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Easy talking comedy, "Free and which is showing at the Queen's Theatre, calls to mind the amusing manner in which this young woman who is still in her toons acted when she was first interviewed by officials of the picture company.
It was a spring morning in 1923 that Page went to the M-G-M
Anita
hair studio. She had a cold, her wasn't curled and she was fretful at the long bus ride.
Sam Wood, director, and John Lancaster, casting executive, wanted her to have a screen test.
don't want to; I want to go home! this little Cinderella in Movieland pouted.
The officials were amazed. A girl
didn't want who
a screen test! Her stubbornness made them want her more than before. The test was William became made and she Haines' leading lady overnight,
Since then Anita Page has definite
ly
d herself as the
most
of the younger players in but her rise is not one of those successes which just happen.
Anita
was the first actress on the West Coast to study voice culture. Being under legal age, Anita by the law of California, had to spend certain time each day at school. As she was a a high school graduate and was anxious to devote the necessary timo to study at the University of Southern California, the M-G-M
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before days of the second studio
evon
on
the Culver City lot and no one at
that time had begun to think of pre-
paring himself for talking pictures. Samshui and Wuchow Consequently when talking pictures Saigon
bad Anita
finally came in,
A head Manila start on 1 her contemporarice and found Amoy herself utterly at case before the Heihow and Haiphong microphone, a poise which made her Swatow stand out like a fish on dry land. Amoy She became in constant, demand for featured parts and it is not long be fore she will be on her way to star- dom.
Dundee Sisters in Song and
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And so it is that "It's Great Life," the first Duncan Sisters taiking pic- ture, which will come to the Queen's Theatre, on Wednesday, takes, that situation and makes of it a very entertaining storood has
Director Sam
made a human and realistic production out of of the trials and tribulations
Jimmy Casey, Babe Hogan, and Dean, the piano player whose interest: in Babe, and quarrels with Casey, bring about the split-up.
"It's a Great Life" opens with the two girls as clerks of a department: store. Then we see them the hit of a very funny amateur show"
given by the store. Only they are "ean- bosses, ned" for burlesquing the which throws them right on vaudeville stage. An immediate hit, they are on their. up when the marriage of Babe and Jimmy causes the two girls to split.
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the
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on
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Tanned Lega."
A new slant of the younger genera- tion that will cause many an Ameri- can parent to both punder and smile is presented amid dazzling beauty in Kadio Pictures' Tanned Legs," scheduled for the screen of the Central Theatre' on Wednesday.
at last seems to have caught
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screen the
ful star whose smile
ile and voice pro-
mise to carry her far.
Songs, da
dances.
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just-serious-enough drama. There's youngster making the plunge from
Д
thrill or two for variety and enough civilization to a battle-field dug-out. legs to give Ziegfeld nightmares, but
Second Lieutenant Raleigh, the
te the rhythm and the wise-crack-youngster, played
ing that put the show in the hit class and Captain by David Manners,
by a good wide margin..
Five
Clare
new songs by Levnut and
played by
Colpe, the
MIDNIGHT DRAMA AT A LONELY HOUSE.
An extraordinary midnight in
in- officer, cident was described at the
the Clive, are
been quest at. Colwyn Bay on Elizabeth; eigh, who has
school companion, Leyland, aged 72, of Prescot, Lan-
promise to outbid their "Street crash this man who cashire, a holiday-maker, whose
Ciri" numbers for popularity. Two arrives to
of these, "With Me, With You," and was his ideal, Eis former athletic body was found on the shore be
already hero, and now his war hero. Stan-low Permain Head cliff. "You're Responsible," are familiar to radio fans.
who is all that he is now despite Robert Edward Stephen, who hope, why drinking, and who is in his heavy "Journey's End.”*
15 lives in a lonely house near Pen-. The Central Theatre will present love with Raleigh's sister, is forced main quarries, said that on a recent
to almost for the first time here on Sunday, to send the young man October 20 the Tiffany-Gainsborough sure death for the sake of getting Wednesday night he left the front all-dialogue film version by arrange- certain information that must be had. door unlatched for his family, who ment with Maurice Browne, of R. C. Lieutenant Oshone
as old as fore midnight he heard the door world-famous play, Maclaren), who layed by Ian had gone on a trip. Shortly be. It is recorded by Stanhope. has a role in the play open, and as his two dogs did not PA Photophone, directed by James wherein he helps the young man to bark he thought that the wind was Whale, supervised by George Pearson see that, while his school hero has responsible.
ΟΙ
Sherriff's now "Journey's End.'
including
twice
4
He went down in his bare feet,
and Joseph Moncure March did the lost many qualities in his change continuity. Colin Clive heads the station to that of a war hero, yet
time gained a carrying a candle he said and as David Manners, Lan he has at the game Maclares,
Bushell,
Billy number of good qualities with the he was going to shut the door an Anthony
axe appeared from the darkness Charles
Gerrard, Jack losing of the others.
Robert
"Journey's End" is not a historical outside. He dropped the candle neriteley,
drama of the war-it is intimate, and grasped the axe finging it "Journey's End" is a elles of life quiet, even. It does not express its behind him.jp that has been cut from the middle thoughts in shocking profanity. It
A'Dair and Thomas
He saw the shadowy outline of
the band, or wave periods of the world's history-the any flags, or ret 1-te fracas in France. The scene of
of one of the most intensely dramatic does not strike up worth any pro./a woman retreating, and, ran after
+11/2
It is
story
of men--you her. He heard her say, "There is of pagan Alth and stench and my brother over there. He is com- ̈ play is in the British trenches before St. Quentin. The entire action fighting, but in your mind you can see ing, he is coming."
He was unable to follow, and takes place in a single dug-out under them in their homes--you can ses
sea
a trench and covers four days of the them as the men they were before war when he had dressed the woman thing that we were told was for grabbed them, as the men they want had vanished." democracy. In short, it is the story to be if they get out of it safely. A verdict of found drowned" of the effect that going into the that is how cleverly R. C. Sherriff
was returned. trenches for the first time had on a has devised his-play..