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Comedies are now in the top class of film entertainment, and it is in-
TELEGRAPH FRIDAY,
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SIR MILES LAMPSON GOES TO PEITAIHO
Poking, July 27. teresting to note the really remarkable Weihaiwel on Friday he will pro- When Sir Miles Lampson, leaves development in this type of pleture.
Humorous stories were always re-coed direct to Peitaiho In H. M. legated to the two-reel class and even Sloop Falmouth, tho when the footage of
British comedy. Olma longthoned, they were never consider authorities having now establish- ed up
supers." The Harold Lloyd vogue ed the summer Legation quarters started the full length top of the bill there. comedy, and Charlie Chaplin fims also entered the "featured" class.
The advent of talking films, gave Britain her great chance, and sho reized it with both hands, and it is undoubtedly the starring of such grand and talented "comics" as Jack Huibert, Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Sydney Howard and Gordon Harker, to name but a few of the favoured ones, that has the comedy film Ita present
роди
Already noveral of the Legation staff have proceeded to Poltaiho to propare for Sir Miles Lamp- aon's arrival-Reuter.
big tree country, according to Director Raoul Walsh, was the courage shown by Joan Bennett during the filming of scenes in which she appears with a These films are now as beautifully inibor of hears. The coaxing of the dressed and mounted as any "super right time took some close figuring. animals into the right spot at the drama, and as much cara is devoted Trails of strained honey were made to to detall. A Brat-class example of this is in "Love On Wheels" the
converge in the clearing where the Gainsborough picture, starring Jack cameras were set up and the beara Hulhert, showing at the King's Thea-cante in droves. Charles Farrell and tre next changa. Porfect technique, experiences with the animals.
Ralph Bellamy also had some exclting. really gorgeous photography and lovo- ly "sets" are compiled into this feast of fun. Even the uninitiated cannot fail to appreciate the expert knowledge that has gone into the making of this picuro.
"Song of the Eagle,"
The march of events in America over a period of two decades tha drama and tragedy, the pathos and humour, the grandeur and stupidity of the most amazing epoch in history
theso, as seen through the eyes of the American tanilly, make up "Song of the Eagle showing from Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.
Charles
Bickford, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Jean Hersholt, Louise Dresser. Andy Devine and George E. Stone play the leading roles in the Gln, which was directed by Rainb Murphy.
5.
the King's Theatre.
Wild Girl" opens very shortly at
The story opens in 1916, swings up through the years to the present day, and continues onward into the future venturing a prediction as to what is in store for America in the next fow months. War, peace, enactment of prohibition, prosperity, depression, the return of beer, and a guess at what 7. may follow the return charge across the aerees.
War
The family whose eyes behold this spectacle are an upper middle-class group, prospering in a respectable browing business. When the breaks out their two sons go overscas. Only one returns--and he returns to find prohibition in the country and his father's business ruined.
Through
the
успев that follow, fa-
ther and son attempt to carry on, confident that some day the law will be changed. Meanwhile, racketeera prey upon the land; the stock market crashes and takes their last remaining bit of fortune,
Then beer is legalized again. But their joy is short-lived, for the racketeers are not content to sit back. and see their strongly-organized bugi- nesa, crumple without a atruggle. What follows is an amazing glimpse into what all America may face in the next few months.
"The Age of Consent"
A new star came to the screen of the Central Theatre yesterday in a picture so poignantly true, so daringly honest, it merits the attention of every man and woman.
The star is Dorothy Wilson who, We are told, was adorning å stenograp- her's desk, just a few weeks ago in the RKO Radio studio in Hollywood.
Tho
picture i
"The Age of Consent" ceases to be just
a photoplay which, instend becomes a roll of
moving, lives, auddenly ring drama of young
engulfed
wave
in a tidal
ave of human emotions.
the There was inspiration behind making of this stirring drama. A One sense intangible elements some- times missed by the Hollywood pro
throughout "The Age of
The Age of Consent" adapted from the Broadway stage Buccces, "Cross- roads" by Martin Flavin, is played against a background of collego life, There is no ukelele strumming, or fat boys sitting on pianos in turtle-neck sweaters. In other words, this is no "rah, rah, rah," picture.
It is a sincere and human insight into the lives of a boy and girl, mado miserable by campus rules that forbid marriage and conventions that thwart a natural oxpression of their love.
"Wild Girl"
One of the highlights of the sojourn of the "Wild Girl" unit in the Scquain
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ETURNING
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BILLY BOWLEGS
ROWS IN TO GET FRECKLES
AND GALEN....
THOSE KIDS MUST BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAT-GOIN' IN SWIMMIN' WITH THEIR
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