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NOBODY'S BABY
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FRED
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SHALL WE DANCE
Music by George Gershwin, Lyrica by Ira Gershwin. Directed by Hack Sandrich. A Pondra S. Bermon Production.
With
Eric
Edward Everett Honos "Bors Jarama Cowan Karri Gallian William Brisbane Harriel Hoctor + RKO-ZADIO PICTURE
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ALSO
CONCERT.
(Band of Seaforth Highlanders)
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey
in
"ON AGAIN-OFF AGAIN"
CHAMPIONSHIP HEAVYWEIGHT CONTEST, JOE LOUIS vs. TOMMY "FARR
KING'S:——
"Nobody's Baby"
QUEEN'S:-
"Shall We Dance"
ORIENTAL:--
"Good Old Solt”,
STAR:-
MAJESTIC:- »
"Crime Over London'
Coming
KING'S:-
"A Star Is Born"
QUEEN'S
"On Again-of Again",
-ORIENTAL:
Rochelle Hudson and Jack Haley co-starring in Twentieth Century Fox's "She Had To Eat." commencing to-morrow at the Alhambra Theatre.
KELLY
Pyda
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LYNNE OVERMAN ROBERT ARMSTRONG Monina Lance Pen Alvarado Jimmie Grier's Orchestra and The Rhythm Rasvaja The Avilon Beys
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ERIC LINDEN JUDITH BARNETT BETTY FURNESS
TED HEALY
JANET BEECHER GEORGE SIDNEY
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GOOD OLD SOAK
"THE CAPTAIN'S KID"
Guy Kibbe-Sybil Jason-May Robson-Dick Purcell..
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"THE LAST TRAIN
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Dorothy Lamour Lew Ayres Gilbert Roland
TO-MORROW
Dick Powell Joan Blondell in
BROADWAY BILL
"STAGE STRUCK'
Described as one of the most beautiful romances to come to the screen, "Broadway Bill," Frank effort Capra's first directorial
GRANNIE 1937
"The Captain's Eld" ALHAMBRA:~-
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"She Had To Eat"
"Stage Struck" MAJESTIC—
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NOBODY'S BABY
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Patay Kelly and Lyda" Robert), Introduced as a starring fun team In "Nobody's Baby," the Hal Roach M-G-M feature comedy showing at the King's Theatre, offer a unique contrast in per- sonalities.
is
Patsy's brand, of humour familiar to countiess theatre- 'goers but her screen friendship with the glamorous,, foreign Lyda Roberti is said to offer a new slant to Kelly. Harum-scarum Patsy assumes the guardianship of Lydn, who thinks a “guardian” is lovely because it's always full of fresh vegetables" and flowers.
As student nurses the two girls' social life centered around Lieut.- Detective. Emery. Littleworth (Lynne Overman) and "Scoops" Hanford (Robert Armstrong). who get them involved in a night club mystery of the secretly married Hosina Lawrence and Don Alvarado, a sensational, dance team.
ARMOURED CAR
A new phase of the constan battle between the law and the underworld which, has never before been touched upon on the screen. showing at the Alhambra Theatre to-day, in Universal's thrill drama. "Armoured Car..
The picture play, which presents Robert Wilcox. Judith Barrett, Irving Pichel and Cesar Romero, deals with the transportation of Cash and securities In steel- protected, heavily guarded payroll cars, and the attempts of a clever. ruthless criminal to rob them.
THINGS STARS
ARE FORBIDDEN TO DO
Strict. orders are being issued by the big studios in Hollywood about what a star may or may not do in his or her spare time while a picture is being filmed.
Clark Gable must not hunt during the filming of a picture; Wallace Beery must not fly in his aeroplane; Robert Taylor, Warren Willam, and Robert Montgomery must not engage in any sport more strenuous than table tennis, and Spencer Tracy must not play polo. Shirley Temple must not skate, ride a bicycle, or climb trees.
blackened both She recently
THE STUDIO SOUNDMAN
BY WILLIAM › PENNY
· Hardest worker and unsung hero on a movie location is the sound-
man.
Little publicized in a profession that has performed miracles since Ine
"talkies" revolutionized the business of making motion "piċ- tures in 1928, the soundman's job
eyes in an accident, and produc-j's one of patient listening: tion was delayed until the disco- loration disappeared.
And that cost quite a lot of the studio's money.
BARRIE'S LITTLE
JOKE
Sir James Barrie, when it came to be an excred, could be as temperamental as
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Soundman Norwood Fenton, who headed a sound crew that penetrated 9000 feet into the heart of the. High Sierras to record dialogue and background mountain noises · for Joan Crawford's new starring picture, "The Bride. Wore Red," has some interesting angles on the soundman's ́problems.
"Most people are not sound con-. scious," said Fenton, "because the most irritating sounds picked up by the sensitive microphone are film star.
not audible to the human eat, states the "Glasgow Herald.". The
"Un "a scientifically constructed manuscript record of one episode. which resolved itself into a prac-suund stuge, it is a simple matter to check unusual noises, but this tleal joke at the expense of the
is not so easy on location." press and the public, has been ac-
Fenton accompanied Director. quired by Mr. Richard Edmiston,
Arzner Dn Local Dorothy the Glasgow auctioneer.
her trips around Twin Lakes to select sites Barrie collectors, however, need not
for the scenes fired, and was ji lick their chops, for the bound documents which tell their own forced to veto half of them. story are going into Mr. Edmiston's Interesting private collection, and he intends that they shall remain
there.
MOCK INTERVIEW
.
"Miss Arzner was enthusiastic about the waterfalls." Fenton said. pictorially beautiful, but dynamite t a soundman. To the ear, waterfall has a melodie sound, but when picked up by a microphone, it sounds like a thunder-storm. and completely blots out the spoken word.” ·
DIFFICULT TO HANDLE
Tree trunks, boulders and cliffs. tou, according to Fenton, are dim-- cult to handle.
"They all reflect sound waves,” he said, "and make buzzing and burring sounds. I was worried
about the pine trees, and was glad
Barrie went to the United States in 1914 along with Mr. A. E. W. Mason and the late Mr. T. L. GII- mour. During a stay of some duration in New York he seemed to take a delight In refusing to be interviewed. But shortly before Exciting scenes in the photoplay leaving for home be showed to include the dynamiting of a moun- Gilmour it few closely written tain road and the wrecking of one pages, a Barriesque account of an of the trucks, as well as the blast-imaginary interview. between SL ing of a bridge in an attempt to
reporter azıd his butler-valet. Secure the treasure of another Brown. "What will I do with it?" truck.
to find that they gave no trouble, says Barrie. "Send a copy of it.to Irving Pichel will be seen as the the New York Times." says Oil-
because the pine needles have no master-mind of the criminal 'band,
flat surfaces. When shooting at mour. And that's what they did. with Cesar Romero as the chief It was published under the head- lower altitudes where trees such as poplars have broad leaves, we picture was Ing "Barrie at Bay: Which was directed by Lewis R. Foster from
Brown?" Some may have suspect-have to be careful in recording not William Pierce's story.
ed, but few at the time really knew to get sound reflections from the the authorship of that interview. leaves. The sound waves bound What Mr. Edmiston has bought is back from the flat leaves of CRIME OVER LONDON the original manuscript, a covering Poplars with a zinging sound.
explanation of the incident, and a letter congratulating the unknown reporter on his smart work.
Beutenant. The
London menaced by American" gangsters the Intriguing and over
In an address at Owen Sound, exciting theme of "Crime, Rev. John Dodds, a Baptist minis-London," an excellent British ple- ter, told his congregation of a
ture which is showing at the home where the father came Majestic Theatre. home at midnight and the daugh- ter at am. The mother came home an hour later and was told by her, "Don't lock the
since "It Happened One Night," is now showing at the Majestic Theatre. Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy are the stars..
"Broadway Bill" is the story of
man, at heart a roustabout, mother-Grandma isn't in yet.”
door,
Containing an exceptionally strong cast headed by such stars as Margot Grahame, Joseph Caw
thorn. Paul Cavanagh, Rene Ray and Basil Sydney, this picture is
THIEVES RETURN
£1,000
Thieves broke into a shop, at Podgorica, Yugoslavia, took money and valuables valued at more than
spoll at a grave risk of being caught
who prefers the open road and Mr. Dodds declared he would the sort of fast-moving drama. 1,000 and later, returned their horses to a selfish, conventional
Gooner have his children buried which has audiences gripping their wife and the smug żecurity of an
than that they should parade the seats. It has all the pace and executive job held through the streets attired like many young exhillrating action of the very
A few days after the theft the doubtful genérosity of a financial people to-day, especially girls "with
best Hollywood gangster flim. minded father-in-law. Into this their shorts and other indecent. This is the first picture of its type proprietor of the shop found a box situation is thrust a girl of the dress."
to emanate from a British studio in his garden full of gold coins and jewellery. Inside was a note Identical
and regarded in the light (of an, temperament of this man. That she is the younger
experiment the result is eminently which read: "We have taken only
enough to cover our expenses sister of his wife makes a com-
satisfactory.
you surely will not grudge us such plicated problem that ta solved
Joseph Cawthorn, the. veteran
little when we return you so only after the three-man, wife
character, scores á personal
much."
Myrna Loy. are supported by Walter Connolly, Helen", Vinson,
To overcome "these dificulties and yet get interesting noisés, such as birds, babbling brooks and the crunch of boots on snow, Fenton had his crew out at 3 o'clock for seven mornings; hours before the company started shooting, and re- corded 10,000 feet of noises.
"The reason for getting up so; early," Fenton declared, "ls the fact that sounds have a clearer
tone early in the morning. Birds, for example, sing sweetest at sun-" rise. In the mountains, this was 3.58 am
The temperature was freezing the first two mornings Fenton went after song-birds, and the birds refused to sing on such cold occasions. The third morning, Fenton was rewarded with 1200 feet of bird melodies, which will be heard in the picture
To get mountain sounds, Fenton haa crew of five, a mobile electric
and sister-in-law go through an Clarence Muse, Lynne Overman, triumph in a dual role. He Only about 50 dinars (four generator, two tons of electrical
ordeal of drama, pathos and Frankie Darro, Margaret Hamil
seen as Mr. Sherwood, the owner
comedy.
The stars. Warner Baxter and
ton, Claude. Gullingwater and many others.
stofe, and; as 'his double, Riley,'***
of a large West End department shillings) had been retained by the equipment, cables, microphones
thieves.
and a sound car.
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The Coof Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse in a scene from the
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