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ENTERTAIN

QUEENS

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 $ 9.30 The Fastest, Funniest Fight to-a-Finish Love Story You've Ever Seen!

"The BRIDE COMES HOME

Paramount's Comedy with

FRED

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Riffraft"

QUEEN'S:

"The Bride Conles Home" ORIENTAL:-

Top Hat"

CENTRAL:-

ROBERT

"East of Java"

CLAUDETTE COBERT MacMURRAY YOUNG

— TO-MORROW

The Oc standing Urama of the Seasou "FOUR HOURS TO KILL" with RICHARD BARTHELMESS

TAKK, ANY THAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUR

FLEMING

4 SHOWS

DAIL 1,30-5,15

7.30-8.30

ORIENTAL

LAST 4 PERFORMANCES TO-DAY

ROAD

WANGHAI

TEL. 78473

Showing to crowded houses at all performances THE GRANDEST AND MOST POPULAR MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW EVER CREATED!

with Edward Everett Marlen,

Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Erie Blora. Directed by MARK SANDRICH. Pandro S. Burmes

Production

*

FRID ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS

in

TOP HAT

With gay and reckless tunes by IRVING"

BERLIN

RKO-RADIO PICTURE

DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

UNLY

li

SOMETHING NEW IN SCREEN PRODUCTIONS A NEW KIND OF A THRILL PICTURE I

the fastest train on earth, blaz- ing a new thrill trail in a grip- ping romance of the rails!

THE

SILVER STREAK

with

SALLY BLANE

CHARLES STARRETT

R KO

HARDIE ALBRIGHT

RADIO

WILLIAM FARNUM

CENTRAL

THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY At 2.80, 6.15. 7.20 9.20 P.M. FIRST SHOWING IN THIS COLONY AND IN CHINA! ADVENTURE WITH A VENGEANCE!

PRESENTS

EAST OF JAVA

Charles BICKFORD

TO-MORROW. DOUBLE ATTRACTION

ON THE STAGE →→→.

CHIN LOO 30.min. of Acrobatics & Jugglings. ON THE SCREEN BUCK JONES in THE CRIMSON TRAIL POPULAR FIRST RUN Prices Loge: 80 c Back Circle'i 50 c Back Stalls: 400; Front Stalla 200.

Ficture

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW BUYERS BEWARE! WIVES TAKE CARE!

Here'couse the orig. inal gimme girls that men ju can't try "No" tel

RAN BLONDELL FARRELL

GLENDA

TRAVELING SALESLADY

WILLIAM GARCAN

HUGH HERREPT

RIDAY AND SATURDAY GARY

ANNA COOPER and STEN in THE WEDDING NIGHT"

#L

"That man wants me to lend him some money. Do you know anything about him?"

"I know him as well as I know you. Don't lend him a cent, old man"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :----

land"

MAJESTIC:

STAR:-

"RIFFRAFF"

Jean Harlow has never disp ay cd her versatility as an actress to better advantage than in "Rii- traff," which is showing to-day at the King's Theatre.

Teamed whh her for the first time is one of Holywood's finest the actors, Spencer Tracy, and two mas no opening to get the most out of the powerful and sweeping story, which mixes the most hi arious comedy with the most touching pathos.

CHARLIE CHAN IN COLONY

LAST TWO-DAYS

Short Trip To See China

And now, Mt. Warner Oläna, world famous as Charlie Chan, 13 He arrived yesterday on ere. board the Thiyo Maru unheralded. He received us in his cabin witn that charming suave manner that ke depicts on the screen, the.

gentleman. evincing courteous

that those peculiar mannerisms have made him beloved. by millions of film followers.

The story of "Riffra invades & brand new locale, the commer- cla fishing flest that plies the waters of the Paclic of Southern California. Much of the story takes place in the fishing village

It Was quite by chance Mr. great Callornia adjacent to the "Wanderer Of The Waste- metropolis a community affilated Oland said that he took up pro- with the city, yet entirely separat-traying Chinese characters, though ed as though in a different world. the character Charlle Chan, him- There the fishermen and their self, was based on a real man-A families live their lives, and work Pan Ah of Honolulu, who was a out their destinies without con- friend of Mr. Oland.

Discussing the eleventh of the tact with outside Influences.

"Rifraft tells of the love c1 series of Charlie Chan pictures, Miss Harlow and Tracy. love which has just been completed and is called "Charlie Chan at the that transcends man-made yet is masked with a vet of rough Circus," Mr. Oland said that he badinage that

entirely had just received a telegram which conceal its depth and sincerity. It referred to the picture in question,

of and which stated "Preview one presents Miss Harlow in

personal performance her most unusual roles. an angel knock-out,

"Werewolf of London"

Traveling Sales Lady"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Break of Hearts"

QUEEN'S:-

"Four Hours To Kur "Mary Burns Fugitive"

CRIENTAL:-

"The Sliver Streak" MAJESTIC:

"Helldorado"

ALHAMBRA:—.

"Thanks A Million" CENTRAL:--

"The Crimson Trail"

WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND

cannot

#

laws.

13.

of the waterfront who marries & superb. Louise Joins me in 'send- to you both Jack." braggart and a bully and spends ing love the rest of her life trying to re- "Jack." Mr. Oland explained, was

lls manager, form him.

FOUR HOURS TO KILL

The trip out East was decided "Rifraft" cannot be rated too and

"almost overnight." Mr. Oland Highly. Romantic, dramatic thrilling, it embodies the qualities found that he had two months to

picture that make the motion

spare before going into production of entertain-of "Charlie Chan at the Race- premlere medium m2n1. You are sure to spicy

t course" so he made up his mlad He is accompanied to see China adenut from open ng scene to

by his wife, and during his stay in Hong Kong, the travelling star and his wife plan to visit Cantot.

Although Mr, Oland's knowledge As Tony Mako, the unforget- of the Chinese language is very table character outdoor

in Paramount's neagre, through als long study of A

of the Wasteland," "Wanderer

Four Hours To K," coming to his parts as a Chinese, he had ac-

Theatre Queen's outstanding because of its origin-

shortly, quired a fair knowledge of the the ality of plot and humaneness of

Richard Barthelmess plays the country's philosophy. He said that characterization topped with 'rip-

part of a man sentenced to death, he had come to. Hong Kong and the that marks

the East to pick up something- roaring LLON

who spends his last few hours of freedom in evening up

old what it was he did not exactly age.ess popu.arity of Zane Grey

know, as he had no definite ideas westerns, will be shown on Tues-

yet-that would help in in his day and Wednesday at the Alham

work.

bra.

colourful

drama

Laid against the picturesque desert country of the West in the of out.aws days

bands when roamed the desert, wastes preying on gold prospectors, Wanderer centres its Wasteland"

بین

the

story about Dean Jagger, young Easterner who, on his way to the badiands, meets and falls in love with Gall Patrick also traveling her to the gold country with parents.

Upon his arrival, his ne'er-do- well brother is accidentally shot in a crooked card game and Jag- of the ger, unjustly accused

Ed- crime, flees into the desert. ward Ellis. a. kindly old prospec- from tor, finds him half dead exposure and thirst, and becomes his friend. Doomed to wander the wastelands, a fugitive Justice. unable to

A

score.

During

intermission an

scapes

?

f1cm1 his

The action of this melodrama, adapted from Norman Krasna's

Ee wished, however, to see as hit play, "Small Miracle," is set entirely within EL Broadway much of China as he could. An revelation was the Theatre. Barthelmess is brought interesting to. the theatre by, the detective fact that all of the Charlle Chan were made under the whu 1 escorting him to prison. pictures

he supervision of a Chinese technical. guard, but, adviser. He will probably join the instead of ficeing: hides within Empress of Asta on March 20 and the theatre, awaiting the arrival change to the Empress of Britain of the man who squealed and at Shanghai, allowing himself a In the few days in both parts. He plans sent him to his death. meantime, the drama of others in be back in Los Angeles on May boy 2. During his stay in Hong Kong the theatre cloak-room who has stolen and "faces. tall, a he will reside at the Peninsula rich woman planning to run away Hotel. with her sweetheart, a philanderer caught in his game-are rising to their climaxes. The solution: of all these le dramas is found by the shot that evens Mako's score.

LOVE FOR CHICKENS

Lp Tony Six Men In Dock For Theft

ΣΤΟΥΣ

to return

Chan Leung-mo, alias Ah Ying, **BREAK OF HEARTS' civilization. Jagger becomes

alas Ah Chung. 28. Chiu Mul- member of a gang of renegades,

tsal, 36, Lam Kel. 23. Lean Hei scenes Really sou-surring love headed by Larry "Buster" Crabbe.

san, 32, Li Shing. 34, all pleaded" Finally rebelling against their un-have been enacted for the camera scrupulous tactics irinocent wetween Katharine Hepburn and guilty to having robbed La In. gardener, or six chickens and E at a matshed at. Kowloon hat prospectors,..he revenges himself Charles on them in a thrilling gun battle, Hearts," showing on Thursday at Tong on January 31, when they when they attack his benefactor, the King's Theatre, Eilis. and hold Miss Patrick captive.

!

on

Boye

In **Break 1

While Boyer, Ido: of the French appeared bafore Mr. Justice J. J. stage and screen. has been halled Hayden yesterday at the Criminal as one of the great lovers or flims, Sessions and were each sentenced Lam Ping-chi, 26, pleaded not Hepburn, never before has been to 18 months hard labour. cast in a role offered her so great

was withdrawn.

f

In a crashing dramatic climax that held this reviewer spellbound with its skillful blending of a tense but surprise finish, Jaggor an opportunity to disp ay her tal-guilty and the case against him

returns to the scene of the crine with Miss Patrick to give himself

the up, to find that changed completely.

town

has

ent for romantic love.

"She combines the fire of an

Diga Nethersole with the repress on of a Duse," said Phep Moeller, director. "I am amazed at her emotional range from the most THE BRIDE COMES HOME intense, lyric abandon to the most subtle nuances." He declares that for beauty and power he does not belleve tat Hepburn's ove scenes with Buyer ever have been dupli-

A joking remark' made in a ay manner at an afternoon tea some years ago in New York started at

cated on the screen:

"Break of Hearts" tels the story of a young composer who marries

Mr. J. B. Prentis, for the Crown, his said the complainant, and family were awakened at midnight by Anding the defendants in the hut binding some of them up with'

escaped and string. L Shing threatened them with a knife. Iu the defendants then ran off with the stolen property.

Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden sald the er'me was a serious one be- cause it might have given rise to bloodshed and killing. Defea-

chain of events that has brought Claudette Colbert to the pinnacle of Hollywood stardom and made

c famous maestro but leaves him "dants had pleaded that they had her one of the nation's most ad-

when she believes that her love no food, no work and no money They mired theatrical personalities.

to him to return to the country. necessary 1. no longer This lovely lady of the screen

His plunge to the depths of des- would be amply provided for in the future. R$ a sentence of has just completed another plc-

eighteen months hard labour. ture for Paramount, "The Bride pair and his regeneration through her love make an enthraying pic- Comes Home," in which she is

It is a Pandro 8. Berman, would be imposed. featured with Fred MacMurray, seen as her leading mom in "The production for RKO Rado. Gilded 11ly." This

closes to-day at Theatre:

new

the

Alm Queen's

Lure.

KINGS:

At 2.30. 5.10% 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

SHE MAY NOT BE A "LALY"

but she's all woman from the heart out l

Jean with "honey-brown" bair

-in a new thrill romance

ira. for

We

Jean HARLOW

RIFF RAFF

SPENCER TRACY

KATHARINE HEPBURN

**FROM"

THORS.

in

UNA MERKAL

JOSEPH CALLEIA

-CHARLEN BOYER

"BREAK OF HEARTS”

RKO

• RADIO

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

NATHAN AÐ, KOWLDON,DAIL

0.30 ·TEL. 36856

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

WHEN A SIX-GUN WAS THE LAW!

Adolph Tukar presents

Zane

FINAL

A dynamic drama

of the old west ...

when romance rodė

the ranges...ayam by the ace writer

of saddle sagas ...

Grey's

"WANDERER OFF WASTELAND

THE

A Paramount Picture with

DEAN JAGGER - GAIL PATRICK EDWARD EA LIS

"BENKY BAKER - LARRY "BUSTER" CRABBE

Paramount Shorts

SHOWINGS MAJESTIO

TO-DAY

Wednesday:

THEATRE:

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 2.20 F.M.

Carl Laemmle presents A Universal Picture

WEREWOLF OF LONDON

with

HENRY HULL WARNER OLAND VALERIE HOBION

RICHARD ABLEN

HELLDORADO with MADGE EVANS

TRAVELING SALESLADY

Blondell for the affections of the.

She is the handsome Gargan. proprietoress of a chain of drug stores and gives her business to Gargan, but takes it away when she ands that romance is develop-

Joan Blondell, in the title role, scenes of the now Moffat "Tunaei, ls as sim and beautiful and as that put Denver on the main line full of pep and ginger as ever. "SILVER STREAK"

of a transcontinental railroad and

This is the first picture in which required twenty years to drill, are

she has appeared since she quiting between Gargan and Mas

Blondell. The

the screen a few months ago to According to reviews, the pic-

Hugh Herbert "has never been Recording on the motion picture screened for the first time,

become the mother of a bouncing

funnier than as the inebriate i ture offers Mlas Colbert in one of screen the crowning achievement great invention of medical science.

century

baby boy. Her acting is snappy of railroading, The Drinker Respirator, commonly

inventor of her most clever performances to fa

a toothpaste with date. This dark-haired alluring, RKO-Radio's The Silver Streak" called the. "iron lung," that is a

to sufferers

cocktail flavours.. from long and full of herve and she handles with skill and young lady was born in France showing at the Oriental Theatre boon

Wednesday and

Grant Mitchell does excellent Thursday, paralysis, also is shown for the every situation but came to America when she on

WII lam Gargan plays opposite work as the conservative, tooth-. WHA

thirteen and set out to be Frings to the public the first first time. Scenes of the Chicago artistry.

Miss Blondell in the leading mas-paste manufacturer who thinks come an artist. She was studying glimpses of the new streamline World's Fair, where part of the Zephyr, pictura was filmed, are to be seen. Burlington at the New York Art League wher. train at a tea, she met Anne Morrison, rechristened Silver Streak" for Others scenic backgrounds include culine role as the star salesman of that women know nothing about the famed Royal Gorge and the a rival concern whom she worsts business and Al Sheen, formerly of Gallagher and Shean, plays the the playright. More as a joke the picture.

Aside from its strong element of beautiful Colorado River country at every turn.

The story is not without its role of the up-to-date manufac- than anything else, Miss Colbert

of love turer, with great humour, and The love interest of the story in asked Miss Morrison for a part in trama, "The Silver Streak is west of Denver.

cinema show-case of indeed & the latter's new play, "The Wild modern wonders. In addition to carried by Sally Blane, as the romances and share Westcotts." To her utter amaze- the fast new train, the first pie daughter of the railroad president, tangles. In addition to its comedy. skill. Ruth Donnelly also adds to

scene as the jealous rival of Miss Blondell, tures of the Boulder Dam are and Charles Starrett as the young for Glenda Farrell-appears on the the comedy as the mother of Miss ment. Miss Morrison gave her a big role.

brought to the screen. The first engineer,

the

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