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Paris, May 8. Constantly the theatro public clam- A five-year plan for the do-jours for "now faces", so, in "The Wo- velopment of French industry.men In His Life," which is showing st commerce and agriculture has bean filled with tho bureau of the
Queon's. Metro-Goldwyn-Binyor Chamber of Deputies by M. Leon answering the picture patrons' prayer. Moyer, deputy
The cast is headed by Otto Kruger, a and
of
veteran of tha stugo, but whose fea- Havre.
At the same time, the Unitedtures upon the picture screen are com- Press Toarns that some of the paratively new. Bince joining the major French Industries were M-G-M family a few months ago he considering the adoption of plans has appeared in "Turn Back the Clock,” governing production and distri-"Beauty for Salo" and "The Prize- bution. Theso plans would
infighter and the Lady." He plays the some ways resemble the Ameri-role of Kent Barringer, a sensational can N.R.A. codes and would run trial lawyer who falls to disgrace and over periods of three years or
then redeems himself through great more.
M. Meyer's plan providos for sacrifices. Another comparatively the expenditure of a minimum of now face upon the screen in Isabel 10,000,000,000 franes ovor the Jowell a talented young Broadway Ave-year period. Part of this stage actress, who has apeared in sum would be raised by a redle three Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures. tribution of taxation
and the in "The Women In His Life," Miss remainder by borrowing from the Jewel has been given the most import- national social insurance fund.
Part of this fund would be ant role of her young screen carcer, as used to furnish bonuses for ex- Cathle, the girl friend of Otto Kruger port trade. Builders of com- in the story. A third is Irene Harvey, morical vessels would receive a Los Angeles girl who through her subaldies and operators own faith in herself and perseverance Fronch
steamship
lines would finally. "crashed the Hollywood Gate" also receive monetary encourago with an excellent part with Lionel mont,
Barrymore in "The Stranger's Re- During
the five years, the
turn." Her performance was so out- government would also use fund to help
alanding that she was placed under agriculture. French wine-growers, who
contract and now makes the second have not been doing well in recent appearance of her career in "The years, would receive special at-
Women In His Life" as Doris Worth- ing. The fourth new face to the tention.
screen-though not new to the theatre publicis Irene Franklin, the sparkl ing Red-Head of the vaudeville stage of other days. Though she spent twenty years of her life upon the stage, Miss Franklin is appearing also in the arcand role of her brief picture career this time as Mrs. Steele, a publlelly-seeking husband-slayer. in "The Women in His Life."
of
the
The plan also provides for ex- penditures on public works in Al- goria, Tunisia and Morocco. Much-needed railway lines would be built in these regions and modern ports would be develop
ed.
Follow America.
to
com:
"Devil Tiger"
Finally, the government would advance money from the fund at moderate rates of interests departmenta, cities and
With the unrelenting ferocity of munes, as the Roosevelt adminis. tration has been doing, in the animals untamed, and the uncom United States. These loans promising cruelty of the jungle itself, would be used for local public works and relief projects.
M. Meyer contends that his plan will pay for itself. He saya that much of the expenditure would be compensated for by the decrease in appropriationa for unemployment relief. The stimulus given to Industry and commerco, he adds, would even tantly lead to an increase in re- venue from taxation.
Verne. The supporting cast notablu one that includes J. Carrol Naish, George Roed, Ruth Warren, Lula Alberni and Edward LeSaint.
years
"Queen Christian" What happens to a
regent who either abillentes, from his throne willingly or in violently deposed there. from? The Inst twenty-five have seen so many kingdoms turned into ropublics that the spectacle of a king or queon in exile in no longer startling to us: we accent with equanimity the fact that the ox.. Spanish ruler Ilves in France, the ex- German one in Holland, the ex-Cuban in upper New York State and so on in- defaltely. But three hundred years ago the deposition or abdication of a horrible monarch was a fantastic an
whole nation and event which upset, even a whole continent; and when the regent abandoned her native soil (for It was a woman in this case) oll Europe. turned its eyes her way and watched overy move she made while In exile. "Queen Christina," Greta Gar- bo's later starring vehicle which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brings Saturday for simultaneous showings at the queen's and Alhambra Theatres, shown this amazing queen during the year that led up to her willing abilica. tion of the Bwedish throno, Christina chose to give up her powerful position because independence of action and freedom of thought meant more to her than the wielding of the sceptro, and it took great courage to make this decinion. Until then Europe had never known a regent not automatical- ly willing to suppress all individual interests and compulsions to the privilege of being a ruler over o Ention. Thus their horror consisted primarily of an incredulity that the occupant of Sweden's powerful throne should bu ready to forsake this kupronte peat. Beyond that, however, there was a greater horror-and this was that Christina should have struck n blow at the concept of the divine right of kings. For, if royalty was appointed by God, then the queen's Insistence on dropping her royal power amounted to nothing lesn then blasphemy. And this, In a religious eg. represented a traightening do. flance of the Alright Indulgence. And when Christina went into exile which meant a life of incessant travel through France and Italy and Holland -the world kept its shocked gaze fixed on her, finding everything she did, even the laudable patronage of artists and scientists, the product of
mind they could not ever learn to respect because they were no busy be. Ing freightened by it. John Gilbert, who was associated with so many of Garbo's past successes, again plays annosite her in "Queen Christina,” as the man for whose love she deserts her throne. Others in prominent aupport- Ing roles include lan Keith. Lowin Stone and Elizabeth Young.
"To-marrow at Seven"
"Devil Tiger", Fox Film'a'ango of the wilderness, crashes across the screen of the King's Theatre, beginning on Friday. It Is a picture that has been hailed as the most terrific of all animal production. "Devil Tiger" is the re- cord of a group of people who cut their way through the tangles of the
Mystery murderers have crashed the Asiatic Jungle, woven by untouched. nature for thousands of years. It is
air in "To-morrow At Seven", RKO- the picturization of man's latest battle
Radio Pictures' mystery comedy- with the elements, that have baffled
drama whose laughs and thrills offer the first murder in mid-air ever fllmed, explorera for centuries. It is ឆវា The Meyer plan is intended to expedition into bare danger. with
ut King's Theatre toxiny. A capital. Al
int, his secretary, the latter's daughter, gap in the French recovery Raturo and nature's killers as the
a novelist, two detectives and two programme.
The
enemies that will not quit fighting energetic
pilula embark on an air Journey to economy measures taken by the until they are entirely subdued. This Doumergue
ihwort a death threat against the Government
is the setting for a story and a battle are that thunders high above any of the
capitalist by the notorions and fearful patting the Government's fu trials to which more ran has ever
Black Ace, friendish perpetrator of a unces on a solid basin. The next been submitted. It is no simspie tale:
score of terrible murders in recent step, in the opinion of political of a group in quest of terror. It is
months. While they are congratulat. and business leaders, is
ing themselves the fatal hour pro-more the steady pounding of catas
Arrives, the lights of the plane go out gramme of direct, aid to Industry trophe after catastrophe on the spirits
and the secretary is killed, a case, of and commerce, auch as thla five of three intrepid souls until they are year plan.
mistaken identity on the part of the Rll but swallowed up by the ravages killer or a result of the victim knowing Parliament may consider
that are the jungle. It took seven the
too much. The pinuo is landed in an months to make this films in the jungleseld-swamp-lanil-mansion-The-party- -schome when it opens on May-15. of Asio. It took the last sunce of In the meantime, it la possible courage of everyone concerned to-sce that the Doumergue Government it through. Marlon Burns, Kane Rich- may develop a plan of its own. mond and Harry Woods are the three If this is the case, the Govern- whom Fox Film sent around the world montal plan will probably borrow to India, Siam, Indo-China and Malaya ideas from the
-to the few locnica never before grammie of the Roosevelt Ad- of the jungle, was their constant com- filined, Ah Lee, a seven-year-old waif ministration in the United panion. The entire adventure was States United Prese
achieved under the supervision Clyde E. Elliott, director of the famous "Bring 'Em Back Alive",
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