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“AH WILDERNESS”“”—KINGS THEATRE
Outstanding in its dramatic in- tensity by virtue of its sheer simplicity, this great. hit of the! New York Theatre Guild is! brought to the screen by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer with all its vital! elements preserved and amplified | by the wider scope of the screen. with its pleasant outdoor sequ-i ences filmed in the quaint town of Graftos.
The play is a triumph Ior Wallace Beery, who ezzets the lovable, ineffectual Uncle Sid.) usually.
but in! comedian, a several places a poignant figure) in his
Lionel futile romance.
of Barrymore revels in the role Nat Miller, played on the stage by Straite, Java, Burma, Ceylon. Africa, Queegaland Porta, - and
Bed India. Persian Gulf, West Indies,
George M. Cohan and the late Will Sem, Egypt Istanbot, Mauritius, East
He brings to the screen Rogers. Greece, Levantine Porta, Europe,
different characterisa- a totally
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Charlie Chaplin is in "Modera Times,”-a United Artists produc- tion which will be coming to the
King's Theatre soon.
LITTLE BIG SHOT- CRIENTAL THEATRE
The four-star
PMAN RULE IN
THE SAAR
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The streets of Saarbrucken are placarded with anti-Jewish posters, every cafe and hoteli has signs, "Jews are not want- jed here." In the Hotel Ger- mania, where I stayed, there were anti-Jewish posters, at the entrance to the dining-room, in the lobby, and on the stairs on jeach floor.
Der Stuermer, the anti-Jewish weekly, is sold in every cafe and restaurant. Shopkeepers who have refused to dispense with their Jewish customers have been warned by the party that their trade licence will be cancelled as soon as the Reich laws come into effect.
Nazis' Work Of Conversion
Emigration has almost ceased now. The French have stopped. issuing visas, and, although Italy still welcomes emigrants, cast of "Little only those with PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY tion, as forcible as his famous Big Shot"
money сад is headed by Sybil obtain visas. There are over DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS role in "A Free Soul."
Jason and includes Glenda Far 10,000 Jewish families in Saar- The youngful romance is charrell, Robert Armstrong and Ed-brucken alone, and they have mingly handled
by Eric Lindenward Everett Horton. Sybil is no means of livelihood left to who gives an amazingly true per the new baby star, five and a half them.
The most striking success of PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS formance as the high school lover, rears old, who, was born in Cape-
and Cecilia Parker, with hertown South Africa, taken to Lon-the Nazis in the Saar is the youthful fresh, charm.
don by her uncle, a famous pro conversion of the Communists! One of the dominant âgures in ducer, where she made in and Social Democrats. The the cast is Aline MacMahon, as stantaneous hit. and stole the working-class districts of Zwie- 7,000 23th Mar. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, the pathetic Aunt Lily, with her two shows in which she appeared, brucken and Homburg, which
hopeless middle-age
Bill** Hamborg, E'dam & Hall.
romance.Barnacle
and Spring Byington is perfectly cast Band."
the red flag, now the the mother of the family.¦ Glenda Farrell, contrary to her swastika,
comedy as usual chiseling roles, plays the Herr Hitler's orders that Mickey Rooney adds the family's youngest, and Helen part of a girl with a real heart, there should be no discrimina- Flint contributes striking while Robert Armstrong and Ed-stion against those who voted | characterisation 26
Bellen, the ward Everett Horton furnish against him in the Saar plebis- Charles Grapewin, much of. the Fan 33 two cite have been obeyed with tough girl.
But Frank Albertson, Edward Nugent crooks who are always in trouble, scrupulous exactitude and Bonita Granville also con- but who are entirely reformed there is also a lingering fear of tribute outstanding performances. through their love of little Sybil Nazi reprisals when the year of
an orphan left on their hands by grace is over.
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A newcomer's first impressions-PUBLIC HERO NUMBER 1- -—--
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NEW AIRPORT AT GATWICK
The first of the new airports to
new screen find, who makes his This picture deals with the pur-be built for London's "Outer Cir- film debut in this Paramount film suit of a notorious public enemyjcle" is now nearing completion at starring Sylvia Sydney.
by a Government operative, with Gatwick. The main administra-
"The most interesting thing to the weight of the secret service tive buildings have been erected me was fading how pictures are behind him. Much of the action and await only details of Internal made, as I had never been to Hol- occurs within a state penitentiary work before they are ready for lywood before. The technique "ie and its palse-stirring episodes, use.
are
very different from that of the including the sensational gaolį. stage but it is more absorbing, -al-break, said to be the most though I am just as much inter realistic and exciting scenes of SAILINGS ested in writing as in acting," prison life to be photographed since the memorable picture, "The
which Chester:
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Baxter explained.
In this picture Baxter is cast as Big House," in
a youthful, handsome well-edu- Morris scored one of his first big cated ex-football hero who turns hits. public enemy. His love for Syl-.
Counterbalancing
the
more
via Sidney involves her innocent-grim aspects of the narrative is a ly in the clutches of the law, en-romantic angle in which Morris during a series of exciting epi- and Jean Arthur overcome
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¡tice
She meets a brilliant, but ment of their romance.
lattracted to each other, but picture from a story by himself! "Mary Burns" had become a head and Wells Roof. The cast is line. Haunted by her past, she headed by Lionel Barrymore, in roams the country until an
the principal character role as the citing and swift moving chain of physician-in-ordinary to the events brings her experiences to ¡derworld. Morris, Calleja, Miss!
a smashing climax.
-IN PERSON”—ALHAMBRA THEATRE
ex-
"Hell hath no fury lice a wo man scorned.":
Arthur, Paul Kelly, Lewis Stone,' Sam Baker, Paul Hurst and George E. Stone have prominent roles.
"THE NITWITS MAJESTIC THEATRE
Inscribed in the tome of pro-
Combining fast-stepping music verbs, this adage is not unalter- jably carried out by the character and spine-tingling thrills with Ginger Rogers delineates in ber their own insane brand of hilar- solo starring picture, "In Person." and Robert Woolsey's newest ity, "The Nitwits," Bert Wheeler The erstwhile co-star with Fred comedy hit, is different from any-
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS Astaire of the singing-dancing- thing they have done heretofore.
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ja spoiled brat instead of a pan- pered film celebrity. His indif- ference only serves to leave her desperately in love with him. Now she invokes all her feminine.
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