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ENTRAL
THEATRE
TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WRSTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Thintro Tel 36720,
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 6.15, 7.15 & 9:80 P.M. LUM KWAN SHAN
WELL-KNOWN CHINESE STAGE STAR IN
JA CANTONESE TALKING COMEDY DRAMA
A CUNNING FELLOW"
WITH
MISS PIN SIN WONG
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
"Olsen's Big Moment"
King's
Queen's.
The Prizefighter and the Lady"
Central.
"A Cunning Fellow" (Chinese Picture)
Oriental
"Moonlight and Pretzels"
KOWLOON
Alhambra
Ladies They Talk About" -
Star.
Majestic.
"Storm at Daybreak"
"The Air Mall Mystery"
Coming
Wing's
"Doctor Buli"
Queen's
"Dinner at 8" "Big Executive" "Bed Time Story"
PRODUCED BY THE CHUNG} | Central
WAH FILM CO.
Alhambra
Star
NEXT CHANGE
GORGEOUS PAGEANTRY! SIGNIFICANT MUSIC!
EMIL JANNINGS
IN
The Merry Monarch"
"King For A Night" Counsellor at Law"
"Power and Glory" "Week End Chly
"Maid of the Mountain'
"DINNER AT EIGHT"
IS LATEST STARRING PICTURE Next Change At The
The Merry Monarch'
WITH
SIDNEY FOX EUROPE'S IDOL OF THE SCREEN IN HIS. FIRST ENGLISH TALKING
PICTURE
"LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT"
Coming To The
Alhambra
Queen's
ulle
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934.
"LAST TWO-DAYS AT 2.30.5.10,7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
•KINGS:
Do You burp?
Have you hiccoughs?
Do your feet hurt and
how is
your
Liver!
What you need is a lot
"
of long, lusty laughs.
See El Brendel in "
Olsen's
Big Moment
with
EL BRENDEL
Walter Catlett Barbara Weeks
Susan Fleming
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
ON THE STAGE
SATURDAY 17th-SUNDAY 1871--MONDAY 19th and TUESDAY 20th MARCH
AT 9.30 P.M.
THE FAMOUS LONDON ACTOR
J. GRANT ANDERSON
WITH HIS
4
GRANT ANDERSON COMEDY CO.
AT THE KING'S
El Brendel in "Olsen's
:
Big Moment"
say, the picture is made for laughs. and with the cast including Walter Catlett, Barbara Weeks. and Susan Fleming, the audience can well he assured that there is plenty!
“DOCTOR BULL" Coming To The King's
"Doctor Büll", the title of tho screen
It is safe say "that I witnessing the pliotoplay version of "Dinner at Eight, which opens ou
El Brendel, the well known laugh Sunday at the Queen's will come
version of James Gould away without & feeling of Laving maker, is seen at his funniest in the been a spectator to one of the inst rule of a janitor in Olson's Big Cozzens' successful novel "The Last invigorating and compelling motion Moment" which is now showing.at Adam", is the personal selection of Needless to Will Rogers who has his latest pictures to evolve from the lofty-the King's Theatre.
When wood studios.
stellar role in the picture. the transferring of the book to the screen was first begun, it was called Roger's "Life Worth Living". "objection to this title and his pre- fererce,for "Doctor Bull" were chiefly responsible for the change.
The supporting cast, headed by and Marian Nixon, Vera Allen includes Howard Laily, Berton Churchelle, Louise Dresser, Andy Devine, Rochelle Hudson and Ralph Morgan among others. John Ford directed the film which comes to the King's Theatre on Sunday hert.
It is often the aim of inventer- tainment to combine tears and Jaughs with gripping drama, but it is,seldom that a motion picture bas So successfully achieved this aim as has the
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screen version of the celebrated George S. Kaufman Edna Ferber stage, play.
Marie Dressler's damboyant in- personation of a faded musical comedy star who returns from a period of retirement abroad in the nick of time to save a young girl from ruining her life forever," is lone worth going miles to watch. But there is plenty more."
Tragedy and Comedy,
There is the gripping, suspenseful interlude in which John Barrymore as a movie actor who has lost his popularity turns down the degrad- ng offer of walk on" role and There is the hilarious episode in which Jean Harlow, foriner hat check girl and how wile of a nouveau-riche and unscrupulous financier, turns the
commits suicide.
The story concerns an apartment house jaaltor who becomes involved in a romance between a wealthy bachelor and a beautiful young girl who is not in love with him The janitor's endeavours to patch up the romance forces him into a series of complications chock-full of laughter and adventure. After participating in several amusing escapades, the janitor shally suc ceeds in bringing the two lovers to gether and the entire affair to a happy conclusión
Apart from this picture which
alone is worth a visit to the King's, the theatre also offers the latest
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 * 25332
NEXT CHANGE .COMMRACING SUNDAY
18th MARCH Just what you've wanted to see! WHI Rogars In another, STATE FAIR
Will Rogers
IN
DOCTOR BULL
"Based on “The Lost Adam" by James Gould Cozzens
with
MARIAN NIXON RALPH MORGAN ANDY DEVINE Directed by John Ford
George White's "Scandals" and B. G: De Sylva's "Bottoms Up".
Two elaborate musical produc- tions will be at Fox Movietone City. B. G. DeSylva ill "Bottoms Up." starring Pat Paterson, Spencer Tracy, John Boles,
Harry Herbert Mundin. Green and Sid Silvers, will be started. A short while after George White will begin shoot- ing the first Fox edition of his "Scandals," with Thornton Free- land and Harry Lachman direc- ting.
have Seventy-five girls already been selected for the "Scandals" and it remains for Mr. White to pick another 75 of a group of 600 applicants. Selection of the girls took place at a Hollywood theatre because of production congestion at the studio.
In the "Scandals" Lillar Harvey. Rudy Vallee, Jack Haley, Cliff Edwards and Alice Faye will be featured as well as George White, who will appear on the screen in his own production. William Conselman is doing the
Movietone News" and a delightful comedy entitled "The Line's Busy" which with the main feature forms a spley programme which lovers of screen play and Joe Cunningham laughter should not miss.
tables on her domineering husband, GIRLS/MEET MAX BAER
Wallace Berry. There is the stirr ing scene in which Edmund Lowe, philandering doetor, is caught by his wife, Karen Morley, in an act Barbara Stanwyck, in a new type of lofidelity and pleads for another. of role and with a new leading may chance. There is the tragedy of the will make her appearance ou the Park Avenue matron, Billie Burke, screen at the Alhambra Theatre who is so busy she doesn't realise till to-morrow in her latest Warner until it is almost too late that her Bros. picture Ladies They Talk husband, Lionel Barrymore, is close
About.
As a dashing and allractive bank bandit, cool, worldly wise and hard boiled, who watches her wits again st police and prosecutor, Miss Stanwyck interprets a role far re moved from her recent characteri- zations. For the first time in her life also, she appears as a platinum blonde, although this is in but a few sequences where she bed a blonda disguise while holding up
bank,
Preston, S. Foster, who played a crook part in "I Am A Fugitive from a Chain" Gang" and Killer Mears in "The Last Mile," has been graduated from heavy parta to play his first leading role for Warner Bros. opposite Aliss Stan wyck. He has the role of a young evangelist, who is infatuated with the beautiful young bank bandit the is trying to reform.
to death.
It would take too long to list all the various plots and sub-plots which comprise to make up the narrative of "Dinner at Eight." Sufficient to say that together with the preceding happenings there are various interludes which turn the spotlight on Lee Tracy, Madge Evans, Jean Hersholt, Louise Clos- ser Hale, Phillips Holmes, May Robson and Grant Mitchell together with various lesser lights.
"Prison" Film At.........
Alhambra
Ladies they talk about" now showing at the Alhambra is a story of prison life involving the romance The story is a revelation of the of one of its inmates and an evan life of women prisoners in the gelist. Although with prison life as California prison and is based upon its background, the picture is really actual prison experiences of Dorot-entertaining and quite different hy Mackaye, the actress and from those recently shown. Bar- author of the play. She served a bara Stanwyck who bas just been torm in the institution after the acclaimed the first lady on the death of her husband in a tragle screen, gave a perfect characterisa brawl that stirred Hollywood and tion se the hard boiled gaol bird, the theatrical world a few years and was ably supported by Preston ago.
S. Foster as the evangelist, and a
There is an excellent supporting well choven cast including Lyle cast which includes Lgle Talbot, Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Roth,Road and Maude Eburne. Mande Eburne, Harold Huber,
Helen Ware, De Witt Jeunings, and
The New 'IT'Man of the Screen
THET
QULLA'S,
PRIZEFIGHTER LADY
A TWO-FISTED LOVE STORY
MymaLOY Max BAER Primo CARNERA Jack DEMPSEY
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
AND THE
STAR
KAY FRANCIS
the dialogue.
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m
NEXT CHANGE
METRO'S MOST
brilliant ACHIEVEMENT
"DINNER
AT: 8"
At 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m.
NILS ASTHER
"Storm At Daybreak"
SHOWING TO-DAY ALHAMBRA At 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m.
Just elected ."FIRST LADY
OF THE SCREEN"
Ruth Donnelly, Robert Warwick,
in nation-wide
screen by Sidney Sutherland and
fan poll.
Robert MeWade."
Carlton Miles is the co-author of Brown Holmes. Direction was by the original play with Miss Mac. Howard Bretherton and William kaye, which was adapted to the Keighley.
BARBARA
THEATRE
TANWYCK
LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT
Lost Ladies
yet the heart and the
Besh of every one of them cries out for honest love!
With a great Warner Bros.' supporting cast including ---.
CHESTER MORRIS
in
"King for
a Night"
" with
HELEN TWELVE TREES
DIARY OF LOCAL. EVENTS
TO-DAY
(March 16) Auctions-Lammert's
Sale of Postage Stamps, Sales Room. 5.15 p.ni.
1 Cinemas,
King's: "Olsen's Big Moment." Queen's: "The Prize-Fighter
And The Woman."
Central-A Gunaing. Fellow."
-Chinese Picture),
Oriental: "Moonlight And Pre-
tzels."
World:-"Modernity,”—(Chinese
Picture).
"Alhambra: "Ladles They Talk)
About."
Majestic: The Air Mail My
stery."
Star:-"Power And Glory." Dances. St. Patrick's Society, Annual Ball, Peninsula Hotel, 9 p.m.
Miscellaneous:
Graduation
Function of the Chun-Shing Com- mèrcial Academy. Gloucester Res- taurant, 3.30 p.m.
Moon.
1:
Moon, 2nd. Day. Principal Malls. Inward from America by Pres. Monroe: Outward for Europe vla Suez by Yasukuni Maru 1.30 p.m.; Air Mail for Europe by Conte Verde 3 p.m. Steamer 4 p. m.: for Ameri- ca and Europe via Siberia by Pres. McKinley, 5 p.m. ̈ ̈
Sports.
#
Huckey.-H.K.S.R.A. V. Royal Artillery Officers, 4.30 p.m.; Hong- kong Hockey Club""A" v. "Incogni- tas." 5 p.m.
Lawn Tennis.-Open Singles, Lai Kwong-tsun" v. Tam Yee-fong.
Sunrise.-6.31 a.m.; Sunset.-8.33
p.m.
4 SHOWS DAILY
1.30–5.13
7.15-830
MAJESTIC
THEATRES
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel 57222 T-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
BREATH-
TAKING FIGHTS IN THE AIR... STUNTS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR PULSES POUND
JAMES FLAVIN
IN
THE
AIR MAIL MYSTERY
TAKE ANY THAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BIS
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
ROAD
WANGHAI
TEL. 28473
2 DAYS MORE-TO-DAY-TO-MORROW THE SEASON'S BEST MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW
50
of New York's most beautiful and talented show girls.
8 SMASHING SONG HITS!
MOONLIGHT PRETZELS
AND
Tides-High at 10.22 and "22.15; j Low at 3.50 and 15.40.
SATURDAY
(March 17) Anniversaries and Holidays:-
St Patrick's Day. First Day of Zulhijjah.
Cinemas,
King's: "Olsen's Big Moment." Queen's: "The Prize-Fighter
And The Woman"
Central:-"A Cunning Fellow."
(Chinese Picture!.
"PRIZEFIGHTER
AND THE LADY”
Showing At The Queen's
Myrau Loy, Max Baer, Prima Carnero, Jack Dempsey, Walter Oriental:-"Moonlight And Pre-Huston and Otto Kruger comprise
tzels."
World:Modernity."—(Chinese
Ficture).
the distinguished group of actors and sporting personalities gathered zogether by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer- Alhambra:-Ladies They Talk for The Prizefighter and the Lady," gripping story of the prize ring which is now showing at Mystery.", the Queen's
About." Majestic: The Air Mall
Star: Power And Glory." Dances Steel Coulson's Billiard League Dance, Garrison Lecture Hall, Wellington Barracks.
Entertainments-Grant Ander-
Comedy Company. Parents Sleep," King's Theatre, 9.30 p.in.; Special Gala Night, Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
SOTI
"While
Carners, heavyweight champion of the world, faces the camera for the first time in his ten-round fight with Baer in "The Prizsighter and the Lady." The giant heavyweight's' battle with bis challenger before the time set for their real fight is with out precedent and has aroused the Miscellaneous Formal Opening, interest of the entire world of South China Athletic Association's, sport. Their film bout is referced new Pavilion by H.E. the Governor, by none other than the famous Caroline Hill, 3.30 p.m.; Search light Display from all Warships in Harbour; Distribution of Billard Trophies, Garrison Lecture Hall. Moon- Moon, 3rd Day.
Principal Malls Outward for Europe via Siberia by Fushimi Maru, 3.30 p.m.
Sports Athletics-University Sports, 1.30
p.m.
Dempsey.
The plot of the new fiim, based on a story by Frances Marion, de pists the career of a hard-boiled youngster who rises from the post- tion of "bouncer" in a spankezey to that of a fighter of championship calibre. The sensational scenes laid against the colourful sports back- ground, the romantic interlude with the night-club entertainer and the Cricket-First Division: Royal difficulties placed in the way of the Navy v. Civil Bervice (F): Craigen- fighter by a racketeer gunman pro- gower v. Indian R.C. (F); Small vide, the elements of what is desty Unita, South Wales Borderers cribed as the most realistic and (F) Second Division: Indian R.C. absorbing story of the prize ring v. Craigenzower (F), Police v. R. A. Lever to reach the screen, M. C. (F).
Walter Huston plays the role of FootballFirst Division: Recreio the booze-ridden who recognizes in Kowloon (King's Park), 4.30 Baer championship material and p.m.; Club. East Lancashires trains him for his fights. The part, (Military ground, H.V.). 4:30 pm. a "natural" for Huston, marke Hockey-Cher Clark Cup: Cen- another step forward in this actor trni British Association v. St. An- brilliant career. Prominent roles drew's, 2.45 pm; Recreio "B" are also flled by Otto Kruger a Central British School, 9p.m.; the racketeer Vinco Barnett, Ho- Hong Kong Ladies v. Recreio "A" bert MoWade. Muriel Evans and 8.15 p.m.
Jean Howard.
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