CENTRAL
SEE THEATRE HEAR
SHOWING TO-DAY, AT 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30.
The most wonderful and thrilling RKO super special feature of the year. What Price the Glory of the Navy as they sail the seas of the What a great big cock-eyed world, loving, fighting and winning! booming, flag-waving, laughing climax that will lift you up and leave you up.
navy equipment. fleet of gigantic It's everybody's
5,000 in the cast. $55,000,000 worth of actual A real vessel sunk.
A big clipper burnt. A destroyers in action along with the submarines. story. A man's picture that women will adore. kids to cheer. A picture for every family and every member of the family.
CINEMA SCREENINGS.MEDIATION URGED.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE
"THEATRES.
Nearly every human being has a hobby whether it be the collecting of rare stamps, antiques, coins, minia ture boats, pipes, books, bottles or beetles, few indeed remain free from the mania for acquiring "oddments and reminders."
Robert Armstrong, who is featured with Barbara Kent in Warner Brothers Vitaphono comedy "Dumb- bella in Ermino" due to-morrow at tho Queen's Theatre, has one of the atrangest
in the world. hobbles Though the hunky young pkture favourite can no longer be enfled an incorrigible child, he does still insist playing with matches--hording
upon matches and
NANKING PLEADS FOR COUNTRY'S WELFARE
Nanking, July 1.
The Central Executive Council has wired its mombors who are In Canton, urging, them to mediate between Admiral Chan Chak and General Chan Chai-tong for the welfare of the country at this time of national crisis.--Renter.
in abord treasuring matches. This, which she is thwarted, and the good
hobby
made him o artistry which han popular. He shows the heart of the trook an effectively as though he were not outside the law. The girl wor he marries conspires to have, him sent to prison and then seeks to in- duce him to commit murder to have him out of the way. The manner in
impulses of the crook win out, ars Ils collection Includes matches from practically every country in the interesting phases of the thrilling world. There is the earliest type of story.
Warner Bros. has Burrounded Chincre match, fast tiny bita Monte Blue with an excellent cast. rolled-paper dipped in wax crude uneven hand-dipped sulphur matches, besides
there are the first Swedish French, German; gian, Italian. American and many
Blost valuable of all, however, are two examples of the first matches
with
were
ever made anywhere. They A picture for the
w!
ANCHORS UP FOR A SWELL SHOW!
What price the
glory of the navy as they sail the seas of the cock. eyed world- loving, fighting, and winning!.
A picture that will not only stir the nation's pride, but also arouse its mirth.
SUICIDE
With a great big booming, flag- waving, laughing climax that will lift you up and
leave you up.
with
BILL BOYD
ROBERT ARMSTRONG JAMES GLEASON GINGER ROGERS and thousands of fighting gobs supplied through the courtesy of the United States Navy.
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OUR BRITISHAM
Across.
1 Seoms all right.
Although it's a distinct swindle, the thrifty German housewife makes the best of it. 9 A llar who may spin more than
a yarn. 10 Rose affectionately.
About,
The fact that thin is an all-talking the selection of the film makes
The cust players more important. includes adorable Davey Lee, Betty Compson, John Davidson, Alice Day, John Bowers, Georgie Stone, Tully Marshali and Robert Perry-all names that insure elever characteri done by John Walker, an English zatlon. "Skin Deep" is the type of druggist, in 1827, and were secured drama which entertains every type of nygoes. The pitcure in on ita final by Armstrong at no small expens
England. 'na to-day at the Queen's. from a match factory in that had them on display.
The cast
Amstrong supporting
A former British naval officer, re-11 and Miss Kent in "Dumbbells in lated by marriage to the royal Ermine" includes Beryl Mercer, family, Leslie Palmer, featured with James Gleason, Claude Gillingwater, Fredric March and Kay Francis in Julia Swayne Gordon, Arthur Hoyt "Strangera in Love" at the King's and Charlotte Merriam. John Adolfi Thactre to-day, resigned from the navy to begin a stage career in London and New York as a protege of the Inte Sir Henry Irving.
directed.
"Strangers in Love".
12 He trained many a 22. 13 A large body asecciated with advancing yours--ahl there's the rub.
10 Irritable and a good deal of n
trial.
19 It gives one the shivers, but becomes uncertain after five.
20 Truly sad.
22 One who is open to conviction. 24 The police will require assistance
when they make this sortie.
UN
"The Silent Witness."
A member of an ancient family Theatrical producers have beeri
that has contributed personages to known to make great sacrifices in
the empire for hundreds of years, order to sell their plays to the mo
Primer was eduented in the naval tion pictures, and conversely, movie producers have been known to enter college, commissioned an officer and 25 "No, dear-but it's awfu attrac
served with distinction in all parts of into some spirited bidding for a stage
that the world for fifteen when
Palmer years.
of the production, particularly
in the smash' class. received from Marconi one production was in
first official wireless messages sent A most unusual example of this
seil
warship at sea. He was one keen desire to buy and
was keen
of England's foremost oarsmen, and furnished when the Fox Film Cor paration was dickering with the pro-now, thirty years later, he aspires to ducer of the Broadway hit, "The compete in the games in
Angeles this summer. Silent
Witness, which
As an actor he played with the "form talking picture
leading stars of his day and directed to-morrow.
and acted in their first Bims made in England in 1001. He once was 36
conies in to the King's
Theatre titressing the stage pr
After
to n
As the Scot said. 27 "Maun get," as the same Scot might say, for increase (anng.). Though not really suitable, one can make fun with it. There is much that is not good about such proficiency.
35
A scholar who can speak French fluently.
adited,
Put an end to the article when
is
be O.K.
Don't hesitate. Go in and you'll
duction several times the Fox off
fabulous offer for the summoned to Windsor Castle to pay 37 Inquires after a letter telling of cials made a screen rights which the stage, ducer was ready accept when a condition was interposed.
The ac- ing the leading role
LO
The
་་
tor who was production was the
Edward and the King and Queen of & command performance before Kink
Sweden.
A
Long Tack Sam. Vaudeville acts of the type pre- the Broadway well known stage star, Lionel Atwill, sented by Long Tack Sam are and the movie people decided that he rarity, not so much in the type of offered, but in the was the only player who could, give entertainment
skill with which most difficult feats the role necessary life and vitality
are performed. A showman of about on the screen. The stage producer
to demur at firat. The 40 years' standing, Long Tack Sam was inclined
knows what the
lic
wants show was soon to go on tour and he the lead
diversity combined with skill-and wanted Mr. Atwill to play in the show. But when the demands he supplies both in plenty,
vachan not hs heen strikingly aul Mr. Atwill
vas called into the
the Queen's conference and when he expressed the last few days at
desire to enact his stage role un Theatre. To describe the many offer- in Long Hueient to Tack Sam's the screen the stage producer de-ings included in
it is cided to entrust the rond show rate fuel is unas singing and
say that it embraces
of is that of Sir dancing
The
of the Fox excentive became insist-drawing-power ofnstrated duritie
WAG
to the star's understudy.
role
Mr. Atwill's an
Austin
who accepts the responsibility for a murder, which his pampered
high order by his two an indulgent father charming daughters and magic by
aLong Thek Sam himself,
amazing Acts, balancing
contortion, and int-acrobatics. The horizontal bar work
of
thinks he has committed to find bint- self so enmeshed in a web of cir the trompe is probably the out- cumstantial evidence that extrication acquital seem beyond the realin
and
of all possibility. ills portrayal of the role on the screen is said by those who have seen the film and stage play to exceed in dramatic quality his stage performance of the same part.
standing
includes
fenture of the act It clever many during and feats, the like of which are seldom seen.
"The Suicide Fleet", Thrilling action, colourful spectacle, u strong story and sterling per- formances by an unusually capable enst combine to make NKD Pathe's "Suicide Fleet" truly the Navy's Big
which
With Mr. Atwill in the picture are such notables as Greta Nissen, Helen Mack, Branwell Fletcher, Weldon | Parade, Heyburn, Mary Forbes, Billy Bevan This ensational picture and Herbert Mundin. The produc- comes to the Central Theatre today, tion was directed by Marcel Varnel ing been produced on a big Seale and R. L. lough from Douglas with quality keeping pace with pro- Doty's adaptation of the stage play duction values. A story of the Navy. of Jack De Leon and Juck Celestín.
it uses not one warship but a fleet In the sea battles actual ships are nk by real shells h scenes as spectacular as any every brought to the screen. who
Blue Acclaimed in “Skin Deep", For any theatre patron who seeks exciting entertainment-and does not seek it-there is a great; Bill Boyd, Robert Armstrong and treat in store at the Queen's Theatre James Gleason head the cast while where Warner Bros. is
Monte Blue in "Skin
Deenling ed-haired Ginger Rogers is the lending woman. Harry Bannister has The Mark Edmund Jones story Goran
an important role and other leads are don Rigby has
developed an en-played by Frank Reicher, Ben Alexan- Thralling
entertainment and theder, Henry Victor and Hans Joby.
Albert Rogell directed this big director, Ray Enright, has caught the
<b>? sinister mood the story.
spectacle. Lew Lipton gets credit for
The story concerns a certain crowd
of underworld characters, but they
are given a distinctly new slant, The
the screen play which is taken from
a story by Commander Herbert A. Jones, U. S. N. The dialogue laurels
human equation enters into this story go to F. McGrew Wills. And while
as it has entered into none others weeredit is being passed out, the United remember having seen.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Monte Blue plays the leader of a gang of erooks with all that deft
States Navy cannot be overlooked. Navy ships and Savy men made the picture possible.
An Old Face!
work which must be done.
Down
1 "O theu dull god, why...leavát thou the kingly couch, A watch- case or a common bell 7”... "2, King Henry IV/
2 A welcome sight to Ali Babu's
camel.
The Ienst it might be, is an up- right stone sinh on which Inws are inscribed.
1 Between going away for a furt- night and for fourteen days there
is some this.
As a performing animal it does not quite fil the stage.
6 Wild, and no wonder, with all
that wild talk.
7 What an Englishman declaros to
be truc, a se
Scotsman wth aspira- tion puts down as foolish talk. 8 A simple little song. 14 Great
pain that comes in a guali. 10 Meat and drink-inside. 17 Resembling Cicero.
of a splee of
18 The classifertifying.
authority fa
21 Might be the name
of
American hired man," though one must admit it sounds more as though he engaged thom.
23 This is generally admired.
If
one loses thin it is useless to offer a reward for its return. 20 Turn out.
28 This is simply great.
29 Nevertheless these jugs may be
mine.
30 Rows which won't end in the
sound of themselves,
32 May be deaf, and will cortainly
droop.
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OCTOR
KEMP. FRECKLES AND OSCAR ARRIVE
IN KRINGTOWN, .TO MAKE A CALL ON
ONE OF
THE
DOCTOR'S
PATIENTS
IT ISN'T OFTEN WE EVER CET OVER IN THIS
PART OF TOWIN.....
YEAH..AMZY
AN' HIS GANG LIVE OVER
HERE, THATS
WHY!
....
SOME NICE PEOPLE LIVE OVER HERE,
BOYS...
GOOD MORNING, BORSON... HOW ARE.
YOU TO DAY?
CH, HELLO DOCTOR. CONG IN. I'M GLAD YOU CAME THIS MORNING... I WANT TO SEE YOU ABOUT SOMETHING...
GET A CHAIR AND SIT DOWN HERE!
Y'KNOW, I'M NOT PEELING SO WELL IT'S SIX WEEKS SINCE MY OPERATION AN. IF I WAS THE MAN I USED TO BE, DO HAVE BEEN OUT OF
BED BY THIS TIME.....
TU' DOSTUR CALLED HIM FORSON... BUT HE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE SOMEBODY.I
HAVE SEGA
BEFORE...
NOW, NOW...
KE DOES
AN IT
BE THAT FRECKLES
KNOWS THIS
PATIENT
OF DOCTOR.
KEMP'S
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