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TREASURE ISLAND

Coming On Saturday To The Queen's'

The generations of people both have been young and old 'who thrilled by * Treasure Island," Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of pirate adventure, will find the vivid story-book experiences of their youth crested on the screen in the picture that is coming on Saturday to the Queen's Theatre with

LITTLE CAESER

. ·

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934.

TO-DAY ONLY

Opening To-dav At 2.30.6.10.7.18

B.

The Alhambra

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With a superb cast and realistic background. "Little Caesar' opens to-day at The Alhambra Theatre. This film with Edward G. Robin- son in the title role is a powerful drama of the notorious underworld of a certain great American city, with all the actual trimmings and miscellaneous killings which play a part in those circles of society:

Director Mervyn LeRoy, who has Wallace Beery and Jack

many admirable productions to his Cooper in co-starring roles.

credit, has truly produced a mas- Full power of the most widely-terpiece in "Little Caesar." read

fiction book about pirates ever written has been retained in the adaptation of it by John Lee Mahin. Scenes have been repro- duced exactly as described in the book with much of Stevecison's wn dialogue between the charac- ters followed to the word.

Edward G. Robinson, known for other magnificent "gangster, char- acterizations, gives a splendid per- fcrmance, playing the role of Rico, "Little Caesar." The story deals with the rapid and spectacular rise to crookdom leadership of this fery individual, Douglas Fair- With Beery as Long John Silver

banks, Jr. as a pal of Rico's, really and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins,

wishes to quit this life of crime boy adventurer, a cast has been

and go back to cafe dancing with assembled to bring each rover of his partner, the charming Glenda the Spanish Main to the screen

Farrell, with whom he is madly in with living reality." Lionel Barry-love, but Rico stands in his way micre's blustering Billy Bones is and will not permit his reforma- che of the most entertaining tion. He always yearns for bigger characters he has ever played. Otto Kruger, is forceful as Dr. Livesy: Lewis Stone's personal knowledge of sailing ships gives convincing background to his role of Captain Smollett: Nigel Bruce is a ruddy and typically English Squire Treiswder: touches ΟΙ quaint humour are put into the characterization of Ben Gunn, marooned pirate, by Chic Sale.

the

pickings,

he goes trom a small town to the big elty and joins up with a "mob, bringing Joe Mas- sara (Doug Fairbanks) with him, much against Joe's wishes. the big town Rico fights his way from a lowly gunman to the lead- ership of the entire underworld.

And in

Ralph Ince enacts the role of Pete Montana, one of Alco's rivai facketeers, in masterly style.

9.90 P.M.

KINGS

THE SWEETNESS OF HER LIPS

made his heart sing! THE ECSTASY OF HER KISSES inspired his immortal misic

Tome

Love Tim

A Fox Picture with

"PAT" PATERSON

NILS ASTHER

HERBERT MUNDIN HARRY GREEN HENRY B. WALTHALL

Produced by John Stone

100 PER CENT

PURE

Queen's Attraction`

Same of the most beautiful

One of the highly effective scenes marine photographs ever seen on

of the picture is a banquet given to the screen provide a breath-tak-

Rico by his colleagues. This scene ing background for action on board shows the gangsters in their glory

As a dazzling background for the Hispaniola complete three with their "Moils and gives us in new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture masted ship built for the produc-ides of what a gunman's social ute100 Per Cept. Fure" now showing tion from the old Nanuk, famous

at the Queen's Theatre studio ar- is like. And it's quite realistic, for whaling ship used in the Metro- in spite of the absurdity of many Goldwyn-Mayer Arctic expedition phases of these social activities, it

for "Eskimo.”

Every minor role was evidently cast

with extreme care as such well-known character players as

Edmund

Is just the sort of thing that goes on "when the enterprising burglar isn't burgling."

"Little Caesar" is a picture

William V. Mong. Charles Me high distinction and is likely to be Naughton, Douglas Dumbrille, remembered as the gangster classic

Breeae, Olin Howland, of all time. Charles Erwin, James Burke and

Included in the cast of players little Cora Sue' Collins contribute besides

those already mentioned notable performances.

are such famous stage and screen Every pictorial beauty

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and personalities as Sidney Blackmer. action value in the story has been wm Collier, Jr., Maurice Black and brought out by the direction of many others. It's a swell lineup. Victor Fleming. who has Almed such adventure stories as "Rendez- Yous" and "Around the World in 80 Minutes."

INTER-GLACIAL MAN

Discoveries Made In Suffolk

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Nov. 27.

Excavations carried out this year by Mr. Reid Moir at Hoxne, Suffolk, have resulted in the dis

to interglacial man. There exista at Hoxne a buried lake-new silted up to a depth of some 50ft, and

chitects designed replicas of many of society's most exclusive haunts. Scenes in the picture, which stars Jean Harlow, occur in millionaires

"THE BLACK CAT"

Coming To The King's

Hollywood is the land of “types."

A screen actor becomes identified. with the characterization of a certain role and thereafter must abide by his type.

Perhaps one of the greatest examples of this theory can be found in Bela Lugosi, who $1.3

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 15313

25332

TOMORROW- WILD! WEIRDI WICKEDI

BLACK

CAT

KARLOFF and Bela LUGOSI

In 'o thrillər: based on a story by EDGAR ALLAN POL.

With David Mannars, Jacqueline Welly, Lucille Lund, Henry Ametia. Produced by Carl Laemmle, I. DE rected by Edgar G. Ulmer. Prasasted- by Carl Lammit.

"A UNIVERSAL PICTURE,

UNCERTAIN LADY

Coming To The Queen's

"Uncertain Lady" the Universal

picture" coming on

Thursday

to

the Queen's Theatre is a corking comedy drama of A business WODED. who thought she Was smart enough to play with love openly and make her husband, who seemed to have gobe, tem-

houses high up on New York's sky-Count Dracula in the unforget porarily astray, come back to the

ne, and in other fashionable re- sorts such as the Embassy Club and the Lido at Palm Beach, the Union Club in New York and the palatial steamer, Berengaria.

In "100 Per Cent. Pure" Miss Harlow plays the role of a little Misa Nobody who seeks and finds, after many embarrassing situations, a

millionaire husband.

appears

The cast includes Franchot Tone, "Little Caesar" is taken from the

Barrymore and w. R. Burnett best selling novel of Lionel

Lewis the same name. Francis Edward Stone Tone

as Tom, Bew Faragoh wrote the screen adapta-Barrymore's son, and wins

screen honours as one of the most tion. -

Barry persistent lovers ever seen. more plays the character of T. R. Paige, the capitalist, who first fights against the girl and Anally welcomes her as his daughter-in- | law.

We hereby. nominate Caesar" as one of the pictures of 1934,

"Little ten best

LOVE TIME

Romance At The

King's

One of the minst sparkling and

Lewis Stone, recognised as one of filmdom's finest actors, does well with the role of Cousins, the ruin- ed financier who offers to marry Eadie, just before he. commits suicide.

The picture was directed by Jack Conway, known for his deft hand- ling of “Viva Villa!"

covery of important data relating delightful screen romances ever to

emerge from Hollywood, is to-day make "Love Time" one of the cut- Idylls among screen of the King's standing the screen

“Músicais." At the same time, the Its name is "Love Time," and it film does not really classify as a

on

evidently formed under geological Theatre.

is the creation of Fox Flim, a pro-"musical" for it carries a more real

table stage and screen versions of "Dracula," definitely types him- self as a weird, fantastic charac ter. "In The Black Cat" he carries on "the tradition.

many

fine

fold. It is easy to imagine the comedy situations of two women apparently fighting over the type of husband you know Edward Everett Horton would portray.

Genevieve Tobin is the appeal- ingly beautiful” bui calculating business wife a role she has play- "ed to perfection in .2

Horton Ig the over- pictures. nervous, over-timid and certainly: un-glamorous husband. When his business wife finds he wants to be off with another

she. woman agrees to give him his freedom provided he finds her a new hus- band Imagine the possibilities In that theme! They have all been fully realized by the excel- lent direction of Kari Freund.

But Lugosi was-not always the dark

At and sinister "heavy." the age of twenty he made his stage debut as "Romeo" in Hungarian production of "Romeo and Juliet and followed it with three years of Shakespearean re- pertoire Tasen and other classics. When he came to America his Arst English speaking, role was in "The Red Poppy," where he play- ed a Spanish Apache. Alan Dale, the late dean of New York critics, "He's the later said of him: greatest "actor ever to come "to America,"

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After years of straight and romantic leads Lugosi found him self playing the unearthly charac- ter of the vampire in "Dracula" His performance over two years in New York and six months on the road, was so realistic, forceful, he has remamed "Dra- cula" to this day.. It was this characterization that proved the sesame to his screen career.

to the King's Lugosi | comes Theatre on Wednesday with Kar- loff in Universals "The Black Cat" with David Manners, Jac

other players.

"

and climatic conditions entirely different from those of to-day.

An no other site at present ducing company which deserves and gripping story than is ordinar-queline Wells, Lucille Land and known is there to be found such much credit for undertaking so un- fly the case in this medium. conclusive evidence of the former usual a project. Great good taste' prevalence in East Anglia of sand foresight were required to dis-. true inter-glacial spoch. The lake cover that a fascinating picture

in the life of

Franz Schubert, one of the world's greatest composers.

is hollowed out of one boulder could be derived from certain ro- clay, contains deposists of silt mantic incidents enveloping the remains of animals or plante auch as could only have lived under temperate conditions, while, as has been revealed in the recent diggings,, the whole series of beds is sealed in by another and lissimilar boulder clap accumula tion.

Actual situations in the career of this colourful figure have been study"," employed in the screen which tells an idyllic tale of love lost and won again. Its setting is Austrian countryside and

Two distinct and superimposed the jand surfaces" occupied by Vienna, with the fields and woods palaeolithic man have been un- of the former interchanging swift- covered. The lower of thess, which iy with the pomp and circumstancë are represented by thin "layers" of pebbles in the lacustrine brick of the Emperor's court,

The exquisite young "Pat" Pa-

to

Inte

earth, has yielded some typical terson, recent Fax discovery," la "examples of hand-axes and fake. seen as the sweetheart of the

implements assignable Acheulean times, while the upper youthral Schubert. The composer level is, from the artifacts it con- is played by Nis Asther. For both taine, assignable to the succeeding these young players," "Love Time": early. Mousterian or Clacton III. affords the finest acting opportun- epoch. The ancient occupation levels les of their career; and both are separated by about two feet of respond to the high promise of brickearth, and are associated with their roles with performances of pesty seams, demonstrating that true stellar calibre the people of those days were Many of the gorgeous melodies living on the shore of the Hoxne written by Schubert in his brief, Iske, which, as it gradually silted romantic life are woven into the up, entombed the human and other very texture of the film,・ Among relic which base now been dis these are Abschied, "Who Is covered,

Sylvia?" "Moment Musical and The dint implementa are in a condition of extreme freshness,

and

the haunting "Serenade

and have clearly never been moved Costumes and settings are lavish

SHOWING

TO-DAY

The supporting cast iricludes such players as Paul Cavanaugh,

the Peterson, Hener Gadd, George Meeker, Herbert Corthell, Mary Nash and in this entertain--

ing picture, Renee Gadd, beautiful young English actress, makes her first appearance on the American

zareen.

His Memory What was George Washington noted for? --

Boy: His memory.

What makes you think his memory was so great?

Boy: Well, they erected a monu- ment to it, didn't they?

QULLN'S

Jean

Ar 2.80, 5.10,

& 9.30

P.M.

PLATINUM PIP in a Golden Setting of Fan and Fire I

HARLOW

Maver

director have spared no cos

to

till their recent discovery. from in the extreme. I. where palaeolithic man left them that producing company some 100,000 years ago,

100%

PURE

CHOT TONE

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

"Love Time” QUEEN'S:—N

~"100% Pure"

ORIENTAL:-- }

"42nd Street"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA :-

"Little" Caesar"

MAJESTIC:-

"Catherine The 'Great"

KING'S:--

Coming

"The Black Cat" QUEEN'S -

“Uncertain. Lady"

MAJESTIC:—

"Sadie McKee"

"ORIENTAL:---

"To-morrow At Seven"

· SON FOR CLARA BOW ·

Santa Moneca; Dec. 18 Clara Bow, the famous cinema star, who is Mrs. Rex Bell has Kiven birth to a con Reuter.

SHOWS

MAJESTIC

streets (HEATRE

Nathan Road Kowloon. Tel. 67222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At230, 5.20, 7.20 & 0.20 P.M.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS ZELIZABETH BERGNER

CATHERINE

The GREAT

with FLORA ROBSON & →Sĩ GERALD đưMAURIER dirneted by PAUL CZINNER

froificed by ALSXANDER KORDA

ALSO

·Song of Yesteryear"

NEXT CHANGE

JOAN CRAWFORD

IN

SADIE MCKEE

TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALARY BUS

ORIENTALE

LAST

4 TIMES TO-DAY THE WORLD'S BEST. MUSICAL SHOW FAR BETTER - THAN ANYTHING YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE!

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STREET

MYSTERY PLANE DERELICT

What Happened To Pilot?

(Special Air Mail-Bervios)

London, Nov: 27.

A young airman who was ex- pected at the home of his mother and father at Stoke Poges (Bucks) has vanished, leaving his · aero- plane unclaimed in a field at Pin- ner (Middlesex),

Mr. M. D. L. Scott, the airman, was to have flown to Brockhurst Wood, Stoke Poges, but did not. arrive. Nor did he send message.

Meanwhile, his monoplane lay unattended and unclaimed for a night and a day in a field at Pin ner Park Farm, Pinner.

A policeman on patrol found the machine and learned that It had descended the previous after- noon.

PILOT NOT SEEN

People working on the farm BBW the machine come down, but were not curious enough to make in- quiries at the time...

No one, apparently, saw the pliot leave the plane. It was in good condition except for slight damage to the undercar:

On the name plate

address was given as

Scott

Bke

and the police there gave an ad dress at a London fat.

Inquiries in London

that the fat

and it was

stated

lived with his fathe

Common

Farnhar

Common

TO-MORROW

AND WEDNESDAY

HERE'S

A MYSTERY THRILLER

THAT'S SENSATIONAL'

3 MINUTES TILL DEATHI The mystery slayer never failed to get his victims on the stroke of seven!

TONORIDA SEVEN TONGRBOIL/SE

Which

CHESTER MORRIS VIVIENNE OSBORNE

Jenkins Harry Sightsen? #KO-RADIO..

FICTURE- Directed by. For faright #reduced by

JEFFERSON Ploderen Corp.

was given that Mr.Scott, senior, lived at

Brockhurst Wood

Mrs Scott told a reporter tha she could not imagine what had become of her son.

"We expected him here on, Wed- nesday afternoon, but he did not turn up. I should think he had run out of petrol or something like that," she said.

E ""That does not explain, how. ever, why he has done nothing about claiming the machine. shall make inquiries and whether I can learn what has be come of him.”

ALHAMBRA

BANANA

SHOWING TO-DAY

LITTLE CAESAR

WITH

OLENIA

вее

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