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und is about a handsome ne'er-do- Trail." He is a good looker and in "Mata Hari." Now we shall see woll, a stowaway girl, and a pair has the necessary amount of acting that spy really acted. What a com- hunting expedition. Here is wild ability.
bination! But the "Fans" are oh- - adventure, cannibals, love and
G-G-com- Bebe Daniels, hor first appear-thusiastic for the new melodrama, (Central).
ance on the stage was as a babo in bination, and the now meteor Clark arms at the ago of five is "The Gable is a riót with her in "The Prince Chap." Leading lady with Fall and Rise of Susan Lennox," Harold Lloyd when she was only George Bancroft's now loading. thirteen (so her press agent states), lady is Juliette Compton. Do not fail to make a note of the
WHE Rogers, the Indian-{
Edward Everett Horton, unmar- Her granfather was Spanish, the Low Ayres, with fourteen · mem- date-October 14-when the King's blooded Oklahoma cow-boy, makes ried, lives in a magnificent big Governor of Colombia, and Babe bers of the Notre Dame Football Theatre kindly donate the whole about a million a
He year.
children, all only speaks this language in her Team, will do "The Spirit of Notre day's takings to the relief of the possesses a marvellous flair for one nieces and nephews. Cats and dogs own home. Married Ben Lyon over Dame." Chinese Flood Sufferers. At, 2.30 of the leading papers, which brings and overy kind of animal. Has run a year ago and is ideally happy. Garry Cooper, with Claudette 'p.m. they will screen that exciting in about $150,000 a year, to Bay most successfully a Stock Co. in The Unbeatable Betty Compson. hove-the-averago detective story, nothing of the Royalties from his Los Angeles for years, but now,' Ten years a star and still going "Charlie Chan Carries On," in books. As you know, he claws which Warner Oland does his best gum while he twirls the rope in work, aided by a competent cast. his stage act, and for saying that At 5.10 p.m. Mariene Dietrich and he favours a certain kind of gum Victor McLaglen will be screened receives $30,000 a year. in "Dishonoured," which I consider has it that Fox pays him in the much superior to "Morocco." It region of $18,000 per week. If he gives me hopes that the lovely Ger-speaks through the Radio, ho man actress may be all that Para- charges a thousand a minute. Ho mount claims for her. At 7.15 p.m. lives on A marvellous ranch be- Dennis King and Jeanette Mac-tween Los Angeles and the 3 donald will appear in "The Vaga- owns many cars, and a valuable bond King." which is beautifully stable of polo ponies. Polo is his mounted, and acted, and in which favourite game. They say, in! there is delightful singing. At 9.30 Hollywood, that when he plays the p.m. Jeanette again appears in a game, he charges spectators 35 for gave him the chance in "The Big | most enjoyable and sparkling the privilege of seeing him play.
comedy, with Roland Young, Una Like Sir Harry Lauder, he does.
He married Merkel und Edmund Lowe. The nothing for nothing. pictures are all worth seeing, and young, and still has the same wife, the Fund certainly worth support also a large family. He detests ing. (King'a).
being well-dressed, and is always: most shabbily clothed, but yet he "On With The Show" is amongst is said to be the biggest "Draw" the first Talkies in all-colour. The on the stage. and sercer to-day. story is of back-stage life with (King's). plenty of music and pretty girls.
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Colbert, in "Sal of Singapore."
Charles Rogers, re-signed with thanks to the Talkies, is doing only strong. Those of us who know our Paramount, and still a star. Now Most accomplished old-time pictures will remember at work with the new find Poggy Lew Cody, husband of the her in "The Miracle Man" with Shannon and Lilyan Tashman In lnte Mabel Normand. After nearly Thomas Meighan. Married James "The Road to Rero." Made Regis two years on his back, thanke to Cruze the Director. Now divorced. Toomey a star at Universal with
Kenneth McKenna, married to Lewis Stone and Sue Carol. Gloria Swanson and other faithfull
been given good Kay Francis. Now a Director at friends, has
America's greatest stage pair, chances.
the Fox Studio.
Lynn Fontaine and Charlos Lunt, John Wayne (Duke Morrison), Louise Fazenda comes from are being supported by Roland was formerly a star football player. italian stock. Happily married to Young in their first Talkie. For five years after leaving Col- one of the executive staff at the John Gilbert, with Lois Moran,
at the First National.
in West of Broadway." lege, worked as an extra studios, then in the property room, where James Cruze chose him and WHAT THE STARS ARE DOING.
HONG
Betty Compson, Sam Hardy, Louise Doug, in modern dress, so they Fazenda (her funny little giggle herald the one and only Douglas" and all with crowds of others all Fairbanks in his new extravaganza flash Across the screen. in this entitled "Reaching for the Moon."; Warner Bros. Show. It is said to 'It is a fable of a young millionaire' be a real evening's entertainment. stack braker who has never taken a drink and who knows nothing Queen's).
hout women. (Kindly note I said Anything can happen to three FABLE!) He meets a pretty girl. lone girls who go to Chicago to a society aviatrix-Bebe Daniels, Bullock's Brains... make their way and, in fact, almost gone blond, for the picture-pur- They sues her to Europe, loses his for- everything does happen. meet by accident, and take an tune when the market goes crash,
There apartment together.
is and only gets the girl when she nothing like living in close quar- does the proposing. It is a crazy Iters to learn each other's failings story with a long-drawn out episode
and good qualities. One of the developing out of Doug's first cockTM girls (Joan Marsh) Marcia- tall, which causes him to leap over- gold digger, is involved in the the ship's society walls, and play
rucketeer. murder of a
Edna football with the crew, Perhaps, (Joyce Compton) trusts a
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It is nervously
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11 over the Queen's. Cody and John Wayne are shadowed by the three pretty lost Cody is looking rather old
Basil Rathbone in "The Bishop too well. Murder Case," another Philo Vance Barbel these days, and none Wayne's voice is, like Charles Far- story made famous by William Broam rell's-in need of voice cultura. Powell; also "Speedway" with
Canton Fresh Water: The film is enjoyable, with plenty William Haines, Ernest Torrence of Inughs, and # little drama, and Anita Paige are coming to the
Carp (King's),
"Star" Theatre. I think, if I re- Catfish. member rightly, "Speedway" is a Codfish Positively coming is "Men With-sound picture, but it is quite a long Crabs out Women,
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and "One Romantic Night," known on Dog Fish about as perfect. a cast of actors as the stage aa "The Swan" is due at Eels, Conger
It had # one could find are in it, and it is "Queen's" Theatre soon.
most eapably directed by John smart dialogue, but the smartness Ford.
Fish
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It is a grim and startling seems to have been washed away Frogs theatrical fare, but not to be miss in the film version. It is a tale of Garoups ed. (Central),
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Marie Dressler-to my mind not so Losch screened from to-morrow. Liberties have been taken with the book, but good as usual as the domineering Lobsters
mother-are in it. the picture really funny, and the combination of Mark Twain and
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Dennis Neilson, place A small-town Radio expert (how cast includes up-to-date it is now, with mail-clad Terry; and Benito Hume. Our comfret, White knights charging about in "baby" minds go back to that famous pair, Pomfret, Black cars) is transported back to alx-Julia Neilson and Fred Terry. How Prawns teenth-century England, And finds they used to thrill us with "Tho Itay himself a power at the Court of Scarlet Pimpernel"'!1 hear that Rock Fish King Arthur. He introduces aero- the son is a worthy successor to his Roach planes, automobiles, and other famous parents, and that the story Balmon modern improvements, besides help-is most interesting. It is a British Shark Ing. along the lovers in their production and dus shortly, troubles...This picture will never
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