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THE FLAME WITHIN
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Sydney Howard gives what must At last Ann Harding comes to be considered the greatest per-
the screen in the type of role that furmance of his screen career in
won her fame on the legitimate "Girls Please", which is_now_at | stage. It was in a highly drama- the King's Theatre. In the role i tie production that the New York of Mr. Trampleasure, deputy head- critics hailed her as another mistress of B girls drishma Bernhardt. a young Buse, but as school, Sydney has the widest the result of early screen possible scope for bis drollerles. success in a light. comedy-drama His comedy style is as deliberate role she almost invariably has been and unforced as ever, and he
cast in such parts. dérivers his laughs from his own rich characterisation rather than
In "The Flame Within". how- bill at the from slick turns of speed
or ever, which is on breath-taking escapades. Howard's Queen's Theatre she
portrays a performance reaches its high-highly emotional part, that of a spots when he dons the matronly noted paychiatrist. It is drama. clothes of a gin-drinking head- vital absorbing drama every step
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mistress, and when he visits a local taproom and arders mysterious drink known 89 clothes-brush. These sequences will convulse any audience,
of the way.
Sharing honours with the blonde cameo beauty is Herbert Marshall, who is seen as her leading mán for the first time, Marshall is the
seemingly always had been in love with the youthful psychiatrist,
In the main the story is con-handsome, capable doctor who cerned with Sydney's wiles to out- wit a lovely new pupil who intends to elope, and from start to finish the battle of wit is punctuated with laughs that arc as hearty as they are spontaneous..
Jane Baxter is, the eloping girl. and Edward Underdown is her
flance. They are helped in their
Maureen O'Sullivan as a neurotic
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Mrs. Rëneë Boucicault, daughter-
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"Biography Of A Bachelor
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of the late Mr. Aubrey Boucicault: and granddaughter of the famous | MAJESTIC:- Irish playwright and actor, Dión
"The Best Man Wins", Colum- girl, proves that her fine perfor-starring Edmund Lowe and Jack bla's thrilling comedy-drama mance in The Barretts of Wim Holt as a pair of care-free, fun- pole Street" WAS 10 accident. She actually surpasses that por-
loving deep-sea divers will open a A "Plan For Reform Bouclcault, died in the Bellevue trayal in this story. which was
written and directed by Edmund
romantic schemes by Muriel Gould. Forbes, who masquerades as Sizzling young French mistress with had effects OX Sydney Howard, and Neva Carr-Chyn, who shares Howard's gin when she calls at the school disguished as a
new inspector.
Others prominent in
the cast are Peter Gawthorne, Lena Halli- day Sybil Arundale, and Edna Earle
4 cow's
the to
A newcomer
screets Louis Hayward makes his motion picture debutas the likeable ne'er-do-well who becomes involv- ed in two love affairs. After see- ing him in this screen play it is not difficult to understand why he was awarded the Vanity Fair medal for the best stage perform- ence of the year in one of Noel Coward's plays:
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Diography O BACHELOR GIRL
OF A
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
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FOLIES BERGERE
Maurice Chevaller has his first dual role as star of "Folies Ber- gere." Century's lavish picturiza- tion of the famous French musical comedy institution, which comes to the King's Theatre on Friday.
Chevalier plays both Charller, the gay, straw-hatted, singing star of the Folles Bergere, and the be- i
BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL
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Sreen play admirably suited to their talents, Ann Hard- and Robert Montgomery are again keeti together in adetro Goldwyn-Mayer's Biography of a Bachelor Girl" showing at the Oriental Theatre today and, to- ΒΟΓΙΟΥ.
three-day engagement on Thurs-
day at the Queen's Theatre.
Featured as the pert and pretty young lady in the leading role is Florence Rice with Bela Lugosi in the role of the wlly, sinister "Dr. Boehm" mad scieritist smuggler,
[M, Bur ché is the distinguished air frake- french authority on
port. He is the editor of "4 fus Government Director) of the "Aérunuktique.". 过滤 nice-president and gem! French
nattanni
THE DIVORCED WOMAN
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tion must come to an end, and that dissatisfaction might lead to treason. In any case, the Brown Shirta; having fulfilled their pur- pose, were no longer needed.
THE NEW ORDER
W
The Brown Shirts, having been dispersed and deprived of their leaders, were
gradually reduced to insignificance, Until June 30 they had dominated the Third Realm. Since that day the Third Realm has been. and still is, a State dominated by Hitler, by the de-revolutionised machine of the On July 30, 1934, the revolu-National Socialist Party, by Dr. tionary period of the Realm" was brought to an end by is largely under the control, of "Third Schacht, and by the Army (which the dispersal of the "SA."
or the old officers). · "Brown Shirts," and the massacre of their leaders.
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The Brown Shirts, whose uni- form used to be conspicuous every-
Hospital, New York, frem bronchial pneumonia at the age of 36.-
Her presence in the hospital's charity ward was revealed a few. days ago when she stated that she had lost every penny of her con- siderable fortune. Recently she company
was in such financial straits that France, and, in his capacity us Man Wins from a story by Ben Co-operatin Committee of the New York restaurant.
Erle Kenton directed "The Best | rapporteur of the Air Transport she took work as a waitress in a Shortly G, Kohn, while Ethel Hill and League, was the author of the re- before being admitted to the hospi- Bruce Manning adapted it to the port on the Economics of dirtas she was held up and robbed on
Transport. The suggestions made Broadway.
Mrs. Boucicauit, who never ac- European arintiim ure put for hieved prominence on the stage. ward in his private capacity.]
twice married and twice The total transport effected in a
divorced year by commercial aviation in Europe would be equalled by send- ing dally from London to Manches- ter and back a single train of seven ministration is indispensable. At or eight ten-ton trucks. To obtain present air transport in Europe is this result 600 pilots and 500 aero at the mercy of national enter- planes are employed at a cost ofprises, which "at any moment can The typical divorced woman 420,000,000 francs (£5,500,000 at obstruct It or subject it to destruc-
Unemployment-reduced some-.. tends to be intellectual. Her per-present rate of exchange) in directive competition, playing a national the general, terroristic offensive by the Internal boom, has never- began what by the "spread" of work and sonality lacks the element of sweet subsidies and at least 150,000,000 political game with the assistance against the partisans of the Wet-theless remained intractable as a femininity, but commands respect francs (£2,000,000) more in other of national
mar Republic. The ofensive was problem. And now even the pace for its rugged strength, self-sum State contributions. An hour and subsidies are granted more
a quarter of flying is done daily on a combative weapon than simply few days the "Third: Realin" (as by Anancial stringency, and the as completely successful, and in a of rearmament has been arrested ciency and detached tolerance.
This is the conclusion of a com-
the average by each pilot and aero- as the necessary complement the National Socialist Dictatorship internal boom is coming to an prehensive research recently
plane with total receipts of 2,750 of earned revenue. Thus in called itself) was established in end franes (£37) an hour, of which ternationalisation is the essential unchallenged power, ried out in America.
2,100 (£28) comes from the Btate condition for any economic organi- and 650 (9) from customers. sation of air transport.
Commands Respect
car-
of
Personality characteristics happily married, unhappily mar-" ried and divorced persons investigated. states "Charatcer and Personality," an international
psychological quarterly.
results:-
+
were
por lost
h
subsidies. These
It was the "Brown St rts" who where, have almost disappeared- had given the National Socialist the uniforms of the expanded force and its organised power. It created air force, have taken their movement its enormous
driving army,
especially "of the newly was they who, when the burning place. of the Reichstag in February. 1933, gave the signal.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The rest of the year 1933, and In foreign affairs Hitler has. the first half of 1934, was a per- shown himself realistic and Contrast this with the position in A Dutch friend has put to me the iod of
far- consolidation. the United States. According to a object on that "freedom of the air" volutionaries have seized power, German national policy-the un-
Other
re-sighted. The ultimate aim of calculation made by the Federal is all that European air transport and have ruled without changing ton of the German-speaking peo- Aviation Commission recently, the needs; that granted, there would the everyday life of the people, or ples in a companies carrying the air, mails be no advantage in internationall- they have changed The tests were administered to
"Greater Germany": the whole ("Grossdeutschland") that will an internal American air routes sation. My rep'y is that that looks structure of society amid armed hold the hegemony of the Euro- 346 married couples and to 116 divorced couples. These were the they were so paid for postal trans
could balance their accounts if like asking less but in reality is upheaval that has imperilled the pean mainland-is still far from asking much more. In a Europe very success of their revolution; fulfilment, but the foundations of port that the State neither gained full of mistrust and rigidly parti- but the Nazis accomplished every-that hegemony are being laid. Happily Married Men Outstandingly
on the transaction and toned, the national aviation com- thing in the brief space of sixteen Co-operative;
Time, the general situation, and emotionally stable; conservative were given between them a subsidy panies, subsidised instruments of months without
encountering These national policies, will never obtain single serfous
a Mussolini are playing into Hitler's and cautious, though not lacking 36 $7,000,000 (£1,400,000).
obstacle in initiative; object less to being air services cover 50,000,000 miles a unlimited freedom of passage. In that they failed to establish the'r for, although an open francial, (except hands. Hitler has plenty of time. told what to do: react better to year, three times the mileage of the last two years the situation ecular domination over the Ger-crisis may come before long, he is discipline, are more amiable and
European air has grown worse, with a further man Protestant and placid than the other male groups. cial aviation could exist in the
transport system. Thus commer-hardening of Europe's arteries, ful- Churches). Unhappily Married Men
United States on a subsidy, fa Are more prone than the divor- ced to indulge in argument; are
ly distributed, of 1:35 francs a kilometre, or about 7d. restive, indecisive, moody and ex-
a mile. clusive.! They lack positiveness. While rendering to the community
the whole of the
port.
the undeniable service of an enor- stout-heartedness, ambition.
They show restlessness of atti-mous acceleration of mail trans- tude in their greater liking for change from place to place, for outside versus inside work, and for the occupation of railway con-
ductor.
Divorced Man
Lacks tolerance and sympathy: is self-willed and restive under discipline, is self-sufficient, self-
Catholic not menaced by political disrup- tion or by any effective oppc8- tion at home or the hostility of any of the Great Powers.
LEFT PRESSURE And yet not all of them were satisfied. Their militants wanted a social order very different from the one that had been established by June, 1934.
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of working-class resistance, but There are some faint symptoms terrorism, at least, as frightful as
The persecution of the Jews. Is
ther growth of nationalism, less and less reasonable ambitions in national air transport programmes. Every company wants to cover the whole held, because its Government wants to have a stake on every table, to send its craft along every
in the first few months of the. There were. It is true, much Dictatorship (although it no longer route. The most recent air service rationalism, but of Socialism there shocks the civilised world as it did Europé as such-does not yet agreements concluded--such possess a commercial aviation ser-hose between Poland and Ger- as strong as ever, the banks still embryonte political opposition in us was not a trace. Capitalism was then) stides every vestige of even vice worthy of the name.. The pre-many, between Czecho-Slovakia existed, so did the Jewish depart-blood and tears. sent system is so artificial, its ac- and Soviet Russia, between Italy ment stores the rich
ivity so seasonal, and its clientele and France-have.
a more pro- numerous as they had been before, as ruthless as ever. They have London route) that it could dis- so restricted (apart from the Paris-nounced political, and military and not less powerful, while the been eliminated completely from
character than ever. In two or poor were, if anything, poorer. appear "to-morrow without out in three years' time a federal reör-
public life, and are subjected to a thousand of the taxpayers who ganisation of commercial aviation tarised Pan-German
The classiess, socialistic, mili- an ever tighter strangulation in support it noticing the loss.
in Europe will be faced with the wealth dreamed of
common their private life, so that for the so ardently younger generation of German UNECONOMIC SUBSIDIES
obs'acle of companies in a stronger and romantically, was not there. Jews there is no hope except in] Is gregarious, fond of people
What is needed in order to effect position, benefiting by increased though it was this that the mill-Palestine, Bearing the mark of any produc
and not very self-sufficient, is
radical improvement? I submalt subsides to which they will cling tants who made up the bulk of Except that National Socialism tion by leving Thalberg. emotionally stable and well-balan-
more determinedly; and the na- the Brown shirt army had striv-has, even now, failed to impose its No rick photography was re-Biography of a Bachelor Giri" is ced: more docile than aggressive. that one single step is necessary and would be sufficient-the plac-
tions will be attached to the com- quired, however, as Maurice never admirably cast, Edward Everett Unhappily Married Woman
est with such fanaticism, and for will on the Protestant and Catho- meets himself face to face. As the Horton appears as the comical Is the most neurotic, indecisive ing of the whole of the European panies by the thought of the in-
so many years.
lic clergy, it has triumphed over star of the Folies Bergere, Charlier stuffed shirt, Nolan. Edward and unmethodical of the groups; system of air transport under a creased sacrifices they will have
But Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, al other opponents and rivals. an impersonation of the Arnold brings all his well known although not especially intellec-single super-national authority: in made for them.
and Himmler (Himmler was head The completeness of its victory is Baron. It is so good that when Austrian composer.. Una Merkel, in Utezature and music; lacks the tion of commercial aviation, in
UNITY OF DIRECTIOŃ the role of Feydak,tual, she has considerable interest other words, the internationalisa-
of the Secret State Police) had unprecedented and so, perhaps, is the Baron secretly flies to London a Slade. Charles Richman puts
"But a single federal company decided that the days of revolu- the emptiness of that victory to raise a loan to cover bank the same finese into the screen
will have a monopoly, and without warm sympathy and emotional Europe. funds he has sunk in a worthless characterization of Kinnicott as
Is internationalisation technical-competition there will be no pro balance of the happily married African mine, his associates divert he did on the stage
woman.
ly necessary? It is not. But it gress." A good deal could be said
But most of all there is Ann
Divorced Woman
monocled French Baron Cassini. The picture has charm and ap- noted for his amorous escapades. peal, a bright dialogue, with the Thus, the personable French actor breath taking outdoor scenes ever addition of some of the most is both the, hero and the "heavy." flashed on a screen. of this Darry! P. Zanuck produc- tion.
gives
suspicion by hiring Charlier to im-
personate him in real life as well.
charm to
confident.
Happy Woman'
an
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THE NERE
First Great Story of the Men who waged
Waz on Grime
would permit of great technical about that: what waste there has Harding, and Robert Montgomery, I more "self-assertive, more am-economies. Centralisation under a peen, what ill-advised action, how the perfect co-starring team, Thebitious and less docile; is an indivi single authority, together with a many premature services have At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. Trying to keep his lealous blonde story treats humorously of a dualist, little moved by sympathy rational devolution from that au- been hurriedly staked out, on the partner, Mimi, placated and at the worldly young woman trying to and little interested in schemeshgrity, wou'd certainly greatly in- few routes along which there is same time carry on a flirtation decide between the pleas of ber to enhance social welfare, tends as the possibilities of useful or genuine competition! But I said with the, seductive Baroness admirer and the threats of her ex- to be intellectual and unmercenntensifed act vity for the same nothing about "a single company."" whose husband he is impersonat admirers whether to write the ary; her personality lacks sweet expenditura. But, for political What Is wanted is simply ing, keeps Charlier. stepping story of her life.
reasons, "denationalise ad- agreed submission to a single femininity, but commands: respect The situation reaches a climax
for its rugged strength, self- sum-
federal authority and dependence when the Baron returns
ciency and detached tolerance.
on a angle air transport budget in Parenthesis is offering two splen Europe. Once this unity of su did hand-knitted decanters for the preme direction has been achieved, best recipe for a drink to be known it may be worth while to maintain as the Abyssinia cocktail. Ob as in the United States, a mult viously Italian vermouth must be plicity of enterprises each charged used, but the chooser of the most with a dennite serv appropriate other ingredients will there will it be receive the prize.
Abyssinia" later]:
unex-
pectedly and tests his wife's fide-
the
A Competition
lity by Impersonating Charller, the man was her husband and the
next that he was Charller. Intrigued, but uncertain. Baroness enacts an impassioned Merle Obseron is seen as the It has been suggested that, in love scene with him, finally pat-sunning Baroness, while Ann view of the great tension between ting him off with an ardent kiss, Sothern plays the jealous Mimi Abyssinia and Italy, the situation with the result that next morn- Also in the cast are Robert Grige, might
eved if attention ing she flutters distractedly be- Lumsden Hare, Walter Blon, Eric, were paid to the lighter side of the tween beleving one moment that and Ferdinand Munier.
dispute. In this connection In
the adva
without
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JAMES CAGNEY
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