WEDNESDAY
KING'S
PAID TO SHOW HIM A ROYAL TIME! A faka princess hired to vomp a handsome bachelor... she kissed him and 'a bond issue was floated! She kissed him again. but this time bonds were not the issue!-
Sylvia Sidney
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with
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a B. P. Scholberg Production
from Choranca Bugtingin Kalland's Ladies Hema Jasonal variab A Porament Pictors, directed By Marion Gering
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MONDAY, OCTOBER
FILMLAND NEWS NEW CAPELETS
Advance Contracts for British Films
KORDA CAMPAIGN
The autumn sales campaign for this year's roster of London Film Productions, which has just 'boon; completed, reveals that 10,000 con- tracts have already been secured in advance on such films as H. G. Welis's "Whither Mankind," "The Bearlet Pimpernel" (Leslie Ho- ward), "Sanders of the Rip"
Edgar Wallaes story), and "The Private Life of Don Juan" (Douglas Fairbanks.)
"For each of these pictures con- tracts have been secured with over | 6,000 cinemas in the United States, over 1,000 cinemna in France, 700 In Germany, 400 In Italy, and over 200 in Belgium.
Further play dates have alno been secured for about 600 cine- mas In South Africa, 200° In] Canada, 150 in Austria, 100 in Hungary, 200 in Czechoslovakin, 300 in Spain and Portugal, 100 in) Holland, over 200 in the Scandina vian countries, 100 in Poland, and
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BEAUTY CULTURE
LTHOUGH vast sums of money
NEW AIRPORT FOR LONDON
BUILDING ALONG THAMES
TRAFFIC CONTROL BY AUTOGYRO
London (Bup),
One of the chief obstacles which stand in the way of the development of air traflic in this country In T difficulty of providing rporte |reasonably near the big cities. In
n great number of cases ima tin saved by rapid air travel is more than offeot by. the time lost in transit to and from the airports at onch end of a trip. So we are out to change all that
If proposals now being consider: od are carried into effect the City of London will have its own airport within its own limits. The City
quiry into the easibuity L Buch Corporation is making a special en-
(plan. It la suggested that there' ahall be erected a huge reinforced concrete platform at a considerable height along the foreshore of the Thames or above axlating river. side warehouses. The originators
80 In Yugoslavia for each of the are spent every year upon of the pian sut grout sture o
films mentioned,
11
in
colossal, but the Corporation of the City of London proovy JUL greater facilities for raising the necessary funds than any other similar body in the world.
WIRES TO DISAPPEAR.
Just at the same time as, adoro-
It is revealed that this is the beauty culture, and there must be City site, as this would enable the first occasion on which a block of thousands and thousands of women Corporation to be master of a situa British pictures has been sold who attend regularly at beauty tion which is likely to grow before completion to so many thou-Parlours, yet the vast majority de importance as time goes on. The sands of cinemas in foreign fer-not give much time or thought to view is held that the future trade ritories.
make-up.
and commerce of the city is largely Oki-fashioned women still con- bound up with a practical and The pictures mentioned will be sider it "fast" to use rouge or lip speedy solution of the problem. screened in almost every foreign stick, to have the eyebrows plucked, The cost, of course, would be capital in their original English and the finger-nails coloured. The veralons, explanatory sub-titles modern girl, however, does these being printed on the film in the things as if they were all in the language of the particular country day's work, and she feels unnatural showing the picture. The ple- when sho la not made-up. tures are also "dubbed" so that Care of the skin and hair, the the countries receive the pictures oyes, teeth, and hands, is really a In their own language In place of duty for the woman who is well- the English dialogue. The four groomed and as nice-looking as she priately enough, we are planning to pictures mentioned will be "dubb-can make herself, succeeds better build our airports in the air, so we ed" in Spanish, French, German in the business world than the are well on the way to puting our and Italian.
frump; while if she is à home-telephone wires underground; maker ahe uwes it to her family to H. G. WELLS FILM.
make herself as attractive na pos- be abolished, according to puns laid All telephone poles in Britain will sible. John Barrymore, the famous) Beauty preparations are numer-Postmaster-General
down by Sir Kingsley Wood, the American stage and screen actor,ous and excellent, but the old pre- has been engaged for the leading parations used by our great-grand-phone wires run underground, and So far, nine million miles of tele-. part in the first original film story mothers are as valuable as ever. there is only-another million or a written by Mr. H. G. Wells. Milk, honey, white of egg, lemon to follow, Thousands of men are and tomato juice, can all be used being engaged to lay a linking-up The story, "Whither Human with wonderful success in the care underground cable, 220 miles long, tv? deals with the future in Mt. of the skin. To counteract the cold to rug Scoting in instantaneous Wells's own imaginative way, and winds of autumn, and to prevent instead of long-distance telephonic has already been in preparation redness, warm milk is excellent. communication with the rest of the for some months with "trick" It is well to start using it before country. As far as London is con camera work by Hollywood expert, the very cold weather sets in. For cerned the distance to the Scottish Fin a British studio.
a sensitive skin, cocoa butter will border is from. 800 to 130 mllas;
gresa.
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PARLOPHONE RECORDS
We are now agents for these records and our first shipment from the monthly releases will arrive shortly:
Parlophones best known artists include:
RICHARD TAUBER, JAN KIEPURA, CONCHITA SUPERVIÀ, LOTTE LEHMANN, LILY PONS, RIA GINSTER, EMANUAL LIST, RONALD FRANKAU, LESLIE HUTCHISON (KUTCH). SOPHIE TUCKER, PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH, BINNIE BARNES, HAROLD RAMSAY, HARRY ROY and His Orch.. LOUIS ARMSTRONG and His Orch.
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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2 Weight-lifters would scarcely chooro auch a diet, although they sound appropriate.
8 Fish that sounds immortal.
You don't know when you're in it, but it's won in a canter. 10 Might be flatter.
11 Rather unusual proposition. 12 Conference that came from
America,
18 Exult with 16 Not a word! 17 The old Whitefriars.
ahulings.
less than 21 Short cut, perhaps?
five
22 Calm, as the components of a
ausage should be.
It is being produced by smooth away roughness, and will from London to Edinburgh or Glas- 13 Eastern priest, Alexander Korda for London Film leave the skin soft and velvety. It gown about 400 miles. This 14 Solution in some caseя......... Productions, and Mr. Wells is tak skin from time to time. A good
should be gently massaged into the scheme will cost $3,750,000, ing an active intercat in its pro-remedy for wrinkles and a sagging on speeding up the tlephone service Ton million dollars is to be spent akin de an egg mask, for, while it within the next few months. Mr. Barrymore, who arrived in acts as an astringent, it alsoj London last weekend, has not ap-tightens and tones up the muscles POLICE IN THE SKY. peared in a British film before, but whlio of an egg should be whisked the popular hymns bias us to -1dx and stimulates the tissues. The
Taking to the air again. One of some years ago made some en to-a-stir-froth, and then applied upwards to the skies." The other he appeared as Sherlock Holmes. thickly to the face at bodtime, and day London did.
allowed to dry on to the skin. In the morning It should be bathed off into the heavens to watch the police Millions of us, I suppose, stared FILMLAND'S NEW RECRUIT. with milk and honey lotion. A tea- hovering over the streets in an Mr. Winston Churchill is writ-neta as an astringent and makes a ing-by special permission of the spoonful of honey added to the milk autogyro and frequently descend- good base for powder.
on the Thames Embankment when!
ing for the screen.
day,
Air Ministry to within 800 feet of He has just signed a contract with Alexander Korda's company; freckles on the same spots each for ordinary flying.
the ground; which is far lower than. the 4,000 feet minimum prescribed London Film Productions, to edit a series of films of topical interest.
For some of the tests she made, was to work out a scheme for a sort
The ригроза The toples already selected pro-Anne Shirley was supplied with of higher control of traffic from the of the police flight visionally by Mr. Churchill in freckles by the make-up depart air. clude:Will Monarchies turn?" "The Rise of Japan," and were not unbecoming, but the London (its streets running at all Re- ment. They looked real enough, Such is the peculiar layout of "Marriage Laws and Customs," director wanted to know who angles and in all sorts of curves "The Family," and "Gold." would see to it that each freckle and with many thoroughfarea fro- They are to be presented by a occupied exactly the same spot quently converging at "circuses") special staff of experts, and Mr. each day!. Churchill's ideas as to their screen treatment are to be followed as closely as possible.
-
that the real caues of a. traffic block COLOURED STAR FOR
at one point is often to be found at some relatively remote spot. Thus FILMS.
It is often impossible to discover Josephine Baker, the coloured re-the other day serious traffic block from the ground. For instance, FRECKLES NOT FEASIBLE.
vue actress, has become a film star symptoms at Westhunsb.r dad tirzir "Anne of Green Gables" will go ent.)
(nays Reuter's Paris correspond- focal point at Kinnington, a couple to the screen minus the freckles which were one of her characteris-big film there. It has an Eastern the trafic police at this or that She fa busy making her first
of miles away. ties in the novel by L. M. Montgo-setting, and will be called "Zonzo.
If the plan is found
practicable,
pare for her debut as
When It is finished she will pre-receive wireless orders from auto- congosted spot will be enabled to opera star in a modern version of Jams elsewhere by judicious diver- a. comic gyros overhead and so to break up Offenbach's "La Creole."
sion of traffic,
mery.
The decision to omit the freckles was made for the good reason that it was impossible to keep synthetle
SALESMAN SAM
WELL, PELLA, YA CERT DID A SWELL PIECE OF WORK, ON TH' GIMLET ROBBERY CASE! CONGRATS, SAMMY!
I KINDA GO FER YOU, AS A DETECTIVE!
ZING
25 Mounted division of an English 24 bember of a European race,
county?
4
28 Vory dry. 20 Under this system,
♫ dozen coppers would be too many for Bou
32 Here you get tied in 'n knot. 81 Elon, in this, is to go with a
bang.
13 Sounds like an officer, and it's the feet in part of one ship. 34 If this beast wwallowed nuthing before the cat, he'd make a position for himself.
36 Pattern, and most of it is more
than suficient.
Maybe He's Getting What He's Worth!
(BY JINKITY JINKS, I JES' | HAPPENED TA THINK OF
SOMETHIN'! I GOTTA GO BACK TO THE STATION 1
HEY, CHIEF, I WANNA REPORT
"A PAYROLL.
HOLD-UP!
PER BOSH CAKES, WHERE 3
Down
1 West Country town. 2 If you find me a dowry, it must
contain such land.
WHEN AT HOME
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No thoroughbred swears if it' rolla put of night.
A great Tudor figura turned
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5 Pace, aeroplane, and hesitation Spell a doubtful sort of relation. 6 Madam, now! Don't change
into this!
It would almost scent as if the chartered accountant is familiar with this type of puzzle.
15 Animal and folter are all
pieces.
10 Eased,
20 Becoming unsteady.
23 U.S.A. Binte.
20 Cheat.
27 Idea is to get it back in time. 30 What you do when you've done
this one, perhaps.
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