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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

At 3.30. 5.10,

KINGS29

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

Dumos' dauntless

4 SHOWS

ONLY

280-415 T.18-3.30

„SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30

THE SCREEN SCOOP OF THE YEAR! BETTE DAVIS BIGGEST HIT!

"FRONT PAGE WOMAN"

Warner Bros. Picture with GEORGE BREST-WINIFRED SHAW It was her acting in this picture that the Crities said of Satte Davis "She ranka as one of the ten best actresses"{

FROM- SATURDAY

THE SWEETHEARTS OF THE SCREEN Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell

"SHIPMATES FOREVER

Hong Kong

KING'S-

"The Three Musketeers". QUEEN'S:

"Front Page Woman" ORIENTAL:-

"The Murder Man"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA;-

"Navy Wife"

MAJESTIC-

TAKE VI TRAN ON MANY VALLEY BUE

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST 4 PERFORMANCES TO-DAY

ROAD WANCHA

TEL. 29411

HERE'S A POWERFUL MURDER MYSTERY! SEE TRACY AS THE GREATEST DETECTIVE

He knew the answer

to

every crime.... before the police. before the District Attorney.

HE SOLVES MUROBBS BEFORE THE CRIMES OCCUR !

MURDER M

VIRGINIA

BRUCE

TRACY BRUCE

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« Merių Gallium Mayer

FOR TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

A VERY FAST ACTION COMEDY MYSTERY!' HIS NEGATIVES ARE A POSITIVE SENSATION!

The pictures he took made him worth 3100,000— dead or alive. See why... in dimmy's greatest SOOHeess!

CUA MES

JAMI

CAGNEY

PICTURE SNATCHER

3. Manter. Hon. Perrpor

Prices Matinees 20 c-30 e. Evenings 20 c.-30. c-50 c.—70 c.

ESTARE

SHOWING TO-DAY

WARNER BROS. TROPICAL MUSICALI,

Seething

with Senor itas!_Flaca hog with Rhythm!.

Scare!

CALTE

O'BRIEN

DOLORES DEL RIO

ES OTHERS

Τε

-NEXT CHANGE-

THE BIG BROADCAST

OF 1936"

FRONT PAGE WOMAN

At The Queen's

That no stress should stand on the laurels won by her work in one part is the contention of Bette Davis, Warner Bros. star now ap pearing in. "Front Page Woman" at the Queen's Theatre,

§ heroes live again ...to fight for love

and kingi

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

RXO-RADIO

PICTURE

Directed by Rowland V

Lee.

with WALTER ABEL, PAUL LUKAS, MARGOT GRANAME, HEATHER ANGEL, IAN KEITH, Moroni Olän, Onslow Stevens, Rowmond Pinchot, John Quales, Ralph Forbes, Nigel De Bruller, Screenplay by Dudley Nicholi and Row land V. Lev.

WALLACE BEERY JACKIE COOPER

M.Q.M." in "O'SHAUGHNESSY'S BOY" PICTURE

"Black Fury"

STAR:-

"In Callente"

Coming

NEXT CHANGE

Dolores del Rio, Pat O'Brien and EE. Horton in a scene from "In

Caliente" showing at the Star Theatre to-day.

KING'S:

"O'Shaughnessy's Boy"

IN CALIENTE

QUEEN'S:-

15

AT THE KING'S

"Shipmates Forever"

"Ship Cafe' ORIENTAL:-

"Picture Snatcher" ALHAMBRA:--

"The Rainmakers" "His Night Out" MAJESTIC:-

"Metropolitan

O'SHAUGHNESSY'S -BOY

There have been many interesting reunions at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, but none stranger than that which occured under the Big Tog erected for "O'Shaughnessy's Boy," co-starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper, which opens Sunday at the King's Theatre.

First to greet Beory on the set was Joe Metcalf, veteran elephant trainer, for many years with the Al G. Barnes circus, who learned the business with Beery when they travelled, as young- sters, with the Foropaugh-Selle circus. Their expressions of mutual pleasure over meeting again were interrupin by the shrill trumpeting of an elephant"

Beery, exclaimed Anna May 1

Anna May is a lady elephant, who carries her fifty years with all the dignity befirring a veteran of the screen with many years of experience before the camera But she lost her puise completely when Beery appeared for Anna May was just as anxious as Metcalf to say “hello' to an old

friend.

"it's

A story of circus life, "O'Shaugh- nessy's Boy" was directed by Richard Boleslawki. Supporting the co-stars are Spanky McFarland, Leons Mariele, Willard Robertson, Sarah Huden, Henry Stephenson, Clarence Muse and Ben Hendricks.

SHIPMATES FOREVER

Two hundred and fЛty kissas were exchanged with quite some enthusiasm on Warner Bros.

"In

At The Star

Caliente," "First National's latest musical, opens at the Star Theatre to-day. Its all star cost is headed by Dolores Del Rio, Pat O'Brien, Leo Carrillo and Edward Everett Horton

Scores of beautiful Hollywood chorus girls appear in numbers created

and directed by Busby Berkeley, who staged the big hits in "Gold Diggers of 1935." "Won- der Bar," "42nd Street" and score of other im musicals.

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Two famous song writing teams, Warren and Dubin and Dixon and Wrubel, wrote the songs for the Berkeley production

numbers.

They include "Muchacha." "Lady in Red" and the title song. "In Caliente."

The Three Musketeers

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

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BIG DOUBLE STAGE AND SCREEN SHOW

• TO-DAY & CO-MÓRROW •

Cardinal Richelieu's bitter struggle THE RENOWNED GAETANO GIRLS

to maintain his control over Louis XIII of France in the 17th century dominates one of the most dramatic eras in French history, What is more, it has importance in French literary history, for it gave Alexandre Dumas vivid background and a motivating force for the romantic adventures of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, in "The Three Musketeers," which has been adapted to the screen by RKO Radio and which is currently showing at the King's Theatre.

These boisterous hearties, d'Artag- nau, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, it is said, were actual figures of the time, but the rotuned Dumas gave them new life and new favour in his classic tales. As a result they have marched down to the present with a vast and readers, high tribute to their anthor's ever increasing army of enthralled extraordinary intuition for entertain-

Phil Regan, the radio cop, sings the "Muchocha," which features Dolores in a dance review, and "Toment value." Winifred Shaw sings the "Lady in Call You My Own" 2 balad.

Red," and "In Caliente" is sung by a group of entertainers,

Others in the cast include the famous DeMarcos, who do some specialty dancing and "The Canova Family" radios Billies of the South Dorothy Dare, Luis Alterni, George Humbert, William David- son. Harry Holgan. So'edad Jiminez, Herman Bing and Florence Fair.

Lloyd Bacon directed the pro- duction Trom the screen play by Jerry Wald and Julius Epstein, based on an original story by Ralph Block and Warren Duft.

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WHEN MASEFIELD WASHED FLOORS

sound stage during the production Never A Barnan: They Were

of the Cosmopolitan musical drama, "Shipmates Forever," which is scheduled as the big feature to be screened at the Queen's Theatre this week-end.

Fifty toys and fifty girls-five kisses for each pair!! And the boys and girls were all total strangers to each other when the osculatory proceedings began, Afterward-Well, why bring that up? The scene

•

Far Above Me"

London Jab 28. Mr. John Masefield, the Poet Laureate, who is recovering from an illness contracted while on ho- day in America, dented in an in- terview in Los Angeles yesterday Miss Davis was prompted to her

the persistent rumour that he once statement by the universal praise

worked as a barman in a saloon in she received from press" and public

was the Naval | Greenwich Village, New York, in "Of Human Bondage." "To let Academy at Annapolls, The oc- "Me, a boy of 16, a barman?" the such praise go to my head," she caston was the annual Ring Dance, Poet Laureate declared, "No, no, said, "would have ended my career at which each midshipman who the barmen in the Greenwich Vil~ as an actress, If I were willing to has passed his examinations for lage saloon where I worked were stand on that part alone. I would entrance into

the second class far above me, I was merely the probably skip into oblivion so fast becomes entitled to wear his class man who scrubbed the noors-the that I wouldn't even recognize ring.

Janitor."" myself." She. Further commented In the centre of the dance- "Mr. Masefield said that the joys "that one excellent part should floor a ring 8 ft. in diameter is of sailing before the mast motivate an actress to strive to erected vertically.

were Each Middle perhaps, sometimes exaggerated.. attain greater heights with each and his best girl-friend pass "For sheer excitement," he said, subsequent picture. Miss Day's through this. For an instant they "no trip I have ever taken thrilled belleves that in "Front Page halt inside the ring. The girl me more than the one I have just Woman" she has an outstanding slips the, class token on the boy's completed up the Spanish Main i part opposite George Brent." As Anger-they kiss-then pass on. and through the Panama Canal.on

she points out, her characteriza- The taking of this are caused tion calls for highly dramatic something that rarely if ever is

a steam cargo boat. scenes as well as occasional lapses seen in a movie studio-a complete Into the lighter side of life.

disregard for the director's orders. The picture is a stirring drama After moving about twenty couples based

Richard magazine story "Women Are Bum Boraage called “Out." That means Newspapermen". adapted" by Roy for the flim to stop running and

on

MOST DÉLIGHTFUL VOYAGE "We talk of having conquered the sea, you know, but we haven't

with it so hard as we used to,

"My memory of sailing vessels is

brand, d'Artagnan Paul Lukas, Moroni Walter Abel, famous Broadway actor, plays the role of the classic fire- Olsen and Onalow Stevens portray Athos, Porthos and Aramis respective. ly. Others featured in the cast are Margot Grahame, as Milady de Win. Rosamond Pinchot, Ian Keith as de ter, Heather Angel as Constance, Rochefort, Nigel de Brulier, John Qualen and Ralph Forbes.

THE RAINMAKERS

film fun denouements the climax of "The Rainmakers," new Wheeler and Departing from the beaten paths of

Woolsey feature by RKO Radio with Dorothy Lee, brings to the screen a sustained suspensa rare in celluloid comedies, according to Lee Marcus, producer

Early scenes of "The Rainmakers," based on the efforts of Wheeler and Woolsey to lighten the woes of a drought-ridden farming community, sparkle with horseplay and humour. But each scene builds swiftly toward a crashing climax in which two dynamite-laden locomotives race scross the countryside with Bert and Bob in the engine caba.

This particular sequence sounds a new note in suspense-comedy, expected to prove more startling than the so-called "human fy scene in Harold classic comedy scene of silent days, the Lloyd's "Safety Last."

Director Fred Quiol tossed all comedy conventions, into the discar when be reached "The Rainmakers," railroad finish. Calling in full on the talents of his two stars, he ran the climax through lavish footage with only six lines of dialogue. Two reele of a motion picture use 2,000 feet of fl, and filin passes on the theatre screen at the average rate of 90 feet a minute. It requires approximately 20 minutes to portray the climax, given over entirely to drama, suspense and comedy pantomime.

This picture will be shown at the Alhambra Theatre on Saturday.

EX-KAISER WILHELM 77

7

AND MISS FERRETTI

FAMOUS D'ANQING MADOAPS

ON THE STAGE AT ALL PERFORMANCES

-ON THE SCREEN

A DELIGHTFULLY REFRESHING. ROMANTIC DRAMA OF THE WOMAN'S SIDE OF NAVY LIFE!

Kathleen Norris's Newest and Best Love Story!

NAVY Wife

CLAIRE

RALPH

TREVOR BELLAMY fox

TO-DAY

& TO-MORROW

PAUL

Picture

MAJESTIC

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lets loose a blast of dynamite in

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Saturday: LAWRENCE

TIBBETT

NEW

'ARMY'' ENGINE

OF THE L.M.S.

Easton Ceremony

AIN

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

·METROPOLITAN "

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

Memorial Unveiled

St. Paul's

London, Jan, 30. London, Jan. 21.

St. Paul's Cathedral was crowd- Another of the 71 engines of ed yesterday evening for a service.

Macauler's through the ring. director F. We merely do not have to strug remarkably well despite his age, the Royal Best class belonging to following the unveiling in the

the screen play by Laird Doyle. Alms stopped, yes, but do you with some persons swearing at me Michael Curtiz directed. In the think those thirty kissless couples) from the deck... *

All

London, Jan, 23.“ Ex-Kaiser. Wilhelm of Gerziany was 77 yesterday. In view of the mourning for the late King George V., the celebrations at Doorn, Hol- land, were' quiet, an

The former Emperor, who looks

personally led the prayers in the the London, Midland and Scot Crypt of a memorial to Lawrence Chanslor and Like Hayward, with everybody to cease action. The largely hard work in the rigging. big ball-yesterday morning, after tish Railway Company was named of Arabia. This ceremony was per-

which he received the congratula-at Euston yesterday. tions of his consort, Frincess Her-

formed by Lord Halifax, in, his cast bealdes Brent and Miss Daris stopped? They did no such thing "My moet delightful and in mine, and the members of the names associated with the British versity of Oxford, who afterwards,

the engines are to have capacity as Charicellor of the Un-.- are Roscoe Karns, Winkred Shaw, they kept on moving rightspring voyage was one, to Austra housebold.d

Army, the one yesterday. No. 2120. in the course of the service, des Walter Walker J: Farrell Mac- through the ring and kissing last year in a large and

being, given that of "Royal Army livered an address from the pulpit donald and Dorothy Dare."

even they were not being photo-luxurious passenger "Uner"

Service Corps.”**

on Lawrence's fame and char- graphed.

Asked what he thought of the

While the band from the Royal acter. The congregation included "Shipmates Forever" is a smash- | younger poets, Mr. Masefield said

Army Service Corps, at Aldershot, many of those who had served career from the beginning of the ing drama with all the glamour he thought they were too pessimis-

played the Regimental March, and with him in the Arab war, a numis of the life of the naval cadets attic.

Guard of Honour presented ber of friends from Oxford and London, Jan. 28, Taiping campaign in China to his Annapolis, where many of the The work of the youngsters ex- The Gaumont British Corpora- tragic death at Khartoum Mr. scenes were taken.

arms, Major-General Tarver, the Royal Air Force, and a large In the cast presses a needless anger at world Rubber Company plants here have Colonel-Commandant of the Corps, body of the general public. tion announce that "Chinese Gor Michael Balcon, Director of Proare Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, conditions," he said. This trend been virtually suspended as a re- unveiled the name-plate, above, don," a film based on the life and duction at the Gaumont-British Lewis Stone, Rosa adventures of Gen. Gordon, will be studios, may invite Bir Cedric Joseph Crehan and hundreds of and France The younger, poets the management described as "the and broke a bottle of champagne Alexandra, is especially noticeable in Britain sult to a strike, following what which is the crest of the Corps. included in their 1938 programme. Hardwicke to play the part.

others. The screen play to by should observe the full tide of his seasonal dismissal of a number of to wish it fuck, Work has already started on the Alexander Korda has also an- Delmer Daves with music, and tory-then they would see things tyre workers"-

is the second largest employed on script, which will cover Gordon'snounced a picture about Gordon.

The "Royal Army Service Corps the L lyrics by Warren and Dubini are not so bád now!!

Reuter.

The rich brocade pall which for

"CHINESE GORDON"

New Gaumont-British Film

GOODYEAR PLANT

STRIKE

Akron, Feb, 18

All operation in the Goodyear

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