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CINEMA SCREENINGS. Next in point of performance

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Itoland Young, who is splendid as the Critic, a

highly amutsed innocent bystander. Zasu Pitts is laughable an usual, in the role of comedy mald Maulo Ebarne, stage setres of high repute, makes a very comical then For gripping drama and tension.trical mamma, Sidney Franklin is to few pletures to come out of Hollywood be commended for the smooth nature can equal "Skyscraper Souls, the of his direction. He has faithfully all the latest product of Metro-Goldwyn-transplanted to the screen Mayor, which is showing from to original sophisticated charm of Mol morrow at the Queen's Theatre. The nar's play, as translated into screen world's tallest building-a 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." the Through the eye of the camera are To establish Lunt and Fontanne in shown Incidents and problems, the story as a successful pair of theatrical

struggles and player, loves, the joys, the

single incident of Maxwell despaire

of the occupants of this Anderson's "Elizabeth, the Queen" is

on the theatro's stage: building. As a result, ono of the presented

"Elizabeth, the Queen" is the success most engrossing pictures of the year

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has been produced. Sparkling per-of the current season in which, Lunt formances and able direction by Ed. and Fontanne have appeared all over gar Selwyn add to the effectiveness the country. In this play within and realism of the production. War-play Lynn Fontanne portrays Queen ren William as the giant of finance Elizabeth and Alfred Lunt his role of whose treachery brings all n

The Phonton President" building to disaster, and Maureen O'Sullivan, as the leading romantic The best way to get on the stage figure, shine forth with renewed bril-to-day is to throw on your hat and liance. There are also remarkable walk on after it. There's performances by Verreo Teasdale, truth than humour in that statement, New York stage actress appearing in according to George M. Cohan, nathor her Arst film, and Jean Hersholt actor and producer, who makes Just as

In "Grand Hotel," Hersholt For it is entirely without optimism makes one of the leseer zoles of the that Cohan, who makes his talking- play stand out in bold relief. And picture debut with Claudette Colbert in "The Phantom then there is the skyscraper itself, and Always it looms forth as an imports Theatre surveys the prospect of young

Prey Durante in

showing at the King's ant figure in the dramn. Portuhos

fought for, love in won and lost, people breaking on to the stage at the human Ilves are sacrificed. hopes present. Cohon, who has been a glenn and fade and are kindled again, dominant figure in the American thea- And tre for more than quarter-century, human beings laugh and cry. over the lives of all, this building plays two roles in his first talitie. He The Most Suitable bear for the spreads its shadow. In their madis first a candiate for President who

Tropics. parauit 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 as many prisoners in the steel cells with personality who is hired to im

call their offices. The story in-personate the former. The result in they volves a financial magnate's attempt highly hilarious. to use those around him as pawns in his scheme to gain ownership of the One day a plainly dressed woman world's greatest skyscraper. There collapsed in Market Street, Snu in the woman who through love, has Francisco. A crowd gathered, an given her life to help him succeed. ambulance was called and she There in the little stenographer whom taken to the City Receiving Hospital ho lures from the boy who wants in the fall of Justice Building.! to marry her. There is, too, Thirty-six hours from the moment the the radio announcer, in the tower doors closed upon her the headlines of the building who tries by of the San Francisco Examiner were: stealing money to hold the wo screaming an exposure of shocking 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 ather thin dram' run the currents of other lives Winfred Sweet, who wrote under the -drawn suddenly together to com- pen name of Annie Laurie, the original non ruin through the colossal tren- "Sob Sister", and who took this me- chery of the building owner. Others that of getting hidden news. This in the cast who perform notably are method of news gathering is Gregory Rate, Anita Page, Norman proximated in the Fox remantle drama Faster, George Barbier, Walince Ford, "Scb Sister", which opens on Thurs- Hedda Hopper. Edgar Selwyn, as day at the King's Theatre. James director, has achieved the unusual in Dusn newest screen sensation, and handling the action of the story, all Linda Watkins lead the photoplay's of which takes place in a great New large and brilliant enst. "Sob York skyscraper.

war adapted for the screen by Edwin Aparking Brilliant Acting In "The Guardsman". Burke who wrote the

Cleverness in acting, direction, play dialogue for "Bad Girl", and directed construction and lines are noticeable "Daddy Long Legs". features of "The Guardsman," the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy now showing at the Queen's Theatre. The situation of the story, by Ferene Molnar, the highly sophisticated Hun- carian dramatist, pala an immediate strain on its principals. It concerna an actor who is insanely jealous of his wife, and makea 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 sain stars, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Lunt is the armorous, deep-voiced Russian) magnificent. both as the actor, and Cossack, and as the wife with the enigmatic eyes, Lynn Fontanne runs him a close race for first honours.

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