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THE "NELL GWYN" STARS TOGETHER AGAIN
ANNA NEAGLE
CEDRIC HARDWICKE
PEG of OLD DRURY
DIRECTED BY HERBERT WILCOX
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A BRITISH AND DOMINIONS PRODUCTION
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INVITATION to the WALTZ"
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KING'S:--
"Of To The Races" QUEEN'S:-
The Beloved Vagabond" ORIENTAL:-
"Down The Stretch"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:---
"William Tell"
MAJESTIC:-
"In Callente”
STAR:-
"Peg of Old Dry":
KING'S:-
Coming
"Craig's Wife" QUEEN'S:—
"Charlle Chan At The
Opera"
ORIENTAL:-
"The Dev! Is A Sissy"
ALHAMBRA~-
"North of Nome*
MAJESTIC:-
"Adventure In Manhattan"
STAR:-
"Invitation To The Waltz"
THE
BELOVED VAGABOND
After a prolonged vacation from affalis cinematic, the irrepressible Maurice Chevaller bobs up again to-day at the Queen's Theatre, in a gay, tuneful musical romance called "The Beloved Vagabond."
.As "The Beloved Vagabond" Chevaller revels in a role that is tallor-made. And the audience revels with him. When his eyes twinkle in tantalizing romance' or when his p pouts !n tuncful melody, the Chevalier personality becomes irresistible: Thanks to faultless script by Hugh Mil's,. Waller Creighton and Arthur Wimperis, a sparkling story based on the novel by W. J. Locke and spirited direction by Kurt Bern- hardt "the Chevaller brand of comedy and song is given opportunity to flourish.
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"WILLIAM TELL'
"William Tell" is showing at the Alhambra Theatre to-day.
new
A shadow of oppression lles over the Url canton in Switzerland. The old rights of the Swiss have not been recognized by the Emperor. A delegation of the Swiss, headed by Stauffacher of Schwyz and Walter Fuerst of Url is unsuccessful.
Arnold von Melchtal, whose flancee, Barbara, lives in Sarnen. Ands out that the tyrants do not respect property or lives of other people.
One morning, while he is ploughing his field, the officials attack him and take his oxen. Melchtal tries to resist. and his enemles take their vengeance on his helpless old father.
IN CALIENTE
"In Caliente," First National's
latest musical offering with Do- lores Del Rio and Pat O'Brien in In the stellar roles has been book- ed for the Majestic Theatre to-day. Busby Berkeley, famous creator of screen spectacles, has staged three big song and dance numbers en- titled "In Caliente." "Ledy In Red." and "Muchacha." In the Tatter number Phil Regan as a bandit chier. does the sloging white. Dolores Del Rio is featured In a dancing review."
"Lady in Red" is sung by Wini- fred Shaw. musical.comedy star, and "In Callente," the title song, is sung by a group of entertainers. Another number, a ballad entitled "To Call You' My Own" is sung by Phil Regan.
Government To Build House ELLEN BECOMES ALAN
After 17 years of life as a "girl," Dunedin, N.Z.-The first contract during which "she" was employed to be let in Dunedin under the on a milk round and later as aj
Crewe, Alan Caldwell has now been officially recognised as a boy He is carrying on his work at the hotel-as a barman.
Durnig the call of the Pacific Steam Navigation, Company liner Reina del Pacifico at Port Stanley the inhabitants of the Falkland Government's new housing plans is barmaid at the Cheese Hall Hotel, islands saw for the first time & to be for the erection of a self- "talkie." The Alm Rose Marie" contained house for Mr. and Mrs. was shown in one of the saloons Johnson, parents of New Zealand's of the liner. The audience was enthusiastic,
famous quadruplets. The "quade”
Alan said that he used to celebrated their second birthday play football in a women's team, on March 5. They are all happy but has now given up the game. and healthy, though Vera'is slight- His father said: "Alan-ar Ellen.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937.
Film Star From Indian
Stable
Robert Flaherty has been two years
making "Elephant Boy." writes a Home correspondent. The, film is worth waiting for. In the Indian jungle Mr. Flaberty has found the elemental drama and pictorial beauty that made "Man of Aran" memorable, plus an en- chanting little urchin called Sabu. Sabu was discovered in, an elephant stable belonging to the Maharaja of Mysore, He was 12 then--a shy, inarticulate orphan, with but the qualification to play the hero of Kipling's story, "Too- mat of the Elephants," on which the film is bused. He knew and joyed elephants.
ROBERT Z. LEONARD'S TEST OF A SCREEN PERSONALITY
You don't have to have physical beauty to become a screen star, if you possess the ability to create a lasting impression of charm through an excellent performance. That is the opinion of Robert Z. Leonard, top-ranking director who has guided many feminine stars through pictures.
and
The "day when physical beauty alone can raise an actress to star- dom is passed," says this director In duc course Sabu developed who has worked with such glamo- confidence
He knew no English; rous stars as Norma Shearer, but learned his lines parrot-Greta Garbo, Marion Davies, Joan fashion and put them over intal Crawford, Mae Murray, Myrna Loy ligibly..
Luise Rainer. and most recently Jeanette MacDonald in Maytime, new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer production,
Leonard belleves that a really beautiful woman has the following five assets:
of the screen
Sincerity of performance, Grace of movement, Appeal of voice, xi Charm of personality.
SABU'S FLASHING SMILE On the screen he makes an endearing uttle figure, with his black eyes, flashing smile and ebony body dresesd in the sim- plest outat ever worn by a star- a loincloth and turban.
It is amusing and oddly touch- ing to see the giant Travatha; the biggest elephant in Southern India, obediently helping him up from foot to knee and from knee to shoulder and so to Sabu's seat, almost as high as a house. Some times Iravatha saves time by seizing him in his trunk and lift- ing him straight up.
characterizations' without à trace Ability to achieve reality in
of the artificial.
still pictorial, stars
"However, because the screen is must be photographie," he adds. """To prove to yourself that stars As a conversationalist Sabu is how many times at the start of a need not be great beauties, think intelligent and brief.
Jeanette MacDonald Resumes Dance Study
Jeanette MacDonald has re- sumed, with Albertina Rasch, the dancing lessons which she started when she was sixteen years of age put in use in Alms. and which she never expected to
In Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's pic. turization of Rudolf Friml's The Firefly, on which Hunt, Stromberg 1s to start production shortly. Jeanette will be seen for the first time as a dancing star, and the rigorous training"which she under- went in her teens will stand her in good stead.
picture you know an actress la not beautiful, yet at the end you are you are almost madly in love with so captured by her charm that
her." he challenges.
FRANCES MARION
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Frances Marion, former negs- paperwoman and novelist, and one of the screen's most brilliant writers. who furnished the stories and screen plays for some of the most successful box-office pictures in recent years, has been engaged by Columbia Pictures, as associate producer.
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Before becoming identified with Pictures, Miss Marion had won recognition as an author of several best sellers, and as a writer who Though her first dancing lessons were received at Al White's school
was eqqually at home in comedy or drama. in Philadelphia when Jeanette was
Some of her earliest only ten, she did not take up dan plays for
cinema work included the screen. cing
"Winning of Barbara professionally, until studied with Albertina Rasch while] "Madame
she Worth," "Callahans and Murphys." making her
Pompadour." first Broadway stage anna'
"Pally- appearance
"The Cossacks." "Stella Ned
Wayburn's Dallas," "Humoresque" and "The Demi-Tasse revue,
Dark Angel, Now Miss Rasch has started the her pupil of years ago will be seen creation of the dances in which
in The Firefly, and Jeanette has recommenced her former strict training routine.
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Allan Jones will be seen opposite the star in this dramatic musical, which Robert Z. Leonard will direct.
'Charlie Chan at last meets his aatch in the terrifying personage of BORIS KARLOFF (above) in "Charlie Chan at the Opera," new Twentieth Century-Fox_picture." WARNER OLAND, of cours plays the Chinese detective.
OFF TO THE RACES
Later while under contract to for "Anna Christie," "The Rogue! M.4.M. sne wrote the photoplay song." "Good News," "The Bea Bat," "Min and Bill," "The Big House," "The Champ." "Emma" "Cynara" and "Dinner At Eight." Miss Marion more recently wrote the story and collaborated on the screen play "Riff Raff.”
"PEG OF OLD DRURY"
Anna Neagle and Cedric Hard- wicke, the brilliant team of "Nell Gwyn," are together again in "Peg of Old Drury," now at the Star Theatre.
The success of their "working together in "Nell Gwyn" has in- dicated that they are the most popular dramatic team ever de- veloped by a British studio, and the burst of enthusiasm which has greeted their latest Wm has firmly cemented this opinion.
In "Peg of Old Drury" they have "radically different roles from those in "Nell Gwyn." Anna Neagle plays Peg Wolfington, the tempestuous Trish actress whose lame swept the London stage of the mid-eighteenth century, "and around whom, more amusing and Intriguing anecdotes have collect- "ed that around any other stage
Agure
perienced. Add, for good measure. Blim's provoking daughter, Ann Gillis, a meanie from the word go, and you have a rough idea what the harried Jones Family is up. against.
That happy. scrappy Jones Family, a household as real as your own and ás funny as your neighbour's, moves into a new knd hilarious phase of its career in "Off
It is a complete misrepresenta to the Races," fourth in the series tion to suppose that I. who am no ut Twentieth Century-Fox pictures longer able to claim to be even in of the Jones Family, which opens my late middle age, am associated to-day at the King's Theatre,
with a number of respectable" "Có When Uncle Blim Bummerville tonel Blimp-Sir Thomas Inskip. to exhibitly behind the abber three--Bruce, as we called him then-went to and his horse drop in on the
the only son, Kathleen, and Mary a doctor in December. He was Joneses, the shenanigans begin. It is not necessary to answer the in her powers of walking. Kath-sent to Manchester Royal In- and the typical American house- criticism that my prose is bad. It leen and Mary are extraordinarily firmary and after treatment came hold is off on the most laughable, is simply fault-anding Mr. Ste similar in 'appearance.
back as a man."
aide-splitting time it has ever ex-phen 8pender.
Suent flms have been shown once a week at Port Stanley for some tije; and arrangements are now being made "talkies" regularly.
The Reina del Pacifico made her
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ADVENTURE in MANHATTAN
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
FRANCIS LEDERER
In Cape Of Good Hope
Mr.
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Austrian capital and Budapest, The latter production is one of the big successes of the present season in Vienna and is still run- Francis Lederer, Columbia's ning in the city, while “Ladies In noted contract star, has been Love" has already been seen on assigned to his first vehicle under
the screen in this colony. the the company's banner. He
appeared pru- has been tendered the stellar role, minently in a number of stage in the picturation of the stage and screen, productions abroad success, Cape of Good Hope" by before going to America He the prominent Europe playwright created a sensation on Broadway Ladislaus Bus-Fekete This play with his first stage appearance in had extended runs in Budapest, "Autumn Crocus and his screen Vienna, and other European cap career has been equally suspicious. tais.
Among his recent. Alm appearances have been Pursuit of Happiness,” "Gay Deception," "One Rainy Afternoon" and "My American Wife"
Mr. Bus-Fekete, is also author of the successtat plays "Ladies In Love" and "Jean," both of which had long engagements". In "The
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