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Young America."

ANDERSON'S

Queen's.

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STRICTLY

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She mat the "Front Lover" in the heart of

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"A Honeymoon Adventure."

Central.

"Strictly Dishonourable."

Oriental,

Sunny Side ITp."

World

Tarzan the Ape Man."

KOWLOON

Emma."

Star.

Majestic.

The Big Garable."

King's,

COMING

Trouble in Paradise."

"Sky Dovila."

Horse Feathers."

Queen's.

"Pack Up Your Troubles."

Kismet."

The Woman from Monta

Carla.

Central,

Star,

she didn't want to go home i

with

PAUL PUKAS SIDNEY FOX LEWIS STORE in Brock Pemberton's amazingly successful stage hit by Preston f Sturges,

Directed by

JOHN STAHL.

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

STARTING TO-MORROW |- | IT'S A MERRY HOLIDAY!

ALL FOR YOU IN THE COMEDY SMASH OF THE SEASON!....

A $5.50 HIT ON BROADWAY.... Grand Oalaxy of Headliner Comedians ... Host of Gorgeous Beauties...

George Gershwin's Song Sensations

GIRL

DENT

CRAZY

LOUT

WHEELER

WOOLSEY

EDDIE QUILLAN DOROTHY LEE MITZI GREEN ARLINE JUDGE

Mrs And the Great Gershwin's I Got Rhythm and Other Song Hits!

"Girl Crazy."

"Tom Brown of Culver."

**Thark."

"Stare's Attorney."

Sunshine Susie.

** Culian Love Song."

CANTON CINEMAS

Taj Tak,

The Spirit of Notre Dame."

Wing Hon.

Palmy Days."

Chung Wah.

Business and Pleasure,"

Pearl Theatre,

Fireman, Sate My Child."

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Uncompromising doẩma that will shock your mind jilto thinking and touch your heart into understanding!

FRANK BORZAGE'S

YOUNG AMERICA

Spencer

Doris

Ma Tommy

TRACY-KENYON-CONLON

Fox Picture

MOVIE NEWS

Pictures In Hong Kong-

TROUBLE IN PARADISE"

ENGLISH ACTOR IN THE LEAD

Herbert Marshall, the brilliant young actor who won general ate tention, playing opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus," and

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE":

STRANGE CAREER OF LEADING MAN

Pau! Lukas, who was borrowed from Paramount to play the role

ww rewarded with the leading of Count Gus, in "Strictly Dis- malo role in Ernst Lubitsch's honorable" which is now showing "Trouble ia Paradise which comes to the King's Theatre on, Wednesday, is en route back to his native England to resume his stage career in London,

"GIRL CRAZY”

BOOKING "AT THE

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TO-MORROW

He stole her heart -while she pinched This wallet!

S LUBITSCH'S TROUBLE IN PARADISE

BASE PETRIAM HOPKINS KAY FRANCIS HERBERT MARSHALL Charla Rugglaz • Edward Events Horton Pamant Met

“YOUNG AMERICA”

STAN LAUREL

JUST A SHY ENGLISHMAN

Ha never knew. a real home. Most of his life has been spent in dress- ing rooms and railroad trains. He talks with a deep baritone voite, with clipped English accent. He walks with springy, athletic stride He learned to know the Lack-stage lore of the music halls of London and the continent, travelling with his professional parents, He seldom went to school, gleaning a modioten of education at King James Gramnumar School, winding up at Glhagow," Scotland.

Imitates Queen Victòria,

He is shy and refiring, but is an excellent conversationalist when the barrior of rotioenos in broken... Ho. is a convulsing mimio, his favourite imitation being that of Queen Vic taria. He lives quietly, scorning. Costentation, and has come to the realization of the value of a per- manent home after years of wan dering. He first came to America In 1910, arriving on an English cattle boat with Charlie Chaplin and 11 score of other English clowns.

He toured the country from coast to coast for several years with Fred Ho Korno's English Comedians. drifted back to Europe in musical comedy, took, a fling in vaudeville, ringing, dancing, clowning. In 1017 ho took his, first whirl in motion pictures. He didn't like them and returned to the stage, his home. He spent five years knocking around in the theatrical world, Finally, the lure of the picture brought him back before the cam-" eras. He brought his make-up. hox to the Hal Roach studios in

1022.

:

He met Oliver Hardy on the samo lot." They made a comedy together: Public and exhibitors craved more. A comedy teami wne formed in 1998. Taurel has appear- ed in more than forty comedies with his partner, as well as in t fentures Pardon Ds," and "Park Up Your Troubles." He writes, plans and assists in the direction of his comedies. Off the screen he is a quiet English gentleman whe spends hours talking of his native land, but he loves America none

dumb, witless, innocent vagabond.

MERRY FILM BOOKED FOR WITH HOLLYWOOD'S STAR the less. On the screen he is a

CENTRAL

'WHEELER AND WOLSEY

AGAIN

DRIVER $

With the large automobile con-

in

corns having their own test driv If variety is the spire of life, ers" who try out new models ou Rko-Radio Pictures allar rollick- the road, and airplane manufac ing comedy Girl Crazy" which Lurers having that pilots” will open at The Central Theatre si lar capacities, Spencer Tracy or Wednesday January 20. It is becoming noted as a tester offers mirth and melody, romance for the screen inchistry:

In his last five pictures Tracy and action, beauty and atmosphere !

M.C.C...

VICTORIAN

COUNTRY

| MATCH ABANDONED OWING

TO RAIN'

(THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENOT.]

BALLABAT, Jan. 23..

In the cast are comedy stars, has driven a different vehicle each "Quick Millions" it cld prodigy, Broadway beauties time. In

was a ten-ton track; in " Goldie " Hollywood cowboys, Mexicau sen- oritae, two gun men, and polished he took the wheel of a tramp in She Wanted à Mil- villains. The action shifts from steamer; city tenement, to western dude ranch lionaire" he handled the throttle and Mexican resort and ranges from of a locomotive for several days in riproaring chases to rhythmia dan- the railroad sequence; in Sky THE MC.C.-Victorian Country Devils" he had the stick "of a cos and tender love scenes:

Heading the imposing array of combat plane, although in this talent are the inimitable, Bert Whee case an experienced pilot flew with ler and Robert Woolsey, who start him at a duplicate set of controls, the film as city slickers and wind and in Disorderly Conduct" he mastered the art of riding a heavy police motorcycle, taking several bad spille before he learned the finer points of handling the 400- pound machine..

In his current film, "Young America, Tracy returns to less unusual means of transport and

match was abandoned owing to rain, when the Victorian Country Mitchell was in form with the had lost seven wickets for 34 runs,

ball, taking 4 wickets for at runs, At one time his average was 4 wickets for 6 ruas. Tate who cap- The M.C.C. scored 225 runs ka tured 3 wickets was also in form. the first innings.

The Earl and Countess of Har

at The Central Theatre, picket out up a rough and ready westerners & most unusual place in which to Eddie Quillan carries the romantic be born. He first saw the light lead of a girl crazy youth who transforms "à respectable cattle of day aboard a train which was entering Budapest, capital of ranch into a whooper dude resort. Marshall, featured with Miriam

Hungary. Grown to Manhood, Mitzi Green, Hollywood's child Hopkins, Kay Francis, Charlie Lukas served in the Hungarian Air mimic wonder, plays a pestiforous Ruggles and Edward Everett Hor- Corps in the World War, and then little sister and romance, and be ton in "Trouble in Paradise," is

fast roadster at breakneck speed in Florence Dudley-Ryder are expect under contract to play in London spent two years studing at the Aeauty brigade is headed by Dorothy in the exciting climax drives arowby with their daughter Lady

tor's Academy of Budapest, later Lee. Arline Judge, Kitty Kelly until May, 1933. The contract was making his stage debut at the and Lite Chevret. Stanley Fields pursuit of a pair of burglars, ed in Bangkok on the 28th inst. nigned before he joined the cast Comedy Theatre in that city in and Chris Pin Martin plays the which, he says, gave him the thrill on A few days visit to the British he has come to expect with each Minister and Lady Mary Dormer. of Blonde Venus," and though the title role of Ferene Molnar's shoot and run villains.

The story deals with a girl crazy new role. producers, anxious to take advan-

youth, who is sent to the quiet of Doris Kenyon has the feminine "Young tage of his new popularity, tried Play, "Lilion."

His first motion picture in Holly-western ranch to cure him of his lead opposite Tracy in to persuade him to remain in Hollywood, he was unable

to wood was "Loves of an Actress," weakness for beautiful women. He America" currently showing at the However, when the contract ex- with Pola Negri in 1027 and he imports a snappy jazz band, a bevy King's Theatre, and the new Scresa Frank pires, he will return to American has since appeared in leading roles of Broadway beauties dresses the celebrity Tommy Conlon, has the

Mr. cowpunchers in dinner jackets, and principal juvenile role films.

In "Strictly Dishonorable" Lukas is supported by Sidney Fox, turns the ranch into a playboy's Borzage directed the picture for

paradise.

Fox Films, and such favourites as Lewis Stone, and George. Meeker.

Melodies which are liberally Bery? Mercer, Ralph Bellamy and (Uontinued on previous columna) Sarah Padden are in the cast,

In England, where he won his frst stage fame, Marshall will

"Reunion Appear in either Vienna"

Another Language,' Or two Broadway stage successes of inst season.

He is cast as a save super-crook inTrouble in Paradise, adapt-

ed from a play by Lazlo Aladar.

HAROLD HUTH AT THE QUEEN'S

His activities are doubled after he IN HONEYMOON ADVENTURE enters into a professional and

romantic union with Miss Hopkins,

his feminine counterpart: But the

Harold Huth, although at

ane

attempt of the pair to swindle time a motor car salesman, comes Miss Francis, a widow with a for from good theatrical stock-his tune as large as the war debt, aunt being Miss Eva Moore, his leads to humourous complications uncle H.V. Esmond and his cousin when his interest in the prospec Jill Esmond (under contract to tive victim develops into something Radio Pictures in Hollywood), resembling love.

SKY DEVILS'

COMING TO THE KING'S

delightfully pompons Commanding Officer joins the cast, and astonish ingying sequences very ably re- place most of the Buddy" and Mameel scenes, thereby making "Sky Devilsomething much .45 Sky Devils" which comes to

better than

Hath played various small parts on stage and in films but Raymond Massey gave him his first real chante in Dishonoured Lady" opposite Fay Compton,

| Played in the stage version of The Outsider: Wallach "Smoky Cell" and made a great success O. another war pie the King's on Sunday has some of his role in the film varion of “The fure: The preliminary scenes on the most amazing flying stunts ever Qutsider" and again & in." - Down an American beach have little to filmed, Pictures of flying are often | River.", Hia suave acting in "A do with the story but are quite mot very interesting, unless per Honeymoon Adventure's now at the attractive

Baps one has sufficient technical Queen's Theatro marks him dowi

It may be that the hero Spencer knowledge to realise the skill need as a comer.

Tracy strikes out a rather differed to perform the various feate

utk Sky Devils has thrill that

be that he in d

at all ovents hë

liking and he is

ing to watch.

Sky Devils humour-love? fierful

flying.

Shumps

ing soones of two lights of army

planes in nation.

The story is really reharsh of

any one of the

red having

aracters, the:

and the French

sprinkled throu furious action an 8) compositi

odern mu

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