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Like most cuntagious disorders, this one came from n single source, which proved to be Una Merkel, thu highly versatile and talented actress, who plays the role of Sally McBride, the Mias Gaynor's college chum in photoplay.

"Africa Speaks”

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Those who have keen "Africa Speaks" at the Central Theatre will never forget the dramatic emotional conflict of the picture, cr the breath- taking beauty of the Congo back- grounda. Added to startling effects of the sounds of the these are the

jungle, caught by the sound film for the first time and transmitted exactly

It seems that Miss Merkel hails from the sunny Southland, Conving ton, Kentucky, to be exact, and when she went North she brought her Southern recent and drawl right along with her. When she recently ap to the screen. peared in the Fox production, "Don't Bet On Women," with Edmund Lowe

In the half blackness of the theatre, and Jeanette MacDonald, there was one could close one's eyes for a much speculation as whether her moment and feel oneself in a little. voice was natural or acquired just clearing in the deep African wasten. for affect, but all doubt that ever The roar of a hungry on senda & existed on the Fox lot is now removed.shudder down the spine, the answer- | The director, Alfred Santell,

Missing whimper of the monkeys, all are Gaynor and Baxter, as well as the there in the primitive terror. other players, found themselves saying

"me"

for "More" and "cah" for When the story takes itself to the "ear," much to the delight of Una, French Congo--the magnificent but to the alter annoyance of the women with their huge duck-billed microphone.

lips, Are unforgettable. There In addition to Miss Merkel, the cast

women, the result of numerous Azul supporting Jane Gayner and Warner raids that swept down time after Baxter, Includes Claude Gillingwater, time to depopulate the villages of John Arledge, Kathlyn Willians, females, deliberately disfigure them- Louise Clouer Hinte And Elizabeth Melves to escape the lust of the deneri Patterson. The film was adapted for marauders.

the ветроп from Jean Webster's famous stage piny by Sonya Lovlen.

Train As Cinema Star.

The dancing of the native women of the French Congo is Another Columbia dynamic feature of this picture. Like their white compatriots It does not always follow that successful play will

equally of the Parisian pleasan palaces, there! prove successful is a tlm hist in the case little these savage girls do not

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MISS IDA CHAMBERLAIN'S PLEADING RECITAL.

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Another background thrills depend on sound effects, Gainsborough land of the pygmies. These little Pictures Raw the churmous possibili people, one of the most intensely asking id-d. more. Lies in as a sound film. Signing moral in the jungle, have customs Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert and mengera of solving ancient for the leading roles was a partics problems that would shock Western larly elever move, as both these bril-musceptibilities, if they weren't fiant stage artistes

eminently plainly natural and innocent. Triol suited to the principal character parts, marriage, a much discussed topic of I prophesy that Jack Hulbert as a civilization, is an old system among silly as with more behind his foolish the pygmies.

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