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CENTRAL

THEATRE FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

2,30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9 30.

Life was a puppet in her hands but love was her

master!

ONCE TO EVERY WOMAN

RALPH BELLAMY FAY WRAY

TO-MORROW. ELISSA LANDI IN

SISTERS UNDER

THE SKIN

WITH

FRANK MORGAN

JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT

COLUMBIA, PICTURE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY DECEMBER 11, 1934.

DEATH ON THE TO-DAY

DIAMOND

Coming To The Queen's

and Actors

professional balt players join forces to agure in a grapplug detective mystery

Death On The Diamond, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's sensational... new production coming on Thursday to the Queen's in conjunction with the Rhapsody Girls Revue

Based on an amazing story by Cortland. Fitzsimmons, and dealing with a series of mysterious killings in a baseball team during a pen- nant race, the, new picture blends harrowing bewilderment with hun- dreds of proarious comedy inter ludes, and with a lovely romance, in distinctively how form of screen entertainment,

Filmed with the cooperation of the St. Louis Cardinals, which team, as well as the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs, are seen in action, the picture waa, directed by Edward Sedgwick, former ball player and noted for his sports pictures. The quarters of the Cardinals were used for "loca tion for considerable amount of the action of the picture

A baseball player is killed on the diamond, and suspicion falls on all characters in turn until the amaz ing solution in the very last sequence of the picture.

A notable cast includes Robert Young and Madge Evans in the romantic leads. Prominent in the supporting roles are Nat Pendle-

ONLY

2.30,6:10,7.15 & 8.30 PM:

KINGS

HER BEAUTY MADE MEN.

even brothers- 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 PROCLICTION OF

NANA

WITH

al

LIONEL ATWILL -PHILLIPS HOLMES - RICHARD BENNETT — MAE CLARKE

MURIEL KIRKLAND- "Released Thru UNITED ARTISTS

ALSO WALT DISNEY'S CHINA SHOP"

A BILLY SYMPHONY IN BEAUTIFUL TECHNICOLOUR.

lion. Ted Healy, Edward Brophy AT THE QUEEN'S

and C Henry Gordon

"NANA"

The King's Attraction

In transporting Anna Sten from Soviet Russia to the fragrant, gaslit Paris of 1780, far from her native manner, speech, or thought, for "Nana" ber first American film, showing to-day at the King's

WORLD'S HEAVY Theatre, producer Samuel Gold-

WEIGHT FIGHT

Shown At The King's

To-morrow

Coinciding with the opening of the local boxing season, RKO Ra- dio Pictures will release at the King's Theatre on Wednesday, the complete screen, version of the Heavyweight Championship

bat- tle between Max Baer and Primo Carners.

Every detail of this great fight can be seen in the picture, with slow motion on the decisive ac- tion.

In fact, one is able to see "very much more from the picture than the thousands of fans at the ringside,

wyn depended upon Miss Sten's genius and skill as an actress to transcene time race and space.

The Barretts Of Wim- pole Street

DOW

سلامية

In Norma Shearer's new picture, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" showing the Queen's Theatre we have the pleasure of seeing three winners of tile "an- nual Motion Picture Academy Award appear together. They are Miss

Shearer, who stars 23 izabeth in the famous tale of the poetic love: Fredric March who plays opposite as the ardent Robert Browning, and Churles Laughton most recent winner of the award who shines .28 the diabolical father. The formance of each is so finished, so smooth and rich that comparision is impossible. Never was there a more tender Elizabeth, a more poetic Browning,'" demoniac elder Barrett than these

A good actress can do anythings and be anyone, Goldwyn claims And so, in the free adaptation that Willard Mack and Harry Wagsta Gribble made of the famous Zola novel, Anna Sten 'became Nana billowing, full-three present.. Upped and full hipped; warm, white and loving the most notorious and the most colourful courtesan of her day.

Beside her march Muriel Kirk- land and Mae Clarke, as the other two of the three scarlet Mus- keteers of the boulevards of Paris,

The rhythmic thumping of the can-can, with which the city of light shocked the world is heated; so are the naughty ballads of the day, with Richard Bennett - pre- siding, as dean of the Paris music halls. The glittering splendour of those music halls

the and elegance of women who made art are seen

The Baer-Carnera Fight was one of the most discussed battles in the history of the ring, and was easily the greatest Interna-pleasing men an tional sporting event of the year. Many thought Carnera would re- tain his crown, especially as Baer was given out to be a ladies' man and had neglected his training for the Night Clubs.

The local, presentation of this film has been held back to await the return of the Fleet and to coincide with the boxing season.

EXHIBITIONS OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL ART

(Special Air-Mall Service).

London, Nov. 21.

A strect of shop windows is to be

built at Burlington House, and new

again as Zola's heroine contunes her depredation up to the very pinnacle of the society of the Second Empire, and to her down. fall

“STINGAREE”

Coming To The King's

Title trouble has long been the bugabon of film. producers. Now David Lewis, associate producer for RKO-Radio has received letters protesting the appearance of Irene Dunne and Richard Dix in the current romantic melodrama, Theatre on Wednesday, the writers "Stingaree" coming to the King's

deprecating the casting of such great players in a "fish" picture, of all things!

With tears in his eyes. Lewis pleads to inform the world the pestingaree" is not a fish at all, but a notorious and handsome bandit who terrorized Australia in the late seventies... He was not only a daring rogue, but an esthe- tic one as well," and highly edu- cated. Between his crimes he composed beautiful music.

or a more

Miss Shearer, 28 the star, naturally carries the brunt of the film-and carries it with all the grace and charm and polish that made

"Riptide" and "Smilin' Thru the successes they were. As the invalided Elizabeth, she brings a poignant, wistfulness to her characterization that reaches deep down into the heart of the

auditor.

The Alm, as a production, de- serves unrestricted praise, The

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-TO-MORROW

The fare

STINGAREE

With

MARY BOLAND

CONWAY TEARLE ANDY DIVINE Henry Stephenson. R-K-O RADIO PICTURE

THE ORIENTAL THEATRE

**Midshipman Jack”

A midshipman who spent four years at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolls and now trying to imbue incoming plebes with the spirit of the Academy which he himself. had never quite acquired, is the paradoxical situa- tion of Bruce Cabot in "Midship- Anak Jack" showing at the Oriental: Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday...

Cabot is seen in the title role of "Midshipman · Jɛck"

an *3 irascible Cabot who takes orders under protest. He reaches the end of his commandant's patience. and is placed on probation with immediate distnissal as the penalty for the next slightest in- traction.

Friendship of an ex-gob, who seeks Academy graduation over- The name "Stingaree" was coin- come Cabot during thrilling var ed by the crook himseld when he manoeuvers. A seaplane and sub- said that "due, to the exigencies of marine chaser crash in a terrific his profession he was a mari with-head-on collision caused by his out love, a human, fish a fish with a stinger, like the "Stingaree”.

The picture deals with how he quit being a fish and won love by brazenly kidnapping a beautiful singer and forcibly wooning her with the idea of helping ber

career.

string of excellent players in the supporting cast, including Maureen Ralph Forbes, Unz O'Sullivan. O'Connor. Katharine Alexander. Marion Clayton, Leo Carroll, Fer- dinand Munter, and Ian Wolfe, all of whom add their able touch to

thought, staging, and nicety of detall characteristic of all Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer productions are even more in evidence than usual. Director Sidney Franklin shows the touch of the expert craftsman seen before in "The Guardsman" and "Smilin' Thru" in the com- pelling tempo maintained through- out the performance and the ↑ the glittering whole.

in which way

thei The war with Prussia is herald-masterly

characters are handled. ed in the martial persons of

Besides Buch titans of the Lional Atwill and Phillips Holmes, playing Colonel Andre Muffat and dramatic arts, there is also a long his younger brother, Lleutenant George Mufat, both victims Nana's witchery.

of

Dorothy Arzner directed the tim, which was released through United Artists, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Haft wrote "That's Love" the bitter lament sung by Miss Sten

exhibits will be arranged fort- FLOODLIGHT

nightly by experts for the Exhibi-

tion of Art in Industry, will open

there in the New Year.

"The exhibition will be the first

LONDON

(Special Air Mall' Service)

London, Nov. 21.

all-British show of its kind, and is, Part of the celebrations of King- being arranged Jointly by the George's silver Jubilee next year Royal Society of Arts and the the principal buildings in London Royal Academy

are to be foodis, as they were dur ing the iluminations Engineering Congress & few years ago. During that period electrical experts re- ceived much criticism from both public bodies and private indivi-..

Mr. John A. Milne, chairman of "the Council of the Society, claimed that the display will "astonish not only Britain, but the world at large."

The exhibition, he stated, would | duals, among them the London Bo- contain a dining-room living room, clety. Later in the display much bedrooms bath-rooms, a kitchen, of the criticism was modified. Tursery, and a terrace garden. In the case of articles used in the daily round women would mostly be the selectors and judges -

The main object of the exhibi- tion was to demonstrate the ah:

The Information is that the wir ing to be laid down for the jubilee ilghting will in all likehood be of a permanent character. This wil add conelderably to the expense. It will; however, mean that any of

surdity of the too prevalent bellef the London buildings so wired that good designs could be secured. be fopdilt on any of every big. only outside Britain.

casion

SHOWING

TO-DAY

of

2.

If you see "The Barrette Wimpole Street" you will see famous play made into a brilliant picture.

friend's negligence. Cabot *.5- gumes the blame, risking dia- honourable discharge. But he is saved by reason of his heroic self- sacrince.

1,

nas

Betty Furness furnishes roman- tic interest for Cabot, who as rival for her love' John Darrow. In "Midshipman Jack" Frank Al- bertson portrays the former sallor; others in the cast are Arthur" and

Florence Lake, Margaret Seddon and

Purnell Pratt," Cabance directed.

Christy

See No Evil, Fear No Evil

Fortune Teller-"My friend, be- ware of a tall, dark woman, who will be constantly in your path,” Cilent-Lumme, bad luck on 'er, mate." I drive a steam-engine.”

QUEEN'S

The Lovers of "Smilin'

Thro" Re-united in

a New Triumph!

Norma

SHEARER

Fredric

MARCH

Charles

LAUGHTON.

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.20 & 9.30

P.M..

BARRETTS

WIMPOLE STREET

A Metro-Goldwyn.

Maver Picture

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

HONG KONG

· KING'S:-"

"Nana"

QUEEN'S ;-

"The Barretts of Wimpole

Street"

·ORIENTAL:-

"Midshipman Jack"

CENTRAL:-

"Once To Every Woman”

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA

"From Headquarters"

MAJESTIC:

"Cockeyed Cavaliers"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Stingaree"

QUEEN'S:—

"Death on the Diamond"

MAJESTIC:

"Spitare"

ALHAMBRA

+1

"Tralling The Killer" "Dude Danger":

CENTRAL:-

"Sisters Under The Skin"

N

4 SHOWS DAILY

7.15-0.30

MAJESTIC

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At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

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The spirit Annapolis today...

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BRUCE CABOT BETTY FURNESS

A PICTURE FULL OF ACTION!

TRAILING THE KILLER

A PIRATE'S MISHAP

London, Nov. 21 Bisa Maria Tempest's recent mis- hap "in "Theatre Royal" has a more serious counterpart in an

Opening To-morrow accident to Mr. Wilfrid Walter

At The Alhambra

A primitive battle to a finish, fang against claw and no quarter asked or given is the sensational high-light of the latest world wide picture, *Trailing Killer" which opens to-morrow at

the

In a dress rehearsal at His Majesty's Theatre of the new Bridle piece, "Mary Bead," Mr. Walter, who plays "Calico Jack" Rackham, dislocated his shoulder- in a too realistic" "rough" and tumble.

Suffering great pain, he was rushed to Charing Cross Hospital, where passers-by were astonished to

appear within its doors.

Latest reports of his progress indicate that he will be able to appear as usual.

the Alhambra Theatre. see a pirate in full war paint dis

This starting motion picture marks an innovation in screen presentation, depleting as it does. a vivid drama of the Northwest woods, in true narrative form, and presented almost entirely by a cast of animal actors.

The thrilling climax desperate fight between a police dog and a pona, which has knied

ALHAMBRA

THESTER

the dogs master, In his blind FINAL SHOWINGS TO DAY

nger over the loss of his friend and master, the dog roverts to type and in a frenzy of rage at- tacks the most dangerous animal to be found on the No

Can continent,

Astounding" as this incl

it is but one

Intensely interesting

wild life, which are

and thrilling as anything that ever came out of the jungles

"Caesar the canine star, one of the most perfect animals this striking breed ever develo displays a degree of intellige that is phenomenal humans must take second place "Trailing the Killer” McD

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