1935-12-25 — Page 5

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"BROADWAY GONDOLIER”

HAPPY

Robert Armstrong looks. happy here, and perhaps It's because he's appearing with Sybil Jason, the new child star, in Warner Bros. "Little Big Shot" which is due at the Alhambra Theatre on Saturday

Leslie Howard To

Produce And Star In Bonnie Prince

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ALHAMBRA :-

"Little Big Shot"

ALICE ADAMS

BOOTH TARKINGTON'S

GREATEST NOVEL·

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Comes To The Screen With Katharine Hepburn

"Alice Adams." Booth Tarking ton's brilliant saga of the small town girl, comes to the speaking screen at last, with vivid Katharine Hepburn in the central role.

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Tarkington, America's greatest delineator of the national scene and its people, has never written a finer novel than "Alice Adams." nor one that paints a truer drama- tic picture of the American youth of to-day. The Hooster növelist is true historian of the young people of our time in our own smaller cities, and as such he will All an important place in the literary history of the United States.

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His immortal Penrod" stories picture the boy of twelve, "Elttle Orvle" is American boyhood at seven going on eight, The Wilie Baxter of "Seventeen" will live forever as a tragic-comic incarna- tion of small-town boyhood in the throes of puppy love. In "Alice Adams" the master story-teller focussed his superb talent on the spiritual struggles of the mid- western girl of 22.

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·REAL AND HUMAN "Tarkington made. Alice as real, as human as the girl who lives next door. The reading public took the book and the girl to its heart as soon as they appeared in 1921, and in 1922 the pundits confirmed the public's enthusiasm by awarding "Allee Adams" the Pulitzer Prize for that year.

"Alice Adams" was filmed as a silent plcture ia 1923, with Florence Vidor, now Mrs. Jascha Heifetz, in the role now played by Miss. Hepburn,

RKO Radio Pictures, the pro- ducers of the film, have handled Tarkington's masterpiece with tact and delivery, careful to retain the Inimitable flavour of the book.

MOVIE LIST-LATEST

REVISION:

About once a year we break urt; and in Ginger Rogers he bas down in favour of some moving, found a lovely and agile dance picture whose excellence is such that it cries out loud for an editorial, Grace Moore's "Ona Night of Love" charmed the latest of these editorial raves,

Here is a new addition to our list of all-time all-American pictures-- "Top Hal," starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; now on view at Radio City Music Hall

Just as Grace. Moore in "One Night of Love” arst brought the singing 'soul of grand opera, minus the tedious trappings, to tens of millions of movie fans so "Top Hat" is the best, thing yet done in movie musical comedy.

GORGEOUS SETTING

The music is Berlin at his best; the settings are gorgeous: the lines are among the funniest we've heard; and the dancing and comedy of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are something to go back and see again. Especially the dancing. Astaire has long been known as the man who made over the humble buck-and-wing into an

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partner-a worthy successor to his sister, Adele, now Lady Charles Cavendish.

This team has now made three fine pictures-“ The Gay Divorcee," "Roberta ' and— best of the lot- "Top Hat." We hope they stay together for at least three more.

When you try to pick out the eleven best movies ever made. you must consider the time when they

were made, "The Birth of A Nation" was the finest picture of 1915... It would not be the Anest picture of 1995, because for one thing it lacks sound, and for another, photography has greatly improved in the past twenty years.

Bearing in mind this limitation, we pick for all-time all-American the following eleven moving pic. tures: "The Birth of a Nation," "Broken Blossoms," "The Miracle Man." The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," "The Hid." "The Big Parade." "Anna Christle" "(talking. version). "Smilin' Through," "Ca- valcade." "One Night of Love," and "Top Hat."

COMING TO THE ALHAMBRA

Sybil Jason, whose first American Blm has made her the big- gest little star of them all, and Glenda Farrell, will be seen at the Alhambra Theatre on Saturday in the Warner Bros. pro- duction "Little Big Shot."

STRAIGHT FROM HOLLYWOOD

GARY IN PENTONVILLE

Gary Cooper has enjoyed every bit of his part in George du Maurier's "Peter Ibbetson" which he made for Paramount, except for five days.

For these five days he

was fung-with manacles-into- the most perfect replica of Pentonville Gaol possible.

Paramount's reproduction of the famous London prison was too much for Gary, and after the first day he pleaded claustrophobia,

It is equipped with stocks, whip pirig post, ball and chain, the cat o-nine-tails and other stimuli to good behaviour.

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main idle so he started selling

newspapers. In the course of his work he struck up an acquaintance with a boy who was taking chotr lessons at the Jesuit Church in

Farm Street in the West End of London

Rains was given a voice test and joined the choir, and one of the fathers told him that his voice was ideal for the stage:

progressed into stage work as a Claude continued his choir work,

singer and actor, and then went to the screen

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This Hollywood prison" has concrete walls a yard thick, hardly any light coming through the CARL BRISSON'S VERSATILITY barred windows, and low wooden beds with a piece of slanting plans the latest turn of his versatility in Carl Brisson is demonstrating for a pillow,

plays the part of a coal heaver Paramount's "Ship Cafe," in which

In the stoke hole of a ship.

Brisson is a Dane by birth and a native of Copenhagen, but by habit an Englishman. He started, in the theatre by dancing, and then managed a troupe called “Brisson'e Blue Blondes" in a Stockholmi theatre. A Miss Gustafson, who worked in a beauty parlour, asked him for a job in the chorus. That tady is now known as Greta Garbo.

CHARACTER PORTRAYAL "It is impossible to improve on the intimate dialogue of Booth Tarkington," says Mortimer Offner, who did the screen play with Dorothy Yost. "In writing the script no liberties were taken with C. M. Woolt announces that the story except in the ending. United Players Productions, the The dialogue has been carefully new unit formed by Eugene Frenke preserved. and Leslie Howard, are scheduling; In the title role, Miss Hepburn for early production a Scottish has an opportunity for character historical feature, centred round portrayal that has never been an. He knows quite a bit about

NO GAOLBIED} Henry Hathaway, the director of "Peter Ibbetson," dropped in twice a day to see how Gary was getting

the romantic career of Bonnie equalled since her sensational per-prisons although he has never yet Prince Charlie.

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Glibert Lennox, famous for his adaption of "Close Quarters,” the West End stage success, is putting No more perfect artist to re- the finishing touches the script, create Alice could have been found already completed and passed by than Miss Hepburn, a small-city Leslie Howard, who will himself, produce and star in the picture for General Film Distributors, Ltd.

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From HORIDER.

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HELEN GAHAGAN RANDOLPH SCOTT HELEN MACK NIGEL BRUCE Directed by Irving Pichal 2nd Landing C Holden ̈*

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"Metropolitan, 20th Century's enchanting romance of the comedy and near-tragedy in the life of a singer, brings LAWRENCE TIB BETT, America's greatest baritone 11 back to the screen. VIRGINIA BRUCE is Tibbett's leading in this Darryl F. Zanuck production

SEX-APPEAL - MERCHANTS Mae West was tackled at the Paramount studios by a reporter to tell her own idea of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors

chose the following list which in- The star of "Klondike Lou”.

cludes three Englishmen.

The list reads Faul Cavanagh who comes from Chislehurst, Kent, Ray Milland,-who-is--a Welshman; and Henry Wilcoxon.. The others are Jack Oakie, Ran- dolph Scott, Cesar Romero, Ivan Lebedez, Lee Tracy, Fred Mac Murray--who plays opposite Carole Lombard in "Hands Across The Table" George Raft

and Baby LeRoy!

extras.

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THE TENDEREST LOVE STORY OF OUR TIME! THE GRANDEST SPECTACLE OF ALL TIME!

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„A FOX PICTURE With:

ROCHELLE HUDSON HENRY FONDA

"WAY DOWN EAST"

The special plea that "Way Down Eust " makes for tolerance la Judgment of others, the drama ito impact of its story and the en- during tenderness of its love paSE- ages have gained through the years, as Fux Film's superb pic turization of the story which has become America's greatest melo- drama proved, to a delighted au- dience at the Alhambra to-day.

WENDY ON THE AIR Wendy Barrie, the English girl At the age of 18, Brisson was six on contract with Paramount, has feet two and weighed 180 pounds. I started her second picture in two He became a boxer and after a months about broadcasting, year, he knocked out someone In- Her Arst was The Big Broad- portant, and was hailed as the cast of 1939" and this latest film welter-weight champion of Middle Millions In The Air. John Europe and Scandinavia, But Howard and Wendy share the lead the treasurer absconded with the and are surrounded by 200 or so sate receipts.

After one more bout Brisson found himself broke and slept in

HOLLYWOOD'S LINGUIST -a mortuary." The next day ho bor- Jan Kleptra, whose arst Para- HOLLYWOOp aluee rowed a chilling and bought a mount film in Hollywood is "Give Claude Rains, who is featured tuning fork in a pawnshop. Des- Ut This Night" is Hollywood's The details of the drama are with Cary Grant in Paramount's pite the fact that he was stone outstanding - linguist. He speaks perhaps famlilar to many but the The Last Outpost, started his deat he tuned 38 pianos in two English, French, German, Spanish, freshness of its treatment, the career by mitching in the Eng days and then left in a frst Italian Polish this native language poetic charm of the

spay Hish language from school in mag--class compartment for Copen- -Russian and Hungarian. and the addition of some excellent land,

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He is recording his songs for new, writing and comedy make it Knowing he was a trount his After that his stage career be- "Give Us This Night" in arish, an entirely pride would not allow him to re- - gazit

Spanish and French only

and alive

been an inmate of one himself. in "Morning Glory." which won the Academy award in But five of his pictures for 1938.” -

Paramount, including The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" had a prison in them

Incidentally, George du Maurier, girl herself whose background who wrote "Peter Ibbetson," used must contain B dozen Alices. to visit Pentonville when he was a Similarly, no finer role could have cartoonist on "Punch" Then it been found for the dynamic young was called the "Model Prison," and star whose public has been de the convicte thought in the manding her appearance in a slang of the period a Cushy great modern-girl dramatic part.

The combination of Hepburn'a undoubted gentus and one of the finest American-girl characters of recent literary history is sure to produce a memorable motion pic- ture. Tarkington's Alice Adams now llress on the motion picture screen as well as in the hearts and so wet that even the grasshoppers Imaginations of hundreds of thou- have put up their little umbrellaal” sands of readers.

Warner Bros' Iateat, musical comedy, "Broadway Gondoller," which reunites the popular stars of "Gold Digger Or 1833," Dick Powell and Joan Blondell

There is an all star cast which also includes Adolph Menjou, Lou- sle Fazenda and George Barbler. The story which is new, concerns A correspondent relates that the a New York taxi-driver, played by recent wet spell in England seems Dick Powell who aspires to be a to have encouraged the growth of singer and takes lessons from a toadstools among the grass at the down and out Italian teacher. The rear of his house. taxi-driver gets an audition at a radio station, but through a series of humorous mix-ups, falls in ar- rive. The professor, sings for hira, but his one time âne voice is g me Sand Dick loses his chance,

When his little daughter noticed this phenomenon for the first time she came running into the house exc.aiming "Mummy, mummy, it's

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"CHOIR" BOY GOES TO //

Btarring Rochelle Hudson, and Henry Fonds, who made his debut in "The Farmer Takes a Wife" the picture tells again the moving elemental drama of one woman's fight for love against a world of bigotry and scorn.

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