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Any man who has ever lost his job. or any young wife who has bravely tried to comfort him will thrill to the tenderness, the courage, the gay humor of this idyl of young love which all the cruelty of these bitter times could not destroy!:
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The girl you loved in "Only Yesterday" in the picturization of Hans Fallada's great novel. Carl Laemmle has the honor to present —
in
Margaret Sullavan LITTLE MAN WHAT NOW?
with DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY Fred Kohler,
Alan Hale,
Mae Marsh, George Mecker, Muriel Kirkland, DeWitt Jennings, Hedda Hopper. Screenplay by William Anthony McGuire.
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE A FRANK BORZAGE Production
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SÁTURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934.
CINEMA SCREENINGS
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One of the largest and most spectacular settings ever bullt for a plature was measured in terms of a thousandth of an lach. This is the great glass and cellophano set in which hundreds of beautiful girls cavort, and fanious comedians figura In "Hollywood Party", Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer's great musical spectacle opening to-morrow. at the Queen's Theatre. The Inw of optics was the cause, Flanking a great glass stair case in which "multi-coloured lights burned were · rows of huge fluted glass pillars. Glass reflects light, and light reflected thus into the lens of the casern would have caused "halation" or white light-spots the film. As a result the camera angles were Ink out, with mtleromatic precision, and the pillars then design. e so that the angles of their facels would reflect no direct light into cameras. Tho task took hours of tests and calculations. It is in this setting that the great "Hello" num ber, with the dancing gorilla, the great beauty chorus in cellophane, costumes, and the huge African male i chorus appent with Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl, in n complete revue In a single musical number. A total of 1,000 beautiful girls, marvellous settings, gorgeous costumeя grent musical numbers by the country's three greatest song-writing teams. all-figure in the new picture, hailed as the most glamorous musical ever filmed. It is an entirely new form of entertainment: its musical num. bera, the antics of an all-comedian cast, its spectacles and its thrills are ni woven inton logical dramatic plot. In the great enst are Laurel & Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Charles But. terworth, Polly Moron, Lupe Velez, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl, Eddio Quillan June Clyde, George
Givot, Richard Carle and Ted Henly and his Stooges.
"Little Man. What Now 2."
"If a woman sincerely loves a man, she will stick to him through thick and thin, come what may". This is the assertion Margaret Sullavan. star of Frank Borzage's romantic Universal drania, "Little Mun, What Now 7" which comes to the King's Theatre on Sunday with Douglass Montgomery in the lending male role. "A wife likes to feel that she is doing her share in facing the world and its fickle fortunes, and that she and her husband are on an equal footing when it comes to making life a success. Nothing is no sure a test of true love no a touch of poverty. These are the klens which animate the character 1 play in my latest picture, and they so closely parallel (my own that t feel 1 have put my heart into the rule. In the story" Bougings 'Mont- gomery and I are seen as a young couple undaunted by the cruelties of the world-wide depression because they have youth and each other". The cast supporting Miss Süllavan and Montgomery includes Alan Hale, jfedda Hopper, George Mecker. Sarah Padden. Bodil Rosing. Mae Marsh and many other popular kercen players.
"The Ninth Guest"
new
**Th Ninth Guest," Broadway stage success by Owen Davín, which has sent shivers up the backs of bundreds of New York nudiences dur- Ing the past two years, comes to the screen to-day at the Alhambra Theatre. Columbia studios, capitalle- ing on the present interest in mystery thrillers, purchased "The Ninth Guest during its New York run_und_im.... mediately adapted it to the kercen, Columbin studios. capitalizing and Hardie Albright enact the featured roles in the motion picture, while the important supporting cast includes Samuel S. Hinds, Nella Walker, Edwin Maxwell, Edward Ellis, Helen Flint. Vineunt Barnett and Sidney Bracey Roy William Nelli directed, "Tarzan and His Male" Youngsters who applaud with de- light every time they see 'n adventure of "Tarzan" on the screen now discover that mother and father are even more interested in the Jungle thrills. This was disclosed by a national survey made during the filming of "Tarzan and His Mate," newest picture based on the Edger Rice Burrough's fletional character, with Johnny Weissmuller as the white jungle king and Maureen O'Sullivan in the romantic lead. The picture comes next Thursday to the Queen's Theatre. Newspapers and motion picture houses in all parts of America were requesetd to give their findings on the public reactions to "Tarzan" on the screen and coloured cartoon strips, and all are lavish in their praise. With this datom at hand, studio officials believe that in making "Tarzan" pleture they are always catering primarily to the adult mind, confident that in so doing they are also including the childron within their scope.
"Top Speed"
"Top Speed" is merely a relative term, according to Jue E. Brown, siar of this lively production which opens to-morrow the Alhambra Theatre, The picture features a highly excit ing speedboat race. "The greatest thrill of my life came in riding in these speedboats at. between 50 and 00 miles an hour,”", said 'Brown. "I've travelled 145 miles an hour in an air- plane, but you obtain no such nonse of speed in the air as you do through the water. It seems at least three times FA fast." Mervyn LoRoy directed. Bernice Claire, Jack Whit- ing, Frank McHugh and Laura Leo are in the cnst.
"Springtime For Henry" Thoir association
making "Springtime For Henry" on the Fox lot was a reunion for Producer Jesse LLnsky, Otto Kruger. and. Nancy Carroll. In intervala” between shook- Ing this amusing Broadway hit us a picture, the three were frequently together in "remember when" sessions. Other In "Springtime For Henry", showing now at the King's Theatre, are Nigel Bruce, who played in the original London and Broadway com- panies, Heather Angel and Herbert Mundin. In the picture the Minnes Carroll and Angel try noval ways of making love to Kruger In their battle for his heart. Mundin and Bruce add to the general merriment In this story ofa gay, young, bachelor's trouble,
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