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CHATTER ABOUT FILMS AND FILM STARS
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"MIDNIGHT" WITH CLAUDETTE COLBERT AND DON AMECHE
AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA TO-DAY
A sprightly comedy this, a little in the I Met Him in Paris mold, but gay, frolicsome, and ingenious for all that. Like its illustrious com- patriot, it has Claudette Colbert as its whimsical heroine.
Here Miss Colbert is
even a
Eve Pea-
body, an American girl who lands in Paris in a pretty evening frock sans baggage or
single centime. Along with her clothes she has lost the expense money of her European vacation at Monte Carlo. In no time at all she has picked up a friendship with a good- looking
been Paris taxi-driver, adopted by an eccentric wealthy Parisian who uses her to break
his
in- wife's fatuation for a young waster. His is one of those reverse plays; Eve is to be bait for the playboy, there- by turning his philandering wife back to him. So the penniless Eve becomes a phony countess, install- ed in a nice way, of course in a swank suite at the Ritz.
up
THE CHINA MALL, JUNE 10, 1939.
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NOW THAT I'M ALL DRESSED UP
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good story, and yet it somehow has a new and interesting twist.
Shirley's father (Charles Farrell) explains the economic slump to her a cartoon in а You'll like Miss Colbert and by showing her
being you'll like Don Ameche as the taxi paper-picture of Uncle Sam driver. After the false tinsel of pulled in all directions by various Zaza it's a relief to see Claudette | kinds of people who want to get herself again. John Barrymore steals a real hit as the wise Pari- sian with the recreant wife.
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AT THE KING'S And now for Shirley Temple in "Just Around the Corner" to-day at the King's.
money out of him.
Shirley gets him mixed up with Claude Gillingwater, a financier who is somebody else's Uncle Sam, complete with beard and everything. Shirley decides to help Uncle Sam to get prosperous again, so she stages a benefit concert.
The ingenuity of those Hollywood
In the end, of course, she brings script-writers is inexhaustible. happiness to the lovers, the finan- Here is another little-girl-makes-cier, and everybody else.
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But don't worry about the plot.. Go along to see Shirley looking as cute as ever, dancing as cleverly as ever, and singing an amusing song called "Happy Little Ditty". * * * HOLLYWOOD LOWDOWN "The White Rajah", an original story by Errol Flynn, will serve the Warner Bros. star as his next starring vehicle.
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"Four Daughters", stars with Pat John Garfield, recently seen in O'Brien in "Dust be My Destiny". The film is based on a novel by Jerome Odlum, and is produced at Warner. Bros.
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** -Bert Wheeler of the Wheeler & Woolsey fame appears with Marie Wilson in 'Lighthorse Harry," which is still in production at War- ner Bros. The studio has decided to seek additional vehicles in which they can star as a team.
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John Payne who played the band' leader in "Garden of the Moon" joins the cast of "The Story of Knute Rockne." The cast includes Pat O' Brien, Wayne Morris, Rose- mary Lane, Jane Bryan and Ronald Regan.
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Olivia de Havilland has been lent by Warner Bros. to Sam Goldwyn for the feminine lead in "Raffles", in which she will appear opposite David Niven.
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New Basic,
Fashion
The charm of a simple dress like this aside from the pretty frill, the heart-shaped neckline, and lis- som silhouette-is that you can ac- cessorise it so differently from day to day. Wear it in a vivid print that flashes beneath your coat, and it is set off by dark hat, gloves and bag. Wear it in a dark colour, set off by accessories in your favourite high shade. During the summer, it will be charming in white with bright accessories.
This frock has unusually good lines. The bodice hugs in at the waist, and has wide-shouldered sleeves. The paneled skirt is fluent and graceful.
Warner Bros. are rushing pre- parations for "The Story of the Wright Bros.", which will deal with the development of the airplane. The studio is now negotiating for a star to portray Orville Wright in the film cavalcade of flying. Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda are the current candidates for the role.
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Humphrey Bogart will play his first hero role since he left the stage when he portrays Clem Spen- Warner Bros. announce that dur-der, the artist, opposite Bette Davis ing next month they will release and Miriam Hopking in the Warner "Four's A Crowd” and “Angels Bros. adaptation of "The Old Maid". with Dirty Faces" in the King's Theatre. The first film star Errol RKO has signed Fredric March Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ros- to make the screen version of the
Broadway
Play entitled alind Russel and Patric Knowles,
AMERICAN WAY. and James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and the Dead End kids comprise the cast of "Angels with. Dirty Faces".
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Paul Muni has begun prepara- tions for his role as the great com- poser in "Beethoven", he has just completed "Juarez" with Bette Davis at Warner Bros. Studios,
* * * Warner Bros. announce that "Disraeli" one of the talking screen's earliest successes, will be produced again with Claude Rains playing the role first acted by George Arliss.
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Newa has just been received that Jeffrey Lynn, Warner Bros. Star. (who appeared at the King's Thea- tre in "Four Daughters) has been given the lead of the American Re- volutionary Picture "Nathan Hale."
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