THETMAN-TAMER OF "BORDER- TOWN” SHOWS A SOCIETY DAME WHAT IT TAKES TO HOLD A MANI Champagne at midnighti A wedding ring at dawnl And then a battle royal between 'East Side and West Sido, as the bride from across the tracks clashes'. with a Park Avenue husband-snatcheri
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bette davis
In her first sensational starring picture-
"THE GIRL FROM
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Now A Bundle Of Energy!”. Yet This Little Girl Was So Weak And Always Alling That Sho Could Not Go To School Until Giren
They Made All The Difference. » their child is backward in physical Parents are often distressed when
does not sleep soundly at night, or has and mental devolopment, is nervy,
Pacific Coast, may be traced back to the gold dust washed" by a father and son during those stirring days in the Klondike. The son was nono other than Sid Grauman, and a to the "Call of the Wild" set, where his friend, Darryl Zanuck, was com- Dr. Williams Pink Pills. pleting the first four days' shooting "The Girl From 10th Avenue,” A
London classic before First National Picture with Belte company entrained for a location trip Davis in the stellar role, in the next to sub-zero Mount Baker in Washing altraction at the Queen's Theatre. ton, where the remainder of the film Miss Davis' part is far more pathetle was made, brought back to Graman
For vivid memorien For the one she played Tri "Of
day's of '88. Human Bondage," but it la anything when he had gone Alaska with itful appetite. Rickets sometimes but sweet girly-girly role. She his father and become a prospector. develop, which if not checked in the who marries a drunken society mane by 20th Century re careful attention to diet, with plenty pertrays a 10th Avenue shop girl So vivid were the interiors construct early stages may make the child a cripple in later life. In all such cases following a champagne party. Ho those of Skagway and Dawson that of fresh air and sunshine in the basic had gone to the dogs when filted by Grauman WAK completely a gold digger. Belle makes to that he appear as a gambler in
treatment, and in addition a course of away. So when Zantly carried
proposed Dr. Williams Pink Pills in the dosage: of him and Is smart enough to
him from the woman separate
scene with the star, Clark Gable, the of the greatest assistance,
prescribed for children will be found formerly loved, and who had martie
theatre man promptly accepted this rich relic for his money, thinking opportunity to Join Loretta Young
Read this case of nerve trouble in that she could continue to flirt with
and Jack Oakle an a member of a growing gle! which was thus bene the
man of her
choice.
ure Gable's supporting chat. One of the fleially treated with Dr. Williams is a tense drama with some
Mrs. E, 8.
states: You can imagine what my littla daughter went through when I tell
headaches, dizziness, pains in the
he
of
Q
comme "he picture last survivors of the Klondike days, Pink Pills. Her motherIslington,
rare
touches of humour. It has an all Sid was a friend of Jack London, star cast to support Mian Davis, tickard and all the other.
in-tex Bonch, Wilson Misner, Tex cluding Lan Hunter, who plays pickard
101 Fern
Bette and Colin Clive, long who were drawn to Alankrier Newcastle, N. S. W. Australia; i
by the
known on both stage and screen.ure of gold, and his fellow you that she has been suffering from
Others in the cast are Allson Skip-kept him busy spinning worth, Katherine Alexander, Philip yarns of his adventure with those back, and nervous spells for three Redd, Helen Jerome Eddy and a host colourful men in those colourful years. She was so weak at times
NEW MILLINERY
JUST ARRIVED
NEW CONSIGNMENT
OF
LADIES' FELT HATS
IN THE NEWEST
SMART SHAPES AND SHADES
PRICE $6.50 EACH
of others. Alfred E. Green directed. times. Thus it was that this wealthy that she could not go to school, and WOOLLEN SUITS,
"Dressed to Thrill" What Is the reaction of a man who Joves one woman recklessly, another devotedly, and then learn to his amazement that both women are Clive Brook is faced with just a aitantion
in the new Fox Film production, "Dressed to Thrill,"
comes on
business executive dropped his world never had
"No Greater Glory"
слегку
enough
to go out of responsibility for a few moments and play. I simply not get her and, re-live n colourful. episode in to become a mere "bit" actor and to eat. Her colour was very
his indeed, who was a very sick child, youth.
"I was strongly advised to give her Dr. William's Pink Pills, which I did, and the results have been really re- markable. Old themes take a holiday, totally these will. After three bottles of different pills my daughter is girl. She eats well and can now Lo school. She does not complain of hendoches and does not have dizzy
absenting themselves froin the
Thuday to the ch Columbia production, "No
Greater Glory" showing at the Alhambra (12.
Theatre. Tutta Rolf, glamorous star of the European stage and screen, m launches her American carcer in "Dressed to Thrill." Robert T. Kane
Ko
from Wednesday to Friday, The apells. Her skin is very clear and producer has employed a story such strength and beauty that itshe has plenty of colour in her cheeks. less than Since taking Dr. Williams' Pink Fills energy."
wo cannot
produced "Dressed to Thrill," whleh would have been ragged in the bundle o keep her indoors, she is a
was directed by Harry Lachiman.
"Case of the Curious Bride" "The Case of The Curious Bride," latest of First National's melo dramatic thrillers to be filmed under at the Queen's Theatre to-day for the the auspices of the Clue Club, opens first time locally, and will hold audiences in the
grip of its tremend ous suspense. Based on the popular story by Erle Stanley Gardner, which features the brilliant criminal lawyer and detective, Perry
tonic
ing gealus, this film is a living renowned designed to enrich and
and DRESSES
BEAUTIFUL MODELS
IN
The Latest Styles
AND
SHADES
profanity to have time worn triangle. Under the sure, deft touch of Frank Borzago's direct nervous begin a course of these If your child is backward and
declaration
pills to-day, they are of independence from Hollywood's past formulag and trudi increase the blood, supplying the tions. There lan't, for example, elements on which the serves thrive. of "No Greater Glory--but there is chemists everywhere. ten-thousand-a-week name in the cast. They will surely do good. Sold by A REAL GOOD SELECTION
of capable, responsive players, whose talents and appear-
TO CHOOSE FROM. ances fit them to live and breathe their roles. There isn't any attempt
П
group
STORM IN BRITAIN
on the author's or director's part to SNOW IN SCOTLAND AND THE
ture carries him through the pic-f hide the tears. and Amiles
靄 aeries
of astounding adventures in
his moving drama behind th
of thin
NORTHERN COUNTIES
modern wing- attempt to clear the "curious brido" of sophistication and
eracka. Instead, the scenes are so
London, Dec. 2. of the charge of murdering one of untural and unppaed that the story
The British Isles experienced stormy her husbands. The young bride is ceases to be fiction and become vital weather over the week-end with married to a rich, but hadly spoiled reality. The screen story is set in hunder, lightning, sleet and heavy youth, believing her first husband to Budapest, Hungary, and concerns rain in the south, while snow fell in La dead. It turns out, however
that the struggles of
of rival organisations
isations Scotland and as far south as Man- he had placed a wooden-cigar-store of youth
of youths to possess a city recreation chester... was lost in the Channel Indian in a casket to fool his wife int. One group, lacking all the when the skipper of a small steam
One authorities. Aft
After her marriage and a drill-field, resolves to take the he turns up to blackmail her, but pun
but properly by
force.
The ensuing con-yacht was washed overboard in the while ho la negotinting for money,flicts and the far-reaching results heavy seas, and, during the sale, the with found dead in his apartment supply a range of highly dramatic crew of the steamship Orchis had to with a stab wound through his heart, incidents which make the real estate take to the boats and were picked up The wife is arrested, but Mason finds plat nation and transforms youth-
uth with difficulty by the fishing lugger
and
four other persons who had motives ful ambitions and sacrifices into Mevagissey-British Wireless.
the man. Getting al!
A climax there is, and The patriolism.
to kill suspects in his apartment by a ruse, a rousing one--and though it isn't to
the attorney-detective clears up the be
mystery in a most amazing climax, and
beforehand, it is-logieat inspired, fever-ridden hero matches That in
Warren William enacts the role off.ded and that be tolet without his strength with an opponent for a
the
Masan to perfection whilst Margareti rebusinca, doch nititude of becoma endowed with the qualities of
Limiany is the pretty "eurious bride" and Claire
Dodd, Mason's astuto
secretary-sweetheart.
"Call of the Wild"
big
by a national fing.
tó it
Behind...the movie-dobut-of-Sid Grenter moments in "No departure from
of the action faded, torn piece of cloth-which has
or the obvious,
But we realise that methods used by nrm
it isn't fair to give away the story gain their ends, in all in
ofor the events, for one of the many the realness of "No Greater Glory" sources of this film's strength is Its Of tense,
the ordinary. In- there are - plenty. cluded in the cast is a talented
youth, Grauman, Hollywood's most famous To us, one of most moving scenes George Breakston, whose dramatic theatre owner and operator, in "Call of the entire ilm is that of the experience was developed in radio of the Wild," currently at the King's l
delirious
business skits. He plays the
of the Theatre, there is a story as in his father's trailor thin. The Wettling. Nemecsek, arte fat frail mantle us any of the screen plays wearied; beaten father knows what is ambitions beyond his strength. Egon that have fashed across the screens about to sending a customer enacted more than four hundred roles he cannot Brecher, a character artist who has of his theatres. For the Grauman afford to risk fortune, which Inter built up by leaving the shop. Another scene on the Broadway and Viennese stage, chain On the which local audiences will probably is the professional, patriot professor
remember is the one in which the Ruez of the play,
tremendous theatre
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