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·NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

The next time univeralties start handing out honorary degrees they would do well to consider Victor Me- Lagion for a D.C., Bachelor of Geo- graphy, for there is barely a spot on the globe that is unfamiliar to the big, amiable he-man of the screen. who plays the lending mile role in Eliasn Landi's new Fox drama, "Wicked," opening next Thursday at the King's Theatre.

"Reserved for Ladies.”

In Paramount's "Reserved for Ladies," featuring Leslie Howard, who recently played opposio Ann Harding in "Devotion," motion picture fnos will see Elizabeth Allan, one of England's most popular stage and screen personalities. This strikingly handsome and intriguing star of the English screen plays the leading feminine role opposite Howard and shares the honours of the ploture with that clover actor.

Miss Allan is rated as a shining Bight in the screen firmament, Shu

has a long list of stage and screen eucceases to her credit. Like most And Vic did not acquire his know-successful screen artists her dramatic ledge from

from books, either, but rather training started on the stage. After from first hand information guined five years with a Shakespearean stock from his own world-wide travela company, she broke into lending roles

Hawa South Africa, Australia, in many recent playa of the London

Fiji Islands, Tahiti, Candan, Lage. Her stirring performances in Bombay and Ceylan, Mesopotamin "The Ringer and Bagdad, these are but some of the places he has visited in his wan- dorings.

the

His knowledge of the customs of world's various countries makes McLagen it very valuable man around the Fox lot. Not only is able to portray characters of nationalities, but also to give ex- pert advice to production directors in the prep all of

pictures. "Wicked" the story of a young comple, whose haneymoon is interrupt ed when the husband, ostensibly bank clerk, but in reality a bank rob-

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Park Lane," "Michael and Mary," Oh Daddy," "Mr. Fulatheart" and "Alibi,” raised her to the status of a favourito.

Her extraordinary performance, be- fore the footlights in "Alibi" resulted the screen production. Other picture in her selection for the same part in assignments followed in rapid succes sion, which include "The Rosary," "Bluck Coffee "Many Waters" Chinaman." "Michael and Mary" and "Chin Chin

was announ-

Bryd

Just after the completion of her latest screen picture, Miss Allan mar- her business ber, is shot. Seeking the protection ried William O'Brys #Reserved for of his own home he involves the wife Lailles" was being filmed that her en-

manager. It was who is later sent to prison.

McLaglen plays the role of "Scott Kagement to Mr.

The pair had.

ኒ big sup Burrows," the man who sticks by the ced. wife, enacted by Miss Landi, through per party to celebrate the announce-

ment Allan

of their engagement. The hour friendship for the husband.

was set at 11.15. At that time, how- Dinehart, former stage star. Unn

ever, the cast was just making ready Merkel, and Theodore Von Elz are

for the filming of one of the Intense also featured. Allan Dwan directed.

love scenes in which Howard and Miss Allan are the centrul figures.

This

The Sin Ship." Powerful roles that give personality full play and exercise the emotions are Mary Astor's favourites. she told an interviewer who called on her after her latest production "The Sin Ship," Radio Pictures' melodrama, had been previewed and declared triomph both for her and for Louis Wolheim who played a featured role and also

directed. It comes to the Queen's Theatre.

"After appearing in Holiday with Ann Harding," Miss Aster declared "I feared I would never have such a wonderful part again, bul, as Kitty Marsden in the Radio Pictures play, I found all the opportunity I could des sire.

Miss Alian could have delayed the "shooting" until the next day, but she chose to Balsh the scene then rather than spoil the high emotional tension to which the cast had been raised by repented rehearsals. Thus she delayed her engagement in real life until she was safely engaged to Leslie Howard for the screen.

A half-hour later a telephone was wildly, ringing for the actross who was strangely late for a most in portant social function. But the pic- fure was finished. "Reserved for Ladies," the feature ut the King's Theatre to-day.

Universal Comedy Drama

"It is a most unusual story and one that for me conlained aut entirelyternal triangles the Central Theatre

novel dramatic element.

"In this play I am atranded aboard a tramp vessel on the high sens completely in the grip of four elemen tal men, three of them uncouth brutes of the set. Louis Watheins, the ship's captain and his mates, Hugh Herbert and Alan Roscoe, and the other a cruelly intelligent thief fleeing from justice.

"My only protection is my looks and my wils. There isn't a handsame hero in the whole plot. I am on my own I found myself realizing that it was inevitable for one of these men to conquer me. Just as the audience must realise it.

two

In a day of hackneyed plots und

lukes decided pleasure in announcing Universal's

criginal refreshingly Reckless Living" for showing days only from to-day. Cyril Guard- ner has taken apart the race track and its slung-dishing outside-the-law bookies" and "phone roums" to give you a glimpse into the inside of the their checked-cuited gamblers and

of

methods. With the assistance Ricardo Cortez, Mac Clarke and Nor man Foster, he permits you to find fall of the ingredients of good enter- tainment in these cleverly exposed secrets.

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Cortez, famous us star of the silent pictures,

Following "Ten Cents "It is the first time in my career talkies even greater star of the that. I have had to fall in love with a Dance." "Maltese Falcon" and "Her ruflian and found the experience a Man," his semi-villainous, bland

most stirring and entertaining part to play."

gambling character in "Reckless Living is heralded as one of the most "Personal Maid."

brilliant portrayals of an equally carcer. Mac Clark of Pat O'Brien, a stage actor for brillant twelve years, how appearing in Waterloo Bridge, is, as usual, the motion pictures, is never disconcerted personification of art and attractive- when he forgets the lines of a scene, ness. Norman Foster, Slim Sum- and always seems to have at his merville, Marie Prevost, Robert Em- tongue's end some at impravisionett D'Conner and Thomas Jackson, that prevents the scene being ruined, the screen's greatest detectives; and O'Brien, appearing with Nancy the band of race track bookies leave Carroll in "Personal Muid," now show-virtually nothing to be desired in ing at the Oriental Theatre, forgot a their performances. line during the filming of one of the The sparkling, slangy film, adapted picture's love scenes, but, so quickly to the seven from the stage play, and cleverly did he improvise a sub "On the Up and Up" by Courtney stitute, that the scene was saved.

Terrett und Tom Reed combines mile- When Director Monta Bell offered

reda-minute dialogue, pathos, romance, congratulations, O'Brien, suid:

and unusualnesis of plot in one big learned to do that in stock. My first entertaining picture. You must see lesson in such work was a rather "Reckless living," It is full of severe one. Playing in Plainfield, comedy, pathos and the joy of life. NJ.. my part requirul me to conceal myself in a trunk from

which

coulil spy on the leading lady. At the end of the neene I was supposed to raise the top of the trunk and get out.

"But, one day, the top locked on me in some way and I couldn't get out. I thought I would smother, and ray efforts to free, myself sent the trunk rolling around the stage. thought the scene was ruined when I heard the lending lady call out: Billy, are you a ghost? Yelling at the top of my voice I replied: 'No, but it's only a question of time bo

will bo'

"The leading Indy came and unlock- ed the trunk. I got out, and the nction went on as if nothing unusual had happened. For the audience it was all part of the play. And nover since then have I worried whon a line slips my memory.'

DUE SHORTLY

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Docks, etc. II.K. & K. Wharves $140% n. H. K. &. W, Docks, $18 b. S. China Motors A., $10 u." S. China Motor B., $8 n. Providents (old), $4.85 b. Providents (new), $2.30 n. Hongkows, Tis, 218 n. New Engineeringe, Tls. 6 n. Shanghai Docks, Tls. 80 n.

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Yaumati Ferries (old), $34 b. Yaumati Ferries (new), $33 b. China' Lights (old), $17.80 b. Chinn Lights (new), $17.60) n. H.K. Electrics, $771⁄4 b. Maeno Electrics, $24 n. Sandakan Lights, $12 n. Telephours (F.P.), $30 s. X. Div. Telephones (P.P.), $23 b. X. Div. Chion Buses, Tis.12 n. Singapore Tructions, 2/- ■ Singapore Pref. 12/6 n.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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If we nubstitute an A for an R, wo get an extremist.

5 Mother's quarrel for the dog.

A fox-hunting excavator,

10 Sho awaits most of us.

12 Add an abstainer, and we get a pretty little bird-but better, leave out.

12 Little Alexauler is often this in

America.

1 Grain store.

16 The cows' neuralgia is moving. 17 Their

anger led

to k · famous

question.

18 Rigorous.

21 Sometimes it is magic.

24 One of the things

chevalier lacked...

25 A dark hope wins.

豁 fantous

26 Dice make the gambler's drink. 20 Merge and merger.

30 The waiting maid sounds very ill,

31 What the Chancellor of the Ex-

chequer does to us. 32 Queen of erosses.

Down

Folk etc. (anag)

If a cat may laugh, may not an A.R.A. grin?

3 Product of Siam.

4 In this orange dyp the gypsy for once is in modish surroundings. 5 It

It is a pity this ruler has no chuurm.

6 Following a certain course, thia

word is an opener.

7 Mr. Pickwick got on rather badly

here.

8 In olden times this would be

guessed eftsoon.

14 Condition singular in England;

reversed, plural in France,

16 A regular retreat.

18 An incomplete fact indeed is

marred.

19 Frightened, naturally: Scarface

is ready for battle again.

20 Beheaded cowards become in-

spired caterers.

21 Descent that is hardly a

test for a car.

22 Secure.

fair

23 The problem might be called:

this.

27 Metal.

28 When one is loose there in a lack

of sanity,

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