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"GRAND HOTEL” MERITS ITS INTENSIVE
PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
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CAST IN GOLD
MEDAL FILM
By "Celluloid"
FORTISSIMO
praise and panegyrics have spelled more box-office disasters than bad artistry, and the his- tory of theatrical and cinematic production ls strewn with the wrecks of good material that the public failed to support. It is the old old story of anticipa- tion and realisation.
All of which cancerps Grand Hotel, the M.G.M. muchboosted ver. sion of Vicki Baum's best-seller.
Crowds queued up to book for the opening shows at the Queen's yes- terday, and should continue their frantic rush to break jong-distance 'run recoris' here, for despite the ink that has been spilled on its publicity and the major keys in which its praises have been sung, the realisation of Grand Hotel is worth the eager anticipation.
JOHN Barrymore, and his famous
profile, which he exploits fully in "Grand Hotel" at the Queen's,
It a selection of the best his- trionic display were demanded, it would probably go to Wallace Beery for Lionel Barrymore. Beery as the industrial magnata la different to the rought-neck of Bfin and Bill and The Champ, while Lionel
Barry- more, la extravagent in gesturo an usual, and brother John exactly the on sama impudent rascal us Arsene
Of all the intensive Hollywood ballyhoo campaigns, the fanfare that heralded Grand Hotel has probably Rounded the farthest Publicity
began writers
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Feb. 9, Feb. 9.
Chinese Bonds
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Chinese Eng. was suggested und cach glit- Continuity la where Grand Hotel J. & P. Conte
Min. toring, ular added to its
Cust scores as a story: scenario writers Courtaulds provided, additional fuel for their have linked its many acenes panegyric pens. Every incident in gether into a smooth running plot its making was acized on for pro-and director Edmund Goulding paganda. Crities took up the tale has.carried it out with correct at when it appeared and fresh super- tention to tempo. Intives almost had to be employed when the Hollywood Academy gave
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it the gold medal for the best pro-NTII biggest names in the Amer-Imp. Tobacco duction of 1932.
TH biggest names in the Amer. Imp. Tobreen
Never has a film had a
higher gathered together to make The Hip Turner & Newall value placed on it, and failure to Broadcast something new in muni- Unilever come up to expectations might have been its fate. But Grand Hotel justifies the solid slabs of superla
tives that have decribed it.
Kly. Pekin Svndiente
Vickers Shal. Elee. Constr.
cal Aims. What headliners Part- mount have collected! The great Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Burns Auglo-Dutch and Allen, Cai Calloway, thBurma Corpn. If for no other reason, the film Boswell Sisters, the Milla Brothers Cadian Pacific earns its praises in its semblance and the Vincent Lopez orchestra. to the original. Hollywood has Most of them are strangers here been guilty of some terrible abor- but their names are on thousands tions in the past, and notwith- of gramophone records and their standing the dilleulty in cramming radio audientes must the massive tome of Vicki Baum's millione. novel into an hour and a half of
A delightful original musical celluloid, the makers have sent out spectacle, The Big Broadcast in a as faithful a copy as possible.leason in showmanship by the Readers of the book will enjoy the Hollywood pastmasters. The most film. They will not carp at any of popular personalities in broad- the carefully selected cast.
casting have been brought to- star" film: of the sextette of stars
Grand Hotel in definitely an "all-
that ran production costa to seven figures, not one can be accused of dominating tho ведцепсев. The
WOZNIANZENICURE HOTLLES
TO-DAY.
sumber
gether in one glittering compact
entertainment.
But it is not all harmony and hullaban. The story which welda the artists together is highly ingenious and contains the correct amalgamation of humour and sen-
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LATEST NEW YORK QUOTATIONS
Messrs. Swan, Culliertson and Fritz CINEMA PROGRAMME.timent. Apart from the radio have received the following quota- singera, Stuart Erwin is the star.tions on the New York cotton and
wheat exchange for yesterday: Of the performers, Bing Crosby's
Colton admirers will be well satisfied.
Opening Closing The Big Broadcoat is the Sunday
Rang
Range attraction at the King's.
6.00-6.02 6.03-6.03 6.15-0.16 G.16-6.16 6.27-6.28 6.27-6.28 G48-6.47 6.48-6.48 8.50-8.60 6.61-0.61 0.02-0.05 0.61-0.65
King's: "Woman in Room 13." Queen's: "Grand Hotel" Central: "Law and Order." Star: "Millie."
Majestie: "Peach O' Reno." Oriental: "Transatlantic."
TO-MORROW.
Central: "Air Mail.”
SUNDAY.
King's: "The Bly Broadcast.” World: "Roll Divers."
Star: "But the Flesh is Weak," Majestic: "Trial of Vivienne
Ware."
LOOPS AND LOOPS,
▼NDE "Last Post" of the
WIT
Talms seems to have sounded
March
May July October December
the "Reveille of the air stunting Spot production. Air Mail, due at the Central Lo-morrow sings the praise of the heroes of the U. S. May Government mail in an airport, July
Sentumber allegedly miles from anywhere. October There is a crowd of rough he-
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ma pilots, flying the usual rage vogue, tell the audience all in the with death, spectacular nerial first scene. They decided on the shots that almost reach the stand-latter: Whether they chose wise- nrd of Hell'a Alia and Hell ly is doubtful. Divera, and, of course, respective
KARSTENSTICHEN: 239649MERIA love affairs,
With the mystery gone, the distribution of film-feet is practical-mun, supported by Pat O'Brien,make their exits and entrance in Ralph Bellamy is the head heters depends on the acting of the principals, and while they all ly equal and the spotlight shines on Russell Hopton, Silm Summer-accordance with the best Holly each in turn.
It is a new Garbo ville, Gloria Stuart and Lilian wood tradition, there seems a lack who heads the list, and many of Bond.
the not-sp-ardent admirers of the Swede will And in her something that her previous films Incked. She
Landa
has
10 sustaining interest. MURDER WILL OUT.
Ilappily, Elissa makers of The Woman in seldom had
a better part. As Room 15, now at the King's, usual she is the mystery woman, Mala Hari or Anna Christie, nor were evidently in 1 quandary the same as other films, but in a the Inanimate object of the silent whether to make it a mystery or, (better chance to show her an-
seems to be the prevailing doubted artistry. films, but displays amazing vivacity.' an
is not the lugubrious dame
of
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