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CINEMA SCREENINGS

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SUMMER QUARTERS.

SIR MILES LAMPSON GOES TO PEITAINHO

THE THEATRES Comedies are now in the top class of film entertainment, and it is in

Poking, July 27. teresting to note the really remarkable.

Whon Sir Miles Lampson leaves development in this type of plcture. Weihaiwel on Friday he will pro- Humorous storion were always re-ceed direct to: Poitalho in II. M.. legated to the two-reel class and oven Sloop Falmouth, when the fentage of comedy films authorities having now establish- the British lengthened, they were never consider-

ed "supers." The Harold Lloyd vogured the summor Legation quarters started the full length top of the bill there. comedy, and Charlie Chaplin fims also entered the "featured" clasa.

Already several of the Legation; advent of talling films gave staff have preceeded to Peltaiko -Britain her great chance, and sho to prepare for Sir Miles Lamp-

ized it with both hands, and it is son's arrival.-Router. undoubtedly the starring of such grand and talented "comics" na Jack Hulbert, Kalph Lynn, Tom Walls, Sydney Howard and Gordon Harker, to name but a few of the favoured ones, that has given the coinede dim its present popularity.

These fims are now as beautifully dressed and mounted as any drama, and as much care is devoted

"auper to detail. A first-class example of this is In "Love On Wheels"

the Gainsborough

pleture Hulbert, showing

starring Jack at the King's Then tre next change. Perfect technique, really gorgeous photography and love- ly

"acts"

are compiled into this feast of fun. Even the uninitiated cannot Call to appreciate the expert knowledge that has gone into the making of this picura.

"Song of the Eagle,”

The march of events in America over a period of two decades tho drama wid tragedy, the pathos and humour, the grandeur and stupidity of the most amazing epoch in history these, seen through the eyes of ene American family, make up Song of the Eagle," showing from Sanday at the Queen's Theatro.

Charles

Bickford, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Jean Hersholt, Louine Trenser. Andy Devine and George F. Stone play the leading roles in the

which was directed by ltali

Murphy.

lg tree country, according to Director finoul Walsh, was the courage shown by Joan Bennett during the filming of scenes in which she appears with animals into the right spot at the rumber of bears. The coaxing of tho

Trails of strained honey were made to right time took some close figuring.

converge in the clearing where the cameras were set up and the bearsi came in droves. Charles Farrell and Ralph Bellamy also had some exciting experiences with the animals.

and

The story opens in 1916, swings up through the years to the present day,

5.

continues onward into the future venturing a prediction as to what is in store for America in the next few months. War, peace, enactment of prohibition, prosperity, depression, the return of beer, and a guess at what 7. may fallow the return charge across the screen.

war

The family whose eyes behold this spectacle are an upper middle-class group, prospering in a respectable brewing business. When the breaks out their two sous go overseas, Only one returns and he returns to find prohibition in the country and his father's business ruined.

Through the years that follow, fa- ther, and. son attempt to carry on. confident that same day the law will bo changed. Meanwhile, racketeers prey upon the land; the stock market crashes and takes their last remaining bit of fortune,

Then beer is legalized again. But their joy is short-lived, for the racketeers are not content to sit back and see their strongly-organized busl- acza erumple without a struggle: What follows is an amazing glimpse into what all America may face in the next few months.

"The Age of Consent"

A new star came to the screen of the Central Theatre yesterday in a picture so poignantly true, so daringly honest, it merits the attention every man and woman.

of

The star Js Dorothy Wilson who, we are told, was adorning a stenograp- her's deak just a few weeks ago in the RKO-Radio studio in Hollywood. The picture is "The Age of Consent" -a photoplay which ceases to be just roll of collutoid and, instead becomes moving, stirring drama of young lives, auddenly engulfed in

n tidal wave of human emotions,

There was inspiration behind the making of this stirring, dramn. A Ane sense intangible elements some times missed by the Hollywood pro- ciuctions, throughout "The Age o Consent"

of

The Age of Consent" adapted from the Broadway stags Butcces, "Cross- rends" by Martin Flavin, is played against a background of college life. There

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It is a sincero and human insight Into the lives of a boy and girl, made miserable by campus rules that forbid marriage and conventions that thwart a natural expression of their love.

"Wed dir!"

One of the highlights of the sojourn of the "Wild Gir?” unit in the Sequoia

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Wild Girl" opens very shortly at the King's Theatre.

The Story of Your Generation

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