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More than 112 principai speaking players are chat in D. W. Grifth's "Abraham Lincoln," the Unted Artists all-dialogue screen romance of the Emancipator's life, which opens at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow.
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fecting an invention and was har rowly saved from a prisen term; and a daughter who got into difficulties with a man who wouldn't marry her.
How the old German patiently alicks by, his children and helps them out of their respective dilemmas
The returns of makes up an engrossing picture which will linger in one's memory fer n amount of bank notes in circula
[tion and of specie in reserve in long time.
the-average-
Sam Waad deserves a big hand 1er Hongkong,,during the month end- his direction which gives the righted 31st July, 1931, na certißed by proportion to characterization without the Manngers of the respective
Banks are: impending the gelion of the plot.
Trial ...
For sheer numerical strength this Is the largest cast over assembled in
The scenes of the barber shop with single motion, pleture, exceeding
Janko even Griffith's stupendous "Intole its individual shaving mugs, iron- lerance," "The Birth of a Nation" boilled wood-burning
stove, old-lunghong Lank
Chartered link fashioned mirrors and other relics of Mercantile Bank .... and "Hearts of the World.”
Ninety scenes and sevenly seis area bygone age brought forth howls of shown in the picture. The aats, de merriment from last night's audience. signed by William Canteran Menzion, art supervisor at the United Artists studios, Include a slave ship on the High seas; the birthplace of Lincoln; his various law offees; a Southern in the *plantation; various
For White House: battle *Cross Sheridan's famous
ridle and Lee's tast stand; the Ford Theatre where Lincoln was shot and various sym- bulle backgrounds.
character role.
roonis
New Comedy-Drama at Quečna.
Average
Amount in Henerve. 180.197,623 112.000.000
22,910,629 *,300,000* 1,10,139 7,200,0001
$58,028,809 121,850,000
In addition Sterling Securities "Scotland Yard."
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and also of the In addition Securities deposited "Good Intentions"
Movietone. dramatic Fox
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£3,078,000. at the Kiis's Theatre, is a close ob server and skuilent of the selectivo drama.
In addition Securities deposit- Both of these auècesse feature ed with the Crown Agents Valued Edmund Law in smooth-working,ut £180,000, clever criminal roles, so popular with sereen audiences everywhere..
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The whole pageant of Lincoln's life passes in review, with the romance of the martyred President and Ana Rutledge stressed in an Important and
"The success of such pictures," which comes to the King's Theatre Howard maintains, "depends upon the next, entertaining way.
which important
Unusual as it may seem, her parents leading this tremendous cast of thoroughness with 112 are Walter Huston, na "Lincoln; details are Bled, and the knowledge never offered the least objection to Kay Hammond, as Mary Todd Lia. of the subject brought to the drama her repeated assertions that she in- coln;" Una Merkel, as "Ann Rut by both the screen author and the tonded to become an actress. ledge Ian Keith, as "John Wikes east in "Scotland Yard" has been in left only the customary years in England, the locale of the school to be hurdled before begining Booth: Jason Robards, as "Hernor lived do." Lincoln's young law partner: stary, and all except Edmund Lowe her career.
Her grade school days were spentsalt Hobart Bosworth, as "Robert E. have attended school there. Even
Covington. Her high school Lee;" Frank Campeau, as Phil in Bennett, the lending lady, at | in
diploma was awarded in Philadelphia, Sheridan" playing an important tended school for a tine in London.
"For authenticity in the operations since her parents had moved to the Quaker city during the interim. Her of Scotland Yard, I had with me as
ather achievement of note during her technical adviser on the set during residence in Philadephin was a per- the entire production Gerald Samson. As natural a picture as has been an Englishman who at one tune was fact reued as Sunday school teacher seen on the screen in some time, re Junior Private Secretary to Mr. Lloyd Church, where she taught for four In the Handley Gränge, Reform plete with both the cone and pathetic George and who is intimately fanlari moments of life, is on view the with the inside workings of the Queen's Theatre I thr form of famous British police and detective! "Then I got my break," Miss Merkel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Sins of the services.
de the declares, 1 got two lines in a play Thes we feel Children." which marks
the initial feebleally dramatically, "Scotland called Two By Two, and it lasted screen appearance of Louise Mann, Yard" is true
life in every de Just twis weeks." veteran of the stage.
Short as it proved to be, this en- tait." The reasons for the lifelike mali,
"Scotland Yard” was adopted 200gement was enough to attract pro. ties of this picturo lle in the simplicity: the screen by Garrett Fort from the ducers to Miss Merkel's possibilities. } of its story of an old tierman barber sensation stage
There followed in rapid succession- play of the same roles in "The Poor Nut," "Pige." Owing to our numerone brauche in China who his difficulties in raising larger by Denison C. The excel Coquette," "The Gonipy Sex," "Salt med entre of the world, we are able te bront of children, and the effective, ent supporting east includes Barbara Water," and a six weeks engage- stand to our allerle spalat testicles for performances upon the part of Los Lunard. Lamsden Hare, Mann in the central role and Elliot Crisp. Georges Renevant and all ment in vaudevile with Lynn Over, domestic and foreign banking sai mahange. Nugent, Lein Hyams, Robert Meat well Hobbs. gomery, Francis X. Bushman, Jr.,
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An old test made three years before for silent pictures was run for D. W. Griffith when he was casting “Abra- look at Minn ham Lincoln." One Merkel's piquant Southern loveliness and she was signed.
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