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LOVE ME TO-NIGHT" loved him in his new makeup And he has retained it ever since.
How Jeanette Made Good, Miss MacDonald's plea was ad- dressed only to one person-New Wayburn, at that time directing
show. at nost musical
the Capital Theatre in New York. She was in high school in Philadelphia, but on a visit to her sister, Edith, who was dancing with Wayburn in New York, sho resolved to go on the stage, too.
That's a plea that has almost entirely. a romantic connotation. As the title of Maurice Chevalier's latest picture now showing at the 'King's Theatre, it means nothing clae
But there was a time in the life of the star, and of Jeanette Mac Donald and Charlie Ruggles, who Head the cast, supporting him, that it meant something entirely di ferent-mething like: Please, Pullcase like me, applaud me, give me a break"
Chevaliar addressed it to Bu nudience in a Paris music hall, Miss MacDonald to a theatrical producer, and Ruggles to
the
"Unashamed" now showing at Brilliant, sparkling, highly amus- the Queen's is an exceptionally ing, "The Guardsman" brought to
the Queen's Theatre for the comandience at a performance of a San dramatic, and well-told story...
Helen Twelvetrees, & very clevering Sunday a fine note of carefully Francisco stock company. actress, and a beautiful young so handled farcical sophistication. nuan, takes the leading part of the girl who, by her love for a fortune hunter, very nearly brings her
brother to execution.
It also presented for the first time in talkica the two most famous star of the New York stage, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Chevalier's plea." Love Me Tonight!" was made a little over ten years ago. The French actor comique" at a Parla music hall, and had a large following. was a These luminaries passed creditably But he was not the straw hatted Joan Ogden falls in love with through their baptism of fire, eine figure that movie audiences now Harry Swite, really August Schmidtmatically speaking.... handling know. He appeared on the stage the son of a German grocer. Mr, with case and finesse the delightful in what corresponds to the makeup guen her father, and her brother lines of The Guardeman, which used by Americau burlesque-show Dick dislike and distrust Harry served them so well on the stage in comedians a huge red putty nose and their feeling is deepened when one of the first great bux-ofice hits
of the U.S. Theatre Guild.
The situation, that of a
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The best way to get on the stage to-day in to throw on your hat and walk on "after it.""""
There's more truth than humour
in that statement, according to
George M." Cohan, author, actor, producer and song writer, who makes it. For it is entirely. with- out optimism that Cohan, who makes his talking-picture debut with Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Duranto in The Phantom - Prosi- dent," coming to the King's Inon- tre on Sunday next, surveys the prospect of young people breaking onto the stage at the present. )
"There never was a harder time in the history of the stage for young, folk to get a stage chance," says the man who has aided thousande in their rise.
There chief cause for this is the decline and almost total "elimi- nation of stock companies. Stock and vaudaville always were the training school for future Broad- way favorites.
"In former days, producers ul- Ways had scouts looking over play- ers on the road, in companies in small towns and vaudeville. I o youth showed promise, he was snatched up...
"To-day, producers cannot go to such spots for talent. They dare not take inexperienced players. They must have, sure-fire work in | every part because to-day a play is either a hit or a failure, and no producer will take a gamblo which may cause his investment to land in the latter class. So they cast. with experienced players and these stand-bys continue to control the field.
"Because Broadway cannot afford to train for the future, young am- bitious actors find the doors almost closed to them. They look toward the screen. Hard as motion picture gate crashing is, it is easier than the stage. Unknowns are given chances in film."
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SHE DEFIED THE POINTING" FINGER OF SCANDAL- to save a live!
starring Helen
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with ROBBET YOUNG LEWIS STONE
JEAN
HERSBOLT MILJAN
JOEN
·Bayard Veiller
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Paid and
Trial of Mary
Dugan," his now created masterpiece thrilling drama!
Never such
situation in any picture!
Edith arranged an
Cohna, who has been a dominant FROM SUNDAY audition for her with the producer.figure in the American theatre for She sang for him, praying des more than a quarter-century, plav
two roles in his first talkie. "Dr. perately under her breath, "love me
Wayburn Was
is first a candidate for President tonight?" pressed,
Can you dance?" he asked her. votes, and second a medicine-show who lacks the personality to win Jeanette, praying harder, answer-barker brimming with personality ed that she could.
who is hired to impersonate the former. The result.is hilarious.
Then do al time step for me," he instructed."
highly
Not at all sure that she know what a time stop was, she tried. She guessed right, and her prayer was answered Wayburn gave her "BIRD OF PARADISE"
FASCINATING HAWAIIAN
DANCES
Native ceremonial dances are
a part in the show and thus start- ed her on her path to fame.
Ruggles, like Chevalier, ad-. dressed his plea to an audience. His father, a wholesale druggist, intended the boy to follow in his footstops, and
young Charlie studied chemistry to prepare him- self for the future. But a friend who was connected with the theatre among the intriguing features of painted so glowing a picture of Bird of Paradise, which opens life behind the foot-lights that he or the Central Theatre on Sunday resolved to try for a stage career. next In the role of a native He went to San Francisco stock princess about to be presented in company and managed to "sell" marriage by the ruler of the land, himself. His acting was unusual, Dolores Del Rio whe permitted to and while the director wasn't sure take part in this dance with the that it would go over with an natives of the island audience, he determined to give
hattered hat, and buggy, checker 'ed trousers old Schmidt (Jean Hersholt) comes
"One night, in his dressing room, and tolle Mr. Ogden that Harry is his son, and a ne'er do well, Joan making love to his own wife, is, he was making up. Suddenly be will not listen to her father and of course, broadly farcical, but it stopped. He was sick of his cos brother and agrees to Harry's sug is dons magnificently by this talent. tume, sick of his make-up-and he gestion that she spends a nighted pair. Lunt's change in appear. A through with them, for good, I with him in order to force her ance from the actor to the guarde he hoped. He wiped off the make
man is perfect-even to the guttur. up, put on his dinner jacket pick him a chance, Ruggles got thatched huts so common to Maui, father to agree to their marriage.
In the quarrel that ensues, when
al voice of the Russian Cossack up a straw hat, and strode out the young couple return, to Joan's in her manner of handling a high-
lover, Mias Fontanne is splendid into the wings. home next morning, Dick shoots ly aubtle role. You are still left his sister's lover."
Most of the rest of the action takes place in the court in which Dick is being tried for his life, Joan can only so one thing, that her lover has been first unjustly treated, and then killed. Her avi- dence is simply that Harry was shot, by Dick in cold blood for no reason.
Witty Dialogue.
Storm of Applause,
-guessing at the finish whether or At his che, e pranced out onto not she recognized her husband the stage, addressing a silent through the wiskers of the Cossack. prayer to the audience to Love me tonight" And the audience, after A few puzzled moments Molnar's lines, with additions by during which they tried to figure Ernest Vajda and Claudine West, out who this unusual looking per- are delicious. They are cleverly son was answered the prayer with delivered by the star, and the smulla storm of applause. The moment but select supporting cast. Maude they recognized their Maurice, they Eburne, alwaya. capable character player, in splendid "Mama," while Zasu Pitts makes an amusing maid.. It is her first long featur since she recently became s Hal Roach comedy star. Roland Young, the capable, has the role of the critic who watches with amusement, the disguises of his friend, the ac.! tor.
Dick's lawyer, Mr. Trask (admir ably played by Lewis Stone), at Inst succeeds in softening her heart and coaches her in her evidence on the second day of the trial. While not differing in substance from her wurliør ertatement what she then says makes her appear to be an utterly heartless and worthless wo- man. The effect is a wave of sym Sidney Franklin bas directed tha pathy for Dick and noquittal, un production with restraint and good
The law may be. unconventions), taste. but the acting is splendid, and the drama, keyed to just that nice-de- gres of tenssness when it is-in- teresting without being exhausting.
Unashamed" is a fine fum. which should not be missed.
E.M.B.
THE OLD DARK HOUSE
STRANGE AND FASCINATING
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·UNASHAMED
STORY OF A BROTHER AND SISTER."
** Unashamed," "story of a girl⠀⠀ who is pitted against her own" bro-- ther in a remarkable courtrooms "drama, is now at the Queen's Thes -tre-Helen Twelvetrees plays the heroine whose indiscretions" fores her to face the choice of sacrificing: her honour or dooming her brother! What to death at the hands of the ex-- - Benn W. Levy, the distinguished ecutioner. Robert Young, who last British playwright who wrote the scored in New, Morais for Old screen play of Priestley's The and The Wet Parade, playa, the Old Dark House, Universal's brother and the cast also includes: strangely fascinating drama, which Lewis Stone, Jean, Hersholt, John s heaks the bill at the Central Thér ↑ Miljan, Monroe – Owsley, Robert tre this week, has had five; of the Warwick and Gertrudo. Michaale | cael members of the picture in The story was written by Bayarti
plays of his in London, including Veiller, aufhor of The Trisl Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, - Máry Dugan " and "Within Erust Thesiger, Raymond Massey Law and was directed by UsH und Era Moore
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It has for its background the All of the day before the first Hilo, Black Beach and Waikiki. “A performance, Ruggles pleaded
large group, of the picturesque in- silently with the audience which habitants is to be seen circling & fre. The dignitaries lend impres hadn't even arrived at the theatre
His was the same three-word siveness to the occasion by their serious demeanor, supported by: phrase, love me to-night."
And, it, too, was answered. The the island women who sit at a res audience loved him that night, the restful distance behind the men. The following nights, and all the night ritualistio ceremony, by the ubiquit that followed. Overnight he was hy incantations which rise and fall ous Medicine Man, is accompanied boosted from minor roles to the in time with the low, rythmic boat major ones. And he's had thering of a tom tom. ever since.
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This film, which was produced by BR. Radio is the most lavishly pro- duced pictures of the year. Dolores Del Rio, whom we have not seen for so long is starred, and is sup- ported by such notables as Joel Mc- Cres, John Halliday and Richard (Skeets) Challagher. Creighton Chaney son of the late Lon Chaney, makes his first appearance on the sereen, in a small part, in this Alm.
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