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CENTRAL THEATRE EParamount's Sound Pictures R

TO-DAY to SATURDAY Daily at 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 and 9,20.

See and Hear the Most Amazing Confession over told in

"THE

DOCTOR'S SECRET

NUTH CHATTERTON- H.8. WARNER NOBERT. EDESON

JOHN LODER

a Paramount ALL-TALKING (Picture Another Tense and Intriguing Drama of London Society with Thrills, Tears and Laughs!

From Sir JAMES M. BARRIE'S Famous Stage Play "HALF AN HOUR. "

ALSO

PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS & COMEDIES, NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4 Evelyn Brent & Jack Oakie

IN

"FAST COMPANY"

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Songs-Comedy-Baseball,

COMING SOON-

Bebe Daniels & John Boles

IN

"RIO RITA "

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TRACK 6

SEASHORE EXPRESS

THE SILVER SCREEN.

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

TRACK 2

"THE DOCTOR'S SECRET.”

MOUNTAIN LIMITED

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WHY NEITHER OF THEM COMES BACK, AND JU- NIOR, RE-APPEARING, HAS BEEN SENT AFTER MOTHER TO

TELL HER HE'S BACK, AND TRAIN TIME APPROACHES FAST

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est

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Fla. Ziegfeld's

RIO RITA

BERB DANIELS

· JOHN BOLES and 1000 OTHERS

Directed:

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“HEN WLAD FY NHADAU."

FATHER AND SON AUTHORS.

MEMORIALS BY SIR":

GOSCOMBE JOHN.

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the Welsh National fy. Nhadau,' Anthem, were unveiled in Ynysang harad Park, Pontypridd, last month, within 300 yards of where "they lived...

QUEEN'S

Sir James M. Barrie's famous play TO-DAY & TO-MOREOW

"Hali an Hour" has been trans- planted to the screen under the title, The Doctor's Secret," and will be presented at the Central Theatre to-day. ̧

A notable cast was assembled for the production, which, has elicited the highest praise from film critics, who have pre-viewed the picture, Ruth Chatterton H. B. Warner, Robert Edeson and John Loder are the principal characters in the pic- ture with Wilfred Noy, Ethel, Wales, Nanci Price and Frank Finch-Smiles giving them admirable support....

William C. de Mille, long one of the outstanding directors in the motion picture industry, not only adapted to the screeen the Barrie" success, but directed the production as well.

Paramount recently startled the mation picture world with its re- lease of the all-talkingInterfer, ence, which was heralded as being. the most perfectly made talking picture yet produced. The same elements that created the sensation in the case of Interference," were used in producing "The Doctor's Secret," which assures film fans of witnessing a perfect technical, and dramatic performance.

"The Doctor's Secret" is a tense. drama of London society. In sharp dramatic contrasts, it shows the audience the heights of happiness and depths of despair that can come to one woman's life in balf on Hour It shows how a wealthy Evan James was born at Caerp-woman's unhappy life drives her to hilly in 1809. He was a weaver and a decision, gives her a few minutes started his business career by in- of blissful happiness, banishes it stalling a loom near the Ancient with starkest tragedy and then, how Druid at Argoed, Bedwellty, where she meets her fate, hides her pain be spent the earlier years of his and carries on. married life and where James was born. About 1844 há removed to Pontypridd and opened a woollen factory on the banks of the River Rhondda in Mill Street, where he lived until his death in 1878. His son died in Aberdare in 1893. -

A Tuneful Extravaganza.

Good entertainment is the order

of the day at the Queen's Theatre, where the newest Fox Movietone musical extravaganza, Let's Go Places, is being shown.

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20.

LETS GO

PLACES

He learned about love

in Hollywood, where Movietone's brilliant singers and dancers

IN

play

with Joseph Wagstaff

Lola Lane Sharon Lynn

Frank

Richardson preiented by William Fox

CAUGHT SHORT"

A. LAUGHING PANIO with ANITA PAGE

NEXT CHANGE

The question is sometimes rais-

Amusing in its swift-moving story POLLY MORAY & MARE DRESSLER ed," says the handbook written for and containing many glittering the ceremony," whether the words scenes of Hollywood people at work or the music were composed first. and at play, the production is of a It is clear that the inspiration different type from anything that came in the course of a walk on the has appeared on the vocal screen, banks of the Rhondda on a Sunday and is as diverting as it is funny evening in January, 1856. Either and tuneful, Joseph Wagstaff and the father came home elated by his Lola Lane share the leading Lonours composition of a patriotic lyric with Frank Richardson, Dixie Lec, which stirred his soul, or the son Charles Judels, Walter Catlett, care home humming a haunting Sharon Lynn and lika Chase, all tane which he hoped would inspire of whom render outstanding pertor his father to break into song. We mances. Both the song numbers know, however, that both father and the ballet sequences are dis- and son, in obedience to some over- tinctive and delightful, while Frank powering influence struggled at Strayer's direction and William K. the words and the music till dawn Wells story and dialogue also con next morning. A glorious wedding tribute to the film's effectiveness." of poetry and music was the result. Our national anthem was born. It was sung pablicly for the first time at a small entertainment at Maesteg, James James afterwards sang it at an Eisteddfod at Ponty- fridd. The air so impressed Owain Alaw that, in 1860, he included it, with his own accompaniment, in his *Gema of Welsh Melodies" under the title of Glan Rhondda.” It was sung at Bangor National Eisteddfod in 1874 and was recog- nised as our National Anthem in 1899.

"Caught

Short"

The customary quiet of a big hotel was broken by the raucous cries of newsies crying extras,

A man lesped out of a barbershop half shaved. A chauffeur deserted his car in the middle of a traffic inter-section. A woman tore from a hair-dresser's shop, her coiffure done up in the funny pins that bring permanent wATES,

And that was the manner in which Chuck Reisner expressed in **Caught. Short," bis version of The memorials, which are in what happened on that fateful bronze, are the work of Sir Gos-"October 93, when the bottom fell combe John, and Lord Treower per- out of the stock market, b formed the unveiling ceremony Pedrog, the Archdruid of Wales, dedicated the monuments A num ber of Bards took part in the ser vice, including Mr. Taliesen James, now seven years age, a grandson of the elder James, who played the National Anthem on the harp:

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“Caught Short" the "attraction at the Queen's from Friday, is a Marie Dreseper-Polly Moran talking (Interpreter at All Performances) comedy, based on the famous. security debacle. Other players in- clude Anita Page, Charles, Morton, T. Roy Barnes, Herbert Prior and Nanci Price:

Mrs. Yan Pak Lap, Mr. Yu Yuen Fuk, Mrs. Yu Wong Sze, Mr. Chu

STAR

Tiong, Master Yu Chce Shiu, Miss FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Yu Kwan Hau, Miss Yu Shun Ngo, Mr. Yuan Hong Lok, Mr. T. C. Zun,

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(Continued on next Columi 10, 1 B. C. Devenel.

At 2.30.5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

If you like to laugh don't miss this clever comedy of the links and the women that golfers leave, behind

ATA

OVELT

MAJESTIC

Hathan Road, Kowloon

starring

TIM MCCOY

A picture which sets a new standard for action

films:

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