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CENTRAL

TAKE QUEEN's Rd., Wästbound BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel25720,

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY AT THE

King's

CINEMA

HONG KONG"

"The Private Life of Hen

Queen's.

"Night Flight."

Central

The Jungle Mystery."

Face in the Sky".

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

Oriental

HALF - MAN—

HALF BEAST-

Alhambra

"So

is Africa.

WHAT IS HE?

Star

Majestic:

A PICTURE

OF A

THOUSAND

THRILLS!

JUNGLE MYSTERY

with TOM TYLER

NOAH BEERY, JR., CECELIA PARKER AND MANY OTHERS IN A SMASHING ADVENTURE FILM BASED ON THE FAMOUS STORY,

"THE IVORY TRAIL" BY

TALBOT MUNDY.

TO-MORROW

UNITED PROTOPLAY SERVICE PLESENTS

t

A CHINESE PICTURE

The Nuisancə,"

"Melody Cruise,"

Queck's

Coming

"Attorney For the Defence."

King's

Indiscretion of, Eve,”

Emperor Jones."

"The Power and the Glory".

Central

The Fraginents of Life,"

Alhambra

"I'm' a Fugitive from a

Star:

"Silver Dollar." -

Chain Gang."

"The Sign of the Cross."

Oriental

"The White Gold Dragon,"

"NIGHT FLIGHT”

Excellent Entertain- ment at the Queen's

"Night Flight" is now showing at Queen's and thanks to the honesty of its pilot-director, Clarence Brown and a cast which "includes. such brilliant talent as John and Lionel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, and Myrna Loy, at last we have an aviation picture devoid of mock heroics and sham sentimentality.

Here wo have an air picture which does not depend alone on its beautiful photography. For "Night Flight" has

a story to tell, the true-to-fact barrative of the work of the night mail carriers who risk their lives in storms and over hazardous mountain routes in order that someone may receive a letter in the shortest possible time."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934.

LAST TWO-DAYS

AC

2.30, 5.10.7.15] & 9:30 P.M.

OKINGS

EVERY WOMAN GOT IT IN THE NECK – Eventually

LONDON FILMS prosśni

Charles LAUGHTON IN The Private Life of HENRY VIII

Dired by Sammals" Karda

BELLARD TERD UNTIED ASTMES

ALSO

¿

"PIED PIPER"

A SILLY SYMPHONY IN TECHNICOLOUR

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 - & 25332

- NEXT CHANGE

JOHN KOMSKY and QRPOED COCHUAN 'pressi

Paul ROBESON

IN EUGENE O'NEILL'S amazing story

EMPEROR JONES

WIN GUDLEY DIGGES

oked Artista

A SILVER BULLET HIS RABITS FOOT - BUT IT PROVES A BOOMERANG TO EMPEROR JONES!

SHOWING AT KING'S THEATRE

"The Private Life Of Henry VIII,”

Did Henry VIII really love any of his wivest

Was his heart ever stirred by that immortal passion which poets have hymned ever since man began to re- cord his emotions on something less ponderous than stone

Was his mad pursuit of the oppo- site sex based on

a paychological complex, or was it inspired by the one haunting fear of his life, the fear that he would die without an heir to succeed him on the British

throne ?

With an admirable sense of clarity The London Film production, and discernment, Director Brown "The Private Life of Henry VIII, has covered the full sweep of the United Artists release starring

Laughton night flight force, permitting the Charles.

showing at onlooker first an insight into the King's Theatre, sheds a fascinating organization and disciplinary mea-pictorial sidelight on this interest sures necessitated in so dangerousing question. an occupation. The camera is then shifted in stirring and gripping episodes to shots of certain charac tere who find themselves close to death as a result of battles with the elements. And finally we get the plight of the women left at home, the wives who are driven to desperation when they no longer

THE FRAGMENTS know whether the men they love pre

OF LIFE"

WITH

LILY YUEN

CHANG KWAN LEE

Ntill alive.

A picture so expertly acted "Night Flight is rarely to be found. Both John and Lionel Bar- rymore, the one as the mail com- pany's stern manager, and the other as the easy-going inspector, are se usual in faultless foran. Miss Hayes has never been seen. to greater ad- vantage as the pathetic wife, Gable'

and "Montgomery are excellent as butes an effective characterization

THREE UNUSUAL the Byers, and Myrna Loy contri-

ROMANCES

Warner Brothers Score Again

as the other wife left behind Out- standing in lesser roles are William Gargan, C. Henry Gordon, Leslie Fenton, Harry Beresford, Frank Conroy and Ruif Harolde.

A word must be said also for the fine musical background given the production by Herbert Stothart,

Three unusual romances. Jend a who has conceived" an

unusual

glamour to the Warner Bros pio-"symphony of the air" in bia musi-

Lure, "I Am A Fugitive From A cal effects.

Chain Gang," which is coming to

Alhambra Theatre on Wednesday.

It is claimed that they are actual love affairs of Robert E. Burns, author of the autobiographical novel from which the screen play was adapted by Sheridan Gibney and Brown Holmes;

ITALIAN FILM

To Be Shown At The

Queen's Theatre

One romance depicted in the pic- ture is the wild affair of a love starved prisoner, just escaped from an inhuman chain' gang camp; the second, his marriage to a woman,

Mr. Camillo Canali of the Italian who ultimately betrayed him to the police, because of her jealousy; and Government Tourist Agency, who is the third a beautiful love he is on an inspection tour of the Far unable to consummate because he East will give an exhibition of films must ever be a fugitive from the showing the most beautiful and in- grim hand of the law which seekos terceting parts of Italy at the to return him to the chain gang, Capitol Cinema at Macau at 5.30

p.m to-day. Besides the romance, there is grim, realistic story of life in a

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Following this, Mr. Canali will chuis gang, with its racking tortures go to Canton where he will, lecture and unitterable cruelties; spectacu-at the Y.M.C.A. of Canton on the lar and thrilling episodes of a man's 21st February, ab 0.09 p.m. fight from bloodhounds and armed

The same gentleman will give an

guards in which he narrowly exhibition of his ilin at the Queen's

capes death on several occasions.

Paul Muai, the famous stage and

Theatre at 11:30 am, on the Febre- ary 22. Special invitation cards

soreen star, heads the cast, with have been issued by the Italian Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Consul General, and anyone in

J. terested in the film may get a card Preston Foster, Edward.

McNamara, Shelia Terry and many at the office of the Hong Kong

Hotel. other notable players in support.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

25

Historians and paychologists hayo, one great love of Henry's life was both advanced theories to substan- the ill-fated Anne Boleyn, pointing tiate their claim that fear was the to the volume of seventeen love let impulsing motive of this "love-mad' ters from His Tudor Majesty to monarch. Both apparently forget this lady which is nothing if not in their enthusiasm, that a selfish proof in black and white. Actual passion, such as they picture, could quotations from some of these ten- not, by the wildest stretch of the der missives such as "having been imagination, merit the name of the above a whole year struck with the one emotion which leads the indi- lart of love for you and not yet

to forget itself in sure whether I shall find

a place vidual ego another.

in your heart and affection"" would most assuredly convey the existence of a yearningly tender sentiment.

And yet there are those who, dig ging below the surface of appear ances delving deeper into the well- Of the six fair thamers who shar springs of action, believe they haveed his life, history records but two proof that there were in Henry's who literally lost their heads' heart the promptings of warm and Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard genuine affection for at least two of the only two who held the citadel the women who graced his life and of his heart against all comers until their own weaknesses proved their these two he had beheaded,

There are those who aver that the undoing.

QULLA'S

6 STARS IN THE EPIC OF THE SKIES!

NIGHT

FLIGHT

JOHN BARRYMORE HELEN HAYES

Meu Qulub Meer

CLARK GABLE

LIONEL BARRYMORE-R. MONTGOMERY-MYRNA LOY

TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW

LEE

TRACY

STAR

.

At 2,30), 5.10, 7.20 & 9:30 p.m.

COMING

Heary Bellit's BROADWAY REVUE

"Hello Hongkong"

in

20 ACTS 20

At 2.30, 3.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

MADGE

EVANS

"THE NUISANCE"

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ALHAMBRA

THE STRU

"So This Is Africa!' is the funniest and best picture we have

ever madel”

Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

NEXT CHANGE

PAUL MUNI

"I'm A Fugitive from a

Chain Gang

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

Tuesday, February 20. Cinemas,

King's: The Private Life of

Henry VIII" Queen's: Night, Flight" Central:-"The Jungle Mystery," Oriental: Face In The Sky: World: Gallantry."

(Chinese Picture). Alhambra Sa This Is Africa." Majestic Melody Cruise," Star: "The Nuisance." Entertainments.-A. D. C. Pro- duction, "Ten Minute Allbi." Royal Naval Canteen Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

Meetings. Extraordinary. The Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd.," 2 Lower Albert Road, 11

u.m.

Miscellaneous. Rotary Club T- fin; Annual Prize Distribution, Canossian Institute. St. Mary's School, Convent Hail 5 p.m. Moon-I Moon, 7ch Day.

J

Principal Mails.

Inward from Europe via Siberia by Calchas.

Sports.,

Golf Royal Hongkong Golf Club (Ladies Section) L. G. U. medai competition (New Course, Fanling) Final of Championship.

Hockey-Borderers "v. seniors, 5 p.m.

Y.M.CA

Lawn Tennis Open Singles, G. R. M. Ricketts Y. M. W. Lo or C. Ravenhill; Open Doubles. Iu Tak- cheuk and W. C. Hung v. A, E. P. Guest and W. Hyde; I. M. A. Razack and J. A. E. Cassumbhoy v. Lak Chun-cheung

Shlu and Wong wing; Iu Tak-lam and Lau Man-

SHOWS CART

2.20513

7.15–1.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE [Nathan Ros.1, Kowloos. Tel. 57892 TO-DAY TO THURSDAY At 8.80, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.

Forty Maddening Maidens on a Maiden Cruise

• innocent

with twa

men who

tried not to

ship.. but

NAUGHTYCALI NUTTYCALI

SLIP

AHOY!

MUSICALI

MELODY CRUISE

With

CHARLIE RUGGLES^^ PHIL HARRIS

GRITA MISSIN, MARJORIE MATESON. HELEN MACK, Chick Chandler," June * Browstar, Skiriny Chambers

Hunt and ina by Will joten en Val Burton Cheated by Mari Sondech Adenan C Coope, evaculne produces sóciate pro duce Low Back

An RKO-RADIO Picture of course).

TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BÚÐ ̧

FLEMING ROAD

TEL. 28473

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

THE LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY YOU'LL LIKE THIS FAST ACTION COMEDY

FACE in the SKY

with

Spencer TRACY

and

Marian

NIXON

for heart appeal and

Stuart ERWIN

for laugh appeal

Directed by Harry Lachman

·FOX PICTURE

SHOWING TO-MORROW & THURSDAY

· Return engagement of that famous Chinese Picture.

Mr. and Mrs. Sit Kok Slen THE WHITE GOLD ́ DRAGON.

ching v. Tsui Yun-pul and Tacl Ping-fan; Ho Ka-lay and Tsui Wal-pui v. F. H. Kwok and 8." W. Liang.

Sunrise.--8.52 am. Sunset.-6.22

p.m.

Tides High at 1.12 and Low at 8.45 and 20.38,

13.44;

Wednesday, February 21 Anniversaries and Holidays:- Ember Day.

Cinemas.

*

"SO THIS IS AFRICA"

Final Showings To-day

It's too bad about the man who wouldn't go to see "The Dark

King's: The Private Life of Horse" because he thought it was an animal picture, because when he Henry VII.”

sees ''So This Is Africa!" the latest Queen's: "Night Flight."

madcap-revelry, Central The Jungle Mystery." Wheeler-Woolsey Oriental:-"The White Gold he's due for a lot more confusion.

Dragon."(Chinese Picture). | "So This Is Africa” will have its World: "Gallant" (Chinese) final showings to-day at the Alham-

Picture).

Alhambra:-"I'm B Fugitive

From A Chain Gang." Majestic:-"Melody Cruise." Star:-"The Nuisance."

bra Theatre

In this riotous, mirth-scintillating comedy it is hard to tell whether the animals are animals, birds, Entertainments:-A. D. C. Pro-beasts, fowls or Wheeler and Wool- duction, "Ten Minute Alibi," Royal | soy." Naval Canteen Theatre, 9.15. p.m.

Meetings:--Annual, The Hong-

When the picture was produced,

kong Land Investment and Agency Columbia Studios had to find a Co., Ltd. Mesara. Jardine, Mathe- donkey who could kneel down on his son's Offices, noon; Hongkong Iron right fore-leg like a human being Mining Co., Ltd., Mesars, Jardine, a huge six-inch fly that wouldn't resent being bitten in the back by Matheson's Offices, 12.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous: Whist Drive, Woolsey, a St. Bernard dog willing

to have all his hair shaved off, Seamen's Institute; 9. p.m...

Moon:--Firat Quarter, 2.05 p.m. gorilla who liked to swing through the jungle, and six lions who had. I Moon, 8th. Day.

a much greater passion for choco- late than red meat.

p.m.

Principal Mails,

Sports: Cricket-St. Joseph's College v. Central British School.

Outward for America and Europe And that isn't all. One hundred via Siberia by Tatsuta Maru, 8.30: Amazon women and 100 Tarzan men a.m.; and by Empress of Asia, 5, hold a huge and violent conclave în the jungle where these strange! beasts roam and where Wheeler, and Woolsey in evening clothes proceed to discover new sources of comedy for the amusement of the public. Golf Completion of· Bemi-final round Royal Hongkong Golf Club Beautiful, dark Haqiel (Ladles Section) Captain's Cup. plays a vigorous and, sec Hockey-Hongkong Hockey Club of an Amazon woman seniors v. St. Andrew's Club, 5pm. Muir, Henry Armett Sunrise:-6.51 am Sunset 8.23 ton and many others in ing cart Eddie Cline TidesHigh at 1.59 and 1420%. This To Africa from.

Norman Krasņā. Low at 8/41 and 22.10.

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