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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
ICE FOLLIES OF 1939
* More Golden Meyer PARE
TO-MORROW
FOR ONE DAY ONLY
CRAWFORD
JAMES STEWART LEW AYRES-LEWIS STONE
*THE INTERNATIONAL ICE POLLINI-
EXES SHEMAROT 3 DAY EKINSTAR EDDIE SHIPSTAR and OSCAR FORMISAN.
"THE LEGEND OF MANG KEUNG“
A Chinese Picture with Full English Subtitles
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"The Lady Objects"
QUEEN'S:
"Ice Follies of 1939**
ORIENTAL:
"Border Town”
CATHAY:
"My Lucky Star”
ALHAMBRA
Kowloon
"For Love Or Money”
STAR:
"They Won't Forget" MAJESTIC:
1.
"Soviet Border"
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4 SHOWS
PLESURE
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ROAD
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SPECIAL FOR TODAY ONLY! RETURN ENGAGEMENT-
Here's one of the outstanding pictures of the past, you'll sée Muni at his very best in this story of a man without a.heart and a woman without a soul.
PAUL
MUNI
and
BETTE
DAVIS
BORDER TOWN
Warner Bros. tarpdie dreimas ni
the Suburke at kreipt
2 DAYS ONLY TOMORROW & THURSDAY, THE YEAR'S MOST SENSATIONAL SCREEN PRODUCTION!
Drama so real it might have happened to you?
"AMBUSH"
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The Picture That Shows Man
What Woman's Love Can Meani
THEY WONT FORCET
San or
GLORIA
CLAUDE RAINS DICKSON EDWARD NORRIS
A MERVYN LIROY PROD'N
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RUGGLES OF RED GAP
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"THE TEXAS RANGERS”
-FRGO MACMURRAY JACK DAKIE
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TO-MORROW & THURS
Romanon Portal! #AMA
RICHARD DIX
BLIND
Coming
"Charlie Chan In Honolulu" QUEEN'S:
"Legend Of Mang Keung"
ORIENTAL:
"Ambush""
CATHAY:
"Blind Alibi” ALHAMBRA:
"Legend Of Mang Keung" STAR:
"Ruggles Of Red Gap" MAJESTIC:
"Little Miss Thoroughbred"
Salling Along"
"The Lady Objects" At The King's
CINEMA & GENERAL
THE MODERN CINEMA. SAFETY AND COMFORT
The cinema has made itself an Institution of this modern are; but it has taken many years for the cinema itself to reglian this fact, "Until quite recently, the cinema, from the points of architecture and design, has been content to be a pale Imiltation. of its parent, the thmare,
follows
Only now have those responsible for the building and fur- nishing of cinemas awaken to the fact thes Form function" and that there is a necessity whatsoever for the eineria to follow the tradition of theatre design. Doubtless there are bound to be tortum lighting control equipment similarities, especially in the cases for the cinema. That its products of those cinemas where provision have made a deep impression in is made for the staging of variety cinema circles is proved beyond all acts or other performances. But doubt by the number of contracts as far as the disposition of seats which the Arm is called upon to and questions of acoustics go,. the fulal not only in Great Britain but modern cinema must strike out on throughout the Empire and In
many foreign countries. its own path,
With the realisation that they It is hoped that these details. interest Overseas cinema are not bound by a tradition of may theatre design, many of those re-owners, for in soine parts of the sponsible for the erecting of new Empire the cinema seems to be cinemas in England are also turn-experiencing something of a boom. ing their backs on the former It is reported that in South Africa idea of the mass-produced cinema a circuit of modern luxury cine- and are employ mg really first-class (mas is to be erected to take the architects to produce buildings place of all the present old-style houses. At Mutzenberg, Capetown's with some individual distinction.
No "Publie Taste"
seaside resort, a modern luxury It will not be long before the cinema is to be built with a first- benefits of this development are class hotel above, while in the apparent, Cinema owners who for. central part of Capetown a non- merly thought that by aping exist- European cinema seating 1,200 to ing styles they were conforming 1,500 will be erected. to "public taste" will discover that architecturally, there is no such
thing as this public taste."
Through the architect, the
FILM STAR
cinema owner has a duty to the AND CHILD
man in the street. "to develop good taste in a subconscious mariner through his building design." In collaboration with his architect he can create functional beauty.
· REFUGEES
WASHINGTON
This tendency, of course, is not JOE E BROWN AT limited to the exterior of thel cinema; it is, indeed, not limited at all, for the ideal of functional beauty is all-embracing. It applies to the very uniforms of usherettes and attendants 23 much as it does to facades.
With a serious expression re- placing his dual `broad -grin," Joe E. Brown, the motion pic- ture star, flew into Washington recently from Hollywood to ask the House Immigration Committee to approve admis- 'sion to the United States of 20,000 child refazees in the -next two years.~~
Functional Beauty A smashingly dramatic tale, of
Where, then, does the valué le marriage destroyed by a career of achieving this functional beauty seeking wife, Columbia's "The Lady in cinema design, furnishings and Objects' which opens at the King's accessories? It can be said empha- Theatre to-day, races to its thrill-ucally that the valtie lles in public. Describing, himself as "plain Alled climax in a court of law, response, for the public is quick Joe E Brown, of Holgate, Ohio,” where the modern Portia defends to react to good taste and attrac-Mr. Brown laid down a premise her husband against the charge tiveness, sind, perhaps even that "children should be helped of murdering "the other women."
without being aware of it, always wherever they are." He added. Gloria Stuart and Lanny. Ross endorses the genuine effort to Children have to belong, other- are featured in "The Lady Ob- | produce the best.
wise they perish." jects," which is a moving account There is no space-here to des- His four children-two grown of the problem faced by many acribe any of the latest of British sons, and two adopted girls, six young husband. Their roles are cinemas in order to give examples and eight, he said were "tour heart-warmingly human ami
of the way in which cinema good reasons for my interest in delightfully played to make
the owners are.
turning from thethis bill." new film a vivid document of a "mass-produced" to the individu- { Wagner-Rogers Bill broken home repaired only after ally-designed cinema. The fact re- The measure, to which Mr. the courtroom renunciation of her maine that, having accepted the Brown gave his approval is the career by Miss Stuart.
value of functional beauty, they Wagner-Rogers bill to admit 10,000 are avoiding half measures and German refugee children in 1939 doing the thing properly.
Miss Stuart, a blonde cameolike beauty, appears in her most import ant role to date. She is seen as a young modern unwilling to forego her career as a lawyer in order to help her husband further his career as an architect. Mr. Ross, as the would-be architect, turns in despair to the only other trade he knows ...that of singing, He becomes a night club enter- tainer, and so widens the breach between himself and his wife..
In addition to Ross, Miss Stuart and Miss Marsh, "The Lady Objects" has a cast that includes Roy Benson, Pierre Watkins, Robert Paige, Arthur Loft, Bess Flowers, Ann Doran, Gene Morgan, Beatrice Blind, Dick Curtis, Robert Flake, Stanley Brown, and others. William Perlberg, produced the Alm for Columbia.
HOLLYWOOD WHISPERS
Seen together for the first time for many months, a shopping tour at Santa Bar- bars has givea a Allip to the romance between Greta Garbo and Leopold Stokowski,
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Collapsing while at work in the studio. Betty Grable was operaten on for appendicitis. She is better now, but her young- husband, Jackie Coogan, flew to see her m Texas, where he was giving personal stage appearances.
Claudette Colbert may replace Myrna Loy as the screen wife for William Powell in the next Thin Man picture
Tyrone Power will gain team with the young ice dancer, Sonja Henle, in the new musical. When Winter Comes.
"Marlene Dietrich has signed foo the star part in a French film, The Image; the story of which is by Erich Remarque. She will go to Faris next September..
Both Golden and Twentieth Centary-Fox are making hims featuring Scotland Yard-
Technical Equipment
1.
and 10,000 in 1940, beyond the regülar. German immigration Quite as important as decora- quota, He said the appearance of tions, seating, and so on, for Helen Hayes, actress of the achieving design and comfort in legitimate stage, before a Senate the cinema, is the question of in-Committee about a month ago in stalling the best technical equip-support of the same bill had ment. In this, too, overseas cinema moved him to testify. owners can benefit by the example Asked whether he would be set in Britain, where over 80 per willing to adopt a refugee child. rent, of the cinemas have installed Mr. Brown revealed for the first equipment by BTH
time publicly, he said, that his two
B.T.H, which, of course, stands young daughters are adopted and for the British Thomson-Houston for seven years he gave a home Co. Ltd., of Rugby, is the only to Mike Frankovitch, former stand company in the world which quarterback of the University of manufactures the complete equip Callfornia at Los Angeles. He also mert for sound-fim "profection referred to his active interest in together with stage and andi- the Boys Club of Hollywood,
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TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1939 PAGE
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Drama that stabs through. to your inner
WOMEN LAWYER DEFENDS OWN HUSBAND AGAINST CHARGE OF MURDERING
THE OTHER WOMARI
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KRAZY KAT And ANDY ÖLYDE in "ANKLES AWAY ***
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"CHARLIE CHAN IN HONOLULU “ with SIDNEY TOLER Phyllis Brooke Sen Yang Eddie Collins
"John King A 20th Century Fox Picture
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IT'S BREEZY! IT'S ZIPPY!
"Hilarious!
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
• SHOWS DAILY 2.30 5 201 720-230
JUNE LANG
ROBERT KENT
"FOR LOVE.
OR MONEY"
A New Universal Picture
"THE LEGEND OF MANG KEUNG”
A Chinese Picture with English Subtitles
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
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MATINEES. 204 30. • EVENINGS, 208-30.50270) TODAY AND TOMORROW SEE TO-MORROW BIGGEST LITTLE STAR
In Her Very First Picture
Little Miss
THOROUGHBRED
with JOHN LITEL ANN SHERIDAN FRANK MCHUGH JANET CHAPMAN
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY HOLD THAT CO-ED
A 20th Century-Fox Picture.
Actress Is Halted At Gangplank For Buencamino Trial
NEW YORK
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