1934-02-17 — Page 20

CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. WILD ANIMALS

SAVAGE "APE MAN"!

FIERCE NATIVES AFRICA AFLAME WITH TERROR!

TOM TYLER NOAH BEERY, ́JNR., CECELIA PARKER AND MANY OTHERS IN THE MOST THRIL- LING PICTURE EVER FILMED. BASED ON THE FAMOUS STORY "THE IVORY TRAIL" BY TALBOT MUNDY.

JUNGLE MYSTERY

d

Coming Attraction

She knew what she wanted

how to get it

and

until the right man

crossed the primrose path of this wrong, girl)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17,

HOTEL SUITE FOR A DOG

Owner's Humorous Reply To Demand

REVUE SOON COMING

"HELLO HONGKONG" AT QUEEN'S

Five weeks is either an awfully long time, or equally short time, depending on circumstances. In CHAPPEL REPORT the show business, it is an excit ingly short time, as Henry Bellit will tell you if you were to ask him. The "five weeks" aubject was brought up in connexion with be presented in Hongkong at the the Broadway Revue which will Queen's Theatre next week.

vorces

(Special to "Telegraph")

Rockford, Feb. 16. Seven fatalities and three di were caused directly. In 1933 by affection of men and wo

ròport men for their dogs, a released by the Chappel Kennel Foundation here reveals.

Three persons-one a 10-year old girl-were killed in attempts to save pets from various forms

INFERIOR DRINKS

AMERICA AFTER REPEAL

SURVEY RESULTS,

(Special to "Talograph”)

New York, Feb. 16.

The United States is drinking much liquor of poorer quality than Henry had just that much time prohibition bootleg, and prices for to form his company, write the good whiskles still are higher than show, select his personnel, order for comparable drinks prior to, the costumes, stage settings and

Bootlegging still exists, but is definitely on the wand.

other accessories, rehearse the repeal, a United Press survey of company and get to Hongkong, large cities showed to-day, of disaster. Two dog owners thousands of miles from New killed men for injuring their pets York City. and one man committed suleide

-Most of the rehearsing was done bocnuse his dog had died,

Efforts of oflolls to improve The foundation report, compiled on. the broad Pacifie en route to annually in an effort to trace the Hongkong. In New York, Henry the quality of legal liquor and effects upon human nature of aen-had to pick his twelve girls from stamp out the illicit product scom timent for animal pets, shows that 500 who presented themselves for to be bearing fruit very slowly," three women divorced their hus- the trip-no small job in itself.

Such is the situation more than bands because of jealousy over Each had to meet Henry's ideals affection given to dogs. A Pitte for his show. They must have two months after repoal. At first burgh man took a six-month sen-talent, beauty, form, stage pre- Americans took the poor quality tence rather than obey a court or sence, and that element

and high prices good naturedly, der to kill his dog.

known nat."

but rumblings of protest are gain-

SHOT IN QUARREL:

better

In addition to the human ele-ing. ment Henry brings along the One man was shot in a quarrel newest electrical equipment for The situation was brought to the over n dog's pedigree and a 13- the most startling lighting and country's attention by the Secre- year-old boy was killed while cross sound effects. In one of the late [ary of the Treasury, Mr. Morgen- sing a railroad track on a.visitter it is safe to say you will start thau, when he announced a new to the grave of his dog.

Not all manifestations of this powerful love for animal friends brought tragedy In' its wake. A wealthy Idaho sheep raiser fur- nished laughter when he rented an entire floor of 28 rooms in a Chicago hotel rather than obey an order to confine his dog to one room.-United Press.

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30,

*5.10, 7.15 & ..9.30 p.m.

looking for your umbrellas, the "rain" effect is so realistic.

Alfred Hymas, private in the Lin- colnshire Regiment, was yesterday found not gulity by Court Martial of the charge of breaking a plate-glass window at the Jones and Company furniture shop in Kowloon.

offensive against bootlegging. United Press.

There, will be a meeting of the Legislative Council finance committee on Wednesday noxt at 2.30 p.m.

KINGS

HELD OVER!

Sorinany stayed to see it twice, we haven't had onoughseofstogo around One More Wook!

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FROM, TO-MORROW

WOMEN LOST THEIR HEADS OVER HIM!

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The crowned heads comedy in a joy ride of lunacy 14

If the inmates of a nut factory were

dumped into a college of beautiful co-eds, you'll have this screamie a thousand laughs with a hundred cutles!

JACK PEARL

Jimmy

DURANTE

with ZASU PITTS, EDNA, MAY OLIVER TED HEALY ·

and his crazy stooges

Meiną Gilchryn-Mayer menu

Meet THE BARON

TO-DAY TO MONDAY

STAR

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 € 9.20

MARIE

DRESSLER.

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BEERY

in

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STAR

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Phone

57795

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor-

PIUTURE

BENNETT

as the girl who slopped at nothing to make herself a

With

JOEL MCCREA

JOHN

HALLIDAY

PERT KELTON . SAMUEL HINDS

Directed by Gregory LaCava

A Pandro

Borman Production.. MERIAN C COOPER executive producer

An RKO RADIO Picture of course!

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A

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THE

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IN

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TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

And such nice heads, too? Oh, Henry! How could you? But all is forgiven for giving us this, the greatest picture since the advent of the talkies. LONDON FILMS

Charles LAUGHTON

in

The Private Life of HENRY VIII

Directed by Alexander Kurds. BELKAIKO TUREJ ESITUAS ARTISTS

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So this is

Africa

with RAQUEL TORRES

"THE GOOD EARTH":

PERMISSION: GRANTED TO FILM NOVEL

Nanking, Feb. 10. Government objections to the Aiming of the famous novel "The Good Earth" have been overcome.

Objections woro praviously!

...

COLUMBIA

ICFLINE

Ching has now bean. Renter

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Mr. Pearl Buck, the author of "The Good Earth" arrived In Hongkong lact week, and during her stay here resided at the Repurse Bay Hotel. She departed for Nanking on Wednesday last, presumably, to asalet in the Alm- ing of exterior scenes for the plature..

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer · camera-

raised by the Government on the men have been in Nanking for avor a month, awaiting permission rounds that the novel discredited from the Chinged Government to the Chinese people, but permission take exterior scenes. The actual to film the exterior scones in story will be filmed in Hollywood,

Printed, and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, A 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong,