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A LOST LADY
A gloried Barbara Stanwyck, resplendant in the latest costume designs of Studio Modistes. is scheduled to be "seen at the Alhambra Theatre on Friday in the First National production of "A Lost Lady" said to be the most dynamic drama in which the popu- lar star has yet appeared.
The picture opens with a dire tragedy in which the young girl's lover is shot down at her feet on the very eve of their wedding by the husband of a woman With Whom he had been triding.
Miss Stanwyck has four leading men in
the picture. The first. studa by a buliet, is the handsome Phillip Reed, recently, from the Broadway stage. The second is Frank Morgan in the role of a great corporation lawyer. who marries her, without asking for love content with her trust and friendship.
The young wife is immune to the ardent advances by the lawyer's youthful partner, a part played by Lyle Talbot, but becomes madly! Infatuated with Ricardo Cortez in' the role of a dashing lover who therally drops at her feet from the sky in a damaged airplane,
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CLIVE OF INDIA"
Ronald Calman's choice for 'the screen's most improved young sc tress is Loretta Young. That is why Loretta has the leading tem- inine role in the biggest picture of Colman's career. "Clive of India," Darryl F. Zanuck's first million-dollar production for 20th Century Pictures, showing Saturday at the King's Theatre.
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Several years ago, when she was first attracting notice, Loretta played an ingenue role in Colman's starring picture, "Devil to Pay?" But Loretta, then seventeen, was more interested in parties and dancing at the Cocoanut Grove than in the serious side of screen acting.
It was a new Loretta whom Col- man met in that picture. A young actress, approaching maturity in histrionic art, who was intensely serious about her work, whose ta- lents were developed to a high point of excellence.
"Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back," was comedy in the main. "Calve of India" is dramà on the grand scale. Early in the story the girl Loretta 'plays becomes the wife
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When her husband is suddenly stricken with a heart aliment. the wife is torn between her love for one and her loyalty to the other. The story has a most unusual climax in which Miss Stanwyek's eyes are finally opened to a real | is a stern test of the dramatic ability of any actress. But Col- In addition to the four leads man was the first to uphold Dar- there is a talented cast supporting rul Zanuck's contention that Miss Stanwyck which includes Ho-Loretta was the actress for the bart Cavanaugh, Henry Kolker. role her brilliant handling Rafaela Ottiano, Edward McWade, which amazed even the star Walter Kalker. Samuel Hinds. producer. "Clive of India" is Willle Füng and Jamieson Thomas. leased through United Artists.
Rober: Clive, and side by side with the spectacular action at the scary there unfolds the drama of t a woman trying to hold a man who is claimed by the demands and temptations of public life. It
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Three gorgeous giris-all new- comers to the screen-grace the notable cast of The Defense Rests." the Columbia production how on bli at the Queen's Theatre.
They are Allyn Drake. Patricia Caron and Geneva Mitchell, all' new contract players who are seen as outer office employees. In the law office of "Matt Mitchell." sen- sarlonally successful criminal law- re-ver, played by Jack Holt.
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Written by John Erskine, "Co- Jumbia University's professor- novelist, "Bachelor of Arts" play- ing to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre concerns human being who are attending college.
Anita Louise, Tom Brown, Arline Judge, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh are among the featured players while George Meeker and Frank Albertson are also seen in the cast Stepin Fetchit provides the. comedy.
Lamar Trotti adapted Erskine's novel to the screen and Louis King has directed the film with splen- dld taste and feeling.
HELL CAT
Ronald Colman and Lörstts Young -in 20th Century's “Clive of India,”
morous exploits that are veritable dreams come true for adventure
When a heli-cat and a news-lovers. bound meet, there's hell to pay? That's what happens in "The Hell Cat,"
the Columbia picture showing to-day at the Star
Theatre, featuring Ann Sothern and Robert Armstrong. Mics
Others in the cast of this ro- mantle thril-drama are Minna Gombell, Benny Baker. "the Shawowsk!" of radio fame Lou Holtz' stooge, J. Carrol Naish „Pur- nell Pratt and Henry Koller. A1-
Sothern, as a spitfire society girl,bert Rogell directed. toyed with men's emotions with cat-like stealth until an adventur- ous news-hound, in the person of Robert Armstrong, taught her the rules of the game...
"How Much?
Jackie watched the nurse while
But it's much more than a ro- she weighed the new baby Final- mantic combat. Before, these two (ly he could contain himself no Anally fall for each other's charms. | longer,··
their adventures involve gambling "Do you mind telling me what raids, smuggling of Chinese, and my mother pald a pound for him?”
series of hair-raising and hu- he asked.
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There's also lovely Jean Arthur, Holt's leading woman; Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, Sarah Padden. Nat Pendleton, Dohald Meek, and Ward Bond to support Holt' in one of the most powerfully dramatic portrayals he has ever given.
Briefy the story of "The De- fense Rests" concerns Matt Mit chell who is, a ruthless defender of any who have the necessary large fees. He is publicity-seeking and cleverly skips around the fringes of the law in pursuing his ques- tlonable practices. Jean Arthur, in the role of his private secre- tary, berates him for his defense of seemingly guilty criminals. 'Secretly she" digs up evidence of a kidnapper, only to find that love
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London, May 31. goling enthusiasts The Duke of Kent, as Lord High who have never been before seen Commissioner, occupied the throne Miss Joyce Wethered, the former and followed the proceedings with English champlon, were amazed at keen interest at the opening session the terrific power of her driving of the General Assembly of the and her general all-round ability. Church of Scotland yesterday while she was practising yesterday when formal approval was given to for the opening match of her tour the report of the Committee on tu-day. Christian Life and Work,
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The Duke was accompanied by peared to be her putting. She Mr. T. M. Cooper, E. C., Bolictor-found the slower American greena General, and Sir Jath Colquhoun, a little troublesome. Commissioner,
Ernest Jones, the Welsh coach of Miss Virginia Van Wie, holder of the American women's champion- ship. for the last three years, paid Co- a tribute to Miss Wethered after playing a practise round with her "She is as fine a golfer as I have seen, man or woman,” he said.
The agenda included the report of the joint committee in charge of the Order of Deaconesses. The Assembly, thus invited the operation of ministers in bringing (Special Air Mail Service) ·
the claims of the Order before London, May 31. "members of their congregations Dolores Costelo, the fim atar.possessed of the necessary qualif has tied a petition for divorce cations" against her husband, John Barry more, the famous actor.
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She is thirty years of age, and his third wife. He is fifty-three.
The committee and the joint
thanked for their report regarding committee were, in the deliverance,
advisability of licensing
the
prevents her from raising a handtion," and we who live in the midst. "Cruelty and habitual intem- deaconesses to preach the Gospel.
toward reform of the brilliant at- torney. It's Miss Arthur's finest dramatic role since she quit the Broadway stage for Hollywood. "
"The Defense Resta" is definitely a film that should be seen..
Jean Mair the screen's new find in her new Warner Bros. picture. "Desirable," opening Wednesday at the Alhambra Theatre
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sirable."
I and Hollywood's system of work a while, and play a while, difficult to follow. Aside from my work at the studio. I feel like a lost soul,
perance" are the charges made in the petition.
On Sunday: Miss Wethered will play in a match which may be
partnered by Sid Brews, the South styled as the British Empire versus the United States. She will be
African runner-up to Henry Cotton in the British Open last year.
Their opponents will be Craig Wood, who in 1933 tied with Densmore Shute in the British open and the play-of and either Miss Maureen Oreutt or Miss Chalotte Glutting, who once beat Miss Enid Wilson in
The Assembly approved of the joint committee report regarding Miss Costello has asked for the preaching deaconesses, and remit custody of their children-
ted It to the presbyteries for their Dolores, aged ve, and John, consideration and criticisms. aged four-£200 a month for! The suggested Licensing of "cer- their support, and £400, s
tain deaconesses to preach was month as alimony.
not a proposal which in any t- In the meantime, John Barrypinged on the question of the ad- the American women's champion- more la en route for New York in mission of women to the "ministry. ship. The match will be played at
nineteen-year-old
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Elaine Barrië,
I don't go to dancing parties, his yacht. One of his guests is That should be clearly understood. Ridgewood, New Jersey. plenic parties, or just partles,
That was the opening statement Several times I have tried to join while he was recuperating in a Cambuslang,
who sent him an admiring note of the Rev. Dr. R. S. Calderwood, in, but I constantly find myself, New York hospital from an illness. Life and Work report. confused. I seem unable to say what I should think instead of what I really think,
In Hollywood when an actress does not run with the pack, she immediately becomes a Lone Wolf, and a Lone Wolf in Cinemaland has a hard time:
Hollywood is extravagant, which jars my Scotch instincts. But Hollywood is a grand place in which to work hard, and that's exactly what I want to do for the next five years, until I earn the $250,000 set out to make..
Jean Mulr's latest starring vehl- cle commences its run at the Alhambra Theatre to-day.
Great Difference "We had fewer mishaps on the road in my day." Bald grandfather. "Well, we have high-powered cars nowadays," said Alice.
"Yes, there is a difference be- tween horsepower and horse sense."
DEBTS REPUDIATED Dolores Costello's action follows the publication of a notice in a local legal journal, signed by Mr. Barrymore.
who presented the
It is no attempt," he emphasis- ed. "to get them in by a back door."
The question of ordination did not arise, nor, on the other hand, It stated that the actor would
was it an attempt, as he had been accept no responsibility for told, to side-track the larger ques debts or liabilities contractedition by any other person than himself.
The divorce petition states that for several months past John. Barrymore has completely neglect- ed to provide for his wife and
children.
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It adds that there is a large amount of community property including the family home at Beverley Hills, the yacht Infanta reported to have cost £52,000 two expensive cars, and securities valued at not less than £25,000.
John Barrymore, the complaint continues, has a large earning capacity and his Income for 1934 exceeded £70,000.
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All they were asking was that the Assembly should send down to presbyteries for their opinion, a proposal that those of their aptitude for the work and who bad deaconesses. who had shown
had five years' experience of the work should be licensed by the presbytery of the bounds where they laboured to conduct occasion- al services.
ordinary supply. They were to be They were not to be used for helpers to their own ministers.j
"Surely." said Dr. Calderwood, "we can envisage occasions when a service conducted by such an one will be a real spiritual life.” **
The committee believed in the changed circumstances of to-day, the changed status and position of women in the world--and they could not afford to ignore these changes that their trained, con- secrated: women had something. worth while to contribute to the devotional and spiritual life of their people.
No objection was taken in the Assembly to the proposal.
Untactful
In a small station in India the billiard-marker had picked up few English expressions with a very foggy idea of their meaning,
Avery senior officer, on Inspec- tion duty was having a game when be mizcued In one breath the marker came out with "One away. rathen shaht.
His Reason
"Good gracious, Jack! How could" you think of bringing Mr. Brown home to dinner when you knów
a busy spring cleaning?” "He's the only man. I know strong enough to help move the ding- room sideboard."
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