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The Black Heart of Equatorial Africa-- the Belgian and French Congo — the Duck-Billed Women
- the Pygmies —
the Most Amazing Lion Fights Ever Screened
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“AGE FOR LOVE”-
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"AROUND the WORLD in 80 MINUTES"
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Those who saw "Africa Speaks" at the Central Theatre will never forget the dramatic emotional conflict of the picture, or the breath-taking beauty of the Congo Backgrounds. Added to these are the startling effects of the sounds of the jungle, caught by the sound flim for the first time
and transmitted exactly to the screen.
In the half blackteas of the theatre, one could close one's eyen for u mo- ment and feel oneself in a little clear- ing in the deep African wasters. The roar of a hungry on nenda a shud- der down the spine, the answering whimper of the monkeys,-! Are there in their primitive terrar.
When the story takes itself to the French Congo-the magnificent wo- men-with their huge duckbilled Ups. unforgettable. These women, the result of numerous Aral ralin that swept down time after time to depopulate the vilinge of females. delBerately disfigure themselves. to excape the lust of the desert marau- deck.
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CROWD ATTACK POLICE SAVAGELY.
Penang, Mar. 7. A Chinese crowd stoned a police station here when the police stopped cracker firing in celebration of the falsely rumoured death of the Japanese Commander-in-Chief at Shanghai,
A fierce hand-to-hand hattle with the police, who were assisted by firemon, ensued.
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The dancing of the native women of the French Congo is another dynamic feature of this Columbia picture. Cike their white compatriota of the Parisian piensure palace, there is little these savage girla
do not Limel Barrymore enacts the rolu know about the rhythmle movements. of the relentless and scheming police the human indy, Опе almosteer, and Laurence Olivier, a new- feels the intolerably oppressive atomer to the screen from the London i ́mosphere of the African night. the and New York stage is also featured! tom-toms benting out their age-old as an English journalist enamoured throbbing themes and the black
of Miss Land. The remainder of the bolles twisting in the frenzied ritunienst is made up of such luminaries of the ceremony.
a Walter Byron, Rita La Roy, Sarah Another background included the Palden, Arnold Korif, Micha Auer Fund janel of the pyganies, There little and Boris Karloff. "The Yellow Tic- pruple, one If the most intenselyket" was adapted for the screen from inmal in die jungle, have enstamis and tuananes of enlving ancient pro Blens that would shork Western zu-- ceptibilities, if they weren't so plainly natural and innocent. Trial nume
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“Afrinn skenk." will be shown in the Central Theatre for two ture only. The next change will be "All Quiet on the Western Front." the mightiest war picture ever been sven on the reen.
"Son of India,"
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Michel Marion's stage play of the ame name by Julen Forthninn, who also collaborated on the dialogue with | Alxandria Guy Bolton.
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"If you want to fearn how to do strongs and unsani things, po into motion pictures!!! This in the al- vier of Itamon Soverro, star of "Son of Indin." which will open to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre. Novarro ins had to acumint himself with a wide variety of netivities during the extreu of his screen carver.
The Age for Love** Howard Hughes, filandom's leading pralucer, has never tundle i mediocre picture, ant all of his films have been artistin triumphs and box-oiler clean- овдема The Age for Love, Mr. Hughes' intext production, which re- turns Billle love to the screen after more than a year's absence, will open At the Contral Theatre very soon.
Like his previoua presentations, "The Age Par Love IN Buther in the metrus sinash-picture, and politag centres where it has already played, hus duplicated the success of Mr. Hughes' "Hell's Angel" rul "The Front Page," with both critics and public.
Howard Hughes made bis bow to the tim industry with "Two Arabian Knights" and followed with "The stacket." Both of these finis woo awards from the Academy of Motion leture Arts and Sciencen ns "hest pictures" of the years, and won simi- lar honars in nation-wide polla of the country's lending movie critics.
"I had to become an expert awords- man in Scaramouche," and I used the urt of fencing nguin in 'Devil Mny Care," he says. "In The Pagan lived for pearls, using the careful technique of South Sea pearl divers. 'Daybreak' required me to learn-the i walk and the salutes of an Austrian The young producer then mude Carray offer. I learned how to pilot "Hell's Angels," which was the most
an aeroplane for "The Flying Fleet.'
lavish and spectacular moilon picture Devil Mny Care' required me to learn
of all time, and which established news recurds of popularity wherever Į the technique of waiting on table, and
of shipg shock. 'n Hurt of movies are exbibited. More recently course, male me a chariot driver. he manicked movie audiences every- And if you think that ༢
where with "The Front Page." an cas jstant-tre it some time.
And now romtes "The Age For "But I admit these things were Love," a United Artists relense, fairly simple compared to the trick I (another hold and sophisticated treat- had to learn for Son of Indin, for tent of a modern subject-love and I in this pleture I had to trap a tiger!" marriage. This is a new department |
"Son of India" was adapted from for Howard Hughes, but as always, P. Marin Crawford's novel. trings the hall once again with Isanes" by Ernest. Vajda. The pie superior treatment of a theme tnckled ture was produced by Jacques Rey. with less competent and courageous der, who recently directed Novarro in producers. "Daybreak." In the supporting east are Conrad Nagel, Marjorie. Rambeno, Mitchell Lewis, Joby Miljan and Nigel de Brutier.
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
"The Age For Love" was directed by Frank Lloyd, and is based on the popular novel by Ernest Pascal. Robert E. Sherwand, noted play- wright and movie erzie composed the I dialogue, and the east, in addition to Miss Dove, includes Charles Starrett, Lois Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, Minry Dunenti, Adrian Morris and Betty Ross Clarke.
The bent of the human heart re erntly was recorded in Hollywood for talking pictures for the first time. The sound effect was Recured by Houben Mamoulian, I'aramount direc
"The Phantom of Paris." tor, for a scene in "Dr. Jekyll and That Gaston Leroux, the noted Mr. Hyde, in which Fredric March French mystery writer, has outdone plays the dual personality role and himself in "The Phantom of Parin" Miriam Hopkins and Rose Holmrt is clearly evident in the film by that have the leading feminine roles. This name starring John Gilbert and now remarkable picture dramatization of playing at the Queen's Theatre. The Robert Louis Stevenson's weird story pleture is based on Leroux** novel, is the feature picture at the King's Cheri-Bibi." Theatre to-dny.
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A glittering theatre, a vast French heart to the quality attained by lis-
prison.
The veteran director, John Robert tening through a stethoscope.
The henet-beat was conceived by detall. In the penal institution the son, evidently has been a stickler for Mamoulian as one of his novel effects setting is correct, even to the use of in the Stevenson story; by use of solid steel doors, so much in contrast this, the director will obtain the to the barred doors of our institu- sensation of one's own heart pound-Lions. This is where the magician ing in one's ears as he chronicles the Cheri-Bibi, played by John Gilbert, experiences of Jekyll in transforming foils the police by using his tricks for the first time into Hyde.
Lo extricate himself from prison. "The Yellow Ticket,"
"The Phantom of Paris" is not just a story of Intrigue, though, for it is Despite the insistence of many based on an all-powerful love, a love writers in comparing Eliana Land which has seemingly insurmountable with other screen celebrities, the bri- obstacles placed in its way, and u linnt Fox star, who makes her latest lavn that overcomes and sweeps asido appearance in the lending mle of | all in its path. Raoul Walsh's dramatic production, The
Cheri-Bibl falla "The Yellow Ticket," opening nort deeply in love with a girl of great Friday at the King's Theatre, has a wealth. But that wealth has attrac- personality and an intriguing type of led a marquis of a decadent sort, | beauty that in all her own.
who murders the girl's father and The glamour of Miss Landi in points the finger of suspicion on Bibl. unique, She possesses charm and The magician is arrested, but breaks exotic grace as well as colour. Sho is his bonds and makes u bitter fight, vivid. and dynamic and mysterious, and, notwithstanding the fact that her mother is a countess, she is one of the most democratle young women of the film. It was novar Miss The marquis dies before a contes- Landi's Intention to become a stage
xion can bỏ wrung from him, and or screen actress. She accepted her Bibl, by means of plastic surgery, Arat stage role merely for the oppor- has his face made over so that he can tunity it gave her to gather mate Impersonate the dead man and learn rial for a play she was writing at the
the detalls that will free him in the time. Her histrionic ability, how- «vos of the law. It is a fast-moving pany, proved so real that she permit-Alm with an end that is most nur- tad herself to be persuaded into other priking. and higgor males. Later she came to The well-rounded cast includes the United States and while appear-·|Lolla Hyams, who la Gilbert's leading ing in the Broadway production of lady for the third tima in as many "A Farewell To Arma" was offered pictures, Lowin Stone, Jean Harsholt, a contract--by Fox Films. Har first | C. Aubrey Smith, Natalie Moorhead, pletore was "Body and Soul" opposite Ian Keith and Alfred Hickman,
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