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THEATRE MUL
MONDAY TO WEDNESDAY At 2,80. 5.10, 7.15 & 9:20 p.m.
FALL TALKING ROMANCE of the GREAT OUTDOORS
CALL of the WEST
DOROTELY REVIER
IT
MATT MOORE DIFFERS!
BEFORE
Directed by ALBERT HAY
BEEING · ROMANCKA OF THE AMERICAN WILD WEST, TO J CAN SEE SME REAL NEW TORK NIGHT OLUD DANCES AND HEAR AWEET MONGA,
NEVER IS TUIRE A BETTER OUT DOOR, PICTURE THAN TUM)
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY
ONCE A SINNER
with
Dorothy
Mackaill
Commencing SUNDAY, 26th July
THE SILVER
SCREEN.
QUEEN'S THEATRE
"PARLOUR, BEDROOM "AND
BATE."
"Parlour,. Budroom and Bath” with Buster Keaton in the featur ed role, had audiences roaring when it, was presented at the Queen's Theatre yesterday,
Here is a role that its tho straight-faced comedian perfectly. He depicts a shy and reticenty bill- poster whe through no efforts of his own achieves the reputation of A "great lover.!! In a desperate
*་ attempt to uphold this reputation he becomes involved in an up- roarious series of Amorous affairs which are brought to a swift con- clusion when the jealous, husband appears on the scene with a gun.
Kenton's antics start the laughs Felling and they are kept rolling by the rest of the imposing 'cast," which includes the lanky Charlotte Greenwood, who scored on the stayo, in the original role; Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards, others aro Dorothy Christy, Jonn Peers, Bally Eilera, Edward Brophy, Natalic Moorhead. Walter Merrill Midney Bracy.
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Among the high spots of tho farce are the epiando in which Keaton is discovered in the arms of Miss Moorhead by his other sweethearts; the coinedy of errors by which he finds himself with the wife of a jealous husband in à hotel room; the chase and shooting melee which follow the sinash-up in which Denny runs Keaton down in a motor-enz, and the exciting wreck which follows upon the it tompt of Keaton and Miss Peers to outrace a locomotive,
A tremendously funny scene is that in which Miss Greenwood ten- thea the navie Buster to make
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working on Buster, who is not so
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GRAMOPHONE AND
DIVORCE.
WIFE AND SUBCONSCIOUS MIND EFFORT.
Los Angeles. Jesso A. Smith in- "rented a gramophone that would repeat every day in every way. I am getting better and better" and similar psychological suggestions" } for the benefit of his subconscious mind while he slept
the time of his or her life.
"LAST MILE,”
Getting a break on the stage in such a production as the much- discussedThe Last Mile" proved great advertising for Clark Gable. This black-haired young man has been exceedingly busy since the serern lured him away from New York a few months ago.
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COMMENCING WEDNESDAY
PERCY CIGSBY'S
Skippy
"a Granorom Pictur
with.. Robert Coogan Jackie Cooper Mitzi Green
Jackle Scarl
bannlífalvi fort like giving some body wook in the jaw,"
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the part of the sympathetic wen tern mother.
From "The Painted Desert" he was immediately grabbed by Metro. "Call of the West" is different Goldwyn-Mayer for the part of
to ether outdoor pictures. It shifts Nick Foliki, sweetheart and hús. bind of Auita Page, in the new
its locale, from New York night Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, clubs to the western ranch and in
The Ensiest
Way."
starring corporates thrilling action with Constance Bennett, and opening on dancing, singing and romance. Thursday at the Queen's Theatre, This Jack Conway-directed film also The pict is concerned with Violet
features Adolph. Menjou, Robert La Tour, Broadway musical comedy Montgomery, Anita Page and Mar. jorio flambeau.
Other stage successes of Gable, beside the sensational "Last Mile," include "Love, Honour and ," "Machinal" and "Blind Betray," Widowa
"ONCE A SINNER."
RUTH
CHATTERTON
Unfaithful"
a Garamount Picture
First Lady of the Sarson Now she proves itoon- cinsiraly!
with
PAUL LUKAS
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Is confession good for the soul
and the peace of mind? This
forms the basic theme of the plot
in "Once Sinner," the Fox Movietone, which is coming to the Central Theatre on Thursday.
Dorothy Macksill has the leading featured role of "Diani" Barry," in which she plays the beautiful,
a year, in exchange for fashion- costly furs, diamonds,
favourite, who temporarily loses girl who barters her honour for her looks through, an illness. Shr is relegated to a cheap road com- pany through her illness by her
and a life of luxury manager. Violet collapses in Sage-
Then she meets a young inven- brush, Toxni, and is left stranded
tor, falls in love with him and there. A cowboy admirer, Lon
agrees to marry him. It is the Dixon, takes her to his ranch and
first real love ahe hus ever his mother nurses. her back to.
experienced, but before mar health. During her convalescenco, rings she insists on confessing Her Violet falls in love with Lon and part on the basis that her past marries him. She believes sho has belongs to her before marriage...
What happens and whether she should or should not have confess.
CENTRAL THEATRE.
"CALL OF THE WEST, "Call of the West," the all-talk- ing dramatic romance of the Ameri- enn Southwest is to be screened at to get a subconscious idea that sue the Central Theatre to-day. There been forgotten, and she herself has wanted a divöréĎ.
are thrills and romance unfolded
Before lung, Mrs. Smith began
"I don't know what the automs against a back-ground of. scenie forgotten Broadway, until Lan Aed, the picture reveals.
beauty that has never been equalled. Ententionally burts her feelings.
tie gramphone was, except that it was suppose to work on my hus band's subconscious mind,”
Joel McCres has the important
Beautiful Miss Dorothy Revier Then she packs her grip and goes featured role of the young hus
Smith told the Judys but at Moore placing in the male would wind it up before he wont to leading role. The cow-boys who eep and it would go off overy lend realism to the cutdoor acquon, hour
right by his bed. It was just ces are Buff Jones, Tom O'Brien, shooting my nerves to bits"
Nick Do Ruiz, Ford West and Vis The divorce was granted.
Potel Kathrin Clare Ward plays
is the star of the picture with back to the scene of hor former band, John Halliday is "the other
romphe How the toronto P
Bergo Ratoff gabilandering. Rus the realization that real love has sian gambler and gambling house spoiled her for the artificialitics of owne Bally Brane and Ilka. New York night life, supplies the Chase have importent supporting rest of the action for this drams.
-rôles:"
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He learned about love
in Hollywood, where Movietone's brilliant.
singers and dancers
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with
Joseph Wagstaff
Lola Lane Skaron Lynn
Frank
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KING'S THEATRE,
CINEMA'NOTES FOR
UNFAITHFUL.
Unfaithful," Starring Ruth Chatterton, is now showing at the King's Theatre.
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A native of London, the author, Van Druten not
yot
his thirties, ..cannot 20 member ever having had any other ambition than to write for the atage His father, a Dutch banker, and his mother, an English wo man, discouraged his early efforts at writing, and finally prevailed upon him to study law. Neverthe less throughout his school days, Van Druten wrote constantly. His numerous stories, articles and poems, which, as he reached col lege, began to find publishers,
"Unfaithful" is the story cf an American girl who marries the "catch" of the season, a handsome, young aristocrat' war-horn and club-man. The girl is ecstatically happy madly in levo with her busband, until she discovers that the reputation he has built up is murely a mask for undercover love
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affairs. Ilis particular paramour The Broadway in the wife of her own brother. laugh hit, Unable to denounce her husband here now as a without involving her brother's film hailed happiness," the girl weeks the only the funniest way out of her nerve-wrecking position. She let's go, throws her, self madly into the reckless, re putation-destroying pleasurcs,........
The cast of "Unfaithful, addition to Miss Chatterton, in
in
ludes Paul Lukas, Paul Cavanagh,
ever made!
Don't miss it!
Buster
Keaton
ette Compton, and Donald recently featured in three Gutstanding New York stage hits, REGINALD "Paris, Bound," "Half Gods and DENNY
Rund."
CHARLOTTE A GREENWOOD
"The thrill of a life-time," which comes not many "more times than cace, to most lives, arrived cn- messe and with a bang for the children of San Bernardino, Call- fornia. For a period of two weeks
they were called upon to act for a talking picture.
Before Paramount sent`a
CLIFF
EDWARDS
PARLOR BEDROOM
AND
BATH
› Metro fokluyn ↑
"Don't make me laugh- (hiking about love you'vo · tasted luxury and that's worse than
com.
dlope
pany sixty-five miles from Holly, wood to San Bernardiac, to make, opisodes of Percy Crosby's "Skip- py," which will open on Wednes day at the King's Theatre, ar- rangements were made with schoo!!
officials to permit one hundred chil- dren of the off studio city to per form in atmospherio bits.
Children, whom it was consider ed most needed the monoy, were
selectd and given permission by!
the board of education to mark with Jackie Cooper as Skippy; Robert Coogan, five-year-old fra- ther of Jackie Coogan, as Bocky Jackie Seart and other film play-
Although neting in pictures, the children were not allowed tó miza
school--Arectionl room was erected; un. location and several teachers, ausigned to instructing the youths while not before the cintras, pr
Crosby episode, tells-in a way that impre both adnits and kids,
ofa youngster's trials, puppy love, and joys
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Hero's a
THE EASIEST WAY
A CONSTANCE
BENNETT
ADOLPHE MENJOU. ROBT MONTGOMERY
ANITA PAGE"" MARJORIE RAMBEAU