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CENTRAL

THEATRO

KRAP QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND MUS

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 6.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Advance Booking st Andersons

and the Theatre Tel 25720,

King's.

The Masquerader."

Qusan's.

"Kongo

Central.

SUPERB PICTURES

Hell's Holiday,

Orientai.

PRESENTS

AN AUTHENTIC

PICTORIAL RECORD

apar.

OF THE GREAT WAR

A DRAMATIË

PRESENTATION 'OF THE WORLD WAR,

A PICTURE OF GREAT INTEREST TO EVERY BODY.

NEXT CHANGE

Ambulones barous race with death

THROUGH

POLITICALA

BARBED WIRE!

RKO. RADIO Picture

OUM BILL BOID. WYNNE GIBSON WILLIAM GARGAN Tetty Furnaje Georgs 2. Stone

A dramatic dis-

closura of graft

in the hospitali DATE LINE Directed by Edward Conn from the screen play by John B. Clymer and "Joseph L. Mankiewicz Merion C.

Cooper, secure producer.

TO SAVE THE COUNTRY

"My Lips Betray."

KOWLOON

The Wedding Rehearsal,"

"King Kong."

Majostic.

King's..

COMING

"Charlie Chan's Greatest Case"

Queen's.

The Mystery of the Wax

Museum."

and Street."

Central.

"Emergency Calf."

Star.

!!

"Mischief."

"Men Withour Land."

Oriental.

**Young Donóvana. Kid,”

World.

"Burlesque Programme. "Modernity" (Chinese film),,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1933.

LAST TWO-DAYS

12.30.5.10.7:15

& 9.30.P.M.

KINGS

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

RONALD

IVIN

T TELL

THEM APARTI

They looked and acted and talked. so much alike)

Who was making love to her? Was it har husband? Or was it the masquerader be hired to doubia for him? 3.2

Ont-Drumwanda "BULDOG DRUMMOND"

"COLMAN

IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN Production of

THE MASQUERADER

with ELISSA LANDI « Directed by RICHARD WALLACE

ALSO

MICKEY MOUSE

PRESENTS "YE OLDEN DAYS"

AUGKEY MOUSE

MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM

Toussandian Thriller At Queen's

"MASQUERADER" history

King's

*

Queen's Theatre to-moKTOW.

J

the

AND

J:

A SILLY SYMPHONY IN TECHNI-COLOUR

"OLD KING COLE”

"KONGO"

African Production At Queen's

filming Walter

A quarter-mile of the African jungle was duplicated by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer "for the of 'Kongo" which, with Huston in the featured role, has showing to-day at the to final Queen's

Through this jungle, with its tangle of trees and dense under brush, roam savage blacks, beating their war drums, lashing them selves to frenzy in preparation for an attack on the white. trading post where Huston, Lupe Velez Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce and other white members of the cast act out the principal scenes of this

BOOKING.

AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 + 25382

NEXT CHANGE- COMMENCING THURSDAY," 14th DECEMBER..

INATING

STERIOUS

CHARLIE CHAN'S

Greatest

with

CASE

WARNER OLAND HEATHER ANGEL From a novel' by' Earl Derr Bigga 20

CHARLIE CHAN'S

"YOUNG

DONOVAN'S KID"

At The Oriental

Clear the deck!

Let 'er go Gallaghert Whoopee...

The notorious old Pastime Club, of Manhattan's East Side: in, all Its sordid glory, springs into full bloom on the screen in "Young Donovan's Kid" starring Richard Dix will be seen at the Oriental Theatre to-morrow and Thursday,

An exact replica of the An- famous rendezvous for Killer. York's thieves and fift of New tenderloin in those balmy days before the gin era, is shown. The gloomy 'cob-webbed doors of the club are wide open. Rag-time strains of "Everybody's Doin' "It," "Alexander'a Rag Time Band," "Good

and Old "Summertime,” other bygone pieces, rend the air. Three hundred extras mude "up" as cut-throats, yeggs molis and flotsam, Jetsam of the nether world jerk and struggle in the throes of "Bunny Hug," "It's a Bear," "Cake Walk," and other obsolète dance gyrations. Time In the Old Town!" Strange to the modern eye are such signs as "Park the Gun Here. "Pards Without Molls, Stay Out!" "Beer 2 for 519

Heavy under-slung jaws open, in wide obscene laughter, towering beetle-browed floor-men watch the dancing, sullenly, Painted Women in bizarre millinery beer into their partner's faces! Lighter moments of the underworld in that long ago!

FLOATING ISLANDS THOUGHT NEARER

GREATEST CASE Not To Be Used For Military

Detective Picture

At King's

Purposes

now

Washington, Dec. 5. Possibilities of bringing the United States, in the near future, to within two days' voyage. from

The unusual setting of a com-

Charlie Chan may be merely a Europe, thanks to the projected plete wax

delightful motion filled withị museum

picture char-floating seadromes for regular com. acter to the millions who enjoy mercial air services across the images of famous characters of and notorious criminals

the Chinese... detective philoso-North Atlantic, are believed to be forms the motivating background

pher's screen adventures, but to hearer. Most technical difficulties for the Warner Bros, mystery

Warner Oland, who plays the part have been solved and the legal thriller, The Mystery of the Wax

he is a real and interesting flesh aspects of the problem are and blood person."

being studied. The floating islands Ronald Colman At Museum," which comes to

will probably be constructed with Charile Chan is as real per- the financial participation of coun- on to me as, he was to Earl Derr fries: prepared to subscribe to Biggers, the author of the Chan-trans-Atlantic aerial services-un- stories," says Oland. "He has der their respective flags, namely, real character, definite ideas about the United States, Great Britain. nearly everything. strict rules of France, Italy, Spain, Norway and conducs.

Sweden. "Hamilton MacFadden, who

All nations contributing towards directed some of the earlier Chan the construction of the seadromes adventures and who is directing will becomes partners the this new one. Charlie Chan's scheme and every guarantee will be

feels the Greatest Case,"

aare given that these will not be used about the character as I do and for military purposes, we often talk of Charlie as though he were some absent friend. We decide that Charlie would do thus and so under certain circumstan- ces or that he wouldn't do some thing else:

man says.

to

SWEL Bong.

Los

weird melodrama.

Steam Creates Realism To add reality to the drama,

heart

of dark

The museum 19 an trregular triangle in shape, 120 feet long 30 feet wide and 25 high. It is all- ed with 104 wax figures in six teen groups. including figures of Ronald Colman is returning Marie Antoinette, at the gull- the stage.

latine, the assassination of Marat Forswearing the screen that has by Charlotte Corday, Joan of Arc,

Richard Director William Cowen had blasts of hot steam blown through this taken the last ten years of his Voltaire, Cromwell,

and many others.

Jungle patch so that the players life, he is making "The Masquera-

The figures were all made to would feel as well as der" something of a

look the It will be a long time before he order by L. R. Otis and his as part of inhabitants of the torrid makes another picture, Mr. Co-sistant H. Clay Campbell, of a Congo, in the

ngure plant. Africa. Angeles waX The Agures were in part made

"Kongo" is a grim drama, with While Colman's shadow, and from casts of players in the pic- Walter Huston in the role of the voice are engaged in the dual roles of that food and famous English ture, chosen to resemble the wax sinister "Deadlega" Flint, a tyrant represented. Others of a man who has become con- melodrama at the King's Theatre Agure they

were made from photographs or fined to a wheelchair "through" a "Charlie Chan doem'; "drink or Colman himself is sailing the busts of marble or bronze. Aegean Sea, far from thoughts of weeks were consumed in building

Bxfight with an enemy. By means smoke and he is a great family of his *conversance with black man any father of 11 children Hollywood and the films.

making the magic,

he becomes the white would almost have to be! His figures, which also had to be au- witch-doctor of the natives, and large vocabulary is one of his thentically costumed.

uses his power in this plot for chief sourse of pride and he never Weird lighting effects thrown vengeance, on the man who has overlooks an opportunity to in- over the

crease it.. said crippled him, to greatly increase the creepiness Based on Broadway Hit of the-scenes which take place in the museum. The effect, is height ened by the technicolour photo- graphy, which is used throughout Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Edwin Maxwell, Gavin Gordon and Allén star cast. Vincent, head an all The picture, taken from the play by Charles S. Belden.

Ulysses and Jason felt the spray of those distant waters; Byron and "Shelley" gazed across their blue expanses and dreamed of home. And even more recently, Georg Bernard Shaw and, our own Gene Tunney have sought out nooks in the Aegean for rest and medita tion.

Canton, December 7. In a circular telegram received here from the South-west People's

Colman has another object in Foreign Affairs Association, two

the to solve mind. "From the stage ta points were suggested the present national problem and screen is a long jump, either way. First that It's just as long a hop to go back. Fukien affair: General Chiang Kab-áhek, the Working in pictures for ten years dictator at Naking should with as I have makes the stage seen Dot draw from the Central Gavern & foreign art, but & distant ment in order to stop the source I've got to get back. i

the

008,

of uprising of revalt, and, the "First, there is the necessity of second was to ask the Fukien au- divorcing myself from pictures. thoritles to abolish the so-called The terms and the idiom of the People's Revolutionary. Governe one art must be forgotten. You mert and unite, with the Bouthi-

erase its memory by new memories. west to get the country together. So, bidding goodbye to films, my In supporting the Southwest 22nd work will be to build up contacts telegram there were again many with the stage and its thought, telegrams received here yesterday Books, travel and people will from different public organs and help."

leaders as follows: The Kuomin- Colman says that he faces & ȚU tang Reconalasance Society. Kuo-turn to the legitimate theatre mintang of Chungsan University, humbly, for he knows that while Chung Ching County Kuamin- the screen and talking pictures tang, Shinta County Kuomint have been advancing and moving tang, General Ku Chu-tong, theon, technically and artistically, the commander-in-chief of the North stage hasn't been standing still. Route Bandit Buppression Army and General Shung Shi-fei, the "I've faith in work and study Chairman of the Kiungsi Pro- and application. True, it's been vincial Government.. - Central ten years since I've been on the Preis.

stage, but I've never been so very! far away. I left Gilbert Miller's management in 'La Tendresse to go with Henry King to make The White Sister.

British

Dark

".. HEALTHY "COLD."

"I like to think that my best Mr. J. M. Stagg, the leader of

pictures have been adaptations of the recently returned Polar Year Exhibition, is a re-stage plays. That was true of markable testimonial to the heal "The..

Angel Stella thiness of Canada's colder places. Dallas," "Bulldog Drummond,"

"Raffles and now na famous a He and his five companions en- play as there will be, "The Mas dured a year on the Great Blaye querader" "It's a good note/on Lake, not far from the Arctic which to call a halt. " Circle. The temperature for days

on end was about 75deg of frost, "I'm glad "The Masquerader yet Mr. Stagg-a Scot from Muscate last for it makes a return to selburgh-locks one of the fittest, the theatre seem easier," Col

explains. men I have ever seen":

the museum and

4. SHOWS DAILY 1.20-5.13

wax

works are

"Charle is invariably the gent- leman, too, and even in the per- formance of the most unpleasant of duties such as taking a murder): er into custody he reports himself with the greatest politeness.

in

The project has, it appears, all chances of becoming realised in the near future, provided Japan does no oppose the scheme aa hinted by the Washington Star."-Havas.

Rome, December. 9-Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang's retinue say that they are likely to depart from Venice by the as Conte Verde on December 15, but that nothing has yet been fixed--Reuter.

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

It is the same role that Huston played with great success on the New York stage. Cheater DeVonde and Kilbourn Gordon wrote the play from which Leon original Gordon, author of "White Cargo," "He is a splendid student of made the current screen adapta-human nature and it is his habit tion.

of applying this knowledge in trapping criminals that makes his sleuthing so enjoyable. He al most invariably causes the murat 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 8 9.20 p.m. derer to give himself away,

Lupe Velez and Virginia Bruce are a pair of white giris held in

Takt Mer TraM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUE

ORIENTAL

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

THE CLASSIEST MUSICAL SHOW YOU HAVE SEEN IN YEARS.

SPICY

story

of

a maid who mode a King

Lilian

HARVEY

MY LIPS BETRAY

FLEMING

ROAD

TEL. 28472

WEDNESDAY

AND

THURSDAY HERE'S

A ROARING DRAMA FROM

REX BEACHES" GREAT NOVEL

BIG BROTHER". RICHAR D

DIX

SHJACKIE

COOPER Sensational Star of

·*" Charlle never forgets the tradi tional clam of the oriental. If you rufia his feeling you will never know it.

"He just can't help. acquiring and using American slang occa sionally. In a recent. Chan "plc- ture he said to an American friend: 'Please excuse siang. "Ac quire it from my kids who go to -high school to get big education." " "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case,!! comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday,

domination by Huston in his scheme for revenge.. Conrad Nagel is a derelict English doctor who goes, "native," C. Henry Gor- don' 13 Gregg, on whom "Deadlegs Flint has vowed re- venge, and Mitchell Lewis and Forrester Harvey play character roles. S

Weird practices by which, white men prey on the superstitions of the jungle black are shown, "Deadlegs" Flint is master of

SKIPPY the tricks of magicians, which the

natives belleve to be true mari- festations of black magic. Many

YOUNG of these scenes were taken at

DONOVAN

KID

ALIVE WITH THRILLS!

night with flare torches for lighting an Inpvation, In film photography. This added an eerie touch to the drame and re- – sulted in some beautiful, camera'

effects."!"

Nathan Road, Kowloon Tel: 57222

TWO MORE DAYS ONLY TO-DAY & TO-MJEHOW

The city thr

15 LOOSE!

QULLY'S

TO-DAY ONLY At 2.80, 5.10, 7:20 ≈ 9.30 P.M.

DEEP IN THE HEART of the KONGO !

A white man and his bloodthirsty ape, ruling an empire

of savage blacks. a tale of savage hate and tumultons, primitive love !

KONG

WALTER HUSTON

LUPE VELEZ CONRAD

NAGEL

TO-MORROW

THE MYSTERY OF THE

The Picture

That Has The

World Aghast!

WAX

MUSEUM

ALL IN GCECEQUI

TECHNICOLOR

Another daringy dil. feredt Warner Bros.

LIONEL ATWILL FAY WRAY

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.u

The

WEDDING REHEARSAL

ROLAND YOUNG WENDY BARRIEL

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