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CINEMA SCREENINGS. Next in point of performance is

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Roland Young, who is splendid as the! Critle, a highly amused Innocent bystander. Znau Pitta is laughable un usual, in the role of comedy mald. Maudo Eburns, stage actress of high repute, makes a very comical thea- For gripping drama and tension.trical mamma. Sidney Franklin is to few pictures to come out of Hollywood be commended for the smooth nature can equal "Skyscraper Souls, the of his direction. He has faithfully latest product of Metro-Goldwyn-transplanted to the screen all Mayer, which is showing from to original xophisticated charm of Mol morrow at the Queen's Theatre. The par's play, as translated into screen world's tallest building 102-storey form by Ernest Vajda and Claudine New York skyscraper-Is the locale West An Interesting feature of the of this novel and absorbing drama production is a "play within a play." Through the eye of the camera are To establish Lunt and Fontanno in the the story as a successful pair of theatrical shown incidents and problems, loves, the joys, the struggles and players, a single incident of Maxwell the theatro's stage despairs of the occupants of this Anderson's "Elizabeth, the Queen" Is

the presented on building. As a result, one of

year "Elizabeth, the Queen" is the success mest engrossing pictures of the year has been produced Sparkling per-of the current season in which Lunt formancea and able direction by Ed-and Fontanne have appeared all over gar Selwyn add to the effectiveness the country. In this play within a and reallam of the production. War.play Lynn Fontanne portrays Queon Ten William as the giant of financa Elizabeth and Alfred Lunt his role of in the EsBox whose treachery brings all

Maureen

"The Phantom President" building to disaster. and

"The best way to get on the stago O'Sullivan, as the leading romantie figure, shine forth with renewed bril-to-day is to throw on your hat and it There's ΠΟΤΕ liance. There are also remarkable walk on after performances by Verreo Teasdale, truth than humour in that statement, New York atage actress appearing in according to George M. Cohan, author, it, hor first film. and Jean Hersholt actor and producer, who makes Jest as in "Grand Hotel," Hersholt Fur it is entirely without optimism makes one of the leaser roles of the that Cohan, who makes his talking- play stand out in bold relief. And picture debut with Claudette Colbert Phantom then there is the skyscraper itself, and Jimmy Durante in "The Always it looms forth as an import-President, showing at the King's ant figure in the drama. Fortunes Theatre sarveys the prospect of young are fought for, love in won and lost, people breaking on to the stage at the

has been Racrificed, hopes present. Cohan, who human lives gleam and fade and are kindled again, dominant figure in the American thes- n quarter-contury, human beings laugh and cry. And tre for more than over the lives of all, this building plays two roles in his first talkie.

madis lirat 'n eandiate for President who spreads its shadow. In their ង pursuit of love and lucre the thou- lacks the personality to win votes, and sands of workers in the skyscraper are second a medicine-show man brimming no many prisoners in the steel cells with personality who is hired to im they call their offices. The story In-personate the former. The result is volves a fanacial magnate's attempt highly hilarious. to use those around him as pawns in his schrine to gain ownership of the world's greatest skyscraper. There is the woman who through love, has given her life to help him succeed. ambulance was called and she was There is the little stenographer whom taken to the City Receiving Hospital wants in the Hall of Justice Building. he lures from the boy who

There is. too, Thirty-six hours from the moment the her. miarry the radio announcer in the tower doors closed upon her the headlines

trics who of the building

by of the San Francisco Examiner were shocking stealing money to hold the wo screaming an exposure of man who is his whole life and loses conditions in that hospital, for the both woman and life. All through the supposed sufferer was no other than drama run the currents of other lives Winfred Sweet, who wrote under the drawn suddenly together to com- pen hame of Annie Laurie, the original man ruin through the colorant irca-Sob Sister", and who took this me chery of the building owner. Others thod of getting hidden news,

method of news gathering in the cast who perform notably are meti Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Norman proximated in the Fox romantic drama Fester. George Barbier, Wallace Ford, "Sob Sister", which opens on Thura- Hedda Hopper. Edgar Selwyn, as day at the King's Theatre. James und director, has achieved the unusual in Dunn newest screen sensation, handling the action of the story, all Linda Watkins head the photoplay's of which takes place in a grent New large and brilliant cast. "Sob Sister" York skyscraper.

was adapted for the screen by Edwin wrote the sparking Brilliant Acting In “The Guardsman". Burke who

Cleverness in acting, direction, plny dialogue for "Bad Girl", and directed construction und lines are noticeable "Daddy Long Lego". features of The Guardsman." the now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy now showing at the Queen's Theatre. The situation of the story, by Ferenc Molnar, the highly sophisticated Hun. garian dramatist, puts an immediate strain on its principals. It concerns an actor who is insanely jealous of his wife, and makes love to her in disguise, in order to test her loyalty to him. The play was an enormous success on the stage, and it has been brought to equally successful cinema fruition by the same stars. Alfred Lunt and Lyan Funtanne. Lunt is

to

the amorous, deep-voiced Russian magnificent both as the actor, and Cossack, and as the wife with the enigmatic eyes, Lynn Fontanne rus hin a close race for first honours.

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