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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1934.

CENTRAL TO-DAY AT THE FINAL SHOWINGS

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'S BD., WESTBOUND BUB

Advance Booking at Andersons

and the Theatre Tal. 33790,

KING'S---

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"Little Women" QUEEN'S-

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY || |

At 2.80, 5,15, 7.20 & 9.80 P.M.

PRESENTING AGAIN TO POPULAR DEMAND THE MIGHTIEST

ALL

WAR

"The Cat and the Fiddle"

CENTRAL

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

"King of the Jungle"

ORIENTAL-

OF

DRAMAS!

All Quiet

on the

Western

Front

WHEN LOVE.

hungry soldiers find beautiful girls ...who can blame. them for breaking the monotony of mud-filledtrenchest Just one flash in hundredsfrom ERICH MARIA REMARQUE'S great novel. Now talking on the screen!

Preaunted by CARL LAEMALE. A CARL LABMMALE, JR. Prodive-

10. Directed by LEWIS, MILESTONE

COMING

CAPTAINS OF SHINDUSTRY in a Story of Big Business

See them make o CENTURY of PROGRESS to live minutest

WHEELER

rise to

new heights

WOOLSEY

of hooey while

the nation cheers

HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY

"

Wh Ruth Etting Thelma Todd Dorothy Les Music, lyrice and acreen play by Harry Ruby and Bart Kolmar. Directed by Mark Sandrich.

RKO RADIO Picture

THE GREEKS

HAD A WORD FOR THEM”

At The Oriental Theatre

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA-

"The Cat and the Fiddle"

"Dinner at 8"

STAR

MAJESTIC-

"Topaze"

KING'S-

Coming

"To-morrow at Seven"

QUEEN'S

"Women in His Life"

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"Hips, Hips, Hooray"

CENTRAL

ALHAMBRA

"Cross Country Cruise"

"Queen Christina"

ORIENTAL

"Three Live Ghosts"

"Last Trail"

"Henry the VIII."

*

"Murders in the Zoo

"Secrets of Mary Pickford" "The Eskimo"

STAR-

"The Tempest"

"Th Working Man"

QUEEN CHRISTINA

TO-DAY : DAILY AT |2.30, 5.10, 7.15,

& 9.30 P.M.

OKINGS:

OUT OF THE PAGES OF HAPPY MEMORIES THEY CAME IN THE GLORY OF EVERLAST. ING YOUTH {.

Live These Golden Hours!

katharine HEPBURN

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MAY ALCOTEST

RK-O PICTURE

JOAN BENNETT PAUL LUKAS FRANCES DEE. JEAN PARKER EDNA MAY OLIVER Douglass Montgomery Henry Stephenson Obr. by GEORGE CUKÒR MERIAN C., COOPER,

·émoc, produce;. Kaazvib Alecjowan, asse, predator.

"4711" PRIZES WINNING NUMBERS FOR 6th MAY.

2.30 P.M.

.5.10 P.M.

IT F. STALL U. 13 B. STALL E. 13. D, CIROLE J. 9 2ND B. STALL D. 27 8ap D. CIRCLE H. 19. F. STALL U. 27

PRIZES OBTAINABLE AT

THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE

Film That Will Make O. Kruger's Splendid

History

Queen Christina," Greta Gar-.

Perfomance

. So

15" The Women In His Life," which

Constantly the theatre public bo's Brat Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer clamours for "new faces picture in two years, which comes shortly to the Queen's and Alham-

Theatres, promises to make is the nex: change at the Queen's, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is answer- if history for three reasons:

מוין ג!

It reunited Garbo with John ing the picture patrons' prayer. Gilbert after a screen separation of five years and hrings him out of retirement for a triumphal return to pictures.

It is the picture that Garbo hast wanted to do all her life because Queen Christine of Sweden is her favourite historical character.

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It is the most ambitious "production with sets that rival the Field of the Cloth of Gold for their size and beauty that is to be scen in recent years.

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Miss Garbo in the title rola de- voted manyanouths of labourious research in Swedish museums to collect data, ali information avai- iable, and hundreds of old plates and engravings to make the picture authentic.

John Gilbert, who left älms to devote himself to directing and. writing, emerged from Kroen tirement at Miss Garbo's request to play the impetuous role of Antonio, the Spanish Ambassador with whom Christina fell in love.

Ian Keith, noted Shakespearesu actor of the stago, is aven 18 Magnus, Christina's Lord Trea- surer and the burr beneath the Swedish saddle of state.

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Lewis Stone, as Chancellor Oxenstierna, Christina's counsellor and taithful tutor in state affairs, appears in als seventh role with Miss Garbo in as many pictures.

Elizabeth Young, newcomer to the screen but a talented young actress,

chosen by Director Rouben Mamoulian to play the only other important feminine part in the picture-that of Ebba, Christina's lady-in-waiting.

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Others in the carefully chosen cast are C. Aubrey Smith, as the queen's loyal bodyguard and ser- Printe vant; Reginald Owen," as Charles, hristina's unsuccessful suitor Georges Renevent, as the French Ambassador; David Torren

as the Archbishop; Gustav Von Seyffertitz, as a Swedish general, and Ferdinand Munter, as an inn- keeper.

Roubou Mamoulian, whosh Jast achievement was the direction of Marlene Dietrich in "Song of Songs," was chosen by Miss Garbo to guide the destinies of the "Queen Christina" production.

Alexander Dumas, in creating his Three Musketeers." forgot to Say whether his immortal adven- tures had sisters, Zoe Akins, how- ever, supplied this ommission in The Greeks Had a Word for Them," the New York stage comedy hit which Samuel Goldwyn is bringing to the screen with Ina

The picture is based upon the Care in the starring role. This glamorous life of Sweden's famous United Artists production will be Queen Christina who reigned three seen at the Oriental Theatre on hundred years ago, and its filming Wednesday and Thursday.

taxed the capacities of all M-G-M departments-the wardrobe, de The three swashbuckling guards- partment for thousands of authen- men whose escapades have held tie costumes of the, poriod, the art. generations of book readers spell-department and construction de.. bound have a feminine counter-partment for the massive sets of part in the three ex Follies beau-Christina's Stockholm palace, the ties, whose adventures furnish the research departament for eighteen. diversion of the Zoe Aking comedy, months of labour while gathering This trio of Broadway musketeers authentic information for the pie

ture, the property department for Just as readily springs to arms the menuisoture of every article when there is a prize to be won. used in the production from a tiny But it is invariably the arms of footstool to palace furnishings and some millionaire playboy, with a military armour of the perio check book the prize at stake.

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7.15 P.M.

9.30 P.M.

F. STALL P. 29 B.STALL M. 8 D. Cina K. 23 SINCERE COMPANY.

D. CIRCLE S. e B. STALLG. 19

F. STALL 6. 16

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313 & 25392

TO-MORROW

THE GIRL HE LOVED DEATH-MARKED

L

BY THE FIEND WHO SLAYED AT THE STROKE OF SEVEN

TOMORROW AT SEVEN'

A gripping mystery, with CHESTER MORRIS VIVIENNE OSBORNE

FRANK MCHUGH ALLEN JENKINS Henry Stephenson Grant Mitchell

Directed by RAY ENRIGHT RKO-RADIO. PICTURE,

Produced by JEFFERSON PICTURE CORP

The cast, is headed by Otto Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures. In Kruger a veteran of the stage, but "" The Women in His Life," Miss whose features upon the picture Jewell has been given the most ini- screen are comparatively new. portant role of her young screen Since joining the M-O-M family career, as Cathie, the girl friend a few months ago he has appeared of Otto Kruger in the story. in Turn Back the Clock," "Beauty for Sale" and "The Prizefighter und the Lady." "He plays the role of Kent Barringer. a sensational trial lawyer who falls to disgrace and then redeems himself through great sacrifices.

Another comparatively new face upon the screen is Isabel Jewell a talented young Broadway stage actress, who has appeared in three

A third is Irene Harvey, a Los Angeles girl who through her own faith in herself and perseverance "crashed the Hollywood finally Gate" with an excellent part with Lionel Barrymore in "The Stran ger's Return.” Her performance was so outstanding that she was placed under contract and now makes the second appearance of her career in "The Women in Bis Life" as Doris Worthing.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, s.10, 7.20 and 9,30 P.M.

The Screen's Two Greatest Stars of Song and Romance are brought together now for the first time, in the musical picture sensation

#UCCESS

two years on from the stage that ran

Broadway! You'll have

the time of your picture- yoing days as you are held spellbound by, this thrilling

love-story,

against a background of

tering grandeur !

intoxicating melody, glit

Love Songs:

"The Night Was Made for Love" "Try to Forget"

"One Moment Alone"

other great Jeroms Kern kita!

Ramon

ALHAMBRA

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 and 9.20 P.M.

tanelle

NOVARRO MACDONALD

the CAT and the FIDDLE

TO-DAY ONLY

STAR

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

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Triumph

DINNER

with ALL

AT 8"

of Metro's Mighty STARS.

AN AIRPLANE MURDER

In "To-Morrow · At Seven"

Motion picturo fans who demand spicy, thrilling novelty in their murder mystery films are offered an airplane murder, said to be the first over to occur on the screen or in real life, in "To-morrow at Soven", com.ug to the King's Theatre with Chester Morris and Vivienne" Osborne.

Raply Spence wrote "Tomorrow at Seven" "with what is considered the same kind of comedy and high drama ha combined in his seasi- tionally successful The Gorilla", Attempting to foil a mystery fiend's plans to kill him, Drake, a wenithy

merchant soars aloft in an plane with his secretary, Winters; bis daughter, Martha Winters Neil Broderick, a crime novelist

at detectives and pilota.

the appointed hour, the fiend strikes killing Winters in the place.

air-

In an old mansion in the swamp lands to which they descond, af pilot is killed. Martha is kidnapp. ed. A letter containing the name of the murdered is found, but is snatched from the detective before it is nead. A fake corner enters. the scene and is revealed an aide of the novelist.

Supporting Morris, as the crime Dovelist,

and Miss Osborne, se Martha, are Henry Stephenson, as Druke: Grant Mitchell as Winters; Charles Middleton as the coroner: Cornelius Keefe; Allen Jenkina and

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Boar, Kawioon. Tel 57222 TO-DAY & TO MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9 10 P.M

John

Barrymore

gia the role be choose 'above all

other.... from Marcel *. Pagnol's triumph of the stage}

TOPAZE

MYRNA LOY

· Blinched by H. d'Abbadia....... Acron” David O. Selz nick, executive producer «KO-RADIO Picture

NEXT CHANGE Commencing THURSDAY

“ALL QUIET

ON THE

Frank McHugh as the conical WESTERN FRONT"}

detectives. Ray Enright directed for Jefferson Pictures Corporation.

4 SHOWS DELY

135-8.30

TAKE UTY TRAN OR HAIRY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

LAST 4 TIMES

TO-DAY

THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMAL SENSATION!

Beasta of the Jungle Rago Through the Streets of a Helpless City... Destroying Terrorizing.

THE

KING JUNGLE

THE LION MAN ! BUSTER CRABBE)

·FRANCÉS DEƐ•

£ Caramount Fu se

Thousands of wild beasts fighting for their lives.

THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE

Two Great StarsTM Together

FLEMING

ROAD

TEL: 20478

TO-MORROW

& THURSDAY.

HERE'S THE LAUGH HIT OF THE YEAR "THREE LIVE

GHOSTS"

IT'S SPOOFY!

SPOOKY!

CREEPY!

AND FULL OF FUNNY THRLLS!

"LITTLE WOMEN"

Best Seller Turns Out To Be Great Draw

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RKO-Radio Pictures' dramatiza- tion of Louis M. Alcott's 65-year- old

"Little classic, best-seller, Women." to-day at the King's Theatre, brings to accurate and

Boasting a cast of stellar magni- tude, telling a lyric and touching love story, and enriched by one authentic life all the believed

characters made famous by the

of the most beautiful musical scores ever to. reach the screen author. "The Cat and the Fiddle," which is showing simultaneously at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres Tittle Women, is interpreted by

stands out as a definite pictorial and melodious achievement.

Louisa Alcott, who included her- self m the story as Jo, one of the

the brilliant new star, Katharine Hepburn, who heads the cast of 201 principals d

If only to hear the glorious voices of Ramon Novarro and Jesuette MacDonald, audiences are certain to find the M-Q-M version of the noted Broadway stage suc- cess a grand and unforgettable All the delightful, lovable char- entertainment. Directed by Wil- anters of the novel walk out of the ilam K. Howard, ace megaphonist, pages and re-enact this beautiful the Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach story about all that is simple, pó- romance which kept the B.R.O.werful and good in American sign posted in theatres for two home life,ven years, reaches the screen greater than ever due to the additional pictorial charm permitted by camera scope. int

The other "Little Women, Meg... Amy, and Beth, are interpreted by Frances Dee, Joan Bennett and Jean Parker respectively.

theatre where the musical romance is uniquely unfolded a novel technique widely acclaimed as a conventional departure by theatre critics.

Intact under the musical direc- tion of Herbert Stothart, is the incomparable music score, includ Those who have heard the re- ing such hits as "The Night Was cording of the song numbers sung Made for Love," "She Didn't Say by Novarro and Miss MacDonald Yes,"

"The Love Parade," and "A predict even greater popularity for New Love is Old." The famous the singing' stars. In their first Albertina Rasch Ballet contributes appearance on the screen together, eye-filling spectacles in several thr songful pair are thrilling in striking numbers, with a living the love-making passages which puppet fantasy woven into the blend their golden voices. climatic love scenes,

As a result of their work to- With Novarro and Miss Mac-gether in this film, Novatro and Donald holding stellar rank, the Miss MacDonald are said to be cast boasts such names as Frank making plans for a co-starring Morgan, Charles Butterworth, Jean f concert tour. They expect to open Hersholt. Vivienne Begal and their concerts in Paria in Beptam... Joseph Cawthom. Gray, mirthful, bor, later touring through Switzer- and sometimes naughty, the play- land, Germany, Austria, Italy. within-a-play has the Bohemian Spain and England. They would favour of continental student conclude their tour with appe

ances in five or six of the princip life, Much of the action taken place within a large Parkkian al cities in the United States

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