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Escape Me Never" QUEEN'S:-~
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-7TO-MORROW BY SPECIAL REQUEST! FOR ONE DAY ONLY! EDDIE CANTOR IN KID MILLIONS"
ATTEMPT TO TAKE CHANGPEI
Peiping. Jan, T.. Having occupied six counties in Northern Chahar, General IA: Shou Hsin, commanding pro-Japanese troops in Inner Mongolls, to-day moved his troops to take Changpel near Kaigan, the provincial capital; Large number of Japanese and Manchukuona troops have arrived in Dolonor and it is believed that they will move down to capture Kalrande. Union Tess."
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"Anna Karenina"
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"Anna Karenina"
"ANNA KARENINA”
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
BLISSFUL OSCULATION!
Whatever else they may take credit for, the aims are competent mirrors of the latest styles in Klas- Ing. Fifteen years ago they thrust upon an astounded world the long romantic ellach, which with the long kiss, made itä mark on the social scheme.
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begins playing "The Flight of the Bumble Beef and no matter whe the singer is talking with he will invariably break away and come
over."
CIGARETTE BAN, HINDERS ACTING
A ban on cigarettes had the cast of Paramount's "Peter Ibbetson” in slight diiculties for the first day or so of filming.
The use of a cigarette in a scène
After Bfteen years of endurance cliniches, however, Hollywood is through with them for the mois always a good way to register
ment.
Five years ago the average length of a film kiss was 72 inches of film-about four seconds of
which blissful osculation
werd supposed to lure young maidens into cinemas by the thousands.
The same young girls to-day | would laugh such a kiss off the screen." says King Vidor, who directed Paramount's "So Red The Rosa." The length of a film cffch to-day is approximately 18 inches. and that means just over second on the screen."
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HARD LUCK, CHINA!. The shortening of the screen kiss is probably sorrowful news to Japan and China, those old havens of rectitude, where the long clinch. thanks to the screen, has entirely changed the pattern of mang criental youngsters in love.
decision or fingilty, and with vil- lains the click of the cigarette cash or the rap on its lid is one of the old stand-bys, being synonymous with the twist of the moustache or the hollow laugh,
BOOKING
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KINGS
SHOWING TO-DAY
DAILY at 2:30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
ELISABETH
BERGNER
ESCAPE ME NEVER
DIRECTED BLOK MEUL. CIZMER MUM
TELEPHONE
NOL. 95813, 25992
3 BIRICTOR OF PRODUCTIONS HERBENT WILCOX
NO BEAUTIFUL TECHNICOLOUR NYER PRODUCED,
AND WALT DISNEY ROBBER KITTEN"• It gives the same sinister feel-
ing..
But Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday and the rest of the "Peter Ibbetson" cast are not per- inttted the luxury of a cigarette In any scene, for they weren't the in respectable considered
Maurler period. George du Thackeray referred to them as paper cigars," and kept them away from his literary gentlemen Otherwise they were smoked only by rowdy fellows who attended races and prize-fights.
So for the first few days the cast had to adjust itself and And other ways of expressing its emo-. tions.
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The kisses in "So Red The Rose" last for about a split second for the period for of the film is that of
SOAK THE RICH the American Civil War, when
Ben Hecht and Charles Mac: kisses were coy pecks on retreating foreheads and clinches were re-Arthur, producers of the brilliant- served for places teas publie than railway stations and parks:
SHOOT THAT GRIN
"Crime Without Passion" an "The Scoundrel," have nearly finished their latest flm for Paramount, "Soak The Rich."
Walter Connolly, the Irishman, has the leading cle; and a new One hundred good American
Becht-MacArthur, find, Mary Tay- dollars have gone begging in Holly-for, plays the part originally fixed
wood.
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For two months a dozen ambi- tous cameramen sought vainly to do the impossible.
Ten years ago, a timid, bewilder- ed Swedish girl-Greta Louisa Gustafson began her first Ameri- can screen role at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, -
This week, this same woman- now known as Greta Garbo and the most discussed woman in the world, appears at the King's and Alhambra Theatres in her Tenth Anniversary picture, on Saturday. pic- The Tenth Anniversary ture-David 0. Selznick's рто- duction of Tolstoy's Immortal appears "Anna Karenina" is also Garbo's twentieth picture for Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer; a consistent average of two films yearly for the same first arrival in studio, since her America.
As evidenced by the first scenes in which Garbo appeared for "Anna Karenina," the new picture is the most dazzling, colourful and dramatic production of her entire
career.
The opening scenes represented the St. Petersburg railway station, as it appeared Bity years ago. Behind the cameras were the same, technical crews that have worked
for Myrna Loy. Also in the cast Is John Howard, who scores a bit in Paramount's "Gentlemen of The Navy."
The studio offered a bonus to
MIND YOUR HEAD any still cameraman. who could
George Daly, an Irishman who obtain a "shot" of Ned Sparks- the "poker-faced" comedian who went out to Hollywood many years in Paramount's "The ago, fired 16,000 rounds of ma-.
Burns, Fugitive." His Charm School" with Joe Penner, chine-gun bullets on Paramount's. Jack Oakle and Lynne Overman | "Mary
is the job of peppering bullets into either smiling or laughing.
Sparks has finished work in the wails and doors three or four in- production, but there is no evid-ches from the heads of Hollywood's ence to prove that he laughed or most important stars. smiled. Cameramen followed him lu droves, carrying anything from a bulky 8 by 10 camera to one of the eastly-hidden miniature kind, hut to no avail,
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The offer has been withdrawn.' Here's a surprise for the thou sands of people who think that Bing Crosby is the last word in screen singers.
Bing's Bumble Bee The star of Paramount's "Two
Sylvia Sidney and Wallace Ford had to stand up to quite a lot of hullets during the making of "Mary Burns, Fugitive," but they were a safe as houses, for Daly has been taking shots at stars for more than 10 years, and the crily accident he ever has had was when a piece of glasa fell on his band and cut his inger Daly stands from 10 to 20 feet away from the players when he lets fly and has a wood backing
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GRETA GARBÓ-FREDRIU. MARCH in "ANNA KARENINA"
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13 STARS FROM
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Record "Bag" For British Films
Michael Balcon, director of productions for the Gaumont- Corporation, returned from his American tour recently. British He brought with him contracts with the largest number of Ame rican stars ever collected in the same "bag.”
The following 13 are some of the Hollywood players who wil shortly be seen "In British Dic- tures:"
Constance Bennett, who wil make "Everything is Thunder? and "The Hawk.".
Joan Bennett, to play the ulera-
The Northing Tramp.
Chester Morris, to be leading man "Courier of the Czar,"
in most of the Garbo flims-head-For To-night" has just revealed eight inches thick, which stops the ine of the Edgar Wallace thrilar ed by William Daniels. Garbo's that his favourite composition is bullets. cameraman, who has photograph-not one of the songs that he has How much he receives for his ed nineteen of her productions." sung on the stage, radio and work depends on whom he misses. screen, but The Flight of the When shooting at a Sylvia Sidney Bumble Bee" from the opera Theor a Wallace Ford he receives £20 Legend of Tsar Sultan" by Nicho a day. When shooting at lesser las Rimsky-Korsakov,
players he gets from £5 to £10 for a day's work
An unusual picture of Elisabeth Bergner, a scene from "Escape Me Never" at the King's Theatre now.
"ESCAPE ME NEVER"
& Di
Bing's inability to resist the appeal of this work has provoked plenty of laughs from people at Paramomt.
There is one studio planist who, when he wants to speak to Bing,
"HIS MAJESTY'S
PYJAMAS "
It doesn't matter what they pay me," says Daly, "I am always care- ful. I sleep from 11 to 12 hours every night to keep my completely steady,"
"DINKY"
nerves
Betty Jean Haney, child actress, did such splendid work in "Mary Jane's Pa" that she won a big
made years ago as a silent num ( 'Michael Strogoff") by the Una- versal Companý.
May Robson, to play Strogoft's motner in the same pleture.
Victor McLaglen; the frist- Bouth African (now a naturalised American), who recently made his greatest hit since "What Price Glory?" in "The Informer," to De Pte: Mulvaney in "Kipling's "Soldiers Three.”
Sylvia Sidney, to start story to be written for her and directed by "Alfred Hitchcock,
Richard Arlen, to play, in "The the Barrier"-not
Rex Beadn best-seller, but a story about the building of the Canadian Pacific
Director Arrives In part with Jackie Cooper in the Railway, published by Alan Sull-
London
Alfred L. Werker, director of that world-wide success “The House of Rothschild," has arrived fu London to direct “His Majesty's Pyjamas" for Capitol Films.
Warner Bros. pisture, "Dinky," which is at Star Theatre to-day
The eight year old child was ex centionally busy for her work a "Mary Jane" overlapped that of "Dinky" by a week.
Ebe is quite proud over her selec tion for the role in Master Cooper's picture, since she had more than a score of competitors, all of whom had considerably more experience than Betty Jean.
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van under the title, "The Greas Divide."
Maureen O'Sullivan, to play up- posite Mr. Arlen in the same pic-
Edmund Lowe in a story not yet selected,
Charles Ruggles, one of Houy- wood's most delightful come- dians, in a comedy of television, "World Without a Maak.”
Bally Ellers,to be the heroine of a new version of "The
Mr. Werker will spend the next two or three weeks in close study of the scenario and in laying his shooting plans. He and Capitol It had been the youngster's both believe in ample preparations, greatest ambition to play a picture
Wrecker." with Jackie Cooper, one which she Gene Markey (whom Joan Ben- rett married) was in England rehas cherished since she saw the
little star in "Skippy."
cently preparing the scenario from his own novel, which follows the bewildering experiences of an exil-
ed king and a syndicate who offer, pany had bought an American in their own interests, to re-estab-book for Aiming His Majesty's lish him on the throne. Clive Pylamar was written by an amp Brook will star and Helen Vinson rican whom I know very well, it will play the featured feminine American in thought, and as a and others, retain their stage roles role,
novel it has a very wide. American in the film which Paul Czinner, OFFEE SETS HIM THINKING public distinguished director-husband of Interviewed on his arrival, Al- Eizabeth Bergner, director for B. fred Werker saldame "I decided that the man who I never seriously thought of had bought His Majesty's Priamas "Escape Me Never" offers the coming to England had in fact, was a man of fer vision with his ilny star, last seen by local screen turned down several opportunites, eye on the world market and not The principals of the original audiences in Catherine the and there was plenty of work to Umited to English audiences and West End stage test which sup Kreat" in the fole of Gemma be had in Hollywood- until there his Company must be a go-ahead of other productions and realised ported the star in the Theatre Jones, the lovable little wair, found came art offer to direct Capitol's concern. I studied their line-up
there was no similar concer Gulld's triumphant Broadway pre-wandering about, Venice with her "is Majesty's Frismas]*____* } ***
such an impost sentation of the Margaret Ken-new-born son and given shelter by That offer net me thinking." nedy play, including Hugh Sinclair, Bebastian Sanger, a penniless "As far as I could discover,
was the first time an English Com Grimth Jonel, Leon Quartermains, young composer. A
A great actress, Mizabeth Berg her greatest role in er, has "Escape Me Never," at the King's Theatre to-day.
Bo I came to Capitol,
Roland Young (who has been playing In Alexander Korda "Man Who Could Work Mir cles"), te star in "King Solomon's Mines
Robert Young (here on loan to make "Becret Agent"), to be dez- me Matthews's leading man in her next picture..
Mr. Balcon's move representa u determined attempt to extend the American market already won by the Gaumont-British "Rome Express," "The Man Who Corporation with productions like
ALHAMBRA
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At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.80 P.M.
THE THE NITWITS OF SCREEN IN AN IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY WITH MUSIC & FUN,
Zetar
BLOOM
A Paramount Picture with
GEORGE BURNS & GRACIE ALLEN JOE MORRISON DIXIE LEE
NEXT CHANGE
The Undying Romance of the Century" ANNA KARENINA
GRETA GARBO
·FREDRIC MARCH
"Jeeves To Be Screened
Darryl Zanuck has secured the Elm rights of PG Wodehouse famous valet "Jecres," Land he is looking for an actor to portray the droll gentleman's gentlernaz on the screen. Jeeves is to be the central figure of a series of screen comedies somewhat in the same style as the Warner, Oland-Char- Lie Chan films. Mr. Zanuck bas asked the public to assist him u his search. All nominations 2017 be sent to Mr. Zamick at the 20th Century-Fox studios Hollywood
The two most famous children on the screen at present are hotfi working on films for 20th Cen tury-Fox, where Freddie Bathplo-
mew a co-starring with Victor
Knew Too Much The Thirtying in The Littlest Rebel.: Nine Steps" and "The Tunnel-
and Shirley was fascinated with his beauti
bis per
English diction, and
dier, and Shirley Temple is star
When the American baby McLaglen in Professional Sol-
beard that "David Copperaeld himself was on the next set, she invited him to tea
Ing", bungalow. Freddie seespiedi
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