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CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWINGS TO-DAY, at 230; 5.157.15 & 9.80 THE COMEDY-DRAMA THAT WAS THE RAGE OF LONDON NOW BROUGHT TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE MULTILINGUAL TALKING SCREEN,

1932 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

A. BRITISH FAMOUS PLAYERS GUILD TRIUMPHANT MAIDEN: PRODUCTION:

77

PARK LANE

With

DENNIS NEILSON-TERRY

BETTY STOCKFELD

Directed by Albert De Courville.

A SOPHISTICATED

THRILLER THAT

IS AS WITTY AS IT IS EXCITING, AS CHARMINGLY

ROMANTIC AS IT IS SUSPENSEFUL.

NEXT CHANGE

A DYNAMIC DRAMA OF RACKETS,

"RIDES "AND RAPID-FIRE ACTION

Jack Holt & Constance Cummings

THE

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110 & 6.30 PM.

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AN INTRIGUING SCENE FROM THE TALKIE VERSION OF STANLEY HOUGHTON'S

*SENSATIONAL PLAY

SUBIL THORNDIKE JOHN STUART NORMAN MEKINNEL EDMUND GWENN. BELLE CHRYSTALL

HINDLE WAKES

SPECIAL MATINEE PERFORMANCE

ON

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"HINDLE WAKES.

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No English man or women could fall to respond to the tens drama, the wit, the humanity and the

"BLACK CAMEL.

DOROTHY REVIER IN HAWAII DRAMA."

BLACK

CAMEL

with

WARNER OLAND

Brilliant CHARLIE CHAN

solves a South

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WHAT MAKES A REALLY FUNNY SITUATION?

cause of

One of the oddest things about coming universal. You may agre British filme is that nobody has yet with Hobbes that the perceived the fundamental basis of laughter is sudden glory," Shelah faros

with Kant, that it is simply affection arising from a transformation of a strained ex pectation into nothing! this would seem to make certale fuancial transactionssmming,

We have any amount of slap stick, but apart from the photo graphed stage plays produced by Mr. Walls, none of it is even re- motels funny Why Because, as

sudden

(Though

Fane" of the Fox Films version of Earl Derr Biggers The Black Camel, which comes to the King's Theatre nez Wednesday, Miss Bo vier gives a dramatic portrayal, in nel form a terrible alliance in this the role of the porean star who film, over the misdeeds of their comes to her death through confid respective "off-spring, a Lancashireing a guilty secrets Lass and the son of a Lancashire From the time she was a small millionaire. These two met at child, she studied dancing-Russian, Blackpool whither all Hindle has acrobatics, ballet, ballroom and gone for its annual Wake" and spory Other variety, and on com

You may conscientiously rovn AGrotesque Comedian. slipped away together for a week pleting her education joined a bal the 101 funniest sinustions (if there Mr. Kenton, like all great clowns, end. The girl's mother, and the le troupe. After several tours of be so many) and mako, use of all is not improved by car, but I am hoy's father are determined that the the Pacific Coast, Miss Revier took or any of them. But if the players happy

I say, directors and soters don't which they are not-well, not very.) know the elementary fact about On the whole it would perhaps farog, which is that no situation, be best to any "The Passionate however absurd, is ever amusing Plumber" will make you laugh, and unless the characters are in deadly let it go at that. earnest.

“77 PARK LANE” AT “THE CUBAN LOVE young people shall wed. The moram, engagement, at a prominong bansacting reality, for a few grindcontrapos to report that he still en

CENTRAL THEATRE.

DE COURVILLE'S UNUSUAL

AND GRIPPING FILM...

A trade notice: Niaton samoja. When talkies became the rage, and

it was necessary to make Alms 1 several languages, Albert de Cour-

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OWEN NARES JACQUELIN LOGAN

Guel DODO WATTS

ETNORMAN WALKER

uls of it do not warry the mother,

and obvious gags, if they gallop The Passionate Plumber was There she was seen by a Holly anxious for her daughter's rich wedding, but they mean everything Wood film director, who, impressed through their work in the thris-is a once a play, called Her Cardborad Lover," and a very silly play it was to the domineering man,

with her grace and evident drama jolly good-rag but of course-I-dop't- These two old people sea to it, attic ability, offered her a role in his really tave-to-do-it-for-a-living style na those who saw Miss Bankhead favoured by most of our screen and Mr. Leslie Howard on the stage, current picture. a family conference, that the wrong,

While is to be righted. But Belle Chry

Black Cams)" is her comedians, then the thing is de- and Miss Marion Davies in the Bm A BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTE stall, the dark, and lovely Lanca first talking appearance for Fox finitely not funny. It is simply Mr.Version, may agree. But the time hire girl, slips through their stoney Films, she played an important part Blank Alling in time between golf the plot was changed to suit Mr. hands. This young man is told with Warner Oland in The My: and a night club.. well; if he thought ho was having sterious Dr. Fu Manchu" P

a lark with her, thats her idea of In "The Black Camel' she is

Why We Laugh

Keaton and B part was written in to suit Jimmy Durante, and the girl's part was proportionately diminish-

Aim Tights

One thing this farce does make clear, Mr. Durante, from his fellow autors point of view, in player

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The Cuban Love Song, starring ville, director of 77 Part Lane Lawrence Tibbett and Lape Valez was the perfect man for die direc torial job 77 Park Lane is the opened at the Queen's Theatre yes first English picture made in the terday, English, French and Spanish laa, Lawrence Tibbett gives his usuni him. She likes him, but for all his again with Oland, who, as in the I emphasize these truisms bead, you may wonder why M.G.M. guages, and de Courville was select " ed to direct all three versjons. delightful preformance and his brass and his position the man she first offering of the series, "Char cause, though we are beginning to thought the thing worth using. The Born in London and educated in singing of The Cuban Love Song" is to wed will need to be a better ha Chan Carries On enacts the film comedies of manners reasonably answer is, they already owned the London and Switzerland, Albert-de and The Peanut Vender " Courville has lived in practically foient to make the picture well hut her own that she's c

Ar chap then him. It's not his future part of the suave Oriental detective, well, we still do farce atrpelously. The entire action of the new pic and this despite the example of all the ing Continental actes, and

considering

such masters as Chaplin, Laurel and has also spent a good deal of his worth seeing. He was well up-It is beautifully noted. The girls sure, however, is in Hawaii, life in Central and South America.ported by Lupe Velez ds Nenito, a strength, and pride, and heartache,

Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Robert Hardy, and Buster Keaton The 'rarult of his travels that he

Young, Murray Kindell Victor is sonoro Hahed linguist, and little Cuban peanut vender who are all there, but never docs she Varconi, Marjorie White, C. Henry od but apparently it cannot. Pliny tional debut in Get-Bieb Quick

If only comedy could be explain was able to direct the players in ments Terry (Lawrence Tibbett) touch either weakness or sentiment Gordon, JM Kerrigan, Violet tells us that laughter is given to Wallingford," and to the best of the Spanish and French versions of when in Cuba with the Marines. ality.

Dann and Richard Tucker are in 1477 Park Lane just as easily as

the cast Hamilton MacFadden nobody till he is at least forty days my recollection, he has dominated directed.

old, and that even then he is every scene in every, Blur in which A British International Picture looked upon as a miracle of préco-he has appeared since. As a city" but the generalisation is not 1 grotesque comedian he makes, Bart of much praction value in these Lahr und Joi days whón certificates are be-, amateurs,

J

those in the English version.

Torry falls in love with Nonita

Master of Super-Bevues, a

after an accident in which Terry's

De Courville started life as a car smashes Monita's peanut cart

The love idyll between the two young people might have been bet ter dirooted it is subordinated to

journalist, but gave up this work War is declared and Terry has to the drama of these harak elders, snd to become assistant managing direc for and producer at the London leave Cuba and while he is in the grim mills which, relect their Hippodrome where he became fam Francs he is wounded and invalid unyielding charsors ous for his series of super revues up ed home Out of gratitude to Cry-Hindle Wakes" is

to and during the war, including sta (Karen Morley), to whom he velopment in British film drama,

Joyland, Flying Colours Razzle Dazzle and Joy Belle" was previously engaged, he marries a launching out from the light v After the war he toured his show har in spite of the fact that he still

The Whirl of the World all over Canada and the U.S.A. subsequent

ly returning to Tagland to produce

loves Nemita,

One night Terry and his wife

a number of more serious shows attend a night club nad one of the

including Cheating Cheaters,

and The Thirteenth Chair

Recently be direc

speciality numbers is

The Peanut

his rat Vender which recalls the

forces and murdor thrillers, with which our Home actor and

tors have been feeling"

talkie Wolves "gurring Dorothy Terry." He leaves for to Cuba to son with him Gight"

look for ita but finds that she Suttieient 77 Park Lane, his latest pro

piny by duation, based on the calabrated in dead. He finds a small boy mance and slago success by Walter, Hackett, singing The Cuban Love Song O. Jones showing at the Central The

nud after inquirien be finds that the Ma

"day. It has been described; zw ozle!

of the most mousal and igTPPI: he is the son of Nenita and

mystery store La

It is idently suited for

in talking picture

and self. He returns home bringing.

Spanish as

put over

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MIDDLE WATCH."

A LOCAL CRITICISM.

(Contributed.).

I was fortunate enoug present; at the private: showin

The Middle Watchy film which will short

at the Queen's Theatre.

excellent show and I found

to be feared. He made a ponse

and Reginald Purdell flesh. amusing as Sors): Duckett,

medy, is added to torrence

Durante d

tional pleasure in comparing It with the Local A,D,O. production of the stage play by Tem · Hay" and. PIL Stephen King.

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biggest differ

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