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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TAKE QUEEN'A RD., WRITBOUND BUI

NOW SHOWING. At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 P.M.

ADOLPH POLLAK

PRESENTS

ISLEZZ ISLE PARADISE

OF

Admission:-Dress Circle 80 c.

Servicemen

Back Stall 50-o:

35 a. to Back Stall.

GOOD ACTING

By All Concerned

There is a very good programme at the Queen's Theatre. The two short pleces are one operatic and one detective. The operatie is the story of Fif the girl in the fashion | shop who falls in love with a noble youth. The musle and singing is excellent. The detective is a story of a murder and how, the culprit was discovered without any finger. marks upon the weapon. "

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

To-day

SATURDAY, JUNE 30,

Cinemax.

King's: Good Dame" Queen's-Female"

Central:-"Isle Of Paradise" Oriental:Bombshell"

World:The Prize Fighter And

The Lady"

Alhambra: "Ever In My Heart" Majestic:-"The Fourth

Horseman"

Star:-"The Good Companion”

Meetings

The Great Eastern Tobacco Manufactory Ltd., 251 Queen's Road Central; first (Creditors, II a.m.).

floor,

41

Miscellaneous

noon/

His Excellency Elshop Valtorta to 'present prizes at Wah Yan Col- lege at 2.30 pm.

Tombola for Service Max and families, Garrison Lecture Hall, 7.30 p.m.

Entries close for University Photographic Club Advanced Mem- bers competition.

Moon.-V. Moon, 19th. Day.

Picnics

St. Andrew's Club Bathing Pic nic, 3.30 p.m.

Li

Hong Kong Unior Church Y.P.S., 2.45 pm.

시

Kowloon Union Church YPS.. 2.30 p.m.

Principal Malls". Inward from Europe via Siberia by Preussen.

Outward Air Mail for Europe by Kaisar-I-Hind. 9 a.m. steamer, 10.30 a.m.: · for Australia by Nankin. 9.30 a.m.; by Changte, 5 p.m. Imperial Air Mail for Europe by Dardanus. 4 p.m.

Social Function Cralgengower Cricket Club Whist

Drive.

Lawn

"Sports

"Female," starring Ruth Chatter. ton is very good acting The story Is a bit concentrated, but could not be very well otherwise with the character that has to be shown. She represents a domineering wo- man looking for a man who will. treat her as a woman. Tired of the life she is leading as the head of a large motor factory, where every employee la servile, she leaves

Bowls.-Senior" Division, a party and goes off into the city.

Civil Service C.C. v. Cralgengower In the city she becomes the pick-c.c. "A"; Kowloon C.C. y. Kow- up of a man who does not take

loon B.G.C.; "Craigengower .C.C. pick-ups home. At this stage be-

"B" v. Kowloon Docks R.C.; Police gins the romance, where the force-

R.C. v. Club de Recreio; Junior ful woman is finally put in her Division, Cralgengower C. C. v, proper place by the man stie is Clvil Service CC.; Kowloon B.GC. v. Kowloon 0.0.; Indian R.C. v. Yacht Club; Club de Recreto v Police R.C.; H.K. Football Club v. Hong Kong Electric R.C.

to marry.

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The acting is very good includ- ing that of the minor parts, which offer some amusing moments,

EVER IN MY

HEART

At The Alhambra

Staged against a background of family tradition and international. strie, "Ever in My Heart" starring Barbara Stanwyck and Otto Kruz- er. is one of the finest dramas ever to be shown in Hong Kong.

Brillant-acting by Barbara Stan- wyck and Otto Kruger and excell-

Sunrise.-5.41 am. Sunset.-7.11

p.m.

Tides. High at 0.37 and 11.00: Low at 4.19 and 18.24.

GOOD DAME

Sylvia Sidney At

Her Best

Marlon Gering. Paramount direc tor. who just completed "Good Dame," the 4. P. Schulberg Para- mount pictures, co-starring Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March, now.

ent backing up in the supporting playing at the King's Theatre, de-

cast have made this picture one to be remembered and one which will undoubtedly put both Miss, Stanwyck and Mr. Kruger among the leading players of the talkie" .. stage

The story centres, round, a brill- lant young German professor who steps into a love match and inar- ries the girl much against the family's wishes, the family "baving a revered name for over 300 years and connected with the landing of the Pilgrim Fattiers,

clares that a "gag." played од him by a friend. helped him at- tala the theatrical success that led him into motion, pletures,

"When I decided to come to the United States. some friends in Berlin gave me a letter of intro- duction to an influential man in Milwaukee, supposed to be an im- portant stage producer." said Ger- ing.

"You can imagine my chagrin when I found he was nothing but a manager of a second rate bur

The German adopts American lesque." " citizenship but when the war Maintaining a sense of humour, breaks cut and the newspapers he accepted temporary defeat make much of the atrocities alleg with a grin and worked his way ed to have been perpetrated by to, the top as a stage director in Germans, he loses his seat at the Chicago. College and in addition is shunned When, however, New York still refused to entrust first-rate plays by his former American friends.

Realising the hoplessness of in his hands, he gambled his sav. called carrying on in the face of over-ings and bought a play

He staged and pro- numbering odds, Otto Kruger sends "Skidding."

his American wife back to her duced it. For more than a year own people, and on the pretence was a relening hit,

of joining, her in a week's time. leaves her a note with the explana- tion that he is returning to fight ...for his own people.

Motion picture companies sought

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JUNE 30,

SHOWING TO DAY DAILY "AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 AND

9.30 P.M.

NEXT

CHANGE

KINGT

|AIR-CONDITIONED

THEATRE

THEATRE

"no!"

He'd always had his way with women ... but for once... his will power wasn't as strong as her won't power!

A Paramount Picture

SYLVIA SIDNEY FREDRIC MARCH

in

GOOD DAMETM

GARY COOPER-FAY WRAY

IN

ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON"

“ANN VICKERS”

Personal Triumph in Irene Dunne

1

With the eyes of the film world on beautiful Irene Dunne in the role of "Ann Vickers" in the pic-

of that title, the triumph which turization of the sensational novel

was anticipated when she was so

cast has now become a reality.

tors are that Miss Dunne has the Reports from all theatres sec-

strongest and most dramatic role of her career. As "Ann Vickers she is the modern minded girl who is brillant enough to win success after love and romance are denied woman of the ber. She is the world who becomes the more be- the blogical urge wildered by with every higher step in her career. She is the slave of am- bition and a prisoner of love.

Wooed by men in leading stations in society, disillusioned. in

TO-DAY ONLY

TO-DAY ONLY

her efforts at reforms, she finds satisfying love only as the years crowd in on her and old enemies seek her downfall

Miss Dunne is rated in this character calling for physical charm and a bit of deviltry cota- bined with the culture which will enable her to win laurels in the upper atrata of society.

The

"Ann Vickers" portrayal incidentally, calls for extensive wardrobes, some twenty-two in all, ranging from fashionable creations to the garb of a penitentiary executive.

Versatility and a keen judgment of dramatic values, possessed by Miss Dunne puts her in command of the characterization through- out.

Many critics have given her the highest niche in her brilliant career for the portrayal of the most discussed heroine in modern fiction

Walter Huston is co-starred with Miss "Dunne in the RKO-Radio Pictures' scoop of the century, the entire fim world having been hot on the trall of the screen rights

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"Isle of Paradise"

ORIENTAL

"The Bombshell".

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"Ever in My Heart"

"The Good Companions"

MAJESTIC-

"The Fourth Horseman”

KING'S—“

Coming

"One Sunday Afternoon" QUEEN'S

"Men In White "Laughing Boy"

ORIENTAL...

"Charlie Chan's Greatest Case"

"Cat And The Fiddle"

MIX

Mod TONY

&FOURTH HORSEMAN

A smashing, crashing, dashe Ing drama of the Westy written by that famous writer, Nina Wilcox Putnem. With Margaret Lindsay, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Buddy Roosevelt Directed by Hamilton MacFad "dan. A. UNIVERSAL PICTURE presented by Carl Locmula:

STAR

"Merry Monarch"

ALHAMBRA—

''Blood Money"

DAK

220-514

-4 SHOWS

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

AFTERNOON"

With every picture produced in Hollywood there is a "search" of some sort or another.

But Russell Pierce, head of Paramount's property department, reported the strangest one during the timing of "One Sunday After- noon," coming on Tuesday at the King's Theatre. Gray Cooper is starring in this picture, with Fay Wray, Frances Fuller and Neil Hamilton, featured,

Was

"One Sunday Afternoon" of Paramount's youngest directors directed by Stephen Roberts, one

In addition to the featured play. ers listed above, you'll see Roscoe Karns. Sam Hardy, Jane Darwell and Frank Sheridan.

to Sinclair Lewis' international ilterary hit. The supporting cast includes Bruce Cabot, Conrad Nagel: Edna May, Oliver, and many other screen favourites: John Cromwell directed...!

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9,30

p.m.

·TO-MORROW

CLARK GABLE

in Metro's

Men in White"

with

MYRNA LOY

At 2.80, 5.20. 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

JESSIE MATTEWS

in Britain's Brilliant Success

"THE GOOD COMPANIONS"

ALHAMBRA

TO-DAY ONLY

THE STRE

*

STOR YOU, MY DARGING, NO GAME SUN CAN

JAIR MATAR

his services. Paramount won him. brought him to Hollywood on long term contract, and he has The couple are divorced but they made such screen hits as "Ladies meet again in a cantonment whereof the Big House," "Merrily We Barbara Stanwyck discovers her Go To Hell," "Madame Butter former husband in the American fy" and "Jennie Gerhardt." lines in the role of a spy. Her love for him returns and dis- counting all danger she saves him from the Military Police.

"Good Dame," a "dramatic ru- mance with plenty of laughs, was written by William Lipman. It is a story of a really "good" girl The film is undoubtedly, one of who meets a not-so-bad" boy. the best productions to be shown Accustomed to handling his women locally. The shorts preceding the as he wants, this chap is struck feature. Alm are both interesting when he meets one who won't be end amusing and go towards mak- handled. Then love slips in, and ing the programme a thoroughly a happy entertaining climax la the enjoyable one.

result,

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Stanwyck

EVER IN: MY

HEART

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EARL DERR. BIGGER'S GREATEST DETECTIVE STORY,

CHARLIE CHAN'S

greatest

with

CASE

Warner Oland Heather Angel

CHARLIE CHAN

AGAIN!

To-morrow At The Oriental

"Men in White." the new Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, production COM starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, opening to-morrow at the Queen's 15 an absorbing drama based on the stage play by Sidney Kingsley still running in New York at the Broadhurst Theatre..

It was late last September that

..Warner Oland, famous for the" two organizations known as the portrayal of Charlie Chan in past Group Theatre and Sidney Har-screen successes, again has the mon and James R. Ullman, pro- role of the philosophizing police- duced this drama of passions in man who Ands clues where others and around a great metropolis delen' to tread. hospital. The reception accorded the production was immediate and overwhelming. Burns Mantle, of the Daily News, bestowed the four- star rating on the play, a distinc-. tion which has been granted to only one; other play this season" Hobert Garland, of the World-Tele- gram put the drama at the top of his list of the ten best plays of 1033. And people on all sides be-Chan proves himself more than

"Charlie Chan's Greatest Case- depicting the most recent adver- Itures of that bland Chinese detec- tive from Hawaii is showing at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday and Monday.

gan to talk of as the natural candidate for the Pulitzer Prize,

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

desirous form of putting into screen drama so original and so charged with elemental emotions as this story of a young interne and his swaying between love and duty promptly purchased the play and engaged Gable and Miss Loy for the leading roles. Their plans were to present their own pro- duction as soon as possible.

This latest story takes Charlie Chan over the most difficult trail of crime and clues It has ever been his experience to tread Stopped at every point by closed mouths and fearful associations, Chan falls back on his mellow philosophy to the solution of a crime that has the police backed against a wall In his suave kindly manner

ever to be a man of iron will and biting intellect. ̈

The" leading feminine role is in the hands, of Heather Angel beautiful newcomer to the screen The supporting cast, headed by Roger Imhoff and John Warbur top. is the most notable ever assembled for a Charlie Chan Alm it has Walter. Byron, Ivan Simp son, Virginia Cherrlil, Francis Ford Robert Warwick, Frank McGlynn, Clara Blandick, Clunde King. William Stack, Gliria Roy and Cornellus Keefe,

But the very thing that every- one had anticipated prevented them from doing so: ""Men in White" as a stage play continued, to be so successful in New York well into the late Spring. Accord and to draw such large and en-

ingly, "Men in White" is a flar Wit thusiastic huoses that it would be be seen during April and May only

unjust to ethter the play or the

by those living in other cities. New Aim to offer the picture simultan-York will have to wait until early eously to the public.

| Jane before it can witness the Me-

It 16 estimated that the stage tro-Goldwyn-Mayer screen, realiz production, now in its seventàstion of the stage hit at the triumphant month; will continue | Broadhurst.

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