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ROUND THE CINEMAS RUTH CHATTERTON HAS RARE EMOTIONAL DEPTH. "LADY OF SCANDAL"
"Ruth Chatterton can express an emotion more accurately by deft auggestion than perhaps any stage actress who has come to the talk ing screen."
This is the tribute of Sidney Franklin following his direction of the actress in "The Lady of Scandal," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Almisation of Frederick Lonsdale's stage hit, "The High Road," now on tho
of the Queen's
Theatre.
screen
"The art of
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Ruth Chatterton,"
says Franklin, "Is an evanescent, inexplicable gift for projecting CAMERON ROAD, KOWLOON, thoughts to an audience which is
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almost uncanny, Strangely enough she is equally adept at it in silent pictures, for her first picture, s silent, showad it. Usually the stage player relies wholly on words, but she does not. At the same time nobody reads dialogue more intelligently.
"She does not learn lines. She learns the meaning of them, until she absolutely feels the role. She may change a speech, for one that can be spoken more easily, but she always gets the exact meaning into it. Because she is able to do this,
we don't have to insist on direct adherence to a written dialogue
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loon, from Monday,
with her. Her mentality makes it. Never before has such a colour an aspiration to work with her.ful pictorial record been spread on Lionel Barrymore told me this, the screen. More than 80 miles of after he had directed her, in film were required to perfect it. Madame X, but I didn't fully From the moment Rear Admiral realise how true it was until I too Byrd and his intrepid band of ex- had worked with her." in the newplorers landed in the unknown pleture Miss Chatterton plays an region at the "bottom of actress who through a betrothal is world, until they started the brought into a family of British final trek for home, the life they Desmonde. peers. How ahe upsets tradition, led, the sights they saw, the thrills dynamites hidebound customs, and they experienced are in this film finally sacrifices her own happiness for everybody to wonder and mar for that of another woman in the vel at: aristocratic set, forms gripping Byrd's race to the South Pole drama, in which much clever was a race against time, the ter- comedy and whimsical humour is rific cold and the appalling terrors injected. The author of the play of the Antarctic wrote "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" seven weeks the adventurers wait- and the present play has its aameed while cloud and fog blanketed sparkling humour.
the sky. Then came 20 hours of clear weather, and in these 20 hours Byrd, with three companions, made, the daring Alght across the pole How does it feel to sit in
a and back to the comparatively safe theatre and watch yourself move base. They covered a distance of audiences with a song?
1,680 miles and, during the fight. Charles King smiled that crink-faced dangers such po tow men ly, boyish smile of his and shook have lived through. his head.
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Even before this thrilling race "Gde, It seems like a dream to started, the Byrd men had to win me," he said, "I don't think I'll a race against the terrific cold. like ME up there on the screen." ever get used to it. It never seems The plane had to be made ready. Colonel and Mrs. W, D. Brown- Engine oil, always removed at the rigg, Comdr. and Mrs. F. C. Baker,
Blakey, Messrs. King, who made the "You Were end of a flight to keep it from con-Mrs. Meant For Me" and "Broadway gealing in the crankcases, had to Buttross, W. Borrowman. Melody" hits in Metro-Goldwyn-be heated to a boiling point in one Mayer's first musical extravaganza of the houses. The seroplane! and who scored again with "Your melors covered with thick canvas: Mother and Mine" in the "Holly-hoods, were heated by means of wood Revus of 1929," for years has gasoline torches placed under beon erooning to audiences from them, It took two hours to bring the musical comedy stage.
the engines to the proper degree Now, teamed once more with of heat to take the boiling oil. The Bessie Love with whom he, made, temperature was 65 degrees below. his talking debut, he is singing, zero. tender ballads in "Chasing Rain- When the motors were warmed, bows," which opans to-morrow at a shout was sent for the oil man. the Queen's Theatre.
Such incidents, exelting and real, are parts of the plcture Para- "WITH BYRD AT THE SOUTH mount has captured, "With Byrd
POLE."
at the South Pole." Willard Van- derveer, Paramount camera man The daring flight of Rear Ad- with expedition, says "It was miral Richard E. Byrd across the amazing experience to South Pole is only one of the feats through. Now, when I see it on of daring and heroism captured by the screen, it is more amazing than the Paramount cameraman who over."
An
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That Is the land that, Rear Ad- miral Byrd and his intrepid band of forty-two men set out to con- quer and explore. It is the land at the very bottom of the world, the seven hundred and fifty mile ares surrounding the South Pole.
These men spent twenty months in that terrifically dangerous land --they best nature--alone, unaide | ed, marooned 2,900 miles from the
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"With Byrd at the South Pole," which will show in the Central Theatre, starting to-day, is not Action. It wasn't made in any studio. There are no actors in It It is the true, blood-and-bone romance of daring courage and | high adventure, ́actually lived 'by
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