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Most wingers requirò years of train. ing to perfect their technique before they attempt any serious work. But Dennis King became a famous singer almost overnight. This, too, without any effort on his part.

He was playing an important part In "Romeo and Juliet" when Oscar Hammerstein, the Broadway theatri- cal impresario, happened to overhear In his dressing room, Ho was

Him Drevalled upon to try out. for the

musical comedy, since the role requir el a man who could both sing and net. The try-out proved satisfactory, and ho was given the part Ile registered an immediate hit.

This was six years ago. Bince then, he has played in countless stage productions and has become universal- ly known as "the man with the golden voice.

And quite strangely, ho does not like to sing. He is like most comedians and tragedians in this respect.

to play Comedians often want

while tragedians dream of Hamlet, cavorting in rip-roaring comedy. the man with the golden voice to forget that he can sing, s merely wants to act, to be known as a dramatle artist. Nevertheless, uro- ducers continually cast him in roman the singing roles.

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Born In Birmingham, England, King gravitated to the stage at an early age. He was sixteen when the world war broke out and to added enough years to his age to enable him to serve in the army. Although ha will not talk about his war experi- ences, ho was severely wounded in nction. After the Armistice he re turned to London and resumed his stage career.

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Announced as a motion picture that sets a new standard in screen realism, "Bondage" starts to-day at the King's Theatre. It is an Alfred Santell pro- duction made from the screen play by Arthur Kober and Doria Malloy. The leading roles, that of a young shop-girl and youthful physician, are portrayed by Dorothy Jordan and Alexander Kirkland. Already

of blished as one of the outstanding the younger screen stars, Bfisa Jordan achieves a great performance with this role. It affords her the op. portunity of a complete characterisa tion stukled with varying emotions. An unusual musical background has been provided by Samuel Kaylin.

"Sign of the Crosa" Cecil B. DeMille's magnificent "The Sign of the Cross," spectacle, ends its run, at the Queen's Theatre. to-day. It is first and foremost a spectacle of pagan Rome, reaching its fullest expression in a Roman holiday

where

the at the Circus Maximus, LONDON (vía. Australia) from $138.16.8

gladiatorial contexts and all the brutal served (Australian Newspapers on file).

games that delighted Nero

crifice of the as a prelude to the sacrifice of Christians to the lions, But it is also a dramatic story of Christian persecu ilan,

tenderly beautiful love and n story of a Christian girl and a Roman patrician, whose

whose roles are played with rare beautyby-Elissa Landi and Frederic March.

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It Is Charles Laughton's Nero, however, which is not only the out- alanding characterisation of the film, but one of the memorable charactéri sations of all tiines. Here is acting that approaches genius. Claudette Colbert, too, as the Empress Poppaca, gives a performance of remarkable depth and power.

girl.

"Swoopings" Lester Cohen flatly declares that, in his opinion, there is no great story in the live of a boy for

Author of the best seller, "Sweep- inga", which has provided an eple story for Lionel Barrymore in the RKO-Radio Picture which will be shown at the King's Theatre on Sun- day next, Cohen says:

"I believe that the romance that Hes in the development of a great in- dustry or enterprise far exceeds any personal issue between man and

woman.

"Who would compare a meie love affair", he asks, "with the story of Edison's struggle to perfect his phonograph and electric light? It is my opinion that there are no love storica comparable to the rise of of such Napoleon or the achievements men as Alexander, Grahn Bell, brothers, Henry Ford, the Wright Mussolint and hundreils of others.

"I see great romance in their lives because those men were doers. All of them started with great odds against them, but they rolled up their alcoves and went to work.

"I hased my book, 'Sweepings', upon the life of a man who looked at the (Continued on Pago 13.)

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