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"The Rainbow Trail
A SPECIAL PICTURE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
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BRING THE KIDDIES TO SEE
Star,
THE TEN YEAR OLD
MICKEY ROONEY. AS
BOY" KING"
with
**Alias Jimmy, Valentine.”
COMING
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Madame Racketeer.'
The Trial of Vivienne Ware."
"Lily Christine."
TOM MIX
Queen's.
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"MY PAL THE
KING"
A DRAMA STAGED IN A SMALL KINGDOM OF EUROPE, PLENTY OF THRILLS-ACTION AND HILARIOUS FUN.
Starting To-morrow
A CHARMING BRITISH COMEDY WITH A CHARY- ING BRITISH STAR
WINIFRED SHOTTER & TheloveContract
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Bachelor Apartment."
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MOVIE NEWS
Pictures In Hong Kong-
THE UNHOLY.... GARDEN"
COLMAN'S LATEST SUCCESS AT KING'S THEATRE
Ronald Colman's cavalcade of yellow-haired leading ladies op pears endod. For the third time, a brunette, or rather two dark young ladies appear with him in a picture. In The Unholy Garden," the Ben Hoch-Charles MacArthur adventure melodrama that Samuel, Goldwyn is presenting at the King's Theatre to-day Fay Wray
Estelle Taylor share the and Feminine honours. Both have hai as black as night.
C
SPEAK EASILY' AT THE QUEEN'S
BUSTER KEATON AS PROFESSOR
NEXT CHANGE
THURSDAY, 7th JAN,
SHE LEAVES EVERY MANS SHE MEETS RICHER FOR HAVING “MET HIM
rand P
Allson Skipworth,
· star of 100 roles · Richard Bennett, 30 years a star!
MADAME RACKETEER
CELISON SKIPWORTH RICHARD BENNETT GEORGE RAFT EVALYN KNAPP
a Guamount Pickert
ITALIAN OPERA CO.ever, she acted quite well, and her
singing improved in the last net.
BARBER OF SEVILLE TRAVIATA AND BOHEME
CANDID CRITIC'S VIEWS
It is a pity that the programmes names are so unreliable, several being incorrectly given last wight.
#persi
that Western Actor cannot be
to do at almost, a moment's notige,
~ In addition, to acting, he has course, dired.ed not onl him but many others. Among these, blushingly admits is the siren sirens, •Theda Bara. During the filming of My Phly the King,!.. the current) attraction at the Cen- pral Theatre, Mix tounded every body by proving, himself a capital band leader. The story-deals with "the" adventures of a wild wast: show inminiature Balkan kingdom: Mix handled the baton like w. vire tuoso and wound up by obliging with a' cornet sold.
MADAME RACKETEER
STORY OF A GOLD-DIGGING
COUNTESS
* Aľadame Rasketeor "the film title for the human-interest comedy story, by Harvey Harris Gates and Malcolm Stuart Boylan, is the type of movie, that becomes na admir. ablo vehicles for actors who know. their character-stuff and know it well.
Paramount having signed up tym of the most capable interpretive
artiste of the world of make believ for the principle role in this pic. turo, has assured audiences every where of enjoyable times whenever The featured pair are Alison Skip- "Madame Backsteer is shown.
Mile Garotto, the Mimi, was also down to play Colline, a bass partouth and Richard Beanest
Travista.
Of all the operna of Vardi which keep their place in the repertoire.... La Traviata is probably the most faded, and the one which contains the greatest proportion of common
Rossini's Barber of Seville re quires. perhaps, more subtlety and better technique than the San Carlo Co. were able to give it at Sunday's place music.. matinee.
Nevertheless it affords ! great
The diction of M. Cavallo, na ideal more than an opportunity for Figaro, was excellent, but he sel the prima donna to display her den diminished the stentorian high notes and her diamonds. Its fortissimo with which he started.sincerity and simplicity, the true The Rovina, Mme Valdi; is plan-pathos of many of its melodies, sud sant singer but was below her best the masterly use of coloratura a form, and the elaborate music of a means of dramatic expression, Count Almaviva was often beyond entitle it to rank as a masterpiece, the skill of the tenor, who was in spite of its unevenness and surely M. Pecrio, though stated in sentimentality,
Alison Skipworth, veteran of the stage," an artist as well as an, set- regs and a humorist by instinet, demonstrates delightfully just the kind of bluff a "sporting widow" needs, to get her schames over quickly and with charming finesse.
Richard Bennett, a master of quaint comedy roles · for thirty
as, and possessing rare skill as an interpreter of character roles, the kind of trusting husband who doesn't know a gouge from galet or can't tell a harp from an olá derpin
Miss Skipworth plays the rôle of & Counters of adventure along the highway, of opportunity. All the travellers ate prospects and the Countess is an becomplished gold-
1 * Spenk Easily now showing at the Queen's Theatre one will no doubé notice the striking contrast between Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante the former's "non-smile" or "frozen". face, and the ever-thi Doctor Bartolo, put some life far the beat so far given by the As the picture "opons, the Coun-
laughing" one of the latter.
This contrast, however, was responsible for the big success of the picture, which is at present at tracting crowded houses,
the programme to be M: Royo. These great qualities were addigger and swindler: What abe M. Maucari looked magnificent mirably brought out by Saturday, can't get by finesse she takes any
Basilio, and he and M. Siravo, night's performance, which was by way
into their acting.
San Carlo Company.
tess is preparing for departure. Mme. Valdi as Violetto was out-Ten is being served to old friends The overture was played with vigour, and a proper respect for and acting her very difficult part led by the Countess with the grace standing among the cast, singing and acquaintances. The small talk, Rossini's crescendos, but the strings with great skill and feeling. Her and dignity of high station, touches were not at all well together.
voice is fresh and unforced, ámple upon Paris, London, Budapest, the It is a far cry from Rossini to in range and adequate in power; gay places where wealth and Kenton is the absent-minded pro- Puccini, and the company was far while her control of it enables her fashion abonad, fessor who, in the belief that he better able to realise the com to cope equally well with both the There's excitement and Austor, May Francies began the process inherited a fortune immediate-poser's intentions in the latter's La florid and the emotions! passages. for the Countess is leaving not sion when Mr. Goldwyn selected her to play opposite Colman, în resigns his position and goes to Bonhome, which was given in the Her performance deserves unstinted home, but inil. She has just com- "Haffles, It wasn't her reen
New York for a change. On his evening, in spite of the difficulty praise. --
pleted her last stretch for swindling way he meets debut by any manner of means;
a down-and-out of presenting the complicated Café M. Cavallo, in the tedious role and the hunt for more suckera is on but it did more to establish the troupe in which are the pianiste, scue (Act 2) without a large of Geomont pere, used his fine again. popular Paramount player than any Rath Selwyn, with whom Keaton
Jimmy Durante, and the dancer, chorus.
voice with more restraint than" "As the bids farewell to the picture before or since. Loretta
In this opera team work is the previously, and sang really well Warden, she hands him a watch, Young,
borrowed from First Beers to fall in love at first sight
first essential, and in this respect throughout. It is a pity his ge“ It's just a token of remembrance National for "The Devil to Pay " In a small town the troupe was the performance was excellent, the tures are so limited. carried on the tradition, which let down owing to financial tiren orchestra and chorus being parti The Alfredo, M. Poeris, was less seemed a permanent fixture. instances, and Kenton, mainly for the cularly good. The four Bohemians satisfactory but he looked the part "The Unholy Garden.";
enke of the girl, volunteers to take played well together, although their well and improved considerably in Colman's first picture made in charge of the troupe and brings it attention to the conductor's, beat the Inat not. In its better momenta America, Tarnish," had a dark to Broadway at his own expense to was too obvious
his voice is very plessing.. haired star in the person of Agnes give them all a chance.
The Rudolfo sang "Che gelids. The smaller parts were all better Ayres. His two previous pictures,
Keaton, in his struggles to marina" extremely well;
performed than usual, and the "Romola"
and Two
Musetta did her best in a part chorus deserve the greatest credit men White straighten things up at the open- Sister," were made in Italy with ing night gets tangled up in the to which she was unsuited physio for the way in which they made up the Gish girls,NN
props and makes a bedlam of the ally, and vocally, and Mimi was for their limited numbers by spirit Hia real identification with performance, which is acclaimed by unanately lacking in the sweeted singing, and acting which was blondes was in association with the audience, who thought it was near aquired for the park How-yzed at that of uses column Vilma Banky, beginning with "The all part of the show, as a great Dark Angel But before that, comedy success.
he had appeared with Connie. Tal As the absent-minded professor, madge in several pictures,; includ Keaton has probably given his best "The Sporting Venus" and performance since the advent of ing
Was
Her Sister from Paris," After talkies, while the rest of the cast the Vilma Banky co-staring series help to make the picture an enjoy
there for Colman,
Joseph able entertainment. Conrad's "The Rescue," introduc ing to the American public the lovely, golden-locked. Lily Damita, "only French stor ever to be accept-
ed by picture fans.
Bennett and Ann' Harding
Lovers of comedy are advised-not to miss this picture.
a full-ledged United Artists star.
Then the brilliant young stage actress, Apu Harding, made what was practically her screen debut
Joan Bennett was summoned by Mr. Goldwyn. She had appeared with Colman in "Condemned !' for a short period with her father For that Devil Island cinema ad- in Jarnegan." Goldwyn brought venture, Miss Harding created a her to Hollywood for Colman's first special coiffure for her
talking picture, Bulldog Drum
nond, Not only did that picture tresses, one that she still make a wint of money for its pro She was the last of her blonde,
ducer, but it also established
Colman & heretofore silent tatar,
as a talking picture player of out-
also
Ben
standing distinction, but
atarted the fair haired
nett on
esful
until Colman's
a picturization of Arrow-
for which Mr. Goldwyn shout-face and selected arter. Helen Hayes as Colman's co-star roduction: hay fready.
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to an old friend a priccies antique given me by the Empress Eugenie," she says. Later the Warden winds the watch and finds it has no worke, "The darned crook But that's the Countess!
Out in the world again she hits the trial of easy money from easy
She spots them with uncanny shrewdness. Then, on to the small town and the hot springs. There the Countess finds Richard Bennett, gether fourth husband, and children, Richard has prospered. He's pro- prietor of the Paradise" Springs Hotel Sbe forthwith plans to frim Richard, for he is so easy, and men ought not to have money. And Richard is some charac One can't help liking him sympati ing with him he's so simple trusting. A
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