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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1933.
Morcer, David Torrence, Margaret Seddon and Forester Harvey
The Animal Kingdom"
Ann Hording and Lealle Howard are again co-starred! This time it is!
MRS. GANDHI SENTENCED
IKO-India Pictures' adaptation "TWO MONTHS IMPRISONMENT
Helene Madison, who holds world's and Olympic records swimmer than any other woman in the ed
history of sport, has an important rolo
FOR MAHATMA'S WIFE
that delightful Philip Barry play that more York"The Animal Kingdom." Leslie was last season's stage hit in New an at Howard is playing the part he creat
true of William Gargan na theed for refusing to obey an order
on the
Ahmedabad, Aug. 8. stage. The nuo la
Mrs. Gandhi, who was rearrest- "The Warrior's liusband", Jesse pugilist butler, and of Ilka Chara as 1. Lasky's second production for Fox not-too-bright society woman. Film, very shortly to be seen at the
restricting her movements, King's Theatre.
in
Miss Madison, who decided to give up her amateur there's no money In It", has been in rating "because Hollywood since
the Olympic Games, preparing for a a screen career. role as the Sergeant in the Julian F. Her Thompson Broadway succesa mark her debut in a full-lengik pro- will duction,
crí.
"Sraflin' Through"
the
wns
The Animal Kingdom" showing at sentenced to two months simple a searching study of modern life.
Central Theatre to-day, presents imprisonment to-day-Router. showa, with almost clinical insight, It
that. man's mistresses do not necesThe Merry Widow" and selections by sarily live out of wedlock-that many
solves under the title of "respectable of them are those who preen them-Victor Herbert and Franz Lehar, wife"
"Reunion la Vienna"
rove about.
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as both "sophis- ticated" and "nostalgic. To a high Music which the audience nuver degreo the work captures cars plays a vital part in Joan Craw scornful, half-wistful mood in which captures the half- ford's Interpretation of her
screen Mr. Sherwood contemplated the lovely roles.
The star of the United Artists pic-grandeur. and its frayed nobility, its and city of Vienna with its faded ture, "Rain", now showing at the inescapable romance
"its last re- psycho-analysis. TaA B on the stage--an amus-
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Miss Harding plays the mistress who turns out really to deserve the Diana Wynyard in the roles created on With John Barrymore and Mar Elissa Landi and Ernest Truex are name of wife. Lealle Howard is, of the stago by Alfred Lunt and Mias co-starred in "The Warrior's Hus course, the husband. Myma band", with Marjoriu Rambeau, Helenplays the seductive wife. Others in Robert E. Sherwood's gay, bantering Loy Lynn Fontanne, "Reunion in Vienna," Ware and Maude Eburne in important the east not already mentioned are and slightly | supporting rules. Walter Lang direct-Neil Hamilton, Henry Stephenson, exiled
rueful
comedy about an Leni Stengel and Donal! Dilloway.
Edward H. Griffith has directed of the Queen's Theatre with complete was brought to the screen Ja “Smilin' Through," her latest "The Animal Kingdom" from the an
and gratifying Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production script by Horace Jackson. The pic played, intelligently directed and re- BuccoBR. Delightfully which is coming on Sunday to the ture has been beautifully staged and Queen's Theatre Miss Shearer has a with four women in cast role far removed from those which and the background one culture nuda have taken her along the bypaths wealth, the gowns are something to which lead away from convention.
Miss Shearer's role in "Smilin' Through" is frankly tinged with sentimental romance. It is completely devoid of that sophistication which marked her characterizations in Strangers May Kiss," "A Free Soul" and "Strange Interlude."
The story abounds since Jane Cowl first presented it on in the starring role, listens to every-"Reunion in the New York stage, it has served as thing from grand opera and sym- what it the model by which sentimentality in phonics and crooners and popular airs ing and yet somehow touching comedy drama is measured. "As aweet and to
in the med to help her get poignant as "Smilin' Through" has scenes,
for of the recapture of lost love.
"Reunion in Vienna" is a work brass by which critics point their comparisons.
phonograph operated by an exuert which the neting is who has worked with her for ve years and should the leading players fall to all-important, In this turning to wistful romance, and who knows what records to play capture and maintain its mood the Miss Shearer sheds the "woman of to fit her moods, is t star's con result would probably be fatal. Mr. the world" character for the first time stant companion on the set, since the peach blossom fragrance of For example, if she was suddenly it more brings all of his enormous
The
Student Price," in the old days required to step into a crying scene, of the most best portrayals that he to the character and offers one of silent films.
she placed back and forth in In "Smilin' Through" she portrays secluded corner of the set, then a re- After "Topaze," and now "Reunion in bas yet managed upon the screen, two different girls whoe
romantic cord such as "Estrellita," "Moonlight Vienna, It enn safely he and that experiences affect the life of one man Sonata" at an interval of fifty years. First, played, and the tears began to flow. screen the position he had upon the or "The Swan" was Mr. Barrymore has regained upon the "Sylvia" or As Moonyeon Clare, in 1868, she is the For dramatic mouds she likes In- betrothed of £ young English strumental recordings of Wagnerian aristorent, played by Leslie Howard. operas such as "Tristan and
It is
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Wynyard in 'n role that makes de- Dutchman" Sheridan, with Fredric March as her "Vulkyrie
and mands on her skill as a deft come. portions of Franz Liszt's dienne, rather than as a player of lover.
Les Preludes", the Franck Symphony tragle roles, but, she, ton, plays with in D Minor, and the music of Grieg. When she has light, happy scenes to enact, she is fond of musle from
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