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NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE: THEATRES
As a human drama of human hearts, no motion picture shown on a local screen in several seasons ins excelled "Back Street" the Universal screen play which" opened yesterday
at: the Central Theatre. This note-
worthy production is
is an adaptation of Fannie Hurst's widely read story of the same name, and the filmy version does full justice to the original novel of the noted authores Irene Dunne, who plays the
feminine role.
la altogether delightful as the spirit- ed young girl who finds true love
when she
She least expected it, and gives
un everything else ja life to follow the dictates of her heart. "Her lover is married
fried man and canina. prevent an affair which continues over a span of
it is vital, fundamental, soul-stirring. Much of the credit for the complete success of this picture must ไม่ John M. Stahl, who has handled toe. entire atory with deftness and H degree, of artistry which have served in surround the picture with an usual degree of charm. Glady,
wenty year, becsus-
Lehman has made an excel'ent adaptation of Fannie Hurst's story: no less many be said for the added supplied by Lynn Starling eatregoers without exception will thoroughly enjoy "Back Street". IF has that compelling, human "anme thing" that only one picture in a hundred ever attains.
"Biondie of the Follies"
are
Although motion picture making is admittedly an industry-one of the hve gresiest-it la only by departing from the ironbound rules of industry that the best results in film pra- duction gained. "Blondie of the Follies," Marion Davies new starring picture with Robert Montgomery featured, serves to illustrate this point. This new Cosmopolitan pic turo comes on
to the Queen'
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Bennard Wortis, was called to his attention. "For the last three days I have sitting in a taxicao kissing! Claudette Colbert, and never onee have I felt the slightest drowsiness". Brook in Colbert, featured
this comedy Miss drama, Edmund Goulding. wizardry was exemplified in his
whore Man From which is of "Grand Hotel", saw new w
now showing at the
Theatre,
- Quizes
in enlarging
the pro- for which the taxicab kissing scenes]
went he #5
result that the suport ong, with tha were filmed, also declared that iri
the names of
cast reflect
there is such a disease as narcolepsy. it has not revealed itself during her alities not con studio. Although Brook templated in the original scheme of work at thColbert are together only things. "Blondie of the Follies" was # veritable snowball in the matter of in the early and final action of the cast names, gaining in size and im- picture, the roles they play call for portance as filming progressed. To begin with, there were, besides Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery. Billie Dove,
Gleason, James
Pitts, Sidney Toler, Douglass Dum- brille, Surul Padden and Louise Carter. That alone is a. cast of im pressive proportions. But as the story nursued its merry way through
the glitter of the Ziegfeld Follies gay
great deal of kissing. In addition, Miss Colhert is required to kiss the other man, Charles Boyer, several times.
"Devil and the Deep"
It's a small world after all--even if it is platitudinous to eBay 30, Charles Laughton, leading British character actor, and Benn W. Levy, noted English play-wright, both shudder at platitudes, but they'll testify to the truth of this one. For, though they were friends of many
they
were thrown
years standindly in Hollywood,
parties on Park Avenue and the contrasting hurableness of New York tenement life, Goulding beren as sembling more celebrities. Lant minute additions brough into the cast. the nomes of such stars of the together entertainment world 13 Jimmy the last place either expected to megi Durante, Clyde Cook, and
the the other. Both were called to the Rocky Twins from the Paris musica! film capital to
to work on "Devil and the stage. The completed cast is the
a picture starring Tallulah most illustrious
of box-office en" and Gary Cooper, which
array names with which Marion Davien cumes to the King's Theatre on has been surrounded. "Blondie of the Sunday, next. Laughton was signed Follies" is a tale of the adventures to play the role of Miss Bankhead's of two girls who lenye their New husband in o
York tenement homes for the greater developed.
case and luxury of Broadway stage popularity,
"Divorce in the Family" Jackie Cooper had a real here with im when he played in "Divorce in the Family," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
vivid drama of children and divorce,
submarine"
fealous of his
-which Levy
is cast a insanely
a role played by Miss Bankhead. When he discovers that she has been friendly With Cooper, he gets the pair of their abourd his craft, sinks it, and expecia to take his revenge ocean floor. In in the crippled
craft as it lies on
now showing at the Queen's. The tensely dramatic zeene, Cooper Indian
in the picture is none changes the whole course of events. other than Jim Thorpe, formerly the world's greatest all-around athlete
Af him.
Between scencs Jackie had the time of his life talking football, athletics and the Olympic games with the
former Olympic idol and great champion.
As much "kick" Thorpe
out Jackie, incidentally, as Jac
Jackie did out The new
production is a of a wrecked home its children, in which thril
pathos and hoarious comedy combine. Charles F. Riester directed it. The players include Conrad Nagel. Lewis Shape, Taie Wilson, Jean Parker, Maurice Murphy, Lawrence Grant, Kichard Walince and David Newell,
"Man From Yesterday" Hollywood motion picture stars brand narcolepsy, the supposedly new. to cause drowsers af.er kissing a member of the opposite , numre fiction. A dispatch from Philadelphia, where the subject of tarevitpoy, is currently under cussion by lending American psychin- trists, slated "narcolepsy might cause you to fall asleep after kissing a girl in a taxicab," 41.fail to agree with tat sitement", said Clive Brook, when the dispatch quoting Dr. Si
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