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AT THE CINEMAS

Trade Notes

LA CUCARACHA'

La Cucaracha previewed yester- day, is showing with "The Richest Girl in the World" on Easter Sanday at the King's Theatre will certainly be the centre atorie tion. La Cucaracha which means little cockroach" brings to us Steff Duna the Hungarian actress and Don Alvarado, who is quite well known to film fans.

THE RICHEST GIRL IN

THE WORLD

A startling formula to test the sincerity of a suitor's affections is introduced by Miriam Hopkins in the starring title role in "The Richest Girl in the World" at the King's Theatre on Sunday next.

Her method consists of intro ducing the ideal to a young and beautiful girl who presumably has great riches. Leave the pair alone in the secluded romantic surround

This beautiful technicolour "long short," with very pretty catchy tunes and dancing full of pepings. If he isn't engaged to the especially the chorus

other girl when he emerges from the rendezvous he is her proper choice.

La cucarac ha danced by bl stub and others in the national Mexican

costumes.

All lovers of Spanish music and dance should not miss this much awaited for Musical Romance Short,

Miriam has the opportunity to employ here unique but very dan- Bichest gerous method in "The Girl in the World." Her ideal is Joel McCrea and the charming decoy is Fay Wray When Fay is employed to give McCrea á labora- tory test, the results are interest-

La Cucarachn" is said to be a drama with rousing comedy music and dancing, filia the rare beauty of its coleur compositions expertlying and surprising. plotted by Robert Edmond Jones.

RKO-Radio officials declare that they are convinced of the w colour process' value in entertain- ment, and they predict that, with

simple

modifications of methods, they can produce colour

some

black-and-white"

DOUBLE DOOR

Bringing the great romantic past of the early days" of the motion pictures to life once more, Evelyn

Steff Duna, dynamic Hungarian actress has the leading nging and dancing tule

Don team of the day. and Alvarado and Paul Porcasi play. with practically equal importance. Laid in picturesque Old Mexico, "La Cucaracha was directed by Lloyd Corrigan.

alone toulay at the top of the cinetna heap as the only romantic

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1935.

LAST TWO-DAYS

ATMAY 2,30.5.10.7.15)

9.30 P.M.

•KINGS!

THE HEAD THAT SCHEMED A THOUSAND WARSI...

BARL LAEMBLE PRESENTE" ZA

THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD

CLAUDE RAINS JOAN BENNETT LIONEL ATWILL

CLAUDE RAIN

At The King's

Those who have seen Claude Rain in the lavieible Man" will no

Now we have the

ROW

FUTURE OF CINEMA »

IN CHINA

Censorship Fees A Bar To Imported Films

Shanghai, April 11. That the future of foreign

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TR No.25319 $25832

SUNDAY

MIRIAM HOPKINS

the personal

mory

The

RICHEST GIRL in the AWORLD

EXTRAI

Acucaracha

IN ADD NEW TECHNICOLOR

POOR DICK WHITTINGTON

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Mar, 30.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

The Man Who Reclaimed

His Head"

QUEEN'S:n

"Sequoia"

ORIENTAL-

"Chained"

CENTRAL:-

"Jew Suse"

KOWLOON

MAJESTIC:--

"Cradle Song"

ALHAMBRA:-

MAJESTIC

HEATRE

Nabian Bind; Kówkon, Tel. 67223 TO-DAY" & "TO-MORROW At 2,30 5:20 7.20 & 9.30 PM:

"Ruggles Of Red Gap".

You are face to face with a future

KING'S:-

Coming

"The Richest Girl In The

World"

"Arine of Green Gables":

London has decided that can no longer stand the stigma of meanness which it belleves must QUEEN'S:— attach to its donation of only'.. £10,000 a year to the Lord Mayor. | ORIENTAL:--- |

an extra £2,500 a year.

It is no pauper's job being our; Lord Mayor, but what it casts him no one ever knows,

films as economically' as those, in Venable and Kent Taylor, two of doubt recall the strong person motion pictures in China appear So this person in future will have Paramount's younger players, stand and maguetic power behind the ed hopeless was the opinion of

invisible man." opportunity of seeing him in per-wo American cinema executives, who passed through Shanghai yes- son in his latest vehicle "The Man

terday. Not that the Chinese Ouce the motion pictures list of Who" Reclaimed His Head "

pictures had reached such greats included niany pairs of showing at the King's Theatre.

the to supplant Rain plays the part of Paul artistic stage cinema lovers but the advent of

Verin, a quite retiring man who

American and British product, the talkies saw theru separated.

they said, but rather the latter To-day, after four successful picks little of life and in content to

were hampered by the ramifications tures together. Evelyn Venable and ive peacefully with his wife and Kent Taylor emerge as the only child in a poorly furnished apart of censorship, plus fees for den a man who abhors soring, which were not equalled in lovers of the day. Their ment. He is

other foreign countries. latest film is Paramount's "Double war and peace is his only aim.

The story which includes an ex- Door," the picturization of the

pose of the activities of the inter-out that the income from his pic- famous Broadway stage success of the current season, which is due national munitions ring in foment-tures shown in China was as a shortly at the Queen's Theatre,

ing war and shows Rain trying his soap bubble compared with the world grow receipts, which his best to thwart them."

company took in hand.

THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER

"The Lives of a Benga! Lancer" has materialized from the interest ing print of Francis Yeats-Brown's adventurous novel, serves as the holiday fare at the Central, and Alhambra Theatres, simultaneously, with Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, "Richard Cromwell, Sir Guy Stand

ang, C. Aubrey Smith, Monte Blue and Kuthleen, Barke in important roles,

For more than three months, the Paramount studios echoed to the

plaintive and eerie whine of reeds, of cobra charmers and the boom of the vocal discorda, of innumerable Pathans, Afghans, Sikhs and Pun- jabi-Mohammedans while the film was in production."

4. SHOWS

2:30–5.19

1.35-4.30

!

screen

In this picture, Mary Morris, leading, dramatic actress of the American stage, makes her film debut in the role she created on the stage. Sir Guy Standing is also featured. -

The film tells the story of three inseparable comrades of the British fighting unit: à stalwart campaig- ner, a reckless romanticist and a young novice and allows how their courage and loyalty are an pire..

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Exhilarating as a plunge in the surf...light as a bubble,.. yet

"Übained" will send you away laughing gripping withal. . .

yet with quickened pulse!

EXTRA ADDED FEATURE

Wear CRAWFORD Clark GABLE

STAN

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WITH OTTO KRUGER

OLIVER

STUART ERWIN UNA O'CONNOR ·

LAUREL HARDY

THE GAY DIVORCE

Many motion picture casts have boasted peers--even a Duke or so but RKO-Radio goes them all two better by co-starring a King and Queen in the current musical comedy, ""The Gay Divorce" show- ing at the Oriental Theatre Con Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

the

Kreat tao

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IN THEIR NEWEST LAUGH SENSATION. TOWED IN.

A HOLE"

SEQUOIA

At The Queen's

Lovers of animals as well as out door life should pay a visit to the Quren's Theatre which is showing the interesting, Sto Sequoia" a magnificent social study of ani- Filmed amid the grandeurs of Sequoia National Park, the pic turs is a new and fresh as moun tain air and provid excellent-en- tertainment of an Jusval type. The story deals m ly with the & baby devption of a deer and puma who are supposed to have. been bort premies, and bebind this picturesque background is also a lover affair between two young people (Jean Parker and Russel Hardie).

Fred Astiare and Ginger Rog-mals. ers, the stars, were recently.Crown- ed, by pubile acclaim, as "King and Queen of Carioca."

In Gay Divorcee, the Terpsichorean pair present

dauces, one called grand new

the "Day and Night," another, hit of the show, called "The Con- tinental" Music and lyrles for "The Continerfal" are the work of "Conrad and Herb Magidson,

The play, a brisk and rollicking comedy built around a 100-mile- I an-hour romance involving Astire, Miss-Rogers, Alice Brady and Ed-

ward Everett Horton, was adapted for the screen from the stage play which ran a fall season in New work and another six months in London, starring Astire,.

Jean Parker spores another triumph as the wild girl who looks after the animals while the rest of the cast contribute in no small

measure towards the success of the. sim. Great credit, however, must he given to the producers for their patience in making the animals perform in such an uncanny and almost human manner.-B.AR

One of the executives pointed

It is believed that he never - spends less than £5,000 qut. of his pocket during his year of office, and it has, in the past, been no exception. for the Lord Mayor to spend £30,000 in addi- tion to his allowance.

เ

"David Copperfield"

"Mandalay"

"Dude Rangers"

"Student Tour""

"Circus Clown"

ALĦAMBRA:—

of "The Lives Lancer"

CENTRAL:-

a Bengal

The Lives of

Lancer?

a

Bengal

star when you see

dorothea WIECK

in her first American Picture

CRADLE SONG

ALSO ON THE STAGE AT ALL PERFORMANCES, .. THE SILVER STREAK DANCERS

"Silver Jubilee"

A State. Commission w' visit. England soon to order the' ma-

The Lord Mayor is allowed an extra £250 a year for dilapida- NOVEL COMMEMORATION chines. It is understood that ore tions to the furniture at the Man- sion House and he has to pay no rates. In this respect he differs in no way from the homeless pau-

Humour, pathos, romance and

The burden, he said, would fall laughter are all mingled in this

on the small independent exhihi- excellent picture and those sup-

per. Joan tor," who unable to bear the extra porting Claude Rain are Bennet, Lionel Atwill. Henryux, which would have to be paas- Armetta, Wallace Ford anded on him, could no longer operate. Lawrence Grant.

1

The picture will keep one in real interest from start to finish and to appreciate it fully one has to see.

I heartily recommend it it. 0.3.0.

A BISHOP'S INTRODUC-

TION

The high censorship fee, automatic- | A ANTI-OPIUM CAMPAIGN. ally would force him out of business, because his profits, or dinarily nominal, would be reduce to the vanishing margin.,

The censoring fee had been virtually doubled," and in Canton an extra entertainment tax had been enacted. Other cities might follow suit, with the result that the exhibitor could no longer keep his theatre open. The foreign prò- duct was not interfering with bis showing of Chinese pictures, inad

London, Mar. 30. When the Bishop of Portsmouth took his seat yesterday the House of Lords had a cathedral-like apinach, as the output of Chinese pearance.

Officiala in bright uniform tend peers who take their seats: but when a bishop is introduced the processton consists only of the new bishop and two colleagues. They all wear surplices and gowns. The ceremony of the thrice re- peated act of bat raising, always performed by new peers, was car- ried out by the bishops with their mortar-boards.

Yesterday the Bishop of Ports- mouth added to the ecclesiastical atmosphere by Intoning the oath of allegiance.. I cannot recall any bishop who has done that before.

Initiates Mistake"

pictures last year, about 60, was entirely insufficient for any theatre About 500 foreign pictures are imported annually.

He would recommend, at the slightest invitation from his New York office, that his company's pictures, no longer should be sent to China.

MIDDLESEX REGIMENT

Arriving Without Families

....... Singapore, Apr. 11.

It is notified in Command Orders that the Ist. Bn. the Middlesex On one occasion, in King E-Regiment will arrive (without ward's reign, however, when new families) from Egypt during the members of the Privy Council latter part of the trooping season, were being sWORD, a similar in- 1935-36, cident occurred.

The aged Lord Suffeld was re- peating some of the formulae used The initiates, at the Council thinking that this was part of the ritual, followed suit till it sound- ed as it they were rehearsing the Litany,

Finally, King Edward, beckoning to Lord Althorp, had to bid him tel "Uncle Charles" to be silent.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

This announcement makes it clear that Singapore's second in- fantry battalion is to come as soon as the necessary barrack accom- modation is available.

The lat. En, the Wiltshire Regi- ment leaves for India in November, to be relieved by the 1st, Bn.. the Royal Inniskilling Fusilers, now in China...

|

Nanking, April 12. he National Oplum-Suppres- sie Commission has decided to launch ap extensive opium suppression" movement on June 3, and the Central Government has been petitioned to help by the adoption of a more positive policy, It is belleves that unless suppres- sion is enforced by military order and offenders dealt

with in accordance with military law, the results will be very slow.

During the present period of bandit-suppression, the work of opium-suppression in the ten pro- Antwel vinces of Honan, Huper Kiangsu, Hunan, Cheklang, Klang- si, Fukien, Shensi, and Kansu has been entrusted temporarily to the Military Affairs Commission. Other provinces are still under the „direction of thể National Oplum-

Suppression Commission.- Kuo Min.

Canning will be closed from April 19 to April 22, inglusive, and this period will, as far as possible, be observed as a holiday by the troops fa the Garrison.

*Retrospective

During his honeymoon the Scots- the man took his wife to see dentist, who, after making ar dear, examination said, "Dear, these teeth ought to "have been taken out years ago." " All right," sald the Scot, carry on and take them out, and send the bill to her

Command Headquarters at Fort father."

QUEEN'S

1 PICTURE OUT

OF 10,000! SOUL-THÁILL' without equal...not since”Trader Horn "such amazing sunnes, much heart-gripping" "drama! Two years to make your mightiest screen adventurmi

SEQUOIA

Ar 2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9.30

P.M.;

RKER

ALSO LAUREL-HARDY COMEDY

(Special Mail Service)

Jar

London, April 3. The Maharajah of Jaipur has scheme for celebrating his own the King's Silver Jubilee.

has

20 ares

He is building five private aero- dromes in his State in commemo- ration

Jalpur State of 15,579 square miles. "The City of Jaipur will be the centre of a chain of serodromes the Mahara jah proposes to build. A sum of £25,000 has been sanctioned for building them.

Another sum of from £25 000 to £40,000 will be spent on buying machines.

of them wil te of the luxury type, as suppled to the Vicercy by the Avro Company

It will be for the Maharajan's personal use ard will be named" "Silver Jubilee."

The Maharajah is concentrate ing his energy on making his people air-minded. He does not. propose to build new roads.

impor- realised the He first tance of air transport when he was studying at Woolwich a few years ago. Since then he has spent thousands of pounds on the training of: pilots and aero- nautical engineers. His State al- ready has a airmen.

corps of trained

THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW AT THE

CENTRAL ALHAMBRA

The two First run Theatres at the most Popular Prices

Booking at Moutris's) (To Central take Buses No. 4 or 5 going West.

CENTRAL ALHAMBRA

TO-DAY ONLY

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.80 p.m. -A MIGHTY SPECTACLE

A TENSELY HUMAN DRAMA I A GAUMONT BRITISH Picture

**

JEW SÜSS"

TO-DAY ONLY

at 280, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

grandest

ady cast aver

RUGGLES OF RED GAP

CONRAD VEIDT

CHARLES LAUGHTON MARY BOLAND

CHARLIE RUGGLES

ZASU PITTS

HOLAND

YOUNG

And LEILA HYAMS

Gerald

Maurier Benita Hume Frank Vosper and Cedric Bardwicke

TO-MORROW.

Paramou THE LIV

NEXT CHANGE

VO THEATRES

Courage

GAL LANCER

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