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favourite, but an accomplished singer. They are teamed for the first time in this production, but their success has con so instantaneous and outstanding that M-G-M is now reported to be seeking a new vehicle in which they may appear together. "The Cat and the Fiddle" was adapted to the screen froni the successful stage play by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. At had a long run in New York and has been presented in other large' clttex throughout the country. It is a romantle musical drama and includes such hit song numbers as "The Night Was Made for Love," "She Didn't Say Yes," "Try to Forget," "One Momant Alone", "A Now Love in Old,” and “Tho; Love Partly.” Lavish production want into the making of the picture, as is evidenced by the fact that it was almost six months in the making. Much of the action takes place in a theatre renting 2,000 people, which was constructed at the M-G-M studion in Californin as a duplicate of one of the best known show-houses of Paris. The cast includes, besides the stars, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth, Jean Hershok, Vivienne Segel, Frankį Cenroy, Henry Armetta, Adrienne D'Ambricouri nad Joseph Cawthorn.) The picture was directed by Willow. K. Howard,
"Up in the Neck"
Ralph Lynn, star-comedian of so many British and Dominions pictures, might have been soldier! For generations must of the male members of the Iyan family had entered the British Army, and only the fact that Ralph was left fatherless at an early age prevented him from following the
at prices which are purchase-same profession, as it was the ex- compelling!
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pensiveness of the training that made I impossible. Ralph does not con- nider, therefore, that he was born to be an actor and it was largely by ac- cident that he embarked on a theatrical
1934.
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career. His first thought of the stage unable to accept as his own coutract unaware of the influence his secretary The east also includes Natalie Moor- In the light came from his hobby of had some weeks still to run. His has over him is the final proof of her head, Brock Benedict, Walter Merrill. collecting theatre programmes. His latest starring performance is in "Up hold on him.. That is the reason why and Dale Fuller. "The Omee Wife" so many men have fallen in love with was adapted from the novel of the their secretaries. The time comes same name by Faith Baldwin. when they realize that they cannot do without thent-that their ttle atten-,
brother Sydney (Gordon James) was to the Neck" at the King's Theatre to- the first to enter the profession when day, with Winifred Shotter again play
ing opposite. he paid a ten-pound premium and rot in A tearing company. Ralph followed suit. It was in America that:
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tions cannot be duplicated. It is a dangerous Binge-especially if the Few men even realize when their wife does not know about it. This Error crept into the report in Ralph Lynn was "discovered." Be secretaries become their office wives problems the basin of the Warner, yesterday's issue of the wedding of was appearing in a sketch in ave an attractive and clever girl six Bros. and Vitaphone picture, The Miss Edith Mary Whittaker to Mr. York when his show was seen by Will months as a business man's secretary, Office Wife," which is showing at the Churles Shuttleworth. The Matron Collins, the theatrical agent. The and she has become his office wife. Alhambra. Dorothy Macksill portrays of Honour was not Mrs. Pullen, but next week Ralph was showing in Chi- Her efeciency, her advice, and agm the efficient secretary who is in love Mrs. May. The bride wore a shoulder enge, and there he was seen by Elsipathy, have almost entirely obliterated with her employer. Lewis Stone is spray of pale pink roses and violeta Janis, who forthwith offered him af the influence of the wife at home, the business inan who does not know and carried not gloves but a white purt in her own show which he was The fact that the tired employer is that his secretary is in love with him. ivory prayer book.
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