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CENTRAL

THEATRO

TARE QUEEN'S RD., WESTBOUND 108

Advance Booking at Ardersons and the Theatre Tel. 25790...

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7,15 & 9.30 P.M.

THE CUCKOOS ON THE LOUSE AGAIN, IN A MILE- A-MINUTS OF FUN, THRILLS AND LAUGHTER!

BEAT

WHEELER

KOUT

WOOLSEY

thumb-crack their way to glory in Thoquer. of pink chiffon

HIPS, HIPS HOORAY

witt

RUTH ETTING THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE

Music, lyrics and uraan ploy by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar Directed by Mark Sandrich. Merion C. Cooper, exec, prod

RKO-RADIO Picture

NEXT CHANGE

Twelve men

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RADIO Picture

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lost to the world, lost to themselves and to the women they loved. Ther dared to laugh as deathstalked just shead!

JOHN FORD'S PRODUCTION

THE LOST PATROL

with

Victor Melagien Beria Kocloft:

GURNY

from the novel, "Fatson".. by Philip MecDonald' MERIAN C. COOPER ***CKING #induer

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, UESDAY, MAY

TO-DAY AT THE SHOWING

KING'S-

་་

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"Three-Cornered Moon"

QUEEN'S

"Match King"

CENTRAL

"Hips, Hips. Hooray"

ORIENTAL-

"Henry the VIII."

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA-

STAR-

"Secret of the Blue Moon"

"Another Language"

MAJESTIC"!.

"Second Hand Wife"

Coming

"Guilty As Hell"

KING'S-

QUEEN'S

"Fashions of 1934"

CENTRAL

•

"The Lost Patrol"

· ORIENTAL

"Murders in the Zoo

"Secrets of Mary Pickford"

"The Eskimo"

"Dinner At 8"

"The Penthouse"

ALHAMBRA—

"Only Yesterday

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

The Secret Of The Blue Room

There Is a new thrill in this world-one, to make moviegoers tingle with excitement.,

It's "The Secret of the Blue Room" which starts to-day at the Alhambra. It has the sick of a hob-nailed boot in every moment

TO-DAY DAILY AT 2.30.5.10.7.15)

9.30 P.M.

15, 1934.

• KINGS •

CLAUDETTE COLBERT RICHARD ARLEN MARY BOLAND

IN

E-CORNERED

THREE-

Paramount Picture with

Wallace Ford Lyda Roberti. Tom Brown"

Joan Marsh Hardie Albright Wm. Bakewell

THREE

CORNERED

MOON

America's Craziest Family

MOON

headed mother. Mary Boland, is left the family's money after the death of Papa Rimplega The self-centred children. played by.. Claudette Colbert, Wallace Ford. Tom Brown and William Bakewell are too busy with their own affairs

·BOOKING. AT THE THEATRE TEL. 26313 & 25392

NEXT CHANGE

SEE THE MURDER JOIN THE MAN-HUNTI From the start only you know the killer! To the end you'll get thrills and laughs galore!

"Guilty As HellTM

EDMUND

LOWE

VICTOR

MLAGLEN

RICHARD

ARLEN

„ADRIENNE AMES RALPH INCE

- À Paramount Picture

First Religious "Talkie"

to be

The first religious talsing film fastership of Christ was publicly. made in England-"The

to pay attention to mama's ex-shin last month. Those who have

plots in Wall Street. Everybody

talks at once in mansion, and nobody knows what anybody else is talking about.

Caudette Colbert brings home her current "passion." a at-the-heels, art novelist foreve at work on one chapter, and when

seen it privately describe the pro- the Rimplegar i duction as an effective medium fox conveying the message indicated by the title. The director, Mr. Avel- ing. Giaever, bas

made 1180 of down-symbolism; dram, comedy, pathos, and genuine sentiment for the development of the story, which is based on the popular books of the Rev. W. H. Lax, of Poplar. The family with domestic troubles to a reaction of a middle-class

sermon preached in a mission ball comprises the plot Production has been made possible through the generosity of Mr. J. Arthur Rank, of the Religious Film Society, through whom the film will be distributed to churches and cine-

The antics of America's craziest, "of its rousingly dramatic narrative. family are brought to the screen

Distinguished Lionel Atwill, the in Paramount's "Three Corner- the market crashes he lingers on noted stage star, demonstrated | ed Moon,"

starring Claudette for the free grub. On the advice with every last flourish just how a Colbert, Richard Arlen and Mary, of the family physician. Richard sinister master of an aged castle Boland, which opened to-day at can portray character so that in the King's. Theatre. The fim audience will be very nearly adapted from the famous New frightened out of its wits at him. York play by Gertrude Tonkonogy which had such a long run on Broadway, was produced by B. Pa Schulberg.

"

Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, On- slow Stevens, Edward Arnold. W- llam Janney and the others of a cast that sound familiarly like a Also in the cast roster of Hollywood greets all give Ford. Lyda RobertL fawless performances,

Joan March," Hardie The story concerns a luxurious | William Bakewell sleeping chamber, the Blue Room It is the story of

Arlen, the Emily comes down to

earth, with the exception of the mother, totle its affairs. They all get jobs, try to fire the maid,

because she doesn't speak English. Lyda" Roberti, who can't be fired

They decide to take in boarders, the first of which is Arlen. Every- thing works out all right, for the Rimplegar family in the end, as It always does, and the the fortunes between Arlen and Colbert fosters which takes as its to the lives of of the Rimplegar family of Brook-nicely when the sponging novelist Its occupants, as a huge grand- lyn. In the hands of the addle is finally thrown out in the street. father's clock strikes a grave-yard-

dirge at one o'clock,

It would be completely out of the realm of fair-play to tell you any

“GUILTY AS HELL' more about this excellent picture.

for it is one, whose mystery you will never solve until the author tells you.

Suffice to say that Paul Lukas 15

Coming To The King's his usual good self in an arrest-

ing role and that Gloria Stuart does exceptionally well with the - Edmund Lowe and Victor Mc-characterization of the all-impor- Laglen have gotten rid of their tant girl in the case, this in addi- tion to Mr. Atwill's superb portray- shadows.

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The buddles of "What Price Onsłów Stevens. the young man Glory" worked with Richard Arlen who made you laugh and other members of the cast of "Once in a Lifetime" as the play- "Gulity as Hell" a murder farce wright who waited for months ta adapted from the successful play, see his boss, comes to you in a which comes to the King's Theatre new sort of role. Edward Arnold." "on Friday without ever being the learned doctor of "Rasputin trailed around the set by the shad- and the Empress," Elizabeth Pat

terson, Muriel Kirkland of the New It was the result of the intro-York. stage, Wiliam Janney, duction of a new glass wave," a Anders van Haden and Russell- new lighting device which diffuses Hopton all contribute materially light so broadly that no sharp, to the dramatic perfection of the outlines are thrown on the stages. vehicle-and Charles Stumar's et- It consists of a plate of clear glass, fective photography deserves a about an inch thick, with its inner great deal of praise. and outer surfaces waved like thei

surface of a lake on a windy day.

It is fitted over the front of the

5.000-watt incandescent spot lights. THE DEEDS MEN

and it has the same effect on a

beam of light that a spray ar-

rangement has on a jet of water.

The "glass wave" was used ex-

perimentally for several months

DO

Memories of the great battles "of ̧ before seeing actual service for the the Coronel and Falkland Is first time during the filming of lands during the Great War are: "Guilty as Hell."

recalled in the instructive and in" The picture, dope in comedy, teresting Alm "The Deeds Men-Do" manner, presents Lowe and Me- which is now showing at the Cen- Laglen as a police reporter and a tral Theatre.

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detective, respectively, engaged in An Inside view of the methods the task of solving a murder, appiled by the Germans and the mystery. The audience sees the Allies is offered, and although the crime being committed and knows pictures are Somewhat vague they who is guilty, but Lowe and Mc-, give a marvellous idea of how "bat Laglen make many a ridiculous ties should be fought." The picture bungle before solving the cast. ls most instructive, and the youn

As a play, Guilty as Hell", writ- ger generation as well as those tere Daniel N. Rubin, enjoyed who have gone through the war a long run on Broadway last sea should make a point of, seeing

SOD.

are Wallace Tom Brown Albright and

TO-DAY TO THURSDAY

-DAY & TO-MORROW

HELEN HAYES

QUI

WARREK

Bäcke

romance

WILLIAM MATCH KING DAMITA

A FIRST NATIONAL HIT

STAR

inas.

It ends on a happy note and the family remains as insane as it al- ways was with no one, excep! Claudette Colbert and Richard Arlen, any the wiser

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 &.9.30 p.m

FRIDAY

WARNER BROS.

Lavish

"FASHIONS

1934"

At‍2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

ROBERT

MONTGOMERY

Another Language'

TO-DAY TO THURSDAY ALHAMBRA "At 2.30, 5.20; 7,20 & 9.20 p.m.

The

FUENTEE

SECRET OF THE BLUE ROO

COMING

A MAGNIFICENT NEW STAR IN A TRULY GREAT PICTURE

MARGARET

SULLAVAN

"Only Yesterday

NEW FILMS IN

LONDON

Charlemagne

MAJESTIC

THEATRE:

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW *At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

London, April 91. Most of the holiday programmes have now been withdrawn, and this week nearly a dozen now films are to be seen in Loadon. In addition to the films noticed here, two other new productions are to be present- ed hi London to-morrow night- Roman Scandals, with Mr. Eddie Cantor in the cast, at the Leices- ter Square Theatre, and Morgen- rut, a German U-boat film, at the Curzon Cinema in Curzon Street. Wonder Bar, the new film at the Carlton. Wils reviewed Times last week.

Charlemagne.

In The

His name is Charlemagne,» and at one time in this film ho, resem- tiles the Admirable Crichton and at another the Emperor Jones, Clearly a man of infinite possibi- ities and, in laina's hands, he bestrides the Alm like a Colossus, a giant in his, physical strength and in the integrity of bis few simple ideas. Charlemagne is a stoker on a ship which is wrecked, and ba is. Годе of the fow survivors who manage to reach a desert island. The others are all first-class passen- gers, and at the beginning Charlc- magno. in whom the instinct to serve is deeply mbedded, does everything for a group of people pathetically unable to do anything" for themselves. They press him too far, however, and one day Charle- magne wakes up to a realization of bis own strength.

4 SHOWS

120-5,15

1.15-0.30

You'll find the answers

in

Kathleen

NORRIS'

SECOND HAND WIFE

with

Sally

EILERS Ralph Bellamy

Halen Vinson

Directed by Hamlicon MacFadden. Fox Picture

TAKE ANY SRAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST 4 TIMES

TO-DAY

THE SCREEN'S MOST

PERFECT PICTURE.

CHARLES LAUGHTON

IN

The Private Life of

HENRY

NIII

EXTRA FEATURE

MICKEY MOUSE

THE PIED PIPER

THE PICTURES

The Goldwyn Games

PLEMING ROAD

TEL: 28478

TO-MORROW

& THURSDAY

TERROR

LASHES OUT IN A "CROWDED 200 OF PLEASURE SEEKERSI

MORE DEADLY THAN JUNGLE BEASTS!... A Human Monster

He Plotted Whole male Death Out' of

Jealousy1

MURDERS

IN

THE

100

with

CHARLIE RUGGLES LIONEL ATWILL KATHLEEN SURKE (The Father:Woman) RAHPOLMI SCOTT - JOHN LODGE GAIL PATRICK *a Paramount Futur

AT THE QUEEN'S

Lili Damita In "The Match King"

For the first time in the history.

of motion pictures one great ac-

that is strongly reminiscent of an- other great contemporary screen player.

It may sound to you a little. excessive that Mr. Eddie. Cantor, tha comedian with the ball-bearing eyes, should be paid £100,000 & tress is seriously playing a role year by Mr. Samuel Goldwyn for appearing in one picture, but when you observe the reaction at the Leicester-square theatre to "Roman The role played by Lili Damita Scandals” of an audience to whom in the First National picture, "The at least half the jokes and civio | Match King," which opens to-day references are in a foreign tongue, at the Queen's Theatre. is said to you will be forced to agree that be a thinly disguised impersonation... Mr. Goldwyn is a good business of a very well known Swedish-born

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actress, for whom a late financial baron is popularly supposed to have had a romantic, but unre- quited. attachment.

...

The chief character of the ple- ture, a part portrayed by Warren William, is inspired by newspaper headlines that revealed a startling fraud following the suicide of a financial wizard. The character is drawn in vivid colouring by Einar Thorvaldson in her novel and from the screen play was adapted by

Houston Branch and Sidney Bu-

The annual Eddie Cantor. screen frolic, whether it be "Whoopee" or The Kid from Spain", or "Roman Scandals," is quite rightly regard. ed as one of the best entertainment betä In the industry. Without intending any disparagement to Mir. Cantor I would suggest that the show's the thing, and that he himself receives his pay because he is the only handy man, in talkies good enough to do all the jobe in He is a clown what can do a Lit of acting when it is required of Cherland. him. He can gag, and put over difficult lines without a hitch. He The play touches on a romantic can sing, dance, and join in the phase in high financing and monu- rough stuff with the best of them. mental swindles that are almost Nature has endowed him with a unbellevable, were it not comio physique, and experience that it was paralleled in real life.. and a particularly good brain have It also touches on the colossal taught him to use it adroitly.

political schemes of a genius of If such a man de Eddie Cantor finance, in which beautiful women; were not already in existence, some of high social standing, were Goldwyn would have to have in- used as puppets to gain the ends vented one for the purposes of his of a man of towering intelligence. show. This sort of irresponsible, There is an unusually strong clamorous, gata entertainment presupporting cast which includes supposes just auch an Irresponsible. such players as Glens Farrell, unrefined, break-neck hero. There Harold Huber, Spencer Charters. is not a second of sentiment in the John Wray and Murray Kinnell. mande “except ond song The picture was directed / by Ho- thing, which could stil

Bitkiran | Ward Bretherton

William right Keighley acting as dialogue direc-

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