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CENTRAL

HEATRE

TARE QUEEN'S ED., WESTHOUED BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 28720.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

at 280, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

EDMUND

LOWE

Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, Ralph Forbes, Hedda Hopper

in

The mile-a-minute mystery drama staged aboard a train specding across India!

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE presented by Carl Laemmle

BOMBAY MAIL

TO-MORROW

The pets whe Boar Returau Husbutt prasme disa pada".

MAN OF TWO WORLDS

Honey Atwehaasan ± ferrell Malavi

LEE THEATRE

TO-DAY TO MONDAY

At 12.30. 2.30, 5.20, 7.00 & 10.30 PM. BEBE DANIELS

IN

LOVE COMES ALONG"

IN HER GREATEST SONG| DRAMA TRIUMPH. ADDED ATTRACTION

ON THE STAGE.

AT 8.80 & 9.30 P.M..

A SPECIAL CHINESE PLAY STARRING

Miss WU DIP YING & CHO PIN

PRICES DRESS CIKOLE 55 ct STALLS:-80 ste 55 ots, & 40 ots. NOTAFor the benefit of our patrons who do not wish to see the Chinese Stage Play, it is pointed out that "Love Comes Along" starts at 7.00 & 10.30 p.my

TO-DAY AT THE

KING'S

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"The Bowery"

QUEEN S→→→

"The Working Man"

CENTRAL-

"Bombay Mail”

ORIENTAL

"Night Flight"

LEE

"Love Comes Along"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA—–

"Advice to the Lovelom"

'STAR-

"Penthouse"

MAJESTICmm

"The Conquerors"

Coming

"I Am Suzanie"

KING'S

QUEEN'S

STAR-

"Going Hollywood"

"The Crime of the Century"

"The Stranger's Return" "Hallelujah 'I'm A Tramp"

CENTRAL

"Man of Two Worlds"

ALHAMBRA—

"The Kennel Murder Cage" "His Double Life"

"Moulin Rouge"

“KENNEL

MURDER

CASE"

Coming To Alhambra

After the" first announcement was made that William Powell would bring the famous detective character of Philo Vance to life. by way of "The Kennel Murder Case, which will be shown at the Alhambra Theatre. Gn Sunday: Warner Bros. Studios received letters from all over the country. congratulating them upon their decision.

Hundreds of fans, male and female, stated. they were anxious to see one of the most famous. figures cf modern fiction on the screen again, in the person of Powell, who first made 5.8. Van Dine's fictitious debonair crime. expert a real; live character.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY DAILY AT (2.30.5.10.7.15]

& 9.30 P.M.

•KINGS

NEW DEAL" PICTURE" OF AN

"OLD DEAL" DAY!

HER FIRST CARESS- A SOCK IN THE JAW

Bad Boy UNITED ARTISTS

THE BOWERY

At The King's

Then she sunk bar teeth in his hand. After that they understood each other. "For they did such things on the Bowery, the Bowery",

JOSEPH M. SCHENCK » DARRYL F. ŽANACK

·pinzhat

WALLACE BEERY GEORGE RAFT JACKIE COOPER FAY WRAY & PERT KELTON- THE

BOWERY

Directed by

RAOUL WALSH |

through the farm of Peter Stuy vesant, the last Dutch Colonial

Governor of Netherlands.

To-day is only lives in tradi- tion, but forty years ago it was the toughest quarter of all-New-| The "Bowery Boys" are back, York. The Bowery Boys, contem In the wickedest mile outside hell,poraries of the tough brotherhood Mrs. Carrie Nation has found her then heading for Alaska. lured hatchet again, and Buster. Brown by the rumours of gold strikes. in the newspapers, and Brooklyn hardest-balled bunch of thugs in is vizing with John L. Sullivan prided themselves on being the Bridge is being proclaimed the the "world. eighth wonder of the world.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313

25332

FROM TO-MORROW.

I Am Suzanne!

A Jassa 1. Läsky Production

with

LILIAN HARVEY

Gene Raymond

Leslie Banks

Podrecca's Piccoli Marionettes Directed by Rowland V. Lee

Story and Screen Play by Rowland V. Las 'and Edwin, Justus Mayer Dance Direction: Sammy Lee

Browal answere

in

2

"Buster

in the nineties. Jackie Cooper, in a miniature man's sult, sport-- ing a cigar and bowler hat, askėd by a kind old gentleman, "Who might you be, my little man?” -impudently,

Buster Brown, clad B velvet suit and" lace collar, was mama's darling, who figured in a famous comic cartoon in a leading American daily paper. His spoiled darling A vast amount of research was

look was belled by the pranks (hę necessary before work could be-

played on the bad boys of the neighbourhood. gin in Hollywood on The Bowery.

His velvet suit Old fles of the "Police Gazette."

was world-famous, and a type of thousands of yellow photographs drapery trade to-day as a "Buster collar is still known to the

In the Bowery, the Twentieth Century picture, with Wallace Beery, George Raft and Fay Wray, a street in New York's Chinatown. crammed with saloons, concert of the gardens, tramps lodging-houses, shooting galleries, whisky dives, automatic arcades. tattooing es- tablishments, Yiddish theatres, knock-em-down-and-drag-em-on: dance halls, lives again with all the noise and blows, booze and shandon it knew in the gay'

What is the Bowery, the street which gives the film its title? It lies a mile from Wall Street.. In the old Dutch days it was the "bouwerie," or lane between the farms. Originally it was the road

Likewise, Powell's fan mail nineties. swelled noticeably with congratu- latory messages from his fans. Seldom has an actor won, so large a following in a role of this nature, as Bill Powell did with his por trayal of Phil Vance in The Canary Murder Case," ""The Green Murder Case" and "The Benson Murder Caso?!

Eugene Pallette is aeen once more Jusi Sergeant Heath, Gene has played the role in every Van Dine picture to date. "The Kennel Murder Case" is his fourth appearance as the burly police sergeant with Powell,

The balance of the fine cast in- cludes Mary Astor, Robert Barat, Jack La Ruo, Helen Vinson, Arthur. Hohl, Ralph Morgan, Henry O'Neill, Paul Cavanaugh, Robert McWade and other well-known players.

"MAN OF TWO

WORLDS"

Coming To Central

Love making "technique" is just so much "hooey."

That's the opinion of Francis Lederer, who would qualify in any court as an expert,

During his career as a stage and screen, star, Lederer has made love to more than 200 benatiful women of eleven nations. Europe hails him na its most romantic hero and on the New York stage in "Autumn Crocus he was the most widely acclaimed heart flutterer of last season.

Still, Lederer, a strikingly sincero and earnest chap, who insists, that thers is no such thing as a "great lover" anys, poaitively he has no romantic technique. His only system, if it can be called that, is just to be natural

When I make love to a gril on stage or screen, I am not acting or employing technique," said he, “fam just a human being reacting to the attractions of a beautiful women.”

Of course, admitted the star, who was Elissa Landi in HKO-Radio Pictures' "Man of Two Worlds” he doesn't make love to every girl in the

same manner,"

Different women inspire different feelings," he explained, "And I reset accordingly. "One woman inspire tenderness, another masterful domin- ances, third wit and gaiety, and still another may arouse a desire to be cruel or even brutal. Again, it in just

·a matter of being natural, and to. chnique hasn't a thing to do with it

روشی

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

THE HAPPIEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR

nineties, and scores of books were scanned by the Re- search Department of the studio] for months before actual filming started.

In the course of all this work many curious comparisons came to light. The main titles of the film are screened to the song: The Bowery! The Bowery! They say such things and they" do such" things-On the Bowery, the Bowery! I'll never go there any more.

The Bowery has re-created even the smallest detalls of New York

QUELA'S

George

ABLISS

(Warner Bros Mti wish.

BETTE DAVIS

"THE WORKING MAN"

FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY.

STAR

i

Brown."

On April 22, 1898, the United States declared war, and it is that "war tọ which Wallace Beery and George Raft march, a war which must surely have been one of the shortest on record, for it ended four months

the later, with United States the victors. After seeing the film one might be 'ex- cused for thinking that the speedy. victory was not unrelated to the enlistment of Chuck Connors and Steve Brodie, two of de toughest guys de Bowry ever noo.".

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

·NEXT CHANGE:

"BING

CROSBY"

in

"Going Hollywood”

Metro's Musical with MÁRION DAVIES

At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

Arthur Somers Roche's

"PENTHOUSE"

with

WARNER BAXTER MYRNA LOY

FINAL SHOWINGS TJ-DAYALHAMBRA

THE STRE

Advice to the LOVELORN

A DARRYL F. ZANUCK

Production

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20

p.m.

NEXT CHANGE-

WILLIAM

Powell

Returns as PHILO VANCE in

"THE KENNEL

MURDER CASE"

MARY ASTOR JAMES TEE

"THE WORKING MAN"

Showing At The Queen's

George Arliss, beloved by theatre- "goers the world over, has found the perfect role in his latest picture. The Working Man," a Warner Bros., feature which has its final showings to-day at the Queen's."

It is a highly spiced comedy drama

of American business and youthful folly in which the star appear as 2 short-tempe. cc, soft-hearted champion. of "big business" who steals time. from his own affairs to straighten out, the lives of the orphaned children of his former strongest competitor,

As Reeves, grumpy bachelor head of a great manufacturing concern, who goes fishing for a vacation only to find that the expedition lewis him into the. most exciting business battle of his life against his own firm -- Arliss, to advance word frotu

displays All the qualities that have made him recognized as the foremost actor of the acreen to-day; It is a story filled with humour and amusing situations, replete with real drama, played by cast of all star calibre.

Bette Davin is featured in the prin cipal supporting role as the gay young reckless-living orphan. Miss Davis, a star in her own right in recent pic tures, who credits Mr. Arliss "in part for her "discovery," is said to have jumped at the chance to play har second role opposite Arliss, even though in a supporting part.

MAJESTIC

THEATRE Nathan Road, Kowloon Tel. 57229 TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20, & 9,20P.M.

MARCH ON AMERICAI

Out of the smoke of your chimneys Out of the sweat of your fields... Out of the faith of your people

comes"your saga

of courage...a liv- ing canvas splash-

ed with the blood

of the conquerors!

RICHARD DIX}} ANN HARDING

in a tidal drama deep as human passion

The CONQUERORS

With EDNA MAY OLIVER GUY KIBBEE

from the story by Howard Estbrook Directed by WILLIAM WELMAN David O. Selznick, executive producer.. An RKO-RADIO PICTURE

Hardie Albright, another excellent actor who has appeared in other Arliss pictures, hus his first sympathetic role in a long time, as the love interest op- posita Miss Davis. J. Farrell. Mao- Donald has a fine part as Arliss' fish-original story by Edgar Franklin the ing companion while Gordon Westcott screen play being by Charles Kenyon supplies the menace.

and Maude T. Howell.

'4 SHOWS

DAILY 1.30–519

7.15-8.00

"The Working Man" is based on an

TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY HOB

ORIENTAL

LAST 4 TIMES

TO-DAY MARVELLOUS PICTURE! WONDERFUL CAST OF STARS !

NIGHT FLIGHT

'JOHN

BARRYMORE HELEN HAYES CLARK GABLE

LION BL

BARRYMORE

ROBERT, MONTGOMERY MYRNA LOY

“ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN". Showing At Alhambra

All the trials and tribulations that go with editing an "agony" column on & big metropolitan daily fall to the lot of breezy Lee Tracy in his new pic- ture, "Advice to the Lovelorn." And we might add-"and then some.”—for it is no ordinary lovelorn column that the brisk blond star conducts in this newest offering of Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century Pictures, which has its final showings to day at the Alhambra,

As Toby Frentian, he dishes out some of the goofiest advice ever taken to heart by a lovelorn soul. But it's all part of Toby's plot to wiggle out of a five-year contract that holds him to the detested post to which he was demoted. as a penalty for getting drunk and missing the year's prize story by sleeping calmly through an event of no less cataclysmic propor- tions than a major earthquake.

SUMING

WOAD WANOHA

TEL. 28428

TO-MORROW AND MONDAY

JUST

ONE BIG LAUGH

FROM

START TO FINISH!

Give Your Family a Laugh

Without making funny faces Bring Tem in to ser·

Olsen's Big Moment

EL BRENDEL

"OLSEN'S BIG MOMENT”

At The Oriental On Sunday

El Brendel, premier Swedish comedian of the screen appearing Olsen's Big Moment" Fox Film's

latest comedy release, showing at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday, and Monday, Play- ing the role of a janitor of an apartment house who takes" a hand at patching up romances, Bl Brendel is said to be given ample opportunities to supply his audi- ence with laughs. Walter Catlett who has long been known for his comedy roles, plays the part of a drunk with two such stellar comedians in one picture, "Olsen's Big Moment" gives promise of be- ing a laugh riot.

Toby's plot misses fire, however, and his subsequent efforts to dodge his

As a janitor in a swank apart- trasting orrrespondents and their irate ment house, Brensel ands it hard mothers particularly one who em-to get away for his night out. - phasizes her indignation by wielding On another floor in the same horsewhip and at the same time house, a society matron is trying keep a weather eye open for a way to persuade her daughter to mar out of this loathsome job, make for

wealth of highly diverting situations, walter Catlett, a wealthy ba- which often border on the melodra chelor. The daughter refuses on matic and occasionally slip over into the ground that she loves some the realm of stark tragedy.

one else. Brendel is unfortunate Toby's troubles are aggravated by ly forced into patching up the the fact that his sweet-heart holds romance. In his endeavors to do very definite and most unflattering the right thing, he finds himself views concerning the Fourth Estate wound up in a series of complica- and refuses to marry him until he tions that eventually gets him in- accepts a job in her father's garage to trouble. Brendel however It is not until he gets himself involved with a vicious cut-rate drug manager to bring about a happy racketeer and inadvertently causes the

ending to the entire-anair, death of his own mother and the downfall of lovelorn girl that Toby managers to straighten out his mad and maddening existence.

Bally Blane brings her superlative charm and loveliness to the role of the sweetheart who lives to alter her views, of the newspaper profession, and as, Bennie, the office boy secretary whom Toby inherits with the "sgony; column. Sterling Holloway contributes to the joyful spirit of the occasion.

It is reported that Brendel, who has long been known for his Scandinavian antics, plays a role that is far more important. Phản any of his previous endeavors Walter Calter Catlett heada cast which includes Weeks, Susan Fleming, last se 28 two of the beauties in al

Weakness. John - Arledge - Joseph Sauers.

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