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CENTRAL

THEATRI

TAKE QUEEN'S ND., WESTBOUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 25750,

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

LILY YUEN

IN

"THE COMEBACK"

WITH

KAO CHAN FEI-LEE KENG M. NIKITINA

JA UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE,,

NEXT CHANGE

LUM KWAN SHAN

IN

A CANTONESE TALKIE

“A CUNNING FELLOW"

PRODUCED BY CHUNG

WAH FILM 00.

COMING

UFA PICTURES PRESENTS

EMIL JANNINGS

IN

THIS LATEST STARRING PICTURE

The Merry Monarch

WITH

SIDNEY FOX

EUROPE'S IDOL OF THE SOREEN IN HIS

FIRST ENCLISH TALKING PICTURE

A UEA SPECIAL MUSICAL.

GENTLEMEN PRE- FER BLONDES Flying Down

To Rio

Pity the poor little brunettes, who can never, never, lead the Holly wood Stur pack us "IT Gals

ol

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

Flying Down To Rio"

King's

“Queen's.

Central.

"The Prizefighter and the Lady"

"The Comablick" (Chinese

Picture)

Oriental

"Life's Struggle" (Chinese Picture)

KOWLOON.

Alhambra

One Way Passage'!

Biar

"Luxury Liner."

Majestic.

"Arrowsmith"

Theatre Calendar.

KING'S THEATRE

15th-17th-Olsen's Big Moment

18th-20th Doctor Bull

QUEEN'S THEATRE

21st-24th-Hoopla.

14th-17th-Prizefighter

18th..

Lady

and

the

CENTRAL THEATRE

Dinner at Eight Chinese Pictures

Will Rogers in Doctor Bull

Here at last is the production deemed worthy of will Rogers after his memperable perfor- mance in State Fair." It is Doctor Bull the Fox Film Screen présentation of James Gould Cozzens novel "The Last Adam" coming to the King's Theatre As Dr. Bull the hero of the story. Rogers "has what is' considered his best role. admirably fitted to his talents and destined to achieve for his the strongest following of his brilliant careen He portrays. a village doctor who is a shrewd philosopher and has seen times shifting parade bring new faces conditions into the life of his. village. He is the type that pre- fers the good old days but he has a keen admiration of the new ones. He is a staunch defender of the younger generation,

Like, "State Fair" this new picture is the story of more than one character, more than one town. It is the story of an era and a people with which each of you will identify himself.

The supporting cast includes Vera Allen, Marian Nixon. Howard Lally, Berton Churchill, Louise Dresser, Andy. "Devine. Rochelle Hudson, Tempe Pigott, Elizabeth Patterson, Nora Cecil, Ralph Morgan, Patsy O'Byrne, Veda Buckland, Effie Ellsler and Helen Freeman.

Miss Pat Paterson to Play Lead in "Bottoms"

DeSylva Ends Search

For Beautiful And Talented Actress Upon Meeting British Player In Hollywood

After a fruitless search in New York for a leading lady for his forthcoming musical, "Bottoms Uu." B. G. Desylva. Fox produces, returned

to Hollywood to find Pat Paterson, newly arrived from London, and chose her, for the feminine lead opposite Spencer. Tracy and John Boles. This will be Miss Paterson's first American production.

For the same Alm DeSylva also announced the unique combina- tion of screen comies including" Herbert Mundin, Harry. Green and Sid Silvers.

The story for "Bottoms Up" is an original by DeSylva, Silvers and David Butler, who will direct.

few brunettes possesɔ.

I'll quote you figures to prove it.

"While interviewing 10.000 girls the screen.

in search of the 133 finally selected, Followers of muvie history, know we found that only absent one that every time some brunette giri brute out of 100 has that price- makes a hit on the screen, newspa less quality known as eex appeal, perdom and fun magazinedom go I mean the kind that steps right wild all aspiring to write yarns

out and smacks you on the nose, the. about the underdogs, the brunettes.kind 'needed for the films,

Naturally when Rko Radio Pic-. Six out of every ten blondes on tures recently selected 100 brunettes the set reduced the electricians and and only. 36 blondes, including red other to various stages of heart kends as chorines in the musical ex-pulpitation. We could have accured travaganza, “ Flying Down To Rio," champions of the brunettes flockod to the studio"eininasse.

Are blondes losing out in the movies? Goody Goody."

135 passable blondes out of the first 600 girls interviewed. wherens, due to our advertisements for brunettes, there were about six brunette ap- plicants to every one, blonde. Alas. It is not to be.

"There are many other indica- Flying Down to Rio." being ations of the superiority of blondee Latin-American story had to feature in the matter of "appeal to males. dark brunettes. Blondes weren't "Practically all the IT girls on even necessary. Yet, such is the the screen to-day are blondes or demand for blondes that the pro-red-beads-Jean Harlow, Constancó ducers simply had to include thirty Bennet, Clara Bow, Ginger Rogers, five to get by with a blonde-lovin, Joan Blondell, Marene Dietrich public Laugh that off!

So, the human interest story being gone, and the triumphant waT ETY

"You can't deny it, IT is blonde,

nine times out of ten.

¿ Why, Well, lay it to publicity

of the brunettes being impossible, if you will Hundreds of years of

nothing remained but to find out the why of it all..

Lou Brock, associate producer credited with the original story for the film and who supervised pro- duction, Bays

The why is simple. Blondes have that certain something which

and

publicity. Novelists making blondes and red-heads glamorous brunettes quiet little home bodies. Films, do the same thing. Why, even husbands of to-day, when they want to make their wives jealous, speak of flirting with a blonde.' 'They nover mention a brunette;-)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 12.30.5.10,7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

The new Brazilian

dance, the

CARIOCA

•KINGS

TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR WORDS...

So they set it to

MUSIC!

1

Heart-catching hits by VINCENT YOUMANS

DOWN TO RIO

RKO RADIO Picture

Yes, YOUR Stars.. DOLORES: DEL RIO

is driving the nation mcl. ody-mail!

CARIOCA

200 HEAR THE

BEALITIES TANTALIZING] "CHOSEN HYPNOTIZING,

10,000

GENE RAYMOND RAUL ROULIEN, GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE

AL80

HUSIC MAKES HE "ORCHIDS IN THE MOONLIGHT". FLYING DOWN TO RID"

Directed by THORNTON FREELAND Lyrics by Edward Elişcu, Gus Kahn ☛

Clara Bow and two of the principal players in her latest starring production for Fox Film, Hoopla." Her two leading men are Preston Foster and Richard Cromwell,

2PB

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

GIRLS/MEET MAX BAER

The New "IT"Man of the Screen

THE

PRIZEFIGHTER

A

LOVE STORY

MymaLOY MaxBAER Primo CARNERA Jack DEMPSEY

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

AND THE

LADY

STAR

Paramount's Drama

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313

& 25338

FROM TO-MORROW EL BRENDEL and El's Belles in a rapid-fire com- edy...with a dash of romance.

Olsen's

Big Moment

X

with

Walter Catlett

Barbara Weeks

Susan Fleming Directed by Malcolm St. Clair

Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer picture has an amazing "cast of 14 stars. commences its run at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.. Ecrewe have Marle Dressler as a flamboy- gant retired musical comedy-star,

John Barrymore as a has been matinee idol, now penniless. Wallace Beery as a vulgar power- ful" millionaire-Jean Harlowe his cheating wife, Lionel Barry more as a shipbuilder facing busi- ness catas trophe. Lee Tracy as a Broadway theatrical agent and Edmund Lowe as a socelty doctor with a weakness for his feminine patients. Then there is Bille Burke as a Park Avenue hostess her daughter Madge Evans eng-.. aged to Phillip Holmes, but in love with another man, and May Robson as the cook whom falls the actual responsibility for the success of the dinner.

Each star in Dinner at Elght has a big scene with the various subplots woven into one grand smash climax

The story concerns a dinner at which a varied group of people are invited, and the individual advertures which befall each be- tween the time of the invitation and the event.

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

NEXT CHANGE

MÉTRO'S MOST

#

brilliant

ACHIEVEMENT

"DINNER AT 8"

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

"LUXURY LINER"

with GEORGE BRENT-ZITA. JOHANN

TO-DAY ONLY

WILLIAM

KAYA

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

Wh ALINE MacMAHON -- WARKEN HYMER

FRANK MCHUGH:

FRA

OWELL RANCIS

In Warner Bros. Latest Hit

ONE WAY PASSAGE"

NEXT CHANGE-

Barbara Stanwyck

"LADIES THEY

TALK ABOUT

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(March 1-4)

"Auctions.—Lammert's

Household Furniture, 8

Sale of Peking

Road, top floor, Kowloon, 10.30 3.m. Cinemas

King's: Flying Down To Rio." Queen's:-" The Prize-Fighter

And The Lady," Oriental:-"Life In Struggle"

(Chinese Picture). Oriental:-"Life's Struggle "

(Chinese Picture). World: "Gold-Diggers Of 1933." Alhambra: Ladles They Talk

About."

Majestic:-" Arrowsmith." Star:-"Luxury Liner." Meetings:-Annual, Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd., BA, Des Voeux Road Central, 11.30 am, Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd.. ... Buliding, 11 a.m., V.D.M.A.. Cathedral Hall, 5.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous: — Annual Pound Day, The Alice Memorial and Aff- Uated Hospital, Bonham Road. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 4 p.m.. Kowloon Union Church Womens Guild, 10 am.

Moon.-I. Moon, 29th Day.

Principal Mails

Outward for Europe via Suez by Patroclus 2.30 p.m.

"

Sports

Hockey. Recreio v. Radio Sports (King's Park), 5.10 p.m.

Lawn Tennis.Open Singles, J. W. Leonard v. Ho Ka Lau

Rugby. Seven-a-Side Tourna- ment (Happy Valley).

*Sunrise.-5.33 a.m. Sunset.--6.92 |

p.m.

Tides.--High at 9.35 and 20,42, Low at 2.50 and 14.08.

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30.5.15

7.15-0.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road, Kɔwlona. "Tel. 57222 [TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2,80, 5.20, 7.20 à 9.20 p.m.)

HIS

IS achievements held humanity in

awe..

his "genius

gave the world a miracle that saved the lives of nations ..they crowned him with glory-but all the honours, all the. tributes, all the praise could not compensate him for the love of the woman he had : lost!

"ARROWSMITH"

p.

WITH

RONALD COLMAN

HELEN HAYES

i

Meetings-Theosophical Society, Mr W C. Felshow speaks on.

Henry Steel Olcott," 6 pan. Miscellaneous-Claims against. the Estate of Andrew Barrle Low- son, late of Chadley Woldingham,

TAKE ANY THAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BRUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

FLEMING

# ROAD >

WANCHES

TEL, SHITS

THE LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY CHINA'S GREATEST TALKING PICTURE "LIFE'S STRUGGLE” in Cantonese Language.

With Miss. CHAN YUK MUI in the Leading Role.

THE GRAND AND GLORIOUS MÚSICAL SHOW WITH OVER 200. FEATURE PLAYERS.

FOR TO-MORROW, FRIDAY &

SATURDAY

MOONLIGHT and PRETZELS

THURSDAY

(March 15) Auctions. — Public Roup, Race Ponies, Hong Kong Jockey Club Paddock, Race Course, 5.15 p.m.

Cinemas

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

And The Lady." Central: The Merry Monarch." Oriental:- Moonlight And

་་

Surrey, England, due; St. Andrew's" Club Discussiori Class, Church Hall 9 pm. Subject: "Can We

Belleve In Miracles?"

Moon. New Moon, 8.08 p.m. II Moon, 1st Day.

Principal 'Mails Inward from America by Pres. Coolidge and Empress of Russia; from Europe via Suez by Ajax,

Sports

Auctions-Sale of Race "Ponles Pretzels." (Jockey Club Stables), 5.15 p.m.

Meetings.-Hong Kong. Football Association (Sports Club), 530 p.m.

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

About."

Majestic-Arrowsmith." Star: Luxury Liner." Entertainments. Dramatic Plays, Helena May Institute, 5.30

El Brendel in Olsen' 'Big Moment'

With two comedians playing in one picture "Olsen's Big Mo- ments" ' promises to be an up- roarious laugh riot. The com- bination of Brendel's antics and: Catlett's gags. is said to give the fim the distinction of being one of the funniest come- dles ever released from the Fox Film studios.

The story concerns itself with an apartment house janitor who becomes involved in a romance between a wealthy bachelor and a beautiful young girl, who is not in love with him.

The Janitor endeavors to patch up the romance, force him into a series of complications chock- full of adventure.

After participating in every possible escapade imaginable, the Janitor" is finally succemful in "bringing the two lovers together and the entire affair to a happy conclusion, th

ET Brendel supported by Walter Catlett, Barbara Weeks and Susan Fleming.

Sunrise.-6.32 a.m. Sunset.-6.33

p.m.

#

Tides.-High at 9.58 and 21.30. Low at 3.21 and 14.55.

(OFI" Brendel, thinking that Waller Caßleti in fit to be tied--one of the scenes Deʻnaw Fox comedy, "Olsen's Dig Momani.

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