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CLEOPATRA

Final Showings To-day

COLLEGE DAYS

An Entertaining Story

Aworthy picture that throbs with the spirit of youth and moves

Cecli, B. De Mille's rent talent is hot building bathtubs? It's beds, as is being revealed in his latest fim, "Cleopatra" which along at a fast pace is found in showing for the last time to-day "The Band Plays On" opening at the Central and Alhambra to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

Theatres.

He's the past master in the con-

ball herce, it is not, in the sense Although it is a story, or- foot-

It is a picture of college days, of of the word, a football picture.

the trials and tribulations, the

interludes romantic

and

"the lighter moods of the effervescent students of college.

struction of ornate beds and the Caddy of the more lavish types of this article of furniture as it is used in motion pictures to-day.

When De Mille aimed

The Golden Bed" ten years ago, he started a movement from which Hollywood has never recovered. It is the story of four boys of The cacopled golden swan in the slums who grow up together, which Lan Rich slept in that play football together through picture" gave rise to inunds-high school and college and who tion of beds with and without triumph over

the obstacles of canopies, but each one more or- "pro" offers and schemes,

nate than the previous one.

There is also a delightful bay-

and

Now another De Mille bed is abd-girl romance played to per- making its appearance од the fection by Betty Furness screen in his latest Paramount Robert Young. plature, "Cleopatra."

He has written no bathing scèhe

The cast, as a whole, though

not a star contingent, is`made up At the

for Claudette Colber; in this plot dependable performers. ture. Instead he has concentrat-| ed all of his talents on the beds head stands Robert Young re-

membered for his work in "The House of Rothschild" and others. "Cleopatra" has Claudette Col- of the finer pictures.

in which the famous Queen of Egypt lles.

moves.

bert, Warren William, Henry WII- "The Band Plays On " coxon, Ian Kelth and Joseph along swiftly, without a lagging Schildkraut in the principal roles. moment, in and out of classrooms

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935.

SHOWING TO-DAY

WAT 3.30, 5.10.7.15.

& 9.90 P.M.

KINGS

HE WAS A PIANO-PLAYING GAMBLER!...

And "My Little Görl” Wa the Theme Song of His Life.....

The only "sure thing“ in his career was his only daughter...and he staked everything on her........ when he lost heri

FOX FILM PRESENTS

America's First Actor GEORGE M. COHAN

IN

GAMBLING

WYNNE GIBSON DOROTHY BURGESS,

The story is that of the world's and across football fields through MARCH GROWS A REAL MYSTERY

great lover Cleopatra, the beauti-the deft touch given to the film ful queen, whose love rocked Em- by Director Russell Mack, the man pires and whose courage changed who made. "The Spirit of Notre

Dame" and "All American.” the history of the world

4 SHOWS

DAILY

£30–5,10

1.15–8.30

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2 DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW "BIG DOUBLE STAGE AND SCREEN SHOW ON THE STAGE

ON THE STAGE

A CORKEN GOOD AT ALL PERFORMANCES

DETECTIVE STORY

THRILLS: COMEDY!

ACTION! .

Where

mystery

terrifies!

CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON

WARNER OLAND True Layton Raymond Milland – Mosa Barrio,

YOUNG MAN'S CLAIM

Elusive Secret "Found"

COLBERT SISTERS

ÜLEVER NOVELTY DANCERS

LAST RESPECTS

To Dead Film Star

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daly

Press (Copyright).3

Shanghal; March 11. Local Chinese newspapers con

MUSTACHE

For The Affairs

Of Cellini

Frederic March is writing the second chapter of his adventures In growing a mustache.

Chapter the first concerned his desperate attempts to rid himself of a complex hirsute adornment

after his brilliant success in "The Royal Family," in order that he might reveal himself to the screen public clean shaven.

1:

At The King's

#

Devotees of screen murder my- steries are urged not "to miss "Gambling." which opens to-day at the King's Theatre. It is de- scribed as a natural, human, swift and

exciting story, written by George M. Cohan America's first actor, and played by him on the stage for two years. Cohan likewise the star

of the screen.

version, adapted and directed by

and skillful Row

the versatile land Lee. »

Cohan's role is that of a New The current episode involves his York gambler, whose daughte attempt to re-cultivate the Up- elopes with a shipboard acquain growth for "The Affairs of Cel-tance at Quarantine, and is mur- lini," his first flm under his new dered. The lover accused of Contract with Joseph M., Schenck the crime, tried and acquitted, and Darry F. Zanuck's 20th Cen- Dissatisfied with the way the po- tury Pictures company. in which lee and the district attorney have he is co-starred with Constance handled he case, the gambler be- Bennett, and which United Artists comes his own detective, brings to the King's Theatre shortly.

The supporting cast is large and

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25813.

125332

NEXT CHANGE-

MEN SOUGHT HIS HEADI WOMEN HIS HEART!

POSERMA SCHENCE

CONSTANCE

BENNETT

AFREDRIC

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S -

HONG KONG

"Gambling"

QUEEN'S :--

"The Band Plays On ORIENTAL:-

"Charlie Chan In London"

MAJESTIC:

KOWLOON

"The Merry Widow"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Cleopátra”

KING'S:-

Coming

"The. Affairs of Cellini" MAJESTIC:-

"Nana"

MARCH POWERFUL TALE

TheAFIAIRS of CELLINI

• DARRYL F. ZANUCK production,

20m Conture Picture • Kalocsadikni Valted Artich

1,000 TONS OF SECURITY

Huge Safe Deposit For The East

Of Old Russia

In addition to being an absorb- ing and passionate love, drama, "British Agent" which opens to- morrow at the Alhambra Theatre

MAJESTIC

- HEATRE BA

Nathan Road, Kamloon. Tel. 67222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At. 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 "2 9,20 PM,

THE SCREEN'S GREATESTE

· ROMANCERS — IN THE WORLD'S MOST ROMANTIC MUSICAL

MAURICE

CHEVALIER

JEANITTE

MACDONALD MERRY WIDOW

NEXT CHANGE ANNA STEN

IN

NANA

UNITED ARTIST PICTURE.

and then on Sunday at the Cen- WELCOMED AND

iral, with Leslie Howard and Kay Francis in the stellar roles, 1s of momentous and far reaching importance. In its picturization, of one of the most colourful and dy- namic periods of the world's his- tory.

The picture is actionized his tory. It was inspired by the novel by R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who lived in

volution, and risked Hfe.

peace with Germany,

LIKED

Hollywood Greets Miss Tobin

Petrograd during the Lively, sparkling, wide open Gratifying evidence of the revival flaming days of the Russian Re-blue eyes opened wide in amazi

and ment quick, stacatto, decisive, of export business in a somewhat

secret with speech, clear-cut and alive specialized industry may be found liberty to battle in

three other young adventures in a in the fact that the firm of Messrs.

Such is the first impression one Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe desperate attempt to prevent the gains of Genevieve Tobin, comely Company are engaged in carrying Soviet from signing a separate stage star who has met Hollywood and taken it by storm in her first out a large security contract for

While set in the bloody and two Universal pictures, A. Lady the East. The firm have also a

chantic background of days and Surrenders" and "Free Love," the number of outstanding tenders for

nights of terror when Cossacks latter being the attraction at the similar work in different parts of

rode down and slew mobs of men, Star Theatre starting today, a the world, and it is anticipated that a considerable portion of the story never deviates from the pas- the private life of Miss Tobin. She women and children, the dynamic Very simple and inauspicions is work will done in this country.

sionate love drama of the British lunches. quietly in her dressing Agent, and a beautiful and aris-room on food which has been pre tocrátic Russian lady who has pared at home and brought to the

Cause. Here 18 dedicated her life to the Red studio by her mother

most unusual drama of love, with a man and woman hating each other's ideals, undying and unquenchable pas-of British taste. and yet drawn together by ar

The Eastern contract includes the construction of a great safe de

small safes for letting to the pub- posit which will contain some 7,000

HC.

preview audiences have praised The latest scientific develop- the work of its leading members. ments to thwart the burglar and Wynne Gibson, Dorothy Burgess, to render the deposit, secure Ted Newton, Walter Gilbert, Percy against mob attack have been in- Ames and Cors. Witherspoon head. troduced. Messrs. Chubb have this company. Clark Robinson's constructed the walls of the de- sets are said to be richly hand-posit of their own pattern of rein- forcement material, and the huge steel doors, which have been made at the firm's works at Wolver hampton, and which weigh from 20 tons to 30 tons each, are now being shipped to the East.

Stainless Steel

some.

"

There is incidental music, not- ably a new song. "My Little Girl" composed and sung by Cohan himeslí.

Many of March's followers are familiar with his tribulations in "The Royal Family" episode. Hollywood screen producera noted great success in the Los Angeles run of the stage production, and in signing him for pictures de- manded that he retain the must- ache and luxuriant head of hair he had grown for his role in the play. They were afraid he might not look like himself

any more after a visit to the barber. So for pictures, the hirsute decora- dons remained and it was not un-York, however, be visited the bar. The contract includes eight steel til he was loaned to another stuber for a light trim. That worthy, dio that he dared risk the razor thinking, the star had merely been blade and scissors. A profound giving his face a

bl: of respite sigh of relief went up on all sides from

the " razor. proceeded to for the results were a great im- scrape one whole side of the ac- provement,

tor's face before he awoke to the fact that his carefully nurtured growth was being despoiled!'

and

Exactitude

antiacetylene blowpipe doors, and a number of strong-rooms. The total weight is approximately 1,000 1ona. Stainless steel is being used.

arm are undertaking also the to a large extent. In addition the ghting of the deposit, which will

be carried out. on their shadowless panel system.

There are signs of expansion in the safe deposit business both at "Ah," boomed the vicar gentally, home and abroad. It would ap

And is this your most charming realizing that the safe deposit beard. successfully "how pleasant to see you again!ear that the public are gradually

wife?"

system is the most economical "This," said his former curate method of obtaining security for at New with dignity, "is my only wife." documents and, valuables,

SHOWING

QUEEN'S

All went well until March left Hollywood for a vacation trip East and received a radiogram aboard

Himself to play the role of Cel- ship instructing him to prepare A young Birmingham chemist, tained comparatively little yester-Uni. He promptly set Dr. Harold Baener, claims to have day on account of the columns carefully nurturing his hair, must- to work discovered a secret of nickel-plat-jor space devoted to the story of ache. ing which has eluded research the suicide of Miss Yuan Ling Yu, avoiding the ship's tonsorial art- chemista all over the world for the famous Chinese screen starist on the trip through the Pan thirty-ve years.

Lengthy" detailed accounts of the ama Canal. This discovery, it is claimed, tragedy which took place last Fri- may revolutionise

Before disembarking the British day were recapitulated. An auto- electro and nickel-plating industry. graphed letter addressed to the Dr. Gaener, who is a graduate of public by the deceased movie Birminghma University, but. favourite seemed to supply the key native of South Africa, has found to the whole affair and was, there- a solution which gives a bright, fore; given considerable promin- polished surface to a metal article ence in all the, Chinese,dailies. simultaneously with "the process of The body of Miss Yuan will be nickel or electro-plating, and ob-encoffined at the International viates the necessity of polishing Funeral Directors at 2 o'clock this afterwards."'*

afternoon. These premises at Mr. Appleby, of the firm of Cole Klaochaw Road remained the scene. man and Appleby, of whose of public attraction from morning" laboratory Dr. Saemer is the head, till night yesterday when hundreds says the chemical formula con-upon hundreds of Chinese movie stitutes one of the most important fans clamoured for admission for Industrial discoveries in recent a glimpse of the." dead beauty.", years, and will put Britain in a Up to a late hour fast night. position to cope with foreign com- crowds, continued to file past the petition, because finishing costs body. Curious people, rich and will be so much less but al poor, arrived by private motor

Dr. Baener explained that under cara and taxis or on foot, Bome the old process of electro-plating carried elaborate wreaths to add to the article plated had to be polish the number which already filled a ed, and during, this process part large room to overflowing.

China United Press (by Mad);

"

of the plating was taken off,

Follshing would no longer be necessary, and in addition to BBT ing time, labour and material, the solution would mcrease, the output

The cost of production of nickel- plated articles would be reduced by at least 50 or 75 per cent.

The Excuse

Poor old Stoneybroke. Got hims late because he's been distrained at the office!

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10.

7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

Follow that cheer leader! Because here's something to cheer about! A gay and exciting picture of the laughs and loves and football thrills of college life!

The BAND PLAYS ON

ROBERT YOUNG, STUART OVERWINGLEO ZABKILIO BETTYS FURNESS TED HLÁLY PRESTON TOSTES RUSSELL HARDIE

A Metro Mholdwyn. Munoz Pintuetan

ston.

a

Leslie Howard, famous for his brilliant characterizations on the stage, and screen of, two Contin- ents, never gave a more powerful performance than as the British Agent, who knows the woman he loves is betraying him, and get is

unable to resist her charms.

Kay Francis, with her brunette beauty, is the embodiment of the fanatical Russian aristocrat whose her personal, womanly persion love of her people so conflicts..with

HERE IS MY

HEART

Coming To Central Theatre

With half a dozen members of the cast of Paramount's comedy film "Here is My Heart," acting the parts of exiled Russian nobles,, the studio wanted to make sure that they behaved as real, nobles do. As a consequence, real Ris.... alan aristocracy, in the person of Princess Vagill, was signed to serve as a technical advisor in the film, which features Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle in the leading roles. - Born Princes Patalla of the noted Galitzine, family, long fam- ous in Russian history, the be- came Princess Vasili when she married the prince, a nephew of the late Caar of Russia three years azo

Princess Natalia and her family fied from Moscow during the red reign of the revolution in 1917. Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlis and Roland Young are featured "Here Is My Heart, which open at the Central Theatre to-morr

bons, Good Fr

he was the Tel the housework for

The impressions which she gain ed during her year in England are clearly shown in her mode of dress which is decidedly smart but bears the unmistakable mark

Genevieve Tobin is indeed one of the distinctive newcomers to the almas and eveh blate and critical Bollywood has been quick to sp- plaud her talent and predict a brilliant screen career for her

TO-DAY ONLY CENTRAL &

ALHAMBRA

Bookin' for Central at. Moutrie's,

Not Only The Greatest Love Story in 1934 Years, But The Grandest Spectacle As Well || !

Adolph Zekoripre

CECIL B. DOMILLE'S

LEOPATRA

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