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ADVENTURE WHIMSICAL HUMORIJA

BILD. BOYDU

[HELEN:TWELVSTREI

Greater than the greatest western!

The wonder picture of the year.

BILL BOYD

AUNTED DESERT

HELEN TWELVETREES

and WILLIAM FARNUM

Diated by HOWARD: HIOGINI

KINGS THEATRI

Have Its Fling?

EVERY dad and mother,

in hallowed,

hours at the hearthside

can see in

memories the things they did that parents called foolish.

loo,onta made up

THIS

RECKLESS AGE

FRANK TUTTIE

DUNN

ALLY FILERS

World

HONG KONG

The Painted Desori."

Allan French Certie

This Rockless Age

The Trail of 98,"

KOWLOON.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney."

With Norha Shearer

COMING.

"WILLIAMİ PARNUM

THE

FIGHTING MEN-DARING

WOMEN-LOVE-LAWLESS-

NESS AND THE DESERT'S TREACHEROUS BEAUTY!

NEXT CHANGE-

GREATEST CHINESE SINGING & TALKING PICTURE EVER PRODUCED, WITH ENGLISH TITLES

"HAPPY STARS”

EMPIRE DAY ATTRACTION

A BRAND NEW BRITISH SUPER PRODUCTION RELEASED BY UNITED ARTISTS

WILLIAMI HUTTER: presents

77 PARK LANE DENNIS NEILSON-TERRY BETTY STOCKFELD

"THE PAINTED

DESERT."

SCORES BIG SUCCESS AT CENTRAL THEATRE.

A Trade Naties states: Since his triumph in "The Last Frontier," Bill Boyd never was seon to finer advantage than in the Pathe dialogue picture of the west, "The Painted Dosort," which wha shown with tremendous success at the Central Theatre yesterday. The picture is colourful, dramatic and there are numerous thrills."

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With pinety per cent. of the pic. ture photographed on the locale the story in the desertland of

"THIS RECKLESS.

AGE."

ALL-STAR CAST AT THE

KING'S.

The story is appropriately named'; it has a strong appeal and is based on ha annual theme one that. makes you think

Charles Rogers:

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Charlie Ruggles

Peggy Shannon Richard Bennett

"Frances D☀.

SWEETHEARTS, AGAIN” 24 Fally Elms and James-Dunn who portray, tha 'romantic leads in:the Foz dramatic produto.

tion; “Ovw ThS EBU."

OVER THE HILL

ALIAS FRENCH

GERTIE

NEW THRILL TALKIE AT

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

A Trade Notice stater:-

with

Central.

"Happy Store.

Park Lane."

Queen's, my f

Lord Babs!"

King's

World

Star

To Obligo & Lady,!! Tell England?

Over the Hil

Secrets of a Secretary. Dancers in, the Dark."

43 French Girle,!

Inspiration,

Gaucho."

Dawa Patroi?""

3 French Girim! Inspiration.

BEBE

DANIELS

with

BEN LYON

alias FRENCH

Greta and Marlene Complete GERTIE

LONDON OPINION OF MATA HARI” AND OTHERS.

youth of super-worldly accomplish- menta to shatter her racord as an unimpeachable maid of fashion,

Greta Garbo's now ploture is shortly" coming to the West End, Care in selecting the cast of Mata Hari," the story of the Miss Bennett, hires, an American Ahas French Gertic," Babe Daniels third Radio starring Almanning any who exploits her showing now at the Queen's Thea charms to further the interests of tre did not end with the principal Gormany' at war. players. All the bits in the picture are played by know She falls in love with Russian jataga and soreen artists;

airman 18 victimised; by a dupe,

+

away

For instance, Charles K. French, who betrays her, and with thirty years stage experience, to be shot. appears in two important talking Greta competes with Mariane Basiss

Buying & Part..

She buys a past to decorate that? claims of her snow white presant.

Cynical and callons, of course a French viscount shoots himself for

Arthur Houseman and Harry Ten-Dietrich in self-sacrificial honours love of her. He is in debt, too, “OVER THE HILL book, we have enacted "tough" You will, no doubt, remember Mar- characters in scores of crook stories, lene's spectacular fade-out in "Dis- mako several appearances.

IN PRAISE OF JAMES DUNN.

A Trade Notico states:- The rarest thing in the world is common sense. And the rarest Bift in an actor is the common. touch that. Kipling wrote about. James Dunn hug them both.

This magnetic young man whose

An all-star cast, including Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Peggy Shannon, Richard Bennett, Charlie Ruggion, Frances Deo and Frances Starr, ja featured in the Paramount picturse is one of the focal points of interest in Over The Hill, Fox "This Reckless Age," which com- menced its run at the King's drama, opening next Sunday at the Theatre yesterday

King's Theatre is the most tree and of-hand interpreter of character the eroon has unearthed in a decade.

So when John Doe and his sweet- heart abe James Dunn on the screen Imagine a couple of indigent they are thrilled for they soo him parents confronted with the modern going through the same, inarticulate problem of two extravagant struggles that hamper their own at- ren who give scant consideration to tempts at alt rovalation. Be is

their spokesmant «fle is Johan all | over again to Mary and somehow the things he saya remind John of his ineptitudo. The only difference is that in Dunn's case it is a mat tor of high histrionic-art-

conduct upset the domestic equani mity and the audience is sure to sympathize with both sides. The sets in the film are very elaborata, especially in the danos scones

In Over The Hill, Dunn is again teamed with his "Bad Girl”” Sweetheart, Bally Bilere. Mau March sta of such silent films as The Birth Of A Nation" and

Adele Watsons, connected with motion pictures for twelve years, is a secretary in one scene

Nella Walker and Charles Giblin, experienced staged troupers, share the first nine scenes, of the film with Bebe Daniela,

honoured," in which she was shot.

in cold blood as a spy..

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"Dishonoured" was not a con- yincing alm. It was a blaze of star- dust amid clouds of better illusions

I am no discipline of Miss Garbo, but I have good authority for ad- vancing her claims as an actress in

Mata Hari"

Garbo's Bast

Among those in principal parts are Ben Lyon, now husband of Babe Daniels who plays opposite her, John. Inge, Betty Pierce, Robert Emmett O'Connon and Daisy Belmore." Alias Franch Gertie,"

The privileged suribed of New a crook romance adapted from "The Chatter Box" successful York and London, in trade pre- Vello, was views, have Reclaimed her in what stage by Bay and directed by George Azchainbaud

"LORD BABS --A

BRITISH COMEDY.

7

FILM

LINER STEWARD WHO

BECOMES A PEER.

is used as her best performance to riate, which I take to mean her best purformance since she appear- od in silent pictures

In my view Miss. Garbo has never yet lived up to her allent" re putation. She had her great chanos in Anna Christis--and did not take it. / Mata Hari, 10-far as I am concerned, is a test case for this glamorous Nordic phenomenon

A Trade Notice states:—

You will see her in the fim at the """" Lord Babs,” the Gainsborough | Empire shortly.

Alm Keble Howard's Vaudeville

"Arizone, and on the Indian Reserva tion The Painted Desert" brings to the adreen & drama laid in back grounds never before photographed. their parents opinions. Clashing The story of "The Painted De-ideas of conventions and modern sert" concerns a feud between two old Arizona, pioneers and the romance of their children. The picture is packed with thrills and action. The stampede of a herd of five hundred cattle and a death-

The Christmas home-coming of defying race of twenty-mule teams Ecth the children is perhaps most are only part of the blood tingling realistically produced. Imagine the incidents. that. Help raise the drama parents disappointment in finding stolerance to a high pitch.

Helen Twelvetrees plays opposite the daughter coming home with four

is also featured in of hebt Lady with a Past, which the with four the rules of "Ma It is the Arst farce, that is appearing at the British Board of Film Censors hays But Boyd with artistry and fine of her chums and going away poise. The supporting cast wan exoallent, the work of William Christmas dinner comes off. The private life, upon

with them before the long-planned

picture Miss March has played in Queen's on Sunday differs in some

twelve years having retired to respecta from the original stage insisted on renaming" Reputation, Tarnum. J. Farrell Macdonald and Clark Gable being especially fine. boy also comes home with his last silent upon completion of her version, Its fun is faster. The introduces Constance Bennett as a

gags are jollier. The settings are vamp. Bose. Over The Hill! was in- Joyment leaving the parents alone plure, but upon his arrival in Babs himself is none other than butterf Hollywood he was cast in has that popular star of stage and sing In spite of all this reckless director Henry King completed the morable Bad Girl” role while

screen, Bobby Howas, is an assuT- Doss, however, the children rally Gaynor Farrell production, "Mere unce of an evening rich in fun. round their father when he finds ly Mary Ann which he was mak-- "Babe - himself involved in a shady dealing at the time ALANA Clinching and their successful efforts in help. Hill large and celebrated one, The park ondating Over the which inhing him out of a scrape helps to In addition to Dunn, Miss Ellery bas is includ bring the story to the usual "bappy" and Miss Marah in bosata of suna By the Light ending.

Edward Crandall Claira Mayni and Olin Howland

The White

Others" in the cast are Edmund ancéo-nnd dashes off to his en tended originally to be Dunn's first elaborate, whilst the fact tha

Breese, Will Walling. Al St. Joh, Jerry Drew, Wade Boteler, Richard Cramer, James Mason and James Bonlan. Howard Higgin" directad with felicitious resulta.

there is 34 good. somedy, BOORIDA.

arry... Hinkinan bin.

the

over their Christmas dinner.

Altogether In addition to the main feature,

(Continued un previous colums.)

tent:

which makes the manner of his exit alightly dubious. However, the brilliant shoddinces of the whole thing makes a characteristic setting for the Bennett charm, which glows in an atmosphere of Eue de la Paix Frecklessness.

"

Volumes could be written on the nstangy at Ognstance Bennets to her film tradition. She has only to compete with herself, and povary in fear of her own parfections

As for Robert Montgomery, who only recently was flinging cultured pigrams at Norma Shearer in Private Lives," he is the hero of story specially written for him by Frederick Lonsdals.

In

Lovers Courageous" he is a cow-puncher, shop assistant and laimant to the hand of an ad. miral's daughter, with heaps of local colour from

from the shires, and other haunte of aristocracy to help him.

As you will be seeing this picture in a week or so I reserve judgment

on it Mr. Montgomery's career le among the most interesting in our Tent Alm fiction 3 The graph of his achievements is like an erratic tame perature chart which has just Boat.

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