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Surrounded by myriads of feminine pulchritude, Pogany settings, an out- standing cast and a story in which Cantor collaborated with Borrio Rys kind and David Freedman, the star of "Palmy Days"
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BANKING CORPORTION. INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. As a wise-cracking, crap-shooting series of ingenious Cantor situations Edward Suthoriand, who rose to
Interpocuted by Rayul Churier – 1853, Wall street messenger boy whose un-
In "A Woman Chaplin usual luck wins him fame as a noter- his mighty megaphone statue after as-
ainting Charlie
PORAD OFFIC—LANDON, lous racketer, Eddie Quillan le quite a
Paid-Up Capitaš Featured in the leading role of Paris" and since directing twenty. BUCCORE, of Patho's comedy drama, Big Mon- five comedy successes, has inspired a ey," which scored a decided hit at the dash and movement in Cantor'e latest Reserve Fund.......
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ALOR BTAS LONA both a personal and artlatie mentum as triumph. This is by far the most de splitting climax.
More than five thousand applicants AMAITEAS lightful dialogue picture in which
red for the "Palmy Days" chorus | BANGKOK Quillan has thus far app
production began. Fifty giris BATAVIA apton. Whe We've seen gangster
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CANTON never a comedy version of were accepted as the most beautiful,BOMBAY
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LUMPUR murderous crew of the underworld, they appear give unique enhancement CAWNFORE
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KUCHING COLABO who care not who makes the nation's to a story
In a startling lawn, so long as they can cop off the. Cantor plunges, imming polo set In an adrait story designed by Willy
the chorus DELEX coin. Money" that pokes fun at luck that never
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They uro Olive BANKOW ilence, there are dramatic scenes that three Olymple mermaids, each an HAMBURG fairly lift one out of one's chair, and aquatle champion. incidents and wire-cracks that 8- valse one with laughter. In this ros-champlon; Georgia Coleman
to Miss Coleman. You- pect, "Dig Money" stands alone in its diving champion, and Dorothy Poyn-
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comedy stars. First, of Quillan
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THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE "Whoopee. prominence in the years as star of musical shows with
the Ziegfeld production,
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"Big Money." with its suspense, thrill and inughs, is a distinct novel ty and a credit to E. B. Derr, its pro- ducer. It is a peppy human story that every fan will appreciate and enjoy.
"The Mon I Killed." Although he is still in his twenties and has been in pictures only two years, or so, Phillips Holmes has to his credit parts in 15 movies, includ ing most recent one. "The Man. I, Kilied, which comes to the King's
Theatre soon.
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In "Palmy Days" Cantor uson the Batavia bland nonsense of his newest picturo Berlin ns an attack on the practice of spiri- Bombay tualism and fortune telling Eddie Canti a gang of fake mystics, through which Dairan (Daisy) Nagwaki appears as the unwilling assistant to Charchus is revealed some of the crooked tac- Fengin
fa mald tica of the craft that annually to mulet the public out of
To for 000. To
the picture, Eddie and atmosphere visited numerous fortune tellers in
and other
ར New York, Los Angeles Lice, Kathering, together actual in- to be stalas, in appliation. stances exposed by the late Houdini. deviation from spiritualism to the role of bakery efficiency manager one.of the highlights in Buc- Waves of provides one
mirth and excitement
detelt and Harbia
Holmes has a heritage for acting, gained from: his distinguished father, Taylor Holmes, who has been a fa- vourite actor of the stage for many cenced by Cantor and his troupe.
years, and, at less frequent intervals, of the Beremes was born in Grand
Young
Rupids, Mich., on July 22, received his
nt
Howls of humour are bound to trail Eddie's bare feet in their scramble for safety when a
hen a bevy of beauties pur-
a house partly, carly education in that city and in suo him thro and an anti-climax |
robbery, a
despite Eddie's comical and which, in
is hailed as a pleadings, he is and claimed as a mate. First of the gowns designed by the
renowned
Mme. Gabrielle world Chanel for Samuel Goldwyn's screen atars is seen in "Palmy Days." of these creations is worn by Bar- bara Weeks, who was recently signed
ร a five-year contract by
New York, then spent five years study ing
Trinity College, England, and France He also at his college studies at Prin
a school in Paris, completed
“while there and ceton University, about three years ago, got his first chance in pictures when Frank Tuttle, Paramount director, was filming "VRY. sity." The Princeton campus was. chosen as the locale for many of the scenes in this picture, and Holmes, be. ing a member of the Princeton Trian-Goldwyn. gle Club, student dramatic association, was drafted for a minor part in the
picture.
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Madrid The completa list of pictures which
Bucharest Holmes han appeared in follows." Thirteen of them are Paramount Pir- Hongkong
Bruseclu The Criminal Code" was n tures.
Milan Columbia picture, "Her Mon" was an
Stockholm RKO.Pathe production.
Varsity
His Private Life," "The Copenhagen Return of Sherlock Holmes." "Pointed Prague feels," "Only The Brave," "Para Lisbon. Tecla,"
"The Devil's Holl-Ro mount on Parade," day," "Stairs of Sand," "Stolen Hea ven," "The Criminal Code," "Her Man," "Confessions of Co-Ed," "Grumpy" "An American Tragedy," "The Man I Killed."
"Flying High" At Queen's,
A queer new kind of aeroplane, a dumb inventor, and a waitress who has a "yen" to marry an aviator, are hilariously tossed together in "Fly- ing High" which is coming on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre.
High" is, of
of course, a talkle
Gallon of the enormously success-
ful Broadway stage musical comedy. The principal role of Rusty Krause 18 played by the same star who made
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as the amorous waitress.
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Mias Greenwood's continual pur- ault of Lahr, and their final struggle in the queer aerocopter, far above the earth, have been handled by the adept tor, Charles Riesner, to comedy director, Ch get n vory maximum of laughs,
The piece who performances include
Other
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Pat O'Brien. Kathryn per Char
les Winniger, Hedda
Kibbe and Herbort Braggioti.
Guy
The ploco in 1-G-M's first musical of the current season and it bristles with tuneful nu
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Including "It's the First Time for Me," "Dance Until
and "Happy Landings." the Dawn" The first in by DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, the last two by Dorothy Fields and James McHugh who wrote "Go Home and Tell Your Mother" The picture is decidedly for tired busincas man. for in addition its laughs it has a long procession of extremely personable young ladice, a really beautiful beauty chorus, pick- ed and trained by Busby Berkeley, who did such a fine, loh with "Whoo poc."
"Palmy Days."
thetho
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Eldis Cantor's memorable entry in- to the motion picture firmament by making "Whoopee" has been eelpaed in "Palmy Days," the famous comic's second screen vehicle which will be presented by Samuel Goldwyn at the King's Theatre to-day.
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