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CENTRAL

CHEATRI

SHOWING TO-DAY DAILY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30

THE SKY'S

THE LIMIT.... Outside the Three

Mile Limit!.

New kinds of thrills, with romance too, on the gilded decks of

GAMBLING

SHIP"

A Paramount Picturs with

CARY GRANT BENITA HUME JACK La RUE GLENDA FARRELL ROSCOE KARNS

NEXT CHANGE LANNY ROSS MELODY IN SPRING

IN

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

* SHOWS

DAIL

2.30–5.13

7.15-8.30

SYLVIA SIDNEY

In "Jennie Gerhardt"

•

Jennle

Gerhardt,"

screen

drama of Theodore Dreiser's famous novel, is the current at- traction at the King's Theatre. with Sylvia Sidney playing the title role.

The story, which caused a sen- sation when it was published is the second of Dreiser's works to reach the screen. The first. "An American Tragedy," roused Dreiser's protest when it was re- leased, for he claimed that the motion picture failed to retain his 'point of view, and he attempted to stop its showing. It was shown later with some of the changes he had requested.

Miss Sidney was also the står of "An American Tragedy."

In

"Jennie Gerhardt" she is support- ed by u cast including -Donald Cook. Mary Astor, H. B. Water And Edward Arnold.

"

She plays the role of a worn whose charm for men briak, ner to un' inescapable end. An elderly/ acnar, ner first suiter, is Fu In a rauroid wreck be, re thes can be married When her child is born she leaves ho ue, tries to start life again. Her second cultor, man, handsome, "wealthy young brother of her employer, refuses to marry her when he finds that. she has a child. It is to him.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

SAT

2.30, 6.10, 7.15

& 9,30 P.M.

KINO

however, that she devotes her life. SPENCER TRACY

Edward Arnold plays the role

of the Senator, with Donald Cook Interest, as the major romantic

H. B. Warner is cast as her father, and Mary Astor as the childhood sweetheart of Donald Cook who tries to win his affection from Miss Sidney,

TAKS ANT TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST 4 TIMES

TO-DAY

4

THE YEARS BEST MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW: A RIOT OF LAUGHTER

SET TO MUSIC.

SITTING PRETTY

with

Jack Oakie Jack Haley Ginger Rogers Gregory Ratoff Pickens Sisters and the Hundred Hollywood Honeys ·

Taking a Chance

Little Moses had a brand-new ten-shilling note given to him for his birthday. Going to the local chemist, he had the note changed into sixpences and shillings, Then he went across the street to the grocer and got a ten-shlllng note for the change, He repeated this several times in different shops. Finally, his father noticed his actions and asked for an explana- tion.

"Well," said the small boy, "sooner or later somebody is go- ing to make a mistake, and it ain't going to be me."

TO-DAY

ONLY

FLEMING

ROAD WANCHAT TEL 28413

"TO-MORROW MONDAY-TUESDAY

120

MINUTES OF EFIC ENTERTAINMENT YOD WILL NEVER FORGET! 5000 IN THE CAST.

CECIL B.D.MILLE'S First Great Spectacle of Modern Times!

THIS DAY AND AGE

A Paramount Picture,

BA

WHALE BLUBBER

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

Presa" (Copyright.)]` |

Berlin, Aug. 16.

One hundred and fifty thousand tons of whale blubber have been assured the German nation" by a special treaty signed on Thursday between the Norwegian whalers and the German Food Ministry.

The material is expected to be mainly used for the manufacture of margarine.-- Trauancen Kuo Min.

How He Come To

Hollywood

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

BACKS!

Disapproving backs ...cold shoulden... averted faces...Yet

the glories in ber duration . woman scomed, but a woman loved!

Sylvia SIDNEY

faces joyfully the reolilles of hungering love in

JENNIE GERHARDT

Now that Spencer Tracy has been made one of the four full- fledged Fox Film stars, he looks back over the past and thinks of how narrowly he missed coming to Hollywood at all.

After years of stock and me- diocre parts On Broadway, he flashed into prominence as Killer. Mears in "The Last Mile," a play that had a tremendous success in New York and on the road.

Several screen scouts saw Tracy and offered him picture contracts, but he was dublous. He, was a success on Broadway and he might not be in Hollywood. He was a firm believer in the "bird in the hand" axiom.

However, at the conclusion of the New York run, à Fox Film executive persuaded Tracy to try one picture. He agreed, but only on the stipulation that he could go back to "The Last Mile" for its Chicago. run. This

agreed upon and Allen Jenkins, now a featured picture comedian, was engaged for the part of the dama- tic "Killer" while Spencer tried on

cameras.

was

The irony of the "affair is that his first screen part was "Up The River," a satire on "the Last Mile." At the conclusion of the picture, Tracy didn't even wait to see, the results. He went to Chicago add resumed his old part in the play.

The reest is history. “Up The River" was a tremendous success. Tracy was a new personality and screen fans demanded more of him. A new long term contract was signed and he returned to Hollywood.

H

THEODORE DREISER'S

celebrated record of a woman's life with

Recently, Winfield Sheehan, vice president and general manager of production, elevated Spencer and stardom with his current picture, "While New York Sleeps" coming to the King's Theatre to-morrow. At the conclusion of this pro- duction, he will have a six week's rest before starting his next plc- ture 'Marle Galante,"

This is his first vacation of any duration since coming to Holly- wood and, of course, he is going 'New York to renew acquaintances.

GULIN'S

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.20 & 9.30.

LOVE GAVE HIM THE COURAGE TO DEMAND HONORS THAT WERE RIGHTFULLY HIS AS WORLD'S GREATEST CAMERAMAN!

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Robert Armstrong - Dorothy Wilson

Richard Cromwell

#teatim Pannelly Huy Willard Heill &

DONALD COOK

•MARY ASTOR

H.. WARNÈA --

· Directed by MANION BERING.

· LP SCHULBERG Anduction

( Cuci moment Gobar

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

TEL. No. 25313 26932

TO-MORROW

EVERY MAN'S WIFE HAS

A STORY!

SPENCER TRACY

"WHILE'

NEW

IN

YORK

SLEEPS

A FOX PICTURE with

HELEN TWELVETREES

ALICE FAYE

HAVANA WIDOWS "THE - AVENGER”

A Real Snappy Comedy

Joan Blondell and Lyle Talbot form an unusually fine romantic comedy team in Havana Widows" the first National comedy drama which comes

to the

Alhambra, Theatre to-morrow.

The blonde Blondell plays a strictly comic role while the hand.

complexioned Talbot

some dark

plays his role straight, making a perfect fall for Blondell,

Showing At The

Alhambra

The hectic gold rush" days of 149 in California forms the back- ground of the highly exciting picture, "The Avenger" which is now showing at the Alhambra Theatre.

Buck Jones, the hero of many a cowboy picture of the "silent" days, is in the leading role as a miner, in a place where might is right" and where there is no law. not so much about life on the "long trail" as about the adven- tures of the miners.

There is plenty of action and thrills in this picture which is in- deed entertaining particularly to those, fond of a film with plenty of action,

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S :-

HONG KONG

"Jennie Gerhardt” QUEEN'S:—

"Above The Clouds" ORIENTAL:

"Sitting Pretty" CENTRAL:-

"Gambling Ship"

KOWLOON

'ALHAMBRA :-

"The Avenger"

MAJESTIC:-

"I Like It That Way" STAR:-

"To-night's The Night"

KING'S:-

24

Coming

"While New York Sleeps" "This Man Is Mine"

CENTRAL:-

"Melody In Spring" ORIENTAL:-

"This Day and Age" "The Hidden Gold" "Reaching For The Moon" ALHAMBRA:-

"Havana Widows"

BRITISH RADIO

SETS

Big Order From South America

The

London, August 17. radio exhibition - which opened at Olympia la sald to be More than 150 firms are exhibiting the largest of its kind ever held.

the latest develpments in wireless receiving sets and their accessories and about a quarter million peo- ple are expected to visit the show. This is the 14th of these annual ex- hibitions and each year they at- tract a large number of Home and Overseas visitors. Every part of British Empire and twenty foreign countries were represented among the buyers present to-day.

This is the first time the two have played opposite each other in the leading roles. It is also ope of the few times that Talbot has been cast to play a leading ro- mantic role, his lot usually being that of the villaing Misa Blondell, who plays a straight, comic, or ro- mantic heroine with equal facility, in this picture, is a wisecracking tler was groggy when the gong it is now reported to have a combination of all three.

As a gold" digging Broadway chorus girl in Havana on the hunt for millionaires, Miss Blondell with her pal, Glenda Farrell, create more spontaneous laughs than is usually found in half a dozen comedies.

The screen play by Eart Baldwin

badger game that takes it out of given a unique twist to the old

realm of snappy comedy. the serious class and into

the

Other members of the cast in- clude Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ralph Ince and Maude Eburne. Ray Enright has given the picture clever hand- ling in his direction.

“TWO - FISTED

BOXING

"Slashing Draw" At La Loma

Manila, Aug. 13. Young Teddy of Pagsanjan and Young Ternado of Baclaran fought a slashing eight-round bout to a draw last Saturday evening at the Pancho Villa Boxing Gar- den at La Loma.

The Pagsanjan battler fought at his best in the earlier rounds and punished Young Hernando with telling lefts and rights to face and body. The Baclaran ringster, however, weathered the storm al- thought at times the appeared in distress. The first four rounds were won by Young Teddy in con- vincing manner.

"In the fourth round Young Her. nando fought viciously. and rock- ed his opponent with devastating. punches to the body, The Afth found the two combatants trading blows freely with the Baclaran boy having an edge at the bell⠀⠀ The sixth saw Young Teddy hanging on for breath Bethe Baclaran nghter rained an sYB- lanche of blows to his head and midsection. The Pagsanjan bat

sounded.

The radio, industry in Britain has developed with remarkable ra- ploity in the past few years and

turnover of £30,000,000 a year, The seventh and eight rounds nearly four times as much as in went to Young Hernando by big 1931. During the arst hour after margins. He was complete master the opening of the exhibition to- of the situation, punishing his foeday, it was stated that £300,000 with vicious lefts and rights. Young worth of business had been done. Teddy kept hugging the Baclaran Among the orders booked was one boy to save himself from a knock for 300 radio sets for Bouth out.

America-British Wireless,

TO-DAY ONLY

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

S than Rad Kɔwloon, Tel. 57232 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ||At 2.80, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

I LIKE IT THAT WAY

Starring

GLORIA STUART ROGER PRYOR

with

MARIAN MARSH

J!

Sprightly romance with a night-club-background ... A delightful story of a Boy and a Girl-umballished with great song and dance numbers 1

With Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, Lucille Gleason, Marne Kennedy, Mae Busch, Story by Harry Sauber.

STORMY PASSAGE

Jardine's steamer the Yisheng. came into port after a very stormys passage from the north-. Early on Friday morning, k10th) several men. were alghted Coating on a rait. Four men were picked off. this raft, and later two more rafts were sighted and five mep picked up. A fourth raft

was · rescued; with fourteen men. Another steam- er the Hoishul picked up another eight' men. These men came from two junks that had capsized owing to, the rough weather. Only two men of the crews were lost.

NO NOISE, PLEASE!

(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press).

London, August 17.

To combat the noise nuisance, the chief of the London police has decreed that automobiles must nöth sound their horns, buzzers and sirens "during the night; The order takes effect immediately and after one week, severe anes will be dealt out. to of- fenders against the bye-law Transocean Kuo Min.

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON

CAN THIS BE THE

PHANTOM RIDER?

Look Out Men!

Those gold diggers are

at it again!

BUCK JONES at his best-tender-a man of passion, ona moment; a merciless killer. the next-forsaking all for revenge.

COLUMBIA PICTURES presents

BUCK JONES

in

--AT 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20

"THE AVENGER

with DOROTHY REVIER

Directed by Roy William Neill ·

1

also SCRAPPY CARTOON

and

The Mystery of Marriage

havana widows

Laugh Sing and Be Merry for

with

with JOAN BLONDELL

Glenda Farell Guy Kibbee

STARTING TO-MORROW-

"TO-NIGHT'S THE NIGHT”

(B.I.P's Hilarious Burlesque Comedy.) at The

LESLIE TULLER

(The Rubber Face Comedian)

STAR

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