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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S-

HONG KONG

CENTRAL

CHEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S RD., WEITBOUND BUS'

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720.

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

UNIQUE FILM CO.

PRESENTS

A MOVIE STAR”

with

WOO SHING AND YEE KWOK] A CHINESE TALKING PICTURE

IN CANTONESE DIALOGUE

"Hips, Hips, Hooray,'

QUEEN'S—

NEXT CHANGE

BROUGHT BACK FOR A

SHORT ENGAGEMENT

The Clevest and Snapplest Musical

of the Year!

to the breath-tak- ing climax of all screen music shows!

A romance of melody staged in the clouds!

"FLYING

DOWN TO RIOTM” |

RK'O

RADIO

Picture

"

With

DOLORES DEL RIO GENE RAYMOND RAUL ROULIEN GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE Music by

VINCENT YOUMANS

Lyrics by Edward Elucu and Gur Kahn. Directed by Thornton Freeland MERIAN C COOPER,

executive producer. Louis Brack, associate producer.

LEE THEATRE

"Eskimo."

CENTRAL

"A Movie Star" "(Chinese Picture)

ORIENTAL-

LEE-

13

The Jungle Mystery."

"Street Scene"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA

"Gallant Lady."

STAR-

"Disgraced"

MAJESTIC

"No Other Woman"

KING'S—

Coming

"Mama Loves Papa."

QUEEN'S-

"Bons of the Desert"

ALHAMBRA

"Broadway Through A Key- hole"

·CENTRAL—

"Flying Down To Rio"

AIR, MAIL TO

THE EAST

Brindisi To Cairo In

One Day

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, Mar. 17.

By means of a very long day's

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW dying over the Mediterranean and

At 12.30, 2.30, 5.80, 7.30 & 9.39 P.M.

DRAMA. ON YOUR VERY DOORSTEPI

Beneath your window gosip tips open the lives of your neigh bon1 The hand of fala thunders above the nolie of traffic "end echoes throughout the world!

From

the

Pullizer

pilze

play

Samuel GOLDWYN

•presents

STREET SCENE

.with SYLVIA. SIDNEY

Wm. Collier, Jr. and Estelle Taylor

between

a better train service Paris and Brindisi the India and Africa air mall schedules will be shortened by one day, as from April 14. Thereafter India" will be five days' distant and Capetown nine days. A further saving. east of Calcutta will reduce the journey between London and Singapore to eight 'days.

This change is made possible by the rearrangement of the through train from Paris to Brindisi. The departure time will be four hours

earlier as from the middle of April, and this saving will allow the nying-boats to start from Brindist at 6 a.m. with the prospect of a 1,300-mile journey in the course of the day: By 8 pm. the same day passengers and malls will be put down or the Nile opposite the Semiramis Hotel, at Cairo. They will have spent an hour on the water at Athens; reaching Alexan- drla at 8.30 p.m.." they will be transferred to another of the big flying-boats-and will by the re- maining 110 miles to Cairo in the dark

This very long day of travel will remain necessary for only about two months. It is expected that the railway section of the route will be abandoned in June in favour of an air service through France and along the Italian coasts. This 'will mean that Marseilles will be reach- ed the first day out of London and Corfu on the second, so that the

"KING VIDOR third day's flying in the Mediter-

production

United Artist

Pictura

PABST COMPLETES

..MODERN HERO

Pabst has completed shooting of Richard Barthelmess forthcom- ing production," A Modern Hero." In this picture many scenes are devoted to circus Bfe, where Bar thelmess is one of the star Roman riders.

ranean will be notably shortened. The change which is likely to take place in June will therefore have no further effect on the 'schedules but will allow the travelling to be more evenly spread, over the first three days of a journey from Lon- don to Capetown or the East.

There will, nevertheless be an unusually long day's flying at the Singapore end of the route. It' is intended in April to fif the whole 1,400 miles between Rangoon and Singapore in one day, leaving Rangoon before dawn and reach ing the terminus after dark.

Incidentally, Barthelmess, who started the fashion of having no leading lady at all in his aviation *drama, "The Dawn Patrol "* comes through with no fewer than five in "A Modern Hero", played by Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, Marjorie Rambeau, Verree Tea sdale and Florence Eldridge

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1934.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

•KINGS •

BERT

WHEELER

ROBT

WOOLSEY

The cuckou captams of shindustry. dumb-crack "their way to glory in a shower of pink chiffun, while the goofy nation, cheers

HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY

with Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee RKO-RADIO PICTURE

Ann Harding in" "Gallant Lady" with Clive Brook, the latest 20th century picture which opens to-day at the Alhambra Theatre.

SHOWING TO-DAY

The BIGGEST PICTURE ever made!

QULLA'S

ESKIM

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ^ Epic

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

(STAR)

M

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332

FROM TO-MORROW

Why speak of LOVE

when there is so much laughing to ba denet

Charlie

RUGGLES

Mary BOLAND

י: אי

Mama Loves Papa

A Paramount Platura with LILYAN TASHMAN WALTER CATLETT GEORGE BARBIE* dicted by HORMAN; MILTOD

Janet Gaynor has her latest starring rols in the new For romance, "Care- lina," sharing stellar honors with Lionel Barrymore. She is pictured hers wilk Robert Young who has the leading romantic rols opposils har

公

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.80 p.m

NEXT CHANGE

OLIVER

STAN LAUREL HARDY

"Sons of the

Desert"

Metro's Riotous Comedy

At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

HELEN TWELVETREES

in Paramount's Drama

DISGRACED"

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

ALHAMBRA

THESTER

-The Kind of Story You'll Treasure

HARDING Gallant Lady CLIVE BROOK

TRILIO CARMINAIS-DICKIE MOORE DARRYL F. ZANUCK

At 2.90, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m.

NEXT CHANGE-

"Broadway

Through A

Keyhole"

with

CONSTANCE CUMMINGS

"MAMA LOVES

PAPA"

Coming To The King's

"Make an audience laugh too much and you'll make it tire of you.

This warning to prospective comedians comes from Charlie Ruggles, bemustached screen star, who has caused so many laughs during his movie career that he considers himself entitled to give advice on the hows and whys of the subject.

Ruggles is co-starred with Mary Boland in "Mama Loves, Papa," à comedy of the adventures and mismuting couple, which opens on Thursday at the King's Theatre.

SONS OF THE DESERT

Undoubtedly one of the best Laurel and Hardy comedies is "Sons of the Desert," which is the Dext change at the Queen's Theatre.

The story is centred round two pals, both Shriners of a certain Lodge, who are holding their jubilee celebrations at Chicago and to which our two heroes are deter mined to go to in spitë of “definite refusala", by their respective wives.

"After

slow and somewhat obvious opening, the film gathers speed towards the middle and reaches a whirlwind climax in terrific slapstick comedy.

Laurel is the "henpecked" hus- band who consents to everything his wife says, while Hardy poses as the "Lord of the Manor" whe in reality is just as much, henpeck-

method, and after

ed if not more, than Laurel, "Just as all dramas should have

The Alm opens with a Shriner's comedy relief, so should comedias meeting when our two heroes have drama relief," he maintalusate-crash" in the usual Laurel- "Audiences must be given chance to recuperate.' people say they laughed till their sides hurt, it is literally true. And when that point is reached

A necessary. relief is

dramatic scene, a song, a dance, anything to relieve the monotony of con- thuous laughter must be intro- duced. Otherwise they lose their appreciation for the comedy, and cease to laugh."

When and-Hardy

much crashing. about of chairs eventually take their respective seats and swear to attend the Con vention at Chicago,

They manage to escape from their respective wives by faking illness,

bringing in vetinerary surgeon to prescribe. a trip to Honolulu, and eventually land in Chicago where they meet Charlie Chase, who initiates them into the "Gang."

He points out that all great comedians "have followed this precept. Ed Wynn, Charles Chap

Cantor

lin, Harold Lloyd. Eddie and others, he said, always pro- vide some method of escape trom laughter by the introduction non-comic sequence.

of

In "Mama Loves Papa" Rugglės is cast as a middle-class business, man, whose easy acquiescence to the whims of Miss Boland, his wife, gets him onto one' humorous jam after another. Lilyan Tash- man, Walter Caltett" and George Barbier are featured in the cast.

STREET SCENE

All the sensational events of a lifetime are crowed in from sun-

and

Я

From here until the end of the picture our heroes are one long continual scream, and the climax is a fitting end to one of the best Laurel and Hardy comedies seen in the Colony.

“GALLANT

LADY”

How Dickie Moore Lost His Heart

*

Ann Harding is an innocent by-

rise to sunset in Samuel Goldwyn's.starder in Hollywood's newest

screen triumph "Street Scene" which comes to the Lee Theatre. to-day..

Life, death; love and hate are the basis of this epic of a great city, an epic albeit, which could city of in any nave happened America. It is a picturization of Ernen Rice prize stage play which ran for more than two solid years. "Street Scene" is an United Artists release with Sylvia Sidney, Wiliam Collier Jr. and Estelle Taylor..

"Flying Down To Rio"

and youngest-love affair,

It was a case of love at Arst sight when the beautiful blonde star brought her own little daughter, Jane, to watch the filming of one of the scenes of "Gallant Lady" her latest picture for Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F, "Zanuck's 20th Century Pictures, and which opens to-day, at the Alhambra Theatre."-

Seven year old Dickle Moore, who plays the role of her little son in this forthcoming United Artists release, lost his heart to Jane, the moment he set eyes an her. So far Dickie's contact with women has given him some thing Behold now a new style of spec- of an antifeminine complex. He tacular musical motion pictures abhors their sentimental and launched in Hollywood, Bristling gushing manner of calling him with novelties, glamour and lay-an adorable child." .But Little ished, studded with brilliant all- Jane, with her taffy-coloured curls, staz performers, set in a new, was different, exotic locale, and enlivened by

It was an amusing interlude in

200 dancing girls picked from a the production to members of the roster of 10,000 candidates, RKO cast like Clive Brook, Otto Kruger, Radio Pictures, musical "Flying Tullio Carminati, Janet Beecher Cava, Down to Rio" hits a new high and Director Gregory La peak in entertainment with a But to: Ann Harding it has the basic innovation of an extra-significance of fore-shadowing the vaganza enacted in mid-air on day when Jane would be old en- ough to have her first real love high powered biplanes, "Flying Down to Rio" comes as the affair. first aerial musical show ever sta ged, was conceived and produced by Lou Brock.

The very ultra-ultra of daring adagio dancing is another feature of RKO-Radio's extravaganza of love, music and terpsichore, "Fly- ing Down to Rio". In the mid-air sequences of this rather amazingly "different" Alm, a daredevil adagio artist is hurled through the air. from the plane to another by her stalwart partners,"

The distinguished cast includes Fred Astaire, musical comedy idol of Boadway and London: Dolores Del Rio, a Latin girl in a part that fits her like a glove: Ginger Rogers, the peppery little, redhair of "Rafter Romance" and "Pro- fessional Sweetheart" fame: Gene Raymond, one of the most popular leading men in the talkies to-day and Raul Roullen, who before com- ing to America and Spain was celebrated in South America.

The story, leading up to the deals with an novelty climax, American jazz band leader, who goes to Rio de Janeiro to open up a big new hotel He falls in love. with the owner's "daughter" and a rivalry for her hand, is established between Rayzhozid and a. native orchestra leader Raul Roullen.

A Greek gambling syndicate plots to prevent the staging of Ray- mond's musical show, which features Astaire and Miss Rogers and 100 Latin-American beauties.

CHELSEA'S NEW PLAYER Falkirk Half-Back Joins London Club

Chelsea FC, to-day signed. John Hutcheson, Falkirk's international left half-back, AND WE AR

It is expected, that Hutcheson will be selected to play for Scot land in the International at Wem- bley. He sat sin in height and weighs 11 stone,

Blackpool made an offer for Hutcheson but he preferred to go 10 Chelsea.

WORK RESUMED ON. GIANT LINER

London, April 3.- After two and a half years work was resumed to-day on the giant- Cunarder, number 534, which will be the largest and probably fastest finer in the world

It is estimated that nearly 6,000 men, including shipbuilders, gineers and sub-contractors wil eventually be employed on it. British Wireless.

Shanghai, April' 3. Work on the Cunarder, number 534, the largest vessel in the world was resumed on the Clydebank this morning by four hundred men. It Is officially calculated that over six thousand-Clydesiders will even- tually be employed on the ship ande smiles have replaced the rece gloom on the Clydeside-Reuter,

LORD CARSON INDISPOSED

"London, April 3. Lord Carson who is seriously with bronchitis at his London home, was reported to have passed a more comfortable day yesterday. Slight improvement in his condi tion continues. He is not yet out of danger-British Wireless.

LARGE CONTRACT FOR BRITISH FIRM

London, April 2 The South African railways have placed an order for fifty, locomo tives, costing £300,000, with th North British Locomotive Compan of Glasgow,

It is understood contracts were received from Continental American firms as well Britu

British Wireless.

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