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Innovations Although the Moorhen has left In movie-making, the entire netters of on the West River for over thirty and all doo have of the Godowa MANTUA "Home Express" takes place on the years, she has had a fairly unevent- after the 28th Juno 1933 will be RAWALPINDI

subject to rent.

*ALIPOKE fatnous crack flyer between Paris ful career.

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RANPURA Aug. 8 Not only does the picture mark the sembled in the dockyard here, she

All broken, chafed, and damaged RAJPUTANA return to the screen of Esther Rais-

was commissioned early in 1902, Goods are to be left in the Godowns, *BANGALORE ton, favourite of the silent days, and Until the declaration of war in where they will be examined on the Conrad laughs" and other cinema

character star of "The 1914, H.M.S. Moorhen, served as 27th June 1933,

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Her displacement is 180 tons, dienne of "Madame Racketeer" is in length 165 feet, maximum beam 26 trouble again in an hilarious comedy ft., and draught 34 ft. Two six “A Lady's Profession." opens to.

morrow at the Queen's Theatre featur. pounders and four Maxim machine ing, besides Miss Skipworth, Roland Runs constitute the vescal's arma-

Kent Taylor, ment.

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Karas

Two sister ships of the Moorhen,

As Lady Beulah Bonnell, of "Twie- II.M.S. Widgeon and H.M.S. Tnel, ket-on-Topping," Allson Skipworth aleo on the China station, were leaves the safety of her ancestral scrapped in 1931.

home to rescue from his scrapes an Officers of H.M.S. Moorhen be- impoverished nobleman, played by fore she was de-commissioned were Roland Young. With his horse,

far-too-intelligent Lt. Cdr P. W. Wainewright and

Lt. H.R. Thompson.

Willington animal who persists in stepping on lints, Young comes to America to re- coup the family fortunes only to get himself mixed up with the rocket boys.from his own slage success by the He is rescued finally, the family for-author, and can be confidently reconi- tunes return to their prewar condi-mended as a real dramatic thriller. tion, and everything in lovely with There is a certain amount of humor- Sari Maritza and Kent Taylor on the aus relief, but the drama is the wain receiving end of the romantic inter-thing, and the mystery

is well pre- The ever served until the closing scenes. The American racketeer has never cast is an excellent one, both as re- been pictured quite as humorously as he is shown in this picture. You'll ads suitability for the parts and for quality of acting. The reproduc- love Keyhole Meklusky, Nutty Bolton tion of English as we like to hear and The Colonel" who exhorts his it spoken leaves nothing to be desired. boys to go out and sell liquor for the "The Squenker" in full value for any suke of the "wives and kiddies" be fan's money. fore the government "muncles in on the racket."

ext.

"Tell Me To-night"

The Winer Sex.

It's sheer nonsense, but you'll de- Claudette Colbert, Almiand's "most light in the humour that brings rip-unscandalized" brunette, featured by | pling giggles and loud guffaws as the Paramount in "The Wiser Sex" was nnive "Babes in Speakeasyland" raise born in the suburbs of Paris, near the have with the milliest racketeers Bois de Bologne

but almost you've ever seen.

her entire memory of Paris in child- hood is confined to daily walks in the "bols" with her nurse ···

When abo she The Central Theatre is showing was six, father lost his money, and again for two days the wonder pic-the family determined to seek a new

ME ture of the year "TELL

TO-start in New York

She almost NIGHT by special requests,

ready to graduate from high school It is unnecessary

to mention

so before she was permitted to ken first much about the story or about the stage play... attended her first scenery and the magnificent voice of dance when she was seventeen, and Kiepura, the eminent Polish singer; mother and dad went with her those who saw this latest Gaumont- did a successful bit in a school play British picture just a few days ago and decided she would like to try act- was surely satisiled. "Tell Me To-me

parents objected and she ing night" is something delightfully new kot a drawing and painting course at in the way of film entertainment and, the New York School of Applied Arts if you want to see it again. don't instead.

got first stage part.

her forget, at the Central Theatre to-fas the result of a jest at a party at- day, and to-morrow only.

tended by Anne Morrison, who wrote "Pigs," and who named Claudette "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm". for a chance in Tho. Wild Westcotts" Marlan Nixon will be seen in the

in leisure moments she taught iitle role, paired with Ralph Bellamy French to her feminine pals as the kindly, sympathetic Dr. Ladd stage renown came fast after she was in "Rebecen of Sunnybrook Farm".

given the lead in Brock Pemberton's the famous classic from the pens of "The Marionette Man” ..

her Kate Douglas Wiggin and Charlotte father Was treasuring newspaper Thompson opening to-day at the clippings about his famous daughter Oriental Theatre.

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"The Squeaker"

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