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OCT. 26-
The Greatest Screen Drama Of All Timel TIFFANY
JOURNEYS END
What Do Men Talk About
Before Rushing Into Battle?
These two-one young and untried, the other old and banle-jarred--discuss surprising things far removed from the terror they are about to face.
ALL-TALKING
From the Play by R. C. SHERRIFF
Directed by JAMES WHALE
With Colin Clive Ian Maclaren David Manners Anthony Bushell Billy Bevan Tiffany-Gainsborough Production OTIFPAN YA PRODUCTIONS
British Actors-British Author
British Director Produced in Hollywood
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THE SILVER SCREEN. stage productions. George Pearson
"TANNED LEGS.”
Tanned Lega," a spatkling musical comedy of vivid youth pro- duced by Radio Pictures, opong at the Central Theatro to-day.
It is one of the first tuneful shows to be written directly for the screen, with five original song num- bers and a chorus of 40 Hollywood Junuties
supervised and R.C.A. Photophone recorded. Colin Clive, by special permission of Maurico Browne, Ltd., plays the role of Capt. Stanhope, David Minnnors days young Raleigh, lan Maclaren in Osborne and other sre Billy Bevan, Anthony Bushell, Jack Pitenien, Thomas Whiteley, Charles Klinger.
Gerrard and Warner
"It's a Grost Life," Once stage performers become celebrities they are lost to the "sticks." Whereas the larger cities may be fortunate enough to The outstanding east of lm cole.be included in the itinerary of a brities is hended by a little new road company, people who want to comer namn June Clyde,. She had sco the original company with the been in pictures but two months featured star usually have to wait when R.K.O. officials chose. For for until they can save up n axiall one of the most coveteri rôles of the fortune and come to New York. season. Her purt personality, lovely voice, and the fact that she hus the prize pair of limbs in filmdom ara responsible for her selection,
Anu Pennington, famous Ziegfeld star, and owner of the $100,000 knees, will be seen in governl speciality dances with Allon Kearns, also a Broadway favourita."
Albert Gran, the beloved,old taxi driven of "Seventh Heaven," portrays the fast-stepping poppa, finally brought to his senses by his youthful daughter, Tanned Legs" Reynolds (June Clyde).
The super-sound spectacle is re- plote with laughs thrills, and melodies that promise to keep feet tapping during every performance.
"Journey's End.” "Journey's End," the war play that had played around the world before it was a year old, and tưat raised an obscure author to 'lamac, defies the biggest dramatic conven. tion by not having a woman in it or a love and yet it is crammed with a vital love interest.
In the Tiffany all-dialogue pro- duction of this R.. C.Sherriff masterpiece, coming soon to the Central Theatre, a key of romance ia struck when Licut. Osborne, gray baired and three years in. war ser- tells Lieut. Raleigh, just ar- in the front line. trench, to think of it all as romantic-it helps."
The first love intercat shows in the hero worship of the schoolboy Raleigh for his idol, Stanhope. He comes into the trenches and finds his idol wearing, clay feet, but he understands why and how he be enme a drunkard and still sees him As his hero.
Second is the love of Stan. hopa for Raleigh's sister. She is never seen-not ever her photo is shown to us, but if she were there before you you could not have a more poignant love story than is told you with her absent.
Third is the love for home and the nice things of life to which every man has right, that all these men had before the hysteria of nations sont them to war, botoro they were herded in dark, damp, rat infested, vile-smelling holes underground, and then sent out to be blown to destruction in the name of patriotism!
James Whale directed "Journey'e
End," a story that he knows prob- ably even better than its author, for ho hne directed many of its
ALL MUSIC - ALL SOUND ALL DIALOG
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That at least has been the situn- tion until recently when moving pictures have assumed the propen- sitios of large legitimate song and dance productions, and are bringing them, star and all," to practically every town and hamlet in the world.,
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.'
· BROADCAST BY Z.D.W. ON 356 METRES.
TALK ON HORTICULTURE.
SULTAN OF JOHORE MARRIED.
WEDDING IN LONDON.
The wedding, took place at the Princo's Row Registor Office, Lon-
11 to 11:30a.m.-Commercial-news.don, on October 15, of II.H, the 11.30 alin.-Chinese programme. 18.30 p.m.--Europeau programmine. 1.30 p.ni.-Weather report. 3 p.m.-Close down.
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5 p.m.-Chinese prograinte,
p.m.-European programine oli: records selected "apd supplied by Messrs. Trang Fook. Tales of Hoffman" (Offenbuch).- Marek Weber and his orchestra, Dollar Princess "-Medley.-Nat.
Shilrot and his orchestra.
7.15
| Sultan of Johoro and Mrs. Helen Wilson, the former wife of Dr. Willian Brookie Wilson, whom she divorced.
The boneymoon will be spent on the Continent, and afterwards the Suitar and his bride will leave for Johore,
The Sultan, who is 57 years, of e, left Singapore for Europe on the lantun on September 10. He had returned only 13 days pre. pn-From the Studio-Dr.viously, and it was announced that
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY Ar 2.30, ñ.10, 7.15 & 0.20.
A
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G. A. C. Herklots will give the his health was not good and he had THEY'RE second of the series of talks on to love again on enedical advice. Horticulture. Subject of this residence in a cooler climate boing. week's talk:-" Manures,"
considered desirable, 7.30 p. opens
"Longside the Santa Fe Trail"
His Highness had been in Europe and Two Fragments."-Julius since the early part of 1020, ru Allen, The Singing Cowboy." turuing to Johore in the latter "Down by the Winegar Woks" part of that your for a few weeks
and Roll 'em Girls."-Billy only. Murray, Comedian,
Two of the most widely known stage stars, hitherto limited to metropolitan audiences, will be at the beck and call of movie-goera when “It's a Great Life " at the Queen's Thostre for a four days' engagement. The stars aro Vivian and Rosetta Duncan, making up the famous team of Duncan Sisters, who have made a name for themselves in such productions as "Hitchy Koo, "Tip Top,' Winter Garden shows on one side. of the Atlantic, and in Pins and Needles" and "Clowns In Clover" in London, where they were made much of by social celebrities.
at
And there are plenty of reasons Such popularity must be deserved, why the Duncan Sisters have in- they have been in. The Duncan variably "stopped every show
talent may be attributed to some thing more than beauty, good voices and fast-moving legs. It's n combination of a lot of indescrib able things that can be summed up in the one word personality.
"The Rogue Song," Because music creates through the ear the consciousness of beauty that colour conveys through the eye, the debut of the first major star of opera on the talking screen has been arranged with the use of both.
"The Rogue Song,"
J Lawrence Tibbett's introduction to talking pictures, which Metro-GoldwyA- Mayer will present on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre, is not only replete with special song numbers, written for the great baritone, but has been filmed entirely in colour.
The undertaking involved many abstruse scio-ife problems in the matter of photographing sound on film which at the anime timą kopt natural colour values, and the com- pletion of the work was hailed as one of the greatest triumphs for Technicolour process.
Tibbett sings songs ranging from numbers of operatic magnitudo with a symphony orchestra to simple love songs. Elsa Alsen, dramatic soprano, & women's chorus and. large
chorus are other elaborate musical details of the Russian dra
The filming was dong in a specially prepared set of sound stages. The orchestra in each case was housed in "born, or thin wood orchestra ahell, in which three microphones of different frequencies wore placed. Herbert Stothart, conducting, haard Tibbett's voice in the set outside over earphones as ho conducted the accompaniment. Voica and music were put together or mixed in n monitor room in Bulated, so far as sound is concern. ed, from both sets,
Mrs. Wilson, who is 40 years of
"The Black Jacks."-George Le
Afnire--Rex Vax, Humorous was the wife of Dr. Brockie Dialogue.
Wilson, who was a well-known prae.
"For Seven Long Years I've Been titioner in Singapore. He left the Married" and "Charley, He's Colony about seven years ag".
a Good Old Man."-Kelly Har- Previous to coming to Singapore rell, Tenor,
Don Juan"Overture" (Mozart).ho was in the medical service in
Concert Orchestra.
Johore.
Ever of Thee I'm Fondly Dream- ing" and "The Bells of St. Mary's." Frances Alda, So DISTRICT WATCHMAN SENT
prano.
Caprice Antique" and "Legend of the Canyon."-Fritz Kreisler, Violinist.
Dream"
and "For You Alone."-Eurico Caruso, Tenor.
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"Down in the Forest" and
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It's a great
"Serenade" (Strauss). De watchman, was charged before Mr. A
Wong Pui, Chinese district Williams at the Central Magistracy "Dreamin' yesterday with having extorted
bribe of 82 and also with demand. ing by menaces a similar sum from Ho Ching.
Groot and the Piccadilly Orch. "Sometime and
Time."Amelita Galli-Curci, Soprano, Happy Days" and "Herd Girl's
Dream.Neapolitan Trio. Drink to Me Only With Thing
Eyes." - Lawretice Baritone.
"Minuet "
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Tibbett,
Pablo
(Debussy), Casals, Violoncello, p.m.-Weather report, local time
and Press news.
"If You're in Love, You'll Waltz" and "You're Always In My Arms."-Bebo Daniels, 30.
prano.
Inspector J. Murphy appeared for the prosecution and Mr. F ̈ ̈ ̈X. d'Almada. was for the defendant.
The facts, as outlined by Inspector Murphy, were that at about 10 am, jon October 15 the complainant was coosted by the defendant in a lane noar the Queen's Theatre. The defendant accused him of being a pick-pocket and at the same time struck him. A sum of $2 was de- manded from the complainant, fail- ing payment of which, the defendant Rio Rita" and "Ouly a Ilose." said that he would got him into
Richard Crooka, Tenor,
trouble. The complainant agroed "If I Had a Talking Picture of ed that payment was to be made two
to pay this sumn and it was arrang You" and "I'm Dreamer, hours later, nt Stanley Street. Aren't We All"--Johnny Mar- vin, Comedian, "Sunny Side Up."-Chick Endor,
Comedian. "Sweepin'. The Clouds Away" and
On leaving the defondant, the complainant went to the Central Police Station and informed the Polied. Two one dollar notes, the numbers of which were recorded by All I Want Is Just One." the Police, were used to trap the Maurice Chevalier, Baritone. watchman. At the pre-arrangol Where is the Song of Songs for the defendant at Stanley Street, time the complainant went to see Me "Franklya Baur, Tenor.
A European dotoclive witnessed "Chocolate Soldier "Waltz Med the proceedings between the two Try (Strauss)--Nat. Shikret and at a given signal rushed up and and his orchestra.
the defendant was pointed out to
La Paloma." (Yradior) and "O him. The two one dollar notes were
Sole Mio" (Capua).-Giulietta lying on the ground. Morino, Violinist.
Mr. d'Almada argued that the two notes were not found in defen- "Sous Bois" (Staub) and "Minuet"dant's porson, and further submit- (Boccherini).-Victor Ooncertted that the evidence produced was
insufficient to conviet.”
Orchestra.
By filming action in colour one is able to blend harmonies in hue just as one blends them in music, and then blend them together in a perfect whole," Lionel Harrymore,On the Banks of the Danube."--| director of the picture, stated re- Jobo Kuraez, Piano Solo. cently. "It is in this regard that 20 nn. Rigoletto" colour can be so valuable in the Conclusion of Act I filming of music,"
10.30 p.m.-Close down,
The Magistrate discharged dafen- dant on the first charge and passed (Verdi).-sentence of two months' imprison- ment on the charge of demanding money by menaces.
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SAM WOOD production with LAWRENCE GRAY and BENNY RUBIN
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Laiorenco TIBBETT The Rogue Song The Pogue Sorg.
The Metropolitan Opera Star in a new miracle of the talking screen.
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From the romante pot by con jer Gupted by the Young A Marshall neilan
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