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The Conquering Horde." classic Paramount picture now showing at the King's Theatre, starring Richard Arlen, is to be the main feature at- traction there. Emerson Hough, its
the author, was writer of "The Covered Wagon." Pararsount spared no effort to make this historically true story come to vibrant life on the talking screen, Extensive research. painstaking care in photography, and prolonged activities is the pictures que Western locations were devoted to the work of making this grant pro- duction.
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The story concerns the days just after the Civil War when cattic. raisers in Texas were land-poor and
and when unscrupulous
plotting "carpet-baggora" were forcing the
their Texans to sell
property fabulously low prices.
Fay Wray is seen as the proprie- treas of one of the most desirable ranch properties in Northwest Texas. She has a no and large herd of cat- tie, but she cannot convert them into cash because there is no way of get- Uing them to the rich Eastern mar- kets,
Into this situation comes Arlen, her childhood sweetheart, estranged from her because, as a West Pointer, he fought for the "Yanks" during the War. Arlen volunteers to lend her herd nerosa a tall which he is fami- linr with, taking the cattle to Abilene, Kaunas, the nearest railroad point.
The trek begins. It is fraught with great dangers from the elements, the lainous Carpet-bagora" who are trailing them, and the Coqianches of that region. Throughout the trip Fay suspects Arlen of plotting with the "carpet-baggers.” At last the con quering horde arrives triumphantly. and the estrangement of Arlen and his sweetheart is brought to a close with her discovery that he wan goverment secret service agent who had been sent to Texas to whip the "carpet-buggera."
"The Seas Beneath,"
According to the officini records, of the 200 German submarines captured ur sunk during the World War, eleven were destroyed by "Mystery ships" or "Q-ships," as they were sometimes eailed, and 17 by Allied submarines.
The joint actiun of an American submarine and an American "mystery ship" in trapping one of the most fungus German U-bonta, is the basis on which Director John Ford has created the climax of his unusual rtance of the Allied struggle against the nabmarines menace, "The Sca Beneath." Fox movietone coming to the screen of the King's Theatre next Tuesday.
With George O'Brien as theAmeri. can commander, Marion Leasing a the sister of the U-boat's exptain and John Lador As the German whip's fest Beer, a strange triangle of love and patriotism has been deftly woven into the story. Aboard a big three- masted schooner, the Dolphin," and
Warren Hymer. William Collier, Sr., and Walter C. Kelly are prominent in the enst. Collier alxs xtaped the pictum, with Dudley Nichols writing The screen play and dialogue, fram the original story by James Parker,
Jr.
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Bushell. Julius Josephson wrote the Stallings and Oscar Hammerstein It.
Ray Enright directed. screen adaptation.
“Submarine."
and great
The difficulties encountered by
At 200 feet. overcomes one. He
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS-
Acros
1 A nail and make merry for one who declined to take an, oath Some 50 years agʊ. "We are
nat amused," but sufficienty near it to freeze you to stone.
10 Central European with a Scots tail; but his head's a libel, an ho's a tidy fellow enough.
11 Dellentely referred to as "liar-
ridge's" by the novelists.
12 Lay bare the heather and find
the youngster.
13 Gumbol,
17 Found in parentheses.
19 A feature in that case deelden
the kind of ware.
20 Sounds a great weight without
a doubt, and yet 'twas only hair
oner,
21 A nervous twitch.
23 "Won't-catch-It” adjective.
27 He may or may not porme
stepfather.
28 A great event of 1OZE,
20 "No, sir, a mug?" (anag).
n
30 Where a Continent Wan split
asunder.
|31 Epithet for a monster (hyphen).
Dowa
2 Fell
3 A somewhat knightly service of
French origin. 4 Edwin or Matthew.
6 Developer of the anatomy of
wool,
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STICKERS
ΥΘΩ ΑΓΓ ΛΙΕΣ
The Greek letters shown above uppers
to be a conglomeration of college frater- nities jumbled together. However, if you arrange them properly, you will End that they may be made to spell three site-
le English words.
"Song of the West." In "Song of the West," the 100%
lower are forcibly national colour, singing, talking, danc-vers in trying to reach the
presented in ing Vitaphone picture in technicolour depths which comes to the Queen's Theatre Columbia's mighty drama of the sea, to-morrow Warner Bros. have a true entitled "Submarine.". The picture epic, which sweeps the spectator off in one of its most thrilling moments his feet not only by the medium of shows several divers trying to reach but by sound, by a wrecked submarine embedded 400 motion pictures, melody and singing, and by the ger-feet below the surface. geousness of natural colours taken the pressures against the magnificent background of loses consciousness and bleeds at the month. Through the window in his two United States underwater craft, the great out of doors West. the "3.47” and the huge, theet subi
"Song of the West" is a story of helmet the audience is allowed to see marine, "V-4," the company spent covered wagon days, from the begin-the man's face as he descends. The four weeks at sea filming and record ning of the trek of a wagon train, Tect is highly dramatic.
The precaution taken to prevent in- ing the nautical sequences of the pic-accompanied by a troop of soldiers
in the man is shown. He is ture and according to advance re from Fert Independence. across the Jury parts, have turned out a remarkable Sierras with their snow-capped peaks raised slowly to allow the body to production.
wilderness of space to adjust itself to the pressure, then California, the land of gold, of brawi-up reaching the surface is placed in ing mining camps, of San Francisco, a compression chamber until it is of the Golden Gate, in the days of the safe for him to come out into the nutural air. One of these "chambers Vigilantes...
It is an epic of colour, and through shown in "Submarine," which is
Vaccinations free of charge_der- formed by the St. John Ambulance it runs every moment a tremendous coming to Central Theatre on Sunday. drama, enacted on the plains, under It resembles a huge white tub with a the stars. around camp fires, with the door at one end. The pressure Dart Brigade up to and including Oct. 27 wagon train, and in the gambling nir within the tank are regulated from number 2,404, of which 725 were per- formed by the King's College Divi- An exact replica of a portion of
without and registered by meters.
shovasion, 1,258 by the Mongkok Division the House of Commons was built for hails of the rouring days of "49.
The most exciting moment The singing comes naturally, just the filming of the parliamentary scene
as it came to the old pioneers, who Jack Holt descending the full depth of and 481 by the Shaukiwan Division. of "Disraeli," the George Arline Warner Bros. Vitaphone production while away their tedius hours of fret a few yards at a time
murch scross two thousand miles of allow him to get used to the pre- now playing at the Queen's Theatre.
The audience Rees the heavy mountain and plain, and the music, Aura. The set, which is a fine example of
by that master of melody, Vincent hoots weighing twenty-four pounds Hollywood's set-building artistry, was
Youmans, who was also responsible twelve pounds of lead forming the constructed from the ground plan of
For "Hit the Deek" and "Rio Rita" soles of each. These weights carry the House, obtained from England.
weaves a background of song and the diver down and tend to overcome The woodworking and carving is also
of the water. When harmony that is truly representative the buoyance reproduced in an authentie manner.
once at the wreck the diver is shown of pioneer lifa. To me this set is one of the high
One marchas along with these crawling over its surface signalling to spots of Hollywood's miraculous planeers and soldiers, lives with them, the men ontrapped within. When he craft," said Ivan Simpson, one of the watches the wagon-oncircled tres die receives as answer he phones for the principal actora in this picture.out agsins: an immensity of stars. oxygen line and the audience is treat- Simpson is an Englishman who has The theatre and the screen seemed to a view of the manner in which bees associated with Arliss for a disappear, the roar art hurry oft descends and is attached to the Bumber of years in his various alage modern mechanistic life vanish-one vessel. The scens then cuts to the productions.
liven in a romantic era of the past interior of the submarine. The men
nearly overcome
inck by "When this picture is shown in ne vividly as if it were there. Thy are England, Londoners will swear that picture appeals to a scure of Amori oxygen. One has lost his mind and these scenes were actually filmed in life that goes back to the very imagines himself drowning: another The captain is count. The House of Commons, although they beginnings, because they are a race of unconscious. will of the stone time know that this pioneers, and something of the rest-ng out bullets to see if there are leolutely impossible. The ability lessness of the westward arch is it enough to go around. The oxygen of the Warner Brothers technicians them st
enters the boat. The crew brightens in reproducing settings and scenes of The cast of "Song of the West" The man drink in nir, as though it Every period is a continual marvel to includes John Beles, Visienna Segal, were water.
Joe E. Brown, Marie Welts. Sam These series are tremendous. They At Green directed "Disraeli," and Hardy, Marion Byron, Eddie Gribbon, are dynamic ned grip the spectator. the splendid cast suporting Mr. Martindel, Rudolph Cameron and The picture was made under the direc Arliss Includes, besides Mr. Simpana chorus of one hundred valeus.
It is tion of Frank Capra, with Juck Holt, Inan Bennett, Plorence Arliss, David indspied by Harvey Thew from the Dorothy Revier und Ralph Graves Į Torrence, Doris Lloyd and Anthony operretta "Rainbow" by Laurence heading the cast.
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6 Accepting a risk with a conceal-
ed Italian town in it.
7 Far from contehled,
8 Slaughtered with a holy finish. 14 All-observing life-saver with little cherub sitting aloft. 16 Conspicuous,
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25 A nice of the Near East,
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