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"MERRIE ENGLAND"

To Be Produced In November

A General Meeting of the Phil- harmonic Society was held on Fri- day the 1st June, in St. John's Cathedral Hall. Professor W. Brown, the newly elected President was in the chair and there" was a fair attendance of members in- cluding Mr. H. B. L Dowbiggin.

and the retiring President.

Sir William Hornell, a púst Fresident. Professor Brown addressed the meeting at considerable length on the troubles of the Bast and the prospects for the future. He lold particular emphasis on the appar ent hopelessness 0: making any stage-production pay its way until a new City Hall provides local amateurs with a new theatre, sult- able in size and equipment, obtain- able at a cost which will not, at the outset, guarantee a heavy de- Belt.

A general discussion followed and various suggestions for future! productions were considered. Fin- ally the meeting gave to the new free President and committee a mandate to organise the activities of the Society during the season

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING'S

"Midnight Club"

QUEEN'S

"Looking For Trouble"

ORIENTAL-

"Broadway To Hollywood"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA-

"Show-Off"

STAR-

"The Match King" MAJESTIC—

KING'S

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"Wild Cargo"

Coming

By Candlelight"

QUEEN S--.

ORIENTAL

"Riptide"

"Broadway Thru Keyhole" "Parlot. Bedroom and Bath"

"Kid From Spain".

STAR-

"Sons of the Desert" "If I Had A Million"

"Al Jolson." -

"Allas French 'Gertle" **The Love Parade" ALHAMBRA—

"Gambling Ship" "We're Not Dressing"

HA CHA SAN

Of The

Marcus

Show

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1934.

LAST TWO-DAYS

`DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15"

AND

"9.30 P.M.

KINET

THEATRI

E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM'S

IDNIGHT CLUB

"

A Paramount Picture "with

CLIVE BROOK - GEORGE RÄFT

ALISON SKIPWORTH

THE SHOW-OFF”

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HELEN VINSON

1934-5. Since then things have moved rapidly and it has now been decided to produce in Novem- ber next, the Concert Version of Merrie England" under the baton. ol. Mr. J. Anderson Miller! L.R.A. M. It will be recalled that one of the Society's most notable suc- cesses in the past was the stage production of Merrie England in 1927 when Lt. Commander A. S. Bedells RN.. was producer, who also took the leading role of Walter Wilkins. Most Light operas depend upon their music alone for popu- larity, the plot being all too com- monly thiri and uninteresting. Merrie England makes a double

Irony of fate steps into the pic- appeal, the genius of Edward Ger- man giving it the wonderfull se- ture when the plous chief magis- trate of the sanctifed city at the quence of tuneful choruses, solos.

showing Chaplin's secretary and general duets, trios, and quartettes, but, bottom of Lake Michigan "gave Ha. In addition, the libretto of Baall Cha a clean bill of health and at the Alhambra Theatre is a pic-right-hand-man Hood recalls vividly and pleasant- declared that her gyratory exer-ture which will suit everybody's During those years he has learned

and

Ha Cha San, the comely young mald of curves and wriggles has been engaged by A. B. Marcus and wil be seen in the big Marcus Show of 1934 during its engagement at the Queen's Theatre, Sunday ma- tinee, June 10 for a short engage- ment.

Fine Film at Alhambra

"The Show-Off,”

now

ly the specious, adventurous and cises come within the bounds of taste for it is a human and lovable glamorous days of Raleigh Good Queen Bess.

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A £17,000 GIFT FROM CHARLIE CHAPLIN

To His Japanese Secretary

(Special Air Mail Service)

· London, May 23... Yo Torao Koho has been Charlie

for 15 years.

THE MOST- COMFORTABLE

AND

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE IN

HONG KONG.

SUNDAY

ILISSA

In a sparkling comedy of mixed love affairs!

With NILS ASTHER, Esther Ral- ston, Dorothy Revier, Lawrence Brant.Produced by Carl Lesmala, Jr., from a stage play by Seigfied Geyer. Presented by Carf· Laxm-, mis. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.

Directed by JAMES WHALE ·

BY CANDLELIGHT

ELISSA LANDI'S DIVORCE SUIT

"Mental Cruelty”

(Special Air Mali Service)

London, May 23. Miss Elissa Landi, the Britisä

so much of cinema technique that0lm actress, disclosed here to-day that the had filed a sult for he has now been appointed mana-

divorce against her husband, Mr. ger of United Artists in Tokio, his

John Cecil Lawrence, an English birthplace, and is going there at

barrister, on the grounds of "men- tal cruelty."

once.

Charlie has given him a fare-

high art., while ordering other story, full of comedy and laughter, ladies of few vestments and many punctuated by moments of heart- vibrations to cease their exposes stirring pathos. Mr. Anderson Miller brings to

incurable "It is a story of an " task of musical leadership and quivers: Before His Honour

"not guilty" braggart (Spencer Tracy) who tells abundant knowledge of extensive ha declared her

of Choral Mile. Ha Cha 'nad appended her the president of his company how well gift of 85,000 dollars (appro and varied experience

document calling to run his business, his wife howximately £17,000). work, together with a contagious signiature to enthusiasm. The production should for her appearance with the Mar- to bake her ples, his brother-in-law cus opus. Thus the Century of how to perfect his invention, and Progress loses one of its outstand-in fact he seems to know every-

ress. all who ing lodestones while theatregoers thing and which he does not in

have their opportunity of the least mind to tell the "world: may passing on Mayor Kelly's qualin- cations as an art critic without the expenditure of time, railroad fare or gasoline.

be a sheer delight to all who per- ticipate, either principals or chorus. and equally to support it by their presence in the audience.

The venue

of the Production has not yet been decided. but untramelled by the exigencies of stage-craft, the concert may well

Cha

Until the mayor went оп his be given on both sides of the Har- witch hunting rampage Ha bour. The committee anticipate was the principal attraction at during the coming season a sub-Old Mexico. Clad in an attractive stantial increase in membership, suit of bronze paint she execut- and an influx of fresh talent. The ed a routine that might have made. society is passing through a per-old Montezuma forget such irk- lod of real difficulty but there is some incidents as the presence of now among its members a gen-Senor Cortez and hils predatory

cohorts. .eral feeling of optimism-a new When

ah

over-zealous press confidence that the Philharmonie ts entering upon a fresh period or agent started things by calling at- Anancial stability, artistic success tention to the daring of several of the shows at the fair, the authori- and popular esteem.

The programme for the remain-tles found themselves in a spot, der of the Season 1934-5 has still When the reform wave started It to be determined, but it may be went beyond the original inten- A space grabbers. regarded as certain that at least tions of the

one other concert (of a different few hours later the mayor declar- 'type) will be given, and quite posed that he had been highly ed!-

fied by artistic activities. sibly two under the same or an- other conductor.

facilitate the

It will greatly immediate work of the committee 11 all Vice-Presidents, Subscribing and Ordinary Members of the so- ciety will kindly send in their sub- scription at their earliest conven- ience.

The new Hon. Becretary la

Mr. R. A. Bates, of the Y.M.CIA, the | " Hon. Treasurer is Mr. H. M. Cockle;

c/o Harbour Office. Mr. J. Ander-

son Miller the Hon. Conductor, re-

MAE MURRAY LOSES £60,000 ACTION

Slaps Lawyer's Face

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, May 23,

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Miss Mae Murray, the film star, to-day lost an action In the New

sides at the Claremont Hotel, Kow-York Supreme Court in which she loon....

It is hoped to commence choral practices "early in September, but Tegarding this à further announce- ment will be made later.

WHISKERS CROP

(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

Press" (Copyright.)] -

Budapest, June 6. The "whiskers crop was put partially under Government con- trol here on Wednesday when the President of the Police in the Han garian capital ordered all members of the police force to raise must- "aches in order to "not only, in- crease their marital appearances, but also to correspond to the virile national. tradition, Transocean Kuo Min.

claimed £60,000 as her share of profits from the Fiffany Produc- tions Co., a Hollywood film con- cern. When, the decision was an- nounced she was so overcome by emotion that she slapped the face of the company's lawyer.

Weeping and stamping her feet she resisted all the attempts of her own lawyer to comfort her. What Mr. Bertram Mayers, the com- pany's solicitor said when he whis pered to her the decision against her was pronounced is not known, but the, actress jumped, up and smacked his face so vigorous... ly that the blow resounded throughout the court. At the same time she cried, "God will attend, to you."

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When her lawyer told her that there was a crowd of fimen- thusiasts outaide she replied: "Lead me to them. They are the only true friends I have lett."

The way he succeeds in marrying the giri against the wishes of her family, provides many a laughter. and the pathos which are extreme- ly stirring come in towards the end of the picture when his wife

SHOWING TO-DAY

tries to cure him of his boastful-

Supporting Spencer Tracy, is an excellent cast which includes Mad- Henry Mitchell, ge. Evans, Lois Wilson, Wadsworth and Grant and coupled with the excellent worth plot, the picture is well seeing-

JOSEPH IS. SCHENCK

QUELA'S

Spencer TRACY Jack OAKIE

Looking for Trouble"

A BARRY L

TO-DAY & TOMORROW STAR

WARREN

WILLIAM

L'ILI

She had received, the stated. a cable from Mr. Lawrence saying. "You are at liberty to proceed as you feel best,"

Miss Landi, who has published several novels, said:

Although at first iny husband did all he could to help my writing and acting, he now refuses to sub- mit to any situation which might' entall him being called 'Mr. Elisan Landi.' We are temperamentally unsulted."

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

SUNDAY

The GREATER MARCUS SHOW

presents

"La Vie

"BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD"

At The Oriental

The all-time record for "inale numbers" has been set in "Broad- way to Hollywood," Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's vivid denms of, three generations in the theatre which will be soreen at the Oriental Theatre on Friday ond Saturday, with Alice Brady, Jackie Cooper, Jimmy Durante, Frank Morgan, | Madgė Evans Eddie Quillan, Fay Templeton, May Robson and Rus sell Hardie.

Five hundred dancers' in the lar gest singing and dancing chorus ever assembled, appear in the biggest" get ever constructed in the groat spectacle that furnishes thé dráma. tic climax. The spectacle is staged on a flight of two hundred stepa proceeding apparently to the sky where a gigantle figure of Father | Time" is silhouetted.

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Down the stairs of time come the dancers first caye men and women in their clothes of animal skins, then an Irish ballet then old-time Bowery dancers, all to the crashing music of a great symphony or chestra.

Fay Templeton, famous Broadway star, sings her famous hit, "Roxio Posie." The whirl of dancers la in Technicolour,

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Sammy Lee, famous creator of Ziegfeld dancing spectacles, super- vised the spectacular finale.

4 Supers

DAIL

1.30-16

7.1-4.20

MAJESTIC

THEATRE CONSTAN

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

HE'S BACK ALIVE"

Thank heaven

with a thousand swanders from the perilous havelet

Bring-Em-Back-Ali

FRANK BUCKS WILD CARGO

The living thrill record of the ranges made a man

has ever marked at?

A VAN BEUREN PRODUCTION

TAKE ANY TRAMOR HAPPY VALLEY BR30

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

FLEMING

ROAD

LICH

TEL 29473

2 DAYS ONLY-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

THE MOST STAGGERING ·

ALL-COLOR SPECTACLE OF THE SCREEN- WOVEN INTO A STORY AS HUMAN AS LIFE ITSELF.

The STAR STUDDED CAVAL· 'CADE of the THEATRE

BROADWAY HOLLYWOOD

A BIG PICTURE WITH AN ALL STAR CAST Alice Brady, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Cooper, Frank Morgan, Madge Evens, Eddie Cuilia, Fay Templeton, May Robson, Russell Hardio and 300 of Hollywood'é most beautiful dancing girls.

HERE'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT.

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

Fast Moving Comedy At The Alhambra

BY CANDLE LIGHT

A Butler And A Maid Romances

When a butler and a maid mas-

Although side-splitting comedy and a romance of two telephone linesmen and their sweethearts querade under the names of their take first place in the story of titled employers, almost anything. "Looking for Trouble," the latest can happen, especially if the real 20th Century picture which is Prince is a notorious philanderer showing at the Queen's "Theatre and the Countess is at the moment there is also plenty of excitement one of the objects of his wander

ing affections. and rapid-are action,

Paree Here are a few of the situations "By Candlelight,”

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

DAMITA

King"

In "The Match

in

TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW ALHAMBRA

The

The most laughable. lovable liar of

them all!

Spencer TRACY

TULATRE

SHOW-OFF

'with MADGE EVANS -METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE

At 2.30, 5.20,'

), 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.

CAR SERVICE

FREE

TRANSPORTATION

for

Car and Passengers on Vehicular Ferry with Purchase of a minimum of 2-$1.10 tickets.

affording plenty of adventure for the starring team of Spencer Tracy and Jack Oakie in this current United Artists release:

into

and

Universal's Continental comedy by Siegfried Geyer, which will open an engage- ment on Sunday at the King's Theatre, present fust such a situa- tion, with Elissa Landi and Paul Lukas Co-starring in the roles of maid and butler..

The Long Beach, California, earthquake of 1933-walls falling on panic stricken crowds.

Telephone poles swaying

In the story, the pair strike up cracking off in the tremor.

an acquaintance aboard

& train streets and pavements splitting travelling from Vienna to Monte wide open, making huge crevasses Carlo. Circumstances cause each extending far down theto believe that the other, is a earth's interior.

member of the nobility, and each Church steeples and skyscrapers servant is correspondingly thrilled swaying and crashing to theat the prospect of a romance with ground.

a person of noble' nunk. High voltage wires in a hopeless

In Monte Carlo, during the tangle spitting death on all sides. Prince's absence from his luxurious

"Trouble Shooters” working up

Ares.

to their hips in mud, and endan-apartment the masquerading but gered by suffocation in gas-Alleder entertains evening gown be- longing to her royal mistress. The cable tunnels. **

Fights with wire-tappers and evening is proceeding nicely when the Prince unexpectedly returns, gangsters.

Telephone men solving murders entering the room wearing the and hearing the and mystery deaths and fighting butler's coat

champagne, m And just as it that were not This gay comedy was directed by enough adventure for any two James Whale, who is masterful id young "trouble shooters," Tracy directing situations of this type and Oakle manage to get involved in mysterious adventures in gam bling clubs, and get mixed up with bank robbers," ang

Före

he demonstrated fore the Mirro

The KIA

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