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CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY, CHINESE

PICTURE

COMMENCING

*TO-MORROW

Pity the poor sallars on night like this!!

CHESTER MORRIS in

LET'S TALK IT OVER

with MAE CLARKE

Frank Cravan, Andy Devine, Russ Brown. Story by Dore Schary and Lewis Foster. A B. F. Zeidman Production. Directed by Kurt Neu- mann, Presented by Carl Laemmle.

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

SHIRLEY TAKES A BOW

Most parents have had bad dreams of having given birth to a child prodigy, with infanticidal results, Now and then, however, there comes a prodigy whom even an intelligent parent wishes were his. Jackie Coogan in "The 'Kid" was one; Shirley Temple in "Baby, Take A, How" is another... Shirley's parent's are fce people. Her mother is very pretty, and her father, la a stocky," hank- some man of perhaps forty. He is said to be a small town banker. but with Shirley's salary climbing from £30 to £250 a week, she's probably the bank's best custo-

mer.

She looks a lot like her father. Both have blonde complexions, but she hasn't the pulchritude of either of her parents. She has. however, a pair of dancing feet and a buoyant spirit that offsets that easily. Indeed, she's cheerful that the hardest thing directors have to do, so far Shirley is conserned is make her cry. For other parents that would be the Utopian touch.

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"When you meet Shirley, you come away with the belief that to every rule there is an exception. and Shirley is certainly an excep- tlonally well-balanced child. Now a director may say that a child is a great actress, but a grown actor must, if he is human at all, feel

“FRISCO JENNY” that it's all right, for a baby to

At The Alhambra

One of the most dramatic court scenes ever shown upon the screen takes place in the First National

Jenny," pleture, "Frisco

which opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow.

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Here it is that Ruth Chatterton, as "Frisco Jenny" is pilloried on the stand by her own son, who is Ignorant of the fact that she is his mother. She sits silent as he accuses her of being the evil genlüs of the Barbary Coast. notorious for ita evil dives and its licit' traffic in women. Nor does she open her lips when she is convicted of murder and sentenced to be hang- ed, for, paragon of evil that she is, mother love withholds her from making known the facts she, knows will destroy him.

Chatterton's role “in Ruth "Frisco Jenny" is by far the most emotional one she has had since "Madame X." The picture affords her, a rare opportunity to display that great histrionic ability which has clevated her to her present high estate.

This is a stirring tale of San Francisco's water front along the days when Embarcadero in the temples of pleasure and gambling dens flourished unmolested in all their gilded evil.

take a bow. But if she starts stealing them, that's something again,

get Jimmie

Buy try το Dunn to admit anything of the sort. "I just love that kid," he will tell you. "Of course I didn't start out feeling that way. I'm against child wonders in the ma33 as much as anybody, but Sh'rley begins to grow on you, and soon the hardest scene is just play. and neither of you can think of footage or scene stealing after that".

Just how true this is. fun-goers can judge for themselves after seeing Baby, Take A Bow. Ever since Bad Girl, Jimmie Dunn's position as a houfer with a heart- throb has been as fixed as any- thing can be such a

flickering

#

Beld as pictures. But in Baby. Take A Bow, his permance has a lustre, a shine., that makes every-

feel body

younger. Including Dunn. The heart appeal is there, but it's not on the surface. It's too well covered with laughs and, a natural galety that even the most hardened critic forgets that he is viewing a picture at all. great This is high art and tribute to all concerned.

Right here I pause to remark that nothing in our lives need be wasted effort. Twenty years ago, Harry Lachman the director of Baby Take A Bow, used "to a photographer for the Chicago Tribune, and he was a wonder at taking pictures of kids. Not prim society portraits, but natural The plctures of kids at play. editor thought so much of these

be

DUNN & TREVOR Kodak shots of Lachman's that

UNITED AGAIN

In "Hold That Girl”

he used to spread them all over the page. I doubt if, without all this experience, Lachman could have done such a perfect job of Shirley Temple.

King's Theatre today. Because The Sweethearts of ""Jimmy and of the popularity of this new team. Sally," James Dunn and Clarle achieved through their first pic Trevor, are united again in "Hold ture, Fox Film has teamed them That Girl Fox Film's latest re- again in a screen play reported a least which has its opening at the highly brisk and breezy.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, -WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1934.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30,5.10.7.15

9.30 P.M.

James

DUNN

Claire.

K

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

Teamed Again!

in a whirl of love and laughter... James Dunn " and Claire Trever.

those happy, mappy sweet. hearts...in the lightning-fast tale of a live-wire girl reporter and her sleuthing sweetheart

FOX Film Presents

HOLD THAT

TREVOR GIRL!

ONLY/FIVE, BUT SHE'S

Baby

"SON OF KONG”

Sequel To King Kong

Directed by Hamition MacFadd

As origina: scresta play by Padley Nich holi and La

mae Troed

TAR-Shirley Temple (center) with James Dunn and Claire

NEXT CHANGE

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TH. No. 26313 25332

BABTAKE

BOW

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

CLAIRE

JAMES DUNN TREVOR

SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCE-

OK

AT

SUNDAY 28th 11 A.M.

instincts of gratitude and chivalry. In "Son Of Kong" the Lero, Den- ham hearing of a chest of dia- monds, supposedly buried in an ancient temple on Skull Island. leads a new

that expedition to lost land and its prehistoric mon- sters, accompanied by a smal crew and a girl, who, falling love with him, has smuggled her seif aboard ship...

"Song of Kong" RKO Radio Pictures' sequel to the epic fantasy "King Kong" is an entirely differ- Fearing the horrible fate of Den- ent yarn than its startling pre-ham's former crew, the sailors skip. mutiny and fee with the leaving Denham, the girl, and three others stranded, "

decessor.

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The theme of the story tends to romance with adventure, rather than toward unmitigated terrors, which in "King Kong" "reached a high peak in the gigantic ape going to his doom because of his puzsult of a beautiful woman. "Son Of Kong," offspring of this monster, proves to have startling

"SHASHI-PUNHO"}

AN INDIAN TALKING PICTURE LOVERS OF ROMANCE! LISTEN TO THI TALE-OF-LOVE

4.

AND WOE.

The younger Kong proves to be a totally different personality than his tremendous forbear, and to the astonishment of the entire group of adventurers, appoints himself as a personal, bodyguard for Den- bam and Denham's sweetheart.

this.

The strange spectacle of oddly assorted band, and the spe towering above his companions as they dare death in search of trea- sue, is said to provide even great- er thrills than the original story.

Robert Armstrong, the original Denham, again heads the cast while Frank Relcher appears again as Captain Englehorn. Winsome th's and John

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

"Hold That Qlil" QUEEN'S:-

"Stamboul Quest" ORIENTAL:-

“The Show OF"

CENTRAL:-

"Let's Talk It Over

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA:—

"Rustler's. Round Up

AJESTIC: "Fog"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Baby, Take A Bow"

QUEEN'S

"Paris Interlude"

"Shoot The Works"

·ALHAMBRA:---

"Frisco Jenny"

MAJESTIC:-

"Buch Women Are Dan- gerous"

CATHERINE THE GREAT

At The King's

They

said Alexander Korda must be mad, "they" being almost. everybody connected with firs when he set out to film Henry VIII's private life: history on the screen had always been a dismal failure. But, the Laughton › ple- ture made the whole world take potice.

They were sure when he start- ed од another historical film, Catherine the Great" showing at the King's Theatre to-day, that it was a story without the salt of Henry's humour. And again Kords. has the “laugh. Catherine" is undoubtedly Great greater even than its predecessor. If for no other reston, it must be seen by every body for Eliza- beth Bergner's debut in British pictures. Not one of the superla- tive that have been fastened on Miss Bergner has been misplaced She is simply superb; probably most the world's

· consummate

actress.

But there are a hundred other reasons why you must not miss "Catherine the Great."

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, playing Czar Peter I to Bergner Catherine, has his most exacting role, to date and plays it brilliant- 19!

MYRNA LOY

As Queen Of The

Spies

It was out of the question to The party is attacked by natives

send a film company to Stamboul and forced to teef a new landing

for scenes in "the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture. "Stamboul Quest" place. There Denham finds the Helen Mack is the girl in

now showing at the Queen's s Bon Of Kong, trapped in quick-fantastic expédition, sand. Against the advice of his Marston, Clarence Wilson, Victor Stamboul was rought to Holly";

the Wong and Lee Kohmar play other wood. companions Denham assists

parts creature to escape.

Bow the gals do tail for these fast travelling salesman Joan Blondell making hey-hey with Guy Kibbee, coming

to the Alhambra Theatre

ONLY

QUEEN'S

On her lovely back was written the secret that would determine the fate of nations! Gorgeous Myrna Loy in her newest starring triumph, following

The Thin Man."

Myrna

George

LOY BRENT

Stamboul SQuesti

ALSO SHOWING

LAUREL & HARDY

Me and My Pal"

Ar 2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9.90

Sam Wood, Production

Picture

Through weeks of correspon- dence with the Turkish govern- ment and with the aid of tech nical advisers who had I'ved in Stamboul, minature sections of the ancient city were constructed upon the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sound stages. As a result of the painstaking labour of Jending architectural authenticity to the production, the minarets and mos

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ANTHEATRE

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The most bailling måsters of the year! Who was the Killerals and this tog bound ship in mi

ocean!

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MARY BRIAN DONALD COOX REGINALD DENNY A COLUMBIN PICTURE

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NEXT CHANGE SUCH WOMEN"

"ARE DANGEROUS

WITH

WARNER BAXTER

At The Queen's

Paris, Its American colony, gay. goings-on, romance and drama are mixed in a unique blend of entertainment. In "Pati Inter- lude" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's translation of the New York stage hit "All Good Americans," "in which Hope Williams scored one of her finest hits. In the screen version which opens tomorrow at the Queen's Theatre, the attrac- tive and popular Madge Evans plays the Williams role of the in- nocent American girl who took the man she met abroad too seriously, Also prominently cast are Otto Kruger; Robert Young. Una Merkel, Ted Healy, Louise Henry, Edward Brophy, George Meeker, Bert Roach and Richard Tucker.

ALHAMBRA

THE STRU

TO-DAY TILL THURSDAY AT 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 PM. ON THE STAGE

BETTY COMPSON

IN PERSON

in the Sensational Act

with!!

NEW SONGS

by

COWAN & BAILBY ON THE SCREEN-

TO-DAY

ques and crumbling walls are vis-AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M. ible through the windows of the interior settings in the picture

Scenes that are laid in Constan- tinople include a modren Turkist hotel, a typical Turkish garden, a Turkish cafe, the Citadel-and-the courtyard of a Turkish military headquarters. With kaleidoscopic rapidity other Ecenes in the intriguing drama include the headquarters of the German secret. service in Berlin, glimpses of European country-alde as viewed from the windows of trains travel- ling between Berlin and Constan tinople, and many German plea sure places.

All the continerial settings were reproduced in Metro-Goldwyn- Mayers huge shops under the supervision of German and Tür¬ sh advisors, yet they appear as authentic structures photographed in the actual cities in which they exist

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RUSTLERS ROUNDUP

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