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TO-DAY AT THE
KING'S-
i
QUEEN'S
CINEMA
HONG KONG
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TATE QUEEN'S RU., WESTBOUND BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons' and the Theatre Tel. 25720.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
fat 2.80, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
UNIQUE FILM CO.
PRESENTS
'A MOVIE STAR ''
with
WOO SHING AND YEE KWOK
"Mama Loves Papa."
"Sons of the Desert"
CENTRAL
"A Movie Star" (Chinese Picture)
ORIENTAL-
"Paddy the Next Best Thing"
"Love Me To-night"
LEE-
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA—
Gallant Lady."
A' CHINESE TALKING PICTURE IN CANTONESE DIALOGUE
STAR
TOMORROW
BROUGHT BACK FOR A
SHORT ENGAGEMENT
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
LAST TWO-DAYS AT 2.30, 5.10.7.15] & 9.30 P.M.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934.
•KINGS®
WHAT FUNNY ABOUT" LOVE?"
„Papo wears the
"A Southern Maid"
MAJESTIC
"Mystery of the Ranch"
Coming
pants but Mama
ball him which
pole to pur që-
KING'S-
"Carolina"
The Clevest and
QUEEN'S-
Snappiest 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 RIO“
RK O
RADIO Picture
With
DOLORES DEL RIO
GENE RAYMOND RAUL ROULIEN · GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE Music by VINCENT YOUMANS
Lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kann. Directed by Thornton Freeland MERIAN C COOPER, executive producer. Louis Brock, associate producer.
LEE THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MGBROW At 12.80, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.80 P.M.
Maurice
CHEVALIER
"LOVE ME TONIGHT"
Jeanette
MACDONALD
In All the World" No Show Like This!'
A Poramount Picture
with
...
Charlie Ruggles, Charlas Butterworth and Myrna Loy
Her Sweetheart"
ALHAMBRA—
"Broadway Through A Key-
hole"
CENTRAL--
"Flying Down To Rio"
ORIENTAL
"Samarang"
The Bat Whispers"
BEAUTIFUL ANN HARDING
In The Gallant
Lady"
With Ann Harding as Sally. Clive Brook as Dan, Otto Kruger as Phillip Lawrence, Tullio Car- minati as Mario, Janet Beecher as Maria, Dickie Moore as Deedy and Betty Lawford as Cynthia, "Gal- lant Lady" is one
those charm-
CHARLIE (Papa RUGGLES MARY (Mama BOLAND
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25319 & 25392
FROM SUNDAY
SHE WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIS PROUD FOLKS Living in the "glories of the past...they spurned this in- truder...
who dared to love the heir of a prideful house.
Janet GAYNOR Lionel BARRYMORE
Mama Loves Papa CAROLINA
Puramare
A Paramount Picture ■•••• LILYAN TASHMAN WALTER CATLETT GEORGE BAR BTER directed by NORMAN MCLEOD
“BROADWAY THRU A KEYHOLË”
The crying need for new screen personalities is being answered by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl Zanuck, who have introduced in their new 20th Century Picture, "Broadway Thru A Keyhole," some personages whom screen fans are meeting for the first time.
Russ Columbo is familiar to the multitude through his voice; As a radio crooner he is playing his arst romantic role in this picture and proving that he can act as well as he croons. He also has a definite screen personality.
Another newcomer is Paul Kelly a Broadway stage favourite,
"He
ing pletures which provide Holly-scored his blg New York success wood with a thoroughly satisfac-in "Bad Girl," the same stage pro- tory reply to accusations of cheap-duction. which brought Sylvia ness and vulgarity.
screen notice.
Sidney to
a year, and a half O'Connell poked fun at Hollywood as the leading getter of "Once in a laugh
Now, on Broadway. Lifetime" ironically, he has come to Holly- wood to make good and he will He provides much of the comedy in this picture.
Thru A Keyhole" "Broadway also tests the starring, potentiality of Eddie Foy, jr., who takes part in several of the clever and beau- tiful musical scenes.
Blossom" Seeley's another mak ing her screen debut and she's a real film.find. Vital and vivid she puts her fun over boisterously.
Other noted personalities adding
to the fun and excitement In "Broadway Thru A Keyhole," are
ab
United
In Texas Guinan, Abe Lyman and his "Gallant Lady" is tender sad, "Broadway Thru A Keyhole" he is band, Frances. Williams, Gregory and humourous by turns, Crudely Russ Columbo's rival for the at-Ratof, William Burress C. Henry treated, the story could have been tractions of Coristance Cummings. Gordon and Helen Jerome Eddy. merely hackneyed or sordid; but It's a sympathetic role-and Kelly "Broadway Thru' A Keyhole" opens the Alhambra and World in the hands of Gregory La Cava gets it
simultaneously Sunday Another speaking stage favourite Theatres It has become a romance almost
It's a anyone but the "hardbolled cynic introduced to the screen in this the 8th April. would agree to call "beautiful." production is Hugh O'Connell For Artist's release. Moreover, it affords Ann Harding the opportunity to recover some of the ground, she has lost through belig starred in comparatively silly and inconsequential pictures. Miss Harding brings to the part of the "Gallant Lady" every single virtue it demands charm, polse, beauty, dignity and pathos. She is unmistakably a lady, and it is her gallantry in trying circum- stances
the picture télls. that She loses her lover in an sero- plane crash and gives up her baby to others, at the suggestion of a befriends disgraced doctor who
her "And when, some time later the man who adopted the child ls about to re-marry, more from habit than from good judgment, she decides to marry him herself rather than let her son come under the influence of the nasty society beauty he has chosen.
Analysis reveals this to be just another mother-love drama. to which a "different" twist has been skillfully imparted. But treatment in a picture of the delicacy of "Gallant Lady" is everything. Pathos is allowed to develop naturally from the narrative, and humour is skilfully introduced without
of a suggestion mechanical "Ught relief.”
even
Janet Beecher, an actress' of whom we should hear more, sup- plies most of the witty by-play, and looks and acts like a younger edition of Marie Dressler-which 18.a little unfortunate. for she is clever enough to stand on her own merits.
Otto Kruger, as accomplished and appropriate a partner as Miss Harding has yet. had in any of her pictures. Dickie Moore at- tends to the child interest, which Is happily not over-done.
There is only one slight disap- pointing piece of acting-from Give Brook. It is not Mr. Brook's fault, for he was not intended by experience to find two actors of nature to play, "happy-go-lucky wastrel parts, and to ask him to their quality in one Dimi
With the support in such good do so is to force him to overact, hands, with Miss Harding's polish-as he does on occasions as the ed performance as its centre-nice but reckless doctor. One piece and with La Cava's deft, feels that Mr. Kruger could have to give it each is good, and it is a rare urbane direction smoothness and balance, "Gallant played the doctor less stolidly, Lady" rises far above the ordinary and that Mr. Brook would have and is good entertainment of a been better in the part filled by restrained but very appealing Mr. Kruger. At the same time, type. This picture is now show- ing at the Alhambra Theatre.
(Continued on Previous Column),
SHOWING TO-DAY
STAN
QUELA'S
LAUREL
TLIVER.
HARDY
SONS OF
THE DESERT
An
M-G-M Picture
T-DAY & TO-MORROWSTARI
with
Robert Young
A FOX PICTURE.
Russ Columbo. "Broadway Thru & Kamale"
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m
·NEXT CHANGE
MARIE
DRESSLER
in
"Her Sweetheart'
(CHRISTOPHER BEAN) with
""
LIONEL BARRYMORÉ,
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Bebe Daniels
I!
"A SOUTHERN MAID"
A British Musical Romance
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
ALHAMB
THESERC
The Kind of Story You'll Treasure
SCHENCK presenta
MW..
HARDING Gallant Lady CLIVE BROOK
OTTO KRUGER "TULLIO CARMICANT «DICKÍN MOOER DARRYL F. ZANUCK
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE
Broadway Through A
Keyhole"
with
CONSTANCE CUMMINGS:
“PADDY, THE NEXT BEST THING"
At The Oriental
Theatre.
An imp of a colleen, as děry gay and rouguish a lass as has ever tossed her proud head... and a big, strapping fellow with a heart of gold and a twinkle in his eye! They are Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter in "Paddy.
the The Next Best Thing" Fox
showing romance
at Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
is 'And what
more natural for these two than to fall in love.... and not know it.. simply because the girl is deter- mined that she is going to hate the very ground he walks on.
new the
I;
"Paddy, The Next Best Thing" brings together again the joyous stars of "Daddy, Long Legs," you remember that one, you'll realise the treat that awaits you. Harry Lachman directed the pro- duction and that fact guarantees photographic charm.
The supporting cast is without doubt one of the most notable ever gathered for a motion picture. "It is headed by Walter Connelly and includes Harvey Stephens, Mar- garet Lindsay, Mary McCormic, Joseph M. Kerrigan, Fiske O'Hara, Claire McDowell Merle Tottenham' Roger Imhof and Trevor, Bland.
You must see "Paddy, The Next Eest Thing." It is Janet Gaynor's and Warner Baxter's Best!
4 SHOWS DAILY
7.15--8.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nohan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MOBROW At 2.30. 5.20, 7.20, & 9,20P.M.
Whirlwind
Thrills
GEORGE
O'BRIEN
iza
MYSTERY RANCH
with Cecilia Parker From novel "The Killer" by
Stewart Edward White. Directed by David Howard FOX Picture
TAKE ANY TRAN OR MANY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
PLASIPOCA
ROAD
WAMOHAI
TEL. 28476
12 DAYS ONLY-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
HERE'S ONE SWELL PICTURE ROMANCE-COMEDY-AUTION & A GREAT STORY.
Better than
"Daddy Long Legs
Janet
GAYNOR Warner BAXTER
in
PADDY
THE NEXT BEST THING
Directed by Harry Lachman Screen play by Edwin Burke From the novel by Gemuda Page
SONS OF THE
DESERT"
Laurel And Hardy In Good Form
of
AT THE KING'S Charlie Ruggles In Mama Loves Papa”
1
Tho current
attraction at they King's Theatre Mama Loveu Papa" beaturing Mary Roland and Charlie Ituggles is a comedy. of high merit and these two stars reach a great height in this film.
Alamais ambitious social the "culture" abe climber, and it
It is said that the art buffoonery is far more dimcult than the art of drama. However if you attend the Queen's Theatre and see Laurel and Hardy in "Sons of the Desert you will be inclined acquires that gets the pair into trouble. "Papa" is an office
Miy
to doubt that statement.
This pair of inimitable fun-worker with a flair for puns, which makers certainly make one believe endangers, his office job. that being comedians is a sinecure. Boland's idea of refinement They appear able to drag comedy dangers everything else. out of clear air as easily as a magician drags a rabbit out of a
silk. hat.
the
en-
Particularly inspired by a2 English lecturer one day, Miss Boland (Mama) senda Charlie Ruggles (Papa) to work dressed in a cutaway cont and striped pants. His boss, seeing him in that attire, thinks a relative has died, and gives him the day off
do
.:
Their talents are so well develop
well ed that their smoothness and timing reminds one of a well-oiled machine or the sort of marriage that is really "made in heaven Every gesture appears a natural one. Laurel's dumb stunts expect ed, but delivered in an unexpected manner, makes Hardy's annoyed eyebrow raising all Taugh-provoking.
Tlining, an essential part of all acting, especially where comedy is in the papers, he decided he is a concerned, is so beautifully done better mad for park commissioner than the present incumbent, and by these two comedians that their lines seem to flow. You no sooner appoluts him to the position. get through with one laugh and are sitting back ready to relax follows, leading to a hilarious when you are dragged out of your limax. The picture is certainly "Blue Chaser," Beside the chair by another that is even principals, the supporting cash in- heartier than the first
Charlie," with nothing to wanders in the park, and is mis taken for a city official because of his costume, and is drawn into a more dedicatory ceremony. When the city's political boss sees his picture
Aeries of comic circumstances
Stories seem superfluous to these chutes Lilyan Tashman, Walter Barbier two but they make the one of Catlett," and George "Bons of the Desert a zem of amongst others. comedy with their peculiar talents.
The programme includes the
The fact that both are said to re- Intest Paramount Sound News and quire very little rehearsing makes an entertaining comedy called "On" their work seem the more remark-Toe."
Lable.
As husbands who are sworn to doctor, you can't afford to miss attend their lodge's convention in this one if you want the rest of
your week brightened. "We
a city far from home and are
William Selter's able direction forced to resort to 'subterfuge to gain their end, the pair do one at takes advantage of every capability the best giggle and belly-laugh of a mighty capable cast and com Jobs of their fun-making career bined with Hal Roach M-0- Ably assisted by Charley Chase, a production, Bons of the Desert practical Joking brother-in-law, should rate one of Hollywood's Mae Busch and Dorothy Christy as famous Motion picture Academy beautiful if hard-bolled wives and awards as the funniest comedy o Lucien Little Field as a helpful the year,
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