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CHINESE PICTURE THE LOVE OF

"FAIRYLAND"

COMING ATTRACTION

AT THE KING'S

She Learned About

Sailors"

The old saying that a sailor has a girl trend in every port is borne cur by Lew Ayres in She Learned "Aboni Sailors which opened at the King's Theatre yesterday. Alice Faye plays opposite the popular Ayres and for really amusing en- tertainment, She Learned About Sailors" is hard to beat.

Aiding and abetting these two with the comedy are those knock

THE BIG LAUGH out slapstick artists, Mitchel and

SHOW! THE POOR RICH

WITH

EDWARD EVERETT |HORTON-EDNA MAY OLIVER,

UNİVERSAL «PICTURE.

Durant, who are Lew's shipmates the picture, and Harry Green,

LA

& South American impresario. The story takes them from Asiatic port. through the vicissi Ludes of life on shipboard to a cafe in San Pedro, California.

Apart from the feature film, a very interesting and instructive "short" entitled Krakatoa 19 presented, and if only to see this alone, a visit to the Theatre is thoroughly recommended. As may. le guessed from the name, "Kraka tuo, is a volcano picture.

4 SHOWS

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

DAILY

2-30-513

7.13-3.20

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FLEMING

ORIENTALE

THEATRE.

2 MORE DAYS-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW THEY'RE LOOSE AGAIN!

THE FUNNIEST SHOW YOU EVER SAW 24 MARX BROS. in the most hilarious concoction of good.

comedy situations ever conceived.

A FAST MOVING LAUGH SHOW, PRESENTED ON A LAVISH SCALE.

THE

in

LAUGH, TOWN, LAUGH!

MARX BROS.

"DUCK SOUP"

Directed by

Leo McCarey

A Paramount Ficlure

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LONDON BY THE proposal The procedure he will

AIR MAIL

Jubilee Year Stamps

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Sept. 5. The King's Sliver Jubilee next year is to be commemorated by a special issue of postage stamps.

The Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley Wood is considering the

SHOWING

TO-DAY

doubtless adopt is to appoint a committee of experts. including one or more representatives of the Royal Academy, and acknowledged authorities on stamps, to formu- late suggestions as to design.

It may be taken for granted

that the King's head, as on all stamps issued by the General Post Office, will form part, if not the whole. of the design. It is. how- evor, possible" that it will be re- commended that in addition to. th King's head views of famous British scenes should be included

SILENCE ZONES ALL OVER

BRITAIN

+

་་

It was officially announced yes- terday that the silence zones, in

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1934.

LAST

TWO-DAYS

A? 2.30, 5.10,7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

KONTOY

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

A GORGEOUS BLONDE WAS SHEI

and

SHE LEARNED

ABOUT SAILORS

THE BEST & HORT

SUBJECT OF

THE YEAR

A FOX Ficture with

LEW AYRES ALICE FAYE HARRY GREEN Frank MITCHELL and Jack DURANT

ALSO

*Produced by

JOHN STONE

Directe. by GEORGE MARSHALL Based on a story by Randall H. Faya

"KRAKATOA "PICTURES OF GREAT

PAH KONG ARSENAL

COMPLETED

Canton, Sept. 21.

The Pah Kong Kisenai buildings having been completed and it having been decided by the Mili- tary Authorities that everything connected with the aer al should be up-to-date. Mr. Tang Yan Chuen, assistant director of the Shek Cheng Arsenal was sent to Germany in July "last to" make necessary, purchases of machinery and appliances, etc.-

Mr. Tang Yan Chuen and his assistant received their education and training in Germany, which accounts for, General Chan Chai Tong placing them in the charge of this new arsenal.

It is expected that the first in stalment of machinery will arrive from Germany at the end of this month...

Nam Wah Yat Po.

which motorists are forbidden to hoot between. 11.30 p.m. and seven a.m., are to be extended to all

butit-up" areas throughout Great

Britain.

KING TO OPEN NEW LIBRARY AT CAMBRIDGE

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The new University Library at Cambridge will be officially opened by the King on Monday October 22. The library has taken nearly two years to build upon a specially prepared foundation from a design by Sir Gilbert Scott. The total cost is approximately £500,000,

QVLLNS

TARZAN

Tarzan

AND HIS MATE

mighty monarch of

the jungle... returns to battle for his bride in the greatest thrill drama of all time

with

MAUREEN

N

PAUL CAVANAUGH

Metro-

Goldwyn.

Mayor's

TRIUMPH

Ar 2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9.30

THRILL

A

MINUTE

FIRST BENSATIONAL

- SEA VOLGA- NO IN RIPTION:

WONDER BAR

Showing At The

Alhambra.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

Tr. No. 25318 25392

WEDNESDAY

•HOLD/

THAT GIRL!

with

JAMES DUNN CLAIRE TREVOR

Directed by Hamilton MacFadden

An enginal screen play by Dudley Nichols and Lamar Tront

MURDER IN THE PRIVATE CAR

With Charlie Ruggles

"Repeal" said Charlie Ruggles sadly, "has reformed me!”

And it's true.

With an all-star cast including such well-known names as Al Jol- son, Kay Francis, Dolroes del Rio, Richard Cortez Dick Powell, Hal DeRoy and Guy Kibbes, Wonder Bar" which opened to crowded houses at the Alhambra on Satur- day is a picture which every mu-tight, jiggled, or even mildly sic-lover should see..

splifflicated since prohibition was repealed. In pictures, that is to

The comedy star who has played more intoxicated parts than any- body else in pictures hasn't been

Like "42nd Street" and "Foot-Bay. light Parade." this picture is main- ly composed of brilliant musical numbers but it surpasses its prede- cessors "not 'only hírlik uniqueness and novelty, but in the beauty and grandeur of its spectacle and Its throbbing drama of life.

The musical numbers are 97- ranged on a grand scale and spec- tacluar especially "Goin' to Hea- ven on a Mule" and "Why Do I. dream those dreams."

Behind this extravaganza, is a story of a dancer (Dolores del Rio) who is madly in love with her however, is tired of her and is partner (Ricardo Cortez). He,

playing around with Liane Renaud (Kay Francis), the wife of a pro- minent banker. Jealousy soon be- comes evident with the result that the dancer stabs her partner · to death in the course of their act,

The way in which the proprietor of the night club (Ål Jolson) gets rid of the body while at the same time endeavouring to get on with the show 'makes the picture both entertaining and thrilling.

Al Jolson - proves himself to be as entertaining as ever as the club proprietor and sings two cat- chy songs, while the rest of the cast contributed to the success of the picture in no small measure.

If you want to see spectacular

go. dancing numbers,

to the Alhambra.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

London, Sept. 21. The general undertone on the Stock Exchange to-day was good, and home industrials, notably mo-; tors and rayons, showed advances. Gult-edged prices made further headway, 31 per cent. War Loan, advancing to 105. Consols Fours to 1139, and Funding Fours to 4164

all new high records. British Wireless.

TREASURY BILLS

London, Sept. 21,

A total amount of £65,585,000 was applied, for in tenders for £40,000.000 Treasury bills, The amount silotted in bills at three months was £35,000,000. The aver age rate per cent. was 9/3.45 as compared with 10/561d a week

·ago.

British. Wireless:

"I can't imagine why it is” Ruggles said during the filming of "Murder in the Private Car", in which he plays a mysterions and strictly sober de-flector or sinister crime, "but they've quit writing drunk parts for me since liquor was legalized. Before that I was asked to be ofled at least once in every picture."

His part in "Murder in the Private Car" is exacting that he has to be sober every minute, for he is called upon to protect Una Merkal. Mary Carlisle, Russell Hadle and others in the cast from a succession of fearful fates. They are

menaced by wrecks, glant gorillas, assassing and a variety of dire horrors from beginning to end.

"

of In spite the thrills, the comedy, picture is replete with Ruggles contributing one of his funniest performances.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING'S:-

"She Learned About Sailors" QUEENS:--

“Tarzan And His Mate"

CENTRAL:

*The Love Of Fairyland" (Chinese Ficture)

ORIENTAL:-

"Duck Soup"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA:----

“Wonder Bar”

MAJESTIC:

"The Way To Love"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Hold That. Girl”

THE WORLD CHANGES

Paul Muni Scores Again

Paul Muni, noted stage and Alm star, will be seen at Alhambra Theatre on Thursday next, in his" latest

starring production for Warner Bros.. First National, “The World Changes."

This is his first, appearance. films since his memorable" charac- terization of the fugitive in "I Am a Fugitive.. from a Chain Gang." after which he went to New York to play in the stage production of "Counsellor at Law." · Always 'o Ane portrayer of character, his present role of a pioneer American, who quite his log cabin home on the Dakota

and .plains

be comes a most powerful force in American industry, is said to have given him the opportunity to sur- puss 207 characterization he has ever attempted.

Muni 19 first seen as a youth f unbridled ambition and dominat-

g character, willing to dere all cbstacles to gain his ends. The story follows the character through various stages of his lif: warding with a smashing climax in which he appears as old man, bitter and broken by his disappointmert at the life his worthless sons and their children lead.

The story by Sheridan Gibney, “America Kneels." upon which the picture 's based, "is a colourful picture of American life with an epochal sweep of four generations covering some of the most impor- tant event in the History of the nation. Edward Chodorov

the dramatized

story for

screen.

the

"Murder in the Private Car" is coming next

that was sensationally successful Thursday to the It is brought to the screen with Queen's Theatre as the feature added thrills by Metro-Goldwyn- attraction. Many will remember it I Mayer, as directed by Harry Beau-

mont. as "The Rear Car", the stage play.

Mudred Dawn

appeared at the Hong Kong Hotel on Saturday

night

MAJESTIC

THEATRE=====

Nathan Baad Kowloon, Tel 5722 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW (At 2,80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 PM

HE'S A LOVER OF PAREE!

Maurice

CHEVALIER

THE WAY TO LOVE

ANN DVORAK

EDWANO EXERETT HORTON-

The picture has the glamour and romance of a great captain of industry smashing his way to a world figure.

The cast selected to support Muni is commensurate with the bigness and scope of the theme It is not only a notable cast, but numbers twenty-eight important parts, the largest in any Warner Bros. plcture this year.

Among them are such "players as Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook, Patricia Ellis Jean Mul Margaret Lindsay. Guy Kibbene, Theodore Newton, GordonTM West- cott, Alan Dinehart. Henry O'NeHlE Anna Q. Nilson. Arthur Hohl William Janney and Phillip Favers" ham. Tse picture was directed by Mervyn LeRoy who also directed Muni in "I Am a Fugitive from s Chain Gang."

ALHAMBRA

FUESTRE

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON,

-HOWING TO-DAY

THE SHOW OF 10,000 WONDERS!

WANNIR BR05.

W

KAY FRANCIS

DICK POWELL

IN

DOLORES DEL RIO

D

AL JOLSON

RICARDO COR

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