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ENTRAL

THEATRE

TAK QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25720,

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

BROUGHT BACK FOR A

SHORT ENGAGEMENT.

The Cleverest and Spappiest 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”

HEAR THE NEW SEN SATION.' 'THE

CARIOCA "

8 KO

RADIO Picture

Wich

DOLORES

DEL RIO. GENE RAYMOND RAUL ROULIEN GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE

·Music byu VINCENT TOUMANS "Lyrics by Edward Eliseu and Gui Kahn. Directed by Thornton Freeland MERIAN COOFER, executive producer. Louis Brock, associate producer

NEXT CHANGE

PRESENTING IN RESPONSE TO, UNIVERSAL DEMAND A BRAND NEW COPY OF THE GREATEST MUSICAL' EVER CONCEIVED!"

KING JAZZ

Whiteman

AND HIS CAND

LEE THEATRE

M

TO-DAY ONLY At 12.80, 2.30, 5.80, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Maurice

CHEVALIER

IN

"LOVE ME TONIGHT"

WITH

eanette

MACDONALD

In All the World No Show Lika This!

·A Paramount Pictur

TO MORROW

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S

HONG KONG

"Mama Loves Papa!"

QUEEN'S

"Sons of the Desert."

CENTRAL

"Flying Down To Rio"

ORIENTAL-

LEE

"Paddy the Next Best Thing"

"Love Me To-night"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA-

Gallant Lady."

STAR

"A Southern Mald".

MAJESTIC-

"Mystery Ranch"

Coming

KING'S-

"Carolina"

QUEEN'S-

"Her Sweetheart"

ALHAMBRA

"Broadway Through A Key-

hole"

"Gipsy 'Blood"

"Roman Scandals'

"CENTRAL-

"King of Jazz"

ORIENTAL-

"Samarang"

"The Bat Whispers"

STAR-

""Night Flight" "Terror Aboard"

"LOVE ME TO-NIGHT” Showing At Lee

Theatre

A romance between a girl from an aristocratic family and a plain everyday tailor is "Love Me To- night," a Rouben Mamoulian pro- duction, Maurice Chevalier's star- ring picture which is now showing at the Lee Theatre,

Chevaller plays the allor, with Jeanette MacDonald his feminine lead in previous films, as the aris- tocratic young lady. Charlie Rug gles, Charles Butterworth and Myrna Loy have the chief, sup- porting roles.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

•KING'S

WHAT FUNNY ABOUT LOVE?

雅

Pope wears the ponts but Mama

zella him which

paleto put on

CHARLIE (Papa RUGGLES MARY MamaBOLAND

Mama Loves Papa

Paremcunt.

A Paramount Picture.. KEELYAN TASHMAN WALTER CATLETT

GEORGE BARBIER directed by NORMAN MCLEOD

"HER SWEET-

HEART"

Barrymore-Dressler

Team Score

Marie, Dressler and Lione; Barry- more, a co-starting team new to the screen, give picture fans some- thing decidedly new both in per- sonalities and in a story in Like previous Chevaller plctures," Sweetheart.” <Christopher Bean). "Love Me To-night" is done in showing from Wednesday at the a whimsical and humorous vein. Queen's. Chevaller the tailor, is good natured and inclined to allow his clients' charge accounts to ride, When Ruggles an irresponsible nobleman, orders and then falls to pay for 16 suits of clothes, he feels it's time to do something about the situation.

Bo Chevaller trails Ruggles to the castle of his uncle," a duke. Ruggles introduces him as a baron, so that he can remain until funds are forthcoming. Meanwhile, Che- valler meets and fails in love with Jeanette. The romance flourishes until Maurice's true identity is revealed, Then she sends him away,

But

amusing an

and tender cilmax straightens matters up.

In

"CAROLINA”

Coming To The King's

"Carolina." Janet

Gaynor

will play her Seventeenth distinct characterization since her great success in "7th Heaven." While retaining her own personality. Miss Gaynor has managed to enact a diversified set of charac- ters, so that she rarely appears twice in a similar role.

As Joanni in "Carolina" her next Fox picture, coming on Sun- day next to the King's Theatre. Miss Gaynor will be seen as the daughter of a Southern settler, who introduces tobacco to the South-The difference - between this type, and the farm girl of "State Fair is almost the dif- ference between modern and old-} fashioned farming. She is a young girl in a world filled with a radio, electrical machinery and conveniences, and the other 3 youngster who lives on a pioneer- ing establishment and who, springs from the earth, returning to it in a single generation.

Miss Gaynor's diversification of roles has covered everything from German housewife in Murnau's "Sunrise," to the girl of the Fron- ch alums In 7th Heaven." She has

been an Italian walf in "Street Angel," a trapeze per- formauer In Four Deviis," a Dutch girl in "Christina," a New York tenement girl in "Bunny.

"THE EAGLE & THE HAWK" Side Up" a fuited girl of the East

with

PREDRIC MARCH-CARY GRANT CAROLE LOMBARD-JACK QAZIE A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

In The Man Who Came Back," and so on down the line. She has been a Scotch girl an English slavey, a princess, small-town farm girl, an Irish girl, and so on. Her variegated parts add up an amazing cosmopolitan total

In the first place, the story is intense drams, though amid its heart throbs and human touches are many delightful comedy inter-

ludes.

The contrasting work of

Miss Dressler and Barrymore is grippingly interesting in the tale of the New England country doctor who, under the lash of.. avarice. turns from an honest, kindly soul to a grasping schemer, only to be

SHOWING TO-DAY

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25392

TO-MORROW

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

"CAROLINA

with

Robert Young

A FOX PICTURE.

gulded back to his lifelong path of CLIVE BROOK &

honour by the faith of an old ser- vant,

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adapted i it from the famous New York stage play, "The Late Christopher Bean." The story concerns the posthumous fame of a long dead artist, his paintings suddenly discovered to be worth fabulous fortunes, and the turmoil this casts into the home of the country doctor who had most of them "

THE WAR

two

The

occasions when he suffered A complete lapse of memory are Clive Brook's most outstanding recollections of his experiences during the World war.

"The queerest part of it all." Barrymore, as Dr. Haggett, runs the gamut of emotions from kindly asserts Brook "is when your senses comedy to grasping greed.

Miss, return, and you and yourself in Dressier as the servant Abby has the middle of situation of which a role in which she rises to dra- you have no remembrance-sud- matic heights, while never losing denly become aware of yourself doing things you never knew you started.

her intense humanness,

Sam Wood directed the produc- tion with a deft hand, and the

work of the supporting players is uniformly excellent.. Helen Mack arid Russell Hardie score as the young lovers. Berlah Bondi plays the wife with her customary justo, Jean Hersholt is the suave

.dea ier. The Idealistic art criti is well portrayed by H.B. Wärner, and other roles are well filed by Helen Shipman, George Coulouris

and Ellen Lowe,

LAUREL

OLIVER

HARDY SONS OF

THE DESERT

FINAL SHOWINGS.TO-DAY

11

M-G-M

Picture

STAR

"But that's all in the "past," "And "about the laughs Clive. worst thing I do now is to forget a name once in a while!"

Brook has the male lead in Ann "Gallant Lady." opposite Harding the current 20th Century the Alhambra .. at attraction Theatre, presented by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck,

released

United and-

through Artists.

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m

NEXT CHANGE;

MARIE

DRESSLER

in

"Her Sweetheart

(CHRISTOPHER BEAN) with

"

LIONEL BARRYMORE

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

Bebe Daniels

"A SOUTHERN MAID"

A British Musical Romance

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ALHAMBRA

BIKERE

The Kind of Story You'll Treasure

SCHENCK

Ann

HARDING Gallant Lady CLIVE BROOK

OTTO KRUGARIANG TULLIO CALDAZI-DICKIE MOGEL

DARRYL F. ZANUCK-

At 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

TO-MORROW

"Broadway

Through A

Keyhole"

CONSTANCE CUMMINGS

THE PERFECT TEAM

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Naiban Roast, Kowloon Tel. 57822

Laurel And Hardy At TO-DAY ONLY

Their Best

The Queen's Theatre are to be congratulated on securing a film that may, without fear of con- tradiction, be described as fist- class entertainment in "Scns of the Desert," the latest Laurel- Hardy success which drew crowded "houses to the theatre yesterday when the initial screenings were given, to Hong Kong film fans. If these two comedians were good in their previous efforts, then only the word excellent can describe their efforts in this laugh riot which starts off with a swing and main- tains its entertaining qualities right up to the end. It is really first class entertainment and may be recommended to even the most fastidious of film fans.

Before the feature Alm, we have three excellent shorts" to whet the appetite for the main course in the menu," but special mention must be made of the novelty film entitled "Duck Hunters' Paradise" which no doubt made sportsmen rather envious that there is no such place in Hong Kong or in the inmediate neighbourhood.

The Hearst Newsreel too, is full of interest, and taken on the whole, the current programme is one of the most entertaining offered by this popular theatre for many a long day.

4-SHOWS DAY

At 2.80. 5.20, 7.20, & 9,20P.M.

Whirlwind

Thrills

GEORGE O'BRIEN

in

MYSTERY RANCH

with Cecilia Parker

From novel "The Killer" by

Stewart Edward White. Directed by David Howard FOX Picture

TIKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

MLEMING

ROAD WANGHAI TEL. #9478

ORIENTALE

LAST 4 TIMES

TO-DAY

HERE'S EXOFLLENT SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT! Easily the best Baxter-Gaynor picture they over produced. Comedy, romance, scenes brim with action and laughter.

Manet GAYNOR Warner BAXTER

Directed by PADDY Harry Lachman. THE NEXT BEST THING

"MAMA LOVES PAPA"

At The King's

TO-MORROW" MONDAY-TUESDAY THE

BEST NOVELTY PICTURE EVER MADE

A story about the Pearl-divers of Malaysia.

AN ENTIRE NATIVE CAST.

SAMARANG

Blossom Seeley At Her Best

Enthusiasm, like the measles, is contagious, even in Hollywood. The case is proved by Blossom. Seeley, whose enthusiasm over her contruct with 20th Century Plo

ures was so great that, whenever Mary Boland and Charlie Rug-she walked on the set of "Broad- ples are a starring team at last way Thru & Keyhole her first 1

picture, it was as though someone The "have played together, to had thrown a switch that sur-

the eminent satisfaction of their charged the atmosphere

There have been many thrilling employers and followers alike, in

moments in the life of Blossom. three pictures. In their fourth, Seeley, From soubrette in a Los Mama Loves Papa," now at the Angeles burlesque house she awoke King's Theatre, they are co-star.ne morning to find herself a

sical queen of Broadway. That red. It's the first of a series in was after Low Fields selected her which they share starring honours, to play with Gaby Desleys Then

The two were arst cast together, she shared starring honours with as husband and wife, in "The Bernard and Nora Bayes in Al Jolson, Will Rogers, Barney, Nigth of June 13." They made Broadway musical shows. For such a good pair--Miss Boland as a years she was one of the biggest, nagging wife, Ruggles as a hen stars in vaudeville with her hus

band, Benny Fields. pecked husband that they were

There was another thrill when again cast opposite each other in Palu Whiteman selected her as "Evenings for Sale." Here, how-soloist for the only jazz concert ever ever, they played different types given in Carnegie Hall, New York of roles, and though audiences But when she was selected to play approved of their performances the faded Follies beauty who sup- they asked for more of the hus-plies much of the comedy in band-and-wife stum,

Broadway Thru a Keyhole whe They got it in "II. I Had a got the biggest thaill of her long Million” in which the two played career

She had wanted to try Holly together in one of the most amus- ing sequences. The success of wood for years. After the first this venture, on top of their pre- rushes of her work in "Broadway vious success, convinced Para-Thru a Keyhole", were seen, her mount executives that they were contract was extended by Joseph ready for a starring picture, M. Schenck and Darryl Zanuck, "Mama Loves Papa" is the picture. with a view to grooming her for

The picture, which was by Norstardom

Miss Seeley was always the first man McLeod, best-known for his Marx Brothers comedies is the player on the sot and the Thet to Her enthusiasm spread to story of a middle-aged commut-leave. ing couple whose adventures and Constance Oummings, Russ Colum mis-adventures are about evenly bo. Paul Kelly Gregory Ratoff, divided Ruggles is a middle Texas Guman, Eddie Toy, and class business man who enjoys all the other members of the out

"Broadway Thru & Keyhole! his own puns. Miss Boland a

Walter wife gets her ideas of culture United Artists release, from itinerant lecturers. Ruggles Winchell's story of N too-ready acquiescence to her night life, showing simnitar whims gets them into a series of at the Alhambra and Wor

Theatres from to-morrow, tragicomic events.

York's

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