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TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

*KING'S ——

"Sitting Pretty"

QUEEN'S-

CENTRAL

CHEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S ED., WASTBOUND BUS

Advance Booking at Andersons

and the Theatre Tel. 94720..

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

LILY LAI

IN

'QUEEN OF SPORTS

JA UNITED PHOTOPLAY PICTURE.

The Crime of the Century"

CENTRAL-

"Queen of Sports" (Chinese

Picture),

ORIENTAL-

"Flying Down To Rio."

11

LEE

"Chinese Opera"

ALHAMBRA

KOWLOON

COMING

A SIMPLE HUMAN EXPER IENCE THAT WILL REACH THE HEART OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN

JOAN BARRY

and

HAROLD

"His Double Life”

STAR...

"Hallelujah I'm A Bum"

MAJESTIC—

"Hoopla"

Coming

"Alice in Wonderland!

HOTH

KING'S~~

in ..

"SALLY

BISHOP"

"BRITISHUON Picture

A BRITISH LION PRODUCTION.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1934.

SHOWING

TO-DAY DAILY AT 2.30,5.10.7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

•KINGS

ALSO.

LATEST PARAMOUNT-

SOUND NEW

"BETTY BOOP'S PENTHOUSE"

LATEST

SCREEN SOUVENIRS

ammaert

QUEEN'S

NEXT

"Should Ladles Behave"

CHANGE

CENTRAL-

"Sally Bishop."

ALHAMBRA—-

.fc

"Moulin Rouge"

ALICE IN

WONDERLAND "

SITTING PRETTY

LEWIS CARROLL'S

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25339

Listen Specially for "Did You Ever See a

Dream Walking?” and "Good Momlag,

Glory".

A Pardmount Picture "with these funmaken Jack Oakie Jack Haley Ginger Rogers Thelma Todd Gregory Ratoff Lew Cody'

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

LOUISA M.

ALCOTT'S HOME

Duplicated For "Little Women"

Horalded as the greatest example of motion picture craftsmanship in film history, an actual repro-

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

"CLARA BOW IN HOOPLA”

At The Oriental Theatre

*

Clara Bow, fiery and impas sioned, reached new heights as an emotional actress in Hoopla" showing at the Oriental Theatre

At King's Theatre Onduction of the Louis M. Alcott on Sunday and Monday.

Sunday

It

"Hropla" is a splendid produc- home in Concord, Mass,, Wad constructed

tion that delves deeply into the the setting for inside life of the "big top Ta RKO-Radio Pictures' soreen ver-

offers Clara Bow a marvellous opportunity to display her his. trionic ibilitie

sion of her famous story, "Little

Wemen."

The home, complete down to the Hollywood's outstarling techni- last piece of bric-a-brac clans were selected, to handle the surrounding lawns and gardens, constructed on a three-acré numeroua details in connection was with Paramount's filmization of plet near Hollywood, from hun the Lewis Carroll classic, "Alice dreds of photographs, drawings in Wonderland" which comes on and descriptions obtained by Sunday next at the King's Theatre. special staff of artisans working in The then in charge of the script, Concord by special permission. camera, make-up department and The film is enacted by a cast Eettings are just as famous in heade by Katharine Hepburn,

their fields as 'the stars. selected for Paramount's "east of the

HIS DOUBLE LIFE century", featured in the picture

Lillian Gish's "Come

Back

Enthusiastic audiences at the Alhambra Theatre next Thursdays

Director Norman McLax and his assistant, Ewing Scott; Art Directors William Cameron Men'

zies and Hans Dreier, and Came- ramen Henry Sharp and Bert. Glennon, who worked together un the filmization of the Lewis Car roll classic are counted among the best in the film capital.

McLeod has directed "Monkey! will witness the triumphant return Business' and "Horsefeathers", to the screen of Lillian Gish in | two`· Marx Brothers epica; the "His Double Life' in which Roland sound version of "The Miracle Young shares star billing.

Man", "Touchdown" and "Mama

The fragile beauty whose love- | Loves, Papa".. liriess and acting havo been aa Scott directed' and produced the inseparable, part of motion picture sensational saga of the northlands, history since D.W. Griffith's hey-"Igoo", a short time ago. Men. day, returns the filma under the zies won the Academy award for direction of Arthur Hopkins, his work on "Tempest" and "The wizard of the New York stage,

Dove" in 1927 and was art director

"His" Double Life," released by for Douglas Fairbanks in "The Paramount, is taken from the play, Thief of Bagdad" and "other pic-

The Great Adventure adapted tures. Dreier has served in from Arnold Bennett's novel,

similar capacity for such directora "Buried Alive" It was produced

Lubitsch, von Sternberg,

WE

by Eddie Dowling and Mr. Hop-Mamoulian, Raoul Walsh,

and

king."

It marks Mr. Hopkins' debut as

others,

Στ

Wis

in

photoplay director. He was (The adaptation of Lewis · Chr determined that the actors chosen roll's two classics, "Alioc for the two principal roles be Wonderland" and "Through the capable of the sympathy. the Looking-Ginas",

done by knowledge and the ability the roles Menzies and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, require. Roland Young and Lilli- who wrote the screen plays of an Gish, by their marvellous porsuch successes ps "If I Had a trayals. have justified his selec- Million", "Million Dollar Legs", tion

Jane Moon" and "Too Much

It is the story of a diffident Harmony". Dimitri Tiomkin, genius. When bis valet dies, the noted composer, wrote the musical servant is mistaken for the master. score for the film. In the cast The artist, takes advantage of the of the century are Charlotte strange error to marry the girl Henry as "Alico and Richard with whom the valet has been Arlen, Rosco Ates, Gary Cooper, corresponding through a matri Leon Errol, Louise Fazendo, W.O. "monial ageuoy, and to lead the Fields, Skeets Gallagher, Cary

retired, quiet life he likes.

Grant Raymond Hatton, Edward.

But he makes the mistake of Everett Horton, Roscoe Karns, resuming his painting, and it is Baby LeRoy, Mas Marsh, Polly through this that he is discovered Moran, Jack Oakie, Edna May How he is finally forced to remque Robson. Charlie Huggles, Alison his real personality makes an Skipworth, Ned Sparks and Ford amusing and exciting story.

The photography and synchroni zation of music effects are excellent throughout. There are besides, "Beveral scence which are among the

best of the year.

Sterling,

"One depicts Roland Young, in two grown cons to accuse the an agony of terror and Indecision amazed artist of bigamy. watching the burial of his falet If this delightful, charming and in Westminster Abbey while all amusing picture is indicative of the other spectators believe that what is to be expected of the new

it is the famous artist who is heing producing combination of Dowling interred

and Hopkins, many good things Another occurs when a former from them are looked for in the wife of the valet turns up with near future.

а

The story concerns itself with a vivacious young carnival dancer who on a bety attempts to win the love of a young man who is

the carnival barker's son. It i

Frances Dos, Joan Bennett, Jean Parker, and Spring Byington, George Cukor directed.

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

\ QULLA'S

“LOCK ME UP!..

I'm Going to Commit a Murder!"*

THE

CRIME CENTURY

OF

JEAN HERSHOLT WIHRE GIBSON STUART ERWIN FRANCES DEE

.a

Sharex

of B.P.SCHULBERG Production.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

STAR

not a

this

for difficult task finished giren, and she soon caps tures the heart of the boy. Bub the sincerity of the youngster and his naive manner work a change in the nature of the dancer, and. she finds herself involved in a true

romance

are

The boy's father objects to the affair, and there follows a series of thrilling incidents which capped by a climax that is the outstanding one Cars Bow olaasies,

among

all the

Clara

It

As the carnival · dancer, Bow plays her role with astou ishing versatility and finish is by far the most important production she has had to date,

and the carries her part with remarkable results. The support- ing members of the cast-Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell, Minna Gombell, Herbert Mundin, James Gleason, Roger Imhof and Florence Roberta.

At 2,30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

NEXT CHANGE-

"Should

Ladies

Behave"

AM-G-M Picture

with

LIONEL BARRYMORE

ALICE BRADY?

At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

THE FIRST PICTURE IN RHYTHMIC DIALOGUE......

"Hallelujah I'm A Bum

with AL JOLSON

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

lived the life of Riley

ALHAMBRA

THEXTEA

and his own life, too!

EDDIE DOWLING

in Association with

ARTHUR HOPKINS:

DISH YOUNG

HISDOUBLE LIFE

PARAMOUNT

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

-COMING SHORTLY

Constance

Bennett

“MOULIN

ROUGE”

with FRANCHOT TONE

SITTING PRETTY

Two Jacks And Many

Pretty Girls

The combined talents of Jack Oakle, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, and Thelma Todd, aided by musle written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, and a chorus of more than eighty of Hollywood's" most i talented and ravishing chorus giris į make a tast and furious, mirth- provoking spectacle in Paramount's screen musical comedy, Sitting Pretty," coming on Thursday to the King's Theatre.

The story was directed by Harry Joe Brown from the original sug- gested by Nina Wilcox Putnam. and was produced by Charles R Rogers for Paramount. The cast also includes Gregory Ratoff, Lew Cody, the Pickens Sisters and the Beverly Hill Billes,

Oakle, and Haley, self-titled "the world's greatest song writers" show how two smart boys with nerve and talent can make an indelible Impression; on Hollywood's movie producers, bankrolls and beautiful blondes.

Ginger Rogers, who appears with the entire chorus in the famous. fan-dance, finally marries Haley in this picture, although the two boys are alternately in and out of love with her, from the moment they meet at a roadside barbecue stand on their way out to the Golden West.'.

A fantastic and hilarious suc- cess finally climax their madcap efforts when it seems as though this goofy pair, who can rhyme "moon" and "spoon" but can't handle "Hollywood" and "Blonde" have suffered a dismal failure.

BALY 1.20-5.48 2:41-8.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE: Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30. 5.20, 7.20, & 9.20P.M.

Men's hearts

to the pulsing. rhythm of her sinuous

donco

Clara BOW HOOPLA

with

PRESTON FOSTER RICHARD CROMWELL HERBERT MUNDIN JAMES GLEASON MINNA GOMBELL An Al Rockett Production Directed-by-FILANK LLOYD

TAKE ANY THAN DE HAPPY VALLEY BUS:

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

FLEMING

ROAD

WANGHAI

TO-DAY TO-MORROW & SATURDAY THE WORLD'S MOST STUPENDOUS MUSICAL COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA.

"FLYING S DOWN TO RIO

With

DOLORES DEL RIO GENE RAYMOND'..'RADE ROULIEN? GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE

Music by kg 11. VINCENT YOUMANS

ADMIRAL TYR "SHOULD LADIES

WHITT ROBBED

1

A Dinner-Time Raid

Special Air-Mall Service

London, April 6,

BEHAVE"

At The Queen's

Should Ladies Behave," with a cast that includes Lionel Barry- more, Alice Brady, Conway Tearle, By mistaking one cabinet for Katharine Alexander, and Mary another, thieves, carrying out an-Carlisle, in leading roles, opens un other of the series of 'dinner-time Sunday at the Queen's. Thía sa robberies on country houses, took an adaptation of the Broadway ∙a lot of trouble for very little. I stage comedy, "The Vinegar Tree," It was at the home of Admiral by Paul Osborn, directed by Harry Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt who lives Beaumont.

at Ellerslie House, Hawkhurst, The play, described by critics as Kent.

New York's most amusing draw- The thieves took away an elabo-ing-room drama in years, centers rate Chinese cabinet, which they about the petty jealousies of a saw on Lady Tyrwhitt's dressing-mother, aunt and daughter, all of table, instead of the jewel case. whom are interested in the same This was in the drawer of the man. dressing-table.

Nearly £200,000 has been stolen in a year in these swift and silent dinner-time raids.

The Search

The picture has several "firsts" attached to it, since it is. Mise Alexander's first screen. signment following a successful" career on the New York, stage, Mr. Tearle's first important alm

A single ruby cresent, worth role since the stage engagement about £25, was the only valuable

of "Dinner at Eight" and young

In the cabinet which the thieves Miss Carlisle's first featured role, took from Lady Tyrwhitt's bed- room:

Sir. Reginald Tyrwhitt told ́ ́me that, although the robbery ap-. parently occurred while the family were at dinner last night, it was not discovered until to-day...”:

"When Lady Tyrwhitt retired she noticed that the cabinet wás missing,” he said, "but she thought a maid had taken it away to being cleaned."

Two Ladders

"She asked the maid about it to-day, and it was then that we discovered the robbery. Then," in the grounds, we found two of our own ladders lashed together with a clothesline and marks under my bedroom window which in- dicated that the thieves had first entered my room

"They then apparently went to my wife's room, took the cabinet, and left by the same way, N

"In a timber yard about 200

CANTON SILK MARKET

April 23, The Kwangtung Raw Bür Test- Bureau, Department of Recon- struction. Canton, China

Canton Quotations-

AutoApril 23, Extra 0.8. 13/15 HK $460N. Small Extra 08, 13/16 HE.

($200N, MIDD

Crack N.S. 14/16 HK 1290N. Extra Extra 20/22 H.K. $2000. Waste N.B. Open HK $57N

Yokohama Quotations

Spot

April 24

Yen 535 Bourse six months... Yen 544

yards away, adjoining the smashed open, and the ruby cres grounds of the house, the cent taken. My wife prized the cabinet was found. It had been cabinet very highly