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CENTRAL THEATRE
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Under A Mediterranean Moon
they kissed a
and for got the world. A week of courtship ---a night of flight ---one hour of lovel
Moment
DOROTHY
MACKAILL
Their Mad
WARNER
BAXTER
From the novel "Barquerie“
by Beanor Marcain:
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A CHINESE SOUND-ON-FILM
SUPER SPECIAL TALKIE
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"YESTERDAY AT PEKING"
SHOWING SOON BILL BOYD
PAINTED
"THEIR MAD
MOMENT."
PICTURESQUE BASQUE FILM AT CENTRAL.
A Trade Notice states:- "Their Mad Moment," new. Fox production in which Warner Baxter and Dorothy Matkaill are co-foo tured showing at the Central Theatro to-day, is laid in the pie titre que Besgat country.
The Basques re a remarkable
· race of people dwelling in the south. west corner of France and northern part of Spain on both sides of the i Pyrenees mountains. They are be
BUYING A HUSBAND.
DOROTHY MACKAILL'S VIEW ON THE SUBJECT.
A Trade Notice states:
ich women marry poor, men- Manill, film star-and wealthy for happiness!" declares Dorothy.
woman!
"
Miss Mackaill was not referring herself, however, but to the part $
she plays in her most dramatic entertaining talkip to dato, Kept Husband,” a Radio Pictures' offer. ing now at the Queen's Theatre..
Buy a Husband..
ieved to be the descendants of the The newest rights of woman and ancient Iberi who occupied Spain one of the most popular, mast fre- "before the Celts, although their quently exercised, is the shall we origin is shrouded in mystery."
asy purchase 7-of a imabünd who is The French Basques, known as on the market because is he, poor," Gascone, settled at the end of the she adds. sixth century of the north side of the Pyrenees between these moun- tain and the Gurompe rivers. After u long struggle they submitted to the kings of the Franka.
The Basques preserved their an- Aulent languages, former manners and their antions) dances, and make admirable soldiers. They are good seaman and were the first Europeans. to engage in whale-fishing...
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Janet and Charlie
their gayest fastest...hap plast romance. with lots of laughs. by Brendel
JANET GAYNOR CHARLES FARRELL
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Queen's
Nancy Carroll Fredric March
THE NIGHT ANGEL"
HỒNG KÔNG.
"Their Mad Moment."
"Kapt Husbands."
King's
With Dorothy Mackaill Aleko and Princess Panther
"Delicious."
With Janet Gaynor and
Charles Farrell.
Haif Shot at Sunrise."
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With John Barrymore,
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 0.20 AM I HUSBAND
OR LAPDOG?
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BODY AND SOUL BY
HIS WIRE....
Delicious
with
ID BRENDEL
Music by GEORGE GERSHWIN RAY BICYURT
Jane Ocynorand Charles Farrell are brought together again as the lovers in "Bočicious", For romance with Georgs Cerahcin murie
“DELICIOUS."
JANET, CHASED THROUGH A LINER.
A Trade Notice states:- What may be described as "the chasu" in motion pictures takes on
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THE NIGHT ANGEL.”
NANCY CARROLL'S WIND- BLOWN BOB.
A Trade Notice States How many "wind-blown' beba are vently wind-blown?
Well, one of them is. It's the flaming coiffure of Nancy Carrolt and it is to be seen to The Night Angel whinh comes to the King's Theatre on Sunday Next with Mias Carroll and Fredrie March in the leading roles.
The method used in obtaining. natural wind-blown" tressen for the popular star was not excessive- ly complicated. It was done with
Constance Bennett.
Contral
"Yesterday as 'Peking.
Painted Desert."
Queen's..
King's
Danger Lights." Alias French Gertie.'
The Night Angel”
Secrets of a Secretary." [World, "
Star.
A Wild Rose !!
(Chinese, Alm).." Trail of '98!""
"City Eighta."
Common Clay,
$! Blackmail."
GOSSIP
FACT.
Constance Benuett's new film, Lady With a Pust," renamed at the request of the Censor, "Reputa tion," had its West End premiéro on April 16.
Big Names:
置
made He claims such a move calma their fears for the ensuing nction.
Three Musketeers.
Tom Walls once declared that the main excuse for Aldwych fares wag the placing of Robertson Hars be- One thing which has added to
tween himself and Ralph Lynn- the winning status of British pie- cajoled into situations from which there to be tricked, beguiled and
tures has been the system of star
his sedate screen (and stage) nature
the aid of an ordinary alectric fan || building on which Britial, atudios instinctively shrinks. Perhaps they by Fred Graf, hair-dresser at the have embarkod. Gaumont-British do it best in "Plunder "the way Paramount New York studio. had five stars made or in the make in which the two villaina ara mag- The switch that controls the la-ing last year, and, although four nifted into gigantic stature, while torul movement of the fan is out, of them came from the stage with poor Hare ahrinks is delightful.
that there is a straight blast of big reputations, they were not air. The fan is adjusted at half knowa ha screen stars to the or speed-and Graf moves it slowly to-dinary film-going public.
Gladys Cooper's New Play. ward Nancy's face. When quite were: Herbert Marshall Edna Best, temporarily deserted her with H.M. They Gladys Cooper, whose run of luck close to the face the fan is given Jack Hulbert, Cicely Couponeidge Harwood's short-lived play, "King, a sharp upward vilt so that the and Belle Chrystall. They have a Queen, Knave," will be associated definite box office, pull," and a in her next production at the Play- warm playe in the affections of the house with Ronald Squire, They
a new form in "Delicious, the Fox hair over the brow is blown sharply muhical romaner with Janet Gaypwards. So soon as the current is,
or and Charles Farrall in the cut off the hair is allowed to settle public. Herbert Wilcox has applied appeared together a few years ago steolar rolds, now playing at the naturally and the result is a truly similar star-treating teelies to Jack in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney King's Theatre. It occurs
when
Miss Gaynor, as an immigrant girl from Scotland at attempts to ovade the immigration officials.
"Three days, were required to Alm "The "poor-man-rich-girl combina-
this episode, during which time tion does not occur aplely because
Janet fed from stateroom, to state. poor men are the only ones" in tho
room on the huge liner, raced down market for rich girls, Other men
companionway's slid down mail chutes to land amid a mountain of purchasable," but the rich girlsacks and packages, at laat to take profers the right sort of poor man because, generally speaking, he is
refuge from her pursuers in the unspoiled:
box stall of a pala pony
ure"
Things have changed in this res- pect, naturally. In past decades people talked about such marriages. The typical Basque man at home wenra rope soled canvas shoes, bands lost self-respect.
who became kopt his- bright coloured shawl and of course
Proud men wouldn't make such matejka.
Mon
wind-wind-blown bob.
WOMAN FIGHTS INTRUDER
DRAGGED BY HIM FROM
HER HOUSE)
Mrs. Gertrude Bezzant, of Black heath park, S.Ewas attacked and badly injured by a man whom abs discovered in her home,
p
Buchanan, Tom Wails, Ralph Lynn, at the St. James', and the latter, Winifred Shotter and Dorothy Bouwho has recently been in America, chier.
A New Method..
be found a play of which, high hopes are entertained:
"
Hollywood is trying a simpler
Many people were surprised that method of shooting its pictures in King; Queen, Knave." ended so. order to give players a better; many a words play has run chande for emotional acting and
longer, and Miss. Cooper's owa per- directors. B. smoother path. In some
formance was first rate. But Ruri whole story straight through in House Divided." praductions they are shooting the
tania needs careful handling now-a- days. The dramatic situation that leads
about in a maze of sets until all "A House Divided, is an effee logical sequence instead of dodging to her predicament is brought about when she learns she is not to ba permitted to enter the United dragged into the "garden, where ho to say good-bye to all that in who finds that she cannot go She grappled with him and was completed King Vidor was the first which a man advertises for a wife, the action on one particular set is tive but unpretentious film, in Stater because of the change of escaped: Then she stopped two heart suffered by an uncle who had motorists, who took up the chase promised to take care of her after She was afterwards medically treat migrant orphan from Scotland.sbook. abo landed in New York, and imed for injuries to her face, and
Janet is so set upon boocming an Mr. Reginald Bezzant said to a Americo citizen, however, that she
reporter:: determines to land, despite the at-
My wife was alone in the house
a berot. A time-honoured custom And finally poor men were not Is that Basques ahall return home polished. Now the wealthy girl may ab harvest time from wherever they and among them willing candidatos, may be. Many of the families have proud, of good family, intelligent, sacumulated fortunes and thousands polished, college graduates, even, of acres of land
Among prominent Basques of our as in my picture, athletic heroca"templs of a domen officers to see to when she heard someone upstairs, day are Uzcudun, the prise agater, Jean Borotra, the French tennis wizard nad Rascul Meller, famous singer and dancer, who is a Spanish Basque
In this picture, which was com directed by Hamilton Macfadden and Chandler Sprungue, Warner Baxter has the róla of a romantic Basque with whom Dorothy. Mac kill as a frivolous American ciety girl, fall in love.
Brilliant Cast:
Kept Husbands
". an original story by Louis Shrecky, has no ex- optionally strong supporting cust as well as a novel und punchy plot. Supporting Miss Mackaill are Joci MoChen, Ciara Kimball Young, Bryant Washburn, Mary Carr, Ned The supporting cat including Sparks and half-a-dozen other fav Za, Su Pitts, Nene O'Neil, Law repes Grant and others equally well ourites. Lloyd Bacon directed the www.picture.
known
logical progression from Brat, thi "Street Brone," which was shot in through with the marriage..
het. But there was only one scans! The wife-seeker is a taciturn In set the economists of time and fisherman, Sath Law (Walter Hus- space thinking. Now Lowell Sher- ton), a bitter, gloomy man, not mat has followed the lead in "The Greeks had a Word for Them." Doug's New Film.
young any longer. When, instead of the middle-ngad woman he ox-
duction of a new film in Papeete, village
pected, a young girl,Ruth Weston, Douglas Fairbanks has begun pro for the azude life of his-habing arrives, he enters at her unfitnen
in the South Sea Islanda Itin Bath has a non; Matt, who fal
Smashing "Drama, of
Wise Wives
and Sucker
Husbands
KEPT Husbands
with Dorothy MACKAILL Joel McCREA Ned Sparka
A RADIO PICTURE
•Directed by LLOYD BACON
BIG SUCCESS OF
ADDED STAGE FEATURE
PROFESSOR ALEKO, PRINCESS PANTHEA, & COMPANY. Staging a Most Mystifying and Scientifle Exhibition
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Badlo
Great
Heart
Thriller of
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Overpow ering in
Drama
Action
Sound!
DANGER LIGHTS
LOUIS WOLHEIM
ROBERT
ARMSTRONG JEAN ARTHDE
STAR
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it that she does not,
"I've been chaned before i pic-
A man came down and anid hoealled "Tropical Knight, and is a hopelessly in Ibes with the girl! A BANK L M tures," Janot said while these thought he was in a boarding house,story on Robinson Crusoe lines, con- Violent jealously breaks out be scenes were being filmed, "but but my wife said she did not believe cerning a girl sad. a man wrecked never before have I been required him, and putting her hand in his on an uninhabited island ta, do quite so many stunts, to gat
adventure, gallant o ukivalry ---- Roya (Intrigum *- the blood be
"ventures" of a soldier
tween the two men, and in a fight Seth is crippled for life. The girl- taken fight in a boat while a storm id in progress and father and sop
among the minor players, who are blushing simplicity of this story try to rosque her. The father d Motion picture directors are ex drowned, and Matt and Ruth are parts-in-conquering stage fright left free to marry. The sheer; tun~{ most subject to the malady Ed- and, the singerity of the acting. ward Soman, who megaphoned carry through. The plot in Charliec
Waywad ‚” believes in! "iking to trus is manufagmired, bit, WUHIG
into such unusual places, and shove pocket took out one of her bracelets Calming Their TearE, all, to seek out à polo pony's stall]}
"He then struck her in the face, in which to hide." made thut, marke, Miss Gaynor closed with him and he dragged her "Delicious in n Fox melody robreaking several of her teeth. She return to the screen as a singor out of the house and escaped. Soms She introduces Somebody From NA M Somewhere, which is but one of jewellery is missing." the six George Gershwin tunes for A man was later questioned at his cast on some subject other tast coltured David, Butler, directed the police station, wrong
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