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unough to sent 'tho: 7,500 ́extras, de well as the entiro 99,000-square-for rona in which the games were actual 49' conducteutt
westward Passage a
up aboard his yacht, when her Faris zvor pute in a sudden appearance and complieptes matters;
to-day, Jamca Dunn and Sally Ellors asked and answered in
Westward VI
Follies of 1839-34.
who is
The
Sally Ellora, ns the rfect fell farding, Olivier, and Pichol also in inte favour immediately with their
Purcell
The manner in which four worldly-
mode this situation they dancer, hor engineer-fiance, her form- In "Saflor's Luck," the new Fox Docs a trus neat passion ever die er lovor and his beautiful but neglect Can a woman" realy love twico? fim, opening at the King's Theatre completely? Those are the questions ed wife is said to be absorbing, and prava once again that they are the Passage, the Ann Harding starring tinct
tis reported as a dis most vivid romantic team on the picture at the Central Theatre to-day. acreon. The promise they gave in
Few travelling companies can boast "Bad Girl," the picture that lifted love-tortured woman, Miss Harding in the clever array of talent to be secu
In her superb performance as the them both to the cinematic skies clenoly prossed for onours by n the King's Thestro on Sunday fulfilled in generous measure by their Laurence Oliver and Irving Pichel, when the Midnight Follies of 1938-34 Joint performance in "Saller's Luck.”
Dunn plays the role of a happy-go: husband number two respectively.
who play husband number one and hold forth. Featured in the produc
tion is a beauty chorus Tucky
outstanding alway ready to fight but
Westward Passage" was directed in ability and anncarance. Thras always naive in the ways of the world. by Robert: Stilton and bealdea Misa clover girls sing and dance themselves ponsible for it all, lá They meet quite accidently, as in the cast aro Zasu usually the case with a gob and a girl, and, from then on the action is hectic and hilaricum. Dunn resonts the attention that other men pay to Mies Ellors, but the girl happens to be the kind that provokes attention. She just can't help it. After a serios of misadventures, and separation King's provided by both the United States Navy and a quarrel of their own, the two are re-united in a climax of rare entertainment. The supporting east exoellent in a number of character portrayals, each of which is a gem. It includes Sammy Cohen, Frank oran, Victor Jory, Esther Muir. Will Stanton, Curley Wright, Jorry Mandy, Lucien Littlefield, Buster Phelps and Raoul Walsh. the guiding genius of
Crows..
1933.
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singing act
act Ha has been u screen presentation of the successful Ercadway play of the same name, tinental and American variety thea with a cast of notable
husband of screen por tron, besides being the sonalitiehentre
starts on Sunday at the Kitty Watson, of the famtus Watson Frank Braidwood is a CT of "State Fairy King, direc Slators.
is said to have musician singer and comedian and eraries through duplicated his success with this flui in which his all-star cast includes out the performance of Midnight Warner Baxtor, Elissa Landi, Mirinin Fullles. Jordan, Victor Jory and Laura Hope Betty and Arlene are star acrobatic dancing marvels and are making their The story revolves around the very first appearance in the East glamorous figure of a ballet dancer rect frem Continental succesJon. in Parin, who, secking to heal the Their act is filled with thrills and wounds left by an unfortunato love excitement and exceeds anything yet affair, gooa to South America to offered in Adagin Dancing. They hold launch
a professional dancing an audience spellbound for the timis t career. There shy mcata a handsome of their appearance. "What Price Glory" and "The Cock-engineer who falls in love with hor. Luba Hineantina a clevór littla Eved World," directed "Sallor's Luck" Their work separates them, but they artist filled with sparkle and veranlan her modern Jazz and Acrobatle, programme. Supporting those Artists with the sure touch of a man who must later in New York, each of them tility is offering her sensational acro Waltz dance Mlso Nadia Claire, the are Miller Rox, Torsa Larska, Zina knows comedy when he aces it.
having a measure of fame. They are latic anaka Dance of Death with which Harmony Trlo, and Tallman the roman, Lucy Delay, Nina Kellen, The Sign of the Cross."
n honeymoon she has made a tremendous success famous Magleton, make up a capital and Rott and His Musical Trio. The day of the million-dollar but to embark on spectacle-drama has returned. And, as for as Hollywood is concerned, prosperity has at last managed to get around that mythical corner.
Frank Atkinson.
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Cecil B. DeMlile's "The Sign of the Crag aenetelo of pagon Rome In the days of Nero, Inst of the Caesars, Who Caro which did the trick Like DeMille's "The Ten Command- ments" and "The King of Kings," "The Sign of the Cross," which opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre was produced on a gigantic Acale, with thousands of players, elaborate wettings and all the other features that run up bllls, but stun audiences into awed delight in the magnificence they are beholding,
Nearly 7,500 persons made on the cast of "The Sign of the Cross." Thona include Frederie March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, and others in leading roles, and thousands of "extras" who appear in Roman street scenes and in the arena in which Nero stages hia bloody games.
Practically the entire Paramount Tanch, comprising Beveral score aeres land near Hollywood was converted
of
into a section of the City of Rome as it was in Nero's day. Streets,
up..
public squares and houses were licated from research based on several hundred years of excavations in the Imperial These setting wete Inter by fire, when DeMila Mined Nero's burning of Rome.
An elaborate Roman bath, in which Miss Colbert, as the Empress, is photographed during the course of her ablations, was constructed from blue- prints and charts of baths uncovered In recent excavations.
Most elaborate of all the settings was a duplication of the Circus Maximus a huge amphitheatre which for several hundred years was the scene of the bloody gladiatorial com Unta and chariot races in which the Roman pipulace delighted. A huge, ntracture, the original Circus Minxi mus scaled 150,000 persona. Dulilla built a section of the grandstand large
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