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CENTRAL

THEATRE

"TAKT QUEEN'S RD./-WESTBOUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 25790.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

PRESENTING IN RE- SPONSE TO POPULAR DEMAND THE GREAT- EST OF ALL MUSICALS!

The Screen's Greatest Singing Voice!

It's Hot!

KING of JAZZ

PAUL

WHITEMAN

AND

HIS BAND

NEXT CHANGE

TAM YING & KOO CHIM FEE

IN

WIND"

UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE.

LEE THEATRE TO-DAY ONLY

At 12.30, 2.30, 5.80, 7.30 & 9.30 PM.

MOMENTS TO LIVE!

SECONDS TO LIVE MINUTES TO FACE ETERNITY!

IN HER ARMS.

be found Forgetfulness!

Fiend of being won

The ale women 10 when he was put a

Harbut a Man 10

be loved) water

Only

requty

vid he recace from

The gela doark no that made' Sin

THE EAGLE THE HAWK

A Print Picture

ZMARCH GRANT

CARQUE LOMBARD

JACK DAKK

TOMORROW

RALPH LYNN & TOM WALLS

A NICHT LIKE THIS"

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING S

"Carolina "

'Sons of the Desert

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S--

"King of Jazz"

ORIENTAL

LEF

"Samarang"

"The Eagle and the Hawk

WORLD-

"Broadway Thru A Keyhole"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA--

"Broadway Thru a Keyhole"

STAR-

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"Night Flight"

›MAJESTIC-

"I Cover The Waterfront"

KING'S-

Coming

The Last Trail"

QUEEN'S-

"Her Sweetheart"

ALIIAMERA—

"Gipsy Blood"

"Roman Scandals"

CENTRAL

&

"Wind" (Chinese Picture)

"The Bat Whispers"

ORIENTAL

STAR-

LEE

Terror Aboard"

"A Night Like This"

RUSS COLOMBO

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1934.

LAST TWO-DAYS

PAT

[2,30, 5.10. 7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

•KING'S

TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME

"The screen's two outstanding personalities give you the

entertainment thrill

of a lifetime.

·FOX FILM Presents

Janet GAYNOR Lionel BARRYMORE

In "

"CAROLINA"

FOX

ROBERT YOUNG RICHARD CROMWELL

HENRIETTA CROSMAN MONA BARRIE STEPIN FETCHIT

Directed by Henry King

Screen Play by Reginald Barkeley

From "The Hover of Cannelly" by Foul Orean

KING OF JAZZ

At The Central

To-Day

"King of Jazz" the Universal super-musical extravaganza star- ring Paul Whiteman and his in ternationally famous orchestra will be the extraordinary offering at the

ll-talking.

all- all-singing.

Universal by Carl Laemmile, Jr.. ex- pressly to devise and direct this. extravaganza "with the most able talent available in the world.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332

FROM THURSDAY

Fighting side by side against a

common

enemy

"The ZANE GREY'S

LAST TRAIL

rib

George O'BRIEN

CLAIRE TREVOR EL BRENDEL LUCILLE LA VERNE Direwed by James Tinling

"CAROLINA"

The picture, consisting of eight Fine Picture At The

stupendous musical spectacles be tween which are interspersed in- numerable specalties and comedy acts dramatic skits and blockouts, is filmed entirely in technicolour. The most beautiful girls, the most georgeous costumes, and the inost lavis! sets are presented 25

King's

With Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore in the title roles. "Ca- rolina." now showing at the King's

Radio Crooner And cu an all-technicolor screen, tableaux of loveliness never before Theatre is a pleture which is well

Actor

The crying need for new screen personalties 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......-

the most scintillant and colourful even conceived, sound production so far envisioned Beside Paul Whiteman and by any film prodücer.

́his band, who appear in

worth seeing.

ming visitor from the North who sets an example in sincerity, and ligence that the Southerners cannot ignore. The way in which she fires them with a new desire to live, and get out of live the good things that it still has to offer, provides many an amusing situa- tion that you will thoroughly en- Joy.

It is a story of a Southern family a who live in the glory of the past, It is the most costly, the most variety of numbers as well but in the poverty of the present elaborate, the most spectacular and j·25 providing the music all Into this household comes a char- the most entertaining revue ever through the picture, "King of ever, presented on elther stage or Jazz" presents an array of stars sereen. veritable

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"revue of hitherto unapproached in a single revues which is loaded with the picture. Laura La Plante, John most celebrated stage and vaude- Boles, Bing Crosby, Jeanette Loff ville headlines and the greatest Stanley Smith, the tamous Russell stars of the studios,

Markert dancers, Al Norman, and John Murray Anderson, the Glenn Tryon to mention a few, and Russ Columbo is familiar to the famous producer of New York's beside

there are a these stars multitude through his voice. As a past six years, was radio crooner he is playing his first 'romantic role in this picture, and proving that he can act as well as he croons. He also has a de- finite screen personality.

Another newcomer is Paul Kelly, a Broadway stage favourite. He scored his big New York success in "Bad Gri," the same stage produc- tion which brought Sylvia Sidney to screen notice. In "Broadway. Thru a Keyhole" he is Russ Colum- bo's rival for the affections of Constance Cummings. It's a sym pathetic role--and Kelly gets it!" Another speaking" age favourite katroduced to the screen in this production is Hugh O'Connell, For a year "and a half O'Connell poked fun at Hollywood as the leading laugh-getter of "Once in a Life- time" on Broadway. Now, iron- cally, he has come to Hollywood to make good and he will. He pro- vokes much of the comedy in this picture.

"Broadway Thru a Keyhole" also tests the staring potentiality of Eddie Foy, Jr., who takes part in several of the clever and beautiful musteal scenes,

Blossom Seeley is another making ber screen debut and she's a real film and. Vital and vivid, she puts her fun over boisterously. "

Other noted personalities adding to the fun and excitement in "Broadway Thru a Keyhole rê~ maining at the Alhambra and World Theatres until to-morrow: are Texas Guinan, Abe Lyman and

his band, Frances Willams, Gre-

gory Ratoff. William Burress, C. Henry Gordon and Helen Jerome Eddy, It's a "United · Artists re- lasse.

, |

THE LAST TRAIL the out-doors clashing with a mob

ghs With El

Brendel

of gangsters, as racketeers forsake the beer racket for the cattle racket and come face to face with men who are as fearless as they are daring! Every moment is full. of life as O'Brien meets a new kind of foe on the Western range-and teaches tenderfoot racketeers new

The name of Zane Grey-as au-tricks in the way to handle men!.

thor, testifles to

the colourful It has plenty of laughs with El

drama that abounds, in "The Last Brendel and Matt McHugh taking Teall," the new Fox romance that care of the comedy. And it has comes to the King's Theatre on a fine romance as George. O'Brien Thursday. And the name of and Claire Trevor fight side by alde George O'Brien as star, la aseur against the common enemy. ance of action, daring, and more action

Others in the cast are J. Carral Najsh, George "Reed, Lucille La There is something new-vital Verne, Ruth Warren. Liis Albernil ...different...in this picture-as and Edward LeSaint, James Tinling It depicts the Old West against directed, from the screen play by the New East. It shows men of Stuart Anthony..

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brought to thousand more.

FINAL SHOWINGS O-DAY

STAN

LAUREL

{ULIVER....

HARDY

SONS OF

THE DESERT

FINAL SHOWINGS

*TO-DAY

M-G-M

Pickere

STAR

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.

Metro's 6 STAR EPIC of the Skies

"NIGHT FLIGHT"

with JOHN BARRYMORE--HELEN HAYES-RÍ. MONTGOMERY CLARK GABLE—MYRNA LOY-LIONEL BARRYMORE

SIMULTANEOUS SHOWINGS TO-DAY

1

ALHAMBRA WORLD

At 2.30, 5.20, 7:20 and 9.20 P.M.

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.20 P.M.

“CAROLINA”:

A Gaynor-Barrymore

Success

Janet "Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, Henrietta Crosman and "Robert Young head the cast of Fox Film's latest release, "Carolina," now showing at the King's Theatre. The outstanding performances of these stars, together with romance, the comedy and the drama of the film. stamp "Carolina" As a dis- tinct hit.

Set against a beautiful background of tobacco plantations and hang- ing mágnolla trees, the film tells the story of a poor Northern girl who goes South to raise tobacco on a small portion of land owned. by a decadent but still dignifed Southern "family, The young son of the family falls in love with the girl, notwithstanding the fact that his mother objects. He becomes Impressed with what the girl tells him, and learns from her the ways and means by which to rebulld the plantation, There follows a series of dramatic sequences in which the young girl tries to win the family over to her side, but to no avail. It is when the son threatens to leave the family that his mother relents, and the filmi comes to a stirringly happy con- clusion.

Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barry- more have the principal roles, and both stars give the best perform-

their ances of

careers. Robert Young"and Henrietta Crosman who can always be counted on for splendid screen work, are here. The other members of the cast, which Includes Stepin Fetchit, Richard Cromwell, Mona Barrie and Russell

MAJESTIC

THEATRE-

Nathan Road, Kowloon,Tel. 57222) TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80. 5.20, 7.20, & 9.20P.M.

"COVER

THE WATERFRONT

UNIT

ARTISTS

PICTURE

CLÄUDETTE

COLBERT BEN LYON ERNEST TORRENCE

Presented by

Jowph it. Shunch

Produced by Edward Small

From the famont

book by Man Miller

Simpson. are all idealy suited to with distinction under the master- their roles and, acquit themselves ly direction" of Henry King.

4 SHOWS

“DAILY

7.19-8.00

TĘKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST 4 TIMES

TO-DAY

THE SCREEN'S BEST NOVELTY

"À SCREEN ROMANCË TOO THRILLING FOR WORDS.

SAMARANG

"SONS OF THE "DESERT"

Another Laurel-Hardy

Success

PLEMING

ROAD WANGHAI

TEL. 28478

TO-MORROW

& THURSDAY HERE'S A MOST EXCITING MYSTERY STORY 1. IT'S SENSATIONAL!

ROLAND

WEST'S

hispery

CHESTER MORRIS

HOLDS YOU IN SUSPENSE.

"TUGBOAT ANNIE"

And "Rasputin" Together

“Tugboat Annie" and "Rasputin

Sworn to attend the annual | form the latest cinema team. Marie convention of their lodge in a dia- Dressler and Lionel Barrymore, to tant city, Laurel and Hardy are gether, come on Wednesday to the forced to accomplish their pur- Queen's Theatre in Her Sweet- pose by subterfuge because of the heart" (Christopher Bean), which strenuous objections of Hary's, marks their first appearance as co- wife,

stars.

Oliver pretends he is deathly The new picture, a vivid drama A veterinarian friend of Stan's, based on the famous New York posing as an ethical physician, stage hit, "The Late Christopher prescribes a trip to Honolulu' as" Bean," presents both stars in char- the only "aure cure. Mrs. Hardy❘acters unlike any they have ever begs tan 10 accompany her hus played: Miss Dressler enacts Abby,

Barry band as she herself detests sea the faithful old servant.

more is seen as the kindly countr voyages,

The two conspirators leave, or physician who under the lash of tensibly for Honolulu, but in real- avarice turns to a scheming, grasp~ Ity for the convention city, where ing scoundrel seeking to rob her both gleefully enter all "Sons of only to have the woman's faith the Desert" social activities. The turn him back again to his life. first evening, while carousing in a long-path-of-honour night club, they are joined by 2 The unique dramatic twist in the delegate from Texas. Charley gripping, drama of New England Chase. The trio become great pais made the play, with Pauline Lord and when Chase learns that his on the stage, one of the stage sen- new-found friends are from Los, sation of Paris and London, Angeles; he decides to call, via Sam Wood directed the new pics: long distance telephone, a sister ture, with an elaborate cast which who lives there. Mes

features Helen Mack, Beulah Bond, He introduces Hardy to her over Rupssell Hardie, H. B. Warner, the phone During the flirtatious | Jean Hersholt and Helen Shipman

inversation Hardy takea down inbeta VIN her number. A second glance tells":

him it is his own, and that the wires gone and a news paper on semi-familiar voice on the other the table headlining the sinking end of the wire had been that of of the ship on which they were his wife supposed to be returning from the "Soon afterwards, Laurel, in an tslanda. According to the news- attempt to imitate Charley's prac-¦ Daper story, no lives were lost and tical joking proclivities, is the un- the rescued passengers are due to witting cause of a rumpus in the arrive the following day on an- night club that breaks up the other boat. dz

Realizing their predicament, the party

The two arrive home decked out boys start for a hotel to spend the with lets and strumming ukes in | night, only to see both wives en- the hopes that their - Hawaiian tering the front gate of their ad- "props" will receive their wives Joining homes. In desperation Into belleving that they actually | Stan and Oliver climb onto the apent: their vacations in Honolulu roof, where they spend the night. They are, horrined" to find their despite a heavy raingar

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