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“365 NIGHTS IN HOLLYWOOD"

Showing At The King's

A CAREFREE COMEDY

"College Humour”

At The Star

Paramount comes across

Opening to-day at the King's Theatre, the Fox Film production week with the "365 Nights in Hollywood," proved to be the fastest and funniest screen fantasia that has been re- vealed to local audiences in sea-.

sons.

this

bit of tomfoolery that ever provok- most intoxicating:

ed 1 goggle-eyed audience to spasms of laughter in an hilarious production of what passes for Here is a picture you simply College. iffe among the gay and mustn't miss the laughing low-carefree. It is aptly titled "College down on a couple of Hollywood

Humour" und 15 at the Star upstarts! 385 Nights in Holly HOW wood" comes from the

private

A glamorous cast includes Bing

notebook of Jimmy Star, best-Crosby, Richard Arlen, Mary Car known of all Hollywood columnists isle. Jack Oakte. George Burns

and commentators.

and Gracle Allen, Coach Howard Jones of the University of Sou- thern California. Lona Andre, Mary Kornman and a perfectly

maidens named the "Ox-Road Co- Eds". The picture was directed by Wesley Ruggles.

It is the hilarious story of a boy, a girl and two ambitious ice- men who turn the cinema city in to a centre of screams and sus-dazzling collection of much-beloved pense. James Duna and Alice Faye are the boy and the girl: an ace director who has slipped from the pinnacle and must climb up again; a blonde young hopeful from Peoria, Illinois, who storms the citadels of movie fame and Wins.

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Frank Mitchell and Jack Durant, funniest team of comics on the

screen these days, are seen as the two adagio ice-men who pick Alice for stardom and proceed to help her get there.

Not even a fake movie school, captained by Grant Mitchell, can stop Alice, however. In the course of her swift climb to fame, she has a chance to sing two song numbers both of them due for nav tional Popularity, unless we' miss our guess

Though no college was ever like the Mid-West University pictured

"College Humour," you wish there were, that you might rush right out and enroll for any and all degrees presented.

For Mid-West is the ideal life- time resort for the romantic- minded, a co-educational institu- ten that specializes in dazzling blondes, flaming red-heads, allur- ing brunettes, the best collection of singers you've ever heard taught by that master of crooning "Bing Crosby". and a football team that always wins.

It

There isn't a serious, silent or serene moment in the picture. It's all giggles and guffaws, songs Richard Whiting and Sidney and cheers, and unconfined, and Clare, wrote the two songs: "Yes somewhat unrefined, hilarity. to You" and "My Future Star."

tmoves with the Both are staged lavishly as mus-engine on the way to the flames, pace of a fire ical numbers, with dance ensem- and the bles by Sammy Lee. In the sec- we're thinking of going again to laughs are so frequent ond, "My Future Star." Jimmy get the lines we missed the first Dunn is teamed with Alice and time. what a singing combination those two offer!

Here's our nut-shell" opinion of the new picture: It will give you 365 laughs, 365 thrills and then 365 more laughs! You won't want to miss that much amusement!.

George Marshell directed "385 Nights in Hollywood" with Sol M Wurtzel producing.

STUDENT TOUR

Coming To The Queen's

it

Music, youth and laughter!

A DANGEROUS AFFAIR

Coming To The

Alhambra

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You haven't laughed like that in years!... There's fun, excite- ment, action,tuspänse

And more fun!

365 NIGHTS HOLLYWOOD

• A FOX Picture with

JAMES DUNN-ALICE FAYE MITCHELL and DURANT

ALSO

BUSTER KEATON.

"THE GOLD GHOST"

DAMES

Now Showing At The Alhambra

She is, five feet, four and one- hair inches tall weighs 118; has wwonde hair and blue eyes.

That description represents the physical appearance of the aver- ge girl among the 300 in the en- sembles of Busby Berkeley in the Warner Bros. special musical "Dames," which is the current at- traction at the Alhambra Theatre. The weight and height measure- are actual, the colour of nair and eyes being determined uy percentage. There were, in a mathematical survey conducted, 54 percent blondes, 32 percent

14 percent red

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orundties and haired.

A total of 56 percent had blue eyes, 30 percent were brown and hazel coloured, and 14 percent were of greenish hué.

For the first time since they completed "Dirigible," Jack Holt and Ralph Graves will appear as She has finished high school and cp-stare in another Columbia had two years of college, the aver- production, "A Dangerous Affair," age Berkeley beauty. She is not which is coming to the Alhambra only self-supporting but contri- Theatre on Sunday.

These wise-crack!ng turers o "Submarine."

adven- 'Flight"

endure it.

her

means

She yearns for stardom, but has no illusiona about Cinderella

butes.to the support of her family. a good proportion being the sole Those three ingredients, skil- and "Hell's Island." emerge

support of dependant relatives. fully mixed, are the basis of "Stu-light comedians in their newest the south, this mythical average 18 -She is from the middle west or dent Tour," Metro-Goldwyn-May-screen venture. Jack Holt, as a er's merry "laughaganza” which police lieutenant, unravels

miss, for "home town" ists dis- comes on Sunday to the Queen's murder

& close the greater number, come Theatre..

mystery: while Ralph from those localities. For comedy, Jimmy Durante ing. newspaper reporter who un- Graves appears as a wise-crack-

Miss "Average" is sincere in her and Charles Butterworth, each a wittingly starts it all,

work. She hopes to win success in comic star in his own right, hold gerous Affair is said to be a real

"A Dan her career, but to her there is no the centre.. of the stage. They novelty in mystery stories be-

glamour in her task. It's form a contrast that, in itself. is cause, despite the seriousness of hard work and she is willing to

vocation. Getting ahead screamingly funny.

the mystery involved. it For

often youth, Metro-Goldwyn-borders on downright comedy. Mayer scoured the colleges and Murders, spooks, bellylaughs and universities of the West seeking general hilarity are all interming- the most beautiful co-eds. Twen-led. And the murders are not ty of the loveliest girls of America the result of gangster machina- take part in the picture. Many of thons. The whys and wherefores them never before have been be- of gangcom are outside the pale fore a camera.

of this film. There are seven new songs, not- Supporting Holt and Graves in ably the "Carlo," new dance "A Dangerous Affair" are Sally rhythm. Other hit songs are Blane, Susan Fleming, Blazche "From Now On? "A New Moon is Friderici. Tyler Brooke, Sidney Over My Shoulder", "The College Bracy, Ester Muir, William, V, Hymn," *Snake Dance" and Mong and others. It was written "Fight On."

by Howard Green, who has ad- Determined to make "Student apted many notable screen Tour" a true saga of modern "hot- cesses; while Edward Sedgwick is cha" college youth, Metro- responsible for the direction. Goldwyn-Mayer also

recruited

college men from half a dozen uni- versities, notably the University of California at Los Angeles. They are brawny athletes, who make their bow to the world in this picture.

Student Tour" deals with the Hilarious adventures of a group of college boys and girls on a trup

FOREIGN OFFICERS

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(Special Air Mail Service)

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London, Dec. 15. Lieutenant L-Shou Chen, of the around the world. They visit Chinese: Air Service, will continue China, Monte Carlo, India and his attachment to No. 15 (Army many other points of interest, and Co-operation) Squadron until

at each stop they run into scream-January 27, 1935. His colleague, ingly funny complications.

Lieutenant 8. K. Lee, hitherto Romantic leads in the picture attached to No. 9 (Bomber) Squa are played by Phil Regan and dron, is proceeding to the RAF Maxine Doyle, two singing new Station at Abingdon until January comers to the screen, expected to 27; 1935. become one of the film's outstand-

Captain Ljungdahl, on complét ing sweetheart teams Miss Doyle, ing his attachment to the School a California girl, was discovered" of Army Co-operation, has been on the stage of a Washington, D. attached to No, 10

(Bomber)

C. theatre where she was mistress Squadron at Boscombe Down, and of ceremonies. Regan was a young to Abingdon station He will be detective on the New York police attached to No23 (Fighter) force when his fine tenor voice at Squadron at Biggin Hill

December 10 to 15.

tracted attention.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE T. No. 25919 25332

TOMORROW

You are

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in her first Americas Picture

CRADLE SONG

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

THE MERRY WIDOW

Attraction At The Queen's

Gay Viennese music, continent- al joyousness, Parisian revels and charming old world romance blend with massive

spectacle and glamorous locales in. "The Merry- Widow." Ernst Lubitch's produc- tion of the Franz Lehar master- plece which is showing at the Queen's Theatre.

Reuniting the triumvirate of Lubitch, Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer picture is staged on a spectacular scale, its whim- sical comedy, gdy humour and charming romance being back- grounded by gorgeous settings and hundreds of beautifully costumed players. The world-beloved music is presented on a scale never possible on the stage. The picture

stories. She knows that cinema "Ands" are few and far between This average girl gets lots of sleep. She knows the value of health and doesn't dissipate. She playa bridge, knits or indulges in sound reading when on the set between scenes. She is happy, but" not. giddy. She is, when all is said, not only the average Busby, Berkeley beauty, but the average American girl;

The stars in the hilarious musi- Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keel- cal comedy, "Dames," include Joan

er, Zadu Pitts, Guy Kibbe and Hugh Herbert Ray Enright di- rected.

Is in every way what might be termed a super-production.

Chevaller," who has always been at home in a uniform, has never been better than as the dashing, rollicking, fun-loving, romantical- ly inspired Danilo, whose madcap frolles almost bring a nation to ruin but who fixes everything up again with

a grin and a sly wink Miss MacDonald, stunningly photographed and wearing an -array of Adrian-designed costumes which will make every girl in the audience catch her breath, was a brilliant selection for the enchart- ing Sonia who proves that a widow can have her moments.

Together the romantic pair sing such famous Lebar hits as "Girls, Girls, Girls Tonight Will Teach Me to Forget," Villia," and "Wid- ows are Gay."

The original Lehar romance was adhered to in the script, but was invested with those unmistakable Lubitch touches of wit, satire, and. genial merriment. Evident are the same flashes of cinematic genius which marked the director's earlier, successes, "Trouble in Present too are the smart lines and Paradise" and "Design for Living."

sophisticated banter which leave a laugh in the wake of every speech.

.

Chevalier and Miss MacDonald receive splendid support from a cast which includes. Una Merkel, Edward Everett Horton, Minna Gombell, Ruth Channing, Donald Kcek, Herman Bing and others. Herbert Stothart did an excellent Job in his handling of the music details and praise must be given to Ernest Vajda and Samsan Raphaelson for their adaptation

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Dorothea Wieck, who orilliant a performance in "Maed- chen in Uniform," comes on Fri-

day to the screen of the King's Theatre in her first Americari star- ring appearance. She has the principal role of "Cradle Song," a moving story of frustrated mother love behind convent walls,

Miss Wieck is the newest Con tinental star to come to Holly- wood to take her place beside such performers as Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo,

...She was signed by Paramount to All the role of Joanna in "Cradle, Bong,” a part similar in spirit to the one she played in her Contin- ental film. As in Maedchen in Uniform,*** she, fayishes her love and affection upon a young girl

In the story, Joanna enters - B convent at the age of eighteen. Her natural desire for motherhood. is gratifed when a baby is left at the coprent door, and she fs per mitted to raise it. The child, Teress, grows to maidenhood": In the convent, under the care of thirty mothers,” At eighteen -Teresa falls in love and determines to leave the convent. The struggle on her part between her love for Joanna and her sweetheart, plus the struggle of Joanna and the ais- ters, who do not know whether to attempt to hold Teresa, or let her go, furnish the climax for this unusual story.

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