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CENTRAL

THEATRE FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY DAILY 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30

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FRANK LAWTON SINNIE BARNES

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MONTY BANKS

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

LILIAN HARVEY

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THE ONLY GIRL

THE NINTH

GUEST

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At The Alhambra

Would Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have made, their their reputations as writers of detective and crime fiction they had lived in these days of amazing inventions?

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KING'S THEATRE

"Springtime For Henry"

The stage success, "Springtime For Henry," which enjoyed a run of eight months on Broadway and ave months in London, made its appearance on the screen of the King's Theatre yesterday. The play, which was written by Benn W. Levy proved to be so popular both here and abroad that it was purchased for the screen by Jesse, L. Lasky, to be produced for Fox Film. Featuring Otto Kruger as the gay bachelor the screen ver- sion is even more elaborate in story, comedy and dramatic situa- tions than the stage play

The story deals-with Henry Dewlip (Otto Kruger), a care free, footloose bachelor who is con- stantly in hot water when it comes to women. Two women in particular, are out to lead Henry to the altar. How Henry in- fluenced by his two women com- panions to reach a decision is re- ported to provide the film with an uproariously funny conclusion. Naney Carroll and Heather Angel portray the roles of the two wo- men in Henry's life. This is Miss Carroll's "Arst screen appearance after a long absence, from the Hollywood studios. The support- Ing cast includes such stellar names as Nigel Bruce. Herbert Minding Arthur Hoyt and Geneva Mitchell.

Benn W. Levy, the playwright, was brought to Hollywood to re write his play..and make It even stronger and better from the standpoint of screen material. From the author's new treatment Keens Thompson and Frank Tut- tle, who also directed, fashioned their screen play.

CHURCH APPOINTMENT

Poe's cases weren't complicated | (Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

by the telephone and telegraph; Collins never had to contend with the

circumstance of a pistol Doyle never

silencer and even

had the radio to help baffle his readers. The writer of modern detective fiction has them all to conjure with and with them he can baffle his readers more com- pletely than

the old-fashioned mystery-thriller authors ever im- agined.

Press" (Copyright.)3

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934.

LAST TWO-DAYS

AT

2,30,5.10,7,15 & 9.30 P.M.

\ AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SPRINGTIME WAS HIS LOVETIME!

GTIME FOR HENRY

SPRING!

OTTO KRUGER NANCY CARROLL

NIGEL BRUCE HEATHER ANGEL

HERBERT MUNDIN

FOX

THE TWO “W'S" AT THE QUEEN'S

In Cockeyed Cavaliers"

Hollywood Party

Lilting music, and gorgeous girls, hilarious comedy, spectacu- The famous infirmity, klepto-lar settings and costumes, a few mania, provides much of the Joyous accich in "COCKEYED CAVALIERS" Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey's gay musical comedy...

"Wheeler is seen as a medieval vagabond whose kleptomaniac ten- Berlin, Sept. 12, The noted social and church- into a maze of misunderstandings dencies lead him and his partner man, Dr. Engelke was appointed vicar of the German Evangelical and misfortunes which Woolsey Church and deputy to Reichsbis-

endeavours to straighten out in hop Mueller by a special order on

hilarious fashion. The comics do Wednesday,

their singing, dancing, romancing Engelke gained in-

and joking in early European ternational prominence as the suc cessor of Dr. Wichern to the cap-grounds, while their wisecracks and costumes against medieval back- pacity of director of the famous "Raubes Haus," one of the most

practical Jokes are 1934 vita- renowned Institutes in the contin-

fresh" ultra-modern "The Ninth Guest," one of the

and brand new. most successful and popular my ent for the safeguarding of moral stery plays ever written, contains welfare of youths brought up in every one of the above mention-degrading surroundings. ed inventions. As a play it ran for two years on the New York stage, and has now reached the screen as a Columbia production. It opens to-day at the Alhambra Theatre.

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The play, as written by Owen Davis, leaves rio clues for the de tective, either professional amateur, to ravel into. Instead of tell-tale footprints, the perpetra- tor leaves no clues, for he com municates with his victims by telegraph and telephone he even employs the radio to instruct them. There are no pistol shots

Engelke's appointment was nt- tingly announced on the 100th an- niversary of the foundation of the frst "Rauhes Haus,”— Transocean Kuy Min.

JAPANESE MISSION TO JERUSALEM

[Special to the "Hong Kong

Dorothy Lee, as the comdly daughter of a commoner who is trying to evade a family-arranged marriage with a Duke, carries sweet romatice' with Bert Whee-

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thrills, and a romance these are the ingredients of which Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer has fashioned the much-talked-of "Hollywood Party" opening on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.

The picture, a multi-star (ex- an entirely new form of enter- travaganza, brings to the screen, tainment, in that a logical drama- the story including a love romance. is shown, and intő it are woven all the novelties of a musica. show, each injected as an integral part of the drama itself.

The play deals with the plot of Jimmy Durante, playing "Schnar- zan" jungle star, to get llons for his picture from Baron Munchau- sen (Jack Pearl). The real own- ers of the lion's turm up in the persons of Laurel and Hardy: Jimmy's river," "Liondora" comes to a party given for the Baron, disguised as a grand duke, and plots with an oll millionaire (Charles Butterworth) to obtain the Hons.

ler. Thelma Todd, a Baron's wire and Robert Woolsey are mirthful in their complicated love-making,

Under Mark Sandrich's direc- tion, which won him a Motion Piiture Academy award, "COCK- EYED CAVALIERS" is a flimusi- pected results Lupe Velez. cal with a smooth-running con-crashes" the party for a hilari tinuity in which the dances, come- ous sequence with Laurel

Dallydy," songs, lyrics and common Press" (Copyright.)]

sounds are part of the story. The Jerusalem, Sept. 12

film also features two popular A Japanese commission consis- songs with hit proportions: name. to be heard for a pistol silencerting of university professors, is ly, "I Love to Dilly Dally" and obviates that possibility. A door. Expected to arrive in the next few Went Hunting" by Wil Jason and heavily charged with electricity

days. The aim of the commission Val Burton of "Penthouse Beren- proves a lethal weapon when com-Government, is to invite afteen Love" fame.

which is sent by the Japanese ade" and "Isn't This a Night For bined with psychology, and the criminal in this baffling mystery high school training

hundred young Arabs possessing tale is smart enough to so prey

aged he- upon the imaginations

tween 20 and 25, to visit Japan of his victims that he is guilty of no-

and pursue their higher univer thing but sending men to their Transocean Kuo Min.

sity studies there death only by their own hands. or at the hands of others.

Made into a picture, the pro- duction stars Donald Cook and Genevieve Tobin in the principai roles with a supporting east that includes Hardie Albright, Edward director.

TO-DAY

&

TO-MORROW

Eills. Edwin Maxwell, Vincent Barnett, Nella Walker and Sidney Bracey. Roy William Nell is the

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Elissa Land's first fim under her new Paramount contract will be Enter Madame, with Henry Wilcoxon as her leading man.

Jackle Coogan is being tested for the leading role in Tailspin Tommy, the central character of which is drawn from an American comic strip.

QUEEN'S

Ar 2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9.30

WILD GOLD

John BOLES Claire TREVOR Harry GREEN 20 LANCE

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So Jimmy vamps the oil man's wife (Polly Moran) with unex-

and Hardy, who loose a lion and stam pedes the party, whereupon, the great "Schnarzan" vanquishes the big eat.

Pifteen hundred of Hollywood's

most beautiful girls, spectacular cellophane costumes, great set tings, the remarkable "Musical Wall" in which a orchestra is suspended in mid-air, and other spectacle abounds.

The romance is between Jure: Clyde and Eddie Quan. The picture has another novelty an the appearance of the cartoon. Mickey Mouse; with human actors, and a special" "Silly Symphony" eoncorted by Walt Disney special- ly for this production."

Among the musicar numbers are the big "Hello" ensemble in which a whole révue is staged in a single number; Frances Williams' song with the "Bing Wires"; the spec- tacular "Musical Bar with its beautiful girls; Jimmy Durante's comical Reincarnation":

Hot Chocolate Soldier," a number by Brown and Freed that is used for the Disney Symphony; ve «Had My Moments," the "love moti sung by Eddie Quilian and June Clyde, and others. Rodgers and Hart, Donalson and Kahn, Brown and Freed are three song teams responsible for the lilting bar- maonies of the spectacle.

The Real Reason Diner: "I can't eat this coup. Walter: "Tl call the manager." Diner (when manager arrives): This soup, I can't eat it."

Manager: "I regret that: F fetch the chef.”

Diner (when chef arrives): "I can't eat this soup."

Chef: "What's the matter with

Diner Nothing: I haven't

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25313 25332

SUNDA Y-

UNIVERSAL

PICTURE

Margaret Sullavan

in

LITTLE MAN. WHAT NOW?

with

DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY Fred Kohler, Alan Hale, Mae Marsh, George Meeker, Murial Kirkland, De Witt Jennings, Hedde Hopper.

WONDER BAR

For The Alhambra

Out-doing all previous sensa- tional combinations of stars and spestacles, First Narional's long awaited international musical drama, Wonder Bar," will be presented

the Alhambra Theatre now.

Kay Francis plays the leading feminine role opposite Al Jolson, who portrays the proprietor of the, "Wonder Bar," Ricardo

Cartez

and Dolores Del Rio have the coveted parts of the two dancers, while Dick Powell and "Henry Kolker have the roles of the Americat leader and the husband of Kay composer - orchestra

Francis, respectively. Hal LeRoy, the sensational Broadway player plays the role of himself in thrilling dance sequence.

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Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert play the two American tourista with Ruth Donnelly and Louise Fazenda

as their wives, In im- portant comedy and character roles Robert Barrat has the part of the army officer, who drives his auto over a cliff and uncou- sciously covers up a murder. Fia d'Orsay and Merna Kennedy will will be seen as the two flirtatious hostesses in the fashionable Pari- sian night club.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG.

KING'S:-

"Springtime For Henry"

QUEEN'S:-

·"Wild Gold"

CENTRAL:

15

"Heads we go"

RIENTAL:-

"Madame Butterfly"

KOWLOON

ÁLILAMBRA:-

"The 9th Quest' MAJESTIC:~~

"King Of The Arena" STAR:-

"The Women In His Life"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Little Man. What Now?"

QUEEN'S:~~

"Hollywood Party"

CENTRAL:-

"The Only Girl"

ORIENTAL:-

"Hips Hips Hooray" ALHAMBRA:-

"Top Speed"

STAR:-

"Queen Chistina"

4 SHOWS

DAN

8.30-15.13

1.5-8.50

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road Kɔwlona. Tel 572 10-DAY & TO-MORRO At 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.10.13

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KING OF THE ARENA

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ORIENTAL

THEATRE

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2 DAYS ONLY-10-DAY & TO-MORROW. HERE YOU WILL SEE SCREEN ART IN ALL ITS GLORY. THE MOST MAGNIFICENT PHOTO PLAY EVER PRODUCED. She Gave A Love Greater Than Life!

Madame BUTTERFLY

SYLVIA SIDNEY CARY GRANT CHARLIE RENGLES F&.P. SCHULBERG 'Maductim' Day MARION GERING"

A Tale Loved by Millisia. Proind „ma Lavish Scale With Allie Theate Humor, Pacher, and Haunting Qualitica

ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST · ROMANCES

"OF A NOBLE, UNSELFISH LOVE! Played to the hilt in the matchless passion of Sylvia didney's greatest performance.

"The Miracle" has been so gen- erally and so generously welcomed.

the roles played by the long list of stars assigned to the picture. A few months ago First National

Busby Berkeley, creator of the acquired the screen rights to the

musical numbers that featured production and proceeded at once

"Gold Diggers As "Wonderbar," this unique to make extensive plans for its Street" and "Footlight Parade,”

of 1033"42nd)

musical proved an international presentation as the greatest film

created and staged the special sensation a few years ago.

spectacle of modern times.

musicat spectacles on a scale played for months in all of It is said that the screen version never before attempted even in Europe's capital and was brought of "Wonder Bar returns to some.

these previous successes. Berke extent to the European script ley's ability for sensational de-" which was considerably altered partures from the ordinary in for the American stage production. I camera work has made since. This increases the importance of history in the past year.

It

to this country as a stage "starring on the road after a season in New vehicle for Al Jolson. He took it York and no production

The House of Premier Snowings of the Best Pictures at the Most Popular Prices,

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

ALHAMBRA

18 XTRE

(STAR

screen

Ar 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20

[TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

WEIRD! BAFFLING! THRILLING ROMANCE!

Eight were invited— but the

ninth

come unasked!

the 9

Guest

with DONALD COOK GENEVIEVE TOBIN Directed by ROY WILLIAM NEILL

OWEN DAVIS

Aleo KRAZY KAT CARTOON & MUSICAL NOVELTY

SUNDAY

TOP

SPEED

Another

JOE E BROWN Laugh riot.

The

WOMEN IN HIS LIFE

with Otto Kruger

Una Merket Ben Lyon Isabel Jewell Roscoe Karn

SUNDAY GARBO

Queen Christina

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