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"Being the young kid" on a motion picture set is one of the greatest nd- vantago an notress can have'in Holly. wood."
This ' ls--thon: opinion of Loretta Young, one of the screen's most BUC- cessful "youngsters," who started har career at the tender ago of Siteen years with Lon Chaney In "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," and who since has ascended to stardom in such pictures as "The Ruling Voice," "Playgirl," "The Hatchet Man" and "Lite Be gins." She is now appearing. In "Midnight Mary" a Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer feature commencing to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
"When I first appeared in pictures as a kid I discovered that instead of being handicapped I really benefited by my youth. Everybody extended a kolping hand from prop boy to the biggest star," explains Mies Young.
Chaney gave me my frat makeup lesson. He taught me to apply greasepaint so it would not, deaden my own skin colour. Workers in the wardrobe department put eight pairs of atcckings on
*and padded my waist with cloth ap 1 cauld
my legu meet Herbert Brenon's requirements Indy in Laugh, Clown.
for When he becama exasperat-
Laugh'.
ed with my work I was saved again by being the kid
"During the last few silent pictures was still a youngstor on the nut.. but when a how kind of film was introduced I was able to improve my makeup again an friendly advice from cameramen. Large cranes and.com-i plicated moving shots became the vegue, and being the 'kid? I was tipp-| ed off on how to walk and time action to conform to the now technicalities.
"Rackety Rax"
Greta Nisson, feminine Jend in "Rackety Rax", Fox comedy now play- Ing at the King's Theatre, has most; recently been seen in "Ambascular Bill", "Good Sport" and "The Silent |
pictures were "Transatlantic", "Wa- of All Nations" and "Hell's
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Miss Nissen has a delightful comedy role in "Rackety Rax", that of the platinum blonde sweetle of a sporting zacketeer who muscles in on college football and makes millions before retribution overtaken him. Victor McLaglen plays the role of the sport- ing world racketeer.
The part of Voine, the racketeer's Greta to the hams girl, introduces of the Broadway crowd which notroni- zes the race tracks and other snort- ing events. Volne has some exceed. ingly narrow escapes from the wrath and fists of her "protector's" wilg.
Others in the east of the comedy aro Nell O'Day, Arthur Jenkin Vines Barnett, Marforio Beado. Esther Howard.
"Summer Lightning"
"Summer Lightning" which is now showing at the Contral Theatre is a team job in the biggest sense of the word.
Author of the story is that master of humorous writing, P. G. Wode house, famous on both sides of the Atlantic for the wit of his novels.
It was fitting that Ralph Lynn should be chosen to bring the charac- tor of Hugo Carmody to the screen, aince the kind of humour typiled by
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the B. & D. star is absolutely Wode-Leon teained, the last provious oc- cast is a director's dream-Frederic Morch as "The Eagle," loving lying, house · In ita essence. They both casion being "Daddy Long Lega". trade in absurdity; hath characterise Miss Gaynor, who has Just com-abherring killing; Gary Grant as ""The young man whose very faux pas pleted "Adorable" with Henry Garat Hawk," quick-tempered and quick- partner, has the title triggered observer; blonde and the- cause of him, to master strokes of role in genius.
the part of Lawrence Blaka. Janet's ful English society girl; Jack Cakic, "Summer Lightning" --Introduces role is said to be in-striking contrast, us--the aviator who takes nothing Ralph Lynn as Hugo Carmody, ser- with anything she has played. Her sericusly except his meals and hi retory to Lord Emsworth. Belng in dialogue will have a flavour of Irish medals.
The story is that of "The Eaglo," love with Emsworth's ward, Millicent, dialect.
Harry Lachman, who has won an expert flyer whoso sensitive tem- ifugo concelves the brilliant iden of stealing the old man's prize pig, critical favour by his arst. American perament revolts against the idea of Empress, and posing as a hero by production, "Face in the Sky" direct-ihe incessant murder in the air, and returning the animal without any ed anil Edwin Burke adapted the play "The Hawk," a valiant air-fighter who revels in his vicious, death-dealing serious trouble-but the complicatione for the screen, which subsequently ensue from this The Eaglo and The Hawk fights. Bitter enemies, they fly and apparently simple act of knavery ard Hollywood-Paramount, in parti-kill together until "The Eagle" breaks uproariously funny. Suffice it to say cular has done itself proud, having under the strain. That by a series of masterly blunder taken
He goes on a furlough to London, story by the author of B Hugo successfully achieves his plan, "Wings," injected the most thrilling and finds a temperary haven in the ontwits his rivals and marrion the air episodes, spliced it with crisp and arms of a beautiful girl. He returns provided it with his buddy has been
Shotter, Dorothy Bouchier, Esmo genuinely touching romance
Infuriated,
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the lives of those devil-may-care sky- that his famed adversary is but a mere Paddy, The Next Best Thing" men who flirt with death in the clouds youth puts him in a-semil-hysterical Warner Baxter is co-starred with and are just as adventurous on the frame of mind, Janet Gaynor in Paddy, The Next ground,
Then follows the climax, utterly Best Thing", the Fox picture that That's what has been done in "The different from anything you've seen starts on Saturday at the King's Eagle and The Hawk," the widely- on the screen. Theatre. This is the first time in heralded film which la opening en "The Eagle and The Hawk" is un- two years that the popular stars have Sunday at the Queen's Theatre. The conditionally recommended.
amount, in suite of him and not be-tas hor starr, and Baxter will miny some Carole Lombard as the beauti-·
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