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PAULING STARKE, BEN LYON, BARBARA KERT, HALLAM COOLEY.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

KING'S THEATRE.

DISHONOURED."

presented through the frame of a A swaying lamp cord, a sorne

door, a pendant chandelier-such simple devices give the impression of depth, the third dimension, motion picture settings, according to Josef von Sternberg, the young | directorial | gedius whose" recony Directed by

pictures, Morocco and Dis Ernst Laemmlehonoured," both featuring Marlone"

Dietrich, have created a stir in fan and technical circles alike.

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Sings the very start of motion picture making, directors have gone to extreme pains to insuro an un- broken foreground belween the camera and its subject. Von Stern borg reversee the tradition. In variably, he strives to interpose some object, large or small, into the middle distance and, bohind this object, his players go through. their action.

In "Morocco, he secured his desired effet, in the scene whore

it can be noticed most, by Photo graphing the action through a leop of electric lamp cord; in another place by a hoat davis on the deck of a ship, and, in still another-in- stance, by bringing into the pir ture the projecting corner of a building.

"Dishonoured"" his latest achieve- ment, which is now showing at the King's Theatre, is filled with in stances of Von Sternberg's peculiar discovery. In one sequence of the story, Marlene Dietrich and Gustav von Seyffortitz have a scene before.. an enormous map, Alling ons 'wall of a magnificent and imposing apartment. A desk in the fore- ground, loaded with chemical ap- paratus serves to show the depth of the scene. Other instances of the Von Sternberg technique are easily discerned throughout the picture.

"Dishonoured is Von Stern- berg's third successive picture. featuring Marlene Dietrich, the

new American star who made a sensation in her first, Hollywood- produced moving picture, "Moroc co," after Von Sternberg had featured her in one picture, "The Blue Angel," made in Germany. "Dishonoured," the story of an Austrian woman spy, is Von Stern-

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of the world; that he performed an Men Want," which is showing at "Stolen Kisses, Ellis' "Broad- act of daring by diving under the the Central Theatre commencing way." all have won them the highest: hull of the battleship Oregon to to-day.

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An outstanding cast portrays the

Baltimore at the battle of Manila merged rock near Peking in 1,900; story, headed, by Pauline Starke, that he was awarded a scholarship Bon Lyon, Barbara Kent, Robert at the Naval Academy in Annapolis Ellis And Hallam Cooley. Produc tired of academy restrictions and tion is on a most lavish scale, with for his courageous feat; that he

cut loose" for Broadway where many beautiful settings in the he determined to make good as an country club, the elaborate apart actor-and did, appearing in a

ments, and many beautiful samp- number of hit productions.

tuous locales of the enticing plot. That he was one of the first of Directed by Erast Laemmle, the the New York actors to join the great contrast, fu the lives of young

PRINCE'S THEATRE

TO-DAY

"TRADER HORN

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production,

"with":

HARRY CAREY and Eawina Booth

This epic presents the

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THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE,

"DANCE FOOLS, DANCE."

People who wear glass dresses shouldn's have any stones threwa

at them. Thus Joan Crawford might have paraphrased the adage of old. For in the dancing sceno. for Danco Fools, Dance," her new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle at the Queen's Theatre, Joan wears a daring costume made of sixteen thousand tiny mirrors, strung so tightly together that they form a sort of coat-of-mail. The mirrors were made from alvor conted discs that Bashed dazzling by under the bright studio-lights,

The unique costume was the crea tion of Gilbert Adrian and requir ad three weeks to make, eight seams-

tresses, being kept busy stringing and sewing the tiny mirrors upon the transparent lining.

Harry Beaumont directed the new Crawford picture with Lester Vail playing opposite in the rodentic lead. The oust also includes Cliff (Ukulele Ike) Edwards, William Bakewell, William. Holden, Clark Gable, Earl Fox, Purnell; Pratt, Natalie Moorehead, Joan Marsh and Russell Hopton.

"THE GREAT MEADOW!

...

Whole families, as well as indi- viduals of those families, have 4 definite part in the dramatic struc ture of "The Great Meadow," Charles Brabia's stirring talking picture of pioneers in 1775, which will open at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow.

I

"The Great Meadow" was adapt

od

Elisabeth Madox Roberts.

from the best-selling novel by

"We are accustomed to thinking of stories in terms of four or five individual characters," stated Bra- bin, "Occasionally, however, a tale comes along which permits the handling of fifteen or twenty prin cipals, with equal enso, by subdi- viding the group into families, and using each family as an individu- al dramatic unit."

The story of The Great Men....: dow" is considered a pat instance. of this sort, dealing with the hard- shipa of a trek by Virginians aerosa

the Alleghany Mountains to Ken- tucky in 1775 It is concerned with the effect of these hardships on the Hall, Jarvis, Harrod, Lucas," Scruggs and Perry familiesAll of those names are prominent in the Virginis and Kentucky his tories of the period. James Harrod founded Ft. Harrod, now the

Park" at Harrodsburg, the "Cradle "Kentucky Pioneer **Memorial

of the West."

with its dangers and its Indian The tale of "The Great Meadow,"

tho

the Hall family by his marriage

newlyweds, in the company of the with Diony, and then

others, along the Wilderness Road to Ft. Harred.

Despite the fact that Victor Me- being farmed out to another Laglen enjoyed the experience cf.

company for more than a month, playing the leading male role in trich, he expressed joy at the fact "Diahcnoured" with Marlene Die company of picture-makers in Cali. People of the present day is forcib-that be would be idle but one day fights, first puts Berk Jarvis into fornia, that his first big part wasly dramatized in the conflict of two between pictures and the day after that of a

smiling villain in sisters for the love of the same man, completing Dishonoured," he do James Cruzo's Pony Express";.

FAN

the froth of the giddy whirl That some of his most important in which they move, the butterfly to start work on his current pro parted for Victorvile, California, Old Ironsides guiety of their existence, is porduction for Fox Films, "Not Ex- Underwärtu," The Dragnet," trayed in the veritable. pacan of The Wolf of Wall Street, pleasure.

actly Gentlemen, in which he Thunderbolt," The Mighty,"

pinys the leading role of "Bull Ladies Love Brutes," "Derelict?

One of the features of the film Stanley," with Fay Wray an his and Scandal Shoot".

in the strikingly beautiful photo-leading lady and Benjamin Stoloty graphy, both in the lovely interiors directing. It opens at the Central and the beatiful exteriors, by Roy Theatre this week-end. Overbaugh. And another outstand-The production of "Not Exactly ing feature is the lavishness of the Gentlemen" is one of the most wardrobe, the gorgeous gowns and pratentions that the human of the negligees worn by Miss Starke in movies has yet appeared in and the leading role. She alone wears his role of "Bull Stanley," quite

Shea altogether eighteen different clas the most dramatic and colourful he Warner Fabian, possibly the sice of the Parisian designer's art. has yet played.... foremost writer of modern jazz life All of the cast are famous namen, and the dramas based upon the popular all over the world for their in the supporting cast, which in- Lew Cody and Eddie Gribbon are vivacity, and allure of present day outstanding performances in precludes such well-known life in the fast young society setvious pictures: Miss Starke's "War Robert Warwick, Franklyn For

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