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Thond who have been hoping and praying for another "Sunshine Susio", will find their wishes more than

from all divera, a thrilling undersea battle

with a glant octopus and the tem- pestuous conillet of three men over the heart of ono girl, who hated all men, are maid to give the film its sensat onal flair of drama.

Religious Film, On Sunday morning at 11 am. the Film showing the Exposition of the

The strong cast which supports body of St Francis Xavior will be screened at the Oriental Theatre (for Tracy and Miss Shannon Includes one show only) which is definitely the William (Singe) Boyd, Irving Pichel, last in Hongkong as Australia and Raoul Rouilen, Herbert Mundin and

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new Renate Muller picture, which Wilhelm Thielo directed, and which will be shown at the King's Theatre next Sunday.

It is an engaging story (the main venue is a gramophone factory) which "Marry Me" tells, with the expert nasistance of those three monarchs of laughter, Harry Green, George Robey, and Billy Caryll and of course the charming Renate Muller herself, who is supported by Ian Evans, Charles Hunter, Maurice Hawtrey, and Viola Lyol,

It is the story of a pretty gramo. Iphone recordist who is in love with a fellow employee (Ian Hunter). The young gentleman, head of a bachelor household of three brothers, la glow to realise Itenate's affection for him, and Ha hankers after "a rich marriage." is unaware that Renate has deter- mined to "get her man" and that, sought the advice of har van, she is about to bring football strategy to bear upon her matrimonial secures the aspirations. How she

clusive young gentleman at last; how ahe enlists the services of a matri- monial agency in bringing Romeo to'

story that in heel, makes up melodious as it is funny.

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"A Lady's Profession" Madame Racketeers has returned new racket of to the screen in, a giggle-water and laughing-gas In "A Lady's Profession," with Alison Skipworth, Roland Young and. Sari Maritza, at the Queen's.

Brittle honour, infectious laughter wriggle through the story as Miss Skipworth. In the role of a British indy, leaves the safety of her an- cestral castle to solve the problemis who of an impoverished nobleman

serape persists in leaping from

to scrape. Roland Young is excellent

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the it-wit. Englishman. Sari Maritza and Kent Taylor, the new Paramount find, play the remantle londs, while the irrepressible comics.. Roscoe Kurns and Warren Hymer. complete the laughsextette,

delightful It's

of those une comedies that Paramount does well, full of quips and tallies that prance side by side from start to finish. Joyously entertaining, you'l like the cast of screen experts and the manner in which they interpret the humour.

"Srerels of the French Police"

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Murders, master detectives, hypnot- ism, abductions, and diabolically plotted "accidental" deaths, all spaced at breath-taking tempo, make "Secrets of the French Police" one of the best pictures of its kind over screened

It is at the written. or Central Theatre to-day. As taken from the memoirs of II. Ashton Wolfe, and combined with Samuel Ornitz's amazing story, "The Lost Empress", this RKO-Radio Picture offers all the thrills possible to pack into an hour and a half of screen entertainment. Gwili Andre, as the lovely Paris flower girl, who Ін abducted by

presented as hypnotized, and Missing Princess Anastasin of Russia, fulfils all the promise she revealed in her-early-pictures. Gwill Andre is considered by many to be the most beautiful woman on the screen to-day. In A newcomer makes his bow "Secrets of the French Pollee." He la John Warburton, handsome and abla young leading man from Eng- land. Radio signed him to year contract as a result of his work opposite Misa Andre. That fact la adequate comment on his appearance and his abilities.

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Another deserving of the highest praise is Frank Morgan, long a Broadway stage favourite, who makes his debut as an RKO-Radio player. Morgan, as one of Bertillon's detec- tive, gives a plausibility to the part

this

interesting

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DISASTROUS FIRE.

Jean Armstrong personally give her ed the production. account of all that happened at Goa and also to explain her cure In 1932, and conversion. This film will bo shown under the kind patronage and in the presence of His Lordship Rev. 11. Valtorts. Booking is open at

Anderson's,

MUCH DAMAGE DONE ON SAGHALIEN ISLAND

Tokyo, June 28. Over Afty houses were destroy- ed and a quarter of a million yen "The Painted Women"

adamage done in a fire which broko Cocoanut palms, bonding over pounding surf-coral reefs ringing out to-day in the Tomarii district, the rocky islets outrigger canoes on the western coast of Saghallen. gally coloured fish marvellous sun--Router Special. acts the haunting echoes of a Poly- nealan song across the water under a trople moon-these make up-more of the glamour and romance of the South Sea background of the now Fox picture, The Painted Woman" which opens at the King's, Theatro shortly, with Spencer Tracy and Peggy Shannon in the leading roles. The daring work of the native pearl

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