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CENTRAL

THCA

SHOWING TO-DÂY

'DAILY 2.30, 5.15. 7.15 & 9.30

EDGAR EUGENE EBEŃ

PRESENTS

THE ADVENTURE FILM OF REAL AND RARE!

WILD WOMEN

OF

BORNEO"

AN EXPEDITION TRAVEL LED 15,000 MILES INTO THE UNKNOWN TO MAKE THE RECORD, THAT HAS EVER

BEEN ATTEMPED.

COMMENCING THURSDAY

CHINESE PICTURE

IRON BIRD".

UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE PRODUCTION.

"HE GOT SO

ANGRY

Why The King Gave Up Golf

(Special Air Mail Service)

"LET'S FALL IN LOVE"

And Some Snappy Songs

Songland's two outstanding per- sonalities, Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, writers of "Stormy Wea- ther," "Minnie the Moocher," "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues," and a dozen other popular suc- cesses, wrote the music tor "Let's Fall in Love," Columbia's musical romance, showing on Wednesday at the King's Theatre.

Responsible for the musk ta several editions of Earl Carroll's "Vanities," official creators of songs for Harlem's famous "Cotton Club" for the · "Silver

Slipper," the "Nine-Futeen Revue." Arlen and Koehler, after but four years together. boast a long string of successes. Among them are "Sweet and Hot," "You Gave Me Every- thing but

Love," "Get Happy""

"I Got the World On a String." Happy As the Day Is Long" "I Love a Parade." "Kickin' the Gong Around," and many more.

Arlen and Koehler have written three songs for "Let's Fall in Love." They are "Let's Fall - In Love," "Nice is Love Anywhere" and "This Is Only the Beginning." These catchy melodies were crest- ed to go with the book written by Herbert Fields, son of Lew Fields of Weber and Fields fame.

Arlen and Koehler are a happy elder combination: Koehler, the

of the two. Is a whimsical, red- headed, humorous fellow with Af- teen years of song writing to his credit, including many bits of the past, such as

"Dreamy Metody,'

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934.

FINAL .SHOWINGS. TO-DAY

AT |2.30,5.10,7.15

& 9.30 P.M.

T

FRANK CAPRA Production

LADY

FOR A DAY

with

WARREN WILLIAM

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

MAY ROBSON - GEV KIBBEE Glenda Tarrell

Nei Sparks

Jean Parker · Baris Nurtons.

Walter Connolly

adore for DAMOON BANYON

A Columbia Pieture

AND CARTOON

JAYNET GAYNOR IN

CHINA

|

are

(Special Air Mail Servics)

London July 11. Egypt's best-liked stars Dietrich, Garbo and Lillian Har- vey, The Balkans demand fighting and action, writes a correspondent, China does not care about stars, With one exception--Janet Gay- nor. In Japan action, war, animal

pictures, and slapstick cornedy go best, because they do not need sc maný superimposed titles.

Venetian Moon," "When Lights London, July 15, are Low," "Baby" "Oh Where Can The Prince of Wales recalled the You Be Wrap Your Troubles in days when he "caddled" for the Dreams" and others.. King, in the course of a racy speech Arlen, who is barely twenty-six. at the annual dinner of the Luel-is the composer of the combination. fer Golfing Society, of which he He is the son of a well-known is captain, at the Savoy Hotel last Jewish cantor. Arlen was a mem- night. Addressing the gathering ber of his father's synagogue choir as "Brother Lucifers," he said:

for many years. He is definitely a

I quote these" not very vital "The King, played golf many spiritual, creative personality. His statistics for what they are worth: years back, and I can remember melodies have a nostalgic yearn-They may be supplemented with ing, a deep," paintive quality. a reminder that British pictures Arlen's mother wanted him to are gaining ground in the Domi- nions to an extent that is causing Hollywood serious concern.

the time when I used to carry his clubs. (Laughter. and cheers.)

"I think he played quite a good game, and I asked him the other' day why he did not go on with It, because I feel that golf is a game pad goes on playing for a long time. But what he said to me was that he got so damned angry. (Loud laugoter.)

"The other member of my family who is a keen "golfer," the Prince went on, is the Duke of York, my brother who as you know, has been quite sick with a bad hand. I went to see him this evening and he is getting very much better:

(Cheers.)

"So many things are expected of the captain of an important élub like this. I am afraid I have hot been able to and the time to do the work, perhaps, that I was expected to do. But, anyway. have reduced the number of spee- ches here to-night." (Laughter.)

Referring to this year's winner of the Empire' trophy. Mr. H. A. Parker, the Prince said:

After

be a plano teacher, but Arlen had a great' passion for music. conducting an orchestra

for a time, he went into Vincent You: man's "Great Day" as à singer. One day, while drumming the piano Arlen worked out the melody of "Get Happy" from the "dance rhythm used by the "Great Day" chorus.

SODE-

Through Harry Warren, compos- er, Arlen met Koehler, then a well-known figure in the writing business. Koehler liked the tune, composed the words, and the combination was destined to turn out some of the most popular

filts of the day."

Their music in "Let's Fall in Love" is sung by Ann Sothern, musical comedy, star. "She playe the leading feminine role in sup- port of Edmund Lowe. Others in the cast are Miriam Jordan and Gregory Ratoff.

WOMEN IN THE CIVIL SERVICE

"I have not met Mr. Parker yet, but he apparently has been a great tennis player in his time. Braid (who sat next to the Prince) and I have been looking down the handicaps this evening, and we (Special Air Hail Service) both think he is pretty hot at 18. (Loud laughter.)

London, July 11, Mr. Duff Cooper, Financial Secre- "As "captain, I made a sugges-tary to the Treasury, replied in the tion that we might have some of House of Commons yesterday to the 'öld timers' here to-night, and Captain Sir Ian Fraser, who asked we are delighted to have Braid if he would give a assurance that and Taylor and Herd. We are only the report of the Committee which sorry that Harry, Vardon could not had recommended that be with us.

should be given a fair held and no favour in the Civil Service, would- not prejudice the fulfilment of undertakings given to ex Service

The Prince's Handicap "Talking about handicaps and Braid, last year when I entered

for

women

The Right Idea

-An Irishman was relating an 'ex- perience of hardship in the jungle.

"Ammunition, food, and whisky had run out,” he said. “We were parched with thirst."

"Was there no water?" asked a lister.er..

"Shure, but it was no time to be thinking of cleanliness, replied the Irishman..

TO-DAY ONLY ·

GEORGE O'BRIEN

IRENE BENTLEY GEORGE E. STONE

ALAN EDWARDS

QULLA'S

TO-DAY ONLY

the Parliamentary, as I was men that they would have OWEN NARES

teeing of Brald came up and said: 'What is your handicap?! I said: "My handicap is 13," "

"He looked rather wistful and

ce in appointment and promotion in, the Service.

He said there was no undertaking that ex-Service.men, as süeb, would be given preference in the matter

of promotion in the Civil Service. The criterion of promotion was

I said: 'Yes, Sunningdale, under the new par handicap system. He said: "We haven't heard about merit.

that yet here, but, we will know There would, however, be no about it next week' (Laughter.) departure from the undertaking to In I went 11 handicap, and got give preference to ex-Service men into the Anal-cheers) but I did in the matter of employment in the

not win

The Prince added they were de- lighted to have with them Sidney Brews. If it had not been for Cotton's fireworks, maybe he would have won the Open. Hear, hear.) "Talking about Cotton," the Prince went on, "I did hear that MacDonald Smith was practising putting, and he heard of Cotton's 85 in his first or second round I forget which.

"He stopped practising and said: I know I have got to practice holing my brassle shots now.

(Laughter.)

Civil Service

Prince, who recalled playing with him in 1925 at a country club,

"We are always very glad to see foreigners," he continued, "and the way the great game has deve- loped in foreign countries. We feel that in Great Britain we taught the world to play golf

"America has carried off our Open Trophy eleven years › run- ning, and we have seen some won- derful golf" from other countries. We are very proud that this year.

"Brew's performance was a both the winner and "runner-up. magnificent on" went on the were British,”

AND

ADRIANNE ALLEN

ROM:MIEES, AN

ALLESON 3 STORY KONFLICTOR

Ohe WOMAN

BETWEEN

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

"THE WOMAN

"

BETWEEN”

Showing At The Queen's

at

"The Woman Between," the Bri- tish International picture which is now showing

the": Queen's Theatre is a story of a burglar who, through a series of adven- tures, becomes a politician. While In the act of burgling a house he surprises a beautiful gir; with a political candidate. He is be-

Jater

friended by the girl who makes him & Socialist-candidate for the same district, They soon fall in love and when the op- posing party Tearns of this, they declare that they will reveal to his constituents the fact that he had been a burglar. The girl re- tallates by declaring that if they Teveal the secret she will make public that she had been living with the Conservative candidate,

The picture, although it main- ly concerns politics, is entertain- ing, and is headed by a splendid cast which includes Adrienne Allen, Owen Nares, David Haw- thorne and C. M. Hallard. -

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

Tic. No. 26313 **: 25332

'TO-MORROW——

heir first kiss was the

Gnal answer to season's

gayest musical question

LET'S FALL IN LOVE

." with EDMUND LOWE Ana Sothera Mirizm Jordan Gregory Recoff

A COLUMBIA, PICTURE

GLORIA SWANSON'S

כד

DIVORCE SUIT

Husband's Plans

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London July 11. Miss Gloria Swanson's husband, Mr. Michael Farmer, who is stay- ing in Bombay until Thursday, when he will sail for Europe » and thence for Hollywood, states that the he knows nothing about divorce suit filed against him ex- the cept what he has read in

Mks newspapers.

Swanson, he "says, has not cabled him about it:

"She is now under contract, for her latest picture, Three Weeks," " he said, "and I intend seeing her on my arrival "in Hollywood.”

"I hope to start film production myself, and this experience will be useful."

Miss Swanson's attorney filled on her behalf a suit for divorce against Mr. Farmer, who is her fourth husband, last May. She alleges mental cruelty.

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Policeman We're looking for a drowned man."

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KING'S

HONG KONG

"Lady For A Day" QUEEN'S-

"The Woman Between" CENTRAL-

"Wild Women Of Borneo" ORIENTAL

"A Bedtime Story"

WORLD-

"The Chief'

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA

STAR

*Frontier Marshai"

"Wide Open"

MAJESTIC..........

"David Harum”

KING'S

Coming

"Let's Fall In Love"

"Stand Up And Cheer"

CENTRAL...

"Iran Bird"

ORIENTAL

"Bulldog Drummond” "The Rome Express"

The Smoky

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DAILY

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MAJESTIC

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WILL ROGERS

DAVID HARUM

with

LOUISE DRESSER EVELYN' VINABLI KENT TAYLOR STEPIN "FETCHIT- -Diacted by Jants Cruze

From the novel by. Edward Noyes Wextendi

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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

DON'T FAIL TO SEE

BABY LEROY AND CHEVALIER

IN THEIR GREAT S

COMEDY.

CHEVALIER

• A Bedtime Story

HET EN TWELVETREES DWARE SYRLEI HODON

"LADY FOR A

DAY"

Guy Kibbee's

Career

Alcohol has been the cause of many men's downfall, but in the case of Guy Kibbee, popular im actor, it started him on a success- ful theatrical career. (It was 'an- other man's drinking not his own). The bald, rotünd, jovial come- dian, whose latest screen appear ance is in the Columbia picture, "Lady For A Day," showing to- day at the King's Theatre, was born in El Paso, Texas. He re- fused to become interested in his

*

PLORING

WANGISAL

TO-MORROW. & THURSDAY FAMOUS STAGE PLAY

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Ronald

COLMAN

BULLDOG DRUMMOND

The Daring

Exploits of Fiction's

Most Reckless

Adventurer!

EXCITINGLY MELODRAMATIO!

THE ENGLISHMAN

ABROAD

(Special Air Mail Service)

London July 11.

game

"When the rules of the

prove unsuitable for victory the gentlemen of England change the rules of the game."

Who said this yesterday, asks a correspondent.

Án angry Senator Middle West?

trom

A rabid Indian Nationalist? No. The words are those of a professor of London University,

Academy in Moscow. lecturing before the Communist.

Admitting that he could hold out no immediate hopes of a revolution in England, Professor Laski was fairiy sanguine" aboub the prospects of the Empire dis-

father's newspaper business and integrating.

when his brother formed a. stock. company Kibbee Joined him 33 property boy.

Patriotiam is, I admit, horribly unfashionable.

But it does seem to

me that

While the show was in Chicago, the leading man went on a spree Professor Laski's methods of foul- and couldn't appear on the stageing his own best for the benent that night. Kibbee, then a lad of of foreigners leave something to 16, was pressed into service as his be desired. substitute, and acquitted himself ably enough. The audience didn't know the difference..................

Ham Powell flm Man-of-The- World" and has remained ever

That was the beginning of 2 stage career that continued usince. Since his arrival, less than

interruptedly for years. Oddly en- ough it was not until a quarter of a century had elapsed that he set foot on a Broadway stage. For years he had trouped in the larger metropolitan centres in the coun-i

two years ago, he has been one of the busiest players in the nim capital.

The Dark Horse" "Central Fark." "TaL” “ING Crooner,"

try, but somehow New York seem-Two Seconds," "High Pressure" ed to evade him. Then, when he "42nd Street "Rain" and "The had given up hope of ever playing Gold Digger of 1933" are some of on Broadway, he received a hur his many successful pictures, ried offer to appear in the Broed- In "Lady For A Day," Kibbes, is way production of "Torch Song seen as one of the denizens of Kibbee's stay in New York, was Broadway night life, in a picture comparatively brief, however. Mo-zation of Damon Runyon's popus tion picture men were attracted lar story Others In the cast of MOY_KAMNIK | | 19y his splendid performances, and this highly entertaining almare EDNA - MURPHY soon he was on his way to Holly

He was brought out on a two week contract, to play in a Wil-

MILLZE

LA NAINER BROS PRODUCTION

Warren William, Glenda Farrell May Robson, Jean Parker, Ned Sparks and Nat Pendleton. Frank Capra directed the picture

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