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Thursday. The picture is dynamic MEN: OVERWORKED lovo drama that blossoms during! thrilling auto races in which dare devil auto races in which daredevil "peedstars battle for racing honours,
GLANDS
and two of them fight at the same MAY LET YOU DOWN time for the hand of. beautiful girl.
IN A CRISIS: Breath-taking racing scenes
were
to
"Unknown Woman", Columbia's now, taken at the Legion. Ascot Speedway "partici thrilling drama glorifying Federal in Los Angeles in which a score of Nine men out of ten past middle
famous drivers undercover spents and revealing new natligally
Lyle Talbot and Gavin age are affected with Loss of secrets of the Secret Service, will pates,
enact the roles of racing Vitality. Mental Fag. Restless- opon on Wednesday at the
demons, rivals on the track and ness, and Glandular Weakness. Theatre. Awaited
great Gordon exciting screen play, rivals for the love of the beautiful Medical Science has come eagerness,
this featuring the beautiful and bionde daughter of an auto manufacturer. their rescue Marian Marah and handsome Richard Roscoe Karna plays a comedy role Cromwell, is replete with fast action, as the pal of Talbot. Frankie Darro dangerous episodes, great courage plays the part of Talbot's protege, Land B
in a charming romance. It presents who in a speed demon. In midget in Mian Marsh in one of her most Im these diminutive racers. Others
This former the all star cast include Mary Treen, portant screen roles.
Honry Kolker, Bradley Page, Hollywood High School girl has had
John
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Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan career has been no less Fredric March and opening to-day
Impossiblo Cromwell's
and Shanghal (Vancouver B.C., 28th December 1935) exciting, Born in Los Angeles, art at the King's Theatre, was not only out taking a rest. was bla carcer. He attracted the designed as a masterpiece of enter you think, definitely possible we
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the leading role under at Columbia. . Eventually he Bucknall,
the supervision of Nathalie Telephone 32193 call or write
Japan and Shanghai Tol'ablo
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nown Winan" Cromwell portrays stone was left unturned by Producer Director O. Selznick and an ambitious young lawyer. Through David an eloquent plea in court he attracts Clarence
ATR Brown to make the attention of Douglas Dumbrille, Karenina" and Garbo's characterisa a night club owner and lender of a tien of the title role the must authen- Dumbrille le film of imperialistic Runnin yet band of band thieves.
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million a mill "hot" bands in the belief Although Tolstoy never included dates,
in the packet is a legal decurrent. That and although he always made his
characters
purely fictional, Kone night Cromwell meets and be- friends Marlon Marsh who has been months of research placed the time
Paris. Arrested in a
In a gambling house raid of the story during the latter years
ben
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point the story bursts into fast action wave the Anna Karenina" Chicago Carni
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"The White Cockatoo" There are enough thrilling action. suspense, laughter and romances in "The White Cockatoo," now showing at the Queen's Theatre, to supply the
Charlotte Bronte's immortal classic Silver (Spot).... 20%. ' plots for half a dozen ordinary film melodramas. Yet In spite of the of the almast vain struggles of "Jane Silver (forward). fact that it contains three murders; Eyre," the little orphan girl, has bech War Lons..
and isi A kidnapping, a robbery and the transplanted to the screen Theatre. counter plotting of two rival gangs coming soon to the Queen's
Following very closely criminals, this latest Warner Bros.
the outine thriller nover fails to be both con- of the book itself, Monogram vincing and awesome, which is ex-tures offers "Jane Eyre" with a cast ceedingly unusual in screen mysteries. that might have been picked by Miss Jean Muir, who has the leading Bronte herself to represent the vari feminine role, is particularly good in ous characters that have embellished a role that in less capable hands themselves in the literary hearts of might have rung fatac. Ricardo the world. The story
of
Cortez for once a hero instead of a with the life of Japoncerna Itself AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
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who in villain, gives one of the best per Bruce):
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Growing to orphanage. centres around the efforts of two womanhood, she leaves the home and gangs of criminals to obtain a future finds a place in the Rochester house- left to Jean, an orphan with the hold as
to Adele, Rochester's is amitten with brother whom she has never seen., niece, Ench of the two has a slip of Jane's beauty and proposing to her, serve to identify them to each is about to marry her, when his first
NIR, other. Three murders are committed, wife, who has lost her mind and has n.Jean is kidnapped, attempts are made been locked up in the house, cscapes on the lives of several other people. and presents herself. Rochester har Cortez in the role of the hero, with attempted to the marriage an-
fret the aid of the "White Cockatoo", j'uulled before telling Jane of the pre- vious marriage, but Jane, remorseful, solves the various mysteries.
leaves. His wife, Bertha, sets frei "Red Hot Tires"
to the house and is burned to death. "Red Hot Tires" a romance of the while Rochester suffers the loss of automobile racing tracks, is scheduled his vision. A happy finale is afforded at the when, Jane heurs of his affliction and as the feature attraction Oriental Theatre for Wednesday and hastens to his elde.
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