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"Dear Dadily Long Legs:- In ray heart I love you best of all!" Werner Baxter reads a treasured_letter_to
Janet Gaynor in their Fox romance, “Doddy Long Legs."
Three Column Scene. Cut or Mat 3P;
"EAST LYNNE." RICHARD ARLEN AS THEME OF "THE
CONRAD NAGEL AND SOME OTHERS.
An actor of the old ailent days
A DIVER.
Constance BENNETT whose star was brightened rather motion picture player have taken
THE COMMON LAW
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vi great a role'
COMING SHORTLY-
"HER MAN"
GREAT LOVER."
COMING TO QUEEN'S THEATRE.
IN "THE SEA GOD" SHOWING AT CENTRAL.
Richard Arlen's activities as a
than dimmed by the advent or him from thousands of feet above How daring should, girl be, the earth to fathoms below the when she is intent on attaining a talking pictures is Conrad Nagel, ocean's surface. With Clive Brook and Ann Hard- ing's he hands the cast in Frank Lloyd's Fox Movietone production, "East Lynne" which is to have its initial lucal showing very soon at 'the King's Theatre.
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STAGE AND FILM.
RIVAL CLAIMS ON DRAMATISTS.
Mr. Benn Levy, the clever young dramatist who hua. collaborated with Mr. John Van Druten in Hollywood Holiday," "is himself working against time for a quick rebari to Hollywood but not on holiday, writes a London Critle":
Being a prospercus dramatist is a doubly exacting life nowadays.
From Hollywood Mr. Levy is due to go to New York for the produe tion of his play, "The Devil" (which was given as the Arts Theu- tre last year), then back he comes 1o London for the staging of Tue Devil" then Hollywood one more, directly after Christmas.
Author of "Sensation," Another dramatist who has all his hours away from the stage ve- cupied with film work is Mr. Charles Bennett, audior of the new Lyceum thriller, "Sensation?" Mr. Bennett, a handsome, fair- haired young man, who looks as if he ought to play juvenile lead but assures me that as an actor he WAB a failure, is one of thre drumetiste who have just been put under ecntract with British Inter- national Picsures.
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Ha is to write "originals," and this company is more disposed than it has appeared to be not to rely upon the filming of stage plays. If this tondeney develops shall see fawar, of those inferior plays which have been given their chance in the West End because something in them might tempt one or other of the film companies,
BLANCHE SWEET'S BIG SUCCESS.
IN SHOW GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD.
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Blanche Sweet, is heard singing for the Arst time in Show T in Hollywood," First National's. ambitious talking, musical and eclor version of the J. P. McEvoy best-
being filmed, he was in the air every working day for several weeks.
In his le п 化 diver in voles. The picture will come to The picturo, now playing at the
It was the air epic. "Wings."grant success at a singer y that started Arlen on the way to This question provides the pivot stardom: While that picture was
plot of "The Great Lover" re- caller. on which a major portion of the
Paramount's "The Sea Cod," he spent much time on the ocean floor under several fathoms of water.
Of the two extremes, Arlen says the prefers the air.
The reason for Nagel's success is to be found in his own summary of himself. He says, "The Mo- It is an uncanny experience to mone I comp within range of the be wandering about with the fish camera I forget myself entirely down on the ocean's flour," he do clared. And when the heavy and hide my own personality in diving helmet was fastened over my
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the Queen's Theatre starting Sun-Queen's Theatre, stars Alice White in the title, rôle, with Jack Mul- day.
hall featured opposite her and John. Miljan, Ford Sterling, Spec O'Don noli, Virginia Sale and other not- ables in prominent roles.“
"The Great Lover" features Adolphe Menjou in the title role, with Iron Dunne and Bactenova as the objects of his affections,
scenes
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Miss Sweet herself has a dramatic part as a motion picture aotreda. Besides the romantic
Mervyn LeRoy directed the picture, aumber of laughable comedy inter- which shows the inside of the movie ludes are provided by Ernest Tor business over more thoroughly and Edwards as a grand opera press which the, film is founded disclosed rance as the valet of Menjou; Cliff fearlessly than McEvoy's book an agent; and Rosco Ates as a reperit.
ter who stammers,
Neil Hamilton, who recently
MR COLMANS
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ARROWSMITH."
Ronald Colman, the debonair English moving:picture actor, who has just Anished Arrowsmith for Samuel Goldwyn, akiled for Itely recently. He mid that it was. his rat holiday for 18 months and, while he was vory s ac tached to Hollywood and his many friends there, he was glad to get away for a badly needed res
The screen star was very enthusi astic over his last pletüre, """Arrow- smith Sidney Howard's adapta tion of the Sinclair. Lewis novel that won both the Nobel, and Pulit- zer prizes. Ho said, that he liked the part batter than any charac ter he had even portrayed. The aim will be presented in New York' some time in December.
When asked about his plans Mr. Colman said that hand nothing definite for 1982 beyond making two more pictures for Samuel Goldwyn According to his contruct,
"I hope to have two months on. the Continent and in England,” he continued, "but there is always the possibility of my being recalled to Hollywood to start work on other picture."
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Opinion of Sunt Plotureer
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Asked what he thought of the fu tur prospects for silent picturus, Ronald Colman said: "I do not think that the silent pictures will aver return to the front rank, des pite the efforts of Charles Chaphn and other well-intentioned sureen artists. A little while ago I had hopes of a boom for silent pictures, but now I have changed my opinion,
At that time the talking pic- tures were so badly done that the public bacame tired of them and would not go to hear them any more. Now talking films are much improved and fewer are being made. The producers have realised that; sound is not the only effect needed. to attract the public to their pic tures. They must please the eye also and therefore, more attention. must be paid to incidentals to make a perfect production. People now, will not go to hear talking picture plays unless they are good ones.
GOSSIP AND FACT.
Mr. Jack Waller, who presented his now, play "Hollywood Holin. day, in London last month, madę one of his best quips when the curtain fell on his other show,." For The Love of Mike," at the Saville Theatre.
"I hope," he said, that the pound, like the prodigal sou, willi roturn to.Par."
Saya a British film critic with regard to pretty Claudette Colbert, who plays so excellently in The Smiling Lieutenant Claudetto Colbert, in my view perhaps the 'most attractive and one of the most intelligent of America's actresses, is wasted on a worh-out",thenw it a film «ntitled "Secrets of a be- cratary." She does all that is pos- sible in the circumstances. Opposite her is Herbert Marshall, botter than I have seen him directed in England. The only other unusuri feature in this efficient piece of mediocrity is Mary Boland's per formance as a Society climber, and
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alice WHITE
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BLANCHE SWEET FORD STERLING JOHN MILJAN
Directed by MERVYN LEROY Based on story by J. P. MCEVOY
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The Great LOVER
Hnolone
MENJOU DUNNE
the excellent dialogue that Georg A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Ploture
Abbott has provided for her.
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Rex Angrum is now hard at work on his first "talkie," in which he is playing an important rate him. self. It is being made in Frenen and English versions, is called Baround," and is a story of Morocco.
STAR
The entire company went to the TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Atlas Mountains where the Pasha of Marrakech lént 10,000 Arab horse-- men to take part in the desert.
scenes.
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According to film colony gossip of. Hollywood, Gloria Swanson was quietly married in Paris last month: to Michael Farmer, adopted son of" Mrs. Edward Hubbard, of Paris, Both of them refuse to discuss the rumour, but friends attribute their reluctance to the fact that, under the California law, Gloria's divorce. from the Marquis de la Falaise was not final until some time after the supposed date of her wedding.
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The trial in Paris of Mlle. Olga Poufkine, the film star, for using narcotics came to a sudden and when her counsel informed the court that she had committed sui eide by taking an overdose of sleeping draught. She expressed a wish to be buried in the grave of her lover, M. de Qualin, who com mitted suicide some ago at Tou louse, in order," he said, ** to avoid dragging the great name 1 bear in the dust of the penitenti ary,"
Helen Twelvetrees that of the character I am portray-sealed in i tomb. It was a tremi
ing. I try not to develop an act dous relief to come up into the air ing forte and "shun with horror and get out of it.
However, the aubmarine sights type roles.
were intensely weird and interest- His first camera experience was ing, and I wouldn't have missed the in 1018 in "Little Women," Some
scored in Barangers May Kiss British filma, but an impression has of his recant pictures include experience for anything.".
Fay Wray plays the feminine lend and “Laughing Sinners," has the been given by some critics na though Tin Hata," "Thirteenth Chair,"
the end of Amarican films in this "Rod Wine," "The Kiss," and The Sen God" with Eugene straight lending rate.
The Great Lover" was directed country Pallette having another featured. į "Ship From Shanghai."
was in sight. Nothing role.
by Harry Beaumont, who was re- could, bo more untrue. We Qre George Abbott directed this ad sponsible for the Joan Crawford receiving a mediocre lot of Ameri vorturous tale of lovers who find hit, Dance, Focis, Dance. It was can films at the present time: Bri all quarters during the last two happiness after an amazing sories adapted by Cone Markey and Ed-tish films are improving rapidly, of adventures on and near cannibal | gar Allan Woolf from the play by but it must be said that the balance isle. It is showing at the Central Le Ditrichstein and Frederick and of efficiency between them has by Thentre now.
Funny Hatton.
fuc means beón made up.
In East Lynne Nagel takes Watch out for the date the difault role of Carlyle, the husband of Isabel, the charactor enacted by Miss Harding. Costa Loftus and Beryl Mercer are the other featured players
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A word cf warning must be given about the push of praise for British films which has arisen from
weeks, writes, the London Morning Post critic. Nobody is kooner than I am for the completo sudcos: Çİ, (Continued on Previous Column)
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Broadcasts Laughs and Thrills and Bomance!
WILLIAM
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Remote Control
with CHARLES KING MARY DOBÁN JOHN MILJAN POLLY MORAN J. O NUGENT
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