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CENTRAL
HEATRE
TAKE, QU ́REN'S ED., WENTEOUND BUS
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.
Scene from
The SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM"
UNIVERSAL AKA BUGNAM
Admission:-Dress Circle 80 c Back Stall 50 o
Servicemen :-
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85 e. to Bask Stall.
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ISLE of PARADISE
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
To-day
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27.
Auctions-Sale of Crown Lands, District Office, Taipo, 11.30 am.; Lammert's Sale of Stock-in-Trade, "Arcadia Shop" 47 Peking Road. Kowloon, 10 am
Cinemas
King's "Bolero" Queen's.-"Riptide"
Central:-"The Secret Of The
Blue Room"
Oriental:-"The Greeks Had A
Word For Them"
World: "The Man From Chi-
cago"
Alhambra:-"Mayor Of Hell" Majestic:-"Sleepers East" Star:-"Day of Reckoning".
Meetings
L. C. A. Business Meeting, 10.30 a.m.
General Committee Meeting, 5.30 p.m. Sailors' and Soldiers' Home.
Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild. 10 .01
Miscellaneous
Whist Drive, Seamen's Institute, 8. p.m.
Moon-Full Moon. 1.08 pm.. V Moon, 16th. Day.
Principal Mails.
Inward Air Mail from Europe by Helikon; Air and Steamer Mall from Europe via Suez by Ranchi
Social Functions
Informal Dinner Party given by the German Consul, Mr. H. Gip- perich, in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jenkins.
Sports.
Lawn Bowls.-Parts Champion- ship. F. J. Jones and A. W. Grim
THE WATCHMAN mitt v. E. G. Fost and G. Perkins
SLEEPS
And The Idol Is Removed!
(Club de Recrela); V. Petherick and J. Watson v. A. E. Carey and W. Glendenning (Kowloon C.C. green), 5 p.m.
Meetings. Meeting of Hongkong Swimming Association, 5 pm.
Sunrise.-5.41 a.m. Sunset.---7.11
D.ID.
Tides-High at 8.35 and 23.13; Low at 20.00 and 16.05.
THURSDAY, JUNE 28.
-Anniversaries and Holidaya.— Germans signed Peace, 1919.
There is one watchman who wi never again fall down on a job after the scare he got while work- "ing for Cecil B. DeMille in Hawall during the Aiming of his latest
Auctions Leasehold Property Paramount picture. "Four Fright-
Bale, Lammert's Sales Room, 3 ened People," which comes on
p.m. Sale of Crown Lands, Land "Thursday"to the King's Theatre.
a.m. Shan, 11.30 A huge Malaysian idol, forty feet Office, Ping
Sale of Household several Lammert's and weighing in height
Furniture, 4A, Hankow Road, Kow- thousand pounds, was erected in a jungle location for exterior scenes. loon, 10.30 a.m.
DeMille ordered the bulky image moved to another and dryer loca tion, which was accomplished dur ing the hours that the watchman was sneaking some sleep.
When it came to paying off all the native help at the end of the picture, the watchmat
failed to show up for his money. He was finally located, but refused to ac- cept pay without a great deal of urging
"I have a confession to make," he said after he had pocketed pay.. "While I was looking around the jungle, your idol was stolen. shall start out now and and the thief.
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DeMille is still waiting to hear If the watchman found the idal In the new location.
Four-Frightened People" is from the novel of the same name by E. Armot-Robertson. "It is, the story of how four self-loving people have the veneer of civilization stripped. from them when they are forced to fight for life and love in a dense, dangerous Malay jungle.
“RIPTIDE”
Final Showings To-day
to
the Norma Shearer comes screen, after a prolonged vacation, in "Riptide," the glamorous Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer vehicle which has its final showings to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
Miss Shearer, who last appeared in "Smilin' Through" which won the Photoplay Gold Medal Award for, 1932, remained away from her screen work to accompany her hus- band, Irving Thalberg, on a con- valescent trip to Europe.
It was while abroad that the smart Continental romance was suggested for her latest film, directed by Edmund Goulding from his own original, story.
Cinemas..
King'st-"Four Frightened
Queen's:-"Female"
People"
Central: The Secret Of The
Blue Room" ". Oriental:-"The Greeks Had A
Word For Them" World:"The Man From Chi-
cago"
Alhambra:-"Ever In My Heart" Majestic: "Sleepers East". Star:-"Day of Reckoning"
Entertainments
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Mrs. M. K. Lo on behalf of Hong Kong Rotary Club, entertains girls of Pokfulam Industrial School, to an outing at Repulse Bay.
› Lectures
Dr. E. 'L. Allen, M.A, Ph.D., on "Life's Highest Law," Hop Yat Church, Bonham Road, 8 p.m...
Meetings
Annual, Wm. Powell, Ltd., 8 Des Voeux Road Central, 11.30 am.
Hong Kong Philatelic Society, "S. C. M. Post" Board Room, 5.30 pm..
Theosophical Society, : 6 p.m. Speaker: Mr. J. Russell, F.TS., on "Peace Groups, their Utility and Futility."
V. D. M. A. Committee. St. An- drew's Church Hall, 6.30 p.m.
Miscellaneou
Whist Drives, Civil Service Cric- ket Club, 8.45 p.m.
R. A. O. B .Club, 8.30 p.m. Claims against the Estates pt Enrique C. Grey of 4, Chl Wo Street, Kowloon, due.
Moon.-V. Moon, 17th. Day.
Sports
Lawn Tennis-"B" Division. University v. South China; Chinese R.C. v. Kowloon C.C.; Club de Recreio v. Indian R.C.; Hong Kong C.C.. Graduates' Association.
Sunrise.-5.40 a.m. Sunset-711
p.m.
Tidea. High at 7.48 and 22.25; Low at 1.14 and 15.19.
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May Kiss." "A Free Soul," and
Strange Interlude."
Robert Montgomery and Herbert Marshall share leading man hon- In her new film Miss Bhearer ours and the cast includes Mrs. essays a daring characterization Patrick Campbell, Bkeets Gallagh
and Lilyan reminiscent of her triumphant er, Ralph Forbes, roles in * Divorce," "Strangers Tashman."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1934.
· FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY DAILY AT .... 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 AND
9.30 P.M.
Sally and in ber
AND
FRANCES
DRAKE
KING
AIR-CONDITIONED
THEATRE
GEORGE RAFT
Bolero
CAROLE LOMBARDE SALLY RAND
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
HONG KONG
"PLEASE BOOK EARLY TEL. No. 25313
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THEATRE
KING'S—
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QUEEN'S——
"Riptide"
CENTRAL
SHOULD A WIFE later on the girl herself because
TELL?
Barbara Stanwyck's, Latest Picture
Romance of, unusual strength and interest is said to mark the plot of Barbara Stanwyck's latest Warner Bros picture, "Ever In My Heart." which opens to-morrow at the Alhambra...
TO-MORROW
THE BATTLE FOR LIFE...
AND LOVE!
MALE and FEMALE!
Oace...
Ladies and
Gentlemen!
...They discarded
civilization
with their tattered clothes!
CECIL B. De MILLE'S FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE
with
CLAUDETTE COLBERT HERBERT MARSHALL MARY BOLAND WILLIAM GARGAN
* Paramount Picture
HOLLYWOOD NEWS
and Glenda Pat . O'Brlen Farrell, who were together in "Bureau of Missing the drama Persons" are to be teamed again "The Personality Kid," "a Since thrilling boxing story. canteen
both have "scorching" personal- ities. Breworks are predicted.
relatives turn on the husband and
she will not give him up. But they are eventually torn apart when her husband is driven to return to Germany to jola the army by the snubs and cruelties heaped upon himself and wife by their friends.
Later Stanwyck as a worker In France meets her hus- band, as he is spying on the Allied forces. It is here that the picture turns into one of intense drama as she is torn between her love for her husband and her duty toward her own country.
Otto, Kruger, noted stage star," has the leading masculine role op- In the character of a New Eng-posite Miss Stanwyck, while, the lish girl a strong friendship exists
-between her and a cousin and
their families take it for granted But when that they will marry. the cousin returns from abroad with a German professor she im mediately falls in love with the professor and weds. him in defiance of her Puritan relatives.
Their love runs smoothly and beautifully until the outbreak of the World War when friends and
TO-DAY ONLY
remaining members of the cast are all noted on stage and screen. They include Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Clara Albertson, Donald. Meek, Blandick, Elizabeth Patterson and Harry Beresford.
Archle Mayo' directed the picture from, a screen play by Bertram Milhauser which is based on the story by himself and. Beulahı Marię Dix.
SUTTAD
Morma SHEARER
ROBT MONTGOMERY
RIPTIDE
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES
A Metro Collinge 12 vzen Perlure
TO-DAY & TO-MOBROW
STAR
ia
"Midnight Alibi is the title of the next Richard Barthelmess production,
Dvorak. with Ann Helen Lowell (one of the out- character standing American actresses) Helen Chandler and Robert Barrat in principal roles."
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Harry J. Brown, leading mo- tion picture producer who has been vice president of the Char- les Rogers Paramount unit. has signed a long term contract with Firs: National which becomes effective from July 1st... Harry J. Brown will act as associate producer.
-At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
· TO-MORROW
ROTH
CHATTERTON
"Female"
A FIRST NATIONAL. PICTURE
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
"Metro's Powerful Drama
"DAY of RECKONING"
with
MADGE EVANS.
Richard Dix STUART ERWIN
TO-DAY ONLY
JAMES
THE
ALNAMBRA
Cagrog MAYOR
HEXTRE
AYOR OF HELL
with MADGE EVANS
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 2-81.10 tickets.
"Bolero"
The Secret Of Blue Room" ORIENTAL"
"The Greeks Had A Word For Them"
ALIIAMBRA
STAR
KOWLOON
"Mayor of Hell"
"Day of Reckoning"
MAJESTIC..an
"Sleepers East”.
KING'S
Coming
"Four Frightened People"
"Good Dame"
QUEEN'S-
"Female"
"Men In White"
CENTRAL
"Isle of Paradise"
ORIENTAL-
"The Bulldog Drummond”
"The Bombshell"
"Charlie Chan's
Dave"
ALHAMBRA—-—-
"Ever in My Heart"
Greatest
Gloria Stuart in "The Invisible Man" Universal Picture.
FEMALE
At the Queen's To-day
MAJESTIC
THEATRE. [Nathan. Road, Kowloon, Tel. 57820 TODAY & TO-MOKROW At 230, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
FIND THIS WOMAN!
Hold her for the police!
for her lips
hold the "fates
of six people.
SLEEPERS EAST
with
Wynne Gibson Preston Foster Mona Barrie Harvey Stephens
"BOLERO"
Love, War and Dance
Enchanting dances, brilliant mo- dernistic settings of the 'old world cafes, the gay social
whirl of Europe and the furore of early war fever in Paris are all recalled in "Bolero," Goegre Raft's latest star- ring picture, at the King's Theatre. Based on the savage rhythms of Ravel's
"Bolero," Carey. Wilson, Kubec Glasmon and Horace Jack- son have constructed a well-nigh fool-proof plot which has been adeptly and convincingly' develop- ed by Director 'Wesley-Ruggles
George Raft who, to date has played tough. "menace” rolės, has been keeping something from "his public. Few of any ball room dancers can equal his thythmic technique and stage presence. Hia "Bolero" performance 15. the famous Raoul, idol of London and Paris, is superb.
Then there's Bally Rand with ⠀ that flamboyant fan dance, which startled half the world during the Chicago World's Fair and re- turned her to her first love, the movies. She has an exciting screen presence and is a competent ac-
tress.
Carole Lombard who wears sky gowns as no other blonde siren of the screen,
reveals 8
"Balero"
With
and
Ruth Chatterton will play a new and unusual role in her latest screen vehicle, Female," which opens to-morrow at the Queen's.
This glamorous star, has had a long, unique and varied list of rules in her stage and screen career- ranging all the way from the technique equal to the other, two. touching, tearful "Madame X" to In two numbers she does the ultra-sophisticated and in- George Raft dolent heroine of "The Rich Are "Raftero," she introduces an en- Always With Us," and from the tirely new Lombard, one we hope picturesque but hard-boiled "Fris-to see more often. co. Jenny" to the helpless rich The plot tells the story of Raoul WOIERI Of "The Crash,” But de Baere, a struggling coal minor, never before has she appeared in who struggles" for success, finds the guise in which "Female" will it with a succession of beautiful present her: an efficient big busi- dancing partners whom he casts hess executive at the office and a aside as they outlive their serul. women who has her own love code ness. He becomes the sensation of at night.
| London and Paris but at the height Alison Drake, the heroine played of his career the war breaks out and throws" his success into the by Miss Chatterton, knows her own power as head of the vast background of public attention. motor company she has inherited and governs.
She is convinced that in her position of command she can treat men exactly “as men have always treated women." She wishes to use them when it pleases her, both for business and for her own pleasure.
f.
That he may win some measure of popular acclaim, he enlists too. suffers through the years of wai, with the hope of coming back to attáin his former position in the entertainment world.
But his partner, the only one he has ever loved, has married in the interim. The night of his return finds him a physical wreck from war injuries. He tries to dance the
In all this she is ruthless. It is only when she finally meets her match-a man who will not submit to her conditions that she realizes famous "Bolero," that brought him how much the honestly wants to be ** like
other women."
fame. But it is only when the Her partner he loved comes back to
powerful position has been glori.bim to insure his success, that be is able to rise to the heights that ous-but lonely. There can be no compromise so long as she hersett once were his. refuse to subinti to the inevitable.
Miss Chatterton was selected as
the perfect star. to portray this with great charm and delicacy. young woman of strange conflicts Its "comedy is thrown into rellez and self-questionings. Alison's poise by emotional scenes of depth, ant and wit and self-confidence in the tensity.
early portion of the story, are well A distinguished cast app suited to the actress. It is a role with Miss Chatterton in "Fem pecularly well adapted to a star With George Brent, sales who combines Miss Catterton's man, and such players gifts both as comedienne and Donnelly, Lois Wilson, Pei dramatic actress. The heroine or Gottschalk and Johnny
Female" demands both elements. Brown in portant roles. It is one of the most diverse roles star has splendid support. which Miss Chatterton has played appearing in the picture hence, according to the star her Muir, Garin Gordon self, one of the most satisfying. Holloway and Raidelo William Dieterle, director of the The screen play is by c picture, has spun this daring story and Kathryn, Scol
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