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CENTRAL THEATRE

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TAKE, QUEEN's KD./ WESTBOUND BUS.

Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre. Tel. 25720,

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M

UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE

PRESENTS".

"ORPHANS OF THE STORM"

A CHINESE PICTURE' WITH ENGLISH TITLES

NEXT CHANGE

Bring-'em-Back-Alive

Back from Malays with a liv Ing camers

record of the strangest trade

a man has ever A YAK worked at

SEUREN Production

Dinsczad by Armand Deniz RKO RADIO FICTURE

LEE THEATRE COMMENCING TO-MORROW At 12.80, 2.30, 5.39, 7.80 & 9.80 P.M

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

in

"CITY LIGHTS'

?

with

VIRGINIA CHERRILL

The World's Greatest Comedian in his supréme achievement of

his career.

The First of the Big Pictures brought to you at the New Priceat

DREA CIRCLE...

BACK STALLEN

FRONT STALLS

· CHILDEEN :~30 Ct. to

40 Cts.

30. 20

+

'DRES CIRCLE & BACK STALLE

GRETA NISSEN ROBBED

(Special Air Mail Service)

TO-DAY AT THE

KING'S-

CINEMA

HONG KONG

"Sleepers East”

QUEEN'S-

"20,000 Years in Sing Sing'

CENTRAL-m

"Orphans of the Stormy Chinese Picture):

ORIENTAL.

"Penthouse"

LEE-

"City Lights"

KOWLOON

· ALHAMBRA—

"Wharf Angel” ·

STAR-

"Kongo"

MAJESTIC--

"Rome Express“

AT GRIPS WITH

A PYTHON

Thrills Galore In

ד

Wild Cargo"

Quiet must reign along the Asiatic Jungle front since Fränk Buck has come away with some of Its rarest wild denizens and thou- sands of feet of exposed negativa which has been boiled down to feature footage as presented in his

unimal adventure.

new

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

DAILY ÄT 2.80, 5.10, 7.15

AND

9.30 P.M.

KINGT

THEATRE

The Town Will Be In An Uproar

When This Girl Speaks!

SLEEPERS

EAST

WE TREAT FOR

Picture

Cargo" the RKO-Radio which is showing at the Central Theatre on Sunday.

with

Wynne Gibson

Preston Foster Mona Barrie Harvey Stephens Directed by Kenneth MacKenna

CINEMA FANS Vallee and Jimmy Durante, it pre-

George White's

Scandals"

to

The cast is one of the most out- standing ever assembled for such a production. Hended by Rudy

sents Alice Faye, who won screen stardom after only three days in Hollywood; Adrienne Ames, one of

screen's most beautiful BC- tresses CLA Edwards, the "Ukulele Ike" of theatrical and radio. fame;"Gregory Ratofi, mas- ter of comic dialect; Dixie Dun- bar. Gertrude Michael, and the famed George White himself.

With 150 of the most gorgeous screen Bean-Dolls," the dances staged by Georgie Hale, and song

FOX

BOOKING

AT THE THEATER TELEPHONE

Nos.

25313

25332

TO-MORROW

PICTURE

GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS

with

RUDY VALLEE JIMMY DURANTE ALICE FAYES ADRIENNE AMES GREGORY RATOFF CLIFF EDWARDS'; and GEORGE WHITE',

Entire Production Conceived; Crested and Dicustod by GEORGE WHITT, Executive Pro

ducer ROBERY T. KANE.

How

Wa

Armistice Celebrated

All the frenzied excitement of New York's celebration of Armis-/ tice Day, November 11, 1918, is seen in "Only Yesterday." John M. Stahl's Universal drama which opens simultaneously on Bunday at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.

H

Hundreds of delirious celebrants throng the "downtown › streets. shouting, dancing and blowing

Movie fans are the gainers to the extent of what is said to be a highly exciting production, "where- in Frank Buck does not "pass the buck" to nature for his thrilis, but goes into pit and trap and tree for the animals himself He uses

Fox Film has scooped the enter a gun to kill in only one instance, that in which a murderous python tainment world again to give you gets a Aying start on him for a the first motion picture production of the one only George White's deadly constricting process.

It comes

the Buck's former sensational pic- "Scandals." ture. "Bring'em Back Alive" dealt King's Theatre to-MOITÓW.

With the unlimited scope al-hits from the pens of Ray Hender-horns, alling the air with confetti largely with the constant struggle for survival in jungeland. "Wild forded by motion picture "tech-son: Irving Caesar and Jack Yel- Cargo: deals definitely with the nique, this new edition of the len, the Dim is further enriched of the tenderest love Alling of orders for circus. 230 and famous show will be bigger, bet by one carnival. And this time the took-ter, more spectacular, more fully stories ever screened.

The direction is by Thornton keeping calls for the strangest car- entertaining than any of the pro- go of all-more than one hundred ductions that have thus far made Freeland and Harry Lachman, and the entire production was made specimens that snarl and hiss and the name of George White an out-

save themselves standing one in the amusement under, the supervision of Robert strike out to

universe.

T. Kane. if cornered. "Ranging from a buliánch to a bull elephant and a tiny mouse deer

four weighing less than pounds, to the rhinoceros, armour- ed tank of the tropical' "wilds, Buck's catch stirs memories of circus days and the thongs that crowd the zoo to watch the savage beasts on parade.

One of the highlights of this thrill-shot motion picture is the capture alive of a man-eating tiger. It seems that the Sultan of Johore, long a friend of Mr. Buck, reported a "stripped terror" that had been making raids on native rubber, workers, Buck surprised the Sultan by,,volunteering his ser- vices-not to kill the jungle de- mon, but to bring him back alive. This Buck does, but not until he has put his jungle craft to good use and has brought the lariat he learned to toss in Texas into play. Incidentally "Wild Cargo" is said to show Buck entering the pit to perform the little detail of lock- Ing the cage doors on Mr. Tiger.

Bringinig an orang-utan into camp and the skillful manipulation of trap, anare and net to make good on his orders for many other wild animals bring the crises and surprises that have earned Buck the phrase, "nature save her great- est thrills for him."

"Wild Cargo" was made över a period of half a year with at least two months of that time given to the wild elephant drive in which a kraal encircling some ten acres was constructed by several hundred natives in the jungle-heart of Cey- lon. The party reached New York after having been away nine months and the animal shipment followed soon afterwards, with the most of the rare creatures includ- ing the rhino, destined for the Bt. Louise zoo.

"Wild Carro" was produced by the, Van Beuren Corporation and directed by Armand Denta...

London, May 8 Miss Greta Nisser, the blue-eyed actress and film star from Norway the burglar, too, for he had a fight who is making her first stage ap- with Miss Nissen's brother, was pearance in London in "Why Not pelted with bottles of milk, almost Ta-night" at the Palace Theatre, ran into the arms of a policeman, had a thrilling adventure with aand was chased into Hyde Park. burglar at her home in Tilney- But he managed to get away- Catreet, Park-lanc, W., early to-day, with jewellery value about £1,000

It was a thrilling adventure for stuffed in his pockets.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

20000

DAIS ORIS NNI

BY WARDEN

LEWIS E. LAWES

with SPENCER TRACY-BETTE DAVIS

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

STAR

and giving themselves over com- pletely to expressing their joyous relief at the ending of the World War. Ordinarily staid citizens Join in impromptu parades, bear- ing aloft hastily made signs such as "It's All Over But the Shout- ing." "We Paid the Price" and "The World Is Safe for Demo-

At 2.80, 5.10. 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

SUNDAY —–

A MAGNIFICENT NEW STAR IN A TRULY GREAT PICTURE

· MARGARET

SULLAVAN

"Only Yesterday:

At 2.80, 5.10, 7:20 & 9.20 p.m.

Metro's Thrilling Drama of the African Wilds I

"KONGO"

with WALTER HUSTON-LUPE VELEZ

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

ALHAMBRA

VEL NOEL

She Knew All About Mon Nothing About Love!

WHARE ANGEL

A Paramount Hicura, with VICTOR MELAGLEN- DOROTHY DELL PRESTON FOSTER ALISON SKIPWORTH

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

SUNDAY

MAGNIFICENT NEW STAR- IN A TRULY GREAT PICTURE

MARGARET.

SULLAVAN

Only Yesterday

"WHARF ANGEL

At The Alhambra

The current attraction at the

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Tel. 57222

TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW

Alhambra, "Whart Angel" featur-At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M. ing Victor-McLaglan. Dorothy Dell, Preston Forster and Alison Skip- worth is a picture of life among the water rats of San Francisco.. The ships and the sailors blend nicely into the story. The love element is worked' in between "Como" a fugitive from the law and "Toy" a female attendant-at a "pub." She shelters Comɑ with consequences which leads to a com- plicated situation. The fact that another "man""Turk" (Victor Mac" Läglan) falls in love with her while she is sheltering "Como: adda zest to the story, •

ROMI

EXPRESS

The tale is one which might have occurred in real life, and Victor McLaglan comes up to his usual high standard in this Alm: Doro- thy Dell also reveals herself as a very versatile actress while Pres- ton Foster is day by day gaining more friends among the local flm fans. Alison Skipworth. FLS all film goers know, is in a class by herself and in "Wharf Angel" she is once again" at her best... The picture is well worth seeing.

The main film is preceeded by two short comedies of slightly diff- erent appeal. An interesting Para- mount newsreel completes the programme.

4 SHOWS DAILY"

with

Esther Ralston Conrad Veidt Joan Barry

· Gordon Harker :

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BJ...

ORIENTAL

PER MENG ROLD WANCHAS

TEL. 204TH

2 DAYS ONLY-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW THE SENSATION OF THE SCREEN!

whoopee parties the skies.

nd Manhattan's passing show...

Mnd

The Marry-Go-Round of life in the worl's most wicked metropolia!

WARNER BAXTER

MYRNA LOY

... אן

ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHES

PENTHOUSE

What a setting for a mystery-Manhattan's towering penthouses where love and champagne are cheap--where you can't tell a debut ante from a demi-monde! It'll hold you to the flual fade-out!-

AN UNWILLING

WITNESS

Of A Cold-Blooded

Murder

THE INSIDE STORY

"Of Life In Prison

One of the most striking scerles in the First National picture "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing," now showing at the Queen's Theatre is somewhat familar to the readers, a prison riot, à sequence made:

of the news columns because of

the many riots which have occurred

Packed with the exciting drama and the fast-moving action that has made Frederick Nebel's novel. "Sleepers East," one of the year's best sellers, Fox Film's screen veralon of the book opened at the King's Theatre yesterday. The au- in the penitentiaries of the coun

try recently. dience was literally enthralled, for Fax has done a splendid job with the novel in keeping all the fast action all the romance, thrills and drama that make for fine screen fare..

The grim spectacle of convicts battling with their keepers and trying to shoot their way to free

'dom, eventually to be moved down by the guards, is something that will not soon be forgotten.

Out on parole for a crime she

The picture is a realistic depic- did not commit, a young woman tion of the human sidt of prison unavoidably becomes the sole eye-ure with its humour, its pathos, witness of a murder committed by

its romance and its thrills, as well. the Mayor's drunken son The as its tragedies. No such authen- Mayor's hanchmen, seeking to win tic document could have been writ~* the forthcoming election, pin the ten by other than the famous an- crime on the city's leading public thority on prison systems, Lewis E.- menace. In the meantime the Lawes, of Bing Bing, warden of the noted penitentiary at Ossining. New York, who has lived on the d of a volcano of human passions for many years.

young lady, fearing arrest, flees to her home town where she meets her childhood sweetheart Not wishing him to learn of her past ahe leaves Immediately for a dis-

tant city. The murder trial by this time nears its closing stage The defending attorney, however

learns the truth of the murder and postponed the trial to go in search of the girl. Eends her and starts eastward. On board the train she is confronted with two opposing situations. One side en- deavours to make her testify, while the other tries desperately to seal her lips The outcome of this tense battle brings the film to dramatic climax:

The book was

dramatized by

wilson Mizner and Brown Holmes and adapted by Courtenay Terrett and Robert Lord The picture has a strong cast which includes Spen- cer Tracy, Bette Davis Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Grant Mitchell, warren Hymer, Louis Galtern and Shella Térry. It was directed by Michael Curtiz.

all, while Preston Foster's perform anen opposite her. is one of his test portrayals to date. The stel- Wynne Gibson gives a mperar cost that does so remarkably. performance as the girl who knows well in the minor roles includes

cracy" Millionaires and labou

dance together in joyous and soldiers and astors become bonos

Harvey Stephens, Mona Barrio, Roger Imhof, J. Carrol, Naish Ho Lally and, Syranné Kadren. etor Kenneth MacKenna die orial Job from the

Lester Cole

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