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“HUCKLEBERRY FINN,”
Spider," the screen version of the famous mystery "play of that name which is appearing to-morrow at the King's Theatre, was being filmed.
According to advance criticism, A wave of clean and happy enter this is but a foretaste of the thrills up the screen and chills that follow in this thrill-
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tion of a memorable film, followed tainment freshened by a picture I remember I liked be- work when Paramount gave "Toning drama which features Edmund cause of Paul Cavagh and Lewis Sawyer" to cinema audiences. It Lowe.
"The Spider," as those who wit Stone, and Catherine Dale Owen was received with the acclaim that being as usual her lovely self, was duly registered at the box-nessed the stage play are well aware, is one of those entertainments "Strictly Unconventional," then our offices.
Now Paramount repeats its high wherein goose-flesh and smiles are old sob-stuff hero Al Jolson in "Say
another story blended to make excitement and fun. it with Songs." Strange how that achievement with wee David Lee has disappeared from the immortal Mark Twain: This is so because of the novelty of from sight. He is awfully good in with the same cast of spontaneous the setting. The entire action of and adult players; the picture, with the exception of a the same. intriguing old: few minor and unimportant details NONSTANCE Bennett in "Sin by hypnotism, and the various tricks this picture with sweet Marian young actors CINC Haliday: Story? Plain of magic, the great Chartrand solves Nixon and I liked Jolson so much with
the stage, in the little stenographer who marries the crime and picks the murderer Hear him sing "Little Pál" again, American setting: with a new and takes place on
even more appealing plot.
aiales and among the audience of the Edmund Lowe All due at the Star.
It is "Huckleberry Finn," show Tivoli Theatre. It is a riot of her employer to save him from from the audience. LAU PAK-WAL, DENTIST, has re-
with the other makes an effective hypnotist, and being involved
melodrama and laughs in which the moved his Eong Kong Office
I hear that there are three pic-ing to-day at the King's Theatre.
Again the young and popular audience is fused with the cast, be GLOUCESTER BLDG., lat floor, Ped-woman, goes to Europe (same old Lois Moran is the sister of the bro- der St. (New Building next to Hong stuff) to forget or something, and ther who causes all the trouble. tures unanimously mentioned as Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488.
returns with marvellous wardrobe, Don't quite see where the title candidates for the Gold Statuette. Jackie Coogan is seen in the role of coming integral with the paid en- furious, stormy to win back husband. The whole comes in, but alone for the camera "Arrowsmith" with Ronald Colman Tom Sawyer; Junior Durkin carries tertainers in the
at the title role; Mitzi plays Becky drama that follows the unwinding Helen Науев, due thing is charmingly done, and the work and lighting, together with the and
Wallace Beery and Thatcher, and likable Jackie Searl of the plot.
Never mind the story. dialogue sparkles like a friendly mechanical contrivances this film is the Central.
Jackle Cooper in "The Champ" lives again in the role of Sid Sawyer fire. I hear that it is one of the worth seeing. (King's).
due at Queen's, and "The Man which brought him to screen fame. doesn't till a plot of this kind. The With the addition of roly-poly picture starts off with a mind read- best efforts of the Marquise de la
The time is past when we see I killed" wherein Lionel Barrymore
Oscaring act and a spiritualistic seance. Falaise, and her clothes, Oh Lady!!
the again steals from the two stars Eugene Pallette and funny games pictured on her clothes. Rita le Boy is the con- College
Now we have love affairs Phillips Holmes and Nancy Carroll, Apfel, the adult cast remains intact and develops into a murder mys-
worries happily tory. other woman, Kenneth screen.
Lois Moran is co-featured in the McKenna as the husband, and our and eternal triangles, and all the by his magnificent portrayal as the Clara Blandick own Basil Rathbone as lover, could sort of thing that makes for Box-German father, due at the King's. again as Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly. not be better all round. Dont't miss office attraction. Sylvia Sydney as I should like to see Beery awarded And Jane Darwell comes into the feminine lead with Edmund Lowe the motherly Widow El Brendel and George E. Stone are the Co-ed who marries the other the high honours, he so steadily limelight as
Muse, the naxt in prominence while William this. (Central).
nan in desperation, because her gives us truly great performances. Douglas. Clarence
talented young
negro, provides a
Menzica and Kenneth true lover has gone away at a most
For three years the I hear that the Glorious Gloria barrel of comedy as the runaway MacKenna co-directed the film. Jon the slake befoft he took the awkward time.
A whole town of the 1850 period AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 fancy of the screen public, turns husband, Norman Foster, does not will be with us soon at the Central companion of Tom and Huck.
MINUTES. in the best work of his career in know that the baby is not his, then in her latest release, "To-night or
Her singing alone is was reconstructed as a setting for "Huckleberry Finn." In all his ad-the real lover, Phillips Holmes Never." ventures, he is again accompanied comes back-and well, I have given worth hearing, and her new leading "Huckleberry Finn." This picture, by Tom Sawyer, played by Jackle you the story in a nut shell, go and man Melvyn Douglas, threatening like "Tom Sawyer," is like a trip the throne of Clark Gable. No one back into the past century. The Coogan, who has yet to show me his see how it ends.
who is wise would miss the one and locations are authentic in every de- worth In the new
has only Gloria, and I can assure you tail, as much so as intensive re The three other children, Mitzi "Hook, Line and Sinker"
fanciful play that this, her latest, is full of snap- search and painstaking attention to Green, Jackie Searl and Charlotte everything that a
Jewele, py lines and situations and second facts could make them.
The director, Norman Taurog, in V. Henry are given far too little wright could visualize. chance. I regret that the script does rival gangs, country hotel, most to none of Glorias previous talkies. not keep strictly true to Mark amusing mother played by Jobyna Worth going miles to see. (Cen- already noted for his success with kid-featuring pictures, having made Twain, but the highest recommen- Howland, Dorothy Lee, pert and tral).
After viewing "Palmy Days," the the sparkling "Skippy" and the dation for this Alm is that it gets pretty, the two W's (Wheeler and away from sex, prison, gangster Woolsey) absurdly amusing, with Studios decided that Musicals would riotous roar of delight called "For- stuff, and is something for those no one attempting to take track of be in favour again.. Coming short-bidden Adventure." growing up, and those who want to who's who, but just laughing at ly to the King's, Eddie Cantor and relive their childhood. (King's). the comedy combination, who since Charlotte Greenwood. Also there is "HOOK, LINE AND SINKER." "Rio Rita" and "The Cuckoos" a treat in store fer lovers of the
Not only is "Hook. Line and The British adapta- As a stage play, "The Spider" have been doing their best with re-Britain films. was a thriller, and the Fox forces dressed old gage, and getting away tion of a Continental sensation Sinker," which is coming to the known as "The Private Secretary Queen's Theatre to-morrow, said have retained most of the kick. A with it. (Queen's).
(No, not our famous play, nor to be the greatest Bert Wheeler magician hypnotist is at the height
Not the "Alibf" we knew in the the one which Norma Shearer made and Robert Woolsey comedy to of his performance, when a man la mysteriously killed in the audience early days of the Talkies with Chea- her name). This will introduce us date, but it is said to contain to one of the most beautiful blondes more varied and genuine enter- fun-film ever in Germany, Renate Muller, with tainment than any the ideal lover Owen Nares, and produced.
Much of its action takes place, Jack Hulbert as a bank porter, and the lender of a male choir, which in the largest indoor set ever gives him endless opportunities for built, humour. There is said to be lilting hotel where the troupe spent six music, and the cast and production, weeks, "shooting" 868 hilarious with direction by Victor Savile scenes. worthy of the best turned out by, our own country.
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The magic carpet which was one of the marvels of "The Thief Of Bagdad" serves again in The World In 80 "Around Minutes With Douglas Fair banks," at the Central Theatre. But where, in its original use, it served the purpose of mythology, in the present film it is one of the devices of reality.
Fairbank's new film is a record
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of his adventures on a recent trip around the world, the carpet] being introduced as a means of camera party' conveying the quickly through space from one
China, where they were enter- country to another.
Douglas: appears as a hero of tained by celebrities and royalty. real adventure rather than as a Out of more than 200,000 feet of myth in his new film, "Around negative used in filming Fair- banks, with the noted.playwright With three companies Doug and humorist Robert Sherwood, The World in 80 Minutes." travelled in strange lands seeking as editor, have been assembled adventure and unusual incidents to portray a true adventure tale for his film record. The party which discloses the high lights of spent considerable time in Japan, travel in eighty minutes of a completely equipped China, India, Siam, and Indo-screen entertainment.
For exterior scenes, the historic Bakersfield, California, country- a land of magnificent rugged In "Corsair" Chester Morris plays beauty--was visited. ja rum-runner, determined to show up the hypocrisy of his gil's father, Lovely Alison Lloyd supports. Gangster activities with marine set tings. Duo shortly at the Central.
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The story, constructed solely for laughing purposes, presents a laugh-a-second tale of a clash between big underworld mobs and high society fashionables.
This necessitated using drama- as Ralph The Chatterton "Fans" will like tic players such our Ruth in "The Magnificent Lie." Harolde, Hollywood's most de- Then, also there is a newcomer, bonair villain; Natalie Moorhead, beauty; George Ralph Bellamy, we shall want to see the vampish again. (King's),
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were Dorothy Lee, den, they are an enormous hit.
whose sense of humour does not Maurice Chevaller's second 1982 detract from her rare beauty, Musical, "Love Me Tonight," Jobyna Howland, the Amazonian starts work soon with Rouben comédienne; Tim Whelan, the Mamoulian at the helm, and the fair veteran humorist writer; Ralph Jeanette Macdonald again the coSpence, the wise-cracking-dia- star. Little "Sooky" (Robert). Coo-loguist, and, of course Bert gan, besides his work in the "The Wheeler, and Robert Woolsey. Miracle Man," will be with friend Eddie Cline, who directed most of the original comedies of Mack Noel Coward Britain's genius Sennett, has piloted this story whose "Cavalcade at Drury Lane for Radio Pictures.
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will receive a elmarin, at least, goes to prove that even the Alm
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by Francis Maria,
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