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JACK BUCHANAN'S FIRST
BIG CHANCE
Another Jack Came From
There is little outstanding in the career of Jack Buchanan from an amateur singer-dancer in a Glasgow company to world- wide fame on the stage and the screen. His rise was smooth, as if fate had specially prepared a "feather-bed” road for his shoes to tread. Only one incident can be traced to the influence of luck and that was the turning point of his ambitions, the point. at which he left minor patla for good. Apart from that incld, ent, he has earned every inch of the fame that is now his.
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signed a contract with her. It has been renewed regularly ever since. and neither has regretted it at any
Jack. Buchanan first saw the light of day in Glasgow on April 2, 1891, narrow escape for a man who has become known as Eng-time. land's most priceless comedian.
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Cold Reception
Els first appearance on the stage took place in, a small music hall in his native village, and he was booed off the stage. He was a persistent believer in his own holl- ity, however, and in time arrived at London, the Mecca of a 1 British actors and would-be actors. That was after he had made his first, professional appearance
at the Grand Theatre in Glasgow in 1912.
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Four years ago she found herself Jacks leading lady in "That's A Good Girl," and the show for 18 months. This was followed with "Stand Up and Sing" and the pair were irrevocably teamed in the public mind,
Cautious
While the latter production was D. persuaded her to enter the films. in progress, Hitchcock, of B. and
dolph's brain became apparent, for Again that astuteness of Miss Ran-
instead of rushing in where most Five years' steady but not un- fools would have done, she refused. successful slogging in minor parts to be exploited on the strength-of were at last rewarded when an
her stage fame, with the possibl- other Jack-Jack Hulbert, with-ity of spelling what she immediate- drew from the leading role in aly recognized as what might be show called “Cubbly," which Andre
come a good thing. Chariot intended to put on in the autumn of 1917, A young actress recommended Buchanan, of whom Andre had never previously heard. Suffice it to say that Buchanan got the job at £25 a week and became famous overnight.
Within four years Jack Buchan- an had gone into management on his own: and produced "Battling
BRITISH COMEDY KING
Jack Buchanan appearing in the current attraction at the King's Theatre, is at his best in ""Tha's A Good Girl"
Butler in which he played the part of Butler. Previously he had produced 'My Nieces," a musical at the Queen's Theatre, London, In this show, a chorus girl named Eiste Randolph caught his eye, and he told her that she should do well some day.
A Minor Part
He saw her again a year later when an accident had given her
the leading part in "The Follies Cabaret," in which, if you remem- ber, Jack Hylton's Band was star- red:
Jack was then just planning to produce "Battling Butler;" and not knowing that Elsie was play- ing a leading part, he offered her a minor role in his production.
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Elsie Randolph took minor parts only, to "see what she looked like!" Cinemi fans know what happened. "Brother Alfred." "Life Goes On,""
Yes, Mr. Brown" (her first Am with Jack Buchanan; it seemed that the two had to be drawn to- gether again), "Night of the Gar- ter, and then the current film at the Nanking, “That's A Good Girl,"
Before this, however, Buchanan had already crashed the screen in "The Happy Ending" "Confetti," and a Bulldog Drummond episode in the silent days, and then, in the sound era, "Man of Mayfair," "Goodnight Vienna," "Yes, Mr. Brown" and "That's A Good Girl." I almost forget to add the film which made hin cinematically. great-Monte Carlo," directed in Hollywood by Lubitsch, with Jea- nette MacDonald as his leading lady.
It is rather fronic that Jack Hul- bert should have given to his greatest rival in English comedy to-day, the chance which put him on the road to fame. But I am certain that the last to regret it would be Jack Hulbert.
“OF HUMAN BONDAGE"
The King's Next
Change
He belleved that dreams and human bondage are the stuff of which mortals are made,
He himself was in bondage-to
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Jack
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BUCHANAN
THAT'S A GOOD GIRL
vita
Elsie Randolph
DIRECTED
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JACK BUCHANAN
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"PUPPY, LOVR" (MICKEY MOUSE) **SING WITH THE STREET SINGER " (MASTER ART ORGANLOGUK).
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OF
HUMAN BONDAGE
BETTE DAVIS
FRANCES
DE E KAV
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JOHNSON REGINALD
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Directed by John Cromwell. A
DENNY
Pandro S. Berman production,
Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in Of Human Boudage coming to
REGISTERED.
NURSE
Showing At The Alhambra
the King's Theatre.
the famous nurse who tells all there is to tell about nurses in love and the men who take their kisses living more amazing drama In one crowded hour than you wil live in an entire life time. This is a pulsating story torn from the hearts of a gallant sisterhood. This picture deals with the glowing romance of a nurse in a metropoli- tan hospital
Supporting Miss Daniels are John refreshing to see Halliday allowed Halliday and Lyle Talbot, and it is
vihainies and play the role of a to lay aside his suave, insinuating
a woman, a beautiful worthless Many a time the question pope he worshipped with a strange question and many others are all and utterly selfish creature whom up "Are nurses women?" This passion stronger than love more answered in the picture "Register-devoted lover in this picture. He is powerful than reason.
ed Nurse" starring Bebe Daniels as the chief surgeon in the hospital in
This is the poignant role Leslie Howard plays in RKO-Radio's fim "Of Human Bondage," which will of the Somerset Maugham novel,
King's Theatre, be next Sunday's attraction at the
As Philip Carey, well bred, artistically inclined medical student "who is doubly sensitive And here is where we discover because he is lame, he meets in Miss Randolph an astute busi- Mildred, a waitress, and is at first 1.ess woman as well as a good intrigued and then enslaved by comedienne. She refused to listen
Buchanan's protests when he, discovered that she was already in an excellent part, preferring to cast her lot with the comedian.
No Fool
her.
The girl takes what, he has to offer, but gives nothing in return As her power over him increases, Carey marvels at himself and cowers before the scornful rebukes to his own manhood. He is This was considered by many of chains which bind him to Mildred, powerless to break the mysterious her contemporaries to be an idio and even the love of an intellec tic proceed nz, to throw up a star ctial woman of his own class Is It for a minor role under the cable to free him from the direction of a producer who was still a novice, however ambitious Le might be. But Esle was a far- seeing girl, and she knew which
way the wind was blowing.
As she expected; she soon had a chance to play an important
part for which he
fed, opposite Bucha
her heart and sout that nig
vincial th
the show was
Bette Davis plays the excep bondage. tionally powerful role of furing, soulless Mildred, Johnson portrays the tries in vain to break the of the solish-walti will be
Alan Hale
TO-DAY
ONLY
which Bebe Daniels is a nurse and the rival of another Doctor Lyle Talbot, for her love
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Crime Without Passion"
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Attraction At The Queen's
“Elmer and Elale, now showing
With Frances
Bebe Daniels enacts the featured role, that of a beautiful woman who tum to nursing after her marital life has proven a fallure. The romance of the picturé centres about this nurse, for while other at the Queen's Theatre nurses have love affairs, Bebe is George Bancroft - and the one over whom the two lead-Fuller in the leading roles, la ing surgeons of the institution be-
human story dealing with the Halliday are the two surgeons; Tel-couple come rivals Lyle Talbot and John problems of almost every married
whom love is a thing of passing his abulty to bot the unscrupulous doctor to truck driver, who fally believes in Bancroft is seen as an ambitors
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In the feminine leading role is Margot, the pretty exican who has thrilled
ew York, Hollywood and Madrid her. Apinish. dancing. Sharing honours vit
two afford contrasts i her is Whitney Bourne, These in ractar types of beauty and are heading for
tardom.
Produced at the Astoria, New fork, studios as one of the four
ed the resources, A new Hecht- Arthur pictures,
Crime Without Passion" employ
one make himself amort remarkable technica successful business man and
great name, but without any help Other Cinema News on Pare from his wife The latter played by Frances Fuller, however wins success for him but allows him to think he is a self-made man and her devotion as a wife adda many touches to the story...
The supporting players include Roscoe Karns and George Barbler, both of whom help to make the picture an interesting as well an enjoyable one.
GEORGE BANCROFT FRANCES FULLER ROSCOE KARNS GEORGE BARBIER
CRIME WITHOUT PASSION
Showing To-morrow At The Queen's
ALHAMBRA
TOD
the
&TO MORROW
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