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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

CATHERINE THE GREAT

public.

Films which take their story and their background from his- tory have not always been popular with the plcture-going But since "The Private Life of Henry VIII, made in England by Alexander Korda, proved that history could be not only palatable but tremendously enjoyable, the public has clamoured for more.

Now comes another eple picture from the Korda camp-"Catherine the Great," which had a tremen- #dous success in London. "Cathe- rine the Great" is a picture of 18th century Russia under the Czars and has been produced with a close regard to historical at- curacy and an even closer regard to entertainment values.

"Catherine the Great" has some of the world's finest actors and actresses headed by Douglas Fair- banks, Jnr., and Elizabeth Bergner. Flora Robson plays the dominat- ing Empress Elizabeth, Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr., has the must in- teresting part of his career as the unbalanced young Archduke Peter, afterwards the Car Peter ITI. Married, by the Empress's wish. to an obscure German Princess Catherine of Anhalf-Zerbst-he neglects her for other women from the moment of their mar- rläge.

Catherine, played by Elizabeth Bergner, Inventa a regiment of Imaginary lovers in order to arouse his jealousy. Upon the death of the Empress which he has for some time: been eagerly anticipating. Peter becomes Czar. His cruel and vicious temperament soon makes the people grow restive, After a brief reign of six months, Catherine mindful of the Empress's dying wish

that she protect the people's interests, arranges his banishment to 3 fortress with instructions that he be well cared for. She assumesi the reins of government.

News of Peter's death reaches Catherine of the pinnacle at her triumph. In a scene which taxes even Miss Bergner's great emo- tional powers, she realises that she would sooner have him beside her than be acclaimed by the cheering multitude as "Catherine the Great,”

IT'S A GIFT

are

to-

Baby Le-Roy and W. C. Fields, the Hollywood feudists,

Fields' gether again in

newest starring picture "It's A Gift"

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

"The

monster" is at large again) Karloff,the grotesque creature of the original "Franken- stein.". n murderous giant con- structed from parts of dead bodies and brought to life at the height of a crashing electrical storm. comes to the King's Theatre in "The Bride of Frankenstein," a sequel to the Arst picture .On Thursday.

In this strange drama, produced for Universal by Carl Laemmie. Jr., the Monster is seen in further adventures of such a hair-raising nature that the picture is sa'd to

the furnish

very ultimate in ghastly thrills. At the conclusion of "Frankenstein." It will be re- membered, the Monster was ap- parently destroyed in a burning mill but the opening

scenes of The Bride of Frankenstein" show how he escaped death and return- ed to throw the entire countryside into a state of terror

Henry Frankenstein, the half- mad scientist, who created the Monster, Ands himself "forced to continue his experiments with the evil Dr. Pretorius, already success- ful in the creation of tiny living human being lack only size to make them even more perfect

figures than the Monster himself. Meanwhile. the terrifying creature continues his murderous career, until he is befriended by a hermit who teaches him to talk and takes to but again lapses into savagery the hills From this point the excitement in-

culminating when

screen,

most

the

creases. mad scientists collaborate on the creation of a mate for the lum-. bering giant. Then follows what is said to be the

amazing climax in the history of the

James Whale directed ...The Bride of Frankenstein." and the cast supporting Karloff includes Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Emest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Dwight Frye, Una O'Connor and other motion picture favourites.

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OUR DAILY BREAD

At The King's

Something out of the ordinary is being offered by the management of the King's Theatre who pre-

which

: the

THE QUEEN'S

"Calm Yourself”“

Produced by Paramount it comes O'Brien, "and after playing in one find their way to an abandoned Robert Young, a New York ad-

to the Queen's Theatre soon

Western after another, I realized that ir I did not strike would never play in type of Alm

CALM

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TRIP TO AFRICA

A British film-producer has just rucned from a week-end trip to Cape.own, makig the 16,000 mile ---4-иck journey in less than a monia, and actuany only spend- ing three days in wapsown, his outward des.riation. He is Cap- tain R.B. Wainwright, "producer of "Forb.dden Territory," "Emil" and the Detectives," and other pictures: and in order to survey the route and the 'locations' for "AIR

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

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"Our Daily BreadTM QUEEN'S :-

"Calm, Yourself"

ORIENTAL:-

"She Done Him Wrong"

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MAJESTIC:

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KING'S:-

Coming

The Bride of Frankenstein"

QUEEN'S:-

"It's A Gift"

ALHAMBRA:-

"The Cowboy Millionaire"

CECIL

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RHODES

In A Film

!

LINER" a forthcoming dlm he To Be "Humanised" will make n collaboration with the Gaumon-British Picture Cor- poration, he has just made the air-trip to South Africa and back. Including a further journey from Capetown to Durban and back and other side-track' excursions, he and his wife have travelled al- together nearly 20,000 miles by alf in the past four weeks.

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LORETTA YOUNG CARY GRANT BORN TO BE BAD

OLYMPIC TO BE SOLD

Sank Enemy Submarine

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(Special Air, Mail Service)"

London, August 25. ... The Cunard-White Star liner Olympic, which, until the launch- ing of the Queen Mary, was the largest British-built vessel añoat is to be sold.

The Olympic is to open for inspection at her berth be thrown at Southampton from next Mon- day, with a view to sale, and re- presentatives of firms interested in acquiring the vessel will have the opportunity of examining the condition of the ship before send- ing in their bids.

No Alm yet attempted in this country presents

such political and cinematic difficulties as "Rho- des," on which the Gaumont-Bri- tush Corporation are to spend something like £100,000... "'AIR LINER is a story con- Recently Mr. Michael E. Balcon, cerning the passengers on an Im- production chief of the Gaumont perial Airways Liner to the Cape," studios. described his problems. Tc said Captain Wainwright on his begin with, he painted out. the return. "It is our intention

to story must be fair to the English, make all the location-khots

Boers and natives-no easy mat- actual s.opping-places on the Em-ter when dealing with war with The Olympic has been laid up pire air-route; and the strength in living memory. of the story lies in the effect on

since April Launched in 1910, the "We hope we have succeeded in the various passengers of the tre- holding the balance," Mr. Balcon

vessel, which is 18,439 tons gross, temperaturs, Humidity, and locale of Rhodes's early career as pioneer she was bullt at the Belfast yard

Antered mendously varying conditions to said. "We want to give something York service the following year. the Southampton-New

cellent oppor.unity, durng my re-land-owning alone the route.. I have had ex- and landowner, and then show how cent trip to test these for myself, statesmenship, with its problems

Messrs. Harland and Wolff, forced him into

During her war service she rammed and sank an enemy, sub- arising from European immigra-marine, and in recognition of this clou, the discovery of diamonds Commodore Str Bertram Hayes. and gold, and the conflicts be KCMG.. was decorated with the tween English and Dutch.

we

"Calm Yourself" may sound like a piece of advise for our ex- the title citable friends but actually it is good film which is being shown at

of

an extraordinarily "Taere comes a lime in every actor's life when he feels he's sented to the local public for the Evans and Robert Young have the Queen's Theatre. Madge being 'typed"" said George O'Brien first time yesterday King Vidor's leading roles and the story is all on the set of "The Cowboy "Our Dally Bread" in Mulionaire," the Fox release pro-Karen Morley and Tom Keene are who in his efforts to "get on" trod sweltered

about an ambitious young man

At Wadi Balfa, for example, we duced by Sol Lesser. "I felt I was

cast as young couple who, dis-on everybody's toes.

in the pleasant little hotel there at a temperature of 126 sinking in 4. rut,"

continued couraged by the ways of the city,

It" concerns the adventures of degs. in the shade; when farm where they start life anew.

reached the Cape, it was winter, "When Rhodes died natives They out. I

meet other disillusioned vertising young man who, when and freezing cold!

gave him funeral hours and re- and together they Aght

he is fired by his flancee's father,

"There are tremendous possibilit-vered him as a great chief, like any other people

against fate, shoulder to shoulder. opens a confidential service agency las for unexpected drama along the their own Lobengula. We are try-

When these human, lovable sidential services" promises to do

-with momentous results. "Con- Cairo-to-the-Cape route. At Juba, ing to preserve the same spirit. folks finally succeed in wresting

"or instance, near the border of the We shall how the struggle for South a measure of peace and happiness matter how delicate or personal, any job for its subscribers, no

Belgian- Congo, the aerodrome lies Africa between three great prin from life, a real menace appears

near an enormous and impenet- ces-Kruger, Lobengula and Rho- in the young wife's path in the when he becomes the professional hundreds of miles. The night be-

and its slogan is "Calm Yourself." rable swampland extending för des, of a pretty, hard-boiled missed the realness, the sincerity young blonde who vamps the

guardian of a beautiful and fore we landed at Juba, a hom and the ne character always young husband and succeeds in

wealthy young girl, as well as of had been seen on the aerodrome, associated with the Westerner. I luring him away

a one-year-old heir to a mighty and had to be chased away with At a cruciel missed the horses and the asso-

moment,

fortune, the fun begins.

shots; after threatening attack on ciation with the cowboys with whom I had worked for years.. That's the reason I'm back in catdoor pictures."

the

news-

my

I person

Fields, in "It's A Gift," is head of a thriving family who eat him out of house and home, plague When I was given the part of a his days and torment his nights. well-dressed man" in Ever Since He is also the proprietor of the Eve.' I was elated. "When town's leading grocery store. Hej picture was finished, the has always cherished the dream paper reviewers liked it; of owning & California orange friends Liked it but I didn't! ranch where he could luxurtate and just watch the oranges grow and, when his daughter's young man comes to him with a "syp" proposition, he swallows It hook, line and sinker. 1

The picture

has several new comedy routines by Fields which have never before been brought George O'Brien expressed the to the movies. Including his great pleasure he derived from comedy shaving routine

ahis part in "The Cowboy Million

and

And lest I should spoil your fun,

BARGAIN WITH KRUGER "We see the failure of the Jame son Raid, the discrediting of 3no- des, anu his deal with Kruger for when Rhodes Bald: 'How much?" the liberty of his captured friend,

sand pounds, and Rhodes wrote the cheque then and there.

Karen Morley and Tom Keene i had better not tell you any more previously, a herd of elephants Kruger replied. "Twenty-five thou-

score heavily as the young pair and pretty Barbara Pepper about the story as it is one of those excellent as the designing blonde which must be seen to be appre invader, John Quaten, who will be.

clated-F.M.A. remembered as the comic Swede janitor in "Street Seene," provides much of the comedy as a strand-

Richards is splendid as an escaped convict who casts his lot with the group.-N. M.

series of new stunts with Baby aire," at Alhambra from Sundayed Swede farmer, and Addison Le-Roy,

to Tuesday.

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THE KING

In The Highlands

the night-watchman; a short while bad invaded the flying field, and. taking a curious dislike to the wire- less apparatus had trampled on and utterly destroyed the radio- equipment! The famous 'Bor' herd of nearly 400 elephants are active hereabouts, and will. I hope, come. Into the picture.

The whole atmosphere along the African airway is a strange ming

"One of the problems, from the entertainment point of view, is to humanise Rhodes. He is in dan ger of becoming a legend, bleak and austere,

"We shall not attempt to give him a love story, or anyaing like that, but we shall show his friend-

D.8.0

TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP

The Olympic was a sister ship In the Titanic, Her most famous war exploit was her attempt to save the dreadnought Audacious, which struck a mine of the Irish coast in October, 1914.

It was with the Olympic that the first wireless telephone conversa- tion between a shore office and a vessel at sea through station took place. This was in 2 British

February. 1930, when the Olympic was in mid-Atlantic, 1500

out.

In School Teacher-"What

Johanie"Yeah."

milles

comes after

As You Were "My wife has been working on

kins. "Tl go and put everything "Very good, sir." replied Sim- right again."

SAY IF WITH MUSIC

His years with the B.B.C. and. his public appearances throughout England have made Jack Payne the most popular entertainmentling of the superb organisation and ship with Oliver Schreiner. [the the car, S'mkins," the householder Agurs on this side of the Atlan-modern amenity of an air-route, in South Africa novelist who wrote said to the chauffeur. tic; his appeal is universal, trans-

the midst of primitive and danger-The Story, of an African Farm"} cending all distinction of age and

ous forces. Wild beasts abound; as one of the good and softening class; there is something in his

hippo, cricodile, buffalo-most influences in & Ute that necessarily performance to appeal to

dangerous of all. because most in- tended to grow harsher and more all tastes.

telligent-will all star in the ple- ruthless as destiny, piled burdens "Say it with Music, which is

cn his shoulders, the first full-length film made by and organisation is necessary for figures in the fim, apart from Kru- "A vast amount of arrangement The only other contemporary- (Special Air Mail Service?

Jack Payne, is based on famous une London, August 25. -

by Irving Berlin,

the picture. We shall be landed' ger, will be Jameson and Barney The King

which Jack Payne has taken to

at various points along the route. Barnato. The casting is not quite who arrived Ballater this morning on his way tune," and with which he used

at be his. "autograph" or "signature must arrange to finish our work in bably be Dr. Jameson, and Oscar with store and equipment; and we settled, but Leslie Banks will pro to Braemar, will see the Highlands

to оред and close his radio

as he has never seen them before. hours.

Since the snowstorms in May there has been almost no rain in

the

the Braemar district. Only halfnochy Lodge, in Forfarshire; for an inch felt in July.

Or

At Ballater the River Dee has had excellent spart.

the second year in succession, has established a low-water record. The nall which was driven into shooting was 1178) brace.

Last week's bag for four days the bridge at the lowest level two days records were made on the during the great drought of 1887 particular ground shot over. 16 now well above. the water, Angling is at a standstill.

With the Duke were Mr. J. p. Morgan, Mr. Harry Morgan, his Unfortunately, too, the King 15 son,

Lord likely to have poor shooting. The Hampden, and the Hon. David Elphinstone, Lord grouse at Braemar suffered more

Howes-Lyon severely than in other districta from the May, storm.

DUKE OF YORK'S KECORD On the other hand, "the Duke of York, who has been the guest of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan at Gan

have

ture.

"Emperial "Alrways

PATRIOTISM NOT PARADED

time to catch the next plane Homolka, the German, actor who onwards, otherwise we should be plays so brilliantly in Close Quar- 'marooned again and again by ters at the Haymarket, may be missing the bus, so to speak. President Kruger. Walter Huston, have been the American actor, will be Rho- than helpful. They have been des. magnificent, giving us every pOS- alble facility, and showing the

"I have given the direction to an greatest enthusiasm for our pro- Austrian, Berthold Viertel-not, as ject. I am glad to say, also, that has been suggested because he will Bir Pierre van Ryneveld, Chief of Gon. Staff, has been kind enough be able to wave the flag less self- to offer us the aid of the South but because I do not want the fag consciously than an Engilshian,

needless to say, is deeply appreciat must be impelt, not paraded, African Air Force, an offer which, wagged at all The Patriotism ed and will be of the utmost value.

**** “Our primary aim is to turn out

As soon as the best weather-con-entertainment. If It incidentally

The Duke and Duchess have now returned to Glamis Castle ditions prevail throughout the reflects credit on British govern- where to-day the Glasgow route this picture of one-nightment and British arms, then we Children's Theatre Save & special stands in desert, swampland, and shall naturally be highly pleased.] performance in honour of Princess veld-are Margaret Rose's fifth birthday

dying-helds will begin But propaganda-nothing-

farther from our thoughts."

production

ALHAMBRA

THEXTRE

TO-DAY af 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. An Historical Romance of Old China

LEUNG-SAN-PAK CHUK-YING-TOI"

festuring

Miss TAM TUK LAN and Mr. LO BUN CHIU NEXT OHANGE. GEORGE O'BRIEN

in a new type of thrill picture

THE COWBOY

MILLIONAIRE

EVALYN BOSTOCK

A FOX RELEASE

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