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1932 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

An Outstanding Feature based

on David Belasco's Great Stage Success

TONIGHT OR NEVER.

LOVEL

...that was his daring: ultimatum That was his challenge to her uncertain, whims REMAIN in his armą, a slave to the magic spell of their strange. 'romance........or...close the door on Paradise!! Hurl the ashes of their brief ecstasy to the winds of forgetful ness REMAIN and LIVE......LEAVE and REGRETI

SAMUEL GOLDWYN presents

SWANSON

TONIGHT OR NEVER

LASZD ON

DAVID BELASCO'S

GREAT SEAGE SUCCESS

UNITED

ARTISTS

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PICTURI

LILI HATVANY

SHOWING SOON

THE COMEDY DRAMA THAT WAS THE RAGE OF LONDON NOW BROUGHT TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE MULTI-LINGUAL TALKING SOREEN,

DENNIS NELSON TERRY &

BETTY STOCKFELD

*** IN

"77, PARK LANE"

TO-DAY

AT 2:30, 0:10,

11 & 30 PM

SKYLINE

with THOMAS MEIGHAN HARDIE ALBRIGHT Maureen O'Sullivan Donald Dilloway Arms, meant to protect had only crushed and hurt. Tempestuous romance of two young "humans in, teeming, glamorous: Msahattan..

HARDIE'S CHOICE. When Hardie "Albright, must choose between Maureen O'Sullivan and Myrna Loy under the dominating eye of Thomas Meighan in "Skyline”, Fos picture. 'SKYLINE" AT THE

KING'S.

DRAMA OF A FATHER AND HIS SON

never saw

han and Hardie

4

"DELICIOUS."

HOW JANET COACHED A COLLEAGUE.

AT THE

PONG KONG

THEATRE

TEL 28813

Queen's.

NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 1st MAY

DELICIOUS

Is The Word For Itf

Delicious

WITH JANETI

GAYNOR

CHARLESTO

FARRELL

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FOX: PICTURE

"To-night or Never,"

King'

Stopping Sisters.

S4 Heroes" (Ep.

Chinese picture,

KOWLOON,

Queen'i

of the World'

COMING.

West of Broadway, "Kapt Husbanda..

Central.

King'a

Dangor Lights."" 77, Park Lane,"

**Skyline," "Delicious."

Secrets of a Secretary. "Personal Maid.

World.

Star.

"Half Shot, at iSunrise."

Show of Shows." **General Crack." City Lights."

HOLLYWOOD LOOKING

TO EUROPE.

THE OLD WORLD AND NEW IN BIG FILM RACE.

The Old World" is drawing, level ontal flavour. Ita success has Bean

with the Now World in the film enormous. It has ovan eracked the

raco.

Cautions Seart of Scotland, and is

The two outstanding West End being widely sung by Scottish lairds successes of the New World "ars in their baths t

Hell Divers and Shanghai More Continentul films, "I hear, Exprose." But running them close are coming along,

ara two Continental pictures. *** Kriss," a travel Alm, is one of: War is Hell" at the Marble Arch them. It is a French film make by Pavilion, is doing exceptionally André Roosevelt, dealing with a

¡well.

Rend Clair's Liberty, at journey through Persia, Sium and the Rialto has had an extremely Borneo and the little-known island good run,"and is in its sixth week. of Bali, Clair will be sending us "another. The idea of a European cinema, Alm soon.

in fact is. estoblished, It is not

Film tastes are changing, Lon- just a fad of the intelligentsia. don, Paris and Berlin are having Wo have awakened to the notion a bigger say in film matters to-day that the Old World has a great deal than strany previous period in the to say, and intends to say it with cinema's development.

vigour, artistry, and enterprise..

Ind

who

Costly Programme.

Old World.

V

It is impossible to Koop still in got to look around for fresh inspira

his business," he said. We have. fion and ideas, and they happen to be noarer home than they were.

shins Susie there was no duncing

In the original version of Sun- People just fung themselves about in a casual way. But when I found Jack Hulbert was available saw the possibility of really developing. the dancing idea

story.

4.

The playboys of the American Victor Saville, with whom I have world are also turning to Europe. been discussing, the now cinem,now **Dolicious," the new Fox Music-Jack Warner,

returns to

developing, ngread" with me that it f al romance which comes to the America to-morrow, is going to A father who loves the son lis

make England his Europeah film is at present dominated by Euro. and a boy, who hates King's Theatre on Sunday "next, centre.

pean ideas in production.. the father he never knew are the will bring a new face to motion, rôles portrayed by Thomas Meig Picture audiences. It's possessor is

He moana business. He is spend Albright in a handsome, dark, young man, ing £100,000 on addition to the Skyline," the Fox picture which Raul Roulien and whose native sound stages and studio develop is the current attraction at the country is Brazil. In his part op- ment at Teddington and plans to produce twenty-five pictures at an King's Theatre.

Meighan is, of posits Janet Gaynor, who is co-average cost of £25,000 each. course, the father, and in the starred with Charles Farrell in this

Five fading American companies climax, reveals himself to his son, film, Roulion has received a rare are now either directly producing of Albright. The lattor with Maureen opportunity to display his drama financing film productions in Eng O'Sullivan furnishes the love in-tic talents. “ LATEST 1932 UNITED ARTISTS SPECIAL RELEASE.-terest in this story of modern life!

This transformation of the Bim "I do not mean this in the senso It was during the filming of scene is not an affair of yesterday. of a pretty ballroom scene to in- in a great city. Myrna Loy is lea

It has heat steadily developing trigue the eye and decorate the "TO-NIGHT OR est production detail was maintain-tured with these thres in a charac" Delicious" that this star of the

for two or three years, ed Ernest Vadja, the adapter, and teristic part, as is Donald Dillaway. South American stage developed a

The talkies started a European "I used dancing to express the NEVER."

Skyline tells the story of fear that, for the first time in his renaissance on the production side. thome. It was a way of getting talk Willy Pogany, the scene-designer, friendless youth who is bitterly pre are both Hungarians selected to judiced against his father who de- career, he would be banished from it was cheaper and easier to make on the move. That is one of the make sure that the atmosphere of sorted the boy's unmarried mother. east of which he was a member. Alms in the polyglot contres of the fundamental changes inspired by the best brains of the cinema Later he is befriended by a wealthy While he had played opposite many

abroad. is meticulously accurate. Eudapest, where the story is laid, contractor and engineer, who, in prominent actresses of both. France

Changed - Taates. the end, is revealed as Bis father. he had ever shared a scene with a and Spain, this was the first time

I am carrying this idea atill Following this discovory, the bos

But the change in film tastes and further in Love on Wheals. In denounces his father for his early He was frankly nervous.

star of Miss Gaynor's magnitude. in the refreshing now ideas which this film one of the principal char- conduct, when he realizes ho

are lighting up the face of the factors is a publicity man. Y is not faultless, himself, he becomes Miss Gayner, took him aside, and screen socurred differently. He is a man of sparkling ideas, It began with Sous les Toits de tremendous optimism and dynamic tolerant and realizes that he is Roulien expected the worst.

sand potion, and he expresser time in a after all no better than his father, her first, words were almost unbo Pazia."

lievable to him. They were

Nobody thought you could make dancing aequanca which runs Taylor who directed Mary Pickford

The pictura was directed by I'm going to show you how to money out of a French picture, but through fourteen different sets, the roofs of Paris were roofs of though it takes only one and a half and Harold Lloyd in inany of their steal the picture from me." best pictures.

From this startling beginning gold

minutes to show, WOW CHAI APA Com Before production of "Skyline Janet went on to point out vari- Nor was Germany considered a There are twenty-five singing was started at the Fox Beverly ous little subtletion of technique source of profit till Erich Pommer parts in the film. Music and action Hills Studio, Taylor spent three which she considered would be help. brought over Congress Dances" are now in command of the modern wecke in New York shooting scenes ful illustrated the difference be That picture, as I foresaw, has movement in talkies? for it and they are said to be rare tween doing a scene for a long shot, revolutionised our outlook on talkies Flotazon I and amazing examples of photo and noting the same situation for and our methods of making them graphic art.

a close up. She stressed the im. It broke down the paralysis of How for this movement will go portance of his being thoroughly at dialogue and opened up vistas of it is impossible to say, but fim case before the camera. Janet unshackled action, with music as the directors are beginning to realisa Gaynor was "noaching "this new international voice of the talkies. that talk, unless it is very good, is comer to the sorean I

Provincial exhibitors," who looked no good at all, and that the real upon Lilian Harvey in the film with buatman of the plan is winky: scepticism, and Germina technique what it wants in its own language- with horror, are now changing their minds. They want more of both. This would knock on the Intelligent taste in films in not the nine Alma-out of ten based:

jad the monopoly of London, stage play. There are many-and Sunshine Susie successor in I am among them-who consider the musical tradition, was also this a most necessary, step.-Ernest strongly infused with the Contin-Belt in the Feening Standard Bl

BELASCO'S LAST STAGE SUCCESS ON THE SCREEN.

Alded by Stage Dent. Samuel Goldwyng one of the pioneers of the picture" industry, With the exception of putting pays tribute to the late David Miss Swanson in the leading role, Belasco, the grand old man of the all the major characters are played American theatre, in bringing to by the actors, who played them in the screen Tonight or Never," the the Belasco stage production. And romantic comedy starring Gloria Melvyn "Douglas, the leading man Swanson, which comes to the Cen-whore Belasen signed a year in ad daal Theatre to-day, To-night or vibes of production as the perfect actor for the role of the mysterious Never" was the last production young American hero, has turned Belasco over made, the last hit of into one of the finds of the year in

Hollywood. that long list of theatrical successes

There is a considerable resemb which had made him a proverb in lance between Samuel Goldwyn and the American theatre for forty David Belasco, Goldwyn in pictures,

d youra

7.

1.

But

Belasco in the theatre, each was Others in the large supporting most--noted-of-all-as-great dicast are El Brendel Mango Ro Charles Farrell is co-starred with The picture version of this play coverer of talent, Samuel Goldwyn's barti, Virginia Cherrill, Olive Toll, Mi Gaynor in Dalicique Rou by Lili Hatvany which sloset David list of discoveries includes Ronald Lawrence O'Sullivan, Mischa Auer Tien portrays the role of a young

picture co Colman, Low Moran, Lily Danita, add Marvine Maazel,

Rufan composer in the picture, Bolamon's carenz was carefully Vilma Banky, Jaan Bennet, and David Butler directed from an it being his love for Janet that Handled throughout to rank invex Walter Byron Both of them have original screen play by Guy Bolsoftens the blows of fate which graet cellence with the Belasco produo-1also been noted for always expond- | ton. George Gershwin wrote the her arrival in Amerias as an or. tion. The Bolasco tradition of ing the greatest possible care on six musical numbers with which the plan immigrant from Scotland. painstaking, care down to the slight each production.

drama is brought to life.

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