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With a deadly dart In her silver hair, she lay there, white and still,

Thirteen different people had Hitmo different reasons for wowda bir out of ... the way.

Any one of them couldhave bemacOSE- victed of ik murder,

WHO KILLED JENNY WREN? Now the world. shall knowl

THE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD

with

RICARDO CORTEZ KAREN MORLEY Directed by Waher, Rubers Screen Play by Bartlett Commod David O. Selznick, Executive Producer. Merion Ĉ Cooper."

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THE LITTLE "DAMOZEL

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The Woman Accused,"

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"The Little Damozel.

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Secrets of the French Police"

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Love Waltz.""" Skyscraper Souls."

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Carnival Boats."

THE WOMAN

ACCUSED

""

THRILLING DRAMA OF

U.S. JUSTICE

The Woman Accused which start- ed at the Queen's Theatre yester day on a four days' run was writ ten by ben of America's foremost authors, Rupert Hughes, Vicki Baum, Zane Grey, Vina Delmar, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Uraula Parrott, Poland Banks and Sophie Kerr, and was adapted for the screen by Bayard Veiller. Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant and John Halliday have the leading roles in the film and share the honours.

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The story is exceedingly good but the end is somewhat unconvincing Miss Carroll, is a rich girl who, when about to marry the man he loves (played by Grant), is fronted with an old inamorato. He refuses to give her up and a quarrel engnes which culminates in her killing him in trying to stop him from phoning gangster friend to bump off" Grant. Her faithful maid tries to hush, the matter up while she goes awdy with Grant for a pleasure trip but fails. Halliday, to whom the dead man-had been as a brother takes the thing up and suspects her. He wears to bring her to justice. With this view in end he follows her and proceeds with his attempt to trap her into some ad, mission. He meets with success at last when he arranges a "mock trial" on board the steamer and under cover of it beats down her resistance and forces her into an admission of having committed the murder.

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CHARLES

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JOAN

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Based on Paul Armstrong's

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Directed by Raoul Walsh

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WILD GIRL

""

THE LITTLE DAMOZEL

“AT THE CENTRAL

This picture, now showing at the Central is taken from Monokton Hoffe's play and is improved by two song hits "Brighter than the Sun and What more can I ask" by Noel Coward and Bay Noble, It is without doubt, one of the best pictures of the year, and perhaps the finest British picture yet pro duces

The lead is played by Anna Nea gle a "Julis," the Cabaret dancer The Little Damuzel." She is ably supported by James Rennie as. "Recky Poole," the wastrel fre quenter at the Cabaret and friend of the Manager, Walter Angel, ployed, by Alfred Drayton

Anna Neagh has a beautiful voice which, with her dancing, she shows off to great effect. A

The atory is out of the ordinary. and very clever. Athole Stewart, as "Captain Parkinton" wants to marry Sybil Craven," portrayed by Benita Hume who is a rich heiress. Shy on the other hand, "is in love and loved by "Recky **Captain Parkinton" bribes "Hecky to marry "Julie' in order to get him out of the way. Recky" then pretends he has been sent a fele gram informing him.he has inherit-- ed a fortune which, in reality, he serds himself. He then proposes to Julia" who fa madly in love with him. After marriage, Recky' finds Julie's' true worth and falls in love with her. While still honeymooning, they meet "Captain and Mrs. Parkinton"-"Rocky" realises how they have been duped. and tells the whole story. "Julie" is furious and go back to the Ca- baret. "Rocky" repents and, after making some money in Stocks pays back the bribe and with what is left, buys an Insur ance Policy in which there a a clause covering suicide. This, he puts in Julie's name which, ho gives to the Manager of the ca barot he then packs up telling. the latter he is sailing for China. The climax is reached when be and Julie" meet at the Cabaret the night he is due to sailk

The acting throughout is superb. The whole performance excellent and should or no account be missi

ed.

A ROMANCE OF VIENNA

COMING TO QUEEN'S THEATRE

That sadly gay, gaily sad, ro mance of old Vienna that gained. the plaudits of Broadway theatre goers a season or so ago, comes be autifully to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday bandsomely mounted, wall played, capably directed, and lack, ing only a laat, delicious line of dialogue to be a gorgeously retint- ed replica of the amusing original. There are smiles and tears, and romantic thrilla beside, and each is offered with delicate precision by a cast of expert players: John Barrymore in a uniform is still irresistible Frank Morgan does distingui hed work as the husband. Henry Teavers: May Robson," all of them even to Bela Loblov and. Morris Nussbaum, delightful as the musicians, contribute to the enter tainment. But the truth is that the picture belongs to Diana Wynyard. In every look and ture she is superb.

Bellamy enacts the part of ajgan Wallace and Murdock Mac- typical gambler of that era, and Quarrie in prominent roles, the with Eugene Pallette as a stage supporting cast is a notable one. CALIFORNIA TALE AT THE menace, Minna Gombell, Sarah Doris Anderson and Edwin Justus

driver, Irving Pichel D5. the The screen version was written by MAJESTIC

Back on land he brings her be "fore the District Attorney but now she is not_fighting alone. Her sweetheart, Grant, who is also an attorney, now knows of the matter and fights for her. The chief evidence against her is that the wne heard by Maxie, the gunman over the phone shouting in the Maxie murder apartment and identifies her voice. When Maxie leaves the Attorney's office after testifying he is followed by Grant Then ensues the most thrilling part | of the whole film. Grant appeals to him not to testify, against the heroine if she is brought before a

Wild Girl," the new. Fox ro court but he refuses. Thereupon

mance featuring Charles Farrell; Grant gives him a beating with Joan Bennett and Ralph Bellamy in whip until "the daylight was out the principal roles, opens at the of him" and brings him back to King's Theatre to-day. It is " the Attorney's office where thoroughly cowed, he withdraws stirring tale of the California min- all he has said and asserted that ing camps based on the Bret Harte!

"Salumy 'Jane's Kiss.' story..

QUEEN'S

he could not be sure whose voice Directed by Raoul Walsh and film- he had heard over the phone (on Anna Neagle's performance in the night of the murder, and that ed almost entirely in the Bret the role of the cabaret star, a hard-she probably wasn't the woman."

Harte country, of the High Sierras, boiled gynis disguising a poignant- Miss Carroll'a alibi, backed up the production is said to have many ly sensitively feminine soul beneath by the testimony of her maid can anique features in addition to its the tinsel of the night club dress not be disproved and the case fails.imposing cast.

is of that rare kind that is both The District Attorney dismisses it

The story hangs on the tempes

a fascination to the eye and a pre- and the scene fades out with Miss tuous romance between a madcap vonation to the emotions,

| Carroll in Grant's arms.

mountain girl and a Virginia youth The scene in the Attorney's office who has trailed his sister's betrayer In two years Anna Neagle has when Grant forces Maxie to re-to the California Sierras soon climbed from the hardworking but tract his evidence is the only weak after the Civil War. The episodes unrecognised ranks of a stage part of the film. One cannot think of the Harte tale show the efforta chorus into the position of a top of any law that lets a man take of the girl's other suitors to at- line British film star. A few years matters into his own hands in tract her interest, the meeting with ago C. B. Cochran stated that if this way and we have yet to see the stranger, his shooting of his a comprehensive search were made responsible officer of the Law enemy, the hold-up of a stagecoach, among stage choruses they would, who would allow such a thing, or the forming, of a Vigilante posse, consider legal such an enforced the capture of the stranger, the

be capable at least of furnishing statements Maxie was compelled girl's fruitless endeavors to save six stars of international standing to give.

him from hanging his escape, and When he made that pranquncement Irwing Pichol gives a fine por the rapid series of crises that form

the climax.

there was, in his own chorus, a trayal na the District Attorney, Not only do Farrell and Miss

girl who was to prove the truth John Halliday is equally good as

different

of his principle--and the girl was the revengeful friend and Jack La Bennett portray very Anna Neagle. At that very tirae Rue plays the difficult gunman part characterizations from the vales she was playing in the chorus of well but chief honours for the film they have heretofore presented on her first revor,

must be handed to Nancy Carroll the screen, but the realism and and Cary Grant.

color of the period, together with The

Little Damozel' is now This fine production in support the setting among the giant trees playing at the Central Theatre the ed by two horier attractions and of Sequoia National Park, are all picture that contains all bright visitors to the Queen's Theatre are said to make the picture something and merry entertainment.

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