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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S Op., WESTBOUND SUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 95720.

SHOWING »

TO-DAY

[At 230, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

SUN LAN CHOW

AND..

WU DIP YING

IN

BLOSSOM TIME"

A CHINESE TALKING PICTURE IN

CANTONESE DIALOGUE PRODDOED BY GREEN- VIEW FILM Co. OF U.S.A.

RELEASED BY UNITED

PHOTOPLAY SERVICE

*.CO.

COMING

ENSLAVED...

by conflicting emotions. "Her heart cried for love ...yat her hands reached out to destroy.

SUPERNATURAL

CAROLE LOMBARD RANDOLPH SCOTT VIVIENNE OSBOANZ

H.. WARMER

A KRIPERIN PRODUCTION

MAJESTIC

THEATRE:

Nathan Bossi, Kowloon. Tel:57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

The movie stunt man's crowded hour is geared to climax!

Peril at high |

LUCKY DEVILS

Thrill romance of movie stunt men

A With

BILL BOYD'S

Dorothy Wilson William Gargan Roscoe Ates David O. Selznick,

executive producer".

R KO RADIO Micture

E YOU

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Arizona Broadway?",

King's

Queen's.

"Penthouse,

Central.

Oriental.

..

"Blossom Time."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1934.

SHOWING·

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10.7.15 & 9.30. P.M

KINGS

Tops Hilarious Comedy

With a smashing climax that'll bowl you

(Chinese Picture)

over

"Puttin on the Pitz"

Lee Theatre

Star.

"The Blue Danube".

KOWLOON

"The Inancent of Chicago."

Majestic.

Lucky Devils."

Theatre Calendar

KING'S THEATRE

Wed-Friday Arizona To Saturday. "Berkeley Square"

Broadway"

QUEEN'S THEATRE

"Penthouse"

"Luxury Liner"

"I'm No Angel"

CENTRAL THEATRE

Sun-Tues.

Wed-Tues.

"Rafter. Romance'

Chinese Picture "Tarzán The

Fearless"

"Supernatural

"To-morrow at

Seven"

LEE THEATRÉ

Tuesday and Wednesday.-Blue Danube.

Thursday and Friday-A Fare- well to Arms.

January 13 und 14.-Marry Me,

PENTHOUSE

Myrna Loy's Starring Success

Flies, caused one of Director W. S. Van Dyke's biggest worries dur- ing the making of Arthur Somers Roche's "Penthouse," the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Cosmopolitan pro- duction which has its final showing to-day at the Queen's Theatre,

Now there are House Flies, and Horse Flies, and Blue Bottle Flies, and Dragon Flies and Bar Flies, but whoever heard of a Penthouse Fly 1

Learned scientists versed in the habita and caprices of the By-and old fy know and have proven that house flies cannot live above the Beventh story of a building.

So, on one of the sound stages of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, during the making of Arthur Somers Roche's "Penthouse," a By executioner, armed with a fly swat- ter, hunted, stalked," sniffed and listened day after day, on the prowl for any intrusive fly that might alight on Warner Baxter's forehead or Myrna Loy's coiffure, or Charles Butterworth's probascis.

For there's a reason. Flies never, never fly as high as a penthouse apartment.

Therefore, in Arthur Somers Roche's "Penthouse," it would be a scientific impossibility for a fy be seen on the screen enjoying high life in a penthouse,

"Penthouse" is based on the novel by Arthur Somers Roche which appeared serially in Cosmo- politan Magazine. It is a story of New York night life with a sensa- ticual murder climax.

Cast in the production, besides Warner. Baxter and Mise Loy, are Phillips Holmes, Martha Sleeper and Nat Pendleton.

"THE BLUE DANUBE''

Lee Theatre »--

Lovers of good music will hall with delight the showing of the above named picture at the Lee Theatre. The rendering of the famous walte by the Royal Tzigane Band is enough attraction for any one. The story is rather tragle, but tells the love tale of a gipsy. It la distinctly something new in British platures, and although not & first runner, yet there are many, We feel sure who would enjoy see- ing this again. This is the last" showing today,

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

Lee Theatre

Helen Hayes, Gray Cooper and| Adolphe Menjou play the leads in the Faramount picture "A Farewall To Arms at the above named theatre. This commences its run to-morrow. The story revealed in this Alm deals with a girl who alone in a hotel amongst strangerä is about to become a mother, while the man she loves la away at the front. It is a Gold Medal Picture of 1932 and is good entertainment.

Extravaganza of color

lilting

tunes... pretty girls... swooning rhythms

IT'S A RIOT

Fox Film Presents

ARIZONA

TO BROADWAY

with

JAMES DUNN -

JOAN BENNETT

HERBERT MUNDIN

MUSICAL COMEDY

LATEST

14

BILLBOARD

GIRL"

ALSO

Original screen play by William Conselman and Henry Johmon

Directed by James Tinling

FOX

LATEST FOX MOVIETONE NEWS

Leslie Howard and Valerie Taylor in the Jesse L. Lasky pro duction for Fox, "Berkeley Square," play the roles they created on the stage in the drama by John E. Balderston.

Berkeley Square

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Arizona To Broadway

KING'S THEATRE

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332

CHANGE-- NEXT COMMENCING SATURDAY, 18th JANUARY.

Love that lives forever

Fulfillment of all your dreams-the strangest

and most exquisite ro mance the screen has ever brought to you.

A Jeme L. Lasky Production

BERKELEY SQUARE

"with

LESLIE HOWARD HEATHER ANGEL

Valerie Taylor Irene Brown Beryl Mercer Directed by Frank Lloyd

· „From the play by .. John Bilderston

FRETURN

ANGEL I'M NO

Mae West Coming To Queen's

Mac Weet has more dynamic

energy than any two other actresses

MILLION DOLLAR LIVES Hollywood Stars' Insurance

£1,300,000 POLICIES OF WILLIAM FOX

BY. OUR FILM CORRES- PONDENT

American insurance statistics re-

veal the fact that a surprisingly large proportion of the men with million-dollar life policies are ac- tors and film executives. But possi- bly the casualties in the show busin- ess these days are higher,

William Fox heads the theatrical list with instirunees, totalling 88,- 500,000 (about £1,300,000).

Only two men in America (or possibly in the world) carry heavier insur AncePierre S. du Pont (£1,400.- 900) and Martin C. Johnson (£1.- 208,000), both big industrialista.

John Barrymore, insured for £400,000, heads the list of the twelve players with million-dollar policies, He is folowed by Norma Talmadge. and Otis Skinner (£250,000 each), and Al Jolson. Harold Lloyd, John McCormack, Mary Pickford, Harry! Richman, Will Rogers, Gloria Swanson, and Constance Talmatige, each with £200,000..

The dependents of some of the film executives ars even more heavi- į ly provided for. Joseph M. Scheneck! (president of United Artists, is i insured for over £1,000,000, followed

GALLY'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

The WARNER BAXTER you liked in “42nd Street"

1 n bright.

ne w

storyl

WARNER

BAXTER

in Arthur Somers

Roche's

PENTHOUSE

with

by Adolph. Zukor and. Jesse Lasky MYRNA LOY

with £1,000,000 each. Herbert J. Yates--so unspectacular a figure that his name does not appear in most reference boki-has pencies, tetalling £0 000.

Others include Harry Warner (£300,000), Major Albert Warner (£300,000), and Jack Warner (£200,- 000).

Two directors figure in the mill- ion dollar clane Cecil B. De Mülle (£350,000) and Erie von Stroheim (£200,000).

“BERKELEY SQUARE"

in pictures. Take the word of Fox's Wonderful Old

Wesley Ruggles, her director, for

that.

"Work, monotonous repetition, long hours, fatigue apparently

English Film

mean nothing to her," he declares. A deciding factor in the select "She is going stronger at the eation of Valerir Taylor for the of a long, hard day than when she second started."

Fox

feminine role in Film's "Berkeley Square" was her She proved it to him during the remarkable resemblance to Leslie filming of her latest starring pic-Howard.

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ture for Paramount, "I'm No Under ordinary circumstances Angel" showing from Saturday at any striking resemblance of the Queen's Theatre. As Tixa, the pronounced a character is detri- carnival dancer, Miss West stood mental to the chances of any ac- for long hours rehearsing with treas, but in the forthcoming flim; scores of extras the scene in which there is a unique need for this con- she dances the midway. And dition. again, there were many rehearsals of the scenes in the film in which Miss West takes on the work of a lion tamer.

Mae doesn't just go through the motions," insists Ruggles. "She puts her mind 100 per cent on everything she does. She always is trying for new business, some new trick or expression that will cap- tivate audiences.

"I'm No Angel' is all Mae West's picture. She wrote the script, helped write the music, assisted in casting.

Theatre fans are reminded that

The story tells of the life and Arizona To Broadway" comleves of the million dollar beauty the much talked about pleture "Berkeley Square' commences its kines the foremost in comedy and who is everything from a carnival run at the King'a theatre next character periormances. Herbert cooch" dancer to a lioner tamer Saturday. Fox Films have achieved Mundin and Sammy Cohen fur-in a big-time circus. Men are her

and zish the comedy, and when these another smashing success,

wants, from a small time "chump," Leslie Howard will be seen in one fun makers get together, one i gamo, and she bags any one she

assured to get the best out of any to big city society playboys... of the greatest roles of his career. He played in the same role that such Alm Joan Bennet plays the be created several years ago on leading feminine role. the stage. The dainty English This talented young lady star Heather Angel plays opposite been absent from the screen for Howard; and is in no small mea- sometime. Soe has not lost any Bure responsible for the delight-or her charm and theatre fans ful entertainment. She handles a

will hall her return, with delight. dificult part exceedingly well, as O'hers in the cast are:-Thedore do Irene Browne and Valerie Tay- lor. In short it is a flawless pro- duction, and will keep you en- chanted from start to finish...

has

Von Eltz. Merna Kennedy, Earle' Fox. David Wengren, and Walter Catlett, James Tinling's direction is delightful.

MADELEINE CARROLL

CONRAD VEIDT HERBERT MARSHALL in

WAS A SPY

GERALD & MAURIER EDMUND GWENN

Ogumont Bri

VICTOR

“ARIZONA TO BROADWAY" Joan Bennett's

Charm-

Miss Taylor, in the Jesse E Lasky aim dramatization, as in the play is an ancestor. of Hoeard, several generations removed & situation which induced unique Director Frank Llode to cast her. ៤ the The English actress infuge of Howard, who plays the featured role. Not only is this resemblance true of facial contour,

but of the eyes as well, which are hazel, the long, thin- check Hines,

the shape of the head and the side profile.

While this factor had nothing

do with Miss Taylor's casting for the same role in the Broad- way production and the two Lon don showings' of 'Berkeley Square." the greater intimacy a distinct advantage. made her resemblance to Howard

of flims

Those who will see this actress for the first" time on any screen will recognize the similarity and How- presuppose a relationship. ever, there is none, although both players were born in Lonoda, their houses but a stone's throw apart. "Berkeley Square" in which Heather Angel, another British

CHABLES BUTTERWORTH PHILLIPS HOLMES MAE ÜLABKE.

C. HENRY GORDON

Directed by

W. S. VAN DYKE.

- TO-MORROW

SIX DAYS OF HELL .......SIX NIGHTS OF. PARADISE!

Between ItsDecks. All Life. Prases

hi Review!

LUXURY LINER

GEORGE BRENTS

ZITA JOHANN

VIVIENNE OSBORN

ALICE WHITE

VERREE TEASDALE B.P.SCHULBERG

STOR

actress will play opposite Howard, TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.I

is the eminently successful fan- tasy by John Balderston which ran on Broadway for eight Bergen tests are not ordeals for months. That the classic navour players seeking certain screen of the original will be retained in roles. They are often invaluable the film version seems assured aids to actors and actresses in with the casting of Howard and perfecting their work before the Miss Taylor who were in the camera,

American as well as the British Joan Bennett asked that screen presentations of the play testa be made of her in all the The production comes to the outfits she wears in "Arizona" to King's Theatre on Saturday.

Broadway" and in all the climac

tie scenes of this Fox Film comedy

soon to be seen at the King's.

Theatre on WednesdayTo-morrow at Seven

When I see Joan Bennett on the screen in a test," said the ac- tress."She's not I She's just an actress, and I criticize her as such. She probably overacts in one scene and underacts in another. I am critical of the way she wears her clothes, of the way she has her hair dressed of everything about her.

CENTRAL THEATRE

To-morrow At Seven" is an- other murder mystery/whích" is probed the next morning at seven, The story was written by Ralph Spence, author of the Gorilla In other words, I see myself Chester Morris and Vivienne On- before others see me and thus I borne are featured in the leading am able more eally, to aid the diroles. Mystery Lane, will be - ac- rector in his exorts to help me corded a treat when they see this correct daws in fy work"

James Dunn and Herbert Mon- din are the featured male players inArizona to Broadway," direct ed by Jamer Thing from the pri ginal story by William Conselman and Henry Johnson, Bammy Co. hen also has an lutportant role.

cxciting thriller Supporting Mor÷ Tis, as the crime, specialist, and Miss Osborne are Henry Stephen- son, Grant Mitchell Charles Mid- dleton, Allen Jenkins, and Frank McHugh as the comical detectives. This is an RKO picture directed by Ray Enright

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CHICAGO

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