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CENTRAL

TREAT DIE 4,

SHOWING TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

2.90, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

WILLIAM ("WINGS'') WELLMAN'S Cloud-Climbing Romance

Like

another

WINGS

All

Talking

CHARLES (BUDDY)

ROGERS

"YOUNG"

EAGLES'

a Garamount Picture

"WINGS" made Charles (Buddy) Rogers a star! Now here's an action smash,

with all the thrilling 'air battles, all the romance, all the glamor and, force and pathos of "Wings" and it's all-talking...

DON'T MISS THIS PICTURE.

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ALL-TALKING MOVIETONE MELODRAMA OF SUBMARINE

THRILLS

MEN

WOMEN

without

WORD

The

mo

ILLIAM FOX

With KENNETH MacKENNA Farrell MacDonald-Frank Albertson STUART ERWIN-WARREN HYMER PAUL PAGE-WALTER MOURAIL

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MARRIED ON HIS DEATHBED.

PLAYWRIGHT OF 60 MARRIES GIRL OF 21.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

REACHING FOR THE MOON.

An one-man football tenin play ing against the crow of an ocean liner way the strenuous job af Douglas Fairbanks in scenes for his

United Artists picture, Reacing For The Moon," directed by Edmund Goulding, which is showing at the Queen's Theatre.

Dolly goes on a rampage after a slight, disappointment in his woo- ing of Bebe Daniels, leading lady. Sevan stewards, aided by Edward Everett Horton and Claud Allister, gives his try to subdue him. Doug

own signals and crashes through the line, bowling them over. The rough and tumble chase that ensues takes in three decks of the ship and is joined in by everyone including the stokers. Fairbanks, who is noted for his athletic ability, plunges, tackles and charges with savage delight.

The star trained for the narobatic escapade by daily workouts with Bull Montana, powerful wrestler.

ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT"

The continental waltz, most grace- ful of all ballroom dances, is the only one, it seems, that Hollywood's "extras" have difficulty in doing correctly...

At the United Artista studios, Hollywood, where Paul L. Stein directed... One Romantic Night," the all-dialogue screen adaption of tho. Ferone Molnar play, "The Swan, starring Lillian Gish which is coming to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, considerable time, was wasted teaching the jazz-' wise, "extras" the proper way to waltz.

:

The tendency of the atmosphere" players was to away their bodies and turn, whereas the continental waltz is strictly formal, with no side or backward movements. Fin- ally, a Razaian; who was once high officer in the Imperial Guard, volunteered to servo as teacher.

This little incident demonstrates the great care taken by Stein in reproducing the graceful spirit of

drame

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FX WILL ROGERS

PICTURE,

A Connecticut Yankee

Thrones tofter and viacins trembl

Sir Rogan unsheathes his sword as tibig and fares forth to adventur

Diced by Barkl

ALSO

LATEST FOX MOVIETONE NEWS.

KING'S THEATRE.

NEXT ATTRACTION Commencing To-morrow

Julias Hagon and Henry Edwards

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE."

present The

"HOUSE ARROW"

THE

with

DENIS NEILSON-TERRY" BENITA HUME AND BARBARA GOTT A British Gaumont Picture Booking at the Theatre Tel. 25313,

One of the luckiest girls in the world," is the way Maureen O'Sul liyan, beautiful and charming little

Irish

actress

ERUPTION OF ETNA THREATENED.

PROFESSOR'S WARNING.

Rome, Sept. 18-Etna, the Sici liau yolcano, is causing consider

Steel Takes

A Drop

Wit) Ragers, the Big Shot of la Comelot, put the cowboy'sign

on a brave knight, and alvas. him the marry rape-around, One of the 1001 laughs in this) whirlwind of comady. Tha tuna Infost picture în yaura-Kuman, ipoctacular, thrilling, uniquel

VOLUNTARY CUTS IN

INDIA.

BOMBAY OFFICIALS INITIATE SALARY REDUCHONS,

Foona, Oct. 8 Substantial

members of the Bombay Govern. ment was announced today.

describes herself, jable uneasiness to the owners of voluntary cuts in their salaries by

the lemon and orange groves on Miss O'Sullivan, in pictures just a the slopes trifle more than a year, already had! The eruption in November, 192, the celebrated Meluar comedy-played featured roles in our pie when several new craters formed tures for Fox, Song O Mylow down, and whole villages were wiped out, is likely to be re- Hoart," with John McCemack," Se This de London," with Will peated unless a change takes place Rogers Just Imagine" with an soon all-star cast and The Princess 1 The central crater has been belch and the Plumber with Charlesing sulphurous matter for three Farrell, when she asked for a short months. Professor Ponte Director: of the Eta Observatory, states that the channels formed by the eruption of 15 years ago have widened, and now threatened, the stability of the con

With Miss, Gish in the eaat are Rod Ln Rocque, Conrad Nugel, Marie Dressler, O. P. Heggie, Al bert Conti, Edgar Norton, Billis Bennett, Barbara Leonard, Russ Powell, Sam Blum, Phillippa de Lacy and Byrno Sage.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

""YOUNG KAGLES.”.

vacation.

"If you will play the role of Alisande in Will Rogers atar. ring picture, A Connecticut Yan, kee, you can hayo two months off, and a trip home to Ireland thrown in," she was told. Did she agree She fairly leaped at the chance. "Dog-fighting" neroplanes, the most dangerous manoeuvre in seri-She already had played in one Will al warfare, were filmed for the Rogers picture and had announced first time in. Paramount's air-thril afterward that he was her favourite ler, "Young Eagles," with Charles (Buddy) Rogora as the star. Wil liam A. Wellman, who directed "Wings" directed this picture which is showing at the Central

Thantra

the

actor.

| These channels have now-begur to emit sulphurous matter, and at night the scene is both magnificent- and terrifying. If this goes on. vast eruption of lava must, follow na tha subterranean molten matter

is near the surfaceli

Sir Rustom Vakil, a Minister in the local Government, bas surren dered a month's salary, 4,000. rupees, while all members of the Executive Council and the Minie- try, including Sir Rustom, ATO surrendering ten per cent of their salaries.

CHOLERA EPIDEMIC

SUBSIDING":

OUTBREAK IN IRAQ WORST-

"ON RECORD.

Basin, Oct, 10-The epidemic of cholera which, after fluctuating virulence, is now exhausting itself. is considered the worst on record.

So the little Irish girl, who al The inhabitants of the slopes are little more than a year ago was not at present making arrange-Tra just the daughter of a retired Irish manta to abandon their profitable army officer, with never thought fruit farms. They are waiting till of career other than marriage.and the red-hot lava streams down the

home of her own some day, now mountain side. has five pictures to her credit, all of them outstanding productions, full- and returns to Ireland a

edged movie star.

There has been a total of 1,834 cases, of which 1,161 proved fatal, There were a thousand cases in Basra alone, and 528 deaths. The epidemic, which is believed to have started on the borders of Persia GOLD TIDE FLOWS INTO and Baluchistan, reached Basrah on August & The willingness of many of the victims to have them- selves inoculated was largely re

nonsible for the high number of

FRANCE.

Le Havre, Oct.The gold tide is still flowing into France, To-day the liner Ile de France arrived from New York with 271 boxes, of gold bars valued at nearly thirteen million gold dollars.

deaths.

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Variety

Orchestral Fow Down Van

Go Boom... Orchestral A Dicky Bird Told Me So. Jack Payns and the

3.B.C. Danco Orchestra, -6360

Song Sweet Suranuc,"

Soug Just Like Darby and Joan. Norah Blaney and the "Ramblers-1802,

Instrumental Quartetto

hau,

Kawai.

Hono

Instrumental Quartetto |lulu”—Hawalina Silver String

Quartette.--8431.

Vocal Duet The Girl Across

the Way, WATE Vocal Duet Love and Kisses."! Mr. Flotsam and Mr. Jotsam, 30-5012, 20 Yodel SMalche" (Milking), Yodel Saanen" (Skimming)-!

Edelweiss Yodlers.-5843H Humorous Song" Tell Me

Mare

About Love." Humorous Song-" I'm Perfectly Satished."-Florence Oldham

0313..

Oclette A Kiss. "Before

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FAIRBANKS

¡REACHING " MOON,

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Outotta

My Inspiration is

24 his battleground:

You."

and romance shamë

the

Dawn.-J. H. Squire Coleste

Octette.-3129,

Vocal Duet

All by Yourself in

the Moonlight."

Vocal Duet Louisiana."-Lay-

ton and Johnstone-5238: 8p.m.-Local time and weather.

report.

7.45 to 8.10 p.m.

Organ Bolos

Flawer of Love!! (Axt and Men-

doza). Excerpt from Suhbi Kazib

(Lowe and Gower-Brown).- Quentin Maplean.5259. Scherzo (Commette)Edouard

Commette-5315.

"Devotion (Kstelbey).

Pleading (Haydn Wood)-Ter Vance Casey-5384. 6.10 to 8:33 p.me

Scottish Selections, Song- Castles in the Air

(Traditional)

Song Up in the ·Mornin2· Early(Hainilton and Mac- kenzie)-Margoret. Stewart (Soprano).-5883.

Band Highland Fling (Stuni- plo).Highland Military Band.

4751,

Song "I Belong to Glasgow"

(Fyffe)

Song" I'm 34 To-day" (Fyffe). -Will Fyffa (Comedian)-9828

Military Shoes). Highland Band-"Dutch Dance" (Wooden

Band.4782.

8.33 to 8.61 p.m-

Orchestral,

"Noll Gwyn Dance No. 1 Coun

try Dance" (German) "Noli Gwyn Dances-No. 2 Pan-

toral Dance" (German).-Regi mental Band of H.M., Grenadier Guards.4971 4 William Tell Overture (Ros dini)-(a) Dawn," (b) The Storm," (c3 The Chim," (d) Finale,Sir Henry Wood conducting the Now Queen's Hall Orch,-5058/5039.

While battles in the clouds are spectacular and thrilling. "dog figate" nour the earth are far more hazardous. The nearer the earth the planes are, the greater are the

Maureen has grown up in her possibilities of a crash, because the chances of righting the planes are year in Hollywood. When she first decreased. When battling within came to the movie capital she was fifteen feet of the ground, the timid, shy little girl, bewildered by the dazzling lights and the con- slightest miscalculation on part of the pilot means a wreek-fusion of the studio. She goes home to her family, still a girl in od plane.

Reproduction of nerial man-years but a girl who has received oeuvres of the fighting pilots of a marvellous education in a for

Vocal Duet Marigold" (Dow the World War was made by Well short months. On the surface, shie

don and Besly). { man, who, through his experience is no longer the little girl from a in the Lafayette Escadrillo, in con- far-off country; bewildered by the Fox director who discovered"

Vocal Duet The Sweetest Flow9.01 to 8.35 pm sidered one of the best-equipped American life, but beneath the sur her, until the liner: landed her iner Tast Blows (Peterson and mon in motion pictures for such, face, she is still the same girl who. Amerios,

was so excited when she caught the A Connecticut Yankee," from direction.

bont to New York that she forget Mark Twain's famous story, is Dow her trank and had to borrow clothes seen and heard at the King's from Mrs. Frank Borzage, wife of Theatre. It presents Will Rogers

- (Continued" on next Column.). in his greatest: role.

"MEN WITHOUT WOMEN.”

Madly tossing sena, hurled moun- tain high by raging. tempestuous storms; n 00 mile gale driving its fury against all ships in its do atractive path, thrusting with the. might of a million, giants to erasa the stool shells in which men cont hat the ruthless, illimitable oman Pária, Oct; 10.-How a girl of 21 Away out, near the drop wae (widowed la fow thours after ping-off place of the Pacific, in the marrying a man of sixty is tin China Sen, a vessel is plunging tragic story behind the suicide to along, trying to keep affont, Bud day of the playwright Debray, wie denly it ploughs into a submarine. shot himself at a fulldress rehears which has recently come to the sur

ger

of his play, "General -Boulan-face and is hidden from sight by the huge waves, towering high Debray was removed to Bt. Louis noove the steamer's maste. The hospital and, knowing that resubmarino sinks swiftly and the covery was unlikely he asked to be liner continuos its battle against married to Mdile, dizelle Bonnette the storm which has already torn The pathetib ceremony was per away its radio. A report, many formed at the hospital as briefly days late, with details so meagra "as possible in order not to fatigue that they are not absolutely depend. the dying bridegroom, who was ablo, has finally filtered in througa married under his real name, Alo, roundabout sources. These are the Bollus,

more important facts of on Debray was a Greek though he Without Women, the Fox Movie lived in France for years and servono production, which comes to the ed in the Foreign Legion during Central Theatre on Sunday, with a 166 War Iris thought that last including web-famous.players nem and privation, combined wit as Kenneth MacKenna - Frank Al

PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 7.18 and 8.16 p.my-s

Special Matinee at 3.15 on Saturdays and Sundays

Fox production

HOT

PARIS

Starring Victor McLaglen

And

Fifl Dorsay Bevy of charming -- and chic girls-You're touring the French capital if you see this picture. Added Attraction :

WIRAM To:

"Old Times for News" and Fox News

his apparent, lack of sucess, sibertson Paul Pago, Walter Me Commencing Oct. 16 The M.G MUNTAMED

author, drove him to his last des --perate set;"/

Grail, Warren Hymor. Farroll

MacDonald and Stuart Erwin..!

A Concert.

Hawley)-Dora Labbette and Hubert Eisdell with JH. Squire Celeste Octette. DB157. Instrumental Quartetto "Allegro.

Głusto "--- (from Quartette Op. 29 No. 1) (Boooleríal). Instrumental Quartetto "Minuet to" (from Quartetto Op, 27 No. (Bocaherial). Quartetto Veneziano Del Vattoriale. 5275. Male QuartetteValse" (Vogel). Mole Quartette"Two Russian Folk Dance Songs (a). Alle grotto (Bedroff), (b) Allegro. Allegro Molto (Gretchaninoff), The Kedroff Malo Quartette, 4800 29 K Piano Solo

Concert Etude in (Dohnanyi).-Cyrill

F. Minor Smith. Piano Solo Fantasia in D Minor (Mozart, arr. Farlano).

Irone Crowther 5272 Song" Mesamates (Newbolt

and Statham

Song (1) Where Be You Go

ing!" (Holbrooke), (b) Old Clotbos-and-Tine Clothes" (Pride and Shaw) Norman Allin (Bass);---5140). Octette Toreador, et Andalouse***

Rubinstein, arr. Sqar), Octette "Romance (Rubinstein arr. Bear) Squire Celeste

Rugby mid-day.

down

Operatio.

-

with

BEBE DANIELS

NEXT CHANGE

JOSEPH M. SCHENCK presonde

LILLIAN GISH One Romantic

Night

ROD LA ROCQUE CONRAD NAGEL MARIE DRESSLER O•P⭑HEGGIE DER PAUL L. STEIN

JOSIE VLCOMSIDINEJA

STAR

10-DAY & TO-MORROW AT. 230, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20,

Orchestral La Boheme Fanta sia."(Puccini, arr. Gauwin).-- Albert Sandler, and his Grand Hotel (Eastbourne) Orch-4549. Piano Solo Rigoletto-Para phrase (Verdi, arr List) Irene Beharrer.OBTORAG Chorus Madame Butterfly

Humming Chorus (Puccini)A Chorus-"La Gioconda-Festa o Pape (Ponchielli)La Scalo Chorus of Milan.-4801,5mg Organ Solo"Frederica0

Maidon, My Maiden ??; (Lehar);: Organ Solo-"Froderica Way- aide Rose (Lehor), Quentin M. Maclean. DB277, JUST Orchestral-" Mignon "--Selection (Thomas)-New Queen's Hall Light Orch8808. | 1Y Chorus-Lombardi O Bignore Cho Dal Tetto Natio (Verdi), Chorus" Carmen Chorus of

Cigarette Girlý?!! (Bizet), Lat Scala Chorus of 3i)an.--4800- 9.35 to 0.40 pame

Pianoforte Compositions Funny Enday (Gershwin)

Wonderful,'

Funny Faco-My One

(Gershwin) -George

3109.

Fira: Craukera.

THE BISHOP MURDER

CASE

The PERFECT

MYSTER

TRARK

Philo Vance meets his most

16prings-Felând

Donald Thorne-5)

9.10 to 10.30 pm

Continued on previous Column)

HYAMS;

GEORG

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