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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.
TALKIE TALKS
Diane
RED-HEADED GIRLS PREFER DARK MEN Nancy Carroll Declares They Aren't Fickle.
Hollywood.
the
Nancy Carroll, famous red-head, rises to the defence of red-headed .women, whose diapositions, she de- clares, have been much maligned.
"I admit immediately that red-hend is intensely emotional," the Paramount, actress declares "In this, she undoubtedly stands apart from the blonde and the brunette.
she
ane-man
emotionally unstable.
It is
THE CHINA MAIL.
JACK BUCHANAN GREAT IN
GOOD - NIGHT VIENNA”
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JACKIE COOPER'S CLEVER ACTING AT QUEEN'S.
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PRODUCTION.
London Hotel. Betty Stockfeld I note that the 'droll comedian is WHEELER-WOOLSEY would look more attractive if she now on Broadway in the Revue. bed a Myrna Loy figure. Elsio "Flying Colours."-And so Randolph could be improved by bet- tor make-up and general improve ment all round. Still, the situations are quite exciting and there is fairly good acting.
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"Lady and Gent."
Gurbo will de, as her first picture Somerset Maughan's story of Hong Kong-"The Painted Veil" Expect the locale will be moved te an imaginery city in China.
Did Mrs. Katherine Cecil Thur-
"Slapstick Burlesque Describes Play:
Cinecisms
Plans a Vacation.
Nils Asther is plauning a long
Tea
Com-
Another typical Whooler and son trip and rest after the ston commit suicide? You remem-Woolsey opus, full of wisecracks, pletion of the picture, "The Bitter ber George Alexander in her strong novel gage and slapstick burlesque, This is followed by the last pic play "John Chilcote M. P." Well, in finished. Instead of having the of General Ten". Nils has turo made by George Bancroft for I see that it is to be Ronald Col-background of a shapely chorus as been under a severe strain through- Paramount, with Wynne Gibson in man's next picture, with Elissa in several of their recent pictures, eat the shooting of the Grace Zar- Lady and Gent." The performances Landi opposite. Glad that he had they have a crew of subsidiary ing Stone's novel and feels. now from the two stars are outstanding. Kay Francis na lead in "Cynara" comedians this time, numbering in that he's entitled to give his ner- This is a big film, as far as acting and I am wandering what the the cast Edna May Oliver, Warren
is concerned. Wynne Gibson, is sup-now English girl Phyllis Barry is Hymer and Edgar Kennedy. Roscoe ven a rest. posed to portray the life of Tox like.
Ates appoare long enough to stut
Pais
Connie Cummings and Nancy
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"Lady And Gent" With Bancroft Due At King's.
Guinan. It rather represents the Talk about sensations The Bill ter 'one line.
"Hold 'Em Jail" is the clever prize-ring as a disgraceful calling of Divorcement" with John Barry- which is certainly something new inmore, Billie Burks, and the wonder title of the picture, and football its I have just returned from having having this magnificent Warner films. Thus we have Jimmy Gleason girl Katherine Hepburn, is likely thome. Wheeler aud Woolsey, in Carroll are going places and seeing "However, she is not fickle. She a good cry, and write of how much Bros show 00 Sunday at the losing his life rather than let his to make screen blatory this year, the film, make the mistake of boast things together these days. When is no more of a varietint-that is, I enjoyed myself. If you have seen Queen's. The old operatta style, schoolboy son know his calling, as Ramon Novarro with Helen Hayes Ing that they are football players. Connie isn't busy on "Washington
that boy genius and the ever-happy Viennese don- is no more unsatisfied with Richard Dix-and
marital relationship-Jackie Cooper in "Donovan's Kid," cing and singing under the stars, manager of the gent who uses his will pleas, me more than he did which they are not. The boast is
when opposite the Garbo-They over-heard by an alumnus of the Merry-Go-Round", she and Nancy although worked to a frazzle in fists for a livelihood. than other women. She is no you will not wonder.
I liked it better than "The musical plays, will appeal strongly There is a big cast with Charles are at work on. Son-Daughter Does state penitentiary, who is on the are putting their heads together more liable to be hot-tempered, or Champ." The story was interesting to local audiences, because the music Starret as the son, but Bancroft and it not seem strange to associate the lookout for football material for thinking up some double mischief. and told of the 1016 vintage of is so tuneful and charming. Alex- my favourite Wynne don't allow name of Jesse Lasky with Fox, the old alma mater, and he frames "She is accused of these things, gangster.
ones who only ander Gray and Vivienne Segal have anyone to take the picture from after all those years with Para-them so convincingly that present- Just the same, and the reason for robbed gewellery stores and cashiers never done better work, and Jean them-they are admirably paired in mount?-Ah NOW the secret fely they become fully accredited
was convicts.
Jack Holt has a funny little Much of the material, it seemed, habit of helping himself to things that she has a second nut-not the boot-legging murderers of Hiersholt, Alice Bay, Walter Pid- this sentimental tale of a pugilist OUT-WHY Sylvia Sydney
to-day. No sordid love Tairs, no geon and Louis Fazenda make this and a night-club chatelaine. "Fans" given ALL the plums of part. She
around the studio. Luckily he con- standing trait. along with her "Molla," just the reforming of one technicolour film memorable. Opera can't help but like it soon, comes is expecting to be the wife of B.P. would have been funnier if handled In Schulberg-who is to Paramount less blatantly, but that would not romantic emotionalism. She is of nature's gentlemen through the is always artificial, but there is quite the magnetic Sari Maritza
Pretty "Forgotten Commandments." The what Thalberg is to M-G-M.— be the Wheeler and Woolsey way, fines himself to the wardrobe de- frank and outspoken; often alto, great love he bears for his adopted a pretty story in this one.
Herbert Mundin Is to be starred No doubt the admirers of this pair partment, and everybody but the who loves new star and the sequences of Cecil gether too fearless. Emotions, son. Marlan Shilling. Boris Kar-daughter of boot-maker opinions and longings that her loff (now famous) do well in amall peruit is musician in vain--and is B. de Milles "Ten Commandments" by Fox in a series of comedies-of comedians like them as they are, wardrobe master takes it as a huge and that good-looking chap Kane and those who have enjoyed their joke including Jack himself. forced to marry rich Baron. Their make a fine film. (King's). sisters conceal through tempera- parts.
Richmond who has been doing a previous pietures will relish is re-found In their The whole programme is good this lost romance mental reticence,
Talkie version of "The Leather one. week, to make up for the appalling grand-children. This film broke re freely and with no reserve.
Pushers" is now on his way, with The fact that red-heads are mistake of last week "Happy corda in many cities, and I think it
and not generally Ending" not, fickle and are
that objectionable is likely to do so here, varietists at any rate, to a "short" can be counted the month's
"Transgression." marked degree is shown by the worst mistakes. No wonder our
Vienna." Anna Neagle, reminds In the Broadway shows I notice Janet Gaynor was given another Jack is one of Hollywood's fashion fact that they prefer one parti-American cousins say they can't
After this finishes, Kay Francis, me, in face, of Evelyn Laye. As a Gilbert Emery and Kent Douglas lead but Farrell in Mary Pick-plates! cular type of man.
understand it. Of course when you Paul Cavanagh and Ricardo Cortez turn, when the idol of Vienna, she is in "Men Must Fight," and Rose Ho ford's old play "Teas of the Storm "Red-heads, prefer dark men "hear Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard,
Herbert Marshall, Harold Huth, Wives should take a warning, and the rest of the large cast don't mat- Loved you Wednesday".
along in "Transgression." not a first-class artist, but she, with bart and Humphrey Bogart in "I Country," so we shall see the fam- she declares.
ous pair together,Janet has been
Columbia Pictures reserved etc, speak, you rave over the delight not write compromising letters. After. Buchanan, like Ronald Colman, Ian Hay will go over to New told to grow her hair, too. fut cultured speaking voices, but weman visits her lover in a lonely is a cold lover, but he charms with York for the opening of his
at the Olympic And so the marriage of Alice section of sents when it comes to Cockney-well-mountain retreat, is disillusioned, his singing. Regret he did not play "Lucky in Love."-
Joyce and James Regan, Junr., is games the other day for the cast of lead me away, I can't bear to hear and decides that her husband is the dance for us. You can't help hum- For "Grand Hotel" in London at going on the rocks? Rumour has That's My Boy" and among those better man. She flies in a 'plane to ming the theme song, and that the Palace, large queues form daily it, that she will re-marry Tom
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expresses
MORE BRITISH COMEDIES.
it.
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"Viennese Nights."
come
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But then, as Jack explains it, the wardrobe department is a might
"Good-night Vienna." Jack Buchanan the most popular a large company, to make "Man has worked out of Fox, because tempting place for any man who is of all British male stars comes in eaters" in Malaya under the Fox they refused to give a higher salary at all interested in dress. And the home-made film "Good-night banner.-
Thousands of "fans" objected when
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Gus McNaughton, who attracted. attention in the recent Gene Ger-
stop her letter being read, and pretty Fox-trot number with words for this picture, quite un-heard-of. Moore, with whom she is now act-present were Richard Cromwell her husband being the most tolerant about, "Living in clover, and thrill-{
Years ago when Charles Quar-ing in Vaudeville. You told me and Dorothy Jordan, who play the rard picture, "Lucky Girl," heads We used to wonder why those of men-all is forgiven. The storying all over," is also haunting,
termains and Frank Vosper were weeks ago that Joan Crawford the cast of "Double Trouble," which wonderful shows of Fanchon and has just heen completed and will Marco were not put on the films. is redeemed by good all-round act I can't quite see the point of put here, the stage manager James would do "Lost" with Jackie Cop leads in the picture. And, just by shortly receive its trade show. This week there is a pretty scésiang. These attractions are coming making the hero so ill-bred, as he Jolley married the leading lady, per, but I see it has been shelved. way of prophecy, you can look for- walks out the cynosure of all eyes Jeanette Sherwin. I see his name! June, Lady Inverclyde has sued ward to seeing these two together Here is i comedy which after their style. "A Flower'
at the theatre, when the heroine in the Baltimore Theatro Guild in John Bull and Hannen Swaffer often. Dick and Dorothy show has for it basis the theme Garden," 1, personally would like
"Life Goes On."
refuses to sing his request number. their production of Broadway. owing to the publication in that of mistaken identity with more of them, and the British Radio
We used to like Hugh Wakefield Still, I am not out to criticise. The
Marie Dressler is not too well paper of an article headed "Hanen signe of liking each other. Güs McNaughton's efforts to jatars sometimes given us by Pathe
me. When cover up a slight fall from grace please
we heard "Ion the stage, I remember, but some film is really most enjoyable, and these days, and only works six Swaffer's Open Letter to June."
Gum-Chewer hours a day at the studio, and does She has engaged Sir Patrick Has by pleading that his double was the bring a love-song" played by that how since we have had his type so broke all records in London.
little, or no social life. She will tings and Wilfred Lewis as Coun culprit with the result of humour Symphony Orchestra in the last act perfectly portrayed on the films by
work again with Wallace Beery in sel. of the most uproarious kind. B.I.P. of "Viennese Nights," how one was Roland Young and Charles Ruggles,
Charles Laughton will return to I am not so keen on the British predict that this will be another thrilled!
Drama of a hot-news Editor "Tug-boat Annie"-the story which
Promise lots of the standing of "My Well-at last, after repeatedly Paramount atar. "Life Goes On" whose private life would make any ran in the Saturday Evening Poat. the London Stage.
Regret to see that Ralph Bellamy more gossip next week.. talking of it in my notes, we are with a story taking place in a grand film interesting with Charles Bick-
guecess Wife's Family.”
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ford, Rose Hobert and Pat O'Brien. In "Scandal," we have this he-man, at nis beat.
Entertaining screen fare with good acting and a few thrills. Even if the beauteous Constance Bennett does again essay the unmarried mother role, with Joe McUrea, Paul Cavanagh and suffering heroine in "Born to Love" we have another winner for the highest-paid screen actress. This is the first-class far promised us at the Central,
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Attratcions at Star.
What a dissappointment we had] in "Susan Lenox," just because they called it by that name. Had they used the name "The Rise of Helge,' we would have liked Greta Garbo, land Clark Gable better. We both so loved Graham Phillip's classic so much. Now to the Star comes the famous Swede and Gable. Seeing it again I may like it better.
Ted Lewis copies "The Singing Fool" story in "Is Everybody Happy," but when he conducts that grand orchestra he makes up for not being a first rater as a film actor. What, and why are we returning to the silents? Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Junri Ja "Modern Maidens Pre-talkle. Current at- tractions at the Star.
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Thanks for the Los Angeles and New York papers, they make me envious Surprise to see that the. L-A-press praise the whole cast, moat especially Joan Crawford in "Rain" and the other critics pull the whole performance to shreds. Also, that marvellous book "Mother Earth" It is an absolute wash- out as a stage play. From the star, Nazimova, down, the good old US. accent stands supreme, and with the picture post-card scenery, Chinese native life is NOT convey- ed for one moment.
Without question, I predict that the worlds loveliest love story Smilin' Through"--will be a riot wherever shown. We saw it toge ther at the old Cornet, when Nor- ma Talmadge was perfection in the part and Harrison Ford, both now lost to find. Norma Shearer, Les lle Howard and Fredric Match are superb. Critics give it one hundred per cent notices. Charles, Butterworths was here last week In "Trove me to-night"
FOR QUALITY
Stanwyck chews gum Barbara dustriously. And she insists that her only reason is to keep her voice in condition.
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