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DAY APRIL
CENTRAL THEATRE
25720
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY at 2:80; 5.18; 7.15 & 9.80
Close to the lines!
Closer to danger !!
Closest to LIFE.!!!
THE
MAD PARADE
a
When women taste: the bitter dish that. WAR sets before their 'men,
do they, like men, turn. BRUTES. There's dar
Ing, reality, in this thrill"
drama
a
Puramowal Release
With Bbolyn' Brand, Irena, Riok, Lovise Fazendo,
Lilyan Tahman, Marcoline Day and Fritzi Ridgeway -COMMENCING TO-MORROW-
1932 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
An Outstanding Feature Based
on, David Belasco's Great Stage Success
SAMUEL GOLDWYN ·
presents
GLORIA
WANSON
TONIGHT OR NEVER
SHOWING SOON
SAMUEL GOLDWYN!
RONALD COLMAN...
"ARROWSMITH"
UNITED ANTISTS
HELEN HAYES
DENNIS NELSON TERRY &
BETTY STOCKFELD
IN
"77, PARK LANE"
THE LATEST 1982 UNITED ARTISTS".
SPECIAL RELEASE,
O DAY
ONLY
AT 2.80, 5.10,
7.15 & 9.30 PM.
KING'S
THE COOLING PLANT IS NOW WORKING"" Patrons will find that they may risw future screening under the most comfortable and pleasant conditione even during
the Hoteat Day in Summor..
THE STRIFE OF
THE PARTY...
footlight
Thren frolicking... footloose... ladies...blundering in high society. while you get the laugh of a lifetime...
STEPPING SISTERS
Louise Dresser
Jobyan Harland) 2 Willem Caller, Sr.
Directed by Seymour Balls:
A. FOX PICTURJE
ADDED FEATURES
Latest Fox. -Movietone News
Magic Carpet Series.
AND.
COMEDY
NO CASTLE IN SPAIN, but a tower in Manhattan is: Hardie Al bright's promiss to kiz sweetheart, Maureen O'Sullivan, in “Skyline”, For drama.
**SKYLINE
STORY OF FATHER AND SON
THOMAS MEIGHAN IN THE LEAD.
A father who is afraid to revend his identity to his own son is the f keynote of Skyline, the Fox picture coming to the King's Theatre next Thursday.
Thomas Meighan, alwaar in anding favourite in silent ple tanes and fresh from his triumphs in the recent Fox talkie, “Young Sianers portrays a featured role. The romantic characterizations are
CHILD PLAYERS IN
SUSAN LENOX,"
BOOKING
AT THER THEATRE TEL: 26313
TO MORROW
His strength tested by life's steel...by love and hatred in a city's surging dde.
SKYLINE
FOX
PICTURE
Thomas MEIGHAN Hardie ALBRIGHT Maureen O'Sullivan Donaldi Dillaway Myrna Lay
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Queen's
HONG KONG
Susan Lendx,”
Greta Garbo and Clark
Gablo
Central
"The Mad Parade.”
King's
Stepping Sistars,
world.
OLES TIMER
FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20
You'll forget her other triumpha when you see
Carbo
City Light
KOWLOON.
One Romantic Night."
Lilian Gish.
Queen's
41
' COMING.
"Black Coffee:
Woah of Broadway "Kapt Husbands." Central..
Eing's
To-night, or Never." Arrowsinith:**
Skyline." "Delicious."
World.
Star:
Scorets of Sooretary:" Personal Maid
Ep: 5. Chineso picture..
Hall Shot ns Sunrise."
"Eyos of the World."
Show of Shows." General Crack.". City Lights"
' STEPPING
SISTERS"
AT THE KING'S. CLEVER ACTING AND FULL OF FUN
the
pictura
shows. her at her most
brilliant
Susan Lenox
(HER FALL AND RISE) with the new screen lover. CLARK GABLE JEAN HERSHOLT JOHN MILTAN A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picturs
provoking sitantions. The all-star unst, all excellent examples of type, includes: Leprise Dresser, Minna Combeli, Jobyna Howland, William
Mirth reigns supreme at the Collier, Sr., Howard Phillipe Fering's Theatro where "Stepping dinand Munier. Stanley Smith, Sisters, rollicking comedy is Barbara Wocks and Mary Forbes.. now showing: This Fox film tells Miss Dresser made her debut in the story of a former queen of the chorus of a burlesque show in burlesque who manages to hide her Boston before she was fifteen; Miss past until she meets two other Gombell Jeft school when she was daughters of the tights; andh fourteen to join a dramatie com- spear under her own roof. pany: Miss Howland was a leading A typical multi-servan to multi-
TO-MORROW woman before she was fifteen and roomed, multi-garaged and multi- Collier ran away from home to join millionaired estate facing Long BRITAIN'S BEST
a touring company in"" Pinafore," | Island Sourd is the setting, for "when he was clever.
the rounion of three ex-burlesque
To this quartette, may be added queens," accidentally brought-to- Raymour Félix, director of the pio-gether at a charity entertainment. turo,, who became i vaudeville actor | "Stepping Sistern is brimming whom he was scarcely nine years of with fun and is filled with Hugh- (Contínueit on previous column,))
age,
Satire.
GOSSIP
&
FACT.
The dominant note is satire, anys A London critic writing on a recent batch of releases. Always willing to ridicule themselves though they not unnaturally dislike ridicule by outsiders-Americans are turning
Prustically every Russian in Holly- wood and many more from Lóa Angeles were among the candidates for three featured roles, a dozen bits and general atmosphero. work. Among the mob were several former officere of the Czar urišto erata and common people, mure
THRILLER
AUSTIN TREVOR
COMBINE BUSINESS WITH the unrelenting eve of the anner than a score of whom were given BLACK COFFEE
PLEASURE.
on all manner of social and poli- tical institutions, with the most well Ninety per cent. of the ap
sereen tests by Director John Crom- divesting results.
plicants were born in Russia, it war "Ladies of the Jury, is a revealed. brilliant satire on Amerien's jury who fail to qualify for epeaking Five hundred of these
AGATHA CHRISTIE THAILLER
with
Five hundred bags of fresh pea nuts, three hundred bags of butterystom, full of hilarious incident roles will serve as almosphere dur ADRIANNE ALLEN Led popcorn, five hundred coloured and clover dialogue. "Stoppinging the filming of this romantic RICHARD COOPER gumdrops, three hundred packages Bistra (now at the King's Then drama of the Russian revolution. tre, Hong Kong) poura ridicule of Three quarters of those used will of gum and "all the pink lemonade American society. High Presbe man you can drink."
sure," starring William Powell, His Own Island, All are richly worth seeing. burlesques, American salesmanship.
STAR
ROUGH WORK FOR movie fans have the iden that the York stage, who won wide acclaint from Directory received this order Cortez, exploits (tairis entertaine Bankhead in Paramount's Thun FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
GIRLS
MAD PARADE-OVER SHELL HOLES AND MUD,
T
"
making of all motion pictures is "pink tea," I hope they let them pass their own judgment whether they'd care to do it.
ance.
AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 AND, 9.20-
JOSEPH MSCIENCE
LILLIAN GISH
Even stranger is the fact that One Romantic
When the property man of the
Probably no film actor lins had enested by Jardine Albright, hand- Suana Lenox, Her Fall and
"No One Man," with Carole so many extra businesses as Char- Home young actor from the New Rise" company this order Lombard, Paul Lukas, and Ricardo les Bickford, now opposite Tallulah
for his performances in Young
ingly the theory that no woman
der Below."Owner of a hog farm Sinnas and Hush Money he thought Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer can be happy with only one man in Maine, chickon ranch, lingerie both Fox productions, and Maure:n was going in for." Light refresh-Maker of Men is a story of a shop, cafe, garage, filling station, "O'Sullivan, charming young Irish
"football coach whose son, to the two whaling boats and half interest I crawled for a distance of about actress, whose successes include mont" business ad i sidoline,
father's shame, does not see why he in peerling schooner, he now 100 feet with a supposedly injured Song O My Heart
Just
However, it was all just part of should risk life and limb in a sport plans to open a dude ranch near arm, and unable to use that arm. Imagine" and "A «Connecticut the great carnival set in which he does nos care about, Jack Holt, Ensenada, Mexico. " Try it some time.. Get down on Yankec."
Greta Garbo, star of the produc always, gives a good perform he owns a 110-acres island near I have been in motion picture your stomach and crawl over mad
Other favourites featured are tion, appears as a sideshow dancing. work for many years says Evelyn. dy, rough, shell tom earth for a Myrna Loy and Donald Dillaway,
Javs. He rurchased it through an Napoleon and Wellington, Brent and I bave played in stories hundred feet or so with the use of Stanley Fields,. Jack Kennedy, girl.
The Mussolini play, "The Hunt grow cocoanuts: he has seen only advertisement in a newspaper. On that were packed with exciting just one arm.
Dorothy Peterson, Alice Ward and The Huge supply of carnival Wellington, this, part being play sail there soon. On top of all this,
dred Days," gives incidente.
I'd like especially for young girls Robert McWade head the cast. freshments was distributed aged by Murray Carrington. Blucher's he writes plays; his third, Sandy
glimpse of
pictures of the isle but hopes to Productions which I have ambitious to become movie stars Close to 1,000 extras were required played the leading feminine rôler "to see those scenes, Hero, in to transfer this drama of ambition, two hundred extrae, composed Prussians also appear in the play, Hooker," opened in Chicago last have presented innumerable situs graphic description without the tolerance and love in & New York mostly of children. Since carnival which has a prologue showing month. tions where the action of the chart need of any words, folks will see City background, to the sorgen.
Napoleon in his first banishment on Betors rose to great heights and and understand description without
Faudiences
characteristically where the playing of the scenes the need of any words, folks will ambitious boy who never knew his son chewing on something or other, It is a crushed and fretful Nano
the Island of Elba, pavo mo the feeling that it was see and understand once and for more real than just making all that the making of motion pic father and who, finding the urge a realistic effect was given the ascend on that Barry Jones portrays with pistare. But in all my years in the tures is not all glory by a long sipated foster father, finding work And did the kids love it!
to create, escapes from his die through the use of the edible props.
Haidée Wright as his mother. movies I never experienced such shot 1. doubt if any group of
Arthur Montner has the second nervos réactions and such actan motion picture stars, which includ
on a Manhattan building, site:
most important role at Fouché.
Wise Director. excitement inThe Maded Irene Rich. Louise Fazenda, Parade."
Lilyan Tashman, Marceline Day, In one of the scenes I was called Fritzi Ridgeway, the Keating Twins upon to araw) on the ground, and myself, ever worked in a pic through trenches, shell holes, barture where such downright courages bed wire entanglements and past was necessary and where such phy. ground charges of dynamite. Isical hardships were encountered."
my picture career.
" Bkyline ” hes to do with an
1. The new Garbo vehicle, now at The wealthy and dynamic builder take a deep interested in the boy the Queen's Theatra is based on and anally discovers that he is the the widely-read novel by David youngster's father, but done at Graham Phillips which deals with dure reven), himself to the youth, The boy hates his unknown father. Swedish farm girl who rises from Eventually, he hails in love with the position of carnival dancing
org. Each did her bit like the Irishman, but comes perilously
was one of the bingent thrills of Everyone of the girls was marvel the daughter of a hard working girl to become one of most pro "It was a night seene. The action bravest of the doughboys I'll near losing her through his infatuminent and powerful women in Now called for my running over Nonover forget those scenes us longtion for an unscrupulous adven-York. "Man's Land, spotted with around as I live They will stand out intures He is Myed only by the
Clark Gable play's opposite the changes bombs, I started and the hold relief as some of the grastast timely intervention of his father, bomba began bursting. I was sup. thrills in my career in picture mak who at last finds it necessary to tell star and Jean Hersholt, John pored to be knocked down by the ing."The Mad Parade" will be the boy the truth. The conso Miljan, Alan Halo, Hale Hamilton first one and crawl the rest of the shown at the Central Theatre for queuers of this action lead to a and Hilda Vaughan have featured way, a distance of about 200 feet, the last time to-day, It's a picture startling olimax, Was that work. Well, it say that no one can afford to miss. Sam Taylor directed..
roles.
**Delicious."
Charles Ferrell's melody romatiesy Delicious, Janet Gaynor's and coming to the King's Theatre soon, takes its name from the charming manner in which Heather Gordon, I little Scotch immigrant waif, the boraine, mispronounces words. Berthold Viertel, The Wiser Janet, -as Heather makes friends Sox" director, after outlining the with a troupe of Russian minstrela scene, walks off the set and let he is coming to America One of action in a particularly difficult in the storage of the boat in which
the actors go through with it in them is whandsome young poet and rehearsal without him. He appears pianist, played by, Raul Roulien, by that time the scene has worked little gamin whose sense of humour for the netual recording shot, but who falls in love with the mirthful itself into the players minds to and innate optimism keep this.com. such an extent that nine times out pany in constant, good spirits.. often, the take is good: Hobbed by Russians,
It is their effort to and a piano on which to try out the tune, that Nearly 1,000 Bussings stormed the lends them from the storage into Paramount studios recently seeking, the forbidden saloon of the first in The World and the cabin were Janet meets Farrell for Flesh,"
which "will" star George | the beginning of the romance which Bancroft with Miriam Hopkins. is the theme the picture:
Night
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