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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1933.
́CINEMA SCREENINGS Mercer, David Torrance, › Margaret
.up
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Seddon and Forester Harvey,
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NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
"Ballin' Through",
"The Animal Kingdom"
Harding and Leslie Howard are again co-starredi
This
time it is KKO-Radio Pictures adaptation of
MRS. GANDHI SENTENCED
Ahmedabad, Aug. 8. Mrs. Gandhi, who was rearrest-
»
vertheureurg archduke and his ex-
THE
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that delightful Philip Barry play that TWO MONTHS IMPRISONMENT Helene Madison, who holds world's, and Olympic records
was last season'a stage hit in New more York-"The Animal
FOR MAHATMA'S WIFE Kingdom." us, Ioward is
"Leslie swimmer than any other woman in the ed
playing the part he creat history of has an important role on the
The In The Husband", Jenne/true of. William Gargan
stage.
samois
tho L. Lanky's necond Chase as ed for refusing to oboy an order Film, very shortly to be seen at the
not-triety svoman,
restricting her movements. was King's Theatre.
Animal at sentenced to two months simple Mian Madison, who decided to give a searching study of modern life, It
the Central Theatre to-day, presents Imprisonment to-day-Reuter. her amateur rating "because there's
no money in it", has been in that man's mistresses do not neces
shows, with almost clinical insight, Hollywood since the Olympic Games, sarily live out of wedlocie that many "The Merry Widow" and selections by preparing for a screen career, Her role as the Sergeant in the Julian F.of them are thone who preen them-Victor Herbert and Franz Lebar. Thompson Broadway success will
under the title of "respectable. mark her debut in a full-length pro-Miss Harding plays the mistress
"Reunion in Vienna" duction.
With John Barrymore and Miss Elissa Land and Ernest Truck are who turns out really to deserve the Dann Wynyard in the roles created on co-starred in "The Warrior's Hus namo of wife. Leslie Howard is, of the stage by Alfred Lunt and Miss band", with Marjorle Rambeau, Helen course, the husband. Myrna Loy Lynn Fontanne, Reunion in Vienna, Ware and Maudo Eburne in important the cast hut already mentioned are and allghtly rueful e
plays the seductive wife. Others in Robert E. Sherwood's gay, bantering Aupporting roles. Walter Lang direct-Neil Hamilton, Henry Stephenson, exiled
comedy about an Loni Stengel and Donald Dilloway.
Edward In "Smillin' Through," her latest "The Animal Kingdom" from the and gratifying success. Delightfully
H.
directed Grimth has
of the Queen's Theatre with complete Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production script by Iloraco Jackson. The pic- which is coming on Sunday to the ture has been beautifully staged and, played, intelligently directed and re- Queen's Theatre Miss Shearer has a with four beautiful women in the cast
taining both the spirit the letter
ter LONDON SERVICE role far removed from those which, and the background one culture and of the original, the new photoplay is have taken her along the bypaths wealth, the gowns are something to a happy excursion into
the realms of
PERSEUS
9 Auguni Maravillon, Casablanca. London. which lead away from convention. rave about.
of narrative which can be
Rotterdam, Hamburg & Hull .• Mi
Shearer's role in "Smilin'
as botit "sophis- MENESTHEUS 15 August Mnencilles, London, Rotterdam, Through"
in frankly tinged with
To a high
Hamburg & Glasgow sentimental romance: devoid of that sophistication which ford's interpretation of her marked her characterizations
screen Mr. Sherwood contemplated the
he lovely
HELENUS
14 August
Tripoli, Havre & Liverpool.. in roles. "Strangers May Kinn," "A Free Soul”
and city of Vienna with its and "Strange interlude.
The star of the United Artists pic-grandeur
faded NEW YORK SERVICE The story abounds in
ture, "Rain", now showing at the four and its frayed nobility, ita in pathos. Ever King's Theatre, with Joan Crawford inescapable romance and "its Inst re- ADRASTUS 7 September Boston, New York & Baltimore since Jane Cowl first presented it on in the starring role, listens to every-"Reunion in Vienna"
maining industry,"
vin Philippines Straits the New York stage, it has served as thing from, grand opera and syn-what it was upon the stage--an anus- to be the model by sentimentality in phonies and crooners and popular altsing and yet somehow touching comedy drama is
"An sweet and to help her get poignant
for of the recapture of lost love. BH
Through" has come to be a
rape by wilch critics scene.
"Reunion in Vienna" is a work in. point their comparisons.
which the
વ neting and should the leading players fail to all-important, In thus turning to wistful romance,
capture and maintain its mood the Miss Shearer sheds the "woman of
result would probably be fatal. the world" character for the first time
Mr. since the peach blossom fragrance of The Student Prince," in the old days
of the most best portrayals that he skill to the character and offers one Barrymore brings all of his enormous of silent films.
has yet
managed upon the
and Bow "Reunion in Vienna," screen the position he had upon the Mr. Barrymore has regained upon the stage.
"Rain"
Music which the audience
that
cort of dnscribed tlented" and ·
It is completely hears plays a vital part in den Cover degree the work captures the half- LIVERPOOL SERVICE ··
rnful, half-wistful mood in which
in the need
A phonograph operated by an expert who has worked with her for de years and who knows what records to play to fit her moads, is the star's con stant companion on the set.
܀
continalysis.
screen.
cluded corner of the set, then a re- After "Tona afely be said that:
required to step into a crying scene, For example, if she was suddenly she placed back and forth in In "Smilin' Through" she portrays two different gris whose romantle cord such as "Estrellita," "Moonlight experiences affect the life of one man at an interval of fifty years. First, played, and the tears began to flow.
Sonata"
"Sylvia" "The Swan" was as Moonyees Clare, in 1868, she is the betrothed of n
For dramatic moods she likes in aristocrat, playel by Leslie Howard, operas such as Tristan and Isolde
English strumental recordings
recordings of Wagnerida Later in 1914, she becomes Kathleen "The Sheridan, with Fredric March as her "Valkyrie", portions of Franz Liszt's
Flying
Dutchman lover,
"Les Preludes", the Franck Symphony Sidney Franklin directed this M-G-in D. Minor, and the music of Grieg. M production. Others in the cast are! When she has light, happy scenes
young
and
O. P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes, Beryl to enact, the fe fond of music from
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