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NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
A generous portion of the world's available screenland charm has been .amxed to the latent effort of Eddie Dowling, brilliant young man who wrote, directed and acted in "Honey- moon Lano" on the stage in New York and other cities and who now appears in the като орив
tho оп screen at the Central Theatre to-day. Honeymoon Lane" has been alter
us to time, place, action in casentially
od Bonnel. But
and
talking
the same charming story as, that of the original-with an abdundance of oxhilarating comedy thrown in for
measure. good
fcen as the employee in
Dowling a luxurious summer resort gambling hall operated by Nonh Beery. June Collyer, Noah's niece, is in love with Eddle, and Beory tries to upset the romance hy accusing Eddie of crooked- деза In his duties. Dowling leaves in disgrace and goes to the brokendown hotel of Mary Carr, motherly old widow who gives him n Job as mana- ger. By exploiting mother Carr's famous ples, Eddle manages to build up a clientele for her place.
learned the
Meanwhile June has truth about Eddie and their romance in mended. Good luck comes in the visit of a European king who stops at Eddie's hotel incognito. Inter,
when Berry appears and tries to put Eridlo into disfavour with mother Carr, the king takes a hand and Berry is undone.
Dowling's frat picture success Was "The Rainbow Man."
"Kept Hushanda,”
The latest drama of modern mar- riage to reach the screen unfolds novel treatment of the theme in "Kept Husbands" which stars Dorothy Mac- kaill and Joel McCren, appearing at the Queen's Theatre te-n@T??W,
nete film of a problem
Judging by the nu- alence response, traslles good many of both sexes to dny. The problem of the rich wife and the pour husb>nnat, and never the twnin silmit meet, is cleverly told in "Kent Husbands" and offers besides good dranın, thor- oughly satin.
satisfying and surprising ans-
wer to the question.
Telling of a rich girl who deter mines on marriage with a young an impoverished
shed employee of her father's,
51
young man with an All-American football reputation and nu funds, it cleverly shows the pitfalls of match
the
And the ultimate and cheerful conclusion.
in
Both Miss Muchaill and Mr. McCres rforms with ease and convincingness their roles. Miss Mackill is un- doubtedly one of the finest actresses on the screen to-day, and in "Kept Husbands" she maintains her hurels, Joel McCren comparatively new to the films, in now well established as one of the finer young players. His role of the irked and unhappy husband whose wife pays all bills is splendidly accomplished.
Tastefully mounted and smartly produced, this Harlie Picture is an other triumph of production, following in the trail of such Radio triumphs as "Cimmarron", "The Royal Bed" and other recent successes.
"Delicious."
El Brendel, who has na important comedy role in "Delicious," the Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell rumance now playing at the
Theatre, has King's had what is considered one of the most varied theatrical careers in the Hollywood film colony. Starting na a sleight-of-hond netist in a medicine show, Brendel has risen on the ladder of achievement until he now holds a prominent position among the leading comedians on the stage or screen.
Ils first work in the talkies was S the Swedish nui aner in "The Cock Eyed World." role, that endenred him immediately to the film fans of the world. Other portrayals of out- standing merit came in "Sunny Side Up" "Just Imagine", "Mr. Lemon of
tie" and "Women of All
Nu-
In "Delicious" Brendel is again serp in the chief supporting role. David Butler directed the picture, which in- troduces six George Gershwin song hith.
"The Night Angel."
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Nancy Carroll, brilliant and viva-has been received by Messrs. Pen-
cious atar of "The Devil's Holiday." "Laughter" and "Stolen Heaven," will be seen at the King Theatre next Sunday in her latest
Paramount
production "The Night Angel."
"The Night Angel" is another of remarkable products of the very fertile mind of Edmund Goulding, the who wrote and directed "The
the
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Her" and "The Devil's Holi asking d-d more.
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He not only wrote and direc "The Night Angel" but he wrote the lyrics and composed the music for the one song presented in the pic- ture.
"The Night Angel" is a tense and exciting romantic drama whaug seenes are Prague, ancient capital of Bohentia and modern city of Czech-Slovakin. Nancy is seen as Yula, the young daughter of an unregenerate countess. She is a performer in a cabaret owned by her mother and is enamored of the professional strong man and bouncer of the resort.
March, as the young lawyer verent- ly elected chief prosecutor of the city. decides to reform the town; and as his first step he enuses the arrest of the counters. As the result of his court work the countess gets a jail
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the cabaret is a well-known what not. What would do
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I started as a stage hand and advances he jailed her mother. later played knockabout acts in five Bach himself is inter brought into and-Len
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