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CINEMA SCREENINGS.

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"Elan of the Children" with a cast which includes the veteran aingo nelar Louise Mann, Robert

Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams, Clara Bandiak, Mary Doran, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Robert MWade, Dell Henderson, Henry Armelin, Jano Reid, James Dolan, Jean Wood and Lee Kolmar will open to-morrow at tha Queen's Theatre.

Nugent again dispingelite varsautiits. in net anly playing a featured rola but in having written the story In collaboration with his father, J. C. Nugent. Samuel Ornitz, author, of "The Yankee Passionnt." did the adap tation Al Sam Wood directed. -

The story in a saga of family lifo tracing the career of an old German barber and his wife who come to make their fortune and become sndty disillu Hioned in the process. The children grow up and seek their own careers. One becomes an embezzler and nar. only erenpes prison; another graduate fram medical ached and becomes too good for his family; one daughter marries and the youngest gets into didbultie with a series love affair. The whole chronicle is a simple story of everyday life whose prototypes movie nudiences will recognize in their friends and in the inmates of their own hostes.

Childhood nequences in both the first and third generations play an import- ant share in the story and a large number of children were interviewed in an attempt to get the propor types. The principal roles Onally went to Phillppe de Laery, Gordon Thorpe, Retary Ann 1ste, Evelyn Mila and Edwin Mills, while a number of ather children were used as extras.

Pickford Film Laughing Hit. In this sophisticated age genuine laughter is al a premium. 50, If you ars fed up with surface morals, sex plote, and white-washed wickedness, and really hanker after a delightful, nguish live story with comedy, g and see Mary Pickford in 'Kiks" at the Queen's Theatre.

Here, if one may be paradoxical, in that bright screen entertainment children may safely take their parents lo sce. Miss Pickford, under the skill. ful guidance of Sam Taylor, producer- director for United Artists, has fores. worn all other "Kiki's" and given us her own.

It is modern, fast, funny and ex- hilarating from start to finish. Miss Pickford has an innocent wild abun- dan, a hoydenish quality, recklesspess and impulsiveness and madcap charm, She falls in love with Reginald Denny who can't get along with a woman and can't get along without one. He has been divorced from ear, Margaret Livingston, and she in using all her feminine power to lure him back, meanwhile carrying on something of an affair with a tenor.

"Kiki" has a high quality comedy east, every member of which has heati lined in laughter. Denny makes an excellent leading man for Mins Pick- ford. Margaret Livingston has zip and sparkle. Joseph Cawthorn, Fred Walton, Phil Tend, Fred Warren and Edwin Maxwell give splendid up- port to the riotous muments between Miss Pickford and Denny,

It has Groworks and chuckles to ардго

"Not Exactly Gentlemen"

Twa regiments of United States Cavalry, 900 Indians and labourere, more than 1,000 hend of eattle and Ianndreds of head of horses play an active part in the Paknin land-rush scene in "Not Exactly Gentlemen," the Fox Movietone production featuring Victor Melaglen with Fay Wray, Lew Cody, Eddie Gribbon, Robert War- wick and Franklyn Farmum heading the supporting east, which is having its final showings at the Central Theatre to-day.

McLaglen, Lew Cody and Eddie Gribbon are cast as three putlaws, hunted men with a price on their heads, but combined with their bad- ness is loveableness and humeur that is fascinating.

David Worth and Fay Wray are the youthful lovers who furnish the romance of the picture and Robert Warwick and Franklyn Farnum pro- vide the "mence" and plenty of it too. Action is the key-note of the plot.

"Not Exactly Gentlemen" is based on the atory "Over The Border," writi ten by Herman Witaker and brought i to the screen by Dudley Nichols, Emmet Flynn and William Conselman, with Benjamin Steloff directing.

"The Silent Enemy." Moving pletures are not all make- belleve. Sometimes men brave the terrors of a vast unsettled country and capture for the acTCON thrilling scenes than even Hollywood's Imagination could conceive. That's how The Silent Enemy," the Central Theatre feature for to-morrow, was

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THOUSANDS HOMELESS, AND MANY DROWNED,

Bombay, Aug. 11. An abnormal monsoon has pro- duced serious Bloods southwards of Bombay.

"The Silent Enemy" required more than two years to make, many single scenes taking up several weeks each. An actual fight between a great bali- moose and a horde of timber wolves to an exciting episode in the romance. And, when the moase finally van-

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FILM OF SUBMARINE DISASTER.

It is a splendid romance of the fast of the Malvan district-enter.

de- dying-out Indian. The plot is lleatoly woven around the ancient custome of the Ojibway Indians, ench | Werks were spent waiting for this letnil being authentically correct. spectacular natural event to occur. The climax of the story is reached When the enribou came, the Indian with the stupendous stampede of the were sent out to stalk it. These hem- NO REFERENCE TO POSEIDON caribou herd across the Barren ditary hunters ambushed the herd, Lands, near the Trinugami Forest in just as their ancient ancestors did, and Northern Ontario. This caribou migra rakled it with bows and arrows, IL tion in an annual event, and was alia estimated that there were ways a urce of food for the winter than ten thousand of these rarely sern

North. Innimals in that vast pack, of the famished Indians

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EIGHTEEN WOMEN. INJURED "ON A "JOY RIDE." Eighteen women were injured

Anwick, Lincolnshire, Rearch for a prisoner, Harry July 14 when a motor-omnibus- Daviles, aged 22, whe CHcaped carrying a party on a club outing from Horfield Prison, Bristol, to Skegness overturned in a ditch. where he was nerving a sentence

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he had obtainer possession of a The driver, whose head was motorcycle,

bleeding, said that he was travel-

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the passengers were thrown in a

An outfitter's shop near the prl-heap und had to crawl from the son was broken into during the wreckage and splintered glass, night and and three pairs of flan-It was a marvel that the 'bus did

a fawn not eatch fire." nel trousers, a neck-tie, cap and a light mackintosh were

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