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THE WORLD MOVES ON
Showing At The King's
HAPPINESS AHEAD
The Alhambra's Next Attraction
most
One of the most touching.ro-
Dick Powell, with his inimitable singing voice, heads east of an mances to be screened locally isually talented players in the new showing at the King's Theatre at First National production "Hap the moment in which Madeleineiness Ahead" which is scheduled Carroll takes the leading role. as the feature attraction, on Satur The World Moves On." It is the day at The Alhambra. Although tale of two families and their off the story is straight comedy drama, springs and begins as far back as there are four special songs, catchy 1825. It goes through the War, airs written by three of the with the cesce coats fighting on rubel and Mort Dixon, Sammy famous song writing teams. Allie both sides. It commences with a Fain and Irving Kahal, and Bert sad touch of romance, and the story Kalmar and Harry Ruby. is sustained throughout with that' tinge of sadners that makes a love story really interesting. But It ends well and the audience lives again in a world of reality, after going through the vicissitudes of "fortune of the varicus members of
the two families. «
M
Powell sings two of the songs alone, Pop Goes My Heart" and "Beautiful must be love and als joins with Frank Matlugh in dust, Massaging Window Paner. The fourth song" All on account
a Strawberry Sundae" is sung by Dorothy Dare the famous Broadway musical comedy star who makes her screen bow in this production.
With Madellone Carroll is Fran- chot Tore. Reginald Deriny, Sieg-
·fṛled Rumann, Louise Dresser.
Josephine Hutchinson, the famouŃ Raul Roullen, and many others. New York and London stage star There arc some very good who made such a hit last season as "shots" in this pleture, but prin- Alice, in Eva Le Gallien Civic Re- cipal appeal lies in the wonderful pertory Company's production of theme. Those who ke something
Alice in Wonderland" also romantic without it being too light makes her first screen. appearance should not miss this picture..in this picture playing the leading Pieminine role opposite Dick Powell,
COMING SOON TO
THE KING'S
"The Gay Divorcee"
RKO-Radio has gone in for Terpsichorean beauty thrillers in a lavish and spacious manner, and introduces spectacular Adagio ensemble for The Gay Divorcee," musical comedy co-starring Frea
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Astaire and Ginger Rogers, com. the Kings Theatre on ing to Monday next.
The ensemble number #25 staged against a lavish setting which represented a resort hotel of Futuristic design and an esplanade covering an acre floor space.
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of
One week was required for filming this one dance number, and for the illumination, nearly 400 large lights were employed.
Fifty girls and Afty, boys ap- pear in the number, and the girls, because of their beauty, talent and dancing ability, are sald by statisticians to represent one girl out of every 20,000 in American.
"The Gay Divorcee" was adapt ed for the screen from Astaire's International stage hit, which ran year in New York and six
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months in London, Mark Sandrich directed, Pandro 5. Berman pro- ducing.
WHITE HOUSE CHINA
President Selects Design
Washington. Jan. 20.. The President himself selected the type and design of the new
Miss Hutchinson as the daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent
Family runs away from her en-
Ragenient party, in search of ad- venture. She runs into Dick Po-
"well and his pal, Frank McHugh,
palace
17 a Chinese chop suey where the happy throngs are cele-
rating New Year's Eve. She is
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attracted to Dick but wishing" hin to love her for herself. she poses as
working girl out of a job" Dick, who is the window washing business sees the girl get ting a cheque from one of the town's wealthiest citizens, in return for which she throws her arms about his neck and kisses him.
The youth is crushed, thinking that his girl is double-crossing him- self and her sugar daddy also. Then the Grework start which end in one of the most amusing aut thrilling-climaxos-imaginable."
John Halliday has the role of Josephine's father, while Allen Ruth Donnelly are Jenkins and servants in the home who occasion ally tun into their employer's daughter in some outlandishi resort
Dorothy Dare is Frauk
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KINGS
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To new emotional magnifi»- concel.Todramathat probes naw depths Inɔthe human jaqui!....To love that fathams the hearts of you and mel
THE WORLD MOVES ON
THE LOVE STORY OF A CENTURY
MADELEINE CARROLL FRANCHOT TONE/
with
Produced by Winfield Shockan Director: John Ford Author: Reginald Berkeley
SHOWING TO-DAY LAUREL & HARDY
AT THE QUEEN'S
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Kiss While You're Dancing The Continental"... With
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A RADIO PICTURE.
THE SILVER CORD
At The Star
The Silver Cord starring Irene "Channel Crossing" having its Trying to get the best
of a Dunne with Joel McCrea Dow initial summings to-day at the villain is always & tough job.showing at the Star Theatre is Gaumont- Seldom does it bring a laugh. the drama of a girl who challenges Queen's Theatre is a British based upon, an original But with Laurel and Hardy on the menace of a selfish mother. story by Angus MacPhail and W. the scene, chuckles, gurgles and
The Miltor Rosmer di- general mirth are "a certainty no P. Lipscomb.
matter how serious
rected.
-Matheson-Lang,Constance Cum- | tion:---- mings and Edmund Gwenn play leading roles, Anthony Bushell and Max Miller also being prominent members of the cast.
Van Eeden (Matheson Lang) is a prominent financler who M
has used faked bonds to maintain his bustness at a critical juncture. Even hils secretary (Constance Cummings) is unaware of the fact until
Hugh's girl, Marjorie Gateson is the ambitious. And aristocratie mother while others in the cast in- clude Gavin Gorden as the jilted fance, Russell Hicks, Mary Forbes, J. M. Kerrigan, Mary Treen Mary Russell and Jana Darwell,
The story is hy Harry Sauber, Mervyn LeRoy directed the picture From the screen play in which Sauber collaborated with Brian Marlow...
THE COLLEGE OF
CHAPLAINS
Their Two Classes
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(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Jan. 9. The appointments-to- the King's ecclesiastical household announced recently may be said to belong to two different spiritual depart menta.
$9,000 set of White House china,sists of 36 clergymen of varying The Colege of Chaplains con- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has re- degrees of eminence, with the
vealed.
Both he and Mrs. Roosevelt in- sisted that the china be made by an American firm, and that the. contract go to the lowest bidder, she added,
Bishop of Oxford, as Clerk of the Closet, at their head.
Their main function is to preach on occasion, for which service they receive a fee, but otherwise they are unpaid.
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Mrs. Roosevelt said that a com- Three Priests-in-Ordinary are plete new set cost little more than "attached to the Chapel Royal; St. replacing the missing pieces of the James's. The Precentor, Preben- old sets, as she found that dish, or | dary Percival, is their immediate a cup or saucer, to match the most | head, and the Bishop of Landon nearly complete set, would have is the Dean..
cost $15 each. She had: to. «buy
· some cheap china to have enough
Their function is to, conduct the Bunday services in Buckingham
for big parties last winter. Th Palace Chapel, and the Chapel
The new china is to have a gold | Royal when the Court is in re-
b.
1 around the rims, but with an i sidence.
J.
Family Prayers
1r border containing a' motif of roses.
The rose desigri led to reports
They are selected for
their
ability to read and sing well, a
that it was the Roosevelt Coat of circumstance which accounts for
*A:ma. Mrs. Roosevelt explain the fact that they, and the De- ed that she knew virtually nothing paty Priest. Just appointed, happen about coats of arms, but that the to be minor canons of St Paul's original member of the family and Westminster Abbey coming to this country from Hol- Priests-in-Ordinary take honth- Jand was called Klas Martiens Van ly turns of duty, during which Roosevelt, the Roosevelt being the they are styled Priests-in-Wait- riame of the village from which he ing, Among their other duties. came and meaning "Field of they conduct fainly prayers Roses." Bomehow three roses got every morning in Chapel of Buck- into a coat of arms for the family. Ingham Palace when the Court is
Mrs. Roosevelt said she thought in residence. F
It would be more interesting to The service is quite informal have china contain something and often includes extempore characteristic of the administra- prayer. It usually lasts from-five tion during which it was bought. to seven minutes.
Her
the situa-
picture is full of heart throbs and abounds in dramatic thrills. Miss Dunne as Christina arises tr magnificent wrath And "Babes in Toyland" is no exception to the rule set down by ployed by a selfish mother who against the Insidious taciles em-
these stellar comedians.
Their seeks
to retain her son's love efforts to foll-Barnaby, the siris- exclusively for herself, unconcern- ter menace of Victor. Herbert'sed with their normal impulses to operetta, proves hilarious to an live with mates of their own
choice.
extreme.
The antics of Stan and Oliver as well as Victor Herbert's immor tat musle are seen and heard in crossing from Dover to "Babes in Toyland" a feature- Calais on a rush journey to Paris. length production starring Laurel accidental discovery of the and Hardy which will be seen truth and Van Eeden's confession from Sunday at the are overheard by Peter Bradley, Theatre. her sweetheart (Anthony Bushell)" who threatens to wireless the news to Paris. A little time later the cry of "Man overboard!" alarms the whole ship, and after a pro-
tracted search Bradley is rescued
and brought aboard. Only he and Marion know the truth, and when the other passengers go ashore at Calals the Ananeler remains be- hind to explate his misdeeds.
the
"Where. Oh Where? "There is a happy land, far, far away," sang the children at the Sunday School class,
"Very good!"
remarked Leacher when they had finished the hymn. Now, can anyone tell me where the happy land is?" -
There was a puzzled silence. until at last one small hand went up.
Queen's
this delightful fantasy are Char- Supporting this comedy team in
lotte Henry, Henry Kleinbach, Felix Knight, Virginia Kazas and Florence Riberts. Gus Meins and
Charles Rogers were the co-direc-
tors.
CONSTABLE'S FIRS
Famous Hampstead Heath Trees Felled
(Special Air Mail-Service)
London, Jan. 12, Constable's Firs, on Hampstead Heath, are no more. This famous group of trees, near the Spaniards, which were a popular subject of the great English landscape pain- "Now, children listen to what ter, have at last been removed, by this clever little boy has to say," order of the London County Coun said the teacher.
ell. "Well Tommy, and where is the happy land?”
"Please, teacher, far far away."
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TO-DAY
TO
SATURDAY
A
For years they have been in bad way. Indeed, most. of them
When Irene Dunne and Joel McCrea (husband and wife) visit- ed. the mother-in-law's (Daura Hope Crews) she did all place
that was in her power to break up the romance and love existing between them not withstanding the fact that the daughter-in- law was soon to become a mother. How Miss Dunne overcomes the
by telling her the straight truth selfish love of the mother-in-law
and asks for a showdown for
the husband either to have her
or the mother, are some of the scenes, of this colourful film.
Whe climax-powerful, ironic. caustic-leaves an indelible im- pression with its tense, dramatic power.
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The World Moves On" QUEEN'S:—
"Channel Crossing"
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Opening To-day At him in this picture
The Alhambra
Filming a storm at sea offers obstacles- enough but when ↑ It were dead of old age. Only a few comes to recording one on the weeks aga a fence was out-round Vitaphone, aboard a pitching them, as it was feared they might sailing vessel, such as was necca- fall on somebody's head. Then sary in the making of "Moby "Peterborough" wrote in "The Dick," the Warner Bros. picture Daily Telegraph," calling attention starring John to the decrepit condition of the trees, and following that a report was made to the LC.C. that they
Barrymore and opening at the Alhambra Theatre to-day. It tests the courage of cameraman and crew.
Mr. Barrymore chose Joan. Ben- nett for the leading role opposite and Lloyd Noble Hughes.
Johnson, Jack Curtis Walter Long and William Whaling are characters in the cast. Lloyd Bacon directed
Pert
A rather duli visitor had been talking to the small con of the Louse, and boring him stiff, and eventually the child yawned.
"When we yawn," remarked the visitor reprovingly, "we hold our hands in front of our mouths."-
But I don't need to," replied won't fall
and should be felled,blic danger. The good ahly Mary Ann de ont is dy teeth
Yesterday the whole 17 were brought down. Thirteen of them were already dead and the others were moribund.
QUEEN'S
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.20
P.M.
MATHESON LANG & CONSTANCE CUMMINGS
"CHANNEL CROSSING
wuk EDMUND GWENN
9.30
ALHAMBRA
THESTEE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW,
Herman Melville's Immortal
Classic of Whaling Day's
verted into an 1840 whaler for the out." occasion, cruised about the Pacific for some days before the storm the weather man had promised appeared" over the calm "Pacific. In the story the typhoon, behind which the fabled white whale was said to travel, occurs in the China Sea, but as that is a part of the Pacific and all of the Pacifc looks. alike in a storm, the scene was fimed off the California coast.
Almost every member of the cast and picture crew had a touch of sea-sickness" before those sequences were complete. The little whaler was handled roughly by a sullen ocean and at times cameras and casts were in danger of being washed away. Deep in the cabin of the ship was buried the recording apparatus catching each swishing wave and each sound of the wind through the rigging.
The authenticity of this record?.
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JOHN
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ing is worth the trouble of gett-MOBY DICK"
ing it. It adds a realism so effec- tive in the final scenes that Moby Dick" has become the most drama- tically thrilling sea, picture made. The story of the madma
ntly hopeless chase
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