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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934.

SIMULTANEOUS SHOWINGS TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30

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At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20

THE MOST SENSATIONAL SPECTACLE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!

300 dazzling beauties in breath-taking dancè routines actually staged under water! Just one of the amazing surprises in Warner Bros."new show of 1000 thrills! "42nd Street" and "Gold Diggers" actually surpassed by the master makers of musicals – in a show so different it's like a new form of entertainment!

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CINEMA SCREENINGS

-\ NOTÉS-SUPPLIED BY

THE THEATRES

With the advent of the now musical cycle, Warner Bros foremost, pro- duears of such shews, of which "Foot- Hight Parade," which opens to almul. taneous showings to-day

the Queen's and Alhambra Theatre, is an outstanding example, may well ba termed the "Ziegfelds" of the motion. picture world. Certainly no other producer has been able to turn out any musical picture that can compare with 42nd Street," or "Gold Diggers of 1933." They scơm to have the knack of turning out tremendous musical. hits with great numbers of beautiful girls, unique and manimoth ensem- bles, and unusually catchy songs, plus strong story backgrounds. · The threa musicals so for produced have eur- passed the most magnificent -and spectacular settings over reen Ziegfeld Follfes. Rovived interest in musicals Is in part duo to better knit and more deflued plots than formerly and to the uniqueness and the magnificent scale) of the ansenibles and dance numbora. "Footlight Parado" a zald to have not only a strong comedy drama plot with hilarious situations, fast moving action and sparkling dinlogue, but it surpassen its predecessors in the magnitude of its numbers and the beauts and originality of their not- tings.

"Chance at Heaven” Murjo Harris is a denture country belle, vivncicus but without glitter. Blacky Gonnan is the handsome; at- tractive owner of a small town gus station. Glory Franklyn is a foz- zling creature from another world, | beautiful and dangeriusly alluring. Around this unusual trio, Vina Del- mar wove the romance, comedy and adventure of "Chance at Heaven, the serial story from Liberty Magazine, now pa view the King's Theatre in an RKO-Radio Picture featuring Joel McGren Blacky, Ginger Bogers as Murje and Marlan Nixon as Glory. Prepared to marry, Blacky and Marie pro separated by the appearance of Glory, on vacation from New York. She And Blacky n welcamo relief from her smart society clique in the big city which she thought boring, and be becomes deeply infatuated with her. The dramatic situation rapidly evolves Into n climax which almost por- minnently endangers Blacky and Marie's "Chance at Heaven".

"Take A Chance"

James Dunn, June Knight, Lillian Reth, Cliff Edwards, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Dorothy Lee and Long Andro constitute the extraordinarily bril liant cast of "Take a Chance" the Paramount musical extravaganza pro- duced by Laurenco Schwab, showing at the Central Theatre for the last time to-night. There are a number of hilarious sequences made against the background of a society charity bazaar at a swanky Long Island estate and also something entirely new, goofy travelloguo, a la Graham MeNameo, which forms a background for

otto of Cliff Edwards' clavor ukelele numbers. All ends happily af ter, Dunn, Edwards, and flas Knight win great acclaim as members. of Rogers now show,

"Bed of Roses"

To its foats of dividing oceans, levelling mountains ani producing sixty-foot apes, Hollywood has added: two more notable achievements in transporting the Mississippi River to: the film colony, and the Bardi Gras carnival of New Orleans to an RKO- Radio studlo sound stage for "Bed of Roses" starring Constance Bennett with Joel McCrea and John Halliday coming to the King's Theatre on Fri day River steamboats, cotton boats, a section of the levee, an entire New Oreloans Square decorated for the Mardi Gras, a palatial apartment and a women's reformatery are among the mero elaborato backgrounds for the action. The story of "Eed of Roses" concerns a beautiful blonde ndven- turess who goes on the gold standard with the idea of making millionaires pay for her beauty and love, Emerg ing from the reformatory, she travels

on the primrose path to a penthouse, and then trails the Mississippi to And reat love with an humble river captain.

"A Bedtime Story"

The charming Maurice is back once; more with his pouting Chevalier lip, his witty banter, melodious songs, and the gayest collection of alluring sweet- hearts that Hollywood was able to, furnish. The picture is Patamount's "A Bedtime Story," showing for the Inst times to-day at the Queen's Theatre with a featured cast includ ing Helen Twelvetrees, Edward Everett Horton, Adrienne Ames and Baby Leroy Norman Taurog direct. ed. Little Baby Leroy"Monsieur Bub-ce" to you-who, you will remem- ber, was selected from thousands of competing infants in California to play this role in the picture, is back- ground for the title, the story and its most delightful comedy and romance. He does things that no year-old infant has over done on the screen before, and you'll appland him as the screen's latest star. Chevalier, too, la charm. ing in his ustal "naughty" manner. singing four song hits that the radio has played for months but which you to Chevalier sing them.

enguin Pool Murder"

Edna May Oliver and James Gloa- non comprise a joyous comedy part- who sprinklo a tenso mystery melodrama with snappy fun and solve two murders, two love affairs and several other serious matters of crine and romance in "The Penguin Pool Murder" showing at the Oriental Theatre to-day and on Thursday. Miss Oliver portrays a tall, angular, outmoded schoolmarm in this IKO- Radio thriller. She ressos liko Queen Mary of England and carries a silver-handled Inrge-knobbed black nmbrella, rain or shine, fair or cloudy. With Gleason, as a smart-nlock, wito- cracking, know-it-all police inspector, Miss Oliver makos "The Penguin Toet Murder" a laugh-packed, fast-moving comedy-mystery. The mystery of "The Penguin Pool Murder" is anappl-

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ly enacted against a highly original moment Gleason, as Inspector Oscar with the ducks," the film blossome background. Virtually, the mystery really haven't heard until you listen forth lato keen repartee between of a broker's body discovered in the ejaculates from

the corner of bis Gleason and Miss Oliver, evory word, penguin's tank at the Aquarium fe mouth: "Some kid called up and anid of which advances the story brauth- solved by sheer laughr. From the there was a dead man in swimminglessly.

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