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VEEN

AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. He ran a fortune into a shoestring!

Our

Paramount

Newa

&

Shorts

The ther of "The

Bems" in another gay remenant

presents

SPEND THRIFT

HENRY FONDA.

Pot Patanon, Mary Brian, George Burpler

A. Paramount Picture, Direend by Karel-Wilh

• WALTER WANGER Praevalen

NEXT CHANGE

WARNER BROS, TERRIFYING THRILLER'!

BORIS KARLOFF

رم

in "THE WALKING DEAD"

SHOWS DAILY

10 5.20 220930

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATMAN ROAD KOWLOON TOL $7232

MATINEES. 2030. EVENINGS 20.·30-50-70)

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY! *

A THRILLING PICTURE FILLED WITH TENSE DRAMA ROMANCE AND LAUGHTER!

FOR DRAME THAT PULLS NO PUNCHES IN THE CLINCHES.. HEALS

“THE PAYOFF

JAMES DUNN • CLAIRE DODO Patricio Ellis Alan Dinchart

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! @ ONE OF THE BIGGEST "OLD FAVOURITES" OF ALL TIME!

"42nd STREET"

WITH 14 GREAT STARS! 200 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS!

A GLAMOROUS PAGEANT OF RHYTHM, DRAMA, MIRTH & BEAUTY!

STARE

Dally at 230, 5.20. 7.20 & 9.2.0 P.M

TO-DAY AND 10-MORROW

DANGER

she; asked for. it...until the had

to fight...or die

WOMAN TRAP

GERTRUDEMICHAEL GEORGE MURPHY

ROSCOE KARNS → ARIM TAMIROFF

FBI. “I'M A FUGITIVE

SPENDTHRIFT

Henry Fonda, brillant young star who began his screen career two years ago and leaped to im- mediate popularity, hiss a role ex- ceptionally suited to his abilities in the lm romance., "Spendthrift" which opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"While Parents Step"

QUEEN'S;---

"Spendthrift

ORIENTAL:-

"Bird of Paradise"

"Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"Pride of The Marines" MAJESTIC:-

"The Payoff". STAR!**

"Woman Trap"

KING'S:-

Coming

The King Steps Out" QUEEN'S:-

F

"The Walking Dead" ORIENTAL:-

"Footlight Parade" ALHAMBRA:----

"The King Steps Out" MAJESTIC:-

"42nd Street"

STAR:—

Was

"Tm 1, Fugitive from

"Chained Gang".

"WHILE PARENTS

SLEEP"

a

The march of time has wrought many changes to the old village fair green where the coconut shy

attraction the chief

Ma chinery especially has revolution- ised carnival. yet the boisterous informalty of old-time amusements is si a feature of modern life. If we have left behind ux the mountebank and the maypole- well we have gained the grand marquee and the electric charo- plane. To-day the fun-o'-the- fair, although or scale, is always a hundred per cent, fun!

STEPPING IT OUT WITH

A MERRY MONARCH Grace Moore Scores Again

MELODY AND MIRTH: POMP

AND INTRIGUE

BY

BILL PLAY

No one could regret seeing "The King Steps Out" once; most people will have a longing to see it twice, and that is possibly the greatest praise that can be bestowed on any entertainment. But it is worthy praise as far as this excellent Columbia picture is concerned with all its Impossible brillance, pomp burlesqued adroitly to the pitch of pomposity, intrigue more screaming than subtle and love as plenteous as laughter. For all these features combine in making this new attraction to commence at the King's and Alhambr's Theatres on Thursday, a production which is simply sheer amusemont from start to finish.

And, of course, there is Grace; delightful artas and choruses to the Moore!

rendering of which this accom- plished artist brings a charm of personality and vocal vitality that is most fascinating.

It is fortunate that the script has given her ample opportunity for shedding musical sunshine wherever she goes. and in this show she certainly does step-out and go places. And does she do things! Well, ask

the King Franchot Tone, who wears the uniform of an Austrian Emperor with considerable ease and grace.

As the masquerading milliner who is a tricky Uttle Princess whose sister is betrothed to the Emperor, Grace Moore sings with all the bloom

and fragrance of the glorious flowers-she picks from the Royal garden.

There is no llting "theme song in this production, but there are

That some of the scenes are burlesqued to the very limit of idiocy in no way detracts from the production. It does, in fact, give desirable it that light and shade for comparative appreciations."

There is a finely balanced sup- porting cast of accomplished play- ers each of whom makes his and her portrayal a musterpiece of his- trionic art.

The King Steps Out" will be showing at the King's and the Alhambra Theatres from Thursday' to Saturday.

NEWS FLASHES

grandi Columbia Studios Busy

The Kursaal, that famous plea- sure ground at Southerd, was used for the filming of crowd scene in

Producing

at Columbla

the new Soskin-British and Do- There is an intense buzz of ac- minions production "While Parents tivity noticeable Sleep." showing at the King's studios these days with four im-

before. Theatre to-day,

portant features

the

It is here. amid the lights and cameras. eight in the process of laughter, that Jerry, played by editing and six others about to Mackenzie Ward, meets the Brix-launch into production. ton, shopgirl. She is having truu- Bing Crosby's comedy-with- ble with 2 tough stallholder.

-music. "Pennies from Heaven" Jerry takes up the cudgels on her

zooms ahead at rapid pace under behalf, and emerges from the sub-

the direction of Norman McLeod. sequent fight very much the worse Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Don- for a six-foot-eight glant. Carver

ald Meek and the King of Jazz Doone, the well known wrestler.

Music, Louis Armstrong. fill fea- This is just the beginning of tured roles in the important pro- Jerry's adventures in pursuit of his many set-backs.

Foremost among the rest of "the cast are Enid 'Stamp Taylor, Ellis Jeffreys, Athole Stewart, Romilly Lunge and Davy Burnaby.

"THE PAYOFF"

"The Payoff." First National'ı latest newspaper drama, comes to the Majestic Theatre to-day. with

Fonda is cast in the role of a tri-sta: cest, including James careless, happy-go-lucky million- Dunn Claire Dodd and Patricia wire youth who squanders a for- Ellis. tune of £23.000,000 through his Inability to say "no" to his friends. Expert pole player and owner of a prized race horse and a string of polo ponies, he makes an attempt

The picture is entirely differ- ent from its predecessors' In the newspaper Beld, centering about the activities of an honest sports writer, his contact with the

duction

direc-

"Craig's Wife." being Almed from the Pulitzer prize winning clay, is also before the cameras. with Rosalind Russell, John Boles. Billie Burke and others in a strong supporting cast under the tion of Dorothy Arzner. wood's lone woman director.

Mary Brian, Russell Hardie and Compson are filming in Betty "Killer At Large" under the direc- tion of David Selman and the film- ing indicates assurance of production

TECHNICOLOUR IS GREATER MENACE

The advent of talkies brought many famous stars crashing down. from their dizzy pinnacles, but Technicolour is an even greater menace according to Sam Kant- man, Hollywood's ace colour make- up man who worked on the Selz- nick International production, "The Garden of Allah," in which Marlene Dietrich is co-starring. with Charles Boyer.

"Technicolour make-up must be thin." asserta extraordinarily Kaufman, "and this may mean the forced retirement' of soRiе

"

Holly-players if and when all Alms gre mada in colour, for, as you pro- bably know, the make-up used ai present hides many of theft olc- mishes."

Based upon Kaufman's Andings, your favourite should be clasel fed in

saterories the following then prepare to transfer your at- fections elsewhere.

a fine

C. C. "Buddy". Coleman, known throughout Hollywood for his long association with Frank Capra for whom he worked as assistant. com- pletes his first week of filming as

ed recoup by risking everything to gambling fraternity, and his love enter his borse in the Kentucky affairs, which, incidentally. fur- full fledged director. He is direct- Derby.. The plunge fails; and aleh a new twist to the triangoing "Cross Fire" with Charles Fonda comes back from the Derby lar romance. with a golddigging Southern belle The for a wife.

the

picture is based on story by George Bricker, for Throughout the picture, lovely

many years a newspaper writer, Pat Paterson, daughter of Fonda' and depicts all the thrills and trainer, and Bill, Fonda's body.

glamour and excitement in the guard, remain his truest friends work of a reporter who is At the story's close, the youth 15 atantly threatened by gamblers making a success of himself and has found real romance with Irish who try to bribe and intimidate

con-

Starrett and Mary Blake, screen newcomer, in the leading roles.

Greatest interest in Hollywood to-day remains centered on Frank Capra's picturization of the James Eilton best seller, "Lost Horizon starring Ronald Colman with Ed: ward Everett Horton, Jane Wyatt, Isabel Jewell, H. B, Warner, Joha Thomas Mitchell, Margo, James Dunn has the role of the Howard and Bam Jafle. The fin! Mary Brian, is splendid as the

sports writer. Claire Dodd is the shed production is now being edit-- sold-digging Southerner, her first

creen "menace" part, The story telah wife and Painels. Ellis aed.

Eewspaper woman genuinely in skips along through the light dialogue, and the skilled comedy krve with him. Dunn is fired from contributed by George Barbier, his fob when he ceases in his at- alded by Halliwell Hobbes, Richard Carle and J.M. Kerrigan,

Pat.

"PRIDE OF THE

'MARINES'

A happy combination of pathos,

him.

"Theodora Goes Wild" is start- ing before the Columbia cameras with Irene Dunne, Melvyn Dogulas

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1. The player who blushes easily, especially in love scenes

2. The actor who likes his drinks with and comes to the studio bleary eyes. The photograph a distasteful pink.

3..The actor who stays up all night, reading or what not, and develops circles under his eyes, They'll show as a lovely lavender.

4. The victims of high blood Pressure whose faces turn crimson after a hearty meal. They'll have to stop eating lunch when working In a natural colour. Elm.

5. Anacmilć players who are high- ly susceptible to, changes in tem- perature, turning pals when cold and becoming normal when warm. 6. The romantic players with deep scars, spotty complexions c

vid birth marks, which the new thin make-up will not hide.

tack on the ace gambler, a part and Marian Marsh heading a It need he unnecessary to add

played by Alan Dinehart, and is practically down and out when Frankie Darro. as a jockey whom he had befriended tips him off to. a frame-up in the big race of the season.

Robert Florey directed the plc- thre from the screen play by

humour, romance and stirring mill George Bricker and Joel Bayre,

ay pageantry makes "Pride of the Marines," which is being shown i

FROM A CHAINED GANG-day at the Alhambra Theatre.

with PAUL MUNI

SAT. FREDERIC MARCH SUN. MERLE OBERON- MON. HERBERT KARSHALL

IN

"THE DARK ANGEL

he meets the charming. Florence Rice, only to find considérable ro- mantic opposition in the handsome former young Rogert Allen, a sultor,

Marine who would rather fight "Pride of the Marines" features than eat. It 1s through young Charles, Bickford, Florence Rice, Barrud, his orphaned charge that and Httle Billy Burrud in a rollick- ing, Joyous tale of a brawny lea therneck who adopts a ten-year old lad and brings him to the

military post to live.

Filmed entirely at the United Bickford does a splendid "piece States Marine Buse in San Diego, of work in his role as the hard-

but. the film presents Bickford as the bitten

sentimental M. Marine grun Bergeant Steve Riley, a Bergeant.

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strong cast under the direction of Richard Bolesławskl.

the that few are immune from perils of the Technicolour cameras,

scetic from the Wah Dancy production, "Mickey's Rival”.

released through United Artisti.

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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

JEAN GILLIE

TO-DAY ONLY AT 236, 5.16 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

"WHILE PARENTS SLEEP'

WITH

1

ELLIS JEFFREY'S—ENID STÄMP-TAYLOR"

MACKENZIE WARD United Asztats Belfair

A COLUMLIA PICTUR

A COLUMBIA PICTURE | TO-MORROW

GRACE MOORE in

"THE KING STEPS OUT"

with FRANCHOT TONE

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN RAI

TO-DAY ONLY

A Most Striking Production of the Marine Corps.

CHARLES

BICKFORD

PRIDE of the

COLUMBIA PICTU

MARINES

TOMORROW-

GRANDEST MUSICAL LOVE DRAMA OF THE YEAR!

Gra

MOORE The King Steps that

COLUMBIA PICTURE

Smaws

المي

1.36-Irr

716-820

FRANCHOT

TAKÉ ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY ELME

TONE

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROAD

WANGHAI

TEL 2013

EXTRA SPECIAL! FOR TO-DAY ONLY

THE GRANDEST TROPICAL ROMANCE

EVER SCREENED !

Hundreds of pretty Polynesian girls...their language had no but how they could love. A picture alive word for "kian”..

with startling realism...

FILLED WITH SPECTACULAR" STUNTS!

DOLORES DEL RIO and JOEL MCCRE John Halliday, Creighton Chaney, Riche

«RKO-RADIO Picture

BIRD OF PARADISE

SPECIAL FOR TO-MORROW 1 DAY ONLY

AN UNEQUALED "MUSICAL COMEDY SPECTACLE ! Unbeliarablely sumptuous entertainment with stars galore.

"FOOTLIGHT PARA DE'

● MATINEES: 20-30 EVENINGS: 20c-30c.-50c.-70%.

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