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It is officially learned hero that which is coming to Queen's on Sun-
Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff, who is equivalent to climbing into the the three Bulgarian Communists, planes which will tonight converge were acquitted at the Reichstag The Steamship, towards this city with their cargo. fire trial at Leipzig but who Bro The announced purpose of Director still detained in a Berlin prison, having arrived from the above ports, Clarence Brown, and his cast. John are to become citizens of Soviet Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Russia.
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Gablo, Lionel Barrymore, Montgomery and Myrna Loy, in ing this film is to give the public a clear and dramatic iden of the thrills of air mail pilots, and the very human fears of their wives and sweethearts. "It is the first picture of the sir which ever told both sides correctly. the side of the man, and the side of the woman," states Director Brown.: himself a pilot with thousands of hours to his credit.
The Private Life of Henry VIU" From early boyhood, when the lure of the stage frat began to beckon the youthful Charles Laughton from his position as a hotel clerk with its promise of great things, he has al-
ways
wanted to play the role of
Heary VIII. The Private Life of Henry
VIII", a United Artists re- lease coming to the King's Theatre, aces the fulfillment of that wish and
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All broken, chafed and damaged Reports from critics who previewed packages are to be left in the go- this Wheeler-Woolsey, madcap have downs, where they will be examined boon cestatle with praise for the uni- by Holt's Wharf.
Claims against, the steamer must que departure Columbia has made in
So This In Africa!" in satirizing be presented in writing within ton the series of jungle and animal films days after arrival of steamer, other that have swept the country's screens wise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insuranco will be effected | in one of Hollywood's famous cycles.
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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
"Duck Soup" Although members of one family may look alike, act alike and sound alike to the ordinary car, their voices usually are
critics have credited Laughton with "Lindy"
different. H. M. chief sound mixer
the latest
polated out Volces
arting plaertointed out, "Chico'p'
of the
Agents,
CABC
HELD FOR RANSOM
FUKIEN REDS CAPTURE SPANISH PRIEST
News has just been received that the Rev. Father C. Bravo, Dominican Missionary in Sha- hafen, Fukien, has been taken
is hard, but it doesn't contain that captive by the Reds. Heavy ran- raspy quality which is hard to record, som is being demanded for he Zeppo speaks more softly than the release.
ther two, but his voice has a cleari
was Father Bravo as any
the only quality, All three speak a good deal missionary who could not obey louder than most actors. They have the orders of the foreign consuls
no timing whatsoever in their gage to return to Foochow when fight- Timing' you know, is the spacing
"Duck on giving his greatest performance the
monarch who is recorded in his Marx Brothers
Theatro, at the King's tory as the Bluebeard of kings. The at
the diffences
in the Lujos Biro and the written by story, as Arthur Wimperis, is concerned with quartetto being photographed at the the romantic rather than the historic Paramount studios. Or, at least, he doce printed out the differences between phase of Henry's regime. This not mean that London Films in pro- Groucho, Chico and Zeppo, for Harno ducing it, or Alexander Kordo in dir- never talks. "Groucho has a high.
I have
taken ecting it,
datingula ennily Faken any liberties with the life of
Lindgren England's "Bluff King Hal" as recorded, but rather that the king is shown as a man with human, lovable qualities and with as
domestic difficulties many husband who married six times. In fact, the story of "The Private Life
Henry
leana decidedly to wards the humorous,
and i
it la claimed the picture provides almost continu- ous Inughter. Five of the six wives the Aim. Merle Oberon plays
Anne Boley, that
and was found to greatly fast
unfortunate Lady, Laughton's wife, Elsa Lanchester, ter, plays And of Cleves, whose wedding night provides the picture with its comedy high spot. Wendy Barrie is Jane Seymour, who bore the king a Pin and
and then
died. Binnie Barnes as the lovely but faithless Katheryn Howard gives promise of n great career ahead of her. Henry's last wife, Katherine Parr, la played by Everley Cregg. Other important roles are played by Lady Tree, Robert Donat, Miles Mander, Franklin Dyall, Claud Allister and John Turnbull.
between dialogue to give the audience ing between the Rebel Govern- a chance to laugh if it feels like ment and Nanking troops broke laughing. The Marxmen werk at out.
According to a message recely- speed, and gags tumble out Ho
of Henry VIII are portrayed in top at timing is impossible, Soled by the Spanish Dominican Pro-)
"Face in the Sky"
the three of them talk well above an curation in Hongkong, from Mgr. ordinary one, and no matter how F. Aguirre, O.P., Bishop of Foo- much the audience laughe, it still
can hear the dialogue. This voice Chow, Sha-hsien was captured by difference has been noted also in the Reds on January 31, and into other acreen families, such as the Father Bravo was thrown as Bennett sisters, the Costello sisters prison with many army ofleers
and the Barrymoren".
and rich merchants.
Efforts are now being made to secure his release.
"Face in the Sky," the Spencer Tracy-Marian Nixon-Stuart Erwin feature at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday is one of the most
ost delightful screen produc tions. Whimsical, always charming,
"Meet the Baron"
Jack Pearl, famous "Baron Mun- chausen" of the radio, and Jimmy Durante, cavert in Pearl's first mo- tion picture. "Meet the Baron, which in playing at the Queen's. Theatre. Incidentally, while they were at it Pearl "gold" Jin.my the idea of a dows the face of the man whose debut
on radio. The new picture voice is familiar to millions of madlo listeners and the film proves him to list be a most accomplished actor. Amid the hilarity Pearl takes the audience
country girl offers brand-new form"
"In
Band. Tracy reveale
aboard-an.
this tale of a travelling signboard into a broadcasting station and with artist's romance with a wistful little Ben Bard shows them "how he does "Meet the Baron" Durante ure- and "The Baron" undergo hilarious of entertainment to kcal picture-
"The collego. and one that will be widely adventures at a girls'
a hither Baron" and Zasu Pitts make love in to unsuspected fair for delicate and a freezing icebox. He and Durante sincere love-making, ar 3 add to this make a triumphant entry.
1 his boisterous teaming with Erwin elephant. There, are all sorts of in the comedy scenes. Miss Nixon Ta
screamingly funny complications empelling in her part, and Sarah against which is a pattern of munic Padden and Sam Hardy furnish nola and dancing, for the "atudents" in ble support. The director, Harry the girls' are a bory of Metro- Lanchrum, wha a successful landscape Goldwyn-Mayer's n.ost beautiful artist before he turned his attention to the screen and produced some out standing films abrand. He combines his artistic talent with a aure grasp of story presentation. With Gurms, who recently won the Acade my Award for his photography, at the camera "Face in the Sky" is a pictorial delight and a noteworthy piece of film fare.
"So This Is Africa"
Lea
Lions to the right of them, gorillas to the left of them, Tarzans all around them-down into the valley of laughs march the two comics, Wheeler and Woolsey, in their newest comedy, "So This Is Africa!” a side-tickling travesty on Tarzan films produced by Columbia Studios comes to-day to the Alhambra Theatre. With a St. Ber nard dog to rescue any members of safari who might by chance find some now in the jungle to get lost in, with a horne to carry Professor Woolsey's special edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and with a change of evening the safar! around clothes to refreak the atmosphere of the fire after a long day's trek, Wheeler and Woolacy invade the ter rors of darkest Africa and finally emerge victorious--though married.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
chorines, singing and dancing to music by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fickla.
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BOYOBOY! DID WE HAVE
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THAT'S GOOD FOR YOU!
SWELL SUPPER, MOM. AND NOW TO GET BUSY ON MY STUDIES.
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