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some years ago. Bince then they | have done numerous other successful fnusical shows before entering the talkfo feld, "Go Homo and Tell

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE Your Mother," of "Love in the

THEATRES.

Paramount presenta в віпосте, hearttouching talkie in "The Man Killed" which is coming to the King's

Theatre to-morrow,

Rough," was one of their big song

THE

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hiwo of their numbers in "Flying share quotations fasued to-day: High" are considered sure-fire hits. They are being whistled and sung everywhero. "Dance Until the Dawn' In a

of "Flying

A

A perfect admixture of every ele corking rumba, and "Happy Land- is an exceedingly colourful ment that makes for sure-fire entorn is

chorus number. tainment, "The Man I Killed nover once gives evidence of an over-High" Lahr, Miin Greenwood and

For the comicalition abundance of of them, is imaginative but not too mesto O'Brien of "Front Page" fame are tive; the acting does not strain itself Universal star but more recently a aided by Kathryn Crawford, former into a tortu for the beholder; the musical comedy favourite on Broad- tempo in

but not racy; the situations are not so starkly real away; Charles Winninger, Hedda Hop- Guy Kibbee and Herbert Brug- to be commonplace.

per, gelati. Gus Arakelni and his famous The Killed" brings a nun-band play in the production.

Man her of messages, and any one of tnom

"Flying High" was directed by the can be chosen by any member of the nudience to

to conform to his mood. Test successful comedy maker of the business, Charles Rienner. Rienner is some it is an indictment of warfare responsible for three enormous recent as a barbarism that must be rooted hits, "Reducing," "Caught Short" and out by mankind. To others it is a "Politicn." glamorous love story. To still others

it in anhadow-projection of the inher

workings of remornoful man's roul.

"Beau Idcal.” -.

Four years changes the topography And there are many moro facets, each of "the changelens desert," accord- of them fascinating, for the ediflea-ing to

of tion

thosg dramatic gem.

who behold this romantic-director.

Bronon

Herbert Brenon, famous

Almed i silent classic The story has to do with the events] "Beau Geste," on America's "Sahura" in the lives of three principal char-the sand wanten of the Sonora desert

ter in a German town actors

several near Yuma, Arizona. This was in the years after the World War. There is spring of 1928.

When he was about to produce its

A very brief prelude in which Phillipsequel, "Beau Ideal," for Radio Pic- Holmes, A French soldier, engages in a hand-to-hand conillet with a German Lures, now showing at the Queen's and Inds some papers on the body. Theatre, it occurred to the director Holmes reads a letter which the dead and his staff that the original "neta" man had written to his sweetheart of "Beau Geste" could be used again, but had not yet mailed, Holmes thus since scenes were to be taken that re- presented the same spot, with some finds out the name of the bereft girl.

After this short glimpse of the war,

of the same characters. the picture occupies

with the events that take pince several years afterward. Holmes, having brooded for months over the barbarism that made him the slayer of a man toward whom he held ne malice, decides to visit the wird an ask what he

feels

When Brenon went to Arizona on a toention hent he found his sets in one at, and his backgrounds en another! The "rets" hadn't moved. It was a case of the mountain coming to Mahammed, or during

the

four

years

la his "crimenea for two ranges of sand dunes and a wide i

valley between them had mayed_away from the ruins of the movie fort n Nancy Carroll, the girl, meets him by chance at the dead soldier's resi-distance of three miles! The wind dence. Learning his errand, she begs sifting the sand before it, had moved

AL the sand ununtaina

rate of him not to carry the news to the

mile a year! violently partian father, Lionel Bar-lightly less than a

One range had passed directly over rymore, provincial Gorman doctor

the movie set, buried it from sight, who hates all Frenchmen.

like a wave of the seu,

Sulisenttently Holmes and Nancy fall in love-yet the young man still considera itin duty to tell Barry- about her former more the facts

death. sweetheart's

All three of

the

Tho pleture

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then, passed on, so that the old ruins made famous in "Benu Gente" were again uncovered,

While repairs would have restored the set for use, the scenery was irre-

ends in a blaze of romantic happinessparably gone. The only thing that

lending netors do splendid characterizations. They are remained to do was to build a replica supported with enthusiastic gusto by of the fort on the new site of the

Littlefield and Zamu Pitts in unstable landscape!

Young. comedy roles; and by Emma Dunna, Kalph Forbes, Loretta Frank Sheridan, Louise Carter and Irene Rich, Lester Vall, Don Alvarado, Otto Matieson, Paul McAllister, Leni Tom Douglas.

Hamilton and other Stengel, Hale favourites appear in the "Beau Ideal" cast. Forbes and McAllister were in "Beau Guste."

"Palmy Days."

Ernst Lubtisch, who has made several of Paramount's most success. ful pictures, directed "The Man 1 Killed."

“A Woman of Experience.”

picture, "A Woman of Expericnee,'

Helen Twelvetrees, starring in the No more serious than usual, Eddie Cantor uses the bland nonsense of his showing at the Central Theatre to-day, newest picture, "Palmy Days," which

Samuel Goldwyn is has often remarked that she has been's Theatre presenting at the to-day as an attack of spiritualism and

Eddie Cantor appears as the unwilling

very fortunate in the type of

King's

rules

she has had to portray. She deve-an the practice loped a rial fondness for the char fortune telling. In "Palmy Days,

acter

"Frankle"

Millie

in the "Both

finite iris,"

in

and

Her Man," of the in the picture of same name.

she

tactics of the graft that an- whom I felt I had charactera

and understand thoroughly. nually is to mulet the American There was a richness about them thate out of $125,000,000.

****** assistant to a gang of fake mysticn, uni"Were de- ******* which is revealed some of the

to

wald

phony occult

is quite lacking in sweet ingenue The phoney roles. My lucky str

me when

me

Elsa

in

still with Days"

scenes of "Palmy the wild and woolly

I was given a chance to do wost more whines of "Whoopee" ns

Atmosphere

A Woman of Experience," a background for Cantor. To get Here was a woman with personality sletail and experience

for the picture, Eddie visited numerous and character. A woman with a past, disappointed in love, disillusioned by fortune tellers in New York, Los

eities. men, who could still fall in love. Angeles and other

For

Cantor believes that the new popu- This role was one that I thought war larity of the different forms of fortune really worth Working

The story briefly is this: Elsa finds telling is due to the wide dissemina- herself the centre of a political intrition given nowadays to genuine scien

in Vienna. KUL

Under government tine knowledge.

orders she must pretend an attach- "People knowing nothing of science ment with a man she dislikes in order look upon each now discovery me an- to obtain valuable information which other miracle." Eddle claims, "They he alone can impart. At the same knew that the radio can hurl a voice time a young officer falls in love with mysteriously through the air and ber, and she with him. The conflict atch by a mechanical device. Then between her real love and her pre- why can't your voice carry to the tended love, linked up with her rather Great Beyond, they ask? Einstein is shady past, furnishes the material for a wizard for his fourth dimensional this absorbing picture.

hypothesis. Haven'a spiritualists The film was adapted from John dealt with a fourth dimersion." Farrow's play, "The Registered We- Methods of fortune man," by John Farrow himself. Harry varied, Cantor discovered have Lion takes the form of Joe Brown, associate producer at the the devination RKO Pathe studio, directed the pie peering at 12 astrological chart.

into a fire-bowl in which ques tions at supposedly from a crystal ball (usually) phoney. reading cards or being burnt visions a genuine one costs $75,000.) or in the mysteries of tea leaves,--the an swer is always the rame,that it's rubbish.

ture

The supporting cast includes Wil- liam Bakewell, Jew Cady, run Henry Gordon, Franklin Pangborn, Nance O'Neil and George Fawcett.

New Song Hits in "Flying High." The hilarious, slapstick comedy of Beri Lahr, Amerien's most imitated| comedian, Charlotte Greenwood, Pat O'Brien and others in "Flying High," an M-G-M attraction which will open

Whether

Cantor and his co-authors, David Freedman

and Morris Ryskind, gathered together actual Instances of mediums, exposed by the late Houn to-morrow at the Queen's 'i

The Queen's Theatre for it, the Smithsonian Institute, and four days, is interspersed with a by the police of various cities.

number

So

of strikingur af

new songs.

pulpably faked were all the methods Three out of

"them were] of these mystics that it required only written by the mast

successful song- the slightest touch of exaggeration to writing team of recent years, Dorothy

nake

uproarious comedy of them. So Fields, daughter of Low Fields of "Palmy Days," despite its trana- Weber and Fields, and James Mc- parent nonsense, may be anki to have Hugh. "The Blackbirda" established basis in real life and netual fact, the reputation of Fields and Mellugh Cantor claims.

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"HONOUR SLAYING" TRIAL EVIDENCE.

HUSBAND'S STORY OF THE ASSAULT ON WIFE.

Auckland, Apr. 10.

Honolulu, Apř: 15. Queen Street this morning A polgnant account of the at- given the impression that it has tack on Mrs. Massia was given by been under fire of shrapnel shells. her husband,

United States one of tho ac Some 250 plate glass windows naval lieutenant, have been shattered, the total cused, when ho gave evidence in damage being estimated at £100,-the "honour slaying trial." 000.

Lieut. Massio told how his wife Royal Naval Reservists have, telephoned, "Come back immo- as a precaution, been called up,diately, something horrible has

CARGUTTA and squadrons of mounted volun-happened." He rushed home, and CANTON teers have arrived in the city,

found his wife in a pitiable con- CAWNPORE dition. She collapsed in hie CEBU arms. "I want to dio" was all coLOMBO Special foot and mounted pollco she was able to say. He took hor

tola DEL and naval pickets charged a mob him how she had been brutally at- HAMBURG

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RAIPHONG MEDAN when rioting broke out again in tacked while walking, and declar- RANKOW・・ PEPING the shopping district, windows ed that the murdered MAN HARDIN

Faking) being smashed.

Kahahawa was her principal as- BONGKONG PENANG Riot insurance premiums on sailant. An operation was per- plate glass have risen 50 per cent, formed in hospital to prevent preg- baie tranenstad. and riot fire cover is unobtainable nangy. lowing to the prohibitive rates the companies are asking, namely 1.- 000 per

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