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"Just_My Luck"

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THE THEATRES

"Zoo in Budapest" opening to-day at the King's Theatre, is the first independent production by Jesse L. Lasky undor the now made with Fox Film.

ona

arrangement

atmosphere

As

and Sam Small, become gloriously articulate in a talking film version of "The Third String their funniest adventure, which will be shown at: the King's Theatre next change.

"Just My Luck" tolls the story of a music teacher with whom Fato had Ginger's hopeless love for the fickle always been scurvy. Until he reached Mlas Tucker, his pals' droll, double- the age of thirty-five he had bowed crossing attempts and his vain, but to what appeared to be the Inevitable. Homerle encounter with burly Bill music teacher he was more or Lumm are just the right ingredients loss of success, but his pupil bo- for a screen comedy that has humanity The story of "Zoo in Budapest" is loved that there was more in him as well as humour lufts composition. than the dimdent surface revealed, and Sandy Powell, Mark Daly and of novel proportions. As te did her best to encourage him, Sud- background it han a

Continua denly he lost his job and bumped Charles Paton as the incorrigible zoological park, where animals ara #19 kept in an nearly a natural state as against a man who had always been trio, Kay Hammond as the girl with possible. With thia

successful became be beloved in him- "threo strings to her bow and "Alf established, the plot reveals a romance self and so infected others with his Geddard as Bill Lumim", have skilful between a young man who has always enthusinam that they accepted him ly caught the spirit of the author'a identified the park as his home, and

and the ability be claimed to posses at engaging charactors, Similarly Geor ge Pearson has, in his direction, main a girl who visits the park as one of his own valuation.

The music teacher; absorbed the tained the attractive atmosphere of of students from orphanage. The love between theseason to such good effect that his W. W. Jacobs popular series two youngsters is an Ingenuous one, diffidence disappeared as he replaced yarns.

his Ita tone from the examples of it of a brilliant mon, and at once ho British comedy with

The Third String", in short, is a sombre garb with the phining out-

a ready-made popularity that ensures its apprecia- "snaffled a first-rate position.

The intricacies of the story provide] tive acceptance by audiences every- Ralph Lynn with characteristic situa-where. tons, and Jack Raymond has directed the picture with such understanding that the notable success achieved by actor and director in "Mischief" will altegther outshone in "Just My Luck",

group

aslato

rugged naturs around them.

The cast, in support of Miss Loretta Young and Gene Raymond, is headed by O. P. Heggie in the role of sympathetic doctor. Others in the cast are Wally Albright, Paul Fix, Murray Kinnell, Ruth Warren, Roy Stewart, Frances Bich, Niles Welch, Lucille Ward, Ruas Powell and Dorothy Libaire.

"What!..No Beer"?

bo

Winifred Shotter la at her very best in the picture, while Davy Burnaby, in his first British and Dominions pro- duction, is said to score heavily, Vera Pearce pinying a prominent part with him. "Just My Luck will open at the Central Theatre to-morrow.

"The Passionato Plumber"

of

"Platinum Blonde"

Columbia Pictures has tried an

intereating and novel experiment in casting two definito types in roles which seem at first to be almost the exact opposites of their own personall ties.

Loretta Young and Jean Harlow, who work together in one picture for the first time in Columbia's dazzling and sophisticated romantic drama, "Platinum Blonde," now showing at the Queen's Theatre, represent two extreme types of modern beauty,

The human oyo is a more important factor in film comedy than the ear. So Bays Edward Sedgwick, who directs the Buster Keaton Jimmy Durahto film comedies, the latest of which, "What No Bear? comes to-morrow to the Queen's Theatre.

Sedgwick holds that talking pictures

The diverting story of a plumber have imposed loss change on the whose presence in a lady's bath-room technique of comedy than of drama. cads to a series of uproarious com

end of "Audiences respond more readily to plications provides for no

amusement in "The what they see than to what they laughter and hear, he avers. "That is why the Fassionate Plumber, which will be gag is still the most vital factor in screened at the Oriental Theatre on screen comedy. It is what the players Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Bus do, more than what they say, which ton Keaton, Jimmy Durante and Polly provokes the deepest mirth. Actions Moran are the chief makers in this demands attention.

force. at apeak louder than words."

which ho guarantees to make violent

Loretta is the calm, poised, tranquil type, whose beauty la best described. as flower-like. It has an emotional quality seldom equalled among the favourites of the screen.

Jean Harlow, on the other hand, is spectacular, flashing, brilliant, de. vastating. Hers is a moody kind of loveliness, type that dazzles and

In taking this view, however,

The laughs starts whon Kenton is n Sedgwick distinguishes between forced to sign a "love contract" in comedy relief in drama and

pure comedy of the Kenton-Durante type. love to Irene Furcell whenever Gilbert "In drama," he explains, the affect Italand, her fickle suitor, is around. of comedy relief depends wholly on In an attempt to give satisfactory the situation. If the situation is

servico, Keaton Is precipitated inte a dramatic, anything tendins. A single he eng

to relieve scrics

des in which of madcap escapades tension

engages in sidesplitting duols, word spoken facetiously can produce:

to play the old roue, im- this effect,

a doctor when he is caught and finally 19 "But in purely comic plays the in a lady's bad-room

made the butt of a terrific barrage situation, while it must be inherently funny to begin with, gots its effect of flying dishes and statutory,

The inimitable Durante, of course, from the manner of working out the altuation. In other words, how the la always on hand to set things right situation is 'gagged. Dialogue that

often succeeds in making convulses

stage audiences usually them worse. What with his riotous draws

only snickers from the screen. romance with Felly Moran, who goes "The Egg acts as a

demuro on us in this comedy, Durante a change of расс.

but mere

It is a divergence from the story achieves the difficult feat of heing even action, a sort of intermission which funnier than he was in "Get-Rich- comes without stopping the

Quick Wallingford", story, That is the way our present and other Keaton-Durante plots дто built. First the scenario and dialogue writere work out their script, then wa takie

"The Third String" W. W. Jacoba' delightful trio of rascals, Ginger Dick, Peter Russet

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