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SHEARER GABLE
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ELISSA
LANDI
IN HENKE KONGT
PROCENTION SE
A DAY ON THE SET WITH ELISSA
LANDI
COMING TO KING'S IN THE WOMAN IN ROOM 13'
acenes
She arrives on time. She keepa bit player in 'perfecting, a role. all appointments to the minuto Byf Chew gum between nine in the morning she is in her! Sometimes smoke a cigarette. Her studio" dressing room completely unoheon is usually brought from made up. Not once during the film home and served in her dressing ing of her now picture The Woman
room. Occasionally eate with her in Room 13! opening at the director in studio restaurant to die King's Theatre to-morrow was she cuss fatura scenos. If a piano is Iate.
on the set will more than likely play and sing several times a day.
If she is not needed until, say eleven, she has plenty of things ou hand to keep her busy. A handy notebook, for instance, to jot down idosa for her next novel There! will be a next. Three have been published to date. And it will have an American locale with loads of slang.
Needlework interests her. Knits sweaters and hooked rugs." Made. a colourful rug, with a house and gar den scene for the artist who design od the jacket. for her latost novel.
House for Sale."
When A picture is finished sho
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PICTURE
TO-MORROW Greta GARBO · John BARRYMORE Joan CRAWFORD Wallace BEERY Lionel BARRYMORE Lewis Stone-Jean Hersholt
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(DAILY HERALD)
WOMAN
ROOM13
with RapKBay, Neil Huntke Gitbart and
CURRENT PICTURES IN LOCAL THEATRES
STRANGE INTER-
LUDE":
HOW THE CHARACTERS ARE AGED "
With characterizations holding the focal point of Interest in the film of Eugene O'Neill's, famous
Cecil Strange Interlude," play Holland, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's make-up expert, was called upon to so all his ingenuity in achieving nine transformations of age for the four central charcters.
In this unusual picture, which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre, Norme Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland and Ralph Morgan are depicted grow ing from youth to old age, in series of gradual changes as the action of the story covers some thirty or no years.
Although it would naturally be expected that Miss Chearer might be most dificult to age, Holland
THE WOMAN IN
ROOM 13"
ELISSA LANDI FILM AT
KING'S TO-MORROW
Elissa Landi
LAW AND ORDER and prop boys. When she hears a now word she insists upon a detail ed explanation.
AT THE CENTRAL
Walter Huston gives probably his Three cameras and three micro- best performance in Universal's phones were necessary to photographLaw and Order" which opens at and record the highly complicated The Central to-day. He takes the and unusually long dramatic clash part of Frame Johnson, who, with a between Elissa Landi and Ralph heart of gold and a hand of steel, Bellamy in the opening scene of brings law and order to an unruly Henry King's latest Fox produc city. The scenes in this thriller are tion, "The Woman In Room 13,"laid in the frontier town of Tonib which opens its local engagement stone, Arizona, one of the most on Thursday at the King's Theatre.
colourful settlements of the days And oddly enough, the triple when, the six-shooter constituted the microphones used in this scene are principal force of law in that section symbolic of the intense drama its of the country. The atmosphere of out-come develops. The premise of the famous old town is said to be the plot is based upon a jealous ex and various incidents in the story reproduced with remarkable fidelity husband's thirst for revenge, after his divorced wife has found hap recall exploits of a celebrated peace piness in a new marital venture: officer of the period dealt with in is clever use of dictaphones in the picture. Others in the cast are obtaining evidence to carry out his Harry Carey and Raymond Hatton. ruthless plan brings about the
declared that Gable presented a climax of the gripping screen play nore perplexing problem.
and the undoing of this shameless and vengeful man.
In the film, Miss Shearer aasUMES her age more gently than do the inen. Age does not become harsh with her, hat brings a fresh beauty with each span of years. Nine separate transformations complete the cycle. Her hair first become touched with gray. Then it be comes more streaked. Her for takes on a more 'mature expression. Later her hair goes entirely white, But, with all the changes, her loveliness remaina.
"The Woman In Room 13," which is based on the stage play of the same namo by Samuel Shipman, Max Marcin and Percival Wilde, is said to give Miss Landi her best screen role to date, surpassing in power eves her dramatic portrayal of the peasant girl in "The Yellow
Ticket
THE ORIENTAL THEATRE
SPLINTERS IN THE NAVY
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Theatro-goers are assured of a lot of fun in the Sydney Howard pic- Bellamy, in the role of Miss tura, Splinters in the Navy." Landi's ex-husband, shares leading Now showing at the Oriental In male honors with Neil Hamiltion this naval extravaganza Sydney
Hard to Age Clark Gable. Gable acceding to Holland, and Gilbert Roland,, with Myrna Howard is an ordinary rating. cannot be aged like most players Loy in the other prominent femining the rigours of the Service ara les because his facial characteristics part. The cast is complete with
Walter Walker, Luis Alberai, attractive than the pleasures of are so strong and his eyes so
Charles bright. After much experimenting Churchill. The story was adapted through his exercises and duties as Grapowin and Berton shore-leave, and we see him getting Gable's eyes were shaded out by for the screen, by Guy Bolton. softening of the eye-brows, and dalling the sparkle of the eyes. themselves by lining the inside of the eyelid with cosmetic shadow, Even with this, it was found noses- sary to add spectacles to his make-up,
"AIR MAIL
COMING TO CENTRAL
best he can, with a profound« dis- like for each and all, with a keen ere on the clock.
Slang is her newest interest. She reads the reviews. Then sees tho listene for every stray phrase drop picture herself. Resolves what not ped by fellow workers. She talks to do in her next. And she keeps daily with electricians, cameramen faith with herself. Is unstinted in her praise of those who work with her. Upon seeing the."Woman in Room 13 she congratulated Ralph No one knows when she studies Bellamy, Neil Hamilton, Myrna Loy her lines. Is always letter perfect and Gilbert Roland on their splen at the first rehearsal. Seldom does did portrayals, And Henry King director need to change her first for his direction, which abs told interpretation of a character. Is him was artistically perfect. This patient with her fellow players, is why Elissa-Landi is one of the ever resonts doing a scene again best liked and most discussed per and again due to slowness of some sonalities in Hollywood.
Lillan Harrey,
SCAT SINGING
THE NEW MUSIC
Ashore he becomes a changed man. The various attractions During the past few months, was ashor are more to bis liking and
Primitive African melodic have had any amount of serial thrillers, but for the first time there
he spends very merry time, wierd, cocophonous and
there are only such conglomerations of sounds as hi-de-bi-a-hi, scat
daddly-doo. a-de-dat-n-de-dat-n, and waddly-
There's no particular name for the type of music, except ““hot." vocal effects, however, are known sa "scat singing, and though they re now to popular, music, 'ra an old, old Bouthern aus
rave! lers on route" to. Florida have been entertained coloured boys doing an
In the advanced year scenes, Gable'a hairline is receded. He wears a mustache and he is quite BAY. The facial lines were, hollow comes to the screen an air film: Particularly so when he finds that There are no words" to its music form of scat singing" on railwa ed to alter his youthful appearann glorifying the Air Mail carrier Lew Lake and his Splinters Com Kirkland, according to Holland, * Air Maila Universal super had to "gain” sixty pounds as
May
he grew older in his role of the special is different to anything we pay are in Plymouth. To celebrate husband. This was accomplished have seen so far. When one marks the engagement of the Admiral the by making a serice of paddedny letters or packages via Air Splinters Company go aboard Presiding over it all is the beam- ing, ailing face of Baltimore- garments for him, which, he wore Mail," one probably does not stop HM.S.; Stupendous, "the" flagship horn Cab Calloway who waves a tunaful and baton in front of his orchestra as beneath his clothes, giving the to consider for a moment the dan gradual effect of accumulating Bera and the risks these gallant They present a very t weight. He also grew bald with commercial flyers have to undergo spectacular concert, which precedes it beats out music that has the years and bis face, to have the in order that the letters or packages
abandon of a primitive relig paunchy effect to go with his in y be delivered. Air Mail the final bout of the heavyweight Thythm of the tom-tom, all the dreased poundage, had to be in tells you what they have to go boxing championship for the Ad- dance, all the quer vocal infec creased with make-und built through. This exciting picture is miral's Cup, Joe Crabbs (Sydney tions of a
splendid entertainment for overy.
Howard) has been immulted and body, and Universal is to be con- Accentuate Tadical Lines.
gratulated on breaking new ground.
saulted With Morgan, a different method Ralph Bellamy, Pat O'Brien, Slim was used Holland explained. At
Summerville, Gloria Stuart and rst he was made to look younger Lillian Bond are the play "Pigmoin the uther players --TOS-DE-
complished through whitening of an action him, whier. the hair and accention of the tainly not be missed
un with special collars,
natural facial lines i
Robert Z. Leonard dinget
*Strange - Interlude
cast including Robert To
many hearty laughs.
tering
the
rowd of
rwin, Bing Crosby;"
"The Big Broadcast, tio comedy set aga studio background:.
stations platforms for a few coins. Negro bands in the south; hays
The jungle strain in popula specialised, in
likewise dates. back Bouthern planta spirituals, American
ever, since
Continu
Walter Huston's greatest role,
with
Harry Carey Raymond Hatton
Blazing drama and
romance
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