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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931.

CINEMA SCREENINGS.

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES.

Ronald Colman fans turned out en musse last night for the opening per- formance of his intest talking picture, "The Devil To Pay,” at tặc Queen's Theatre, and were more than well rewarded.

The story was especlully written for Column by Frederick Lonsdale, Amusing and surprising situations, continuous fun, and roars of laughter. pentanted the progress of the novel jilot which proidves its leading pinyer with one of kin more engaging roles.

Bold Column the Hon. Willie the British Hale, wayward son of Lord Lerland, who has sent the young man to South Afrien to “make a mon of himself," Bankrupt, he auctions off his belongings, and arrives home |"bruke.” Be humora hjs irate father into an agreeable mood, and finds himself one hundred pounds to the

Favouritest. Colman meets and falls in love

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· Mount Baker Ladre the G$250,000 mountala rosari in Washing: Ion, is a mass of charred ambere after a disastrous fire enused by defective wiring. Eighty gunsts escaped Injury but lost all

belongings. Night photo shows the fire at its height..

with a young society beauty. The girl's ambitious father Ras contrived to get her engaged to a Grand Duke. The girl risks leing disowned fur Colman, but only on vondition that be never again we an actress with whom he has been keeping company.

to the Aeruen by Harvey Thew, "Sin- By a planned "accident" Colmon ques

something see her again and complications followers Holiday" provides rupidly.

unite in place, people und in plot. Against a colourful background of another Coney Island, with Its zazzle. tuzzie and glamourous clamour, the story deal with the lave, hate, romance, crime of kindness in the Tuning lives of those engaged in gimen for the pleasure of those who like to be hambagged,

litannie Colmum captivates h nadience in one of his happiest rules The dialogue is brilliantly witty and funny, and the fast excruciatingly pure of the star is followed by a very An east Loretta Young. youthful and attractive Justithes Romaid's quick Myrna

Includes The all-star cast

MICH appreciation of her charmig

ant Liv, as the actress, wa- welt chosen, ninge

Percen favourites EL and plays envincingly. Frederick Luedle La Verne, James Cagnes, Jean Keer and Pavid Torrence the Blundell, Warren Hymer, Noel Manli- fathern, gave the finished performance son, Otto Hoffman and Parnell B. to be expected from sigh veteran 'ratt. Gourge Bosener players, Paul Cavanagh mensured | dialogue, Jalin Adolit directed

Duke's up to the Grand

standard. while Florenc Britton. Crawford Kent and Mary Forbes proved vnpabir in winer roles.

"The Devil To Pag" is unleabtedly the season's most briliant talkie, and one which you will not want to miss.

"Faclúdeen Adventure."

it your neighbour anddenly fell heis to unexpected millions. would sho "it" you? That's not a world pro- 5m in econoniles, but it in the que«. tion which is raised and expanded to the accompaniment 15 MOTIN laughs. in "Forbidden Adventure." the comedy which is now showing t the King Theatre,

wrote

"Dracula" at the Central.

the

Many picturesque sellings are the latest int "Dracula," Universal's weird mystery drama which is to

Central Theatre t begin at the

barraw

Many of the earlier svenes are hand | in and at the crumbling stone

castle of Count Dracula, an ancien r which has been unoccupied for 200 years except by Drnetila Imet other "undead” vampires, who return; nightly from the grave, and make the enate veritable house of hürrors. Some of the most massive sets in the history of Hollywood were constructed i for this picture, showing various elambers in an advanced state of ruin, and the entire interior festooned with clewebs,

Edna Mas Oliver, as Bessie Tait "Farbidden Adventure," provide the

There are hair-raising scenes in a newer to the question. As an owner

vampire, of a tumbledown wayside gasoline STAveyard, with a female station who takes in hundry on the risen fraui her grave, wandering dis

among the tombstones, side, she learns that her oldtime rival consciately

Louise Opening sequences depict a pictures. in the Jaundering business, Pazela.

Maggie Tiffany. husque inn in the mountains of Transyi

vanin, and a rocky mountain pars on gained a quick fortune by taking her little son, Jackie Seari, to Hollywood foggy night, with wolves hoveling in and pushing him forward until he has beroine the "hey king of the movies."

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The snobbery evidenced by Louise, when she pays Edna May chi! persuades the intter to go bal wut make a future Ге

herself. She does it by the same method as her rival, exploiting her little daughter Mitzi Gwion until Mitzi breomes "The chill queen of the movie2.

Later when Louise deviles to take Jackie te Europe to meet King Max,

hoy ruler of Slovurin. Edna May. not toutdone by this blatant pub- Hrity stunt, quickly follows. The ly king smuls them both, but Jackie and Stitzi nuet him on even ternis as run away kids who are trying in esenpe the stern rutes of their parents. The young trio arevt a gang of Lonjten wharf rats", and the ensuing adven tures are replete with excileñent and inughs. It all winds up with a happy retion of all families and the de- parture of the several and respective King's and seen to their own "king dums."

"Forbidden Adventure" is based upo on the "hanrous book, "Let's Play King Sinclair Lewis' Intret work since he won the $30,000 Nobel Prize us the foremost in the world in 1990. It was reted at Paramount's Helly- word studio by Norman Taurog. ramedy and humanist director who turned out that smash of annaxkes. "Skippy." A cast of enpaable actors, including 11 menre of Hollywood's closurest kid actors. supports the fortured players.

"Murder by the Clock," Creeps and shivers are in store for thor who attend “Murder by the Clock," Paramount's mystery thriller hanked as the fenture at the King's Theatre Thursday next.

This story, based on the mystery novel of the same by Rufns King, in hig selling book of the past Menson, tell the story of the unhappy mor ringe of a young man who is mur- idered twice" in single evening. Several hours after he is found dead his home he is alive again, due is the reviving effects of adrenalis treatments given by the family doge tor. Some minutes after he has re- gained life-and just as he is about to Tell who killed him, he is slain for the second and final time. The web

of events woven around this spine- Ungun double demise forms an huur's entertainment that hokla audiences fružen with intenan In- torent.

In "Murder by the Clock" Willam Boyd is at the cant in the role of a sympathetle character. The man who played villians in "The Spoilers," "City Street 2," "Gun Smoke" and others is, in "Murdor by the Clock," the heroic Lieut. Valcour, the police detective who finally tracks down the reni murderer in the case.

"Binners' Houdny."

The Manager of the Queen's Theatre Announces Thursday next as the open- ing day for “Sinners' Holiday." "the latest Warner Brothers and Vitaphone melodrama with comedy, featuring Grant Withers and Evalyn- Knapp.

Taken from the successful stage play by Marie Baumer and adapted

the darknes,

After the story is transferred to England, involving a terrible storin al sen, many scenes are Înid in un ancient Abbey lensed by Dracula-a loration which in its ruined construc- tien is greatly reminiscent of, the. castle in Transylvania.

Amid these picturesque settings is || maeted what is said to be the screen's | klrangest story, with Hela Lugosi in the Litle role of Count Dracula and a rast which also includes David Mun- ners. Helen Chandler, Edward Van

Sloan. Dwight Frys, Frances Dade und Herbert Bunstan,

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