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Eight years ago a little girl from Alabama played her Best rofo on the Broadway stage. She was unfinova

Broadway then-Just as stie, nf-t though 'Ineus atar with a nution at her feet, is unknown to American1 picture audience to-day. Shie Patolak Bankhead, who loft her native United States to become Lon- Jon's favourite toast before a breath of popularity hud touched her New York stage work; who has returned after eight to the United States,

yeats of nduletion, to begin to win The acclaim of her fellow countrymen in the moving pictures,

in Turnished Lady," the brillant Bonald Ogden Stewart draina, which the King's Theatre will feature next. Tallulah Bankhead, co-starred with Clive Brdak, the suave English screen favourite, makers her bow to thr

moving picture public.

Her husky-

Voer vibrant personality, her large, Janguid eyes will make their bid for favour in this picture, in an effort to conquer a greater world of acclaim than even her brilliant London singe serena brought her,

Here is an petress of assured charni qulek-witted and Rophisticated, able to handle a quip with ghtning rapidity. In Miss Bankhead, Para- mount raises the curtain on a now slar, a great actress, on a new per

unality that will be immediately and warini welcomed to the heart of all theatre-goera, "

The story of Tarainhed Lady" an where natory st society's **100,“ money vies with love for marringe rights. Miss Bankhend warries Brook for his mouvy, denying her love for a When, writer, struggling young after three months of marriage, she finds herself teapable of continuing her role wite, she traves her fian band and attempts to recapture the love ahe staunted. She is too late, but, in her trials finds in the severity of her husband's affertion the love she thought lost forever.

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A cast of Broadway stage favouritey and a group of socially elite women. carry the supporting parts in this dram, written by one of Americn"

fare most dramatle k humorists. directed by George Cukor, maker of "Royal Family

Brandway." Tarnished 1.ad is a -mart sophis - Liented drama of the opper-world. well suited to display all the Hash af the cumbined Bankhend-Brool; talents. "Way for a Butler."

Wallace Berry John Gilbert, and win new cinematle glory in the vir Pen yarn, "Way For a Snilor" which is showing at the Queen's Theatre to-inorrow as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Albert Richard talkization of the Wetjen novel.

Sum Wood, who directed the thru- Bing maritime romance, provided the players with a gripping background of Liverpool ducks, sordid waterfront saloons, dripping river fogs, battered ocean tramps, shipwrecks und rescues at sea that climax the exciting action of the story,

Gilbert is at his best as the hero of this absorbing drama of then who go down to the sea in ships and Berry chalks up another fine performance, As the boss'29's mate. Jim Tully, Gilbert's erstwhile sparing partner, rounds out a rollicking trio of ship- mutes, destined to live long in the memory of a fons.

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Claudette Colbert credits a burge capable assurance. Polly Moran and

part of her stage and screen #ttccess Daris Lloyd complete the cast as waterfront wastrels of doubtful to the timbre of her valve, full, derp

and vibrant. Her voice in morals, if any.

Throughout tlser picture there istinguishing quantity that has caused always evident the influence of the comment since she first discovered its sen, the roarings and poundings of power while touring the country of Waves and surf adding dramatic the tnited States with Urie Hnot tr emphasis, particularly in the plead-"The Marionette Mun" in 1924. ing love scones enacted on the rocky shore.

"The Lawyer's Secret."

dis-

Miss Colbert spent many years na the stage "inding" her voire. Pre- vious to 1924, she had spoken only three words in the singe, while play-

Tange

Buddy Rigers, the handsome younging the part of Sybil Blake in "The star of light ronnes has been Wild Westcotis." Her 'voite Charles Rogers, the dramatic setor. Now, instead of being the object of was not fixed. adulation of a cast of beautiful young girls, he is the object of a search by the police in Paramount's production of the Jantes Hilary Flon story, "The Lawyer's Secret," the present attraction at the King's Twatre.

"The change that took place in my voice while The Marionette Man' was on tour came from the training that Ulric Haupt was kind enough to give me," says Miss Colbert. "He had come but recently from Germany, and, Rogers has nu love affair in the like most European actors and ne play: no girl is interested in him tresses, had thoroughly brought under) romantically; he is interested in no control the chest, and throaty tones] feminine beguiler, "He plays an unsym-that mark them apart from pathetic part in the picture, and is glad | American stage people.”

of Throwing the aid Hollywood

most

"My voice at the time was still 'in,

tradition that no screen career can the air,' so to speak, It had occasional

stand an unsympathetle part to the winds, Rogera say; “Whether the role

is good or bad, whether 1 prove to be

a dramatie actor or not, the part well

be good for me. It is the first time

soprano breaks and had not settled

into the pitch 1 wanted."

Miss Colbert's voice, her charm and her slender figure were such adaptable)

since Wings that I hive haftenjy tents for her acting ability to mould

dramatic role.

and control that her popularity on the "Because my role in The Lawyer's | tuge developed with amazing rapidity,| Secret is my first leamatic part in in fact, at the time she made her first n dialogue picture i was uncertain ivo piztures, "Pur-the Love of Mike," and worried before I started. But, the only silent picture in which she when we had been working for ten appeared, and "The liole in the Wall," days, I regained confidence, and, in she was in such demand that she hud this part, I learned more of the real to keep playing on Broadway at night business of acting thân I did in all the white working every day at the studio, Wighter pictures I have made.

"I understand now what is nicant by Front of the development that Miss dramatic actor living his role," says Colbert hns, attained" is seen in the Rogers. "It occupies all your thought auccesful pictures in which she has during the period of production. appeared, "The Big Pond," "Young Without the set formula of comedy, Man from Manhattan. "Man- every scene takes mental effort and laughter," and, most recently, ini concentration."

"Honor Among Levers," the chief at traction of the week at the Central

Rogers is even glad his role is de

void of romance. Usually surround-Theatre, starting from to-day.

ed by two or three girls, he finds lack

of romance a relief. He must aland

or fall on his dramatic ability.

4.

of Miss Colbert's volen, C. A. Tuthill, menitor man at Paramount.

Clive Brook and Richard Arien Now York studle, whose duty 1 1 have the other leading male roles in to listen in the microphones during "The Lawyer's Secret." and thethe making of the scenes and adjust feminine parts are played by Fuy the mechanism to the velce Intona. Wrny and Joan Arthur.

tions and fluctuations of the speaking actors, says, "Miss. Colbert is an easy actress to monitor. My work a much High-presore business, the optimi- loss complicated when I am working jam and dynamic force of youth plus with an actress who has a voice liko the comedy and romance that go with hers. It gives no trouble in the upper It-these are the key-notes of "A Tailor registers because of its normal, deep- {Made Man" William Haines' latest seated quality."

Haines in Latest Hole,

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