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A daring pilot risking his
life in the Air Mail ter- vice ... swooping throughTM skies
the thick with "BLACK HAWK'S" vul. "tures... bad men of the air who strike and dis. appear. How long can they outwit the law with their terrible cunning? Sec
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AIR MAIL MYSTERY
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EDMUND ·
LOWE
BOMBAY
"ROMAN SCANDALS".
Eddie Cantor At His Best
Eddie Cantor is the only star"in pictures who consistently and suc- cessfully follows the practice of making one picture a year. Ro- mari Scandals," Simultaneously showing at Queen's and Alhambra Theatres, is his fourth annual screen musical comedy for Samuel Gold-
The other three were "The wyn. Kid from Spain." "Palmy Days" and "Whoopee."
Four years ago, Eddie announced that he was through with the stage. Taking up a picture career, he wan- ted to concentrate. That meant long and careful preparation for his single yearly. film. And the spare energy it left him was valu- able; he needed time for His liter- ary, radio and philanthropic in- terests.
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Among Eddle's published writings are four short, humorous books, his autobiographical "My Life Is In Your Hands" and the forth- Coming Ziegfeld story, "King, Queens and Tack."--
Theatre Calender
QUEEN'S THEATRE
Sunday-Wednesday, April 22-35 :----|
"Going Hollywood" Thursday-Saturday, April 26-28-
"Crime of the Century" ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Sunday-Wednesday. Apru 32-25:- "Kannel Murder Case"
Thursday-Saturday, April 26-28-
"His Double Life"
KING'S. THEATRE
Sunday-Wednesday, April 22-25:-
"I Am Suzanne"
Thursday-Saturday, April 26-28-
"The Bowery","
"SUNSHINE SUSIE”
Showing At Lee Theatre
Following their announcement some months
ago to the effecti that they were going to show only the best pictures, the Lee Theatre have provided its many patrons with some excellent
entertain-
ment for some time past, but it can be said without fear of exag- geration that their latest présen- Lauon. "Sunshine Susie," is draw- ing more people to the theatre than any of the previous films.
Hong Kong audiences have had many an opportunity of seeing this sunny
fim. It was first shown at the King's Theatre and following popular demand was pus on again for its second run. and now, the Lee Theatre giving it again...
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY.
DAILY AT 2.30,5.107.15 & 9.30 P.M.
KINGS
IT WILL UPSET THE TOWNI
ALSO
LATEST
аге
PARAMOUNT SOUND
This picture tells the story of how Renate Muller, as a typist in a large Arm, makes the best out. of an otherwise drab life. The theme song, "To-day I Feel So Happy" caught on like wildfre when the picture was first shown, and we have no doubt that many people will take the opportunity of viewing this flm again,
An added attraction is the fact that the popular Chinese actress, Wa Dip Ying is making a per-
DESIGN FOR LIVING
Women will.save'. Man will rant.
about this deriva. distrakting drama of ô gii who loved two`mita,, complete. ly co-ilmuhaneously!
Poromauti's emarkabta 4-star cast
FREDRIC MARCH GARY COOPER MIRIAM HOPKINS Edw. Ev. HORTON in Noel Coward's
"DESIGN for LIVING
on ERNST LUBITSCH Production
sonal appearance on the stage. Two Men And A Girl
and on the whole. the current programme is one of the best ever offered by this populär Theatre which is easily accessible either by bus (No. 5) or tram.'
"THE BOWERY”
At The King's To-
Morrow
Certain authorities on the sub- .ject hold that the song quoted
above robbed the once
Livest smile on the face of the globe" of its glamour; there are others just as certain the advent of probi- bition turned the Bowery into the drab, und bedraggled street it is to-day.
Leaving such disputes to those who delve into, the archives of forgotten glory, if glory it can bë called. It must be admitted that the wicked old breezy goings-on as can be found in any period of American history.
the
In casting about for a story to set their new 20th Century com- pany in motion, Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl Zanuck came across a yarn called. "The Ba wery, written by Michael Simmons and B. R. Solomon, and immedi- ately ceased their quest for a getaway vehicle. Rich in comedy and dramatic high spots. Bowery," lald in the day of Chuck Connors, alias the Mayor ΟΙ Chinatown, and Steve Brodie, who either did or didn't jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, also evokes me- mories of such sporting world and theatrical celebrities as John L. Sulivan, Carrie Nation, Frankie Bailey, Maggie Cline, Bill Muldoon. Buffalo Bill and Jake Kilrain.
To the lot of Wallace Beery, who can do more, George Raft's Steve Brodie and Jackle Cooper's Swipes, the newsboy, in ".The Bo- the characterization of wery,' Beery as Connors is. more strik- ing. If ever a part was tailored of the talent Wallace Beery, that part is Chuck Conners, guide and. friend of celebriles and humble Orientals, and fancy dresser” occording to his own notions of
ashy eleganceorge Washington
His last stage show was "Whoo- pee," preceded by the Ziegfeld "Follies" of 1927, in which Can- tor, for the first time in the his- tory of those institutions, was starred. Before that there was the record-breaking "Kid Boots."
The years before had seen Eddie in a succesalon of Ziegfeld revues, punctuated by two excursions with the Shuberts in "The Midnight Rounds" and "Make It Snappy" at the Winter Garden. It was of Chinatown,
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That was Connors, the Bowery leader whont it is Wallace Beezy's privilege to introduce to the cinema, public, Not only is Beery a natural for. the important job of reincarnat ing, the wit and mannerisms of Connors for the screen, but the also bears a striking physical resemblance to the former Mayor
Ziegfeld who first brought Cantor One of the most famous stor-·
to New York for his Midnighties about Chuck, and which is Frolics and later the "Follies." shown in""The Bowery." deals Eddie had been appearing in with the time Carrie Nation invad- "Canary Cottage" In. Los Angeles, ed a ball of the Chuck Connors and graduate of, vaudeville and Associated and was hit on the the Gus Edward Schnol.
head with a bottle in the hand of Eddle is looking forward to his one of he red-haired beauties in a- first trip abroad in nine years, He tendance. The excitement ended takes with him his wife and the five when the police answered a riot „Cantor daughters. But before that | call.
Eddie has to make another film) That Beery is in his element for United Artists release, in which amidst such hullahoo, can well be he will have the deep dark deeds Imagined by all who have followed of piracy on the Spanish Main as his varied and extensive type of a background.
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by Ben Hecht from Noel Coward's sensational stage. success of the same name.
Motion pictures have rarely at tempted pictures dealing with the subject of "Design for Living,"
Paramount, struck with the amusing entertainment possibilities of the stage play, bought it for a Lubitsch picture and placed a most Ernst Lubitsch's brand new important cast in the film, Paramount picture.
"Design Forį, Living" is now playing King's Theatre.
at the
It has for its leading plays Fre drie March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hoy'dns and Edward Everett Hor- ton and was brought to the screen
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On a Paris-bound train, Miriam Hopkins, vivacións young artists, Arst meets the two men who are to change her life: They are George Curial an artists and Tom Chambers Daywright, played by Cooper and March respectively.
BOOKING "AT THE THEATRE TEь, 26313 & 25332
"FROM TO-MORROW
A NEW DEAL" PICTURE
OF AN
" OLD
DEAL
DAY!..
THE BOY A MAN THE MAN A BOY
Swipes, the maraboy, wien in the wiły ways. “of man hofors, hàs time, “Chuck Concurs. Bowery big that, a grimolng bạy of heart, Pale thick and thin.
PATRA A DANUCK
WALLACE BEERY GEORGE RAFT JACKIE COOPER
FAY WRAY & PERT KELTON
BOWERY
WAISH
20
CENTURY
Tom and George both fali madly inlave with her. To further com- plicate matters, Miss Hopkins falls of fom to tell him she loves George, in love too. Only she is too fond and she loves George too much to hurt to tell him about Tom.
the
After lengthy discussions, problem is solved. She is to live with them, but she will be à mo- ther of the arts Sex. is out en- tirely.
So with this goal for their hap- piness, the three of them settle down together in their triangular love-nest. Buy happiness isn't won so easily, and the manner in which they eventually get-together brings the picture to a most ending.
amusing
SHOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY TO-DAY
QUEEN'S
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 and 9.30 P.M.
ONLY
ALHAMBRA
At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 and 9.20 P.M.
A PAGEANT OF
LUSCIOUS SPLENDOR UNMATCHED
SINCE SHEBA'S DAY!
EDDIE CANTOR
IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRODUCTION OF ROMAN SCANDALS
ADDED_ATTRACTION WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONY
i 'LULLABY LAND”
with
RUTH ETTING GLORIA STUART DAVID MANNERS and the GOLDWYN GIRLI
dur UNITED
TO-DAY ONLY STAR At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
MICHAEL ARLEN'S
"These Charming People"
wit GODFREY TEARLE-NORA SWINBURNE.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18,
Cinemas King's:Design For Living" Queen's:-"Roman Scandals" Central:-The Air-Mail
Mystery" Oriental: The Big Gamble" World: Turn Back
The Clock" -Lee:-"Sunshine Susia" Alhambra-"Roman Scandals'' Majestic:Age Of Consent" Star: These Charming People" Lectures.Dr. Tan on "Child- ren's Diet and Their Health." Chinese YM.C.A. (Kowloon Branch), Waterloo Road. 7,30 pm; Meetings: Kowloon Union Church Women's Guld, 10 a.m.
Miscellaneous-Lecture in Ital- Jah on "The Life and Work of the Missionaries in China." by Rt. Rev. Father Braga, Superior of the Salesian Fathers in China," Hong- kong Hotel Grill Room, 5.30 p.m Tenders for sale of 40-ft. Steaza Pinnace No. 258 close to-day: Whist Drive, Seamen's Institute, S p.m.
Moon Moon. 5th Day.
Principal Mails
Inward from Europe via Suez by Corfu; Outward for America and Europe via Siberia by Tatsuta Maru, 8:30 am.
Sports
MAJESTIC
THEATRE= Nathan Road, Kowloon.. Tel 57222 TO-DAY ONLY At 2.90. 5.20, 7, 20, & 9 20P.M
The World Acclaims a Newborn Stare
The
This is the gi you've been ading about
who stopped frame type- weer in d
'den in a day
So Horn
AGE OF CONSENT
A Drama of Love Under the Now Isles WADOGOTHY WILSON, Assine Judge, Richard Crowell, Eric Unelen, John Hat #day, Alleen Pringle · Direct by Gregory La Corer - An RKD RADIO Pleture of Caurel Devid O. Selenick, Executive Producer
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RICHARD DIX
“CONQUERORS"
Cricket. Inter-unit Competition. Small Units v. East Lancashires (Hongkong C, E, ground), 11 a.m.
Hockey-Hongkong Hockey Club seniors v. Radio Sports, 5 p.m. in 64- Replay for Anal of International. Hockey Tournament between Eng- land and India," King's Park 5, p.m.
Sunrise.-6.01 am Sunset-6.41
PM.
Low at 4.26 and 18.51..
Tides. High at 0.35 and 11.30
THURSDAY, APRIL 19
Anniversaries and Holidays.. Primrose Day.
Auctions.-Lammert's Sale "of Household Furniture and Persian Carpets, Bales Room, 2.30 p.m.
Cinemas
King's: "The Bowery". Queen's: The Working Man" Central: The Air Mail
Mystery" Oriental: "The Big Gamble" WorldTurn Back
The Clock" Lee-Sunshine Susie" Alhambra:-"Advice To The
"Lovelorn" Majestic: The Conquerors" Star: "These Charming
People"
Lectures-Dr. K. W. Ip on "Chi- dren's Diseases and Their General Preventions, Chinese YM.C.A., Waterloo Road, Kowloon; 7.30 p.m. Meetings. Theosophical Society, p.m. Speaker: Mr. R. Sander. Ä lecture of Rudoff Steiner "Buddha. and Christ," Berlin, December. 1909; Hongkong Union Church Deacon's Court. Church Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Principal Malls
Inward from Australia by" Kita- no Maru; Outward for America and Europe via Siberia by Empress of. Asia, 5 p.m.
THE WORKING
MAN George Arliss In His
Latest Success
George Arliss, probably the great- est of stage and screen luminaries of the present day, "comes to-mor- row to the Queen'a in his latest Warner Bros, picture, "The Work- ing. Man."
Wallace Beery in The Bowery"
“ADVICE TO
LOVELORN".
رجر
Lee Tracy's Best Performance
There is a full-fledged earthquake in "Advice to the Love lorn," Lee' Tracy's next starring vehicle for Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century Pictures, showing to-morrow at the Al- hambra and World Theatres.
Its rhythm" and duration were copied from seismographic re- cords of the quake that hit Bouthern California on March 10 last, and were accurately repro- duced in the film by W. R. Davi son, expert in technical effects.
Not only does Davison Maith- fully reproduce the quake motion, but, in a Turkish bath scene, re- quiring the most diffictit tech nical effects, he causes steam pipes to seem to burst - without actually bursting, walls to crack. which do not really crack; and plaster to fall which weighs next to nothing.
The picture is a delightfully en-
The Turkish bath set occupled tertaining comedy drama which
a movable platform 42 by 65 feet. presents Mr. Arliss in the type of
weighed 20 tons, and was set on picture with which he has had
rollers and shaken by lever-con- successes his greatest
on the
trolled. springs. Its seven diffe- screen. "The Working Man" 19
rent rooms were shaken separa- of similar pattern to The Mil-tely for various camera shots, as lionaire,” his most popular hit; al- though it is entirely different to plot
the camera had to rest on solid flooring in one room in order to photograph one or more of the other rooms as they swayed and.
As the head of a large business, he masquerades as a towly fisher-shook. man in order to save the children. of his one-time most formidable business rival from moral and financial” ruin.""Arliss is said to reach the highlight of his bril llant career in "The Working Man," as the most human charac- ter he has yet portrayed. "It is a plcture with universal appeal
As usual in an Arliss picture there is an unusually strong cast of stage and screen celebrities hand picked by Mr. Arliss himself. Bette Davis, who played with- Mr. Arliss in The Man Who Played God" has the leading feminine role in this picture. Hardie Albright, who has the Juventle lead, is also an Arīlas protege," and played with him in *** A Successful Calamity "
Great care was exercised by Davison in estimating the stress placed on walls and flooring, and in reproducing the quakes scien- tifically-for even earthquake experta go to movies write letters of criticism to producers:
Advice to the Lovelorn, la the story of a wise-cracking reporter
on
a Los Angeles newspaper, whose editor punishes him for sleeping through an earthquake and missing the biggest story of the year by demoting him to the post of agony" column pilot.
Sally Blane is seen - opposité Tracy, while others who are pro
minently cast in his support are Isabel Jewel, Paul Harvey, Judith Wood, and May Boley, Sterling Holloway, C, Henry Gordon, Theodore Newton was brought | Levinson, Adayn Doyle and direct from the stage for his first Etienne Girardot complete the picture role with Mr Arliss“: Gor- cast.. don Westcott is also a recent act quisition from legitimate drams, although he has played in several Importan
Al Werker is responsible for the direction of this United Artists release which is from a store br Leonard Prasking.
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