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CENTRAL

THEATRE TO-DAY'

AND TO-MORROW 2.30, 6.15, 7.15 & 9.30

Life was a puppet in her hands but love was her

master!

ONCE TO EVERY WOMAN

RALPH BELLAMY

FAY WRAY

TRAILING THE KILLER Coming To The Alhambra

It is

common knowledge "that motion picture productions, like anything dependent upon public favour, run in cycles, as witness the various cycles of gangster. pic

AT THE QUEEN'S

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY,

SHOWING TO-DAT

The Barretts Of Wim-2.30.5.10, 7.15

pole Street

Tas Queen's Theatre is screening & picture which can fairly rank with the best dramas that have been shown in the colony for a very long time. "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" enjoyed good houses during the week-end, and judging by the good opinious ex- pressed on all side, the picture has mado a wide appeal.

The story is that of a Victorian family." Mr. Edward Moulton- Barrett (according to the stand- ards of that age) was 4 proper and upright an. He had certain ileas of propriety which strike a* of the present generation 18 "terribly mean,, but which were in the days covered by the "story, quito the thing to do. Normin Shearer and Maureen O'Sullivan Elizabeth and Hearietta Bár-

were the two principal suf- rett ferers from the elder Barrett's righteousness and there seemed to be little light in their lives until the approach into the story of Eabert Browning (Frederick March) and to some extent Cap- tain. Surtees Cook (Ralph Forbes). The picture began with Elizabeth Barrett a sick woman, without the will

live. The ไป

advent

of Trowning gave her the strength to struggle to health, in spite of her tatber's ignorance and selfishness. face recovered, she found her father in the way between herself and Browning. "You are all I bove says the old tyrant, "and if you leave me, I shall be terribly lonely. Elizabeth is torn between love and happiness on the one xide, and devotion to her father on the other. One particular hit of selfishness snaps. for ever Elizabeth's devotion to her father and she goes out of his house .... and out of his life.

..With Henrietta, her Father is

& 9.30 P.M.

DECEMBER

KINGS

HER BEAUTY MADE MEN

even brothens betray each other!

...Zola's voluptuous daughter of the boule- vards, brought to flaming life by Ameri ca's bright new star!

Sten

Anna

IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRODUCTION OF »

NANA

WITH

PHILLIPS HOLMES - RICHARD BENNETT --- MAE GLARKE ~ 1! MURIEL KIRKLAND-

LIONEL ATWILL

A

Beleased Thru UNITED ARTISTS

ALSO WALT DISNEY'S

CHINA

SHOP

A SILLY SYMPHONY IN BEAUTIFUL TECHNICOLOUR,

LAST

gain a perfect Ogre, although 4 TIMES TO-DAY

here too he laboured under the belief that he was doing good. She, too, denied the one thing in life that was dearer to her than nl the comforts of Mr. Barrett's house and in her case, the climax is just as touching.

There are many humorpus "mo- ments throughout and the picture is undoubtedly one of the best we have seen, for a long time

tures, sex pictures, war pictures, STAR THEATRE

ete. In every instance it will be

found that one outstanding pie

ture has started á vogue and a

host of imitators. Which is all by She Loves Me Not

new ia

way of a prelude to saying that "Trailing the Killer," the World Wide Picture which

Paramount's adaptation scheduled to open at the Alhambra | current season's outstanding

of the

Theatre on Wednestly, is an out theatrical success "She Loves Me standing production which will Not." starring Bing Crosby, and inevitably start a new Vogue in

Miriam Hopkins, showing to-day screen presentations.

at the Star Theatre trents movie- goers to the strange spectacle ot the film industry poking fun at Itself.

Herman Raymaker, the director of this unusual picture, has taken for his theme a simple story of tbo Northwestern sheep country and the ever present

menace of that merciless kiiler, the pada or mountain lion, the most ferocious beast of that continent. The herders find evidence to them suspect a trapper's dog killing their Bocks. The finding of the dog by the mangled body of his master convinces then and the dog is hunted like a beast of prey; Then follow remarkable, acenes of life in the woodlands with the animals themselves as the only ac toTH.

A GREAT STORY!

A GREAT GAST!

A powerfully

dramatic story after nightfail!

of New York

Behind the masks

of the gambling crowd in the

city's smart night life!

4 SHOWS

DAILY

7:13-16.00

Tąki kmi Tram OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

10 1934

BOOKING.

AT THE THEATRE TEL No. 25313

26332

NEXT OHANGE-T

STINGAREE

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

Clark GABLE William POWELL Myrna LOY-

MANHATTAN MELODRAMA

DEATH ON THE DIAMOND

Coming To The Queen's

Directed by Edward Sedgwick,

TO-MORROW

"With

MARY

BOLAND CONWAY TEARLE ANDY DEVINE Henry Stephenson -K-O RADIO PICTURE

ROAD >

WANGHAI

TEL. 2847E

Left, Right! Left, Right!

& WEDNESDAY Rules and Regulations!

A CLEVER

COMEDY

DRAMA.

MIDSHIPMAN JACK SAYS

"To blazes with the navy

I'm

in love! ANCHORS UPI The middies are. coming in a flag flying

show!"

“STINGAREE”.

The King's Next Change

W

It drives a

fellose crazy when he's burning up with love!

IDSHIPMAN

With

The Spirit Annapolis Today!

BRUCE CABOT

General of all Australia. Later he shocked the British Empire by attending a theatre in Melbourne, wearing the Governor's' · ` ́füli regalia. He managed to escape

With him he took Hilda Bourerie, celebrated beauty

and

operatic star of the period. A faw days later the woman reappeared, with a story of having been taken Late in the 1870'a the populous to Stingarne" mountain lair. sections of Australia were ter- She seemed peculiarly unäffented rorized by a notorious, dashing by her experience, and refused to "Stingarce." Robin Hood -bandit, called press prosecution.

AIZODK his depredations was! the kidnapping, of the Governor

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING'S:-

"NAR**

QUEEN'S:-.

The Barretts of Wimpole

Street"

̈ORIENTAL:-

"Manhattan Melodrama”

CENTRAL:-

"Four Aces""

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA:-

"From Headquarters"

MAJESTIC

"Cockeyed Cavallers"

KING'S:-

Coming

'Stingarse"

ALAJESTICI -

"Spitfire"

ORIENTAL:-

"Midshipman Jack"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Trailing The Killer" "Dude Danger"

"NANA"

Showing To-day At The King's

All the vanished colour, fra- grance and elegance of Paris in the 1870's was revived at the King's Theatre to-day where

Nana Samuel Goldwyn's long heralded introductory "American" screen vehicle for his glorious new star, Anna Sten, arrived.

All you have heard and read of Miss Sten's ravishing beauty, her unique and irresistible personality, her great histrionie ability, you will, this reviewer belleves, declare inadequate as a true estimate of this really great new star on the Hollywood horizon. -...

As the scarlet heroine of Emile Zola's famous novel, who rises from street gamin, to music hall star and toast of Paria, Sten is a revelation. Not only does she look well and act well, but she sings well into the bargain a plaintive ballad-entitled "That's Love," writ- ten for her by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart as a finale to an exciting revival of the can-can with which Paris shocked the world, » ̈

T

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Nathan Road Kawkan. Tel. 57232 TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW [At 2.30, 5,20, 7,20 & 9.20 P.M.

WHEELER

12632

WOOLSEY

COCKEYED

CAVALIERS

A wyle of olden chivalric Gay muìckd" Comich happenings! Comely maidens Jain to ce

THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE

NOVRETEN

Buals and hoher be WIII Inson and Val Buen kam. Prodjo & Borusan, matablen modsouri

NEXT CHANGE.... 'SPIT ̈ FIRE'

VITE

KATHARINE HEPBURN.

"FROM HEAD- QUARTERS”

Showing At The Alhambra

Eugene Pallette, who has the

Warner Bros. production, "From role of Bergeant Bogga in the

Headquarters," which is the cur- rent attraction at the Alhambra like for detective roles, but has Theatre, used to entertain a dis

changed

"his v

his mind since portrayal of Sergeant. Heath in the 8.8. Van Dine mystery stories.

Frior to the making of "Froni Headquarters," Fallette had play- ed a return engagement" with Wullam Powell in "The Kennel Murder Case." Before that, ple- ture was completed, he had been cast for "From Headquarters," in which he is associated with Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore New- ton, Robert Barrat, Henry ONeill, Murray Kinnell and others:

Fallette has won considerable fame as a blustering police oficial Ward Mack and Harry Wag: of the old school, and has an un- staff Gibble have selected events from the life of Zals's notorious natural instinct for the detection falling memory "for crooks and -a

courtesan and "woven : them into

of crime. He plays this sort of an absorbing and moving screen police officer against George Brent play that skilfully combines ro-

in the role of a highly intelligent marice and realism, pathos and a and scientific investigator, who touch of raucous comedy,

solves crime by the most modern methods.

"From Headquarters" thrilling and mysterious double.

ir is based uu the story by Cart Young and Madge Evans, and C. the opera star about, and for whom evidence throughout the produc murder case, which takes place in f

A

In the course of the antics of this lightfooted, comedy, that has been, convulsing Broadway audien- ces for months, "She Loves Me Not lambasts the motion picture industry, as thoroughly as any ofing shortly to the Queen a Theatre, "Death Uu The Diamond" com its severest critics, by presenting is the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

"Stingaree" was never heard, of a ludicrous picture of the after Lensational detective thriller that

againin Australia. But for effects of one of the craziest pub-

The deft hand of Dorothy: will entertain in a new fast-moving

years the various capitals of the lieity. stuntsone thet might form.

world wondered about the tall. Araner, Hollywood's only successful easily have happened but never

stern handsome man who followed woman.. director, is in constant did-in motion picture history."

The plot of the film begins land Fitzsimmons, author of "o, Henry Gordon, David Landau, the seamed to have the utmost tion: Goldwyn muy consider him- The stalking of a helpless puppy when a little night-club dancer. 000 witnesses." A series of my Faul Kelly, Edward Brophy, Ted devation,

self well repaid for the eighteen police headquarters, while officers bya alinking puma, delightful witness to a Philadelphia murder, sterious killings in a baseball team, Healy, Nat Pendleton, Ralph The remarkable romance between long months spent in preparation, are grilling suspects in the küling comedy scenes between a she-wolf

the opera star and the bandit is for every detail is polished and

of a millionaire Broadway playboy, takes refuge in a Princeton dor-climaxed by the abooting of a Bushman and Mickey Boobey are and her brood, hunters and the

told in RKO Radio Pictures finished. The sets and costumes the diamond, before others of note in the cast player on

Revelations of police methods in bunted in their fight for existencetary. The father of one of the 60,000 screaming fans, form the The picture was filmed with the current romantic melodrams,

detecting crime and hunting down and the spectacular, sensational boys who is protecting her is a

basis of the amazing plot, and cooperation of the St Louis "Stingaree," so-starring Trene are magnificent and authentic.

criminals are made in the baffing ending wherein the mountain lion motion picture magnate, faced hilarious comedy sud romance Cardinals, and together with other Dunne and Richard Dix, with No more romantle player than

screen play. and the dog come to grips at the with dire rum if his forthcoming

woven into the thrills in a famous baseball players, they ap- Mary Roland in a featured role, Fhilips Holmes could have been end of the trail.

"college picture" is às terrible as unique bit of fim fare,

pear and are seen in action in the coming... on Wednesday at the found to play the handsome young he thinks it is.

The romantic leads are Robert || swiftly-moving drams.

King's Theatre."

Lieutenant George Muffat, in whom Nana Anda her one real, great, traglo passion. The love. scenes are moving and beautiful ⠀ Lionel Atwill is very convincing as Colonel Andre Muffat, Georges elder brother, who falls an unwill- ing slave to Nana's witchery and subsequently wrecks the romance and Ke of his young brother. - As the fatuous old Greiner, dean of the Paris music halls, who loses his head over Nana and raises her to the heights, only to drop her back Into the gutter again warpe learns of her love for the romantic young Lieutenant. Richard Ben- nett is superb.

Francis McDonald, Heinle Cook- lin, Jose da la Cruz and Pedro Rogas comprise about all of the cast" and "while their work is ex- cellent, no acting" could possibly compare with the fourfooted beasts in their natural state.

"Trailing the Killer" offers an evening of stirring and unusually interesting entertainment. It's a genuine screen treat, produced by f. F. Zeidman.

-K

Bo, to save himself disaster; he decides to sign up the dancer and cash in on the resultant publicity...

The intervention of gangsters, police and the dean of the univer sity transforms the affair into a hilarious comedy of misunder- standing and lightning action. When the commotion and hubbub susides, Crosby and the dean's daughter are in love, the dancer is in the movies and Princeton is again swelling in its sacred quiet. Appearing with Crosby and Miss Hopkins are Kitty Carlisle, as the dean's daughter, and Henry Stephenson, as the dean, and in the supporting cast are Warren Hymer, Lynce Overman. Judith A sixteenth century polyptych Allen, George Barbler and Vince

BELGIAN ART TREASURE

(Special air Mall Service)

London, Nov. 15.

has just been discovered in the lit¦ Barnett.

tle church of St. Julien at Ath

Rainger and Robin, and Gordon

which is within a thirty and Revel wrote a series of new mile radius of Brussels. It is hit tunes for "She Loves Me Not.". considered by experts to be a including the already popular fine specimen of that particular Love in Bloom" Eliott Nugent period, when art was, to such an directed from a screen pay by extent induenced by Italy as td Benjamin Glazer. cast a shadow on the orign of al-

most every Belgien painting, VOL

The newly-found paintings are unknown, but

in four panels, measuring 30 in. by tive Flemish art

twenty inches. They are elaborate-sumes that the panels are the work

ly painted on both sides, and bear of a local master of the

the figures of Christ, St. Antony diocese, who was consciously or un-

the Hermit, St Nich

and

St Catherine. The author is

consciously unaware of the Im- pörtance of foreign schools.

Are

SHOWING

TO DAY

GVLEN'S

The Lovers of "Smilin'

Thru” Re-united în

a New Triumph?

Norma

SHEARER

Fredric

MARCH

Charles

LAUGHTON

Ar 2.30, 5.10,

7.20 & 9.30.

P.M.

MEBARRETTS

WIMPOLE STREET

dietro. Goldwyn. boyer Picha0

Mae Clarke and Muriel Kirkland as Bâtin and Mimi, Nang's cronies of the old boulevard days who benent handsomely by her success. and ill repay her for her ben ficence hastening the tragic of her great love, prove a sple foil for Anna Sten's Blavi and with her, form a mary effective tro.

Owen, Jemiá:

ánf÷ard)

ALHAMBRA

TILATED

TO-DAY & TO MORROW

FROM

HEADOUARTERS

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