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CENTRAL

CHEATRI

TAKE QUEEN'S BD., WESTBOUND RUS

Advance. Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel, 25720....

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE. PLESENTS

"WIND'

WITH

TAM YING & KOO CHIM FEE

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING'S

"The Last Trail'

QUEEN S-

"Her Sweetheart"

«CENTRAL—— "

"Wind Chinese Picture)

ORIENTAL

"Mr. Robinson Crusoe"

LEE

"Peach O'Reno"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA

"Gipsy Blood"

A CHINESE PICTORE. WITH ENGLISH TITLES

STAR-

COMING ATTRACTION

Francis LEDERER Elissa LANDI

in the story of a man, from Earth's far places... where noble passion' clashed with the sugar coated morals of our strange world

MAN OF TWO WORLDS

with

Heary, Stephenson J.Farrell MacDonald Directed by J. Walter Ru- ben. Merian C. Colper, ex- ecutive producer. A Pandru S. Berman production RKO RADIO Picture

ارکده

Terror Abeard"

MAJESTIC

Too Much Harmony "

Coming

KING'S-

Design for Living

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA—-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934.

-LAST - TWO-DAYS

: AT 2.30, 5.10.7.15 & 9.30 PM.

KINGS?

ROMANCE AND ACTION

MUSICAL COMEDY

The

RIDE AGAIN

Hair-raising stunts...high-speed action...and dynamic romance... as a dare-devil räncher takes a mob of gangland racketeers for a ride. ZANE GREY'S

LAST TRAIL

swith.

GEORGE O'BRIEN

CLAIRE TREVOR : EL BRENDEL LUCILLE LA VERNE birected by James Tinling

FOX

"Roman Scandals "

"ROMEO and

ALSO FOX MOVIETONE NEWS

LATEST COMEDY "GIRL

RUSH"

Roman Scandals

CENTRALian

"Man of Two Worlds

"DESIGN FOR

LIVING".

Coming To The King's

"Modern' screen audiences

are

far more critical of their enter tainment than any stage audience ever was." says Fredric March, Paramount star, who, with Gary Cooper. Miriam Hopkins and Ed. ward Everett Horton is starred in Noel Coward's "Design for Living." directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It is coming on Sunday next

to the King's Theatre.

And for this reason, be says, motion picture players must "watch their step" to a greater ex- Tent than they did in the theätre:

March, who, has the role of Tom Chambers, American play-wright in this picturization of Coward's sensational stage play, speaks from experience. For eight years, prior to coming to Hollywood for 2 screen career, he faced America's most critical audiences in Broad- way theatres.

But critical as Gotham Theatre- goers are, March declares that the average film fan in' America's "hitherland has a far more ab. servant eye and detects flaws and

LEE THEATRE incongruities more quickly than

T-DAY & TO-MORROW At 12.80, 2.30, 6.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M..

HERE THEY ARE! YOUR PET LAUGH LUNATICS

in their biggest and best frolic

BERT

WHEELER BOOLSEY

World's Greatest Clowns in their Greatest Laugh Spree..

•PEACH OʻRENO

DOROTHY LEE ZELMA O'NEAL JUE CANTROUE

RKO RADIO FICTURE Kirozed by Wit, murYER

his. sophisticated Broadway coun- tryman.

"The reason seems to lie in the fact that motion pictures are es-* sentially intimate." March points out. "The stage is not. The motion" picture. camera's all-revealing close-ups, which unmaşk every fa- cial expression. and the magic with which it takes wing and flies to all parts to the world, have made its public unusually discri minating.

"The stage audience is forced to depend more or less on suggestion. If we depict we waterfall on the stage, we do it by means of an off-stage, sound of running water and a reference in the dialogue to the waterfall's proximity. There- after, the audience "takes it for granted that there is a waterfall nearby....

*Picturegoers, however, won't stand for this deception. If the action or background of the story calls for a waterfall, they want to seo as well as hear it. The same applies, to other objects which are shown every day on the screen, but which can only by suggested on the stage.

Thus it is that the films have constantly set new standards of entertainment, with the result that the public demands those standards as a matter of course. Film-goers, I believe, take their critical duties more seriously than stage, audiences. They shop not only for "their own entertainment, but act as arbiters for their entire neighbourhood. If a picture has a false note, it is not very long before everyone knows about it

"To the actor, this constant criticism is a boon. It keeps him on his toes, causes him to "put forth his best effort. He realises that slovenly performances ~ are sharply rebuked. And he likewise realizes that painstaking efforts are justly rewarded.”

JULIET "

"HER SWEET-

HEART"

Haggett household, who was his only triend.

The play opens as Abby is leaving the Haggetts after twenty years to care for her brother's orphaned children in Chicago. Rosen arrives and Dr. Haggett learns that the paintings, suppos-

Now Showing At The ed worthless, are worth a fortune.

Queen's

This changes the kindly country doctor to a rapacious schemer.

Haggett's wife says she burned all the old pictures in a bonfire. The doctor and his family then plot to get possession of Abby's portrait. They first plan to stage a "burglary" then try cajolery on as the maid, asking for the picture to "remember her by." Abby catches them trying to sell it to Rosen and refuses to give it up, saying it is all she has to remind her of the artist-whom she con- fesses she loved.

New York art critics discover a painting by 2.11 obscure artist, Christopher Bean, long since dead, which is heralded masterpiece. From letters he had written friends it is known that many more were done. There is a mad scramble to find them as they are worth a fortune:

Rosen, art dealer, discovers that Bean had known à country doc-

tor, Haggett by name, and had left some eighteen paintings with him as security for a bill; also that he had painted a wonderful portrait of Abby, maid in the

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

Then it develops. that the paintings Mrs. Haggett put in the bonfire were rescued by Abby. Haggett and the art dealer begin Abby then springs a surprise that results in Dr. Haggett realiz-

QUELA'S

HER HAPPY BIRTHDAY PICTURE!

Marie

DRESSLER Lionel BARRYMORE

"

Her

SHUTTE SWEETHEART

CHRISTOPHER

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

BEAN

STAR

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 26313 & 25332

FROM SUNDAY

SOME NEW ANGLES

on the familiar triangle

Noel Coward's

DESIGN

FOR

LIVING

with

FREDRIC MARCH ...GARY COOPER MIRIAM HOPKINS Ernst Lubitsch

AN

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

‘ROBINSON

CRUSOE"

At The Oriental

**Mr. Robinson Crusoe," the Douglas Fairbanks picture show- ingat the Oriental Theatre to- day and to-morrow and thus ple- ture-goers will

witness the new forte of the sprighty Hollywood star, a forte crammed with ad- venture in far-away places.

"Mr. Robinson Crusoe" was made in the most adventurous

film expedition ever undertaken by Fairbanks,

ing what he has been doing--and the doctor becomes his Kindly, honest self again. Abby takes the paintings, which are hers, and the young folks marry.

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

TO-MORROW

EDDIE CANTOR

in Samuel Goldwyn's Gorgeous Production of

"ROMAN

SCANDALS"

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.

PARAMOUNT'S THRILLER SUPREME

"TERROR ABOARD,,

with

CHARLIE RUGGLES SHIRLEY · GREY

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ALHAMBRA

ENGLAND'S BEST!

THE STRE

GIPS BLOOD

Inspired by the WORLD FAMOUS OPERA CARMEN

TOM BURKE MARGUERITE NAMARA

JOHN HALLIDAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m

-TO-MORROW-

EDDIE CANTOR

in Samuel Goldwyn's Extravaganza

“ROMAN

PEACH-O-RENO

Showing At Lee

Theatre***

Ten in the cast and not a strictly serious player among

them.

J

That is the record established

by RKO-Radio Pictures' "Peach- O'-Reno, gay burlesque of Reno's

divorce mills, showing at the Lee Theatre on Friday and Saturday (13th and 14th April)

Co-starring are Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey former rib- ticklers of Follies fame, and at present leading film comedians with a dozen RKO-Radio starring pictures to their credit,

Opposite them is Dorothy Lee, pint-sized hoydenish beauty with an irresistible sense of humour also.

Joseph Cawthorn for half a century wore a musical comedy crown.

The celebrated comedy toam appears in "Peach-O'-Reno". AJ the town's most popular pair of divorce lawyers, and from start to flaish Reno. Its divorces and divorcees and gambling and night life, are colourfully depicted-and satirized. The fun is hilarious and ridiculous, but just real enough to give one who hasn't seen Reno a very good idea of "America's bright spot.

+ SHOWS

*DULY

T.15-8.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE SA

Nathan Boad," "Kowloon. Tel 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2,80. 5.20, 7.20, & 9 20P.M.

"1

TOO MUCH

HARMONY

A Paramount Picture with

BING CROSBY. and JACK OAKIE SKEETS GALLAGHER Judith Allen Harry Green Lilyan Tashman Bed Sparka

ORIENTAL

PLENING ROAD

TEL 20418

SPECIAL FOR TO-DAY & 10-MORROW

3 GREAT BIG FEATURES ON THE ONE PROGRAMME.

WHO'S AFRAID

OF THE

BIG BAD WOLF!

THE 3 LITTLE PIGS

THE SCREEN'S BEST ACTOR,

MICKEY MOUSE

THE MAD DOCTOR

HERE'S THE BEST ADVENTURE PICTURE

YOU EVER SAWI.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

SON CAUSOF

ROMANSCANDALS "GIPSY BLOOD”

Coming To The Queen's

"Roman Scandals," Eddie Can- tor's fourth and annual screen musical comedy for Samuel Gold wyn, comes to-morrow for Simul- taneous showings at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.

i

Stuart,

Ruth Etting. Gloria David Manners, Edward, Arnold, Veree Teasdale and this year's crop of Goldwyn Girls are all to be seen in the newest Cantor ear- nival of fun. George Kaufman and Robert Sherwood wrote "Ho man Scandals" as a successor to Eddie's The Kid from Spain" of

last year.

Eddie will be seen as a wistful brow-beaten lad from West Rome Oklahoma. who finds himself in the "Rome of the Caesars and in- volved in breath-taking adven- tures among the beautiful slave girls, the thundering chariots and the conspiraces of the imperial court.

Showing At The Alhambra

The theme of "Gipsy Blood," the BIP. production, directed by Cecil Lewis, showing to-day only at the Alhambra Theatre, pivots round Carmen, the gipsy girl of The famous Bizet opera, from which this picture is adapted."

"When she loves, she loves only one while it lasts," and her pass fon for an ordinary soldier, Don his superior officer. Zuniga, leads Jose, while she is madly loved by

to her ultimate destruction.

Lieutenant Zuniga, discoverings Jose has broken barracks to visit Carmen, challenges him, and the resultant duel, in which the Heut enantis killed, is one of the most exciting incidents in the film. Jose and Carmen" fly, together, but her love for him soon fades and she turns her attentions to Escamillo. that there is a price on his head, a toreador Jose, despite the fact

follows her to the ring, whither she has been invited by her new love, and there, even while the frantic yells of the vast multitudes can he heard cheering Escamilla's victory, he stabs her.

The good people back in West Rome are a little uncertain about Eddie, as he trundles along in his grocery wagon, taiking familiarly with his clumping 'nag. Julla. Most of them consider him a Ettle

The atmosphere of this tense looney in a harmless way, Not only does he talk to his horse, but by the musical background, and drama is considerably heightened

the introduction of several árias from the opera, sung by Erguerite Namara, who makes an" älluring Carmen, greatly adds to the beauty of the film, which will satisfy

he gives his groceries away to anyone who seems hungry. And he, too, spends hours a day- dreaming in the town's museum among the statues of the heroes of classic antiquity.

This latter pursuit so complete-opera lovers as well as highly ly takes hold of his imagination critical film goers. that he is carried back to ancient

Rome where he becomes bivolved

In a plot to rescue the beautiful cess Bylvia and her lover who are captive Princess Sylvia, from the trying to escape and save them lustful clutches of the Emperor. from a conspiracy against them, After a series of mad misadven- Eddie tears after them in a thun- tures, he is Enally made food-tast- f dering chariot-with the Emperor's er in the Imperial household and soldiers on his heels--or rather his becomes a court favourite--espec-wheels. But Eddie comes through

SCANDALS tally with the voluptuous Empress and is transported to West

who entangles him in a plot to Rome, where he is seen spiritedly, recounting his adventures" to "Ju- poison her wicked consort

In an attempt to pid the Prin a.

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