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VERGIE WINTERS LOVED A MAN That's All Life Meant to Her!
Her story throbs with the heart-beat of every woman who ever dared to: dream of breaking' chainsl
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From the story by Louis Bromfield
ANN
HARDING
JOHN BOLES THE LIFE OF
VERGIE WINTERS
with
HELEN' VINSON
Directed by Alfred Santeil Pandro S. Berman,
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Three separate romancos are tracod. through tumultuous courses in The Life of Vergle Winters," in which
Are your hands
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Ann Harding is sold to achieve the HAVE you trembling of the greatest characterisation of her dia- tinguished career. Foremost is the limbs? Do you worry and love of Mies Harding and John Boles, find dificulty in going to sleep? revealed as it endures and grows Do small things make you? through twenty-two years of ecstasy, irritable?
pain and persecution. Complicated by
a triangle, said to be unique in screen Your nerves may be streng- dennis in that it presents the "other thened. Like all other, body woman," as a heroine, this affair in-tissues, they get their nourish volves Helen Vinson, who is seen in ment from the blood, and the the role of Boles' cold and selfish basic need is a blood builder. Dr. wife. Secondary romances are those
of Betty Furness and Frank Albert-Williams' Pink Pills have proved son, and
a triangle composed of themselves the ideal blood Molly O'Day Wesley Barry and Ben builder and nerve tonic. Here's Alexander. Mins Furness play Harding's daughter in the
ja typical example: Inter
requences of the picture, a role which :- "A-year_ago," writes Mrs. Duncan is carried in the early scenes by the Arthurs, of Sadowa, Ontario, Canada, noted child netrens, Banita Granville: "I suffered from a nervous breakdown, "The Life of Vergle Winters" is play-j, could not get to sleep at night; ed against the colourful background became irritable; had no appetit; suf- of an American small town, and the fered from frequent dizzy spells and story covers the period from late 1918 headaches. I was so weak and nervous to late 1932, offering a parade of that I cried without knowing what I fashions and changing customs. The was crying for. Dr. Williama Pink only thing which does not change, completely brought me back to It is said, in the great love of the two health and strength. I feel that I can central characters, and it is about this not praise them enough, for they are than their enduring passfog that the powerful certainly worth more
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"The Last Round-Up" With America's favourite radio and stage tune "The Last Round-Up" as the basis for its story Paramount's pleturisation of Zano Grey's, novel The Border Legion" appropriately entitled "The Last Round-Up" is now showing at the Alhambra Theatre: Randolph Scott, Barbara Fritchie, a new-cainer to Hollywood in her first picture, Monte Blue, Fred Hohler and Fuzzy Knight head the imposing cast, which was directed by Henry Hath away. He has been behlad the megn. Best, who appeare opposite. Poweit, Saturday phone on almost all of the recent reached Hollywood Paramount out-door, romances. The vening and began work on the story, a vivid account of the thieving.
Monday morning. Miss Best, the stor "Border Legion" opens with a terrine of such Broadway productions as gun fight in which the "Legion" is "Mele," "There's Always Jullet," and driven from California,
"These Charming People," had just arrived from London, "The Key" in the Warner Bros. picture which comes to the Alhambra Theatre on Thursday. "It isn't the size of the sels that Colin Clive, well-known English actor, counts in a picture like 'Roman Scan- also rushed from New York to Holly- dals," says Busby Berkeley. "It's wood by plane to take a leading role what happens on those sets," "Roman after closing in Katharine Hepburn's Scandals" (now at the Star Theatre) | starring vehicle, "The Lake.” Arthur is the fourth musical for which. the dances and be made a brief stop-over at production numbers were created by Hollywood Playhouse, in George K. the noted dance director. "Roman Arthur's repertory company, before Scandals," and the old-fashioned joining the cast of "The Key" J, M. screen musicals have this vital differ- Kerrigan, one of the original Abbey ence: Berkeley now uses but one Players from Dublin, came from New camera, shooting from the angle from York to enter the lists and Maxine which he visualized the shot before- Doyle, in her first role under her new hand. The old style musicals that Warner contract, had only just arrived killed themselves off because they in Hollywood from Washington, D.G., were not constructed for the screen where for three and a half years the put eight or ninet cantoras haphazard- officiated na mistress of ceremonies at ly on a scene and the picked the best the largest presentation house in the "take" or "shot" Inter,, It had to be capital. Phillip Regan, newly dis- Stted into a master shot. Berkeley covered crooner who makes hin now prepares a "camera script" in screen debut in "The Hoy," arrived which each shot is plotted and planned in the movie city from New Yorking from the day of her enrolment, In continuity as a kind of roving eye. Just a week before the picture started. until just graduated, aho has to make And in the new order, the showgirl looms up big, warm friendly in the eye of the camera.
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