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CINEMA SCREENINGS childhood by a pack of lions. And, Lee, specialist in female beauty, although the story deals with the after fatorvlowing 10,000 giris in thá taming of the Lion Man, at the hands | movie capital,
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of a beautiful woman, it glorifies the "By beautiful, you mean the kind Jungle boasts in their native setting, of girl who, when she appears on the and bullde a narrative of primitiv» the scene you Just don't see anything power,
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"Women Who Play" A sparkling comedy of mudern manners, with a during and original plot, is "Women Who Play,” a Para- mount British Production which opens "Hell's House" a human symphony to-day at the Queen's Theatre. It in for all ages, is the picture now show a screen version of Frederick Lone- ing at the Central Theater with dale's brilliant stage success, "Spring Junior Durkin, Pat O'Brien, Bette Cleaning," and Lonsdale's scintilla- Davis, Junior Coghlan, Enna Dunn, ting wit has been preserved intact in Charles Cerwin, Mary Allen and the dialogue. A Lonsdale comedy is an any other screen players,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.
BOMBING OVER THE
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER
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(Continued from Page 6.) charlatan. There is also the fact, ignored by those who think the whole world to bo civilised, that many of the tribes consider to this day that to have killed a white man is a short cut to immortality.
WORTHY FIGHTERS.
The senler momber of "The Man
The role of the Lion Man is in the Well, not more than a hundred. from Toronto" cast, the joyous Gain hands of n newcomer, Buster Crabbe, "I wouldn't even tell you that but borough picture now released by swimming champion of international I've just paid my insurance premiums Ideal, of course, the veteran Fred
and is played by him and if I'm torn limb from limb, the remarkbly Kerr, who is now in hila 74th year.
well. The magnificent widow Lee and little Patriela will be physique of the young athlete was provided for? Kerr takes the role of Bonston, a lawyer-executor, whose task is to con- criginally responsible for his selec- More than a thousand beauties vince Jossia Matthess that she would lion for the important role.
appear in the musical comedy "It's be doing the right thing by accepting
Frances Dee, who in one of the Great To Be Alive", now at the King's the conditions of a curious will, and most promising Hollywood's Theatre in which Fox is introducing marry man from Toronto, whom younger group of embryo stors, gives Raul Roullen, South American stage who has never seen. Jessie naturally great deal of charm to the role of idol, as a star
American Jibs, especially as she has overheard Ann Rogers, young school tuncher and screen. on the telephone an uncomplimentary the only person who can handle the reference from the gentleman whose Lion Man when he is captured and heart and hand fand, legacy) who lat brought to America as a circus ver- expected to share. It all works out former. to everybody satisfaction, but many and diverting cross-purposi
Insert themselves into the warp and wour of this piquant remance.
A press correspondent, reminds us that, after putting in a mere matter of 48 years on the stage, Fred Kerr went to Hollywood and scored
As a story "Hell's Huise" is natur- neting, and did vehicle for pollshed average tribesman who does not immediate muccess as Ronald Colman's father in The Devil To Pay", and al and human. It could happen to followed It up with other films, any boy and does to many. There ser
are dramatic highlights that bring a "Waterloo Bridge" among them. His tear, init again there are situations performance in "The Man from that cause hearty laughter. There Toronto" coming on Thursday at the are King's Theatre, is masterly and it is a this age and which provide laughs problems that bother boys of pleasure to watch bis delineation offor the grown ups who have troubles a role that Ats him like the prover of greater propensity to cope with bial glove.
daily.
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Howard Higgin directed "Hell's House” for B. F. Zeldman Production. Paul Gangella wrote the screen play, "It's Great to be Alive"
"King of the Jungle” Excitement runs high in the new Alm which opens on Friday at the Queen's Theatre for "King of tho Jungle" is the story of a roul wild There are an even hundred of beau man-a boy brought up from early I tiful girla in Hollywood, anya Summy
always a
"Women Who Play" has
for
one of the most imposing casts ever 11 British picture, assembled Mary Newcomb, Benita Hume, George Barraud, Joan Barry and Barry Jones are seen in featured roles, Edmund Peter Evan Thomas, Mary Hamilton Brent, Gerard Lyley, Sylvia Leslie, and Frank Lacy are other members of the fine cast.
The story deals with the desperate means taken by Richard Sones (George Barraud,) a successful nove- list, to anve his wife, Margaret (Benita Hume), from a set of worth- lexa triflers, who pose as her friends, and who. he frore, will inevitably
These tribes should be conf sidered half as children, half as religious maniacs. They are generally admired for their cour- age, their loyalty (for the major part of the year), and their skill as fighting men. There is no man who has come in contact with the
consider him a worthy fghter, a man's man. But he can never get out of his head the idea that attack is a summer pastime.
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