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ROGER PRYOR

May Be Seen At The King's

You've probably heard the old wheeze of the actor who slept so late every morning he didn't see. what a bowl of oatmeal looked like until he was an old man. Any- way, that autor, wasn't Roger Pryor who may be seen on the

· screen .of the King's Theatre romantically funny picture pro- duced by Universal.

As a rule Roger goes in for the more serious forms of recreations and amusements, such ns cold showers in the morning (not too cold), long hikes before breakfast (not too long), and hot toddles be- fore retiring.

JUST SMITH

Next Change At The Queen's

"Just Smith" coming next wednesday to the Queen's Theatre, presents Tom Walls, the popular comedian. as a happy-go-lucky gentlemanly thief, a type hardly new, but still amusing. With him is Hartley Power, an American fellow crook who lenda yacht to set the stage for a big robbery of seme valuable bonds belonging to a wealthy lady in love with titles."-

him his

In order to get an invitation to her country house, Smith gives a party aboard the yacht to a titled crowd and in turn becomes guest of the wealthy lady. fun starts here. A valuable neck-

the

.The

Early to bed and early to rise." says Roger, or was it someone else? | lace is stolen and everyone is sus- Not that it matters. But Roger pected, Detective Inspector Rolls really is serious. He likes to read(Peter Gawthorne) fastening ar good books, enjoys music and dotes

on modernistic art and Guggen- heim games.

"What's worth doing at all is worth doing well." opines the sanguine Mr. Pryor." And there

Inst upon him. He however, is quite innocent but even" his friend Mortimer thinks he has this time forsaken his code, namely, never to steal jewels, his aim being bonds and money. The end is unexpect-

you have his attitude on everythinged and amazing. all the more to

in life, from playing the, trombone

to enacting torrid love scenes with glamorous, languishing: lovely lead- ing ladies.

"Maybe you don't think that rlaying the trombone is a serious Pastime?" queries Roger with con- iction. "Then you've probably never had the neighbours aiming at you with deadly precision."

At that Roger should know, since

the already puzzled Inspector.

"Just Smith" is an adaptation of Frederick Lonsdale's stage play "Never Come Back" and the hom- ours go to Smith and his friend. The subtlety of the diologue is re-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934.

TO DAY!

ONLY

a

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

•KINGS •

She was crowned queen of beauty-but all she wanted was the love of the man whose agile brain had made her such}.. Don't miss the fun in this great comedy-drama with incidental music and songs!

ROMANCE

"the RAIN

UNIVERSAL PICTURE

freshing and the film has been JIMMY THE GENT DOLORES DEL RIO

produced by Tom Walls with all his calent for English light-comedy. The supporting cast includes Carol Goodner, Anne Grey, Leslie Per-

ht probably annoyed his neigh-rins and Reginald Gardiner, all of hours plenty as a child, while earn-

whom contribute fine perform-

ing to play the trombore and a ances. dozen other instruments,

You see, Roger's musical talent

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BOOKING *AT THE

THEATRE TEL No. 253813 95332

FROM TO-MÓRNOW

JUNCLE

TRAP"

A Paramount Fietsro with

Charles LAUGHTON

Carole LOMBARD

Charles

BICKFORD

HIDE OUT"

Coming To The Starring in Madame Due To Open At The

Alhambra

came as naturally to him as Jimmie "MEN IN WHITE" Jimmy The Gent" which comes

Durante's nose, only it didn't take

s long to develop. H's master. attended to that.

"I was brought up in the atmos- phere of music and the drama," he says, "But above all else I was taught to keep my head up and my feet on the ground all the time, unless, of course, I had a cold, then a tub of hot water is much better,

I think."

Turning down the opportunity of going to college, because the doc- tors told him he had a weak spine and would never make the football team, Roger turned his footsteps towards the stage and started to take "deep breathing exercise. "I developed by lungs that way so that

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At The Oriental "

Theatre

nt

Co-

Men in White," the new Metro Goldwyn-Mayer production starring Clark Gable" and Myrna showing the Oriental Loy Theatre on Friday and Saturday is an absorbing drama bascil on the stage play by Sidney Kingsley, still running in New York at the Broadliurst. Theatre..

to the Alhambra Theatre soon. carries a theme so novel and un- usual that the picture promises to e one of the laughing sensations cf the screen.

Du Barry"

Queen's To-day

"Elide-out" the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture scheduled for open ing today at the Queen's Theatre is heralded as one of those whole- some film productions which leave those lasting impression who see it. It deals with a happy-go-lucky post-repeal racke deer who, believing he has every- thing one could wish for in.

without working

James Cagney's latest starring: Showing for the first time yester production for Warner Bro-day "Madame Du Barry" should draw good houses at the Alhambra, It is a delightful comedy with gorgeous settings and full of frivol- 1:3. Dolores Del Rio the beautiful young star, alded by an all star cast and the dancing girls are something marvellous. Warner Brothers have outdone themselves life-money In producing this film.

The picture is based on the hilarious comedy romance by Laird Doyle and Ray Nazarro and con-

cerns a couple of heir chasers who are rivals both in business and in

love.. Their efforts to dig up heirs, phoney or otherwise, to vast estates in order to collect fortunes for which there are no claimants, are as funny as they are revealing in their unscrupulousness.

It was late last September that

Cagney, as the tough mug racks- two organizations known as the tears, and Alan Dinehart, a po- Group Theatre and Sidney Harished grafter who steals the baby's I could holler for more money." * mon and James Riinan produc: candy the while he sips tea and He did attend public school and aed this drama of passions in and couple of private ones, but thought around a great metropolitan hos talks of ethics, leave no stone un- the latter were a bit immoral be-pital. The reception accorded the turned in their efforts to discredit was inmediate and each other in order to win the love- cause they didn't have any prin-production cipals,"

"That gives you an idea how nalve (it's "dumb" West of the Mississippi), I was in those days, sighs Roger reflectively. while fingering a forget-me-not in his fapel.

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Be that as It may he finally traded his old trombone for a pair of creased trousers and a purple tie and joined a travelling stock còm- pany. But he still cherishes that dear old instrument. In fact, he likes all instruments except a pair of forceps.

He doesn't like osteopaths and spinach and his suppressed desire 1s NOT to play Napoleon or Hamlet. He is six feet tall. weighs 160 pounds.

BAN CREATES". DEMAND

"Best Seller" Made Overnight

(Special Air. Mall Service)

-London Nov. 3.

overwhelming. Burns Mantle of the Daily News, bestowed the four star rating on the play, à, disting tion which has been granted to only one other play this Robert Garland of the world Telegram, put the drama at the top of his list of the ten best plays of 1934. And people on all side began to talk of it as the natural candidate for the Pulitzer Prize,

NOT SO SERIOUS

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Nov. 3. Since Elgar, Delius, and Holst have passed from the scene, Dr. Vaughan Williams stands

out

the most eminent British "compos-

er.

That this responsibility does not weigh him down unduly is indi- cated by the fact that his newest work ends with a polka and gallop.

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It is a Suite for Viola and Or chestra, and is unlike anything

else he has written.

Its first performance will be at the Courtauld-Sargent Concert, at the Queen's Hall, on November. 12.

the Ministry's business to bel citizens and tax-payers,

Next morning the ban was im-

Mr. Harry Stevens, the Canadian Minister of Trade, whose resigns-posed. tion has just been announced, be- came early in August Canada's most

author-with .. popular

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Banned Into Notoriety What had been an obscure and hardly read" publication became pamphlet, which Mr. Bennett, the valuable almost beyond price. Prime Minister suppressed. Hils resignation is the sequel to an in- "cident that was not without its

humour.

Newspaper offices in Ottawa, where the pamphlet had been lying. unnoticed, were, besieged. Private companies st typlets at work mak- Ing copies. Queues formed to buy the one Ottawa journal that had published it.

The pamphlet was issued by Mr. Stevens after an inquiry by a Government committee.. This, in turn, arose out of a vigorous speech A thriving "bootleg" trade by Mr. Steveris on sweated labour. sprang up. The Dominion capital Mr. Stevens declared that the was so anxious to read the banned booklet was intended for private pamphlet that Mr: Bennett wryly circulation only. However, coples observed that at a dollar a copy it found their way to the newspapers would make a dent in the National and to the public.

Debt. It contained a rather acid at Strenuous, but evidently vain, tack on firms which had not been efforts have since been made to called before the inquiry. Present-heal the breach between Mr. Ben- ly in fact in the middle of the nett and his lieutenant. It is well night Mr. Bennett was rung up. known, however, that Mr. Stevens by a series of indignant executives was never a great favourite of the who wanted to know whether it was Premier."

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ly Bette Davis, who has the role of an investigator entirely innocent of the two-timing methods of her Boss, Dinehart.

Others in the cast include Victor Jory as the powerful Duc d'Alguil- lon. Osgood Perkins as "Richelleu" Verree Teasdale as the Duchess de Orammioot and Anita Louise as Marie Antoinette.

“ROMANCE IN

THE RAIN"

Showing At The King's

од

for

it, romance and pleasure-comics to his senses after he has been driven from New York by the police, only to find real love and happiness in

rural environment.

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TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA HONG KONG

'KING'S:—

"Romance In The Rain"

QUEEN'S:-

"Hide 'Out"

DRIENTAL:-

"Men in White"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA:—

"Madame Du Barry"

MAJESTIC:

"Tarzan and His Mate'

KINGS:-

Sunday

"Jungle Trap"

QUEEN'S:-

"Hide Out” ORIENTAL:-

: "20,000 Years In Sing Sing". MAJESTIC:~~

Tarzan and His Mate

ALHAMBRA

"Madame Du Barry"

4 SHOWS

ONLY $

1,30-5.10

1.13–0.30

MAJESTIC

PARA THEATRE

Nathan Road Kowloon, Tel; 57222 SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

HIS

GREAT

NEW

JUNGLE

ROMANCE!

\JOHNNYA

WEISSMULLER

TARZAN MATE

AND HIS

with MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

j

His primitive love-call will bring you a new kind of thrill, See the oco and only Tarzau dare a thouasad jungle terrors-for his br de-in the greatest adventure remance of all time?

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Picture

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DOUBLE SHOW LAUREL & HARDY IN

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AND

THE SCREEN SENSATION

Clark GABLE

30

MYRNA LOY MEN IN WHITE

JEAN HERSHOLT ELIZABETH ALLAN

Orta KRUGER

The picture is crammed with all of the excitement of Big Town life and the purity and simple existence of ย rural

community. As"

tbe "Lucky" Wilson,

playboy, Robert Montgomery has a made-to- order role. Reluctantly he is com- pelled to find a country hide-out to escape arrest and to recover from a bullet wound, but he soori becomes entranced with the country when he meets Maureen O'Sullivan, farmer's cust in the role of a daughter,

Prominently cast in "Hide-Out" is Edward Arnold. In the role of Mr. Miller, Elizabeth Patterson is seen. The picture serves as the now debut of one of the stage's finest Kane. showing at the King's Theatre, is character actors-Whitford an unusually clever musical come- Mickey Rooney, 18-year-old boy dy with Roger Pryor and Heather actor, and said to be one of the Angel in the leading roles.

film colony's most talented child actors, plays the role of the young' The story, in brief concerns a modern Cinderella who is beset antics and mischief add consider. farm lad, Willie Miller, whose with poverty and drudgery at homeable humour to the picture. until her Prince Charming comes" Others in the large supporting along and opens wide the gates of east include C. Henry Gordon, wonderland to her.

Muriel Evans, Edward Brophy,

One woman. among glinking, Interspered in the story is sever-Henry Armetta. Herman Bing treacherous Malay natives and on his director and Warner execuat musical highlights including the Louise Henry and Harold Huber. ruthless, woman-starved white tives a specially designed haircut, Cinderalla Ball, featuring a flock The picture was filmed by the well- with scars showing beneath, that is of dancing beauties, while laugh known director, W. S. Van Dyke.

It is not until the sinashing cmax in which Cagney huris his ival off a steamship after a battle ya that Bette's eyes are opened to the perfidy of her luxury loving bosa. Alice White as a dumb and somewhat mushy cutie, together with, Allen Jenkins, her lover and right hand man to Cagney, have been placed in "roles that should add confiderable to the fun of the plect.

Cagney is said to have put över

"Romance in the "Hain,"

David

a laugh just in itself. It is claim- ter is also in abundance supplied ed that Cagney deliberately sets by Victor Moore, Paul Kaye, Chris- out to make his tough mug char-tian Guinn Williams and acterizations hilariously funny, and Worth. Judging from his past perform- aaces this can be readily credited.

While the star is said to pull his others in more important parts in- usual amount of rough stuff he is cluding Arthur Hohl, Philip Reed, also called upon to take it. for. Hobart Cavanaugh, Mayo Methot, according to the story, Bette Davis Ralte Harolde, Philip Faversham lands on him plenty before she and Nora Lane, Michael Curtiz anally falls for his blandishments. 'directed from the screen play by

There is a well balanced cast, Bertram Milhauser,

SHOWING

TO DAY

Robert

MAUREEN:

Eloquence

"Edith positively talks with her eyes."

"And I suppose when she feels" ilke swearing she just gives a cur- sory glance."

The Pan Of The Fair "Blondes bave a better time than brunettes" a social observer notes:"

QVILN'S

AT HIS HAPPIESTS.

IN

AT 2.30, 5,10,

7.20 9.30

MONTGOMERY

Mide Out

O'SULLIVAN

EDWARD ARNOLD

ELIZABETH PATTERSON-

SELECTED SHORTS

Another delight

ful movie of the class of "The Thin Man

"JUNGLE TRAP".

men.

At The King's To-morrow

"That's the spot in which Carole Lombard, motion picture actress, finds herself in "Jungle Trap," the new Paramount picture, coming an Sundays to the King's Theatre,

Directed by Stuart Walker, weil known stock director and producer, the picture also features Charlese Laughton, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor, Parcy Kilbride, New York stage player, Charles Middleton and Noble Johnson, one of. the screen's leading colored actors.

Shunned by society, the victim of: malicious gossip, Carole seeks a livelihood as entertained in a ques- Coveted by t'onable Malay dive. Laughton, course overlord of the natives, she accompanies him to the old houseboat, far in the fun- gle, which is his home and trading post

Thrown into this last stop from hell," the only white woman fri a rendezvous of broken ruler, never- theless, fights with all her womanly Instincts to redeem Kent Taylor, young,

bandsome, member Laughton's band.

of

And the strange romance be- tween this lone, white woman and the man who has lost his soul in this legion of the damned, fur nishes the substance of the story

The film is based on a play by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank "Buller......

Oversight.

"Why did you steal one of those wo apples last night,

"T'didn't notice in the dark the there were two

FLEMING

ROAD LANGHAI

TEL. 19472

FOR TO-MORROW AND MONDAY.

A

PUNCH-PACKED

THRILLER

A blazing story told by the men who knows a thousand vice wecrots, and secret vicu.

20,000 YEARS IN SING SING

Adanly unites be the Warlow of them. The

LEWIS E. LAWES

· SPENCER TRACY - BETTI DAVIS

ALHAMBRA

THE STRE SHOWING TODAY The Most Lavish Picture of the Year !

„She Climbed

from the Gutter to the Throm quil Back Again!

HEPORN SHUREST

ENDUSED!

Dit-Ria

..

titred

MADAME

D. BARRY

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