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Call of the Flesh."
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"THE_TEXAN.”
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MADGE EVANS AND "SPORTING BLOOD."
Popularity is great, but it means hard work in the movies.
Since she arrived in Hollywood, a few months ago, Madge Evans, ono of the leading stage beauties, has been kept exceedingly busy by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her latest served appearance is with Churk Cable in "Sporting Blood," which will open to-day t the Queen's "The Virginian," is also
Theatre.
Miss Evans' first featured' rûic was in Ramon Novarro'a "Son of India," She came to the talkies for this role from the George Kally play. Phillip Goes Forth," in which she starred.
-Totally erent in many ways, yet bringing the same carefree, waggering, outdoor freedom of "The Virginian." to the talking screen, "The Texan," Paramount's
second great romance of the West, opens a three day showing at the Gary Cooper, The
Central Theatre.
Texan,"
O. Henry wrote the original story, A Double Dyed Deveiver," from which The Texan was adapted. It first appeared in collection of stories, Itonda of
HOW OLD ARE THE
"TALKIES."
ENGLISH INVENTION OF
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 27TH DEC.
The world's best character comedian
GRUMPY
CYRIL MAUDE
al Commons Acture)
with
Phillips Holmes Frances Dade Paul Lokas Diracled by Goorge Cukor and Cyril Cardner Bringing you a world of laughs! A "Grumpy" the role ha played 1,400 time to thunder- oun applause.
"CONGRESS DANCES”
GREAT FILM WITH "
ENGLISH ACTORS.
LILIAN HARVEY AS STAR.
Erik Charell has the cinematic mind, writes the New Chronicle Film aritia. His production of "The White Horse Inn proves that..."
It is therefore not surprising that This first film, "Congress Dances,"
should be successful..
He has learned much from Lubitsch, His use of a chorus sung
24 YEARS AGO!
"Talking Pictures By-Barnard Brown, B.Sc. Pitman. 12s 8d.
Did you know that the eradle by everyone in the picture is prac- of the giant of popular entertain-tically an imitation of the train- ment was in a little studio in Brix song in "Moute Carlo,” ton?
There it was, Mr: Brown tells y
Emperor and Shop Girl.
in a bock stuffed with technical
Charel has had the insight, too, information set out in reasonably itself to elaborate treatment and to choose a simple story which lends plain language, that Eugene Lauste finished comedy. The Airtation of" made the first "successful" soundthe Russian Emperor, Alexander Alm some 23 or 24 years ago.
Lauste's distinction is that he recorded sound and action together.
I., with a pretty assistant in a glove shop and the sudden end of what can hardly be called an talking picture in which the sound from the Vienna Congress on the Before 1910 he had made a short intrigus owing to his departure waves were recorded en the film by cecape of Napolean from Elba, Miss Evans is new to talkies" estiny," by the famous author, the side of the visual photograph." | forms the whole of the story of the but not to "movies." At the age i and popular acclaim singled it out LA one of the most thoroughly human pieces from the pen of America's beloved writer. Oliver H. P. Garrett, who wrote
J Street
of six she was a child star for the
World Film Company. She also played opposite Richard Barthel iness in one of that star'a carlier films. Classmates."
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Forthcoming Valioles. Since "Eporting Blood" she bas been kept busy acting in several
The story opens in Texas and forthcoming M.C.M. productions, ende the pampas of South including W. S. Van Dyke's "Guilty America. It tells of the Llano Hands" and John Gilbert's now Kid, a young bandit, who is per film, West of Broadway."
In "Sporting Blood" Miss Evans' rôle deals with the efforts of a girl to redeem her past. The atmos- phere of the racetrack forme a colourful background to the romance between Miss Evans and
Gable,
"DAWN" PATROL.”
A FILM OF THE BRITISH FLYING. SORRS:
comes
to
the
It is not top late for the screen Slm. plutocrats to do honour to this cb, Bcurs pioneer.
He Wis before his time. His of Chance, adapted O. Henry's through seven editions, so there is patent, taken out in 1907, has run
story for the screen.
no question about its authority; but it lapsed after 10 years with ing it as out any inancial prophet recognis Lauste, so far from making any a potential gold mine. muaded to go to South America money out of it, became extremely to pose as the runaway son of a hard up. wealthy and aristocratic widow, There he meets the widow's beauti ful niece, and finds a mother's love.
Since then he seems to have re- Although he went to rob, he finds covered some measure of prosperity tio cannot destroy. "the
older woman's happiness.
Retrospect At 78,
Mr. Brown deal with the cour-
THE GIRL HABIT QUEEN'S
SUE CONROY IS A GOOD
SPORT,
How she proved it at the Now York studio of the Paramount.eum- "pany is an interesting strony, says an American critia:
It begins in 1097, whon, at the age of 18 She was being." glorified " by Flo Ziegfeld. Deciding to lift horalf above the chorus of The 'Follies," the pulito and wise Miss Conroy took lessous in elocution and dramatic art. She planned to one day become a dramatic actress on the legitimate stage.
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Her sisters of the chorus," who frankly admitted that they were more-interested in diamonds and aables than in a career, used to tease her incessantly about her am. bition and referred to her
Sarah Bernhardt." At the time the John Gilbert- Greta Garbo team split up, and the chorus went so far as to concoct a letter which they signed John Gilbert" and in which Sue whe offered 82,000 a week to taka Garbo's place!.
Five years elapsed and in that time Sue had two sonson's expori- ence in "stock and had gained wide oritical acclaim for her perform ance opposite Thomas Mitchell is Little Accident." Then she was signed by Paramount for the lend- ing feminino role in Charles Rug gles' starring picture, The Girl Habit" which is showing at the. King's Theatre te-day."
Came the day in the shooting of the picture here Director Eddie Oline called for some extras to appear as salcagirls in a dress shop sequence. After some waiting the girls appeared on the set and took their places behind the lingerie
counters.
Sue Conroy glanced about her. She was somewhat startled and then amused to find that four of the girls were farmer members of the group which had done the heavy heckling back in the Follies days, Irony, and coindicence fused in that one episode.
One of the chorus, whom. Suc remembers as having kidded her just a little more than the,
others, was overheard whispering."
"Goo, look at the kid. Isn't she luckly
Miss Conroy is a good sport. She refrained from laughing at the whispeser.
"GRUMPY.";
What George Arlisa was to. "Distaeli and "The Green God- dess, Cyril Maude is 10 "Grumpy"
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PORTING BLOOD
A Metro Gölduyn Mayer
with CLARK GABLE
PHOTORE
ERNEST TORRENCE MADGE
EVANS
Tommy
Boy
NEXT CHANGE The screen's greatest achievement!
The fameus old play, built around Richard
the character of a cantankerous but inwardly soft-hearted old man, has become the aucress that it has been. for the past 17 years because Cyril Mando made it go.
Maade is one of England's grea- test actors. He spent 43 years of his lite in the theatre sa producer,
but Paramount persuaded him to owner and actor. He retired four years ago from active. stage work, appear once more in the renowned rôle of "Grumpy-this time, of course, on the talking screen.
And soGrumpy comes to the King's Theatre shortly, the same "Grumpy" who has delighted young and old in all the English speaking countries of the world,
The story deals with a robbery which is committed in "Grumpy's" home, and the subsequent detective work of the old man in tracking down the culprit. After a series of amusing and exciting adventures, the cranky but crafty and kindly Grumpy catches the robber and re-
But how charmingly and viva- giously it is treated! The spectacle of Vienna in 1818, when the Congains the lost diamond. dispose of all the countries which gress bogan its abortive efforts to
'Napoleon's fall bad, freed from the sovereignty of France, roaches the apex of film art.
Nothing as so in mere spectacle has svor been achieved on the
эстест.
Comedy of a Double. Then the comedy of Alexander I. and his double-employed when that monarch desired to be free of
plications of the talking screen in a clear and lively a way he can be expected with a subject that bristles with scientific formula. Conrad Veidt us Metternich, Gibh is more difficult to reproduce than de-camp, Helen Haye as a Princess, He explains why a woman's voice McLaughlin as Alexander's aide
A delightful romance runs like a silver thread through the pattern of this well-knit play. Phillipe Holmes, the lover in "The Devil's Holiday and Frances Dade, in- gonue beauty from the New York stage, play the 'rdles of the lovers.
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Fairy, Airy Lilian,
Barthelmess
The DAWN PATROL
with Dougla FAIRBANKS, Jr.
NEIL HAMILTON
*dly'e Cook
Gardner James
Frank McHugh
STAR
As the little shop assistant she dances through the Alm like an clán creature. She is not a stodgy, pos- ing film star, but just a pretty, un- affected girl who is carried off hor feet. by Alexander's attentions. A At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20
laadau through market-places, crowded streets and into country lanes "to the villa her royal löver has provided is one of the most tell ing sequences in the film:
She sings from sheer lighthearted- ness and everyone she passes sings The same kind of treatment (copied from Monte Carlo ") is used when she and the king walk home, from a cabaret.
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in a relatively humble way. Accord-bis royal duties is full of humour.long sequence of her driva in a ing to the author's fatest informa Henry Garat, who has been seen. Filled with splendid outdoor tion ho is now a healthy and ac in Le Chemin du Paradis," has scenes and action, the picture has tive man of 73, contemplating the very cloverly made the two men a cleanout appeal. Gary Cooper is growth of his monster from a work quite different in character The Emperor is charming, vivacious For the first time Richard Bara fast-riding, fast-shooting plains-shop in Blou-field, New Jersey. thelmes, the National-Vitaphone man, whose true honesty is forcesi
and kindly-na, indeed, he was the star, will be seen minus a leading to the surface in a human and
double, stupid, over-fed and lethar Indy. This will be in "The Daw logical way. Fay Wray is the girl.
gic, always singing at his embroí- Patrol," which
dery. Queen's Theatre on Sunday. The She played opposite Cooper in story, laid in 1915 on the British-"The First Kin" and "Legion of German front, concerns the terrible the Condemned." Emma Duun give adventures and experiences of a group of schoolboy" lyers in the another wonderful mother Royal Flying Corps. The oast in trayal, one of the best of those cludes Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Neil which have made her famous on Hamilton, Gardner James and others, who take parts which con- stage and screen for nearly a eern only men who daily face dan quarter of a century. John Crom ger. The love in the story relates well, who directed George Bancroft only to the strong bond of courage in "The Mighty" and Wm. Rowell and valdur between men,
John Monk Stunders wrote the story and "Streat of Chance," made this it was directed by Howard Hawks. | pictura."
por-
& man's.
We sto told of the time lag of
and Reginald Purdoll as Metter- scund behind light, which only be nich's secretary help the comedy. comes noticeable, however, in the farthest state of the biggest eine along; but there is no question that Lilian Harvey, the Muswell Hill girl who has made such a success. in German, álma, is the life and soul of Congress Dances
3.49.
The author is wrong, by the way, in giving 10,000 feet as the normal length of a feature film. It s very unusual to run
more than 7,000 or 8,000 feet.
(Continued in next Columa.)
The employment of Schubert's Marche Militaire is very offee- Live, if anachronistic. But I was rather surprised to see Echehera zade"
danced to Rimsky-Korsa- koff's music in Vienna of 1815,
To film audiences it will not mat tar, perhaps, that Russian ballet- ns we know it did not come into existence until Fokine modelled it on the theories of Isadora Duncan.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
GLORIA SWANSON
4 Congress Dances is the most GLORIA
vivacious entertainment the screen has yet given us I was glad to
IN
see so many English players in this The TRESPASSER""
German picture.