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"Broadway Melody of 1938"
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"TOMORROW"
Effects Of Worry
The exhortation to the Philip- plans in the Epistle to be careful for nothing." inevitably recalls Our Lord's words in the Bermou on the Mount: "Take no thought "High, Wide and Handsome" for the morrow." The same word
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"The Prisoner Of Zenda"
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MORROW ir. 'WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD”
FENTON'S DEBUT AS DIRECTOR
New Astaire-Rogers Musical
Leslie. Fenton, Ann Dvorak's actor-husband, makes his debut as a director of M-G-M shorts. Fils
KAY STEPS INTO
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A
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THRILL OF A LIFETIME
brilliant
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EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Cinemas-(See Column 3 of this:
page).
Malls.--(See Page 16). Meeting. Legisative Chuncil Finance Committee Meeting. 2.30)| P..
Miscellaneous-Social and Fel-
Moon. Moon, 3rd. Day Social-St. John
Ambulance Annual Ball, at Hong Kong Hotel. 8.30 p.m. to a.m.
is used in both commands, andțin | lowship Club's General Meeting. both cases the word used to trans-
and Programme Discussion, 8.30 late it is, or has become, inace pim. quate. The Revised Version re- medles the defect by translating It: "In nothing be anxious,” for it is anxiety or worry, not careful- ness, against which the warning is given, writes the Very Rev. C. A Alington. D.D., Dean of Durham, in the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
A modern poet, W. H. Davies, points one part of the moral:
What is this life, if, full of care. We have no time to stand and stare?
He is concerned with all that we miss if we have
No time to turn at. Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance,
and ends by answering his first question with uncompromising vigour:
A poor life this, ff. full of care. We have no time to stand and
stare.
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"THE SERVANTS PARLIAMENT”
Novel Meeting In Budapest
bas
A "Servants: parliament" been held in the hall of the St. Steven's Association, Budapest, to discuss the Settering of conditions for servants.
cases in the
Hungarian version of the Austrian
dirndl" costume.
His prescription for the use of time saved by refusal to worry
More than a thousand Budapest may not seem to carry us very far.maids, cooks, maids-of-all-work. but it is quite true that the Chris- and charwomen marched to the cast of comedy players in a fast moving story of tian ought to find leisure to "praise meeting carrying silk flags and young love, done to the music the earth in beauty seen" and to
dressed in many trom the pens of outstanding note how "God's bounty gilds the Lunesmiths and produced with span of ruined earth and sinful enough glitter and girls to hold man." He ought to have time to the most rabid of musical comedy cry with the Psalmist. "O Lord. fans-that's "Thrill of a Lifetime."how manifold are Thy works! in the merry melange of mirth and wisdom hast Thou made them all; musle which opens at the Queen's the earth is full of Thy riches" The thought may lead him to Theatre today.
draw the same conclusion which Bishop Heber drew in the greatest of his hymns.
The Yacht
Canova
Club Boys. Judy Dorothy and lovely Lamour from the radio that romancin', prancin", dancin' pair of lovers, Johnny Downs and be Eleanore Whitney-Betty Grable, the girl whom artists call "the nearest approach to perfection In form-Ben Blue, Leif Erikson.
Larry Crabbe. Franklin Pangborn and The Fanchonettes one of the most highly trained chorus troupes in show business--that's the cast!
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A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
How glorious "must that mansion
Where Thy redeemed shall dwell
with Thee!
ARCHBISHOP'S "DON'T FUSS”. But andety does positive harm appreciation. No one is at his best besides cramping our powers of
when he ta worried or anxious, and it is a peculiarly infectious quality, ás, anyone will agree who has ever played or sung under the guidance of a fussy conductor. Archbishop Temple's famous ad- faration, "Don't fuss," 15 one which people in humbler positions would often like to repeat with his authority:
Proving that the source of true love doesn't run any smoother in England than elsewhere, Fred
And indeed it is not only a Astaire's new. vehicle for RKO practical but a Christian duty to Radio, with George Burns and avoid undue anxiety. St. Peter Gracie Allen, "A Damsel in Dis-spoke the true word when he bade tress." weaves a sparkling group his readers to "cast all their
of Gershwin songs and one of P. anxiety upon God, because Ee G. Wodehouse's funniest stories caret for you." The care of God
of British fe into a brilliant plece is not the "anxious care" which of screen entertainment.
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Speeches were made by all types of servant, from the smart young city maid to the stout cook and battered charwomen who do Buda- pest's 'dirty work.
The chief points urged by the servants were "better sleepir; con- ditions (the Budapest servant pften given a bed in a stone-floored kitchen or an unheatable garret, the right to use the bath once a week or to go to a public bath, permission to receive visits from masculine friends "with honourable female friends" and adequate time. for shopping.
SERVANTS' CLASSES
One mald suggested that ser], vants classes should be organised on the pattern of the apprentice schools, so that servants might improve their writing, learn to make up accounts, and improve themselves by reading good liter-
ature.
The charwomen speakers claim- ed" that their class should also bencft by the insurance, and asked for the creation of charwomen a homes for the aged and sick.
be
A suggestion was put forward that
the post-war name of household employee" should
name of "cseled" (servant) used by abolished, and the oldfashioned men are bidden to avoid: it is the employers again. Formerly Hunga- The story revolves around a paternal care of Him "Who pro-Han peasants were used to call merry romance between Astaire. in vidently careth for the sparrow" their children "eseled," the custom the role of an American dancer in and we, it is written, "are of more London, and Joan Fontaine, as a value than they."
dating from ancient times when titled British girl who is being
servants ("cseled") were regarded driven inLO an unwelcome mar-
as members of the family riage uy her imperious aunt.
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Christian people meditated more deeply on the meaning of the Through the back-stairs politics invited to utter when their sex- great words which they are often of the servants at Miss Fontaine's vices begin, "Almighty and most ancestral castle, Astaire is led to merciful Father," they would suf- belleve that the girl is madly in fer less from that paralysing love with him, and the complica-anxiety as to the future of them- tions build up to peaks of hilarity selves and those whom they love Interspersed with tuneful songs by which lurks in the background of
("cralad").
The "servants" parliament was followed by a sitting of the Catholic Housewives' Association, and it was agreed that the servants' law passed in 1876 must be reformed
An old-age pension for servants and charwomen will be asked
servancies instead of the private agencies which prey on country. girls who come to the city to work.
the late George Gershwin and his the heart. If words mean what for, and the substitution of State brother Tra, and five spectacular they say, our Lord did indeed en- dance numbers that reveal Astaire courage us to believe that these at the delightful best.
"A Damsel in Distress" is show world is in the hands of a Father titles are literally His, and if the ing at the Alhambra Theatre to-mighty enough to direct its ac- day.
cidents and merciful enough to forgive our sins there is little need for anxiety as there can be war- rant for despair. "To them that love God all things work together for good." !!
PRISONER OF ZENDA
David O. Selznick has ushered In another magnificent piece of entertainment.
The picture is "The Prisoner of Zenda," Anthony Hope's awash- buckling tale of love, intrigue and adventure in the courts of Europe, Kay Johnson has not been seen
with Ronald Colman, Madeleine on the screen since "Jaina" and Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in the leading roles, and the Village Tale." She always did
reaction of the Majestic Theatre very pleasant work in roles that audience last night teld in were very various but always very
first will be "Captain Kidd's feminine.
Treasure," one of the historical mystery series.
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Ramon Novarro's next picture for Republic will be "It Happened in Paris."
Harold Lloyd's "Professor Be- ware" has gone into production, with Elliott Nugent directing and Phyllis Welch as Lloyd's leading Jady.
The next Astaire-Rogern musical, now called "Change Partners," will go into production soon.
She has just reached a peak of versatility in Cincinnati, where Fredric March was trying out his new play, "Your Obedient Hus
band."
no
uncertain terms that Mr. Selznick has another hit on his hands!
Colman is at his charming best in the dimcult dual role of the ad- venturous Rudolf Rassendyll and as the rolstering King Rudolf V, whom he resembled so closely.
DREAM OF LOVE
Fred MacMurray And Olympe Bradna
Olympe Bradina and
Fred MacMurray are the final choices for the leads in Paramount's Sid Grauman will play himself "Dream of Love," Dorothy Lamour, in a scene featuring his Chinese Lan Miranda and Frances Dee-had Theatre in "Mad About Music."
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Zanuck has bought a "radio sketch called "Meridian 7-1200" for screenida. It's about the voice that broadcasts the time of day in New
York.
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Nigel Bruce is supporting William Powell and Annabella in "The Baronces and the Butler."
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Stella Ardler, famed for her emotional acting on Broadway, An actor playing the, important
Lavishly mounted with some comes to Hollywood to do a farcical part of Lord Finch was taken ill, sixty-odd breath-taking sets, In- comedy called "Love on Toast" for Kay learned his part in a few hours cluding a cathedral, a castle and Paramount. and helped the show to go on by the sumptuous castle ballroom, performing century gallant.
Prisoner of Zenda" offers some of latest discovery, Dermis · O'Keefe, She happend to be present be- the most impressive and beautiful will be teamed in "She of the Triple cause her film-director husband, scenes ever filmed, notably the Chevron" They have just played John Cromwell, is also the director. Coronation ceremony and the together in "Bad Man of Brim- of the play.
ús
an
eighteenth- designed by Lole Wheeler, The Virginia Bruce and. M-G-M's
Coronation ball
stone.
all been mentioned for the femi- nine part. Production has started.
Thomas Mitchell has been given a contract by Sam Goldwyn. following his work in "Hurricane" He la at present playing for War- ners in "Everybody was very Nice." Mona Barrie is also in the east,
COCONUT GROVE Paramount are planning "Coco- nut Grove," a picture-story of the famous restaurant as a Hollywood hunting-ground for talent. Shirley Rose and Bob Hope will be the romantic leads and Ben Blue and the Yacht Club Boys the comedy strength;
"Man-Proof" in the new title for M-G-M's "The Four Marys” in which Myrna Loy and Rosalind Russell co-star.
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Prisoner Zenda
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MADELEINE CARROLL
MARY ASTOR - DAVID NIVEN
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