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CINEMA SCREENINGS.]t to the producer of the stage show

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

I was in. Ito roared with laughter, KEEP UPKEEP DOWN

assured me talking pictures couldn't last and told me it was exceedingly BY FITTING funny that I was considering them. Well, that mado me a littlo angry-

"Decarbo"

Married mon....how would you I went into a talkie role to show like to be able to disguise yourself him and it changed my whole carcer." sufficiently to make love to your own During her first year in pletures Miss AUTOMATIC DECARBONISER wives? This situation suppies the Twelvetrees played smail rolex, but

Particulars from reasons for the laughs in the amua finally came to Hollywood, where

H. CONNELL & CO. LTD. comedy, The Guardsman," in whica

4th floor, China Bullding. Alfred Lunt and Lyan Fontanne are Edmund Goulding, director of "Grond "The Grand ***Hotel," cast her in co-starred at the Queen's Theatre Parade," which started her On IL from Sunday. In this naughty Con- brilliant list of performances. Her CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. tinental romance, an actor is very ant jealous of his wife. He imagines that newest role, as the wolfish girl whose headlessness places her brother in

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES her interest in him is waning; that

MARITIMES. she is casting her eyes towards other danger of his life, and who is forced to a terrific sacrifice to save hiff men. Ha resalves to test her fidelity. from her folly, is one of the sense-

rough, verito llo disguises himself an

tional roles of the year. The story Russian guardsman with a deep guts by Bayard Veiller, noted play- tural voice. As the guardaman ho weight and author of "The Trial of succeeds in gaining a clandestine Mary Dugan "I enjoyed the pic- rendezvous with his own wife. What ture hugely says Miss Twelvetrees, happens? Well, of course,

it would because

was a far different type be a shame to disclose that....for the of role from any in my experience." Incidents included provide most of the

"Love Me Tonight" laughs in this play, which originally

Hollywood put a horse under con- packed the Theatre Gulld theatre in New York for aver a year. It was the tract to toss Maurice Chovaller from biggest single stage success of Lunt his back to the ground-as gently as and Fontaine, acknowledged leaders possible. The horse is known simply of the current American "legitimate" as Brownie. He got the contract to of "Love Me theatre. Sidney Franklin, who did auch make a

водистсе

hunt at a

to

a woman

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a fine job with "The Last of Mrs. Tonight", Chevailer's latest starring Cheyney and a long list of other picture, now at the King's Theatre.

The sequence shown a hits, directed the picture. The screen version was written by Ernest Vajda. smart country estate. Maurice, in from Ferchco Molmar's original the role of a mere tailor marnde drama, with continuity by Alaudine a baron, and trying his

impress Jeanette MacDonald, a Weat

of aristocratic family, almost reveals "The Phantom President"

his true identity by his bad riding. George M. Cohan for President! His wit, however, saves the day after

Damaged Packages must be left in That's the resolution that has been his spill from the horse, and soon

the Godowns for examination by the consignees, and the Company's Sur- adopted by the Hollywood, Breakfast Jeanette h

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Douglas Club, and the New York City Flare Jeanette has yielded to his charms.

vayor Mesere:-Goddard cret of his identity ultimate- AT | But the secret

at 10.00 a.m. on Monday, the 16th, Club And It's not based on the factly comes out anyhow, and then it

Consignees, January, 1935.

must that the veteran author, actor, pro requires an amusing, but at the same

have a Revenuo Officer in attendance ducer and composer la cast in the time romantic climax, to straighton

when any damaged dutiable goods are role candidate for President in things up to everyone's satisfaction.

examined by the Company's Sur his first talking picture, "The Phantom

veyors. President", in which he is fentured

Charles Laughton, one of the with Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante, and which shortly comes in catured players in "The Old Dark the King's Theatre. Coban finda House" at the Central Theatre this himself in The Phantoin Prealdent" week was a hotel clerk in London b in two similar roles-one as a candid him to go in the navy. Ite did not

fore the war, though his family want date equipped for the business end of go on the stage until five years after the Presidency, but lacking the per- sonality to get votes; and the other his war service.

of a

"Unashamed"

"The Old Dark House"

"Bird of Paradise”

as a "dead-ringer" for the candidate, equipped with the "goodwill" per- RKO Radio's lavishly produced aonality. Miss Colbert is cast as the spectacle of Richard Walton Tully's girl over whom the two Cohnns come great stage play, "Bird of Paradise," to odds, and Durante as the pal of the comes to the Central on Sunday. pseudo-candidate,

Dolores Del Rio and Joel McCrea are starred. No expensa was spared in making this thrilling film, which has Injured dignity launched Helen bean acclaimed as the sensation of Twelvetrees to success on the screen. the year. It drow repent audiences If a theatrical producer hadn't "kid-year after year in the United States ded the talkies, und Incidentally and ran a year in London. It earn- "kidded" her for considering on offered its author G$600,000.00. I made to appear in them, the heroine of slar after star in its legitimate "Unashamed," Metro-Goldwyn-Ma- | dramatic career. And now Rko Radio, yer's vivid mystery drama now play: has brought it to the screen in all its ing at the Queen's Theatre, would glory. Under the direction of that probably still be on the New York master of directors, King Vidor. it stage. "I was playing the lead in has been made into a wonderful an picture a vivid, spectacular picture of Roulette," she replied, "when offer came from a New York studio super-appeal; picture of rare to try the talkies. I didn't think beauty and undying sentiment of this much of it at the time, but mentioned tremendous love story.

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The English novelist, Compton MacKenzie was fined in the Old Bailey to-day £100 and also order- ed to pay £100 costs on a charge under the Oficials Secrets Act. Ho plended guilty.

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