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FICE FOLLIES
STARRING
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LEW AYRES
LEWIS STONE
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LUCILE "BALL IN NEW FILM: "TWELVE CROWDED HOURS”
Lucile Ball, whose rise has been nothing short of spectacular during the past year, has been awarded the feminine lead oppo-. site Richard Dix in "Twelve Crowded Hours," which goes into production at RKO Radio soon. The cast also will include such well-known players as John Ar- ledge, Donald MacBride, Bradley Page and Allan Lane.
First appearing on the screen as
a model in "Roberta," Miss Ball, later scored outstanding successes
B.6: -1
comedienne, notably :' in
Striking Resemblance
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Submarine. Patrol”
QUEEN'S:
"Ice Follies Of 1939".
ORIENTAL:
"Zaza"
CATHAY:
"We're Going To Be Rich"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Ice Follies Of 1939"
STAR:
"The Shining Hour" MAJESTIC:
"Blackwell's Island”
KING'S:
Coming
"The Lady Objects"
QUEEN'S:
"Legend Of Mang Keung"
ORIENTAL:
"Cafe Society"
"Border Town"
CATHAY:
"My Lucky Star”
ALHAMBRA;
"For Love Or Money"
STAR:
"You're Only Young Once" "Farewell Again"
MAJESTIC:
"Soviet Border"
CINEMA & GENERAL
MECCA FILM
The Government of Bombay has authorised, the Bombay Board of Flim Censors to permit the exhibition of the film "Mecca" (Haj) produced by an Egyptian Company.
A Scene from "Soviet Border" which opens at the Majestic Thestre to-morrow
"THAT URGE TO CREATE SOMETHING": HOLLYWOOD
ART DIRECTOR IN MANHA
*
Paul Youngblood, Hollywood art director, arrived Manila on June 17 on the Klaveness Ifner Corneville for Al indefinite stay. He will be associated with George Muster, and producer, and Harry Anderson, Hollywood expert cameraman, in production there. Considered one of the leading
Recently
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A Columbia
THE LADY OBJECTS"
WITH
Picture
LANNY ROSS
GLORIA STAURT
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He has been in the moving
Some months ago be said he art directors in Hollywood, Mr. saw the Philippine production Youngblood worked with Frank Zamboanga, and realized the Capra in the production of The possibilities of producing there Lost Horizon."
he better moving pictures. worked with Howard Hughes in
Movies In The P .I. the production of the Columbia He believes moving picture pro picture. "Only Angels Have duction in the Philippines is Wings."
"the stage of Hollywood 20 years He left work on a Columbia | £50.".. picture in production, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring picture business since 1915- and James Stewart, to visit the Philphad worked not only for Colum The picture purports to show pines
bia Pictures but also for Metro- some phases of Mecca during the
"For the past seven Haj period and chiefly deals with have wanted to come here he Fairbanks.
Goldwyn-Mayer and for Douglas the procession of the Egyptian said on his arrival. Mehmil (Holy Carpet).
"Some yearS He is not only an art director, The Government has instructed sumatra with a friend on a pic man.
ago I thought I would go to but also an experienced prop
He specializes in produc the Board of Film Censors to arrange for the alteration of the title of the Film to Mecca during through and I was not the Haj Pertod" and also for the excision of Sultan Ibin Saud's speech with is considered out of He was given a rousing place.
years
ture venture, but the deal falling landscapes in miniature and
come."
Rousing Welcome
able
to to scale.
To Satisfy Urge
in
.. In answer to the surprise gen- erally expressed at their coming wel-here, where salaries are consider- Come by his friends in Manila, ably much less than those The film was previously certifedted by Mr. and MgMusser and Hollywood, both Mr. Anderson by the Punjab Board of Film Mr. and Mrs. Anderson. Censors and exhibited in Lahore band was at
A brass and Mr. Youngblood explained the pier while that they, came here to satisfy and other places..
friends waved Lags Op which "that urge to create something." were printed "Mabuhay." He is Mr. Youngblood added that staying temporarily with "Hollywood studios are no longer Mr. and Mrs. Anderson at their what they used to be, and ате residence on Calle Zamora, Santa now only factories which grind
out celluloid entertainment."
GOOD
now
FRIENDS.
Fred MacMurray has joined the ranks of the Bing Crosby fans, It was' disclosed
MacMurray was working on an adjacent sound stage to the one
JAMES ELLISON.
James Ellison; one of the most
on which Crosby was working in popular leading men on the screen "Paris Honeymoon." Some one re- to-day, has been signed by RKO marked that Crosby was recording Radio Pictures to a long-term con-
a song. MacMurray had a couple tract.
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of hours free and so he went to A graduate of the 'Moscow Art the stage to hear Crosby.
Theatre, Ellison received his first And at the end of recording, major screen opportunity from MacMurray and Crosby agreed on RKO. The result was an unusually a fishing date.
fine characterisation opposite The two stara became close Ginger Rogers iri "Vivacious friends while they were working Lady" He scored again in "Mother together in Ceell B. De Mille, Carey's Chickens." and "more Paramount produce "Sing You recently completed, with Lucille Sinners."
Ball, Next Time I Marry."
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new stand-in D
32 Fold (6) Robert Bisk will produce Twelve Crowded Hours, with Lew Landers explained anally. "He's the dd (1)
"He should look like me, Naish 33 Sun shade directing.
34. Pledged (8). Recently arrived from the East,
Last seen together in important
roles in Having Wonderful Time,”
Lucille Ball and Lee Bowinan are Herbert Naten is a graduate of
reunited in RKO Radio's "Next Fordham, where he
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Miss Ball
"standing-in" for his actor brother
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SOLUTION ON MONDAY
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Insults (7)
STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF FATE
Strange indeed are the ways of
fate.
Costello was a little girl, it was A few years back, when Dolores
her privilege to play a couple of minor roles in pictures in which her father, Maurice Costello, distinguished star of the stage and silent... Alma America's outstanding idol, was starred,"
and once matinee
Now Miss Costello has returned to the screen after a short absence and played the feminine role in "King of the Turf an Edward. Small production for United Artists release, starring Adolphe Menjou.
And those in the audience who remembered the face of a for- gotten star, will see that of Maurice Costello, if they tooked close in certain race track sé- quences, in which the one-time matinee idol works as an extra.
The efforts of two devil-may- care sergeants in the British army to keep fellow-sergeant from quitting the service, forms the plot of RKO Radio's "Gungs Din." co- starring Cary Grant, Victor Me Laglen and Douglas Fairbanks, J11, In a piturisation of Rudyard Kip- arrange for the alteration of the ling's famous balled
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BLACKWELL'S ISLAND
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SATINE JOHN
Garfield
ROSEMARY LANEL STANLEY FIELDS A Warner Bros. Picture
COMMENCING TOMORROW THE YEARS MOST TIMELY PICTURE
SOVIET BORDER
Soviet Border Defenses Shown for
An U.8.8. R Production with Engli
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