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THE HAPPY

ENDING'

"

TALE OF A WONDERER AT THE QUEEN'S

...

A trade notice states:--- Ian Hay's play, "The Happy Ending" to morrow's attraction at the Queen's Theatre has been adapt- ed and directed by Millard Webb into a workmanlike talkie,

had nirendy The story popular. as a silent picture as well 26 a play and a novel. In the new version the main int rest is focused on Denis Cradock, the weak philan derer, who, his only daughter is brought up by her mother to be live died on heroic deuth in the wrock of a liner.

"LOVÉ ME TO-NIGHT”'

AT THE KING'S ·

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DELIGHTFUL SONG HITS

A trade notice states:- Sparkling melodies, brilliant d'a logits and a whole sories of dr. lightful performanera danced in the sere of the King's Theatre where Maurice Chevalier's Intest picture, Love Me Tonight" is now showing.

The new Chevalier film, under Rouben Mamoulian's direction und with Jennette MacDonald again in the feminine lead, is one of the beca best romantic comedies that the French singing actor has made. The story is as fantastic as a comie opera should rightly be, but it is also a good one, cheek-full of both romantic and hilarious situations.

Chevalier than the rôle nt. n de- benaire Paris tailor, who desu.nds upon the Chateau of the Vicinte Gilbert de Vareze to collect a large Mr. Webb shows us Cradock in bill, and remains to play Prince various parts of the world, includ. Charming to the beautiful nud ing a war episode. George Bar lonely Princess Jeanette, cousin of For Gilbert (Charles raud, who plays the role, sucereds Gilbert. in making the character live. He Ruggles) cannot pay his bill and is at his best when as Captain Dale doesn't want his irat uncle, the Conway, he comes as an uninvited Duke (C. Aubrey Smith) to learn guest to his daughter's birthday party. This is an effective and affecting scene, and Daphne Cour tenny, as the girl, helps to give it

real human appeal.

of it. So he passes Maurice off as the Baron Cairteline and has him included in the house party at the chateau. Complications ensue, but i most of them are gay enough and Anno Grey, is the wife, and all of them se punotuated with Realta Hume as Yvonne, one of songs.

"Love Cradock's many loves, are superb in The principal love song,

Alf Me Tonight," and bids fair to their respective roles, and Goddard provides some real Cock surpass the popularity of "One

** Isn't Hour With You," ney humour.

and "Mimi!! are Romantic" catchy melodies, and other com.dy songs, such an "A Woman Needs Something Like That" and "The Son-of-a-Gun Is Nothing But & Tailor" serve as amusing parts of the action itself.

The highlights of the film are the scones on the liner and the wreck. These are the best things of their kind that have been filmed, and no body would believe that they were photographed in the Surrey Docks and not in mid-Atlantic

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TRAVELLING HUSBANDS?!

AT THE CENTRAL KKO RADIO PRODUCTION

A trade notice states Pity the poor sailor who has only one sweetheart in every port, A new species of traveler has come to usurp the gallant gob's prowess as a champor. He is the travell Perhaps the Horsa Didn't.

ing salesman, who boasts a Jameel -Sad-a-woman at Wood Green

London, Oct 21-It is announg-in every town. They are the cham- Police Court: My husband went ou that Miss Madeleine Carroll has pion-lovers-of-this madera, hectic out to back a horse numed "Hurry signed a contract with the Gau- and hurried age. Just how good mout-British Picture Corporation, they are is amusingly revealed in Homead he did not coment a commencing salary of £1,000 Radio Pictures comedy "Traveli liome for, two days

week. Miss Carrol; in 28 years of ing Husbands" now showing at age, is a graduate of Birmingham the Central Theatre. They make University, and was a school tea-lovas fast as their train schedules" clier before the minds her debut in permit Occasionally, they pet films five years ago toda

"The Yokel's Reply

At the College of Estate Manage nent prize-giving Lord Gorell stat ed that he recently asked a Devon- shire labourer who were the host of surprising situation. Evelyn tar landtords in the neighbourhood Bront, Constance Cummings and a very The yokel thought hard, and then Frank Albertson head

ase the palm to the "Enthusinati-strong cast in this picture which is

directed by Paul Elcan. cal Commissioners.

mixed up in their dates-and-girls,- and the result is a desperato situation such as motivates the pic Travelling Husbands is fun-packed comedy of embroiling love, ludicrous inoments, designing women and wesk men in a series. Vantinued on Previous Voluma |

LOVE ME TONIGHT A ROUBEN MAMOULIAN PRODUCTION You'll soon be sing. Ing his now hital

WHEELER-WOOLSEY SUCCESS

STARS WITHOUT SEX

APPEAL

A trade notics states:-- The talkies have wrought human as well as mechanical miracles. Опст meteoric rise wns frequently-used term in connection with the silent films. It became hackneyed as a description for the rise of flapper beauties to the Rolls-Royce class of movie tresses. One flapper became world- famous in three years.

Mr. "Sex

opines appeal"

But the Sophisticated Public talkies have made" few per- sons whom to why could accuse of For instance, having sex-appeal. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.

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Up From Nowhere. Wheeler was a baritone who spent yonra as a "prop" boy and "bit" player in stock and vaudevilla. About the time the talkies came into Ziegfeld's "Rio Rita." vogue ho scoured a comedy part in

Another comedian in the big Ziegfeld east, Woolsey had been a

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THE DOCMED BATTALION"

UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION AT THE CENTRAL

A trade notice states:-

Many of the most remarkable feats of photography ever recorded au a servon are promised in "The Laomed Battalion, which is coni- ing to the Central Theatre, on Saturday next. It is a story of battles above the clouds, many of them at night and in the smoke of gun powder and bursting ex- plosives, and of a herois company which was andermined and their embattled fortress blown to king-

dom come. Sinco, much of this Universal film was taken on his

torie ground, the place where the Italians and the Austrians fought each, other to a standstill for two years, every effort wna made by the photographers to record con- ditions as they really existed in war time,

The Doomed Battalion "Arns

an organization of picked moun- tain mon, climbers, sportsmen, guides, who could sole the icy precipices of the mountains of this Italian No Man's Land, but could drop from its heights to the valleys below, with incredible speed an kiis. It takes remarkable skill to photograph, with the reflection of snow, the rarified atmosphere and the unusual conditions of cold, anyway, but the scenes of this "Doomed Battalion." sweeping at seventy miles an hour down the mountain-side were actually photo craphed by member of that trons who himself was on skiis. Lake Trenker, the lender of this veg markable organization personally trained this exiteraman for over a year before this, one of the most unusual reenes ever shown in pie tures, could be shot,

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worked his way into vaudeville as a comedian with a pair of horn-officials decided that they were. rimared glasses and a cigar."

Ruited for

At the time talkies swept the vhicles. land, Wheeler and Woolsey meanti little to movie audiences. They were signed by Radio Pictures when that organization filmed the talkie version of "Rio Rita"

Talents hitherto buried shown forth immediately. The comedy team almost "stole the picture," with the assistance of Dorothy Les, a little comedienne who was un. known thon, and now is to become

star,

Theis canle "The Cuckoos." Half Shot 4t Bunrise," and "Hook, Line and Sinker."

Planned to Split Thom. Box-office returns proved their nation-wide popularity at this time, but further proof that the obscure ntrivers of last year had become the outstanding film comedy team of the day was forthcoming. Radio

individual starring

The report that this was to be done was published, and the studio was literally swamped ity a floud of letters of protest! The public was unwilling to have tre Combina- tion dissolvců.

As a result, their greatest comedy tho nonsensical "Cracked Nuts now showing at the Queen's Theatre was filmed,

Not" B.A." Says Bob,

"It may be the cigar and horn- rigumed specs in my case, but it isn't my sex appeal, on or off tho screen," quips Robert Woolsey.

"It must be mine then!" Wheeler retorts.

But, anyway, Wheeler and Wool- sey and the talkies combined, and from the combination sprang, in less than a year, full-blotan stars. jockey, bell-hop, stock actor, and

NEW FILMS IN LONDON MR. TOM WALLS IN "LEAP YEAR"

Of the new films shown London programmes last month, two made in this country were of particular interest, Mr. Tom Walls, in "Leap Year," appears in a fresh part,thas of hero in a sentimental comedy, "The Flag Lieutenant," known to many as a stage play and as a silent film, comes in a now version, and is straight-forward and excit ing melodrama. Other nowcomers which are "Pack up Your Troubles," in have which the comedians Laurel and ferior to the first. Hardy have a full-length film in which to be funny; "The Night of June 13," which has a murder theme handled in an unusual way; and "Down to Earth," in which Mr. Will Rogers playe the principal part.

their strength by going through: the greatest possible variety of emo- tions and causing the most painful scenes, without showing any but the most formal and arbitrary signs of feeling. The result is nu increase of sentimentality to compensate for the defoot of emotion.

1.

. "Pack Up Your Troubles." The Becond

film full-length Laurel and Hardy made 18 slightly in- They have

allowed their low comedy to become entwined with the wrong kind of pathos. The soldier whose last hours are made miserable by a genuine concern for his motherlesa child ought nover to have been en- listed in an army that already had "Leap Year."

Laurel and Hardy in ita ranks.. Some imp of frustration has His troubles tend to spoil the fun prompted Mr. Tom Walls to come of watching a tank, which has been before us disguised as the hero of accidentally set in motion by our Bentimental comedy. His Sl: two comie raiders, capture a whole Peter Trallion is intended to be enemy platoon in its trail of barb the well-groomed Englishman ofed wire; and they are a quite in irreproachable manner employed by appropriate background for all the the Foreign Office to make love to old soldier's jokes that Hardy puts adventuresses who have secrets to upon the innocent Laurel. Once batray, quietly gay, mundane, the two buffoons have been made cynical: in short, the kind of por responsible for the little orphan Bohage Hawtrey would have repre- humour shakes itself free from sen seated to perfection. Not only timental embarrassment and wo are does Mr. Walls fail to realize this entertained by the unlucky accidents favourite English type, but in the that befall them while they are try- process his own hearty, hailing to be good parents. Laurel's fellow-wall-met brand of humour is habit of interpreting literally any- almost completely last.

thing that is said to him, un Nor had he been very happy in Hardy's assumption-in-every-din- the general direction of the film. cult situation of what he confident Perhaps the slowness with which I supposes to be a nonchalant nir. he, and an unknown beauty drift But their simple, almost primitive, through an elaborate dinner to a tricks are doue amazingly well.

The Bight of June 13." stolen holiday of true if illicit lore

This film is good, sound

can be justified. The cool effrontery:

of Sir Peter is amusing, and Miss work of its kind, telling! Anno Groy's mysterious lady piques with an air of freshness the our curiosity, a

story of the man who would -- be "The Flag Lleutenant, hanged rather than. expose a wo The heroism of the hero, man to the risk of scandal. It por the flag lieutenant, is of that trays with leisurely, humorous

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ANNE GREY BENITA HUIME & GEORGE BARRAUD DirectionARD WISE

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wildly noble kind which, if strokes a group of comfortable, LAUREL and HARDY sit cameot express itself in middle-class neighbours In one of

a flood of sublime poetry, should at "America's satellite towns and trier least, be accompanied by torrents of by carefully entangling the separate

OHARLIE CHASE

Thetoric. But the motto of the strands of their lives to show how Chickens Come Home Navy, as bis admiral continually in certain circumstance, the petty. observes, is action terba, and so secrets of individuals might raise a the lieutenant has to suffer the im darkening cloud of false witness putation of cowardice in order then-against a man; sccused of murder, his own set of herolam may be a Mr. Clive Brookhandles the, chiet tributed to his friend, either with part with skill and discretion, Miss

natural inarticulate and uncomfortable Lila Lee is charm murmurs, of with merry and in and both Mr. Cha appropriate quips. In fact, at Mr. Charley Grapowin seems to be the object of all the mirable une protagonists of this drama to try opportunities

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