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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE, QUEEN'S D., WESTBOUND BUS

H

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

"Flying Down To Rio"

Advance Booking at AndersonS and the Thoatra Tel. 23730.

· King's

Queen's,

Dancing Lady"

Central

The Comeback”

(Chinese

Picture)

Oriental

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

ป

At 2.30, 5.15, 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.

LO MING YAU

PRESENTS

LILY YUEN

IN

'THE COMEBACK"?

21

WITH

KAO CHAN FEI-LEE KENC

M. NIKITINA

DIRECTED BY

CHU SHIH LIN

A UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE,

COMING

"UFA PICTURES PRESENTS

EMIL JANNINGS

-

IN

HIS LATEST STARRING PICTURE

"The Merry Monarch'

WITH

SIDNEY FOX

EUROPE'S IDOL OF THE SCREEN IN HIS

FIRST ENGLISH TALKING PICTURE

A UFA SPECIAL MUSICAL.

KAY FRANCIS

And Some Nice Frocks

Kay Francia noted as one of the best-dressed women on the screen, will appear in a complete wardrobe of beautiful erections designed by Orry-Kelly, brilliant new studio stylist, when hor latest Warner Bros, picture, "One Way Passage," in which she is again teamed with Wm. Powell, is showing at the Alhambra.

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Since the entire action of the film takes place on shipboard, with the sole exception of a brief stop- over at Honolulu, Orry-Kelly's col lection was designed primarily for -travel-wear-but-also includes some glamorous creations for evening. It is further notable in that it indicates a definite backward trend of fashion toward the "Pre-War Era"

"Life's Struggle" (Chinese Picture)

KOWLOON

Alhambra

One Way Passage"

Star.

Kai No Angel"

Majestic.

"The Jungle Mystery"

Queen's

King's

wwwww

Coming

"Prizefighter, and the Lady"

"Olsen's Big Moment"

Central

"The Merry Monarch",

Alhambra

Ladies They Talk About"

King For a Night"

Storm At Daybreak

Star

Luxury Liner

"Moonlight and Pretzels"

Oriental.

"DANCING LADY”

Final Showings To-Day

With Joan Crawford and Clark Gable headlined, a smashing par- ade of sizzling song hits, an eye- thrilling cavalcade of chorus en-" sembles, and a sensational Broad- way drama as story motivation, "Dancing Lady," which has its final showings to-day at the Queen's Theatre, towers to new heights in screen musical enter- tainment.

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Here is the Joan Crawford of old, the Ungeried lady of "Our Dancing Daughters," "Our Modern Maidens " and Our Blushing Brides," the Crawford who stam- pedes the box office, and leaves ém panting for more.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934.

LAST TWO-DAYS

AT.

[2,30,5.10.7.15] & 9.30 P.M.

KINGS?

TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR WORDS.. So they, set it to y

MUSICI

Heart-catching hits by VINCINT YOURANS

NING DOWN

WN TO RI

The new Brazilian dance, the CARIOCA

is driving the -narion mel.

atymad!

200 HEAR TH

BEASTIES [Pastalizing, CHRISEN HYPNOTIZING FR.M "CARIOCA" 10,000

ALSO

''KUSIC HIKES ME":

ORCHIDS IN THE MOSALIGHT "PLYING DOWY TO

* BEO"

MY

STARSI

Yes, YOUR Stars!.. DOLORES DEL RIO GENE RAYMOND. RAUL ROULIEN. GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE Direcalby THORNTON FREELAND. Lyrics by Edward Elias, Gu Kahn ☛

FLYING DOWN

Girls Insure Their

Lives

The beautiful motion-picture chorines have been insured. for their faces their figures and their limbs and hands, but those who appear in RKO-Radio's musical extravaganza, "Flying Down To Rio showing to-day at the King's Theatre, set a new prece- dent by having to be insured for their lives!

Teamed once more Cable, Joan plays her chorus role with all

The production, which for the she's got. She wears the kind of first time in talking picture his costumes that men admire and tory united air thrills and musical women try to copy. And when she comedy-drama, is climaxed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has top-complete staging of a girl show in ped them all with this musical mid-air. the performers enacting smash. The picture abounds with spectacles that stagger imagination

dances well she dances!

Among the song bits are Let's

and throbs with a romance that gorgeous numbers eclipse by far

the most alone would make the plcture, a

ambitions production grand evening's entertainment. spectacle ever placed upon the sil-

Robert Z. Leonard did a brilliant

ver screen. job of directing from the famous James Warner Bellah novel pub-. ished serially in a national ma-. gazine. Joan plays the part of the burlesque 'chorine who is de- termined to make good on Broad- way at any price. Gable is the hard- bolled dance director who treats

'em rough-on and off.

The cast, reads like an all-star screen, stage and redio aggregation -Franchot Tone, May Robson,

Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire, Ro- bert Benchley, Ted Healy, Gloria Foy, Art Jarrett, Grant Mitchell, Maynard Holmes, Nelson Eddy. Sterling Holloway and those de- vastating Ted Healy stooges.

Sammy Lee and Eddie Prinz proved their skill in the handling of the dancing ensembles. "These

CARNERA AND

BAER

Lu "The Prizefighter And The Lady"

A-match between Primo Car and Max Baer to decide the World Heavy weight Champioship title is more imminent now than ever before and may be arrangéd as early as next June.

This was the 'statement made by The designer, in a recent state Bill Duffy, the champion's American ment, expressed” his bellof that manager, when he and Carnera left women are tired of war, depression, the M-G-M studios on completion and it consequent simplicity, and of the new picture, "The Prize as a gesture of revolt have gone fighter and the Lady," in which the back to long, high-waisted princess champion and contender fought a gowns. leg-o-mutton sleeves, and ten-round screen battle many fur belows. Miss Francis, Heretofore there has been a wide echoing his view, suggested one of breach between Eser's managers and her own costumes, a typically Dolly ourselves," said Duffy, but during Varden frock of white organdie and

our long joint. stay at the M-G-M embroidery, with matching, flower-studios we had an opportunity to trimmed hat and fluffy paraadi, talk things over and came to an which she wears during a roman agreement that will bring the match tically beautiful sequence midst the many months nearer." palm trees of Hawali.

The prize-fight picture, which

Another who wears a full share opens to-morrow at the Queen's was of beautiful clothics in "One Way directed by W.S. Van Dyke and is Passage" is Aline MacMahon, who said to be the most authentic and plays the role of a bogus "Coun-spectacular of all time. Myrna teas," while William Powell, always Loy has the feminine lead and the sartorially perfect, has the leading cast also features Jack Dempsey, inale role opposite Miss Francis. Walter Huston and Otto Kruger.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

FINAL

TO RIO

their roles and their dances on the wings of planes soaring aloft over Rio de Janeiro,

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Other beauties do pull-offs from the ships and perform on thin air while wafted to earth via para- chute.

The story, dealing with the ad- ventures of an American Jazz

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 26332.

FROM THURSDAY EL BRENDEL and El's Belles

in a rapid-fire com- edy.

...with a dash of romance.

Olsen's

Big Moment

with

Walter Catlett Barbara Weeks Susan Fleming Directed by Malcolm St. Clair

"OLSEN'S BIG MOMENT"

Susan Fleming And El Brendel

bond leader in Brazil and his by Susan Fleming, who started to The longest engagement, yet beld romance with a beautiful native | ward movie fame from the back row gurl is enacted by Gene Raymond, of the Ziegfeld chorus, was BLI as "the boy" Dolores Del Rio, honths in Hollywood hospital. the girl." Roul Roulien, the South That contract expired last June, American rival, "along with Fred and Susan seems beaded for...ber Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the goal again. comedy relief.

Thornton Freeland directed. Vincent Youmans wrote the music, with lyrics by Edward Eliseu and Gus Kahn. Lou Brock supervised.

She went straight from Lilian Harvey's “My Weakness" to El Brendel's "Olsen's Big Moment, in which she plays the role of the girl who gete El foto a torrible amount of troüble. The film comes on Thursday to the King's Theatre, Go Bavarian." "Heigh Ho" "Eve- Miss Fleming is the living picture rything I Have Is Yours," "That's of one of the girls you read about the Rhythm of the Day" and liu the magazines, blue-eyed, Dancing Lady." You'll hear brunette, 106 pounds, five feet three- them plenty from now on!

and un-married. She was born in

CRAWFORD GABLE

IN THE NEW SENSATIONAL MUSICAL ROMANCE.

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Triumph }-

SHOWINGS TO-DAY STAR

MAE

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

NEXT CHANGE

THE

**PRIZE-FIGHTER

AND

THE LADY'

with

MAX BAER PRIMO CARNERA MYRNA LOY

At 2.80, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

WEST

in "I'm No Angel"

SHOWING TO-DAY ALHAMBRA

KAY

DENTRE

With ALINE MacMAHON WARREN KYMER FRANK MCHUGA

POWELL-FRAI

QWELL-1RANCIS

In Warner Bros, Latest Hit:

ONE WAY PASSAGE"

At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 0.20 p.m.

NEXT CHANGE-

Barbara Stanwyck

"LADIES THEY

TALK

ABOUT"

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TO-DAY

(March 13)

of

Auctions, Lammert's Sale Old and Surplus Victualling Stores, Kowloon Naval Depot, 9.30 a.m.

Cinemas

King's: Flying Down To Rio." Queen's: "Dancing Lady."" Central:-"The Comeback."

Chinese Picture).

Oriental:"Life's Struggle "

(Chinese Picture). World:-" Gold-Diggers Of 1933." Alhambra:-" One Way Passage." Majestic: The Jungle

Mystery."

Club'i

Star: "I'm. No Angel" Miscellaneous: - Rotary Tiffin. St. Andrew's Church Mothers'

Union, 3 pm; Weekly Service at "Wesley." 15. Ventris Road, Happy Valley, -8.30 p.m.

Moon-L Moon, 28th Day.

Principal Malls

Outward Air Mall for Europe by Andre Lebon 10.30 am, steamer 11.30 am, for Australia by Taiping 10.30 a.m., for America and Europe via Siberia by Pres. Cleveland 5 p.m.

Sports

Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Ladies' Section, LG.U. month-- ly medical' competition Course, Fanling).

(New

Sunrise: 6.35 a.m. Sunset: -6.31

p.m.

Tides:-High at 9.19 and 19.50; Low at 2.15 and 13.15.

WEDNESDAY

(March 14), "Auctions.-Lammert's Sale of Household Furniture, 8 Peking Road, top floor, Kowloon, 10.30 a.m.

4 SHOWS DAILY

6.30–5.15

1:15–3,30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE:

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 67222 TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB

"The Jun le Mystery**

WITH

TOM TYLER.

ORIENTALE

THEATRE

2 DAYS ONLY TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A

CHINESE TALKING PICTURE

in Cantonese Language

"LIFES

STRUGGLE”

WITH

Miss CHAN YUK MUI

in the leading role.

THE BEST CHINESE PICTURE

EVER PRODUCED.

Cinemas

King's Olsen's Big Moment." Queen's "The Prize-Fighter

And The Lady."

Central: The Merry Monarch." Oriental:-"Life's Struggle "

(Chinese Picture).

World: Midnight Mary." Alhambra:-"Ladies They Talk

About."

3 DAYS ONLY THURS, FRI, SAT.

THE SNAPPIEST

MUSICAL SHOW

OF THE YEAR..

MOONLIGHT

AND OPRETZELS

20 gurgaons pichs) .“. ầm big song hits in the picture that brings you Lee Carrillo Mary Brian

Roger Pryor. Herbert Rawlinson

Liten Miles.. Bobby Watson

NtRani Frawley'

Alexander Gray 24 Eaton Boys

Jock Dunery Frank & MIR Britten

MASSACRE OF WILD

BEASTS

Order to Kill All in Russia: Lure for Big Game Hunters

.'

The Red Army has been order- ed to destroy every tiger, well, bar, lynx and jackal in the en- tire Soviet Union. This will be an extraordinary task in view of the enormous extent of Soviet ter ritory.

Majestic: Arrowsmith." Star:-"Luxury Liner." Meetings:-Annual, Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 8A; Des Voeux Road Central, 11.30 a.m, Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., Special "iquidation" squads of F.&O. Buliding, 11 am, V.D.M.A., | soldierhunters are to be trained Cathedral Hall, 5.15 p.m.

1orthwitt: for, this massacre. It must be supposed, however, that; Miscellaneous: - Annual Pound some few of these "penicious Day, The Alice Memorial and Aff-beasts" will be temporarily spared liated Hospital, Bonham Road, from 11 am to 1 p.m. and from for foreign trappers to destroy. 2 to 4 p.m., Kowloon Union Church Womens Guild. 10 am.

Moor. I Moon, 29th Day.

Principal Malls

Travel Agency, which accepts only "Intourist," the Soviet Btatè

foreign currency, continues "to" ad- vertise" "hunting ́parties'' - on in- clusiye dally terms plus a jump sum in foreign money for each

Outward for Europe via Suez by animal liquidated." About E8, it Patroclus 2.30 p.m:

Sporta

Hockey Recrelo v. Radio Sports (King's Park); 5.10 p.m

|is stated, will be paid for fre stance, for each wolt killed, and about £30 for each bear.77

Successful "liquidations”” seem to be assured, for the Intourist's pamphlet says:

"The usual method of hunting Lawn Tennis.--Open Singles, J. bear in winter is by stalking. An-

W. Leonard v. Ho Ka LauL.

imals are driven out of their dens Rugby. Seven-a-Side Tourna- only to come up against expect- ment (Happy Valley).

Sunrise.-8.33 a.m. Sunset.-6.30

p.m.

Tides. High at 9.35 and 20.42. Low at 2,50 and 14.06.

ant hunters, each concealed in his numbered place."

Each party will be accompanied by a professional hunter having dozens of beans and sometimes. hundreds of wolves to his crèdits: to keep them out of dangera ma

New York and went to school there. until, a student at New Wayburn's dancing school, she was chosen by

The final general meeting of bim for one of the Ziegfeld phoruses. creditors and shareholders of the Two years later, she went to Weldon House Ltd, in liquida George White's Scandals for a tión) was "abandoned on Baturday season. Then Columbis took her to afternoon owing to the absence Hollywood. Next came a season of a quorum. The report of the with Paramount for whom she play liquidator, Mr. Woo Yes-tent ed the loads in Million Dollar showed that," "after final” realGRE Logs" and "He Learned About tion of assets, a dividend of 38 per Women.'

cent, was, paid to the creditors,

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