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TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

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HONG KONG

"Up to the Neck".

KING'S-

QUEEN'S

"Washington Merry Go Round"

CENTRAL.

"The Vale

CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKN QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND 208

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel. 25790.

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

CHINESE ARTISTIC FILM CO. PRESENTS

"THE VALE or TEARS"

WITH

TONY SHAK-LAM MUI MUI|| ALHAMBRA—

NEXT CHANGE

Of Tears"

(Chinese Picture)"

ORIENTAL-

"Conquerors"

LEE

Chinese Opera"

KOWLOON

"Courage"

STAR-

"The Shadow"

MAJESTIC—

"Flying Down To Rio"

PRESENTING

AGAIN

TO POPULAR DEMAND THE MIGHTIEST OF ALL WAR DRAMAS!

"KING'S

All Quiet

on the

Western

Front

WHEN LOVE.

hungry soldiers And beautiful girls ...who can blame 'them for breaking the monelony of "mud-filledtranches?

Just one flash in hundrads from ERICK MARIA REMARQUE'S graat novel. Now talking on the screen!

•

Presented by. CARL LAEMMLE, À CARL LABMMLE, JR. Produc tion. Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE

LEE THEATRE

THE MEI SIT FONG OPERA CO.

The management has pleasure in announcing that by special arrange. ment and at popular request, THE MEI SIT FONG OPERA COMPANY will extend its season at this Theatre for further Week,

Do not miss this last opportunity of seeing the magnificent ating of China's most famous plays by the finest company of 80, actors and Bctress48 ever seen in Hong Kong. Direct from Peiping.

Performances: NIGHTLY A♪ · EIGHT

Prices:- STALLS $1.20, 80 cts & 55 ets

Including tax...

“WASHINGTON

MERRY-

A

Coming

"Little Women"

QUEEN'S

"Girl Without A Room"

CENTRAL-

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

ALIIAMBRA~~~

"Office Wife"

"There Goes The Bride"

· ORIENTAL

"King of the Jungle"

"The Greeks had a word

for them"

"Last "Tralf"

"Henry the vm."

"Murders in the Zoo"

"Secrets of Mary Pickford"

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"UP TO THE

NECK"

A Beautiful Rose-

Walk

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1934.

LAST TWQ-DAYS DAILY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

•KINGS?

Directed by JACK RAYMOND

Director of Productions HERBERT WILCOX

ARTISTS

RALPH LYNN

in

'UP TO THE NECK 6%

With

*BEN TRAVEAR

WINIFRED SHOTTER

THE BEST ENGLISH

·FARCE EVER GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC.

“LITTLE WOMEN" all but daring refusal to

And When "Men

Were Men"

And now the screen fans walk arm in arm with Louisa M, A cott into the romantic glories of the Sixties, back to the days when women were dainty as well as beautiful, and men bowed with the grace of knighthood.

ZILITY

Laurie. the rich boy next door, and her goings-on in the great city

Into the clothes and character of the dashing Laurie comes Douglas. Montgomery.

Paul Lukas is the lumbering. lovable. Fritz Bhaer, the learned man of the city whose courtship ends in the old homestead of the March's. and John Davis Lodge is Brooke, who marries Meg.

BOOKING. AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25332.

SATURDAY

Katharine HEPBURN

An RKO

RADIO

Picture

In LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S

LITTLE WOMEN

JOAN BENNETT PAUL LUKAS FRANCES DEE

JEAN PARKER EDHA MAY OLIVER

Stephanzon

Dir, by GEORGE CUKOR, MERIAN & COOPER" exec, producmi, Xeznets Abeegoman, serinäreducan

THE OFFICE WIFE

Natalie Moorhead's Success

Natalie Moorhead, who has an Office important role in "The Wife," opening to-morrow at the Alhambra Theatre is one of Hol- Others in a cast that embraces jywood's most attractive blondes. more than twenty popular players!

She is a Pittsburgh girl who are Edna May Oliver, Henry Step-started her stage camer in "The henson, Spring Byington, Samuel Baby Cyclone" company in Tron- Hinds. Mabel Colcored and Nydia ton, New Jersey. Later, she came to Hollywood and appeared in several of Henry, Duffy's most successful stage plays. A short Executive Producer Merian C. time after her arrival in Holly- Cooper of RKO-Radio "Pictures, wood, she landed a contract with which has made "Little Women" one of the larger studios and with religious fidelity to the ori- appeared in such plotures ginal, has indeed honoured thei Through Different Eyes," and

"The Girl From Havana."

One of the most beautiful manor houses in England was put at the disposa of Jack Raymond, direc- tor of Ralph Lynn's latest Bri-

The sentence should be enough tish and Dominions picture, "Up to make the lovers of "Little Wo-Westman. to the Neck, when he was search-men." and they number into the ing for a suitable location to shoot millions, weep. joy, coming on certain country sequences. The Saturday at the King's Theatre. picture is showing to-day at the King's Theatre.

This is a resident known as "The Priory," standing at Church Norton, near Belsey. It originauy was a priory as early art 800 A.D. attached to the Church and until

Here is the immortal sister quartette: Jo, played by Katharine Hepburn, Amy, played by Joan Bennett, Meg, played by Frances Dee, and Beth, played by Jean Parker.

George Cukor directed.

memory of the great author and

She made her debut with War- given the present generation a

ner Bros in a Vitaphone Variety, panorama of an era as well as and since that time has made many

"the highest pictures with them.

In The Office Wife" she plays

And men were men, too, when entertainment quite modern times its ecclesiasti-Jo stirred the countryside with her order.

cal connection has remained, since It has been used, as the Rectory of Selsey,

The present owner has preserved all its essential antiquity. its oak- panelled walls, and Gothic-door- ways bearing testimony to its age and origin. It is furnished throughout la keeping with its period.

The grounds are fourteen acres in extent, comprising flower gard- ens and kitchen gardens. The masterpiece of the flower garden is a rose-walk a hundred and forty yards long, full of rhododendrons, thyme, Sweet William, Canterbury bells and rare flowers of every description.

In addition, there are spacious tree covered lawns, where some of the grounds may always be seen

The rose-walk figures in the action of the Alm, as it is the meeting place chosen by Norman Good (Ralph Lynn) and April Dawne (Winifred Shotter) for their day in, the country. while. other shots were taken in various parts of the grounds.

Another splendid location was the actual beach at Selsey, Shooting conditions were difficult, but the resultant pictures on the screen are extremely effective, showing the sea whipped into foam and the shore swept by wind.

who control Congress and incidentally

GO-ROUND" make everything they can out of it,

At The Queen's

Tray does wonders and certainly gives the impression, that given many more such opportunities of displaying his dramatic talents, he will eventually. rise to great heights.

Tracy is given many opportunities

of "jawing" but does it so convins.

times

In his first dramatic role of his filmingly and with so much conviction, career, Lee Tracy outshines anything be has previously done, in the "Washington Merry-Go-Round which commenced a run at the Queen's Theatre last night.

and

Famous for his wise cracks jawing, Lee Tracy maker a definite change in this, his first big chance at

stardom,

that the audience is at spell-bound and forced to listen to speeches which have already been heard in other such filma, denouncing crooks "inside the law.”

The supporting cast includes Con-1 stance Cummings who does excep tionally well in a major part, while Alan Dinehart an the brains of the Portrayed as a young Congressman crooked outfit and Walter Connolly sa who merely travels Washington in a Senator, who after being in, Dine order to clear the Senate of graft and hart's service, eventually turne

to free the American taxpayers, from against him, are exceptionally well the clutches of an inner government, cast.

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

SEE

of

QUELA'S

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At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m

WHO PULLS THE STRINGS THAT HAMSTRING -CONGRESS

WASHINGTON MERRY GO ROUND

with LEE TRACY - CONSTANCE CUMMINGS

TO-DAY ONLY

STAR

United Artists presents

| “At 2,30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.

THE GRIPPING THRILLER

The

DO▼

with HENRY KENDALL ELIZABETH ALLAN

TO-DAY ONLY

WARNER BROS!

ALHAMBRA At 2.80, 6.20, 7 20 & 9.20 p.m.

THEATRE

A Tremendous Drama That Will Thrill and Inspire!

OURAGE

VITAS

with BELLE BENNETT

ע

NEXT CHANGE-

Dorothy MACKAILL Lewis

STONE

in

"OFFICE

WIFE"

“WARNER BROS, PICTURE

“COURAGE ”

Ambitious Mother At

The Alhambra®

"Courage", featuring Belle Ben- net, opened, its run at the Al- hambra Theatre yesterday. and while the picture cannot in any way be called a super-production, { it must be said that it is good. clean entertainment.

The story tells of Miss Bennet as a happy-go-lucky spendthrift mỏ- 'ther who stops' at nothing in order that she might bring her children up among the wealthy members of society in order that they might attain that culture, which, alast she herself does" not possess.

In order that they might move about in the "select circle" and yet not be outdone in the matter of dresses, she spends money that she can il-afford and as a result bills pile up and she is driven to borrow to get herself out of a somewhat embarrassing position.

the From this point onwards. picture takes what might be de- scribed as an amazing turn, and moves at a fast rate which is maintained up till the end of the

reel.

As we mentioned before, 14 is good entertainment, and preceded as "It is by two interesting shorts. the current programme at this popular theatre is recommended

4 SNOWS

DAILY 1.30–1.10

*15--20

MAJESTIC

THEATRE, p Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 970 P.M.

to the breath-tak- "ing climax of all screen music shows!

A romance of melody staged in the clouds!

FLYING

DOWN TO RIO

RKO

RADIO Picture

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

With DOLORES DEL RIO GENE RAYMOND

· RAUL ROULIEN GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE

Marks by VINCENT YOUMANS

Lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gui Kahn. · Directed by Thornton Freeland MERIAN C COOPER, êxecutive producer, Louis Brock, associate produces

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

PLEXING

ROAD

WANGHAI

TEL. 2847E-

TO-DAY TO-MORROW SATURDAY: A MIGHTY SCREEN SPECTACLE!

Frantic thousands yell and cheer as the tidal

romance of a fighting empire building nation sweeps across the screen in mighty heart-beats!

Romance embedded deep in the soil we love! Drama wrenched

from an empire in creation! ⠀⠀

RICHARD

RK

DIX HARDING

The CONQUERORS

With EDNA MAY OLIVER · GUY KIBBEE Julie Haydon”Skeats” Gallagher

one of the most important roles Moorhead carries on

ber

Desi

of her screen career role that serious firtation. Others in the

1s particularly suited to Mias cast are Hobart Bosworth, Bianch Moorhead's type. Sho portrays a Friderici and Joan Blondell. sophisticated type, the wife of a successful business man, who, far from being jealous of her hus band's friends, is too busy with her own flirtations to think about her husband.

Aunt Jerry

"So you asked Geraldine, to mar-

ry you?" asked a man of the other. Lewis Stone, with his usual

"Yes, but I didn't have any charm, plays the husband, and luck," replied his friend. "She Dorothy Muckall, in her role of asked me if I had any prospects." the private secretary, shows once "Why didn't you tell her" about

nore that she is one of the most

capable actresses in Hollywood your rich uncle?"

Brooks Benedict is the attractive

"I did. Geraldine's my aunt

young man with whom Natalie now."

Winifred Shotter, playing-

The charming English actre

opposite role to Ralph Lynn"; in

to the Neck. “

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