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ENTERTAI

QUEENS

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 230, 5.5. 7 20 & 930

A Milk Punch to the

Solar Plexus!

Adotph Zukor presente

LLOYD

The MILKY WAYTM

& Paramorat Pietura with

ADOLPHIE MENJOU VERREE TEASDALE HELEN MACK WILLIAN GARGAN GEORGE BARRIER DOROTAY WILSON Directed by LEO McCAREY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936.

TODAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"King of Burlesque"

QUEEN'S:-

"The Milky Way

ORIENTAL:

"Shipmates Forever"

Kowloon

'ALHAMBRA-

"I Dream. Too Much" MAJESTIC:—

"Sweet Surrender"

STAR:

"She Couldn't Take It'

Coming

TO-DAY

"

ONLY #

KINGS!

At 9:30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 P.M

THE FIRST GREAT MUSICAL DRAMA OF 1936 !

MONARCH OF MERRIMENT

Warner BAXTER ALICE

KING OF HACK ORAYE

of

BURLESQUE

Fur Sturg

ARLINE JUDGE MONA BARRIE GREGORY RATOFF

DIXIE DUNBAR

FATS WALLER

NICK LONG, JR.

KENNY BAKER

ALSO

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FROM WED.

HONG KONG HIGH LIGHTS HONG KONG'S OWN MAGIC CARPET "THREE LIVE GHOSTS”, M.G'M with HICHARD ARLEN-HERYL MERURR

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PICTURE

"YAKE ANY THAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

A SHOWS

DAILY

FLEMING

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230-5.17

7.15-0.30

ORIENTAL

A MASSIVE NA AL PRODUCTION

KING'S :-

Three Live Ghosts"

QUEEN'S:-e

"Big Hearted Herbert" ORIENTAL:---

"Smart Girl" ALHAMBRA:—

TEL. (SEATS

"Two in the Dark" MAJESTIC:-

GRAND SPECTACLE OF MUSIC, SONG,

LAUGHTER AND ROMANCE.

LAST 4 TIMES TODAY]

EVERYBODY'S CHEERING "THEIR FIRST SHOW SINCE FLIRTATION WALK'!

BICK POWELL RUBY KEELER

Shipmates

DAYS

Forever

2DM TO-MORROW

THURSDAY

HERE'S A REAL GOOD COMEDY !

2 SISTERS AFTER THE SAME MAN,

IT'S ONE GLORIOUS BA TLE

"Any girl can get a man ...but it taken a smart one to hold him....... and you're not smart)"

Smart Girl

A Paramount Picture to

IDA LUPINO KENT TAYLOR

GAIL PATRICK JOSEPH CANTHORN

Directed by Audrey Ĺľutu.........a Wobna Wear Priyan

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TO-DAY

THEATRE

CARE LAEMMLE #romanÁ UNIVERSAL MUSICAL TREAT

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

SWEET SURRENDER

PARKER TAMARA HELEN RUSS BROWN ARTI

JACK DEMPSEY, ABE LYMAN.

"Three Lives Ghosts"!

moments

yomance.

WITH

"The Bishop Misbehaves"

George Ratt and Joan Bennett in "She Couldn't Take " A Columbia Picture

SHE COULDN'T TAKE IT

יו

The widely-praised George Raft Joan Beinert

comedy-romance.

"She Couldn't Take It." will open at the Star Theatre to-day.

Rat

SONG AND DANCE who first won the heart of Ameri

In Film At King's

I've

"No pretty faces for me. seen them all my life. What I want is something with class!"

As a master purveyor of enter- tainment in his role in "King of Burlesque, now : the King's Theatre, Warner Baxter uttera that speech, before he launches into the search for "better th.nga." Assisted by his two faithful friends, Jack Oakle and Alice Faye, Baxter has cut his path, in the theatrical world, rising from a 14th Street burlesque, to become a producer of Broadway

extra- vagunzas..

But when lovely Mona Barrie of Park Avenue proves responsive to his suit, Baxter forgets all his old friends in the Dursui. of the clusive beauty.

course

there are surprises and disappointments for Baxter in the absorbing love drama which culminates. surprisingly enough. with a romantle attachment "be- tween himset and Mas Faye,

can audiences in a series of gang- sler portrayals la "Scar.ace." Hush Money" and "Quick Mil- lions" reverts to this type of "characterization in She Couldn't Take It" for the first time in over a year. He is seen as the ex-rum: runner Ricardi repenting his sins in the federal penitentiary, where he meets Walter Connolly, million- alre financler serving time for tax- evasion...

Connolly is impressed by the young feian's, earnestness and de- termination to go straight. so that when death comes to him in his prison cell his fast words are 4 plea to Raft to act as executor of ls estate and guardian of his petulant family.

What happens when "Raft takes charge of the family and fortune despite the vigorous profests of the tempestuous Miss Bennett, her play boy brother. James Blakely, and her count and poet patronizing mother. B.ilie Burke, accounts for the vivid and amusing screenplay which has won such spontaneous popularity.

Towne and Graham Baker.

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Others in the cast

are Lloyd Nolan, Wallace Ford, Alan Mow- The entertainmen; of "King of

bray, Donald Meek and William Burlesque" centres about the ex-

Tannen. Tay Garnett directed the cting and gay production scenes, which 20th Century Fox has pro-F, Garrett from a story by Gene adaptation prepared by Oliver E.

vided. To the are sentillating tunes which Jimmy McHugh and Ted Kochler have provided, the clar supporting cist dances, sings and provides fun. "Lovely Lady" and "Shooting High" are two of the songs, already widely popular. Another hit is "I Love to Ride the Horses on a Merry Go-Round" by Jack Yellen and

Lew Pollack,

Prominent members of the sup- porting cast include Fats Waller, sepla son zster: Dixie Dunbar, Nick Long, Jr., Kenny Baker and the Pax.on Sisters, dance spe- dalists.

BIG HEARTED HERBERT

"Big Hearted Herbert," a War- ner Bros, comedy romance, coming shortly to the Queen's Theatre as the featured attraction,

There is an all star cast headed by the inimitable comedy team, Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee, whom audiences will remember for their hilarious team in work in "the Merry Frinks" and "Gold Olggers of 1933." The picture, based on an uproariously fanny story by the famous author, Sophie Kerr, while largely comedy Is

"TWO IN THE DARK"

WHITE WOMEN'S TRAGEDIES IN THE EAST

An Account Rendered

(BY RONALD WOOLFREX) Terrible stories of the hardships enured by white women in China, and Manchuria were recounted to

me

the other day by a British woman who has been lying among them for more than a year. She is Miss Janet Mitchell, who has temporarily returned to Great Bri- tain to act as honorary secretary to the British Appeal Committee. Twenty-two national organisa- tions, from the Young Women's Christian Association to the Mo- ther's Union and from the Sal- vation Army to the Church Army, are behind this effort to extend a helping hand to a hopeless army or perhaps 100,000 women who are being driven by cestution to pro stitution

"During the time that I lived with the White Russians at Har- bin," said Miss Mitchell, "I taught. English. Amongst many pupils was an almost destitute but highly edu- cated woman, a widow with one daughter of sixteen. The girl got

railway service. At the time, the the opportunity of giving Russian lessons to a Chinese official in the

mother's income from two pupils was about a bound a month English money-she was living on that and the few pounds, she bad saved from more prosperous years. What the daughter would earn from her pupli, (ttle though It Was about sixpence an

her

help. To cut a long story short, after the second lesson the girl had to discontinue work, as the Chinese made it a condition that she should become his mistress."

The lovely Eriu O'Brien-Moore goes somewhat out of character to play a role in RKO Radio's mystery thriller, "Two in the Dark," head hour would be a tremend- lining Walter Abel and Margot ous Grahame, coming to the Alhambra Theatre on Wednesday.

Her piquant Irish beauty and charm naturally have established her. as go of the most sought after romantic leads in motion pic tures. However, in her current film, the former star of "Street Scepe stage production, is cast as a fiery Russian actress, whose striking appeal and temperamental pyrotechnics are one of the high lights of the picture.

Carrying the "Two in the Dark" the lovely romantic interest is English actress Margot Grahame. Even her part is not the usual sugar-and-orean romantic She plays a destitute show girl

part. who falls in love with a pitifu! amnesia victim suspected of mur der, and the role requires a highly emotional performance.

Gail Patrick, the third girl in the picture, is yet another type. She is a statuesque brunette with dark snapping eyes and an electric smile. She plays a sophisticated vampire role,

Zion Myers produced and Pen Stoloff directed the film,

THE MILKY WAY

For a few moments Mias Mitchell allowed her mind to rove over the host of similar cases with which

her experience of the refugees is

crammed. "That sort of thing is constantly happening" she said.

a verse, this girl was more fortunate than most, as she had a Mother. The condition of the ab-. solutely destitute women, girls and children is past description. Buni have become white slaves at the

tender age of eight."

A hopeless army indeed! But gue of Nations has decided to ap- there is one ray of hope, The Lea-

point a competent woman agent to co-ordinate measures on spot to help them. But the Lea- the gue has no money to provide the necessary funds. £2,000 little enough, in all conscience. And the British Appeal Committee for

seems

Russian Women Refugees in the

Far East has sel otit tu raisa part at least of the sum as speedily as possible. The time is short, and there is so much to be done,

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With

HENRY FONDA

Eric Blore Osgood Perkins Directed by JOHN CROMFELL Pundro S Berman production

RKO

RADIO

Picture

TO-MORROW

RK O Radio's Gripping Mystery TWO IN THE DARK " And A Featurette of the Famed DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

ENGDOM

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TO-DAY" & TO-MORKOW THE FASTEST FILA FUN IN MONTHS I

She could hand it out.. but SHE COULDN'T

GEORGE RAFT

. IN

TAKE IZ

JOAN BENNETT

'SHE COULDN'T TAKE IT”

A Columbia Picture THURSDAY, ONE DAY ONLY"?

FREDRIC MARCH in "HE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI” A United Artists Picture,

CONSTANCE BENNETT

DEFEATING THE FIRE BOGEY

Fire-Resisting Suit

At a temperature of 1,700 de-. grees, a normally healthy man clad in one of these woven asbes- tos suits can remain in a fire for as long as 14 minutes without arti ficial breathing apparatus. Actual ly, such a high temperature is com- paratively rare, and for practical poses a much lower figura can

Wednesday: The Bishop Misbehaves MAUREEN O SULLIVAN

MANY THRILLS, and their escapades provide spiced with a delightful romance or hilarious comedy, with the charming Patricia Ellis hrilling excitement and tender and Phillip Reed in the roles of the lovers. Their affair runs the Cec la Parker, a comparative sauntlet of exceedingly rough newcomer, who scored in the pic- piths, however, in the shape of furization of "Ah Wilderness!" paternal wrath on the part of a With Richard Arlen heading a turns in her finest performance as crabbed and crotchety parent. notable cast, comedy, drama and Richard Arlen's sweetheart, Beryl Aline MacMahon, as the mother, romance will romp across the Menzer to the Cockney mother takes a hand in smoothing the screen of the King's Theatre on

and Charles McNaughton as her way for the lovers by taming A disposition to laughter does Wednesday. The picture is "Three con are outstanding in the roles her nagging and 111-natured Live Ghosts.**

hey Brst created on the New husband by giving him a dozenot denote a defective thinking In many respects this photoplay York stage.

Frank G. secretion of the important adrenal of his own medicine, which pro Nolan, Los Angeles brain surgeon, glands. It steps up blood circula-

organ, declares. Dr. guaranteed entertainment Claude Allister. as a shell-shock- vides some, highly amusing and after heiring Harold Lloyd's suption. The body's chemistry thus Originally a best-selling novel and ed noblemen who steals his own novel situations. Guy Kibbee in a hit play by Frederick 8: Isham, baby. is a comedy highlight and the title role, provokes the family poning tast laugh themselves into words as a foster pace and brain which will resist temperatures up be taken as that of salvage worl it estrhlshed new

to 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit. In- ing "conditions. everywhere. Now it comes to the Digges, Nydia Westman, Jonathan that his children be brought up "The Milky Way, now showing at theory to Dorothy Wilson, men by salvage men, there is obvious-out, there fe also a lighter equip

high records the others in the cast Dudley discord by his stubborn insistence weeping, during the making of his action is accelerated."

new Paramount. farce comedy Dr. Nolan demonstrated his tended in the first place for use In addition to the ful Bestobell screen with a freshness and a Hale and Lian Cooper turn in in poverty and ignorance just as the Queen's Theater. sparkle that makes it superb en- cxcellent portrayals.

ber of the cast, by testing her y, wide scope for such suits; al- he himself had been, although he

blood pressure and letting her ready they have been supplied to

ment weighing only a little more tertainmen

"Three Live Ghosts" was pro has attained afuence//

The medico insists that laughter watch its acceleration on the dial a number of tre brigades and as than the ordinary boiler sult, and The story concerns the adven- duced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Other in important roles include not only refreshes the body but of the instrument when she part of the equipment on aero-complete with helmet, gloves, and tures of three soldiers who escape by John W. Considine, Jr. and Helen Lowel as a comical once-a-stimulates the brain, and aids laughed." from a German prison camp and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone week maid, Robert Barat, Henry clear thinking. "It increases the

dromes, but it is easy to see how boots. Asbestos gloves are now a return to London, to find them from a screen play by C. Gardner O'Neil, Marjorie Gateson, Nella manufacture of one of the most story of a timid milkman's (Harold factories, office buildings, schools equipment; with the best type 16 The Milky Way" is the hilarious useful they might also prove in common part of any are-figating selves offe alin "dead" For vary Sullivan. It is excellent enter- Walker, Joy Ward and Hale Important of the body's self Lloyd) rise to faticame lug 'reasons. they decide to remain | tainment.

by and on board ship in the event of is possible for a man to hold a rea Hamilton

furnianed stimulants adrenalin, a dodging blows

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resisting suit has been produced After years of research arc-

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