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For weeks we heard
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SATURDAY
BRADY JACKIE COOPER
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MADGE EVANS EDDIE QUILLAN
FAY TEMPLETON MAY ROBSON RUSSELL HARDIE ALBERTINA RASCH Dancing Girls
TO
BROADWAY HOLLYWOD
↑ Metro Goldwyn Mayer NCTURE
directed by WILLARD MACK
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1934
CINEMA SCREENINGS THE PRIZEFIGHTER &
NOTES BUPPLIED BY
THE THEATRES
The worst scare that can be caused
THE LADY
(Continued from Page 8.)
"Cut it out!", sald. Dempsey,
in a screen audience is a reaction ing for the first time, “if you can brought on by imagination. So de- hear him when he starts to count!" clares Lionel Atwill, who has startled
Stava cocked his fist.) "Bay, lis-| the picture-going public in such pro- ductions as "Doctor X" "The Silent ten, you big Witness," "The Bong of Songs," and "The Wax Museum, #01 rocently, all the contrivances used by monaces stern despite his laugh. "I'm buy on the screen to cause audience reacing this fight, and I don't want it tions there is nothing so effective es put on hero! You'll have me in iti a horrible idea," explained Atwill on All right, I'll referee the fight. the set of "Solitaira Man," his latest Any kicks about that? That suit plecture for the Metro-Goldwyn 'ed everybody, and Dempsey con Mayor studios and day at the Queen's Themencing to "tinued: Stove, stick around. I
Through
my villainics on the screen I have want to talk to you." reaching the found that suggestion
"After Dempsey, Primo and the mind ls.n
thousandfold more power others had left the office, Steve
or weird BOL ful than any make-up or
went quickly to the telephono and ting. In this new picture, he called a Riverside number. The Solitaire Man," the greatest dramatic
Tho
tension of the story is an under- Professor returned, grabbed the current of fear that disturbs each phone from his hands and slammed character. The spectro is. In their it up. minds and when revealed in action la immediately
transmitted
..
"You're going to stop calling
if the fear is Impressed numbers like that for a while,
mothe strongly enough the spectator will Stephen." became convinced that something awful
in really about to happen, and
not that some acto
"Who says so?" Stove's voice had
me actors trying to con- turned ugly. vince him that he is a villain trying
to do some dastardly deed!" Tho
"I say 80." The Professor's
cast of the tense drama written by voice remained even, but it had be Bolla and Sampel Spewack is bonded come atorn. "You and I are 'got- by Herbert, Marshall, and also fexting up to Gus Martin's, to-night. sures Mary Boland, May Robson, You've got two months ahead of Elizabeth Allan, Italph Ferbos, Lucille
you of the hardest training you've Gleason and Robert McWadr
ever done in your life."
"I should get in a sweat over that big push-over!"
"Gold Diggers of 1933" Enough stars, featured players and Hollywood beauties to make up in-
"I doubt if you could get in a teresting casts for at least six other feature films went into the making of sweat," said the Professor, scorn Warner Bros. picture, "Gold Diggers for Steve showing in his tone. of 1933", which hina been specially
selected for the opening of the "You're as soft as mush. You've Alhambra
Theatre. Considered one got liquor in your veins instead of of the most important films on the blood Boy, boy, get hold of your-
production schedule of the
salf!" His sternness vanished.
arstudios, no
expense wat
in making it outstanding from He spoke gently and put his hands every angle and east was not the on Steve's shoulder. "We've got least of these angles. The name of the championship to win."
Warren William alone, or of Joan We? We? I suppose you'l Blondell, contains enough box offico
two n
in itself. Bat added to theas get, in there and swap punches, I names in this picture are auch suppose you've fought all my
Aline MacMahon, Ruby fights!" players as
Powell, Kibbee, Ned
Guy Keeler, Dick
"Stephen, your nerves are on Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Clarence
an awful Nordstrom and Robert Agnew. Add-edge. You've been on ed to this is the list of two hundred tear." Hollywood beauties who make up the ensembles in the musical numbers which form an important part in the story.
beauties wore picked
These
by Busby Berkeley, who also directed
"Yes, and I'm keeping on it for a while, too."
Steve reached again for the tele. phone, but the Professor, with aur- the ensembles, after interviewing prising strength, threw Stove back several thousand
lous Southern HRA in varngainst the wall.
cities, and
"You poor, blind mutton-head! making a final choice after a series of numerous screen tests. The col You've let the finest little girl that
hundred lection of two
beauties ever lived slip out of your fingers! which resulted from these tests con- Are you going to do the same thing stitute a completo category of what with the championship?"
is considered, feminine Morr
from
!
every viewpoint. LeRoy, who is
"We don't need that pipe dream to make me win." Steve slapped
of the most custable for soma the Professor across the face as he
hits in motried to keep him from the 'phone,
tion picture history of the past few
years, handled the direction of this flooring the old man. musical-comedy-drama. A battery of
high-powered story and song writers
"Broadway to Hollywood"
(To be Continued)
an picturetion. By newer devices
went into its creation. The play on day. The picture marks an innova which the picture was based was tion in motion picture musical_pro- written by Avery Hopwood, and ductions, according to director Mark adapted for the screen by Erwin Sandrich. Parading chorines, wall- Gelsey and James Seymour, with dia ing sopranos and lugrublous crooners, Dan Murksson. The music and lyrics Ical In their stead are thirty logue written by David Rothm and believed the bane of the former mus Alms, are absent_in_"Melody are from the pens of Harry Warren Cru and Al Dubin, who wrote all of the alx flittering beauties in assembled song hits for the successful 42nd rhythms and incidental songs which
weace easily into the continuity. Street."
thirty-alx
tho provide girls who
bril. lant background of feminine pul- chritude actually have bit roles in A veritable "Who's Who of the
the
and y
introduced na are not stage and screen appears in "Broad- way to Hollywood," dazzling pageant
the Bongs are made part of the of half-a-century in the theatre in story; musical dialogue supplants which the great names of Hollywood spoken dialogue. Trick photographic and Broadway unito. The great cifects
created to ach Were
achlove har- oldwyn-Maye spectacle. in monic novelties in "Melody Cruise." a story drumming with the Fish are shown dancing on the heart-beats of human drama is sur Stars from music bars and shimmer- waves. rounded by the pageantry of theatre-
ing notes in
the skies. Steamship dom from the days of Tony Pastor to whistles of varied tones unite in a the modern talking-Alm ста comoo symphony. An ocean liner waltzes to the Queen's. Its bril on its stern in the harbour. A cast on Saturday liant aggregation of stars includes Alice Brady, Jackie Cooper, Jimmy of comedy favourites was selected to enact the sophisticated frivolity of Durante, Frank Morgan, Madge the story. Charlie Ruggles heads Evana, Eddie Quillan, Temple the group, which includes Phil Har- ten, Miny Robson and Russell Hardie, ris, celebrated radio crocner and or-
The
Fay
vaudevil starts in the first dawn of chestra leader at the Cocoanut Grove
It then goes down time in Los Angeles; Greta Nisson, Helen to the reign of Lillian Russell with Mack, June Brewster, Shirley' Cham- "Diamond" Jim Brady gleaming from bera, Chick Chandler, Florence Ito a theatre box, and shows three gon-berts and Marjorie Gateson. Mark erations of "troupers" marching Sandrich directed the picture, and co- proudly down the years.
"Stage Mother"
Danco alops that cannot be followed by the human eye without the aid of a camera are to be seen in "Stage Mother," theatrical drama featuring the terpsichorean artistry of the Albertina Rasch ballet filmed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios to be shown for the last times to-day at the Queon's Theatra. The girla in the ensemble are all expert too dan- cors and during the saveral manoeu- vres they "utter" their feet in uni- son with auch rapidity that their legs zeem blurred to the oys with the de- finita outline obtained with a camera. In addition to the intricate stępa, overhead angles were' photographed to show views of the dancers that could not be obtained in a thentro. "Trucking shots" with moving plat- forms covered the dizzy gyrations of the girls as they move from one side of the screen to another which will bring them to the screen in visual rolic" for the spectater. Maureen O'Sullivan fonds several of the dances | and is supported during dramatic scenes by
a strong cast including Alice Brady, Franchot Tono, Russell Hardie, O. Henry Gordon, Phillips Holmos, Ted Healy дл Alon Edwards.
"Melody Cruise" "Molody. Gruise", which is not a musical emedy in the accoplod avizo of the word, but the first musical movla
conforming to screen ideas, opens at the King's Theatre on Thurs
authored the story with Ben Helmes.
P. G. Wolfson and Allen Rivkin con- | tributed tho additional dialogue, and four songs were especially written for the production by Val Burton and Will Jason.
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