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

John GILBERT

in TOD BROWNING'S 'production Based upon the play, "Rivets," by John W. McDermott,

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"SNAPPY CABALLERO" A Colourtone Comedy

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TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933.

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"Tell Mo To-night" certainty achleves the first duty of keeping romance alive in a world which has never run short of realism. It suc ceeds in creating the conditions of enchantment that are favourable to romance.

There is a combination of beautiful music and glorious scenery, that

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and

a really attractive picture featuring Jan Klepura, the Fellsh tenor, who in seven years has won a world-wide reputation, Sonnie Hale, Edmund Gwenn, Athene Seyler and Magda Schneider provide the sparkl ing fun.

"Clear All Wirek." -

"Clear All Wires," Broadway's biggest laugh hit, in 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.

Bella and Samuel Spewack, authors of the riotous drama of a fast-talking newspaper correspondent who gets it. 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 news paper "scoop," gets himself shot and Aves his commissar's life, then la arrested for the plot and falls into the tails of the Russian secret police intil a dramatic denouement saves him.

The role is said to be a mile-to- order one for Tracy, who first won notice for his portrayal of a newa- paper man in "The Front Page," on the stage and who has since follow ed this up with outstanding screen in "Blessed Event,"

"Night Mos

and "Love Is Racket." The feminine lead is played by Benita litime, English stage and screen star who makes her American debut in "Clear All Wires" but who will ha remembered for her work opposite Leslie Howard in "Service for Ladies." an English picture.

"Broadway Bad"

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

Each year the Wampas, Holly- wood's organization of publicity and advertising, men, isauës ita selection of Baby Star. The players named are those, the Wampas considera to have the most, brilliant prospects for full-fledged stardom. Only young netresses who have demonstrated their abilities with outstanding per- formances in Important pictures are conaltered 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 Jonn Blondell in her characterization of a girl who' hinkes the world pay for enfing her lad.

"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- a basis for "Fast creased provide

brings John Gilbert Workers,' to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow in a role that has all the punch and romantic hravad of his unforgettable part in The Big Parade."

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Rubert Armstrong is Gilbert's companion throughout neries of thrilla on top of skycrapers and amorous 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 by Ralph Wheelwright with dialogue Laurence Stallings of "What Frice Glory" fame. Tod Browning, direc tor of many hita starring the late Lon Chaney and who brought eerle thrills of "Dracula" to screen, directed,

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Gilbert portrays "Gunner," an ace riveter who leads all other hot motal experts on a big skyscraper in a race to completion. Armstrong is his "bucker" or strong arm man who holds an iron hammer on the back of a rivet an that the metal may be smashed town by the rivet gun. Mao Clarke who scored in "Waterloo Bridge" and "The Front Page," has the feminine lead as Indy of shady reputation Muriel Kirkland, who won considerable notice on the New York stage for her performance in "Strictly Dishonorable," is KORT AS "Millie."

"The Golden Weat"

It lan't necessary to walk bow- logged and say "that-a-way" to be atar. George a western mavle O'Brien has proven it.

One of the most successful por- trayers of western here on the screen, this handsome son of a Ban Francisco police official speaks the correct, English they teach undergraduates al Santa Clara University.

'O'Brien' latest film is "The Goldon Went," Fox pletures soon to be seen at the King's Theatre on Thursday.

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