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THE DRAMATIO AND THRILLING TALE OF
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VIOLET KOO
(Star of SABLE CICADA) in the Spectacular Historical Romance
WUCHEM TIEN
Thousands in the Cast! With English Subtitles.
FRIDAY
STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY
46
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THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOW....;,
Stars from every field of entertainment
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ONE OF THE BEST MUSICALS OF THE YEAR!
EVERYBODY SING"
ALLAN JONES, JUDY GARLAND, FANNIE BRICE A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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WALT DISNEY'S
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FIRST FULL LENGTH PRODUCTION,
Snow White
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Ric ard GreeneTM
MATINEES; 20c,-30c.-10c. EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c.-70c-80c.;
Hongkong
"Pardon Our Nerve".
QUEEN'S:
"Empress Wu-Chen- Tien'
ORIENTAL:.
"Dark" Journey”
CATHAY:
Dwarfs"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:..
"Trail Dust"
CINEMA & GENERAL
HOLLYWOOD'S CHILD STARS
Adolescents Coming Into Their Own
Hollywood-It is not altogether by chance that 1538 can be called the year of the adolescents. Intelligent design on the part of many cinemakers is responsible for the steady flow of Aine juvenille performances which has been the outstanding fen-" ture of the current gesson.
The
popularity. at ⚫ Mickey | as witness his fine performance in "Snow White And The Seven Roodey, Deanna Durbin and a "That Certain Age."
dozen other attractive youngsters Never a big star, Jackie Searle is more than a passing vogde. Ithing on in supporting roles, and represents & distinct departure ; has been gaining slowly but from custom, and the "new steadily in competence. Master maturity of the screen itself. Béarte was typed aer si child villain
For the first time" producers and had a hard time out growing".| have proved that they can guide it, but in due time his employers children safely over the dangerous found that he was"even better in Chorus period of the middle teens. They sympathetic roles.
have proved that a prodigy· can outlive his cuteness, and they have discovered that a natural gift for mimicry can be fostered and improved, with careful casting and smart writing.
STAR:
"The King And
Girl"
MAJESTIC:
The
"The Goldwyn Fotiles".
KING'S:
Coming
"You Can't Take It With You" QUEEN'S:
"Blockheads" ORIENTAL:
"Three Loves Has Nancy” CATHAY:
"She"
"Four Men And A Prayer” ALHAMBRA:
"Secrets Of A Nurse" "Blockheads".
STAR:
"A Slight Case Of Murder "If I Were King" MAJESTIC: "
"Everybody Sing"
"PARDON OUR NERVE"
FUTURE HOLLYWOOD
This ing the case, it is ob- vions that in the future Holly- wood will be able to rear an annual crop of stars within its own studios. As the child ac- tors come of age they will be qualified to hold their post- tions in the hierarchy. For the first time in screen history there is available a group of talented youngsters who have been" familiar with the problemas of screen acting (including dic- tion) ever since they can remem- ber. They have grown up, in the studio atmosphere, and have been trained in all the various arts and practices which are helpful in their profession.
As for Freddie Bartholomew, he has had poor casting since “Cap- tains Courageous,” and, needs a good vehicle to tide him over flat certain age. But he has the stuff In him, and can be counted among the stars of the future.
Judy Garland, who is being teamed with Freddie, Is a lëm cér- tain quantity. She illustrates the difference early training makes. She has been in pictures only two years, and is not nearly the sc- tress that, say, Jane Withers is.
BOBBY BREEN
No discussion of adolescents would be complete without mention of Bobby Breen, who enjoys, the distinction of belog the only child has on the screen. A "protege of Eddie Cantor's, Master Bobby croons and mugs, and few critics have had a kind word to say for the child. But there is apparently * market for this sort of thing. and in his own Cantoresque fleld Bobby may survive,
Here, at last, is a condition simi- lar to that which has given the legitimate theatre some of its The new generation, of course. greatest artista. Some of the film will not be recruited entirely from adolescents, no doubt, will fall by the reigning adolescents. There started on lifetime careers before, wood, who have had the same the wayside; but many have just are scores of youngsters in Holly-
camera.
training without the same re-. wards
A
Lynn Bari and June Gale Bay that a girl must Eve and, if pos-the sible, live very well, and when they set about to prove it in "Pardon Our Nerve," the 20th Century-Fox hit which opens to-day at the King's Theatre, the audience will And that it is more fun than t day at the fair
The film finds the girls as two hungry little angels museling in on the heaver where mink coats and caviar grow, and gallops off to a lively start when they are scnt horse-back riding by the Elite Escort Service. The patron hap pens to be the light-heavyweight
PRODIGIES WHO HAVE
SURVIVED Shirley Temple, of course, was the first prodigy to survive her curls.. On the other hand, Master Mickey didn't begin to hit his stride until he reached.. what was once the danger period. Only a short time ago Miss Durbin was getting along on her personality and her voice. Swiftly she grew into a full-fledged comedienne. Watch Bonita Granville. Now
champion of the world and the 15 years old, she is a veteran of
Some of them have knocked around in two-reelers, quickies, or Westerns, Plenty of talented kids never got a break, but their ap prenticeship will pay dividends later on.
Ann Rutherford is a grow-up young lady, but still able to play schoolgirls.in such ims 1.5 "Dramatic School." Not a star as yet, she has the sort of back. ground which is bound to keep her going in the right direction
She made her debut as a child
| girls make an impresssion--but it's six years standing, with fifteen actress at 5, and did radio acting bad. The horses run away and the features to her credit. Bora of during her high-school year.. picture's under way
She went into pictures as leading lady in a quickie, then settled down to hard work in lesser roles. She likes tennis and archery, rides Jane Withers always has had to horses and plays the piano. When play second addle to her stadio her chance' comes she'll be pre- mate, La Temple, and was miscast pared. in one Class B. picture after an-
theatrical parents. Miss Granville Lynn Bart has never been better has the added advantage of having and the supporting cast all give grown up in the atmosphere of the talented performances. H. Bruce stage. Humberstone directed the film from a screen play by Robert Bills and Helen Logan.
Sol M. Wurtdel was executive producer.
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other. But Miss Jane was irre- DIARY OF LOCAL
pressible. She kept her following and held out, and in the long run Constance Bennett has made up she may even surpass Bright Eyes. her mind to get that long post- "Poor Jackie Gooper" (they said poned divorce from the Marquis last year, when his voice began to de la Falaise, She will leave crack) is all washed up." His Hollywood for Paris after the first boyish cuteness had vanished, he of the year, and return In late was gawky, his fan mail was spring a free woman. But in the dwindling. So his studio" didn't meantime, It is strongly suspect renew his contract.
ed that she will marry Gilbert Roland the moment her divorce papers are final.
A HUNCH
But a chap in one of the in- dependent lots had a hunch. 'He hired Jackle for “Boy of the Streets,” geared the ktory to fit his changing personality, and the result was an unex- pected hit.
Most extraordinary situation was uncovered in the scrip of Warner's -“Juarez," ̧ ́ ́ Bette Davis, as the Empress Carlotta, never meets Pani Muni, playing the title role. The home-studio had not realiz during the entire story. Its | eď how much Jackie Had absorbed probably the first сале of this about picture-making. “He was a kind in the history of movie-mak-veteran at 15, and will be able to Ing.
take care of himself from now on,
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