SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924.
Under the Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency The Governor
BRITISH FILM WEEK
will be held from
November 11th to 17th
when..
the following British Films will be screened:
"SQUIBS, M. P"
a farcical comedy of Love, Business and High Politics..
"
“THE HARBOUR LIGHTS
the famous Melodrama by G, R. Sims." THE SON OF KISSING CUP" a fine sporting drama with wonderful
race scenes.
"HUTCH STIRS 'EM UP" Thrills and More Thrills against the beautiful scenery of Devonshire. "THE GAY CORINTHIAN". a tale of Country England in the old Coaching Days.
"REVEILLE"
a-story of war and its aftermath:
of a month in 1918 and a month in 1923.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CINEMA CHATTER.
the surprising revelation that her business was not beer, but milk! Squibs took the hint Splendid!" said she," Milk's the thing... I'm going right into it but in opposition to you!"
haste. Once Father confessed
three years in "chokey" for Father that he had more money than he
if it wasn't! Father's spirits sank knew what to do with (1) it was not
to zero, and he decided to make Inng before Honeybunn suggested
his exit; but as he went out, he that perhaps Miss Fitzbulge might
heard Squibs say to Lee, If Father could do anything to get be disposed to get rid of a part of her business. So, in the foyer of And Squibe kept her word. you any votes, I would give him. the hotel, Father was introduced to Back in London, she opened up a couple of hundred." And Father Miss Fitzbulge, and they started the business of Squlbs Pure Milk lost no time in getting on the track, to play a game called "Leading Company with thirty branches, of that other hundred. The way them up the garden After com ex-PC. Lee as manager and Father he proposed to set about it was by fessing that Paris always made her as a conscientious objector. She getting Honeybunn's vote in con- feel so naughty, the lady candidate cut Fitzbulge's prices, gave more sideration of letting him off the vouchsafed the Information that milk, butter and eggs to the poor payment of certain debts. But she really did make a lot of money than she
sold, and seemed unfortunately, Father made his she sold quite ten thousand generally bent upon spending proposal to Honeybuna in a letter: gallons a day, mostly in the poor every penny of her tortune in the which fell into the hands. of Miss Fitzbulge, who lost no time in districts, and the business was fight to kill Filzbulge's business. nearly all profis, the only loss And then came an historic day raising the shout of corruption, being broken bottles. As for when the Government was defeat- which eventually put an end to
Then some father, he confided that he hadjed, and Fitzbulge pot her chance, Lee's nomination always taken an interest in what hoping to get into Parliament un body raised the cry of "Squibs Parliament" The whole Bat she was foolish for the poor drinks, and that he would opposed. not mind putting a bit of money enough to address a meeting in neighbourhood "took it up, and' in it himself.
the heart of Squibs' mille territory, the sometime Piccadilly flower This was Squibs' great opportunity. seller found herself going through She got back into her old clothes, a hectic career as a prospective collected a basket of the largest M P. to a "creation" and a big velvet oggs, and escorted by her sweet- crowd of hat which almost hid her identity, heart, Lee, and had decided to try it outon Father, admirers, she led an assault upon but discovering him in animated the Fitzbulge platform that ended conversation with a strange in disaster to the latter's cause female, she had taken a seat just behind them-possibly to pursue the gentle feminine art of being curious. She therefore had only herself to blame for discovering from Father's conversation to Miss F. that she, Squibs, had an idea that the Calcutta Sweep money belonged to her, that she was just a little "barmy," and that it was Father's intention to get her! into a convent.. Why his con-- versation should, have induced Fitzbulge to tickle his ribs, Father. could not make out, but he re- turned the compliment and was well satisfied.
Now whilst these two hypo- crites were getting confidential. Squibs, having taken a great fancy
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"REVEILLE.".
WONDERFUL BRITISH
PICTURE.
GREATEST EVER MADE.
Showing At Star Next Week,
"Reveille." which comes to the Star on November 11, begining British film week, cannot be ex plained in the conventional terms
"SQUIBESTM M.P.".
CORONET'S BIG BRITISH FILM.
PROGRAMME FEATURES.
TO-NIGHT.
CORONET "The Kid."
STAR-"White and Un-
married."
WORLD-Mary-Ain't
Guilty."
QUEEN'S "The Ghost in
the Garret."
nummumuU
best
make B
aar
Election day came at last. To Squibs it seemed like a kaleidos-- cope gone mad. Rushing here, there and everywhere, pushing people in and out of cars and generally doing her best to kill Fitzbulge herself with fatigue.. too was riding: round very con- fident of victory, and everybody generally was so busy that Father and Honeybunn (Indulging their tastes) weren't missed.
Then came the counting and the result-Squibs elected for Parliament with an overwhelming majority. Fitzbulge shook hands and congratulated her and Squibs very much a person of impulse; immediately decided to stop the feud and offered to join up the milk businesses and be friends.
Squibs' maiden speech to the House of Commons was an
A piece of and for the next fortnight, Father Honeybunu already
MUIS Douglas Fairbanks Re THIEF BAGDAD
+
This beautifully fanciful story was born of a poet's dream in Araby and made into an entrancing reality by Douglas Fairbanks.
It breathes the spirit of imaginary worlds where the unusual is usual, the impossible is possible, and Romance and Adventure are Life, Itself.
You will see The Thief fly through. thecloudson aMagic Carpet, soar past the moon on a Winged Horse, and out of the ground, with a magic seed create a gigantic army.
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was sufficient to frighten him out of his wits.
This production, will Fositively not be shown anywhere else” in this city, this year
"Happiness Must Be. Earned"
MARION DAVIES.
Was In
eloquent plea for babies in pre But there had to be a reckoning, and when Miss Fitzbulge had gone,
ference to battleships. She carried the house with hor and at once also tossing about wondering if Success In Little, Old New York.
Across the corridor Squlbs was Squibs took the opportunity, when Father was reaching for the ice, to
became the rage.
After refusing countless in when the window flew open and the ghost would walk in, and take her place, carefully keeping
sho at last Coming Armistice Day..
her hat down to hide her face. So The upshot of it all was that vitations
she caught sight of a spectral-like an invitation
Marion Davies will have a rôle when Father-turned, he-was-sur-Squlbs put up Lee as a candidate cepted
from figure outside, she huddled up in entirely different from anything. prised to discover a trim ankle and started coaching him on the Diver Divere fed ether and the quilt and hoped for the best. in which she has heretofore ap You probably know how Squibs, peeping out from seductive frills, how to
speech in party, which included Father and Then came a rat-tat-tat at the door. peared and one exactly suited to the Piccadilly flower girl, won and was just congratulating himself the
thumb-in-the-waist- P.C. Lec. In due course they As a matter of fact it was Father, her appealing personality when a fortune in the Calcutta Sweep-on his luck when Squiba suddenly coat" style. Of course the Dairy arrived at the Diver-Divers country but Squibs didn't know that. She she appears as Patricia O'Day in stake and had a wonderful peek's lifted her head. Father nearly was turned into an election room, castle, to already there. Every waited until the knocking had Little Old New York Day in holiday in Paris with her sweet-turned a somersault. heart, P. C. Lee. Well, P. C. Lee ice few from his grasp, landed as Lee's agent in charge of the body was very pleasant, notwith. Coased and the ghost had ap-Star theatre. The rogulsh, mie- puently gone away, and then chievous traits of Princess Mary went back to duty in London and some where amongst Squibs' new cigars and beer-money) had the standing Father's arrival with a Squibs stayed on in Paris, with lingerie, and before she could say time of his life. Never was such top-hat with goggles and shaking gingerly opened the door to look Tudor, played by Miss Davies in
out into the corridor. Something "When Knighthood father to see some more sights, all she wanted to, Father had excitement-but there was always hands with the butler But one white moved and Squibs shricked. Flower, are found in Hatle And inevitably many of the sights upset the rest of the ice the anxiety as to whether Lee query arose to disturb the serenity (How was she to know it was only Patricia, but there is also a quality. of film entertainment-it beggars to be scen were in the and the lounge was turned into would get in. Every vote was of this debut into society the the sheet Father was trailing after of wistful pathos which shity. description in the application of shops-the fashionable modistes a first class skating rink to the going to count, and one evening party had been given rooms in the him?). In a few moments P. C. new side of Miss Davies' dramatic ordinary standards. Because it is in particular, and eventually Squibs discomfort of a crowd of unwilling Squibs was rash enough to declare haunted wing.
a film-drama, por film took a flutter in lingerie. Father skaters. Father escaped with a that she would give £100 to have
Then commenced an hour of Lee, Fitzbulge and Honeyburn, ability. The role of Patricia has comedy, nor a film ploit is life had been proving very useful-he fattened" topper" and Squibs with a vote, Father went out deep in new experiences the hour before spectral figures all, in their night something of the character
had no option in carrying parcels, a temper, of which she gave him thought-something his old Uncle dinner when Father and P.C. Lee this were criss-crossing each Maude Adam's "Peter Panor of other's paths through the cor- Little Lord Fauntleroy about it. Reveille:" it is elemental life in lingerie business. However, the in fact, taken a distinct dislike to set him on the scent of that hundred valet undress and dress them, and and the eerie rustling of the ivy time as a young boy, having A story suggests fiction not so but he almost rebelled at the a sample is her room. Squibs had, Joe had told him that evening, had had to face the ordeal of having a ridors. The stones took shape Miss Davies appears most of the London--or any town in Britain contrasting of silken undies with Miss Fitzbulge and decided to pounds. To cut a long story short quis experieing before a maid sounded like the swift passing donned this disguise in having
Aflannelette b (we nearly said play her own game.
That night, saw Uncle Joe and persuaded ment of disrobing before a maid. of one ghost after another. It was inherit à fortune it), besides being a delicate and she went to a big costume ball him let him have the birth The dinner was a nightmare for a terrible experience, not at all im- what strange happenings: | deliberate, not to mention lengthy, disguised as a foreign officer and certificate of his little girl who had father, but after' desert came the proved by Father getting into the in the picture and one which gives pretence and disillusion? J is mischief-and father "clicked," or Father went as a Toreador, Honey-, Hopkins, had been named after her side, out into the garden, where he. Squibs had to pull herself together shiaboard when Patricia's brother
Czecho-died. Her name, was Amelia and disaster. Fitzbulge managed to Prince Selemalight. Squibs, correctly known as Amelia | inveigle him, a little on the bright wrong bedroom and generally Miss Davies a wonderful opport
itself.
in the years 1918 and 1928,
year of War and a year of Peace
What joys and sorrows; what ex citement, turmoil, artificialities,
business, is just precisely the kind describing herself as a of thing to lead mere male into Eskimo,"
als t
JF
Then, of course, Fitzbulge told
One of the most dramatic scenes
to confess that Squibe was only 20 Squibs decided to resign from
made Those who saw her as the poignant appeal made by her Princess Mary Tudor will recall
causing sach consternation that unity for expressing emotion is on if the mechanical thing we know in other words, got into conversa bunn as a Roman Gladiator, and because she had the same birthday. insisted upon explaining to her to try and clear up the mystery.
camera hul heel endowed tion with ore, Horace Honeybunn, Miss Fitzbulge as Blind Justice. The point of Father's scheme was how he had kept them alive at
is buried at sea. several days and nights on the The star, spont with an the analytical bruin of a human candidate for Parliament learning that took place at the ball, but have been thirty if she had lived- "not so bad for a man of 42, eh" her what Father had said in the ocean in an old-fashioned schooner.
uncanny perception and secretary to Miss Fitzbulge, a lady it is not necessary to disclose all that the original Amelia would now dinner and what a sport he was
Miss Fitzbulge's eyes nearly start garden, and the miserable man had while these - Acenes - were "being genius to go out into the highways politics-perhaps in Paris. Father Squibs succeeded in picking a ten years older than Squlbs. and byways, the castle and the and Honeybund soon discovered quarrel with father and challenging Father went back to the election ed out of her head. "421-then you after all. coltage, to see into the hearts and that they had many tastes in com him to a duel with polson. Father room, the very picture of hopeless were only twelve when Squibs was minds of men and women, rich and mon (including beer), and both
was "too far gone" to notice that despair. Of course, Squibs asked born! I could get your daughter Parliament and marry Charlle at helpless grief when she thought poor, and picture as no pen nor found themselves in the same state the poison tablets came from an hira what way the matter, and at ten years' imprisonment brush nor chisel could, the suffer. of financial depression, otherwise aspirin bottle, but in the excite-last he confessed that he had we weren't lóvers." And she took once, and to punish Father she Charles Brandon was to be ex- handed him over to the tender ecuted. The ship scene in "Little broke "-and So ings, hopes and collage of the "always
woment he took care to pass his glass deceived her in letting her think possession. people
..' 1918
beautiful Hars became acquainted. to Honeybunn. The adventure she was only twenty when in
Old New York," where little. Father retired very miserable. mercies of Fitzbulge. Meanwhile, Squibs was enjoying ended in some unseemly behaviour reality she was thirty-and he He couldn't get to sleep, and as be hold had been → aroused,< "and beloved brather lowered over the
By this time the whole house Patricia sees the body of her. the most poig herself so much with the latest in Squibs' room-mostly a matter of produced
birth-certificate. lay awake listening to the wind the guests were gathering to
side of the ship lato the heaving modes that the sent out word that two ladies expressing their candid When she had recovered from the howling and moaning round the look for the burglars. Of a Father might depart, which he was opinions of one another but when shock, she asked Lee if he thought battlements, he began to think of sudden a dainty figure in pink ocean rivals it in emotional depths, Lee the tales the valet had told him of pyjamas came swinging down on adapted to the screen by Luther nothing loth to do seeing how order was at last restored, Squlbs the certificate was genuine.
"Little Old New York" was tia gaiety in London-death in anxious he was to hear more from made it clear that none of her looked hard and learnedly at it, the ghost that walked in the haunt-rope from the top of the stairs, and Reed from the stage play by Rida. Honeybunn about the wealthy money was going lato beer said he thought it must be genuine, ed wing. Suddenly, a startling the irrepressible Squibs landed in Euphemia Fitzbulge. Truth to Father's had some"), and the and at any rate he hoped apparition appeared at the foot of song of the celebration of seven tell, Honeybunn and Father were' indignant Fizbulge retorted with it was, because it would mean his bed: It was only his goggled the middle of the startled-group of Johnson Young which had a most top-hat hung on the bedpost, but it!uests with the laughing ery of Joseph Urban designed the settings kindred souls-both on the "make.
and
1923
A year of War and a year
.
of Peane pant date of all time that is Reveille."
Strange contrasts,
bec.
Flanders: the riotous laughter and
duva lonve-and 打趴 elderly mother's only bullaby, Rock me
to sleep, mother: e mafficking of Armistice night—and a War Office telegram; "a land fit for heroesund processions of un- employed!
How shall we describe such a pictured memory? Its characters, so marvellous in the arousing" of | our sympathies, are not characters of the green but are people living
life as we knew it life of laughs and soba. We cannot com- pare it with other films-not even George Pearson's-because "Re- veille is something new and differ- ent-in a class by itself. Perhaps we may seem conservative in nati overloading it, with fulsome praise, but nobody will be misled Re
bo
veille" "in above the necessity, for! such recommendation. Two things we may say without reserve-the national appeal of "Reveille" must be overwhelming; and if at the end it is received with silence, it will the silence that ія most eloquent of great emotional stress-a tribute not simply to the work of film-players and a film producer, but rather to the in- dumitable spirit, the patient hope and the untingging courage of our people.
Do
you believe in spirits? Well, if you want something to liven up
your spirits, see Botty Balfor
funny adventure with
Equibe M.P." An haunting daughter.
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successful run on Broadway. which recreate the quaint charm of New York as it was a century ago. Sidney Olcott directed the picture. A cast which even sur- passes that of "When Knighthood Was In Flower" in which Miss Dayles scored such a tremendous success, adds lustre to "Little Old New York." One set, which was madein the Twenty-thirdRegiment id Brooklyn because no studio was large enough; is the largest set ever filmed in motion pictures and covered 600 square feet of floor space.
Harrison Ford, Courtenay Foote, Mahlon Hamilton, Norval Keed- well, George Barraud, Sam Hardy and Andrew Dillon portray, mem- bers of the first families of New York of those days the Vander bilis, Astors, Brevoorts and others, not forgetting Robert Fulton who ran the first steamboat up the Hudson, also Washington Irving. Others in the cast include Louis Wolhelm, J. M. Kerrigan, Spencer, Charters, Harry Watson, Gypsy O'Brien, Elizabeth Murray, Mary "Kennedy and Charles Judels.
You remember how Squibs won a fortunis in the Calcutta Eweep2 Well "Squibs, M.P." sbows you low-from-being a philsaderer“ izr Paris, she became a philanthropist in London, then a Parliamentariaat and finally a ghost-layer. every adventure as funnier than the