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"AGE FOR LOVE"
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"AROUND the WORLD in 80 MINUTES"
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Those who saw "Afrien Speaks" at the Central Theatre will never forget the dramatic emotional conflict of the picture, or the breath-taking beauty of the Canga backgrounds. Added to these are the startling effects of the sounds of the jungle, caught by the sound B for the frat time and transmitted exactly to the reveen.
In the half blackness of the Lhentre, one could cluse one's eyes for n mo- ment and fvel oneself in a little clean- ing in the deep Afrienn wasters. The eone of a hungry ilon sends a shud- der down the spine, the answering whimper of the monkeys,—all are there in thrir, pelnultivo torrðr. ·
When the story takes itself to the French Congo-the magnificent wo- | men--with their huge duckbilled Ups.
There nxx* unforgettable.
wome. the result of numerous Arab raids 'that awept down time after time to demopulate the villages of females. deliberately disfigure themselves to enenpe, the Just of the desert marku- ders.
The dancing of the native wornen of the Freneli Congo Is nantber dynamic, fenture of this Columbia picture. Like their white compatriots of the Parisian pleasure palace, there is little these savage girls do not know about the rhythmic movements 11 the human body. One almost feels the Intolerably apprenalve mosphere of the African night. the team-Joms eating out their age-old throbbing themes and the black bodies twisting in the frenzied ritun) of the ceremony,
at
Another background included the land of the pymes. These little речеловек пряк of the most intensely moral in the jungle, have customs and manners of solving ancient pro blems that would shock Western su esptibilities, if they weren't in plainty natural and inwent. Trin mur. ringe, a much disensord topic "F etvilization, is old system among the rain
"Africa Speak" will be shown in The Central Phantre for two
days more only. The next change will be "All Quiet on the Western Front," the mightiest war picture ever been
peni uz the screen.
*Son of India.”
"If you want to learn how to du strange and semi-u! things, go int metin ictures!“ This is the al- vire of Ramon Novorm, står af "son af India." which will open to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre." Navarro han had to neganini himself with a wide variety of hrtivities during the eurwa of his serven earver,,
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"I had to become an expert swords
"Scaramouche," and I used the art of fencing again in Devil May Care," he says, "In The Pagan' I dived for pearls, meing the careful technique of South Sea pearl divers. [ "Daybreak" required me to learn the walks and the salutes of an Austrian army offer. I learned how in pilot. an aeroplane for 'The Flying Fleet, 'Devil May Care' required to to learn the technique of waiting on table, and f shing shoes. *Ben fur of course, made me a charint driver, And if you think that IA an easy attint-try it some time.
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"The Age for Love" Howard Hughes, filmulom's lending. producer, has never made a medier picture, and all of his films, have been artistle triumphs and box-office clean- Hughes' latest production, which re-
Age ups. The
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turns Billie Dove to the screen after more than a your's nbaonée, will open at the Centrul Theatre very soon,
Like his previous presentations, The Age Fur Love is ther mash-picture, and in the metro. politan centres where it has already Eulasve, his duplicated the success of
Mr. Hughes Hell's Angels"
The Front Inge," with both crities and public.
and
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Howard Hughes made life bow to the film industry with "Two Arabian Knights" and followed with "The
tacket." Both of these films awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as "bext pletures" of the years, and won simi- ar honours in nation-wide polls of the country's leading movie critics.
The young producer then made "Hell's Angels,” which was the most lavish and spectacular motion pleture of all time, and which established news records of popularity wherever movies are exhibited. More recently he panteket movie audiences every where with "The Front Page."
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"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
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name starring John Gilbert and now Robert Louis Stevenson's weird story picture in based on Lorous's navel, playing at the Queen's Theatre. The in the feature picture at the King's Theatre to-day.
"Cheri-Bibi."
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finish, intrigue with now and startling BRUNSWICK
turns. But it is intrigue with finesac. The background is colourful, chateaux of the French elite, gay ball rooms, a glittering theatre, a vast French
To obtain the "boom, boom" of the heart-nump, the microphone was held over March's heart. The sensitive. ness of the instrument boosted the Round past that which one naturally heare while holding an ear over a heart to the quality attained by lis prison. tening through a stethoscope.
by
The heart-beat was conceived Mamoulian as one of his novel effect in the Stevenson story: by Use of this, the director will olitain the sensation of one's own heart bound- ing in one's ears as he chronicles the experiences of Jekyll in transforming for the first time Into Hyde,
"The Yellow Ticket.”
The veteran director, John Robert- son, evidently has been a stickler for detail. In the penal institution the setting is correct, even to the use of solid steel doors, so much in contrast to the barred doors of our institu- Cheri-Bibi, played by John Gilbert, tions. This is whero the magician tolls the police by using his tricks to extricate himself from prison
"The Phantom of Paris" is not just In story of intrigue, though, for it is Despite the insistence of many based on an all-powerful love, a love writers in comparing Elina Land which has seemingly insurmountable with other screen celebritler, the bri- | obstacles placed in its way, and a lant Fox star, who makes her latest love that overcomes and sweeps aside appearance in the lending. r-le of all in its path. Raoul Walsh's dramatic production, Tho magician, Cheri-Bibl falls The Yellow Ticket," anening next deeply in love with a girl of great Friday at the King's Theatre, has n wealth. But that wealth has nitrae- personality and an Intriguing type of | ted a marquis of a decadent sort, beauty that in all her own.
who murders the girl's father and The glamour of Miss Landi Is points the finger of suspicion on Bibl. unlane. She possensen charm • and The magician is arrostéd, but breake exotic graco as well as colour. Sho is his bouds and makes a bitter fight, vivid and dynamic and mysterious, which brings in some of the most the and, notwithstanding the fact that startling scenes ever filmed in her mother is a countess, sha Is one battle to prove his innocence and win of the most democratie young women the girl of his heart,
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of the Alms. It was never MTAN The marquis dies before a contes- Landi's intention to become a stage *ion can wrung from him. or screen actress. Ahe accepted her Bibi, by means of plastic surgery, first stage role merely for the oppor- || has his face made over so that he can tunity it gave her to guther mate- Impersonate the dead man and letýn rial for a play she was writing at the the details that will free him in the time. Her histrioniq; ability, how- inves of the law. It is a fast-moving auer, praval aa real that she permit- film with an end that in most sur ted herself to be persuaded into ather | prising.
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