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ENTRAL

THEATRE

| TAKE, QU KEX'S RD., WESTBOUND NUY

Advance Booking at Andorșons and the Thoatro Tel: 26720,

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

THE WORLD'S GREAT- EST SINGER IN THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS STORY.

CHALIAPINE DON QUIXOTE

GEORGE ROBEY

SIDNEY FOX

NEXT CHANGE

The most novel dialogue rodeo, picture, packed with music, song, dances and thrills, aver filmed

RKO PATHE PRESENTS

A NEW BRAND

* OF WESTERN

HEAD

RDON MY GUN

ABE LYHAN

AND HIS BAND

NOTICE.

LEE THEATRE

Owing to prepara- tions for Chinese Stage

Performances, commen cing on Chinese New Year's Day, the Lee Theatre will be Closed on February 12 and 13.

-LEE THEATRE

Preparations For Chinese New Year

TO-DAY AT THE

King's

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"It's a Boy."

Queen'e

"College Humor."

Cextras.

"Don Quixote'

Orientas,

"Love Parade,"

Alhambra

KOWLOON

"Take, a Chance."

Star.

"Peg O'My Heart." Majestic.

"King of the Ritz."

Queen's

Coming

"Meet the Baron,"

"Night Flight"

King's

"Duck Soup."

"The Private Life of

Central

Henry VIII."

"Pardon My Gun."

"Song You Gave Me" "A Chance At Heaven."

Star:

"All Comedy Programme,"

Alhambra

£

This day and Age," "So This Is Africa" "I'm a Fugitive from A

Chain Gang.

"IT'S A BOY”

Rollicking Film At

The King's

It

The Gainborough "comedy, "It's Boy." opened at the King's Theatre yesterday, and judging by the crowded, houses it drew, will have a very successful run.

Adapted by Austin Melford from the original by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach, this merry farce ran at the Strand Theatre, "London, for many months and Gains- borough, realising its possibilities as a screen comedy" produced it, and signed Leslie Henson for the role he made so popular on the stage.

The story, full of nonsencical situations, is written around James Skippett (Lesile Henson), bachelor friend of Dudley Leake.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1934.

LAST TWO-DAYS AT

12.30, 5.10.7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

Skippett endeavours to rescue Leake from the too-loving atten- tions of Joe Piper, a hefty lad who visits him on the eve of his wedding to a charming girl with the

announcement that awful Leake is his "dear daddy."

A youthful indiscretion scares the timid Leake' into believing the the man's claim. and young friendly Skippett gets into every kind of scrape in his hard-working efforts at keeping Joe from mee: ting the bride, *

CL.S

One of the biggest laughs in the film is a scene in which Leslie Henson disguises himself famous woman author, fashionably attired and tottering about on ridiculous heels.

Unfortunately he meets the genuine, novelist at the bride's house and she. determined to get the bottom of the mystery, state- forces him into fantastic

of ments regarding the success "Her" books.

to

"Leslie Henson is ideally fitted to the part of Skippett, scoring. many of the laughs with facial expression and intonation. Ex- cellent performances are given by Heather Thatcher (the" "real novelist). Edward Everett Horton (Leake), Altred Drayton (the irate father of the bride); Robert- son Hare (humorously, "butlerish"). and Wendy Barrie (a very at- tractive bride).

Smart direction by Tim Whelan assures the maximum of diver. ting incidents.

COLLEGE HUMOUR

Showing At The Queen'sTM

་

•KINGS

A Laughter Epic!

LESLIE HENSON& ALBERT BURDON

it's a boy!

WITH

WENDY » BARRIE

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

A GAINSBOROUGH-BRITISH PICTURE

"TAKE A CHANCE" DIARY OF LOCAL

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 2531S &. 25332

At The Alhambra

Theatre

-FROM WEDNESDAY-

THEY CAME TO ASK FOR CLEMENCY

?.. but she

wasn't ini

THI

MARX

BROS.

DUCK SOUP

Directed by LEO McCAREY A Paramount Picture

SPECIAL MATINEE PERFORMANCES

ON

14th 15th 16th 17th, February Special Redaction_on_Prices

D. Circle-$1.10.

"MEET THE BARON"

B.. Stalle 70. Uts. F. Stalls-50 Cts.

Jimmy Durante And elephant white a

Zasu Pitts

An elephant who didn't want to Associate with a rhinoceros almost Baton Murchasen's" spoiled talking picture debut!

EVENTS

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13

TO-DAY

Excellent photography, gorgeous

February Anniversaries and Holidays.--- settings combined with a great Lincoln's Birthday (U.S.A.); Anni- cast all go towards making the versary of the Coronation of Popo Paramount fim "Take A Chance' Pius XI,

Auctions. Sale of Crown Land, tainments. The film abounds in P.W.D. Offices, 3 p.m.; Lammert's.

clean comedy with James Sale of Household Furniture, 8 good. Dunn as Duke and CUR Edwards Highburgh Terrace, (H. and cast as Loule. They are cast as Whampoa Deek Co., Ltd.) Hung- spielers in a carnival, their side- hom, 10.30 am.

one of the season's finest enter-

line being pick-pockets. Miss June

Cinemas,

Kaight as another of the enter King's:-"It's A Boy". tainers is responsible for some Queen's College Humour." very clever acting and her char-Central: "Don Quixote." ming voice adds much to the Oriental: "The Love Parado”, show. An old favourite Charles World:-M.G.M.'s Burlesque (Buddy) Rogers is also in the

Programme.

cast as well as a host of Tai Ping:-"King Of The Jungle” stars each one being equalis Alhambra:Take A Chance."

Majestic King Of The Ritz."

clever.

a

The ballet work is grand with Star:-"Peg Oy Heart."

bevy of beautiful girls and Dancas-At Sailors' and Soldiers' numerous song hits which make Home; H.M.S. Berwick's Ship's "the" picture outstanding enter-Company Dance, Garrison Lecture

Hall, 9.30 p.

Entertainments. Whist Drive for Service Men at Y.M.C.A., West Lounge, 8:40 p.m.

Another unique setting was the. "shower room, supposedly an ad junct to the college gymnasium. In this, to masic by McHugh and Fields a chorus of beautiful dancing girls, representing students, dance under the showers in a spectacular novelty, and later Ted Healy and his stooges, as pumbers, fix the pipes by playing the Anvil Chorus on them:

The disturbance occurred cn a, compassed "ten acres of campus, mammoth set representing a wo college dormitories four stories high, men's college. Pearl and Durante an athletic track and even archery were set to make a comicnt entrance ranges, all the various details being in a howdah on the back of an built to practical scale.

thousand girls, representing the student body, staged athletic activities to music. In a pen nearby was the rhino- ceros, which the studio had brought from abroad some time ago for "Tarzan the Ape Man." Somehow the elephant didn't like his looks and set up a deafening roar, in the This surprising snobbery of the meanwhile, executing a brisk trot to. that animal kingdom made itself mani-j in the direction opposite fest during the filming of Metro" which he was supposed to take, It Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star comedy, was necessary to cover the rhinoj "Meet the Baron," the next change ceros' pen with a canvis tent before

the at the Queen's Theatre in which the anxiety of ponderous Pearl, radio's famous puchyderm abated and the scene Jack "Baron makes his first appear could go on ance before the cameras in company with such veteran laughmakers as Jimmy Durante, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy and Edna May Oliver.

College Humour" is a very de-. lightful and humorous skit of American college life. Full Di tumeful melodies and charming Co-eds, the leading role being tak- en by Mary Carlisle.

Bing Crosby fans will like this picture, whilst Jack Oakle in his senior year becomes the campus hero by winning for Middlewest, the football game.

Others in the cast being Richard Arlen,

and Gracle Allen

Mary Koruman.

for Chinese stage performances for the Chinese New Year.

The grand opening of the per- formances commences on Chinese New Year Day with auch well. known stars as Miss Wu Dip Ying and Mr. Pak Kui Wing playing the principal roles, bath lately return- ed from America.

Miss Wu had just completed her Patrons of the Loo Theatre are role in a Chinese talkie picture asked to note that the theatre will "Blossom Time" in America which be closed to-day and to-morrow, was only recently saréened in the owing to preparatory arrangements' Central Theatre,

TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW

dir-

Walter Lang, who filmed the suC-. cessful "Warrior's Husband," ected "Meet the Baron" from a story by Herman J. Mankizzicz and Norman Krasna. In addition to Pearl, Durante, Zasu Pitta, Healy The college set was one of the and Edna May Olivers, the caat in- most elaborate ever built by the cludes Ben Bard, Henry Kolker, M-G-M studios. Established on an William B. Davidson, Moe Howard, acreage near Culver City, it en-Jerry Howard, and Larry Fine.

QUILA

Paramount Glarities

the American Comed

in the Phi Beta Kappa

COLLEGE HUMOR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

BING CROSBY GEORGE GRACIE BURNS ALLEN RICHARD ARLEN MARY CARLISLE JACK OAKIE Ox Road Co-eds

STAR

Marion

Daily

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

-NEXT CHANGE- JACK PEARL (Baron Munchauson)

SCHNÖZZLE

DURANTE

in

"Meet the

Baron

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.

Davies

"PEG O' MY HEART"

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

TO-DAY ONLY ALHAMBRA

THE STRE

KLASS WITH A CAPITAL "K"!

Year's Biggest Musical Hit!

TAKE A CHANCE

JAMES DUNN

At 2.30, 5:20, 7.20&,9.20 p.m.

NEXT "CHANGE

CECIL B. de MILLE'S SPECTACLE of today

"THIS DAY

and AGE"

Paramount Picture

tainment.

The story revolves around Toni (Miss Knight) who works with the two comedians in a road show. She meets and falls in love with Buddy Rogers who is producing a show. He is fleeced by the two picks pockets who win quite a large sum of money from him.

The management of the Alhambra Theatre are to be con- gratulated on the standard of pictures they have lined up for this play house and we urge all to see "Take A Chance" as "it is indeed a splendid picture.

Tak-lam and Lau Man-ching; Teoi

Meetings. Annual, Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., Hongkong Hotel, 11.30 a

Miscellaneous. Bishop Hall'a Discussion for. Men, Lane, Craw- ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Juvenile Choir Prac- tice, & p.m.

Moon-XII Moon, 29th day.

Sports.

Lawn Tennis-Open Singles, R H. Wild v, R. R. G. Hoare; M. W. Lo v. C. Ravenhill; J. M. A. Razack Ping-fan and Tsui Yun-pui v. P. J. A. E. Casumbhoy; Ho Ka K. Liang and M. C. Hung; W. Anu . Y. Hachiuma; J. Barro V. H. Du and A. L. Sullivan H. Owen Hughes; lu Tak-cheuk v. Major W. L. Eastwick-Field and F. H. Kwok; Open Doubles, H. A. I. L Withington.

Barron and F. J. Remedios v. Iu (Continued on previous columu)

4 SHOWS

DAILY" 1.20-5.15

7.15-0.30

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

FLEMING

♬ ROAD

WANGHAITM

TEL. 28472

2 MORE DAYS-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

THE ONE BIG PICTURE

THAT WILL LIVE IN YOUR MEMORY

FOR YEARS TO COME.

A PICTURE THAT YOU WILL DEARLY LOVE TO SEE AGAIN.

MAURICE

CHEVALIER The Love Parade

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

JEANETTE MACDONALD LUPINO LAME

LILLIAN ACTH

a Garentrant Picture

THE ENTIRE FILM INDUSTRY

"HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE. TO PRODUCE ITS EQUAL. A RE-ISSUE OF THE WORLD'S BEST PICTURE. SHOWING TO CAPACITY CROWD'S

DON QUIXOTE

Excellent Fare At The Central

The film of "Don Quixote" would iouse exceptional interest on the strength alone of its star, its director. its story, or its cast. This four-fold claim оп Alm- the goers' patience has made it most eagerly awaited picture since taikles

arrived, and it is now showing at the Central Theatre.

"Don Quixote" is a triumph for all concerned and mainly for. Feo- dor Challapine in the title part. The Russian operatic star bids! fair to the title of the screen's finest actor, for his living port- rait of the 'trazy idealist OI chivalry has the appearance and that the gesture

have sprung right from Cervantes' brain.

He

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW jat 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

15 simply magnificent, dominating. //

incomparable:

G. W. Pabst's directorial," skil has never shown with such glórious emphasis. "Brilläñt” sounds too weak a word to describe the wizardry with which Pabst has used his cameras. He has achieved amazing effects from simple light: and #adé and from minor move- ment, and every scene

is a gem of pictorial composition. It is doubtful if there has ever been' such beautiful Photography in any previous pictufé, certainly there has not since the ádvént of the talkies.

George Robey, the famous Eg! lish comedian, makes an admirable foll" to Chaliappine in the role of Quikote's henchman, Bancho Panza, bringing out cleverly the loyalty and grumbling courage of the village dolt," W.

Sidney Fox is a charming Marin

STANLEY LUPINO AND BETTY STOCKFELD

IN

KING OF THE RITZ

From the WHA calebrated play

:

HENRY KISTEMAECKERS

and Renee Valliers an adequate and the recording is excellent. Dulcinea Among the other Chaliapine sings, three new songs characterizations Oscar Asche, in a way that maxes one realis: Miles Mander, Emily Fitzroy, and why he has obtained his supreme Lydia Sherwood stand out with position of the operatic stage anels etched cameos.

#Don Quixote" is a picture, think miston de count be missed:

The settings are superably done

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