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Lealio Howard makes the longest fim speech ever recorded by studio mlcrophones when he speaks un- interruptedly for three minutes and two seconds, in a dramatic scono for "Berkeley Square", the current feature at the King's Theatro, The lines
TO SAN FRANCISCO ||TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA spoken by Howard in this Fox picture
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produced by Jenso L. Lasky, are sald to have tho samo elements of interest possessed by Hamlet's celebrated soliloquy. Director Frank Lloyd, al- though an exponent of more than action and less dialogue, retained the speech in ita full length and did not Interrupt its dramatic continuity by camera cuts. The film version of "Berkeley Square" has approximately thirty per cent, less dialogus thân the play by John Balderston, which ran so long in London and New York. Howard had forty per cent, of the tolai dialogue, Heather Angol twenty- three and the rest of the cast, Valerio Taylor, Alan Mowbray, Irene Browne and Beryl · Mercer make up the differenco,
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Mae West camo to town yesterday in a new Paramount piêture, "I'm No Angel," now showing at the Queen's | Theatre. That is real news for pic- ture fans. Mias West soared to the greatest heights of popularity any screen actress ever, has attained, re- volutionized feminine styles as the result of her last fllm, "She Done Him Wrong." The imagination fails in an attempt to figure what her intest plc- ture will accomplish. For. It In superior to her first starring film in every respect-story, wiar per- formanco, excellence of poduction, wisecracks and Rongs. Min West gives a splendid performance-sho portrays a colourful character, Tira, a hard-boiled, carnival-dancer who be- comce à New York sensation, On her rise to fame and fortune, she vamps any number of men, finally ending up besieged by her tail, dark and hand- Rome," a society millionaire. She aing's five sensational songs, dances the 7 heao romances between Richard Julle Haydon. As the price of wheat “mildway”--e spectacular varintlon af Arles and Julio Haydon, and Chester falls under the onslaughts of his that same xhinimy which, we are told, Morris and Genevieve Tobin, have as brother, he orginizes the farm strike, When Arlen seca á their background the hysterical activi leads the revolt. she herself originated; wears lovelyly of the Chicago Wheat Pit and the way of saving the farmers by stopping clothes, and she scintillates with wit Turbulent farm strike and revolt the shipment of food to cities, jacklu in en hilarious exurtroomI scene. against foreclosures that are right in prices, he enlists the aid of Morris. Since the movies were in their awadd!- the news to-day. In this thrilling They combine, the market soars, and ing clothes, no star ever has so com.story by Nina Wilcox Putnam, Arlen the picture driver on to a
rousing pletely dominated a alma Mia West, and Morela, brothers born to the soil, peak. The performances of the cast Morris are outstanding. Roscoe Ates and LONDON (via Australia) from £128.15.0 ed her with a capablo cast including leaves for the city for a career as
but Paramount cleverly has surround. have different ambitions.
Elizabeth Patterson supply the comedy (Australian Newspapers on file),,
Cary Grant, Kent Taylor, Edward speculator, falls in love with Genevieve interent. The farm scenery, filmed on Tobin, daughter of a wealthy trader. ʼn } seation trip to Pendleton, Oregon, is Arnold, Ralf Haralde, Gregory Ratoff, Arlen remains on the farm, marries beautiful. Ralph Murphy directed. Dorothy Peterson and others.
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