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CINEMA SCREENINGS.
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In that small and select Hollywood colony that traces, its rise on tho
Con
screen through the prizes magif. way Tearle is in a class by
For him there was no oscillating be tween the stage and the ring, m alternating acting and fighting. Con way Tearle was a prizo-fighter, and when he decided to become an actor, ho forgol completely about padded gloves and 'canvas floors.
Tearls got his first engagement at the Drury Lane Theatre in London, and it was only a short time later that he appeared support of such stars as Sir Charles Wyndham, Mary Moore, Ellen Terry and Lena Ashweli.
in
11e mado his American stago dobut, with Grace George. Later he appear- ed with Ethel Barrymore, Billle Burke, Viola Allen, Julin Marlowe, Emily Stevens and Ileien Mencken among other outstanding women of the stage.! Stage work has occupied most of Tearle's time recently. Ife went back to play in "The to motion pictures
is an Faise Madonna." His latest important role in "Man About Town," with now at the King's Thentre Warner Baxter in the leading male role and Karen Morley in the featured feminine role. Others in the cast are Lillan Bond, Alan Mowbary, Lent Stengel, Lawrence Grant and Ilalli- well Hobbes.
"Men Must Fight,” Something new in-screen produc- tion is offered by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer in "Men Must Fight," featur. Lewin Stone. ing Diana Wynyard, Philips Holmes, May Robson and Ruth Selwyn and opening on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre. It is a ple ture which attempts to deplet condi- tions at the outbreak of a new war, pronumably in 1940.
The picture is based on the Reginald Lawrence S. K. Lauren play which caused widespread comment when produced on Broadway. In deciding Bcreen, to bring the play to the M-G-M's production minds enlarged the stage upon possibilities which producers, either through choice or the natural limitation of the ap stage passed up. The things whi
the stage, were
merely talked about the outbreak of the war in 1040 with a apectacular air raid en New York City-the changes in styles and architecture-these are the things which the film version particularly streneda.
au
limpressionistic Sets. All the sets were designed Cedric Gibons, designer of the interior:
them of "Grand Hotel," envisioned for 1940, and Adrian, celebrated. fashion authority, created gowns for the picture which were calculated to reflect the styles seven years ahead.
Ruth
Together with Diana Wynyard, who scored in "Rasputin and the Empress" and Cavalcade," Lewis Stone, Phillips Holmes, May Robison; and Selwyn, the cast of "Men Must Fight" includes Robert Young, Robert Greig, Hedda Hopper, Donald Dillaway, Mary Carlisle and Luis Alberni.
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Contrasting the war of the past with the war of the future, the story
efforis of mainly
concerns the woman who has lost her lover through one war, to prevent her son from being furted into service through false patriotism. By pleturing the terrors of the warfare of the future, it be comes a powerful and stirring drama- tie argument against war.
"Men of Chance."
Villains of yesterday are heroes of to-day's film, and yesterday's heroes are to-day's most popular Villains according to Ricardo Cortez, rising star of the new regime. Cortez, noted for both types of film portrayala plays opposite Mary Astor in "Men of Chance now showing at the Central Theatre. John Halliday, Kitty
and other favourites form an Kellent cant with Miss Astor and Iticardo Cortez in "Men of Chance," which presents the people of the race track not so much as puppets of ex- elting melodrama-but as real human heings enacting a thrilling lov
love story. "Bachelor's Affairs." Adolphe Menjou is the most in- dependent actor in
in Hollywood. He is bound by contract to no studio and being one of the few motion picture stars who has saved his money, is in regards as worth while.
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him like the clothes that have also manner of schemes to brings about a to his Ile appears as a separation without prejudice added to his fame. middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who, honour. How he escapes from the on an ocean nor, meets and falls in web that enmeshes him in the pivot love with a beautiful girl from the on which the comedy revolves.
Minna Gombell, reculled country. Sho accompanied by her
for her
Before he accepted the leading role the Fox in "Bachelor's Affairs," comedy coming next Sunday to the King's Theatre, he refused parts in no fewer than a round dozen pic tures and, during the production of this success, turned down three others,
Menjou is the nearest approach to more experienced sister who cleverly herd-boiled roles in "Bad Girl," "Dance Teans" and "Stepping Sisters," the screen's bont of an international contrives the romance. star. He speaks several languages fluently and is quite as much at home and the tireless and youthful wife
On shore, the wedding takes place, portrays the leading feminine part, before European cameras as he is while playing under the microphone begins to set a pace so fast that Menjou, in attempting to keep step in this country. He is always in de with her, is soon cognizant of his
and on both sides of the Atlantic.
mistake in marrying her In "Bachelor's Affairs," Monjou problem freeing himself from her plays the type of role that has made now faces him and he resorts to all him famous, one that is said to fit
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