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EDDIE DOWLING
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JANET GAYNOR CHARLES FARRELL
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THE NIGHT ANGEL”
Delicious
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CENTRAL THEATRE.
According to a trade notice:--Å generous portion of the world's available sefeenland charm has been affixed to the heat offer of Eddie Dowling, the young man who wrote, diested and acted in Honeymoon
OUT OF
A PAENE FEATHER
"THE NIGHT ANGEL.”
WEST OF
BROADWAY."
AN ENTERTAINING PLOT.
Says & Trude Notice of West of Broadway:-
Singing doughboys, marching feet... hurrahs 1. heartaches...
John Gilbent in AE.Z uniform. shades of The Big Parade Such were the reactions to the?
· NANCY CARROLL AND FRED (pening of West of Broadway,"
MARCH.
According to a Trade Notice:-- "The popularity of the Nancy Carroll-Fredric March team as a
romantic, das has been responsible for the fact that Paramount has again east them together in one of the most important dramatic mances of the season-The Night on the stage in New York and other cities and why now ap-Angel" which comes to the King's, pourà, in the sand work our the talk ing screen at the Central Theatre
today.
* Line"
"Honeymoon La 5as been altered alighaly to time, place,' 'action and permbuck." But it is
essentially the same charming atovy
áo that of the original-with an j abundance of exhilarating comedy. "Dowling "is soen, as the employee |
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Theatro Best Sunday.
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March and Miss Carroll were last ster together in Laughter the story of show girl who married money and then regretted that she had ever deserted her musician boy-
friend; "
John Gilbert's new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer starring vehicle that opened: on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.
It was old Gilbert that came mar- ching homo again; that smile; the jaunty banter, the old wound that hurt worst than shrapnel. As the action and story of this new feature unfolded, Gilbert remained to work new charm. More than ever did
seen at home in a role written
especially for him by Ralph Grevos and Bess Meredyth.
Flawless Portrayal.(*·
Tu the opinion of this raviewer, it is Gilbert's best picture for many
Llanes Goyner adds a new type of vole to her · repertory in „“Delivious", Fou romance in. which she in-co-starred with Charian Farrell. Shani migrant, lam from the highlands of Beolland
DELICIOUS."
pay
Marlene Dietrich of the
Monna Lisa Smile.
THE STAR WHO LAUNCHED A
THOUSAND SIGHS.
Marlene Dietrich, of the Monna, tre's history. During a single week Lisa smile, is planning to leave from March 97 to April 2-over Hollywood as the end of April and 35,000 people went to see her.
a visit to Europe, writes
What is the secret of Marlone Ernest Belts
the Evening Dietrich 7. There is
something Standard,
She is to take a short holiday at ous and remote a creature, neyer amazing in the power of so fastidi- her home in Burlin, and there is really getting at the heart of life,
in
a possibility that she will be seen to touch the heart of others-the
has lost..
in London What she is doing at heart which, in all her films, she the moment nobody seems to know, but after Shanghai Express" it
Marlene has never shed a tear lir was arranged that she should make
the whole of her carcer in pictures.. another Alm called "East River.
Yet, in "The Blue Angel," in Between the completion "of
“Morocco, in “Shanghai Express,” Shanghai Expross early last she managed to touch chords of February and her coming depar
|pity. turo there would have been time
ture:
a day. Surely, it is Gilberg's finest characterization, in the talkies to SERIES OF SPECIAL SONGS. for her to produce one more pic- date. It proves that whatever eriticism may have been directed at Gilbert's pictures in the past was not his fault,, No actor on the
According to a Trade Notice, What is said to be a now technique
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Marlone in Love,
She is not like Greta Garbo. Grota, with that line between her But the picture, like the woman,
brows, is always a little worried in is a mystery.
They gave a party to Miss Die-case she has no opportunity to bo In The Night Angel Missange or servet to-day could handle in the presentation of songs in trich for the premiere of "Morocco'
romantic.
Marlène is never worried. She Carroll, in the title rôle, is the his present role with any greater motion pictures occurs in Deli lass year. Tall, graceful, with would
sincerity.
would only be worried if her emo». daughter of an impoverished coun-
tions overcame her..
A
in silent and sound films has re-
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painted lashes and impeccable wir, į she sat at a table on the stage of the
It would be a good idea to see. Marlene in love, I present this idea. to the Paramount Company
She is not like Tallulah Taliu lah-nd it is one of her gifts-can vanquish cynicism in a blazs of ro mantic warmth.
Carlton Theatre, the most famous blonde in the world. She did not stay late.
The dancers turned round and she had disappeared.
The Starry Sphinx.
maine a starry Sphinx, whose latcat" In the meantime, Marlene re-
achievement is one of the most lis cussed topics in London. Among
sent up a universal sigh.
the shadows of themselves. She is "Shanghai Express" has drawn popular with man because they bigger crowds to the Cariton than cannot make her out, to was the at any previous period in the then-trick Cleopatra played on Autony
Marlene dies on an ember, She appeals, rather oddly, to our love of lost illusions. She is popular
That Gilbert's latest offering rises
cious," the new Fox musical: "in the gambling ball of a luxurious tes. Her scapegrace mother oper- to such heights may be attributable romance, starring Janet Gaynor summor" resort operated the Noah ates, a cabaret in ber home city of to his assignment with a new direc and Charles Farrell, showing at the Beory June, Collyer, as Noah's Prague, gay "capital of Bohemiator, Harry Beaumont, whose work King's Thoatro to-day. nico, in fg love with Eddie, and "Beery tries to upset the romance by and Nancy is the chief entertainer sulted in many box office hits. The
Miss Gaynor, scen a little acousing Eddie of eroskedness in in, this colorful resort.
combination of Gilbert and Beau- Scotch immigrant waif, first hears March is the rising young lawyer mont seems a most happy one and the words of "Delicious," a song his dution. Dowling leaves in die grace and goes to this brokendown of the town who is elected city both our generous plaudits for written about her by Russian hotel of Mary Carr, a motherly old prosecutor.
He decides that the their share in the entertainment widow who gives him a job as man countess is responsible for a num afforded in the picture..
suiter aboard the boat on which she ager. By exploiting mother Carr's ber of mysterious robberies which
B Brendel, as Gilbert'a war is coming to America, when she and ample and sophisticated she has with women because they ses in her famous pics, Eddia manages to have taken place at her night olub.buddy and peace-time pal, offers the poet staal into the first cabin in build up a clientele for her place.
Aucordingly he has her arrested and more of his Swedish dialect and is Meanwhile June has learned the sent to jail-incurring the hatred of most amusing, in the scenes where order to use the piano. They have truth about Eddie and their Nanoy.
he turns cowboy. Much of the pic. no business there, and are allowed arance is mended. Good luck
In his sympathetic way he tries ture was screened on Arizona ranch to remain only when Charles Far comes in the visit of a European to reform the fiery young charmer locations and the scenic beauty of rell, young sportman and polo king who stops at Eddie's hotel but meets only with a villainous these sequences is most entrancing. incognito. Later, when Beery ap plot to disgrace him which is per Lois Moran is Gilbert'a leading player, also a passenger on the boat, pears and tries to put Eddie into petrated by Alan Hale, husky lady and the support cast includes intervenes on their behälf. disfavour "with mother Carr, the bouncer at the cabaret, a'hd Nancy's king takes a hand and Beery is un-jealous lover. donne.
The result is a series of gripping Dowling's Arst picture success events mixed with incidents of
emotional character. The ending is A happy one!
was "The Rainbow Man""
Madge Evans, Ralph Bellamy
whistle spreads the infections picture features five other songs Frank Conroy, Gwen Lee, Hedda
As the musician, portrayed by melody until soon it is on the lips specially composed by George Gargh.
and in the boarta of everyone on the Hopper and Ruth Rennick all of Raul Roulien, sends the lilting tunn
win,, and of "which is his newont boat Deckhands hum it, as they bontribution to seriops, music, the whom do excellent work.
into the air from the piano, it is time the swing of their work to its New York Rhapsody" The story concerns a rich young immediately picked up and spread rhythm, and loungers on the pro- man who return home from wag wounded, to find himself jilted. For over the huge liner in a number of monade deck find themselves memo- Among the prominent Broadway
drunk and weds a surprising ways. A stoward, sory.rizing the words. he gets, dr uctors who play important support and "The Devil's Holiday" wrote covers his plight he tries to case
night-club girl. When he
ing drinks to
little group ing roles are Phoebe Foster, Alison
A to the l Skipworth, Donald Mook, Cora and directed." The Night Angel" her ofl. How she finally makes him the pintor carries traway, and the Witherspoon, Olaredge Derwent and at Paramount's New York studios tenis that she. Retually loves him elevator boy hears him singing it
and isn't after his money makes met (Continued on previous Column } up the plot..
Estelle Winwood."
Edmund Coulding, the and director of The Trespasser
about
As the car ascends, the boy's cheary
f David Butler, who directed, Miss
Gaynor and Farrolfin Side Up" their fixat great musical Thus it is that the tune follows hit, directed. Delicious, which Janet and comes back to her on features in the enal, El Brendel, several occasions « during her event Raul Roulien, Lawrence O'Sullivan, ful voyag
**** | Manya Roberti, Virginia Cherrill, In addition to "Delisbique," the Olive Tell and scores of others,
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