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Battling for life! Reckless Romeos, carrying their feuds over women to dizzy heights. New thrills, new laughs, Dow love-storics!

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To-night" Me achieve the first duty of keeping romance alive in a world which has never run short of realism. It sue- ceeds in creating the conditions of enchantment that are favourable to romance. There is a combination of beautiful music and Klarious scenery, that brings to the picture theatre funt that kind of entertainment that in intensely and quietly satisfying be cause it does not depend upon thrills. Instead of thrill you get music and

delightful come in roll Mo To-

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attractive picture

nong Jan Klepura, the Polish world-wide reputation, Sonnia Ilale, Edmund Gwenn, Athene Seyler and Magda Schneider provide the sparkl ing fun.

who in navon years has won a

"Clear All Wires."

"Clear

All Wires," Broadway's biggest laugh hit, is on the screen at last. Lee Tracy heads a cast of film celebrities in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's talkie version of the play which is now at the Queen's Theatre.

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Bella and Samuel Spewack, authors of the riotous drama of a fast-talking newspaper correspondent who gets h to a maze of comic complications in Europe, also wrote the screen adapta- tion in collaboration with Delmer Daves. Tracy plays the role of the who irresponsible newspaperman

comes to Moscow, steals the chorus girl loved by the wealthy employer, tries to frame a shooting for a new paper "scoop," gets himself shot and life. then is Aves his commilasar's arrested for the plot and falls into the toils of the Russian secret nolice until

dramatic denouement saves kim.

The role is said to be a made-to- order one for Tracy, who first wan notice for his portrayal of a newa- paper man in "The Front Page," on the stage and who has since followed screen work Mayor"

this up with outstandket.""

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in "Blessed and "Love In feminine lead is played by Benita hume, English stage and screen star who makes her American debut in "Clear All Wires" but who will he remembered for her work opposite Leslie Howald in Servier for Ladies," an English picture.

"Broadway Bad"

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Ginger Rogers, the firey little redhead who plays Joan Blondell's worldy-wise girl friend in "Broadway. Bnd," was chosen recently as Wampas Baby Star of 1933. Four- teen others of the film colony's most talented young netresses were similar- ly honoured.

. Each year the Wampas, Holly wood's organization of publicity and advertising men, issues its selection of Baby Star. The players named are those the Wampas considers to have the most brilliant prospects for fall-fledged stardom. Only young actresses who have demonstrated their abilities with outstanding per formances in Important pictures are considered in the balloting.

In "Broadway Bad," now at the King's Theatre, Miss Rogers is one of a cast including Ricardo Cortez, Adrienne Ames, Allen Vincent, Victor Jory and others in support of Joan Blondell in her characterization of -a-girl-who makes the world pay for

calling her bad.

"Fast Workers."

The hilarious adventures of a couple of riveters who liked to climb high in the world so that their range of vision for the ladies would be in- creared provide n basis for "Fust Workers, which brings John Gilbert to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow in a role that has all the punch and romantic bravail, of his unforgettablo part in "The Big Parade."

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несп Ax Robert Armstrong is Gilbert's companion throughout neries of thrills on top of skycrapers and amoroas encounters on the ground that lead to a smashing climax.

The story is based on the play "Rivets," by John McDermott, adapted to the screen by Karl Brown and Ralph Wheelwright with dialogue Laurence Stallings of "What Frice Glory" fame. Tod Browning, direc for of many hits starring the Inte Lon Chaney and who brought the to the eeric thrils of "Dracula' screen, directed.

Gilbert portrays "Gunner," an ace riveter who leads all other hot metal experts on a big skyscraper in a race

J:1 to completion. Armstrong "bucker" or strong arm man who holds an iron hammer on the back ba of a rivet so that the metal may be smashed down by the rivet gun. Mao Clarke who scored in "Waterloo has Bridge" and "The Front Page, the feminine lead as a Indy of shady who reputation. Muriel Kirkland,

considerable notice on the New York stage for her performance in is seen as "Strictly Dishonorable," "Millic:"

won

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It isn't necessary to walk bow- lugged and any "that-a-way" to be star. George a western movie O'Brien has proven it.

One of the most successful por- trayers of western hero on the screen, this handsome son of o San Francisco police official speaks the correct, English they teach undergraduates at Santa Clara University.

O'Brien latest film in "The Golden West," Fox pictures soon to bo neon at the King's Theatre on Thursday,

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