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“AH WILDERNESS”“”—KINGS THEATRE

Outstanding in its dramatic in- tensity by virtue of its sheer simplicity, this great. hit of the! New York Theatre Guild is! brought to the screen by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer with all its vital! elements preserved and amplified | by the wider scope of the screen. with its pleasant outdoor sequ-i ences filmed in the quaint town of Graftos.

The play is a triumph Ior Wallace Beery, who ezzets the lovable, ineffectual Uncle Sid.) usually.

but in! comedian, a several places a poignant figure) in his

Lionel futile romance.

of Barrymore revels in the role Nat Miller, played on the stage by Straite, Java, Burma, Ceylon. Africa, Queegaland Porta, - and

Bed India. Persian Gulf, West Indies,

George M. Cohan and the late Will Sem, Egypt Istanbot, Mauritius, East

He brings to the screen Rogers. Greece, Levantine Porta, Europe,

different characterisa- a totally

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Charlie Chaplin is in "Modera Times,”-a United Artists produc- tion which will be coming to the

King's Theatre soon.

LITTLE BIG SHOT- CRIENTAL THEATRE

The four-star

PMAN RULE IN

THE SAAR

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The streets of Saarbrucken are placarded with anti-Jewish posters, every cafe and hoteli has signs, "Jews are not want- jed here." In the Hotel Ger- mania, where I stayed, there were anti-Jewish posters, at the entrance to the dining-room, in the lobby, and on the stairs on jeach floor.

Der Stuermer, the anti-Jewish weekly, is sold in every cafe and restaurant. Shopkeepers who have refused to dispense with their Jewish customers have been warned by the party that their trade licence will be cancelled as soon as the Reich laws come into effect.

Nazis' Work Of Conversion

Emigration has almost ceased now. The French have stopped. issuing visas, and, although Italy still welcomes emigrants, cast of "Little only those with PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY tion, as forcible as his famous Big Shot"

money сад is headed by Sybil obtain visas. There are over DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS role in "A Free Soul."

Jason and includes Glenda Far 10,000 Jewish families in Saar- The youngful romance is charrell, Robert Armstrong and Ed-brucken alone, and they have mingly handled

by Eric Lindenward Everett Horton. Sybil is no means of livelihood left to who gives an amazingly true per the new baby star, five and a half them.

The most striking success of PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS formance as the high school lover, rears old, who, was born in Cape-

and Cecilia Parker, with hertown South Africa, taken to Lon-the Nazis in the Saar is the youthful fresh, charm.

don by her uncle, a famous pro conversion of the Communists! One of the dominant âgures in ducer, where she made in and Social Democrats. The the cast is Aline MacMahon, as stantaneous hit. and stole the working-class districts of Zwie- 7,000 23th Mar. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, the pathetic Aunt Lily, with her two shows in which she appeared, brucken and Homburg, which

hopeless middle-age

Bill** Hamborg, E'dam & Hall.

romance.Barnacle

and Spring Byington is perfectly cast Band."

the red flag, now the the mother of the family.¦ Glenda Farrell, contrary to her swastika,

comedy as usual chiseling roles, plays the Herr Hitler's orders that Mickey Rooney adds the family's youngest, and Helen part of a girl with a real heart, there should be no discrimina- Flint contributes striking while Robert Armstrong and Ed-stion against those who voted | characterisation 26

Bellen, the ward Everett Horton furnish against him in the Saar plebis- Charles Grapewin, much of. the Fan 33 two cite have been obeyed with tough girl.

But Frank Albertson, Edward Nugent crooks who are always in trouble, scrupulous exactitude and Bonita Granville also con- but who are entirely reformed there is also a lingering fear of tribute outstanding performances. through their love of little Sybil Nazi reprisals when the year of

an orphan left on their hands by grace is over.

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new screen find, who makes his This picture deals with the pur-be built for London's "Outer Cir- film debut in this Paramount film suit of a notorious public enemyjcle" is now nearing completion at starring Sylvia Sydney.

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"The most interesting thing to the weight of the secret service tive buildings have been erected me was fading how pictures are behind him. Much of the action and await only details of Internal made, as I had never been to Hol- occurs within a state penitentiary work before they are ready for lywood before. The technique "ie and its palse-stirring episodes, use.

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She meets a brilliant, but ment of their romance.

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