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CINEMA SCREENINGS

NOTES SUPPLIED BY

THE THEATRES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY JULY

Gordon Harker has an important cellent players as Charles Bickford; THAT MORNING

role in this film.- Ho' playa -a con- Richard. Arlen, - May, Brian, Joan ductor on a Green Line bus and his cockney huniour gets full play,

quick-action comedy full of racy humour, and charming song numbers. It is not difficult to Imagine Jack Hulbert's comicalities when you think of him as a shop assistant in a big

"Song of the Eagle'”...... .... store, whose job is to be fired, when-

All the tremendously exciting over a customer complains. Ho de-events in the last twenty years are sires to got on in the world and one vividly

on pletured day, to the atonishment of the general In manager, fires himself. The one- American life entitled "Song of the time shop assistant: does eventually Eagle, Paramount, thundering eple get a good position, but not before of the American scene, which opens This film is something absolutely the onlooker has been treated to some on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre. new in the way of entertainment. A very amusing incidents.

A superb cast including stich ox

"Love On Wheels" is coming on Sunday next to the King's Theatre, the Gainsborough pleture, with Jack Hulbert putting nexoss his famous grin and spontaneous fooling

We have now made

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Two tremendous' decades flash by doploting America's post-war Inertin in the midst of prospority and the heights to which this mighty nation rose during the depression. Here is of evil and corruption as soon through an intrepid battle against the forces the startled oyes of 'one average familyhere too is a prognostication

of the future, for the picture carries you up to the end of 1933,

"The Age of Consent Dorothy Wilson is making her debut in cinema in the "Age "of Consent" at the Central Theatre.

PAPER

Make State Officials Leap Out Of Bed

Sofia.

The Bulgarian state officini' buys is morning paper in order to dis

cover whether he is likely to receive his salary-probably some four or six months overdue. A

It is a greak event for him whion, on opening his paper, he sees, print- ed In large block capitals, a notice Dorothy worked in the studio for saying that his anlary will be paid two years, She was one of the in a month's time.

prettiest girls on, the lot. But if He can then turn with untroubled none of the directors over thought of mind to state doftcits and the latest suggesting a screen test to. Dorothy, Macedonian murder.-Reuter who homself had even less interest in neting.

One afternoon, the Radlo Pictures' production head finished reading the synopsis of "The Age of Consent" and requested the stenographic de partment for a complete script.

His mind was occupied with the story, his thoughts filled with the typos which would best suit

of

the roles

gay young college boys and girls. It was Dorothy who

his script, and

sudden haught him *caused him to ask: love you ever takon a screen test? Would you like to act?)

Dorothy wasn't overthrilled. Sho was willing but not eager to be photographed and to have hor volee recorded.

They gave her a script to read the script which she almost knew by heart from having typed it several timea. The test was taken, and Dorothy ao impressed the boss she was signed for a term contract and given the lead in the college play as her first part.

"The Age of Consent" which is based on Cransroads"

nplay by Martin Flavin, boasts of a cast-com- posed of Eric Linden, Richard Crom- well, Arline Judge, John Halliday, Alleen Pringle and Reginald Barlow. Gregory La Cava directed.

"Strictly Personal". Millions of lonely Americans find their only friends through the ad-

vertising columns of the papers published by the matrimonially in clined "Get-Together Clubs."

"Strictly Paramount picture which Personal," B. P. Schul- berg's new

commences to-day at the Queen's Theatre tells the inside story of these agencies to which swarm all the sex- starved, lonely

widowers and bachters, widews, who seek this means of relief from solitude,

The "Lonely Hearts Club is a legitimate enterprise that sincerely tries

to overcome its members' long- liness. Marjorie Rambeau and Ed- ward Ellis, ita vestigate every

PAULOTE who in- for member- ship, and turn down those whose motives are not for the best interests of all members, themselves get n vicarious foy in bringing happiness to those that trust them. With them is Dorothy Jordan, their ward...

An Eastern racketeer, played by Loufs Callern, forces them to make him a partner, turns the club into a rendezvous. for

for those who ought to realize the blackmailing possibilities, and kills widlow member for her jewels. Ho tries to plant the crime. an Eilis, attempts to abduct Dorothy Jordan, and is only stopped when Eddie Quillan, in the role of a wise- cracking reporter, learns of the plot. "Wild Girl"

Filmed in one of the most impressive scenic spots of the West-the big trees of Sequoia National Park among the California Sierras "Wild Girl". is said to offer breath-taking back- grounds for its swift action. The new Fox picture opens on the screen of the King's Theatre very shortly. Charles Farrell; Joan Bennett and Ralph Bellany have the principal roles.

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