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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

BORDERTOWN

Paul Muni, one of the greatest actors of the stage or screca, will be seen for the last time to-day at the Alhambra Theatre, in the Warner Bros. production, “Border- town," which is said to be the most powerful drama in which he has ever appeared.

The picture, suggested by" Car roll Graham's novel, is a stark, realistic picturization of the colour- ful life in a town on the American border, with its night clubs and gambling resorts frequented by American millionaires and bored society women seeking diversion.

In this atmosphere. Paul Munt, in the role of a foreign youth, rises to riches and power as the pro- prietor of a fashionable night club, and gaming" ball, Handsome. magnetic, he is loved by two wo- men, one a flery adventuress who slays her husband to try to win him and when scorned, charges him with the murder. The part is played by Bette Davis, who is sald

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WITCHING HOUR · ·

One of the greatest dramalfe plays in the history of the Ameri- can theatre will be screened to- morrow at the Queen's Theatre. It is the Paramount production "Witching Hour" with Sir Quy Standing, Tom Brown, Judith Allen, John Halliday and Gertrude Michael in the cast.

The film production retains the eerie, yet highly romantic qualities of the play, and invests them with a tremendous dramatic value.

one The picture has

of the strangest plots ever conceived. It tells he story of an old love, in memory of which it has existed for fears, coming to life to save and strengthen a newly born romance. Included in the exciting moments of the picture are a murder com- mitted under a strange spell, of hypnotism and a thrilling court- room vindication, using a defense as strange as the crime itself

Tom Brown and Judith Allen

to surpass even her splendid per-play the roles of the young lovers

formance in "O. Human Bondage."

The other woman in the triangu lar romance is an America society woman, who plays with the hand. some young proprietor of the night club, a dirtation which the mad youth takes seriously, and which ends in tragedy

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RECKLESS

IMITATION OF LIFE

should

Jerome Kern, Dean of American "Big, clean as a hound's tooth, composers takes his first bow as a strong in story, comedy, cast and written production value, this production composer of song. hits

screen in exclusively for the the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picturë. "Reckless' starring Jean Harlow and William Powell and terminat ing its local engagement to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

Kern, with Oscar Hammerstein I wrote the theme song. "Reck- less" which with brilliant dance ensembles and a host of singing and dancing stars is one of the outstanding features of the pro- duction.

For Kern's Initial number, Pro- ducer David Q. Seldnick has staged one of the largest entertainment spectacles ever recorded for the

screen.

Against a continually changing background of gorgeous settings that carry Miss. Harlow, as a sing- Ing and dancing star, from the heights of

and

success

ACTUSE

oceans to a lowly Peruvian dive, several of the leading vocalists and cancers of New York and Europe were called to Hollywood for pri- minent roles in the musical num ber.

Carl Randall, sensational dancing star of Monte Carlo and other gay European centres, makes his debut on the screen se the dancing part-

ner of Miss Harlow:

ADVENTURE GIRL

rate high." That is the opinion of Variety, the screen's fatrest yet severest critic, in its preview of Universal's "Imitation of Life."

This Farnle Hurst best-seller, produced by that, master of demes- tic drama, John M. Stahl. with Claudette Colbert and Warren William a5 his stars, bas fully Justified this author's estimate of "Imitation of Life" will play at the King's Theatre on Thursday.

Claudette Colbert as "Bea" Full- man steps into this emotional role direct "from her triumph as "Cle- opatra," and makes of it the out standing characterization of her career.

Warren William plays opposite Miss Colbert, as he did in "Cle- opatra," and it is a happy com- bination. Rochelle Hudson Ned Sparks, Baby June, a 3-year-old' budding star; Louise Beavers, Alan Hale, Henry Armetta, and a score of other very well-known players complete the cast.

was last

"Imitation of Life" year's best selling novel: it is this year's "biggest screen attraction. Claudette Colbert and Warren Wi- liam. John. John M. S'ani and

Fannie Hurstu are an unbeatable star-director-author · ́combination. Thrill to their artistry at the King. when “Imfation of Life" opens here.

While essentially a story of thrills on the high seas and along the shores of Central America, Joan Lowell "Adventure Girl" showing known as the egg-robber of the at the Oriental Theatre on Wednes, jurigle, scales a High tree in his day and Thursday contains several search for the nest of a weaver Jungle episodes which rival any? bird. A lurking coati, immediate- thing before recorded by a motion | ly gets into action, and, after an picture camera Ancient enemies exciting fight, klils the iguana.

of the wilderness fight to a finish: Again, while exploring Roaring In this film.⠀ Joan is attacked by a Falls A misstep tumbled her in venemous fer-de-lance when out of the turbulent waters and she was a thicket darts a mongoose. It dashed against the rocks that springs at its traditional enemy form the river bed. This accident and the two thresh about in a necessitated her being rushed to a finish fight.

hospitalin Jamaica, where the

In another episode an iguana, I was confined for several weeks..

in the memory of this reviewer is being enacted at the King's Thea- tre to-day. Ronald Colman and Loretta Young are the principals and "Clive of India," the Arst millori dollar production of Darry! F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck's 20th Century Pictures company, which last season "gave us The House of Rothschild," is the vehicle.

.

But this true story of Robert Clive, a poor young clerk in the East India Company, who .com- quered an Empire at 26 and -be- came England's greatest hero, only to see his star fall when the wo- man he loved had drifted from his side, is more than a great love. Sory, it is a reflection of a life & truly herole proportions of stag- gering achievement, attained be- cause a man believed in his own destiny.

One secret of its greatness" is certainly that "Clive of India" dares tell the whole truth about

a great man, glossing over no- thing not even the man's less ad- mirable deeds.

The

seventy-odd remaining speaking roles are expertly filed by such popular and expert play- ers as Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Remmero, Lumsden Hare, Doris Lloyd and others.

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Heading 234 impressive which includes Gall Patrick, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, and Jan Duggan, Randolph Scott returns for another of his hard-riding, whirlwind fighting and thrilling roles in the Paramount picturiza- con of the Zane Grey's "Wagon Wheels" to-morrow at the Alham- bra Theatre.

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evil machinations the wagon 'train 1s almost captured by Indians, and as Scott's rival in love, Miss Pa-

ick, who has recently played dramatic characterizations

in

"Death Takes a Holiday" and

Murder at the Vanities" is stun- ning, attractive and extremely con- vincing as the heroine.

Much of the comedy relief of this excellent film is furnished by the middle aged romance between Jan Duggan who played the spinster in W. C. Feld's "The Old Fashioned Way" and Olin Howland who courts ner for an opportunity to steal the chickens she is transporting" across the country!

The Doctors

In connection with a discussion on unpaid doctors' bills a Times

BADMINTON

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KING'S:-

"Clive of India"

QUEENTS:---

"Reckless"

ORIENTAL:-

"*Forsaking All Others"

Kowloon

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TTR Drive"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Bordertown."

KING'S:

Coming

A “Imitation, of Life” QUEEN'S:~~

"Witching Hour

"Mississippi"

DRIENTAL:-

"Adventure Girl” "Lottery Bride" "David Copperfield" " Nellie".

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Greta Garbo's First Picture

(Special Air Mail Service),

London, June 7. "Alfred Hitchcock has hit the Jox-office bull s-eye again. His new version 0 John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps," which comes to the New Gallery "Cinema this week, will be as popular as his,

of the outstanding British films of last year.

CLIVE OF INDIA Man Who Knew Too Much," one

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Great liberties have been taken with Mr. Buchan's fine story, but

in the case they have been justi- ted and there is plenty of action. The echoes of his 18th-century liobert Denat makes a most like drama are still to be detected in able,

starred

of

amusing adventurer controversies round Eastern affairs Richard Flannay, and Madelaine In Great Britain, and-it-is-fitting-|-Carroll--plays the heroine with that a popular medium of expres- spirit sion should be used to put the story

If you are interested in the of Clive on record. As has been translation of a star-and most well said, the treatment of Clive people are-pay a visit to the Em- and of Warren Hastings indicated pire to see "The Joyless Street" that Britain, no less than France, it was made, by G. W. Pabat 11: had a curious way of showing years ago, and was the first pi grtitude to men who served her ture in which Greta Garbo was faithfully and brilliantly overseas. Clive's death has been ascribed by Here she is at the beginning of most historians to his own act. he wonderful career-a shy, awk But there is every reason to doubt ward-looking girl of about £1. the accuracy of this assertion, dropping her eyes, shuddering at which seems to be in no small

the villain's advances, smiling coyly at the her, and going measure based on the hostility to solemnly through all the rest of The Colony's many Badminton players, who are with very few ex- and in

which he was still exposed when ill the histrionic ritual of 1824.

retirement in Berkeley ceptions, comparative newcomers square. Early in November, 1774, to the game, should make a point Clive, in writing to a friend, in- or seeing the present programmedicated that his sufferings were be..... at the Alhambra Theatre which in coming unbearable: On November | Freddie had had three pieces of cludes a short, featuring "Jess" 22, he was proposing to leave for cake and wanted more. Willard the present United States Bath, but he was kept back in National champion. Sports, ple- town. by "a visit from one of his tures as a rule, especially those in Indian friends.

On that very Connectica with fast ball and in-moming, after a sleepless night. docr games. are usually difficult when the valet bad told him that to follow but this one is particu- the coach for Bath was at the larly well produced,"

door, he went into his room to To watch Willard in action. is dress. He was heard to fall; the in itself an education. He is seen valet rushed in and found him iu play against a man of almost | dead. " equai calibre "and some of their rallies are nothing short of mar vellous. Both show the wonderful days later, declared that Clive had engendered by the game and how-stoutly dupled the idea of suicide. ever devastating a stroke appear-Horace Walpole, on November 23,

A lawyer Idend, writing three

The Reason

Do you know,” asked his mother, what happened to the little boy who ate too much cake? He went off bang!"

"That wasn't because he ate too much cake," said Freddie. "That was because there wasn't enough

boy."*

Misunderstood

Mrs. Jones was spending a day bed with a severe cough, and

In this handsomely directed and mounted Alm, which detalls some of the actual and historic adven- correspondent recalla a verse which co-ordination of mind and body, died of an over-dose of opium, and backyard, and hammering nails

tures that beset the sturdy pioneers who took the first wagon

train Rcross the country in 1844, to Oregon, Scott plays the role of an indian fighting frontier scout. He wins the love or a lovely widow and her child, when he saves the entire caravan from death at the

sands of the savages...

Monte Blue is excellent as the renegade half-bred, through whose

TO-DAY

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ONLY

he thinks appeared in the "British Medical Journal. It ran some

what as follows:-

As patients of a doctor we expect

his instant skill

We, too, demand his patience

whenever we are

Bo we should not tax his patience "when he sends us in his bill But pay, like grateful patients,

and remain his patients still

ed to be, there was always a counter for it."

"It is quite impossible to describe the type of game shown and as one. who has dabbled at it in a very small way, I would again" advise' all enthusiasts to see the film and Badminton as it really should be played NAE

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WILLIAM

HARLOW POWELL Reckless

FRANCHOT TONT MAY HORMON

wrote: weit

Last night Lord Clive went off suddenly. He had been sent or to town by one of this Indian friends and he died. You may imagine, Madam, all that is said already. In short people will be forced to die before as many. witnesses as an old queen-19- brought to bed, or the coroner will be sent for And again five days later:

Lora Cilve has died every death" in the parish register; at present It is fashionable to believe he cut bis throat,

It seems unfortunate that so little consideration was paid to the essential greatness of Clive, that this matter has been allowed to remain an unsolved mystery. Vin- cent Smith, who is very severe on Clive, curtly remarks that lie cut his threat, and it is amazing that there should be this conflict of opinion regarding the death of so prominent a man.

In his early days, when a clerk in the East India Company, Clive had admittedly attempted to com- mit suicide, but the pistol refused to go on It was that Incident which was said to have implanted this mind the high sense of his destiny and his admirers will feel that the ascertained facts of that last morning in Berkeley Square are no

tent with the Idea

suicide

her husband was working in the

to some boards. Presently his neighbour came over.

"How's the wife?" he asked. "Not very well, sald Jones.

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