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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932.

CINEMA SCREENINGS.

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

Thrills come abounding and aboom- ing to the Oriental with the showing of "Touchdown!" the first football story over turned out by Hollywood without the use of the conventional Dick Merriwell finish." Touchdown!" fa grand and glorious All-American entertainment.

Paramount has brought an abun dance of technical authenticity, to this pulse-stirring modern classle of tho football field. The

author, Francis Wallace, was press corres- pondent for Rockne's championship team for soine years. He is an ex- pert on football, an author of two novels about the game, and a sports: writer of country-wide renown. In the

rous football scenes appear numerous of the

gridiron

great of tho many of few

There are five past years.

All- Amorcan players in the line-up.

The story deals with the moral, social and romantic issues at stake in the building-up of a great football team. Arlen, as the conch,

is the central figure in these dramatic. romantic events. Peggy Shannon as the girl he loves, is more hewitching than ever. Charles Starrett, Jack Oakie, Regis Toomy, and George Barbier have prominent parts.

Polly of the Circus."

The most breath-taking and spec- tacular circus fall ever filmed is one of the thrilling climaxes in Marion & Davies' new starring vehicle, "Polly of the Circus," now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

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through the air swing al a height of eighty feet from the ground to connect with Another trapeze on the other side of the tent. Special cameras stands and micro- Iphone equipment were constructed on

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veals their true, relations. furious at being daped. His primi. tive sense of justice impels him to thrash Marsden, then denounce Kitty. At this juncture, a detective who has been trailing the pair, breaks in and arrests Marsden. The prisoner is locked in a room to await transpor- tation, back to the States.

During the night he attempts to escape and is killed by the detective. MeVelgh comes to say goodbye to the girl, believing she is being taken to pri- The detective informs him that

that Marsden is dead. McVeigh and Kitty then return to America to- gether.

"Reserved for Ladies"

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a-large loam that followed Minne has "nothing on the girl now

| Davies as she swung through apace. Part of the action required that she miss the trapeze when loud yell in the audience distracts her attention. By special placing of the cameras above, below and with the "boom" parallel with the star, a closeup is shown of her actually missing the bar and then the horrifying spectacle of a human form hurtling through the air to what looks like almost certain death!

Leslie Howard, who plays the lead- ing male role in Paramoyht's "Re- served for Ladies." which is the King's Theatre feature today, is an English actor who first gained pro- minence on the London stage a de. cade ago. Because of his outstand

dramatic talent and attractive ing According to Director Alfred San- personality, American theatrical pro- tell, the results obtained in this scene ducers drafted him for featured roles are the most realistic of any “falling"

on the Broadway stage. He was ar scene ever attempted at the M-G-M. Immediate and pronounced success.

studioa.

His first Broadway appearance was

Appearing in the strong support-In the role of Sir Calverton Shipley ing_cust_ure Clark Gable, C. Aubrey in "Just Suppose." During the next Smith, Raymond Hatton and Maude Afteen years he appeared in fifteen Elnurne.

major American productions, the most prominent of

which

was "The Green Hat," playing

opponite Kathering Corneil; and "Her Card- board Lover," in which he scored a great success, which succesa he re-

"Wicked."

When the motion picture screen first found its voice many left the stage for the more lucrative work that Hollywood offered. Yet there were

many who turned deaf ears to the movies but these, one by one, gradual ly succumbed und

travelled westward.

the

The latest star to heed the call of

peated in London on two occasions, in one of which Tallulah Bankhead played the feminine lead.

In 1927, just ten years after be coming an actor, he joined the ranks of the playwrights and who

and wrote the play "Murray Hill' which he

produced later in London under the title "Toll the Truth, in addition at about the same time, he staged two other pro- ductions in London theatres.

nt

It dates back to

Elmdom is Allan Dinchart, who made his film debut in "The Brat" plays a featured role in support of Elissa

in her new Fox drama,

to-morrow opening The

Theatre. Dinchart's stage career was a long und successful one. the time when he played in "The Girl Of The Golden West" with Frank Kennan, Blanche Bates and Robert Hiliard. Since that time his appearances on Broadway have been many and his most outstanding plays were. "The Marriage Bed," "Thats Gratitude, "The Meanest Mun In The World" and "Lawful Larceny."

Dinchart's stage success has often been accredited to his deep

study

of theatrical technique. And it would seems that he intends to follow the

al- sane procedure to film fame, for though he was not called for netion until the bixth day of the picture's filming he spent every moment on the set from the first shooting trying to discover just what it was that make the movies click.

in

Ayen

Man

Miss Land' Jending "Wicked" is the he-man of the films, Victor McLaglen. Una Merkel and Theodore Von Eltz are also to be seen in fentured roles. Allan Dwan directed from an original story by Gordon Rigby which Adela Rogers St. John adapted for the mercen.

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"Sin Ship."

Howard's

most recent, alago en- gagenient was the lead in the sensa Bonal Broadway success, "The Ani- mal Kingdom." He entered pictures several years ago, playing prominent parts in, "Outward Bound" "Never the Twain Shall Meet." "Daughter of Luxury," with Marion Davies," "A Free Soul and "Devotion" with Ann Harding.

tic profession. In fact he started us Howard was not born to the drama-

bank clerk in London shortly after finishing his education at Dulwich School. Hy quickly tired of his bank- in vocation and joined the British World War. He was honorably dis- urmy after the breaking out of the charged

from the

service in 1917 and then chose to become an actor,

Dr. Hig first stage appearance was in a road show company playing "Peg 0 My Heart. followed later by "Charley Aunt" and "Inder

Cover," His advancement was rapid. He is mar- ried to Ruth Evelyn Murtin and has two children, a son Ronald and a daughter named Lealig Jr., after her father. His principal recreation is riding and his hobby is amateur pho- tography. Howard's most attractive singe and screen characterization is that of the smooth, suave, sophisti- cated lover.

"Dracula."

Sonic of the most picturesque set- things in the history of the screen are included in "Dracula," Univer nal's weirdest mystery drama which is showing at the Central Theatre to- day and to-morrow only.

As Captain McVeigh (Louis Wel- wim) and his cut-throat crew tio up their schooner at the docks of Sau Diego, after a cruise of the South Sens, they notice a minister and his beautiful wife (Lan Keith and Mary Aster) have just missed an out-bound and Stemmer at the same pier. The wife at- tracts the covetous eyes of the Brew. McVeigh, especially, is attracted by her beauty, When the stranded

Many of the earlier scenes are laid couple explain to McVeigh they are in nad about the crumbling stone cas- anxious to go to Son Duval, they un- tlo of Count Dracula, an ancient ruin wittingly fall into the latter's rapidly which lins been occupied for 600 formulating plot. He will take them

Dracula and other to San Duval, but-after the boat undead"

years except by

vampires who

return | ន well under way, the Captain in- nightly from the grave, und make of

vites Kitty, the girl, to his

the castle a veritable house of hor room for lea. When she conica de ror. Some of the meat massive sets informin her of his real purpose in the history of Hollywood

Instead of being frightened, she constructed for this picture, showing roundly, berates him, and by sheer various chambers

in an advanced force of will overcomex his unwel-state of disorder with atone balue- come advances, leaving him hating trades and pillars fallen into disor- himself.

tered ruina," and the entire interior festooned with cobwebs.

state-

and

The schooner continues on its way to Sun Duval with McVeigh going. through the throes of reform, Hu causes the crew to clean and polish the boat from stem to stern make themselves presentablo. Ho even naks the "minister," who really la a erook running away from jun. tico, to go aft and preach a short

sermon to the crew.

As McVolgh's rospect and love for Kitty grows, she falls in love with him. The pseudo miniator becomes intensely jealous and plans to kill the captain of the first opportunity. One night, after the arrival in port, MoVeigh makon à "Romeo and Jailet visit to the quarters of Kitty

were

There are hair-raising scenes in a graveyard, with a female vampire, risen from her grave, wandering dla consolately among the tombstones. Opening scenes depict a picturesque inn in the mountains of Transylvania, and a rocky mountain разя сп д foggy night, with wolves howling in

the darkness,

After the story is transferred to England, involving a terrible storm at sea, many scenes aro laid in an ancient Abbey leased by Dracula--a location which in its ruined construc tlon is greatly reminiscent of the cas to in Transylvania.

Amid these

hese picturesque settings is

twoong Markdung and Kitty walan Fos, strangest story, with the famous

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