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ROBERT BARRAT
JOAN BENNETT and RANDOLPH SCOTT
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"KING'S:
"In Old Chicago"
"QUEEN'S:
"The Texans”
ORIENTAL.
"Undersea "Kingdom"
Kowloon
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"The Texans”
STAR:
"Gay Divorcee"
MAJESTIC:
"Paradise For Two"
KING'S.
Coming
"Woman Chases Man" QUEEN'S: 1.
"Sing. You. Sinners" "Swing Your Lady" ORIENTAL:
"Undersea Kingdom" ALHAMBRA.
"Sing. You, Sinners" "China To-Day"
STAR:
"Fools For Scanda!".
"Love. Honor And Behave" MAJESTIC:
"The Divorce Of Lady" X”
CINEMA & GENERAL
GLAMOUR GIRL OF OLD CHICAGO
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1938. —PAGE 5
Beautiful Alice Faye, favourite of many a musical film, has the biggest role of her career as the glamourous Belle Fawcett in “In Old Chicago," which is showing at the King's Theatre to-day. ·
GERALDINE FARRAR WRITES
ALICE FAYE A
SUCCESS
For a long time Alice Faye wished she could get a chance to sing and dance in the movies, Then for a long time she wished she hadn't had the chance. Now, with her appearances in "In Old Chicago" she feels that she's achieved the happy medium; she dances and she sings, but her role, is essen- tially dramatic.
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As Belle Fawcett. she has the most powerful role of her career, and is ably supported by Tyrone Power and Don Ameche as well a big cast of seasoned screen players.
The picture had its gala pre- miere at the King's Theatre last night and was voted a great suc- Cess
LATEST
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Opera-Singer Who Became Silent Screen Star
Geraldine Farrar must be the only opera-singer who became a silent screen' star. (Hope Hampton was silent star who became prima donna}. Possibly also only baseball manager's daughter to become both.
Farrar Was the
Goldwyn star their sheer lack of sophistica- back in
end-of-war days. tion, bubbling good humour and Also in 1915 starred as Joan of warm human sentimenj.
Arc, which is more than Garbo. With Fred MacMurray, Donald Hepburi, Colbert or any of the Connor, Ellen Drew and Eliza- other candidates have achieved beth Patterson heading the cast yet.
with Bing. It has le showing at Now she's written ari autoblo- the Queen's and Alhambra Thea-graphy from her farmyard retire
ment, Paramount are bidding for tres to-day.
the rights. Might use Gladys
pen
of Claude Binyon, concerns the Swarthout, who's vaguely enough
The gay story, from the
frantic efforts of a small town
the same type,
Might be a BING CROSBY'S California family to get a ne'er-
better idea, too. do-well son, played of course by than their present one of anish
ing Swarthout's contract with a Bing. to settle down and get a "B" pleture costing only three ich so that his brother. MaMur-
times as much as Bing ary, who has been earning
salary. is one ofving for them all. Car those all-too-rare motion pictures the girl with whom he has been which win their way Into the keeping company for hearts of audiences by means, of | years.
"Sing
Binners," You Crosby's latest film,
CROSSWORD
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the star's.
Zorina has been the object of a several studio tug-of-war. But ballerina Zorina, who acted and looked, as well as danced so nicely in Gold- wyn Follies. is victim instead of victor.
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19 Implement
21 Јаралезе
colm
22 Liquefy by
Heat
23 Bouth
American
mountains
25 Agitated 27 Forca 29 Candlenut
-tree
30 Division of
Soviet Russia.
34 Heaped
38 Month in
the Jewish calendar
39 Winged part 41. Crippled
42 Lease
43 Free from Faulty
45 Golt mound 46 Tell secrats 48 Covering for
ankle and mstep...
50 Closes minially 61 Penetrate 52. Otherwise 53 Shakespear- ian king
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2 Member of an.
Indian tribe
3 Boys
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5 City in
Georgia Sketch.
7 Ever (poet)
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certain vine
11 Immerse 12 Bristle-like
organ
14 Hastened 17. Thing; in
law.
20 Bar used to
.exert force at one point
22. Delicate 24 Title of
respect
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28 Malignant be
spirit
28 Pertaining to
a kingdom
of Asia
30 Condiment 31- Mental Images 32 Military
* engagement
33 Beverage. 25 The second. ane referred to
35 Arabian
chieftain
37 Horned animal Ao Spiritual
being
43 Charity 44 Native of
Denmark 47 Pibe of the palmyra palm 40 Eskimo
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Been starring with high success on Broadway in a dancing musical called "I Married an Angel" M-G-M snapped up the rights out uf Sam Goldwyn's twitching ncg- ers,
Goldwyn tried to buy rights and M-G-M tried to hire Zorina" from Goldwyn but neither "would give in. So Zorina has to content per- self with a new story being writ-
ten to Goldwyn's orders.
Can't be too easy to vamp up a dim about ballet-dancing. But Zorina makes it worth trying.
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DEAN OF CANTERBURY TO
MARRY AGAIN
Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, who is:64, has announced his engagement to Miss Nowell Mary Edwards, an artist daughter of the late Rev. G, Z. Edwards, of Formby Lancashire.. Dr. Hewlett Johnson's first wife died in 1931 when he was Dean of Manchester
“Miss -Edward l in her early thirties," a friend sald in an Interview:"","Sho second cousin of the...” Dear and since the death of his
first wife she has acted on › many occasions as his hostess."",
Miss Edwards studied at the Royal College of Art where she won a travelling scholarship.
was
The wedding will take place in the autumn, "Very quietly and privately not at Canterbury
When the engagement announced the Dean and Edwards were in Barcelona, where they have been studying
the problem of moving destitute, and orphaned - Spanish children places of safety».
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