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City Lights," "

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Cen the Secial Standarda Attalsed by: Royalty;" Restrain the Emocional: Love of a Commonplaca. Actoe and an Aristocratic Princess? A most, Romantic Picture Plancing the Inner Sanctum of Royal Love' which is as Simple, and Praze as chat þerwasa an: Office Girl and a. Clack!

NEIL HAMILTON

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AN AMAZING DRAMA THAT HITS YOU WITH 'A HEART-QUIVERING BANG.

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MAD PARADE

THE THRILLING STORY OF 9 WOMEN CAUGHT IN A MAN'S WAR. WITH EVELYN BRENT," IRENE RICH, LOUISE FAZENDA, JUNE CLYDE, MARCELINE DAY. LILYAN TASHMAN, FRITZI RIDGEWAY, AND THE KEATING TWINS.

SHOWING SOON.

DOROTHY MACKAILE & WARNER BAXTER

INT

"THEIR MAD MOMENT"

A NEW FOX PRODUCTION

GLORIA SWANSON

IN

"TO-NIGHT OR NEVER'

DENNIS, NELSON TERRY &

BETTY STOCKFELD

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THE LATEST 1932 UNITED ARTISTS SPECIAL FEATURE.

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Minna Gombell somehow manager la introduce a disturbing-element into the domestic life of William Collier, Sr., and Louise Dresser, in "Stepping Sisters, the new Fox comedy of a thousand laughs,

BRAILOWSKY'S MASTER.

"STEPPING

RETIRED

CHORINES. BUT NOT WITHOUT THEIR. FOLLIES Thundering and blundering.... they give you the laugh of a

STEPPINGE SISTERS

Làulse Dresser Minne Gombel Jobynu Howland William CallerSt. Directed by Seymour felix SLA POX, PICTURED

KOWLOON

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COMING

Susan Lenox." "Bluck Coffee."

Pentral

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The Mad Parado # Their Mad Moment." To-night or Nevar." Park Lane,”?

Stopping Skylie." Delicious

Sisters!

"Secrets of a Secretary."

Personal Moid?'

94 Heroos

Ep: 5; Chinese picture:

One Romantic Night Eyes of the World

How A "Flip The Frog"

Comedy Is Made

ARTISTS, MUSICIANS AND COMPOSER

FOR 600FT FILM.

Music First: Story Afterwards! Now we come to the most difficult

Do you know that it takes on an make the original drawings on average of Ave thousand ahots"transparent paper. From those, with a camera to make one Flip the. tracings are made with ink on sheets Frog comedy? It requires a great of celluloid. Each sheet is number. amount of thought and labour toed so that when it comes to the make one of these little five or six cameraman he shoots it in its num hundred feet cartoon comedies,erical sequanco. "What one shes on the screen in six or soven minutes requires; thirty. people to produce, working from thares to four weeks steadily. Tre part of cartoon making, which is

thousand drawings to make a single not just a musican, but one who score. The services of a composer, picture.

Mr. Ub Iwerks, creator of Flip required.. It is said that better ro

con compose and arrange music are: the Frog comedy cartoons, which sults are obtained when the musical are distributed by Metro-Goldwyn score is planned first and the draw- The master secret of a great

Described as the picture with Mayer, employs two scenario writers ings made to fit the music, rather iteacher, is revealed in an interview # thousand laughs," Stepping whose job it is to manufacture plote, than arranging the music to fit the which Alexander Brailowsky, the Sisters," the Fox comedy based on situations, and celebrated pianist who plays here on Howard Warren Comstock's stage comedies. This is no small task, for.

gags" for new drawings. Friday, April 9 at the King's

WARM TRIBUTE TO LESCHETIZKÝ.

SISTERS."quently it requires as many as ten. the arrangement of the musical'

REFRESHING - AND DIVERTING.

ต

Theatre, Kavo recently regard farce of the same name, comes to the an average of six to eight stories piano, the music must be synchroniz If the character is playing the ing his master pedagogue, Theo- King's Theatre next Sunday. The must be written every three weeks,ed with each stroke of the fingers dor Lpschefizky, Mr. Braflowsky, who was the star pupil of the princpial roles are enacted by Louise as this is the allotted time for each on the keys. If the character h Leschetizky school in Vienna, said: Dresser, Minna fombel) and Jobyna do is unfly selected.

picture.. From these stories only r

"The question, What was the Howland, a trio of comediennes meeret of Leschetizky's greatness! whose talente ure said to make a has often been presented to me. It

has been answered variously by, peerless combination.

4

Gag "Keeting,

cult for, as the story progresses, he conceivable that he could have main-of “Mübatfamed for her role weaker ones in the original script, and the musie arranged; the next

Against Him the handy етету пал

heart of every

ESCAPE

Jaworthy:"Immortal Drama,

GERALD DU MAURIER. Wine Best-Mabel Poulton and a brilliant supporting eart Hunted haunted-endleraly trailed by the man-pank .. Amazing drama of's man's fight for freedom

the

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RADIO FIOTORES

TO-MORFOW

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Susan Lenox

(HER FALL AND RISE with the new screen lover CLARK GABLE JEAN HERSHOUT JOHN MILTAN

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metare.

pens to fall through a window, the sound of broken slass must be ro- corded simultaneously with the im After the selection has been made pact, or the whole effect is, lost, many of his pupils. There was eer. Miss Dresser will be recalled for a "gag" meeting is called and

Timing as you see, is a very im tainly something which "made him her talking role in Lightnin' sits in on these meetings and offers time and popular tunes are desir everyone connected with the studio portant factor Frequently old stand out above the other pedago." Caught and other recent pro-suggestions and gage pertaining able and quite often necessary to gues of his time. The number of is famous pupils le an indication ductions. Miss Gombell scored auc- to the story. After all possible ideas put certain situations or pagi of that. It might be said that after cosses in Bad UfT" and "Sob and gags have been gathered or the success of Paderewski le natur. Histor" before she was signed to what is considered the best and sure

these suggestions are sifted down to f ally drew the best pupil material; her rale in Stepping. Bisters," and fire bits of humour replacing certain

Orchestras Five Hours Work. to him. There is something in that.

When the picture has been "shot" Success draws success; but it is in- Miss Howland

which is then rowritten is forced to assume the part of the tained his high position in the

The Gold Dig- In

step is to have it recorded. This The story is then ready for the requires the services of from tan to Prince. Another difficulty of the teaching world if he had not pro-gere" on the stage and for her per-animators who make the drawings. Afteen musicians and usually takes duced actual results with these formances in Juch pictures as Each animator is given a particular from three to five hours on a sound plot is that neither characterization pupils. The reasons for his great Hook, Line, and Sinker," "The sound to animate, a scene which in stage. is intended to be disliked. A success I have summed up in two Cuckoos and The Virtuous Sin," best suited to his ability, for some variably necessary to make sure that Several re-takes are in- Pater he must be a genial, charm-sentences. He had, it is true, great William Collier, Sr., who portrays animators are specially adept in certain sound effects and dialogue ing, altogether lovable young man.musicianship, 4 splendid active an important re has been success depicting expression others action will register properly. The negative As Prince Alexis he is happy-go-mind, and the ability to discipline ful in many screen productions in and so forth. There are usually is then went to the laboratory-for lucky and harum-scarum-and Neil Hamilton, who plays the to be trusted with great respon there must have been something Affairs" and "Up the River. Others five hundred or six hundred foot ly assembled, prints are made, nad not with effect; but in addition to this cluding, The Brat," "Annabelle's from twenty to thirty scenes to a developing. After this it is careful male lead in The Command Per- aibilities Without being the hero, which other teachers did not have of prominence in the east are Hobartoon. formance," James Cruze. Produc- the Prince novertheless, must and This to my mind was

ward Phillipa, ose performance in

the completed Flip the Frog car tion for Tiffany, has never before, docs aulist sympathy.

In order that the exact continuitytoon comedies are sent on their way "1. A love, for beautiful tone. The Spider von him wide so may be followed, it is necessary to to theatres throughout the world. during long streen career, béen ! The Command Performance "is 9. A respect for the individde claim; Fedinand Munier who scor offered the opportunity to play aan adaptation of the famous playality of the student

ed in Ambasador Bill," Stanley Jun rôle. And, such a role has by C. Stafford Dickens, produced Leschstizky put tone Arst and Smith of muncal comedy fame; by Samuel Zierler and directed by foremost in his list of technical Barbara Week, Mary Forbes and. The characterizations he is re, Walter Lang. Una Merkel shares needs. Everything else was second Robert Graig, 4338-pound comedian

rtigation. No stone was left unturn. quired to play in “The Command stellar honours with Neil Hamiltonary More than this, he did not of unusual falute, kako

ed towards reaching our goal of Performance, showing to-day at and others in the cast are Holen care how the student got the tone. The plot concerns the accidental

"In one instance, a leg of a piano detailed perfection. the Central Theatre, ATO particu- Ware, Albert Gran, Veru Lewis as long as the tone itself was there meeting of thrie former members of

had to be broken off, another time Tarly diffent ones. They are dif. Lawrence Grant, Thaima Toud, it tina been made to appear that be the chorus of a burlesque show. has made motion pictures popular a costly chandeller had to be o ferent in all save"appearance..and Burr McIntosh.

William von Brincken, Mischa Auer had some patent methode for pro- This takes plate at the lavish Long throughout the world, believes poisily constructed so, a to zapom ducing tone. This was not so Ho Island home ofons the trio who has William Boudine, director of the ble ruined lighting fixture of the As Prince Alexis, son of a "Queen"

had his own ideas, it is true; but become a prominent member of Mad Parade Paramount raleata original building, yo of a small kingdom, he plays the

he once said that if the student society. part of a rather spoiled, lazy, hal-†' '

Tans want their stories.perfectly. The trencher in the picture were terskelter young roughneck whose upon which he might paint a work right tone it would be perfectly to be refreshing new and extremely Beaudine points out the French of the dugouts in No Man's Land,

played with his nose and got the Stopping Sisters" is declared told in perfect settings.

constructed along the exact lines: princely duties rest far too lightly of art, if he learned the pupil's own mtisfactory to him. Secondly, diverting The dialogue, too, is chateau est in his pictura as an ex the director also explains. on his shoulders. As Peter Fedor, musical inclinations.

this rospent for the individuality said to be of high witty onlibre. ample of the painstaking effort The Mad Farado penned from an actor in a company travelling It is for this reason that the at the pupil was wonderful. Every The play wet prepared for the made by producers to reproduce actual experiences of women on the through the kingdom, he plays the Leschatizky pupile are all different, pupil was a new problem Eo was screen by Wiliam. Conselman, and historics) settings with the most Great War's western fighting front; part of a young dan "uaused to There are certain earmarks of the the very apposita olmusion) Enymbur-Tec, celebrated as a possible exactness. luxury and ceremony-s man who lira and finish which the master dducation machine, Ench new pupil director of difce ensembles for theWo cured, actual photography Theatre, 4 days starting to-morrow SYDNEY HOWARD

will be headlined at the Central has had to live by his wits.

brought to them, but these do not was a wonderful human canvas big, revues and musical shows in of the chateau," he explainne Authorship is credited to Gertrude This makes. Die part thrice di mar the artist on the playing." '(Continued 'on' praviata colama New York, directed it.

search men made a thorough inves. Orr and Doris Malloy,

long boeŋ his ambition.

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