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which the critics prophesy a greater measure of success than other the novel or the play achieved. The lead- ing players aro Jessle Matthews, Exlmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne and A. W. Baskcomb.
The Good Companions" is showing teulay at the King's Theatre.
9, 1933.
GAOL RIOTS.
THREE GUNMEN KILLED IN BUENOS AIRES
Buenos Aires, Oct. 7. A serious outbreak in the goal here was only suppressed after in- fantry and a tear gas squad had been called in. Loud fearing at the dinner hour was the signal for the convicts opening fire on the guards with weapons they had
There is something now under the sun-ares, and Merian C. Cooper and Ernest H. Schoedsack, with their pro
Rasputin and the Empress" duetion of "King Kong" have done ILI
The producer of "Grass" and When Ethel Barrymoro played the "Chang" have soared groudly into the role of the tragic Czarina of Russia reatus of imagination for the super-in "Rasputin and the Empress," Metro funtney, "King Kong the RRO-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Three Barrymore" Radio Picture featuring Fay Wray, picture now showing at the Queen's Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot at Theatre she was really pinying more the Central Theatre.
than a mero role. To her it wan With the Into Edgar Wallace, reality. For the late Czarina was her Cooper conceived the extravagantly elone personal friend, fantastic idea of bringing the pre- Mia Barrymore frat met the mon historic age Into juxtaposition with Russian empress in London at the
Beized.
Soven warders were wounded. The latter replica, killing three convicts, including potorions gun-
The shots attractel large crowds
the modern age. Firat an expedition time of the funeral of Queen Victoria. In the vinicity of the gaol, many of to a jungle island discovera surviving It had been said that the distinguished whom were affected by the ten-gna members of the Jurnale Age-the American actress resembled the
pierodactyl, tráchodon, tyrannosaurius, Czarina which aroused such interoat fumes.--Renter.
riceratops and others ruled over a that they met, and subaustently be. ginnt ape standing more thna afty came warm friends.
feet high.
"The Czarina was originally the
Then the ape is transported to civill. Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt," that could not die in a were twenty zation to Now York. Breaking loose, relates Miss Barrymore. "She was
""},{years,"" tears through the streets where Germany and was a grand-daughter! An under-water light with a shark, people, automobiles, street elevated lines are like so many tinan
care of Queen Victoria. There was always wrestling match with a 310-pound
nir of tragedy about Iter. tops beneath one's feet-where even She
turtle, and a dash through a wall of the tallest building me than a tree!
WVGA an orphan, raised by fames were some of the feats Joel- in the world is no two grand-mother Her honeymoon McCren was called upen to perform.
more difficult to
The groat "King Kong" even reaches into the sky and provides a new menace for airman. A snatch at a plane pumping machine gun bullets into his hide, and it is doomed,
The Nuisance"
WILD with Czar Nicholas consisted
for repose of the Inte emperor's soul and the receiving of visits or official condolence.
The
The Nuisance," with, Lee Tracy us Russian people never took the German In high-pressure, ambulance-chasing princess really to their hearts.
shyster lawyer in a whirl of comical "King Kong" is n terror-the "Most reyal marriages are arranged and exelting adventures, is the attruc mightiest terror man, either in or out by statesmen, but this one was a rent tion coming to the Queen's Theatre of letion and of the movies, ever love match. Nicholas and Alix were on Thursday. attempted to capture and subdue. devoted to each other. They were]
The imagination of the story is intensely happy together save for the Chandler Sprague
Bnard on an original story by something to marvel at, but the illness of the little prince, the thing Emmett Rogers, the rapid-fire drama and Howard visualization of its production-is that injected Rasputin into their lives of big-city life is said to give Traes a miracle of modern science. It and led to their downfall blends fancy with reatam so magically that you question what is fact and
what isn't!
"The Good Companions"
Prince Chegodieff: Lionel has the role was directed by Jack Conway who John Barrymore plays the debonair an even more dynamic role than that of "Clear All Wires." The picture of Rasputin and the Czar is enacted filmed "Hell Helow." Madge Evans by Ralph Morgan, all in makeups that has the feminine lead a the girl make them virtual reincarnations of detective, and the cast also features The difleulties when filming "The
the originals.
Frank Morgan who recently scored in Good Companions" will be readily)
"Bird of Paradise"
"Reunion in Vienna," the amusing reallard. The novel. contains a quar-
Charles Butterworth
plays who Delores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, King Tracy's partner in celme, John Miljan, ter of million words, which approxi mater four ordinary length novels. Vidor, their director, urul a company Virginia Cherrill, David Landau, There nre literally duzeni of of forty technicians spent six weeks Greta Meyer, Hernan Bing, Samuel characters, and as the story first in Hawaii filming outdoor sequences Hinds and Syd Saylor. follows the fortunes of three separate Walton Tull's famous play, brought to for "Bird of Paradise," Richmed characters, Jens Oakroyd, Inigu Jullifant, and Miss Trant and the their adventures when they join The Good Companions" travelling concert party the scene is continually chang The difficulties seemed insuperable, but na difficulties are created only to be overcome, the film version of J. B. Priestley's entertaining story of the
ing.
Thrills and mystery vic with showing at the Oriental Theatre to the the screen by RKO-Hadio, which is screaming comedy situations. Among day and to-morrow.
comical high-spots are the lawyer's 'desperate efforts to keep a romance of a young American who daringo sull for the death of her "Bird of Paradise" is the moving widow from re-marrying before the falls in love with a Hawaiian girl. The husband comes up; the bargain with story of the, conflict is in her heart the undertaker; the riotous physical when her love for the American is put examination of Herman Hing, and a to love's most crucial test is, a atury bowling roller skating rink séquence.
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