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MIGHTY ROMANCE OF THE GREAT SOUTH-WEST

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PRODUCTION

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ROBERT BARRAT

JOAN BENNETT and RANDOLPH SCOTT

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Today's Screenings

Hongkong

"KING'S:

"In Old Chicago"

"QUEEN'S:

"The Texans”

ORIENTAL.

"Undersea "Kingdom"

Kowloon

„ALHAMBRA :

"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

NO. 122

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5 Seaport of

Arabis

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for measuring

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12 Calm

13 Slow

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TUG-OF-WAK

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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movements

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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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1. Epoch (9

2 Member of an.

Indian tribe

3 Boys

4. La vexed or irritated.

5 City in

Georgia Sketch.

7 Ever (poet)

8 City of. India

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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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LAURENCE OLIVER in THE DIVORCE OF LADY X'

A United Artiates Picture

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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