a startling story, stark. tense, colourful, bringing in the mystery of the African jungle and the tangled lives of the whites and blacks who fight for existence against the forces of nature.

AND

A SILLY SYMPHONY

IN TECHNI.COLOUR

"OLD KING COLE"

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25913 & 25982

-NEXT CHANGE- COMMENCING THURSDAY, 14th DECEMBER.

with

INATING

STERIOUS

CHARLIE CHAN'S

Greatest

CASE

WARNER OLAND

HEATHER ANGEL

From a novel by Karl Derr Biggers

HELL'S HOLIDAY TRADE MARK IN-

Attractive Programme At The Central

"Hell's Holiday a pictorial record of the Great War is all that one may wish for in the way of war pietures! and the management of Central Theatre are to be congratulated on securing this compilation of official war pictures taken overseas during the great con- Alict

Hell's Holiday is an authentic flim of the great war and dipicts scenes taken on the various battle fronts. While many war films have been shown, this breaks new ground in that considerable smont of footage is de- voted to thbrk of the Allied Fleets, and an insight is given of the terrible. "U" Boat warfare. Scenes are also shown of the Italian and Russian Fronts and of aerial battles.

DEVIL-WORSHIPPER RITIS

Wired and fantastic rites of the black

che devil-worshippers,

Two very interesting shorts, "The strange spell of a sinister, para- Ramblers" and "Baby Blues" precede lyzed, white tyrant who rules his the feature film and on the whole the empire by black magic, and a dinourrent programme at this popular bolical scheme for revenge that theatre is one of the most attractive makes the beholder gasp in asto- they have presented for a long time. nishment these are the dramatic Incidents against which a strange but touching love story is untuld- ed.

JJ

Walter Huston plays "Deadlegs" Flint, who rules, with 3. long. snake-whip from the wheelchair 10 which he has been confined by, a

man who tole his wife and cripped him in the struggle. It is Flint's relentless and desperate desire for revenge that has brought him to the heart of the Dark Continent on the trail of his foe.

LUPE VELEZ IN FIERY ROLE C: Henry Gordon plays Gregg, the man Walter Huston is out to trap. Virginia Bruce 13 a white girl whom Flint, plans to use in hls flendish scheme. for revenge.

LARGE DISTRICT FAIR

Soon To Be Opened In Kuk

Kiang District

According to a Canton vernacular paper, it is stated that in order to im prove the trade and commerce, "the Magistrate of the Kok Kiang District has recently decided to open a large District Fair in that district.

The Fair as planned, will be built at the junction of the New Yung Ping Road and the Kwong Shiu Railway, which is now becoming the most pros perous and flourishing centre of the whole district.

FRINGEMENT

Japanese Copy "His Master's Voice"

Calcutta, Dec. 8,

The suit was the result of an

RONALD COLMAN

AT HIS BEST

Does Great Work In

Masquerader

It is a strange sensation to meet`a. men personally and then to seo him in all his glory upon the silver screen. In some instances it may detract from the appreciation of the film, but with Ronald Colsinn it only makes one: appreciate his work all the more. In the Masquerader. that production- showing at the King's Theatre, this Dous actor, who was in the Colony a few days ago, gives what is perhapa one of the greatest performances of hia careor. He plays two distinct parta, that of drunken good for nothing politician and his cousin a young Cana- dian Journalist, who is the image of his dissipated relation. The character of the Young "Journalist is a part in which the real Colman is depicted.. One can almost imagine that it is the story of the actor's life. for his every movement and action is so typical of him. The dramatization of the charac ter of the worthless consin-is" "truly a

work of art.

In discussing the Masquerader, while he was here, Mr. Colman said that it was one of the most exacting produc tions he had ever played in and the amount of trick photography needed was beyond all imagining.

Clever Cast

Playing with Mr. Column in bis dual roles are Elissa Landi as the wife and Juliette Compton as the other woman. The distinguished cast of character players includes Halliwell Hobbes, David Torrence, Helen Jerome Eddy and Creighton Hale.

"The Masquerade" was adapted to

the

screen by Boward Estabrook, brilliant Motion Picture. Academy medalist and scenarist of Cimarron". Moss Hart wrote the dialogue. The screen play was adapted from John Hunter Booth's dramatization of the noval by Katherine Cecil Thurston.

is produced and presented by

Samuel Goldwyn,

Richard Wallace brings to "The

Masquerader" the same amooth, sonsi- tive direction that characterized his work on "Shopworn Angel" "Seven Day's Leave", The Right to Love" and "To-morrow and To-morrow"..

"The Masquerader" is Mr. Colman's second picture this season "following his dilwing of the stage. hit, "Cynara". He expects to spend a long summer

MARINE COURT CASE Japanese Ship Master Fined

One of the first important ac-sailing the Aegean before he again, tions arising out of infringements returns to Hollywood. by Japanese commercial interests of British trade marks was con- cluded in the High Court to-day. Indian firm's importation of gra- mophone records from Japan, bear-

S. Nakashima Captain of the Ja ing the "His Master's Voice" trade

steamer the Tasand mark belonging to the Gramo-panese

Maru appeared before Comman phone Company. Limited.

The action by the Gramophone der Newill at the Marine Cour: Ox Saturday morning charged Company resulted in a decree by consent against the defendant firm, with (a) Sailing without a light

On the fore-mast and b)" Disobey Who agreed to return all the re-

Defendant pleaded guilty to ali cords to Japan and to submit to ing the orders of the Water Police:

perpetual injunction to retrain from holding stocks of such re-charges. cords.--Reuter.

NEW TYPE OF LIGHTING.

Osira Lamp Now in Use

The first lamp of its kind ever to be used in the Far East, is now in operation at the lower end of Pedder Street Matheson's offices and the Gloucester

Building

between Messrs. Jardine,

The Osira Lamp, as it is called is manufactured by the General Electric Company of England, whose invention it is, at their Osram Works Werabley.

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The Magistrate however, impos- ed a small fine of $25 on the first charge and another of $10 on the second count.

MR. G. LANSBURY

Reported To Be In Dangerous, Condition

London, Dec. 10. Mr. G. Lansbury is in a danger- ous condition He fractured à thigh when he slipped on a step at at Gainsborough Town Hall where he was about to address a meeting-Reuter.

The lamp is tubular, the actual source of light being a luminous cord diameter and six and a half inches gas, about a quarter of an inch in It has lately been confirmed that long, lying between two electrodes. two Executive Committees of the ReThere is no filament se in the ordinary construction Department of the Kuk lighting lamp. It has an efficiency of Lape Velez has a fiery role as akiang District have been sent to that 40 lumens per watt as compared with

15 for the tungsten filament lamp. Portuguese girl who serves as place to survey and make plans, and

Experiments have been carried out Funt's mistress. Conrad Nagel is it is also reported that the whole Fair the white doctor who has fallen will be completed and opened to the with the new lamp in England, chiefly for lighting arterial roads, and it is victim to the black man's curse public at the end of this year.

now a commercial proposition. and seeks regeneration in love for the girl he rescues from Flint's tolls.

Credit is due William Cowen for bis able direction of this throbbing melodrama. There are many deft and exects touches, thrilling startling action, and Cowen has

of outstanding merit is given to new and radically different note. handled all with a sure grip and

Lovers of the unusual will find an knowing eye.

the public and, in the last few months, at least two may be men- tloned-"I was a Spy" and "The Good: Companions." The former is undoubtedly, one of the best "Bpy" films ever made; the so- cond is a version of JB. Priestly's popular novel. In 1 was a 8py the production and photography are as good as can be found in the best foreign filma. "The Good Companions" is essentially English in spirit, and has been extremely successful in all parts of Great Britain..

eerte fascination in watching E Not the least notable is the gentle gifted but crippled Russian background, which shows a trad- sculptor struggling to create a ing post a large expanse of group of wax statues that will African jungle, with its dense 10- startle the world when his little lage, wild animals, and weirä wax museum opens its doors to tribal rites. the public.

Then a series of strange, inex-

polis into an uproar, the police and

A

Wax

plicable crimes throws the metro-he Mystery of the Wax Mu- the preas take up the hue-and-cryseum' one of the most lavish and and a young newspaper woman realistic pictures of the year. finds herself called upon to solve,modern wax museum, with more single-handed, one of the most than a hundred life size. baffing mysteries of modern figures was created for the pro- times.

duction. Photographed in Techni- In the last week of October a

Nothing has been spared to make colour, these famous historical new British film "The Private

personages in their gorgeous cos- Life of Henry VII" was first seen

tumes, form a striking background by the London public. It took

as a allent audience for: the pre- many film-goers by surprise for yously witty drama in settings of sent-day drama enacted before Although they had realised that great beauty, there fine artistry them within the walls of the wax-

British studios, are capable, of and at the same time entertain museum Michael Curtiz really excellent work, few were ment in it. It is to be hoped that Directed by prepared for such technical per this fine fim (which is also whose success in the creation of fection, magnificent acting, and essentially English in spirit), will "Doctor has made him re- thrilling narrative, This Elm may find its way, to many overseas mar- cognized as a master of the mis be said to have so far surpassed Lets those who see it can hardly pense and thrills the picture is all others produced this year, in fail to be struck by the immense said to have a terrific climax, Al- any country, that it gives the first progress it represents, not only for though there is abundant comedy position for quality to the British the British flm industry, but for rellet, deftly woven into the pat-

tern of the story. studio which made it. It is a jo-the industry generally.

4. SHOWS

DAILY 380-8,15

MORE DAYS

TAKE ANY TRÀM ON HAPPY VALLEY SKHE

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

PLENING ROLD

WANCHAS

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

A VIVACIOUS

CONTINENTAL ROMANCE SET TO MUSIC

SPICY-ROMANTIC-GAY

Lilian Harvey

MY LIPS BETRAY

JOHN BOLES

EL BRENDEL Directed by John Blystone Som When play "Der Konti” by Antila Orbak

HERE'S A SUPERIOR

MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW

with wonderful music and song hits,

MAJESTIC

THEATRE.

Nathan Boad, Kowloon Tel, 57222 TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 ± 9.20 p.m.

The cry shrieks in terrorf

Fram

IS LOOSE!

BILLY'S

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

DEEP IN THE HEART of the KONGO I

A white man and his bloodthirsty (aps, ` ruling an empire. of savage blacks

a tale of savage hate and tumultous, primitive love!

KONGO

WALTER

HUSTON

LUPE

VELEZ

CONRAD

NAGEL

NEXT"" OHANGE

THE MYSTERY OF THE

The Picture That Has The World Aghastl

WAX

MUSEUM

ALL IN CUNGEONS

TECHNICOLOR

Another dariigly

ferent Warner Bros.

hit, with

LIONEL ATWILL FAY WRAY

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW At 2.80. 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

The

WEDDING REHEARSAL

ROLAND YOUNG WENDY BARRIE

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